A person forced to read a holy book instead of a science book probably won't be much help developing the next IPhone,
Well yes, if the science books are banned by the theocracy. But are science books and tech manuals all you read? I read the bible, science fiction, other fiction, nonfiction. Reading a bible doesn't stop you from learning.
Government should stay the fuck out of it. Parents should raise their children.
Agreed.
Maybe if we did not make it free to have kids by picking up the tab for them the less responsible people would have less of them.
You think irresponsible people are going to behave responsibly? That people will stop fucking no matter what, especially irresponsible people? Making someone's life hell doesn't teach them responsibility, good parenting does. And if your parents sucked at parenting, guess what? You will, too. Personally, I'm totally against making the lives of children who are already living in hell even worse.
I should write Amy's biography. Her parents were irresponsible and homeless most of their lives, and her life story is a horror story.
Linux is neither perfect or even the best fit for everyone (artists need Macs, gamers need Windows). I'm just tired of MS fanbois and shills lying about it. And you are correct, I never ran across those problems.
Fifteen years from now, your alarm goes off at 7:30 AM, pulling you out of a dead sleep
It had better not! I retire in 2014 (if not earlier).
the loose sensory netting inside your pillow will keep the noise going until it detects alpha waves in drastically higher numbers than theta waves
In a ten dollar clock?
Sighing, you roll out of bed, pull your Computing ID (CID) card from the alarm unit, and stumble out of the bedroom. Pausing briefly to drop your CID into your desktop computer
Networking will be obsolete? That CID sounds like one of the removable drives in STOS that kind of looked like cassettes. I don't have to log into my Linux computer now, why should I have to in fifteen years?
the transition to metric still isn't second nature
The transition has started with liquids, but I'd be willing to bet large sums of money that we'll still be using farenheight in fifteen years.
You have it set to download in basic 8K, eschewing the 3D
"3D" (which isn't really 3D) is a fad that has come and gone for over six decades. Every generation thinks their generation is the 3D generation; it comes and goes every 20-30 years.
At a spoken command, your TV turns on and begins playback.
Doubtful, becaude I'll be blasting the stereo like I do now.
you state your name to authorize payment for the episode
Bullshit, I don't pay for TV now, why would I agree to in fifteen years? OTA or Pirate Bay.
pull your CID from the desktop, and put it into your phone
Wifi and bluetooth will be gone?
As the door closes behind you, you absently wave your phone by the doorbell panel. The embedded RFID chip triggers the locks and security system
Again, why a card? The door should know you're leaving, and by then the stereo and TV will be off. Say the word "lock" and the door locks itself. Why make things harder than they are now?
Sorry, but this is nothing like life will be in 15 years. It never, ever is how fortune tellers say it will be.
There is a reason it looks like 2001: A Space Odyssey. That movie was based upon reality due to the fact that the director, Stanley Kubrick, wanted to portray something realistic considering that there were real spacecraft going to real places (like the Moon) at the time he was making and released the film.
Compare 2001 with Apollo 13. None of Apollo 13 was boring, and it was as accurate a depiction of the actual event that they could do. They even shot the in-capsule space scenes in the Vomit Comet. What made parts of 2001 boring was the model shots, which lasted way too long. It wasn't the story, but how the story was told.
Speaking of the Vomit Comet and the ISS, did they shoot the ISS scenes in last week's Big Bang Theory on the Comet? It looked as real as Apollo 13.
We simply don't have enough data. If we find evidence of microbes on Mars or Europa or anywhere else in the solar system, we'll know life is common. If we don't, we still won't know if it's common but the probability of it being common drops considerably. We don't even know how life started here and what conditions are necessary for it to start.
I was working on a Dell for a friend last month, one thing wrong was the CD had quit working. Opening it up I was pretty surprised to see that it was essentially a laptop inside a desktop case -- everything in it from the motherboard to the disks were laptop parts.
No, but editing the registry is a lot closer to a hack than modifying a text file. Joe Sixpack can't edit the registry, but he can easily set up his Linux computer to do it without any registry hacks*; it's a checkbox in kde.
Not all theists are Jehova's Witnesses. Most Christians won't bring up religion unless someone else has brought it up first. Look at slashdot comments. Despite the fact that 2/3rds of the world population is Christian and over half of all scientists are as well, how many theists do you see bringing up religion in an unrelated topic? But almost every thread, there's an offtopic antitheist troll.
