Maybe we can overthrow their government and install a brutal dictator who will torture and murder people with our approval.
Maybe we can pay a neighbouring country to start a war with them. We could give that neighbouring country chemical and biological weapons and then accuse Iran of using them.
We could impose crippling sanctions on them, denying them medicine and illegally seizing their assets where we can, and threatening anyone who trades with them.
We could fund Sunni extremists to blow up cars in crowded markets, hoping to start a wave of terror.
We could start murdering their scientists and academics.
We could launch our own cyber attack on them.
Well, we could do all these things again, as we've done them all at least once. Maybe,if we can't think of anything else, we can ask, exasperated, "Why do they hate us?"
Frankly, the sudden focus on Linux servers in 2002/2003 killed the Linux desktop. Linux was a desktop-focused project up until suddenly it became critical to have Linux in the datacentre. Where, frankly, it initially sucked. And sucked hard.
The Linux community realized this and worked hard, from 2003 onwards, to resolve the problems. And now it's pretty good. The years of dedicated work to get a stable server OS out of Linux paid off. But it paid off at the expense of Linux Desktop.
Frankly, I would much rather have Linux desktops everywhere than Linux servers.
I get what you're saying now, but it doesn't quite gel with what you said before:
MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not in 1989. And it was 32 bit like I'm 7 feet tall. (i.e. not quite.) The only 32-bit DOSes I ever saw was Novell's, after they bought DR-DOS, and while that was a 32-bit operating system we crippled it by running windows 3.0 and 3.1 on it. It had a protected mode and could cope with a network stack, and that was 1991, maybe 1990. But everything ran in 16-bit mode on top of it because it ran in Windows, and that was 16-bit. Oh, and DOS32, which came out around the time of Windows 95, mid-90s, but wasn't much use by then. It was actually called DOS32. It wasn't an MS product.
If Lotus bet the farm on 32-bit apps, they did it in the 1990s. There was no PC in the 1980s that ran a 32-bit operating system.
I remember expanded memory, but that was released in the late 1980s. And the expanded vs extended memory battle and the himem rubbish was early 90s. You couldn't expand XT memory past 1MB. Well, there were add-on cards etc but they were rubbish and hardly mainstream. The 286 was the first PC with more than 1MB of RAM, and you needed MS-DOS 4 to use expanded or extended memory. Or at least you did with clones.
MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991. DOS32 was released in 1996. Were you really using them 2+ years before their commercial release?
DOS32 came out in the mid 90s. In the 80s, PCs were 16 bit. And they remained 16 bit until the mid 90s, because the OS was 16-bit and ran 286, 386 and 486 chips in 16-bit mode.
I don't recall a single 32-bit desktop in the 80s. And I was using Lots 1-2-3 in the mid 80s.
I've never had a problem with windows 7 search, it's always worked fine. Have you turned off aggressive indexing and not added any folders to the index?
They needed to force the switch since their intent at the time was to have people undergo the switching cost prior to them making the ribbon menus have more levels and be more context sensitive and thereby allowing for a huge increase in the feature set of office.
Mod parent down. This is a silly argument. There's no feature that office will introduce that depends on the ribbon. The ribbon does improve usability, by quite a lot over office 2003, but the features that are being introduced now do not and will not depend on anything so silly as not having a drop down menu.
Police forces will be pre-ordering this technology and asking for demonstrations within the next few days. Being able to spy on someone without a warrant or oversight is an aphrodisiac for cops.
I'm sorry but this is typical uninformed drivel. Lebanese think of themselves as a Phoenician, Arab, Ottoman descended mix. Lebanon has been a crossroads for conquerors and traders for thousands of years. Some are Muslim - Shia and Sunni. Some are Christian - RC, Othodox, Maronite and so many others. During the civil war different Christian groups aligned with different Muslim groups for their own perceived interest. Half way though many broke alliances and formed new alliances.
Pretending it was a Christians vs Muslims civil war displays an extremely superficial understanding of what happened in the 80s in Lebanon.
