What about a version of Windows called "Windows: What We Didn't Change"? During the install or first boot, after a brief mention of how many tweaks & minor improvements were made, it would bring up a video showing all of the interface changes they rejected as being worse than useless. And make the video unskippable. People would be writing donation checks to thank Microsoft for their kindness. Programmers would name their first born "Windows: What We Didn't Change". And slashdotters? Slashdotters would be about the same.
They do take up memory even while inactive. But that is what "services.msc" is for. Run that, turn off everything you don't need, and enjoy! Also, the GP's comments about drivers is rubbish (not sure how (s)he got modded up) -- if you don't install a printer (and turn off the print service), there is no "printer driver" impact, etc.
Good point, mwn3d. RAM upgrades have gone down in price in a way I never would have imagined. I paid more for 64KB of RAM on my first PC than people are paying today for 4 or 8GB of RAM. I don't have words to comprehend that progression. So RAM upgrades are essentially free and can definitely turn a performance dog into a performance middleweight.
.
Dedicated video card instead of onboard RAM is also a "zero cost" upgrade for those who want that.
Hard drive upgrades are the same story. Imagine, we can buy a 4TB drive for $140. So that machine that came with a 1/2TB drive can get 8 times as much storage for one-third the cost of a new average PC. For similar bucks one can upgrade HD performance to 2013 levels with an SSD.
So yes I wonder how they account for upgrades. One RAM, video or HD upgrade can equal "half a computer" upgrade, extending its life for two or three years.
Rock anchors expand into the drill hole and thus secure the rod in place. So with muscles, part of the "strength" is from just not letting go. Also brings to mind that wood fibers are made of two quite different ingredients -- long strong fibers, and good "matrixy" glue.
Time for a new utility. Call it "Get The Farm Away From My Defaults". You specify what you want on (like Do Not Track), what you want off (like Javascript or Java) and it makes the changes in Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera, etc. all at the same time. Have it as a standalone EXE that you can run directly. Give it a custom short URL like tinyurl.com/GTFAFMDefaults. Maybe have a config option to auto-run it every time you boot up, for us belt-and-suspenders types.
I noticed today that a very well known motivational speaker/salesman (Tom Hopkins) is not in wikipedia. How do you decide who gets entry into Wikipedia?
Not sure exactly what is meant here, but I do know that I've used Windows Media Player as my file manager for probably a dozen years now. Always found it easier to select files with it. In XP, by default anyway, Explorer gives a vertical list (what I take you to mean by "full line select") of files. WMP gives what it calls a "list" but it is like "dir/w" and makes file selection very easy. The only thing I miss ever since Vista is that it is now more difficult to use WMP (and other Windows programs) from the keyboard -- z-order damage and generally bizarre behavior.
By moving away from the command line. With the command line there can be dozens of switches for each use case. With the Windows GUI it has been the "copy all until you collide on one, at which point quit copying all the rest" abortion. Standard dumbing down of the interface problem. Like the ribbon downgrade.
.
Once I found out, in an early version of Windows (probably 98 but I forget, shoot me) that selecting all files to copy did not in fact copy all files (for # of files > several thousand), I returned to the cmd prompt and have used xcopy ever since.
They fluoridate the salt instead in Austria, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
What are you talking about? How does that relate to my post? Neither "commie" nor "communist" appear in my link. Next you will be denying there is a B3 bomber.
Highest Common Factor (as opposed to lowest common denominator)
Hispanic College Fund
Health Care Facilities
High Cycle Fatigue
Hybrid Coordination Function
Hart Communication Foundation
High Capacity Feeder (copiers and printers)
Hundred Cubic Feet
Historic Charleston Foundation (South Carolina)
Halt and Catch Fire (Hacker's Dictionary)
Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Hawai'i Community Foundation
Host Controlled Family (Rockwell chipset modems)
Half Circle Forward (motion; gaming)
High Cost Fund
House Conservatives Fund (Political Action Committee)
Host Command Facility
Heparin Cofactor
Horizon Christian Fellowship
Hardcore Fan
Hybridoma Cloning Factor
Hepatitis C Foundation
Harper Court Foundation
High Carbon Ferrochrome
Hotline Center Foundation
Hot Channel Factor
Hook Content Formula (enumerative combinatorics of Standard Young Tableaux)
Higher Cortical Function
Hardened Compact Fiber
Hardware Configuration Facility
Hard Copy File
Host Computer Facility
Human Care Foundation (New Delhi, India)
Health Care Fraud
Home Credit Finance http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/HCF
Not quite. Rust is iron oxide(s), yes. But it is the oxygen being smaller than the iron that allows access to lower levels of iron. The goal is for the oxide to be the same size as what was there. Too small and you don't have a barrier, so the oxygen penetrates, the rust flakes off and the cycle repeats. Atom size is related to molecular weight with Oxygen's is 16, Iron is 55.8 (periodic table) so oxygen is a much smaller atom.
Slashdot Mirror
What about a version of Windows called "Windows: What We Didn't Change"? During the install or first boot, after a brief mention of how many tweaks & minor improvements were made, it would bring up a video showing all of the interface changes they rejected as being worse than useless. And make the video unskippable. People would be writing donation checks to thank Microsoft for their kindness. Programmers would name their first born "Windows: What We Didn't Change". And slashdotters? Slashdotters would be about the same.
