Odd, indeed,
My computer (i7, 16GB of RAM, SSD Evo 850) which is fairly modern (but not a speed demon, either) runs perfectly (and super-fast) with W10.
Are you sure you're not using a 486 ?:-)
They HAVE to take security seriously.
Countless enterprises all over the world depend on it. They can't just say Ooops ! So if they want to keep some control over this "intimate" layer (drivers) everyone here is shouting "It's a crime !". If something bad would happen, on the other hand, everyone here would be shouting "It's a POS !" Make up your mind, people !
If Windows crashes (it did not happen to me in years !), in 99% of the cases the BSOD appears because of faulty drivers ! Especially video-card related.
So I couldn't care less....
In Europe they have like.... 1/5 of the selection while having a bigger price. Also, there's no dvd option, no matter the price.
So, from my point of view, they could go belly up - no tears there.
Other than that, I think they should go up-market - best selection, greater prices.
Or have several tiers.
In my country it was late at night then so I, as a 4 years old, was asleep.
But I know that my parents stayed up all night to watch that "live", and I remember my father being impressed by that, and telling me the next day that something very important just happened - only I was not in a position to understand any of that.
I can still remember the excitement of that evening, as my parents were preparing me for bed. My father was smoking in the kitchen, and was listening to the radio. We had a brand-new TV back then - I can still picture it - it was BW, of course, with a somewhat rounded screen - hell, it looked a bit like a oscilloscope, or like a radar screen:-) We had a rabbit ears antenna, and a dark-green velour curtain in the living-room behind the TV... Wow, the memories....
I wish we has such a grand plan now... but we don't. Sending probes far away is not nearly as exciting as sending people on incredible journeys. If I was offered such an occasion now, I would gladly volunteer, even if with only a one-way ticket !
In my experience, whenever I showed up early at work, it was my net loss - I could never leave early because then everybody would look funny at me, and also because most people (including my bosses) would give me tasks / schedule meetings right before my time to go home.
So in the end I worked more hours than everybody, and I still left work at 6+ PM or later.
So then flexi-time for me now means "show up at work as late as you can so you don't work too many hours".
So yes, I do enjoy DST - at least I can still see the sun when I get home in the evening.
where people tend to own houses. In Europe, that is very-very rare. Most people live in appartment complexes, and in the evening they always jockey for a parking spot on the street (there are vert few underground garages, and there are never enough parking spots in the reserved parking lots). So the vast majority of people park wherever they can find a little bit of space on the street, and in most cases the cars are parked in complete disorder on the curb. For instance, at work, people park under a viaduct (theoretically that's a no-parking zone, but there are absolutely not enough spots, so the police never enforces the existing laws and rules).
No, this will never work with the existing technology.
I'm waiting for double-triple the range and super-fast charging time - say, 5...10 minutes max. Until then, I'm not even thinking about electric cars.
No, I really meant 50MB.
Yes, I know it's VERY little data, almost nothing, but I have specified that for data there are other options (plans). This is for talking only, with VERY occasional wireless access. But still... This is 7$.
I don't really use mobile data, since I can find wifi pretty much anywhere in the city (stores, malls, coffee shops, restaurants, etc), so approx 7$ covers a month of phone usage. I would say it's reasonable. Now calculate the profits made at the American tariffs.
On the other hand, yes, I know, the up-front investment on the infrastructure was huge at the scale of both Canada and US (Romania is only the size of Colorado) - but that investment should have been amortized by now, I assume.
In Romania (which is in Europe), 5 euro (almost 7 US$) brings you about 2500 in-the-network national SMS/minutes + 200 out-of-network or international SMS/minutes + 50MB of data. For other usages, like higher data consumption, there are other plans/promotions. There are occasional bonuses as well, like unlimited minutes during a certain time-frame (say, 21 days).
Of course, they still make lots of money, let's not pity them.
