No wonder you posted AC - you're blatantly wrong (reined in this sense means brought under control, not reigned as in ruled) as well as homophobic and resorting to ad-hominem attacks.
> and like 'em or hate 'em they are pretty much the only game in town unless you want a dumb terminal (Google) or an overpriced iToy that you can't upgrade or fix shit on.
If it comes to that, you'd see Crossover get some serious corporate sponsorship so that legacy Windows apps run smoothly on Linux and OS X, and you'd see Linux and OS X gain wide market acceptance on the desktop as well as in the server room.
Windows doesn't have to be the only game in town. In the server room they are far from it.
The PC is not dead. For Windows, it was nearly perfected with Windows 7. Intel's Core i5 and i7 plus NVIDIA or AMD GPUs + 16GB RAM + SSD deliver the computing power of supercomputers from just a few years ago, and complete everyday tasks almost instantly. Why do people need to buy a PC that is only marginally faster, only to downgrade to Windows 8.n which is user-hostile on the desktop?
Tablets are new and rapidly advancing and people are buying them to do many things (snapshots, social networking, light web browsing) on the go, on their sofa, etc. but not to actually replace their PCs. Nearly any PC made in the last five years is "good enough" so why replace it before it fails?
The PC isn't dead; the market is simply saturated with computers that are finally "good enough" and a new computer is a downgrade thanks to Microsoft forcing the tablet UI upon everyone. I've had to install Classic Shell for Windows 8 users who are novices and complained the OS is unusable, so you can't convince me at all that Windows 8 is good for newbies.
Then for business, the Metro^H^H^H^H^HModern interface breaks usability and productivity; Windows 2.0's "innovative" overlapping windows (not so innovative actually - it was copied from Amiga) is removed. I don't know about you but when I am doing any kind of sysadmin or development work, I often have five to seven applications open, often overlapped so I can read documenation as I write scripts and code, or even work on spreadsheets.
I'd like Windows 8 if it came with the Aero interface and still supported glass, and the touch UI could be enabled as a choice - or even if it were the default and could be turned off, and if Metro apps could be moved around freely rather than be confined to full screen or tiled. I don't know about you, but even if I cared about touch screens on desktops and laptops, it would be a very secondary UI for me, because I want to keep my hands on the keyboard and mouse. I'm not new to touch screens either - I've been a PDA/tablet fan since WinCE. I own PocketPC (which I still use on occasion), iOS, and Android PDAs and tablets, and have used Windows XP tablets and each is great for its purpose, but when I did use the XP tablet as a desktop, I docked it and used only the keyboard and mouse. I never once used the touch screen while it was docked, nor would I bother with Win8's touch screen on a desktop or laptop.
The second amendment guarantees that we never lose the first, fourth, and fifth amendments.
When I am settled in after I finish moving to NH, I'm buying an AR-10 - and yes I am actually going to use it for hunting. I have never gone hunting but I love venison, so. . .
Question: does our sky go dark like flipping a switch the instant the sun is "below" the horizon, or does the atmosphere scatter enough light to light the sky for an hour after sunset?
Now that you arrive at the answer to that question, answer this one: does Mars have an appreciable atmosphere capable of raleigh scattering, or is it so tenuous (like our Moon's) that it is little more than a few particles and gas so thin that there is no measurable pressure - and barely qualifies as gas, but more of random particles suspended by electrostatic forces, resulting in very little scattering of light?
They certainly did NOT eliminate DOS from it. They just made it very difficult to boot to real mode. It still included and relied upon MS-DOS behind the scenes.
They most certainly did NOT eliminate DOS from it. They just made it very difficult to boot to real mode. It still included and relied upon MS-DOS behind the scenes.
In the unions' defense: both the teamsters and the bakers union had agreed to concessions previously, while executives were ignoring the consultant they hired to fix problems and instead used Hostess as their own personal piggy bank, pocketing everything that was saved by cutting benefits and pay. It wasn't until last year that the board finally grew wise and axed the executives and promoted the outside consultant, and they did seriously try to turn the company around. The CEO of the time did NOT draw bonuses after taking the company into chapter 7.
The bakers union had cause (based on previous experience) to disbelieve the new boss ("meet the new boss, same as the old boss" is usually true) and think they were playing chicken when they threatened to board up the company. They weren't kidding, the new boss was seriously trying to turn things around and Hostess was not liquid enough to survive, so they recalled all the trucks the next morning, closed the factories, and that was that.
Interesting tidbit: the Teamsters knew the score actually tried to coax the Bakers Union negotiators to agree, because the cut the last Hostess CEO requested was to be a temporary one, until (if) the company got back on track. The Bakers' Union ignored the Teamsters and decided it was another bluff. Unfortunately for Hostess employees, it was not a bluff. It was game over.
