I meant that the app crashes not the OS. I have been running XP (dual booted with Gentoo which is quite nice) for about a year with no (I mean 0, none, nada, zilch) blue screens but apps have crashed although most of them have been small time applications developed by small shops or people. 9x and all it's brethren were shit as well as NT. 2000 is much better and I think MS is on the path to a decent OS (security issues not included)
What's funny is that with all of your arguments you can say the exact same thing about Windows. Most crashes are either something wonky with the hardware or bad drivers or bad programming on the software manufacturer (not the OS, the app).
Mind you that doesn't explain about MS track record with integration of VB into the OS and security but that is another story.
What's funny is that if someone came in and ripped me off of all my cds I wouldn't use the money to replace them. I don't listen to them anymore since I haven't bought a cd in about 2 years thanks to Napster/Aimster/WinMX/KazaaLite. I would probably download whatever I was missing. Course 10 minutes after filing the police report I would be definitely putting in my order for a new computer
Why is copying entire books with a copy machine not called theft but called copyright infringement I would suspect due to accessibility and demand and there isn't a lobby who are paying off some government types. If everyone had a photocopying machine that could copy a book as quickly as it takes to download a song, I think you would have Steven King doing a public information commercial on copyright theft. When he released "The Plant" on his website on the assumption that people pay 1 measly dollar on the honor system, he did complain as there were people who didn't. That is probably the closest that this scenario has come to fruition.
I mean Newport News not Reagan. I have wondered about this for a while
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"I don't know what it means to have an investment in outlook. I don't know anybody who actually paid for it." Outlook not only comes with Exchange. It also comes with MS Office. You may not necessarily go out and say "Give me 50 licenses for Outlook" but you do pay for it.
It may not involve actually spending money for the retraining but the amount of productivity that an office uses while the migration occurs as well as users getting familiar with the new product does equal a certain amount of money (unless everyone is a volunteer).
I remember back in my XT as well as the 486 before I had a SB pro that there were a couple of games that sounded decent, i.e some golf game where you could hear birds and clapping. Tried it on a later model and the sounds was not quite right. I think they have reduced the dynamic range on the pc speaker to making beeps since it is unheard of not having a sound card in some form if you want sound.
What I would really like is to have found software that would take PC Speaker output and force it through the sound card. There were some old games that were great but sound like crap on new pc speakers.
I'm surprised that you forgot # 11 11. The "War on Terror" was won by the US.
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I think a guy two doors down in my apartment building just bought an active sub. Most of the time it is ok but he has gotten bad on several occasions. Nice thing about Ottawa is you can complain any time of the day about stereos being too loud. Already complained once. Another 2 times and he is out on his ass. He also screams at his girlfriend and smokes dope on the balcony and nobody would be disappointed if he left. The dope there is nothing we can do. Since the court ruling that stated that anything less than 30 grams is not chargable (long story there and I wouldn't be the person to explain it as I know the minimum about it) the cops won't come around for it. The guy in between us though said the next time he hears them fighting he is going to call the cops. Personally I think the whole Marijuana issue is stupid and should be decriminalized (but I don't touch the stuff) but when you have your boss over for dinner and you get a waft of BC gold coming in the window, it is kind of embarrassing.
I am playing devil's advocate (somewhat) I do agree that installing Mandrake 9 may be easier but look at why. 1. I doubt that Mandrake 9 came out at the same time as Windows 2000 which is going on 2 or 3 years. Try installing some version that came out then and see if everything gets picked up.
2. You mention that every program you practically need is installed. Now if MS included free software (i.e Office or stripped down version (not Works maybe Word and Excel)), how soon do you think an antitrust lawsuit would be set up?
I think this is where MS is most worried about with regarding to Linux. The fact that the rules that should restrain them due to monopolistic behavior doesn't affect the Linux infrastructure. Course they could always include other companies software but that would be smart.
I would use it for selecting groups, but when it came to movement, it would slide a lot. Probably my desks fault but it would have been nice if they had put bigger rubber pieces on the base
I think regarding the XBox, this is why MS is mildly concerned with running Linux on an XBox, I won't say afraid since I think majority (like 98%) of people who bought an Xbox will even bother. But they are concerned about non MS blessed games being used on their platforms thus cutting into their profit they make in licensing.
