I certainly hope you got that company to repair your vehicle, and pay all of your insurance deductibles, or the insurance company went after them. There is no excuse for that. I had my engine replaced by a company that put the wrong oil filter on my car, so when I hit the gas it popped the filter off and I couldn't turn the engine off fast enough before the oil drained completely out of the engine. It didn't cause a wreck fortunately.
Because if a part failed and you didn't perform recommended maintenance on it, that absolves the manufacturer. That's why they can get out of warranty work on, say, the radiator if you haven't had it maintained at the intervals they recommend.
"Ok, because you refuse to follow my advice, I'm going to have to charge you double my normal rate for fixing this machine. And I'll require payment in cash."
If they're a pain in the ass to you, be a pain in the ass to them. Once they have enough problems (or not enough money), they'll start figuring things out out of necessity to get their porn.
I think traffic laws are boring. I still learned them so I could get along with the other drivers on the road. Just because people don't WANT to do something boring doesn't mean that they shouldn't be required to.
It may become rote, but it can become a big enough pain in the ass that it's not worth it. Think about it... cooking food at home really isn't THAT hard, and it's much better than what you get from McDonald's, but damn if it's not easier to just get McDonald's. Making installing a virus-laden POS more like cooking at home than it is like McDonald's is not a bad idea.
If Symantec did that, we'd string them up for FUD and anti-consumer advertising. Antivirus 2009 gets away with it BECAUSE they're a shady company. The proper response is to have more than a 30 day install on a machine by default, or better yet, a better browser and limited user setup that prevents a lot of that in the first place.
We've tried web surfing appliances. They're not flexible enough for the common user. They're ok for grandma that just sends emails, but most people use just enough of their computer to make it slightly more than a web-surfing kiosk. So we need a multi-purpose machine for 90% of the Internet-using population. With that multi-purposing comes more complexity, and more modes of failure. You can't make it more resistant to failure without removing capabilities. A computer that's more resistant to failure would look like an XBox360/PS3/Wii.
It is certainly appropriate to blame the users for failure. To use your analogy, you spend "big bucks for a new car", and you damn well better be taking it in for oil changes and fluid top-offs and maintenance, otherwise it will fail fairly quickly. Why should a computer work without maintenance? It's MUCH more complex overall than a vehicle. But there's a bonus! They give you the maintenance tools inexpensively or free... yet you still don't use them. Why are people surprised at this? Why is it a failure of the computer industry when people don't even take the time to change their fucking oil and get a car wash to keep the dirt and salt from ruining the finish and rusting away the body?
A computer is not an appliance because it doesn't do a single thing. With complexity comes fragility. That's inescapable. The more complex, new engines are harder and more complex to repair and maintain. But they're more efficient and such. Same thing with computers... a computer unconnected to the Internet that only runs one app is perfectly reasonable to treat like an appliance. Think a POS (Point-Of-Sale, not the other POS...) register... it works just like an appliance. Hell, even game systems... a PS3/XBox/Wii is an appliance. Very few options and configurations, the environment is very controlled. And you still get periodic game crashes.
The only way to make a computer an appliance is to remove flexibility. Just like security... it's a balance. Do you want ease of use, or strong security? Do you want an appliance computer, or do you want a flexible, multifunction machine? You can't have both at the same time.
I just watched a Youtube video in my VirtualBox XP machine, and it was fine. If you install the VMWare/VirtualBox tools, the performance goes way up. Hell, I host netmeetings with enterprise java apps shared in my virtual machine all the time. Works fine.
But you don't actually DO anything when you fix a computer. I mean, at least a mechanic takes parts out and puts them back in. You just click on things. That isn't real work!
The people smart enough to know that knowledge is worth something aren't the kinds of people who end up having to pay to get their computers fixed.
That's why all my DVD's are illegally on my media center now, all accessed via remote, and controlled with a parental PIN depending on rating (mine, not just the R/PG-13/etc.) Kid can get at any movie he wants instantly, and I don't have to worry about him watching something I don't want him to yet.
If the RAM is empty, what's the point? RAM should always be used. It makes things faster... if a new app needs it, the OS can overwrite file caches. But unused RAM is a sign of a badly tuned system.
