As a Windows Vista Premium 64 bit user unless there is an real enhancements to Windows 7 I will be staying on Vista. It works well with the service pack and I have daemon tools and other things working just fine. It will probably be 2010 before 7 even gets out retail anyway and it better have real improvements or it will fail. Who is going to pay another 100 + dollars for minor changes. Sorry M$ but you are not getting more money unless there is a real reason to update.
Your story is the same here in Illinois (Non Chicago). Chicago is the biggest waste of money in the state. We all know about our current Governor (from Chicago) as well as the election violations of the past (dead people still voting in elections). Fireworks are illegal here but cross into Wisconsin or Indiana and fireworks stores everywhere!!
If Illinois could get rid of Chicago the taxes would go down and business would continue to build out in the "sticks" of the state. Go to southern Illinois and it is a stark reality of a section of a state neglected.
Back on Topic. If Illinois decided to start Taxing online purchases I will be packing up and moving north across the cheddar curtain where the property taxes are lower and the tax on purchases as well.
This is a cyberwar. China wants to beat us to the moon in the new space race. They will steal all the information they can to do it. If NASA were smart these systems should not be accessible to the internet at all. Same with the DOD and other military systems. Or they have their own internet that is not connected to the internet the public uses. The US has to be diligent as Russia and China will try to not only steal information but eventually try to use it against the US. They are not our "allies". We still have a chance to turn things around. Invest in education. Not the current philosophy of throwing money at a broken system but revamp our education system so it is the best in the world. Our future depends on this.
Isn't this the truth. I have a Sansa Fuze and it can do everything a nano can do and more and cost almost half the price. Sure it doesn't have all the extra addons on the market that IPOD has but if more people starting buying alternatives and purchasing those addons (docks and the like) you would start to see more of them in stores like Best Buy. Some people bash M$ but should also be bashing Apple for this crap.
My 2 and half cents.
This is old news and obvious FUD. Mac OS X has its place for graphic design people among others. Nothing wrong with that. Vista's failure is not the operating system itself but more with the system requirements and issues that should have been corrected before release. To compare Vista of then to Vista now is completely different. Vista 64 bit is very stable and with 4 gigs of ram runs very well. The old saying still applies as it does in the Mac world. If your system is more than 1 or 2 years old consider purchasing a new system or build a new one yourself and do the research. I did research before building my system and I have nothing but praise for the operating system. It took some time to get used to the new features but given a real use trial I wouldn't go back to XP.
And for the flames that will inevitably follow this post. I also use and recommend Ubuntu Linux as well. Ubuntu has been by far the best experience using a computer outside of the M$ realm that I have had thus far and I have tried many Linux flavors.
I just felt the need to set the record straight that not everyone who reads comments and stories on/. are M$ haters or someone who had a bad experience with Vista and now tells anyone who uses it they are stupid (idiots).
Windows Vista got a bad reputation because of the minimum system requirements. People running systems with hardware more then 2 years old should just stay with XP or go to Linux. People with modern hardware ( I build my own) Vista is a much better experience and with the 64 bit version is huge. 4 gigs of ram makes it run faster then xp on the same hardware. I did the tests myself with the same programs loaded on both OS.
Now I am not a M$ fanboy as they need to start reducing the cost of windows IMHO. Linux has it's place and I run Ubuntu and love it. For gaming I use my Vista machine.
Windows 7 is still beta and give it some time. M$ hopefully will not make the same mistakes they did with Vista and more people will stop slamming it because they caved in to the hardware makers on the specs.
OK. I must speak up here. Not everything in an operating system has to be open for "fixes". Who is to prevent someone from putting a "fix" in an OS that makes another vunerability. I am not an advocate of M$ by any means but you can't have thousands of different versions of different patches created by individuals and expect M$ to support and fix it. This BTW is the same for Apple but yet no one questions them 1/10th as much. At least we all have a choice of using Windows/ Linux on a PC or OSX on an Apple/Mac. At least with a PC we have a choice.
I will get off my soapbox now and pass it on.
The benefits are now the daylight is earlier in the morning (can be good or bad for some), should allow for less use of lighting since you can turn off earlier in the morning.
Drawbacks, The time change messes with alot of people like myself. It takes a week to get used to the time change. Fall is ok but spring blows chunks with loosing an hour.
For programs this is a pain in the ass as well. I wish they would just get rid of it and move the time a half hour back and leave it the hell alone. Split the difference so no changes should be needed.
