For life to get easier, we get OUR tools RIGHT for the job and "Get it Working", meaning efficiently.
Lots of different work is out there for different people.
For me, Boot Camp simply means efficient work with one fewer laptops being paid for, maintained & carried around, while still being able to run at virtually native hardware speed...no more, no less.
Price those 2 nearly equal computers all loaded up with the 2.16 ghz Dual Core, 2 gigs RAM, 7200 rpm HD, etc. and they both come out to $3400-$3500...
The big exceptions in a MacBook Pro & Dell M90 is that only one of them is shipping (last I checked) & only one has supperior OS and ease of use-integration with built-in programs, and lack of need for an IT pro to take care of it.
I read everything methodically, and did it "by the book" and everything ran like a clock. Worst thing is waiting for the long Windows formatting and install process.
Anyone who runs Beta software with all the warnings, and then see FAQs posted on the Apple Site and doesn't read them, and the 17 page pdf that is posted with Boot Camp and on the Apple Boot Camp section of their web site has no one to blame but themselves.
I was prepared to reformat the whole HD and start over if something glitched, but it didn't.
Watch out what you ask for in change...because it might go...THE OTHER WAY. The next Ice Age will wipe out many Northern population centers.
The worst possible disaster will be global cooling. Predicting what is going to happen is just that; PREDICTION.
A. University of Leicester geologist Jan Zalasiewicz: "Ice Age climate change has been rapid, pervasive and frequent. For instance, during the last 2.6 million years, the duration of the current Ice Age, there have been 104 major fluctuations between global cold and global warmth. Each of the major fluctuations was itself complex, encompassing 'minor' changes of up to 5 degrees centigrade in average annual temperature. As temperature rose and fell, so did global sea level, by up to 130 metres."
B. MAJOR SOLAR ENERGY INPUT FACTORS: Univ of Wisconsin and the Milankovitch cycle http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~aos100-2/clim/> consisting of 1. Precession Wobble of Earth's Axis, 2. Ecliptic Plane change & 3. Elliptical Orbit changes of Earth with respect to the Sun.
C. Earth's movement through the galactic plane every 62 million years or so, & the dust of the central disk.
D. Greenland, and the Antarctic Vostok Ice Cores have shown the 110,000 year cylce in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere repeating for at least the last 500,000 years or so. We are CURRENTLY AT THE HIGH POINT of historic repeatable patterns of CO2 levels.
E. Both rapid changes to lower Numbers of Sunspots and major super volcano eruptions have caused RAPID GLOBAL COOLING IN LESS THAN A YEAR'S TIME (ignoring comet or meteor impacts).
There is far too much uncertainty to ascribe "Climate Changes" to the impact of man.
I personally think the Gates-Ballmer team has taken on so much in attempting to own the whole ball game, that they can't deliver on reasonably fast quality upgrades with speed, and are becoming the sluggish giant that some other notable corporations have become.
By biting off too much, Microsoft can't even get out a decent OS upgrade once a year or once every other year. They are quite simply dead in the water for the better part of 5 years. The sooner they break the OS division off as a separate corporation, the sooner everyone will be better off.
Apple took a long term strategy 8 years back or so, and has simply taken the lead in usability and quality and speed of updates.
What Microsoft is setting customers up for is two hardware upgrades in about 2 years, when EFI bootable VISTA becomes avalable and BIOS gets relegated to dinosaur status.
In effect Microsoft is helping the hardware guys sell a lot more computers in the next 2 years.
Vista being so long coming also means that BIOS is still in the Vista plan, which means the hardware will CHANGE AGAIN in about a year to eliminate the old BIOS that's been around for decades.
I think even some Microsofties, let alone shareholders are tired of being dicked around by their managers who obviously can no longer manage the juggernaut anymore.
OK, now which of us would sign up to blindly install the very first version of a totally new fabuloso ground up Vista Operating System into your company in the first month of its release, no matter HOW GOOD THE HYPE?
How many headaches does a business need? Add a new OS to screw up something and have to pay for it to boot (pardon the pun).
Sheesh - Bo
So why don't ISPs simply write software to allow them to detect and automatically disconnect BOTs?
Come on here. BOTs harm their systems, and they ought to be willing to put in the time to shut them off.
Then the end user of a BOT calls up, and the ISP say's "Reformat and reinstall your OS with appropriate anti-baddy software or we won't let you use our ISP.
Yeah, I know, they want the fees, but they don't want the extra bandwidth use nor the problems, and if the major ISPs blacklist BOTs, how long before we get rid of most of them?
For out of the country BOTs, well I would imagine there has to be a way. I don't care to ever receive anything from anyone in Rwanda, Uganda, or even Russia.
Do NOT muck up my computer or slow it down in any way, OR...
You won't get my software dollars, and then you likely will not get any more hardware sales either (like the $3k LCD projection TV I bought).
There is more at stake than a damn gaming DRM here.
Bill Gates is probably personally responsible for the reticence of large numbers of potential Internet users and ex-users.
