No, of course it is not immoral to cure a disease. Who asked the stupid question, a Jehovah's Witness? A Christian Scientist? Such crazy talk could not have come from anyone but a religious nut who thinks God wants you to suffer, or he wouldn't have punished you for your sins with a disease. People who believe since nonsense would have kept us in caves, or caused our extinction if they had run the world from the dawn of man until now.
Windows has always been a rip-off of Mac, and a poorly done one at that. There is nothing new about that. Microsoft has always ripped off, they have never innovated, except possibly with Microsoft Bob, which they cannot blame on anyone outside the company.
Get a cooling fan stand for it if you are going to use it as a media center extender, as that will drive it really hard. Mine went three red lights while I was streaming video from my PC.
Symantec? Ha! I would rather have nothing at all than Norton products. They are bloated resource hogs, and any script kiddie's concoction can disable them. People who know nothing about computers, but still own one for their work or their kids' school buy Norton crap purely on name recognition. All they are buying is a false sense of security.
Placebos work when the problem is all in your head, but they will not cure or treat any real disease. Prescribe placebos for a staph infection, cancer, AIDS or any other real disease, and the patient will die. Homeopathy is just a placebo.
Shrinks are quacks, and have mad up so many mental disorders that everyone has two or three of them, and they can't wait to sell us snake oil pills. No one is normal, according to them.
The only thing that will motivate the lazy to get off their butts and do something is a TV making snow. So much for emergency service first responders who need the frequencies that the changeover will free up. I guess Congress thinks it is better for people to die in a fire than for the stupid and lazy to lose their idiot boxes. Read more
You aren't allowed to do jack shit in Windows without administrator privileges, so everyone gives themselves an administrator account. Also, once people are desensitized to cancel or allow dialogs, and just say "allow" to everything, they no longer provide any security. The problem with Windows is that it is used by the masses who know nothing about their computers except that they need one for work, or the kids need one for school. They are the security flaw that will never be fixed.
In Italy, it is a criminal act for cities to rig traffic lights with cameras to quick change. In the United States of Avarice, it is business as usual, and no one says boo about it.
Some other consequences: Emergency first responders were going to get new frequencies to improve their communications as of February 17. Forget that. People can die in a fire, but don't you dare take away my idiot box!
AT&T and Verizon were sold the freed up bandwidth that didn't go to emergency services. They will sue if their lawyers determine that they can sue the government. Find my whole take on this here.
Considering that Vista is a bigger disaster than ME, is almost universally hated, and never should have seen the light of day; of course they want to rush 7 out the door. No surprise at all.
I never used much SCSI, but I used to see a lot of Quantum IDE drives with a burned up chip on the circuit board. It was always their electronics going out, not the click of death.
Grandma has done fine this far without a damn computer. Do not complicate her life! You are delivering her into the hands of Nigerian scammers and every other kind of con man. Send the computer back. If you will not because she can't hear on the phone any more, and you think email is the answer, at least Vista has big icons she can actually see on a 1280x1024 flat panel, but get a dual core CPU, and all the ram it will hold, or the slowness will make her think it is broken. And for God's sake, turn off UAC or she will be too afraid to say yes to anything, and will get absolutely nothing done. Not even email.
Kids and grandkids foisting computers on seniors are NOT doing them a favor.
Call labels "the recording industry". They manufacture a commodity: Plastic discs. Artists make music. RIAA stands for Recording Industry Association of America. Neither "A" stands for artists.
Nothing short of an auto pilot that cannot be overridden will stop gramps from making road pizza out of people at the farmers market. Until we have that, no one over 60 should be allowed to drive.
No TV will make people go absolutely bonkers! In spite of the ad campaign, people still do not understand the difference between analog and digital, or standard vs HD. Cable operators are even muddying the waters by implying that you need cable or will get snow in mailers they send to non-subscribers. TV stations will be inundated with angry callers who only understand that their TV is all snow on that day, and will be convinced that the whole thing is some kind of conspiracy. It will all be too complicated for the VCR flashing 12:00 crowd.
When WCPO in Cincinnati tried to offer a SAP channel for Spanish speakers a little over a year ago, they were deluged with angry calls about the TV "talking foreign" from technically illiterate viewers who did not know what SAP was, but had it turned on. All efforts to educate the public were in vain, and they had to just stop offering SAP. The switch to digital will be this nationwide, but switching back will not happen.
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No, of course it is not immoral to cure a disease. Who asked the stupid question, a Jehovah's Witness? A Christian Scientist? Such crazy talk could not have come from anyone but a religious nut who thinks God wants you to suffer, or he wouldn't have punished you for your sins with a disease. People who believe since nonsense would have kept us in caves, or caused our extinction if they had run the world from the dawn of man until now.
Celeron? Too expensive at free. The slowness is going to make you crazy. Dork Patrol's optimization isn't going to help.
