Why? We needed no star chamber before, why now? And what are you so terrified of, coward?
Your fear is not only cowardly but stupidly illogical. 45000 people die yearly on the American highways, only a few thousand have died of terrorism in out entire history. You want to be safer? Disband the TSA and the FISA courts, overturn the PATRIOT act, and spend the money on guard rails.
If you want to live in a nice, safe surveillance state, move to North Korea and leave my freedom alone.
I never did run Windows 3.11. I was on DOS 3.1 until 6.2 came out with doublespace. Windows 95 because Road Rash wouldn't run in DOS. W98 when none of the newer games would run on W95. XP when XCP vandalized my computer and I didn't have drivers (lost the CDs).
I got Mandrake then when XP started getting flaky. Turned out that Linux is just more fault-tolerant than Windows; Windows crashed every hour or so, Linux kept chugging until that power supply failed completely.
This notebook is running W7, because I'm lazy. The one that uses the TV as a monitor is kubuntu.
Blame me, I went to the firehose. Saw the article this morning reading Google and would have submitted it myself if someone else hadn't.
No, blame yourself. You didn't go to the firehose. You do realize that logged in users can vote for or against articles, right? Makes you look kind of silly bitching about the fact that it got posted.
You're like the guy who never goes to the polls but always bitches about the government.
Personally, I'm sticking with 7 until the start menu comes back or hell freezes over
I kind of liked 7 when I got this notebook 2 years ago, even though it was missing some features I'd gotten used to with kubuntu. But it's gotten slower with every OS patch to the point where it's annoying enough it's going to be Linux. Probably coincidence, but the biggest slowdowns were the three Patch Tuesdays after W8 came out.
If you're a Windows user because you're a gamer or need some expensive business software, you're going to have to "upgrade" sooner or later anyway.
I think it's too late for MS to get any traction in the home. I see lots of tablets in homes in the future, but the full PCs will be in offices and we nerds' homes like 30 years ago. Tablets do what most people need a home computer for, and everyone is used to Android and Apple interfaces.
Back when normal people started getting home computers, they wanted one that ran what they used at work, one they knew and were used to.
You would think Microsoft, of all people, would recognize that.
People also look at a company's shortcomings. They look at Bing and Google Search, who will they believe will offer better technology?
From TFA: "When Microsoft first priced its Surface tablets, it made a colossal miscalculation, assuming that it could simply follow Apple into the high-margin device business."
Indeed. Rather than our elected "representatives"* tracking us, they should be stopping the corporations from tracking us. At least the British seem to have representation... somewhat, I guess. There's way too much stalking in the world by both government and industry, and I'm disgusted by it.
Oddly, they don't serve Suzy Qs at Susie Q's. Really good fried chicken, though (Google streetview picture is before Mike bought, renovated, and opened it).
You think anyone chooses to be fat, your less attractive
You should sue whoever "educated" you. You don't read many books, do you? "Your" is a possessive, as in "You're stepping on your dog's tail." </unwanted education>
I actually thought it was a good thing they shut their doors and stopped producing twinkies. How many years were added to lives of the general population and dollars on health problems not wasted in this country because they were gone?
Some of us are genetically predisposed to being thin. The only time I ever got too heavy was when I was on Paxil; I have to fight to keep the weight up.
I wonder how much SSRIs have contributed to the obesity problem? Everyone I've known that was on them gained a lot of weight, and it seems like I started noticing more fat people after Prozak came on the market.
I don't see how a couple of twinkies can kill you. Couple hundred empty calories, no worse than a half litre soda and certainly no more than my favorite breakfast, a Denver Omelette, toast, and coffee. More calories plus tons of cholesterol. At 61 I'll bet my doctor starts nagging me to cut it down, my grandmother outlived five doctors who all said it was going to kill her. She died at age 99 after falling down in the nursing home and breaking her hip.
You have to die from something, it might as well be tasty food. And I never want to live in a nursing home.
I was about to turn in my nerd card, but I see I'm not the only one. I never did like twinkies, not even as a kid. Too sweet and too little substance. And no chocolate!
Ding Dongs, now, I like those. But I prefer bear claws and Danishes and all the traditional baked sweets (mmm... devil's food cake!) to any of the Hostess stuff.
Come to think of it, there's little corporate food or snacks I really like. I only buy potato chips because I'm too lazy to make my own.
Open source is usually (not always) higher quality than closed source. Windows has trailed in features and useability behind Linux for years, for example.
My Quake site that I ran fifteen to ten years ago used LOTS of animated gifs, as well as a little javascript. There were three at the top of each page, two animated stroggs surrounding a drawing of the Illinois state capitol with blood in the street that was overlaid with the dog tag from the game that said "loading", with the tag going away after 30 seconds or so. If you moused over the strogg on the right, sonic the hedgehog would run past and the strogg would try to stomp him. If the cursor stayed over the image he would run back and get squished.
The navigation buttons were static gifs that were replaced by animated ones when moused over.
The page's wallpaper was a small animated gif of white zeros and ones on a black background that changed back and forth from zeros to ones before disappearing one by one.