So the North-American prices (especially the Canadian ones) are pure theft. Been there, done that. I was paying about 40$/month for an extremely light usage.
These are hidden/masked expenses. How do you think they budget secret initiatives ? They surely don't have their own lines in the budget details. That's why at the Pentagon you have 500$ hammers and maybe 50$ green leds. 95% of these costs go somewhere else, let's not be naive !
Meanwhile, in Romania, of all places, a provider (RDS) announced deployment of a new "pipe" (fiber-optic) that would allow (they say) up to 1 GB/sec down, all that for around 10..12 euro/mo, which is the cost of a one-person lunch in a mid-scale restaurant in town.
I currently have about 40Mb/sec and pay 23 euro/mo for the whole package (internet, 70 channnels IPTV, and landline phone).
In other words, if the situation is this bad in Australia, as per previous posts... it clearly is a huge money grab.
So many people have such a blinding hate for everything Microsoft that they lose all semblance of moral and logical integrity. Therefore the argument becomes puerile, unfortunately, like many of the replies above.
Anyway, back to the subject: in my opinion Bing is quite good, and has some interesting qualities. Are they enough to make people leave their "google" comfort-zone ? No, not yet. There's nothing revolutionary enough. Anyway, I really wish them well - competition is always welcome.
Note. In my experience one area where Bing really fails badly at this time is searching for references to people. Search for instance for "bruce springsteen" (with quotes). How many hits you get ? In Google you get almost 11 mils. In Bing you get around 4.5 mils. In this case, of course, there's no difference (comparing two almost infinite numbers doesn't make sense - nobody will go past page 10 anyway), but searching for less well-known people will be something else - you'll get, say, 334 hits in Google, and 2 in Bing. Now that's a huge difference ! Some of the 334 hits in google were real hits. Search for instance for your own name, or for the names of your friends, not for "celebs". That's Bing's biggest downside right now, imho.
I would simply like a phone which works EVERYWHERE, like the satellite phones - but I hear that those companies are not with us anymore. I would like to be able to turn left or right on the street, to enter a building, or to go outside the city and still have reception. Is this too much to ask ?
Whenever I'm at home, if I receive a call on the cell, I need to go on the balcony to be able to talk (but it could be inconvenient, rain, snow, and all, don't you think ?) and the house is not even made of reinforced concrete to form some kind of cage. So then if I receive a call late in the evening, in winter, I don't dress up to be able to go outside and take the call - I just take the number and call back from my landline.
And I still have one year of my contract. A phone that simply works well and everywhere on this continent would be the greatest telecomm revolution.
At a crime scene you don't find dna - you find organic matter - be it hair, skin, blood, etc. Yes, you can create "new" dna in the lab (and you know how dna looks like), but you cannot alter existing dna. If you find hair in the victims' nails... how do you change the existing dna in that strand of hair to a new one ?
So then - how can this alter the existing crime cases ?
PS. Yes, I agree, in the future it might even be possible to change one dna to another. But this is not possible yet, it seems.
Okay, got it. Yours is bigger. You the man. I get it. Satisfied now ?
Oh boy... I will never understand these "religious" wars... Who gives a &*&@ on what you or me use on the desktop ? It's a tool ! To each his own. It's like "I drive a Mercedes - See ? I'm smarter then you !"
PS. Personally, I have tried Ubuntu once. It failed miserably at the first (minor) HW change (the display died completely). Sorry, I have NO TIME TO SPEND on babysitting an OS - I have lost three whole afternoons trying to make it work again - when Windows found the new graphic card and installed it automatically in less than a minute.
You use what suits you - fine, I'm happy for you - why to you need to start a crusade with each occasion ?
