It depends. You're right, there *is* too much attention to upgrading just to be upgrading. But certain versions have must-have features, like 2.2 (flash support). And if Android ever fixes the wifi proxy issue, I'd want that version on my phone. But the vendor will probably make me buy a new phone. Which will probably drive me back to Blackberry, which doesn't have proxy issues.
If you survive *this* year, you could be arrested by the real guys *next* year. It's about to become illegal to look like a TSA inspector, even for parody.
Exactly. And when you say "There are really simple things you can do. Here's two: (1), put canvas covers over the recycling trucks like is currently required for trucks carrying gravel, so they don't lose their load at highway speeds. It's a known technology. There's no excuse for recycling trucks to litter. (2), adopt the practice already used in other states of reclaiming pop cans by the pound, instead of those damfool machines that have to read the bar code on each can. (Sometimes twice or three or four times if the barcode is marred in any way.) Then I can crush the cans and take them in when the bag gets heavy, like in a civilized state. "...they look at you like you just proposed that they stick the cans up their arse. Well, that's going to be the next suggestion. And I'm willing to help.
And so, I exercise my right to protest by throwing the damned things away. To. Hell. With. Them.
> Now, driving 15 miles home along deserted county roads, you understand completely where all the roadside dumping comes from...
And that's where the ecologically minded, who with the best of intentions sponsored the bill in the first place, are getting screwed by the governments implementing the ideas. The bills get passed, but are implemented in a way that increases the likelihood of pollution.
I'm not an armchair quarterback on this -- I've participated on citizen boards and have communicated with my political representatives and with the businesses who are the worst offenders. I complained bitterly both to the state and county government, and at citizen board meetings about the trash along the side of the back roads that lead to the recycling hub. Those recycling trucks have huge uncovered bins on the back, and following one of those on the back roads when they get up to speed will guarantee a shower of cardboard, paper and milk cartons on your car. Yes, it's true -- the county is taking your carefully separated recyclables and throwing them on the side of the road. Because they don't care about the objective -- reducing waste and litter -- they only care about going through the motions and looking concerned.
Ok, let's talk about that. I put a load of cans and bottles in the back of the truck, drive up the street to the Safeway, and all three machines are either showing a blue screen of death or have a hand written sign "out of order" or both.
I drive to a Fred Meyer's a little further away, same thing. Three machines, all out of order.
I drive to a Fred Meyer's even further away, same thing. I talk to the manager, and she says that the law requires that they charge us the deposit, but the law doesn't provide for maintenance on the machines, they're finicky and expensive, and are a low priority for the stores.
So, angry and frustrated, and having wasted a quarter tank of gas, I return home and throw the cans and bottles in the trash.
And, until there is a reasonable way to reclaim my deposit, I will treat it as an additional tax and continue to throw out the empties. Because I firmly believe that I am wasting more resources in a fruitless search for a working damned machine than I am saving by returning the empties.
...you'll see it in demos and as a prop for TV series but it'll never be something you can actually buy. It's just M$ egoware. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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I don't think so. I bought the motherboard new a year ago and it has a quad core Intel chip in it. So I think for most values of "old", it's fairly new.
Very good point. You'd think either the business or supplier would work patches into the process for anything connected to the interenet, especially anything designed to handle money, but I can see where most would let it slide and hope for the best.
Love your signature. It's my favorite phrase for this week.
I dunno, I've seen lots of photos of Al Gore eating junk food. (It seems like a paparazzi standard.) I'm not sure that's true at all. Rich people eat whatever the hell they want. I'm sure there's some rich vegans, (Weird Al, for instance) but I don't think being rich automatically makes you a health food nut. Quite the opposite, I think.
> The fact that you ate fresh foods does not mean that your nutrition was diverse and balanced.
More likely than living on McDonald's. Besides a truck patch, we grew almonds (rich in D, E, monounsaturated fats and dietary fiber) and pumpkins (Calcium, Iron, Beta-Carotine and a bunch of other things) and kept cows. (No pigs, though, so pork was a rare treat.) We also had an herb garden. I still remember the taste of chewing on fresh parsley when playing outside.
