Oh man, I went through the exact same thing. In fact, I even remember the first time that I saw a game that was required to run through Windows (3.1, actually). I saw that and thought, "What the hell??" And then I saw what happened after installing Win95 and how messed up all my games got and just started freaking out. And then, after a year or two, I realized, "Hey, this is actually not too shabby!"
With DOS, it would take me at least a week of fiddling with driver load orders so that I'd have enough base memory for the game to run. Go in, change autoexec.bat and config.sys, try not loading the mouse until after the boot is complete, etc. Ugh...it was a nightmare. Now, you just pop the disc in, install it, and play...no muss, no fuss.
excellent point...i'm wrong...how original. no, there was no prompt at all...now get over yourself and stop being like all the other linux-zealots. as long as there are folks like you providing support for linux systems, linux will never stand a chance..
Speaking of issues with installing other OS's...a couple years ago I decided to install Mandrake Linux on a secondary hard drive. Halfway through the installation, Mandrake came back with a message saying "Mandrake Linux has detected non-Linux hard drives on your system and has formatted them for use." GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...I lost 3 term papers...
your point is crippled...it stands not. I'm going to leave it at that because you've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no ability to logically reason...either that or you're about 11 years old.
You're opening your mouth, that's what's wrong. If you got your head out of your Microsoft-bashing ass for a moment, you'd understand what the poster was saying. Like most things, it's easy to get started with a product but, if you don't know what you're doing, you can easily botch things up when you start dinking around. And like most things, if you get a good game plan and some good advice, you can make Exchange do somersaults for you.
You really are an idiot/jackass if you think that googling the term "Microsoft Exchange problem" is an accurate way to discover the ability of an application. I performed your search and over half of the results on the first page alone were advertisements.
Do everyone a favor and stay away from computers for the rest of your life.
Typical Microsoft product as far as I can tell.
Oh yeah, and go take your mindless Microsoft-hating ass back to school so that you can learn deductive reasoning.
The statement that the parent poster made was not only incredibly immature, but totally inaccurate. Think about the statement:
"because whomever banned them got to read them"
and now contrast this to what you know of your average pig-ignorant person. Something seem amiss? Why are we assuming that just because someone decided to ban a book that they actually took the time to read it as well?
Mod me down as flamebait for pointing this out, but did anyone else notice that the posted link for.NET went to the Mono homepage? Yeah, they deserve all of the credit for.NET. As a counterpoint, the Java link went to the Sun homepage...what's the deal?
eh...anything pertaining to the origins of life should clearly be taught as philosophy. there is nowhere near enough proof to teach any one idea as a scientific fact to children.
for most of the people of the world, the idea of the origin of life is a fundamental axiom of their entire belief system (read: principles, values, morals) - even, i dare say, those who believe in evolution. this goes the same way with creationism, which shouldn't be taught as scientific fact, either.
teach 'em as unbiased philosophies and let the kids make up their own minds. jeez...i don't see why this is so complicated.
Hah...yeah..that's funny, a coworker was telling me the other day that 1 in 3 SUV's sold in America end up in Texas. So I told him that the other 2 must end up in California.:)
Huge SUVs _were_ popular, up until last year. Sales of medium and large SUVs are down 30% from a year ago.
That may be the case where you're from - but here in California I see more brand new SUV's than ever before. They mainly consist of three vomit-inducing varieties:
Chevy/GMC Tahoe/Yukon Ford Expedition Hummer...the most vile of all..
It turns my stomach..every day on my commute I see more and more of these monstrosities still with the dealer license plate advertisements on them. And usually it's one cutesy little blonde mommy driving and that's it. Yuck...on a 40 mile commute everyday...I can't imagine what they're paying in gas...actually I can. I saw one fill up the other day. Another brain-buster, as Lewis Black would say, with gas being more expensive here in California than anywhere else in the country - $80 to fill up that beast.
Well, I'm not sure if you have to deal too much with normal folks, but if you did, you would realize that, in order for someone to understand what appears to be (to us) a very simple computer concept, the said concept has to be broken down quite a bit. From what you said, it's no wonder that the journalist said "Huh?". Your post insinuates that that journalist's article was written because she didn't have the capacity to understand what you were speaking of. While this may have been true, journalists have the responsibility to write articles that they feel the audience will understand as well. It has been my experience that if you take the time to really simplify and illustrate what you are talking about, using 'Real World' examples, without consciously trying to make the person think, "Hey, this guy/gal is really smart! Look at all the terminology he/she uses!", the receiver will understand more quickly, and be more thankful for the explanation. While the journalist may not have had the article length sufficient for a real break-down of terminology, the degree of understanding imparted from you might have been enough for her to reintepret it in a more efficient manner.
But my prose is hardly flawless on a first draft typed at 60 words/minute, and that's the style of communication on free-for-all boards like/. and most web venues.
