I've used it daily for 6 months while doing development. So please, what are these "flaws and shortcomings"? Metro? Your precious start button? Hot points? Not everyone is a two year old and can get quite over the missing start button once they realize they don't need ti. Personally I have never been much bothered by the 'hot spots' but again, its something new so whiners will cry about it.
So, please list a few of these operating system flaws that are not a UI personal preference whine.
Was AL Bore in the senate? In the House? No. DId Al Bore get "outraged" and admonish his fellow Dems (many liberal) who voted for Patriot Act (and others) and renewals? No.
I actually saw a diary on that commie haven dailyKos which listed many who voted for (and some against) the 2008 FISA and the recent re-up, including listing those who changed their vote because their guy was in the white house. Wake me up when the liberals are protesting in front of the white house or anywhere else while Obama is in charge.
It has been going on since 2006 and has been renewed by the court every 3 months. So yes, you are right, Obama is Bush III, or Cheney II as you prefer.
Strikes me as an assinine proposal, just like the submitter's statement "everyone but Microsoft knows it's a mess of an OS"
If you don't want to use Metro, don't. Its really easy Click the desktop icon. There, its gone! There are even ways to boot directly to desktop. Windows 8 works great - it is fast and more stable than even 7 was. But at least there wasn't excessive whining about a start button.
so... you really think the result would be the same if they had owned.com with the same (or better) appraisal? Or maybe if it was something like hillaryclinton.com?
more to the point, it would not be impossible to predict weather patterns on the East coast even without the replacement sat. It would be one less tool available but hardly the only one.
The poll reported 53/44 against the 3d gun printing in a small poll with a 3.7% sampling error. Given the amount of press this received in the past two weeks and the novelty of the issue, that 44% favor allowing the use its actually quite impressive.
This MADD crusade really has to end. This is not going to "save lives" and instead is going to be a revenue source for the government and a life wrecker for those stopped. From Reason.com:
Consider the 2000 federal law that pressured states to lower their BAC standards to 0.08 from 0.10. At the time, the average BAC in alcohol-related fatal accidents was 0.17, and two-thirds of such accidents involved drivers with BACs of 0.14 or higher. In fact, drivers with BACs between 0.01 and 0.03 were involved in more fatal accidents than drivers with BACs between 0.08 and 0.10. (The federal government classifies a fatal accident as "alcohol-related" if it involved a driver, a biker, or a pedestrian with a BAC of 0.01 or more, whether or not drinking actually contributed to the accident.) In 1995 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration studied traffic data in 30 safety categories from the first five states to adopt the new DWI standard. In 21 of the 30 categories, those states were either no different from or less safe than the rest of the country.
Once the 0.08 standard took effect nationwide in 2000, a curious thing happened: Alcohol-related traffic fatalities increased, following a 20-year decline. Critics of the 0.08 standard predicted this would happen. The problem is that most people with a BAC between 0.08 and 0.10 don't drive erratically enough to be noticed by police officers in patrol cars. So police began setting up roadblocks to catch them. But every cop manning a roadblock aimed at catching motorists violating the new law is a cop not on the highways looking for more seriously impaired motorists. By 2004 alcohol-related fatalities went down again, but only because the decrease in states that don't use roadblocks compensated for a slight but continuing increase in the states that use them.
not even really shocking. That did the journalists have access to? When someone was on or offline. OMFG! Think of what you can do with that. They also had access to what functions they were using. I'm sure the journalists were elated to know that a bond trader at GS was using the Bloomstink terminal to price bonds.
"But as it turned out, what the subscribers were doing was not always confidential. Bloomberg reporters used the "Z function" — a command using the letter Z and a company's name — to view a list of subscribers at a firm. Then, a Bloomberg user could click on a subscriber's name, which would take the user to a function called UUID. The UUID function then provided background on an individual subscriber, including contact information, when the subscriber had last logged on, chat information between subscribers and customer service representatives, and weekly statistics on how often they used a particular function. A company spokesman said both of those functions had been disabled in the newsroom. "
He is about as far from one as possible. This is blatant interference in private commerce. Nobody is compelled to have cable fiber or sat TV. If the providers dont want to do a la carte, that is their business in every sense of the word. And if content producers want to bundle their offerings, that is their right as well. And please don't think for a minute that McCain is doing this for the people.
