I think if you are putting digit imprints you probably don't have a girl to worry about as that particular body part is already shaped correctly for it's corresponding girl part. The digit imprints would clearly be for those who lack access to the corresponding girl part.
To be honest it has been a long time since I have touched an IBM thinkpad. The last time I did they were basically only available in that god aweful nipple mouse configuration and no touchpad option. Though that is more personal preference than anything for me.
I also loathe having all the connectors and crap on the back of my laptop. It makes it damned inconvenient to connect/disconnect anything while actually using the device.
Laptops aside IBM scores big brownie points for employing a fleet of ninjas. We had one of those mega blower fans in a blade center go out and IBM had a new one there within 45 minutes and we are at least a 30-40 minute drive from the closest "major" city. Clearly this is only possible by using warehouse and delivery ninjas.
That sounds like it is going in reverse. The MBP dims the screen in darker rooms so it doesn't burn your eyeballs out to look at it. Though now that you mention the brightness setting, the fact that all of those normally worthless F-Keys default to their fn-key function things are nice. I can adjust the sound, brightness, and other things with quick button presses right across the top.
You are forgetting a few things. You have the motion sensor piece that everyone was turning into Apple Light Sabers. I have also seen this used as a type of motion alarm so that you can turn your back on your MBP and it will scream if someone tries to move it.
You also forgot the light sensor that can see how dark it is in the room and adjust the screen and keyboard backlight to adjust for it.
Then there is the fact that they keyboard even has a backlight that shines through the letters rather than squinting and trying to read the cheap painted keys by the light of your LCD. Then there is the part where your paint won't wear off your keyboard because they didn't use paint to label your keys.
Oh yeah...you also forgot the physical construction of the thing is both lightweight and stronger than the typical laptop. Most of those plasticy crap lids you can put slight torque on the corners or press on the back and see the LCD distort. This tells you that if you tap the stupid lid wrong you are likely to break the LCD. A nice sturdy frame for it means it is far less likely to have issues. (I have seen this type of better construction on a few PC laptops, but it is most certainly not a standard).
I used to think Macs were just overpriced nonsense based on fancy branding. After playing with a MBP for a while in the store I realized that they actually have a ton of better design in the hardware. If you just compare CPU/RAM/etc then yes a PC is cheaper, but if you compare the whole system and all of its hardware design the Mac is a far better deal.
Well, I may be wrong, but I don't remember the OA group going ape shit lawsuit happy about that kind of stuff either. This is a little amusing to me that a church and all of its professed teachings of morality are doing this, while a non-religious organization that teaches morality does not go berzerk.
"Hey, we would kind of like to keep that private, you can see there is nothing of significance in those documents to anyone outside the organization, can you please take that down" vs "God be with us as we send our hordes of lawyers to destroy you heathens and your devil ways! We command you to do as we say!"
One of these approaches seems to work better...I'm not quite sure which one yet...
The depressing thing is that for all of the "Think of the troops" that has gotten waved around this is about the only time it actually worked. The Bush administration has managed to start a 2 front war while saber rattling about a 3rd, DRASTICALLY cut funding to an already suffering VA system, hack and slash on housing through the privitization crap and lowered BAH rates, ever increasing deployment lengths, and then to top it all off Congress coming out and saying that rather military wages are comparible to their civilian counterparts. So at least they will think of the troops playing games to take their mind of the fact that they have been screwed in nearly every other conceivable way in the last 8 years.
I'm confused. At what point in this procedure do you run a length of coaxial cable from the in hole to the out hole on the local cable rep and hang him in town square to send a message? I can only assume that is what the ultimate outcome of this is since bitching at someone who has you by your balls doesn't exactly accomplish much. It worked with Mussolini right, it will work here.
"largely unnoticed by mere mortal Linux users and administrators" strikes me as a strange phrase to find on this IBM page. Is there some other IBM project more interesting than ext4 being revealed here?
drinking and driving is only a violent crime when you hit someone right
drug deals are only a violent crime when a fight breaks out
guns are only a violent crime when people get shot
and if you really wanna stretch it I'm sure you can pull off a nonviolent carjacking
Point is, they are calling drinking and driving a violent crime, so I am calling the rest of it violent crime as well and pointing out how nonsensical it is to not bitch about the rest of it and focus on probable the most tame aspect of the game.
