Judging by the amount of bloat-ware that's been coming with HP computers for the past several years, it would seem they've been practicing for this very moment.
My hp laptop overheated and they will not do anything to help. they have had other models do this as well but they had to pay something to them due to lawsuits. I spent way too much money a few years ago to have the computer overheat and stop working. So I was not going to buy anything else HP ever again as the service was not good at all.
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Was that due to a defective junk series nVidia chipset? Geforce Go 6150? 7200?
This way Microsoft can save money. They just buy one package of cupcakes and send out one cupcake for every Firefox version. They will finish a box of cupcakes before they go stale.
After years of requiring IE6 for Web Apps, work finally officially encouraged Firefox 3.6 for Internet usage and pushed it through their central software manager. That was only a couple months ago and now its more hopelessly obsolete than IE6.
It's almost certain that if Bing gets big enough, they'll start diverting more traffic to their assets. However if their assets don't deliver the goods, people will go back. If you're pointing people to your map product, and the product doesn't give you what you want, then you'll go elsewhere. Google will take every opportunity to point you to Google News, for example -- but it works, because it's an effective product/service.
As it is, when I load Google maps it's centered over the US. When I enter a local street address, it suggests alternative addresses in American cities over mine. Even when zoomed in the map of my city. When I load bing maps it's centered over my city. When I enter addresses, local addresses are suggested first. Google maps has a wealth of other features, but if I can't even find the place on a map it's f-ing annoying.
Or just use Bing:P It is much less location dependent and doesn't bias nearly as much as google even if logged in. Some might consider that to mean they are behind but for me it is a win. They offer more neutral results which is good for things like product reviews or news results where I might not want my location biasing to show me only the results relevant to my region/area/user profile.
Google biases web searches by locations (which is annoying because all traffic at work appears as though it's coming from our company's HQ in another country) but yet even at home when it knows my proper location, google maps defaults to a view of the US, and search queries always show local addresses further down the list (even if I'm on a zoomed in map of my city). Bing maps always defaults to addresses near my location.
I (almost) do this. I leave my work PC logged in, but put in in standby at the end of the day. A scheduled task will wake it up an hour before I arrive at work. Enough time for Anti-virus and software updates to thrash the disk and pound the CPU, before returning the PC to a usable state.
The Canadian auto market is similar to the US in that the vehicles for sale are virtually identical, and there's a low population density (lower than the US). Yet the cost of gas and the cost of vehicles is higher. The result is we tend to drive smaller cars. Where top selling cars in the US are the Camry, Altima, Accord, in Canada it's Civic, Corolla, and Mazda 3. Yet both countries still have very strong truck sales with F-series and GM pickups meeting or exceeding the sales of top cars, but overall I see more cars on the road than trucks. Maybe the rednecks can't afford the gas to drive them to town?
Not any more! After selecting an Operating system and language you will have the option of downloading "Windows XP Mode Update: Enables Windows XP Mode for PCs without Hardware Assisted Virtualization Technology"
Who needs $1500 Macs when you have users willing to rebuy marginally improved $500 phones or tablet year after year? Or rebuy them after dropping them in the street, off the sailboat, or leaving them in a taxi?
Supporting stats March qtr. iPad shipments: 4.69 million, March qtr. iPhone shipments: 18.65 million, March qtr. Mac shipments: 3.76 million
There used to be Apple II vs Mac camp at Apple. Apple II lost out. It's obvious what the excitement and moneymaker at Apple is now.
Given the similar code base of Windows XP and Windows 2000, and the fact that MANY exploits are cross-version, it's probably safe to say a lot of the currently reported WindowsXP exploits affect Windows 2000. Extended support for Windows 2000 was retired 7/13/2010, which was more than 10 years after release (2/17/2000). G
SP3 worked fine on 256MB RAM for me. Either clean integrated install, or an in-place service pack upgrade. Never noticed any performance differences. Flash heavy web pages and Open office continue to labour the machines regardless of service pack level.
I agree with most of your comments, and personally bought legit discount $40 Windows 7 upgrades from a student discount.
