English is a near-universal tongue thanks to the spread by the British Empire and later cultural dominance of the US Free Market.
#1 The term "free market" is an abstract concept and as such should not be capitalized.
#2 "Free market" means different things to different people but most everyone agrees that the US economy is not, nor ever has been, a free market. Using the term as as synonym for "the US economy" makes you look utterly clueless.
Some of the following are shown "standing up" (as tower cases) but all of them are designed as "desktop style" cases, which you seem to be calling "a horizontal case."
Don't use a power supply that's included with a case unless it's a Silverstone, Antec, or (possibly rebranded) FSP. Anything else is guaranteed to be crap. Crap PSU's can cause all kinds of subtle problems including data corruption and random crashes. No need to go overboard on the wattage though. Figure out how many watts you machine will draw and buy 25% more.
And in the US, you pay taxes and are given a court-appointed attorney to represent you if you can't afford to hire one of your own.
Or are you suggesting that in the UK, your taxes get you legal representation from lawyers on par with Alan Dershowitz and William Rehnquist?
I used to think the same thing. A friend of mine was recently arrested in an airport for saying the wrong thing. (It turns out that the officer misheard what he had said but that's another story.) This friend makes $13K a year. He was denied access to a public defender. Apparently, in some jurisdictions the judge gets to decide who can afford a lawyer. The incident happened during a layover on an international flight so the charges were in a city 1000's of miles from my friend's home. He had to pay to fly himself 1/2 way across the country to appear at his court date. Travel costs alone were a huge fraction of his yearly income. Still, they denied him a public defender.
In my neck of the woods all the practical blue-collar types are life-long Democrats. The teabaggers tend to be small business owners and "professional" types.
Why can't you have confidence and self esteem AND screw like mad? I know girls like that and they're WONDERFUL!
A large percentage of the sexually active population in the USA has an STD. It's very likely that anyone who "screws like mad" will enjoy one or more of them by the time they reach their 30's.
I have a friend who "screwed like mad" through his 20's. It was great times until he caught one of the nastier incurable STD's. It was life changing for him. He has suffered from depression and alcoholism ever since. The disease will not kill him but it has more or less ended his life anyway.
Things are somewhat better for women with STD's. Statistically, they have much better luck finding someone who is willing to overlook their disease and date/marry them anyway. The numbers aren't so good for men.
Crap, hit post by accident. Here's what I meant to write:
After suffering a number of botched Ubuntu upgrades I always reinstall. I always, always, always reinstall Ubuntu. Even if I'm short on time I reinstall. It's not that big a deal if you plan for it ahead of time.
Protip: I split my raid0 before the upgrade by unplugging the cables for one side of the array. If the new install doesn't go well I can unplug the upgraded side and plug in the "old" side of the array. That makes it easy to go back if the new version has unbearable issues.
After suffering a number of botched Ubuntu upgrades I always reinstall. Always, always, always reinstall Ubuntu. If you plan for it isn't not that big a deal.
Laptops don't used the PCMCIA interface for internal graphics solutions. Besides, the little expansion slots on the sides of laptops have used PCIe for ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_card
Get a can of compressed air. Turn off laptop. Blow air into that big square hole on the side of the laptop, the one with all the shiny copper fins in it. Done.
Just because you don't agree with their religion or religion in general, don't let yourself think for a second that these people are any less then you.
They are key members of a worldwide organization that harbors a large number of repeat child molesters. The Catholic Church knowingly puts vulnerable children in close proximity with molesters, fails to warn parents about priests who have a history "problems," and it doesn't cooperate with law enforcement investigation. The Church does everything possible to cover up it's dirty little secret with no regard to the life destroying damage it causes in the process.
The kids today can't learn to solder a couple of resistors and diodes onto a cable? Somehow I don't believe that.
My senior year of high school our physics teacher bought a bunch of (ISA!) data acquisition cards for the PC. They were unassembled bare boards that needed to be populated with components and soldered. The teacher recruited me to assembled them. He gave me a small herd of workers which mostly consisted of teenage girls who had never seen electronic components before.
I explained how to solder and did a few quick demos. I spent maybe 20 minutes. That same class period every one of the "workers" was producing good solder joints.
Soldering is not hard! Really. Buy a kit from Radio Shack for under $20 and hit youtube for instruction.
MTBF and bit error rates say nothing. The fact is that SSD's can and do go completely dead out of nowhere and at a relatively young age. Spend an hour or so on the hardware enthusiast forums like Hardforum. A lot of SSD's are bricking themselves after only a few months of use. While theoretically solid state storage should be more reliable than spinning platters, the devices themselves have yet to meet that expectation. It's probably not even flash chips that are dying. These things aren't even showing up in BIOS after they've failed.
