"I hope you die!" is not the same as, "I am going to kill you!" Moral: If you are going to rant - make sure to couch your threats with words that make it not a direct threat against them. However, if you intend to harm them for real do not leave evidence as even making such posts would surely be used in court to demonstrate intent which could make a manslaughter a murder. I am, obviously, not suggesting anyone DO this sort of thing... Nor am I a lawyer.
I told a girlfriend that her mother sometimes made me feel homicidal. We broke up and I got a knock on the door from the police. They dragged me down to the station, charged me with 'terrorizing,' and made me pay the bail commissioner $60. (Why do so many of my/. stories involve me getting arrested anyhow? I never realized how many times I had been arrested. Fortunately, I have been fortunate. Yay! Recursion!) Anyhow, I know better than to say anything so I am all good and my liar is the only one who makes any money from it (except the bail commissioner) because it was, by no means, a threat according to the laws of this state. The girlfriend had the audacity to call me a few months later and try to let her come visit. I am thinking that maybe one should not break up with women. Maybe I should leave their body in the swamp... But, I am a compassionate Buddhist, I can't do that just like I can not toss a screaming child out of the plane.
I hate to admit it but it almost resembles some of the posts I have made here while under the influence. Hell, it resembles some of my long diatribes that I make when I am sober. No, I have no idea how my karma is still in the excellent category.
From what I have observed he is on par with Hillary Clinton when it comes to answering direct questions. It is almost as if he would rather put out a press release where he states what he wants/believes and thinks that should be enough. I am impressed with what he has done in this instance but I think it is a political ruse (I am cynical, I know, it is bad for my karma my sarma says.) as he knows, full well, that there will be a "fix" for his interference. When the fix arrives, in a day or two, he will have the chance to vote against it but it will not matter as it will have enough support from others of BOTH major parties.
So he has the chance to score big political points now as we are ramping up for the campaign season. Then again, it is always campaign season... Anyhow, it is annoying to see so many people calling him a Libertarian. He is not... He has some things in common with the party but he is clearly a Republican. In fact, he is running to be the Republican candidate. What would be interesting would be to see him make it onto the ticket and have his dad as his running mate. I may actually vote Republican if that happens. Why? The LULZ would be worth it.
I will save the link and give it a shot. Does it have a boot loader so you can restore from outside the OS and backup from outside the OS (which means you can backup and restore *any* OS)?
You may have to manually activate if you move to a different device within 90 days. This can also be triggered if you change three major components in your hardware (I understand - not sure if this is still true though as this was Vista era). Activation is just a phone call to an automated service. You enter in the numbers on your screen (not your serial) and it gives you another set of numbers to enter in the computer. Then, well, tada.wav and you are all set. I got tired of doing Microsoft's support and it was easier to just buy my own MSDN subscription so I stopped participating in the MVP program (the swag was nice) so I have not paid attention too much and my information is a bit old but it has been the standard for a while and I see no reason why it would change as it would require a lot of changes on their end.
I buy an MSDN subscription (it is going away but I renewed at the last minute giving me like a year and a half at the time) and surely violate every rule they have. I have no friends who do not have a 'legitimate' key that needs them. Dev tools? Yip. OSes from yore? Yip. Office in all the variants? Uh huh... The list goes on and on. Well worth the price, to me at least. $250? Pfft... 5 keys for enterprise versions.
How did you go from 'available' to 'automatically?' You know, you do actually, that you are full of wild assumptions and stretching so that you can stroke your ego and maybe feel like you fit in, right? Right? Yes, yes you do. Available... There are hookers with penises available, it does not mean you will actually be forced to get one.
Seriously? Is English not your native language? Do not click the INSTALL button if you want to leave your computer open to vulnerabilities. I am sure that they have a button that lets you be selective (naive?) if you want.
I asked an old contact in the MS MVP program what happened to Windows 9. I warn you ahead of time that this is bad and I should feel bad for sharing.
They responded with, "Yeah, seven eight nine." They did not even have a delay before they replied with that. I informed them that I would no longer be calling them on the telephone and that all future email was to be done via email. They laughed. It was nice to hear an old friend laugh but it sounded more sinister than I remember.
