unless we did like we often do, and take a good thing to far, making it bad. We really don't want all of the CO2 broken down into carbon and oxygen. Too much oxygen can be just as bad as too little.
I tend to let the commercials go, as I use the TV as background noise. The TV also acts like the chimes of a clock for me. I subconsciously track time with it.
I actually have found that if I see a really good commercial, I will save the program to show my wife. It still amazes me that every commercial ever made is not available for live streaming over the internet. Why oh why would a company not want people to go out of their way to watch their commercials?
I don't know what original series you were watching, but the Original Battlestar Galactica that I watched was dramatically better than the current slop they are feeding us. The Cylons looked better in the original. The ships looked better. The characters where more believable. The Cylon back story actually made sense. Heck, it took the original series until the universally panned 'Galactica 1980' for them to introduce the stupid idea of human looking Cylons. The only thing that the new series does better is create a gritty look, as opposed to the '70 'clean dirty' look.
That in no way explains why they wouldn't plan out their 3D space mission on a non-networked computer. Given that the Galactica is clearly using WAY more powerful computers than what it would take to do 3D simulations.
If you are a service, you should be in the "All Users" Startup folder. Windows has that. Or how about the 'Start Up' folder having a "Services" Subdirectory. Really, the "All Users" is how it should be handled though for simplicity, and the OS should list any services in the Start Up folder with an overlay icon the same way that the shortcuts have an arrow overlay icon. You would not need to have all of the code there. Just a shortcut. Exactly the same way that the Start Up folder works now. This also does not mean that you cannot have the 'Services' app to indicate what order the services start in, what dependencies they have, or any other data. It just means that if the launcher is not in the Start Up folder, it doesn't start. Users could understand this, and it would make anything short of a kernel hack unhidable.
Yes, I have seen that before, but it is in fact hidden from normal users. It is also, as you said, not user friendly. That means that 95% of all Windows users, for all intents and purposes, do not have access to it. Also, Yes, Joe User might say, go ahead and install SuperUsefulCrapware3000, but even someone who is relatively MS savvy is not going to notice that the software they purchased from an OfficeMax has updated their Autoexec.bat.
Saying that your not at fault by not giving a warning because you think that someone, somewhere will not heed it isn't reasonable.
Like I said, I don't run Vista, so maybe they have already done this, but there is absolutely no excuse for Vista to launch any software at boot up by any means other than the "Start Up" folder.
Just make sure your phone system says that the call may be recorded, and you can record them and put them up on the internet. You can make money from the add hits when people go to listen to the fun that the college student put the phonespammer through. I can think of lots of people that would love to have the job of just screwing with people on the phone with no or responsibility for producing anything.
You see, MS is to blame. I can think of three way to load software at boot up just off of the top of my head. Two of these methods are hidden from normal users. This leads to abuse. There should be one and only one place that allows software to load at boot up. If for some reason, you need to break that rule for backwards compatibility, there should be an end user configuration tool, and big red warning signs before anything is allowed to be written.
Of course given that MS owns VirtualPC, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use the 'backwards compatibility' cop out. So, there is zero excuse for it in Vista. Note: I don't run Vista at this point, so I don't know if they have solved this very big problem.
They did show him use multiple powers. In the future, he was invisible, and used telekinesis's at the same time. I grudgingly went with the idea that he didn't fly himself away because he was in a great deal of pain, and was using all of his concentration not to explode. A little like why you wouldn't call 911 if you accidentally spilled gas all over yourself, and caught on fire. You would be way to busy writhing in agony to do the calm and rational thing.
Of course IBM rolled this out six years ago in the Domino server, although I don't really expect Google's offering to handle Replication/Save conflicts as well as Domino does. Of course, now that there is actually another product out, the anti-Notes trolls can start complaining that the 6 year old tech from IBM isn't using the same API that the brand new offering from Google uses.
For the most part I agree with you. Although, I suspect that once the novelty wears off, the wiimote will either become a secondary controller, much like the 2600's paddles, or it will be the death of the Wii. Of course, this is an impression from having never actually used one. I have yet to see a functioning Wii display to try it, except for the kiosk that was set up on the weekend of release. As you can imagine, I would have had to wait in a line to try it. Little did I know that the Wii wasn't going to have functional displays in stores.
