Even though I have multiple monitors, I can't have 2 Metro apps open fully, one on each monitor, so I can't see this report and write an email, or browse the web with a metro browser or metro email client or use a metro skype client in more than 1/6th of the screen at the same time. It's stupid.
But... but... but... you can switch between the applications with only six mouse clicks and two minutes of fancy 3D animations.
You know what happens when you set up a pay wall? People don't link to you because they don't want to force their readers to faff around clearing cookies to read your articles.
As to NYT journalism, weren't they one of the biggest cheerleaders for 'Saddam's WMDs', or am I confusing them with some other newspaper in New York?
Sure, there are rumours they still exist, but I see no evidence of it because I refuse to pay.
Yeah, I was shocked when I saw this story here because I hadn't seen anyone link to a New York Times article in a long time and thought they'd gone bust or something.
When you buy a share the only person who benefits is the person who sold it to you. It helps the company not at all.
While I generally agree that the stock market is mostly legalised gambling with trillions of dollars, the last company I worked for was only able to buy up a couple of its ailing competitors by a mix of cash and share swaps; had the price been significantly lower that would not have been possible because it would have required far too much cash.
The really touching part is that you really believe that without a Government, there wouldn't be violence and people taking by force.
From what I've read, as bad as Somalia is today, it was worse when it had a government.
Certainly given that governments have killed hundreds of millions of people in the last century I would say that private sector murderers would have to work pretty hard to catch up.
Is it really that hard to use the keyboard instead?
It's a GUI, dude. If I wanted to be using the keyboard, I'd use a CLI.
And yes, having to move my hands between mouse and keyboard all the time because they've totally fscked up the mouse interface for no good reason would be incredibly annoying.
You see, here's the thing. Changes are supposed to take what we have and... improve it. When you do that, users are happy and start using the new features and few people complain. But all these new GUIs are a big step backward for desktop users, merely to support a tablet market which does not exist. Android and iOS own the tablet market right now, Microsoft might get a small market share, but no-one is going to be pushing Red Hat tablets any time soon.
Can someone please explain to me the whole GNOME Shell/Unity is a tablet interface meme?
Single-tasking full-screen apps with no application menus, and masses of enforced mouse movement to get anything done? Clicking in the corner of the screen to switch windows doesn't cause RSI when using a table, but it's horrendously bad design when using a mouse.
Unity is fine on my netbook when I just want to check email or look at some web pages, but it's a total cluster-fsck when I try to get any real work done; I'm continually having to move the mouse all over the screen to switch windows, and the stupid task bar is continually blocking the left side of the screen when I move the mouse over there and don't quite stop before the edge (e.g. to use the 'back' button in Firefox).
I've honestly never understood why Red Hat would believe that pushing a tablet interface on an OS that's primarily used for servers and corporate desktops makes the slightest amount of sense.
Well you know... waiting an hour or even 8 is not really the end of the world.
So basically your argument is: 'yeah, if we eliminate cash you might have to wait a day before you can buy anything, but who cares? It's not like you need to eat or anything, is it?'
Some bullshit reason about private companies being "more accountable", "more efficient", or some other shit that hasn't actually been proven.
Generally speaking, private companies aren't allowed to send men with guns to your door to drag you away and throw you into a metal box for the rest of your life, or to kill you with a missile from a drone.
I often think that those cheering on a cashless society have little imagination.
I disagree. The cheerleaders know what governments will do when they can track every transaction and look forward to the level of control it will give them; they just imagine they'll be the ones in control and may well be disappointed.
Wait 10mins for the power/network to come back online?
Power was out in much of our city for over two hours recently, and our end of town was down for nearly eight hours a few years back. If you're processing cards 'in the cloud', it could easily be down for a day or more next leap year.
Last year we went to the supermarket to buy some food for the weekend and the power was out. I think we ended up having to pay cash.
You just don't realize how important power is until you're without it for hours.
That's such a poor point to argue, why even mention it?
Because there's no legitimate reason for eliminating cash, so they have to make something up.
If not for patents we would probably be using anonymous digital cash right now, but they delayed the introduction so long that credit cards ended up being the primary means of purchasing online.
You know, it might be a completely alien thought to some (most?) Americans but some countries have citizens / subjects that trust their government to represent and protect their interests.
They're the ones who end up in the Gulags when the government turns out to be untrustworthy.
Yes Commercial organizations will be a little more lax on safety at first however they will be able to innovate faster... In the long run making a far safer and better methods of getting into space.
You think a commercial organization can get away with selling flights on a spacecraft that kills its crew more than one time in sixty?
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public.
Doesn't take many new games at 30GB a pop to fill up a 1TB hard drive. I thought 750GB would be enough for my laptop, but I've had to delete about a third of the Steam games and compress some of the others.
