I would guess that, instead, you're a marketing shill employed by big pharma hired to push a dangerous, adjuvant-laden mystery shot. Right?
Flu shots are dubious, and the proof is that in many European nations, they do not recommend them at all, and their flu incidence is similar to the USA's.
Might want to do some checking on actual data points, not just those pushed by US-based big pharmacorps.
I have received the flu shot 3 times and every time came down with the flu within 72 hours. Since then I have never gotten the flu shot and have also never gotten the flu as a result of my prudence.
Please don't jibber jabber some bullshit study funded by either big Parma or a doctor or university on big pharma's take at me either, I am not interested. Judging by the incredibly ridiculous advertising hype these past few years, it looks like more people are catching onto the scam called flu shots as well.
It was sarcasm. How anybody could actually think that making an electronic book is more complicated or difficult than bringing a real book to press is beyond me. Logic alone will inform you of the correctness of this.
Ebooks go through absolutely no more preparation, at the worst case, than a normal paper book goes through before the press even gets the file.
Who said anything about my experience? You're trying to make this about you and me. I didn't involve either one of us individually. I suggest you look at the Bugzilla and then decide if your experience is relevant. Perhaps you should try to assuage the people who file and confirm bugs that are sometimes fatal to their browser that it's no big deal, because you haven't had a problem!
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That's silly. People don't choose either a console, or a PC. Most people have PCs these days, and my guess is that probably 95% or more people who have a console will also have at least one PC in the house.
The console is properly viewed as an extra, optional toy - a single purpose PC hooked to the TV. If anything is optional, it's the console, not the PC.
Another way of viewing this is that you could run a cable to the TV from the PC and save the entire price of the console, because PEOPLE ALREADY OWN THE GOD DAMNED PC!
If you can't believe it you need to watch more TV news. Anyway, the new DSM actually makes doubting the government's scare of the day into a mental illness, so I wouldn't say stuff like that out loud for too much longer.
If y're expecting Apple to release some giant whizzy SD card enabled iPhone in response to this creaky HTC plastic thing, you'll be waiting a long time.
Apple and HTC are playing a different game. We've heard before about Android phones that are going to beat the iPh, and they have all failed because Andorid is made by cheap ripoff artists.
We know you're full of shit when you use a buzzword like "web time." Also, Mozilla and Google both have years-old outstanding critical bugs.
Their market-droids may have conned you into thinking that the rapid release cycle is because they react with synergizing bullet-time and the power of cloud computing, but you fell for a bunch of shit. Release schedules are only this rapid because the users are acting as alpha-testing guinea pigs.
You need at least 4 cores to deal with an OS and application stack that is running a Java ripoff anyway. The iPhone runs C. Ram is the same. And NFC? Pfffffftt. Please. That shit is stillborn and only exists to stretch the list of bullet points.
Why not make the HTC One with an 8" screen? After all, for a PORTABLE DEVICE bigger is always better isn't it?
Once you hit "retina" display levels, increasing the PPI is a pointless exercise anyway. Why not have a billion PPI?
You are illustrating a classic case of bullet point feature cyber-AIDS. The thing that makes a good product (please read about Dieter Rams) is not including everything you can, but eliminating everything you can without disturbing core functionality. The only people who care how much RAM or Megahurtz are fanny-pack geeky fucks.
Anyway, I think Apple will start worrying once people all around the world cue up in blocks-long lines and start sleeping overnight for a mere chance to get the latest Android phone. In the mean while, I don't really think they are losing sleep.
What do you mean "you've" had no bugs "worth mentioning" since FF4? That's a pretty weasel word filled sentence there.
Firefox has had bugs worth mentioning since the beginning, and remote exploits are fairly common. Some bugs are more than 5 years old - critical bugs even! Take a look at their cutesy Bugzilla bug tracker if you don't believe me.
You don't have to waste energy and tire yourself out doing things like white-knighting Firefox anyway, so go down for a nap, have a puddin pop, and get happy!
I'll go one further for you: Had Sun done it right, there would be no need for Windows or the Macintosh or Android at this point. Java was designed ultimately so that the virtual machine could be swapped out for an actual machine without changing the software and without the user noticing at all. It was supposed to be beautiful, something that would be software and / or hardware agnostic, that would be running on our spaceships 3000 years from now.