"Also, I do not have the £40 to spend on some wannabe game without testing... how am I suppose to see if I like that game? considering that these days, online reviews are less worthless..."
And even more important, who would make web pages that work with Firefox if the Windows users did not use it? While most web sites work perfect with Firefox today, the only reason people think about making their sites work with it is because the Windows user bring the numbers up to a point that it is relevant. The port of Firefox to Windows not only made Firefox more noticeable to people who would not have previously seen it, but it also made the web work better on Linux.
The reason that Apple can't get more than 10% of the market is because they are just too impatient. They really want to behave like an abusive monopoly, but they havent figured out that you can't do that very well when you only have a small portion of the market. The repeating cycle of Apple is to make a really good product. Start gaining market share. Abuse your customers/make worse products. Lose market share. Start making a really good product again.
Personally, as much as I dislike MS, Apple would be a far worse monopolist to deal with. If they behave as badly as they have in the past with their small market share, just imagine what would happen if they actually gained a dominant position.
Hey now, you neglect the possibility that disobeying was the perfect thing to do, and hence god is punishing humans for behaving perfectly. Which leads to the simple logical conclusion that God is evil.
"While I generally agree, I do strongly oppose home schooling. What your kid would miss out is the contact with other kids, not just their friends but actually finding a way to work together with people they didn't choose but that were "forced" onto them. Much like they'll later encounter in business life."
About a couple of years ago a home schooling advocate was telling me how the public school system was specifically created to push social programs through, and indoctrinate our children. When I first heard it, I chalked her up as a fringe nut case. Since then my child started reading at 2, and is now reading full books having just turned three. I started to consider home schooling, as putting a child with a 3rd or 4th grade education being put into a class full of kids where SOME of them have a kindergarten education, can only lead to problems. The only real argument anyone has ever made in favor of public schools is the same one you made, which is, coincidentally the same argument that the home schooling 'nut case' made. That is that public school is not about learning the three 'R's, but a social program.
Honestly, if all that you expect from public schools is to force your child to interact with the kind of people they don't want to be around, then you have already accepted that our public schools are no better than prisons. Of course even in you rationalization, you are incorrect. I don't know what country you live in, but here in the US, I have yet to have, or even hear of a (legal) job where if you decide to quit, someone with much more power than you, will come and drag you back to the job. Last I heard, the police can't arrest you for playing hooky from work.
The video being available could help prevent what my city was doing. Namely covering up accidents so that they would not need to fix the roads. I ended up selling my home because after 150 accidents in one years, just on my block, I started pushing to have the road fixed. It turned out that the city government was well aware of the accidents, and had alterer motives for not fixing the road. When we started taking photos, and reporting the accidents, the mayor told me she would speak to the chief of police. Three days later, I got a call from a person identifying themselves as a lieutenant at the police department. He proceded to try to brow beat me into dropping the issue, and finally told me that I better drop the issue because "we know who you are".
The sentence at the end of An Inconvenient Truth says "You can reduce your carbon output to 0". Not carbon footprint. Carbon output. If he means 'net' carbon output, then you have to wonder what else he 'really' meant. Personally, I think he is an attention whore, but that doesn't indicate whether he would be a good president or not.
I have been trying to think of that shows name for months, but the few times I tried looking it up online, I didn't find anything. "Cursor" just brings up too many hits.
"Some of us do not live to serve our fucking machines. Getting desensitized to it is not a positive - just one more step down the trail of dehumanization."
Hehe... Spoken like a true Neo-Luddite. What you man not realize in your over zealous hatred of new technology, is that the phones do not choose to request a persons attention. Telephone owners instruct their phones to notify them when another human requests their attention. Blaming the machine is bizarre. It is no different than instructing the company receptionist to walk over and tell you when someone walks into the lobby and requests to speak to you.
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unless we did like we often do, and take a good thing to far, making it bad. We really don't want all of the CO2 broken down into carbon and oxygen. Too much oxygen can be just as bad as too little.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276372,00.html
http://www.courttv.com/trials/yates/
I tend to let the commercials go, as I use the TV as background noise. The TV also acts like the chimes of a clock for me. I subconsciously track time with it.
