Win8 is just horrible win 7 is at least what vista should of been..
That's because W7 is the service pack for Vista. Also, the phrase is, "should have been".
XP is still tolerable but gets it support removed this year
XP is far superior in numerous ways to W7. What used to take seconds is now a long, drawn out process of burrowing deep into menus or worse, having to go someplace else to make a change to where you are currently at. Add in that setting a folder view is not consistent across drives, you can't see every program installed through the butchered Start menu or if you mistype a network path through the Search box you can't immediately retype but have to wait for the timeout to occur, and W7 is a classic example of why you never let programmers design your applications.
Ditto. When looking to replace my last car (just shy of 13 years old), I had a difficult time finding one which a) had a manual tranny option (no jokes please) and b) wasn't cluttered with all manner of bells and whistles.
I did settle on one and am happy/very happy with my choice.
I can only imagine 10 - 15 years from now what monumental crap I'll have to sift through when I go to replace this one.
Couldn't the touch screen have haptic and audio feedback,
Oh joy, just what I need, someone asking me a question when I try to adjust the heat or blower.
Why is that people seem to find a need to take the longest, most circuitous route to accomplish the simplest of tasks? A button or knob isn't good enough? We have to install a complete new system, highly dependent on the quality (or lack thereof) of the software loaded which has bells and whistles asking us if we know what we're doing and do we want to do it, the very same thing Clippy did and which people howled over.
It's a fucking control system, not a server farm! People respond to tactile sensations, not a voice questioning if you know what you're doing. You know at an instant if your fingers are on the correct knob/button but not on some screen, waiting for the voice to tell you where you're at.
It's official, the KISS principle is dead when we've gone from a simple, easy-to-use knob to a million lines of code trying to accomplish the same thing.
I haven't had Flash installed on my home system in years. Never missed it.
People who make a big deal about how long they've gone without technology have bigger issues. If you can't go a day without having to text someone, get the jitters if you don't check your phone every 30 seconds or have withdrawal symptoms if you're not staring at a screen, you need to seek medical help.
Here we go again. The supposed shortage of IT workers has been repeatedly shown to be false. While the IT industry has fared much better than most after the Bush depression, to claim that there is a shortage is just plain wrong.
There are thousands of people willing to do the jobs but it is the employers who are the sticking point. They want someone under 30, with 10 or more years of experience in multiple languages, willing to work long hours for average pay.
Article after article I have read all say the same thing: employers admit they are looking for someone with exceptional skills but then go on to admit their wages are not competitive AND they are unwilling to train people.
Only in extreme situations are there shortages of qualified people and those are few and far between. The disconnect between what is available and what HR/employers say they want is the overriding reason for this supposed "shortage".
Until employers get their heads out of their asses and stop whining about how they can't find anyone when they get 200+ resumes for a posting, they can go pound sand.
We would probably get more done as a country if we had more time off.
Funny you should mention this. Just this morning on CNBC there was a guy who talked about this very subject. His main point was that people should get roughly 10 hours of sleep each night, not the recommended 8 and certainly more than whatever the national average is.
He also mentioned that people should take naps in the afternoon to recharge as well as take more vacations as they are more productive afterwards.
Finally, the blurb across the bottom of the screen said according his book, most people work in 90 minutes bursts of creativity then have to recharge for the next round.
Overall, working more hours does not produce more work and people who think they can be more productive by working more and sleeping less are actually doing the opposite.
Having said all that, do I want Chinese New Year to be a holiday? No. Holidays should be reserved for unique events, such as our Declaration of Independence, not some general celebration such as New Years (Chinese or not).
Yeah, so? That's the point of a demo. It gives you a taste of what the game is like and allows you to make a decision whether to by the game or not.
Oh wait, I see. You wanted to have the game without paying for it. Apparently when a company offers you a free sample, that's not good enough. You want a free game.
Actually, he cut it short because it WAS working well
False. This is the Wired article wherein his assistant, Marsha Defillipo states:
By part four, only 46 percent of the people who downloaded the book paid for it, DeFillipo said.
As I always say when these stories come up, and routinely get modded down, people are lazy and cheap. If they can get something for nothing, they will, regardless if it hurts the person producing the work. They feel they are entitled to take someone else's work without compensation and will use every excuse and twist of language to justify their actions.
