"It all depends on what you mean by "better" I guess. If you don't mind the constant risk of system crashes and reboots, and your HD getting wiped out, or even your BIOS being trashed due to malware, then I guess Windows is better???"
There's no "constant risk of crashes and reboots" in the modern NT series. In fact my machine is sort of accidental file server around here, with XP SP2, so I've not rebooted it in like months. It also runs MySQL/Apache/PHP for development needs, I edit audio and graphics on it, draw vectors with my tablet, and model and render and animate heavy 3D all the time. And code. And whatnot.
Since I don't install shoddy drivers and software, it's in fact so stable so that I've yet to see it hang or crash. Yes, even explorer.exe has NEVER crashed on me yet. And as you see I use this system for a lot of stuff.
I trully despise statements like the above that stemming from the past of the 9x series with tons of questionable content that can destabilize it.
It's an OS, it's complex, if you take illegal drugs you'll break down. Is it because human's body sucks or because you did it to yourself.
FACE IT. Modern Windows OS is not what it used to be 10 years ago. It's a pretty robust and stable system. And this is only to get better with subsequent releases.
At the same time I've ordered a bunch of free Ubuntu discs from their site since I love that distro and give disks to anyone willing to try it. It's a great achievement, I just run the disk, and instally have Firefox/Mail client/Networking/Sound/Office. It's also an incredible LiveCD.
But it still has so much to catch on (unavailability of key software for it being a significant issue) that it's not funny.
"You don't see any benefits, except for some of the benefits it offers? Huh?"
Yes, I confirm this is what "except" means. No benefit, exception few minor ones which are not worth it.
"Ah, right. You're one of those people who, whenever an improved product appears, says "but my existing product still works, therefore nobody should need the new and improved one"."
Yes, I'm one of those people who don't throw their working equipment to buy the new fad because it helps sustain the Mighty Capitalism.
And you appear to be one of those people that will break my comment in pieces and find silly arguments against each sentence just for the fun of it:)
I don't swap my hard disks every day, so once it's installed I trully can't care less how my cable looks. SATA drives are harder to find (if you RTFA you'll see that), buggier, and offer no benefit during usage.
It's like buying 1600x1200 TFT and using it with a video card capable of 800x600 max.
People still don't get it. There's like 20 ads on his own page linking to copycat sites selling or renting pixels... This is retarded.
Pixels have no value, cloning his site a million times has no value. It's the original idea that matters, and he thought of it first and implemented it first.
"Not storing evidence would mean that today's criminals in government will escape future punishment or disrepute, and current heroes of government will not receive their dues or recognition."
With the few replies supporting the same point of view as yours, I tend to agree.
HOWEVER, I ask: honestly, do you think corrupted politicians freely use logged medium to exchange idea for stealing taxes/money from corrupted businesses?
We've all had our "I gotta keep everything I do, download, see or hear in my records" moments, and sometimes they may last for years before we realize we don't need 99% of it anyway and will never never use it.
Information is infinite, there's no ends to the amount of information anyone of us can produce. Storing everything is old school, new school recognizes that fact and stores only important information.
What the government needs is to prioritize and save only the important stuff. Official bills and memos are worth saving, the president asking his secretary for a cup of coffee isn't.
You have to recognize that not only the format is prone to become obsolete, but the media too (as in: you can't play audio tape music in your CD-ROM:).
Digital is great, but preserving it in time is hard: you need media that can last long, media reader that works with the modern equipment, file system format you can comprehend and reader software to display the documents to you.
But why the heck is it wireless. To be hacked easier by near passing script kiddies?
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Well I honestly do not see benefit of SATA just yet, besides it has neater cables and no master/slave annoyance.
It'll be more useful in future with flash-RAM cached HDD's, which will be able to send out data from time to time at speeds that make sense to be SATA.
If ain't broken, don't fix it. Many motherboards have SATA, but buggy implementation. Also SATA isn't much faster than PATA right now. It's still on the PCI bus for most motherboards, while to make full use of its speed it has to be on a separate bus for its own usage (which will happen with future implementations).
This reminds me of a buddy who was absolutely sure that ATA 133 disks are faster than ATA 100. Thing is neither of them fills that bandwidth in actual usage, so it trully and entirely doesn't matter.
enough weapons of mass destruction, and did we find enough terrorists by eavesdropping innocent citizen's phones that the most important left to do is bash NSA on having persistent cookies vs session ones?
If yea, then well we live in utopia. If nope, then wtf?
"How about because I have multiple 400GB hard drives I would like to be able to back up to optical media in my lifetime? I currently use extra hard drives for backup, but with just aorund 10 Blu-Ray discs you could have a form of backup easier to ship to multiple offsite backup locations."
