Posts by asdf 6570 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2007
You leave a true Patriot like John alone. Who cares if he was such a privileged f__k up that he finished last in his military school class and ended being a crappy pilot who got shot down? Who cares if his grandfather due to incompetence was as responsible as anyone for the worse naval defeat the US had in WW2 (Battle of Savo Island)? That man is royalty and Keating 5 scandal aside we should worship the ground he walks on.
Somebody must have forgotten to give old man McCain his daily meds. McCain is proof that if you torture and brain wash a POW long and hard enough you can make anybody not only crazy but all for war in every case no matter what as well. John's just mad the NSA didn't come up with more dirt to justify bombing Syria.
In the 1960s people did have more loyalty to their companies because the companies didn't do the new CEO once a year to lay off thousands to get his quick bonus and once crap hits fan he gets his golden parachute routine. People were laid off back then as a last resort. The difference I believe has been the sociopathic generation of the Baby Boomers (I got to get mine screw the grandkids) joining leadership ranks.
Yeah the RIAA and ilk probably blame piracy for Netflix actually bringing content to the people under reasonable terms. At least now some of the companies that are members of these umbrella organizations have realized they are nothing but sue happy extortion units that do little to stop piracy but do piss off their good customers. The companies that have backed away from DRM are the smart ones in the long term. When DRM becomes even a little intrusive to the good legal customers (which it very often does if not done very carefully) the resentment will affect future sales. Goodwill matters in business.
The muppet US SCOTUS can't hide behind the technicality that there is not public information anyone was spied on this time. What's more disgusting than the security apparatus building up a house of cards and cocoon of lies, was the judiciary going along with it all the way to the top. The Patriot Act a century from now will be looked at in the same light as Japanese American internment in WW2 and the Separate but Equal decision from more than 100 years ago is looked at today. The Baby Boomer generation legacy of fear and greed.
Yeah my new adopted state gets lots of bad press due to some of our bat s h * t crazy politicians but the state is beautiful and one of a kind. Its not all desert with only barrel cactus and tumble weed. Grand Canyon and also mountain beauty can be found in the northern part of the state. And the Phoenix area is one of the best cities in the country to get stuff done with all the semiconductor plants and such in the area.
>No, sadly it's only about cushy well paid careers and big fat pay checks for minimum effort.
Be careful painting with that broad brush. I have seen Baby Boomer coders that even after many decades weren't worth a shit and have also left nothing but a lifetime of spaghetti code behind every job they hopped after a few years.
>You are not really updated.
Didn't see the caveat about WDDM huh? My whole point is that is a modern addition and not part of Dave Cutlers work 20 years ago. He was extremely disappointed when he was overruled by management and the graphics drivers weren't required to be user space (largely the same management that thought embedding a web browser deep in a OS was a great idea). As for Linux vs Windows stability its sacrilege but today they are largely the same in my experience (Linux though still allows you to run any desktop environment you wish which is why I prefer). Microsoft has come a long ways because they have been pushed some by Mac OS and Linux and because they finally did learn their lesson about stability and security being as important as marketing and cozy OEM relationships (which they have been burning lately).
> Open VMS lives on in the architecture of Windows NT
Except for a whole bunch of differences that mattered like putting graphics drivers in kernel space which has always been one of NT's Achilles heel (but also necessary for the gamers and partially alleviated with modern WDDM). I am not sure of the numbers but I think people would be amazed how many blue screens are due to poorly written 3rd party drivers (and hardware failures themselves of course) as opposed to poorly written Microsoft code (some there too though especially in past).
Something to be said about being the last generation (probably) to use vi. Ridiculous to learn (unless you came from ed and the line editor world) but once you do you never have to worry about file editing in virtually any Unix ever again. Worse you find everything else to be less efficient.
> they were upgraded as the more powerful engine became available. I know it was a Pratt & Whitney
Yeah to me the most impressive part of the SR71 was the power plant. Hell that damn thing is mostly engine with a tiny bit of aircraft wrapped around them and the cockpit. The J58 was an engine the US government somehow in the late 1950s used the Area 51 alien ship to go ten years into the future to bring back. Just kidding but it was seriously ahead of its time. Hell early in the decade we could barely do Mach 1.
