I find it funny (and somewhat sad) rather than silly. Someone thinks that somehow we must grant those things we deem worthy the rights that we created...even though the dolphins themselves have more rights than we do: 1. They can leave their nest whenever they want (curfew) 2. Eat whatever they like without government stamp of approval 3. Swim as fast as they want without some shark or whale pulling them over and issuing a citation 4. They can literally kill to protect something/someone and not have to sit on a stand to defend their position to their peers...
I imagine they will somehow forcibly apply those rights to the dolphins through (our) extra taxation and special underwater reserve pens built to protect the dolphins from their own choices.
Sadly, that's how many think. I'm afraid of what these people think "giving the dolphins rights" even means. The only dolphins without undisturbed rights are the ones that are not trained to entertain and the only way to find out if they like that life is to ask them...
I just don't understand how you can "give" an already free animal (entertaining ones excluded...) rights.
I think GP was referring to the bastardization of the language more than the content of the post.
Loose vs. Lose, catagory vs. category, formated vs formatted. I'm ignoring the missing letters, but it's still fun to read it as written. I am a little confused how one would "formate" a drive though.
I did give it a chance, it doesn't matter, I still have the same number of clicks for all my media that would all still be in the same folder. Libraries would make no difference. I don't understand how you think putting my media folder in a library will somehow magically make it contain less folders that I personally went through and organized. I don't like having a single folder of a million media files to dig through. I don't understand how you don't see this in what I said. I have my own organization. It works and libraries do jack shit for me. Period. Call me all the names in the book that you like, it still won't make you more intelligent or make libraries any more appealing. I'll still have 3-4 clicks to open my Media/Sounds/Songs/Playlist or Library/Sounds/Songs/Playlist.
I don't usually have to "manually" search anyway... I know where I put my files, but occasionally I install a program and they install a file to either the install path or they put it in the profiles folder. Sometimes it's easier to do a simple search of the profiles to see if it's in there (all users/my profile) and I don't need/want indexing and search building enabled all the time.
There are a few odd times when I search the whole system, but the occurrences of that are once (maybe twice) at year at most.
To tell you the truth, my biggest complaint is that the search/address bar at the top of the windows is not easily customizable/movable as it was in XP. It feels like a step backward. I'd prefer if I had one bar at the top of my windows and that's not possible without removing features I find handy (the file menu for one...) I previously posted a shot of my explorer in XP with the File menu, back/forward buttons and the address bar all on one line and it works GREAT for me. I no longer have it, don't feel like making another to post and I can't seem to find that link again, so you'll just have to imagine it.
I bought a full version and installed it to the SSD then registered it. I still get popups that it's not legal even though I've activated it three times. The last one was a call to Microsoft while the first were Internet activations.
I disabled the search because I didn't want the search at the top of the window and the file indexing going on all the time and with that disabled, you can't search at all. There's no fallback to a generic folder by folder search (like XP search...)
You completely missed one of his main points. Different people use their PC in different ways. If I wanted to type in a command to run my apps, I'd have a command line window glued in the middle of my screen.
As far as libraries, it's not about mis-information. I have a folder on my machine that contains all my media that I care to listen to on that machine. I do not have network drives, I do not need network drives, and I don't have my files all spread out in every third folder that I downloaded them to at one time. I keep my folders organized and keep everything within three to four clicks.
That's how I use my PC and frankly, I find the argument: "Learn the new way, it's better than the old!" a bit tiresome. It's also usually spoken in a condescending manner. Especially from people like you (I'm feeling) who can't understand that people have preferences and we are not cookie cutter versions of you.
Well, yeah. I don't think I've ever had an operating system "nag me" before. What does that even mean?
Apparently you've never used XP. Anyone who has used XP knows exactly what I'm talking about.
"You have unused icons on your desktop!"
"You need to reboot to apply updates!"
Constant baloon pop-ups from the lower-right about anything and everything, mostly crap you don't care about. Having to constantly wait to shut-down because the OS decided you have extra time and don't need to be anywhere right now, so it can do stuff it wants to on your time.
"Your version of Windows may not be legal..."
"I can see you want to put file in this plugin folder... you need to open this as admin to do that!" (We don't, but you do!)
Windows XP never nagged me with the stuff you mention because I turned it off. I cannot seem to turn off this nagging Windows 7 re-register my PC for the fourth time message. (Yes, I'm fully legal with my version, but somehow Windows keep thinking I'm not!)
Also, I do get those reboot messages in Windows 7, only they moved it to the restart process... and don't even get me started on the fact that I came back to my PC the next time and fired it up to see that some update couldn't install and the machine just sits in a constant reboot loop. You think it would let me skip that one update? No way!
