Microsoft will be dropping retail support for XP in December 2007 or January 2008, and corporate support in December 2008
You are deadwrong. Stop spreading the FUD. What I think you meant to say is that you won't be able to buy a copy a year after the release date of Vista. According to Microsoft, mainstream support for Windows XP will end two years after Vista has been generally available. So, we're looking at the end of 2008 or beginning of 2009 at the very least (depending on how bad Vista slips), followed by extended support for quite a few years, 3-5 from looking at the information they have.
Take Windows 98, for example. They've supported that for eight (8) years now. Windows XP will probably not enjoy that level of support, but it still bodes well for the future of that system. Windows XP is in no way "soon to be dead". Especially with the huge amount of government use it gets. The government certainly won't be switching to Vista as fast as it comes out, I'd expect that to take at least one year. Until then, Microsoft can't piss off one of the biggest buyers.
Anyway, I tend to ramble, but I think I've made my point about that.
So why not take a small portion of the money that you'd spend on a soon-to-be-dead WinXP disk, and buy a nice big shiney 250 gig hd ($100) and load ubuntu, suse, or another real OS on it?
Because most users just want ease of use and familiarity. I love gentoo myself, but every Linux install that I've done so far has been tweaky, finicky, and just plain difficult at times. I like to play with it and learn, as it relates to my profession, but most users just don't want to put up with that. Windows, for the majority of users, just plain works.
If by quality control you mean used natural processes perfected by others over the years to be most efficient then you'd be right. They did what was in their own best interests riding on the practices established to be the best bang for the buck. In theory, nobody buys saggy steal.
I like linux, but WinXP works out of the box. Bam! No tweaking required.
Plus I also think that anyone who can't get a windows box to run for more than a week with no issues is a raging idiot.
Engineers and Architects in the IT field go to school just as long to learn their professions or they spend long hours learning them the hard way. They get the right to use words in our language to describe them like: Engineer and Architect.
Is not someone who is able to design a business system ingenious? Is not someone able to construct a corporate network a "master builder"? You don't Architect a home network the same way you don't Architect a tool shed and you don't Engineer a shell script the same way you don't Engineer a rubber band gun.
In short, its the English language and this is how its used. Deal with the vernacular bub.
Yup because thats where all the talented scientists are, you know, in the high risk world of not for profit pharmecuticals.
I read the 501(c)(3) thing. I think you're wrong. I also think that the same people that burn the for-profit companies would burn the not-for-profit ones as well for not selling at or below cost, however unsustainable the action.
Why would backers invest at all without a profit. Without a profit you couldn't convince stockholders to either come on board or stay there. No investors means no funds, no funds means no research, no research means no new drugs. If I dropped a cool million of my own money to invest in a project and at the end they said "we didn't want to make a profit, so we sold at cost" and handed me my million back I'd be damn pissed off. I would have lost money thanks to the magic of inflation.
Keep the stock holders happy, they keep investing, research goes on, and new drugs can be made. Fail a link in that chain and there won't even be drugs for you twats to argue over.
Madwifi for Atheros chipsets. My tablet (Fujitsu 3500 Stylistic, For Sale!) runs Gentoo Linux and has been using my cheap-as-dirt Blitzz 802.11g card to connect to the router. Works with everything, wpa_supplicant and all. The only thing it won't do is Airsnort which I find highly dissapointing. I've also used the ndis wrappers with a Belkin 54g card. They weren't that hard to install and provided at least the functionality to connect to the wireless network I wanted it to.
I had a friend give me some Rolling Stones and Stone Temple Pilots.mp3s. Another hooked me up with Audioslave and Alice in Chains.
As soon as I can scrape up some money and find the right product... i'll be buying Boxed Sets for Rolling Stones and Alice in Chains, followed by the other two bands.
Long story short... no mp3, no sale.
The other mp3's I have are either:
1) Crap
2) I already own
3) Almost good enough to buy, but not quite
4) Are one good song on a cd of 20.
I really only like to buy hard copies of things, so buying one song on iTunes isn't really somthing I want to do. If the great D Drive Wipe comes, I want to be okay... without having to re-download the good stuff. Because if it ever does come, it'll be my luck not to have Broadband that week.
I still maintain that Responsibility and Authority are intertwined.
You can empower people with authority that derives from yours. You loose no authority in this.
You can bestow responsibility on others under your authority (for which you have the authority to do so, in any case) and they will be responsible to you for thier actions. You still are responsibile for your actions to those who assigned the responsibility to you. Your responsibility is in no way lessened. The way some organizations express this is Acountability. You are acountable to your supervisors and you can hold people acountable for things. No matter what you hold people acountable for it does not change your acountability.
