The stereotypical male solution you mention would likely not be able to successfully get from one location to another the way the tweenbots do. So by standards of success, her solution worked. Don't forget that.
Well, crap, I'm sorry. Why should we ever try to innovate anything when humans can do it just fine anyway? I really don't get this attitude. Why shouldn't we just be subsistence farmers, then? After all, the stereotypical male solution of establishing technology and building a society would not likely be able to free people from work, so why even bother?
I don't see any value in what Kinzer has done here, and I don't understand why you think her approach is a valid solution to robot navigation. How is that going to get us self-driving cars? Humans can drive cars perfectly fine, never mind all the death and injury, so why should we even bother, right? How is this going to get us robots that can explore Mars or anywhere else in the solar system? Are we going to have to get humans there first so they can guide the suckers along?
Sorry, dude. The stereotypical male solution is to move forward and progress science and technology. All I see in your post is support of my initial attitude that females are wholly incapable of doing that:
Using crowdsourcing is a perfectly legitimate trick and using a social solution might indeed be more stereotypically feminine.
Additionally, why don't all the females who think that knowing Word makes them computer experts and all of those who think Kinzer is an innovator in robotics go realize that females are perfectly capable of advancing technology. One of my personal heroes is Ada Augusta.
I guess Ada was one of few women who actually gave a crap about doing something that didn't involve, "Look at me, I'm a woman, I'm cute as a button." Or "All you men are stupid, we can do things just fine without all that hard thinking. I don't like thinking." Give me a break.
As a side note, years ago when I was taking my teaching degree, we had to take a basic Math class because some teacher in the city had told a kid that a number divided by zero equals zero.
A teacher once graded my little brother wrong on a test for saying that gravity gives things weight. The correct answer was supposed to have been air pressure.
You'd have to find a doctor willing to administer it. Most doctors do have a least a scrap of ethics left and will not use their knowledge and training to kill someone, especially not against their wishes.
I've been threatened by more than a few local doctors that they would see me "dying in a gutter" or "bleeding on the street." Usually they threaten like that when a page doesn't go through. If you attempt to explain to them that pagers are a single-duplex device, they continue with threats of making sure you won't ever be able to get another job again.
But I guess we can just look the other way when doctors do that. After all, doctors are good people, and they're completely infallible.
At least I'm not a nurse I suppose.
I'm just on the other end of a phone line; there are more than enough documented cases of nurses being assaulted and having things thrown at them by doctors.
Using electroconvulsive therapy and "restorative" therapy to attempt to make a gay or transsexual person straight is another example of medicine that doesn't follow the evidence.
Of course the problem is the religious fundamentalists have tons of money to burn in the pursuit of attempting to change someone's sexual orientation.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Well, not unless there are plenty of people who will pay plenty of money to plenty of doctors to show that it really is broken by using bad science.
Doctors can accept bribes just as easily as anyone else.
Where I live I currently have two options for broadband: slow DSL (512 kb up/2 Mb down on a good day) or slow Charter cable (768 Mb up/6 Mb down). I currently have DSL installed. Do you know why?
Firstly, let me inform you that the answering service I dealt with during the incident I describe was located in St. Louis, MO, not in the Philippines.
Last summer I was using Charter's cable service. It was flakey at best. One day there was a bad storm that resulted in major flooding in town. My cable service was up the entire time and weathered the storm surprisingly well. However, long after the storm died down and at some point over the next night, my cable service went down for no particular reason!
Throughout the next day, my roommate and I placed several angry calls to try to get them to address the issue without CHARGING us for a service call.
The only thing my roommate was able to determine through his efforts, as I've mentioned above, was that we were speaking with an answering service. That is, we weren't even dealing with a dedicated Charter call center, but an answering service, the kind that also handles calls for local doctors and HVAC companies after hours. It could be possible that we had reached a dedicated department, but he learned that we were not speaking to Charter employees.
