Yeah, your idiot bomb squad decided they were possibly bombs because they had batteries and wires. This is just like the idiot security at NASA who check your digital cameras. If the camera turns on, it must not be a bomb. What the hell do they think, I am going to whittle the camera out of soap? I think I would use a real camera......duh...........
"The best part is that most people who upgrade continue using their computer the same way -- they don't even use the new capabilities the upgrade offered them!"
Very True. I can't count how many times I have been called to a home to setup a new PC. When transferring the clients files over, it usually turns out that the new PC doesn't have some features that they want (software mostly, and they don't know where the CD's are). They don't even totally know why they got a new PC, though I think people are the same way about vehicles. Everyone thinks they know why they buy things, but they don't see the real reasons.
Ah, but this if for information about the "private life of another subject". Is your face private? I don't think so. If it is, then you shouldn't show it to anyone. Maybe some of your photographers here in the U.S. can help me out, but isn't anything visible from a public area (without a zoom lens) allowable to be photographed? I mean, according to the posters here, I wouldn't be allowed to take pictures of cops because I didn't get their permission. Well, that just wouldn't work in a "free country" now would it?
If you don't want your face photographed, leave it at home.
So,it seems to me that we should post pictures of ourselves everwhere, with tons of incorrect names. I guess tonight i will be making several myspace sites about fake people, with my pictures.
Exactly.... which is why I laughed when everyone in my area was jumping for joy about the minimum raise increases. Now they are complaining that the cost of their goods and services are going up. Grantid, I think the raise was inevitable, and probably needed to keep up with inflation.
In a vast ocean of perverted jokes about teledildonics and Orgazmotron that, you managed to reference the Veggie Tales. I commend you. Wow, I didn't see that coming. Actually, I would like to test this new weapon on that annoying cucumber.
And don't come with that crap that it's the way things are
But isn't that true
It is a sad reality, but this is the way it must be. Maybe not dying of hunger, but poverty is inevitable. If everyone had plenty of money, then the money is simply worth less. The world will always have poverty stricken people. Sure, take 99% of the money from the rich, spread it out to the poor. What happens now? Goods and services will all of a sudden cost more, and now the formerly poor are poor again. The only difference is, now the rich are not quite as rich.
Even so, I agree, 2% holding 80% does seem like it could be balanced out. There must be a happy medium between this, and the reality that some groups will always be in poverty.
I am sure some environmental activists are against it, you can't expect any idea to get 100% support. OPEC is probably not a big fan of the project either. In either case, I am sure that many activists are supporting the project. It just sucks when articles make statements like this, giving environmental activists a bad name. It is similar to when some plant lover decides that testing drugs on algae is hurting them. Just because some people claim to be against a project, and claim to be protesting in the name of the environment, doesn't mean that all environmental activists are stupid idiots who contradict themselves, always protesting stupid things, are really smart, with short attention spans, and never eat their pudding skin.
Agreed, though I have done a few with 256, you just have to disable some fluff. 384 seems fine, though I still like to disable most of the GUI fluff and a few extra items.
Mostly the users are fine if I switch them to thunderbird and firefox instead of IE and Outlook. Also, I put a strict 3rd party firewall in place.
Some users are confident enough at that point to live without any antivirus software. The key to those users are that the PCs are for a single user (no kids), thus they know they are the one held accountable for their actions. Another option is for them to then give that PC to a young child, who isn't old enough to want the internet yet, then you don't need AV, Firewall, Windows Security Center, anything.
I am not forcing them into anything. A job like this takes 4-5 hours, with my attention for maybe only 2-3 hours of it. I typically need to find their drivers, figure out if they have the restore disks (they never do), find their product keys, hunt for and copy off the files they don't want to lose (then make a hard disk image because they surely will have forgot a few things), and I have yet to begin actually formatting and reinstalling (already 2 hours into it).
Considering I normally charge $35 per hour, which is 1/3 of most rates, how do you figure I am charging unrealistic fees? For those of you who scoff at this, I live in the middle of nowhere. The average income in the area is somewhere around $9 per hour, so charging $100 per hour simply isn't possible.
