if he threw the mop at me and told me to do the rest.. well, there's a rather long handle on a mop..
And whacking Ming with the mop handle would have landed me in jail.
You are not as cool as you think you are.
On the contrary, if you think about it for more than a few seconds. Whacking Ming would send me to jail, lose my job, and gotten my parents extremely mad at me, possibley resulting in homelessness. Whacking Ming might feel good at the time, but it wouldn't have taught him anything - assholes like that never change - but what is much more fitting is his legacy: manager of a failed department store, with a story describing his pettiness and inhumanity that will be on the web as long as I'm alive, and possibley much longer.
That is MUCH worse than getting a bump on his comb over... The bump would go away, and I would have ended up breaking rock for 30 days. Instead, his story as being the single worst boss I have ever had, and what kind of a dump Two Guys Dept Stores were, will live on.
In retrospect, I agree I should have intervened, with at least a "hey, Mr M - mellow out!". But I was completely shocked and appalled. Also, it happened so quickly. Also, I was a total stoner at the time (1977), and always smoked a doobie before work, so I'm sure I was pretty blasted at the time this all went down.
I'm not making excuses, just adding some background for your understanding.
If it happened today, I would certainly intervene - that kind of behaviour is so unacceptable.
I sometimes wonder whatever happened to Ming and John. Ming was in his 50s then, and that was 27 years ago, so he's probably dead by now. JOhn would be in his late 50s now. I hope he's well.
My first amazing disaster Day Job was at Two Guys. Two Guys Department Stores don't exist anymore. They were too far ahead of their time, in a sad and evil way. They were huge -- truly enormous - stores that had everything from groceries to stereos to clothing to lumber to car parts- like a WalMart on steroids. Unfortunately, their merchandise was second rate and they treated their employees poorly, ultimately dooming the store to failure.
For minimum wage, my job was to scrape bubblegum off the floor, and then wax the floor before the store opened. I would spend the rest of the day attending to emergencies as they developed. In principle, it was an OK summer job for a long haired arty musician type barely out of High School with no job skills. In practice it was a torture pit.
The place was run by this monstrous and abusive asshole we called Ming - from the old Buck Rogers movies- Ming The Merciless. To call him a creep and a jerk would be an insult to the nasty fiends and sentient nodes of evil in our world and the next. He was simply one of the vilest creatures Mother Nature has ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of this Earth. Everyone hated him, and everyone hated Two Guys, even the people who shopped there. There was an underground river of merchandise leaving the store in the pockets and cars of the customers AND the employees. It was an enterprise so universal, the manager of the electronics department was even caught shoplifting- by Ming, no less!
The thieving manager was pushing one of those giant tacky fake wood console TV/Stereo/turntable/Radio sets out the door at closing time. Ming saw him struggling to get it out the door, and asked,
"Why don't you have one of the kids move this? Where's the customer's TRUCK to haul this thing away? Hey - isn't that YOUR VAN parked there with the door open and motor running???"
Busted...
Morale was non-existent. Employees would regularly sabotage the place just for the sake of something interesting to do that would irritate Ming. One fine afternoon, some whack job let all the gerbils out of the cages in the Pets Department. The fuzzy little guys, being hungry little critters, quickly hopped off to the Grocery Department, where they merrily tucked into the lettuce and surrounding produce. A little old woman with rhinestone cat's eye glasses rattled some celery at me and shouted in a thick Yiddish accent-
"My boy- der's RATS in zee lettuce! Call zee Police! Do zomsink!"
We chased them all into the back of the building and set up little food stations for them.
One day, we, the porters of Two Guys, the lowest of the low, had had enough of Ming's white glove treatment of the crappy linoleum floors, and figured- we have to shut this place down. We took all the rubbish, display cases, boxes -- anything we could find- and packed it into the trash compactor room. A clothing rack was quickly heaved into the compactor, and in moments, the compactor's motor burned itself out. Then the trash REALLY started piling up. The next day, we anonymously called the health and fire departments for numerous violations. Yes, it was a stinking mess. Yes, they should have been fined and closed until it was fixed. Yes, we needed a day off. But Ming met the inspectors at the door with a case of booze for each of them. They never set foot on my polished linoleum. The reports of Two Guys's crimes against man and nature were never made, and the store opened as usual. Ming had us compacting trash by the afternoon.
