Most people don't want to spend the kind of money it takes to buy an Apple computer.
Most want to spend $400.00 and have a "new" computer that they will use for the next 10 years without upgrading.
Most people are not technical at all and don't give a rats ass about the OS they are running other than to know how to do the same thing at home that they do at work.
Most people wouldn't know the difference between a hard drive and a graphics card if presented with both in front of them.
Thus MOST people get what they deserve when it comes to computer "problems".
If MOST people shifted over to a linux distro or to OSX, the problems would simply shift with them.
There are abbreviations like PEBKAC for a reason.
A person my be smart, but PEOPLE are stupid. (MIB ref)
unless of course you purchase said software pre-installed upon a server (with OS and Database programs as well) in which case your accountant will deduct all of it via lease payments for the term of the lease.
no your not a lawyer, but i'm pretty sure your not smart enough to be one either.
you didn't give them permission to access your publicly available site? really? are you sure? because you know, if you make something publicly available on the public internet, I'm pretty sure by definition, you've therefore given them permission to access it. Just like everyone else "in the public".
Did you give Google permission?
how about every other search/index site?
as to the "extra bandwidth" since it is by definition, caused by your websites being found via search providers, maybe you should be sending the bill for linking to them and thus causing the "extra bandwidth" to Google/Yahoo/MS and see how far that gets you.
if you google it, you can install with command line switches to not even install this part of the program.
and thus you dont need to disable it, and thus you dont get the "somethings wrong" icon (which i just autohide anyway).
and as to AVG being slimey, get real.
The SLIMEY bastards in the anti-malware, anti-virus world are symantec and macafee.
both install horribly bloated piles of horse dung which attempt to hijack everything a user does, and prevents themselves from being disabled easily for testing purposes.
AVG provides a product that for the most part is ABSOLUTELY FREE.
thus if you dont like it, dont use it.
and as for the user agent strings, i'd be willing to agree with the poster above about them being legit looking IE strings to prevent possible redirection based on them if they used their own, by malware laden and virus laden sites.
i am on a company program. they cannot deny me all they can do is look at previous biling and our demographics and total spent and renogotiate the plan yearly.
now if i were insuring myself, then yes this might come into play.
and no, there is no spot on my signup form that asks me if i engage in amateur racing activities.
they do ask about a history of medical problems that I have.
and crucial isnt exactly a market leader in pricing.
and currently, the 64gb drive is a $500 upgrade at Dell on the m1330.
so you can get a T7250 proc, 3gb ram, 64gb SSD, LED display, DVD burner, 8400M GPU, wireless N, Bluetooth built in, 2MP camera, Fingerprint reader, etc all for less than $2k currently. Thats without any special deal other than going to Dell's site. Now through in a coupon or two and you can gain a fairly steep discount.
Who thinks that maybe the overall bettery life would be more affected by the HEAT the laptop is putting out?
After all, most laptops I've ever dealt with or owned are compact little furnaces that have their hard drives, cpu, gpu, and everything else shoved in as little space as possible in order to make room for things like batteries and keyboards.....
thus if they remove a high heat generating device (even more so with a 7200rpm drive) wouldn't logic also assume that you reduce the amount of heat needing to be removed from the system?
thus the fans would run less often, and therefore drain less battery power. not too mention the proposed savings by simply accomplishing tasks "faster" when it comes to disk access.
i don't know about you, but a lot of the schools i've seen, the university OWNS the bookstore.
Thus they DO get something out of the sale of new books and even used books.
There may be a competing bookstore that is NOT university owned, but a lot of times, you cannot use your "university card" to purchase at the non-university store and you can at the university store.
This has a high appeal to students whose parents fund their u-cards or have grants to do the same versus plunking down the cold hard cash or whipping out the plastic.
Slashdot Mirror
yes because the rest of the world is soooooooooooo much better and less corrupt.....
dumbass.
if you dont know how something works, then troubleshooting becomes a series of endless guesses until you find the correct "solution".
this goes for mechanical processes as well as computer processes.
Most people don't want to spend the kind of money it takes to buy an Apple computer.
Most want to spend $400.00 and have a "new" computer that they will use for the next 10 years without upgrading.
Most people are not technical at all and don't give a rats ass about the OS they are running other than to know how to do the same thing at home that they do at work.
Most people wouldn't know the difference between a hard drive and a graphics card if presented with both in front of them.
Thus MOST people get what they deserve when it comes to computer "problems".
If MOST people shifted over to a linux distro or to OSX, the problems would simply shift with them.
There are abbreviations like PEBKAC for a reason.
