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General Software Discussion / Re: Help needed with computer problem
« Last post by Carol Haynes on May 26, 2013, 11:26 AM »Capacitor issue on the motherboard?
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... raising a glass only counts if there's a five (5) pound weight attached, and if you alternate hands
-barney (May 23, 2013, 09:22 PM)
let's see, two full ones of those German litre beer glasses would make roughly five pounds weight - one in each hand.
Sip alternately :p-tomos (May 24, 2013, 04:57 AM)
Count me inMy question exactly... and perhaps the link should be taken down?-wraith808 (May 13, 2013, 12:55 PM)
u know, I've been noticing that the media seems to insist that the benefits of subscription cloud services are "undeniable". And I'm getting really annoyed by it. Not because there are no benefits, there are. But the way they say it, it makes it sound like the local installation does NOT have any benefits. And those who don't understand the differences hear this and it seems like it is gaining momentum.-superboyac (May 08, 2013, 03:28 PM)
The media is behaving like any good lapdog and doing exactly what they're told. The one pivotally critical detail that the cloud shills miss/overlook/ignore is the simple fact that the internet does not exist as a singular thing. It is a ramshackle group of discontiguous networks that just-so-happen to share relatively well with their neighbors. but any break in the chain of resold (to the Nth power) services that comprise the sum total internet could quite easily cripple a company if it decided to have a hiccup either at the right time, or for a long enough time. I've already had a (client's) cloud provider claim that a problem had to be on my (our collective) end because they could access the servers (INTERNALLY!!!) just fine... Yet I'm looking right at a trace route report that clearly says that their up level provider just took a shit because that is exactly where all the packet movement stops!
I've already gone ballistic on the phone when one of the cloud sales drones made the mistake of telling me that their total downtime for the previous year was only 11 minutes. Because I don't give a flyingwhat their down time is ... I need to ensure that everybody between point A, and point B stays just dandy so my company's down time doesn't spike us right into the toilet. Because if a drunk hits a pole up the street from me, and the local utility company doesn't get it fixed really soon... Guess what? My company is blind as a bat trying to function .. Regardless of whether or not the "cloud" is allegedly construed as being "up" (I'm still getting fisted).
-Stoic Joker (May 08, 2013, 05:38 PM)
Adobe will love the idea that nobody will ever be able to pirate Photoshop ever again. Everyone that wants to use it will have to pay for it, monthly.
Another inch closer!
-app103 (May 07, 2013, 10:26 PM)
Not that long ago they did a nice thing with their CS2 (or was it 3?) product give-away and now they do this. Ah well, lets hope this move will make them see how the bottom of their "war chest" looks like.-Shades (May 07, 2013, 06:07 PM)