This kind of open warfare between workers and management (actually, the sides were unevenly divided into: Everybody versus MING. Even the department managers hated him, and would regularly work to sabotage him.) was a regular feature of the workday. As a porter, I had free range to the entire store. Regular retail employees were required to stay in their departments, so, I would cruise through the store and see w
What is MUCH more interesting is how conectivity is also being commoditised. Why RENT a super computer, when you can buy a bunch of bottom feeders for nothing, fibre channel 'em together into a Beowulf cluster and be done with it?
Why pay HP for something you can do yourself for next to nothing?
Carly Fiorina is an idiot. When she floated to the top of HP, all you had to do is look at the wreckage in her wake, and know what was up with this loser. Anyone remember Lucent? She didn't destroy it, but under her glory fuck, it pointed itself in the direction that destroyed it. She's doing the same thing to HP. She's a pirate. A greedy, miserable pirate.
SO: how does it all tie in? Another poster noted the obvious: set up this kind of computing, ship the jobs to india and $Profit. I think that is a VERY likely scenario, if it does take off. however, I don't think it will take off, because networking is getting faster and faster, and computers are getting cheaper and cheaper for (x) performance, and the "Good Enough computing Syndrome" is extremely wide spread. This will also hamper the adoption of this model.
Example: video editing used to require a suite of expensive decks, an an AVID system that was nothing short of extortionate in cost. Now, you can buy an iMac that would kick the butt of ANY computer from that era, and the software, iMovie, comes for FREE with the machine.
Sure, rendering 3D stuff takes major cycles, but until when?
There will be some use for this utility computing for a certain few enterprises, but 99% of the market won't care, and shouldn't have to. Just like we all sat in front of green screen terminals 25 years ago, well, SOME OF US did that, so too, these losers are all trying to corral users back into that model where they can be controlled much more easily. What that model will never do is WORK for the majority of users: because their computers are GOOD ENOUGH for what they need to turn a buck.
Carly and her bunch can go fuck themselves. Greedy bunch of pinheads.
When people drive they accept the laws of the road. Why are they always so upset every time there's an initiative to stop people speeding?
So I'm a biased pedestrian, but it does seem to me that given the hundreds of car fatalities that occur *every day*, monitoring what people do so that the drivers who "get away" with dangerous driving are caught is a good thing.
You might get away with dangerous driving. But the longer you do, the more dangerous you'll get. And then you're putting people's lives at risk.
Maybe you can justify breaking the law when it comes to software. I'm sorry, you can't justify driving dangerously.
1. I drive like a demon.
2. I have never EVER been the driver in a car accident. EVER.
3. If it's 3AM and I have to hang a left at a light and I can see that there isn't a car for miles, I'm going to blow off the light, because sitting there is a waste of gas.
4. There is a stop sign near my house. It was instituted because of "class reasons" - it's the outlet to one of those stupid snooty neighbourhoods that has its anglophilic name inscribed on obelisks. I have seen someone come out of there exactly 6 times in the 5 years I've driven past that intersection. I don't stop at that stop sign. I slow down enough to get a good look at who or what is coming, but otherwise, I roll on it.
5. I take my daughter to school everyday. The lights are so poorly timed that in order to make them all, you have to drive over the speed limit (but not much over - 5 - 8 mph is about perfect.) So, I drive 5 - 8 mph over the limit, and I shave a solid 6 minutes off that drive. (I measured).
6. Sometimes I drive to LA,and take the 5. The speed limit is 75, but everyone drives 80+. This sucks when the weather is bad (I DON'T speed when the weather is bad or the traffic is heavy - that's just stupid) but when the weather is good and the traffic is light, I'll do 80 - 95, depending.
People like you deserve no liberty or freedom, because you so willingly surrender your personal authority and that of others to a government agency.
I think this idea of traffic lights monitoring traffic is a supremely bad idea, and I for one would cheerfully sabotage them if possible.
Science will be done by robots (like it already isn't) and a high school drop out makes $50k a year as a garbage collector, because the simple act of walking to a garbage can, dragging it to the truck and clipping it onto lifting hooks, pulling the "Empty" lever, then dragging the cans back to the sidewalk is TOO complicated for a friggin robot, and too physically demanding for a computer geek.
