From many users' standpoint, the fact that you can actually plug in most random hardware without having an install disk is a pretty significant upgrade over XP.
There is no perfect operating system, and the folks running distrowatch are probably happy with this fact. Given a finite number of coding resources, Win 7 is as good as a desktop OS is going to be for nearly all of its users, at long as they are familiar with the standards set since 96.
Because people who are encouraged to create new solutions for fun may comes up with something that someone getting whipped into coding may not. More solutions, more creative ones, can mean the Terminators will be 20% faster at face-recognition and may not be so inaccurate at shooting. Kids learn well by playing games, machines may learn to learn faster out of humans playing games.
See that big key on the right of your keyboard? The one that doesn't look like any of the ones on the left? It needs love. Caress it every now and then.
They had a really hard time convincing people that they needed more than XP, and they finally got it right with 7, when a decade did make XP clunky for modern hardware.
Barring some industry revolution, convincing people that 7 is outdated is going to be near impossible, for at least another 5 years.
It works, and has all the features that any non-geek needs.
My take on it: Don't wear a helmet, you're automatically considered an organ donor.
Because if you're going to potentially turn minor injuries into major ones by not protecting your brain, thus adding to the burden of society to try to save your sorry ass, it should be fair that we use your remains to save others when you exceed the survivability threshold.
It comes as part of the protection package which includes the penis being shrunk and also retracted inside, and a pair of ribcage protectors. You had to order it at the factory, and they keep installing them with some kind of recurrent leakage defect.
But in case you're hesitating, don't forget it also allows you to turn most people without the package into babbling morons under your control.
The problem is when someone crosses the channel (either way), obeys the signs and pays attention, until they stop at the local bar/pub/restaurant, have a few, and get back in their car thinking they're used to be buzzed, without realized they still need to flip the world.
Lots of politically connected people are going to become spies.
On the other hand, I am looking forward to a list of infractions, complete with names, addresses and this-is-a-spy reasons for dismissal, to be released soon on wikileaks.
And the UK porn filter is used to quash file-sharing websites, and 9/11 was used to take down Saddam, and...
I'm an evil person, and "you can trust retailers' databases security" is hopefully not going to have a better illustration anytime soon.
At least I'm not conjuring "in this economy" or "think of the children", I'm just carefully wording the truth for her own good. No oppressed majority will be enabled to regain power and team up with my enemies in the process.
They pay a lot more taxes if you don't discourage them from living in the city.
They have to work in Mountain View, but they choose to live in SF. Google helps them live in SF. From a macroeconomic standpoint, this is one the best things to happen to SF in a long time: high-income people getting helped to live in the city, and not clog the highways at rush hour.
On the other hand, SF isn't exactly tiny, Googlers don't all live there. There's a bit of hysteria by the people renting (don't hear homeowners complain much) near the gentrificating areas. They should move to Beijing and see their home razed overnight because some politician took the right bribe.
Compare to "get harassed and don't make it to work" or "sit in traffic 90 minutes on your own dime" Many probably don't need a Google bus to go to the boat. Lots of parts of SF are within reach.
The US is just finally learning the very European art of hating other people flaunting their money. The twist in this case is that googlers are not stratospherically paid, and many are just jealous that some companies take better care of their people than others.
I mean, really "hey, here's a free bus so you can be more productive." is causing unrest... Google's reaction? "hey here's a free boat so you can still be more productive"
What do people expect Google to do? Cut salaries and build dorms in Mountain View? Outsource to China or learn worker management from Dubai? Stop trying to help their employees be happy productive people, and turn into unhappy whipped people walmart-style? People should think before they call them evil. That boat isn't cheap, and they have no obligation to pay their people much, or help them get home from work.
Yes, but if I'm the boss, you'd better show me concrete examples of money being made off this massive data collection infrastructure.
Because it's not cheap to gather, store and collect (remember, the NSA only "collects" when they analyze) all of this, and pay the lawyers to deal with the lawsuits from privacy organizations.
How much money are the design and marketing group making thanks to this? Can it pay for itself faster if I sell that data to people?
grab your tinfoil hats. 10 years from now, it will be near-impossible to buy some things that we consider as basic (cars, insurance, internet, gizmos) without explicitly consenting to permanent tracking. I'm glad I've got children so I have a reason to refuse cameras in my living room.
I've had a 37" 1080pas my home computer screen for at least 7 years. It's very comfortable to focus 4-5 feet away after a long day, and I could get to 3 feet to see more details if it had four times the pixels.
It's the same width as my 17" work laptop + 22" side display, but it's more comfortable to stare at the middle of the 37" than to go back and forth between the other two.
Beat me to the hypothesis. Just because a star is in the milky way doesn't mean that it was formed there. It may just be passing by, with its doors locked and hoping to look inconspicuous because it's got a similar composition as the local hot hooligans (how likely is that? that's not specified in TFS)
Images of a hillbilly wedding in the Deep South just flashed in front of my eyes, including the outrage if you told them to put down their precious weapons.
What will be fun is when an accident happens TO the automatic car. Because regardless of how well your car is programmed to drift to a safe stop on the side of the road while missing a tire and with airbags deployed (read:exceeding human performance), there will be a lawyer to argue that it somehow made the accident worse for their client: "a disabled human would have just tumbled straight into the red car, leaving my client unharmed in the blue car. Gimme me monies"
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From many users' standpoint, the fact that you can actually plug in most random hardware without having an install disk is a pretty significant upgrade over XP.
There is no perfect operating system, and the folks running distrowatch are probably happy with this fact.
Given a finite number of coding resources, Win 7 is as good as a desktop OS is going to be for nearly all of its users, at long as they are familiar with the standards set since 96.
