"The Mac GUI is what linux should have been ages ago". Oh yes, because the all the programs on my Mac had the same look and feel!
Wait, no they didn't. Even Apple themselves could not keep their act together and stay consistant.
Huh? The consistency of the UI on the Mac has been and continues to be FAR better than any other WIMP platform I have used. By about an order of magnitude. Windows is a sad joke by comparison, CDE is't even the same from one installation to the next (so much for the "C" part), and Linux seems to be "whatever some guy typing in his mom's basement thought would be good". It's not perfect, but it's awfully damn good when you look at the alternatives.
The shuttle does not go supersonic in 10 seconds. It's more like 45 seconds, and the throttle down/throttle up happens shortly later around the time at maximum dynamic pressure.
My God, I guess it's a good thing you can't write your FairPlay music files to some sort of other media, then re-import them somehow, and thus defeat the DRM. Oh, wait, you can, and Apple even recommends that they be written to CDs as a backup.
No, because something is dangerous and is routinely an typically used in what any objective human could see was a highly irresponsible manner; then, yes, at some point adults have to step in. I know there are plenty of modelers who are responsible and can see the issue and thus avoid it, but a fair fraction of the current participants aren't responsible and have repeatedly caused property damage and numerous near misses. I note the glee with which many of the participants in the Argonia launch shown on the Discovery Channel in 2003 flew 20 lb supersonic models into clouds, and note "oh, maybe it's behind the crowd", leading lights of Tripoli flying a full-sized. barely stable, porta john, multiple unstable flights or flights with no recovery - all in an uncontrolled range and virtually every single model built like a bunker-buster ground-penetrating bomb. It's insane, and not in a good way. It's a damn disgrace, and instead of being embarrassed, it was widely hailed as a triumph of public relations.
Ask yourself this - do you think its a good idea to fire a gun in the air to celebrate New Years? Now, same question, except the bullets are much less likely to go where you aim them and carry three orders of magnitude more energy. That's what I mean.
I don't want the BATFE involved any more than anyone else, and their argument was, as described, capricious and baseless. I am a national champion modeler and an aerospace professional making life-critical products, and can make fair assessment of risk. I fear that without the hindrance of the LEUP, the floodgates will be opened to every cretin with a streak of pyromania and someone is going to get killed. This ain't about Estes models, this is serious business, and I haven't seen anything like the kind of care, responsibility, or even common sense, from the people that this is likely to empower.
I know I am pissing into the wind on this and no one is going to pay a damn bit of attention, but they are treating it like blown-up Modrocs and it isn't. And these guys, the irresponsible ones, are bound and determined to fuck it up for everyone.
Those are not being used by professionals and certainly ARE available for sale to the public. I have been to plenty of HPR launches and "professional" is not part of the equation.
I am not arguing the BATFE case because I think they were wrong. But with this decision, the only policing to be done will be self-policing by Tripoli and NAR. And my actual point is that the original poster trivialized the entire issue. It's arguable point, but it's not trivial.
After having seen numerous LMR and HPR models shot through civilian roofs, carports, leave large divots in blacktop, and generally shot into uncontrolled areas and over crowds, with full oversight from the NAR and Tripoli, I really don't think self-policing is viable. I mentioned this on rec.models.rockets a few years ago and nearly got lynched, I briefly exchanged emails with Mark Bundick on the topic, but while several people saw the issue, the LMR/HPR crowd seems bound and determined to keep going until they kill someone, and I wasn't about to tilt at that windmill.
Some of the motors are 6" in diameter and 5 feet long and weigh a couple hundred pounds and have a thousand pounds of thrust. I generally agree that APCP is not explosive but it's not silly to at least think of some sort of regulation. These aren't black powder 1/2A6-2s from Estes.
-Performance you say? Why in the world does Word generate a 4 MB file for something that's barely 30 pages long with no images and just tables? Creating the same document in OO.o and saving it as a Word 97/2000/2003 file makes the data fit in 250kB. AND IT LOOKS IDENTICAL! Not only that, but Word takes up 30 seconds to load the file, whereas OO.o has the same file (the 250kB file for both suites) useable in about 5.
-Menu options and consistency: When I'm looking for a formatting feature I expect it to be listed under the "Format" menu. I don't expect to have to go find the 1 feature I need in under the Insert menu!
No offense, and I can safely state that I hate Word more than any of you , but what sort of machine takes 30 seconds to load a 4 meg Word file? Running that on a PC-XT with no math co-processor? As you say, it makes gigantic files for tiny documents, but even on pretty mundane equipment that would take me at most a couple of seconds. I submit you have some other problem with that file.
You of course are dead right about the usability and consistency. It's as bad as any other Windoze app about violating their own interface standards, assuming that they have some.
