The end of time? No need for that, hardware fails eventually. There's no excuse to EOL an OS that runs 1/3 of the world's computers. That's really irresponsible of Microsoft.
If my car, which is older than XP, has a dangerous defect the company will recall the cars. Microsoft should continue to fix their dangerous defects until almost all the hardware it runs dies.
I don't understand why so many of you think EOLing XP is acceptable. It isn't, it's dangerously irresponsible.
I suspect W7 has the same "problem" and I suspect that it may be deliberate. My W7 notebook has gotten slower every time Microsoft issues patches ever since W8 came out. When it was new it made my old towers look like snails, now the W7 box is the snail. Watching TBBT on it is like a slide show and it isn't the network because it streams fine on the phone.
One or two more Patch Tuesdays and I'll have to put Linux on it. I've thought of replacing it since its battery is near the end of its life, but all the new ones come with either W8 or Chrome, and I want nothing to do with either of them.
That would actually be a safety feature around here, where there are lots of deer and they have a bad habit of bounding into the middle of the interstate. Some people (and a lot of deer) have died this way. Road kill is very expensive venison.
What Christian values would those be? Note: I am a Christian. I have an illustrated King James Bible on my web site (note it isn't yet fully illustrated).
I've read the whole thing, especially the New Testament. I know of no laws that outlaw any beliefs whatever. That said, as a Christian I MUST respect the mores and values of other religions, and even the atheists. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
You might also remember judge not, lest you be judged yourself. It isn't up to you or me to dictate Christian values to anyone; THAT would go against Christian values.
Your estimates are also based off $0.10 per kWh, which is cheaper than even the cheapest states in the US.
Springfield's CWLP charges seven cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers. Of course, there's no billionaire CEO, no stockholders... the city owns the power company, which makes a tidy profit selling power to other power companies and keeps other taxes lower. Plus, we have the best uptime and customer service in the state. If you have Amerin you have no recourse, you can't choose your electric company. If service suffers with CWLP the Mayor loses his job next election.
As for a "wealth tax", are you serious? Blah... if it is taxed when I earn it, then you can't have another go at it, that is the whole idea of no double taxation.
"Wealth tax" is another word for the most evil tax of all, property tax. We have no Federal property tax, but I don't know of anywhere in the US it isn't collected by local and state governments. Missouri is really bad about property tax, they even collect it on vehicles.
If you rent you're still paying property tax, it comes out of your rent just like maintenance and mortgage is. You landlord's property tax goes up $600? Your rent is going to be an extra $50 per month, at least.
I work for an email marketing company. Since our customers are very keen on not being mixed in with spam
Email marketing IS spam. I buy stuff from Amazon occasionally. They have my address for useful purposes, like telling me when my order has shipped. But those (at least) two emails sent to me daily about some crap they think I might want to buy? It's spam. Amazon spams their customers and I can find no way to opt out once in.
Amazon.com are spammers and so are you. Just because I bough a few books and DVDs doesn't make your sales pitches spam. I can see why you would comment anonymously, if I were a spammer I would, too.
Reasonable alternatives would not be priced at $27 a pop or pose a serious mercury contamination risk for disposed of bulbs
More mercury is emitted by that coal-fired plant to supply the extra energy your hot wire bulbs need over CFLs than is contained in a CFL.
or evacuation [epa.gov] in the case of broken ones.
If you actually read that link you're REALLY being disingenuous. You make it look like the house has to be abandoned, when the EPA site says shut off the HVAC, and leave the room for ten minutes while the dust settles, then clean it up with duct tape. You can just throw the broken bulb in the trash in most places.
I take it you have relatives who mine coal for a living, or hold stock in coal mines?
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!!
First, do you run the AC in the summer? It's not like you're in Alaska. Even if you don't run the AC you certainly don't need extra heat inside in August.
Second, I'm pretty sure you don't heat your house with electricity, as it's so much more expensive than gas. Switching to CFLs or LEDs may make you turn your thermostat up a degree, but it will still be cheaper than that electric heat coming out of your incandescent.
Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose, and my nose can smell your fist's coal-fired power plant with its soot, mercury, particulates, acid, and radioactivity. Seriously, son, if you had been alive before the EPA you'd understand (unless you're Ron Paul, who obviously likes having his lungs burn while driving past Monsanto).
Whoever modded that "troll", sorry if I offended you, but it's true. Rich kids get private school or public svhool in a high tax district, poor kids are screwed.