But the important thing, when you grow what you eat, and you're too poor for health insurance, you make sure your nutrition is diverse and balanced enough to support life without long term ill effects. Or, as well as was common knowledge at the time.
In summary, I don't think you can say that rich people *don't* eat overly-processed foods. You *can* say that rich people *don't have to* do that, but whether they do or not is a different question.
Moreover, being poor and no Obamacare at the time, a vital goal was to eat enough of a varied diet to keep life in a body.
But it was really about the price increase, I think. Netflix is not yet the killer streaming app they think they are. They are merely a good first try. It was way too early to jack up prices.
Even if there were a functional difference, not just a cosmetic one, it's still about the application. Adobe applications used to be best run on Macs. But Apple chased them out of the barn. What this means to me is a platform change, because the application is more important than the platform.
I'm pretty sure you're talking inner city, not necessarily low socioeconomic as such. There's a big wide stretch of country (generally the part that Nancy Pelosi is afraid to fly over) between the coasts with their big cities, where you can be dirt poor and still have fresh milk in the morning. Of course, you have to get up at dawn and milk the cow yourself.
> On April 8, 2014, security patches and hotfixes for all versions of Windows XP will no longer be available
And so?
That's 2.5 years from now. That's, like, 100 computer years. I'll be shocked if my computer is still relevant, or still *functional* in 2 more years.
You talk like it's Y2K coming up.
What counts is that the programs and the hardware currently in use continue to work, and they do. When that becomes less true, time to think about it then. For single use boxes, that's further off than you might imagine. And at that time, it'll be time to consider multiple vendors. As stated elsewhere in this thread, Adobe is finally starting to take Android seriously. Now all that's necessary is for Android to take itself seriously.
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It depends. You're right, there *is* too much attention to upgrading just to be upgrading. But certain versions have must-have features, like 2.2 (flash support). And if Android ever fixes the wifi proxy issue, I'd want that version on my phone. But the vendor will probably make me buy a new phone. Which will probably drive me back to Blackberry, which doesn't have proxy issues.
I put up a sign "Resident has no homeowner's insurance". Not only is that really scary, I get to keep all the candy to myself.
Seriously? Ron Paul said that? It's certainly not a Libertarian view.
Ah. Ok, you got me.
Or, rather, lack of Whoosh...
That is so incredibly untrue that I don't even know where to begin.
That's either funny in a profoundly geeky way, or a perfect illustration of the perils of a public education. I don't know which.
If you survive *this* year, you could be arrested by the real guys *next* year. It's about to become illegal to look like a TSA inspector, even for parody.
> In the late 1960s the first commercial heatpipes were used by NASA to stabilize satellite temperatures
Why didn't they just use fans? ...um, what? ...Really? Oh. Never mind.
Exactly. And when you say "There are really simple things you can do. Here's two: (1), put canvas covers over the recycling trucks like is currently required for trucks carrying gravel, so they don't lose their load at highway speeds. It's a known technology. There's no excuse for recycling trucks to litter. (2), adopt the practice already used in other states of reclaiming pop cans by the pound, instead of those damfool machines that have to read the bar code on each can. (Sometimes twice or three or four times if the barcode is marred in any way.) Then I can crush the cans and take them in when the bag gets heavy, like in a civilized state. " ...they look at you like you just proposed that they stick the cans up their arse. Well, that's going to be the next suggestion. And I'm willing to help.
And so, I exercise my right to protest by throwing the damned things away. To. Hell. With. Them.
> Now, driving 15 miles home along deserted county roads, you understand completely where all the roadside dumping comes from...
And that's where the ecologically minded, who with the best of intentions sponsored the bill in the first place, are getting screwed by the governments implementing the ideas. The bills get passed, but are implemented in a way that increases the likelihood of pollution.
I'm not an armchair quarterback on this -- I've participated on citizen boards and have communicated with my political representatives and with the businesses who are the worst offenders. I complained bitterly both to the state and county government, and at citizen board meetings about the trash along the side of the back roads that lead to the recycling hub. Those recycling trucks have huge uncovered bins on the back, and following one of those on the back roads when they get up to speed will guarantee a shower of cardboard, paper and milk cartons on your car. Yes, it's true -- the county is taking your carefully separated recyclables and throwing them on the side of the road. Because they don't care about the objective -- reducing waste and litter -- they only care about going through the motions and looking concerned.
