Yep, even their printers are now crap. We have an old 8150, wonderful machine, built to outlast the cockroaches after Armageddon. we also have a relatively new P4515....well, it does print and it is fast. But given the quality of the build, I give a few years before it is a doorstop. The 8150 is over 10 years old.
The problem isn't that the Iranians are a bunch of suicidal maniacs as you agree. The problem is that they will touch off a mid-east nuclear arms race because while the Iranians aren't nuts in the manner of immediately dying, they are nuts in that they are carrying out the Muslim civil war started back in the 600's when someone's nephew got whacked. Put that against the backdrop of certain Iranians in power who believe the 12th Imam will return someday (gee, where did they dig that one from) and they can hasten that day to arrive.
Consider how the rest of the world would react if the U.S. had a bible thumper as president who thought Christ would return someday and that the U.S. could hasten that return by creating a war with Islam. That's what the Sunni's fear from Iran. And once the mid-east is nuclear armed, those nice, easy going Muslims will just sit there grinning at each other waiting for what could be the start of a first strike from the other side. Russia damn near pushed the button in 1983 over similar paranoia.
Of course not..but not because it cannot but rather no Linux user could conceive of buying an iDevice without risking a spiral of self-loathing that could only result in suicide or being accused of being gay.
No, the reason the App Store exists because they looked at the great unwashed masses of Windows users and realized their new devices would drown in that same cesspool of malware if they didn't find a way to lock it down.
"That's the whole reason Android exists - as an alternative and freer option to iOS." I doubt this. Google probably did Android because they saw that Apple threatened to lock them out of all that wonderous user data they like to collect on all of us and then resell it. So they produced their own version of iOS to make sure they got a decent cut of that data.
What's broken about American political life is the Entitlements, that 2/3's of the budget that will sweep us all over the brink if it's growth isn't curtailed. DoD spending as a percentage of GDP has steadily gone down.
Nope, got my id long long ago, check my submission history. I've never been a fan of the command line. To use it effectively I must remember a load of arcane crap that accumulated like a dirty snowball over a length of time. I don't have the time or the will because I'm mainly involved in being a logician/mathematician. Also, after having designed and programmed guis, I tend to enjoy a well-thought out gui that remembers things for me so I can get on with my job.
Best gui I ever met was the Commando thingy that Apple had in MPW. MPW had a unix-like command line syntax but it also had Commando which gave you a dialog box. It wasn't just any dialog box. Hilite an MPW command in document, and call up Commando, you got a dialog box with all the radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes needed to format the command. As you clicked the buttons and such, it built the command line for you in a text window. You could either run it there or copy and paste it in somewhere else and run it from there.
Now if I was a system admim, I'd probably find Commando of little use because I'd know all the command line syntax from constant use. However, if I'm programming in Haskell, I'm trying to build an app that does something, I have no use for the command line. Worse, the whole interface is command line oriented. Ever try to parse Haskell after it has been spit at you from something only a computer scientist's mother could love? Horrid. I want a real interface, damnit.
I once asked a graduate student in a lab I used to manage how much time he was able to put in per day on his thesis, he said about 6 hours. I know from myself that I can do about 6 hours of good math. I can stretch if I'm really interested but that interest has a lifespan of about 3 days before it reverts to my normal interest.
All anecdotal evidence, of course, but I wonder if there is any sort of studies on how much daily mental effort is normal.
Bingo! And for those reasons you state, Haskell fails. Haskell is a wonderful language until you attempt to do anything. The problem with Haskell is that it is essentially an academic's language with no support environment save some silly command line crap.
What a killjoy. My own suspicion is that previous version of this was flown by extra-terrestrials in to the World Trade Center just before they snuck down here and forced the FBI to load the building with hidden explosives, the body of Jimmy Hoffa, and the missing brain of John F. Kennedy. The odd part is they flew it into the WCT BEFORE the FBI laced it with explosives. Sneaky little buggers, those extraterrestrials. Some hold they also hit the Pentagon, but that is a conspiracy theory totally unfounded.
"but they are slowly turning OS X into iOS for the desktop" No, they aren't. They are simply adding things from iOS to OS X for things they think are useful under OS X. If you find them obnoxious (as I generally do) don't use them.
