That sounds really ugly until you look at the interest rates we're paying you. Really low, aren't they? That implies all of you think the likelihood of a US default is very, very low.
No, it means that governments are buying up US bonds because they know that if they let the US economy collapse they'll be next.
Time consuming"? This isn't the ocean liner era, this is the jet age! Leave Heathrow and 13 hours later you're in San Francisco.
You seem to have skipped the part where you wait years for a residency visa/green card and then years more for citizenship so you can't be kicked out at any time. Some of my friends went to California on work permits in the late 90s and were back a few weeks later when their new employer laid them off.
I believe you must be confusing Canada with somewhere else. The permanent resident visa program has been massively oversubscribed for years, so they're making the points system increasingly restrictive while throwing out large numbers of old applications from the queue.
Vietnam, Korea, Czech Republic and many other want to object...
All of those were minor wars compared to the mass slaughter of the 20th century prior to the development of nuclear weapons. And as the other poster pointed out, none of them had nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons have arguably been the greatest force for peace in the history of the world. The only problem is that if the deterrent effect breaks down, we all die.
The people who would press the red button first chance they got are usually too unstable to get there; Ted Bundy, for example, was active in political campaigns and could have been a politico, but couldn't keep his murderous urges under control for long enough. Those who could reach that point are surrounded by many others who would prevent them from doing so; if Obama pressed the red button tomorrow because it's Tuesday, you can be pretty sure that the people beneath him in the nuclear chain of command would refuse to launch.
Wacko cults, on the other hand, have no such restrictions.
Countries that agree to monitoring are unlikely to be a problem, because to agree to that they either have to be honest or very good at hiding things. In fact, countries in general are rarely a problem, because they have too much to lose from actually using nukes or bio-weapons when they know other countries will retaliate.
The real problem is individuals with such weapons, because many are crazy enough to use them.
Is the childish and completely wrong Windows isn't a real OS crap ever going to stop?
If it ever becomes a real OS that people trust for real work, yes. We build systems that have to run 24/7/365, give or take a few minutes a year, and our customers would laugh if we put Windows on the servers.
That's one of the worst features of Android. After the tablet has been running a few days, when I want to switch to the app I want to use I have to scroll through a list of apps I used once for two minutes which are still 'open' and then when I get to the app I want I find it's been 'closed' by the OS and now has to start again from scratch.
This is one of the reasons I now turn it off every time I'm finished with it rather than let it suspend. The whole idea that 'The OS Knows Best' is just retarded.
My experience was that NextSTEP was expensive and dog slow. Windows 95 was a worse OS than the Sun I was working on at the time, but, in most respects, a better GUI. And it was vastly better than the crappy Macs I was forced to use to submit bug reports.
There's a reason why people queued up to buy it, and I can't imagine anyone who doesn't work for Microsoft queuing up to buy Windows 8.
No, what I'm saying is that these devices will become more commonplace and Windows 8 will seem more useful and easy.
Why? Who's going to want a touchscreen on a laptop or desktop system?
Sure, it's good if you're flinging burgers in McDonalds' and need to press some big on-screen icon to track who wants what, but do you really think that people posting cat pictures to Facebook want to have to prod the screen with a fat finger, repeatedly missing the link they wanted to select, and use an on-screen keyboard to type when they already have a perfectly good keyboard right in front of them? Or having to take their hand off the mouse and keyboard to press the screen when they want to start a new program?
I honestly can't imagine why you would think that anyone wants this. Touchscreens are a crappy interface we use when there's not enough space for a real one. Desktops and laptops already have keyboards and pointing devices which are vastly superior to a touchscreen.
Am I the only one who had to go back and read the thread to figure out why the National Rifle Association was allegedly not paying pizza delivery insurance?
I know lots of tech folks think we'll melt comets for water, but reality suggests otherwise. How many people are willing to give up the suburban dream of the house with a pool to help the species?
Yeah, because not filling a pool in surburban America will really help Africans grow crops.
Here's an idea: how about we grow things where there's enough water for agriculture?
Peoples' choice. There are no laws that restrict who you can vote for.
If voting could make a difference, it would be banned. At best, if you dedicate months of your life to doing so, you can replace one guy at the top, who then has to deal with a huge entrenched bureaucracy that wants more money and power and will do whatever it can to get rid of them.
Do you really think, for example, that if Americans were given a free choice of who should be candidates for President this year they would pick... Obama and Romney? There's no better choice in the country than those two?
The real problem is that there are now so many laws that everyone is a criminal, you can't even tell for certain whether what you're doing is illegal because it may be hidden in an obscure paragraph on page 10,799 of the 'Think Of The Children Act 2003' and if every law was enforced the entire economy would shut down.
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That sounds really ugly until you look at the interest rates we're paying you. Really low, aren't they? That implies all of you think the likelihood of a US default is very, very low.
No, it means that governments are buying up US bonds because they know that if they let the US economy collapse they'll be next.
Time consuming"? This isn't the ocean liner era, this is the jet age! Leave Heathrow and 13 hours later you're in San Francisco.
You seem to have skipped the part where you wait years for a residency visa/green card and then years more for citizenship so you can't be kicked out at any time. Some of my friends went to California on work permits in the late 90s and were back a few weeks later when their new employer laid them off.
