One dropped dead after passing over the rollers at an x-ray machine at an airport.
One dropped dead after running in a warm room for one night.
One got the screen cracked when a helpful stewardess shoved someone's luggage into mine in the overhead storage bin. Ahhh, gotta love airplanes.
Get a padded hard case you cheapskate. They were made for heavy travellers like you. That's 2 of those resolved.
Running in a warm room sounds like a manufacturing fault. Take it back. (Always get extended warranty).
Even if you're careful and do the above you can still get a dud, but your chances of having it replaced are better if you take the extra trouble to protect it with a hard case and insure it.
I would not SPAM them without a bot.
So I could SPAM them quite a lot.
I will SPAM them with a mouse.
I will SPAM them in a house.
I will SPAM them here or there.
I will SPAM them anywhere.
I only SPAM Viagra Ma'am.
I like to SPAM them, SPAM-I-am.
One crappy, lossy, non-guaranteed electronic communications medium vs another.
Email version: Deposition Subpoena to Testify GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO SUBPOENA AND SUMMON THE FOLLOWING WITNESS: John Doe of 53 Sanity Street SanesVillie
Facebook version lolz. Hey John. U been summ'd to Court. cu there. haha. sucker!
"trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers."
If Apple wants to shoot itself in the foot, be my guest. I have disliked Apple for a long time. The only reason they're so popular is that their marketing (aka "reality distortion field") is so strong. Personally, I have rarely bought Apple product and for the last 20 years I've regretted every purchase from them. The marketing hype about their products being "stylish" and "just working" is just bunk and it irritates me that intelligent people fall for it hook, line and sinker. If they want to do something that weakens the nonsense (which will result in them actually competing on merit), I give it the thumbs up.
Go on Apple fans, mod me into oblivion. It ain't trolling if it's how you really feel.
I think you need to look up what "law" means in a scientific context. The only "Law" of gravity I'm familiar with is Newton's Law of Gravity, which is known to be inaccurate and has been supplanted (at the theoretical if not all practical levels) by Einstein's Theory of Relativity. So tell me how a law is something more than a theory again?
It use to widely be taught in some schools that as a hypothesis became more and more accepted, scientists would move from calling it a hypothesis to a theory, and as it was further tested and shown to be correct it would be given the title of a "law" meaning that it would require extraordinary evidence to prove it incorrect and that the right explanation has been found.
I understand completely that this is not how science works. It only takes one well substantiated and repeatable experiment to blow any "law" out of the water. Furthermore our ideas of how things work will always be analogies suited to our monkey descendant brains. (Quantum theory and wave/light duality for example aren't things for which we have good explanations that our minds can grasp). However Hypothesis->Theory->Law is certainly how some institutions have dictated the terminology should be used historically and that has carried through to schooling of a couple of decades ago. I know it's what I was taught at school.
If your testing is highly automated, I can't help you as I don't have a lot of experience with high speed networking.
If your testing is reasonably manual, consider storing your data set on removable hard drives which are manually plugged into one computer, data is copied, then disconnected and moved to the other. A USB 2 interface will give you the most compatibility given the wide variety of hardware you're using, but perhaps there may even be hardware that does hot plugging E-SATA properly if you're willing to pay a premium.
Remember, for really high bandwidth physical media being shipped from one location to another is still a solution which should be considered.
Re:Amazing what happens when you're asleep
on
Sleep Mailing
·
· Score: 1
Does biking strain it too much?
Some days I'm in agony just doing what little walking I have to do to get to work. I haven't tried cycling. I'm told anything load bearing is going to aggrivate it (but that's by the same doctors that said I should have had it fused LAST Christmas or I'd be unable to walk by now). It's actually been a little better in the last few months but that's probably because it's summer and I've stayed off it as much as possible.
Furthermore, laptop users hardly ever even use discs - either you use it once to load software, or you are burning a disc where the cost of failure is that you have to burn another $0.10 disc.
Hey Einstein, I often use my laptop to watch a DVD on my morning or evening commute (an hour each way). That's on a bumpy train. Furthermore where I live backing up a DVD you own is illegal.
Re:I'll sleepwalk when I'm stressed
on
Sleep Mailing
·
· Score: 1
My wife once can home from hospital after having her shoulder located, quite drugged up with pain medication. I put her to bed and asked her if she'd like the window left open to which she responded "Yes please, leave it open to let the butterflies in". I also told her about getting my boat license, and she told her parents (avid boaters) about it but a week later when I mentioned it she said "When did you get your boat license? You never told me!"
