oh look. every page on that "tech" site auto refreshes every 30 seconds or so, to get even more ad impressions is my guess. (a front page is one thing, but there's no other reason for an article to refresh like that)
and, if he apparently had access to the internet...which he supposedly does referring to downloading cracks and googling the problem...why didnt he use the internet activation like any sane person would do?
similar to my own first thoughts, though i was mroe along the line of... this clueless guy has a tech site?
why in hell did he wait to activate it? thats like the first thing you do upon installation. That...or cracking it. And if he wasnt going to activate it, why didnt he disable the nag screen (hides it til windows deactivates itself)?
>> "Because I find it silly in this day and age to call tech support and A) Riddle off your credentials, B) Riddle off your 25 character product key and C) Listen to someone riddle off a 25 character key back, "
Um, the activation phone line is automated now, and has been. Sure, you can talk to a person. But why would you when pressing the buttons on your phone is quicker? And assuming you have a smartphon, you do have an app to match the letter to numbers, right? I mean, that would be the geek thing to do. (and the really geeky thing to do would be to have them memorized)
>> "I opted to seek out cracks to solve my issues rather than do the “legal” thing. Two cracks later, I got nowhere. Perhaps they work for some people, but they didn’t for me."
PLBTKAC
For a supposed "geek site" the guy seems awfully clueless.
the osprey is called the widowmaker because several former Marine officers involved covered up deficincies and engineering flaws to protect the project, in the process breaking their oath and duty to their fellow Marines and causing several of them to die. its personally disgusting that they abandoned their core values and tried to protect future careers outside the service rather than Marine's lives. thankfully, most of the scum sucking weasels were removed from service, though there's still a few around pushing it before even the supporting infrastructure it really needs is ready*. the osprey has potential, but who knows if it'll live up to it.
*(like shoehorning it into our current LHD's and LHAs, when it's just too big for them, and the lift is uneven/unpredictable because one rotor is in ground effect (from the deck) and the other hangs over the water...supposedly the new class of ships fixes some of this)
i dont need a license to fly a trike. also a few thousand times cheaper. though i admit having the power of a 747 at my hands would be a whole nother kind of fun!
and then, because joe takes care of it as well as he takes of his car, if at all, when something breaks joe gets a one way ticket to the scene of the crash. and that's followed by talking heads wondering why we dont require people in these flying cars to know how to fly
there is no "microsoft approved" directories. the indexing tool is completely user controlled. its defaults are the normal, typical directories an average user would have things end up in (ie, Progam Files and My Documents, etc). but you can set it to whatever you wan; me, i set it to endex my entire computer. complaining about a feature not working when you dont know how to use it is pointless.
i say it again: apparently you dont know how to actually use win7
fire a few hundred rounds through it and then get back to me. assuming it hasnt blown up then, and can still knock out a 1 inch group at 50 feet afterwards.
bullshit... search in windows vista, 7, and 8 are total crap.
You can only find 'microsoft approved' files and types. Quick... go into your windows. find *.log and *.bak within the last 30 days only... yeah. you can't. How about all files that changed in the last 3 days.. not just media files... ALL files.. yeah.. can't do that either.
And it's fucking slow too. On top of needing indexing running all the time which is itself fucking slow too.
search worked much much MUCH better in 2k and xp.
they fucked it up. as a result i simply removed the entire search and indexing system from windows 7. and used a plain ol freeware version for my finding files needs.
Yet another core component of windows... i have replaced with a FREE and much better alterantive... One of these days i'll have nothing left of 'windows' but the core... and thats the time to switch totally to nix or android.
Windows+F click Type filter type.log hit enter (autofills in type:=.log) click Date drag select April 1 to May 1 (autofills date:=3/1/2013...5/1/2013) click search Done.
methinks mr AC has never acutally used search on windows 7.
andindexing runs fine on my 6 year old pc. maybe its time for you to upgrade there, Anonymous Rex.
