Posts made by tonyshowoff

A cute story: once I posted on a forum in a contest requiring a cute story for a free give away. Long story short: I won it, but the story is too cute to post here, primarily because, this one time [scene missing]

Luckily, and I mean really lucky, my wife thinks Valentine's day is a ridiculous holiday which attempts to commercialise love, especially in that it's more-or-less aimed at making men feel obligated to spend money on women otherwise they get in trouble. Additionally the cost of Valentine's day had steadily been rising over the last few decades to about $110 per person (women). She repeats this to me every year, and tons more, it takes about 5 minutes of ranting. At any rate, not only do I not have to do anything, I will get in trouble if I do.

Instead, years ago, we picked a day in the middle of June to celebrate our love.

This whole thing is just a scam by Nic for free comedy to pick up chicks.

A question I'm more interested in: is it the last Windows OS ever?

Short answer: no

I kinda wish they would've rounded up to NT 7, I mean why not, we're skipping major versions of the product itself, why not the kernel, and while we're at it, why not make the file system NTFS 4.0

I'm not one of those weirdos that gets all upset about version numbers (like the whole PHP 7 fiasco), but I'm just saying hey, since we're doing it, right?

For an actual point to this post: I'm not certain the higher release maturity means much yet, until we get an actual view of it, certainly all of the actual OS stuff is likely more mature (as that tends to be how it works) but most people judge it on UX not on memory management, I/O, and whatever else.

Furthermore, for the first time I'm not sure if this will help Windows in the long run. If Apple were smart (they're not) they'd broaden their hardware support (bad idea anyway) to get more people to switch from Windows. I mean, it's a hypothetical thing that won't really happen, but it's an interesting thought. Now there's the whole thing about easy-to-use Linux, everything on the web, all that.

So maybe the strongest Windows yet but the least relevant ever? Not saying irrelevant, but it could be the beginning of a significant backslide.

@Bill-Kindle There are no jokes anymore, the media (social and popular) have pretty much made that clear now.

That name is just so unusual. I feel like it would work best in a context like:

Friend: "So you wanna go to the game?"
Me: "Can't, the old cortana's acting up again. Doctors say it doesn't look good."

My wife says it reminds her of an airship from the early 1900s with rich people playing croquet.

@Dominica said:

@tonyshowoff Exactly! The public that demands that these unfortunate people be fired and shunned by society are bullies, plain and simple. Sure stupid, insensitive things were said, but is one out of context and misunderstood joke really a reason to ruin someone's life? When I think about all the stupid things I've said in my life, I shudder to think that they could follow me around forever.

Yeah when I read through the first part of the article with the tweets, I realised they were jokes, and the last one I thought "oh man, pretty racist" but I knew it was a bad joke, a failure at being humourous, I didn't suspect she had a swastika for her avatar and listed her location as "White Pride World Wide," but that's how people responded to it. And even if she did, she's literally a nobody, she only got famous, ironically, because she made a stupid joke.

Then again, people giving TJ Miller a bunch of guff for doing the same thing, so it's to the point where even comedians, who are known for pushing the limits of what is socially acceptable to say, must now fit in this tiny box and any mention of anything outside of it, it's essentially tar and feather time, and then write long letters about how they're sorry on their blogs, go on talk shows and give tear felt apologies, for saying words that are offensive.

Again, yeah, what happened to ignoring people who you disagreed with? I do it every single day just fine. Every time I see Nancy Grace on TV I can't get the remote fast enough, I don't sit there on the Internet, watching her show, steaming about how she should be fired for being an all around piece of garbage and terrible yellow journalist... maybe create a Facebook group trying to get her fired, get a tag started on Twitter, etc.

"The world must yield to my beliefs and what I think is right and wrong to say."

Which reminds me of another thing I read the other day on a similar subject that freedom of speech isn't absolute, because it does not apply when " insulting a socially unprivileged party. No, Free Speech isn’t a value­ added priority, especially if it comes at the expense of silencing an unprivileged party for sake of a privileged one." In other words "it's only freedom of speech if we agree with it."

Does anyone else remember the bizzare era when using your real name, or even real photos, online was considered the biggest no-no, worst possible thing you could ever do? They would tell young people not to do this constantly, it's sort of weird how now thanks to people like Mark Zuckerberg who want everyone to use their real names everywhere (completely psychotic), there's now a strange disconnection, people think the only humans that can read what they are are those who they directly know.

