Vista is not at all a "bad OS." The upgrade path from XP to Vista may involve a hardware refresh but the OS itself is solid, attractive, and pretty user friendly. I've been running it for about a year and it has yet to full-on crash on me. In fact its ability to isolate faulting apps is excellent.
My Fedora10 system, by contrast, has way more quirks. Yes, it's apples to oranges when comparing the two for all the reasons we know about.
While I don't usually stand up for Msft, this "it's a bad OS" conclusion is not fair. Which isn't to say Msft didn't fumble in so far as not doing enough to get drivers rewritten or having awful, awful marketing (The Seinfeld ad was enough to turn anyone off the OS).
What really sucks is that XP is a just-fine OS as well.. but if you try to config a system on Dell now with XP it is an EXTRA $150 (!!).
More succinctly, the Chinese have a saying -- "wealth does not last three generations." Someone is going to blow it, invest poorly, etc. That would suggest no genetic component worthy of mating with someone.
Regrettably I can't cite a source for this but I believe it was from something authoritative.. National Geographic or thereabouts.
At any rate, the bushmen of Africa do indeed perform marathon-like feats in order to catch game. Doubtful they do it in the blazing sun but I imagine there is a temperature zone where our lack of fur and sweat-cooled exertion is superior to the systems of an animal.
Which assumes there is a open wifi connection in the area. That alone is unacceptable for any building/office that houses even "sensitive" data. 802.11b/g/n should all be jammed as well as the walls/windows lined with RF blocking mesh.
The guys running the.mil networks are a bit like union folk -- not actively seeking to make things worse but not staying up late to keep the holes plugged either. They'll have some laughably lopsided security approach -- pressurized conduit piping for CAT5 but servers running NT 3.5.
Wow, nobody has posted the wondrous story of Blue Jeans Cable?
Monster Cable sent this small cable co a threatening letter with a grab-bag of patents that they claim he violated. Little did they know the owner was a former lawyer himself. His reply to Monster is absolutely priceless.
Second, Rich, thanks for a powerful plugin that I'm sure has kept my blood pressure down a few notches. Whenever I use a browser that doesn't have adBlock installed I am aghast at the irritating clutter that is on most web pages.
The project is stagnant.. yet still has a huge user base. I submitted a bug recently, it was acknowledged as valid, but there was pretty much zero traction on getting a fix despite multiple people submitting confirming logs, etc.
I guess, since it doesn't make money, it's not a priority.
It's bad enough that facebook results in more lost productivity than hangovers and the flu combined.. and the hundreds of megawatt hours of juice they burn. Lets not ADD to their leaching of vitality from the human race and the planet by burning more power to AES:
"Snooky Socks wrote on your wall: "lolz, last night was sooo fun! Check out this pic of Jeremy dancing with Jenn!!!11:)"
Really.. encryption tools are plentiful and free for anyone that is planning an insurrection.
Sure.. just like the "components" of my server costs only $5,000. Then there's the $30k database license sitting on it. And the 2A of power it draws, and the $1k/month internet connection.. and my salary.. etc. Her hardware cost reference is to promote the "why don't we have this now?" reaction.
Anyone else notice the instances of him using the device (bookstore, grovery store) were conspicuously dimly lit? Not knocking what is certainly a clever packaging of components in an experimental doodad.. but would you buy a device you couldn't use outside?
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Couldn't agree more. It's quite frustrating to do a history | grep in expectation of reusing some convoluted command only to find that it's not in the list.
Agreed. I remember being amazed at how the charge symbol on my blackberry would come on with my old laptop but the battery meter never budged upward. A classic WTF moment until I learned about the different amp modes.
I hear you on the need for lots of CPU in doing protein folding, etc, but I can't help but feel, as I swill a budweiser and scratch myself, that scientists today use brute force in silico methods as a crutch when they should really be looking at smarter modeling techniques that would need orders of magnitudes LESS computing power.
