I recently re-installed an OEM Win 7 on a laptop that had needed a HDD replacement. I was positively surprised to see it activated online without any problems.
Or if you're one of those on a tight budget. I can't stomp up more than ~$700 for my next laptop but want as much gaming action as possible within that budget...
No, WRONG! You are certainly not waiting until after the infection occur. Antivirus uses "real-time protection" - all files are scanned *on access* from HDD, USB-storage, DVD, email, browser download, etc.
I don't use antivirus myself but I do recommend it to most people. I've seen it prevent many infections before the file is executed.
You can easily setup a situation where antivirus fails and I'm sure it happens in real life too but mostly signatures are added fairly quickly.
It's not perfect but antivirus is a very useful safety measure and have kept my clueless family members clean for decades, with a number of files quarantined. Without it I'd have to cleanup their computer on a regular basis.
It appears to me there are more bitches. A generational shift. In the beginning new funky projects and ideas were met with "he's done that because he could - cool". Now things are met with "Why did he do that? Theres no use to me! There's no point? What a waste of time!".
I put OpenOffice on my wife's new computer. When she printed her resume, that had been painstakingly formatted to stay within two pages, it was suddenly two pages plus one line.
Never dropped a phone either, from my Nokia 2110 to my iPhone 4S. A buddy once had a Nokia 3110 fall out of his pocket while skydiving - turns out they're not entirely indestructible, just close.
At university of Copenhagen (MSc) we learned to put together a computer, starting with simple gates. Modern superscalar CPU architecture, cache technologies, etc. Then microcode programming, moving up to 68000 assembler, C, Pascal, Prolog, Miranda, Occam, Emerald, C++ (Simple intro only though).
We learned datastructures, wrote operating system kernel, C compiler, 3D wireframe animation, implemented shared memory libraries on a 16 CPU platform, branch and bound multiprogramming, etc.
Today when I interview graduates they can't explain the typical difference between a thread and a process. Preemptive multitasking is a conundrum to some. Don't get into semaphores. When to use hash table instead of self balanced tree, er, huh? Duh! Facepalm.
With the self taught nobody seems to want to check the result of allocation calls before using the memory or understand bounds checking when writing to buffers and the importance of whitspace to make it maintainable.
I had an IBM/Lexmark 4019 laser printer for 10 years. A solid workhorse that produced tens of thousands of pages without any problems. Worked well with Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
Finally replaced with a cheap multifunction device as my printing requirements dropped and I needed scanner/fax more and occasionally color print.
I miss the 4019 though, it was spectacular. Do modern printers even have Postscript anymore?
Unfortunately Netflix in Canada has got buggerall. It didn't have any of the movies I've searched for so far. As a matter of fact many were missing from US Netflix as well.
That brings me back. My first HP-UX ran Twm. I spent much time trying to install other cooler environments on my account until I finally realized that Twm was just fine.
Ever since that I've never had problems adapting to anything; OS/2, win 3/95/XP/7, KDE, OS X, iOS, Android, etc. I'm fine with them all.
I've interviewed lots of CS graduates and was disappointed to learn that many couldn't explain simple things such as Semaphores, explain differences you'd typically see between processes and threads or choose the best data structure for a given job.
If that's the level of CS hatchlings, I'd never even consider interviewing a no degree inexperienced person. Think of the bugs they might introduce...
Sure, we do peer reviews and testing, but bugs sneak through. Serious bugs cost millions...
Indeed, it takes a year to crank out a new model. It's not done overnight. New hardware, SW updates, rigorous testing in lab and on networks, beta cycles, bug fixing.... Repeat until ready...
Also Nokia used to have a S40 and a S60 arm internally, the two being completely independent and competing. Now the Symbian and WinMo arms are probable as independent of eachother, the only overall strategy being how much funding each receives and how many new models are cranked out in a year.
This question is almost, but not quite, a troll. I think it was asked already understanding the answers.
Still,- sure, I could so just fine without a smartphone. As a matter of fact I have a number of devices that are fun and/or convenient and I choose to have them for that reason.
I got online in 1991 and I've loved it ever since. Having the Internet with me is just great! Although I don't have a data plan, wifi only.
Well, I broke my neck two years ago. As a quadriplegic, the smartphone is now a great help to me.
I live in Canada and do not have an expensive data plan. I often use wifi instead but that won't work well in a car. So you see - Tomtom's solution is perfect for me.
Oh yeah I read ebooks more than listening to music - 3/4 of my storage is currently unused.
