My gf was in that situation and worked $10/hr jobs for 120 hours a week for a year and still had no money for food and went hungry. Car broke down? Now had to get up at 3am for bus transfers to get to work by 7:30am. Too bad no cash = poor credit so no car unless you want to pay %25 interest and $10,000 for a $1,000 car which is satellite tracked and de-activated within 48 hours and towed if you don't pay... kind of deal.
Sorry you all live in paradise with a mere 60 hours a week in your comfortable apartment or house.
If you need professional grade photography and color calibration why don't you consider a Mac? Yes, they are expensive but it supports colors that only Windows and MacOSX due and full Adobe support
I was on a G4 at one time. I switched to Windows partly because I felt Macs were overpriced, and partly because Apple and Adobe were at the time engaged in a pissing contest about, among other things, how a touchpad should operate. (In my opinion, it's not a good business plan to piss off the vendor of your signature application, but maybe Apple thought Aperture and iPhoto would take over the world? How did that work out?)
But also, I gave up on Apple partly because I became increasingly uncomfortable with the unreasoning fanaticism of the Apple fan base. Let's face it, it got creepy. And I became less and less happy with being associated with it.
So I built a Windows box, for a fraction of the cost of an Apple box, and have been using it ever since. There are things I don't like about it, but it's not necessary to like everything about a product.
... have you seen the Linux ones on slashdot:-). Even Windows has them on Neowin.net. Go check the news article about this there for some WTH moments:-)
Shrugs shoulders. I never owned a mac so I can't talk but I am picky on color and buy premium hardware for Windows pcs like my MS Surface tablet. If I were a photographer it would be an investment. Not a status symbol.
Intel needs to push the microcode update through the BIOS. You can't do it via a OS update. So hopefully your motherboard manufacturer picks up on this.
How often does Joe Six pack update his bios? I mean really? It makes sense to patch the cpu at startup as most of these users have updates enabled by default because their computer came that way when they turned it on
So what do you want to make a bet a clever hacker could then write a webgl script to download pics of your bank information? SOme banks report with javascript ads and can see this used to steal information
How many times does a Microsoft customer have to tell Microsoft that the Windows 10 "upgrade" is not wanted?
.
How many times does a Microsoft customer have to actively stop Microsoft from hijacking the PC for its own nefarious purposes?
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is no longer just asking if its customers want Windows 10. I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is trying to trick its customers into installing Windows 10 via a never ending string of pop-up questions and misleading dialog boxes.
I've also come to the conclusion that I no longer want to do business with a company that treats its customs in this manner.
Look!! 200,000,000 installs in just 4 months?! Customers MUST LOVE IT SEE OMG
Like software one should wait until after the product has had a revision 1st.
Oddly we think of intel cpus and chipsets as rock solid and operating systems as garbage based on Vista, ME, and 8.1. Perhaps doing the same and buying older hardware would be wise too.
My gigabyte board for example I am disappointed in and same with Asus when z97 haswell. Was new. Both are top brands but were extremely unstable and buggy. Asus Sabertooth is unusable and Gigabyte got stable after 4 updates somewhat.
If you need professional grade photography and color calibration why don't you consider a Mac? Yes, they are expensive but it supports colors that only Windows and MacOSX due and full Adobe support
Does that include rent, fuel, insurance, and mortgages?
Only those are skyrocketing and not recorded. Paying $500 a month for auto and health insurance is unheard of anytime in human history adjusted for inflation.
Fact is statistics show the majority of Americans bought new cars 30 years ago as an example. Debt was next to nothing and you could make today's money of $40,000 a year with just a high school diploma no problem in a factory or chemical plant.
$12 an hour for a college grad job with $50,000 student loan is considered good today??! I mean come on
Even Milton Friedman the beloved conservative economist has tremendous respect for Keynes. In fact he will even say he was the most influential economist ever. Go YouTube it?
As someone who used to support these users with infections I can tell you almost everyone of them had Norton, an expired av package, or no AV at all whatsoever.
So I highly disagree. Though most had XP and 7 is much more secure by default. av software and adbkocking make a HUGE difference.
