I supported Bush for a lot of good reasons, but the icing on the cake is getting to watch hard-left malcontents like you come totally unhinged.
That's mature. Then again, supporting people who wanted to impeach someone for lying about a blowjob between two consenting adults and then ignoring the actions of the current liar is just par for the course. Actually it's called cognitive dissonance. Because you support someone so strongly, you can't bring yourself to believe the evidence that is right in front of you. Same phenomenon that occurs when someone starts dating a skank who is bad news and all his friends warn him. The natural reaction of the guy in question is to tell all his friends who are warning him to f*ck off and they're wrong. Later when she's drained his bank account, wrecked his car, took off with his TV, and screwed the drug dealer down the block it finally sinks in. But by then it's of course way too late.
The masses are on our side now.
Which masses? The 51% of your apathetic voters who managed to turn out? Oh wait, that's a MANDATE, not a mass. But if you like to talk about masses, don't forget the 90% of the rest of the first world populations who hate your current government. They like him so much the European Union seems to be well on the way to forming into their own superpower to act as a check to your status as the "only" superpower left. And several of the EU members have nukes too. And there's always the forgotten child of the last decade, Russia. Funny how the US forgets Russia so easily these days, when you spent most of the cold war nearly wetting yourselves about them. They're still a potential threat. They still have all their thousands of nukes, an army (who has seen a lot of combat, much of it urban, in the last five years thanks to Chechnya) and a sizeable oil resource.
We only tolerate your noisy bitching as a form of entertainment
Really? I thought you guys tolerated it because that was what your country was founded on and supposed to stand for. You know that old saw "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"? Or is that all in the crapper now, and everyone should start buying brown shirts?
Paid advertising masquerading as a game review perhaps?
So saying it's not so great, and has at least one dealbreaker flaw (for me) is pimping? By that standard, pretty much any review must be whoring for products, so we should stop reading reviews completely and just go back to buying shit based on the packaging and hoping it works out for the best.
That just means that you didn't negotiate a very good price up front.
Ah. Yes I did. I knew exactly the model and the options I wanted and priced them out beforehand online. What I got for a sticker price was commensurate with the lower end of what I'd seen online to within a few hundred dollars. By my estimates, 0% applied against merely the cost of living index over 5 years saves me about $1500 on the car, to say nothing of a non-zero APR loan, so the few hundred dollars difference to me wasn't worth upsetting the apple cart once I'd gotten the deal nailed down. But the biggest leverage I've found is again, if you want a brand new car, buy the car only a few weeks before the dealer is expecting the new models in. They want the previous year's stuff off the lot NOW, and will make more concessions to make it happen. Also, maybe I should point out that this is in Canada. In the course of my online research into pricing, I found considerable information on American dealerships and the tricks they pull. In some cases the dealers in the US seem to be right bastards. I went in armed with all of my information, prepared for all the games, the four-square, etc. and was going to just state the mantra "Here's what I want, here's how much I know I can get it for, you can sell it to me for that, or not". To my moderate surprise, they never bothered with the games. I did a couple of test drives with different options, picked the car I wanted, price came up within a few hundred of what I was thinking anyway, and then I said "hey, what about 0% financing on that". The guy hemmed and hawed for a minute or two and then went with it, and then to sweeten things more when the finance guy ran my credit, it was good enough they didn't even need a down payment. So at that point, I was thinking they want to give me a car today, with a no-interest loan that they'll carry, and I don't have to give them a dime up front. Why not? Sure, I could spend the next few hours trying to grind them for a couple hundred bucks, in light of what's on the table right now, it doesn't seem worth the effort.
Depends on the car company, and when you buy. I got a 0% loan on a 2004 model car when they were trying to offload them because the 2005s were coming in a month. I negotiated the sale price first, then we talked financing. The final price never changed, regardless of if I was to buy it outright, do a large down payment, or nothing up front. So I opted for nothing up front, 0% over 5 years (they wouldn't go for six, dammit!) and that was that. I think they were a little shell shocked by how quickly I nailed everything down finances-wise because they tried to sell me on a stereo upgrade for "only $17 a month". Hmmm. $17 a month x 60 months. $1020 for an "upgrade"... I'm thinking.... no.
That statement implies you find something drastically wrong with Squirrelmail. Care to let us in on it, or shall we just chalk this up to unsubstantiated FUD? I use the Squirrel and find very few issues with it. A couple of people at my company have gone so far as to give up standalone mail clients completely, and just use Squirrelmail, and they have no complaints with it.