I never ever felt that concurrency control was difficult. Really, it's just a question of getting some experience under the hood and using good programming practices. Debugging it on an embedded system with no on-target debugger can be difficult at times.
What I find difficult, in the extreme sometimes, is to figure out: 1/ Whether it is possible at all to parallelize the task at hand 2/ What the benefit will be (is it worth it).
Sometimes these are mathematical problems more than anything and I suck at that...
This is on of the reasons I changed to Macs after 8 years on SuSE Linux. It being a BSD of sorts also helped my decision:-)
When I replaced the iMacG5 with a MacBook Pro I did as you mentioned and everything was exactly the same, down to the position of the files on my desktop and all settings, installed apps, etc. etc. It was pure paradise.
Only difference was that I made a latte with a splosh of whiskey and some brown sugar instead of coffee+bagel.
Amongst the flood of valid and not so valid replies nobody seems to be mentioning 802.11a. In Europe, 802.11a is rapidly spreading. Is that a complete no-go in the States?
It doesn't perform as well as everybody on a 1Gbps Ethernet with their own port on a beefy switch, but I've seen several companies with a mix of wired networks and 802.11a available on all floors. With e.g. WPA2 and EAP-TLS it makes for quite a good solution.
Just bought Neverwinter Nights for Mac (once upon a time had the PC version) and two extension packs, also got DiabloII+ext off EBay for almost nothing (£7 a piece and still new/unopened).
NWN is particulary impressive as I can now use it on modern hardware with higher gfx settings that makes an old game shine. But even ignoring the gfx, the atmosphere and stories are thoroughly enjoyable. It may very well be part nostalgia, but thats fine too.
So yeah, I only buy old games, partly because they appeal better to me and partly because they are often cheap.
Hmmm, maybe it is unfail calling NWN old, its certainly thriving and new expansions still showing up.
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I recently re-installed an OEM Win 7 on a laptop that had needed a HDD replacement. I was positively surprised to see it activated online without any problems.
Well, Vancouver had two days with light snow last winter. Then it was gone.
I'm a very capable Linux user, have been using it since it came on 22 floppies. For a long time I enjoyed all the tinkering.
Priorities have changed, I've dropped it in favour of Mac because I have more important things to spend my time on.
Or if you're one of those on a tight budget. I can't stomp up more than ~$700 for my next laptop but want as much gaming action as possible within that budget...
No, WRONG! You are certainly not waiting until after the infection occur. Antivirus uses "real-time protection" - all files are scanned *on access* from HDD, USB-storage, DVD, email, browser download, etc.
I don't use antivirus myself but I do recommend it to most people. I've seen it prevent many infections before the file is executed.
You can easily setup a situation where antivirus fails and I'm sure it happens in real life too but mostly signatures are added fairly quickly.
It's not perfect but antivirus is a very useful safety measure and have kept my clueless family members clean for decades, with a number of files quarantined. Without it I'd have to cleanup their computer on a regular basis.
It appears to me there are more bitches. A generational shift. In the beginning new funky projects and ideas were met with "he's done that because he could - cool". Now things are met with "Why did he do that? Theres no use to me! There's no point? What a waste of time!".
Oooo. I like presents!
This!
I put OpenOffice on my wife's new computer. When she printed her resume, that had been painstakingly formatted to stay within two pages, it was suddenly two pages plus one line.
I am now divorced.
It creeps up on ya.
Never dropped a phone either, from my Nokia 2110 to my iPhone 4S. A buddy once had a Nokia 3110 fall out of his pocket while skydiving - turns out they're not entirely indestructible, just close.
I have the impression that Firefox is amongst the least memory hungry browsers. They are very aggressive with releasing memory.
I don't care about memory usage though, with 4GB. I use Chrome which is very hungry indeed.
I don't know what they learn today. Java?
At university of Copenhagen (MSc) we learned to put together a computer, starting with simple gates. Modern superscalar CPU architecture, cache technologies, etc. Then microcode programming, moving up to 68000 assembler, C, Pascal, Prolog, Miranda, Occam, Emerald, C++ (Simple intro only though).
We learned datastructures, wrote operating system kernel, C compiler, 3D wireframe animation, implemented shared memory libraries on a 16 CPU platform, branch and bound multiprogramming, etc.
Today when I interview graduates they can't explain the typical difference between a thread and a process. Preemptive multitasking is a conundrum to some. Don't get into semaphores. When to use hash table instead of self balanced tree, er, huh? Duh! Facepalm.
With the self taught nobody seems to want to check the result of allocation calls before using the memory or understand bounds checking when writing to buffers and the importance of whitspace to make it maintainable.