The idea sounds very good... in theory. I would like to understand in more detail how this payment method will work. First, people should pay that fee in their local currency, whatever that might be. Euro, USD, CAN $, Yen, Swiss FR, etc, will not work - most people in this world don't have easy access to them. Also, the charities in question should either be local (so that they are appealing to people in, say, Mongolia, or New Zeeland, etc), either truly worldwide (Unicef). The second problem - how will the internet users pay in Surinam, for example ? Should they go to the bank, exchange their local money in some convertible currency, and then deposit that in some kind of micro-payments account ? What will happen to internet cafés all over the world (in some countries they are still the only way to have access to the net)? In case of a payment conflict, who will arbitrate ? Of course, it cannot work in any other way than pre-pay (otherwise you can install a virus on someone's computer and let that person fight the charges). So then what happens when you need to send an important email in the middle of the night and you have no money left in your account ? Remember that many people do not have a credit card to load their account with ! Will all the ISPs in this world agree to police their subscribers and provide accounting tools and supervision for ?
I have many, many questions. I'd like to see this implemented, but...
Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know much about how the set-top cable boxes work, but I'm pretty sure that (it being a computer, in the end) the cable company alreay knows that the subscriber at address IP so and so is currently watching the PBS channel, since 18.5 minutes now. By extension, assuming that there are in average, 1.2, let's say, viewers per tv/box, one can extract superb statistical and demographical data... Am I wrong ? (Maybe it's not feasible yet, I don't really know, but I assume it is).
Canada is the champion. You people, in the States, you don't know how good you have it, in comparison. In Canada pricese for telecomm are easily double yours ! Look at this, for instance: http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-plans/960/
Another example, because some people seem to like iPhones ? The iPhone plans in Canada (with Rogers) are more than double what people in the US pay, with AT&T.
And on top of it all, we pay federal tax, and then provincial tax on top of it, so then because the 6.95$/month is already a tax (kind of illegal, in the end (longer story), but tax) in the end we pay tax on tax on tax. Howzat ?
And still, amazingly enough, right now Bell is losing money on wireless (and no, not even the service is good - it's contracted out in India, and it's miserable) ! This is beyond belief ! I can only assume that these peoples' levels of corruption, laziness and incompetence are unsurpassed (because we must be the first in something !) Little wonder, then, that Canada has a pathetic cellphone penetration rate.
PS. I might have used some Engrish here. Sorry - English is not my first language.
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Odd, indeed, My computer (i7, 16GB of RAM, SSD Evo 850) which is fairly modern (but not a speed demon, either) runs perfectly (and super-fast) with W10. Are you sure you're not using a 486 ? :-)
They HAVE to take security seriously. Countless enterprises all over the world depend on it. They can't just say Ooops ! So if they want to keep some control over this "intimate" layer (drivers) everyone here is shouting "It's a crime !". If something bad would happen, on the other hand, everyone here would be shouting "It's a POS !" Make up your mind, people ! If Windows crashes (it did not happen to me in years !), in 99% of the cases the BSOD appears because of faulty drivers ! Especially video-card related.
So I couldn't care less.... In Europe they have like.... 1/5 of the selection while having a bigger price. Also, there's no dvd option, no matter the price. So, from my point of view, they could go belly up - no tears there. Other than that, I think they should go up-market - best selection, greater prices. Or have several tiers.
In my country it was late at night then so I, as a 4 years old, was asleep. But I know that my parents stayed up all night to watch that "live", and I remember my father being impressed by that, and telling me the next day that something very important just happened - only I was not in a position to understand any of that. I can still remember the excitement of that evening, as my parents were preparing me for bed. My father was smoking in the kitchen, and was listening to the radio. We had a brand-new TV back then - I can still picture it - it was BW, of course, with a somewhat rounded screen - hell, it looked a bit like a oscilloscope, or like a radar screen :-) We had a rabbit ears antenna, and a dark-green velour curtain in the living-room behind the TV... Wow, the memories....
I wish we has such a grand plan now... but we don't. Sending probes far away is not nearly as exciting as sending people on incredible journeys. If I was offered such an occasion now, I would gladly volunteer, even if with only a one-way ticket !
