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“They have to keep taking the exaggerations up a notch. Becoming more shrill and loony until you have people say goofy stuff like Windows 2000 should be good enough for everyone or that MS is “over”.

They start to sound like cartoons.”

Hmmm. I believe that is exactly what you’re doing in your argument. You start off with the huge exaggeration that it’s all about cascading menus verses tiles. And then you go on a shrill ad-hominem attack about how everyone that disagrees with your position is “goofy” and ‘loony”.

When it’s really about the lack of need for a new desktop paradigm and all the undiscoverable gestures needed to work their new paradigm and all the completely unnecessary retraining to perform tasks that people already know how to do that that entails. And about MS’s desire to lock everyone into a walled garden model. But since they know everyone would rebel if they transitioned directly to a walled garden, they’ve decided to do it in stages. First they just introduce an app store, but they don’t close all the sidechannels. Another release or two down the line when they have enough customers locked in then they’ll close off all the sidechannels and be a true walled garden.

We all know it’s not really about cascading drop down menus verses tiles, because anyone that hated cascading drop down menus and prefers having buttons all over their home screen could achieve the same effect by dropping application icons all over their desktop in the old paradigm. So there was no need for a paradigm shift to achieve that.

And frankly, I doubt that very many experienced users use the menus to launch apps very often anyways. I think most people don’t launch apps directly, they “launch” documents. Because navigating to a document in the file dialog of an app is generally a pain in the ass., especially when it’s buried out on a server, most people tend to navigate to the file outside of the app by various means, either via the “recently used” menu or by dropping a link on their desktop. And for those apps that aren’t about manipulating documents, they either drop an icon on their desktop or use the recently used apps menu or install a dock app to contain their “favorite” apps.

The menu isn’t really there for experienced users that have already customized their machines. It’s for discover-ability. So that when I jump on j6p’s machine that I’ve never used before, I can easily discover everything he has installed on his machine.

And MS easily could have made application icons on the desktop have dynamic data displayed in them just like tiles, if they really wanted to. They didn’t have to completely redesign the desktop to achieve that. So it’s obviously not about that either.

And we know it’s certainly not about productivity because nothing in the new paradigm makes workers any more productive than they were under the old paradigm.

So stop with shrill and loony BS that this about menus vs tiles.

Well, if what the one guy said is true and the kid put a flier in the mailbox then he’s committed at least one federal crime.

And I wonder how many state and federal child labor laws he’s breaking.

And then there’s probably a bunch of licensing and bonding regulations he’s probably violating. Maybe even a zoning violation for running a business out of his residence.

As well as failure to pay taxes and fees such as unemployment insurance and worker comp. And next year he’ll need to either buy heath insurance or pay the fine (err tax).

/sarcasm

He’s obviously a liar since the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) having been telling us for decades now about how all the frogs have all died off due to pollution.

The reason the “incline” has pooped out is very easy to explain.

It’s because the leftist that are doing the data collection have reached the limits of fudging the data that can be accomplished while still keeping a straight face.

If you’ve ever seen how “official temperature” data is collected, you’ve seen that it’s full of opportunities to fudge the data in any direction you want, but after a couple of degrees F, you run out of fudging space.

I’ve seen “official” temperature report in the Phoenix Metro area that have differed by as much as 9F on days where there was NO front system at all moving through. There aren’t any microclimates in the VAlley of the Sun, so either the data collectors are wildly incompetent or they’re fudging the data and since the trend is always hotter, odds are they’re fudging the data.

But at this point, they’ve fudged it as far as they can without it being blatently fake. So the incline has leveled off.

The reason the “incline” has pooped out is very easy to explain.

It’s because the leftist that are doing the data collection have reached the limits of fudging the data that can be accomplished while still keeping a straight face.

If you’ve ever seen how “official temperature” data is collected, you’ve seen that it’s full of opportunities to fudge the data in any direction you want, but after a couple of degrees F, you run out of fudging space.

I’ve seen “official” temperature report in the Phoenix Metro area that have differed by as much as 9F on days where there was NO front system at all moving through. There aren’t any microclimates in the VAlley of the Sun, so either the data collectors are wildly incompetent or they’re fudging the data and since the trend is always hotter, odds are they’re fudging the data.

But at this point, they’ve fudged it as far as they can without it being blatently fake. So the incline has leveled off.

I forgot to mention, the real nastiness of porting to another architecture usually isn’t the assembly code, it’s the differences in endianness and type sizes of the compilers.

Unless the original author of the code went out of his way to insure that the code could be ported to a compiler for an arch that has different type sizes and endianness, the code will be filled full of bugs when ported. This is especially true of C-code.

I’ve worked on a project where we were required to write C-code that worked regardless of the endianness and the type sizes so from first-hand experience I can say it’s a lot of extra effort. OTOH, I’d recommend everyone still do it because it actually makes your code a lot more robust. You’ll be amazed at how many little bugs get exposed when you port your code to a CPU with a different word size and endianness.

