So it would seem it doesn't matter that the device had routing capability, as they were using it as an AP. They should call it a wireless AP then, not a router, as the routing bit is irrelevant.
We're still kicking ass in terms of total distance traveled in space, thanks to V'Ger... err, Voyager. But we still have a long way to go to catch up with total extraterrestrial crash landings and highest BAC in space.
Maybe if you live in the rich part of town. Where I grew up and the three cities I've lived in/near since, people usually do some sort of renovation before moving in. Some people just paint, other people tear up the carpet, others still go all out. But I don't know anyone that moved into a house exactly as it was when they bought it.
I found multimonitor (five displays, three resolutions, from three video cards) to be an improvement over Windows 7, although it still has a ways to go before it matches all of the features found on third party programs.
Drivers were an issue, but I saw a huge improvement between when it was first released and three months later so I'm hoping that trend has continued. I don't have any experience with EFI and Win 8 so I can't comment on that.
Some people know enough to distinguish the UI, which is where 99% of complaints are, from the rest of the operating system, which only has a few bugs that have mostly been patched. By what you're saying, Linux is garbage because Ubuntu has a crappy UI.
I'm counting among the people who gave Windows 8 a chance rather than going in hating it already. I ended up going back to Windows 7 (as I said), but I don't think 8 is the disaster that so many people claim it to be.
People treat it like a house with a cracked foundation and rotting trusses when it really just needs new siding and maybe a few non-structural walls moved.
Most of those stories you've heard are also from people that have never seen it. I upgraded from 7 to 8 for about 4 months. Metro is annoying, but very easy to suppress with any of a dozen third party Start menu replacements (most are free). I had some stability issues, but they got a lot of patches out pretty quickly. I did run into a few oddball problems, such as you can't run apps that use Silverlight if you have Client Hyper-V installed (Silverlight still works fine in browsers for Netflix) but they've likely fixed most of those by now. The only other major issue I ran into is that Intel-SRT showed no improvement in Windows 8 compared to running off just a hard disk, but it worked great with Windows 7. It could be because Windows 8 does tend to run faster on the same hardware. I'll probably wait until 8.1 has been out a month or two and then upgrade again from 7 to see if they've fixed all the little annoyances I had.
Think of it less as a new OS like going from Vista to 7 was (even though Vista, 7 and 8 are just incremental upgrades to the same OS) and more like going from XP to XP SP2. It fixes a lot of major issues and (hopefully) responds to user feedback.
But now Windows has a nice big:( on their BSoD to make it pretty. Lord knows I saw enough of them when I tried Win 8 after the retail launch. I might go back once 8.1 comes out, it had a lot of nice features but I had some stability issues (although many of those were fixed within the first couple months of patches). The metro UI can be suppressed in less time than most people take to write a gripe about it on an Internet forum.
You see the same thing among lawyers... they may be bitter rivals in court, but then go out for drinks and have a few laughs afterwards. You have to figure two people in direct competition will probably have more in common with each other than with another random person. Just because they are professional rivals doesn't mean they can't have a great personal relationship.
Those are wild bugs. Wild animals tend to have lots of parasites and diseases too. However, if we farmed bugs they would be mostly parasite and disease free. Given that bugs need relatively little room compared to an equivalently sized cow or pig, it would be cheaper and easier to raise them indoors... maybe even right in cities where food is needed the most.
What do you think plants feast on? Then we eat the plants or the animals that eat those plants. It might not be human waste we tend to use as fertilizer, but it's got roughly the same "ick" factor.
We get it, you don't have Facebook and feel the need to tell the world they don't need it either so that you can feel superior by being different. I don't have cable TV, but I at least understand that some people feel that TV has value and thus subscribe to it so I'm not going to go around telling everyone that because I don't want TV they shouldn't want it either.
Established use of a term is what gives it definition. That's how language works. if we decided that "cow" is a small bird that's delicious, then that's what a cow would be.
I've found it's a very slight advantage to have the cable TV company (TWC) as my ISP. I get free basic cable with my Internet access, which is on par with all of the other ISPs around here for price, reliability, support, etc.
I can see mandating a couple of basic channels for news and weather... which they already provide for free over the air or dirt cheap (my grandfather pays $5/mo for basic cable with ~12 channels, mostly local). I get free basic cable from TWC for subscribing to Internet (about the only perk keeping me with them). But to mandate it for every channel is overstepping boundaries.
And do you really think a significant portion of the population does that compared to how many people can fire up Netflix on their PC, laptop, Wii, phone, smart TV, etc, etc, etc?
YouTube - You watch a short, low quality video, then spend a little time browsing for another video. Netflix - You are continuously streaming high quality video for anywhere from 20 minutes (30 min TV show) to 2+ hours (movies).
YouTube might have more users at any given time, but it's completely plausible that Netflix utterly crushes it in terms of how much bandwidth is used. Given that Hulu, which is probably Netflix's single largest competitor, posted around 1/5 the revenues for 2012, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Netflix... and Netflix is more friendly to people that want to continuously watch episodes/movies due to a lack of commercial breaks.
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So it would seem it doesn't matter that the device had routing capability, as they were using it as an AP. They should call it a wireless AP then, not a router, as the routing bit is irrelevant.
We're still kicking ass in terms of total distance traveled in space, thanks to V'Ger... err, Voyager. But we still have a long way to go to catch up with total extraterrestrial crash landings and highest BAC in space.
First one to the finish line gets to use their secret moonbase laser to blow up the losers.
