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We Know Jesus hung on the cross for several days - he was then interned into a grave - when people went to check the grave, his body was missing. Is Jesus Alive or Dead? Schrodinger's Jesus is the Question.
Company (A) has over 10k desktop computers per location - 3 locations possited. Each computer is equiped with a Common MicroSD reader/writer. Ergo 30K MicroSD cards can be read/written to at a time. Does this answer your bitch fest? Hell Yea. Might cost a bit of money to implement but could be done seeing as how due to quantities involved, costs would be fairly low for the Micro SD Readers.
The only ones to lay blame to this is Apple for not using an Industry standard connection that everyone makes, thus there's little to no incentive for Chinese knock-offs because there's not fucking profit in it. FTFY
Sounds exactly like Microsoft. Haven't they done this for the last 20 years? Each new generation of Windows has doubled some hardware requirement such as CPU speed and available memory. Now that Speeds aren't increasing, MS has decided that they need to increase RAM and Storage Capacity as much as possible for each generation.
You mean like we already do? I'm an american and let me tell you, if it isn't in english, it's of little to no interest to me except pron then I don't care what langauge because what do they say most times? Oh! Oh! and such is about all I want to hear from them.
Oh you mean changing a default hotkey "ctrl-u" from pulling up the shutdown menu to accessibility menu? You mean burying the Clear Type setting three menu's deep now along with all of the other UI changes?
The only usability improvement MS made to Win7 is the ability to use any Win7 disk for installation and the easing of product activation "So Long as you have a Valid Key" it will activate. I've used an Upgrade disk, Ultimate Disk, Pro disk to do installs on various systems with factory OEM keys and everyone of them activated w/o issue. That's the only improvement MS made. Otherwise the many changes to the god damn UI simply were for the sake of change.
Now as to changes to the performance and security of Windows, yes MS did make a whole bunch of them that were worth the effort of learning where in hell they moved an option this time. Pisses me off no end when I have to switch from an XP system to a Win7 system because the god damn changes in the UI.
MS could easily sell a version of Win7 with the XP UI and call it XP-2 if they retained all of the functionality of XP like the network neighborhood - the shared docs, music and vids folder worked lots better then they public versions in Win7 (bitch to place anything in them along with being able to get to them from another account/system). The idea behind the home group wasn't completely bad, just the implementation. All they needed was to create/add the functionality onto the network neighborhood and the shared folders instead of having the crap with links that you can't work with for My Documents, My Music, My Videos (linked to Documents, Music, Videos). Yes it was a hack to begin with (should have simply called them Documents, Music, Videos). The one thing I do agree with though is the AppsData folder and if they made it easy to create a seperate/user partition and place user data there by default during installation, I'd be happier using the OS. Hell make it possible to easily do it and add the user to the local system (read the id and such from the apps data folder) instead of the user having to take ownership of the damn thing. Easier to simply reinstall and I think many companies would love the ability to locate the/users folder onto a server instead of the individual machines. Customize your workspace and have it available on any computer in the company, just as I can do with Linux and mounting/home on a server. Doesn't matter what hardware the terminal runs as all of their settings are available from any of the systems on the network.
and I saw a shining example of this in regards to the Taiwan Floods. Bought a 1TB external drive a few days before the floods and the next week the same drive had increased by $20 even though it had already been manufactured and was on the damn shelf when I'd bought mine.
Yea! Capitilism works quite well if you want to be screwed.
I'm in a similar fix but it also provides a very nice reply about replacing a system that I just upgraded the CPU in - went from an dual to a quad core in July so instead of building a new system, I'll just upgrade this one to serve me better and no I don't need more performance. Storage is the problem and a pair of 1TB or larger drives will solve that issue nicely.
How much money do you think we could raise by donating a dollar each to terminating lawyers? Don't forget this includes most politicans and the god damn bottom feaders who call themselves "Lawmakers".
Once this is working, why not expand it to include CEO's and such? It might make them pay more attention to things and keep their companies out of trouble if they were subjected to Death for crimes. Forget the fucking courts. If there's not enough money, nobody good will take the commision and it will help clear out the damn idiots.
