I've been working in software development for 35 years. No company I've ever worked at jumps on new versions of Windows, they all have a policy of waiting at least until SP1 regardless of whether its an improvement or not. The only news here is that the figure is that 17% might move straight away. From my own experiences I would have thought nearly all, if not all companies would wait at least a year.
That was in the whole town, not just his house. I'd bet that there's no US town that such a low burglary rate even though you guys have guns. I'd also bet that their gun crime rate is A LOT lower than any US town.
Perhaps the reason why there aren't that many critics of Linux is that it is actually quite good, and Well gee... its tough to criticise something that is FREE after all. Tried Linux and don't like it? Simnple. Dont use it. Many of us DO like it just the way it is, thanks. Even if you just toss it, you lose nothing as it didn't cost you a penny, plus even by just trying it out, you also learned something you didn't know before. I wish I could say the same about Vista.
There's an increasingly popular scam being perpitrated on consumers as more and more devices coming onto the market do not give full control of their functionality to the person who actually bought and paid for it, because the seller wants a marketing model that allows them to double-dip or extort more money for old rope. I now refuse to buy any product that does not give me, the owner, total control and use of it in any way I like. Please join me in making this your policy too. The only way we can end this problem is to send over-greedy manufacturers and service providers out of business. Lets put the power back in the hands of the consumers where it should belong.
Many people seem unaware of the fact that mixing memory modules of different speeds or different timings can and does cause problems. Even the engineers in our IT department at work don't get it.
I'm just amazed that anyone would think that animals don't feel pain. Are they really that stupid, or is it just a convenient excuse to allow them to carry on with selfish behaviours?
No, I'm assuming any involvement of the police at all would scare a kid to hell, and because the police got called the other kids would automatically label that kid as a criminal or whatever, regardless of the fact she was actually innocent.
So presuming the normal case where I have a PC that can play the lossless version and a media player that can only play the lossy version, now have to:
a) waste large amounts of high-value storage space to store "lossless-mp3" data on my pocket player that I can't actually play
and
b) waste disk storage space on my PC for the data for a lossy version that I will never choose to play because the lossless version is also available.
>> they should have called the police and let them deal with it,...and you think having cops come to the school and take the kid away in the back of police car to be fingerprinted/photo'd/strip-searched in a sinister room at a local police station would be less traumatic on the kid how?
>> If anything, the fact that she's young and female makes it MORE intrusive (I think the average boy would shrug it off better than a girl would; I might be wrong in that assumption, though).
I know you acknowledged you might be wrong, but I don't think its appropriate to make any assumptions based on gender/age sterotypes at all. I mean the next step based on your assumption would be to only subject boys to strip-searches, and that would be even more wrong.
Please, Lets all agree right now to never buy anything with any kind of DRM in it.
Its the only way we can finally end this absurd situation.
There is never a justifiable reason why we have to seek and depend on a complete stranger's arbitrary permission to use and keep the value of our own legally purchased possessions.
>> it would be a rather simple matter to distribute a kill switch across all clients which would simply skip the verification process.
Theres a difference between it being technically simple to do, and that being what they actually guarantee they will do immediately prior to going belly up, or even just making some "marketing decision".
Don't forget about a year or two ago Microsoft just arbitararily decided to close down their DRM servers from their defunct music service, and immediately turned all existing customers whole expensive media collections into worthless unplayable junk, all with no comebacks on Microsoft.
As far as I'm concerned, Steam (and by the sounds of it this new thing too) is still DRM in its worst form in that you are ultimately relying on some stranger's word that they will continue to let you use your own posessions.
>> the shooter was a fan of Counterstrike and played Far Cry 2 the night before the rampage....he also eat dinner, watched some TV, and went to bed on the night before the rampage. Maybe those things should be banned as they can clearly be linked to this crime too.
Dear kdawson: You might as well have written: "I hate my career of the past few years. For a long time I've wondered what I'd do after I broke even and could get into something new, and I keep coming back to Brain Surgery. I'd like to get into medicine, since I always enjoyed watching ER. I have some background as I patched up my cat once so I'm not starting entirely from scratch. My problem is my degrees and past employment have no practical application to the field. Where should I start? I have friends in medicine who might be able to pull some strings and get me an interview or two for entry-level surgeon positions, but what can I do to make myself hireable in a short period of time? Is it possible to pick up enough of what I'd need within a couple months?"
Yes your question really does sound that stupid to experienced developers.
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That right there sounds like an excelellent reason to never move to 7.
Sure you wont get errors for 27 years due to block flagging, but your drive will be about 8k big by then too for the same reason.
I've been working in software development for 35 years. No company I've ever worked at jumps on new versions of Windows, they all have a policy of waiting at least until SP1 regardless of whether its an improvement or not.
The only news here is that the figure is that 17% might move straight away. From my own experiences I would have thought nearly all, if not all companies would wait at least a year.
that this crappy behaviour probably works against them more than for them in terms of sales.