Between difficult to use features, hardware incompatibilities, non-intuitive settings and choices, then spam, virii, adware, phishing, etc, I have seen people give up on the Internet, because they simply couldn't figure out all of Gates BS.
I switched one friends wife to an iBook, and she (also a newbie) has had little problem, and it makes him a bit envious. He is reluctant to try anything new at this point, as Windows was so hard to deal with.
For the average users it is only one thing that is important: EASE OF USE.
"Given $50,000 to work with I could return at least $500,000 within the year..."
With such profit promise, coupled with a hard nosed business plan (just your hours)) there are all sorts of VC's, angel investors, and family members who would step up to fund a 10/1 deal.
I have done them myself, and there is always more work to it than initially surmised. Sales costs are often not evaluated honestly and completely for their scope and true costs, which often exceed all the other costs combined, in a lot of hard products.
Most laptop owners don't sit in a proverbial flower field and run their laptops.
Hence, what % of laptop owners would buy a new and no doubt very expensive methanol fuel cell module &, expensive methanol (prepackaged of course), and this assumes a properly package fuel cell module is available for your particular Laptop.
If it leaks and destroys your laptop is it covered by a warranty that replaces your laptop?
You noted "A) not being wealthy makes it hard to innovate".
I hasten to dissagree.
MIT is concerned with astonishingly advanced innovation, but that is the rarest form of innovation.
Most innovation is in smaller products with more creative thought processes using existing technology, than in creating whole new technologies. Thes smaller products and projects can often easily be something a person or two do and create a 10-50 million dollar company.
Lots of examples exist, but they really don't get the headlines, as the pizzazz is not there for news orgs.
I'm not going to pass judgement on this laptop secure delete issue.
But I am going to opine that the ultimate conflict of interest in the whole U.S. system is allowing anyone with a law degree to become an elected official and then write laws for his friends, and ultimately himself when he leaves office.
Like which System Admin of a large government contractor is not aware of network security in this day and age, which would allow compromised computers and connections to the outside world?
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For life to get easier, we get OUR tools RIGHT for the job and "Get it Working", meaning efficiently.
Lots of different work is out there for different people.
For me, Boot Camp simply means efficient work with one fewer laptops being paid for, maintained & carried around, while still being able to run at virtually native hardware speed...no more, no less.
End of Subject.
Price those 2 nearly equal computers all loaded up with the 2.16 ghz Dual Core, 2 gigs RAM, 7200 rpm HD, etc. and they both come out to $3400-$3500... The big exceptions in a MacBook Pro & Dell M90 is that only one of them is shipping (last I checked) & only one has supperior OS and ease of use-integration with built-in programs, and lack of need for an IT pro to take care of it.
I read everything methodically, and did it "by the book" and everything ran like a clock. Worst thing is waiting for the long Windows formatting and install process.
Anyone who runs Beta software with all the warnings, and then see FAQs posted on the Apple Site and doesn't read them, and the 17 page pdf that is posted with Boot Camp and on the Apple Boot Camp section of their web site has no one to blame but themselves.
I was prepared to reformat the whole HD and start over if something glitched, but it didn't.
If someone is bent on getting a $4000 MacBook Pro for free, he may well be smart enough to
#!. Pull the battery
#2. Pull the hard drive
#3. & thus never allow anything to run off the original hard drive
You noted "That's why people pay Apple's high prices - for the ability to run OS X".
I was going to buy a Dell M90 loaded = $3500 or so
MacBook Pro with all options = $3400
There are memories, false memories & damnable lies...and I think we know which
If she did not redistribute the intellectual property, she ought to just be able to return/destroy it and that is the end of it.
Obviously my opinion, and obviously not RIAA or Record Label's opinion, but do they really gain over the next 20 years by doing this?
Think not!
Watch out what you ask for in change...because it might go...THE OTHER WAY. The next Ice Age will wipe out many Northern population centers.
The worst possible disaster will be global cooling. Predicting what is going to happen is just that; PREDICTION.
A. University of Leicester geologist Jan Zalasiewicz: "Ice Age climate change has been rapid, pervasive and frequent. For instance, during the last 2.6 million years, the duration of the current Ice Age, there have been 104 major fluctuations between global cold and global warmth. Each of the major fluctuations was itself complex, encompassing 'minor' changes of up to 5 degrees centigrade in average annual temperature. As temperature rose and fell, so did global sea level, by up to 130 metres."
B. MAJOR SOLAR ENERGY INPUT FACTORS: Univ of Wisconsin and the Milankovitch cycle http://www.aos.wisc.edu/~aos100-2/clim/> consisting of 1. Precession Wobble of Earth's Axis, 2. Ecliptic Plane change & 3. Elliptical Orbit changes of Earth with respect to the Sun.
C. Earth's movement through the galactic plane every 62 million years or so, & the dust of the central disk.
D. Greenland, and the Antarctic Vostok Ice Cores have shown the 110,000 year cylce in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere repeating for at least the last 500,000 years or so. We are CURRENTLY AT THE HIGH POINT of historic repeatable patterns of CO2 levels.