I actually have found that if I see a really good commercial, I will save the program to show my wife. It still amazes me that every commercial ever made is not available for live streaming over the internet. Why oh why would a company not want people to go out of their way to watch their commercials?
I don't know what original series you were watching, but the Original Battlestar Galactica that I watched was dramatically better than the current slop they are feeding us. The Cylons looked better in the original. The ships looked better. The characters where more believable. The Cylon back story actually made sense. Heck, it took the original series until the universally panned 'Galactica 1980' for them to introduce the stupid idea of human looking Cylons. The only thing that the new series does better is create a gritty look, as opposed to the '70 'clean dirty' look.
Add to that list:
How did Seven, after returning from the Delta Quadrant, get all the way to Carpica?
What caused her to forget about her Delta Quadrant adventures?
Why did she increment her name by 1?
That in no way explains why they wouldn't plan out their 3D space mission on a non-networked computer. Given that the Galactica is clearly using WAY more powerful computers than what it would take to do 3D simulations.
If you are a service, you should be in the "All Users" Startup folder. Windows has that. Or how about the 'Start Up' folder having a "Services" Subdirectory. Really, the "All Users" is how it should be handled though for simplicity, and the OS should list any services in the Start Up folder with an overlay icon the same way that the shortcuts have an arrow overlay icon. You would not need to have all of the code there. Just a shortcut. Exactly the same way that the Start Up folder works now. This also does not mean that you cannot have the 'Services' app to indicate what order the services start in, what dependencies they have, or any other data. It just means that if the launcher is not in the Start Up folder, it doesn't start. Users could understand this, and it would make anything short of a kernel hack unhidable.
Yes, I have seen that before, but it is in fact hidden from normal users. It is also, as you said, not user friendly. That means that 95% of all Windows users, for all intents and purposes, do not have access to it. Also, Yes, Joe User might say, go ahead and install SuperUsefulCrapware3000, but even someone who is relatively MS savvy is not going to notice that the software they purchased from an OfficeMax has updated their Autoexec.bat.
Saying that your not at fault by not giving a warning because you think that someone, somewhere will not heed it isn't reasonable.
Like I said, I don't run Vista, so maybe they have already done this, but there is absolutely no excuse for Vista to launch any software at boot up by any means other than the "Start Up" folder.
Just make sure your phone system says that the call may be recorded, and you can record them and put them up on the internet. You can make money from the add hits when people go to listen to the fun that the college student put the phonespammer through. I can think of lots of people that would love to have the job of just screwing with people on the phone with no or responsibility for producing anything.
You see, MS is to blame. I can think of three way to load software at boot up just off of the top of my head. Two of these methods are hidden from normal users. This leads to abuse. There should be one and only one place that allows software to load at boot up. If for some reason, you need to break that rule for backwards compatibility, there should be an end user configuration tool, and big red warning signs before anything is allowed to be written.
Of course given that MS owns VirtualPC, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to use the 'backwards compatibility' cop out. So, there is zero excuse for it in Vista. Note: I don't run Vista at this point, so I don't know if they have solved this very big problem.
They did show him use multiple powers. In the future, he was invisible, and used telekinesis's at the same time. I grudgingly went with the idea that he didn't fly himself away because he was in a great deal of pain, and was using all of his concentration not to explode. A little like why you wouldn't call 911 if you accidentally spilled gas all over yourself, and caught on fire. You would be way to busy writhing in agony to do the calm and rational thing.
Of course IBM rolled this out six years ago in the Domino server, although I don't really expect Google's offering to handle Replication/Save conflicts as well as Domino does. Of course, now that there is actually another product out, the anti-Notes trolls can start complaining that the 6 year old tech from IBM isn't using the same API that the brand new offering from Google uses.
For the most part I agree with you. Although, I suspect that once the novelty wears off, the wiimote will either become a secondary controller, much like the 2600's paddles, or it will be the death of the Wii. Of course, this is an impression from having never actually used one. I have yet to see a functioning Wii display to try it, except for the kiosk that was set up on the weekend of release. As you can imagine, I would have had to wait in a line to try it. Little did I know that the Wii wasn't going to have functional displays in stores.