For these people who are paying for antivirus. I had a commercial AV of CA antivirus and it didn't detect anything like Avast did and they were real virus programs that were on system. This is the free version plus not running any programs that I don't know and not going to pron sites no worries.
This is so true. How many times do you read on a job board like dice.com that it is an entry level position but they want a BS is something and so many years experience and pay less then 40K a year!!! FOR a BS degree... I think they are smoking crack or something but I read this all the time. Then to read news stories about some jobs that employers can't fill. DUH. Loosen the restrictions some and you might get someone worth 2 cents. My employer hired me through a temp agency. They would have hired me on before the hours of the contract were up but it was going to cost too much. Then after my hire they hired someone off the street thinking they could save a buck and he didn't last 90 days!!! Instead of such steep requirement hire through a temp agency or put it up front that you will be temp to hire but lower the restriction.
You won't earn many friends with that remark although completely true. Alot of projects are being modeled after something M$ already does. Just a free alternative. When OSS starts creating its own niche then it will really take off. Most people don't want to have to learn how to use a computer all over again once they have Windows. Us Technically proficient people can but there are not as many PC users like us as there are average users who could care less what the OS is as long as it works and does what they want. And for the majority that is still Windows.
The bigger issue is how to prevent people from voting more then once. With the Acorns out there you never know. The whole election process is screwed up if people can vote more then once. It is fraud and people caught doing it should be banned from voting for the rest of their pathetic lives.
They can't secure their own networks in government and we all know how they can screw up the most simple things. *sigh* this will be another hanging chad that will be fought in court I fear....
Same here. Vonage is great. The only issue is when your ISP decides they want to get in on the VOIP market and when they do Vonage starts to have trouble. Happened to me ever since Comcast bought out my ISP. A friend has their phone service and it doesn't have near the features of Vonage. Verizon tried to kill them and failed. That is who my wired service is and they suck big time.
This is nothing more then a red herring. For all these people who are so scared of this the question is why? If it prevents some lunatic bomber or jihad from killing innocent people then it is worth it.
The problem is if they don't have this ability and some innocent people get killed everyone will want to know why... why couldn't this have been prevented. I have nothing to hide from the government as they are not going to come to my house and arrest me because I said or typed jihad, bomb or Osama Bin Laden. It is a fine line between protection and intrusion and so far protection is where they are. When they start intruding on people's rights without due cause then it is going too far. Some oversight has to be in place and appears to be with HomeLand Security.
Oh but putting a moratorium on forclosures is going to help the economy. The truth is if Obama gets elected more handouts and government waste programs. If they are going to allow people to keep homes they KNEW they couldn't afford when the got mortgages then hell everyone will start defaulting on theirs to get their houses handed to them as well. If you can't afford the mortgage you move out and get a house you can afford and sell the one you can't. Simple economics. This bailout of Wall Street was another joke and you can't lay that at the feet of one political party either. The government is the biggest joke when it comes to managing money but they want to take more of my money and spread the wealth. My response to that is get a fucking job you bum. I work 5 days a week and if you are able you do the same or fucking starve.
Apple would be selling alot more laptops if their pricing was better. If they were closer in price to the pc laptops people might opt for them. Not everyone wants to drop a grand on a laptop. Sometimes a 500 dollar one will do just fine.
I bet if you polled the majority of employees at Symantec, Mcaffee and other antivirus program makers you would find more of these types.
Remember the saying "keep your friends close and enemies even closer".
I must say this is the best comment I have ever read on this forum!! You sir are exactly spot on. You can't point the finger at one person or political party for this fiasco. The issue now is how does this country get back on the right track and not force hard working people out on the street? I am not saying let them keep the house if they don't pay because that will cause alot of people to do the same.
Hopefully someone or some party will come out of this will the right ideas on how to regulate banking and lending to prevent this runaway lending practice and prevent the taxpaying public from having to buy up these bad loans.
Regulation is not more bogus red tape legislation that will go nowhere or full of hot air either. I am watching my parents life savings starting to evaporate and all I can say is this is not fair for people who live on a fixed income, worked all their lives and are just trying to get through retirement. These CEOs and others upper management leaving or getting let go from these institutions with huge benefits should be outlawed. It is nothing more then theft.
Some of the people you can never make happy because it is windows and they are prejudiced already to hate it.
