Just a bit of advice - I'd stay away from BitDefender. They gave us a great price, but their software caused all sorts of network issues - one of our domain controllers started intermittently losing network connectivity for no reason whatsoever (I had to reformat the server to fix it). We had DNS and WINS resolution issues for weeks after installing BitDefender. Various applications wouldn't work. Their management tools don't always work correctly.
We ended up getting a prorated refund; we're going to buy Avast this week instead. I use Avast on my personal laptop; I love it, and haven't had any significant performance degradation. (For improved performance, turn off VRDB generation.) Avast integrates with e-mail clients (including Outlook and Thunderbird) and I think it can integrate itself with instant messenger and peer-to-peer clients as well, but I don't use that feature.
Are you sure that's not just because AVG doesn't detect some viruses? As I mentioned elsewhere, my sister's computer was running AVG, but it had dozens of viruses that I could only remove by installing Avast (though to be honest I ended up reformatting anyway). I used to recommend AVG but in the last two years or so I've been recommending Avast.
AVG failed to detect dozens of viruses and malware on my sister's computer that Avast cleared out. Avast isn't perfect, but they're both free, and it's my experience that Avast is more reliable than AVG. As always, YMMV.
That may be true, but if you piss off developers they won't target your card, and they'll recommend nVidia to their users... I'm sure you can extrapolate from there.
With Ubuntu you also need to figure out which one you need - should I get 7.10 or 8.04 or 8.10? 32 or 64 bit?
Granted, most users will just download whatever they're presented with by default, but any non-power user who tries to think about it before downloading won't necessarily find it as easy as you imply.
Funny. At my workplace we (the programmers) hate ATI because of their crappy drivers. Some of their default values for OpenGL settings are wrong (according to the OpenGL documentation)! Things like that make our graphics buggy on ATI cards; switching to an nVidia card makes the issues vanish.
So saying it doesn't bring coder hate is wrong; but saying it brings both coder hate and user hate would be correct.
All you know about me is that I voted for McCain, and as a result you're labeling me racist, homophobic, fascist, ugly, and "horrendously stupid".
I guess I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's ideas about the malleability of the U.S. Constitution genuinely scare me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's support for abortion (including partial-birth abortion) is morally disgusting to me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's plan to pull out of Iraq seems too hasty to me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because I prefer McCain's plan to pursue nuclear power over Obama's plan to fine the coal industry out of existence.
No, any of that would have required some iota of thought.
Nope, I voted for McCain, so I must be racist (I voted against the black guy), homophobic (wait, doesn't Obama oppose gay marriage too?), fascist (this one just confuses me), ugly (maybe, but at least I'm married with a baby girl on the way;), not funny (ok, this is true) and horrendously stupid...
Wow. Even if I were all of that, at least I'm not bigoted.
You are quite correct; my intention wasn't to point out that resumes would be ruined, instead it was to point out that mandating it would cheapen voluntary community service in general... perhaps I should have worded it better.
There are better ways to make kids well-rounded than mandatory community service:
- Scouting (how many Eagle scouts do we have on slashdot? Future poll idea! I call the CowboyNeal scout rank!) - Musical instrument or singing lessons - Legos
and so on.
Mandatory "community service" is not the answer. (On a related note, it is not the government's job to raise our kids for us.)
Compensation for community service makes it no longer community service - it makes it a job.
Community service is implicitly voluntary and unpaid, and making it both mandatory and paid will render worthless the resume entries of people who do community service voluntarily and without compensation.
Granted, we use "service" to refer to military time, which is paid, but I don't think that's the context here.
Or, they could take all of the currently unemployed, who WANT to work, and actually PAY them to do work that needs to be done, such as infrastructure maintenance and improvement.
This is precisely the plan that would fix the obviously broken U.S. welfare system. Too bad it costs money, so it'll never get past the budget committee.
You don't have to be stupid to support or like Bush. It's kind of funny that you (who surely supports Obama) would stoop to the name-calling that Obama himself refused to participate in.
I don't call Obama-supporters stupid. I may not agree with them (I voted for McCain, after all), but I don't call them stupid.
I realize that this is slashdot, so some level of immaturity is to be expected, but we're above name-calling, aren't we?
In my day we had to clean up plague rats and push those wheelbarrows full of dead people! And they whipped us if we forgot to shout "Bring out your dead!" at the proper intervals!
Not to mention that mandatory community service is often used as a punishment for crimes (to "pay back" the community for wrongdoings). Yeah, it's a great idea to treat our schoolkids like criminals on probation.
That's not how I read it... I read it as: Let's make a plan which will require students to do community service.
In fact, that's basically the same wording as the quote:
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."
He isn't saying "let's do this special opportunity thing that people can sign up for". He's saying "let's require this service".
Reminds me of an old interview with one of the 3com founders I saw the other day. When asked about a particular meeting with Microsoft, the 3com CEO said this:
"Bill said, 'You made a mistake. You trusted us.'"
That about sums up Microsoft's business practices.
I mentioned it further up above, but I'm also interested if someone will do this but with step 3 read as "Write the Windows driver" instead. You know, so we can have a non-crappy X-Fi driver for Windows.
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Just a bit of advice - I'd stay away from BitDefender. They gave us a great price, but their software caused all sorts of network issues - one of our domain controllers started intermittently losing network connectivity for no reason whatsoever (I had to reformat the server to fix it). We had DNS and WINS resolution issues for weeks after installing BitDefender. Various applications wouldn't work. Their management tools don't always work correctly.
