ou seem to prefer shitty "open" formats rather than good "closed" formats. Like, everyone is using 7z now. What a piece of shit. The compression rate is pretty good, but you need the whole file. You can't partially extract a file, what the hell? I will keep using RAR.
What? I have no idea what you're commenting on here... What good is a partially extracted file - isn't that just a broken file? I certainly always want the whole file.
Plus, I expect people find 7z or whatever "good enough" vs the cost for WinRAR.
Interestingly enough, when Facebook started to get big, I was a year or two out of college, so couldn't join. I might well have joined then, but once it went public all the privacy problems were out, and so I to this day don't have a facebook page.
I find grammar nazi's annoying, as I suspect you do from your sig. However, many people who are not pendants can indeed care about the incorrect use of current language. People who enjoy a clever turn of phrase, subtle wordplay or even the vain pursuit of some level of sophistication in language use care about such abominations as "for all intensive purposes".
Is this a crisis at a critical level for the survival of society? Of course not. That said; language, especially written, is increasingly more important in the age of the Internet. In such written communication, much of the "side band" communication of body language, tonality of the words and perhaps a common environment to refer to are missing. We see it all the time with the suggestions of sarcasm tags.
"For all intents and purposes" has an easily parse-able meaning in text - it's a somewhat witty turn of phrase that means any. "For all intensive purposes" often is a mangled version of the former, but in fact implies to those with passable vocabulary that this comment is about extreme or unusually pressing uses, demarcated from every day events by the meaning of intensive.
We've lost to misunderstanding another place we could have fun with language, where subtlety could enhance textual communication and art.
Should we care "a lot"? No. But is it entirely pedantic to care a little?
Shouldn't this be a simple contractual dispute between Netflix and the customer, rather than a crime? I mean, should sharing a gym membership be a *crime*? Etc... I could see Netflix not wanting to do business with you again. I just don't see where this ought to be prosecuted by the government.
I have to say I'm pretty impressed by Comodo Killswitch, or if you don't want the AV stuff and/or hate Comodo, the Open Source tool that it's based on ProcessHacker.
So don't run it on your laptop? Why don't you have a Dev VM host that can run 8GB VMs for you to remote in to? Or you might make the case for a workstation replacement laptop like Lenovo's W520 which you *can* put 16GB of RAM in.
What distro of Linux are you using? Cause RHEL takes forever to cold boot or reboot compared to Windows 7. Even a heavily loaded Win7 system with lots of startup tasks seems to take about the same amount of time to boot for me.
Server 2008R2 I haven't used outside of virtualized environments, so the quick boot there I expect is more due to KVM being efficient than the OS. (I.e. Win7 and XP also reboot quickly)
So does decent cloning software. I've used Acronis and O&O successfully with their various hardware independent restore. And Windows 7 with the right pushes does most of that itself anyway.
Some companies have heard this - Lenovo has all think brand devices supported out of IBMs Atlanta Georgia center. Dell has extra cost options to get support from Canada / US...
Buying from local stores often gets you support from that store or local subcontracted techs on site - a la Sears for things like freezers or snow blowers etc.
I explicitly bought an Oreck vaccuum because they were made in the USA (2 years ago anyway) and have multiple local stores that repair them on-site. Paid much more than I may have at Wal-Mart, but the thing is guaranteed for 21 years (or I suppose until Oreck goes out of business).
There are certainly ways to get value added service, but generally end users don't want to pay the premium, or don't realize what the premium is actually buying - and the mainstream Best Buy's or Wal-Marts certainly aren't educating them.
The problem I have with Windows is mostly around wanting to automate things. In Linux, the way I automate something is generally the way I *do* something. At the simplest level, pretty much all OS functions can be done via a simple bash script.
In Windows, there's a lot I can't do at the command line even if I tried, and the command line, even powershell, certainly isn't the way I'm taught to do it via MS docs or whatever. Many apps don't even have command line interfaces. So even simple things like a scripted install can be near impossible. I can try AutoIt, but scripting GUIs seems to be very unreliable. I can learn yet another tool to try and make a.mst if the product supports that. Some have config tools, but many don't. Some that are msi's launch other msi's for the install, but don't pass the parameters like/qn to them, so you can't make a silent install. Finally I could use snapshot based packagers, but somehow they still tend to miss stuff and often don't work.
A little off topic, but how does something that grabs all changes on disk, registry and drivers still miss "something" so the install doesn't work? Where in the ether are these installers hiding critical settings or code?
+1 from me. It sounds like Outlook is a lot like Firefox - if you don't use plugins, there are probably better programs out there for it. At least for primarily e-mail use Thunderbird seems much better in my use. If only OWA wasn't so clunky for calendaring...
