Posts by Abot13

Re: "...laws are for the little people..."

germany not a western country? google stasi.

Re: Not sure dick is the word

that just means Clarckson is a more likeable dick, which is a given because he is not a politician

Re: Gummi bears anyone ?

no one put some kind of superglue on it? or chewing gum? or.... specially in schools the should be inventive in destroying the system

Re: Nice idea, but...

with a good package manager it is just like an app store, much easier then hunting for the software you want, downloading it (with the risc of yet another "downloadmanager" and crapware install option checked) and then doing the setup.exe. After witch you can go and delete the original download manually.

Setup.exe easier? I think not

Re: Craig Foster

I have had the same conversation, after an hour I told him that if he wanted us not to waste disks all he had to do is sign a statement forbidding us to use raid for the added security of the data. Case closed quickely

Re: grain of salt

IB can handle a node failing, how else would clusters be build using it

or are you just talinkg about situations where cache coherency is a must? not sure PCIe links will deliver that.

most OLED screens come out of the production line bend, why else are there so many not flat screens for sale?

Re: Why?

if it was a better way people wouldnt complain, fact is it isnt a better way

Re: Chief People Officer

CPO and the other two C functions to be combined. New job title C3PO

Re: Yeah, good luck.

no debate about HSR in Europe? come again? There is a huge debate about HSR at the moment in both the Netherlands and Belgium.

A HSR line was built between the two mentioned countries, it went way over budget, schedule etc etc. When it was finaly completed, the italian built trains turned out to be total failures. they are so bad they are banned in Belgium.

In the end we have a HSR that is unfit for purpose and a dozen or so trains, that you wouldt even house pigs in, standing still and going nowhere ever. the HSR is a write of before even being really used, its a miracle that no one got killed.

Re: I usually don't buy socialist arguments about America being a "corporateocracy"

yes history repeats itself, and USA military already did shoot unarmed USA citizens before. Shooting armed citizens is even easier. Which is a good reason to arm your citizens, much easier to shoot them.

And if you count police as am armed force then its the order of the day, not an exeption.

Yes a revolution can happen, and if the current politicians on both sides keep it up will become sure to happen, but it will be a very very high bodycount. which is good for planet earth. But every downside has an upside ;)

Microsoft's new productline named Microslut, will among other include a vaginal ring to check if any of the females in your family have unsanctioned sex. Ofcourse bluetooth enabled and connected to the cloud to make sure there is a skydrive involved.

Re: depending how they implement it then it's reasonable

then they should state that commercial servers are not allowed. and for non commercial servers they just should put a FUP in there to be shure.

Re: Godwin's law be damned

if they cant differentiate between a laptop and a gun, they should close their doors asap

I agree that USB standards naming has been a mess for the longest time.

But the adoption of this standard by Intel is not that important. its rather easy to change the chip that provides (extra) USB3 ports on a lot of motherboards for a 3.1 chip.

maybe Intel is a contender for the firm that produces most processors, but intels share in the total processormarket is far from the biggest. if ARM adopts USB3.1 in their designs it will become mainstream rather fast.

Re: How much data...?

SSD doesnt have a max number for reads, only for writes. So it just depends on how much you write in the hour or two of usage. I think you could use an SSD for a very long time in your scenario, easily outliving the rest of your machine for usefullness.

Re: Am I the only one who likes the Ribbon interface?

nowadays the ribbon can be customized too. And I still hate it.

Also IT Pros tend to look further and are less bound by company dictated softwares like office. So most IT pros tend to have office only to read some office only formats. and use the alternatives for higher productivity or at least ease of use.

Re: Quite right.

Indeed the price is almost the samen with your upgrades, but....

You have been working on it for all that time, thats a value and

you can do the upgrades incremental, so you dont have to spend that lot at once and can buy an upgrade when funds allow

Re: 1TB? no problem!

why staggered spin up? put a good UPS in front of it to take the initial load ;)

Re: How much is MSN IM used now?

I so miss the ICQ feature that let you automaticaly receive files even when absent,

Re: "Sony has been unashamedly cynical"

Sony being honest, did the medication finaly kick in or did they pull a muscle doing that?

Re: So, Windows is...

And you think that the source of any software related problem on a navy ship would be publicized? national security anyone?

Re: Was I the only one...

that genlock MSX was a phillips 8280

I had a few spectravideo's still love the 738 "portable" it did MSX and CP/M :)