So, Bubba the semiliterate high school football hero gets a job as a cop and will beat the crap out of Mr Science and Miss Silicon, toss their sorry hides in jail, while the high school drop out collect the ratty belongings and toss them into th crusher along with all the other junk they appropriate from the homeless.
Mr Cop and Mr Garbage are both testosterone poisoned pinheads, and vote in a succession of fascist governments, which are all run for the benefit of the rich and powerful so Mr Cop and Mr Garbage can feed off the measly scraps their overlords throw them.
It's the feudal period all over again, only with robots for a professional class: everything else is either fascist overlord or peasant.
Very simple: it can act as a test bed for technology to get the Mars effort going.
When we did Apollo, did we go straight to the fucking moon? No. Remember: the first to land was Apollo 11.
Now, the moon is a several day trip, so it's not a huge investment of time (by human scale), but Mars is. So how do you TEST a Mars ship?
The International Space Station.
Make the space station (or something like it) into a mock up/test bed for the Mars ship.
Need to grow dinner on your ship? Practice on the ISS. Need to figure out to survive MASSIVE solar flares? Do it on the ISS. Need to practice landings on Mars? Use the Moon and the ISS. Need to figure out how to lock a bunch of goody goody militarist fuckwits into a tin can for months on end without killing each other? do it on the ISS.
Ya dig?
If we ditch the ISS, we handicap our ability to test the things we need to test for the Mars Mission. Getting to Mars on top of a rocket would consist of a few minutes of takeoff and nerve wracking tension, followed by several months of interplanetary travel and boredom, followed by a few minutes of nerve wracking tension, followed by several months of nerve wracking tension leading to tension fatigue and a weird relaxation on Mars itself, and then reverse the process.
Getting rid of the OSS gets rid of the most testable and reducible phases of the mission: the several months spent in space travelling to Mars.
And while I know that EVERYONE on/. is a primo coder and doesn't REALLY need QA, I really do think that something like the first and following Mars Missions DO need QA, and the ISS is the most immediate and useful device for testing a Mars mission.
Canning the ISS is a BAD idea. A moon base is a GOOD idea (test bed for Mars colony). Canning the shuttle is a GOOD idea.
Everyone who knew the simplest thing about OS9 knew you could customise the Apple Menu to hold cascading menues of applications, files etc, and the OSx Apple Menu completely sucks in that regard.
Luckily, the fine folks at Unsanity also figured that out, and wrote a Haxie that I recommend:
I've had similar problems, and never had a good solution. My present laptop, I bought the extortionate appleCare insurance, but it is worth it.
Or, what you do, is you buy from Costco and return the machine every 5 months... that ruse was cooler a while ago when you could have it for a year and then return it...
My neighbour bought appleCare and boy did THAT pay for itself. His screen just up and DIED. First it turned weird colours and then it just died. Luckily he had appleCare, because at the time it was a $1200 repair!
So, extended warranties (the more extended the better) are WORTH every penny on laptops. You hope and pray you never need it, but when you do need it, and you don't have it, yer fucked big time.
I would second all of the points parent made, but also add that I would be totally sick of living in a purple / pink / funky coloured house in about, oooooh a week.
Looks like a nasty place to live - if I spilled bong water on the couch, THEY'D KILL ME!
And all those sleek surfaces made of plastic? Looks like a lot of dusting to me...
But I do like the LED light idea - now if they could get 'em in softwhite with about as many lumens as a 100 wat bulb, that screw into a standard fixture, I'd buy 'em by the dozen.
They will never discover Gravity Waves because Gravity is not a force. It is an illusion of geometry caused by mass moving in space. It's kind of like an optical illusion - it looks like gravity exists, but it really doesn't. It's just how objects move through space/time.
Next?
HW
the glass isn't half full or empty - it's just too big.
Once the neocons completely bankrupt the treasury, there will be no police outside of the military. Privately hired armies beholden only unto their corporate warlord will enforce the arbitrary laws dictated by the crumbling and corrupted and irrelevant gummint.
First, the RIAA's jackbooted thugs go about stealing the illgotten gains of other thieves (as the RIAA are also thieves) next it'll be Microsoft hunting you down for copying Windows 2009 aka Longhorn.
