I couldn't agree more about the classic Mac OS. Not only was it unstable (I typically experienced a total system lockup about once a day), but it also offered absolutely nothing for power users. And not only was that hardware to run it very expensive, it was also slow.
Apple's turnaround has come because they got a number of things right for a change. After about 10 years of of PC use with mixed windows and linux operating systems, I've come back to being a Mac owner. There are a number of reasons. The OS is very usable for all levels of user. They also managed to make USB a standard and switch to other standards (such as DVI and VGA), which makes owning a Mac more affordable because you can use peripherals which are cheaply available. They realized that people wanted computers which are pretty on the outside. OSX also allows the user base to port just about any standard unix application to run on a Mac. The Intel switch was another great move, now Macs are actually fast computers as well (unless you're running under Rosetta, and even then it's not terrible.
Microsoft is currently repeating a lot of Apple's failures in the 90s. They're trying to create products for markets which don't exist. They've let Windows become stagnant, the last revolutionary upgrade which brought vast improvements was Windows 2000. XP and Vista are nice updates, but just baby steps.
However, I feel that the scout organization has fallen so far from its original intended roots that it's nothing but a special interest shadow of its former self. It's very sad, because what once was an organization that helped kids learn about skills and camping and other simple yet vital tasks for a well rounded person have been hammered away into anti-gay, christian centric whored out to any group that wants type of thing.
The scouts have always been that way. Morality has always been a large part of the beliefs.
Doesn't food take energy to digest? If the food takes more energy to digest then it provides you, isn't that a net loss? I'm assuming that humans could not function if digesting anything took a couple hundred calories, which would be the only way you could even have much of an impact by drinking this.
Photoshop is far more efficient for manipulating photographs for the simple reason that you can preview your adjustments on all of the filters and all of the dialogs. Photoshop's band-aid tool is also a huge time saver which does not exist in gimp. GIMP's anti-aliasing is not the best, which is also exacerbated by the fact that text layers are rasterized immediately, so they are matted to the current background. You can't scale them without pixelation in the GIMP. The feathered copy/paste in Photoshop is also very helpful.
It's not a bad tool for doing the most basic cropping, scaling, and format conversion of images. But beyond that it's not nearly as fast for most things you want to do to your images.
FoxIt Reader is a great interim solution until this gets standardized. It reads PDF files and opens much faster than Acrobat. I'm not sure why Acrobat reader is so slow, but even the fastest available hardware seems to choke on it.
Shoot, if you wanted to protect your community ("Please, won't someone please think of the children!"), you'd spend your time convincing people to safely store substances like gasoline with explosive vapors. You'd save at least 10,000 times more lives and homes - and that's not an exageration.
If you had them store it out of their automobiles, you could save a million lives a year.
If spam is made more of a problem, there will have to be adjustments. Spam is mostly sent from shady ISPs, hacked/worm infested machines which act as relay drones, and nations which don't deal with these things well. The blacklisting will have to be done manually, meaning that allowing spam to come from your networks may have much larger penalties for those who tolerate it. Hurricane electric and most asian nations will likely be the first entries in my blacklist.
Poor plaintiff. Being too stupid to make his own decisions, he was duped by evil lawyers to sue someone for more than he could possibly ever have hoped to get. He didn't know that he had to pay the legal fees if he won. Until we live in a society where non-lawyers are capable of making decisions, we need must some limits on litigation.
It must take forever for your printouts to get mailed to you from the data center.
Moving *everything* to a data center is a bad idea. Moving most things to a couple data centers is a better idea than having it at all one of your offices (which does not have any redundancy at all).
In a nutshell, going online with a MS product that's not well firewalled and using anything but alternative software for the access of online resources is grossly negligent IMO.
Perhaps Microsoft should attach a warning label to their products then?
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It takes more than 15 minutes to do an update on an XP machine and an update requires an internet connection. How are you supposed to update to the latest patches before being infected in the first place?
The state owned papers of many of our so called allies, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia routinely print articles threatening America. Is the AI going to get stuck on these?