Uhm...their original and main cause is drunk driving. Good cause... They have just gone loony prohibitionist lately and even their founder bailed on them for that.
If you are a sensible drunk then you would have planned ahead and not be on the road drunk in the first place:)
Just because it used to be a common occurance doesn't mean it was a good thing. I couldn't care less when a drunk wraps himself around a telephone pole beyond the slight irritation that my taxes will be spent cleaning up the mess. What pisses me off is when the drunk wraps himself around a minivan with a family in it or things along those lines. Personal freedom is one thing, but when it extends into endangering those around you then your personal freedom gets trumped. I personally think a good public beating and then many hours of community service and NO DRIVING is a wonderful way to handle this rather than telling everyone under 21 that they can't drink.
You missed the problem. I don't care what the drinking age is or what affect it has. The problem is MADD lobbied the federal government to set the nationwide age. Then because the federal government can't force states to do the same they withheld money for highway repair and such if the states did not comply. This money comes from the states citizens in the form of federal income tax, then the federal refuses to give that money back unless the state complies with federal mandates that they could not otherwise enforce. This is called extortion and it is illegal in every other situation. This also paved the way for the federal government to continue to do this kind of crap on a number of other issues.
Because the drugs and guns and carjackings aren't choices that are violent crimes right? This is stupid. This is also coming from the worthless group that lobbied to allow the federal government to extort money from the states if they didn't raise the drinking age. Feds collect income tax from state residents, then refuse to give the money back unless the state (who is supposed to be the final authority within its own borders) complies with what the feds want them to do. So screw them, I only hope that one day these people will shut the hell up.
Don't mistake me, I think they have a good cause, they are just a worthless bunch of whiners. For example, I think stopping all abortions would be a wonderful cause, but doing it through a massive expansion of education and adoption is a far better way than parading around with dead fetus signs, mailing plastic fetuses, making it illegal, or any of the other abhorrent things the anti-abortionists do.
I challenge the parent to prove any of his claims about windows and networking. Go look at medical imaging systems for example. Tons of these beasts are being controlled by things as old as Win95. They are frequently unmaintained and unpatched due to the vendor not supporting pretty much anything but their narrow little world of things. And they are most certainly networked so they can send images from place to place.
Seriously have you been sleeping? There have been numerous cases of ancient computers controlling important things that were connected to networks getting infected with things and causing big problems.
And to a power user (racecar driver) that engineering is more important than the pretty factor crap. I am worlds more efficient on Linux platforms because I can make it do the advanced things I want with minimal fuss. Windows is crippling the user by hiding things from them and trying to make decisions for it.
The fact that you are making this about the "linux fan club" pretty much shows that this is more about your own inablity to work the intefaces provided (KDE/Gnome are both pretty solid) rather than any actual problem with the interfaces themselves.
No no no...where the hell have you been? The $ in M$, I$O, and $enator Biden are not meant to be S. Certain organizations and persons EARN the right to replace the boring S with an $ though blatant lies, manipulations, fraud, bribery, and thievery.
Slashdot, Somersault, Open Source are all non privilidged S users.
$C0 is actually a special case in that they earn the $ priviledge AND get to replace the O with a zero for being so failing so miserably at it.
Right, and when you convince professional racers to give up their finely tuned gear shifters in favor of a stick shift with a chrome skull and glowing eyes you let us all know.
I truely don't understand this mentality of making everything stupid user friendly. Once upon a time you actually had to know a little bit about the tools you were using to make them work. Now instead of creating powerful tools that require some understanding we want to replace them all with stupid proof crippleware? And people wonder why well over 90% of all email on the internet is spam. People wonder why Windows infection rates are so high (aside from the security holes allowing the stupid user tricks, the stupid user still clicks on everything presented).
