What happens when they mix the common cold with Aids or Ebola? Just think, either of these being able to spread through the air... and yes I know that there is airborne Ebola already, but it only affected monkeys and not humans (or so they think). I think it's only a matter of time before Aids or Ebola become airborne in a form that we are susceptible too. Won't be quite like "28 Days" if it's Aids as Aids takes a much longer time to kill, but if it were Ebola, then "28 Days" may be a bit closer to how it would go. Or maybe "The Stand" without the part about Satan and all that...
Get your damn facts straight! He goes by Robert, not Bob and it was a '63 Buick not a '62... a Roadmaster if I recall correctly. Ah yes, a vintage '63 Buick Roadmaster... a sweet ride.
Also note that the transmission was not deemed faulty. It worked fine with the original engine whiel the original engine. It was only after that engine was removed and a brand new 1000 horsepower engine was installed that the "faulty" transmission had problems. Who knew that a thousand ponies could do that much damage to a tranny... there were parts scattered for half a mile!
But look at the precautions he took to ensure that nothing of importance was shown in the photo. He had his back to the building, made sure no employees were in the picture, etc. This is ridiculous. Obviously if he was wanting to leak something or cause problems, he would have taken pictures of something a bit more spectacular than a couple of crates of shiny new G5's.
it identifies him as someone willing to snipe at his own place of employment
Are you mad? How did he snipe at anyone or anything? He was merely commenting about the cool new computers that had just arrived. Without photgraphic evidence some people would have said he was making it up. I at first glance didn't think MS would actually be ordering Mac's... it took a moment to realize that they do develop a few things for the Mac and would therefore need the machines for development purposes... or maybe they just think they are cool. Maybe all of those machines are no sitting in Bill's office and he's playing around with them. Or maybe they are building their own version of the BigMac running Longhorn... who cares. My point is that he was not saying anything bad about his employer or trying to make them look silly. He merely saw some cool new computers and took a picture of them and then mentioned it on his blog... which is what most people use their blogs for... talking about their lives.
Firing him was stupid. Yea, if the photo pisses you off, tell him about it. Say "Hey, no more photos your your gone" or something a bit more polite than that. Firing him for something like this is just stupid.
This is why he got fired. He photoshopped the photo to make it appear that the sun was shining while everyone knows that the sun NEVER shines in the Seattle ara (Redmond is close to Seattle). All we ever get here is rain, rain, and more rain. So he blatantly tried to deceive the public and we all know how MS feels about lies and deception. They had no choice but to can him!
If I'm cooking dinner for me, I may cut a few edges, use what's on hand, etc. If I'm having guests over, you can be damn sure that I'm using the correct ingredients (no substitutions), fresh ingredients, and name-brand stuff. I want whatever I prepare to be as good as I can make it. When it's just for me, I'm not so fussy. We're all like this so why do we expect companies to be any different?
If they know that the product is going to be reviewed, they want their best specimen to be reveiewed. They'll make sure that there are no problems with that model because on the few rare occasions when something to be reviewed is DOA, and it's for a major publication, that can really hurt sales. You want the reviewer to have no problems. Now if one or two or several thousand actual customers have problems, who cares? As long as more schleps keep buying your product because the model the reviewer had rocked, all is well.
Nearly useless? I thought it was just me but for the past couple of months I've been hating Google more and more. It used to be so easy to find what I wanted but I try a simple search for a name brand item and the manufacturer is the last page listing to come up it seems. What really irks me is how many listings show up for other search engines... or search services as they call themselves. It's a shame that Google has not done anything to solve this problem. Surely they could change things a bit to completely drop these so-called search services since they offer no real information and are just basically advertisements.
Hmm... I looked at the screenshots and I don't see any tab browsing... surely the geeks in Redmond are smart enough to add tabbed browsing to IE aren't they? Isn't that one of the top reasons why people switch to Mozilla? I'm not saying that's the only great thing about Mozilla... it just plain rocks, but the first feature I noticed and fell in love with was the tabbed browsing.
I really expected IE would have this, and every other feature that any other browser has. That's what MS does... copy what everyone else has... but maybe this time they're not.
If only you could get a whole class to wear these that day... OMG that would be frakin hilarious! Maybe plaster some bumper stickets all over the school the night before too...
You can't see the advantage of Firebird over Mozilla even with your own numbers?
Why it's obvious!!!
The advantage is.7M of memory saved by running Firebird over Mozilla... oh wait, Mozilla can do both browsing and mail... and Firbird needs Thunderbird for that... hmm... no, I can't see any advantage either.