> Created by Henry F. Phillips, the Phillips screw drive was purposely designed to cam out when the screw stalled[citation needed], to prevent the fastener damaging the work or the head, instead damaging the driver. This was caused by the relative difficulty in building torque limiting into the early drivers.
Your statement is akin to blaming violent crimes on guns, or blaming obesity on spoons. Blame the manufacturers who spec phillips head screws and bolts into their assemblies.
If you don't give a shit, then why are you putting up a fuss about it?
I hope your children turn out intersex and you make the decision for them when they are infants, and they grow up to resent your ignorant ass when they realize how you fucked their lives up.
That one was IS to F but IS to M is a lot more common than people think. It's said "it's easier to make a hole than a pole" but all too often when there is a micropenis or enlarged clit, they remove the female plumbing, and also very often if both are reasonably well formed the parents are often pressured by doctors and even clergy to make a decision, which is something equally as likely to be accurate if chosen by a coin toss as it is a "medical evaluation." In the case of IS children there is a 66% chance of making the wrong choice, because for us there are really three valid choices: 1. Make us female 2. Make us male 3. leave us the fuck alone. In all but the rarest of cases (such as a hypospadias being wide open revealing vital organs) the correct choice is #3 and let us make our own god damned decision when we're old enough to understand what such decisions make. To allow doctors or even parents play god and make that decision on our behalf is absolutely unforgivable.
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Radio shack still sells parts?
Are you sure you mean Radio Shack? The place where their motto is apparently "You've got questions, we've got blank stares?" THAT Radio Shack?
No wonder you posted AC - you're blatantly wrong (reined in this sense means brought under control, not reigned as in ruled) as well as homophobic and resorting to ad-hominem attacks.
> and like 'em or hate 'em they are pretty much the only game in town unless you want a dumb terminal (Google) or an overpriced iToy that you can't upgrade or fix shit on.
If it comes to that, you'd see Crossover get some serious corporate sponsorship so that legacy Windows apps run smoothly on Linux and OS X, and you'd see Linux and OS X gain wide market acceptance on the desktop as well as in the server room.
Windows doesn't have to be the only game in town. In the server room they are far from it.
Or, it could be a simple omission:
Steve Ballmer was planning a massive, once-in-a-lifetime reorganization of the company he's been running into the ground for quite some time.
The PC is not dead. For Windows, it was nearly perfected with Windows 7. Intel's Core i5 and i7 plus NVIDIA or AMD GPUs + 16GB RAM + SSD deliver the computing power of supercomputers from just a few years ago, and complete everyday tasks almost instantly. Why do people need to buy a PC that is only marginally faster, only to downgrade to Windows 8.n which is user-hostile on the desktop?
Tablets are new and rapidly advancing and people are buying them to do many things (snapshots, social networking, light web browsing) on the go, on their sofa, etc. but not to actually replace their PCs. Nearly any PC made in the last five years is "good enough" so why replace it before it fails?
The PC isn't dead; the market is simply saturated with computers that are finally "good enough" and a new computer is a downgrade thanks to Microsoft forcing the tablet UI upon everyone. I've had to install Classic Shell for Windows 8 users who are novices and complained the OS is unusable, so you can't convince me at all that Windows 8 is good for newbies.
Then for business, the Metro^H^H^H^H^HModern interface breaks usability and productivity; Windows 2.0's "innovative" overlapping windows (not so innovative actually - it was copied from Amiga) is removed. I don't know about you but when I am doing any kind of sysadmin or development work, I often have five to seven applications open, often overlapped so I can read documenation as I write scripts and code, or even work on spreadsheets.
I'd like Windows 8 if it came with the Aero interface and still supported glass, and the touch UI could be enabled as a choice - or even if it were the default and could be turned off, and if Metro apps could be moved around freely rather than be confined to full screen or tiled. I don't know about you, but even if I cared about touch screens on desktops and laptops, it would be a very secondary UI for me, because I want to keep my hands on the keyboard and mouse. I'm not new to touch screens either - I've been a PDA/tablet fan since WinCE. I own PocketPC (which I still use on occasion), iOS, and Android PDAs and tablets, and have used Windows XP tablets and each is great for its purpose, but when I did use the XP tablet as a desktop, I docked it and used only the keyboard and mouse. I never once used the touch screen while it was docked, nor would I bother with Win8's touch screen on a desktop or laptop.
The second amendment guarantees that we never lose the first, fourth, and fifth amendments.