In this I propose that we place large concrete barriers along every major highway and paint tunnels on them with overhead messages like "Do you want a bigger penis? Drive here!" or "Get rich in this tunnel!" and maybe even "Protect your car from theives, enter here!"
My personal favorites are the ones that say 10+ years experience in something that hasn't been around for 10 years. I have seen 10+ years experience in Active Directory in the last year or two. Just another sign that people just don't understand IT. I won't even apply for those kinds of jobs, and I know plenty of other IT savvy people that won't touch them either. If they are that unrealistic or uneducated in their hiring process it is likely going to be hell working for them.
Yup, it is in the same boat with the Al Queda - Iraq link. Good thing we have the media to tell us what is true, we don't need no stupid scientists or analyists anymore. (Hint: The link between Iraq and Al Queda is they both have a Q)
The parents are most likely in the same boat of people that are getting their computers turned into zombies, having their personal information stolen, or other such problems that run rampant in the world these days.
Shit, it should be mandatory that the parents show up with their kids! If this was some kind of morality thing pushing one view over others it would be one thing. MANY people simply are not aware of the dangers out there. Seriously, go talk to your average joe types, many of them believe you can't do many of these things, or that you can't get away with it because the cops will swoop in and get you. They simply do not understand the risk.
Would you ask a blind man to teach a driving school?
The main creationist talking point stems from a piss poor understanding of math and probability as well. My favorite explanation was actually Douglas Adams. It had to do with since a point has 0 dimensions there is an infinite number of points on a dart board. The tip of a dart represents a single point. When you throw the dart at the dart board and you calculate the probability of the dart hitting any specific point you arrive at 1 / (infinite) and it becomes impossible to hit any specific point on a dart board. Yet the dart will still hit.
It seems funny to me that the whole thing stems from "the probability of that happening is so small that it couldn't possibly happen". No...the probability of that happening is so small that it makes it a near miracle that it happened. That is the whole damned point of probability. Determining the frequency of an event that COULD happen.
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I think if you are putting digit imprints you probably don't have a girl to worry about as that particular body part is already shaped correctly for it's corresponding girl part. The digit imprints would clearly be for those who lack access to the corresponding girl part.
To be honest it has been a long time since I have touched an IBM thinkpad. The last time I did they were basically only available in that god aweful nipple mouse configuration and no touchpad option. Though that is more personal preference than anything for me.
I also loathe having all the connectors and crap on the back of my laptop. It makes it damned inconvenient to connect/disconnect anything while actually using the device.
Laptops aside IBM scores big brownie points for employing a fleet of ninjas. We had one of those mega blower fans in a blade center go out and IBM had a new one there within 45 minutes and we are at least a 30-40 minute drive from the closest "major" city. Clearly this is only possible by using warehouse and delivery ninjas.
That sounds like it is going in reverse. The MBP dims the screen in darker rooms so it doesn't burn your eyeballs out to look at it. Though now that you mention the brightness setting, the fact that all of those normally worthless F-Keys default to their fn-key function things are nice. I can adjust the sound, brightness, and other things with quick button presses right across the top.
You are forgetting a few things. You have the motion sensor piece that everyone was turning into Apple Light Sabers. I have also seen this used as a type of motion alarm so that you can turn your back on your MBP and it will scream if someone tries to move it.
You also forgot the light sensor that can see how dark it is in the room and adjust the screen and keyboard backlight to adjust for it.
Then there is the fact that they keyboard even has a backlight that shines through the letters rather than squinting and trying to read the cheap painted keys by the light of your LCD. Then there is the part where your paint won't wear off your keyboard because they didn't use paint to label your keys.
Oh yeah...you also forgot the physical construction of the thing is both lightweight and stronger than the typical laptop. Most of those plasticy crap lids you can put slight torque on the corners or press on the back and see the LCD distort. This tells you that if you tap the stupid lid wrong you are likely to break the LCD. A nice sturdy frame for it means it is far less likely to have issues. (I have seen this type of better construction on a few PC laptops, but it is most certainly not a standard).
