I personally love Apache. IIS is also a decent alternative, but there's something about apache that is just hard not to love. I think we all know by default that Apache on Linux = Free. IIS + Windows != Free. Seeing as Apache offers no downsides to as compared to IIS (to speak of) i have trouble imagining why this "upturn" is taking place. It's not like IIS suddenly got "better" or that Apache got "worse."
Could the whole GoDaddy deal really be that significant or is there another source?
You just hit the nail on the head. If gamers shoot people in the face, why is it that there are hundreds of millions of gamers and only a handful of them have murdered someone...let alone by shooting them in the face.
Funny... I'm sure historically plenty of people in wartime have been shot or shot people in the face and i'm reasonably sure the vast majority of them were not videogamers or "hitmen." Heck, the movies and TV portray people getting "shot in the face" all the time.
We can only hope the Judge and Jury in this trial are not too stupid to see the error of a statement like that. While the accused does deserve his "reward" for his crimes, i think blaming games for this is utterly ridiculous. People need to start taking responsibility for their actions.
Why can't you just sell your license to someone else? You license windows and if you sell someone your computer you effectively sell them your license to windows with it...
My thought was also that it may just be something in the building. There are thousands of other buildings with cell transmitters around the country and this has never been reported before. I think it would be very wise to check the building itself for some other source of radiation (or otherwise) that may have caused this to happen. I tend to lean away from the idea that it's linked to the tower.
Stealing: The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. http://www.answers.com/stealing
So if you steal a CD from walmart it's not actually stealing? I think there's a flaw in that train of thought.
Copyright infringement is using a work in a way that you are not allowed because it is copyrighted. An example of this would be you taking a CD you OWN into a radio station and playing it over the air for all to hear without proper licensing from its owner. Or setting it up to stream from your website.
If you don't own the work in the first place, then it's copyright infringement AND stealing. The taking possession of the work in the first place, be in via 5-finger-discount from walmart or downloading it on your computer illegally...is stealing.
Microsoft lost over a billion dollars on the XBOX....and they're losing money even faster on the 360. They sell those consoles for WAY less than they cost to produce, hoping to make money back on games. The thing is, it doesnt usually happen that way.
My number one grip with buying a prebuilt system versus building my own (cost aside) is that they come with so much crap on them. When i bought my gateway laptop, it took in between 3 and 5 minutes to boot up when it was new. After i cleaned all the misc crap off of it that i'll never use, it took about 45 seconds or less. I vote that pc manufacturers give you the very basic installation and then give you a DVD that has everything else on it. You stick it in and it gives you a nice menued list of things you may want to install.
A person who just spent 1500 bucks on a new laptop isn't going to be wowed when their new laptop is taking longer to boot than their old one...
Great... i can see you didn't get my point at all.
I'm talking about the billions of dollars going to fund people who are perfectly able to work and are not working. Not your 80 year old grandmother. She's living on social security and medicare...
I'm all for people getting who really do need it. But i am ALL against the majority of people who DON'T need it who are getting it.
New Orleans post Katrina is a prime example of a whole crapload of people whining because they don't get something they probably never deserved a day in their lives. Yeah there were exceptions, but those pictures of countless 30-40 year olds whining about how the government has never given them enough welfare say it all. It's pathetic.
I think people who whine about the america deficit need to step back and look at some of the deficits of european and other contries have. The ratio of tax income to national debt in America is SMALL fries compared to most european countries.
The US is FAR from the only country deep in debt and budgets wackiness.
While i do have a problem with the amount of money being spent by the US gov't, the one place that i would NEVER cut funding would be the military. If they want to cut funding they should cut funding to the pointless social programs paying people to sit around all day. A lot of people in this country refuse to find jobs because...why should they when the gov't sends them money for no reason.
I will agree that the bundled windows video editing software is laughable. I bought some editing software for 15 bucks that works wonderfully and allows several video and audio tracks as well as transitions and stuff. I got sonic with a DVD drive later and it's ridiculously easy to use.
Hopefully vista will ammend the "windows movie maker" embarrassment.
I keep all my drivers up to date, install OS patches and i simply have not had windows crash on me. It doesnt. People can cry about how it's unstable until the cows come home but i have never had an issue with it and i can't say i know of anyone who does have stability issues with it.
