How does this manifest to the user? I've got a Droid and cant' say I notice any problems that I'd attribute to the OS eating memory. Granted I haven't really gone looking to see what the RAM footprint is, but everything I do runs smooth and stable. Am I missing something?
Haha we've got one at work for I'm sure less than that...it's called "the building". None of the guys with iPhones/ATT coverage get any signal at all within our office.
Sure, but the only reason I'm getting up every morning in the first place is to go to the J-O-B and make the money. Hunger would motivate me to eat eventually, but I sure as heck would be doing things a lot differently if I was independently wealthy and didn't have to worry about money...
I can duct tape a GPS device to it...I call it "installing an app". I could even use the washer's API to put it inside the drum. Your point? Installing a set of applications that are approved and available for an appliance is still going to be a finite set of What You Can Do With It.
But that's the problem - a naive assumption that everybody else also wants what's best for everyone else. If you instead assume that every person works in their own self interest, you can use that to move forward. Offer benefits to the individual for the short term, but leverage that for long term gain, too. Telling people "trust me, this is for your own good eventually, and will also help everyone else, too" only breeds the mistrust and mess we've got now.
On the other hand....so what? So the global climate is changing - so what? I'm all for not being wasteful, nature conservation blah blah blah. As long as it doesn't inconvenience me too much. But what's the greater point? To reverse it? To what end? Is that even possible? What would *that* do?
Or to slow down the change? Sure, but again - to what extent? If you're merely slowing change down, what are you doing, buying time to figure something else out?
I guess I don't get what all the sky-is-falling is about. If it makes sense to use more efficient energies then great....but hearing people blow on and on about how the end of the world is coming only makes me want to shun the whole thing and go burn a bunch of tires while spraying aerosol cans out my SUV. While driving around by myself.
So we've got climate change or warming or cooling or warming in some places and cooling in some places and all kinds of other shit. So what? We adapt - that's what we do. Why get all worked up over it?
OMG how the fuck is increasing taxes , i.e., money flowing to the government, going to increase the economy vs cutting out the middleman and just having the money flow in the economy in the first place??
Great, so now I have Netflix on my Vista Media Center, DVD/Bluray player, and now Wii...all hooked up to the TV. Can we get some more content? I totally understand not being able to get recent releases and highly popular new content. But why can't I get 10+ year old movies and TV series from 3+ seasons ago on Netflix Streaming? Probably the last dozen titles I've looked up haven't been available. They should be building up their back catalog and getting obscure titles....streaming should be the answer for that moment when you used to go to the video store, not knowing what you wanted to watch, and just browsing grabbing whatever catches your eye. Sure I can add it to the queue, but by the time it comes I'm not feeling it anymore.
I absolutely *hate* the selection that they have available for streaming.
Shouldn't that have been evaluated before starting the project in the first place? If you rely on a lot of legacy proprietary functionality, you should probably determine costs beforehand of either a) replicating that functionality in the new system or b) justifying whether you need the functionality in the first place.
That sounds like you have a bunch of xbox 360 games but don't want the console...then buying a Mac and wondering why the games won't work on it...
Does it have real adblock or is it just hiding elements but still loading them? I use all three browsers on a fairly regular basis on Ubuntu, but have found Firefox's Adblock extension to have a better UI and better automatic integration of existing blocklists. Opera's blocking seems to work, but it's UI to select what to block I find awkward. And last I knew (maybe that's changed?) Chrome's adblock didn't actually stop the elements from being loaded on the page, it just hid them via CSS.
But usually your provider choice is limited to what your employer provides, right? Sure, you can get it on your own, but that's not gonna be close the competitively priced, either.
It's not just limited to government, either. You just adequately described my current employer - well, at least one of the acquisitions the company has made over over the years. This part of the business in question has been doing things the same way for 15 years, and has gobs and gobs of processes and gotchas and business logic wrapped into a tangled mess of manual and convoluted automatic processes. Trying to change *anything* to make it uniform with the rest of the company and more efficient gets major pushback.
I'd say bottom line is that NO organization that has been around for a large period of time can adapt. Everything and everyone will get stuck in their ways to the point where they can't manage and will get beat out by a smaller more nimble competitor. It's easy to see in the private sector, but I'm not really sure what the equivalent in terms of government will be.
Wait - so the guy was capable of pulling out an old and installing a new motherboard (albeit, sans CPU), but was unable to do the basic troubleshooting from there? What kind of average user attempts a motherboard-ectomy?
Really, the hardest part is probably setting up a config for your remote control.
This was my biggest complaint when I messed with it ~4 years ago, and why I ended up switching to MCE2005 and Vista MC since then. The Myth setup more or less went OK, but my remote never fully worked. Sure, it did the basic stuff, but some of the buttons I didn't know what they did, and some of the playback functionality was strange. I never did get around to fully customizing it, and part of it was I didn't want to have to muck around with customizing every button combo for every Myth app in the first place. It's an MCE remote, so it Just Works with Windows Media Center. I really miss MythWeb, though, and the ability to ssh into the box. I hate the single-userness of Windows, and the remote web guide that's available sucks.
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How does this manifest to the user? I've got a Droid and cant' say I notice any problems that I'd attribute to the OS eating memory. Granted I haven't really gone looking to see what the RAM footprint is, but everything I do runs smooth and stable. Am I missing something?
Haha we've got one at work for I'm sure less than that...it's called "the building". None of the guys with iPhones/ATT coverage get any signal at all within our office.