As for older games and apps, I dunno. How old? I've only installed Civilization 4 so far, and only confirmed that it starts up, not played anything on it. I typically use Linux, I'm just using Windows 7 for a free game starting app until March.
Interesting. I've heard that the disk usage on 7100 is less than for 7000, and that they've trimmed things down quite a bit. I've also heard that the performance is better, but I'm only running the RC on a grossly overspecced system, so I can't really comment on low-end performance. But people have had both outcomes... faster and slower with the RC, possibly depending on how it was installed, and what drivers are used.
Keeping the POC (Proof Of Concept, AKA demo),which isn't software... it's more like a database tables and data transforms and such very specifically made for Waste Management and useless to almost anyone else, for over 3 years after you haven't heard anything from the client? Do you have any idea how much data that is, and how often people do POC's that go nowhere? Hell, even if it DOES go somewhere, the initial demo is either just a base point or completely thrown out and redone once the actual infrastructure of the company's data systems is encountered. It's entirely possible for them to have lost it, or just cleaned it out. Developing an SAP app demo isn't quite like coding a new text editor.
Catfish are toxic... what retarded moderator put this as "interesting" rather than "funny"? Seriously... homeland security agents aren't the only ones lacking any critical thought
A war is legal if it's entered into justly according to our societal rules. Nation-building in Iraq isn't really a just war. The Taliban in Afghanistan is, because they attacked us first. Mostly, it's an honor thing.
There are more hot chicks that like comics than there used to be, but any "hot chick" causes consternation for a socially awkward nerd. Your fiancee will almost certainly have an easier time finding someone who will stammer and be unable to interact with her because of her appearance in a comic book store than elsewhere.
It seemed more to me like he was using hyperbole to get his point across. But hey, I'd rather play the game than watch some overpaid crybabies whine about every play and pout and then go kill some dogs.
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I certainly hope you got that company to repair your vehicle, and pay all of your insurance deductibles, or the insurance company went after them. There is no excuse for that. I had my engine replaced by a company that put the wrong oil filter on my car, so when I hit the gas it popped the filter off and I couldn't turn the engine off fast enough before the oil drained completely out of the engine. It didn't cause a wreck fortunately.
Because if a part failed and you didn't perform recommended maintenance on it, that absolves the manufacturer. That's why they can get out of warranty work on, say, the radiator if you haven't had it maintained at the intervals they recommend.
"Ok, because you refuse to follow my advice, I'm going to have to charge you double my normal rate for fixing this machine. And I'll require payment in cash."
If they're a pain in the ass to you, be a pain in the ass to them. Once they have enough problems (or not enough money), they'll start figuring things out out of necessity to get their porn.
I think traffic laws are boring. I still learned them so I could get along with the other drivers on the road. Just because people don't WANT to do something boring doesn't mean that they shouldn't be required to.
They aren't common, but I've found that book stores and other intellectual draws are a good place to start.
It may become rote, but it can become a big enough pain in the ass that it's not worth it. Think about it... cooking food at home really isn't THAT hard, and it's much better than what you get from McDonald's, but damn if it's not easier to just get McDonald's. Making installing a virus-laden POS more like cooking at home than it is like McDonald's is not a bad idea.
If Symantec did that, we'd string them up for FUD and anti-consumer advertising. Antivirus 2009 gets away with it BECAUSE they're a shady company. The proper response is to have more than a 30 day install on a machine by default, or better yet, a better browser and limited user setup that prevents a lot of that in the first place.
We've tried web surfing appliances. They're not flexible enough for the common user. They're ok for grandma that just sends emails, but most people use just enough of their computer to make it slightly more than a web-surfing kiosk. So we need a multi-purpose machine for 90% of the Internet-using population. With that multi-purposing comes more complexity, and more modes of failure. You can't make it more resistant to failure without removing capabilities. A computer that's more resistant to failure would look like an XBox360/PS3/Wii.
It is certainly appropriate to blame the users for failure. To use your analogy, you spend "big bucks for a new car", and you damn well better be taking it in for oil changes and fluid top-offs and maintenance, otherwise it will fail fairly quickly. Why should a computer work without maintenance? It's MUCH more complex overall than a vehicle. But there's a bonus! They give you the maintenance tools inexpensively or free... yet you still don't use them. Why are people surprised at this? Why is it a failure of the computer industry when people don't even take the time to change their fucking oil and get a car wash to keep the dirt and salt from ruining the finish and rusting away the body?