Also, poverty is soul-crushing and leads people to drink. Drunkenness by drunken pregnant women leads to a mentally retarded baby. Even if they stay sober they don't get the kind of health care the middle class gets, at least in the US.
That said, rich folks are often stupid, although they at least get a chance at a decent education.
All those techniques are fine for stopping them from spying on me, but their spying on me isn't the problem. They have nothing to gain by spying on me. The problem is that they're spying on everyone, and that's what needs to stop.
Agreed. I should have kept my old sig, a line from Heinlein's, er, I can't remember the story's name but the quote went something like "the despot fears the laugh more than the bullet."
Jailing them is stupid, it will only increase their hate.
2. The leap from Office 97 to 2003 is less of a jump then from Office 97 to OO.
Again, er what? The point was that you always have training costs with Windows. Damn but I'm glad I retire soon and won't have to put up with that god damned ribbon. Excuse me. Linux apps usually don't have that "reinvent everything even if it already works."
3. Convert your stupid Visual Basic bullshit to something that isn't tied to a single platform.
Linux admins have higher salaries then [sic] windows admins.
You may not always get what you pay for but you usually pay for what you get. Linux admins understand computers, Windows admins understand Windows.
Front end staff needs to be retrained and have to spend more time with outside vendors who are on Microsoft Office.
Utter bullshit. Staff need to be retrained when they upgrade from Office '03 to Office 10, and when going from W7 to W8. Your secretary, who needs little computing power, could get by with an old box that isn't capable of running either W7 or W8 but will run Linux fine. Nobody of average intelligence will need any training at all to transition from pre-W8 Windows to a KDE desktop, and nobody will need training to transition from MS Office to Open Office.
and have to spend more time with outside vendors who are on Microsoft Office.
Oo reads and writes MS Office files (except Access and PowerPoint) just fine, and I doubt you're sharing powerpoints and databases with anyone outside your organization.
You say "from what I've read", well, what you've read is Microsoft propaganda, most of it complete and utter bullshit.
All those shops on XP? They have to buy all new hardware next year. How cheap is that? And that happens every time a version of Windows EOLs, and note that 1/3 of computers on the internet are running XP. MS EOLing it is really, really irresponsible and should give anyone pause about using their software.
It's pretty clear Europa probably has some form of life under the ice.
Really? Just because there's water? You do realize that we found indications that Mars was once warm and wet, with salt and fresh water, yet still no indication there was ever life there?
It doesn't seem that clear to me. Seems to me that life is pretty damned improbable and is likely really, really rare. We haven't been able to produce it on purpose so it HAS to be a really rare coincidence for it to happen accidentally. I'd wager that the fiction in Nobots is probably right, that life is rare and "found in few galaxies."
I know that many Linux systems end up quickly outdated (practically all of mine have mile-long lists of security updates waiting), mostly because you don't really want to hose your machine during development, and you end up with odd requirements like needing Ubuntu 10.04 still installed (despite it being out of LTS support in a few months).
I've never seen that in kubuntu. All I see is a "you have updates" and if I click it, it updates the computer.
(It's part of the reason why Windows defaults to installing automatically and simply forcing a reboot
I've never had to reboot my kubuntu computer to upgrade anything, unless I was upgrading the kernel. On my Windows notebook I have to reboot the fucking thing every goddamned month.
I know it's supposed to be some sort of communistic wealth redistribution.
You just pegged yourself as a wingnut. A gift to private insurance companies by the government is communist? That's some bizarre thinking there, kid.
I am supposed to pay more than my fair share so that someone else can pay less than theirs. Fuck that! Why are they so special? I work for my money, I paid my dues, whine whine whine
Let me tell you something, kid. I've been paying for health insurance for 35 years, ever since I got out of the USAF, and very seldom have I ever used it. I haven't been to a doctor in five years; pretty damned healthy for someone 61 years old.
So here your young ignorant ass is, paying the "I gots no insurance tax" and you're cleaning out your gutters and fall off the roof and break a leg, three ribs, your spleen, and get a concussion. You're in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
Who's going to pay your bills? I will, asshole. Because there's no way in hell that you can afford the king's ransom it will cost with that high deductible and will have to declare bankruptcy. So the hospital eats the cost (and passes it on to those with real insurance). And during the year or two your bankruptcy is going through the courts, you are forbidden by law to pay any bills at all. Your fellow citizens are paying them for you, comrade.
