Actually funnily enough, it wasn't the farmville, or the fact that she is a daywalker and i'm a night owl, nor even the fact that she had to move 250 miles away when her dad had a heart attack so I could only see her on weekends that broke us up...it was sexual incompatibility.
I had always thought that was a bunch of shit, that if you were both healthy you could find a nice middle ground and everything would work out...boy I was wrong. I'll admit it, I was WAAAAY fucking wrongo.
She was strictly a 30 minutes or less gal and I'm a good hour+ guy and that ended up breaking us up. By her third orgasm she would be throwing the time out and begging to just give me head, by the end it was REALLY pissing me off, it was like every time I started to get my groove going she'd throw on the brakes! I tried everything, desensitizing cremes, different positions, you name it, nothing worked. And I loooove to give a woman head and that was right out, as in less than 10 minutes she'd have an orgasm so powerful she'd come off the bed and go off like a fountain and within 10 minutes of that she was in a coma.
So I learned a hard but valuable lesson: Sexual incompatibility DOES exist and if you can't come to a middle ground within 3 or 4 sessions? better just to shake hands and go your separate ways. My family adored her and it really threw the whole family when we broke up, but there was no way in hell I could be happy when i constantly felt frustrated.
And who the fuck are they supposed to vote FOR anyway? lets see their current choices...on the "left" (which give me a break, we have right and FAR right, no left in sight) we have Nobama, as in NO different than Dubya, NO getting us out of two wars (started a third instead) NO getting rid of gitmo, NO stopping wall Street banksters (in fact he gave them more money and power) along with NO change from the status quo.
And on the right? we have Rick "Fuck social security and who cares about illegals?" Perry, we have Herman "I'm a tea partier" (Translation: I'm owned by the Koch bros) Cain, and Mitt "What am I for this week?" Romney. I'm not even gonna mention Bachmann or Paul because they are both batshit. Bachman wants to get rid of ALL corporate taxes (what's zero percent of zero anyway? look up double Dutch or Irish Whip tax schemes to understand what I'm talking about) while of course failing to mention she would still allow them to qualify for tax BREAKS, which of course means the top 1% would get money BACK from YOUR pocket, and Paul wants to "go back to 1910" when if your house got blown away you could sit on the rubble with a tin cup. News Flash: The city of Galveston and the event he cited as "an example of the community taking care of itself"? it took TWENTY THREE YEARS to get back to the way it was, and most lost everything. Guess who made out like bandits on all that cheap land though? Top 1%ers that's who.
So you tell me who EXACTLY are they supposed to vote FOR, when the MSM has been owned since Reagan deregulated it in the 80s? Hell look at how quick they ignore the living hell out of Paul simply because he doesn't follow the corporate line. he is still batshit, but because he isn't corporate sponsored batshit he doesn't have a prayer.
If you think voting does shit anymore I'll leave you with these words of wisdom for the late great Bill Hicks: "Well I believe the puppet on the left has MY interests at heart, well I believe the puppet on the right shares MY beliefs...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling both puppets!" and the guy working both puppets? that would be the 1%ers yet again. that is how Norquist was able to get all but 6 Rs in the house to sign a "no new taxes EVAR!" pledge, even while the economy craters and millions are out of work.
You wanna know what is sad? They have what I consider the perfect "housewife PC" and have NO DAMNED CLUE on how to market the thing!
It is a sweet little AMD Brazos E-350 based all in one PC. Its thin, light, sleek, built in Wireless G, DVD burner, 6 USB ports along with gigabit ethernet...it is a damned sweet little Internet box built into a nice 1600x900 20 inch screen. Tigerdirect has been selling them for like $300 and after playing with a couple of them i picked up for customers? They are PERFECT for your average mom type! The Radeon 6310 is just the right size for Farmville and all those other Zynga games as well as DVD watching, its is quiet as a churchmouse, thin enough you can set that baby up anywhere, for the modern wireless family this is the most perfect "mom PC" I've seen.
So are the marketing it? nope last HP ads I've seen are all pushing that Dr Dre sound system bullshit. Protip: Guys that actually give a fuck about sound DON'T USE ONBOARD LAPTOP CRAP they use USB or Firewire based offboard units. And the guys that listen to Dr Dre don't strike me as the $1000 laptop types.
So I have to agree that TFA nails it...HP is too far gone to right the ship without a REAL CEO that can kick ass and take names. it is common knowledge that Jobs was a tyrant and didn't take no shit when it came to his vision, and THAT is what they need, someone who'll tell the board to STFU and focus on marketing really sweet products like those Brazos mom PCs.
Frankly I don't know which one is worse to watch, HP trying to commit Hari Kari or watching MSFT try their damnedest to torpedo the company with one REALLY stupid fucking idea after another, like killing playsforsure, Zune, Kin, and the "step in front of a bus" Darwin award for their totally dumbshit idea of putting "Windows" on ARM and calling it Windows? Didn't they learn anything from New Coke? I swear it is like all these CEOs have lost their damned minds.
You aren't the only one. While I myself haven't time to watch movies several of my customers had Netflix and down to the last one after this last BS they switched to either Redbox or Hulu Plus or a combination of the two.
The big selling point for my customers was streaming for the kiddies while having the DVDs in the mail for the adults (because they never seem to have what they'd want to watch in the streaming section, I heard that complaint a lot) and after this last dumbshit move many came to me to find out alternatives because they simply got fed up. Now the majority have Nbox media players with 200-400gb HDDs attached which I showed them how to easily pick up cheap kids movies off of Amazon and rip them to their kids Nboxes, while they either have Amazon movies loaded to their HTPCs for themselves or Redbox for their movies.
So I have to agree that somebody there doesn't know what the fuck they are doing, and certainly don't know their customers. This last round of BS along with the price jacking really ran off many of my customers with kids and that seemed like the biggest market they had. I don't know how many parents I had before this BS had me build nice little HTPCs because they had loved Netflix so much they wanted an easy and nice way to put it in their living rooms, now it is all Hulu plus and Redbox and Amazon FTW.