Re:Amazing what happens when you're asleep
on
Sleep Mailing
·
· Score: 1
Yes, I'm overweight. I've been overweight my whole life though and only developed sleep apnea in the last six or seven years. My sleep specialist does recommend I lose weight but after examining my airways doesn't think I'll be CPAP free even after the weight loss.
In any case I find excercise difficult as I also have a bad ankle due partly to arthritis and partly to an injury I sustained ice skating in my teens. Ironic for a guy like me that's never enjoyed sports much. (The ankle specialists I've seen say it needs to be fused, and that's one nasty operation with not fantastic success rate and isn't a good thing to do early in life as the arthritis will return). Yes there are forms of excercise that I could do that don't involve the ankle but weight loss would be difficult.
In any case do you know what the statistics are for long term non-surgical weight loss? Not many people are able to keep the weight off. I'm not quite prepared to go the route of surgery just yet.
Re:Amazing what happens when you're asleep
on
Sleep Mailing
·
· Score: 1
Surgery actually doesn't usually work. Success rate is abysmal over the medium term, and all the varied types of surgery are described as very painful. Not to mention the cost and risk of complication.
Surgery is a wonderful life saving technology but it should never be your first resort unless other options are ineffective.
Amazing what happens when you're asleep
on
Sleep Mailing
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
A few years ago in my mid 20s I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. I knew I wasn't well. I felt tired all the time, wasn't as sharp as I was because of the tiredness, was falling asleep at work even after weeks of early nights and was getting headaches. It even got to the point where I'd occasionally hallucinate or experience sleep paralysis. The kicker was falling asleep at my desk and in meetings at worked. I had to fix it or my life would very quickly end up in the toilet. It took weeks to work it out because doctors were doing blood tests etc. Once I video taped myself sleeping I knew exactly what it was and I didn't need a medical degree.
That video was one of the most revolting things I'd ever seen, and to this day thinking of it literally makes me cringe. I looked like some sort of snorting pig. I would stop breathing for between one and two minutes, then take the most loud awful pig like snorting deep breath, take a couple more shallow breaths, then stop breathing for a minute or two again. I'd do this for the length of the video. It turns out no one who had heard me snore wanted to bring it up out of politeness. I think they assumed I knew. On the other hand I had NO idea. I didn't think it was possible to do that in your sleep without knowing, but not only was it possible, it had been going on for months (or possibly even years) before I worked out what was happening.
Now I'm on a CPAP machine at night which opens up my airways so I don't stop breathing. I hate the damn thing - being hooked up to a mask blowing air into your nose just sucks badly - but just a couple of nights without it and the headaches return and I start feeling tired again. The change when I went on the CPAP was instant - mornings I felt so fresh and awake that it was surreal. I'd rather be dependant on a damn machine than constantly fall asleep, lose my job, walk around like a zombie moron, behave inappropriately or sluggishly because I'm half asleep, be unable to drive, and ultimately die of blood pressure related illness. I don't think I'd be alive today without it.
Anyway the point is this experience has shattered any illusion of knowing what happens when I'm asleep.
That was meant to be sarcastic anyway. I find the idea that you can go to jail for downloading a movie ridiculous. (REASONABLE financial penalthy, perhaps. Criminal record and jail though? Come on!)
I agree, it was a boring slideshow...but what did you expect?
IT and science aren't known for their amazing comic value (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky). The wackiest things I see in IT are management decisions, particularly when they ask for something without a clue what it will take to build, then set a ridiculous time line. It's even wackier when a senior manager has a revelation and you realize that he's missed something big and lost the plot altogether. What isn't so much fun is explaining why a particular project won't work as intended, or trying to talk someone out of shooting themselves in the foot before losing their attention.
How is MY attitude any kind of a problem? In fact, what is the problem?
The problem is that you're telling other people that you don't understand why they have a problem and implying that it must be them doing something wrong rather than the product, when in fact you haven't tested the product under the same situation under which others have reported having their issues.
I simply reported that I bought a PC with Vista on it, and it works fine. It was a bottom of the line Compaq Presario, cost me $350 at Staples. I needed a computer that day, and there it was.
Glad it worked out for you. Other people haven't had it so easy. Their software and or hardware which works nicely in XP has not worked in Vista and they have no recourse.
I'm not talking about early adopters who tried to install it on old equipment, etc., and ran into difficulties. I'm simply reporting my experience.
