There are nice android phones. What the iOS world lacks is cheap ass junk phones. The android world is full of them, shitty little cheap smart phones. Yeah the S4 Samsung is really nice and the HTC one is cool but for every one of those there are 5 or 6 of the cheapo throwaway ones.
What do you figure a real Mars mission would cost? I figure somewhere from $20-30 billion dollars. Not a lot of money compared to what they spend on some bullshit. You're right though, I don't think a television show could do it by itself.
He feels passionate about it and doesn't mind telling people how he feels. I don't mind working with these kinds of people IF they are competent which Linus certainly is. I read further into the thread and they set about dealing with the problem on the list pretty straightforward and businesslike, that one post was just steam being let off I think. Almost any project has some sort of strife involved.
Exactly. I would probably be using it too if I had come to computers late. Back in the 80's when I wanted to upgrade from my Commodore 128 I looked at the PC clones and compared them to the Commodore Amiga and it was no question at all for me. The clones were a fucking joke. Once Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould decided to bankrupt Commodore and then Win 95 came out the only other active system was Apple which was a joke at that time. Everyone was buying Win 95 like it was going out of style. Later when I wanted new hardware I looked at Windows and went "ugh!" and then read about Linux. I bought a dual pentium II server and installed Linux on it in '99 and never looked back. I've never actually used windows much outside of work but I can see why people that never used anything else use it. You can buy anything at all for it. If it's all you ever used you wouldn't know that it sucks.
Personally I think it'd make a really interesting reality show. In fact, they could fund the Mars trip like that. Sell the entire thing to the Discovery Channel. Survivor with real consequences.
Why do you have to drag that shit up? I'm so sick of the climate change flame wars and there you go starting it up in a story that has nothing to do with it. STFU!
You left out the US government. I work for the DOD and I still remember when Vista was launched to overall hatred by enterprise customers. No one was buying it but Uncle Stupid did. We had an excellent system running on XP Pro that worked flawlessly backed up by a good IT contractor. Vista came out and we switched to it and overnight we lost about 60 percent of our computers. They worked at it for a while and we ended up with just over half of them up and running at any one time. The IT guys worked their asses off keeping it halfway functional until we finally switched to Win 7. Even then it's never been as good as it was when we had XP Pro. I've noticed they may actually have learned something, they aren't buying Win 8.
Easier and cheaper just to do it wild west style. Put up "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters of all the top cartel guys. Offer big money for them and let the bounty hunters do the job.
I find it kind of amazing it passed in lala land. I mean when I think liberal State I think of New York and California near the top of the list. I'm shocked actually.
I'm not arguing that what happened in the invasion of Iraq was good or right but that it was nowhere even close to the nightmare that existed under Saddam. I mentioned only the dead that were reported due to mass murder. Not war dead from the war with Iran that he started, that's easily another million. There is no comparison with what went on under Saddam and I don't think anyone misses the crazy bastard and his two sons were even worse. Every single time I hear someone say Iraq was better off before we invaded I just fail to believe such ignorance. At least Iraq has a chance now to become well....if they can get past the factional violence. Before the US invaded they had no hope, just a living nightmare. I don't think it benefited the US at all to invade, from that standpoint I have to say it was a bad idea. I just know if I lived under a regime like that I'd welcome almost anything to save me from that kind of world.
More civilian casualties than Saddam killed? Bullshit! Estimates of Saddam's murders run from 250,000 on the low end to over a million. This leaves out the countless maimed that had their eyes gouged out and limbs chopped off. The estimates of deaths in the Iraq war for civilians from violence is around 100-160 thousand. Those are from both sides as after the initial invasion the "insurgents" cared not who they blew up. They were happy to blow up 60 Iraqis to kill a couple of Marines in the process. The US tried to limit collateral damage but using high power weapons in an urban environment is a guarantee that innocents will die. I view the war in Iraq as a mistake but comparing the results of a warfare of invasion with a systematic genocidal campaign is fucking crazy and so are you.
As much as I dislike the President's politics I can bet that every president will have their relative's requests fast tracked by the relevant bureaucracy without any direction from the White House. Just the fact he's a relative is enough.
Exactly. The thief will get hurt and the guy he stole from will have to pay plus the phone manufacturer and even the cell company will get sued. In la-la land the criminal is the victim.
Decades, not years. It's silly and stupid the way the justice system fails to work. As pro-death penalty as I am I have to admit it makes more sense to use it as a threat to get these fuckers to plea-bargain for a life sentence. It's almost impossible to execute anyone except, for some reason, in Texas.
Not only that, we took a backseat to Europe in the Libyan deal recently. If the US was really like the Empire we'd have crushed the USSR right after WWII like Patton wanted. After that, with no one else holding nukes we'd have ruled the planet. Worldwide Pax Americana. This whining over Iraq is unbelievable. We stumbled in, knocked out Saddam's bully boys then realized we had destroyed the government of the country in the process and had to hold it together and get them back on their feet long enough to get the hell out without a bloodbath wider than the Euphrates river. It was incompetence on a global scale, hardly worthy of the Sith Lords.
I think the real reason is that if they give it away that's 950,000 jars of peanut butter they wont sell. Hard to compete with free. Never mind most of the people getting it free would not be able to buy it anyway.
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Toyota makes Scions and Lexus. Ferrari only makes Ferraris, GM makes Chevys. If you're going to do a car analogy at least get it right.
There are nice android phones. What the iOS world lacks is cheap ass junk phones. The android world is full of them, shitty little cheap smart phones. Yeah the S4 Samsung is really nice and the HTC one is cool but for every one of those there are 5 or 6 of the cheapo throwaway ones.