You make my point for me. Joe sixpack can edit the registry? In kde the choice is there on one of the install screens; you click a check box and that's it. No need to trawl forums to find a link to figure out how to do it. It's there, automatically.
A registry edit is a hack. If you have to hack your PC to make it functional, well... isn't that what MS shills continualy spew about Linux?
The PC won over the mainframe because of one important thing. Graphics!
PCs didn't have graphics until about 1990, and they were mostly gaming PCs. Almost every office had at least one by then, and as now there were few mainframes. I had a monochrome Hercules graphics card in my home PC around 1987 (IBM XT bought used, running DOS 3.3), EGA was just starting. I imagine there were a few graphics-capable PCs in offices then, but not in ours. Graphics didn't reach most offices until Windows 95 came out.
If graphics would have killed the mainframe, Apple would be the dominant platform, because they had graphics since around 1980. The IIe I used at the library then had excellent graphics.
The network is what "killed" the mainframe, which isn't really dead. Big companies, governments, universities all still have mainframes and were always the market for them. Until networks, the only was to share data was sneakernet or the terminal.
Basically Windows 9 will have a "move to tablet" feature where you can move whatever your doing into a connected Android tablet (possibly even a WP8 tablet for the 3 or 4 people who bought them).
You could do that now over wifi and/or bluetooth. It wouldn't be any different than my tabletless setup at home -- two PCs cabled into a router, a notebook connecting with wifi, and a bluetooth dongle on the Linux PC to get pictures and sound from the phone. It didn't take anything to set up and works flawlessly. (The notebook is W7, one tower XP and the other tower kubuntu).
We need some sort of unification for Linux to be competitive with Windows, and Mac's.
Why do you need Linux to be competetitive? It isn't a game. I couldn't care less how popular Linux is, as long as people keep developing for it. It isn't like it's proprietary.
It's taxes that run businesses out of Illinois, not unions. Most businesses here are nonunion and have no problem... until they start fucking over their workers and the workers organize.
think about how long it took for the silicon transistor to really show its worth--not until the Internet boom 40-50 years later
Complete and utter balderdash. Transistors replaced vaccuum tubes. In the 1950s transistor radios were the Big Thing. By 1965 the only tubes that were left were in TV sets. There were even ICs in cheap calculators by 1970. Since around 1965 everything electronic was solid state; tubes had been obsolete and if it was electronic, it was solid state.
What they do is come out with a drug, sell it until the patent is about to expire, tweak the formula, then come out with a new-and-improved version with a new patent life.
Which doesn't hurt anything unless you're stupid. I took Paxil for a couple of years, and its patent ran out after the first year. The doctor then wanted to put me on the new, improved, time-release version. I said "bullshit, the stuff's working. Give me the generic." My cost went from $40 a month to $5.
Sure, they sell the "new" patented Paxil to fools, just like they charge patent price for Allieve and people are stupid enough to pay it, even though it has no patent and the generic costs 1/3 as much.
In only 11 years seeing an old person who has had cataract surgery wearing glasses, even reading glasses, will be rare. The patent on the CrystaLens will run out and it will be as cheap as the old kind that wouldn't focus. Have an early cataract? If you can hold off until 2023, do so.
Nothing lives forever. The PC will die eventually... but not any time soon. I can see fewer and fewer desktops in the home, by notebooks and tablets, but there's little you can do in an office that doesn't demand a PC.
Use it for a for a few months. You'll realize the start menu is outdated.
Outdated how? How is the lack of a start menu an improvement, unless you're one of those muggles who always starts their programs from a desktop icon? Me, I never see the desktop once I've opened a single program.
I've seen hundreds of comments explaining just how and why W8's interface sucks, how about explaining why you think it's better than the start menu?
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A person forced to read a holy book instead of a science book probably won't be much help developing the next IPhone,
Well yes, if the science books are banned by the theocracy. But are science books and tech manuals all you read? I read the bible, science fiction, other fiction, nonfiction. Reading a bible doesn't stop you from learning.
Government should stay the fuck out of it. Parents should raise their children.
Agreed.
Maybe if we did not make it free to have kids by picking up the tab for them the less responsible people would have less of them.
