sorry, but this is the silliest thread I have read about VMs for a while. Step 1: Install solid reliable Linux Distro (any 1 of a gazillion, whatever floats your boat) into a medium good computer: strip the computer to the bones and dump all the windows crap partitions Step 2: Install virt-manager or qemu or virtual box or vmware or any of the many other vm creation and then install windows as a vm. Step 3: when the windows install freaks contact MS, tell them what you are doing and open the desktop management from a distance software, let them fix it. Step 4: install whatever you want in the windows, I don't care. You can probably setup the virt machine to start automagically with the computer, too, since you seem to really need it. Notes: extra RAM is often helpful, as is an SSD of course. I did this with a Win7 install disk, and while the windows activation part was a pain, it is the price MS wants you to pay to use windows. The software I needed was Adobe Digital Editions, and I probably should have used WINE, but I had a $15 copy of WIN7 so I figured what the hell. actually it was just the usual Windows waste of time.
My 11 year old son has a friend in the neighborhood from a family with two working parents, both in menial, non-living wage jobs (one is a cashier at Walmart, the other I don't know). He would often eat dinner with us and clear his plate, then eat seconds. His choices at home were limited to the freezer and the microwave. It isn't that the parents are "bad", but they don't have the choices that we do: I can leave work when I choose so that I can cook dinner at home; my wife works from the home or on the road and can often cook at home or count on me to pick up the slack. We buy organic when possible, eat fresh meat and vegetables for all our meals and don't buy anything prepared (as in I make the mayonnaise and mustard and ketchup and chutney and pickles) so our life is quite different from most people's. We also spend about 6 or 7 hours a week watching TV, so there isn't that chasm in our time.
Some of this is choices, some is fate, some is planning, some is just because of who we have become.
I teach a writing class at a community college and had to install Firefox on the lab computers myself (very clever workaround for the required authority to sign the install: just click "no" when the ID and password popup comes up. How does this work again???). But getting the students to drop IE is like pulling teeth. The first thing they do is open up 5 instances of IE for their personal crap and then complain how slow the 7+ year old equipment is. I.m using course management (cloud based) software that runs best (as in was built for) on Firefox. It makes a difference, but when I remind them to open Firefox they still want to keep an instance of IE (or 5) open in case they want to "go online." I used to do a search example of the difference between Bing and Google as part of the class (a few years ago) but then Bing started to run a Google search instance on the backend and show those results, so there weren't any differences for quite a while.
I used to ride my bike past Fairchild Semiconductor when I was working in Suzhou China. Yeah, they still exist, probably not making circuit boards like the old days, but who knows?
When I saw the name I had to Google it to remember what they were and discover how many times they had changed hands in the previous decade....
I am torn about whether to mod this up or post in support. I understand that "people" have opinions, but, as an old carpenter used to tell me: "opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and everybody else's smells bad." Wasting my time and effort by not addressing the real issue: in the process of fracking to squeeze more money out of earth that has been pumped and squeezed for almost a hundred years already, the companies that do it are still not considering the economic costs of their activities to the people who own, work or live on the land they are "working."
The people whose lives are adversely affected by the company activity must be recompensed for the loss in value to their property and the loss in value of their time as well as the loss in value to their health. Add all those value-losses up and fracking, as a profitable enterprise, decreases in value. Thus, the companies are trying to stem the loss flow and fight back with legal teams every time they have to. People who don't have the resources to fight will lose, as usual.
Just to give everyone a heads up: one legal maneuver that is increasingly popular is having people who might be affected by value-loss sign an agreement that they will not be party to a class-action suit. This means that people who cannot afford to hire and risk a lawyer will never get heard. I would be very surprised if a class-action can come out of this, even though this is a classic case of the need for the technique.
Ditto up: My middle daughter went to a US public university and came out with $30,000 in tuition debt. My youngest is going to a Dutch university and pays 1250 Euro per semester tuition, receives a stipend to live on and pay rent and supplies, and her final cost per semester is under a thousand Euro since she lives cheap and she uses the extra money to pay down the tuition. After 4 years total cost: 8,000 Euros.
Tell me that socialism is bad for the "people" when the Dutch have an increase of 13% in income for the middle class and we are shedding middle class jobs/people like a snake sheds its skin!
