No,no. I'll give him computer scientist. Considering how utterly craptastic software has been, There is very little expectation for computer scientists to actually do anything right.
Computer Science is the only profession next to Meteorology where you can be wrong most of the time and keep your job.
And if you brew your own, even a half assed home beer is 80X better than any of the swill from a brewery. Guinness is donkey piss compared to a good home brewed dark stout.
Funny, nobody at Best Buy held a gun to my head demanding I buy an extended warranty. But that was in 2007 with my 17" macbook pro that has worked perfectly still to this day AND still holds a 2 hour charge on it's battery.
Let me guess you are one of those people that never has owned a mac product but tries to sound like you know what you are talking about.
Brand new Laserjet cp1525. linux found and had the driver without effort. Windows 7 I had to install the 68gb of helper crap on the HP disk just to get the printer to work.
I really hate HP's window drivers and all the worthless software and other crap that has to run as a service they shovel onto the machine.
Sorry but we see this kind of pattern every 10-12 years. in 1995 we had a very unseasonably warm winter followed by a march that was in the 60's and 70's I remember at LEAST 4 times in my 46 years of life having a very mild winter followed by a unseasonably warm later winter early spring.
But That's ok, I've already got a buttload of "ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING!!!" idiots going off around me. Sorry kiddies, this is not global warming, just a freak coincidence of just the right conditions. Maybe if people actually paid attention to their life they would have noticed this stuff.
Oh and dont go off your nuts when it snows in June... Mother nature is a bitch when she teases like this.
Here are the reasons why my non techie wife loves linux over windows.
1 - her computer just works. I dont need to take it and work on it for a weekend here and there. it Just works all the time. 2 - backups and upgrades lose nothing at all. When I do a complete OS upgrade most of the time she never notices. Only the last Ubuntu change to the Unity desktop has she noticed that it is different. All her app settings and even the desktop wallpaper is effortless to backup and restore. 3 - effortless free software. She installs a lot of her own software from the computer on her own. Apple recently did this as well and it is the future for the typical user.
4 - No viruses. And yes this is a fact contrary to all you fanbois. She cant get any of the viruses or trojan horses and spyware that all her friends seem to get weekly on their windows machines. IT just does not happen.
Drawbacks she does not like.
Cant use itunes. This has become a moot point with icloud and her iphone and ipad. she could care less about itunes anymore. Print spooler still get's finicky at times. Honestly the linux print spooler is great until a printer screws up. For some reason still to this day the linux print spooler does not recover on it's own gracefully. I still have to re start the print spooler to get it to flush the waiting jobs. But we have had no problems at all with printers. In fact the brand new HP color laser we just bought was EASIER to install on her linux box than it was on the Windows 7 machine I have. Yes, Linux is EASIER to install hardware than Windows 7.
Once in a while she complains that she cant install some cupon printer, until I point out that that "printer" is a trojan horse that causes many of the issues her friends have.
She is a light user. Internet, and College masters classes. She understands that professors are not bright demanding "MS WORD ONLY" and turns in Libre office documents saved as word all the time and is acing her classes and never has had any complaints. This is her 5th year using linux for home and School. And yes she plays all those damned games on facebook without problems.
Linux = zero problems desktop for free. You cant get that for a home PC vwithout paying for Apple hardware.
And yes, we used her linux laptop for taxes this year.
basically look up anything said by Santorum, Romney or Gingrich over the past year to have your citation that the leaders of this country are uneducated morons.
Actually Canada right now is the greatest country in the free world. They actually care about people instead of being a bunch of ravenous assholes that lose their mind over paying for healthcare for people.
America right now is being over-run by uneducated scumbag assholes, (For perfect examples, please see the current top 3 GOP presidential candidates) I'd avoid it like the plague unless you are a filthy, filthy, rich person.
Define failed repair. If the front glass replacement is the repair, then I give it a 10 out of 10 as you cant damage something that is already trashed.
The problem with ipad2 repair is that most of the "parts" out there are china knockoff crap that does notwork or are discarded QC seconds. I have personally repaired 12 ipad 2's. ALL of them for screens because the screen glass is too thin. And in every case I had went through about 4 digitizer glass replacements because the ones sent were crap or had dead areas. and NONE of them had the frame, button or locator for the camera attached.
You can not remove the front glass without shattering it into tons of pieces and spending an hour picking them out of the adhesive tape around the edges. I tried tons of ways, and it is impossible to remove that screen intact.
"The new iPad uses EXACTLY the same construction techniques as the iPad 2 and the original iPad. So why all the vitriol?"
No it does not. the Ipad1 is FAR easier to open up. Ipad 2 and ipad 3 are the same. Ipad1 is different, and is in fact easier. you can get the screen off the ipad 1 without breaking it. it is impossible to do so on the ipad 2 and ipad 3.
"You can bet that your car does if it was made in the last few years "
Bet you are wrong unless you are buying top of the line models with all options.
I guarantee that a 2012 Honda Civic does not have a GPS built in, does not have remote cutoff or any remote anything on it.
