I used to be like that. Although we had an XP box in 2002, I never made the switch from using ME on my personal machine until 2005. Windows 7 was the complete opposite - I got it through work several months before the retail launch. The fact that Windows 7 is the first MS OS since 98 to run well on "average to older" hardware is a major contributing factor. Let games be the one to require a huge jump in hardware capabilities, operating systems should not require 1+ GB RAM when a lot of people are still using 512MB.
There's more napkins being sold than mobile phones too, doesn't mean napkins are going to replace phones. I believe smartphones still account for less than half of the mobile phone market, not to mention numerous people buy Tracfones to take on vacation so they can leave their $300 smartphone at home. Likewise, there's a ton of things PCs and laptops can do that phones never will unless they can project a large enough image to replace a monitor and have an interface half as versatile as the mouse and keyboard system. Phones also need to be replaced far more often due to accidental and intentional damage. People think twice about throwing their PC at the wall because they're pissed not because of the cost, but because of the size. Same reason fewer laptops get sent through the washing machine.
We had Windows ME, XP and 2000 machines running side by side in 2002. The 2000 machine was by far the fastest and most stable in spite of having slightly slower hardware. The XP machine was a distant last (this was pre-SP1). XP was a huge flop when it first came out and had many of the same issues Vista had years later. We eventually replaced it with ME on the one machine because it was so bad. Once a few service packs were under its belt and hardware improved a bit, XP because the (mostly) stable, usable OS it is today. Even now, Windows 7 runs better on many of my older machines than XP SP3.
Windows 98 remains one of my best OS experiences to date. I still run a 98 machine at home (90MHz Pentium, 24MB RAM, 512MB HDD) for older games. It's incredibly snappy, which is likely the result of 1) only having enough space for one or two games installed at a time and 2) no Internet connection.
They can't outright ask about these topics as the original poster, but they're not prohibited from knowing them through indirect means as the original poster implied.
There's also something to be said for a familiar interface between systems. Although I don't take it to the extremes that some people do, I set up my Linux box to have a similar layout to my Windows box in terms of menus, icon placement, what-action-gives-what-result, etc. My Win 7 laptop is also set up similar to my Win 7 desktop even though one has a 14" screen and the other has three 22" screens, which makes for a different usage case. It's just a lot easier when going between otherwise dissimilar operating systems.
Sad but true. I have a feeling if Stalin era USSR citizens had a Facebook equivalent, they would be much smarter than modern Americans about what they put on it. Comrade.
I think you're getting LulzSec mixed up with Anonymous. Although there's some crossover between the two, they're generally regarded as separate entities.
Eh, not really. Scientists use human perception to form a question, then try to measure what causes it. Just because something isn't measurable now does not mean it can't be measured; if what you said was true, then fun stuff like black holes, dark matter and human intelligence would be considered myths because we haven't found a direct way to measure them yet.
We're still not a true democracy. You could call it a democratic republic or a representative democracy, but in a true democracy, we would each vote on every single issue. Personally, I have other shit to do so I just vote for whomever has the most free time and is least likely to fuck it up. Unfortunately, that guy usually doesn't get elected.
Look in the mirror. Now picture depending on 200 million of them to pick a leader. Odds are he isn't going to be someone spectacular. Also, he has a big nose.
Yes, it appears to be a legitimate business website. Check it out in the Internet Archive and you'll see it was once a professional website. I'm not sure what happened.
They're going for the MySpace Experience. Next step is to add glitter to every page, change fonts mid-sentence and go with a rainbow-on-rainbow color scheme.
When I left my last job as the sole network/server/helpdesk guy, my old boss asked me to come in 5 evenings over the course of 6 weeks to train the new guy. The first two or three times were within a week to give him the overview and the rest were later on when he ran into things he wasn't experienced with. I still get a quick email every few weeks with a question about something or other. Of couse, I made sure I got paid for every minute I was training the new guy.
The captured image will occupy a small space in the upper left of the picture, the rest will be solid white but when you open the file it will still be 41 million pixels.
I usually don't recommend anything over 10-12MP unless you're going to be blowing up an image to poster-sized. I still use a 6MP camera and it's more than sufficient for daily use. I would much rather have a better sensor since I'm still reducing the image size anyway at 6MP.
I think the big issue is that the camera manufacturers pushed higher MP but never got around to telling Joe Public what exactly MP means to them. Sort of like Intel and AMD pushing faster clock speeds, but when max clock speed reached a plateau in the 3.6-4GHz range they didn't tell consumers a 2GHz quad core with a large cache will likely kill a 3.6GHz single core with a tiny cache so many consumers still go by clock speed alone.
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I used to be like that. Although we had an XP box in 2002, I never made the switch from using ME on my personal machine until 2005. Windows 7 was the complete opposite - I got it through work several months before the retail launch. The fact that Windows 7 is the first MS OS since 98 to run well on "average to older" hardware is a major contributing factor. Let games be the one to require a huge jump in hardware capabilities, operating systems should not require 1+ GB RAM when a lot of people are still using 512MB.
