Perhaps the bit you're missing is that windows isn't quite as bad as the/. crowd likes to say it is. Especially if its an older (translation: fixed & stable) variety like win2k or even nt4.
A) Yes, in fact, it is quite that bad (just not as bad as when it was first released) and
B) There is no "fixed and stable" version of.NET yet. At least none I would hinge my mission critical business on.
It solves the dependency on foreign oil problem as well as lowering (not eliminating but it's something) the overall CO2 emissions. Right now if we run afoul of a foreign supplier (say like, Venezuela) they can cut us off and drive the cost through the roof if not causing a supply problem entirely. The oil bust of the 80's should have taught us the value of diversity.
Vista, much as we love to hate it here, isn't that bad with SP1 installed.
I remember the people bleating about how they'd never put XP on their machines. How they were sticking with 98se forever.
They say the same thing about Vista now. Then again, Vista kind of sort of sucked more than XP did when it first came down the pipes.
I am hearing the "Vista with SP1 really isn't that bad" quite a bit lately and while I agree it does what it is SUPPOSED to do it REQUIRES a much beefier machine to do it than XP. I have a laptop with an Intel Core2Duo processor and 1GB of RAM and I can do more things faster with my old Thinkpad T30 with a P4 processor and 512MB RAM with XP Pro SP3. Turning my shiny new hot rod laptop into a model T is IMHO "that bad". YMMV
As for people saying they would never upgrade from Win98se to XP I believe that had more to do with the gaming set. XP was supposed to be the combination of features of NT with 98 on the NT kernel but there were quite a few "glitches" trying to run many Win98 designed games. Eventually most of them got ironed out so the gamers came around. This time it's "Vista is not as good as XP because [insert your reason here]" and Microsoft may have a harder time getting its target audience on board.
You are trying to attach their motivation to the action they are known for instead of the reason (actual motivation) they chose to do the things they did.
* Attila the Hun liked killing people. The love of power has been the motivation of mankind since there was a mankind
* Torquemada liked torturing people. Again, throughout history men have done atrocious things believing they were acting on God's behalf. You may not understand their motivation but to them it was the most important thing in their existence.
* Mother Teresa liked helping people. If she was anything like I am she derived a great deal of satisfaction in helping people and even greater heartache when she could not.
* Gandhi liked making the world more just. Here again his actions were motivated by the desire to be "free". To that end he determined a course of action he believed had the best chance of success.
These look like good examples in support of my OP.
Isn't the "biological imperative of survival" inherently selfish? Just because you do good deeds does not make your motivation for doing them any less selfish. I give to charity and volunteer because it makes ME feel better about myself. I cooperate with society because if I don't I won't get something I need to survive. Your argument actually supports my position.
What he is saying is everything we do is driven from a selfish motivation. Firefighters derive a sense of satisfaction from protecting people and that is why they do it. The reason we do or don't do one action or another is predicated on the perceived risk / reward. When somebody pisses me off to the point I would derive great pleasure at inflicting extreme bodily harm I still refrain from such as I perceive the resulting outcome (or risk) of incarceration or retribution more undesirable than the pleasure I expect to receive from the activity. The less someone has to lose the more apt they are to do something risky (dangerous, humiliating, criminal) to "survive". Edward Davidson's "perception" of his situation was obviously quite grave.
It helps job security though. Who cares about productivity when they are paying for you to add skills to your resume.
I can surmise by your post you are not a coder. As a recovering coder (I've been code free for 12 years) I can tell you that once a coder is addicted to a particular language changing languages is the equivalent of cutting off one of your limbs. Withdrawal symptoms can be severe and disruptive including the shakes, paranoia, and a condition that strikingly resembles turrets syndrome. There have been coders in recent years that appear to be able to switch languages with relative ease but studies on these coders have not been conducted and it is suspected that they could go off in a fit of rage at any moment and should be approached with extreme trepidation.
