"After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product."
If Microsoft ever achieves a quality product, armageddon is upon us.
I was using Office 2007 the other day for the first time. OMG, the UI is actually pretty good! But... what's this? The fucking outline numbering system STILL DOESN'T WORK RELIABLY.
It has been TEN FUCKING YEARS I'VE PUT UP WITH THAT BUG!
Goddamn, but I'm glad I've removed Microsoft entirely from my home life. I only have to put up with its bullshit at work, and even that might not last as I push the boss to give Ubuntu a try.
Where would you get high amounts of fructose in your food in 1970, when its commercial production and use was invented in Japan only a couple years earlier?
The original Microware OS/9 was pretty remarkable, too. Forced one to write address-independent code, for one thing; forced one to write multi-userable code, too.
I don't have nearly the education you have wrt statistics, but I do distinctly remember my stats courses enough to know that it is entirely possible to write mc tests that are highly reliable and valid.
First, ship all the manual labour off to third-world countries. Then, ship all the intelligence off to second-world countries. Your first-world nation can then... ???
I just don't see how the USA is going to avoid failing as a nation, the way the big federal government just keeps shooting everyone in the foot. It's like the feds are everyone's worst nightmare enemy.
Damn! Here I was all excited because the obvious next step is to replace the paintball gun with some serious calibre weaponry. *Finally* people would have to take driving seriously, or be shot/vaporized dead.
...which makes it so damned easy to find and erase that one must conclude that the personalization has *NOTHING* to do with DRM. Honest to god, even the most retarded programmer would encrypt the information so that it isn't easily discovered.
btw since you have 4 macs, do the proper file system / networking so they have common logins i.e. each machine sees the same file system and userlogins.. the cool thing is this works w/ ppc and intel macs.. You can even set it so your laptop works the same way w/ very little work (it will resync as you come back to the network).
No shit? This sounds like they're sharing their drives as a distributed file system, invisible to the user. If so, that is really frackin' cool.
I expect they are mainly concerned with GUI layout patents, and perhaps a few GUI widgets they've invented.
Mostly, they do not want other GUIs looking like their GUI. Which is fair enough: no one likes a copycat. And it's not like Microsoft's GUI is all that hot shit anyway.
Ok, so it happens my wife and I have just started watching BSD for the first time, renting the DVDs (it's cheaper than the time wasted dicking about getting torrents). We've seen perhaps a half-dozen episodes so far, quite liking it.
I'm from the Citadel-86 old-school... please explain how Citadel == groupware. I'm sincerely curious how you see it differing from any other messaging system.
The DoS issue should be one viable option for prosecution, IMO. Not so much because access to SL is important in the least little bit, but because it'd suck to head down a slippery slope of increasing DoS permissiveness.
Virtual kiddie porn is illegal in the USA and, IIRC, Canada.
OTOH, there's endless virtual killing.
Tough call. Most of the virtual killing is "consensual," in that it occurs in a game in which one knows killing is likely. OTOH, consent doesn't even enter the picture, so to say, in sim kiddy porn. Virtual rape inhabits a very grey area.
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"After achieving a quality product, the article states, Microsoft's big goal with 7 is to recapture a regular release schedule for their operating system product."
If Microsoft ever achieves a quality product, armageddon is upon us.
I was using Office 2007 the other day for the first time. OMG, the UI is actually pretty good! But... what's this? The fucking outline numbering system STILL DOESN'T WORK RELIABLY.
It has been TEN FUCKING YEARS I'VE PUT UP WITH THAT BUG!
Goddamn, but I'm glad I've removed Microsoft entirely from my home life. I only have to put up with its bullshit at work, and even that might not last as I push the boss to give Ubuntu a try.
Where would you get high amounts of fructose in your food in 1970, when its commercial production and use was invented in Japan only a couple years earlier?
The original Microware OS/9 was pretty remarkable, too. Forced one to write address-independent code, for one thing; forced one to write multi-userable code, too.
