If all it took to bring down the largest military and economic power on the planet was a few airplanes flown into the side of buildings...
Yeah, 9-11 really brought the US "down". About two months later the Taliban were out of power in Afghanistan. Now OBL is shark bait, and Al Qaeda management positions are the least popular career move in the Muslim world.
Sure, the Oil Drummers told us "peak liquids" for years, and the word on the street now is the terminals we built to import LNG will soon be used to export it.
...it'll be "We'll wait for Win 9". And when MS hears that, Win 9 (or 10 or 11) will get pushed to open beta really damn quick
Well, Win 8 is all about non-resizeable tiles, so it's basically Win 1 all over again. So I figure it won't be until Win 12 that we get the Program Manager back, complete with editable PIF files. I'll wait for Win 13 when they come out with a version with a Start menu button in the lower left corner.
win 8 makes MS Bob look like a hit, surpassing even Vista on the "Get this damned thing off of here!" scale of pissed off users.
You'll change your tune soon enough when Microsoft accelerates their deadline for dropping support for 7 and forces everyone to migrate to Win8, codenamed "Jar-Jar".
Most Democrats think Mitt Romney himself to be a humanoid android sent from the Gamma quadrant in sector six by the richest 0.001% of the universe to alter the history
I think you've been spending too much time on LDS.org. How else would you know Kobol is in the Gamma quadrant?
Russia has claimed that a undersea mountain range crossing over the North Pole is part of the East Siberian Shelf, which if allowed gives them sovereignty over the North Pole
Moot point. Russia is a kleptocracy. They don't have the wherewithal to drill in deep water, and if a Western corporation got to the verge of making a platform on the North Pole pay off, Gazprom would move in with Pootie's blessing.
Eventually, the failure rates will decrease to the point that flash memory has comparable reliability to spinning disks. Possibly even better.
Puppy Linux refreshes the persistent save file on a USB stick about every half hour, so you're not doing continuous write cycles, but other distros can't do this. Puppy is small enough to run entirely in RAM, even 128 MB.
Recently Google Groups went off USENET for about week while they were fiddling with something, and the n00bs didn't even know. It was refreshing. But then Google came back online and all those posts in the queue were dumped on USENET, and it was September deja vu all over again.
NASA had a cluster of 10,240 Itaniums using the SGI Altix architecture, and it wasn't a weird, one-off hack.
They used it as a CGI render farm for their fake Mars rover program.
Sure, Linux is going to break out Real Soon Now. This box I'm using has two operating systems, they are stable, boot in seconds, they're clean as a whistle with no malware, and both of them have about 2% representation in the desktop population. One is Linux, and the other one is Win98SE.
I still remember the sense of pride I got when I figured out the Space Invaders strategy of shooting through my own shield to create a one bullet wide gap which could be used to pick off the invaders while staying relatively protected.
Sure, just like I "figured out" when you're playing Minesweeper and you enter xyzzy and hold down shift while you mouse over the minefield, one pixel in the top left corner of the screen lights up on a safe square.
We've convicted people of DUI for walking down the street. Seriously. It was upheld on the basis that he could have gotten in a motor vehicle, because he had his car keys on him. Bonus: The car didn't even run.
Shades of "The Minority Report." Too bad his lawyer didn't bring up the point that alcohol levels go down as time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future.
...computerized flash trading could result in a Dow Jones Industrial Average crash of 1,500 points or more with disastrous consequences.
Yeah, instead of the artificially inflated stock market we have now, the market would "crash" to realistic, sustainable values. What a disaster for the government, which relies on taxes on capital gains.
And how many of you Linux guys just chuck the UI and go for the command line because it's actually easier?
The very first thing I do when I configure a new distro is install Midnight Commander. Absolutely indispensable. But when I do use a window manager, it has to be Gnome. That's why when it comes to Ubuntu I'm stuck forever like a fly in amber at 10.04.
The US government will have plenty to fear if they don't boost taxes, paying off debt, and funding total obligation.
All my exes live on taxes. But if the government does nothing and falls off the so-called "fiscal cliff" on December 31, 2012 then in ten years, the deficit will be zero and the debt to GDP ratio will be below 50%. So a "do nothing Congress" would actually come in handy here.
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If all it took to bring down the largest military and economic power on the planet was a few airplanes flown into the side of buildings...
Yeah, 9-11 really brought the US "down". About two months later the Taliban were out of power in Afghanistan. Now OBL is shark bait, and Al Qaeda management positions are the least popular career move in the Muslim world.
Earth. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
But will Lance Armstrong submit to a blood test for oxygen microparticles?
