I spent less than 1500.00 for my home theater system, and going to BR is a waste of time for me.
Hell, I think without the TV, I have about 800 dollars in mine.
3K dollars to watch TV is stupid, unless it's considered pocket change to you.
The economy killed blu-ray. That, and the lack of a reason to upgrade. WHY???? I mean, for the love of god, I LIKE watching TV, but I can get an upconverting (or better) dvd player for a quarter the cost of a br player.
Yeah, but if you look at slashdot, you'd think that all lawyers where MS shills.
Of course, it might be true. It's just going to take a few more years for people to get linux to finish installing, all the drivers updated, and their wifi cards to actually WORK before the proof can be posted.
BUT, rest assured! Proof is in the pudding, and the pudding tastes good! I'll let you know when the install is done and we can connect lol.
When blacks stop accusing other blaqs of losing their blaqness, racial stereotyping, and racism itself, will be on their way out.
Until every friggin race STOPS trying to show it's uniqueness, people will look at each and every race different. It's called common sense, and the human element.
Oh wait, everyone did with Obama so far. He looked slick, like most democrats (anyone remember Slick Willie), but people seem to forget just how FUCKING corrupt the democrat party is as well......
Yup, Obama is nothing more than a spokesperson for the same assholes that brought us Clintonia.
They where a bargain basement company when I started, and I didn't want to fork the $$$ for Asus.
Now, it seems, they are kickass.
I love mine, although they are both ATA based RAID boards for AMD chips... One is running linux, the other XP. The linux based computer is a KT100 based board, the XP is KT133.
A crack pipe isn't sold as a pipe. If you mention ANY type of smoking or injesting of a controlled substance, they are required to NOT sell to you, and will ask you to leave (in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, all states I've lived in).
They sell them to burn "essence" or oils (ie, incense oils). Typically in California, they are sold for methamphetamine or cocaine use, but a lot of marijuana users use them for hash oil, hence the term "oil burner".
As an ex Compaq employee who did Win98 and Win2k testing (when it was NT5.0), thanks for actually pointing out that people in IT and imaging actually CAN do a good job.
This guy was an idiot, and deserves what he got. Problem is, he's now working somewhere else in the company as a contractor.
Yeah, linux is great. Install friendly, drivers always included or an easy download away (no fwcutter trying to get broadcom drivers), etc., etc., etc.
STFU fanboi. Last time I tried to compare two linux.conf files, they where MASSIVELY different.
Not so with windows XML files, unless your some ass that just bashes MS and doesn't actually KNOW or PRACTICE what your talking about.
But, the problem is, nobody in their right mind (consumers) want to go through all the bullshit of installing linux.
Yeah, I downloaded Ubuntu. Latest and greatest, 4 weeks ago.
Took a week / week and a half for my roommate to get a friggin Broadcom wifi card working. It was done as a test, to see "just how good" the install of the newer distros is. (I run slackware). Yup, install windows, runs fine OOBE. Run Linux, go find some FWCUTTER thing, then have to compile it, then have to get it to work (it never did for him), then figure out where in the OS to install the "flash" files.
Yup, that's an operating system destined for desktops everywhere!
The problem with Microsoft isn't that they make things easy, that's what the world wants. Tech geeks, I'm sorry to say (as one), are NOT the people MOST companies mass market to, they do it to the people NOT classified as nerds or geeks in school because, magically, THEY ARE THE MINORITY.
Anywho, just thought I would set you straight. Having an easy to install O/S isn't the problem. The problem was the asshole at Asus that didn't do his job correctly, was using illegal software cracks (presumably, nobody knows for sure where he lives), and the assholes that where supposed to actually TEST the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience) and the image verifiers should ALL LOSE THEIR JOBS!
And since when did anyone actually think that this wouldn't happen?
I mean, C'mon. At some point in time, wikipedia would become nothing more than a high school popularity contest, as EVERYTHING does, due to the human element.
Deleting ANYTHING from wikipedia is stupid. If something is PROVEN to be inaccurate, then that's another story.
Besides, I don't HONESTLY know of anywhere that I can quote wikipedia and be taken seriously. Encyclopedia Brittanica, et al, don't have that problem.
Somewhat like the entire OSS / Corporate software arguments. It's a great idea, but honestly, it will take literally YEARS of human development for it to actually take effect. Much to the detriment of people, but still...
This is not a loan. This is the US Government purchasing said assets. Just because some idiot journalist (ok, more probably a runny nosed "blogger" who thinks that just because he can type he is a journalist) called it a loan because they don't know what they are talking about.
They hold on to them (said assets), when the market returns, they sell them at a profit. During that time, they >>supposedly rent them out to at least break even during that timeframe.
Yeah, you keep dreaming that the US of A has progressed far enough to elect a blaq mang.
