Doesn't it seem interesting that Israel hasn't been penalized with such punishments when it already has a fistful of nukes and not just a nascent program to make one? Isn't it curious that the international community lacks the theory of mind to comprehend how Iran might justify a need for nuclear weapons in the same way that Israel or the United States did?
He confuses 'profit' with 'getting paid'. He doesn't seem to grok the difference between an equal exchange of value and a disproportionate one. The latter leads to concentration of wealth, and concentration of wealth leads to monopolies, control of governments by those profitable entities, and wide class disparities.
Ultimately profit leads to revolutions. Simply "getting paid" does not. Can we break the ugly cycle, please?
... but when you throw in a little greed and organizational hierarchy and chase it down with some tribalism and groupthink, we're still more likely to screw each other in the name of competition than cooperate in the name of the Common Good.
... our interests in general purpose computing — or desktop computing — starts to wane and people start doing the same things and more in other scenarios.
It should have been readily apparent that I wasn't using the word 'root' in the most literal sense. And regardless of its slightly special status there is (or was) an actual directory structure behind it: in Windows XP and earlier at least, those directories being created in it had to go *somewhere*, and that somewhere was not the Registry. Classic Start Menu doesn't store my created folders in the Registry, either... there's a real filesystem structure behind it.
That's not the ROOT of the Start Menu. Just for starters it doesn't eliminate one click, and then there's that "noise" - as an Anon Coward said in reply here - to deal with. If you haven't actually tried to work with that hour after hour with many dozens/hundreds of apps installed, then you don't appreciate that it's not tolerable. The action needs to happen in the root of the Menu.
Nope, neither you nor your peeps at work can do it. Whatcha smokin'? I want some!
All you can do in Windows 7 is "pin" crap to the root. It does NOT allow the creation of any folders-nee-submenus there. If you try to drag-and-drop a folder: it offers to pin it there. If you right-click in the root area, all you get as context is Properties. I *suppose* you could pin a bunch of folders located elsewhere, but since they spawn Explorer and don't open within the Start Menu and they're not real folders and lack that Explorer context, you can't really use them as submenus.
Nope, sorry... if you're creating folders in the Win7 Start Menu then you're cheating like I am and have forgotten the tool you installed to allow it.
I'm already using a third party FOSS replacement, Classic Start Menu, in Windows 7 to replace at least one critical bit of capability that Microsoft revoked: folders in the root of the start menu. I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts. I eliminate at least one click, I can organize them by task or function, and I don't have to deal with the confusion of developers' sometimes unintuitive ways of placing their apps in Programs.
I expect the author of Classic Start Menu will shift with the tide when Windows 8 arrives and produce a new version, so I will likely just keep using it if he does and it continues to prove necessary for me. That way I eliminate even the learning curve of Stardock's rendition.
Get out of momma's basement and GET LAID! Make damned sure your partner (a) has reproductive organs and (b) actually gets pregnant. With any luck your progeny will be a teen genius who invents and builds cheap DIY backyard space transport and shares the plans on Instructables before The Big Day arrives....
Before the extension disappeared the author had posted or blogged something about being approached about the trademark, and he wound up folding and handing it over.
Note the other comment here that mentions a newer Firefox extension named HackTheWeb, which is effectively a direct descendant of Aardvark. Installed! This will make me a much happier surfer again.
And apparently when Google acquired the company Aardvark they also swung the wrecking ball at the lone developer of the Aardvark extension for Firefox. So in the process of acquiring a lame duck and trying to protect its trademark Google also destroyed one of the best extensions for Firefox.
In the truth TPTB/PHB haven't considered any options. They'll delay and deny and in the end attempt solutions that consider only their own little close circle and to hell with the rest of us.
In my defense I mentioned your second choice. I don't think I'd want the job for the first one... Bruce Willis as an industrial painter in a space suit?
No, let's NOT talk about an outdated obsolete dead platform and the unsurprising fact that Mozilla no longer supports it. If it's that important to you, crybaby, then learn how to code and pull together a handful of your fellow crybabies and fork Firefox to keep it current on your beloved piece of history.
I suspect you like watching things blow up, but that's not really the wisest choice here. Much better would be an impactor with very high mass - perhaps a depleted uranium core - and low relative velocity: slow enough to contact the asteroid without shattering it and massive enough to nudge its trajectory and keep nudging it for a while. Post-contact booster rockets might help further. It's not something you launch in the eleventh hour, though.