Oh, and Syrians tend to think of themselves as Arabs and, like Palestinians, some are Muslim, some are Christian, and they don't follow the script you seem to think they do regarding dreaming of an Islamic state...
Yes, and when the PLO left Israel proceeded to bomb Beirut, deliberately targeting and killing civilians in an effort to set Lebanon back. Israel isn't interested in prosperous and peaceful neighbours.
Egypt, Syria and Jordan 1967. Although it is widely alleged that this was in response to a joint plan by these countries to attack Israel, the military offense was all Israeli and without warning or any actual attack.
Actually, the US and UK gathered intelligence from Egypt, Syria and Jordan, independently came to the conclusion that none of those countries was building up for war and none of those countries' leaders at the time wanted war. They then shared this intelligence with Israel and gave them the green light to attack.
Egypt and Syria, 1973. Note that while Egypt and Syria had attacked Israeli positions, these were to reoccupy land occupied by Israel in 1966 and Israel's borders were never threatened; the Syrians even stopped on the Golan when they could have carried on.
No, that was a surprise attack by the Arabs against Israel. The first, it has to be said, but you can't blame Israel for that one.
Kids, these days.
Back in my time, we had to fart ourselves! And we liked it!
Wake up and smell the beans, no wonder your butts are getting so big, you aren't exercising them properly! Get off my lawn!
Wow, you must be old, grandpa. When I was a kid you had to spend a couple of bucks on a dedicated device to make noise! And it just had buttons, no fancy screen or touch interface!
Now get off my lawn and take your walker with you!
Oh, dear, the fandroids have started early.
I for one am very surprised about this. Apparently the conditions are very good for China, as opposed to places like clothing factories and toy factories. Which sound like hell-holes.
But I digress. Down with Apple! I'd much rather buy a Motorolla or Samsung device made in the same factory!
Think about it. This is pure evil. As the fanboys keep telling us, the Foxconn factories make everything from iPods to PS3s. So in doing this, Apple is being especially evil as they're auditing their competitors' manufacturing too!
I don't want Apple taking away my freedom to purchase electronic gadgets made in poor working conditions while tut-tutting (I'm British, we tut) about the poor working conditions in Apple factories and using it as another stick to beat Apple with. It's not up to Apple to control the poor working conditions of other manufacturers.
I'm willing to concede that the clear majority of scientists, who do believe in man-made global climate change, may be wrong. We just don't know yet. But I'm not going to believe that a geneticist or an engineer know more about climate change and climate change modelling than those who have been studying it for 30+ years now.
I wonder why they signed it? They aren't subject matter experts.
The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.
CO2 levels in the atmosphere are the highest for 450,000 years. There's been a steep rise since the 1950s, from 315ppm to 370ppm (parts per million). And, in case the WSJ has forgotten, we can't breathe CO2. Too little and too much oxygen will kill us. Too much CO2 would eventually lead to too little oxygen, among other things.
Oh well, maybe we'll start burning fossil fuels to create enough energy to split off oxygen from water and sell it in supermarkets, resulting in even less oxygen available. Oh, and we need oxygen to burn fossil fuels, so eventually we all lose...
Actually, you've got that backwards. At work I'm the only one of a team of 8 who has a computer. Everyone else uses a virtual desktop that is accessible via dumb terminals (really a mini PC running Linux) or a home PC.
But everyone at work has a PC at home.
Longer term, PCs seem to be going away - my wife uses a tablet for 50% of her PC tasks. But right now there's no replacement for a keyboard and mouse, or the intense CPU and graphics or larger screens required to compose long letters, spreadsheets, play games, etc.
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Don't get the one with the red setting - there's not much use for it in a server room and it's way more expensive than the base version...
I didn't mention it as I thought it was really obvious. I'll be travelling with a full backup in my carry on luggage, and another in my suitcase...
Maybe we can overthrow their government and install a brutal dictator who will torture and murder people with our approval.
Maybe we can pay a neighbouring country to start a war with them. We could give that neighbouring country chemical and biological weapons and then accuse Iran of using them.