"Northrop Grumman, majority owned, via a number of shell companies, offshore finance centers and holding companies, by the Bush family and James Baker." Wow, I didn't know that. Do you have references or is it fun talking out of your ass. Hey, maybe I can do it too...
"Obama isn't really an American", "The Jews run all the major media systems if not the entire world", "the U.S. government has been using alien technology for years"...
This is fun, there's just no end to what I can pull out of my ass too.
"but why are so many critical systems connected to the internet?" because reimplementing a totally private network complete with security just to run your modern physical plant is horrendously expensive and finding the people to build it and run it is hard?
Yup, that's right. Except for the fact that the Soviets had nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons with little safeguards, there was nothing all to worry about. Go peacefully amidst the noise and haste...
"Has anyone in the US Military stopped to notice what critical supplies are manufactured solely in China today?" Yup, all branches as a matter of fact. Also as a matter of fact, there's not squat they can do about it. It was made worse (paradoxically) by Reagan and subsequent "conservatives" who blathered on about a strong America and how that meant the U.S. Government, including DoD, needed to contract out as much as possible. I guess the Chinese noticed too.
Hmmm...so you think the U.S. is going to threaten nuclear war while the PLA is victory dancing in Taipei? Well, I think that pretty much sums up your ability think about geopolitics. Thanks for playing, go back to your games now, bye-bye...
High minded goals? Bullshit, they're just a bunch of individuals who think they are right and the "establishment", which they get to define for themselves, is wrong. They are simply vigilantes, nothing more.
"technological civilization as it is now is largely a result of cold war spending on science and technology"? Care to back that up with statistics or are you just talking out of your ass?
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Yep, even their printers are now crap. We have an old 8150, wonderful machine, built to outlast the cockroaches after Armageddon. we also have a relatively new P4515....well, it does print and it is fast. But given the quality of the build, I give a few years before it is a doorstop. The 8150 is over 10 years old.
Customer conversation with HP:
Customer: Hi there, I need a new computer.
HP: What does it need to do?
Customer: Well, I need it to run MS Office mainly.
HP: Okay, here's one, it runs Windows and hence will run MS Office.
Customer: Thank you.
The problem isn't that the Iranians are a bunch of suicidal maniacs as you agree. The problem is that they will touch off a mid-east nuclear arms race because while the Iranians aren't nuts in the manner of immediately dying, they are nuts in that they are carrying out the Muslim civil war started back in the 600's when someone's nephew got whacked. Put that against the backdrop of certain Iranians in power who believe the 12th Imam will return someday (gee, where did they dig that one from) and they can hasten that day to arrive.
Consider how the rest of the world would react if the U.S. had a bible thumper as president who thought Christ would return someday and that the U.S. could hasten that return by creating a war with Islam. That's what the Sunni's fear from Iran. And once the mid-east is nuclear armed, those nice, easy going Muslims will just sit there grinning at each other waiting for what could be the start of a first strike from the other side. Russia damn near pushed the button in 1983 over similar paranoia.
Of course not..but not because it cannot but rather no Linux user could conceive of buying an iDevice without risking a spiral of self-loathing that could only result in suicide or being accused of being gay.
No, the reason the App Store exists because they looked at the great unwashed masses of Windows users and realized their new devices would drown in that same cesspool of malware if they didn't find a way to lock it down.
"That's the whole reason Android exists - as an alternative and freer option to iOS." I doubt this. Google probably did Android because they saw that Apple threatened to lock them out of all that wonderous user data they like to collect on all of us and then resell it. So they produced their own version of iOS to make sure they got a decent cut of that data.
She was never military, that's why she left. And given her reputation in DoD, Google won't be expecting any warm fuzzies from it.
What's broken about American political life is the Entitlements, that 2/3's of the budget that will sweep us all over the brink if it's growth isn't curtailed. DoD spending as a percentage of GDP has steadily gone down.
Nope, got my id long long ago, check my submission history. I've never been a fan of the command line. To use it effectively I must remember a load of arcane crap that accumulated like a dirty snowball over a length of time. I don't have the time or the will because I'm mainly involved in being a logician/mathematician. Also, after having designed and programmed guis, I tend to enjoy a well-thought out gui that remembers things for me so I can get on with my job.