Though today I now think ad blocking add ons are the best security on the planet! Ads are how malware gets on and being a sophisticated Slashdot user you do what most don't.
FYI nod32 found a Trojan on Slashdot a few years ago. Just saying
Advertisers either fix your shit or loose out? If you can't regulate yourselves in regards to 3rd party networks and ethical ads then you will be out of business.
Fact of the matter is it is too dangerous to run without one. That should go right up there with browsing the net as administrator or root and using IE 6 these days.
Also for those who say they are safe as long as they don't click or run anything, all I can say is told you so! Open a page with flash and your 0wned. Simple
Wouldn't it be easier to travel with... Gasp a Microsoft Surface tablet instead of a bulky keyboard and mouse?
There are very thin keyboard and mouse covers over tight thin screens which are tablets for the airport and work for the PowerPoint presentation at the hotel. Not go mention with... Gasp Windows 8.1 or 10 has Netflix and Hulu as well
I'll take Outlook 2016 over that malware infested.PST limit or lose 10 years of data to a screaming VP of that 2003 client ANY DAY!... with the annoying exception of iCAL being no longer supported:-(
Outlook isn't the fucking problem, exchange and its bastardised architecture is.
To this day I cannot fathom why companies would ever roll out a proprietary exchange setup when there are better solutions available, at a significantly lower cost. Solutions that are more reliable, more secure and better supported cross platform.
I Know??! It is terrible, expensive, and requires lots of proprietary in house help to keep it up.
Now what if there was some other way where this couldn't be an issue? Like a bill. You pay a bill and someone outside on the internet magically manages it so you do not have to think about Exchange or even domains! You just pay online at some site and sign up for an email address and Outlook just works and you can save money by firing your IT team to boot. It's almost like someone wants it to be this way?
No. Not in this context. If Windows disappeared, then manufacturers would release drivers primarily for Linux, and applications would be written primarily for Linux.
Windows is innately no better at driver support than Linux, and in many cases is worse (jWindows is better on new hardware, which is when it matters most for purchasers of new computers).
Windows and Unix (FreeBSD and old school Unix) is insanely better than Windows in the fact you can use ABI's or Application Binary Interfaces so drivers do not need recompiles. Need to run that 6 year old driver? No problem. Just go into FreeBSD sysinstall and enable FBSD 5.x ABI and it will magically work. Linux? Nope... recompile. Ohh that is write the hardware OEM can't release the specs due to protect IP from a contractor who has a patent 5,743,775 on that. Guess you all can't have it or need to wait for only supported versions of Linux, etc.
RMS himself admitted he broke Linux without an ABI on purpose to force driver makers to open source. It ain't gonna happen! Too many patent agreements prevent this so Windows on the hand will just work.
Also do an apt-upgrade and watch what happens to your printers and Xorg? More than likely after a version or two something will break, XORG won't work etc. Again due to the lack of an ABI ATI and Nvidia drivers will not work without a recompile.
Take the Hairyfeet challenge. Get a 5 year old version of Linux and do 2 upgrades or more? They will ALWAYS break after the 3 rd release. Windows doesn't have this problem.
Linux is a perfectly good desktop system. The main issues you'll run into are driver issues and lack of application support, especially in laptops. Ease of use is not a problem.
Well for one you admit in your sig that SystemD is not all that great.
Also those of us who still run old IE more than likely are in a corporate environment. You know those environments which use jscript for the x and y's that are stored in doubles instead of floats in IE 6 so running any other browser outside of QUIRKS mode will incorrectly place them correctly (oxymoron right) so the webpages are scrambled in every other browser... and many many other ancient exotic bugs just to make it display in 2001 which break in modern browsers.
These same sites which require GPO's in Active Directory to enable PCI lockdowns and other customizations etc.
I am not a MS fanboy by any sense of the means but I have to inquire if yourself or hte parent is using Chrome right now to read this?
If you are then how is MS the ultimate spyware when you use a Google product or an iphone or Android phone? From what I read what MS does is send data via cortana to Bing if you enable this feature. Usage statistics have been around LONG before Windows 10. MS knew starting with Windows 7 in 2009 if users have pinned things to the task bar as an example. No it doesn't read your MS Word documents or puts a name for each usage but it does for statistics.