As far as running pirated editions, yeah, Razr1911 Edition types are pure garbage, and a couple of activation hacks are detected by WGA/WAT, but the truth is it's still incredibly easy to install a legitimate edition, run minimal modifications to make it activated, and always pass WGA/WAT checks. With XP it's simple enough to enter an OEM Master (SLP) key, and bypass activation check (patch that tricks that part of windows into thinking it's in safe mode). Windows 7 there's loaders that make Windows think it's booting on genuine HP or whatever hardware, and activating. These versions haven't been flagged by Microsoft for years. Yet somehow so many people end up with versions packed with garbage, or versions using obsolete methods
I found once getting over the hump of the learning curve for the ribbon it is much better. As is Office2007 and 2010 in general. For starters Paste as plain text is much easier. My last job was 2007 and I got acclimatized to it. I just started a new job and they're still using Office XP (2002)! They're planning on switching to Office 2010 this summer.
But truthfully, if they want to pay me, I'll use WP5.1! Actually I noticed Word 5.5 for DOS has a ribbon.
I've also taken to supporting Softmaker Office I got a cheap upgrade from their free 2006 version to 2008, and just got a $16 offer to upgrade to their 2010 version. I find it much leaner than OpenOffice/Libreoffice with good MSOffice support.
Bah, I doubt OLPC had anything to do with it at all. The thing that launched the whole market in 2008 was because Intel suddenly had a dedicated low-power design in the Atom not just LV/ULV versions that were custom versions/bins of existing designs with large dies. The extremely small die size compared to all the other processors gave Intel a reason to flood the market with cheap computers and still make a very, very solid margin.
Intel pushed Celeron-M / i915 platform for "Classmate" as a competitor to OLPC. Asus partnered with Intel for the original EeePC: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2141742,00.asp What does it contain? Celeron-M, not Atom. In fact the Celeron-M can't even make use of the power saving SpeedStep on identical Pentium-Ms. It seemed clear these Celeron-M machines (either in Classmate, or in EeePC) was a stop-gap until Atom could be released.
Atom was originally designed for other embedded applications, and not mini-PCs.
AFAIK, on the Linux side, one thing OLPC did was go out of the way to customize the firmware that MS worked on *to be able* to dual boot to Linux, since the firmware of the Windows version MS worked on was made to be able to boot only Windows and not Linux.
I believe the SD slot was also part of it (To make it capable of running Windows. The SD slot, which is one of the few truly open implementations). Both the dual-boot firmware mods and the SD slot also make it more useful to G1G1 owners as they can more easily boot into other Linux distros, more appropriate to them as a first world adult (and not a third world child).
A *desktop* from that era, late 98se/early windows XP is fetching a hundred dollars, with 256 megs ram,like pc100 or 133, let alone anything newer, and any similar era laptop is $200 and up.
Where can I sell Late Windows 98SE/Early XP desktops for $100? I can't GIVE them away (other than to the recyclers) because no one wants them.
Service for my current phone costs me $60 plus sales tax per year. A phone with 3G and tethering would cost me at least that much a month. Good luck convincing me to get such a next phone anytime soon.
No, unless you were replacing dialup and a land line at home, I couldn't. Where do you get wireless service for that price?
Probably a prepaid package. I spend $138/year for prepaid service (bought the hardware upfront 4 years ago), and have a hard time justifying the 5x increase required to go to a smart phone with data service. Particularly when the cost of the plans is equivalent to what I pay for broadband internet at home with no data caps.
Intel has shown some shortsightedness in product positioning on netbooks by encouraging OEMs to stay within a platform definition for display size, memory configuration, and so on. They're afraid of "cannibalization".
While Intel is afraid of cannibalization, and comparison charts on their site try to push that netbooks are pure crap for anything more than reading emails, the limitations on specs are two fold: Consumers wanting cheap computers, Microsoft only offering cheap licences on computers under a certain spec.
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Judging by the amount of bloat-ware that's been coming with HP computers for the past several years, it would seem they've been practicing for this very moment.
My hp laptop overheated and they will not do anything to help. they have had other models do this as well but they had to pay something to them due to lawsuits. I spent way too much money a few years ago to have the computer overheat and stop working. So I was not going to buy anything else HP ever again as the service was not good at all. Marion
Was that due to a defective junk series nVidia chipset? Geforce Go 6150? 7200?
Wait. You actually turn off your work PC?
Why?
Just lock your PC by hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE and ENTER. Then go home.
When you get back to work, hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE; type your password, and start doing productive work immediately.
Wait you actually lock your work PC by hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE and ENTER? Why? Just lock your PC by hitting Winkey+L. Then go home.
