Of course, 'shill' here means 'person I disagree with'. The fact that Windows 7 will run slower on your ridiculously outdated hardware means utterly fuck all. The fact that you're declaring which Windows version is best despite clearly not having tried Windows 7 says plenty.
I'm a non-partisan user. I have an imac, a linux-booting eeepc & a dual-booting xp/ubuntu main machine. I tried Vista for four days when it was in beta and have never even though about using it again. So I hope some of this qualifies me as a legitimately open-minded end user.
I fucking LOVE Windows 7. I've had one issue since installing it a week ago, and that's that windows installer is buggy as shit. Other than that, the interface is lovely, some of the newer features (which may have been in vista, I don't know) are really useful...top of the list is the integration of the quick launch toolbar into the taskbar, making the difference between a running application and a launch icon disappear. Njice paradigm shift, treating open and closed apps the same way. Windows 7 is fast enough to make that believable...Firefox loads in about a quarter of the time it takes in XP on the same machine. Being able to run a locked Windows Media Center on my TV, which is running as a second monitor, is awesome. Boot time is good, shutdown time ditto, UAC is still a bit annoying, but less so.
They didn't need to fuck around with locations again...i have the way MS redefines all the control panels etc with each release. I don't need to find display settings somewhere new every time I upgrade.
Still, the thing is, who needs an OS that uses on 20MB? Have you priced RAM lately? The fact is that Windows 7 will run comfortably on a pretty cheap MODERN PC. I can't loan linux on my abacus, boo-hoo.
Sigh. No, it's not. It's a weak, ugly, poor imitation of Word, at best. Seriously, have a look at Word 2007 and OpenOffice side by side. Now I'm no M$ shill or fanboy, I boot to Ubuntu or XP depending on my needs at the time. There are a number of things that are just fine in Linux, but Word shits all over OpenOffice for functionality, ease of use, features, aesthetics, and just about everything else.
I suspect a lot has to do with your role within IT, but I used to be a fairly low-level network admin (no relevant degree), and when I decided to pursue an unrelated graduate degree I had to give up on IT work, there was simply nothing, NOTHING even advertised for part-time work at my level. I still keep an eye out, but I've been doing accounting work for three years now...yay for me.
Read the parent, no keyboard...I guess you could copy and paste each letter you needed from the webpages available, but that needs right-click too, so you're no better off.
I manage a team of payment processing staff who do work for superannuation companies, local councils, payroll companies, etc, and we process around 17,000 cheques every evening, which is roughly three metric fucktons. We're one of nine offices in the country, one of many such companies, and I'm in Australia, which has a population of about eighty people, I think. There are lots of cheques, they're just not part of most slashdotters' lives.
Why is it that everyone assumes Hitler would've died a peaceful, quiet painter if he'd been better at art? Is there some reason that a more successful artist couldn't develop fascist, racist viewpoints? Or that all anyone needs is an outlet? You don't think young Adolf had like-minded friends to talk to, or vent at? You think that an anti-semite couldn't find a sympathetic ear in Germany in the 1920s? No, the internet generally reinforces horrible viewpoints, because no matter how horrid or weird your thing is, you can find a community of like-minded asshats to make you feel normal. I certainly don't remember furries being a loud and proud part of the community before the internet. I've been exposed to more nazi, jew-hating, gay-baiting, misogynistic, racist, ignorant guff on the internet than I could hope to find in a thousand lifetimes in meatspace.
And while I'm at it, can't people qualify what kind of Nobel winner in the headline? Peace, literature and physics winners command varying levels of respect from me, and this sort of opinion would be more interesting if it came from an economics winner, for example.
In fact, I can only think of one ISP in Australia - Optus - who *isn't* purely domestic...although a few like Dodo have NZ operations, but you'd hardly pull out of Australia and rely on NZ business.
Yes, I do have 10,000 sheep. But this land is common, I have a right to let them all graze there if I want to.
Sorry, your internet connection is part of the commons? Mine is paid for privately, and I can graze all the fuck I want on the paddock that I rented FOR GRAZING.
Most of the wealth in this country (and indeed most of the world) is concentrated with men who are over the age of 50-60 years. When they die, that wealth is then redistributed.
When they die, their wealth is generally redistributed between their 1-2 offspring. The good thing about that is that you rarely get more than two consecutive generations of savvy businessmen in the one line. I used to work for an old guy whose business was managed by his son, and whose grandson was learning the ropes. Every time the idiot grandson walked past, he'd shake his head sadly and say "the grandson always loses the fucking lot"
Al Capone - racketeer, murderer, bootlegger, etc was convicted of tax evasion. I've told a couple of small fibs on tax returns in the past, but I don't expect to be given jail time for it - sometimes the law has to work around its own limitations to convict someone who has taken morally reprehensible actions that it lacks the power to punish directly. I have no more fear of being charged for using a fake name to register at a website (which I do regularly) than I do of serving a prison sentence for my minor tax infractions.