I left UAC on and no issues for me. I know what I am clicking ok to because I actually tried to run something. Down the road the logic should be built in to remember what applications the user runs and not have to ask if it is ok to run. But when that happens some will complain about that too.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I dumped them as my cell phone carrier early this year because of all the little hidden charges. Each month the bill would be a little more but no change in the amount of useage( stayed well within the number of minutes on the plan) and no text messaging. I used to have Verizon for home phone and they did the same thing. Charge by the call. I dumped them for Vonage.
Until the paying public gets fed up with bogus billing and charges and leaves the carrier they will continue. If enough people make a stink and go to another carrier ( I went to a pay as you go) then they might think twice. You have to hit them in the wallet or they won't care.
For most of us that have kids in the teenage years the IPOD is the thing all the kids think is better the sliced bread. That is until you show them that other MP3 players do the same or more for less money. Some won't care because it is a status item but some will appreciate the value and being not having to be the same by having something different. I have a Sansa Fuze with 4 gigs of ram that cost me a whole 66 bucks. IPOD nano with 4 gigs of ram 150 dollars. No brainer. Plus no itunes lock in. I got the free converter and have put TV shows on the player and watch at lunch hour at work plus the microSD slot that some record companies are going to start bring music out for. I bet the minute they do IPOD will come out with a model with microSD but it should be too late.
There is a much better solution. It is called Linux. No M$ tax or software.
The only issue would be which distro (flavor) you want to run as there are many. I have tested a MAC running their latest OS and it is nice but Linux does just about everything and doesn't cost near as much and can run on home built hardware too boot (no pun intended LOL).
I found that interesting that some of the lower numbered cards like Geforce 8800 gts was not included as it is now in that price range and the performance is very good. Looking at my receipts for my Vista build I paid around 129 for that card with 384 mb of ram and it plays anything I have thrown at it. I used to use ATI but NVidia has really gotten alot better with drivers. Also in Linux the NVidia cards are better supported so ATI will not be an option for me.
Good article but as someone who has built PCs for over 10 years I suggest to anyone I build a PC for not to scrimp too much on the GPU. You may not think you want a higher end GPU now but wait a year or two and you found a game you like. You will regret not paying just a little more for that card instead of the lower end one.
I use Toms Hardware for most of my hardware comparisons prior to building but now will use this website as well. More information to the people!!!
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As a Windows Vista Premium 64 bit user unless there is an real enhancements to Windows 7 I will be staying on Vista. It works well with the service pack and I have daemon tools and other things working just fine. It will probably be 2010 before 7 even gets out retail anyway and it better have real improvements or it will fail. Who is going to pay another 100 + dollars for minor changes. Sorry M$ but you are not getting more money unless there is a real reason to update.
Your story is the same here in Illinois (Non Chicago). Chicago is the biggest waste of money in the state. We all know about our current Governor (from Chicago) as well as the election violations of the past (dead people still voting in elections). Fireworks are illegal here but cross into Wisconsin or Indiana and fireworks stores everywhere!! If Illinois could get rid of Chicago the taxes would go down and business would continue to build out in the "sticks" of the state. Go to southern Illinois and it is a stark reality of a section of a state neglected. Back on Topic. If Illinois decided to start Taxing online purchases I will be packing up and moving north across the cheddar curtain where the property taxes are lower and the tax on purchases as well.
This is a cyberwar. China wants to beat us to the moon in the new space race. They will steal all the information they can to do it. If NASA were smart these systems should not be accessible to the internet at all. Same with the DOD and other military systems. Or they have their own internet that is not connected to the internet the public uses. The US has to be diligent as Russia and China will try to not only steal information but eventually try to use it against the US. They are not our "allies". We still have a chance to turn things around. Invest in education. Not the current philosophy of throwing money at a broken system but revamp our education system so it is the best in the world. Our future depends on this.
Isn't this the truth. I have a Sansa Fuze and it can do everything a nano can do and more and cost almost half the price. Sure it doesn't have all the extra addons on the market that IPOD has but if more people starting buying alternatives and purchasing those addons (docks and the like) you would start to see more of them in stores like Best Buy. Some people bash M$ but should also be bashing Apple for this crap. My 2 and half cents.
