32G of ram costs only about $350.... and is quite far from the most expensive component in a computer. A modern MB and CPU can each cost much more than that.
You are comparing apples to oranges here. I bet you build your own rigs. To people like us, we don't look at $350 for 32G as a unnecessary expense. We consider it a wise investment because our personal rigs are going do so much more than a typical office workers machine.
A typical office workers machine is going to be reproduced hundreds if not thousands of times across a corporate or municipality environment. That $350 will add up to be a ass load in that environment. That is why most of these machines only meet the bare specs required to run the OS and get work done. Usually 4 to 8 GB.
Yes, I have. I've been using both since the started out. What you say was true back in the early days, and I believe they where java applications then. At least openoffice was.
Simply not true of libreoffice 5+. I actually prefer to use Microsoft office but there have been many times that I've had to resort to using libreoffice. Once I adjusted to the different look and feel, I find that libreoffice is perfectly applicable replacement for 95% of what people would do with MS Office.
Damn I have mod points to spend but I've posted. Someone mod this comment up. We even have a job description for a monkey pushing buttons. They are called "operators."
One server? That seems to be a small sample to base your whole option on. Not to insult you but I would propose that a better explanation to your windows server problems would simple be you didn't know what you where doing. I've worked with many versions of windows server over the yeas and never seen one that is properly configured require two boots for anything.
I noticed that to on my surface pro when I first got it. Lots of tiles hawking things. I removed all of them and put in my own tiles for my own apps. Haven 't seen an ad or had one of them try to sell me a think.
So, yes I will concede that you do have a point. A new install of windows 10 will happily offer you some shit to buy. But at least it isn't as bad as some android apps I've seen which seem to think that my devices sole purpose is for them to try to sell me shit.
2. Modern UX designers are idiots. They don't understand the first thing about good design even if Tog told them [asktog.com]
An here we have it folks. The exact reason why linux never took over the desktop. So many linux developers assumed that because they know one thing really well, they know everything. The arrogance of so many linux people is staggering.
I've worked with many of the linux GUI desktops. Most of them look fantastic but when you try to use them, they are garbage. An to make it worse you can't count on features in the desktop to be there next week. Gnome is the worse example of them. Just because the developers don't like something, they take it out. For no other reason.
Here is a simple truth. A lot of people, going all the way back to windows 95, have moved from there to window 10 with little or no issues. There might be some things that you have to get used to but for the most part they are minor. I can't tell you how many times I have change a linux version or install a upgrade only to look at the user interface and wonder what the fuck they are thinking.
Point blank simple for you. Modern UX designers know a hell of a lot more about what they are doing. An here is the truth pure and simple, both the apple and windows GUI is far superior to anything linux has now or in the past.
So wrong on so many ways. Your option about something you do not like doesn't make it a disaster for everyone else. Sorry, but the office Ribbon turned out to be exactly what it promised to be, a better system.
If it wasn't then it would have vanished a long time ago. If the ribbon was such a disaster then why is LibreOffice rolling out its own version?
This too. I've been running it on my home workstation, my surface pro, and my workstation at work. I have yet to see it stand up and try to sell me something. Windows XP far more likely to do that than windows 10 has been.
I find that people that bitch about windows 10 are not the ones that are actually using it. Most of them are simply spouting off some rumor they read on some back ally website.
Personally the Commodore was too limited to ever be successful
I don't know what kind of crack you are smoking but you need to cut it out. The C64 was one of the most successful computers of all time. Ask someone who has ever had one to tell you how limited it was.
So google disables a feature on a product someone pays for because they have found it defective. Sounds to me like google should be providing a replacement instead of just disabling it and calling it a day.
A good fictional example is the Companion Guild in the Firefly TV series. In that world they solved the problem through regulation and also elevating the trade so that it's considered prestigious, rather than scandalous.
That, or virtually any real life brothel in Nevada.
This is truth too. But I have to wonder on the "we'refuckedometer" what would it really matter if it was a super volcano or a radioactive super volcano?
An in a life is stranger than reality moment I was watch George Carlen yesterday doing a stage show about the planet shaking us off like fleas on a dog. Make me wonder....
