I hate construction, but not NEARLY as much as I hate DSL, cable, and internet monopolies. Do you have any idea how crappy my internet is because of that?
Lastly, this is America dammit. The roadtrip is practically as American as Baseball and Apple Pie. We've grown up with a culture that glorifies the cross country road trip. I for one don't want to give that up.:-P
So very true, and current gas prices already make that difficult enough.
For example, if you visit a website that shows 200MB of images, then close that tab, then the memory is not necessarily freed. The reason is that the page stays cached, so that if you do 'History->Recently closed tabs' and open it, it will appear quickly.
Which is clearly a problem. How does anyone think that is good design? What do I care if a page loads a second quicker via cache when MY ENTIRE SYSTEM is slowed down by the unnecessary caching?
+1. Your experiences basically mimic mine. SLI doesn't even win in terms of bang for buck. People think "oh, I can but a second video card later on and boost performance"... but you might as well buy a previous gen high end card for the same price, same performance, and lower power requirements (than running 2).
Honestly thank you for that reminder! I do tend to forget that IE does more in a Windows system than just browse the internet. I've been wondering why they would do something so silly.
While I realize you're joking they actually made many, many more strategic mistakes. Forcing me to use the Zune software was one. Only having that software on the PC was another. Making that software super slow and super buggy was also quite bad. Rarely updating the firmware and software was the next mistake. Poor codec support was another. Ignoring their customers was probably the worst (one example of that: doing love/hate instead of star ratings). The thing that pissed me off the most (though they later fixed it), as an early adopter, was that their software AUTOMATICALLY and without asking, upon initial install, overwrote all of my music tags, as well as corrupting a good 75% of my music.
It's all really too bad, the UI on the hardware was quite good.
"The only way it could get any worse would be if it were enacted in law."
You either have no imagination, or no trust in our overlords ability to screw us...
"but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there."
And therein lies your problem. If you aren't learning new things, you're getting left behind. Learning for learning's sake is an important part of life. You never know when a new tool might come in handy.
That site's arguments lack a direct link or causality. Are people saying Ubuntu is bad because it is bad? Or are the people who are trying Ubuntu the kind of people who would call it bad, most likely because they don't know how to use it and it is supposed to be the easiest Linux distro? Or maybe its just getting the most search results due to its wide use?
*Disclaimer : I like Ubuntu, but I also like openSUSE and Fedora more.
You're assuming all this person does is MS Office. Some of us need Photoshop, CAD, 3D modeling, video editing... and we're tired of the corporate office cheaping out and buying WAY underpowered computers. This sounds like a good idea to me.
I doubt "hardly surprising" was a jab, it was more of an assessment that accessibility IN GENERAL is not given much thought, especially due to extra cost and limited audience.
That is certainly one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be to learn a language that can get you a job anywhere. If you get a job that's in demand in NO or SF but nowhere else, then you're stuck living in NO or SF. If you know java or C, you can work anywhere. Speaking as someone who ended up learning a language that would only get me a job in LA or NY, but after a while I didn't want to work there, I learned this the hard way.
Actually I agree. Just about the ONLY programming position our company has been unable to fill for over a year now (while actively recruiting) is a DBA position for our Oracle database. DBA positions are often mission critical, mostly irreplaceable, highly paid positions. Not just for SQL, but any DBA.
Just because its populated doesn't mean there aren't plenty of military bases doing missile testing. I can name at least 2 within 100 miles of me (in coastal CA) that actively and publicly test.
One more vote for mint. PS: It's not just obviously fraudulent activity that you can catch with it, its bank, credit, and loan fees that shouldn't be there.
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I hate construction, but not NEARLY as much as I hate DSL, cable, and internet monopolies. Do you have any idea how crappy my internet is because of that?
Lastly, this is America dammit. The roadtrip is practically as American as Baseball and Apple Pie. We've grown up with a culture that glorifies the cross country road trip. I for one don't want to give that up. :-P
So very true, and current gas prices already make that difficult enough.
