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TV repairmen were originally regulated (just like most other occupations) for two main reasons:

1. Existing repairmen wanted to make it harder for newcomers to compete with them. That's the primary reason for occupational licensing.

2. The State wanted some extra cash. That's usually a secondary reason to get them to go along with #1 above. May be the main reason for this expansion.

"Safety" is usually the excuse given to the public when they ask why they can't just arrange for anyone otherwise qualified to fix their stuff. If you stop and consider that the "license" (like most occupational licensing, although you will find some exceptions where they make a really hard and arbitrary test to be judged by those already in the business in order to better limit competition) doesn't actually require any firm proof of safety or skill, it becomes clear that "safety" can't possibly be the primary objective of the license.

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General Houseware

It was actually windowsupdateNOW.com.

Of course, it is interesting to see a bunch of slashdotters actually taking a pro-microsoft stance on something. Must be getting pretty chilly for the devil about now...

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Dust Devil Reviews

Photoshop is too complicated to count.

"Paint" is probably more like an etch-a-sketch.

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Kirby Reviews

The problem is that you just get the base OS, which isn't any better than say, FreeBSD, but not too much worse either, but you don't get the GUI, which after all is the difference (from FreeBSD, Linux, whatever) that you'd want from Apple in the first place.

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Kirby Reviews

So instead of spending time writing scripts and configuring your make files, you spend that time configuring Maven?

Got it.

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Kirby Reviews

To balance that out, whoever is in charge of their Internet is now explaining to his boss how the Americans have rallied the world to create a Denial-Of-Service attack against their nation's first website through their super-secret weapon, the "Slashdot effect!"

Good thing his boss doesn't read English.

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Kirby Reviews

Since he built the plane, the FAA considers this mod to be original equipment.

But really, who cares if the guy uses a wifi antenna that high? To planes refuse to fly near ground-based radio station towers because they are afraid of interference? Didn't think so.

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Oreck Reviews

It'll be a toss up if I can get my new home theatre setup before HL2 comes out.

I mean, who wouldn't want to play it on a 133" screen with 6.1 THX surround sound while sitting in a recliner with a cup-holder?

The race is on!

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Oreck Reviews

After it's called Phoenix, should it be called the browser formerly known as ashes?

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Oreck Reviews

But just think, you get all the government you can eat.

It's like a socialist buffet!

And people wonder why they get paid 40% less in Canada and many people up there want to head south for better paying jobs and better medical care....
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Oreck Reviews

You may see some of the "upgraded" drives for sale on Ebay. A word to the wise, don't buy them, even if it seems cheap. Who will you complain to when it doesn't work right?

As afay says, Just get the newer one new. It'll be cheaper in the long run.

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Kirby Reviews

I'd tell you which stick was the best, but I don't remember. Must have picked the wrong one for my new brain mod....

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Kirby Reviews

I know.

I was just telling the questioner how to make sure the feature was preserved in the new version.

You wouldn't want the new version to be less feature-rich than RC2, would you?

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Kirby Reviews

I'm personally tired of IE criticizing me.

Now it's going to get "extremely critical" at my vulnerabilities?

I just can't take it anymore....

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Kirby Reviews

Yes, just install it and select the option to overwrite all existing partitions, assuming you want the "Break XP" option.

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Kirby Reviews

Just because his job requires him to interact with windows, doesn't mean that he considers it "right" for himself.

Too many times when using a windows client I've had to sftp files to my FreeBSD box in order to use some tools on them that just don't have native windows versions and then sftp the results back. Running windows in a VM-type setup would sure make that process a lot easier, for example.

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Kirby Reviews

Exactly. With Windows, a new OS release seems to mean you need to upgrade your computer. The history for Macs seems to be more like a new OS release allowing you to use your older computer a little longer.

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Kirby Reviews

Maybe we can encourage Bethesda to include a decent editor, something like Neverwinter Nights, but better, of course.

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Kirby Reviews

Right, but the grandparent poster probably just couldn't come up with any Miscrosoft failures, being so rare and all....

I mean, I'm still using the MS Bob desktop, aren't you?

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Kirby

I suppose that's better than "Don't hurt me!"...

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Kirby

But will it be witty, cute and in 3d?

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Kirby

I agree. Trying to use a laptop "on the go" is bad enough, but a pocket PC basically takes all the bad parts of a laptop experience and makes them much worse.

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Kirby

That's awesome!

Now, to go test NetBSD against power interruptions and see how it handles having random internal power plugs pulled....

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Kirby

Now if we can get them to come out with 5.3, my year will be complete.

No really, it's behind schedule... please bring out 5.3, I'm waiting to upgrade. :)

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Kirby