Keep in mind that our pools are also laden with chemicals to keep them "clean"
In nature there aren't too many sources of pure H2O, collections of glacial water pools/collections are probably one of the few naturally-occuring sources of relatively pure water, and you'll note that they tend to be quite blue.
As an end-user--yeah, I agree totally
As a developer, it's invaluable. As more people buying computers are being defaulted to Vista we need to ensure compatibility. We've got a dedicated Vista-box used just for testing--but a VM provides an easily resettable environment to try all tests in all combinations.
The nicest thing that I've seen with VMWare 6 is that you can run VS2005 in XP, run it's solution within a Vista VM and still debug from the IDE (running on the host-OS). The alternative to this would be running VS2005 directly in Vista (which is known to be a nightmare to do).
Anyways, THE SINGLE biggest feature of VMWare 6 that I'm enjoying is multiple-monitor support. Visual Studio 2005 is incredibly unstable and degrades with time. This means I'll build a base-image to develop on, and when performance drags and bugs creep in I'll just rollback.
I don't mind the previews--they let me come in a few minutes late and still catch the beginning of my movie.
What I can't stand is that ads that are more and more prevalent at the beginning of movies--not just the "buy popcorn" ones.
Does anyone here actually expect either IBM or AMD to win this tug of war any time soon?
I'll keep buying the best proc for the money, for the past few years it's been AMD, now it's Intel. It'll change again, and again after that...
Just because trends and styles change doesn't mean they always change in the right direction. The way I see it is that a few years ago there were metrosexuals, pop-punk bands, and emo bands.
They realized that individually they were weak, but together they could hold their own (with the exception of the emo's, they're still looking all sad in the corner.
Props to you on a good response, sir!
As a computer guy, I've made sure to tell *EVERYONE* whom has asked me about setting up wireless that the manufacturers sell the devices in an idiot-friendly/insecure state.
The problem could be alleviated through technology, we just need a way to setup a secure encrypted network out of the box with as little knowledge as is currently needed to setup an insecure network out of the box.
Companies have tried, Linksys' Secure Easy Setup is a good example. Push a button on the router and then a button on your wireless card's software and it accepts them as trusted and configures both ends--the only problem is I've had trouble getting it to work.
I hope you told him to just upgrade his RAM and remain happy in XP-land:) $100 worth of RAM will make his machine run better than the $1000 it will take to replace it just to run Vista at a low-end
Touchscreens are great, but some things require a tactile response. The best (personal) example I have is those laser-projected keyboards for Palm-Pilots. It looks like a dock for the Palm, and projects a full keyboard onto the surface in front of it, which you then type on as normal.
I hate the thing. I tried one for 2 weeks and my typing skills never got better than they were in 9th grade (not pretty). Plus to add to it, striking your finger tips on a desktop several hundred times a minute hurts. It's hard to appreciate the fact that the depression of a key on your keyboard actually acts as a cushion/shock absorber until you lose that.
It really is more of an amorphous blog of bugs & features. It's a bug, comprised of features that are buggy features and feature bugs.
This is one of those things where if you think about it too hard, the Mac / Linux ambulance will have to try to reassmble the fragments of your exploded head.
To keep the analogy up, he's just the first sprinkle. Once core components of Linux are released as GPL 3 Novell will get wet awful fast, as they'll either lose their deal with Microsoft to maintain SuSE, or be forced to start maintaining those components themselves.
If you are serious that you only use your computer for chat and email, then you _really_ should consider Ubuntu Linux. At least give it a try from the CD (you don't need to even touch your harddrive contents until you decide that you really want to install it).
Booting from the CD gives you the entire OS, you can add/remove applications and use it like a normal OS. The only downside is running from a CD is inheritly slow--but seriously, save yourself several hundreds of dollars (or even into the thousand+ range considering hardware upgrades/office 2007) and give it a whirl.
lol, sounds as though they did. I'm a software engineer for a banking service provider that focuses on processing transactions, and our company was founded on bleeding edge technology 40+ years ago and continues to be driven entirely by technology. We run the gamut in technologies, from Big Iron to do the number crunching to.NET SOA applications for our customers with everything in between.
Although, last time I went to the hospital I did still have to fill out hardcopies (yech)
I was just thinking how funny it is that Microsoft has helped "THE NYSE ACHIEVE RECORD RELIABILITY!!!"
The slow switch-over is a feature though, it allows the emulated 1.5 bit vacuum tubes in the Windows Flux-capicator kernel module DLL INI to resync with electromagnetic partition in the data-time continuum
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Keep in mind that our pools are also laden with chemicals to keep them "clean"
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In nature there aren't too many sources of pure H2O, collections of glacial water pools/collections are probably one of the few naturally-occuring sources of relatively pure water, and you'll note that they tend to be quite blue.
