Packard Bell has been losing money ever since NEC bought them, years ago. They've never been a profitable division of NEC.
I'm not sure how worried I should be. I work for NEC now, as part of an acquisition by them earlier this year. Our division's management is giving us the "don't worry" speach, and we have nothing to do with Packard Bell, but still...
Although I will say that I really like my NEC Versa notebook, which I believe is manufactured by Packard Bell. Works very well.
I remember the same things being said about the Pentium... who needs a processor that fast when there weren't even any 32-bit applications?
If you build it, they will use it.
In reality I bet a lot of us have Celerons or PII, possibly PIII processors. You non-Intel users don't feel left out, you know what I mean, right? Anyway, I don't really *need* a Celeron, but it sure runs a lot nicer than my P200, ya know?
In short, in order for progress to be made, you have to progress.
I have to agree, this doesn't seem like flamebait to me. Probably the moderator didn't read the guidelines. In any case, if we all meta-moderate hopefully we'll catch all the bad moderators and not have this problem very often.
Press releases are normal for people who were significant in their fields. Almost all politicians, for example, have press releases issued when they die, regardless of whether you've heard of them before or not. Likewise with actors, musicians, etc. It is not uncommon for a press release when, say, someone who won a Nobel dies.
If, say, your father had died, would you let some hack reporter write his obituary if you could do it yourself?
1. It launches a hell of a lot faster. I don't really notice the differences in rendering time, just the difference in the time it takes to launch. Don't flame me, I am talking only of my particular system, YMMV.;-)
2. It has more robust support for frames.
3. It has more complete and more robust support for Cascading Style Sheets.
4. Overall MSIE5 handles mangled or poor HTML a lot better than Netscape. Some would say this is a problem with the people writing HTML, and I would agree. Not being able to fix their mark-up, however, I prefer to use a browser that won't actually crash when it encounters bad code.
I know there are HTML purists out there who intensely dislike frames and/or CSS. I agree that they can be annoying if improperly used. However, if used correctly they can really make a page look nice and add to the overall experience of visiting that web site.
BTW, I am in no way an HTML professional. I'll take care of the infrastructure and leave the applications to those who are good at it, thank you.
At least according to McAfee and Microsoft, right?
After all, it looks like this does exactly what Back Orifice does, so therefore should be labeled a virus. Unless there is some sort of double-standard here.
That's what I love about this country... as soon as you get ahead all sorts of people feel justified in telling you how to spend your money. "You are richer than I, therefore you must spend frivelously for my benefit. You owe it to me since I don't have as much money."
The NEC Versa LX notebook I just got performs a Windows shutdown when the power switch is cycled. If the power switch is held down for three seconds it does a normal power off without the shutdown. Kind neat.
Uh, I hope you mean the National Rifle Association (NRA) rather than the Irish Republican Army (IRA).;)
Speaking of which, where the hell does the IRA get all those guns and bombs and stuff. Isn't that all illegal in the UK? And what about the shooter at that Scotland schoolyard a couple years ago? My god, he used a gun. Now where the hell did he get a gun? How could that be? They're illegal!!!.
After all, people at football games throw darts and hurt other people, so they should be illegal. The people who throw the darts are not responsible for their actions, since darts are easily obtained and perfectly legal everywhere.
The guns the students used were illegally obtained. Your argument is so "complex" no one else gets it. I'm not sure I understand how making those guns illegal again would solve anything. Any law can be circumvented if the perpetrator is willing to pay the consequences.
Examine or so-called war on drugs. These are some of the strictest laws around, but somehow they just aren't making people stop taking or selling drugs. Hmm. And why do you suppose that is? Is it because the laws of supply and demand have precedence over the laws of crime and punishment, at least in the minds of the general populace?
Here's my point: you can make any law you like, but unless the vast, overwhellming majority supports that law, it will be unsuccessful, largely unenforcable, and eventually it will be ignored. The people will have what the people want, regardless of any efforts, benign or otherwise, to stop it.
