Every apple product I've owned has always been repaired or replaced quickly and pleasently when there was a problem, all of which have either been battery or hard drive related, though they really could offer a longer warranty since they've never broken until after the original warranty had expired and I was at least a few months into the extended one.
Not to mention that the same hardware is cheaper with Vista on it. Personally I think I'll pick that one up and then get my Windows refund rather than pay more for the same hardware with Linux pre-installed. I've even heard of people geting full price for their refund since Dell isn't allowed to tell you how much they pay for that OEM copy. There is also the problem of not being able to get the good hardware with Linux installs from Dell, not that any of the Del hardware is good, but they limit you to the low end of junk if you're not buying Vista or an XP downgrade.
The best quality hardware I've found so far has been from Panasonic. Toughbooks may be even more expensive than macs, but it sems impossible to kill one. Also, installing Debian on it means it will still be usable when the hardware is seriously out of date. I have a CF-27 300MHz PII that still does a great job of office work and web browsing. If it was a choice between Dell & Mac or Windows and OSX I'd go with Mac despite what I consider to be an oversimplified interface, but I'm not stuck with a cheap Dell that falls apart within the first year or that malware magnet Windows, I have the freedom to chose what works for me and since I buy my Toughbooks used when they no longer run the newest version of Windows I actually save money over Dell and get a fully customizable OS.
Somehow I doubt "manly men" are sitting in front of their dell trolling/. or getting wrapped up in being a Windows fanboy any more than in being a mac one.
I would totally support a once per update request. When you install it or get a new version you get a donation request, but not every time you log in. I've never used QuestHelper, so I don't know how annoying, if at all, your request it. I watched a friend log in once, and the please send money spam he got was amazing. I only used the add-on for extra shortcut bars myself, kinda thought quest add-ons took some of the point out of the game, like buying a prima guide for a console game. Not that my opinion matters, I'll never log back on to a Blizzard server unless they put one up that is a bit more selective in who is allowed on.
Too bad I already hunted down the list and verified that my account isn't on it. Well, not that they'd get me anyway, especially since that little trick to show me the wrong url in my navigation bar doesn't work with my browser.
Yeah, I called them and said I was unable to install the software as I didn't have a computer runnign Windows. Took a few minutes of them setting up the account remotely, giving me the new password, and then changing it online. I was completely unwilling to subject my wife's XP box to what I've seen on people's computers who were dumb enough to actually put that CD in the drive. It was really simple to avoid installing it, and nobody asked me to sign a waiver, of course I was doing a self-install and only called them to activate my account when everything was all hooked up properly. not sure how much harder it would be if I had some clueless comcost rep at my house insisting that I needed to install the software.
Never too early to start teaching them that being a sheep is bad. And what is advertizing but telling the sheep what to think since they're incapable of forming opinions on their own.
My friends and I used to have MST3K style porn watching parties. That definatly takes the sexiness out of porn and highlights just how silly most of it is. Not that that would be a good idea for a kid, but directed at someof the adult responders to this. As far as kids go, adblock works for all of the accidental pop-ups, and if it's not accidental no ammount of filtering that leaves the internet truly usable will work to keep a determined kid from finding inapropriate content.
If I were to have placed the money I've spent on insurance in a savings account I would have a lot more money in there than my policy pays out in the event of an accident. I'd have to go on a rampage to balance out the money I've spent on the good it has done me. Either that or hit a few really expensive cars that probably don't have the supplemental insurance to pay for the differance between the value of a sane person's auto and the price of showing off.
I'd rather live in a world knowing that my neighbor could shoot me a whim, than live in a world not knowing so, and eventually being shot by my neighbor on the same whim anyway. And I'd rather be able to defend myself, than leave it up to other people who might or might not, depending on their whims. Because looking at history, and speaking from personal experience, no matter how "good" or "right" I might be, I'll only reap the benefits of their protection when their goals coincide with mine.
But that's the problem. Too many people want the illusion of safety over the ability to keep themselves safe. They're lazy, and want someone else to handle it, and by the time they realize that nobody is will be as willing to defend you and your family aside from yourself it will be to late. The news scares them about public shootings, but never seems to not that if someone in the crowd had their own gun and the ability to use it properly that it likely wouldn't have been so bad.
Wrestling and reality shows, this is how I knew SciFi was done for. SG-1 Was gone, SGA was fast running out of ideas, BSG has gone downhill as well. Sanctuary got a facelift, but dropped a lot of the originality and true quality of the webisodes. Don't even get me started on the SciFi original movies, I like bad science fiction and can't sit through them. Guess that's a good thing though, saves on the cable bill.
The slow death of Microsoft. They are diversified enought that a total failure in the OS market won't kill MS, and people remembering the rrod next time they release an x-box won't kill them either, plus all the deals they make with developers to keep some of the biggest software titles Windows only is not going to change. Sure a business can run a VM, and at least for my needs a VM of XP is much better than installing a MS OS, but wine/cedega/crossover really isn't up to snuff for the new games so I don't see Windows dying out until we start getting native ports of games. Not everybody is willing to skip the purchase 'till it runs with wine, and then send a letter to the company telling them why they got the sale, so even with the growing popularity of Linux for home use I don't see major game studios getting a clue anytime soon.