Horseshit, complete and utter horseshit. We are talking fanatics here, my late uncle was in the pacific at both Saipan and Okinawa and I got to here of the horror first hand from him. He said they'd get a bunker surrounded then broadcast in Japanese "If you don't come out we are gonna have no choice but to call in the flamethrowers, we'll give you food, treat your injuries, and take you to safety if you'll just come out and surrender" and instead they would strap grenades on their chests and banzai charge the lines. he said the bodies were literally piled up like cordwood, the stench of death was beyond belief, yet they still came. He also watched women throw infants off the cliffs rather than surrender their children, that kind of shit haunted him for years, hearing the screams of babies as they fell to their deaths.
So sincerely fuck your bleeding heart bullshit. as Truman said "I can tell you how many Americans were saved by the dropping of those bombs" and in a time of war THAT is what matters. Either you give 100% or you go the fuck home, that's it. I would remind you we had already killed more than the atomics in Tokyo alone and as I said even AFTER TWO BOMBS They had to broadcast the surrender from multiple sites because several general took over a radio tower and was broadcasting they were gonna fight to the last man.
While you may think it would have been cool for Americans to line up and just grind little kids into fucking hamburger with the 50cals I can tell you thanks to the stories of my family who fought in both theaters (grandfather in Europe liberating one of the camps, great uncle in the pacific as a marine) that having to kill little kids because its you or them? NOT good on the soldiers. Killing a soldier is one thing, killing an 8 year old girl because she is going kamikaze with a grenade tied to the end of a bamboo spear? totally different ball game.
Uhhh...nice how the AGWers waited until it left front page to mod down, cowardly much? As for " how are these people environmentalists" that is VERY simple: Just as Dubya and Cheney hijacked the conversation after 9/11 and made every talking head say the word Iraq fifty times a day so Goldman and the Rev Al Gore have hijacked the AGW platform to get the talking heads to only dance to THEIR tune. Where is greenpeace on 60 minutes? Face the nation? Where is their prize for calling "an inconvenient truth" a bunch of bullshit designed to make Rev Al Gore a billionaire?
Answer? The same place my purple pony with a naked Xena on the back is, nowhere. greenpeace will be dumped on page 64 if they are even reported on AT ALL if they don't toe the AGW line, which is Rev Al and crap and trade will save us. How many times have you seen Al and his "truth" video being pushed? hell they have tried to even make it required viewing in schools!
So sorry friend, but just like dubya made damned sure nobody said Saudi when it came to 9/11 so too will Rev Al and GS make damned sure nobody is allowed to offer a sensible solution to AGW. What we will be offered is another Ponzi Scheme that GS and Al will use to blow a giant bubble before they short the living fuck out of it and make money on the crash as well as the upswing. final result? NOT A DAMNED THING will be done for the environment, if anything MORE carbon will be dumped as illustrated in the video I linked to, the average man will be out massive amounts due to high costs on everything from gas to bread, and AL and his buddies at GS will make so much money their great grandchildren will be snorting $10k Coke off of thousand dollar hooker's asses.
As someone who works with and for the common man six days a week I can sum up why the go back in a single word....Zynga. Folks are addicted to those damned FB games like they are crack. I swear i've even had people come in and base their new PCs on how well it will play Farmville!
While I don't mess with the social crap (lucky if I have time to sleep most weeks) if they don't have all the big Zynga games...Farm/Frontierville, Mafia Wars, etc they can give it up chuck, folks just aren't giving up their FB games. You'd be surprised how many hours some folks have sunk into those things! Hell that was one of the things that drove me nuts about my ex, she'd be staying over and no matter how much I wore her down, 7:00AM on the dot she'd be on the PC for her hour of Farmville. She simply refused to ever miss her one hour of Farmville no matter what.
I swear that thing is like crack to large sections of the pop, so if G+ doesn't also have those games AND a way to transfer the hours they've already put in PLUS an easy way like FB has to get people to help you get items? No chance in hell friend, no chance in hell.
So in other words the Unobtainium is just Applied Phlebotinum? Try saying THAT three times fast!
As for TFA, it looks like China trying to hoard all the rare earth metals is gonna bite them right in the ass. Nobody was really looking as long as China was selling, but the second they stopped suddenly it was worth looking for again. Isn't there a pretty big rare earth metal deposit in the USA as well? Of course they probably won't be allowed to dig it up, as we learned from all those superfund sites we got stuck with miners tend to be a little messy when it comes to the environment.
Yep they have bet on ARM and its gonna bomb like the Hindenburg! I have shown the screencaps of Win 8 to over a hundred customers so far, in all walks of life. these are the people that MSFT is supposed to be selling to and NOBODY LIKED WHAT THEY SAW and NOBODY wanted it. Hell the closest I got to a positive reaction was this exchange:
"That is a nice looking cell phone picture, what is that? Android? I've heard of that, its supposed to be good....what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Well that is just stupid! Why would I want a cell phone for a desktop?"
And out of that average housewife's mouth comes wisdom. My customers all love the new Win 7 UI, had no trouble picking up all the cool new features like breadcrumbs and jumplists but not. a. single. one. would even entertain the thought of running Win 8. in fact the reaction I got was "But YOU will be able to get me another Windows 7 if I need it, right?"
The only nice thing I can say about Windows 8? that it may finally get that pathetic excuse of a CEO Balmer forced to "pursue other interests" and hopefully they can bring Ozzie back or one of the guys from the Office team to right the ship. They finally make a decent UI, that works for both power users and noobs, and what do they do? in yet another example of Ballmer having a raging hard on for Cupertino goes "Ooooh...tablets! Me too me too!" and promptly screws the OS division.
Does he not know that people buy Windows to run Windows programs and when ALL those programs don't run on ARM they are gonna be bringing those "Windows" devices back EN MASSE? Oh that DOES bring up one other nice thing....all the hackers are gonna be able to buy Windows ARM tablets at Touchpad prices, because the retailers are gonna get stuck with so many returns they are gonna be up to their asses in the things. Between HP trying to commit suicide and MSFT trying their damndest to join them I don't know WTF has got into these CEOs. It is like they have all lost their damned minds.
