Thats not really true, every solid state drive I have seen includes a regular hard drive for power-off storage. So it's just as noisy as a normal drive.
If you happen to read both groups, great. Still, this isn't K5 and a post shouldn't be judged as redundant just because the person decided to post it to two different message boards.
But who pays for the guys 1/2 million in medical expenses now? Guess what: insurance companies aren't. They are making a profit. They may payout the 1/2 million all at once and it may look like a lot of money, but in the long run they make it all back and much much more, simply because they have to, or else they would go out of business.
I would love to only have insurance for unpredictible things. Unfortunatly, in the state of virginia in the USA everyone has to have insurance to drive a car. You would think if you took the bare minimum insurance, just to cover the supposedly super rare events it would be pretty cheap. Not really, more like $150/month. And that is the cheapest I could find out of 6 companies. Sure, I'm 22 and a male so that raises my rate. But it makes you think. If 1 in 20, now those are pretty good odds for a "super rare" accident, if 1 in 100 cause $100k in damages once a year, the insurance company would still be way ahead. Without considering the fact that the guy causeing the accident is suddenly going to have a $400/month premium. That really doesn't seem right, that would be like a person I work with (my place of employment has around 100 employees) killing a person in a car accident every 12 months. I think it must be much more like 1/1000 per year, or even much less. From this I can see what a total rip off every insurance company is.
This isn't totally on topic. I'm sorry. This isn't a troll though either. I hate insurance, and insurance companies. Why? Because they are mandatory, at least in the state of Virginia in the US. I know the reason they claim it's mandatory: people who didn't have insurance would get in accidents and the taxpayers would get stuck with the bill. Guess what? with insurance mandatory, EVERYONE PAYS and gee if everyone is paying the taxpayers are STILL paying the bill, except the bill is twice as big. Why does it cost more?
Very simple, consider two scenarios.
Scenario 1: you pay $100 a month in insurance. After 3 years with a perfect record you cause a horrible accident and destroy some guy's brand new $45,000 BMW and cause $2000 in damages to your beat up Ford Pinto. However, your insurance company doesn't want to get stuck with the bill so they hire a lawyer and go to court against the other guys insurance company. This does happen in real life, no corperation is going to throw out $50k if it can get that ammount reduced in court. Either it ends up paying less, and the poor guy you hit suffers, or they lose the suit and end up just wasting money on the lawyer. Not only that, but there is the money to pay the insurance adjuster. And the insurance claims rep. And the insurance office secretary. All expenses that would not exist without the insurance system as it is. In the end, you WILL pay back the $50k you lost your insurance company, unless you die first. Chances are you will pay more. A few months after the accident your premium will triple and for the next 20 years it will not go back down.
Scenario 2, no insurance. You hit a guy, total his $45k BMW and ruin your $2k piece of trash car. Ouch, you MUST pay or else the guy will sue and get the cash directly from your pay, and you will not be able to drive untill the matter is worked out. With no other option you are forced to take out a $47k loan. Luckily you had $5k in the bank, saved money you invested and earned cash on that didn't have to go torwards your insurance premiums since you don't have insurance. You end up with a 10 year loan for $42k at 10% interest. Ouch, that hurts- but do the math, you will be far better off in the end than you would be with insurance. Why? Because you only pay for the damage. You don't pay extra to pay the insurance company's lawyer, you don't pay extra to pay the insurance company employees, and you don't pay extra for the insurance companies profit.
That is why I hate insurance companies and mandatory insurance. Please feel free to let me know just how wrong I am.
I for one am very pleased to hear that the Republic of South Africa hasn't actually been cracked. They really have enough problems down there as it is.
The universe isn't loseing energy. Where did you hear that? Maybe energy is turning into matter, or maybe the energy is getting more evenly distributed, but it's not being "lost".
I don't watch TV mainly for this reason. If the goal is to pay for the costs of webhosting, it will probably work- many people will quit visiting the site and thus the traffic will be reduced greatly. I have a dsl connection, or even a T1 at work, but most people out there are still on dialup. They don't want to sit through a commercial on the web just to see a website.
This is a major annoyance out here. Basicly, when driving on the interstate you pass on the left. Nothing I hate more than driveing in the left lane and seeing the car infront of me leaveing a bigger and bigger gap between it and the next car, and cars constantly switching lanes to pass infront from the right lane. Out here noone drives the limit, i66 is still 55mph and everyone drives 65-70. I don't care if a person is following the speed limit, if you are going to drive slower than 90% of the people on the road you get in the right lane, simple as that.
