Yes, well the point is rather how much can we dump into the atmosphere without cooking ourselves and the wildlife. Lately, we seem to be discovering new oil and gas deposits and technology is getting better at recovering it. And there's no guarantee that governors in the past on overheating will still be there in the future given how man has changed the planet.
I wasn't aware the native Americans were big on farming, and I do not believe they were. They were mainly hunter-gatherers. If anything, the native Americans would have opened up more land to be deforested for farming thus decreasing the carbon sink, increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and thus warming Europe.
So what I gather is that interfaces are not important to you because you'd rather use some thing more basic also provided by a bunch of programmers and believe this somehow gives you the illusion of understanding something deep. Computers are not deep, science and philosophy are deep. Scientists and philosophers have more important things to think about than learning some arcane interface vomited out by programmers who cannot be arsed to learn what makes an interface useful to anyone but themselves. That being the case, they will pick the Apple and MS interfaces because they do not get in the way of what they are interested in doing.
"By the time someone is 24, they will have mentally peaked."
I don't know what you are measuring here but it certainly isn't true of some university professors. Many of those people do their best work in their 50's and 60's because it takes that long to build up enough knowledge and understand relationships among ideas in order to come up with something new.
I suspect something similar happens to the rest of us. At 24, you are still a baby and have experienced very little of life. It usually takes until 30's or 40's before a calmer maturity sets in where one isn't all fired up about the latest buzz because one is smart enough to see through it. In a way, the 24 age thing is something wrong with American industry run by Business School Product. It is the kind of thing they'd come up with to fire older people and hire younger ones...younger cheaper ones regardless of the immature mistakes they will make costing their companies millions.
"with nothing "active" like movies or scripts " Yep, that's the best part of noScript. I very much dislike things jumping around on the pages. NoScript keeps them in check.
Yes, users are the weakest link. But how many passwords can anyone remember? And if they keep changing, you then have to remember which one is the current one...among the list of systems for which the password keeps changing. And the passwords have to be complex. So we take 5 computer systems and change their passwords every month. At the end of 6 months we need to have generated...wait for it...30 complex passwords. No wonder users say "screw off" to security.
So users don't give a rat's ass about passwords because in their eyes sys. admins. are asking for the impossible. How about those popups? How many popups does a user need to get before he/she gives up and says screw it? How many are coded in cryptic computerese that users have no way of understanding? So they look at sys. admins. with pity when then they tell them not to click on the Ok button, the pity is they think the sys. admins. are on a fools errand and couldn't they just shut the f--k up and leave them alone?
Here we IAVAs. Every damn week we get another security update for Flash. If it isn't that, it's a security update for our browser, more if we use more than one. Then there is the MS Malware updates for Office (I'm on Mac, thanks MS for installing a new security hole on my machine). And there is the Mac OS security updates. At this point I'm willing to shoot the sys. admin. Not because he's doing anything wrong, just because he's the one constantly sending me those damn security update emails.
This, pal, is why users tell sys. admins. to go blow it out their ass. Yes it isn't entirely rational, but the current security mess is not rational either. Users are merely irrationally reacting to the irrationality they are being presented with. And worse, at this point users don't mind the sys. admin. having to deworm their systems, they merely see it as payback for all the crap they see the sys. admins. as being part of.
Alright!!! I admit it. Me and the rest of my space alien friends were behind 9/11. We also killed JFK because we didn't want your human dirty footprints all over our handy moon we use for special Earth operations. We also nailed RFK just to make sure...damn it still didn't work. We did 9/11 to keep you busy so you'd not have enough dough left to pester us in space. And the anthrax, well, Billy-Bob, our pet human, got out when we weren't watching very well. We promise not to let him out by accident again. The next time it will be personal. Could you please give us your correct home address...just for our records?
errm...could it be because of MS's past history of tying everything in their ecosystem? Might that have something to do with it?
In other words, it isn't that open sourcers make everything about open source, it is more MS has made everything they touch about MS and the principle feature they use is closed source and its ancillary ill-effects. Care to explain why MS treats everything not MS as an enemy, how they posit their tools as this- or that-killers?
All the classroom learning about product development and marketing doesn't mean squat no matter how good they were. Without an technical background endemic to the field that is a company's bread and butter, you will never be able to lead that company. Jobs started at ground level and learned what was important about his company and what it did and how it did it. Jobs going through MBA school could have covered all that and it wouldn't have done a damn bit of good form him because he would never have felt it in his bones.
MBAs learn about widgets. Think about that, a widget is a generic device. There is no industrial soul in a widget and as a consequence there is no industrial soul in an MBA.
So, we are to determine that the other tab manufactures are turning out shit since few are buying them. Please let us know when the situation changes, I'd hate to miss the wave.
"But of course people love them because they outsourced everything to China to make even more profit."
So, they are coming down from the hills to purchase iPads because Apple makes them in China? Really? I think you have discovered the Universal Marketing Principle. Who knew?
"He said he would be followed by false prophets who would claim that they had the true story."
