6) It's only worth what someone would actually pay. Nobody would actually pay that much for a virtual asset unless they were either massively stupid, or had enough money to lobby God into suspending physical laws for a period of time.
And to think that yesterday I was complaining that our corporate Win7 image payload (which includes an automated "reimage" virtual disk) was fat and bloated at 13GB.
Well, it still is fat and bloated. But it's a slender reed compared to this 41GB monster.
I'll one up him next week and "literally debug software from 36000 feet in the air" when I fly to Minneapolis. I won't be doing it in front of a million people, but neither was this guy.
You're forgetting something though. Us Americans, we love our nukes. Big city vaporizing nukes, and small artillery-launched cork-popper nukes. All sizes of nukes, with all sizes of mushroom clouds. In fact, we have nukes with dial-a-yield, so that we can just mass produce the same nuke for all different kinds of uses. We've detonated hundreds of them, all over the place. Japan. The South Pacific. Nevada. New Mexico. The upper atmosphere. We even like them so much, we wanted to send them to the moon. The only thing we like more than nukes, is expanding our ability to put a nuke exactly where we want it to detonate from half a world away. Missile crews in California are judged by how many yards a tungsten stand-in for a Minuteman-3 missile misses a 55-gallon drum on the target range at the Enewiak Atoll 27 minutes after a few keys get turned in the control room. We not only want the ability to turn you into a small wisp of ash, but we want you to see the warhead crash through your bathroom window before the overpressure waveknocks your city flat while the thermal pulse burns everything within a mile or so.
To think that somewhere in the vast array of nukes at our disposal, we couldn't find the right combination to deal with the muppet regime in North Korea without irradiating the west coast is ridiculous. We've got decades of experience at this, son. In fact, nowhere on earth has been nuked as much as Nevada, and their Senator is sitting in one of the big chairs in the leading party of our government.
Now only if North Korea had something in a multi-megaton range. Or anywhere within 1/100th of that yield. Except they don't. Their first test was a fissile, barely one kiloton. The second was estimated in the 2 kt range - less than a 10th of what Nagasaki was. And those devices are most likely way too heavy and non-aerodynamic to fit on any missile of any kind, and take weeks to set up for one of these tests.
The only country that is in any danger of being under nuclear attack from North Korea is North Korea. Besides, in the tragic event that they manage to get one to blast at full yield, somewhere other than a cave under a mountain close to the border with China, the US could have several 450 kiloton warheads over their country guaranteed hot in 30 minutes or less, delivered directly from North Dakota.
I'm treating it like a high school shouting contest because that's exactly what it is. North Korea is not a threat to the US outside of the troops the US has positioned on the border with South Korea. They use their nuclear saber rattling like a crying 3 year old - they crave international attention and they aren't getting it.
That country holding the other end of your leash just voted for the Security Council resolution against you rather than abstaining as they have done in the past. Maybe before you talk a bunch of shit about lobbing a nuke at the US, you should worry about China giving that leash a big yank.
Also, don't you guys only have enough nuclear material for 7-8 weapons? Please continue nuclear testing in your own country and use up all of your weapons grade material as fast as possible on making holes in the ground a lot bigger.
Thumb drives are not the only thing that can be used with ExFAT.
2.5" laptop drives can be powered from USB, fit into a bubble-wrap envelope nicely, and scale to terabyte levels.
NTFS is not useable read / write without a whole lot of fucking around on any OS not named Windows, where ExFAT may be built in (it is on Mac OS X 10.6.something and above.)
ExFAT can be licensed by embedded electronic manufacturers that don't need the full weight of something like NTFS (Blu-ray manufacturers, car stereo makers, etc.)
This is basically vFAT, without the file size limit.
I've seen this said before, and it's rubbish. If the new UI is just a glorified Start menu, why not allow the user to revert to the previous style of Start menu? XP did that. Vista and 7 did that.
Also, why do I want programs running in my start menu, moving things around and giving me seizures? I don't. And the "charms" off the right edge of something that I have to scroll through 8 pages of bullshit just to get to the settings and preferences for the computer? Great design choice there, instead of the right click it has been for about 17 years.
The biggest problem with Windows 8 is that you are forced into the new UI by Microsoft's hubris, and corporations are not going to spend untold hours retraining all their workers to use that piece of shit.
Even Apple made LaunchPad completely optional when they launched Lion, and they don't exactly have a long history of user choice; but they knew that replacing Finder with some iPad work-alike horseshit UI would be the death of Mac OS X.
Which you'll notice that Apple is not doing, and keeping a desktop metaphor for your desktop and laptop computer. Why aren't they doing it? Because it's unusable.
And I predict a 500% decrease in the adoption rate once the price goes that high.
This is Microsoft's attempt to hook them with the first hit, and then soak them on the addiction. Except that corporations were never eligible for that $40 pricing, and they are what keep the OS division above water.
