> One growing answer has been polyamory or group marriage where a consenting group of people > become all singing all dancing
That isn't "one answer", it is more of a broad category. Once you go off the straight and narrow path of find single partner->go steady->engage->marry->children there are no rules or social expectiation anymore, so you have to negotiate your own rules.
You go out with some girl a few times, and decide to be "together" through whatever you want to call it, you know what that means and the expectations are. They are fluid and vary, but we all know the form and the expected restrictions. No more dating others, no more sex with others.
My wife and I, our first conversation was, in fact, about relationships, where we both expressed disdain for monogamy. Since then, the only real rule in this area that we have found the need to negotiate are that we tell eachother what we are up to. We consider ourselves poly, but, mostly just because we like choices... we have sex with others less than many monogamists. We are open to taking on new members at some point though, if the right situation developed.
That said, we know several other poly people and,.... group of people all singing all dancing? That is hardly the norm. The norm tends to be more normal couples who have secondary relationships with good friends. This happens with varying levels of "polydrama". The full group arrangement actually seems to be on the rare side.
> At worst, there may be property damage. But the simple fact is > that the threats presented by enemies of the United States > today are not even close to being the same level of threat > presented by the Germans and Japanese and Russians of the > past, where if we screwed up it was quite possible that the > United States wouldn't exist anymore.
Even the total loss of hawaii and all other US assetts in southeast Asia would not threaten the existance of the US, its not clear that such a threat has ever actually existed. The Germans were nasty and may have continued to expand but, the idea that they could just keep expanding and would make it over here? or were in any way an existential threat? I don't buy it.
Ever since my apple ][ days, when I had a color monitor, I knew I liked dark backgrounds and light text. At the time, red on black. Now I am happy with a light gray on black
Setting this on terminals is cake. Even putty can be made reasonable quickly.
However... they are the exception. Nearly everything I use regularly really works. Few support changing color schemes at all, and the ones that do, are so limited as to be useless. Pidgin and eclipse both come to mind as having mechanisms (with pidgin I believe its via plugins) to change color schemes, but only in very limited ways. You can't, change the look of many of the utility window parts, like the resources view....so the darker you make the rest, the more jarring those stand outs become.... often making it less appealing than reverting to defaults.
Of course, I have a north facing window that overlooks an old barn that the neighbors put white siding on, so the glare from that can be prodigeous during the day. Room darkening shades, preferably with wooden slats take care of that nicely.
I also highly recomend a light behind the monitor. I stuck an old lamp back there, but have some LEDs that I used to put an RGB LED version in with.... I just need to mess with the controller a bit more.
Well.... thats how people are. Its not a problem until something sensational happens. I know a few people who have been utterly railroaded like this.
Actually I was involved peripherally in a corperate bribery scandal (I actually was called to testify about a meeting I was in) and I couldn't help but think...as bad as what these guys did.... their careers were ruined, their names were in the paper.... why was the prosecutor going so hard against the 1 guy who refused to plead guilty?
I mean prosecute fine, go to trial, but nobody else was punished like he was, and he was the lowest man on the totem pole. Why should he recieve the most punishment (he faced actual jail time, his supervisor and external company owner got slapped on the wrist). It seemed to me like it was more about a prosecutor wanting to look tough than about anything I would call justice.
And I am not defending the guy because I even particularly liked him. Actually I was annoyed that he was a higher level than me when we was clearly not all that technically inclined (I once found he told someone that turning off a service in inetd would block the corresponding port like a firewall! )... but... seeing that I just felt bad for him.
Another friend picked up a girl at burger king and later found out the hard way she was under age (by all of 6 months) and was a runaway. Her "friend" got upset about something and called the police.... he was given a list of charges as long as your arm.... if he didn't want to just confess to one crime of statutory rape that is.
In the end, its like prosecutors have decided their jobs is avoiding trials at all cost.... and damn people if they want to exercise their right to make their case and be judged by their peers. They just care that people say uncle.