Ditto. When I first set up my MythTV backend I thought 1TB would be enough. Then It went to 2TB so it didn't start deleting shows before my girlfriend got around to watching them. Then we got OTA HD and I'm up to 4TB and it's still running out of space.
Don't kid yourself, this is the dying breath of the HDDs.
How much is a 60TB SSD, and how many times will I be able to write to it before destroying the disk when you're using a process small enough to pack that 60TB into a box the size of an HDD? Each new process shrink seems to be dramatically reducing the write limit for SSDs.
You go right ahead and wait for 2 fucking hours for your 50 GB Bluray image to be copied/processed on your mechanical toaster; I'm sticking with my 1 minute with complete silence and low power consumption.
Even my 'Green' HDD manages sustained writes at 80-100MB per second, and why would anyone in their right mind be copying a $10 Bluray onto an SSD that costs more than a dollar per gigabyte?
This raises a very serious question: Why are airplane electronics not designed for noise immunity? It seems like such an obvious solution, like adding security doors to the cockpit after 9/11.
To be fair, much as it should be the airline's job to ensure the aircraft can't be affected, replacing the cockpit door is a heck of a lot easier than replacing aircraft avionics or rewiring them to prevent interference. Even before you consider the cost of the new hardware, that could require taking the aircraft out of service for weeks at a cost of six figures or more of lost revenue per week.
Newer aircraft should be more robust, but the older ones will be around for decades yet.
Even if the FAA allows the use of phones on flights, it will still be against FCC rules, and they will have to have their cellular chipsets turned off.
So what would you think if you were the B777 pilot who's radio communication with air traffic control was interrupted by a passenger's cell phone call? Or if you were the captain in command of a B747 that unexpectedly lost autopilot after takeoff and did not get it back until 4, count 'em four passengers turned off their portable electronic devices?
I would think that Boeing did a piss-poor job of protecting the aircraft against interference.
Clearly terrorists are stupid when they try to sneak bombs on board; a dozen of them should bring iPads and iPhones onto a flight and turn them all on at the same time during takeoff.
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Even though I have multiple monitors, I can't have 2 Metro apps open fully, one on each monitor, so I can't see this report and write an email, or browse the web with a metro browser or metro email client or use a metro skype client in more than 1/6th of the screen at the same time. It's stupid.
But... but... but... you can switch between the applications with only six mouse clicks and two minutes of fancy 3D animations.
You know how people find you on the Web? Links.
You know what happens when you set up a pay wall? People don't link to you because they don't want to force their readers to faff around clearing cookies to read your articles.
As to NYT journalism, weren't they one of the biggest cheerleaders for 'Saddam's WMDs', or am I confusing them with some other newspaper in New York?
Sure, there are rumours they still exist, but I see no evidence of it because I refuse to pay.
Yeah, I was shocked when I saw this story here because I hadn't seen anyone link to a New York Times article in a long time and thought they'd gone bust or something.
The higher estimate of $1.5 billion is contingent on using Monster Cables.
Wall Street can afford to buy the best.
When you buy a share the only person who benefits is the person who sold it to you. It helps the company not at all.
While I generally agree that the stock market is mostly legalised gambling with trillions of dollars, the last company I worked for was only able to buy up a couple of its ailing competitors by a mix of cash and share swaps; had the price been significantly lower that would not have been possible because it would have required far too much cash.
The really touching part is that you really believe that without a Government, there wouldn't be violence and people taking by force.
From what I've read, as bad as Somalia is today, it was worse when it had a government.
Certainly given that governments have killed hundreds of millions of people in the last century I would say that private sector murderers would have to work pretty hard to catch up.
Is it really that hard to use the keyboard instead?
It's a GUI, dude. If I wanted to be using the keyboard, I'd use a CLI.
And yes, having to move my hands between mouse and keyboard all the time because they've totally fscked up the mouse interface for no good reason would be incredibly annoying.
You see, here's the thing. Changes are supposed to take what we have and... improve it. When you do that, users are happy and start using the new features and few people complain. But all these new GUIs are a big step backward for desktop users, merely to support a tablet market which does not exist. Android and iOS own the tablet market right now, Microsoft might get a small market share, but no-one is going to be pushing Red Hat tablets any time soon.
Can someone please explain to me the whole GNOME Shell/Unity is a tablet interface meme?
Single-tasking full-screen apps with no application menus, and masses of enforced mouse movement to get anything done? Clicking in the corner of the screen to switch windows doesn't cause RSI when using a table, but it's horrendously bad design when using a mouse.
Unity is fine on my netbook when I just want to check email or look at some web pages, but it's a total cluster-fsck when I try to get any real work done; I'm continually having to move the mouse all over the screen to switch windows, and the stupid task bar is continually blocking the left side of the screen when I move the mouse over there and don't quite stop before the edge (e.g. to use the 'back' button in Firefox).
I see it still sucks, then.
I've honestly never understood why Red Hat would believe that pushing a tablet interface on an OS that's primarily used for servers and corporate desktops makes the slightest amount of sense.