Wait you lock your PC by hitting Winkey+L? Why? On your way out just flip the circuit breaker off.
Wait. You shut off your PC by flipping the circuit breaker off?
Why?
On your way out just fling a piece of chain on the 12.5kV Feeder.
This way Microsoft can save money. They just buy one package of cupcakes and send out one cupcake for every Firefox version. They will finish a box of cupcakes before they go stale.
After years of requiring IE6 for Web Apps, work finally officially encouraged Firefox 3.6 for Internet usage and pushed it through their central software manager. That was only a couple months ago and now its more hopelessly obsolete than IE6.
Windows XP installed from DOS will also yell at you if smartdrv.exe isn't loaded.
It's almost certain that if Bing gets big enough, they'll start diverting more traffic to their assets. However if their assets don't deliver the goods, people will go back. If you're pointing people to your map product, and the product doesn't give you what you want, then you'll go elsewhere. Google will take every opportunity to point you to Google News, for example -- but it works, because it's an effective product/service.
As it is, when I load Google maps it's centered over the US. When I enter a local street address, it suggests alternative addresses in American cities over mine. Even when zoomed in the map of my city. When I load bing maps it's centered over my city. When I enter addresses, local addresses are suggested first. Google maps has a wealth of other features, but if I can't even find the place on a map it's f-ing annoying.
Or just use Bing :P It is much less location dependent and doesn't bias nearly as much as google even if logged in. Some might consider that to mean they are behind but for me it is a win. They offer more neutral results which is good for things like product reviews or news results where I might not want my location biasing to show me only the results relevant to my region/area/user profile.
Google biases web searches by locations (which is annoying because all traffic at work appears as though it's coming from our company's HQ in another country) but yet even at home when it knows my proper location, google maps defaults to a view of the US, and search queries always show local addresses further down the list (even if I'm on a zoomed in map of my city). Bing maps always defaults to addresses near my location.
Your work knows that XP-SP2 is no longer supported, right?
Wait. You actually turn off your work PC?
Why?
Just lock your PC by hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE and ENTER. Then go home.
When you get back to work, hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE; type your password, and start doing productive work immediately.
Wait you actually lock your work PC by hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE and ENTER?
Why?
Just lock your PC by hitting Winkey+L. Then go home.
I (almost) do this. I leave my work PC logged in, but put in in standby at the end of the day. A scheduled task will wake it up an hour before I arrive at work. Enough time for Anti-virus and software updates to thrash the disk and pound the CPU, before returning the PC to a usable state.
The Canadian auto market is similar to the US in that the vehicles for sale are virtually identical, and there's a low population density (lower than the US). Yet the cost of gas and the cost of vehicles is higher. The result is we tend to drive smaller cars. Where top selling cars in the US are the Camry, Altima, Accord, in Canada it's Civic, Corolla, and Mazda 3. Yet both countries still have very strong truck sales with F-series and GM pickups meeting or exceeding the sales of top cars, but overall I see more cars on the road than trucks. Maybe the rednecks can't afford the gas to drive them to town?
And doesn't everyone just increment their monthly password? Basepassword!1, Basepassword!2, Basepassword!3, etc.
Barely a 4 digit UID. And barely posts.
Not any more! After selecting an Operating system and language you will have the option of downloading "Windows XP Mode Update: Enables Windows XP Mode for PCs without Hardware Assisted Virtualization Technology"
Who needs $1500 Macs when you have users willing to rebuy marginally improved $500 phones or tablet year after year? Or rebuy them after dropping them in the street, off the sailboat, or leaving them in a taxi?
Supporting stats March qtr. iPad shipments: 4.69 million, March qtr. iPhone shipments: 18.65 million, March qtr. Mac shipments: 3.76 million
There used to be Apple II vs Mac camp at Apple. Apple II lost out. It's obvious what the excitement and moneymaker at Apple is now.
Given the similar code base of Windows XP and Windows 2000, and the fact that MANY exploits are cross-version, it's probably safe to say a lot of the currently reported WindowsXP exploits affect Windows 2000. Extended support for Windows 2000 was retired 7/13/2010, which was more than 10 years after release (2/17/2000). G
SP3 worked fine on 256MB RAM for me. Either clean integrated install, or an in-place service pack upgrade. Never noticed any performance differences. Flash heavy web pages and Open office continue to labour the machines regardless of service pack level.
