There are a limited number of ways to solve a problem given these constraints. Regarding the GP - this can be used for a lot more than hairspray.
Generally, if we look at enough of our industrial output, there should be some overlap with any arbitrary sentient species.
What is more of a concern... 500+ light years away, another alien civilization is looking at Earth, and not detecting squat, as we look at them, and don't detect squat. By the time evidence of civilization from either planet reaches the other... both races have wiped themselves out.
Get over your paranoid delusions. The only thing I could see using Windows 8 for is an x86 tablet (which, lets face it, have been horribly expensive and underpowered since their inception in the WinXP years - so not really worth it even then). The effort to get a good desktop setup is annoying, and you don't really gain anything over Windows 7, and with RT you have the worst tablet on the market. Microsoft's only hope with Windows 8 is to reintroduce some of the useful things they took away for 'not-metro'-ui, and, more importantly, find some way to get a decent sub $1000 x86 tablet on the market.
I've done this typically with Intel, who change their sockets frequently, but with AMDs, they've had a few cycles with a lot of forward/backward compatibility, and I've had a couple AMD mobos where I've upgraded the CPU but not the mobo.
That being said, this seems more like a marketing hoax from AMD. Why move to ARM or offshore, when AMD will generally provide better results, even if they aren't always (or lately, even usually) better than Intel.
A lot of people will stick with Intel if they have to buy the MB/CPU combined, but a few might switch to AMD. If this isn't a hoax, will AMD write Intel a nice thank-you letter?
As you said, it's the OEMs, and yet you are blaming it on the chairmonkey.
Get the the version of windows you want on your pre-built machine, and either (a) uninstall the crapware (works well on my Toshibas), or get the cheapest version of windows offered, and install your own OS (either an OEM (buy a HD or memory upgrade) or Linux/BSD/Hackintosh-but-at-least-buy-a-licence-and-don't-be-an-asshole). Even if you go with a copy of Windows in the latter case, you aren't getting slathered with the hardware vendor's addware/trialware.
Actually in the upgrade list from Windows 2000 to 7, Vista is the one I'd exclude (I'm tempted to exclude Windows 8 due to the added UI fuckups as well, but 3rd party apps seem to fix those).
but, honestly, I'd cheat on the Surface (or any RT tablet) as well. Lets face it, if the only options were a Windows 8 RT tablet and an iPad... I wouldn't get a tablet. (If, for some reason, they were free, or I had no choice and HAD to get one, I'd begrudgingly go for the iPad).
Most of those haven't really caused me any serious issues with my normal use, but, with what I have had the patience to read on your rather exhaustive list, I also cannot find fault in it either.
Several other say troubles. There's no way an SD card could have caused my issues (which, btw, I didn't even describe).
So, maybe some Samsung phones are good, and some suck - most people I've seen have had the issue that they've been unreliable shit. I've only met one person IRL that actually has had good experiences with them. Your evidence is no less anecdotal, yet you are being much more aggressive at calling those that disagree with you liars...
Had the transform and the subsequent model. Once every week or two it would get stuck in airplane mode, and the only thing to fix it was to reboot the phone. It managed to crash once every month or two as well.
Yes, but most of them were so fucking annoying I couldn't stand to use them after a few months. Also, where I work, I get free demo phones (full retail models that I can try out for a few months).
... Great. Now I have to clean the barf off of my desk. The only remotely appetizing thing on that list was the bacon - which, ok, is completely awesome.
Yes, because they couldn't have expanded their product line to other products that are by design, more healthy, rather than tweaking healthy variants out of their normal products. Part of business is to change and adapt. Sometimes it has to be large change.
I've had a Windows Phone 7 phone, including the upgrade of the OS, it's required maybe that many restarts in the past 1.5 years - this is about the same over a given duration as my use of the iPhone4s while over seas, and as some of my friends with good Androids. A lot better than the two crap androids I've had.
Note: I'd actually recommend most people get a good Android phone over a Windows phone, but if you are going to criticize the phone, criticize it on it's flaws, it's got enough of them, don't try to invent shit.
You should mention *which* version of the phone you've had.
Marketing and cognitive dissonance. Also, some people are using the well marketed (but crap) or cheap (and crap) android phones, and think that is the standard.
I'd personally take a Windows Mobile 7 phone over and Android or iOS, but wouldn't actually recommend it to others (works for my uses, but wouldn't work for most people's uses). I'd recommend others get a *good* Android (more apps, more of what most people would want out of a smartphone).