So you, like I have been all my life, are healthy. Guess what? You don't stay young forever and you don't stay healthy forever. Sooner or later you're going to have some god damned high medical bills that you can't afford unless you're Mitt Romney or Donald Trump or someone else who is rich enough to buy a small country.
I finally did have use for that insurance in the last decade. Hemorrhoid surgery, cataract surgery (the cataract was caused by treatment for an infection) and more eye surgery for a detached retina. Even after insurance it was costly, but had it not been for insurance I'd be blind in one eye rather than having better than 20/20 vision.
So you're 40, healthy, need no insurance... and a thug comes up from behind, hits you in the head with a baseball hat so he can get your wallet and iPhone. Guess what? The ER will treat you, but I'm paying, along with everyone else who isn't so fucking selfish and greedy to buy insurance.
I've been paying what you spend in a year every two months, and you want me to bail you out in bankrupcy court when you find out how fucking worthless that HDHP really is? Fuck you. Buy some real insurance, asshole, I don't want to pay extra for mine just because you have shit insurance that won't do what it's supposed to.
Mitt Romney is a God damned liar, everybody is a taxpayer, even the guy begging for spare change. Own a house? You pay property tax. Rent a house? You're paying your landlord's property tax. Drive a car? Gasoline tax. Ride a taxi? Gasoline tax is part of the fare. Smoke cigarettes? They tax the holy hell out of those nasty things, out of that ten bucks a pack, 8 or 9 is tax. Drink a beer? Alcohol tax. Buy anything whatever? Sales tax in most states (Oregon doesn't have sales tax), and we're talking about a state-run exchange paid for by Oregon taxpayers here. Even the homeless guy that bums a dollar from you in Oregon pays tax when he spends that dollar on a beer or a cigarette. In 45 states that bum pays taxes on every penny he spends.
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The end of time? No need for that, hardware fails eventually. There's no excuse to EOL an OS that runs 1/3 of the world's computers. That's really irresponsible of Microsoft.
If my car, which is older than XP, has a dangerous defect the company will recall the cars. Microsoft should continue to fix their dangerous defects until almost all the hardware it runs dies.
I don't understand why so many of you think EOLing XP is acceptable. It isn't, it's dangerously irresponsible.
I suspect W7 has the same "problem" and I suspect that it may be deliberate. My W7 notebook has gotten slower every time Microsoft issues patches ever since W8 came out. When it was new it made my old towers look like snails, now the W7 box is the snail. Watching TBBT on it is like a slide show and it isn't the network because it streams fine on the phone.
One or two more Patch Tuesdays and I'll have to put Linux on it. I've thought of replacing it since its battery is near the end of its life, but all the new ones come with either W8 or Chrome, and I want nothing to do with either of them.
That would actually be a safety feature around here, where there are lots of deer and they have a bad habit of bounding into the middle of the interstate. Some people (and a lot of deer) have died this way. Road kill is very expensive venison.
What Christian values would those be? Note: I am a Christian. I have an illustrated King James Bible on my web site (note it isn't yet fully illustrated).
I've read the whole thing, especially the New Testament. I know of no laws that outlaw any beliefs whatever. That said, as a Christian I MUST respect the mores and values of other religions, and even the atheists. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
You might also remember judge not, lest you be judged yourself. It isn't up to you or me to dictate Christian values to anyone; THAT would go against Christian values.
Your estimates are also based off $0.10 per kWh, which is cheaper than even the cheapest states in the US.
Springfield's CWLP charges seven cents per kilowatt hour for residential customers. Of course, there's no billionaire CEO, no stockholders... the city owns the power company, which makes a tidy profit selling power to other power companies and keeps other taxes lower. Plus, we have the best uptime and customer service in the state. If you have Amerin you have no recourse, you can't choose your electric company. If service suffers with CWLP the Mayor loses his job next election.
As for a "wealth tax", are you serious? Blah... if it is taxed when I earn it, then you can't have another go at it, that is the whole idea of no double taxation.
"Wealth tax" is another word for the most evil tax of all, property tax. We have no Federal property tax, but I don't know of anywhere in the US it isn't collected by local and state governments. Missouri is really bad about property tax, they even collect it on vehicles.
If you rent you're still paying property tax, it comes out of your rent just like maintenance and mortgage is. You landlord's property tax goes up $600? Your rent is going to be an extra $50 per month, at least.
Sucking the teat of corporations? They are a corporation, owned by the same people who own the government.