IE at least has privacy features like DNT do not track and can add privacy lists from adblock and even use adblock plus. Firefox is pretty much a shill to Yahoo these days and may even be bought out.
My point is it is hypocrisy to fire up Chrome while texting on your Android on the evils of Windows 10.
I actually had to install Windows 10 because the motherboard i got this christmas did not like Windows 7 (no pre installed drivers)
Can you tell us which motherboard? I'm looking to order a new mobo/CPU combo and don't want to have to install 10 yet.
This is not bribing. Contrary to popular opinion on slashdot one can not expect a 6 year old OS to run well on modern hardware with UEFI, m.2 ssd connectors, usb type c/USB 3.1 out of the box.
Times change.
IF you love WIndows 7 go into your efi/bios and turn on CSM in EFI or turn off EFI and secure boot, and turn off UEFI VGA for legacy. You will have much better luck but you will need to go to the chipset drivers for your USB connectors.
I have Windows 8.1 but with Start8 and modernMix for metro control and it works just fine and supports these things above. Windows 10 is not that bad but just beta quality when it was released or rushed. I loved IWndows 7 and it was the best OS MS made since WIndows 2000. But time moves on. It is great on older hardware from it's time frame. But today I need Hyper-V for my certs and Linxu VM's for development. WIndows 7 does not meet my needs nor runs well on my Haswell unless I disable some of the newer features and time savers in my EFI and go back to a bios.
There were 4 or 5 subplots and no points together. It seems a committee of writers threw something together. If I recall from Highschool English is you have an introduction, a height or climax, and a conclusion for a good storyline. I felt there were several stories thrown together complete with poor character development.
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You all have no right to complain.
My gf was in that situation and worked $10/hr jobs for 120 hours a week for a year and still had no money for food and went hungry. Car broke down? Now had to get up at 3am for bus transfers to get to work by 7:30am. Too bad no cash = poor credit so no car unless you want to pay %25 interest and $10,000 for a $1,000 car which is satellite tracked and de-activated within 48 hours and towed if you don't pay ... kind of deal.
Sorry you all live in paradise with a mere 60 hours a week in your comfortable apartment or house.
If you need professional grade photography and color calibration why don't you consider a Mac? Yes, they are expensive but it supports colors that only Windows and MacOSX due and full Adobe support
I was on a G4 at one time. I switched to Windows partly because I felt Macs were overpriced, and partly because Apple and Adobe were at the time engaged in a pissing contest about, among other things, how a touchpad should operate. (In my opinion, it's not a good business plan to piss off the vendor of your signature application, but maybe Apple thought Aperture and iPhoto would take over the world? How did that work out?)
But also, I gave up on Apple partly because I became increasingly uncomfortable with the unreasoning fanaticism of the Apple fan base. Let's face it, it got creepy. And I became less and less happy with being associated with it.
So I built a Windows box, for a fraction of the cost of an Apple box, and have been using it ever since. There are things I don't like about it, but it's not necessary to like everything about a product.
... have you seen the Linux ones on slashdot :-). Even Windows has them on Neowin.net. Go check the news article about this there for some WTH moments:-)
Shrugs shoulders. I never owned a mac so I can't talk but I am picky on color and buy premium hardware for Windows pcs like my MS Surface tablet. If I were a photographer it would be an investment. Not a status symbol.
Or worse an important campaign contributor who is buds with Christie who helped bring him on makes Agent Orange on that river.
Intel needs to push the microcode update through the BIOS. You can't do it via a OS update. So hopefully your motherboard manufacturer picks up on this.
How often does Joe Six pack update his bios? I mean really? It makes sense to patch the cpu at startup as most of these users have updates enabled by default because their computer came that way when they turned it on
So what do you want to make a bet a clever hacker could then write a webgl script to download pics of your bank information? SOme banks report with javascript ads and can see this used to steal information
How many times does a Microsoft customer have to tell Microsoft that the Windows 10 "upgrade" is not wanted?
.
How many times does a Microsoft customer have to actively stop Microsoft from hijacking the PC for its own nefarious purposes?
