Kinda like when the Southern Baptist Convention announced it was lifting its Disney boycott and Disney replied,"We didn't know you were boycotting us. When did that start?"
Maybe it is quiet because there is nothing around. Since there is nothing around, why waste money on cell coverage in an area that will see, at most, minimal use? It isn't the gadgets so much as the millions of cars and jets around every major city. I live a few miles away from a city of 100,000 and I can actually hear the rumble of the city.
It isn't a bad thing that Linux is popular, it just seems like people are celebrating its popularity for a reason that doesn't exist. It seems like it isn't much more popular than before, just running more things than before. It would be fine to celebrate if those devices were popular because they ran Linux, but running Linux is just a footnote that few seem to appreciate.
Those devices may run unix or Linux, but how many people even know that? Wouldn't a typical consumer see that a device does what they want and looks good without regard to the OS? I doubt that many Nokia owners know their tablet runs Linux.
Wouldn't you like to know that the product you are buying doesn't use the stuff the stores sell? It is like buying a car that runs on uranium and has 12-bolt rims with oddly shaped tires. Where are you going to get more fuel or new tires while you watch ads for the latest and greatest stuff that you can no longer have?
Ubuntu sure does look good when you compare it to the absolute worst of Windows. Unfortunately, my sound card doesn't work right and I've literally spent hours getting dual monitors to halfway work. Vista, an XP for that matter, had no problems at all.
I tried it while I was at my parents' house. They have 256K connection that is fairly slow, but Google Docs took 10 freaking minutes just to put something on the screen! It was utterly ridiculous! Then I had to wait for the formatting options to load. No thanks. I could load the entire Office 2007 suite on my slow-ass laptop faster than it took Google to show me the first thing it could render.
If I could stick an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 in my laptop, I'd get 10X more performance with only a ~25% increase in energy use. That just blows my mind.
No matter what you want doing -- opening a new tab, moving tabs, opening up Find, zooming in and out of the page, bookmarking -- it all happens swiftly and smoothly. Those don't strike me as particularly hard things to process. Browsers have been doing most of those things quite well for a long time on much weaker hardware. If the browser bogs down adding a bookmark, it has serious problems.
Photoshop doesn't need any? Are you kidding? Have you tried running a filter on a 24MP image? That takes a bit of time! You strike me as one of those people that asks why we even try to make things better when most people don't take advantage of it. That's a pitiful attitude to have.
Maybe it is my processor getting old, but converting a whole bunch of files in iTunes to mp3 sure eats a lot of my processing power. I also have to wait until I go to bed to turn a DVD into a divx file because the computer is useless for anything else while that is happening. I'd love to say,"Core 1, you will convert DVDs(or mp3s, or some other processor-intensive task). Core 2, run everything else."
I still don't have Ubuntu graphics working right and my iPhone has been a huge help. I haven't set up a sync in Ubuntu so I bookmarked a whole bunch of articles in Windows and synced them with my iPhone. I then went through them one by one. It was a huge help but the articles inevitably asked me to do something I didn't know how to do, so my graphics still aren't quite right. At least Vista had no problems setting up dual monitors. Ubuntu was super-easy to set up but using a program instead of the built-in settings manager just isn't right.
Except for storage space, my iPaq matched or exceeded my family's second computer but couldn't do most of the things the computer could. I've always found that to be confusing, too.
Just call the Baylor University Bookstore. You'll have to pay full price if you aren't a student.
I'm not going to debate with someone that changes what the debate is about. I said everyone has a choice, you said everyone ALWAYS has a choice. That changes things significantly. I hope you don't happy that you just "won". That would be sad if you did.
You still have to put in the admin password every time you run it, but one prompt at the beginning is better than a lot of prompts while running it and still maintains some security.
BTW, I don't know if this will fix it. Visual Studio tells me every time I start it that I should run it with admin privileges to make sure everything works.
Because that is the traditional WINDOWS way. The people making those products don't want to lose their jobs so they market their products for Windows. I've only gotten 3 viruses and I'm pretty sure they were false positives, too because Norton said they first came around before 2000 and infected only 25-50 machines. I haven't changed the what I do and I get far fewer viruses than I did in XP.
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Does your boss have pointy hair?
Would it be safe to assume your users are mindless zombies? My girlfriend and I love the new interface.
