I agree. "automagic" is is one of the things that make Microsoft products suck so badly
I disagree, what makes MS products suck so badly is bad design and sloppy programming. What makes their "automagic" so bad is simply that it's poorly implimented.
LINUX DOES AUTOMAGIC BETTER!
Take my bluetooth dongle for example. For Windows, install the program and drivers with a bunch of clicks, UACs, and a reboot. In Linux? Plug in the dongle and it works. People who think Windows is user-friendly have never used any other OS, or only tried it out for a few minutes and gave up when there was no C: drive and all the slashes weren't backwards like they're used to.
It always amazes me how often and fiercely the Linux crowd equates banging one's head against the wall with "understanding", "willingness to learn", "freedom", or most laughable of all, "power".
Odd, the only time I feel like banging my head agaisnt the wall is in Windows. It took months to figure out how to disable the retarded "tap to click" on my notebook. When I installed Linux on it it took five minutes. Windows had it in some icon at the bottom right of the screen you had to click to get to the icon where you could actually disable it, and it was buried half a dozen menus down, rather than being in the "mouse" function in Control Panel where it belonged. In Linux, it was in KDE's version of Control panel, in the mouse settings, three clicks and done.
It's bad ideas, half implemented, and hastily shipped off to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat.
That's Windows, not Linux. Example: Vista, W8.
It's very rare to see solidly good ideas advanced in the Linux world
Rare? What solidly good ideas has MS ever come up with? OTOH in Linux I can set it up to boot to a default user and enter your user password for you (as long as it's not root). Why can't Windows do that? And not only am I logged onto the machine and network, all the apps and documents that were open when I shut it down are reopened. Why can't Windows do that? I can have movies as wallpaper, why can't Windows do that? Audacity lists lyrics of songs while they're played, downloaded from the internet. Why can't Windows Media Player do that?
Moronic "If it's not hard it's not good!"
Ah, I see... I was going to accuse you of shilling, but I'm pretty sure you're not, but tried some flavor of Linux (probably Red Hat or Debian) and couldn't find the C: drive. Your problem is your youth. Us geezers are used to unfamiliar operating systems; starting with BASIC, moviong up to DOS, then Windows... then Linux.
Linux is far easier to use than Windows and does far more, is more stable, faster, more secure... Windows can't hold a candle to it. But then, Microsoft is a single company and Linux is many different companies and private developers, far more than MS could afford to hire (because the stockholders would be up in arms).
Linux is Burger King: have it your way. Windows is McDonald's: you get it how we make it and you'll LIKE IT, serf!
The US is a net exporter of timber, and there isn't much if any steel in a house any more; nails and other metal fittings are mostly made of aluminum these days.
It's funny that people will blindly believe in religions and deities, but laugh at the possibility of other life in our universe.
Funnier that most of the same people who are absolutely sure God doesn't exist are also absolutely sure that this isn't the only rock with life on it.
Judeo-Christian religious beliefs (not sure of Bhuddism, Hinduism, etc) shouldn't make one think that this is the only place life exists. Mine don't. I think the liklihood of finding life elsewhere is greater than not finding any anywhere, and even if we don't find it doesn't mean it's not there. If we don't find any in our own solar system it will be a LOOOOONG time if ever that we find any; it's a long way to Alpha Proxima. It's also possible that we'll find life and not even realize it's alive (yes, STNG covered this).
OTOH I find the insistance of the nonexistance of someone I know personally to simply be hilarious, especially when they insist that the aliens MUST exist.
So what exactly did Google invent? Considering they are late comer to everything
Web search that actually works Web based maps Google Streetview Self-driving cars etc.
What did Apple invent? Not computers, not smart phones, not tablets, not MP3 players. All those things existed already when Apple got into the respective markets.
Before the Lindisfarne monastery was attacked by Vikings in 793, the monks reported having seen a multitude of omens, among others, swarms of fiery dragons were seen in the sky.
What the ancients called "dragons" we call "meteors".
