First, the "beach bums" invented surfing as you know it. Santa Cruz seems more organic than many of the neighboring cities. It's more family-like. Yes, there are poor people there; but many of them are creative and artsy.
The relationship between "pot smoking" and counter-productivity is bullshit. Forget your stupid antiquated corporate policies, because drugs may in-fact fuel some of the creativity in this area. Even Apple would not have been where they are without some drug use. This is the land of Aspies, and some of us are screwed together just a little too tight to be creative programmers and engineers, yes--without drugs.
In the end, the initiative just looks like an attempt for companies to exploit Santa Cruz's cheaper land, meanwhile, there are so many empty buildings in San Jose and up the peninsula.
The bad part about having a certain amount of computer knowledge: you have to watch other people do silly things with their privacy and money. BTW, I have created about 100GB of content; the cloud doesn't make sense for graphic, sound, video multimedia, people, anyway.
Not doing something subversive and heinously evil in the first place goes a long way toward people not taking it upon themselves to be an unsung American hero.
Of all the things I have seen the US do to its own people,this is one of the most appalling! The United States cannot function without the oversight of its people. The people who did this should be arrested and charged with treason, but that is indeed the problem in the first place. Those few people who systematically worked to undermine the spirit of the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights, are now scared. They know that they must try to fight not to lose their power over us.They know that if they lose, they might go to prison, and I hope with every fiber of my being that the do lose their power, that they do go to prison. No citizen is safe, no freedom cannot exist in the climate they dare to make for us. Please stop them. Please help do something if it is only what each one of you can. Help in your own way, but please help.
I feel that WoW lost a lot of customers to Guild Wars 2. Over 2 million people bought GW2. It seems reasonable that some of them had to have quit WoW.
Lately, Arenanet (Guildwars maker) has been tormenting its players at the endgame, reducing Tier 6 drops, implementing: if you can see it, you are already dead champions (adversaries), such as the Champion Raiths in Orr, so people will probably make an exodus for Guild Wars 2, someday, too.
Futuramm had a heartbreaking amount of Transphibia in it. It teaches people to dislike, hate, PEOPLE who are transgendered and transsexual. It teaches people that transsexual and transgendered people are dishonest and sexual deviants.
Firstly, Microsoft screwed up. They had a big job to do: integrate tablet functionality and desktop use; instead they made 2 separate interfaces instead of one. Looking closer they did not even do that; they tacked on Windows 7 Phone, onto Windows 7, then they took off the command bar, the one familiar thing the happened to get right, and no one is happy--and they wonder why people are still asking for Windows 7.
Secondly, AMD is weak; Intel is sleeping. Neither has much to show us.
Thirdly, Apple is asleep on the desktop because they are making more money people shinny toys.
Fourth, too many companies are copying Apple's designs, many of which are not as practical in the real world. Sharp corners, downgraded keyboards: flash over function.
Fifth, Linux has indeed been hurt by Gnome having partially failed to come up with a tablet-desktop interface. Linux has been hurt by UEFI. The US Federal Trade must stop Microsoft's UEFI, because it is a monopolistic action, or is someone taking money from Microsoft? Yes, I am again questioning the integrity of the FTC; there is no need to read between the lines.
Six, As a distro Ubuntu is untrustworthy, spyware, and corrupt. Unity did divide the Linux community, but perhaps that is what it was supposed to do. Mint is coming up, but they still have a weak presence. I applaud Mint for putting pressure on Gnome, but I wish instead that Gnome would listen to their users. The Gnome's leadership needs to be changed.
Seven, Sales people sell what they want to sell, regardless if it is practical. Slim phone with no battery life: no problem. Tablet with no keyboard: they will sell it. Shinny screen to look at and not into: they will sell it. Slim, shinny, and minimalistic is the emperor's new clothes in computers.
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Having finished this I am reminded that I cannot even buy they computer I want. I just wanted a 13" computer with a decent video chip and processor, and space for a full-sized SSD, a good keyboard, matte screen, enough battery to run it for a while, and made so it won't break if I look at it the wrong way.
