Yes, but devices also did not last long. TV sets failed after 6 months to 2 years. Even cars were rusted out after only 3 years. A VW Beetle exhaust pipe lasted 9 months - not even a whole year! So if you wanted anything to last more than a year or two, then you had to repair it regularly. Since manufacturers figured out how to make consumer devices that last 10 years or more, repair became optional.
"So I saw the fictitious Solanum virus in the missing brain of a headless mummy." Said the blind man to his deaf daughter standing in the corner of the round hut.
If you switch the devices on/off all the time, then they don't last very long. One reason why modern electronic devices last for decades without failure, is due to not ever being really switched off.
So the world's largest networked super computer runs Windows. It is sad really, all these hundreds of millions of computers on the planet - half of them sending spam for the other half to filter out. One would think that there should be something slightly more useful for them to do.
Well, if MS base their data centres on Windows, then their costs will be at least double that of Google and more like 5 to 10 times more. So a $500M MS data centre is actually quite small, compared to a $500M Google data centre.
In my own limited experience, the Finder is the single worst feature of the Mac. Its interface is really bad and losing data is just another manifestation of a rotten design.
After the 2nd war, Warsaw was rebuilt from photos. If you visit Warsaw today, you'd think that it is an old city. In fact, it is all new, the Poles just like it that way.
Whenever I use Redhat (which is every gawddam day), it feels like I have gone back about 3 years in time. They are so far behind the feature curve it is really annoying the hell out of me. Redhat is a middle aged Linux - everything is slower and more painful...
This has been going on for a long time and people are still falling for it and they are still in business. You should complain to your Congress Critters.
Hmm, I'm not using them anymore. They had regular power failures in Dallas - claiming 'UPS maintenance'. My home DSL setup is more reliable than their data centre.
Microsoft doesn't have any sense of ethics. They have a pervasive psychopathic corporate culture and it starts right at the top. Balmer himself flew to Germany in an effort to sway the IBM/Munchen deal after it was signed with 'special offers', which to me is an attempt at bribery, but a psychopath won't see it that way.
I guess he is worried that the moon will have another crater or two. Actually it may be nice if he and all his followers and sympathisers would go to the moon and leave us here on earth alone.
There are some craters that are so big and so old that no-one knows whether it was an impact or an explosion. For example, the Bushveld Complex in South Africa is about 500km in diameter and no-one knows how it formed. The famous gold mines are around the rim of that crater. It is so big and so old, that there are other, smaller and more recent impact craters inside it.
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Yes, but devices also did not last long. TV sets failed after 6 months to 2 years. Even cars were rusted out after only 3 years. A VW Beetle exhaust pipe lasted 9 months - not even a whole year! So if you wanted anything to last more than a year or two, then you had to repair it regularly. Since manufacturers figured out how to make consumer devices that last 10 years or more, repair became optional.
Inflation is when you have to do without something that your grandma didn't have.
"So I saw the fictitious Solanum virus in the missing brain of a headless mummy." Said the blind man to his deaf daughter standing in the corner of the round hut.
If you switch the devices on/off all the time, then they don't last very long. One reason why modern electronic devices last for decades without failure, is due to not ever being really switched off.
I'd feel a lot safer if you could get selinux to work on Windows...
So the world's largest networked super computer runs Windows. It is sad really, all these hundreds of millions of computers on the planet - half of them sending spam for the other half to filter out. One would think that there should be something slightly more useful for them to do.
Well, high bandwidth maybe once the link is up, but the speed of light is still the same, so the delay doesn't change.
The total amount of totalitarianism in Europe seems to be constant. It just moves around from country to country.
Why don't they just chain the children up? That is much simpler and far more effective. http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_06/uk/droits.htm http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/yearoftheslave.html http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/children_in_chains.pdf
A more useful analogy would be how many flying chairs can be housed in the building.
Well, if MS base their data centres on Windows, then their costs will be at least double that of Google and more like 5 to 10 times more. So a $500M MS data centre is actually quite small, compared to a $500M Google data centre.
This guy is so clueless, his Betamax VCR is still flashing 12:00...
In my own limited experience, the Finder is the single worst feature of the Mac. Its interface is really bad and losing data is just another manifestation of a rotten design.
Sure, that is a large current. The best way to charge an ultra capacitor is from another larger ultra-capacitor, which is charged slowly.
After the 2nd war, Warsaw was rebuilt from photos. If you visit Warsaw today, you'd think that it is an old city. In fact, it is all new, the Poles just like it that way.
Whenever I use Redhat (which is every gawddam day), it feels like I have gone back about 3 years in time. They are so far behind the feature curve it is really annoying the hell out of me. Redhat is a middle aged Linux - everything is slower and more painful...
Air, water, earth and fire are elements, so the OP get 50%, you get 0%. Signed, Aristotle.
This has been going on for a long time and people are still falling for it and they are still in business. You should complain to your Congress Critters.
Hmm, I'm not using them anymore. They had regular power failures in Dallas - claiming 'UPS maintenance'. My home DSL setup is more reliable than their data centre.
Oh, Mandriva can still use the deal as a reference with ethical customers.
Microsoft doesn't have any sense of ethics. They have a pervasive psychopathic corporate culture and it starts right at the top. Balmer himself flew to Germany in an effort to sway the IBM/Munchen deal after it was signed with 'special offers', which to me is an attempt at bribery, but a psychopath won't see it that way.
Loaded with all these electronic devices, a soldier will never get lost anymore, since they can follow the trail of dead batteries back to base.
No, let's send the environmentalists to the far side of the moon, where we don't have to see them from earth.
I guess he is worried that the moon will have another crater or two. Actually it may be nice if he and all his followers and sympathisers would go to the moon and leave us here on earth alone.
There are some craters that are so big and so old that no-one knows whether it was an impact or an explosion. For example, the Bushveld Complex in South Africa is about 500km in diameter and no-one knows how it formed. The famous gold mines are around the rim of that crater. It is so big and so old, that there are other, smaller and more recent impact craters inside it.