That happens when you're an OS-upgrade lemming. I've had 3.1 (bundled with a PC), 95 (ditto), 98 (ditto), and XP (um, obtained when I built a PC). I just never saw any reason to upgrade my working and works-with-all-programs Windows versions on those computers.
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Not really. There was one feature from SE (web folders or somesuch) that didn't get put into the service pack, and later on MS would release patches for SE but not plain 98.
Then you've got the parents who swear around and at their kids. I was shopping at $MEGAMART once and heard some kid who looked about six talking to his parents. He was evidently acting up a bit, and the father asked him if he knew what was going to happen if he didn't straighten up. The kid responded that he was going to get his ass smacked, or something to that effect.
This is a fairly backwards part of the US, but this kind of thing must go on throughout the country.
As in the second one was trying to "handle" me (I was irked about the drive) and stick to the script instead of just getting the problem fixed. Frankly, I don't think he believed me.
I'm a university IT tech. Last month I had a fairly GW desktop PC's hard drive die. The drive was an IDE model. GW tech support not once but twice sent me a Serial ATA unit instead. That would be fine because the computer supports SATA as well, but they didn't send me a cable. After the first SATA drive was sent, I told the tech that I wanted either a cable or the correct drive. He refused me a cable.
Complaining to customer support got me a cable. Turns out the techs ordered the correct drive both times, but the warehouse was out of IDE hard drives so it failed silently and sent a SATA drive instead.
That said, the techs I chatted with (using their Java client) were professional (a bit too professional, if you know what I mean) and knew their jobs.
I'm not recommending my clients order GW machines for the time being. Our other major vendor for desktop PCs is Dell, and while their techs make me jump through the same hoops to get replacement parts, at least I get the right gorram parts sent to me.
You probably have more clue than the average Windows user. When I boot my XP partition, I've got always-on antivirus, full updates, and firewalls on both the router and Windows. I don't get much email on my POP account and all the nasty stuff is blocked by my ISP anyway. I don't browse with IE. I've only ever gotten one virus (according to AVG (no idea from where)) and it was quarantined immediately.
The notional average person uses IE and Outhouse Excess, is simply unaware of the concept of malicious emails, and leaves Windows settings to defaults. The 90-day subscription to Norton/McAfee Antivirus expired months or years ago. He might have a hardware firewall if he's got broadband and a software firewall if he's got XP SP2. If he's got Windows before XP SP1, automatic updates probably aren't enabled.
Yeah, don't you just love how the Republicans are acting like they have a large majority in Congress and a mandate, when they have neither? I say this as someone who believed in the R's when they retook Congress in '94.
I live in a conservative area of.us that voted for Bush in the last election. Reading the loony pages^W^Wthe letters to the editor, there is a growing anger among the people against Fuckwit for what he's doing to this country. There are still people defending him, though; usually the types who spout Bible verses, homophobia, and/or liberal-bashing.
I think that it's partially due to people being so attached to their worldviews that they can't do the mental gymnastics to change them. There's one individual who says liberals-this and liberals-that in every letter and yet never responds to people who call him on his inconsistencies. In his book _Prometheus Rising_ Robert Anton Wilson discusses his theory of "reality tunnels". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel.
There was another person, a former co-worker, who said that whatever "his commander-in-chief" (he wasn't military, just a wannabe) said was good enough for him. Another ex-cw said he voted for Bush in '04 because he didn't take the time to learn enough about the other guy and didn't want to change Presidents in the middle of things.
Other people just feel terribly foolish for voting him in, but are too embarrassed to admit they're wrong and so keep up their overt support.
During the runup to the '04 elections, I checked out the websites of all the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Kerry and Edwards were the ones who immediately turned me off because they sounded just like any other goddamned politician telling people what they wanted to hear, and they spoke in that English dialect peculiar to politicians and marketdroids. On the strength of what their sites said, I favored Dean and wossname, that just-retired Army general. Kucinich was also good, but too out there to be electable.
And yet, K & E got the best ratings in the primaries. This tells me that either 1) The Democrats who vote in primaries are clueless, or 2) Enough Republicans turned out to vote for what they knew were the least-palatable Democratic candidates.
Don't forget all the judges and others (like Bolton) he keeps appointing during Congressional recesses so they don't have to be voted on for a year. His excuse is he doesn't think they'd get a fair shake because of Congressional politics, it never entering his simian mind that maybe he should nominate people who are acceptable to Congress in general.
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That's not quite true. Joe Bloggs could download the browser for free. IIRC Netscape's business model was originally to get businesses to buy Navigator and their webserver product (whatever it was called).
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SE wasn't a free upgrade, idiot. It was reduced-cost if you had standard 98 already, something like $20 or so.
Except for the reliable "OK, I'll mod you down" types like me, I would have.
That happens when you're an OS-upgrade lemming. I've had 3.1 (bundled with a PC), 95 (ditto), 98 (ditto), and XP (um, obtained when I built a PC). I just never saw any reason to upgrade my working and works-with-all-programs Windows versions on those computers.