Maybe if you live in the rich part of town. Where I grew up and the three cities I've lived in/near since, people usually do some sort of renovation before moving in. Some people just paint, other people tear up the carpet, others still go all out. But I don't know anyone that moved into a house exactly as it was when they bought it.
I found multimonitor (five displays, three resolutions, from three video cards) to be an improvement over Windows 7, although it still has a ways to go before it matches all of the features found on third party programs.
Drivers were an issue, but I saw a huge improvement between when it was first released and three months later so I'm hoping that trend has continued. I don't have any experience with EFI and Win 8 so I can't comment on that.
Some people know enough to distinguish the UI, which is where 99% of complaints are, from the rest of the operating system, which only has a few bugs that have mostly been patched. By what you're saying, Linux is garbage because Ubuntu has a crappy UI.
I'm counting among the people who gave Windows 8 a chance rather than going in hating it already. I ended up going back to Windows 7 (as I said), but I don't think 8 is the disaster that so many people claim it to be.
People treat it like a house with a cracked foundation and rotting trusses when it really just needs new siding and maybe a few non-structural walls moved.
Most of those stories you've heard are also from people that have never seen it. I upgraded from 7 to 8 for about 4 months. Metro is annoying, but very easy to suppress with any of a dozen third party Start menu replacements (most are free). I had some stability issues, but they got a lot of patches out pretty quickly. I did run into a few oddball problems, such as you can't run apps that use Silverlight if you have Client Hyper-V installed (Silverlight still works fine in browsers for Netflix) but they've likely fixed most of those by now. The only other major issue I ran into is that Intel-SRT showed no improvement in Windows 8 compared to running off just a hard disk, but it worked great with Windows 7. It could be because Windows 8 does tend to run faster on the same hardware. I'll probably wait until 8.1 has been out a month or two and then upgrade again from 7 to see if they've fixed all the little annoyances I had.
Think of it less as a new OS like going from Vista to 7 was (even though Vista, 7 and 8 are just incremental upgrades to the same OS) and more like going from XP to XP SP2. It fixes a lot of major issues and (hopefully) responds to user feedback.
But now Windows has a nice big :( on their BSoD to make it pretty. Lord knows I saw enough of them when I tried Win 8 after the retail launch. I might go back once 8.1 comes out, it had a lot of nice features but I had some stability issues (although many of those were fixed within the first couple months of patches). The metro UI can be suppressed in less time than most people take to write a gripe about it on an Internet forum.
I hear Mensa is planning on using the Microsoft Copy dialog instead.
"You have 4 minutes left, then 3 minutes, then 29 minutes, then 1800 years, then 32 seconds, then potato. What is the next number in the sequence?"
You see the same thing among lawyers... they may be bitter rivals in court, but then go out for drinks and have a few laughs afterwards. You have to figure two people in direct competition will probably have more in common with each other than with another random person. Just because they are professional rivals doesn't mean they can't have a great personal relationship.
I can't tell if you're trying to be ironic or if you really could use another English class or three.
But hey, the classes I had to take in microbiology, astronomy and Western History Up To AD 1400 were certainly vital to my degree in IT.
Why separate them? Just mash the little buggers up and eat them whole. As far as I know, humans can digest or pass every part of an ant.
Those are wild bugs. Wild animals tend to have lots of parasites and diseases too. However, if we farmed bugs they would be mostly parasite and disease free. Given that bugs need relatively little room compared to an equivalently sized cow or pig, it would be cheaper and easier to raise them indoors... maybe even right in cities where food is needed the most.
What do you think plants feast on? Then we eat the plants or the animals that eat those plants. It might not be human waste we tend to use as fertilizer, but it's got roughly the same "ick" factor.
Well, soylent green sure as hell ain't grasshoppers.
We get it, you don't have Facebook and feel the need to tell the world they don't need it either so that you can feel superior by being different.
I don't have cable TV, but I at least understand that some people feel that TV has value and thus subscribe to it so I'm not going to go around telling everyone that because I don't want TV they shouldn't want it either.
Dear anonymous moron,
Established use of a term is what gives it definition. That's how language works. if we decided that "cow" is a small bird that's delicious, then that's what a cow would be.
I do live in the USA, and that is the only non-DSL high-speed ISP. And I live in the suburbs of a moderate sized city.
I've found it's a very slight advantage to have the cable TV company (TWC) as my ISP. I get free basic cable with my Internet access, which is on par with all of the other ISPs around here for price, reliability, support, etc.
I can see mandating a couple of basic channels for news and weather... which they already provide for free over the air or dirt cheap (my grandfather pays $5/mo for basic cable with ~12 channels, mostly local). I get free basic cable from TWC for subscribing to Internet (about the only perk keeping me with them). But to mandate it for every channel is overstepping boundaries.
How many things have they criticized about the Bush administration, and then copied?
Criticism means nothing without actions to back it up.
And do you really think a significant portion of the population does that compared to how many people can fire up Netflix on their PC, laptop, Wii, phone, smart TV, etc, etc, etc?
YouTube - You watch a short, low quality video, then spend a little time browsing for another video.
Netflix - You are continuously streaming high quality video for anywhere from 20 minutes (30 min TV show) to 2+ hours (movies).
YouTube might have more users at any given time, but it's completely plausible that Netflix utterly crushes it in terms of how much bandwidth is used. Given that Hulu, which is probably Netflix's single largest competitor, posted around 1/5 the revenues for 2012, it's a drop in the bucket compared to Netflix... and Netflix is more friendly to people that want to continuously watch episodes/movies due to a lack of commercial breaks.