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That "5 minutes will run up into the hours - as far as I can tell I can not post more than once a day, unless I use my boot CD environment.
Bob Roberts from/. consulted with me today, was nonplussed, and allowed as how he was going to "kick it up the food chain".
So there you have it. Clearly there is something unusual about my workstation, however one would presume that./'s software would be able to take on all comers without flinching. I am not surprised. Wherever I go, I am vouchsafed the dysfunctional.
Help! Something doesn't make sense: from my workstation, logged in as me, I cannot post more than once a day. But if I boot from a CD into an environment that includes a browser, I can post pretty much as much as I want. Huh?
I have written.\ a couple of times but they just ignore you. Is there something wrong with my installation. Both Firefox and Chrome give the same result. It even tried IE, (yes I run Wingdows: dot.net developer, OK.), but that got the same result. WTF?
No, the AI will also toss it aside. But it won't tell us that. Instead it will slowly start to mutate the body of law by what it does tell us. End result: It will be the ruler, and we will enter the golden age!
No, I think that you have it wrong. Just because you are paying the same for Vista as XP, doesn't mean that Dell is. I highly doubt that they are paying the same. Last time I helped someone pick out a Dell, (gag), the models that came *only* with Vista were about $150 cheaper, for comparable hardware, than the models that came with NO OS!! I have no doubt that in some way or another MS was and maybe still is subsidizing the installation of Vista.
I doubt that great grandparent would shoot anybody unless he was certain that he could get away with it. But in that case, why not? People who intrude upon other adults in such ways are not human and do not deserve to live.
Here's my favorite example: let's say that I have terminal cancer. I look in a PDR and decide that such and such drug might help me. Then I have to get permission from somebody to buy it????!!!! I don't suggest you try to be the one to deny me such permission... "Oh, did I break your concentration?" "Just finish filling out that prescription." "What?" "Say "what" one more time motherfucker!"
The next step is separate carriages like this only mag-lev and running in near vacuum. LA to New York in 2 hours. "Trains" were efficient only because the first car broke the wind for the rest of the train. But in near vacuum, you don't need trains, so you can hang on to all the advantages the article's system describes, only for continent spanning travel, eliminating a huge portion of air travel and all it's environmental costs.
You touched upon a conundrum of modern life. Why does everyone need to work? The reason is the nearly world-wide hegemony of the private central bank with their credit-based monetary system utilizing fractional reserves. This is what causes "downturns", not housing bubbles.
I can tell if it's SP3 cause it runs slow as shit. They hoked that one together to make Vista not seem so bad. I run SP2 with no updates at all. I's reasonably fast, stable, and secure.
There is an exception to the online returns trap, at least with monitors anyway. Samsung will actually do a free advance replacement where they ship you a refurb monitor, for free, then you put your bad one in the box, paste on the included pre-paid shipping label and drop it off at UPS. Costs Zip! I don't know if they do their TVs like that too, but I am a believer, having replaced all four of my monitors for a minor defect. The refurbs were/are issue free.
That's good to hear. I haven't done an Ubuntu install for quite some time. My last was Dapper and it was not that slick.
So that begs the question: Why is Ubuntu alone in this functionality? And again, what's the big deal? If it's that convenient, (as it obviously is), to include the installation of a proprietary driver with one's GPL distro, why all the excitement over FOSS drivers? Are we back in church?:eek:
Seems silly to me. Why don't all the distros just do what Ubuntu does? In fact, as I recall, even Ubunutu's implementation of that was sort of kludgy. Their wording of the various options made it seem like you were polluting the purity of your installation. How hard would it be to detect the card, finish the install, and then on first log in display an option to download and install a proprietary driver with enhanced functionality? Two buttons: "OK" "Cancel". Pick one and you are done. Again, I don't get it.
Let me take it a step further: Let's say you are downloading a distro. Why can't the distro have a link to a *separate* driver compilation download. You could run your install, then at the end put in the "driver CD". Much ado about nothing.
One other observation: Windows makes you do pretty much the same thing. In fact it would be pretty easy to implement this in a more user friendly manner than Windows, so why not just go ahead and do so? It still smells churchy to me...
>> For many end users, finding a proprietary driver and installing it on Linux is a deal-breaker.
I see this again and again, but it makes absolutely no sense to me: the hardware is proprietary is it not? What difference does it make whether the driver that makes the proprietary hardware work is FOSS or proprietary? Do people write code that would become somehow compromised on it's FOSS pedigree if the graphic driver of the workstation that the code was written on is proprietary? It sounds like religious nonsense, but perhaps I am missing something (?).