Then I guess video games are a waste of time and money as there is a hell of a lot of art in them.
So would be any pictures in any book as they're art.
Then of course there are the thousands of museums housing pieces of art from over the centuries from such wastes of time as Michelangelo, Cezanne and Gauguin.
Yeah, art is such a waste. I guess four bare walls painted grey is what the world should have instead.
If you go to www.randi.org and do a search for acupuncture, you will find that Randi's thoughts on acupuncture and chi are the same as for faith healing, dowsing, psychics and all other supposed paranormal matters: they're bunk. There is no evidence to show acupuncture has any health benefit beyond the placebo effect.
Here, have a look at the numerous articles on the site.
As to tai chi and chi kung, since those are exercises, they would obviously have some health benefits and would not be considered in the realm of paranormal or woo.
Define waste of money. What you might consider a waste, others might consider art. As in this case.
You might say spending millions every year to feed hungry people in Africa is a worthwhile endeavor while others say it's a waste because we've been doing it for decades and nothing ever changes. Why don't we use that money to move them where the food is? (thx Sam Kinison).
Unless you're saying people should be told what to do with their money rather than spend it as they wish simply because you think how they're spending it is a waste.
"One time at my lab, a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus went missing. That day we made a pinky swear never to admit we crossed Ebola with the common cold."
"Why the hell would you cross Ebola with the common cold?"
"We never did. That would be a terrible, terrible thing."
before you are going to have to move off Windows XP.
Bullshit. No one has to move off XP. They can continue to run it as long as they want so long as they have the hardware to do so. I have my own XP system and I will run that as long as I am able to. There are people still running 2000 and 98 without issues.
One can always do other tricks to lock down their system regardless of whether they get security updates or not.
The space program was dramatically accelerated by accepting German immigrants.
Try again. We didn't accept them, we captured them. We got Von Braun and the other Nazis and had them work for us. Our rockets kept exploding but it was the Nazis, with their usual efficiency, who got us on the right track and took us to the moon.
smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
Considering in China it's not "Buyer beware" but rather, "If you got taken, it's your own fault", that does appear to insinuate that at least in China, deceitfulness is part of the culture.
As to the criminal personality, almost without exception when the evil Asian female is portrayed, she has long hair. Not that I mind Asian women with long hair (gives you something to hold on to), but it's disconcerting every time I see an Asian female with long hair as my first thought is usually, "How will she try to kill me if I ask her out?"
Slightly off base from your normal work, how often is dinosaur skin, or its impression, found when fossils are located and has any type of color ever been found associated with the skin?
It's not just activist communities. Numerous studies have shown that the more creative someone is, the higher the prevalence of mental disorders such as depression.
Writers such as Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick and others, had a history of depression. Look at Poe while you're at it.
For whatever reason, creativity and mental disorders go hand in hand.
or put the lights into 4-way blinking red mode.... buy a gun and shoot people as they drive by.
Those two events are not mutually exclusive. Cause the lights to go 4-way red, have people waiting at intersection and start teeing off. Since everyone has come to a halt, people will try to race away but can't because everyone else is trying to race away.
How dare those evil corporations make money off of something they own! That's a travesty and injustice because I demand they give me what I want for nothing or else I'll go find a way to get it anyway so I don't have to pay for it.
"We don't want them to go to torrent sites. Why not give them a legal route?"
Because no matter how low the cost, the number of people who will not pay for the product by using torrents will far exceed the number of people who will pay for the product simply because they can. They're lazy and cheap, expecting everyone else to do the work but not get paid for their effort.
Guaranteed, within 15 minutes of the first download you will be able to get this stuff for free, thus legitimizing the comments from producers the world over about pirates hurting their business and the need for DRM.
If it isn't going to turn into big piles of $$ for investors by this afternoon
Considering at one point the stock was down over $1 from yesterday's price (currently down.8575 cents), it doesn't look as this afternoon will be good for investors if they're day trading.
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Win8 is just horrible win 7 is at least what vista should of been ..
That's because W7 is the service pack for Vista. Also, the phrase is, "should have been".
