Once Joe Sixpack heard from his friend who is slightly more technical than he was, that Vista sucked
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to correct you on this.
As a PC repair tech last year, I found that people pretty much learned to hate Vista simply from their own experiences.
The same two bugs were ranked "moderate" for Vista and Server 2008, while a third -- which doesn't affect the older operating systems -- was rated "critical."
Yes, it's easy to take the "We won't be backporting this fix" stance when the old OS isn't vulnerable in the first place.
If I was stuck in a storm drain, I probably wouldn't call 000 either.
Unless you can give them a street address, they will just laugh at you and hang up.
I find that when I do attempt to write stuff by hand, it is so slow that my brain skips ahead, and I start spelling out the next word before I have written the last one, hence words get mangled.
However, since I can touch type quickly and accurately, I have enough time to use full, proper English sentences and go back and actually proofread to ensure I made no mistakes*.
I feel that the use of a keyboard has actually made me a more effective communicator with regard to spelling, punctuation and grammar, provided that I have access to a keyboard.
If I ever find myself in a situation with no keyboard available, then spelling is probably not a big priority anyway.
*and no doubt Muphry's law guarantees that I make a mistake in this post.
we see that Vietnam, China, and North Korea censor the Internet. The common thread among all 3 countries is that the majority of their citizens subscribes to Confucianism.
I think a more relevant 'thread' among these 3 countries is that they are all communist (just as Russia isn't, referring to your last paragraph.)
So we have religious nut-job countries censoring, and communists censoring! But Australia is also trying to bring in censorship (neither particularly religious or communist).
Maybe the "causal relation" is just any government without appropriate checks and balances?
Maybe the gas thing is just to avoid hauling around bits of loose change?
I know I used to carefully get to exactly $30/$40/$50 or whatever note combination I had in my wallet.
However these days I pretty much always pay with a credit card, and I couldn't care less what 'odd' number the amount is.
Quite a few people seem to be still holding this one mistake against AVG, even though it has little relevance today...
I think that what people are still upset about is not the initial mistake, but the "you have to break some eggs" comment by AVG chief of research Roger Thompson in response to the complaints.
This demonstrates a certain arrogance on the part of AVG, and that attitude is what people are still wary of.
I think you are talking about Avast.
When it detects a virus a big grey window opens up showing the biohazard symbol, you hear a siren, then a voice (sounding remarkably like Kitt) says "A virus has been detected".
Yes it is kind of annoying, but I still regard it as one of the better anti-virus programs.
In this case the sucker is the judge who failed to see that this is just a blatant and obvious stalling tactic to drag out the litigation as long as possible.
Okay, this is probably hopelessly offtopic, misguided and just plain wrong...
but...
IIRC once upon a time (about 20 yrs ago) there was a specialized hardware card that you could put into a PC that had a chip that ran forth native operations in hardware. Apparently it blew the doors off any other CPU type thing of the day. It was reported that it was difficult to get this special CPU over 5% usage because it spent most of its time waiting for your PC to catch up.
However, being quite specialised and expensive it didn't catch on before Moore's law caught up.
But I wonder what would be possible if a GPU manufacturer actually implemented some kind of Forth engine in one of their chips??
At the lowest level the forth language amounts to about 60 very low level, very primitive ops such as "push", "pop", "inc", "dec", "0branch" etc that operate on a simple stack machine.
Out of simple commands, you then created more complicated commands which were just pointers to the simple commands in the library.
Since GPU's are chips that do simple things very, very quickly, imagine what a "forth primitives in GPU hardware" device could achieve!
Dunno, just guessing.
The best reason to take it down now is that it is irrelevant.
*Cough Splutter*
What? How could you possibly say it's irrelevant?? In October/November last year in California wildfires burned down at least 900 homes! In Australia just a few weeks ago 200 people lost their lives in the Victorian bushfires! Disasters continue to happen all the time.
It seems to me that have absolutely no idea what this coloring book is about. I suggest you go back to the GP and follow the link and actually READ IT like you were invited to. Then you can come back and start throwing your opinions around.
Did you actually look at it before you came up with that conclusion?
From the rest of your post it sounds like you have been tricked into believing that the coloring book is "about" 9/11 and goes into details. It is actually about disasters generally, and how people cope with them.
9/11 is referenced on just one page inside, and part of the cover. (Note also that the cover illustration shown in TFA has been edited. It does not show the full cover).
It's about the number of simultaneous connections.
As the (consumers) bandwidth gets lower, so it takes longer for the web page to be transmitted, hence there are more active connections at any given point in time. Each connection to the server uses up resources of that server.
It's more like "we've only got really thin pipes, so we'll need a lot more taps"
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A Girl Like You.
One of my favourite songs, and recently they shut it down.
Burn in hell, wankers.
Once Joe Sixpack heard from his friend who is slightly more technical than he was, that Vista sucked
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to correct you on this.
As a PC repair tech last year, I found that people pretty much learned to hate Vista simply from their own experiences.
The same two bugs were ranked "moderate" for Vista and Server 2008, while a third -- which doesn't affect the older operating systems -- was rated "critical."
Yes, it's easy to take the "We won't be backporting this fix" stance when the old OS isn't vulnerable in the first place.
I think the Zune HD will be a more turn-around product for them.
