You probably would if you were now a fifteen year old gamer. From what I've read, you really can't buy games any more (I'll have to ask my daughter, she works for GameStop. I haven't been into Gaming since Doom III).
I'm not paying a fee, period. Free software or nothing for me.
Good enough" users. The power of modern computers, even lower end ones, is more than most users can throw at
Indeed, I just got an old XP machine someone gave me (including OS install disks) running, and I'm going to use it for sampling records and tapes. EAC won't run in Linux or on a computer without an optical drive, and Audacity lacks EAC's features, so the notebook and tower are out. And even if I thought W7 would run on it, why would I spend money on an OS when it already has a perfectly functional OS?
When MS stops supporting XP, that computer will unfortunately probably be serving a lot of spam. And you can't blame anyone but Microsoft; they shouldn't have shipped such a buggy product.
Even under the most retarded configurations the control panel in windows is at most 2 clicks away.
The Control Panel, yes... but not all the things you would expect to find there. For instance, I bought a notebook that had a very annoying "feature" where you can tap the touch pad to click. One would expect it to be under control panel-->mouse. It wasn't. I finally found it in an icon hidden to the right of the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and it took at least twenty clicks to disable the awful, terrible clusterfuck of a "feature".
The biggest problem with Windows is as soon as you get comfortable with the OS or a program, they "upgrade" it and it seems the only changes are that they completely redesigned the interface so you have to learn it all over (Gnome is bad at that too, I hear. I use kubuntu mostly, kde has been pretty much the same for ten years. Its only upgrades improve performance or add features without making you relearn a completely new interface).
Just the other day, I spent some 45 seconds trying to delete a file the Windows way. First I realized there was no Delete key
Huh??? I've never seen a computer keyboard without a delete key, not a Sinclair TS-1000, not a mainframe terminal, not an IBM-PC, not a Compaq or any other keyboard. Maybe you were on an electric typewriter? Typewriters didn't have delete keys.
In Windows, highlight what you want to delete and hit the delete key, it's right there next to the numeric keypad below "insert" and next to "end".
Right clicking gives you "delete" as one of the choices. I've never dragged a... oh wait, you were on a Mac? Sorry, I can't help you there. However, I'm sure Windows is just as bad if not worse, I can never find anything easily in Windows.
That goddamned "ribbon" really confused me at work. Why in the FUCK did they replace the file menu with a cryptic button with no mouseover text? Simply a retarded clusterfuck of a UI disaster. Why in the FUCK did they rename "edit" to "home"? Just to fuck with us? Fucking retarded if you ask me. I don't have a Mac, but I use XP at work, W7 and kubuntu at home, and simply can't see how iOS could possibly be more user-hostile than Windows.
It is industrial food supply....and taste and nutrition aren't the main goals any more.
Taste and nutrition never was a goal of farmers, at least in my lifetime, and I'm 60. Grocery store tomatos always tasted like cardboard.
There's no room for diversity
Do you have any idea how many different strains of corn alone are grown? How many different companies produce seed corn? You're not going to see anything like the Irish potato famine here. Same with soy and other crops. The only crop I know of that is in danger is banannas, and that only one species of bananna, the one you're used to. And it's not a domestic crop, banannas won't grow here.
Look how things are gonna hit price wise, when the effects of the drought on the corn crops in the midwest start sinking in.
When there's a drought, almost all crops are affected. The beans and wheat and other foods grown here were hit just as badly.
Something like 85% or more of our home grown produce..is corn, not the sweet stuff you and I can eat directly either
They're feeding most of that corn to your pork, chicken, and beef. And I don't know about you, but I love my steaks, hamburgers, bacon, ham sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, all which come from that corn. Much of the beef is fed hay, but the drought affected that, too.
That's not even going into how badly in the US we're starting to fucking outsource even our own food supply.
That's nothing new, either. There were cans of mushrooms from China when I was in my twenties trying to get a job at the mushroom farm east of Belleville. Even though we grow a lot of oranges in Florida and California, there have always also been imports from Mexico and South America. if the feds are gonna subsidize anything..it should be those out there growing other vegetables which ARE directly beneficial to humans
IINM they are. Farmers grow what grows best in their area, and what they can get the best price for.
