has become the US Congress. Never have I seen so many get paid so much to do so little. They better wake up soon, otherwise a torch bearing mob may did it for them.
We need to push them off the physical cliff!
I think the mobile phones are the easy part, the hard part will be the 'other devices' which presumably will include landlines.
"Rural phone companies are the victim here,” Steve Head says. “They charge a higher rate to terminate calls as it costs more for them. Shoreham Tel gets beat up because everyone calls them and says something is wrong with your system, but it’s not. We’ve been through all of their lines and equipment and there is nothing wrong with it; it’s the least-cost routing carriers."
That's nothing, I could tell you what the Milky Way is made of.
Here's the list of ingredients.
Not sure what you mean by "kicked to the curb", but OS X Java is still maintained by Apple.
Not completely. Apple maintains Java for Mac OS X through version 6. Oracle took over starting with version 7. It's not clear how long Apple will continue to provide updates for version 6, though.
Apple stopped including it as a default install with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), I believe.
But instead of getting each of two kids an iPad, a single Kindle Fire for both is viable...
I'm guessing that you don't have two (or more) kids. Share is typically not in their vocabulary.
Also, I forgot about Reader until something asked me to update it. I promptly deleted it, but where did the updater spawn from?
I fired up Reader yesterday and it popped up that there was an update, so I told it to go ahead. Then a dialog came that that it needed to restart to finish the update. I clicked 'Restart' thinking that Reader was going to restart. No, it restarted my fscking PC! Reader needs to DIAF! And it's updater!
It it increases by the same factor of 7.57 over three years then in under 21 years you will all have renounced your US citizenship. Of course that is exceeding unlikely to happen but this is why you need to be concerned about large factor increases even when the numbers are small because they can grow very fast - although I don't see any reason to suspect that such a huge growth factor will be maintained.
Oblig XKCD
In addition, it's generally a good assumption that productivity at a company will follow a normal distribution, in which case the median and the mean have the same value.
No, not at my company. We're all above average!
Apple stopped installing Java with Lion. But if you attempt to run a Java app you get a prompt asking if you want to install Java. I believe that is still the Apple Java implementation, with Apple still handling the updates.
In fall 2010, Apple announced that they were stopping their in-house Java development and was putting their support into OpenJDK. It looks like that is targeting Java SE 7, so I think that Apple must be continuing their Java development in house until that is released. So perhaps Apple is in the middle of the transition from in-house to OpenJDK; that could have caused the delay in the last Java update.
As a side note, Apple is not the only vendor to have their own Java. If you go to the Oracle Java download page it lists only Windows, Solaris and Linux versions. IBM and HP do their own. Looks like IBM spun their update quickly after Oracle, but HP took about a month for their update.
The idea of the Time Machine is good, but it's not well executed. From deleting old backups automatically for space (I might want to save some of those old things)
If you have something you want to keep, keep it. Don't depend on TM to know that you want it. The deleting old backups is a tradeoff; would you rather it fail to run a new backup due to lack of space?
to using a nth degree differential backups that depend on the root and the entire backup tree to work...
That's not the way TM works. No diffs are involved at all. It creates hards links to files/folders that didn't change since the last backup. You can delete older backups and files in it that have hard links from newer backups will be retained.
Each time it runs you risk corrupting something so bad the backups will be worthless. I'd rather apple would let me chose folders and just do full zipped/encrypted copies of those I choose. Time Machine just lulls most into a false sense of security
I won't dispute that TM can get corrupted. But you certainly can set up your own backup mechanism of files of your choice.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
