That's "Weekly World News" friend, NE does the stories on who's banging the Kardashians and who is cheating on some third round failure on Survivor. Frankly i found WWN more entertaining as i'd rather read about batboy than which Kardashian is the biggest slut this week.
Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit. It reminds me of a booklet my grandfather brought home from the airbase he was stationed on around the time of Blue book. It said "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander". He said 'perfect example of military logic, we refuse to admit anything might exist but don't shoot at the damned thing whatever you do".
The sad part is if UFOs are real most likely they are doing the same thing we do on those safari tours, pointing out the animals on some "tour of the crazy monkey world". I can just imagine the spiel "And here we have the crazy monkeys in one of their favorite past times, where they throw chunks of metal and primitive chemical rockets at each other in a fight for territory and dominance, most likely for mates and resources. No flurg you may NOT go poke one with a stick, do you have ANY idea what a crazy monkey smells like? you get close enough to poke it with a stick we will never get the stench out of the ship, woof. Oh and here's a treat for those with strong stomachs, over on the left we have two of the monkeys procreating on top of one of their primitive huts. As you can see they haven't developed asexual reproduction which is why we believe they smell so horrible, its most likely used to attract mates and to tell when the female is fertile. Oh it looks like its your lucky day folks, directly in front of us is one of their incredibly primitive flying vehicles, we believe those bulbous things hanging below it is a fetish to show the females how high the pilot ranks with the tribe, now we will play with it a little just so you can see how poorly built these machines are, why they can't even turn sideways!"
Oh please! China is about as communist as my left buttock, in fact other than a few hippie communes in the northwest in the 60s I don't think anyone has ever tried to have an actual communist state. What China was and to a point is, which was one of the reasons for the great Sino/Soviet split when the USSR divorced itself from his example was a variation on Stalinism, which is where a handful at the top live like Gods while the people do without. I know its hard after being pounded with propaganda to this very day (notice how anything the right doesn't like like healthcare for the poor is labeled 'socialist' like that is the same as kiddie fiddler?) but its easy enough to tell the difference as i sincerely doubt "the people' were asking for The Holodomor, the great purges, or to eat bark in NK while dear leader's fatass kid ate all the cookies. As for why China is so polluted its because they don't care how the worker's live (which again is the opposite of how Karl Marx designed communism) as long as they can roll around in cash while building up their military. it reminds me of old Joe and his 'five year plans" as by the end of those he had built some seriously pollution monsters, the only non Chinese city in the top 10 most polluted is an old Joe era chemical factory town in Russia.
As for TFA here is a perfect example of why the FDA and EPA need real teeth instead of letting the right gut what little regulations we have because its pretty obvious without the threat of millions in fines and a loss of their business most corps won't give a fuck about anything but the bottom line. of course the bitch is it never seems to fail that no matter how many times we think we've closed the loopholes the little bastards just get smarter, look at how many superfund sites we ended up stuck with because they set up some shell corp to take the fall. I'm seeing the same thing happen in my own state with the NG frakking and wildcatters as they've set up shell corps that rent everything from the tools to the office furniture to be the "face' company that just gets burned if bills pile up or they get hit with fines and then they can just start another shell corp, rent the gear again, and they are right back in business. We really need to make a law so these CxOs are held responsible for the damage their companies cause so they can't just 'pull an Enron' and walk away with the cash while we get stuck with the bills.
For a good example playing out now look how the airlines are gonna end up dumping their retirement accounts onto the US taxpayer while the CxOs bail with golden parachutes. they got to gamble with the funds and when things went pop they get to say "tough shit buh bye" and cash out, its completely fucked and rewards sociopaths and if we don't do something about it we'll have no choice but to become socialist because the majority of those with company run retirement accounts are libel to find nothing but a picture of the CEO snorting coke off some 19 year old hooker in their nest eggs they've worked their whole lives for.
Actually its pretty easy to predict, its around 35%. When the unemployment numbers reach around 35% to 40% even those that have a job will be happy to jump in because they know their job could disappear tomorrow and when you have that many unemployed that is a lot of potential soldiers with nothing to lose. if you say it could never reach that high I would point out that we've lost 42,400 factories this past decade and we have the man most likely to be the next R to run for POTUS paying just 15% taxes while corporate taxes have never been lower makes for a LOT of hate filled bitter people who are tired of feeling like serfs.
So i wouldn't say it couldn't happen here, we got a lot of national guard armories just bristling with weapons, similar to what happened with Iraq, you got survivalists sitting on enough copies of the cookbook to wallpaper the capital and you have American soldiers signing oaths to turn on their own leaders if they disobey the constitution.It really wouldn't take but a couple of body blows like a complete EU collapse to put the last bullet in the US economy and send the few corps left off to the growth markets of Asia and people with no hope, jobs, or future frankly have nothing to lose. Do i think it will happen? nothing lasts forever and even the great empires all fell, it seems one can't keep a single system going for any length of time without the corruption ruining it. I do think we should at least give Dodd credit for being an honest whore, i'd rather have one stand up and say they are a whore than be like Obama on that pot petition and just blow smoke for 40 minutes.
We don't need the public, what we need is another Woodward and Bernstein that can dig up the dirt and write it in such a way the public hangs on it like they do the Kardashians. Do you think congress REALLY wanted to toss a sitting president? hell no they would have been happy to let him finish his lame duck term and let one of their guys take the big chair but it was guys like Woodward and Bernstein that kept the fire stoked and in people's faces and didn't give them a choice and THAT is what we need now.
I'm sure it will be just like his eloquent "We don't give a shit what you think about pot because we're gonna keep throwing kids in jail for our big pharma friends, here have a Goatse" response. If anybody believes these things are gonna do shit I have some nice swampland in AR you might be interested in, almost gator free!
lets be honest folks, for the past 15 years or so they haven't even bothered to hide the bribes anymore, i'm tempted to say it started with Dubya but Clinton was right there in it too, it just got REALLY blatant with Dubya and his "Have and have mores' attempts at humor. Now that they have Citizens United they are simply more of a citizen than you, because while you may have the teeming masses they have the bulging briefcase and bulging briefcase beats teeming masses every single time. Ya know, I actually kinda like Dodd now, at least he is an honest whore, unlike Obama who can give a 30 minute speech responding to these and not say a god damned thing or even acknowledge their existence.
Yeah but the bitch is WHAT is it about the captcha? That has to be one of the most piss poor sites i've seen in awhile, I tried no less than THIRTY different ways with different emails, browsers, even trying the audio version which frankly was beyond simple, just words like "white" and the damned thing STILL won't take the fucking thing!
I wasn't joking either, I've seen fansites designed by 14 year old girls that had better sign up designs than that POS, and the scary part is a big bag of OUR money paid for that rinky dink amateur hour bullshit. the sad part is I'm actually hoping the made it a bitch to discourage people from giving feedback, because the alternative is that is just another example of us paying more likely a crazy amount of money for something that doesn't work, probably went through 14 committees that we paid for as well. if anyone wonders why our system is so broken one look at that site and knowing it was not only approved in that form but somebody got PAID for that shit? Well what more proof do you need the whole thing is a clusterfuck.
But see THAT is the bitch, it doesn't come down to the truth anymore but whether some judge decides you "must be a PC Ninja!" therefor can't actually have forgotten. Frankly the whole system is royally fucked ATM, we have a guy in jail for an actual thoughtcrime with that "pro pedo" book which was literally his thoughts on the subject written as a book. i don't care WHAT your thoughts on the subject matter is writing your thoughts down in book form no matter what the thoughts shouldn't involve prison time, and now we have literally gotten to the point where just the fact you have those tools, even if you were like me and just saw some article and decided to play with 'em, could land you in PMITA prison. And how would I "prove" I forgot? How could i prove that some passwords no matter how long are easy (such as one of my favorites which is the make/model/serial of a bass I got for my 21st BDay and know by heart) while some simple ones such as my password for Steam i couldn't remember if you put a gun to my head because I'm logged in all the time and thus never use it? hell if i wouldn't have taken a screenshot after the last reset i'd never remember that damned thing!