Those four tuners in your DVR are in case there are four programs you want to watch that are all aired at the same time.
I work for an email marketing company. Since our customers are very keen on not being mixed in with spam
Email marketing IS spam. I buy stuff from Amazon occasionally. They have my address for useful purposes, like telling me when my order has shipped. But those (at least) two emails sent to me daily about some crap they think I might want to buy? It's spam. Amazon spams their customers and I can find no way to opt out once in.
Amazon.com are spammers and so are you. Just because I bough a few books and DVDs doesn't make your sales pitches spam. I can see why you would comment anonymously, if I were a spammer I would, too.
Reasonable alternatives would not be priced at $27 a pop or pose a serious mercury contamination risk for disposed of bulbs
More mercury is emitted by that coal-fired plant to supply the extra energy your hot wire bulbs need over CFLs than is contained in a CFL.
or evacuation [epa.gov] in the case of broken ones.
If you actually read that link you're REALLY being disingenuous. You make it look like the house has to be abandoned, when the EPA site says shut off the HVAC, and leave the room for ten minutes while the dust settles, then clean it up with duct tape. You can just throw the broken bulb in the trash in most places.
I take it you have relatives who mine coal for a living, or hold stock in coal mines?
I live in Wisconsin, seriously, that "waste" heat is NOT wasted! It's freaking cold outside!!
First, do you run the AC in the summer? It's not like you're in Alaska. Even if you don't run the AC you certainly don't need extra heat inside in August.
Second, I'm pretty sure you don't heat your house with electricity, as it's so much more expensive than gas. Switching to CFLs or LEDs may make you turn your thermostat up a degree, but it will still be cheaper than that electric heat coming out of your incandescent.
Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose, and my nose can smell your fist's coal-fired power plant with its soot, mercury, particulates, acid, and radioactivity. Seriously, son, if you had been alive before the EPA you'd understand (unless you're Ron Paul, who obviously likes having his lungs burn while driving past Monsanto).
Whoever modded that "troll", sorry if I offended you, but it's true. Rich kids get private school or public svhool in a high tax district, poor kids are screwed.
Also, poverty is soul-crushing and leads people to drink. Drunkenness by drunken pregnant women leads to a mentally retarded baby. Even if they stay sober they don't get the kind of health care the middle class gets, at least in the US.
That said, rich folks are often stupid, although they at least get a chance at a decent education.
Poor people are usually poorly educated and often unintelligent.
All those techniques are fine for stopping them from spying on me, but their spying on me isn't the problem. They have nothing to gain by spying on me. The problem is that they're spying on everyone, and that's what needs to stop.
Excellent! I see you're in management, you've mastered the language fully. Anyone who's taken a verbal logic class is laughing.
Agreed. I should have kept my old sig, a line from Heinlein's, er, I can't remember the story's name but the quote went something like "the despot fears the laugh more than the bullet."
Jailing them is stupid, it will only increase their hate.
1. Er, what?
2. The leap from Office 97 to 2003 is less of a jump then from Office 97 to OO.
Again, er what? The point was that you always have training costs with Windows. Damn but I'm glad I retire soon and won't have to put up with that god damned ribbon. Excuse me. Linux apps usually don't have that "reinvent everything even if it already works."
3. Convert your stupid Visual Basic bullshit to something that isn't tied to a single platform.
4. There are alternatives.
Linux admins have higher salaries then [sic] windows admins.
You may not always get what you pay for but you usually pay for what you get. Linux admins understand computers, Windows admins understand Windows.
Front end staff needs to be retrained and have to spend more time with outside vendors who are on Microsoft Office.
Utter bullshit. Staff need to be retrained when they upgrade from Office '03 to Office 10, and when going from W7 to W8. Your secretary, who needs little computing power, could get by with an old box that isn't capable of running either W7 or W8 but will run Linux fine. Nobody of average intelligence will need any training at all to transition from pre-W8 Windows to a KDE desktop, and nobody will need training to transition from MS Office to Open Office.
and have to spend more time with outside vendors who are on Microsoft Office.
Oo reads and writes MS Office files (except Access and PowerPoint) just fine, and I doubt you're sharing powerpoints and databases with anyone outside your organization.
You say "from what I've read", well, what you've read is Microsoft propaganda, most of it complete and utter bullshit.