No, you're reporting your experience and still even with the last comment blaming the end user for issues with their operating system when the operating system is in fact deficient. Early adoption is encouraged by Microsoft so if someone fell for the hype of how much better the new operating system is (or were forced by circumstance to upgrade) it's less than fair of you to blame them. Likewise why would anyone throw out "old equipment". My brother in law has a working main stream Canon scanner that is only about 3 years old that does not and probably will never support Vista. Why should he throw it out? People rant and rave about the environment yet some of those same people are perfectly happy to berate people for not upgrading. It's ridiculous.
Why should someone with working hardware worry about it at all? I wasn't pushing anyone to upgrade - just saying that it works fine on the el-cheapo mainstream rig that I bought....and implying that people who have issues must in fact be the problem.
Your attitude is over the top knee-jerk polemic. Look, I've been using computers since my 1977 Commodore PET, and I've heard it all. I remember when Microsoft's only real product was a ripoff BASIC interpreter for CP/M. I do not have tons o' love for MS. I was just reporting my experience.
Again, that's fine. You bought a new laptop and had a good experience. Others did the same and did not. Yet others upgraded and did not.
So lighten up.
No. I'm tired of people ranting about how Vista is actually good and that it's not a problem and I'm tired of reading post after post stating that because it worked for them it must be good. It's not. It doesn't work as advertised on machines that are meant to run it. It has problems with even basic things like file copy that people who state it's good fail to mention either because they don't care or because they're too stupid to notice.
You could try backing up your files. Did that ever occur to you? Mozy is like $5 a month, seriously.
Anything important I have at least 3 copies of - 2 onsite and 1 offsite. However I don't back up to some 3rd party site I have no control over. THAT is awful advice especially coming from someone who decides to be critical of another person without getting all the facts. I ***COPY*** the files onto removable hard disks. You see my problem, if disk copy is flakey???
Actually, Doctor Who is produced in conjunction with another organisation. Amusingly enough, that organisation is the CBC. So Canadian taxpayers (who actually FUND the program) are more than entitled to download it, I reckon.
Why do you hate the poor starving actors and want to steal from them?
Honestly, I don't know what all the resistance to Vista is all about. I've been using it everyday for the past 18 months plus, and I've never had a problem with it
The problem is your failure to understand that not everyone uses the same hardware as you and not everyone does the same things that you do on your computer.
It's the same as the developer who closes a bug report with "Works on my computer".
Mostly I'm in Ubuntu Intrepid anyway, but Vista is just the new Windows as far as I can tell - no worse than any of 'em. When I hear some of the stuff people say about Vista, I wonder what they're talking about, because it doesn't match my experience at all.
Same problem as many other posters here. You have had no problems with one machine and your limited usage scenarios and have therefore concluded that no one else with their vastly different usage and different hardware must be crazy to be complaining. Well frankly YOUR attitude is the problem. Why should someone with working hardware throw it all out because there are no Vista drivers? Why should I throw out 16 bit software? Why should I put up with more DRM that can backfire (and has done so for some people).
Yes, it does have problems, sometimes it even burps while copying files, which is bizarre to me, since it's such a basic function.
So you value the UI more highly than correct functionality during file copy? To me that says you don't do anything important with your computer. I have stuff I can't replace on my computers. My laptop dual boots with Vista and I find I fire up the Vista partition on average once every 6 months.
But XP is past its prime.
XP does everything I need and is more stable. If you call that "past its prime" give me "past its prime" every time please.
People exhaust themselves climbing up, but most when they do realize they are in trouble will turn back...or perhaps they realize they have enough and push on to get up there, but don't leave enough in reserve to come back down. Also there's a false sense of achievement - "I made it to the summit!" - but while making it back down alive is actually more improtant it may be anticlimactic and not as big a motivator when you're spent after the effort of reaching the top.
It's amazing that people focus on the distractions like games, and ignore the fact that there's really very little you can't get your hands on via the Internet today if you choose to focus on good quality information and are genuinely passionate about it. People need to teach their children to be passionate about learning so that a good documentary actually will compete against the latest computer game for their attention.
And in fact most discoveries these days are really done by computers, not by humans.
Also humans don't build houses. It's the tools that do it. People say the construction crew built it, but really it was the hammers, saws and nail guns that did it.
Also my accountant doesn't do anything. I should be paying his calculator directly.
Yeah it sounds stupid when you credit the tool, doesn't it? Computers are just tools.
Slashdot Mirror
One dropped dead after passing over the rollers at an x-ray machine at an airport.
