Heck, you can TURN OFF the updates right from the update manager if you want.
That's what the GP poster suggested to do with Windows and you ridiculed him for it.
Or Defrag it?
Just because you don't defrag it doesn't mean you don't need to. Every FS fragments by design. EVERY ONE. If it didn't, you would never be able to extend a file once you'd written a new file after it, and you would only be able to create a file as large as your largest unallocated space.
"Okay, Mom, now type 'apt-get'. That's A as in apple, P as in peanut..."
"Now type 'vi xorg.conf'. No, that's F as in Frank. Now type the word 'section'; that's S as in Sam..."
Ask yourself this: Is China a free country? What *practical* freedoms do Americans have that someone in China does not? There are some examples, and those are important, but there are less than you might think.
Well, we don't lock up grandmothers for even asking to protest at the Olympics. That's a pretty big difference.
... and Obama is associating himself with Lincoln. I bet his ideas on expanding the power of the Federal government are the reason moreso than being an Illinois resident.
I agree that the current President, while he appears liberal in the way Slashdotters like, is a mere leftist who would heavily control the free will and economy of the population while refusing to legalize marijuana; this because legalization would, of course, reduce the power of the DEA and BATF and consequently the government.
If marijuana were legalized we would be compelled to release millions of people from prison who are NOW trained to be criminals.
Not in the USA we wouldn't, for the same reason a person who broke a law that was later repealed remains in jail. No ex post facto laws may be passed. That being said, an executive (governor, President) may elect to pardon or commute the sentences.
I wonder if you've spent as much money replacing working fans and running your PC 24/7 (not to mention buying more CPU than you need so that you can underclock it) as you would have by simply using a better PS.
EMachines, unsurprisingly, had some bad, cheap power supplies. I salvaged a 2.6 GHz eMachine from the trash two years ago. It had obviously suffered a power supply failure (there was a still a warning note to DO NOT USE! affixed to the side). I rebuilt it anyway, because at the time the replacement motherboard (the CPU was still good) plus the HD and RAM they removed was still much cheaper than an entire new system of that performance level.
Until recently I worked in a mom and pop PC repair business. About 9 out of 10 systems I worked on were out of date, typically by a few months. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that users are switching auto-update off because can't be bothered with 'nag' messages from their software.
They continued to release updates to the stand-alone browser while working on the dead-end NS5. When they started on NS5, the browser was at 4.05 and when they killed it, it was up to 4.7x.
Taxing consumption as a whole unduly affects poor people, because a larger percentage of their income goes to necessary consumption (food, clothes, transportation, etc.) than rich people.
And that's why food and clothing are not taxed in most states. Unfortunately, NY's Democratic governor wants to start taxing clothing under $110 again. I guess that means the poor go naked.
Yeah it has that effect, but only for the people who have money to save in the first place. A sales tax is usually considered regressive because the poor spend a higher percentage of their income than the rich.
Unless you don't tax the necessities like food and clothing, which NY had been doing recently but now wants to abolish again. Darn Democrats hate the poor! Sales tax has an added advantage on taxing wealth instead of just income, so the "old money" that the left is always complaining about and slamming with estate taxes pays up once they spend the moldy money.
If you make $200,000 a year, but only spend half of it on taxable items
What are these mythical non-taxable items? Do the "rich" spend a greater percentage of their income on food and clothing than the "poor"?
Now I see what the problem is. NY is taxing the hell out of the entire state to subsidize Albany and NYC (causing businesses to leave and inflicting a permanent recession on central NY) and NYC residents think it's exactly the opposite!
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That's what the GP poster suggested to do with Windows and you ridiculed him for it.
Just because you don't defrag it doesn't mean you don't need to. Every FS fragments by design. EVERY ONE. If it didn't, you would never be able to extend a file once you'd written a new file after it, and you would only be able to create a file as large as your largest unallocated space.
"Okay, Mom, now type 'apt-get'. That's A as in apple, P as in peanut..."
"Now type 'vi xorg.conf'. No, that's F as in Frank. Now type the word 'section'; that's S as in Sam..."
Are you kidding me? You've never run apt-get, or had to edit a config file?
I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.
It just ain't right unless vi is involved!
VMWare workstation and server seem to support x64. Do you mean ESX?
Well, we don't lock up grandmothers for even asking to protest at the Olympics. That's a pretty big difference.
... and Obama is associating himself with Lincoln. I bet his ideas on expanding the power of the Federal government are the reason moreso than being an Illinois resident.
I was going to protest marijuana laws, but then I got high.
I agree that the current President, while he appears liberal in the way Slashdotters like, is a mere leftist who would heavily control the free will and economy of the population while refusing to legalize marijuana; this because legalization would, of course, reduce the power of the DEA and BATF and consequently the government.
Not in the USA we wouldn't, for the same reason a person who broke a law that was later repealed remains in jail. No ex post facto laws may be passed. That being said, an executive (governor, President) may elect to pardon or commute the sentences.
Improper verb conjugation confuse language, make sound like Hulk.
I wonder if you've spent as much money replacing working fans and running your PC 24/7 (not to mention buying more CPU than you need so that you can underclock it) as you would have by simply using a better PS.
EMachines, unsurprisingly, had some bad, cheap power supplies. I salvaged a 2.6 GHz eMachine from the trash two years ago. It had obviously suffered a power supply failure (there was a still a warning note to DO NOT USE! affixed to the side). I rebuilt it anyway, because at the time the replacement motherboard (the CPU was still good) plus the HD and RAM they removed was still much cheaper than an entire new system of that performance level.
Updates can also be turned off in Firefox.
They continued to release updates to the stand-alone browser while working on the dead-end NS5. When they started on NS5, the browser was at 4.05 and when they killed it, it was up to 4.7x.
... until they get some bad gas. Then they never go back.
Damn you, you evil Reaganite!
For the leftist, this only applies to recreational drugs and abortion. Everything they don't like: cigarettes, gasoline, junk food-- fire away!
It reduces personal freedom without increasing freedom for others, so I am against it. Freedom trumps the nanny state.
And that's why food and clothing are not taxed in most states. Unfortunately, NY's Democratic governor wants to start taxing clothing under $110 again. I guess that means the poor go naked.
Unless you don't tax the necessities like food and clothing, which NY had been doing recently but now wants to abolish again. Darn Democrats hate the poor! Sales tax has an added advantage on taxing wealth instead of just income, so the "old money" that the left is always complaining about and slamming with estate taxes pays up once they spend the moldy money.
What are these mythical non-taxable items? Do the "rich" spend a greater percentage of their income on food and clothing than the "poor"?
Now I see what the problem is. NY is taxing the hell out of the entire state to subsidize Albany and NYC (causing businesses to leave and inflicting a permanent recession on central NY) and NYC residents think it's exactly the opposite!
It's because the enviro-nazis outlawed the cups that would actually keep things hot and not burn your hand.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.