How about a Ford car? Henry Ford was outright evil
I'm unconvinced. Ford deliberately set out to produce cars that the average person could afford. More important IMHO is that Ford's position was a hell of a lot more egalitarian than a certain ex-employee of his (see Dodge v. Ford)
Just pass a law making voting a requirement. Everybody votes; no need for software, canvassers, or massive exhortations about our "civil responsibility."
Remember -- the apps they're talking about here don't provide people with information about the candidates or even try to change their vote. They (the apps) just ID people who both are likely to vote for the desired candidate and need some "encouragement" to vote at all.
Quit trying to fix the software, or move everything to 64-bit tools. The answer is much simpler: Just declare The Second Coming, and make, say 2020 the new Year One. Now you won't even have to worry about Y2K for another two thousand (decimal) years!
I'd be upset if computers stopped working tomorrow, but I'd get over it. Withdrawal pains would only last several days, or a few weeks.
Methinks you have no idea whatsoever what computers do in our world. I'm not sure whether to start the list with the ones that keep our cars and highways operational, or the ones which currently hold all your money (unless you actually are one of those "gold bar in the mattress" folks).
I think Microsoft should sell off 100% of Microsoft, preferably to some Linux house which will have the common sense to bury Windows* OSs deep in the ground, never to be heard from again.
Albert Einstein explained it already. People are insane. They keep doing the same thing, over and over, expecting new and different results.
And yet, when it comes to procreation, ask any parent: every kid is radically different from the previous models. The insanity here is that us parents foolishly expect the next time around to be the *same* as previous results.
One data point: I've got a Toro walk-behind that's over 10 years old now. I've never once emptied the gas tank for the winter, never once done an internal cleaning, and it starts right up like a charm every spring. Heck, a poor young child saw it smoking a bit once and thought it was due to lack of oil, tossed in a quart or so. The engine started kicking oil out the air intake things were so bad. I dumped the oil, cleaned the air filter, and it ran like a charm. So my point is that this "gummed up by gas" is highly overrated.
Well, I can't fathom why you think the only color option is binary: #FFFFFF vs #000000 . At least with the tablets chez moi (one iPad, one Onda Android), it's easy to adjust the page background in book-reading apps (Nook, Mantano, etc) to some other color. I find a light parchment, with, yes, black text, to be very comfortable.
As with many things, the best path is in the middle. Critical systems should be updated as preventative maintenance, but administrators cannot rely on vendor testing alone.
Critical systems should also not be connected to the internet.
Or, to be more precise, should not be connected to the internet with unlimited IP address access in either direction. You can obtain (or at least you can if you're dealing with an important-enough Fed agency) nice little boxes that not only encrypt the crap out of your traffic but are set up only to send to specified addresses and only to receive from specified addresses. Aside from deliberate sabotage, this is a safe way to connect to a manufacturer's update-providing hub.
Probably violating several sacred canons of Trekkerdom here, but: what if warp speeds are in fact achieved by a high-frequency sequence of micro-warp jumps, with brief instants of sub-FTL speeds in between? Then the observers on the ship see a blended sequence of images of "realtime" space. This would give the screen-saver-style illusion of stars emanating from dead ahead and zooming around the ship. It wouldn't provide any color shift, though.
[veganism is] decidedly kooky, but I respect people's decisions. When you think about it, it is no kookier or more arbitrary than most religions
And that's supposed to be an argument in favor of respecting their decisions? I think you need some serious education as to the damage religions have done and are doing. So far as veganism goes, it'll cure itself one way or the other once serious food shortages show up.
I can't count how many of my business coworkers stick their grubbies right onto the LCD display to point out some word or graphical feature. Why they do this I can't figure (they forgot there's a mouse?), but if new machines all have touch-response, they're going to be in for a bit of a surprise:-)
In that case, I'm going to start marketing an "Acme Emergency Disaster Locator Kit." You use it to smear bacon grease all over yourself. Every dog for miles around will find you.
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How about a Ford car? Henry Ford was outright evil
I'm unconvinced. Ford deliberately set out to produce cars that the average person could afford. More important IMHO is that Ford's position was a hell of a lot more egalitarian than a certain ex-employee of his (see Dodge v. Ford)
Just pass a law making voting a requirement. Everybody votes; no need for software, canvassers, or massive exhortations about our "civil responsibility."
Remember -- the apps they're talking about here don't provide people with information about the candidates or even try to change their vote. They (the apps) just ID people who both are likely to vote for the desired candidate and need some "encouragement" to vote at all.
Just posting to say whoever put the 'flamebait" tag on a story about flipping burgers is a master of double entendre!
Quit trying to fix the software, or move everything to 64-bit tools. The answer is much simpler: Just declare The Second Coming, and make, say 2020 the new Year One. Now you won't even have to worry about Y2K for another two thousand (decimal) years!