Your comment actually brings up a decent point, however. If people slowed down to check for grammer/spelling mistakes, it might actually make them pause to think about what they're trying to say.
Whenever I type up anything of length (greater than one or two paragraphs), I always read it over a few times to make sure that my point is getting across satisfactorily. That said, this post was finished in 2.2 seconds.
whenever I come across them, my brain is forced correct the mistake before going on
The moment I saw this article I just knew that the pedantry would be flowing like wine; so far, it's been wine from my own cellar. Anyhow, you're going to kick yourself for that one, now, aren't you?:)
The bottom line (get it? line? ghoti?) is that I, personally, could care less which language you use as long as it is used properly. Enough of this econo-speak - how you say and spell things does make a difference in how what you are communicating.
Amen and Amen...what the hell does.NOT mean? are we talking about deployment of.net applications? future development of the.net framework? anyone who's seen what's due out in.net 2.0 knows that there is some seriously cool stuff. and as far as deployment goes - while i'm not too sure about windows applications, web applications and web services are taking off like crazy. Just look at one of the most busiest websites in the world: dell.com. They're using ASP.NET. That's not 'stalling'...buy any standards..
jeez..you're like a stubborn mule..ok, here's some more evidence..
i have two computers - a desktop and a laptop.
Desktop Specs: Athlon 1800XP 1GB RAM 4 year old IBM 7200 40GB HD (x2)
Laptop Specs: Pentium 3.06GHz 1GB RAM 5400 RPM 60GB HD
both have Windows XP SP2, updated and patched. if i start both of them up at the same time, the desktop blows away the laptop...why is this? because the components in the laptop are primarily built for convenience (size and lower power consumption), not speed. take your laptop to a LAN party and play Age of Empires II - it could be brand-spanking-new, but you will still get the "Turtle of Shame". i don't care if your laptop is plugged into the wall the whole time, bus speed is bus speed. often times, i will even notice that my laptop will speed-step down to 1.6Ghz even though it is plugged in and the battery is at full..that's just the joy of laptops..now accept the truth!:)
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Oh man, I went through the exact same thing. In fact, I even remember the first time that I saw a game that was required to run through Windows (3.1, actually). I saw that and thought, "What the hell??" And then I saw what happened after installing Win95 and how messed up all my games got and just started freaking out. And then, after a year or two, I realized, "Hey, this is actually not too shabby!"
With DOS, it would take me at least a week of fiddling with driver load orders so that I'd have enough base memory for the game to run. Go in, change autoexec.bat and config.sys, try not loading the mouse until after the boot is complete, etc. Ugh...it was a nightmare. Now, you just pop the disc in, install it, and play...no muss, no fuss.
excellent point...i'm wrong...how original. no, there was no prompt at all...now get over yourself and stop being like all the other linux-zealots. as long as there are folks like you providing support for linux systems, linux will never stand a chance..
p.s. it is that stupid...or at least it was...
Speaking of issues with installing other OS's...a couple years ago I decided to install Mandrake Linux on a secondary hard drive. Halfway through the installation, Mandrake came back with a message saying "Mandrake Linux has detected non-Linux hard drives on your system and has formatted them for use." GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...I lost 3 term papers...
why is this insightful? oh right..i would have never guessed that that would have hurt..
haha...your childish ignorance eases my mind about job security.
your point is crippled...it stands not. I'm going to leave it at that because you've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no ability to logically reason...either that or you're about 11 years old.
What's wrong with this picture?
You're opening your mouth, that's what's wrong. If you got your head out of your Microsoft-bashing ass for a moment, you'd understand what the poster was saying. Like most things, it's easy to get started with a product but, if you don't know what you're doing, you can easily botch things up when you start dinking around. And like most things, if you get a good game plan and some good advice, you can make Exchange do somersaults for you.
...discover the ability of an...
sorry...I meant stability.
You really are an idiot/jackass if you think that googling the term "Microsoft Exchange problem" is an accurate way to discover the ability of an application. I performed your search and over half of the results on the first page alone were advertisements.
Do everyone a favor and stay away from computers for the rest of your life.
Typical Microsoft product as far as I can tell.
Oh yeah, and go take your mindless Microsoft-hating ass back to school so that you can learn deductive reasoning.
The statement that the parent poster made was not only incredibly immature, but totally inaccurate. Think about the statement:
"because whomever banned them got to read them"
and now contrast this to what you know of your average pig-ignorant person. Something seem amiss? Why are we assuming that just because someone decided to ban a book that they actually took the time to read it as well?
The world's largest piece of humble pie was served to and eaten by over 800000 slashdot users...with a side of ice cream and peanut m&m's..