Serious question here, Why in hell do we need "Lawmakers" instead of Statesmen who help keep the peace?
Most of the websites I visit with ads are commercial in origin (Extreme Tech/PC Mag/Others) that already sell advertising. They don't need the little bit of money my eyeball impressions make em because I never click on the ads anyhow and that's without ABP installed in Firefox. I do use Noscript and no it doesn't update automatically as it does exactly what I want "Deny All/Whitelist". Combine that with the Hosts file as APK reminds us (Yes he's an idiot for such long posts) but hey we all do it occasionally - some more then others don't we?
As to finding products I wasn't aware of previously? That's what in hell Google is for. I don't look for products by name but by functionality and usually get plenty of links to check out. Or I get told about an interesting product by word of mouth (/. and other forums) or family like I was recently told about Lennox A/C systems now offering "Solar Ready" units by my brother. He'd caught the ad on TV (I don't watch/have one - trolling/. more important).
and having a Linux/bsd router with a complete hosts file works for every fucking thing on your network unlike ABP since that only works in Firefox and Palemoon - based on the Gecko/Firefox Codebase. As to Google, do you really think they allow ABP to block Googles Ads and data collection? As to browsers, you forget to list IE (6/7/8/9/10/11), Safari, Opera, Konqureor, QTWeb, Dillo and a whole bunch of others, so to me, ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything that APK reminds us about.
Why in hell do you think MS removed the Hosts file functionality from Win8? To prevent people from blocking ads/malware and such. They want people's computer to be infected so their Security partners (Symantect/McAffee/Others) can continue earning money while they earn sales. Sorry but MS could tighten things up sufficiently that you don't need a god damn AV on the desktop but they wont because it would kill lots of companies that depend on their crapware.
I have to disagree with you on the fact that most of those systems Can't run Win7. Hell The only systems that can run Win7 are the ones that can't run XP/SP2 as that was the real cutoff point for Win7 - XP/SP3 was the cutoff point for Vista, which has higher hardware requirements. Yes I know it because I have a laptop that ran XP/SP1 that claimed to be Vista Ready. Guess what, the damn thing couldn't run Vista at all yet Win7 works far better then XP/SP3 did.
What I suspsect China is going to do is mandate that everyone move to Red Flag Linux (State Sponsored OS) or they'll lose the internet. They may allow some locations to access the net with Windows Systems - mainly Hotels and some business with lots of Foreign travellers. Otherwsie, the common citizen will be using Red Flag within the next 5 years.
I prefer a Smoothly running Purgatory so what's your point?
Not only "No but hell No! I don't run OSX.
I'm a Gentoo Ricer and I don't use that abomination called systemd as it breaks the LFHS (linux file system hierarchy standard) by forcing/usr to be part of the root mount point. Sorry but I've got/usr on a seperate partition, just like/boot/temp/var and/home for improved security and stability as once the system is stable, I change fstab to mount/usr read-only and I don't mount/portage at all (seperate partition). No I didn't do this so I could use a number of smaller drives - everything fits into 40GB with ease on a 500GB drive.
The idiot that created systemd should be taken out back and forced to use win8 for eternity as that's exactly the kind of shit I'd expect MS to pull as part of their Embrace, Extend, Exterminate
No one sells the old tech? Guess you've not heard of "Lodge" Cast Iron cookware. It's unchanged for over 100 years (I think that the company began before 1900).
Inproved insulation is a god damn joke right? Homes are still insulated everyday with fiberglass/rockwool/celulose blown into the walls and rolls in the cielings. As to insulated windows? A good set of triple pane windows with wood frames and sashes are damn near as effective as High-E glass with argon filling because wood has a higher thermal resistance then the god damn Aluminum and Vinyl shit used for them.
First off, the kids are not even in kindergarden yet (3 and 4 yr olds). They simply don't need electronics to teach them how to not interact with people, which is what these parents are doing. In fact, I'm quite happy to see a couple that's started taking back their lives from the continual interuptions of work and everyone else and actualy spending it with their children.