We should simply remove the entire concept of a plea, and require prosecutors to make their case before a jury regardless of confessions and or whatnot. This system as is is just plain abusive.
Snake oil? Doesn't one have to be selling a cure-all to have snake oil? The entirety of his recomendation boils down to, avoid sugar except when in more natural forms with its original fiber (ie, eat an apple, don't drink apple juice).....
I am not aware of him owning any fruit orchards..... but maybe he does?
Its a free hour and a half long talk by an endocrinologist.... I didn't even catch a "buy my book" in there.
> Finding carcinogens in the smoke is NOT a substitute for actually > finding increased incidence of cancer.
While pot may be one of my favorite issues, this is also a common problem right here. There is a great talk by Dr Lustig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM ) on sugar, where he talks about a range of issues, and this is one of them...
That early evidence pointed to a link between cholesterol and heart disease. This has been the basis for the "low fat diet" recommendations, as dietary fat does increase cholesterol levels.
My summary is no substitute for the video but, the basic summary is that fructose (whether from HFCS or as a product of sucrose) is metabolized in the liver, and raises vLDL levels.... making it far worst than the dietary fat which it has been replacing. (and doing so at a staggering rate)
Hence the "war on fat", has actually caused the rise in obesity and diabetes, in addition to the heart disease that it was an attempt to reduce.
His claim is essentially that, your liver is similarly damaged by fructose as it is by alcohol, such that a small glass of OJ is similar to a shot of bourbon.
Scenario is simple... lets stick with a child abduction, but he uses a murder. So lets say you go to your mothers house and stay there for the night. During the trip, for the sake of argument, lets assume you had a full tank so didn't stop for gas or get any receipts or other corroborating evidence, and left your cell phone at home, or it was broken, or you just don't have one)
Now the police question you, ask where you were...you tell them. Fine. You told the truth. Good for you, you get a sticker.
However, there is a woman who lives nearby. She was asked, and while talking, she indicates that she remembers seeing you around that evening. She is mistaken of course, as eye witnesses often are.....
Now there is a problem. Your mother, being your mother, is will have any testimony dismissed as....your mother is not considered, alone, a credible witness because of her relationship to you. Its expected that many people's mothers will lie for them. So the eye witness' testimony is generally given much more weight in court.
So while refusing to talk may have raised suspicion, now you have not only raised suspicion, but if you do end up charged with a crime, may find a police officer testifying in court that you lied and gave him an alibi that didn't check out.
What field are you gathering from? Because the summary even says that this is a concession because adding the content that they want (and still apparently plan) was more work than expected.
That kind of makes sense... you likely have:
1. A large set of NPC options, each with their own dialog. Meaning decisions have to be made about how different ones respond to this.
2. places where lazy programers or game designers used made assumptions to save time (Oh well we can just check if PC sex is not equal to npc sex for that)
3. Cultural issues. Just because you have a few gay guys on your writing team doesn't mean that you have ones who have any social skills and know how to write dialoge that other gay people will.... come to think of it... they can't handle that for herero characters....
If this was intentional or a way to dodge fundy criticism, then, creating a homo ghetto is pretty bad. However, if it really as a taste of more fundamental changes that were just not ready... then good for them.
Of course, if their same sex flirting is as lame as the hetero flirting in.... um... every game that includes any..... then hey, gains are gains right?
And.... one of the most unarguably sucessful bitcoin taking sites.... the silk road.... is little more than... an escrow service! Someone who.... holds the money and hears disputes when they occur. Wikipedia estimates they do several million dollars worth of transactions a month.
This service that we are talking about, right here, shows that bitcoins have value. Bitcoins have value because.... people can gamble with them, so people will...buy them....to gamble with. Thats value right there. In fact, thats increasing value as increasing numbers of people want to do that.
