Most common users have no clue where their data is stored, since MS goes to great lengths to hide it and every version of Windoze (every install actually) hides it in a different place.
The result is that many people store everything on their 'desktop', since while they still don't know where it is hidden, at least, it is visible.
Yup, you seem to be the only person around here that gets it.
People frequently look for something without 'knowing' what they are lookinmg for - eg. window shopping a.k.a. browsing. Searching implies that you know what you are looking for and if you know, then why not just go and open the damn thing without searching?
Backups are of course another problem.
So, better search capabilities are good, but it isn't the be all and end all.
The suicide thing is inevitable, due to the improvements in medical care. Many people reach a point where they just don't want to carry on with the struggle and the doctors do not want to let them go.
In larger countries, many people purposely retire in little towns and villages, where they can die one day in peace, without danger of ending up in a hospital, hooked onto some machine. Japan, being small, has good hospitals pretty much everywhere, making the 'natural death' option impossible.
Just put the calculator in the sterilizer, it will probably come out working just fine. During manufacture, circuit boards are cleaned in something very much resembling a dishwasher, using orange juice as detergent...
Well, lets just say that he is exagerating a bit. His mail server is rejecting about a million connection attempts a day and maybe filtering 100,000. That is the way any good mail system works. However, if he had a bad mail server and he would accept all connection attempts...
Some rhetorical questions:
Will you use Windows to manage a heart-lung machine?
No? So why do you use it to run an Aircraft Carrier?
Actually, since I'm not American, I think the US military and the whole government, should use MS Windows exclusively, for everything...
Yup, some 2300 years ago, Democritus said: A thing is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it.
Except that he said in Greek of course...
Economists have been struggling with that concept ever since, but the simplest trader in a bazaar (ancient name for stock market) understands it perfectly.
American billions are only 1/1000 the size of British billions, but still - I got to agree with you that those skew numbers are world class Internet Statistics (TM).
"Bill Gates, the Microsoft Chief Architect, told his minions to fix his browser and prevent junkware from infesting his machines, without having to resort to third party tools."
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It is broken in Windows.
Most common users have no clue where their data is stored, since MS goes to great lengths to hide it and every version of Windoze (every install actually) hides it in a different place.
The result is that many people store everything on their 'desktop', since while they still don't know where it is hidden, at least, it is visible.
Yup, you seem to be the only person around here that gets it. People frequently look for something without 'knowing' what they are lookinmg for - eg. window shopping a.k.a. browsing. Searching implies that you know what you are looking for and if you know, then why not just go and open the damn thing without searching? Backups are of course another problem. So, better search capabilities are good, but it isn't the be all and end all.
"Also, how can you lose a document you can find via search?"
Corollary:
How do you find a document that you can't find via search? Browse through 100,000 random files on your whole HDD?
The suicide thing is inevitable, due to the improvements in medical care. Many people reach a point where they just don't want to carry on with the struggle and the doctors do not want to let them go.
In larger countries, many people purposely retire in little towns and villages, where they can die one day in peace, without danger of ending up in a hospital, hooked onto some machine. Japan, being small, has good hospitals pretty much everywhere, making the 'natural death' option impossible.
A fucked up society of techno weenies: The adults are getting old and their children are committing suicide...
Well, someone had to say it.
There is an easier way - divorce - the wife will keep the house and all the crap and you can just walk to your new pad...
Oh man, he needs a robot suit to carry his girlfriend. That sure won't earn him any Brownie points...
Get a nice new notebook machine with a bad quality touchpad - I haven't encountered a good touchpad yet, so this requirement is easily met.
You'll know all the keyboard shortcuts in no time flat...
It has been done in the past: http://smithii.com/?q=node/view/23
It isn't a copy of MS technology. It is a copy of DEC and IBM technology, with a few mods so it will also work properly with MS technology...
Just put the calculator in the sterilizer, it will probably come out working just fine. During manufacture, circuit boards are cleaned in something very much resembling a dishwasher, using orange juice as detergent...
Hi, nice to meet another old fart on sloshdat... ;-)
Here is a PDF paper: http://tinyurl.com/cfgl4
Well, lets just say that he is exagerating a bit. His mail server is rejecting about a million connection attempts a day and maybe filtering 100,000. That is the way any good mail system works. However, if he had a bad mail server and he would accept all connection attempts...
Geezus H. Krist - lighten up would you? Get a life, calm down, it is only a toy.
The coolest thing is his Windoze Apple - nice touch!
Some rhetorical questions: Will you use Windows to manage a heart-lung machine? No? So why do you use it to run an Aircraft Carrier? Actually, since I'm not American, I think the US military and the whole government, should use MS Windows exclusively, for everything...
'Cause its cheaper, 'cause its fun, 'cause they have a shed load of forlorn PCs doing something unspeakable in a dark corner of the lab...
The lunix is on the grass
The lunix is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the lunix on the path
-- Fink Ployd.
Yup, some 2300 years ago, Democritus said: A thing is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it.
Except that he said in Greek of course...
Economists have been struggling with that concept ever since, but the simplest trader in a bazaar (ancient name for stock market) understands it perfectly.
American billions are only 1/1000 the size of British billions, but still - I got to agree with you that those skew numbers are world class Internet Statistics (TM).
"Bill Gates, the Microsoft Chief Architect, told his minions to fix his browser and prevent junkware from infesting his machines, without having to resort to third party tools."
In China, is half the population employed by the state to watch the other half, like East Germany was doing? A nation of voyeurs...
The View Selection bookmarklet on this page: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.ht ml is another way to fix the problem.
Select the screwed up text and click the bookmarklet, to open the text in a new, properly wrapped window.