Do you even know what '.aspx' means? If you are trying to refer to sites built on ASP.NET, you are quite mistaken - ASP.NET is 100% cross-browser compatible. If a site you visit only works in IE7, that is the developer's incompetence; whether they used Joomla! or Ruby on Rails to suck has nothing to do with the platform.
...buy your black car in another state.
Even if this ridiculous law passes, there is *always* a huge pile of loopholes and clauses for grandfathered vehicles, transferring registration for out-of-state cars, etc.
You weren't at PDC then. One of the keynote demos of W7 showed off the fact that it is blisteringly fast on a 1ghz, 1gb RAM netbook; UAC is fixed/gone, and hardware compatibility is top priority early-game, instead of after the fact.
Windows costs money. So in general, you can be pretty sure that a business is behind a Windows server, which means vested interest in keeping it alive, which means at least some level of investment in a somewhat competent administrator to manage them.
Linux is free, so every server set up by some random kid, hobbyist, or idiot is not going to drop a grand on Server 2008. They're going to install what they find for free that has easy documentation on setup.
My old (first-gen) unit was extremely loud, like you are describing. It died before the big warranty extension, so I got an Elite to replace it and that is pretty quiet - about on par with a small PC, even with the disc spinning.
Sudan hasn't launched many orbiters, either. Kind of a delineation between first-world and third-world countries - technological progress doesn't happen in a bubble.
Yes, quite bizarre. It's almost as if we value human life more than our ancestors and predecessors. Almost as if we don't cut someone's head off for insulting the king, stone children for mouthing off to their parents, or slaughtering every woman and child in the heathen city we just conquered because they were, well, heathen. We let people have trials before they go to prison (well, usually).
Of course, every company is different, so this may not apply to you, but... when I was handed something similar, I told my immediate boss, with whom I was on pretty good terms, that I was not really happy with some parts of it and I'd need to discuss it further. Then I took it back to my desk, tossed it in the corner, and kept working there for a year before I moved on to bigger and better things.
We don't have a military big enough to help in the next World War I'm afraid to tell you. We can barely control Iraq
Who else could? It's all relative. The US might not have millions of fighting men ready to go or the infrastructure to pump out dozens of battleships a month, but every other "world power" has seen their military prowess decreased at a far greater proportion than the US over the same period of time.
There is a big difference between attacking and holding a country that you don't understand, in a part of the world most of your citizenry hates, and being alone while you do it; versus defending your way of life (in the US's case, the western way of life, which includes the US, Europe, Japan, Korea) on a global scale. Most modern war machines, and the US in particular, are quite well suited to the latter, regardless of failures in the former.
One other thing to consider that plays to the US' advantage in a WW-style conflict - we live in an age where our government knows everything. And if not everything, a damn lot. In civil situations, this sucks pretty bad. In situations where it's actually used where it's supposed to be - watching enemy countries - it's great. No one can prepare a secret army and surprise-invade Poland. Every NATO country would be watching this secret army in real-time from an HD video satellite. Everyone posting on this forum will be long dead before the US or western nations in general fall to anything.
While I agree with most of your post, I don't know about the 1:1 thing for Windows users. I have 4 Windows machines (5 if you count my PDA), one OSX and 2 Linux boxes. I know my father and at least two of my good friends have similar setups. It's rather anecdotal, but it does indeed buck your generalization...
I think it was a far more civilized time in many respects. For example, I think it's a pretty recent development that a non-trivial bloc of the population would actually cheer for the assassination of President Bush. Now, regardless of whether we agree with his policies, I find that pretty disgusting. I think partisanship and common decency have plunged to new depths just as human rights overall and quality of life have risen to great heights.
One could argue that the overhead IE creates for developers is a good thing for really, really good web developers - it increases billable hours threefold and makes those of us talented and experienced enough to write solid code for IE *AND* all other platforms and push our less-able competitors out of the high-paying market. I know, all that blah blah about a healthy business and technology ecosystem and everybody wins. But seriously, who fucking cares? I make plenty of money because Microsoft makes it impossible for lesser developers to compete with me for limited dollars.
That's not necessarily always true - companies larger than Sony or Microsoft, such as GE, continually make incredible strides in short-term and long-term profitability.
The Wii is not a threat to the 360 because the only market segment that overlaps between the two is also the market segment that would not think twice at buying both. Nintendo and Microsoft strategically position their products to harm Sony, which tries to have (almost) as broad an appeal as the Wii and fails largely because of the price point, and tries to be as hardcore as the 360 and fails largely because of the lack of games. Both companies working together strengthens both their positions and damages their mutual competitor.
Bank of America offers this on all their credit cards, and creating temporary checking accounts is available with one of their higher (read: richer) programs.
Given that some disappointingly high percentage of people don't even know what the hell Blu-Ray or HD-DVD are, much less the difference or that they don't work in normal DVD players, how many of these orders were actually intended to be SD-DVD purchases?
It's to protect Bank of America from liability. If someone's account integrity is compromised due to phishing, the bank's ass is covered - they implemented a two-way authentication, the user just chose to ignore it (after indicating they read and understood the terms and function of the SiteKey)
Because it just takes a few stories like that to get picked up by major news orgs or large aggregators like Slashdot to twist PayPal's arm into rectifying the situation quickly.
I don't know of any masses of people in the Southern USA who are racist. Just a handful of stupid fucks who live out in the sticks and rarely venture into a metro area. It's unfair and ignorant to generalize people who live in Southeastern US states as such.
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Do you even know what '.aspx' means? If you are trying to refer to sites built on ASP.NET, you are quite mistaken - ASP.NET is 100% cross-browser compatible. If a site you visit only works in IE7, that is the developer's incompetence; whether they used Joomla! or Ruby on Rails to suck has nothing to do with the platform.