You never had to deal with my highschool literature teacher. Anything after 1850 was trash to her. I actually got my views on books in school from a lecture by Orson Scott Card.
I believe that your experience with Shakespeare might be exactly what I'm talking about. Did you love it after you read it or years later? After you had developed enough background in reading to understand it.
I have read Tolstoy.
I should have worded that differently to say "I am reading Tolstoy." I have been for the last 20 years, but making it through War and Peace is on my bucket list.
I wonder if you might be on to something here. Not dropping a bunch of nukes into the thing and blowing it to hell and back. But instead using nuclear demolitions at key stress points to release pressure in a controlled way.
Well as controlled as we can possibly get it. Think of it as letting the air out of a tank using a safety valve instead of just waiting for the thing to blowup.
Might turn Yellowstone into a lake of magma but it would be better than losing the content. Of course it could also back fire in some horrible nuclear way.
How did this discussion become about "the children"? At some point in an education, it's worth reading something that you wouldn't have picked off the shelf yourself. If I hadn't been forced to read books, I'd still only be reading Mad Magazine and comic books.
It became about "the children" when I hijacked the discussion to suit my own agenda. Come on, this is slashdot, that is how these things happen.
I want to address one fallacy you have there. You are talking like reading comic books or Mad Magazine is a bad thing. I thought myself to read at age 6, yes I had help with the big words, so I could read Richie Rich comics. From there I picked up Xmen at issue 86, or abouts. It if wasn't for comics I would never have read the Original Phoenix Saga.
I still read comics but now I tend to read more manga than DC or Marvel. I like the facts that the stories in manga tend to have beginning and end. I'm reading Barakamon now. But have you checked out some of the comics they are making now? Sorry, they like to refer to them as "graphic novels" now.
My point is comics are a good stepping stone to reading. If it wasn't for Richie Rich I might never have become the avid reader I am. The first science fiction book I picked off a shelf and read was Voyage from Yesteryear by Jame Hogan. I still have a copy of it n my android tablet. I picked it up because it was on the book shelf next to the comic rack.
You are correct to a point about having someone pick something to read for you at some point in your education. I would expect in a college literature course because you usually have to sign up for such a course so you know what you are getting into. But not at the middle school or high school levels.
They have a classic crammed down their throat that they have little personal reference too. Imagine having Tolstoy shoved down throat at age 14. That would be enough to turn most readers off for good. Let the young read what appeals to them. Be it sparkly vampires, Enders Game, or Mad magazine. We need more readers in this world and less TV watchers.
You are also wrong about people reading classic literature on there own. I have read Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Louisa Alcott, and others because I wanted too. An I've read Moby Dick. An I'm far from a SJW.
There is also a opt out by simply not going to the site. I have yet to see anything that pirate bay has to offer that a carefully worded google search won't fine.
Doubtful. I simply pointed out that every book rarely meets the hype that is given to it. But just because a book is over rated, doesn't mean its a bad book.
The Harry Potter books as an example. Once you get around the fact that the main character is a complete idiot then the rest of the books are not that bad. Do they rate the lavish worship fans seem to give them? Well to the fans maybe but over all, no the don't.
My favorite books are the Harry Dresden books. But even I can see that the books follow the same basic formula from book to book. I'm waiting for Peace Talks to come out and I can probably build a check list on how it will go. I'm still going to read it.
Here. If you like a book read it but don't read it because of the hype. If you do, you will probably be disappointed.
Yeah they are. Both are highly overrated. Mostly they are over rated by ether high school or college literature professors. Who themselves are often over rated. Which of course leads to these professors trying to force this dreck down entire generations of students who couldn't give a shit. No wonder reading sucks among the young.
Let the children read what they want to read. Who gives a shit if a bunch of teenage girls are reading about sparkly vampires? At least they are reading.
If it plays mkv files has to do with what the OS can handle, just like what codec's it can play. On my windows 10 system WMP both opens and plays MKV files just fine. Even mkv files with h.265 video in them.
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32G of ram costs only about $350.... and is quite far from the most expensive component in a computer. A modern MB and CPU can each cost much more than that.
You are comparing apples to oranges here. I bet you build your own rigs. To people like us, we don't look at $350 for 32G as a unnecessary expense. We consider it a wise investment because our personal rigs are going do so much more than a typical office workers machine.