XP is still tolerable but gets it support removed this year
XP is far superior in numerous ways to W7. What used to take seconds is now a long, drawn out process of burrowing deep into menus or worse, having to go someplace else to make a change to where you are currently at. Add in that setting a folder view is not consistent across drives, you can't see every program installed through the butchered Start menu or if you mistype a network path through the Search box you can't immediately retype but have to wait for the timeout to occur, and W7 is a classic example of why you never let programmers design your applications.
Ditto. When looking to replace my last car (just shy of 13 years old), I had a difficult time finding one which a) had a manual tranny option (no jokes please) and b) wasn't cluttered with all manner of bells and whistles.
I did settle on one and am happy/very happy with my choice.
I can only imagine 10 - 15 years from now what monumental crap I'll have to sift through when I go to replace this one.
Couldn't the touch screen have haptic and audio feedback,
Oh joy, just what I need, someone asking me a question when I try to adjust the heat or blower.
Why is that people seem to find a need to take the longest, most circuitous route to accomplish the simplest of tasks? A button or knob isn't good enough? We have to install a complete new system, highly dependent on the quality (or lack thereof) of the software loaded which has bells and whistles asking us if we know what we're doing and do we want to do it, the very same thing Clippy did and which people howled over.
It's a fucking control system, not a server farm! People respond to tactile sensations, not a voice questioning if you know what you're doing. You know at an instant if your fingers are on the correct knob/button but not on some screen, waiting for the voice to tell you where you're at.
It's official, the KISS principle is dead when we've gone from a simple, easy-to-use knob to a million lines of code trying to accomplish the same thing.
paying with your credit card,
Credit card? Cash baby! You get the benefit of a lower cost per gallon and not able to be tracked where you've been.
and just out walk the zombies.
You never saw Zombieland, did you? You couldn't out walk those zombies. You had to out run them.
It's a funny take on the whole zombie genre with Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone along with an appearance by Bill Murray.
I haven't had Flash installed on my home system in years. Never missed it.
People who make a big deal about how long they've gone without technology have bigger issues. If you can't go a day without having to text someone, get the jitters if you don't check your phone every 30 seconds or have withdrawal symptoms if you're not staring at a screen, you need to seek medical help.
Here we go again. The supposed shortage of IT workers has been repeatedly shown to be false. While the IT industry has fared much better than most after the Bush depression, to claim that there is a shortage is just plain wrong.
There are thousands of people willing to do the jobs but it is the employers who are the sticking point. They want someone under 30, with 10 or more years of experience in multiple languages, willing to work long hours for average pay.
Article after article I have read all say the same thing: employers admit they are looking for someone with exceptional skills but then go on to admit their wages are not competitive AND they are unwilling to train people.
Only in extreme situations are there shortages of qualified people and those are few and far between. The disconnect between what is available and what HR/employers say they want is the overriding reason for this supposed "shortage".
Until employers get their heads out of their asses and stop whining about how they can't find anyone when they get 200+ resumes for a posting, they can go pound sand.
We would probably get more done as a country if we had more time off.
Funny you should mention this. Just this morning on CNBC there was a guy who talked about this very subject. His main point was that people should get roughly 10 hours of sleep each night, not the recommended 8 and certainly more than whatever the national average is.
He also mentioned that people should take naps in the afternoon to recharge as well as take more vacations as they are more productive afterwards.
Finally, the blurb across the bottom of the screen said according his book, most people work in 90 minutes bursts of creativity then have to recharge for the next round.
Overall, working more hours does not produce more work and people who think they can be more productive by working more and sleeping less are actually doing the opposite.
This is the link to the interview from this morning and this is a link to a related story from last year saying the same thing.
Having said all that, do I want Chinese New Year to be a holiday? No. Holidays should be reserved for unique events, such as our Declaration of Independence, not some general celebration such as New Years (Chinese or not).
Demos only allow you play up to a certain point.
Yeah, so? That's the point of a demo. It gives you a taste of what the game is like and allows you to make a decision whether to by the game or not.
Oh wait, I see. You wanted to have the game without paying for it. Apparently when a company offers you a free sample, that's not good enough. You want a free game.
Series 2, with the Comet Empire, had Space Marines.
Actually, he cut it short because it WAS working well
False. This is the Wired article wherein his assistant, Marsha Defillipo states:
By part four, only 46 percent of the people who downloaded the book paid for it, DeFillipo said.