If they would have stuck to the idea of having one unified Java with one unified interface, as you say, there would be no need for a lot of stuff we have now. Instead they let the bean counters and Pharisees monetize the whole thing to the nth degree and thereby lost the goose that laid the golden eggs.
The problems all started with the MIS types, who are more bean-counter than wizard. They got it into the organizational culture of both universities and business that IT is an expense instead of a place to save money and provide services. In the old days, we'd look at the cost of mailing a bunch of fucking papers around everywhere, and drafting on draft tables etc, add up the cost of all the shit and then compare it with an IT solution that was designed to increase the speed of the whole organization while also eliminating a lot of the recurring overhead like papers, stamps, etc. The IT solution was usually both cheaper in the long run, and eliminated organizational lag. It was a net savings, and everybody was happy. Now it's the opposite, there is no benchmark of "how do we do this thing without using computers" to compare the IT cost to, so any IT spending is labeled a loss inside the organization.
It's all basically a giant money farming operation at this point, with the tech-clueless people who somehow got put in charge of IT ("diversity" hires and nepotism are the real issue here) don't look at the long-term losses to the organization when they outsource everything.
Just this year here in Oregon, OSU in Corvallis has been trying to get a new Wifi system running, and the bids are into retarded money territory and it looks like they will be getting even bigger. If the system was run more like the 1990s campus mail would be handing out some Apple Airport Extremes or some similar easy to use product and a set of metal straps and screws to stop theft, with instructions to screw it to the wall and run a wire to it. A couple higher-powered Wifi units would be stuck up on some poles around campus as well. It would work fine, it would be decentralized, and the costs would be hardware alone. Now, instead, we have fuckin' Sprint and ATT and such operations wanting millions of bucks just to STUDY the problem before they even get going on actually doing a damned thing!
If I wanted to destroy the US's economy with sabotage I wouldn't have to do a damned thing, other than let the MIS types and their clueless PHBs do exactly what they are doing, at the pace that they are doing it, right now.
People already have Preview, Evince, Okular, or Foxit on their systems. Some poor souls use Acrobat but only those people who don't have a clue anyway.
I'm not sure how your backwards-assed OS deals with PDFs, but mine (OS X) has that functionality built in to the windowing system, and available as a library for applications to call. In fact, the whole screen is rendered as a PDF anyway.
Apple's Preview is excellent. It renders PDF files better than Adobe's own product, and doesn't implement a lot of the shit like Flash that makes Acrobat so insecure. Evince and Okular are also top-notch.
You're missing the point. With people now relying on two PDF readers instead of one, the attack surface has doubled, and the amount of patches needed to address any single given vulnerability has doubled as well.
Additionally, this means that the limited manpower at the Mozilla Foundation is now spread even more thinly, and the chances that any given bug in Mozilla are fixed with alacrity are decreased.
No it doesn't. It has a handful of paid FF devs looking at it, and some folks in the Russian Mafia, and some more folks at the Chinese Cyber-assault brigade.
Just because the source is there, it doesn't follow that people are ACTUALLY looking at it. Sure, billions of people COULD look at the code, but in reality they probably aren't. And beyond this, without knowing the particulars of the entire Firefox code as a whole, how can they figure out if there are memory leaks and security problems anyway?
The "many eyes" thing is a good idea that falls down under any kind of scrutiny.
It's not so much as a "release cycle" as it is a "oh we got a compile that is somewhat stable, here you go you ignorant hapless uninformed beta testers."
Plus there's no reason for you to be such a cock-sucker. Did somebody take a shit in your corn flakes this morning? Mommy didn't let you have one more puddin pop?
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I would guess that, instead, you're a marketing shill employed by big pharma hired to push a dangerous, adjuvant-laden mystery shot. Right?
Flu shots are dubious, and the proof is that in many European nations, they do not recommend them at all, and their flu incidence is similar to the USA's.
Might want to do some checking on actual data points, not just those pushed by US-based big pharmacorps.