I'm not following the math. A dual layer DVD-R (ONCE writable) is like 8 USD (compared to single layer which is cents). So, given Blu-Ray discs will be extra expensive, and you'll be waiting for some time to see double layer R or RW in first place, let's say one blank dual BR will be like 16 USD. So 10x16 = 160 USD..
Now this is for ONCE writable discs, so you can't make repeated backups on them. So let's double the sum if they will be RW (again base don current DVD price dynamics). 320 USD.
Add the price of the BR-RW drive which will be around 300 USD I suppose, basing myself on previous reports and what were the DVD-RW drives like when they popped up first.
So 620 USD and you have to keep splitting it in 10 discs, which will become annoying and you know the discs are not protected therefore easily scratched.
Wow what an utopia!!
And now back to reality, for $620, you can buy ONE single external HDD drive with all the same storage, which you can use to carry data around faster, more efficient, safer, and most important: you can do it TODAY.
Phones get smaller and more inside the ear with every new model.
I wonder how long before they just skip the ear acoustic part entirely and are modified to send electric signals through the nerves directly to our brain (remember: Microsoft has a PATENT on this).
Well then we shall all crank our volumes up safely. Yeeei!
I think you have lots of bad info about what TPM does. So in your place I'd check the facts further before spreading FUD.
TPM usage is optional and required only by software requiring it to activate. It's no different than what Windows activation does, except it's hardware based, therefore much harder to crack.
With a car you can kill yourself, the people travelling with you, and a good number of pedestrians along the way.
And the worst my mom can do with her computer is install spyware by accident, lose her e-mail archive and *.DOC with recipes she collects.
So paint me skeptical about your conclusions there. It's easy to be so demanding if you're well versed in computing, but things look in a different way if you're just not that well informed, or can't learn well enough (like elderly users).
Well those in-ear-canal are the most dangerous ones since more of the signal gets into your ear vs disperse.
But we have to realize it's not the headphone model that causes hearing loss, it's the insane volume we crank it up to that causes it. Thing is, with ANY headphones it's very easy not to notice the volume is high out of habit.
If we hear the same decibels without headphones our brain would decide we're at a rock concert or something similar. With headphones however, the brain says "ok that's good volume". Why is it so?
No clue, maybe since we also judge about the volume not only by the decibels, but also reflection/echo/reverb from walls, frequency responce and so on. With phones, it's directly in our ears so the environment can't have that effect on the sound.
"If Dell doesn't side with one technology and start including it in new PC's, customers will complain"
Will they? I for sure won't.
I hope we all realize that those drivers will be EXPENSIVE. Especially the first 2 years.
If Dell starts randomly including new cutting edge tech on the bare assumption their clients might complain, nothing good awaits them.
So in this light, it's smarter for Dell to use what making sense right now in terms of adoption and price/value ratio and wait and see how the Mighty Format War plays out.
I mean, if Dell takes side prematurely and then manifacturer X in China starts making cheap combo drives, Dell would look stupid won't it?
"Maybe it's because Microsoft decided that may of their lusers are idiots"
Maybe since they are. But calling them "idiots" is too harsh.
Reality is you don't need to be electronics expert to operate your TV, so your TV shouldn't require so. Many smart people just don't know/need all those details.
But regarding user friendliness, I'd say distributions like Ubuntu are friendly enough for basic tasks like Office / EMail / Internet work. But Windows is just a much better desktop OS, we all gotta give it that I guess.
Both HD DVD/BluRay are redundant and will bomb. So why should Dell start considering supporting either yet.
If they are smart they'll decline to take either side, ship CD/DVD machines meanwhile, and when things play out in favor of either format, and consumers start demanding either, they'll ship it.
As for Firefox, it's less support and infected systems for them. I seriously doubt they just have some l33t haXX0r Linux geek there who wants to screw MS by replacing their browser with the open source favorite.
Again, it just makes sense, since most sites now acknowledge Firefox, and it works better security-wise (and yup I doubt Dell cares if it has better CSS or whatever).
Same reason is why Dell will keep shipping the huge majority of its machines with Windows. Like it or not: it's useful and you use it, and need it, and your software requires it.
Actually no it can't. The number of operations required to simulate a node in a neural network and the GHz of your Pentium have no correlation whatsoever.
As a start, the CPU can't perform one op per hertz every time, sometime is has to wait for cache, and waiting for data from RAM can take hundreds of idle cycles.
And even besides that, the code for simulating one node in the network is actually not one basic CPU command, it's a tiny program on its own.
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"It all depends on what you mean by "better" I guess. If you don't mind the constant risk of system crashes and reboots, and your HD getting wiped out, or even your BIOS being trashed due to malware, then I guess Windows is better???"
There's no "constant risk of crashes and reboots" in the modern NT series. In fact my machine is sort of accidental file server around here, with XP SP2, so I've not rebooted it in like months.