Then don't get a Samsung. Every other Android product I've used has been perfectly stable (admittedly most are tablets, the only non-Samsung phones I've used were HTC).
I've had an iPhone4S, a couple of Androids (Samsuck, HTC) and a Windows Mobile 7 phone (HTC).
Outside of the Samsungs, they've all been exceptionally stable. Apple has the best ecosystem, but IMO is the least user friendly. Android is probably the most user friendly, but tries to be too similar to a desktop system, and feels slightly clunkly. Windows Mobile 7 has a horribly poor selection of apps, almost as user friendly as Android and has a fairly smooth design for mobile setups. Playing with Windows 8 on a desktop, I doubt much has changed, but given the ravamp of the OS, I wouldn't consider buying a phone with it for at least a few months to a year yet, at minimum. Stick with Android.
The only system I've had anywhere similar a reboot experience as you described was on the Samsung Androids (one was a Transform, the other was the replacement model for a Transform).
While I'll agree that unions can be quite a thorn in the side of effective business (they once had a lot of benefit, these days though, they seem more of a lamprey), when the company says this...
Citing high [...] increasing competition and growing consumer awareness of healthy foods [...]
I have to question if they could have stayed in business anyway. If you can't figure out "Hm... people want healthy food, maybe I should make healthy food" or deal with competition in a mostly capitalistic environment, then you probably shouldn't be in business.
The only argument I can come up with that, is that consoles aren't sold with the intent of being general purpose computers, and I don't think anybody really thinks of that as their intent, only us geeks find the idea of getting them to fulfill that purpose, to be amusing and fun.
Ugh. We use RHEL a lot where I work. We finally got rid of the crashy Solaris shit a few years ago.
As far as 16TB disks, to my knowledge we have well larger than that, on both RHEL boxes and NAS (making the OS using it irrelevant). Thought it's anecdotal, it seem Linux (primarily fronted by RHEL) is well more popular than Solaris. Having worked with both, I'd say I much prefer RHEL.
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Yep, but if you comment as AC after moderating, your previous moderation on that topic are nuked.
Unless, of course, you comment as AC from another computer.
No "virtually" about it.
There are a limited number of ways to solve a problem given these constraints. Regarding the GP - this can be used for a lot more than hairspray.
Generally, if we look at enough of our industrial output, there should be some overlap with any arbitrary sentient species.
What is more of a concern... 500+ light years away, another alien civilization is looking at Earth, and not detecting squat, as we look at them, and don't detect squat. By the time evidence of civilization from either planet reaches the other... both races have wiped themselves out.
Reads more like Sarcasm.
Get over your paranoid delusions. The only thing I could see using Windows 8 for is an x86 tablet (which, lets face it, have been horribly expensive and underpowered since their inception in the WinXP years - so not really worth it even then). The effort to get a good desktop setup is annoying, and you don't really gain anything over Windows 7, and with RT you have the worst tablet on the market. Microsoft's only hope with Windows 8 is to reintroduce some of the useful things they took away for 'not-metro'-ui, and, more importantly, find some way to get a decent sub $1000 x86 tablet on the market.
I've done this typically with Intel, who change their sockets frequently, but with AMDs, they've had a few cycles with a lot of forward/backward compatibility, and I've had a couple AMD mobos where I've upgraded the CPU but not the mobo.
That being said, this seems more like a marketing hoax from AMD. Why move to ARM or offshore, when AMD will generally provide better results, even if they aren't always (or lately, even usually) better than Intel.
A lot of people will stick with Intel if they have to buy the MB/CPU combined, but a few might switch to AMD. If this isn't a hoax, will AMD write Intel a nice thank-you letter?
As you said, it's the OEMs, and yet you are blaming it on the chairmonkey.
Get the the version of windows you want on your pre-built machine, and either (a) uninstall the crapware (works well on my Toshibas), or get the cheapest version of windows offered, and install your own OS (either an OEM (buy a HD or memory upgrade) or Linux/BSD/Hackintosh-but-at-least-buy-a-licence-and-don't-be-an-asshole). Even if you go with a copy of Windows in the latter case, you aren't getting slathered with the hardware vendor's addware/trialware.
s/vista/2000/
Actually in the upgrade list from Windows 2000 to 7, Vista is the one I'd exclude (I'm tempted to exclude Windows 8 due to the added UI fuckups as well, but 3rd party apps seem to fix those).
She's nothing more than a cheap shill, whoring her opinion out to the lowest bidder.
Yes. I said lowest.
Aren't those made by Samsung? Does google do the drivers and only leave Samsung the hardware?
