... I will quit and you will be forced to hire A MORE COMPETENT CEO!
That is right. I will QUIT because I failed to make revenue off WIndows 8 mobile due to things that were all my fault! DON'T Make ME make your job easier now by having me LEAVE?
Board of directors: (... a look of shock. Then grins with each other. ) Oh Balmer. NO!! You may not. Take your anger out.
Balmer: Throws a chair. I QUIT!!
Board of directors: (... in a lame semi sarcastic tone). Oh no Balmer. What a shame. Soo sorry it had to come to this.
$100 is 1/6th the monthly income for a grandpa living off social security.
In addition it negates the point of users not knowing what a core2 or Windows 7 even is? The machine they have works when they turn it on...
Thankfully it does not represent all modern internet users but statistics show in the Western half of the world 15 to 20% still use XP probably are in one of both of the groups of hey it works and I don't care about computers or I am poor and wondering how to pay rent and my heart medication and need to decide which is more important at the end of this month etc.
The other 5% are probably doctors offices or small businesses who fit in the second category and have a valid reason (not excuse) if you fuck with it you loose money and customer data. So don't!
85% of corps have left it or in the final stages of killing it. Virtualization is what many companies who can't upgrade their software use. Windows Server 2003 instance inside Citrix can be remotely viewed in a browser. Embedded equipment well just unplug the LAN cable or have the Cisco admin DMZ it to a subnet with no outside internet access... done.
Yes it looks similar. It may even be built from the same frameworks.
But I can tell you there is a world of difference in performance and bugs between the 2.
Spewing this FUD is why XP users (the ones who do know what an OS is) are scared to go to 7 and view it as crap and look for things to get annoyed by and miss XP. Those afraid of change read these comments all day and see the similar Aero and go on about XP being the best OS ever.
It needs to end as XP is crap. After all it is based off of ME?!
Then to the user it will be time to get a new one etc. Wait for it to break is what they do with all appliances like computers.
THe issue I have is their bank account being hacked. Who gives a fuck if a piece of malware puts annoying ads or slows down the computer to the point of being unusable? The bank account and identity theft is a lot more scary and when they discover it then buying a new computer wont fix that.
Also viruses and keyloggers no longer slow things down. This was caused by writing a piece of malware as a device driver using the XP device driver kit. AV scanners can spot them a mile away today and Windows 7 and later do not support this. The new ones are hidden and do not impact performance. This is done on purpose to steal information and the longer the users are clueless the better etc.
Well if your user doesn't know what a browser or OS is and thinks HTML is an STD (look up previous stories) then how would they know this?
They turn it on and it works. So what are you talking about that it is unsupported etc??
Linux is not an option as they do not know what an OS is at all and think Windows is built inside the computer for word and excel to display. Their phones work that way right.
A pop up warning them would be enough as they will bring the computer into a shop to fix. Problem is due to poverty is these people are quite screwed. The world is not the same as it was in the western hemisphere since 1999. In Asia it is the other way around.
When you make $10/hr, $600 a month off of social security, or laid off and or under employed as 20,000,000 Americans are (only un and underemployed) that $500 to replace an already perfectly good computer means starvation!
Yes many folks live in a bubble and make $70,000 a year writing software are not average.
Also if 93% of folks don't even know what a freaking browser is you can bet those with money don't even know what Windows is either or why you should upgrade. Those folks in that link were not nursing home folks but real professionals in Manhattan
Those who know better and give a damn left XP a long time ago. Yes this is Slashdot so some XP diehard reading this will reply otherwise how wrong I am, but this is an extreme minority.
MS needs to notify these users with a pop up. They will think its scareware and will likely bring it into geeksquad where they will be told its EOL.
People just are not educated and know more about their cars than their magical boxes. When you discuss OSes they don't understand as evident by my link... or at least the some 20% in western nations which still use XP. CORPS have already switched.