Would you have been happier if American soldiers in the Pacific were having to gut little kids and ended up shell shocked? try looking up "The World At War: Japan 1941-45" and see for yourself, they have film footage of the Japanese training little girls with bamboo spears and it is pretty common knowledge that even AFTER dropping two bombs upon them the high command had to broadcast the surrender in BOTH English AND Morse Code because there were a couple of Army Generals that tried to take over the radio station and broadcast they were gonna fight to the last Japanese!
The US has a lot of things they did wrong but I'd say dropping the bombs is not among them. look at the footage of Saipan, of Iwo jima, when there was NO hope of victory, no hope of even a draw they still fought on.
Citation please? because I provided links, where's yours? ALL I have seen Obama and the others in the AGW camp talk about is cap and trade, THAT IS IT. And with good reason as I provided, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, their friends on Wall Street, all of them are set to make out like bandits on crap and trade, but where is any other policy being pushed? Because it sure as hell ain't on the MSM.
All your bullshit is just that, bullshit. Notice you didn't have jack to say about your corp masters cashing 200 BILLION dollar checks and giving us nothing but the finger? And I know nationalizing is bring big gov but you know what? LESSER OF TWO EVILS because the corps have made it damned clear if they can't make MASSIVE PROFITS on every. single. install? then fuck you buddy.
And if there has ever been a national interest this is it. Study after study has shown that higher speeds equal more home businesses, more small businesses, more eCommerce, MORE JOBS. fuck the corps and if you think the invisible hand is gonna do anything but reach for your wallet fuck you too.
Riiight, it works for MSFT but it is everyone ELSE'S fault when Linux doesn't work, couldn't be bad OS design, right? you DO know what excuses and assholes have in common, yes? The USER don't give a shit WHY it don't work, and BTW in Win 7 a good 85%+ of the drivers? They JUST WORK. bring your A game or sit on the bench, your choice.
Oh you want to see how quick one can get modded troll, watch this: Isn't kinda funny how the ONLY solution being pushed is cap and trade by Al Gore, who just so happens to have himself set up to be a billionaire off of crap and trade? or that the same ones that set up credit default swaps, aka economy killers, are now writing the laws for crap and trade? Maybe some ought to watch this video to see just how easy it is to make MASSIVE MONIES while scamming the fuck out of crap and trade?
You watch how quick THAT gets downmodded, because Rev Al Gore has made AGW into the new religion and all that oppose his massive wealth redistribution (much into his own pockets) into the new heretics. It would be like me moving money from my right to left pocket, calling it wealth redistribution , demanding AND GETTING a tax break for it! The guy lives in a McMansion, drives a personal Lear jet and a fleet of SUVs and then has the balls to tell ME to take the bus? To quote Mr Garrison "You go to hell Al Gore, you go to hell and you die!"
A price I didn't like? Are you fucking stoned? they wanted 50 times the line costs in profits PLUS 40% monthly on top of that? And can you not fucking read? maybe you need me to spell it out...we paid 200 billion already and all we got was the finger.
So sincerely, from the bottom of my heart....fuck your corporate ass kissing free market horseshit. THERE IS NO FREE MARKET as its just one government granted monopoly after another. We the American people PAID 200 BILLION for nationwide and didn't get shit but the finger from the CEOs as they cashed another bonus check.
So don't give us that "waaaah, you want me to pay for your stuff waaah!" Republitard bullshit because WE ALL PAID ALREADY and got nothing but a 56k Goatse.
Sweet system bro, sweet. You'll have to let me know how much of a kick in the ass turbocore gives you, as that is the only reason I'm looking at switching my Deneb X4 for a Thuban is turbocore. I'd watch the passively cooled Radeon though, the temps AMD says are fine are a little hot for my tastes. After all they said up to 90C! was fine for the 48xx chips too. I'd watch the temps and if they aren't to your liking this one or the Accelero series are both really good VGA coolers.
The problem with your theory of emulation is thus: emulation is illegal so it really doesn't help. X86 is patented and copyrighted up the ass and there is only THREE companies in the world that can legally use x86 instructions in any Berne Convention country, that is Intel, AMD, and until 2015 (when their license expires) Via, that's it.
That is why you don't see cell phones bragging about being able to play SNES games or anything like that, even though older machines would be trivial to emulate and in China they are. its because even if they only used ROT 13 under DMCA that counts as copyright protection and thus is illegal to circumvent. IIRC Intel and AMD also have their specific instructions covered by not only patents but copyrights on the code itself, and as I'm sure you know that is 150 years+ before they expire.
So I'm sorry but emulation isn't the answer, not for technical reasons but simply because of legal bullshit. That is why you don't see Loongson CPUs being sold in netbooks over here, their x86 emulation isn't allowed in the west. And if the USA ends up getting China onboard copyrights and patents frankly it won't be legal there either. sorry.
A non learning ribbon would just be a pile of icons that change based on what task you are doing so I'm thinking yes, that wouldn't be covered. if you have to pick a button before the icons change? that is just calling another MDE so that has plenty of prior art. It is the learning aspect that would bite you in the ass, so if it is strictly a bunch of icons in a bar? i don't see how that could be covered.
So your answer is use esoteric workarounds? I'm shocked you didn't add stable kernel ABI nonsense just to add to your giant fail and bullshit. And folks wonder why Linux is dead last. MSFT and Apple are bring their A games, your playing hackey sack.
I know its a complete shock but to most people? windows and OSX just work and they do so without fail, without esoteric workarounds, without driver bullshit and WITHOUT EXCUSES, which sadly is all you get from the "community" anymore, along with bullshit, insults, and pages of CLI "fixes" crapola. Oh don't forget to call me an "M$ Ninja shill astroturfer dirty man!" just to seal the fail trifecta. stupid shit like this is why Linux is dead last and frankly? deserves to BE last.
Actually windows HAS been getting better about memory with each version except Vista of course. For example Win 7 has delayed start services and with superfetch and readyboost RAM is used much more efficiently for the things you actually do. as for why so many services on at once? I can answer that....grandmas. You'd be surprised how many times I've had to deal with someone's PC because they have a "power user" in the family that killed some service like imaging support and now their scanner won't work. folks have NO CLUE how to get to that stuff and most are afraid to mess with it, so by having the most common services running they save a hell of a lot of support calls. Hell I'm waiting on a remote assistance invite now from a little old lady who can't get her sound and printer working and 5 will get you 10 her nephew tweaked something.
