Of 10,000,000 XP users less than 100 of them knows what slipstream is or has the skills to even do that. It will not happen, you can barely get a windows user to not click on every popup, you think you can get them to slipstream SP3 into their XP install Disc?
only horribly out of date stuff or really low end. for the past 4 years you have only been able to buy Digital security recorders, any VHS based ones are low grade china junk.
I modified all my synths. I found that most have a IDE header inside and you can slap a hard drive on it (was made for a ZIP drive) so instead of having 80,000 floppies that fail the 3rd time you use them all my maps and samples are on the hard drive..
I love older E-mu gear, at least they were smart and made them hackable.
store.apple.com has them for $599.00 and you can score certified rebuilds off and on for $499 or less from the apple store.
Use your old monitor, everything is golden. As for Phenom versus Core2 duo.. none of them would notice a difference. in fact 5 of them would see it as the fastest computer in the world compared to what they have now.
Yes because all of them dont play games they buy. they go online, do "word" and use facebook. all work perfectly under linux and OSX.
It's a fantasy world that most people go to best buy and buy the latest game for their PC or do advanced things at home with software. They dont. Most people use the pc as it is given to them for going online. Of the people I support only 4 of them buy software and use it on their PC. the rest use whatever junk was on that computer when they bought it from dell/HP/acer. This is what most people out there do.
And big Wah, it's my time and my life, I get to be king and hand down the law. They get no free Tech support from me for windows, they can either pay the highly experienced professionals at best buy to lose all their photos links and documents and charge them $280.00 or more cleaning up their pc or play by my rules. it's their choice. oh and that must have is usually an app that is already on linux.
Picasa for uncle barry the photographer? Look on linux.
Linux is free for them on their current PC. I am giving them a free or buy this option to keep free tech support. That's incredibly generous.
I have informed everyone I do family and friends tech support for... they must either switch to linux or a Mac with OSX. the new internet security 2010 is an evil bastard that even kills the safe mode so you have to use a Bart PE to run combifix first and then reinstall AV and run a clean.
Screw it, I'm done. Mac mini's are as cheap as a dirt cheap dell PC. and I'll install linux for them. I am done with windows support.
Actually my labor was increased. when I left for a better paying job, they had to hire 2 people to replace me. I am not joking, they wont pay for skilled labor so they hire 2 unskilled college kids.
It's all about reducing service to the customer.. WE all know how skilled the Dish contractor installers are. that is the quality you will be getting from comcast. The last two times friends had a comcast contractor show up they screwed up the install because they cant understand the fancy new structured wiring. One caused damage tot he house by drilling new holes for wires instead of using the existing wires that were just installed when the home was built. they installed their garbage grade wires on the outside and drilled through the walls instead of connecting to the provided high grade incoming lead and doing the signal test like a competent installer would.
actually quite easy. all you need is a rapid air turnover in that area with an absorbent air filter. all the floating "goo" will travel to the filter and stick.
1 - to actually own the property I paid for... no your plot of land and your house are not yours, they belong to the feds,state,and city. any one of them can come and take it when they please.
2 - to actually be free to do what the hell I want as long as I dont hurt others.
1 - how long do lawyers last in space without a space suit. 2 - effects on lawyers when exposed to explosive decompression. 3 - effects of solar radiation on a lawyer in a space suit. 4 - effects of solar radation on a lawyer without a space suit. 5 - effects of amoebic dysentery on a lawyer in micro-gravity. 6 - how long do lawyers last as an ablative shield during re-entry. 7 - what is the maximum ballistic speed a lawyer can reach.
etc...
Oh and as a control do the same experiments on MPAA and RIAA executives.
I'm not. Im talking like they want to encrypt everything to not have any labor costs.
not to lower your bill, but to increase dramatically profit margins while eliminating the nasty evil scumbags that have their own DVR. Oh and gain back the charge per tv in the home they used to enjoy.
Cable box on each TV with it's $5.00 a month charge.. suddenly they have the per TV fee back.
They are actually proud of this. We used to have meetings on how to screw the customer or limit service calls. The forced digital rollout of the lower channels is the holy grail. if they can force everyone to have to have QAM tuners, then they can force encrypted QAM and simply never do a disconnect again. This will allow them to lay off 90% of the workforce and the last 10% stay as contractors.
Did not pay your bill? box deactivated and you no longer have cable tv. no need to roll a truck.
Yup they will get right on that right after they recode all the internal apps from VB6 to VB.net...
you have any idea how much VB6 crap is still rolling around inside corporations, even HUGE ones?
you think they will be replacing the horribly borked.asp webapps soon? They wont fix them until forced to do so.. In other words, Microsoft stops issuing any patches for IE6 and warns everyone against using it for any reason.