I'm not saying we should just roll over and give up. But use your head. If the shooters at Columbine would have not used guns and instead spent their time making sure all their bombs went off, the loss of life would have been much greater. Would we then be talking more about making the Internet illegal, or making propane illegal, or having to be 21 to purchase roofing nails? No, probably we wouldn't, because those ideas sound ridiculous. We'd be focusing on the reasons behind the violence, rather than the violence itself. Violence is not a cause, it is an effect.
Am I being to subtle, or are you understanding my argument? If you don't agree with everything I'm saying it must be because of the incredible complexity of my argument and your difficulty in comprehending my vastly superior intellect.
Getting back to the point, there are something like 50 million copies of the Doom and Quake games out there, and two shooters.
What the media and parents seem to ignore is that out of the 50,000,000 who play these violent, bloody games two of them went crazy. That's what,.00000004%?
The theory goes, sue everyone who could possibly be remotely involved. Chances are good that someone will have money, and maybe you'll be able to get some of it. Attempting to profit off the deaths of five children is pathetic at best. I'm sad not only for everyone involved, but also for the attorneys. I'd hate to think what I would feel like if I ever sank low enough to do what they are doing now.
Anyone have the e-mail addresses for the people in charge of the NRA? Something tells me they would like to volunteer.
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id released patch after patch for Quake II until they squashed every bug they could find, to the point where the user community actually started complaining there were too many free fixes and enhancements. Something tells me we'll be less inclined to take that for granted now. I am becoming less tolerant of MS system/application practices every day. As soon as Q3 is out I'll likely get rid of 95 completely.
If Al gets his way you will not have the ability to post as an Anonymous Coward any more. The government has an enourmous impact on your personal freedom as it relates to electronic media, specifically in your right to privacy.
If you think everyone besides yourself is a "gullible idiot", examine your perspective.
The secondary crime section is just a bone to throw law enforcement types so the clueless wonder-boys in Congress will pass the bill (and about effing time).
I fail to understand why using encrypted e-mail to commit a crime should carry a higher penalty than using an encrypted cellular phone to commit the same crime.
You don't seriously believe that their goverment salary is more than just a tiny drop in the bucket of graft our politicians collect from the lobbyists, do you?
Politics is one of the most lucrative jobs around.
According to CLQ, who tracks every public Quake II server on the Internet (of which there are 11,007), there are currently 927,962 other psychopaths besides me fragging on the Internet with Q2. Granted, some are probably the same person with two or three names, but that would still add up to a hell of a lot more than 50,000. -=> Clan KOI=-
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My guess? The Los Angeles Times (LATimes).
FWIW I get scanned on 1080 (SOCKS) all the time from dial-up accounts. I run portsentry so it automatically blocks them with ipchains.
Veronica.org was a fun one. ;-)
I'm not sure how worried I should be. I work for NEC now, as part of an acquisition by them earlier this year. Our division's management is giving us the "don't worry" speach, and we have nothing to do with Packard Bell, but still...
Although I will say that I really like my NEC Versa notebook, which I believe is manufactured by Packard Bell. Works very well.
If you build it, they will use it.
In reality I bet a lot of us have Celerons or PII, possibly PIII processors. You non-Intel users don't feel left out, you know what I mean, right? Anyway, I don't really *need* a Celeron, but it sure runs a lot nicer than my P200, ya know?
In short, in order for progress to be made, you have to progress.
Oh man, I just can't wait until someone tries to immerse this thing in a tub of canola oil or something equally silly to see how fast it will go.
I have to agree, this doesn't seem like flamebait to me. Probably the moderator didn't read the guidelines. In any case, if we all meta-moderate hopefully we'll catch all the bad moderators and not have this problem very often.
If, say, your father had died, would you let some hack reporter write his obituary if you could do it yourself?
1. It launches a hell of a lot faster. I don't really notice the differences in rendering time, just the difference in the time it takes to launch. Don't flame me, I am talking only of my particular system, YMMV. ;-)
2. It has more robust support for frames.
3. It has more complete and more robust support for Cascading Style Sheets.
4. Overall MSIE5 handles mangled or poor HTML a lot better than Netscape. Some would say this is a problem with the people writing HTML, and I would agree. Not being able to fix their mark-up, however, I prefer to use a browser that won't actually crash when it encounters bad code.
