"I still take persuasions..." I assume you meant precautions? I'm not sure how to take a persuasion...
On that note, you're definitely right about Windows users not taking precautions, but the problem is that that isn't going to change. Most Windows users don't know enough to know what precautions to take. I have enough trouble getting my grandfather to remember how to get on the internet. I'd rather have to clean his computer on a regular basis than try to explain to him how to avoid viruses and malware, and even if I tried, it wouldn't work anyways. Same thing with my little sister. I've tried to explain how bad an idea clicking everything in sight is, but she continues to do it.
As to the drivers, I don't think it's as big a problem as you think. Yeah, they're likely full of security holes, but no driver is prevalent enough to warrant a widespread attack. It's similar to how Windows is the most exploited OS largely due to its popularity. If someone created a virus that used a specific driver's security hole, they wouldn't be able to infect very many people, so it's not going to happen. This becomes even more true with lower-quality products, since a single low-quality product is usually not that widespread.
It's called tyranny of the majority, and it's a very well known and documented effect in democratic systems. All it takes is for 51% of the population to agree, and you can do anything you want. It's pretty much the one drawback of democracy. If 51% of the people decided to murder the other 49% in a truly democratic society, there's nothing the rest could do to prevent it. That's why we use hybrid systems.
Slashdot is basically a democratic system, and as a result, we get exactly that, tyranny of the majority. Wikipedia is basicaly an anarchistic system, with each person doing what they feel is beneficial.
While yes, there are better ways to do it than that, why would the sound be out of sync? The frames are displayed at a constant rate. Al you have to do is reassemble them at that rate and then sync the sound to the beginning. Pretty simple, actually.
Imagine for example massive and widespread starvation in Africa and places like NKorea, Pakistan, and many others who will also be struggling start exporting nuclear technology to countries in the midst of civil unrest who need bargaining chips to get aid for starving nations.
They ask, and yes, the people who have it done are ineligible. The military lets a lot of things go, but the possibility of a pilot suddenly being blinded while in the air isn't acceptable. People who want to become a pilot are told to avoid getting the civilian procedure done, whether PRK or LASIK, and to wait and have the Navy do it for them. Same applies to the Marines, Air Force, etc. They're pretty careful about this.
Diesel engines are far more efficient. Now if American gas distributors would get with the program and give us the same quality of diesel that they get in Europe, diesels would stop smelling so bad. It's a shame, really.
I don't really give a fuck about gas prices. In fact, I work for an oil company, so there's a minimum of ideological fervor on my part. I just couldn't see how you went from a small electric car to a big SUV, especially seeing as how you highlighted how terrible the SUV's gas mileage was in your earlier post. You know, there are in-betweens. For example, my mom drives a Honda Element, which does a pretty good job of towing our trailer while still getting mid-to-high 20s gas mileage. I'm not criticizing your choice of car, I was just responding to your own criticisms. You made it sound like since you couldn't get the EV1, you had no choice but to end up in an SUV, whereas there are plenty of other choices out there.
... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. You couldn't buy an electric car, so YOU BOUGHT AN SUV?! You know there are fuel-efficient cars out there, right? Heck, my cavalier gets 35 MPG highway, and there are cars out there that whip mine in fuel efficiency. This isn't an all-or-none scenario. What would have posessed you to buy an SUV?
You do have a point in that things actively running will have issues coming back from slep mode, since it's trying to run the program while still restoring everything back to RAM. But bloatware generally isn't something that runs actively, it usually just takes up your RAM. Under normal use, even bloatware won't affect the time it takes to come back from sleep much.
The whole idea behind suspend/speel mode is that it can just drop all the info back into RAM without having to go through the process of starting up the programs. It's not re-opening all that stuff, it's just resuming from exactly the point it was at. Therefore, regardless of how much is running, it won't affect start-up time, cause it's writing the entire contents back to RAM either way.
yeaaaaahhh... Crash reports aren't just OS crashes. Dunno if you've ever bothered to use XP, but it offers to send in crash reports when programs crash.
"Someone once joked that the best way to get help on a Linux forum is to flame and say "You can't do (x) in Linux!" where (x) is what you want to do. You'll then get a dozen different ways to do (x) from the forum regulars. But if you ask how to do (x), even politely, you just get snark."
