What really gets me is Obama is way to nice. All he has to do is walk up to limbuagh , give him a hug on camera and he is the best democrat ever and to thank him for creating the Tea Party and Rush will be permenatly off the air the next day.
it could be an awesome super power. Be nice to some one and have everyone who hates you hate that person too. How fast would Fox news fall if Obama praised their journalistic integrity?
Bill Maher suddenly cut off. It even works the other way but not quite as well
that's because it is dead simple for an idiot to use VNC.
remote using X requires a bit of thought to setup, and a continuous running stream in the back of your mind saying this window is running on "X" computer. It gets more complicated if you start running multiple windows on multiple machines.
I love network windowing with X. but I see so many people who struggle with VNC and RDP it is laughable. They don't quite understand that they are not running applications on their local machine even though it is displaying in front of them but on another one.
That being said since I do understand it I find X networking really really useful. indeed X should be standard windowing system for things like ships. Where you need to remotely control a bunch of different computers/machines from a single location.
funny I was making $33k a year and health care was costing me $6k annually. with a pretty much guaranteed 10% increase annually.
I don't know why anti ACA (Obamcare branding is a product of the conservative media) people think the health care industry is okay when they boost rate 10% annually and have done so for at least 15 years. (the lowest increase I have received was 7%, the highest was 15%)
And that was crappy health insurance with a $2000 deductible before it would cover ANYTHING.
50 million people in the USA couldn't afford any healthcare period. how is the "greatest nation" fail to take care of it's own.
I don't even like the ACA. I personally think most employers should get out of the health care and retirement system altogether. My boss doesn't have to sponsor my Auto insurance. Why do they have to sponsor my health insurance?
The reason there was a half assed effort as instead of focusing on groups the CIA targeted governments.
That was the big issue. from the head honcho on down the primary focus was on governments. Not realizing that groups of people an have as many resources as governments. any billionaire on this planet can literally start building an army and equip it effectively. the CIA still doesn't realize that threat. the US government doesn't take those threats seriously. Look at what a drug cartel can do.
China, Russia those are easily definied threats. but the real ones are the quiet groups.
true but it is curious as to what kind of animal it dna of. While the earth would have restored itself. There were no dinosaurs, so i wonder what kind of creature that blood sucker liked to feed on.
And yet everyday we are using alloys, materials, and medicines that 40 years ago were all but a dream.
Hybrid synthetic fibers, hell the metal alloy's used in your cell phone, and laptop didn't have mass production status 40 years ago. 40 years ago building things at sub 100nm processing was considered all but impossible.
The real trick isn't when it is first possible to do something or even when it is available to a select few, but when any idiot can do it. The microwave oven took 15 years to go from proof of concept to an affordable counter appliance. and another 10 years for decent ideas on how to use it practically.
Metal 3D printing is a good 20+ years from everyday use. but it starts today.
Correct the thing is we keep cutting revenues to try and boost the economy and have been doing so steadily for 13 years and it isn't working.
People like to think this only started in 2008, the reality is 2008 only happened because of policies put in place with the DOT Bomb. You can't cut revenue and increase spending the way republicans want to do.
I knew 2005 we where headed toward a finicial collapse because the only thing moving forward was housing. everything else was stagant. Right now we are headed for another collapse because the onyl thing that is moving forward and recovering 5 years later is Wall street. nothing else has really improved.
Wall street is posting 10-15% gains while real american businesses are struggling to go 1-3%.
the only big difference is now word and excel are in XML. sometimes, and only partially. but hey it is an open standard now right?
Windows including 7, word, excel, and their file formats haven't changed much in 15 years. Mostly a few new features, and cosmetics. You can pull out a windows 95 and office 97 for dummies book and be able to do everything in them with windows 7 and office 2013.
Hmm people not reading fine print of legalese because it is annoying useless, and you can't use the new shiny anyways and in software you can't even get a refund.
