For a Joe Sixpack machine, I suppose Win8 is just fine. For a power user desktop, it's a turd.
I wouldn't say a turd, but it's certainly not aimed at power users. If Joe Sixpack and his woman spend all their time in Facebook and Hotmail it might just be the best thing since Spiced Ham.
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
That's what I said too. But as a technologist I need to keep my hand in with operating systems so I installed Win 8 on my mac through bootcamp.
It's kind of rough around the edges, but it's still better than most Linux desktops, and better in many ways.
I'm not convinced that the general public will pick up on this, but Win 8 is probably a better fit for inexperienced users than anything else out there right now.
That does look interesting, as does LocalWiki referenced below. Some combination, CiviCRM for formal administration and the wiki for more free-form content sounds ideal to me.
Don't mention "plucky" and "O Canada" in the same sentence or you'll have "The Maple Leaf Forever" adherents popping out of the woodwork to proclaim the superiority of their chosen song.
Fortunately most of them are so old that they never mastered a mouse, much less Slashdot.
Interesting, certainly not what I'd heard. Well, my first point still stands - guided rockets will pretty much piss everyone off just enough to finally motivate a few people to get rid of the current regime in Iran.
Sadly it's not that simple. Iran is far more organized (in 2012) that Iraq was in 2001 and what the west has re-learned from Iraq is that a ground war in hostile terrain is undesirable and unmanageable as soon as the voting public realizes it's going to cost American lives. It seems that every decade or so they need to re-learn this.
I'm fairly sure that the US has realized that an offensive operation in Iran is a non-starter.
It would be considering the times were completely different 2000 years ago and using the moral standards of today creates a fallacy situation when you somehow attribute standards of now to past events. It is entirely proper to interpret events through the eyes of the participants of the events.
True, so let's start with the actions of the KKK in the past fifty years and work our way backwards from there.
i was paraphrasing a quote from the books there actually. One of the requirements for recognition being that the species has renamed its planet according to certain criteria, one of which is that the name they choose no long means "dirt".
Happy thanksgiving!
I guess that in the 25+ years since I started reading the series I had forgotten that detail.:)
I don't judge them, I also don't kill them. If you consider the past 2000 years of history, the same cannot be said for most religious groups. (Some more than others... like Christians....)
It's a science fiction work based on the idea that human intelligence is due to ancient interference by a mysterious alien race
Actually it's not that clear, in the series Humanity is often referred to as a "wolfling" species. It is unclear to all players on the Galactic scene if there was an unknown "uplifter" or Humanity is one of the rare exceptions in the Galaxy.
This uncertainty always seemed like an allusion to human religious belief, most alien species are so convinced that it is actually impossible for a species to attain sapience without intervention that they'll even go to war over it. Intelligent Design anyone?
Note that I am not suggesting that Brin is promoting intelligent design, I'm pointing out that most of the aliens in the series are as delusional as the religious types who refuse to accept the universe for what it is beyond their very narrow beliefs.
The problem with cheating on your wife implies that you can be deceitful. In a position where he stands as pretty much the highest man on the pole, you wouldn't want him to deceive you.
It's more than that, if you're in any job that requires security clearance and you are keeping secrets from your employer then you can probably be blackmailed by foreign interests. One step in getting clearance is to spill EVERYTHING that can be used against you so that it can't be.
Here we're talking about the director of the CIA who is a former senior military officer having an affair. So VERY high level clearance and VERY big secret. Petraeus was an international incident waiting to happen because he's walking with untold numbers of Top Secret info in his head and lying to the CIA.
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... more cheap guns.
For a Joe Sixpack machine, I suppose Win8 is just fine. For a power user desktop, it's a turd.
I wouldn't say a turd, but it's certainly not aimed at power users. If Joe Sixpack and his woman spend all their time in Facebook and Hotmail it might just be the best thing since Spiced Ham.
Oh boy, I sure can't wait to install an OS with a phone interface on my desktop/laptop, that makes so much sense!
That's what I said too. But as a technologist I need to keep my hand in with operating systems so I installed Win 8 on my mac through bootcamp.
It's kind of rough around the edges, but it's still better than most Linux desktops, and better in many ways.
I'm not convinced that the general public will pick up on this, but Win 8 is probably a better fit for inexperienced users than anything else out there right now.