Windows ME, ME being Millennium Edition means the home version numbered 2000 but not to be confused with 2k on the NT kernel. I, and five other people - totaling six, actually enjoyed the OS. The rest of the planet, rightfully, thought it was garbage. In my case it worked well on one box, one that came with ME, and did not work well with any other system. It only worked well on that specific hardware but, on that hardware, I even managed to get an uptime of over six months at one point and the disruption for that was due to a power outage. It was even running an OpenNap hub at the time.
That is not a good thing. RAM should be near 100% utilization. That is what RAM is for. Swapping data on/off RAM is speedy. The idea is not to have less RAM usage but full utilization and optimization.
Did you really have to ask that question? Really? Really?
"Well what if I do not want to buy a Ford but want to buy a Honda instead?"
Umm... Buy a Honda...
It is okay, I completely mis-read some reply in a thread about music. I was thinking/reading that they were saying that the people making money without producers are the norm and not the exception. I was really confused. I did not notice until today - when someone actually pointed it out and I clicked on 'parent' and re-read it. I felt like an idiot. *sighs* Then again, I am an idiot and I am an insensitive clod.
If you can't then that is what backups are for. I am not affiliated but I love Acronis. Norton Ghost used to be VERY good but, alas, it was terrible the last time I tried an updated version. Funny though, the old man used to give out his AV on disk and one of its primary features was that it was not resource intensive. It also fit on a floppy.
I have been assuming you can make a repair/restore DVD but, well, I am assuming that and have made absolutely no effort to verify this. Do not take this as authoritative but it seems likely they would want to keep you on 10 so they would provide a means to do so. I am not sure how you would (normally) get your authentication code. Microsoft owns sysinternals now so you can expect to be able to use their keyfinder application in 10 so that should not be an issue.
I recall going to one of the MS MVP get-togethers after XP was out and folks were complaining about "having to register" but they did not have to register - they had to activate and registration was optional. We were called over the PA to register for a talk to be held later in the day, a reminder that open registration was closing, and someone piped up, "Registration is not mandatory, activation is..." We got a good chuckle but it was more of a you had to be there thing and I am not entirely sure why I bothered sharing it.
It is free, there is no need to put quotes around that. It is free as in beer, not free as in liberty though. But you knew that and wanted to whinge. I understand... I am guilty of similar biases at times. It is a bit amusing to see so much vitriol over a future, untried, OS from a company you are obviously enjoying now.
That says more about you than it says about Microsoft. Do not take this as a negative though - it is not meant as such. We are all different, creatures of habit, and with our own needs to fill. What suits you may not suit me and the reverse is almost certainly true given your username. I am a Linux and Windows user. I grew up with UNIX, POSIX, SCO (long before Sun and Oracle), etc... I actually *like* Windows, I like Linux and even Unix too... That is why I use those OSes in various places. I do not like Mac OSX much because I have not used it much. I can live with it but I do not prefer it by any means. I suspect that, with more use, I would like it just as much as I am mostly OS agnostic (I am co-opting that phrase).
The only rational complaint that I have about Windows Update is that after you have installed the updates it will nag you until you reboot. I do not want to reboot now, I am doing something. So I just drag it to the edge and bottom where only the slightest amount is visible and ignore it. You used to be able to switch the shutdown command but that does not seem to work quite right with Vista, 7, or 8. I have not tried it in 10. I have beta tested too many Windows OSes. I am old and tired.
Honestly, post SP1, Vista was not that bad. Of course I am one of six people, planet wide, that had ME running quite stable and well but it came on a PC that was built for ME, so my judgment is obviously clouded and erroneous. However, as there are no SPs any more, I would wait six months before installing 10 as your main OS.
Slashdot Mirror
"I hope you die!" is not the same as, "I am going to kill you!" Moral: If you are going to rant - make sure to couch your threats with words that make it not a direct threat against them. However, if you intend to harm them for real do not leave evidence as even making such posts would surely be used in court to demonstrate intent which could make a manslaughter a murder. I am, obviously, not suggesting anyone DO this sort of thing... Nor am I a lawyer.