[disclaimer: I use Firebird/Thunderbird and love both!... but I have memory to burn]
This is bullshit. I use Firebird because I don't like IE. If all browsers emulated IE, why wouldn't I just use IE? IE works and it does fine on my machine. I however dislike it's look, it's feel, the missing tab-browsing, and the inability to block poopups like I can in Mozilla or Firebird.
Not everyone wants an IE clone. If you like IE so much, then use IE. If you want something feels just like IE, why not use the real thing?
Mozilla and Firebird are their own beast and that's how it should be. They do things their way. They have their own feel and I for one like that feel a lot. There are some things that I wish were different, but give me any piece of software and there will be a couple of things I would change. Even stuff I have written myself isn't perfectly the way I want it. For example, being able to add buttons to the tab bar in Firebird or being able to add the GoogleBar to the bar above it so that each takes up one half of the width of the screen. I'm on a 19" monitor and I don't really need a location bar this wide, nor do I use everything on the GoogleBar but once I remover what I don't want, I'm left with wasted space. There may be away around this but I haven't figured it out yet.
Something really cool about Expose that I just learned this morning after reading the Apple site about it is that you can program moust buttons on multi-buttoned mice for Expose. I have a 5 button mouse and only ever use three of the buttons. Would be very cool to tie the other two into Expose... now all I need is a Mac and Panther.... but I have the mouse... that's a start... right?
I can still run HyprCard 1.4 (released in '87, I believe) on a brand-new G4. That says something. That's an app compiled for a DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURE goddammit!
I can't stop laughing! You really hit the nail on the head... it's just the way you said it... it cracks me up.
I've always thought that Apple did a great job with backwards compatibility. When I bought my Apple IIGS back in the day (ok, my parents bought it for me), it was able to run most if not all of the software that was available for earlier Apple machines. For some software you had to change the speed of the coputer to slow it down a bit, but everything I tried ran great. I was upset when Macs came out and weren't able to run Apple IIGS software. I would have upgraded much sooner if that had been the case, but they did this for a reason. At some point you have to let go of the old to embrace the new.
What if cars used horses instead of engines just because back in the day lots of people had horses and someone suggest that in order to not piss off those with horses, they shouldn't move towards other means of propulsion? That would have been absurd right? It's the same now. If your going to move forward at a reasonable pace, you can't keep going back and checking to make sure software still works from way back. It would slow things down to much and you'd never get much accomplished.
I have software that won't run on XP. The installer says it was not made for this version of Windows and then exits. No updates available. Nothing. Am I pissed? Of course not. The software was intended for a particular OS and since I'm no longer running that OS, I can't use that software. I wouldn't expect my car to be able to run on jet fuel and if someday the only thing available at the pumps is jet fuel for newer cars, I guess I won't be driving my car anymore. I'll need to keep with the times... for the times, they be a changin.
Why do we care what PCWorld has to say about a Macintosh computer? Obviously their main interest is PC's and not Apple products. If everyone suddenly got rid of their PC boxes and bought Mac's, they wouldn't have crap to write about. Since they are writing about PC's and using PC's, obviously they are biased towards PC's. Same with a Mac magazine (although usually Mac magazines are even more biased... but with good reason... Mac's rule!)
When will we quite caring which one is faster? OS X is what I want. I don't care what hardware I have to use. Everything currently on the market is fast enough for me and OS X is the nicest OS available so I want whatever I need to use OS X. It's that simple. Sure I can go with AMD and get a chip that may be faster than a G5 but what am I going to run on it? Windows XP 64? No thanks. Linux? That would work, but wait... OS X has a lot of the features that I like in Linux. It has features that I can't get in Linux. It costs more, but to me the extra price is worth it.
You are wrong. Apple's cases are just as strong as Dell's and can support quite a lot of ECC RAM piled on top before caving in. In recent lab tests it was found that a shiny new Apple case could support almost three times as much ram piled on top of it than the comparably sized Dell case.
They claim that their product (OS X) is superior to Windows. If this is the case, let us see them in the Intel arena.
This is like taking a nice sports car and putting Ford Fiesta internals inside of it. You buy a sports car because it has a great engine, handles well, looks nice, etc. Yes you can take a sports car body and put it on a crap fram with a crap engine but why?!?!?!? Nobody does it because it's stupid. Apple doesn't port their OS because not many consumers, if any at all, want to drive a sports car that handles like a Buick and has the power of a Yugo. With the new G5 processors, Apple has finally achieved (or so they claim) the nice powerful engine to put under the hood of their "sports car" OS.