The USA is sinking into a twitchy morass of libertarianism gone haywire, all to benefit the Rich. the rest are dupes, whiners, or wannabes.
Next horrible prophecy: organised crime goes after the personal possessions of RIAA execs. Expect to find a bunch of melted CDs at the foot of the bed. If they don't back off and go after the little guy, then you could see some heads roll. Literally.
A few years ago, New Scientist ran a special online edition where you filled out a lengthy online questionnaire about how you live, where you live, what you do, what you eat, what you drive, etc. The whole nine yards. Then it told you where you sit in the greater scheme of things in terms of energy and resource consumption.
According to New Scientist, Americans live at a rate that requires 5 earths. Europeans live at a rate (IIRC) around 4 - 4.5 earths. The people who are living at a 1 - 1 ration of consumption and global resources are in the scarier regions of africa.
FWIW, I scored in the low european range, even though I live in the USA - we are avid recyclers, we have one econo car, but usually walk or take public transport (parkings a nightmare anyway), etc.
People who deny global warming are just a bunch of dopes who don't get it. HOWEVER:
The big problem is population. And EVERYONE (left, right, center, black, white and in between) needs to recognise that the destruction we wreak is proprotional to our numbers. We need to reduce our population, and do so soon.
However, rapid population declines (from disease or nuclear war) would cause incredible and unnecessary suffering. So we have to figure out a way to decrease our numbers rationally and gradually and globally. And we need to start that ASAP.
A movie designed to make people regurgitate their popcorn as their own intestines burst through their chests and crawl up the aisle to strangle the projectionist.
Without out a doubt one of the single worst films ever made - ever.
A great steaming tourd of a film, not worth the money spent making the prints. Everything was terrible, rivalled only perhaps by Glitter and Showgirls.
Hello Moderator types. I wasn't trolling : I was simply pointing out a simple fact: wifi is not uniform nor is its implementation as refined and ubiquitous advertised.
It's simply a true fact, and true facts are not trolls, unless you're using Dubya's "for us or against us" logic of Manichean evil vs good.
Ubiquity is ubiquity, and those who live downtown, like the coward above who called me a troll, occupy a much SMALLER WORLD than the rest of the planet, much less the rest of the city.
I resent the troll mod, as it was not (nor is it ever) my intention to troll. A simple, reasonable, fair, and careful reading of my post would see that, but Bog that forbid reason, fairness, and care should ever come into play on/. where boosterism too often substitutes for analysis.
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AFAIK, the parent is wrong.
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And whacking Ming with the mop handle would have landed me in jail.
You are not as cool as you think you are.
On the contrary, if you think about it for more than a few seconds. Whacking Ming would send me to jail, lose my job, and gotten my parents extremely mad at me, possibley resulting in homelessness. Whacking Ming might feel good at the time, but it wouldn't have taught him anything - assholes like that never change - but what is much more fitting is his legacy: manager of a failed department store, with a story describing his pettiness and inhumanity that will be on the web as long as I'm alive, and possibley much longer.
That is MUCH worse than getting a bump on his comb over... The bump would go away, and I would have ended up breaking rock for 30 days. Instead, his story as being the single worst boss I have ever had, and what kind of a dump Two Guys Dept Stores were, will live on.
The keyboard is mightier than the broom handle.
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I'm not making excuses, just adding some background for your understanding.
If it happened today, I would certainly intervene - that kind of behaviour is so unacceptable.
I sometimes wonder whatever happened to Ming and John. Ming was in his 50s then, and that was 27 years ago, so he's probably dead by now. JOhn would be in his late 50s now. I hope he's well.
RS
RS
My first amazing disaster Day Job was at Two Guys. Two Guys Department Stores don't exist anymore. They were too far ahead of their time, in a sad and evil way. They were huge -- truly enormous - stores that had everything from groceries to stereos to clothing to lumber to car parts- like a WalMart on steroids. Unfortunately, their merchandise was second rate and they treated their employees poorly, ultimately dooming the store to failure.
For minimum wage, my job was to scrape bubblegum off the floor, and then wax the floor before the store opened. I would spend the rest of the day attending to emergencies as they developed. In principle, it was an OK summer job for a long haired arty musician type barely out of High School with no job skills. In practice it was a torture pit.