Oh, and then the machine actually AVOIDS the landfill, and goes back to the user, or a new owner. Explain how this increases emissions now? Please turn the light off in your parents basement when you come up for the dinner mom made you. Lets keep C02 emissions down.
In my experience (building and selling PCs), most users are not forced to upgrade hardware because of microsoft. Most are forced to upgrade because of their own ignorance. Their old computer becomes so clogged and bloated with spyware and other crapware, that it is slow and useless. My most recent example is a 1.6ghz system, with windows XP. It was barely usable. When asked to fix it, I said that the entire system needed to be "rebuilt".....and returned to like new condition. The price I quote for this job is $150, assuming the user will handle installing their printers, setup, etc.... This user, and all others, then just go buy a new computer because they don't want to stick $150 into "this old slow thing". I then buy their old slow thing from them for $50, turn around and sell it for $250. BTW, XP runs fine on a 500mhz system, it is the 3rd party software that is the problem, not MS.
Summary: The old computer is still being used, Microsoft didn't cause the problem, the upgrade cycle is more complex that originally obvious. Even at my employer, hardware is on something like a 6 year cycle, sometimes more. Even after that, most of the machine is recycled when the recyclers will take them.
Exactly. I need to decide if I am buying a Wii, ps3, or xbox360. Well, I like something about each one of them....if the PS3 could play my older games, that would influence my decision.
I think backwards a double-edged sword. If the makers add it, then they have a harder time selling ports of old games. If they don't, then they lose business on that.
So, does this mean nobody knows if it will play Ps1 games? My favorite all time games are ps1 games.
If the SuperNintendo and N64 and gamecube were all backwards compatable, Nintendo would still be the king.
So, does this mean that the Ps3 can't play Ps1 games? If the ps3 struggles with the pas2 sound, then that it surely wouldn't play ps1 games which ran on the sound chip inside the ps3, right?
That is an excellent point. I have altered the setting on someone elses WAP before, thinking I was on my own.
As a bicycler, i appriate it when i can find an open network to use for a few moments...which is why I also leave mine open. I assume when I find one that it is left that way on purpose. I don't buy the analogy about leaving a house unlocked.......this isn't a house, it is a wireless connection. Light waves bounce off my house, and I also let people look at those. Plenty of information is leaving my house, the wireless network is only one component of it.
Xp-pro running here on 333mhz system, perfectly fine. Many of the fancy GUI features are turned off, but only the real fluffy crap. You could also boot it without the GUI at all, but then it wouldn't be "Windows" now would it. Also, I have abiword, and a few other lightweight applications. They all work fine....you just can't expect to run software with it that wasn't designed for something this slow. If you have the ram (I have 384mb, you should be fine on a CLEAN copy of XP with a 333mhz system.)
Yup, having grandparents was probably important back several thousand years ago, now we just stick them in an old-folks-home.
Now they are a hindrance!
You just pointed out why taxing the manufacturer is what works. The tax is passed to the consumer! The consumer leans towards the cheaper product. Thus, the more efficient item would have less tax, lower price, and would sell more! WAHOO!
It is just too bad that taxes are ususally implemented improperly, in order to help the big businesses make more money. Because of this everyone screams foul when the idea of a tax is mentioned.
That explains why a lot of posters who jump against anything with the word tax...though I would expect smarter comments from this crowd. What about gas they say? Well, clearly the price of gas isn't high enough yet to have this impact....which is why the price of gas will continue rising. Too bad most of this cost is hidden to Americans, or else it would work. What does a gallon of gas cost in the U.S. after you factor in what the Govt spends to protect/produce/transport all of this oil? I know private companies do some of this, but the govt spends far more. This should be made up for with taxes at the pump, not taxes elsewhere...then maybe consumers would start to change.