Anyone can say that they'd be followed by false prophets and be truthful. Hell, even Mohammed said he'd be the last prophet. Bit of narcissistic mindset that.
I too would like to see the Westboro folks mobbed by Apple zealots. However, given how private Steve Jobs was in life, I cannot believe he's going to have a public funeral. And now that Westboro has tipped their hand, I very much doubt the family will allow for a public funeral.
There might be memorial services. They can try to picket those. Hmmm....I wonder if Buddhist monks would go apeshit over Westboro. It would be a lovely scene. Mr. Head Buddhist monk: Normally we are quiet retiring sort of monks, but this case, we've made an exception; please pay no notice to the burning Westboro vehicles, they are merely prayers to the spirits.
Now, now. Sharia law does not condone any of those...unless the sentence dutifully made by a registered mullah, imam, or any other anal retentive neurotic nostalgic for the good old days of medieval torture.
Android doesn't run on Java (which isn't wrong in the Pauli sense), it reimplements a subset of Java, so you cannot count on a Java exploit on, say, Windoze to work on an Android phone.
Think the Chinese take the attitude that "if you do, we'll think of another reason not to". The Chinese government doesn't give a flying rats ass about the environment. They are only interested in development and how that translates into power.
The only reason we haven't frozen our asses off or the fact life had a chance to evolve is because of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere. So dumping a lot more of them into the atmosphere couldn't possibly affect the climate. Errrmmm...now what the hell is up with Venus? The Venusians didn't get the memo that heat trapping gases don't count?
"Maybe if the idea of killing others isn't enough to stop war, the cold facts of logistical interdependence might." Hey, what a great idea, let's ask Al Qaeda what they want to trade with us. Or maybe N. Korea, surely they must make something we want. How about Iran? We can make an end run around the oil market 'cause they'd really like to trade with the U.S. directly.
Racist? Errrm...okay, I give up, how does casting aspersions on Russians constitute racism?
The GP though should give the Russians a break. First the Tsars, then Stalin, and now Putin. Russkies do have a knack for finding the least capable people to run the country. Having a government which is the moral equivalent of La Cosa Nostra isn't a recipe for success. The Russkies should be hailed for still trying to succeed in spite of their leaders.
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Yes, well the point is rather how much can we dump into the atmosphere without cooking ourselves and the wildlife. Lately, we seem to be discovering new oil and gas deposits and technology is getting better at recovering it. And there's no guarantee that governors in the past on overheating will still be there in the future given how man has changed the planet.
I wasn't aware the native Americans were big on farming, and I do not believe they were. They were mainly hunter-gatherers. If anything, the native Americans would have opened up more land to be deforested for farming thus decreasing the carbon sink, increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and thus warming Europe.
So what I gather is that interfaces are not important to you because you'd rather use some thing more basic also provided by a bunch of programmers and believe this somehow gives you the illusion of understanding something deep. Computers are not deep, science and philosophy are deep. Scientists and philosophers have more important things to think about than learning some arcane interface vomited out by programmers who cannot be arsed to learn what makes an interface useful to anyone but themselves. That being the case, they will pick the Apple and MS interfaces because they do not get in the way of what they are interested in doing.
"By the time someone is 24, they will have mentally peaked."
I don't know what you are measuring here but it certainly isn't true of some university professors. Many of those people do their best work in their 50's and 60's because it takes that long to build up enough knowledge and understand relationships among ideas in order to come up with something new.
I suspect something similar happens to the rest of us. At 24, you are still a baby and have experienced very little of life. It usually takes until 30's or 40's before a calmer maturity sets in where one isn't all fired up about the latest buzz because one is smart enough to see through it. In a way, the 24 age thing is something wrong with American industry run by Business School Product. It is the kind of thing they'd come up with to fire older people and hire younger ones...younger cheaper ones regardless of the immature mistakes they will make costing their companies millions.
"with nothing "active" like movies or scripts " Yep, that's the best part of noScript. I very much dislike things jumping around on the pages. NoScript keeps them in check.
Yes, users are the weakest link. But how many passwords can anyone remember? And if they keep changing, you then have to remember which one is the current one...among the list of systems for which the password keeps changing. And the passwords have to be complex. So we take 5 computer systems and change their passwords every month. At the end of 6 months we need to have generated...wait for it...30 complex passwords. No wonder users say "screw off" to security.
So users don't give a rat's ass about passwords because in their eyes sys. admins. are asking for the impossible. How about those popups? How many popups does a user need to get before he/she gives up and says screw it? How many are coded in cryptic computerese that users have no way of understanding? So they look at sys. admins. with pity when then they tell them not to click on the Ok button, the pity is they think the sys. admins. are on a fools errand and couldn't they just shut the f--k up and leave them alone?
Here we IAVAs. Every damn week we get another security update for Flash. If it isn't that, it's a security update for our browser, more if we use more than one. Then there is the MS Malware updates for Office (I'm on Mac, thanks MS for installing a new security hole on my machine). And there is the Mac OS security updates. At this point I'm willing to shoot the sys. admin. Not because he's doing anything wrong, just because he's the one constantly sending me those damn security update emails.
