Why not "upgrade" to Windows XP 64-bit? It's faster than Vista and Win7, supports as much RAM as you can throw at it, has the same drivers support as Vista, and less invasive DRM.
Unless you actually like the condescending, childish Fisher-Price interface of Vista?
Europe itself is starting to question such an arrangement. People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without massive government expenditures. They're starting to wonder just why it's necessary to be paying so much in taxes.
Well, sure, the morons are.
The intelligent ones, the ones that understand the concept and consequences of the First Law of Thermodynamics (a.k.a. you can't get something for nothing, you fucking tool) don't have a problem with taxes.
Each one comes with extra songs that you only get if you plunk down nearly $20 on the whole album -- you can't download these individually.
Like hell you can't.
This reminds me of those "collector edition" comics with the special cellophane bags to try and entice people into thinking they would somehow become collectible for their specialness, when in fact they were produced in the millions.
This is just another way of offering an artificially-tiered product of the same damned thing. And the customer knows it. Which is why they'll just go and download the torrent of an artist's whole discography instead of putting up with the bullshit.
Kind of like the pre-crippled Windows XP Home Edition. "What's that? I can pay more for the same physical CD, only this one has the features I want unlocked? Oh boy! Where does the line form?"
I was thinking the same thing. I'm still amazed that people actually pay money for pre-recorded music. Live music, sure, I can understand that. But albums? Chumpsville.
In 75 years programming languages will be so abstracted for the sake of convenience that even with the extra processing power, programs will still run just as fast as they do today.
I'm looking forward to when we finally hit the wall. Then we'll have no other option but to concentrate on programming efficiencies. Unlike today's asinine "Just throw a faster CPU and a few more gigs of RAM at the problem!"
Programmers who can think in Assembly languages are simply better than today's script-aculous wanna-be's.
I have scores of programs on my system. I have no problem finding them. Because they're organized. I bet you use iTunes as well, because you can't be bothered organizing your music collection, right? Just get a Mac and be done with it.
So all we have to do is give everyone in the country $1/day
The really great thing about it is you only have to give them a dollar a day for something-like 18 months. After which time, they'll no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits.
No longer eligible for benefits == No longer counted as unemployed.
The share of the unemployed who were out of work for at least six months reached 35.6 percent in September, the most since the agency began keeping statistics in 1948.
So... the official unemployment rate is hovering just under 10%, and yet a third of those people have been unemployed for at least 6 months.
That "just under 10%" figure is a blatant fucking lie, and the government knows it but won't change their official metrics because honesty is just too damned discouraging. The real unemployment rate is well into the double digits.
It kind of sucks, but seeing this story, it makes a lot more sense.
Except it doesn't, not in practice. Usually people with bad credit are so thankful to be offered a job and a chance to finally dig themselves out of the red that they'll bend over backwards and take all measures of abuse just to preserve that paycheck. It's the ones who have had everything handed to them their entire lives, the ones who have never gone hungry, or had to choose between paying the electric bill or paying the heat, they're the ones who feel all entitled to their good fortune. Those are the ones you have to keep an eye on.
I guess it's only fraud when the bank is the one getting ripped off.
When they're handed hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to shore up bad debt and open up the faucet of commerce, but then instead decide to stop lending and hoard the cash... that's... something else? Right?
Then there's the whole issue of RAM. The memory limit of 32-bit XP started to matter practically some time ago, and honestly switching to 64-bit XP wouldn't make much sense, it has serious driver and compatibility issues.
It has the same "serious" driver issues that Vista has, which is to say, none. And compatibility?! What compatibility problems are you talking about? I'm a software developer and artist and have a BUNCH of different stuff on my system. The only thing I don't do much these days on the main system is gaming, so I can't speak to that, but for everything else (graphics, hardware, resource usage and most importantly, SPEED) the 64-bit version of XP is by far and away the best release Microsoft ever had.
Another amazing thing is that there used to be a giant ditch surrounding Stonehenge that was dug out by hand to a depth of twenty-five feet or so.
But the really amazing thing is that the giant stones were placed there several hundred years after the ditch was dug. So, they not only had to move these huge, heavy stones across the UK, but then had to go down and up a big friggin' ditch.