Well, there are the unpublished protocols, and the published unpublished protocols, and finally the unpublished unpublished protocols.
(Just ask Rummy)
Calling someone a prick is never NEVER going to teach them a 'lesson'.
And besides, they might hold it against you //rimshot
"Steal this book."
Somehow, "Download a soft copy of this book " doesn't have the same thrill.
I'd be upset if computers stopped working tomorrow, but I'd get over it. Withdrawal pains would only last several days, or a few weeks.
Methinks you have no idea whatsoever what computers do in our world. I'm not sure whether to start the list with the ones that keep our cars and highways operational, or the ones which currently hold all your money (unless you actually are one of those "gold bar in the mattress" folks).
I think Microsoft should sell off 100% of Microsoft, preferably to some Linux house which will have the common sense to bury Windows* OSs deep in the ground, never to be heard from again.
Here's how to do it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Be8LnuG3U
Who is this upstart, Mona? Has anyone even heard of her before?
I think she was a White House intern or something.
({[ yes I know that's not the right name. Go away, silly nitpickers ]})
All gone missing. There's something funny goin' on 'round here.
Did you check your pocket?
Nope, nothing there but this funky gold ring. How about a riddle game?
Albert Einstein explained it already. People are insane. They keep doing the same thing, over and over, expecting new and different results.
And yet, when it comes to procreation, ask any parent: every kid is radically different from the previous models. The insanity here is that us parents foolishly expect the next time around to be the *same* as previous results.
One data point: I've got a Toro walk-behind that's over 10 years old now. I've never once emptied the gas tank for the winter, never once done an internal cleaning, and it starts right up like a charm every spring.
Heck, a poor young child saw it smoking a bit once and thought it was due to lack of oil, tossed in a quart or so. The engine started kicking oil out the air intake things were so bad. I dumped the oil, cleaned the air filter, and it ran like a charm.
So my point is that this "gummed up by gas" is highly overrated.
Well, I can't fathom why you think the only color option is binary: #FFFFFF vs #000000 . At least with the tablets chez moi (one iPad, one Onda Android), it's easy to adjust the page background in book-reading apps (Nook, Mantano, etc) to some other color. I find a light parchment, with, yes, black text, to be very comfortable.
Thanks go to Homeland for giving them this brilliant idea
Thanks go to omems for not posting the "Spoiler Alert" tag here, you insensitive clod!
As with many things, the best path is in the middle. Critical systems should be updated as preventative maintenance, but administrators cannot rely on vendor testing alone.
Critical systems should also not be connected to the internet.
Or, to be more precise, should not be connected to the internet with unlimited IP address access in either direction. You can obtain (or at least you can if you're dealing with an important-enough Fed agency) nice little boxes that not only encrypt the crap out of your traffic but are set up only to send to specified addresses and only to receive from specified addresses. Aside from deliberate sabotage, this is a safe way to connect to a manufacturer's update-providing hub.
Probably violating several sacred canons of Trekkerdom here, but: what if warp speeds are in fact achieved by a high-frequency sequence of micro-warp jumps, with brief instants of sub-FTL speeds in between? Then the observers on the ship see a blended sequence of images of "realtime" space. This would give the screen-saver-style illusion of stars emanating from dead ahead and zooming around the ship. It wouldn't provide any color shift, though.
While it may be a bitch to do any study on "recreational" drugs in the US, the US is not the only country doing science.
Sadly, if certain factions continue to hold sway, that sentence will soon become "...the US is not the onlly country *not* doing science."
[veganism is] decidedly kooky, but I respect people's decisions. When you think about it, it is no kookier or more arbitrary than most religions
And that's supposed to be an argument in favor of respecting their decisions? I think you need some serious education as to the damage religions have done and are doing. So far as veganism goes, it'll cure itself one way or the other once serious food shortages show up.
"These aren't the GPS coordinates you are looking for."
(Well, that's better than, say "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of people looking for lost phones")
The US Justice System is there to enforce the law
Maybe you should review just what happened when HSBC was caught red-handed laundering billions of dollars for drug cartels and Al-Quaeda.
I can't count how many of my business coworkers stick their grubbies right onto the LCD display to point out some word or graphical feature. Why they do this I can't figure (they forgot there's a mouse?), but if new machines all have touch-response, they're going to be in for a bit of a surprise :-)
In that case, I'm going to start marketing an "Acme Emergency Disaster Locator Kit." You use it to smear bacon grease all over yourself. Every dog for miles around will find you.
"All in the Family" is not an *icon*. You must not be reading the whole answer.
Mea culpa. :-|
Shouldn't that be "Mea stupri culpa" ?