I've been saying since CS3 that Adobe was the new Microsoft, as they now tend to sell the same old crap with a new package every few years. Somehow, this merger would be like marrying a sibling. I believe you had the correct and natural reaction.
The notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical research or theoretical analysis
And I find this information new and strange... I thought the empirical evidence was colonial windows tend to be thicker at the bottom, due to gravity and the extreme viscosity. But Wiki can't be wrong, right?
I expect killer bees have generally not cared the slightest about this little plague killiing our bees.
Killer bees, or Africanized bees, are the same as regular bees. I always thought they were bigger or something... but saw a few documentaries on them when the spread was being sensationalized. I was always afraid of killer bees when I was growing up... but realize now it's absurd. It's likely I've never been within a hundred miles of a killer bee, LOL. So, they differ in individual and swarm behavior, crazy aggressive, but otherwise are the same as regular bees, biologically. Honestly, have no idea, but I'd guess they're killed by the same things that kill any bees. Whether they care less than other bees is... difficult to imagine. What is it like to be a bee?
I don't want to show disrespect to policemen, because there are exceptional ones out there (or, were... teh NYPD at the 9/11 WTC disaster, for instance... or the one that pulled me over in WV and wouldn't give me a ticket because he would have had to arrest me and impound my car because of my speed... he was an individual, chewed me out, and let me go... and I haven't sped since), but a policeman's primary duty is to protect himself. It is a job, so why should they risk themselves and their family's well being for the unknown victim? They are pragmatic, and as selfish as the rest of us.
Firemen are passionate. They will run into a burning building to save your 62" flatscreen. Some will say they are nuts, but that's not it. They are passionate about their jobs. Without a second thought, they will risk their lives to save yours. They put everyone and everything before themselves. A story like this had to come out sooner or later. It is sad about the animals, but it makes the story all the more poignant. Show them respect. Thank them when you see them. Give them props. They are the true 1337.
Jesus said "I have cast this fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it, until it blazes."
-Secret Gospel of Thomas
There is a vast difference between Windows 95 and XP. Maybe if you had said NT 4.0 I could have taken your comparison seriously.
All I'm saying is... the typical office user hasn't changed. And we know XP very well. The reasons you give, yes, even increased security, doesn't seem to cover the fact that we didn't need the new system, and 7 is a system that we don't know as well, as far as when something does go wrong, we won't necessarily know exactly what it is. This kind of knowledge takes time, not training.
I don't really understand what you are saying... that Windows 7 is a free upgrade to Windows XP users? Volume licensing isn't a free lunch. Every machine already comes with a license as well. Shrewed organizations have a licensing guy to recoup those extra costs (while negligable for a few machines... for a few thousand, that adds up). If a company upgrades their hardware, say, every 4 years (which is a common interval), then they are only paying fees... once... not annually. Audits must be run to make sure the systems are removed off the old hardware, of course... but volume licensing is mostly a convenience.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying... that the fees for 7 are the same for XP? Do you think Microsoft will still charge volume licensing when they drop support for XP? Or are you saying new machines keep being added while the old machines, no longer in use, are still being charged for? At the few large organizations I worked for... there was a single volume license fee. They bought the license for the whole place... it wasn't payed annually... like property tax or something. You pay for a license for, say, 10K machines. You don't KEEP PAYING for those licenses every year... you pay once. Again... I don't understand what you mean I guess.
(and don't talk to me about Cydia. It's even more of a mess, with a listing for every theme mixed in with anything resembling a useful app, and a godawful search that just makes it painful.)
yeah, this totally sucks. But for realz.... what has Ron Gilbert done for us lately.