You can point out all sorts of problems.... trust issues, etc as to why there are risks, but, people continue to use it and it continues to work. Will it in the future? Maybe maybe not. We will see.... I am betting it will be around for years to come.
So what you are saying is, unless I didn't actually want to be repaid, or am dealing with someone who is ignorant, then I am free to refuse payment as I like. Ok fine, this is true, and very technically I can see how this does not constitute a punishment under the law....
but its all just splitting hairs at that point isn't it?
Silk road accepts it, so if you don't have a better connection for drugs, there you go. That one site is believed to do about $92,000 US a month in business...all bitcoins.
Its also useful for some services.
As for volitility....well its been in existance for all of a couple of years now... but on a day to day basis...its pretty stable. I have been watching it on and off for a while and...while it does fluxuate, it does so slowly.
So who wants it? Maybe people who care about more than just the economics? People who want to be part of a systsem that excludes coercion (no use of force can ever deprive me of my bitcoins without first getting the private keys that protect them)?
perhaps people interested in new things? Is anyone saying "invest for retirement in bitcoins?" or "put your life savings into bitcoins"? or "Bitcoins: better buy than land"..... cuz I don't see it.
> Is the US going away tomorrow? No. > Are they going away next year? No. > Are they going away in 5-10 years? No.
So is there evidence that we should know 5-10 years in advance when the US government IS going to fall?
You can put your trust where you want, I don't expect anything is so set in stone. Not that they wont go away, and not that they wont fall apart to the point that their own currency becomes untrusted and worthless....it could very well happen, and it could happen in less than 5 years.
Only if a debt is created actually. I can offer to sell anything I own for barter, gold, bitcoins, or even euros, and I can, quite legally, refuse any currenct, including US currency...so long as no debt is created. Should a debt be created, then I would have to accept some amount of US currency to settle it (though I am still not required to exclusively accept it).
Actually, telling people what they can and can't do with the software running on their hardware is against the very spirit of the endeavor. Just because you have some special emotional reaction to guns doesn't mean others do. MANY linux users and developers are gun enthusiasts.
As for skill... whats your point?
Yes, I would consider this cheating in most competitions. This is like complaining that people use cheat codes in video games. Unless you are competing with them on score, who the fuck cares?
But its ok.... every other confession they have gotten was totally legit, as will the next ones.
I have seen claims that standard LEO questioning techniques have been found to be able to extract confessions in up to 90% of cases, totally independentally of the persons innocence or guilt.
Yet, confessions continue to be held up as meaning something.
Show me an artist and I will show you someone who wasn't afraid to make a few smears.
I don't see how any of this negates the argument that making the learning curve for getting started a little more shallow for those who need that could help more people learn to program. Its a useful skill, and frankly, I think a good one to learn. Teaches strong logical reasoning skills, is that not a good thing?
> This problem, for which AIG is biting back on, is most certainly manufactured by the banks.
Perhaps, but, these comments, follow a previous post which brought up entirely different and broader allegations. As such, I never implied nor stated otherwise. In fact, for the record.... Fuck AIG.
> Sadly, by law, Mr. Greenberg is correct. As an officer of a corporation your sole duty is to shareholders under > penalty of imprisonment. Yeap, you read that right, by law, in the USA, corporations have to be sociopathic.
Making them beholden to the government isn't much better. Go back to the criticism of the banks...drug dealers? Who manufactured that problem? It wasn't the banks.
There is no evidence that I have seen that the government is any less sociopathic.
Giant squid and some other large squid species maintain neutral buoyancy in seawater through an ammonium chloride solution which is found throughout their bodies and is lighter than seawater. This differs from the method of flotation used by most fish, which involves a gas-filled swim bladder. The solution tastes somewhat like salmiakki[citation needed] and makes giant squid unattractive for general human consumption.
To make a really off the wall analogy, I saw some interesting analsys of Al Queda, looking it as, essentially, a PR firm doing off the wall stunts. 9/11 was the end for them, they can't top it, and it set the bar for them so high that, they only have down to go from there.