On it, I would rather have Windows 7 than Windows 8, and rather have the interface be more like Windows 2000 and XP, because after that, Microsoft fucked up and bloated their operating system.
Microsoft, Apple, and Gnome, ehem, when you are done playing around, we need to work and do useful things on our computers. Microsoft: You screwed up. 1+1-1 does not equal anything anyone wants to use. Dell, why not try stop making flimsy cased crap loaded with annoying bloatware. HP, stop reinventing the wheel and making strange cased computers just for the sake of differentiation. It would be cool to do a computer with the brown and gold calculator look. AMD: Add one more FPU to the bulldozer/piledriver unit, and work on the darn integer bottle necks. The bobcat was good, but not updated fast enough. Power efficiency will take time and effort. Show off your GPU compute scores. A chip person had theorized you were might virturalize the whole FPU scenero with GPU cores. It seems like a interesting idea, and I have seen powerpoint slides which show a further GPU+CPU integration than what you have with the APU. If you are going to do something, do it fast--and well. Nvidia: You crippled your gaming chips for GPU computing so much that GPU computing was weakened as an initiative. Thanks for shortchanging gamers--even after we paid for all the technology you are selling as Quadro cards. Intel: For a single quad, my one-year-old 2600k is almost as fast as what you are selling, Wake up, and wake me up when you have something better. Apple round those damn corners, yes Johnny, I am talking to you! Shinny screens are useless in a coffee shop. You are right,: if your customers drop it, they will just buy another. Hire more QA people, and stop making OSX venders rev everything all the time, for each 10.8.4.6.6.2.1.x release, where x is an update to the system that break your vendor's program. Adobe: You are not g
It's a good question, but I feel it's an odd one for a Slashdotter to have posted.
1.) The United States is a part of an international community that would look down upon us for taking aggressive and provocative measures, even toward a nutcase. (Is he a nutcase if he becomes a hero to his people by standing up to the US? There is a reason why he is doing what he is doing.)
2.) North Korea and China are allies, at this point, and it would be prudent to make sure that is not the case if the US must take action.
Unfortunately, patience is a virtue to be held until the last possible moment before something terrible happens. Although patience takes time, it gives you time that you could use to prepare for a terrible moment.
If the US had acted too quickly in World War II, we might not have had the manufacturing capability that we had. True we were a sleeping giant, but there are 3,000,000 British.303 rounds in the hull of the Lusitania, which speak that we were not such a sleeping giant. So, now let us appear to sleep.
I have an X220 with a clickpad. I have only used it a few times. Instead, I reach above the touchpad to tap the pointer thingie buttons, which by the way take way to much pressure to use.
Listen, people do not need another minimal operating system; they need one reasonable operating system to perform work on. If Unity was everything you touted, why make yet another OS?
Tablets have some things going for them, such as long battery life and efficient processors, but they are not as useful as they could be. The problem is the culture and the marketing; they are marketed as consumption devices and not content creation devices.
There are great content-creation problems with the culture. Some years ago, a computer was expected to run spreadsheets, word-processors, graphic and design, programs which could create content as well, as sell-able content, and all of this was done with a 25-33 Mhz computer with perhaps 4 MB of RAM. Today's tablets are powerful hardware wise, but software wise they are quite poor. There are thousands of applications for tablets, but many of them are not useful. Apple stuff does not even have a user accessible file system. People seem to be happy if they can even send an email or log onto Facebook to anyone. Because there are so many companies making money from the cloud, dash your hopes of a tablet that works well without being hooked to some company's expensive teat.
I use my tablet for its GPS ability, and use its small size for quick look-ups and voice proofreading of books, and also to take damage away from my hinged notebook computer. I am productive with my tablet in spite of everything that was done to them. If left on a deserted island, I would choose even a netbook over a almost any tablet. I may soon sell my tablet, and buy a laptop with a flippy screen.
