Yes, its a fast computer... that doesn't do a damn thing he wants it to do because he doesn't give a shit about Linux or anything related to it... his job requires windows software.
When you troll out the 'just install Linux!@$!~%!@#%!@#5' card, you just make yourself look like a self absorbed douche
Not on the SSD speed, but that the original was faster or the samsung was faster.
First off, you might want to look at who actually makes OWCs drivers and controllers and compare that to your samsung, I think you'll feel pretty stupid right there.
Second, if you got 80Mbps on a Mini, be happy, thats awesome. Minis are notoriously slow machines considering the chipset is the lowest of low end laptop processors and chipsets.
I have 2 2012 Mac Minis used for a VMware ESXi cluster... I boot them from USB and do all storage via NFS because regardless of what drive you put in the machine, the network can beat it senseless...
It takes at least 3 hardware IDs changing to trigger a reactivation, and that is only on certain parts, not all parts.
The process is well documented. You can act like its horrible and that any little thing sets it off, but then you'd just be making shit up... oh, never mind, you ARE just making shit up.
Then you just hit 'reactivate' and worse case... you have to spend 4 minutes on the phone saying a long ass string of numbers and telling it you have 0 installed instances using that key... boom, activated.
If windows activation is that hard on you, you're doing it wrong. Excessively.
Seconded. 2-4 GB is enough to turn off your page file in Windows
Yea, if you just boot and stare at the desktop maybe. 4GB is a minimum for Windows 7 if you actually want to get any work done. People on slashdot regularly post of Firefox and Chrome eating multiple gigabytes of RAM (not virtual address space, actual committed RAM), which immediately rules out 2GB even for web browsing.
Need to use a couple things at the same time? Yea, do that with 2 GB and no swap, I'd love to watch.
Actually, SSDs most certainly do help virus/malware infected PCs. That crap sits in the background doing all kinds of shit, much of it sucking away large amounts of RAM pushing you into swap... at which point an SSD will make a MASSIVE difference.
I tested and windows had no substantial improvement booting from SSD, nor working on my usual apps. Windows must do a lot of writing during boot compared to most OS.
Bullshit.
Linux benefited tremendously, from 90 second boot to 13 seconds. Usual apps were loading in less than three seconds.
But linux... on the other hand... you magically booted in less time than it takes for the kernel to scan for hardware?
Did Bruce ACTUALLY agree to this, or is this another one of your retarded 'ask blah blah blah whatever you want' that just vanishes into nothing because the person in question never agreed to any such thing?
Do you feel that you can continue to act like morons and continue to have any visitors at all?
Being that timothy seems to have the highest IQ of the group, how does it feel to work with a group of 5 or 6 people that have a combined IQ of less than 100?
The start menu doesn't take my focus away from the document I'm working in, and allows me to see what I was just doing which may be useful when trying to find something on the start menu.
The start page is jarring and screws your mind over by completely changing context, throwing up stupid colored squares that are about an order of magnitude larger than they need to be, even the smallest tiles severely limit what can be on screen.
The start page crap is the epitome of inefficient, thoughtless design.
You can place your favorite apps right on the main start menu as well, so that argument is retarded.
Everything the start page does, it does worse than the start menu in Windows 7.
Things you claim are an advantage of the start page are in fact no different than they are on the start menu so you're going to need to come up with a better argument.
No, they didn't. They didn't do anything other than look at the number of flies in relation to number of zebras in a particular area and made some random guesses.
You aren't going to ruin their perfectly massive money supply any more than some guy trying to rat them out or take them on.
They not only kill anyone (police, military, whatever) who fucks with them, but they'll kill you for just mentioning the name of their gang on a blog. Then your mom, dad, son, daughter, wife... all the way through your 11th cousin twice removed.
They'll wipe out every person they can find in your blood line, and then DARE the police or military to respond.
The cartel killed the local police and turned the local government into slaves years ago.
Mexico makes Somali look like a day care.
The mexican military either works for/with them, or is deathly afraid of them... because they'll kill you... your mother and 3 generations in every direction from you, and then... then they threaten to get nasty.