I dunno what a status symbol that is. I mean, it spends most of the time in my pocket, and honestly, when you whip one out...well, it is no big deal as that so many other people out there have them...it is kind of a commodity phone.
There was a thing on ABC News last night about theives stealing iPhones, one clip had a new BMW crashing through a store window and its occupants scooping up iPhones. Another clip had crooks snatching them from people using them. Hardly a "commodity phone".
Most smartphone owners I know use Androids. The ones I know who have iPhones drive BMWs and Escalades, and face it -- people who drive cars like that drive them only to impress other people with how much money they have.
But really...I don't think that many people even notice if you pull out an Apple product....to most people I think...it is just another "phone", or "laptop" or "tablet"
What I've seen is at Felbers. There's one family that goes there often, and every time Apple releases a new product, they're there the next day showing it off. (Most people at that bar try to impress with their fancy paint job on their Harleys. Oddly, the richest ones drive old vehicles and have dumb phones!)
A little ten acre hobby farm like my grandpa had doesn't need GPS and an iPad, but anything that can raise yield gets you more money in a commercial farm. And iPads raise yields
They need to have the government stop screwing up the markets and inadvertently creating monopolies like Monsanto.
Monsanto is far from a monopoly, there are hundreds of chemical companies producing the same types of products; Bayer is one. They don't just make aspirin, they also make fertilizer and weed killers. Farming is a business with supply and demand like any other business. This year, a farmer who planted drought-resistant corn will make out like a bandit because he'll have a good yield ane the price will be high.
They created genetically altered seeds that, when they blow into neighboring fields, they sue those farmers, forcing them into bankrupcy, and thus getting a cheap new addition to their mega farm.
I've heard this meme before, but haven't seen citations. When farmers go out of business it's usually because they're either bad at farming, bad at business, or simply have bad luck. farmers don't usually use their own seed, they buy it from other farmers who specialize in seed; they make more money that way. Normal (say, Hi-Vee) corn getting pollinated by a neighbor's Monsanto corn isn't going to alter the genetics of the corn he bought from Hy-Vee, and he's not going to plant his harvest, he's going to sell it as food, feed, or ethanol and buy new seed the next year. That said, I fucking hate Monsanto; I grew up a couple of miles from one before the EPA was started. Talk about environmental disasters!
The other problems caused by government is they're endangering the food supply -- look it up online, we're about one drought away from a food shortage right now
Government didn't cause the drought, but they do sell farmers crop insurance to mitigate the financial effects of the drought, keeping them in business. I agree that turning corn into ethanol is stupid, but that's not the reason for teh shortage, the drought is, just as the shortage in the '50s was.
Part of it is because the mega farms don't do proper crop rotation
Bullshit. I live in Illinois, drive from Springfield to St Louis and there's little but crops next to the highway. You almost never see the same crop in any given year in the same place. Do you really believe that the owners of farms, whether corporate-owned or family-owned, would shit in their own beds? They're not about to do anything to reduce yields, since yields == $$.
They're worried about making the next mortgage payment and repairing the roof of the barn.
Bullshit, those guys are rolling in either cash or credit; have you seen the typical farmhouse? Makes a McMansion look like a shack. Brand new f-150s in the driveway with the kids scooting around on minibikes. The only dish antennas you saw anywhere in the '80s was in a farmer's yard.
Young people don't want to work on a farm because it's damned hard work with little pay, and there are fewer and fewer agricultural jobs because technology hs done away with them.
Your view of the starving farmer couldn't be any farther from reality. You might as well talk of the staving hedge fund manager; some of them suck at what they do, too. Check out this farming site for a little education. You'll be surprised. here's a version of their TV shows.
Calling climate change a "disaster" just makes you a Chicken Little, not a troll.
If you don't think it's a disaster you haven't thought much about it. There is going to be a LOT of upheaval as the climate changes. It isn't an impendinjg disaster, but in 50 years there's going to be trouble.
But either way, it's just change. If you look around and notice that you don't live in a cave and eat mud, that may clue you in on whether change is something that humans can cope with, without having to run around shrieking "Meesa bombad scared! Wesa all gonna die!"
