I *was* going to put it in there, but that'd have crossed the line into flamebait. Sometimes they just bully people into being their allies, threatening to do as you say.
Bleh. I replied mostly because you mentioned Walmart in two solution examples; seemed a bit too ad-like.
At any rate, you can order a WinXP home for less than $100 on Amazon and if you're lucky, half that on eBay (which I mostly see as a gamble, though). Of course, if your OS is snarfed and you don't have anywhere else to go order off of the internet (or at least, anywhere you'd feel secure typing in sensitive info like CCard number), then you'r screwed...
But not everyone lives in a city, and thanks to walmart's ability to drive everything else out of business, there are many places where walmart truely is the only thing in town. And while I know it doesn't really matter to a company the size of walmart, I like to tell myself that every doller I spend elsewhere cuts walmart's ability to expand.
You hit the solution right on the nose. The problem about Walmart is that they've got enough... "provinces" to fund an attrition war on many fronts against local shops; also, their size gives them a huge advantage when it comes to haggling prices. At least all those money that people save by going there can be used for... erm... video... games?
The expectation of failure might be because of a general feeling of being outsiders when being geeky; this picture is of course worsened and perpetuated by popular culture, with movies about "geeky kids overcoming the odds and [fill in winning scenario]". When faced with that sort of image of geeks, I can understand why more geeks don't automatically think of fundraising like that. I'm not saying it wouldn't work though. I've raised plenty of money for other geeky endeavours (LARP), but those have been mostly through semi-public channels (living in a socialist country is rockin')
My mother was in dire need of internet connectivity and the only working computer in her home was a Mac OS 9 (non-PPPoE), so I did a clean Windows install from scratch. First thing on my priority list was of course downloading security software (before any Windows patches, of course); lo and behold; it had already been infected by some virus that blocked all access attempts to major antivirus vendors and killed all installer programs with the word 'antivirus' in it. Should've just found the old CDs I have somewhere with the updates, but seeing as I can't remember when I last had a CD pen...:-O
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/pre view.mspx
Go there and scroll to "Download Windows Vista RC1"; select location and press go.
You then have to sign in using a Passport/.net/Live/Concrete Halibut account; after that you'll be furnished with code and a link.
(I'd just like to point out that it's been months since I did this; if I'm mistaken/if they've changed the procedure, please, correct me)
Yo'd also have to install a crack that surpasses activation (otherwise the install dies after two weeks), and then you might as well... "get" the final release and do the same.
They probably don't expect any positive outcome of such a venture; if they thought it would work, they'd probably have done it. Apart from you, how many of the locals in your neighbourhood do you think would donate?
Never been to the UK... I live in Denmark. I actually (pre-2001) once forgot that I had a fishing knife in my carry-on bag (my trusty rucksack). This was of course spotted when they x-rayed my bag. At first, I was sent into a queue (consisting of only me, behind a very bewildered old lady) to hand over the knife and have it shipped home. However, the guy who sent me over to the queue came over to me after a few minutes, told me to hand over the bag and the knife, looked around, and stuffed the knife into the bag and sent me off for my plane. This was a plane to Greenland, by the way. In... 1999.
"... Europeans, with shorter flights and lower expectations of privacy perhaps, are more open to it."
The last few times I've had to fly, I haven't been asked to have an anal probe inserted while answering ungodly questions about my personal life. That's because I fly in Europe.
The last two Stanley Kubrick DVD rereleases I bought were better quality than most movies from the 90s. It's only a matter of will. (Both movies, of course, being 30+ years old)
1. DSL runs off of a CD or USB key 2. They have a simple system for customizing and even remastering the DSL package so you can just make the changes and a new CD *easily*.
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I *was* going to put it in there, but that'd have crossed the line into flamebait.
Sometimes they just bully people into being their allies, threatening to do as you say.
No, the US rarely bitches.
Why
They simply ignore other countries.
Bleh. I replied mostly because you mentioned Walmart in two solution examples; seemed a bit too ad-like.
At any rate, you can order a WinXP home for less than $100 on Amazon and if you're lucky, half that on eBay (which I mostly see as a gamble, though).
Of course, if your OS is snarfed and you don't have anywhere else to go order off of the internet (or at least, anywhere you'd feel secure typing in sensitive info like CCard number), then you'r screwed...