All those shops on XP? They have to buy all new hardware next year. How cheap is that? And that happens every time a version of Windows EOLs, and note that 1/3 of computers on the internet are running XP. MS EOLing it is really, really irresponsible and should give anyone pause about using their software.
It's pretty clear Europa probably has some form of life under the ice.
Really? Just because there's water? You do realize that we found indications that Mars was once warm and wet, with salt and fresh water, yet still no indication there was ever life there?
It doesn't seem that clear to me. Seems to me that life is pretty damned improbable and is likely really, really rare. We haven't been able to produce it on purpose so it HAS to be a really rare coincidence for it to happen accidentally. I'd wager that the fiction in Nobots is probably right, that life is rare and "found in few galaxies."
Nonsense, they fixed this leak.
I know that many Linux systems end up quickly outdated (practically all of mine have mile-long lists of security updates waiting), mostly because you don't really want to hose your machine during development, and you end up with odd requirements like needing Ubuntu 10.04 still installed (despite it being out of LTS support in a few months).
I've never seen that in kubuntu. All I see is a "you have updates" and if I click it, it updates the computer.
(It's part of the reason why Windows defaults to installing automatically and simply forcing a reboot
I've never had to reboot my kubuntu computer to upgrade anything, unless I was upgrading the kernel. On my Windows notebook I have to reboot the fucking thing every goddamned month.
No, they're spidering my web site more often than I get actual human visitors... hey, guys, read my book! Come on, let's beat the bots!
So, we really DID dig a big trench on the moon and send humans to Jupiter ten years ago?
*shakes head in wonder*
That was informative, until this:
I know it's supposed to be some sort of communistic wealth redistribution.
You just pegged yourself as a wingnut. A gift to private insurance companies by the government is communist? That's some bizarre thinking there, kid.
I am supposed to pay more than my fair share so that someone else can pay less than theirs. Fuck that! Why are they so special? I work for my money, I paid my dues, whine whine whine
Let me tell you something, kid. I've been paying for health insurance for 35 years, ever since I got out of the USAF, and very seldom have I ever used it. I haven't been to a doctor in five years; pretty damned healthy for someone 61 years old.
So here your young ignorant ass is, paying the "I gots no insurance tax" and you're cleaning out your gutters and fall off the roof and break a leg, three ribs, your spleen, and get a concussion. You're in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
Who's going to pay your bills? I will, asshole. Because there's no way in hell that you can afford the king's ransom it will cost with that high deductible and will have to declare bankruptcy. So the hospital eats the cost (and passes it on to those with real insurance). And during the year or two your bankruptcy is going through the courts, you are forbidden by law to pay any bills at all. Your fellow citizens are paying them for you, comrade.
So you, like I have been all my life, are healthy. Guess what? You don't stay young forever and you don't stay healthy forever. Sooner or later you're going to have some god damned high medical bills that you can't afford unless you're Mitt Romney or Donald Trump or someone else who is rich enough to buy a small country.
I finally did have use for that insurance in the last decade. Hemorrhoid surgery, cataract surgery (the cataract was caused by treatment for an infection) and more eye surgery for a detached retina. Even after insurance it was costly, but had it not been for insurance I'd be blind in one eye rather than having better than 20/20 vision.
So you're 40, healthy, need no insurance... and a thug comes up from behind, hits you in the head with a baseball hat so he can get your wallet and iPhone. Guess what? The ER will treat you, but I'm paying, along with everyone else who isn't so fucking selfish and greedy to buy insurance.
I've been paying what you spend in a year every two months, and you want me to bail you out in bankrupcy court when you find out how fucking worthless that HDHP really is? Fuck you. Buy some real insurance, asshole, I don't want to pay extra for mine just because you have shit insurance that won't do what it's supposed to.
You're not a taxpayer I take it?
Mitt Romney is a God damned liar, everybody is a taxpayer, even the guy begging for spare change. Own a house? You pay property tax. Rent a house? You're paying your landlord's property tax. Drive a car? Gasoline tax. Ride a taxi? Gasoline tax is part of the fare. Smoke cigarettes? They tax the holy hell out of those nasty things, out of that ten bucks a pack, 8 or 9 is tax. Drink a beer? Alcohol tax. Buy anything whatever? Sales tax in most states (Oregon doesn't have sales tax), and we're talking about a state-run exchange paid for by Oregon taxpayers here. Even the homeless guy that bums a dollar from you in Oregon pays tax when he spends that dollar on a beer or a cigarette. In 45 states that bum pays taxes on every penny he spends.