Authority without responsibility is basically a system with no checks and balances. You can do what you want with no reprecusions. This should be an unworkable system.
Balancing authority is responsibility. Having responsibility without the authority to change the situation is just as unworkable.
As for those you give your trust and create subordinate authority for... you will take the lumps if they mess up big. But if they mess up small, they take thier lumps from you.
I wish they would give somthing like Commander's Intent in Buisiness America.
I didn't have the privilege of service in our armed services, but taking classes on military doctine was mandatory my school. I hope that page gets slashdotted somehow.
Thats how the military does it. If PFC. Joe does somthing rediculously stupid he gets some punishment, some NJP or maybe a Courts Martial. Maybe.
1Lt. Jones (his Platoon leader) gets royaly reamed for having allowed PFC. Joe to be so dumb in the first place. He can also be held accountable for whatever PFC. Joe did, with more serious consequences.
Example:
PFC. Joe lies about the muster report to cover for his buddy.
PFC. Joe is found out and gets a week without leave or some such.
1Lt. Jones gets creamed by his Capt. and may loose pay, privileges, or even back to the Courts Martial thing again due to the extremely serious issue of personel accountability.
Its this... AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. They are entwined together and cannot be seperated. They cannot be delegated, only assigned.
(Disclaimer: rough example. please no links to the UCMJ)
I like most Microsoft products *duck*.
My Sidwinder was great... and my SidwinderII Precision is even better.
That being said, they don't know fuck all about wireless keyboard/mouse stuff. My Logitech set kicks the set out of a Microsoft set I tried from the same price range.
I tried them both at home, same comditions, same location, same PC.
Microsoft had gimped range. And the mouse design isn't as good... but thats another story. (What is it with microsoft and large products with odd button placement... you would think they were trying to design for children... wait.)
The Cessna 152 is representative of a basic entry level aircraft that travels (cruise/normal operation) at about 51% of the Bullet Train's reported speed on a calm day.
232 mph = 201.602488 knots
So an airplane needs to break 201 knots to be considered "faster than the Bullet plane".
This plane is far from being "entry" level... but comes close to the same speed. It only has space for four passengers. It is a single engine plane.
This plane is two engine and fast, but I'm not sure how many passengers it can carry.
The GeeBee R-2 is an exceptionaly fast prop aircraft. 296mph flat-out top speed.
The P-51 Mustang is well known as a fast prop aircraft. I don't know if many modern props are made to go this fast today.
I just wanted to follow up the pp and talk about the speeds of planes. The speed of this train is attainable to the more serious (and speed minded) of private aviators. Most private aviators are more motivated by fun or ease of use.
For some "fun" is fast. For others it is being able to pack the whole family down to a grass-strip by the beach. For others it is neat tricks or an open cockpit. Depends on the pilot.
In the US a private pilot can pretty much exclusively choose his own spots to land as long as his plane can land at the smaller strips. Almost every town (even if you don't know it) has either a Municipal airport or a small grass strip. You'd be suprised at the size of a plane (that Mooney for instance, it may be able to) that can land at some of these places. This is the advantage in either smaller or slower aircraft (or at least aircraft that can slow for a slower landing).
Take a favorite of mine The Piper Cub for example. One of these can land on what amounts to a postage stamp, getting in and out of tight bush locations. Also reliable and solid. They have a short range and slow speed, but high utility out in the middle of nowhere. They're also very docile.
In any case... planes are for the win! I'm not too sure about trains. You certainly can't hire one for yourself easily or buy one.
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Microsoft will be dropping retail support for XP in December 2007 or January 2008, and corporate support in December 2008
You are dead wrong. Stop spreading the FUD. What I think you meant to say is that you won't be able to buy a copy a year after the release date of Vista. According to Microsoft, mainstream support for Windows XP will end two years after Vista has been generally available. So, we're looking at the end of 2008 or beginning of 2009 at the very least (depending on how bad Vista slips), followed by extended support for quite a few years, 3-5 from looking at the information they have.
Take Windows 98, for example. They've supported that for eight (8) years now. Windows XP will probably not enjoy that level of support, but it still bodes well for the future of that system. Windows XP is in no way "soon to be dead". Especially with the huge amount of government use it gets. The government certainly won't be switching to Vista as fast as it comes out, I'd expect that to take at least one year. Until then, Microsoft can't piss off one of the biggest buyers.