A typical office workers machine is going to be reproduced hundreds if not thousands of times across a corporate or municipality environment. That $350 will add up to be a ass load in that environment. That is why most of these machines only meet the bare specs required to run the OS and get work done. Usually 4 to 8 GB.
Have you ever TRIED openoffice or libreoffice?
Yes, I have. I've been using both since the started out. What you say was true back in the early days, and I believe they where java applications then. At least openoffice was.
Simply not true of libreoffice 5+. I actually prefer to use Microsoft office but there have been many times that I've had to resort to using libreoffice. Once I adjusted to the different look and feel, I find that libreoffice is perfectly applicable replacement for 95% of what people would do with MS Office.
Damn I have mod points to spend but I've posted. Someone mod this comment up. We even have a job description for a monkey pushing buttons. They are called "operators."
One server? That seems to be a small sample to base your whole option on. Not to insult you but I would propose that a better explanation to your windows server problems would simple be you didn't know what you where doing. I've worked with many versions of windows server over the yeas and never seen one that is properly configured require two boots for anything.
I noticed that to on my surface pro when I first got it. Lots of tiles hawking things. I removed all of them and put in my own tiles for my own apps. Haven 't seen an ad or had one of them try to sell me a think.
So, yes I will concede that you do have a point. A new install of windows 10 will happily offer you some shit to buy. But at least it isn't as bad as some android apps I've seen which seem to think that my devices sole purpose is for them to try to sell me shit.
2. Modern UX designers are idiots. They don't understand the first thing about good design even if Tog told them [asktog.com]
An here we have it folks. The exact reason why linux never took over the desktop. So many linux developers assumed that because they know one thing really well, they know everything. The arrogance of so many linux people is staggering.
I've worked with many of the linux GUI desktops. Most of them look fantastic but when you try to use them, they are garbage. An to make it worse you can't count on features in the desktop to be there next week. Gnome is the worse example of them. Just because the developers don't like something, they take it out. For no other reason.
Here is a simple truth. A lot of people, going all the way back to windows 95, have moved from there to window 10 with little or no issues. There might be some things that you have to get used to but for the most part they are minor. I can't tell you how many times I have change a linux version or install a upgrade only to look at the user interface and wonder what the fuck they are thinking.
Point blank simple for you. Modern UX designers know a hell of a lot more about what they are doing. An here is the truth pure and simple, both the apple and windows GUI is far superior to anything linux has now or in the past.
> That disaster isn't, and wasn't. Incorrect.
So wrong on so many ways. Your option about something you do not like doesn't make it a disaster for everyone else. Sorry, but the office Ribbon turned out to be exactly what it promised to be, a better system.
If it wasn't then it would have vanished a long time ago. If the ribbon was such a disaster then why is LibreOffice rolling out its own version?
This too. I've been running it on my home workstation, my surface pro, and my workstation at work. I have yet to see it stand up and try to sell me something. Windows XP far more likely to do that than windows 10 has been.
I find that people that bitch about windows 10 are not the ones that are actually using it. Most of them are simply spouting off some rumor they read on some back ally website.
Personally the Commodore was too limited to ever be successful
I don't know what kind of crack you are smoking but you need to cut it out. The C64 was one of the most successful computers of all time. Ask someone who has ever had one to tell you how limited it was.
how to disassemble an iphone, for example
I don't need a video for that. Just a hammer.
Bow down before your microsoft gods! Resistance is annoying!
So google disables a feature on a product someone pays for because they have found it defective. Sounds to me like google should be providing a replacement instead of just disabling it and calling it a day.
Well there you go. Problem solved by Slashdot. Jerky for everyone!
Given the nature of the discussion it might be safer is you stayed in your cave.
A good fictional example is the Companion Guild in the Firefly TV series. In that world they solved the problem through regulation and also elevating the trade so that it's considered prestigious, rather than scandalous.
That, or virtually any real life brothel in Nevada.
This is truth too. But I have to wonder on the "we'refuckedometer" what would it really matter if it was a super volcano or a radioactive super volcano?
An in a life is stranger than reality moment I was watch George Carlen yesterday doing a stage show about the planet shaking us off like fleas on a dog. Make me wonder....
