>>>take a good, long look at the kinds of policies and positions broadcast by Fox News.
Well... I disagree. While FOX has a bias, its bias is generally in favor of LESS government, while the 1930s German propaganda was in favor of More government. Like taking over the car industry (folks' wagon). And taking over the healthcare industry (guaranteed for everyone). And fining people who don't comply..... hmmmm.
The german people ate it up, without realizing they were losing freedom with each new program passed.
CNN is very clearly pro-Democrat or pro-big government. You probably don't notice it because you, yourself, are pro-D or pro-government but the bias is definitely there. I see it every time I turn on the channel.
For example when a CNN reporter gives a report which assumes government should be providing healthcare for free, and different methods of paying for it. The reporter never once offers the other option: Keeping government out of healthcare.
Another example was the CNN Sunday coverage of the vote. The reporters were so happy with the results, I thought they were going to pull-out their Barak Obama posters and throw a party. That's pro-D and/or pro-big-government bias.
Me, being Jeffersonian and anti-monopoly, would prefer the government was so small as to be almost invisible so I could make my own choices. But CNN never, never, never discusses that option.
I think the first amendment (liberated press) allows them to say whatever they want, even if it's not true. It's called freedom. If you don't want to watch FOX, fine, but then you ought to just drop the subject. Not keep pounding "FOX sucks" into the sand like a troll day-after-day-after-day. It gets tiresome.
And don't try to pretend as if the DNC-NBC is unbiased either.
Remember it was MSNBC that did a story about "gun toting protestors" at an Obama speaking event who "appear to be prejudiced or even racist against a sitting black president." And then it was discovered that MSNBC LIED in the report. The gun toters were actually black themselves (i.e. not racist), but by using careful editing of the video (not showing faces) MSNBC conveniently hid that fact and portrayed the black gun owners as white racists.
BOTTOM LINE: The MSNBC channel is no better. While FOX is biased towards the R's, MSNBC is biased towards the D's. So by slamming FOX, and pretending MSNBC is flawless, all you do is demonstrate your own bias and hate.
>>>get a CF-to-IDE adapter and plug that into my old Amiga 1200..... it's the perfect OS to run on a flash card.
I'd just buy a whole new Amiga with OS 4.0. You can get them off Ebay, or places like Great Valley Products (GVP), and with a processor fast enough to handle modern video (like youtube for example) - 1000 megahertz. As I recently discovered that old 68020 CPU is simply too slow to be useful in the modern world.
And AmigaOS still has the advantage of simply flipping the switch to turn it off. And a startup time of less than 10 seconds.
Last year I tried to slowdown my Pentium 4 from 3000 megahertz, because I got tired of hearing the fan, but Intel apparently didn't include that capability. I don't need 3000 megahertz just to surf the web or watch a youtube video. Even my lowly 600 megahertz laptop is fast enough to do those things, so being able to slow the P4 clock would be a nice feature.
Back to topic -
Does this mean Nintendo will return to using carts? Like on my old N64? I like carts - virtually indestructible. And with SSD they'll be rewritable.
but I'm looking forward to the Outer Limits' thought-based sex machine. (See season 2.) All you do is THINK the action and it's transmitted over hundreds of miles to your partner in a similar machine who feels the result.
But I don't think so. Look at how Microsoft fixed Vista vulnerabilities and memory problems* - told users to go buy Windows 7 (NT/vista 6.1). I don't see anyone prevailing against MS so I doubt they'd succeed with Sun.
* * Refuses to run properly on my brother's 512 megabyte machine, even with everything turned off. The bug-fixed Vista called "7" works okay.
Yes. TeaTimer won't allow the registry to change unless you first click "ok". As for the annoyance I've not noticed any problems. A lot of times I forget TeaTimer is even running. It's certainly less troublesome thatn NoScript's constantly nagging.
Outside news sources? Like BBC? Also biased in a pro-government and pro-EU manner. There really is no such thing as an unbiased source, although I do enjoy watching Russia Today for its unique perspective.
Yes becasue it is an established fact that Fox has no bias
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. I never said that. What I said was that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, et cetera have a pro-government and anti-individual-liberty bias.
Point - They are ALL biased, therefore if you're going to attack FOX for bias, then you should be attacking all the TV media outlets for the same reason.