I would mod you up if I could
That's fine if you have different passwords on 5 websites. What if you have different passwords on 5,000?
Calling it as fast as the Windows version is not calling it fast at all. In fact, compared to Chrome or Opera on Windows, its calling it slow.
For example, if you visit a website that shows 200MB of images, then close that tab, then the memory is not necessarily freed. The reason is that the page stays cached, so that if you do 'History->Recently closed tabs' and open it, it will appear quickly.
Which is clearly a problem. How does anyone think that is good design? What do I care if a page loads a second quicker via cache when MY ENTIRE SYSTEM is slowed down by the unnecessary caching?
+1. Your experiences basically mimic mine. SLI doesn't even win in terms of bang for buck. People think "oh, I can but a second video card later on and boost performance"... but you might as well buy a previous gen high end card for the same price, same performance, and lower power requirements (than running 2).
Honestly thank you for that reminder! I do tend to forget that IE does more in a Windows system than just browse the internet. I've been wondering why they would do something so silly.
While I realize you're joking they actually made many, many more strategic mistakes. Forcing me to use the Zune software was one. Only having that software on the PC was another. Making that software super slow and super buggy was also quite bad. Rarely updating the firmware and software was the next mistake. Poor codec support was another. Ignoring their customers was probably the worst (one example of that: doing love/hate instead of star ratings). The thing that pissed me off the most (though they later fixed it), as an early adopter, was that their software AUTOMATICALLY and without asking, upon initial install, overwrote all of my music tags, as well as corrupting a good 75% of my music. It's all really too bad, the UI on the hardware was quite good.
"The only way it could get any worse would be if it were enacted in law." You either have no imagination, or no trust in our overlords ability to screw us...
I can tell your story is fake. Amtrak is NEVER on time.
Blech. Just remove all of the bloat, make it stable and fast, and I might want to start using Firefox again.
"but I don't go running after new stuff simply because it's there." And therein lies your problem. If you aren't learning new things, you're getting left behind. Learning for learning's sake is an important part of life. You never know when a new tool might come in handy.
That site's arguments lack a direct link or causality. Are people saying Ubuntu is bad because it is bad? Or are the people who are trying Ubuntu the kind of people who would call it bad, most likely because they don't know how to use it and it is supposed to be the easiest Linux distro? Or maybe its just getting the most search results due to its wide use? *Disclaimer : I like Ubuntu, but I also like openSUSE and Fedora more.
You're assuming all this person does is MS Office. Some of us need Photoshop, CAD, 3D modeling, video editing... and we're tired of the corporate office cheaping out and buying WAY underpowered computers. This sounds like a good idea to me.
I doubt "hardly surprising" was a jab, it was more of an assessment that accessibility IN GENERAL is not given much thought, especially due to extra cost and limited audience.
Oh really? Point one out to me. Just one example. That's all it takes to make your point valid.
That is certainly one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it would be to learn a language that can get you a job anywhere. If you get a job that's in demand in NO or SF but nowhere else, then you're stuck living in NO or SF. If you know java or C, you can work anywhere. Speaking as someone who ended up learning a language that would only get me a job in LA or NY, but after a while I didn't want to work there, I learned this the hard way.
Actually I agree. Just about the ONLY programming position our company has been unable to fill for over a year now (while actively recruiting) is a DBA position for our Oracle database. DBA positions are often mission critical, mostly irreplaceable, highly paid positions. Not just for SQL, but any DBA.
Nobody mentioned the price? Really? I mean, gold isn't exactly cheap last I checked...
Just because its populated doesn't mean there aren't plenty of military bases doing missile testing. I can name at least 2 within 100 miles of me (in coastal CA) that actively and publicly test.
lawsuits and streissand effects coming in 3...2...1...
Neither. AOL separated into its own company again.
One more vote for mint. PS: It's not just obviously fraudulent activity that you can catch with it, its bank, credit, and loan fees that shouldn't be there.
A modern economy can function without guns? Really? So what would stop physical bank robbers exactly...?