"Also, I do not have the £40 to spend on some wannabe game without testing... how am I suppose to see if I like that game? considering that these days, online reviews are less worthless..."
Gamefly
But do you consider all of the cocktail arcade machines that have PCs inside to run Mame to be a "PC"?
And even more important, who would make web pages that work with Firefox if the Windows users did not use it? While most web sites work perfect with Firefox today, the only reason people think about making their sites work with it is because the Windows user bring the numbers up to a point that it is relevant. The port of Firefox to Windows not only made Firefox more noticeable to people who would not have previously seen it, but it also made the web work better on Linux.
The reason that Apple can't get more than 10% of the market is because they are just too impatient. They really want to behave like an abusive monopoly, but they havent figured out that you can't do that very well when you only have a small portion of the market. The repeating cycle of Apple is to make a really good product. Start gaining market share. Abuse your customers/make worse products. Lose market share. Start making a really good product again.
Personally, as much as I dislike MS, Apple would be a far worse monopolist to deal with. If they behave as badly as they have in the past with their small market share, just imagine what would happen if they actually gained a dominant position.
What country is that, as I have not heard of any that ban home schooled kids from socializing with other children?
Hey now, you neglect the possibility that disobeying was the perfect thing to do, and hence god is punishing humans for behaving perfectly. Which leads to the simple logical conclusion that God is evil.
"While I generally agree, I do strongly oppose home schooling. What your kid would miss out is the contact with other kids, not just their friends but actually finding a way to work together with people they didn't choose but that were "forced" onto them. Much like they'll later encounter in business life."
About a couple of years ago a home schooling advocate was telling me how the public school system was specifically created to push social programs through, and indoctrinate our children. When I first heard it, I chalked her up as a fringe nut case. Since then my child started reading at 2, and is now reading full books having just turned three. I started to consider home schooling, as putting a child with a 3rd or 4th grade education being put into a class full of kids where SOME of them have a kindergarten education, can only lead to problems. The only real argument anyone has ever made in favor of public schools is the same one you made, which is, coincidentally the same argument that the home schooling 'nut case' made. That is that public school is not about learning the three 'R's, but a social program.
Honestly, if all that you expect from public schools is to force your child to interact with the kind of people they don't want to be around, then you have already accepted that our public schools are no better than prisons. Of course even in you rationalization, you are incorrect. I don't know what country you live in, but here in the US, I have yet to have, or even hear of a (legal) job where if you decide to quit, someone with much more power than you, will come and drag you back to the job. Last I heard, the police can't arrest you for playing hooky from work.
The video being available could help prevent what my city was doing. Namely covering up accidents so that they would not need to fix the roads. I ended up selling my home because after 150 accidents in one years, just on my block, I started pushing to have the road fixed. It turned out that the city government was well aware of the accidents, and had alterer motives for not fixing the road. When we started taking photos, and reporting the accidents, the mayor told me she would speak to the chief of police. Three days later, I got a call from a person identifying themselves as a lieutenant at the police department. He proceded to try to brow beat me into dropping the issue, and finally told me that I better drop the issue because "we know who you are".
The sentence at the end of An Inconvenient Truth says "You can reduce your carbon output to 0". Not carbon footprint. Carbon output. If he means 'net' carbon output, then you have to wonder what else he 'really' meant. Personally, I think he is an attention whore, but that doesn't indicate whether he would be a good president or not.
I have been trying to think of that shows name for months, but the few times I tried looking it up online, I didn't find anything. "Cursor" just brings up too many hits.
I'm just concerned about the fact that he suggests reducing your carbon output to 0.
"Some of us do not live to serve our fucking machines. Getting desensitized to it is not a positive - just one more step down the trail of dehumanization."
Hehe... Spoken like a true Neo-Luddite. What you man not realize in your over zealous hatred of new technology, is that the phones do not choose to request a persons attention. Telephone owners instruct their phones to notify them when another human requests their attention. Blaming the machine is bizarre. It is no different than instructing the company receptionist to walk over and tell you when someone walks into the lobby and requests to speak to you.