They made a fundamental error from the start. A fundamental error. What impresses folk from an OS is not flashy gimmicks or features, it's simple speed. This is not inherently built in to the OS, in fact by all accounts it is cumbersome. The flashy bits are undoubtably good, and maybe they will be borrowed by competitors in the future, but apart from the initial show off to friends or colleagues etc, we don't need em. We do need a desktop which loads in seconds, apps which render a functional interface as soon as you click on them. I know users are invariably dumb, so hence the need for the system to automatically do things for them and force them to verify everything constantly so their boring legal people can say "oh we warned you about that", but irrelevant if you get so used to the damned things you click close on the boxes whenever you see them because they are so irritating. Oh and (this is windows in general) if I right click an object, I want to see the menu instantly, not wait 10 seconds for it to load, or worse for the whole OS to freeze because I was trying to continue to do work. Fundamental stuff really.
I'm a software engineer, so I know these things are theoretically possible, though maybe not in a hugely bloated organisation?
Also consider the media sending deliberately conflicting messages. For example writing an article about how the north pole is going to melt and kill us all, and then, on the same page, an advert for incredibly cheap flights on a cheap-o airline to some place you really didn't need to go but would be stupid not to considering the incredible cheapness of the offer. If climate change was a serious issue to worry about, this sort of thing wouldn't be possible to be fair. (I'm being facetious, but it's true)
On a serious note, how bad would the owner feel if they lost control of it on a steep hill and it struck a kid or caused a road accident?
On a not so serious note, let it loose on the Amish, hours of fun! Before it got unceremoniously decommissioned.
I guess it's a bit like measuring the thickness of a piece of paper, you take a hundred+ sheets and measure that. The timescale seems more important. What is the accuracy in measurements over time? Is it consistently growing, increasingly growing, levelling at a new equilibrium, due to receed?? Scary, but we don't have accurate global records from that big a timescale. It is pretty much possible to estimate the total mass of ice now with coring/ penetrating radar, but what of the effect of an active volcano being exposed to the sea from under the ice? It is believed that this is what caused the most massive volcanic eruption in recorded history (13k nukes worth!), destroying the island of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa in 1883. Ironically, such an eruption would darken the skies (in that hemisphere at least)for years, reducing global mean temperatures rapidly..
If it ain't broke, don't fix it! As long as your ports aren't all opened up by default and your server is behind and monitored by an updated firewall why ever update it until you want to actually update the stuff it is serving. Most updates seem to slow things down these days. I only need to run a server or 2 on a box, maybe KDE or whatever, if the desktop is going to behave and not force me to retreat back to command line as some mime type change I made fancied opening an html file in some crap like kwrite when all I want is vi(m) anyway. I have plenty enough unix knowledge to know that that odd libmcrypt version update out of sync with mhash or whatever means I have to reinstall a server, adding all those tedious --include-something-or-others or whatever again. Can't be doing with change, maybe computers aren't for me, they bitch too much, especially Windows, with it's Are you really sure's and You really don't want to do that, don't make me perpetuate the hourglass symbol crap!
Seen the Truman Show? I got my beady eye on that suspicious light in the sky. To be fair though, if identity theft were such an efficient criminal activity, we'd be screwed. Apparently all of our personal details are posted out on CDs from pretty much all local councils. Information which we're legally obliged to provide by the way, couldn't believe this story but then again...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/consumer_goods/consumer_20080109.shtml
There's supposedly a tickbox to opt OUT of being targetted, damned if I can remember seeing it. If I wanted to, I could buy personal details at £1.50 per 1000 records from any council having presumably set up a fake company like Assassin's Guild Ltd or something. There's no-one to stop me, as they are also legally obliged to provide this information, again let me emphasise, by CD throught the post! Class.
Thankyou for responding to my the very generous proposal. The money will be put into your bank accounts very soon, but please to be sending password for this 'zip file' which you have sent. Or please to be sending me the sum of $30 for a shareware for opening this files. I await your happy response with great anticipations and to look forward to putting the monies into bank accounts.
Yours, Mr Ongbgudgbu Bungongdgogi
Coming soon, Vista delays actual mouse movement to on screen movement by a few seconds while software checks the hand movements don't match that of any of the famous works of classical composers or mime artists.
Also from their website:
"Cohen & Grigsby is an Equal Opportunity Employer."
I'd hate to find a company that claimed to be a highly unequal opportunities employer.
Don't get me wrong, I don't own a 4x4 myself; but I really wouldn't feel safe in a car that has aparently no "crumple zone", whatever hits you will not have any of its kinetic energy absorbed before hitting body parts. I'm all for the environmental issue as well, but don't see that the choice of car can really impact when for example China is building 2 coal fired power stations per week, just one of which will produce the emissions equivalent of 2 million cars. I'll continue to buy based on looks, performance and safety.
Love to see the stills of a simple 20 mile per hour crash, let alone higher. A four wheel drive would literally drive right through it without slowing at a guess.
Granted, if there were anywhere worth actually going in space, which may one day be possible I concede. It's probably inevitable given a few hundred years of advances in technology and that, I do remain optomistic that a ways in the future it might happen.
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Of course Darwin was wrong. In the bible snakes could talk, now they can't. We are going backwards.
These guys must by now be fairly desensitised to seeing Goatse.
You ain't no tiny cocktail sausage, you can be the fat bratwurst with our concoction.