In fact I guarantee that the bulk of car models made and an even larger bulk of cars sold over the past few years dont have anything you mention. Except for models bought with the specific option that does that.
"Start looking at some of the 'basic stuff' you do around the house, how long it takes you to do it, and what you make per hour."
Normal people dont work 24 hours a day.
Do you MAKE That cash 24X7? Why do you sleep do you realize how much money you are wasting sleeping?
Get over it. YOU are not worth 1/50th of what you think. IF you were people would be clamoring at your door to hand you fistfulls of money.
I work on my own stuff, and I end up better that you for TWO reasons. 1, I am learning and there fore by doing the task know more than you do. 2, Instead of wasting real money, I am saving money.
Finally, your fake reality is flawed. So your replacement Fridge or dishwasher installs it's self magically? Or do you ask your butler to wait all day long until the delivery and install technician get there? You have to take off time from work, the ONLY time you are actually making any money and your time is worth anything, to be there while the guy does the job you are simply too lazy to do.
And that is where it really lies. It's not a "value of your time" it is just that you are too lazy to do it yourself. Be honest instead of hiding behind the BS "my time is worth more than bla bla bla bla BLA! Harrumpf!"
"You do realize you're not only insane; but reflect the views of approximately.000000000000001% of the population, don't you?"
IF you are in the US, yes. IF you are talking global, it's more like $35% Only in the USA is the average citizen too stupid to fix appliances. In other countries it is fairly common for people to DIY fix their appliances and other things. I hear that many even do their own home repairs.
Disclaimer: I am a US citizen, and yes my fellow americans are dumb as boxes of rocks. I blame high Furctose Corn Syrup and reality TV.
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All the silly safety laws here will make cave dwelling illegal as there are no egress windows in every room and at least two exit doors.
Because if the cave burns, you cant get out.
Mostly because whiny rich people will start screaming about a 45% tax rate. so it's spread out across things.
we are taxed as heavily as many Europeans, but we dont get the good healthcare or infrastructure that works well.
No,no. I'll give him computer scientist. Considering how utterly craptastic software has been, There is very little expectation for computer scientists to actually do anything right.
Computer Science is the only profession next to Meteorology where you can be wrong most of the time and keep your job.
And if you brew your own, even a half assed home beer is 80X better than any of the swill from a brewery. Guinness is donkey piss compared to a good home brewed dark stout.
Microsoft is like owning a dog and cats.. and what dogs do when they find the cat box un-attended...
That is what using microsoft products is like.
"you need to pay for a extended warranty"
Funny, nobody at Best Buy held a gun to my head demanding I buy an extended warranty. But that was in 2007 with my 17" macbook pro that has worked perfectly still to this day AND still holds a 2 hour charge on it's battery.
Let me guess you are one of those people that never has owned a mac product but tries to sound like you know what you are talking about.
eat its own dogfood
How appropriate...
Nope. buttloads of truth.
Brand new Laserjet cp1525. linux found and had the driver without effort. Windows 7 I had to install the 68gb of helper crap on the HP disk just to get the printer to work.
I really hate HP's window drivers and all the worthless software and other crap that has to run as a service they shovel onto the machine.
Sorry but we see this kind of pattern every 10-12 years. in 1995 we had a very unseasonably warm winter followed by a march that was in the 60's and 70's I remember at LEAST 4 times in my 46 years of life having a very mild winter followed by a unseasonably warm later winter early spring.
But That's ok, I've already got a buttload of "ZOMG GLOBAL WARMING!!!" idiots going off around me. Sorry kiddies, this is not global warming, just a freak coincidence of just the right conditions. Maybe if people actually paid attention to their life they would have noticed this stuff.
Oh and dont go off your nuts when it snows in June... Mother nature is a bitch when she teases like this.
WE want to see the cases not the dweeb that made it.
"We have had one virus infection in the last couple of years. "
In the 5 years she has ran Linux we have had NONE, zero,Nada.
And a re-install of linux takes 32 minutes flat. NO "re tweaking" at all. I haven'/t had to tweak a linux install for over 5 years now.
As for "volume shadow copy". Linux has had it a very long time. I have used LVM for quite a while with a lot of success.
I cant see how you can extrapolate a "much better from the user perspective" out of that..
FPS via postal mail is possible.
Get a copy of Steve Jacksons "FRAG" and Play by mail. in fact I bet you can find someone that does.
The NSA does not own canada yet.
At least the republicans in Congress have not voted on annexing Canada, I think they are arguing over earmarks right now.
Here are the reasons why my non techie wife loves linux over windows.
1 - her computer just works. I dont need to take it and work on it for a weekend here and there. it Just works all the time.
2 - backups and upgrades lose nothing at all. When I do a complete OS upgrade most of the time she never notices. Only the last Ubuntu change to the Unity desktop has she noticed that it is different. All her app settings and even the desktop wallpaper is effortless to backup and restore.
3 - effortless free software. She installs a lot of her own software from the computer on her own. Apple recently did this as well and it is the future for the typical user.
4 - No viruses. And yes this is a fact contrary to all you fanbois. She cant get any of the viruses or trojan horses and spyware that all her friends seem to get weekly on their windows machines. IT just does not happen.
