So you're saying the RIAA lied? Is that possible? I thought they always told the truth, and only wanted to protect society from the evils of piracy. I believe they said something to that effect under oath, in court, didn't they?
Oh, god, please let some of those whiny thugs get caught perjuring themselves. They'd make such lovely prison bitches.
This sounds like one of those Penthouse letters that start, "You're not going to believe this, but when my sister came home from college she brought this girl called Chastity with her."
You obviously haven't spent a lot of time in the business community. Do you understand that there are thousands upon thousands of doctor/dentist offices, garages, small fabricating plants, law firms and the like that still use P3's or even P2's? They aren't going to lay out ANY money for new computers, much less $500 multiplied by however many machines there are in the firm when what they have now is still working just fine.
You know what those computers are mostly used for? Bottom-end, super-basic office functions. Are you honestly so naive you think a lawyer gives a fuck whether his secretary prepares a brief with Office 2007 or Office 4.3? I know one law firm that bills at least $75 million a year and still uses P3's. About 60 of them.
Unless you happen to be in one of the relatively rare places that needs the horsepower, the only way that your quad core burner is going to make its way from your mom's basement into a real work environment is if you take it there yourself.
Guinness World Records reports that the long-standing record for constant masturbation previously held by Gooey, a chimpanzee at the Buffalo Zoo, in what was thought to be an unbreakable grip, was "overcome in one magnificent stroke" by the DNF team at 3D Realms.
The sheer magnificence of the accomplishment has moved a Guinness spokesman to suggest that DNF has actually outgrown the term "vapourware", and become something else entirely. He suggests a new definition, "spankerware", be coined to cummemorate this astounding, 12-year feat of dong-flogging. "If this were an anniversary, the appropriate gift would be linen...and lots of it", the spokesman said.
Actually, I have used Vista for a while, and on virtually the same equipment as I have at home.
1.2 G processor (no multithreading), 2G RAM (upgraded from the 1G office computers), 128 MB DX9 vid card
The office PC's ran Vista, and so did mine when I brought it home. I dumped it because I was more familiar with XP and I had a nice, legal copy available. I still had to use Vista at the office. It had a tendency to grind the hard drive a lot, and it kept popping up those annoying "do you really want to do that" warnings. My friend's dad has Vista on his dual core HP, and whenever I have to help with problems he has, I have to deal with it there.
Bottom line: Vista was voted out of the office over a year ago. I couldn't tell you all the reasons, but the employees were happier with XP, and that's what they got. Calls to the guy who contracts in IT services slowed to a trickle. I honestly couldn't care less whether the problems and annoyances Vista caused were the employees' fault or the OS's. The office is more productive without it, and that's what matters. There have been no security issues, in spite of Vista's edge in that area, and an old colour laser copier that had been moved to the back room got a new lease on life because Vista's drivers never supported it properly.
From what I've seen, my experience is far from unique. The main difference is that our boss was prepared to bite the bullet and get rid of an OS that people generally didn't like. I expect the office with move to Win7 in due course, as long as it runs on the hardware listed above.
Or I could continue on XP, which doesn't even need half that amount of RAM...or just go straight to Win7 and an OS that blows the doors off Vista. Or did that solution elude your keen perception, you dipshit AC fanboi?
Unmourned. Unwept. Perpetually left unloved because your ugly older sister XP always came across with the full release and a happy ending while you were still whining that you wanted another 2G of RAM to show the boy how pretty you were.
I'm sorry I could never be the user you wanted, Vista. I tried. I really, really tried. I even had Millennium on my system for a while, so I know I'm not a completely unreasonable task manager. You wanted too much from me. You wanted to be my Trophy OS...pretty...never doing a real job...pretty...profligate with my hard-earned RAM...pretty. It wasn't enough. I'm so very, very sorry. Your sister XP gave me that dirty smile, and threw my RAM back in my face and performed like a trapeze artist. I was lost, dear Vista. She did everything I wanted, and she never said no, and she just kept going and going and going.
I don't care too much that you're prettier...much prettier. In fact, I'll never tell her, but sometimes when she's happily multi-tasking away, I close my eyes and pretend she's you.
But there's something about her that makes her a magnet. Something you'll never understand. Even when she's making my old CPUnit, do things I thought it could never, ever manage, she doesn't just swallow. She gargles.
"...proposals for a central warehouse of communications data had been dumped on privacy grounds..."