Or how about GIFs and PNGs? Back in the 90s and early 2000s that's what ads were, and it worked just fine. There's no need to waste bandwidth on a 1000 kilobyte or more Flash ad when a ~100 kilobyte animated GIF can do the same job.
That's one of the things I like about Opera Turbo - - it blocks flash ads by default and displays a giant |> play button. More browsers should do that.
What I don't like about Opera is how many websites refuse to serve it with javascript, and instead serve a broken nonfunctional page. I get a little frustrated with constantly right-clicking and choosing "mask as firefox" or "mask as explorer" to get a page to load properly. That isn't Opera's fault of course but it would be a lot easier if they had a global "mask" setting, so I wouldn't have to do one page at a time.
I run a program called "TeaTimer" that automatically blocks changes to your computer or registry. I'm not sure how well it works in a work setting, but for my home PC it's caught numerous browser-based programs from doing damage.
That's why I block-out FOX and only watch the Commune News Network and DNC-NBC and other pro-"let government run citizens' lives" news organizations. It helps me to vegetate and not think.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also made the same promise for "open government and debate" during her opening speech in January 2009. And so that's why I included the US Congress.
ME: "Then you don't need to date. Dating's purpose is to meet a marriage partner, and since you're not getting married at age 15 or 16, then you don't need to perform that search. Once you decide you're ready to get married THEN you can date."
It's also worth noting that dating can lead to unintended consequences like babies (even with birth control), which would be disasterous for someone who hasn't completed their college education yet.
>>>The EU VAT rules AFAIK are going to nobble attempts to lower existing VAT rates for a good or service
The EU Parliament is quickly turning into a US Congress, with their fingers in everything. Here's a worth watching video (just over 1 minute): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRAhRY0qOSg
>>>Try telling people with a P4 why they can't have Windows 7 running [13+ programs]
I have a P4. You can do all that if you eliminate the hard drive thrashing (the true cause of slowdown) by upgrading from the standard 512 to ~5,000 megabytes of RAM. Not cost effective but possible. And it will run just fine.
Like old cars the old computers get passed down to the lower income brackets (or people like me who don't mind using a 600 megahertz machine). It's recycling. It's also providing an opportunity for people to get on the internet who otherwise would be too poor to afford a $330 unit.
>>> Since you've just forced the retailer to eat $200-$300
Not really. The retailer likely sends all failed laptops and computers (in bulk) back to the manufacturer. It's called a chargeback. So the retailer would only lose the $3 for halfhour of labor to pay an employee to fill-out the paperwork, pack the item, plus maybe $5 for shipping costs.
Retailers aren't dumb. They know how to work the system just as well as the customers do.
>>>2. The requirement that a restore.iso be one of the offerings on the OEM's driver support page for the models they sell/have sold.
The HP desktop I bought for my brother doesn't even come with a restore disc. How stupid is that? They tell you to "burn your own restore CD" which sounds good in principle, but I've seen burned-CDs lose their dye (fade) and self-erase. This is not a solution.
The other option is to buy the CD for about $20. Lame. When you buy a computer, I don't think it would kill HP to include a 25 cent disc with Win7 on it so you can do annual "restore computer to like new" maintenance.
>>>just give Dell $300 and you'll have a computer that is faster and shinier than your present one
Precisely. The article summary about tax-free repairs making people more likely to fix their machines still ignores the basics of the computer industry - technology moves fast. I have a good reliable industry-grade laptop that I considered upgrading to Windows 7. And then I thought, "Why? For the cost of Win7 plus an extra $100 I can get a Win7 for free on a shiny new laptop with twice the speed, double the processors, and 3-4 times as much memory."
It makes little sense to upgrade or repair computers, unless you're a museum or nostalgist. It makes more sense to sell the old one on Ebay for ~$100 and then apply that cash to getting the current model.
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>>>take a good, long look at the kinds of policies and positions broadcast by Fox News.
Well... I disagree. While FOX has a bias, its bias is generally in favor of LESS government, while the 1930s German propaganda was in favor of More government. Like taking over the car industry (folks' wagon). And taking over the healthcare industry (guaranteed for everyone). And fining people who don't comply..... hmmmm.