So install one of the many classic menu plugins that came out within a week of the programs release...that's what I did.
a quick google search turns up several of them, most of them free. and i maintained back compatibility with all my old documents and spreadsheets (especially the VBA enabled spreadsheets, which contain most of my work).
the old menus were great because it was clear, and easy/logical to navigate. the ribbon's biggest problem was it was merely one person's (or dev teams) idea of what people need quick and constant access to, and how to segregate them. and the ribbon as issued has several duplicates, isnt laid out logically for everyone, nor does it really encompass what constitutes "frequent access" for a lot of people. and that, combined with making it near impossible to easily find the features that people actually did need, is where the issue is. I've since restructured a lot of my co-workers ribbons (my machine is only one i have extra permissions on) with an easy 1.2.3 custom ribbon that actually has all of what we need in my workplace. (literally, they can click the ribbon buttons from left to right, 123, and the documents we need get created and formatted, and doohickeyed properly)
ive wondered whether a lot of the tech crowd confuses their experiences with beta and early release previews vista with actual final product. or how much is simply/. pop cultural knee jerk reactions.
i say that as i bought and installed vista less than a week after it's release, and had few if any issues. UAC was annoying, but the info had already spread around the globe (google) on how to silence it; now we simply know where to go to do so as one of the first things we do with installing Win7 so it doesnt even get a chance to annoy us. as for drivers, i dont recall having many issues, though granted my vid card at the time was around 8 mos old and the existing drivers ran acceptably. and my machine was more than capable of running vista spec wise; course i've never taken windows sys reqs at face value.
the only ones that really qualify "new cokes" are bob and clippy as the others MS never really backed off, did a 180, and said "our bad" and changed it back to something else. in fact, the descendents of those products are alive and well.
zune wasnt a bad mp3 player, just a not terribly popular one, and unable to compete effectively against the ipad juggernaut, even though it was a capable player. they never backtracked here, they made them for sometime, and then simply stopped.
ME was just same old windows, with even less dos underpinnings and adnvanced user usability, a first attempt to move off the DOS infrastructure. for most people, they never noticed and used it like they always had. same concept, fully carried through was windows XP, which apparently still runs half the world's pc's.
Vista was simply windows 7 beta as far as nerds are concerned, but really, again, your general computer user never noticed, and used it like they always had. but again, no real backtrack, win7 just picked up where vista left off as it was rushed out the door, and is on its way to being the "new xp".
Also, I dont see how this qualifies as a new coke moment as the moment hasnt occured it. the article is presupposing a future event that hasnt yet happened. I say its clickbait, begging its own question.
along those lines...mayhaps the universe is expanding because the leading edge of the big bang shockwave (for lack of a better word) front is made up of antimatter fleeing from the matter due to a repelling ("anti gravity)" force, and the matter is chasing it due to an attracting force (gravity)...
true or not, certainly gives me many interesting ideas along the lines of scifi plots.
and the cable companies back then, being the little guy that was getting trampled by the Big Boadcast Networks, were supposed to do what exactly to fight back?
Not hire lobbyists and partisans to fight for them?
If someone is shooting at me, i'm not going to refuse to use a gun to shoot back with and try gentlemanly fisticuffs instead because i dislike guns....I'm gonna get the biggest damn gun I can and blow his arse away.
In 50 years, when the 800lb gorilla Internet tries to defend itself from the next young upstart tech that threatens it, should all of us who helped fight SOPA now be discounted as evil because we helped fight for the internet when it was young and under attack? That's what your logic would imply....
You're an idiot. You know nothing about anything that you speak of. You should be fired from a cannon into a horde of rabid Justin Bieber fans...with a sign saying "Beiber Sucks"
no, that's just using the tools at hand to achieve a goal. they may not like the regulations, but that wont ever stop them from using them as an effective strategic tool to hamper competition.
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He probably already got all the money he's going to from the movie. Typically when the studios buy movie rights, it's a one time pay out.
No you didn't
you're an idiot
oh look. every page on that "tech" site auto refreshes every 30 seconds or so, to get even more ad impressions is my guess. (a front page is one thing, but there's no other reason for an article to refresh like that)
and, if he apparently had access to the internet...which he supposedly does referring to downloading cracks and googling the problem...why didnt he use the internet activation like any sane person would do?
short version:
"Tech" site i've never heard of seeks click revenue from being slashdot by bashing microsoft.
