If you KNOW what you are buying you can save money as an informed consumer.
I stick with Newegg since TD used to have a bad reputation and the Egg has excellent service. No objection to TD anymore, but Newegg has always been good to me.
My first and last store-bought PCs were two eMachine Celeron 400s in 1999. (They lasted about ten years after I passed them on and one still works, amazing for an eMachine!)
The only things I buy with an installed OS are notebooks, and I make recovery media for my collection then wipe 'em to install Linux.
Chinese culture and Western ideals are orthogonal to each other. Those Chinese wishing something different should abandon China, move West, and help the West compete with the culture which rejected them.
Imposing consequences is sometimes costly, but credit where due (and I otherwise don't admire Commies) these folks went at it with professionalism and gusto:
When you go fishing, you don't expect to catch 'em all. So what, and what is this silly article doing on Slashdot?
The more options proffered, the more choice consumers can select from, and the more failed products those who like pottering with such things can exploit.
"No worries, I've got a DOS boot floppy with F-Prot on it right here. Now I just need to find a floppy drive..."
No, just use Winimage to make a.IMA file then use that file to burn a floppy-emulation CD/DVD. Throw some utils in the root directory while you are at it.
This is the shit if you want a very well thought out live CD toolkit containing PE/Linux/DOS:
The REAL progress was tremendous. Chinese have never lived better.
BECAUSE MAOISM WAS ABLE TO BE SUPPLANTED BY THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM, it was superior to religion.
Now it's mostly gone, since COMMUNISM IS A TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGY suited for destroying rotten systems but not replacing them long-term.
Killing a few million people to wipe the social slate clean is minor. China is a big place and life has always been cheap as it was in the West until VERY recently.
That body count is merely an accident of history. Vast societies mean change must scale.
Mao unified China and brought it into the modern world, well worth tens of millions dead. Never discount that accomplishment. When you cannot write history by peaceful methods, a sword is in order. It brought China a better standard of living and more global power than ever in Chinese history. It happened in fifty years, which is a very short time.
BTW, religion didn't get that many targets in one place. Don't pretend the Inquisition wouldn't have done the same thing.
Religion is merely an enemy of the "freedom" you pretend to espouse, and where religion is DOMESTICATED it's less a problem. That doesn't mean the Bible Thumpers of the Tea Party wouldn't produce a theocracy in a heartbeat if they got the chance.
However, the toxic influence of religion throughout history makes any moves against it reasonable. Supersition deserves no respect nor, most importantly, do the superstitious themselves. They choose primitive beast-beliefs. My dog may think I'm God because it knows no better, but humans don't have that excuse.
So what? That they had that many obstacles is an accident of history, but they UNIFIED CHINA. That's a tremendous accomplishment worth vast slaughter nor could it have been done any other way.
If the Inquisition had a shot at that many unbelievers, they'd have killed them for Jesus. Your childish passion is silly. History is written by force.
None of those considerations matter in big boy politics.
Anti-war protestors don't oppose war on principle because opposing war on principle is pretty stupid even for hippies.
Qaddafi pissed of enough people on both sides of the political spectrum that taking him out made sense. Oil is WELL worth war and bloodshed to obtain. There is enough to make the Libyan people prosperous, perhaps help reverse emigration from Libya (good for the EU), and a prosperous Libya can be a useful regional example.
As for Congress approving a little military force, so what? Americans love war, they just hate LOSING them. The moral to that story is "don't lose".
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It also accounts for the robust constitution of Trailerparcus Bubbacus to this day.
You FEED the IT staff?
What unwarranted luxury is this? Ours are powered by floggings. Much more efficient and great for morale.
If you KNOW what you are buying you can save money as an informed consumer.
I stick with Newegg since TD used to have a bad reputation and the Egg has excellent service. No objection to TD anymore, but Newegg has always been good to me.
My first and last store-bought PCs were two eMachine Celeron 400s in 1999. (They lasted about ten years after I passed them on and one still works, amazing for an eMachine!)
The only things I buy with an installed OS are notebooks, and I make recovery media for my collection then wipe 'em to install Linux.
"Googling for Santorum confirms"
The thinner you spread Santorum the weaker it gets.
"99.9% of buildings are concrete."
As they should be. Wood is fine for furniture and camp fires.
Wood is a shitty construction material.
Chinese culture and Western ideals are orthogonal to each other. Those Chinese wishing something different should abandon China, move West, and help the West compete with the culture which rejected them.