But having trigger on event sounds like a good idea, now if they will only get rid of that stupid ass cell phone UI. I have YET to meet a single person that has anything positive to say, and I've shown the screencaps to over a hundred customers now. The closest I got was this exchange "That is a nice looking cell phone, what is that? Android? I've heard of that, its supposed to be nice....what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Well that is just stupid! why would I want a cell phone for a desktop?" and from the mouth of the clueless comes brilliance. nobody wants a cell phone for a desktop yet that is exactly what win 8 is! dumb MSFT, just dumb.
Sadly it won't happen, and here is why: Both Windows and OSX support DRM, Linux don't, its just that simple. More and more of the titles on Steam have DRM on TOP of Steam, so all those titles? poof, gone. can't offer those. So already you've fractured their market. Then of course you have all the "phone home" games, and of course steam itself which is DRM, and we have seen how there is a VERY vocal group in the Linux community that thinks ALL DRM is the most evil thing ever created and thus will go out of their way to publish as many hacks and cracks as they possibly can as soon as it is released.
While i personally would love it if Linux would have a butt simple, easy to use game service like Steam right now the community is split in two. On the one side you have the followers of RMS, who believes that ANY software without the four freedoms is the spawn of Satan, and then you have Torvalds who is more of a "just make it work" kind of guy and isn't militant, hence why he kept the kernel GPL V2. But as long as RMS and his followers hold so much sway I seriously doubt you will have such a high profile DRM service like Steam on Linux, just too much hatred for DRM in the community.
But this is a good example of why Linux isn't ready for the masses. Sure the geeks here, with years of experience and who actually like to hang out at geek heavy sites can use esoteric workarounds, but what about Sally the cashier? Joe the construction worker? your landlady? All of these people will only find that Linux equals shit battery life if they were to use one which they would then tell to all their friends, hurting the image further.
This is nearly 2012 guys, there really isn't any excuse for this Mickey mouse minor league bullshit. Take a lesson from the late Steve Jobs and focus ON THE USER and make damned sure it "just works" OOTB, no workarounds, no tweaks, no bullshit. Updates shouldn't break drivers, you shouldn't need esoteric workarounds just to have usable battery life, c'mon guys, bring your A game!
I mean here it is, you have less than 2 years before hundreds of millions of late model desktops and laptops will be EOLed by MSFT thanks to the killing of XP, and THIS is the best you can do? No sir I don't believe that. From 2000 through 2005 I saw slow but steady progress when it came to Linux but then Canonical came around and it seemed like the whole community just lost their damned minds. Now everyone is on a truly insane 6 month upgrade deathmarch that gives ZERO time for QA, bugs don't get fixed, instead new versions come out that just add new bugs on top of old, it is like you are taking 1 step forward and three steps back.
But Linux has done better in the past and could do better again. Use the 2014 EOL of XP as a rallying point. tell Canonical to stick their crazy upgrade schedule, either make all distros a rock solid 7 year support cycle or make Torvalds STFU and give you an ABI so that upgrades don't shit all over drivers, get rid of the stupid esoteric workarounds, and make users job #1. the only reason Linux isn't on machines in every retail store in America is ignorant bullshit just like this. Bring your A games guys, you can do so much better.
BULLSHIT. Complete and utter bullshit. I found out from a lineman how much it would actually cost to run the cable the TWO block to my mom's house, it was $1600. I offered them $3500 to run the line just so my mom could something better than sat or dialup. you know what I was told? I would have to come up with $50,000 and a guaranteed 10 year contract (at 40% over what everyone else was paying) or it would be "too risky" to run a line TWO BLOCKS.
Moral of the story? THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. There is NO competition and the duopolies have NO intention of running shit, it called cherry picking, look it up. We should NATIONALIZE THE LINES and we even have a legal reason...fraud. they took 200 billion from the American people for nationwide broadband and ALL we got was the finger. They pay it back with 20% compounded since 1996 in 90 days, or we take the lines, simple.
so quit with the free market bullshit because in natural monopolies it DOES NOT WORK. the ONLY way to get nationwide broadband, which we seriously need to help grow the economy, is to nationalize.
Nope, not prior art. the ribbon is contextual, that is changing based on the user picking a function. for example if you start typing a doc the font function becomes front and center, use the shortcut on the keyboard to add headers and footers and the bibliography tools come to the forefront.
So you see what the ribbon is doing is basically guessing what you are doing in the actual program area and then trying to make the controls that you are most likely to need become the main area controls. There is actually a video on MSDN (sorry I couldn't find the link ATM I'm trying to do 6 things at once here at the shop) where they explain how they took thousands of videos and screencaps of people using the products and then put all that data into a spreadsheet to find out what the most used tools for any particular task was. They are using the same approach for the Win 8 explorer ribbon and for example they found more than 90% of folks in explorer use cut/copy/paste when in explorer so those will be up front unless you do a lot of another function, lets say move. then move will be the function in the center area.
While I preferred the menu simply because I've used Office enough i know where everything is, I can see what they are going for and its pretty damned smart. simply find out what folks use the most, make those controls the largest and easiest to hit, then pay attention to what the user does and further customize the controls based on their most used tools. For all folks talk of prior art I frankly have never seen a "learning menu" based on icons before the ribbon, especially not one that learned and adapted with the user.
The problem with that idea is thus: Everyone is afraid some of their data may still be in the phone (especially with smart phones) and there is currently no reliable way to wipe them and since folks live on their phones? not will to risk it, and I don't blame them.
As much as i bitch about guys wasting HDDs that could be given away (nobody has yet to recover a single bit from a modern drive that has been zero passed) the flash memory in a cell phone is a different story and frankly there is no good way to see what data remains after removing a sim card unless you have a blank sim card to use to test it, which most people don't. And of course with wear leveling who the fuck knows what is in the flash memory, so into the drawers they go. If they want cell phones to be donated they need to have a device there ready to show the person the phone being wiped.
