At least with our Optiplexen, they include a bootable driver/utility CD that has their diagnostics on it. Some others have had a 30 meg or so utility partition with the diags on that.
Some people are poor because they're stupid and blow all their money on smokes, beer, and movies, yes[1]. Other people are poor because of circumstances beyond their control, like the death of a spouse.
[1] Wife took a class that pointed out that for people who've been poor all their lives, it's normal to spend your entire paycheck right after you get it, even if there's nothing you *need* once you've bought essentials, and they usually blow the remaining stuff on entertainment. They just don't think about saving money for bigger things.
Obviously we're not talking about you. We're bitching about stuff like 90-day trials of McAfee or Norton Antivirus, trial versions of Office or Wordperfect, media players, stuff that loads on startup and slows the machine down to little good purpose. Have a look at a low-end HP or similar next time you're in a computer store and see what shite gets installed from the factory.
We don't have that problem; I don't know if it's because of our Higher Education "area" or because we buy Latitudes instead of Inspirons. Regardless, we have the option of getting a full XP Pro reinstall CD, and they can also come with CD-burner and DVD-player CDs and another CD with drivers and utilities. No included crapware except for Google Desktop/Toolbar. We pay extra for the privilege, of course.
If that era comes to an end, you can expect higher prices for consumer-grade computers. All that crap subsidizes the cost of the machine -- do you really think AOL or McAfee would be on there without a little money from the software makers?
Maybe. One model uses inflation in the moments after the Big Bang to explain certain things. That's a model. Scientists may think it's a pretty good one, but it's not the actual item and could be completely wrong.
Yeah! I don't go to the movies often, so the most egregious example I remember was some twat who brought her five-year-old and an infant to see Terminator 3. More's the pity that she's already passed her genes on.
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No, just waterboarding them. That's NOT torture.
At least with our Optiplexen, they include a bootable driver/utility CD that has their diagnostics on it. Some others have had a 30 meg or so utility partition with the diags on that.
I'll bite.
Illuminati -> Cheney -> Bush -> Gonzales.
Happy now?
Say hello to the Secret Service for me.
Gonzales is a tool. He says what Bush wants him to say, so what just came out of his mouth is what Bush believes.
I don't think it's a stalking-horse to get Congress to agree to some lesser horror, because either HC exists or it doesn't.
Katrina happened after we got into the Iraq War.
Until something happens and martial law is declared, anyway.
Maybe now judges will be more willing, since neocons can't scream so loudly about activist judges anymore.
But isn't NZ part of Australia?
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Some people are poor because they're stupid and blow all their money on smokes, beer, and movies, yes[1]. Other people are poor because of circumstances beyond their control, like the death of a spouse.
[1] Wife took a class that pointed out that for people who've been poor all their lives, it's normal to spend your entire paycheck right after you get it, even if there's nothing you *need* once you've bought essentials, and they usually blow the remaining stuff on entertainment. They just don't think about saving money for bigger things.
Better, just do away with DST altogether.
More radical, convince everyone to use UTC and do away with time zones.
Obviously we're not talking about you. We're bitching about stuff like 90-day trials of McAfee or Norton Antivirus, trial versions of Office or Wordperfect, media players, stuff that loads on startup and slows the machine down to little good purpose. Have a look at a low-end HP or similar next time you're in a computer store and see what shite gets installed from the factory.
We don't have that problem; I don't know if it's because of our Higher Education "area" or because we buy Latitudes instead of Inspirons. Regardless, we have the option of getting a full XP Pro reinstall CD, and they can also come with CD-burner and DVD-player CDs and another CD with drivers and utilities. No included crapware except for Google Desktop/Toolbar. We pay extra for the privilege, of course.
If that era comes to an end, you can expect higher prices for consumer-grade computers. All that crap subsidizes the cost of the machine -- do you really think AOL or McAfee would be on there without a little money from the software makers?
Maybe. One model uses inflation in the moments after the Big Bang to explain certain things. That's a model. Scientists may think it's a pretty good one, but it's not the actual item and could be completely wrong.
That's Lockhead, as in "head up and locked".
Sure. My guess is just as good as yours, right?
You must be new here.
Lots of style points if you give them an old-fashioned Gopher intranet and Jughead search.
Obviously they're to be used against certain politicians.
See _Lone Star Planet_ by H. Beam Piper and "The Malevolent Jobholder" by H.L. Mencken.
There's Klingons on the starboard bow...
That's tautological. If it's interested in something, it by definition knows /something/ about it.
Excellent rant, sir. I'm saving a copy locally.
Yeah! I don't go to the movies often, so the most egregious example I remember was some twat who brought her five-year-old and an infant to see Terminator 3. More's the pity that she's already passed her genes on.
Actually three terms plus a tiny sliver of a fourth before he died.