My favorite study along these lines was a randomized selection of men, half of whom were injected with steroids and half got no steroids. Neither group showed muscle gains during the study period. Not mentioned in the headline was that neither group lifted weights or engaged in any exercise. So in a sense the headline was true: just taking steroids doesn't give you big muscles. But the guys in my gym who took steroids got big because they were able to recuperate faster from heavier workouts.
Windows 10 Enterprise is the product; along with Office 365 they lock in business users and bring in revenue for Microsoft. The other versions of W10 are various levels of unpaid alpha testing (Insiders) and unpaid beta testing (Home/Pro). Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC is a red-headed step child that Microsoft begrudgingly has around because it has to.
My university got a "supercomputer" and I got excited about what I could do with all of its capabilities. Then I started submitting jobs in batch that were limited to 64gb of ram. I could request 128gb batch machines which would take hours to become available and the maximum machines were 256gb which would sometimes take days to get. Storage was limited to 1TB. Of course I didn't have the permissions to install software so it was an endless hassle to request installation of new versions. So I went back to my own dual E5-2667v2 processors ($590 for both) and 96gb of ram. My z620 is no supercomputer, but it is better than my share of the supercomputer.
On Windows 10 I used Bash (WSL) for Linux use and Hyper-V for a Windows 7 VM I need. The system crashed so hard that it could not be repaired, restored or resuscitated in any way. In a sick way I was amused when Bash was reclassified as Beta and removed from the Long Term Servicing Base (LTSB) not long after my system crashed. The official MS line was that WSL was included in LTSB by accident. Somebody was as stupid as I was and thought WSL was ready for the real world.
I reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch (I have to use it for work) and now use VirtualBox for both the Windows 7 VM and now an Ubuntu Server VM (which I ssh into from Windows 10). I now have no problems, plus the video with VirtualBox is much better than the video with Hyper-V.
I was once the chair of a faculty committee to review a student's appeal of his expulsion for low grades. I asked him, "The next semester is based on the material of the previous semester, which, by your grades, we can assume you did not master. What can you tell us that would make us believe your results in the next semester would be better?" After thinking for a few minutes he said, "I can promise to try to get up before noon."
I had a Nexus 7 with exactly the problems you describe and I had gotten the Nexus 7 for exactly the reasons you mention. I replaced it with a Lenovo Tab 2 A10. Relatively inexpensive, good build quality, faster than the Nexus 7. Put in a micro SD card and have had no problems with it despite daily use for 3 months.
How many lines of code are in QuickBooks for customer shafting purposes? Every year there is a trivially different new version of the program with a completely different file format, so a file created in QBn cannot be read by QB.lt.n. Also, when QBn reads a file from QB.lt.n, it converts the file to the QBn format; thus any changes made using the new version of QB cannot be used by the older version. Nice.
Another touch is that the payroll updates only work for 3 years, so a company using the payroll feature has to buy, install, test and train a new version of the program, with the related hassles, for no benefit except the incremental revenue to Intuit.
If they would have their data files in a defined, consistent, published SQL format, they could cut the code dramatically. This would also allow for report-writing to be separated from the transaction processing instead of the current monolithic mess.
These guys make Microsoft look nice.
My son got the following question wrong when he was 5: What is the difference between a pen and a pencil? We were told by the psychologist that the correct answer was that pens write in color and pencils do not. However, his mother is an artist and he had been using colored pencils for years, so he would never have answered this question correctly. And this was the test for whether or not he was gifted! Know too much and you get it wrong. Amazing.
In general, the people who make up these tests are not as smart as the top kids who take them. The knowledge of some fifth graders about science would be way past the knowledge of the test preparers.
I'll bite: I am planning to install Vista x64.
Right now, I am running Windows XP at work because I use Acrobat 8 Professional, SAS, Photoshop, Excel 2007 (yes, the 2007 changes really are improvements for me and my work), plus the normal stuff like Firefox 3.0 that would run on any OS. Finally, I am getting a 64-bit version of SAS Real Soon Now. In the XP, 32-bit world each process is limited to 2GB, so I have run SAS jobs that gradually go up to 2GB memory and then stay there; the jobs then run for 45 minutes. I hope that with 64-bit software and more memory things will get finished faster.
I have a dual-processor Xenon with 4GB of ram, a Quadro FX 560, LP3065, HP 7800 Scanner, and I will go to 8GB when the 64-bit software gets installed. I have run the Vista Upgrade advisor, everything is compatible, and the computer got a 4.5 score. Almost everyone with Vista x64 and 4GB+ of memory is pleased with the speed and the stability. I anticipate initial aggravations, but substantial improvements. I am hoping that big jobs in one application (like long scans and putting together pdfs) will not slow down other applications. We'll see. No Blu-ray or any HD stuff, obviously.
Last week I checked the memory usage of Firefox 1.5 on my 2GB main memory Win2k box: 322MB! SAS is the only other application I have ever had that high.
I use W2k/Office2k at home and XP/Office 2003 at work, but I have yet to see where XP and 2003 are improvements. Am I missing something? What do you get when you upgrade besides an "integrated" firewall?
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My favorite study along these lines was a randomized selection of men, half of whom were injected with steroids and half got no steroids. Neither group showed muscle gains during the study period. Not mentioned in the headline was that neither group lifted weights or engaged in any exercise. So in a sense the headline was true: just taking steroids doesn't give you big muscles. But the guys in my gym who took steroids got big because they were able to recuperate faster from heavier workouts.