Why? I live where the property values will skyrocket because it will become one of the only comfortable habitable zones, plus being on the largest US freshwater source I can waste water all I want.
Bring on the global warming, I want to see the retarded property values that California has where a $12,000 shitshack goes for $1.2mill.
In free space, all electromagnetic waves obey the inverse-square law which states that the power density of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance from the source.
Honestly, the TV broadcasts are not being picked up by aliens. Most of our earth based broadcast signals are just above the noise floor before they exit the oort cloud. Even if we had a twin civilization on a planet around the closest star they would have trouble even detecting a signal was present let alone getting any intelligence out of it.
and that is ignoring that all the TV channels had overlapping broadcasts on it all interfering with each other from every TV station on the planet transmitting something else on that same frequency.
SETI is not looking for alien TV though. SETI is looking for a direct high gain, high power broadcast. I.E. aliens sending out a "WE ARE HERE" 1.21jiggawatts into a 30db gain dish antenna that hopefully 0.1mw of that signal will get detected.
No it's a weakness of Wordpress, AND weak passwords.. Honestly, why is everyone all up in arms when a bunch of N00b's that dont know anything about site administration and security click on the one click install of wordpress and think it's an appliance because they are too damn cheap to buy wordpress hosting that has a team behind it making sure the stuff is updated and secure?
This is as much go-daddy's fault as a drunk drivers crash is Fords fault.
If you want a blog and not be a site admin then get it from http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and not worry about it. Otherwise dont come whining because you went for the lowest dollar hosting and are surprised that the cheap guy is not going to update your software for you.
Around here rednecks are the idiots that drive a jacked up to the sky Pickup truck without exhaust pipes in the city. that drive like they own the road and act like they are from the cuntry' folk but were born and raised in the city or at most suburbs.
sorry but only the mentally ill consider the N word as empowerment. Every single black leader has denounced the casual use of the N word as self degradation.
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Of 10,000,000 XP users less than 100 of them knows what slipstream is or has the skills to even do that. It will not happen, you can barely get a windows user to not click on every popup, you think you can get them to slipstream SP3 into their XP install Disc?
only horribly out of date stuff or really low end. for the past 4 years you have only been able to buy Digital security recorders, any VHS based ones are low grade china junk.
I modified all my synths. I found that most have a IDE header inside and you can slap a hard drive on it (was made for a ZIP drive) so instead of having 80,000 floppies that fail the 3rd time you use them all my maps and samples are on the hard drive..
I love older E-mu gear, at least they were smart and made them hackable.
store.apple.com has them for $599.00 and you can score certified rebuilds off and on for $499 or less from the apple store.
Use your old monitor, everything is golden. As for Phenom versus Core2 duo.. none of them would notice a difference. in fact 5 of them would see it as the fastest computer in the world compared to what they have now.
Yes because all of them dont play games they buy. they go online, do "word" and use facebook. all work perfectly under linux and OSX.
It's a fantasy world that most people go to best buy and buy the latest game for their PC or do advanced things at home with software. They dont. Most people use the pc as it is given to them for going online. Of the people I support only 4 of them buy software and use it on their PC. the rest use whatever junk was on that computer when they bought it from dell/HP/acer. This is what most people out there do.
And big Wah, it's my time and my life, I get to be king and hand down the law. They get no free Tech support from me for windows, they can either pay the highly experienced professionals at best buy to lose all their photos links and documents and charge them $280.00 or more cleaning up their pc or play by my rules. it's their choice. oh and that must have is usually an app that is already on linux.
Picasa for uncle barry the photographer? Look on linux.
Linux is free for them on their current PC. I am giving them a free or buy this option to keep free tech support. That's incredibly generous.
I have informed everyone I do family and friends tech support for... they must either switch to linux or a Mac with OSX. the new internet security 2010 is an evil bastard that even kills the safe mode so you have to use a Bart PE to run combifix first and then reinstall AV and run a clean.
Screw it, I'm done. Mac mini's are as cheap as a dirt cheap dell PC. and I'll install linux for them. I am done with windows support.
Actually my labor was increased. when I left for a better paying job, they had to hire 2 people to replace me. I am not joking, they wont pay for skilled labor so they hire 2 unskilled college kids.
It's all about reducing service to the customer.. WE all know how skilled the Dish contractor installers are. that is the quality you will be getting from comcast. The last two times friends had a comcast contractor show up they screwed up the install because they cant understand the fancy new structured wiring. One caused damage tot he house by drilling new holes for wires instead of using the existing wires that were just installed when the home was built. they installed their garbage grade wires on the outside and drilled through the walls instead of connecting to the provided high grade incoming lead and doing the signal test like a competent installer would.
It's all about max profit and to hell with QOS.
Ohhh I like that idea... a REALLY FRICKING HIGH HALO jump...