I have received the flu shot 3 times and every time came down with the flu within 72 hours. Since then I have never gotten the flu shot and have also never gotten the flu as a result of my prudence.
Please don't jibber jabber some bullshit study funded by either big Parma or a doctor or university on big pharma's take at me either, I am not interested. Judging by the incredibly ridiculous advertising hype these past few years, it looks like more people are catching onto the scam called flu shots as well.
It was sarcasm. How anybody could actually think that making an electronic book is more complicated or difficult than bringing a real book to press is beyond me. Logic alone will inform you of the correctness of this.
Ebooks go through absolutely no more preparation, at the worst case, than a normal paper book goes through before the press even gets the file.
No, no it's not easier to prepare an eBook than a paper book. That's patently ridiculous.
Who said anything about my experience? You're trying to make this about you and me. I didn't involve either one of us individually. I suggest you look at the Bugzilla and then decide if your experience is relevant. Perhaps you should try to assuage the people who file and confirm bugs that are sometimes fatal to their browser that it's no big deal, because you haven't had a problem!
That's silly. People don't choose either a console, or a PC. Most people have PCs these days, and my guess is that probably 95% or more people who have a console will also have at least one PC in the house.
The console is properly viewed as an extra, optional toy - a single purpose PC hooked to the TV. If anything is optional, it's the console, not the PC.
Another way of viewing this is that you could run a cable to the TV from the PC and save the entire price of the console, because PEOPLE ALREADY OWN THE GOD DAMNED PC!
Zero chance? If it's an x86 machine, Sony will fuck up somehow, and people will figure out how to make it happen on generic hardware.
If you can't believe it you need to watch more TV news. Anyway, the new DSM actually makes doubting the government's scare of the day into a mental illness, so I wouldn't say stuff like that out loud for too much longer.
It's pretty clear that you are white knighting Firefox, though.
And despite your claim that you have not directly experienced Firefox bugs, proves nothing. One wonders why you even originally said it!
Public policy? Like what public policy?
If anything public policy attempts to give a massive leg-up to "minorities" and has for over a quarter century now.
*ONE* memory leak was kind of fixed. There are others, and Firefox is the fattest browser on the market at this time.
Firefox gets a big chink of money by sending your traffic to Google. They're in on the marketing thing.
In this sense, Safari is no worse than Firefox.
If y're expecting Apple to release some giant whizzy SD card enabled iPhone in response to this creaky HTC plastic thing, you'll be waiting a long time.
Apple and HTC are playing a different game. We've heard before about Android phones that are going to beat the iPh, and they have all failed because Andorid is made by cheap ripoff artists.
We know you're full of shit when you use a buzzword like "web time." Also, Mozilla and Google both have years-old outstanding critical bugs.
Their market-droids may have conned you into thinking that the rapid release cycle is because they react with synergizing bullet-time and the power of cloud computing, but you fell for a bunch of shit. Release schedules are only this rapid because the users are acting as alpha-testing guinea pigs.
You need at least 4 cores to deal with an OS and application stack that is running a Java ripoff anyway. The iPhone runs C. Ram is the same. And NFC? Pfffffftt. Please. That shit is stillborn and only exists to stretch the list of bullet points.
Why not make the HTC One with an 8" screen? After all, for a PORTABLE DEVICE bigger is always better isn't it?
Once you hit "retina" display levels, increasing the PPI is a pointless exercise anyway. Why not have a billion PPI?
You are illustrating a classic case of bullet point feature cyber-AIDS. The thing that makes a good product (please read about Dieter Rams) is not including everything you can, but eliminating everything you can without disturbing core functionality. The only people who care how much RAM or Megahurtz are fanny-pack geeky fucks.
Anyway, I think Apple will start worrying once people all around the world cue up in blocks-long lines and start sleeping overnight for a mere chance to get the latest Android phone. In the mean while, I don't really think they are losing sleep.
What do you mean "you've" had no bugs "worth mentioning" since FF4? That's a pretty weasel word filled sentence there.
Firefox has had bugs worth mentioning since the beginning, and remote exploits are fairly common. Some bugs are more than 5 years old - critical bugs even! Take a look at their cutesy Bugzilla bug tracker if you don't believe me.