This is slashdot, you should not assume the summary is anywhere close to accurate... the actual study puts it 2 orders of magnitude higher, which means it is EXTREMELY cost effective at $6million per death, ignoring the thousands of injuries.
I know plenty of people who get along just fine outside of anyplace with public transportation and no car of their own.
Its not hard, but go ahead and make excuses to avoid the problem. You do realize people can walk great distances, right?
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that in anything larger than a village that you can not find SOME job within 5 miles, which is more than reasonable walking distance.
You think its a good idea to put someone... who can't handle the 'stress' of an 'exam'... in a ton of steel at 60-80mph...
What happens when they clam up and ploy right over your son or daughter? Still a brilliant fucking idea?
If you can't handle the simple stress of an exam you are not qualified to do A LOT OF THINGS.
Thats like med students who cry when they don't get an A, WTF FUCK makes you think its okay to put these people in REAL high stress situations rather than imaginary ones?
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Its easy to be covert on nearly full flights, you just walk the plane and count empty seats, basic math gives you filled seats.
Did you even bother to look at the physical size of the rock? Its not a pebble.
If you're a sky diver ... and you think its possible to pack a watermelon in your chute ... you have to be the dumbest skydiver in existence.
I think you'd notice something the size of a small watermelon when packing.
Because they've been trying to find the actual rock and didn't want anyone else to know about it and find it first.
They're showing it now because they're actually trying to get more help finding it since nothing has turned up so far.
This is actual news for nerds, so I read the article.
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Pretty much everyone with an SSD as their primary will disagree with you, and they'd be right.
On a second look at your post ... I realize now you're either completely ignorant of the subject matter at hand, or a shitty troll.
Yes, its a fast computer ... that doesn't do a damn thing he wants it to do because he doesn't give a shit about Linux or anything related to it ... his job requires windows software.
When you troll out the 'just install Linux!@$!~%!@#%!@#5' card, you just make yourself look like a self absorbed douche
I call bullshit.
Not on the SSD speed, but that the original was faster or the samsung was faster.
First off, you might want to look at who actually makes OWCs drivers and controllers and compare that to your samsung, I think you'll feel pretty stupid right there.
Second, if you got 80Mbps on a Mini, be happy, thats awesome. Minis are notoriously slow machines considering the chipset is the lowest of low end laptop processors and chipsets.
I have 2 2012 Mac Minis used for a VMware ESXi cluster ... I boot them from USB and do all storage via NFS because regardless of what drive you put in the machine, the network can beat it senseless ...
Your story simply doesn't compute.
It takes at least 3 hardware IDs changing to trigger a reactivation, and that is only on certain parts, not all parts.
The process is well documented. You can act like its horrible and that any little thing sets it off, but then you'd just be making shit up ... oh, never mind, you ARE just making shit up.
Then you just hit 'reactivate' and worse case ... you have to spend 4 minutes on the phone saying a long ass string of numbers and telling it you have 0 installed instances using that key ... boom, activated.
If windows activation is that hard on you, you're doing it wrong. Excessively.
Seconded. 2-4 GB is enough to turn off your page file in Windows
Yea, if you just boot and stare at the desktop maybe. 4GB is a minimum for Windows 7 if you actually want to get any work done. People on slashdot regularly post of Firefox and Chrome eating multiple gigabytes of RAM (not virtual address space, actual committed RAM), which immediately rules out 2GB even for web browsing.
Need to use a couple things at the same time? Yea, do that with 2 GB and no swap, I'd love to watch.
Actually, SSDs most certainly do help virus/malware infected PCs. That crap sits in the background doing all kinds of shit, much of it sucking away large amounts of RAM pushing you into swap ... at which point an SSD will make a MASSIVE difference.
I tested and windows had no substantial improvement booting from SSD, nor working on my usual apps. Windows must do a lot of writing during boot compared to most OS.
Bullshit.
Linux benefited tremendously, from 90 second boot to 13 seconds. Usual apps were loading in less than three seconds.
But linux ... on the other hand ... you magically booted in less time than it takes for the kernel to scan for hardware?
Again, bullshit.