Since they're spending the money anyway, it seems pretty clear to me that plans to create the "warehouse" are still on. They'll just try to make sure nobody finds out about it, and scream "national security" if somebody does catch them.
It's 'way past time that we stopped allowing corporate blowboys with the moral and ethical standards of a crack whore to be in positions where they get to decide what's acceptable in the area of grassroots-level communication. People need to either jailbreak their toy or throw it in the garbage. This kind of censorship is completely unacceptable, and I hope enough of the marching morons who accept casual abridgment of their rights finally start to get a clue.
This reminds me of when Disney used to fire people who didn't smile all the time. As the old saying goes, "The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Might I suggest that the Russians call the new system the "Spacecraft Precision Lander And Transporter". The name might not be the greatest, but the acronym says it all.
Is it really a bad thing if Twitter addicts wind up charging off a cliff in an ecstasy of pointless panic? This is Social Darwinism at its best. Everybody wins.
This has the pungent aroma of legal douchebaggery all over it. A cynic might suspect that all the business-friendly appointments to the bench Bush made are starting to pay off.
I bet children of the support staff replaced by Mr. McMurry and his ilk are especially grateful to him; now their parents are at home more. That's especially important when they have to explain to the little ones why they're only getting fed a couple of times a day, and they shouldn't expect new clothes any time soon.
Based on the little-known work of Dr. Peter Pullet-Wildly, it should be possible to detect not just alien life, but alien intelligence. Because if you encounter left-handed rather than right-handed chirality, it feels like somebody else.
If programmable digital tattoos catch on, it might be a good idea if the data feed in your "handheld display" was used to ensure that the name in your tattoo matches the name of the person you're with.
Microsoft is still trying to generate interest in something that's essentially a Service Pack for Vista. Let's face it...Win7 still sucks resources like a crack whore who just figured out her daddy's PIN number.
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So you're saying the RIAA lied? Is that possible? I thought they always told the truth, and only wanted to protect society from the evils of piracy. I believe they said something to that effect under oath, in court, didn't they?
Oh, god, please let some of those whiny thugs get caught perjuring themselves. They'd make such lovely prison bitches.
So I guess that means it's OK if we were to put trackers on some cop cars and improve our odds of avoiding speed traps?
Isn't it about time the reputable scientific journals using Elsevier as a publisher started to look elsewhere?
Except it's intended for Slashdotters instead of pure, unapologetic wankers.
This sounds like one of those Penthouse letters that start, "You're not going to believe this, but when my sister came home from college she brought this girl called Chastity with her."
Reminds me of when my home town hosted a political convention.
You obviously haven't spent a lot of time in the business community. Do you understand that there are thousands upon thousands of doctor/dentist offices, garages, small fabricating plants, law firms and the like that still use P3's or even P2's? They aren't going to lay out ANY money for new computers, much less $500 multiplied by however many machines there are in the firm when what they have now is still working just fine.
You know what those computers are mostly used for? Bottom-end, super-basic office functions. Are you honestly so naive you think a lawyer gives a fuck whether his secretary prepares a brief with Office 2007 or Office 4.3? I know one law firm that bills at least $75 million a year and still uses P3's. About 60 of them.
Unless you happen to be in one of the relatively rare places that needs the horsepower, the only way that your quad core burner is going to make its way from your mom's basement into a real work environment is if you take it there yourself.
Jeez...fuckin' amateurs!
Guinness World Records reports that the long-standing record for constant masturbation previously held by Gooey, a chimpanzee at the Buffalo Zoo, in what was thought to be an unbreakable grip, was "overcome in one magnificent stroke" by the DNF team at 3D Realms.
The sheer magnificence of the accomplishment has moved a Guinness spokesman to suggest that DNF has actually outgrown the term "vapourware", and become something else entirely. He suggests a new definition, "spankerware", be coined to cummemorate this astounding, 12-year feat of dong-flogging. "If this were an anniversary, the appropriate gift would be linen...and lots of it", the spokesman said.
Actually, I have used Vista for a while, and on virtually the same equipment as I have at home.
1.2 G processor (no multithreading), 2G RAM (upgraded from the 1G office computers), 128 MB DX9 vid card
The office PC's ran Vista, and so did mine when I brought it home. I dumped it because I was more familiar with XP and I had a nice, legal copy available. I still had to use Vista at the office. It had a tendency to grind the hard drive a lot, and it kept popping up those annoying "do you really want to do that" warnings. My friend's dad has Vista on his dual core HP, and whenever I have to help with problems he has, I have to deal with it there.