During my first call, I had to speak to a supervisor, who informed me that my call to report an outage was not enough for them to take action. She advised me to go knock on my neighbors' doors to find 5 other Charter customers who all had to be inconvenienced by calling in individually before Charter would address the issue.
On my second call, I was able to reach a more competent individual. (As a side note, I work at an answering service, and it can very frequently happen that experienced agents and supervisors are wholly incompetent at doing anything more than saying they can't do anything despite having been given training on customer-specific software. Not that I'm bitter or anything.) She was able to access some actual equipment and verify that 20/50 customers on my node were without service and told me a technician would be able to be dispatched in a few hours.
I was flabbergasted it took that much effort to find someone who could access the actual equipment. When I had a different DSL provider than I do now, the simple act of reaching someone on the phone was enough to get to someone who was able to access the equipment. Sometimes they were able to resolve the problem right over the phone by remotely configuring and troubleshooting the equipment assuming no hardware failure. I can't quite have that with my current DSL service, but their Mumbai-based call center is vastly more helpful than Charter's St. Louis, MO answering service. What's going on here?
Finally, my cable modem synched up later that night, almost 18 hours after it went down. However, their DHCP server was not working, so I forced my cable modem to its last logged IP address and I was back up. Too bad for the people who had to wait for the DHCP and DNS servers to come back up 2 full days later.
That is not acceptable.
Charter's financial problems are directly the result of a free market at work. I could have faster internet, but they pissed me off so badly that I'm satisfied with slower, stabler DSL service to have access to competent support. It's very refreshing to be able to speak with someone in 1st level support who knows what an IP address is. Maybe people in Mumbai are more competent than people in St. Louis.
And yet, there are those who actually need TEMPORARY help (such as me, a few years ago, when I had a debilitating condition that precluded work until I could get treated) that get turned down because I wasn't a slut with 8 kids
Thank you, sir.
I work around women like that. Somehow I'm having trouble affording a car and these single mothers can drive SUVs to work every day, making maybe little over half what I make. Something doesn't add up, and I'm pretty sure it's not how I'm spending the money the government lets me keep from my paycheck.
This may shock and amaze, but these women aren't just having kids out of an accident, lack of foresight, or bad circumstances.
Sure there are a few like that in the mix (if lack of foresight is an excuse for anything at all),
but by and large these women have it entirely planned.
They know that they can start a family whenever they please,
their families are perfectly ok with it (even overjoyed when mom becomes a grandma because her teenage daughter got pregnant),
and they know that sugar-daddy government is going to keep them fed and well all the way.
We have national health care here in the USA,
but isn't it funny that only single mothers and their kids seem to qualify for it?
Add in the fact that homosexuals are being blamed for this "marriage crisis" or whatever, and no one can see the real people who are "ruining" marriage (whatever that means).
Would we have a "marriage" crisis if single women lost their "right" to have kids outside of marriage?
Or is suggesting that welfare only handle kids that were conceived in a marriage oppressing women somehow?
Go ahead and mod me down, but I see this right before my eyes every day, and these women don't see anything wrong with what they're doing.
I don't care if a single woman wants to have all kinds of wild sex
(you peg me wrongly if you think I give a crap about Christian morals),
but I don't want my taxes paying for when she choses to start a family, marriage or no.
The doctors themselves are leaving to work in the US.
I know this is pretty much -1 offtopic, but this one always gets me. If you've ever worked around doctors, you'd quickly realize that money is more important to them than their patients' safety.
You're probably the kind of person who blames your doctor's answering service when they can't get a-hold of him after hours. It probably never occurred to you that the number one reason for that is that the doctors themselves provide answering services with bad on-call info. This provides two advantages: 1.) they can get a good credit to their bill, because they customer is always right even in spite of recordings proving otherwise, and 2.) the doctor doesn't have to actually be on-call (unlike me, who is just a lowly account programmer barely making 30k) while passing the blame to the answering service. That's just one example. Don't get me started on the unprofessional behavior they exhibit towards the operators (verbal, often sexually-charged assaults, threats against the operator's life and property, threats of libel and slander, etc. Once we almost lost a good chunk of our business because a doctor libeled us to a local hospital's vendor compliance department, and the recordings showing she was lying were barely enough to set things right).