I never said that a company should run Windows to cut costs per se. I meant that nowadays with all the layoffs, companies can find any trained ape who will work for peanuts and will say yessir, be unemployed for a year and you will almost do anything. I have gone through 2 layoffs within the last 3 years. The first time was almost a year (went back to school to bone up) and the second was about 6 months. After the second I said fuck it to the high tech and decided to work for the government (not a public servant but contracting which pays buttloads more without the job security but I have a good contract that shouldn't die out any time soon (if ever)). It's not bleeding edge technology but there is some interesting stuff there as well.
In this economical market you don't pick the companies you work for. Sounds like you have been lucky to be able to make the choice and I hope everybody can.
I didn't end up working for the company that wanted to axe their unix guru but rather than putting out bucketloads of money for Sun boxes for their developers, they figured it was cheaper to buy Win2k workstations, it was also a startup who are still around but they had to be really careful on spending money as Venture Capital was starting to get scarce. Unfortunately there wasn't any CAD software at the time developed for linux that was up to par as the Windows stuff otherwise I am sure they would have gone that way. What wasn't available for Windows they would put out the money and get the real iron for it.
Problem is that you can quit the job if you don't like what is happening but like I said the market is pretty dry and you better make sure that you have something else lined up or a decent nest egg to fall back on.
I know someone who did jump jobs and less then 2 months later the axe fell and he was out on his ass. He tried to get his old job back but by that time they had already hired someone new and if they turfed the new guy, HR said no new hirings. That was 7 months ago. Guess what he is doing now? (hint: nothing) It isn't the workers market anymore (not going to be for a while anyways) where you could demand a huge pay due to lack of workforce.
Plus I wasn't saying everyone has a diva whim, it is the ones who already have windows machines but refuse to touch them because it is beneath them so they need to hire someone else to do it were the ones I was talking about.
I bought it for Age of Kings, Age of Mythology but found that the rubber feet were not sticking enough so it would slide which practically negated the benefit of the movement of the unit. Also I found I was so used to using the keyboard that it was difficult to adjust. Plus I was never a macro type person. I also own a MS Sidewinder FF v 2.0 joystick which I love, the large base makes it extremely sturdy. I also have a FF Sidewinder Steering wheel using the GamePort. The only thing I don't like about it is that as of XP the software is no longer supported. This means you have to take the default settings for forces etc (unless you have the USB model
Can't complain about MS gaming devices either (although the Strategic commander is a tad on the questionable side). I keep going back to them as they are solidly built.
How big is your pst file? (why do I see this as being a phallic jab) Anything greater than 200M can be wild country where anything goes which is kind of silly as I have seen up to 2G behave fine and some 250M crap out.
In this era of costcutting, the diva attitude of "I would never touch a MS product" is a stupid attitude. I was interviewed at a high tech outfit that ended up being they were looking for a replacement for their admin since he wouldn't "dirty his hands" on their Exchange server nor support any of their Windows boxes. There were running Cadence (I think or it may have been Mentor Graphics I can't remember now) on Windows for most of their designing.
I think it is a mix of both post Y2K spending as well as the whole.com push. I mean all of a sudden you get these telecom manufacturers who's stock hits $100-300/share levels (i.e Nortel/JDS Uniphase (formerly known as JDS Fitel)) since their profits had gone up due to a mix of major Y2K spending plus a convenient increase in telco infrastructure upgrades. And everyone and their dog hears about people who had made oodles of money from their stock portfolio due to tech.
Plus you have some slick marketing types that pick up on the fact that since the Internet is the future and our compuglobalhypermeganet thingy is going to revolutionize the world, you got this bunch of suckers out there who see the new Porsches and Aeron chairs and get sucked in.