In a world where bleach bottles have to say do not drink, hair dyers come with warnings for external use only, Fireplaces come with warnings that say may get HOT.
Do you really think people read legalese? Besides if you want to use that app you have to sign up for it. you can ignore the new app but then your not part of the social scene.
NY comic con thought it should tweet from visitors accounts. this means if you ever look up a product on amazon all your friends know you were surfing for (insert fetish here).
Companies are trying to force you to support their products so they can cheap out of advertising as real advertising is about 5% successful(on a good day).
Word of mouth is the best advertising So by crosslinking into your social networks companies can advertise with words that appear to be coming out of your mouth.
I have avoided social networks for just this reason. people think I am paranoid but damn sometimes it sucks to be right.
oh that's simple trolls and conservatives live under bridges with their heads stuck where the sun don't shine. if they can't ever see the light then no one can.
Therefore anything that casts doubt that the earth is the center of the universe must be ignored.
in 17 years Disney can move a screw,redo the wiring layout, claim it is a new product and re patent it.
when there exists patent for manually collating papers by placing them them on a table and walking around said table to grab a paper from each stack(IBM). every patent needs to be questioned.
It is difficult to prove actually took place, it always boils down to he said, she said. that isn't even including someone changing their mind 10 seconds before hand.
Unless she (or he sometime) show physical tramua a rape doesn't look different from normal sex.
the military will never be defunded. even now during a government shutdown the military can still force certain areas to keep development going.
Second you have to teach the dog to walk before you can teach it how to watch for cars.
Normal animals learn to walk on day one of their life. robotic ones are dumber than that. Some one needs to teach it to walk in public without a tether. Even asmiov that walking honda robot, can only do preprogramed areas.
there is no nuclear reactor design that could power that thing like a gas engine can.
If there was we could have nuclear powered electric cars.
I really wish people could understand that. the small nuclear reactors could power a laptop or two for 30 years but could never produce enough electricity fast enough to run a clothes dryer for one run.
Second,
people see horse or mule and can't conceive of a horse or mule getting scared of bullets flying by and or getting shot. using a horse to carry your gear only works until the horse gets shot. then the horse runs away with your gear.
not really they don't care about bad or missing data. the piles of data are to large.
Seriously my credit report lists a name of a relation that hasn't existed in 18+ years. And when it did exist it lasted less than 6 months.( a very short marriage of a relation,not mine). But nobody cares about accurate useful data, only if they have it or not.
Take Amazon. they have a record of every purchase I have made over a similar time span. yet they only ever show me adds for things i already have. amazon won't show me something new. What good is showing me stuff that I already own/watched?
I figure just let them keep on collecting it. sooner or later they will have so much useless old data clogging their systems that it will hide you better than trying to delete and police everything.
While what you are saying is true the trick with fingerprint back before the mid 90's was processing power. If you wanted to compare prints you had to pay one or more people to sit there and compare each print to a suspected print.
now you can compare hundreds of prints per second. and only have to use people to verify the half a dozen potential matches. The problem with completely automated systems is that they only compare a dozen points of interest. to be truely useful you would need to vector map the entire print.
what is even funnier is that tornado safe rooms have been designed for the last couple of decades, and a concrete bunker in the center of the house isn't a new idea.
the problem is twofold.
the average age of a house in the USA is 30-40 years old. that means things like decent insulation are still far beyond them let alone double pane windows. None of those houses can have a safe room easily or cheaply.
Second none of these are cheap period. a $30,000 addition to even a $300,000 house is a serious investment. The people who really need these are those who can't afford them.
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What really gets me is Obama is way to nice. All he has to do is walk up to limbuagh , give him a hug on camera and he is the best democrat ever and to thank him for creating the Tea Party and Rush will be permenatly off the air the next day.
it could be an awesome super power. Be nice to some one and have everyone who hates you hate that person too. How fast would Fox news fall if Obama praised their journalistic integrity?