Look at the network-related news. That's all you see is articles about Syria, just like we saw about Iraq and Afghanistan, as if any of they needed our help shooting them. This big issue about Syria is: they fed soldiers and materiel into Afghanistan and Iraq. We're still reading from Paul Wolfiwitz's big book of war. Stop it!
These scanners should have to go through the same FDA approval process as any medical device. People are putting their kids in there. If the odds of getting cancer from the scanners in their lifetime is 1: 1,000,000 then 1.5 people will get cancer from them--every day!
We cannot suspend our judgement just because there are terrorists in the world and money to be made.
With UEFI, The set things up so Linux can be locked out, but UEFI is too big and complex to be bug free, as a BIOS should be. Now, the customer pays the price.
MS is walling in their garden, but it's not their garden, but one they took from IBM, and gave and sold to the people in the form of an open hardware market, but now that Apple pulls things from that open market and makes money, they figure that they should just close up the rest of it.
With all the software money going through MS, the retailers that supported MS, are screwed. Big program such as games, such as Guild Wars 2 at over 20 GB will have to be downloaded byte for byte.
Microsoft learned nothing with their 2 prior bad releases: Windows ME and Windows Vista. They are spending too much time working to take marketshare through force and not enough time trying to please customers.
With a graphic suite and a CAD program, I have thousands of dollars of software--and not confidence in MS.
Ubuntu screwed up with Unity, which did more to divide the Linux landscape than any other event in recent history. Mint has been working harder than anyone to make sure people can work hard with a useful desktop. Thank you all.
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First, the "beach bums" invented surfing as you know it.
Santa Cruz seems more organic than many of the neighboring cities. It's more family-like. Yes, there are poor people there; but many of them are creative and artsy.
The relationship between "pot smoking" and counter-productivity is bullshit. Forget your stupid antiquated corporate policies, because drugs may in-fact fuel some of the creativity in this area. Even Apple would not have been where they are without some drug use. This is the land of Aspies, and some of us are screwed together just a little too tight to be creative programmers and engineers, yes--without drugs.
In the end, the initiative just looks like an attempt for companies to exploit Santa Cruz's cheaper land, meanwhile, there are so many empty buildings in San Jose and up the peninsula.
The bad part about having a certain amount of computer knowledge: you have to watch other people do silly things with their privacy and money. BTW, I have created about 100GB of content; the cloud doesn't make sense for graphic, sound, video multimedia, people, anyway.
Lesson: Don't believe everything you hear and read.
Not doing something subversive and heinously evil in the first place goes a long way toward people not taking it upon themselves to be an unsung American hero.
They think that its more important to look at their products--than into them.
Of all the things I have seen the US do to its own people,this is one of the most appalling! The United States cannot function without the oversight of its people. The people who did this should be arrested and charged with treason, but that is indeed the problem in the first place. Those few people who systematically worked to undermine the spirit of the US Constitution and The Bill of Rights, are now scared. They know that they must try to fight not to lose their power over us.They know that if they lose, they might go to prison, and I hope with every fiber of my being that the do lose their power, that they do go to prison. No citizen is safe, no freedom cannot exist in the climate they dare to make for us. Please stop them. Please help do something if it is only what each one of you can. Help in your own way, but please help.
I feel that WoW lost a lot of customers to Guild Wars 2. Over 2 million people bought GW2. It seems reasonable that some of them had to have quit WoW.
Lately, Arenanet (Guildwars maker) has been tormenting its players at the endgame, reducing Tier 6 drops, implementing: if you can see it, you are already dead champions (adversaries), such as the Champion Raiths in Orr, so people will probably make an exodus for Guild Wars 2, someday, too.
Those people who are not transgendered/transsexual do not understand!
Futuramm had a heartbreaking amount of Transphibia in it. It teaches people to dislike, hate, PEOPLE who are transgendered and transsexual. It teaches people that transsexual and transgendered people are dishonest and sexual deviants.