You obviously have sample bias. Small disks are fine for the over 30 joe sixpack crowd who don't do anything but email and web.
The under 30 crowd expects their PC to hold music, movies, TV, digital photos (theirs and those taken by friends), video clips (self-shot and shot by friends), video games, porn, etc. Added together, it doesn't take an huge excess of any of those things to fill even a 1TB disk.
Hell, many of them barely know how to use their favorite language's core libs to their advantage. They don't care and - may I say - rightly so.
WHAT??? I hope you don't believe that. Here are some similar statements:
Geneticist - Many of them can't utilize the gene sequencer and rightly so!
Astronomer - Many of them don't know how to use these darn telescopes...and rightly so!
Physicist - Many of them can't operate the doors leading into the lab...and rightly so!
How in the world can scientists justify this? If they don't don't have the time or will to get the most out of their tools they NEED TO HIRE AN EXPERT who does.
If you go to an online auto site, like autotrader.com, you'll find that a used 2005 Audi A8 Quattro can be had in the 28,000 to 30,000 dollar range. I see used '08s right now in the 45,000 to 50,000 dollar range.
Just because someone is driving a German luxury sedan doesn't necessarily mean that they have money falling out of their pockets. Audi's are surprisingly inexpensive used.
Anyone who spends $30K on a car either has money falling out of their pockets or spends beyond their means.
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Intelligence is overrated when it comes to the president.
Holy shit. I can't believe you wrote that...ON SLASHDOT. Wow. You so don't belong here.
English is a near-universal tongue thanks to the spread by the British Empire and later cultural dominance of the US Free Market.
#1 The term "free market" is an abstract concept and as such should not be capitalized.
#2 "Free market" means different things to different people but most everyone agrees that the US economy is not, nor ever has been, a free market. Using the term as as synonym for "the US economy" makes you look utterly clueless.
Some of the following are shown "standing up" (as tower cases) but all of them are designed as "desktop style" cases, which you seem to be calling "a horizontal case."
Don't use a power supply that's included with a case unless it's a Silverstone, Antec, or (possibly rebranded) FSP. Anything else is guaranteed to be crap. Crap PSU's can cause all kinds of subtle problems including data corruption and random crashes. No need to go overboard on the wattage though. Figure out how many watts you machine will draw and buy 25% more.
$101 Antec Minuet 350 http://www.amazon.com/Slimline-Micro-Pc-Case-350PS/dp/B0012QLUAK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293035737&sr=8-1
$114 Antec NSK2480 http://www.amazon.com/Antec-NSK2480-Desktop-case-380W/dp/B000T4MRF8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1293035814&sr=1-1
$113 NSK 1480 http://www.amazon.com/NSK1480-Microatx-Mini-Desktop-Case/dp/B0012QP6QY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1293035882&sr=1-1
$40 HEC 7106BB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811121010
And in the US, you pay taxes and are given a court-appointed attorney to represent you if you can't afford to hire one of your own.
Or are you suggesting that in the UK, your taxes get you legal representation from lawyers on par with Alan Dershowitz and William Rehnquist?
I used to think the same thing. A friend of mine was recently arrested in an airport for saying the wrong thing. (It turns out that the officer misheard what he had said but that's another story.) This friend makes $13K a year. He was denied access to a public defender. Apparently, in some jurisdictions the judge gets to decide who can afford a lawyer. The incident happened during a layover on an international flight so the charges were in a city 1000's of miles from my friend's home. He had to pay to fly himself 1/2 way across the country to appear at his court date. Travel costs alone were a huge fraction of his yearly income. Still, they denied him a public defender.
But he was also petty and arrogant and thought a lot of himself and treated women badly.
Sounds like he is on par with the current sports heroes.
+1 Arrogance and treating women badly are both prime alpha male traits. Nothing turns women on like a bad boy with an ego.
"Treat'em mean; keep'em keen" as the old saying goes.
In my neck of the woods all the practical blue-collar types are life-long Democrats. The teabaggers tend to be small business owners and "professional" types.
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Why can't you have confidence and self esteem AND screw like mad? I know girls like that and they're WONDERFUL!
A large percentage of the sexually active population in the USA has an STD. It's very likely that anyone who "screws like mad" will enjoy one or more of them by the time they reach their 30's.
I have a friend who "screwed like mad" through his 20's. It was great times until he caught one of the nastier incurable STD's. It was life changing for him. He has suffered from depression and alcoholism ever since. The disease will not kill him but it has more or less ended his life anyway.
Things are somewhat better for women with STD's. Statistically, they have much better luck finding someone who is willing to overlook their disease and date/marry them anyway. The numbers aren't so good for men.