Ain't gonna happen. Unfortunately, but it won't.
Obama / McCain 2008 would have been the ticket. Someone with a track record of public service and who doesn't always agree with his stated group, and Obama, who can bullshit congress to get anything passed. I mean, he has bullshitted his way to the point where he is now..:)
"In this age of ubiquitous wireless networks, anyone who hacks from their own account richly deserves to be caught."
I would go so far as to say that any script k1dd13 that uses his own account, or a traceable one, shouldn't have the word "Hack", "Crack" or any other term used towards people who actually have a modicum of intelligence of computers at all directd towards him.
Reminds me of a friend who wanted an account on a linux box I had running of a corporate DSL line. I used it for NMAP, etc. of the internal network, but was nice to have a machine on a private subnet just running.
Until DoE called me up 4 weeks later to ask why this machine (with the network regg'ed to me) was attempting to access a few of their subnets, scanning for hours at a time.
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I spent less than 1500.00 for my home theater system, and going to BR is a waste of time for me.
Hell, I think without the TV, I have about 800 dollars in mine.
3K dollars to watch TV is stupid, unless it's considered pocket change to you.
The economy killed blu-ray. That, and the lack of a reason to upgrade. WHY???? I mean, for the love of god, I LIKE watching TV, but I can get an upconverting (or better) dvd player for a quarter the cost of a br player.
--Toll_Free
Mod parent up. He speaks the truth.
--Toll_Free
The problem is, their "technological goals", as you put it, are 180 degrees apart.
So, looks like the nice wigger ended up picking up a spokesmouth just as bad as the old man, eh?
Why not just get rid of the two incompetents and make a biden / palin ticket :)
Now THAT'S change we can all look forward to
**writer falls on floor laughing hysterically**
-Toll_Free
Yeah, but if you look at slashdot, you'd think that all lawyers where MS shills.
Of course, it might be true. It's just going to take a few more years for people to get linux to finish installing, all the drivers updated, and their wifi cards to actually WORK before the proof can be posted.
BUT, rest assured! Proof is in the pudding, and the pudding tastes good! I'll let you know when the install is done and we can connect lol.
--Toll_Free
When blacks stop accusing other blaqs of losing their blaqness, racial stereotyping, and racism itself, will be on their way out.
Until every friggin race STOPS trying to show it's uniqueness, people will look at each and every race different. It's called common sense, and the human element.
--Toll_Free
Obama is about as black as George W Bush.
Don't just fall for the way things look.
Oh wait, everyone did with Obama so far. He looked slick, like most democrats (anyone remember Slick Willie), but people seem to forget just how FUCKING corrupt the democrat party is as well......
Yup, Obama is nothing more than a spokesperson for the same assholes that brought us Clintonia.
--Toll_Free
--Toll_Free
Yes, I still use my MSI boards.
They where a bargain basement company when I started, and I didn't want to fork the $$$ for Asus.
Now, it seems, they are kickass.
I love mine, although they are both ATA based RAID boards for AMD chips... One is running linux, the other XP. The linux based computer is a KT100 based board, the XP is KT133.
--Toll_Free
Yes, there is.
Referring to it as a crack pipe means your intent is to use it to "smoke crack".
Intent is conspiracy.
Owning a pipe intended for burning "oils, essences and herbs" isn't illegal, but calling it a pipe is.
In my state, the headshops get away with it by calling it an oil burner. Referring to anything in a manner contrary to the law implies intent.
Implied intent =! implied consent!
--Toll_Free
A crack pipe isn't sold as a pipe. If you mention ANY type of smoking or injesting of a controlled substance, they are required to NOT sell to you, and will ask you to leave (in California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, all states I've lived in).
They sell them to burn "essence" or oils (ie, incense oils). Typically in California, they are sold for methamphetamine or cocaine use, but a lot of marijuana users use them for hash oil, hence the term "oil burner".
--Toll_Free
As an ex Compaq employee who did Win98 and Win2k testing (when it was NT5.0), thanks for actually pointing out that people in IT and imaging actually CAN do a good job.
This guy was an idiot, and deserves what he got. Problem is, he's now working somewhere else in the company as a contractor.
--Toll_Free
Yeah, but he'd still have a job if he wouldn't have made such a stink about his Bostich / Swingline staplers.
And don't get me started about his office space :)~
--Toll_Free
lol.
Yeah, linux is great. Install friendly, drivers always included or an easy download away (no fwcutter trying to get broadcom drivers), etc., etc., etc.
STFU fanboi. Last time I tried to compare two linux .conf files, they where MASSIVELY different.
Not so with windows XML files, unless your some ass that just bashes MS and doesn't actually KNOW or PRACTICE what your talking about.
--Toll_Free
--Toll_Free
Sure he does.
He's GeekSquad!