I don't get the iOS bashing... I really don't. But I'm not a developer. I'm a little annoyed at Apple acting like they invented package management with the AppStore, it's silly... they stand on the shoulders of giants and take all the credit for themselves... but... what major corporation doesn't? Apple has blazed trails... and because they're not every thing to every one... they get so much criticism. At least they don't announce things that don't exist.. Have an opinion, that's fantastic... but don't expect a minority to change a dictatorship. That's silly. Develop for Sony PSsomething. Develop for xbox, whatevs. So your BMW doesn't hav a flatbed, doesn't make a 10-wheeler? Why should anyone care? Apple has strived for the best for the most... not the anything for anyone. So what? They took a market that was... absurdly mediocre... and raised the bar for everyone. Would Android even exist if it weren't for Apple? It's debatable. But the cell phone OS offerings prior to Apple's entry in the market were absurd... they were hello kitty keychains.Now, at least, they (the rest of the cell phone market) know that they suck. Don't like Apple for their products... fine... but thank them at least for making every other product better by forcing them to compete.
For the home user, and as competition for those that think they think different... sounds great. For the average white collar office user? You and Microsoft are kidding themselves. No one cares about 7 but the IT fanatics. It has no purpose that XP and the previous MS Office/ Exchange/ Active Directory paradigm already covers. Unless a company is seriously considering data center virtual desktops consolidation... and even if they are.., there is zero good reason to upgrade other than to give MS a bunch of licensing fees and to excercise the IT muscles during migration. Even when MS drops support for XP and updates... the office user is STILL DOING THE SAME LAME CRAP, no matter how shiney the bells and whistles are, for 95-98% of them, it just won't make any measurable difference in their work output.
That is quite true of nearly everything. Yes, awesome eye candy... and better than Vista for stability, speed, and footprint. But what we have are less sophisticated users used to the look of XP... and all they use is email, probably browser email, and the web... and maybe pictures and a little word processing. WTF is the POINT of updating these users? What new features are they going to care about? Is 7 more secure? Does anyone care but those that love anything new? XP was original Coke. Vista was New Coke. Seven is Coke Classic. Brovo, Microsoft, you pay the bills for another decade.
Again, without RTFL, I stand by my statement... duh, of course the economics can't make sense. It's going to cost no matter what. We must pay for the house we live in... if it doesn't fall to shit, just maybe there will possibly be a return in the future... but more likely, the return on this economically unfeasible investment occurred far in our past. It's like saying that the economics of humanitarian aid doesn't make sense. Again... duh!
um... if he meant economics, then my post is valid. You just did what you accused me of (that I freely admitted, at least). The mods here are getting more and more accurate.;-)
So... how could saving the environment possibly be profitable? It can't... unless, what I pointed out, you look historically at what people have already done to the environment... taking something for nothing... and now we have to pay for it. There were good economics for someone, not in the saving part, but in the raping part.
Yet another nitpick: Apple doesn't care as much about the mobile market as the others in the mobile market. Once Apple realized that the desire was for a better touch-based computer or a palmtop, they spread the platform out. All the statistics talking Android gaining ground, Apple losing ground, never seem to acknowledge the rest of the Android platform, nor the rest or Apple's iOS devices. Statistics say what they want you to hear.
who basically pointed out that the economics of the the environmental solutions espoused by the Climate Change community just didn't make sense
I'm sure he didn't really mean 'economics.' Viewing the larger historical picture, man has continually raped the environment, whether for timber or mining or farming or fishing or whathaveyou, for profit. As no one had to actually pay for the Ocean or the Earth or the natural resources that live on or are found under it —we just found it laying there and picked up what we wanted— it seemed at the time like like a free lunch we simply sold to someone else for profit. No one would expect actually fixing something that we have had a part in making broken to be profitable, but it was... you just have to look back far enough to see who actually got away with the money. (No... didn't click your links... and I'm certain my response just doesn't make sense either... but only if 'economics,' wasn't a poorly chosen term).
The Mini is German, while Jaguar is Indian... hardly both British companies. Besides which, independent electric motors for each wheel is not a new concept, and that Mini was not the first experimental vehicle to have them.
That Mini happens to be made by a British company. Yes, the shell comes from BMW, but that's about all. And Jags are still made by Brits despite being owned by Indians.
The point, I really thought, was the common infrastructure of car repair. Most big repair places charge via some standard they get out of a book... it may only take the mechanic such and such a time to do your breaks or replace a bad head gasket, but the book says it takes some other amount of time, and that's what they charge. This isn't going to be in their charge standard books... it's not like other cars. I'm sure you can find someone to fix it... however, it isn't every single mechanic, like can do your breaks or replace a head gasket. Mechanics are wonderful individuals, but the less like most other problems they see, the less choice you will have in who will repair it, the more time consuming and expensive it will be.