Kinda like when the Southern Baptist Convention announced it was lifting its Disney boycott and Disney replied,"We didn't know you were boycotting us. When did that start?"
Maybe it is quiet because there is nothing around. Since there is nothing around, why waste money on cell coverage in an area that will see, at most, minimal use? It isn't the gadgets so much as the millions of cars and jets around every major city. I live a few miles away from a city of 100,000 and I can actually hear the rumble of the city.
That's close to what I have. Vista is using about the same amount of RAM as XP did.
Good point.
It isn't a bad thing that Linux is popular, it just seems like people are celebrating its popularity for a reason that doesn't exist. It seems like it isn't much more popular than before, just running more things than before. It would be fine to celebrate if those devices were popular because they ran Linux, but running Linux is just a footnote that few seem to appreciate.
Those devices may run unix or Linux, but how many people even know that? Wouldn't a typical consumer see that a device does what they want and looks good without regard to the OS? I doubt that many Nokia owners know their tablet runs Linux.
Wouldn't you like to know that the product you are buying doesn't use the stuff the stores sell? It is like buying a car that runs on uranium and has 12-bolt rims with oddly shaped tires. Where are you going to get more fuel or new tires while you watch ads for the latest and greatest stuff that you can no longer have?
Ubuntu sure does look good when you compare it to the absolute worst of Windows. Unfortunately, my sound card doesn't work right and I've literally spent hours getting dual monitors to halfway work. Vista, an XP for that matter, had no problems at all.
I tried it while I was at my parents' house. They have 256K connection that is fairly slow, but Google Docs took 10 freaking minutes just to put something on the screen! It was utterly ridiculous! Then I had to wait for the formatting options to load. No thanks. I could load the entire Office 2007 suite on my slow-ass laptop faster than it took Google to show me the first thing it could render.
If I could stick an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 in my laptop, I'd get 10X more performance with only a ~25% increase in energy use. That just blows my mind.
That's easy. I downloaded Gutsy from FTP and uTorrent starting at the same time. FTP was 5% downloaded when the torrent finished.
Did anybody mention that they used "bricked" incorrectly?
Said the zitty-faced anonymous coward.
Photoshop doesn't need any? Are you kidding? Have you tried running a filter on a 24MP image? That takes a bit of time! You strike me as one of those people that asks why we even try to make things better when most people don't take advantage of it. That's a pitiful attitude to have.
Maybe it is my processor getting old, but converting a whole bunch of files in iTunes to mp3 sure eats a lot of my processing power. I also have to wait until I go to bed to turn a DVD into a divx file because the computer is useless for anything else while that is happening. I'd love to say,"Core 1, you will convert DVDs(or mp3s, or some other processor-intensive task). Core 2, run everything else."
It is all about delegating.
That doesn't really sound like Vista, but Adobe.
That really made me laugh.
I still don't have Ubuntu graphics working right and my iPhone has been a huge help. I haven't set up a sync in Ubuntu so I bookmarked a whole bunch of articles in Windows and synced them with my iPhone. I then went through them one by one. It was a huge help but the articles inevitably asked me to do something I didn't know how to do, so my graphics still aren't quite right. At least Vista had no problems setting up dual monitors. Ubuntu was super-easy to set up but using a program instead of the built-in settings manager just isn't right.
Except for storage space, my iPaq matched or exceeded my family's second computer but couldn't do most of the things the computer could. I've always found that to be confusing, too.
Just call the Baylor University Bookstore. You'll have to pay full price if you aren't a student.
I'm not going to debate with someone that changes what the debate is about. I said everyone has a choice, you said everyone ALWAYS has a choice. That changes things significantly. I hope you don't happy that you just "won". That would be sad if you did.
You still have to put in the admin password every time you run it, but one prompt at the beginning is better than a lot of prompts while running it and still maintains some security.
BTW, I don't know if this will fix it. Visual Studio tells me every time I start it that I should run it with admin privileges to make sure everything works.
Because that is the traditional WINDOWS way. The people making those products don't want to lose their jobs so they market their products for Windows. I've only gotten 3 viruses and I'm pretty sure they were false positives, too because Norton said they first came around before 2000 and infected only 25-50 machines. I haven't changed the what I do and I get far fewer viruses than I did in XP.