The german people ate it up, without realizing they were losing freedom with each new program passed.
CNN is very clearly pro-Democrat or pro-big government. You probably don't notice it because you, yourself, are pro-D or pro-government but the bias is definitely there. I see it every time I turn on the channel.
For example when a CNN reporter gives a report which assumes government should be providing healthcare for free, and different methods of paying for it. The reporter never once offers the other option: Keeping government out of healthcare.
Another example was the CNN Sunday coverage of the vote. The reporters were so happy with the results, I thought they were going to pull-out their Barak Obama posters and throw a party. That's pro-D and/or pro-big-government bias.
Me, being Jeffersonian and anti-monopoly, would prefer the government was so small as to be almost invisible so I could make my own choices. But CNN never, never, never discusses that option.
I think the first amendment (liberated press) allows them to say whatever they want, even if it's not true. It's called freedom. If you don't want to watch FOX, fine, but then you ought to just drop the subject. Not keep pounding "FOX sucks" into the sand like a troll day-after-day-after-day. It gets tiresome.
And don't try to pretend as if the DNC-NBC is unbiased either.
Remember it was MSNBC that did a story about "gun toting protestors" at an Obama speaking event who "appear to be prejudiced or even racist against a sitting black president." And then it was discovered that MSNBC LIED in the report. The gun toters were actually black themselves (i.e. not racist), but by using careful editing of the video (not showing faces) MSNBC conveniently hid that fact and portrayed the black gun owners as white racists.
BOTTOM LINE: The MSNBC channel is no better. While FOX is biased towards the R's, MSNBC is biased towards the D's. So by slamming FOX, and pretending MSNBC is flawless, all you do is demonstrate your own bias and hate.
>>>get a CF-to-IDE adapter and plug that into my old Amiga 1200..... it's the perfect OS to run on a flash card.
I'd just buy a whole new Amiga with OS 4.0. You can get them off Ebay, or places like Great Valley Products (GVP), and with a processor fast enough to handle modern video (like youtube for example) - 1000 megahertz. As I recently discovered that old 68020 CPU is simply too slow to be useful in the modern world.
And AmigaOS still has the advantage of simply flipping the switch to turn it off. And a startup time of less than 10 seconds.
Yeah besides why Pay when you can get the same experience for Free on the net? There are tons of naked girls online that you can see free-of-charge.
Not that I know anything about that.
I like how you think.
Last year I tried to slowdown my Pentium 4 from 3000 megahertz, because I got tired of hearing the fan, but Intel apparently didn't include that capability. I don't need 3000 megahertz just to surf the web or watch a youtube video. Even my lowly 600 megahertz laptop is fast enough to do those things, so being able to slow the P4 clock would be a nice feature.
Back to topic -
Does this mean Nintendo will return to using carts?
Like on my old N64? I like carts - virtually indestructible.
And with SSD they'll be rewritable.
Thought based typing is nice.....
but I'm looking forward to the Outer Limits' thought-based sex machine. (See season 2.) All you do is THINK the action and it's transmitted over hundreds of miles to your partner in a similar machine who feels the result.
You may be right.
But I don't think so. Look at how Microsoft fixed Vista vulnerabilities and memory problems* - told users to go buy Windows 7 (NT/vista 6.1). I don't see anyone prevailing against MS so I doubt they'd succeed with Sun.
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* Refuses to run properly on my brother's 512 megabyte machine, even with everything turned off. The bug-fixed Vista called "7" works okay.
"Easily duped by politicians" citizen detected.
Would probably have fit in 1930s Germeny with ease.
>>>the user is mindless hitting Allow on TeaTimer
Yes. TeaTimer won't allow the registry to change unless you first click "ok". As for the annoyance I've not noticed any problems. A lot of times I forget TeaTimer is even running. It's certainly less troublesome thatn NoScript's constantly nagging.
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Outside news sources? Like BBC? Also biased in a pro-government and pro-EU manner. There really is no such thing as an unbiased source, although I do enjoy watching Russia Today for its unique perspective.
Yes becasue it is an established fact that Fox has no bias
STRAWMAN ARGUMENT. I never said that. What I said was that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, et cetera have a pro-government and anti-individual-liberty bias.