Likewise, Microsoft has done it. My wife was just ranting about this when her new laptop came with windows 8.... Windows 7 was it. They finally did it. Windows works, and works pretty well. It has worked well for a few versions now. Remember when your windows install would accumulate so much crud that if you didn't reinstall it every 6 months it just got worst and worst? I dual boot for games mostly and, I can't even think of anything to complain about other than having to mess with non-obvious settings to get it working with samba.
What is there to do after it works? Look at Linus and the kernel. He was a much bigger rock star when the Kernel didn't fully work, and was rough around the edges. As time goes on, who pays much attention to the kernel anymore? The project is still there and worked on.... but the kenel is boring now, because its working, its done. Its just peripheral stuff where its interesting. Linus is still a rock star, everyone still knows who he is, but now he only makes the front page when there is some drama.
That fine for a project like the kenrel though. The kernel makes no money and has no employees. Many devs may be paid for their work, but, its not like its anybodies product.
Microsoft however, does have products, a whole ecosystem of them.... but alternatives exist. They built a platform and exploited it to make huge market share. They got their first, and profited from it. Now, there really is just nowhere to go, and everybody else is steadily making progress, eventually they catch up. They may have nowhere to go but down
> It's the southeast where you are libel to be asked 'are you a dipper or dunker' on first meeting (two > different varieties of fundy).
I am curious about this. They are not the same? I did some google searching and found many references to "Dipper Dunker" or "Dunkers", but everything I found indicated this to be different terms for the same group.
However, I am from the godless Northeast where the only time I was ever asked about religion at work was by the pagan girl who just wanted to know if anyone else was going to be in the office for Yom Kippur, since most of the office was Jewish.
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> One growing answer has been polyamory or group marriage where a consenting group of people
> become all singing all dancing
That isn't "one answer", it is more of a broad category. Once you go off the straight and narrow path of find single partner->go steady->engage->marry->children there are no rules or social expectiation anymore, so you have to negotiate your own rules.
You go out with some girl a few times, and decide to be "together" through whatever you want to call it, you know what that means and the expectations are. They are fluid and vary, but we all know the form and the expected restrictions. No more dating others, no more sex with others.
My wife and I, our first conversation was, in fact, about relationships, where we both expressed disdain for monogamy. Since then, the only real rule in this area that we have found the need to negotiate are that we tell eachother what we are up to. We consider ourselves poly, but, mostly just because we like choices... we have sex with others less than many monogamists. We are open to taking on new members at some point though, if the right situation developed.
That said, we know several other poly people and,.... group of people all singing all dancing? That is hardly the norm. The norm tends to be more normal couples who have secondary relationships with good friends. This happens with varying levels of "polydrama". The full group arrangement actually seems to be on the rare side.
> At worst, there may be property damage. But the simple fact is
> that the threats presented by enemies of the United States
> today are not even close to being the same level of threat
> presented by the Germans and Japanese and Russians of the
> past, where if we screwed up it was quite possible that the
> United States wouldn't exist anymore.
Even the total loss of hawaii and all other US assetts in southeast Asia would not threaten the existance of the US, its not clear that such a threat has ever actually existed. The Germans were nasty and may have continued to expand but, the idea that they could just keep expanding and would make it over here? or were in any way an existential threat? I don't buy it.
Ever since my apple ][ days, when I had a color monitor, I knew I liked dark backgrounds and light text. At the time, red on black. Now I am happy with a light gray on black
Setting this on terminals is cake. Even putty can be made reasonable quickly.
However... they are the exception. Nearly everything I use regularly really works. Few support changing color schemes at all, and the ones that do, are so limited as to be useless. Pidgin and eclipse both come to mind as having mechanisms (with pidgin I believe its via plugins) to change color schemes, but only in very limited ways. You can't, change the look of many of the utility window parts, like the resources view....so the darker you make the rest, the more jarring those stand outs become.... often making it less appealing than reverting to defaults.
