Showing people that we care about each other should happen all the time, that's true.
Don't know about the gift-giving thing. There are ways to show that you care that don't involve how much money you throw at someone (and sometimes even if you do care about them a great deal, some are difficult to buy things for). To me, some nice words and a bit of time together are worth hundreds of the "things" we exchange.
... as like the things that fly through them (planes).
On average and statistically, the safest (it's got true industry experts in safety and security behind it precisely because their business relies on it - in-house usually hasn't)
But when something does go wrong, it affects a lot of people and makes a mess.
Watch out for the Kazon. And the Vidiians. And species 8472. And the Borg.
Yeah it's that point about lack of demo for me. That seems to be the norm now that we have all the "app store" distribution models (iTunes Store, Steam etc). You're supposed to just "know" if a game is any good, that it will work well on your PC properly etc and gamble £30-50 on it. No thanks - if they can't be arsed to make a demo, I'll make my own.
Of course, once you've got a pirated version working it's up to discipline and morals to buy it. I would, but tend to be in the minority (I'm the sort of person who drives the speed limit. Almost no one does that). Maybe writing demos would help reduce it a little, or maybe there's not enough "pirated it for a demo and now I have it I might as well keep it" activity to justify the cost of making one which is their choice.
Whether this is the "real" Anonymous or not (how can something that has no set identity be real or not?), they're kind of getting out of hand.
Sometimes they have an agreeable cause (in my opinion, but that's just the thing, it's an opinion) but all the people calling for regulation and full traceability of the internet will be pointing at this "Anonymous" lot and saying "That's why".
They like to make themselves feared, but it's just going to drive more people towards wanting to do anything to protect the internet / their children / etc from them.
Is to search for what I actually ask for. Don't search for what you *thought* I meant. Don't search for all those synonyms unless I ask you to. Just. Search. For. What. I. Typed. In. Dammit.
I shouldn't have to force that by putting quotes around everything - it should be default, or at the very least a cookie.
And also ban boardreader.com and all these other crappy sites that overtake the real discussion search results with their ads and middle man tactics.
And those spam sites that somehow read your query and come back with "searching for {whatever I typed in}? Click here!"
Please and thank you, and I will stop with my increasing habit of resorting to Bing (though that suffers from some of these things too but seems marginally better) to get my work done.
I think it's a fracking nuisance
I recently said on another story's comments that brands are important because you can tell known good stuff from bad, but that some just abuse the fame of a brand (which got to where it was by being great) to produce overpriced crap.
The new Amiga is one of those cases.
Go on, how much will this Atom based netbook be... £1500? No thanks. Frankly, shove it.
Good points on both sides... the thing is, it's all about knowing *which* brand truly is quality, and which is cheap tat sold high just for the name.
You can't do this without some sort of brand/label.
What I think happens in a lot of cases is, a brand does become famous due to quality. But later in life they lower the quality and cash in on the fame.
Apple are increasingly doing this, but do still produce some great quality (such as the unibody MacBooks) which keep them there as the BMW of computing, for now.
I suspect Jobs was referring to Multitouch.
Don't know about others, but all this pinching and flicking and scrolling inertia etc seemed really clever to me at first when Apple did it. It seems incredibly obvious in hindsight of course...
I did thank you, and before you go swearing and shouting at me, consider that I addressed that assumption: the fact that it's an assumption and may not be the case is the entire point of my post.
No, I haven't chosen to provide evidence as it's a casual comment, not a submission to Wikipedia.
I would suggest that it's up to the person disagreeing with a comment to submit evidence to the contrary, should they insist upon a more academic approach.
Yeah yeah okay guys... I don't post enough on
The general understanding by the non-pedantic is that when someone is said to be "dying" it means they have a terminal illness such as cancer* (the risk of which is greatly increased around 60/65 - source: http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/incidence/age/). To call age-related illness "dying" is exaggerating I guess, but only slightly as it's around the same age and the same sort of illness that I have in mind.
If you look at it technically (and quite pessimistically) then yes, we are dying from the moment we are born but very few people use the term in that manner.
Now, it's quite possible that the age of dramatically increased cancer risk (and similar) would increase along with our lifespan, but my comment was in context with the summary's comment of "That assumes that the life extension is all 'good years', and not a prolonged period of dementia and physical decline."
{*} In before "not all cancer is terminal": I mean cases where it has been diagnosed as terminal, and also cancer is just an example but a very common problem.
And I think we'd see a huge increase in suicides of the over-70s. 35-45 years of work drives a lot of people to despair already, doubling that would push them over the edge (it sure would with me)
That's before even considering that thought of the extra time just being spent dealing with age related illness. Nobody is going to want to spend 70 years (half their life!) basically dying.
Yes. SSD should be in its own category in the poll, really, not lumped in with hard drives and optical drives.
Apart from a full new system (which IMO doesn't belong in the poll as it's about upgrades) it's very easily the best upgrade I've done.
We've spent many many years concentrating on the general grunt of computing while neglecting latency - which to a user is *really* annoying - and even letting it go backwards (my old Amiga is more responsive than some modern systems in a lot of things - that's just sad. Yes it's a lot more basic, but so was the technology.)
Fitting an SSD was like a breath of fresh air, and wholeheartedly recommended. As long as it's a decent one, e.g. Intel.
Get hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