Sure, mod me down if you think I'm lying or trolling. It doesn't change how doctors in a capitalist system operate.
Now, don't get me wrong. Wanting more money is the very nature of a capitalist system. The problem is that often times that's a complete conflict of interest for someone like a doctor. Do you really want a doctor who's more interested in how much more money he can be making off you and how soon he can buy his 4th house than just keeping you well?
What if he makes more money off your being sick, especially since he can order tests that aren't really necessary or that he's not even necessarily qualified to interpret? (To be fair, sometimes doctors need to do that simply because of liability, but that's a different topic.)
A doctor with healthy patients is like a network consultant whose clients have no problems: he might as well be out of business.
I'd rather have a situation where people who get into medicine are more interested in saving lives and improving the quality of life for others rather than whether it's 200k, 300k, or 500k they'll be making. Even in countries with socialized medicine, doctors are very well off compared to someone who made the poor choice of not going into medicine. There's a certain point where acquiring more wealth is simply greed.
Anyone should be able to read, it's your responsibility as owner of the fucking machine to understand at least a bit of how it works. It's this "I don't get the first page in the book so I stop reading" attitude. If you don't WANT to do gain that knowledge you will have these kinds of silly idiot problems all the way. So "I am stupid" and "I don't want to know" are two different things and significant ones indeed. Sometimes a book starts making sense only after you've read it even without knowing what the first couple pages meant.
Give subsidizes to every farmer near the rain forests to not go out clear cutting, and WOW! Deforestation problem solved.
But why are you shifting the focus onto these people struggling to survive?
*WOOSH*
This is what passes for +5 insightful these days? Did anyone who modded that bullcrap insightful even read what snowgirl wrote? Jeez. Too bad my unused mod points expired today.
When they brought him out for their recent wedding anniversary party, for example, they turned off his higher-level brain and had him dance around by dumbly bouncing from one lady to the next -- the way most guys function on the dance floor.
Was the quip after the EM dash really necessary? Now, I know that most women have experience with outlaw bikers, but there are a lot of decent guys out there. The problem is they're not outlaw bikers.
But, to be fair, in some circles that's the best software available and the whole stinkin' industry needs to raise their standards at the same time, which will never happen organically.
Ah, you must be using Intelligent Series call center software by Amtelco. Damn thing freezes every other call and is slow as hell on dual core 2.4 gHz machines with 1 GB of RAM. Ever been told by a call center operator that their computer is running a bit slow and they need to wait for it to catch up? They're not lying.
Don't worry. If anime's taught me anything, the moon is just a giant spaceship, and we'll surely defeat the anti-spirals!
(I just got done watching Gurren Lagann btw.)
2) First you have to setup a partition to install windows.. lets assume it's an empty disk so you'd press c (create partition) and number the number of disk space for that partition then enter, then you press enter again to install on that partition.
As an interesting anecdote to back up your point: a friend/roommate bought a new computer and got ahold of a warez XP 64-bit install CD. None of the cd keys from my secret stash worked, naturally, so he decided to go buy a legit copy of XP. Because the 64-bit installer had already loaded stuff on the drive (yeah I know real technical language—it's the weekend jeez) the legit disk refused to do anything.
So I got out a handy Linux livecd to nuke the partition table so the legit XP CD would install from scratch. So he was all set.
A few weeks later he motioned me into his room after I got home from work and explained that Windows wasn't seeing his whole drive. I immediately noticed that Windows had only created a 300 GB partition on his 750 GB drive! I mentioned a few tools I could get together to expand the NTFS filesystem, but he decided to just make the other 450 GB a D: drive.
