Not surprising. The parties have reversed what they stand for in the past 30 years. The Republicans today are like the Democrats of the 1960s. Big spending, entitlements, statist mentality.
No, there's a good 34% of the American public sniffing glue.
I mean, you complain about negative news coverage during the election. What'd they count? The dead bodies coming back from Iraq. Well jesus fucking christ in a handbasket. Of course Bush got negative press. He's a fucking moron, and the results prove that.
That he got elected despite being a fucking moron is evidence of the superiority of glue sniffing to negative press coverage.
You make some good points, but they are ruined by the personal attacks and hyperbole.
I really honestly don't give a shit. I am so fucking sick of whiners.
And just so you know, I found my own personal Jesus. If you were to go back through the Iowa State Daily letters to the editor in 1987 you'd find a letter written by myself sounding very much like the whining you just spewed onto this forum. Something about how the biased media doesn't like conservatives or some such.
This is nothing new, the Republicans have been doing it for at least 30 some odd years. It's tiresome. Can't you just give it a rest and realize that sometimes bad policy has negative results? If you just accept that, you can change the policy and try something different and nobody will think the less of you.
It's worked for other great Presidents, like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, two Roosevelts, Reagan and Clinton. You realize the reason why Clinton was beloved by the public was because he wasn't tied to a stupid ideology, I hope.
I'm not trying to shill for Bush, but I see a difference in the way the Clinton and Bush administrations have been portraid by the press and public opinion of the sheeple follows.
Yeah, Bush get's much more favorable press coverage.
It took us a fucking year after Bush approval ratings fell below 50% for the Press to stop referring to him as a popular President. Only now with him around 32% do they refer to him in even the most half-hearted negative fashion, and even then they can't help but shilling for him.
Meanwhile when Clinton was in office, with approval ratings over 60%, the Press continued to refer to him in negative terms.
If you think the Press has been unfavorable to Bush, you're sniffing glue. My god, he's had the Press just lapping up his bullshit for the past 5 years without question.
Americans hate Whiners, and that's all the Republican party has turned into. Whine whine whine, it's not our fault we follow an ideology blindly and don't understand why our policies fail.
Americans don't like losers. They don't like whiners who blame all their problems on someone else.
That's largely why Bush is sucking it at the polls. Even my girlfriend who doesn't pay attention to politics can see this. The day after he came out and blamed Saddam Hussein for not leaving the country in better order before we invaded, she was like "Well I guess he's blamed everybody else for his failure, why not Hussein."
Suck it up, admit your policies are a failure and then move on.
The fact that you think the count is zero proves my point.
There were zero combat fatalities during Operation Allied Force. There were accidents, such as planes crashing and so forth.
But you gotta be kidding me to claim that support for Iraq is failing solely because of press accounts of deaths? I mean the public is completely utterly numb to such news reports.
The reason the public is not so fond of Iraq is it's been THREE YEARS since President empty suit got up there and declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Yet we're still there. We're still under fire. We're dumping billions of dollars a month into the country, and seeing no return on our investment.
Roosevelt won WWII in 4 years, and with a hell of a lot larger causaulty count. What's wrong with Bush? I'll give you a hint: Roosevelt had an end goal objective. Bush doesn't even know where to start. That's the problem.
Honestly, the moonbats who still defend this President don't get a lot of sympathy from me. If you can't see everything that is wrong, then you need to remove your rose colored glasses, stop listening to Fox News and quit reading the Pravda news releases from the Whitehouse.
I and a few of my friends spoof righty arguments out on blogs, and yours is the type of claims we'd make. It's very much like how Stephen Colbert makes fun of you guys.
I'll have to write these arguments down, so that next time I'm spoofing a righty I can use 'em. That's good. That all the bad news is the media's fault, not the Presidents for invading Iraq without any justification.
"Poll numbers are not a reflection of a president's job. Those numbers are a reflection of the press's portrayal of the president and the president's effectiveness at countering that negative portrayal."
Oh come on. You gotta be a spoof. Nobody serious would believe that.
Not really. It's better than my Toshiba 2415, and is no worse than my Compaq nw8240 I have at work. The keyboard is better than my Toshiba, as is the touchpad. Although not quite as good as the Compaq's, it is close.
I did reinstall the OS, because of all the crap they throw on and I must say it wasn't the easiest process to find all the drivers... and they don't include all the nice utilities on their reinstall CD.
The battery management app isn't nearly as good as that which came with my Toshiba, where I could just right click on the taskbar and change my profile on the fly.
I just bought an Inspiron E1505 laptop, and I don't agree about the shoddy product. It's better built than my last Toshiba, and the HP/Compaqs I've had at work.