I've been using it for months at home. Still use XP at work though because it just does what I need it to. (And I've had the option to upgrade three times now...) The Explorer in XP allows me to see the treeview lines and organize my files better. I can't stand the libraries functionality for Windows 7... but I'm a bit controlling when it comes to putting files where I want and not where the OS thinks I should put them. I've also pretty much resorted to using Classic Shell at home because I couldn't stand having to search for everything all the time.
I bought it to support my >4G RAM on my latest gaming PC build, and sure... TRIM support, but I can't even tell if it's working as I couldn't get Windows 7 to install unless I used my SSD on my RAID controller and it definitely didn't see my drive when I put it on AHCI. It's not any faster than my old XP build and it's sometimes even slower. The only things I notice that are faster are because I put a damn SSD in it. I do like the pinning so I can keep whatever game of the week is on my list, but I rarely use the search at the top of the window so I disabled it and now I can't even do a simple folder search without turning back on the indexer which I do not want!
Another thing I can't stand is being told my windows is not legal in about 50 different places. I've registered my copy... go the hell away Microsoft. Funny thing is, it's fine after reboot, and a few hours of gaming later I return to my desktop and the little warning shows up in the corner.
Other than start menu pinning, and the hardware support, I haven't found a thing that this does better. I use Windows for gaming and Linux on my laptop for my general PC tasks. As far as I'm concerned Win7 could almost be a black screen a Steam button for me... if all my games were on Steam.
You mean the "Internet" doesn't cache all communication so that they can be pulled up easily by dumping the cache on someone's webcam to get the feed sent 3 weeks ago like they say on NCIS?
(Sorry, I always have a laugh when they start doing that...)
I do go out... all the time. I go out and go to work (I even take the stairs up to the third floor office,) I go out and go to the bar some weekends, I regularly go out with REAL people to eat at times too. GASP!. I don't sit at my PC constantly and I don't know where you got that idea.
First, of course, is the "zOMG, only governments are capable of regulation and/or oppression, free markets are free as in freedom, all historical evidence to the contrary!" brigade.
I'm not quite sure I'm reading this right, but you do know that our government has had a history of selective oppression, right? Japanese Americans during the last World War, the Native Americans... to name the two big ones I can think of. That's not even getting into the whole new "Terrorism" and Gitmo side of things. If they can tie something to National Security, they can/have get away with far too much.
As a side note... I found when I was heavily into MMOs, I actually lost weight. Crazy, I know... but I wasn't sitting on the couch with a bag of chips in one hand because that would get my keyboard and mouse all nasty. I actually ate better (less junk food) when I was playing because carrots weren't as greasy, I had bought more food from the grocery store so I had more time to play (didn't have to get in the car and run to Wendy's) and could grab a sandwich when I was hungry.
If you can track and model every player on the soccer field, it makes it that much easier to track and model every person in an airport, busy street... just guessing on that.
I was trying to find a nice way to calculate tax based on item cost (it would encourage companies to keep costs lower too) but it's tough not having an upper bounds...
As a crude example: $1 items would be taxed at, say,.01% and $1000 items would be taxed at 10% but that quickly gets bad for $1 million dollar items.;)
I always wondered what it would be like if we gave Congress a giant pie charts instead of monetary figures. Every time they wanted to spend money they were given a percentage figure by a calculator and they would have to shrink other pie pieces to make it fit...
We'd have a branch set of charts. One is simply Domestic and Foreign and the others list the subparts of those two. Any change in spending for each chart would require a 2/3 approval as well as any change in the Domestic/Foreign chart.
Congressmen would not know how many actual dollars go to each program by looking at it, but maybe the top 10 items would be listed by percentage next to it. I'm sure some will be able to use a calculator and figure out the raw dollar value, but the purpose of the pie chart is to be able to see at all times where the bulk of their spending is going. It will make the "big budget" items giant targets for allocating to new projects.
There may also be a fourth chart for average taxes taken from their citizens to remind them how much they are taking (if we had a uniform tax code, this chart may have more weight... but whatever.)
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I find it funny (and somewhat sad) rather than silly. Someone thinks that somehow we must grant those things we deem worthy the rights that we created...even though the dolphins themselves have more rights than we do: ...
1. They can leave their nest whenever they want (curfew)
2. Eat whatever they like without government stamp of approval
3. Swim as fast as they want without some shark or whale pulling them over and issuing a citation
4. They can literally kill to protect something/someone and not have to sit on a stand to defend their position to their peers
I imagine they will somehow forcibly apply those rights to the dolphins through (our) extra taxation and special underwater reserve pens built to protect the dolphins from their own choices.
