There's no way not to sound like a snob saying this, but I can't see many public school students being particularly careful with these tablets.
That's because you are a snob, it's simple really.
I've seen many public school students that care for everything they're given like Faberge eggs because they don't get much of anything, and I've seen private school kids destroy their own property because it's not the latest thing and their parents won't replace a working unit.
Neither anecdote is applicable for all people of either class.
So you "mean most high CPU capacity devices with built in firewalls that most people don't disable by default" can be connected to the internet without a second firewall, not say, Smart TVs, etc. I'd argue the point on people not disabling their firewall on the laptop/etc too, since I still see a lot of people do that.. but Smart TVs seem as vulnerable as toddlers in a lion enclosure...
I'm assuming you're not talking corporate either.
My linux box is my firewall:P But that's cause I'm too lazy to maintain seperate firewalls on all the other crap in my house... and most of them don't have tools to look for sketchy traffic either...
No doubt things are better than XP SP0 days of expecting a compromise within minutes, but I will decide what packets come to my house and the manner in which they come.
You mean "by accident". Or was that part of the story; that you said you "purchased an extra on accident" so you could look silly enough to do such a thing, on purpose?
Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
That kind of thing made me love 95, I had a lot of software that ran just fine on it, and I didn't have dodgy hardware that made it crashy for some people...
Anyway, you should porbably come up with a better counter-example than "outdated browser that was arguably worse than the horrible IE that came with 98".
Yeah, that Samsung stuff up was funny, but hardly supports your thesis of "you can't buy a computer without these features".
I might be misinterpretting what you're trying to say given the context of the article, is it some kind of complaint about monopolies and Windows Tax...?
I think you're talking about HFCS like it's one product, and loathe as I am to quote wikipedia:
The relative sweetness of HFCS 55 is comparable to table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide of fructose and glucose,[15] (HFCS 90 is sweeter than sucrose and HFCS 42 is less sweet than sucrose) while, being a liquid, HFCS is easier to blend and transport.
Yeah, I know, but then it's all washed in the supply chain, probably in something that kills germs unless it's "organic", then it might be touched as little as once before it's at your door, maybe even with gloves!
Put it this way, if you *saw* me scratch my arse then paw over the lettuce, are you buying it?;)
I bet on average, even in the laxest warehouse, the amount of filth transferred from humans to produce is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch lower if employees are packing your groceries, versus every plague-ridden soccer mom, that has to test every piece of fruit before bagging it, between cleaning their snowflakes disgusting faces with spit and their thumb.
I hate the way produce is displayed in the modern era, they might as well dump it on the floor and have vagrants sleeping on it.
They were governed by someone else, and would have been unable to make the social changes required to eliminate slavery first
So because they were governed by people that abolished slavery 30+ years before the US did, without a war, the US couldn't have done that without two wars.
Done both your and the other poster's suggestions, still horrible. (admittedly this was 6 months ago, but it was claimed to work then too)
Certainly the virtio drivers made the performance go from "completely unusable" to "poor", but not even close to the performance of Linux guests on KVM hosts, or Windows on VMWare. But you know, preach on brother.
It's not like I don't want this stuff to work, my primary OS is Linux...
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Charge what exactly, I'm awaiting my Google bill with baited breath.
Then maybe you should explain that to those people and they'll make sure they're not in your personal space. Problem solved!
Was this study conducted by Coke or merely funded by it?
That was my first thought, with all the extensive technical knowledge of the NSA, deduplication is just too hard for them.
Oracle is so robust even the grid installer is broken in 11.2.x
Corporations are people, my friend!
I'm betting someone has set max connections on their torrent software too high myself ;)
That would match up with everything on the list of symptoms just fine.
There's no way not to sound like a snob saying this, but I can't see many public school students being particularly careful with these tablets.
That's because you are a snob, it's simple really.
I've seen many public school students that care for everything they're given like Faberge eggs because they don't get much of anything, and I've seen private school kids destroy their own property because it's not the latest thing and their parents won't replace a working unit.
