Most people, even today, never ever 'hook their computer to the Internet.' There's no reason for most computers to be hooked directly. And there are good security reasons not to. Protecting your system behind a NAT server is common good practice.
Now, I know that bitmap of Peter Norton on the retail box has been known to leak blood red tears when hearing this, but it's the fucking truth.
A motorbike is an efficient way to move a person. It's not an efficient way to tow a trailer. At some point, you have to upgrade.
No, you use the moterbike to get around in your daily routine. When you need to move a bunch of stuff, you rent or borrow a pickup truck to tow a trailer. Why would you 'upgrade' to the pickup truck to get around in your daily routine.
Your analogy was terrible.
But with regard to the first part of your message, the analogy can be applied. What is the new 'huge and much heavier' content that the retards who leverate the 'massive libraries' to deliver? Are said developers just floppin' that big dick around to show off? Is there some REASON why the content has to be wrapped in so much top-heavy trimmings? In many cases the answer is NO, but dicksize doesn't care, he's got struttin' to do.
People who 'build websites' (as opposed to people who create content and wrap it in some markup to make it accessible) should just kill themselves and do the rest of us a favor.
Win 2k is 1.5 years beyond its extended support end date.
Let me guess. You're someone in Microsoft marketing and he just made you wee down your leg?
A properly NATed W2K box (or large intranet of them) is perfectly adequate for anything that most PC users need to do. Especially this is so in business settings where the tasks at hand are specified and controlled.
It gets harder and harder all the time to make certain of that before giving a software vendor your money. But I follow the same rule. I like stuff like keys that a vendor emails you after you make your payment. Which are independent of any sort of 'key' the software install might have generated. You can then put a copy of that email plus the software installer onto a new version of the 'Registered Shareware' CD and it's good for a long while.
You have to be really careful to check the product out and try to sniff out what they're going to try to force you to do to 'register' your copy.
Minix has a textbook written around it. It's by design a pedagogical learning OS. People can adapt Linux and the BSDs for that purpose but it's not their original and central function.
Well, GCC started out life as a victim of that stuff, and it claimed for a long time to be the universal solution to that problem. Does GCC still not flag all nonstandard extensions when the -pedantic switch is turned on? It used to have that problem, which made it a code trap. "Write it for GCC but it won't build anywhere else."
Hell, Jobs was batting 100 with cult-like methods in his 'business practices.' He probably thought he was on a streak and could rely on that clap-trap (which he learned on that pilgrimage to India in his LSD-tripping youth) to keep alive, too.
It's tricky, because successful people often become so powerful that they can pay to keep only lackeys around them. And then who will give them the strong advice they need?
And I say this as somebody who used to have to pull SO-8 chips off boards, clear out bits of metal in the cement beneath them * (board was not solder masked) and replace the same SO-8 parts back on the board.
(*the bonehead assemblers would apply the cement on a whole grid of boards while someone at the next bench was clipping leads)
A good iron is needed for any type of soldering. SMD was developed specifically for machine assembly methods. To claim that it's 'easier' to service is ludicrous. You apparently need to learn how to not rip-out plated through holes. Is your soldering tip too small?
Most of the species that people hunt are not 'on the verge of extinction.' In fact, species like white-tailed deer are an invasive species and the responsible thing for man to do is eradicate it many places where it has taken over. Rabbits are another 'rat-like' species that exists in large numbers in near proximity to man and needs to be controlled with hunting. Or we could do the alternative and let them starve when the population explodes.
'Bottom of the barrel' would be the ignorant preachy people who don't realize any of the above.
Then I should throw away my fishing tackle because it's more humane to eat farm-raised fish? I should only eat farm-raised venison, rabbit, or quail? Or maybe those things shouldn't even be on my plate and I should eat fatty cow meat instead?
No, you should eat tofu. Further, the tofu should be made from soybeans grown with the free-range method using only organic gardening fertilizers.
The problem comes that whichever city you choose to start with, the incumbents in that city will drop their margins to zero only in that city on the day before you start offering service there.
That's a textbook example of mercerizing a monopoly. The anti-trust action would obliterate them.
In other words 'by any means necessary' only included primative weapons.
I guess the west could have just put up a big fence to 'protect' the Africans. We could have little safari vacations there to observe their quaint ways, or what-not.
You're not far off in that. I know it won't be more than a decade or so before houses like mine are roped off because we have so much 'hazardous waste' on premises, in the form of evil lead-bearing equipment. Bring in the overpaid clowns in hazmat suits!
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We have a major gas crisis just about every evening here. One of our cats is notably flatulent.
Anybody who would get fired for not having a cellphone... well... it's sort of neighborly to help someone escape that shitty a job.
Most people, even today, never ever 'hook their computer to the Internet.' There's no reason for most computers to be hooked directly. And there are good security reasons not to. Protecting your system behind a NAT server is common good practice.
Now, I know that bitmap of Peter Norton on the retail box has been known to leak blood red tears when hearing this, but it's the fucking truth.
