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Comment: Re:No, it's not. (Score 1) 578

by dragon-file (#43907231) Attached to: A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8
Vista was a decent OS and Win 7 wouldn't have even developed without using Vista as a stepping stone. However, the Vista migration that I stated was implemented roughly 3 months after Vista hit the shelves. The systems were loaded with an over abundance of RAM (6GB I recall) and needed every MB of it to run anywhere near as well as an XP machine with 2GB of RAM. Back when I assisted with the migration you couldn't even get Vista to run on a system with less than 2GB of RAM and a decent dual core processor. In stark contrast I was able to install Win 7 on a laptop with a 1.6GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. The installation actually ran well if not pretty. Correct me if i'm wrong but Vista still need at least 4GB of RAM to run properly.

Comment: Re:No, it's not. (Score 1) 578

by dragon-file (#43905639) Attached to: A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8
Actually you'd be surprised what some of these larger companies do. Take Gallo for instance. I had a temp job with them where I took brand new out of the box windows vista machines, hooked 20 at a time to 5 KVM stations and proceeded to PXE clone an already setup machine they had to every one of them. Point being, every time I unboxed a new Vista machine and set it on the table my opinion of Gallo Winery slipped ever farther south because most companies knew better than to jump on the vista bandwagon.

Comment: Re:Good model?!? (Score 4, Funny) 102

by dragon-file (#43897107) Attached to: Genetic Switches Behind 'Love' Identified In Prairie Voles

The voles' pair bonding, sharing of parental roles and egalitarian nest building in couples makes them a good model for understanding the biology of monogamy and mating in humans

A good model for ideal human behavior, sure, but actual behavior?!? One wonders if the researchers have met any actual human couples.

Of course they haven't met actually human couples. They're researchers.

Comment: See? (Score 1) 656

by dragon-file (#43875623) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree?
This is why college, IMHO, blows so hard. Its one thing to ask me to pay money to teach me something I want to learn. It's another to make me pay for things you're teaching me that I dont need and or care about.

I do basic IT admin work and I haven't gone out and gotten a degree. Just a long list of job related work experience. However I work in an region of the U.S. where a degree isn't going to help much anyway because there aren't high paying IT jobs unless I want to commute 2 hours every day.

The point is. Sometimes experience outweighs a degree. Sometimes you need to know math. It all depends on what you want to do.

Comment: This is why... (Score 1) 802

by dragon-file (#43855213) Attached to: Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives
I practice stenography. Most people find a file, assume it's just an executable or what not, and move on, never realizing that the incriminating evidence was there the whole time. If this guy really wanted to be a dick about it, he could have taken perfectly benign pictures and changed the file names to sexy 6 year old or whatever these ass hats look at.

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