Now it is 2001 and the next thing you know the telco manufacturers are claiming that for some unknown reason the money isn't coming in as before and then they start chopping the workers. Ironically around the same time the.bombs implode thus dropping more demand for infrastructure improvements. People start looking elsewhere to put their stocks frantically. Rinse and repeat. Nice downward spiral of layoffs and "cost cuttings" while upper management still get the nice 1.5 Million bonus by cutting 5000 workers.
This is what I have seen in the last 2 years. I worked at Newbridge doing CAD support and was in the layoffs there. I got a call from a guy who was in the Component Engineer section and he was laid off from Alcatel about a year ago and is still unemployed. I was smart when I got laid off and got into IT and have been fortunate to be working for the government. With him, right now there is no light at the end of the tunnel (cost cutting I here).
Me, I am waiting to see when prices of houses in Ottawa are going to drop. 2-3 years ago you could ask whatever price you wanted and could sell the house within a week if not a day. Now I have seen houses that have been on the market for almost 6 months. Sooner or later, the real estate agents are going to finally stop lying cause they want their percentage to equate a higher dollar amount and admit the market isn't as good as 2 years ago. I heard the total layoffs in Canada in the last couple of years has equaled out to 45,000 and a good portion in Ottawa, some of those people have to have decided to move. I figure about a year and a half from now anyone who bought a house here around now will have lost about $20,000 on it.
Why? Because x-rays have been proven to be dangerous to living matter at high levels.
No, this way they don't waste time having you walk through the metal detector multiple times as you remove objects from your person. Plus they can check and make sure nothing is being smuggled in with your objects that could be considered banned (explosives, shivs, handmade guns, etc)
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Personally I think people need to get over the whole "they will see you naked bit" whoopdedoo, I have a penis so does 49%+/-1% of the population. Sure it is an invasion of privacy but if you want to get somewhere fast, concessions should be made.
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I meant that the app crashes not the OS. I have been running XP (dual booted with Gentoo which is quite nice) for about a year with no (I mean 0, none, nada, zilch) blue screens but apps have crashed although most of them have been small time applications developed by small shops or people. 9x and all it's brethren were shit as well as NT. 2000 is much better and I think MS is on the path to a decent OS (security issues not included)
I guess I should have been more clear on that.
What's funny is that with all of your arguments you can say the exact same thing about Windows. Most crashes are either something wonky with the hardware or bad drivers or bad programming on the software manufacturer (not the OS, the app).
Mind you that doesn't explain about MS track record with integration of VB into the OS and security but that is another story.
What's funny is that if someone came in and ripped me off of all my cds I wouldn't use the money to replace them. I don't listen to them anymore since I haven't bought a cd in about 2 years thanks to Napster/Aimster/WinMX/KazaaLite. I would probably download whatever I was missing. Course 10 minutes after filing the police report I would be definitely putting in my order for a new computer
Why is copying entire books with a copy machine not called theft but called copyright infringement
I would suspect due to accessibility and demand and there isn't a lobby who are paying off some government types. If everyone had a photocopying machine that could copy a book as quickly as it takes to download a song, I think you would have Steven King doing a public information commercial on copyright theft. When he released "The Plant" on his website on the assumption that people pay 1 measly dollar on the honor system, he did complain as there were people who didn't. That is probably the closest that this scenario has come to fruition.
What? Canada?
(I can say this I am Canadian and it is a (partial) joke)
Riiight, so without a degree and without 10 years of experience, I'm going to be upper level management for Microsoft?
You may be an improvement
I mean Newport News not Reagan. I have wondered about this for a while
"I don't know what it means to have an investment in outlook. I don't know anybody who actually paid for it."
Outlook not only comes with Exchange. It also comes with MS Office. You may not necessarily go out and say "Give me 50 licenses for Outlook" but you do pay for it.
It may not involve actually spending money for the retraining but the amount of productivity that an office uses while the migration occurs as well as users getting familiar with the new product does equal a certain amount of money (unless everyone is a volunteer).
sure he can. Rename it and change permissions on the folder for no access to anyone
Batteries?!? Bastard we still burn Seal Oil. Unfortunately the price on it is going up due to GreenPeace pressuring the ban on seal clubbing.
Never even thought of that DOH! I would mod you up if I could!