The human species won't be wiped out, but many others will. We don't know how dire the situation is. You say "it's just change," but so is going blind or having blindness cured. Having your spouse die is "just change". Getting married is "just change". Buying a house is "just change". Having your home forclosed is "just change". Having your house flood because of climate change is "just change". having your fishing wiped out when fishing is your livlihood because BP spilled millions of barrels of oil in the gulf is "just change". BP going bankrupt because nobody wants petrolium any more is "just change" but try selling that to the shareholders.
Incidentally, I'd consider faith in IPv4 re-use to be on a par with ecomental "solutions" to climate change.
Ecomental? What a stupid word, I hope it doesn't catch on. From the urban dictionary I'd say it's a tea party phrase so I guess I don't need to worry. As to climate change, the solution is to work on energy efficiency and energy solutions that don't involve burning fossil fuels; renewable fuels don't release million year old carbon, it simply puts carbon back in that was extracted from the atmosphere.
What's wrong with windmills on roofs of multi-story commercial buildings?
Calling enviromentalists names and saying there are no ramificications to climate change is like saying "Bullshit, we're not going to run out of ip4 addresses! It isn't the end of the world!" Well, running out of addresses and global warming are neither one the end of the world, but you're not going to like it.
I don't know, I paid $40 for DOS 6 when games were $50, I'd say that's cheap, especially since it came with DoubleSpace. Most people aren't Microsoft's customers, they're Asus and Dell and HP customers. I doubt that more than $10 went to MS when you bought a computer. Enterprise customers are their customers, not you. Now, Office seems expensive unless you put it next to Photoshop are worse, SAS.
You're confusing them with Apple. Apple computers are way more expensive than Windows computers, but Apples are percieved to be higher quality. I just don't see how MS can sell a tablet at a higher price than an iPad and expect anyone to buy them. Folks buy Apple to be kewl and show off how much money they have, you can't say that about MS.
Look how the Zune flopped, and it wasn't as expensive as an iPod. There's no way anyone is going to be willing to pay more for a Windows computer than an Apple computer.
Meanwhile, when I get a tablet it will be a cheap Android. Apples cost too much and Windows has too few features compared to kubuntu.
He's probably under 30 and never saw a manual typewriter. He may not even know such things ever existed. My kids are in their twenties and I doubt either one ever saw a typewriter, period, let alone a manual one.
I was going to post what you posted, but it's hard to imagine (unless you're wet behind the ears) that anyone would even ask the question.
There are a lot of TV ads for farm equipment, seed, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. There's also a farm show early Sunday morning that's often quite interesting. Modern farms are tech marvels using smart phones, GPS, all sorts of mechanical wizardry.
I thought PCs didn't get viruses? Oh wait, that was Macs.
PC stands for "Personal Computer" and macs are PCs. Some PCs get viruses... the ones running Windows. Any computer can be trojaned or taken over by other social engineering, but Windows is the only OS prone to drive-by infections.
but every. single. time. I've had a user tell me they have "A problem with Internet explorer" I open the thing up and its got more toolbars and other malware bullshit than you can even count, anybody stupid enough to use IE while the spyware and toolbars and other shit just keeps piling up deserves what they get.
Heh, a friend told me the other day he broke his monitor with his mouse; his XP PC had slowed to a crawl after he let his daughter in law use it. I looked at it for him, it was full of useless crud like weatherbugs and toolbars, when I gave it back to him my advice was "never install anything produced by Yahoo, ever, and don't use IE." It seems he'd DLed FF from Yahoo, and it came preinstalled with crapware and must have had a half dozen useless and redundant toolbars. I uninstalled it and IE9 and reinstalled FF from mozilla.org.
But at least he had no viruses I could find, just useless TSRs eating his meager memory. Had he been using IE9... well, what other browser except IE has ever been vulnerable to drive-bys?
The second time anyone brings me a computer full of crapware, I install kubuntu on it, because it means they didn't listen when I warned them about dangers. That always solves the problem.
Clearly we should stop supporting all browsers before IE12 and Firefox 39725.1
Unless I'm mistaken, IE is the only browser to ever be vulnerable to a drive-by (please correct me if I'm wrong). I thought with W7 MS had pretty much gotten its act together in regards to security and software bugs, but I guess I was wrong about that.
TVs have, but I'm still using my ten year old flat screen 720p. Like a fridge, I'l buy a new one when the old one no longer works.