Also, the weather in Japan is often not conducive to gathering solar. One other thing worth mentioning: no earthquake or tsunami in space. You pshaw, but think about this Americans: all those stupid poles we put up for power lines to supply electricity to our homes and offices. When the weather turns bad we lose power because of the poles, not because "the weather is bad so we lose power." If we had our power lines underground then the weather would have almost no effect on the power supply. Apply that to the earthquake/tsunami/any ground based power equation and long term costs change in what might be interesting ways.
Unlike the original fab four, I have only read one book of one of these people. I was stuck in Vientiane Laos for a two days wait for a bus back to Chiang Mai Thailand and wandered into a used book store. I bought the thickest book I could find, for an extravagent amount of money and headed back to the guesthouse to crash and read trash. I realized that this book would be challenging, as in, "such a horrible piece of trash; self-indulgent author's self-congratulatory mental masturbational word landfill that i would be seriously ill by the end of it. I was, and still am: as in I can still feel the sticky crust of crap from that book whenever I think of it.
My son died last year and requested that his body be placed in a plain solid wood casket, handmade by members of his community and placed in the ground without any preservation. He wanted to rot and return to the earth. His family (myself included) fully supported both the idea and the action, even though it was a bit of extra work for his wife and the community they live in, everyone felt it was a final reminder of his commitment to the earth and the process of life.... and death.
actually there is a group/tribe/culture in the Andes that ties the dearly departed into their dinner chair and lets them remain there until..... well, let's just say for a long long time and even carries the chair with them when they go visiting. "Great gramps doesn't talk much, but his jokes are killers!"
Dude (or dudette) you need to iron your tinfoil hat cause the wrinkles are affecting your logic. If you questions with a rant based on linear logic I suggest you get some logic texts and improve your understanding of what leads to the kind of beliefs you have brewing in your tinfoil covered head. Seriously, I don't want to demean you, I just want you to understand that your understanding and response to the problems of today, our world, whatever you want to call it, do nothing to solve the real problems. You do care, which I support, but you need to study to understand what direction your caring could/should lead you. Then your opinions will help find solutions rather than snarky replies.
It is not a matter of "may have crossed state lines." It is a matter of "some part of the products sold by the retailer did cross state lines at some point in the supply chain therefore those products are covered by federal law." Because it is too much work for the retailer to check the supply chain from top to bottom, retailers meet federal standards for everything. For example: federal minimum wage is paid to all employees because of this. I remember, back in the day, I worked as a kid for people who didn't pay minimum wage because they provided services and therefore didn't sell products and thus were not bound by minimum wage requirements.
It's called a Chevy Volt. Except it has a 1.4 l gas engine to power the electric motor when the battery runs down at @40miles (but NOT out, it still provides "kick-off" power from a dead stop and other hybrid battery functions). I have one, they are very popular and we love the sucker. In fact, it is the only car we own. I ride the bus to work and back.
interesting, i guess that explains why the Buick brand is considered the equal of the big expensive marks (like Mercedes, BMW etc ) in China. They will, sometimes, pay the same for a Buick as for a BMW.
Even though I'm pushing 60 and not as tough as I was when I was fighting 3 nights a week, I agree across the board with the young P. Unfortunately, what you are actually advocating is "fort au main" or the strong right arm.
While I would agree with how you would care for others, as would I and most of my students, it doesn't take away the opportunity for some to use their strength inappropriately. This has been the justification for increasing use of force since time immemorial.
So, as much as I disagree with what the gun lobby and the stupid love of the 2nd amendment has done to this American dream, we need to solve deeper problems first, before we take away the equalizers that give some (admittedly foolish) the sense of equal strength in dangerous situations.
Even Communist China --has never been even close to communist-- FTFY Mao was a dictator, nothing less. The cult of personality was his main power base, not anything remotely communist. The "Maoist doctrine" was anti-intellectual fluff for the uneducated masses who bought into his persona.