It just goes to show you why we geeks need to be fighting this bullshit tooth and nail because the ones writing these retard laws don't have a damned clue. the fact that with zero other evidence i could be forced to try to somehow 'prove' to a judge that I can't remember something just shows what a completely broken and fucked system we have now. But you watch, i bet the next attack will be having tools like PGP in your possession, they'll get Nancy Grace to declare these tools are "letting kiddie fiddlers walk our streets ZOMFG!" and they will ram through some 'protect the children" law that states you have to have some state approved reason for having this stuff. Don't believe me? Well we used to feel superior over China because they had a great firewall yet with SOPA/PIPA that's probably what we are gonna end up with, and who would have thought a court could just toss out 200 years of fifth amendment precedents with 'its a PC ZOMFG!"
Hell i'll be happy to give 'em a target to waste mod points on, simply because this has been bugging the shit out of me for years....what is it with Linux zealots and the damned paranoia? you don't see Apple users going "ZOMFG somebody is gonna take my iShiny!" and most of us Windows users simply tried your product, found it didn't cut the mustard and moved on and frankly couldn't give a wet fart about stealing your precious freedoms okay? Right now i got two DBs loaded, a DVD burn going on, a dozen web pages, and a video playing, and this is on a PC that has had every part changed out since it had its OS loaded in Oct 09 and not a SINGLE crash, not one. Last time i tried that kind of multitasking in Linux X-Server took a big old shit and took the desktop with it. Multitasking and A/V don't mix in Linux I learned.
So what's with the paranoia? you think everybody who isn't slurping the koolaid is an "M$ Ninja" with a sekret warroom planning the downfall of your precious. You HONESTLY think Steve Ballmer gives a shit about you anymore? Wake up and smell the Android pal! He's too busy trying to "fucking kill Google" and getting seriously pissed that everywhere he turns is somebody with an iPad to give a fuck. And if you don't want anybody to complain FIX YOUR DAMNED DRIVERS ALREADY Jesus tap Dancing Christ here it is 2012 and you still can't do an apt-dist-upgrade without finding a goat to slaughter on an altar to St. iGNUious in the hope that damned Pulseaudio crap don't die or your graphics or wirelress drivers don't take a big old puke. I have tried every damned 'user friendly" distro on the planet and yet i still can't get a single one to do a standard GUI upgrade without ending up with a broken mess and don't even get me started on LTS, 3 years is COMPLETELY worthless! Hell even Enterprises by and large don't chunk every 3 years anymore because the MHz wars are over and a multicore desktop can last a good 5-7 easy peasy!
So quit with the damned paranoia as it makes your entire community sound batshit. Instead get to bitching your asses off at the damned devs who are obviously ignoring you (I'm looking at YOU Gnome and KDE!) and work on making the best damned product that actually gives the people what they want. I've said it a million times but fuck it, it needs repeating obviously, HOME USERS ARE NOT GEEKS and will NOT learn your CLI heavy fiddly bullshit geeky ways, okay? they just won't so quit acting like they will. you want to see what they want look at the iPhone, that thing is so dumbed down you could drag some head hunter out of the bush and shove one in his hands and in 20 minutes he'll be playing Angry Birds and THAT is what they want, they want simple, clicky clicky all GUI so dumbed down you could give it to someone that doesn't even speak the installed language and just by looking at the pictures they get it, and it needs a MINIMUM of 5 years support, i'd say 7 myself simply because most users aren't ever gonna stress a modern quad core.
So let go of the 90s and stop with the conspiracy theories already! Nobody carries your product because its not iPhone easy, not because Bill Gates, who hasn't even been there in a fricking decade and in his place is a big sweaty gorilla that if he had an original thought his head would asplode, is sekretly plotting to kill your precious GNU! you've got more choices than EVER before, you got X86 and ARM and handhelds and phones and routers and fricking toasters if you want to Open Source your bagel so stop with the batshit already, geez! You'd think with the "Great XP dieoff' in full swing with millions of insanely overpowered desktops and laptops hitting the market and the sweaty monkey about to treat his company like Vincent Vega did Marvin in the Bonnie situation because he has a hard on for the iPad you'd get the clue and give us a 7 year supported OS that was as simple to use as iOS and blindside the monkey but noooo..why they just need to "embrace the POWER of CLI" like its the God damned force! Never before in history has so many things been in
And can I say, and I'm sure I'll get hate for pointing this out, that the world was a better place before the iPhone? Sure the iPhone junkies just looove to fiddle with the damned thing, got 3 relatives that can't keep their hands off the time waster, but in most of the country the network simply can't take the load so now the cell network is back to being like it was when it was first rolling out, with dropped calls, lots of congestion, hell i don't care where you go anymore its like being in the damned stick again thanks to the damned iPhone!
Why is it sooooo hard for folks to understand it ain't no damned land line and you can just plop your fat ass down and have the world pumped to your damned little iPhone, okay? would it REALLY kill you to wait until you fricking got home to watch that guy get nutted on YouTube? Now I can understand if you're say a business person and have to stay on top of your email for your job, I get that. or if you have a sick or frail family member and you are checking for an email on their status, hey hope they get better. Just don't be douches, okay? its a shared resource and your constant iFiddling is sucking up all the damned bandwidth and making things suck for everybody alright? its like nobody in this damned country learns common courtesy anymore, like how i can't even go to the movies anymore thanks to iPhone fiddlers playing with their damned iToys and flashing throughout the movie. I get you like your iShiny, but the rest of us would like to tell you to shove that thing up your ass!
The problem is "how do you prove a negative" which at the end of the day is what we end up with. Take myself for example, i'm sure if the cops went through every single backup I have going back a decade i'm sure there are encrypted files that i do NOT have the key for. How could that be? simple I've farted around with tons of different crypto software over the years, everything from WinRAR encryption to PGP to the one that supposedly has the ability to make hidden volumes, can't think of the name right off hand. i'd play with them, try it on some random bullshit, get bored and promptly forget about it. since I back up certain folders in their entirety like my software download folder, my picture folders, etc on a regular basis i'm sure if one were to hunt long and hard enough you could find a couple of those files i simply didn't think to toss, who cares about some 7Mb file nowadays?
so how can I PROVE I don't remember it? can't say that can't happen with a whole drive either because I've had to deal with customers that panicked and forgot their Windows password, sometimes on machines with ALL their financial data and having guns slammed in your face is a traumatic experience. In the end you've got a case where there is no right answer, either she can incriminate herself or if she doesn't remember she can spend the rest of her life in jail and THAT is the problem in a nutshell. With every other example given, such as safes and warrants frankly they can go AROUND you, they can break the safe, the can push you out of the way and execute the warrant, how can they prove what is or isn't in your brain? After all every security program and web page we see says DON'T WRITE DOWN PASSWORDS in 50 foot neon, so how does one prove what is or isn't in their brain?
You are welcome but different email won't help friend, at least it didn't for me. i have 3 different Yahoo accounts (One is work, one is for musicians and old HS buds, one for close friends and family) as well as a gmail (the one i let anybody use, like above) and one with my ISP and NONE of them worked. i also tried, in no particular order, Comodo Dragon, Firefox, Opera, QTWeb Portable, and IE 9 X64 and NONE of them got past the captcha. it acts like the capcha isn't correct or it doesn't like the email, can't tell you which because that piss poor site gives ZERO feedback on error, but I just gave the fuck up. Kinda sad when a site to address the people is worse than sites put up on Geocities by 14 year old girls. I don't know which is the sadder idea, that they did it on purpose to keep people from saying anything? or that they are just so damned inept they paid some dipshit a bucketload of cash to build that flaming turd?