One of my main gripes that i have is that when i install linux, half my hardware does not have drivers available. When i'm stuck in standard VGA with no sound...There's a problem.
Regardless of what you may attempt to convince yourself of, linux is FAR from perfect. Frankly in the world of the competition it faces, linux plain sucks as a standard workstation OS. You can debate it all day long and yell and scream, but the one and only reason most companies switch to it is because it's free. Some individual users get idealistic because it's open and all that jazz, but the fact remains, they have to bend over backwards to get it to be anywhere near as functional and "easy" as windows.
If windows was free they'd stay with it or switch to it if they weren't already using it. Even as much as I dislike Microsoft, i still have no problem admitting that windows is by far the best workstation OS on the market hands down.
The problem with that thought is that if you think about the windows XP user who wants to try linux they will dual boot it. in 99.9% of cases that user will rarely if ever use linux again after the first try. i know of only two people IRL that have ever tried linux while running windows side by side and decided to go to linux full-time.
People who are familiar with windows and buy a mac to dual boot will stick with what they know in almost every case. you'll get those.1% of users who switch, but i'd guarantee for the clueless user who bought a mac because it was pretty, they'd rather use the OS that all their friends and the computer lab at college are using.
The only people who buy Macs for the OS are the zealots and those who need it for some work reason. Every other user just likes the fact that the hardware is pretty.
On another note, i do think that OSX would quickly become a laughing stock if it was ever converted to run on an ibm-compatible. I think the blue screen of death jokes would soon be replaced by other apple-crash screen jokes and such.
I've been what you might consider a "hardcore gamer" for going on eight years and i've never had the faintest desire to switch to apple. It's a possibility that down the road if every game for Windows also has a Mac version that it might make a bit of sense. And that would also require that the price of a mac get down into the reasonable "PC" range. As of now, windows does more for me than mac could and if i bought a mac to dual boot...it would never enter OSX. Basically all that is is an overpriced PC...
If i want pretty visual effect, there are a plethora of lovely windows gadgets that can do that for me.
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you forgot about the "ridiculous price" argument.:-D
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Windows is not plagued by viruses. Windows is plagued by idiotic users who install said viruses or open up the door and let the viruses come in. If any other OS was as popular they would have just as many viruses and they would have just as much trouble with them because the people using them are still too dumb to keep them up to date and safe from threats.
About a year after I "got into" computers i got a virus. I was still in that dumb stage of not knowing how to keep from doing so. Having learned from that mistake, i have not since had any. I didn't even get the blaster when everyone else was getting it. It's called windows update people. It's there for a reason...and that fix was out for 6 months at the time of the "attack."
It sounds to me like you're the tech who everyone calls because they present themself as having a clue, charges way too much for service, but then blames every stinking problem on the OS, saying "you have a virus, you should use linux." That group of "tech's" is the most destructive to the image of IT imho...
From what i've read, Vista will have three modes: Powerful graphics adapter, average/low powered graphics adapter, and "no 3d adapter." instead of running like a dog, your interface should just have alternate modes that do not require a 3d T&L card to run properly...
Supposedly... From what i've heard, the actual limit is so high that it might as well be the same as a reg. HD... They "rate" them for a certain amount mainly for warranty purposes and they can (again: supposedly) do way beyond that.
Funny how you didn't finish quoting what i said. false and harmful are fine. false and harmful that hurts the us while at war or helps their enemies is a totally different story. Frankly if it was up to me, anyone who did that should be tried for treason and shot dead anyway. Willfully harming your country is sickening.
Obviously they're not enforcing the act though as you can see from the moron media in the iraq war...so what's the big deal...?
Give me a break and do your research. The Sedation Act outlawed willfully and purposely reporting false information that would aid the enemies of the US or hurt the US' national security. It had nothing to do with free speach.
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I personally love Apache. IIS is also a decent alternative, but there's something about apache that is just hard not to love. I think we all know by default that Apache on Linux = Free. IIS + Windows != Free. Seeing as Apache offers no downsides to as compared to IIS (to speak of) i have trouble imagining why this "upturn" is taking place. It's not like IIS suddenly got "better" or that Apache got "worse."
Could the whole GoDaddy deal really be that significant or is there another source?