This, pal, is why users tell sys. admins. to go blow it out their ass. Yes it isn't entirely rational, but the current security mess is not rational either. Users are merely irrationally reacting to the irrationality they are being presented with. And worse, at this point users don't mind the sys. admin. having to deworm their systems, they merely see it as payback for all the crap they see the sys. admins. as being part of.
Alright!!! I admit it. Me and the rest of my space alien friends were behind 9/11. We also killed JFK because we didn't want your human dirty footprints all over our handy moon we use for special Earth operations. We also nailed RFK just to make sure...damn it still didn't work. We did 9/11 to keep you busy so you'd not have enough dough left to pester us in space. And the anthrax, well, Billy-Bob, our pet human, got out when we weren't watching very well. We promise not to let him out by accident again. The next time it will be personal. Could you please give us your correct home address...just for our records?
errm...could it be because of MS's past history of tying everything in their ecosystem? Might that have something to do with it?
In other words, it isn't that open sourcers make everything about open source, it is more MS has made everything they touch about MS and the principle feature they use is closed source and its ancillary ill-effects. Care to explain why MS treats everything not MS as an enemy, how they posit their tools as this- or that-killers?
All the classroom learning about product development and marketing doesn't mean squat no matter how good they were. Without an technical background endemic to the field that is a company's bread and butter, you will never be able to lead that company. Jobs started at ground level and learned what was important about his company and what it did and how it did it. Jobs going through MBA school could have covered all that and it wouldn't have done a damn bit of good form him because he would never have felt it in his bones.
MBAs learn about widgets. Think about that, a widget is a generic device. There is no industrial soul in a widget and as a consequence there is no industrial soul in an MBA.
Software and infrastructure costs money?
err..just for the record, most people don't program so why should they care about what you care about?
Now, about this fixation you have with penis size, there's help for that, your local brain care specialist would love to see you.
So, we are to determine that the other tab manufactures are turning out shit since few are buying them. Please let us know when the situation changes, I'd hate to miss the wave.
"They don't sell their software separately from their hardware, because it's the hardware they want you to buy."
Errrmm....so how come it isn't the software+hardware they want you to buy? Without Apple's interfaces, people wouldn't touch those devices.
"But of course people love them because they outsourced everything to China to make even more profit."
So, they are coming down from the hills to purchase iPads because Apple makes them in China? Really? I think you have discovered the Universal Marketing Principle. Who knew?
Jobs was a Buddhist, that means Devil in Christianity of the Westboro type.
"He said he would be followed by false prophets who would claim that they had the true story."
Anyone can say that they'd be followed by false prophets and be truthful. Hell, even Mohammed said he'd be the last prophet. Bit of narcissistic mindset that.
I too would like to see the Westboro folks mobbed by Apple zealots. However, given how private Steve Jobs was in life, I cannot believe he's going to have a public funeral. And now that Westboro has tipped their hand, I very much doubt the family will allow for a public funeral.
There might be memorial services. They can try to picket those. Hmmm....I wonder if Buddhist monks would go apeshit over Westboro. It would be a lovely scene. Mr. Head Buddhist monk: Normally we are quiet retiring sort of monks, but this case, we've made an exception; please pay no notice to the burning Westboro vehicles, they are merely prayers to the spirits.
Now, now. Sharia law does not condone any of those...unless the sentence dutifully made by a registered mullah, imam, or any other anal retentive neurotic nostalgic for the good old days of medieval torture.
Android doesn't run on Java (which isn't wrong in the Pauli sense), it reimplements a subset of Java, so you cannot count on a Java exploit on, say, Windoze to work on an Android phone.
"does Mac system update cover java?" Nope, as of OS X 10.7, java is your problem, not Apple's.
Think the Chinese take the attitude that "if you do, we'll think of another reason not to". The Chinese government doesn't give a flying rats ass about the environment. They are only interested in development and how that translates into power.
The only reason we haven't frozen our asses off or the fact life had a chance to evolve is because of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere. So dumping a lot more of them into the atmosphere couldn't possibly affect the climate. Errrmmm...now what the hell is up with Venus? The Venusians didn't get the memo that heat trapping gases don't count?
I'll bet those CFCs were even banned.
"Maybe if the idea of killing others isn't enough to stop war, the cold facts of logistical interdependence might." Hey, what a great idea, let's ask Al Qaeda what they want to trade with us. Or maybe N. Korea, surely they must make something we want. How about Iran? We can make an end run around the oil market 'cause they'd really like to trade with the U.S. directly.
Racist? Errrm...okay, I give up, how does casting aspersions on Russians constitute racism?
The GP though should give the Russians a break. First the Tsars, then Stalin, and now Putin. Russkies do have a knack for finding the least capable people to run the country. Having a government which is the moral equivalent of La Cosa Nostra isn't a recipe for success. The Russkies should be hailed for still trying to succeed in spite of their leaders.