The theory is that it's the location that's important, not the stones. The stones are just markers.
IPS display gives you nearly 180 degrees viewing angle -- no more of the annoying color shifts or inversion when looking at the screen off-axis
Native 1600x1200 resolution in a 15" form-factor. Wide-screen displays are teh suck for coding. The T60p's "standard" display ratio and absolutely insane resolution means you can fit dozens of lines of code per page. Combine this with the beautiful IPS technology, and you have tiny-ass, legible fonts. A godsend for coding.
15" form factor-- pretty-much the best trade-off for "I need to read lots of code" and "I don't want to lug around a lot of weight." Additionally, the T60p is (like most ThinkPads) all modular. So you can leave out the optical drive and put in another battery if you like (giving you 7+ hours of battery life).
The processor/RAM combination is perfectly adequate (i.e., not some underpowered piece of shit)
The only drawback to the T60p is that they are discontinued, and Lenovo no longer carries the IPS LCD. Why not? Because the suppliers realized they could make more money using the technology to build TVs than replacement screens for laptops. More information from a Lenovo insider. And if the suppliers aren't making them, Lenovo can't sell them. Simple as that. You can still find them (rarely) on eBay, but they are some of the most price-drop-resilient laptops ever made.
Oh fuck, is this the whole "they don't make them like they used to" thing again?
Uh, yeah. Because they don't.
Go ahead and buy a monochrome laser printer for two and a half grand, I'll just get one for $150 which will last me most of a decade, if not more.
No one is suggesting going out and purchasing a 20 year-old laser printer for its original sticker price. That's why there's eBay. And pawn shops. And Craigslist. Etc.
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Why not "upgrade" to Windows XP 64-bit? It's faster than Vista and Win7, supports as much RAM as you can throw at it, has the same drivers support as Vista, and less invasive DRM.
Unless you actually like the condescending, childish Fisher-Price interface of Vista?
Of course it would win. Which is why they won't allow it in the tests.
Is ECC RAM really that important?
Yes.
Article from nine days ago: Google Finds DRAM Errors More Common than Believed.
As in, more common than believed by people like yourself.
Europe itself is starting to question such an arrangement. People are beginning to wonder why they can't have a good medical care system without massive government expenditures. They're starting to wonder just why it's necessary to be paying so much in taxes.
Well, sure, the morons are.
The intelligent ones, the ones that understand the concept and consequences of the First Law of Thermodynamics (a.k.a. you can't get something for nothing, you fucking tool ) don't have a problem with taxes.
+V, Acuitas!
Each one comes with extra songs that you only get if you plunk down nearly $20 on the whole album -- you can't download these individually.
Like hell you can't.
This reminds me of those "collector edition" comics with the special cellophane bags to try and entice people into thinking they would somehow become collectible for their specialness, when in fact they were produced in the millions.
This is just another way of offering an artificially-tiered product of the same damned thing. And the customer knows it. Which is why they'll just go and download the torrent of an artist's whole discography instead of putting up with the bullshit.
Kind of like the pre-crippled Windows XP Home Edition. "What's that? I can pay more for the same physical CD, only this one has the features I want unlocked? Oh boy! Where does the line form?"
+5 Insightful!
I was thinking the same thing. I'm still amazed that people actually pay money for pre-recorded music. Live music, sure, I can understand that. But albums? Chumpsville.
Keep up the good fight, Ray!
Black hole? Maths say they exist - but you will never really know, nor will it ever really matter - if you cannot even know your "self".
Like arguing with a train from the tracks.
It's all theoretical until it isn't.
Cut apart a rectangular 9V battery, and inside you will find 6 AAAA cells
I admit to being skeptical at first, but it's absolutely true! Thanks for the info... this is why I still like Slashdot.
In 75 years programming languages will be so abstracted for the sake of convenience that even with the extra processing power, programs will still run just as fast as they do today.
I'm looking forward to when we finally hit the wall. Then we'll have no other option but to concentrate on programming efficiencies. Unlike today's asinine "Just throw a faster CPU and a few more gigs of RAM at the problem!"
Programmers who can think in Assembly languages are simply better than today's script-aculous wanna-be's.
