I know you are being funny, but where the hell did you learn your basic math? Notice I said windows 7 would be similar to Vista not that the drop would be similar...geesh.
I have wanted someone to translate a torrent network into a storage cloud for quite some time. I am a network administrator and I have an immense amount of storage wasted by PCs and servers. 80GB local hard drive only using 5GB, translate that to distributed storage across hundreds of nodes...I could have a large storage cloud consisting of terabytes on my network if some creative programmer would create a storage cloud like this closed to just my network.
LOL:) no it was probably like 13 songs...1 album and a couple others before my brain said, what the hell are you doing you are just gonna have to strip out the DRM in a few minutes anyway...and I now purchase my DRM free CDs used from amazon...MUCH cheaper.
I consider myself an avid music listener. I have purchased all of 10 songs from iTunes and that was just to figure it out...I never have had trouble finding any artist I wanted... screw iTunes, While I like Apple, iTunes is a prime example of a crappy product supported by another great product that has a shelflife coming to an end.
You mean other than the ones I listed? Here are some good ones (seriously) that will effect your bottom line.(I can only speak for vista at this time)
Imaging. Vista is built around a solid sysprep process, it is far more streamlined than before and although I have never done it, you can build your image into a DVD install to be deployed to remote areas.
Disk Management. No more partition magic needed, you can resize OS partitions at will so you dont need to rebuild a machine.
Group Policy Preferences. No more fancy VB scripts, you can map printers, and drives based off group policy without having to push out a large software update across your LAN.
Built in Shadow Copy. For your roaming users who save things on their desktop. Reduces the amount of lost time for your users.
Security. I already mentioned this one. But it is one of the intangibles.
Window Management. XP window management is Messed up, especially for laptop users who dock and undock constantly.
Those are just some of my favorites. It it reason to spend $$$ to upgrade retail...depends on your situation. Is it reason enough to get it with a new PC, yes unless you have application restraints.
Yes the article is referring to cost, however the cost isnt as big as the article mentions.
Vista does have major bugs, but so does XP. XP has massive ones we have just grown accustomed to. Anyone who has tried to push GP to an xp machine, or run any kind of synchronization, or tried to secure an XP box knows this. These are corporate failures that those of us who actually work in corporate environments with thousands of machines are aware of.
in response:
a) last I checked XP REQUIRES tinkering to work properly, in fact several suites of software came out because of this...tweakUI? Vista allows more centralized granular control....ever heard of group policy preferences (yes you can install the update on an XP box but again something more to tweak on XP).
b) This is where I KNOW that you either have no experience in a corporate LAN or are very bad at it. Interfaces can be tweaked to look like whatever the hell you want them to. My interface looks like XP for the most part but I like the feel of some of the vista features....we ran into the same issue going from 2000 to XP and from 98 to 2000. and again, UAC can be turned off but isnt bad after sp1. Memory includes disk management, memory management (you obv are aware of the large problems with these), yes these situations matter when your techs need to dynamically increase disk space, or you have a user who runs autocad or an adobe suite, or for that matter listens to internet radio...or you are afraid of hackers.
Yes the biggest problem is with the user when it comes to security, but some of us corporations have to be PCI compliant or prove a secure environment...my budget for this is bigger per year than most IT budgets.
Now I am not saying go out and grab the latest and greatest ASAP, but I just hate the XP bigotry that is out there with everyone thinking it is the best thing since sliced bread. EVERY SINGLE POINT you made is regarding the first year release propaganda, every last one. Get over it, this must be your first transition, for those of us who did the NT 4.0 98 2000 XP transitions it is old news. Vista may not be adopted but I have even money that says that when this next batch of PCs comes through people will start willingly adopting the OEM licenses. Most of us corporations never upgrade an OS retail..that is a consumer issue.
Not to flame you but if your 'company' would write proper code this wouldnt be an issue. Holding on to old Browsers and old OSs' is a sure way to break your systems, it sure as hell isnt secure. However, having done my fair share of consulting there are many environments that run shoddy code and you just have to deal with it. But when it is your company's Dev's who are lazy programmers that tell you that IE7, 8 or FF3 cannot render their code properly so the best bet is not to upgrade...dude, get some better programmers before you start hemmoraging data.