Sadly, that's how many think. I'm afraid of what these people think "giving the dolphins rights" even means. The only dolphins without undisturbed rights are the ones that are not trained to entertain and the only way to find out if they like that life is to ask them...
I just don't understand how you can "give" an already free animal (entertaining ones excluded...) rights.
I think GP was referring to the bastardization of the language more than the content of the post.
Loose vs. Lose, catagory vs. category, formated vs formatted. I'm ignoring the missing letters, but it's still fun to read it as written. I am a little confused how one would "formate" a drive though.
Yep, I'm still rockin' my good old Pentium non-MMX 200MHz! It's a beaut!
None of them new fangled processors with their hyper-threadamajigs or any of that nonsense!
And people tell me the Linux community is full of asses...
I did give it a chance, it doesn't matter, I still have the same number of clicks for all my media that would all still be in the same folder. Libraries would make no difference. I don't understand how you think putting my media folder in a library will somehow magically make it contain less folders that I personally went through and organized. I don't like having a single folder of a million media files to dig through. I don't understand how you don't see this in what I said. I have my own organization. It works and libraries do jack shit for me. Period. Call me all the names in the book that you like, it still won't make you more intelligent or make libraries any more appealing. I'll still have 3-4 clicks to open my Media/Sounds/Songs/Playlist or Library/Sounds/Songs/Playlist.
Hey! That's how I cook things that are too big to fit in the microwave.
I don't usually have to "manually" search anyway... I know where I put my files, but occasionally I install a program and they install a file to either the install path or they put it in the profiles folder. Sometimes it's easier to do a simple search of the profiles to see if it's in there (all users/my profile) and I don't need/want indexing and search building enabled all the time.
There are a few odd times when I search the whole system, but the occurrences of that are once (maybe twice) at year at most.
To tell you the truth, my biggest complaint is that the search/address bar at the top of the windows is not easily customizable/movable as it was in XP. It feels like a step backward. I'd prefer if I had one bar at the top of my windows and that's not possible without removing features I find handy (the file menu for one...) I previously posted a shot of my explorer in XP with the File menu, back/forward buttons and the address bar all on one line and it works GREAT for me. I no longer have it, don't feel like making another to post and I can't seem to find that link again, so you'll just have to imagine it.
I bought a full version and installed it to the SSD then registered it. I still get popups that it's not legal even though I've activated it three times. The last one was a call to Microsoft while the first were Internet activations.
I disabled the search because I didn't want the search at the top of the window and the file indexing going on all the time and with that disabled, you can't search at all. There's no fallback to a generic folder by folder search (like XP search...)
You completely missed one of his main points. Different people use their PC in different ways. If I wanted to type in a command to run my apps, I'd have a command line window glued in the middle of my screen.
As far as libraries, it's not about mis-information. I have a folder on my machine that contains all my media that I care to listen to on that machine. I do not have network drives, I do not need network drives, and I don't have my files all spread out in every third folder that I downloaded them to at one time. I keep my folders organized and keep everything within three to four clicks.
That's how I use my PC and frankly, I find the argument: "Learn the new way, it's better than the old!" a bit tiresome. It's also usually spoken in a condescending manner. Especially from people like you (I'm feeling) who can't understand that people have preferences and we are not cookie cutter versions of you.
Secondly, you don't NEED to search - hit windows then type what you want in the search bar and it's RIGHT THERE.
How is that not having to search for something? You even called it a search bar...
Well, yeah. I don't think I've ever had an operating system "nag me" before. What does that even mean?
Apparently you've never used XP. Anyone who has used XP knows exactly what I'm talking about.
"You have unused icons on your desktop!"
"You need to reboot to apply updates!"
Constant baloon pop-ups from the lower-right about anything and everything, mostly crap you don't care about. Having to constantly wait to shut-down because the OS decided you have extra time and don't need to be anywhere right now, so it can do stuff it wants to on your time.
"Your version of Windows may not be legal..."
"I can see you want to put file in this plugin folder... you need to open this as admin to do that!" (We don't, but you do!)
Windows XP never nagged me with the stuff you mention because I turned it off. I cannot seem to turn off this nagging Windows 7 re-register my PC for the fourth time message. (Yes, I'm fully legal with my version, but somehow Windows keep thinking I'm not!)
Also, I do get those reboot messages in Windows 7, only they moved it to the restart process... and don't even get me started on the fact that I came back to my PC the next time and fired it up to see that some update couldn't install and the machine just sits in a constant reboot loop. You think it would let me skip that one update? No way!