Stenography is what happens in court rooms, stenanography is the hiding of messages in plain sight.
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In general, I agree with your comment...but low female numbers in math, engineering etc are unavoidable in any society where people are free to choose their careers. The reality is that not nearly as many girls as boys are interested in engineering, math and so on. Call me whatever name you like, but the evidence is there in bucketloads.
Sorry, but that is NOT on "what's considered a very good plan for Australia". You have a "very good plan for people who don't bother trying".
You get 10Mbps down.....I get 22Mbps.
You get 256kbps up......I get 1Mbps.
You get 20GB peak.......I get 40GB peak.
You get 40GB off-peak...I get 110GB off-peak.
So, you have half the downstream, a quarter of the upstream, half of the peak downloads, a quarter of the off-peak downloads...oh, and it's the SAME PRICE and I have had no downtime in over a year.
Your grandfather deal that you're so lucky to be allowed to stay on is being undercut massively by deals on billboards and in whole page newspaper ads. You need to get out more.
In 'The Blank Slate' Stephen Pinker makes a good case for liberal/conservative viewpoints coming from essentially different views of human nature: the left comes from the utopian vision that says we're all capable of being wonderful and altruistic and it's society that teaches us to be otherwise. Conservatives come from the tragic vision that has us all ready to kill our neighbours for their gold and women and it's only society that teaches us to be otherwise. These results fit perfectly with that theory. Conservatives feel that others would love to do them harm, liberals think that deep down nobody wants to hurt them. All of the above is massively, probably offensively simplified for brevity, but is not an attempt to flame either group.
What the fuck is a 'correct word'? It's a simple myth that people not conforming to your dialect are uneducated. Often their 'low' talk is more functional than your 'proper' speech. For example, Standard English has to use the same word "you" for both singular and plural second person pronouns, whereas 'uneducated' people have "youse" or "y'all" available for the plural. Your method of sorting people is nothing more than poorly informed elitism. As for your question of how to sort people, if you can't sort them by the content of their words, then you're clearly not part of the educated set.
You're a lot braver than I am...it's one thing to 'fess up to watching porn, or lots of it, to but knowing details of the TOS of "many porn and hentai sites"...wow. Good for you.
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Of course, 'shill' here means 'person I disagree with'. The fact that Windows 7 will run slower on your ridiculously outdated hardware means utterly fuck all. The fact that you're declaring which Windows version is best despite clearly not having tried Windows 7 says plenty. I'm a non-partisan user. I have an imac, a linux-booting eeepc & a dual-booting xp/ubuntu main machine. I tried Vista for four days when it was in beta and have never even though about using it again. So I hope some of this qualifies me as a legitimately open-minded end user. I fucking LOVE Windows 7. I've had one issue since installing it a week ago, and that's that windows installer is buggy as shit. Other than that, the interface is lovely, some of the newer features (which may have been in vista, I don't know) are really useful...top of the list is the integration of the quick launch toolbar into the taskbar, making the difference between a running application and a launch icon disappear. Njice paradigm shift, treating open and closed apps the same way. Windows 7 is fast enough to make that believable...Firefox loads in about a quarter of the time it takes in XP on the same machine. Being able to run a locked Windows Media Center on my TV, which is running as a second monitor, is awesome. Boot time is good, shutdown time ditto, UAC is still a bit annoying, but less so. They didn't need to fuck around with locations again...i have the way MS redefines all the control panels etc with each release. I don't need to find display settings somewhere new every time I upgrade. Still, the thing is, who needs an OS that uses on 20MB? Have you priced RAM lately? The fact is that Windows 7 will run comfortably on a pretty cheap MODERN PC. I can't loan linux on my abacus, boo-hoo.
Sigh. No, it's not. It's a weak, ugly, poor imitation of Word, at best. Seriously, have a look at Word 2007 and OpenOffice side by side. Now I'm no M$ shill or fanboy, I boot to Ubuntu or XP depending on my needs at the time. There are a number of things that are just fine in Linux, but Word shits all over OpenOffice for functionality, ease of use, features, aesthetics, and just about everything else.
I have a really sweet desktop machine with 2x24" monitors, and my desk has wheels, making it roughly as portable as an 11lb laptop.
I suspect a lot has to do with your role within IT, but I used to be a fairly low-level network admin (no relevant degree), and when I decided to pursue an unrelated graduate degree I had to give up on IT work, there was simply nothing, NOTHING even advertised for part-time work at my level. I still keep an eye out, but I've been doing accounting work for three years now...yay for me.
Read the parent, no keyboard...I guess you could copy and paste each letter you needed from the webpages available, but that needs right-click too, so you're no better off.
I manage a team of payment processing staff who do work for superannuation companies, local councils, payroll companies, etc, and we process around 17,000 cheques every evening, which is roughly three metric fucktons. We're one of nine offices in the country, one of many such companies, and I'm in Australia, which has a population of about eighty people, I think. There are lots of cheques, they're just not part of most slashdotters' lives.