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Actually funnily enough, it wasn't the farmville, or the fact that she is a daywalker and i'm a night owl, nor even the fact that she had to move 250 miles away when her dad had a heart attack so I could only see her on weekends that broke us up...it was sexual incompatibility.
I had always thought that was a bunch of shit, that if you were both healthy you could find a nice middle ground and everything would work out...boy I was wrong. I'll admit it, I was WAAAAY fucking wrongo.
She was strictly a 30 minutes or less gal and I'm a good hour+ guy and that ended up breaking us up. By her third orgasm she would be throwing the time out and begging to just give me head, by the end it was REALLY pissing me off, it was like every time I started to get my groove going she'd throw on the brakes! I tried everything, desensitizing cremes, different positions, you name it, nothing worked. And I loooove to give a woman head and that was right out, as in less than 10 minutes she'd have an orgasm so powerful she'd come off the bed and go off like a fountain and within 10 minutes of that she was in a coma.
So I learned a hard but valuable lesson: Sexual incompatibility DOES exist and if you can't come to a middle ground within 3 or 4 sessions? better just to shake hands and go your separate ways. My family adored her and it really threw the whole family when we broke up, but there was no way in hell I could be happy when i constantly felt frustrated.
And who the fuck are they supposed to vote FOR anyway? lets see their current choices...on the "left" (which give me a break, we have right and FAR right, no left in sight) we have Nobama, as in NO different than Dubya, NO getting us out of two wars (started a third instead) NO getting rid of gitmo, NO stopping wall Street banksters (in fact he gave them more money and power) along with NO change from the status quo.
And on the right? we have Rick "Fuck social security and who cares about illegals?" Perry, we have Herman "I'm a tea partier" (Translation: I'm owned by the Koch bros) Cain, and Mitt "What am I for this week?" Romney. I'm not even gonna mention Bachmann or Paul because they are both batshit. Bachman wants to get rid of ALL corporate taxes (what's zero percent of zero anyway? look up double Dutch or Irish Whip tax schemes to understand what I'm talking about) while of course failing to mention she would still allow them to qualify for tax BREAKS, which of course means the top 1% would get money BACK from YOUR pocket, and Paul wants to "go back to 1910" when if your house got blown away you could sit on the rubble with a tin cup. News Flash: The city of Galveston and the event he cited as "an example of the community taking care of itself"? it took TWENTY THREE YEARS to get back to the way it was, and most lost everything. Guess who made out like bandits on all that cheap land though? Top 1%ers that's who.
So you tell me who EXACTLY are they supposed to vote FOR, when the MSM has been owned since Reagan deregulated it in the 80s? Hell look at how quick they ignore the living hell out of Paul simply because he doesn't follow the corporate line. he is still batshit, but because he isn't corporate sponsored batshit he doesn't have a prayer.
If you think voting does shit anymore I'll leave you with these words of wisdom for the late great Bill Hicks: "Well I believe the puppet on the left has MY interests at heart, well I believe the puppet on the right shares MY beliefs...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling both puppets!" and the guy working both puppets? that would be the 1%ers yet again. that is how Norquist was able to get all but 6 Rs in the house to sign a "no new taxes EVAR!" pledge, even while the economy craters and millions are out of work.
You wanna know what is sad? They have what I consider the perfect "housewife PC" and have NO DAMNED CLUE on how to market the thing!
It is a sweet little AMD Brazos E-350 based all in one PC. Its thin, light, sleek, built in Wireless G, DVD burner, 6 USB ports along with gigabit ethernet...it is a damned sweet little Internet box built into a nice 1600x900 20 inch screen. Tigerdirect has been selling them for like $300 and after playing with a couple of them i picked up for customers? They are PERFECT for your average mom type! The Radeon 6310 is just the right size for Farmville and all those other Zynga games as well as DVD watching, its is quiet as a churchmouse, thin enough you can set that baby up anywhere, for the modern wireless family this is the most perfect "mom PC" I've seen.
So are the marketing it? nope last HP ads I've seen are all pushing that Dr Dre sound system bullshit. Protip: Guys that actually give a fuck about sound DON'T USE ONBOARD LAPTOP CRAP they use USB or Firewire based offboard units. And the guys that listen to Dr Dre don't strike me as the $1000 laptop types.
So I have to agree that TFA nails it...HP is too far gone to right the ship without a REAL CEO that can kick ass and take names. it is common knowledge that Jobs was a tyrant and didn't take no shit when it came to his vision, and THAT is what they need, someone who'll tell the board to STFU and focus on marketing really sweet products like those Brazos mom PCs.
Frankly I don't know which one is worse to watch, HP trying to commit Hari Kari or watching MSFT try their damnedest to torpedo the company with one REALLY stupid fucking idea after another, like killing playsforsure, Zune, Kin, and the "step in front of a bus" Darwin award for their totally dumbshit idea of putting "Windows" on ARM and calling it Windows? Didn't they learn anything from New Coke? I swear it is like all these CEOs have lost their damned minds.
You aren't the only one. While I myself haven't time to watch movies several of my customers had Netflix and down to the last one after this last BS they switched to either Redbox or Hulu Plus or a combination of the two.
The big selling point for my customers was streaming for the kiddies while having the DVDs in the mail for the adults (because they never seem to have what they'd want to watch in the streaming section, I heard that complaint a lot) and after this last dumbshit move many came to me to find out alternatives because they simply got fed up. Now the majority have Nbox media players with 200-400gb HDDs attached which I showed them how to easily pick up cheap kids movies off of Amazon and rip them to their kids Nboxes, while they either have Amazon movies loaded to their HTPCs for themselves or Redbox for their movies.
So I have to agree that somebody there doesn't know what the fuck they are doing, and certainly don't know their customers. This last round of BS along with the price jacking really ran off many of my customers with kids and that seemed like the biggest market they had. I don't know how many parents I had before this BS had me build nice little HTPCs because they had loved Netflix so much they wanted an easy and nice way to put it in their living rooms, now it is all Hulu plus and Redbox and Amazon FTW.
