...it is amazing how the dot.com bubble is forming again so soon and looks so identical.
And how odd that it coincides with the recent release of Web 2.0!
2.0 always fixes the bugs from 1.0, right?
Also, FYI to any venture capitalists reading this - I'm currently developing a social networking site using Web 3.0 RC1 "Snake Oil" Edition. Here's the business model: I'll hold my hat over this bottomless pit. You just throw your millions of dollars at it and I'm sure some will land in my hat.
I can't imagine how Rhos is going to effect the end-users (corps have to follow the law, peeps just hide) unless we the consumer can dispose properly of our parts for less effort than it takes to walk down to the dumpster at 11pm.
Oh, I don't know.... environmental morality?
Kind of the same reason I'm willing to wait until I can find a bathroom before I go poop, except on a much larger, longer-term scale.
It certainly takes less effort/time to just poop on the sidewalk, or in a drainage ditch, but we've made strides as a society to condemn this action as unsanitary and uncivilized. We could make similar strides to condemn "e-waste".
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I'm in Redmond right now... leech me to over there pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaassssssse!
Even average customers are beginning to grow wise to Microsoft, and when Vista is released and they find to run Aero they have to add RAM AND a video card...
My 4 month-old native OS X Panther machine needed more RAM to upgrade to Tiger. The new version of SUSE Linux requires a decent video card to take advantage of XGL. Hardware upgrades for OS upgrades are pretty standard.
Also, Aero is optional and none of the old style non-Aero functionality has been removed from Vista; you can still go back to the Win95 grey block style (I've been using the 'Rainy Day' theme since like 2000). AND, not only is it optional, but if your hardware doesn't support it you won't even know it's not working. I'm on a computer right now running Vista RC2+ (not by choice, by profession) and Aero is disabled by default because my card is seriously weak, and the speed of the OS is fine.
I'm no Windows fan-boy (I usually rep Ubuntu), but your bashing is a bit one-sided, which is also a somewhat facist pitfall.
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Yeah, but still mostly sales offices.
The New York and Kirkland locations seem to have a few non-sale related openings.
Kirkland is as about close to Seattle as Redmond, so it might be their M$ leech location.
I swap compennts around in my sandbox regularly and I don't remember ever having to active Windows XP at any time other than after reinstalling the OS.
Are you activating it each time? Or are you pressing 'cancel' and then it just asks you again after a hardware change?
Or if you just resize windows to a portion of the screen instead of maximizing them. That feature seems to be present in most GUIs.
I have a 20" monitor that I run at 1600x1200 and the only programs I maximize are graphics programs (Blender, Photoshop/Gimpshop, etc). Most other applications, and almost all websites, just aren't designed to fill, or even look good filling that much screen realestate.
I don't know if it's all that sad... I'd never really heard anything of the guy before this, other than his name attached to his FS, and the wikipedia article was rather sparse, so I google'd around to get an idea of who he is.
You call for sympathy for the man, but as far as I can tell from this interview, and a few random forum threads around the internet, he seems like a really smart and clever, well-educated guy, a really good programmer, but kind of an arrogant douche. I mean, he talks about how he hates homework and wishes you could just study and then discuss to prove your knowledge, but then he stresses the importance of code review and benchmarking (which seem, to me, the "homework" of programming tasks) and belittles his own employees for not doing it well enough.
I'm not trying to flame the guy out or anything. Like I said, I knew nothing about him before my last 15 minutes of searching, but from what I saw in that little sliver (and I know that doesn't provice me a fully developed mental image of the man) it seems like he might deserve some of the jokes.
I'd say if you have sympathy or money to donate - give it to the kids.
And watch, I bet I get bad karma for just trying to point out that it seems (to the untrained eye) that he might have bad karma.
Come on, we all know the universe isn't made of tiny strings vibrating in 11 dimensions. That's just ridiculous!
It's obvious that these percieved "strings" are just the noodly appendages of He who created all that is, and by His own decree there are only 3 dimensions: our dimension, the pirate dimension, and the ninja dimension.
You talk like it's one man one vote, or like voting registration and counting weren't been cheated in the last two presidential elections.
I turned 18 in September of 2000, and I have only had ability to vote in the last two presidential elections. Both times it has been obvious to even a lot of non-tin-hat-wearing Americans that forces outside of America's voting power control, to some extent, the outcome of the election.