Well, this is to show those scumbags at Intel and AMD that refuse to create products for their competition who's boss! I mean, why wouldn't they spend extra time and money to create a bunch of connections that their customers aren't going to use, and probably make their products perform worse by introducing unneeded complexity?
Never mind that we did already have a "universal" CPU socket, or at least one as close as it mattered. It was called Socket 7, and it fit Intel / AMD / VIA CPUs. And it was abandoned by all three CPU manufacturers.
It goes back to the ridiculous conspiracy claims that some guy invented a carburetor that makes your engine get 50 mpg, but he was bought out by the oil companies and his invention ended up in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Indiana Jones.
Never mind that there are carbureted vehicles that get 50mpg - they're called motorcycles.
There's also the issue of the EPA having severe restrictions on diesel exhaust that Europe doesn't have. I'd love to get some of the diesel vehicles from that side of the pond, but they are illegal here.
Sorry if I like to actually solve problems through incremental improvement which can actually be enacted, rather than suggest reactionary action that solves nothing and could never be enacted; and post smugly on the Internet about it.
The United States is a nation of laws. We work within those laws in order to make the country a better place. If some legislative action goes outside those laws, it gets thrown out as being unlawful itself. The law says that gun ownership isn't just allowed, but a basic right alongside the right to voice my opinion, the right to be secure in my property, and the right to not have a Government take away rights at the whim of a simple majority. Nothing short of 288 Congressmen, 67 Senators, a President, and 34 states or commonwealths agreeing to do so can change the existing Bill of Rights.
And, even if you were to repeal the 2nd Amendment tomorrow, you still couldn't wave your hand and make 300M guns disappear.
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Sounds like a piss-poor leader to me. Usually when you're going to "lead an assault" into battle, you make sure you're going the right fucking way.
You forgot:
6) It's only worth what someone would actually pay. Nobody would actually pay that much for a virtual asset unless they were either massively stupid, or had enough money to lobby God into suspending physical laws for a period of time.
Don't worry, they're backordered for the next 3.14159 weeks.
And to think that yesterday I was complaining that our corporate Win7 image payload (which includes an automated "reimage" virtual disk) was fat and bloated at 13GB.
Well, it still is fat and bloated. But it's a slender reed compared to this 41GB monster.
I'll one up him next week and "literally debug software from 36000 feet in the air" when I fly to Minneapolis. I won't be doing it in front of a million people, but neither was this guy.
Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.
If someone nuked Detroit, would anyone even be able to tell?
Just kidding. Kind of.
A brick of cocaine is much easier to hide than a bomb the size of a Volkswagen that emits radiation.
You're forgetting something though. Us Americans, we love our nukes. Big city vaporizing nukes, and small artillery-launched cork-popper nukes. All sizes of nukes, with all sizes of mushroom clouds. In fact, we have nukes with dial-a-yield, so that we can just mass produce the same nuke for all different kinds of uses. We've detonated hundreds of them, all over the place. Japan. The South Pacific. Nevada. New Mexico. The upper atmosphere. We even like them so much, we wanted to send them to the moon. The only thing we like more than nukes, is expanding our ability to put a nuke exactly where we want it to detonate from half a world away. Missile crews in California are judged by how many yards a tungsten stand-in for a Minuteman-3 missile misses a 55-gallon drum on the target range at the Enewiak Atoll 27 minutes after a few keys get turned in the control room. We not only want the ability to turn you into a small wisp of ash, but we want you to see the warhead crash through your bathroom window before the overpressure waveknocks your city flat while the thermal pulse burns everything within a mile or so.
To think that somewhere in the vast array of nukes at our disposal, we couldn't find the right combination to deal with the muppet regime in North Korea without irradiating the west coast is ridiculous. We've got decades of experience at this, son. In fact, nowhere on earth has been nuked as much as Nevada, and their Senator is sitting in one of the big chairs in the leading party of our government.
(Yes, this was meant to be satirical.)
Now only if North Korea had something in a multi-megaton range. Or anywhere within 1/100th of that yield. Except they don't. Their first test was a fissile, barely one kiloton. The second was estimated in the 2 kt range - less than a 10th of what Nagasaki was. And those devices are most likely way too heavy and non-aerodynamic to fit on any missile of any kind, and take weeks to set up for one of these tests.
The only country that is in any danger of being under nuclear attack from North Korea is North Korea. Besides, in the tragic event that they manage to get one to blast at full yield, somewhere other than a cave under a mountain close to the border with China, the US could have several 450 kiloton warheads over their country guaranteed hot in 30 minutes or less, delivered directly from North Dakota.
I'm treating it like a high school shouting contest because that's exactly what it is. North Korea is not a threat to the US outside of the troops the US has positioned on the border with South Korea. They use their nuclear saber rattling like a crying 3 year old - they crave international attention and they aren't getting it.
