This is all well and good but what about all the little bugs that will get shredded in those little turbines? Are they going to paste millimeter-size warning signs? I think it's the least we could do for our tiny houseguests.
Often on XP, 2000, NT and 95 I would hit control-esc then R for run and type frequently used programs into run. I would say this is just an odd quirk about me and how I think menus take too long and too much work to do something, but now the run area has been replaced with a little place you type in stuff and through the magic of windows desktop search it finds whatever you type in the area above that normally occupied by program icons. The bug? You have to let it search. No matter what. Yeah, WTF? This works great on a home PC where you maybe have maybe 10,000 files. Network drives? Oh no. You can't just type n:\ then hit enter. You have to physically wait a sec for it to pull up n:\ in the list of programs above the start menu THEN hit enter. WOW, WHAT A GREAT FEATURE. No more control-esc n:\ enter for me. It is nowctrl+esc n:\ wait..wait..wait.. enter. Otherwise I get some random program like Notepad. Or Flash. Or Firefox. ----------------------- Yep, I had this same problem at first. The new key combination is WINDOWS+R. That'll get you the good old, non-searching Run... dialog.:)
The Ultimate version will run around $400 from what I've heard (yes, it's rumor). While the home/basic version will run a LOT cheaper, you'll be unable to do a lot of the stuff "tweakers" like to do to customize and manage things. Think: XP Pro had Remote Desktop, where XP Home did not. That kinda stuff.
Even if we could affect a change in the earth's orbit around the sun, who's to say if that is a good thing? Might that not be akin to preventing all forest fires? Controlled burns are our way of preventing some large/catastrophic forest fires and lightning strikes are nature's way of doing it. What makes us think the "wobble" in our orbit isn't causing cyclical "refresh" events?
No, I'm not suggesting some diety is controlling things or that ZOMG WE R AL GOING 2 DIE or anything like that. Just saying we might not yet comprehend the consequences of making this "fix" change. Hell, we are still unable to predict the weather with any certainty more than a day or two out./shrug
Yep. The beauty of this mod is that most of the exploit advertisements that have dropped trojans lately have been doing so via javascript + other known holes. NoScript will let you allow JS for the few sites you trust and that need it and will STILL block the JS used in ads since that JS is imported from a 3rd-party site. Good stuff, there.
I don't see this CPU hogging. I do see the "memory leaks" if they are indeed leaks and not something else. (shows up on my XP SP2 boxes as the firefox.exe process continuously growing in memory size until after a week or so I have to close firefox, wait 'til the process exits and then relaunch it.)
Ya know, I was just installing test root certificates from my D: today (a separate FAT32 partition) under Vista 5520 and didn't have any complaints about reading or writing logs to that drive. Do you know something the rest of us don't?
This is a stretch, even coming from the anti-MS crowd usually in abundance here. What possible reason would MS have for making a system sound totally unique and non-standard? Do you hear MS startup sounds on the radio, selling ad space? Do you hear MS startup sounds as talk radio intro jingles, to make them more identifiable?
Really. Find something else to bash without making stuff up to support an already nebulous agenda.
I've done this for a major PC OEM and for a couple of smaller tech shops. The single biggest complaint everyone has is that the performance is abysmal. When people are used to having on-board AGP/PCI-E graphics, plenty of RAM and snappy hard drives, putting them on remote storage or (/shriek) thin clients is just about guaranteed to piss off anyone not doing data entry in a simple spreadsheet.
On the other hand, it serves as a roundabout method for keeping people from doing things like downloading games and movies, as the thin clients and such will usually only support basic 2D rendering at anything resembling acceptable speeds.
Despite the overall inverse correlation of pay to performance in the tech sector, Dolmat-Connell notes that year-over-year, in CEO compensation of the highest-performing group of tech companies increased in 2005--up 15.7% versus the year prior--while that of the chief execs of the bottom-performing companies declined 12.0%.
I didn't see any data linked from that article. Without the numbers and raw data, it's hard to say wtf if anything this article actually means (though it should be entertaining to watch the anti-capitalists vent on this).
Really, consider the average business PC user. Outside of folks that have large development environments, do video/graphics/audio work, work on large software projects (such as games) really do not need 80GB hard disks. If you DO need more than that, you probably are quickly getting to the point of being able to justify storing your data on a file server. My unit at work only has 30GB on it, and that includes several ghost images of the systems I'm running QA on. Sure, grouse about Microsoft code bloat all you want but it doesn't take up THAT much HDD space.
Sweeping generalizations are rarely more than "Yeah, me too!" posts./rolleyes
Seems to me some of their claimed disadvantages are in conflict. To wit:
1) The economics of nuclear new-build are highly uncertain, according to the report
2) Nuclear would lock the UK into a centralised energy distribution system for the next 50 years when more flexible distribution options are becoming available
3) The report claims that nuclear would undermine the drive for greater energy efficiency
4) If the UK brings forward a new nuclear programme, it becomes more difficult to deny other countries the same technology, the SDC claims
Points 1 and 2 seem to indicate economic and technological malfeasance, but points 3 and 4 seem to imply the technology is good enough to curtail better economic options which would be desirable to other countries? Hmm...