Really ? Five systems failed ? Wow.... I'm speechless. I have 2 of 2. Without any effort. I must be extremely lucky.
In my experience, whenever I showed up early at work, it was my net loss - I could never leave early because then everybody would look funny at me, and also because most people (including my bosses) would give me tasks / schedule meetings right before my time to go home. So in the end I worked more hours than everybody, and I still left work at 6+ PM or later. So then flexi-time for me now means "show up at work as late as you can so you don't work too many hours". So yes, I do enjoy DST - at least I can still see the sun when I get home in the evening.
where people tend to own houses. In Europe, that is very-very rare. Most people live in appartment complexes, and in the evening they always jockey for a parking spot on the street (there are vert few underground garages, and there are never enough parking spots in the reserved parking lots). So the vast majority of people park wherever they can find a little bit of space on the street, and in most cases the cars are parked in complete disorder on the curb. For instance, at work, people park under a viaduct (theoretically that's a no-parking zone, but there are absolutely not enough spots, so the police never enforces the existing laws and rules). No, this will never work with the existing technology. I'm waiting for double-triple the range and super-fast charging time - say, 5...10 minutes max. Until then, I'm not even thinking about electric cars.
Dear Aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.
No, I really meant 50MB. Yes, I know it's VERY little data, almost nothing, but I have specified that for data there are other options (plans). This is for talking only, with VERY occasional wireless access. But still... This is 7$. I don't really use mobile data, since I can find wifi pretty much anywhere in the city (stores, malls, coffee shops, restaurants, etc), so approx 7$ covers a month of phone usage. I would say it's reasonable. Now calculate the profits made at the American tariffs. On the other hand, yes, I know, the up-front investment on the infrastructure was huge at the scale of both Canada and US (Romania is only the size of Colorado) - but that investment should have been amortized by now, I assume.
In Romania (which is in Europe), 5 euro (almost 7 US$) brings you about 2500 in-the-network national SMS/minutes + 200 out-of-network or international SMS/minutes + 50MB of data. For other usages, like higher data consumption, there are other plans/promotions. There are occasional bonuses as well, like unlimited minutes during a certain time-frame (say, 21 days). Of course, they still make lots of money, let's not pity them. So the North-American prices (especially the Canadian ones) are pure theft. Been there, done that. I was paying about 40$/month for an extremely light usage.
people who's calls you do want to receive?
The correct word is "whose", not "who's", you uneducated turd.
Sieg hei!
The correct expression is "Sieg Heil !", you uneducated turd.
This "No, fuck you" is the most intelligent post I have seen in a while. AC, pray tell: have you gotten rid of teenager's acne already ?
These are hidden/masked expenses. How do you think they budget secret initiatives ? They surely don't have their own lines in the budget details. That's why at the Pentagon you have 500$ hammers and maybe 50$ green leds. 95% of these costs go somewhere else, let's not be naive !
Meanwhile, in Romania, of all places, a provider (RDS) announced deployment of a new "pipe" (fiber-optic) that would allow (they say) up to 1 GB/sec down, all that for around 10..12 euro/mo, which is the cost of a one-person lunch in a mid-scale restaurant in town. I currently have about 40Mb/sec and pay 23 euro/mo for the whole package (internet, 70 channnels IPTV, and landline phone). In other words, if the situation is this bad in Australia, as per previous posts... it clearly is a huge money grab.
Not at all. It's more like someone using parts of google's code and charging for it !
This must be the year of Linux...
...since the new "Go" will always be "Go beta". There will be an older "Go" and a newer "Go beta"... Who's confused now ?
I would simply like a phone which works EVERYWHERE, like the satellite phones - but I hear that those companies are not with us anymore. I would like to be able to turn left or right on the street, to enter a building, or to go outside the city and still have reception. Is this too much to ask ? Whenever I'm at home, if I receive a call on the cell, I need to go on the balcony to be able to talk (but it could be inconvenient, rain, snow, and all, don't you think ?) and the house is not even made of reinforced concrete to form some kind of cage. So then if I receive a call late in the evening, in winter, I don't dress up to be able to go outside and take the call - I just take the number and call back from my landline. And I still have one year of my contract. A phone that simply works well and everywhere on this continent would be the greatest telecomm revolution.
