I wonder how we managed this before breathalyzers.
If you're drunk and smell like a stunk (i.e., "drunk as a stunk"), you're fired from the job. That doesn't apply to the guys who go out for a three-martini lunch every afternoon.
Vista was an abomination. The solution to such a thing isn't more HW. It's install XP.
This is my gaming rig. The future of video games and hardware drivers was with Windows Vista and later operating systems. XP has grown long in the tooth.
Ebonics is fine for California but for the rest of the world stick to the proper American MATH!
You need to go back to school. Ebonics is a dialect of English. Math is not a dialect of English. As for proper American MATH, it uses Arabic numerals and Algebra (Arabic "al-jabr" meaning "reunion of broken parts"). God is great!
Every time some stupid cunt conservative billionaire opens their pie hole about changing America, you should note that the middle class will always be for the worse.
Windows Vista was a resource hog. You want it to run well, you go beyond the minimum recommended spec. I started off with AMD 3.1GHz dual-core processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Radeon 3850 video card, and an AMD 690-chipset motherboard. Processor got upgraded to an AMD 3.2GHz quad-core and the video cards got replaced several times over the years. I just recent got an AMD 760-chipset motherboard to replace the nine-year-old motherboard, allowing me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64GB DDR3 memory in the near future. Here's the secret about Windows (or any other operating system): the more resources you throw at it, the better it works.
FWIW, I can see how he would be right. Vista was horrifically inefficient, and required machines with much better specs than many Windows 7 PCs to run usefully. Chances are if you're still running Vista, you have a minimum of 4G or more of memory (probably much more), a decent CPU, and a half decent GPU, whereas Windows 7 is quite usable in 2G or less on a machine with an Atom and Intel Integrated graphics.
The system I built for Windows Vista was an AMD 3.1GHz dual-core processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Radeon 3850 video card, and an AMD 690-chipset motherboard. Processor got upgraded to an AMD quad-core 3.2GHz and the video cards replaced several times over the years. I just got an AMD 760-chipset motherboard, which will allow me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64GB DDR3 RAM.
I'm not quite ready to do a complete rebuild. I did get a new motherboard to replace the existing nine-year-old motherboard, allowing me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64MB RAM in the near future. Maybe in another nine years I'll rebuild everything.
I had a college roommate who worked for a computer surplus store that took old computers, recycle some and fixes others. He brought home a 386 PC, loaded up Doom and started playing. Of course, I was greatly interested in playing. He got so disgusted that I spent more time on his computer than he did that he brought an old IBM PC AT (286) in an industrial case that bolted to the floor and weighed 80 pounds. (The token ring card that came with it had an Intel 186 processor.) Although the 286 couldn't play Doom, I could play the older side stroller games from Apogee and ID Software. I ran a Wildcat! BBS with a 2400 baud modem on it for several years. I should have kept the case, it was a conversation piece. I kept moving too much in my younger days and the case modding scene was many years into the future.
Oh, so by providing lower prices and a much wider variety, Amazon out competed a number of retailers you used to walk to? I, on the other hand, buy much more on line than I could at small retailers before Amazon.
When brick-and-mortar stores existed along with Amazon, there was more competition in marketplace. Now there is no competition in the marketplace. More choices at lower prices can result in consumers buying less stuff and becoming less satisfied. A serious problem for virtual stores with unlimited shelf space.
Marketers assume that the more choices they offer, the more likely customers will be able to find just the right thing. They assume, for instance, that offering 50 styles of jeans instead of two increases the chances that shoppers will find a pair they really like. Nevertheless, research now shows that there can be too much choice; when there is, consumers are less likely to buy anything at all, and if they do buy, they are less satisfied with their selection.
Maybe it is funny in a way, but I want to ask you this: how does Amazon screw you?
I no longer have a local bookstore to browse the shelves and discover hidden gems. Amazon's recommendations and search are absolutely useless in finding new stuff to read. I'm reading less and buying less from Amazon these days than I have in the last 15 years.
And a lot of complaints as those XP / Vista machines struggle to boot due to lack of drivers.
That would true for Windows XP-certified computers, but not for Windows Vista-certified computers. I rebuilt my computer nine years ago for Windows Vista. I had no problems upgrading to Windows 7/8/8.1/10. For older devices that don't have a Windows 10 driver, I manually install the Windows Vista driver to get them working again.
people like you are the reason most people would gleefully execute all user-facing IT workers,
I don't work as an user-facing IT worker. I'm the IT security guy who works behind the scenes to make sure computers are updating properly and all software conforms to the baseline standard. Users who reboot the computer while I'm on it are the ones who complain to management and are shocked to get a verbal warning not to do that again. Corporate policy states that computers don't belong to users and users can't prevent technicians from working on the computers.
I hope Trump wins and puts you into camps.
If Trump ever releases his corporate policies for IT, I wouldn't be surprised to see identical language.
