I was expecting some kind of payola, maybe free vacations, a car, ya know, the usual. But when the Canadian Lobbyist told his bosses he'd really give it his all...
Too many apps nowadays just throw out RAM like it was yesterdays newspaper! It is sloppy coding, and I'm tired of having to put 2GB of RAM into a system just to surf the net nowadays.
Our politicans have surrendered the long term, instead looking for the quick fix. The US economy is now based on "pass the bag", flipping stocks to the next buyer. But what happens to those at the end of the chain.
And who is there to blame? Ourselves, the voters within the US. We vote based on short-term memories. We vote not on who would do the job best, but by who slings the most mud. We ignore qualifications for image. Politicians are out on a JOB INTERVIEW! The voters are the managers deciding on who to fill in the position. Take it as seriously as if you were hiring the nurse to administer your parents medication, because truth is, you are.
Well, what's stopping you? Inspiration is 10%, perspiration 90%. And note, you don't need to fork anything to do it, as all you're speaking of is handled in the distribution method.
There is nothing to see here. These sorts of infights are not only common, they're necessary, due to the very nature of the project. Competition means survival of the fittest, and these fights are the best method for weeding out the strongest code solutions from the ho-hums. Best we fight amongst ourselves, for the world itself wants to crush us in it's fight for mediocrity! But the moment an external force tries to pick on onef us, we unite into one gigantic geeky mass. We can pick on each other, because we're family, even the BSD guys. But nobody else has that right!
I, for one, was looking forward to the XO for an x-mas gift for my son, and being able to tell him that the same kind of computer was found everywhere worldwide. But for that price, the EE-PC from Asus looks far more appealing. I hate sounding like I'm thinking with my wallet, but egads. I'm all for charitable giving and the such, but this feels like something arbitrary that wasn't necessary. If they'd gone for $299 so someone in Africa could buy it for $100, then sign me up! But just an arbitrary handout feels cheap.
What are the chances a real machine will ever ship with these features? I highly doubt. They pulled every stop for a demonstration, and now the beancounters will start knocking features off to try and save a buck. End result, customers will likely never see such a rig in mass production, which is a shame, for it would make me seriously consider Intel again.
Actually, my rent has gone up. In 2001 I was paying $449, today I pay $799. The average rent around here has gone up approximately 50% since 2001. But this is Florida, after all.
I'm thinking (in part to stroke Theo's ego a bit) set OpenBSD as the security standard out there. Every OS, compare it security-wise to OpenBSD. Put a "percentage" for how secure, then we can see hard numbers for how securly an OS is out of the box.
Will downgrade new machines from Vista to XP or some alternative due to the overhead and application support? I know in my office, Vista has been vanishing, replaced by Linux running Wine for the few Windows apps we actually require.
"But the US dollar is not losing value in the US. Domestic inflation remains low. "
It's not?
**looks at his mother in laws house, inflated 140% in 5 years, the gas I bought yesterday, up 120% in 5 years, the loaf of bread I bought this morning, up 110% over the past 5 years, the can of Chef Boi R Dee, up 80% in 5 years, the roll of film I bought monday, up 75% in 5 years**
My old cable so in Maine offered just this. You bought interrelated channels a la carte. But then the media cartels began forming, and they found their channels forced together when they were irrelevent, aggrivating the customers.
It wound up bought by Time Warner over a decade ago, and one of the first moves TW did, removing a la carte.
It is big enough for someone to admit when they have had poor judgement. It takes a bigger man to do so with not only such humility and grace, but with a touch of humor to boot. Hats off to you good sirah, you have shown that not only are journalists human, but that, on occasion, they will even own up to it.
Don't believe anything of the sort. However, faked docments is a known method of Rove, beginning with his use of Alan Dixon stationary in 1970 to cause havoc in that campaign. Then again against Ed Muskie a few years later. Infact, the use of faked documents is one of his oldest techniques.
They were done in a Microsoft Word by a vet with a grudge against Bush and given to a CBS producer known for cutting corners in pursuit of her passions."
Actually, a more likely canidate for faking would be Karl Rove with his usual tactics.
Double checked, I have an Exective, not Selectric, my mistake. But yes, it does offer proportional typing *and* superscript capability. And no, it did not cost $20,000 in 1970's dollars, in 1971 an Executive D (which I have here) ran $705, brand new.
And I never said the document was real (I'd call it a dirty-play by Rove and co) but that the claims that typewriters of the era could not do it is baloney.
I find it funny how it is always put "the Euro rsing against the dollar" or "the Canadian dollar rises against the US dollar" when the truth is the US dollar is in freefall, loosing value hand over fist. I wonder how long before the Peso overtakes us?
"This is the guy that went on the airwaves with a "memo" supposedly typed in the 1970's, with proportional fonts and different-font sized superscripts!"
I have a typewriter from the 1960's that offers that, the IBM Selectric, introduced in 1961. Boughtat an rmy surplus aucton, it was the most popular typewriter for military use until the mid-70's.
Reember, news is no longer about full and honest reporting, it is about money. Quick bucks by sensational stories. If CBS, NBC, etc pick up on this, they pay HDNet for the rights and footage, and in turn sell adspace for their own reports. None of them care if it's right, they care of it pads the wallet.
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I was expecting some kind of payola, maybe free vacations, a car, ya know, the usual. But when the Canadian Lobbyist told his bosses he'd really give it his all...
Too many apps nowadays just throw out RAM like it was yesterdays newspaper! It is sloppy coding, and I'm tired of having to put 2GB of RAM into a system just to surf the net nowadays.