Yup, not quite as good as Win7 out of the box, but pretty damn similar in the end. I can imagine Win 8 will turn out quite usable after a service pack.
And yet people still buy Windows computers pre-SP =/
The Judeo-Christian bible includes a UFO in the book of Ezekial:
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
And whe
Pray you aren't modded offtopic. Why do you antitheists insist on injecting religion into every thread? Religion has nothing to do with PETA or Pokemon and has no reason to be in this discussion.
That is rubbish. Sorry. It is simply rubbish. Of course, unless the software in question was rubbish software written by incompetent idiots.
When my work upgraded computers ten years ago and went from 98 to XP, Foxpro 6 wouldn't work any more. So your rubbish software written by incompetent idiots was a Microsoft title.
I haven't tried running any old software on this W7 notebook, perhaps they've improved.
They did. I remember reading an article back in the seventies. The bug went airborne, iirc (and I probably don't, that was a long time ago) it was 195 mph when it left the ground.
There's no smoke if you crush it and put it in the coffee.
Also, they did a study a couple of years ago to measure pot use vs cigarette use. They had four groups of older people: pot smokers, cigarette smokers, smokers of both and nonsmokers. Since, as you point out, all inhaled smoke is carcinogenic, they expected those who smoked both to have the highest cancer rates. Instead, those who smoked both had half the cancers than those who only smoked cigarettes, and those who smoked only pot actually had fewer cancers than nonsmokers, although the number was statistically insignificant. The results made them theorize that pot contains some anti-cancer component and now they're looking for it.
I'd like to see people who didn't smoke but ate pot daily added to that study.
It depended on where you were. I was in Thailand, and it was so bright there that it and the moon were all you could see in the western sky until they set. Perhaps it's because Thailand is so close to the equator?
Your definition of "car" is meaningless and isn't anything like Webster's. You don't seem to realize that words are used for communication, and if you simply use your own meaning of a word everyone uses, you are obfuscating, not communicating.
There's nothing in the definition of "car" that says what the method of propulsion is. This is indeed a car. Here's what a car is:
Definition of CAR 1: a vehicle moving on wheels: as a archaic : carriage, chariot b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad) c : automobile
2: the passenger compartment of an elevator 3: the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo
They've already gone a bit faster than mach 1 in a rocket car, several years ago. It isn't like they're driving these things on a public highway, or even a race track. It's in the salt flats in the middle of the desert.
Federal != "white collar". Minimum security == "white collar". My friend's brother got a ten year sentence in Federal prison for loaning money to a dope dealer (as did half his HS graduating class; dealer got busted and set up everyone he knew whether or not they'd ever had anything to do with drugs, dope dealer spent 2 year in Club Fed). Mike's brother was out in five years, and his life was completely ruined. He was a diesel mechanic who worked on big rigs, but of course lost his job. His wife met another man while he was in prison and divorced him. So he's now unemployable and single with few prospects of ever having another woman.
"Chickenshit sentence"? I hope I've left you a little less ignorant.
While we are at it: studies linking marijuana with protective effects in MS patients, compared to studies showing people with certain types of genes (a small percentage of the population) have an increased risk of psychosis after use.
That sounds interesting; a correlation has been shown, but what I've read suggests that those predisposed to psychosis are also predisposed to smoking pot. I haven't read of any genetic component linking pot and psychosis, although there are genetic components to most mental illnesses.
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I agree. "automagic" is is one of the things that make Microsoft products suck so badly
I disagree, what makes MS products suck so badly is bad design and sloppy programming. What makes their "automagic" so bad is simply that it's poorly implimented.
LINUX DOES AUTOMAGIC BETTER!
Take my bluetooth dongle for example. For Windows, install the program and drivers with a bunch of clicks, UACs, and a reboot. In Linux? Plug in the dongle and it works. People who think Windows is user-friendly have never used any other OS, or only tried it out for a few minutes and gave up when there was no C: drive and all the slashes weren't backwards like they're used to.
