The 'upgrade' from XP formats the hard drive. Your files may be there but none of your applications will be. From XP, there is no over the top install to get to win 7. From vista, yea there is. Most people I know are going to backup and do a clean install anyway.
I would still rather have 3.5 inch SAS drives then 2.5 inch laptop drives. The laptop drives use less power, but there are plenty of 3.5 inch drives to choose from for large drive sizes. Not so much for laptop drives. Are these real 'server' drives? There is a reason why the SAS drives cost more then the regular sata drives. Server hard drives cost more but they are supposed to be more reliable. I know people have drives that last for years. I too have a 16GB desktop drive that has been on 24/7 365 for over 9 years now. That is not the point. I know that it could fail any day and I should not complain about it. The drive had a 5 year guarantee on it. I would like to see how this machine runs under a long file I/O load. Like 5-6 months worth of high I/O load. If it runs fine and no failures, no one says it is too slow. Then I'll re-evaluate it. I like the size and power use, but if I have to crack open the case and swap out the laptop hard drives a lot, no thank you.
It is and always has been about money. Do you actually think government, states, hospitals, or any company cares if one is gay or straight? It boils down to money. It was believed that homosexual people were more likely to catch/pass on certain diseases. That is when the rules were set. Prove that this is not true and those rules may change. One has to prove that the lifestyle of people who are gay carries no higher risk then those that are straight. Prove that for all and this issue will go away.
Religion is a separate issue. There is supposed to be a separation of 'church' and state in the US. And church can be what ever your religion is. One can still get married and not have to go to a 'church' to make it happen.
The 2009 nissan altima (S and SL models haven't checked the base model) has no external antenna. A lot of newer cars no longer have an external antenna.
For older cars, external antenna: check. For newer cars, external antenna: not an option.
But the parent's point about the banks making loans to people who never could have afforded them is still valid. The government put pressure on banks to hand out loans to people who could not afford them. Then those bank sold those loans as fast as they could. Often the buyer did not know they were buying a bad thing. The general thinking was that real estate was a sure thing (remember the 1980s real estate boom).
And what studies are you referring to? I saw on TV (CNN ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX) just about the same news piece about the banking failure. All said that the bad loans (people not paying the mortgages) were underlying cause of the housing market bust. Why were people not paying their mortgages? In reality, if you make between 30k-50k a year, you should not be living in a house that sells for 500K+. The old rule was take your income times 2.5 and that is your max amount you can afford. So if someone makes 50k a year, then the high end of a house is 125k. I saw people making less then that signing mortgages for 400k-900k. The loan got approved they said. When the balloon interest rate kicked in, they suddenly cannot afford the payments.
When mortgage shopping, do yourself a favor and price out a fixed rate mortgage as well. You'll notice the payments are different. Then look at you payments 3-5 years down the road. The fixed rate which is still the same payment, might be less then that balloon interest payment.
I know people flipping houses also caused the crash. If someone who makes 50k can have 5-6 mortgages on different properties, the system is screwed up. That should have set off alarms that something is wrong.
I was actually a little angry over the second Transformers film.
I'm normally pretty liberal and all, but WHY was a movie that was marketed so heavily towards children (tons of toys, promotional burger king kids meals, etc.) filled with so much sex and profanity?
Megan Fox is in it. The woman is beautiful. How is her acting? Most do not get past he looks to notice her acting. I think that is what the producers are hoping for.
I saw an interview she did. It was not totally scripted. She seems sort of hung up on herself.
The video slot machines (all the electronic slot machines) are programed to NOT pay out for a certain amount of time. So if you see a machine pay out big, ignore it for the next month or two. That machine will not pay out big again for a while.
Did you ever notice that when one of those machines does pay out big that someone open the machine up and presses a button or two? There is a reason for that.
I think of gambling as donating to the casino. I pick an amount. And only play that amount. If I lose that amount, I stop. If I am ahead, I take back my starting amount and play with their money. I have never played more then $100. It was fun, that is how looked at it.
If that is so, then a whole lot of slashdot posters are going to jail.