Be afraid, be very afraid. It only gets worse from here on out. I'm nowhere near old enough to feel like I should be sitting on a porch swing with a shotgun yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but the people around me...... Maybe it's because my parents were older than most of my peer's grandparents, not like anyone else at my school got a strap if he failed in school, they were more likely to ahve their parents show up and tell the teachers they were being too ahrd on their little darlings.
What's really insulting is when there were first rumors of layoffs K5 news had a story on where Microsoft said they were doing beter than projected and would not be laying anyone off.
Streamed with silverlight, eh? The inaguration came to me via mininova. Really, I hope that we don't have to sue our government because they deny access to their websites to those who do not use Microsoft products. I'm not saying flash is any better, but at least it works on more systems than Silverlight. Really, they should use something that is fast, highly compatable, and secure. There isn't any need for glitz when you're distributing information. How long have we read black & white newsprint? Now we need a fully interactive resource hog that either outright doesn't work or crashes your browser if you're using a less popular OS or older hardware.
Bit-torrent is a critical service if you're trying to host large files without paying out the ear to host them and allow them to be downlaoded. Just put a torrent file on your site and let the bittorrent network manage your downloads for you.
That moeny could do a lot of good with things like the water mains (one of which broke in the last year and took out a bridge pretty near where I was living) or the roads that make me start to wonder if I'll need to buy a hummer to drive to Safeway a few year down the road. Microsoft is more than capable of building this for itself, but just like Boeing it gets whatever it wants because it could throw a temper tantrum and cause a lot of local problems if you don't coddle the corporation.
Maybe you're right, but I don't see the caller hitting a button being able to navoid the direct to voicemail that happens when my cell is dead or turned off.
Yeah, like Anarcy Online's froob accounts, you're on an alien world thousands of years in the future and subjected to US Air Force advertisments and trailers for movies that would likely not have survived the test of time.
Any time I get an automated voice telling me to press a button when I pick up my phone, I hang up without so much as looking at caller ID, I wonder how many people won't be able to contact me because they're using Google Voice.
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Every apple product I've owned has always been repaired or replaced quickly and pleasently when there was a problem, all of which have either been battery or hard drive related, though they really could offer a longer warranty since they've never broken until after the original warranty had expired and I was at least a few months into the extended one.
Not to mention that the same hardware is cheaper with Vista on it. Personally I think I'll pick that one up and then get my Windows refund rather than pay more for the same hardware with Linux pre-installed. I've even heard of people geting full price for their refund since Dell isn't allowed to tell you how much they pay for that OEM copy. There is also the problem of not being able to get the good hardware with Linux installs from Dell, not that any of the Del hardware is good, but they limit you to the low end of junk if you're not buying Vista or an XP downgrade.
The best quality hardware I've found so far has been from Panasonic. Toughbooks may be even more expensive than macs, but it sems impossible to kill one. Also, installing Debian on it means it will still be usable when the hardware is seriously out of date. I have a CF-27 300MHz PII that still does a great job of office work and web browsing. If it was a choice between Dell & Mac or Windows and OSX I'd go with Mac despite what I consider to be an oversimplified interface, but I'm not stuck with a cheap Dell that falls apart within the first year or that malware magnet Windows, I have the freedom to chose what works for me and since I buy my Toughbooks used when they no longer run the newest version of Windows I actually save money over Dell and get a fully customizable OS.
Somehow I doubt "manly men" are sitting in front of their dell trolling /. or getting wrapped up in being a Windows fanboy any more than in being a mac one.
I would totally support a once per update request. When you install it or get a new version you get a donation request, but not every time you log in. I've never used QuestHelper, so I don't know how annoying, if at all, your request it. I watched a friend log in once, and the please send money spam he got was amazing. I only used the add-on for extra shortcut bars myself, kinda thought quest add-ons took some of the point out of the game, like buying a prima guide for a console game. Not that my opinion matters, I'll never log back on to a Blizzard server unless they put one up that is a bit more selective in who is allowed on.
Exactly the reason I won't be getting a DSi. Same reason I hunt down a 60GB PS3, who wants an extra 20GB at the cost of true b/c?
Too bad I already hunted down the list and verified that my account isn't on it. Well, not that they'd get me anyway, especially since that little trick to show me the wrong url in my navigation bar doesn't work with my browser.
Yeah, I called them and said I was unable to install the software as I didn't have a computer runnign Windows. Took a few minutes of them setting up the account remotely, giving me the new password, and then changing it online. I was completely unwilling to subject my wife's XP box to what I've seen on people's computers who were dumb enough to actually put that CD in the drive. It was really simple to avoid installing it, and nobody asked me to sign a waiver, of course I was doing a self-install and only called them to activate my account when everything was all hooked up properly. not sure how much harder it would be if I had some clueless comcost rep at my house insisting that I needed to install the software.
