I'm at the stage for leisure I like to plug it in and "It just works".
Me too. I've been there for about 5 years now and I know others who have had similar experiences. We were PC junkies from the teen years until about 27ish. Built our own boxes, loaded every OS we could just to see what they were about.
At some point it just ended though. I'm DONE with messing with the computer. I just want to use the damn thing to get work done, do my taxes, Quicken, photos, music, whatever. No more Saturdays spent with the PC guts spread out over the floor!
I agree. Unions have outlived their usefulness in the USA and probably Europe. Protecting workers from unsafe conditions, slave wages, unlawful termination and other things are now roles filled by the government.
When the transition is over in 2007 how long will OSX be updated for PPC? Probably not too long. Steve will be up on stage at WWDC '08 with a pie chart calling the PPC users "laggards".
OSX will be updated on x86 but not PPC or the PPC version will lag behind it and then 3rd party software will say "Requires OSX vWhatever" and Whatever will be the new OSX that isn't available for PPC. Checkmate. Time to upgrade and send Steve some more money. Apple pulls the rug out from under its userbase again!
I was smarter than that. I never once posted anywhere with my real info. I knew this stuff would be archived. Somebody always saves even the most inconsequential info. See, you can't run for president because they'll be dragging up your porn posts. Not me though. I can still run for President. Yeah. Cool.
Goldstein, Mitnick and Woz? All that's missing is Cap'n Crunch. Good grief. Isn't there anyone doing something NOW instead of these fossils talking about what they did back in the 70s and 80s? Wait, I know go get that guy who wrote the first Internet worm! That'll put asses in the seats.
Your groupthink is obviously broken. After all, every problem with an AMD box is the either the fault of the user or a 3rd party hardware maker or a bug in the software or it's a bogus chip or blah blah blah...
I've had two Athlons. Both boxes are flakey especially(!) if you don't use conditioned power. I've had much better luck since I put it on the UPS.
You must be from Europe! Where the bureaucrats in Brussels decide the standards for everything from bananas to pet food.
No thanks bub. I don't want the government to impose standards on something as trivial as instant messaging. I like freedom and competition even if it means the balkanization of (gasp) instant messenger protocols.
And just as you imply the poorer the Muslim countries are a religious fanaticism, I would say the richer Western Countries of Mostly Judo Christian population are equaly Religious fanatics.
Its not about a model of economics, everything in this world is coming back to organized religon, before you know it, like it or dislike it, just look at the middle east, it will be like the Crusades of the Middle ages of a perdominantly Christian Vs. Muslim war.
Nah, the industrialized West is largely secular. For instance Great Britain has regular Sunday worship attendance of less than 10% of the population now. The West it seems is running away from God.
We didn't throw you (Brits) to the wolves in 42 and we're not going to do it to Israel either. They are a democracy surrounded by despotic regimes that won't accept anything other than Israel's destruction. Just like you were surrounded by the Nazis and then again in the Cold War.
If the cost of guaranteeing the security of our allies is terrorism on American soil then so be it. I just pray that we have the guts to pay them back in spades. I'm GLAD that backward, despotic evil regimes and their 'citizens' hate us for our support of Israel. It means we're on the right side. I'd be worried if they had a favorable opinion of us.
We've sacrificed friends in the past like South Vietnam. We've also come to their aid as we did in WWII. I prefer the latter.
I swear... Europe seems to have lost all sense of morality. More and more I get the sense that Europeans just want Israel to go away and pretend it never existed so they can get back to doing business with the likes of Saddam. What is wrong with you people?
I used to feel like we could always count on the Brits, Canada, Australia and New Zealand no matter what. You guys had our backs and we had yours. Not anymore. You know, the chips really were down last year and you guys flinched. Tony Blair did a great job but the hysterical accusations from the Labour MPs and the media about our conduct of the war hurt. I'm all for reasoned debate and dissent but you guys made us out to be worse than the Taliban and AlQueda. You know that if the positions were reversed we would have backed you without one tenth the amount of that venom.