Anyone remember the old saying "sticks and stone will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" It went something like that. The point is words, unless written into laws are only words. As long as no one acts on those words, do not get worked up over it. Also laws like this are to far reaching. If they stopped at harm and defrauding I would have agreed with the law. Those are things that can be proved easily. The others are harder to prove. There is a huge difference between saying words to threaten someone and pointing a gun in their face. Both are threats or methods of intimidation one is clearly more forceful.
Dell has been selling redhat on their business computers for a few years now. I would like to see more choices for the home line. The end user IS the one with no power. The end user does not decide which computers dell, hp, or anyone else sells. Those companies do. Unless that company sells no computers and all their research points to the os as the reason, nothing will change. Remember that if you buy a dell computer and have issues with it who do you call first? Most non computer people call dell first.
I would like to see as many os options available from a hardware vendor. This would tell me that their hardware is good and works well. Home level or non computer tech customer support is going to be an issue. Getting people to switch off of something they are used to is a pain.
Well, she did have quite a large cup size. I didn't really notice until I was older. If given the chance I hook up with her today. Last time I saw a picture of her she was still looking good.
I would like to see microsoft make windows for more then the x86 amd64 chips. I think it would be good for microsoft. Make the os (and other software) work on different chips may help them make more efficient code. They most likely will not do that. They seem to have this of thinking, do one thing and do it well. Too bad someone for the 'do it well' part.
A lot of children do not get the topic that is being taught without repetition. When they get it, the homework is done much faster so the hours of homework become a lot less.
Children should not be deciding what they need to learn. Mostly since home nay children are going to say "Yes, please assign us more homework". Teachers need to be better, yes. But also children need to learn. Many kids do not want to learn. And many adults allow these excuses for children to not learn. The acting out and pointing at ADHD, ADD, and everything else. This was not the case 20 years ago. Children that did this either shaped up or were sent else where. Today, these disruptive children are kept with the regular kids and bring the group as a whole down. What happened? I still blame the parents. For these parents are not doing their job of parenting. The parents will blame everything and everyone but themselves and their children.
Oh, now I see. But now that her PC's sorted, you don't get to see her so often. Reinstall XP, you might get laid...
This doesn't work unless she has other motives. i.e. she wants to make someone else angry, or jealous.
Something worse could happen as well. You could be put on her 'friends' list. The list where you have no chance of ever getting between her legs. I so hate that list.
If one uses those companies, you have a contract. If the contract is broken, there are often legal issues. Those companies may be shady, but if they screw around with your data, you can often go after them in court. Often criminal court.
I am not a fan of lawyers, but you are supposed to do your homework before deciding on outsourcing anything. Even then you get a contract and make sure that everyone sticks to their part of the contract.
No SUV is four feet off the ground from the factory. People who mod their car or truck do so at their own risk
SUV != sports car hence driving at normal speeds they are fine. The same moron that speeds in an SUV would also speed in any other car.
SUVs roll over when put into situations where they should not be. i.e. a SUV will roll if driven off road along a steep hill. News flash: 99.999% of SUVs were not designed to be driven off road. They were designed for a paved road. Look at the ones that were designed to be driven off road. Those models do not roll over.
With backing over a child. You might want to drive some new cars. They have put backup cameras into them for the very reason that you cannot see directly behind you. I saw more behind me in the explorer I had then the altima I have now. That reason goes both ways.
Any car can be safe or unsafe. It depends on the driver of said car. Blanket statements about one class of car is wrong. And BTW, why is it that in some states the insurance rates for SUVs are higher? Because SUVs have a higher chance or surviving an accident. But that survivability comes at the cost of damaging the other car more. That is a quote from 5 different insurance companies.
I will be flamed for this, but the small car rules all thinking is wrong. Some people have a reason for that SUV. I needed a SUV to haul stuff (either the doors, sheet rock, other large things to fix up my place or a friends. The coolers, fishing rods, other fishing or camping stuff for trips). Renting a SUV/truck every weekend did not make sense over owning it and not having to pay the fee every weekend.
I was in 3 accidents while I had the car (12 years). I was rear ended 3 times. So much for the big SUV not seeing other cars, they couldn't see me. Yes my lights were working before and after the accidents, I was stopped at a traffic light for each one. I drove away from each one as well. Not so much for the cars that hit me though.