Imposing consequences is sometimes costly, but credit where due (and I otherwise don't admire Commies) these folks went at it with professionalism and gusto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
That's why there is no hope for peaceful change.
Joe Stack was a hero.
No loss unless you cling to your company name. For each new product, creating a new shell company is trivial.
All is branding.
Tracking by BUSINESS, CRIMINALS, AND GOVERNMENT (none of those are mutually exclusive) is inevitable.
Instead of avoiding tracking, exploit tracking to produce results you want opponents to see. Savor the game!
Opponents, human nature being what it is, tend to be made complacent by their own systems. Understand and manipulate them thereby.
This is Slashdot. Why is there even a need to point this out?
When you go fishing, you don't expect to catch 'em all. So what, and what is this silly article doing on Slashdot?
The more options proffered, the more choice consumers can select from, and the more failed products those who like pottering with such things can exploit.
No problem.
"Not even a single word for Natalie Portman naked and petrified or hot grits poured down people's pants!"
The first part was from Craig McPherson, but who originated "hot grits"?
If you care about privacy, you use encryption to communicate and you obfuscate tracking no matter who your ISP is.
The internet is not private.
"But don't worry. I am sure Symantec will happily sell you something that will "protect" you from this flood of MBR viruses."
More nuke-and-paves for me. Mmmmm....pocket money.
I should have added "download a boot floppy image" and convert it to a .IMA file. I use Win98SE images but you can Google plenty of choices.
"No worries, I've got a DOS boot floppy with F-Prot on it right here. Now I just need to find a floppy drive..."
No, just use Winimage to make a .IMA file then use that file to burn a floppy-emulation CD/DVD. Throw some utils in the root directory while you are at it.
This is the shit if you want a very well thought out live CD toolkit containing PE/Linux/DOS:
http://falconfour.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/falconfours-ultimate-boot-cdusb-4-5/
The REAL progress was tremendous. Chinese have never lived better.
BECAUSE MAOISM WAS ABLE TO BE SUPPLANTED BY THE LOGIC OF CAPITALISM, it was superior to religion.
Now it's mostly gone, since COMMUNISM IS A TRANSITIONAL IDEOLOGY suited for destroying rotten systems but not replacing them long-term.
Killing a few million people to wipe the social slate clean is minor. China is a big place and life has always been cheap as it was in the West until VERY recently.
Of course. One may be weaned from Communism by logic. Faith in contrast is literally not sane.
The simple folk remain simple, but the first step to getting rid of religion is often transferring loyalty to other institutions.
More modern people don't NEED to worship anything.
That body count is merely an accident of history. Vast societies mean change must scale.
Mao unified China and brought it into the modern world, well worth tens of millions dead. Never discount that accomplishment. When you cannot write history by peaceful methods, a sword is in order. It brought China a better standard of living and more global power than ever in Chinese history. It happened in fifty years, which is a very short time.
BTW, religion didn't get that many targets in one place. Don't pretend the Inquisition wouldn't have done the same thing.
Religion is merely an enemy of the "freedom" you pretend to espouse, and where religion is DOMESTICATED it's less a problem. That doesn't mean the Bible Thumpers of the Tea Party wouldn't produce a theocracy in a heartbeat if they got the chance.
However, the toxic influence of religion throughout history makes any moves against it reasonable. Supersition deserves no respect nor, most importantly, do the superstitious themselves. They choose primitive beast-beliefs. My dog may think I'm God because it knows no better, but humans don't have that excuse.
So what? That they had that many obstacles is an accident of history, but they UNIFIED CHINA. That's a tremendous accomplishment worth vast slaughter nor could it have been done any other way.
If the Inquisition had a shot at that many unbelievers, they'd have killed them for Jesus. Your childish passion is silly. History is written by force.
If you are making contention, YOU can supply support for YOUR position, TYVM.
None of those considerations matter in big boy politics.
Anti-war protestors don't oppose war on principle because opposing war on principle is pretty stupid even for hippies.
Qaddafi pissed of enough people on both sides of the political spectrum that taking him out made sense. Oil is WELL worth war and bloodshed to obtain. There is enough to make the Libyan people prosperous, perhaps help reverse emigration from Libya (good for the EU), and a prosperous Libya can be a useful regional example.
As for Congress approving a little military force, so what? Americans love war, they just hate LOSING them. The moral to that story is "don't lose".
Not great for traverse, but the elevation probably worked so a "Truck/StuG" cross is a lot better than nothing.