The SR71 though may well have helped turn the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
"On October 13 and 15, Egyptian air defense radars detected an aircraft at an altitude of 25,000 metres (82,000 ft) and a speed of Mach 3, making it impossible to intercept either by fighter or SAM missiles. The aircraft proceeded to cross the whole of the canal zone, the naval ports of the Red Sea (Hurghada and Safaga), flew over the airbases and air defenses in the Nile delta, and finally disappeared from radar screens over the Mediterranean Sea. The speed and altitude were those of the US SR-71 Blackbird, a long-range strategic-reconnaissance aircraft (yeah as if this sentence is necessary, what else could it be in 1973). According to Egyptian commanders, the intelligence provided by the reconnaissance flights helped the Israelis prepare for the Egyptian attack on October 14 and assisted it in conducting Operation Stouthearted Men"
Hope you are not talking about GCHQ. The Brits on here love ripping on evil America and blaming our stupid government (yes its pretty obvious to the whole world its broken) for everything but is there a bigger enabler to the US than the UK government? Spy on our people and we'll spy on yours, wink wink.
Exactly right Hud. AC 17:43 like most others of his ilk is looking to have his cake and eat it too. Most of the too good to be true offshore opportunities are gone and the long term costs of doing so are finally come home to roost so they are looking for the next best thing. You can smell the Tea Bagger right wing crazy just below the surface of the post as well.
The tech "surge" and bringing in experts at the 11th hour to save the day makes me think everything won't be rosy by the end of November. Sounds like someone in the administration needs to read The Mythical Man Month. You know that new fangled book describing this exact kind of situation that is older than the majority of readers on here.
> An entrepreneur might start a business, through hard work and at risk to himself, and end up providing livelihoods for hundreds of families, as well as his own.
Or he might be a trust fund baby who makes a living off the interest or far worse like that Max factor heir who drugged and raped and filmed women for years before he ran to Mexico and used his money to buy safety for awhile.
Not to step on your rant but you do know with Wine, VMWare or Virtual Box your host OS is not the be all end all any more right? If you absolutely have to have MS Office it has ran on Wine for a long time now and ever longer with VMWare. Wine will even play a majority of Windows games well these day (PlayOnLinux for the win). Actually for its market share the *nix app ecosystem is surprisingly good. It not a real big surprise that many commercial apps are not available for LInux for the same reason the WP app store sucks. Developers pay close attention to market share when going to the effort to develop or port an app.
>Let's say KDE is bloated because it refuses to be stuck in 1999.
So you need bloaty to be modern because bloat is the future, ah ok. I think you need to also put Win98 in a VM and see what DE in 1999 really looked like. Even LXDE from five years ago is far more modern and functional.
>some people don't understand you don't have to install EVERYTHING like a check box monkey.
Yes yes of course. Still I find the phrase bare bones KDE to be rather amusing. To each his own. Lot of people swear by KDE even through its FUBAR phase. At least the devs listened to the users eventually unlike the clueless Gnome people as of late.
> Keep the old stuff functional, why throw out cash for new equipment
How dare you heretic the Apple folks would respond. Don't you know you have to refresh your bling every few years or you can't be in the hipster club? I am with you though. I have a 2007 Mac Pro desktop that even though Apple doesn't want to support anymore Mint Linux does just great on it. It doesn't hurt Mint is better than Mac OS for what I use it for anyway. Windows is for running in a VM only.
He might have had a point in 1995 when you had to worry about entering refresh timings for your CRT in XFree86 config text files before you even got a working GUI (praying you didn't trash your monitor) or having to spend a weekend crossing your fingers that you could compile in a device driver that worked with your modem before you then spent hours getting PPP working but those days are long gone. Seriously these days on any decent distro you can just delete the xterm icons if you feel like it.
>Then KDE should be the market killer for Mint!
I assume you mean Cinnamon as of course there is a Mint KDE (and Mate and XFCE) version as well. [Holy War Alert:] That said KDE has always been bloated and often times the snappiness of the DE along with the ease of workflows needed to get shit done with it are of more value to many than a bazillion unused features or an entire software ecosystem pretending to be a DE. But at least with *nix each can have his own.
Granted ET is no Big Rigs Over the Road Racing (the true worst game ever which looks more like a failing undergrad student project than a real game) but Big Rigs didn't fill up a landfill in the New Mexico desert. I agree its a symptom instead of the disease but even at the time me and my 10yo friends were like W T F?! when ET came out.
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