I read recently our best defense against the Chinese stealth fighter is.....drumroll...the F-15. the F-15 can carry a MUCH more powerful radar in its nose and because adding external hardpoints won't blow any stealth you can load it up with droptanks and missiles. Personally i believe we should buy the upgraded "Stealth Eagle' and upgraded F-18 and drop the turkey that is the F-35. With the amount of SAMs and AAA the Russians are selling to anybody with a buck any future enemies will be able to "bullet spam" the airspace and the lack of hardpoints for fuel really limits the roles the F-35 can take. Both the F-15 and F-18 can serve as fighter/bombers, frontline fighters, CAP, they have multiple roles they can cover while being a solid proven technology. We have already reached the point both of the teen series have to have limits placed on their turning radius because they can do moves that would kill the pilot and for stealth i really think we should concentrate on the drones as they can be cranked out faster and cheaper and the loss of pilots means they can turn sharper and take more Gs.
I'll tell ya why we don't sell AAA and RPGs...morons, dipshits, dumbasses,people that shouldn't be in the kiddie end of the genepool much less breeding. if some methhead could buy these things (and before you say they wouldn't I've actually known a few methheads and while they may not have food they ALWAYS have weapons, paranoid bunch they are) the next thing you know the whole block would be blown up because George got a little tweaky and thought there was a fed in the tree or some such shit. hell a buddy of mine is an ex cop and i'll never forget a couple of the "You won't believe this shit' stories he told me, one a methhead ended up using nearly 400 rounds on a tree, why? Because he was tweaky and thought there was a camera in the tree which of course had all the cops making jokes about "that tree will go no further!" and "yeah it should have put its limbs up!", and the gangbangers he and his partner pulled over that had an RPG in the backseat. When asked "WTH you gonna do with an RPG in the middle of downtown boy?" they said, swear to God, they were looking to do a driveby with an RPG.
So while I'm a big supporter of the second amendment and many members of my family have large gun collections i know there is a limit to what we can sell to keep the retards from getting a hold of them.
As for TFA the big difference is as far as i know mediafire isn't sending the *.A.A a Goatse in response to C&Ds whereas MegaUpload was pretty damned blatant about not giving a shit. Anybody that used that service could have found out VERY easily by simply trying to upload pirated content and watched as they didn't even bother uploading it but simply using one of the bazillion copies they already had and giving you a new URL would let you know what they thought of pirated content. Add to that the paying pirates for uploading popular stuff (which was ALWAYS pirated material) and the 'fuck 'em" emails the feds got a hold of means megaUpload was just begging for it whereas i haven't seen anything from Mediafire that would make them any different from any other storage host. as long as they play by the safe harbor provisions I don't see how they could be shut down anymore than YouTube.
And the knife could ALSO be used to cut a rope thus saving you from a kidnapper and thanks to the Betamax case one doesn't have to prove something is ONLY used for one purpose, just that it does have legitimate uses. I've personally used Soundcloud, MegaUpload, and MediaFire for delivering files to customers as well as for delivering audio tracks to musicians I was collaborating with. These files were made by me and these services worked just fine for the purpose and were free so there you go. what is gonna screw megaUpload is the fact they never deleted when the *.A.A sent a C&D and they bragged about the money they were making on piracy. But if I were to create a link here to mediaFire for say the registry file i use for "Windows no sound device" error fixing would that not show it can trivially be used for non piracy?
BTW if anybody runs into that problem, where you have the driver installed yet Windows shows no audio device just shoot me an email and I'll slap it on mediafire or something since the one I had on MegaUpload is gone. Works on anything from Win2K-Win 7 X64 and is simple as "clicky clicky reboot", great to keep on a thumbstick with your other tools.
But who is to say that life has to fit our definition? Take you comments about being "energy poor" for example, we know that many of the giants cause the moons to be tidal locked, that constant pull creates plenty of energy as we have seen with the fountains of Ganymede. And we once thought that nothing could live in the cold dark depths of the ocean under such "energy poor" conditions with the added burden of insane pressures yet the farther we go down the more life we find that has adapted, to steal a line from an old movie "life finds a way' and all I was simply pointing out is it is incredibly arrogant to assume on an alien planet with vastly different conditions that life would automatically take the same route we took.
I'm personally a believer in what is called the "mediocre Earth" theory that states that Earth isn't some magically blessed place that is the only possible place life could have began. Maybe when we stop slaughtering each other and wasting trillions on even more military crap we don't need (WTF do we need 12 damned aircraft carriers for when the next most powerful country has 2? 5 times more powerful than everybody else isn't good enough anymore?) hopefully we will do an in depth study of Venus as well as Ganymede and Europa and i have a feeling we may find life on one of those three, it just won't be little green aliens or be ready to have conversations but i'm betting that we WILL find life. But when we do find our first signs of life out there I have a feeling it will be as alien to what we consider life on this blue ball as we are to squid. But to assume a place will not have life because it is "energy poor" in what WE would normally think of as energy doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of other forms of energy such as gravity induced heat. Hell who knows what a methane based or silicon based lifeform would consider 'energy" anyway.
Well if life developed along a similar pattern or if you believe the theory that there are certain "universal forms' like the conch that are simply the most efficient form and therefor will naturally be created then a scorpion would be a most likely early life form as one of the earliest life forms we have records on is Bronto Scorpio or the sea scorpion. The bigger question would be is if it is a scorpion what is its prey?
While I'd have to see more proof than some fuzzy pictures from 1982 as we humans are known for seeing shapes and trying to "fill in the blanks" I think its arrogant of us to believe all life had to develop the same way we did. just look at the life we've found living next to volcanic vents, that is a truly hellish place with water that would boil us alive yet there is thriving life under all that pressure and heat. of course if i were to hazard a guess I'd say Europa and Ganymede are more likely places to find life simply because there is a good chance there is liquid water and as we know water makes for a great medium for primordial soup,but who knows, maybe liquid methane or hydrogen under the right conditions could also make a primordial soup, who knows.
Uhhh...why give up anything? Who says we can't have this AND an ARM or x86/64 CPU/APU? Hell we already have specialized chips like DSPs for sound, maybe having "Smart RAM" that can say do its own error correction or compression or encryption wouldn't give us a nice speed boost without making the power requirements jump?
Question: What is wrong with the Win 7 UI? Because after killing Aero and making my own pure black theme it seems quite nice and low resource to me. the breadcrumbs and jumplists alone make it worth upgrading IMHO, and its memory management seems much better than XP or Vista. I've been running it since Oct 09 and even though I've changed out every single piece on this machine its not given me a bit of trouble whereas the XP that I had for dual boot is had to be hacked to use a RAM disk simply because it won't save a page file, the motherboard swap was one thing too much for it.
As for the ribbon? don't use it. I'm running the positively ancient Office 2k, it runs just fine on Win 7 X64 and with the converter pack opens office 2k10 files just fine. I do have office 07 on my netbook but i just set it to minimize the ribbon and made my own custom mini bar that has the functions i use so its actually a little faster than my office 2K when it comes to quick edits but what can i say, i'm a creature of habit.
but if you want Win 7 to act like XP friend, it really ain't hard. Just go get Aston and you can frankly make Windows be like anything you want. they got Win98, XP, hell even KDE and gnome if that melts your butter. i use it on my XP to give me a more modern UI, runs great and is low resource. Its got a free 30 day trial so it isn't like it costs anything to give it a spin. But if you think you don't like Win 8 you REALLY ain't gonna like what they seem to be getting ready for at Apple, think iOS on the desktop, with everything app store. That is why I'd suggest getting Win 7 set up your way and then batten down the hatches, because Win 8 is gonna suck and Apple is gonna end up iOS. Thank goodness Win 7 is supported until 2020, i can skip 8 on my main system like i did vista.