I believe QNX is pretty neat as well.
Mod parent up!
From earlier in the thread: "Our consumption of fructose has gone from less than half a pound per year in 1970 to 56 pounds per year in 2003."
The answer about obesity is right there in that fact. The solution is obvious, though it requires reading labels and learning to cook.
Prince will do just fine without the record stores. He's already internet-savvy, he's been leveraging it for years.
And Apple, too, will be as bad as Microsoft once it has some good marketshare.
Fortunately, Ubuntu & kin will be n00bluser-ready by the time that happens.
There is absolutely nothing ironic in it. You might wish to consult a dictionary or S&W.
Thank you.
I don't have nearly the education you have wrt statistics, but I do distinctly remember my stats courses enough to know that it is entirely possible to write mc tests that are highly reliable and valid.
First, ship all the manual labour off to third-world countries. Then, ship all the intelligence off to second-world countries. Your first-world nation can then... ???
I just don't see how the USA is going to avoid failing as a nation, the way the big federal government just keeps shooting everyone in the foot. It's like the feds are everyone's worst nightmare enemy.
Damn! Here I was all excited because the obvious next step is to replace the paintball gun with some serious calibre weaponry. *Finally* people would have to take driving seriously, or be shot/vaporized dead.
Humbug.
...do I bother recycling and trying to reduce my carbon footprint?
Nothing I ever do to change the way I live will have the least little effect so long as assholes are taking vacations in space.
...which makes it so damned easy to find and erase that one must conclude that the personalization has *NOTHING* to do with DRM. Honest to god, even the most retarded programmer would encrypt the information so that it isn't easily discovered.
btw since you have 4 macs, do the proper file system / networking so they have common logins i.e. each machine sees the same file system and userlogins.. the cool thing is this works w/ ppc and intel macs.. You can even set it so your laptop works the same way w/ very little work (it will resync as you come back to the network).
No shit? This sounds like they're sharing their drives as a distributed file system, invisible to the user. If so, that is really frackin' cool.
Shouldn't men be rather more concerned about having radio-frequency-emitting devices in their pants pockets, nestled right up against the ol' testes?
Seriously, it seems about as foolish as standing in front of the microwave transmitter to stay warm during duty.
heck, didn't we have a patent article about it a week or two ago?
I expect they are mainly concerned with GUI layout patents, and perhaps a few GUI widgets they've invented.
Mostly, they do not want other GUIs looking like their GUI. Which is fair enough: no one likes a copycat. And it's not like Microsoft's GUI is all that hot shit anyway.
Microsoft:Ubuntu::Imperial:Metric.
Pray tell, when should a new BSG watcher stop watching it? I'm six episodes in. I want to know when to jump out.
Ok, so it happens my wife and I have just started watching BSD for the first time, renting the DVDs (it's cheaper than the time wasted dicking about getting torrents). We've seen perhaps a half-dozen episodes so far, quite liking it.
When should we stop watching the series?
D-oh, nevermind. I've started reading the page you linked.
I'm from the Citadel-86 old-school... please explain how Citadel == groupware. I'm sincerely curious how you see it differing from any other messaging system.
...now I need a picture of a kitten and a coin...
...from the inside out.
The levels of crazy in the USA just keep skyrocketing. Everything seems to create hysteria, panic, and endless problems for ordinary, innocent people.
The country is fubared.
I wholly agree.
The DoS issue should be one viable option for prosecution, IMO. Not so much because access to SL is important in the least little bit, but because it'd suck to head down a slippery slope of increasing DoS permissiveness.
Virtual kiddie porn is illegal in the USA and, IIRC, Canada.
OTOH, there's endless virtual killing.
Tough call. Most of the virtual killing is "consensual," in that it occurs in a game in which one knows killing is likely. OTOH, consent doesn't even enter the picture, so to say, in sim kiddy porn. Virtual rape inhabits a very grey area.