Drawbacks she does not like.
Cant use itunes. This has become a moot point with icloud and her iphone and ipad. she could care less about itunes anymore.
Print spooler still get's finicky at times. Honestly the linux print spooler is great until a printer screws up. For some reason still to this day the linux print spooler does not recover on it's own gracefully. I still have to re start the print spooler to get it to flush the waiting jobs. But we have had no problems at all with printers. In fact the brand new HP color laser we just bought was EASIER to install on her linux box than it was on the Windows 7 machine I have. Yes, Linux is EASIER to install hardware than Windows 7.
Once in a while she complains that she cant install some cupon printer, until I point out that that "printer" is a trojan horse that causes many of the issues her friends have.
She is a light user. Internet, and College masters classes. She understands that professors are not bright demanding "MS WORD ONLY" and turns in Libre office documents saved as word all the time and is acing her classes and never has had any complaints. This is her 5th year using linux for home and School. And yes she plays all those damned games on facebook without problems.
Linux = zero problems desktop for free. You cant get that for a home PC vwithout paying for Apple hardware.
And yes, we used her linux laptop for taxes this year.
Football would be far more entertaining if they mined the endzones...
"He's running! 30, 20, 10 KABOOOM!" Ohhh too bad, 2nd down.
Which is why I love chess boxing.
5 minutes of chess, 5 minutes of boxing, keep recycling.
Yes IT's hard to move pieces while wearing boxing gloves.
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basically look up anything said by Santorum, Romney or Gingrich over the past year to have your citation that the leaders of this country are uneducated morons.
So I can send someone else money for free? I can accept money for free? etc?
Without zero cost transactions it's an epic fail.
Actually Canada right now is the greatest country in the free world. They actually care about people instead of being a bunch of ravenous assholes that lose their mind over paying for healthcare for people.
America right now is being over-run by uneducated scumbag assholes, (For perfect examples, please see the current top 3 GOP presidential candidates) I'd avoid it like the plague unless you are a filthy, filthy, rich person.
Define failed repair. If the front glass replacement is the repair, then I give it a 10 out of 10 as you cant damage something that is already trashed.
The problem with ipad2 repair is that most of the "parts" out there are china knockoff crap that does notwork or are discarded QC seconds. I have personally repaired 12 ipad 2's. ALL of them for screens because the screen glass is too thin. And in every case I had went through about 4 digitizer glass replacements because the ones sent were crap or had dead areas. and NONE of them had the frame, button or locator for the camera attached.
You can not remove the front glass without shattering it into tons of pieces and spending an hour picking them out of the adhesive tape around the edges. I tried tons of ways, and it is impossible to remove that screen intact.
No they are not getting better, Rumor has it the 3 has a thicker front glass plate that does not break easier.
I have never seen a real ipad2 screen removal without breaking it. And yes, all the youtube videos are edited.
"The new iPad uses EXACTLY the same construction techniques as the iPad 2 and the original iPad. So why all the vitriol?"
No it does not. the Ipad1 is FAR easier to open up. Ipad 2 and ipad 3 are the same. Ipad1 is different, and is in fact easier. you can get the screen off the ipad 1 without breaking it. it is impossible to do so on the ipad 2 and ipad 3.
"You can bet that your car does if it was made in the last few years "
Bet you are wrong unless you are buying top of the line models with all options.
I guarantee that a 2012 Honda Civic does not have a GPS built in, does not have remote cutoff or any remote anything on it.
In fact I guarantee that the bulk of car models made and an even larger bulk of cars sold over the past few years dont have anything you mention. Except for models bought with the specific option that does that.
"Start looking at some of the 'basic stuff' you do around the house, how long it takes you to do it, and what you make per hour."
Normal people dont work 24 hours a day.
Do you MAKE That cash 24X7? Why do you sleep do you realize how much money you are wasting sleeping?
Get over it. YOU are not worth 1/50th of what you think. IF you were people would be clamoring at your door to hand you fistfulls of money.
I work on my own stuff, and I end up better that you for TWO reasons. 1, I am learning and there fore by doing the task know more than you do. 2, Instead of wasting real money, I am saving money.
Finally, your fake reality is flawed. So your replacement Fridge or dishwasher installs it's self magically? Or do you ask your butler to wait all day long until the delivery and install technician get there? You have to take off time from work, the ONLY time you are actually making any money and your time is worth anything, to be there while the guy does the job you are simply too lazy to do.
And that is where it really lies. It's not a "value of your time" it is just that you are too lazy to do it yourself. Be honest instead of hiding behind the BS "my time is worth more than bla bla bla bla BLA! Harrumpf!"
"You do realize you're not only insane; but reflect the views of approximately .000000000000001% of the population, don't you?"
IF you are in the US, yes. IF you are talking global, it's more like $35% Only in the USA is the average citizen too stupid to fix appliances. In other countries it is fairly common for people to DIY fix their appliances and other things. I hear that many even do their own home repairs.
Disclaimer: I am a US citizen, and yes my fellow americans are dumb as boxes of rocks. I blame high Furctose Corn Syrup and reality TV.