A person my be smart, but PEOPLE are stupid. (MIB ref)
IT'S IN THE HOLE!!!!!!
no
not only wrong but dead wrong
http:\\free.avg.com
and the old http:\\free.grisoft.com forwards to it.
unless of course you purchase said software pre-installed upon a server (with OS and Database programs as well)
in which case your accountant will deduct all of it via lease payments for the term of the lease.
its not.
then they didnt look very hard.
there are a ton of free pdf converters you can call via command line.
untrue
in fact previous versions will open them with the addition of a simple plugin.
note, they cannot edit them without first saving to a previous format and then editing.
which is a bit hacky but does work.
except that where it really counts, corporate america, it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.
they are already "renting" their versions of OS's and Office apps via Software Assurance (or whatever they call VLK these days).
you load everything all at once?
wow
i load the part of office i need whenever i need it.
it takes less than 2 seconds for excel to start on my workstation (E6400 w 4gb of RAM), nad less than 4 for me to be typing in Word.
thats funny.
maybe we should all do that.
i find it to be very good.
and it has far fewer false positives in testing than some of the "top end" programs you pay for.
not really.
in order to "cause" the "attack" the website must come up in a search.
all this does is "pre-crawl" the pages in a search result to look for malware.
so unless everyone is searching google for the same thing, it really doesn't do a ton.
unless of course you run some pos server and have somehow gotten your result for whatever to be top ranked and of course it's a popular search string.
but then, i would blame the company, not avg, since they've gone to the trouble to probably cause this themselves.
no your not a lawyer, but i'm pretty sure your not smart enough to be one either.
you didn't give them permission to access your publicly available site?
really?
are you sure?
because you know, if you make something publicly available on the public internet, I'm pretty sure by definition, you've therefore given them permission to access it.
Just like everyone else "in the public".
Did you give Google permission?
how about every other search/index site?
as to the "extra bandwidth" since it is by definition, caused by your websites being found via search providers, maybe you should be sending the bill for linking to them and thus causing the "extra bandwidth" to Google/Yahoo/MS and see how far that gets you.
if you google it, you can install with command line switches to not even install this part of the program.
and thus you dont need to disable it, and thus you dont get the "somethings wrong" icon (which i just autohide anyway).
and as to AVG being slimey, get real.
The SLIMEY bastards in the anti-malware, anti-virus world are symantec and macafee.
both install horribly bloated piles of horse dung which attempt to hijack everything a user does, and prevents themselves from being disabled easily for testing purposes.
AVG provides a product that for the most part is ABSOLUTELY FREE.
thus if you dont like it, dont use it.
and as for the user agent strings, i'd be willing to agree with the poster above about them being legit looking IE strings to prevent possible redirection based on them if they used their own, by malware laden and virus laden sites.
so micron just manufactures something and stuffs it in a box without ever testing any portion of said manufacturing run?
You moron, are the fucking pinhead who has absolutely no fucking clue about manufacturing.
and obviously you are to stupid to own a computer, so get off the one you are borrowing from mommy and go back to playing in the sandbox.
i am on a company program.
they cannot deny me
all they can do is look at previous biling and our demographics and total spent and renogotiate the plan yearly.
now if i were insuring myself, then yes this might come into play.
and no, there is no spot on my signup form that asks me if i engage in amateur racing activities.
they do ask about a history of medical problems that I have.
of which i have none.
They are called Medical Saving s accounts and when mixed with Major Medical insurance, they do exactly what you are proposing.
and the best part is that the money going in is pre tax money just like many investment accounts.
no.
http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule/SOLID%20STATE%20DRIVE/~Solid%20State%20Drive~/list.html
and crucial isnt exactly a market leader in pricing.
and currently, the 64gb drive is a $500 upgrade at Dell on the m1330.
so you can get a T7250 proc, 3gb ram, 64gb SSD, LED display, DVD burner, 8400M GPU, wireless N, Bluetooth built in, 2MP camera, Fingerprint reader, etc all for less than $2k currently.
Thats without any special deal other than going to Dell's site.
Now through in a coupon or two and you can gain a fairly steep discount.
funny, i do that and am watching the current season
its called a dvr.
i use it to watch most of my programming
I do however, avoid TNT, and TBS like the plague as i'm tired of watching 1/3 height in show advertising for another upcoming show.
you havent tried to buy a pc lately then.
Dell has been selling N series computers for over 4 years that I"M AWARE OF.
They could have been selling these for a lot longer.
They also sell Ubuntu preloaded as well.
So do many other places.
OH!
You mean you can't buy a PC from a really large OEM other than Dell a fully loaded version of the OS you want.
That's called economics.
There isn't enough demand for it.
Who thinks that maybe the overall bettery life would be more affected by the HEAT the laptop is putting out?
After all, most laptops I've ever dealt with or owned are compact little furnaces that have their hard drives, cpu, gpu, and everything else shoved in as little space as possible in order to make room for things like batteries and keyboards.....
thus if they remove a high heat generating device (even more so with a 7200rpm drive) wouldn't logic also assume that you reduce the amount of heat needing to be removed from the system?
thus the fans would run less often, and therefore drain less battery power.
not too mention the proposed savings by simply accomplishing tasks "faster" when it comes to disk access.
funny
i bought my Dell xps m1330 with 3gb of ram, 64gb SSD and all of the other bells and whistles available at the time for lessthan $2k.
doesn't seem all that expensive to me.
ummm..........
i don't know about you, but a lot of the schools i've seen, the university OWNS the bookstore.
Thus they DO get something out of the sale of new books and even used books.
There may be a competing bookstore that is NOT university owned, but a lot of times, you cannot use your "university card" to purchase at the non-university store and you can at the university store.
This has a high appeal to students whose parents fund their u-cards or have grants to do the same versus plunking down the cold hard cash or whipping out the plastic.