Bill Maher suddenly cut off. It even works the other way but not quite as well
that's because it is dead simple for an idiot to use VNC.
remote using X requires a bit of thought to setup, and a continuous running stream in the back of your mind saying this window is running on "X" computer. It gets more complicated if you start running multiple windows on multiple machines.
I love network windowing with X. but I see so many people who struggle with VNC and RDP it is laughable. They don't quite understand that they are not running applications on their local machine even though it is displaying in front of them but on another one.
That being said since I do understand it I find X networking really really useful. indeed X should be standard windowing system for things like ships. Where you need to remotely control a bunch of different computers/machines from a single location.
funny I was making $33k a year and health care was costing me $6k annually. with a pretty much guaranteed 10% increase annually.
I don't know why anti ACA (Obamcare branding is a product of the conservative media) people think the health care industry is okay when they boost rate 10% annually and have done so for at least 15 years. (the lowest increase I have received was 7%, the highest was 15%)
And that was crappy health insurance with a $2000 deductible before it would cover ANYTHING.
50 million people in the USA couldn't afford any healthcare period. how is the "greatest nation" fail to take care of it's own.
I don't even like the ACA. I personally think most employers should get out of the health care and retirement system altogether. My boss doesn't have to sponsor my Auto insurance. Why do they have to sponsor my health insurance?
No but I would love someone to build one just to compare the performance.
Two minor points.
Electrons are Easy to use and last a long time.
Subatomic particles on the other hand are much hard to deal with. Also not many of them are actually smaller.
The reason there was a half assed effort as instead of focusing on groups the CIA targeted governments.
That was the big issue. from the head honcho on down the primary focus was on governments. Not realizing that groups of people an have as many resources as governments. any billionaire on this planet can literally start building an army and equip it effectively. the CIA still doesn't realize that threat. the US government doesn't take those threats seriously. Look at what a drug cartel can do.
China, Russia those are easily definied threats. but the real ones are the quiet groups.
true but it is curious as to what kind of animal it dna of. While the earth would have restored itself. There were no dinosaurs, so i wonder what kind of creature that blood sucker liked to feed on.
And yet everyday we are using alloys, materials, and medicines that 40 years ago were all but a dream.
Hybrid synthetic fibers, hell the metal alloy's used in your cell phone, and laptop didn't have mass production status 40 years ago. 40 years ago building things at sub 100nm processing was considered all but impossible.
The real trick isn't when it is first possible to do something or even when it is available to a select few, but when any idiot can do it. The microwave oven took 15 years to go from proof of concept to an affordable counter appliance. and another 10 years for decent ideas on how to use it practically.
Metal 3D printing is a good 20+ years from everyday use. but it starts today.
Correct the thing is we keep cutting revenues to try and boost the economy and have been doing so steadily for 13 years and it isn't working.
People like to think this only started in 2008, the reality is 2008 only happened because of policies put in place with the DOT Bomb. You can't cut revenue and increase spending the way republicans want to do.
I knew 2005 we where headed toward a finicial collapse because the only thing moving forward was housing. everything else was stagant. Right now we are headed for another collapse because the onyl thing that is moving forward and recovering 5 years later is Wall street. nothing else has really improved.
Wall street is posting 10-15% gains while real american businesses are struggling to go 1-3%.
the only big difference is now word and excel are in XML. sometimes, and only partially. but hey it is an open standard now right?
Windows including 7, word, excel, and their file formats haven't changed much in 15 years. Mostly a few new features, and cosmetics. You can pull out a windows 95 and office 97 for dummies book and be able to do everything in them with windows 7 and office 2013.
That is the true state of things.
Hmm people not reading fine print of legalese because it is annoying useless, and you can't use the new shiny anyways and in software you can't even get a refund.
In a world where bleach bottles have to say do not drink, hair dyers come with warnings for external use only, Fireplaces come with warnings that say may get HOT.