Of course, I have a north facing window that overlooks an old barn that the neighbors put white siding on, so the glare from that can be prodigeous during the day. Room darkening shades, preferably with wooden slats take care of that nicely.
I also highly recomend a light behind the monitor. I stuck an old lamp back there, but have some LEDs that I used to put an RGB LED version in with.... I just need to mess with the controller a bit more.
Well.... thats how people are. Its not a problem until something sensational happens. I know a few people who have been utterly railroaded like this.
Actually I was involved peripherally in a corperate bribery scandal (I actually was called to testify about a meeting I was in) and I couldn't help but think...as bad as what these guys did.... their careers were ruined, their names were in the paper.... why was the prosecutor going so hard against the 1 guy who refused to plead guilty?
I mean prosecute fine, go to trial, but nobody else was punished like he was, and he was the lowest man on the totem pole. Why should he recieve the most punishment (he faced actual jail time, his supervisor and external company owner got slapped on the wrist). It seemed to me like it was more about a prosecutor wanting to look tough than about anything I would call justice.
And I am not defending the guy because I even particularly liked him. Actually I was annoyed that he was a higher level than me when we was clearly not all that technically inclined (I once found he told someone that turning off a service in inetd would block the corresponding port like a firewall! )... but... seeing that I just felt bad for him.
Another friend picked up a girl at burger king and later found out the hard way she was under age (by all of 6 months) and was a runaway. Her "friend" got upset about something and called the police.... he was given a list of charges as long as your arm.... if he didn't want to just confess to one crime of statutory rape that is.
In the end, its like prosecutors have decided their jobs is avoiding trials at all cost.... and damn people if they want to exercise their right to make their case and be judged by their peers. They just care that people say uncle.
We should simply remove the entire concept of a plea, and require prosecutors to make their case before a jury regardless of confessions and or whatnot. This system as is is just plain abusive.
Snake oil? Doesn't one have to be selling a cure-all to have snake oil? The entirety of his recomendation boils down to, avoid sugar except when in more natural forms with its original fiber (ie, eat an apple, don't drink apple juice).....
I am not aware of him owning any fruit orchards..... but maybe he does?
Its a free hour and a half long talk by an endocrinologist.... I didn't even catch a "buy my book" in there.
> Finding carcinogens in the smoke is NOT a substitute for actually
> finding increased incidence of cancer.
While pot may be one of my favorite issues, this is also a common problem right here. There is a great talk by Dr Lustig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM ) on sugar, where he talks about a range of issues, and this is one of them...
That early evidence pointed to a link between cholesterol and heart disease. This has been the basis for the "low fat diet" recommendations, as dietary fat does increase cholesterol levels.
My summary is no substitute for the video but, the basic summary is that fructose (whether from HFCS or as a product of sucrose) is metabolized in the liver, and raises vLDL levels.... making it far worst than the dietary fat which it has been replacing. (and doing so at a staggering rate)
Hence the "war on fat", has actually caused the rise in obesity and diabetes, in addition to the heart disease that it was an attempt to reduce.
His claim is essentially that, your liver is similarly damaged by fructose as it is by alcohol, such that a small glass of OJ is similar to a shot of bourbon.
Actually.... it can happen much simpler than that. In fact, this scenario comes from a lecture by a Law professor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Scenario is simple... lets stick with a child abduction, but he uses a murder. So lets say you go to your mothers house and stay there for the night. During the trip, for the sake of argument, lets assume you had a full tank so didn't stop for gas or get any receipts or other corroborating evidence, and left your cell phone at home, or it was broken, or you just don't have one)
Now the police question you, ask where you were...you tell them. Fine. You told the truth. Good for you, you get a sticker.
However, there is a woman who lives nearby. She was asked, and while talking, she indicates that she remembers seeing you around that evening. She is mistaken of course, as eye witnesses often are.....