MS...or most any dev company for that matter...will NEVER guarantee money back for losses on your crappy implementations. Imagine you have a hammer that works great for hammering nails, then some jackass comes in and says he tried hammering a screwdriver into an I-Beam and the hammer broke the screw and got all messed up....should YOU reimburse them? I think not...
You mean other than the massive secuity upgrade? Last time I checked an authenticated scan on a fully pached XP box came up with 160 vulnerabilities, while Vista came up with 70. Windows 7 I havent scanned yet but I imagine it will be similar. Then you have such things as a plethora of tools for image management (disk image that is), memory management (dynamically resize disks), a windowing system that actually behaves on a multi monitor system....I could go on but I would be wasting my time now wouldn't I?
I call BS here, there are crazy good benefits to vista win7 the problem is until this last year or so there have been some major bugs that needed worked out. Of course most of you refuse to upgrade because the new thing either:
A: Doesn't have enough shininess.
B: Doesn't work like the old thing.
C: Has benefits that you can't see in your limited world (security upgrades, improved network stacks, improved memory management)
Now I fully admit the buggy nature of vista held me back at first. But now you can have it installed from the oem for the same price (if not less), and most of the bugs are ironed out (too late to save PR). Windows 7 has been showing a ton of promise to be a solid os, but to see no point in replacing XP just because of cost is just shortsighted asshattery.
I didn't read the article you linked. However it makes sense as an ugly person would need a higher fertility rate to increase the rate of procreation. A more attractive person wouldn't have to have this high fertility rate as they would have sex more often. Of course my wife and I are relatively attractive people by society's standards maybe that is why we are having fertility trouble...it is evolution's fault!
Considering the nature of the parent's post it is doubtful that they will understand your joke...or have the foresight to google it. It is good to know that someone uses the phrase though, I tried telling the joke to co-workers once...I gave up.
Being one of the people who is having trouble with fertility, I don't find it insulting. Rather I find it interesting that the fertility experts that I talk to and pay good money all say that holding out for 3 days beforehand increase fertility...
I dont think the opinion of designers count when referring to those trends. Pop culture maybe but I and most of the male population are with you, Women need to look like women and act like a woman. Look around to the singe girls you know and the married girls you know. Given I am in the midwest but the boyish skinny girls are still single while the women are settled down in a happy marriage.
Easy fix, be less picky or create a better station. I haven't had to skip a song in months (outside giving an occasional one a thumbs down). Pandora has to pay for the song whether or not you listen to the whole thing.
If you like a song a lot, buy it, and that artist will only come out with more awesome songs for you. If you like a game, buy it, and we will promise to constantly work to make the player experience better at every corner we can.
Well I for one call this statement for the hooey it is. Starcraft is STILL selling crazily over a decade later and they are just now releasing a sequel...crippled...way to promote people buying your software jackasses.
Ya I have even money saying you are right. If the pirates hack the game to allow this...it will severely strike at sales. I know I personally will grab the crack as soon as it is available. I really think this is a bad sales move and a really really bad PR move by blizzard.
I dont think it would be too much infrastructure to add to tax based on use. I hate this socialist view of our society wherein I am require to pay for EVERYTHING. It is a bit of a pet peeve of mine and maybe I am a bit obtuse in saying that I am tired of being taxed for frivolous roads, bridges, streets, and agencies. The problem right now isn't that we are taxed, it is that our taxes don't count towards our useage or impact on society. Toll roads take this into account, if you drive, you are liable for the privilege, if you use road X you need to pay for it. I would say that we would see a far more efficient culture if taxes were based on use rather than lump sums and then pushing it everywhere the special interest groups feel necessary.
Not true. There are plenty of other solutions. You are entitled by law a 15 minute break every 2.5 hours. It is just as good to walk three times for 10 minutes each as it is to walk for 30 minutes straight.
Stand at work rather than sit all day.