Kids, eh? I've *dropped* more card decks than you have *punched*, sonny! I watched that movie *when it came out*, and before that chick was married to Mongo OR Webster's mom. That movie, and prisoner episode The General was when I first realized that computers were intrinsically evil. I have seen nothing since to alter that opinion.
BTW, before you go look it up, what was the name of the degenerate atheistic prevert Commie computer that it linked up with? I know that off the top of my head.
Why is the Colossus "infamous"? It's famous, and it's use saved thousands of lives and shortened the war.
Brett
'jumpingthegun', indeed
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I actually RTFA (I know, I just don't fit in here...) but it's nonsense. It may be accurate in some tiny subculture, but it's so far off the beam for the general public, I really don't even know how to address it. I am reasonably up-to-speed, tech-wise, and my buddies and I all live right here in good old Santa Clara county, Silicon valley defined. But I don't know many people that actually have abandoned TV for a fucking computer. There are far more posers "stating" that they don't watch TV any more, as if that makes them somehow superior, but that is a tiny minority of the tiny minority (and most are just lying about it).
For the general American public, virtually *no one* has replaced their TV with a computer. The Facebook argument is nonsensical because the majority of people don't even know what the hell it is aside from buzzword/fad at 14 minutes, 55 seconds, and counting. The article sounds as if it was written from the perspective of a bunch of geeks huddling in their mom's basement arguing over who is watching TV the least between downloading Natalie Portman pictures. It may be true in that crowd, it may be highly represented on slashdot clientele, but it's so far off for normal people (you know, those who admit they watch TV, and are making Simon Cowell a billionaire) it's frightening.
I can't do it right now, but someone with Safari or Firefox, etc. ought to change their user agent to IE6 and see how broken it really is. Aside from how broken it is with IE6, of course.
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have? Crocodiles with magnets? Are they ill-tempered?
100% agreed, and there's no way that the launch costs are going to drop by the 3 orders of magnitude required to make this viable. I presume that his is an effort to extract "stimulus" money while the extracting is good, then fail later out. Someone will end up a millionaire and nobody is going to get any damn space power.
Uh, why do you think these large companies are falling all over themselves to build ever larger casinos with even more spectacular attractions? To play *fair* with you? Where do you suppose they get the money to build all these casinos?
The entire system is designed to extract money from idiots who either don't know any better, or think somehow that they can beat the odds. Suckers, in other words.
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And be on the internet in minutes, registering their disgust!
Brett
Not if you play them his last four albums.
Right - then they will be sure.
They'll all be depressed when they think Paul is dead!
What in blue blazes are you talking about?
Brett
Huh? The consistency of the UI on the Mac has been and continues to be FAR better than any other WIMP platform I have used. By about an order of magnitude. Windows is a sad joke by comparison, CDE is't even the same from one installation to the next (so much for the "C" part), and Linux seems to be "whatever some guy typing in his mom's basement thought would be good". It's not perfect, but it's awfully damn good when you look at the alternatives.
Brett
Only if you remove the attached Thetans first, though, right?
Yes, far better for one single, centralized system to not work or never be completed.
Brett
"And, they keep changing the OS and user interface faster than we can copy it! Bastards"
Brett
The shuttle does not go supersonic in 10 seconds. It's more like 45 seconds, and the throttle down/throttle up happens shortly later around the time at maximum dynamic pressure.
Brett
My God, I guess it's a good thing you can't write your FairPlay music files to some sort of other media, then re-import them somehow, and thus defeat the DRM. Oh, wait, you can, and Apple even recommends that they be written to CDs as a backup.
Brett
No, because something is dangerous and is routinely an typically used in what any objective human could see was a highly irresponsible manner; then, yes, at some point adults have to step in. I know there are plenty of modelers who are responsible and can see the issue and thus avoid it, but a fair fraction of the current participants aren't responsible and have repeatedly caused property damage and numerous near misses. I note the glee with which many of the participants in the Argonia launch shown on the Discovery Channel in 2003 flew 20 lb supersonic models into clouds, and note "oh, maybe it's behind the crowd", leading lights of Tripoli flying a full-sized. barely stable, porta john, multiple unstable flights or flights with no recovery - all in an uncontrolled range and virtually every single model built like a bunker-buster ground-penetrating bomb. It's insane, and not in a good way. It's a damn disgrace, and instead of being embarrassed, it was widely hailed as a triumph of public relations.
Ask yourself this - do you think its a good idea to fire a gun in the air to celebrate New Years? Now, same question, except the bullets are much less likely to go where you aim them and carry three orders of magnitude more energy. That's what I mean.
I don't want the BATFE involved any more than anyone else, and their argument was, as described, capricious and baseless. I am a national champion modeler and an aerospace professional making life-critical products, and can make fair assessment of risk. I fear that without the hindrance of the LEUP, the floodgates will be opened to every cretin with a streak of pyromania and someone is going to get killed. This ain't about Estes models, this is serious business, and I haven't seen anything like the kind of care, responsibility, or even common sense, from the people that this is likely to empower.