You're not kidding. I spent a LONG time looking for Broadcom drivers for Linux, couldn't find them or get anyone to tell me anything useful. I recently posted on/. citing a lack of broadcom wireless drivers as the reason I don't use linux. Within an hour, someone posted saying how to get the thing working. Granted, I got called a dumbass n00b in the process, but it solved the problem.
These drivers work for the Broadcom b/g cards? I spent hours searching the internet and help forums for drivers, and all I ever found was that there aren't drivers. Are they recent?
Anyways, thanks. I'll give it a try sometime. My main point still stands though. Switching requires a lot of bitch work, whereas staying requires none. For those who have the time and willingness to go through the effort, bravo. Other people have more valuable things to do. All I'm saying is don't act like "switch to Linux" is a catchall that solves any problem. Sometimes it's just not feasible.
Yes, because switching operating systems and being able to use everything you need is as simple as just installing it. You don't have to find programs or anything, everything just magically appears.
Switching OSes takes hours of work and it will be weeks before you have everything working properly and the way you like it. Add on top of that possible hardware issues (I never switched to Linux because every time I mess around with it, I am reminded how terrible ATI Linux drivers are and that there aren't drivers for my Broadcom chip wireless card).
Do you realized that nothing has changed? This isn't the government deregulatingthe telecom industry. There were no limits in the frst place! The telecom companies haven't implemented a tiered system yet, what makes people think it's suddenly going to happen now? It's not like they passed a bill allowing tiered pricing, they just didn't pass a bill prohibiting it. There's a BIG difference there.
Hands outlawed because they can be used to steal things and write malicious code. Legs outlawed because they can be used to run fom the police. Mouth outlawed for possible use in libel.
I want to see how the overclocked Core Duo compares to a stably overclocked FX-60, which can also be easily done with the stock heatsink and fan. Seems if you're overclocking one, you should overclock teh other a comparable amount.
It's the first official announcement from Dell. There have been rumors about Dell possibly moving to AMD since Dell started geting big. This is the first time they've actually committed to it though.
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"I still take persuasions..." I assume you meant precautions? I'm not sure how to take a persuasion...
On that note, you're definitely right about Windows users not taking precautions, but the problem is that that isn't going to change. Most Windows users don't know enough to know what precautions to take. I have enough trouble getting my grandfather to remember how to get on the internet. I'd rather have to clean his computer on a regular basis than try to explain to him how to avoid viruses and malware, and even if I tried, it wouldn't work anyways. Same thing with my little sister. I've tried to explain how bad an idea clicking everything in sight is, but she continues to do it.
As to the drivers, I don't think it's as big a problem as you think. Yeah, they're likely full of security holes, but no driver is prevalent enough to warrant a widespread attack. It's similar to how Windows is the most exploited OS largely due to its popularity. If someone created a virus that used a specific driver's security hole, they wouldn't be able to infect very many people, so it's not going to happen. This becomes even more true with lower-quality products, since a single low-quality product is usually not that widespread.
It's called tyranny of the majority, and it's a very well known and documented effect in democratic systems. All it takes is for 51% of the population to agree, and you can do anything you want. It's pretty much the one drawback of democracy. If 51% of the people decided to murder the other 49% in a truly democratic society, there's nothing the rest could do to prevent it. That's why we use hybrid systems.
Slashdot is basically a democratic system, and as a result, we get exactly that, tyranny of the majority. Wikipedia is basicaly an anarchistic system, with each person doing what they feel is beneficial.
It's not difficult, it's just time consuming.
While yes, there are better ways to do it than that, why would the sound be out of sync? The frames are displayed at a constant rate. Al you have to do is reassemble them at that rate and then sync the sound to the beginning. Pretty simple, actually.
En-masse. It's French. Just posting for your edification. Doesn't really bother me, I just figured you might like to know.
Yeah, this week has kinda sucked, hasn't it?
They ask, and yes, the people who have it done are ineligible. The military lets a lot of things go, but the possibility of a pilot suddenly being blinded while in the air isn't acceptable. People who want to become a pilot are told to avoid getting the civilian procedure done, whether PRK or LASIK, and to wait and have the Navy do it for them. Same applies to the Marines, Air Force, etc. They're pretty careful about this.
Diesel engines are far more efficient. Now if American gas distributors would get with the program and give us the same quality of diesel that they get in Europe, diesels would stop smelling so bad. It's a shame, really.