Well you know... waiting an hour or even 8 is not really the end of the world.
So basically your argument is: 'yeah, if we eliminate cash you might have to wait a day before you can buy anything, but who cares? It's not like you need to eat or anything, is it?'
Some bullshit reason about private companies being "more accountable", "more efficient", or some other shit that hasn't actually been proven.
Generally speaking, private companies aren't allowed to send men with guns to your door to drag you away and throw you into a metal box for the rest of your life, or to kill you with a missile from a drone.
I often think that those cheering on a cashless society have little imagination.
I disagree. The cheerleaders know what governments will do when they can track every transaction and look forward to the level of control it will give them; they just imagine they'll be the ones in control and may well be disappointed.
Yes, because gulags are a real problem in countries like Sweden.
That's what the useful idiots always say. I'm sure that Germans in 1920 didn't expect to see mass extermination camps in their country either.
Wait 10mins for the power/network to come back online?
Power was out in much of our city for over two hours recently, and our end of town was down for nearly eight hours a few years back. If you're processing cards 'in the cloud', it could easily be down for a day or more next leap year.
Last year we went to the supermarket to buy some food for the weekend and the power was out. I think we ended up having to pay cash.
You just don't realize how important power is until you're without it for hours.
That's such a poor point to argue, why even mention it?
Because there's no legitimate reason for eliminating cash, so they have to make something up.
If not for patents we would probably be using anonymous digital cash right now, but they delayed the introduction so long that credit cards ended up being the primary means of purchasing online.
You know, it might be a completely alien thought to some (most?) Americans but some countries have citizens / subjects that trust their government to represent and protect their interests.
They're the ones who end up in the Gulags when the government turns out to be untrustworthy.
Think of the early sailing voyages... How many ships were loss at sea... When we are exploring a new area unfortunately people will die.
So you do think that a commercial organization can get away with killing its customers one time in sixty?
Yes Commercial organizations will be a little more lax on safety at first however they will be able to innovate faster... In the long run making a far safer and better methods of getting into space.
You think a commercial organization can get away with selling flights on a spacecraft that kills its crew more than one time in sixty?
Granted most of *us* can find something to fill it but when Dell and other bulk PC makers start including 1TB or 10TB drives in their basic PC's, most of it will still be unused by the general public.
Doesn't take many new games at 30GB a pop to fill up a 1TB hard drive. I thought 750GB would be enough for my laptop, but I've had to delete about a third of the Steam games and compress some of the others.
Ditto. When I first set up my MythTV backend I thought 1TB would be enough. Then It went to 2TB so it didn't start deleting shows before my girlfriend got around to watching them. Then we got OTA HD and I'm up to 4TB and it's still running out of space.
Don't kid yourself, this is the dying breath of the HDDs.
How much is a 60TB SSD, and how many times will I be able to write to it before destroying the disk when you're using a process small enough to pack that 60TB into a box the size of an HDD? Each new process shrink seems to be dramatically reducing the write limit for SSDs.
You go right ahead and wait for 2 fucking hours for your 50 GB Bluray image to be copied/processed on your mechanical toaster; I'm sticking with my 1 minute with complete silence and low power consumption.
Even my 'Green' HDD manages sustained writes at 80-100MB per second, and why would anyone in their right mind be copying a $10 Bluray onto an SSD that costs more than a dollar per gigabyte?
This raises a very serious question: Why are airplane electronics not designed for noise immunity? It seems like such an obvious solution, like adding security doors to the cockpit after 9/11.
To be fair, much as it should be the airline's job to ensure the aircraft can't be affected, replacing the cockpit door is a heck of a lot easier than replacing aircraft avionics or rewiring them to prevent interference. Even before you consider the cost of the new hardware, that could require taking the aircraft out of service for weeks at a cost of six figures or more of lost revenue per week.
Newer aircraft should be more robust, but the older ones will be around for decades yet.
Even if the FAA allows the use of phones on flights, it will still be against FCC rules, and they will have to have their cellular chipsets turned off.
http://www.onair.aero/
I believe it's in operation already on some routes, perhaps not in America yet.
So what would you think if you were the B777 pilot who's radio communication with air traffic control was interrupted by a passenger's cell phone call? Or if you were the captain in command of a B747 that unexpectedly lost autopilot after takeoff and did not get it back until 4, count 'em four passengers turned off their portable electronic devices?
I would think that Boeing did a piss-poor job of protecting the aircraft against interference.
Clearly terrorists are stupid when they try to sneak bombs on board; a dozen of them should bring iPads and iPhones onto a flight and turn them all on at the same time during takeoff.
Until that Kindle goes flying about in the cabin and hitting someone because you had it out when you weren't supposed to.
My Kindle weighs a heck of a lot less than the latest Stephen King doorstop novel. The corners probably aren't as sharp either.