Apparently you don't leave home enough to recognize that your likelihood of finding like-minded file-sharers - who are willing to admit it to a complete stranger - in public social spaces is smaller than the likelihood of discovering a major oil reserve under your basement dwelling.
Retroshare itself may not require any centralized resource at all, but... how do you find like-minded friends in the first place and establish a web of trust? You're going to need a centralized forum/chatroom, aren't you, where you can meet people and identify those with common interests and focus? Retroshare simply shifts the focus of the centralized resource from the actual sharing of data to the social aspect of creating and maintaining that web of trust.
And apparently all it would take, as hinted by someone else here, is one traitorous bastard in your web of trust to lay the whole thing out bare for the exploitation by others with selfish motives.
Nope, no name calling... you don't seem to be ignorant, just possessed of a different opinion. Can't fault you for that unless I can prove you wrong. I haven't tried and didn't know about Comodo Dragon, but I've known about Comodo for years and at times have used their AV and firewall and other software. They use the free apps and the feedback they get from them to improve their enterprise products, a win-win business model from the perspective of consumers, I guess.
I'll give Dragon a try. Personally I used to have enormous behavioral problems with Firefox after cycling dozens or hundreds of windows/tabs back in the 3.6-era and before days, but not so much now. Back then it would eventually begin to freeze up periodically for seconds at a time, in particular. I don't recall it doing that in quite some time, even when I leave one instance open for days. I still see it suck up hundreds of megabytes of RAM, but I also have twice as much RAM now as I did back then (8 vs 4), so it may simply be a larger amount but the same proportion as if I still had just 4.
Yeah, I know... I'm of the opinion that if there's really nothing to say that a pregnant silence is just fine*, but apparently Soulskill has an aversion to it.
* (Lord, I dream of being on hold with NO muzac or interruptions, just silence, so I can focus on something else until I do hear something!)
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Doesn't it seem interesting that Israel hasn't been penalized with such punishments when it already has a fistful of nukes and not just a nascent program to make one? Isn't it curious that the international community lacks the theory of mind to comprehend how Iran might justify a need for nuclear weapons in the same way that Israel or the United States did?
He confuses 'profit' with 'getting paid'. He doesn't seem to grok the difference between an equal exchange of value and a disproportionate one. The latter leads to concentration of wealth, and concentration of wealth leads to monopolies, control of governments by those profitable entities, and wide class disparities.
Ultimately profit leads to revolutions. Simply "getting paid" does not. Can we break the ugly cycle, please?
... but when you throw in a little greed and organizational hierarchy and chase it down with some tribalism and groupthink, we're still more likely to screw each other in the name of competition than cooperate in the name of the Common Good.
... our interests in general purpose computing — or desktop computing — starts to wane and people start doing the same things and more in other scenarios.
Isn't that just... not brilliant?
It should have been readily apparent that I wasn't using the word 'root' in the most literal sense. And regardless of its slightly special status there is (or was) an actual directory structure behind it: in Windows XP and earlier at least, those directories being created in it had to go *somewhere*, and that somewhere was not the Registry. Classic Start Menu doesn't store my created folders in the Registry, either... there's a real filesystem structure behind it.
That's not the ROOT of the Start Menu. Just for starters it doesn't eliminate one click, and then there's that "noise" - as an Anon Coward said in reply here - to deal with. If you haven't actually tried to work with that hour after hour with many dozens/hundreds of apps installed, then you don't appreciate that it's not tolerable. The action needs to happen in the root of the Menu.
Exactly. You've been paying attention.
Nope, neither you nor your peeps at work can do it. Whatcha smokin'? I want some!
All you can do in Windows 7 is "pin" crap to the root. It does NOT allow the creation of any folders-nee-submenus there. If you try to drag-and-drop a folder: it offers to pin it there. If you right-click in the root area, all you get as context is Properties. I *suppose* you could pin a bunch of folders located elsewhere, but since they spawn Explorer and don't open within the Start Menu and they're not real folders and lack that Explorer context, you can't really use them as submenus.
Nope, sorry... if you're creating folders in the Win7 Start Menu then you're cheating like I am and have forgotten the tool you installed to allow it.
What OzPeter said, essentially....