Ahh, but it feels good to rant..
I had an IBM/Lexmark 4019 laser printer for 10 years. A solid workhorse that produced tens of thousands of pages without any problems. Worked well with Windows, OS/2 and Linux.
Finally replaced with a cheap multifunction device as my printing requirements dropped and I needed scanner/fax more and occasionally color print.
I miss the 4019 though, it was spectacular. Do modern printers even have Postscript anymore?
Actually I've recently discovered Transmission-qt for windows. Turned out to be pretty nice.
Unfortunately Netflix in Canada has got buggerall. It didn't have any of the movies I've searched for so far. As a matter of fact many were missing from US Netflix as well.
But yeah, I'm probably a bit unusual.
That brings me back. My first HP-UX ran Twm. I spent much time trying to install other cooler environments on my account until I finally realized that Twm was just fine.
Ever since that I've never had problems adapting to anything; OS/2, win 3/95/XP/7, KDE, OS X, iOS, Android, etc. I'm fine with them all.
I've interviewed lots of CS graduates and was disappointed to learn that many couldn't explain simple things such as Semaphores, explain differences you'd typically see between processes and threads or choose the best data structure for a given job.
If that's the level of CS hatchlings, I'd never even consider interviewing a no degree inexperienced person. Think of the bugs they might introduce...
Sure, we do peer reviews and testing, but bugs sneak through. Serious bugs cost millions...
Indeed, it takes a year to crank out a new model. It's not done overnight. New hardware, SW updates, rigorous testing in lab and on networks, beta cycles, bug fixing.... Repeat until ready...
Also Nokia used to have a S40 and a S60 arm internally, the two being completely independent and competing. Now the Symbian and WinMo arms are probable as independent of eachother, the only overall strategy being how much funding each receives and how many new models are cranked out in a year.
This question is almost, but not quite, a troll. I think it was asked already understanding the answers.
Still,- sure, I could so just fine without a smartphone. As a matter of fact I have a number of devices that are fun and/or convenient and I choose to have them for that reason.
I got online in 1991 and I've loved it ever since. Having the Internet with me is just great! Although I don't have a data plan, wifi only.
Well, I broke my neck two years ago. As a quadriplegic, the smartphone is now a great help to me.
I live in Canada and do not have an expensive data plan. I often use wifi instead but that won't work well in a car. So you see - Tomtom's solution is perfect for me.
Oh yeah I read ebooks more than listening to music - 3/4 of my storage is currently unused.
I never ever felt that concurrency control was difficult. Really, it's just a question of getting some experience under the hood and using good programming practices. Debugging it on an embedded system with no on-target debugger can be difficult at times.
What I find difficult, in the extreme sometimes, is to figure out:
1/ Whether it is possible at all to parallelize the task at hand
2/ What the benefit will be (is it worth it).
Sometimes these are mathematical problems more than anything and I suck at that...
Yes!!
:-)
This is on of the reasons I changed to Macs after 8 years on SuSE Linux. It being a BSD of sorts also helped my decision
When I replaced the iMacG5 with a MacBook Pro I did as you mentioned and everything was exactly the same, down to the position of the files on my desktop and all settings, installed apps, etc. etc. It was pure paradise.
Only difference was that I made a latte with a splosh of whiskey and some brown sugar instead of coffee+bagel.
Amongst the flood of valid and not so valid replies nobody seems to be mentioning 802.11a. In Europe, 802.11a is rapidly spreading. Is that a complete no-go in the States?
It doesn't perform as well as everybody on a 1Gbps Ethernet with their own port on a beefy switch, but I've seen several companies with a mix of wired networks and 802.11a available on all floors. With e.g. WPA2 and EAP-TLS it makes for quite a good solution.
I installed the latest SuSE distribution on my laptop with a HP 802.11a/b/g mini-pci card - it supported WPA+TKIP out of the box.
NWN is particulary impressive as I can now use it on modern hardware with higher gfx settings that makes an old game shine. But even ignoring the gfx, the atmosphere and stories are thoroughly enjoyable. It may very well be part nostalgia, but thats fine too.
So yeah, I only buy old games, partly because they appeal better to me and partly because they are often cheap.
Hmmm, maybe it is unfail calling NWN old, its certainly thriving and new expansions still showing up.
Ahh yes, the *real* Batman :-) With a *real* beer-belly and the Bat Anti Shark Spray.
Oh does memories come floating in now, he couldn't get poisoned because he consumed 12 takings of milk every morning! Maybe it was a milk-belly.