Never too early to start teaching them that being a sheep is bad. And what is advertizing but telling the sheep what to think since they're incapable of forming opinions on their own.
My friends and I used to have MST3K style porn watching parties. That definatly takes the sexiness out of porn and highlights just how silly most of it is. Not that that would be a good idea for a kid, but directed at someof the adult responders to this. As far as kids go, adblock works for all of the accidental pop-ups, and if it's not accidental no ammount of filtering that leaves the internet truly usable will work to keep a determined kid from finding inapropriate content.
Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm trying desperately to repress my memories of Metacrawler, and Altavista (half-decent) and Webcrawler before that...
*shudders*
Why did you have to bring up painful memories?
If I were to have placed the money I've spent on insurance in a savings account I would have a lot more money in there than my policy pays out in the event of an accident. I'd have to go on a rampage to balance out the money I've spent on the good it has done me. Either that or hit a few really expensive cars that probably don't have the supplemental insurance to pay for the differance between the value of a sane person's auto and the price of showing off.
I'd rather live in a world knowing that my neighbor could shoot me a whim, than live in a world not knowing so, and eventually being shot by my neighbor on the same whim anyway. And I'd rather be able to defend myself, than leave it up to other people who might or might not, depending on their whims. Because looking at history, and speaking from personal experience, no matter how "good" or "right" I might be, I'll only reap the benefits of their protection when their goals coincide with mine.
But that's the problem. Too many people want the illusion of safety over the ability to keep themselves safe. They're lazy, and want someone else to handle it, and by the time they realize that nobody is will be as willing to defend you and your family aside from yourself it will be to late. The news scares them about public shootings, but never seems to not that if someone in the crowd had their own gun and the ability to use it properly that it likely wouldn't have been so bad.
Wrestling and reality shows, this is how I knew SciFi was done for. SG-1 Was gone, SGA was fast running out of ideas, BSG has gone downhill as well. Sanctuary got a facelift, but dropped a lot of the originality and true quality of the webisodes. Don't even get me started on the SciFi original movies, I like bad science fiction and can't sit through them. Guess that's a good thing though, saves on the cable bill.
The slow death of Microsoft. They are diversified enought that a total failure in the OS market won't kill MS, and people remembering the rrod next time they release an x-box won't kill them either, plus all the deals they make with developers to keep some of the biggest software titles Windows only is not going to change. Sure a business can run a VM, and at least for my needs a VM of XP is much better than installing a MS OS, but wine/cedega/crossover really isn't up to snuff for the new games so I don't see Windows dying out until we start getting native ports of games. Not everybody is willing to skip the purchase 'till it runs with wine, and then send a letter to the company telling them why they got the sale, so even with the growing popularity of Linux for home use I don't see major game studios getting a clue anytime soon.
Be afraid, be very afraid. It only gets worse from here on out. I'm nowhere near old enough to feel like I should be sitting on a porch swing with a shotgun yelling at kids to get off my lawn, but the people around me...... Maybe it's because my parents were older than most of my peer's grandparents, not like anyone else at my school got a strap if he failed in school, they were more likely to ahve their parents show up and tell the teachers they were being too ahrd on their little darlings.
What's really insulting is when there were first rumors of layoffs K5 news had a story on where Microsoft said they were doing beter than projected and would not be laying anyone off.
Streamed with silverlight, eh? The inaguration came to me via mininova. Really, I hope that we don't have to sue our government because they deny access to their websites to those who do not use Microsoft products. I'm not saying flash is any better, but at least it works on more systems than Silverlight. Really, they should use something that is fast, highly compatable, and secure. There isn't any need for glitz when you're distributing information. How long have we read black & white newsprint? Now we need a fully interactive resource hog that either outright doesn't work or crashes your browser if you're using a less popular OS or older hardware.
Bit-torrent is a critical service if you're trying to host large files without paying out the ear to host them and allow them to be downlaoded. Just put a torrent file on your site and let the bittorrent network manage your downloads for you.
That moeny could do a lot of good with things like the water mains (one of which broke in the last year and took out a bridge pretty near where I was living) or the roads that make me start to wonder if I'll need to buy a hummer to drive to Safeway a few year down the road. Microsoft is more than capable of building this for itself, but just like Boeing it gets whatever it wants because it could throw a temper tantrum and cause a lot of local problems if you don't coddle the corporation.
Now that's what I thought it said, tlacuache made me doubt my comprehension there.
I block all cookies from google, and never search logged in.
Maybe you're right, but I don't see the caller hitting a button being able to navoid the direct to voicemail that happens when my cell is dead or turned off.
Yeah, like Anarcy Online's froob accounts, you're on an alien world thousands of years in the future and subjected to US Air Force advertisments and trailers for movies that would likely not have survived the test of time.
Any time I get an automated voice telling me to press a button when I pick up my phone, I hang up without so much as looking at caller ID, I wonder how many people won't be able to contact me because they're using Google Voice.