If you are talking about registering yeah good luck, i tried 3 different times with 3 different browsers and it just refuses the captcha. I even tried the stupid audio one which i know damned well was 100% correct, it just keeps throwing me back.
Well don't forget it was only a couple of years ago (late 09 i believe) that Intel quit making the 386 because the military was still buying and that thing is so old they haven't been found even in goodwill stores in nearly a decade, hell I throw away machines a dozen times more powerful than that old POS chip.
Despite all the talk of the "high tech military' by the time the gear gets through committees and sub-committees and 14 levels of bureaucratic BS the stuff is pretty damned ancient. I don't know what is sadder, how much really old crap our soldiers are dealing with or how the really old crap is better than the new stuff, like the F35 which is up to what? A billion plus just to fix the bugs they've found so far? Frankly i think we'd be better off having some more F-15s and F-18s cranked out even though those are old designs.
but if this program is anything like what we've seen with the fighters the only thing the program is really good at is cost overruns and the thing probably has so many bugs you could knock it down with a hacked iPhone. How much you wanna bet the Chinese will end up with it like they did the stealth chopper we lost going after Bin Laden and the F 117 they had dug up in Kosovo? Maybe they can figure out how to make it at a decent price and have it actually functional.
Well with Jobs I'd say it wasn't so much that he was batshit as he had one gift that made him, which a story i read about making iDVD illustrated. the guy was told his team would be presenting to Jobs so they made these mockups with all these buttons and functions and menus and Jobs walks in and looks at their stuff for less than a second before going to the whiteboard and drawing a square. He says 'this is it, this is the product. you have a box and you drop a video in the box and a button that says "burn" pops up. that's it" and he walks away.
And THAT was what made jobs a hit which i don't know if cook can replicate. Jobs had a knack for finding a market where the devices were too complex and releasing a butt simple device that your grandma could use that then became a hit. I had one of the first rio players and it was a fiddly bitch, menus and layers and a ton of bullshit whereas your mom could work an iPod. this is the concept i just can't get through to FOSS zealots with their perception bubble, they think because they like CLI and grep and pipes and all this fiddly shit they can get the masses to like it and that's not true, look at Windows 7 where your mom could run that thing with VERY little knowledge required. its all GUI and clicky clicky and plug and play, they've spent millions making everything pretty and hand holding and THAT is what the public wants, they do NOT want to have to think.
The problem cook is gonna have is all the low hanging fruit has been picked, you've got PMP and cell and handheld already covered. they are gonna have to find new markets where things are too fiddly and dumb it down for the masses. I'd say one they could go after is car stereos, those are still too knob heavy and fiddly replace it all with a flat screen and a few finger gestures would be nice.
but the fad jumping is REALLY getting old. you should fire up a VM and try the Win 8 dev Preview to see fad jumping at its worst, Steve Ballmer is gonna take a big old dump on his core business by trying to force iOS onto the desktop just because he wants to have a WinTab. the average desktop is NOT touch enabled and frankly most desktops and laptops WON'T be touch enabled because folks don't want to spend hours poking at a desktop, yet that is EXACTLY what Ballmer has done by putting a touch heavy cell phone OS on the desktop, all because of iOS being the buzz right now. its total fad chasing and will blow up in his face, but once they start chasing fads common sense takes a flying leap.
Well IMHO the smart move would have been to spin off the mobile group so they could innovate without trying to force "synergy" between it and the desktop. this is the core problem at MSFT, they have too many overlapping groups and they end up fucking one trying to tie it into the others. look at how Valve has taken the lead when it comes to Windows gaming simply because of the X360 stealing away developers that should have been working on Windows gaming. if they would have spun them off and simply had some basic rules on APIs and handles so windows and the X360 could work together without overlapping depts they could have snapped up the lion's share but instead they came out with a half ass GFWL trying to tie it to X360 and create "Synergy" between the two were frankly there wasn't any and fucked it all up.
Mark my words you are about to get a big lesson in this problem with Win 8, which if you've tried the dev preview (which you really should, its a fucking trainwreck!) you know its a touchscreen cell phone OS right up there with iOS being forced into a non touchscreen desktop just so ballmer can try to get developers for WinTab. its gonna bomb, folks don't have touchscreen desktops and frankly don't WANT to poke their monitors all day, but because Ballmer can't give away Windows mobile instead of getting a clue that the desktop and mobile need to be two separate companies he's gonna fuck the desktop with a cell phone GUI just like he's been fucking the mobile with a desktop GUI. if you haven't tried it i urge you to download the dev preview and fire up a VM, its a serious "WTF are they thinking?" moment that shows just how badly run that company is ATM. i'm just glad Win 7 is supported until 2020 because i'm telling my customers to get their desktops and laptops now because they won't want Win 8 and if its like Vista it'll be 6 or 7 months before the OEMs see the nosediving sales and demand downgrades rights.
Its the gifts friend, like how the drug companies will send your doctor to some nice vacation spot for a "conference' with his family all expenses paid. there ain't no 'conference' except some 30 minute 'keep pushing our drugs!' bit followed by a free week of sun and fun. Same shit, look at how Caribou Barbie had her house done for free, people kept finding work for bill's dumbass cokehead brother, its all in the gifts man. Also don't forget the cushy job they give you if you are a good shill, half the lobbying firms have some senator's kid/GF/ cousin/etc working at them, its a revolving door. You'd be surprised how cheaply you can buy congress, i remember reading it cost about 16 million in kickbacks to get the B-1 bomber passed and they made billions on the contract so its just considered the cost of doing business, like gas and insurance on your fleet. kinda sad but welcome to reality which is why banks can treat Wall Street like Las Vegas and get 'too big to fail' checks, its all down to how much and who you've cut the checks to.
What's Windows 96? Never heard of that. And frankly we don't KNOW how many bugs are being exploited in Debian, just as we don't KNOW how many bugs are being exploited in Windows 7. BTW XP? Its 12 years old now, let it go, okay? FOSSies have a raging hard on for that ancient thing but its legacy code that MSFT has been nice enough to continue providing patches for. Where is the 12 year old Debian i can still get patches for? that's right, it doesn't exist and i have NO CHOICE but jump on the upgrade deathmarch or be left unsupported. this is why I can't hand Linux out to customers, a frankly shitty lousy 3 years of support MAX and that is if i were to build my entire business around LTS, only to see when the 3 years is up the upgrade take a dump on the drivers.
You see EVERYONE has problems, Linux guys can't write a driver worth a shit, nor can they figure out how to make upgrades work, MSFT hasn't figured out how to force Windows updates on pirates which BTW the vast majority of zombie Windows boxes? pirated Windows which has had the updates killed to prevent WGA. And nobody cares how many eyes COULD look at the code all that matters is how many eyes that have the SKILLS DO look at the code and as i showed, and i'd be happy to wallpaper the post with links to Linux hacks, just ask, the "many eyes" bullshit is just that. For it to work you have to have AAA coders wasting thousands of man hours going through that shit on their own time and even a tiny bit of thought would tell you that's bullshit, AAA coders aren't gonna waste their free time doing your crap, they have money and lives to worry about. I could end with a 'get a damned job you lazy hippie" but its just too easy, so I won't. Instead i'll just say "have a nice day" because that's what kind of guy I am.