Moral of the story is that installing Windows is, as you suggest, not just hitting some big red "Install" button.
Are you actually so paranoid (or macho) that owning something designed to kill people sounds like a good idea? Do they give you an erection?
Oh I don't know.
You see, as a sexual minority, there might be some people who want to kill me, so I might want to defend myself at some point.
Do you really want to just call the cops and hope for the best if you're attacked one day?
I hope you have 911 on speed dial.
You don't even need to be a kind of person some people will pick out as a target for the 5 minutes it could take the cops to get there to make a big difference in the outcome.
Might I also mention that even in 2008 there are some cops and doctors who might not even want to help me.
I think I'm better off exercising my right to self-defense for a few more years at least, thanks.
I've been trying to train end-users in one particular piece of data-entry software for two years and they still can't shift-tab to move back an input. It all depends on who your end users are and whether there are any consequences to not learning.
The difference between Disk Utility and dd is that one is usable by anyone barely computer-literate who is capable of clicking on a single button, and the other isn't.
A lot of people I work with aren't capable of clicking a single button, you insensitive clod!
I hate to burst your bubble, but they sure can. And I'll even throw in another plug for dropping said company(ies) for XMPP and/or having a friend with hosting or a static IP.
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Also, exercise has very little impact on weekly calorie burn relative to intake
Well, how about we find out what does increase or decrease calories burnt?
Oh, good. That means I can get back to my queer-bashing. Or does that mean I should bash the parents of queers. Better do both just to be safe.
Want to see an economy tank all we need is a couple million illiterate people come of working age.
Oh shi—
The stereotypical male solution you mention would likely not be able to successfully get from one location to another the way the tweenbots do. So by standards of success, her solution worked. Don't forget that.
Well, crap, I'm sorry. Why should we ever try to innovate anything when humans can do it just fine anyway? I really don't get this attitude. Why shouldn't we just be subsistence farmers, then? After all, the stereotypical male solution of establishing technology and building a society would not likely be able to free people from work, so why even bother?
I don't see any value in what Kinzer has done here, and I don't understand why you think her approach is a valid solution to robot navigation. How is that going to get us self-driving cars? Humans can drive cars perfectly fine, never mind all the death and injury, so why should we even bother, right? How is this going to get us robots that can explore Mars or anywhere else in the solar system? Are we going to have to get humans there first so they can guide the suckers along?
Sorry, dude. The stereotypical male solution is to move forward and progress science and technology. All I see in your post is support of my initial attitude that females are wholly incapable of doing that:
Using crowdsourcing is a perfectly legitimate trick and using a social solution might indeed be more stereotypically feminine.
Additionally, why don't all the females who think that knowing Word makes them computer experts and all of those who think Kinzer is an innovator in robotics go realize that females are perfectly capable of advancing technology. One of my personal heroes is Ada Augusta.
I guess Ada was one of few women who actually gave a crap about doing something that didn't involve, "Look at me, I'm a woman, I'm cute as a button." Or "All you men are stupid, we can do things just fine without all that hard thinking. I don't like thinking." Give me a break.
Men in computer science: robot vision, algorithms to avoid terrain and navigate obstacles, logic, highly advanced everything, etc.
Women in computer science: puts a smiley face on a box on wheels that only goes straight and calls it the same as the above.
What am I missing?
Good god, though, someone give her an award for having a vagina and touching something electronic!
And if a policeman or prosecutor claims that you have gotten too close to doing any of the above, she can take down your whole site
What the hell, I have karma to burn.
I like the way you think. Invariably it's always females behind this kind of crap. It must be the queen bee instinct.
As a side note, years ago when I was taking my teaching degree, we had to take a basic Math class because some teacher in the city had told a kid that a number divided by zero equals zero.
A teacher once graded my little brother wrong on a test for saying that gravity gives things weight. The correct answer was supposed to have been air pressure.