Neither anecdote is applicable for all people of either class.
In my day we just called them "pots" :)
Yeah, no. That's your local cache, "netba" brings up nothing in my web browser since I don't bank at the CBA...
So you "mean most high CPU capacity devices with built in firewalls that most people don't disable by default" can be connected to the internet without a second firewall, not say, Smart TVs, etc. I'd argue the point on people not disabling their firewall on the laptop/etc too, since I still see a lot of people do that.. but Smart TVs seem as vulnerable as toddlers in a lion enclosure...
I'm assuming you're not talking corporate either.
My linux box is my firewall :P But that's cause I'm too lazy to maintain seperate firewalls on all the other crap in my house... and most of them don't have tools to look for sketchy traffic either...
No doubt things are better than XP SP0 days of expecting a compromise within minutes, but I will decide what packets come to my house and the manner in which they come.
Most devices are quite capable of being directly connected to the net safely.
What the hell are you basing that assertion on? Or is there some weasel in the combination of "capable" and "safely" that I'm not getting?
My mum says I'm funny...
You mean "by accident". Or was that part of the story; that you said you "purchased an extra on accident" so you could look silly enough to do such a thing, on purpose?
That would be surprising, given CS2 works on Windows 7 if you install it in the right folder after a 2 minute google on the problem.
If they went to the kind of effort to find workaround to make an old version of nutscrape work on 98 they would be dumb as a bag of rocks.
What they DID do was rather amazing:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here's the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn't working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn't free memory right away. That's the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.
That kind of thing made me love 95, I had a lot of software that ran just fine on it, and I didn't have dodgy hardware that made it crashy for some people...
Anyway, you should porbably come up with a better counter-example than "outdated browser that was arguably worse than the horrible IE that came with 98".
Yeah, that Samsung stuff up was funny, but hardly supports your thesis of "you can't buy a computer without these features".
I might be misinterpretting what you're trying to say given the context of the article, is it some kind of complaint about monopolies and Windows Tax...?
Oh, and my ultrabook dual boots Linux...
Try?: Dell Ultrabook that I bought took a Windows 7 install just fine thanks.
Bricked?: What are you smoking? I'm not aware of any computer/notebook that doesn't let you turn secure boot off.
Support?: Dell has the Windows 7 drivers right there on their web site...
Maybe you should postdate your post about 5 years or something, it might all come true.
I think you're talking about HFCS like it's one product, and loathe as I am to quote wikipedia:
The relative sweetness of HFCS 55 is comparable to table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide of fructose and glucose,[15] (HFCS 90 is sweeter than sucrose and HFCS 42 is less sweet than sucrose) while, being a liquid, HFCS is easier to blend and transport.
But my real name IS Adrianna Huffingpaint! Look at them oppressing me! See the violence inherent in the system!
Yeah, I know, but then it's all washed in the supply chain, probably in something that kills germs unless it's "organic", then it might be touched as little as once before it's at your door, maybe even with gloves!
Put it this way, if you *saw* me scratch my arse then paw over the lettuce, are you buying it? ;)
I bet on average, even in the laxest warehouse, the amount of filth transferred from humans to produce is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch lower if employees are packing your groceries, versus every plague-ridden soccer mom, that has to test every piece of fruit before bagging it, between cleaning their snowflakes disgusting faces with spit and their thumb.
I hate the way produce is displayed in the modern era, they might as well dump it on the floor and have vagrants sleeping on it.
They were governed by someone else, and would have been unable to make the social changes required to eliminate slavery first
So because they were governed by people that abolished slavery 30+ years before the US did, without a war, the US couldn't have done that without two wars.
I see....
Done both your and the other poster's suggestions, still horrible. (admittedly this was 6 months ago, but it was claimed to work then too)
Certainly the virtio drivers made the performance go from "completely unusable" to "poor", but not even close to the performance of Linux guests on KVM hosts, or Windows on VMWare. But you know, preach on brother.
It's not like I don't want this stuff to work, my primary OS is Linux...
If you don't mind the attrocious IO.