Now get get back to work computer janitor.
How productive would you be at work if people stopped cleaning up your shit?
If you think "normals" are bad, try dealing with users as a system admin tech. "No, sir," I would explain. "The computer doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the company. And I have full authority to fix your computer." Some days I wish I could replace their computer with a box of crayons, which is all they need to do their job anyway.
If you could program, your script would be finished before Slashdot page could open.
A script that query 80,000 systems before the Slashdot page could open would be quite impressive. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with Windows and PowerShell. It takes forever.
Are these driver-less cars are so sophisticated that they require a college-educated person to sit behind the wheel? Or is this like a law firm requiring a college degree for a filing clerk position?
Really. Doesn't ring true. I would have heard of it.
I saw several TV news broadcasts on the subject in the early 1980's, but that was pre-Internet and newspaper accounts are probably available only on microfiche. I wasn't able to turn up anything on the Internet. However, the modern practice of tech slavery is alive and well in the Valley.
According to the report, which was released by The Center of Investigative Reporting (CIR), The Guardian, and NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit, these labor brokers have often charged workers the cost of a visa and didn't have a job waiting for them when they arrived, both of which are prohibited by visa rules. And in some cases, when workers arrived in the U.S., the account goes, they were "benched"—placed in a guesthouse with subpar living conditions and asked to post exaggerated resumes online.
Then, when workers received jobs, the report claims, the body shops who hired them collected a cut of their salary. The authors of the investigation probed this migrant worker problem for a year, speaking to thousands of Indian tech workers both on and off the record. They found abuses in Silicon Valley, as well as other parts of the U.S. One worker described it as an "ecosystem of fear."
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I wonder how we managed this before breathalyzers.
If you're drunk and smell like a stunk (i.e., "drunk as a stunk"), you're fired from the job. That doesn't apply to the guys who go out for a three-martini lunch every afternoon.
Vista was an abomination. The solution to such a thing isn't more HW. It's install XP.
This is my gaming rig. The future of video games and hardware drivers was with Windows Vista and later operating systems. XP has grown long in the tooth.
These guys are so out of touch it's like Dr. Evil. Hold the whole world hostage for "One Million Dollars"! Bwaahh Haa Haa Haaa!
There Internet connection is a 300 baud modem. Takes a while for the news to catch up from the 1980's.
Al-Qaeda's the Jeb Bush of terrorist orgs. Once respected, they coasted for too long, grew fat and lazy and lost their edge.
Like Jeb Bush, Al-Qaeda has an excellent donor network to fund future activities.
Ebonics is fine for California but for the rest of the world stick to the proper American MATH!
You need to go back to school. Ebonics is a dialect of English. Math is not a dialect of English. As for proper American MATH, it uses Arabic numerals and Algebra (Arabic "al-jabr" meaning "reunion of broken parts"). God is great!
Every time some stupid cunt conservative billionaire opens their pie hole about changing America, you should note that the middle class will always be for the worse.
FTFY
The laptop is a Sony Vaio.
My inexpensive Dell laptop had no problem upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. However, I did replace the 2GB RAM module with an 8GB RAM module.
Sorry bullshit alert.
Windows Vista was a resource hog. You want it to run well, you go beyond the minimum recommended spec. I started off with AMD 3.1GHz dual-core processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Radeon 3850 video card, and an AMD 690-chipset motherboard. Processor got upgraded to an AMD 3.2GHz quad-core and the video cards got replaced several times over the years. I just recent got an AMD 760-chipset motherboard to replace the nine-year-old motherboard, allowing me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64GB DDR3 memory in the near future. Here's the secret about Windows (or any other operating system): the more resources you throw at it, the better it works.
FWIW, I can see how he would be right. Vista was horrifically inefficient, and required machines with much better specs than many Windows 7 PCs to run usefully. Chances are if you're still running Vista, you have a minimum of 4G or more of memory (probably much more), a decent CPU, and a half decent GPU, whereas Windows 7 is quite usable in 2G or less on a machine with an Atom and Intel Integrated graphics.
The system I built for Windows Vista was an AMD 3.1GHz dual-core processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, Radeon 3850 video card, and an AMD 690-chipset motherboard. Processor got upgraded to an AMD quad-core 3.2GHz and the video cards replaced several times over the years. I just got an AMD 760-chipset motherboard, which will allow me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64GB DDR3 RAM.
what a strugle why not buy a new computer?
I'm not quite ready to do a complete rebuild. I did get a new motherboard to replace the existing nine-year-old motherboard, allowing me to upgrade to an eight-core processor and 64MB RAM in the near future. Maybe in another nine years I'll rebuild everything.