It always amazes me how often and fiercely the Linux crowd equates banging one's head against the wall with "understanding", "willingness to learn", "freedom", or most laughable of all, "power".
Odd, the only time I feel like banging my head agaisnt the wall is in Windows. It took months to figure out how to disable the retarded "tap to click" on my notebook. When I installed Linux on it it took five minutes. Windows had it in some icon at the bottom right of the screen you had to click to get to the icon where you could actually disable it, and it was buried half a dozen menus down, rather than being in the "mouse" function in Control Panel where it belonged. In Linux, it was in KDE's version of Control panel, in the mouse settings, three clicks and done.
It's bad ideas, half implemented, and hastily shipped off to the masses. Lather, rinse, repeat.
That's Windows, not Linux. Example: Vista, W8.
It's very rare to see solidly good ideas advanced in the Linux world
Rare? What solidly good ideas has MS ever come up with? OTOH in Linux I can set it up to boot to a default user and enter your user password for you (as long as it's not root). Why can't Windows do that? And not only am I logged onto the machine and network, all the apps and documents that were open when I shut it down are reopened. Why can't Windows do that? I can have movies as wallpaper, why can't Windows do that? Audacity lists lyrics of songs while they're played, downloaded from the internet. Why can't Windows Media Player do that?
Moronic "If it's not hard it's not good!"
Ah, I see... I was going to accuse you of shilling, but I'm pretty sure you're not, but tried some flavor of Linux (probably Red Hat or Debian) and couldn't find the C: drive. Your problem is your youth. Us geezers are used to unfamiliar operating systems; starting with BASIC, moviong up to DOS, then Windows... then Linux.
Linux is far easier to use than Windows and does far more, is more stable, faster, more secure... Windows can't hold a candle to it. But then, Microsoft is a single company and Linux is many different companies and private developers, far more than MS could afford to hire (because the stockholders would be up in arms).
Linux is Burger King: have it your way. Windows is McDonald's: you get it how we make it and you'll LIKE IT, serf!
If your right (and I think you are) that makes a lot more sense.
If your right to think you are... huh?
Oh, "you're". Sorry, I mistook you for someone literate.
The US is a net exporter of timber, and there isn't much if any steel in a house any more; nails and other metal fittings are mostly made of aluminum these days.
It's funny that people will blindly believe in religions and deities, but laugh at the possibility of other life in our universe.
Funnier that most of the same people who are absolutely sure God doesn't exist are also absolutely sure that this isn't the only rock with life on it.
Judeo-Christian religious beliefs (not sure of Bhuddism, Hinduism, etc) shouldn't make one think that this is the only place life exists. Mine don't. I think the liklihood of finding life elsewhere is greater than not finding any anywhere, and even if we don't find it doesn't mean it's not there. If we don't find any in our own solar system it will be a LOOOOONG time if ever that we find any; it's a long way to Alpha Proxima. It's also possible that we'll find life and not even realize it's alive (yes, STNG covered this).
OTOH I find the insistance of the nonexistance of someone I know personally to simply be hilarious, especially when they insist that the aliens MUST exist.
So what exactly did Google invent? Considering they are late comer to everything
Web search that actually works
Web based maps
Google Streetview
Self-driving cars
etc.
What did Apple invent? Not computers, not smart phones, not tablets, not MP3 players. All those things existed already when Apple got into the respective markets.
Before the Lindisfarne monastery was attacked by Vikings in 793, the monks reported having seen a multitude of omens, among others, swarms of fiery dragons were seen in the sky.
What the ancients called "dragons" we call "meteors".
Yup, not quite as good as Win7 out of the box, but pretty damn similar in the end.
I can imagine Win 8 will turn out quite usable after a service pack.
And yet people still buy Windows computers pre-SP =/
The Judeo-Christian bible includes a UFO in the book of Ezekial:
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
And whe
That site is firewalled off here. When in doubt, link wikipedia.