The place was run by this monstrous and abusive asshole we called Ming - from the old Buck Rogers movies- Ming The Merciless. To call him a creep and a jerk would be an insult to the nasty fiends and sentient nodes of evil in our world and the next. He was simply one of the vilest creatures Mother Nature has ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of this Earth. Everyone hated him, and everyone hated Two Guys, even the people who shopped there. There was an underground river of merchandise leaving the store in the pockets and cars of the customers AND the employees. It was an enterprise so universal, the manager of the electronics department was even caught shoplifting- by Ming, no less!
The thieving manager was pushing one of those giant tacky fake wood console TV/Stereo/turntable/Radio sets out the door at closing time. Ming saw him struggling to get it out the door, and asked,
"Why don't you have one of the kids move this? Where's the customer's TRUCK to haul this thing away? Hey - isn't that YOUR VAN parked there with the door open and motor running???"
Busted...
Morale was non-existent. Employees would regularly sabotage the place just for the sake of something interesting to do that would irritate Ming. One fine afternoon, some whack job let all the gerbils out of the cages in the Pets Department. The fuzzy little guys, being hungry little critters, quickly hopped off to the Grocery Department, where they merrily tucked into the lettuce and surrounding produce. A little old woman with rhinestone cat's eye glasses rattled some celery at me and shouted in a thick Yiddish accent-
"My boy- der's RATS in zee lettuce! Call zee Police! Do zomsink!"
We chased them all into the back of the building and set up little food stations for them.
One day, we, the porters of Two Guys, the lowest of the low, had had enough of Ming's white glove treatment of the crappy linoleum floors, and figured- we have to shut this place down. We took all the rubbish, display cases, boxes -- anything we could find- and packed it into the trash compactor room. A clothing rack was quickly heaved into the compactor, and in moments, the compactor's motor burned itself out. Then the trash REALLY started piling up. The next day, we anonymously called the health and fire departments for numerous violations. Yes, it was a stinking mess. Yes, they should have been fined and closed until it was fixed. Yes, we needed a day off. But Ming met the inspectors at the door with a case of booze for each of them. They never set foot on my polished linoleum. The reports of Two Guys's crimes against man and nature were never made, and the store opened as usual. Ming had us compacting trash by the afternoon.
This kind of open warfare between workers and management (actually, the sides were unevenly divided into: Everybody versus MING. Even the department managers hated him, and would regularly work to sabotage him.) was a regular feature of the workday. As a porter, I had free range to the entire store. Regular retail employees were required to stay in their departments, so, I would cruise through the store and see w
RS
What is MUCH more interesting is how conectivity is also being commoditised. Why RENT a super computer, when you can buy a bunch of bottom feeders for nothing, fibre channel 'em together into a Beowulf cluster and be done with it?
Why pay HP for something you can do yourself for next to nothing?
Carly Fiorina is an idiot. When she floated to the top of HP, all you had to do is look at the wreckage in her wake, and know what was up with this loser. Anyone remember Lucent? She didn't destroy it, but under her glory fuck, it pointed itself in the direction that destroyed it. She's doing the same thing to HP. She's a pirate. A greedy, miserable pirate.
SO: how does it all tie in? Another poster noted the obvious: set up this kind of computing, ship the jobs to india and $Profit. I think that is a VERY likely scenario, if it does take off. however, I don't think it will take off, because networking is getting faster and faster, and computers are getting cheaper and cheaper for (x) performance, and the "Good Enough computing Syndrome" is extremely wide spread. This will also hamper the adoption of this model.
Example: video editing used to require a suite of expensive decks, an an AVID system that was nothing short of extortionate in cost. Now, you can buy an iMac that would kick the butt of ANY computer from that era, and the software, iMovie, comes for FREE with the machine.
Sure, rendering 3D stuff takes major cycles, but until when?
There will be some use for this utility computing for a certain few enterprises, but 99% of the market won't care, and shouldn't have to. Just like we all sat in front of green screen terminals 25 years ago, well, SOME OF US did that, so too, these losers are all trying to corral users back into that model where they can be controlled much more easily. What that model will never do is WORK for the majority of users: because their computers are GOOD ENOUGH for what they need to turn a buck.
