Microsoft only has to sell to the relative handful of IT mamagers across the corporate world. This crap is designed for them to go to their bosses with new buzzwords (Oooo! Ribbons!) and pseudo-technical gobbledygook while the dumbass MBAs shake their heads knowingly as they contemplate snorting their next line of blow.
MS could care fuck all about the average user. The average user isn't paying their bills.
This crap will be pushed onto desktops by a tiny minority of employees known variously across corporate America as "the IT department", the "Computer Resourse Center", "Information Systems Management" or "those bastards".
Hey, I tease. Mostly.
But that's why crappy software wins out. Market forces aren't really at work when a few appointed people control the rules and tools a bunch of other mostly powerless people have to accept. It's a lot like government.
Are you sure it was really $1000? That's $365,000 a year. The most expensive currently marketed drug is Cerezyme at $175,000 a year, and that's for some weird genetic disorder that only, like 5000 people on the planet suffer from.
Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."
So what was the cause 30 years ago?
It's a fair question, yes? Like when I hear "such and such place recorded the highest temperature in 150 years this week!" I think "What caused the previous high 150 years agp?" My brain has a pesky habit of continually asking questions. All those X-Files episodes, I guess. Trust no one. Ideologues hate me.
One can easily assume the HQ computers and PDAs are all part of some integrated system contracted out by the gimmint. Overbudget and way late, but integrated nonetheless.:-) They may also have their own large pipe classified freqs.
The interface in Minority Report *did* seem to be a short term use thing. The ball would drop, and the operator would, as quickly as possible, sort through the images until they could make a positive ID. Then off they go. A trade betwween physiscal exertion and speed perhaps? Not all that unbelievable. No one has put such an interface into regular use yet, so it remains to be seen. Maybe the Wii will provide real data here?
If you leave one face and return via the opposite face, that ain't a mirror. It's transmission from the opposite "side" of the cosmos, not reflection back.
It's just you. Sort of. All governments constantly come up with stupid issues all the time. The correleation is merely preceptual bias, like people thinking there's more crime during the full moon.
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Microsoft only has to sell to the relative handful of IT mamagers across the corporate world. This crap is designed for them to go to their bosses with new buzzwords (Oooo! Ribbons!) and pseudo-technical gobbledygook while the dumbass MBAs shake their heads knowingly as they contemplate snorting their next line of blow.
MS could care fuck all about the average user. The average user isn't paying their bills.
The entire purpose of this is to let MS's lackeys across corporate America to have some new buzzwords and justify their careers as crap peddlers.
This crap will be pushed onto desktops by a tiny minority of employees known variously across corporate America as "the IT department", the "Computer Resourse Center", "Information Systems Management" or "those bastards".
Hey, I tease. Mostly.
But that's why crappy software wins out. Market forces aren't really at work when a few appointed people control the rules and tools a bunch of other mostly powerless people have to accept. It's a lot like government.
Much appreciated. :) Although when *I* become governor, it's nuclear desalination plants all up the coast. Power AND water in one fell swoop.
This makes it illegal to throw them in the garbage when they do die.
Just stuff them inside old milk cartons. It's my silent form of public disobedience.
And mood lighting via dimmed bulbs is, like, urban gay. Real men know the power of candlelight.
There's no way I'm paying $19.97 for two "flood light" style CFLs (CFL's hidden inside a flood light shell).
Man, Lowe's has those for a lot less, and they make *killer* reading lamp bulbs.
My first CF bulb from *13* years ago is still going on my front porch, having been exposed to the elements all that time.
Of course here in So Cal we don't get many, er, elements. Hey, how's that weather, Colorado?
Are you sure it was really $1000? That's $365,000 a year. The most expensive currently marketed drug is Cerezyme at $175,000 a year, and that's for some weird genetic disorder that only, like 5000 people on the planet suffer from.
Seriously. Did Steve McQueen read email in his car?
I keep telling you people there has to be something in the water making humanity stooooopid.
I merely asked the question to spark discussion. Mission accomplished. :)
Believe it or not, there's poeple out here like me who don't have hidden sgendas.
I never actually made that conclusion. I simply asked the question.
Scientists say it is the largest event of its kind in 30 years and point their fingers at climate change as a major contributing factor."
So what was the cause 30 years ago?
It's a fair question, yes? Like when I hear "such and such place recorded the highest temperature in 150 years this week!" I think "What caused the previous high 150 years agp?" My brain has a pesky habit of continually asking questions. All those X-Files episodes, I guess. Trust no one. Ideologues hate me.
Evolution is defined as unguided. The above is a description of Intelligent Design, not evolution.
Geez. Don't be so dogmatic. ;-)
The people with really fast cars generally drive very well.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Seriously, which universe did you just slide in from?
And this is from someone who has a fast car and drives it as such.
Every model of every car brand has bad drivers.
Anyone else noticing the Mini Coopers have more than their share, though?
Maybe they're skins? :)
One can easily assume the HQ computers and PDAs are all part of some integrated system contracted out by the gimmint. Overbudget and way late, but integrated nonetheless. :-) They may also have their own large pipe classified freqs.
The interface in Minority Report *did* seem to be a short term use thing. The ball would drop, and the operator would, as quickly as possible, sort through the images until they could make a positive ID. Then off they go. A trade betwween physiscal exertion and speed perhaps? Not all that unbelievable. No one has put such an interface into regular use yet, so it remains to be seen. Maybe the Wii will provide real data here?
If you leave one face and return via the opposite face, that ain't a mirror. It's transmission from the opposite "side" of the cosmos, not reflection back.
Is that Yootles with stars or Yootles without stars?
Was Dr. Seuss the keynote speaker?
The madness of mobs.
That's very subjective. I use Unix a lot at work and I hate auto mouse focus. I don't want something getting the focus unless I tell it to.
But then again all this proves is that it would make a good prefence selection for the Finder.
I'd like to see that, too, at least as a Finder preferences option.
I just put a leading underscore or space in my folder names. Sorts them to the top. It's a kludge, but a relatively simple one.
John Varley? Is that you?
It's just you. Sort of. All governments constantly come up with stupid issues all the time. The correleation is merely preceptual bias, like people thinking there's more crime during the full moon.