Didn't you see his little VW as his avatar Bwahaha
--Toll_Free
As an image verifier for both Win2k and Win98 at Compaq (Houston), I can tell you, WE DID.
So, dipshit, care to actually talk about something you know about?
Go back to your mothers basement and install BEOS on a flashdrive again. It suites you well.
--Toll_Free
But, the problem is, nobody in their right mind (consumers) want to go through all the bullshit of installing linux.
Yeah, I downloaded Ubuntu. Latest and greatest, 4 weeks ago.
Took a week / week and a half for my roommate to get a friggin Broadcom wifi card working. It was done as a test, to see "just how good" the install of the newer distros is. (I run slackware). Yup, install windows, runs fine OOBE. Run Linux, go find some FWCUTTER thing, then have to compile it, then have to get it to work (it never did for him), then figure out where in the OS to install the "flash" files.
Yup, that's an operating system destined for desktops everywhere!
The problem with Microsoft isn't that they make things easy, that's what the world wants. Tech geeks, I'm sorry to say (as one), are NOT the people MOST companies mass market to, they do it to the people NOT classified as nerds or geeks in school because, magically, THEY ARE THE MINORITY.
Anywho, just thought I would set you straight. Having an easy to install O/S isn't the problem. The problem was the asshole at Asus that didn't do his job correctly, was using illegal software cracks (presumably, nobody knows for sure where he lives), and the assholes that where supposed to actually TEST the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience) and the image verifiers should ALL LOSE THEIR JOBS!
--Toll_Free
And they don't realize they are discriminating against the free speech of the people that are being "racist".
The problem with racism, is, until every "race" gives up their "identity", we will all be different. Period.
--Toll_Free
And since when did anyone actually think that this wouldn't happen?
I mean, C'mon. At some point in time, wikipedia would become nothing more than a high school popularity contest, as EVERYTHING does, due to the human element.
Deleting ANYTHING from wikipedia is stupid. If something is PROVEN to be inaccurate, then that's another story.
Besides, I don't HONESTLY know of anywhere that I can quote wikipedia and be taken seriously. Encyclopedia Brittanica, et al, don't have that problem.
Somewhat like the entire OSS / Corporate software arguments. It's a great idea, but honestly, it will take literally YEARS of human development for it to actually take effect. Much to the detriment of people, but still...
--Toll_Free
What you say is all fine and dandy, except that the reality of the situation is that jobs ARE being outsourced, offshore.
--Toll_Free
This is not a loan. This is the US Government purchasing said assets. Just because some idiot journalist (ok, more probably a runny nosed "blogger" who thinks that just because he can type he is a journalist) called it a loan because they don't know what they are talking about.
They hold on to them (said assets), when the market returns, they sell them at a profit. During that time, they >>supposedly rent them out to at least break even during that timeframe.
--Toll_Free
It won't be paid back.
They are PURCHASING assets. When the market returns in 5 to 15 years, the fed can SELL those assets for a net gain.
During said time, properties owned by government will (theoretically) have rent(s) paid on them, so it will be a fairly large net gain.
At least, that's the BS they are attempting to churn out to sell it to the public.
--Toll_Free
I can believe that a help desk flake is getting 12 dollars an hour, it's what he / she is worth!
A professional getting 12 dollars an hour... BS.
Called a friend, lives in Mesa, works in Phoenix. He's doing fine, making > 100K a year.
Maybe you should look at your resume' and see why you and yours are making 12 bucks an hour, then step away from the "college" farms of IT cows.
--Toll_Free
Umm.
Except where you know the information you are destroying can / will / should be used as evidence.
It doesn't come down to the actual act, it comes down to the intent of the act.
--Toll_Free
Yeah, you keep dreaming that the US of A has progressed far enough to elect a blaq mang.
Ain't gonna happen. Unfortunately, but it won't.
Obama / McCain 2008 would have been the ticket. Someone with a track record of public service and who doesn't always agree with his stated group, and Obama, who can bullshit congress to get anything passed. I mean, he has bullshitted his way to the point where he is now.. :)
Anyway..
--Toll_Free
"In this age of ubiquitous wireless networks, anyone who hacks from their own account richly deserves to be caught."
I would go so far as to say that any script k1dd13 that uses his own account, or a traceable one, shouldn't have the word "Hack", "Crack" or any other term used towards people who actually have a modicum of intelligence of computers at all directd towards him.
Reminds me of a friend who wanted an account on a linux box I had running of a corporate DSL line. I used it for NMAP, etc. of the internal network, but was nice to have a machine on a private subnet just running.
Until DoE called me up 4 weeks later to ask why this machine (with the network regg'ed to me) was attempting to access a few of their subnets, scanning for hours at a time.
I wonder if they are related?
--Toll_Free
It's actually more social engineering than anything else.
--Toll_Free