If you search for "celeron cpu 800" on pricewatch you will come up with prices of $202 and $204. Ouch. You can nearly get a 1.1ghz Athlon ($215) for that.
100mhz FSB, great. Unfortunatly, the duron still runs at 100mhz double-data-rate, or basicly 200mhz. The only thing holding it back (from the "cheap computer" segment) was a good integrated chipset, and they are becomming available right now. Not to mention the insane prices: while the 800mhz part isn't listed on pricewatch yet, the 766mhz celeron is $155. Actually if you search for the 800mhz celeron specificly, you will get two listing: $202 or $204. While at the same time you can purchase a 900mhz Athlon Thunderbird for $137, or a 1ghz for $169.
Is that this uses the exact same socket as a celeron. Even though the duron is cheaper than the celeron, OEM's continue to use the celeron because of it's cheap boards with integrated video and sound. Now here is a processor that is hopefully going to be even cheaper than the duron, with speed close to that of the celeron. Adding in the fact that OEM's don't need to pay the cost of a fan, and I think intel might be in some trouble.
When I eat fastfood out I drive up, pick up my food, and leave. It takes 5 minutes if there is a line, less otherwise. Usually I do this on the way home from work, on the way to a customer's site, or while doing other things. Where I work currently has fine refrigerated space, but my prior job had one little joke of a refrigerator that was always full. Keep in mind that not everyone even works in an office. As far as time spent, okay you can cook your frozen healthy choice meal in 4-5 minutes. If you use plastic utensils cleaning time is reduced (course have to add price of the utensils, not much though). So it's going to take the same 5 minutes to eat your healthy choice whatever as it will for me to drivethrough and order a chicken sandwich and soda. So the same cost for both, which still proves you wrong as far as healthy food being cheaper. And those frozen meals aren't exactly healthfood, they cut just enough fat to be legally allowed a 'low fat' rating or whatever they claim. If you actually make yourself a meal it's going to take more then 5 minutes. Besides, low fat isn't everything. I can go a day eating nothing but fat free twizzlers and soda, but trust me that isn't going to make me skinny any time soon. Similarly, people who eat "fat free" salad all day but cover it with oily dressing aren't doing themselves much good either.
Anyway, I'm not trying to be against you. I don't really like usual fastfoods. Mostly I eat at a local non-chain mexican place, and get chicken with rice, hardly what most people think of as unhealthy food. I won't fix food here, however. It's not worth the hassle of bring in food, waiting to use the microwave, taking home dishes, going to the grocery store weekly, etc.
Well, there should be some kind of faq for windows users explaining these differences. If there is no similar command, just state that in the faq. For example, "there is no program to take the place of the windows control panel as you know it- instead linux has a virtual filesystem within the/proc directory and files detailing devices are there, while other control panel tasks are handled by individual utilities such as adduser passwrd or XF86Setup". Something like that would have been very helpfull when I first started. Some of the most basics things in windows can be hard to find in linux-- even to this day I don't know the command to see how much free disk space I have available from bash.
The RPM manager I eventually figured out. init still totally confuses me, but at least I managed to get it to switch my harddisk to ATA/66 during bootup, and if I wanted to put something else in it I think I could figure it out again eventually. Device drivers- yep they are a total pain if they aren't built into the distrobution. I haven't ever successfully added one. Dialup networking- I don't need this now because I share my DSL on a LAN, but it would have been nice to have a year ago.
I guess really what I want is a faq for experienced windows users. Just some basic lists saying "instead of edit.com use vi" "for help on a command type 'man [command]' instead of 'command/?'" Just basic stuff like that. Mostly I have learned these things, and looking back it seems like it could have been a lot easier.
Mainly, those were things which an experienced windows-user would know and understand. For the most part I have figured out the answers, but it took longer then it should have IMO, and itwould have been nice to have a faq of somekind. Yes, when you install redhat 6.2 you get links to linuxnewbie.org and the gnome faq or whatever exactly it gives you, those are nice. They aren't what I need though. I just want a simple text file that says "instead of the contoll panel add/remove programs applet, redhat uses the rpm manager, to open it click on so on and so forth" "instead of dos edit, vi is the basic command line editor" "instead of autoexec.bat and config.sys, we have rc.local and whatever the heck" (I still haven't figure this out entirely).
Thats mainly what I missed when I started useing linux. For people less familiar with windows, it probably wouldn't be helpfull at all.