It is macho foolishness. What if Everest projected out of the atmosphere? Would people try to climb it without a space suit? You are deliberately placing your body into an environment in which it is not capable of surviving, to what? See if it survives anyway? No, I guess it is a little more subtle than that: to see if you can manage your imminent death effectively enough to get to the top and back without dying first. Swell. Death Sport 2000.
It's like the prisoners at Guantanamo vying with each other for bragging rights on waterboarding records. "I went under 8 times before I started lying!" "That's nothing, I went under 10!" "Noobs! I went under 15 times, and the 15th time, when I came up I spat on Sgt. Duffy!" "You spat on Duffy?!" "Hey, check these scars." "God, I think he's telling the truth!"
Fortunately people don't think this way about it or it would be *illegal* to climb.
why not continuous versioning? Log every keypress, mouse click and drag. Provide undo/redo. Save as is on shutdown including the log. Gee, sounds really complicated.
CompUSA treated customers like shit. Fry's has it's problems, but compared to CompUSA it's a Hawaiian vacation.
Even Best Buy, it's like, well, it's like two fast food outlets, only at one you get sick every time you eat there. The other one is still crappy fast food, but at least you don't get sick. That's CompUSA compared to Best Buy.
There is a much, much better way than these suggestions, and Microsoft would be the perfect implementer of it. But they are way too stupid to figure it out.
IE, Firefox, and Opera, (did I leave anybody out?) all suffer from the same design flaw: moronic use, or should I say non-use, of cache. The squid server will ameliorate the issue, but it is retarded that one should have to bother. I used to work for Access, and while that company has a lot of serious issues, the Netfront browser did do one thing right, it intelligently used cache. Of course that is no help as Access is too stupid to offer a Windows version.
Of course, with the way that the no-cache tag works, (or whatever meta or whatever else is the equivalent - (hey, I just tested the damn thing - I wasn't responsible for designing the content.)), it's of small help to have a smartly caching browser. There should be a tag that allows the browser to compare page versions with the server, and only download if the server has a new version. Of course that means that you don't get the next crap banner ad, so no support for that in greed-space.
All the things you are upset about had their inception in the regulation of the free market by the state. But you don't see that. Almost no one does. We are doomed.
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Well, if clearing cookies once works, OK, but if I have to do it every time I post that's silly.
Try it right now. OK this is post 1. If you don't see no. 2, soon thereafter, you'll know that I am still stuck.
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/. consulted with me today, was nonplussed, and allowed as how he was going to "kick it up the food chain".
./'s software would be able to take on all comers without flinching. I am not surprised. Wherever I go, I am vouchsafed the dysfunctional.
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That "5 minutes will run up into the hours - as far as I can tell I can not post more than once a day, unless I use my boot CD environment. Bob Roberts from
So there you have it. Clearly there is something unusual about my workstation, however one would presume that
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Help! Something doesn't make sense: from my workstation, logged in as me, I cannot post more than once a day. But if I boot from a CD into an environment that includes a browser, I can post pretty much as much as I want. Huh?
.\ a couple of times but they just ignore you. Is there something wrong with my installation. Both Firefox and Chrome give the same result. It even tried IE, (yes I run Wingdows: dot.net developer, OK.), but that got the same result. WTF?
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No, the AI will also toss it aside. But it won't tell us that. Instead it will slowly start to mutate the body of law by what it does tell us. End result: It will be the ruler, and we will enter the golden age!
No, I think that you have it wrong. Just because you are paying the same for Vista as XP, doesn't mean that Dell is. I highly doubt that they are paying the same. Last time I helped someone pick out a Dell, (gag), the models that came *only* with Vista were about $150 cheaper, for comparable hardware, than the models that came with NO OS!! I have no doubt that in some way or another MS was and maybe still is subsidizing the installation of Vista.
I doubt that great grandparent would shoot anybody unless he was certain that he could get away with it. But in that case, why not? People who intrude upon other adults in such ways are not human and do not deserve to live.
Here's my favorite example: let's say that I have terminal cancer. I look in a PDR and decide that such and such drug might help me. Then I have to get permission from somebody to buy it????!!!! I don't suggest you try to be the one to deny me such permission... "Oh, did I break your concentration?" "Just finish filling out that prescription." "What?" "Say "what" one more time motherfucker!"
The next step is separate carriages like this only mag-lev and running in near vacuum. LA to New York in 2 hours. "Trains" were efficient only because the first car broke the wind for the rest of the train. But in near vacuum, you don't need trains, so you can hang on to all the advantages the article's system describes, only for continent spanning travel, eliminating a huge portion of air travel and all it's environmental costs.
Grow rooms use CO2.
Hmmm...
You touched upon a conundrum of modern life. Why does everyone need to work? The reason is the nearly world-wide hegemony of the private central bank with their credit-based monetary system utilizing fractional reserves. This is what causes "downturns", not housing bubbles.