"Jaguar has developed a hybrid car that runs on gas turbines."
How many miles-per-gas-turbine does it get and how many gas turbines are needed to fill the tank?
LOL
Except for the turbines, it reminds me of this hybrid mini, which was the first car I heard about that had an electric motor for each wheel. Also a British company... I wonder if there was some cross-pollination here, either by engineers moving to Jaguar, or by Jaguar realizing that 12MPG wasn't going to cut it anymore, no matter how elegant their classic design was.
Also, I wonder what happens if one or more of the electric motors goes bad or stop working for any reason.
I'm taking a wild guess here, but I'm thinking you probably will need to get it fixed.
I believe the point that was being made is that it won't be repaired by the capable mechanics at the K-mart garage, or even the local import guy that used to work for BMW for 20 years and can fix anything... because this isn't like anything and the repair infrastructure which was geared toward fixing the regular combustion engine (already getting more complex in recent past years with new crazy efficient designs--"Where the heck is the battery on this thing... I need a jump and I can't find it anywhere!") won't be equipped to be able to do anything for you. If this car breaks, it sits. But I guess that isn't all that new of a concept for Jaguar owners.
This guy can in no way contradict nor add anything to the thread, so he must attack me personally. Make no mistake, his argument is an ad hominem fallacy.
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I just vomited in my coffee.
I've been saying since CS3 that Adobe was the new Microsoft, as they now tend to sell the same old crap with a new package every few years. Somehow, this merger would be like marrying a sibling. I believe you had the correct and natural reaction.
Glass is a liquid, too. Just extremely viscous.
bah... just checked wiki:
The notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical research or theoretical analysis
And I find this information new and strange... I thought the empirical evidence was colonial windows tend to be thicker at the bottom, due to gravity and the extreme viscosity. But Wiki can't be wrong, right?
I expect killer bees have generally not cared the slightest about this little plague killiing our bees.
Killer bees, or Africanized bees, are the same as regular bees. I always thought they were bigger or something... but saw a few documentaries on them when the spread was being sensationalized. I was always afraid of killer bees when I was growing up... but realize now it's absurd. It's likely I've never been within a hundred miles of a killer bee, LOL. So, they differ in individual and swarm behavior, crazy aggressive, but otherwise are the same as regular bees, biologically. Honestly, have no idea, but I'd guess they're killed by the same things that kill any bees. Whether they care less than other bees is ... difficult to imagine. What is it like to be a bee?
Any guidelines on how to help the bees return?
Killer Bees!
Forgot about them, didn't ya? Well, that's just what they want us to do!
It's already available on Eschelon. But I think Facebook is a clever front for NSA already.
I don't want to show disrespect to policemen, because there are exceptional ones out there (or, were... teh NYPD at the 9/11 WTC disaster, for instance... or the one that pulled me over in WV and wouldn't give me a ticket because he would have had to arrest me and impound my car because of my speed... he was an individual, chewed me out, and let me go... and I haven't sped since), but a policeman's primary duty is to protect himself. It is a job, so why should they risk themselves and their family's well being for the unknown victim? They are pragmatic, and as selfish as the rest of us.
Firemen are passionate. They will run into a burning building to save your 62" flatscreen. Some will say they are nuts, but that's not it. They are passionate about their jobs. Without a second thought, they will risk their lives to save yours. They put everyone and everything before themselves. A story like this had to come out sooner or later. It is sad about the animals, but it makes the story all the more poignant. Show them respect. Thank them when you see them. Give them props. They are the true 1337.
Jesus said "I have cast this fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it, until it blazes."
-Secret Gospel of Thomas
We all fight fire. We are all firefighters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tyG4upFns
I know it's a bit nickpicky, but... wha? Where have they acted like they invented package management?
You had to see the launch. If you didn't know what package management was, you'd swear Apple came up with the idea.