Windows 10 Enterprise is the product; along with Office 365 they lock in business users and bring in revenue for Microsoft. The other versions of W10 are various levels of unpaid alpha testing (Insiders) and unpaid beta testing (Home/Pro). Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC is a red-headed step child that Microsoft begrudgingly has around because it has to.
My university got a "supercomputer" and I got excited about what I could do with all of its capabilities. Then I started submitting jobs in batch that were limited to 64gb of ram. I could request 128gb batch machines which would take hours to become available and the maximum machines were 256gb which would sometimes take days to get. Storage was limited to 1TB. Of course I didn't have the permissions to install software so it was an endless hassle to request installation of new versions. So I went back to my own dual E5-2667v2 processors ($590 for both) and 96gb of ram. My z620 is no supercomputer, but it is better than my share of the supercomputer.
I'm just guessing, but I don't think you live in New Orleans.
Another factor is the exchange rate. The dollar was strengthening in the last half of 2016 and thus coming to the US was becoming more expensive.
On Windows 10 I used Bash (WSL) for Linux use and Hyper-V for a Windows 7 VM I need. The system crashed so hard that it could not be repaired, restored or resuscitated in any way. In a sick way I was amused when Bash was reclassified as Beta and removed from the Long Term Servicing Base (LTSB) not long after my system crashed. The official MS line was that WSL was included in LTSB by accident. Somebody was as stupid as I was and thought WSL was ready for the real world. I reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch (I have to use it for work) and now use VirtualBox for both the Windows 7 VM and now an Ubuntu Server VM (which I ssh into from Windows 10). I now have no problems, plus the video with VirtualBox is much better than the video with Hyper-V.
I was once the chair of a faculty committee to review a student's appeal of his expulsion for low grades. I asked him, "The next semester is based on the material of the previous semester, which, by your grades, we can assume you did not master. What can you tell us that would make us believe your results in the next semester would be better?" After thinking for a few minutes he said, "I can promise to try to get up before noon."
I had a Nexus 7 with exactly the problems you describe and I had gotten the Nexus 7 for exactly the reasons you mention. I replaced it with a Lenovo Tab 2 A10. Relatively inexpensive, good build quality, faster than the Nexus 7. Put in a micro SD card and have had no problems with it despite daily use for 3 months.
This. I put Leopard and the 2.8.0.866 version of Skype on a ppc G5 Imac for my wife's Skyping. No bloat. Works perfectly.
How many lines of code are in QuickBooks for customer shafting purposes? Every year there is a trivially different new version of the program with a completely different file format, so a file created in QBn cannot be read by QB.lt.n. Also, when QBn reads a file from QB.lt.n, it converts the file to the QBn format; thus any changes made using the new version of QB cannot be used by the older version. Nice. Another touch is that the payroll updates only work for 3 years, so a company using the payroll feature has to buy, install, test and train a new version of the program, with the related hassles, for no benefit except the incremental revenue to Intuit. If they would have their data files in a defined, consistent, published SQL format, they could cut the code dramatically. This would also allow for report-writing to be separated from the transaction processing instead of the current monolithic mess. These guys make Microsoft look nice.
My son got the following question wrong when he was 5: What is the difference between a pen and a pencil? We were told by the psychologist that the correct answer was that pens write in color and pencils do not. However, his mother is an artist and he had been using colored pencils for years, so he would never have answered this question correctly. And this was the test for whether or not he was gifted! Know too much and you get it wrong. Amazing. In general, the people who make up these tests are not as smart as the top kids who take them. The knowledge of some fifth graders about science would be way past the knowledge of the test preparers.
This is not a bug. This is a feature.
You forgot the registry. I am sure nobody else would have come up with that!
I'll bite: I am planning to install Vista x64. Right now, I am running Windows XP at work because I use Acrobat 8 Professional, SAS, Photoshop, Excel 2007 (yes, the 2007 changes really are improvements for me and my work), plus the normal stuff like Firefox 3.0 that would run on any OS. Finally, I am getting a 64-bit version of SAS Real Soon Now. In the XP, 32-bit world each process is limited to 2GB, so I have run SAS jobs that gradually go up to 2GB memory and then stay there; the jobs then run for 45 minutes. I hope that with 64-bit software and more memory things will get finished faster. I have a dual-processor Xenon with 4GB of ram, a Quadro FX 560, LP3065, HP 7800 Scanner, and I will go to 8GB when the 64-bit software gets installed. I have run the Vista Upgrade advisor, everything is compatible, and the computer got a 4.5 score. Almost everyone with Vista x64 and 4GB+ of memory is pleased with the speed and the stability. I anticipate initial aggravations, but substantial improvements. I am hoping that big jobs in one application (like long scans and putting together pdfs) will not slow down other applications. We'll see. No Blu-ray or any HD stuff, obviously.
This quote is from John Stuart Mill, not David Hume.
Last week I checked the memory usage of Firefox 1.5 on my 2GB main memory Win2k box: 322MB! SAS is the only other application I have ever had that high.
I use W2k/Office2k at home and XP/Office 2003 at work, but I have yet to see where XP and 2003 are improvements. Am I missing something? What do you get when you upgrade besides an "integrated" firewall?