They do take up memory even while inactive. But that is what "services.msc" is for. Run that, turn off everything you don't need, and enjoy! Also, the GP's comments about drivers is rubbish (not sure how (s)he got modded up) -- if you don't install a printer (and turn off the print service), there is no "printer driver" impact, etc.
Dr. Lee D. Carlson
.
Dedicated video card instead of onboard RAM is also a "zero cost" upgrade for those who want that.
Hard drive upgrades are the same story. Imagine, we can buy a 4TB drive for $140. So that machine that came with a 1/2TB drive can get 8 times as much storage for one-third the cost of a new average PC. For similar bucks one can upgrade HD performance to 2013 levels with an SSD.
So yes I wonder how they account for upgrades. One RAM, video or HD upgrade can equal "half a computer" upgrade, extending its life for two or three years.
Rock anchors expand into the drill hole and thus secure the rod in place. So with muscles, part of the "strength" is from just not letting go. Also brings to mind that wood fibers are made of two quite different ingredients -- long strong fibers, and good "matrixy" glue.
The Marshall Islands, Tahiti, the U.S., or Russia?
Wiki has a good CoD list. Better comparisons would have been a VW XL1 or the oldie-but-goodie Schlorwagen
Embrace...Extend...Extinguish.
Sit in the front seat.
News for nerds, stuff that matters?
What kind of video card is needed to access the full native resolution? Or is it just a matter of having enough video memory + suitable video drivers?
Time for a new utility. Call it "Get The Farm Away From My Defaults". You specify what you want on (like Do Not Track), what you want off (like Javascript or Java) and it makes the changes in Firefox, Chrome, IE, Opera, etc. all at the same time. Have it as a standalone EXE that you can run directly. Give it a custom short URL like tinyurl.com/GTFAFMDefaults. Maybe have a config option to auto-run it every time you boot up, for us belt-and-suspenders types.
I noticed today that a very well known motivational speaker/salesman (Tom Hopkins) is not in wikipedia. How do you decide who gets entry into Wikipedia?
I have a subscriber still using a webtv.com email address. Bizarre. He's in his 70s, crusty old war vet.
.
Not sure exactly what is meant here, but I do know that I've used Windows Media Player as my file manager for probably a dozen years now. Always found it easier to select files with it. In XP, by default anyway, Explorer gives a vertical list (what I take you to mean by "full line select") of files. WMP gives what it calls a "list" but it is like "dir /w" and makes file selection very easy. The only thing I miss ever since Vista is that it is now more difficult to use WMP (and other Windows programs) from the keyboard -- z-order damage and generally bizarre behavior.
.
Once I found out, in an early version of Windows (probably 98 but I forget, shoot me) that selecting all files to copy did not in fact copy all files (for # of files > several thousand), I returned to the cmd prompt and have used xcopy ever since.
San Carlos, California is fluoridated. Anyone systematically rule this out? Searching "fluoride and birth defects" leads to 500,000+ of web pages. Here's the first one that came up for me: Fluoride linked to infertility, birth defects and low IQ.
They fluoridate the salt instead in Austria, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
The people being attacked are those being force fed fluoride. Remind me, what is wrong with those who want it using fluoride toothpaste?
What are you talking about? How does that relate to my post? Neither "commie" nor "communist" appear in my link. Next you will be denying there is a B3 bomber.
.
Is it going to become illegal to protest the government/city/county poisoning the water?
New NSA-Approved Building Code
.
Highest Common Factor (as opposed to lowest common denominator)
Hispanic College Fund
Health Care Facilities
High Cycle Fatigue
Hybrid Coordination Function
Hart Communication Foundation
High Capacity Feeder (copiers and printers)
Hundred Cubic Feet
Historic Charleston Foundation (South Carolina)
Halt and Catch Fire (Hacker's Dictionary)
Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia
Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (Kansas City, MO)
Hawai'i Community Foundation
Host Controlled Family (Rockwell chipset modems)
Half Circle Forward (motion; gaming)
High Cost Fund
House Conservatives Fund (Political Action Committee)
Host Command Facility
Heparin Cofactor
Horizon Christian Fellowship
Hardcore Fan
Hybridoma Cloning Factor
Hepatitis C Foundation
Harper Court Foundation
High Carbon Ferrochrome
Hotline Center Foundation
Hot Channel Factor
Hook Content Formula (enumerative combinatorics of Standard Young Tableaux)
Higher Cortical Function
Hardened Compact Fiber
Hardware Configuration Facility
Hard Copy File
Host Computer Facility
Human Care Foundation (New Delhi, India)
Health Care Fraud
Home Credit Finance
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/HCF
I'm waiting for the Wi-Fi toothpick.
Not quite. Rust is iron oxide(s), yes. But it is the oxygen being smaller than the iron that allows access to lower levels of iron. The goal is for the oxide to be the same size as what was there. Too small and you don't have a barrier, so the oxygen penetrates, the rust flakes off and the cycle repeats. Atom size is related to molecular weight with Oxygen's is 16, Iron is 55.8 (periodic table) so oxygen is a much smaller atom.