Sorry, but you are wrong. I teach an English 101 class in a special program for the local power company. It is to help their employees and the kids of the employees begin to get a Bachelor's while they are working full time. For the first class I ask the students (many in their 30s and 40s, some older) what they would like to study, with the understanding that I teach using some kind of content to write about that they are interested in. Last semester the students chose "Mars One" as their first topic and "The Global Warming Conspiracy" as the second. I did the research for the first one, just to show them how to create and modify search terms and get expanded results. They were excited and amazed by the information that I could give them. They wrote essays that summarized the information they thought was important and all of them decided that they didn't want to go on a dead end trip, no matter how hard I tried to sell it. (Personally I think it is a cool idea, but not one I really want to do either) But the really cool one was the "Global Warming Conspiracy." I let them do the research, helped them try to find facts from both sides and then let them work together to try to understand the facts. Almost all of them changed their minds entirely about the conspiracy, they decided that it was actually an "anti-Global Warming information Conspiracy" by the tea party supporters and the big oil/ big energy corporations. Just giving them the tools to find real answers gave them a chance to build real critical thinking skills and apply them. I would like to add that I used some of the links from posts on slashdot for both sides of the argument, Thanks folks!
As I remember from a teenage adventure in the 70s when I screamed through downtown Lynchburg Virginia (the home of Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority and the Old Time Gospel Hour) try to run through a red light. Going as fast as I could in an MGA from 1959 I failed: all the lights turned green as I came up to them.
the problem was that he was alone. 40 Years ago I lived together with 15-20 other people on a small utopian farm (based on Walden II by BF Skinner). We were part of a larger group of communities and we all set our clocks one hour "ahead of the rest of the world" and called it utopian standard time. UST was fun, a controlled kind of anarchy if you like. Not difficult to implement at all really.
Back in the saddle, the placebo effect is under attack today. A British anti-naturopathy researcher has shown that the placebo effect is not the 10% we assumed (based on research) but in fact is 65% or higher, which pretty much covers damn near every effin' pharmaceutical on the flippin market. Maybe we need to look more carefully and research placebo more carefully. We do need the idea, it is valid, but we need to have a reliable figure.
OK, so let's back up a bit because there are a lot of non-western treatment options that do work. Others, like willow bark, also work and don't tear up your stomach in a reasonable dosage (as in, would you take a dozen aspirin for a headache?). So, examples: Acupuncture (mentioned above as quackery) works quite well for many things. Studies (last I saw was from Harvard where they showed physiological effects from the needles even without correct placement) have shown remarkable clinical effects. The most classic case studies often used to "prove" that acupuncture doesn't work are based on the idea that if it can't solve a problem that western medicine can't solve then it is fake. Like a pinched nerve in the lower back. It only provided short-term relief, not a cure, so it was no better than an NSAID. Except it doesn't cause the GI problems that NSAIDs do, but that is a different issue. Nonetheless, since it is not a cure, it is a failure and a fake. Chinese herbology is amazing. I had lived with a swollen and painful spleen that appeared during viral bouts with the flu for almost 20 years. I went to see a Chinese herbologist and three days later not only was the swelling gone, it has never reoccured. Note: I didn't ask for a cure for the spleen and didn't mention it. She found it during her checkup, noted it and added a few things to the "tea". Do you know of any western medicine that treats the symptoms of the flu and cures a spleen problem like this (whose name my western family doc didn't even know.) The various teas that are prescribed have been tested and are been used for cancer therapy, thyroid treatment, endocrine imbalance, and many many other problems. My wife's Master's degree was in this topic and she was working with the top Chinese endocrinologist who is in high demand at medical conferences all over the world.
BUT, there are also all kinds of phoney baloney crappola in the world as well. I was at a "health resort" in Thailand and met someone with a piece of 1/4 inch pipe twisrted into a crude spiral. He was trying to find investors for his startup to produce and sell these amazing "water energizers" that "add energy" to water as it leaves your tap!!! And don't get me started on "Dr Ozone" So, you have to keep your head screwed on straight and not get sold a bill of goods about anything. 50 years ago every jumped on the "low fat/high carb" diet and now we have diabetes and obesity. Wake up folks! I saw a thing the other day about how our ancestors ate no sugar. Bullshit, of course they did, I've seen the recipes. They just ate a lot less sugar. OK, I retire to my armchair......
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I dunno, my mechanic seems to be pretty comfortable fixing them.
sorry, but this is the silliest thread I have read about VMs for a while.