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That's "Weekly World News" friend, NE does the stories on who's banging the Kardashians and who is cheating on some third round failure on Survivor. Frankly i found WWN more entertaining as i'd rather read about batboy than which Kardashian is the biggest slut this week.
Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit. It reminds me of a booklet my grandfather brought home from the airbase he was stationed on around the time of Blue book. It said "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander". He said 'perfect example of military logic, we refuse to admit anything might exist but don't shoot at the damned thing whatever you do".
The sad part is if UFOs are real most likely they are doing the same thing we do on those safari tours, pointing out the animals on some "tour of the crazy monkey world". I can just imagine the spiel "And here we have the crazy monkeys in one of their favorite past times, where they throw chunks of metal and primitive chemical rockets at each other in a fight for territory and dominance, most likely for mates and resources. No flurg you may NOT go poke one with a stick, do you have ANY idea what a crazy monkey smells like? you get close enough to poke it with a stick we will never get the stench out of the ship, woof. Oh and here's a treat for those with strong stomachs, over on the left we have two of the monkeys procreating on top of one of their primitive huts. As you can see they haven't developed asexual reproduction which is why we believe they smell so horrible, its most likely used to attract mates and to tell when the female is fertile. Oh it looks like its your lucky day folks, directly in front of us is one of their incredibly primitive flying vehicles, we believe those bulbous things hanging below it is a fetish to show the females how high the pilot ranks with the tribe, now we will play with it a little just so you can see how poorly built these machines are, why they can't even turn sideways!"
Oh please! China is about as communist as my left buttock, in fact other than a few hippie communes in the northwest in the 60s I don't think anyone has ever tried to have an actual communist state. What China was and to a point is, which was one of the reasons for the great Sino/Soviet split when the USSR divorced itself from his example was a variation on Stalinism, which is where a handful at the top live like Gods while the people do without. I know its hard after being pounded with propaganda to this very day (notice how anything the right doesn't like like healthcare for the poor is labeled 'socialist' like that is the same as kiddie fiddler?) but its easy enough to tell the difference as i sincerely doubt "the people' were asking for The Holodomor, the great purges, or to eat bark in NK while dear leader's fatass kid ate all the cookies. As for why China is so polluted its because they don't care how the worker's live (which again is the opposite of how Karl Marx designed communism) as long as they can roll around in cash while building up their military. it reminds me of old Joe and his 'five year plans" as by the end of those he had built some seriously pollution monsters, the only non Chinese city in the top 10 most polluted is an old Joe era chemical factory town in Russia.
As for TFA here is a perfect example of why the FDA and EPA need real teeth instead of letting the right gut what little regulations we have because its pretty obvious without the threat of millions in fines and a loss of their business most corps won't give a fuck about anything but the bottom line. of course the bitch is it never seems to fail that no matter how many times we think we've closed the loopholes the little bastards just get smarter, look at how many superfund sites we ended up stuck with because they set up some shell corp to take the fall. I'm seeing the same thing happen in my own state with the NG frakking and wildcatters as they've set up shell corps that rent everything from the tools to the office furniture to be the "face' company that just gets burned if bills pile up or they get hit with fines and then they can just start another shell corp, rent the gear again, and they are right back in business. We really need to make a law so these CxOs are held responsible for the damage their companies cause so they can't just 'pull an Enron' and walk away with the cash while we get stuck with the bills.
For a good example playing out now look how the airlines are gonna end up dumping their retirement accounts onto the US taxpayer while the CxOs bail with golden parachutes. they got to gamble with the funds and when things went pop they get to say "tough shit buh bye" and cash out, its completely fucked and rewards sociopaths and if we don't do something about it we'll have no choice but to become socialist because the majority of those with company run retirement accounts are libel to find nothing but a picture of the CEO snorting coke off some 19 year old hooker in their nest eggs they've worked their whole lives for.
Actually its pretty easy to predict, its around 35%. When the unemployment numbers reach around 35% to 40% even those that have a job will be happy to jump in because they know their job could disappear tomorrow and when you have that many unemployed that is a lot of potential soldiers with nothing to lose. if you say it could never reach that high I would point out that we've lost 42,400 factories this past decade and we have the man most likely to be the next R to run for POTUS paying just 15% taxes while corporate taxes have never been lower makes for a LOT of hate filled bitter people who are tired of feeling like serfs.
So i wouldn't say it couldn't happen here, we got a lot of national guard armories just bristling with weapons, similar to what happened with Iraq, you got survivalists sitting on enough copies of the cookbook to wallpaper the capital and you have American soldiers signing oaths to turn on their own leaders if they disobey the constitution.It really wouldn't take but a couple of body blows like a complete EU collapse to put the last bullet in the US economy and send the few corps left off to the growth markets of Asia and people with no hope, jobs, or future frankly have nothing to lose. Do i think it will happen? nothing lasts forever and even the great empires all fell, it seems one can't keep a single system going for any length of time without the corruption ruining it. I do think we should at least give Dodd credit for being an honest whore, i'd rather have one stand up and say they are a whore than be like Obama on that pot petition and just blow smoke for 40 minutes.
We don't need the public, what we need is another Woodward and Bernstein that can dig up the dirt and write it in such a way the public hangs on it like they do the Kardashians. Do you think congress REALLY wanted to toss a sitting president? hell no they would have been happy to let him finish his lame duck term and let one of their guys take the big chair but it was guys like Woodward and Bernstein that kept the fire stoked and in people's faces and didn't give them a choice and THAT is what we need now.
I'm sure it will be just like his eloquent "We don't give a shit what you think about pot because we're gonna keep throwing kids in jail for our big pharma friends, here have a Goatse" response. If anybody believes these things are gonna do shit I have some nice swampland in AR you might be interested in, almost gator free!
lets be honest folks, for the past 15 years or so they haven't even bothered to hide the bribes anymore, i'm tempted to say it started with Dubya but Clinton was right there in it too, it just got REALLY blatant with Dubya and his "Have and have mores' attempts at humor. Now that they have Citizens United they are simply more of a citizen than you, because while you may have the teeming masses they have the bulging briefcase and bulging briefcase beats teeming masses every single time. Ya know, I actually kinda like Dodd now, at least he is an honest whore, unlike Obama who can give a 30 minute speech responding to these and not say a god damned thing or even acknowledge their existence.
Yeah but the bitch is WHAT is it about the captcha? That has to be one of the most piss poor sites i've seen in awhile, I tried no less than THIRTY different ways with different emails, browsers, even trying the audio version which frankly was beyond simple, just words like "white" and the damned thing STILL won't take the fucking thing!
I wasn't joking either, I've seen fansites designed by 14 year old girls that had better sign up designs than that POS, and the scary part is a big bag of OUR money paid for that rinky dink amateur hour bullshit. the sad part is I'm actually hoping the made it a bitch to discourage people from giving feedback, because the alternative is that is just another example of us paying more likely a crazy amount of money for something that doesn't work, probably went through 14 committees that we paid for as well. if anyone wonders why our system is so broken one look at that site and knowing it was not only approved in that form but somebody got PAID for that shit? Well what more proof do you need the whole thing is a clusterfuck.
But see THAT is the bitch, it doesn't come down to the truth anymore but whether some judge decides you "must be a PC Ninja!" therefor can't actually have forgotten. Frankly the whole system is royally fucked ATM, we have a guy in jail for an actual thoughtcrime with that "pro pedo" book which was literally his thoughts on the subject written as a book. i don't care WHAT your thoughts on the subject matter is writing your thoughts down in book form no matter what the thoughts shouldn't involve prison time, and now we have literally gotten to the point where just the fact you have those tools, even if you were like me and just saw some article and decided to play with 'em, could land you in PMITA prison. And how would I "prove" I forgot? How could i prove that some passwords no matter how long are easy (such as one of my favorites which is the make/model/serial of a bass I got for my 21st BDay and know by heart) while some simple ones such as my password for Steam i couldn't remember if you put a gun to my head because I'm logged in all the time and thus never use it? hell if i wouldn't have taken a screenshot after the last reset i'd never remember that damned thing!