Point - They are ALL biased, therefore if you're going to attack FOX for bias, then you should be attacking all the TV media outlets for the same reason.
Or how about GIFs and PNGs? Back in the 90s and early 2000s that's what ads were, and it worked just fine. There's no need to waste bandwidth on a 1000 kilobyte or more Flash ad when a ~100 kilobyte animated GIF can do the same job.
That's one of the things I like about Opera Turbo -
- it blocks flash ads by default and displays a giant |> play button.
More browsers should do that.
What I don't like about Opera is how many websites refuse to serve it with javascript, and instead serve a broken nonfunctional page. I get a little frustrated with constantly right-clicking and choosing "mask as firefox" or "mask as explorer" to get a page to load properly. That isn't Opera's fault of course but it would be a lot easier if they had a global "mask" setting, so I wouldn't have to do one page at a time.
I run a program called "TeaTimer" that automatically blocks changes to your computer or registry. I'm not sure how well it works in a work setting, but for my home PC it's caught numerous browser-based programs from doing damage.
Yep.
That's why I block-out FOX and only watch the Commune News Network and DNC-NBC and other pro-"let government run citizens' lives" news organizations. It helps me to vegetate and not think.
And your solution is take this "strip computer carcasses" Job away from them, so they'll have no income and starve?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also made the same promise for "open government and debate" during her opening speech in January 2009. And so that's why I included the US Congress.
ME: "Are you planning to get married soon?"
Son or Daughter: "No!"
ME: "Then you don't need to date. Dating's purpose is to meet a marriage partner, and since you're not getting married at age 15 or 16, then you don't need to perform that search. Once you decide you're ready to get married THEN you can date."
It's also worth noting that dating can lead to unintended consequences like babies (even with birth control), which would be disasterous for someone who hasn't completed their college education yet.
>>>The EU VAT rules AFAIK are going to nobble attempts to lower existing VAT rates for a good or service
The EU Parliament is quickly turning into a US Congress, with their fingers in everything. Here's a worth watching video (just over 1 minute): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRAhRY0qOSg
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiDs7vG0R4
EU takes over home affairs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38InlHzQUXA
>>>Try telling people with a P4 why they can't have Windows 7 running [13+ programs]
I have a P4. You can do all that if you eliminate the hard drive thrashing (the true cause of slowdown) by upgrading from the standard 512 to ~5,000 megabytes of RAM. Not cost effective but possible. And it will run just fine.
I don't see that it's a big deal.
Like old cars the old computers get passed down to the lower income brackets (or people like me who don't mind using a 600 megahertz machine). It's recycling. It's also providing an opportunity for people to get on the internet who otherwise would be too poor to afford a $330 unit.
>>> Since you've just forced the retailer to eat $200-$300
Not really. The retailer likely sends all failed laptops and computers (in bulk) back to the manufacturer. It's called a chargeback. So the retailer would only lose the $3 for halfhour of labor to pay an employee to fill-out the paperwork, pack the item, plus maybe $5 for shipping costs.
Retailers aren't dumb. They know how to work the system just as well as the customers do.
>>>2. The requirement that a restore .iso be one of the offerings on the OEM's driver support page for the models they sell/have sold.
The HP desktop I bought for my brother doesn't even come with a restore disc. How stupid is that? They tell you to "burn your own restore CD" which sounds good in principle, but I've seen burned-CDs lose their dye (fade) and self-erase. This is not a solution.
The other option is to buy the CD for about $20. Lame. When you buy a computer, I don't think it would kill HP to include a 25 cent disc with Win7 on it so you can do annual "restore computer to like new" maintenance.
>>>just give Dell $300 and you'll have a computer that is faster and shinier than your present one
Precisely. The article summary about tax-free repairs making people more likely to fix their machines still ignores the basics of the computer industry - technology moves fast. I have a good reliable industry-grade laptop that I considered upgrading to Windows 7. And then I thought, "Why? For the cost of Win7 plus an extra $100 I can get a Win7 for free on a shiny new laptop with twice the speed, double the processors, and 3-4 times as much memory."
It makes little sense to upgrade or repair computers, unless you're a museum or nostalgist. It makes more sense to sell the old one on Ebay for ~$100 and then apply that cash to getting the current model.