Seriously? Windows 7? People are really going to play that game?
Does anybody recall any other launch of a Windows product? They always claim to have fixed all the bugs present in the previous one. They have claimed since Windows 98 that there is better security. Vista was supposed to be XP that had been fixed, remember?
After all these years and years of people eagerly anticipating the next Windows provide a lot of laughs, but it's really very sad when you think about it.
Windows 7 is the last appeal from death row. The same tired promises as ever, wrapped in fancier 3D windowing effects.
There are many laptops out now that are not much larger than the Kindle DX, and the PDFs you have on them will not decide to shit out on you one day (unless the drive does!).
Kindle is a ripoff. Maybe, if they included say, 100 free book downloads of your choice in the cost, it'd be worth it. But many of the books available on the Kindle cost more than than the real deal!
Sorry, Amazon. Until the Kindle's books are say, in the $0.99-$5 (for new releases!) range you will lose.
With well over 2TB of RAW files from my digital cameras, a bunch of music, and really all kinds of stuff that I've saved or generated over the years, there's no really good way to manage a huge file library over multiple computers - nor is there any point in doing so.
For years a Windows Media Center Edition PC that my wife won at the state fair (in a truth telling contest) did double duty as a file server. I recently let the smoke out of it with some horrifically bad RAM, and am building its replacement using FreeBSD with MythTV, and using the ZFS as the underlying fabric of what I hope to be a long-term stable and expandible storage server. That way there is one master copy of everything - no merging two divergent variations of a music library that were once identical (for example). I have saved a great deal of space, too, with the on the fly compression that ZFS offers.
Doing this and then sharing the resulting system over SMB and NFS is a hell of a lot less painful than anything else.
In the decrepit old days, I discovered alt-214 and alt-215 by accident. I managed to complete U6 so quickly that I was literally given an award signed by both King Draxinosum and Lord British.
Depends where you work, really. I see a lot of people running Macs in the offices I frequent.
They are quite popular in research labs as well. Most of the really core engineering and science packages were designed on a Unix platform of one kind or another and, not surprisingly, are still best run on Unix platforms. Graphic design, photography, video and music production? It's almost exclusively a Mac world.
Apple's server market is aimed at the small business without a dedicated IT staff, that has Macs - as it always has been. They don't seriously expect to compete with anybody in that market, because they don't have to - they have it all to themselves.
I do think the one thing that folks like yourself don't take into account is that OSX86 proves that OS X has a much broader appeal, and that a great many people would run it in lieu of Windows of any flavor. There are probably more people running various hacked OS X installs on their generic PC than there are folks beta testing Windows 7, right now, and not for the Gee Whiz factor of it. Because it's simply a BETTER OS!
Sure, just upgrade your satellite or radio tracking solution that's currently bolted to an Arctic icebreaker. Why not call everybody who has your Linux widget in their airplane and say you just need to pop onboard and upgrade the OS to a new version that may never have been tested on your obscure architecture.
If you upgrade the computer in your basement lair and encounter some problems, maybe problems that bring down the whole system temporarily, nobody gives a shit. Fine. But upgrading is not always possible in the real world.
That's because of the setting "Reboot automatically in case of error" which just resets your machine when Windows crashes. If you're sharp you can indeed see the blue screen for a fraction of a second before the reboot. And, it will crash, unless you don't do anything important on your machine. The instant you do anything important or meaningful on a Windows box is the instant that it goes unstable.
Quit fooling yourself and disable this option - then you will "see" BSODs again.
Vista is more reliable than XP, sure. But until we start seeing Vista boxes that have been up and running for 5 YEARS without a reboot, you should keep fairy tales like that dancing with the sugarplum fairies inside your head.
Vista is more reliable than XP, sure. But until we start seeing Vista boxes that have been up and running for 5 YEARS without a reboot, you should keep fairy tales like that dancing with the sugarplum faries inside your head.
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I just got sweaty palms and fell out of my chair.
Seriously? Windows 7? People are really going to play that game?
Does anybody recall any other launch of a Windows product? They always claim to have fixed all the bugs present in the previous one. They have claimed since Windows 98 that there is better security. Vista was supposed to be XP that had been fixed, remember?
After all these years and years of people eagerly anticipating the next Windows provide a lot of laughs, but it's really very sad when you think about it.
Windows 7 is the last appeal from death row. The same tired promises as ever, wrapped in fancier 3D windowing effects.
There are many laptops out now that are not much larger than the Kindle DX, and the PDFs you have on them will not decide to shit out on you one day (unless the drive does!).
Kindle is a ripoff. Maybe, if they included say, 100 free book downloads of your choice in the cost, it'd be worth it. But many of the books available on the Kindle cost more than than the real deal!
Sorry, Amazon. Until the Kindle's books are say, in the $0.99-$5 (for new releases!) range you will lose.
$500 indeed.
This isn't the Wikipedia. I think you clicked on the wrong tab.