At this point, I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is no longer just asking if its customers want Windows 10. I've come to the conclusion that Microsoft is trying to trick its customers into installing Windows 10 via a never ending string of pop-up questions and misleading dialog boxes.
I've also come to the conclusion that I no longer want to do business with a company that treats its customs in this manner.
Look!! 200,000,000 installs in just 4 months?! Customers MUST LOVE IT SEE OMG
Marketing can brainwash alot of executives
Like software one should wait until after the product has had a revision 1st.
Oddly we think of intel cpus and chipsets as rock solid and operating systems as garbage based on Vista, ME, and 8.1. Perhaps doing the same and buying older hardware would be wise too.
My gigabyte board for example I am disappointed in and same with Asus when z97 haswell. Was new. Both are top brands but were extremely unstable and buggy. Asus Sabertooth is unusable and Gigabyte got stable after 4 updates somewhat.
If you need professional grade photography and color calibration why don't you consider a Mac? Yes, they are expensive but it supports colors that only Windows and MacOSX due and full Adobe support
Does that include rent, fuel, insurance, and mortgages?
Only those are skyrocketing and not recorded. Paying $500 a month for auto and health insurance is unheard of anytime in human history adjusted for inflation.
Fact is statistics show the majority of Americans bought new cars 30 years ago as an example. Debt was next to nothing and you could make today's money of $40,000 a year with just a high school diploma no problem in a factory or chemical plant.
$12 an hour for a college grad job with $50,000 student loan is considered good today??! I mean come on
Even Milton Friedman the beloved conservative economist has tremendous respect for Keynes. In fact he will even say he was the most influential economist ever. Go YouTube it?
I left eset for Kaspersky. Reason is I thought I had a bad ass, motherboard, and sata cables. Constant disk corruption occurred.
When doing a SFC caused a bsod at the NTFS driver I figured it was the av software. I was right
False.
Most Trojans get on by ads from 3rd party networks visiting a website.
As someone who used to support these users with infections I can tell you almost everyone of them had Norton, an expired av package, or no AV at all whatsoever.
So I highly disagree. Though most had XP and 7 is much more secure by default. av software and adbkocking make a HUGE difference.
Though today I now think ad blocking add ons are the best security on the planet! Ads are how malware gets on and being a sophisticated Slashdot user you do what most don't.
FYI nod32 found a Trojan on Slashdot a few years ago. Just saying
I tell everyone I know to use them.
Advertisers either fix your shit or loose out? If you can't regulate yourselves in regards to 3rd party networks and ethical ads then you will be out of business.
Fact of the matter is it is too dangerous to run without one. That should go right up there with browsing the net as administrator or root and using IE 6 these days.
Also for those who say they are safe as long as they don't click or run anything, all I can say is told you so! Open a page with flash and your 0wned. Simple
Wouldn't it be easier to travel with ... Gasp a Microsoft Surface tablet instead of a bulky keyboard and mouse?
There are very thin keyboard and mouse covers over tight thin screens which are tablets for the airport and work for the PowerPoint presentation at the hotel. Not go mention with ... Gasp Windows 8.1 or 10 has Netflix and Hulu as well
Postgesql can't reliably replicate with slony. Mysql makes it the only option for many cases
No all the cool kids use Erlang the real rockstar language
Shoot!
I'll take Outlook 2016 over that malware infested .PST limit or lose 10 years of data to a screaming VP of that 2003 client ANY DAY! ... with the annoying exception of iCAL being no longer supported :-(
Outlook isn't the fucking problem, exchange and its bastardised architecture is.
To this day I cannot fathom why companies would ever roll out a proprietary exchange setup when there are better solutions available, at a significantly lower cost. Solutions that are more reliable, more secure and better supported cross platform.
I Know??! It is terrible, expensive, and requires lots of proprietary in house help to keep it up.
Now what if there was some other way where this couldn't be an issue? Like a bill. You pay a bill and someone outside on the internet magically manages it so you do not have to think about Exchange or even domains! You just pay online at some site and sign up for an email address and Outlook just works and you can save money by firing your IT team to boot. It's almost like someone wants it to be this way?
