You're right about it being mostly Windows machines that get malware, but since that's 90% of the client market it remains a near-universal problem. As for your comment about taxes paying for benefits, that's exactly what this would be, the benefit being a reduced incidence of malware and all that it facilitiates (including loss of productivity, spam, phishing and information "theft").
Did you tell them you weren't signing it? If so, and they agreed, then bully for you. But if you just ignored it and started work as if you had signed it, be warned that a judge could rule that you implicitly agreed to it. After all, nothing other than your agreement to your terms of employment entitles you to draw a salary.
Yes, poor build quality can catch cause problems, but a tenner says you can't provide a link to a laptop on either the Best Buy or Staples website that uses a desktop CPU.
"the upper end Intels will give you the best performance per dollar if you're budget allows"
That's simply not true. The Core i7-975 costs more than three times as much as the i7-920, but it performs only around 25% faster. Or are you talking about some other upper-end Intels?
Just on a point of information, the "PR drone" was actually Jen-Hsun Huang, company president and CEO. If the card he was waving around was a mockup, he surely knew about it.
Not that I see that it matters. Huang openly admitted they're at least "a few months" away from production, and it was strongly implied at the press conference that GeForce models would come before Quadro and Tesla (lots of airy talk about high-end customers running to different cycles). It was a cute spot that this was, most likely, not a real card, but it's not as if it blows open a huge lie.
* Yes, you can drag folders into your "favorites" bar within the standard file requester.
* Yes, "Command prompt here" is built-in - hold down shift and right-click on any folder.
* Yes, you can set a keyboard shortcut just by right-clicking on an icon, selecting "properties" and opening the "shortcut" tab.
* Yes, you can reorder icons in the taskbar by dragging them.
I don't know about unlocker, and I'm not sure what you mean by going "back and forth between explorer and the command line" but basically yes, most of the things you want are built right into Windows 7.
Sorry, but you've been misinformed. I'm British, and fully engaged with current affairs, and I have never heard anyone refer to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence as "nasty".
I'm sure a lot of those files are the same across the 32-bit and 64-bit installations... it could work. Although since Windows 7 installs from an image, they'd have to be pretty cunning. More simply, they could just use a dual-layer DVD.
If I recall correctly, the Vista Ultimate retail package does come with two DVDs, but if you have any other edition it comes with only one disc; if you want the version for the other artchitecture you have to go to the Microsoft website and fill out a form to have it mailed to you.
Microsoft's page on Windows 7 SKUs confirms that Windows 7 Starter is the edition that supports "up the three concurrent applications", while Home Basic is for "emerging markets only".
So not only are you obnoxious, you're also wrong. And the guy you were sneering at was right.
Even assuming the recipient can get email on their phone, how are they supposed to know they have a picture message waiting? MMS was designed for this role, and does it much better than email, and (at least in Europe) is the absolutely normal and standard way of doing this. And it's missing.
Presumably it's because it's been proven in multiple courts of law that Microsoft has no problem with illegal acts that extend its market share. Sauce for the goose, my friend.
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Terrible analogy. Adobe may not help you, but they certainly won't do anything to stop you. Very different to what Apple wants to do.
You're right about it being mostly Windows machines that get malware, but since that's 90% of the client market it remains a near-universal problem. As for your comment about taxes paying for benefits, that's exactly what this would be, the benefit being a reduced incidence of malware and all that it facilitiates (including loss of productivity, spam, phishing and information "theft").
Windows has around a 90% market share. If 90% of the shops in town were being regularly broken into, you can bet there'd be public action.
Did you tell them you weren't signing it? If so, and they agreed, then bully for you. But if you just ignored it and started work as if you had signed it, be warned that a judge could rule that you implicitly agreed to it. After all, nothing other than your agreement to your terms of employment entitles you to draw a salary.
Yes, poor build quality can catch cause problems, but a tenner says you can't provide a link to a laptop on either the Best Buy or Staples website that uses a desktop CPU.
Cheaper cars and buses in the long run.
"the upper end Intels will give you the best performance per dollar if you're budget allows"
That's simply not true. The Core i7-975 costs more than three times as much as the i7-920, but it performs only around 25% faster. Or are you talking about some other upper-end Intels?
Presumably he meant "whoa, whoa, whoa".
Makes perfect sense to me. Which part are you having trouble with?
I find it pleasingly apt that the signature beneath this unparsable phrase is a description of a syntax...
Windows 7 forces me to use the retarded new start menu and the retarded new task bar
No it doesn't: if you right-click on the Windows 7 start button / taskbar, you can select "properties" and revert to Vista-style behaviour.
There's a surprising number of Anonymous Cowards spreading falsehoods about Windows 7 in this thread...
Just on a point of information, the "PR drone" was actually Jen-Hsun Huang, company president and CEO. If the card he was waving around was a mockup, he surely knew about it.
Not that I see that it matters. Huang openly admitted they're at least "a few months" away from production, and it was strongly implied at the press conference that GeForce models would come before Quadro and Tesla (lots of airy talk about high-end customers running to different cycles). It was a cute spot that this was, most likely, not a real card, but it's not as if it blows open a huge lie.
You're right, but the Shakespeare line is "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war". Your version doesn't fit the metre!
One word, dude... Copland?
Is this rhetorical astroturfing?
* Yes, you can drag folders into your "favorites" bar within the standard file requester.
* Yes, "Command prompt here" is built-in - hold down shift and right-click on any folder.
* Yes, you can set a keyboard shortcut just by right-clicking on an icon, selecting "properties" and opening the "shortcut" tab.
* Yes, you can reorder icons in the taskbar by dragging them.
I don't know about unlocker, and I'm not sure what you mean by going "back and forth between explorer and the command line" but basically yes, most of the things you want are built right into Windows 7.
Sorry but that IS what British citizens call it,
Sorry, but you've been misinformed. I'm British, and fully engaged with current affairs, and I have never heard anyone refer to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence as "nasty".
Psst... cost of a private cervical smear test in the UK: £140 (about US$ 230).
Fewer.
I'm sure a lot of those files are the same across the 32-bit and 64-bit installations... it could work. Although since Windows 7 installs from an image, they'd have to be pretty cunning. More simply, they could just use a dual-layer DVD.
If I recall correctly, the Vista Ultimate retail package does come with two DVDs, but if you have any other edition it comes with only one disc; if you want the version for the other artchitecture you have to go to the Microsoft website and fill out a form to have it mailed to you.
+1, Alliterative
Microsoft's page on Windows 7 SKUs confirms that Windows 7 Starter is the edition that supports "up the three concurrent applications", while Home Basic is for "emerging markets only".
So not only are you obnoxious, you're also wrong. And the guy you were sneering at was right.
how many of the hundreds of thousands (or whatever it is) who have flown *on this day* have died?
Nine.
Ellipsis.
(By limiting my post to one word I hope to minimise the risk of my making an equally embarrassing mistake.)
Even assuming the recipient can get email on their phone, how are they supposed to know they have a picture message waiting? MMS was designed for this role, and does it much better than email, and (at least in Europe) is the absolutely normal and standard way of doing this. And it's missing.
Presumably it's because it's been proven in multiple courts of law that Microsoft has no problem with illegal acts that extend its market share. Sauce for the goose, my friend.