Guess he's looking for fluxbox - what I use. It's still under active development, has mouse focus, clk to raise, hotkeys/key bindings, a task pane (clock/dropbox) along with a taskbar. As to KDE or Gnome apps, yea I've got KDE 4.10 installed and use several apps (kate, dolphin, ark & konsole) plus several gtk based such as Filezilla, firefox, qmmp along with Qt4 apps such as qpdf, vlc and others. I guess he's simply pissing in the wind and bitching about getting wet because I've got everything he wants already.
1) GCC dropping support for so called Obsolete Hardware that Freebsd still supports. This makes it impossible to use the same compiler version across all hardware.
2) GCC optimizations do not 100 percent produce identical binaries due to optimizations chosen by the compiler. This is a critical Security Issue that has been addressed with LLVM/Clang - speed isn't important at this time. A toolchain that produces 100 percent duplicate binaries was the requirement on all hardware that BSD supports.
3) GPL issues - don't know/don't care as the Second issue is critical while the first was very important. Some of the hardware that BSD still supports isn't supported by anything later then GCC 2 (that's 15-20 year old hardware) think it's some mission critical systems they're being paid to support so worth the time/effort to solve the hardware support removal issue by the GCC devs.
Guess what, you can't even use i386 for GCC anymore because they're supposedly obsolete yet they're still mission critical for the U.S. Government and Miltiary systems, meaning it is not obsolete but the GCC team removed support for the hardware anyway. Well since the Government isn't paying for support to GCC, Guess we can remove hardware that's a pain to support and isn't "Oh Shiny!" That was one of the big reasons given for the LLVM/Clang project 5-7 years ago AfaiR - found it interesting at the time and hoped they'd succeed as it apears they did.
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We Know Jesus hung on the cross for several days - he was then interned into a grave - when people went to check the grave, his body was missing. Is Jesus Alive or Dead? Schrodinger's Jesus is the Question.
Company (A) has over 10k desktop computers per location - 3 locations possited. Each computer is equiped with a Common MicroSD reader/writer. Ergo 30K MicroSD cards can be read/written to at a time. Does this answer your bitch fest? Hell Yea. Might cost a bit of money to implement but could be done seeing as how due to quantities involved, costs would be fairly low for the Micro SD Readers.
The only ones to lay blame to this is Apple for not using an Industry standard connection that everyone makes, thus there's little to no incentive for Chinese knock-offs because there's not fucking profit in it. FTFY
Sounds exactly like Microsoft. Haven't they done this for the last 20 years? Each new generation of Windows has doubled some hardware requirement such as CPU speed and available memory. Now that Speeds aren't increasing, MS has decided that they need to increase RAM and Storage Capacity as much as possible for each generation.
Because California is its own Nation. Keep in mind we do have the worlds 5th largest GDP thanks to Intel and Silicon Valley
they probably just use a quad SLI setup with Nvidia GPU's to do this. Something they'd be perfectly adequate for
You mean like we already do? I'm an american and let me tell you, if it isn't in english, it's of little to no interest to me except pron then I don't care what langauge because what do they say most times? Oh! Oh! and such is about all I want to hear from them.
R2D2 is a damn good example of the problem. C3P0 is another example. In this case, we'd be damn glad if it would shut the hell up.
this is exactly why I continue to read /. and I hope to see more of these types of articles instead of the crappled slashvertisements
What Usability improvements?
Oh you mean changing a default hotkey "ctrl-u" from pulling up the shutdown menu to accessibility menu? You mean burying the Clear Type setting three menu's deep now along with all of the other UI changes?
The only usability improvement MS made to Win7 is the ability to use any Win7 disk for installation and the easing of product activation "So Long as you have a Valid Key" it will activate. I've used an Upgrade disk, Ultimate Disk, Pro disk to do installs on various systems with factory OEM keys and everyone of them activated w/o issue. That's the only improvement MS made. Otherwise the many changes to the god damn UI simply were for the sake of change.
Now as to changes to the performance and security of Windows, yes MS did make a whole bunch of them that were worth the effort of learning where in hell they moved an option this time. Pisses me off no end when I have to switch from an XP system to a Win7 system because the god damn changes in the UI.