Our politicans have surrendered the long term, instead looking for the quick fix. The US economy is now based on "pass the bag", flipping stocks to the next buyer. But what happens to those at the end of the chain.
And who is there to blame? Ourselves, the voters within the US. We vote based on short-term memories. We vote not on who would do the job best, but by who slings the most mud. We ignore qualifications for image. Politicians are out on a JOB INTERVIEW! The voters are the managers deciding on who to fill in the position. Take it as seriously as if you were hiring the nurse to administer your parents medication, because truth is, you are.
There's no way to understand every language spoken. Perhaps we should begin learning unusual languages, such as Navajo. It worked in WWII!
But then watch th EULA for these things. "We limit the right to speak only English on these phones"
Well, what's stopping you? Inspiration is 10%, perspiration 90%.
And note, you don't need to fork anything to do it, as all you're speaking of is handled in the distribution method.
You have a full PCB shop with SMD toolchain?
Remember, the motherboard is custom-built.
There is nothing to see here. These sorts of infights are not only common, they're necessary, due to the very nature of the project. Competition means survival of the fittest, and these fights are the best method for weeding out the strongest code solutions from the ho-hums. Best we fight amongst ourselves, for the world itself wants to crush us in it's fight for mediocrity! But the moment an external force tries to pick on onef us, we unite into one gigantic geeky mass. We can pick on each other, because we're family, even the BSD guys. But nobody else has that right!
Ok, that I'd go for. Too true, there's enough money-centric thinking out there. Perhaps a change of perspective is needed.
I, for one, was looking forward to the XO for an x-mas gift for my son, and being able to tell him that the same kind of computer was found everywhere worldwide. But for that price, the EE-PC from Asus looks far more appealing. I hate sounding like I'm thinking with my wallet, but egads. I'm all for charitable giving and the such, but this feels like something arbitrary that wasn't necessary. If they'd gone for $299 so someone in Africa could buy it for $100, then sign me up! But just an arbitrary handout feels cheap.
What are the chances a real machine will ever ship with these features? I highly doubt. They pulled every stop for a demonstration, and now the beancounters will start knocking features off to try and save a buck. End result, customers will likely never see such a rig in mass production, which is a shame, for it would make me seriously consider Intel again.
we've all seen 'ghosts of mars', run away!
Microsoft's license might not be compatible with other open source projects? Say it isn't so Bill, say it isn't so!
Actually, my rent has gone up. In 2001 I was paying $449, today I pay $799. The average rent around here has gone up approximately 50% since 2001. But this is Florida, after all.
I'm thinking (in part to stroke Theo's ego a bit) set OpenBSD as the security standard out there. Every OS, compare it security-wise to OpenBSD. Put a "percentage" for how secure, then we can see hard numbers for how securly an OS is out of the box.
Will downgrade new machines from Vista to XP or some alternative due to the overhead and application support? I know in my office, Vista has been vanishing, replaced by Linux running Wine for the few Windows apps we actually require.
"But the US dollar is not losing value in the US. Domestic inflation remains low. "
It's not?
**looks at his mother in laws house, inflated 140% in 5 years, the gas I bought yesterday, up 120% in 5 years, the loaf of bread I bought this morning, up 110% over the past 5 years, the can of Chef Boi R Dee, up 80% in 5 years, the roll of film I bought monday, up 75% in 5 years**
Come again?
My old cable so in Maine offered just this. You bought interrelated channels a la carte. But then the media cartels began forming, and they found their channels forced together when they were irrelevent, aggrivating the customers.
It wound up bought by Time Warner over a decade ago, and one of the first moves TW did, removing a la carte.
It is big enough for someone to admit when they have had poor judgement. It takes a bigger man to do so with not only such humility and grace, but with a touch of humor to boot. Hats off to you good sirah, you have shown that not only are journalists human, but that, on occasion, they will even own up to it.
Don't believe anything of the sort. However, faked docments is a known method of Rove, beginning with his use of Alan Dixon stationary in 1970 to cause havoc in that campaign. Then again against Ed Muskie a few years later. Infact, the use of faked documents is one of his oldest techniques.
The last time I flew I took with me my copy of 1984...
"To believe they are fake, you must believe:
They were done in a Microsoft Word by a vet with a grudge against Bush and given to a CBS producer known for cutting corners in pursuit of her passions."
Actually, a more likely canidate for faking would be Karl Rove with his usual tactics.
Double checked, I have an Exective, not Selectric, my mistake. But yes, it does offer proportional typing *and* superscript capability. And no, it did not cost $20,000 in 1970's dollars, in 1971 an Executive D (which I have here) ran $705, brand new.
And I never said the document was real (I'd call it a dirty-play by Rove and co) but that the claims that typewriters of the era could not do it is baloney.
I find it funny how it is always put "the Euro rsing against the dollar" or "the Canadian dollar rises against the US dollar" when the truth is the US dollar is in freefall, loosing value hand over fist. I wonder how long before the Peso overtakes us?
"This is the guy that went on the airwaves with a "memo" supposedly typed in the 1970's, with proportional fonts and different-font sized superscripts!"
I have a typewriter from the 1960's that offers that, the IBM Selectric, introduced in 1961. Boughtat an rmy surplus aucton, it was the most popular typewriter for military use until the mid-70's.
Reember, news is no longer about full and honest reporting, it is about money. Quick bucks by sensational stories. If CBS, NBC, etc pick up on this, they pay HDNet for the rights and footage, and in turn sell adspace for their own reports. None of them care if it's right, they care of it pads the wallet.