We could impose crippling sanctions on them, denying them medicine and illegally seizing their assets where we can, and threatening anyone who trades with them.
We could fund Sunni extremists to blow up cars in crowded markets, hoping to start a wave of terror.
We could start murdering their scientists and academics.
We could launch our own cyber attack on them.
Well, we could do all these things again, as we've done them all at least once. Maybe,if we can't think of anything else, we can ask, exasperated, "Why do they hate us?"
Frankly, the sudden focus on Linux servers in 2002/2003 killed the Linux desktop. Linux was a desktop-focused project up until suddenly it became critical to have Linux in the datacentre. Where, frankly, it initially sucked. And sucked hard.
The Linux community realized this and worked hard, from 2003 onwards, to resolve the problems. And now it's pretty good. The years of dedicated work to get a stable server OS out of Linux paid off. But it paid off at the expense of Linux Desktop.
Frankly, I would much rather have Linux desktops everywhere than Linux servers.
To take over the Marketing Director's job?
I get what you're saying now, but it doesn't quite gel with what you said before:
MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not in 1989. And it was 32 bit like I'm 7 feet tall. (i.e. not quite.) The only 32-bit DOSes I ever saw was Novell's, after they bought DR-DOS, and while that was a 32-bit operating system we crippled it by running windows 3.0 and 3.1 on it. It had a protected mode and could cope with a network stack, and that was 1991, maybe 1990. But everything ran in 16-bit mode on top of it because it ran in Windows, and that was 16-bit. Oh, and DOS32, which came out around the time of Windows 95, mid-90s, but wasn't much use by then. It was actually called DOS32. It wasn't an MS product.
If Lotus bet the farm on 32-bit apps, they did it in the 1990s. There was no PC in the 1980s that ran a 32-bit operating system.
I remember expanded memory, but that was released in the late 1980s. And the expanded vs extended memory battle and the himem rubbish was early 90s. You couldn't expand XT memory past 1MB. Well, there were add-on cards etc but they were rubbish and hardly mainstream. The 286 was the first PC with more than 1MB of RAM, and you needed MS-DOS 4 to use expanded or extended memory. Or at least you did with clones.
MS-DOS 5.0 was released in 1991. DOS32 was released in 1996. Were you really using them 2+ years before their commercial release?
DOS32 came out in the mid 90s. In the 80s, PCs were 16 bit. And they remained 16 bit until the mid 90s, because the OS was 16-bit and ran 286, 386 and 486 chips in 16-bit mode. I don't recall a single 32-bit desktop in the 80s. And I was using Lots 1-2-3 in the mid 80s.
I've never had a problem with windows 7 search, it's always worked fine. Have you turned off aggressive indexing and not added any folders to the index?
These are prerequisites for it working?
They needed to force the switch since their intent at the time was to have people undergo the switching cost prior to them making the ribbon menus have more levels and be more context sensitive and thereby allowing for a huge increase in the feature set of office.
Mod parent down. This is a silly argument. There's no feature that office will introduce that depends on the ribbon. The ribbon does improve usability, by quite a lot over office 2003, but the features that are being introduced now do not and will not depend on anything so silly as not having a drop down menu.
Police forces will be pre-ordering this technology and asking for demonstrations within the next few days. Being able to spy on someone without a warrant or oversight is an aphrodisiac for cops.
Get yourself over to www.dictionary.com and learn.
They have a 100% accuracy record for distinguishing between "weather" and "climate."
I'm sorry but this is typical uninformed drivel. Lebanese think of themselves as a Phoenician, Arab, Ottoman descended mix. Lebanon has been a crossroads for conquerors and traders for thousands of years. Some are Muslim - Shia and Sunni. Some are Christian - RC, Othodox, Maronite and so many others. During the civil war different Christian groups aligned with different Muslim groups for their own perceived interest. Half way though many broke alliances and formed new alliances.
Pretending it was a Christians vs Muslims civil war displays an extremely superficial understanding of what happened in the 80s in Lebanon.