As much as I hate the riaa for starting this shenanigan 15 years ago a hyperlink is not the same as pointing to someone.
Reason being is a hyperlink is a verb or action while pointing is an expression. You click it and something happens no different than clicking a.exe. Now what about someone linking to a published flaw? In this case the action is fine as the other user does the action and its legal to hack your own computer. It also is legal to link to a site which talks about it.
But linking an executable is simply an action or command
Your body turns calories into glucose in very different ways on different foods. With sugars it spikes insulin which changes your metabolism and stores as fast after the immediate spike as you have too high glucose and then it comes crashing down too low where you eat more. This is what happens in obese people at the beginning of diabetes.
The problem is your body forgets how to turn your fat cells into glucose after eating an American diet. Your thyroid and pancreas need to create hormones to do this. The atkins diet forces your body to start producing these hormones in the induction stage. Then grains are gradually put back in a very small amount.
If you are obese your body is inflamed really and likely is stuck with glucose spikes. In essence you become less hungry as your hormone balance changes.... so yes it is not a simple as oh eat less carbs it doesn't matter where etc.
Yeah it is easier just to work at a help desk for an ISP and work your way up making web pages on the side.
Without experience no one will hire you.
It is the opposite of 1980 and earlier where you had a degree == trainable and smart. Nowdays experience and more experience or burger flipping with a massive debt of a now useless degree.
Trust me someone with a degree is a dime a dozen these days.
HR wants someone who has many clients in a portfolio with real world experience, references, and work they can evaluate before they will even bother to talk to you.
So start help desk job at an ISP or tech company and build websites on the side. Find a local pizza place and write simple ordering and menu's and work your way up. After 4 or 5 clients update your resume and VIOLA.
You will easily outcompete those with a degree in website design as you have proven yourself. The others just took some class and pointed and clicked with a mouse in Dreamweaver.
The difference is more frameworks and HR wanting years of experience in each one. No one writes pure JS anymore. Same can be said of languages right? Obviously more code today is written in Java and C#. Mainly because of the ecosystem of a monstrous api's developers choose.
It is not modern IE. It is the website feeding bad code. FF and chrome would choke too if fed it. IE is gradually not supporting it and that is good if HTML 5 is to ever be adopted.
I wish TechNet was back so I didn't have to pay $6,000 to MSDN to test Exchange out. I do not mind in those circumstances doing it every 90 days for testing. This seems reasonable as MS wont let you buy XP to run IE 6 even if your customers still use it.
Windows 7 has a signed boatloader unlike XP. The autokms hacks install their own loader. Windows update just changes the keys for the loader and viola now it is unregistered again etc.
So basically if you pirate Win 7 you have to turn off Windows update.
All the.dlls are signed and have a DRM trust relationship to make sure they are not tampered and this is all the way down to the bootloader which uses your OEM key with another another key to generate the third key to sign the loader and everything.
It is quite effective as it has not been broken yet.
In this day and age it is not worth it if you do anything financial related without updated on a Windows system. It is wiser to stick with XP until April than to do just that.
To say no to the world's most popular browser and letting your customers give a leg up to the competition whose site works just fine for their customers is inexcusably. It is not like IE 9+ is not standards compliant or anything.
I see many who claim NO IE EVER!!!.. also make websites that only work with -webkit CSS extensions and viewed best with Chrome, yet bash IE 6?!
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... I will quit and you will be forced to hire A MORE COMPETENT CEO!
That is right. I will QUIT because I failed to make revenue off WIndows 8 mobile due to things that were all my fault! DON'T Make ME make your job easier now by having me LEAVE?
Board of directors: (... a look of shock. Then grins with each other. ) Oh Balmer. NO!! You may not. Take your anger out.
Balmer: Throws a chair. I QUIT!!
Board of directors: (... in a lame semi sarcastic tone). Oh no Balmer. What a shame. Soo sorry it had to come to this.