MS could easily sell a version of Win7 with the XP UI and call it XP-2 if they retained all of the functionality of XP like the network neighborhood - the shared docs, music and vids folder worked lots better then they public versions in Win7 (bitch to place anything in them along with being able to get to them from another account/system). The idea behind the home group wasn't completely bad, just the implementation. All they needed was to create/add the functionality onto the network neighborhood and the shared folders instead of having the crap with links that you can't work with for My Documents, My Music, My Videos (linked to Documents, Music, Videos). Yes it was a hack to begin with (should have simply called them Documents, Music, Videos). The one thing I do agree with though is the AppsData folder and if they made it easy to create a seperate /user partition and place user data there by default during installation, I'd be happier using the OS. Hell make it possible to easily do it and add the user to the local system (read the id and such from the apps data folder) instead of the user having to take ownership of the damn thing. Easier to simply reinstall and I think many companies would love the ability to locate the /users folder onto a server instead of the individual machines. Customize your workspace and have it available on any computer in the company, just as I can do with Linux and mounting /home on a server. Doesn't matter what hardware the terminal runs as all of their settings are available from any of the systems on the network.
and I saw a shining example of this in regards to the Taiwan Floods. Bought a 1TB external drive a few days before the floods and the next week the same drive had increased by $20 even though it had already been manufactured and was on the damn shelf when I'd bought mine.
Yea! Capitilism works quite well if you want to be screwed.
I'm in a similar fix but it also provides a very nice reply about replacing a system that I just upgraded the CPU in - went from an dual to a quad core in July so instead of building a new system, I'll just upgrade this one to serve me better and no I don't need more performance. Storage is the problem and a pair of 1TB or larger drives will solve that issue nicely.
except it's not an unforseen incident. It may very well be planned to push prices up.
How much money do you think we could raise by donating a dollar each to terminating lawyers? Don't forget this includes most politicans and the god damn bottom feaders who call themselves "Lawmakers".
Once this is working, why not expand it to include CEO's and such? It might make them pay more attention to things and keep their companies out of trouble if they were subjected to Death for crimes. Forget the fucking courts. If there's not enough money, nobody good will take the commision and it will help clear out the damn idiots.
Serious question here, Why in hell do we need "Lawmakers" instead of Statesmen who help keep the peace?
Most of the websites I visit with ads are commercial in origin (Extreme Tech/PC Mag/Others) that already sell advertising. They don't need the little bit of money my eyeball impressions make em because I never click on the ads anyhow and that's without ABP installed in Firefox. I do use Noscript and no it doesn't update automatically as it does exactly what I want "Deny All/Whitelist". Combine that with the Hosts file as APK reminds us (Yes he's an idiot for such long posts) but hey we all do it occasionally - some more then others don't we?
As to finding products I wasn't aware of previously? That's what in hell Google is for. I don't look for products by name but by functionality and usually get plenty of links to check out. Or I get told about an interesting product by word of mouth (/. and other forums) or family like I was recently told about Lennox A/C systems now offering "Solar Ready" units by my brother. He'd caught the ad on TV (I don't watch/have one - trolling /. more important).
and having a Linux/bsd router with a complete hosts file works for every fucking thing on your network unlike ABP since that only works in Firefox and Palemoon - based on the Gecko/Firefox Codebase. As to Google, do you really think they allow ABP to block Googles Ads and data collection? As to browsers, you forget to list IE (6/7/8/9/10/11), Safari, Opera, Konqureor, QTWeb, Dillo and a whole bunch of others, so to me, ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything that APK reminds us about.
Why in hell do you think MS removed the Hosts file functionality from Win8? To prevent people from blocking ads/malware and such. They want people's computer to be infected so their Security partners (Symantect/McAffee/Others) can continue earning money while they earn sales. Sorry but MS could tighten things up sufficiently that you don't need a god damn AV on the desktop but they wont because it would kill lots of companies that depend on their crapware.
