"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Pornography is not exclusively depictions of sex. From a big-boy dictionary:
"1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement"
Pornography is any iamge that is intended to arouse sexual desire in someone. Depiction of a sexual act is not required. In fact the image doesn't even need nudity. For example, a website showing pictures of little girls in their undies, published for the intention of arousing the audience, would be pornography.
God I loved that game! I thought it was cool that all the audio was standard CD music format...so I could drop the CD in my smokin hot Aiwa stereo and kick those 70's disco clone tunes.
I would move away from Comcast...but I like my 50Mbps connection:). That's the only reason I stay. I've had satellite in the past and hated it. Worked fine on SD channels but HD would regularly blink out for several minutes. Plus it's completely incompatible with TiVo (no cable cards, no HDMI-out), of which I am a big fan:(
Yes, it's really true. Those mammoth boxes (certainly a helluva lot bigger than the nothing I had before) work fine....unless you want to watch HD (or need an even bigger box for that...that cost's $5/month). And you only get those 'free' converters to work after you kindly ask Comcast for their permission (they have to be activated over the phone). And they don't 'give' them to you at all. You are required to return them if you cancel service or move. They belong to Comcast. Why am I now responsible for their equipment that I neither asked for or needed? I have no additional services, higher rates, and (worst of all) am required to ask Comcast if I ever want another TV in a different room. Makes me long for days of Viacom....at least them we knew what we were 'allowed' to do.
Or they could just end the summary with a question mark. Been working for TV news for some time. They can say just about anything, as long as it posed a question. For example, if a news show said "Michael Moore downloaded child porn." they would get tagged for slander pretty quick. But making it "Michael Moore downloaded child porn?" gets a free pass.
The need to a box has taken the cable television back to 1985. The 'cable ready' television was great because you didn't need a box. Now if you have 6 TV in your home....guess what? You need 6 mammoth cable boxes (or at the very least 6 cable cards). Of and BTW, they cost about $60 a year each. Welcome to the New World Order.
The tricky part is Comcast. Comcast decided to do their own 'digital conversion' as well. So far I have not been about to string the comcast converter with the universal converter. So I wither get OTA digital (which isn't possible is my area) or Comcast digital (which requires a digital TV to view).
The best (read sucky) part are all the perfectly functional, yet completely useless, "old" analog TVs that have been dumped (often illegally) in landfills. I have two that can't even give away.
I am more than a little dubious about the claim of a 1998-era PC running W7. That would likely max out at 512M unless it was exotic for the time (meaning server-class hardware), and W7 wouldn't install on something that small, and the CPU and graphics would not be anywhere near W7 minimums either. I got complaints installing it on what were pretty well configured 2005-era machines and they ran poorly even doing basic things until I put at least 2.5G RAM in them.
I will see your 'more then a little dubious' and raise you one 'set of facts'. My old Dell does indeed have a RAM slot maxing out at 512MB, in fact it has two (so I have 1GB or RAM). It has a more than sufficient CPU at 2.1Ghz. And it is still running the 50GB hard drive it had way back in 1997. I am guessing you are pulling the W7 SysReqs from memory? Because the minimums are not really demanding as you imply. One can run the system just fine (without all the fancy graphics or other fluff) with these official specs:
*1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
*1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
*16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
*DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
I have to compare that to Windows. XPSP2 doubled RAM requirements and Vista quadrupled XPSP2.
Regarding Vista 'qualdrupaling' the RAM requirements...that actually is true. But since it came out nearly six years later; they didn't even make PC's with less than 512MB of RAM in 2007. That's a non-issue. You are comparing small, incremental Apple OS upgrades ("10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 and finally 10.5") to full OS architecture and kernel changes. My Windows boxes run better after a service pack install too....just like your Macs.
And regarding the 'longevity' of Apple systems...tell that to my coworker who has an unusable, 38-pound, CRT brick called an iMac G3 gathering dust in the garage. I'll take my ancient Dell (released the same year) over that any day:)
What color is it in your world? None of those features are available on an OOtB (out-of-the-box) install of XP Pro. Show me a retail link for WXPx64. There are none. WinXP cannot encrypt entire volumes OOtB, only files. One TB+ hard drives are very, very common. And XP certainly cannot image a drive at all.
There are lots of 3rd party apps to do all those things, but licensing it tricky at the enterprise level for those.