I told a girlfriend that her mother sometimes made me feel homicidal. We broke up and I got a knock on the door from the police. They dragged me down to the station, charged me with 'terrorizing,' and made me pay the bail commissioner $60. (Why do so many of my /. stories involve me getting arrested anyhow? I never realized how many times I had been arrested. Fortunately, I have been fortunate. Yay! Recursion!) Anyhow, I know better than to say anything so I am all good and my liar is the only one who makes any money from it (except the bail commissioner) because it was, by no means, a threat according to the laws of this state. The girlfriend had the audacity to call me a few months later and try to let her come visit. I am thinking that maybe one should not break up with women. Maybe I should leave their body in the swamp... But, I am a compassionate Buddhist, I can't do that just like I can not toss a screaming child out of the plane.
I hate to admit it but it almost resembles some of the posts I have made here while under the influence. Hell, it resembles some of my long diatribes that I make when I am sober. No, I have no idea how my karma is still in the excellent category.
That was wrong and you should feel bad. Then again, I started it and I got my just desserts. Well played.
From what I have observed he is on par with Hillary Clinton when it comes to answering direct questions. It is almost as if he would rather put out a press release where he states what he wants/believes and thinks that should be enough. I am impressed with what he has done in this instance but I think it is a political ruse (I am cynical, I know, it is bad for my karma my sarma says.) as he knows, full well, that there will be a "fix" for his interference. When the fix arrives, in a day or two, he will have the chance to vote against it but it will not matter as it will have enough support from others of BOTH major parties.
So he has the chance to score big political points now as we are ramping up for the campaign season. Then again, it is always campaign season... Anyhow, it is annoying to see so many people calling him a Libertarian. He is not... He has some things in common with the party but he is clearly a Republican. In fact, he is running to be the Republican candidate. What would be interesting would be to see him make it onto the ticket and have his dad as his running mate. I may actually vote Republican if that happens. Why? The LULZ would be worth it.
While true I dimly recall that GIMP was GPLv2? I could check... Google is so far away though.
I will save the link and give it a shot. Does it have a boot loader so you can restore from outside the OS and backup from outside the OS (which means you can backup and restore *any* OS)?
You can uninstall it like you uninstall an application.
You may have to manually activate if you move to a different device within 90 days. This can also be triggered if you change three major components in your hardware (I understand - not sure if this is still true though as this was Vista era). Activation is just a phone call to an automated service. You enter in the numbers on your screen (not your serial) and it gives you another set of numbers to enter in the computer. Then, well, tada.wav and you are all set. I got tired of doing Microsoft's support and it was easier to just buy my own MSDN subscription so I stopped participating in the MVP program (the swag was nice) so I have not paid attention too much and my information is a bit old but it has been the standard for a while and I see no reason why it would change as it would require a lot of changes on their end.
I buy an MSDN subscription (it is going away but I renewed at the last minute giving me like a year and a half at the time) and surely violate every rule they have. I have no friends who do not have a 'legitimate' key that needs them. Dev tools? Yip. OSes from yore? Yip. Office in all the variants? Uh huh... The list goes on and on. Well worth the price, to me at least. $250? Pfft... 5 keys for enterprise versions.
How did you go from 'available' to 'automatically?' You know, you do actually, that you are full of wild assumptions and stretching so that you can stroke your ego and maybe feel like you fit in, right? Right? Yes, yes you do. Available... There are hookers with penises available, it does not mean you will actually be forced to get one.
Seriously? Is English not your native language? Do not click the INSTALL button if you want to leave your computer open to vulnerabilities. I am sure that they have a button that lets you be selective (naive?) if you want.
I asked an old contact in the MS MVP program what happened to Windows 9. I warn you ahead of time that this is bad and I should feel bad for sharing.
They responded with, "Yeah, seven eight nine." They did not even have a delay before they replied with that. I informed them that I would no longer be calling them on the telephone and that all future email was to be done via email. They laughed. It was nice to hear an old friend laugh but it sounded more sinister than I remember.