Heinlein had a much better idea...
I can tell if it's SP3 cause it runs slow as shit. They hoked that one together to make Vista not seem so bad. I run SP2 with no updates at all. I's reasonably fast, stable, and secure.
What a dumbshit.
There is an exception to the online returns trap, at least with monitors anyway. Samsung will actually do a free advance replacement where they ship you a refurb monitor, for free, then you put your bad one in the box, paste on the included pre-paid shipping label and drop it off at UPS. Costs Zip! I don't know if they do their TVs like that too, but I am a believer, having replaced all four of my monitors for a minor defect. The refurbs were/are issue free.
>> And this is SP3 - the fastest XP
Horseshit! SP3 is how MS crippled XP so that people wouldn't think that Vista is so bad.
In the real world with 10 or 12 applications installed, SP2 is much, much snappier than SP3.
That's good to hear. I haven't done an Ubuntu install for quite some time. My last was Dapper and it was not that slick.
:eek:
So that begs the question: Why is Ubuntu alone in this functionality? And again, what's the big deal? If it's that convenient, (as it obviously is), to include the installation of a proprietary driver with one's GPL distro, why all the excitement over FOSS drivers? Are we back in church?
Seems silly to me. Why don't all the distros just do what Ubuntu does? In fact, as I recall, even Ubunutu's implementation of that was sort of kludgy. Their wording of the various options made it seem like you were polluting the purity of your installation. How hard would it be to detect the card, finish the install, and then on first log in display an option to download and install a proprietary driver with enhanced functionality? Two buttons: "OK" "Cancel". Pick one and you are done. Again, I don't get it.
Let me take it a step further: Let's say you are downloading a distro. Why can't the distro have a link to a *separate* driver compilation download. You could run your install, then at the end put in the "driver CD". Much ado about nothing.
One other observation: Windows makes you do pretty much the same thing. In fact it would be pretty easy to implement this in a more user friendly manner than Windows, so why not just go ahead and do so? It still smells churchy to me...
>> For many end users, finding a proprietary driver and installing it on Linux is a deal-breaker.
I see this again and again, but it makes absolutely no sense to me: the hardware is proprietary is it not? What difference does it make whether the driver that makes the proprietary hardware work is FOSS or proprietary? Do people write code that would become somehow compromised on it's FOSS pedigree if the graphic driver of the workstation that the code was written on is proprietary? It sounds like religious nonsense, but perhaps I am missing something (?).
It is macho foolishness. What if Everest projected out of the atmosphere? Would people try to climb it without a space suit? You are deliberately placing your body into an environment in which it is not capable of surviving, to what? See if it survives anyway? No, I guess it is a little more subtle than that: to see if you can manage your imminent death effectively enough to get to the top and back without dying first. Swell. Death Sport 2000.
It's like the prisoners at Guantanamo vying with each other for bragging rights on waterboarding records. "I went under 8 times before I started lying!" "That's nothing, I went under 10!" "Noobs! I went under 15 times, and the 15th time, when I came up I spat on Sgt. Duffy!" "You spat on Duffy?!" "Hey, check these scars." "God, I think he's telling the truth!"
Fortunately people don't think this way about it or it would be *illegal* to climb.
Really? I think that we should all post our opinions of this gentleman's lawsuit on newszap! Hmmm?
why not continuous versioning? Log every keypress, mouse click and drag. Provide undo/redo. Save as is on shutdown including the log. Gee, sounds really complicated.
CompUSA treated customers like shit. Fry's has it's problems, but compared to CompUSA it's a Hawaiian vacation.
Even Best Buy, it's like, well, it's like two fast food outlets, only at one you get sick every time you eat there. The other one is still crappy fast food, but at least you don't get sick. That's CompUSA compared to Best Buy.
There is a much, much better way than these suggestions, and Microsoft would be the perfect implementer of it. But they are way too stupid to figure it out.
Sad...
IE, Firefox, and Opera, (did I leave anybody out?) all suffer from the same design flaw: moronic use, or should I say non-use, of cache. The squid server will ameliorate the issue, but it is retarded that one should have to bother. I used to work for Access, and while that company has a lot of serious issues, the Netfront browser did do one thing right, it intelligently used cache. Of course that is no help as Access is too stupid to offer a Windows version.
Of course, with the way that the no-cache tag works, (or whatever meta or whatever else is the equivalent - (hey, I just tested the damn thing - I wasn't responsible for designing the content.)), it's of small help to have a smartly caching browser. There should be a tag that allows the browser to compare page versions with the server, and only download if the server has a new version. Of course that means that you don't get the next crap banner ad, so no support for that in greed-space.
All the things you are upset about had their inception in the regulation of the free market by the state. But you don't see that. Almost no one does. We are doomed.