But not everyone lives in a city, and thanks to walmart's ability to drive everything else out of business, there are many places where walmart truely is the only thing in town. And while I know it doesn't really matter to a company the size of walmart, I like to tell myself that every doller I spend elsewhere cuts walmart's ability to expand.
You hit the solution right on the nose. The problem about Walmart is that they've got enough... "provinces" to fund an attrition war on many fronts against local shops; also, their size gives them a huge advantage when it comes to haggling prices.
At least all those money that people save by going there can be used for... erm... video... games?
The expectation of failure might be because of a general feeling of being outsiders when being geeky; this picture is of course worsened and perpetuated by popular culture, with movies about "geeky kids overcoming the odds and [fill in winning scenario]".
When faced with that sort of image of geeks, I can understand why more geeks don't automatically think of fundraising like that.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work though. I've raised plenty of money for other geeky endeavours (LARP), but those have been mostly through semi-public channels (living in a socialist country is rockin')
My mother was in dire need of internet connectivity and the only working computer in her home was a Mac OS 9 (non-PPPoE), so I did a clean Windows install from scratch. First thing on my priority list was of course downloading security software (before any Windows patches, of course); lo and behold; it had already been infected by some virus that blocked all access attempts to major antivirus vendors and killed all installer programs with the word 'antivirus' in it. :-O
Should've just found the old CDs I have somewhere with the updates, but seeing as I can't remember when I last had a CD pen...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/pre view.mspx
Go there and scroll to "Download Windows Vista RC1"; select location and press go. You then have to sign in using a Passport/.net/Live/Concrete Halibut account; after that you'll be furnished with code and a link.
(I'd just like to point out that it's been months since I did this; if I'm mistaken/if they've changed the procedure, please, correct me)
Yo'd also have to install a crack that surpasses activation (otherwise the install dies after two weeks), and then you might as well... "get" the final release and do the same.
I'm pretty sure that other stores than Walmart must exist in your neighbourhood.
They probably don't expect any positive outcome of such a venture; if they thought it would work, they'd probably have done it. Apart from you, how many of the locals in your neighbourhood do you think would donate?
It poses no framerate problems for my three year old laptop, so I'd say the problem is at your end.
Never been to the UK... I live in Denmark. I actually (pre-2001) once forgot that I had a fishing knife in my carry-on bag (my trusty rucksack). This was of course spotted when they x-rayed my bag.
At first, I was sent into a queue (consisting of only me, behind a very bewildered old lady) to hand over the knife and have it shipped home. However, the guy who sent me over to the queue came over to me after a few minutes, told me to hand over the bag and the knife, looked around, and stuffed the knife into the bag and sent me off for my plane.
This was a plane to Greenland, by the way. In... 1999.
"... Europeans, with shorter flights and lower expectations of privacy perhaps, are more open to it."
The last few times I've had to fly, I haven't been asked to have an anal probe inserted while answering ungodly questions about my personal life. That's because I fly in Europe.
Let me see you stripped...
Let me see you stripped...
Let me see you make de-cisions
without your tele-visions...
Let me see you stripped...
Although I had to tweak the address to http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.871013,-77.056174, that was fucking funny.
What kind of system is built with 4 gigs RAM and 2D graphics card with a 3D add-on card?
Insane!
in thoughs areas you don't get net access either..
That's really a moot point when it comes to which browser people use for Slashdot...
If they can run programs off of their own USB devices, there's always Firefox Portable. Love it.
Acid2 is for testing CSS - Opera is also Acid2 compliant, but as mentioned in the article, it's currently a no-go.
Slaves have better benefits.
That is why Denmark was the first country in the world to abolish slavery.
The last two Stanley Kubrick DVD rereleases I bought were better quality than most movies from the 90s. It's only a matter of will. (Both movies, of course, being 30+ years old)
I'm sure his grandchildren will appreciate it.
1.2. I've answered why already twice, are you going to be making trouble?
It would appear that IAR80 is simply a douche. I really don't get that type of game. Seriously, those players need to get laid.
1. DSL runs off of a CD or USB key
2. They have a simple system for customizing and even remastering the DSL package so you can just make the changes and a new CD *easily*.