Swap on the USB too?... you need to rethink that at least. for both performance and the fact that its hammering your USB key with unwanted writes.
Why did they use ATI/AMD instead of intel/nvidia?
ATI sucks comapred to nvidia under linux. AMD sucks compared to intel period.
That was in the whole town, not just his house. I'd bet that there's no US town that such a low burglary rate even though you guys have guns. I'd also bet that their gun crime rate is A LOT lower than any US town.
Perhaps the reason why there aren't that many critics of Linux is that it is actually quite good, and Well gee... its tough to criticise something that is FREE after all.
Tried Linux and don't like it? Simnple. Dont use it. Many of us DO like it just the way it is, thanks.
Even if you just toss it, you lose nothing as it didn't cost you a penny, plus even by just trying it out, you also learned something you didn't know before.
I wish I could say the same about Vista.
There's an increasingly popular scam being perpitrated on consumers as more and more devices coming onto the market do not give full control of their functionality to the person who actually bought and paid for it, because the seller wants a marketing model that allows them to double-dip or extort more money for old rope.
I now refuse to buy any product that does not give me, the owner, total control and use of it in any way I like.
Please join me in making this your policy too.
The only way we can end this problem is to send over-greedy manufacturers and service providers out of business. Lets put the power back in the hands of the consumers where it should belong.
>> What's that make me then? I have tits and an axe wound
That makes you either a hot chick or a fat lumberjack who needs a man-bra.
Run Linux on it, not windows.
Many people seem unaware of the fact that mixing memory modules of different speeds or different timings can and does cause problems. Even the engineers in our IT department at work don't get it.
Actually I was thinking more about vivisection...
I'm just amazed that anyone would think that animals don't feel pain.
Are they really that stupid, or is it just a convenient excuse to allow them to carry on with selfish behaviours?
Your brains just assploded? wow. nice.
No, I'm assuming any involvement of the police at all would scare a kid to hell, and because the police got called the other kids would automatically label that kid as a criminal or whatever, regardless of the fact she was actually innocent.
So presuming the normal case where I have a PC that can play the lossless version and a media player that can only play the lossy version, now have to:
a) waste large amounts of high-value storage space to store "lossless-mp3" data on my pocket player that I can't actually play
and
b) waste disk storage space on my PC for the data for a lossy version that I will never choose to play because the lossless version is also available.
>> they should have called the police and let them deal with it, ...and you think having cops come to the school and take the kid away in the back of police car to be fingerprinted/photo'd/strip-searched in a sinister room at a local police station would be less traumatic on the kid how?
>> If anything, the fact that she's young and female makes it MORE intrusive (I think the average boy would shrug it off better than a girl would; I might be wrong in that assumption, though).
I know you acknowledged you might be wrong, but I don't think its appropriate to make any assumptions based on gender/age sterotypes at all. I mean the next step based on your assumption would be to only subject boys to strip-searches, and that would be even more wrong.
Please, Lets all agree right now to never buy anything with any kind of DRM in it.
Its the only way we can finally end this absurd situation.
There is never a justifiable reason why we have to seek and depend on a complete stranger's arbitrary permission to use and keep the value of our own legally purchased possessions.
>> it would be a rather simple matter to distribute a kill switch across all clients which would simply skip the verification process.
Theres a difference between it being technically simple to do, and that being what they actually guarantee they will do immediately prior to going belly up, or even just making some "marketing decision".
Don't forget about a year or two ago Microsoft just arbitararily decided to close down their DRM servers from their defunct music service, and immediately turned all existing customers whole expensive media collections into worthless unplayable junk, all with no comebacks on Microsoft.
As far as I'm concerned, Steam (and by the sounds of it this new thing too) is still DRM in its worst form in that you are ultimately relying on some stranger's word that they will continue to let you use your own posessions.
>> the shooter was a fan of Counterstrike and played Far Cry 2 the night before the rampage. ...he also eat dinner, watched some TV, and went to bed on the night before the rampage.
Maybe those things should be banned as they can clearly be linked to this crime too.
>> So how should we be choosing and celebrating free software's past achievements?"
Easy. Go to the pub every time any version number increments in any opensource software package.
That is a perfect example of what not to put in a language.
It should be a compiler and/or operating system decision.
Dear kdawson:
You might as well have written:
"I hate my career of the past few years. For a long time I've wondered what I'd do after I broke even and could get into something new, and I keep coming back to Brain Surgery.
I'd like to get into medicine, since I always enjoyed watching ER. I have some background as I patched up my cat once so I'm not starting entirely from scratch. My problem is my degrees and past employment have no practical application to the field. Where should I start? I have friends in medicine who might be able to pull some strings and get me an interview or two for entry-level surgeon positions, but what can I do to make myself hireable in a short period of time? Is it possible to pick up enough of what I'd need within a couple months?"
Yes your question really does sound that stupid to experienced developers.