“It was also determined that most of the Assembly code has little value. “

I guessing he meant it is not worth porting since the code itself obviously has a lot of value for the architecture it was written for and they already have code for the target arch.

But other than that sentence, no surprises. Most of the assembly code is in the kernel or in low level libraries like gstreamer and ffmpeg.

So there’s dozens of multimedia apps for Linux, but none of them have assembly code because they all use some low level library that handles all the nasty performance issues.

ZFS is really meant to be used with arrays of drives and just like a hardware RAID controllers, it generates EDAC (error-detection and correction) data and spreads it across all the drives in the array. Using the EDAC data an entire drive can be rebuilt. The penalties being about 20% extra space used by the EDAC data and it being painfully slow to rebuild a big drive.

ZFS also has a bunch of other features including live drive snapshotting. For a more of a “backup” type of feature.

But, the features are really more about “uptime” then about backing up. Just like in RAID5 or RAID6, you can have one or two drives in an array completely fail and ZFS will stay up while rebuilding the replacement drive(s). And you’re more likely to know when a drive is starting to act wonky than with a hardware RAID controller due to the extra testing that ZFS does.

All that being said, ZFS is big resource hog if you need all it’s fancy features. For example, IIRC, they recommend a minimum of 1GB of RAM for every 1TB of drive space when using all the features. So the RAM requirements are pretty hefty for a large array. And it pays to have an blindingly fast CPU with lots of cores if you ever have to rebuild a drive.

I for one, am all for anything that stops the degenerate Hill-Billie line of genes from propagating.

If this is what it takes to prevent Chelsea from procreating, I say HIP, HIP, HOORAY!

Yeah, it’s really a moot point talking about the quality of our tanks in WW2, especially when it was our aircraft that were the real tank busters in WW2, like the Thunderbolt and especially the Lightning with it’s 20mm cannon firing down on the weak upper armor of the German tanks.

When the Soviets refused to take any of our tanks or artillery and said, just send us every deuce and a half truck and that you can, it should have been really obvious that all of our tanks and artillery pieces stunk.

We had from ‘42 to ‘44 to do something about it, but too many people were in denial.

“If it lays an egg withing and egg, can they use it to make me an omelet within an omelet?”

Nah...you gotta break some eggs to make an omelet.

Yeah, an omelet isn’t a good challenge. Let’s see them make a poached egg within a poached egg.

Paltrow sure wasn’t avoiding carbs when she went on that PBS food tour of Spain with Mario Batali and NYT food critic Mark Bittman. (BTW, the spains actress in that series, who’s name escapes me, was smoking hot).

Paltrow sure stuffed her face full of the most exotic and expensive fare that Spain has to offer including gallons of wine and spanish paella which is full of rice.

““We would like to apologize to these deans. However, we would also like to add a few comments. Seriously, Dean Wormer, are you the only person in the state who didn’t know your old lady is fooling around on you? And Dean McJeanDean, your son is as gay as a snake, and almost lives at the men’s bathhouse on Oak Street. And finally, Dean Hfuhruhurr, we know all about your previous conviction as an enema bandit, and your penchant for fat girls; truthfully, we don’t care.””

My problem with this post is that you seem to assume that WASPs with names like Wormer and McJeanDean can actually become Deans at Harvard these days. The only name that makes sense is Hfuhruhurr since it appears to be a non-jewish minority name.

And AFA being ‘an enema bandit with a penchant for fat girls’, that would actually be considered a resume enhancement rather than just being ignored.

;-)

OK, I’ll admit it, I have no idea what this is about other than it has something to do with the Zimmerman case.

Could someone please give a short “who, what, where, when, why” summary. All in a single paragraph just like a professional news article.

Lol. Shakespeare should have used that tactic in Hamlet. All those poisoned items at the end were really tedious (or perhaps it would fit better in Othello).

If I were the owner/manager I’d file criminal vandalism charges and refuse to drop them and get restraining orders preventing them and their parents and siblings from ever entering the store again.

“The organization worked on milliwave and infrared laser radars... “

Hmmmm. That makes me wonder what happens if you light one of these trucks up with a Laser Speed Gun. Would it effectively jam the truck’s laser detectors?

Oh, and if the infrared laser on the trucks interfere with the operation of laser speed guns or if the millimeter wave radar interferes with the old style speed guns then these trucks will never make it past the bureaucratic hand wringers.

“If that retirement account is calling your name, a financial expert advises you to stop listening.”

Yeah, don’t bother to pay those bills at all, I’m sure the judge will rule in your favor when you get sued by your creditors while sitting on a bunch of money in an IRA. /sarc

The BSA should sue both of them for “bad faith” for signing contracts that they had no intention of fulfilling.