Bottom line: Vista was voted out of the office over a year ago. I couldn't tell you all the reasons, but the employees were happier with XP, and that's what they got. Calls to the guy who contracts in IT services slowed to a trickle. I honestly couldn't care less whether the problems and annoyances Vista caused were the employees' fault or the OS's. The office is more productive without it, and that's what matters. There have been no security issues, in spite of Vista's edge in that area, and an old colour laser copier that had been moved to the back room got a new lease on life because Vista's drivers never supported it properly.
From what I've seen, my experience is far from unique. The main difference is that our boss was prepared to bite the bullet and get rid of an OS that people generally didn't like. I expect the office with move to Win7 in due course, as long as it runs on the hardware listed above.
Or I could continue on XP, which doesn't even need half that amount of RAM...or just go straight to Win7 and an OS that blows the doors off Vista. Or did that solution elude your keen perception, you dipshit AC fanboi?
Unmourned. Unwept. Perpetually left unloved because your ugly older sister XP always came across with the full release and a happy ending while you were still whining that you wanted another 2G of RAM to show the boy how pretty you were.
I'm sorry I could never be the user you wanted, Vista. I tried. I really, really tried. I even had Millennium on my system for a while, so I know I'm not a completely unreasonable task manager. You wanted too much from me. You wanted to be my Trophy OS...pretty...never doing a real job...pretty...profligate with my hard-earned RAM...pretty. It wasn't enough. I'm so very, very sorry. Your sister XP gave me that dirty smile, and threw my RAM back in my face and performed like a trapeze artist. I was lost, dear Vista. She did everything I wanted, and she never said no, and she just kept going and going and going.
I don't care too much that you're prettier...much prettier. In fact, I'll never tell her, but sometimes when she's happily multi-tasking away, I close my eyes and pretend she's you.
But there's something about her that makes her a magnet. Something you'll never understand. Even when she's making my old CPUnit, do things I thought it could never, ever manage, she doesn't just swallow. She gargles.
"...proposals for a central warehouse of communications data had been dumped on privacy grounds..."
Since they're spending the money anyway, it seems pretty clear to me that plans to create the "warehouse" are still on. They'll just try to make sure nobody finds out about it, and scream "national security" if somebody does catch them.
It's 'way past time that we stopped allowing corporate blowboys with the moral and ethical standards of a crack whore to be in positions where they get to decide what's acceptable in the area of grassroots-level communication. People need to either jailbreak their toy or throw it in the garbage. This kind of censorship is completely unacceptable, and I hope enough of the marching morons who accept casual abridgment of their rights finally start to get a clue.
This reminds me of when Disney used to fire people who didn't smile all the time. As the old saying goes, "The floggings will continue until morale improves."
Alright, Muslim Flu it is, then. Is that clean enough for everybody?
I'm reasonably sure there's one in my ex's purse. Money goes there to die.
A valid point, sir. I accept your valuable revision in the spirit it was intended.
Might I suggest that the Russians call the new system the "Spacecraft Precision Lander And Transporter". The name might not be the greatest, but the acronym says it all.
Is it really a bad thing if Twitter addicts wind up charging off a cliff in an ecstasy of pointless panic? This is Social Darwinism at its best. Everybody wins.
This has the pungent aroma of legal douchebaggery all over it. A cynic might suspect that all the business-friendly appointments to the bench Bush made are starting to pay off.
I bet children of the support staff replaced by Mr. McMurry and his ilk are especially grateful to him; now their parents are at home more. That's especially important when they have to explain to the little ones why they're only getting fed a couple of times a day, and they shouldn't expect new clothes any time soon.
Based on the little-known work of Dr. Peter Pullet-Wildly, it should be possible to detect not just alien life, but alien intelligence. Because if you encounter left-handed rather than right-handed chirality, it feels like somebody else.
Unless you're a southpaw, of course.
Can another nekkid picture of Sarkozy's wife's ass be far "behind"?
Thanks. Now that you've put the thought of that movie back in my head, I have to burn out my eyes with a soldering iron.
Again.
If programmable digital tattoos catch on, it might be a good idea if the data feed in your "handheld display" was used to ensure that the name in your tattoo matches the name of the person you're with.
Microsoft is still trying to generate interest in something that's essentially a Service Pack for Vista. Let's face it...Win7 still sucks resources like a crack whore who just figured out her daddy's PIN number.