I have scores of programs on my system. I have no problem finding them. Because they're organized. I bet you use iTunes as well, because you can't be bothered organizing your music collection, right? Just get a Mac and be done with it.
posting the same non-point over and over
Because some people are too fucking stupid to get it the first time. Or second time. Or third time.
Surely that's enough that you won't notice the one time he snuck in your room at night and raped you, right?
Or fourth time...
If you have a laptop, the built-in wireless networking is nice.
For desktops? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Except it'll cost you twice as much RAM and 30% more CPU cycles for the equivalent performance.
Yay, progress!
Huh? Inefficient? What great fantastical features of Vista are you missing out on in XP that make it such a superior system?
I miss things like the screen snipper
eh.
and the start menu search
Windows Key + F. Anywhere in the OS. It's been like this for years.
and a lot of the nice enhancements to Windows Explorer
Such as...?
So all we have to do is give everyone in the country $1/day
The really great thing about it is you only have to give them a dollar a day for something-like 18 months. After which time, they'll no longer be eligible for unemployment benefits.
No longer eligible for benefits == No longer counted as unemployed.
According to this recent article:
So... the official unemployment rate is hovering just under 10%, and yet a third of those people have been unemployed for at least 6 months.
That "just under 10%" figure is a blatant fucking lie, and the government knows it but won't change their official metrics because honesty is just too damned discouraging. The real unemployment rate is well into the double digits.
It kind of sucks, but seeing this story, it makes a lot more sense.
Except it doesn't, not in practice. Usually people with bad credit are so thankful to be offered a job and a chance to finally dig themselves out of the red that they'll bend over backwards and take all measures of abuse just to preserve that paycheck. It's the ones who have had everything handed to them their entire lives, the ones who have never gone hungry, or had to choose between paying the electric bill or paying the heat, they're the ones who feel all entitled to their good fortune. Those are the ones you have to keep an eye on.
I guess it's only fraud when the bank is the one getting ripped off.
When they're handed hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money to shore up bad debt and open up the faucet of commerce, but then instead decide to stop lending and hoard the cash... that's... something else? Right?
Then there's the whole issue of RAM. The memory limit of 32-bit XP started to matter practically some time ago, and honestly switching to 64-bit XP wouldn't make much sense, it has serious driver and compatibility issues.
It has the same "serious" driver issues that Vista has, which is to say, none. And compatibility?! What compatibility problems are you talking about? I'm a software developer and artist and have a BUNCH of different stuff on my system. The only thing I don't do much these days on the main system is gaming, so I can't speak to that, but for everything else (graphics, hardware, resource usage and most importantly, SPEED) the 64-bit version of XP is by far and away the best release Microsoft ever had.
Former Windows 2000 lover here, BTW.
Another amazing thing is that there used to be a giant ditch surrounding Stonehenge that was dug out by hand to a depth of twenty-five feet or so.
But the really amazing thing is that the giant stones were placed there several hundred years after the ditch was dug. So, they not only had to move these huge, heavy stones across the UK, but then had to go down and up a big friggin' ditch.
The theory is that it's the location that's important, not the stones. The stones are just markers.
The single best laptop ever made.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2864
Pros:
The only drawback to the T60p is that they are discontinued, and Lenovo no longer carries the IPS LCD. Why not? Because the suppliers realized they could make more money using the technology to build TVs than replacement screens for laptops. More information from a Lenovo insider. And if the suppliers aren't making them, Lenovo can't sell them. Simple as that. You can still find them (rarely) on eBay, but they are some of the most price-drop-resilient laptops ever made.
It'd be nice if the site would give direct access to the database
It'd be nice if they provided a copy of the database. Direct access would probably set a world record for fastest denial-of-service in web history.
Oh fuck, is this the whole "they don't make them like they used to" thing again?
Uh, yeah. Because they don't.
Go ahead and buy a monochrome laser printer for two and a half grand, I'll just get one for $150 which will last me most of a decade, if not more.
No one is suggesting going out and purchasing a 20 year-old laser printer for its original sticker price. That's why there's eBay. And pawn shops. And Craigslist. Etc.
Christ, some people are stupid.
Why, you need a demonstration?
Wait, so we can use the free versions? Aww, thanks, man! And they said MS is full of jerks.