I still think the current office higher ups are lotus 123 fans. The way that excel 2007 looks is very much like lotus 123 from way back. Since word, power point, and excel are to go hand in hand, they all got a similar interface. Anyone else notice that outlook and publisher did not get the ribbon interface?
I hate the ribbon. If you go from one monitor size to a different one, the ribbon changes what is shown. This can be a big pain to explain to people with smaller monitor resolutions. And let us not forget all the people who hide the ribbon by accident.
Thirded (? is that a word?). I have a fanless 4670. It plays the games I want fine. Not everything is maxed, but I play at 1680X1050 on the monitor fine. I have hooked the computer via hdmi to a 1080p tv and it looked great there as well.
If one does their homework before buying they are usually better off. This machine I was going for tv hdmi connectivity with it being a DVR. So I got a low power (no extra power plug) 4670 and a fanless one for less noise. It plays my games as well as my the 8800gt I have. Granted neither of these cards are new and nor the latest generation. But they work for what I use them for*. I usually plan on a video card lasting 5+ years. So I may buy near the top end when i get it. The thinking is that the card will still be good for some years to come. This new ATI card I would think would still be good 5-6 years from now.
*I am not playing the crysis. I am not a frames per second gamer. I want things to look good and be playable. The games I do play I do not have lag, and everything looks fine. The ATI card does have a better picture then the 8800gt. Which is sad since the 8800gt cost me 4 times what the 4670 did. But the 4670 has 1GB of RAM while the 8800gt has 512MB.
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The 'upgrade' from XP formats the hard drive. Your files may be there but none of your applications will be. From XP, there is no over the top install to get to win 7. From vista, yea there is. Most people I know are going to backup and do a clean install anyway.
I would still rather have 3.5 inch SAS drives then 2.5 inch laptop drives. The laptop drives use less power, but there are plenty of 3.5 inch drives to choose from for large drive sizes. Not so much for laptop drives. Are these real 'server' drives? There is a reason why the SAS drives cost more then the regular sata drives. Server hard drives cost more but they are supposed to be more reliable. I know people have drives that last for years. I too have a 16GB desktop drive that has been on 24/7 365 for over 9 years now. That is not the point. I know that it could fail any day and I should not complain about it. The drive had a 5 year guarantee on it. I would like to see how this machine runs under a long file I/O load. Like 5-6 months worth of high I/O load. If it runs fine and no failures, no one says it is too slow. Then I'll re-evaluate it. I like the size and power use, but if I have to crack open the case and swap out the laptop hard drives a lot, no thank you.
It is and always has been about money. Do you actually think government, states, hospitals, or any company cares if one is gay or straight? It boils down to money. It was believed that homosexual people were more likely to catch/pass on certain diseases. That is when the rules were set. Prove that this is not true and those rules may change. One has to prove that the lifestyle of people who are gay carries no higher risk then those that are straight. Prove that for all and this issue will go away.
Religion is a separate issue. There is supposed to be a separation of 'church' and state in the US. And church can be what ever your religion is. One can still get married and not have to go to a 'church' to make it happen.
The 2009 nissan altima (S and SL models haven't checked the base model) has no external antenna. A lot of newer cars no longer have an external antenna.
For older cars, external antenna: check.
For newer cars, external antenna: not an option.
But the parent's point about the banks making loans to people who never could have afforded them is still valid. The government put pressure on banks to hand out loans to people who could not afford them. Then those bank sold those loans as fast as they could. Often the buyer did not know they were buying a bad thing. The general thinking was that real estate was a sure thing (remember the 1980s real estate boom).
And what studies are you referring to? I saw on TV (CNN ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX) just about the same news piece about the banking failure. All said that the bad loans (people not paying the mortgages) were underlying cause of the housing market bust. Why were people not paying their mortgages? In reality, if you make between 30k-50k a year, you should not be living in a house that sells for 500K+. The old rule was take your income times 2.5 and that is your max amount you can afford. So if someone makes 50k a year, then the high end of a house is 125k. I saw people making less then that signing mortgages for 400k-900k. The loan got approved they said. When the balloon interest rate kicked in, they suddenly cannot afford the payments.