I know I am pissing into the wind on this and no one is going to pay a damn bit of attention, but they are treating it like blown-up Modrocs and it isn't. And these guys, the irresponsible ones, are bound and determined to fuck it up for everyone.
Brett
Those are not being used by professionals and certainly ARE available for sale to the public. I have been to plenty of HPR launches and "professional" is not part of the equation.
I am not arguing the BATFE case because I think they were wrong. But with this decision, the only policing to be done will be self-policing by Tripoli and NAR. And my actual point is that the original poster trivialized the entire issue. It's arguable point, but it's not trivial.
After having seen numerous LMR and HPR models shot through civilian roofs, carports, leave large divots in blacktop, and generally shot into uncontrolled areas and over crowds, with full oversight from the NAR and Tripoli, I really don't think self-policing is viable. I mentioned this on rec.models.rockets a few years ago and nearly got lynched, I briefly exchanged emails with Mark Bundick on the topic, but while several people saw the issue, the LMR/HPR crowd seems bound and determined to keep going until they kill someone, and I wasn't about to tilt at that windmill.
Brett
Some of the motors are 6" in diameter and 5 feet long and weigh a couple hundred pounds and have a thousand pounds of thrust. I generally agree that APCP is not explosive but it's not silly to at least think of some sort of regulation. These aren't black powder 1/2A6-2s from Estes.
Brett
No offense, and I can safely state that I hate Word more than any of you , but what sort of machine takes 30 seconds to load a 4 meg Word file? Running that on a PC-XT with no math co-processor? As you say, it makes gigantic files for tiny documents, but even on pretty mundane equipment that would take me at most a couple of seconds. I submit you have some other problem with that file.
You of course are dead right about the usability and consistency. It's as bad as any other Windoze app about violating their own interface standards, assuming that they have some.
BTW, the "ribbons" are in Office 2007, not 2003
Brett
Eh, projecting kinetoscopes, dang fool kids. Magic lanterns were good enough for us, and we were darn glad to have them.
Brett
Kids, eh? I've *dropped* more card decks than you have *punched*, sonny! I watched that movie *when it came out*, and before that chick was married to Mongo OR Webster's mom. That movie, and prisoner episode The General was when I first realized that computers were intrinsically evil. I have seen nothing since to alter that opinion.
BTW, before you go look it up, what was the name of the degenerate atheistic prevert Commie computer that it linked up with? I know that off the top of my head.
Brett
Pining for the good old days?
Brett
Why is the Colossus "infamous"? It's famous, and it's use saved thousands of lives and shortened the war.
Brett
I actually RTFA (I know, I just don't fit in here...) but it's nonsense. It may be accurate in some tiny subculture, but it's so far off the beam for the general public, I really don't even know how to address it. I am reasonably up-to-speed, tech-wise, and my buddies and I all live right here in good old Santa Clara county, Silicon valley defined. But I don't know many people that actually have abandoned TV for a fucking computer. There are far more posers "stating" that they don't watch TV any more, as if that makes them somehow superior, but that is a tiny minority of the tiny minority (and most are just lying about it).
For the general American public, virtually *no one* has replaced their TV with a computer. The Facebook argument is nonsensical because the majority of people don't even know what the hell it is aside from buzzword/fad at 14 minutes, 55 seconds, and counting. The article sounds as if it was written from the perspective of a bunch of geeks huddling in their mom's basement arguing over who is watching TV the least between downloading Natalie Portman pictures. It may be true in that crowd, it may be highly represented on slashdot clientele, but it's so far off for normal people (you know, those who admit they watch TV, and are making Simon Cowell a billionaire) it's frightening.
Brett
I can't do it right now, but someone with Safari or Firefox, etc. ought to change their user agent to IE6 and see how broken it really is. Aside from how broken it is with IE6, of course.
Brett
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads. Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have? Crocodiles with magnets? Are they ill-tempered?
"C'mon! We're gonna march all the way to Hollywood and make them stop forcing their filthy me down our throats."
Bender
"Bender must be stopped! I have gone too far. Who does that guy think I am? "
Bender
100% agreed, and there's no way that the launch costs are going to drop by the 3 orders of magnitude required to make this viable. I presume that his is an effort to extract "stimulus" money while the extracting is good, then fail later out. Someone will end up a millionaire and nobody is going to get any damn space power.
Brett
>Oh, so now you're not allowed to win, are you?
Uh, why do you think these large companies are falling all over themselves to build ever larger casinos with even more spectacular attractions? To play *fair* with you? Where do you suppose they get the money to build all these casinos?
The entire system is designed to extract money from idiots who either don't know any better, or think somehow that they can beat the odds. Suckers, in other words.
Brett