Now, given that, it's up to them to decide if 2 pounds of weight is enough of a differance to warrant upgrading your PC. I've personally gone through the whole "fight for all you can on warranty" thing but you can't expect to get 100% of the features in a 100% match
That's just crap. A laptop's weight is a defining feature of the whole model and something that people pay a lot of money for if the laptop weighs less. Some laptop ads trumpet "2 lbs! Less than a half inch thick!" as their primary selling point.
To move your analogy to car insurance, that's like saying that you shouldn't be pissed the insurance company's replacing your 4 year old Acura NSX with a new Ford F-350 supercab, since they cost the same, and hey! You're just getting different features for a comparable value. Come on! They're both vehicles, they both have seats. You even get a back seat with the truck and you can haul stuff. Quit being such a prick about wanting a fast car and deal with it.
Bottom line: He paid more for a laptop that was light. Replacing it with a laptop that is NOT light is not acceptable.
I'd stay away from the Pocket PC world side of things because of battery life in an application like this. Go get an old Palm IIIxe off Ebay for a few bucks and send it loaded with several megs of text and a reader, and a pack of AAAs from Costco. The old IIIs were super thrifty on the battery life becuase they didn't have to drive a power hungry display. I used to read ebooks on them all the time and even with heavy use (like 1-2 hours a day) only had to change batteries every once or twice a month.
Everyone here seems to get it wrong. We went through the same thing over the last few years on the west coast of Canada over closing up lighthouses, replacing them with automatic beacons. A lot of them are starting to be opened again and staffed by humans. Why?
Everyone thinks a lighthouse just sits there and looks bright in the darkness. The ones on the west coast here:
- radio in weather reports from their stations - test the water for pollution and temperature - test salinity of the water at high and low tides - send in visibility reports - assist passing boaters with information via radio. - assist boaters who know where they are already (thanks to those GPSs) but also know they're in trouble.
Last week I saw a thing on TV on the daily schedule of a lighthouse up in northwest BC. Did you know the lighthouse keepers' day starts at 3AM with the first readings and goes until 10 PM? Which is usually why it's either a family or at least 2 people staffing them.
GPS units can help you avoid troubles just fine, but if you're already in a situation, it can't do more than tell you where you are. A lighthouse can coordinate assistance efforts on your behalf, and if you're close enough, may be able to either guide you in, or come get you in their launch.
Yes, but the closest one is a 20 minute drive away. And I caught Athelete's foot there which took a month to get rid of. Shared equipment/facilities lost a lot of their appeal for me after that..
No. They're trying to alienate as many potential allies for SCO/Canopy by showing that they're now willing to clusterbomb subpoena just like SCO is.
On top of that, I'm sure their lawyers are very confident, they're just on a fishing expidition to see what else they can find that may be of use. Being meticulous never hurts.
$1 an episode is stupidly expensive. I watch anywhere from 2-4 hours worth of TV a day with my Myth box, admittely hardly any of it is network (Discovery, TLC, Space, etc). I pay about $40 a month for my programming. If I was paying $1 an hour averaging 3.5 hours a day (to simplify the math, cutting out the issue of 30 minute eps), my TV "habit" would suddenly cost me $105. And that assumes it's in CAD. If I had to pay $1 USD instead, that's like $130. That's a threefold increase. No thanks. Make them.25 per, no commercials, and perhaps we'll talk. But really, I like what I have with the Myth just fine right now.
The key is just a physical switch when all is said and done. A very large screwdriver with vice grips on it twisted hard enough will shear the lock mechanism. The automaker is counting on the RFID chip validation to stop this kind of attack. But now someone can clone the RFID chip and off goes the car.
That's not at all representative. Everything to do with computers was more expensive back in the 80s, hardware and software both. Remeber $3500 80386s?
Nowadays my $250 palm has far more power and storage than that, in part because of competition. When Palm was the only game in town, their Pilots were almost $500 for the 128K version, and $600 for the 512K version of the Pilot 1000. Competition comes in, now we can get a Palm or pocket PC with 64 - 256 MB of RAM, Bluetooth, color screens, wifi and fast processors for under $400 retail. And we only started to get more for less once Palm started having to work at it because of competition.
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1. With fedora core does the bundled software with the motherboard work?
Answer: Nope.
Now you're deliberately misquoting me. The previous question had to do with Antivirus software being bundled with the mobo. Of course it won't work under Fedora Core, but it's not like it's really needed under Fedora Core either.
How much value is gained from knowing that if you want to take up a new hobby you have some quality tools available to you?