It also runs MySQL/Apache/PHP for development needs, I edit audio and graphics on it, draw vectors with my tablet, and model and render and animate heavy 3D all the time. And code. And whatnot.
Since I don't install shoddy drivers and software, it's in fact so stable so that I've yet to see it hang or crash. Yes, even explorer.exe has NEVER crashed on me yet. And as you see I use this system for a lot of stuff.
I trully despise statements like the above that stemming from the past of the 9x series with tons of questionable content that can destabilize it.
It's an OS, it's complex, if you take illegal drugs you'll break down. Is it because human's body sucks or because you did it to yourself.
FACE IT. Modern Windows OS is not what it used to be 10 years ago. It's a pretty robust and stable system. And this is only to get better with subsequent releases.
At the same time I've ordered a bunch of free Ubuntu discs from their site since I love that distro and give disks to anyone willing to try it. It's a great achievement, I just run the disk, and instally have Firefox/Mail client/Networking/Sound/Office. It's also an incredible LiveCD.
But it still has so much to catch on (unavailability of key software for it being a significant issue) that it's not funny.
"You don't see any benefits, except for some of the benefits it offers? Huh?"
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Yes, I confirm this is what "except" means. No benefit, exception few minor ones which are not worth it.
"Ah, right. You're one of those people who, whenever an improved product appears, says "but my existing product still works, therefore nobody should need the new and improved one"."
Yes, I'm one of those people who don't throw their working equipment to buy the new fad because it helps sustain the Mighty Capitalism.
And you appear to be one of those people that will break my comment in pieces and find silly arguments against each sentence just for the fun of it
I don't swap my hard disks every day, so once it's installed I trully can't care less how my cable looks. SATA drives are harder to find (if you RTFA you'll see that), buggier, and offer no benefit during usage.
It's like buying 1600x1200 TFT and using it with a video card capable of 800x600 max.
People still don't get it. There's like 20 ads on his own page linking to copycat sites selling or renting pixels... This is retarded.
Pixels have no value, cloning his site a million times has no value. It's the original idea that matters, and he thought of it first and implemented it first.
The rest is internet history.
"Not storing evidence would mean that today's criminals in government will escape future punishment or disrepute, and current heroes of government will not receive their dues or recognition."
With the few replies supporting the same point of view as yours, I tend to agree.
HOWEVER, I ask: honestly, do you think corrupted politicians freely use logged medium to exchange idea for stealing taxes/money from corrupted businesses?
We've all had our "I gotta keep everything I do, download, see or hear in my records" moments, and sometimes they may last for years before we realize we don't need 99% of it anyway and will never never use it.
Information is infinite, there's no ends to the amount of information anyone of us can produce. Storing everything is old school, new school recognizes that fact and stores only important information.
What the government needs is to prioritize and save only the important stuff. Official bills and memos are worth saving, the president asking his secretary for a cup of coffee isn't.
You have to recognize that not only the format is prone to become obsolete, but the media too (as in: you can't play audio tape music in your CD-ROM :).
Digital is great, but preserving it in time is hard: you need media that can last long, media reader that works with the modern equipment, file system format you can comprehend and reader software to display the documents to you.
But why the heck is it wireless. To be hacked easier by near passing script kiddies?
Well I honestly do not see benefit of SATA just yet, besides it has neater cables and no master/slave annoyance.
It'll be more useful in future with flash-RAM cached HDD's, which will be able to send out data from time to time at speeds that make sense to be SATA.
If ain't broken, don't fix it. Many motherboards have SATA, but buggy implementation. Also SATA isn't much faster than PATA right now. It's still on the PCI bus for most motherboards, while to make full use of its speed it has to be on a separate bus for its own usage (which will happen with future implementations).
This reminds me of a buddy who was absolutely sure that ATA 133 disks are faster than ATA 100. Thing is neither of them fills that bandwidth in actual usage, so it trully and entirely doesn't matter.
Ok I suppose I had to clarify I don't mean exactly YOU (or anyone specific) but most of the PC users.
... or the rest also got pattern-trained to ignore forward looking statements in random articles that by definition almost never happen?
enough weapons of mass destruction, and did we find enough terrorists by eavesdropping innocent citizen's phones that the most important left to do is bash NSA on having persistent cookies vs session ones?
If yea, then well we live in utopia. If nope, then wtf?
"How about because I have multiple 400GB hard drives I would like to be able to back up to optical media in my lifetime? I currently use extra hard drives for backup, but with just aorund 10 Blu-Ray discs you could have a form of backup easier to ship to multiple offsite backup locations."
I'm not following the math. A dual layer DVD-R (ONCE writable) is like 8 USD (compared to single layer which is cents). So, given Blu-Ray discs will be extra expensive, and you'll be waiting for some time to see double layer R or RW in first place, let's say one blank dual BR will be like 16 USD. So 10x16 = 160 USD..