You'd have to find a doctor willing to administer it. Most doctors do have a least a scrap of ethics left and will not use their knowledge and training to kill someone, especially not against their wishes.
I've been threatened by more than a few local doctors that they would see me "dying in a gutter" or "bleeding on the street." Usually they threaten like that when a page doesn't go through. If you attempt to explain to them that pagers are a single-duplex device, they continue with threats of making sure you won't ever be able to get another job again.
But I guess we can just look the other way when doctors do that. After all, doctors are good people, and they're completely infallible. At least I'm not a nurse I suppose. I'm just on the other end of a phone line; there are more than enough documented cases of nurses being assaulted and having things thrown at them by doctors.
Oh what the heck, I have karma to burn.
Using electroconvulsive therapy and "restorative" therapy to attempt to make a gay or transsexual person straight is another example of medicine that doesn't follow the evidence.
Of course the problem is the religious fundamentalists have tons of money to burn in the pursuit of attempting to change someone's sexual orientation.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Well, not unless there are plenty of people who will pay plenty of money to plenty of doctors to show that it really is broken by using bad science.
Doctors can accept bribes just as easily as anyone else.
Dear Sir or Madam,
Where I live I currently have two options for broadband: slow DSL (512 kb up/2 Mb down on a good day) or slow Charter cable (768 Mb up/6 Mb down). I currently have DSL installed. Do you know why?
Firstly, let me inform you that the answering service I dealt with during the incident I describe was located in St. Louis, MO, not in the Philippines.
Last summer I was using Charter's cable service. It was flakey at best. One day there was a bad storm that resulted in major flooding in town. My cable service was up the entire time and weathered the storm surprisingly well. However, long after the storm died down and at some point over the next night, my cable service went down for no particular reason!
Throughout the next day, my roommate and I placed several angry calls to try to get them to address the issue without CHARGING us for a service call.
The only thing my roommate was able to determine through his efforts, as I've mentioned above, was that we were speaking with an answering service. That is, we weren't even dealing with a dedicated Charter call center, but an answering service, the kind that also handles calls for local doctors and HVAC companies after hours. It could be possible that we had reached a dedicated department, but he learned that we were not speaking to Charter employees.
During my first call, I had to speak to a supervisor, who informed me that my call to report an outage was not enough for them to take action. She advised me to go knock on my neighbors' doors to find 5 other Charter customers who all had to be inconvenienced by calling in individually before Charter would address the issue.
On my second call, I was able to reach a more competent individual. (As a side note, I work at an answering service, and it can very frequently happen that experienced agents and supervisors are wholly incompetent at doing anything more than saying they can't do anything despite having been given training on customer-specific software. Not that I'm bitter or anything.) She was able to access some actual equipment and verify that 20/50 customers on my node were without service and told me a technician would be able to be dispatched in a few hours.
I was flabbergasted it took that much effort to find someone who could access the actual equipment. When I had a different DSL provider than I do now, the simple act of reaching someone on the phone was enough to get to someone who was able to access the equipment. Sometimes they were able to resolve the problem right over the phone by remotely configuring and troubleshooting the equipment assuming no hardware failure. I can't quite have that with my current DSL service, but their Mumbai-based call center is vastly more helpful than Charter's St. Louis, MO answering service. What's going on here?
Finally, my cable modem synched up later that night, almost 18 hours after it went down. However, their DHCP server was not working, so I forced my cable modem to its last logged IP address and I was back up. Too bad for the people who had to wait for the DHCP and DNS servers to come back up 2 full days later.
That is not acceptable.
Charter's financial problems are directly the result of a free market at work. I could have faster internet, but they pissed me off so badly that I'm satisfied with slower, stabler DSL service to have access to competent support. It's very refreshing to be able to speak with someone in 1st level support who knows what an IP address is. Maybe people in Mumbai are more competent than people in St. Louis.
Thank you.