Answer: To me, absolutely none. If I am not interested in something, I won't use it. If I am interested in something, I will buy it to use it. If you look at something like this and go "Hm. Video editing. That might be cool. GarageBand. Sound editing. That might be useful to me" then this is possible added value. I looked at it and went "Hm. Don't own a video camera, and have no intention of buying one. I don't have a band, or much musical talent, and no time to bother anyway." Those bundled packages are a pointless waste for me. Would you buy a more expensive PC if the dealer was throwing in a MIG welder on the off chance you might like to learn to weld? And don't go off on how that's not software. There's a larger chance I'll use a MIG welder in the next few years than video editing software.
. The grandparent forgot to mention you'll need to buy and equivalent for xcode
Really? What the hell for? Am I developing software? Do I plan to develop software? Do 97% of people who buy a home computer develop software? NO. And in case you missed the part where I mentioned Fedora Core, I'll clue you in: It's got a huge amount of software development tools in there that I'll never use either.
So because all your appliances are getting smaller they are easier to rip off?
Yes. This should be self explanatory. If it's at a front desk at a company it's small enough to take if the secretary is distracted for a minute. It's smaller than a laptop and easier to conceal, and those go missing from companies all the time. If it's at home and someone busts in to your house, they want to take small, easily portable items. Cash and small electronics. The mini-mac is now in the "small electronics" category. A plasma TV still weighs over 100 pounds and does not fit the "small electronics" category.
The mini has more style.
Style is in the eye of the beholder. How else do you explain the AMC Gremlin ever seeing the light of day?
You get things done more easily in fedora? What type of things?
My job. Systems administraton. Reading and answering mail. Browsing the web. Writing documents and spreadsheets. Shell scripting. Works fine for me.
I like linux but it isn't ready for the desktop.
Funny. I've been using it as a desktop for 4 years. I wish someone would have told me it wasn't ready for the desktop. Oh wait...
OSX IS... you get the power user shortcuts that advanced users delight in. But you can do pretty much everything with the single button mouse most of us have. Can you do that in Fedora?
Do I want to? 80% of what I do doesn't even involve a mouse. And there's that lovely phrase that sets my teeth on edge. "Power user". After almost 20 years of doing this for a living, "power user" to me brings to mind the computer equivelant of a four year old with a chainsaw. Every person I've met who called themselves a "power user" managed in some way to cause untold mayhem and then expected me to bail them out.
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Perhaps you misunderstand. I meant the MAC cost $625 in Canadian dollars. If you can find a store that will actually sell it at today's exchange rate, great, but in my experience you always get screwed on exchange, so I went with the more conservative $625 estimate. Plus tax in BC would be $715 or thereabouts.
The PC, on the other hand I mentioned would be $550 or less INCLUDING tax. Which is according to my math, "considerably less" than $715. And, as I also mentioned, has more hard drive space than the mac, more memory, and a DVD burner. Getting more for less.
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- a copy of Windows [XP] (and you do buy yours legally, don't you;))
Well, I use Fedora Core myself, but if you want to bundle XP OEM in there it's $118 CDN. That'll still be less than the mini-mac.
- if you're going for XP, add a copy of some AV software (though you can get some for free)
Most motherboards bundle some sort of AV software, and the free alternatives are getting better with time.
- a worthy video editing and DVD authoring software (a.k.a. iMovie and iDVD on the Mac)
But I don't edit videos or have any interest in doing so...
- a music editing software (Garage Band on the Mac)
See above comment regarding video editing..
Plus you won't get a $625CDN PC which comes even near the mini in terms of style, size and ease of use.
Size? No, the PC will be bigger. But that can also work against the Mini-mac as well. It's now small enough to be ripped off with the greatest of ease... Style? Dunno about that, my daughter's MicroATX case we got for $40 has stealthed drive bays and a cool glowing sphere on the front that doubles as a hard drive status light. She really likes it. And for ease of use, that's entirely in the eye of the beholder. I find getting things done that I need to do in OSX more bothersome than Fedora, but that's just me.
wow! you can put the mobo in (3 mintues) and the CPU (1 mintue) and the RAM (30 seconds) and expansion cards (2-5 minutes) and HD/Optical Drive (5-7 minutes) *AND INSTALL AN OS AND APPS* (3 hours)
Installing the hardware in 15 minutes is a little tight, but doable.
As for the OS, XP practically installs itself, so start the install and walk away. Come back later, answer a half dozen dialogs, and you're done. Apps are apps no matter what computer you buy. Unless of course Apple is bundling Photoshop and Office these days for $499...
