Jeez, talk about jaded. This may shock you, but sometimes a statement is genuine even if it very roughly coincides with a meme.
Sometimes people do spill thier coffee from laughter. Sometimes people genuinely want to know if someting will run Vista/Linux, or start a serious sentence with "In Soviet Russia". Is it still a meme if it's accurate?
I had a vision of a Japanese commuter waiting for a Bullet train, but the train destination was written on the front of the train and the train didn't stop. Not much of an analogy, but a funny image nevertheless.
It's precisely because it was funded by taxpayer dollars that it's being given away for free.
There are bucketloads of data that are not being released to the public - releasing photos of any quality is just plain good PR and the value of a normal light photo is almost inconsequential. Making your American Taxpayer jump through hoops to get hold of these photos would be counterproductive. Given your apparent overreaction (they're not releasing designs for fusion reactors after all) you appear to attach far greater importance to these pictures than they intrinsically possess.
And if you think that US research is done totally in isolation, well guess again.
Odd. I'm a salaried worker and I'm forced to claim overtime, even if I didn't actually work any. It's actually a mechanism of trying to deter our client from overloading us with development requests, but hey, I'm not complaining.
Fair enough, I'm not in the US so the whole concept of exempt/non exempt doesn't apply.
If someone spouts thier employer's opinions, they must be corporate toadys. If they make it clear they're spouting thier own opinions, they must be corporate toadys.
You seem to be confusing 'mistake' with 'failure', and assuming that learning from your mistakes means never repeating the effort.
Writing a test and failing it is not a mistake, it's a failure. Writing the same test again, giving the exact same answers and expecting a different result? Thats stupidity, not a survival trait. Repeating an action for which there is only one possible outcome is a mistake, everything else is simply failure. Doing something 'against the odds' requires that there actually be odds.
Additionally, what's defined as a mistake differs from person to person. If the high you get from partying the night before outweighs the low you get from flunking the next day, who's to say you'll even consider it a mistake? There is no clear cut standard for what constitutes a mistake - your idea of a mistake may be my idea of a good time.
Huh? Working conditions aside, how does this in any way resemble slavery or indentured servitude? If your job is that bad, or you feel like you're being screwed over, find another one. By all means give your employer a bloody nose (financially speaking) while you're at it.
Slaves had no choices, Apple's employees do. To compare the two situations is mildy disgusting.
Maybe you should read the post I was quoting from?
Providing anecdotal proof of how average users are buying, specifically, the eeePC701, and then making a blanket statement about how non average users would build the box themselves is inconsistent.
The eeePC is a subnotebook. Good luck building that yourself at all, never mind cheaper.
And note that I specified that your options with smaller form factors were limited, not non existant.
By your definition anyone who mentions anything wrong to someone in a position to take action is 'vigilante justice'. If I report a coworker whom is stealing from the company to my boss, am I a 'vigilante'? After all. I think it's wrong and am seeking justice. If I see someone stealing a car (which I think is wrong) and I call the owner or cops (seeking justice), does that make me a vigilante?
He didn't put a gun to anyone's head demanding they get a divorce. He didn't seek out the posters' wifes or girlfriends to tell them "Hey, you're being cheated on, please do something about it".
Hell, by your definition anyone who has ever bought illegal and/or morally wrong behaviour to the notice of someone in a position to act on it is a vigilante.
After all, all of the above fall within
if someone thinks something is wrong and seeks justice on an issue, they are being a vigilante
The non-average user is going to buy the parts and build the box themselves as its cheaper and you end up with better hardware.
Seriously? Would you like to point me to the vendor(s) that sell the requisite parts to put together a laptop/notebook/subnotebook? Without having to resort to second hand goods?
What you say may hold true for desktop or server boxes, but your options when it comes to the smaller portable form factors are somewhat limited to say the least.
That is like saying it isn't your car maker's fault if they put breaks in your car designed for a lawnmower and instead it is obviously the people who are making these lawnmower breaks fault for not making sure they can break a much heavier car...
My car maker had damn well better not be putting breaks in my car. I don't like broken stuff...
I agree, it's about time Comcast started taking negative feedback seriously
This is nothing more than a PR excercise. You should not need air your grievances publicly in order to receive a response. Placating those who feel strongly enough about an issue to vent it publicly is disingenious at best - shouldn't one be able to resolve an issue by dealing directly with the party involved?
The bans on smoking in public places are specifically because of the health issues. None of the other annoying and/or disgusting activities you've mentioned have anywhere near the health risks associated with them.
Yes, some of them pose health risks when combined with other activities (Cell phones while driving, drinking while driving, or on the job) and are illegal or banned accordingly. Even the merely disgusting or annoying ones are either frowned upon or actively discouraged is specific situations.
For most of the smokers I know, the bans on smoking are no more inconvenient than having to go to the loo to take a dump.
Unless, like most trolls, they have more than one account. If I log in to a second account and notice that I can't see my troll account's posts, I know it's time for a new troll account.