Globalization is the continuation of what seems to be the historically unavoidable forward march of 'western' colonization. Evil or not, elites make decisions behind closed doors about the direction of world cultures for the sake of capital trade.
Did you ever think that maybe people LIKE what they see in western culture and want to adopt parts of it for themselves?
I mean really, what's more likely, some mysterious "elites" meeting to plot the future culture of backwaters like Rwanda or do people in general just like Levi's and Star Wars?
Hahaha.. thanks for the laugh. I love to read the rantings of the comrades at Salon. Warms my heart to know that they are failing at the one thing they seem to despise, capitalism!
Don't worry, the political leadership in this country won't even have the balls to declare war on any nation linked to this attack. It'll be another surgical strike with no ground troops risked. *yawn*
Like I posted before, this attack was bad but not bad enough to inspire the kind of anger needed for the military to be unleashed with maximum ferocity. Guess we'll have to wait for them to murder 100,000 or more in a single blow. Then maybe just maybe we'll get serious about this.
This Op-Ed piece at Yahoo is one of the most frightening things I've come across, the fact that someone like this can get published on such a major site shows that something is wrong with America:
Yeah, I've seen a lot of people denouncing the Ann Coulter piece. That's too bad because what that shows me is that as terrible as this attack was, it's not bad enough to 'get our blood up'. People still think we can somehow find a palatable solution to this situation.
I think they'll have to hit us much harder or at least more frequently before people say 'To hell with this, kill em all!'. That's the kind of ferocity it takes beat fanatics. That's the kind of anger that was present when we incinerated Jap and Kraut civilians. Americans might not have the guts anymore for that kind fighting.
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Me too. I've been there for about 5 years now and I know others who have had similar experiences. We were PC junkies from the teen years until about 27ish. Built our own boxes, loaded every OS we could just to see what they were about.
At some point it just ended though. I'm DONE with messing with the computer. I just want to use the damn thing to get work done, do my taxes, Quicken, photos, music, whatever. No more Saturdays spent with the PC guts spread out over the floor!
I agree. Unions have outlived their usefulness in the USA and probably Europe. Protecting workers from unsafe conditions, slave wages, unlawful termination and other things are now roles filled by the government.
The most sensible thing said on this thread yet.
When the transition is over in 2007 how long will OSX be updated for PPC? Probably not too long. Steve will be up on stage at WWDC '08 with a pie chart calling the PPC users "laggards".
OSX will be updated on x86 but not PPC or the PPC version will lag behind it and then 3rd party software will say "Requires OSX vWhatever" and Whatever will be the new OSX that isn't available for PPC. Checkmate. Time to upgrade and send Steve some more money. Apple pulls the rug out from under its userbase again!
This is a dog bites man story.
I was smarter than that. I never once posted anywhere with my real info. I knew this stuff would be archived. Somebody always saves even the most inconsequential info. See, you can't run for president because they'll be dragging up your porn posts. Not me though. I can still run for President. Yeah. Cool.
Don't think you'll be playing too much chess here. Your dance card will be full when word gets out about your 9/11 comments. Bend over! Hahaha.
Goldstein, Mitnick and Woz? All that's missing is Cap'n Crunch. Good grief. Isn't there anyone doing something NOW instead of these fossils talking about what they did back in the 70s and 80s? Wait, I know go get that guy who wrote the first Internet worm! That'll put asses in the seats.
Haha! Your life crapped out!
Actually, my Intel box had greater tolerance for whatever noise was in the AC. I don't recall it locking up or rebooting like the Athlons. Go figure.
Your groupthink is obviously broken. After all, every problem with an AMD box is the either the fault of the user or a 3rd party hardware maker or a bug in the software or it's a bogus chip or blah blah blah...
I've had two Athlons. Both boxes are flakey especially(!) if you don't use conditioned power. I've had much better luck since I put it on the UPS.
Section 508 clearly defines...