We ended up getting a prorated refund; we're going to buy Avast this week instead. I use Avast on my personal laptop; I love it, and haven't had any significant performance degradation. (For improved performance, turn off VRDB generation.) Avast integrates with e-mail clients (including Outlook and Thunderbird) and I think it can integrate itself with instant messenger and peer-to-peer clients as well, but I don't use that feature.
Are you sure that's not just because AVG doesn't detect some viruses? As I mentioned elsewhere, my sister's computer was running AVG, but it had dozens of viruses that I could only remove by installing Avast (though to be honest I ended up reformatting anyway). I used to recommend AVG but in the last two years or so I've been recommending Avast.
AVG failed to detect dozens of viruses and malware on my sister's computer that Avast cleared out. Avast isn't perfect, but they're both free, and it's my experience that Avast is more reliable than AVG. As always, YMMV.
That may be true, but if you piss off developers they won't target your card, and they'll recommend nVidia to their users... I'm sure you can extrapolate from there.
With Ubuntu you also need to figure out which one you need - should I get 7.10 or 8.04 or 8.10? 32 or 64 bit?
Granted, most users will just download whatever they're presented with by default, but any non-power user who tries to think about it before downloading won't necessarily find it as easy as you imply.
Has anyone else ever noticed that Burger King's "large" drink size is the same as Wendy's "medium" drink size?
And yet Wendy's "large" is cheaper...
If you're willing to include integrated graphics in the graphics chipset market, Intel has the majority by far.
Funny. At my workplace we (the programmers) hate ATI because of their crappy drivers. Some of their default values for OpenGL settings are wrong (according to the OpenGL documentation)! Things like that make our graphics buggy on ATI cards; switching to an nVidia card makes the issues vanish.
So saying it doesn't bring coder hate is wrong; but saying it brings both coder hate and user hate would be correct.
Ok mods, repeat after me:
"Criticizing an aspect of Obama's plan is not flamebait."
Great, now someone offset that mod :(
Proceeding to feed the troll:
All you know about me is that I voted for McCain, and as a result you're labeling me racist, homophobic, fascist, ugly, and "horrendously stupid".
I guess I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's ideas about the malleability of the U.S. Constitution genuinely scare me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's support for abortion (including partial-birth abortion) is morally disgusting to me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because Obama's plan to pull out of Iraq seems too hasty to me. I couldn't possibly have voted for McCain because I prefer McCain's plan to pursue nuclear power over Obama's plan to fine the coal industry out of existence.
No, any of that would have required some iota of thought.
Nope, I voted for McCain, so I must be racist (I voted against the black guy), homophobic (wait, doesn't Obama oppose gay marriage too?), fascist (this one just confuses me), ugly (maybe, but at least I'm married with a baby girl on the way ;), not funny (ok, this is true) and horrendously stupid...
Wow. Even if I were all of that, at least I'm not bigoted.
You are quite correct; my intention wasn't to point out that resumes would be ruined, instead it was to point out that mandating it would cheapen voluntary community service in general... perhaps I should have worded it better.
There are better ways to make kids well-rounded than mandatory community service:
- Scouting (how many Eagle scouts do we have on slashdot? Future poll idea! I call the CowboyNeal scout rank!)
- Musical instrument or singing lessons
- Legos
and so on.
Mandatory "community service" is not the answer. (On a related note, it is not the government's job to raise our kids for us.)
Compensation for community service makes it no longer community service - it makes it a job.
Community service is implicitly voluntary and unpaid, and making it both mandatory and paid will render worthless the resume entries of people who do community service voluntarily and without compensation.
Granted, we use "service" to refer to military time, which is paid, but I don't think that's the context here.
It's sad how often people (especially parents) forget this simple idea.
Or, they could take all of the currently unemployed, who WANT to work, and actually PAY them to do work that needs to be done, such as infrastructure maintenance and improvement.
This is precisely the plan that would fix the obviously broken U.S. welfare system. Too bad it costs money, so it'll never get past the budget committee.
You don't have to be stupid to support or like Bush. It's kind of funny that you (who surely supports Obama) would stoop to the name-calling that Obama himself refused to participate in.
I don't call Obama-supporters stupid. I may not agree with them (I voted for McCain, after all), but I don't call them stupid.
I realize that this is slashdot, so some level of immaturity is to be expected, but we're above name-calling, aren't we?
Hello? Where's everyone going?
In my day we had to clean up plague rats and push those wheelbarrows full of dead people! And they whipped us if we forgot to shout "Bring out your dead!" at the proper intervals!
Get off my lawn...
Not to mention that mandatory community service is often used as a punishment for crimes (to "pay back" the community for wrongdoings). Yeah, it's a great idea to treat our schoolkids like criminals on probation.
That's not how I read it... I read it as: Let's make a plan which will require students to do community service.
In fact, that's basically the same wording as the quote:
"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."
He isn't saying "let's do this special opportunity thing that people can sign up for". He's saying "let's require this service".
Yeah, I thought that was ironic as well.
Reminds me of an old interview with one of the 3com founders I saw the other day. When asked about a particular meeting with Microsoft, the 3com CEO said this:
"Bill said, 'You made a mistake. You trusted us.'"
That about sums up Microsoft's business practices.
The only way to update the BIOS on some MSI motherboards is to use their ActiveX control. The downloadable version they provide is 4 versions old.
While you're probably right, I'm unfamiliar with pulseaudio... but my experience with wine has occasioned digging into all sorts of config files :(
I mentioned it further up above, but I'm also interested if someone will do this but with step 3 read as "Write the Windows driver" instead. You know, so we can have a non-crappy X-Fi driver for Windows.
With quad cores as cheap as they are, I don't think it's an issue even if the onboard sound somehow uses an entire core ;)