What I want to see personally is something along the lines of:
What is the equivilent of add/remove programs?
What is the equivilent of autoexec.bat/startup folder?
Where is dialup networking?
Where is device manager/what the heck do I do with this linux driver on disk?
How do you do this 'webserver' thing that linux is supposed to be so good at?
I have two problems with what you said. First of all, you talk about how easy it is to make a "healthy, filling meal that won't clog up the arteries". As easy as it may be, many people work at locations where refrigerator space is extreamly limited, and with little or no way to cook food. The second thing is your talk of cost. Eating out fast food is by far the cheapest option. The only reason you think otherwise is because you completely ignore the cost of TIME spent cooking, cleaning dishes, shopping for food, etc. On average lunch at home probably takes me 15 minutes to prepare. If i'm eating a frozen "low fat" meal thing it's already at $2.50 or so, adding in the value of 15 minutes of my time and it's suddenly $5 for a meal, not including any sort of drink, and also without considering the cost to clean dishes, utensils, etc.. also mostly a time cost.
My last mouse cost $20. I can't imagine for a second that I'd get through 14 mice in my lifetime.
Not to mention, who knows how mice will connect to computers in 10 years. USB, PS/2, Serial none of them last forever.
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The EULA doesn't appear in most cases untill you start to install the program. So, what happens if you copy the entire contents of the media on to your hard drive? You never agreeed to any EULA. Are you free to hack into the program any way you choose? What if you modify the program slightly so it skips the EULA, and then install your modified version?
Also, some EULA are extreamly vague. It may state "you may only install this software on one computer. you must remove it before you install on another etc etc" If you later install AGAIN you will have to agree AGAIN and couldn't you argue that for each EULA you agree to you may install one copy? Hey, I bought the MEDIA for $50, but every time I installed the program I recieved another EULA without doing anything. If I agree to the EULA 5 seperate times does that give me 5 licenses?
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Interesting enough, your example isn't the best one. Just because a parking garage states that they are not responsible for loss or damages does not make it so. If the law states that when you pay someone to garage your vehicle they are responsible, that applies regardless of any silly sign the garage has stating otherwise.
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Thats not really true, every solid state drive I have seen includes a regular hard drive for power-off storage. So it's just as noisy as a normal drive.
Western digital manufactures IBM drives? Care to back that up with a link?
Your company is paying someone $120/hr to install windows?
Are you hiring?
If you happen to read both groups, great. Still, this isn't K5 and a post shouldn't be judged as redundant just because the person decided to post it to two different message boards.
But who pays for the guys 1/2 million in medical expenses now? Guess what: insurance companies aren't. They are making a profit. They may payout the 1/2 million all at once and it may look like a lot of money, but in the long run they make it all back and much much more, simply because they have to, or else they would go out of business.
I would love to only have insurance for unpredictible things. Unfortunatly, in the state of virginia in the USA everyone has to have insurance to drive a car. You would think if you took the bare minimum insurance, just to cover the supposedly super rare events it would be pretty cheap. Not really, more like $150/month. And that is the cheapest I could find out of 6 companies. Sure, I'm 22 and a male so that raises my rate. But it makes you think. If 1 in 20, now those are pretty good odds for a "super rare" accident, if 1 in 100 cause $100k in damages once a year, the insurance company would still be way ahead. Without considering the fact that the guy causeing the accident is suddenly going to have a $400/month premium. That really doesn't seem right, that would be like a person I work with (my place of employment has around 100 employees) killing a person in a car accident every 12 months. I think it must be much more like 1/1000 per year, or even much less. From this I can see what a total rip off every insurance company is.
This isn't totally on topic. I'm sorry. This isn't a troll though either. I hate insurance, and insurance companies. Why? Because they are mandatory, at least in the state of Virginia in the US. I know the reason they claim it's mandatory: people who didn't have insurance would get in accidents and the taxpayers would get stuck with the bill. Guess what? with insurance mandatory, EVERYONE PAYS and gee if everyone is paying the taxpayers are STILL paying the bill, except the bill is twice as big. Why does it cost more?
Very simple, consider two scenarios.