I suppose it depends, but here at Cornell, they recently switched from some ancient Oracle Calendar plus Thunderbird e-mail with a solaris mail backend to Exchange. Let's just say that it's been as close to an unmitigated disaster as I can imagine.
I don't know if it's Exchange, the implementation or what, but Calendaring works worse, most people still can't figure out that you can't open someone's calendar but have to use scheduling assistant. Outlook is far worse from a speed, setup, maintenance, and usability perspective that Thunderbird was.
Most people I know curse Outlook for being slow, randomly telling us the admin says we have to re-start it, hanging trying to open calendars, having a worse UI for searching the LDAP/GAL whatever, needing special tools to migrate to a new computer vs copying one folder, needing users to type in the password twice or more to re-configure it on a new computer, and oh - being painfully slow on any PC I've tried, including core i5's with lots of RAM...
I suppose it probably was a bad fit as we only wanted e-mail and a shared calendar hosted internally. It sounds like if you have sharepoint or plugins or something - Outlook is better in some way. Of course it doesn't address the lack of Linux support or the changing and confusing Mac support.
Of course, it could be that we weren't always an Outlook / Exchange shop so we "just don't get it", but I've had responses from meh to "please make it go away so I can go back to something that at least pretends to work". I haven't heard anything positive. (No, I take that back. One user thought Outlook looked prettier than Thunderbird).
Sure, but this is the WWW. Isn't the entire point of HTML that it will re-size to fit whatever device you happen to be using at the time? At least if it's done right.
I don't know, I always saw it like paying someone $20 to rotate my tires. You know what you're doing, you have the tools, and you warranty the work. If you're not a tinkerer or a computer person, why would you want to take a crash course on electronics safety and a maintenance manual to install RAM?
Granted, installing RAM isn't hard, but in many cases it's not obvious how to do it either (I'm thinking Laptops especially).
The issue I see though is that for many things, like say a flashlight or a shovel or an ipod - why do you care what the warehouse looks like? What customer service do you need beyond someone taking it back if it breaks in the first 30 days - which Amazon for instance does well. Shipping is the only place that can kill you for large items, but heck, buy a washing machine - most people need it delivered and installed anyway and it costs extra at most chains for that, so what's the difference?
I expect we might see some pay for entry showrooms show up to let people see appliances etc before ordering, but that probably fills the need.
I think that it's also a falsehood that the internet only lets you compare prices. I bet lots of people are also comparing the reviews on Amazon or epinions etc...
Well, except that prices are quite high compared to most big box stores, Rite Aid is doing this with their card.
For every $125 spent a one-time, 10% off shopping pass For $500 in a year 10% off all non-prescription purchases every day and free health screenings For $1,000 in a year 20% off all non-prescription points purchases every day
It's just that their basic prices make this not attractive when walking into Wal-Mart or even CVS for many products nets you an instant 40%-50% their price.
This was the same problem in my opinion with Circuit City before they went bankrupt and killed off the commissions on their sales persons. Why, those salespeople who were getting high commission checks must have been selling LOTs of stuff, what would happen if every sales person did that . . . wait a second... lol.
Well, I suppose you might care what the best tool for a job is that's available. And limiting your view to just American (stuff?? - not sure how to clarify this well) means you're missing out on a lot. It's like assuming the best a computer can get for ANYTHING is Windows 7 because that's what "most" people use, and the best browser is IE8 (because it's better than the other Microsoft ones). You're really missing a lot if you limit your field of info that way. Also, statistically speaking, I think (not being a statistician and open to being educated if I'm wrong) the larger sample size will tend to give more significant results an be more likely to be "correct". "Correct" in that if 1,000 of 10,000 people find something good but 20,000 of 100,000 people who are a superset of the first sample find something bad, it's more likely you'll also find that something to be bad.
I don't know if it's smart to base most of my car ratings on Consumer Reports and Top Gear, but hey, they do look at cars from around the world. And the only decent Corvette they reviewed (Top Gear) was the $100K one. For that price, I think you have to consider the Nissan GTR at the very least. If not a low-range Porsche 911 or mid Aston Martin, BMW, etc...
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ou seem to prefer shitty "open" formats rather than good "closed" formats. Like, everyone is using 7z now. What a piece of shit. The compression rate is pretty good, but you need the whole file. You can't partially extract a file, what the hell? I will keep using RAR.
What? I have no idea what you're commenting on here... What good is a partially extracted file - isn't that just a broken file? I certainly always want the whole file.
Plus, I expect people find 7z or whatever "good enough" vs the cost for WinRAR.
Ehh, I've been telling people Facebook is evil for a few years now, since a conference presentation really drove that home for me.
I can't think of anyone who agreed with me, or who cared about the privacy aspects (who had not already come to the same conclusion on their own).
Interestingly enough, when Facebook started to get big, I was a year or two out of college, so couldn't join. I might well have joined then, but once it went public all the privacy problems were out, and so I to this day don't have a facebook page.