With computers, it's not a matter so much of doubling power every 18 months, but of software all being written for the new added power. When you're on XP running Office 2003, you're going to need a new computer to run W7 and Office 2007, and without it you're not going to be able to read the documents.
The part about this that really irritates me is that they've been getting annual raises about four times the rate of inflation and threatened to strike during a huge budget shortfall at the first mention of pay freezes.
In Canada, yeah, but in Chicago the issue isn't money, it's tying teachers' performance to the kids' tests. I would find this problematic if I were a teacher, you get a classful of children of pimps and crackwhores and it's going to affect your performance evaluations.
I don't see why they don't measure the kids' test against how the kid progressed with the previous teacher. If Johnny got an F last year and he does so again, that's not the teacher's fault. If he got a B last year and a D- this year, that may well be the teachers' fault (or the kid may be on drugs).
They've left the videos up in countries where people are less retarde- oh sorry, I mean religious.
No, I think you got it right the first time -- retarded. From what I understand (which isn't much when it comes to Islam), killing is as much a sin to them as to Christians. They're retards following secularists who pretend to be religious for their own personal gain. The rioters are being duped.
The religious ones aren't rioting, they're at home reading their Korans and praying.
Apparently freedom of speech applies only when it's convenient.
Google is exersizing their freedom of speech. You can't force me to repeat what you say any more than I can keep you from saying it.
Freedom of speech would only be impinged if it was the government removing it, or forcing Google to remove it. The government did ask Google to take it down and they declined.
Have you seen the movie? I don't see how anyone can watch long enough to be offended! I don't think I've ever seen worse acting, directing, and writing. I got maybe a minute into it before shutting it off, nowhere near long enough to see what the fuss was about.
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That just proves that Rush Limbaugh is part of the 1%.
Yes, two kinds of 1% -- the top 1% of earnings, and the bottom 1% of intelligence and ethics. Oops, that's three...
You probably would if you were now a fifteen year old gamer. From what I've read, you really can't buy games any more (I'll have to ask my daughter, she works for GameStop. I haven't been into Gaming since Doom III).
I'm not paying a fee, period. Free software or nothing for me.
Good enough" users. The power of modern computers, even lower end ones, is more than most users can throw at
Indeed, I just got an old XP machine someone gave me (including OS install disks) running, and I'm going to use it for sampling records and tapes. EAC won't run in Linux or on a computer without an optical drive, and Audacity lacks EAC's features, so the notebook and tower are out. And even if I thought W7 would run on it, why would I spend money on an OS when it already has a perfectly functional OS?
When MS stops supporting XP, that computer will unfortunately probably be serving a lot of spam. And you can't blame anyone but Microsoft; they shouldn't have shipped such a buggy product.
Even under the most retarded configurations the control panel in windows is at most 2 clicks away.
The Control Panel, yes... but not all the things you would expect to find there. For instance, I bought a notebook that had a very annoying "feature" where you can tap the touch pad to click. One would expect it to be under control panel-->mouse. It wasn't. I finally found it in an icon hidden to the right of the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and it took at least twenty clicks to disable the awful, terrible clusterfuck of a "feature".
The biggest problem with Windows is as soon as you get comfortable with the OS or a program, they "upgrade" it and it seems the only changes are that they completely redesigned the interface so you have to learn it all over (Gnome is bad at that too, I hear. I use kubuntu mostly, kde has been pretty much the same for ten years. Its only upgrades improve performance or add features without making you relearn a completely new interface).
Just the other day, I spent some 45 seconds trying to delete a file the Windows way. First I realized there was no Delete key
Huh??? I've never seen a computer keyboard without a delete key, not a Sinclair TS-1000, not a mainframe terminal, not an IBM-PC, not a Compaq or any other keyboard. Maybe you were on an electric typewriter? Typewriters didn't have delete keys.
In Windows, highlight what you want to delete and hit the delete key, it's right there next to the numeric keypad below "insert" and next to "end".
Right clicking gives you "delete" as one of the choices. I've never dragged a... oh wait, you were on a Mac? Sorry, I can't help you there. However, I'm sure Windows is just as bad if not worse, I can never find anything easily in Windows.
