If the Air Force even thought about buying Airbus aircraft for AF1, there would be a great political hue and cry from Congress and much of the population. See the recent aerial tanker competition.
Since Boeing is the only domestic producer of airliners, this effectively gives them a no-bid contract, though with the all-important appearance of letting the Europeans have a chance.
This is a poor, pathetic troll. We have these things called "radios" over here in Tornado Alley, and when the weather gets that bad the local stations will pre-empt whatever dreck they normally broadcast in favor of emergency bulletins.
One of the causes of poverty, so I'm told, is that many poor people never really learned the trick of squirreling away money; if they've got $20 left over after they get paid, then they have a powerful need to spend that money on something.
I had an Apple//c for several years and many fond memories of games like "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego", various versions of Oregon Trail, the Stickybear edutainment titles, Wings of Fury, and even doing Appleworks spreadsheet work for my high school ROTC unit, after my//c had been retired.
We did typing class on the//c as well; I forget which program that was on ("Wonderful World of PAWS?), and also practice in "Bank Street Writer". My math classes included a couple sessions with an adventure/math game whose name escapes me -- you walked around in a virtual hotel, talking to people and solving math problems in an effort to solve a (murder?) mystery. Not enough//c to go around, so we doubled up.
Would that Optiplex issue be the bursting capacitors on the GX270?
I've had a handful of newer Optiplexen (620s IIRC) with dodgy power supplies, but (pulling a figure out of my butt) that's less than 5% of installed base, and Dell was good for quick replacements.
I work in higher education. We've had a few MPC-Gateways (my area is mainly Dell, thank goodness, but other techs are not so lucky), and nearly every time we've needed support on a Gateway box, it's been terrible. I've had an incompatible drive sent to me, twice. They have refused to send me restore DVDs for in-warranty machines, when the restore partition failed[1]. It can be difficult to find the correct drivers on their website.
And now, we've got this then-expensive 22" widescreen monitor that went bad a couple months ago and is putatively still under warranty. Except now that they are bankrupt and dissolving, there is no warranty. We've got the money that he already bought a replacement, but that's a regular burr beneath my saddle that we paid for something which we'll never get.
[1] A problem because of said machines needing XP Tablet Edition, and us not having a site license nor media for that version.
Our pointy-haired Windows administrator won't push out IE7 on WSUS even if us desktop-support people specifically request it. Said he doesn't like the phishing filter functionality, which is nonsense because if he'd add the gorram ADM files to the domain server, we could jolly well block that functionality, and never mind the Vista machines that all have IE7.
I wonder how many copies of IE6 are being kept because of ignorance on the part of those with power.
Nice thought, but it wouldn't work for us. We use student workers for some things, and some of the students are careless enough about leaving discs where they shouldn't be, or they get stolen, or something, and this happens from time to time with the USB sticks too. Basically CDs are much cheaper to replace, and I normally make new ones every few months with new releases (or when the definitions are getting old enough that updates are annoyingly long).
You don't get good malware-removal tools running on Linux, tard. ClamAV doesn't count, because it's not very good about detection.
You get good malware-removal tools on Windows because you get almost all of your malware on said OS, and because that OS is very popular hence has many developers.
Excellent point. What might stop a corrupt police officer from using a sex offender's login credentials to get the offender in further trouble? Say the offender had been convicted of something involving one of the officer's relatives...
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Electric toothbrushes suck. I can't use them because they tickle, and besides, the vibrations make it feel like I'm sucking on a sex toy.
And the litter. Too many smokers are too lazy (or something) to use a damned ashtray and just flip their butts out into the world.
Heh. Heh heh. The telecomms guy at my workplace just bought an upgrade to the latest version of OpenSewer for his server.
If I remember correctly, "nice" originally meant "stupid". Nice try.
If the Air Force even thought about buying Airbus aircraft for AF1, there would be a great political hue and cry from Congress and much of the population. See the recent aerial tanker competition.
Since Boeing is the only domestic producer of airliners, this effectively gives them a no-bid contract, though with the all-important appearance of letting the Europeans have a chance.