Whatever. You can thank the boundaries of the Interstate Commerce Clause for defanging this beast. Expect gambling sites to set up bank accounts in each of the states where online gambling is legal under state law, and direct all traffic from gamblers in a state to servers in that state. This accounts for most if not all states.
The supreme court has ruled that growing marijuana for personal use and consuming it effects interstate commerce. Judges involved commented that it sets a precedent which basically allows the federal government to control everything.
It's quite amazing that they specifically grant the states rights in this bill, they didn't really have to.
It's great that Apple is willing to do something to reduce waste for the people who really *must* buy the newest ipod (and the few remaining people who want one but don't have it). I would be however that the waste involved in the packaging is minimal compared to what it takes to produce the electronics of the ipod itself.
Many people I know who would considered themselves "environmentally superior" to others also always have the latest ipod and cell phone models.
If you really want to be green, just keep your old ipod. It's good enough.
It's also a good financial decision. By riding a bike, I can manage to have a positive net worth, unlike most people in my income bracket and age group.
Food is necessary for life. Shelter is necessary for life. You won't die without gasoline, many people do fine without it. They might even prosper since they aren't wasting $10k of their income on transit a year. When did using 1.3x10^7J per mile become efficient?
Do you think roads are free? Do you think your gas taxes go anywhere close to paying the price for the roads you use? Road that costs thousands of dollars per foot to build? You talk about public transit as if it's some sort of nasty socialist alternative to the one you've already got when the reality is that roads are the most socialist thing that exist in this country.
Do you think the rest of enjoy our hard earned money being forcefully removed from us to subsidize your laziness?
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I couldn't agree more about the classic Mac OS. Not only was it unstable (I typically experienced a total system lockup about once a day), but it also offered absolutely nothing for power users. And not only was that hardware to run it very expensive, it was also slow.
Apple's turnaround has come because they got a number of things right for a change. After about 10 years of of PC use with mixed windows and linux operating systems, I've come back to being a Mac owner. There are a number of reasons. The OS is very usable for all levels of user. They also managed to make USB a standard and switch to other standards (such as DVI and VGA), which makes owning a Mac more affordable because you can use peripherals which are cheaply available. They realized that people wanted computers which are pretty on the outside. OSX also allows the user base to port just about any standard unix application to run on a Mac. The Intel switch was another great move, now Macs are actually fast computers as well (unless you're running under Rosetta, and even then it's not terrible.
Microsoft is currently repeating a lot of Apple's failures in the 90s. They're trying to create products for markets which don't exist. They've let Windows become stagnant, the last revolutionary upgrade which brought vast improvements was Windows 2000. XP and Vista are nice updates, but just baby steps.
It should be obvious that you need a computer to run the software. And not unreasonable to assume that you need both audio input and output devices.
You can only reclaim space from deleted files in file vault by logging out of the user account. This can be quite annoying.
However, I feel that the scout organization has fallen so far from its original intended roots that it's nothing but a special interest shadow of its former self. It's very sad, because what once was an organization that helped kids learn about skills and camping and other simple yet vital tasks for a well rounded person have been hammered away into anti-gay, christian centric whored out to any group that wants type of thing.
The scouts have always been that way. Morality has always been a large part of the beliefs.
Doesn't food take energy to digest? If the food takes more energy to digest then it provides you, isn't that a net loss? I'm assuming that humans could not function if digesting anything took a couple hundred calories, which would be the only way you could even have much of an impact by drinking this.
They're also the most likely to be able to afford birth control, abortions, and be too busy to bother raising a child.
Photoshop is far more efficient for manipulating photographs for the simple reason that you can preview your adjustments on all of the filters and all of the dialogs. Photoshop's band-aid tool is also a huge time saver which does not exist in gimp. GIMP's anti-aliasing is not the best, which is also exacerbated by the fact that text layers are rasterized immediately, so they are matted to the current background. You can't scale them without pixelation in the GIMP. The feathered copy/paste in Photoshop is also very helpful.