Now this is for ONCE writable discs, so you can't make repeated backups on them. So let's double the sum if they will be RW (again base don current DVD price dynamics). 320 USD.
Add the price of the BR-RW drive which will be around 300 USD I suppose, basing myself on previous reports and what were the DVD-RW drives like when they popped up first.
So 620 USD and you have to keep splitting it in 10 discs, which will become annoying and you know the discs are not protected therefore easily scratched.
Wow what an utopia!!
And now back to reality, for $620, you can buy ONE single external HDD drive with all the same storage, which you can use to carry data around faster, more efficient, safer, and most important: you can do it TODAY.
Well that's why all moms and pops out there have good sons who regularly check their PC-s :)
Phones get smaller and more inside the ear with every new model.
I wonder how long before they just skip the ear acoustic part entirely and are modified to send electric signals through the nerves directly to our brain (remember: Microsoft has a PATENT on this).
Well then we shall all crank our volumes up safely. Yeeei!
I think you have lots of bad info about what TPM does. So in your place I'd check the facts further before spreading FUD.
TPM usage is optional and required only by software requiring it to activate. It's no different than what Windows activation does, except it's hardware based, therefore much harder to crack.
With a car you can kill yourself, the people travelling with you, and a good number of pedestrians along the way.
And the worst my mom can do with her computer is install spyware by accident, lose her e-mail archive and *.DOC with recipes she collects.
So paint me skeptical about your conclusions there. It's easy to be so demanding if you're well versed in computing, but things look in a different way if you're just not that well informed, or can't learn well enough (like elderly users).
Well those in-ear-canal are the most dangerous ones since more of the signal gets into your ear vs disperse.
But we have to realize it's not the headphone model that causes hearing loss, it's the insane volume we crank it up to that causes it. Thing is, with ANY headphones it's very easy not to notice the volume is high out of habit.
If we hear the same decibels without headphones our brain would decide we're at a rock concert or something similar. With headphones however, the brain says "ok that's good volume". Why is it so?
No clue, maybe since we also judge about the volume not only by the decibels, but also reflection/echo/reverb from walls, frequency responce and so on. With phones, it's directly in our ears so the environment can't have that effect on the sound.
"If Dell doesn't side with one technology and start including it in new PC's, customers will complain"
Will they? I for sure won't.
I hope we all realize that those drivers will be EXPENSIVE. Especially the first 2 years.
If Dell starts randomly including new cutting edge tech on the bare assumption their clients might complain, nothing good awaits them.
So in this light, it's smarter for Dell to use what making sense right now in terms of adoption and price/value ratio and wait and see how the Mighty Format War plays out.
I mean, if Dell takes side prematurely and then manifacturer X in China starts making cheap combo drives, Dell would look stupid won't it?
"Maybe it's because Microsoft decided that may of their lusers are idiots"
Maybe since they are. But calling them "idiots" is too harsh.
Reality is you don't need to be electronics expert to operate your TV, so your TV shouldn't require so. Many smart people just don't know/need all those details.
But regarding user friendliness, I'd say distributions like Ubuntu are friendly enough for basic tasks like Office / EMail / Internet work. But Windows is just a much better desktop OS, we all gotta give it that I guess.
Both HD DVD/BluRay are redundant and will bomb. So why should Dell start considering supporting either yet.
If they are smart they'll decline to take either side, ship CD/DVD machines meanwhile, and when things play out in favor of either format, and consumers start demanding either, they'll ship it.
As for Firefox, it's less support and infected systems for them. I seriously doubt they just have some l33t haXX0r Linux geek there who wants to screw MS by replacing their browser with the open source favorite.
Again, it just makes sense, since most sites now acknowledge Firefox, and it works better security-wise (and yup I doubt Dell cares if it has better CSS or whatever).
Same reason is why Dell will keep shipping the huge majority of its machines with Windows. Like it or not: it's useful and you use it, and need it, and your software requires it.
And calling it Microsoft tax is retarded, btw.
Suuure.. In Windows, you can't delete system files, especially if they're not in immediate use.
I don't know. Over here at least, movie DVD's had penetration a lot earlier that we started to use 'em instead of CD's for backups and such.
Every pedestrian you hit gives you 10 points.
Hmmm, that's weird, the XBox360 is turned off, where are those pedestrians coming from?
Actually no it can't. The number of operations required to simulate a node in a neural network and the GHz of your Pentium have no correlation whatsoever.
As a start, the CPU can't perform one op per hertz every time, sometime is has to wait for cache, and waiting for data from RAM can take hundreds of idle cycles.
And even besides that, the code for simulating one node in the network is actually not one basic CPU command, it's a tiny program on its own.
... we stand a chance against the Protoss and the Zerg.