The sad thing is VD is getting worse. Check the CDC stats, it's getting worse than the late 70's, in many parts of the country.
As for the "vintage" diseases, the vaccines don't seem to last for ever. I only had the smallpox one in the late 50's. I had most of the other diseases as a kid, mumps, measles (both), chickenpox. They hadn't invented the vaccines yet. Should I get vaccinated, at 49, for anything I already had? My kids were vaccinated for everything and several have been repeated.
But we only have GWB for 8 years and Ted has been fucking over every working person in the country for the last 40 years. Before you come back with the current budget woes, remember all the morons that voted for those spending bills. They have more responsibility than anyone else. Especially with the crap they add on to each bill. If the crap were eliminated, the budget would be 30% or more less.
Democraps are the same as Republipricks, they are bought and sold on a regular basis by anyone with enough money. None of them have any morals at all and will do anything that boosts their income, the ability to lie, cheat, and steal is a requirement for political office. Party affiliation is not important, they are all the same within 2 years of election.
Vote against all incumbants. Elect someone who has actually held a real job and done productive work. Someone that knows what it is to struggle to pay a mortgage or just survive at todays wage scale. I make more than my parents did 40 years ago, but it only buys 1/3 of what they could.
Ted Kennedy, the poster boy of what's wrong with Washington: Never has held a real job - has lived on the taxpayers dime for over 40 years. Born rich, never earned a penny of it himself (of course if money laundering laws were retroactive to prohibition he could be broke since Joe made more than half the family fortune as a rum runner). Supposed champion of the poor - the only poor people he has ever known are his underpaid servants.
M$ has never been close to on time with a working product, and I mean from Win 3.0 onwards. What you are calling a "beta" is actually an alpha. The beta is what they sell. Greatest scam in computing, M$ gets everyone to pay them to be a beta tester.
Anyone that buys a version of Windows before service pack 2 is a masochist.
1. They are written in legaleze, not a spoken language. Since no one has a lawyer standing next to them to translate that crap when they install software, if it can't be understood, it's garbage. M$ was challenged on this issue recently and I haven't heard the outcome yet.
2. They are written as glorified liability wavers. No liability waver has EVER stood up in a U. S. court. Every lawyer says to have one but they know it's only value is to intimidate 90%+ of the consumers into not filing a suite.
Private individuals can be shot for trespassing on your property in most states. If M$ alters a setting on my box without my specific permission I will sue them for Billions and invite everyone to join a class action for $50B.
"So I'm really not sure what this pay system is supposed to do except earn AOL an extra dime at no added cost."
That is the whole point, to add cash to AOhell's sagging profits. Why do you think The boardroom is talking about splitting the company and sending AOhell back out on it's own?
As a tech I only remove more problems from Norton infected machines than I do AOL.
The optic muscles can be trained to move other objects. I know three people with one glass eye each and the glass one moves with the real one. They say it takes several years to get it working (one of them had it in 2 and the others closer to 5. Sounds like a more specefic variant of physical therapy to me. They all say it is concentration and repetition. Think of the mini cams available today and get one small enough to fit in a glass eye and be connected to the optic nerve, that would be a breakthrough! In another 10 - 20 years many people who lost sight due to injury might get some or even most of it back. That is a very big deal.
You have the right attitude. I have told people that if the BSA comes around, don't let them in the door without a warrant. They, just like M$ have no legal standing to search any location for any reason. They are just a business, not a law enforcement agency.
At the white box store I work in we will sell it any way you want it. Windows, Linux, no OS, who cares? The CUSTOMER is the one writing the check and therefore, THE ONLY ONE with any say as to what OS is or isn't installed! We of course will not install pirated versions of Windows as that would cause legal problems and interfere with being a M$ OEM reseller and partner (need every break we can get, no matter how puny).
Personally I say the same thing I said when they bundled IE: When Bill pays for the box AND the electricity to run it, then that son of a bitch can have some say about what software is on it!
