Install computer with windows - crapware from a disk. install all updates possible, get all the basic need to have software make image, either hard disk or just restore point
when grandma starts sending out korean bride/porn links, restore, have dinner. Move on with life.
I was a computer tech since the days of the 386, till about 2005... the only time anyone was requiring that I repair their shited up OS instead of doing it the better way of reinstalling fresh, was when they were loaded down with pirate software that someone else installed for them with a bum copy of windows, no disk's
Its a waste of everyone's time, the machine still runs like ass, the virus / malware comes back, you end up spending a shit ton of time just for the fucker to come back a week later, with an angry customer threatening you cause their computer is back to shit out of luck all because of some 200$ program they copied from work cant be lost or they will die
as a non super geek linux user, quickly drifting away, here is what it means to me
something gets more error correction over a filesystem, some background process that actually eats a little more cpu, more sandboxing so when I actually want to do something I hit a soft bumper asking me if I am ok after that bump, network something, restoring some crap that caused all hell to break loose in the first place causing more issues, some other TCP thingamajig, suspend that doesnt work... again , stats on a serial port I really dont care about, even though thats one port I use constantly , and shoehorning a hardware/software interface everyone stopped using 15 years ago, and even then it was niche, over hardware/software interfaces that are either superior or,outside of 7 year old macs, obsolete... and for some odd reason wont support a monitor sleep mode on my toshiba laptop without crashing the entire OS into a blank screened zombie, cause I left it for a half hour.
shareware had the same functionality 10 years prior, it was obvious then, its obvious now, fuck them, they contributed nothing and feel entitled to everyone's hard work for ripping off an idea that already existed in software
nah I will wait until they become available without a 12 week lead time, shit power subsystem, and a io that doesnt blow itself up when you plug a keyboard mouse and network in at the same time. When they get their SD card interface working properly and there is a linux distro I can install without spending a day
in all fairness there is no guarantee the pi will be made, heres the deal, they have already sold 350k but have shipped a fraction of that, then they up production (like it really takes that much, they should be buying their own used pick-n-place line by now) with untold thousands STILL on backorder and lifted limits
they are selling phantom products like mad with no promise to not up and vanish once their monetary goal is reached regardless of product produced
I seriously doubt they would do it, but its totally setup for a large scam... which is shit business
and I am sorry I retired my 1ghz PC nearly a decade ago
yea thanks for pointing out a 3 year old report that list best buy as having a 82% excellent customer experience (which is higher than apples) to make your case
" if he takes it off he has vision problems and becomes disoriented."
so do many people that require glasses, they dont bolt them to their skulls like a retard. the guy has been doing this for 20 years for only one reason, attention, and whenever he gets some he acts like a bitch
let me just cry my little heart out so he can so "jhonny look at me" feels better
I think a bigger issue is repair from the fine people AT apple. A coworker last year got a brand spankin new macbook pro with all the trimmings cause his art school teacher located in the strip mall would not allow anything else to run photoshop. So after a large pile of money for a good, but not awesome machine, it up and dies like 2-3 weeks after purchase. He takes it back, has to wait a couple of weeks and gets back a now refurbushed laptop (I would have flipped out on them at that point) and its got new larger body gaps and some faint creaks and groans just using the thing cause they apparently could not take it apart and properly put it back together.
After noticing this then he flips out, and after an additional week of arguing I can pretty much guess, he didnt give a rats ass how nice the cardboard box was. Anyway after a month he finally had a working 2700$ (with photoshop) computer that ran firefox and photoshop, but no longer was required to have it for that class
glasses bolted to ones head as it records and processes images, people seem to think that computer imaging is passive, like the computer just does things without storing it in memory first
If I need to take my glasses off I can no problem, and I actually need them
his headgears sole purpose is to record images and to process them, and he wears them 24/7
just being there he recorded every moment of the transaction, its not like he said stop a moment let me whip out my celphone, fumble with a few buttons, get out of the sunlight so we can see whats going on
the dude has a HD camera affixed to his head dumbass
I can run firefox on a toaster, can firefox run outlook? Fallout 3? visual studio? virtual box running debian? GCC toolchains? chrome when firefox fucks up?
I dont need a shitty computer that uses a browser as its "os", I have plenty of shitty computers that already do more
like they were going to attempt it anyway, almost every single computer comes from the factory to boot from the hard disk and the cd later, if they cant change Boolean value in bois how the fuck are they going to reconfigure order
I dont see cheaper than already paid for, and as far as faster I used 2010 and 2003 side by side for a couple years, they really dont change, and both are scriptable, theres little advantage here other than some templates, web content pros wont use and a change in UI
Lifting the restriction of people ordering multiples while most of us cant even get a email with news of availability and an average roumored 12 week lead time. Tucker sold more cars than they had as well, didnt work out for them, maybe having an item in stock doesnt matter as long as the money keeps rolling in.
They should have fufilled their backorders before doing this, just another "sigh I dont want to even deal with these people anymore" move
Slashdot Mirror
and how much will the insurance cost to cover your 200$ shit homebrew shoebox power strip when it burns a multi-million dollar factory down.
development cost pennies, to prove you can produce the product in quantity with consistent results is what cost you genius
Install computer with windows - crapware from a disk. install all updates possible, get all the basic need to have software make image, either hard disk or just restore point
when grandma starts sending out korean bride/porn links, restore, have dinner. Move on with life.