It just goes to show you why we geeks need to be fighting this bullshit tooth and nail because the ones writing these retard laws don't have a damned clue. the fact that with zero other evidence i could be forced to try to somehow 'prove' to a judge that I can't remember something just shows what a completely broken and fucked system we have now. But you watch, i bet the next attack will be having tools like PGP in your possession, they'll get Nancy Grace to declare these tools are "letting kiddie fiddlers walk our streets ZOMFG!" and they will ram through some 'protect the children" law that states you have to have some state approved reason for having this stuff. Don't believe me? Well we used to feel superior over China because they had a great firewall yet with SOPA/PIPA that's probably what we are gonna end up with, and who would have thought a court could just toss out 200 years of fifth amendment precedents with 'its a PC ZOMFG!"
Hell i'll be happy to give 'em a target to waste mod points on, simply because this has been bugging the shit out of me for years....what is it with Linux zealots and the damned paranoia? you don't see Apple users going "ZOMFG somebody is gonna take my iShiny!" and most of us Windows users simply tried your product, found it didn't cut the mustard and moved on and frankly couldn't give a wet fart about stealing your precious freedoms okay? Right now i got two DBs loaded, a DVD burn going on, a dozen web pages, and a video playing, and this is on a PC that has had every part changed out since it had its OS loaded in Oct 09 and not a SINGLE crash, not one. Last time i tried that kind of multitasking in Linux X-Server took a big old shit and took the desktop with it. Multitasking and A/V don't mix in Linux I learned.
So what's with the paranoia? you think everybody who isn't slurping the koolaid is an "M$ Ninja" with a sekret warroom planning the downfall of your precious. You HONESTLY think Steve Ballmer gives a shit about you anymore? Wake up and smell the Android pal! He's too busy trying to "fucking kill Google" and getting seriously pissed that everywhere he turns is somebody with an iPad to give a fuck. And if you don't want anybody to complain FIX YOUR DAMNED DRIVERS ALREADY Jesus tap Dancing Christ here it is 2012 and you still can't do an apt-dist-upgrade without finding a goat to slaughter on an altar to St. iGNUious in the hope that damned Pulseaudio crap don't die or your graphics or wirelress drivers don't take a big old puke. I have tried every damned 'user friendly" distro on the planet and yet i still can't get a single one to do a standard GUI upgrade without ending up with a broken mess and don't even get me started on LTS, 3 years is COMPLETELY worthless! Hell even Enterprises by and large don't chunk every 3 years anymore because the MHz wars are over and a multicore desktop can last a good 5-7 easy peasy!
So quit with the damned paranoia as it makes your entire community sound batshit. Instead get to bitching your asses off at the damned devs who are obviously ignoring you (I'm looking at YOU Gnome and KDE!) and work on making the best damned product that actually gives the people what they want. I've said it a million times but fuck it, it needs repeating obviously, HOME USERS ARE NOT GEEKS and will NOT learn your CLI heavy fiddly bullshit geeky ways, okay? they just won't so quit acting like they will. you want to see what they want look at the iPhone, that thing is so dumbed down you could drag some head hunter out of the bush and shove one in his hands and in 20 minutes he'll be playing Angry Birds and THAT is what they want, they want simple, clicky clicky all GUI so dumbed down you could give it to someone that doesn't even speak the installed language and just by looking at the pictures they get it, and it needs a MINIMUM of 5 years support, i'd say 7 myself simply because most users aren't ever gonna stress a modern quad core.
So let go of the 90s and stop with the conspiracy theories already! Nobody carries your product because its not iPhone easy, not because Bill Gates, who hasn't even been there in a fricking decade and in his place is a big sweaty gorilla that if he had an original thought his head would asplode, is sekretly plotting to kill your precious GNU! you've got more choices than EVER before, you got X86 and ARM and handhelds and phones and routers and fricking toasters if you want to Open Source your bagel so stop with the batshit already, geez! You'd think with the "Great XP dieoff' in full swing with millions of insanely overpowered desktops and laptops hitting the market and the sweaty monkey about to treat his company like Vincent Vega did Marvin in the Bonnie situation because he has a hard on for the iPad you'd get the clue and give us a 7 year supported OS that was as simple to use as iOS and blindside the monkey but noooo..why they just need to "embrace the POWER of CLI" like its the God damned force! Never before in history has so many things been in
And can I say, and I'm sure I'll get hate for pointing this out, that the world was a better place before the iPhone? Sure the iPhone junkies just looove to fiddle with the damned thing, got 3 relatives that can't keep their hands off the time waster, but in most of the country the network simply can't take the load so now the cell network is back to being like it was when it was first rolling out, with dropped calls, lots of congestion, hell i don't care where you go anymore its like being in the damned stick again thanks to the damned iPhone!
Why is it sooooo hard for folks to understand it ain't no damned land line and you can just plop your fat ass down and have the world pumped to your damned little iPhone, okay? would it REALLY kill you to wait until you fricking got home to watch that guy get nutted on YouTube? Now I can understand if you're say a business person and have to stay on top of your email for your job, I get that. or if you have a sick or frail family member and you are checking for an email on their status, hey hope they get better. Just don't be douches, okay? its a shared resource and your constant iFiddling is sucking up all the damned bandwidth and making things suck for everybody alright? its like nobody in this damned country learns common courtesy anymore, like how i can't even go to the movies anymore thanks to iPhone fiddlers playing with their damned iToys and flashing throughout the movie. I get you like your iShiny, but the rest of us would like to tell you to shove that thing up your ass!
The problem is "how do you prove a negative" which at the end of the day is what we end up with. Take myself for example, i'm sure if the cops went through every single backup I have going back a decade i'm sure there are encrypted files that i do NOT have the key for. How could that be? simple I've farted around with tons of different crypto software over the years, everything from WinRAR encryption to PGP to the one that supposedly has the ability to make hidden volumes, can't think of the name right off hand. i'd play with them, try it on some random bullshit, get bored and promptly forget about it. since I back up certain folders in their entirety like my software download folder, my picture folders, etc on a regular basis i'm sure if one were to hunt long and hard enough you could find a couple of those files i simply didn't think to toss, who cares about some 7Mb file nowadays?
so how can I PROVE I don't remember it? can't say that can't happen with a whole drive either because I've had to deal with customers that panicked and forgot their Windows password, sometimes on machines with ALL their financial data and having guns slammed in your face is a traumatic experience. In the end you've got a case where there is no right answer, either she can incriminate herself or if she doesn't remember she can spend the rest of her life in jail and THAT is the problem in a nutshell. With every other example given, such as safes and warrants frankly they can go AROUND you, they can break the safe, the can push you out of the way and execute the warrant, how can they prove what is or isn't in your brain? After all every security program and web page we see says DON'T WRITE DOWN PASSWORDS in 50 foot neon, so how does one prove what is or isn't in their brain?
You are welcome but different email won't help friend, at least it didn't for me. i have 3 different Yahoo accounts (One is work, one is for musicians and old HS buds, one for close friends and family) as well as a gmail (the one i let anybody use, like above) and one with my ISP and NONE of them worked. i also tried, in no particular order, Comodo Dragon, Firefox, Opera, QTWeb Portable, and IE 9 X64 and NONE of them got past the captcha. it acts like the capcha isn't correct or it doesn't like the email, can't tell you which because that piss poor site gives ZERO feedback on error, but I just gave the fuck up. Kinda sad when a site to address the people is worse than sites put up on Geocities by 14 year old girls. I don't know which is the sadder idea, that they did it on purpose to keep people from saying anything? or that they are just so damned inept they paid some dipshit a bucketload of cash to build that flaming turd?