Horseshit, complete and utter horseshit. We are talking fanatics here, my late uncle was in the pacific at both Saipan and Okinawa and I got to here of the horror first hand from him. He said they'd get a bunker surrounded then broadcast in Japanese "If you don't come out we are gonna have no choice but to call in the flamethrowers, we'll give you food, treat your injuries, and take you to safety if you'll just come out and surrender" and instead they would strap grenades on their chests and banzai charge the lines. he said the bodies were literally piled up like cordwood, the stench of death was beyond belief, yet they still came. He also watched women throw infants off the cliffs rather than surrender their children, that kind of shit haunted him for years, hearing the screams of babies as they fell to their deaths.
So sincerely fuck your bleeding heart bullshit. as Truman said "I can tell you how many Americans were saved by the dropping of those bombs" and in a time of war THAT is what matters. Either you give 100% or you go the fuck home, that's it. I would remind you we had already killed more than the atomics in Tokyo alone and as I said even AFTER TWO BOMBS They had to broadcast the surrender from multiple sites because several general took over a radio tower and was broadcasting they were gonna fight to the last man.
While you may think it would have been cool for Americans to line up and just grind little kids into fucking hamburger with the 50cals I can tell you thanks to the stories of my family who fought in both theaters (grandfather in Europe liberating one of the camps, great uncle in the pacific as a marine) that having to kill little kids because its you or them? NOT good on the soldiers. Killing a soldier is one thing, killing an 8 year old girl because she is going kamikaze with a grenade tied to the end of a bamboo spear? totally different ball game.
Uhhh...nice how the AGWers waited until it left front page to mod down, cowardly much? As for " how are these people environmentalists" that is VERY simple: Just as Dubya and Cheney hijacked the conversation after 9/11 and made every talking head say the word Iraq fifty times a day so Goldman and the Rev Al Gore have hijacked the AGW platform to get the talking heads to only dance to THEIR tune. Where is greenpeace on 60 minutes? Face the nation? Where is their prize for calling "an inconvenient truth" a bunch of bullshit designed to make Rev Al Gore a billionaire?
Answer? The same place my purple pony with a naked Xena on the back is, nowhere. greenpeace will be dumped on page 64 if they are even reported on AT ALL if they don't toe the AGW line, which is Rev Al and crap and trade will save us. How many times have you seen Al and his "truth" video being pushed? hell they have tried to even make it required viewing in schools!
So sorry friend, but just like dubya made damned sure nobody said Saudi when it came to 9/11 so too will Rev Al and GS make damned sure nobody is allowed to offer a sensible solution to AGW. What we will be offered is another Ponzi Scheme that GS and Al will use to blow a giant bubble before they short the living fuck out of it and make money on the crash as well as the upswing. final result? NOT A DAMNED THING will be done for the environment, if anything MORE carbon will be dumped as illustrated in the video I linked to, the average man will be out massive amounts due to high costs on everything from gas to bread, and AL and his buddies at GS will make so much money their great grandchildren will be snorting $10k Coke off of thousand dollar hooker's asses.
As someone who works with and for the common man six days a week I can sum up why the go back in a single word....Zynga. Folks are addicted to those damned FB games like they are crack. I swear i've even had people come in and base their new PCs on how well it will play Farmville!
While I don't mess with the social crap (lucky if I have time to sleep most weeks) if they don't have all the big Zynga games...Farm/Frontierville, Mafia Wars, etc they can give it up chuck, folks just aren't giving up their FB games. You'd be surprised how many hours some folks have sunk into those things! Hell that was one of the things that drove me nuts about my ex, she'd be staying over and no matter how much I wore her down, 7:00AM on the dot she'd be on the PC for her hour of Farmville. She simply refused to ever miss her one hour of Farmville no matter what.
I swear that thing is like crack to large sections of the pop, so if G+ doesn't also have those games AND a way to transfer the hours they've already put in PLUS an easy way like FB has to get people to help you get items? No chance in hell friend, no chance in hell.
So in other words the Unobtainium is just Applied Phlebotinum? Try saying THAT three times fast!
As for TFA, it looks like China trying to hoard all the rare earth metals is gonna bite them right in the ass. Nobody was really looking as long as China was selling, but the second they stopped suddenly it was worth looking for again. Isn't there a pretty big rare earth metal deposit in the USA as well? Of course they probably won't be allowed to dig it up, as we learned from all those superfund sites we got stuck with miners tend to be a little messy when it comes to the environment.
Yep they have bet on ARM and its gonna bomb like the Hindenburg! I have shown the screencaps of Win 8 to over a hundred customers so far, in all walks of life. these are the people that MSFT is supposed to be selling to and NOBODY LIKED WHAT THEY SAW and NOBODY wanted it. Hell the closest I got to a positive reaction was this exchange:
"That is a nice looking cell phone picture, what is that? Android? I've heard of that, its supposed to be good....what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Well that is just stupid! Why would I want a cell phone for a desktop?"
And out of that average housewife's mouth comes wisdom. My customers all love the new Win 7 UI, had no trouble picking up all the cool new features like breadcrumbs and jumplists but not. a. single. one. would even entertain the thought of running Win 8. in fact the reaction I got was "But YOU will be able to get me another Windows 7 if I need it, right?"
The only nice thing I can say about Windows 8? that it may finally get that pathetic excuse of a CEO Balmer forced to "pursue other interests" and hopefully they can bring Ozzie back or one of the guys from the Office team to right the ship. They finally make a decent UI, that works for both power users and noobs, and what do they do? in yet another example of Ballmer having a raging hard on for Cupertino goes "Ooooh...tablets! Me too me too!" and promptly screws the OS division.
Does he not know that people buy Windows to run Windows programs and when ALL those programs don't run on ARM they are gonna be bringing those "Windows" devices back EN MASSE? Oh that DOES bring up one other nice thing....all the hackers are gonna be able to buy Windows ARM tablets at Touchpad prices, because the retailers are gonna get stuck with so many returns they are gonna be up to their asses in the things. Between HP trying to commit suicide and MSFT trying their damndest to join them I don't know WTF has got into these CEOs. It is like they have all lost their damned minds.