All you need to go with it is a floor or wall that the sun hits to absorb the heat and then radiate it back into the room later. Tile, brick, or rock on a concrete slab works great. A cousin of mine went a bit overboard with his first house in Taos, NM. It could be 10 degrees (F) outside and over 80 inside. Worked really well combined with the insulation he installed (R 40 in the walls and R 80 in the roof all of it celulose (ie shredded and treated newspaper)). Gas water heater, range and furnace combined for about $35 a month in gas bills during the winter.
I still have questions about the ability of a dog to change it's spots. I don't trust them since they have lied and sued about this before. I will continue to tell my customers that they are evil.
So we have Alienware being fast and unreliable, combined with Dell who's boxes are slow and unreliable (Dell's laptops are pure junk). Someone wake me up from this nightmare, please! No good can come from this union.
At work (white box store) we install Firefox on most computers. We only download it on our own when a new version is released. We do installs from a ripped CD so I can tell you that the download number is several hundred short of the installed number. It's faster than downloading each time. I think the google numbers would be more accurate than downloads.
The stability issue is why I quit doing that. I don't want returning revenue for cleanups, I like it when they come back to buy a new box or get an upgrade, or even a hardware repair, anything different.
That's what I try to teach my customers. I install Firefox on all boxes that don't use AOhell, and try to get those to use a real ISP. I inform them that all pop-ups are evil and if you click on one you will get spyware! I also explain that all toolbars are a wast of resources, and every one (except yawhore, and googoo) are spyware. There may be others that are acceptable but I don't care or have time to check (I'm a tech in a white box store and spend 85% + of my time cleaning crapware off of boxes). I also tell them to avoid all banners with all the flashing or strobe type colors that are just annoying, since most of them lead to crap sites anyway. Yes these are almost draconian measures, but they work.
The cool thing? Most of my customers are learning, I only seem to be getting about 10% coming back for a repeat cleanup, a year ago it was over 30%.
A buddy of mine in Las Vegas is putting 12V lighting into remoded houses, it cuts the electric bill by 35% - 45%. If they add solar panels for electricity and hot water they can cut total utility bills by close to 2/3. He is also looking at some DC blower motors for ventilation and has heard of a DC air conditioning unit that he is trying to get a demo on. This looks promising to me and I might will try some of it next year when I remodel my house. It just makes sense to do anything to cut the obscene utility bills that most of us pay.
I agree with the thought. I'm a tech in a white box store and have removed various incarnations of Norton from 40+ boxes in the last 3 months. Most were infected with one of the Norton virus written last year and just wouldn't work. Norton 2004 and earlier causes problems with SP2, normally you loose internet ability completely. Kill Norton, enable SP2 firewall and everything works again. I take more virus and trojans off boxes with Norton "protection" on them than all the rest put together.
AT home I use Suse 10 for serious work and Win for games, thats about all it's good for.
It's really simple, he lied on his resume and is subject to termination like anyone else. If anyone gets caught with a lie on their resume or a job application they can be fired. It seems to be happening regularly over the last four years to high profile people.
Ad-Aware and Spybot work better than MS Anti-Spyware at removing "real" threats. In fact this is the first thing I've heard of it doing that is worthwhile.
I used it for four months and had no reason to waste hard drive space on it anymore. I spend 80% of my time removing crapware from customers boxes and this is just one more. As for the Norton problems you mentioned, they probably have something to do with the 6+ virus written last year that specificly target Norton. It's a shame when a product that was the best is now written as bad as Windows and leaves plenty of cracks to be exploited.
As a tech in a whitebox store I try to educate my customers:
Do not use IE, we will install Firefox on all machines with a broadband ISP or dialup that isn't AOL. Do not install any toolbars if you have to use IE. (I know that google & yahoo are supposedly safe, so what) All pop ups are evil, do not click on any. All ads for anything to stop spyware, are spyware. We install Ad-Aware and Spybot, update and run at least weekly.
Since starting this we have fewer comebacks for infected machines and much happier customers.
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The sad thing is VD is getting worse. Check the CDC stats, it's getting worse than the late 70's, in many parts of the country.
As for the "vintage" diseases, the vaccines don't seem to last for ever. I only had the smallpox one in the late 50's. I had most of the other diseases as a kid, mumps, measles (both), chickenpox. They hadn't invented the vaccines yet. Should I get vaccinated, at 49, for anything I already had? My kids were vaccinated for everything and several have been repeated.
