Windows 95 was snappier and more immediately responsive than Windows 7 is today. No useless sidebar, no Fisher-Price GUI, no hour glass just to load a file list, it was just there.
How is it that one of the wealthiest corporations in the world always manages to find the most pathetic ad producers?
This is hysterically lame (just like all their other campaigns), and not in a self-aware, ironic sort of way; more of a Microsoft is that "special" kid in the class and doesn't realize it... sort of way.
Sorry Microsoft, you're not the cool kid and you never will be.
'I wonder how we ever managed to launch anything in space with that kind of stuff,'
So do I. It really is astonishing when you consider all NASA was able to accomplish in about a decade at a time a digital calculator was the size of a dictionary (or something like that, I'm not actually old enough to be the get-off-my-lawn group). Check out the documentary The NASA Missions: When We Left Earth, it really gives you an appreciation for this.
And, frankly, I can't blame Glenn for "[not trusting] a 20-year-old today" and I don't think it's age-discrimination either. Would you trust some gizmo-reliant "adult teenager" of today to put you in into LEO? NASA was using slide-rules, hard science and critical thinking. Today, some "20-year-old" will probably just take a computed message at its word without a second thought.
(it's not ageist for me to say of any of this, I'm in my 20's:P)
Honestly, why do people addict themselves to this crap? Stop eating McCrappers all the time, get some exercise and you might be surprised how much energy you have without caffeine. You'll feel a lot better, too, not being buzzed and strung out all the time.
OK, so this is an obvious malinterpretation of law, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the potential medical misdirection here. Hematopoietic stem cells are not like embryonic stem cells that can theoretically be engineered to grow into any type of cell -- they can only create blood cells, not tissue, bone, etc.
This is disturbingly reminiscent of a story I read here about people who died from having HSCs injected into their kidneys by snake-oil doctors.
First, it's not even close. It seems like the judge took a quick glance and thought, "derp, there's a bus, there's a pointy building, it's mostly black & white, yup they're the same."
Second, whether it's similar is hardly relevant. The "copy" wasn't made in 2 seconds by downloading it online. It's a separate and vaguely similar work, but not a "copy". A copy is exact or very close to it (this isn't).
If someone did all the work, bought all the gear, went to the same location, waited for the same conditions and created the image, it's not a copy. Knock-off, fake, second-tier, call it what you want, but its not a copy in the technical sense of the word. This technical sense is what copyright is supposed to deal with because copyright is a response to technology that makes duplicates of works more quickly than it takes to create the original.
This is one of the many reasons why I live in a small rural town.
I can see stars just by looking out my window, I can walk 10 minutes to the edge of town to get a pretty clear view or I can drive 10 minutes to get a spectacular view.
Programming is black magic voodoo to just about anyone who isn't a programmer and they think that we're wizards with keyboards who can solve any bug with the most vague instructions.
Ask them for precise, numbered, step-by-step instructions on how to get to the point where you will see the exact problem they are seeing (don't bother shortening that phrase to "replicating the problem", they won't know what you're asking). You will likely need to ask them several times. Make sure they know that you need to be able to SEE the problem in order to fix it. Heck, tell them it's otherwise like going to a mechanic and saying, "my car is broken, fix it", if you need to.
Assuming there are reasonable exceptions for people unable to receive vaccinations (allergies, immune system problems, etc.), this seems like an example for other countries to follow.
...by something as meaningless as their "date of manufacture" (as if one's age should be used to judge one's level of talents and skills) and start teaching them according to their abilities?
It's little wonder HP wanted to charge me nearly $500 for a replacement laptop DVD burner (for me to install myself) when one alone can't be more than $75 in total manufacturing costs (including profit).
I'll eat my shoes if you can name one specific feature or UI element that has significantly improved the usability of Windows or Office since 2000 that couldn't have simply been retrofitted with no more effort than it took to add to the current version.
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Windows 95 was snappier and more immediately responsive than Windows 7 is today. No useless sidebar, no Fisher-Price GUI, no hour glass just to load a file list, it was just there.
How is it that one of the wealthiest corporations in the world always manages to find the most pathetic ad producers?
This is hysterically lame (just like all their other campaigns), and not in a self-aware, ironic sort of way; more of a Microsoft is that "special" kid in the class and doesn't realize it ... sort of way.