It's easy to place the blaim squarly and singly on the shoulders of the public, declaring them/us "too fucking lazy to learn about politics", and saying that:
"Any political failures in the American political system are not the fault of evil corporations and politicians."
But so many Americans rely on major corporate news outlets for their education on public issues. I mean, they are journalists right? They're on TV, it's the news, it can be trusted, right? But even if you don't believe in corporate conspiracies, it's hard to ignore the claimsagainst Fox News (News Corp) and yet it remains the highest rated news channel (even despite a recent decline in viewership).
So the uneducated Americans are uneducated why? Not because of a corporate plot? How about because of a lack of corporate responsibility, or governmental responsibility to educate the masses.
Mass media was created to reach the masses, because it's hard to get information to 300 million people who are busy trying to work and live and such, as I'm sure even you are. If the mass media outlets are not providing the people with truly "Fair and Balanced" information on the issues, how can the American people be expected to know, or even care, about what goes on?
Americans apathetic and uneducated about voting? Yes, but the system doesn't exactly tender an educated voting culture.
Almost all social problems can be viewed as either indivual problems or stuctural problems. To err solely on either side is to admit to being one of the uneducated voters.
I'm strictly a home-made ghetto bathroom b&w guy myself. Your enlarger sounds quite a bit like mine, although mine might be a little younger. My youngest piece of photographic equipment, though, hails from 1972 (imaging equipment, I have a new tripod and some other things).
I did one term of color work in school and decided the color darkroom was for the birds (and, more importantly, for computers). All my color is done digitally, but I also tend to call my color images "snapshots" and my silver images "photographs".
I strongly agree that "digital color printing offers too many advantages", I just had to make the point about traditional techniques - I'm defensive of them in the hopes that my chem and paper prices don't go up much more.
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Really? Uh oh! Somebody better tell Google they need to redo all their apps in Flash, or they'll fail big time!
pffft.... way too long an explanation to even bother not caring about.
I think the real question is "Who cares about who cares if privacy is slipping away?"
I think the answer is The Man! I'm sure The Man cares about who cares about privacy, and I'm sure "he" is watching them very closely.
pshhh.... in the future everyone will wear opaque brick glasses for style!
And how odd that it coincides with the recent release of Web 2.0!
2.0 always fixes the bugs from 1.0, right?
Also, FYI to any venture capitalists reading this - I'm currently developing a social networking site using Web 3.0 RC1 "Snake Oil" Edition. Here's the business model: I'll hold my hat over this bottomless pit. You just throw your millions of dollars at it and I'm sure some will land in my hat.
I'm trying to think if we've taken action against another country based on lies about the presence of massive weapons... hmm, nothing comes to mind...
Oh, I don't know.... environmental morality?
Kind of the same reason I'm willing to wait until I can find a bathroom before I go poop, except on a much larger, longer-term scale.
It certainly takes less effort/time to just poop on the sidewalk, or in a drainage ditch, but we've made strides as a society to condemn this action as unsanitary and uncivilized. We could make similar strides to condemn "e-waste".
I'm in Redmond right now... leech me to over there pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaassssssse!
My 4 month-old native OS X Panther machine needed more RAM to upgrade to Tiger. The new version of SUSE Linux requires a decent video card to take advantage of XGL. Hardware upgrades for OS upgrades are pretty standard.
Also, Aero is optional and none of the old style non-Aero functionality has been removed from Vista; you can still go back to the Win95 grey block style (I've been using the 'Rainy Day' theme since like 2000). AND, not only is it optional, but if your hardware doesn't support it you won't even know it's not working. I'm on a computer right now running Vista RC2+ (not by choice, by profession) and Aero is disabled by default because my card is seriously weak, and the speed of the OS is fine.
I'm no Windows fan-boy (I usually rep Ubuntu), but your bashing is a bit one-sided, which is also a somewhat facist pitfall.
The New York and Kirkland locations seem to have a few non-sale related openings.
Kirkland is as about close to Seattle as Redmond, so it might be their M$ leech location.
Don't Linux geeks like to engineer their own bongs? Seems like uTube would have lots of great parts for that.
But, to a child, not getting the toy you want is commensurate to global economic collapse.