But we only have GWB for 8 years and Ted has been fucking over every working person in the country for the last 40 years. Before you come back with the current budget woes, remember all the morons that voted for those spending bills. They have more responsibility than anyone else. Especially with the crap they add on to each bill. If the crap were eliminated, the budget would be 30% or more less.
Democraps are the same as Republipricks, they are bought and sold on a regular basis by anyone with enough money. None of them have any morals at all and will do anything that boosts their income, the ability to lie, cheat, and steal is a requirement for political office. Party affiliation is not important, they are all the same within 2 years of election.
Vote against all incumbants. Elect someone who has actually held a real job and done productive work. Someone that knows what it is to struggle to pay a mortgage or just survive at todays wage scale. I make more than my parents did 40 years ago, but it only buys 1/3 of what they could.
Ted Kennedy, the poster boy of what's wrong with Washington: Never has held a real job - has lived on the taxpayers dime for over 40 years. Born rich, never earned a penny of it himself (of course if money laundering laws were retroactive to prohibition he could be broke since Joe made more than half the family fortune as a rum runner). Supposed champion of the poor - the only poor people he has ever known are his underpaid servants.
M$ has never been close to on time with a working product, and I mean from Win 3.0 onwards. What you are calling a "beta" is actually an alpha. The beta is what they sell. Greatest scam in computing, M$ gets everyone to pay them to be a beta tester.
Anyone that buys a version of Windows before service pack 2 is a masochist.
Most EULA's are unenforceable for two reasons:
1. They are written in legaleze, not a spoken language. Since no one has a lawyer standing next to them to translate that crap when they install software, if it can't be understood, it's garbage. M$ was challenged on this issue recently and I haven't heard the outcome yet.
2. They are written as glorified liability wavers. No liability waver has EVER stood up in a U. S. court. Every lawyer says to have one but they know it's only value is to intimidate 90%+ of the consumers into not filing a suite.
If you don't vote against EVERY incumbant, you must like what's happening.
If you make less than $135,000 a year you have NO representation in Washington. Those clowns only represent their own tax bracket.
As for GWB's spending, worry about the one that voted for those spending bills and add a bunch of crap to every one of them.
Nobody can invent anything that U.S. politicians can't find a way to tax. There has never been a nickle that they couldn't find a way to waste.
The most insightful comment ever made in DC was: "If you send it they WILL spend it!" - G.W. Bush in the spring of 2001 rallying support for tax cuts.
Politics is so aptly named, from the latin - poli = many, tics = bloodsucking creatures
Private individuals can be shot for trespassing on your property in most states. If M$ alters a setting on my box without my specific permission I will sue them for Billions and invite everyone to join a class action for $50B.
"So I'm really not sure what this pay system is supposed to do except earn AOL an extra dime at no added cost."
That is the whole point, to add cash to AOhell's sagging profits. Why do you think The boardroom is talking about splitting the company and sending AOhell back out on it's own?
As a tech I only remove more problems from Norton infected machines than I do AOL.
The people I know can remove the eye to clean it so I would say it's not attached. I know it works but I can't explain/ don't know exactly how.
The optic muscles can be trained to move other objects. I know three people with one glass eye each and the glass one moves with the real one. They say it takes several years to get it working (one of them had it in 2 and the others closer to 5. Sounds like a more specefic variant of physical therapy to me. They all say it is concentration and repetition. Think of the mini cams available today and get one small enough to fit in a glass eye and be connected to the optic nerve, that would be a breakthrough! In another 10 - 20 years many people who lost sight due to injury might get some or even most of it back. That is a very big deal.
You have the right attitude. I have told people that if the BSA comes around, don't let them in the door without a warrant. They, just like M$ have no legal standing to search any location for any reason. They are just a business, not a law enforcement agency.
At the white box store I work in we will sell it any way you want it. Windows, Linux, no OS, who cares? The CUSTOMER is the one writing the check and therefore, THE ONLY ONE with any say as to what OS is or isn't installed! We of course will not install pirated versions of Windows as that would cause legal problems and interfere with being a M$ OEM reseller and partner (need every break we can get, no matter how puny).
