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Horsepuckey.
Obama's first two years with Democrat House & Senate control barely got Obamacare passed and that was up-voted last minute & at midnight without reading the damn thing. Going on five years now without a Constitutionally mandated budget.
Point is Obama had all the marbles and lost them his first term - time wasted.
Thanks for the search tip!
Infusion Rocks^: meaning the fascination I have with how different teas infuse in hot water - good teas are very rich in color and relatively quick, while cheap teas (tetley, lipton, bigalows) are shite.
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^considered being a smartass... but infusion is nothing to be flippant about.
Timidly, to be sure, since I'm 'merican and probably do not know of what I speak
However, one option I fail to see here is a clear glass mug for tea... and I like to see my tea brewing in the clear, as it were.
I'd like a set of those clear tea mugs with those silver/metal holders (russian?) eventually.
Infusion rocks!
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"One thing we were hit over the head with by Microsoft in the last few years is that the hard work on Windows 7 was done in Windows Vista while Windows 8 owed a lot to Windows 7. It’s been clear for years there are no real big features left to add to Windows: the touch-based UI was the biggest thing in Windows 8."
Microsoft stripped out some useful bits out of Windows 7 to make Win8 easier to FB/twitter/midgetporn..... oh some things like A WIFI PROFILE MANAGER! Sorry... still twitching over that unpleasant fact.
Trying to place things in perspective here: Windows and MacOS always tried to be an all-in-one OS model (Office and Photoshop aside), including all the little tools for doing things, trying to exclude outside vendors (Netscape, Novell, etc). Unix and Linux were basic kernel OS framework with roll your own addon software, just install what you need right now, not guessing what you might need in the future or as an oversight.
This seems to have changed with the introduction of iOS and Android - bare OS's with just enough to get by, with monetized 'app stores' to provide software to individually customize the OS for the consumer. Pretty good model, Apple proves this everyday.
However, I think Microsoft is trying to duplicate this success but with tweaks of their own that they believe will maximize the profit potential. Like marketing/accounting have taken over the world with the consumer as the, well, neverending consumer.
IDK, pondering my navel this morning, it's been a long week.
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...after the revelation that Windows 8 Pro does *not* have a wifi profile manager GUI last night. Command line via cmd window - not something visible when you're troubleshooting wireless issues in a crappy multiple wifi environment.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/manage-wireless-network-profiles
Now, I did find a 58k program/patch to stop the instant fdisk&format back to Win7 enterprise, but damn it! It should have been already there.
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*5 hours later... App-themed OS models are useless on a device that must actually perform tasks reliably IMO..
On PG Tips shipping boxes I order from Amazon (2-240ct. boxes @$29 delivered to Tennessee***) and Twinnings Earl Grey -> if good enough for Capt. Picard, it's good enough for me :)
Generally one cup of coffee in morning then dark PG Tips the rest of the day - good when gaming too, good cold with ice.
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*** I saw what ya'll said about Tennessee folks in another very recent story.... large brush you have.
Clones of clones of clones... I look for the logo because white/black/multicolor,brushed aluminum, hinged, clamshell-like, processor-driven, computing device pretty much looks the same after a while.
Probably more psychological than anything else - you buy a car, all the sudden you see dozens of them, mostly better than yours.
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Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for... sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Stevii-JobsWan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side... then perhaps she will...
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Have an awesome day!
Negative. I actually watch my votes up/down carefully, you can say pretty much anything if you know the proper way to portray it. This took me a while to learn and I took great pride in doubling and tripling my up to downvote ratio.
Today? Really didn't just give a fsck. New Fed regulations are kicking my butt and I'm having a seriously bad month that's barely started.... so instead of using twitter for my political bitching, I took it out on El Reg.
For that I apologize.
Shake?
Correct - but I did get 26 downvotes thus far
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Best part about this is that I agree that the US needs to mind it's own damn business - how about doing something with Biden while he's over there telling Cameron what to do - I hope Cameron sticks to his guns - as it were - does the Tower still accept guests?
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Used the proper actors for the subject too - current flavors of the month in Hollywood.