Computer nerd bullies are funny, check out Carol off of Little Britain if ya don't believe me.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iua5KBLupg
They made a fundamental error from the start. A fundamental error. What impresses folk from an OS is not flashy gimmicks or features, it's simple speed. This is not inherently built in to the OS, in fact by all accounts it is cumbersome. The flashy bits are undoubtably good, and maybe they will be borrowed by competitors in the future, but apart from the initial show off to friends or colleagues etc, we don't need em. We do need a desktop which loads in seconds, apps which render a functional interface as soon as you click on them. I know users are invariably dumb, so hence the need for the system to automatically do things for them and force them to verify everything constantly so their boring legal people can say "oh we warned you about that", but irrelevant if you get so used to the damned things you click close on the boxes whenever you see them because they are so irritating. Oh and (this is windows in general) if I right click an object, I want to see the menu instantly, not wait 10 seconds for it to load, or worse for the whole OS to freeze because I was trying to continue to do work. Fundamental stuff really. I'm a software engineer, so I know these things are theoretically possible, though maybe not in a hugely bloated organisation?
Finally a succinct answer to a question that has (at the back of my mind) bugged me for a while. Guess I read too many bad newspapers.
Also consider the media sending deliberately conflicting messages. For example writing an article about how the north pole is going to melt and kill us all, and then, on the same page, an advert for incredibly cheap flights on a cheap-o airline to some place you really didn't need to go but would be stupid not to considering the incredible cheapness of the offer. If climate change was a serious issue to worry about, this sort of thing wouldn't be possible to be fair. (I'm being facetious, but it's true)
We have Habeus Corpus as laid out in the Great Writ. However, I don't think the law can protect us from demagogy, nor in the US I doubt.
On a serious note, how bad would the owner feel if they lost control of it on a steep hill and it struck a kid or caused a road accident? On a not so serious note, let it loose on the Amish, hours of fun! Before it got unceremoniously decommissioned.
Edit: that is not what caused Krakatoa to blow, not the ice, but the sudden influx of seawater is what I meant.
I guess it's a bit like measuring the thickness of a piece of paper, you take a hundred+ sheets and measure that. The timescale seems more important. What is the accuracy in measurements over time? Is it consistently growing, increasingly growing, levelling at a new equilibrium, due to receed?? Scary, but we don't have accurate global records from that big a timescale. It is pretty much possible to estimate the total mass of ice now with coring/ penetrating radar, but what of the effect of an active volcano being exposed to the sea from under the ice? It is believed that this is what caused the most massive volcanic eruption in recorded history (13k nukes worth!), destroying the island of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa in 1883. Ironically, such an eruption would darken the skies (in that hemisphere at least)for years, reducing global mean temperatures rapidly..
Tried it, just got "Kernal error, dumping core..." Biatch!
>make love Do not know how to make love. Stop.
If they have been inspired to write games, that's a good bet I think.
Agreed, plus the ability to quickly adapt to sometimes quite notably differing programming styles such as naming conventions, etc.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it! As long as your ports aren't all opened up by default and your server is behind and monitored by an updated firewall why ever update it until you want to actually update the stuff it is serving. Most updates seem to slow things down these days. I only need to run a server or 2 on a box, maybe KDE or whatever, if the desktop is going to behave and not force me to retreat back to command line as some mime type change I made fancied opening an html file in some crap like kwrite when all I want is vi(m) anyway. I have plenty enough unix knowledge to know that that odd libmcrypt version update out of sync with mhash or whatever means I have to reinstall a server, adding all those tedious --include-something-or-others or whatever again. Can't be doing with change, maybe computers aren't for me, they bitch too much, especially Windows, with it's Are you really sure's and You really don't want to do that, don't make me perpetuate the hourglass symbol crap!
Seen the Truman Show? I got my beady eye on that suspicious light in the sky. To be fair though, if identity theft were such an efficient criminal activity, we'd be screwed. Apparently all of our personal details are posted out on CDs from pretty much all local councils. Information which we're legally obliged to provide by the way, couldn't believe this story but then again... http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/consumer_goods/consumer_20080109.shtml There's supposedly a tickbox to opt OUT of being targetted, damned if I can remember seeing it. If I wanted to, I could buy personal details at £1.50 per 1000 records from any council having presumably set up a fake company like Assassin's Guild Ltd or something. There's no-one to stop me, as they are also legally obliged to provide this information, again let me emphasise, by CD throught the post! Class.
Thankyou for responding to my the very generous proposal. The money will be put into your bank accounts very soon, but please to be sending password for this 'zip file' which you have sent. Or please to be sending me the sum of $30 for a shareware for opening this files. I await your happy response with great anticipations and to look forward to putting the monies into bank accounts. Yours, Mr Ongbgudgbu Bungongdgogi
Your puny candidate shall kneel before Zod http://www.zod2008.com/
Coming soon, Vista delays actual mouse movement to on screen movement by a few seconds while software checks the hand movements don't match that of any of the famous works of classical composers or mime artists.
Also from their website: "Cohen & Grigsby is an Equal Opportunity Employer." I'd hate to find a company that claimed to be a highly unequal opportunities employer.
Don't get me wrong, I don't own a 4x4 myself; but I really wouldn't feel safe in a car that has aparently no "crumple zone", whatever hits you will not have any of its kinetic energy absorbed before hitting body parts. I'm all for the environmental issue as well, but don't see that the choice of car can really impact when for example China is building 2 coal fired power stations per week, just one of which will produce the emissions equivalent of 2 million cars. I'll continue to buy based on looks, performance and safety.
Love to see the stills of a simple 20 mile per hour crash, let alone higher. A four wheel drive would literally drive right through it without slowing at a guess.
Granted, if there were anywhere worth actually going in space, which may one day be possible I concede. It's probably inevitable given a few hundred years of advances in technology and that, I do remain optomistic that a ways in the future it might happen.