Look at the climate in Vancouver.
Look at the wages and house prices in Vancouver.
easy Permanent Residence options
I believe you must be confusing Canada with somewhere else. The permanent resident visa program has been massively oversubscribed for years, so they're making the points system increasingly restrictive while throwing out large numbers of old applications from the queue.
Vietnam, Korea, Czech Republic and many other want to object...
All of those were minor wars compared to the mass slaughter of the 20th century prior to the development of nuclear weapons. And as the other poster pointed out, none of them had nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons have arguably been the greatest force for peace in the history of the world. The only problem is that if the deterrent effect breaks down, we all die.
Yeah, but how do you keep them off the ballot?
The people who would press the red button first chance they got are usually too unstable to get there; Ted Bundy, for example, was active in political campaigns and could have been a politico, but couldn't keep his murderous urges under control for long enough. Those who could reach that point are surrounded by many others who would prevent them from doing so; if Obama pressed the red button tomorrow because it's Tuesday, you can be pretty sure that the people beneath him in the nuclear chain of command would refuse to launch.
Wacko cults, on the other hand, have no such restrictions.
Countries that agree to monitoring are unlikely to be a problem, because to agree to that they either have to be honest or very good at hiding things. In fact, countries in general are rarely a problem, because they have too much to lose from actually using nukes or bio-weapons when they know other countries will retaliate.
The real problem is individuals with such weapons, because many are crazy enough to use them.
Do people really still think that weapons can be un-invented?
They can certainly freeze the Windows tablet market...
Is the childish and completely wrong Windows isn't a real OS crap ever going to stop?
If it ever becomes a real OS that people trust for real work, yes. We build systems that have to run 24/7/365, give or take a few minutes a year, and our customers would laugh if we put Windows on the servers.
No, that was when they stopped searching for what I asked them to search for and began searching for what they think I wanted to search for.
Nobody wants a new version of Windows every year.
Even Microsoft don't benefit, because no-one in their right mind is going to pay the Windows tax every year to upgrade.
That's one of the worst features of Android. After the tablet has been running a few days, when I want to switch to the app I want to use I have to scroll through a list of apps I used once for two minutes which are still 'open' and then when I get to the app I want I find it's been 'closed' by the OS and now has to start again from scratch.
This is one of the reasons I now turn it off every time I'm finished with it rather than let it suspend. The whole idea that 'The OS Knows Best' is just retarded.
My experience was that NextSTEP was expensive and dog slow. Windows 95 was a worse OS than the Sun I was working on at the time, but, in most respects, a better GUI. And it was vastly better than the crappy Macs I was forced to use to submit bug reports.
There's a reason why people queued up to buy it, and I can't imagine anyone who doesn't work for Microsoft queuing up to buy Windows 8.
No, what I'm saying is that these devices will become more commonplace and Windows 8 will seem more useful and easy.
Why? Who's going to want a touchscreen on a laptop or desktop system?
Sure, it's good if you're flinging burgers in McDonalds' and need to press some big on-screen icon to track who wants what, but do you really think that people posting cat pictures to Facebook want to have to prod the screen with a fat finger, repeatedly missing the link they wanted to select, and use an on-screen keyboard to type when they already have a perfectly good keyboard right in front of them? Or having to take their hand off the mouse and keyboard to press the screen when they want to start a new program?
I honestly can't imagine why you would think that anyone wants this. Touchscreens are a crappy interface we use when there's not enough space for a real one. Desktops and laptops already have keyboards and pointing devices which are vastly superior to a touchscreen.
Imagine Windows 7 where the start menu opened at login and took up the whole screen.
I am imagining that. Everyone who saw it would say 'that's fscking retarded'.
The next generation of monitors, laptops, etc... will all have touchscreens.
Ha-ha. You think people are going to sit at their desk all day holding their arms out to press big icons on a screen two feet in front of them.
I already have a laptop with a touch screen. I can tell you right now that it fscking sucks as a user interface.
Dude, we used to have this magical new 'search' feature decades ago. We called it a 'Command Line Interface'.
Seems that everything old is new again.
Am I the only one who had to go back and read the thread to figure out why the National Rifle Association was allegedly not paying pizza delivery insurance?
I know lots of tech folks think we'll melt comets for water, but reality suggests otherwise. How many people are willing to give up the suburban dream of the house with a pool to help the species?
Yeah, because not filling a pool in surburban America will really help Africans grow crops.
Here's an idea: how about we grow things where there's enough water for agriculture?
Peoples' choice. There are no laws that restrict who you can vote for.
If voting could make a difference, it would be banned. At best, if you dedicate months of your life to doing so, you can replace one guy at the top, who then has to deal with a huge entrenched bureaucracy that wants more money and power and will do whatever it can to get rid of them.
Do you really think, for example, that if Americans were given a free choice of who should be candidates for President this year they would pick... Obama and Romney? There's no better choice in the country than those two?
The real problem is that there are now so many laws that everyone is a criminal, you can't even tell for certain whether what you're doing is illegal because it may be hidden in an obscure paragraph on page 10,799 of the 'Think Of The Children Act 2003' and if every law was enforced the entire economy would shut down.
You can always replace the people who run it.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The EU would probably stop them.
So why haven't they stopped Microsoft requiring 'Windows Boot' on ARM?