I suspect the wild grasses would be out competed by the regular grass, otherwise I would have wild grasses now. There is a height limit for the grass, like 6 inches or something. I think most communities have such limits, they just usually are not an issue. Also, mowing it wouldn't really save me any time/money, nor help the environment. My only solution is to just gripe about it to everyone I know until I can afford to buy a place out of town. At least it isn't one of the communities where every house looks the same!
And why are they needed? I have had an unpatched Windows system my entire life without problems. A robust firewall setup (hardware and software), along with being a responsible user, and you shouldn't have to worry about security holes. I run no antivirus protection, and haven't in almost 10 years (I did run antivirus protection when I lived in a dorm and had people using the floppy drive constantly to check their email...it was some screwy campus email system which was plagued with boot sector viruses).
So, no antivirus, no security updates, yet no spyware and no viruses. Luck? I don't think so.....just avoid using MS products for email and internet access, and don't install random crap that you find on the internet. I have had hundreds of customers who run the latest updates, the biggest and best security software, and yet end up hiring me to remove malware from their system.
I use my system very heavily, running 2 virtual machines, playing a ton of games, and some programming. The uptime is currently at about a month. If your system is unstable, try looking at your drivers or hardware. If you have viruses or spyware, try looking at your users.
I would love to let my yard grow into wild grasses, but the damn city would fine me and send a guy over to mow it (then bill me $300 for the mowing). They would then throw it on my taxes if I refuse to pay.
I lived in Barstow California (death valley) for a couple years. It disgusted me how many people had lawns which were watered every day. Hell, some little areas in town even mandated having a lawn. These are 2 of the top reason's I couldn't live there. If we could find a way to get water easily in the desert, it would be a wonderful place to live.....but I can't live with the guilt.
Maybe the company mentioned on/. a few weeks ago (that claimed to be able to produce tons of water out of thin air) will come through with the magical cure. Until then, I will keep complaining.
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Yeah, your idiot bomb squad decided they were possibly bombs because they had batteries and wires. This is just like the idiot security at NASA who check your digital cameras. If the camera turns on, it must not be a bomb. What the hell do they think, I am going to whittle the camera out of soap? I think I would use a real camera......duh...........
Agreed. Nothing is more annoying than hearing people say "It is cold outside today, Global Warming must not be real". ARGHHHHHH
"The best part is that most people who upgrade continue using their computer the same way -- they don't even use the new capabilities the upgrade offered them!"
Very True. I can't count how many times I have been called to a home to setup a new PC. When transferring the clients files over, it usually turns out that the new PC doesn't have some features that they want (software mostly, and they don't know where the CD's are). They don't even totally know why they got a new PC, though I think people are the same way about vehicles. Everyone thinks they know why they buy things, but they don't see the real reasons.
Ah, but this if for information about the "private life of another subject". Is your face private? I don't think so. If it is, then you shouldn't show it to anyone. Maybe some of your photographers here in the U.S. can help me out, but isn't anything visible from a public area (without a zoom lens) allowable to be photographed? I mean, according to the posters here, I wouldn't be allowed to take pictures of cops because I didn't get their permission. Well, that just wouldn't work in a "free country" now would it?
If you don't want your face photographed, leave it at home.
So,it seems to me that we should post pictures of ourselves everwhere, with tons of incorrect names. I guess tonight i will be making several myspace sites about fake people, with my pictures.
Exactly.... which is why I laughed when everyone in my area was jumping for joy about the minimum raise increases. Now they are complaining that the cost of their goods and services are going up. Grantid, I think the raise was inevitable, and probably needed to keep up with inflation.
In a vast ocean of perverted jokes about teledildonics and Orgazmotron that, you managed to reference the Veggie Tales. I commend you. Wow, I didn't see that coming. Actually, I would like to test this new weapon on that annoying cucumber.
And don't come with that crap that it's the way things are
But isn't that true
It is a sad reality, but this is the way it must be. Maybe not dying of hunger, but poverty is inevitable. If everyone had plenty of money, then the money is simply worth less. The world will always have poverty stricken people. Sure, take 99% of the money from the rich, spread it out to the poor. What happens now? Goods and services will all of a sudden cost more, and now the formerly poor are poor again. The only difference is, now the rich are not quite as rich.