When mortgage shopping, do yourself a favor and price out a fixed rate mortgage as well. You'll notice the payments are different. Then look at you payments 3-5 years down the road. The fixed rate which is still the same payment, might be less then that balloon interest payment.
I know people flipping houses also caused the crash. If someone who makes 50k can have 5-6 mortgages on different properties, the system is screwed up. That should have set off alarms that something is wrong.
I was actually a little angry over the second Transformers film.
I'm normally pretty liberal and all, but WHY was a movie that was marketed so heavily towards children (tons of toys, promotional burger king kids meals, etc.) filled with so much sex and profanity?
Megan Fox is in it. The woman is beautiful. How is her acting? Most do not get past he looks to notice her acting. I think that is what the producers are hoping for.
I saw an interview she did. It was not totally scripted. She seems sort of hung up on herself.
The video slot machines (all the electronic slot machines) are programed to NOT pay out for a certain amount of time. So if you see a machine pay out big, ignore it for the next month or two. That machine will not pay out big again for a while.
Did you ever notice that when one of those machines does pay out big that someone open the machine up and presses a button or two? There is a reason for that.
I think of gambling as donating to the casino. I pick an amount. And only play that amount. If I lose that amount, I stop. If I am ahead, I take back my starting amount and play with their money. I have never played more then $100. It was fun, that is how looked at it.
Such stuff needs to be a felony.
If that is so, then a whole lot of slashdot posters are going to jail.
Anyone remember the old saying "sticks and stone will break my bones, but words will never hurt me" It went something like that. The point is words, unless written into laws are only words. As long as no one acts on those words, do not get worked up over it. Also laws like this are to far reaching. If they stopped at harm and defrauding I would have agreed with the law. Those are things that can be proved easily. The others are harder to prove. There is a huge difference between saying words to threaten someone and pointing a gun in their face. Both are threats or methods of intimidation one is clearly more forceful.
with 5-6 billion US dollars you too can be dating a much hotter girl then you could usually get. Make it $40+ billion and she'll have your children.
Money talks and does make a lot of things easier. This is sad but true.
Dell has been selling redhat on their business computers for a few years now. I would like to see more choices for the home line. The end user IS the one with no power. The end user does not decide which computers dell, hp, or anyone else sells. Those companies do. Unless that company sells no computers and all their research points to the os as the reason, nothing will change. Remember that if you buy a dell computer and have issues with it who do you call first? Most non computer people call dell first.
I would like to see as many os options available from a hardware vendor. This would tell me that their hardware is good and works well. Home level or non computer tech customer support is going to be an issue. Getting people to switch off of something they are used to is a pain.
I'm just assuming that the developers who use MS products, would get some type of protection... Isn't that what MS has always said.
Like keyboard and mouse condoms? Or does a full body condom arrive in the mail with every visual studio purchase?
Well, she did have quite a large cup size. I didn't really notice until I was older. If given the chance I hook up with her today. Last time I saw a picture of her she was still looking good.
So now it is the MacTel dynasty?
I would like to see microsoft make windows for more then the x86 amd64 chips. I think it would be good for microsoft. Make the os (and other software) work on different chips may help them make more efficient code. They most likely will not do that. They seem to have this of thinking, do one thing and do it well. Too bad someone for the 'do it well' part.
As long as we still have the fun aspects of sexuality. Count me in.
A lot of children do not get the topic that is being taught without repetition. When they get it, the homework is done much faster so the hours of homework become a lot less.
Children should not be deciding what they need to learn. Mostly since home nay children are going to say "Yes, please assign us more homework". Teachers need to be better, yes. But also children need to learn. Many kids do not want to learn. And many adults allow these excuses for children to not learn. The acting out and pointing at ADHD, ADD, and everything else. This was not the case 20 years ago. Children that did this either shaped up or were sent else where. Today, these disruptive children are kept with the regular kids and bring the group as a whole down. What happened? I still blame the parents. For these parents are not doing their job of parenting. The parents will blame everything and everyone but themselves and their children.
Oh, now I see. But now that her PC's sorted, you don't get to see her so often. Reinstall XP, you might get laid...
This doesn't work unless she has other motives. i.e. she wants to make someone else angry, or jealous.