And yet, there are those who actually need TEMPORARY help (such as me, a few years ago, when I had a debilitating condition that precluded work until I could get treated) that get turned down because I wasn't a slut with 8 kids
Thank you, sir.
I work around women like that. Somehow I'm having trouble affording a car and these single mothers can drive SUVs to work every day, making maybe little over half what I make. Something doesn't add up, and I'm pretty sure it's not how I'm spending the money the government lets me keep from my paycheck.
This may shock and amaze, but these women aren't just having kids out of an accident, lack of foresight, or bad circumstances. Sure there are a few like that in the mix (if lack of foresight is an excuse for anything at all), but by and large these women have it entirely planned. They know that they can start a family whenever they please, their families are perfectly ok with it (even overjoyed when mom becomes a grandma because her teenage daughter got pregnant), and they know that sugar-daddy government is going to keep them fed and well all the way. We have national health care here in the USA, but isn't it funny that only single mothers and their kids seem to qualify for it?
Add in the fact that homosexuals are being blamed for this "marriage crisis" or whatever, and no one can see the real people who are "ruining" marriage (whatever that means). Would we have a "marriage" crisis if single women lost their "right" to have kids outside of marriage? Or is suggesting that welfare only handle kids that were conceived in a marriage oppressing women somehow?
Go ahead and mod me down, but I see this right before my eyes every day, and these women don't see anything wrong with what they're doing.
I don't care if a single woman wants to have all kinds of wild sex (you peg me wrongly if you think I give a crap about Christian morals), but I don't want my taxes paying for when she choses to start a family, marriage or no.
The doctors themselves are leaving to work in the US.
I know this is pretty much -1 offtopic, but this one always gets me. If you've ever worked around doctors, you'd quickly realize that money is more important to them than their patients' safety.
You're probably the kind of person who blames your doctor's answering service when they can't get a-hold of him after hours. It probably never occurred to you that the number one reason for that is that the doctors themselves provide answering services with bad on-call info. This provides two advantages: 1.) they can get a good credit to their bill, because they customer is always right even in spite of recordings proving otherwise, and 2.) the doctor doesn't have to actually be on-call (unlike me, who is just a lowly account programmer barely making 30k) while passing the blame to the answering service. That's just one example. Don't get me started on the unprofessional behavior they exhibit towards the operators (verbal, often sexually-charged assaults, threats against the operator's life and property, threats of libel and slander, etc. Once we almost lost a good chunk of our business because a doctor libeled us to a local hospital's vendor compliance department, and the recordings showing she was lying were barely enough to set things right).
Sure, mod me down if you think I'm lying or trolling. It doesn't change how doctors in a capitalist system operate.
Now, don't get me wrong. Wanting more money is the very nature of a capitalist system. The problem is that often times that's a complete conflict of interest for someone like a doctor. Do you really want a doctor who's more interested in how much more money he can be making off you and how soon he can buy his 4th house than just keeping you well? What if he makes more money off your being sick, especially since he can order tests that aren't really necessary or that he's not even necessarily qualified to interpret? (To be fair, sometimes doctors need to do that simply because of liability, but that's a different topic.) A doctor with healthy patients is like a network consultant whose clients have no problems: he might as well be out of business.
I'd rather have a situation where people who get into medicine are more interested in saving lives and improving the quality of life for others rather than whether it's 200k, 300k, or 500k they'll be making. Even in countries with socialized medicine, doctors are very well off compared to someone who made the poor choice of not going into medicine. There's a certain point where acquiring more wealth is simply greed.
Anyone should be able to read, it's your responsibility as owner of the fucking machine to understand at least a bit of how it works. It's this "I don't get the first page in the book so I stop reading" attitude. If you don't WANT to do gain that knowledge you will have these kinds of silly idiot problems all the way. So "I am stupid" and "I don't want to know" are two different things and significant ones indeed. Sometimes a book starts making sense only after you've read it even without knowing what the first couple pages meant.