Current PPI and other molecular modeling techniques are clumsy! They amount to a dimwitted child picking up a peg and bashing it at the wooden block in sequence in hopes that "ooh! it fits!"
Get off your asses and stop pretending to be hamstrung by not having enough processing power! There are more elegant approaches to in silico chemistry waiting to be discovered. Sheesh!
Lie number 1"Some strains of cannabis are relatively big plants." Great, grow the small ones. As to "Lie number 2," no, cannabis does not require lots of soil relative to what you would need to grow tobacco for pack-a-day consumption. "Lots" is a relative term. Are you ok with that?
*sigh* Lie number 3 -- cannabis can be thrown in a paper bag and hung in the closet. end of story.
Honestly, light a joint and mellow out. Who'da ever thought a post on growing dope would be met with LIEZ!! LIEEZ!!!111
Ooh, a "complete lie" is it? The $1,000 kits you describe are for grow-OPS. You don't need automatic sprinklers if you are watering the thing yourself. A light-timer is $10. WTF does "weeks of cultivation" have to do with anything? I specifically mentioned "single consumer" not "5,000 sq ft underground cave."
Sure, I imagine growing whatever Purple Pearl Hawaii Sunset flava requires more nuance but plenty of dope gets grown out in the wild with minimal care.
Your analogy is not quite as good as you think. Tobacco is a relatively big plant that requires a specific climate and lots of soil. It also has to be dried in a rather particular way.
Weed is, well, it's a weed. It'll grow unless you water it with diesel. It can be grown in a small space and still produce enough to satisfy a single consumer. Not so with the tobacco plant.
The problem with growing is the penalties associated with cultivation are usually severe. Even states that have decriminalized pot possession (like MA) still have strongly punitive laws for growth. It's the next thing that needs to change.
Allow someone to grow, say, three plants at home and make it a $1,000 penalty. More than three and it's a felony. It would divert lots of money away from the black market (with some going to Home depot). The mexican cartels would take a serious hit as would all grow-ops.
Oh waits, lolz, I'm making sense.. we're talking 'bout the gubment here. It would send the wrong message to our children!! think of the children!! the war on drugs must be won! marijuana is an addictive, dangerous drug with no beneficial qualities whatsoever.
Couldn't agree more. A solid day's work is a noble thing but this "80 on a usual week, 100 on a bad week" is for the birds. I have no pity whatsoever unless it truly is the only job you can get or you absolutely have to have it (pays the extra $5k you need for your kids' medicine).
I've as much sympathy for the OP as I do for lawyers who put in similar hours for 10 years in order to make partner. Enjoy the $$.. you'll have no soul at the end... huh, that explains a lot.
While I've not been to China, everything I've read leads me to believe that China can't control what's happening. They simply don't have established institutions like the EPA and the regulatory overhead that we accept as normal for business operation in the West. Want to open a manufacturing plant somewhere? Just do it. Pay off the local party chief and set it up. Dump your waste into the local river.
That's why melamine, lead, and God knows what else ends up in food and toys.. because there's nobody to go inspect the plants and see just what it is they're doing. All the central government can do when a scandal breaks is take a bunch of guys, put them up against the wall, and hope everyone else takes note.
So, yes, while it is undeniably China's fault for not having a better handle on what's going on inside their borders, it will take years and years before they have the systems in place to be able to do anything about it.
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Vista is not at all a "bad OS." The upgrade path from XP to Vista may involve a hardware refresh but the OS itself is solid, attractive, and pretty user friendly. I've been running it for about a year and it has yet to full-on crash on me. In fact its ability to isolate faulting apps is excellent.
My Fedora10 system, by contrast, has way more quirks. Yes, it's apples to oranges when comparing the two for all the reasons we know about.
While I don't usually stand up for Msft, this "it's a bad OS" conclusion is not fair. Which isn't to say Msft didn't fumble in so far as not doing enough to get drivers rewritten or having awful, awful marketing (The Seinfeld ad was enough to turn anyone off the OS).