One dropped dead after running in a warm room for one night.
One got the screen cracked when a helpful stewardess shoved someone's luggage into mine in the overhead storage bin. Ahhh, gotta love airplanes.
Get a padded hard case you cheapskate. They were made for heavy travellers like you. That's 2 of those resolved.
Running in a warm room sounds like a manufacturing fault. Take it back. (Always get extended warranty).
Even if you're careful and do the above you can still get a dud, but your chances of having it replaced are better if you take the extra trouble to protect it with a hard case and insure it.
Pretty sure it reads "I can spam". Yes I can.
I would not SPAM them without a bot.
So I could SPAM them quite a lot.
I will SPAM them with a mouse.
I will SPAM them in a house.
I will SPAM them here or there.
I will SPAM them anywhere.
I only SPAM Viagra Ma'am.
I like to SPAM them, SPAM-I-am.
One crappy, lossy, non-guaranteed electronic communications medium vs another.
Email version:
Deposition Subpoena to Testify
GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO SUBPOENA AND SUMMON THE FOLLOWING WITNESS:
John Doe of 53 Sanity Street SanesVillie
Facebook version
lolz. Hey John. U been summ'd to Court. cu there. haha. sucker!
"trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers."
If Apple wants to shoot itself in the foot, be my guest. I have disliked Apple for a long time. The only reason they're so popular is that their marketing (aka "reality distortion field") is so strong. Personally, I have rarely bought Apple product and for the last 20 years I've regretted every purchase from them. The marketing hype about their products being "stylish" and "just working" is just bunk and it irritates me that intelligent people fall for it hook, line and sinker. If they want to do something that weakens the nonsense (which will result in them actually competing on merit), I give it the thumbs up.
Go on Apple fans, mod me into oblivion. It ain't trolling if it's how you really feel.
I think you need to look up what "law" means in a scientific context. The only "Law" of gravity I'm familiar with is Newton's Law of Gravity, which is known to be inaccurate and has been supplanted (at the theoretical if not all practical levels) by Einstein's Theory of Relativity. So tell me how a law is something more than a theory again?
It use to widely be taught in some schools that as a hypothesis became more and more accepted, scientists would move from calling it a hypothesis to a theory, and as it was further tested and shown to be correct it would be given the title of a "law" meaning that it would require extraordinary evidence to prove it incorrect and that the right explanation has been found.
I understand completely that this is not how science works. It only takes one well substantiated and repeatable experiment to blow any "law" out of the water. Furthermore our ideas of how things work will always be analogies suited to our monkey descendant brains. (Quantum theory and wave/light duality for example aren't things for which we have good explanations that our minds can grasp). However Hypothesis->Theory->Law is certainly how some institutions have dictated the terminology should be used historically and that has carried through to schooling of a couple of decades ago. I know it's what I was taught at school.
If your testing is highly automated, I can't help you as I don't have a lot of experience with high speed networking.
If your testing is reasonably manual, consider storing your data set on removable hard drives which are manually plugged into one computer, data is copied, then disconnected and moved to the other. A USB 2 interface will give you the most compatibility given the wide variety of hardware you're using, but perhaps there may even be hardware that does hot plugging E-SATA properly if you're willing to pay a premium.
Remember, for really high bandwidth physical media being shipped from one location to another is still a solution which should be considered.
Does biking strain it too much?
Some days I'm in agony just doing what little walking I have to do to get to work. I haven't tried cycling. I'm told anything load bearing is going to aggrivate it (but that's by the same doctors that said I should have had it fused LAST Christmas or I'd be unable to walk by now). It's actually been a little better in the last few months but that's probably because it's summer and I've stayed off it as much as possible.
Furthermore, laptop users hardly ever even use discs - either you use it once to load software, or you are burning a disc where the cost of failure is that you have to burn another $0.10 disc.
Hey Einstein, I often use my laptop to watch a DVD on my morning or evening commute (an hour each way). That's on a bumpy train. Furthermore where I live backing up a DVD you own is illegal.
My wife once can home from hospital after having her shoulder located, quite drugged up with pain medication. I put her to bed and asked her if she'd like the window left open to which she responded "Yes please, leave it open to let the butterflies in". I also told her about getting my boat license, and she told her parents (avid boaters) about it but a week later when I mentioned it she said "When did you get your boat license? You never told me!"
Yes, I'm overweight. I've been overweight my whole life though and only developed sleep apnea in the last six or seven years. My sleep specialist does recommend I lose weight but after examining my airways doesn't think I'll be CPAP free even after the weight loss.