Sorry Microsoft, you're not the cool kid and you never will be.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
So do I. It really is astonishing when you consider all NASA was able to accomplish in about a decade at a time a digital calculator was the size of a dictionary (or something like that, I'm not actually old enough to be the get-off-my-lawn group). Check out the documentary The NASA Missions: When We Left Earth, it really gives you an appreciation for this.
:P)
And, frankly, I can't blame Glenn for "[not trusting] a 20-year-old today" and I don't think it's age-discrimination either. Would you trust some gizmo-reliant "adult teenager" of today to put you in into LEO? NASA was using slide-rules, hard science and critical thinking. Today, some "20-year-old" will probably just take a computed message at its word without a second thought.
(it's not ageist for me to say of any of this, I'm in my 20's
I've already optimized my intake: it's 0.
Honestly, why do people addict themselves to this crap? Stop eating McCrappers all the time, get some exercise and you might be surprised how much energy you have without caffeine. You'll feel a lot better, too, not being buzzed and strung out all the time.
Sorry, I can't help myself ... it's actually pronounced "Taves" (long "a").
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They have a law with "Serious" in the title as a descriptor? It must be Serious Business!
So? Do you really want one without Ethernet?
I dunno ... I can only watch so many reruns of Air Farce and 22 Minutes.
...I'd suggest blaming yourself.
OK, so this is an obvious malinterpretation of law, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the potential medical misdirection here. Hematopoietic stem cells are not like embryonic stem cells that can theoretically be engineered to grow into any type of cell -- they can only create blood cells, not tissue, bone, etc.
This is disturbingly reminiscent of a story I read here about people who died from having HSCs injected into their kidneys by snake-oil doctors.
First, it's not even close. It seems like the judge took a quick glance and thought, "derp, there's a bus, there's a pointy building, it's mostly black & white, yup they're the same."
Second, whether it's similar is hardly relevant. The "copy" wasn't made in 2 seconds by downloading it online. It's a separate and vaguely similar work, but not a "copy". A copy is exact or very close to it (this isn't).
If someone did all the work, bought all the gear, went to the same location, waited for the same conditions and created the image, it's not a copy. Knock-off, fake, second-tier, call it what you want, but its not a copy in the technical sense of the word. This technical sense is what copyright is supposed to deal with because copyright is a response to technology that makes duplicates of works more quickly than it takes to create the original.
This is one of the many reasons why I live in a small rural town.
I can see stars just by looking out my window, I can walk 10 minutes to the edge of town to get a pretty clear view or I can drive 10 minutes to get a spectacular view.
Speak for yourself, but I don't mind a bit of engineering excess being put into something that's got me 10km-or-so up in the air.
...is their laziness.
Programming is black magic voodoo to just about anyone who isn't a programmer and they think that we're wizards with keyboards who can solve any bug with the most vague instructions.
Ask them for precise, numbered, step-by-step instructions on how to get to the point where you will see the exact problem they are seeing (don't bother shortening that phrase to "replicating the problem", they won't know what you're asking). You will likely need to ask them several times. Make sure they know that you need to be able to SEE the problem in order to fix it. Heck, tell them it's otherwise like going to a mechanic and saying, "my car is broken, fix it", if you need to.
Assuming there are reasonable exceptions for people unable to receive vaccinations (allergies, immune system problems, etc.), this seems like an example for other countries to follow.
A completely centralized network model that services clients across the entire planet is, by definition, broken.
Why, it's the sound of everyone still using MP3s, because no one gives a crap about formats that don't already play on literally everything...
...by something as meaningless as their "date of manufacture" (as if one's age should be used to judge one's level of talents and skills) and start teaching them according to their abilities?
It's little wonder HP wanted to charge me nearly $500 for a replacement laptop DVD burner (for me to install myself) when one alone can't be more than $75 in total manufacturing costs (including profit).
Are you literally that woman on the airport walkway that Microsoft portrayed in their advertising for WP7?
I'll eat my shoes if you can name one specific feature or UI element that has significantly improved the usability of Windows or Office since 2000 that couldn't have simply been retrofitted with no more effort than it took to add to the current version.
You mean, like, with air quotes, right?