...buy your black car in another state. Even if this ridiculous law passes, there is *always* a huge pile of loopholes and clauses for grandfathered vehicles, transferring registration for out-of-state cars, etc.
You weren't at PDC then. One of the keynote demos of W7 showed off the fact that it is blisteringly fast on a 1ghz, 1gb RAM netbook; UAC is fixed/gone, and hardware compatibility is top priority early-game, instead of after the fact.
Windows costs money. So in general, you can be pretty sure that a business is behind a Windows server, which means vested interest in keeping it alive, which means at least some level of investment in a somewhat competent administrator to manage them. Linux is free, so every server set up by some random kid, hobbyist, or idiot is not going to drop a grand on Server 2008. They're going to install what they find for free that has easy documentation on setup.
My old (first-gen) unit was extremely loud, like you are describing. It died before the big warranty extension, so I got an Elite to replace it and that is pretty quiet - about on par with a small PC, even with the disc spinning.
Sudan hasn't launched many orbiters, either. Kind of a delineation between first-world and third-world countries - technological progress doesn't happen in a bubble.
Yes, quite bizarre. It's almost as if we value human life more than our ancestors and predecessors. Almost as if we don't cut someone's head off for insulting the king, stone children for mouthing off to their parents, or slaughtering every woman and child in the heathen city we just conquered because they were, well, heathen. We let people have trials before they go to prison (well, usually).
Of course, every company is different, so this may not apply to you, but... when I was handed something similar, I told my immediate boss, with whom I was on pretty good terms, that I was not really happy with some parts of it and I'd need to discuss it further. Then I took it back to my desk, tossed it in the corner, and kept working there for a year before I moved on to bigger and better things.
We don't have a military big enough to help in the next World War I'm afraid to tell you. We can barely control Iraq
Who else could? It's all relative. The US might not have millions of fighting men ready to go or the infrastructure to pump out dozens of battleships a month, but every other "world power" has seen their military prowess decreased at a far greater proportion than the US over the same period of time.
There is a big difference between attacking and holding a country that you don't understand, in a part of the world most of your citizenry hates, and being alone while you do it; versus defending your way of life (in the US's case, the western way of life, which includes the US, Europe, Japan, Korea) on a global scale. Most modern war machines, and the US in particular, are quite well suited to the latter, regardless of failures in the former.
One other thing to consider that plays to the US' advantage in a WW-style conflict - we live in an age where our government knows everything. And if not everything, a damn lot. In civil situations, this sucks pretty bad. In situations where it's actually used where it's supposed to be - watching enemy countries - it's great. No one can prepare a secret army and surprise-invade Poland. Every NATO country would be watching this secret army in real-time from an HD video satellite. Everyone posting on this forum will be long dead before the US or western nations in general fall to anything.
While I agree with most of your post, I don't know about the 1:1 thing for Windows users. I have 4 Windows machines (5 if you count my PDA), one OSX and 2 Linux boxes. I know my father and at least two of my good friends have similar setups. It's rather anecdotal, but it does indeed buck your generalization...
I think it was a far more civilized time in many respects. For example, I think it's a pretty recent development that a non-trivial bloc of the population would actually cheer for the assassination of President Bush. Now, regardless of whether we agree with his policies, I find that pretty disgusting. I think partisanship and common decency have plunged to new depths just as human rights overall and quality of life have risen to great heights.
One could argue that the overhead IE creates for developers is a good thing for really, really good web developers - it increases billable hours threefold and makes those of us talented and experienced enough to write solid code for IE *AND* all other platforms and push our less-able competitors out of the high-paying market. I know, all that blah blah about a healthy business and technology ecosystem and everybody wins. But seriously, who fucking cares? I make plenty of money because Microsoft makes it impossible for lesser developers to compete with me for limited dollars.
That's not necessarily always true - companies larger than Sony or Microsoft, such as GE, continually make incredible strides in short-term and long-term profitability.
The Wii is not a threat to the 360 because the only market segment that overlaps between the two is also the market segment that would not think twice at buying both. Nintendo and Microsoft strategically position their products to harm Sony, which tries to have (almost) as broad an appeal as the Wii and fails largely because of the price point, and tries to be as hardcore as the 360 and fails largely because of the lack of games. Both companies working together strengthens both their positions and damages their mutual competitor.
That's an easy predicament to get out of. "Awful lot of honkeys in here..." - Peter Griffin.
Yes, because the presence of a gun is what causes violence. Logically, if more people have guns, there will be more flare-ups.
Bank of America offers this on all their credit cards, and creating temporary checking accounts is available with one of their higher (read: richer) programs.
Given that some disappointingly high percentage of people don't even know what the hell Blu-Ray or HD-DVD are, much less the difference or that they don't work in normal DVD players, how many of these orders were actually intended to be SD-DVD purchases?
I think we know what someone's Word of the Day calendar says for March 8, 2007.
It's to protect Bank of America from liability. If someone's account integrity is compromised due to phishing, the bank's ass is covered - they implemented a two-way authentication, the user just chose to ignore it (after indicating they read and understood the terms and function of the SiteKey)
Because it just takes a few stories like that to get picked up by major news orgs or large aggregators like Slashdot to twist PayPal's arm into rectifying the situation quickly.
I just wasted like 5 minutes trying to figure out what your acronym spelled...
I don't know of any masses of people in the Southern USA who are racist. Just a handful of stupid fucks who live out in the sticks and rarely venture into a metro area. It's unfair and ignorant to generalize people who live in Southeastern US states as such.
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