Seriously, if she's used to Windows XP, windows vista or windows 7 are so different that she won't like it either.
This is just plain wrong. Every single non-techie I've upgraded to 7 from XP have said it's a _lot_ easier to use. That includes a couple of borderline Luddites who have at one point worried about "infecting the pc with a virus" (they had the flu). But make sure it's 7, which just works. Vista just, um, doesn't.
"...I run the Death Star..." "What's the Death Star?" "THIS is the Death Star. You're IN the Death Star. I run this star." "This is a star?" "This is a fucking star! I run it! I'm your boss!" "You're Mr. Stevens?" "..."
Reading glasses are for presbyopia, a diminished ability to focus at near distances, mainly because the crystalline lens (which is inside the eye) gets less elastic with age. Lasik _can't_ fix this, but there are multi-focal and accomodating intra-ocular lenses that can. Multi-focal lenses have multiple focal zones for different distances, similar to bifocal glasses. Accomodating lenses are designed to adjust their focal length to mimic natural accomodation.
Lasik doesn't fix the lens. It is non-invasive and uses a laser to reshape the cornea.
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on, my friend
somebody started singing it not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because...
I disagree. If you're losing your train of thought as you type it in, then you haven't thought about it enough. I think the solution should be clear and crystallized in the mind before any typing begins.
The story of humanity is full of whole chapters which basically boil down to a bright spark being smothered by a bunch of ignorant fuckwads attached to their idea of how the world works. Every once in a great while the spark lands in a pile of tinder not in the furnace-equipped basement of a firetrap and something wonderful is born, but mostly people shun what they don't understand
Several (not-so-compelling) reasons: Eyefinity, DX11, lower power consumption. The 5670 would be good for budget HTPCs and for people with low-demand multi-monitor setups (like some of the people at work who run multiple spreadsheet-like apps concurrently). As well, the 4770 is scarce and it seems that many OEMs are discontinuing them. I'm thinking of grabbing another one for Crossfire before stocks run out at my supplier.
In my experience, the main source of bugs isn't a lack of experience. I spent a year assembling and training a team of Java/.NET programmers and what I found was that 9 out of 10 "programmers" could not code a simple nested loop test, in pseudo code or any language they knew. The exercise was:
Given an arbitrary non-negative number n, write a function/procedure/subroutine that will produce output in the form of: 1 23 456 78910 1112131415 ... where n is the number of lines of output.
and 4 out of 5 couldn't even do
1 22 333 4444 ...
These weren't fresh grads, mind you. These were senior-level programmers/developers, with 5 to 10 years industry experience. Most of them did well on the language-specific tests, which in my opinion rely too much on memory, questions like "What are the 4 different kinds of authentication in ASP.NET and how do they differ?"
I doubt it will matter much how natural-language-like programming languages become. Try asking people for directions and you'll have an idea of how well they'd do at programming. Some people simply can't code. They're not wired to think algorithmically, and they'd be better of doing something else.
No it isn't. Giga is from a Greek root that means giant and in ancient Greek, gamma was a velar stop/g/ -- a hard g-Grover, not g-George. In modern Greek, the pronunciation of gamma has softened, but English words derived from Greek roots are based on the older forms, as are those those based on Latin.
While a longsword'sreach is about 5', that includes the arm that wields it. Longswords are about 4' in overall length, with around 3' of blade. That rope would be 7-1/2 longswords, or 10 longsword-blades.:)
One executable could have multiple modules that you want to restrict certain people from accessing, but still let them access others in that same executable. chmod or SELinux is useless here.
That's no longer an OS problem, it's an application problem. You can't do that from Windows either, unless the application allows that kind of fine-grained control.
A bit under 1700 G, actually. (vf^2 - vi^2) / 2d... I think that's the right equation. Anyway, it gives the same answer as yours, once your calculations are fixed. 6 / (1.1 / 3) = 16.36 km/s^2, not 44.2.
Sometimes you can't stop vomiting and even trying to rehydrate (to replace the fluids you lost vomiting) will make you throw up again. I've had to bring a friend to the hospital because of that. They stuck him with some meds to control the spasms and a saline/dextrose IV drip to rehydrate.
"sold"? More like bundled, i.e., buyers had no choice. When an XP upgrade was available, quite a number of people took it, enough so that MS had to extend XP's lifecycle and more hardware manufacturers started offering the upgrade.
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Seriously, if she's used to Windows XP, windows vista or windows 7 are so different that she won't like it either.
This is just plain wrong. Every single non-techie I've upgraded to 7 from XP have said it's a _lot_ easier to use. That includes a couple of borderline Luddites who have at one point worried about "infecting the pc with a virus" (they had the flu). But make sure it's 7, which just works. Vista just, um, doesn't.