That "ufo" looks to me like Ghirlandaio's brush slipped and he hastily covered his mistake with a really lame cloud.
It's called 'prayer'.
Pray you aren't modded offtopic. Why do you antitheists insist on injecting religion into every thread? Religion has nothing to do with PETA or Pokemon and has no reason to be in this discussion.
who cares that is is totally annihilating anything like innovation.
Um, the US Constitution?
It wouldn't even start on my computer.
Well, I've said before that without evidence either way, agnosticism is the only logical belief. But atheists are convinced that there is no god.
Once you meet God you have your evidence, but it's evidence only to you.
That is rubbish. Sorry. It is simply rubbish. Of course, unless the software in question was rubbish software written by incompetent idiots.
When my work upgraded computers ten years ago and went from 98 to XP, Foxpro 6 wouldn't work any more. So your rubbish software written by incompetent idiots was a Microsoft title.
I haven't tried running any old software on this W7 notebook, perhaps they've improved.
They did. I remember reading an article back in the seventies. The bug went airborne, iirc (and I probably don't, that was a long time ago) it was 195 mph when it left the ground.
There's no smoke if you crush it and put it in the coffee.
Also, they did a study a couple of years ago to measure pot use vs cigarette use. They had four groups of older people: pot smokers, cigarette smokers, smokers of both and nonsmokers. Since, as you point out, all inhaled smoke is carcinogenic, they expected those who smoked both to have the highest cancer rates. Instead, those who smoked both had half the cancers than those who only smoked cigarettes, and those who smoked only pot actually had fewer cancers than nonsmokers, although the number was statistically insignificant. The results made them theorize that pot contains some anti-cancer component and now they're looking for it.
I'd like to see people who didn't smoke but ate pot daily added to that study.
It depended on where you were. I was in Thailand, and it was so bright there that it and the moon were all you could see in the western sky until they set. Perhaps it's because Thailand is so close to the equator?
Your definition of "car" is meaningless and isn't anything like Webster's. You don't seem to realize that words are used for communication, and if you simply use your own meaning of a word everyone uses, you are obfuscating, not communicating.
There's nothing in the definition of "car" that says what the method of propulsion is. This is indeed a car. Here's what a car is:
Definition of CAR
1: a vehicle moving on wheels: as
a archaic : carriage, chariot
b : a vehicle designed to move on rails (as of a railroad)
c : automobile
2: the passenger compartment of an elevator
3: the part of an airship or balloon that carries the passengers and cargo
It will also help prevent cancer. That's right, they tried to prove pot causes cancer and got the exact opposite answer they were looking for.
Then he simply would've received a harshly worded letter or speech from congress
You mean like the strongly worded letter Bernie Madoff, former head of NASDAQ, got?
They've already gone a bit faster than mach 1 in a rocket car, several years ago. It isn't like they're driving these things on a public highway, or even a race track. It's in the salt flats in the middle of the desert.
Oh, for Christ's sake, dude, the commas in the headline belong there. The commas in your subject and comment don't.
Federal != "white collar". Minimum security == "white collar". My friend's brother got a ten year sentence in Federal prison for loaning money to a dope dealer (as did half his HS graduating class; dealer got busted and set up everyone he knew whether or not they'd ever had anything to do with drugs, dope dealer spent 2 year in Club Fed). Mike's brother was out in five years, and his life was completely ruined. He was a diesel mechanic who worked on big rigs, but of course lost his job. His wife met another man while he was in prison and divorced him. So he's now unemployable and single with few prospects of ever having another woman.
"Chickenshit sentence"? I hope I've left you a little less ignorant.
While we are at it: studies linking marijuana with protective effects in MS patients, compared to studies showing people with certain types of genes (a small percentage of the population) have an increased risk of psychosis after use.
That sounds interesting; a correlation has been shown, but what I've read suggests that those predisposed to psychosis are also predisposed to smoking pot. I haven't read of any genetic component linking pot and psychosis, although there are genetic components to most mental illnesses.