You think irresponsible people are going to behave responsibly? That people will stop fucking no matter what, especially irresponsible people? Making someone's life hell doesn't teach them responsibility, good parenting does. And if your parents sucked at parenting, guess what? You will, too. Personally, I'm totally against making the lives of children who are already living in hell even worse.
I should write Amy's biography. Her parents were irresponsible and homeless most of their lives, and her life story is a horror story.
I thought you had kids? Didn't you see Pete's Dragon? And I thought you were a geezer, you never heard "Puff, the Magic Dragon"?
There is a great deal of hand ringing about HFT
The traders are all marrying each other? Or are they metal robots that their hands ring when they work?
Linux is neither perfect or even the best fit for everyone (artists need Macs, gamers need Windows). I'm just tired of MS fanbois and shills lying about it. And you are correct, I never ran across those problems.
Fifteen years from now, your alarm goes off at 7:30 AM, pulling you out of a dead sleep
It had better not! I retire in 2014 (if not earlier).
the loose sensory netting inside your pillow will keep the noise going until it detects alpha waves in drastically higher numbers than theta waves
In a ten dollar clock?
Sighing, you roll out of bed, pull your Computing ID (CID) card from the alarm unit, and stumble out of the bedroom. Pausing briefly to drop your CID into your desktop computer
Networking will be obsolete? That CID sounds like one of the removable drives in STOS that kind of looked like cassettes. I don't have to log into my Linux computer now, why should I have to in fifteen years?
the transition to metric still isn't second nature
The transition has started with liquids, but I'd be willing to bet large sums of money that we'll still be using farenheight in fifteen years.
You have it set to download in basic 8K, eschewing the 3D
"3D" (which isn't really 3D) is a fad that has come and gone for over six decades. Every generation thinks their generation is the 3D generation; it comes and goes every 20-30 years.
At a spoken command, your TV turns on and begins playback.
Doubtful, becaude I'll be blasting the stereo like I do now.
you state your name to authorize payment for the episode
Bullshit, I don't pay for TV now, why would I agree to in fifteen years? OTA or Pirate Bay.
pull your CID from the desktop, and put it into your phone
Wifi and bluetooth will be gone?
As the door closes behind you, you absently wave your phone by the doorbell panel. The embedded RFID chip triggers the locks and security system
Again, why a card? The door should know you're leaving, and by then the stereo and TV will be off. Say the word "lock" and the door locks itself. Why make things harder than they are now?
Sorry, but this is nothing like life will be in 15 years. It never, ever is how fortune tellers say it will be.
Keep in mind it's early days. I mean the first iPad shipped just over two years ago, in 2010.
MS had a tablet computer ten years earlier, although it was a flop. Ten yeras after the first microcomputer shipped, IBM was selling millions of PCs.
There is a reason it looks like 2001: A Space Odyssey. That movie was based upon reality due to the fact that the director, Stanley Kubrick, wanted to portray something realistic considering that there were real spacecraft going to real places (like the Moon) at the time he was making and released the film.
Compare 2001 with Apollo 13. None of Apollo 13 was boring, and it was as accurate a depiction of the actual event that they could do. They even shot the in-capsule space scenes in the Vomit Comet. What made parts of 2001 boring was the model shots, which lasted way too long. It wasn't the story, but how the story was told.
Speaking of the Vomit Comet and the ISS, did they shoot the ISS scenes in last week's Big Bang Theory on the Comet? It looked as real as Apollo 13.
We simply don't have enough data. If we find evidence of microbes on Mars or Europa or anywhere else in the solar system, we'll know life is common. If we don't, we still won't know if it's common but the probability of it being common drops considerably. We don't even know how life started here and what conditions are necessary for it to start.
I was working on a Dell for a friend last month, one thing wrong was the CD had quit working. Opening it up I was pretty surprised to see that it was essentially a laptop inside a desktop case -- everything in it from the motherboard to the disks were laptop parts.
No, but editing the registry is a lot closer to a hack than modifying a text file. Joe Sixpack can't edit the registry, but he can easily set up his Linux computer to do it without any registry hacks*; it's a checkbox in kde.
* Linux has no registry.