There's more napkins being sold than mobile phones too, doesn't mean napkins are going to replace phones. I believe smartphones still account for less than half of the mobile phone market, not to mention numerous people buy Tracfones to take on vacation so they can leave their $300 smartphone at home. Likewise, there's a ton of things PCs and laptops can do that phones never will unless they can project a large enough image to replace a monitor and have an interface half as versatile as the mouse and keyboard system. Phones also need to be replaced far more often due to accidental and intentional damage. People think twice about throwing their PC at the wall because they're pissed not because of the cost, but because of the size. Same reason fewer laptops get sent through the washing machine.
We had Windows ME, XP and 2000 machines running side by side in 2002. The 2000 machine was by far the fastest and most stable in spite of having slightly slower hardware. The XP machine was a distant last (this was pre-SP1). XP was a huge flop when it first came out and had many of the same issues Vista had years later. We eventually replaced it with ME on the one machine because it was so bad. Once a few service packs were under its belt and hardware improved a bit, XP because the (mostly) stable, usable OS it is today. Even now, Windows 7 runs better on many of my older machines than XP SP3.
Windows 98 remains one of my best OS experiences to date. I still run a 98 machine at home (90MHz Pentium, 24MB RAM, 512MB HDD) for older games. It's incredibly snappy, which is likely the result of 1) only having enough space for one or two games installed at a time and 2) no Internet connection.
In other news, cocaine addiction has been shown to lower marijuana abuse.
We showed Japan the power of nuclear energy once and they apparently loved it. Maybe they need to see another demonstration?
They can't outright ask about these topics as the original poster, but they're not prohibited from knowing them through indirect means as the original poster implied.
There's also something to be said for a familiar interface between systems. Although I don't take it to the extremes that some people do, I set up my Linux box to have a similar layout to my Windows box in terms of menus, icon placement, what-action-gives-what-result, etc. My Win 7 laptop is also set up similar to my Win 7 desktop even though one has a 14" screen and the other has three 22" screens, which makes for a different usage case. It's just a lot easier when going between otherwise dissimilar operating systems.
Sad but true. I have a feeling if Stalin era USSR citizens had a Facebook equivalent, they would be much smarter than modern Americans about what they put on it. Comrade.
They're allowed to know those things, they're just not allowed to base any decisions or treatment on them.
Grammar Nazis tend to be thin-skinned, so you'll live long enough to see them fry first. Happy thoughts!
Well shit, I only have the .com, .net and .org versions of my domain name. Maybe it's time to grab the .co GoDaddy keeps pimping as "the new .com".
I think you're getting LulzSec mixed up with Anonymous. Although there's some crossover between the two, they're generally regarded as separate entities.
Eh, not really. Scientists use human perception to form a question, then try to measure what causes it. Just because something isn't measurable now does not mean it can't be measured; if what you said was true, then fun stuff like black holes, dark matter and human intelligence would be considered myths because we haven't found a direct way to measure them yet.
We're still not a true democracy. You could call it a democratic republic or a representative democracy, but in a true democracy, we would each vote on every single issue. Personally, I have other shit to do so I just vote for whomever has the most free time and is least likely to fuck it up. Unfortunately, that guy usually doesn't get elected.
The best quote I've heard is that true democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner (usually attributed to Ben Franklin).
Look in the mirror. Now picture depending on 200 million of them to pick a leader. Odds are he isn't going to be someone spectacular. Also, he has a big nose.
I bet Fred Flintstone spent a fortune on Dino Advantix II
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Yes, it appears to be a legitimate business website. Check it out in the Internet Archive and you'll see it was once a professional website. I'm not sure what happened.
They're going for the MySpace Experience. Next step is to add glitter to every page, change fonts mid-sentence and go with a rainbow-on-rainbow color scheme.
When I left my last job as the sole network/server/helpdesk guy, my old boss asked me to come in 5 evenings over the course of 6 weeks to train the new guy. The first two or three times were within a week to give him the overview and the rest were later on when he ran into things he wasn't experienced with. I still get a quick email every few weeks with a question about something or other. Of couse, I made sure I got paid for every minute I was training the new guy.
This is why I keep my lab coat from college. A lab coat says you know what you're doing. Throw in a clipboard and you're gold.
What about gods that merely look human having sex with humans? There goes half of the ancient mythologies.
It's a little more like making the biathlon a Special Olympics event, with rockets instead of rifles.
The captured image will occupy a small space in the upper left of the picture, the rest will be solid white but when you open the file it will still be 41 million pixels.
I usually don't recommend anything over 10-12MP unless you're going to be blowing up an image to poster-sized. I still use a 6MP camera and it's more than sufficient for daily use. I would much rather have a better sensor since I'm still reducing the image size anyway at 6MP.
I think the big issue is that the camera manufacturers pushed higher MP but never got around to telling Joe Public what exactly MP means to them. Sort of like Intel and AMD pushing faster clock speeds, but when max clock speed reached a plateau in the 3.6-4GHz range they didn't tell consumers a 2GHz quad core with a large cache will likely kill a 3.6GHz single core with a tiny cache so many consumers still go by clock speed alone.