I can't read Michael Crichton's books any more. Sphere almost drove me insane. That man is way too good a writer, his shit sucks me in and I can't put the damned book down... and then I'm freaked out for a week after I finish it. Just say no to Crackton! It's been years since I've read him *shudder*
Incidentally, I think Ive found a good way of figuring out which posters have a clue: those who say that their product / OS / device is the best option for all scenarios, dont.
I've generally found that to be true.
There are reasons to choose Windows over linux. Reason the first: Exchange.
I have no use for Exchange, so er, which camp are you in? As to Windows on the desktop, for most enterprises, Windows may be the best choice. For a non-gaming home user? Linux beats Windows hands down. For a hipster with a lot of money? Apple, obviously.
Please tell me what advantage Windows gives ME, a user with an XP box (because EAC won't run on the other two computers), a Windows 7 (not pro) box, and a kubuntu box? Linux lets me network all three, even though the Windows 7 docs say I have to have W7pro on the network for it to connect. Windows 7 has some glaring deficiencies compared to kubuntu, please inform me why you think Windows is superior?
Honestly, I'm in the market for just a plain 1:1 ripoff of win7's interface.
Then just don't install Linux. If you like Windows and it suits your needs, why switch? After all, it's already on the computer!
Me, I don't like Windows. There is a lot of stuff missing, and even more stuff I consider ass-backwards. If I'd been happy with Windows, I would have never switched.
Math doesn't apply. Lawrence Lessig took copyright lengths all the way to the SCOTUS, who ruled that "limited times" means whatever Congress says it means. The only way to get is changed is with legislation -- and good luck with THAT.
I had an Acer with (I believe) the very same bug you mentioned. That one was stolen, I bought a newer model and the bug was fixed on that one, as well as a couple of other things (like the power button being too easy to hit by accident; a design flaw, not a bug).
I've been through both a cat 2 hurricane and a strong F2 tornado, and your description of an F3's damage is not in the least accurate. One commercial building was half gone and huge steel girders twisted like putty. two meter diameter trees uprooted. Roofs impaled by other roofs. A walk-in beer coolers torn from a bar. Buildings built out of concrete blocks destroyed. I left a link to a journal about both experiences further down, if you're interested in a first-hand account of what it's like to be in a hurricane and tornado.
The thing is, being inside a tornado is like being inside a giant blender with sticks and rocks and dead animals and splintered wood and even cars acting as the blender's blades.
An F5? Man, I would NOT want to be in one of those! I don't even want to be in any tornado again.
The worry isn't facebook and amazon, the worry is your iTunes collection, family photos, enterprise data stored in the cloud, etc.
As to the question posed, I'd say only if the folks who built the data centers were idiots. If they were competent the building itself will withstand high winds and be high enough for flooding not to occur, and will have a backup power supply or two.
Of course, if a tornado rips through (as often happens in hurricanes), nothing is safe. I was in one in 2006 (and in a hurricane in 1972) and the destruction after a tornado is something photographs and descriptions cannot possibly convey. I saw the side of a commercial building missing, with its massive steel girders twisted like they were nothing. Six foot diameter trees uprooted. Electrical transformers in treetops. Roofs impaling other roofs. Wooden splinters driven into concrete.
The only silver lining in a tornado's cloud is that their footprints are very small compared to hurricanes.
I'm more concerned with assuming that someone receiving money in some way is automatically considered a shill.
Occam's razor comes into play. Simply state "disclaimer: I am an employee of Acme Computers" and you're upfront, and therefore not a shill.
The history of the word "shill" is interesting. Carnival workers and magicians used shills. The magician would "read" the shill's mind, the shill would win a big prize at the rigged ring toss game. The whole idea of a shill is that they work for who they're benefitting, without admitting they were a shill. If people knew they were shills, the magician's trick would be no good and the ring toss guy wouldn't get as many or any customers.
So yes, if you praise your employer without letting your audience know you work for him, you ARE a shill, and it doesn't matter that you are giving an honest opinion. You're still shilling.
What other OS will run on anything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer? It's also far more tolerant of hardware faults than Windows (possibly Mac but a dual boot Mac guy will have to answer that). I've had several computers dual-boot that got flaky when on the Windows side while Linux ran flawlessly, until the computer quit working at all.