In any case I find excercise difficult as I also have a bad ankle due partly to arthritis and partly to an injury I sustained ice skating in my teens. Ironic for a guy like me that's never enjoyed sports much. (The ankle specialists I've seen say it needs to be fused, and that's one nasty operation with not fantastic success rate and isn't a good thing to do early in life as the arthritis will return). Yes there are forms of excercise that I could do that don't involve the ankle but weight loss would be difficult.
In any case do you know what the statistics are for long term non-surgical weight loss? Not many people are able to keep the weight off. I'm not quite prepared to go the route of surgery just yet.
Surgery actually doesn't usually work. Success rate is abysmal over the medium term, and all the varied types of surgery are described as very painful. Not to mention the cost and risk of complication.
Surgery is a wonderful life saving technology but it should never be your first resort unless other options are ineffective.
A few years ago in my mid 20s I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. I knew I wasn't well. I felt tired all the time, wasn't as sharp as I was because of the tiredness, was falling asleep at work even after weeks of early nights and was getting headaches. It even got to the point where I'd occasionally hallucinate or experience sleep paralysis. The kicker was falling asleep at my desk and in meetings at worked. I had to fix it or my life would very quickly end up in the toilet. It took weeks to work it out because doctors were doing blood tests etc. Once I video taped myself sleeping I knew exactly what it was and I didn't need a medical degree.
That video was one of the most revolting things I'd ever seen, and to this day thinking of it literally makes me cringe. I looked like some sort of snorting pig. I would stop breathing for between one and two minutes, then take the most loud awful pig like snorting deep breath, take a couple more shallow breaths, then stop breathing for a minute or two again. I'd do this for the length of the video. It turns out no one who had heard me snore wanted to bring it up out of politeness. I think they assumed I knew. On the other hand I had NO idea. I didn't think it was possible to do that in your sleep without knowing, but not only was it possible, it had been going on for months (or possibly even years) before I worked out what was happening.
Now I'm on a CPAP machine at night which opens up my airways so I don't stop breathing. I hate the damn thing - being hooked up to a mask blowing air into your nose just sucks badly - but just a couple of nights without it and the headaches return and I start feeling tired again. The change when I went on the CPAP was instant - mornings I felt so fresh and awake that it was surreal. I'd rather be dependant on a damn machine than constantly fall asleep, lose my job, walk around like a zombie moron, behave inappropriately or sluggishly because I'm half asleep, be unable to drive, and ultimately die of blood pressure related illness. I don't think I'd be alive today without it.
Anyway the point is this experience has shattered any illusion of knowing what happens when I'm asleep.
Or maybe it's me who has dementia. I don't know if I'm being sarcastic. Oh dear.
No that just shows that this test fails to distinguish between dementia and social ineptitude ;-)
That was meant to be sarcastic anyway. I find the idea that you can go to jail for downloading a movie ridiculous. (REASONABLE financial penalthy, perhaps. Criminal record and jail though? Come on!)
I agree, it was a boring slideshow...but what did you expect?
IT and science aren't known for their amazing comic value (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky). The wackiest things I see in IT are management decisions, particularly when they ask for something without a clue what it will take to build, then set a ridiculous time line. It's even wackier when a senior manager has a revelation and you realize that he's missed something big and lost the plot altogether. What isn't so much fun is explaining why a particular project won't work as intended, or trying to talk someone out of shooting themselves in the foot before losing their attention.
Frankly, you can bite me.
No thanks. I'll pass.
How is MY attitude any kind of a problem? In fact, what is the problem?
The problem is that you're telling other people that you don't understand why they have a problem and implying that it must be them doing something wrong rather than the product, when in fact you haven't tested the product under the same situation under which others have reported having their issues.
I simply reported that I bought a PC with Vista on it, and it works fine. It was a bottom of the line Compaq Presario, cost me $350 at Staples. I needed a computer that day, and there it was.
Glad it worked out for you. Other people haven't had it so easy. Their software and or hardware which works nicely in XP has not worked in Vista and they have no recourse.
I'm not talking about early adopters who tried to install it on old equipment, etc., and ran into difficulties. I'm simply reporting my experience.