I read recently our best defense against the Chinese stealth fighter is.....drumroll...the F-15. the F-15 can carry a MUCH more powerful radar in its nose and because adding external hardpoints won't blow any stealth you can load it up with droptanks and missiles. Personally i believe we should buy the upgraded "Stealth Eagle' and upgraded F-18 and drop the turkey that is the F-35. With the amount of SAMs and AAA the Russians are selling to anybody with a buck any future enemies will be able to "bullet spam" the airspace and the lack of hardpoints for fuel really limits the roles the F-35 can take. Both the F-15 and F-18 can serve as fighter/bombers, frontline fighters, CAP, they have multiple roles they can cover while being a solid proven technology. We have already reached the point both of the teen series have to have limits placed on their turning radius because they can do moves that would kill the pilot and for stealth i really think we should concentrate on the drones as they can be cranked out faster and cheaper and the loss of pilots means they can turn sharper and take more Gs.
I'll tell ya why we don't sell AAA and RPGs...morons, dipshits, dumbasses,people that shouldn't be in the kiddie end of the genepool much less breeding. if some methhead could buy these things (and before you say they wouldn't I've actually known a few methheads and while they may not have food they ALWAYS have weapons, paranoid bunch they are) the next thing you know the whole block would be blown up because George got a little tweaky and thought there was a fed in the tree or some such shit. hell a buddy of mine is an ex cop and i'll never forget a couple of the "You won't believe this shit' stories he told me, one a methhead ended up using nearly 400 rounds on a tree, why? Because he was tweaky and thought there was a camera in the tree which of course had all the cops making jokes about "that tree will go no further!" and "yeah it should have put its limbs up!", and the gangbangers he and his partner pulled over that had an RPG in the backseat. When asked "WTH you gonna do with an RPG in the middle of downtown boy?" they said, swear to God, they were looking to do a driveby with an RPG. So while I'm a big supporter of the second amendment and many members of my family have large gun collections i know there is a limit to what we can sell to keep the retards from getting a hold of them.
As for TFA the big difference is as far as i know mediafire isn't sending the *.A.A a Goatse in response to C&Ds whereas MegaUpload was pretty damned blatant about not giving a shit. Anybody that used that service could have found out VERY easily by simply trying to upload pirated content and watched as they didn't even bother uploading it but simply using one of the bazillion copies they already had and giving you a new URL would let you know what they thought of pirated content. Add to that the paying pirates for uploading popular stuff (which was ALWAYS pirated material) and the 'fuck 'em" emails the feds got a hold of means megaUpload was just begging for it whereas i haven't seen anything from Mediafire that would make them any different from any other storage host. as long as they play by the safe harbor provisions I don't see how they could be shut down anymore than YouTube.
And the knife could ALSO be used to cut a rope thus saving you from a kidnapper and thanks to the Betamax case one doesn't have to prove something is ONLY used for one purpose, just that it does have legitimate uses. I've personally used Soundcloud, MegaUpload, and MediaFire for delivering files to customers as well as for delivering audio tracks to musicians I was collaborating with. These files were made by me and these services worked just fine for the purpose and were free so there you go. what is gonna screw megaUpload is the fact they never deleted when the *.A.A sent a C&D and they bragged about the money they were making on piracy. But if I were to create a link here to mediaFire for say the registry file i use for "Windows no sound device" error fixing would that not show it can trivially be used for non piracy?
BTW if anybody runs into that problem, where you have the driver installed yet Windows shows no audio device just shoot me an email and I'll slap it on mediafire or something since the one I had on MegaUpload is gone. Works on anything from Win2K-Win 7 X64 and is simple as "clicky clicky reboot", great to keep on a thumbstick with your other tools.
But who is to say that life has to fit our definition? Take you comments about being "energy poor" for example, we know that many of the giants cause the moons to be tidal locked, that constant pull creates plenty of energy as we have seen with the fountains of Ganymede. And we once thought that nothing could live in the cold dark depths of the ocean under such "energy poor" conditions with the added burden of insane pressures yet the farther we go down the more life we find that has adapted, to steal a line from an old movie "life finds a way' and all I was simply pointing out is it is incredibly arrogant to assume on an alien planet with vastly different conditions that life would automatically take the same route we took.
I'm personally a believer in what is called the "mediocre Earth" theory that states that Earth isn't some magically blessed place that is the only possible place life could have began. Maybe when we stop slaughtering each other and wasting trillions on even more military crap we don't need (WTF do we need 12 damned aircraft carriers for when the next most powerful country has 2? 5 times more powerful than everybody else isn't good enough anymore?) hopefully we will do an in depth study of Venus as well as Ganymede and Europa and i have a feeling we may find life on one of those three, it just won't be little green aliens or be ready to have conversations but i'm betting that we WILL find life. But when we do find our first signs of life out there I have a feeling it will be as alien to what we consider life on this blue ball as we are to squid. But to assume a place will not have life because it is "energy poor" in what WE would normally think of as energy doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of other forms of energy such as gravity induced heat. Hell who knows what a methane based or silicon based lifeform would consider 'energy" anyway.
Well if life developed along a similar pattern or if you believe the theory that there are certain "universal forms' like the conch that are simply the most efficient form and therefor will naturally be created then a scorpion would be a most likely early life form as one of the earliest life forms we have records on is Bronto Scorpio or the sea scorpion. The bigger question would be is if it is a scorpion what is its prey?
While I'd have to see more proof than some fuzzy pictures from 1982 as we humans are known for seeing shapes and trying to "fill in the blanks" I think its arrogant of us to believe all life had to develop the same way we did. just look at the life we've found living next to volcanic vents, that is a truly hellish place with water that would boil us alive yet there is thriving life under all that pressure and heat. of course if i were to hazard a guess I'd say Europa and Ganymede are more likely places to find life simply because there is a good chance there is liquid water and as we know water makes for a great medium for primordial soup,but who knows, maybe liquid methane or hydrogen under the right conditions could also make a primordial soup, who knows.
Uhhh...why give up anything? Who says we can't have this AND an ARM or x86/64 CPU/APU? Hell we already have specialized chips like DSPs for sound, maybe having "Smart RAM" that can say do its own error correction or compression or encryption wouldn't give us a nice speed boost without making the power requirements jump?
Question: What is wrong with the Win 7 UI? Because after killing Aero and making my own pure black theme it seems quite nice and low resource to me. the breadcrumbs and jumplists alone make it worth upgrading IMHO, and its memory management seems much better than XP or Vista. I've been running it since Oct 09 and even though I've changed out every single piece on this machine its not given me a bit of trouble whereas the XP that I had for dual boot is had to be hacked to use a RAM disk simply because it won't save a page file, the motherboard swap was one thing too much for it.
As for the ribbon? don't use it. I'm running the positively ancient Office 2k, it runs just fine on Win 7 X64 and with the converter pack opens office 2k10 files just fine. I do have office 07 on my netbook but i just set it to minimize the ribbon and made my own custom mini bar that has the functions i use so its actually a little faster than my office 2K when it comes to quick edits but what can i say, i'm a creature of habit.
but if you want Win 7 to act like XP friend, it really ain't hard. Just go get Aston and you can frankly make Windows be like anything you want. they got Win98, XP, hell even KDE and gnome if that melts your butter. i use it on my XP to give me a more modern UI, runs great and is low resource. Its got a free 30 day trial so it isn't like it costs anything to give it a spin. But if you think you don't like Win 8 you REALLY ain't gonna like what they seem to be getting ready for at Apple, think iOS on the desktop, with everything app store. That is why I'd suggest getting Win 7 set up your way and then batten down the hatches, because Win 8 is gonna suck and Apple is gonna end up iOS. Thank goodness Win 7 is supported until 2020, i can skip 8 on my main system like i did vista.
