If you would not tolerate instability and crashes, your PC would have dual power supplies, have ECC memory, run RAID 1, and basically look like an IBM mainframe and cost as much as one. Fact is, people are willing to put up with some crashes, instability, and downtime to get a computer that costs $500 and not $25,000. The question is, how much?
The problem is that companies give lip service to the whole idea of QA being able to stop a release that's not up to standards. Except that when QA tries to actually do just that, they just get slapped down and the release goes out anyway. Once that happens the damage is done and after a few times no one takes QA seriously anymore.
There is some room for improvement on the Debian installer, as you generally have to sit through the whole thing since it asks you questions as it does things, instead of asking all the questions up front then allowing you to wander off while it does its thing unattended. Though it's not a huge deal as I don't have to install my OS that often and the Debian installer is pretty fast (ignoring network speed problems which isn't its fault).
Technically I'm not sure if you could use that copy of Win95c. If I remember right 95c was an OEM-only release which was likely tied to the hardware it was sold on, which I'm guessing is long gone. Of course, whether anyone cares is another matter.
High speed internet connection: $100/mo Cost of electricity to run a PC 24/7: $25/mo All the movies, music, games, and TV shows you could ever need: $0 Sticking it to the MAFIAA: Priceless.
First Apple doesn't own the VNC technology, so they can't legally enforce that.
Why? All they would have to do is put something in the EULA along the lines of "By accepting this license, you agree to not use VNC to access this operating system from a non-Apple computer." or similar. Then if use VNC to access a Mac using Windows or Dell's USB stick or whatever, you're a dirty pirate. Of course, the whole EULA thing is kind of questionable as it is, but it's going to take someone to challenge them on it to change anything.
One thing I don't understand is how Microsoft managed to screw up the networking in Windows 7. It's one of the few things that got actually got worse when compared to Vista.
The Tea Party says they want spending cuts, but when pressed for details they either have nothing or only offer sound bites that sound good but account for only a tiny amount of the total spending.
I wouldn't worry about cars so much, as generally speaking if your old car still runs it will be resold to someone else who will get use out of it (this is ignoring stupid programs like Cash for Clunkers that destroy the traded in cars, of course). On the other hand, there is not nearly a big market for things like used appliances, and a lot of functional appliances end up getting scrapped when they get replaced and the store offers to "dispose" of the old one.
It's not like it's terribly difficult to run a few searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing (and/or Yahoo) and compare the results to see that they don't give the same results.
Besides, it's not like Bing isn't any worse than Google nowadays.
I'd buy one if they were something like 19" instead of 27". I'm still hoping that someone will eventually start making high DPI desktop monitors again.
Not to mention the DPI sucks. 1920x1200 should be a 22" screen, not a 24" screen, but anything below 24" is rare and expensive. At least they make 1920x1080 monitors in 21.5", which IMHO is the only size that would be worth buying (unless they come out with something more compact, I suppose).
I guess I view it as kind of the opposite. "Retro" gaming consoles look a hundred times better on a good CRT than they do on an LCD. And that's assuming you can get the LCD to not stretch the image.
The US system of money is kind of interesting though, as decimal systems go. We have a 25 cent coin, because that's 1/4 of a dollar, whereas many other countries instead use a 20 cent coin. We also buck the trend with the "Dime", which actually doesn't say anywhere on it that it is worth ten cents. which those that aren't familiar with our money system can find confusing.
Back in years past, we also had half-dimes (silver 5 cent coins that were half the size of the dime), and gold $2.50 coins that were approximately 1/8 an ounce of gold to go with the $5 gold (approx. 1/4 ounce), $10 (approx. 1/2 ounce) and $20 (approx. 1 ounce) gold coins. The US mint has actually never minted a $2 coin, though they did mint $3 coins for a short period of time.
Well, one solution would be for Intel to lift some of the restrictions on the Atom CPU, which are mainly in place because Intel fears that they could otherwise cut into their other more profitable CPU lines. Though I see that you can now buy an Atom board with a PCI x16 slot so I guess Intel may be seeing the light, or perhaps just feeling some pressure from AMD's Bobcat line in that segment.
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If you would not tolerate instability and crashes, your PC would have dual power supplies, have ECC memory, run RAID 1, and basically look like an IBM mainframe and cost as much as one. Fact is, people are willing to put up with some crashes, instability, and downtime to get a computer that costs $500 and not $25,000. The question is, how much?
