Your selective reasoning is interesting. Why are you ignoring the fact that half the of the Democrats in office at the time voted FOR the Patriot Act. Party affiliation doesn't matter in the end, they will all do whatever is needed to get re-elected. They all make pretty speaches about what they stand for, but the only thing any of them really stand for is linning their own pockets at our expense.
Don't forget the house. Since they have to run for re-election every two years, there is never a moment when they don't have there hands out for contributions. Heaven for lobbyists.
If this could get to the Supreme Court in a year how many members would have been appointed by Bush? One! Yet everything is his fault. The thought process of the whinning progressives has no logic.
I work as a tech at YourWay Computing in High Point, NC. I made a handout to educate our customers on how to avoid spyware. We install Firefox on all new boxes and most repair jobs. Then we tell them why. We regularly put OpenOffice on new boxes and always suggest it to any customer that asks about an office product. We have sold new machines with RedHat, Mandrake and Suse on them. I have also configured 3 Linux servers this year, of the 4 we have sold to small businesses. It's small but we are getting more questions about Open Source and Linux every month.
For someone in 20 years or so (after Lucas is gone) to get the rights and hire a real director and a real scriptwriter and remake all 6 of them. The movies might actually live up to the original promise.
Lucas had a great idea, but his writing is terrible, and he's the only director I've ever heard of who can get such mediocre performances out of really good actors. I will give him credit for taking special effects to a new level, that is his legacy.
If enforced creatively it means spyware is really an illeagle wiretap, like most of us thought all along. After all it really is electronic monitering of one actions/communications without a court order. If DA's would have done it this way a few years ago no new law would be needed. Of course Congresscritters don't get press when someone enforces an existing law, just when they write a new one, even if it is un-nessesary and un-enforceable(this one, Can-Spam). Got to get some press, election is only 18 months away.
Has any politician ever met a camera or microphone they didn't love?
As a tech in a white box store I will say you are wrong. M$ update should be set to notify that they are available, then you tell it to download and install. Based on past performance and possible nefarious future limitations, only a fool lets Small&Limp do anything their computer without supervision. Of course most users that still open an email claiming to be from M$ are always going to find away for stupidity to triumph. Believe me, I've seen a lot of dumb users, they keep us in business, for the last year it's been 80% cleanup (spy/malware, virus) and 20% fun stuff (system builds, upgrades).
Between Red Carpet and yast I have been very impressed with Novell Linux Desktop. After 15 years of M$ update and 4 years of RHN, I really like Red Carpet/Zen. The only things I have found that need any restart are; new kernal needs a reboot (surprise) and a new video driver will normally require you to restart X. Big deal, I just patched a 2 year old XP box that had never been patched ( white box store tech) 9 reboots later I wanted to compact the box with repeated blows of a 12 pound sledge, and give the owner a dose of rock salt with a 12 Ga.
"You could easily be looking at $1200+ for the set."
Which is a whole lot less that $2500+ for a good plasma or LCD.
The best plasma I've seen is a 42" Panasonic at Circuit City, it has a better picture than any of the $5000+ Sonys. Last time I was in the biggest LCD was a 32" and that was even better, but at about the same price. I wonder how that has changed in the last month?
They just came out in the last 6 months with a viable chip for laptops. The problem is that most laptop makers are also the "major" desktop makers. They are as locked into the Intel "discount" as they are to M$'s. This would be a good place for a startup with ambitions to become the replacement for IBM in laptops. Don't forget that the Centrino is a modded P III, not a P4.
Server sales are climbing in Opteron and Athlon 64 CPU's. The price hit is becoming too steep for the Intel option.
buy any 3.2GHZ P4 from Delland any AMD 2000+ will smoke it. I don't know what Dell does to them but they are painfully slow, and just generally run like crap.
AMD has beaten Intel in desktop sales for the last 3 quarters in a row. More and more buyers are realizing there is no reason to pay 20% - 30% more for the same or worse performance. Someday the so called majors (Dell, HP, Gateway)will catch on. Most white box sores are selling AMD hand over fist and ordering Intel when specifically asked. The one I work in never keeps Intel processors in stock. Less and less call for them.
You don't listen to people who like similar things? You know, friends, family etc...
As for getting in free, I have used that twice in the last year. There have been very few movies I would be willing to spend money on and even fewer that I'd spend the time on.
I hear that it's any good at all from people I trust, I will see it. I have not seen 1&2 because the general consensus is they suck. Movie critics are a joke, I have found the times I agree with them in my life (48) can be counted without removing shoes. If I do see it I will not pay since I have a daughter working at the theater who can get me a pass for any movie, a week after it opens. Lucas gets none of my money.
When Peter Norton ran it, it was the best there was. Unfortunately it has been on a down hill slide since Symantec bought it. I clean more virii off computers that have Norton installed than any other AV product.