You need to compare like items or your simply wasting your time. If you look at the cost of a comparable pc to the high end mac's you'll find that the price is nearly the same. Sure you can get a nice AMD box for much cheaper. I have two of them (and an AMD based laptop) but my machines aren't nearly as nice as what Apple makes, even though they clock in at 3.6 Ghz (dual processor machines).
One other thing that needs to be considered is what your going to use the computer for. Sure I can buy a car for less than I'd have to pay for a pickup truck but if I need to pull a trailer or haul a lot of stuff, 10 cars won't be as effective as the one truck.
I actually like this feature a lot. I'm not a fan of Messenger overall but I have to use it on a daily basis to communicate with some of my clients because it's the only IM client they use. When I type a message and then they start to reply, I can instantly see that they are typing. That lets me know that they a) got my message, b) are replying, and c) I need to wait until they finish before writing again. When I'm communicating with other peopel who type quickly, it's not needed but most of my clients type with one or two fingers and they take quite a while.
You might fit a bit more if you were to use vbr and cap it at 128. Then during quiet times it would take less space... but I seriously doubt you would be able to get an hour of music into 32MB unless the quality is shite.
are still paying for food and housing, and are paying taxes
Obviously you have never been to the Napa Valley. Yes they pay for food and housing although not much for housing since they often share houses between 10 or 12 people. As for taxes, do you honestly think that people who are not allowed to work here legally are going to pay taxes? I've known several people who claimed the wrong deductions on taxes so that less would be held out of their checks, and then did not file taxes at the end of the year. They also used fake Social Security numbers. How are people like this a bennefit to our economy?
You say that we shold grant permanent visas. How do we determine who should get those? Anyone wishing to work here? What about the people who are already here? Are we supposed to leave?
Bringing workers to this country does not mean that the money paid to these workers will remain here. I grew up in the Napa Valley in California where Wine is the big thing. A large share of the work force are from Mexico and a large share of their paychecks go to their families that are still in Mexico. Most of the people I knew would live in the US during the Spring, Summer, Fall while they could find work, and then return to Mexico in the Winter to be with their families. They didn't do much spending while they were here choosing to instead save every penny they could to support their families so how does this help our economy?
We have a lot of Americans out of work, displaced by workers from other countries who in some cases are not even legal to work here. They send money back home which does not stimulate our economy. So you now have two problems: Americans out of work have no money to spend and those who have come here and taken some of our jobs, have money, but choose not to spend it which causes businesses here to dwindle and fail because nobody is spending money in their establishments.
Lets hire more US workers, not less. Lets figure out ways to get the US workers additional training if they are under-qualified. We need CEO's of some major companies to step up the plate and decide to hire Americans and only Americans and do what it takes to find and hire those who are qualified. If we keep going the way we are, the CEO's may end up very wealthy, but what will they do with their money when our country has collapsed around them?
See any products that aren't made in your home country?
I don't see any that ARE made in my home country. What is still made here in the US? My computers I'm sure are made somewhere else, even if the companies are American. My desk is from Thailand or Singapore or Hong Kong or Korea. I just looked at my Belkin router... sticker says "Designed In California" and then just below that "Made In Taiwan"... so at least they employ an American designer... except how do we know that? Maybe they hired someone from Taiwan to move over here and design the router...who knows.
I'm willing to pay a bit more to buy goods produced here in the US, or even goods that are mostly produced in the US but I can't seem to find very many. I only drive "American Made" cars but how much of a Ford or Chevy is made here? Are the parts made somewhere else and then the car is assembled here? Why can't they make the entire car from start to finish including all of the parts right here in the US?
So how do we buy American products when most "American" companies build everything somewhere else?
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What happens when they mix the common cold with Aids or Ebola? Just think, either of these being able to spread through the air... and yes I know that there is airborne Ebola already, but it only affected monkeys and not humans (or so they think). I think it's only a matter of time before Aids or Ebola become airborne in a form that we are susceptible too. Won't be quite like "28 Days" if it's Aids as Aids takes a much longer time to kill, but if it were Ebola, then "28 Days" may be a bit closer to how it would go. Or maybe "The Stand" without the part about Satan and all that...
Also note that the transmission was not deemed faulty. It worked fine with the original engine whiel the original engine. It was only after that engine was removed and a brand new 1000 horsepower engine was installed that the "faulty" transmission had problems. Who knew that a thousand ponies could do that much damage to a tranny... there were parts scattered for half a mile!
But look at the precautions he took to ensure that nothing of importance was shown in the photo. He had his back to the building, made sure no employees were in the picture, etc. This is ridiculous. Obviously if he was wanting to leak something or cause problems, he would have taken pictures of something a bit more spectacular than a couple of crates of shiny new G5's.
