It's just that I only have experience with American corporations. I am sure the same is true anywhere. The broader ones argument, the lesser ones accuracy. Everybody knows that. Everybody;-)
Oh, mine boots fine. It's getting to a usable desktop that's the problem. I can get to a desktop in about 30 seconds, but it's useless for the first 1 1/2 minutes or so (RAM showing at 99%). I didn't setup any software myself at all. In fact, I removed Windows Defender and the Dell support doodad.
It could be argued that no American, publicly traded corporation really cares about the customer. They care about profits and, to a slightly lesser degree, their stockholders. Now if they could generate revenue and make decent profit by providing an awesome product at a great price, then they probably would (and maybe some corporation do). This would be perceived by the end user as 'caring', but really that is just a by-product. Caring is not in the corporate American equation.
I mean c'mon! I have a new (less than 6 months old) Dell 1550 laptop with max specs available from Dell. It's running Vista Ultimate. Or at least it's trying to. I have the GUI stripped down to the bare bones, and it still take >2 minute to go from power-up to a stable desktop environment (compared to my 4 year old XP boxes boot time of 45 seconds). And security? Bitlocker is a neat idea, but since I don't have a TPM chip on my board (not listed as a requirement BTW) I can't use it without a USB dongle constantly attached.
Well said. I think that's the reason Tom Lehrer doesn't make music anymore: "I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."
As far as I know, the only modern religion that uses the Tetragrammaton (YHWH or 'Jehovah' in English) regularly, are Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, to most Jews, the Tetragrammaton is rarely said aloud or even written down. All the practicing Jews I know use the term Adonai.
These examples can and do markedly, and sometimes drastically, shorten ones lifespan. I don't know of any tech toy that can do that. Dying from heart disease or lung cancer isn't really the same thing as carpel tunnel syndrome caused by crackberries or loss of hearing from an iPod.
Seriously, is someone getting paid by the word here?
Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify copyrighted material that is legally being transferred over p2p clients, and copyrighted material that is being transferred illegally over p2p clients.
Try this:
"Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify the legality of copyrighted material that is being transferred over p2p clients."
I dunno. Probably for the same reason you don't buy a color printer for color and a separate mono laser for b/w - it's costs money and it's inefficient. And remember greyscale is not the same as monochrome. Printing in greyscale usually uses all the colors to provide a broader gamut of 'grey'. Otherwise, you would just get fax-machine quality greyscale.
Yuck! And also, most inkjet printers won't print (even in B/W) when any cartridge is empty. The newer inkjets have the printhead in the carriage, and not on each cartridge as wass the case with early inkjets. So, if there is a dry cartridge (or no cartridge), and printing is allowed anyway, it can ruin the printhead.
Security authentication is based on three possible factors: something you know (like a password), something you have (like a smartcard), or something you are (like biometrics). Now, if these things will be used in addition to passwords, that would indeed take the authentication factors from single to double. But, as is usually the case, they just replace passwords with smartcards or dongles. So there would be no increase in security at all.
The rep of these retailers is pretty low to techies who know better. But to average power-user, one store is as good as another. I mean, their commercials tell you: "we're awesome". And who are you to doubt a pitch like that?
It's the house of THEIR future. 'They' being the megalithic companies that sponsor this type of thing. I bet their won't be any Linux-based appliances (i.e. Tivos) in there. Or any Jonathan Coulton music playing. Or anything else that's open-source. Down with everything! Just don't take away my XBox....oh wait.
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It's just that I only have experience with American corporations. I am sure the same is true anywhere. The broader ones argument, the lesser ones accuracy. Everybody knows that. Everybody ;-)
Oh, mine boots fine. It's getting to a usable desktop that's the problem. I can get to a desktop in about 30 seconds, but it's useless for the first 1 1/2 minutes or so (RAM showing at 99%). I didn't setup any software myself at all. In fact, I removed Windows Defender and the Dell support doodad.
I think any reasonable person knows what a half-statement. It's a completely legitimate. Most English professors.
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I mean c'mon! I have a new (less than 6 months old) Dell 1550 laptop with max specs available from Dell. It's running Vista Ultimate. Or at least it's trying to. I have the GUI stripped down to the bare bones, and it still take >2 minute to go from power-up to a stable desktop environment (compared to my 4 year old XP boxes boot time of 45 seconds). And security? Bitlocker is a neat idea, but since I don't have a TPM chip on my board (not listed as a requirement BTW) I can't use it without a USB dongle constantly attached.
From TA: "NASA says it wants to put people on the moon by 2020."
Gotcha! They just admitted that they have never put people on the more before. That whole 1969 bit was just a hoax.
NoScript stopped the video, but didn't remove the giant yellow placeholder. I use both ad blocker & noscript it enjoy a ad-free Internet (almost)
What Flash? Oh, you must mean the one I just blocked. Make your ad blocker of choice block this: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf
Or better yet, this:
http://www.theonion.com/*
Well said. I think that's the reason Tom Lehrer doesn't make music anymore: "I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."
As far as I know, the only modern religion that uses the Tetragrammaton (YHWH or 'Jehovah' in English) regularly, are Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, to most Jews, the Tetragrammaton is rarely said aloud or even written down. All the practicing Jews I know use the term Adonai.
Holy crap. My sarcastic was totally lost on you.
Oh yeah? What about yelling 'Censorship is always necessary!' in a crowded ACLU meeting? You can take that to the bank and smoke it.
Just to clarify, if you drive a Jeep then you are likely nerd, not a geek.
It looks like IBM leaked details all over their new server. Those detail stains never come out.
"Technical reasons include an inability to accurately identify the legality of copyrighted material that is being transferred over p2p clients."
I dunno. Probably for the same reason you don't buy a color printer for color and a separate mono laser for b/w - it's costs money and it's inefficient. And remember greyscale is not the same as monochrome. Printing in greyscale usually uses all the colors to provide a broader gamut of 'grey'. Otherwise, you would just get fax-machine quality greyscale.
They're not ugly!! They're minimalist. Minimalist!! It's all about substance over style.
Yeah it was. And it sucked big time. But it did give us Boba Fett, so I guess it wasn't a total loss.
The rep of these retailers is pretty low to techies who know better. But to average power-user, one store is as good as another. I mean, their commercials tell you: "we're awesome". And who are you to doubt a pitch like that?
It's the house of THEIR future. 'They' being the megalithic companies that sponsor this type of thing. I bet their won't be any Linux-based appliances (i.e. Tivos) in there. Or any Jonathan Coulton music playing. Or anything else that's open-source. Down with everything! Just don't take away my XBox....oh wait.