The users of this crappy code are almost certainly happily unaware of any problem they may be causing. I have used and recommended AVG for a number of years to people I have had to reinstall Windows due to the amount of true crapware they are infected with. I upgraded to version 8 a couple of months ago and wasn't even aware of the feature until I pulled up a google search and noticed the little green check marks. I quickly located and disabled the feature because it slowed my browsing down but I could see how someone could see this as a valuable tool. You want to punish someone for using a tool that will most likely prevent them from becoming part of a botnet yet again because the tool maker has added a good feature in theory that has a negative side effect. Doesn't most medication have a long list of possible undesirable side effects? So which is worse, a horde of zombie computers controlled by malicious hackers or a bunch of unknowing PC users who's AV software pre-checks the web site they are thinking about going to and telling them whether it is safe or not? I know which I'd rather be if I were technically challenged.
Sorry AVG user, your antivirus is abusive and wastes our resources. Disable AVG and come back.
Actually all you need to do is uninstall the link scanner feature.
In the "petabyte age" you throw in the number of times the subject uses the letter 's'; how frequently they use the 'reload' button on the browser; what colour of pants they wore last tuesday; Pepsi vs. coca cola; the number of times they picked their nose in 1997 and any and every other bit of data you have on the subject.
I see what you did there. Freud would find you fascinating!
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Perhaps the bit you're missing is that windows isn't quite as bad as the /. crowd likes to say it is. Especially if its an older (translation: fixed & stable) variety like win2k or even nt4.
A) Yes, in fact, it is quite that bad (just not as bad as when it was first released) and
B) There is no "fixed and stable" version of .NET yet. At least none I would hinge my mission critical business on.
I had to do a double take.....
I read that as Butt Patch Tuesday.
Let's see
Slick looking 3 wheel Diesel / electric modular plug-in hybrid that get's between 125 and 230 MPG
vs
Cutesy looking 4 wheel gas boxster that gets 33/41 MPG
Considering you can start by just getting the diesel engine kit for ~$10K and add the electric motor later I'd still opt for the XR3.
I consider myself an IT professional, and I got my degree in Japanese Literature.
Wouldn't it have been easier getting the Computer Science degree?
I think my monogamy gene is recessive.
PHATTER. You know.... IE8 is Phatter than Firefox and XP. Yeah, it's weigh mor fly. word (2007)
The reason for that is quite evident: pensions are not enough for sufficient living."
Please define "sufficient living"
and pension as well. Of all the companies I've worked for over the last twenty years only one has a pension.
So you were hiding your FIRST POST inside of your FIRST to call BS POST!
Flame away! And yes, I'm male.
I can't tell if you think you are Johnny Storm or you just came out of the closet.
It solves the dependency on foreign oil problem as well as lowering (not eliminating but it's something) the overall CO2 emissions. Right now if we run afoul of a foreign supplier (say like, Venezuela) they can cut us off and drive the cost through the roof if not causing a supply problem entirely. The oil bust of the 80's should have taught us the value of diversity.
Depending on your jurisdiction databases (lists) may be covered by copyright or database rights[1].
Databases want to be free!
Vista, much as we love to hate it here, isn't that bad with SP1 installed.
I remember the people bleating about how they'd never put XP on their machines.
How they were sticking with 98se forever.
They say the same thing about Vista now. Then again, Vista kind of sort of sucked more than XP did when it first came down the pipes.
I am hearing the "Vista with SP1 really isn't that bad" quite a bit lately and while I agree it does what it is SUPPOSED to do it REQUIRES a much beefier machine to do it than XP. I have a laptop with an Intel Core2Duo processor and 1GB of RAM and I can do more things faster with my old Thinkpad T30 with a P4 processor and 512MB RAM with XP Pro SP3. Turning my shiny new hot rod laptop into a model T is IMHO "that bad". YMMV
As for people saying they would never upgrade from Win98se to XP I believe that had more to do with the gaming set. XP was supposed to be the combination of features of NT with 98 on the NT kernel but there were quite a few "glitches" trying to run many Win98 designed games. Eventually most of them got ironed out so the gamers came around. This time it's "Vista is not as good as XP because [insert your reason here]" and Microsoft may have a harder time getting its target audience on board.