Something worse could happen as well. You could be put on her 'friends' list. The list where you have no chance of ever getting between her legs. I so hate that list.
BTW did you know, due to the recession, Social Security is now projected to go bankrupt in 2017? Yay.
No worries. The world will end on Dec 31, 2012 anyway, well according to that calendar anyway.
If one uses those companies, you have a contract. If the contract is broken, there are often legal issues. Those companies may be shady, but if they screw around with your data, you can often go after them in court. Often criminal court.
I am not a fan of lawyers, but you are supposed to do your homework before deciding on outsourcing anything. Even then you get a contract and make sure that everyone sticks to their part of the contract.
Are you certain that when you delete something off of Google's servers that the data was really deleted? Or can Google still access that information?
Many companies have documents that are "trade secrets". Is sharepoint not a document management system?
No SUV is four feet off the ground from the factory. People who mod their car or truck do so at their own risk
SUV != sports car hence driving at normal speeds they are fine. The same moron that speeds in an SUV would also speed in any other car.
SUVs roll over when put into situations where they should not be. i.e. a SUV will roll if driven off road along a steep hill. News flash: 99.999% of SUVs were not designed to be driven off road. They were designed for a paved road. Look at the ones that were designed to be driven off road. Those models do not roll over.
With backing over a child. You might want to drive some new cars. They have put backup cameras into them for the very reason that you cannot see directly behind you. I saw more behind me in the explorer I had then the altima I have now. That reason goes both ways.
Any car can be safe or unsafe. It depends on the driver of said car. Blanket statements about one class of car is wrong. And BTW, why is it that in some states the insurance rates for SUVs are higher? Because SUVs have a higher chance or surviving an accident. But that survivability comes at the cost of damaging the other car more. That is a quote from 5 different insurance companies.
I will be flamed for this, but the small car rules all thinking is wrong. Some people have a reason for that SUV. I needed a SUV to haul stuff (either the doors, sheet rock, other large things to fix up my place or a friends. The coolers, fishing rods, other fishing or camping stuff for trips). Renting a SUV/truck every weekend did not make sense over owning it and not having to pay the fee every weekend.
I was in 3 accidents while I had the car (12 years). I was rear ended 3 times. So much for the big SUV not seeing other cars, they couldn't see me. Yes my lights were working before and after the accidents, I was stopped at a traffic light for each one. I drove away from each one as well. Not so much for the cars that hit me though.
I still think the current office higher ups are lotus 123 fans. The way that excel 2007 looks is very much like lotus 123 from way back. Since word, power point, and excel are to go hand in hand, they all got a similar interface. Anyone else notice that outlook and publisher did not get the ribbon interface?
I hate the ribbon. If you go from one monitor size to a different one, the ribbon changes what is shown. This can be a big pain to explain to people with smaller monitor resolutions. And let us not forget all the people who hide the ribbon by accident.
Thirded (? is that a word?). I have a fanless 4670. It plays the games I want fine. Not everything is maxed, but I play at 1680X1050 on the monitor fine. I have hooked the computer via hdmi to a 1080p tv and it looked great there as well.
If one does their homework before buying they are usually better off. This machine I was going for tv hdmi connectivity with it being a DVR. So I got a low power (no extra power plug) 4670 and a fanless one for less noise. It plays my games as well as my the 8800gt I have. Granted neither of these cards are new and nor the latest generation. But they work for what I use them for*. I usually plan on a video card lasting 5+ years. So I may buy near the top end when i get it. The thinking is that the card will still be good for some years to come. This new ATI card I would think would still be good 5-6 years from now.
*I am not playing the crysis. I am not a frames per second gamer. I want things to look good and be playable. The games I do play I do not have lag, and everything looks fine. The ATI card does have a better picture then the 8800gt. Which is sad since the 8800gt cost me 4 times what the 4670 did. But the 4670 has 1GB of RAM while the 8800gt has 512MB.
Yes, it might cost millions, but then, so do 1000 people chopping plants up all day.
New idea for prison chain gangs?
Judge: You are sentenced to clear 1 mile of route 123 of cogongrass. Your sentence will end when the grass is eradicated from that section of road.
Convict: Great I just got a life sentence of hard labor.
They charge processor per socket not per core.