If you give Google money they'll sell you storage that will never leave the United States. I don't know if that'll pass muster with your particular standards, but it would with ours if we were willing to pay for it - the leadership isn't.
You could probably use Google's SSO if you can convince your org's servers to use Shibboleth. We're using that here for some things and it seems to work well.
Of course you can. Chrome OS devices have all got a developer mode switch that turns off some of the security, allowing you to install your own software on the device. Up to and including Windows and other Linux distros.
The Chromebook comes back a lot quicker than anything else I've got. Less than five seconds from opening the display to getting wireless back up. With Windows on a spinning disk it's usually twice that if not more from wake to Internet. You also don't have to wait several minutes for updates to install and then get a force-reboot - instead it'll apply updates automatically in the background and then you'll have a non-intrusive icon telling you to restart to update, which itself will take less than 10 seconds.
This is S3 sleep, not S1 or hibernate.
Did I mention that it's got dual redundant OS installs? If one breaks (which has never happened for me) it'll defrost the backup copy (which I think is the previous version) and you're good to go. Can't do/that/ with Windows.
As a Web terminal, my Cr-48 is fucking brilliant. Unbreakable operating system, nearly instant wake from sleep, good keyboard, touchpad, and screen. I'd take it over a tablet any day for web use, and it's been a daily driver of mine since December '10.
It's really only good as a web terminal, though. Doesn't run much on itself. Can do games that you can d/l from the Chrome store, but the old hardware's a bit slow - Atom N455 and 2GB of RAM. There's production hardware from Samsung that's got a Sandy Bridge-derived Celeron, which I expect is plenty fast.
Basically it's a brilliant second machine for technically-minded people, or a primary box for one's grandmother or luser father who keeps getting viruses from looking at internet porn, or for anyone who only needs Internet access. I almost never print from mine, but if you want to print you'll either need another computer serving out the printer, or a specially-enabled printer that can talk directly.
lollers. AVG used to be good, but now it's bloated shit and this condition has gotten worse for the past two major revisions. If you're that worried about viruses written specifically to circumvent MSE you should go for either Avira or Avast's free versions.
As to backups, I use Areca in delta mode to back up my Steam profile to an Ubuntu/Samba server and it seems to work pretty well. Delta mode saves a hell of a lot of space because it only copies the changed sections of large files - good when Valve pushes out almost daily updates to the Orange Box games (as they did for a while in September).
NO NO NO. Never put the swapfile on an SSD. An SSD has a limited number of writes available to each cell, which is not true of spinning disks. Nothing will kill an SSD sooner than using it for swap.
Just get plenty of RAM (it's cheap now!) and don't worry about it. Let Windows manage the swap and make sure it's on a spinning disk.
And therefore we should have NO GOVERNMENT EVER, right?
Your argument is stupid on its face. Sometimes it's wrong for a majority to force things on a minority (denying LGBT rights), but sometimes it's right (maintain your goddamn property and keep your hedges off the sidewalk). Making blanket statements is the domain of tiny minds.
Right now they seem to be laboring under the delusion that they're a Kindle company. They've deliberately crippled the Android version of the Kindle software; for instance, you can't categorize books into collections, which is a Big Deal if you're a serious reader and have dozens or hundreds of books. There's no technical reason for the omission, it's just market segmentation.
I can't imagine they (currently) make more profit on the Kindle than they do selling their books, music, et al, so I can't see a rational reason for this strategy.
Indeed. I'm in the ballpark area of cffrost's Political Compass result and I don't especially care for either major party or its candidate, but that's entirely orthogonal from whether there are real differences between the two.
He simply hasn't done his research if he really can't see any difference at all between the two, unless perhaps his hobby horse is something like civil liberties.
No, what'll happen is what's been happening with the Republicans: the process gets hijacked by ideological extremists who are motivated to change things to suit themselves, and who are enabled by "moderates" who stop bothering.