What I use in the white box store I work in is Ad-Aware & Spybot for ad/spy/malware and Trend for virus cleanups. I have found that McAfee is also very good at clean up. Fprot seems to be the best at prevention, we have used it on everything in the store for over 3 years and I have had it at home for 2+ years and no virus has ever made it in. I switched at home when Norton let one in. It was the only one ever to get in one of my boxes in 15 years, I was seriously pissed.
Absolutely. Lawyers in Congress write in some legaleze language, not related to English. This is to guarantee themselves and their peers perpetual employment translating that crap. That is as sure a conflict of interest as you can find.
They should be given a high school level dictionary and if one word in any bill is not in it, the bill should be shoved up the authors ass. The law should be written so that anyone can read and understand it.
Lawyers are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Maybe in overall sales. If you look at just the desktop market AMD has out sold them for the last 3 quarters running. Why? The total of white box stores still outsells Dell, HP, Gateway, and they all push for bang for the buck. When you explain to the customer that a P4 costs 20% - 30% more for the same or worse performance, they choose AMD. The only time the white box store I work in has an Intel chip in the store is when we are repairing a "major brand" machine or the rare instance when a customer specificly asks for one. We are now getting more questions from business customers about Opteron servers for near future replacement of existing servers. More people have noticed the trend than you may think.
No, Intel is not going to go away any time soon. Neither are they going to continue past growth unless the come out with a better product. They will continue to loose marketshare untill things get close to even. Then just maybe Dell will offer an AMD desktop. But not untill Intels discount won't cover lost sales.
"but you really can't compare the current situation to home taping."
Yes you can, because they were whinning about people taping off of radio, instead of buying albums. They never considered the quality difference.
We just had a set of $350 Logitech speakers here(white box store) we played an mp3 song and then the same one from a store bought CD, you could hear the difference, so the same quality issue still exists. The only other time I could tell the difference was at a friends house on his Bose 901's, with a MacIntosh tube amp pushing the sound..
Just remind the Congresscritters that the RIAA has said some of the exact same things before. I have heard some quotes by the RIAA taken word for word from their testimony before Congress on another technology that was going to starve all artists and kill the industry. They were talking about cassette tape recorders in the early seventies!
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Your selective reasoning is interesting. Why are you ignoring the fact that half the of the Democrats in office at the time voted FOR the Patriot Act. Party affiliation doesn't matter in the end, they will all do whatever is needed to get re-elected. They all make pretty speaches about what they stand for, but the only thing any of them really stand for is linning their own pockets at our expense.
Don't forget the house. Since they have to run for re-election every two years, there is never a moment when they don't have there hands out for contributions. Heaven for lobbyists.
If this could get to the Supreme Court in a year how many members would have been appointed by Bush? One! Yet everything is his fault. The thought process of the whinning progressives has no logic.
I work as a tech at YourWay Computing in High Point, NC. I made a handout to educate our customers on how to avoid spyware. We install Firefox on all new boxes and most repair jobs. Then we tell them why. We regularly put OpenOffice on new boxes and always suggest it to any customer that asks about an office product. We have sold new machines with RedHat, Mandrake and Suse on them. I have also configured 3 Linux servers this year, of the 4 we have sold to small businesses. It's small but we are getting more questions about Open Source and Linux every month.
For someone in 20 years or so (after Lucas is gone) to get the rights and hire a real director and a real scriptwriter and remake all 6 of them. The movies might actually live up to the original promise.
Lucas had a great idea, but his writing is terrible, and he's the only director I've ever heard of who can get such mediocre performances out of really good actors. I will give him credit for taking special effects to a new level, that is his legacy.
If enforced creatively it means spyware is really an illeagle wiretap, like most of us thought all along. After all it really is electronic monitering of one actions/communications without a court order. If DA's would have done it this way a few years ago no new law would be needed. Of course Congresscritters don't get press when someone enforces an existing law, just when they write a new one, even if it is un-nessesary and un-enforceable(this one, Can-Spam). Got to get some press, election is only 18 months away.
Has any politician ever met a camera or microphone they didn't love?
As a tech in a white box store I will say you are wrong. M$ update should be set to notify that they are available, then you tell it to download and install. Based on past performance and possible nefarious future limitations, only a fool lets Small&Limp do anything their computer without supervision. Of course most users that still open an email claiming to be from M$ are always going to find away for stupidity to triumph. Believe me, I've seen a lot of dumb users, they keep us in business, for the last year it's been 80% cleanup (spy/malware, virus) and 20% fun stuff (system builds, upgrades).
Between Red Carpet and yast I have been very impressed with Novell Linux Desktop. After 15 years of M$ update and 4 years of RHN, I really like Red Carpet/Zen. The only things I have found that need any restart are; new kernal needs a reboot (surprise) and a new video driver will normally require you to restart X. Big deal, I just patched a 2 year old XP box that had never been patched ( white box store tech) 9 reboots later I wanted to compact the box with repeated blows of a 12 pound sledge, and give the owner a dose of rock salt with a 12 Ga.
You only missed one thing: It will render all other AV programs that actually work, inoperative.