Now there is a problem. Your mother, being your mother, is will have any testimony dismissed as....your mother is not considered, alone, a credible witness because of her relationship to you. Its expected that many people's mothers will lie for them. So the eye witness' testimony is generally given much more weight in court.
So while refusing to talk may have raised suspicion, now you have not only raised suspicion, but if you do end up charged with a crime, may find a police officer testifying in court that you lied and gave him an alibi that didn't check out.
What field are you gathering from? Because the summary even says that this is a concession because adding the content that they want (and still apparently plan) was more work than expected.
That kind of makes sense... you likely have:
1. A large set of NPC options, each with their own dialog. Meaning decisions have to be made about how different ones respond to this.
2. places where lazy programers or game designers used made assumptions to save time (Oh well we can just check if PC sex is not equal to npc sex for that)
3. Cultural issues. Just because you have a few gay guys on your writing team doesn't mean that you have ones who have any social skills and know how to write dialoge that other gay people will.... come to think of it... they can't handle that for herero characters....
If this was intentional or a way to dodge fundy criticism, then, creating a homo ghetto is pretty bad. However, if it really as a taste of more fundamental changes that were just not ready... then good for them.
Of course, if their same sex flirting is as lame as the hetero flirting in.... um... every game that includes any..... then hey, gains are gains right?
And you base all this on a few statements? Wow you know your assumptions about me and how I think so well... its impressive.
Some excellent points.
And.... one of the most unarguably sucessful bitcoin taking sites.... the silk road.... is little more than... an escrow service! Someone who.... holds the money and hears disputes when they occur. Wikipedia estimates they do several million dollars worth of transactions a month.
This service that we are talking about, right here, shows that bitcoins have value. Bitcoins have value because.... people can gamble with them, so people will...buy them....to gamble with. Thats value right there. In fact, thats increasing value as increasing numbers of people want to do that.
You can point out all sorts of problems.... trust issues, etc as to why there are risks, but, people continue to use it and it continues to work. Will it in the future? Maybe maybe not. We will see.... I am betting it will be around for years to come.
So what you are saying is, unless I didn't actually want to be repaid, or am dealing with someone who is ignorant, then I am free to refuse payment as I like. Ok fine, this is true, and very technically I can see how this does not constitute a punishment under the law....
but its all just splitting hairs at that point isn't it?
Well I hadn't considered snarky remarks and assumptions. It makes so much sense when you put it like that.
And how many accept euros?
Silk road accepts it, so if you don't have a better connection for drugs, there you go. That one site is believed to do about $92,000 US a month in business...all bitcoins.
Its also useful for some services.
As for volitility....well its been in existance for all of a couple of years now... but on a day to day basis...its pretty stable. I have been watching it on and off for a while and...while it does fluxuate, it does so slowly.
So who wants it? Maybe people who care about more than just the economics? People who want to be part of a systsem that excludes coercion (no use of force can ever deprive me of my bitcoins without first getting the private keys that protect them)?
perhaps people interested in new things? Is anyone saying "invest for retirement in bitcoins?" or "put your life savings into bitcoins"? or "Bitcoins: better buy than land"..... cuz I don't see it.
> Is the US going away tomorrow? No.
> Are they going away next year? No.
> Are they going away in 5-10 years? No.
So is there evidence that we should know 5-10 years in advance when the US government IS going to fall?
You can put your trust where you want, I don't expect anything is so set in stone. Not that they wont go away, and not that they wont fall apart to the point that their own currency becomes untrusted and worthless....it could very well happen, and it could happen in less than 5 years.
Only if a debt is created actually. I can offer to sell anything I own for barter, gold, bitcoins, or even euros, and I can, quite legally, refuse any currenct, including US currency...so long as no debt is created. Should a debt be created, then I would have to accept some amount of US currency to settle it (though I am still not required to exclusively accept it).