What really sucks is that XP is a just-fine OS as well.. but if you try to config a system on Dell now with XP it is an EXTRA $150 (!!).
Sites like tributes.com are popping up to make the death experience more facebook-compatible.
Online guest books, youtube videos, massive databases of the dead, etc.
It makes sense given the decline of the newspaper and the traditional paper obit.
While that wealth - "societal fitness" correlation sounds plausible, it is not supported by any evidence I am aware of.
There is no smarts - riches connection .
More succinctly, the Chinese have a saying -- "wealth does not last three generations." Someone is going to blow it, invest poorly, etc. That would suggest no genetic component worthy of mating with someone.
Regrettably I can't cite a source for this but I believe it was from something authoritative.. National Geographic or thereabouts.
At any rate, the bushmen of Africa do indeed perform marathon-like feats in order to catch game. Doubtful they do it in the blazing sun but I imagine there is a temperature zone where our lack of fur and sweat-cooled exertion is superior to the systems of an animal.
Which assumes there is a open wifi connection in the area. That alone is unacceptable for any building/office that houses even "sensitive" data. 802.11b/g/n should all be jammed as well as the walls/windows lined with RF blocking mesh.
The guys running the .mil networks are a bit like union folk -- not actively seeking to make things worse but not staying up late to keep the holes plugged either. They'll have some laughably lopsided security approach -- pressurized conduit piping for CAT5 but servers running NT 3.5.
Bureaucracy, bloated budgets, Friday's off, consultants/contractors everywhere, protectionist agendas..
Yes, usually $30k or more in difference.
Wow, nobody has posted the wondrous story of Blue Jeans Cable?
Monster Cable sent this small cable co a threatening letter with a grab-bag of patents that they claim he violated. Little did they know the owner was a former lawyer himself. His reply to Monster is absolutely priceless.
First and foremost, condolences to the family.
Second, Rich, thanks for a powerful plugin that I'm sure has kept my blood pressure down a few notches. Whenever I use a browser that doesn't have adBlock installed I am aghast at the irritating clutter that is on most web pages.
The project is stagnant.. yet still has a huge user base. I submitted a bug recently, it was acknowledged as valid, but there was pretty much zero traction on getting a fix despite multiple people submitting confirming logs, etc.
I guess, since it doesn't make money, it's not a priority.
Yes, I hear at MIT they teach the difference between "off" and "of"!
\\\runs and hides.. troll me, I deserve it.
And if you're a bigger business you use a WORM solution. Technology - it's flexible.
We have Steorn, and Blacklight Power!!
It seems the universe is plump with energy and needs only a little squeeze to send it gushing forth.
It's bad enough that facebook results in more lost productivity than hangovers and the flu combined.. and the hundreds of megawatt hours of juice they burn. Lets not ADD to their leaching of vitality from the human race and the planet by burning more power to AES:
"Snooky Socks wrote on your wall: "lolz, last night was sooo fun! Check out this pic of Jeremy dancing with Jenn!!!11 :)"
Really.. encryption tools are plentiful and free for anyone that is planning an insurrection.
Sure.. just like the "components" of my server costs only $5,000. Then there's the $30k database license sitting on it. And the 2A of power it draws, and the $1k/month internet connection.. and my salary.. etc. Her hardware cost reference is to promote the "why don't we have this now?" reaction.
Anyone else notice the instances of him using the device (bookstore, grovery store) were conspicuously dimly lit? Not knocking what is certainly a clever packaging of components in an experimental doodad.. but would you buy a device you couldn't use outside?
Here you go..
[root@localhost ~]#
Couldn't agree more. It's quite frustrating to do a history | grep in expectation of reusing some convoluted command only to find that it's not in the list.
Agreed. I remember being amazed at how the charge symbol on my blackberry would come on with my old laptop but the battery meter never budged upward. A classic WTF moment until I learned about the different amp modes.
I hear you on the need for lots of CPU in doing protein folding, etc, but I can't help but feel, as I swill a budweiser and scratch myself, that scientists today use brute force in silico methods as a crutch when they should really be looking at smarter modeling techniques that would need orders of magnitudes LESS computing power.