That Mac upgrade process might work with the MacPro towers, but the iMac upgrade process generally is understood as 'throw it away and buy a new one'. You need to develop for a new graphics codeset? Tough. You need to add a second internal HD? Sorry. And if you want to do a full version OS upgrade? Take your changes....
Whereas I have a 12 year old Dell PC running W7 at home running an FTP server that required nothing beyond a clean install to set up.
Then why would you ever upgrade? Do you wait until hardware becomes incapable of carrying the needed load and then scramble to do emergency OS upgrades? No thanks.
I guess I prefer to predict issues and deal with them before I need to upgrade. Keeping with works is cool, until it doesn't work anymore. Then something that would have been a short-term hassle becomes a serious crisis. Of course upgrading can cause problems too. But if custom apps are well coded and the upgrade process is well planned, that can be minimized.
first, you need to educate yourself about lemmings.;)
And, there are several things that make W7 upgrades worthwhile (IMO): 64-bit version made available (on disc) with all versions, far more informative task manager, superior OOtB remote management capabilities, recognition of TB+ hard drive sizes, volume-level encryption, OOtB system imaging (not just backups), and this list goes on...
Windows 3.11 'worked fine'. Heck, punchcard systems 'worked fine' too.
Sounds like what you want is a workplace consistency at any cost (aka a 'foolish consistancy'...didn't Emerson say something about that?). I doubt you would not upgrade even if W7 was free. You're call of course, but technology moves forward (whether it improves is debatable) and taking the luddite position will eventually catch up with your organization.
Heard the same arguments with the W2K-to-XP process. And work hours are part of the job. OS upgrade always suck. And they suck way more if you've put off upgrading for several years. Time to pay the piper.
If you have enough workstations to make the install process completely unpossible, then you have enough to justify volume licensing. My organization uses VL and our cost per W7 seat is about $20.
I think the tricky part comes from the whole 'median speed' issue. In my city, all one has to do is go 5% over the limit to get dinged with a ticket (e.g. going 63 in a 60 zone). They get the full penalty even though no human cop would even notice, much less pull over and ticket the driver. This is clearly a revenue generating device first, and a safety device second.
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Pornography is not exclusively depictions of sex. From a big-boy dictionary:
"1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
2 : material (as books or a photograph) that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement"
Pornography is any iamge that is intended to arouse sexual desire in someone. Depiction of a sexual act is not required. In fact the image doesn't even need nudity. For example, a website showing pictures of little girls in their undies, published for the intention of arousing the audience, would be pornography.
Warning: bullets exit from gun barrel very, very fast. Do not point at face.
Film and videos have been considered a form of high art for a long time. What difference does it make if it's presented via theaters of YouTube?
God I loved that game! I thought it was cool that all the audio was standard CD music format...so I could drop the CD in my smokin hot Aiwa stereo and kick those 70's disco clone tunes.
I would move away from Comcast...but I like my 50Mbps connection :). That's the only reason I stay. I've had satellite in the past and hated it. Worked fine on SD channels but HD would regularly blink out for several minutes. Plus it's completely incompatible with TiVo (no cable cards, no HDMI-out), of which I am a big fan :(
Yes, it's really true. Those mammoth boxes (certainly a helluva lot bigger than the nothing I had before) work fine....unless you want to watch HD (or need an even bigger box for that...that cost's $5/month). And you only get those 'free' converters to work after you kindly ask Comcast for their permission (they have to be activated over the phone). And they don't 'give' them to you at all. You are required to return them if you cancel service or move. They belong to Comcast. Why am I now responsible for their equipment that I neither asked for or needed? I have no additional services, higher rates, and (worst of all) am required to ask Comcast if I ever want another TV in a different room. Makes me long for days of Viacom....at least them we knew what we were 'allowed' to do.
Or they could just end the summary with a question mark. Been working for TV news for some time. They can say just about anything, as long as it posed a question. For example, if a news show said "Michael Moore downloaded child porn." they would get tagged for slander pretty quick. But making it "Michael Moore downloaded child porn?" gets a free pass.
The need to a box has taken the cable television back to 1985. The 'cable ready' television was great because you didn't need a box. Now if you have 6 TV in your home....guess what? You need 6 mammoth cable boxes (or at the very least 6 cable cards). Of and BTW, they cost about $60 a year each. Welcome to the New World Order.
The Goodwill near my home won't take them. but the electronic recycling people come around once a year. Maybe I will dump it on them. Good idea!