There is a vast difference between Windows 95 and XP. Maybe if you had said NT 4.0 I could have taken your comparison seriously.
All I'm saying is... the typical office user hasn't changed. And we know XP very well. The reasons you give, yes, even increased security, doesn't seem to cover the fact that we didn't need the new system, and 7 is a system that we don't know as well, as far as when something does go wrong, we won't necessarily know exactly what it is. This kind of knowledge takes time, not training.
I don't really understand what you are saying... that Windows 7 is a free upgrade to Windows XP users? Volume licensing isn't a free lunch. Every machine already comes with a license as well. Shrewed organizations have a licensing guy to recoup those extra costs (while negligable for a few machines... for a few thousand, that adds up). If a company upgrades their hardware, say, every 4 years (which is a common interval), then they are only paying fees ... once... not annually. Audits must be run to make sure the systems are removed off the old hardware, of course... but volume licensing is mostly a convenience.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying... that the fees for 7 are the same for XP? Do you think Microsoft will still charge volume licensing when they drop support for XP? Or are you saying new machines keep being added while the old machines, no longer in use, are still being charged for? At the few large organizations I worked for... there was a single volume license fee. They bought the license for the whole place... it wasn't payed annually... like property tax or something. You pay for a license for, say, 10K machines. You don't KEEP PAYING for those licenses every year... you pay once. Again... I don't understand what you mean I guess.
(and don't talk to me about Cydia. It's even more of a mess, with a listing for every theme mixed in with anything resembling a useful app, and a godawful search that just makes it painful.)
yeah, this totally sucks. But for realz.... what has Ron Gilbert done for us lately.
I don't get the iOS bashing... I really don't. But I'm not a developer. I'm a little annoyed at Apple acting like they invented package management with the AppStore, it's silly... they stand on the shoulders of giants and take all the credit for themselves... but ... what major corporation doesn't? Apple has blazed trails... and because they're not every thing to every one... they get so much criticism. At least they don't announce things that don't exist.. Have an opinion, that's fantastic... but don't expect a minority to change a dictatorship. That's silly. Develop for Sony PSsomething. Develop for xbox, whatevs. So your BMW doesn't hav a flatbed, doesn't make a 10-wheeler? Why should anyone care? Apple has strived for the best for the most... not the anything for anyone. So what? They took a market that was ... absurdly mediocre... and raised the bar for everyone. Would Android even exist if it weren't for Apple? It's debatable. But the cell phone OS offerings prior to Apple's entry in the market were absurd... they were hello kitty keychains.Now, at least, they (the rest of the cell phone market) know that they suck. Don't like Apple for their products... fine... but thank them at least for making every other product better by forcing them to compete.
For the home user, and as competition for those that think they think different... sounds great. For the average white collar office user? You and Microsoft are kidding themselves. No one cares about 7 but the IT fanatics. It has no purpose that XP and the previous MS Office/ Exchange/ Active Directory paradigm already covers. Unless a company is seriously considering data center virtual desktops consolidation... and even if they are.., there is zero good reason to upgrade other than to give MS a bunch of licensing fees and to excercise the IT muscles during migration. Even when MS drops support for XP and updates... the office user is STILL DOING THE SAME LAME CRAP, no matter how shiney the bells and whistles are, for 95-98% of them, it just won't make any measurable difference in their work output.
Umm.. the network settings are identical to the ones in XP. How can you possibly have trouble with that?
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Windows-7-Networking-5.jpg/
That is quite true of nearly everything. Yes, awesome eye candy... and better than Vista for stability, speed, and footprint. But what we have are less sophisticated users used to the look of XP... and all they use is email, probably browser email, and the web... and maybe pictures and a little word processing. WTF is the POINT of updating these users? What new features are they going to care about? Is 7 more secure? Does anyone care but those that love anything new? XP was original Coke. Vista was New Coke. Seven is Coke Classic. Brovo, Microsoft, you pay the bills for another decade.
Stop reading this! You are stealing my intellectual property by duplicating it without permission (at least twice, in both eyes).
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Stop reading this! You are stealing from me by duplicating my intellectual property... at least twice (upside-down, in both eyes)!