You must be from Europe! Where the bureaucrats in Brussels decide the standards for everything from bananas to pet food.
No thanks bub. I don't want the government to impose standards on something as trivial as instant messaging. I like freedom and competition even if it means the balkanization of (gasp) instant messenger protocols.
Posting the full text of the article is a copyright violation. It should be removed.
And just as you imply the poorer the Muslim countries are a religious fanaticism, I would say the richer Western Countries of Mostly Judo Christian population are equaly Religious fanatics.
Its not about a model of economics, everything in this world is coming back to organized religon, before you know it, like it or dislike it, just look at the middle east, it will be like the Crusades of the Middle ages of a perdominantly Christian Vs. Muslim war.
Nah, the industrialized West is largely secular. For instance Great Britain has regular Sunday worship attendance of less than 10% of the population now. The West it seems is running away from God.
We didn't throw you (Brits) to the wolves in 42 and we're not going to do it to Israel either. They are a democracy surrounded by despotic regimes that won't accept anything other than Israel's destruction. Just like you were surrounded by the Nazis and then again in the Cold War.
If the cost of guaranteeing the security of our allies is terrorism on American soil then so be it. I just pray that we have the guts to pay them back in spades. I'm GLAD that backward, despotic evil regimes and their 'citizens' hate us for our support of Israel. It means we're on the right side. I'd be worried if they had a favorable opinion of us.
We've sacrificed friends in the past like South Vietnam. We've also come to their aid as we did in WWII. I prefer the latter.
I swear... Europe seems to have lost all sense of morality. More and more I get the sense that Europeans just want Israel to go away and pretend it never existed so they can get back to doing business with the likes of Saddam. What is wrong with you people?
I used to feel like we could always count on the Brits, Canada, Australia and New Zealand no matter what. You guys had our backs and we had yours. Not anymore. You know, the chips really were down last year and you guys flinched. Tony Blair did a great job but the hysterical accusations from the Labour MPs and the media about our conduct of the war hurt. I'm all for reasoned debate and dissent but you guys made us out to be worse than the Taliban and AlQueda. You know that if the positions were reversed we would have backed you without one tenth the amount of that venom.
Yeah. Damn those technology companies! If we didn't have all these electronic gizmos we wouldn't be polluting the environment when we throw them away!
There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
How can you possibly reconcile these two positions?
Did you ever think that maybe people LIKE what they see in western culture and want to adopt parts of it for themselves?
I mean really, what's more likely, some mysterious "elites" meeting to plot the future culture of backwaters like Rwanda or do people in general just like Levi's and Star Wars?
Great. What a nice thing to say on Veteran's Day. Asshole.
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Hahaha.. thanks for the laugh. I love to read the rantings of the comrades at Salon. Warms my heart to know that they are failing at the one thing they seem to despise, capitalism!
A depressingly accurate assesment of the situation.
The terrorists will have to do something 100 times worse before the people and the government get serious and really do go to war.
Don't worry, the political leadership in this country won't even have the balls to declare war on any nation linked to this attack. It'll be another surgical strike with no ground troops risked. *yawn*
Like I posted before, this attack was bad but not bad enough to inspire the kind of anger needed for the military to be unleashed with maximum ferocity. Guess we'll have to wait for them to murder 100,000 or more in a single blow. Then maybe just maybe we'll get serious about this.
This Op-Ed piece at Yahoo is one of the most frightening things I've come across, the fact that someone like this can get published on such a major site shows that something is wrong with America:
Yeah, I've seen a lot of people denouncing the Ann Coulter piece. That's too bad because what that shows me is that as terrible as this attack was, it's not bad enough to 'get our blood up'. People still think we can somehow find a palatable solution to this situation.
I think they'll have to hit us much harder or at least more frequently before people say 'To hell with this, kill em all!'. That's the kind of ferocity it takes beat fanatics. That's the kind of anger that was present when we incinerated Jap and Kraut civilians. Americans might not have the guts anymore for that kind fighting.