As I always say when these stories come up, and routinely get modded down, people are lazy and cheap. If they can get something for nothing, they will, regardless if it hurts the person producing the work. They feel they are entitled to take someone else's work without compensation and will use every excuse and twist of language to justify their actions.
Follow the money trail. Once you know what company is getting the money, find out who owns the company.
Once you find out who owns the company, you shoot them.
Problem solved.
Then I guess video games are a waste of time and money as there is a hell of a lot of art in them.
So would be any pictures in any book as they're art.
Then of course there are the thousands of museums housing pieces of art from over the centuries from such wastes of time as Michelangelo, Cezanne and Gauguin.
Yeah, art is such a waste. I guess four bare walls painted grey is what the world should have instead.
If you go to www.randi.org and do a search for acupuncture, you will find that Randi's thoughts on acupuncture and chi are the same as for faith healing, dowsing, psychics and all other supposed paranormal matters: they're bunk. There is no evidence to show acupuncture has any health benefit beyond the placebo effect.
Here, have a look at the numerous articles on the site.
As to tai chi and chi kung, since those are exercises, they would obviously have some health benefits and would not be considered in the realm of paranormal or woo.
Define waste of money. What you might consider a waste, others might consider art. As in this case.
You might say spending millions every year to feed hungry people in Africa is a worthwhile endeavor while others say it's a waste because we've been doing it for decades and nothing ever changes. Why don't we use that money to move them where the food is? (thx Sam Kinison).
Unless you're saying people should be told what to do with their money rather than spend it as they wish simply because you think how they're spending it is a waste.
"One time at my lab, a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus went missing. That day we made a pinky swear never to admit we crossed Ebola with the common cold."
"Why the hell would you cross Ebola with the common cold?"
"We never did. That would be a terrible, terrible thing."
before you are going to have to move off Windows XP.
Bullshit. No one has to move off XP. They can continue to run it as long as they want so long as they have the hardware to do so. I have my own XP system and I will run that as long as I am able to. There are people still running 2000 and 98 without issues.
One can always do other tricks to lock down their system regardless of whether they get security updates or not.
The space program was dramatically accelerated by accepting German immigrants.
Try again. We didn't accept them, we captured them. We got Von Braun and the other Nazis and had them work for us. Our rockets kept exploding but it was the Nazis, with their usual efficiency, who got us on the right track and took us to the moon.
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smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
Considering in China it's not "Buyer beware" but rather, "If you got taken, it's your own fault", that does appear to insinuate that at least in China, deceitfulness is part of the culture.
As to the criminal personality, almost without exception when the evil Asian female is portrayed, she has long hair. Not that I mind Asian women with long hair (gives you something to hold on to), but it's disconcerting every time I see an Asian female with long hair as my first thought is usually, "How will she try to kill me if I ask her out?"
Slightly off base from your normal work, how often is dinosaur skin, or its impression, found when fossils are located and has any type of color ever been found associated with the skin?
It's not just activist communities. Numerous studies have shown that the more creative someone is, the higher the prevalence of mental disorders such as depression.
Writers such as Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick and others, had a history of depression. Look at Poe while you're at it.
For whatever reason, creativity and mental disorders go hand in hand.
or put the lights into 4-way blinking red mode. ... buy a gun and shoot people as they drive by.
Those two events are not mutually exclusive. Cause the lights to go 4-way red, have people waiting at intersection and start teeing off. Since everyone has come to a halt, people will try to race away but can't because everyone else is trying to race away.
Fish in a barrel and all that.
Thank you for proving my point.
How dare those evil corporations make money off of something they own! That's a travesty and injustice because I demand they give me what I want for nothing or else I'll go find a way to get it anyway so I don't have to pay for it.
"We don't want them to go to torrent sites. Why not give them a legal route?"
Because no matter how low the cost, the number of people who will not pay for the product by using torrents will far exceed the number of people who will pay for the product simply because they can. They're lazy and cheap, expecting everyone else to do the work but not get paid for their effort.
Guaranteed, within 15 minutes of the first download you will be able to get this stuff for free, thus legitimizing the comments from producers the world over about pirates hurting their business and the need for DRM.
If it isn't going to turn into big piles of $$ for investors by this afternoon
.8575 cents), it doesn't look as this afternoon will be good for investors if they're day trading.
Considering at one point the stock was down over $1 from yesterday's price (currently down