That being said, what did disturb me was the ordering process. Dell used to pride itself on having good knowledge of it's supply chain and streamlining their delivery.
I ordered on March 23rd. The expected delivery date when I first ordered was April 10. By the time I got the email confirmation it had become April 18th. Dell has a website where you can track the status of your order. It went from prepping to build to testing all in one day.
Then it sat in the 'boxing' stage for 3 days.
The laptop finally arrived on April 5th. Ahead of their initial schedule.
But I found it disturbing that they really had no idea of how long it would take. In reading the notebookforums dell boards, there are others who have ordered different models who are still waiting 2-3 months later, because of a shortage of some part, or an engineering flaw, etc.
I believe part of the reason for the change, is that all assembly(at least for the Inspiron laptops) is done in Malaysia. It took 3 days to box the laptop because they had to fly it back from over there.
Anyway, just interesting. I had not purchased a Dell for myself in 10 years, and while I like it and still feel I got a better deal than the competition. I will have to say the process left much to be desired.
Naw, this requirement will simply encourage people to use bad technology, simply to get out of having to write up paperwork justifying the purchase.
Again, the point was... Ideally what you want are Open Systems. That is, the ability to interoperate, retrieve data, etc. in a useful manner. It's more complicated than just the file store specification.
Sadly, I live in Minnesota, so I get to suffer in the pocketbook from this idea.
- Recording Live TV, giving you ability to pause or rewind - Storing 80 hours of programming on the disk, deleting off old stuff as necessary so you don't have to worry about forgetting to stick a tape in. - Ability to quickly fast forward through commercials and other crap
None of these require a subscription.
Unfortunately Tivo was so desperate for money they crippled their boxes so you have to have the bloody subscription. I figure another year or two the DVR will be everywhere, and Tivo will be dead because they failed to acknowledge the utility of their box without the greed.
I'm a big proponent of Open Systems, and have been for years.
If you look at this solely in terms of word processing, yeah it makes sense.
But consider a database product like say Oracle. Since they don't document the file format, they're in violation of this bill. Yet it's relatively trivial to extract data from an Oracle database and use it elsewhere. And if your app uses ANSI SQL you can move relatively easily between Oracle and other database servers. Hence the historical definition of Open Systems, as opposed to other uses of the word Open.
I understand the intent, but I think this is going to cripple the government's ability to procure technology. From my experience working with the state, further crippling is not something they really need.
Companies are starting to offer DVR technology in other devices now. LG has it in a television and a DVD recorder. There are plenty of Windows Media Center PCs being sold these days, etc.
The problem with Tivo is the subscription service. First, the cost, second the fact that you need a phone line. It's inconvenient, and the subscription fee is a hidden cost for buyers. I even had Tivo with my DirecTV service in my old house, and I had to pay an extra $5.95 for it. That's ridiculous.
They ought to figure out a way to make it work just like a standard VCR easily and foolproof, and then license the technology to anybody and everybody who wants to build it into their existing devices. TV's could have a DVR built in for an extra $100. Why not?
The fact that they haven't realized this yet is evidence that their business acumen isn't very innovative.
To try to claim that this is somehow comparable to a few bad reporters at the NYTimes shows your blind partisanship on this subject.
Look, either step up to the plate and prove CNS news is credible, or not. But whining because some of us point oug they're biased, is pretty stupid. They even admit they're a propaganda outfit on the front page of their website with all the links to the MRC.
It's the responsibility of the reader to consider the source and make appropriate judgements, so complaining about bias is just another way of saying you prefer the biases of other news sources.
Interesting how you are whining about people providing information to the reader that this news source is generally filled with complete bullshit.
Apparently it's ok to be biased, it's just not ok to let people know someone is biased.
Now how on earth did you go from "guarantees every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years" to some sort of big government program?
I've got affordable broadband, so do my parents.
My friend does not. He lives outside of the city and is too far for DSL and has no cable. Sure would like to find a way to get him broadband. Maybe a wireless system of some sort? There were talks of mounting antennas on top of grain elevators, etc. Sounds like a good project to promote.
The government isn't the solution to everything and I think that this is one of the things that the government should say out of.
right now, I'm more concerned with the government staying out of foreign nations my bedroom, and my families private affairs.
Working on a way to improve the infrastructure in America so that everybody has access to affordable broadband. Sounds like a good idea to me.
However, if you track through the links to various articles about Microsoft and the Longhorn 'reboot', you find that.NET was pulled from this OS role due to the lateness of.NET 2.0 and the fact that machines that would run.NET services at a reasonable speed are 6 years (now 3 years) down the road.
Interesting supposed "fact", when you consider in this article, he does some benchmarks and basically comes to the conclusion that managed code is perhaps 2% slower than unmanaged code.