I haven't had problems with drivers in Linux for over five years. I have old hardware that either didn't work under Linux, or worked minimally, that now work flawlessly. The Linux devs deserve our appreciation!
He didn't misinterpret and misconstrue, he amplified to rediculous proportions to open your eyes to the fact that people don't want to be stalked. Why is it illegal for my ex-wife to stalk me, but OK for a website to?
It's probably not a good idea to invent any new words, especially insults, ending -igger.
Indeed, anyone who has ever had chigger bites don't want to think about it!
And these insects are no bigger than a mosquito's eye. Their bites always trigger a nasty rash. If you're a ditch digger you're likely to get bites. Nobody's ever managed to jigger up a good way to treat those bites.
Roberts legislated from the bench when he decided to make a political rather than legal decision, effectively handing the presidency to Romney.
Whose own Massachusetts health car bill Obamacare was based on? And that's the single thing people will be voting for this election? The economy has no part of it? The fact that Romney was getting rich by shipping jobs overseas and destroying American companies? The Romney that has the same MBA as the President who crashed the economy and started the mess we're in? The Romney who refuses to loose his tax returns? The Romney who said "I like to fire people?" The Romney who just yesterday made the same stupid mistake the mass murderer in Wisconsin did? The same Romney whose plan to fix the economy is to tax the middle class more and himself less? The same Romney that pissed fourigners off with his retarded statements about their countries when he was visiting them? The same Romney who seems even more like Bush than Obama does?
Have you seen the polls? Last I saw, Romney was only ahead in one of the swing states, and those are the states that will decide the election. What does Romney have going for him, besides the fact that he was the least insane and evil of all the other Republican candidates?
Acer specializes in making the cheapest crap you can buy without getting eMachines
I've had my Acer notebook for about a year and have had no problems. It's even fallen from the couch to the wood floor without damage. My mom has had the same eMachine computer for ten yars now (she's 84). She's happy with her eMachine and I'm happy with my Acer, snob.
You sound like a Porche owner talking about Fords and Chevys. I'd much rather have my Acer and buy two more just like it for my twentysomething daughters than a single Apple notebook.
Most hardware vendors are Microsoft's bitch, and they have NO ONE to blame but themselves
Wrong, the hardware vendors have IBM to blame. When IBM's PC came out, it was THE business PC. Home PCs were a tiny market then. By the time Compaq cloned the IBM's BIOS, it was hard to sell a computer without DOS.
It wasn't until five or ten years ago that there was a viable replacement for Windows.
How to get quality software to Linux. There is tons of it now, but not for the consumer.
Not for the enterprise consumer, but for anything anyone needs a computer at home for, Linux has more than enough software for anyone's needs.
GiMP is not Photoshop
True, but photoshop isn't for the home market, the damned program costs as much or more than the computer it's running on. Most non-professionals using photoshop are using a pirate version. There's no need to spend $700 to edit the photos you shot with your cell phone.
Open/Libre Office is not, for the average consumer, an alternative to MS Office.
What does the average user need an office suite for? Writing grandma, cropping photos, balancing the checkbook. Oo is perfectly capabe of doing anything the average non-enterprise user needs. Why would a home user spend a couple hundred dollars on a program they would seldom use?
The overall experience is not particularly high quality (I use Linux every day, it isn't).
Then you're running the wrong distro; I see that here often. One fellow was saying last week that he couldn't play MP3s on his Linux machine, well DUH, he was running Red Hat. You don't use a server OS for a desktop client, you use the right tool for the job. There is no "Linux", there are a LOT of Linuxes. I'm running kubuntu, and it's not as pretty as Windows 7 (I have that on a notebook) but otherwise it's superior in every way to Windows.
If Linux lacks quality, why do you use it every day? I call bullshit, friend. If Linux wasn't better than Windows, nobody would use Linux because the computer already has an OS when they buy it.
I wonder how many people at ACER have apple products. The fact is, these companies cant make good devices so the software companies have to start doing it.
You realize that FoxCon makes the Apples and Acers, don't you? I have an Acer and the only thing I dislike about it is that ot came with Windows and I'll have to go to the trouble of installing a better OS for it. I used to joke "the day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start manufacturing vaccuum cleaners," but Excel and MS Mice are good products so that joke doesn't really work any more, but most of MS's wares are still crap. Especially Windows.
