Or just stop preemptively installing the "geek squad software" on laptops. I recently had to drive 30 miles to a third store to get a sale laptop at the advertised price. The other two stores had already opened the boxes on all their remaining stock and done me the "service" (only $129.99, they'll just add that at the register... (actual quote)) Of installing some optimization crap. The saleskid could only tell me it "fixed" the registry. He quickly shut down and suddenly had other people to help when I told him I would wait while they re-imaged it. They refused to sell me the laptop without the extra charge. The guy at the third store did try to sneak the form for the "service" as part of the sale. When I actually read it and said I wouldn't need that, he apologized for having to offer it and for my troubles at the other stores and walked me and my unopened box to the register.
Maybe it should have been more spelled out, such as "Vista Basic Capable". I always knew what "capable" meant, it meant that technically the pc could run vista. We all know how meeting the minimum requirements (with any software) works out. Though I can't imagine buying a pc/laptop with an intel gpu and expecting performance...
You are absolutely right. I just tried to open a pdf link (open location->paste address) in gedit and it gave some kind of error about me being an idiot and trying to open a pdf in a text editor...
Seriously, it sounds like you were browsing he web and came accross a link to a pdf. If you want it to open in a pdf viewer, you might want to try clicking on it. Or if you must paste, paste it into the addressbar. Either way gnome will open it.
"People leaving Outlook running at all times is actually a Good Thing for IT,"
I completely agree. People rendering their systems unusable as Outlook just keeps taking and taking RAM keeps them from downloading malicious crap and propagating malware.
You are right with the "between 4 and 1" part. As much as people might say "Empire was bad- ass!", it was still a quick grab for cash, as was Jedi. Lets face it, there was no "Grand Vision", Lucas wrote a horrible story (just try reading the original book, I dare you) but it was different from everything else at the time and so made a ton 'o cash. And what do we do when movies make a ton 'o cash? We crank out at least two more as fast as we can.
Unfortunately, Lucas made enough money that for his mid-life crisis he had to do a little more than get a sportscar and a wig...
Enter the "Grand Vision".
Star Wars was (and still is) a fun movie, the rest however...
Judging from the week and a half it took for someone to come out and unscrew a filter off my line, I doubt it. Not to mention it took two different techs two visits to do it.
Considering I paid $130/Mo for just about the same (no movie channels, slightly faster net) and I live in the center of the biggest city in the state, I don't think you're paying a "boonies" premium. You're paying a "because we can" premium.
With 3 versions of Windows, 1 Mac OS, and approximately eleventybillion Linux distributions. And it's size (If you want hardware capable of today's games) and noise (unless you shell out for a true quit case/fans) preclude it from the living room. And it just looks fantastic when using an SD display. So yeah, lets ditch the consoles already.
"I started on Tandy 1000 286s, and Commodore 64s, so I have that discipline, that experience, I learned how to walk before I ran, and ran before I flew. But that just isn't the way our world works."
Um, no. You ran as fast as you could on those Tandys and Commodores, which inspired you to run on to the next thing when it came out. Get off your high horse and quit whining about all the "stupid lusers". I think people like you are the only ones feeling "entitled" to anything.
Just because the general population didn't feel like screwing around with four color graphics and swapping floppies doesn't mean they are somehow inferior to those of us who did. They see computers as usable now and are overwhelmed by the IT world we created. Show them how to do it and explain why best practices are best. Make them learn every step of the way and stop rolling your eyes, booming "Moooove!".
Basically, the first commandment of dealing with others is:
Since I can't playback HD content with it, I'm going to have to say Celeron. Man those things suck. The entire collective of Intel must have been drunk throughout the nineties. I can't believe they still exist, worthless pieces of trash that they are.
cat/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2533.610
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 5070.99
clflush size : 64
The following comments will be posted by various people to this article
* Someone saying that this is the end of Microsoft's monopoly.
It's not.
* Someone saying that the exact same thing happened with XP, and people will have to change over the next Holiday season.
The exact same arguments were made against XP. I remember quite a few people that that thought 98SE was the pinnacle of computing.
* Someone complaining that their very common hardware doesn't work with Vista
My sblive worked in the beta, but doesn't now.
* Someone saying that they have managed to get all their equipment running right out of the box with Vista, including some obscure piece of hardware.
However everything else works fine.
* Someone complaining that even on a 2 GHz processor with 2 gigs of memory, Vista crawls
It does. Seriously.
* Someone saying that people should stop complaining about Vista performance, because they got it working on a P2-266 with 128 megs of RAM.
Early twentysomething MS fanboys working entry level Tier 1 tech support. Also early thirtysomethings with expensive MCSE's working entry level Tier 1 tech support.