If you mean what I think you mean by that,
I think he/she means that when people see them in the shops, they will "turn-around" and walk away.
I'm guessing the earphones cable is the antenna.
If I was stuck in a storm drain, I probably wouldn't call 000 either.
Unless you can give them a street address, they will just laugh at you and hang up.
No!!
However it is reducing my hand writing ability.
I find that when I do attempt to write stuff by hand, it is so slow that my brain skips ahead, and I start spelling out the next word before I have written the last one, hence words get mangled.
However, since I can touch type quickly and accurately, I have enough time to use full, proper English sentences and go back and actually proofread to ensure I made no mistakes*.
I feel that the use of a keyboard has actually made me a more effective communicator with regard to spelling, punctuation and grammar, provided that I have access to a keyboard.
If I ever find myself in a situation with no keyboard available, then spelling is probably not a big priority anyway.
*and no doubt Muphry's law guarantees that I make a mistake in this post.
You're welcome.
But I don't think BadAnalogyGuy got the joke.
Or maybe he/she did, but was just using a bad analogy.
we see that Vietnam, China, and North Korea censor the Internet. The common thread among all 3 countries is that the majority of their citizens subscribes to Confucianism.
I think a more relevant 'thread' among these 3 countries is that they are all communist (just as Russia isn't, referring to your last paragraph.)
So we have religious nut-job countries censoring, and communists censoring! But Australia is also trying to bring in censorship (neither particularly religious or communist).
Maybe the "causal relation" is just any government without appropriate checks and balances?
Maybe the gas thing is just to avoid hauling around bits of loose change?
I know I used to carefully get to exactly $30/$40/$50 or whatever note combination I had in my wallet.
However these days I pretty much always pay with a credit card, and I couldn't care less what 'odd' number the amount is.
... tty layer was it?
Do you think crime has quotas?
When the crime is 'thoughtcrime', the quota is 100%
I've never found a situation that my code could do right with the TTY.
Sounds like a pretty damning rejection of the TTY code in question!
If the TTY could never do right for you with your code, why aren't you looking for alternatives that CAN do right for your situation?
Quite a few people seem to be still holding this one mistake against AVG, even though it has little relevance today...
I think that what people are still upset about is not the initial mistake, but the "you have to break some eggs" comment by AVG chief of research Roger Thompson in response to the complaints.
This demonstrates a certain arrogance on the part of AVG, and that attitude is what people are still wary of.
I think you are talking about Avast.
When it detects a virus a big grey window opens up showing the biohazard symbol, you hear a siren, then a voice (sounding remarkably like Kitt) says "A virus has been detected".
Yes it is kind of annoying, but I still regard it as one of the better anti-virus programs.
Thank you. You have just made my day. Unfortunately I have no mod points to bestow upon you.
...there is a sucker born every minute!
In this case the sucker is the judge who failed to see that this is just a blatant and obvious stalling tactic to drag out the litigation as long as possible.
Who's the asshat who invented the "ribbon"?
That would be this guy.
Okay, this is probably hopelessly offtopic, misguided and just plain wrong...
but...
IIRC once upon a time (about 20 yrs ago) there was a specialized hardware card that you could put into a PC that had a chip that ran forth native operations in hardware. Apparently it blew the doors off any other CPU type thing of the day. It was reported that it was difficult to get this special CPU over 5% usage because it spent most of its time waiting for your PC to catch up. However, being quite specialised and expensive it didn't catch on before Moore's law caught up.
But I wonder what would be possible if a GPU manufacturer actually implemented some kind of Forth engine in one of their chips??
At the lowest level the forth language amounts to about 60 very low level, very primitive ops such as "push", "pop", "inc", "dec", "0branch" etc that operate on a simple stack machine.
Out of simple commands, you then created more complicated commands which were just pointers to the simple commands in the library.
Since GPU's are chips that do simple things very, very quickly, imagine what a "forth primitives in GPU hardware" device could achieve!
Dunno, just guessing.
The best reason to take it down now is that it is irrelevant.
*Cough Splutter*
What? How could you possibly say it's irrelevant?? In October/November last year in California wildfires burned down at least 900 homes! In Australia just a few weeks ago 200 people lost their lives in the Victorian bushfires! Disasters continue to happen all the time.
It seems to me that have absolutely no idea what this coloring book is about. I suggest you go back to the GP and follow the link and actually READ IT like you were invited to. Then you can come back and start throwing your opinions around.
That may be, but there's still no censorship going on here.
This is a clear case of self-censorship.
However, I have issues with the coloring book
Did you actually look at it before you came up with that conclusion?
From the rest of your post it sounds like you have been tricked into believing that the coloring book is "about" 9/11 and goes into details. It is actually about disasters generally, and how people cope with them.
9/11 is referenced on just one page inside, and part of the cover. (Note also that the cover illustration shown in TFA has been edited. It does not show the full cover).
why isn't anybody using it?
Because multicasting requires everyone to be watching the same thing at the same time!
It doesn't fit in with the concept of 'video on demand' which is what sites like youtube provide.
It's about the number of simultaneous connections.
As the (consumers) bandwidth gets lower, so it takes longer for the web page to be transmitted, hence there are more active connections at any given point in time.
Each connection to the server uses up resources of that server.
It's more like "we've only got really thin pipes, so we'll need a lot more taps"
And Eno! Lots of Eno.