A) wipe your system B) load Linux instead of Windows C) restore files from backups
This is what I did back in 1997 when a Windows virus wiped out my hard disk. Sadly, I was a broke college student who didn't have the money to afford backups, so I lost everything. I had to start from scratch, anyway, so I started with Linux. I had dabbled with Linux on and off since 1993, but that Windows virus was the push I needed to commit to the switch. I've never regretted it.
If it cost up to $8 to rent, then yes. Otherwise, hell no. There is no movie in existence that is worth renting for the prices in the story. $25 to rent a movie is insane. $50 to rent a movie is insanely stupid.
The slowest speeds listed in this report are far better than what HUGE swaths are of U.S. are relegated to: dial up.
Broadband rollout is so poor in the U.S., due mostly to corrupt relationships between providers and lawmakers, that most of the country's geography is not served by anything better than dialup or satellite, both of which are horrible.
This is not the case. Most of their wealth is already in the economy....
Most of a rich man's wealth which isn't hoarded is transferred to another rich man, and then rides a carousel which eventually makes it way back to the original rich man. Sure, the wealth is in the economy; but only in a very small, tiny part of the population gets to use it.
Installing nvidia has always been a bit of a pain in Linux...
In the *buntus (and I would presume Debian), it is very simple:
apt-get install nvidia-current
Or you can use the newbie-friendly GUI to install it.
That said, I stopped buying NVidia cards about a year ago. The Open Source AMD driver is good enough for my needs (desktop, simple gaming, 3D modeling), and continues to improve rapidly. Now, I can add "respects my privacy".
Yes, the telemetry features are not a great move, but just disable all of that crap and you're all set.
Just because you think you've disabled it does not mean you've actually disabled it. Microsoft has the sole discretion to completely ignore you, sneak its spyware in through other vectors, or automatically re-enable its spyware at any time it damn well pleases.
The secondary headline from this study is, "75% of men who participated in this study are fucking morons." This contraceptive has horrendous side effects, but some people are too stupid to care.
What I find even more remarkable is that the moron who wrote this story, despite the severe side effects, still uses the term, "safe and effective." Hmm...where else have we heard this bullshit phrase?
...but I have a hard time believing that PCs require more help desk calls simply because Windows/PCs sucks.
I find it quite believable, as it reflects my experiences. Every user for whom I've ever installed Linux stopped calling me with operating system problems. Their Windows problems prior to that point, on the other hand, were legion.
Windows is a nightmare for the average user. Hell, it's a nightmare for most users. Once Linux is installed, on the other hand, it runs itself. The owner of the most recent business I converted to Linux told me that he didn't realize computers were supposed to work as well as his have worked since letting me convert them, a move he resisted for years.
I am glad that Netflix is funding the creation of this stuff.
Most of my TV watching is with my very young children, and they LOVE the original Netflix children's shows (Dinotrucks, Puss & Boots, and others I can't recall off the top of my head).
"It was a fluid, dangerous situation and I didn't have time to be fumbling with a camera when my life was potentially at risk!"
"The Court is grateful that you were not hurt, but considering the importance of your actions to this proceeding, and the rampant lying the Court has experienced when lacking video evidence of Police actions, the Court rules for [the other party]."
"At the time it didn't seem worth recording"
"Considering the importance of your actions to this proceeding, and the rampant lying the Court has experienced when lacking video evidence of Police actions, the Court rules for [the other party]."
The parent got moderated as Funny, but I think he was dead serious. When the Ford/Microsoft pairing was first announced years ago, I (and many others) immediately predicted major problems. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit.
Everything.
Microsoft is the Reverse Midas, and always has been.
Lets see the utter pile of shit there is available:
[examples snipped]
You forgot the biggest, most useless pile of shit ever on TV: ESPN. It's even worse than when the History Channel became the Wrestling Channel, and largely on par with the sixteen shopping channels you just can't get rid of.
You have a classic apples and oranges issue. If you're using the Internet largely as if it were an extension of TV, then you have an obvious problem. If you're equating the Web with the Internet, then you have another obvious problem.
That's like saying, "I only ever use the bathroom in my house, yet I'm paying the full mortgage price." You don't want Internet access. You want AOL back in the 90's.
[Americans are] quick to point out the injustice of the Saudi criminal code yet conveniently overlook the fact that it is a criminal offence to dance at the Jefferson Memorial, or that until 1967 interracial marriages were illegal in a plurality of states.
I think most Americans are quick to point out stupid laws in the U.S., too, when they become aware of such laws. But most Americans are just too stupid to vote out the Congresscritters who enact such laws.
The U.S. Government has no credibility with regards to security. Its M.O. is to do stupid stuff, then to blame the messenger who tells the world just how incompetent our federal government really is. Even if, against all odds, our government is correct this one time, it is factually wrong so many times as to mask the one time it may (or may not) be right.
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A) wipe your system
B) load Linux instead of Windows
C) restore files from backups
This is what I did back in 1997 when a Windows virus wiped out my hard disk. Sadly, I was a broke college student who didn't have the money to afford backups, so I lost everything. I had to start from scratch, anyway, so I started with Linux. I had dabbled with Linux on and off since 1993, but that Windows virus was the push I needed to commit to the switch. I've never regretted it.
If it cost up to $8 to rent, then yes. Otherwise, hell no. There is no movie in existence that is worth renting for the prices in the story. $25 to rent a movie is insane. $50 to rent a movie is insanely stupid.