Until Godzilla shows up... :)
"...I run the Death Star..."
"What's the Death Star?"
"THIS is the Death Star. You're IN the Death Star. I run this star."
"This is a star?"
"This is a fucking star! I run it! I'm your boss!"
"You're Mr. Stevens?"
"..."
Another vote for the Hitachi Deathstar. Heck, stripe a bunch together with RAID 0 for more lulz.
Reading glasses are for presbyopia, a diminished ability to focus at near distances, mainly because the crystalline lens (which is inside the eye) gets less elastic with age. Lasik _can't_ fix this, but there are multi-focal and accomodating intra-ocular lenses that can. Multi-focal lenses have multiple focal zones for different distances, similar to bifocal glasses. Accomodating lenses are designed to adjust their focal length to mimic natural accomodation. Lasik doesn't fix the lens. It is non-invasive and uses a laser to reshape the cornea.
this is the song that never ends
it just goes on and on, my friend
somebody started singing it not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because...
I disagree. If you're losing your train of thought as you type it in, then you haven't thought about it enough. I think the solution should be clear and crystallized in the mind before any typing begins.
The story of humanity is full of whole chapters which basically boil down to a bright spark being smothered by a bunch of ignorant fuckwads attached to their idea of how the world works. Every once in a great while the spark lands in a pile of tinder not in the furnace-equipped basement of a firetrap and something wonderful is born, but mostly people shun what they don't understand
+5 Insightful.
Try 5.33Mya.
This one has been around since Windows 95. Still no fix...
Several (not-so-compelling) reasons: Eyefinity, DX11, lower power consumption. The 5670 would be good for budget HTPCs and for people with low-demand multi-monitor setups (like some of the people at work who run multiple spreadsheet-like apps concurrently). As well, the 4770 is scarce and it seems that many OEMs are discontinuing them. I'm thinking of grabbing another one for Crossfire before stocks run out at my supplier.
But what if they lose your luggage? :)
He said _smart_ people...
Or why climate has anything to do with physics? I am also confused on that point...
Epic fail.
We weren't around 640kya, at least, not anatomically modern humans.
The ash will sterilize the earth for a while. No crops for years. Look up Pinatubo.
In my experience, the main source of bugs isn't a lack of experience. I spent a year assembling and training a team of Java/.NET programmers and what I found was that 9 out of 10 "programmers" could not code a simple nested loop test, in pseudo code or any language they knew. The exercise was:
Given an arbitrary non-negative number n, write a function/procedure/subroutine that will produce output in the form of:
1
23
456
78910
1112131415
...
where n is the number of lines of output.
and 4 out of 5 couldn't even do
1
22
333
4444
...
These weren't fresh grads, mind you. These were senior-level programmers/developers, with 5 to 10 years industry experience. Most of them did well on the language-specific tests, which in my opinion rely too much on memory, questions like "What are the 4 different kinds of authentication in ASP.NET and how do they differ?"
I doubt it will matter much how natural-language-like programming languages become. Try asking people for directions and you'll have an idea of how well they'd do at programming. Some people simply can't code. They're not wired to think algorithmically, and they'd be better of doing something else.
No it isn't. Giga is from a Greek root that means giant and in ancient Greek, gamma was a velar stop /g/ -- a hard g-Grover, not g-George. In modern Greek, the pronunciation of gamma has softened, but English words derived from Greek roots are based on the older forms, as are those those based on Latin.
While a longsword's reach is about 5', that includes the arm that wields it. Longswords are about 4' in overall length, with around 3' of blade. That rope would be 7-1/2 longswords, or 10 longsword-blades. :)
You forgot the 10' pole. Can't leave home without that.
One executable could have multiple modules that you want to restrict certain people from accessing, but still let them access others in that same executable. chmod or SELinux is useless here.
That's no longer an OS problem, it's an application problem. You can't do that from Windows either, unless the application allows that kind of fine-grained control.
Momentum != kinetic energy.
A bit under 1700 G, actually. (vf^2 - vi^2) / 2d... I think that's the right equation. Anyway, it gives the same answer as yours, once your calculations are fixed. 6 / (1.1 / 3) = 16.36 km/s^2, not 44.2.
Sometimes you can't stop vomiting and even trying to rehydrate (to replace the fluids you lost vomiting) will make you throw up again. I've had to bring a friend to the hospital because of that. They stuck him with some meds to control the spasms and a saline/dextrose IV drip to rehydrate.
"sold"? More like bundled, i.e., buyers had no choice. When an XP upgrade was available, quite a number of people took it, enough so that MS had to extend XP's lifecycle and more hardware manufacturers started offering the upgrade.