Sure, the Oil Drummers told us "peak liquids" for years, and the word on the street now is the terminals we built to import LNG will soon be used to export it.
Heinlein said the answer to every question that begins with the word "why" is "money".
...it'll be "We'll wait for Win 9". And when MS hears that, Win 9 (or 10 or 11) will get pushed to open beta really damn quick
Well, Win 8 is all about non-resizeable tiles, so it's basically Win 1 all over again. So I figure it won't be until Win 12 that we get the Program Manager back, complete with editable PIF files. I'll wait for Win 13 when they come out with a version with a Start menu button in the lower left corner.
Hell, IT Departments are just now beginning to get off of XP
I'm on a DoD gummint network, but even they have had it up to here with XP. Next month they're going Mac.
win 8 makes MS Bob look like a hit, surpassing even Vista on the "Get this damned thing off of here!" scale of pissed off users.
You'll change your tune soon enough when Microsoft accelerates their deadline for dropping support for 7 and forces everyone to migrate to Win8, codenamed "Jar-Jar".
Klaatu Baracka Nikto.
Most Democrats think Mitt Romney himself to be a humanoid android sent from the Gamma quadrant in sector six by the richest 0.001% of the universe to alter the history
I think you've been spending too much time on LDS.org. How else would you know Kobol is in the Gamma quadrant?
Russia has claimed that a undersea mountain range crossing over the North Pole is part of the East Siberian Shelf, which if allowed gives them sovereignty over the North Pole
Moot point. Russia is a kleptocracy. They don't have the wherewithal to drill in deep water, and if a Western corporation got to the verge of making a platform on the North Pole pay off, Gazprom would move in with Pootie's blessing.
Eventually, the failure rates will decrease to the point that flash memory has comparable reliability to spinning disks. Possibly even better.
Puppy Linux refreshes the persistent save file on a USB stick about every half hour, so you're not doing continuous write cycles, but other distros can't do this. Puppy is small enough to run entirely in RAM, even 128 MB.
Recently Google Groups went off USENET for about week while they were fiddling with something, and the n00bs didn't even know. It was refreshing. But then Google came back online and all those posts in the queue were dumped on USENET, and it was September deja vu all over again.
NASA had a cluster of 10,240 Itaniums using the SGI Altix architecture, and it wasn't a weird, one-off hack. They used it as a CGI render farm for their fake Mars rover program.
Sure, Linux is going to break out Real Soon Now. This box I'm using has two operating systems, they are stable, boot in seconds, they're clean as a whistle with no malware, and both of them have about 2% representation in the desktop population. One is Linux, and the other one is Win98SE.
JFK: "We will go to the moon."
Obama: "We will not go to the moon."
Obama is dismantling missile defense, and wants people to drive their cars on the sidewalk, but he can handle an alien invasion better? Check!
I still remember the sense of pride I got when I figured out the Space Invaders strategy of shooting through my own shield to create a one bullet wide gap which could be used to pick off the invaders while staying relatively protected.
Sure, just like I "figured out" when you're playing Minesweeper and you enter xyzzy and hold down shift while you mouse over the minefield, one pixel in the top left corner of the screen lights up on a safe square.
We've convicted people of DUI for walking down the street. Seriously. It was upheld on the basis that he could have gotten in a motor vehicle, because he had his car keys on him. Bonus: The car didn't even run.
Shades of "The Minority Report." Too bad his lawyer didn't bring up the point that alcohol levels go down as time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future.
Just wait until they make replicators and Earl Gray starts charging you every time you tell the replicator to fix a hot cuppa.
Wheat thins. Whooeeat thins. Wheat thins...
...welcome our Diebold voting machine overlords.
...computerized flash trading could result in a Dow Jones Industrial Average crash of 1,500 points or more with disastrous consequences. Yeah, instead of the artificially inflated stock market we have now, the market would "crash" to realistic, sustainable values. What a disaster for the government, which relies on taxes on capital gains.
And how many of you Linux guys just chuck the UI and go for the command line because it's actually easier?
The very first thing I do when I configure a new distro is install Midnight Commander. Absolutely indispensable. But when I do use a window manager, it has to be Gnome. That's why when it comes to Ubuntu I'm stuck forever like a fly in amber at 10.04.
I completely agree with his assessment
640 kilopixels should be enough for everybody.
The US government will have plenty to fear if they don't boost taxes, paying off debt, and funding total obligation.
All my exes live on taxes. But if the government does nothing and falls off the so-called "fiscal cliff" on December 31, 2012 then in ten years, the deficit will be zero and the debt to GDP ratio will be below 50%. So a "do nothing Congress" would actually come in handy here.