There are a ton of people complaining about things no longer working after the 8.1 'upgrade'. Thank God I run a nice, reliable operating system like Linux instead of this crap that breaks machines every time you try to upgrade.
Yet the price of oil collapsed while Standard Oil was an EVIL MONOPOLY.
And the best way to make your company an EVIL MONOPOLY is to get the government to impose regulations that make the cost of starting a company to compete with you unaffordable. Some people became rich building refineries that Standard Oil then had to buy in order to maintain their attempt to be an EVIL MONOPOLY, then took the money and built another one. Today that would no longer be a problem, since the government wouldn't let anyone build a refinery.
For any competent programmer, Windows 8 takes all of a week to familiarize yourself with. (PROTIP: it helps if you RTFM instead of bitching about your cheese being moved.)
Hmm. So if we switched to Windows 8, that would cost the company about $4,000 for every programmer to learn how to use it (40 hours in a week at around $100 an hour chargeable rate).
...but that's how I remember every cd burner to have been back in the day. would have been absurd to stuff 600mb of ram(one data track) into the burner when your pc had 4-8mbytes... only after 4x speed drives or so the drives(no matter which manufacturer) started to come with some tech which made buffer underflows non-fatal for burning..
Hint: when they said 'track', they probably meant it in the same sense as a hard disk track: one write around the circumference of the disk. CDs are spiral, aren't they, rather than divided into tracks the way disks are?
Yes, in the old days, we had to be very careful to ensure that the drive buffer never went empty when writing to CD, but the best way to ensure that was to have enough RAM in the drive to cover any conceivable delay on the machine providing the data. Even a small reduction in the amount of RAM in the drive could dramatically increase the number of failed disks.
Metro's existence frees us from the clusterfuck that was the Start Menu, a poorly organized and cluttered mess that few people even bothered to customize or arrange.
And replaces it with the Start Screen, a poorly organized and cluttered mess that few people even bothered to customize or arrange, with huge icons so you have to scroll for five minutes to find the app you want to run.
The XP Start Menu was fine for most people. They fscked it up in Windows 7, then claimed no-one used it, then removed it 'because no-one used it'. And just about everyone hates what they replaced it with.
Yes, I have. It wasn't a bad idea on a netbook, but it's absolutely horrible on a large monitor. I use a large monitor to have lots of windows, not have it treat the screen as though it's displaying a single full-screen window, with the menu bar at the top.
I tried it on my laptop after they removed Gnome 2, managed about half an hour before switching to XFCE, then a few weeks later I wiped Ubuntu and installed Mint with MATE.
The real difference is that it costs hundreds of $k to compile the final package in silicon.;-)
Only hundreds of thousands? From what I remember, our masks alone used to cost $1,000,000+, and a 'cheap' metal layer fix for a chip bug was about $50,000.
In my experience, chavs do seem to like cars that catch fire. If you parked in the chav zone near where I worked in the UK, there was a fair chance your car would be a burned out shell by the time you got back to it.
In a few weeks, you will be able to buy quite decent Android tablets for $150 using 4-core bay-trail. A little hacking, and you've got yourself a $150 dollar Windows8.1 tablet. A $150 tablet running PROPER unrestricted Windows.
Yeah, 'cause Windows is, you know, free and stuff.
At retail, you'd be paying about $100 for Windows alone.
Except the cores are probably small compared to the L3 cache, so most failures will be in the cache, not the cores.
Back when I worked in the chip business, we designed them so some components could be disabled if they failed the manufacturing tests, but there were very few that we could actually sell that way. Either the fault would be in the components that couldn't easily be disabled, or there'd be multiple faults in too many places to make it viable.
I have wondered myself whether the low-power CPUs are just the bin that wouldn't work at normal power levels.
This is what happens when the government makes building new reactors insanely restrictive and expensive. People keep running the old ones, because they can't shut them down because they need the power, and then you complain that they're old and falling apart.
If Cameron really cared, he'd stop publishing government job ads in the Guardian, since that seems to be one of its largest sources of income.
Besides which, terrists already know the government is spying on them, so this is hardly news to them. It's the rest of us who used to think that the tin-foil hat wearers claiming the government was siphoning up everything were actually paranoid.
Actually, thinking about it, the big threat is borrowing e-books. Since they all seem to 'phone home' to Adobe, the US government can probaby just ask them for a list of all the books you've read even though the library doesn't keep one.
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There are a ton of people complaining about things no longer working after the 8.1 'upgrade'. Thank God I run a nice, reliable operating system like Linux instead of this crap that breaks machines every time you try to upgrade.
Yet the price of oil collapsed while Standard Oil was an EVIL MONOPOLY.
And the best way to make your company an EVIL MONOPOLY is to get the government to impose regulations that make the cost of starting a company to compete with you unaffordable. Some people became rich building refineries that Standard Oil then had to buy in order to maintain their attempt to be an EVIL MONOPOLY, then took the money and built another one. Today that would no longer be a problem, since the government wouldn't let anyone build a refinery.
For any competent programmer, Windows 8 takes all of a week to familiarize yourself with. (PROTIP: it helps if you RTFM instead of bitching about your cheese being moved.)