Don't use your real name, then complain about your job all you want. Whatever happened to being anonymous? Why did we go from "OMFG YOU TOLD HIM/HER YOUR REAL NAME, THAT WAS STUPID, YOU DON'T KNOW THEM!!@" to "yeah sure here's my real name, everyone I'm related to (all tagged in photographs), all my interests, my entire life history, etc."

@coliver said:

"They don't have a very good business model what are you going to do when they fold?" Aggravating to say the least.

Since it's FOSS you can manage the project yourself, but every time a closed source company goes out of business, that code vanishes into thin air forever, leaving people behind. That's another thing people don't seem understand. Just because you paid for something, doesn't mean they'll support you when they fold, but if a FOSS company folds, at least you have the ability to fork the project and keep it going, especially from other users.

For example if Microsoft goes belly up Windows will die out, but if Linus Torvalds dies or Richard Stallman or anyone else like that, people will still crank out code for Linux, GNU projects, etc.

Did C support or implementation suddenly drop off after Dennis Ritchie died? Compare that to, say... ColdFusion or some other god awful garbage, those creators still curse the Earth and their products are dying.

A stupid and racist tweet? Sure, but whatever happened to just ignoring things that ignorant people say or people that just say something stupid? That seems to be a new trend, not only make people remember every stupid thing they say forever, but also make them publicly apologise for it and attempt to atone. I've seen people on Twitter get more outrage than people like Radovan Karadžić ever got, and he still hasn't made a public apology yet.

It's even with things such as calling things like cricket "gay" as Jason Alexander did or a billion other examples, even things like apologising to the public for cheating on your spouse, which makes really no sense at all. Or even letting a nipple slip or a photograph of a penis escape, suddenly it's on par with slowly destroying the entire fabric of society. I don't think I'm being melodramatic here when I say that either, because there's no reason for, such as in this article, a nobody to become a huge problem for the Internet.

And if she said something like "I'm going to Israel, I hope those kikes don't steal my money" as a Jewish person I wouldn't attempt anymore than I already have, I'd ignore her. That seems to be something we're now incapable of doing as a society, ignoring things we don't like, instead thinking we have a right to change everything and everyone like the entire world is a call-in-vote TV show.

From time to time, I still hear the old thing when Windows-only IT people hate on Linux "you get what you pay for." That is to say, since it's FOSS therefore it's automatically terrible, and of course they ignore the vast numbers of servers, quick patches, etc. It's weird to hear it today though, they'll hate on Unix all day long but then bust out their iPhone or Android.

At any rate, I do remember this exact same conversation about 13 years ago or so when Lindows was in stores, about getting regular people using it, and that didn't really seem to work too well. I think there's still an overall intimidation factor, because even now, mentioning Linux or Unix, from time to time I still get people saying "yeah, but don't you miss GUI?" because obviously it's all CLI. That's a lot less common than it used to be, but there still seems to be a gap, though more regular people know that Linux exists, just probably not even what it is.

@nadnerB Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

I think that was an early motto for Apollo

Search Bar? Don't we have some people underage on this site? I mean, does ML even have a liquor license?

Not bad for being up for two days, if you ask me.

@Carnival-Boy said:

AJ's girlfriend: "Does my bottom look big in this dress?"
AJ: "Yeah, it looks huge"

Depending on one's cultural background, it may be a complement. If my wife asks if her butt is big, I know to say "yeah baby I love it." And yes, I do. I'm guessing though, AJ gets in hot water instead.

@scottalanmiller Well, you could say it has a lot of flavour

Right now working on an ERP-of-sorts called, coincidentally, Mango. It's PHP on the back, JS on the front, and is fairly alpha Hope I don't need to consider a name change, curses!

@JaredBusch It reminds me a lot of Java meets BASIC, with a dash of Pascal. It's not a bad language, but I prefer C-style languages, my brain just works better with them. Lua is a decent language though.

When asked this in job interviews, I used to always say "I'm really bad at answering interview questions." This didn't prevent me from getting a job at a national ISP.

My favourite fictional interview question to find out someone's religion, from King of the Hill:

If you could eat at Luly's with one of the following, would it be: a. Jesus, b. Mohammed, c. Golda Meir?

@MattSpeller That's what you get for smoking a big fat dookie.

@Dashrender It seems to say:

"The TV continues sending data for several more seconds after the set appears to be off."

So, it doesn't matter that it's behind the router if it's coming from the TV itself, instead of the other way around.