Even so, I agree, 2% holding 80% does seem like it could be balanced out. There must be a happy medium between this, and the reality that some groups will always be in poverty.
Yeah, I agreed with him too!
I am sure some environmental activists are against it, you can't expect any idea to get 100% support. OPEC is probably not a big fan of the project either. In either case, I am sure that many activists are supporting the project. It just sucks when articles make statements like this, giving environmental activists a bad name. It is similar to when some plant lover decides that testing drugs on algae is hurting them. Just because some people claim to be against a project, and claim to be protesting in the name of the environment, doesn't mean that all environmental activists are stupid idiots who contradict themselves, always protesting stupid things, are really smart, with short attention spans, and never eat their pudding skin.
Agreed, though I have done a few with 256, you just have to disable some fluff. 384 seems fine, though I still like to disable most of the GUI fluff and a few extra items.
Mostly the users are fine if I switch them to thunderbird and firefox instead of IE and Outlook. Also, I put a strict 3rd party firewall in place.
Some users are confident enough at that point to live without any antivirus software. The key to those users are that the PCs are for a single user (no kids), thus they know they are the one held accountable for their actions. Another option is for them to then give that PC to a young child, who isn't old enough to want the internet yet, then you don't need AV, Firewall, Windows Security Center, anything.
I am not forcing them into anything. A job like this takes 4-5 hours, with my attention for maybe only 2-3 hours of it. I typically need to find their drivers, figure out if they have the restore disks (they never do), find their product keys, hunt for and copy off the files they don't want to lose (then make a hard disk image because they surely will have forgot a few things), and I have yet to begin actually formatting and reinstalling (already 2 hours into it).
Considering I normally charge $35 per hour, which is 1/3 of most rates, how do you figure I am charging unrealistic fees? For those of you who scoff at this, I live in the middle of nowhere. The average income in the area is somewhere around $9 per hour, so charging $100 per hour simply isn't possible.
Oh, and then the machine actually AVOIDS the landfill, and goes back to the user, or a new owner. Explain how this increases emissions now? Please turn the light off in your parents basement when you come up for the dinner mom made you. Lets keep C02 emissions down.
In my experience (building and selling PCs), most users are not forced to upgrade hardware because of microsoft. Most are forced to upgrade because of their own ignorance. Their old computer becomes so clogged and bloated with spyware and other crapware, that it is slow and useless. My most recent example is a 1.6ghz system, with windows XP. It was barely usable. When asked to fix it, I said that the entire system needed to be "rebuilt".....and returned to like new condition. The price I quote for this job is $150, assuming the user will handle installing their printers, setup, etc.... This user, and all others, then just go buy a new computer because they don't want to stick $150 into "this old slow thing". I then buy their old slow thing from them for $50, turn around and sell it for $250. BTW, XP runs fine on a 500mhz system, it is the 3rd party software that is the problem, not MS.
Summary: The old computer is still being used, Microsoft didn't cause the problem, the upgrade cycle is more complex that originally obvious. Even at my employer, hardware is on something like a 6 year cycle, sometimes more. Even after that, most of the machine is recycled when the recyclers will take them.
Exactly. I need to decide if I am buying a Wii, ps3, or xbox360. Well, I like something about each one of them....if the PS3 could play my older games, that would influence my decision.
I think backwards a double-edged sword. If the makers add it, then they have a harder time selling ports of old games. If they don't, then they lose business on that.
So, does this mean nobody knows if it will play Ps1 games? My favorite all time games are ps1 games.
If the SuperNintendo and N64 and gamecube were all backwards compatable, Nintendo would still be the king.
So, does this mean that the Ps3 can't play Ps1 games? If the ps3 struggles with the pas2 sound, then that it surely wouldn't play ps1 games which ran on the sound chip inside the ps3, right?
That is an excellent point. I have altered the setting on someone elses WAP before, thinking I was on my own.
