"Virtual PC / 2004 / Microsoft / 32-bit / When you run a Windows XP SP2-based virtual machine, it will perform slowly compared to a Windows XP SP1-based virtual machine."
Define "slowly"... Do you think we'll really be able to tell?
A friend's mother, a private practice psychiatrist, recently asked me over to do work on her laptop. Ridden with viri and spyware, it was virtually unusable. When I explained how drastic the solutions were for all of the computer's illnesses, she threatened to just rip out the WiFi card and put the thing away for good, only to use it in need of word proccessing or scheduling visits with patients. Luckily neither application required internet connectivity.
Luck is the key word there. It's her luck that she doesn't absolutely need to be connected to do all that she needs to for business. Some people are not so lucky, and the do have an absolute need for internet connectivity for business reasons. However, I think in a lot of cases connectivity is majorly a convienence. For example, stamps.com instead of buying and licking real stamps.. or checking freight costs on a website instead of in a book or calling an operator at the shipping company.
The downside to being able to simply say one can get by without the internet because you can send your secretary to Office Depot to get office supplies instead of buying them online, is the personal effects of the internet. The son of that psychiatrist, my friend, is living in Japan. Even with cheap phone cards online it's hard to stay in touch while he lives and goes to school half way across the globe. Email is a great way for her to still feel close to her son.
So a reminder to you frustrated internet users, before you tear out your WiFi card and stomp on it for your own personal release, be sure you click on Safely Remove Hardware first.
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So I'm still confused; Does being cold make you sick or not?
A friend's mother, a private practice psychiatrist, recently asked me over to do work on her laptop. Ridden with viri and spyware, it was virtually unusable. When I explained how drastic the solutions were for all of the computer's illnesses, she threatened to just rip out the WiFi card and put the thing away for good, only to use it in need of word proccessing or scheduling visits with patients. Luckily neither application required internet connectivity.
Luck is the key word there. It's her luck that she doesn't absolutely need to be connected to do all that she needs to for business. Some people are not so lucky, and the do have an absolute need for internet connectivity for business reasons. However, I think in a lot of cases connectivity is majorly a convienence. For example, stamps.com instead of buying and licking real stamps.. or checking freight costs on a website instead of in a book or calling an operator at the shipping company.
The downside to being able to simply say one can get by without the internet because you can send your secretary to Office Depot to get office supplies instead of buying them online, is the personal effects of the internet. The son of that psychiatrist, my friend, is living in Japan. Even with cheap phone cards online it's hard to stay in touch while he lives and goes to school half way across the globe. Email is a great way for her to still feel close to her son.
So a reminder to you frustrated internet users, before you tear out your WiFi card and stomp on it for your own personal release, be sure you click on Safely Remove Hardware first.