You never had to deal with my highschool literature teacher. Anything after 1850 was trash to her. I actually got my views on books in school from a lecture by Orson Scott Card.
I believe that your experience with Shakespeare might be exactly what I'm talking about. Did you love it after you read it or years later? After you had developed enough background in reading to understand it.
I have read Tolstoy.
I should have worded that differently to say "I am reading Tolstoy." I have been for the last 20 years, but making it through War and Peace is on my bucket list.
I wonder if you might be on to something here. Not dropping a bunch of nukes into the thing and blowing it to hell and back. But instead using nuclear demolitions at key stress points to release pressure in a controlled way.
Well as controlled as we can possibly get it. Think of it as letting the air out of a tank using a safety valve instead of just waiting for the thing to blowup.
Might turn Yellowstone into a lake of magma but it would be better than losing the content. Of course it could also back fire in some horrible nuclear way.
How did this discussion become about "the children"? At some point in an education, it's worth reading something that you wouldn't have picked off the shelf yourself. If I hadn't been forced to read books, I'd still only be reading Mad Magazine and comic books.
It became about "the children" when I hijacked the discussion to suit my own agenda. Come on, this is slashdot, that is how these things happen.
I want to address one fallacy you have there. You are talking like reading comic books or Mad Magazine is a bad thing. I thought myself to read at age 6, yes I had help with the big words, so I could read Richie Rich comics. From there I picked up Xmen at issue 86, or abouts. It if wasn't for comics I would never have read the Original Phoenix Saga.
I still read comics but now I tend to read more manga than DC or Marvel. I like the facts that the stories in manga tend to have beginning and end. I'm reading Barakamon now. But have you checked out some of the comics they are making now? Sorry, they like to refer to them as "graphic novels" now.
My point is comics are a good stepping stone to reading. If it wasn't for Richie Rich I might never have become the avid reader I am. The first science fiction book I picked off a shelf and read was Voyage from Yesteryear by Jame Hogan. I still have a copy of it n my android tablet. I picked it up because it was on the book shelf next to the comic rack.
You are correct to a point about having someone pick something to read for you at some point in your education. I would expect in a college literature course because you usually have to sign up for such a course so you know what you are getting into. But not at the middle school or high school levels.
They have a classic crammed down their throat that they have little personal reference too. Imagine having Tolstoy shoved down throat at age 14. That would be enough to turn most readers off for good. Let the young read what appeals to them. Be it sparkly vampires, Enders Game, or Mad magazine. We need more readers in this world and less TV watchers.
You are also wrong about people reading classic literature on there own. I have read Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Louisa Alcott, and others because I wanted too. An I've read Moby Dick. An I'm far from a SJW.
There is also a opt out by simply not going to the site. I have yet to see anything that pirate bay has to offer that a carefully worded google search won't fine.
Doubtful. I simply pointed out that every book rarely meets the hype that is given to it. But just because a book is over rated, doesn't mean its a bad book.
The Harry Potter books as an example. Once you get around the fact that the main character is a complete idiot then the rest of the books are not that bad. Do they rate the lavish worship fans seem to give them? Well to the fans maybe but over all, no the don't.
My favorite books are the Harry Dresden books. But even I can see that the books follow the same basic formula from book to book. I'm waiting for Peace Talks to come out and I can probably build a check list on how it will go. I'm still going to read it.
Here. If you like a book read it but don't read it because of the hype. If you do, you will probably be disappointed.
Yeah they are. Both are highly overrated. Mostly they are over rated by ether high school or college literature professors. Who themselves are often over rated. Which of course leads to these professors trying to force this dreck down entire generations of students who couldn't give a shit. No wonder reading sucks among the young.
Let the children read what they want to read. Who gives a shit if a bunch of teenage girls are reading about sparkly vampires? At least they are reading.
Almost every book is overrated. Ever read Moby Dick? Overrated garbage. How about The Great Gasby? Samething, over rated trash.
Point being, I have yet to read any book that lives up to the fan devotion or the hype.
Actually, no they aren't.
If it plays mkv files has to do with what the OS can handle, just like what codec's it can play. On my windows 10 system WMP both opens and plays MKV files just fine. Even mkv files with h.265 video in them.