Firstly, Microsoft screwed up. They had a big job to do: integrate tablet functionality and desktop use; instead they made 2 separate interfaces instead of one. Looking closer they did not even do that; they tacked on Windows 7 Phone, onto Windows 7, then they took off the command bar, the one familiar thing the happened to get right, and no one is happy--and they wonder why people are still asking for Windows 7.
Secondly, AMD is weak; Intel is sleeping. Neither has much to show us.
Thirdly, Apple is asleep on the desktop because they are making more money people shinny toys.
Fourth, too many companies are copying Apple's designs, many of which are not as practical in the real world. Sharp corners, downgraded keyboards: flash over function.
Fifth, Linux has indeed been hurt by Gnome having partially failed to come up with a tablet-desktop interface. Linux has been hurt by UEFI. The US Federal Trade must stop Microsoft's UEFI, because it is a monopolistic action, or is someone taking money from Microsoft? Yes, I am again questioning the integrity of the FTC; there is no need to read between the lines.
Six, As a distro Ubuntu is untrustworthy, spyware, and corrupt. Unity did divide the Linux community, but perhaps that is what it was supposed to do. Mint is coming up, but they still have a weak presence. I applaud Mint for putting pressure on Gnome, but I wish instead that Gnome would listen to their users. The Gnome's leadership needs to be changed.
Seven, Sales people sell what they want to sell, regardless if it is practical. Slim phone with no battery life: no problem. Tablet with no keyboard: they will sell it. Shinny screen to look at and not into: they will sell it. Slim, shinny, and minimalistic is the emperor's new clothes in computers.
~
Having finished this I am reminded that I cannot even buy they computer I want. I just wanted a 13" computer with a decent video chip and processor, and space for a full-sized SSD, a good keyboard, matte screen, enough battery to run it for a while, and made so it won't break if I look at it the wrong way.
On it, I would rather have Windows 7 than Windows 8, and rather have the interface be more like Windows 2000 and XP, because after that, Microsoft fucked up and bloated their operating system.
Microsoft, Apple, and Gnome, ehem, when you are done playing around, we need to work and do useful things on our computers.
Microsoft: You screwed up. 1+1-1 does not equal anything anyone wants to use.
Dell, why not try stop making flimsy cased crap loaded with annoying bloatware.
HP, stop reinventing the wheel and making strange cased computers just for the sake of differentiation. It would be cool to do a computer with the brown and gold calculator look.
AMD: Add one more FPU to the bulldozer/piledriver unit, and work on the darn integer bottle necks. The bobcat was good, but not updated fast enough. Power efficiency will take time and effort. Show off your GPU compute scores. A chip person had theorized you were might virturalize the whole FPU scenero with GPU cores. It seems like a interesting idea, and I have seen powerpoint slides which show a further GPU+CPU integration than what you have with the APU. If you are going to do something, do it fast--and well.
Nvidia: You crippled your gaming chips for GPU computing so much that GPU computing was weakened as an initiative. Thanks for shortchanging gamers--even after we paid for all the technology you are selling as Quadro cards.
Intel: For a single quad, my one-year-old 2600k is almost as fast as what you are selling, Wake up, and wake me up when you have something better.
Apple round those damn corners, yes Johnny, I am talking to you! Shinny screens are useless in a coffee shop. You are right,: if your customers drop it, they will just buy another. Hire more QA people, and stop making OSX venders rev everything all the time, for each 10.8.4.6.6.2.1.x release, where x is an update to the system that break your vendor's program.
Adobe: You are not g
It's a good question, but I feel it's an odd one for a Slashdotter to have posted.
1.) The United States is a part of an international community that would look down upon us for taking aggressive and provocative measures, even toward a nutcase.
(Is he a nutcase if he becomes a hero to his people by standing up to the US? There is a reason why he is doing what he is doing.)
2.) North Korea and China are allies, at this point, and it would be prudent to make sure that is not the case if the US must take action.
Unfortunately, patience is a virtue to be held until the last possible moment before something terrible happens. Although patience takes time, it gives you time that you could use to prepare for a terrible moment.