Point 4 also implies that the UK would seek to deny other countries nuclear plants in general, or that "other countries" might use said plants for other than above-board reasons. I can't figure out whether point 4 is insulting to other countries or insulting to the UK...or both.
Some of it's current caveats, for example, suboptimal software support and high costs, are not due to it's technical qualifications or drawbacks. Once the architecture reaches a critical mass and reasonable market acceptance, these issues should disappear. (more chips -> more people will target software for it, more chips produced in volume -> less cost per chip, etc.)
They've been saying the same thing about apple for quite a while.
Nobody said they were worthless, tool. It's all about giving appropriate priorities. Dumbing down an entire game interface (or, similarly, refusing to upgrade it to a more logically advanced UI) for less than 1% of the population is strikingly stupid.
Can't be too long coming...we already blame a host of other behavioral problems on "diseases," and prescribe all sorts of drugs to "treat" them. Why would this be different?
Actually, they didn't champion it but they _did_ plan for it. Go read the Federalist Papers and pay particular attention to the passages related to human nature (which, really, is most of it). Hell, the first paper starts right in on it. To wit:
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth.
They understood the pull of corruption in this environment (underpinned by basic group psychology trends) and specifically planned these papers and eventually the constitution based upon that understanding. To challenge otherwise is to misunderstand the entire raison d'etre of America.
You do understand that even Intel has had chip supply problems the last couple of years, right? This means that AMD is probably going to be in an even or worse boat than them, just from a purely market/supply brute strength perspective. It's disappointing, but it makes sense from Dell's perspective. Other companies are adopting what I consider to be a better strategy: fold in AMD gradually and see what happens re: supply ability.
Sounds like the same thing the movie industry went through long ago. Look at the crap movies we have to deal with today. The biggest difference is that games can be bought and sold totally online. Look at DOOM shareware for a great example.
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This is all well and good but what about all the little bugs that will get shredded in those little turbines? Are they going to paste millimeter-size warning signs? I think it's the least we could do for our tiny houseguests.
MTBF is dramatically reduced when performing cold starts on your PC repeatedly. This is mainly for the fans and HDDs.
Often on XP, 2000, NT and 95 I would hit control-esc then R for run and type frequently used programs into run. I would say this is just an odd quirk about me and how I think menus take too long and too much work to do something, but now the run area has been replaced with a little place you type in stuff and through the magic of windows desktop search it finds whatever you type in the area above that normally occupied by program icons. The bug? You have to let it search. No matter what. Yeah, WTF? This works great on a home PC where you maybe have maybe 10,000 files. Network drives? Oh no. You can't just type n:\ then hit enter. You have to physically wait a sec for it to pull up n:\ in the list of programs above the start menu THEN hit enter. WOW, WHAT A GREAT FEATURE. No more control-esc n:\ enter for me. It is nowctrl+esc n:\ wait..wait..wait.. enter. Otherwise I get some random program like Notepad. Or Flash. Or Firefox. :)
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Yep, I had this same problem at first. The new key combination is WINDOWS+R. That'll get you the good old, non-searching Run... dialog.
...between him and the police at the very end where it's "time to go" is supposed to prove what, again? Context, people. Context.
The Ultimate version will run around $400 from what I've heard (yes, it's rumor). While the home/basic version will run a LOT cheaper, you'll be unable to do a lot of the stuff "tweakers" like to do to customize and manage things. Think: XP Pro had Remote Desktop, where XP Home did not. That kinda stuff.
Even if we could affect a change in the earth's orbit around the sun, who's to say if that is a good thing? Might that not be akin to preventing all forest fires? Controlled burns are our way of preventing some large/catastrophic forest fires and lightning strikes are nature's way of doing it. What makes us think the "wobble" in our orbit isn't causing cyclical "refresh" events? No, I'm not suggesting some diety is controlling things or that ZOMG WE R AL GOING 2 DIE or anything like that. Just saying we might not yet comprehend the consequences of making this "fix" change. Hell, we are still unable to predict the weather with any certainty more than a day or two out. /shrug
Yep. The beauty of this mod is that most of the exploit advertisements that have dropped trojans lately have been doing so via javascript + other known holes. NoScript will let you allow JS for the few sites you trust and that need it and will STILL block the JS used in ads since that JS is imported from a 3rd-party site. Good stuff, there.
I don't see this CPU hogging. I do see the "memory leaks" if they are indeed leaks and not something else. (shows up on my XP SP2 boxes as the firefox.exe process continuously growing in memory size until after a week or so I have to close firefox, wait 'til the process exits and then relaunch it.)