Regardless of whether you're pro-patent or anti-patent, pro-Apple or anti-Apple, pro-Samsung or anti-Samsung, this was a terrible decision.
I'm pretty sure that the anti-patent, anti-Apple, pro-Samsung people are going to vigorously disagree with you.
The slowest speeds listed in this report are far better than what HUGE swaths are of U.S. are relegated to: dial up.
Broadband rollout is so poor in the U.S., due mostly to corrupt relationships between providers and lawmakers, that most of the country's geography is not served by anything better than dialup or satellite, both of which are horrible.
So we have conclusive proof that religion really is the opiate of the masses.
Did Han shoot first?
Probably, but she may have shot back multiple times.
I get insult after insult from Apple when I want to do things my way.
You're just now noticing? This has been Apple's M.O. forever, and is one of the many reasons I will never buy an Apple product.
Or, as old Fortran programmers would put it, insisting that the first item in a list have an index of 0.
Or, as those who fail to learn how computers work would put it, insisting that the first item in a list have an index of 1.
This is not the case. Most of their wealth is already in the economy....
Most of a rich man's wealth which isn't hoarded is transferred to another rich man, and then rides a carousel which eventually makes it way back to the original rich man. Sure, the wealth is in the economy; but only in a very small, tiny part of the population gets to use it.
Installing nvidia has always been a bit of a pain in Linux...
In the *buntus (and I would presume Debian), it is very simple:
apt-get install nvidia-current
Or you can use the newbie-friendly GUI to install it.
That said, I stopped buying NVidia cards about a year ago. The Open Source AMD driver is good enough for my needs (desktop, simple gaming, 3D modeling), and continues to improve rapidly. Now, I can add "respects my privacy".
Yes, the telemetry features are not a great move, but just disable all of that crap and you're all set.
Just because you think you've disabled it does not mean you've actually disabled it. Microsoft has the sole discretion to completely ignore you, sneak its spyware in through other vectors, or automatically re-enable its spyware at any time it damn well pleases.
But watching grown men (and women) move a ball from one end of a field to another must be worth millions of mere lives.
Apparently, Google has a monopoly on kicking the shit out of Apple and Microsoft by making things people want.
The secondary headline from this study is, "75% of men who participated in this study are fucking morons." This contraceptive has horrendous side effects, but some people are too stupid to care.
What I find even more remarkable is that the moron who wrote this story, despite the severe side effects, still uses the term, "safe and effective." Hmm...where else have we heard this bullshit phrase?
...but I have a hard time believing that PCs require more help desk calls simply because Windows/PCs sucks.
I find it quite believable, as it reflects my experiences. Every user for whom I've ever installed Linux stopped calling me with operating system problems. Their Windows problems prior to that point, on the other hand, were legion.
Windows is a nightmare for the average user. Hell, it's a nightmare for most users. Once Linux is installed, on the other hand, it runs itself. The owner of the most recent business I converted to Linux told me that he didn't realize computers were supposed to work as well as his have worked since letting me convert them, a move he resisted for years.
I am glad that Netflix is funding the creation of this stuff.
Most of my TV watching is with my very young children, and they LOVE the original Netflix children's shows (Dinotrucks, Puss & Boots, and others I can't recall off the top of my head).
"It was a fluid, dangerous situation and I didn't have time to be fumbling with a camera when my life was potentially at risk!"
"The Court is grateful that you were not hurt, but considering the importance of your actions to this proceeding, and the rampant lying the Court has experienced when lacking video evidence of Police actions, the Court rules for [the other party]."
"At the time it didn't seem worth recording"
"Considering the importance of your actions to this proceeding, and the rampant lying the Court has experienced when lacking video evidence of Police actions, the Court rules for [the other party]."
Problem solved.
The answer to your question is displayed prominently in the linked article.
The parent got moderated as Funny, but I think he was dead serious. When the Ford/Microsoft pairing was first announced years ago, I (and many others) immediately predicted major problems. Everything Microsoft touches turns to shit.
Everything.
Microsoft is the Reverse Midas, and always has been.
Lets see the utter pile of shit there is available:
[examples snipped]
You forgot the biggest, most useless pile of shit ever on TV: ESPN. It's even worse than when the History Channel became the Wrestling Channel, and largely on par with the sixteen shopping channels you just can't get rid of.
You have a classic apples and oranges issue. If you're using the Internet largely as if it were an extension of TV, then you have an obvious problem. If you're equating the Web with the Internet, then you have another obvious problem.
That's like saying, "I only ever use the bathroom in my house, yet I'm paying the full mortgage price." You don't want Internet access. You want AOL back in the 90's.
So that I can live a lifetime where I never make a mistake and everyone in the world is a moron compared to me.
Trust me, you don't.
There is a (1/X) in Y chance that we are living in a computer simulation, where X and Y both equal infinity.
[Americans are] quick to point out the injustice of the Saudi criminal code yet conveniently overlook the fact that it is a criminal offence to dance at the Jefferson Memorial, or that until 1967 interracial marriages were illegal in a plurality of states.
I think most Americans are quick to point out stupid laws in the U.S., too, when they become aware of such laws. But most Americans are just too stupid to vote out the Congresscritters who enact such laws.
The U.S. Government has no credibility with regards to security. Its M.O. is to do stupid stuff, then to blame the messenger who tells the world just how incompetent our federal government really is. Even if, against all odds, our government is correct this one time, it is factually wrong so many times as to mask the one time it may (or may not) be right.