Would you have been happier if American soldiers in the Pacific were having to gut little kids and ended up shell shocked? try looking up "The World At War: Japan 1941-45" and see for yourself, they have film footage of the Japanese training little girls with bamboo spears and it is pretty common knowledge that even AFTER dropping two bombs upon them the high command had to broadcast the surrender in BOTH English AND Morse Code because there were a couple of Army Generals that tried to take over the radio station and broadcast they were gonna fight to the last Japanese!
The US has a lot of things they did wrong but I'd say dropping the bombs is not among them. look at the footage of Saipan, of Iwo jima, when there was NO hope of victory, no hope of even a draw they still fought on.
Citation please? because I provided links, where's yours? ALL I have seen Obama and the others in the AGW camp talk about is cap and trade, THAT IS IT. And with good reason as I provided, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs, their friends on Wall Street, all of them are set to make out like bandits on crap and trade, but where is any other policy being pushed? Because it sure as hell ain't on the MSM.
All your bullshit is just that, bullshit. Notice you didn't have jack to say about your corp masters cashing 200 BILLION dollar checks and giving us nothing but the finger? And I know nationalizing is bring big gov but you know what? LESSER OF TWO EVILS because the corps have made it damned clear if they can't make MASSIVE PROFITS on every. single. install? then fuck you buddy.
And if there has ever been a national interest this is it. Study after study has shown that higher speeds equal more home businesses, more small businesses, more eCommerce, MORE JOBS. fuck the corps and if you think the invisible hand is gonna do anything but reach for your wallet fuck you too.
Riiight, it works for MSFT but it is everyone ELSE'S fault when Linux doesn't work, couldn't be bad OS design, right? you DO know what excuses and assholes have in common, yes? The USER don't give a shit WHY it don't work, and BTW in Win 7 a good 85%+ of the drivers? They JUST WORK. bring your A game or sit on the bench, your choice.
Oh you want to see how quick one can get modded troll, watch this: Isn't kinda funny how the ONLY solution being pushed is cap and trade by Al Gore, who just so happens to have himself set up to be a billionaire off of crap and trade? or that the same ones that set up credit default swaps, aka economy killers, are now writing the laws for crap and trade? Maybe some ought to watch this video to see just how easy it is to make MASSIVE MONIES while scamming the fuck out of crap and trade?
You watch how quick THAT gets downmodded, because Rev Al Gore has made AGW into the new religion and all that oppose his massive wealth redistribution (much into his own pockets) into the new heretics. It would be like me moving money from my right to left pocket, calling it wealth redistribution , demanding AND GETTING a tax break for it! The guy lives in a McMansion, drives a personal Lear jet and a fleet of SUVs and then has the balls to tell ME to take the bus? To quote Mr Garrison "You go to hell Al Gore, you go to hell and you die!"
A price I didn't like? Are you fucking stoned? they wanted 50 times the line costs in profits PLUS 40% monthly on top of that? And can you not fucking read? maybe you need me to spell it out... we paid 200 billion already and all we got was the finger.
So sincerely, from the bottom of my heart....fuck your corporate ass kissing free market horseshit. THERE IS NO FREE MARKET as its just one government granted monopoly after another. We the American people PAID 200 BILLION for nationwide and didn't get shit but the finger from the CEOs as they cashed another bonus check.
So don't give us that "waaaah, you want me to pay for your stuff waaah!" Republitard bullshit because WE ALL PAID ALREADY and got nothing but a 56k Goatse.
Sweet system bro, sweet. You'll have to let me know how much of a kick in the ass turbocore gives you, as that is the only reason I'm looking at switching my Deneb X4 for a Thuban is turbocore. I'd watch the passively cooled Radeon though, the temps AMD says are fine are a little hot for my tastes. After all they said up to 90C! was fine for the 48xx chips too. I'd watch the temps and if they aren't to your liking this one or the Accelero series are both really good VGA coolers.
The problem with your theory of emulation is thus: emulation is illegal so it really doesn't help. X86 is patented and copyrighted up the ass and there is only THREE companies in the world that can legally use x86 instructions in any Berne Convention country, that is Intel, AMD, and until 2015 (when their license expires) Via, that's it.
That is why you don't see cell phones bragging about being able to play SNES games or anything like that, even though older machines would be trivial to emulate and in China they are. its because even if they only used ROT 13 under DMCA that counts as copyright protection and thus is illegal to circumvent. IIRC Intel and AMD also have their specific instructions covered by not only patents but copyrights on the code itself, and as I'm sure you know that is 150 years+ before they expire.
So I'm sorry but emulation isn't the answer, not for technical reasons but simply because of legal bullshit. That is why you don't see Loongson CPUs being sold in netbooks over here, their x86 emulation isn't allowed in the west. And if the USA ends up getting China onboard copyrights and patents frankly it won't be legal there either. sorry.
A non learning ribbon would just be a pile of icons that change based on what task you are doing so I'm thinking yes, that wouldn't be covered. if you have to pick a button before the icons change? that is just calling another MDE so that has plenty of prior art. It is the learning aspect that would bite you in the ass, so if it is strictly a bunch of icons in a bar? i don't see how that could be covered.
So your answer is use esoteric workarounds? I'm shocked you didn't add stable kernel ABI nonsense just to add to your giant fail and bullshit. And folks wonder why Linux is dead last. MSFT and Apple are bring their A games, your playing hackey sack.
I know its a complete shock but to most people? windows and OSX just work and they do so without fail, without esoteric workarounds, without driver bullshit and WITHOUT EXCUSES, which sadly is all you get from the "community" anymore, along with bullshit, insults, and pages of CLI "fixes" crapola. Oh don't forget to call me an "M$ Ninja shill astroturfer dirty man!" just to seal the fail trifecta. stupid shit like this is why Linux is dead last and frankly? deserves to BE last.
Actually windows HAS been getting better about memory with each version except Vista of course. For example Win 7 has delayed start services and with superfetch and readyboost RAM is used much more efficiently for the things you actually do. as for why so many services on at once? I can answer that....grandmas. You'd be surprised how many times I've had to deal with someone's PC because they have a "power user" in the family that killed some service like imaging support and now their scanner won't work. folks have NO CLUE how to get to that stuff and most are afraid to mess with it, so by having the most common services running they save a hell of a lot of support calls. Hell I'm waiting on a remote assistance invite now from a little old lady who can't get her sound and printer working and 5 will get you 10 her nephew tweaked something.