Step 1: Install solid reliable Linux Distro (any 1 of a gazillion, whatever floats your boat) into a medium good computer: strip the computer to the bones and dump all the windows crap partitions
Step 2: Install virt-manager or qemu or virtual box or vmware or any of the many other vm creation and then install windows as a vm.
Step 3: when the windows install freaks contact MS, tell them what you are doing and open the desktop management from a distance software, let them fix it.
Step 4: install whatever you want in the windows, I don't care. You can probably setup the virt machine to start automagically with the computer, too, since you seem to really need it.
Notes: extra RAM is often helpful, as is an SSD of course. I did this with a Win7 install disk, and while the windows activation part was a pain, it is the price MS wants you to pay to use windows. The software I needed was Adobe Digital Editions, and I probably should have used WINE, but I had a $15 copy of WIN7 so I figured what the hell. actually it was just the usual Windows waste of time.
My 11 year old son has a friend in the neighborhood from a family with two working parents, both in menial, non-living wage jobs (one is a cashier at Walmart, the other I don't know). He would often eat dinner with us and clear his plate, then eat seconds. His choices at home were limited to the freezer and the microwave. It isn't that the parents are "bad", but they don't have the choices that we do: I can leave work when I choose so that I can cook dinner at home; my wife works from the home or on the road and can often cook at home or count on me to pick up the slack. We buy organic when possible, eat fresh meat and vegetables for all our meals and don't buy anything prepared (as in I make the mayonnaise and mustard and ketchup and chutney and pickles) so our life is quite different from most people's. We also spend about 6 or 7 hours a week watching TV, so there isn't that chasm in our time.
Some of this is choices, some is fate, some is planning, some is just because of who we have become.
I teach a writing class at a community college and had to install Firefox on the lab computers myself (very clever workaround for the required authority to sign the install: just click "no" when the ID and password popup comes up. How does this work again???). But getting the students to drop IE is like pulling teeth. The first thing they do is open up 5 instances of IE for their personal crap and then complain how slow the 7+ year old equipment is. I.m using course management (cloud based) software that runs best (as in was built for) on Firefox. It makes a difference, but when I remind them to open Firefox they still want to keep an instance of IE (or 5) open in case they want to "go online."
I used to do a search example of the difference between Bing and Google as part of the class (a few years ago) but then Bing started to run a Google search instance on the backend and show those results, so there weren't any differences for quite a while.
I used to ride my bike past Fairchild Semiconductor when I was working in Suzhou China. Yeah, they still exist, probably not making circuit boards like the old days, but who knows?
When I saw the name I had to Google it to remember what they were and discover how many times they had changed hands in the previous decade....
I am torn about whether to mod this up or post in support. I understand that "people" have opinions, but, as an old carpenter used to tell me: "opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and everybody else's smells bad."
Wasting my time and effort by not addressing the real issue: in the process of fracking to squeeze more money out of earth that has been pumped and squeezed for almost a hundred years already, the companies that do it are still not considering the economic costs of their activities to the people who own, work or live on the land they are "working."
The people whose lives are adversely affected by the company activity must be recompensed for the loss in value to their property and the loss in value of their time as well as the loss in value to their health. Add all those value-losses up and fracking, as a profitable enterprise, decreases in value. Thus, the companies are trying to stem the loss flow and fight back with legal teams every time they have to. People who don't have the resources to fight will lose, as usual.
Just to give everyone a heads up: one legal maneuver that is increasingly popular is having people who might be affected by value-loss sign an agreement that they will not be party to a class-action suit. This means that people who cannot afford to hire and risk a lawyer will never get heard. I would be very surprised if a class-action can come out of this, even though this is a classic case of the need for the technique.
Ditto up:
My middle daughter went to a US public university and came out with $30,000 in tuition debt. My youngest is going to a Dutch university and pays 1250 Euro per semester tuition, receives a stipend to live on and pay rent and supplies, and her final cost per semester is under a thousand Euro since she lives cheap and she uses the extra money to pay down the tuition. After 4 years total cost: 8,000 Euros.