Hmm. So if we switched to Windows 8, that would cost the company about $4,000 for every programmer to learn how to use it (40 hours in a week at around $100 an hour chargeable rate).
Sounds like a great idea!
...but that's how I remember every cd burner to have been back in the day. would have been absurd to stuff 600mb of ram(one data track) into the burner when your pc had 4-8mbytes... only after 4x speed drives or so the drives(no matter which manufacturer) started to come with some tech which made buffer underflows non-fatal for burning..
Hint: when they said 'track', they probably meant it in the same sense as a hard disk track: one write around the circumference of the disk. CDs are spiral, aren't they, rather than divided into tracks the way disks are?
Yes, in the old days, we had to be very careful to ensure that the drive buffer never went empty when writing to CD, but the best way to ensure that was to have enough RAM in the drive to cover any conceivable delay on the machine providing the data. Even a small reduction in the amount of RAM in the drive could dramatically increase the number of failed disks.
remote using X requires a bit of thought to setup
Adding -X to the ssh command is really freaking hard.
Metro's existence frees us from the clusterfuck that was the Start Menu, a poorly organized and cluttered mess that few people even bothered to customize or arrange.
And replaces it with the Start Screen, a poorly organized and cluttered mess that few people even bothered to customize or arrange, with huge icons so you have to scroll for five minutes to find the app you want to run.
The XP Start Menu was fine for most people. They fscked it up in Windows 7, then claimed no-one used it, then removed it 'because no-one used it'. And just about everyone hates what they replaced it with.
Have you even used Unity?
Yes, I have. It wasn't a bad idea on a netbook, but it's absolutely horrible on a large monitor. I use a large monitor to have lots of windows, not have it treat the screen as though it's displaying a single full-screen window, with the menu bar at the top.
I tried it on my laptop after they removed Gnome 2, managed about half an hour before switching to XFCE, then a few weeks later I wiped Ubuntu and installed Mint with MATE.
The real difference is that it costs hundreds of $k to compile the final package in silicon. ;-)
Only hundreds of thousands? From what I remember, our masks alone used to cost $1,000,000+, and a 'cheap' metal layer fix for a chip bug was about $50,000.
Whether it sinks is largely irrelevant. What matters is whether it can continue as a viable warship for the duration of the conflict.
A Navy is pointless if every ship will be limping back to shore at the end of the first day.
How is building submersible cars not 'making the world a better place', Comrade?
If you're lucky, he'll sell the technology to the people who make Zil limos, so you can have one too.
A system that allows this concentration of resources is a failure. We need something new.
Yeah, let's make everyone equally poor except the Commissars in their Zil limos.
Oh, hang on, this is China, they already tried that.
So you think the US government should be handing out hundreds of millions of dollars to Finnish car companies?
Of course they'll try to micro-manage when they're handing out hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars.
Look where Burberry mushroomed their sales.
Chavs?
In my experience, chavs do seem to like cars that catch fire. If you parked in the chav zone near where I worked in the UK, there was a fair chance your car would be a burned out shell by the time you got back to it.
I thought .NET was dead and the Microsoft future was HTML5 now?
In a few weeks, you will be able to buy quite decent Android tablets for $150 using 4-core bay-trail. A little hacking, and you've got yourself a $150 dollar Windows8.1 tablet. A $150 tablet running PROPER unrestricted Windows.
Yeah, 'cause Windows is, you know, free and stuff.
At retail, you'd be paying about $100 for Windows alone.
Except the cores are probably small compared to the L3 cache, so most failures will be in the cache, not the cores.
Back when I worked in the chip business, we designed them so some components could be disabled if they failed the manufacturing tests, but there were very few that we could actually sell that way. Either the fault would be in the components that couldn't easily be disabled, or there'd be multiple faults in too many places to make it viable.
I have wondered myself whether the low-power CPUs are just the bin that wouldn't work at normal power levels.
Yeah, so why buy a car with an auto transmission when you want a manual?
It's a GUI that lets me do most things without moving my hands from the keyboard. What's not to like?
You don't quite get this GUI thing, do you?
linux 'fragmentation' is a real problem.
as soon as some distro gets their gui for mgmt working, they change it and start all over again ;(
Windows fragmentation is a real problem. As soon as we get used to the latest version of their GUI, they change it and start all over again.
The default UI for Win8 basically sucks, but some tweaks make it a functional system again
'My Honda Civic basically sucks as a dragster, but after I tweaked it with a jet engine it worked fine.'
Why run an OS that sucks by default?
This is what happens when the government makes building new reactors insanely restrictive and expensive. People keep running the old ones, because they can't shut them down because they need the power, and then you complain that they're old and falling apart.
Citizen, your Security Clearance is not high enough for that information. Please report for termination.
Back in 1789, was the government stopping people on horseback to check they had a horse license and registration?
If Cameron really cared, he'd stop publishing government job ads in the Guardian, since that seems to be one of its largest sources of income.
Besides which, terrists already know the government is spying on them, so this is hardly news to them. It's the rest of us who used to think that the tin-foil hat wearers claiming the government was siphoning up everything were actually paranoid.
Actually, thinking about it, the big threat is borrowing e-books. Since they all seem to 'phone home' to Adobe, the US government can probaby just ask them for a list of all the books you've read even though the library doesn't keep one.