That goddamned "ribbon" really confused me at work. Why in the FUCK did they replace the file menu with a cryptic button with no mouseover text? Simply a retarded clusterfuck of a UI disaster. Why in the FUCK did they rename "edit" to "home"? Just to fuck with us? Fucking retarded if you ask me. I don't have a Mac, but I use XP at work, W7 and kubuntu at home, and simply can't see how iOS could possibly be more user-hostile than Windows.
It is industrial food supply....and taste and nutrition aren't the main goals any more.
Taste and nutrition never was a goal of farmers, at least in my lifetime, and I'm 60. Grocery store tomatos always tasted like cardboard.
There's no room for diversity
Do you have any idea how many different strains of corn alone are grown? How many different companies produce seed corn? You're not going to see anything like the Irish potato famine here. Same with soy and other crops. The only crop I know of that is in danger is banannas, and that only one species of bananna, the one you're used to. And it's not a domestic crop, banannas won't grow here.
Look how things are gonna hit price wise, when the effects of the drought on the corn crops in the midwest start sinking in.
When there's a drought, almost all crops are affected. The beans and wheat and other foods grown here were hit just as badly.
Something like 85% or more of our home grown produce..is corn, not the sweet stuff you and I can eat directly either
They're feeding most of that corn to your pork, chicken, and beef. And I don't know about you, but I love my steaks, hamburgers, bacon, ham sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches, all which come from that corn. Much of the beef is fed hay, but the drought affected that, too.
That's not even going into how badly in the US we're starting to fucking outsource even our own food supply.
That's nothing new, either. There were cans of mushrooms from China when I was in my twenties trying to get a job at the mushroom farm east of Belleville. Even though we grow a lot of oranges in Florida and California, there have always also been imports from Mexico and South America.
if the feds are gonna subsidize anything..it should be those out there growing other vegetables which ARE directly beneficial to humans
IINM they are. Farmers grow what grows best in their area, and what they can get the best price for.
I dunno what a status symbol that is. I mean, it spends most of the time in my pocket, and honestly, when you whip one out...well, it is no big deal as that so many other people out there have them...it is kind of a commodity phone.
There was a thing on ABC News last night about theives stealing iPhones, one clip had a new BMW crashing through a store window and its occupants scooping up iPhones. Another clip had crooks snatching them from people using them. Hardly a "commodity phone".
Most smartphone owners I know use Androids. The ones I know who have iPhones drive BMWs and Escalades, and face it -- people who drive cars like that drive them only to impress other people with how much money they have.
But really...I don't think that many people even notice if you pull out an Apple product....to most people I think...it is just another "phone", or "laptop" or "tablet"
What I've seen is at Felbers. There's one family that goes there often, and every time Apple releases a new product, they're there the next day showing it off. (Most people at that bar try to impress with their fancy paint job on their Harleys. Oddly, the richest ones drive old vehicles and have dumb phones!)
It's a literate thing. The AC you responded to obviously hasn't read very many books, if any at all.
Farmers don't need iPads.
A little ten acre hobby farm like my grandpa had doesn't need GPS and an iPad, but anything that can raise yield gets you more money in a commercial farm. And iPads raise yields
They need to have the government stop screwing up the markets and inadvertently creating monopolies like Monsanto.
Monsanto is far from a monopoly, there are hundreds of chemical companies producing the same types of products; Bayer is one. They don't just make aspirin, they also make fertilizer and weed killers. Farming is a business with supply and demand like any other business. This year, a farmer who planted drought-resistant corn will make out like a bandit because he'll have a good yield ane the price will be high.
They created genetically altered seeds that, when they blow into neighboring fields, they sue those farmers, forcing them into bankrupcy, and thus getting a cheap new addition to their mega farm.
I've heard this meme before, but haven't seen citations. When farmers go out of business it's usually because they're either bad at farming, bad at business, or simply have bad luck. farmers don't usually use their own seed, they buy it from other farmers who specialize in seed; they make more money that way. Normal (say, Hi-Vee) corn getting pollinated by a neighbor's Monsanto corn isn't going to alter the genetics of the corn he bought from Hy-Vee, and he's not going to plant his harvest, he's going to sell it as food, feed, or ethanol and buy new seed the next year. That said, I fucking hate Monsanto; I grew up a couple of miles from one before the EPA was started. Talk about environmental disasters!