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Disobedient children will be stoned to death? If so it might be the first museum without a crying baby (at least it won't be crying for long).
As an end-user--yeah, I agree totally As a developer, it's invaluable. As more people buying computers are being defaulted to Vista we need to ensure compatibility. We've got a dedicated Vista-box used just for testing--but a VM provides an easily resettable environment to try all tests in all combinations. The nicest thing that I've seen with VMWare 6 is that you can run VS2005 in XP, run it's solution within a Vista VM and still debug from the IDE (running on the host-OS). The alternative to this would be running VS2005 directly in Vista (which is known to be a nightmare to do). Anyways, THE SINGLE biggest feature of VMWare 6 that I'm enjoying is multiple-monitor support. Visual Studio 2005 is incredibly unstable and degrades with time. This means I'll build a base-image to develop on, and when performance drags and bugs creep in I'll just rollback.
I don't mind the previews--they let me come in a few minutes late and still catch the beginning of my movie. What I can't stand is that ads that are more and more prevalent at the beginning of movies--not just the "buy popcorn" ones.
Rawhide!
If I were an Apple marketing Exec, every uncle of Ballmer's would have a free 80gb iPod in their mail today :P
Does anyone here actually expect either IBM or AMD to win this tug of war any time soon? I'll keep buying the best proc for the money, for the past few years it's been AMD, now it's Intel. It'll change again, and again after that...
Just because trends and styles change doesn't mean they always change in the right direction. The way I see it is that a few years ago there were metrosexuals, pop-punk bands, and emo bands. They realized that individually they were weak, but together they could hold their own (with the exception of the emo's, they're still looking all sad in the corner.
Props to you on a good response, sir! As a computer guy, I've made sure to tell *EVERYONE* whom has asked me about setting up wireless that the manufacturers sell the devices in an idiot-friendly/insecure state. The problem could be alleviated through technology, we just need a way to setup a secure encrypted network out of the box with as little knowledge as is currently needed to setup an insecure network out of the box. Companies have tried, Linksys' Secure Easy Setup is a good example. Push a button on the router and then a button on your wireless card's software and it accepts them as trusted and configures both ends--the only problem is I've had trouble getting it to work.
I hope you told him to just upgrade his RAM and remain happy in XP-land :) $100 worth of RAM will make his machine run better than the $1000 it will take to replace it just to run Vista at a low-end
Touchscreens are great, but some things require a tactile response. The best (personal) example I have is those laser-projected keyboards for Palm-Pilots. It looks like a dock for the Palm, and projects a full keyboard onto the surface in front of it, which you then type on as normal. I hate the thing. I tried one for 2 weeks and my typing skills never got better than they were in 9th grade (not pretty). Plus to add to it, striking your finger tips on a desktop several hundred times a minute hurts. It's hard to appreciate the fact that the depression of a key on your keyboard actually acts as a cushion/shock absorber until you lose that.
err, amorphous *blob* not blog :-)
Who's the advantage for? Not the consumer. *yes, I did rip that off some recent webcomic--don't burn me for it :P
It really is more of an amorphous blog of bugs & features. It's a bug, comprised of features that are buggy features and feature bugs. This is one of those things where if you think about it too hard, the Mac / Linux ambulance will have to try to reassmble the fragments of your exploded head.
His post was funny, yours sounds more like a troll... and if you love Windows so much why don't you marry it
To keep the analogy up, he's just the first sprinkle. Once core components of Linux are released as GPL 3 Novell will get wet awful fast, as they'll either lose their deal with Microsoft to maintain SuSE, or be forced to start maintaining those components themselves.
Hmm... I need to think of a name that will neatly fit into Antidisestablishmentarianism
If you are serious that you only use your computer for chat and email, then you _really_ should consider Ubuntu Linux. At least give it a try from the CD (you don't need to even touch your harddrive contents until you decide that you really want to install it). Booting from the CD gives you the entire OS, you can add/remove applications and use it like a normal OS. The only downside is running from a CD is inheritly slow--but seriously, save yourself several hundreds of dollars (or even into the thousand+ range considering hardware upgrades/office 2007) and give it a whirl.
lol, sounds as though they did. I'm a software engineer for a banking service provider that focuses on processing transactions, and our company was founded on bleeding edge technology 40+ years ago and continues to be driven entirely by technology. We run the gamut in technologies, from Big Iron to do the number crunching to .NET SOA applications for our customers with everything in between.
Although, last time I went to the hospital I did still have to fill out hardcopies (yech)
I was just thinking how funny it is that Microsoft has helped "THE NYSE ACHIEVE RECORD RELIABILITY!!!" The slow switch-over is a feature though, it allows the emulated 1.5 bit vacuum tubes in the Windows Flux-capicator kernel module DLL INI to resync with electromagnetic partition in the data-time continuum