The real tragedy of the commons was simply evil. The commoners herded their animals in the commons areas for centuries. All knew that to abuse the commons would destroy it, and them with it, so it simply wasn't abused. Anyone caught abusing it was treated very harshly by the other commoners.
Then a rich landowner wanted the commons for himself, and argued (despite hundreds of years history to the contrary) that if the unwashed masses were allowed to continue using the commons they would ruin it -- they were the unwashed masses, peasants, without a drop of noble blood in their veins and only a step above the animals they were herding. The other nobles agreed, and divided the commons areas for their own use.
THAT was the real tragedy. What's tragic today is today's serfs (the 99%) believe this lie that is still propagated by the nobles (the 1%). Worse, the nobles these days are still convincing the commoners that what's best for nobility is also best for we serfs.
Are you sure you're looking at wikipedia and not uncyclopedia? Googling "Ronald Reagan's Zombie" turned up The Onion first, Uncyclopedia second. Wikipedia wasn't even on the first page of listings.
Googling "Ronald Reagan's Zombie site:wikipedia.org" returns a lot of Ronald Reagan, but no zombies.
I see nothing wrong with Root's suggestion, either. It would be interesting to see how both candidates did in school and how much they've paid in taxes for the last ten years.
That's news to me, thanks for the info. Aspirin is probably the cheapest drug on the market, less than a penny per pill. It's always worked well for me, but then I'm a coffee drinker. I've found that Naproxin, althought quite a bit more expensive, works better and lasts twice as long. It may be that Naproxin is also helped by caffiene since they are similar to aspirin, I don't know.
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I can't read Michael Crichton's books any more. Sphere almost drove me insane. That man is way too good a writer, his shit sucks me in and I can't put the damned book down... and then I'm freaked out for a week after I finish it. Just say no to Crackton! It's been years since I've read him *shudder*
Yes he wrote the worst movie ever filmed. Battlefield earth.
I take it you've never seen "Battle Beyond the Stars" then. That movie is so bad if you smoke some good pot you'll laugh your ass off watching it.
Yeah, I have a copy...
Bad stories are always depressing. Of course, that doesn't mean that all depressing stories are bad.
Incidentally, I think Ive found a good way of figuring out which posters have a clue: those who say that their product / OS / device is the best option for all scenarios, dont.
I've generally found that to be true.
There are reasons to choose Windows over linux. Reason the first: Exchange.
I have no use for Exchange, so er, which camp are you in? As to Windows on the desktop, for most enterprises, Windows may be the best choice. For a non-gaming home user? Linux beats Windows hands down. For a hipster with a lot of money? Apple, obviously.
Please tell me what advantage Windows gives ME, a user with an XP box (because EAC won't run on the other two computers), a Windows 7 (not pro) box, and a kubuntu box? Linux lets me network all three, even though the Windows 7 docs say I have to have W7pro on the network for it to connect. Windows 7 has some glaring deficiencies compared to kubuntu, please inform me why you think Windows is superior?
Honestly, I'm in the market for just a plain 1:1 ripoff of win7's interface.
Then just don't install Linux. If you like Windows and it suits your needs, why switch? After all, it's already on the computer!
Me, I don't like Windows. There is a lot of stuff missing, and even more stuff I consider ass-backwards. If I'd been happy with Windows, I would have never switched.
You have that backwards.
Math doesn't apply. Lawrence Lessig took copyright lengths all the way to the SCOTUS, who ruled that "limited times" means whatever Congress says it means. The only way to get is changed is with legislation -- and good luck with THAT.
I had an Acer with (I believe) the very same bug you mentioned. That one was stolen, I bought a newer model and the bug was fixed on that one, as well as a couple of other things (like the power button being too easy to hit by accident; a design flaw, not a bug).
I've been through both a cat 2 hurricane and a strong F2 tornado, and your description of an F3's damage is not in the least accurate. One commercial building was half gone and huge steel girders twisted like putty. two meter diameter trees uprooted. Roofs impaled by other roofs. A walk-in beer coolers torn from a bar. Buildings built out of concrete blocks destroyed. I left a link to a journal about both experiences further down, if you're interested in a first-hand account of what it's like to be in a hurricane and tornado.