I swap compennts around in my sandbox regularly and I don't remember ever having to active Windows XP at any time other than after reinstalling the OS.
Are you activating it each time? Or are you pressing 'cancel' and then it just asks you again after a hardware change?
Or if you just resize windows to a portion of the screen instead of maximizing them. That feature seems to be present in most GUIs.
I have a 20" monitor that I run at 1600x1200 and the only programs I maximize are graphics programs (Blender, Photoshop/Gimpshop, etc). Most other applications, and almost all websites, just aren't designed to fill, or even look good filling that much screen realestate.
Not only that, but he said he was in a desrt storm! I'm sure sand was blowing everywhere!
Nushing to see here, prease move arong.
How about a committee of MIT smarty men?
I don't know if it's all that sad... I'd never really heard anything of the guy before this, other than his name attached to his FS, and the wikipedia article was rather sparse, so I google'd around to get an idea of who he is.
You call for sympathy for the man, but as far as I can tell from this interview, and a few random forum threads around the internet, he seems like a really smart and clever, well-educated guy, a really good programmer, but kind of an arrogant douche. I mean, he talks about how he hates homework and wishes you could just study and then discuss to prove your knowledge, but then he stresses the importance of code review and benchmarking (which seem, to me, the "homework" of programming tasks) and belittles his own employees for not doing it well enough.
I'm not trying to flame the guy out or anything. Like I said, I knew nothing about him before my last 15 minutes of searching, but from what I saw in that little sliver (and I know that doesn't provice me a fully developed mental image of the man) it seems like he might deserve some of the jokes.
I'd say if you have sympathy or money to donate - give it to the kids.
And watch, I bet I get bad karma for just trying to point out that it seems (to the untrained eye) that he might have bad karma.
Hey! Lets be politically-correct here:
You don't even capitalize 'god' when it begins a sentence. Wow, what a hardcore athiest!
kdawson, first human to fail the Turing Test.
Come on, we all know the universe isn't made of tiny strings vibrating in 11 dimensions. That's just ridiculous!
It's obvious that these percieved "strings" are just the noodly appendages of He who created all that is, and by His own decree there are only 3 dimensions: our dimension, the pirate dimension, and the ninja dimension.
Hopefully it goes better with the Zune than previous attempts have gone with Windows.
You talk like it's one man one vote, or like voting registration and counting weren't been cheated in the last two presidential elections.
I turned 18 in September of 2000, and I have only had ability to vote in the last two presidential elections. Both times it has been obvious to even a lot of non-tin-hat-wearing Americans that forces outside of America's voting power control, to some extent, the outcome of the election.
It's easy to place the blaim squarly and singly on the shoulders of the public, declaring them/us "too fucking lazy to learn about politics", and saying that:
But so many Americans rely on major corporate news outlets for their education on public issues. I mean, they are journalists right? They're on TV, it's the news, it can be trusted, right? But even if you don't believe in corporate conspiracies, it's hard to ignore the claims against Fox News (News Corp) and yet it remains the highest rated news channel (even despite a recent decline in viewership).
So the uneducated Americans are uneducated why? Not because of a corporate plot? How about because of a lack of corporate responsibility, or governmental responsibility to educate the masses.
Mass media was created to reach the masses, because it's hard to get information to 300 million people who are busy trying to work and live and such, as I'm sure even you are. If the mass media outlets are not providing the people with truly "Fair and Balanced" information on the issues, how can the American people be expected to know, or even care, about what goes on?
Americans apathetic and uneducated about voting? Yes, but the system doesn't exactly tender an educated voting culture.
Almost all social problems can be viewed as either indivual problems or stuctural problems. To err solely on either side is to admit to being one of the uneducated voters.
Way to be! :)
I'm strictly a home-made ghetto bathroom b&w guy myself. Your enlarger sounds quite a bit like mine, although mine might be a little younger. My youngest piece of photographic equipment, though, hails from 1972 (imaging equipment, I have a new tripod and some other things).
I did one term of color work in school and decided the color darkroom was for the birds (and, more importantly, for computers). All my color is done digitally, but I also tend to call my color images "snapshots" and my silver images "photographs".
I strongly agree that "digital color printing offers too many advantages", I just had to make the point about traditional techniques - I'm defensive of them in the hopes that my chem and paper prices don't go up much more.