Tell me that socialism is bad for the "people" when the Dutch have an increase of 13% in income for the middle class and we are shedding middle class jobs/people like a snake sheds its skin!
only if you disagree with the facts
Also, the weather in Japan is often not conducive to gathering solar. One other thing worth mentioning: no earthquake or tsunami in space. You pshaw, but think about this Americans: all those stupid poles we put up for power lines to supply electricity to our homes and offices. When the weather turns bad we lose power because of the poles, not because "the weather is bad so we lose power." If we had our power lines underground then the weather would have almost no effect on the power supply.
Apply that to the earthquake/tsunami/any ground based power equation and long term costs change in what might be interesting ways.
Unlike the original fab four, I have only read one book of one of these people.
I was stuck in Vientiane Laos for a two days wait for a bus back to Chiang Mai Thailand and wandered into a used book store. I bought the thickest book I could find, for an extravagent amount of money and headed back to the guesthouse to crash and read trash. I realized that this book would be challenging, as in, "such a horrible piece of trash; self-indulgent author's self-congratulatory mental masturbational word landfill that i would be seriously ill by the end of it. I was, and still am: as in I can still feel the sticky crust of crap from that book whenever I think of it.
My son died last year and requested that his body be placed in a plain solid wood casket, handmade by members of his community and placed in the ground without any preservation. He wanted to rot and return to the earth. His family (myself included) fully supported both the idea and the action, even though it was a bit of extra work for his wife and the community they live in, everyone felt it was a final reminder of his commitment to the earth and the process of life.... and death.
actually there is a group/tribe/culture in the Andes that ties the dearly departed into their dinner chair and lets them remain there until ..... well, let's just say for a long long time and even carries the chair with them when they go visiting. "Great gramps doesn't talk much, but his jokes are killers!"
Dude (or dudette) you need to iron your tinfoil hat cause the wrinkles are affecting your logic. If you questions with a rant based on linear logic I suggest you get some logic texts and improve your understanding of what leads to the kind of beliefs you have brewing in your tinfoil covered head.
Seriously, I don't want to demean you, I just want you to understand that your understanding and response to the problems of today, our world, whatever you want to call it, do nothing to solve the real problems. You do care, which I support, but you need to study to understand what direction your caring could/should lead you. Then your opinions will help find solutions rather than snarky replies.
It is not a matter of "may have crossed state lines." It is a matter of "some part of the products sold by the retailer did cross state lines at some point in the supply chain therefore those products are covered by federal law."
Because it is too much work for the retailer to check the supply chain from top to bottom, retailers meet federal standards for everything. For example: federal minimum wage is paid to all employees because of this. I remember, back in the day, I worked as a kid for people who didn't pay minimum wage because they provided services and therefore didn't sell products and thus were not bound by minimum wage requirements.
It's called a Chevy Volt. Except it has a 1.4 l gas engine to power the electric motor when the battery runs down at @40miles (but NOT out, it still provides "kick-off" power from a dead stop and other hybrid battery functions). I have one, they are very popular and we love the sucker. In fact, it is the only car we own. I ride the bus to work and back.
interesting, i guess that explains why the Buick brand is considered the equal of the big expensive marks (like Mercedes, BMW etc ) in China. They will, sometimes, pay the same for a Buick as for a BMW.
Even though I'm pushing 60 and not as tough as I was when I was fighting 3 nights a week, I agree across the board with the young P. Unfortunately, what you are actually advocating is "fort au main" or the strong right arm.
While I would agree with how you would care for others, as would I and most of my students, it doesn't take away the opportunity for some to use their strength inappropriately. This has been the justification for increasing use of force since time immemorial.
So, as much as I disagree with what the gun lobby and the stupid love of the 2nd amendment has done to this American dream, we need to solve deeper problems first, before we take away the equalizers that give some (admittedly foolish) the sense of equal strength in dangerous situations.
Even Communist China --has never been even close to communist--
FTFY
Mao was a dictator, nothing less. The cult of personality was his main power base, not anything remotely communist. The "Maoist doctrine" was anti-intellectual fluff for the uneducated masses who bought into his persona.
Sorry, but you are wrong. I teach an English 101 class in a special program for the local power company. It is to help their employees and the kids of the employees begin to get a Bachelor's while they are working full time.