"it will be cancerously embedded in the OS"
Which means it can't be turned off or deleted. Kind of like IE was for awhile.
It's all about saving money. It costs much less to bribe the FCC than to bribe all those Congresscritters, on a regular basis.
Besides, wasn't it spelled "boogaloo"?
"You could easily be looking at $1200+ for the set."
Which is a whole lot less that $2500+ for a good plasma or LCD.
The best plasma I've seen is a 42" Panasonic at Circuit City, it has a better picture than any of the $5000+ Sonys. Last time I was in the biggest LCD was a 32" and that was even better, but at about the same price. I wonder how that has changed in the last month?
They just came out in the last 6 months with a viable chip for laptops. The problem is that most laptop makers are also the "major" desktop makers. They are as locked into the Intel "discount" as they are to M$'s. This would be a good place for a startup with ambitions to become the replacement for IBM in laptops. Don't forget that the Centrino is a modded P III, not a P4.
Server sales are climbing in Opteron and Athlon 64 CPU's. The price hit is becoming too steep for the Intel option.
buy any 3.2GHZ P4 from Delland any AMD 2000+ will smoke it. I don't know what Dell does to them but they are painfully slow, and just generally run like crap.
AMD has beaten Intel in desktop sales for the last 3 quarters in a row. More and more buyers are realizing there is no reason to pay 20% - 30% more for the same or worse performance. Someday the so called majors (Dell, HP, Gateway)will catch on. Most white box sores are selling AMD hand over fist and ordering Intel when specifically asked. The one I work in never keeps Intel processors in stock. Less and less call for them.
You don't listen to people who like similar things? You know, friends, family etc...
As for getting in free, I have used that twice in the last year. There have been very few movies I would be willing to spend money on and even fewer that I'd spend the time on.
Just be unfortunate enough to stand downwind.
I hear that it's any good at all from people I trust, I will see it. I have not seen 1&2 because the general consensus is they suck. Movie critics are a joke, I have found the times I agree with them in my life (48) can be counted without removing shoes. If I do see it I will not pay since I have a daughter working at the theater who can get me a pass for any movie, a week after it opens. Lucas gets none of my money.
When Peter Norton ran it, it was the best there was. Unfortunately it has been on a down hill slide since Symantec bought it. I clean more virii off computers that have Norton installed than any other AV product.
What I use in the white box store I work in is Ad-Aware & Spybot for ad/spy/malware and Trend for virus cleanups. I have found that McAfee is also very good at clean up. Fprot seems to be the best at prevention, we have used it on everything in the store for over 3 years and I have had it at home for 2+ years and no virus has ever made it in. I switched at home when Norton let one in. It was the only one ever to get in one of my boxes in 15 years, I was seriously pissed.
Absolutely. Lawyers in Congress write in some legaleze language, not related to English. This is to guarantee themselves and their peers perpetual employment translating that crap. That is as sure a conflict of interest as you can find.
They should be given a high school level dictionary and if one word in any bill is not in it, the bill should be shoved up the authors ass. The law should be written so that anyone can read and understand it.
Lawyers are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
Maybe in overall sales. If you look at just the desktop market AMD has out sold them for the last 3 quarters running. Why? The total of white box stores still outsells Dell, HP, Gateway, and they all push for bang for the buck. When you explain to the customer that a P4 costs 20% - 30% more for the same or worse performance, they choose AMD. The only time the white box store I work in has an Intel chip in the store is when we are repairing a "major brand" machine or the rare instance when a customer specificly asks for one. We are now getting more questions from business customers about Opteron servers for near future replacement of existing servers. More people have noticed the trend than you may think.
No, Intel is not going to go away any time soon. Neither are they going to continue past growth unless the come out with a better product. They will continue to loose marketshare untill things get close to even. Then just maybe Dell will offer an AMD desktop. But not untill Intels discount won't cover lost sales.
"but you really can't compare the current situation to home taping."
Yes you can, because they were whinning about people taping off of radio, instead of buying albums. They never considered the quality difference.
We just had a set of $350 Logitech speakers here(white box store) we played an mp3 song and then the same one from a store bought CD, you could hear the difference, so the same quality issue still exists. The only other time I could tell the difference was at a friends house on his Bose 901's, with a MacIntosh tube amp pushing the sound..
Just remind the Congresscritters that the RIAA has said some of the exact same things before. I have heard some quotes by the RIAA taken word for word from their testimony before Congress on another technology that was going to starve all artists and kill the industry. They were talking about cassette tape recorders in the early seventies!
Really hurt them, huh!
Same crap, different century.
The Russians tried this many times. Do we really want to try something like that? Look at their safety record, Or all the subs on the bottom.
Yes I was a cold war Sub sailor.
is really about price fixing. The software pricing model is broken and the GPL is attempting to fix it.
The Timothy fan-boy with mod points just proved mine!
Timothy is back, only mindless crap or anti-Bush posts allowed.