Are you mad? How did he snipe at anyone or anything? He was merely commenting about the cool new computers that had just arrived. Without photgraphic evidence some people would have said he was making it up. I at first glance didn't think MS would actually be ordering Mac's... it took a moment to realize that they do develop a few things for the Mac and would therefore need the machines for development purposes... or maybe they just think they are cool. Maybe all of those machines are no sitting in Bill's office and he's playing around with them. Or maybe they are building their own version of the BigMac running Longhorn... who cares. My point is that he was not saying anything bad about his employer or trying to make them look silly. He merely saw some cool new computers and took a picture of them and then mentioned it on his blog... which is what most people use their blogs for... talking about their lives.
Firing him was stupid. Yea, if the photo pisses you off, tell him about it. Say "Hey, no more photos your your gone" or something a bit more polite than that. Firing him for something like this is just stupid.
This is why he got fired. He photoshopped the photo to make it appear that the sun was shining while everyone knows that the sun NEVER shines in the Seattle ara (Redmond is close to Seattle). All we ever get here is rain, rain, and more rain. So he blatantly tried to deceive the public and we all know how MS feels about lies and deception. They had no choice but to can him!
If they know that the product is going to be reviewed, they want their best specimen to be reveiewed. They'll make sure that there are no problems with that model because on the few rare occasions when something to be reviewed is DOA, and it's for a major publication, that can really hurt sales. You want the reviewer to have no problems. Now if one or two or several thousand actual customers have problems, who cares? As long as more schleps keep buying your product because the model the reviewer had rocked, all is well.
Nearly useless? I thought it was just me but for the past couple of months I've been hating Google more and more. It used to be so easy to find what I wanted but I try a simple search for a name brand item and the manufacturer is the last page listing to come up it seems. What really irks me is how many listings show up for other search engines... or search services as they call themselves. It's a shame that Google has not done anything to solve this problem. Surely they could change things a bit to completely drop these so-called search services since they offer no real information and are just basically advertisements.
I really expected IE would have this, and every other feature that any other browser has. That's what MS does... copy what everyone else has... but maybe this time they're not.
If only you could get a whole class to wear these that day... OMG that would be frakin hilarious! Maybe plaster some bumper stickets all over the school the night before too...
Why it's obvious!!!
The advantage is .7M of memory saved by running Firebird over Mozilla... oh wait, Mozilla can do both browsing and mail... and Firbird needs Thunderbird for that... hmm... no, I can't see any advantage either.
[disclaimer: I use Firebird/Thunderbird and love both!... but I have memory to burn]
Not everyone wants an IE clone. If you like IE so much, then use IE. If you want something feels just like IE, why not use the real thing?
Mozilla and Firebird are their own beast and that's how it should be. They do things their way. They have their own feel and I for one like that feel a lot. There are some things that I wish were different, but give me any piece of software and there will be a couple of things I would change. Even stuff I have written myself isn't perfectly the way I want it. For example, being able to add buttons to the tab bar in Firebird or being able to add the GoogleBar to the bar above it so that each takes up one half of the width of the screen. I'm on a 19" monitor and I don't really need a location bar this wide, nor do I use everything on the GoogleBar but once I remover what I don't want, I'm left with wasted space. There may be away around this but I haven't figured it out yet.
And how much blood would you like to sell to us today Sir?
Take it! Take it all! I must have a shiney new G5!
The bad news is that Roy was injured.
The good news is that now we know which one is Roy. -David Letterman
Something really cool about Expose that I just learned this morning after reading the Apple site about it is that you can program moust buttons on multi-buttoned mice for Expose. I have a 5 button mouse and only ever use three of the buttons. Would be very cool to tie the other two into Expose... now all I need is a Mac and Panther.... but I have the mouse... that's a start... right?
I can't stop laughing! You really hit the nail on the head... it's just the way you said it... it cracks me up.
I've always thought that Apple did a great job with backwards compatibility. When I bought my Apple IIGS back in the day (ok, my parents bought it for me), it was able to run most if not all of the software that was available for earlier Apple machines. For some software you had to change the speed of the coputer to slow it down a bit, but everything I tried ran great. I was upset when Macs came out and weren't able to run Apple IIGS software. I would have upgraded much sooner if that had been the case, but they did this for a reason. At some point you have to let go of the old to embrace the new.
What if cars used horses instead of engines just because back in the day lots of people had horses and someone suggest that in order to not piss off those with horses, they shouldn't move towards other means of propulsion? That would have been absurd right? It's the same now. If your going to move forward at a reasonable pace, you can't keep going back and checking to make sure software still works from way back. It would slow things down to much and you'd never get much accomplished.