Personally I say the same thing I said when they bundled IE: When Bill pays for the box AND the electricity to run it, then that son of a bitch can have some say about what software is on it!
All you need to go with it is a floor or wall that the sun hits to absorb the heat and then radiate it back into the room later. Tile, brick, or rock on a concrete slab works great. A cousin of mine went a bit overboard with his first house in Taos, NM. It could be 10 degrees (F) outside and over 80 inside. Worked really well combined with the insulation he installed (R 40 in the walls and R 80 in the roof all of it celulose (ie shredded and treated newspaper)). Gas water heater, range and furnace combined for about $35 a month in gas bills during the winter.
I still have questions about the ability of a dog to change it's spots. I don't trust them since they have lied and sued about this before. I will continue to tell my customers that they are evil.
So we have Alienware being fast and unreliable, combined with Dell who's boxes are slow and unreliable (Dell's laptops are pure junk). Someone wake me up from this nightmare, please! No good can come from this union.
At work (white box store) we install Firefox on most computers. We only download it on our own when a new version is released. We do installs from a ripped CD so I can tell you that the download number is several hundred short of the installed number. It's faster than downloading each time. I think the google numbers would be more accurate than downloads.
The stability issue is why I quit doing that. I don't want returning revenue for cleanups, I like it when they come back to buy a new box or get an upgrade, or even a hardware repair, anything different.
That's what I try to teach my customers. I install Firefox on all boxes that don't use AOhell, and try to get those to use a real ISP. I inform them that all pop-ups are evil and if you click on one you will get spyware! I also explain that all toolbars are a wast of resources, and every one (except yawhore, and googoo) are spyware. There may be others that are acceptable but I don't care or have time to check (I'm a tech in a white box store and spend 85% + of my time cleaning crapware off of boxes). I also tell them to avoid all banners with all the flashing or strobe type colors that are just annoying, since most of them lead to crap sites anyway. Yes these are almost draconian measures, but they work.
The cool thing? Most of my customers are learning, I only seem to be getting about 10% coming back for a repeat cleanup, a year ago it was over 30%.
A buddy of mine in Las Vegas is putting 12V lighting into remoded houses, it cuts the electric bill by 35% - 45%. If they add solar panels for electricity and hot water they can cut total utility bills by close to 2/3. He is also looking at some DC blower motors for ventilation and has heard of a DC air conditioning unit that he is trying to get a demo on. This looks promising to me and I might will try some of it next year when I remodel my house. It just makes sense to do anything to cut the obscene utility bills that most of us pay.
I agree with the thought. I'm a tech in a white box store and have removed various incarnations of Norton from 40+ boxes in the last 3 months. Most were infected with one of the Norton virus written last year and just wouldn't work. Norton 2004 and earlier causes problems with SP2, normally you loose internet ability completely. Kill Norton, enable SP2 firewall and everything works again. I take more virus and trojans off boxes with Norton "protection" on them than all the rest put together.
AT home I use Suse 10 for serious work and Win for games, thats about all it's good for.
He still got canned, and with the press coverage he will never get another high profile job.
It's really simple, he lied on his resume and is subject to termination like anyone else. If anyone gets caught with a lie on their resume or a job application they can be fired. It seems to be happening regularly over the last four years to high profile people.
Ad-Aware and Spybot work better than MS Anti-Spyware at removing "real" threats. In fact this is the first thing I've heard of it doing that is worthwhile.
I used it for four months and had no reason to waste hard drive space on it anymore. I spend 80% of my time removing crapware from customers boxes and this is just one more. As for the Norton problems you mentioned, they probably have something to do with the 6+ virus written last year that specificly target Norton. It's a shame when a product that was the best is now written as bad as Windows and leaves plenty of cracks to be exploited.
As a tech in a whitebox store I try to educate my customers:
Do not use IE, we will install Firefox on all machines with a broadband ISP or dialup that isn't AOL.
Do not install any toolbars if you have to use IE. (I know that google & yahoo are supposedly safe, so what)
All pop ups are evil, do not click on any.
All ads for anything to stop spyware, are spyware. We install Ad-Aware and Spybot, update and run at least weekly.
Since starting this we have fewer comebacks for infected machines and much happier customers.