This was back when most were on a 56k modem and some were still 33.3. I had lots of traffic (lots of content), tons of mail, and nobody ever complained of slow loading.
Excellent comment, to bad you can't log in so your score would be above zero. I hope moderators will mod him insightful and this (my) comment offtopic.
From their page it looked like it used open-source components, but I didn't see any links to source code. I think I'd want it available for inspection and recompiling and letting people make modifications like you suggested. If I were in one of the countries listed on their site I'd sure want it -- but I'd still be paranoid and want the source code.
If the source is available I apologize for my ignorance.
We are in a die-off right now, many species are going extinct. Eagles would have just been another.
We are indeed in a mass extinction event, and it's man-made. You're for continuing to drive species to extinction.
No, laboratory pure. The current "thing" by the president is to shut down many coal-fueled power plants.
Shutting down coal-fired plants won't make the air "lab-pure", and I agree that as many as possible should be shut down. The city-owned power company has both old coal and newer natural gas generators, and they rarely use the coal-fired one because natural gas is so cheap right now. Gas is a whole lot better than coal. Save the coal for blacksmithing.
So, how many years of life do these people lose compared to the coal miners that were forced into poverty and the people who need electricity having to buy it at a higher price now?
But later, members of this tightly-knit West Virginia community said Athey's close call and the tragedy that has re-exposed the dangers of coal mining doesn't detract from the allure of a profession that is beloved here.
Athey, a 34 year-old father of four who has only donned a miner's helmet for two years, says he plans to return to work in a mine as soon as possible.
"It's the only thing I know how to do," he said. "I don't read and write." ---
"You can come right out of high school and make $70,000 a year," said Missy Perdue, 22, a stay-at-home mother whose husband, Jeff Perdue, Jr., 22, is a miner.
April Athey, 28, also says she appreciates her husband's salary, despite the risks of mining, so that she can stay at home and raise the couple's four kids, including one-year-old twins.
And that's clean enough.
Yes, I agree. The air is pretty clean most places today and I don't want to go back.
You're a fool.
That's another thing I hate about envirowackos, they're rude.
I apologize for my bluntness, but that's my opinion based on what you've written. You are full of misconceptions.
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We need a top secret surveillance court.
Why? We needed no star chamber before, why now? And what are you so terrified of, coward?
Your fear is not only cowardly but stupidly illogical. 45000 people die yearly on the American highways, only a few thousand have died of terrorism in out entire history. You want to be safer? Disband the TSA and the FISA courts, overturn the PATRIOT act, and spend the money on guard rails.
If you want to live in a nice, safe surveillance state, move to North Korea and leave my freedom alone.
I never did run Windows 3.11. I was on DOS 3.1 until 6.2 came out with doublespace. Windows 95 because Road Rash wouldn't run in DOS. W98 when none of the newer games would run on W95. XP when XCP vandalized my computer and I didn't have drivers (lost the CDs).
I got Mandrake then when XP started getting flaky. Turned out that Linux is just more fault-tolerant than Windows; Windows crashed every hour or so, Linux kept chugging until that power supply failed completely.
This notebook is running W7, because I'm lazy. The one that uses the TV as a monitor is kubuntu.
Blame me, I went to the firehose. Saw the article this morning reading Google and would have submitted it myself if someone else hadn't.
No, blame yourself. You didn't go to the firehose. You do realize that logged in users can vote for or against articles, right? Makes you look kind of silly bitching about the fact that it got posted.
You're like the guy who never goes to the polls but always bitches about the government.
Personally, I'm sticking with 7 until the start menu comes back or hell freezes over
I kind of liked 7 when I got this notebook 2 years ago, even though it was missing some features I'd gotten used to with kubuntu. But it's gotten slower with every OS patch to the point where it's annoying enough it's going to be Linux. Probably coincidence, but the biggest slowdowns were the three Patch Tuesdays after W8 came out.
If you're a Windows user because you're a gamer or need some expensive business software, you're going to have to "upgrade" sooner or later anyway.
I think it's too late for MS to get any traction in the home. I see lots of tablets in homes in the future, but the full PCs will be in offices and we nerds' homes like 30 years ago. Tablets do what most people need a home computer for, and everyone is used to Android and Apple interfaces.
Back when normal people started getting home computers, they wanted one that ran what they used at work, one they knew and were used to.
You would think Microsoft, of all people, would recognize that.
People also look at a company's shortcomings. They look at Bing and Google Search, who will they believe will offer better technology?
From TFA: "When Microsoft first priced its Surface tablets, it made a colossal miscalculation, assuming that it could simply follow Apple into the high-margin device business."
Aim at the other foot, Microsoft.
Indeed. Rather than our elected "representatives"* tracking us, they should be stopping the corporations from tracking us. At least the British seem to have representation... somewhat, I guess. There's way too much stalking in the world by both government and industry, and I'm disgusted by it.
* I'm American. My "representatives" only represent the corporations. If they represented the citizenry pot would be legal, since over half the population thinks the laws against it are stupid.