Because people who are encouraged to create new solutions for fun may comes up with something that someone getting whipped into coding may not.
More solutions, more creative ones, can mean the Terminators will be 20% faster at face-recognition and may not be so inaccurate at shooting.
Kids learn well by playing games, machines may learn to learn faster out of humans playing games.
See that big key on the right of your keyboard? The one that doesn't look like any of the ones on the left?
It needs love. Caress it every now and then.
Just like that.
That happens to be Microsoft's biggest problem.
They had a really hard time convincing people that they needed more than XP, and they finally got it right with 7, when a decade did make XP clunky for modern hardware.
Barring some industry revolution, convincing people that 7 is outdated is going to be near impossible, for at least another 5 years.
It works, and has all the features that any non-geek needs.
My take on it:
Don't wear a helmet, you're automatically considered an organ donor.
Because if you're going to potentially turn minor injuries into major ones by not protecting your brain, thus adding to the burden of society to try to save your sorry ass, it should be fair that we use your remains to save others when you exceed the survivability threshold.
It comes as part of the protection package which includes the penis being shrunk and also retracted inside, and a pair of ribcage protectors.
You had to order it at the factory, and they keep installing them with some kind of recurrent leakage defect.
But in case you're hesitating, don't forget it also allows you to turn most people without the package into babbling morons under your control.
That's fine if they really all do it.
The problem is when someone crosses the channel (either way), obeys the signs and pays attention, until they stop at the local bar/pub/restaurant, have a few, and get back in their car thinking they're used to be buzzed, without realized they still need to flip the world.
Lots of politically connected people are going to become spies.
On the other hand, I am looking forward to a list of infractions, complete with names, addresses and this-is-a-spy reasons for dismissal, to be released soon on wikileaks.
Because we shop at JC Penny almost as often as we shop for for Ferraris.
It's not as effective when it hits too far.
And the UK porn filter is used to quash file-sharing websites, and 9/11 was used to take down Saddam, and...
I'm an evil person, and "you can trust retailers' databases security" is hopefully not going to have a better illustration anytime soon.
At least I'm not conjuring "in this economy" or "think of the children", I'm just carefully wording the truth for her own good.
No oppressed majority will be enabled to regain power and team up with my enemies in the process.
My wife may finally understand why I want her to stop giving her data to a million different stores in exchange for a 5% discount or 500 bonus miles.
They pay a lot more taxes if you don't discourage them from living in the city.
They have to work in Mountain View, but they choose to live in SF.
Google helps them live in SF.
From a macroeconomic standpoint, this is one the best things to happen to SF in a long time: high-income people getting helped to live in the city, and not clog the highways at rush hour.
On the other hand, SF isn't exactly tiny, Googlers don't all live there. There's a bit of hysteria by the people renting (don't hear homeowners complain much) near the gentrificating areas.
They should move to Beijing and see their home razed overnight because some politician took the right bribe.
Compare to "get harassed and don't make it to work" or "sit in traffic 90 minutes on your own dime"
Many probably don't need a Google bus to go to the boat. Lots of parts of SF are within reach.
try to get a boat form Long Beach to SF for a two-day experiment, and see how much you save.
The US is just finally learning the very European art of hating other people flaunting their money. The twist in this case is that googlers are not stratospherically paid, and many are just jealous that some companies take better care of their people than others.
I mean, really "hey, here's a free bus so you can be more productive." is causing unrest...
Google's reaction? "hey here's a free boat so you can still be more productive"
What do people expect Google to do? Cut salaries and build dorms in Mountain View? Outsource to China or learn worker management from Dubai? Stop trying to help their employees be happy productive people, and turn into unhappy whipped people walmart-style?
People should think before they call them evil. That boat isn't cheap, and they have no obligation to pay their people much, or help them get home from work.
Yes, but if I'm the boss, you'd better show me concrete examples of money being made off this massive data collection infrastructure.
Because it's not cheap to gather, store and collect (remember, the NSA only "collects" when they analyze) all of this, and pay the lawyers to deal with the lawsuits from privacy organizations.
How much money are the design and marketing group making thanks to this? Can it pay for itself faster if I sell that data to people?
grab your tinfoil hats. 10 years from now, it will be near-impossible to buy some things that we consider as basic (cars, insurance, internet, gizmos) without explicitly consenting to permanent tracking. I'm glad I've got children so I have a reason to refuse cameras in my living room.
I've had a 37" 1080pas my home computer screen for at least 7 years. It's very comfortable to focus 4-5 feet away after a long day, and I could get to 3 feet to see more details if it had four times the pixels.
It's the same width as my 17" work laptop + 22" side display, but it's more comfortable to stare at the middle of the 37" than to go back and forth between the other two.
Maybe, but what a great passive-aggressive gift. I'll take ten!
Slashdot really needs a "scary" mod, given the world in which we live.
Beat me to the hypothesis. Just because a star is in the milky way doesn't mean that it was formed there. It may just be passing by, with its doors locked and hoping to look inconspicuous because it's got a similar composition as the local hot hooligans (how likely is that? that's not specified in TFS)
Unless it's mandatory for all cars, tell me which companies do that so I don't buy their stock before they go out of business.
Because typos don't happen. Give me a berak.
Images of a hillbilly wedding in the Deep South just flashed in front of my eyes, including the outrage if you told them to put down their precious weapons.
But they're apparently not overhead often enough to distinguish a wedding from a terrorist training camp.
What will be fun is when an accident happens TO the automatic car.
Because regardless of how well your car is programmed to drift to a safe stop on the side of the road while missing a tire and with airbags deployed (read:exceeding human performance), there will be a lawyer to argue that it somehow made the accident worse for their client: "a disabled human would have just tumbled straight into the red car, leaving my client unharmed in the blue car. Gimme me monies"