$100 is 1/6th the monthly income for a grandpa living off social security.
In addition it negates the point of users not knowing what a core2 or Windows 7 even is? The machine they have works when they turn it on ...
Thankfully it does not represent all modern internet users but statistics show in the Western half of the world 15 to 20% still use XP probably are in one of both of the groups of hey it works and I don't care about computers or I am poor and wondering how to pay rent and my heart medication and need to decide which is more important at the end of this month etc.
The other 5% are probably doctors offices or small businesses who fit in the second category and have a valid reason (not excuse) if you fuck with it you loose money and customer data. So don't!
If you couldn't use OpenBSD anymore what other OS would you prefer to work with?
Most users of XP are home users at this point.
85% of corps have left it or in the final stages of killing it. Virtualization is what many companies who can't upgrade their software use. Windows Server 2003 instance inside Citrix can be remotely viewed in a browser. Embedded equipment well just unplug the LAN cable or have the Cisco admin DMZ it to a subnet with no outside internet access ... done.
Yes it looks similar. It may even be built from the same frameworks.
But I can tell you there is a world of difference in performance and bugs between the 2.
Spewing this FUD is why XP users (the ones who do know what an OS is) are scared to go to 7 and view it as crap and look for things to get annoyed by and miss XP. Those afraid of change read these comments all day and see the similar Aero and go on about XP being the best OS ever.
It needs to end as XP is crap. After all it is based off of ME?!
Then to the user it will be time to get a new one etc. Wait for it to break is what they do with all appliances like computers.
THe issue I have is their bank account being hacked. Who gives a fuck if a piece of malware puts annoying ads or slows down the computer to the point of being unusable? The bank account and identity theft is a lot more scary and when they discover it then buying a new computer wont fix that.
Also viruses and keyloggers no longer slow things down. This was caused by writing a piece of malware as a device driver using the XP device driver kit. AV scanners can spot them a mile away today and Windows 7 and later do not support this. The new ones are hidden and do not impact performance. This is done on purpose to steal information and the longer the users are clueless the better etc.
Well if your user doesn't know what a browser or OS is and thinks HTML is an STD (look up previous stories) then how would they know this?
They turn it on and it works. So what are you talking about that it is unsupported etc??
Linux is not an option as they do not know what an OS is at all and think Windows is built inside the computer for word and excel to display. Their phones work that way right.
A pop up warning them would be enough as they will bring the computer into a shop to fix. Problem is due to poverty is these people are quite screwed. The world is not the same as it was in the western hemisphere since 1999. In Asia it is the other way around.
Don't be surprised
When you make $10/hr, $600 a month off of social security, or laid off and or under employed as 20,000,000 Americans are (only un and underemployed) that $500 to replace an already perfectly good computer means starvation!
Yes many folks live in a bubble and make $70,000 a year writing software are not average.
Also if 93% of folks don't even know what a freaking browser is you can bet those with money don't even know what Windows is either or why you should upgrade. Those folks in that link were not nursing home folks but real professionals in Manhattan
Majority of XP users think excel and word is Windows and don't know what an OS is. Hence why 93% of users don't know what a freaking browser is!
Those who know better and give a damn left XP a long time ago. Yes this is Slashdot so some XP diehard reading this will reply otherwise how wrong I am, but this is an extreme minority.
MS needs to notify these users with a pop up. They will think its scareware and will likely bring it into geeksquad where they will be told its EOL.
People just are not educated and know more about their cars than their magical boxes. When you discuss OSes they don't understand as evident by my link ... or at least the some 20% in western nations which still use XP. CORPS have already switched.
As much as I hate the riaa for starting this shenanigan 15 years ago a hyperlink is not the same as pointing to someone.
Reason being is a hyperlink is a verb or action while pointing is an expression. You click it and something happens no different than clicking a .exe. Now what about someone linking to a published flaw? In this case the action is fine as the other user does the action and its legal to hack your own computer. It also is legal to link to a site which talks about it.