Windows has always been a rip-off of Mac, and a poorly done one at that. There is nothing new about that. Microsoft has always ripped off, they have never innovated, except possibly with Microsoft Bob, which they cannot blame on anyone outside the company.
This announcement would have meant something in 1997. In 2009, not so much.
Get a cooling fan stand for it if you are going to use it as a media center extender, as that will drive it really hard. Mine went three red lights while I was streaming video from my PC.
Symantec? Ha! I would rather have nothing at all than Norton products. They are bloated resource hogs, and any script kiddie's concoction can disable them. People who know nothing about computers, but still own one for their work or their kids' school buy Norton crap purely on name recognition. All they are buying is a false sense of security.
The brain is much more complicated than a series of switches that can be set to one of two positions. No set of zeros and ones will ever be enough.
Placebos work when the problem is all in your head, but they will not cure or treat any real disease. Prescribe placebos for a staph infection, cancer, AIDS or any other real disease, and the patient will die. Homeopathy is just a placebo.
There will be some kind of conspiracy that keeps them off the shelves, like the one against nuclear light bulbs.
Shrinks are quacks, and have mad up so many mental disorders that everyone has two or three of them, and they can't wait to sell us snake oil pills. No one is normal, according to them.
The only thing that will motivate the lazy to get off their butts and do something is a TV making snow. So much for emergency service first responders who need the frequencies that the changeover will free up. I guess Congress thinks it is better for people to die in a fire than for the stupid and lazy to lose their idiot boxes. Read more
You aren't allowed to do jack shit in Windows without administrator privileges, so everyone gives themselves an administrator account. Also, once people are desensitized to cancel or allow dialogs, and just say "allow" to everything, they no longer provide any security. The problem with Windows is that it is used by the masses who know nothing about their computers except that they need one for work, or the kids need one for school. They are the security flaw that will never be fixed.
In Italy, it is a criminal act for cities to rig traffic lights with cameras to quick change. In the United States of Avarice, it is business as usual, and no one says boo about it.
Some other consequences: Emergency first responders were going to get new frequencies to improve their communications as of February 17. Forget that. People can die in a fire, but don't you dare take away my idiot box!
AT&T and Verizon were sold the freed up bandwidth that didn't go to emergency services. They will sue if their lawyers determine that they can sue the government. Find my whole take on this here.
Considering that Vista is a bigger disaster than ME, is almost universally hated, and never should have seen the light of day; of course they want to rush 7 out the door. No surprise at all.
Why does this take more than a simple majority? Could somebody clarify why there have to be 2/3?
I never used much SCSI, but I used to see a lot of Quantum IDE drives with a burned up chip on the circuit board. It was always their electronics going out, not the click of death.
Almost all the bricks in my junk pile are Maxtor, and Seagate seems to have become them by buying them.
You have two choices in hard drives: "Western Digital" and "Other". You are playing Russian Roulette with your data if you choose "other".
LEDs and CFLs are child's play if you want to stick it to the electric company. You need nuclear light bulbs!
Grandma has done fine this far without a damn computer. Do not complicate her life! You are delivering her into the hands of Nigerian scammers and every other kind of con man. Send the computer back. If you will not because she can't hear on the phone any more, and you think email is the answer, at least Vista has big icons she can actually see on a 1280x1024 flat panel, but get a dual core CPU, and all the ram it will hold, or the slowness will make her think it is broken. And for God's sake, turn off UAC or she will be too afraid to say yes to anything, and will get absolutely nothing done. Not even email.
Kids and grandkids foisting computers on seniors are NOT doing them a favor.
They hate being called martians. Their proper name is the Zhti Ti Kofft. http://www.uncoveror.com/zhtitikofft.htm http://www.uncoveror.com/icegeysers.htm
Call labels "the recording industry". They manufacture a commodity: Plastic discs. Artists make music. RIAA stands for Recording Industry Association of America. Neither "A" stands for artists.
Nothing short of an auto pilot that cannot be overridden will stop gramps from making road pizza out of people at the farmers market. Until we have that, no one over 60 should be allowed to drive.
No TV will make people go absolutely bonkers! In spite of the ad campaign, people still do not understand the difference between analog and digital, or standard vs HD. Cable operators are even muddying the waters by implying that you need cable or will get snow in mailers they send to non-subscribers. TV stations will be inundated with angry callers who only understand that their TV is all snow on that day, and will be convinced that the whole thing is some kind of conspiracy. It will all be too complicated for the VCR flashing 12:00 crowd.
When WCPO in Cincinnati tried to offer a SAP channel for Spanish speakers a little over a year ago, they were deluged with angry calls about the TV "talking foreign" from technically illiterate viewers who did not know what SAP was, but had it turned on. All efforts to educate the public were in vain, and they had to just stop offering SAP. The switch to digital will be this nationwide, but switching back will not happen.