Oh, and Syrians tend to think of themselves as Arabs and, like Palestinians, some are Muslim, some are Christian, and they don't follow the script you seem to think they do regarding dreaming of an Islamic state...
The bit where they say Western countries support democracy. Saudi Arabia is the West's closest Arab ally.
Yes, and when the PLO left Israel proceeded to bomb Beirut, deliberately targeting and killing civilians in an effort to set Lebanon back. Israel isn't interested in prosperous and peaceful neighbours.
Egypt, Syria and Jordan 1967. Although it is widely alleged that this was in response to a joint plan by these countries to attack Israel, the military offense was all Israeli and without warning or any actual attack.
Actually, the US and UK gathered intelligence from Egypt, Syria and Jordan, independently came to the conclusion that none of those countries was building up for war and none of those countries' leaders at the time wanted war. They then shared this intelligence with Israel and gave them the green light to attack.
Egypt and Syria, 1973. Note that while Egypt and Syria had attacked Israeli positions, these were to reoccupy land occupied by Israel in 1966 and Israel's borders were never threatened; the Syrians even stopped on the Golan when they could have carried on.
No, that was a surprise attack by the Arabs against Israel. The first, it has to be said, but you can't blame Israel for that one.
Kids, these days. Back in my time, we had to fart ourselves! And we liked it! Wake up and smell the beans, no wonder your butts are getting so big, you aren't exercising them properly! Get off my lawn!
Wow, you must be old, grandpa. When I was a kid you had to spend a couple of bucks on a dedicated device to make noise! And it just had buttons, no fancy screen or touch interface!
Now get off my lawn and take your walker with you!
Oh, dear, the fandroids have started early. I for one am very surprised about this. Apparently the conditions are very good for China, as opposed to places like clothing factories and toy factories. Which sound like hell-holes. But I digress. Down with Apple! I'd much rather buy a Motorolla or Samsung device made in the same factory!
Think about it. This is pure evil. As the fanboys keep telling us, the Foxconn factories make everything from iPods to PS3s. So in doing this, Apple is being especially evil as they're auditing their competitors' manufacturing too!
I don't want Apple taking away my freedom to purchase electronic gadgets made in poor working conditions while tut-tutting (I'm British, we tut) about the poor working conditions in Apple factories and using it as another stick to beat Apple with. It's not up to Apple to control the poor working conditions of other manufacturers.
Nestle is responsible for more children's deaths in Africa than anything war has thrown at them. Let me guess, that's not evil, only good business?
Air bubbles trapped in ice in the Antarctic. The deeper you go, the older the ice is, back 450,000 years...
I wonder why they signed it? They aren't subject matter experts.
CO2 levels in the atmosphere are the highest for 450,000 years. There's been a steep rise since the 1950s, from 315ppm to 370ppm (parts per million). And, in case the WSJ has forgotten, we can't breathe CO2. Too little and too much oxygen will kill us. Too much CO2 would eventually lead to too little oxygen, among other things.
Oh well, maybe we'll start burning fossil fuels to create enough energy to split off oxygen from water and sell it in supermarkets, resulting in even less oxygen available. Oh, and we need oxygen to burn fossil fuels, so eventually we all lose...
Actually, you've got that backwards. At work I'm the only one of a team of 8 who has a computer. Everyone else uses a virtual desktop that is accessible via dumb terminals (really a mini PC running Linux) or a home PC.
But everyone at work has a PC at home.
Longer term, PCs seem to be going away - my wife uses a tablet for 50% of her PC tasks. But right now there's no replacement for a keyboard and mouse, or the intense CPU and graphics or larger screens required to compose long letters, spreadsheets, play games, etc.
... I eagerly scan the article to see if the predictions here were true: http://www.tealdragon.net/humor/startrek/power.htm
"It's that miserable 80986 with the 512K bit bus multiplexed down to one pin."
That's so Intel...
That's a no-brainer. Or you would start seeing Xbox games shipping on 2, 3 or 4 DVDs. Sony would have a field day with that.
What next? A confident prediction that it will have a method of connecting to the TV set, possibly via HDMI?