This is old news and obvious FUD. Mac OS X has its place for graphic design people among others. Nothing wrong with that. Vista's failure is not the operating system itself but more with the system requirements and issues that should have been corrected before release. To compare Vista of then to Vista now is completely different. Vista 64 bit is very stable and with 4 gigs of ram runs very well. The old saying still applies as it does in the Mac world. If your system is more than 1 or 2 years old consider purchasing a new system or build a new one yourself and do the research. I did research before building my system and I have nothing but praise for the operating system. It took some time to get used to the new features but given a real use trial I wouldn't go back to XP. And for the flames that will inevitably follow this post. I also use and recommend Ubuntu Linux as well. Ubuntu has been by far the best experience using a computer outside of the M$ realm that I have had thus far and I have tried many Linux flavors. I just felt the need to set the record straight that not everyone who reads comments and stories on /. are M$ haters or someone who had a bad experience with Vista and now tells anyone who uses it they are stupid (idiots).
Windows Vista got a bad reputation because of the minimum system requirements. People running systems with hardware more then 2 years old should just stay with XP or go to Linux. People with modern hardware ( I build my own) Vista is a much better experience and with the 64 bit version is huge. 4 gigs of ram makes it run faster then xp on the same hardware. I did the tests myself with the same programs loaded on both OS. Now I am not a M$ fanboy as they need to start reducing the cost of windows IMHO. Linux has it's place and I run Ubuntu and love it. For gaming I use my Vista machine. Windows 7 is still beta and give it some time. M$ hopefully will not make the same mistakes they did with Vista and more people will stop slamming it because they caved in to the hardware makers on the specs.
OK. I must speak up here. Not everything in an operating system has to be open for "fixes". Who is to prevent someone from putting a "fix" in an OS that makes another vunerability. I am not an advocate of M$ by any means but you can't have thousands of different versions of different patches created by individuals and expect M$ to support and fix it. This BTW is the same for Apple but yet no one questions them 1/10th as much. At least we all have a choice of using Windows/ Linux on a PC or OSX on an Apple/Mac. At least with a PC we have a choice. I will get off my soapbox now and pass it on.
The benefits are now the daylight is earlier in the morning (can be good or bad for some), should allow for less use of lighting since you can turn off earlier in the morning. Drawbacks, The time change messes with alot of people like myself. It takes a week to get used to the time change. Fall is ok but spring blows chunks with loosing an hour. For programs this is a pain in the ass as well. I wish they would just get rid of it and move the time a half hour back and leave it the hell alone. Split the difference so no changes should be needed.
For these people who are paying for antivirus. I had a commercial AV of CA antivirus and it didn't detect anything like Avast did and they were real virus programs that were on system. This is the free version plus not running any programs that I don't know and not going to pron sites no worries.
This is so true. How many times do you read on a job board like dice.com that it is an entry level position but they want a BS is something and so many years experience and pay less then 40K a year!!! FOR a BS degree... I think they are smoking crack or something but I read this all the time. Then to read news stories about some jobs that employers can't fill. DUH. Loosen the restrictions some and you might get someone worth 2 cents. My employer hired me through a temp agency. They would have hired me on before the hours of the contract were up but it was going to cost too much. Then after my hire they hired someone off the street thinking they could save a buck and he didn't last 90 days!!! Instead of such steep requirement hire through a temp agency or put it up front that you will be temp to hire but lower the restriction.
You won't earn many friends with that remark although completely true. Alot of projects are being modeled after something M$ already does. Just a free alternative. When OSS starts creating its own niche then it will really take off. Most people don't want to have to learn how to use a computer all over again once they have Windows. Us Technically proficient people can but there are not as many PC users like us as there are average users who could care less what the OS is as long as it works and does what they want. And for the majority that is still Windows.
The bigger issue is how to prevent people from voting more then once. With the Acorns out there you never know. The whole election process is screwed up if people can vote more then once. It is fraud and people caught doing it should be banned from voting for the rest of their pathetic lives. They can't secure their own networks in government and we all know how they can screw up the most simple things. *sigh* this will be another hanging chad that will be fought in court I fear....
Yeah right.. more like spread the wealth you mean... LMAO. Didn't work in the USSR it will not work in the USA.
Same here. Vonage is great. The only issue is when your ISP decides they want to get in on the VOIP market and when they do Vonage starts to have trouble. Happened to me ever since Comcast bought out my ISP. A friend has their phone service and it doesn't have near the features of Vonage. Verizon tried to kill them and failed. That is who my wired service is and they suck big time.
This is nothing more then a red herring. For all these people who are so scared of this the question is why? If it prevents some lunatic bomber or jihad from killing innocent people then it is worth it. The problem is if they don't have this ability and some innocent people get killed everyone will want to know why... why couldn't this have been prevented. I have nothing to hide from the government as they are not going to come to my house and arrest me because I said or typed jihad, bomb or Osama Bin Laden. It is a fine line between protection and intrusion and so far protection is where they are. When they start intruding on people's rights without due cause then it is going too far. Some oversight has to be in place and appears to be with HomeLand Security.