Scenario 1: you pay $100 a month in insurance. After 3 years with a perfect record you cause a horrible accident and destroy some guy's brand new $45,000 BMW and cause $2000 in damages to your beat up Ford Pinto. However, your insurance company doesn't want to get stuck with the bill so they hire a lawyer and go to court against the other guys insurance company. This does happen in real life, no corperation is going to throw out $50k if it can get that ammount reduced in court. Either it ends up paying less, and the poor guy you hit suffers, or they lose the suit and end up just wasting money on the lawyer. Not only that, but there is the money to pay the insurance adjuster. And the insurance claims rep. And the insurance office secretary. All expenses that would not exist without the insurance system as it is. In the end, you WILL pay back the $50k you lost your insurance company, unless you die first. Chances are you will pay more. A few months after the accident your premium will triple and for the next 20 years it will not go back down.
Scenario 2, no insurance. You hit a guy, total his $45k BMW and ruin your $2k piece of trash car. Ouch, you MUST pay or else the guy will sue and get the cash directly from your pay, and you will not be able to drive untill the matter is worked out. With no other option you are forced to take out a $47k loan. Luckily you had $5k in the bank, saved money you invested and earned cash on that didn't have to go torwards your insurance premiums since you don't have insurance. You end up with a 10 year loan for $42k at 10% interest. Ouch, that hurts- but do the math, you will be far better off in the end than you would be with insurance. Why? Because you only pay for the damage. You don't pay extra to pay the insurance company's lawyer, you don't pay extra to pay the insurance company employees, and you don't pay extra for the insurance companies profit.
That is why I hate insurance companies and mandatory insurance. Please feel free to let me know just how wrong I am.
I for one am very pleased to hear that the Republic of South Africa hasn't actually been cracked. They really have enough problems down there as it is.
The universe isn't loseing energy. Where did you hear that? Maybe energy is turning into matter, or maybe the energy is getting more evenly distributed, but it's not being "lost".
I don't watch TV mainly for this reason. If the goal is to pay for the costs of webhosting, it will probably work- many people will quit visiting the site and thus the traffic will be reduced greatly. I have a dsl connection, or even a T1 at work, but most people out there are still on dialup. They don't want to sit through a commercial on the web just to see a website.
This is a major annoyance out here. Basicly, when driving on the interstate you pass on the left. Nothing I hate more than driveing in the left lane and seeing the car infront of me leaveing a bigger and bigger gap between it and the next car, and cars constantly switching lanes to pass infront from the right lane. Out here noone drives the limit, i66 is still 55mph and everyone drives 65-70. I don't care if a person is following the speed limit, if you are going to drive slower than 90% of the people on the road you get in the right lane, simple as that.
If you search for "celeron cpu 800" on pricewatch you will come up with prices of $202 and $204. Ouch. You can nearly get a 1.1ghz Athlon ($215) for that.
100mhz FSB, great. Unfortunatly, the duron still runs at 100mhz double-data-rate, or basicly 200mhz. The only thing holding it back (from the "cheap computer" segment) was a good integrated chipset, and they are becomming available right now. Not to mention the insane prices: while the 800mhz part isn't listed on pricewatch yet, the 766mhz celeron is $155. Actually if you search for the 800mhz celeron specificly, you will get two listing: $202 or $204. While at the same time you can purchase a 900mhz Athlon Thunderbird for $137, or a 1ghz for $169.
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Not that it means anything. Just something I noticed while trying to find anything except the ceased to operate notice.
Is that this uses the exact same socket as a celeron. Even though the duron is cheaper than the celeron, OEM's continue to use the celeron because of it's cheap boards with integrated video and sound. Now here is a processor that is hopefully going to be even cheaper than the duron, with speed close to that of the celeron. Adding in the fact that OEM's don't need to pay the cost of a fan, and I think intel might be in some trouble.
When I eat fastfood out I drive up, pick up my food, and leave. It takes 5 minutes if there is a line, less otherwise. Usually I do this on the way home from work, on the way to a customer's site, or while doing other things. Where I work currently has fine refrigerated space, but my prior job had one little joke of a refrigerator that was always full. Keep in mind that not everyone even works in an office. As far as time spent, okay you can cook your frozen healthy choice meal in 4-5 minutes. If you use plastic utensils cleaning time is reduced (course have to add price of the utensils, not much though). So it's going to take the same 5 minutes to eat your healthy choice whatever as it will for me to drivethrough and order a chicken sandwich and soda. So the same cost for both, which still proves you wrong as far as healthy food being cheaper. And those frozen meals aren't exactly healthfood, they cut just enough fat to be legally allowed a 'low fat' rating or whatever they claim. If you actually make yourself a meal it's going to take more then 5 minutes. Besides, low fat isn't everything. I can go a day eating nothing but fat free twizzlers and soda, but trust me that isn't going to make me skinny any time soon. Similarly, people who eat "fat free" salad all day but cover it with oily dressing aren't doing themselves much good either.