Blue Comic Sans Italic on a patterned background, sometimes I miss the 90s.
That does look interesting, as does LocalWiki referenced below. Some combination, CiviCRM for formal administration and the wiki for more free-form content sounds ideal to me.
Although it was funny as hell when Mom came to visit, gave a $5 USD bill at the Tim's drive through for a $4.95 order and was told it wasn't enough.
I grew up near the Ontario/New York border, I would have loved to be there for that conversation.
Don't mention "plucky" and "O Canada" in the same sentence or you'll have "The Maple Leaf Forever" adherents popping out of the woodwork to proclaim the superiority of their chosen song.
Fortunately most of them are so old that they never mastered a mouse, much less Slashdot.
Interesting, certainly not what I'd heard. Well, my first point still stands - guided rockets will pretty much piss everyone off just enough to finally motivate a few people to get rid of the current regime in Iran.
Sadly it's not that simple. Iran is far more organized (in 2012) that Iraq was in 2001 and what the west has re-learned from Iraq is that a ground war in hostile terrain is undesirable and unmanageable as soon as the voting public realizes it's going to cost American lives. It seems that every decade or so they need to re-learn this.
I'm fairly sure that the US has realized that an offensive operation in Iran is a non-starter.
It would be considering the times were completely different 2000 years ago and using the moral standards of today creates a fallacy situation when you somehow attribute standards of now to past events. It is entirely proper to interpret events through the eyes of the participants of the events.
True, so let's start with the actions of the KKK in the past fifty years and work our way backwards from there.
Says the guy who links to a wiki about the most unwitty, unclever and unintelligent works of fiction ever made.
You must be a blast at parties.
Ook, ook!
i was paraphrasing a quote from the books there actually. One of the requirements for recognition being that the species has renamed its planet according to certain criteria, one of which is that the name they choose no long means "dirt".
Happy thanksgiving!
I guess that in the 25+ years since I started reading the series I had forgotten that detail. :)
You guys who constantly judge the actions of Christians of many years ago would do well to see how much worse the non-Christians were.
Right, I keep forgetting, crimes against humanity are justified if you can find a worse one that you can blame on someone else, my mistake.
Pfft, who are you to judge their beliefs?
I don't judge them, I also don't kill them. If you consider the past 2000 years of history, the same cannot be said for most religious groups. (Some more than others... like Christians....)
My kids that are under 9 actually love using Linux and Steam.
My kids love watching movies in French. :)
Barack? Is that you?
UMADBRO?
It's a science fiction work based on the idea that human intelligence is due to ancient interference by a mysterious alien race
Actually it's not that clear, in the series Humanity is often referred to as a "wolfling" species. It is unclear to all players on the Galactic scene if there was an unknown "uplifter" or Humanity is one of the rare exceptions in the Galaxy.
This uncertainty always seemed like an allusion to human religious belief, most alien species are so convinced that it is actually impossible for a species to attain sapience without intervention that they'll even go to war over it. Intelligent Design anyone?
Note that I am not suggesting that Brin is promoting intelligent design, I'm pointing out that most of the aliens in the series are as delusional as the religious types who refuse to accept the universe for what it is beyond their very narrow beliefs.
Oook?
Really? What self respecting geek doesn't go home to be pampered by Mom?
Is that you, Raymond Luxury-Yacht?
Terribly sorry old sport, I must dash off. My hovercraft is full of eels.
Complete steaming pile of shit realplayer is longer than one word.
While it is pronounced "steaming pile of shit", it is still spelled realplayer and therefore one word.
Wait, you mean just like Clinton?
Exactly, his behavior was only a huge problem because he lied about it.
The problem with cheating on your wife implies that you can be deceitful. In a position where he stands as pretty much the highest man on the pole, you wouldn't want him to deceive you.
It's more than that, if you're in any job that requires security clearance and you are keeping secrets from your employer then you can probably be blackmailed by foreign interests. One step in getting clearance is to spill EVERYTHING that can be used against you so that it can't be.
Here we're talking about the director of the CIA who is a former senior military officer having an affair. So VERY high level clearance and VERY big secret. Petraeus was an international incident waiting to happen because he's walking with untold numbers of Top Secret info in his head and lying to the CIA.
I see what you did there....
Looks like since 2009, so three years.