That was on Apple//cs and (a few)//es, using IIRC Bank Street Writer and some dedicated wpm-counting program. I ended up with 40-50 WPM, I think. This was in late 1992 to early '93.
In high school it was 68030-powered Mac Performas running System 7. I think we were taught "office" type tasks and a bit about doing research on the Internet, using Netscape 2.x (or maybe 1.x) over the school's T1 line, which was dog slow on account of being shared. Later on I took an elective for Lotus 1-2-3 and Internet (the latter wasn't on the syllabus but was taught anyway by a forward-thinking teacher) in a lab of 486 PCs running Win 3.1 and NetWare and Netscape 3.x. I got my very first HoTMailL account for that class, in late '96, when it was still independent.
A bit earlier than that I took a course that included a little Applesoft BASIC in summer school, IIRC around 7th grade.
Mostly I'm self-taught aside from the formal instruction in programming (mainly C++, a little Ada, Scheme, COBOL, Java, x86 assembly[1]) that I took at university.
[1] Bleah. My intro to assembly was with a 16-bit 8086 assembler written for DOS in the late '80s, taken in the early '00s. My alma mater's since switched to MIPS assembly, which at least can't be as poorly designed for learning.
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If you give Google money they'll sell you storage that will never leave the United States. I don't know if that'll pass muster with your particular standards, but it would with ours if we were willing to pay for it - the leadership isn't.
You could probably use Google's SSO if you can convince your org's servers to use Shibboleth. We're using that here for some things and it seems to work well.
Of course you can. Chrome OS devices have all got a developer mode switch that turns off some of the security, allowing you to install your own software on the device. Up to and including Windows and other Linux distros.
Last I knew Chrome OS used a custom version of Gentoo as the back end.
The Chromebook comes back a lot quicker than anything else I've got. Less than five seconds from opening the display to getting wireless back up. With Windows on a spinning disk it's usually twice that if not more from wake to Internet. You also don't have to wait several minutes for updates to install and then get a force-reboot - instead it'll apply updates automatically in the background and then you'll have a non-intrusive icon telling you to restart to update, which itself will take less than 10 seconds.
This is S3 sleep, not S1 or hibernate.
Did I mention that it's got dual redundant OS installs? If one breaks (which has never happened for me) it'll defrost the backup copy (which I think is the previous version) and you're good to go. Can't do /that/ with Windows.
As a Web terminal, my Cr-48 is fucking brilliant. Unbreakable operating system, nearly instant wake from sleep, good keyboard, touchpad, and screen. I'd take it over a tablet any day for web use, and it's been a daily driver of mine since December '10.
It's really only good as a web terminal, though. Doesn't run much on itself. Can do games that you can d/l from the Chrome store, but the old hardware's a bit slow - Atom N455 and 2GB of RAM. There's production hardware from Samsung that's got a Sandy Bridge-derived Celeron, which I expect is plenty fast.
Basically it's a brilliant second machine for technically-minded people, or a primary box for one's grandmother or luser father who keeps getting viruses from looking at internet porn, or for anyone who only needs Internet access. I almost never print from mine, but if you want to print you'll either need another computer serving out the printer, or a specially-enabled printer that can talk directly.
lollers. AVG used to be good, but now it's bloated shit and this condition has gotten worse for the past two major revisions. If you're that worried about viruses written specifically to circumvent MSE you should go for either Avira or Avast's free versions.
As to backups, I use Areca in delta mode to back up my Steam profile to an Ubuntu/Samba server and it seems to work pretty well. Delta mode saves a hell of a lot of space because it only copies the changed sections of large files - good when Valve pushes out almost daily updates to the Orange Box games (as they did for a while in September).
NO NO NO. Never put the swapfile on an SSD. An SSD has a limited number of writes available to each cell, which is not true of spinning disks. Nothing will kill an SSD sooner than using it for swap.