With well over 2TB of RAW files from my digital cameras, a bunch of music, and really all kinds of stuff that I've saved or generated over the years, there's no really good way to manage a huge file library over multiple computers - nor is there any point in doing so.
For years a Windows Media Center Edition PC that my wife won at the state fair (in a truth telling contest) did double duty as a file server. I recently let the smoke out of it with some horrifically bad RAM, and am building its replacement using FreeBSD with MythTV, and using the ZFS as the underlying fabric of what I hope to be a long-term stable and expandible storage server. That way there is one master copy of everything - no merging two divergent variations of a music library that were once identical (for example). I have saved a great deal of space, too, with the on the fly compression that ZFS offers.
Doing this and then sharing the resulting system over SMB and NFS is a hell of a lot less painful than anything else.
OK it only work with safe search turned off. Still.
I will go wash my eyes out now.
DO NOT Google Video Search for dopefish! You will run into an awful lot of gay porn for some reason.
In the decrepit old days, I discovered alt-214 and alt-215 by accident. I managed to complete U6 so quickly that I was literally given an award signed by both King Draxinosum and Lord British.
"Back in the days of the Microsoft worms..."
OK you already lost me.
Despite the housecleaning Microsoft is still THE hosting platform for literally thousands of botnets.
Bah, brainwashing.
The Church did its best to destroy any really useful ancient knowledge, and still has untold reams of it hidden away unavailable to researchers.
Citizen, or "resident alien"?
"1. Without PGP, almost everyone would send their emails in the clear. Today, cleartext email is the exception, not the rule."
Keep smoking that crack buddy!
I think you have hit upon a potential gold mine of an idea here.
Why would ANY Mac user use Acrobat?
It's terrible and has been going downhill since I was a teenager - and I'm 32 now!
"I talk a walk around my office the other day"
Depends where you work, really. I see a lot of people running Macs in the offices I frequent.
They are quite popular in research labs as well. Most of the really core engineering and science packages were designed on a Unix platform of one kind or another and, not surprisingly, are still best run on Unix platforms. Graphic design, photography, video and music production? It's almost exclusively a Mac world.
Apple's server market is aimed at the small business without a dedicated IT staff, that has Macs - as it always has been. They don't seriously expect to compete with anybody in that market, because they don't have to - they have it all to themselves.
I do think the one thing that folks like yourself don't take into account is that OSX86 proves that OS X has a much broader appeal, and that a great many people would run it in lieu of Windows of any flavor. There are probably more people running various hacked OS X installs on their generic PC than there are folks beta testing Windows 7, right now, and not for the Gee Whiz factor of it. Because it's simply a BETTER OS!
Sure, just upgrade your satellite or radio tracking solution that's currently bolted to an Arctic icebreaker. Why not call everybody who has your Linux widget in their airplane and say you just need to pop onboard and upgrade the OS to a new version that may never have been tested on your obscure architecture.
If you upgrade the computer in your basement lair and encounter some problems, maybe problems that bring down the whole system temporarily, nobody gives a shit. Fine. But upgrading is not always possible in the real world.
Methinks you haven't heard of the ITU. Even "rogue states" get together and agree on frequency usage.
Yes, we licensed operators have ham radios. What else would one use to communicate on the ham bands - coconuts?
And, depending on your opinion and resourcefulness, the radio can indeed replace a telephone (at least /m).
All it takes is one executive putting a wifi router in his office. This happens probably a thousand times per day.
I wish I was overestimating the threat.
911 is not to be relied upon in a real emergency. People have ham radios for real emergencies. Phones are for children and grannies.
That's because of the setting "Reboot automatically in case of error" which just resets your machine when Windows crashes. If you're sharp you can indeed see the blue screen for a fraction of a second before the reboot. And, it will crash, unless you don't do anything important on your machine. The instant you do anything important or meaningful on a Windows box is the instant that it goes unstable.
Quit fooling yourself and disable this option - then you will "see" BSODs again.
For decades now there have been places that sell Mac upgrades cheaper than Apple does.
There's nothing special about Apple's RAM or SATA drives or HBAs or whatever, compared to ordinary PCI ones.
"Vista is as reliable as Linux."
That must be some crack you are smoking.
Vista is more reliable than XP, sure. But until we start seeing Vista boxes that have been up and running for 5 YEARS without a reboot, you should keep fairy tales like that dancing with the sugarplum fairies inside your head.
"Vista is as reliable as Linux."
That must be some crack you are smoking.
Vista is more reliable than XP, sure. But until we start seeing Vista boxes that have been up and running for 5 YEARS without a reboot, you should keep fairy tales like that dancing with the sugarplum faries inside your head.
"And yes, try 15k RPM 24/7 without custom rubbers, see what happens."
Been doing it for years, with just the ordinary rubbers that come with a stock SuperMicro.
Here's what happens - spinny spinny data on data off. Dumbass.
Hate to tell you, man, but those ain't lobsters. They're saltwater crayfish.
Lobsters aren't covered in spines, and lobsters have big ass claws.