I find grammar nazi's annoying, as I suspect you do from your sig. However, many people who are not pendants can indeed care about the incorrect use of current language. People who enjoy a clever turn of phrase, subtle wordplay or even the vain pursuit of some level of sophistication in language use care about such abominations as "for all intensive purposes".
Is this a crisis at a critical level for the survival of society? Of course not. That said; language, especially written, is increasingly more important in the age of the Internet. In such written communication, much of the "side band" communication of body language, tonality of the words and perhaps a common environment to refer to are missing. We see it all the time with the suggestions of sarcasm tags.
"For all intents and purposes" has an easily parse-able meaning in text - it's a somewhat witty turn of phrase that means any. "For all intensive purposes" often is a mangled version of the former, but in fact implies to those with passable vocabulary that this comment is about extreme or unusually pressing uses, demarcated from every day events by the meaning of intensive.
We've lost to misunderstanding another place we could have fun with language, where subtlety could enhance textual communication and art.
Should we care "a lot"? No. But is it entirely pedantic to care a little?
Or Lenovo workstations, though if you don't get Windows it's blank or FreeDOS I think. It does save you $150 off the price though...
Shouldn't this be a simple contractual dispute between Netflix and the customer, rather than a crime? I mean, should sharing a gym membership be a *crime*? Etc... I could see Netflix not wanting to do business with you again. I just don't see where this ought to be prosecuted by the government.
Just back up the profile with Transwiz from ForensIT. Free and paid versions.
http://www.forensit.com/move-computer.html
Seems to work well, even from XP to Win 7.
I have to say I'm pretty impressed by Comodo Killswitch, or if you don't want the AV stuff and/or hate Comodo, the Open Source tool that it's based on ProcessHacker.
So don't run it on your laptop? Why don't you have a Dev VM host that can run 8GB VMs for you to remote in to? Or you might make the case for a workstation replacement laptop like Lenovo's W520 which you *can* put 16GB of RAM in.
What distro of Linux are you using? Cause RHEL takes forever to cold boot or reboot compared to Windows 7. Even a heavily loaded Win7 system with lots of startup tasks seems to take about the same amount of time to boot for me.
Server 2008R2 I haven't used outside of virtualized environments, so the quick boot there I expect is more due to KVM being efficient than the OS. (I.e. Win7 and XP also reboot quickly)
It's probably the RAM. We regularly put in 8 - 12 GB in our CAD workstations.
So does decent cloning software. I've used Acronis and O&O successfully with their various hardware independent restore. And Windows 7 with the right pushes does most of that itself anyway.
Some companies have heard this - Lenovo has all think brand devices supported out of IBMs Atlanta Georgia center. Dell has extra cost options to get support from Canada / US...
Buying from local stores often gets you support from that store or local subcontracted techs on site - a la Sears for things like freezers or snow blowers etc.
I explicitly bought an Oreck vaccuum because they were made in the USA (2 years ago anyway) and have multiple local stores that repair them on-site. Paid much more than I may have at Wal-Mart, but the thing is guaranteed for 21 years (or I suppose until Oreck goes out of business).
There are certainly ways to get value added service, but generally end users don't want to pay the premium, or don't realize what the premium is actually buying - and the mainstream Best Buy's or Wal-Marts certainly aren't educating them.
The problem I have with Windows is mostly around wanting to automate things. In Linux, the way I automate something is generally the way I *do* something. At the simplest level, pretty much all OS functions can be done via a simple bash script.
In Windows, there's a lot I can't do at the command line even if I tried, and the command line, even powershell, certainly isn't the way I'm taught to do it via MS docs or whatever. Many apps don't even have command line interfaces. So even simple things like a scripted install can be near impossible. I can try AutoIt, but scripting GUIs seems to be very unreliable. I can learn yet another tool to try and make a .mst if the product supports that. Some have config tools, but many don't. Some that are msi's launch other msi's for the install, but don't pass the parameters like /qn to them, so you can't make a silent install. Finally I could use snapshot based packagers, but somehow they still tend to miss stuff and often don't work.
A little off topic, but how does something that grabs all changes on disk, registry and drivers still miss "something" so the install doesn't work? Where in the ether are these installers hiding critical settings or code?
I agree with most of this, but I would like to comment:
when we are torturing and doing evil nasty shit just like the bad guys
I think we need to realize that we are the bad guys for most of the world. I don't think there are any "good guys" out there running any country.
Isn't this basically a Widget, that flopped hard for Opera, Yahoo et al?
I don't see why I would want a web page outside of my browser really.
+1 from me. It sounds like Outlook is a lot like Firefox - if you don't use plugins, there are probably better programs out there for it. At least for primarily e-mail use Thunderbird seems much better in my use. If only OWA wasn't so clunky for calendaring...