I remember back in my XT as well as the 486 before I had a SB pro that there were a couple of games that sounded decent, i.e some golf game where you could hear birds and clapping. Tried it on a later model and the sounds was not quite right. I think they have reduced the dynamic range on the pc speaker to making beeps since it is unheard of not having a sound card in some form if you want sound.
What I would really like is to have found software that would take PC Speaker output and force it through the sound card. There were some old games that were great but sound like crap on new pc speakers.
All Canadian Police are trained that if they pull the trigger, the recipient is dead. Hollowpoints help this out.
I'm surprised that you forgot # 11
11. The "War on Terror" was won by the US.
I think a guy two doors down in my apartment building just bought an active sub. Most of the time it is ok but he has gotten bad on several occasions. Nice thing about Ottawa is you can complain any time of the day about stereos being too loud. Already complained once. Another 2 times and he is out on his ass.
He also screams at his girlfriend and smokes dope on the balcony and nobody would be disappointed if he left.
The dope there is nothing we can do. Since the court ruling that stated that anything less than 30 grams is not chargable (long story there and I wouldn't be the person to explain it as I know the minimum about it) the cops won't come around for it. The guy in between us though said the next time he hears them fighting he is going to call the cops.
Personally I think the whole Marijuana issue is stupid and should be decriminalized (but I don't touch the stuff) but when you have your boss over for dinner and you get a waft of BC gold coming in the window, it is kind of embarrassing.
I am playing devil's advocate (somewhat)
I do agree that installing Mandrake 9 may be easier but look at why.
1. I doubt that Mandrake 9 came out at the same time as Windows 2000 which is going on 2 or 3 years. Try installing some version that came out then and see if everything gets picked up.
2. You mention that every program you practically need is installed. Now if MS included free software (i.e Office or stripped down version (not Works maybe Word and Excel)), how soon do you think an antitrust lawsuit would be set up?
I think this is where MS is most worried about with regarding to Linux. The fact that the rules that should restrain them due to monopolistic behavior doesn't affect the Linux infrastructure.
Course they could always include other companies software but that would be smart.
I would use it for selecting groups, but when it came to movement, it would slide a lot. Probably my desks fault but it would have been nice if they had put bigger rubber pieces on the base
I think regarding the XBox, this is why MS is mildly concerned with running Linux on an XBox, I won't say afraid since I think majority (like 98%) of people who bought an Xbox will even bother. But they are concerned about non MS blessed games being used on their platforms thus cutting into their profit they make in licensing.
I never said that a company should run Windows to cut costs per se. I meant that nowadays with all the layoffs, companies can find any trained ape who will work for peanuts and will say yessir, be unemployed for a year and you will almost do anything. I have gone through 2 layoffs within the last 3 years. The first time was almost a year (went back to school to bone up) and the second was about 6 months. After the second I said fuck it to the high tech and decided to work for the government (not a public servant but contracting which pays buttloads more without the job security but I have a good contract that shouldn't die out any time soon (if ever)). It's not bleeding edge technology but there is some interesting stuff there as well.
In this economical market you don't pick the companies you work for. Sounds like you have been lucky to be able to make the choice and I hope everybody can.
I didn't end up working for the company that wanted to axe their unix guru but rather than putting out bucketloads of money for Sun boxes for their developers, they figured it was cheaper to buy Win2k workstations, it was also a startup who are still around but they had to be really careful on spending money as Venture Capital was starting to get scarce. Unfortunately there wasn't any CAD software at the time developed for linux that was up to par as the Windows stuff otherwise I am sure they would have gone that way. What wasn't available for Windows they would put out the money and get the real iron for it.
Problem is that you can quit the job if you don't like what is happening but like I said the market is pretty dry and you better make sure that you have something else lined up or a decent nest egg to fall back on.
I know someone who did jump jobs and less then 2 months later the axe fell and he was out on his ass. He tried to get his old job back but by that time they had already hired someone new and if they turfed the new guy, HR said no new hirings. That was 7 months ago. Guess what he is doing now? (hint: nothing) It isn't the workers market anymore (not going to be for a while anyways) where you could demand a huge pay due to lack of workforce.