I've been using it for months at home. Still use XP at work though because it just does what I need it to. (And I've had the option to upgrade three times now...) The Explorer in XP allows me to see the treeview lines and organize my files better. I can't stand the libraries functionality for Windows 7... but I'm a bit controlling when it comes to putting files where I want and not where the OS thinks I should put them. I've also pretty much resorted to using Classic Shell at home because I couldn't stand having to search for everything all the time.
Can I be the second person?
I bought it to support my >4G RAM on my latest gaming PC build, and sure... TRIM support, but I can't even tell if it's working as I couldn't get Windows 7 to install unless I used my SSD on my RAID controller and it definitely didn't see my drive when I put it on AHCI. It's not any faster than my old XP build and it's sometimes even slower. The only things I notice that are faster are because I put a damn SSD in it. I do like the pinning so I can keep whatever game of the week is on my list, but I rarely use the search at the top of the window so I disabled it and now I can't even do a simple folder search without turning back on the indexer which I do not want!
Another thing I can't stand is being told my windows is not legal in about 50 different places. I've registered my copy... go the hell away Microsoft. Funny thing is, it's fine after reboot, and a few hours of gaming later I return to my desktop and the little warning shows up in the corner.
Other than start menu pinning, and the hardware support, I haven't found a thing that this does better. I use Windows for gaming and Linux on my laptop for my general PC tasks. As far as I'm concerned Win7 could almost be a black screen a Steam button for me... if all my games were on Steam.
I know it's a joke, but could you imagine TSA approaching luggage with that many number wheels "with all those strange codes on them"?
You'd never be able to go anywhere by plane simply because you'd spend so much time in security.
Obviously, they are talking about buying bonds in a steel company.
You mean the "Internet" doesn't cache all communication so that they can be pulled up easily by dumping the cache on someone's webcam to get the feed sent 3 weeks ago like they say on NCIS?
(Sorry, I always have a laugh when they start doing that...)
It's only free if you devalue your soul. ;)
I think there are actually two points of thought in that post.
It's a shame paragraphs weren't invented.
Hey, we are paying for "gitmo" (aren't we?)... may as well get some use out of it!
I do go out... all the time. I go out and go to work (I even take the stairs up to the third floor office,) I go out and go to the bar some weekends, I regularly go out with REAL people to eat at times too. GASP!. I don't sit at my PC constantly and I don't know where you got that idea.
First, of course, is the "zOMG, only governments are capable of regulation and/or oppression, free markets are free as in freedom, all historical evidence to the contrary!" brigade.
I'm not quite sure I'm reading this right, but you do know that our government has had a history of selective oppression, right? Japanese Americans during the last World War, the Native Americans... to name the two big ones I can think of. That's not even getting into the whole new "Terrorism" and Gitmo side of things. If they can tie something to National Security, they can/have get away with far too much.
As a side note... I found when I was heavily into MMOs, I actually lost weight. Crazy, I know... but I wasn't sitting on the couch with a bag of chips in one hand because that would get my keyboard and mouse all nasty. I actually ate better (less junk food) when I was playing because carrots weren't as greasy, I had bought more food from the grocery store so I had more time to play (didn't have to get in the car and run to Wendy's) and could grab a sandwich when I was hungry.
If you can track and model every player on the soccer field, it makes it that much easier to track and model every person in an airport, busy street... just guessing on that.
I was trying to find a nice way to calculate tax based on item cost (it would encourage companies to keep costs lower too) but it's tough not having an upper bounds...
As a crude example: $1 items would be taxed at, say, .01% and $1000 items would be taxed at 10% but that quickly gets bad for $1 million dollar items. ;)
I always wondered what it would be like if we gave Congress a giant pie charts instead of monetary figures. Every time they wanted to spend money they were given a percentage figure by a calculator and they would have to shrink other pie pieces to make it fit...
We'd have a branch set of charts. One is simply Domestic and Foreign and the others list the subparts of those two. Any change in spending for each chart would require a 2/3 approval as well as any change in the Domestic/Foreign chart.
Congressmen would not know how many actual dollars go to each program by looking at it, but maybe the top 10 items would be listed by percentage next to it. I'm sure some will be able to use a calculator and figure out the raw dollar value, but the purpose of the pie chart is to be able to see at all times where the bulk of their spending is going. It will make the "big budget" items giant targets for allocating to new projects.
There may also be a fourth chart for average taxes taken from their citizens to remind them how much they are taking (if we had a uniform tax code, this chart may have more weight... but whatever.)