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Not really. There was one feature from SE (web folders or somesuch) that didn't get put into the service pack, and later on MS would release patches for SE but not plain 98.
Two by two, hands of blue...
He could even be gay and an atheist.
Cue the wingnuts screaming about activist judges.
Then you've got the parents who swear around and at their kids. I was shopping at $MEGAMART once and heard some kid who looked about six talking to his parents. He was evidently acting up a bit, and the father asked him if he knew what was going to happen if he didn't straighten up. The kid responded that he was going to get his ass smacked, or something to that effect.
This is a fairly backwards part of the US, but this kind of thing must go on throughout the country.
I wasn't able to find what "chicago curb job" means, except that it's Nederlander slang.
Does the USPS treat packages better than UPS? I've seen a few UPS packages whose boxes were dented, torn, or otherwise mutilated.
You could always close the browser when you're not using it. I close any non-daemon I'm not using, and it makes my system more responsive.
Quite. I remember Gateway offering late 486s and early Pentiums with 16MB of RAM around 1994.
As in the second one was trying to "handle" me (I was irked about the drive) and stick to the script instead of just getting the problem fixed. Frankly, I don't think he believed me.
Hard enough that our "representatives" can't seem to grok.
I'm a university IT tech. Last month I had a fairly GW desktop PC's hard drive die. The drive was an IDE model. GW tech support not once but twice sent me a Serial ATA unit instead. That would be fine because the computer supports SATA as well, but they didn't send me a cable. After the first SATA drive was sent, I told the tech that I wanted either a cable or the correct drive. He refused me a cable.
Complaining to customer support got me a cable. Turns out the techs ordered the correct drive both times, but the warehouse was out of IDE hard drives so it failed silently and sent a SATA drive instead.
That said, the techs I chatted with (using their Java client) were professional (a bit too professional, if you know what I mean) and knew their jobs.
I'm not recommending my clients order GW machines for the time being. Our other major vendor for desktop PCs is Dell, and while their techs make me jump through the same hoops to get replacement parts, at least I get the right gorram parts sent to me.
You probably have more clue than the average Windows user. When I boot my XP partition, I've got always-on antivirus, full updates, and firewalls on both the router and Windows. I don't get much email on my POP account and all the nasty stuff is blocked by my ISP anyway. I don't browse with IE. I've only ever gotten one virus (according to AVG (no idea from where)) and it was quarantined immediately.
The notional average person uses IE and Outhouse Excess, is simply unaware of the concept of malicious emails, and leaves Windows settings to defaults. The 90-day subscription to Norton/McAfee Antivirus expired months or years ago. He might have a hardware firewall if he's got broadband and a software firewall if he's got XP SP2. If he's got Windows before XP SP1, automatic updates probably aren't enabled.
Yeah, don't you just love how the Republicans are acting like they have a large majority in Congress and a mandate, when they have neither? I say this as someone who believed in the R's when they retook Congress in '94.
I think that it's partially due to people being so attached to their worldviews that they can't do the mental gymnastics to change them. There's one individual who says liberals-this and liberals-that in every letter and yet never responds to people who call him on his inconsistencies. In his book _Prometheus Rising_ Robert Anton Wilson discusses his theory of "reality tunnels". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel.
There was another person, a former co-worker, who said that whatever "his commander-in-chief" (he wasn't military, just a wannabe) said was good enough for him. Another ex-cw said he voted for Bush in '04 because he didn't take the time to learn enough about the other guy and didn't want to change Presidents in the middle of things.
Other people just feel terribly foolish for voting him in, but are too embarrassed to admit they're wrong and so keep up their overt support.
n.b.: I'm not a liberal, just a libertarian.
During the runup to the '04 elections, I checked out the websites of all the Democratic presidential hopefuls. Kerry and Edwards were the ones who immediately turned me off because they sounded just like any other goddamned politician telling people what they wanted to hear, and they spoke in that English dialect peculiar to politicians and marketdroids. On the strength of what their sites said, I favored Dean and wossname, that just-retired Army general. Kucinich was also good, but too out there to be electable.
And yet, K & E got the best ratings in the primaries. This tells me that either 1) The Democrats who vote in primaries are clueless, or 2) Enough Republicans turned out to vote for what they knew were the least-palatable Democratic candidates.
Don't forget all the judges and others (like Bolton) he keeps appointing during Congressional recesses so they don't have to be voted on for a year. His excuse is he doesn't think they'd get a fair shake because of Congressional politics, it never entering his simian mind that maybe he should nominate people who are acceptable to Congress in general.
That's not quite true. Joe Bloggs could download the browser for free. IIRC Netscape's business model was originally to get businesses to buy Navigator and their webserver product (whatever it was called).
Modern hard drives (at least since the early '90s) automatically park their heads in a safe area that doesn't hold data.
The heads could still stick to the safe area, but a good whack should unstick them.
That's screen with two es, you illiterate.
Yes, this was pure wanking on CNN's part.