Beets are perfect for fuel. Nasty vegetable! Yech! When I see beets I say "beat it, beet."
Now, buttered corn, yum. Corn fed beef? Even better! Corn is for eating, beets are best used as fuel.
Suzy Qs
Oddly, they don't serve Suzy Qs at Susie Q's. Really good fried chicken, though (Google streetview picture is before Mike bought, renovated, and opened it).
You think anyone chooses to be fat, your less attractive
You should sue whoever "educated" you. You don't read many books, do you? "Your" is a possessive, as in "You're stepping on your dog's tail."
</unwanted education>
You blew it. You should have said "It tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike cake."
Get your Adams quotes straight!
I actually thought it was a good thing they shut their doors and stopped producing twinkies. How many years were added to lives of the general population and dollars on health problems not wasted in this country because they were gone?
Some of us are genetically predisposed to being thin. The only time I ever got too heavy was when I was on Paxil; I have to fight to keep the weight up.
I wonder how much SSRIs have contributed to the obesity problem? Everyone I've known that was on them gained a lot of weight, and it seems like I started noticing more fat people after Prozak came on the market.
I don't see how a couple of twinkies can kill you. Couple hundred empty calories, no worse than a half litre soda and certainly no more than my favorite breakfast, a Denver Omelette, toast, and coffee. More calories plus tons of cholesterol. At 61 I'll bet my doctor starts nagging me to cut it down, my grandmother outlived five doctors who all said it was going to kill her. She died at age 99 after falling down in the nursing home and breaking her hip.
You have to die from something, it might as well be tasty food. And I never want to live in a nursing home.
I was about to turn in my nerd card, but I see I'm not the only one. I never did like twinkies, not even as a kid. Too sweet and too little substance. And no chocolate!
Ding Dongs, now, I like those. But I prefer bear claws and Danishes and all the traditional baked sweets (mmm... devil's food cake!) to any of the Hostess stuff.
Come to think of it, there's little corporate food or snacks I really like. I only buy potato chips because I'm too lazy to make my own.
High quality open source software? Like what?
Linux, Apache, GNOME, KDE, Mozilla...
Open source is usually (not always) higher quality than closed source. Windows has trailed in features and useability behind Linux for years, for example.
My Quake site that I ran fifteen to ten years ago used LOTS of animated gifs, as well as a little javascript. There were three at the top of each page, two animated stroggs surrounding a drawing of the Illinois state capitol with blood in the street that was overlaid with the dog tag from the game that said "loading", with the tag going away after 30 seconds or so. If you moused over the strogg on the right, sonic the hedgehog would run past and the strogg would try to stomp him. If the cursor stayed over the image he would run back and get squished.
The navigation buttons were static gifs that were replaced by animated ones when moused over.
The page's wallpaper was a small animated gif of white zeros and ones on a black background that changed back and forth from zeros to ones before disappearing one by one.
This was back when most were on a 56k modem and some were still 33.3. I had lots of traffic (lots of content), tons of mail, and nobody ever complained of slow loading.
Why is PNG needed any more, anyway? It was only developed because of Unisys patents. GIF patents expired years ago.
I would certainly look at it. I think others would as well. But this browser won't help those of us in the US.
It is NOT man-made. It is natural.
Sigh. This conversation is pointless, get your education elsewhere.
Excellent comment, to bad you can't log in so your score would be above zero. I hope moderators will mod him insightful and this (my) comment offtopic.
You need more coffee, RTFS again. It has nothing to do with torrenting, it's for evading government censorship while visiting web sites.
From their page it looked like it used open-source components, but I didn't see any links to source code. I think I'd want it available for inspection and recompiling and letting people make modifications like you suggested. If I were in one of the countries listed on their site I'd sure want it -- but I'd still be paranoid and want the source code.
If the source is available I apologize for my ignorance.
We are in a die-off right now, many species are going extinct. Eagles would have just been another.
We are indeed in a mass extinction event, and it's man-made. You're for continuing to drive species to extinction.
No, laboratory pure. The current "thing" by the president is to shut down many coal-fueled power plants.
Shutting down coal-fired plants won't make the air "lab-pure", and I agree that as many as possible should be shut down. The city-owned power company has both old coal and newer natural gas generators, and they rarely use the coal-fired one because natural gas is so cheap right now. Gas is a whole lot better than coal. Save the coal for blacksmithing.
So, how many years of life do these people lose compared to the coal miners that were forced into poverty and the people who need electricity having to buy it at a higher price now?
Forced into poverty? No, lifted out of poverty.
And that's clean enough.
Yes, I agree. The air is pretty clean most places today and I don't want to go back.
You're a fool.
That's another thing I hate about envirowackos, they're rude.
I apologize for my bluntness, but that's my opinion based on what you've written. You are full of misconceptions.
Someone please mod that AC up!
Kahn was quoting Melville; Kirk was his whale. And Star Trek is more known to most slashdotters than Melville.
It explains why the Linux distros in my upload queue have had a lot less activity lately.