If the US had acted too quickly in World War II, we might not have had the manufacturing capability that we had. True we were a sleeping giant, but there are 3,000,000 British .303 rounds in the hull of the Lusitania, which speak that we were not such a sleeping giant. So, now let us appear to sleep.
I have an X220 with a clickpad. I have only used it a few times. Instead, I reach above the touchpad to tap the pointer thingie buttons, which by the way take way to much pressure to use.
The United States infiltrated by those who seek to dismantle the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Someone needs to be arrested for taking bribes from the petrol industry!
Listen, people do not need another minimal operating system; they need one reasonable operating system to perform work on. If Unity was everything you touted, why make yet another OS?
Tablets have some things going for them, such as long battery life and efficient processors, but they are not as useful as they could be. The problem is the culture and the marketing; they are marketed as consumption devices and not content creation devices.
There are great content-creation problems with the culture. Some years ago, a computer was expected to run spreadsheets, word-processors, graphic and design, programs which could create content as well, as sell-able content, and all of this was done with a 25-33 Mhz computer with perhaps 4 MB of RAM. Today's tablets are powerful hardware wise, but software wise they are quite poor. There are thousands of applications for tablets, but many of them are not useful. Apple stuff does not even have a user accessible file system. People seem to be happy if they can even send an email or log onto Facebook to anyone. Because there are so many companies making money from the cloud, dash your hopes of a tablet that works well without being hooked to some company's expensive teat.
I use my tablet for its GPS ability, and use its small size for quick look-ups and voice proofreading of books, and also to take damage away from my hinged notebook computer. I am productive with my tablet in spite of everything that was done to them. If left on a deserted island, I would choose even a netbook over a almost any tablet. I may soon sell my tablet, and buy a laptop with a flippy screen.
I do not understand people's willingness to be dependent on the teat of an online service, when there are free local alternatives that cost nothing!
When is the US government going to grow up and realize that pot is no worse than alcohol?
Well, we didn't seem to mind when this happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
Because there was nothing in it for us?
The bottom line is: We have a lot of problems to attend to right here without becoming involved in the internal politics of a sovereign nation.
Look at the network-related news. That's all you see is articles about Syria, just like we saw about Iraq and Afghanistan, as if any of they needed our help shooting them. This big issue about Syria is: they fed soldiers and materiel into Afghanistan and Iraq. We're still reading from Paul Wolfiwitz's big book of war. Stop it!
These scanners should have to go through the same FDA approval process as any medical device. People are putting their kids in there.
If the odds of getting cancer from the scanners in their lifetime is 1: 1,000,000 then 1.5 people will get cancer from them--every day!
We cannot suspend our judgement just because there are terrorists in the world and money to be made.
With UEFI, The set things up so Linux can be locked out, but UEFI is too big and complex to be bug free, as a BIOS should be. Now, the customer pays the price.
MS is walling in their garden, but it's not their garden, but one they took from IBM, and gave and sold to the people in the form of an open hardware market, but now that Apple pulls things from that open market and makes money, they figure that they should just close up the rest of it.
With all the software money going through MS, the retailers that supported MS, are screwed. Big program such as games, such as Guild Wars 2 at over 20 GB will have to be downloaded byte for byte.
Microsoft learned nothing with their 2 prior bad releases: Windows ME and Windows Vista. They are spending too much time working to take marketshare through force and not enough time trying to please customers.
With a graphic suite and a CAD program, I have thousands of dollars of software--and not confidence in MS.
Do you think the jails, court costs, and police work are free?
We cannot afford to jail and arrest such a great amount of the population.
How much of you tax money do you want invested in a losing, pointless, discriminatory war?
Oh come on now, 16.3%? So says police officers who have quotas to meet.
Ubuntu screwed up with Unity, which did more to divide the Linux landscape than any other event in recent history. Mint has been working harder than anyone to make sure people can work hard with a useful desktop. Thank you all.