They aren't smart enough to answer the questions in the first place, they're rhetorical.
I have no interest in bothering someone who's got plenty of things to do in their lives already.
And your arrogance covers your ignorance magically because you're in a different department?
I'm an Graphics + UI + UX expert and use open source when I can (I also contribute to a minor open source emulator.)
1. What can we as a community do to address the weaknesses of Open Source?
The fact that you're asking that question tells everyone you are not a ui expert
If you were, you'd know exactly what YOU could do to help.
Maybe ... consider fixing the shitty UI options?
Did Bruce ACTUALLY agree to this, or is this another one of your retarded 'ask blah blah blah whatever you want' that just vanishes into nothing because the person in question never agreed to any such thing?
Do you feel that you can continue to act like morons and continue to have any visitors at all?
Being that timothy seems to have the highest IQ of the group, how does it feel to work with a group of 5 or 6 people that have a combined IQ of less than 100?
Right because you have a regular laptop thats as light and portable as a surface tablet ...
Pull your head out of your ass, even the best ultra books don't compare. The MacBook Air is as close as it gets and its not close enough.
Personally, I want my phone to do double as a desktop when docked so I don't have to carry a tablet either.
The start menu doesn't take my focus away from the document I'm working in, and allows me to see what I was just doing which may be useful when trying to find something on the start menu.
The start page is jarring and screws your mind over by completely changing context, throwing up stupid colored squares that are about an order of magnitude larger than they need to be, even the smallest tiles severely limit what can be on screen.
The start page crap is the epitome of inefficient, thoughtless design.
You can place your favorite apps right on the main start menu as well, so that argument is retarded.
Everything the start page does, it does worse than the start menu in Windows 7.
Things you claim are an advantage of the start page are in fact no different than they are on the start menu so you're going to need to come up with a better argument.
Thats a crock of shit, if you believe it, you're just an idiot.
Removing the mirrors DID NOT give a 3-4mpg difference.
Removed the alternator ... and how, exactly did they plan on going more than a couple miles down the road before the battery died?
You really need to stop believing everything you read on the Internet.
No, they didn't. They didn't do anything other than look at the number of flies in relation to number of zebras in a particular area and made some random guesses.
Go ahead and try to do that.
They'll kill you too.
You aren't going to ruin their perfectly massive money supply any more than some guy trying to rat them out or take them on.
They not only kill anyone (police, military, whatever) who fucks with them, but they'll kill you for just mentioning the name of their gang on a blog. Then your mom, dad, son, daughter, wife ... all the way through your 11th cousin twice removed.
They'll wipe out every person they can find in your blood line, and then DARE the police or military to respond.
Local police?
Government?
The cartel killed the local police and turned the local government into slaves years ago.
Mexico makes Somali look like a day care.
The mexican military either works for/with them, or is deathly afraid of them ... because they'll kill you ... your mother and 3 generations in every direction from you, and then ... then they threaten to get nasty.
This is slashdot, you should not assume the summary is anywhere close to accurate ... the actual study puts it 2 orders of magnitude higher, which means it is EXTREMELY cost effective at $6million per death, ignoring the thousands of injuries.
I know plenty of people who get along just fine outside of anyplace with public transportation and no car of their own.
Its not hard, but go ahead and make excuses to avoid the problem.
You do realize people can walk great distances, right?
You'd be hard pressed to convince me that in anything larger than a village that you can not find SOME job within 5 miles, which is more than reasonable walking distance.
So lets clear this up ...
You think its a good idea to put someone ... who can't handle the 'stress' of an 'exam' ... in a ton of steel at 60-80mph ...
What happens when they clam up and ploy right over your son or daughter? Still a brilliant fucking idea?
If you can't handle the simple stress of an exam you are not qualified to do A LOT OF THINGS.
Thats like med students who cry when they don't get an A, WTF FUCK makes you think its okay to put these people in REAL high stress situations rather than imaginary ones?
If by redesign you mean simply use the existing design the already have for the upgraded electronics package they want $2000 for ... then sure ...
By the definition of anyone else in the world, no, they don't have to really redesign anything.