America is a bunch of pussies now. Had something like this happened in the 50s-80s..maybe even the 90s, the result would have been a stern reprimand and at most a couple days suspension. This "Daddy" syndrome needs to end. I doubt even the French would freak out the way the school and DA have.
The only problem with that analogy is that people and goods travel for free on those roads or pay a fee/toll to the government based on usage. This fiber is not a public thoroughfare operated by a federal or state government.
Living in VT but not in that area, I am served by a relatively small (and also subsidized) independent telco. I've just recently been upgraded to about 6.5/1 Mbps DSL. I've heard they weill be expanding a fiber roll out, though not necessarily to the curb but close enough to allow higher speeds. However, I am still required to buy a landline (and pay all the fees and tithes associated with that) to get DSL pushing my monthly bill to about $65/month. The DSL portion is $40 + some fees. Not the cheapest, though at least from a download perspective it is fast enough for most things. Network reliability has been an issue but is improving as they replace aging equipment. Given its the boonies, the DSL price isn't crushingly bad, though $30-35 would be more reasonable. Its the landline that kills the deal.
Complete FAIL. The existing cameras did not prevent the attack. Boston PD has said that facial recognition software did not help in identifying the suspects eventhough photos were in a searched database.
This is nothing but another privacy crushing power grab by the "authorities" who want to play daddy and make us all feel safer. FLASH: it is a waste of time, money and other reources and does nothing to make anyone safer. But it does let the terrorists win by eroding our freedoms, wasting our money and giving a false sense of security.
And still is thank you very much. Why people insist on leaving mail on insecure servers I dont know, not to mention that the govt (US at least) feels no problem about reading anything 6 months or older. And the IRS... well they'll start with that email that just showed up 5 minutes ago.
but the headline is a bit grandiose - there is nothing new about CP violation. CP violation has been known for a very long time and there are at least three other examples of it prior to LHCb report. Also, as CERN notes, others were not able to accumulate sufficient statistics to make the observational claim. Perhaps "CERN's LHCb confirms CP violation in another particle" my be both a more accurate way of describing it and also less "omg, ponies!"
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I've used it daily for 6 months while doing development. So please, what are these "flaws and shortcomings"? Metro? Your precious start button? Hot points? Not everyone is a two year old and can get quite over the missing start button once they realize they don't need ti. Personally I have never been much bothered by the 'hot spots' but again, its something new so whiners will cry about it.
So, please list a few of these operating system flaws that are not a UI personal preference whine.
Last I checked Wall St was not the White House. Nor were they protesting about anything other than trying to get more govt money for themselves.
Was AL Bore in the senate? In the House? No.
DId Al Bore get "outraged" and admonish his fellow Dems (many liberal) who voted for Patriot Act (and others) and renewals? No.
So... no its not enough.
I actually saw a diary on that commie haven dailyKos which listed many who voted for (and some against) the 2008 FISA and the recent re-up, including listing those who changed their vote because their guy was in the white house. Wake me up when the liberals are protesting in front of the white house or anywhere else while Obama is in charge.
It has been going on since 2006 and has been renewed by the court every 3 months. So yes, you are right, Obama is Bush III, or Cheney II as you prefer.
Strikes me as an assinine proposal, just like the submitter's statement "everyone but Microsoft knows it's a mess of an OS"
If you don't want to use Metro, don't. Its really easy Click the desktop icon. There, its gone! There are even ways to boot directly to desktop. Windows 8 works great - it is fast and more stable than even 7 was. But at least there wasn't excessive whining about a start button.
for a 30 day month he was running at 249Mbps 24/7. 83% usage! impressive.
