Try installing the 2006 Internet Security edition; on a Athlon 3200+ it's so slow on startup I just standby the PC now instead of turning it off, for fear of dropping dead of old age before my PC's restarted.
And it now takes THREE TIMES LONGER to get fully operational. And opening a word document takes an eternity. And it breaks more often than the 2005 edition (twice since it was launched!).
What an utterly shite piece of flaky bloatware it's become.
Just begs the questions:
- Where the hell did the last 20yrs of my life go???
- What schools did you all go to, that so many of you were all watching it live? No real leasons to go to?
(For the benefit of the yanks, most UK schools got 1 or 2 TV sessions a week - at most - and it was usually some god awful Open University sociology tripe dictated by some hippy professor...)
On average I used 50-75MB a month, which I though was a reasonable, if not execesive amount, I mean my cable connection gets taken for 1GB a day.
I'm pretty sure most 'home' connections from any of the big UK providers would want to be having strong words with you if you were using a gig a day on legitimate purposes; either that or you have one MONSTER of a pr0n archive...
Take your pick, depending on your need; AD/group policy, SUS, MOM, Terminal Services, Pretty much any enterprise AV/AS manager, etc etc. 90% of the full functionality, and not a command prompt in sight.
I've seen Linux admin front ends; I usually wake up in cold sweats a minute later...
I'm intrigued by most of the posters; nearly every media is fallible in some way, and that's utterly depressing.
It also begs the question; what tape media DO we use to make duplicate 'long term' backs of our existing 300 DVD/CD 'long term' backup stored in the safe, given it needs to last at least 10years? And where do I find the time to do it?
Given the budgets most SME's (like the one I work for) have, I figure most of the technology and the actually man hours involved is out of financial reach, and thus the company is doomed to death by 'failure to comply with freedom of information act'.
Ah well, thank god Friday is my last day here...[humour]woo hoo! someone's else's problem! [/humour]
Actually, I can hold my laptop just as close to my face as a book. Why I'd need to is another matter. And if it all blurs together on a screen for you, I'm just glad I don't have you as my car pool driver...
Humour aside, I would debate the point that book are not the same as music or movies - in the most obvious sense they are (as you mentioned), but the more 'digital' they become, the more they look the same; the use of propriatory technology, DRM, user habits, software GUI, etc etc.
And I can't see the progression to digital slowing down any - not if Google is anything to go by.
I remember my quite deranged grandmother bought me a copy when she came to stay for a week once; it was cheaper than buying a game. So, she picked one out, and I have to code this in during the week she was staying, and to show her the game running at the end of the week.
Being young and naive, and being a sucker for never being able to say no to gran (especially since she'd long sinced 'checked out') I commenced coding with due sense of futility. I never got the game to run right at the end of the week.
Probably because I actually had a BBC and not a C64, but she insisted I code it anyway....doh.
Are you insane? 'Putting a bike down'? Personally, if I ended up in a situation where I was going to get mown down by some crazed artic, I'll take my chances with the dead flies on the front, rather than under the wheels...
But frankly, if you've done your advanced riding courses (yes, I have), you'll know avoidance and observation are your watchwords, and makes pretty much ALL accidents avoidable - just ask the police rider doing the course how many accidents he's had for proof. And these guys can really shift...
And in that scenario, I'll take my chances on my pocket rocket than a Harley with as much handling and braking performance as an oil tanker, thanks very much.
Also, you need to remember that the yanks munch their way through far more energy per head of capita than any other country in the world, so this figure will vary.
Can't remember exactly, but I think they worked out that the energy consumption of North America could power most of the 3rd world with some left.
And their water consumption is the same; even puts us Europeans to shame, and we're not exactly economical.
I mean, what the hell are the yanks doing with all that power and water? jeez...
No - if it's GATSO's, all the film is stored in the box.
Apart from the big brother, infra-red, digital affairs, which work out your average speed over a set distance. Pure evil.
Thankfully those are front facing, so my and the SV1000 will continue to ride along with the rpms at the engines optimal torque.
Point of grumble: driving 'quality' has dropped in the UK. Accidents are going UP because we're crap drivers...who keep to the speed limit.
One of the bike magazines had an article which showed attention increaed as you went slightly faster (not silly speeds, just 'faster'). They found a number of the speed limits were set too low (to generate revenue), and attention was suffering.
Never mind that vapour; technically if you moved from zero to whatever speed instantanously, wouldn't all your molecules be instantly turned to energy?
I've OS X on the laptop, XP on the work and home PC, and headless linux as a media server.
cop out reply is: They all do their respective tasks very well -I haven't rebuilt any of them in 12 months, nor have I seen BSOD etc etc. Productivity is equal across all of them.