The thing is, being inside a tornado is like being inside a giant blender with sticks and rocks and dead animals and splintered wood and even cars acting as the blender's blades.
An F5? Man, I would NOT want to be in one of those! I don't even want to be in any tornado again.
The worry isn't facebook and amazon, the worry is your iTunes collection, family photos, enterprise data stored in the cloud, etc.
As to the question posed, I'd say only if the folks who built the data centers were idiots. If they were competent the building itself will withstand high winds and be high enough for flooding not to occur, and will have a backup power supply or two.
Of course, if a tornado rips through (as often happens in hurricanes), nothing is safe. I was in one in 2006 (and in a hurricane in 1972) and the destruction after a tornado is something photographs and descriptions cannot possibly convey. I saw the side of a commercial building missing, with its massive steel girders twisted like they were nothing. Six foot diameter trees uprooted. Electrical transformers in treetops. Roofs impaling other roofs. Wooden splinters driven into concrete.
The only silver lining in a tornado's cloud is that their footprints are very small compared to hurricanes.
I'm more concerned with assuming that someone receiving money in some way is automatically considered a shill.
Occam's razor comes into play. Simply state "disclaimer: I am an employee of Acme Computers" and you're upfront, and therefore not a shill.
The history of the word "shill" is interesting. Carnival workers and magicians used shills. The magician would "read" the shill's mind, the shill would win a big prize at the rigged ring toss game. The whole idea of a shill is that they work for who they're benefitting, without admitting they were a shill. If people knew they were shills, the magician's trick would be no good and the ring toss guy wouldn't get as many or any customers.
So yes, if you praise your employer without letting your audience know you work for him, you ARE a shill, and it doesn't matter that you are giving an honest opinion. You're still shilling.
Linux is the most hardware compatible OS ever
What other OS will run on anything from a wristwatch to a supercomputer? It's also far more tolerant of hardware faults than Windows (possibly Mac but a dual boot Mac guy will have to answer that). I've had several computers dual-boot that got flaky when on the Windows side while Linux ran flawlessly, until the computer quit working at all.
I haven't had problems with drivers in Linux for over five years. I have old hardware that either didn't work under Linux, or worked minimally, that now work flawlessly. The Linux devs deserve our appreciation!
He didn't misinterpret and misconstrue, he amplified to rediculous proportions to open your eyes to the fact that people don't want to be stalked. Why is it illegal for my ex-wife to stalk me, but OK for a website to?
It's probably not a good idea to invent any new words, especially insults, ending -igger.
Indeed, anyone who has ever had chigger bites don't want to think about it!
And these insects are no bigger than a mosquito's eye. Their bites always trigger a nasty rash. If you're a ditch digger you're likely to get bites. Nobody's ever managed to jigger up a good way to treat those bites.
Roberts legislated from the bench when he decided to make a political rather than legal decision, effectively handing the presidency to Romney.
Whose own Massachusetts health car bill Obamacare was based on? And that's the single thing people will be voting for this election? The economy has no part of it? The fact that Romney was getting rich by shipping jobs overseas and destroying American companies? The Romney that has the same MBA as the President who crashed the economy and started the mess we're in? The Romney who refuses to loose his tax returns? The Romney who said "I like to fire people?" The Romney who just yesterday made the same stupid mistake the mass murderer in Wisconsin did? The same Romney whose plan to fix the economy is to tax the middle class more and himself less? The same Romney that pissed fourigners off with his retarded statements about their countries when he was visiting them? The same Romney who seems even more like Bush than Obama does?
Have you seen the polls? Last I saw, Romney was only ahead in one of the swing states, and those are the states that will decide the election. What does Romney have going for him, besides the fact that he was the least insane and evil of all the other Republican candidates?
Acer specializes in making the cheapest crap you can buy without getting eMachines
I've had my Acer notebook for about a year and have had no problems. It's even fallen from the couch to the wood floor without damage. My mom has had the same eMachine computer for ten yars now (she's 84). She's happy with her eMachine and I'm happy with my Acer, snob.
You sound like a Porche owner talking about Fords and Chevys. I'd much rather have my Acer and buy two more just like it for my twentysomething daughters than a single Apple notebook.