You obviously need to pour more money into the community pot so they can be fixed!
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Sure, but the only reason I'm getting up every morning in the first place is to go to the J-O-B and make the money. Hunger would motivate me to eat eventually, but I sure as heck would be doing things a lot differently if I was independently wealthy and didn't have to worry about money...
I can duct tape a GPS device to it...I call it "installing an app". I could even use the washer's API to put it inside the drum. Your point? Installing a set of applications that are approved and available for an appliance is still going to be a finite set of What You Can Do With It.
But that's the problem - a naive assumption that everybody else also wants what's best for everyone else. If you instead assume that every person works in their own self interest, you can use that to move forward. Offer benefits to the individual for the short term, but leverage that for long term gain, too. Telling people "trust me, this is for your own good eventually, and will also help everyone else, too" only breeds the mistrust and mess we've got now.
On the other hand....so what? So the global climate is changing - so what? I'm all for not being wasteful, nature conservation blah blah blah. As long as it doesn't inconvenience me too much. But what's the greater point? To reverse it? To what end? Is that even possible? What would *that* do?
Or to slow down the change? Sure, but again - to what extent? If you're merely slowing change down, what are you doing, buying time to figure something else out?
I guess I don't get what all the sky-is-falling is about. If it makes sense to use more efficient energies then great....but hearing people blow on and on about how the end of the world is coming only makes me want to shun the whole thing and go burn a bunch of tires while spraying aerosol cans out my SUV. While driving around by myself.
So we've got climate change or warming or cooling or warming in some places and cooling in some places and all kinds of other shit. So what? We adapt - that's what we do. Why get all worked up over it?
OMG how the fuck is increasing taxes , i.e., money flowing to the government, going to increase the economy vs cutting out the middleman and just having the money flow in the economy in the first place??
Haha when I drink I don't get stupid, I get AWESOME!
Wait, I thought this was the North American Man/Boy Love Association?
Great, so now I have Netflix on my Vista Media Center, DVD/Bluray player, and now Wii...all hooked up to the TV. Can we get some more content? I totally understand not being able to get recent releases and highly popular new content. But why can't I get 10+ year old movies and TV series from 3+ seasons ago on Netflix Streaming? Probably the last dozen titles I've looked up haven't been available. They should be building up their back catalog and getting obscure titles....streaming should be the answer for that moment when you used to go to the video store, not knowing what you wanted to watch, and just browsing grabbing whatever catches your eye. Sure I can add it to the queue, but by the time it comes I'm not feeling it anymore.
I absolutely *hate* the selection that they have available for streaming.
How are Android apps crippled?
How the fuck heavy is 200kg in lbs?
It's awesome that it's convoluted/confusing to even find the actual text of what is a rather important piece of legislation....yay for transparency!
Shouldn't that have been evaluated before starting the project in the first place? If you rely on a lot of legacy proprietary functionality, you should probably determine costs beforehand of either a) replicating that functionality in the new system or b) justifying whether you need the functionality in the first place.
That sounds like you have a bunch of xbox 360 games but don't want the console...then buying a Mac and wondering why the games won't work on it...
So, does the proprosed health care reform *fix* those issues?
Does it have real adblock or is it just hiding elements but still loading them? I use all three browsers on a fairly regular basis on Ubuntu, but have found Firefox's Adblock extension to have a better UI and better automatic integration of existing blocklists. Opera's blocking seems to work, but it's UI to select what to block I find awkward. And last I knew (maybe that's changed?) Chrome's adblock didn't actually stop the elements from being loaded on the page, it just hid them via CSS.
Wrong! Abstinence is the one and only preventative answer!
So how can we turn it around and start treating our health insurance like we do our car insurance?
But usually your provider choice is limited to what your employer provides, right? Sure, you can get it on your own, but that's not gonna be close the competitively priced, either.
It's not just limited to government, either. You just adequately described my current employer - well, at least one of the acquisitions the company has made over over the years. This part of the business in question has been doing things the same way for 15 years, and has gobs and gobs of processes and gotchas and business logic wrapped into a tangled mess of manual and convoluted automatic processes. Trying to change *anything* to make it uniform with the rest of the company and more efficient gets major pushback.
I'd say bottom line is that NO organization that has been around for a large period of time can adapt. Everything and everyone will get stuck in their ways to the point where they can't manage and will get beat out by a smaller more nimble competitor. It's easy to see in the private sector, but I'm not really sure what the equivalent in terms of government will be.
I changed mine in the prefs to just check weekly....it was getting annoying having it pop up something at me every day with new updates.
Wait - so the guy was capable of pulling out an old and installing a new motherboard (albeit, sans CPU), but was unable to do the basic troubleshooting from there? What kind of average user attempts a motherboard-ectomy?
Really, the hardest part is probably setting up a config for your remote control.
This was my biggest complaint when I messed with it ~4 years ago, and why I ended up switching to MCE2005 and Vista MC since then. The Myth setup more or less went OK, but my remote never fully worked. Sure, it did the basic stuff, but some of the buttons I didn't know what they did, and some of the playback functionality was strange. I never did get around to fully customizing it, and part of it was I didn't want to have to muck around with customizing every button combo for every Myth app in the first place. It's an MCE remote, so it Just Works with Windows Media Center. I really miss MythWeb, though, and the ability to ssh into the box. I hate the single-userness of Windows, and the remote web guide that's available sucks.