Mind you, OS X has taken a dip in productivity lately, since I got Elite running on my Electron emulator...
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Try installing the 2006 Internet Security edition; on a Athlon 3200+ it's so slow on startup I just standby the PC now instead of turning it off, for fear of dropping dead of old age before my PC's restarted.
And it now takes THREE TIMES LONGER to get fully operational. And opening a word document takes an eternity. And it breaks more often than the 2005 edition (twice since it was launched!).
What an utterly shite piece of flaky bloatware it's become.
Just begs the questions:
- Where the hell did the last 20yrs of my life go???
- What schools did you all go to, that so many of you were all watching it live? No real leasons to go to?
(For the benefit of the yanks, most UK schools got 1 or 2 TV sessions a week - at most - and it was usually some god awful Open University sociology tripe dictated by some hippy professor...)
oh right. I'll get my coat...
I'm pretty sure most 'home' connections from any of the big UK providers would want to be having strong words with you if you were using a gig a day on legitimate purposes; either that or you have one MONSTER of a pr0n archive...
Can I assume this is a corporate connection
It's not the desks that need foam to protect from head inflicted damage...it's the brick walls.
Take your pick, depending on your need; AD/group policy, SUS, MOM, Terminal Services, Pretty much any enterprise AV/AS manager, etc etc. 90% of the full functionality, and not a command prompt in sight.
I've seen Linux admin front ends; I usually wake up in cold sweats a minute later...
It also begs the question; what tape media DO we use to make duplicate 'long term' backs of our existing 300 DVD/CD 'long term' backup stored in the safe, given it needs to last at least 10years? And where do I find the time to do it?
Given the budgets most SME's (like the one I work for) have, I figure most of the technology and the actually man hours involved is out of financial reach, and thus the company is doomed to death by 'failure to comply with freedom of information act'.
Ah well, thank god Friday is my last day here...[humour]woo hoo! someone's else's problem! [/humour]
Humour aside, I would debate the point that book are not the same as music or movies - in the most obvious sense they are (as you mentioned), but the more 'digital' they become, the more they look the same; the use of propriatory technology, DRM, user habits, software GUI, etc etc.
And I can't see the progression to digital slowing down any - not if Google is anything to go by.
I remember my quite deranged grandmother bought me a copy when she came to stay for a week once; it was cheaper than buying a game. So, she picked one out, and I have to code this in during the week she was staying, and to show her the game running at the end of the week.
Being young and naive, and being a sucker for never being able to say no to gran (especially since she'd long sinced 'checked out') I commenced coding with due sense of futility. I never got the game to run right at the end of the week.
Probably because I actually had a BBC and not a C64, but she insisted I code it anyway....doh.
But frankly, if you've done your advanced riding courses (yes, I have), you'll know avoidance and observation are your watchwords, and makes pretty much ALL accidents avoidable - just ask the police rider doing the course how many accidents he's had for proof. And these guys can really shift...
And in that scenario, I'll take my chances on my pocket rocket than a Harley with as much handling and braking performance as an oil tanker, thanks very much.
Hell, I poured thousands of hours into my backend, and now check out my buns of steel!
I was going to complain about capitals too, but since there's no sentences, there's no need I guess.
Can't remember exactly, but I think they worked out that the energy consumption of North America could power most of the 3rd world with some left.
And their water consumption is the same; even puts us Europeans to shame, and we're not exactly economical.
I mean, what the hell are the yanks doing with all that power and water? jeez...
Point of grumble: driving 'quality' has dropped in the UK. Accidents are going UP because we're crap drivers...who keep to the speed limit.
One of the bike magazines had an article which showed attention increaed as you went slightly faster (not silly speeds, just 'faster'). They found a number of the speed limits were set too low (to generate revenue), and attention was suffering.
gahd man - get a life! or at last another hours kip - most people just wait until 9am 'till they can use the office to do their /.ing...
Never mind that vapour; technically if you moved from zero to whatever speed instantanously, wouldn't all your molecules be instantly turned to energy?
This is a message for all passengers waiting on the platform at Three bridges - your service to oblivion central station has been cancelled.
The next training to oblivion central station will be arriving tomorrow at 3.14pm or 2 minutes after you top yourself - whichever event happens first.
I've OS X on the laptop, XP on the work and home PC, and headless linux as a media server. cop out reply is: They all do their respective tasks very well -I haven't rebuilt any of them in 12 months, nor have I seen BSOD etc etc. Productivity is equal across all of them. Mind you, OS X has taken a dip in productivity lately, since I got Elite running on my Electron emulator...