I was a computer tech since the days of the 386, till about 2005 ... the only time anyone was requiring that I repair their shited up OS instead of doing it the better way of reinstalling fresh, was when they were loaded down with pirate software that someone else installed for them with a bum copy of windows, no disk's
Its a waste of everyone's time, the machine still runs like ass, the virus / malware comes back, you end up spending a shit ton of time just for the fucker to come back a week later, with an angry customer threatening you cause their computer is back to shit out of luck all because of some 200$ program they copied from work cant be lost or they will die
fuck that, and fuck them
why would I care?
as a non super geek linux user, quickly drifting away, here is what it means to me
something gets more error correction over a filesystem, some background process that actually eats a little more cpu, more sandboxing so when I actually want to do something I hit a soft bumper asking me if I am ok after that bump, network something, restoring some crap that caused all hell to break loose in the first place causing more issues, some other TCP thingamajig, suspend that doesnt work ... again , stats on a serial port I really dont care about, even though thats one port I use constantly , and shoehorning a hardware/software interface everyone stopped using 15 years ago, and even then it was niche, over hardware/software interfaces that are either superior or,outside of 7 year old macs, obsolete ... and for some odd reason wont support a monitor sleep mode on my toshiba laptop without crashing the entire OS into a blank screened zombie, cause I left it for a half hour.
woot woot, go linux!
shareware had the same functionality 10 years prior, it was obvious then, its obvious now, fuck them, they contributed nothing and feel entitled to everyone's hard work for ripping off an idea that already existed in software
troll knows troll, this be a troll
nah I will wait until they become available without a 12 week lead time, shit power subsystem, and a io that doesnt blow itself up when you plug a keyboard mouse and network in at the same time. When they get their SD card interface working properly and there is a linux distro I can install without spending a day
thanks
in all fairness there is no guarantee the pi will be made, heres the deal, they have already sold 350k but have shipped a fraction of that, then they up production (like it really takes that much, they should be buying their own used pick-n-place line by now) with untold thousands STILL on backorder and lifted limits
they are selling phantom products like mad with no promise to not up and vanish once their monetary goal is reached regardless of product produced
I seriously doubt they would do it, but its totally setup for a large scam ... which is shit business
and I am sorry I retired my 1ghz PC nearly a decade ago
I dont feel like making your point for you, especially if your too lazy to do it yourself
If you want to improve intel, make a graphics processor that dosent get it ass beat down by a 40$ 6 year old geforce
yea thanks for pointing out a 3 year old report that list best buy as having a 82% excellent customer experience (which is higher than apples) to make your case
" if he takes it off he has vision problems and becomes disoriented."
so do many people that require glasses, they dont bolt them to their skulls like a retard. the guy has been doing this for 20 years for only one reason, attention, and whenever he gets some he acts like a bitch
let me just cry my little heart out so he can so "jhonny look at me" feels better
I think a bigger issue is repair from the fine people AT apple. A coworker last year got a brand spankin new macbook pro with all the trimmings cause his art school teacher located in the strip mall would not allow anything else to run photoshop. So after a large pile of money for a good, but not awesome machine, it up and dies like 2-3 weeks after purchase. He takes it back, has to wait a couple of weeks and gets back a now refurbushed laptop (I would have flipped out on them at that point) and its got new larger body gaps and some faint creaks and groans just using the thing cause they apparently could not take it apart and properly put it back together.
After noticing this then he flips out, and after an additional week of arguing I can pretty much guess, he didnt give a rats ass how nice the cardboard box was. Anyway after a month he finally had a working 2700$ (with photoshop) computer that ran firefox and photoshop, but no longer was required to have it for that class
"I had no problems breaking the seals and opening the box."
That is because you are not retarded ... however apple knows their customers very well
monopoly doesnt mean what you think it means
Seeing a woman's clothes would be just the worst thing ever about this entire photo system!
Please try again when you have a story
glasses bolted to ones head as it records and processes images, people seem to think that computer imaging is passive, like the computer just does things without storing it in memory first
If I need to take my glasses off I can no problem, and I actually need them
his headgears sole purpose is to record images and to process them, and he wears them 24/7
just being there he recorded every moment of the transaction, its not like he said stop a moment let me whip out my celphone, fumble with a few buttons, get out of the sunlight so we can see whats going on
the dude has a HD camera affixed to his head dumbass
I can run firefox on a toaster, can firefox run outlook? Fallout 3? visual studio? virtual box running debian? GCC toolchains? chrome when firefox fucks up?
I dont need a shitty computer that uses a browser as its "os", I have plenty of shitty computers that already do more
and they used EFI since the mid 90's, my powermac9600 still runs debian just fine
its a non issue
like they were going to attempt it anyway, almost every single computer comes from the factory to boot from the hard disk and the cd later, if they cant change Boolean value in bois how the fuck are they going to reconfigure order
non story, non issue STFU
so does patenting a list
fucking paper
they would never buy their kid a computer that runs off steam, too much fire hazard (parents are dumb, remember?)
I dont see cheaper than already paid for, and as far as faster I used 2010 and 2003 side by side for a couple years, they really dont change, and both are scriptable, theres little advantage here other than some templates, web content pros wont use and a change in UI
Lifting the restriction of people ordering multiples while most of us cant even get a email with news of availability and an average roumored 12 week lead time. Tucker sold more cars than they had as well, didnt work out for them, maybe having an item in stock doesnt matter as long as the money keeps rolling in.
They should have fufilled their backorders before doing this, just another "sigh I dont want to even deal with these people anymore" move
Embedded uses PPC cores like crazy, its option #2 for big jobs