Where do I apply to patent the street map of the city ?
At a crime scene you don't find dna - you find organic matter - be it hair, skin, blood, etc. Yes, you can create "new" dna in the lab (and you know how dna looks like), but you cannot alter existing dna. If you find hair in the victims' nails... how do you change the existing dna in that strand of hair to a new one ?
So then - how can this alter the existing crime cases ?
PS. Yes, I agree, in the future it might even be possible to change one dna to another. But this is not possible yet, it seems.
Okay, got it. Yours is bigger. You the man. I get it. Satisfied now ? Oh boy... I will never understand these "religious" wars... Who gives a &*&@ on what you or me use on the desktop ? It's a tool ! To each his own. It's like "I drive a Mercedes - See ? I'm smarter then you !" PS. Personally, I have tried Ubuntu once. It failed miserably at the first (minor) HW change (the display died completely). Sorry, I have NO TIME TO SPEND on babysitting an OS - I have lost three whole afternoons trying to make it work again - when Windows found the new graphic card and installed it automatically in less than a minute. You use what suits you - fine, I'm happy for you - why to you need to start a crusade with each occasion ?
The idea sounds very good... in theory. I would like to understand in more detail how this payment method will work. First, people should pay that fee in their local currency, whatever that might be. Euro, USD, CAN $, Yen, Swiss FR, etc, will not work - most people in this world don't have easy access to them. Also, the charities in question should either be local (so that they are appealing to people in, say, Mongolia, or New Zeeland, etc), either truly worldwide (Unicef). The second problem - how will the internet users pay in Surinam, for example ? Should they go to the bank, exchange their local money in some convertible currency, and then deposit that in some kind of micro-payments account ? What will happen to internet cafés all over the world (in some countries they are still the only way to have access to the net)? In case of a payment conflict, who will arbitrate ? Of course, it cannot work in any other way than pre-pay (otherwise you can install a virus on someone's computer and let that person fight the charges). So then what happens when you need to send an important email in the middle of the night and you have no money left in your account ? Remember that many people do not have a credit card to load their account with ! Will all the ISPs in this world agree to police their subscribers and provide accounting tools and supervision for ? I have many, many questions. I'd like to see this implemented, but...
Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know much about how the set-top cable boxes work, but I'm pretty sure that (it being a computer, in the end) the cable company alreay knows that the subscriber at address IP so and so is currently watching the PBS channel, since 18.5 minutes now. By extension, assuming that there are in average, 1.2, let's say, viewers per tv/box, one can extract superb statistical and demographical data... Am I wrong ? (Maybe it's not feasible yet, I don't really know, but I assume it is).
Canada is the champion. You people, in the States, you don't know how good you have it, in comparison. In Canada pricese for telecomm are easily double yours ! Look at this, for instance: http://www.cellphones.ca/cell-plans/960/ Another example, because some people seem to like iPhones ? The iPhone plans in Canada (with Rogers) are more than double what people in the US pay, with AT&T. And on top of it all, we pay federal tax, and then provincial tax on top of it, so then because the 6.95$/month is already a tax (kind of illegal, in the end (longer story), but tax) in the end we pay tax on tax on tax. Howzat ? And still, amazingly enough, right now Bell is losing money on wireless (and no, not even the service is good - it's contracted out in India, and it's miserable) ! This is beyond belief ! I can only assume that these peoples' levels of corruption, laziness and incompetence are unsurpassed (because we must be the first in something !) Little wonder, then, that Canada has a pathetic cellphone penetration rate. PS. I might have used some Engrish here. Sorry - English is not my first language.