Mod me down as flamebait for pointing this out, but did anyone else notice that the posted link for .NET went to the Mono homepage? Yeah, they deserve all of the credit for .NET. As a counterpoint, the Java link went to the Sun homepage...what's the deal?
eh...anything pertaining to the origins of life should clearly be taught as philosophy. there is nowhere near enough proof to teach any one idea as a scientific fact to children.
for most of the people of the world, the idea of the origin of life is a fundamental axiom of their entire belief system (read: principles, values, morals) - even, i dare say, those who believe in evolution. this goes the same way with creationism, which shouldn't be taught as scientific fact, either.
teach 'em as unbiased philosophies and let the kids make up their own minds. jeez...i don't see why this is so complicated.
Hah...yeah..that's funny, a coworker was telling me the other day that 1 in 3 SUV's sold in America end up in Texas. So I told him that the other 2 must end up in California. :)
Huge SUVs _were_ popular, up until last year. Sales of medium and large SUVs are down 30% from a year ago.
That may be the case where you're from - but here in California I see more brand new SUV's than ever before. They mainly consist of three vomit-inducing varieties:
Chevy/GMC Tahoe/Yukon
Ford Expedition
Hummer...the most vile of all..
It turns my stomach..every day on my commute I see more and more of these monstrosities still with the dealer license plate advertisements on them. And usually it's one cutesy little blonde mommy driving and that's it. Yuck...on a 40 mile commute everyday...I can't imagine what they're paying in gas...actually I can. I saw one fill up the other day. Another brain-buster, as Lewis Black would say, with gas being more expensive here in California than anywhere else in the country - $80 to fill up that beast.
Well, I'm not sure if you have to deal too much with normal folks, but if you did, you would realize that, in order for someone to understand what appears to be (to us) a very simple computer concept, the said concept has to be broken down quite a bit. From what you said, it's no wonder that the journalist said "Huh?". Your post insinuates that that journalist's article was written because she didn't have the capacity to understand what you were speaking of. While this may have been true, journalists have the responsibility to write articles that they feel the audience will understand as well. It has been my experience that if you take the time to really simplify and illustrate what you are talking about, using 'Real World' examples, without consciously trying to make the person think, "Hey, this guy/gal is really smart! Look at all the terminology he/she uses!", the receiver will understand more quickly, and be more thankful for the explanation. While the journalist may not have had the article length sufficient for a real break-down of terminology, the degree of understanding imparted from you might have been enough for her to reintepret it in a more efficient manner.
Damn! See, there you go. I should of *cough* er..um...yeah, I should have slowed down.
Perfectly good medical term?
/'rE-"tärd/ often offensive : a retarded person; also : a person held to resemble a retarded person in behavior
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That's the only noun definition for retard and it's neither perfect, good, or medical.
But my prose is hardly flawless on a first draft typed at 60 words/minute, and that's the style of communication on free-for-all boards like /. and most web venues.
Your comment actually brings up a decent point, however. If people slowed down to check for grammer/spelling mistakes, it might actually make them pause to think about what they're trying to say.
Whenever I type up anything of length (greater than one or two paragraphs), I always read it over a few times to make sure that my point is getting across satisfactorily. That said, this post was finished in 2.2 seconds.
whenever I come across them, my brain is forced correct the mistake before going on
:)
The moment I saw this article I just knew that the pedantry would be flowing like wine; so far, it's been wine from my own cellar. Anyhow, you're going to kick yourself for that one, now, aren't you?
A completely obvious (and more correct, in my opinion) alternative to "Peter got shot":
Peter was shot.
So there you have it - the word 'got' was dropped.
I agree with you completely, but using words like 'retard' can make you look shallow and bigoted.
The bottom line (get it? line? ghoti?) is that I, personally, could care less which language you use as long as it is used properly. Enough of this econo-speak - how you say and spell things does make a difference in how what you are communicating.
Amen and Amen...what the hell does .NOT mean? are we talking about deployment of .net applications? future development of the .net framework? anyone who's seen what's due out in .net 2.0 knows that there is some seriously cool stuff. and as far as deployment goes - while i'm not too sure about windows applications, web applications and web services are taking off like crazy. Just look at one of the most busiest websites in the world: dell.com. They're using ASP.NET. That's not 'stalling'...buy any standards..
jeez..you're like a stubborn mule..ok, here's some more evidence..
:)
i have two computers - a desktop and a laptop.
Desktop Specs:
Athlon 1800XP
1GB RAM
4 year old IBM 7200 40GB HD (x2)
Laptop Specs:
Pentium 3.06GHz
1GB RAM
5400 RPM 60GB HD
both have Windows XP SP2, updated and patched. if i start both of them up at the same time, the desktop blows away the laptop...why is this? because the components in the laptop are primarily built for convenience (size and lower power consumption), not speed. take your laptop to a LAN party and play Age of Empires II - it could be brand-spanking-new, but you will still get the "Turtle of Shame". i don't care if your laptop is plugged into the wall the whole time, bus speed is bus speed. often times, i will even notice that my laptop will speed-step down to 1.6Ghz even though it is plugged in and the battery is at full..that's just the joy of laptops..now accept the truth!