" Are we really worried about addiction in someone who's going to be dead in a few weeks?"/Deity cannot savor your delicious suffering if you aren't suffering enough.
Many profitable businesses do very basic CAD work and don't need any new features.
For example, my friends machine shop makes tooling and does repair and machinery upgrade work for local industries. The vast majority of the parts even in the complex tooling they build are not very complex shapes.
They aren't on a maintenance contract nor do they need one. They were delighted after I talked them into larger LCD monitors, but they don't even care about owning a faster PC because they simply don't need one.
They make plenty of money, have quality equipment and tooling, but they don't buy anything which doesn't turn a profit.
"How about the novel concept of CURING and PREVENTING it??"
You know very well that there is no universal cure or preventive for the vast variety of chronic pain.
The rest of your post is mere babble.
If you resent taking pain meds, don't take them! I won't feel a thing, but I wouldn't restrict YOUR options because I have neither the right nor desire to do so.
When you have thousands of dollars in CAD software (for example) on a system which works fine for your needs, you lose time and money changing out your PC. If some of that software doesn't work well with later Windows versions, you lose even more.
The cost of the PC and OS may be trivial, but replacing it may "cost" much more than buying a new machine.
"A carrier lets you park a military city 10 miles off just about anyone's border just about any time you want to. Until something either replaces that function or ends its utility the carrier will persist."
Better, it let's you park an airfield several hundred miles off their border and project airpower using its own tankers.
I've used T-bird for several years with zero problems on Linux and Windows. The Portable version for Windows is excellent because I can back up the program and emails in one shot, and have a readable backup I can effortlessly load elsewhere.
"The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they canâ(TM)t disarm their enemy." â" H L Mencken, âoeAftermathâ (coverage of the Scopes Trial) The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925)
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I don't run Unity nor will I tolerate adverts, but I'll still run Ubuntu as long as it serves MY needs. Let someone else's eyeballs pay the bills.
Funny how so many responses are of the "switch distro" variety instead of "change settings".
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/gnome-classic-in-ubuntu-12-04-its-like-nothing-ever-changed
It's Linux.
You can disable any adverts easily, and run the WM of your choice WITHOUT switching distros.
You aren't stuck with defaults as you are with Windows.
I'll just block the adverts.
The "above" makes PERFECT sense, since it's easy to defeat!
I'm all for online ads. I block them so I don't give a fuck about what I do not see.
Compare WI demographics to other States.
"When you enjoy your newfound wealth remember me!"
"I set aside a million bucks to reward Anoymous Coward, but he couldn't be identified so we gave up and threw it in the party fund.
C'est la vie!"
" Are we really worried about addiction in someone who's going to be dead in a few weeks?" /Deity cannot savor your delicious suffering if you aren't suffering enough.
Many profitable businesses do very basic CAD work and don't need any new features.
For example, my friends machine shop makes tooling and does repair and machinery upgrade work for local industries. The vast majority of the parts even in the complex tooling they build are not very complex shapes.
They aren't on a maintenance contract nor do they need one. They were delighted after I talked them into larger LCD monitors, but they don't even care about owning a faster PC because they simply don't need one.
They make plenty of money, have quality equipment and tooling, but they don't buy anything which doesn't turn a profit.
"And yes you can try with less ships around it being dedicated to your airstripship... like the Argentinians tried in 1982... and failed..."
The Argentine carrier turned tail after the Belegrano was sunk. Not really a "failure", but bad employment of an old, mediocre vessel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Veinticinco_de_Mayo_(V-2)
"Someone that's never experienced chronic severe pain has no fucking idea what it's like."
Many, MANY of the assholes who attack NOW will have chronic pain later in life. They deserve it.
Yes, some people abuse meds. So fucking what? Make the chemicals affordable and MANAGE the problem.
"How about the novel concept of CURING and PREVENTING it??"
You know very well that there is no universal cure or preventive for the vast variety of chronic pain.
The rest of your post is mere babble.
If you resent taking pain meds, don't take them! I won't feel a thing, but I wouldn't restrict YOUR options because I have neither the right nor desire to do so.
When you have thousands of dollars in CAD software (for example) on a system which works fine for your needs, you lose time and money changing out your PC. If some of that software doesn't work well with later Windows versions, you lose even more.
The cost of the PC and OS may be trivial, but replacing it may "cost" much more than buying a new machine.
Plenty of folks drink themselves dead, so what?
Is Chronic, so why not ACCEPT and MANAGE addiction?
"Another 4 years of MAObama and the dollar will equal the peso."
That will be terrific for exports, and usefully punish imports forcing adaptive change.
Good.
Are you also on the Practical Machinist forums?
If you haven't been there, check 'em out.
"A carrier lets you park a military city 10 miles off just about anyone's border just about any time you want to. Until something either replaces that function or ends its utility the carrier will persist."
Better, it let's you park an airfield several hundred miles off their border and project airpower using its own tankers.
"Plumbers, good HVAC techs, and electricians are just as valid and needed of a job as CEO."
NO! Stop that!
My tradesmen/women buddies make decent money and never lack work (not to mention "off the books" gigs). They don't need competition. :-)
Remember kids, the trades suck. Get an MBA instead!
Buy your own compact Capstone turbines and do it with low footprint, simple systems.
(I don't work for them, but lusted to used one in a hybrid AFV project.)
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
Plenty of GI's hate Muslims after personal experience with them.
However, it's unprofessional to voice it, and why voice it when you can act on it instead?
"From what I know of this "prophet" Mohammed,"
That, it appears, isn't much.
What user complaints would those be?
I've used T-bird for several years with zero problems on Linux and Windows. The Portable version for Windows is excellent because I can back up the program and emails in one shot, and have a readable backup I can effortlessly load elsewhere.
"The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.
True enough, even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights. He has a right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities as long as he pleases, provided only he does not try to inflict them upon other men by force. He has a right to argue for them as eloquently as he can, in season and out of season. He has a right to teach them to his children. But certainly he has no right to be protected against the free criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. Did Darrow, in the course of his dreadful bombardment of Bryan, drop a few shells, incidentally, into measurably cleaner camps? Then let the garrisons of those camps look to their defenses. They are free to shoot back. But they canâ(TM)t disarm their enemy."
â" H L Mencken, âoeAftermathâ (coverage of the Scopes Trial) The Baltimore Evening Sun, (September 14, 1925)
"One day soon, your country is going to get its economic arse kicked by poor brown people..."
HA! We have steadily imported legions of our OWN PBP to meet the challenge!
Oh.