Someone already made that joke :) LEO used to stand for Law Enforcement Officer aka the fuzz, bears, smokey, 5-0, po po, or my favorite: Pigs.
Clearly not true... lack of documentation is a bug. When is the last time you saw someone accompany it with a proper man page?
Actually, telling people what they can and can't do with the software running on their hardware is against the very spirit of the endeavor. Just because you have some special emotional reaction to guns doesn't mean others do. MANY linux users and developers are gun enthusiasts.
As for skill... whats your point?
Yes, I would consider this cheating in most competitions. This is like complaining that people use cheat codes in video games. Unless you are competing with them on score, who the fuck cares?
But its ok.... every other confession they have gotten was totally legit, as will the next ones.
I have seen claims that standard LEO questioning techniques have been found to be able to extract confessions in up to 90% of cases, totally independentally of the persons innocence or guilt.
Yet, confessions continue to be held up as meaning something.
Show me an artist and I will show you someone who wasn't afraid to make a few smears.
I don't see how any of this negates the argument that making the learning curve for getting started a little more shallow for those who need that could help more people learn to program. Its a useful skill, and frankly, I think a good one to learn. Teaches strong logical reasoning skills, is that not a good thing?
What is wrong with smoothing barriers to entry?
> This problem, for which AIG is biting back on, is most certainly manufactured by the banks.
Perhaps, but, these comments, follow a previous post which brought up entirely different and broader allegations. As such, I never implied nor stated otherwise. In fact, for the record.... Fuck AIG.
> Sadly, by law, Mr. Greenberg is correct. As an officer of a corporation your sole duty is to shareholders under
> penalty of imprisonment. Yeap, you read that right, by law, in the USA, corporations have to be sociopathic.
Making them beholden to the government isn't much better. Go back to the criticism of the banks...drug dealers? Who manufactured that problem? It wasn't the banks.
There is no evidence that I have seen that the government is any less sociopathic.
This question has already been answered....and the answer is...bad...
From wiki: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid )
To make a really off the wall analogy, I saw some interesting analsys of Al Queda, looking it as, essentially, a PR firm doing off the wall stunts. 9/11 was the end for them, they can't top it, and it set the bar for them so high that, they only have down to go from there.
Likewise, Microsoft has done it. My wife was just ranting about this when her new laptop came with windows 8.... Windows 7 was it. They finally did it. Windows works, and works pretty well. It has worked well for a few versions now. Remember when your windows install would accumulate so much crud that if you didn't reinstall it every 6 months it just got worst and worst? I dual boot for games mostly and, I can't even think of anything to complain about other than having to mess with non-obvious settings to get it working with samba.
What is there to do after it works? Look at Linus and the kernel. He was a much bigger rock star when the Kernel didn't fully work, and was rough around the edges. As time goes on, who pays much attention to the kernel anymore? The project is still there and worked on.... but the kenel is boring now, because its working, its done. Its just peripheral stuff where its interesting. Linus is still a rock star, everyone still knows who he is, but now he only makes the front page when there is some drama.
That fine for a project like the kenrel though. The kernel makes no money and has no employees. Many devs may be paid for their work, but, its not like its anybodies product.
Microsoft however, does have products, a whole ecosystem of them.... but alternatives exist. They built a platform and exploited it to make huge market share. They got their first, and profited from it. Now, there really is just nowhere to go, and everybody else is steadily making progress, eventually they catch up. They may have nowhere to go but down
> It's the southeast where you are libel to be asked 'are you a dipper or dunker' on first meeting (two
> different varieties of fundy).
I am curious about this. They are not the same? I did some google searching and found many references to "Dipper Dunker" or "Dunkers", but everything I found indicated this to be different terms for the same group.
However, I am from the godless Northeast where the only time I was ever asked about religion at work was by the pagan girl who just wanted to know if anyone else was going to be in the office for Yom Kippur, since most of the office was Jewish.