Hey North Korea,
That country holding the other end of your leash just voted for the Security Council resolution against you rather than abstaining as they have done in the past. Maybe before you talk a bunch of shit about lobbing a nuke at the US, you should worry about China giving that leash a big yank.
Also, don't you guys only have enough nuclear material for 7-8 weapons? Please continue nuclear testing in your own country and use up all of your weapons grade material as fast as possible on making holes in the ground a lot bigger.
Cordially,
The Rest of the World.
ExFAT is a 64-bit filesystem.
Thumb drives are not the only thing that can be used with ExFAT.
2.5" laptop drives can be powered from USB, fit into a bubble-wrap envelope nicely, and scale to terabyte levels.
NTFS is not useable read / write without a whole lot of fucking around on any OS not named Windows, where ExFAT may be built in (it is on Mac OS X 10.6.something and above.)
ExFAT can be licensed by embedded electronic manufacturers that don't need the full weight of something like NTFS (Blu-ray manufacturers, car stereo makers, etc.)
This is basically vFAT, without the file size limit.
Because you would never need to transfer a file to something you can't hook up to your network, like the USB port on your car stereo, would you?
You would always want to waste days transferring a terabyte or two across the Internet, instead of 30 minutes to drive it across town, right?
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an SUV filled with hard drives hurtling down the freeway. The latency sucks, though.
I've seen this said before, and it's rubbish. If the new UI is just a glorified Start menu, why not allow the user to revert to the previous style of Start menu? XP did that. Vista and 7 did that.
Also, why do I want programs running in my start menu, moving things around and giving me seizures? I don't. And the "charms" off the right edge of something that I have to scroll through 8 pages of bullshit just to get to the settings and preferences for the computer? Great design choice there, instead of the right click it has been for about 17 years.
The biggest problem with Windows 8 is that you are forced into the new UI by Microsoft's hubris, and corporations are not going to spend untold hours retraining all their workers to use that piece of shit.
Even Apple made LaunchPad completely optional when they launched Lion, and they don't exactly have a long history of user choice; but they knew that replacing Finder with some iPad work-alike horseshit UI would be the death of Mac OS X.
they slap tablet-centric UI on desktops instead.
Which you'll notice that Apple is not doing, and keeping a desktop metaphor for your desktop and laptop computer. Why aren't they doing it? Because it's unusable.
Many people can have the opinion that American-made cars are shit without building their own car.
Many people can have the opinion that Walmart house-branded merchandise is cheap junk without having to spin up their own factories to build stuff.
Why is this any different?
And I predict a 500% decrease in the adoption rate once the price goes that high.
This is Microsoft's attempt to hook them with the first hit, and then soak them on the addiction. Except that corporations were never eligible for that $40 pricing, and they are what keep the OS division above water.
nuclear deterrent doesn't work on proxy wars. See: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan (80s)
Well, this is to show those scumbags at Intel and AMD that refuse to create products for their competition who's boss! I mean, why wouldn't they spend extra time and money to create a bunch of connections that their customers aren't going to use, and probably make their products perform worse by introducing unneeded complexity?
Never mind that we did already have a "universal" CPU socket, or at least one as close as it mattered. It was called Socket 7, and it fit Intel / AMD / VIA CPUs. And it was abandoned by all three CPU manufacturers.
If they have actual links to real articles, then it isn't nearly the electronic masturbatory exercise you see in front of you here.
You can't link to your own shit if you have real information to link to...
That's because they are mostly pig snout and chicken lips.
Does beef fat not count as beef all of a sudden?
100% beef != 100% beef muscle tissue.
It goes back to the ridiculous conspiracy claims that some guy invented a carburetor that makes your engine get 50 mpg, but he was bought out by the oil companies and his invention ended up in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Indiana Jones.
Never mind that there are carbureted vehicles that get 50mpg - they're called motorcycles.
There's also the issue of the EPA having severe restrictions on diesel exhaust that Europe doesn't have. I'd love to get some of the diesel vehicles from that side of the pond, but they are illegal here.
Can we worry about replacing coal first? Nuclear is better than coal.
Sorry if I like to actually solve problems through incremental improvement which can actually be enacted, rather than suggest reactionary action that solves nothing and could never be enacted; and post smugly on the Internet about it.
The United States is a nation of laws. We work within those laws in order to make the country a better place. If some legislative action goes outside those laws, it gets thrown out as being unlawful itself. The law says that gun ownership isn't just allowed, but a basic right alongside the right to voice my opinion, the right to be secure in my property, and the right to not have a Government take away rights at the whim of a simple majority. Nothing short of 288 Congressmen, 67 Senators, a President, and 34 states or commonwealths agreeing to do so can change the existing Bill of Rights.
And, even if you were to repeal the 2nd Amendment tomorrow, you still couldn't wave your hand and make 300M guns disappear.