Why is it that everyone assumes Hitler would've died a peaceful, quiet painter if he'd been better at art? Is there some reason that a more successful artist couldn't develop fascist, racist viewpoints? Or that all anyone needs is an outlet? You don't think young Adolf had like-minded friends to talk to, or vent at? You think that an anti-semite couldn't find a sympathetic ear in Germany in the 1920s? No, the internet generally reinforces horrible viewpoints, because no matter how horrid or weird your thing is, you can find a community of like-minded asshats to make you feel normal. I certainly don't remember furries being a loud and proud part of the community before the internet. I've been exposed to more nazi, jew-hating, gay-baiting, misogynistic, racist, ignorant guff on the internet than I could hope to find in a thousand lifetimes in meatspace. And while I'm at it, can't people qualify what kind of Nobel winner in the headline? Peace, literature and physics winners command varying levels of respect from me, and this sort of opinion would be more interesting if it came from an economics winner, for example.
In fact, I can only think of one ISP in Australia - Optus - who *isn't* purely domestic...although a few like Dodo have NZ operations, but you'd hardly pull out of Australia and rely on NZ business.
Yes, I do have 10,000 sheep. But this land is common, I have a right to let them all graze there if I want to.
Sorry, your internet connection is part of the commons? Mine is paid for privately, and I can graze all the fuck I want on the paddock that I rented FOR GRAZING.
When they die, their wealth is generally redistributed between their 1-2 offspring. The good thing about that is that you rarely get more than two consecutive generations of savvy businessmen in the one line.
I used to work for an old guy whose business was managed by his son, and whose grandson was learning the ropes. Every time the idiot grandson walked past, he'd shake his head sadly and say "the grandson always loses the fucking lot"
Informative, really? I lol'd but can't say I flt informed by Hawking Eyeball Laser information.
She most certainly DID misrepresent herself, she agreed to a contract that told her to behave in a certain way.
Al Capone - racketeer, murderer, bootlegger, etc was convicted of tax evasion. I've told a couple of small fibs on tax returns in the past, but I don't expect to be given jail time for it - sometimes the law has to work around its own limitations to convict someone who has taken morally reprehensible actions that it lacks the power to punish directly. I have no more fear of being charged for using a fake name to register at a website (which I do regularly) than I do of serving a prison sentence for my minor tax infractions.
I had a feeling I was correcting with my own mistake, thanks for the correction.
Stenography is what happens in court rooms, stenanography is the hiding of messages in plain sight.
In general, I agree with your comment...but low female numbers in math, engineering etc are unavoidable in any society where people are free to choose their careers. The reality is that not nearly as many girls as boys are interested in engineering, math and so on. Call me whatever name you like, but the evidence is there in bucketloads.
Too good to be recent, this story is from August, 2005. Nice one!
Why on Earth must Australia be following English Contract Law? We've had our own set of statutes for quite some time now.
TPG, chief, it's the only option.
Sorry, but that is NOT on "what's considered a very good plan for Australia". You have a "very good plan for people who don't bother trying".
You get 10Mbps down.....I get 22Mbps.
You get 256kbps up......I get 1Mbps.
You get 20GB peak.......I get 40GB peak.
You get 40GB off-peak...I get 110GB off-peak.
So, you have half the downstream, a quarter of the upstream, half of the peak downloads, a quarter of the off-peak downloads...oh, and it's the SAME PRICE and I have had no downtime in over a year. Your grandfather deal that you're so lucky to be allowed to stay on is being undercut massively by deals on billboards and in whole page newspaper ads. You need to get out more.
In 'The Blank Slate' Stephen Pinker makes a good case for liberal/conservative viewpoints coming from essentially different views of human nature: the left comes from the utopian vision that says we're all capable of being wonderful and altruistic and it's society that teaches us to be otherwise. Conservatives come from the tragic vision that has us all ready to kill our neighbours for their gold and women and it's only society that teaches us to be otherwise.
These results fit perfectly with that theory. Conservatives feel that others would love to do them harm, liberals think that deep down nobody wants to hurt them.
All of the above is massively, probably offensively simplified for brevity, but is not an attempt to flame either group.
What the fuck is a 'correct word'? It's a simple myth that people not conforming to your dialect are uneducated. Often their 'low' talk is more functional than your 'proper' speech. For example, Standard English has to use the same word "you" for both singular and plural second person pronouns, whereas 'uneducated' people have "youse" or "y'all" available for the plural.
Your method of sorting people is nothing more than poorly informed elitism. As for your question of how to sort people, if you can't sort them by the content of their words, then you're clearly not part of the educated set.
The AC is actually quoting an Italian American character from Johnny Dangerously
It's not over yet, you can watch for trouble here
You're a lot braver than I am...it's one thing to 'fess up to watching porn, or lots of it, to but knowing details of the TOS of "many porn and hentai sites"...wow. Good for you.