The problem is that companies give lip service to the whole idea of QA being able to stop a release that's not up to standards. Except that when QA tries to actually do just that, they just get slapped down and the release goes out anyway. Once that happens the damage is done and after a few times no one takes QA seriously anymore.
As far as I know, Debian has switched to XFCE now as the default desktop in Wheezy. Gnome 3 is available in the repositories though if you want it.
Weren't you paying attention? He was Romney's VP pick.
There is some room for improvement on the Debian installer, as you generally have to sit through the whole thing since it asks you questions as it does things, instead of asking all the questions up front then allowing you to wander off while it does its thing unattended. Though it's not a huge deal as I don't have to install my OS that often and the Debian installer is pretty fast (ignoring network speed problems which isn't its fault).
Technically I'm not sure if you could use that copy of Win95c. If I remember right 95c was an OEM-only release which was likely tied to the hardware it was sold on, which I'm guessing is long gone. Of course, whether anyone cares is another matter.
KDE is better because it has much better hardware support.
High speed internet connection: $100/mo
Cost of electricity to run a PC 24/7: $25/mo
All the movies, music, games, and TV shows you could ever need: $0
Sticking it to the MAFIAA: Priceless.
Why? All they would have to do is put something in the EULA along the lines of "By accepting this license, you agree to not use VNC to access this operating system from a non-Apple computer." or similar. Then if use VNC to access a Mac using Windows or Dell's USB stick or whatever, you're a dirty pirate. Of course, the whole EULA thing is kind of questionable as it is, but it's going to take someone to challenge them on it to change anything.
Sadly that's the case for many of the cheap and nasty 6-bit TN panels out there. The solution is to buy a better quality monitor.
One thing I don't understand is how Microsoft managed to screw up the networking in Windows 7. It's one of the few things that got actually got worse when compared to Vista.
The Tea Party says they want spending cuts, but when pressed for details they either have nothing or only offer sound bites that sound good but account for only a tiny amount of the total spending.
I wouldn't worry about cars so much, as generally speaking if your old car still runs it will be resold to someone else who will get use out of it (this is ignoring stupid programs like Cash for Clunkers that destroy the traded in cars, of course). On the other hand, there is not nearly a big market for things like used appliances, and a lot of functional appliances end up getting scrapped when they get replaced and the store offers to "dispose" of the old one.
It's not like it's terribly difficult to run a few searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing (and/or Yahoo) and compare the results to see that they don't give the same results.
Besides, it's not like Bing isn't any worse than Google nowadays.
Rewriting code is why the first version of OS X was so slow and buggy to start with.
I'd buy one if they were something like 19" instead of 27". I'm still hoping that someone will eventually start making high DPI desktop monitors again.
Not to mention the DPI sucks. 1920x1200 should be a 22" screen, not a 24" screen, but anything below 24" is rare and expensive. At least they make 1920x1080 monitors in 21.5", which IMHO is the only size that would be worth buying (unless they come out with something more compact, I suppose).
I guess I view it as kind of the opposite. "Retro" gaming consoles look a hundred times better on a good CRT than they do on an LCD. And that's assuming you can get the LCD to not stretch the image.
Meanwhile any incoming traffic can't see shit as they are dazzled by your HID headlights.
The US system of money is kind of interesting though, as decimal systems go. We have a 25 cent coin, because that's 1/4 of a dollar, whereas many other countries instead use a 20 cent coin. We also buck the trend with the "Dime", which actually doesn't say anywhere on it that it is worth ten cents. which those that aren't familiar with our money system can find confusing.
Back in years past, we also had half-dimes (silver 5 cent coins that were half the size of the dime), and gold $2.50 coins that were approximately 1/8 an ounce of gold to go with the $5 gold (approx. 1/4 ounce), $10 (approx. 1/2 ounce) and $20 (approx. 1 ounce) gold coins. The US mint has actually never minted a $2 coin, though they did mint $3 coins for a short period of time.
That's a lot of bucks for a 1366x768 monitor. If I wanted such a thing, I'd just buy on of the cheap touch Windows 8 laptops.
Do you also use stones for people's weight? Just curious.
I'm pretty sure the group was named after the airline anyway.
Well, one solution would be for Intel to lift some of the restrictions on the Atom CPU, which are mainly in place because Intel fears that they could otherwise cut into their other more profitable CPU lines. Though I see that you can now buy an Atom board with a PCI x16 slot so I guess Intel may be seeing the light, or perhaps just feeling some pressure from AMD's Bobcat line in that segment.
Because for servers you'd be better off buying a handful of faster, higher-power chips than pile of slower, low-power chips?