News at 11.
similar to my own first thoughts, though i was mroe along the line of ... this clueless guy has a tech site?
why in hell did he wait to activate it? thats like the first thing you do upon installation. That...or cracking it.
And if he wasnt going to activate it, why didnt he disable the nag screen (hides it til windows deactivates itself)?
>> "Because I find it silly in this day and age to call tech support and A) Riddle off your credentials, B) Riddle off your 25 character product key and C) Listen to someone riddle off a 25 character key back, "
Um, the activation phone line is automated now, and has been. Sure, you can talk to a person. But why would you when pressing the buttons on your phone is quicker? And assuming you have a smartphon, you do have an app to match the letter to numbers, right? I mean, that would be the geek thing to do. (and the really geeky thing to do would be to have them memorized)
>> "I opted to seek out cracks to solve my issues rather than do the “legal” thing. Two cracks later, I got nowhere. Perhaps they work for some people, but they didn’t for me."
PLBTKAC
For a supposed "geek site" the guy seems awfully clueless.
the osprey is called the widowmaker because several former Marine officers involved covered up deficincies and engineering flaws to protect the project, in the process breaking their oath and duty to their fellow Marines and causing several of them to die. its personally disgusting that they abandoned their core values and tried to protect future careers outside the service rather than Marine's lives. thankfully, most of the scum sucking weasels were removed from service, though there's still a few around pushing it before even the supporting infrastructure it really needs is ready*. the osprey has potential, but who knows if it'll live up to it.
*(like shoehorning it into our current LHD's and LHAs, when it's just too big for them, and the lift is uneven/unpredictable because one rotor is in ground effect (from the deck) and the other hangs over the water...supposedly the new class of ships fixes some of this)
i dont need a license to fly a trike.
also a few thousand times cheaper.
though i admit having the power of a 747 at my hands would be a whole nother kind of fun!
and then, because joe takes care of it as well as he takes of his car, if at all,
when something breaks joe gets a one way ticket to the scene of the crash.
and that's followed by talking heads wondering why we dont require people in these flying cars to know how to fly
Yes.
Good.
One bright shining light of success amid the hundreds of IP's they own crying out from abuse and overexploitation...
there is no "microsoft approved" directories.
the indexing tool is completely user controlled.
its defaults are the normal, typical directories an average user would have things end up in (ie, Progam Files and My Documents, etc).
but you can set it to whatever you wan; me, i set it to endex my entire computer.
complaining about a feature not working when you dont know how to use it is pointless.
i say it again: apparently you dont know how to actually use win7
its also a helluva lot less reliable, inaccurate, and more prone to exploding in your face.
Yes. the great big bulge from making plastic parts thick enough to withstand the pressure is completely undetectable
fire a few hundred rounds through it and then get back to me.
assuming it hasnt blown up then, and can still knock out a 1 inch group at 50 feet afterwards.
bullshit... search in windows vista, 7, and 8 are total crap.
You can only find 'microsoft approved' files and types. Quick... go into your windows. find *.log and *.bak within the last 30 days only... yeah. you can't. How about all files that changed in the last 3 days.. not just media files... ALL files.. yeah.. can't do that either.
And it's fucking slow too. On top of needing indexing running all the time which is itself fucking slow too.
search worked much much MUCH better in 2k and xp.
they fucked it up. as a result i simply removed the entire search and indexing system from windows 7. and used a plain ol freeware version for my finding files needs.
Yet another core component of windows... i have replaced with a FREE and much better alterantive... One of these days i'll have nothing left of 'windows' but the core... and thats the time to switch totally to nix or android.
Windows+F .log hit enter (autofills in type:=.log)
click Type filter
type
click Date
drag select April 1 to May 1 (autofills date:=3/1/2013...5/1/2013)
click search
Done.
methinks mr AC has never acutally used search on windows 7.
andindexing runs fine on my 6 year old pc.
maybe its time for you to upgrade there, Anonymous Rex.