I guarantee they can get a few marines with more balls than brains to try that one.
actually quite easy. all you need is a rapid air turnover in that area with an absorbent air filter. all the floating "goo" will travel to the filter and stick.
Wow you're a major socialist...
I only want 3 things.
1 - to actually own the property I paid for... no your plot of land and your house are not yours, they belong to the feds,state,and city. any one of them can come and take it when they please.
2 - to actually be free to do what the hell I want as long as I dont hurt others.
3 - to get the hell off my lawn!
Oh come on a LOT better idea list.....
1 - how long do lawyers last in space without a space suit.
2 - effects on lawyers when exposed to explosive decompression.
3 - effects of solar radiation on a lawyer in a space suit.
4 - effects of solar radation on a lawyer without a space suit.
5 - effects of amoebic dysentery on a lawyer in micro-gravity.
6 - how long do lawyers last as an ablative shield during re-entry.
7 - what is the maximum ballistic speed a lawyer can reach.
etc...
Oh and as a control do the same experiments on MPAA and RIAA executives.
I'm not. Im talking like they want to encrypt everything to not have any labor costs.
not to lower your bill, but to increase dramatically profit margins while eliminating the nasty evil scumbags that have their own DVR. Oh and gain back the charge per tv in the home they used to enjoy.
Cable box on each TV with it's $5.00 a month charge.. suddenly they have the per TV fee back.
They are actually proud of this. We used to have meetings on how to screw the customer or limit service calls. The forced digital rollout of the lower channels is the holy grail. if they can force everyone to have to have QAM tuners, then they can force encrypted QAM and simply never do a disconnect again. This will allow them to lay off 90% of the workforce and the last 10% stay as contractors.
Did not pay your bill? box deactivated and you no longer have cable tv. no need to roll a truck.
and yes they ARE working on that.
That explains a lot.
Yup they will get right on that right after they recode all the internal apps from VB6 to VB.net...
you have any idea how much VB6 crap is still rolling around inside corporations, even HUGE ones?
you think they will be replacing the horribly borked .asp webapps soon? They wont fix them until forced to do so.. In other words, Microsoft stops issuing any patches for IE6 and warns everyone against using it for any reason.
I would whole heartedly agree with that statement.
I had to clean 30 new "internet security 2010" infections this week... Even though the users have been instructed on how to not get infected....
Honestly, 60% of all computer users are idiots... this is a universal fact.
Wait! you found the missing link!
It's not that everything gives you cancer....
It's that the MEDIA gives you cancer!
And I'm all for global warming.....
Why? I live where the property values will skyrocket because it will become one of the only comfortable habitable zones, plus being on the largest US freshwater source I can waste water all I want.
Bring on the global warming, I want to see the retarded property values that California has where a $12,000 shitshack goes for $1.2mill.
he failed to take into account the negative impact psychopaths and narcissists have upon the evolution of human society.
wait.. do you mean Politicians or corporation executives when you say psychopaths and narcissists because I cant tell the difference between them.
In free space, all electromagnetic waves obey the inverse-square law which states that the power density of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance from the source.
Honestly, the TV broadcasts are not being picked up by aliens. Most of our earth based broadcast signals are just above the noise floor before they exit the oort cloud. Even if we had a twin civilization on a planet around the closest star they would have trouble even detecting a signal was present let alone getting any intelligence out of it.
and that is ignoring that all the TV channels had overlapping broadcasts on it all interfering with each other from every TV station on the planet transmitting something else on that same frequency.
SETI is not looking for alien TV though. SETI is looking for a direct high gain, high power broadcast. I.E. aliens sending out a "WE ARE HERE" 1.21jiggawatts into a 30db gain dish antenna that hopefully 0.1mw of that signal will get detected.
there is no such thing as a strong password on a FTP account.
If you did not upgrade to SSH and SFTP from your control panel then you should not be managing a hosting site.
No it's a weakness of Wordpress, AND weak passwords.. Honestly, why is everyone all up in arms when a bunch of N00b's that dont know anything about site administration and security click on the one click install of wordpress and think it's an appliance because they are too damn cheap to buy wordpress hosting that has a team behind it making sure the stuff is updated and secure?
This is as much go-daddy's fault as a drunk drivers crash is Fords fault.
If you want a blog and not be a site admin then get it from http://wordpress.org/hosting/ and not worry about it. Otherwise dont come whining because you went for the lowest dollar hosting and are surprised that the cheap guy is not going to update your software for you.
epic fail
Around here rednecks are the idiots that drive a jacked up to the sky Pickup truck without exhaust pipes in the city. that drive like they own the road and act like they are from the cuntry' folk but were born and raised in the city or at most suburbs.
sorry but only the mentally ill consider the N word as empowerment. Every single black leader has denounced the casual use of the N word as self degradation.