Crap, hit post by accident. Here's what I meant to write:
After suffering a number of botched Ubuntu upgrades I always reinstall. I always, always, always reinstall Ubuntu. Even if I'm short on time I reinstall. It's not that big a deal if you plan for it ahead of time.
Protip: I split my raid0 before the upgrade by unplugging the cables for one side of the array. If the new install doesn't go well I can unplug the upgraded side and plug in the "old" side of the array. That makes it easy to go back if the new version has unbearable issues.
After suffering a number of botched Ubuntu upgrades I always reinstall. Always, always, always reinstall Ubuntu. If you plan for it isn't not that big a deal.
I believe is goes like this: "Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why is selling fucking legal?"
Laptops don't used the PCMCIA interface for internal graphics solutions. Besides, the little expansion slots on the sides of laptops have used PCIe for ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_card
Get a can of compressed air. Turn off laptop. Blow air into that big square hole on the side of the laptop, the one with all the shiny copper fins in it. Done.
The Metro is a communist conspiracy. Real Americans drive everywhere and don't notice that the road are government-funded as well.
Government funded roads are a communist conspiracy.
Believe me, I love Linux. Been running it is my main OS for 7-8 years now. But Compiz and PulseAudio are not fixed. At all. (At least under Kubuntu)
They both work perfectly for me on Ubuntu Karmic. I've been running it since alpha1. Maybe you need to dump Kubuntu.
Just because you don't agree with their religion or religion in general, don't let yourself think for a second that these people are any less then you.
They are key members of a worldwide organization that harbors a large number of repeat child molesters. The Catholic Church knowingly puts vulnerable children in close proximity with molesters, fails to warn parents about priests who have a history "problems," and it doesn't cooperate with law enforcement investigation. The Church does everything possible to cover up it's dirty little secret with no regard to the life destroying damage it causes in the process.
It doesn't take much to be better than that.
The kids today can't learn to solder a couple of resistors and diodes onto a cable? Somehow I don't believe that.
My senior year of high school our physics teacher bought a bunch of (ISA!) data acquisition cards for the PC. They were unassembled bare boards that needed to be populated with components and soldered. The teacher recruited me to assembled them. He gave me a small herd of workers which mostly consisted of teenage girls who had never seen electronic components before.
I explained how to solder and did a few quick demos. I spent maybe 20 minutes. That same class period every one of the "workers" was producing good solder joints.
Soldering is not hard! Really. Buy a kit from Radio Shack for under $20 and hit youtube for instruction.
Puh-lese. Littering is MUCH less prevalent than it was 30 or 40 years ago.
Not where I live. Not by a long shot.
It's called "Food Porn" and it's pervasive in American culture.
I already posted...
Go to the hardware enthusiast forums like Hardforum. You will find many, many reports of non-first generation, high-end SSD disk failure.
MTBF and bit error rates say nothing. The fact is that SSD's can and do go completely dead out of nowhere and at a relatively young age. Spend an hour or so on the hardware enthusiast forums like Hardforum. A lot of SSD's are bricking themselves after only a few months of use. While theoretically solid state storage should be more reliable than spinning platters, the devices themselves have yet to meet that expectation. It's probably not even flash chips that are dying. These things aren't even showing up in BIOS after they've failed.
Most users have been over-buying disks for ages.
You obviously have sample bias. Small disks are fine for the over 30 joe sixpack crowd who don't do anything but email and web.
The under 30 crowd expects their PC to hold music, movies, TV, digital photos (theirs and those taken by friends), video clips (self-shot and shot by friends), video games, porn, etc. Added together, it doesn't take an huge excess of any of those things to fill even a 1TB disk.
Hell, many of them barely know how to use their favorite language's core libs to their advantage. They don't care and - may I say - rightly so.
WHAT??? I hope you don't believe that. Here are some similar statements:
Geneticist - Many of them can't utilize the gene sequencer and rightly so!
Astronomer - Many of them don't know how to use these darn telescopes...and rightly so!
Physicist - Many of them can't operate the doors leading into the lab...and rightly so!
How in the world can scientists justify this? If they don't don't have the time or will to get the most out of their tools they NEED TO HIRE AN EXPERT who does.
If you go to an online auto site, like autotrader.com, you'll find that a used 2005 Audi A8 Quattro can be had in the 28,000 to 30,000 dollar range. I see used '08s right now in the 45,000 to 50,000 dollar range.
Just because someone is driving a German luxury sedan doesn't necessarily mean that they have money falling out of their pockets. Audi's are surprisingly inexpensive used.
Anyone who spends $30K on a car either has money falling out of their pockets or spends beyond their means.