It's not a bad tool for doing the most basic cropping, scaling, and format conversion of images. But beyond that it's not nearly as fast for most things you want to do to your images.
FoxIt Reader is a great interim solution until this gets standardized. It reads PDF files and opens much faster than Acrobat. I'm not sure why Acrobat reader is so slow, but even the fastest available hardware seems to choke on it.
Shoot, if you wanted to protect your community ("Please, won't someone please think of the children!"), you'd spend your time convincing people to safely store substances like gasoline with explosive vapors. You'd save at least 10,000 times more lives and homes - and that's not an exageration.
If you had them store it out of their automobiles, you could save a million lives a year.
If spam is made more of a problem, there will have to be adjustments. Spam is mostly sent from shady ISPs, hacked/worm infested machines which act as relay drones, and nations which don't deal with these things well. The blacklisting will have to be done manually, meaning that allowing spam to come from your networks may have much larger penalties for those who tolerate it. Hurricane electric and most asian nations will likely be the first entries in my blacklist.
Microsoft needs to hire Steve Jobs in order to recover.
Poor plaintiff. Being too stupid to make his own decisions, he was duped by evil lawyers to sue someone for more than he could possibly ever have hoped to get. He didn't know that he had to pay the legal fees if he won. Until we live in a society where non-lawyers are capable of making decisions, we need must some limits on litigation.
It must take forever for your printouts to get mailed to you from the data center. Moving *everything* to a data center is a bad idea. Moving most things to a couple data centers is a better idea than having it at all one of your offices (which does not have any redundancy at all).
In a nutshell, going online with a MS product that's not well firewalled and using anything but alternative software for the access of online resources is grossly negligent IMO.
Perhaps Microsoft should attach a warning label to their products then?
It takes more than 15 minutes to do an update on an XP machine and an update requires an internet connection. How are you supposed to update to the latest patches before being infected in the first place?
The state owned papers of many of our so called allies, such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia routinely print articles threatening America. Is the AI going to get stuck on these?
Whatever. You can thank the boundaries of the Interstate Commerce Clause for defanging this beast. Expect gambling sites to set up bank accounts in each of the states where online gambling is legal under state law, and direct all traffic from gamblers in a state to servers in that state. This accounts for most if not all states.
The supreme court has ruled that growing marijuana for personal use and consuming it effects interstate commerce. Judges involved commented that it sets a precedent which basically allows the federal government to control everything.
It's quite amazing that they specifically grant the states rights in this bill, they didn't really have to.
How does one break a T-Rex bone in the first place?
Building a case out of a garbage can would be more appropriate given the very limited lifespan of the average PC.
It's great that Apple is willing to do something to reduce waste for the people who really *must* buy the newest ipod (and the few remaining people who want one but don't have it). I would be however that the waste involved in the packaging is minimal compared to what it takes to produce the electronics of the ipod itself. Many people I know who would considered themselves "environmentally superior" to others also always have the latest ipod and cell phone models.
If you really want to be green, just keep your old ipod. It's good enough.
It's also a good financial decision. By riding a bike, I can manage to have a positive net worth, unlike most people in my income bracket and age group.
Gonzales is now enforcing a decades old law which states that using a common carrier to transfer pornography is illegal.
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Internet providers are also considered common carriers, which means viewing anything poronographic on the internet is illegal.
My old job used to spin shafts weighing several tons up to about half those RPMs to balance them. They had some pretty thick walls on that room.
Food is necessary for life. Shelter is necessary for life. You won't die without gasoline, many people do fine without it. They might even prosper since they aren't wasting $10k of their income on transit a year. When did using 1.3x10^7J per mile become efficient?
Do you think roads are free? Do you think your gas taxes go anywhere close to paying the price for the roads you use? Road that costs thousands of dollars per foot to build? You talk about public transit as if it's some sort of nasty socialist alternative to the one you've already got when the reality is that roads are the most socialist thing that exist in this country.
Do you think the rest of enjoy our hard earned money being forcefully removed from us to subsidize your laziness?