I have to disagree with you on the fact that most of those systems Can't run Win7. Hell The only systems that can run Win7 are the ones that can't run XP/SP2 as that was the real cutoff point for Win7 - XP/SP3 was the cutoff point for Vista, which has higher hardware requirements. Yes I know it because I have a laptop that ran XP/SP1 that claimed to be Vista Ready. Guess what, the damn thing couldn't run Vista at all yet Win7 works far better then XP/SP3 did.
What I suspsect China is going to do is mandate that everyone move to Red Flag Linux (State Sponsored OS) or they'll lose the internet. They may allow some locations to access the net with Windows Systems - mainly Hotels and some business with lots of Foreign travellers. Otherwsie, the common citizen will be using Red Flag within the next 5 years.
I prefer a Smoothly running Purgatory so what's your point?
Not only "No but hell No! I don't run OSX.
I'm a Gentoo Ricer and I don't use that abomination called systemd as it breaks the LFHS (linux file system hierarchy standard) by forcing /usr to be part of the root mount point. Sorry but I've got /usr on a seperate partition, just like /boot /temp /var and /home for improved security and stability as once the system is stable, I change fstab to mount /usr read-only and I don't mount /portage at all (seperate partition). No I didn't do this so I could use a number of smaller drives - everything fits into 40GB with ease on a 500GB drive.
The idiot that created systemd should be taken out back and forced to use win8 for eternity as that's exactly the kind of shit I'd expect MS to pull as part of their Embrace, Extend, Exterminate
Did you forget that MS is wait for it EVIL!
No one sells the old tech? Guess you've not heard of "Lodge" Cast Iron cookware. It's unchanged for over 100 years (I think that the company began before 1900).
Inproved insulation is a god damn joke right? Homes are still insulated everyday with fiberglass/rockwool/celulose blown into the walls and rolls in the cielings. As to insulated windows? A good set of triple pane windows with wood frames and sashes are damn near as effective as High-E glass with argon filling because wood has a higher thermal resistance then the god damn Aluminum and Vinyl shit used for them.
First off, the kids are not even in kindergarden yet (3 and 4 yr olds). They simply don't need electronics to teach them how to not interact with people, which is what these parents are doing. In fact, I'm quite happy to see a couple that's started taking back their lives from the continual interuptions of work and everyone else and actualy spending it with their children.
Did you want some Canapes and Crackers with your whine?
Guess he's looking for fluxbox - what I use. It's still under active development, has mouse focus, clk to raise, hotkeys/key bindings, a task pane (clock/dropbox) along with a taskbar. As to KDE or Gnome apps, yea I've got KDE 4.10 installed and use several apps (kate, dolphin, ark & konsole) plus several gtk based such as Filezilla, firefox, qmmp along with Qt4 apps such as qpdf, vlc and others. I guess he's simply pissing in the wind and bitching about getting wet because I've got everything he wants already.
Several reasons:
1) GCC dropping support for so called Obsolete Hardware that Freebsd still supports. This makes it impossible to use the same compiler version across all hardware.
2) GCC optimizations do not 100 percent produce identical binaries due to optimizations chosen by the compiler. This is a critical Security Issue that has been addressed with LLVM/Clang - speed isn't important at this time. A toolchain that produces 100 percent duplicate binaries was the requirement on all hardware that BSD supports.
3) GPL issues - don't know/don't care as the Second issue is critical while the first was very important. Some of the hardware that BSD still supports isn't supported by anything later then GCC 2 (that's 15-20 year old hardware) think it's some mission critical systems they're being paid to support so worth the time/effort to solve the hardware support removal issue by the GCC devs.
Guess what, you can't even use i386 for GCC anymore because they're supposedly obsolete yet they're still mission critical for the U.S. Government and Miltiary systems, meaning it is not obsolete but the GCC team removed support for the hardware anyway. Well since the Government isn't paying for support to GCC, Guess we can remove hardware that's a pain to support and isn't "Oh Shiny!" That was one of the big reasons given for the LLVM/Clang project 5-7 years ago AfaiR - found it interesting at the time and hoped they'd succeed as it apears they did.