You just hit the nail on the head. If gamers shoot people in the face, why is it that there are hundreds of millions of gamers and only a handful of them have murdered someone...let alone by shooting them in the face.
Funny... I'm sure historically plenty of people in wartime have been shot or shot people in the face and i'm reasonably sure the vast majority of them were not videogamers or "hitmen." Heck, the movies and TV portray people getting "shot in the face" all the time.
We can only hope the Judge and Jury in this trial are not too stupid to see the error of a statement like that. While the accused does deserve his "reward" for his crimes, i think blaming games for this is utterly ridiculous. People need to start taking responsibility for their actions.
Why can't you just sell your license to someone else? You license windows and if you sell someone your computer you effectively sell them your license to windows with it...
This probably isn't going to stop anything...
My thought was also that it may just be something in the building. There are thousands of other buildings with cell transmitters around the country and this has never been reported before. I think it would be very wise to check the building itself for some other source of radiation (or otherwise) that may have caused this to happen. I tend to lean away from the idea that it's linked to the tower.
Per answers.com dictionary:
Stealing: The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny.
http://www.answers.com/stealing
Steal: To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
http://www.answers.com/steal
I'm sorry but I see nothing about deprivation. You're welcome to look at the other definitions at those links and you'll see the same.
If you get your car worked on and then drive off without paying...that's stealing. You didn't actually take a physical object from that person though.
So if you steal a CD from walmart it's not actually stealing? I think there's a flaw in that train of thought.
Copyright infringement is using a work in a way that you are not allowed because it is copyrighted. An example of this would be you taking a CD you OWN into a radio station and playing it over the air for all to hear without proper licensing from its owner. Or setting it up to stream from your website.
If you don't own the work in the first place, then it's copyright infringement AND stealing. The taking possession of the work in the first place, be in via 5-finger-discount from walmart or downloading it on your computer illegally...is stealing.
I rest my case. :)
Thanks for the link.
Microsoft lost over a billion dollars on the XBOX....and they're losing money even faster on the 360. They sell those consoles for WAY less than they cost to produce, hoping to make money back on games. The thing is, it doesnt usually happen that way.
No "time frame" is going to help that.
It took me four hours of work to uninstall everything from my aforementioned gateway laptop.... Yes...there was that much crap...
Someone want to explain to me why they bundle three different antivirus trials with an OS? Give me a break people...
My number one grip with buying a prebuilt system versus building my own (cost aside) is that they come with so much crap on them. When i bought my gateway laptop, it took in between 3 and 5 minutes to boot up when it was new. After i cleaned all the misc crap off of it that i'll never use, it took about 45 seconds or less. I vote that pc manufacturers give you the very basic installation and then give you a DVD that has everything else on it. You stick it in and it gives you a nice menued list of things you may want to install.
A person who just spent 1500 bucks on a new laptop isn't going to be wowed when their new laptop is taking longer to boot than their old one...
Great... i can see you didn't get my point at all.
I'm talking about the billions of dollars going to fund people who are perfectly able to work and are not working. Not your 80 year old grandmother. She's living on social security and medicare...
I'm all for people getting who really do need it. But i am ALL against the majority of people who DON'T need it who are getting it.
New Orleans post Katrina is a prime example of a whole crapload of people whining because they don't get something they probably never deserved a day in their lives. Yeah there were exceptions, but those pictures of countless 30-40 year olds whining about how the government has never given them enough welfare say it all. It's pathetic.
I think people who whine about the america deficit need to step back and look at some of the deficits of european and other contries have. The ratio of tax income to national debt in America is SMALL fries compared to most european countries.
The US is FAR from the only country deep in debt and budgets wackiness.
While i do have a problem with the amount of money being spent by the US gov't, the one place that i would NEVER cut funding would be the military. If they want to cut funding they should cut funding to the pointless social programs paying people to sit around all day. A lot of people in this country refuse to find jobs because...why should they when the gov't sends them money for no reason.
Uh...
Maybe you would hate it...but i would love it.
I will agree that the bundled windows video editing software is laughable. I bought some editing software for 15 bucks that works wonderfully and allows several video and audio tracks as well as transitions and stuff. I got sonic with a DVD drive later and it's ridiculously easy to use.