If you are talking about registering yeah good luck, i tried 3 different times with 3 different browsers and it just refuses the captcha. I even tried the stupid audio one which i know damned well was 100% correct, it just keeps throwing me back.
Well don't forget it was only a couple of years ago (late 09 i believe) that Intel quit making the 386 because the military was still buying and that thing is so old they haven't been found even in goodwill stores in nearly a decade, hell I throw away machines a dozen times more powerful than that old POS chip.
Despite all the talk of the "high tech military' by the time the gear gets through committees and sub-committees and 14 levels of bureaucratic BS the stuff is pretty damned ancient. I don't know what is sadder, how much really old crap our soldiers are dealing with or how the really old crap is better than the new stuff, like the F35 which is up to what? A billion plus just to fix the bugs they've found so far? Frankly i think we'd be better off having some more F-15s and F-18s cranked out even though those are old designs.
but if this program is anything like what we've seen with the fighters the only thing the program is really good at is cost overruns and the thing probably has so many bugs you could knock it down with a hacked iPhone. How much you wanna bet the Chinese will end up with it like they did the stealth chopper we lost going after Bin Laden and the F 117 they had dug up in Kosovo? Maybe they can figure out how to make it at a decent price and have it actually functional.
Well with Jobs I'd say it wasn't so much that he was batshit as he had one gift that made him, which a story i read about making iDVD illustrated. the guy was told his team would be presenting to Jobs so they made these mockups with all these buttons and functions and menus and Jobs walks in and looks at their stuff for less than a second before going to the whiteboard and drawing a square. He says 'this is it, this is the product. you have a box and you drop a video in the box and a button that says "burn" pops up. that's it" and he walks away.
And THAT was what made jobs a hit which i don't know if cook can replicate. Jobs had a knack for finding a market where the devices were too complex and releasing a butt simple device that your grandma could use that then became a hit. I had one of the first rio players and it was a fiddly bitch, menus and layers and a ton of bullshit whereas your mom could work an iPod. this is the concept i just can't get through to FOSS zealots with their perception bubble, they think because they like CLI and grep and pipes and all this fiddly shit they can get the masses to like it and that's not true, look at Windows 7 where your mom could run that thing with VERY little knowledge required. its all GUI and clicky clicky and plug and play, they've spent millions making everything pretty and hand holding and THAT is what the public wants, they do NOT want to have to think.
The problem cook is gonna have is all the low hanging fruit has been picked, you've got PMP and cell and handheld already covered. they are gonna have to find new markets where things are too fiddly and dumb it down for the masses. I'd say one they could go after is car stereos, those are still too knob heavy and fiddly replace it all with a flat screen and a few finger gestures would be nice.
but the fad jumping is REALLY getting old. you should fire up a VM and try the Win 8 dev Preview to see fad jumping at its worst, Steve Ballmer is gonna take a big old dump on his core business by trying to force iOS onto the desktop just because he wants to have a WinTab. the average desktop is NOT touch enabled and frankly most desktops and laptops WON'T be touch enabled because folks don't want to spend hours poking at a desktop, yet that is EXACTLY what Ballmer has done by putting a touch heavy cell phone OS on the desktop, all because of iOS being the buzz right now. its total fad chasing and will blow up in his face, but once they start chasing fads common sense takes a flying leap.
Well IMHO the smart move would have been to spin off the mobile group so they could innovate without trying to force "synergy" between it and the desktop. this is the core problem at MSFT, they have too many overlapping groups and they end up fucking one trying to tie it into the others. look at how Valve has taken the lead when it comes to Windows gaming simply because of the X360 stealing away developers that should have been working on Windows gaming. if they would have spun them off and simply had some basic rules on APIs and handles so windows and the X360 could work together without overlapping depts they could have snapped up the lion's share but instead they came out with a half ass GFWL trying to tie it to X360 and create "Synergy" between the two were frankly there wasn't any and fucked it all up.
Mark my words you are about to get a big lesson in this problem with Win 8, which if you've tried the dev preview (which you really should, its a fucking trainwreck!) you know its a touchscreen cell phone OS right up there with iOS being forced into a non touchscreen desktop just so ballmer can try to get developers for WinTab. its gonna bomb, folks don't have touchscreen desktops and frankly don't WANT to poke their monitors all day, but because Ballmer can't give away Windows mobile instead of getting a clue that the desktop and mobile need to be two separate companies he's gonna fuck the desktop with a cell phone GUI just like he's been fucking the mobile with a desktop GUI. if you haven't tried it i urge you to download the dev preview and fire up a VM, its a serious "WTF are they thinking?" moment that shows just how badly run that company is ATM. i'm just glad Win 7 is supported until 2020 because i'm telling my customers to get their desktops and laptops now because they won't want Win 8 and if its like Vista it'll be 6 or 7 months before the OEMs see the nosediving sales and demand downgrades rights.
Its the gifts friend, like how the drug companies will send your doctor to some nice vacation spot for a "conference' with his family all expenses paid. there ain't no 'conference' except some 30 minute 'keep pushing our drugs!' bit followed by a free week of sun and fun. Same shit, look at how Caribou Barbie had her house done for free, people kept finding work for bill's dumbass cokehead brother, its all in the gifts man. Also don't forget the cushy job they give you if you are a good shill, half the lobbying firms have some senator's kid/GF/ cousin/etc working at them, its a revolving door. You'd be surprised how cheaply you can buy congress, i remember reading it cost about 16 million in kickbacks to get the B-1 bomber passed and they made billions on the contract so its just considered the cost of doing business, like gas and insurance on your fleet. kinda sad but welcome to reality which is why banks can treat Wall Street like Las Vegas and get 'too big to fail' checks, its all down to how much and who you've cut the checks to.
What's Windows 96? Never heard of that. And frankly we don't KNOW how many bugs are being exploited in Debian, just as we don't KNOW how many bugs are being exploited in Windows 7. BTW XP? Its 12 years old now, let it go, okay? FOSSies have a raging hard on for that ancient thing but its legacy code that MSFT has been nice enough to continue providing patches for. Where is the 12 year old Debian i can still get patches for? that's right, it doesn't exist and i have NO CHOICE but jump on the upgrade deathmarch or be left unsupported. this is why I can't hand Linux out to customers, a frankly shitty lousy 3 years of support MAX and that is if i were to build my entire business around LTS, only to see when the 3 years is up the upgrade take a dump on the drivers.
You see EVERYONE has problems, Linux guys can't write a driver worth a shit, nor can they figure out how to make upgrades work, MSFT hasn't figured out how to force Windows updates on pirates which BTW the vast majority of zombie Windows boxes? pirated Windows which has had the updates killed to prevent WGA. And nobody cares how many eyes COULD look at the code all that matters is how many eyes that have the SKILLS DO look at the code and as i showed, and i'd be happy to wallpaper the post with links to Linux hacks, just ask, the "many eyes" bullshit is just that. For it to work you have to have AAA coders wasting thousands of man hours going through that shit on their own time and even a tiny bit of thought would tell you that's bullshit, AAA coders aren't gonna waste their free time doing your crap, they have money and lives to worry about. I could end with a 'get a damned job you lazy hippie" but its just too easy, so I won't. Instead i'll just say "have a nice day" because that's what kind of guy I am.