But if speedy installs are important to your boss, indicating it may be something you folks need to do on a regular basis, may I suggest you introduce him/her to Ghost? It lets us re-image a workstation in under 20 minutes from a portable hard drive.
People who say "I can build that for less" are either not bothering to account for their time or just flat-out lying
Really? I can build it for less, and I can do it in an hour. Including the time it takes me to go and get the parts from the computer shop 3 miles from my house. Perhaps your construction abilities are taxed to the point of exhaustion over acquiring parts and assembling them, but don't make that generalization for everyone.
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Or your board is just 5 years old. Most boards these days have:
-Onboard 10/100 Ethernet, sometimes gigabit, sometimes even two ethernet ports -Onboard sound -Onboard USB2.0 and Firewire if you want it -Onboard video if you want.
An example is the low-end Asrock boards. I just picked one up for my daughter's computer upgrade before Christmas for $60 CDN. It has onboard sound, LAN and video. I paired it with a half GB of RAM and an Athlon 2400 CPU, and the total price tag was still under $250 CDN including tax. If I was building a whole system from scratch I could add a an 80 GB drive for under $100 CDN, a DVD burner for $80 CDN and a nice case for $60CDN and still be considerably less than a mini-mac ($625CDN plus taxes). Plus I'd have more memory, a larger hard drive, and a DVD burner. Bottom line: Macs are still more expensive than PCs, and probably always will be.
Why stop there? Who gives a crap about these "taxes" we have to pay? Why should my money go to pay for some road across town that I'll never use? For that matter, screw these "countries" people talk about living in. Ditch it all and let anarchy take over.
Show me where in the constitution it says
The constitution isn't all that big a document firstly, and secondly I thought the idea was it was a framework, not law handed down in stone from the heavens. Although it could be argued that Section 8 Clause 1 would apply to Social Security, under that "general welfare" definition:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States
In case you missed the point of why we have taxes, social programs, law enforcement, etc, it's all part of what we laughingly refer to as "society". We have made a deliberate decision to tax people to pay for things that benefit everyone, because 4000 years of "civilization" have taught us that the average Joe or Jane on the street is a short-sighted selfish bastard who loves the finer things in life like roads, sewers, potable water and other things, but would never actually pay for such an infrastructure to be built if they had to think about it. We as a people have made a determination that social security is a good thing because given the choice a lot of people would just squander their money and have to work for the rest of their lives. We used to have that happen all the time prior to social programs like Social Security, until a few people got a clue and thought that it might not be a good idea to have people working into their 70s becuase they'd starve if they didn't. Programs like this are put in place for the COMMON good, not just one person's good. It's what makes us a compassionate, rational society. However, if you wish to see what a society of "every man for himself", which has a natural tendancy to lead to "might-makes-right", please have a look at the Afghanistan of today. And let me know if you'd like your grandparents to be living there.
At least I have a posting history you can look at to see if I am just a troll or someone worth the time of engaging in a discussion. Something I'd like you to consider.
That is, if this is the same AC that wrote the last message. It's just so hard to tell, ya know.
Yes. Should pedophiles be allowed to work with children? Should a rapist be allowed to work in a women's shelter?
Of course not. But your analogy is very flawed, because that's not what Micheal is doing here. Let me fix it for you:
Should a rapist be allowed to call the cops on another? Should a pedophile be able to blow the whistle on another pedophile cruising the schoolyard?
What do YOU think the answer to those two questions should be?
Now, if this was a story about how Michael was registering another domain for another website he'd offered to "help", then your analogy would hold. And if you are truly not involved with that project, might I suggest you take that chip off your shoulder? Maybe Micheal isn't the nicest guy, who knows? Maybe he had a reason to do what he did, maybe not. All I read in that essay is one person's version of the facts, and as is usually the case, it's all a screed of "We did nothing wrong, he went nuts". Such things are rarely black and white, I am sure there is a lot more to the story than one person's writeup.
Oh, I see. So because someone does something that's wrong, they can never talk about it, or post stories if someone else does the same wrong thing? Cool! I bet every cop whose ever given me a speeding ticket has sped at least once, so I can ignore them from this point on!
So, you're one of the persons Micheal screwed over. What does that have to do with Panix?
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I supported Bush for a lot of good reasons, but the icing on the cake is getting to watch hard-left malcontents like you come totally unhinged.