Hopefully vista will ammend the "windows movie maker" embarrassment.
And one other thing:
I keep all my drivers up to date, install OS patches and i simply have not had windows crash on me. It doesnt. People can cry about how it's unstable until the cows come home but i have never had an issue with it and i can't say i know of anyone who does have stability issues with it.
One of my main gripes that i have is that when i install linux, half my hardware does not have drivers available. When i'm stuck in standard VGA with no sound...There's a problem.
Consider yourself a .1% :)
Regardless of what you may attempt to convince yourself of, linux is FAR from perfect. Frankly in the world of the competition it faces, linux plain sucks as a standard workstation OS. You can debate it all day long and yell and scream, but the one and only reason most companies switch to it is because it's free. Some individual users get idealistic because it's open and all that jazz, but the fact remains, they have to bend over backwards to get it to be anywhere near as functional and "easy" as windows.
If windows was free they'd stay with it or switch to it if they weren't already using it. Even as much as I dislike Microsoft, i still have no problem admitting that windows is by far the best workstation OS on the market hands down.
The problem with that thought is that if you think about the windows XP user who wants to try linux they will dual boot it. in 99.9% of cases that user will rarely if ever use linux again after the first try. i know of only two people IRL that have ever tried linux while running windows side by side and decided to go to linux full-time.
.1% of users who switch, but i'd guarantee for the clueless user who bought a mac because it was pretty, they'd rather use the OS that all their friends and the computer lab at college are using.
People who are familiar with windows and buy a mac to dual boot will stick with what they know in almost every case. you'll get those
The only people who buy Macs for the OS are the zealots and those who need it for some work reason. Every other user just likes the fact that the hardware is pretty.
On another note, i do think that OSX would quickly become a laughing stock if it was ever converted to run on an ibm-compatible. I think the blue screen of death jokes would soon be replaced by other apple-crash screen jokes and such.
I fear that is going to be a very small "some."
I've been what you might consider a "hardcore gamer" for going on eight years and i've never had the faintest desire to switch to apple. It's a possibility that down the road if every game for Windows also has a Mac version that it might make a bit of sense. And that would also require that the price of a mac get down into the reasonable "PC" range. As of now, windows does more for me than mac could and if i bought a mac to dual boot...it would never enter OSX. Basically all that is is an overpriced PC...
If i want pretty visual effect, there are a plethora of lovely windows gadgets that can do that for me.
you forgot about the "ridiculous price" argument. :-D
Windows is not plagued by viruses. Windows is plagued by idiotic users who install said viruses or open up the door and let the viruses come in. If any other OS was as popular they would have just as many viruses and they would have just as much trouble with them because the people using them are still too dumb to keep them up to date and safe from threats.
About a year after I "got into" computers i got a virus. I was still in that dumb stage of not knowing how to keep from doing so. Having learned from that mistake, i have not since had any. I didn't even get the blaster when everyone else was getting it. It's called windows update people. It's there for a reason...and that fix was out for 6 months at the time of the "attack."
It sounds to me like you're the tech who everyone calls because they present themself as having a clue, charges way too much for service, but then blames every stinking problem on the OS, saying "you have a virus, you should use linux." That group of "tech's" is the most destructive to the image of IT imho...
From what i've read, Vista will have three modes: Powerful graphics adapter, average/low powered graphics adapter, and "no 3d adapter." instead of running like a dog, your interface should just have alternate modes that do not require a 3d T&L card to run properly...
Supposedly... From what i've heard, the actual limit is so high that it might as well be the same as a reg. HD... They "rate" them for a certain amount mainly for warranty purposes and they can (again: supposedly) do way beyond that.
Anyone with "yes or no" power around?
Funny how you didn't finish quoting what i said. false and harmful are fine. false and harmful that hurts the us while at war or helps their enemies is a totally different story. Frankly if it was up to me, anyone who did that should be tried for treason and shot dead anyway. Willfully harming your country is sickening.
Obviously they're not enforcing the act though as you can see from the moron media in the iraq war...so what's the big deal...?
Give me a break and do your research. The Sedation Act outlawed willfully and purposely reporting false information that would aid the enemies of the US or hurt the US' national security. It had nothing to do with free speach.