I know there are HTML purists out there who intensely dislike frames and/or CSS. I agree that they can be annoying if improperly used. However, if used correctly they can really make a page look nice and add to the overall experience of visiting that web site.
BTW, I am in no way an HTML professional. I'll take care of the infrastructure and leave the applications to those who are good at it, thank you.
After all, it looks like this does exactly what Back Orifice does, so therefore should be labeled a virus. Unless there is some sort of double-standard here.
That's what I love about this country... as soon as you get ahead all sorts of people feel justified in telling you how to spend your money. "You are richer than I, therefore you must spend frivelously for my benefit. You owe it to me since I don't have as much money."
The NEC Versa LX notebook I just got performs a Windows shutdown when the power switch is cycled. If the power switch is held down for three seconds it does a normal power off without the shutdown. Kind neat.
Speaking of which, where the hell does the IRA get all those guns and bombs and stuff. Isn't that all illegal in the UK? And what about the shooter at that Scotland schoolyard a couple years ago? My god, he used a gun. Now where the hell did he get a gun? How could that be? They're illegal!!!.
People in glass houses...
Right?
Examine or so-called war on drugs. These are some of the strictest laws around, but somehow they just aren't making people stop taking or selling drugs. Hmm. And why do you suppose that is? Is it because the laws of supply and demand have precedence over the laws of crime and punishment, at least in the minds of the general populace?
Here's my point: you can make any law you like, but unless the vast, overwhellming majority supports that law, it will be unsuccessful, largely unenforcable, and eventually it will be ignored. The people will have what the people want, regardless of any efforts, benign or otherwise, to stop it.
I'm not saying we should just roll over and give up. But use your head. If the shooters at Columbine would have not used guns and instead spent their time making sure all their bombs went off, the loss of life would have been much greater. Would we then be talking more about making the Internet illegal, or making propane illegal, or having to be 21 to purchase roofing nails? No, probably we wouldn't, because those ideas sound ridiculous. We'd be focusing on the reasons behind the violence, rather than the violence itself. Violence is not a cause, it is an effect.
Am I being to subtle, or are you understanding my argument? If you don't agree with everything I'm saying it must be because of the incredible complexity of my argument and your difficulty in comprehending my vastly superior intellect.
Getting back to the point, there are something like 50 million copies of the Doom and Quake games out there, and two shooters.
What the media and parents seem to ignore is that out of the 50,000,000 who play these violent, bloody games two of them went crazy. That's what, .00000004%?
The theory goes, sue everyone who could possibly be remotely involved. Chances are good that someone will have money, and maybe you'll be able to get some of it. Attempting to profit off the deaths of five children is pathetic at best. I'm sad not only for everyone involved, but also for the attorneys. I'd hate to think what I would feel like if I ever sank low enough to do what they are doing now.
Give the guy a break, it's obvious what he meant.
Anyone have the e-mail addresses for the people in charge of the NRA? Something tells me they would like to volunteer.
id released patch after patch for Quake II until they squashed every bug they could find, to the point where the user community actually started complaining there were too many free fixes and enhancements. Something tells me we'll be less inclined to take that for granted now. I am becoming less tolerant of MS system/application practices every day. As soon as Q3 is out I'll likely get rid of 95 completely.
If Al gets his way you will not have the ability to post as an Anonymous Coward any more. The government has an enourmous impact on your personal freedom as it relates to electronic media, specifically in your right to privacy.
If you think everyone besides yourself is a "gullible idiot", examine your perspective.
The secondary crime section is just a bone to throw law enforcement types so the clueless wonder-boys in Congress will pass the bill (and about effing time).
I fail to understand why using encrypted e-mail to commit a crime should carry a higher penalty than using an encrypted cellular phone to commit the same crime.
You don't seriously believe that their goverment salary is more than just a tiny drop in the bucket of graft our politicians collect from the lobbyists, do you?
Politics is one of the most lucrative jobs around.
According to CLQ, who tracks every public Quake II server on the Internet (of which there are 11,007), there are currently 927,962 other psychopaths besides me fragging on the Internet with Q2. Granted, some are probably the same person with two or three names, but that would still add up to a hell of a lot more than 50,000. -=> Clan KOI=-