Not all theists are Jehova's Witnesses. Most Christians won't bring up religion unless someone else has brought it up first. Look at slashdot comments. Despite the fact that 2/3rds of the world population is Christian and over half of all scientists are as well, how many theists do you see bringing up religion in an unrelated topic? But almost every thread, there's an offtopic antitheist troll.
You make my point for me. Joe sixpack can edit the registry? In kde the choice is there on one of the install screens; you click a check box and that's it. No need to trawl forums to find a link to figure out how to do it. It's there, automatically.
A registry edit is a hack. If you have to hack your PC to make it functional, well... isn't that what MS shills continualy spew about Linux?
The PC won over the mainframe because of one important thing. Graphics!
PCs didn't have graphics until about 1990, and they were mostly gaming PCs. Almost every office had at least one by then, and as now there were few mainframes. I had a monochrome Hercules graphics card in my home PC around 1987 (IBM XT bought used, running DOS 3.3), EGA was just starting. I imagine there were a few graphics-capable PCs in offices then, but not in ours. Graphics didn't reach most offices until Windows 95 came out.
If graphics would have killed the mainframe, Apple would be the dominant platform, because they had graphics since around 1980. The IIe I used at the library then had excellent graphics.
The network is what "killed" the mainframe, which isn't really dead. Big companies, governments, universities all still have mainframes and were always the market for them. Until networks, the only was to share data was sneakernet or the terminal.
Basically Windows 9 will have a "move to tablet" feature where you can move whatever your doing into a connected Android tablet (possibly even a WP8 tablet for the 3 or 4 people who bought them).
You could do that now over wifi and/or bluetooth. It wouldn't be any different than my tabletless setup at home -- two PCs cabled into a router, a notebook connecting with wifi, and a bluetooth dongle on the Linux PC to get pictures and sound from the phone. It didn't take anything to set up and works flawlessly. (The notebook is W7, one tower XP and the other tower kubuntu).
We need some sort of unification for Linux to be competitive with Windows, and Mac's.
Why do you need Linux to be competetitive? It isn't a game. I couldn't care less how popular Linux is, as long as people keep developing for it. It isn't like it's proprietary.
It's taxes that run businesses out of Illinois, not unions. Most businesses here are nonunion and have no problem... until they start fucking over their workers and the workers organize.
We're going to see tablets that connect to monitors and keyboards.
At which point it's no longer a tablet, it's a PC.
think about how long it took for the silicon transistor to really show its worth--not until the Internet boom 40-50 years later
Complete and utter balderdash. Transistors replaced vaccuum tubes. In the 1950s transistor radios were the Big Thing. By 1965 the only tubes that were left were in TV sets. There were even ICs in cheap calculators by 1970. Since around 1965 everything electronic was solid state; tubes had been obsolete and if it was electronic, it was solid state.
What about when the mafia who controls the unions comes around looking to get paid?
The Teamsters aren't the only union in the US. They are, afaik, the only ones run by the mafia.
What they do is come out with a drug, sell it until the patent is about to expire, tweak the formula, then come out with a new-and-improved version with a new patent life.
Which doesn't hurt anything unless you're stupid. I took Paxil for a couple of years, and its patent ran out after the first year. The doctor then wanted to put me on the new, improved, time-release version. I said "bullshit, the stuff's working. Give me the generic." My cost went from $40 a month to $5.
Sure, they sell the "new" patented Paxil to fools, just like they charge patent price for Allieve and people are stupid enough to pay it, even though it has no patent and the generic costs 1/3 as much.
In only 11 years seeing an old person who has had cataract surgery wearing glasses, even reading glasses, will be rare. The patent on the CrystaLens will run out and it will be as cheap as the old kind that wouldn't focus. Have an early cataract? If you can hold off until 2023, do so.
Nothing lives forever. The PC will die eventually... but not any time soon. I can see fewer and fewer desktops in the home, by notebooks and tablets, but there's little you can do in an office that doesn't demand a PC.
On the contrary, union workers can be fired easily for what this guy is accused of.
You must be new here.
Use it for a for a few months. You'll realize the start menu is outdated.
Outdated how? How is the lack of a start menu an improvement, unless you're one of those muggles who always starts their programs from a desktop icon? Me, I never see the desktop once I've opened a single program.
I've seen hundreds of comments explaining just how and why W8's interface sucks, how about explaining why you think it's better than the start menu?