I used to think Macs were just overpriced nonsense based on fancy branding. After playing with a MBP for a while in the store I realized that they actually have a ton of better design in the hardware. If you just compare CPU/RAM/etc then yes a PC is cheaper, but if you compare the whole system and all of its hardware design the Mac is a far better deal.
Well, I may be wrong, but I don't remember the OA group going ape shit lawsuit happy about that kind of stuff either. This is a little amusing to me that a church and all of its professed teachings of morality are doing this, while a non-religious organization that teaches morality does not go berzerk.
"Hey, we would kind of like to keep that private, you can see there is nothing of significance in those documents to anyone outside the organization, can you please take that down" vs "God be with us as we send our hordes of lawyers to destroy you heathens and your devil ways! We command you to do as we say!"
One of these approaches seems to work better...I'm not quite sure which one yet...
The depressing thing is that for all of the "Think of the troops" that has gotten waved around this is about the only time it actually worked. The Bush administration has managed to start a 2 front war while saber rattling about a 3rd, DRASTICALLY cut funding to an already suffering VA system, hack and slash on housing through the privitization crap and lowered BAH rates, ever increasing deployment lengths, and then to top it all off Congress coming out and saying that rather military wages are comparible to their civilian counterparts. So at least they will think of the troops playing games to take their mind of the fact that they have been screwed in nearly every other conceivable way in the last 8 years.
I was really hoping this was a more literal headline. Can we please get some better quality on the headline thing? Total letdown on my weekend.
I'm confused. At what point in this procedure do you run a length of coaxial cable from the in hole to the out hole on the local cable rep and hang him in town square to send a message? I can only assume that is what the ultimate outcome of this is since bitching at someone who has you by your balls doesn't exactly accomplish much. It worked with Mussolini right, it will work here.
"largely unnoticed by mere mortal Linux users and administrators" strikes me as a strange phrase to find on this IBM page. Is there some other IBM project more interesting than ext4 being revealed here?
drinking and driving is only a violent crime when you hit someone right
drug deals are only a violent crime when a fight breaks out
guns are only a violent crime when people get shot
and if you really wanna stretch it I'm sure you can pull off a nonviolent carjacking
Point is, they are calling drinking and driving a violent crime, so I am calling the rest of it violent crime as well and pointing out how nonsensical it is to not bitch about the rest of it and focus on probable the most tame aspect of the game.
Uhm...their original and main cause is drunk driving. Good cause... They have just gone loony prohibitionist lately and even their founder bailed on them for that.
If you are a sensible drunk then you would have planned ahead and not be on the road drunk in the first place :)
Just because it used to be a common occurance doesn't mean it was a good thing. I couldn't care less when a drunk wraps himself around a telephone pole beyond the slight irritation that my taxes will be spent cleaning up the mess. What pisses me off is when the drunk wraps himself around a minivan with a family in it or things along those lines. Personal freedom is one thing, but when it extends into endangering those around you then your personal freedom gets trumped. I personally think a good public beating and then many hours of community service and NO DRIVING is a wonderful way to handle this rather than telling everyone under 21 that they can't drink.
You missed the problem. I don't care what the drinking age is or what affect it has. The problem is MADD lobbied the federal government to set the nationwide age. Then because the federal government can't force states to do the same they withheld money for highway repair and such if the states did not comply. This money comes from the states citizens in the form of federal income tax, then the federal refuses to give that money back unless the state complies with federal mandates that they could not otherwise enforce. This is called extortion and it is illegal in every other situation. This also paved the way for the federal government to continue to do this kind of crap on a number of other issues.
Because the drugs and guns and carjackings aren't choices that are violent crimes right? This is stupid. This is also coming from the worthless group that lobbied to allow the federal government to extort money from the states if they didn't raise the drinking age. Feds collect income tax from state residents, then refuse to give the money back unless the state (who is supposed to be the final authority within its own borders) complies with what the feds want them to do. So screw them, I only hope that one day these people will shut the hell up.
Don't mistake me, I think they have a good cause, they are just a worthless bunch of whiners. For example, I think stopping all abortions would be a wonderful cause, but doing it through a massive expansion of education and adoption is a far better way than parading around with dead fetus signs, mailing plastic fetuses, making it illegal, or any of the other abhorrent things the anti-abortionists do.