I had a college roommate who worked for a computer surplus store that took old computers, recycle some and fixes others. He brought home a 386 PC, loaded up Doom and started playing. Of course, I was greatly interested in playing. He got so disgusted that I spent more time on his computer than he did that he brought an old IBM PC AT (286) in an industrial case that bolted to the floor and weighed 80 pounds. (The token ring card that came with it had an Intel 186 processor.) Although the 286 couldn't play Doom, I could play the older side stroller games from Apogee and ID Software. I ran a Wildcat! BBS with a 2400 baud modem on it for several years. I should have kept the case, it was a conversation piece. I kept moving too much in my younger days and the case modding scene was many years into the future.
Oh, so by providing lower prices and a much wider variety, Amazon out competed a number of retailers you used to walk to? I, on the other hand, buy much more on line than I could at small retailers before Amazon.
When brick-and-mortar stores existed along with Amazon, there was more competition in marketplace. Now there is no competition in the marketplace. More choices at lower prices can result in consumers buying less stuff and becoming less satisfied. A serious problem for virtual stores with unlimited shelf space.
Marketers assume that the more choices they offer, the more likely customers will be able to find just the right thing. They assume, for instance, that offering 50 styles of jeans instead of two increases the chances that shoppers will find a pair they really like. Nevertheless, research now shows that there can be too much choice; when there is, consumers are less likely to buy anything at all, and if they do buy, they are less satisfied with their selection.
https://hbr.org/2006/06/more-isnt-always-better
Maybe it is funny in a way, but I want to ask you this: how does Amazon screw you?
I no longer have a local bookstore to browse the shelves and discover hidden gems. Amazon's recommendations and search are absolutely useless in finding new stuff to read. I'm reading less and buying less from Amazon these days than I have in the last 15 years.
Lol you're such a cunt.
No, I'm an asshole. I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't.
I guess Spark didn't catch on fire.
And a lot of complaints as those XP / Vista machines struggle to boot due to lack of drivers.
That would true for Windows XP-certified computers, but not for Windows Vista-certified computers. I rebuilt my computer nine years ago for Windows Vista. I had no problems upgrading to Windows 7/8/8.1/10. For older devices that don't have a Windows 10 driver, I manually install the Windows Vista driver to get them working again.
people like you are the reason most people would gleefully execute all user-facing IT workers,
I don't work as an user-facing IT worker. I'm the IT security guy who works behind the scenes to make sure computers are updating properly and all software conforms to the baseline standard. Users who reboot the computer while I'm on it are the ones who complain to management and are shocked to get a verbal warning not to do that again. Corporate policy states that computers don't belong to users and users can't prevent technicians from working on the computers.
I hope Trump wins and puts you into camps.
If Trump ever releases his corporate policies for IT, I wouldn't be surprised to see identical language.
Now get get back to work computer janitor.
How productive would you be at work if people stopped cleaning up your shit?
Refresh my memory, which of those statements is factually incorrect?
According to corporate policy, all these statements are factually correct. Problem?
Everyone knows Amazon and Microsoft are in bed together to screw over consumers.
Just the excuse list is useful..."solar flares" is the best non-answer ever for all wifi/cellular issues you don't feel like actually explaining.
I've been using "gamma radiation" for decades now. If it works for the Hulk, it should work fine for everyone else.
If you think "normals" are bad, try dealing with users as a system admin tech. "No, sir," I would explain. "The computer doesn't belong to you. It belongs to the company. And I have full authority to fix your computer." Some days I wish I could replace their computer with a box of crayons, which is all they need to do their job anyway.
If you could program, your script would be finished before Slashdot page could open.
A script that query 80,000 systems before the Slashdot page could open would be quite impressive. Unfortunately, I'm dealing with Windows and PowerShell. It takes forever.
Are these driver-less cars are so sophisticated that they require a college-educated person to sit behind the wheel? Or is this like a law firm requiring a college degree for a filing clerk position?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html
Really. Doesn't ring true. I would have heard of it.
I saw several TV news broadcasts on the subject in the early 1980's, but that was pre-Internet and newspaper accounts are probably available only on microfiche. I wasn't able to turn up anything on the Internet. However, the modern practice of tech slavery is alive and well in the Valley.
According to the report, which was released by The Center of Investigative Reporting (CIR), The Guardian, and NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit, these labor brokers have often charged workers the cost of a visa and didn't have a job waiting for them when they arrived, both of which are prohibited by visa rules. And in some cases, when workers arrived in the U.S., the account goes, they were "benched"—placed in a guesthouse with subpar living conditions and asked to post exaggerated resumes online.
Then, when workers received jobs, the report claims, the body shops who hired them collected a cut of their salary. The authors of the investigation probed this migrant worker problem for a year, speaking to thousands of Indian tech workers both on and off the record. They found abuses in Silicon Valley, as well as other parts of the U.S. One worker described it as an "ecosystem of fear."
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/investigation-reveals-silicon-valleys-abuse-immigrant-tech-workers/
That is not happening now, pay is stagnating.
Speak for yourself. Unemployment in Silicon Valley is quite low. I got recruiters offering 40% more in pay to jump ship.