I don't really give a fuck about gas prices. In fact, I work for an oil company, so there's a minimum of ideological fervor on my part. I just couldn't see how you went from a small electric car to a big SUV, especially seeing as how you highlighted how terrible the SUV's gas mileage was in your earlier post. You know, there are in-betweens. For example, my mom drives a Honda Element, which does a pretty good job of towing our trailer while still getting mid-to-high 20s gas mileage. I'm not criticizing your choice of car, I was just responding to your own criticisms. You made it sound like since you couldn't get the EV1, you had no choice but to end up in an SUV, whereas there are plenty of other choices out there.
... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. You couldn't buy an electric car, so YOU BOUGHT AN SUV?! You know there are fuel-efficient cars out there, right? Heck, my cavalier gets 35 MPG highway, and there are cars out there that whip mine in fuel efficiency. This isn't an all-or-none scenario. What would have posessed you to buy an SUV?
You do have a point in that things actively running will have issues coming back from slep mode, since it's trying to run the program while still restoring everything back to RAM. But bloatware generally isn't something that runs actively, it usually just takes up your RAM. Under normal use, even bloatware won't affect the time it takes to come back from sleep much.
The whole idea behind suspend/speel mode is that it can just drop all the info back into RAM without having to go through the process of starting up the programs. It's not re-opening all that stuff, it's just resuming from exactly the point it was at. Therefore, regardless of how much is running, it won't affect start-up time, cause it's writing the entire contents back to RAM either way.
yeaaaaahhh... Crash reports aren't just OS crashes. Dunno if you've ever bothered to use XP, but it offers to send in crash reports when programs crash.
Same. Every time I do it, I just imagine the IE team sitting around the crash reports and giggling.
"Someone once joked that the best way to get help on a Linux forum is to flame and say "You can't do (x) in Linux!" where (x) is what you want to do. You'll then get a dozen different ways to do (x) from the forum regulars. But if you ask how to do (x), even politely, you just get snark."
/. citing a lack of broadcom wireless drivers as the reason I don't use linux. Within an hour, someone posted saying how to get the thing working. Granted, I got called a dumbass n00b in the process, but it solved the problem.
You're not kidding. I spent a LONG time looking for Broadcom drivers for Linux, couldn't find them or get anyone to tell me anything useful. I recently posted on
These drivers work for the Broadcom b/g cards? I spent hours searching the internet and help forums for drivers, and all I ever found was that there aren't drivers. Are they recent?
Anyways, thanks. I'll give it a try sometime. My main point still stands though. Switching requires a lot of bitch work, whereas staying requires none. For those who have the time and willingness to go through the effort, bravo. Other people have more valuable things to do. All I'm saying is don't act like "switch to Linux" is a catchall that solves any problem. Sometimes it's just not feasible.
What's really impressive is that he got it right the first time, but not the second. How does that even happen?
Yes, because switching operating systems and being able to use everything you need is as simple as just installing it. You don't have to find programs or anything, everything just magically appears.
Switching OSes takes hours of work and it will be weeks before you have everything working properly and the way you like it. Add on top of that possible hardware issues (I never switched to Linux because every time I mess around with it, I am reminded how terrible ATI Linux drivers are and that there aren't drivers for my Broadcom chip wireless card).
Do you realized that nothing has changed? This isn't the government deregulatingthe telecom industry. There were no limits in the frst place! The telecom companies haven't implemented a tiered system yet, what makes people think it's suddenly going to happen now? It's not like they passed a bill allowing tiered pricing, they just didn't pass a bill prohibiting it. There's a BIG difference there.
There's only one way to teach women anything...
Ask very politely.
What?
Hands outlawed because they can be used to steal things and write malicious code. Legs outlawed because they can be used to run fom the police. Mouth outlawed for possible use in libel.
Reproductive organs outlawed just because.
I want to see how the overclocked Core Duo compares to a stably overclocked FX-60, which can also be easily done with the stock heatsink and fan. Seems if you're overclocking one, you should overclock teh other a comparable amount.
It's the first official announcement from Dell. There have been rumors about Dell possibly moving to AMD since Dell started geting big. This is the first time they've actually committed to it though.
Please note: spelling "Soviet" as "Sovjet" does not make you cool or Russian. It just makes you a failure at English.
This is the same issue NBC had with the whole Turin/Torino thing. It's not cool, it's just self-important douchebaggery.
And on top of that, every gmail account is given more invites than we know what to do with.
I think it's to stop gmail from being used for spam.