So install one of the many classic menu plugins that came out within a week of the programs release...that's what I did.
a quick google search turns up several of them, most of them free. and i maintained back compatibility with all my old documents and spreadsheets (especially the VBA enabled spreadsheets, which contain most of my work).
the old menus were great because it was clear, and easy/logical to navigate. the ribbon's biggest problem was it was merely one person's (or dev teams) idea of what people need quick and constant access to, and how to segregate them. and the ribbon as issued has several duplicates, isnt laid out logically for everyone, nor does it really encompass what constitutes "frequent access" for a lot of people. and that, combined with making it near impossible to easily find the features that people actually did need, is where the issue is. I've since restructured a lot of my co-workers ribbons (my machine is only one i have extra permissions on) with an easy 1.2.3 custom ribbon that actually has all of what we need in my workplace. (literally, they can click the ribbon buttons from left to right, 123, and the documents we need get created and formatted, and doohickeyed properly)
ive wondered whether a lot of the tech crowd confuses their experiences with beta and early release previews vista with actual final product. /. pop cultural knee jerk reactions.
or how much is simply
i say that as i bought and installed vista less than a week after it's release, and had few if any issues. UAC was annoying, but the info had already spread around the globe (google) on how to silence it; now we simply know where to go to do so as one of the first things we do with installing Win7 so it doesnt even get a chance to annoy us. as for drivers, i dont recall having many issues, though granted my vid card at the time was around 8 mos old and the existing drivers ran acceptably. and my machine was more than capable of running vista spec wise; course i've never taken windows sys reqs at face value.
the only ones that really qualify "new cokes" are bob and clippy as the others MS never really backed off, did a 180, and said "our bad" and changed it back to something else. in fact, the descendents of those products are alive and well.
zune wasnt a bad mp3 player, just a not terribly popular one, and unable to compete effectively against the ipad juggernaut, even though it was a capable player. they never backtracked here, they made them for sometime, and then simply stopped.
ME was just same old windows, with even less dos underpinnings and adnvanced user usability, a first attempt to move off the DOS infrastructure. for most people, they never noticed and used it like they always had. same concept, fully carried through was windows XP, which apparently still runs half the world's pc's.
Vista was simply windows 7 beta as far as nerds are concerned, but really, again, your general computer user never noticed, and used it like they always had. but again, no real backtrack, win7 just picked up where vista left off as it was rushed out the door, and is on its way to being the "new xp".
Also, I dont see how this qualifies as a new coke moment as the moment hasnt occured it. the article is presupposing a future event that hasnt yet happened. I say its clickbait, begging its own question.
sounds more like something you go to a 2 yr tech school for. ie, a technician level job.
along those lines...mayhaps the universe is expanding because the leading edge of the big bang shockwave (for lack of a better word) front is made up of antimatter fleeing from the matter due to a repelling ("anti gravity)" force, and the matter is chasing it due to an attracting force (gravity)...
true or not, certainly gives me many interesting ideas along the lines of scifi plots.
and the cable companies back then, being the little guy that was getting trampled by the Big Boadcast Networks, were supposed to do what exactly to fight back?
Not hire lobbyists and partisans to fight for them?
If someone is shooting at me, i'm not going to refuse to use a gun to shoot back with and try gentlemanly fisticuffs instead because i dislike guns....I'm gonna get the biggest damn gun I can and blow his arse away.
In 50 years, when the 800lb gorilla Internet tries to defend itself from the next young upstart tech that threatens it, should all of us who helped fight SOPA now be discounted as evil because we helped fight for the internet when it was young and under attack? That's what your logic would imply....
You're an idiot.
You know nothing about anything that you speak of.
You should be fired from a cannon into a horde of rabid Justin Bieber fans...with a sign saying "Beiber Sucks"
Troll is troll.
no, that's just using the tools at hand to achieve a goal.
they may not like the regulations, but that wont ever stop them from using them as an effective strategic tool to hamper competition.