But linking an executable is simply an action or command
Science 101
If your blood has too much sugar it will turn it into fat. Does it matter where I came from?
Not really.
Your body turns calories into glucose in very different ways on different foods. With sugars it spikes insulin which changes your metabolism and stores as fast after the immediate spike as you have too high glucose and then it comes crashing down too low where you eat more. This is what happens in obese people at the beginning of diabetes.
The problem is your body forgets how to turn your fat cells into glucose after eating an American diet. Your thyroid and pancreas need to create hormones to do this. The atkins diet forces your body to start producing these hormones in the induction stage. Then grains are gradually put back in a very small amount.
If you are obese your body is inflamed really and likely is stuck with glucose spikes. In essence you become less hungry as your hormone balance changes. ... so yes it is not a simple as oh eat less carbs it doesn't matter where etc.
The reason for different kinds of calories is that carbs and sugars spike insulin levels.
Great idea.
I use PHP to use the loginID in plain text and it inserts it directly into a query. I mean what could possibly go WRONG!
Yeah it is easier just to work at a help desk for an ISP and work your way up making web pages on the side.
Without experience no one will hire you.
It is the opposite of 1980 and earlier where you had a degree == trainable and smart. Nowdays experience and more experience or burger flipping with a massive debt of a now useless degree.
Trust me someone with a degree is a dime a dozen these days.
HR wants someone who has many clients in a portfolio with real world experience, references, and work they can evaluate before they will even bother to talk to you.
So start help desk job at an ISP or tech company and build websites on the side. Find a local pizza place and write simple ordering and menu's and work your way up. After 4 or 5 clients update your resume and VIOLA.
You will easily outcompete those with a degree in website design as you have proven yourself. The others just took some class and pointed and clicked with a mouse in Dreamweaver.
Speeding up.
The difference is more frameworks and HR wanting years of experience in each one. No one writes pure JS anymore. Same can be said of languages right? Obviously more code today is written in Java and C#. Mainly because of the ecosystem of a monstrous api's developers choose.
For 99% of web work, you can get by with the concept of relational databases and three SQL commands: Select, Insert, and Update.
PLEASE don't teach them delete.
Correct. DROP TABLE is more proper.
It is not modern IE. It is the website feeding bad code. FF and chrome would choke too if fed it. IE is gradually not supporting it and that is good if HTML 5 is to ever be adopted.
THey are working fine for me after 90 days.
I wish TechNet was back so I didn't have to pay $6,000 to MSDN to test Exchange out. I do not mind in those circumstances doing it every 90 days for testing. This seems reasonable as MS wont let you buy XP to run IE 6 even if your customers still use it.
What won't auto update?
Windows 7 has a signed boatloader unlike XP. The autokms hacks install their own loader. Windows update just changes the keys for the loader and viola now it is unregistered again etc.
So basically if you pirate Win 7 you have to turn off Windows update.
All the .dlls are signed and have a DRM trust relationship to make sure they are not tampered and this is all the way down to the bootloader which uses your OEM key with another another key to generate the third key to sign the loader and everything.
It is quite effective as it has not been broken yet.
It wont auto update.
In this day and age it is not worth it if you do anything financial related without updated on a Windows system. It is wiser to stick with XP until April than to do just that.
Yeah it is like saying I go to the local popular gay bar for free drinks!
When the bartender seems me I bend over in the stall near the hole with my ass up to it. But hey the drink afterwards is free?!
Guess I will have to hire someone else then.
It is not like there are free VM's to use nor are there free virtualizers available.
To say no to the world's most popular browser and letting your customers give a leg up to the competition whose site works just fine for their customers is inexcusably. It is not like IE 9+ is not standards compliant or anything.
I see many who claim NO IE EVER!!! .. also make websites that only work with -webkit CSS extensions and viewed best with Chrome, yet bash IE 6?!