Do you really think people read legalese? Besides if you want to use that app you have to sign up for it. you can ignore the new app but then your not part of the social scene.
funny the same thing is true of android and that practice gets defended on /.
NY comic con thought it should tweet from visitors accounts. this means if you ever look up a product on amazon all your friends know you were surfing for (insert fetish here).
Companies are trying to force you to support their products so they can cheap out of advertising as real advertising is about 5% successful(on a good day).
Word of mouth is the best advertising So by crosslinking into your social networks companies can advertise with words that appear to be coming out of your mouth.
I have avoided social networks for just this reason. people think I am paranoid but damn sometimes it sucks to be right.
I can only see the pay by fry method for the good.
the number of fries sold will go down and fat people will be less inclined to eat there.
oh that's simple trolls and conservatives live under bridges with their heads stuck where the sun don't shine. if they can't ever see the light then no one can.
Therefore anything that casts doubt that the earth is the center of the universe must be ignored.
you don't understand patent law then.
in 17 years Disney can move a screw,redo the wiring layout, claim it is a new product and re patent it.
when there exists patent for manually collating papers by placing them them on a table and walking around said table to grab a paper from each stack(IBM). every patent needs to be questioned.
That is just it even outside of Boston verizon stopped putting in fios. My sister has it I can't get it and I am 5 miles away.
Verizon just stopped period. blaming it on the taxes is just an excuse. Verizon made a deal with comcast to stop expanding their services.
It is difficult to prove actually took place, it always boils down to he said, she said. that isn't even including someone changing their mind 10 seconds before hand.
Unless she (or he sometime) show physical tramua a rape doesn't look different from normal sex.
the military will never be defunded. even now during a government shutdown the military can still force certain areas to keep development going.
Second you have to teach the dog to walk before you can teach it how to watch for cars.
Normal animals learn to walk on day one of their life. robotic ones are dumber than that. Some one needs to teach it to walk in public without a tether. Even asmiov that walking honda robot, can only do preprogramed areas.
there is no nuclear reactor design that could power that thing like a gas engine can.
If there was we could have nuclear powered electric cars.
I really wish people could understand that. the small nuclear reactors could power a laptop or two for 30 years but could never produce enough electricity fast enough to run a clothes dryer for one run.
Second,
people see horse or mule and can't conceive of a horse or mule getting scared of bullets flying by and or getting shot. using a horse to carry your gear only works until the horse gets shot. then the horse runs away with your gear.
the suggestions go away but it is buried deep under an odd name and your history is still there.
not really they don't care about bad or missing data. the piles of data are to large.
Seriously my credit report lists a name of a relation that hasn't existed in 18+ years. And when it did exist it lasted less than 6 months.( a very short marriage of a relation,not mine). But nobody cares about accurate useful data, only if they have it or not.
Take Amazon. they have a record of every purchase I have made over a similar time span. yet they only ever show me adds for things i already have. amazon won't show me something new. What good is showing me stuff that I already own/watched?
I figure just let them keep on collecting it. sooner or later they will have so much useless old data clogging their systems that it will hide you better than trying to delete and police everything.
While what you are saying is true the trick with fingerprint back before the mid 90's was processing power. If you wanted to compare prints you had to pay one or more people to sit there and compare each print to a suspected print.
now you can compare hundreds of prints per second. and only have to use people to verify the half a dozen potential matches. The problem with completely automated systems is that they only compare a dozen points of interest. to be truely useful you would need to vector map the entire print.
Yep half the country is less than 100 years old .
The other half is little more than twice that.
what is even funnier is that tornado safe rooms have been designed for the last couple of decades, and a concrete bunker in the center of the house isn't a new idea.
the problem is twofold.
the average age of a house in the USA is 30-40 years old. that means things like decent insulation are still far beyond them let alone double pane windows. None of those houses can have a safe room easily or cheaply.
Second none of these are cheap period. a $30,000 addition to even a $300,000 house is a serious investment. The people who really need these are those who can't afford them.