The tricky part is Comcast. Comcast decided to do their own 'digital conversion' as well. So far I have not been about to string the comcast converter with the universal converter. So I wither get OTA digital (which isn't possible is my area) or Comcast digital (which requires a digital TV to view).
The best (read sucky) part are all the perfectly functional, yet completely useless, "old" analog TVs that have been dumped (often illegally) in landfills. I have two that can't even give away.
I will see your 'more then a little dubious' and raise you one 'set of facts'. My old Dell does indeed have a RAM slot maxing out at 512MB, in fact it has two (so I have 1GB or RAM). It has a more than sufficient CPU at 2.1Ghz. And it is still running the 50GB hard drive it had way back in 1997. I am guessing you are pulling the W7 SysReqs from memory? Because the minimums are not really demanding as you imply. One can run the system just fine (without all the fancy graphics or other fluff) with these official specs:
*1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
*1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
*16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
*DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Regarding Vista 'qualdrupaling' the RAM requirements...that actually is true. But since it came out nearly six years later; they didn't even make PC's with less than 512MB of RAM in 2007. That's a non-issue. You are comparing small, incremental Apple OS upgrades ("10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 and finally 10.5") to full OS architecture and kernel changes. My Windows boxes run better after a service pack install too....just like your Macs.
:)
And regarding the 'longevity' of Apple systems...tell that to my coworker who has an unusable, 38-pound, CRT brick called an iMac G3 gathering dust in the garage. I'll take my ancient Dell (released the same year) over that any day
So were said cats Cougars by any chance?
They stole my idea! I am so calling the President of the Internet.
The best (read: worst) one is this one with the DVD drive upside down.
What color is it in your world? None of those features are available on an OOtB (out-of-the-box) install of XP Pro. Show me a retail link for WXPx64. There are none. WinXP cannot encrypt entire volumes OOtB, only files. One TB+ hard drives are very, very common. And XP certainly cannot image a drive at all.
There are lots of 3rd party apps to do all those things, but licensing it tricky at the enterprise level for those.
That Mac upgrade process might work with the MacPro towers, but the iMac upgrade process generally is understood as 'throw it away and buy a new one'. You need to develop for a new graphics codeset? Tough. You need to add a second internal HD? Sorry. And if you want to do a full version OS upgrade? Take your changes....
Whereas I have a 12 year old Dell PC running W7 at home running an FTP server that required nothing beyond a clean install to set up.
Then why would you ever upgrade? Do you wait until hardware becomes incapable of carrying the needed load and then scramble to do emergency OS upgrades? No thanks. I guess I prefer to predict issues and deal with them before I need to upgrade. Keeping with works is cool, until it doesn't work anymore. Then something that would have been a short-term hassle becomes a serious crisis. Of course upgrading can cause problems too. But if custom apps are well coded and the upgrade process is well planned, that can be minimized.
first, you need to educate yourself about lemmings. ;)
And, there are several things that make W7 upgrades worthwhile (IMO): 64-bit version made available (on disc) with all versions, far more informative task manager, superior OOtB remote management capabilities, recognition of TB+ hard drive sizes, volume-level encryption, OOtB system imaging (not just backups), and this list goes on...
NPR covered this a week go. Granted, this is idle, but come on...
Windows 3.11 'worked fine'. Heck, punchcard systems 'worked fine' too.
Sounds like what you want is a workplace consistency at any cost (aka a 'foolish consistancy'...didn't Emerson say something about that?). I doubt you would not upgrade even if W7 was free. You're call of course, but technology moves forward (whether it improves is debatable) and taking the luddite position will eventually catch up with your organization.
Heard the same arguments with the W2K-to-XP process. And work hours are part of the job. OS upgrade always suck. And they suck way more if you've put off upgrading for several years. Time to pay the piper.
If you have enough workstations to make the install process completely unpossible, then you have enough to justify volume licensing. My organization uses VL and our cost per W7 seat is about $20.
Might not? Might not?? Hell, making a sandwich has more physical demands than playing the vijimagames.
I think the tricky part comes from the whole 'median speed' issue. In my city, all one has to do is go 5% over the limit to get dinged with a ticket (e.g. going 63 in a 60 zone). They get the full penalty even though no human cop would even notice, much less pull over and ticket the driver. This is clearly a revenue generating device first, and a safety device second.
But I don't have to wait 8 minutes when I misspeak to correct myself.