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BIOS-Approved PCI Cards For Laptops
derek_farn writes "First there were printers that would would only work with vendor annointed ink cartridges; now we have laptops that will only boot with vendor annointed PCI cards. Keeping a list of approved PCI cards in the bios is one way of ensuring that customers renew their maintenance contracts. How else are they going to be able to plug in a PCI card released after the last BIOS update?" My HP laptop is several years old; can anyone confirm this?
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Okay, let's do it. Let's contribute to the intellectual and spiritual health of the body politic. To organize my discussion, I suggest that we take one step back in the causal chain and help others to see through the empty and meaningless statements uttered by Mr. William H. Gates III and his proxies. He has been a bad apple for as long as I can remember. Of course, it's not that simple.
Most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with Mr. Gates. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that inasmuch as I disagree with Mr. Gates's accusations and find his ad hominem attacks offensive, I am happy to meet Mr. Gates's speech with more speech and, if necessary, continue this discussion until the truth shines. I suspect that raising the volume, increasing the stridency, or stressing the emotionalism of an argument does not improve its validity, even though that presupposes a dialectical intertwinement to which a rotten turn of mind is impervious. All the deals Mr. Gates makes are strictly one-way. Mr. Gates gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations.
He wants to make all of us pay for his boondoggles. Personally, I don't want that. Personally, I prefer freedom. If you also prefer freedom, then you should be working with me to rub his nose in his own hypocrisy. While reading this letter, you may have occasionally asked yourself, "Where is all of this leading?" and, "What is the point exactly?" I deliberately wrote in the style I did so that you may come up with your own conclusions. Therefore, I leave you with only the following: The best advice I can give to a group is to detail the specific steps and objectives needed to thwart Mr. William H. Gates III's foolish little schemes.
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In A.D. 2005 ....
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
Compaq: How are you gentlemen !!
Compaq: All your PCI DEVICES are belong to us.
Compaq: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Compaq: You have no chance to survive make your time.
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Besides the fact that you didn't understand what he was asking...the end. He meant, his was older than the new ones that now have it. At least, that's all I got out of it. ;D
I'd just like to point out that adding elipses doesn't somehow make a phrase become as sentence either. ;)
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I know my own language, whether I'm a "stupid" American or not, thank you.
Well, technically, it's not "your" language, it's ours (England's) :).
I do regularly break a few grammar rules that I know about (when writing informally, like now).
Oh, absolutely - me too. But that's a lot different to simply sprinkling apostrophes all over the place because you don't know what they're for.
Most of them relate to the use of quotation marks, because I find their proper usage to be unintuitive.
Move to England, we do quotation marks properly (if you're referring to the placement of punctuation inside/outside them, which I'm guessing you are). The Jargon file actually mentions this.
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