No, you're reporting your experience and still even with the last comment blaming the end user for issues with their operating system when the operating system is in fact deficient. Early adoption is encouraged by Microsoft so if someone fell for the hype of how much better the new operating system is (or were forced by circumstance to upgrade) it's less than fair of you to blame them. Likewise why would anyone throw out "old equipment". My brother in law has a working main stream Canon scanner that is only about 3 years old that does not and probably will never support Vista. Why should he throw it out? People rant and rave about the environment yet some of those same people are perfectly happy to berate people for not upgrading. It's ridiculous.
Why should someone with working hardware worry about it at all? I wasn't pushing anyone to upgrade - just saying that it works fine on the el-cheapo mainstream rig that I bought. ...and implying that people who have issues must in fact be the problem.
Your attitude is over the top knee-jerk polemic. Look, I've been using computers since my 1977 Commodore PET, and I've heard it all. I remember when Microsoft's only real product was a ripoff BASIC interpreter for CP/M. I do not have tons o' love for MS. I was just reporting my experience.
Again, that's fine. You bought a new laptop and had a good experience. Others did the same and did not. Yet others upgraded and did not.
So lighten up.
No. I'm tired of people ranting about how Vista is actually good and that it's not a problem and I'm tired of reading post after post stating that because it worked for them it must be good. It's not. It doesn't work as advertised on machines that are meant to run it. It has problems with even basic things like file copy that people who state it's good fail to mention either because they don't care or because they're too stupid to notice.
You could try backing up your files. Did that ever occur to you? Mozy is like $5 a month, seriously.
Anything important I have at least 3 copies of - 2 onsite and 1 offsite. However I don't back up to some 3rd party site I have no control over. THAT is awful advice especially coming from someone who decides to be critical of another person without getting all the facts. I ***COPY*** the files onto removable hard disks. You see my problem, if disk copy is flakey???
Actually, Doctor Who is produced in conjunction with another organisation. Amusingly enough, that organisation is the CBC. So Canadian taxpayers (who actually FUND the program) are more than entitled to download it, I reckon.
Why do you hate the poor starving actors and want to steal from them?
Honestly, I don't know what all the resistance to Vista is all about. I've been using it everyday for the past 18 months plus, and I've never had a problem with it
The problem is your failure to understand that not everyone uses the same hardware as you and not everyone does the same things that you do on your computer.
It's the same as the developer who closes a bug report with "Works on my computer".
Maybe the CBC could get the same editor to cut the Pirates of the Caribbean movies down to a reasonable length. That would be sweet.
Why is it that I get the feeling that this version would focus on Kiera Knightly and not be work safe?
Mostly I'm in Ubuntu Intrepid anyway, but Vista is just the new Windows as far as I can tell - no worse than any of 'em. When I hear some of the stuff people say about Vista, I wonder what they're talking about, because it doesn't match my experience at all.
Same problem as many other posters here. You have had no problems with one machine and your limited usage scenarios and have therefore concluded that no one else with their vastly different usage and different hardware must be crazy to be complaining. Well frankly YOUR attitude is the problem. Why should someone with working hardware throw it all out because there are no Vista drivers? Why should I throw out 16 bit software? Why should I put up with more DRM that can backfire (and has done so for some people).
The UI is a ton better than XP.
Yes, it does have problems, sometimes it even burps while copying files, which is bizarre to me, since it's such a basic function.
So you value the UI more highly than correct functionality during file copy? To me that says you don't do anything important with your computer. I have stuff I can't replace on my computers. My laptop dual boots with Vista and I find I fire up the Vista partition on average once every 6 months.
But XP is past its prime.
XP does everything I need and is more stable. If you call that "past its prime" give me "past its prime" every time please.
People exhaust themselves climbing up, but most when they do realize they are in trouble will turn back...or perhaps they realize they have enough and push on to get up there, but don't leave enough in reserve to come back down. Also there's a false sense of achievement - "I made it to the summit!" - but while making it back down alive is actually more improtant it may be anticlimactic and not as big a motivator when you're spent after the effort of reaching the top.
I wish I had mod points for you.
It's amazing that people focus on the distractions like games, and ignore the fact that there's really very little you can't get your hands on via the Internet today if you choose to focus on good quality information and are genuinely passionate about it. People need to teach their children to be passionate about learning so that a good documentary actually will compete against the latest computer game for their attention.
And in fact most discoveries these days are really done by computers, not by humans.
Also humans don't build houses. It's the tools that do it. People say the construction crew built it, but really it was the hammers, saws and nail guns that did it.
Also my accountant doesn't do anything. I should be paying his calculator directly.
Yeah it sounds stupid when you credit the tool, doesn't it? Computers are just tools.