"Reasonably modern hardware" = hardware that can be obtained new. Not a GFX card that is, what, 5+ generations old? Or a cpu that was middle of the road 4 years ago.
I don't run Vista. I have no intention of running Vista. I just don't see how showing that Vista runs poorly on old hardware supports the statement that it runs poorly on newer hardware. Unlike your post, mocking though it was.
you're proving the other person's point, that it takes a lot more system just to run the OS
Unfortunately, the point that the other person was making is irrelevant insofar as it does not justify thier opening statement.
A: GGPP states that Vista runs fine on modern hardware. (Your interpretation of what constitutes hardware "these days" may differ, but I'd be surprised if the machine specified meets that criteria).
B: GPP makes a snide comment that Vista runs poorly even on the aforementioned modern hardware.
C: PP opens with a statement in support of the opinion presented in (B).
D: PP then presents an example in support of (C), and by extension (B), but the example provided doesn't meet the criteria set forth in (A).
Put simply, pointing out that Vista does not run on old hardware does not prove that Vista runs poorly on modern hardware.
Your interpretation of what constitutes modern hardware and the intent of the PP's post may differ, and apparently does. It's the disconnect between thier opening statement and the support thereof that prompted my reply. Had they used hardware that was still obtainable "new" to support thier view, I wouldn't have felt compelled to post.
You seem to have missed something: "These days" implies that the poster was referring to reasonably modern hardware. Trotting out a machine that is litteraly obsolete* as a case study proves nothing other than that Vista doesn't play nice on old hardware. Granted, it probably doesn't play all that nice at the lower end of modern hardware either.
*obsolete in the sense that none of the parts you mention are still being sold. You simply cannot buy a new machine with those specifications any more. Hell, the GFX card alone has been off the market for at least 4 years, and is barely comparable to even integrated GFX, never mind a cheap $50 low end card.
If you want to prove that Vista runs like a dog on reasonably modern hardware, at least use reasonably modern hardware as a reference.
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Jeez, talk about jaded. This may shock you, but sometimes a statement is genuine even if it very roughly coincides with a meme.
Sometimes people do spill thier coffee from laughter. Sometimes people genuinely want to know if someting will run Vista/Linux, or start a serious sentence with "In Soviet Russia". Is it still a meme if it's accurate?
Sorry, what meme? The comment I responded to literally made me laugh. Not having mod points to mod it funny, I posted a reply instead.
Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that. Would have made a mess of my keyboard
(Sorry no mod points right now).
I had a vision of a Japanese commuter waiting for a Bullet train, but the train destination was written on the front of the train and the train didn't stop. Not much of an analogy, but a funny image nevertheless.
It's precisely because it was funded by taxpayer dollars that it's being given away for free.
There are bucketloads of data that are not being released to the public - releasing photos of any quality is just plain good PR and the value of a normal light photo is almost inconsequential. Making your American Taxpayer jump through hoops to get hold of these photos would be counterproductive. Given your apparent overreaction (they're not releasing designs for fusion reactors after all) you appear to attach far greater importance to these pictures than they intrinsically possess.
And if you think that US research is done totally in isolation, well guess again.
Odd. I'm a salaried worker and I'm forced to claim overtime, even if I didn't actually work any. It's actually a mechanism of trying to deter our client from overloading us with development requests, but hey, I'm not complaining.
Fair enough, I'm not in the US so the whole concept of exempt/non exempt doesn't apply.
*sigh*
If someone spouts thier employer's opinions, they must be corporate toadys.
If they make it clear they're spouting thier own opinions, they must be corporate toadys.
Just can't win.
You seem to be confusing 'mistake' with 'failure', and assuming that learning from your mistakes means never repeating the effort.
Writing a test and failing it is not a mistake, it's a failure. Writing the same test again, giving the exact same answers and expecting a different result? Thats stupidity, not a survival trait. Repeating an action for which there is only one possible outcome is a mistake, everything else is simply failure. Doing something 'against the odds' requires that there actually be odds.
Additionally, what's defined as a mistake differs from person to person. If the high you get from partying the night before outweighs the low you get from flunking the next day, who's to say you'll even consider it a mistake? There is no clear cut standard for what constitutes a mistake - your idea of a mistake may be my idea of a good time.
The deep sea spiders are pissed, but the submarines don't seem to care...
Huh? Working conditions aside, how does this in any way resemble slavery or indentured servitude? If your job is that bad, or you feel like you're being screwed over, find another one. By all means give your employer a bloody nose (financially speaking) while you're at it.
Slaves had no choices, Apple's employees do. To compare the two situations is mildy disgusting.
No, but in amateur boxing whether you get the point or not depends on how well the judge(s) think you connected.
It is entirely possible for a boxer to throw two near identical punches that connect equally well, yet get points for on and not the other.
Maybe you should read the post I was quoting from?
Providing anecdotal proof of how average users are buying, specifically, the eeePC701, and then making a blanket statement about how non average users would build the box themselves is inconsistent.