The other problems caused by government is they're endangering the food supply -- look it up online, we're about one drought away from a food shortage right now
Government didn't cause the drought, but they do sell farmers crop insurance to mitigate the financial effects of the drought, keeping them in business. I agree that turning corn into ethanol is stupid, but that's not the reason for teh shortage, the drought is, just as the shortage in the '50s was.
Part of it is because the mega farms don't do proper crop rotation
Bullshit. I live in Illinois, drive from Springfield to St Louis and there's little but crops next to the highway. You almost never see the same crop in any given year in the same place. Do you really believe that the owners of farms, whether corporate-owned or family-owned, would shit in their own beds? They're not about to do anything to reduce yields, since yields == $$.
They're worried about making the next mortgage payment and repairing the roof of the barn.
Bullshit, those guys are rolling in either cash or credit; have you seen the typical farmhouse? Makes a McMansion look like a shack. Brand new f-150s in the driveway with the kids scooting around on minibikes. The only dish antennas you saw anywhere in the '80s was in a farmer's yard.
Young people don't want to work on a farm because it's damned hard work with little pay, and there are fewer and fewer agricultural jobs because technology hs done away with them.
Your view of the starving farmer couldn't be any farther from reality. You might as well talk of the staving hedge fund manager; some of them suck at what they do, too. Check out this farming site for a little education. You'll be surprised. here's a version of their TV shows.
Calling climate change a "disaster" just makes you a Chicken Little, not a troll.
If you don't think it's a disaster you haven't thought much about it. There is going to be a LOT of upheaval as the climate changes. It isn't an impendinjg disaster, but in 50 years there's going to be trouble.
But either way, it's just change. If you look around and notice that you don't live in a cave and eat mud, that may clue you in on whether change is something that humans can cope with, without having to run around shrieking "Meesa bombad scared! Wesa all gonna die!"
The human species won't be wiped out, but many others will. We don't know how dire the situation is. You say "it's just change," but so is going blind or having blindness cured. Having your spouse die is "just change". Getting married is "just change". Buying a house is "just change". Having your home forclosed is "just change". Having your house flood because of climate change is "just change". having your fishing wiped out when fishing is your livlihood because BP spilled millions of barrels of oil in the gulf is "just change". BP going bankrupt because nobody wants petrolium any more is "just change" but try selling that to the shareholders.
Incidentally, I'd consider faith in IPv4 re-use to be on a par with ecomental "solutions" to climate change.
Ecomental? What a stupid word, I hope it doesn't catch on. From the urban dictionary I'd say it's a tea party phrase so I guess I don't need to worry. As to climate change, the solution is to work on energy efficiency and energy solutions that don't involve burning fossil fuels; renewable fuels don't release million year old carbon, it simply puts carbon back in that was extracted from the atmosphere.
What's wrong with windmills on roofs of multi-story commercial buildings?
Calling enviromentalists names and saying there are no ramificications to climate change is like saying "Bullshit, we're not going to run out of ip4 addresses! It isn't the end of the world!" Well, running out of addresses and global warming are neither one the end of the world, but you're not going to like it.
I don't know, I paid $40 for DOS 6 when games were $50, I'd say that's cheap, especially since it came with DoubleSpace. Most people aren't Microsoft's customers, they're Asus and Dell and HP customers. I doubt that more than $10 went to MS when you bought a computer. Enterprise customers are their customers, not you. Now, Office seems expensive unless you put it next to Photoshop are worse, SAS.
You're confusing them with Apple. Apple computers are way more expensive than Windows computers, but Apples are percieved to be higher quality. I just don't see how MS can sell a tablet at a higher price than an iPad and expect anyone to buy them. Folks buy Apple to be kewl and show off how much money they have, you can't say that about MS.
Look how the Zune flopped, and it wasn't as expensive as an iPod. There's no way anyone is going to be willing to pay more for a Windows computer than an Apple computer.
Meanwhile, when I get a tablet it will be a cheap Android. Apples cost too much and Windows has too few features compared to kubuntu.
He's probably under 30 and never saw a manual typewriter. He may not even know such things ever existed. My kids are in their twenties and I doubt either one ever saw a typewriter, period, let alone a manual one.
I was going to post what you posted, but it's hard to imagine (unless you're wet behind the ears) that anyone would even ask the question.