E. Both rapid changes to lower Numbers of Sunspots and major super volcano eruptions have caused RAPID GLOBAL COOLING IN LESS THAN A YEAR'S TIME (ignoring comet or meteor impacts).
There is far too much uncertainty to ascribe "Climate Changes" to the impact of man.
Users buy what they want & I do too.
I personally think the Gates-Ballmer team has taken on so much in attempting to own the whole ball game, that they can't deliver on reasonably fast quality upgrades with speed, and are becoming the sluggish giant that some other notable corporations have become.
By biting off too much, Microsoft can't even get out a decent OS upgrade once a year or once every other year. They are quite simply dead in the water for the better part of 5 years. The sooner they break the OS division off as a separate corporation, the sooner everyone will be better off.
Apple took a long term strategy 8 years back or so, and has simply taken the lead in usability and quality and speed of updates.
What Microsoft is setting customers up for is two hardware upgrades in about 2 years, when EFI bootable VISTA becomes avalable and BIOS gets relegated to dinosaur status.
In effect Microsoft is helping the hardware guys sell a lot more computers in the next 2 years.
Vista being so long coming also means that BIOS is still in the Vista plan, which means the hardware will CHANGE AGAIN in about a year to eliminate the old BIOS that's been around for decades.
Don't think I'll upgrade until the dust settles.
Business accumen back then.
Checked their growth rate lately?
Those two guys are incapable of designing and running a firm as big as Microsoft.
EOS - Bo
I think even some Microsofties, let alone shareholders are tired of being dicked around by their managers who obviously can no longer manage the juggernaut anymore.
Bo
OK, now which of us would sign up to blindly install the very first version of a totally new fabuloso ground up Vista Operating System into your company in the first month of its release, no matter HOW GOOD THE HYPE? How many headaches does a business need? Add a new OS to screw up something and have to pay for it to boot (pardon the pun). Sheesh - Bo
& then...
;-)
Issue a reformat command
So why don't ISPs simply write software to allow them to detect and automatically disconnect BOTs?
Come on here. BOTs harm their systems, and they ought to be willing to put in the time to shut them off.
Then the end user of a BOT calls up, and the ISP say's "Reformat and reinstall your OS with appropriate anti-baddy software or we won't let you use our ISP.
Yeah, I know, they want the fees, but they don't want the extra bandwidth use nor the problems, and if the major ISPs blacklist BOTs, how long before we get rid of most of them?
For out of the country BOTs, well I would imagine there has to be a way. I don't care to ever receive anything from anyone in Rwanda, Uganda, or even Russia.
Do NOT muck up my computer or slow it down in any way, OR... You won't get my software dollars, and then you likely will not get any more hardware sales either (like the $3k LCD projection TV I bought). There is more at stake than a damn gaming DRM here.
Bill Gates is probably personally responsible for the reticence of large numbers of potential Internet users and ex-users.
Between difficult to use features, hardware incompatibilities, non-intuitive settings and choices, then spam, virii, adware, phishing, etc, I have seen people give up on the Internet, because they simply couldn't figure out all of Gates BS.
I switched one friends wife to an iBook, and she (also a newbie) has had little problem, and it makes him a bit envious. He is reluctant to try anything new at this point, as Windows was so hard to deal with.
For the average users it is only one thing that is important: EASE OF USE.
"I would rather have 1 good spy, than 10,000 good warriers."
And what is the difference between a spy and an emplyee?
Bo
"Given $50,000 to work with I could return at least $500,000 within the year ..."
With such profit promise, coupled with a hard nosed business plan (just your hours)) there are all sorts of VC's, angel investors, and family members who would step up to fund a 10/1 deal.
I have done them myself, and there is always more work to it than initially surmised. Sales costs are often not evaluated honestly and completely for their scope and true costs, which often exceed all the other costs combined, in a lot of hard products.
Most laptop owners don't sit in a proverbial flower field and run their laptops.
Hence, what % of laptop owners would buy a new and no doubt very expensive methanol fuel cell module &, expensive methanol (prepackaged of course), and this assumes a properly package fuel cell module is available for your particular Laptop.
If it leaks and destroys your laptop is it covered by a warranty that replaces your laptop?
Lots of unanswered questions
You noted "A) not being wealthy makes it hard to innovate".
I hasten to dissagree.
MIT is concerned with astonishingly advanced innovation, but that is the rarest form of innovation.
Most innovation is in smaller products with more creative thought processes using existing technology, than in creating whole new technologies. Thes smaller products and projects can often easily be something a person or two do and create a 10-50 million dollar company.
Lots of examples exist, but they really don't get the headlines, as the pizzazz is not there for news orgs.
Google the term: Spoliation of Evidence.
I'm not going to pass judgement on this laptop secure delete issue.
But I am going to opine that the ultimate conflict of interest in the whole U.S. system is allowing anyone with a law degree to become an elected official and then write laws for his friends, and ultimately himself when he leaves office.
We at Microsoft never give up. Just wait and buy our next product.
Like which System Admin of a large government contractor is not aware of network security in this day and age, which would allow compromised computers and connections to the outside world?