What do you figure a real Mars mission would cost? I figure somewhere from $20-30 billion dollars. Not a lot of money compared to what they spend on some bullshit. You're right though, I don't think a television show could do it by itself.
He feels passionate about it and doesn't mind telling people how he feels. I don't mind working with these kinds of people IF they are competent which Linus certainly is. I read further into the thread and they set about dealing with the problem on the list pretty straightforward and businesslike, that one post was just steam being let off I think. Almost any project has some sort of strife involved.
Exactly. I would probably be using it too if I had come to computers late. Back in the 80's when I wanted to upgrade from my Commodore 128 I looked at the PC clones and compared them to the Commodore Amiga and it was no question at all for me. The clones were a fucking joke. Once Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould decided to bankrupt Commodore and then Win 95 came out the only other active system was Apple which was a joke at that time. Everyone was buying Win 95 like it was going out of style. Later when I wanted new hardware I looked at Windows and went "ugh!" and then read about Linux. I bought a dual pentium II server and installed Linux on it in '99 and never looked back. I've never actually used windows much outside of work but I can see why people that never used anything else use it. You can buy anything at all for it. If it's all you ever used you wouldn't know that it sucks.
Personally I think it'd make a really interesting reality show. In fact, they could fund the Mars trip like that. Sell the entire thing to the Discovery Channel. Survivor with real consequences.
Why do you have to drag that shit up? I'm so sick of the climate change flame wars and there you go starting it up in a story that has nothing to do with it. STFU!
You left out the US government. I work for the DOD and I still remember when Vista was launched to overall hatred by enterprise customers. No one was buying it but Uncle Stupid did. We had an excellent system running on XP Pro that worked flawlessly backed up by a good IT contractor. Vista came out and we switched to it and overnight we lost about 60 percent of our computers. They worked at it for a while and we ended up with just over half of them up and running at any one time. The IT guys worked their asses off keeping it halfway functional until we finally switched to Win 7. Even then it's never been as good as it was when we had XP Pro. I've noticed they may actually have learned something, they aren't buying Win 8.
Does the London Council have any competition?
In cases of Microsoft nastiness common sense says assume the worst and be grateful when it's not "quite" that bad.
You mean spreadsheets and powerpoint and word processing? That takes very low hardware requirements. Gaming they suck at, work isn't a problem.
Easier and cheaper just to do it wild west style. Put up "Wanted, Dead or Alive" posters of all the top cartel guys. Offer big money for them and let the bounty hunters do the job.
I find it kind of amazing it passed in lala land. I mean when I think liberal State I think of New York and California near the top of the list. I'm shocked actually.
Haven't you heard? We reinterpret the Constitution now to mean whatever we want it to mean. Can't let the founding fathers get in the way of freedom.
Well maybe if we arrested them then beat them and water boarded them repeatedly, maybe that might get the point across?
I'm not arguing that what happened in the invasion of Iraq was good or right but that it was nowhere even close to the nightmare that existed under Saddam. I mentioned only the dead that were reported due to mass murder. Not war dead from the war with Iran that he started, that's easily another million. There is no comparison with what went on under Saddam and I don't think anyone misses the crazy bastard and his two sons were even worse. Every single time I hear someone say Iraq was better off before we invaded I just fail to believe such ignorance. At least Iraq has a chance now to become well....if they can get past the factional violence. Before the US invaded they had no hope, just a living nightmare. I don't think it benefited the US at all to invade, from that standpoint I have to say it was a bad idea. I just know if I lived under a regime like that I'd welcome almost anything to save me from that kind of world.
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More civilian casualties than Saddam killed? Bullshit! Estimates of Saddam's murders run from 250,000 on the low end to over a million. This leaves out the countless maimed that had their eyes gouged out and limbs chopped off. The estimates of deaths in the Iraq war for civilians from violence is around 100-160 thousand. Those are from both sides as after the initial invasion the "insurgents" cared not who they blew up. They were happy to blow up 60 Iraqis to kill a couple of Marines in the process. The US tried to limit collateral damage but using high power weapons in an urban environment is a guarantee that innocents will die. I view the war in Iraq as a mistake but comparing the results of a warfare of invasion with a systematic genocidal campaign is fucking crazy and so are you.
I'm constantly amazed by how many people think Saddam was better than Bush. I've seen it stated here many, many times.
As much as I dislike the President's politics I can bet that every president will have their relative's requests fast tracked by the relevant bureaucracy without any direction from the White House. Just the fact he's a relative is enough.
What's your point?
Exactly. The thief will get hurt and the guy he stole from will have to pay plus the phone manufacturer and even the cell company will get sued. In la-la land the criminal is the victim.
Decades, not years. It's silly and stupid the way the justice system fails to work. As pro-death penalty as I am I have to admit it makes more sense to use it as a threat to get these fuckers to plea-bargain for a life sentence. It's almost impossible to execute anyone except, for some reason, in Texas.
Not only that, we took a backseat to Europe in the Libyan deal recently. If the US was really like the Empire we'd have crushed the USSR right after WWII like Patton wanted. After that, with no one else holding nukes we'd have ruled the planet. Worldwide Pax Americana. This whining over Iraq is unbelievable. We stumbled in, knocked out Saddam's bully boys then realized we had destroyed the government of the country in the process and had to hold it together and get them back on their feet long enough to get the hell out without a bloodbath wider than the Euphrates river. It was incompetence on a global scale, hardly worthy of the Sith Lords.
I think the real reason is that if they give it away that's 950,000 jars of peanut butter they wont sell. Hard to compete with free. Never mind most of the people getting it free would not be able to buy it anyway.
I guess that would depend on where you live. Some day soon we may all need VPN's to be safe.