Carly and her bunch can go fuck themselves. Greedy bunch of pinheads.
RS
When people drive they accept the laws of the road. Why are they always so upset every time there's an initiative to stop people speeding? So I'm a biased pedestrian, but it does seem to me that given the hundreds of car fatalities that occur *every day*, monitoring what people do so that the drivers who "get away" with dangerous driving are caught is a good thing. You might get away with dangerous driving. But the longer you do, the more dangerous you'll get. And then you're putting people's lives at risk.
Maybe you can justify breaking the law when it comes to software. I'm sorry, you can't justify driving dangerously.
1. I drive like a demon.
2. I have never EVER been the driver in a car accident. EVER.
3. If it's 3AM and I have to hang a left at a light and I can see that there isn't a car for miles, I'm going to blow off the light, because sitting there is a waste of gas.
4. There is a stop sign near my house. It was instituted because of "class reasons" - it's the outlet to one of those stupid snooty neighbourhoods that has its anglophilic name inscribed on obelisks. I have seen someone come out of there exactly 6 times in the 5 years I've driven past that intersection. I don't stop at that stop sign. I slow down enough to get a good look at who or what is coming, but otherwise, I roll on it.
5. I take my daughter to school everyday. The lights are so poorly timed that in order to make them all, you have to drive over the speed limit (but not much over - 5 - 8 mph is about perfect.) So, I drive 5 - 8 mph over the limit, and I shave a solid 6 minutes off that drive. (I measured).
6. Sometimes I drive to LA,and take the 5. The speed limit is 75, but everyone drives 80+. This sucks when the weather is bad (I DON'T speed when the weather is bad or the traffic is heavy - that's just stupid) but when the weather is good and the traffic is light, I'll do 80 - 95, depending.
People like you deserve no liberty or freedom, because you so willingly surrender your personal authority and that of others to a government agency.
I think this idea of traffic lights monitoring traffic is a supremely bad idea, and I for one would cheerfully sabotage them if possible.
RS
So, Bubba the semiliterate high school football hero gets a job as a cop and will beat the crap out of Mr Science and Miss Silicon, toss their sorry hides in jail, while the high school drop out collect the ratty belongings and toss them into th crusher along with all the other junk they appropriate from the homeless.
Mr Cop and Mr Garbage are both testosterone poisoned pinheads, and vote in a succession of fascist governments, which are all run for the benefit of the rich and powerful so Mr Cop and Mr Garbage can feed off the measly scraps their overlords throw them.
It's the feudal period all over again, only with robots for a professional class: everything else is either fascist overlord or peasant.
My kind of place...
RS
Very simple: it can act as a test bed for technology to get the Mars effort going.
When we did Apollo, did we go straight to the fucking moon? No. Remember: the first to land was Apollo 11.
Now, the moon is a several day trip, so it's not a huge investment of time (by human scale), but Mars is. So how do you TEST a Mars ship?
The International Space Station.
Make the space station (or something like it) into a mock up/test bed for the Mars ship.
Need to grow dinner on your ship? Practice on the ISS. Need to figure out to survive MASSIVE solar flares? Do it on the ISS. Need to practice landings on Mars? Use the Moon and the ISS. Need to figure out how to lock a bunch of goody goody militarist fuckwits into a tin can for months on end without killing each other? do it on the ISS.
Ya dig?
If we ditch the ISS, we handicap our ability to test the things we need to test for the Mars Mission. Getting to Mars on top of a rocket would consist of a few minutes of takeoff and nerve wracking tension, followed by several months of interplanetary travel and boredom, followed by a few minutes of nerve wracking tension, followed by several months of nerve wracking tension leading to tension fatigue and a weird relaxation on Mars itself, and then reverse the process.
Getting rid of the OSS gets rid of the most testable and reducible phases of the mission: the several months spent in space travelling to Mars.
And while I know that EVERYONE on /. is a primo coder and doesn't REALLY need QA, I really do think that something like the first and following Mars Missions DO need QA, and the ISS is the most immediate and useful device for testing a Mars mission.
Canning the ISS is a BAD idea. A moon base is a GOOD idea (test bed for Mars colony). Canning the shuttle is a GOOD idea.