For the first class I ask the students (many in their 30s and 40s, some older) what they would like to study, with the understanding that I teach using some kind of content to write about that they are interested in. Last semester the students chose "Mars One" as their first topic and "The Global Warming Conspiracy" as the second. I did the research for the first one, just to show them how to create and modify search terms and get expanded results. They were excited and amazed by the information that I could give them. They wrote essays that summarized the information they thought was important and all of them decided that they didn't want to go on a dead end trip, no matter how hard I tried to sell it. (Personally I think it is a cool idea, but not one I really want to do either)
But the really cool one was the "Global Warming Conspiracy." I let them do the research, helped them try to find facts from both sides and then let them work together to try to understand the facts. Almost all of them changed their minds entirely about the conspiracy, they decided that it was actually an "anti-Global Warming information Conspiracy" by the tea party supporters and the big oil/ big energy corporations. Just giving them the tools to find real answers gave them a chance to build real critical thinking skills and apply them.
I would like to add that I used some of the links from posts on slashdot for both sides of the argument, Thanks folks!
As I remember from a teenage adventure in the 70s when I screamed through downtown Lynchburg Virginia (the home of Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority and the Old Time Gospel Hour) try to run through a red light. Going as fast as I could in an MGA from 1959 I failed: all the lights turned green as I came up to them.
the problem was that he was alone. 40 Years ago I lived together with 15-20 other people on a small utopian farm (based on Walden II by BF Skinner). We were part of a larger group of communities and we all set our clocks one hour "ahead of the rest of the world" and called it utopian standard time. UST was fun, a controlled kind of anarchy if you like. Not difficult to implement at all really.
actually, if it is true placebo, even with the knowledge of it being a sugar pill it will work.
Back in the saddle, the placebo effect is under attack today. A British anti-naturopathy researcher has shown that the placebo effect is not the 10% we assumed (based on research) but in fact is 65% or higher, which pretty much covers damn near every effin' pharmaceutical on the flippin market. Maybe we need to look more carefully and research placebo more carefully. We do need the idea, it is valid, but we need to have a reliable figure.
OK, so let's back up a bit because there are a lot of non-western treatment options that do work. Others, like willow bark, also work and don't tear up your stomach in a reasonable dosage (as in, would you take a dozen aspirin for a headache?).
So, examples:
Acupuncture (mentioned above as quackery) works quite well for many things. Studies (last I saw was from Harvard where they showed physiological effects from the needles even without correct placement) have shown remarkable clinical effects. The most classic case studies often used to "prove" that acupuncture doesn't work are based on the idea that if it can't solve a problem that western medicine can't solve then it is fake. Like a pinched nerve in the lower back. It only provided short-term relief, not a cure, so it was no better than an NSAID. Except it doesn't cause the GI problems that NSAIDs do, but that is a different issue. Nonetheless, since it is not a cure, it is a failure and a fake.
Chinese herbology is amazing. I had lived with a swollen and painful spleen that appeared during viral bouts with the flu for almost 20 years. I went to see a Chinese herbologist and three days later not only was the swelling gone, it has never reoccured. Note: I didn't ask for a cure for the spleen and didn't mention it. She found it during her checkup, noted it and added a few things to the "tea". Do you know of any western medicine that treats the symptoms of the flu and cures a spleen problem like this (whose name my western family doc didn't even know.) The various teas that are prescribed have been tested and are been used for cancer therapy, thyroid treatment, endocrine imbalance, and many many other problems. My wife's Master's degree was in this topic and she was working with the top Chinese endocrinologist who is in high demand at medical conferences all over the world.
BUT, there are also all kinds of phoney baloney crappola in the world as well. I was at a "health resort" in Thailand and met someone with a piece of 1/4 inch pipe twisrted into a crude spiral. He was trying to find investors for his startup to produce and sell these amazing "water energizers" that "add energy" to water as it leaves your tap!!! And don't get me started on "Dr Ozone"
So, you have to keep your head screwed on straight and not get sold a bill of goods about anything. 50 years ago every jumped on the "low fat/high carb" diet and now we have diabetes and obesity. Wake up folks! I saw a thing the other day about how our ancestors ate no sugar. Bullshit, of course they did, I've seen the recipes. They just ate a lot less sugar.
OK, I retire to my armchair......
Florida is a dirty commie trick to pollute our precious bodily fluids. :)
FTFY