OK, I've been whining in ranting outburts, but they are highly articulate outbursts.
Every big announcement in the tech field for years now has been one limp-dicked anticlimax after another. Oooo! A new palm top PC running a ShitpileOS (Windows) variant that never quite does anything in particular very well. Oooo! Another all in one home entertainment system that's overpriced and has to be completely replaced if one part of it wears out. Piles of new tech gadgets constructed from lowest common denominator components. $8000 televisions. Cell phones with games worthy of, oh, the Sega Master System, at best. Seventeen more first person shooters that require $3000 worth of PC upgrades.
It's all just so boring and bland. IMHO, the only neat devices to come out in the past few years are the DVRs (Tivo/Replays/etc) because they really made a common task (watching TeeVee) vastly more efficient, and those tiny USB flash drives which have made shuttling a CD's worth of data quick and easy and tiny. Oh, and I like my iPod. Those are cool.
What I'd like to see is some existing technologies improved. Stop putting cameras and video games into cell phones, for example, and make the system work better. I should not be having dropped calls in a major metropolitan area at this point.
And, oh yean, my usual call for a functional sexbot. I'm telling ya, they will make their inventor $billions. If you happen to be working on one, hire me. I'm one of the best general digital and FPGA hardware designers you could hope for. I'm really bored in my current job. I want a piece of that sexbot action.
I know it's not zero sum. Heck, I'm usually the libertarian freemarketeer preaching that, but the current wave of ILLEGAL immigrants is not integrating and it is not a net gain. The numbers have been run over and over, and the system here is breaking down.
Immigration is peachy. My last two relationships were with women from other countries (one of them was Hispanic), but this unrestrained, undocumented (a good place for that tamer word) immigration is not working.
The PC is at my house. They set up a VPN system for many of the engineers to work from home some days. Hundreds of us bought PCs just for that purpose, and a year later they disallow employee owned equipment.
Could we stop using century old arguments for today's situaion? I mean, please?!?!? That's so fooking old, that argument. California can't support anymore.
I have a PeeCee that sits around hardly ever being used now that my dumbass employer no longer allows employee owned equipment to use the VPN connections.
Can anyone find any info on the network bandwidth this thing will use up? I may not use the PC for anything else, but I don't want my wee little cable modem fed network swamped when I'm on the Apple boxen.
Will it never end? The illegal aliens (not "undocumented workers" or some other pussy PC-sim) here in SoCal are hip deep, and hell bent on making it part of Mexico again. Don't believe me? Then your head is in the sand. They openly admit to this. It's not a secret.
Republicans want cheap labor. Democrats want more poeple to give away to. The sellout of the US to Mexico continues, and you assholes keep voting for them. Story after story about suspicious people coming across the border goes unaddressed and without comment by Homeland "Security".
Well, I guess my assertion is that a machine will never be sentient, so we're at tangents here. If you give a machine equal rights to that of a human, it devalues the concept. You might as well give rights to a tamagotchi.
Not that human rights are highly valued in the world these days anyway. See the film "Hotel Rwanda" for a prime example.
I dunno. It would cheapen them, I guess. I feel the same way about giving animals full legal rights (e.g. in the sense that a lawyer could sue someone on an animal's behalf, not just mere anti-cruelity stuff which I have no problem with.)
When you make a Google query, it detects that and does a local search of its index of your disk. When the results come back from Google, it mixes in the results from the web with the results from your disk.
Remind me again why I need this?
I dunno... there's too many solutions looking for problems out there.
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Every big announcement in the tech field for years now has been one limp-dicked anticlimax after another. Oooo! A new palm top PC running a ShitpileOS (Windows) variant that never quite does anything in particular very well. Oooo! Another all in one home entertainment system that's overpriced and has to be completely replaced if one part of it wears out. Piles of new tech gadgets constructed from lowest common denominator components. $8000 televisions. Cell phones with games worthy of, oh, the Sega Master System, at best. Seventeen more first person shooters that require $3000 worth of PC upgrades.