The eeePC is a subnotebook. Good luck building that yourself at all, never mind cheaper.
And note that I specified that your options with smaller form factors were limited, not non existant.
Except there was no justice being seeked.
By your definition anyone who mentions anything wrong to someone in a position to take action is 'vigilante justice'. If I report a coworker whom is stealing from the company to my boss, am I a 'vigilante'? After all. I think it's wrong and am seeking justice. If I see someone stealing a car (which I think is wrong) and I call the owner or cops (seeking justice), does that make me a vigilante?
He didn't put a gun to anyone's head demanding they get a divorce. He didn't seek out the posters' wifes or girlfriends to tell them "Hey, you're being cheated on, please do something about it".
Hell, by your definition anyone who has ever bought illegal and/or morally wrong behaviour to the notice of someone in a position to act on it is a vigilante.
After all, all of the above fall within
if someone thinks something is wrong and seeks justice on an issue, they are being a vigilante
A) They don't have to take any of them.
B) They don't have to give them back, and you have no recourse.
The non-average user is going to buy the parts and build the box themselves as its cheaper and you end up with better hardware.
Seriously? Would you like to point me to the vendor(s) that sell the requisite parts to put together a laptop/notebook/subnotebook? Without having to resort to second hand goods?
What you say may hold true for desktop or server boxes, but your options when it comes to the smaller portable form factors are somewhat limited to say the least.
That is like saying it isn't your car maker's fault if they put breaks in your car designed for a lawnmower and instead it is obviously the people who are making these lawnmower breaks fault for not making sure they can break a much heavier car...
My car maker had damn well better not be putting breaks in my car. I don't like broken stuff...
I agree, it's about time Comcast started taking negative feedback seriously
This is nothing more than a PR excercise. You should not need air your grievances publicly in order to receive a response. Placating those who feel strongly enough about an issue to vent it publicly is disingenious at best - shouldn't one be able to resolve an issue by dealing directly with the party involved?
I'd be lucky to get Vista to even install, let alone run Aero and programs as well...
Doesn't sound like the poster even tried, which makes his whole post an assumption (albeit a fairly common, and probably correct one).
"I didn't try because I expected it to suck, therefore it must suck" is hardly a valid argument.
*Woosh*
The bans on smoking in public places are specifically because of the health issues. None of the other annoying and/or disgusting activities you've mentioned have anywhere near the health risks associated with them.
Yes, some of them pose health risks when combined with other activities (Cell phones while driving, drinking while driving, or on the job) and are illegal or banned accordingly. Even the merely disgusting or annoying ones are either frowned upon or actively discouraged is specific situations.
For most of the smokers I know, the bans on smoking are no more inconvenient than having to go to the loo to take a dump.
Unless, like most trolls, they have more than one account. If I log in to a second account and notice that I can't see my troll account's posts, I know it's time for a new troll account.
My dog has no legs, you insensitive clod!
/sigh
"Reasonably modern hardware" = hardware that can be obtained new. Not a GFX card that is, what, 5+ generations old? Or a cpu that was middle of the road 4 years ago.
I don't run Vista. I have no intention of running Vista. I just don't see how showing that Vista runs poorly on old hardware supports the statement that it runs poorly on newer hardware. Unlike your post, mocking though it was.
The variety of responses is interesting.
you're proving the other person's point, that it takes a lot more system just to run the OS
Unfortunately, the point that the other person was making is irrelevant insofar as it does not justify thier opening statement.
A: GGPP states that Vista runs fine on modern hardware. (Your interpretation of what constitutes hardware "these days" may differ, but I'd be surprised if the machine specified meets that criteria).
B: GPP makes a snide comment that Vista runs poorly even on the aforementioned modern hardware.
C: PP opens with a statement in support of the opinion presented in (B).
D: PP then presents an example in support of (C), and by extension (B), but the example provided doesn't meet the criteria set forth in (A).
Put simply, pointing out that Vista does not run on old hardware does not prove that Vista runs poorly on modern hardware.
Your interpretation of what constitutes modern hardware and the intent of the PP's post may differ, and apparently does. It's the disconnect between thier opening statement and the support thereof that prompted my reply. Had they used hardware that was still obtainable "new" to support thier view, I wouldn't have felt compelled to post.
You seem to have missed something: "These days" implies that the poster was referring to reasonably modern hardware. Trotting out a machine that is litteraly obsolete* as a case study proves nothing other than that Vista doesn't play nice on old hardware. Granted, it probably doesn't play all that nice at the lower end of modern hardware either.
*obsolete in the sense that none of the parts you mention are still being sold. You simply cannot buy a new machine with those specifications any more. Hell, the GFX card alone has been off the market for at least 4 years, and is barely comparable to even integrated GFX, never mind a cheap $50 low end card.
If you want to prove that Vista runs like a dog on reasonably modern hardware, at least use reasonably modern hardware as a reference.
Move it from right to left? Sure, it will decapitate your avatar, but that's a minor concern.