That's mature. Then again, supporting people who wanted to impeach someone for lying about a blowjob between two consenting adults and then ignoring the actions of the current liar is just par for the course. Actually it's called cognitive dissonance. Because you support someone so strongly, you can't bring yourself to believe the evidence that is right in front of you. Same phenomenon that occurs when someone starts dating a skank who is bad news and all his friends warn him. The natural reaction of the guy in question is to tell all his friends who are warning him to f*ck off and they're wrong. Later when she's drained his bank account, wrecked his car, took off with his TV, and screwed the drug dealer down the block it finally sinks in. But by then it's of course way too late.
The masses are on our side now.
Which masses? The 51% of your apathetic voters who managed to turn out? Oh wait, that's a MANDATE, not a mass. But if you like to talk about masses, don't forget the 90% of the rest of the first world populations who hate your current government. They like him so much the European Union seems to be well on the way to forming into their own superpower to act as a check to your status as the "only" superpower left. And several of the EU members have nukes too. And there's always the forgotten child of the last decade, Russia. Funny how the US forgets Russia so easily these days, when you spent most of the cold war nearly wetting yourselves about them. They're still a potential threat. They still have all their thousands of nukes, an army (who has seen a lot of combat, much of it urban, in the last five years thanks to Chechnya) and a sizeable oil resource.
We only tolerate your noisy bitching as a form of entertainment
Really? I thought you guys tolerated it because that was what your country was founded on and supposed to stand for. You know that old saw "I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"? Or is that all in the crapper now, and everyone should start buying brown shirts?
Paid advertising masquerading as a game review perhaps?
So saying it's not so great, and has at least one dealbreaker flaw (for me) is pimping? By that standard, pretty much any review must be whoring for products, so we should stop reading reviews completely and just go back to buying shit based on the packaging and hoping it works out for the best.
That just means that you didn't negotiate a very good price up front.
Ah. Yes I did. I knew exactly the model and the options I wanted and priced them out beforehand online. What I got for a sticker price was commensurate with the lower end of what I'd seen online to within a few hundred dollars. By my estimates, 0% applied against merely the cost of living index over 5 years saves me about $1500 on the car, to say nothing of a non-zero APR loan, so the few hundred dollars difference to me wasn't worth upsetting the apple cart once I'd gotten the deal nailed down.
But the biggest leverage I've found is again, if you want a brand new car, buy the car only a few weeks before the dealer is expecting the new models in. They want the previous year's stuff off the lot NOW, and will make more concessions to make it happen.
Also, maybe I should point out that this is in Canada. In the course of my online research into pricing, I found considerable information on American dealerships and the tricks they pull. In some cases the dealers in the US seem to be right bastards. I went in armed with all of my information, prepared for all the games, the four-square, etc. and was going to just state the mantra "Here's what I want, here's how much I know I can get it for, you can sell it to me for that, or not". To my moderate surprise, they never bothered with the games. I did a couple of test drives with different options, picked the car I wanted, price came up within a few hundred of what I was thinking anyway, and then I said "hey, what about 0% financing on that". The guy hemmed and hawed for a minute or two and then went with it, and then to sweeten things more when the finance guy ran my credit, it was good enough they didn't even need a down payment. So at that point, I was thinking they want to give me a car today, with a no-interest loan that they'll carry, and I don't have to give them a dime up front. Why not? Sure, I could spend the next few hours trying to grind them for a couple hundred bucks, in light of what's on the table right now, it doesn't seem worth the effort.
Depends on the car company, and when you buy. I got a 0% loan on a 2004 model car when they were trying to offload them because the 2005s were coming in a month. I negotiated the sale price first, then we talked financing. The final price never changed, regardless of if I was to buy it outright, do a large down payment, or nothing up front. So I opted for nothing up front, 0% over 5 years (they wouldn't go for six, dammit!) and that was that.
I think they were a little shell shocked by how quickly I nailed everything down finances-wise because they tried to sell me on a stereo upgrade for "only $17 a month". Hmmm. $17 a month x 60 months. $1020 for an "upgrade"... I'm thinking.... no.
That statement implies you find something drastically wrong with Squirrelmail. Care to let us in on it, or shall we just chalk this up to unsubstantiated FUD?
I use the Squirrel and find very few issues with it. A couple of people at my company have gone so far as to give up standalone mail clients completely, and just use Squirrelmail, and they have no complaints with it.