There are a lot of TV ads for farm equipment, seed, fertilizer, pesticides, etc. There's also a farm show early Sunday morning that's often quite interesting. Modern farms are tech marvels using smart phones, GPS, all sorts of mechanical wizardry.
It ain't a mule and a plow no more.
I thought PCs didn't get viruses? Oh wait, that was Macs.
PC stands for "Personal Computer" and macs are PCs. Some PCs get viruses... the ones running Windows. Any computer can be trojaned or taken over by other social engineering, but Windows is the only OS prone to drive-by infections.
Lots of greedy authors accused them of theft. While the era of insanely long copyright lasts, there will be no comprehensive library of works
FTFY. Copyright would be no problem if it only lasted as long as a patent.
Cry havok, and loose the quantum spin of the dilithium bosuns!
Know what a warp drive sounds like? WOOOOSH!!!
I don't wish the Vulcans or Klingons on us
What do you have against Vulcans? Spock was my favorite ST character!
but every. single. time. I've had a user tell me they have "A problem with Internet explorer" I open the thing up and its got more toolbars and other malware bullshit than you can even count, anybody stupid enough to use IE while the spyware and toolbars and other shit just keeps piling up deserves what they get.
Heh, a friend told me the other day he broke his monitor with his mouse; his XP PC had slowed to a crawl after he let his daughter in law use it. I looked at it for him, it was full of useless crud like weatherbugs and toolbars, when I gave it back to him my advice was "never install anything produced by Yahoo, ever, and don't use IE." It seems he'd DLed FF from Yahoo, and it came preinstalled with crapware and must have had a half dozen useless and redundant toolbars. I uninstalled it and IE9 and reinstalled FF from mozilla.org.
But at least he had no viruses I could find, just useless TSRs eating his meager memory. Had he been using IE9... well, what other browser except IE has ever been vulnerable to drive-bys?
The second time anyone brings me a computer full of crapware, I install kubuntu on it, because it means they didn't listen when I warned them about dangers. That always solves the problem.
Clearly we should stop supporting all browsers before IE12 and Firefox 39725.1
Unless I'm mistaken, IE is the only browser to ever be vulnerable to a drive-by (please correct me if I'm wrong). I thought with W7 MS had pretty much gotten its act together in regards to security and software bugs, but I guess I was wrong about that.
Just say no to Microsoft. It isn't safe.
Because it's built on a pastry crust
TVs have, but I'm still using my ten year old flat screen 720p. Like a fridge, I'l buy a new one when the old one no longer works.
With computers, it's not a matter so much of doubling power every 18 months, but of software all being written for the new added power. When you're on XP running Office 2003, you're going to need a new computer to run W7 and Office 2007, and without it you're not going to be able to read the documents.
The part about this that really irritates me is that they've been getting annual raises about four times the rate of inflation and threatened to strike during a huge budget shortfall at the first mention of pay freezes.
In Canada, yeah, but in Chicago the issue isn't money, it's tying teachers' performance to the kids' tests. I would find this problematic if I were a teacher, you get a classful of children of pimps and crackwhores and it's going to affect your performance evaluations.
I don't see why they don't measure the kids' test against how the kid progressed with the previous teacher. If Johnny got an F last year and he does so again, that's not the teacher's fault. If he got a B last year and a D- this year, that may well be the teachers' fault (or the kid may be on drugs).
They've left the videos up in countries where people are less retarde- oh sorry, I mean religious.
No, I think you got it right the first time -- retarded. From what I understand (which isn't much when it comes to Islam), killing is as much a sin to them as to Christians. They're retards following secularists who pretend to be religious for their own personal gain. The rioters are being duped.
The religious ones aren't rioting, they're at home reading their Korans and praying.
Apparently freedom of speech applies only when it's convenient.
Google is exersizing their freedom of speech. You can't force me to repeat what you say any more than I can keep you from saying it.
Freedom of speech would only be impinged if it was the government removing it, or forcing Google to remove it. The government did ask Google to take it down and they declined.
Have you seen the movie? I don't see how anyone can watch long enough to be offended! I don't think I've ever seen worse acting, directing, and writing. I got maybe a minute into it before shutting it off, nowhere near long enough to see what the fuss was about.
You know, I've been thinking about this over the weekend and I've changed my opinion. You guys are right.