Best gui I ever met was the Commando thingy that Apple had in MPW. MPW had a unix-like command line syntax but it also had Commando which gave you a dialog box. It wasn't just any dialog box. Hilite an MPW command in document, and call up Commando, you got a dialog box with all the radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes needed to format the command. As you clicked the buttons and such, it built the command line for you in a text window. You could either run it there or copy and paste it in somewhere else and run it from there.
Now if I was a system admim, I'd probably find Commando of little use because I'd know all the command line syntax from constant use. However, if I'm programming in Haskell, I'm trying to build an app that does something, I have no use for the command line. Worse, the whole interface is command line oriented. Ever try to parse Haskell after it has been spit at you from something only a computer scientist's mother could love? Horrid. I want a real interface, damnit.
I once asked a graduate student in a lab I used to manage how much time he was able to put in per day on his thesis, he said about 6 hours. I know from myself that I can do about 6 hours of good math. I can stretch if I'm really interested but that interest has a lifespan of about 3 days before it reverts to my normal interest.
All anecdotal evidence, of course, but I wonder if there is any sort of studies on how much daily mental effort is normal.
Bingo! And for those reasons you state, Haskell fails. Haskell is a wonderful language until you attempt to do anything. The problem with Haskell is that it is essentially an academic's language with no support environment save some silly command line crap.
I knew it, the tri-lateral commission is behind this!!
What a killjoy. My own suspicion is that previous version of this was flown by extra-terrestrials in to the World Trade Center just before they snuck down here and forced the FBI to load the building with hidden explosives, the body of Jimmy Hoffa, and the missing brain of John F. Kennedy. The odd part is they flew it into the WCT BEFORE the FBI laced it with explosives. Sneaky little buggers, those extraterrestrials. Some hold they also hit the Pentagon, but that is a conspiracy theory totally unfounded.
"we know that they have no scruples about violating the Constitution left and right"
Citations? If not, you're talking out of your ass about things you want to believe are true.
"but they are slowly turning OS X into iOS for the desktop" No, they aren't. They are simply adding things from iOS to OS X for things they think are useful under OS X. If you find them obnoxious (as I generally do) don't use them.
Why is this insightful? It is the same mentality that makes the MidEast a battleground for 6000 years.
"Northrop Grumman, majority owned, via a number of shell companies, offshore finance centers and holding companies, by the Bush family and James Baker." Wow, I didn't know that. Do you have references or is it fun talking out of your ass. Hey, maybe I can do it too...
"Obama isn't really an American", "The Jews run all the major media systems if not the entire world", "the U.S. government has been using alien technology for years"...
This is fun, there's just no end to what I can pull out of my ass too.
"but why are so many critical systems connected to the internet?" because reimplementing a totally private network complete with security just to run your modern physical plant is horrendously expensive and finding the people to build it and run it is hard?
Yup, that's right. Except for the fact that the Soviets had nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons with little safeguards, there was nothing all to worry about. Go peacefully amidst the noise and haste...
"Has anyone in the US Military stopped to notice what critical supplies are manufactured solely in China today?" Yup, all branches as a matter of fact. Also as a matter of fact, there's not squat they can do about it. It was made worse (paradoxically) by Reagan and subsequent "conservatives" who blathered on about a strong America and how that meant the U.S. Government, including DoD, needed to contract out as much as possible. I guess the Chinese noticed too.
Hmmm...so you think the U.S. is going to threaten nuclear war while the PLA is victory dancing in Taipei? Well, I think that pretty much sums up your ability think about geopolitics. Thanks for playing, go back to your games now, bye-bye...
Ah, but they attempted to sue the Egyptians and Hittites when they attempted to rip off their invention.
Are these the same customers who download Bouncing Bunnies and then express disbelief that their system has a virus?
High minded goals? Bullshit, they're just a bunch of individuals who think they are right and the "establishment", which they get to define for themselves, is wrong. They are simply vigilantes, nothing more.
"technological civilization as it is now is largely a result of cold war spending on science and technology"? Care to back that up with statistics or are you just talking out of your ass?