Now, given that, it's up to them to decide if 2 pounds of weight is enough of a differance to warrant upgrading your PC. I've personally gone through the whole "fight for all you can on warranty" thing but you can't expect to get 100% of the features in a 100% match
That's just crap. A laptop's weight is a defining feature of the whole model and something that people pay a lot of money for if the laptop weighs less. Some laptop ads trumpet "2 lbs! Less than a half inch thick!" as their primary selling point.
To move your analogy to car insurance, that's like saying that you shouldn't be pissed the insurance company's replacing your 4 year old Acura NSX with a new Ford F-350 supercab, since they cost the same, and hey! You're just getting different features for a comparable value. Come on! They're both vehicles, they both have seats. You even get a back seat with the truck and you can haul stuff. Quit being such a prick about wanting a fast car and deal with it.
Bottom line: He paid more for a laptop that was light. Replacing it with a laptop that is NOT light is not acceptable.
I'd stay away from the Pocket PC world side of things because of battery life in an application like this. Go get an old Palm IIIxe off Ebay for a few bucks and send it loaded with several megs of text and a reader, and a pack of AAAs from Costco. The old IIIs were super thrifty on the battery life becuase they didn't have to drive a power hungry display. I used to read ebooks on them all the time and even with heavy use (like 1-2 hours a day) only had to change batteries every once or twice a month.
Everyone here seems to get it wrong. We went through the same thing over the last few years on the west coast of Canada over closing up lighthouses, replacing them with automatic beacons. A lot of them are starting to be opened again and staffed by humans. Why?
Everyone thinks a lighthouse just sits there and looks bright in the darkness. The ones on the west coast here:
- radio in weather reports from their stations
- test the water for pollution and temperature
- test salinity of the water at high and low tides
- send in visibility reports
- assist passing boaters with information via radio.
- assist boaters who know where they are already (thanks to those GPSs) but also know they're in trouble.
Last week I saw a thing on TV on the daily schedule of a lighthouse up in northwest BC. Did you know the lighthouse keepers' day starts at 3AM with the first readings and goes until 10 PM? Which is usually why it's either a family or at least 2 people staffing them.
GPS units can help you avoid troubles just fine, but if you're already in a situation, it can't do more than tell you where you are. A lighthouse can coordinate assistance efforts on your behalf, and if you're close enough, may be able to either guide you in, or come get you in their launch.
Yes, but the closest one is a 20 minute drive away. And I caught Athelete's foot there which took a month to get rid of. Shared equipment/facilities lost a lot of their appeal for me after that..
No, of course not. That would be illegal. Can't be giving courses on illegal things. Just things that are frowned upon.
The next courses will be "Adultery 101" and "How to Abuse your Employees Within the Letter of the Law 203"
No. They're trying to alienate as many potential allies for SCO/Canopy by showing that they're now willing to clusterbomb subpoena just like SCO is.
On top of that, I'm sure their lawyers are very confident, they're just on a fishing expidition to see what else they can find that may be of use. Being meticulous never hurts.
$1 an episode is stupidly expensive. I watch anywhere from 2-4 hours worth of TV a day with my Myth box, admittely hardly any of it is network (Discovery, TLC, Space, etc). I pay about $40 a month for my programming. If I was paying $1 an hour averaging 3.5 hours a day (to simplify the math, cutting out the issue of 30 minute eps), my TV "habit" would suddenly cost me $105. And that assumes it's in CAD. If I had to pay $1 USD instead, that's like $130. That's a threefold increase. No thanks. Make them .25 per, no commercials, and perhaps we'll talk. But really, I like what I have with the Myth just fine right now.
The key is just a physical switch when all is said and done. A very large screwdriver with vice grips on it twisted hard enough will shear the lock mechanism. The automaker is counting on the RFID chip validation to stop this kind of attack. But now someone can clone the RFID chip and off goes the car.
That's not at all representative. Everything to do with computers was more expensive back in the 80s, hardware and software both. Remeber $3500 80386s?
Nowadays my $250 palm has far more power and storage than that, in part because of competition. When Palm was the only game in town, their Pilots were almost $500 for the 128K version, and $600 for the 512K version of the Pilot 1000. Competition comes in, now we can get a Palm or pocket PC with 64 - 256 MB of RAM, Bluetooth, color screens, wifi and fast processors for under $400 retail. And we only started to get more for less once Palm started having to work at it because of competition.
1. With fedora core does the bundled software with the motherboard work?
Answer: Nope.
Now you're deliberately misquoting me. The previous question had to do with Antivirus software being bundled with the mobo. Of course it won't work under Fedora Core, but it's not like it's really needed under Fedora Core either.