All this iPhone v Samsung... sigh, no one thought Nokia/Motorola/RIM would ever falter either so give them time, nothing is forever. A few thoughts that will get some downvotes, I'm sure. I've never liked Apple or Steve Jobs, the superior attitude oozing off him has always put me in screw-you mode, if you know what I mean. I've always thought the MacOS clones should have been allowed to prosper and Apple might have never went through the years in the desert. Also have a scummy acquaintance(42) who has the latest iPhone to help attract little college girls at the bars but that's neither here nor there. Note quite the few grandma's with iPhones. Don't like the cradle to grave safe island hand-holding non-transferable money-pit either.
Enough rambling.. I've been through Nokia->Nokia->Nokia->Motorola->Motorola->Blackberry Storm2->Blackberry Torch(fail)->HTC Hero(fail)->Motorola ICS Razr-> and now looking to go back to Blackberry just for the secure messaging and the ability to run my own BES.
Fire Away!*
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*not sure if bad attitude lately or what but seems everybody's downvotes are multiplying rapidly :)
Korean War actually. When it was looking bad for the North Koreans, the Chinese jumped in with over a million men. Gen, MacArthur wanted to use atomic bombs to stop the influx, but Pres, Truman sacked MacArthur instead - they never did get along, one a peacock and the other a haberdasher.
That;s the short version anyway - China is waaaay scarier today when you consider what usually follows a generational uneven male-to-female birth rate.
99% of the folks that call 1st line tech support are morons - yes, you present a professional face to the cretins, but stupid is as stupid does, and there is no help for it. There should be teams standing by with black helicopters, waiting to descend and strip anything electronic from some of these people's homes.
In the Beginning, many,many, moons ago, there was a punching bag set up in the ISP tech support department when I started out, it was well used between calls.
Horrifyingly bad memories...
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http://www.loweslink.com/
Just check the requirements - it is very specific and I can't tell you how many times some helpful person upgraded from Java6u27 even after I disabled auto-upgrade because loweslink simply will not work with any other version. Lowes is a pretty big DIY company, you would think they would correct this but if wishes were horses, we'd all take a ride.
I keep a copy of java6u27 on my thumbdrive due to sneaky upgrades and the like.
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Lately I've been tempted to reactivate my old Storm 2's/BES server after Verizon's "28 Hour Merry Christmas, Here's JellyBean for Your Droid Razr Oops Sorry, Ain't Happening".... ICS Motorola SmartActions has been draining my battery lately and it's starting to piss me off.
Fortunately, my contract will be up shortly.
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For companies with up to 100 employees, Microsoft is out of it's freaking mind. This is not a boom, bubble, or economic recovery, hell the US economy contracted last quarter, this is not good. They ask too much.
Seriously, I can grab the latest copy of Word Perfect Office for about $29... WP has always been good.
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Don't you just hate it when a typed word just looks wrong? Neither, Niether, breaks rule i before e yada... moving on.
Vastly amused by comments this morning - there is a high volume of generational 'there was nothing before this product' folks out, especially concerning these products. Funny how that is, what ever you, personally, grew up with, that was the pinnacle of whatever it was, and has gone down ever since.
Ya'll have fun, I'm off to figure out why we can finish a quest we started in EverQuest last night/this morning (Vergalid Mines if you must know) and will toss off a prayer to those people at RIM that they know what they are doing and produce a good 'un with BB10.
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What? Wife and I loved the Storm2 - especially the tactile response the touchscreen (very tiny click when tapping out messages). We were pretty excited with the Torch and it's slider keyboard, but somehow Verizon got the retarded version and AT&T is unbearable for coverage this side of the country.
I'd gladly turn in my Motorola Droid Razr for an updated Storm/Torch-like BB, gives me a reason to fire up my BB server again.
GO BLACKBERRY!
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I see. So the Feds, who mandate CFL's and also provides instructions for cleanup that does not require professionals..... Backscatter radiation scanning machines are also safe according to them... just too graphic for poor Americans.
The government never lies and people need government to survive. Moo.
Contain mercury and require extensive professional cleanup if broken -> yet the Feds have mandated the use of them to save energy to the extent of banning incandescent bulbs.
Tell me why enviro's seem to never think past the second or third step for the consequences that result from their awesomely political problem-solving?
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