If you weren't so lazy, you could be a manager. Think of it... you could be advocating baby-seal oil based toner as "green", since seals are predator animals, they must be un-green.
There's no technological reason why this bundling is necessary.
There is no technical reason for lots of things. That's why it is called marketing, in this case, and not technology.
But if it weren't for marketing, a lot of our technological toys would not be economically feasible. I don't know the numbers but I suspect this is true for programming too.
Heh, I had to turn in a punched card assignment in college (probably the last year THAT was ever required)... but I was smart enough to use an interactive CRT session to debug everything first... then simply send the corrected program to the card punch.
I was an early adopter of the "let the machine do as much work as possible" school of thought.
The universe is mocking us for not thinking ahead. Again.
Don't anthropomorphise the universe. It doesn't like it. All kidding aside, I am not sure that you said anything. Do you only want to put small things into orbit? Or are you saying we should make sure "what goes up, must come down?"
I think you are saying adding the sails would make the debris bigger, and thus even more of a problem.
Maybe you should have just said "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and left it at that.
I buy and use what I like and what I feel lets me work best.
Until you use something that someone else demonizes for being "bad". Then, even if you are willing to pay for it, you are given a hard time... or worse.
Guns, SUVs, cigarettes, fatty foods... soon PC's that are "more powerful than you need" (carbon footprint and all that...)
Hmmm, maybe you could come up with a pill, using phage therapy to kill the "fat bacteria", IF you could identify both the bacteria and matching phage(s)...
Random thought - I was just reading about the efficacy of phage therapy for wounds that were not responding to antibiotics.
Sorry, this isn't a car analogy, but the next best thing.
Statistically speaking, Windows is like being straight. I would be generous if I called MacOS gay, since only 3% or so claim to be homosexual. However, God only knows what to do with Linux. Maybe it is for hermaphrodites or something, at any rate, it's numbers seem to be lower than the incidence of homosexuality...
Not that there is anything wrong with any of those things. I'm just sayin...
I too had a flash drive fail, but in the "worst" way... quietly.
Fortunately, the drive was mostly used for "sneaker net" use, and did not contain any irreplaceable data. This use exposed the issue quickly too (had it been a backup device, the backup would have been useless and I wouldn't know until I needed it.)
A typical failure was to zip up a software installation on a dev machine, then take it to a clean target machine, where the zip would fail to unpack, or the installer exe, once unpacked, would fail to run with various errors.
I finally got to the point where I simply copied several megabytes of plain text data to the memory key, then copied it back and diffed the files to see the corruption (large areas of nulls, as I recall.)
Never heard a peep from the OS.
It was a 1 1/2 year old Patriot XT 2GB, and, after a couple of emails and a PDF of my NewEgg receipt, a new drive showed up in the mail under the lifetime warranty.
I also had an expensive Lexar CF card for a digital SLR that failed. In that case pictures that I know I took simply weren't on the card... but could be "recovered" with the Lexar utility (along with EVERYTHING else on the card, so it was a PITA.) Since that was nearly $200 when it was new, I figured getting my lifetime warranty honored would be easy, since the cards were down to about $20. No dice. Just got the run-around and finally gave up. Lexar lost a customer.
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I'm getting a lot of pressure from managers
If you weren't so lazy, you could be a manager. Think of it... you could be advocating baby-seal oil based toner as "green", since seals are predator animals, they must be un-green.
Come on! Rise Up! Demand what's yours!
At first I thought the article was going to describe how the power plants would run A/C to keep the pole cool...
/. leans, I am guessing the penguin vote would win.
Anyhow, delving down this polar bear / penguin thread got me to thinking... how about if we cross-introduce the species?
Think about it - give the penguins the diversity of the northern latitudes, and polar bears in the south pole wouldn't have to worry about drowning.
On second thought, the penguins will look like polar bear food each way, and the way
There's no technological reason why this bundling is necessary.
There is no technical reason for lots of things. That's why it is called marketing, in this case, and not technology.
But if it weren't for marketing, a lot of our technological toys would not be economically feasible. I don't know the numbers but I suspect this is true for programming too.
Heh, I had to turn in a punched card assignment in college (probably the last year THAT was ever required)... but I was smart enough to use an interactive CRT session to debug everything first... then simply send the corrected program to the card punch.
I was an early adopter of the "let the machine do as much work as possible" school of thought.