Adjust your caloric intake.
Make your default printer one across the office.
On your days off dont work out hard, just make sure you work out longer, bike rides, longer walks...etc.
When you wake up in the morning do 30 pushups even before you take a shower, this jump starts your metabolizm.
Snack, about every 2.5 hours eat a healthy 100 calorie snack to keep your body going.
There are lots of options, you dont need to work out once a day, you just need to change your routine to be more active, lots of small things add up very very quick.
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Two words my friend "Tiered Storage"
I know you are being funny, but where the hell did you learn your basic math? Notice I said windows 7 would be similar to Vista not that the drop would be similar...geesh.
Does anyone know why this hasn't been done?
LOL :) no it was probably like 13 songs...1 album and a couple others before my brain said, what the hell are you doing you are just gonna have to strip out the DRM in a few minutes anyway...and I now purchase my DRM free CDs used from amazon...MUCH cheaper.
I consider myself an avid music listener. I have purchased all of 10 songs from iTunes and that was just to figure it out...I never have had trouble finding any artist I wanted... screw iTunes, While I like Apple, iTunes is a prime example of a crappy product supported by another great product that has a shelflife coming to an end.
Yes I have no sense of humor.
Let me fix this for you.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Windows "never" crashes.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Linux "never" crashes.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Unix "never" crashes.
Fact is, unless you've got bad RAM or other hardware issues, Solaris "never" crashes.
There...much better.
Imaging. Vista is built around a solid sysprep process, it is far more streamlined than before and although I have never done it, you can build your image into a DVD install to be deployed to remote areas.
Disk Management. No more partition magic needed, you can resize OS partitions at will so you dont need to rebuild a machine.
Group Policy Preferences. No more fancy VB scripts, you can map printers, and drives based off group policy without having to push out a large software update across your LAN.
Built in Shadow Copy. For your roaming users who save things on their desktop. Reduces the amount of lost time for your users.
Security. I already mentioned this one. But it is one of the intangibles.
Window Management. XP window management is Messed up, especially for laptop users who dock and undock constantly.
Those are just some of my favorites. It it reason to spend $$$ to upgrade retail...depends on your situation. Is it reason enough to get it with a new PC, yes unless you have application restraints.
Vista does have major bugs, but so does XP. XP has massive ones we have just grown accustomed to. Anyone who has tried to push GP to an xp machine, or run any kind of synchronization, or tried to secure an XP box knows this. These are corporate failures that those of us who actually work in corporate environments with thousands of machines are aware of.
in response:
a) last I checked XP REQUIRES tinkering to work properly, in fact several suites of software came out because of this...tweakUI? Vista allows more centralized granular control....ever heard of group policy preferences (yes you can install the update on an XP box but again something more to tweak on XP). b) This is where I KNOW that you either have no experience in a corporate LAN or are very bad at it. Interfaces can be tweaked to look like whatever the hell you want them to. My interface looks like XP for the most part but I like the feel of some of the vista features....we ran into the same issue going from 2000 to XP and from 98 to 2000. and again, UAC can be turned off but isnt bad after sp1. Memory includes disk management, memory management (you obv are aware of the large problems with these), yes these situations matter when your techs need to dynamically increase disk space, or you have a user who runs autocad or an adobe suite, or for that matter listens to internet radio...or you are afraid of hackers.
Yes the biggest problem is with the user when it comes to security, but some of us corporations have to be PCI compliant or prove a secure environment...my budget for this is bigger per year than most IT budgets.
Now I am not saying go out and grab the latest and greatest ASAP, but I just hate the XP bigotry that is out there with everyone thinking it is the best thing since sliced bread. EVERY SINGLE POINT you made is regarding the first year release propaganda, every last one. Get over it, this must be your first transition, for those of us who did the NT 4.0 98 2000 XP transitions it is old news. Vista may not be adopted but I have even money that says that when this next batch of PCs comes through people will start willingly adopting the OEM licenses. Most of us corporations never upgrade an OS retail..that is a consumer issue.