It's all just so boring and bland. IMHO, the only neat devices to come out in the past few years are the DVRs (Tivo/Replays/etc) because they really made a common task (watching TeeVee) vastly more efficient, and those tiny USB flash drives which have made shuttling a CD's worth of data quick and easy and tiny. Oh, and I like my iPod. Those are cool.
What I'd like to see is some existing technologies improved. Stop putting cameras and video games into cell phones, for example, and make the system work better. I should not be having dropped calls in a major metropolitan area at this point.
And, oh yean, my usual call for a functional sexbot. I'm telling ya, they will make their inventor $billions. If you happen to be working on one, hire me. I'm one of the best general digital and FPGA hardware designers you could hope for. I'm really bored in my current job. I want a piece of that sexbot action.
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I know it's not zero sum. Heck, I'm usually the libertarian freemarketeer preaching that, but the current wave of ILLEGAL immigrants is not integrating and it is not a net gain. The numbers have been run over and over, and the system here is breaking down. Immigration is peachy. My last two relationships were with women from other countries (one of them was Hispanic), but this unrestrained, undocumented (a good place for that tamer word) immigration is not working.
The PC is at my house. They set up a VPN system for many of the engineers to work from home some days. Hundreds of us bought PCs just for that purpose, and a year later they disallow employee owned equipment.
Could we stop using century old arguments for today's situaion? I mean, please?!?!? That's so fooking old, that argument. California can't support anymore.
Can anyone find any info on the network bandwidth this thing will use up? I may not use the PC for anything else, but I don't want my wee little cable modem fed network swamped when I'm on the Apple boxen.
Republicans want cheap labor. Democrats want more poeple to give away to. The sellout of the US to Mexico continues, and you assholes keep voting for them. Story after story about suspicious people coming across the border goes unaddressed and without comment by Homeland "Security".
Ah, what's the point. No one cares.
Sweet bouncing feathery Jesus! The MS Service Packs are like giving unfiltered cigarettes to a lung cancer patient!
I want the ELE asteroid, and I want it NOW!
Well, yeah, some of you bastards would, but that's not the point. Oh, and so would Russell Crowe.
The computer is sick and malfunctioning because some asshole installed Windows on it! Take a hammer to that guy, and not the poor computer.
For further enlightenment on this desperate plague afflicitng our silicon bretheren, call 1-888-HELP4PC, and give generously.
I was talking about the 16 footer.
Terrorists? WTF are you on? Crack?
Shit, you people sometimes...
We don't have to spot the 16 footers.
That's thee origin of the term "no carrier (pigeon)".
Yes, it was crude, and the IP (version 1) packets had to be assembled by hand on a form, and then keyed in manually onto the telegraph cables...
You think that's bad? Encoding a Britney Spears album produced Ebola, Rift Valley fever, four Marburg variants and the freakin Andromeda Strain.
Not that human rights are highly valued in the world these days anyway. See the film "Hotel Rwanda" for a prime example.
I dunno. It would cheapen them, I guess. I feel the same way about giving animals full legal rights (e.g. in the sense that a lawyer could sue someone on an animal's behalf, not just mere anti-cruelity stuff which I have no problem with.)
You're welcome. :-)
I'm positive that your post will bring a close to this decades-long debate.
Oh. Good.
Seriously, why do you say this?
I'm a bitter and empty shell of a man.
No, no. I blame Windows users for their misery. :-)
*shrug* Feh...
I installed this crap.
All the blame belongs to me.
I am a pinhead.
Remind me again why I need this?
I dunno... there's too many solutions looking for problems out there.
Then again, I'm sure someone will find an exploit in Calculator or Freecell given time.
Well, we could rape the dead bodies. ;-)
Well, maybe they shouldn't have called it " Gameboy DS" then if this is such a sticky wicket for them.