Ok, let's talk about that. I put a load of cans and bottles in the back of the truck, drive up the street to the Safeway, and all three machines are either showing a blue screen of death or have a hand written sign "out of order" or both.
I drive to a Fred Meyer's a little further away, same thing. Three machines, all out of order.
I drive to a Fred Meyer's even further away, same thing. I talk to the manager, and she says that the law requires that they charge us the deposit, but the law doesn't provide for maintenance on the machines, they're finicky and expensive, and are a low priority for the stores.
So, angry and frustrated, and having wasted a quarter tank of gas, I return home and throw the cans and bottles in the trash.
And, until there is a reasonable way to reclaim my deposit, I will treat it as an additional tax and continue to throw out the empties. Because I firmly believe that I am wasting more resources in a fruitless search for a working damned machine than I am saving by returning the empties.
So... how green is that?
I don't think so. I bought the motherboard new a year ago and it has a quad core Intel chip in it. So I think for most values of "old", it's fairly new.
Very good point. You'd think either the business or supplier would work patches into the process for anything connected to the interenet, especially anything designed to handle money, but I can see where most would let it slide and hope for the best.
Love your signature. It's my favorite phrase for this week.
I wasn't aware that can and bottle recycling machines used recycled hardware, but it makes sense based on how unreliable they are.
> Rich people don't eat overly-processed food
I dunno, I've seen lots of photos of Al Gore eating junk food. (It seems like a paparazzi standard.) I'm not sure that's true at all. Rich people eat whatever the hell they want. I'm sure there's some rich vegans, (Weird Al, for instance) but I don't think being rich automatically makes you a health food nut. Quite the opposite, I think.
> The fact that you ate fresh foods does not mean that your nutrition was diverse and balanced.
More likely than living on McDonald's. Besides a truck patch, we grew almonds (rich in D, E, monounsaturated fats and dietary fiber) and pumpkins (Calcium, Iron, Beta-Carotine and a bunch of other things) and kept cows. (No pigs, though, so pork was a rare treat.) We also had an herb garden. I still remember the taste of chewing on fresh parsley when playing outside.
But the important thing, when you grow what you eat, and you're too poor for health insurance, you make sure your nutrition is diverse and balanced enough to support life without long term ill effects. Or, as well as was common knowledge at the time.
In summary, I don't think you can say that rich people *don't* eat overly-processed foods. You *can* say that rich people *don't have to* do that, but whether they do or not is a different question.
Moreover, being poor and no Obamacare at the time, a vital goal was to eat enough of a varied diet to keep life in a body.
Well, it was too early for that. We amused ourselves by throwing rocks at things.
An announcement that "the customers don't know what's good for them" is a clear sign to sell your stock in the company.
But it was really about the price increase, I think. Netflix is not yet the killer streaming app they think they are. They are merely a good first try. It was way too early to jack up prices.
Even if there were a functional difference, not just a cosmetic one, it's still about the application. Adobe applications used to be best run on Macs. But Apple chased them out of the barn. What this means to me is a platform change, because the application is more important than the platform.
I'm pretty sure you're talking inner city, not necessarily low socioeconomic as such. There's a big wide stretch of country (generally the part that Nancy Pelosi is afraid to fly over) between the coasts with their big cities, where you can be dirt poor and still have fresh milk in the morning. Of course, you have to get up at dawn and milk the cow yourself.
Not sure what you mean. My workflow is defined by the application, where I spend all my time. What do I care if icons jump to get my attention?
> On April 8, 2014, security patches and hotfixes for all versions of Windows XP will no longer be available
And so?
That's 2.5 years from now. That's, like, 100 computer years. I'll be shocked if my computer is still relevant, or still *functional* in 2 more years.
You talk like it's Y2K coming up.
What counts is that the programs and the hardware currently in use continue to work, and they do. When that becomes less true, time to think about it then. For single use boxes, that's further off than you might imagine. And at that time, it'll be time to consider multiple vendors. As stated elsewhere in this thread, Adobe is finally starting to take Android seriously. Now all that's necessary is for Android to take itself seriously.