You don't have to waste energy and tire yourself out doing things like white-knighting Firefox anyway, so go down for a nap, have a puddin pop, and get happy!
I'll go one further for you: Had Sun done it right, there would be no need for Windows or the Macintosh or Android at this point. Java was designed ultimately so that the virtual machine could be swapped out for an actual machine without changing the software and without the user noticing at all. It was supposed to be beautiful, something that would be software and / or hardware agnostic, that would be running on our spaceships 3000 years from now.
If they would have stuck to the idea of having one unified Java with one unified interface, as you say, there would be no need for a lot of stuff we have now. Instead they let the bean counters and Pharisees monetize the whole thing to the nth degree and thereby lost the goose that laid the golden eggs.
The problems all started with the MIS types, who are more bean-counter than wizard. They got it into the organizational culture of both universities and business that IT is an expense instead of a place to save money and provide services. In the old days, we'd look at the cost of mailing a bunch of fucking papers around everywhere, and drafting on draft tables etc, add up the cost of all the shit and then compare it with an IT solution that was designed to increase the speed of the whole organization while also eliminating a lot of the recurring overhead like papers, stamps, etc. The IT solution was usually both cheaper in the long run, and eliminated organizational lag. It was a net savings, and everybody was happy. Now it's the opposite, there is no benchmark of "how do we do this thing without using computers" to compare the IT cost to, so any IT spending is labeled a loss inside the organization.
It's all basically a giant money farming operation at this point, with the tech-clueless people who somehow got put in charge of IT ("diversity" hires and nepotism are the real issue here) don't look at the long-term losses to the organization when they outsource everything.
Just this year here in Oregon, OSU in Corvallis has been trying to get a new Wifi system running, and the bids are into retarded money territory and it looks like they will be getting even bigger. If the system was run more like the 1990s campus mail would be handing out some Apple Airport Extremes or some similar easy to use product and a set of metal straps and screws to stop theft, with instructions to screw it to the wall and run a wire to it. A couple higher-powered Wifi units would be stuck up on some poles around campus as well. It would work fine, it would be decentralized, and the costs would be hardware alone. Now, instead, we have fuckin' Sprint and ATT and such operations wanting millions of bucks just to STUDY the problem before they even get going on actually doing a damned thing!
If I wanted to destroy the US's economy with sabotage I wouldn't have to do a damned thing, other than let the MIS types and their clueless PHBs do exactly what they are doing, at the pace that they are doing it, right now.
People already have Preview, Evince, Okular, or Foxit on their systems. Some poor souls use Acrobat but only those people who don't have a clue anyway.
I'm not sure how your backwards-assed OS deals with PDFs, but mine (OS X) has that functionality built in to the windowing system, and available as a library for applications to call. In fact, the whole screen is rendered as a PDF anyway.
Apple is no longer providing "system Java" and recommends that you get all your Java directly from Oracle. They have for over a year now too.
Apple's Preview is excellent. It renders PDF files better than Adobe's own product, and doesn't implement a lot of the shit like Flash that makes Acrobat so insecure. Evince and Okular are also top-notch.
You're missing the point. With people now relying on two PDF readers instead of one, the attack surface has doubled, and the amount of patches needed to address any single given vulnerability has doubled as well.
Additionally, this means that the limited manpower at the Mozilla Foundation is now spread even more thinly, and the chances that any given bug in Mozilla are fixed with alacrity are decreased.
No it doesn't. It has a handful of paid FF devs looking at it, and some folks in the Russian Mafia, and some more folks at the Chinese Cyber-assault brigade.
Just because the source is there, it doesn't follow that people are ACTUALLY looking at it. Sure, billions of people COULD look at the code, but in reality they probably aren't. And beyond this, without knowing the particulars of the entire Firefox code as a whole, how can they figure out if there are memory leaks and security problems anyway?
The "many eyes" thing is a good idea that falls down under any kind of scrutiny.
It's not so much as a "release cycle" as it is a "oh we got a compile that is somewhat stable, here you go you ignorant hapless uninformed beta testers."
Plus there's no reason for you to be such a cock-sucker. Did somebody take a shit in your corn flakes this morning? Mommy didn't let you have one more puddin pop?