Anyway, I tend to ramble, but I think I've made my point about that.
So why not take a small portion of the money that you'd spend on a soon-to-be-dead WinXP disk, and buy a nice big shiney 250 gig hd ($100) and load ubuntu, suse, or another real OS on it?
Because most users just want ease of use and familiarity. I love gentoo myself, but every Linux install that I've done so far has been tweaky, finicky, and just plain difficult at times. I like to play with it and learn, as it relates to my profession, but most users just don't want to put up with that. Windows, for the majority of users, just plain works.
And I think they could also endeavour to teach you what "vernacular" means.
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that know binary, and those who have friends."
FTFY.
Apple II/GS's
This is what my high school and college used in their physics labs. And that was in 2001 and 2005 respectively.
Hooray for progress.
If by quality control you mean used natural processes perfected by others over the years to be most efficient then you'd be right. They did what was in their own best interests riding on the practices established to be the best bang for the buck. In theory, nobody buys saggy steal.
I like linux, but WinXP works out of the box. Bam! No tweaking required.
Plus I also think that anyone who can't get a windows box to run for more than a week with no issues is a raging idiot.
Engineers and Architects in the IT field go to school just as long to learn their professions or they spend long hours learning them the hard way. They get the right to use words in our language to describe them like: Engineer and Architect.
Is not someone who is able to design a business system ingenious? Is not someone able to construct a corporate network a "master builder"? You don't Architect a home network the same way you don't Architect a tool shed and you don't Engineer a shell script the same way you don't Engineer a rubber band gun.
In short, its the English language and this is how its used. Deal with the vernacular bub.
Congrats, you managed to insult every Marine with one post. The difference is betweeen Marines and marines.
Semper Fidelis.
Yup because thats where all the talented scientists are, you know, in the high risk world of not for profit pharmecuticals. I read the 501(c)(3) thing. I think you're wrong. I also think that the same people that burn the for-profit companies would burn the not-for-profit ones as well for not selling at or below cost, however unsustainable the action.
Why would backers invest at all without a profit. Without a profit you couldn't convince stockholders to either come on board or stay there. No investors means no funds, no funds means no research, no research means no new drugs. If I dropped a cool million of my own money to invest in a project and at the end they said "we didn't want to make a profit, so we sold at cost" and handed me my million back I'd be damn pissed off. I would have lost money thanks to the magic of inflation.
Keep the stock holders happy, they keep investing, research goes on, and new drugs can be made. Fail a link in that chain and there won't even be drugs for you twats to argue over.
Madwifi for Atheros chipsets. My tablet (Fujitsu 3500 Stylistic, For Sale!) runs Gentoo Linux and has been using my cheap-as-dirt Blitzz 802.11g card to connect to the router. Works with everything, wpa_supplicant and all. The only thing it won't do is Airsnort which I find highly dissapointing. I've also used the ndis wrappers with a Belkin 54g card. They weren't that hard to install and provided at least the functionality to connect to the wireless network I wanted it to.
no bugs are found! at least within the deadline
Softmodding involves a buffer overflow exploit using modified savegames for certain games, and involves no hardware modification.
Penny-Arcade did not release either his email or phonenumber. However, he did mention how much they liked VG-Cats.
They provided a link to VG Cats, thats all...
Of course, VG Cats had a page relating corespondance with Jack, and that included phone numbers and emails and such. Good stuff.
The normally descend that way.
Most children do not grasp the concept of flaring out for the touchdown. Most.
They jus want the right noises when it goes towards the ground, nose down, as they imagine it does.
They're far more likely to understand that.
My favorite was one time when I used a brand new spell I just exploded.
Got the death screen and everything.
I was like WTF Mate?
You my man have a point. Idiot user (given the review in its entirety) has a huge possibility here.
I had a friend give me some Rolling Stones and Stone Temple Pilots .mp3s. Another hooked me up with Audioslave and Alice in Chains.
As soon as I can scrape up some money and find the right product... i'll be buying Boxed Sets for Rolling Stones and Alice in Chains, followed by the other two bands.
Long story short... no mp3, no sale.
The other mp3's I have are either:
1) Crap
2) I already own
3) Almost good enough to buy, but not quite
4) Are one good song on a cd of 20.
I really only like to buy hard copies of things, so buying one song on iTunes isn't really somthing I want to do. If the great D Drive Wipe comes, I want to be okay... without having to re-download the good stuff. Because if it ever does come, it'll be my luck not to have Broadband that week.