Current PPI and other molecular modeling techniques are clumsy! They amount to a dimwitted child picking up a peg and bashing it at the wooden block in sequence in hopes that "ooh! it fits!"
Get off your asses and stop pretending to be hamstrung by not having enough processing power! There are more elegant approaches to in silico chemistry waiting to be discovered. Sheesh!
And will they remember to buy a $4.99 LED flashlight and a couple AA batteries at the PX?
The 1/2 candle power, gov't issued, 15-second-lifespan flashlight that comes as standard issue just doesn't cut it when fighting the undead.
Wow you stoners are touchy.
Your arguments are worthy of an anonymous coward.
Lie number 1"Some strains of cannabis are relatively big plants." Great, grow the small ones. As to "Lie number 2," no, cannabis does not require lots of soil relative to what you would need to grow tobacco for pack-a-day consumption. "Lots" is a relative term. Are you ok with that?
*sigh* Lie number 3 -- cannabis can be thrown in a paper bag and hung in the closet. end of story.
Honestly, light a joint and mellow out. Who'da ever thought a post on growing dope would be met with LIEZ!! LIEEZ!!!111
Ooh, a "complete lie" is it? The $1,000 kits you describe are for grow-OPS. You don't need automatic sprinklers if you are watering the thing yourself. A light-timer is $10. WTF does "weeks of cultivation" have to do with anything? I specifically mentioned "single consumer" not "5,000 sq ft underground cave."
Sure, I imagine growing whatever Purple Pearl Hawaii Sunset flava requires more nuance but plenty of dope gets grown out in the wild with minimal care.
Get off your "high" horse.
Your analogy is not quite as good as you think. Tobacco is a relatively big plant that requires a specific climate and lots of soil. It also has to be dried in a rather particular way.
Weed is, well, it's a weed. It'll grow unless you water it with diesel. It can be grown in a small space and still produce enough to satisfy a single consumer. Not so with the tobacco plant.
The problem with growing is the penalties associated with cultivation are usually severe. Even states that have decriminalized pot possession (like MA) still have strongly punitive laws for growth. It's the next thing that needs to change.
Allow someone to grow, say, three plants at home and make it a $1,000 penalty. More than three and it's a felony. It would divert lots of money away from the black market (with some going to Home depot). The mexican cartels would take a serious hit as would all grow-ops.
Oh waits, lolz, I'm making sense.. we're talking 'bout the gubment here. It would send the wrong message to our children!! think of the children!! the war on drugs must be won! marijuana is an addictive, dangerous drug with no beneficial qualities whatsoever.
From the episode where Grandpa is left to look after the kids.
Grandpa: Are you sure your mother lets you drink coffee?
Bart (hands shaking with outstretched cup): For the last time, yes!!
Couldn't agree more. A solid day's work is a noble thing but this "80 on a usual week, 100 on a bad week" is for the birds. I have no pity whatsoever unless it truly is the only job you can get or you absolutely have to have it (pays the extra $5k you need for your kids' medicine).
I've as much sympathy for the OP as I do for lawyers who put in similar hours for 10 years in order to make partner. Enjoy the $$.. you'll have no soul at the end... huh, that explains a lot.
While I've not been to China, everything I've read leads me to believe that China can't control what's happening. They simply don't have established institutions like the EPA and the regulatory overhead that we accept as normal for business operation in the West. Want to open a manufacturing plant somewhere? Just do it. Pay off the local party chief and set it up. Dump your waste into the local river.
That's why melamine, lead, and God knows what else ends up in food and toys.. because there's nobody to go inspect the plants and see just what it is they're doing. All the central government can do when a scandal breaks is take a bunch of guys, put them up against the wall, and hope everyone else takes note.
So, yes, while it is undeniably China's fault for not having a better handle on what's going on inside their borders, it will take years and years before they have the systems in place to be able to do anything about it.