Thank you, sir! You've made my week!
Give subsidizes to every farmer near the rain forests to not go out clear cutting, and WOW! Deforestation problem solved.
But why are you shifting the focus onto these people struggling to survive?
*WOOSH* This is what passes for +5 insightful these days? Did anyone who modded that bullcrap insightful even read what snowgirl wrote? Jeez. Too bad my unused mod points expired today.
When they brought him out for their recent wedding anniversary party, for example, they turned off his higher-level brain and had him dance around by dumbly bouncing from one lady to the next -- the way most guys function on the dance floor.
Was the quip after the EM dash really necessary? Now, I know that most women have experience with outlaw bikers, but there are a lot of decent guys out there. The problem is they're not outlaw bikers.
What the hell. I have karma to burn.
But, to be fair, in some circles that's the best software available and the whole stinkin' industry needs to raise their standards at the same time, which will never happen organically.
Ah, you must be using Intelligent Series call center software by Amtelco. Damn thing freezes every other call and is slow as hell on dual core 2.4 gHz machines with 1 GB of RAM. Ever been told by a call center operator that their computer is running a bit slow and they need to wait for it to catch up? They're not lying.
/troll
It's called a call center.
I work for one.
But that's ok. I can understand why you didn't think about it. Call centers don't do anything good at all. We just fuck shit up.
At least I got my dollar menu! Good to see some of my taxes back to me!
Wait... I don't eat fast food.
Don't worry. If anime's taught me anything, the moon is just a giant spaceship, and we'll surely defeat the anti-spirals! (I just got done watching Gurren Lagann btw.)
2) First you have to setup a partition to install windows.. lets assume it's an empty disk so you'd press c (create partition) and number the number of disk space for that partition then enter, then you press enter again to install on that partition.
As an interesting anecdote to back up your point: a friend/roommate bought a new computer and got ahold of a warez XP 64-bit install CD. None of the cd keys from my secret stash worked, naturally, so he decided to go buy a legit copy of XP. Because the 64-bit installer had already loaded stuff on the drive (yeah I know real technical language—it's the weekend jeez) the legit disk refused to do anything.
So I got out a handy Linux livecd to nuke the partition table so the legit XP CD would install from scratch. So he was all set.
A few weeks later he motioned me into his room after I got home from work and explained that Windows wasn't seeing his whole drive. I immediately noticed that Windows had only created a 300 GB partition on his 750 GB drive! I mentioned a few tools I could get together to expand the NTFS filesystem, but he decided to just make the other 450 GB a D: drive.
Moral of the story is that installing Windows is, as you suggest, not just hitting some big red "Install" button.
Are you actually so paranoid (or macho) that owning something designed to kill people sounds like a good idea? Do they give you an erection?
Oh I don't know. You see, as a sexual minority, there might be some people who want to kill me, so I might want to defend myself at some point. Do you really want to just call the cops and hope for the best if you're attacked one day? I hope you have 911 on speed dial. You don't even need to be a kind of person some people will pick out as a target for the 5 minutes it could take the cops to get there to make a big difference in the outcome.
Might I also mention that even in 2008 there are some cops and doctors who might not even want to help me. I think I'm better off exercising my right to self-defense for a few more years at least, thanks.
I've been trying to train end-users in one particular piece of data-entry software for two years and they still can't shift-tab to move back an input. It all depends on who your end users are and whether there are any consequences to not learning.
I'd just be happy with doctors that don't cuss and throw temper tantrums like 2 year olds.
The difference between Disk Utility and dd is that one is usable by anyone barely computer-literate who is capable of clicking on a single button, and the other isn't.
A lot of people I work with aren't capable of clicking a single button, you insensitive clod!
I hate to burst your bubble, but they sure can. And I'll even throw in another plug for dropping said company(ies) for XMPP and/or having a friend with hosting or a static IP.