Anyway, I'm not trying to be against you. I don't really like usual fastfoods. Mostly I eat at a local non-chain mexican place, and get chicken with rice, hardly what most people think of as unhealthy food. I won't fix food here, however. It's not worth the hassle of bring in food, waiting to use the microwave, taking home dishes, going to the grocery store weekly, etc.
Well, there should be some kind of faq for windows users explaining these differences. If there is no similar command, just state that in the faq. For example, "there is no program to take the place of the windows control panel as you know it- instead linux has a virtual filesystem within the /proc directory and files detailing devices are there, while other control panel tasks are handled by individual utilities such as adduser passwrd or XF86Setup". Something like that would have been very helpfull when I first started. Some of the most basics things in windows can be hard to find in linux-- even to this day I don't know the command to see how much free disk space I have available from bash.
The RPM manager I eventually figured out. init still totally confuses me, but at least I managed to get it to switch my harddisk to ATA/66 during bootup, and if I wanted to put something else in it I think I could figure it out again eventually. Device drivers- yep they are a total pain if they aren't built into the distrobution. I haven't ever successfully added one. Dialup networking- I don't need this now because I share my DSL on a LAN, but it would have been nice to have a year ago.
/?'" Just basic stuff like that. Mostly I have learned these things, and looking back it seems like it could have been a lot easier.
I guess really what I want is a faq for experienced windows users. Just some basic lists saying "instead of edit.com use vi" "for help on a command type 'man [command]' instead of 'command
Mainly, those were things which an experienced windows-user would know and understand. For the most part I have figured out the answers, but it took longer then it should have IMO, and itwould have been nice to have a faq of somekind. Yes, when you install redhat 6.2 you get links to linuxnewbie.org and the gnome faq or whatever exactly it gives you, those are nice. They aren't what I need though. I just want a simple text file that says "instead of the contoll panel add/remove programs applet, redhat uses the rpm manager, to open it click on so on and so forth" "instead of dos edit, vi is the basic command line editor" "instead of autoexec.bat and config.sys, we have rc.local and whatever the heck" (I still haven't figure this out entirely).
Thats mainly what I missed when I started useing linux. For people less familiar with windows, it probably wouldn't be helpfull at all.
What I want to see personally is something along the lines of:
What is the equivilent of add/remove programs?
What is the equivilent of autoexec.bat/startup folder?
Where is dialup networking?
Where is device manager/what the heck do I do with this linux driver on disk?
How do you do this 'webserver' thing that linux is supposed to be so good at?
I have two problems with what you said. First of all, you talk about how easy it is to make a "healthy, filling meal that won't clog up the arteries". As easy as it may be, many people work at locations where refrigerator space is extreamly limited, and with little or no way to cook food. The second thing is your talk of cost. Eating out fast food is by far the cheapest option. The only reason you think otherwise is because you completely ignore the cost of TIME spent cooking, cleaning dishes, shopping for food, etc. On average lunch at home probably takes me 15 minutes to prepare. If i'm eating a frozen "low fat" meal thing it's already at $2.50 or so, adding in the value of 15 minutes of my time and it's suddenly $5 for a meal, not including any sort of drink, and also without considering the cost to clean dishes, utensils, etc.. also mostly a time cost.
My last mouse cost $20. I can't imagine for a second that I'd get through 14 mice in my lifetime. Not to mention, who knows how mice will connect to computers in 10 years. USB, PS/2, Serial none of them last forever.
The EULA doesn't appear in most cases untill you start to install the program. So, what happens if you copy the entire contents of the media on to your hard drive? You never agreeed to any EULA. Are you free to hack into the program any way you choose? What if you modify the program slightly so it skips the EULA, and then install your modified version?
Also, some EULA are extreamly vague. It may state "you may only install this software on one computer. you must remove it before you install on another etc etc" If you later install AGAIN you will have to agree AGAIN and couldn't you argue that for each EULA you agree to you may install one copy? Hey, I bought the MEDIA for $50, but every time I installed the program I recieved another EULA without doing anything. If I agree to the EULA 5 seperate times does that give me 5 licenses?
Interesting enough, your example isn't the best one. Just because a parking garage states that they are not responsible for loss or damages does not make it so. If the law states that when you pay someone to garage your vehicle they are responsible, that applies regardless of any silly sign the garage has stating otherwise.
Yes, however the people who buy the mac version probably can't dual-boot to run the windows version.