This is a poor, pathetic troll. We have these things called "radios" over here in Tornado Alley, and when the weather gets that bad the local stations will pre-empt whatever dreck they normally broadcast in favor of emergency bulletins.
That must have been a long time back. I remember watching cable TV in the mid-'80s and there were ads then.
One of the causes of poverty, so I'm told, is that many poor people never really learned the trick of squirreling away money; if they've got $20 left over after they get paid, then they have a powerful need to spend that money on something.
Profit, profit, profit. They're doing this for money, obviously.
Whippersnapper! Those 5.25" floppies were just the right size.
I had an Apple //c for several years and many fond memories of games like "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego", various versions of Oregon Trail, the Stickybear edutainment titles, Wings of Fury, and even doing Appleworks spreadsheet work for my high school ROTC unit, after my //c had been retired.
We did typing class on the //c as well; I forget which program that was on ("Wonderful World of PAWS?), and also practice in "Bank Street Writer". My math classes included a couple sessions with an adventure/math game whose name escapes me -- you walked around in a virtual hotel, talking to people and solving math problems in an effort to solve a (murder?) mystery. Not enough //c to go around, so we doubled up.
Isn't that "Linux" version of Picasa reliant on Wine?
My sister was bitten by a frost moose once...
Nah, 50 ohm terminators are pretty cheap. Just stick one on the end...
Would that Optiplex issue be the bursting capacitors on the GX270?
I've had a handful of newer Optiplexen (620s IIRC) with dodgy power supplies, but (pulling a figure out of my butt) that's less than 5% of installed base, and Dell was good for quick replacements.
I work in higher education. We've had a few MPC-Gateways (my area is mainly Dell, thank goodness, but other techs are not so lucky), and nearly every time we've needed support on a Gateway box, it's been terrible. I've had an incompatible drive sent to me, twice. They have refused to send me restore DVDs for in-warranty machines, when the restore partition failed[1]. It can be difficult to find the correct drivers on their website.
And now, we've got this then-expensive 22" widescreen monitor that went bad a couple months ago and is putatively still under warranty. Except now that they are bankrupt and dissolving, there is no warranty. We've got the money that he already bought a replacement, but that's a regular burr beneath my saddle that we paid for something which we'll never get.
[1] A problem because of said machines needing XP Tablet Edition, and us not having a site license nor media for that version.
Our pointy-haired Windows administrator won't push out IE7 on WSUS even if us desktop-support people specifically request it. Said he doesn't like the phishing filter functionality, which is nonsense because if he'd add the gorram ADM files to the domain server, we could jolly well block that functionality, and never mind the Vista machines that all have IE7.
I wonder how many copies of IE6 are being kept because of ignorance on the part of those with power.
Nice thought, but it wouldn't work for us. We use student workers for some things, and some of the students are careless enough about leaving discs where they shouldn't be, or they get stolen, or something, and this happens from time to time with the USB sticks too. Basically CDs are much cheaper to replace, and I normally make new ones every few months with new releases (or when the definitions are getting old enough that updates are annoyingly long).
It doesn't even use Explorer; it's got a different shell.
But by all means, keep trying to convince me when you don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, for fuck's sake. Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. It's, get this, a boot CD, as in a LiveCD. Doesn't execute anything on the hard drive.
Two chicks?
An aircraft carrier? USS Lexington (CV-2) powered Tacoma, WA for one month during the winter of '29-'30, when the land-based power plant failed.
Be a mite expensive to buy a retired carrier, though.
You don't get good malware-removal tools running on Linux, tard. ClamAV doesn't count, because it's not very good about detection.
You get good malware-removal tools on Windows because you get almost all of your malware on said OS, and because that OS is very popular hence has many developers.
We use Super Antispyware and Spybot Search & Destroy ourselves, running from the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows: http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Excellent point. What might stop a corrupt police officer from using a sex offender's login credentials to get the offender in further trouble? Say the offender had been convicted of something involving one of the officer's relatives...