When I am settled in after I finish moving to NH, I'm buying an AR-10 - and yes I am actually going to use it for hunting. I have never gone hunting but I love venison, so. . .
> What would happen if the streams crossed?
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Question: does our sky go dark like flipping a switch the instant the sun is "below" the horizon, or does the atmosphere scatter enough light to light the sky for an hour after sunset?
Now that you arrive at the answer to that question, answer this one: does Mars have an appreciable atmosphere capable of raleigh scattering, or is it so tenuous (like our Moon's) that it is little more than a few particles and gas so thin that there is no measurable pressure - and barely qualifies as gas, but more of random particles suspended by electrostatic forces, resulting in very little scattering of light?
Agreed! I <3 my mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches. They're not buckling springs, but they're still really nice. :)
if a Ballmer looks like a monkey, walks like a monkey, and throws poo like a monkey. . .
They certainly did NOT eliminate DOS from it. They just made it very difficult to boot to real mode. It still included and relied upon MS-DOS behind the scenes.
They most certainly did NOT eliminate DOS from it. They just made it very difficult to boot to real mode. It still included and relied upon MS-DOS behind the scenes.
You have it wrong.
Windows family:
(Windows 1.0 through 3.1), Windows 95 (and Windows 95 OSR2), Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Me (end of product line)
Then the NT family:
Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Biweekly at minimum in Massachusetts.
In the unions' defense: both the teamsters and the bakers union had agreed to concessions previously, while executives were ignoring the consultant they hired to fix problems and instead used Hostess as their own personal piggy bank, pocketing everything that was saved by cutting benefits and pay. It wasn't until last year that the board finally grew wise and axed the executives and promoted the outside consultant, and they did seriously try to turn the company around. The CEO of the time did NOT draw bonuses after taking the company into chapter 7.
The bakers union had cause (based on previous experience) to disbelieve the new boss ("meet the new boss, same as the old boss" is usually true) and think they were playing chicken when they threatened to board up the company. They weren't kidding, the new boss was seriously trying to turn things around and Hostess was not liquid enough to survive, so they recalled all the trucks the next morning, closed the factories, and that was that.
Interesting tidbit: the Teamsters knew the score actually tried to coax the Bakers Union negotiators to agree, because the cut the last Hostess CEO requested was to be a temporary one, until (if) the company got back on track. The Bakers' Union ignored the Teamsters and decided it was another bluff. Unfortunately for Hostess employees, it was not a bluff. It was game over.
> If you've been handcuffed and finally get the keys, why would you put the cuffs back on, even if you still have the keys?
Maybe he paid good money for a dominatrix to handcuff him?
It's finally official: Twinkies are coming back - Tallahassee rejoices upon hearing the news!
The problem is most industries mis-use phillips heads. They are specifically designed to cam out.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
> Created by Henry F. Phillips, the Phillips screw drive was purposely designed to cam out when the screw stalled[citation needed], to prevent the fastener damaging the work or the head, instead damaging the driver. This was caused by the relative difficulty in building torque limiting into the early drivers.
Your statement is akin to blaming violent crimes on guns, or blaming obesity on spoons. Blame the manufacturers who spec phillips head screws and bolts into their assemblies.
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How would you classify XXXY, XX/XY, XXY, XX/XXY, XY/XXY and other similarly atypical chromosomal phenotypes?
In practice it's many times the cost of private enterprise, due to administrative overhead here in Massachusetts.
I'm pretty sure none of the US Constitution applies, given this situation is not on American soil.
So, it's safe to assume you're on team Edward?
If you don't give a shit, then why are you putting up a fuss about it?
I hope your children turn out intersex and you make the decision for them when they are infants, and they grow up to resent your ignorant ass when they realize how you fucked their lives up.
Here is one example that has been on CNN's front page for the better part of a month (as of yesterday it's off the front page)
Parents sue South Carolina for surgically making child female
That one was IS to F but IS to M is a lot more common than people think. It's said "it's easier to make a hole than a pole" but all too often when there is a micropenis or enlarged clit, they remove the female plumbing, and also very often if both are reasonably well formed the parents are often pressured by doctors and even clergy to make a decision, which is something equally as likely to be accurate if chosen by a coin toss as it is a "medical evaluation." In the case of IS children there is a 66% chance of making the wrong choice, because for us there are really three valid choices: 1. Make us female 2. Make us male 3. leave us the fuck alone. In all but the rarest of cases (such as a hypospadias being wide open revealing vital organs) the correct choice is #3 and let us make our own god damned decision when we're old enough to understand what such decisions make. To allow doctors or even parents play god and make that decision on our behalf is absolutely unforgivable.