Just get plenty of RAM (it's cheap now!) and don't worry about it. Let Windows manage the swap and make sure it's on a spinning disk.
And therefore we should have NO GOVERNMENT EVER, right?
Your argument is stupid on its face. Sometimes it's wrong for a majority to force things on a minority (denying LGBT rights), but sometimes it's right (maintain your goddamn property and keep your hedges off the sidewalk). Making blanket statements is the domain of tiny minds.
Analyzing it as you did is too hard for the lazy thinkers who consider all government to be monolithic and malum in se.
It's easier to piss and moan than it is to reach out and campaign to change peoples' minds. That's a feature of democracy.
Hanlon's Razor. Assume incompetence rather than malice.
I know conspiracy theories are fun, but you still look like a loon when you espouse one.
Would you consider cars to be in any way equivalent to computers? I certainly wouldn't.
"Idle" is shorthand here for "not doing any heavy lifting", i.e. just showing the desktop and not doing any serious 3D or video acceleration.
Are they selling Kindles or books?
Right now they seem to be laboring under the delusion that they're a Kindle company. They've deliberately crippled the Android version of the Kindle software; for instance, you can't categorize books into collections, which is a Big Deal if you're a serious reader and have dozens or hundreds of books. There's no technical reason for the omission, it's just market segmentation.
I can't imagine they (currently) make more profit on the Kindle than they do selling their books, music, et al, so I can't see a rational reason for this strategy.
It's not fallacy, it's realism. Realistically you're not going to reach potential voters unless you've got some advertising money.
640K should be enough for anybody. There is a world market for at most five computers.
An individual wouldn't necessarily be able to afford the raw material for $LARGE_OBJECT, but a co-op might.
because it's bloody obvious.
So what? Are you on the civil liberties uber alles hobby horse? I can sympathize with that but you still can't say the two are exactly the same.
Indeed. I'm in the ballpark area of cffrost's Political Compass result and I don't especially care for either major party or its candidate, but that's entirely orthogonal from whether there are real differences between the two.
He simply hasn't done his research if he really can't see any difference at all between the two, unless perhaps his hobby horse is something like civil liberties.
Because that's sure to happen. ::eyeroll::
No, what'll happen is what's been happening with the Republicans: the process gets hijacked by ideological extremists who are motivated to change things to suit themselves, and who are enabled by "moderates" who stop bothering.
"They're both the same" is code for either "I'm too lazy to research" or "I'm simply going to lie to support my team".
No they didn't. Most people who'd used both preferred Win95's Explorer/Start Menu interface because it sucked a lot less.
I'm sure some people did, but they'd be a small, small minority.
Ewige Blumenkraft!
That was on Apple //cs and (a few) //es, using IIRC Bank Street Writer and some dedicated wpm-counting program. I ended up with 40-50 WPM, I think. This was in late 1992 to early '93.
In high school it was 68030-powered Mac Performas running System 7. I think we were taught "office" type tasks and a bit about doing research on the Internet, using Netscape 2.x (or maybe 1.x) over the school's T1 line, which was dog slow on account of being shared. Later on I took an elective for Lotus 1-2-3 and Internet (the latter wasn't on the syllabus but was taught anyway by a forward-thinking teacher) in a lab of 486 PCs running Win 3.1 and NetWare and Netscape 3.x. I got my very first HoTMailL account for that class, in late '96, when it was still independent.
A bit earlier than that I took a course that included a little Applesoft BASIC in summer school, IIRC around 7th grade.
Mostly I'm self-taught aside from the formal instruction in programming (mainly C++, a little Ada, Scheme, COBOL, Java, x86 assembly[1]) that I took at university.
[1] Bleah. My intro to assembly was with a 16-bit 8086 assembler written for DOS in the late '80s, taken in the early '00s. My alma mater's since switched to MIPS assembly, which at least can't be as poorly designed for learning.
This argument only works if you smoke and never ever have to piss.
Somehow I doubt this is true.