* Someone saying that with Vista's failure, this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
Not until there is a decided upon common desktop. And filesystem. And directory structure, And package management system. And less than 32 apps to sync with my iPod.
* And someone saying that until Grandma can write an e-Mail, Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Grandma can write an email, but nothing on the rack of Grandma apps at Staples will run on Linux.
All of the parties will provide various slightly off-topic and apocryphal anecdotes and statistics to support their position.
When I had digital cable with comcast, I used hdmi for audio and video. Regular cable channels (2-100) Were 480i mono sound. The "digital" channels (which actually looked worse) were 480i stereo. The only watchable channels were the 10 or so HD channels (5 of which I get free OTA). The absolute worse offender though has to be comedy central. I don't know who exactly to blame, but when I can catch low bitrate degradation on an analog station on an analog TV (It almost gave me motion sickness on the HD) it's really bad. Combined with the fact that I just can't find enough content I actually want to watch to justify the extra $70/month, I recently went cable free and couldn't be happier.
Which seems to have been the plan all along. Having worked a lot of retail in my life, I can't think of a more suspicious way to act. If I were an employee and was conducting a random bag check (because some people are dishonest and the eye in the sky can't catch them all), I just can't see myself shrugging off the guy who says "No thank you" and keeps walking out the door, to a waiting, running car. I can't see myself trying to restrain him either, though I have seen some people go to great lengths to confront an actual shoplifter. Yes the cop screwed up, but with the guys suspicious and combative behavior I can't blame the cop for finding something to charge this guy with. Too bad there's no statute for "Arrogant Asshole". Yes it's possible that he did not have a license, and yes he wasn't driving. The cop asked for a license because it's the most common form of ID. This guy just wanted to feel superior to the lowly Circuit City workers, and got a couple lucky breaks that he may just be smart enough to exploit into a lucrative lawsuit. Personally, I hope the circuit city manager gets written up for violating policy, the cop gets a formal reprimand and a refresher on common law, and the "victim" gets an apology and a nice fine for using 911 in a non emergency.
Most do come with recovery cd's. These the employees often steal when they perform their "system setup" of crapware installation. I had thought it an urban legend until I checked the box from my dads laptop before he checked out and lo and behold, no discs. At first I was told the laptop never came with any. I might have accepted this except there was a nice little "troubleshooting" sheet in the box that detailed how to use the discs... They were "found" immediately.
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Or just stop preemptively installing the "geek squad software" on laptops. I recently had to drive 30 miles to a third store to get a sale laptop at the advertised price. The other two stores had already opened the boxes on all their remaining stock and done me the "service" (only $129.99, they'll just add that at the register... (actual quote)) Of installing some optimization crap. The saleskid could only tell me it "fixed" the registry. He quickly shut down and suddenly had other people to help when I told him I would wait while they re-imaged it. They refused to sell me the laptop without the extra charge. The guy at the third store did try to sneak the form for the "service" as part of the sale. When I actually read it and said I wouldn't need that, he apologized for having to offer it and for my troubles at the other stores and walked me and my unopened box to the register.
Maybe it should have been more spelled out, such as "Vista Basic Capable". I always knew what "capable" meant, it meant that technically the pc could run vista. We all know how meeting the minimum requirements (with any software) works out. Though I can't imagine buying a pc/laptop with an intel gpu and expecting performance...
Especially since this year it would be Tom Petty's nipples...
Seriously, it sounds like you were browsing he web and came accross a link to a pdf. If you want it to open in a pdf viewer, you might want to try clicking on it. Or if you must paste, paste it into the addressbar. Either way gnome will open it.
All it takes is one laid off programmer to get his captain's license....
I completely agree. People rendering their systems unusable as Outlook just keeps taking and taking RAM keeps them from downloading malicious crap and propagating malware.
Seriously, ~150MB real mem for my 10MB mailbox?
"Where's the shit?"
"I'm not sure, I couldn't stop thinking about how the pastor would look in some Lightspeed Briefs ..."
Ah, the true "Slashdot Effect"...
Unfortunately, Lucas made enough money that for his mid-life crisis he had to do a little more than get a sportscar and a wig...
Enter the "Grand Vision".
Star Wars was (and still is) a fun movie, the rest however...
Damn you basketball season, damn you!
But "Don't copy that 500GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache USB 2.0 External Hard Drive" doesn't have the same ring as "Don't copy that floppy"...
Considering I paid $130/Mo for just about the same (no movie channels, slightly faster net) and I live in the center of the biggest city in the state, I don't think you're paying a "boonies" premium. You're paying a "because we can" premium.
It has been solved. Several times in fact. And 2.3 nanoseconds later, here comes yet another version of office with new formats.