So *that's* why the Knights Who Say Ni! keep following me around...
Actually they are henceforth known as the Knights who say Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!
You must be new here.
You are trying to attach their motivation to the action they are known for instead of the reason (actual motivation) they chose to do the things they did.
* Attila the Hun liked killing people.
The love of power has been the motivation of mankind since there was a mankind
* Torquemada liked torturing people.
Again, throughout history men have done atrocious things believing they were acting on God's behalf. You may not understand their motivation but to them it was the most important thing in their existence.
* Mother Teresa liked helping people.
If she was anything like I am she derived a great deal of satisfaction in helping people and even greater heartache when she could not.
* Gandhi liked making the world more just.
Here again his actions were motivated by the desire to be "free". To that end he determined a course of action he believed had the best chance of success.
These look like good examples in support of my OP.
Isn't the "biological imperative of survival" inherently selfish? Just because you do good deeds does not make your motivation for doing them any less selfish. I give to charity and volunteer because it makes ME feel better about myself. I cooperate with society because if I don't I won't get something I need to survive. Your argument actually supports my position.
What he is saying is everything we do is driven from a selfish motivation. Firefighters derive a sense of satisfaction from protecting people and that is why they do it. The reason we do or don't do one action or another is predicated on the perceived risk / reward. When somebody pisses me off to the point I would derive great pleasure at inflicting extreme bodily harm I still refrain from such as I perceive the resulting outcome (or risk) of incarceration or retribution more undesirable than the pleasure I expect to receive from the activity. The less someone has to lose the more apt they are to do something risky (dangerous, humiliating, criminal) to "survive". Edward Davidson's "perception" of his situation was obviously quite grave.
to make sure the circuit never reaches 451F
I was under the impression that was one of WiMax's original target markets
I recall when the original WfW packs hit the stores many years ago (was it CompUSA?). Software + NIC, IIRC.
It would have been SoftWarehouse at the time.
with this move Best Buy has just managed to penetrate a market segment that is otherwise totally oblivious to its existence.
Oblivious? I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has been "penetrated" by Best Buy in the past.
It helps job security though. Who cares about productivity when they are paying for you to add skills to your resume.
I can surmise by your post you are not a coder. As a recovering coder (I've been code free for 12 years) I can tell you that once a coder is addicted to a particular language changing languages is the equivalent of cutting off one of your limbs. Withdrawal symptoms can be severe and disruptive including the shakes, paranoia, and a condition that strikingly resembles turrets syndrome. There have been coders in recent years that appear to be able to switch languages with relative ease but studies on these coders have not been conducted and it is suspected that they could go off in a fit of rage at any moment and should be approached with extreme trepidation.
you could punish the users of this crappy code.
The users of this crappy code are almost certainly happily unaware of any problem they may be causing. I have used and recommended AVG for a number of years to people I have had to reinstall Windows due to the amount of true crapware they are infected with. I upgraded to version 8 a couple of months ago and wasn't even aware of the feature until I pulled up a google search and noticed the little green check marks. I quickly located and disabled the feature because it slowed my browsing down but I could see how someone could see this as a valuable tool. You want to punish someone for using a tool that will most likely prevent them from becoming part of a botnet yet again because the tool maker has added a good feature in theory that has a negative side effect. Doesn't most medication have a long list of possible undesirable side effects? So which is worse, a horde of zombie computers controlled by malicious hackers or a bunch of unknowing PC users who's AV software pre-checks the web site they are thinking about going to and telling them whether it is safe or not? I know which I'd rather be if I were technically challenged.
Sorry AVG user, your antivirus is abusive and wastes our resources. Disable AVG and come back.
Actually all you need to do is uninstall the link scanner feature.
I'm not completely retarded.
The data is inconclusive. Let me see what I turn up on a Google search.
In the "petabyte age" you throw in the number of times the subject uses the letter 's'; how frequently they use the 'reload' button on the browser; what colour of pants they wore last tuesday; Pepsi vs. coca cola; the number of times they picked their nose in 1997 and any and every other bit of data you have on the subject.
I see what you did there. Freud would find you fascinating!