And all organic.
As a bonus, it's "green". Anyone who succumbs to this will naturally reduce their carbon footprint.
So, you propose discouraging the creation of works by allowing the dilution of demand for a work the creator would like to be of limited availability?
If you resent the electricity that people use to see a movie, clearly you resent the fact that people exist at all.
If it were me, I'd use "ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO" in the ultimate sig!
Article I, Section 8 - "To establish Post Offices and Post Roads"
Heh, "I" and "8"... reminds me of some naming conventions at a previous employer... "That's conference room 1, and conference room B."
The universe is mocking us for not thinking ahead. Again.
Don't anthropomorphise the universe. It doesn't like it. All kidding aside, I am not sure that you said anything. Do you only want to put small things into orbit? Or are you saying we should make sure "what goes up, must come down?"
I think you are saying adding the sails would make the debris bigger, and thus even more of a problem.
Maybe you should have just said "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" and left it at that.
You know, the kind that swirl the other way
I buy and use what I like and what I feel lets me work best.
Until you use something that someone else demonizes for being "bad". Then, even if you are willing to pay for it, you are given a hard time... or worse.
Guns, SUVs, cigarettes, fatty foods... soon PC's that are "more powerful than you need" (carbon footprint and all that...)
Hmmm, maybe you could come up with a pill, using phage therapy to kill the "fat bacteria", IF you could identify both the bacteria and matching phage(s)...
Random thought - I was just reading about the efficacy of phage therapy for wounds that were not responding to antibiotics.
Heh. My mistake was posting that on a Friday night. No Funny mods out then... just bitter, dateless geeks :-)
Here, we are led to believe that Swedes are naturally a bunch of thieving leeches, only cowed by John Law.
I always thought they were all giant blond buxom women who gave excellent massages.
I am so disappointed.
Sorry, this isn't a car analogy, but the next best thing.
Statistically speaking, Windows is like being straight. I would be generous if I called MacOS gay, since only 3% or so claim to be homosexual. However, God only knows what to do with Linux. Maybe it is for hermaphrodites or something, at any rate, it's numbers seem to be lower than the incidence of homosexuality...
Not that there is anything wrong with any of those things. I'm just sayin...
Remember, I did say "car analogy"!
I too had a flash drive fail, but in the "worst" way... quietly.
Fortunately, the drive was mostly used for "sneaker net" use, and did not contain any irreplaceable data. This use exposed the issue quickly too (had it been a backup device, the backup would have been useless and I wouldn't know until I needed it.)
A typical failure was to zip up a software installation on a dev machine, then take it to a clean target machine, where the zip would fail to unpack, or the installer exe, once unpacked, would fail to run with various errors.
I finally got to the point where I simply copied several megabytes of plain text data to the memory key, then copied it back and diffed the files to see the corruption (large areas of nulls, as I recall.)
Never heard a peep from the OS.
It was a 1 1/2 year old Patriot XT 2GB, and, after a couple of emails and a PDF of my NewEgg receipt, a new drive showed up in the mail under the lifetime warranty.
I also had an expensive Lexar CF card for a digital SLR that failed. In that case pictures that I know I took simply weren't on the card... but could be "recovered" with the Lexar utility (along with EVERYTHING else on the card, so it was a PITA.) Since that was nearly $200 when it was new, I figured getting my lifetime warranty honored would be easy, since the cards were down to about $20. No dice. Just got the run-around and finally gave up. Lexar lost a customer.
"Must be a king."
"Why?"
"He hasn't got shit all over him."
Now you can set up a web site to help keep it that way...
"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!"
"HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!"
Here, I'll "publish" your invention, thus:
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It is a toy, "You know, for the kids"
For the iPod, the museum tag will read "A gift from the American people" and the iPod will say "Made In China" on the back.
Every single gift given to an American president goes straight into a vault. So there's no point in giving anything really expensive.
Exactly. So what's going to look better in a museum a 100 years from now? A nice wooden pencil cup, or a yellowing non-functional iPod?
At her age, are you sure about that?
At the moment, the top listing is www.mysql.com - Duh.
What if you said "Leviticus 20:13 is Hate Speech"? Is that hate speech?
just add a pop-up, for your Grandma's pwned PC:
[pop-up dialog] - Want to speed up your computer? Click HERE and answer a few quick questions to optimize your computer!
Granny picks a few matches and goes along her merry way.