And I read your post backwards... My bad.
Windows ME, ME being Millennium Edition means the home version numbered 2000 but not to be confused with 2k on the NT kernel. I, and five other people - totaling six, actually enjoyed the OS. The rest of the planet, rightfully, thought it was garbage. In my case it worked well on one box, one that came with ME, and did not work well with any other system. It only worked well on that specific hardware but, on that hardware, I even managed to get an uptime of over six months at one point and the disruption for that was due to a power outage. It was even running an OpenNap hub at the time.
Maybe you should not put Windows 10 on a PC that is 20 years old?
That is not a good thing. RAM should be near 100% utilization. That is what RAM is for. Swapping data on/off RAM is speedy. The idea is not to have less RAM usage but full utilization and optimization.
I would give it six months, especially if you have older hardware.
Did you really have to ask that question? Really? Really?
"Well what if I do not want to buy a Ford but want to buy a Honda instead?"
Umm... Buy a Honda...
It is okay, I completely mis-read some reply in a thread about music. I was thinking/reading that they were saying that the people making money without producers are the norm and not the exception. I was really confused. I did not notice until today - when someone actually pointed it out and I clicked on 'parent' and re-read it. I felt like an idiot. *sighs* Then again, I am an idiot and I am an insensitive clod.
If you can't then that is what backups are for. I am not affiliated but I love Acronis. Norton Ghost used to be VERY good but, alas, it was terrible the last time I tried an updated version. Funny though, the old man used to give out his AV on disk and one of its primary features was that it was not resource intensive. It also fit on a floppy.
I have been assuming you can make a repair/restore DVD but, well, I am assuming that and have made absolutely no effort to verify this. Do not take this as authoritative but it seems likely they would want to keep you on 10 so they would provide a means to do so. I am not sure how you would (normally) get your authentication code. Microsoft owns sysinternals now so you can expect to be able to use their keyfinder application in 10 so that should not be an issue.
I recall going to one of the MS MVP get-togethers after XP was out and folks were complaining about "having to register" but they did not have to register - they had to activate and registration was optional. We were called over the PA to register for a talk to be held later in the day, a reminder that open registration was closing, and someone piped up, "Registration is not mandatory, activation is..." We got a good chuckle but it was more of a you had to be there thing and I am not entirely sure why I bothered sharing it.
It is free, there is no need to put quotes around that. It is free as in beer, not free as in liberty though. But you knew that and wanted to whinge. I understand... I am guilty of similar biases at times. It is a bit amusing to see so much vitriol over a future, untried, OS from a company you are obviously enjoying now.
That says more about you than it says about Microsoft. Do not take this as a negative though - it is not meant as such. We are all different, creatures of habit, and with our own needs to fill. What suits you may not suit me and the reverse is almost certainly true given your username. I am a Linux and Windows user. I grew up with UNIX, POSIX, SCO (long before Sun and Oracle), etc... I actually *like* Windows, I like Linux and even Unix too... That is why I use those OSes in various places. I do not like Mac OSX much because I have not used it much. I can live with it but I do not prefer it by any means. I suspect that, with more use, I would like it just as much as I am mostly OS agnostic (I am co-opting that phrase).
The only rational complaint that I have about Windows Update is that after you have installed the updates it will nag you until you reboot. I do not want to reboot now, I am doing something. So I just drag it to the edge and bottom where only the slightest amount is visible and ignore it. You used to be able to switch the shutdown command but that does not seem to work quite right with Vista, 7, or 8. I have not tried it in 10. I have beta tested too many Windows OSes. I am old and tired.
Sane Windows (and Linux, etc) users have something like Acronis to ensure you can back up from anything. It is worth the money.
Honestly, post SP1, Vista was not that bad. Of course I am one of six people, planet wide, that had ME running quite stable and well but it came on a PC that was built for ME, so my judgment is obviously clouded and erroneous. However, as there are no SPs any more, I would wait six months before installing 10 as your main OS.