Most hardware vendors are Microsoft's bitch, and they have NO ONE to blame but themselves
Wrong, the hardware vendors have IBM to blame. When IBM's PC came out, it was THE business PC. Home PCs were a tiny market then. By the time Compaq cloned the IBM's BIOS, it was hard to sell a computer without DOS.
It wasn't until five or ten years ago that there was a viable replacement for Windows.
How to get quality software to Linux. There is tons of it now, but not for the consumer.
Not for the enterprise consumer, but for anything anyone needs a computer at home for, Linux has more than enough software for anyone's needs.
GiMP is not Photoshop
True, but photoshop isn't for the home market, the damned program costs as much or more than the computer it's running on. Most non-professionals using photoshop are using a pirate version. There's no need to spend $700 to edit the photos you shot with your cell phone.
There is no real possibility of editing video.
Google says you're wrong.
Open/Libre Office is not, for the average consumer, an alternative to MS Office.
What does the average user need an office suite for? Writing grandma, cropping photos, balancing the checkbook. Oo is perfectly capabe of doing anything the average non-enterprise user needs. Why would a home user spend a couple hundred dollars on a program they would seldom use?
The overall experience is not particularly high quality (I use Linux every day, it isn't).
Then you're running the wrong distro; I see that here often. One fellow was saying last week that he couldn't play MP3s on his Linux machine, well DUH, he was running Red Hat. You don't use a server OS for a desktop client, you use the right tool for the job. There is no "Linux", there are a LOT of Linuxes. I'm running kubuntu, and it's not as pretty as Windows 7 (I have that on a notebook) but otherwise it's superior in every way to Windows.
If Linux lacks quality, why do you use it every day? I call bullshit, friend. If Linux wasn't better than Windows, nobody would use Linux because the computer already has an OS when they buy it.
What is an AA?
Alcoholics Anonymous. You're anonymous, do you drink?
What's the difference between a drunk and an alcoholic? Alcoholics have to go to meetings! (I saw that on a drunkard's t-shirt once)
I wonder how many people at ACER have apple products. The fact is, these companies cant make good devices so the software companies have to start doing it.
You realize that FoxCon makes the Apples and Acers, don't you? I have an Acer and the only thing I dislike about it is that ot came with Windows and I'll have to go to the trouble of installing a better OS for it. I used to joke "the day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start manufacturing vaccuum cleaners," but Excel and MS Mice are good products so that joke doesn't really work any more, but most of MS's wares are still crap. Especially Windows.
Loved your Zune, did you?
The real tragedy of the commons was simply evil. The commoners herded their animals in the commons areas for centuries. All knew that to abuse the commons would destroy it, and them with it, so it simply wasn't abused. Anyone caught abusing it was treated very harshly by the other commoners.
Then a rich landowner wanted the commons for himself, and argued (despite hundreds of years history to the contrary) that if the unwashed masses were allowed to continue using the commons they would ruin it -- they were the unwashed masses, peasants, without a drop of noble blood in their veins and only a step above the animals they were herding. The other nobles agreed, and divided the commons areas for their own use.
THAT was the real tragedy. What's tragic today is today's serfs (the 99%) believe this lie that is still propagated by the nobles (the 1%). Worse, the nobles these days are still convincing the commoners that what's best for nobility is also best for we serfs.
People are stupid.
Are you sure you're looking at wikipedia and not uncyclopedia? Googling "Ronald Reagan's Zombie" turned up The Onion first, Uncyclopedia second. Wikipedia wasn't even on the first page of listings.
Googling "Ronald Reagan's Zombie site:wikipedia.org" returns a lot of Ronald Reagan, but no zombies.
I see nothing wrong with Root's suggestion, either. It would be interesting to see how both candidates did in school and how much they've paid in taxes for the last ten years.
It's a typo, it should have had an A between the E and the L. They may spell it with an S rather than a Z in Britain, I'm not sure.
"realize"
That's news to me, thanks for the info. Aspirin is probably the cheapest drug on the market, less than a penny per pill. It's always worked well for me, but then I'm a coffee drinker. I've found that Naproxin, althought quite a bit more expensive, works better and lasts twice as long. It may be that Naproxin is also helped by caffiene since they are similar to aspirin, I don't know.