You mean off the one name on rp.com that was not on their own official lists?
sigh.. "owned (insert hollywood celebrity).com"
so... you really think the result would be the same if they had owned .com with the same (or better) appraisal? Or maybe if it was something like hillaryclinton.com?
more to the point, it would not be impossible to predict weather patterns on the East coast even without the replacement sat. It would be one less tool available but hardly the only one.
The poll reported 53/44 against the 3d gun printing in a small poll with a 3.7% sampling error. Given the amount of press this received in the past two weeks and the novelty of the issue, that 44% favor allowing the use its actually quite impressive.
This MADD crusade really has to end. This is not going to "save lives" and instead is going to be a revenue source for the government and a life wrecker for those stopped. From Reason.com:
You know, matches can hurt if used by the wrong hands. They can even burn things down. I think we need a national matchbook registry immediately.
not even really shocking. That did the journalists have access to? When someone was on or offline. OMFG! Think of what you can do with that. They also had access to what functions they were using. I'm sure the journalists were elated to know that a bond trader at GS was using the Bloomstink terminal to price bonds.
"But as it turned out, what the subscribers were doing was not always confidential. Bloomberg reporters used the "Z function" — a command using the letter Z and a company's name — to view a list of subscribers at a firm. Then, a Bloomberg user could click on a subscriber's name, which would take the user to a function called UUID. The UUID function then provided background on an individual subscriber, including contact information, when the subscriber had last logged on, chat information between subscribers and customer service representatives, and weekly statistics on how often they used a particular function. A company spokesman said both of those functions had been disabled in the newsroom. "
He is about as far from one as possible. This is blatant interference in private commerce. Nobody is compelled to have cable fiber or sat TV. If the providers dont want to do a la carte, that is their business in every sense of the word. And if content producers want to bundle their offerings, that is their right as well. And please don't think for a minute that McCain is doing this for the people.
So... so much for free association?
Clearly the Obama admin. wants all data to be open. Theirs, yours and anyone else.
hmmm.. dating yourself now are we?
America is a bunch of pussies now. Had something like this happened in the 50s-80s..maybe even the 90s, the result would have been a stern reprimand and at most a couple days suspension. This "Daddy" syndrome needs to end. I doubt even the French would freak out the way the school and DA have.
The only problem with that analogy is that people and goods travel for free on those roads or pay a fee/toll to the government based on usage. This fiber is not a public thoroughfare operated by a federal or state government.
Living in VT but not in that area, I am served by a relatively small (and also subsidized) independent telco. I've just recently been upgraded to about 6.5/1 Mbps DSL. I've heard they weill be expanding a fiber roll out, though not necessarily to the curb but close enough to allow higher speeds. However, I am still required to buy a landline (and pay all the fees and tithes associated with that) to get DSL pushing my monthly bill to about $65/month. The DSL portion is $40 + some fees. Not the cheapest, though at least from a download perspective it is fast enough for most things. Network reliability has been an issue but is improving as they replace aging equipment. Given its the boonies, the DSL price isn't crushingly bad, though $30-35 would be more reasonable. Its the landline that kills the deal.
Complete FAIL. The existing cameras did not prevent the attack. Boston PD has said that facial recognition software did not help in identifying the suspects eventhough photos were in a searched database.
This is nothing but another privacy crushing power grab by the "authorities" who want to play daddy and make us all feel safer. FLASH: it is a waste of time, money and other reources and does nothing to make anyone safer. But it does let the terrorists win by eroding our freedoms, wasting our money and giving a false sense of security.
I would also add that it is a public, free broadcast. Pandora is picking and chosing the content they broadcast.
And still is thank you very much. Why people insist on leaving mail on insecure servers I dont know, not to mention that the govt (US at least) feels no problem about reading anything 6 months or older. And the IRS... well they'll start with that email that just showed up 5 minutes ago.
but the headline is a bit grandiose - there is nothing new about CP violation. CP violation has been known for a very long time and there are at least three other examples of it prior to LHCb report. Also, as CERN notes, others were not able to accumulate sufficient statistics to make the observational claim. Perhaps "CERN's LHCb confirms CP violation in another particle" my be both a more accurate way of describing it and also less "omg, ponies!"