I remember when Iraqi soldiers were throwing babies out ot incubators in Kuwait, and there were mass graves of hundreds of thousands of people in Kosovo.
If aviation is anything to go by, the computer will hand control back to the driver a split second before the crash, and the car manufacturer will blame 'driver error'.
That was rather my point. I have a hard time seeing what you could be doing on an HP-UX machine that would more readily move to Windows than Linux.
My guess is some MBA said 'no-one ever got fired for buying Windows' and they had to kludge up whatever used to run on Unix into multiple Windows servers to keep his/her bonus up.
If understanding a law requires 'considerable legal training', then it's a bad law. How can Joe Public know whether they're breaking a law if they can't understand it?
It would be better if, like hard drives, SSDs were simply designed not to die in the event of unexpected power failure.
About 80% of the hard drive failures on our servers over the last few years have been due to power failures. They run fine for years, then the power goes out and they're dead on boot.
So 15k HDDs don't seem to like power failures either.
Obama would be right wing in just about any other Western country. The US is an aberration.
In most Western countries, the 'right wing' are just slightly less raving socialists than the 'left wing'.
And Obama only looks even remotely similar to those 'right wing' socialists because he's more interested in golf than politics. If he was an All-Powerful Dictator, he'd make even Nixon look right wing.
Indeed, in a world of increasing teleconferencing and telecommuting, you'd think the attraction of high-speed travel would be less pressing with each year that goes by.
High-speed rail is extremely attractive as a jobs program for union workers.
That it's a stupid and expensive form of transport is irrelevant.
People don't worry about retirement planning because they expect the government to bail them out. People in societies without welfare programs have been worrying about old age and retirement for thousands of years, that's why they used to have so many kids.
And far more people exploiting our natural resources. We're way beyond capacity as it is.
No, we're not.
The doomsayers have been doomsaying for thousands of years, and we've always figured out ways to avoid the doom they're saying. But, hey, if fantasizing about doom makes you feel good, keep on doing it.
99.9999999999999999999999999999% of all the resources in the universe start a few hundred thousand miles above our heads. The Earth is insignificant in the long term, and as immortals you have to think in the long term.
You also have a much longer time horizon. People don't much care what's going to happen a century from now since it won't affect them. Immortals very much do care, because they expect to be around at that point.
Yes, it's all tax money. The difference is that, in Europe, taxes pay for public education, healthcare, infrastructure, and so on. In the US&A, taxes pay for a bloated military and a massive espionage apparatus.
I'm not sure why anyone modded that 'insightful'. You could eliminate the entire military and spying budget and it would barely get rid of the deficit, let alone the actual taxes collected.
This doesn't make (financial) sense. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to sell to _more_ customers?
It makes perfect financial sense to the Xbox division.
You're assuming that anyone is checking whether the decisions make financial sense to the company as a whole. If they worried about little things like that, they'd never have released a console when gaming is one of the few remaining reasons to buy a Windows PC.
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Who the fuck modded up this BS? There were mass graves in Kosovo, yes - with hundreds of corpses, not hundreds of thousands.
Yes, exactly.
The bombing of Kosovo was justified because we had satellite pictures of mass graves of hundreds of thousands murdered by the government.
Except, after the war, we discovered that they didn't exist. Oops.
Lying America into war is a well-established tactic, so common that it's now pretty much a cliche.
I remember when Iraqi soldiers were throwing babies out ot incubators in Kuwait, and there were mass graves of hundreds of thousands of people in Kosovo.
Windows now has 3,000,000 Metro apps! Of which you might actually want to use three!
My Atom netbook battery lasts about as long as my Android tablet. Of course, the netbook battery is much larger and heavier.
So you think they should have tried to let the autopilot land with the ILS out of action?
If aviation is anything to go by, the computer will hand control back to the driver a split second before the crash, and the car manufacturer will blame 'driver error'.
You mean, if they'd let the computer land the plane with no working navigation aids?
That was rather my point. I have a hard time seeing what you could be doing on an HP-UX machine that would more readily move to Windows than Linux.
My guess is some MBA said 'no-one ever got fired for buying Windows' and they had to kludge up whatever used to run on Unix into multiple Windows servers to keep his/her bonus up.
Why would anyone in their right mind switch servers from HP-UX to Windows?
They only need to be a little smarter than the people who vote for them.
Why do they need to be smarter than the people who vote for them? They have speechwriters for that.
Joe Public is free to consult an attorney before embarking on some action he's unsure about.
So every morning when he wakes up, he has to call a lawyer and ask whether he's breaking any new laws?
If understanding a law requires 'considerable legal training', then it's a bad law. How can Joe Public know whether they're breaking a law if they can't understand it?
It would be better if, like hard drives, SSDs were simply designed not to die in the event of unexpected power failure.
About 80% of the hard drive failures on our servers over the last few years have been due to power failures. They run fine for years, then the power goes out and they're dead on boot.
So 15k HDDs don't seem to like power failures either.
History taught us that it usually takes hungry people to stage a revolution.
So the US War of Independence happened because they were hungry?
If history teaches us anything, it's that revolutions started by exploiting hungry masses are usually a disaster.
Obama would be right wing in just about any other Western country. The US is an aberration.
In most Western countries, the 'right wing' are just slightly less raving socialists than the 'left wing'.
And Obama only looks even remotely similar to those 'right wing' socialists because he's more interested in golf than politics. If he was an All-Powerful Dictator, he'd make even Nixon look right wing.
Indeed, in a world of increasing teleconferencing and telecommuting, you'd think the attraction of high-speed travel would be less pressing with each year that goes by.
High-speed rail is extremely attractive as a jobs program for union workers.
That it's a stupid and expensive form of transport is irrelevant.
Yes, it will. The only thing that will 'end our species' is listening to the doomsayers.
But, as I said, if dreaming of global doom gets you off, keep at it.
Fortunately, the people who believe death is a gift will rapidly die out, and only us aspiring immortals will be left.
What does that have to do with anything?
People don't worry about retirement planning because they expect the government to bail them out. People in societies without welfare programs have been worrying about old age and retirement for thousands of years, that's why they used to have so many kids.
And far more people exploiting our natural resources. We're way beyond capacity as it is.
No, we're not.
The doomsayers have been doomsaying for thousands of years, and we've always figured out ways to avoid the doom they're saying. But, hey, if fantasizing about doom makes you feel good, keep on doing it.
You must leave earth. You get to live forever, but get on a space ship and go fucking explore the universe. Don't over crowd this tiny planet.
Isn't that pretty much the plot of the recent Neill Blomkamp movie?
Except there it was supposed to be a bad thing.
Who cares what 'our planet' will support?
99.9999999999999999999999999999% of all the resources in the universe start a few hundred thousand miles above our heads. The Earth is insignificant in the long term, and as immortals you have to think in the long term.
You also have a much longer time horizon. People don't much care what's going to happen a century from now since it won't affect them. Immortals very much do care, because they expect to be around at that point.
Yes, it's all tax money. The difference is that, in Europe, taxes pay for public education, healthcare, infrastructure, and so on. In the US&A, taxes pay for a bloated military and a massive espionage apparatus.
I'm not sure why anyone modded that 'insightful'. You could eliminate the entire military and spying budget and it would barely get rid of the deficit, let alone the actual taxes collected.
This doesn't make (financial) sense. Why wouldn't Microsoft want to sell to _more_ customers?
It makes perfect financial sense to the Xbox division.
You're assuming that anyone is checking whether the decisions make financial sense to the company as a whole. If they worried about little things like that, they'd never have released a console when gaming is one of the few remaining reasons to buy a Windows PC.