I suppose it depends, but here at Cornell, they recently switched from some ancient Oracle Calendar plus Thunderbird e-mail with a solaris mail backend to Exchange. Let's just say that it's been as close to an unmitigated disaster as I can imagine.
I don't know if it's Exchange, the implementation or what, but Calendaring works worse, most people still can't figure out that you can't open someone's calendar but have to use scheduling assistant. Outlook is far worse from a speed, setup, maintenance, and usability perspective that Thunderbird was.
Most people I know curse Outlook for being slow, randomly telling us the admin says we have to re-start it, hanging trying to open calendars, having a worse UI for searching the LDAP/GAL whatever, needing special tools to migrate to a new computer vs copying one folder, needing users to type in the password twice or more to re-configure it on a new computer, and oh - being painfully slow on any PC I've tried, including core i5's with lots of RAM...
I suppose it probably was a bad fit as we only wanted e-mail and a shared calendar hosted internally. It sounds like if you have sharepoint or plugins or something - Outlook is better in some way. Of course it doesn't address the lack of Linux support or the changing and confusing Mac support.
Of course, it could be that we weren't always an Outlook / Exchange shop so we "just don't get it", but I've had responses from meh to "please make it go away so I can go back to something that at least pretends to work". I haven't heard anything positive. (No, I take that back. One user thought Outlook looked prettier than Thunderbird).
Sure, but this is the WWW. Isn't the entire point of HTML that it will re-size to fit whatever device you happen to be using at the time? At least if it's done right.
I don't know, I always saw it like paying someone $20 to rotate my tires. You know what you're doing, you have the tools, and you warranty the work. If you're not a tinkerer or a computer person, why would you want to take a crash course on electronics safety and a maintenance manual to install RAM?
Granted, installing RAM isn't hard, but in many cases it's not obvious how to do it either (I'm thinking Laptops especially).
The issue I see though is that for many things, like say a flashlight or a shovel or an ipod - why do you care what the warehouse looks like? What customer service do you need beyond someone taking it back if it breaks in the first 30 days - which Amazon for instance does well. Shipping is the only place that can kill you for large items, but heck, buy a washing machine - most people need it delivered and installed anyway and it costs extra at most chains for that, so what's the difference?
I expect we might see some pay for entry showrooms show up to let people see appliances etc before ordering, but that probably fills the need.
I think that it's also a falsehood that the internet only lets you compare prices. I bet lots of people are also comparing the reviews on Amazon or epinions etc...
Well, except that prices are quite high compared to most big box stores, Rite Aid is doing this with their card.
For every $125 spent a one-time, 10% off shopping pass
For $500 in a year 10% off all non-prescription purchases every day and free health screenings
For $1,000 in a year 20% off all non-prescription points purchases every day
It's just that their basic prices make this not attractive when walking into Wal-Mart or even CVS for many products nets you an instant 40%-50% their price.
This was the same problem in my opinion with Circuit City before they went bankrupt and killed off the commissions on their sales persons. Why, those salespeople who were getting high commission checks must have been selling LOTs of stuff, what would happen if every sales person did that . . . wait a second... lol.
Less money, maybe not, but within spitting distance is the Nissan GTR:
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Nissan_GT-R/ - $79,796
The Z06 is $70,502 so not THAT much cheaper especially when compared with the performance of the GTR.
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Chevrolet_Corvette-Z06/
The Corvette ZR1 which is the one close in performance to the GTR is $101,106
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Chevrolet_Corvette-ZR1/
For the basic Corvette at $46,927
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Chevrolet_Corvette/Performance/
You may want to compare the Subaru Impreza WRX at $24,316
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Subaru_Impreza-WRX/
Heck, if you find the straight WRX to not be in the league for the base corvette, you could upgrade to the STI version which is ~ $33,995.
Well, I suppose you might care what the best tool for a job is that's available. And limiting your view to just American (stuff?? - not sure how to clarify this well) means you're missing out on a lot. It's like assuming the best a computer can get for ANYTHING is Windows 7 because that's what "most" people use, and the best browser is IE8 (because it's better than the other Microsoft ones). You're really missing a lot if you limit your field of info that way. Also, statistically speaking, I think (not being a statistician and open to being educated if I'm wrong) the larger sample size will tend to give more significant results an be more likely to be "correct". "Correct" in that if 1,000 of 10,000 people find something good but 20,000 of 100,000 people who are a superset of the first sample find something bad, it's more likely you'll also find that something to be bad.
I don't know if it's smart to base most of my car ratings on Consumer Reports and Top Gear, but hey, they do look at cars from around the world. And the only decent Corvette they reviewed (Top Gear) was the $100K one. For that price, I think you have to consider the Nissan GTR at the very least. If not a low-range Porsche 911 or mid Aston Martin, BMW, etc...