MS...or most any dev company for that matter...will NEVER guarantee money back for losses on your crappy implementations. Imagine you have a hammer that works great for hammering nails, then some jackass comes in and says he tried hammering a screwdriver into an I-Beam and the hammer broke the screw and got all messed up....should YOU reimburse them? I think not...
You mean other than the massive secuity upgrade? Last time I checked an authenticated scan on a fully pached XP box came up with 160 vulnerabilities, while Vista came up with 70. Windows 7 I havent scanned yet but I imagine it will be similar. Then you have such things as a plethora of tools for image management (disk image that is), memory management (dynamically resize disks), a windowing system that actually behaves on a multi monitor system....I could go on but I would be wasting my time now wouldn't I?
A: Doesn't have enough shininess.
B: Doesn't work like the old thing.
C: Has benefits that you can't see in your limited world (security upgrades, improved network stacks, improved memory management)
Now I fully admit the buggy nature of vista held me back at first. But now you can have it installed from the oem for the same price (if not less), and most of the bugs are ironed out (too late to save PR). Windows 7 has been showing a ton of promise to be a solid os, but to see no point in replacing XP just because of cost is just shortsighted asshattery.
Well It gave me a good laugh
I didn't read the article you linked. However it makes sense as an ugly person would need a higher fertility rate to increase the rate of procreation. A more attractive person wouldn't have to have this high fertility rate as they would have sex more often. Of course my wife and I are relatively attractive people by society's standards maybe that is why we are having fertility trouble...it is evolution's fault!
Considering the nature of the parent's post it is doubtful that they will understand your joke...or have the foresight to google it. It is good to know that someone uses the phrase though, I tried telling the joke to co-workers once...I gave up.
Just because you fail as a spouse doesn't mean the rest of us do. Of course what do I know I just teach the stuff and am in an enviable marriage...
Being one of the people who is having trouble with fertility, I don't find it insulting. Rather I find it interesting that the fertility experts that I talk to and pay good money all say that holding out for 3 days beforehand increase fertility...
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I dont think the opinion of designers count when referring to those trends. Pop culture maybe but I and most of the male population are with you, Women need to look like women and act like a woman. Look around to the singe girls you know and the married girls you know. Given I am in the midwest but the boyish skinny girls are still single while the women are settled down in a happy marriage.
Easy fix, be less picky or create a better station. I haven't had to skip a song in months (outside giving an occasional one a thumbs down). Pandora has to pay for the song whether or not you listen to the whole thing.
If you like a song a lot, buy it, and that artist will only come out with more awesome songs for you. If you like a game, buy it, and we will promise to constantly work to make the player experience better at every corner we can.
Well I for one call this statement for the hooey it is. Starcraft is STILL selling crazily over a decade later and they are just now releasing a sequel...crippled...way to promote people buying your software jackasses.
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Ya I have even money saying you are right. If the pirates hack the game to allow this...it will severely strike at sales. I know I personally will grab the crack as soon as it is available. I really think this is a bad sales move and a really really bad PR move by blizzard.
I dont think it would be too much infrastructure to add to tax based on use. I hate this socialist view of our society wherein I am require to pay for EVERYTHING. It is a bit of a pet peeve of mine and maybe I am a bit obtuse in saying that I am tired of being taxed for frivolous roads, bridges, streets, and agencies. The problem right now isn't that we are taxed, it is that our taxes don't count towards our useage or impact on society. Toll roads take this into account, if you drive, you are liable for the privilege, if you use road X you need to pay for it. I would say that we would see a far more efficient culture if taxes were based on use rather than lump sums and then pushing it everywhere the special interest groups feel necessary.
Stand at work rather than sit all day.
Adjust your caloric intake.
Make your default printer one across the office.
On your days off dont work out hard, just make sure you work out longer, bike rides, longer walks...etc.
When you wake up in the morning do 30 pushups even before you take a shower, this jump starts your metabolizm.
Snack, about every 2.5 hours eat a healthy 100 calorie snack to keep your body going.
There are lots of options, you dont need to work out once a day, you just need to change your routine to be more active, lots of small things add up very very quick.