I agree with most of your comments, and personally bought legit discount $40 Windows 7 upgrades from a student discount.
As far as running pirated editions, yeah, Razr1911 Edition types are pure garbage, and a couple of activation hacks are detected by WGA/WAT, but the truth is it's still incredibly easy to install a legitimate edition, run minimal modifications to make it activated, and always pass WGA/WAT checks. With XP it's simple enough to enter an OEM Master (SLP) key, and bypass activation check (patch that tricks that part of windows into thinking it's in safe mode). Windows 7 there's loaders that make Windows think it's booting on genuine HP or whatever hardware, and activating. These versions haven't been flagged by Microsoft for years. Yet somehow so many people end up with versions packed with garbage, or versions using obsolete methods
I found once getting over the hump of the learning curve for the ribbon it is much better. As is Office2007 and 2010 in general. For starters Paste as plain text is much easier. My last job was 2007 and I got acclimatized to it. I just started a new job and they're still using Office XP (2002)! They're planning on switching to Office 2010 this summer.
But truthfully, if they want to pay me, I'll use WP5.1! Actually I noticed Word 5.5 for DOS has a ribbon.
I've also taken to supporting Softmaker Office I got a cheap upgrade from their free 2006 version to 2008, and just got a $16 offer to upgrade to their 2010 version. I find it much leaner than OpenOffice/Libreoffice with good MSOffice support.
Bah, I doubt OLPC had anything to do with it at all. The thing that launched the whole market in 2008 was because Intel suddenly had a dedicated low-power design in the Atom not just LV/ULV versions that were custom versions/bins of existing designs with large dies. The extremely small die size compared to all the other processors gave Intel a reason to flood the market with cheap computers and still make a very, very solid margin.
Intel pushed Celeron-M / i915 platform for "Classmate" as a competitor to OLPC. Asus partnered with Intel for the original EeePC: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2141742,00.asp What does it contain? Celeron-M, not Atom. In fact the Celeron-M can't even make use of the power saving SpeedStep on identical Pentium-Ms. It seemed clear these Celeron-M machines (either in Classmate, or in EeePC) was a stop-gap until Atom could be released.
Atom was originally designed for other embedded applications, and not mini-PCs.
AFAIK, on the Linux side, one thing OLPC did was go out of the way to customize the firmware that MS worked on *to be able* to dual boot to Linux, since the firmware of the Windows version MS worked on was made to be able to boot only Windows and not Linux.
I believe the SD slot was also part of it (To make it capable of running Windows. The SD slot, which is one of the few truly open implementations). Both the dual-boot firmware mods and the SD slot also make it more useful to G1G1 owners as they can more easily boot into other Linux distros, more appropriate to them as a first world adult (and not a third world child).
A *desktop* from that era, late 98se/early windows XP is fetching a hundred dollars, with 256 megs ram,like pc100 or 133, let alone anything newer, and any similar era laptop is $200 and up.
Where can I sell Late Windows 98SE/Early XP desktops for $100? I can't GIVE them away (other than to the recyclers) because no one wants them.
Well, you could cache the web, but I will leave that implementation as an exercise for the reader.
WikiTaxi is the closest I've found to fitting that niche: http://www.yunqa.de/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index
It's amazing on a transatlantic flight when you can pull up a random factoid.
But perhaps your phone (or your next phone) does.
Service for my current phone costs me $60 plus sales tax per year. A phone with 3G and tethering would cost me at least that much a month. Good luck convincing me to get such a next phone anytime soon.
No, unless you were replacing dialup and a land line at home, I couldn't. Where do you get wireless service for that price?
Probably a prepaid package. I spend $138/year for prepaid service (bought the hardware upfront 4 years ago), and have a hard time justifying the 5x increase required to go to a smart phone with data service. Particularly when the cost of the plans is equivalent to what I pay for broadband internet at home with no data caps.
Intel has shown some shortsightedness in product positioning on netbooks by encouraging OEMs to stay within a platform definition for display size, memory configuration, and so on. They're afraid of "cannibalization".
While Intel is afraid of cannibalization, and comparison charts on their site try to push that netbooks are pure crap for anything more than reading emails, the limitations on specs are two fold: Consumers wanting cheap computers, Microsoft only offering cheap licences on computers under a certain spec.