With 3 versions of Windows, 1 Mac OS, and approximately eleventybillion Linux distributions. And it's size (If you want hardware capable of today's games) and noise (unless you shell out for a true quit case/fans) preclude it from the living room. And it just looks fantastic when using an SD display. So yeah, lets ditch the consoles already.
I think of the city engineer as compared to the poor network admin they got to do this.
Um, no. You ran as fast as you could on those Tandys and Commodores, which inspired you to run on to the next thing when it came out. Get off your high horse and quit whining about all the "stupid lusers". I think people like you are the only ones feeling "entitled" to anything.
Just because the general population didn't feel like screwing around with four color graphics and swapping floppies doesn't mean they are somehow inferior to those of us who did. They see computers as usable now and are overwhelmed by the IT world we created. Show them how to do it and explain why best practices are best. Make them learn every step of the way and stop rolling your eyes, booming "Moooove!".
Basically, the first commandment of dealing with others is:
Thou shalt not be such a Douche.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.53GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2533.610
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr
bogomips : 5070.99
clflush size : 64
God damn it...
* Someone saying that this is the end of Microsoft's monopoly.
It's not.
* Someone saying that the exact same thing happened with XP, and people will have to change over the next Holiday season.
The exact same arguments were made against XP. I remember quite a few people that that thought 98SE was the pinnacle of computing.
* Someone complaining that their very common hardware doesn't work with Vista
My sblive worked in the beta, but doesn't now.
* Someone saying that they have managed to get all their equipment running right out of the box with Vista, including some obscure piece of hardware.
However everything else works fine.
* Someone complaining that even on a 2 GHz processor with 2 gigs of memory, Vista crawls
It does. Seriously.
* Someone saying that people should stop complaining about Vista performance, because they got it working on a P2-266 with 128 megs of RAM.
Early twentysomething MS fanboys working entry level Tier 1 tech support. Also early thirtysomethings with expensive MCSE's working entry level Tier 1 tech support.
* Someone saying that with Vista's failure, this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
Not until there is a decided upon common desktop. And filesystem. And directory structure, And package management system. And less than 32 apps to sync with my iPod.
* And someone saying that until Grandma can write an e-Mail, Linux isn't ready for the desktop.
Grandma can write an email, but nothing on the rack of Grandma apps at Staples will run on Linux.
All of the parties will provide various slightly off-topic and apocryphal anecdotes and statistics to support their position.
And now they don't have to.
Yes, "Just wearing the thing" that happens to look like your stereotypical Hollywood suicide bomb...
Make sure it's an extra large diet, otherwise you won't get the full "diet" benefits.
When I had digital cable with comcast, I used hdmi for audio and video. Regular cable channels (2-100) Were 480i mono sound. The "digital" channels (which actually looked worse) were 480i stereo. The only watchable channels were the 10 or so HD channels (5 of which I get free OTA). The absolute worse offender though has to be comedy central. I don't know who exactly to blame, but when I can catch low bitrate degradation on an analog station on an analog TV (It almost gave me motion sickness on the HD) it's really bad. Combined with the fact that I just can't find enough content I actually want to watch to justify the extra $70/month, I recently went cable free and couldn't be happier.
You are correct sir. Most Americans will actually spend $1200 instead of $120 when given the choice.
Which seems to have been the plan all along. Having worked a lot of retail in my life, I can't think of a more suspicious way to act. If I were an employee and was conducting a random bag check (because some people are dishonest and the eye in the sky can't catch them all), I just can't see myself shrugging off the guy who says "No thank you" and keeps walking out the door, to a waiting, running car. I can't see myself trying to restrain him either, though I have seen some people go to great lengths to confront an actual shoplifter. Yes the cop screwed up, but with the guys suspicious and combative behavior I can't blame the cop for finding something to charge this guy with. Too bad there's no statute for "Arrogant Asshole". Yes it's possible that he did not have a license, and yes he wasn't driving. The cop asked for a license because it's the most common form of ID. This guy just wanted to feel superior to the lowly Circuit City workers, and got a couple lucky breaks that he may just be smart enough to exploit into a lucrative lawsuit. Personally, I hope the circuit city manager gets written up for violating policy, the cop gets a formal reprimand and a refresher on common law, and the "victim" gets an apology and a nice fine for using 911 in a non emergency.
Most do come with recovery cd's. These the employees often steal when they perform their "system setup" of crapware installation. I had thought it an urban legend until I checked the box from my dads laptop before he checked out and lo and behold, no discs. At first I was told the laptop never came with any. I might have accepted this except there was a nice little "troubleshooting" sheet in the box that detailed how to use the discs... They were "found" immediately.