I'm already using a third party FOSS replacement, Classic Start Menu, in Windows 7 to replace at least one critical bit of capability that Microsoft revoked: folders in the root of the start menu. I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts. I eliminate at least one click, I can organize them by task or function, and I don't have to deal with the confusion of developers' sometimes unintuitive ways of placing their apps in Programs.
I expect the author of Classic Start Menu will shift with the tide when Windows 8 arrives and produce a new version, so I will likely just keep using it if he does and it continues to prove necessary for me. That way I eliminate even the learning curve of Stardock's rendition.
Get out of momma's basement and GET LAID! Make damned sure your partner (a) has reproductive organs and (b) actually gets pregnant. With any luck your progeny will be a teen genius who invents and builds cheap DIY backyard space transport and shares the plans on Instructables before The Big Day arrives....
Before the extension disappeared the author had posted or blogged something about being approached about the trademark, and he wound up folding and handing it over.
Note the other comment here that mentions a newer Firefox extension named HackTheWeb, which is effectively a direct descendant of Aardvark. Installed! This will make me a much happier surfer again.
Those self-driving cars are an advertising plot. Don't be fooled! ;-)
Thanks for that. I had tried to create my own private localized implementation of Aardvark, but could never get it to work.
And apparently when Google acquired the company Aardvark they also swung the wrecking ball at the lone developer of the Aardvark extension for Firefox. So in the process of acquiring a lame duck and trying to protect its trademark Google also destroyed one of the best extensions for Firefox.
Thanks, Google.
In the truth TPTB/PHB haven't considered any options. They'll delay and deny and in the end attempt solutions that consider only their own little close circle and to hell with the rest of us.
In my defense I mentioned your second choice. I don't think I'd want the job for the first one... Bruce Willis as an industrial painter in a space suit?
No, let's NOT talk about an outdated obsolete dead platform and the unsurprising fact that Mozilla no longer supports it. If it's that important to you, crybaby, then learn how to code and pull together a handful of your fellow crybabies and fork Firefox to keep it current on your beloved piece of history.
I suspect you like watching things blow up, but that's not really the wisest choice here. Much better would be an impactor with very high mass - perhaps a depleted uranium core - and low relative velocity: slow enough to contact the asteroid without shattering it and massive enough to nudge its trajectory and keep nudging it for a while. Post-contact booster rockets might help further. It's not something you launch in the eleventh hour, though.
Apparently you don't leave home enough to recognize that your likelihood of finding like-minded file-sharers - who are willing to admit it to a complete stranger - in public social spaces is smaller than the likelihood of discovering a major oil reserve under your basement dwelling.
Retroshare itself may not require any centralized resource at all, but... how do you find like-minded friends in the first place and establish a web of trust? You're going to need a centralized forum/chatroom, aren't you, where you can meet people and identify those with common interests and focus? Retroshare simply shifts the focus of the centralized resource from the actual sharing of data to the social aspect of creating and maintaining that web of trust.
And apparently all it would take, as hinted by someone else here, is one traitorous bastard in your web of trust to lay the whole thing out bare for the exploitation by others with selfish motives.
And quite a few reasons not to stay with it... if one is being reasonable.
Nope, no name calling... you don't seem to be ignorant, just possessed of a different opinion. Can't fault you for that unless I can prove you wrong. I haven't tried and didn't know about Comodo Dragon, but I've known about Comodo for years and at times have used their AV and firewall and other software. They use the free apps and the feedback they get from them to improve their enterprise products, a win-win business model from the perspective of consumers, I guess.
I'll give Dragon a try. Personally I used to have enormous behavioral problems with Firefox after cycling dozens or hundreds of windows/tabs back in the 3.6-era and before days, but not so much now. Back then it would eventually begin to freeze up periodically for seconds at a time, in particular. I don't recall it doing that in quite some time, even when I leave one instance open for days. I still see it suck up hundreds of megabytes of RAM, but I also have twice as much RAM now as I did back then (8 vs 4), so it may simply be a larger amount but the same proportion as if I still had just 4.
Yeah, I know... I'm of the opinion that if there's really nothing to say that a pregnant silence is just fine*, but apparently Soulskill has an aversion to it.
* (Lord, I dream of being on hold with NO muzac or interruptions, just silence, so I can focus on something else until I do hear something!)