If not, I'll take a Toshiba Thrive or Excite, or an ASUS thanks.
Nice idea...
but, honestly, I'd cheat on the Surface (or any RT tablet) as well. Lets face it, if the only options were a Windows 8 RT tablet and an iPad... I wouldn't get a tablet.
(If, for some reason, they were free, or I had no choice and HAD to get one, I'd begrudgingly go for the iPad).
Thankfully, we have Androids.
Most of those haven't really caused me any serious issues with my normal use, but, with what I have had the patience to read on your rather exhaustive list, I also cannot find fault in it either.
Several other say troubles. There's no way an SD card could have caused my issues (which, btw, I didn't even describe).
So, maybe some Samsung phones are good, and some suck - most people I've seen have had the issue that they've been unreliable shit. I've only met one person IRL that actually has had good experiences with them. Your evidence is no less anecdotal, yet you are being much more aggressive at calling those that disagree with you liars...
Had the transform and the subsequent model. Once every week or two it would get stuck in airplane mode, and the only thing to fix it was to reboot the phone. It managed to crash once every month or two as well.
Yes, but most of them were so fucking annoying I couldn't stand to use them after a few months. Also, where I work, I get free demo phones (full retail models that I can try out for a few months).
... Great. Now I have to clean the barf off of my desk. The only remotely appetizing thing on that list was the bacon - which, ok, is completely awesome.
Yes, because they couldn't have expanded their product line to other products that are by design, more healthy, rather than tweaking healthy variants out of their normal products. Part of business is to change and adapt. Sometimes it has to be large change.
I've had a Windows Phone 7 phone, including the upgrade of the OS, it's required maybe that many restarts in the past 1.5 years - this is about the same over a given duration as my use of the iPhone4s while over seas, and as some of my friends with good Androids. A lot better than the two crap androids I've had.
Note: I'd actually recommend most people get a good Android phone over a Windows phone, but if you are going to criticize the phone, criticize it on it's flaws, it's got enough of them, don't try to invent shit.
You should mention *which* version of the phone you've had.
Marketing and cognitive dissonance. Also, some people are using the well marketed (but crap) or cheap (and crap) android phones, and think that is the standard.
I'd personally take a Windows Mobile 7 phone over and Android or iOS, but wouldn't actually recommend it to others (works for my uses, but wouldn't work for most people's uses).
I'd recommend others get a *good* Android (more apps, more of what most people would want out of a smartphone).
Then don't get a Samsung. Every other Android product I've used has been perfectly stable (admittedly most are tablets, the only non-Samsung phones I've used were HTC).
Cute, but I doubt that bad.
I've had an iPhone4S, a couple of Androids (Samsuck, HTC) and a Windows Mobile 7 phone (HTC).
Outside of the Samsungs, they've all been exceptionally stable. Apple has the best ecosystem, but IMO is the least user friendly. Android is probably the most user friendly, but tries to be too similar to a desktop system, and feels slightly clunkly. Windows Mobile 7 has a horribly poor selection of apps, almost as user friendly as Android and has a fairly smooth design for mobile setups. Playing with Windows 8 on a desktop, I doubt much has changed, but given the ravamp of the OS, I wouldn't consider buying a phone with it for at least a few months to a year yet, at minimum. Stick with Android.
The only system I've had anywhere similar a reboot experience as you described was on the Samsung Androids (one was a Transform, the other was the replacement model for a Transform).
While I'll agree that unions can be quite a thorn in the side of effective business (they once had a lot of benefit, these days though, they seem more of a lamprey), when the company says this...
I have to question if they could have stayed in business anyway. If you can't figure out "Hm... people want healthy food, maybe I should make healthy food" or deal with competition in a mostly capitalistic environment, then you probably shouldn't be in business.
*sigh*
It was a joke. You've heard of them, right?
True, but I have long since decided that Sony and 'integrity' are oxymorons.
The only argument I can come up with that, is that consoles aren't sold with the intent of being general purpose computers, and I don't think anybody really thinks of that as their intent, only us geeks find the idea of getting them to fulfill that purpose, to be amusing and fun.
Ugh. We use RHEL a lot where I work. We finally got rid of the crashy Solaris shit a few years ago.
As far as 16TB disks, to my knowledge we have well larger than that, on both RHEL boxes and NAS (making the OS using it irrelevant). Thought it's anecdotal, it seem Linux (primarily fronted by RHEL) is well more popular than Solaris. Having worked with both, I'd say I much prefer RHEL.