I challenge the parent to prove any of his claims about windows and networking. Go look at medical imaging systems for example. Tons of these beasts are being controlled by things as old as Win95. They are frequently unmaintained and unpatched due to the vendor not supporting pretty much anything but their narrow little world of things. And they are most certainly networked so they can send images from place to place.
Seriously have you been sleeping? There have been numerous cases of ancient computers controlling important things that were connected to networks getting infected with things and causing big problems.
And to a power user (racecar driver) that engineering is more important than the pretty factor crap. I am worlds more efficient on Linux platforms because I can make it do the advanced things I want with minimal fuss. Windows is crippling the user by hiding things from them and trying to make decisions for it.
The fact that you are making this about the "linux fan club" pretty much shows that this is more about your own inablity to work the intefaces provided (KDE/Gnome are both pretty solid) rather than any actual problem with the interfaces themselves.
"I was friends with a girl". Clearly this story is fabricated.
No no no...where the hell have you been? The $ in M$, I$O, and $enator Biden are not meant to be S. Certain organizations and persons EARN the right to replace the boring S with an $ though blatant lies, manipulations, fraud, bribery, and thievery.
Slashdot, Somersault, Open Source are all non privilidged S users.
$C0 is actually a special case in that they earn the $ priviledge AND get to replace the O with a zero for being so failing so miserably at it.
Right, and when you convince professional racers to give up their finely tuned gear shifters in favor of a stick shift with a chrome skull and glowing eyes you let us all know.
I truely don't understand this mentality of making everything stupid user friendly. Once upon a time you actually had to know a little bit about the tools you were using to make them work. Now instead of creating powerful tools that require some understanding we want to replace them all with stupid proof crippleware? And people wonder why well over 90% of all email on the internet is spam. People wonder why Windows infection rates are so high (aside from the security holes allowing the stupid user tricks, the stupid user still clicks on everything presented).
In this I propose that we place large concrete barriers along every major highway and paint tunnels on them with overhead messages like "Do you want a bigger penis? Drive here!" or "Get rich in this tunnel!" and maybe even "Protect your car from theives, enter here!"
My personal favorites are the ones that say 10+ years experience in something that hasn't been around for 10 years. I have seen 10+ years experience in Active Directory in the last year or two. Just another sign that people just don't understand IT. I won't even apply for those kinds of jobs, and I know plenty of other IT savvy people that won't touch them either. If they are that unrealistic or uneducated in their hiring process it is likely going to be hell working for them.
Uhm...and asking for registrar advice is somehow expected to provide any more accurate responses?
Yup, it is in the same boat with the Al Queda - Iraq link. Good thing we have the media to tell us what is true, we don't need no stupid scientists or analyists anymore. (Hint: The link between Iraq and Al Queda is they both have a Q)
nodaddy.com has a nice list.
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The parents are most likely in the same boat of people that are getting their computers turned into zombies, having their personal information stolen, or other such problems that run rampant in the world these days.
Shit, it should be mandatory that the parents show up with their kids! If this was some kind of morality thing pushing one view over others it would be one thing. MANY people simply are not aware of the dangers out there. Seriously, go talk to your average joe types, many of them believe you can't do many of these things, or that you can't get away with it because the cops will swoop in and get you. They simply do not understand the risk.
Would you ask a blind man to teach a driving school?
The main creationist talking point stems from a piss poor understanding of math and probability as well. My favorite explanation was actually Douglas Adams. It had to do with since a point has 0 dimensions there is an infinite number of points on a dart board. The tip of a dart represents a single point. When you throw the dart at the dart board and you calculate the probability of the dart hitting any specific point you arrive at 1 / (infinite) and it becomes impossible to hit any specific point on a dart board. Yet the dart will still hit.
It seems funny to me that the whole thing stems from "the probability of that happening is so small that it couldn't possibly happen". No...the probability of that happening is so small that it makes it a near miracle that it happened. That is the whole damned point of probability. Determining the frequency of an event that COULD happen.