How much value is gained from knowing that if you want to take up a new hobby you have some quality tools available to you?
Answer: To me, absolutely none. If I am not interested in something, I won't use it. If I am interested in something, I will buy it to use it.
If you look at something like this and go "Hm. Video editing. That might be cool. GarageBand. Sound editing. That might be useful to me" then this is possible added value. I looked at it and went "Hm. Don't own a video camera, and have no intention of buying one. I don't have a band, or much musical talent, and no time to bother anyway." Those bundled packages are a pointless waste for me. Would you buy a more expensive PC if the dealer was throwing in a MIG welder on the off chance you might like to learn to weld? And don't go off on how that's not software. There's a larger chance I'll use a MIG welder in the next few years than video editing software.
. The grandparent forgot to mention you'll need to buy and equivalent for xcode
Really? What the hell for? Am I developing software? Do I plan to develop software? Do 97% of people who buy a home computer develop software? NO. And in case you missed the part where I mentioned Fedora Core, I'll clue you in: It's got a huge amount of software development tools in there that I'll never use either.
So because all your appliances are getting smaller they are easier to rip off?
Yes. This should be self explanatory. If it's at a front desk at a company it's small enough to take if the secretary is distracted for a minute. It's smaller than a laptop and easier to conceal, and those go missing from companies all the time. If it's at home and someone busts in to your house, they want to take small, easily portable items. Cash and small electronics. The mini-mac is now in the "small electronics" category. A plasma TV still weighs over 100 pounds and does not fit the "small electronics" category.
The mini has more style.
Style is in the eye of the beholder. How else do you explain the AMC Gremlin ever seeing the light of day?
You get things done more easily in fedora? What type of things?
My job. Systems administraton. Reading and answering mail. Browsing the web. Writing documents and spreadsheets. Shell scripting. Works fine for me.
I like linux but it isn't ready for the desktop.
Funny. I've been using it as a desktop for 4 years. I wish someone would have told me it wasn't ready for the desktop. Oh wait...
OSX IS... you get the power user shortcuts that advanced users delight in. But you can do pretty much everything with the single button mouse most of us have. Can you do that in Fedora?
Do I want to? 80% of what I do doesn't even involve a mouse. And there's that lovely phrase that sets my teeth on edge. "Power user". After almost 20 years of doing this for a living, "power user" to me brings to mind the computer equivelant of a four year old with a chainsaw. Every person I've met who called themselves a "power user" managed in some way to cause untold mayhem and then expected me to bail them out.
Perhaps you misunderstand. I meant the MAC cost $625 in Canadian dollars. If you can find a store that will actually sell it at today's exchange rate, great, but in my experience you always get screwed on exchange, so I went with the more conservative $625 estimate. Plus tax in BC would be $715 or thereabouts.
The PC, on the other hand I mentioned would be $550 or less INCLUDING tax. Which is according to my math, "considerably less" than $715. And, as I also mentioned, has more hard drive space than the mac, more memory, and a DVD burner. Getting more for less.
- a copy of Windows [XP] (and you do buy yours legally, don't you ;))
Well, I use Fedora Core myself, but if you want to bundle XP OEM in there it's $118 CDN. That'll still be less than the mini-mac.
- if you're going for XP, add a copy of some AV software (though you can get some for free)
Most motherboards bundle some sort of AV software, and the free alternatives are getting better with time.
- a worthy video editing and DVD authoring software (a.k.a. iMovie and iDVD on the Mac)
But I don't edit videos or have any interest in doing so...
- a music editing software (Garage Band on the Mac)
See above comment regarding video editing..
Plus you won't get a $625CDN PC which comes even near the mini in terms of style, size and ease of use.
Size? No, the PC will be bigger. But that can also work against the Mini-mac as well. It's now small enough to be ripped off with the greatest of ease...
Style? Dunno about that, my daughter's MicroATX case we got for $40 has stealthed drive bays and a cool glowing sphere on the front that doubles as a hard drive status light. She really likes it.
And for ease of use, that's entirely in the eye of the beholder. I find getting things done that I need to do in OSX more bothersome than Fedora, but that's just me.
wow! you can put the mobo in (3 mintues) and the CPU (1 mintue) and the RAM (30 seconds) and expansion cards (2-5 minutes) and HD/Optical Drive (5-7 minutes) *AND INSTALL AN OS AND APPS* (3 hours)
Installing the hardware in 15 minutes is a little tight, but doable.