©2010 catmistake
This is not for sale. If you are reading this, you are breaking the law.
Again, without RTFL, I stand by my statement... duh, of course the economics can't make sense. It's going to cost no matter what. We must pay for the house we live in... if it doesn't fall to shit, just maybe there will possibly be a return in the future... but more likely, the return on this economically unfeasible investment occurred far in our past. It's like saying that the economics of humanitarian aid doesn't make sense. Again... duh!
um... if he meant economics, then my post is valid. You just did what you accused me of (that I freely admitted, at least). The mods here are getting more and more accurate. ;-)
So... how could saving the environment possibly be profitable? It can't... unless, what I pointed out, you look historically at what people have already done to the environment... taking something for nothing... and now we have to pay for it. There were good economics for someone, not in the saving part, but in the raping part.
Yet another nitpick: Apple doesn't care as much about the mobile market as the others in the mobile market. Once Apple realized that the desire was for a better touch-based computer or a palmtop, they spread the platform out. All the statistics talking Android gaining ground, Apple losing ground, never seem to acknowledge the rest of the Android platform, nor the rest or Apple's iOS devices. Statistics say what they want you to hear.
who basically pointed out that the economics of the the environmental solutions espoused by the Climate Change community just didn't make sense
I'm sure he didn't really mean 'economics.' Viewing the larger historical picture, man has continually raped the environment, whether for timber or mining or farming or fishing or whathaveyou, for profit. As no one had to actually pay for the Ocean or the Earth or the natural resources that live on or are found under it —we just found it laying there and picked up what we wanted— it seemed at the time like like a free lunch we simply sold to someone else for profit. No one would expect actually fixing something that we have had a part in making broken to be profitable, but it was... you just have to look back far enough to see who actually got away with the money. (No... didn't click your links... and I'm certain my response just doesn't make sense either... but only if 'economics,' wasn't a poorly chosen term).
The Mini is German, while Jaguar is Indian... hardly both British companies. Besides which, independent electric motors for each wheel is not a new concept, and that Mini was not the first experimental vehicle to have them.
That Mini happens to be made by a British company. Yes, the shell comes from BMW, but that's about all. And Jags are still made by Brits despite being owned by Indians.
The point, I really thought, was the common infrastructure of car repair. Most big repair places charge via some standard they get out of a book... it may only take the mechanic such and such a time to do your breaks or replace a bad head gasket, but the book says it takes some other amount of time, and that's what they charge. This isn't going to be in their charge standard books... it's not like other cars. I'm sure you can find someone to fix it... however, it isn't every single mechanic, like can do your breaks or replace a head gasket. Mechanics are wonderful individuals, but the less like most other problems they see, the less choice you will have in who will repair it, the more time consuming and expensive it will be.
"Jaguar has developed a hybrid car that runs on gas turbines."
How many miles-per-gas-turbine does it get and how many gas turbines are needed to fill the tank?
LOL
Except for the turbines, it reminds me of this hybrid mini, which was the first car I heard about that had an electric motor for each wheel. Also a British company... I wonder if there was some cross-pollination here, either by engineers moving to Jaguar, or by Jaguar realizing that 12MPG wasn't going to cut it anymore, no matter how elegant their classic design was.
Also, I wonder what happens if one or more of the electric motors goes bad or stop working for any reason.
I'm taking a wild guess here, but I'm thinking you probably will need to get it fixed.
I believe the point that was being made is that it won't be repaired by the capable mechanics at the K-mart garage, or even the local import guy that used to work for BMW for 20 years and can fix anything... because this isn't like anything and the repair infrastructure which was geared toward fixing the regular combustion engine (already getting more complex in recent past years with new crazy efficient designs--"Where the heck is the battery on this thing... I need a jump and I can't find it anywhere!") won't be equipped to be able to do anything for you. If this car breaks, it sits. But I guess that isn't all that new of a concept for Jaguar owners.
The perfect troll! I suppose you're now reading and trolling all my posts. I am honored.
This guy can in no way contradict nor add anything to the thread, so he must attack me personally. Make no mistake, his argument is an ad hominem fallacy.