A motorbike is an efficient way to move a person. It's not an efficient way to tow a trailer. At some point, you have to upgrade.
No, you use the moterbike to get around in your daily routine. When you need to move a bunch of stuff, you rent or borrow a pickup truck to tow a trailer. Why would you 'upgrade' to the pickup truck to get around in your daily routine.
Your analogy was terrible.
But with regard to the first part of your message, the analogy can be applied. What is the new 'huge and much heavier' content that the retards who leverate the 'massive libraries' to deliver? Are said developers just floppin' that big dick around to show off? Is there some REASON why the content has to be wrapped in so much top-heavy trimmings? In many cases the answer is NO, but dicksize doesn't care, he's got struttin' to do.
People who 'build websites' (as opposed to people who create content and wrap it in some markup to make it accessible) should just kill themselves and do the rest of us a favor.
Win 2k is 1.5 years beyond its extended support end date.
Let me guess. You're someone in Microsoft marketing and he just made you wee down your leg?
A properly NATed W2K box (or large intranet of them) is perfectly adequate for anything that most PC users need to do. Especially this is so in business settings where the tasks at hand are specified and controlled.
Possibly the clue is that the Prius is for people forseeing a dogshit future.
It gets harder and harder all the time to make certain of that before giving a software vendor your money. But I follow the same rule. I like stuff like keys that a vendor emails you after you make your payment. Which are independent of any sort of 'key' the software install might have generated. You can then put a copy of that email plus the software installer onto a new version of the 'Registered Shareware' CD and it's good for a long while.
You have to be really careful to check the product out and try to sniff out what they're going to try to force you to do to 'register' your copy.
Actually, yes. Robert Mugabe makes Gitmo look like a Church Summer Camp. All sorts of peculiar fascist types are well represented at the UN.
Minix has a textbook written around it. It's by design a pedagogical learning OS. People can adapt Linux and the BSDs for that purpose but it's not their original and central function.
Well, GCC started out life as a victim of that stuff, and it claimed for a long time to be the universal solution to that problem. Does GCC still not flag all nonstandard extensions when the -pedantic switch is turned on? It used to have that problem, which made it a code trap. "Write it for GCC but it won't build anywhere else."
MINIX is a pedagogical tool. It's like the ships that the Navy takes the ensigns out in to learn sailing. It's not a research platform.
Hell, Jobs was batting 100 with cult-like methods in his 'business practices.' He probably thought he was on a streak and could rely on that clap-trap (which he learned on that pilgrimage to India in his LSD-tripping youth) to keep alive, too.
It's tricky, because successful people often become so powerful that they can pay to keep only lackeys around them. And then who will give them the strong advice they need?
No, it's not.
And I say this as somebody who used to have to pull SO-8 chips off boards, clear out bits of metal in the cement beneath them * (board was not solder masked) and replace the same SO-8 parts back on the board.
(*the bonehead assemblers would apply the cement on a whole grid of boards while someone at the next bench was clipping leads)
A good iron is needed for any type of soldering. SMD was developed specifically for machine assembly methods. To claim that it's 'easier' to service is ludicrous. You apparently need to learn how to not rip-out plated through holes. Is your soldering tip too small?
Most of the species that people hunt are not 'on the verge of extinction.' In fact, species like white-tailed deer are an invasive species and the responsible thing for man to do is eradicate it many places where it has taken over. Rabbits are another 'rat-like' species that exists in large numbers in near proximity to man and needs to be controlled with hunting. Or we could do the alternative and let them starve when the population explodes.
'Bottom of the barrel' would be the ignorant preachy people who don't realize any of the above.
No, you should eat tofu. Further, the tofu should be made from soybeans grown with the free-range method using only organic gardening fertilizers.
50 million sadists sounds feasible though
Really? Has the BDSM community grown that large these days?
Ooooh, the peacocks have their tails on display!
Similarly a model helicopter crashing onto a car or slamming into the front of a lorry is quite a shot from "no danger posed to anyone".
That is for certain. The idiots operating the helicopter had no business having it in the air there.
mercerizing? was that some sort of spell check thing???
That's a textbook example of mercerizing a monopoly. The anti-trust action would obliterate them.
I think they mean Central Services.
Most employees don't work at boutiques.
They are all internet treasures because...
For some meanings of the word 'treasure' you are undoubtedly correct. My cat, for instance, buries treasure in a little sandbox in the laundry room.
In other words 'by any means necessary' only included primative weapons.
I guess the west could have just put up a big fence to 'protect' the Africans. We could have little safari vacations there to observe their quaint ways, or what-not.
No, you're engaging in nostalgia.
...only outlaws will have surplus electronics
You're not far off in that. I know it won't be more than a decade or so before houses like mine are roped off because we have so much 'hazardous waste' on premises, in the form of evil lead-bearing equipment. Bring in the overpaid clowns in hazmat suits!