-Chris
I can relate. Though mine came at a much later age... where computers and being smarter than average had pretty much done in my social skills already.
Although within that military school group... I had no social problems.
Outsiders are odd though.
I am allergic to Penicillen. Amoxacillen has no undesired effects on me.
I still maintain that Responsibility and Authority are intertwined.
You can empower people with authority that derives from yours. You loose no authority in this.
You can bestow responsibility on others under your authority (for which you have the authority to do so, in any case) and they will be responsible to you for thier actions. You still are responsibile for your actions to those who assigned the responsibility to you. Your responsibility is in no way lessened. The way some organizations express this is Acountability. You are acountable to your supervisors and you can hold people acountable for things. No matter what you hold people acountable for it does not change your acountability.
Authority without responsibility is basically a system with no checks and balances. You can do what you want with no reprecusions. This should be an unworkable system.
Balancing authority is responsibility. Having responsibility without the authority to change the situation is just as unworkable.
As for those you give your trust and create subordinate authority for... you will take the lumps if they mess up big. But if they mess up small, they take thier lumps from you.
I wish they would give somthing like Commander's Intent in Buisiness America.
I didn't have the privilege of service in our armed services, but taking classes on military doctine was mandatory my school. I hope that page gets slashdotted somehow.
wow... obscure.
TA 4 LIFE!
Thats how the military does it. If PFC. Joe does somthing rediculously stupid he gets some punishment, some NJP or maybe a Courts Martial. Maybe.
1Lt. Jones (his Platoon leader) gets royaly reamed for having allowed PFC. Joe to be so dumb in the first place. He can also be held accountable for whatever PFC. Joe did, with more serious consequences.
Example:
PFC. Joe lies about the muster report to cover for his buddy.
PFC. Joe is found out and gets a week without leave or some such.
1Lt. Jones gets creamed by his Capt. and may loose pay, privileges, or even back to the Courts Martial thing again due to the extremely serious issue of personel accountability.
Its this... AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY. They are entwined together and cannot be seperated. They cannot be delegated, only assigned. (Disclaimer: rough example. please no links to the UCMJ)
I like most Microsoft products *duck*. My Sidwinder was great... and my SidwinderII Precision is even better. That being said, they don't know fuck all about wireless keyboard/mouse stuff. My Logitech set kicks the set out of a Microsoft set I tried from the same price range. I tried them both at home, same comditions, same location, same PC. Microsoft had gimped range. And the mouse design isn't as good... but thats another story. (What is it with microsoft and large products with odd button placement... you would think they were trying to design for children... wait.)
Survival horor is... thats great. Made me laugh.
Cessna 152 Specs:
Vne (never exceed) 145 knots = 166.86302 mph
Vno (normal operating) 105 knots = 120.831842 mph
The Cessna 152 is representative of a basic entry level aircraft that travels (cruise/normal operation) at about 51% of the Bullet Train's reported speed on a calm day.
232 mph = 201.602488 knots
So an airplane needs to break 201 knots to be considered "faster than the Bullet plane".
This plane is far from being "entry" level... but comes close to the same speed. It only has space for four passengers. It is a single engine plane.
This plane is two engine and fast, but I'm not sure how many passengers it can carry.
The GeeBee R-2 is an exceptionaly fast prop aircraft. 296mph flat-out top speed.
The P-51 Mustang is well known as a fast prop aircraft. I don't know if many modern props are made to go this fast today.
I just wanted to follow up the pp and talk about the speeds of planes. The speed of this train is attainable to the more serious (and speed minded) of private aviators. Most private aviators are more motivated by fun or ease of use.
For some "fun" is fast. For others it is being able to pack the whole family down to a grass-strip by the beach. For others it is neat tricks or an open cockpit. Depends on the pilot.
In the US a private pilot can pretty much exclusively choose his own spots to land as long as his plane can land at the smaller strips. Almost every town (even if you don't know it) has either a Municipal airport or a small grass strip. You'd be suprised at the size of a plane (that Mooney for instance, it may be able to) that can land at some of these places. This is the advantage in either smaller or slower aircraft (or at least aircraft that can slow for a slower landing).
Take a favorite of mine The Piper Cub for example. One of these can land on what amounts to a postage stamp, getting in and out of tight bush locations. Also reliable and solid. They have a short range and slow speed, but high utility out in the middle of nowhere. They're also very docile.
In any case... planes are for the win! I'm not too sure about trains. You certainly can't hire one for yourself easily or buy one.