But having trigger on event sounds like a good idea, now if they will only get rid of that stupid ass cell phone UI. I have YET to meet a single person that has anything positive to say, and I've shown the screencaps to over a hundred customers now. The closest I got was this exchange "That is a nice looking cell phone, what is that? Android? I've heard of that, its supposed to be nice....what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Well that is just stupid! why would I want a cell phone for a desktop?" and from the mouth of the clueless comes brilliance. nobody wants a cell phone for a desktop yet that is exactly what win 8 is! dumb MSFT, just dumb.
Sadly it won't happen, and here is why: Both Windows and OSX support DRM, Linux don't, its just that simple. More and more of the titles on Steam have DRM on TOP of Steam, so all those titles? poof, gone. can't offer those. So already you've fractured their market. Then of course you have all the "phone home" games, and of course steam itself which is DRM, and we have seen how there is a VERY vocal group in the Linux community that thinks ALL DRM is the most evil thing ever created and thus will go out of their way to publish as many hacks and cracks as they possibly can as soon as it is released.
While i personally would love it if Linux would have a butt simple, easy to use game service like Steam right now the community is split in two. On the one side you have the followers of RMS, who believes that ANY software without the four freedoms is the spawn of Satan, and then you have Torvalds who is more of a "just make it work" kind of guy and isn't militant, hence why he kept the kernel GPL V2. But as long as RMS and his followers hold so much sway I seriously doubt you will have such a high profile DRM service like Steam on Linux, just too much hatred for DRM in the community.
Anyway while it isn't Steam for those Linux guys that would like some cheap games to play Good Old Games has a list of games which run on Linux and of course all are DRM free, enjoy.
But this is a good example of why Linux isn't ready for the masses. Sure the geeks here, with years of experience and who actually like to hang out at geek heavy sites can use esoteric workarounds, but what about Sally the cashier? Joe the construction worker? your landlady? All of these people will only find that Linux equals shit battery life if they were to use one which they would then tell to all their friends, hurting the image further.
This is nearly 2012 guys, there really isn't any excuse for this Mickey mouse minor league bullshit. Take a lesson from the late Steve Jobs and focus ON THE USER and make damned sure it "just works" OOTB, no workarounds, no tweaks, no bullshit. Updates shouldn't break drivers, you shouldn't need esoteric workarounds just to have usable battery life, c'mon guys, bring your A game!
I mean here it is, you have less than 2 years before hundreds of millions of late model desktops and laptops will be EOLed by MSFT thanks to the killing of XP, and THIS is the best you can do? No sir I don't believe that. From 2000 through 2005 I saw slow but steady progress when it came to Linux but then Canonical came around and it seemed like the whole community just lost their damned minds. Now everyone is on a truly insane 6 month upgrade deathmarch that gives ZERO time for QA, bugs don't get fixed, instead new versions come out that just add new bugs on top of old, it is like you are taking 1 step forward and three steps back.
But Linux has done better in the past and could do better again. Use the 2014 EOL of XP as a rallying point. tell Canonical to stick their crazy upgrade schedule, either make all distros a rock solid 7 year support cycle or make Torvalds STFU and give you an ABI so that upgrades don't shit all over drivers, get rid of the stupid esoteric workarounds, and make users job #1. the only reason Linux isn't on machines in every retail store in America is ignorant bullshit just like this. Bring your A games guys, you can do so much better.
BULLSHIT. Complete and utter bullshit. I found out from a lineman how much it would actually cost to run the cable the TWO block to my mom's house, it was $1600. I offered them $3500 to run the line just so my mom could something better than sat or dialup. you know what I was told? I would have to come up with $50,000 and a guaranteed 10 year contract (at 40% over what everyone else was paying) or it would be "too risky" to run a line TWO BLOCKS.
Moral of the story? THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. There is NO competition and the duopolies have NO intention of running shit, it called cherry picking, look it up. We should NATIONALIZE THE LINES and we even have a legal reason...fraud. they took 200 billion from the American people for nationwide broadband and ALL we got was the finger. They pay it back with 20% compounded since 1996 in 90 days, or we take the lines, simple.
so quit with the free market bullshit because in natural monopolies it DOES NOT WORK. the ONLY way to get nationwide broadband, which we seriously need to help grow the economy, is to nationalize.
Nope, not prior art. the ribbon is contextual, that is changing based on the user picking a function. for example if you start typing a doc the font function becomes front and center, use the shortcut on the keyboard to add headers and footers and the bibliography tools come to the forefront.
So you see what the ribbon is doing is basically guessing what you are doing in the actual program area and then trying to make the controls that you are most likely to need become the main area controls. There is actually a video on MSDN (sorry I couldn't find the link ATM I'm trying to do 6 things at once here at the shop) where they explain how they took thousands of videos and screencaps of people using the products and then put all that data into a spreadsheet to find out what the most used tools for any particular task was. They are using the same approach for the Win 8 explorer ribbon and for example they found more than 90% of folks in explorer use cut/copy/paste when in explorer so those will be up front unless you do a lot of another function, lets say move. then move will be the function in the center area.
While I preferred the menu simply because I've used Office enough i know where everything is, I can see what they are going for and its pretty damned smart. simply find out what folks use the most, make those controls the largest and easiest to hit, then pay attention to what the user does and further customize the controls based on their most used tools. For all folks talk of prior art I frankly have never seen a "learning menu" based on icons before the ribbon, especially not one that learned and adapted with the user.
The problem with that idea is thus: Everyone is afraid some of their data may still be in the phone (especially with smart phones) and there is currently no reliable way to wipe them and since folks live on their phones? not will to risk it, and I don't blame them.
As much as i bitch about guys wasting HDDs that could be given away (nobody has yet to recover a single bit from a modern drive that has been zero passed) the flash memory in a cell phone is a different story and frankly there is no good way to see what data remains after removing a sim card unless you have a blank sim card to use to test it, which most people don't. And of course with wear leveling who the fuck knows what is in the flash memory, so into the drawers they go. If they want cell phones to be donated they need to have a device there ready to show the person the phone being wiped.