Comment Re:New Start menu is not so bad - Metro apps are (Score 1) 496
there is no visible Exit-button,
ALT-F4
But yeah, it's not user friendly at all.
there is no visible Exit-button,
ALT-F4
But yeah, it's not user friendly at all.
Soooo many references.. it almost makes me want to write my first history paper in over a decade.
I must be light headed... time for some dinner.
And let's not forget the Crusades... the Christians would never have fielded that many armies for so long without some serious propaganda...
War propaganda is as old as war itself.
No, it's not. Propaganda, as such, especially military propaganda, is fairly modern. Ancient/classical militaries didn't depend much on popular support. There was political grandstanding, sure, but that's very different.
I guess you never studied ancient history. Here's one example of an academic who disagrees with you. Personally I considered Pericles' Funeral Oration pretty full of propaganda.
If memory serves me correctly it was a fairly major issue during Hannibal's Italy campaign as well as the Pyrrhic War.
How about the hundred years war?
Or did I misunderstand your meaning of modern?
Also I think they had to be made by hand, from Germanium, which made them expensive and unstable.
#import <std_ex_wife_joke>
Danish physicist Valdemar Poulsen took Duddell's audio oscillator and, by placing the arc in a transverse magnetic field, and in a hydrogen atmosphere (and somehow not getting blown up in the process), moved the frequency of oscillation up into the low radio range, around 500 kHz or so. This was the arc radio transmitter. It differed from the more common spark transmitter in that the arc's output oscillation was continuous, while that of the spark transmitter was a damped (decaying) oscillation.
I learned something on Slashdot, my day is done.
(I'm a software geek, so my electronics only had to go as far as a wheatstone bridge. Which is kind of embarrassing when you consider that my grandfather was an electrical engineer, I'll bet he could have whipped up an arc transmitter for fun.)
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Not saying it DIDN'T happen, but there's a record of activists staging sites to make things look far worse than actually happened.
The classic example is a single older Palestinian woman, claiming her house was destroyed by Israeli attacks. At three separate sites. All within the same month. .
War propaganda is as old as war itself.
Flood the app store with thousands of shitty apps so no one can find the ones that are actually useful. I wonder how well that will work for them.
It's really not so different with iOS, it's just that there's hundreds of thousands of apps so even if there are hundreds of thousands of shitty apps the top 1% is very good and still represents thousands of useful apps.
This was Microsofts strategy for a long time: Developers, Developers, Developers. (Yet another thing that Apple stole?)
Not really, the article is quite specifically talking about Unix. Linux and iOS and OSX are not Unix.
Mac OS X is UNIX. iOS and Linux are not.
The micro-kernel is not unix and the userland came from Unix.
It is unix-like, it is not unix.
Between OS-X, IOS and Android, this discussion is more than a little comical.
Not really, the article is quite specifically talking about Unix. Linux and iOS and OSX are not Unix. Much in the same way that Volkswagen does not makes (horse-drawn) wagons.
So, you're from Montreal and think you're cool?
That does sound like the attitude of someone from Montreal... carry on.
Sounds like someone needs a hug, the good news is that in Montreal money CAN buy you love.
Educated in Canada, French Canadian wife, work in Canada for American companies.
All I need is a Swedish mistress to round it out.
laying off all the non-Sales positions
That's not even close to the truth, there are still thousands of Americans doing development and support in the United States, the Littleton, Austin, Beaverton and Raleigh labs are still going strong. There are more around the world, but the population of the united states is less than 5% of the world.
Maybe the wood worms just spread out and find new wood to eat on an annual cycle, or are just really slow to find new wood.
Where would this wood come from? The tropical rainforests of Antarctica?
Shhh.... everyone will want one.
How many of those are available that doesn't look like an app from the Disco days.
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