As for the OS, XP practically installs itself, so start the install and walk away. Come back later, answer a half dozen dialogs, and you're done. Apps are apps no matter what computer you buy. Unless of course Apple is bundling Photoshop and Office these days for $499...
But if speedy installs are important to your boss, indicating it may be something you folks need to do on a regular basis, may I suggest you introduce him/her to Ghost? It lets us re-image a workstation in under 20 minutes from a portable hard drive.
People who say "I can build that for less" are either not bothering to account for their time or just flat-out lying
Really? I can build it for less, and I can do it in an hour. Including the time it takes me to go and get the parts from the computer shop 3 miles from my house. Perhaps your construction abilities are taxed to the point of exhaustion over acquiring parts and assembling them, but don't make that generalization for everyone.
Or your board is just 5 years old. Most boards these days have:
-Onboard 10/100 Ethernet, sometimes gigabit, sometimes even two ethernet ports
-Onboard sound
-Onboard USB2.0 and Firewire if you want it
-Onboard video if you want.
An example is the low-end Asrock boards. I just picked one up for my daughter's computer upgrade before Christmas for $60 CDN. It has onboard sound, LAN and video. I paired it with a half GB of RAM and an Athlon 2400 CPU, and the total price tag was still under $250 CDN including tax. If I was building a whole system from scratch I could add a an 80 GB drive for under $100 CDN, a DVD burner for $80 CDN and a nice case for $60CDN and still be considerably less than a mini-mac ($625CDN plus taxes). Plus I'd have more memory, a larger hard drive, and a DVD burner. Bottom line: Macs are still more expensive than PCs, and probably always will be.
Why stop there? Who gives a crap about these "taxes" we have to pay? Why should my money go to pay for some road across town that I'll never use?
For that matter, screw these "countries" people talk about living in. Ditch it all and let anarchy take over.
Show me where in the constitution it says
The constitution isn't all that big a document firstly, and secondly I thought the idea was it was a framework, not law handed down in stone from the heavens. Although it could be argued that Section 8 Clause 1 would apply to Social Security, under that "general welfare" definition:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States
In case you missed the point of why we have taxes, social programs, law enforcement, etc, it's all part of what we laughingly refer to as "society". We have made a deliberate decision to tax people to pay for things that benefit everyone, because 4000 years of "civilization" have taught us that the average Joe or Jane on the street is a short-sighted selfish bastard who loves the finer things in life like roads, sewers, potable water and other things, but would never actually pay for such an infrastructure to be built if they had to think about it.
We as a people have made a determination that social security is a good thing because given the choice a lot of people would just squander their money and have to work for the rest of their lives. We used to have that happen all the time prior to social programs like Social Security, until a few people got a clue and thought that it might not be a good idea to have people working into their 70s becuase they'd starve if they didn't. Programs like this are put in place for the COMMON good, not just one person's good. It's what makes us a compassionate, rational society.
However, if you wish to see what a society of "every man for himself", which has a natural tendancy to lead to "might-makes-right", please have a look at the Afghanistan of today. And let me know if you'd like your grandparents to be living there.
At least I have a posting history you can look at to see if I am just a troll or someone worth the time of engaging in a discussion. Something I'd like you to consider.
That is, if this is the same AC that wrote the last message. It's just so hard to tell, ya know.
Yeah, well I got in a pissing match with an AC troll. Guess I get what I deserve.
Way to not get it, guy.
Yes. Should pedophiles be allowed to work with children? Should a rapist be allowed to work in a women's shelter?
Of course not. But your analogy is very flawed, because that's not what Micheal is doing here. Let me fix it for you:
Should a rapist be allowed to call the cops on another? Should a pedophile be able to blow the whistle on another pedophile cruising the schoolyard?
What do YOU think the answer to those two questions should be?
Now, if this was a story about how Michael was registering another domain for another website he'd offered to "help", then your analogy would hold.
And if you are truly not involved with that project, might I suggest you take that chip off your shoulder? Maybe Micheal isn't the nicest guy, who knows? Maybe he had a reason to do what he did, maybe not. All I read in that essay is one person's version of the facts, and as is usually the case, it's all a screed of "We did nothing wrong, he went nuts". Such things are rarely black and white, I am sure there is a lot more to the story than one person's writeup.
Oh, I see. So because someone does something that's wrong, they can never talk about it, or post stories if someone else does the same wrong thing? Cool! I bet every cop whose ever given me a speeding ticket has sped at least once, so I can ignore them from this point on!
So, you're one of the persons Micheal screwed over. What does that have to do with Panix?