Plus I wasn't saying everyone has a diva whim, it is the ones who already have windows machines but refuse to touch them because it is beneath them so they need to hire someone else to do it were the ones I was talking about.
I bought it for Age of Kings, Age of Mythology but found that the rubber feet were not sticking enough so it would slide which practically negated the benefit of the movement of the unit. Also I found I was so used to using the keyboard that it was difficult to adjust. Plus I was never a macro type person. I also own a MS Sidewinder FF v 2.0 joystick which I love, the large base makes it extremely sturdy. I also have a FF Sidewinder Steering wheel using the GamePort. The only thing I don't like about it is that as of XP the software is no longer supported. This means you have to take the default settings for forces etc (unless you have the USB model
Can't complain about MS gaming devices either (although the Strategic commander is a tad on the questionable side). I keep going back to them as they are solidly built.
How big is your pst file? (why do I see this as being a phallic jab)
Anything greater than 200M can be wild country where anything goes which is kind of silly as I have seen up to 2G behave fine and some 250M crap out.
In this era of costcutting, the diva attitude of "I would never touch a MS product" is a stupid attitude. I was interviewed at a high tech outfit that ended up being they were looking for a replacement for their admin since he wouldn't "dirty his hands" on their Exchange server nor support any of their Windows boxes. There were running Cadence (I think or it may have been Mentor Graphics I can't remember now) on Windows for most of their designing.
I think it is a mix of both post Y2K spending as well as the whole .com push. I mean all of a sudden you get these telecom manufacturers who's stock hits $100-300/share levels (i.e Nortel/JDS Uniphase (formerly known as JDS Fitel)) since their profits had gone up due to a mix of major Y2K spending plus a convenient increase in telco infrastructure upgrades. And everyone and their dog hears about people who had made oodles of money from their stock portfolio due to tech.
.bombs implode thus dropping more demand for infrastructure improvements. People start looking elsewhere to put their stocks frantically. Rinse and repeat. Nice downward spiral of layoffs and "cost cuttings" while upper management still get the nice 1.5 Million bonus by cutting 5000 workers.
Plus you have some slick marketing types that pick up on the fact that since the Internet is the future and our compuglobalhypermeganet thingy is going to revolutionize the world, you got this bunch of suckers out there who see the new Porsches and Aeron chairs and get sucked in.
Now it is 2001 and the next thing you know the telco manufacturers are claiming that for some unknown reason the money isn't coming in as before and then they start chopping the workers. Ironically around the same time the
This is what I have seen in the last 2 years. I worked at Newbridge doing CAD support and was in the layoffs there. I got a call from a guy who was in the Component Engineer section and he was laid off from Alcatel about a year ago and is still unemployed. I was smart when I got laid off and got into IT and have been fortunate to be working for the government. With him, right now there is no light at the end of the tunnel (cost cutting I here).
Me, I am waiting to see when prices of houses in Ottawa are going to drop. 2-3 years ago you could ask whatever price you wanted and could sell the house within a week if not a day. Now I have seen houses that have been on the market for almost 6 months. Sooner or later, the real estate agents are going to finally stop lying cause they want their percentage to equate a higher dollar amount and admit the market isn't as good as 2 years ago. I heard the total layoffs in Canada in the last couple of years has equaled out to 45,000 and a good portion in Ottawa, some of those people have to have decided to move. I figure about a year and a half from now anyone who bought a house here around now will have lost about $20,000 on it.
Sorry for the long (and rambling) reply.
Why? Because x-rays have been proven to be dangerous to living matter at high levels.
No, this way they don't waste time having you walk through the metal detector multiple times as you remove objects from your person. Plus they can check and make sure nothing is being smuggled in with your objects that could be considered banned (explosives, shivs, handmade guns, etc)
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Personally I think people need to get over the whole "they will see you naked bit" whoopdedoo, I have a penis so does 49%+/-1% of the population.
Sure it is an invasion of privacy but if you want to get somewhere fast, concessions should be made.
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