Ya know, I was just installing test root certificates from my D: today (a separate FAT32 partition) under Vista 5520 and didn't have any complaints about reading or writing logs to that drive. Do you know something the rest of us don't?
This is a stretch, even coming from the anti-MS crowd usually in abundance here. What possible reason would MS have for making a system sound totally unique and non-standard? Do you hear MS startup sounds on the radio, selling ad space? Do you hear MS startup sounds as talk radio intro jingles, to make them more identifiable?
Really. Find something else to bash without making stuff up to support an already nebulous agenda.
I've done this for a major PC OEM and for a couple of smaller tech shops. The single biggest complaint everyone has is that the performance is abysmal. When people are used to having on-board AGP/PCI-E graphics, plenty of RAM and snappy hard drives, putting them on remote storage or (/shriek) thin clients is just about guaranteed to piss off anyone not doing data entry in a simple spreadsheet.
On the other hand, it serves as a roundabout method for keeping people from doing things like downloading games and movies, as the thin clients and such will usually only support basic 2D rendering at anything resembling acceptable speeds.
Despite the overall inverse correlation of pay to performance in the tech sector, Dolmat-Connell notes that year-over-year, in CEO compensation of the highest-performing group of tech companies increased in 2005--up 15.7% versus the year prior--while that of the chief execs of the bottom-performing companies declined 12.0%.
I didn't see any data linked from that article. Without the numbers and raw data, it's hard to say wtf if anything this article actually means (though it should be entertaining to watch the anti-capitalists vent on this).
Serve adult beverages. I'd be much more inclined to go see movies in theaters if I could drink a 36-oz Margarita while there.
Really, consider the average business PC user. Outside of folks that have large development environments, do video/graphics/audio work, work on large software projects (such as games) really do not need 80GB hard disks. If you DO need more than that, you probably are quickly getting to the point of being able to justify storing your data on a file server. My unit at work only has 30GB on it, and that includes several ghost images of the systems I'm running QA on. Sure, grouse about Microsoft code bloat all you want but it doesn't take up THAT much HDD space.
/rolleyes
Sweeping generalizations are rarely more than "Yeah, me too!" posts.
Seems to me some of their claimed disadvantages are in conflict. To wit:
1) The economics of nuclear new-build are highly uncertain, according to the report
2) Nuclear would lock the UK into a centralised energy distribution system for the next 50 years when more flexible distribution options are becoming available
3) The report claims that nuclear would undermine the drive for greater energy efficiency
4) If the UK brings forward a new nuclear programme, it becomes more difficult to deny other countries the same technology, the SDC claims
Points 1 and 2 seem to indicate economic and technological malfeasance, but points 3 and 4 seem to imply the technology is good enough to curtail better economic options which would be desirable to other countries? Hmm...
Point 4 also implies that the UK would seek to deny other countries nuclear plants in general, or that "other countries" might use said plants for other than above-board reasons. I can't figure out whether point 4 is insulting to other countries or insulting to the UK...or both.
Um, clearly a n00b that didn't even know about the BOSS key? /laugh
Some of it's current caveats, for example, suboptimal software support and high costs, are not due to it's technical qualifications or drawbacks. Once the architecture reaches a critical mass and reasonable market acceptance, these issues should disappear. (more chips -> more people will target software for it, more chips produced in volume -> less cost per chip, etc.)
They've been saying the same thing about apple for quite a while.
Nobody said they were worthless, tool. It's all about giving appropriate priorities. Dumbing down an entire game interface (or, similarly, refusing to upgrade it to a more logically advanced UI) for less than 1% of the population is strikingly stupid.
Actually, that game exists but in the form of assisting a drunk down the street as far as you can go before falling over. :P
Can't be too long coming...we already blame a host of other behavioral problems on "diseases," and prescribe all sorts of drugs to "treat" them. Why would this be different?
They understood the pull of corruption in this environment (underpinned by basic group psychology trends) and specifically planned these papers and eventually the constitution based upon that understanding. To challenge otherwise is to misunderstand the entire raison d'etre of America.
You do understand that even Intel has had chip supply problems the last couple of years, right? This means that AMD is probably going to be in an even or worse boat than them, just from a purely market/supply brute strength perspective. It's disappointing, but it makes sense from Dell's perspective. Other companies are adopting what I consider to be a better strategy: fold in AMD gradually and see what happens re: supply ability.
It isn't personal...just business.
Lotus....ack. I have three words to describe my utter hatred of Lotus Notes:
1) Formatting.
2) User Interface.
Thank God my company configured our servers for POP3 access.
Sounds like the same thing the movie industry went through long ago. Look at the crap movies we have to deal with today. The biggest difference is that games can be bought and sold totally online. Look at DOOM shareware for a great example.
In spite of its irrelevance, class warfare just never gets old, does it?