No. Not in this context. If Windows disappeared, then manufacturers would release drivers primarily for Linux, and applications would be written primarily for Linux.
Windows is innately no better at driver support than Linux, and in many cases is worse (jWindows is better on new hardware, which is when it matters most for purchasers of new computers).
Windows and Unix (FreeBSD and old school Unix) is insanely better than Windows in the fact you can use ABI's or Application Binary Interfaces so drivers do not need recompiles. Need to run that 6 year old driver? No problem. Just go into FreeBSD sysinstall and enable FBSD 5.x ABI and it will magically work. Linux? Nope ... recompile. Ohh that is write the hardware OEM can't release the specs due to protect IP from a contractor who has a patent 5,743,775 on that. Guess you all can't have it or need to wait for only supported versions of Linux, etc.
RMS himself admitted he broke Linux without an ABI on purpose to force driver makers to open source. It ain't gonna happen! Too many patent agreements prevent this so Windows on the hand will just work.
Also do an apt-upgrade and watch what happens to your printers and Xorg? More than likely after a version or two something will break, XORG won't work etc. Again due to the lack of an ABI ATI and Nvidia drivers will not work without a recompile.
Take the Hairyfeet challenge. Get a 5 year old version of Linux and do 2 upgrades or more? They will ALWAYS break after the 3 rd release. Windows doesn't have this problem.
Linux is not a suitable desktop replacement,
Linux is a perfectly good desktop system. The main issues you'll run into are driver issues and lack of application support, especially in laptops. Ease of use is not a problem.
Well for one you admit in your sig that SystemD is not all that great.
Also those of us who still run old IE more than likely are in a corporate environment. You know those environments which use jscript for the x and y's that are stored in doubles instead of floats in IE 6 so running any other browser outside of QUIRKS mode will incorrectly place them correctly (oxymoron right) so the webpages are scrambled in every other browser ... and many many other ancient exotic bugs just to make it display in 2001 which break in modern browsers.
These same sites which require GPO's in Active Directory to enable PCI lockdowns and other customizations etc.
I am not a MS fanboy by any sense of the means but I have to inquire if yourself or hte parent is using Chrome right now to read this?
If you are then how is MS the ultimate spyware when you use a Google product or an iphone or Android phone? From what I read what MS does is send data via cortana to Bing if you enable this feature. Usage statistics have been around LONG before Windows 10. MS knew starting with Windows 7 in 2009 if users have pinned things to the task bar as an example. No it doesn't read your MS Word documents or puts a name for each usage but it does for statistics.
IE at least has privacy features like DNT do not track and can add privacy lists from adblock and even use adblock plus. Firefox is pretty much a shill to Yahoo these days and may even be bought out.
My point is it is hypocrisy to fire up Chrome while texting on your Android on the evils of Windows 10.
Can you tell us which motherboard? I'm looking to order a new mobo/CPU combo and don't want to have to install 10 yet.
This is not bribing. Contrary to popular opinion on slashdot one can not expect a 6 year old OS to run well on modern hardware with UEFI, m.2 ssd connectors, usb type c/USB 3.1 out of the box.
Times change.
IF you love WIndows 7 go into your efi/bios and turn on CSM in EFI or turn off EFI and secure boot, and turn off UEFI VGA for legacy. You will have much better luck but you will need to go to the chipset drivers for your USB connectors.
I have Windows 8.1 but with Start8 and modernMix for metro control and it works just fine and supports these things above. Windows 10 is not that bad but just beta quality when it was released or rushed. I loved IWndows 7 and it was the best OS MS made since WIndows 2000. But time moves on. It is great on older hardware from it's time frame. But today I need Hyper-V for my certs and Linxu VM's for development. WIndows 7 does not meet my needs nor runs well on my Haswell unless I disable some of the newer features and time savers in my EFI and go back to a bios.
Which plot?
There were 4 or 5 subplots and no points together. It seems a committee of writers threw something together. If I recall from Highschool English is you have an introduction, a height or climax, and a conclusion for a good storyline. I felt there were several stories thrown together complete with poor character development.
Anything source compatible is copyright violation subject to the dmca thanks to the Oracle court case.
Compatibility is intermingled with copyright. Terrible decision