RS
RS
Everyone who knew the simplest thing about OS9 knew you could customise the Apple Menu to hold cascading menues of applications, files etc, and the OSx Apple Menu completely sucks in that regard.
Luckily, the fine folks at Unsanity also figured that out, and wrote a Haxie that I recommend:
Fruit Menu
With Fruit Menu I can develop quick and easy ways to get at any range of apps and documents and folders without resorting to the idiocy of the Dock.
I find it odd that Tog missed that. Oh well, that's why /. was invented, I suppose.
RS
If GWB is re-elected there is a 50-50 chance there won't be an election in 2008.
What a mouthpiece for Satan. I often wonder how people like that sleep at night.
RS
Or, what you do, is you buy from Costco and return the machine every 5 months... that ruse was cooler a while ago when you could have it for a year and then return it...
My neighbour bought appleCare and boy did THAT pay for itself. His screen just up and DIED. First it turned weird colours and then it just died. Luckily he had appleCare, because at the time it was a $1200 repair!
So, extended warranties (the more extended the better) are WORTH every penny on laptops. You hope and pray you never need it, but when you do need it, and you don't have it, yer fucked big time.
good luck,
RS
Looks like a nasty place to live - if I spilled bong water on the couch, THEY'D KILL ME!
And all those sleek surfaces made of plastic? Looks like a lot of dusting to me...
But I do like the LED light idea - now if they could get 'em in softwhite with about as many lumens as a 100 wat bulb, that screw into a standard fixture, I'd buy 'em by the dozen.
RS
They will never discover Gravity Waves because Gravity is not a force. It is an illusion of geometry caused by mass moving in space. It's kind of like an optical illusion - it looks like gravity exists, but it really doesn't. It's just how objects move through space/time.
Next?
HW
the glass isn't half full or empty - it's just too big.
First, the RIAA's jackbooted thugs go about stealing the illgotten gains of other thieves (as the RIAA are also thieves) next it'll be Microsoft hunting you down for copying Windows 2009 aka Longhorn.
The USA is sinking into a twitchy morass of libertarianism gone haywire, all to benefit the Rich. the rest are dupes, whiners, or wannabes.
Next horrible prophecy: organised crime goes after the personal possessions of RIAA execs. Expect to find a bunch of melted CDs at the foot of the bed. If they don't back off and go after the little guy, then you could see some heads roll. Literally.
RS
According to New Scientist, Americans live at a rate that requires 5 earths. Europeans live at a rate (IIRC) around 4 - 4.5 earths. The people who are living at a 1 - 1 ration of consumption and global resources are in the scarier regions of africa.
FWIW, I scored in the low european range, even though I live in the USA - we are avid recyclers, we have one econo car, but usually walk or take public transport (parkings a nightmare anyway), etc.
People who deny global warming are just a bunch of dopes who don't get it. HOWEVER:
The big problem is population. And EVERYONE (left, right, center, black, white and in between) needs to recognise that the destruction we wreak is proprotional to our numbers. We need to reduce our population, and do so soon.
However, rapid population declines (from disease or nuclear war) would cause incredible and unnecessary suffering. So we have to figure out a way to decrease our numbers rationally and gradually and globally. And we need to start that ASAP.
RS
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RS
Without out a doubt one of the single worst films ever made - ever.
A great steaming tourd of a film, not worth the money spent making the prints. Everything was terrible, rivalled only perhaps by Glitter and Showgirls.
RS
You mean like the USA after the 2000 election?
(ducks)
RS
Ummmm, no. IIRC, Apple makes 40 cents. The record company makes 60, and out of that 60, 5 goes to the rights holder / musician.
HW
It's simply a true fact, and true facts are not trolls, unless you're using Dubya's "for us or against us" logic of Manichean evil vs good.
Ubiquity is ubiquity, and those who live downtown, like the coward above who called me a troll, occupy a much SMALLER WORLD than the rest of the planet, much less the rest of the city.
I resent the troll mod, as it was not (nor is it ever) my intention to troll. A simple, reasonable, fair, and careful reading of my post would see that, but Bog that forbid reason, fairness, and care should ever come into play on /. where boosterism too often substitutes for analysis.
RS
And only dumbasses post as anonymous cowards.