As a bicycler, i appriate it when i can find an open network to use for a few moments...which is why I also leave mine open. I assume when I find one that it is left that way on purpose. I don't buy the analogy about leaving a house unlocked.......this isn't a house, it is a wireless connection. Light waves bounce off my house, and I also let people look at those. Plenty of information is leaving my house, the wireless network is only one component of it.
Xp-pro running here on 333mhz system, perfectly fine. Many of the fancy GUI features are turned off, but only the real fluffy crap. You could also boot it without the GUI at all, but then it wouldn't be "Windows" now would it. Also, I have abiword, and a few other lightweight applications. They all work fine....you just can't expect to run software with it that wasn't designed for something this slow. If you have the ram (I have 384mb, you should be fine on a CLEAN copy of XP with a 333mhz system.)
Yup, having grandparents was probably important back several thousand years ago, now we just stick them in an old-folks-home. Now they are a hindrance!
You just pointed out why taxing the manufacturer is what works. The tax is passed to the consumer! The consumer leans towards the cheaper product. Thus, the more efficient item would have less tax, lower price, and would sell more! WAHOO!
It is just too bad that taxes are ususally implemented improperly, in order to help the big businesses make more money. Because of this everyone screams foul when the idea of a tax is mentioned.
That explains why a lot of posters who jump against anything with the word tax...though I would expect smarter comments from this crowd. What about gas they say? Well, clearly the price of gas isn't high enough yet to have this impact....which is why the price of gas will continue rising. Too bad most of this cost is hidden to Americans, or else it would work. What does a gallon of gas cost in the U.S. after you factor in what the Govt spends to protect/produce/transport all of this oil? I know private companies do some of this, but the govt spends far more. This should be made up for with taxes at the pump, not taxes elsewhere...then maybe consumers would start to change.
Mmmmmmmmm, 70MB wallpaper. Man that really slows down a machine :).
I suspect the wild grasses would be out competed by the regular grass, otherwise I would have wild grasses now. There is a height limit for the grass, like 6 inches or something. I think most communities have such limits, they just usually are not an issue. Also, mowing it wouldn't really save me any time/money, nor help the environment. My only solution is to just gripe about it to everyone I know until I can afford to buy a place out of town. At least it isn't one of the communities where every house looks the same!
And why are they needed? I have had an unpatched Windows system my entire life without problems. A robust firewall setup (hardware and software), along with being a responsible user, and you shouldn't have to worry about security holes. I run no antivirus protection, and haven't in almost 10 years (I did run antivirus protection when I lived in a dorm and had people using the floppy drive constantly to check their email...it was some screwy campus email system which was plagued with boot sector viruses).
So, no antivirus, no security updates, yet no spyware and no viruses. Luck? I don't think so.....just avoid using MS products for email and internet access, and don't install random crap that you find on the internet. I have had hundreds of customers who run the latest updates, the biggest and best security software, and yet end up hiring me to remove malware from their system.
I use my system very heavily, running 2 virtual machines, playing a ton of games, and some programming. The uptime is currently at about a month. If your system is unstable, try looking at your drivers or hardware. If you have viruses or spyware, try looking at your users.
I would love to let my yard grow into wild grasses, but the damn city would fine me and send a guy over to mow it (then bill me $300 for the mowing). They would then throw it on my taxes if I refuse to pay.
/. a few weeks ago (that claimed to be able to produce tons of water out of thin air) will come through with the magical cure. Until then, I will keep complaining.
I lived in Barstow California (death valley) for a couple years. It disgusted me how many people had lawns which were watered every day. Hell, some little areas in town even mandated having a lawn. These are 2 of the top reason's I couldn't live there. If we could find a way to get water easily in the desert, it would be a wonderful place to live.....but I can't live with the guilt.
Maybe the company mentioned on
I agree entirely.....I just wanted to see what others thought.
Also, I agree. Slashdot needs -1 (Inaccurate) or (Wrong) moderation.
I agree, weight gain and IQ have nothing to do with eachother. I have gained 10 lbs since summer.......and I can't figure out why!