I have software that won't run on XP. The installer says it was not made for this version of Windows and then exits. No updates available. Nothing. Am I pissed? Of course not. The software was intended for a particular OS and since I'm no longer running that OS, I can't use that software. I wouldn't expect my car to be able to run on jet fuel and if someday the only thing available at the pumps is jet fuel for newer cars, I guess I won't be driving my car anymore. I'll need to keep with the times... for the times, they be a changin.
When will we quite caring which one is faster? OS X is what I want. I don't care what hardware I have to use. Everything currently on the market is fast enough for me and OS X is the nicest OS available so I want whatever I need to use OS X. It's that simple. Sure I can go with AMD and get a chip that may be faster than a G5 but what am I going to run on it? Windows XP 64? No thanks. Linux? That would work, but wait... OS X has a lot of the features that I like in Linux. It has features that I can't get in Linux. It costs more, but to me the extra price is worth it.
You are wrong. Apple's cases are just as strong as Dell's and can support quite a lot of ECC RAM piled on top before caving in. In recent lab tests it was found that a shiny new Apple case could support almost three times as much ram piled on top of it than the comparably sized Dell case.
This is like taking a nice sports car and putting Ford Fiesta internals inside of it. You buy a sports car because it has a great engine, handles well, looks nice, etc. Yes you can take a sports car body and put it on a crap fram with a crap engine but why?!?!?!? Nobody does it because it's stupid. Apple doesn't port their OS because not many consumers, if any at all, want to drive a sports car that handles like a Buick and has the power of a Yugo. With the new G5 processors, Apple has finally achieved (or so they claim) the nice powerful engine to put under the hood of their "sports car" OS.
One other thing that needs to be considered is what your going to use the computer for. Sure I can buy a car for less than I'd have to pay for a pickup truck but if I need to pull a trailer or haul a lot of stuff, 10 cars won't be as effective as the one truck.
I actually like this feature a lot. I'm not a fan of Messenger overall but I have to use it on a daily basis to communicate with some of my clients because it's the only IM client they use. When I type a message and then they start to reply, I can instantly see that they are typing. That lets me know that they a) got my message, b) are replying, and c) I need to wait until they finish before writing again. When I'm communicating with other peopel who type quickly, it's not needed but most of my clients type with one or two fingers and they take quite a while.
2.6 ton pinball machine... damn... I wonder what size tokens it takes?
You might fit a bit more if you were to use vbr and cap it at 128. Then during quiet times it would take less space... but I seriously doubt you would be able to get an hour of music into 32MB unless the quality is shite.
Obviously you have never been to the Napa Valley. Yes they pay for food and housing although not much for housing since they often share houses between 10 or 12 people. As for taxes, do you honestly think that people who are not allowed to work here legally are going to pay taxes? I've known several people who claimed the wrong deductions on taxes so that less would be held out of their checks, and then did not file taxes at the end of the year. They also used fake Social Security numbers. How are people like this a bennefit to our economy?
You say that we shold grant permanent visas. How do we determine who should get those? Anyone wishing to work here? What about the people who are already here? Are we supposed to leave?
We have a lot of Americans out of work, displaced by workers from other countries who in some cases are not even legal to work here. They send money back home which does not stimulate our economy. So you now have two problems: Americans out of work have no money to spend and those who have come here and taken some of our jobs, have money, but choose not to spend it which causes businesses here to dwindle and fail because nobody is spending money in their establishments.
Lets hire more US workers, not less. Lets figure out ways to get the US workers additional training if they are under-qualified. We need CEO's of some major companies to step up the plate and decide to hire Americans and only Americans and do what it takes to find and hire those who are qualified. If we keep going the way we are, the CEO's may end up very wealthy, but what will they do with their money when our country has collapsed around them?
I don't see any that ARE made in my home country. What is still made here in the US? My computers I'm sure are made somewhere else, even if the companies are American. My desk is from Thailand or Singapore or Hong Kong or Korea. I just looked at my Belkin router... sticker says "Designed In California" and then just below that "Made In Taiwan"... so at least they employ an American designer... except how do we know that? Maybe they hired someone from Taiwan to move over here and design the router...who knows.
I'm willing to pay a bit more to buy goods produced here in the US, or even goods that are mostly produced in the US but I can't seem to find very many. I only drive "American Made" cars but how much of a Ford or Chevy is made here? Are the parts made somewhere else and then the car is assembled here? Why can't they make the entire car from start to finish including all of the parts right here in the US?
So how do we buy American products when most "American" companies build everything somewhere else?