Oh but putting a moratorium on forclosures is going to help the economy. The truth is if Obama gets elected more handouts and government waste programs. If they are going to allow people to keep homes they KNEW they couldn't afford when the got mortgages then hell everyone will start defaulting on theirs to get their houses handed to them as well. If you can't afford the mortgage you move out and get a house you can afford and sell the one you can't. Simple economics. This bailout of Wall Street was another joke and you can't lay that at the feet of one political party either. The government is the biggest joke when it comes to managing money but they want to take more of my money and spread the wealth. My response to that is get a fucking job you bum. I work 5 days a week and if you are able you do the same or fucking starve.
Apple would be selling alot more laptops if their pricing was better. If they were closer in price to the pc laptops people might opt for them. Not everyone wants to drop a grand on a laptop. Sometimes a 500 dollar one will do just fine.
I bet if you polled the majority of employees at Symantec, Mcaffee and other antivirus program makers you would find more of these types. Remember the saying "keep your friends close and enemies even closer".
I must say this is the best comment I have ever read on this forum!! You sir are exactly spot on. You can't point the finger at one person or political party for this fiasco. The issue now is how does this country get back on the right track and not force hard working people out on the street? I am not saying let them keep the house if they don't pay because that will cause alot of people to do the same. Hopefully someone or some party will come out of this will the right ideas on how to regulate banking and lending to prevent this runaway lending practice and prevent the taxpaying public from having to buy up these bad loans. Regulation is not more bogus red tape legislation that will go nowhere or full of hot air either. I am watching my parents life savings starting to evaporate and all I can say is this is not fair for people who live on a fixed income, worked all their lives and are just trying to get through retirement. These CEOs and others upper management leaving or getting let go from these institutions with huge benefits should be outlawed. It is nothing more then theft.
Some of the people you can never make happy because it is windows and they are prejudiced already to hate it. I left UAC on and no issues for me. I know what I am clicking ok to because I actually tried to run something. Down the road the logic should be built in to remember what applications the user runs and not have to ask if it is ok to run. But when that happens some will complain about that too.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I dumped them as my cell phone carrier early this year because of all the little hidden charges. Each month the bill would be a little more but no change in the amount of useage( stayed well within the number of minutes on the plan) and no text messaging. I used to have Verizon for home phone and they did the same thing. Charge by the call. I dumped them for Vonage. Until the paying public gets fed up with bogus billing and charges and leaves the carrier they will continue. If enough people make a stink and go to another carrier ( I went to a pay as you go) then they might think twice. You have to hit them in the wallet or they won't care.
For most of us that have kids in the teenage years the IPOD is the thing all the kids think is better the sliced bread. That is until you show them that other MP3 players do the same or more for less money. Some won't care because it is a status item but some will appreciate the value and being not having to be the same by having something different. I have a Sansa Fuze with 4 gigs of ram that cost me a whole 66 bucks. IPOD nano with 4 gigs of ram 150 dollars. No brainer. Plus no itunes lock in. I got the free converter and have put TV shows on the player and watch at lunch hour at work plus the microSD slot that some record companies are going to start bring music out for. I bet the minute they do IPOD will come out with a model with microSD but it should be too late.
Better would be nonvirgin galactic. Or change the V meaning to special place on a woman. :)
There is a much better solution. It is called Linux. No M$ tax or software. The only issue would be which distro (flavor) you want to run as there are many. I have tested a MAC running their latest OS and it is nice but Linux does just about everything and doesn't cost near as much and can run on home built hardware too boot (no pun intended LOL).
I found that interesting that some of the lower numbered cards like Geforce 8800 gts was not included as it is now in that price range and the performance is very good. Looking at my receipts for my Vista build I paid around 129 for that card with 384 mb of ram and it plays anything I have thrown at it. I used to use ATI but NVidia has really gotten alot better with drivers. Also in Linux the NVidia cards are better supported so ATI will not be an option for me. Good article but as someone who has built PCs for over 10 years I suggest to anyone I build a PC for not to scrimp too much on the GPU. You may not think you want a higher end GPU now but wait a year or two and you found a game you like. You will regret not paying just a little more for that card instead of the lower end one. I use Toms Hardware for most of my hardware comparisons prior to building but now will use this website as well. More information to the people!!!