A computer is not an appliance because it doesn't do a single thing. With complexity comes fragility. That's inescapable. The more complex, new engines are harder and more complex to repair and maintain. But they're more efficient and such. Same thing with computers... a computer unconnected to the Internet that only runs one app is perfectly reasonable to treat like an appliance. Think a POS (Point-Of-Sale, not the other POS...) register... it works just like an appliance. Hell, even game systems... a PS3/XBox/Wii is an appliance. Very few options and configurations, the environment is very controlled. And you still get periodic game crashes.
The only way to make a computer an appliance is to remove flexibility. Just like security... it's a balance. Do you want ease of use, or strong security? Do you want an appliance computer, or do you want a flexible, multifunction machine? You can't have both at the same time.
I just watched a Youtube video in my VirtualBox XP machine, and it was fine. If you install the VMWare/VirtualBox tools, the performance goes way up. Hell, I host netmeetings with enterprise java apps shared in my virtual machine all the time. Works fine.
But you don't actually DO anything when you fix a computer. I mean, at least a mechanic takes parts out and puts them back in. You just click on things. That isn't real work!
The people smart enough to know that knowledge is worth something aren't the kinds of people who end up having to pay to get their computers fixed.
I see a job as a BOFH for you in your future, if you aren't one already...
That's why all my DVD's are illegally on my media center now, all accessed via remote, and controlled with a parental PIN depending on rating (mine, not just the R/PG-13/etc.) Kid can get at any movie he wants instantly, and I don't have to worry about him watching something I don't want him to yet.
If the RAM is empty, what's the point? RAM should always be used. It makes things faster... if a new app needs it, the OS can overwrite file caches. But unused RAM is a sign of a badly tuned system.
As for older games and apps, I dunno. How old? I've only installed Civilization 4 so far, and only confirmed that it starts up, not played anything on it. I typically use Linux, I'm just using Windows 7 for a free game starting app until March.
Interesting. I've heard that the disk usage on 7100 is less than for 7000, and that they've trimmed things down quite a bit. I've also heard that the performance is better, but I'm only running the RC on a grossly overspecced system, so I can't really comment on low-end performance. But people have had both outcomes... faster and slower with the RC, possibly depending on how it was installed, and what drivers are used.
The publicity, really. Kind of like when Survivor was popular. Now it still exists, but has a much smaller audience.
Yes, but technical people have consciences and morals, which means they wouldn't do very well in management.
Keeping the POC (Proof Of Concept, AKA demo),which isn't software... it's more like a database tables and data transforms and such very specifically made for Waste Management and useless to almost anyone else, for over 3 years after you haven't heard anything from the client? Do you have any idea how much data that is, and how often people do POC's that go nowhere? Hell, even if it DOES go somewhere, the initial demo is either just a base point or completely thrown out and redone once the actual infrastructure of the company's data systems is encountered. It's entirely possible for them to have lost it, or just cleaned it out. Developing an SAP app demo isn't quite like coding a new text editor.
Catfish are toxic... what retarded moderator put this as "interesting" rather than "funny"? Seriously... homeland security agents aren't the only ones lacking any critical thought
Posts like this need a +6
A war is legal if it's entered into justly according to our societal rules. Nation-building in Iraq isn't really a just war. The Taliban in Afghanistan is, because they attacked us first. Mostly, it's an honor thing.
There are more hot chicks that like comics than there used to be, but any "hot chick" causes consternation for a socially awkward nerd. Your fiancee will almost certainly have an easier time finding someone who will stammer and be unable to interact with her because of her appearance in a comic book store than elsewhere.
DBZ: 5 minutes of plot in 30 minutes of show. It's "" for the anime crowd. IT'S OVER 9000!!!
It seemed more to me like he was using hyperbole to get his point across. But hey, I'd rather play the game than watch some overpaid crybabies whine about every play and pout and then go kill some dogs.
When your religion tells to kill or convert everyone else or you don't go to heaven, yes, it is evil.