So Richard Grimes bust the myth of you claiming he said something as a fact. Take that!:-)
Ed started out with an academic career in Anthropology. He then realized that digging up old bones had no future, so he got into computers in 1981.
Since then, Ed has been utilizing his anthropology experience in the computer field, by digging up old computing techniques and trying to do things the hard way, just like back when he started in 1981. That's why he advocates for you to compile your own version of every package rather than just accepting the defaults, like we did in the old days. Ed also advocates recompiling because it allows you to pick options, being completely unaware of new modern technologies such as dynamic link libraries(otherwise known as DLLs) which incorporate optional components at runtime instead of needing to be linked in at compile time.
Ed spends an awful lot of time writing books and articles instead of having to get real work done like most of us in the business, which is why he's so concerned with a stupid question like compiling packages from scratch.
In short... this is by far the stupidest article I've read this month on slashdot, and Zonk posts a lot of really dumb articles so that's really hitting the bottom of the barrel.
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Dell's Service Manuals are available from their support website.
Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505 Service Manual
Couldn't they just provide a link to the Apple manuals online?
LowePro makes Notebook/Camera bags...
I just bought one of their Tropolis 1250 backpacks, and they're extremely nice. LowePro has always made good camera bags.
Funny! I used to be a Democrat.
Not surprising. The parties have reversed what they stand for in the past 30 years. The Republicans today are like the Democrats of the 1960s. Big spending, entitlements, statist mentality.
I guess I'm not the only glue sniffer.
No, there's a good 34% of the American public sniffing glue.
I mean, you complain about negative news coverage during the election. What'd they count? The dead bodies coming back from Iraq. Well jesus fucking christ in a handbasket. Of course Bush got negative press. He's a fucking moron, and the results prove that.
That he got elected despite being a fucking moron is evidence of the superiority of glue sniffing to negative press coverage.
You make some good points, but they are ruined by the personal attacks and hyperbole.
I really honestly don't give a shit. I am so fucking sick of whiners.
And just so you know, I found my own personal Jesus. If you were to go back through the Iowa State Daily letters to the editor in 1987 you'd find a letter written by myself sounding very much like the whining you just spewed onto this forum. Something about how the biased media doesn't like conservatives or some such.
This is nothing new, the Republicans have been doing it for at least 30 some odd years. It's tiresome. Can't you just give it a rest and realize that sometimes bad policy has negative results? If you just accept that, you can change the policy and try something different and nobody will think the less of you.
It's worked for other great Presidents, like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, two Roosevelts, Reagan and Clinton. You realize the reason why Clinton was beloved by the public was because he wasn't tied to a stupid ideology, I hope.
I'm not trying to shill for Bush, but I see a difference in the way the Clinton and Bush administrations have been portraid by the press and public opinion of the sheeple follows.
Yeah, Bush get's much more favorable press coverage.
It took us a fucking year after Bush approval ratings fell below 50% for the Press to stop referring to him as a popular President. Only now with him around 32% do they refer to him in even the most half-hearted negative fashion, and even then they can't help but shilling for him.
Meanwhile when Clinton was in office, with approval ratings over 60%, the Press continued to refer to him in negative terms.
If you think the Press has been unfavorable to Bush, you're sniffing glue. My god, he's had the Press just lapping up his bullshit for the past 5 years without question.
Americans hate Whiners, and that's all the Republican party has turned into. Whine whine whine, it's not our fault we follow an ideology blindly and don't understand why our policies fail.
One more thing.
Americans don't like losers. They don't like whiners who blame all their problems on someone else.
That's largely why Bush is sucking it at the polls. Even my girlfriend who doesn't pay attention to politics can see this. The day after he came out and blamed Saddam Hussein for not leaving the country in better order before we invaded, she was like "Well I guess he's blamed everybody else for his failure, why not Hussein."
Suck it up, admit your policies are a failure and then move on.
There were zero combat fatalities during Operation Allied Force. There were accidents, such as planes crashing and so forth.
But you gotta be kidding me to claim that support for Iraq is failing solely because of press accounts of deaths? I mean the public is completely utterly numb to such news reports.
The reason the public is not so fond of Iraq is it's been THREE YEARS since President empty suit got up there and declared MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Yet we're still there. We're still under fire. We're dumping billions of dollars a month into the country, and seeing no return on our investment.
Roosevelt won WWII in 4 years, and with a hell of a lot larger causaulty count. What's wrong with Bush? I'll give you a hint: Roosevelt had an end goal objective. Bush doesn't even know where to start. That's the problem.
Honestly, the moonbats who still defend this President don't get a lot of sympathy from me. If you can't see everything that is wrong, then you need to remove your rose colored glasses, stop listening to Fox News and quit reading the Pravda news releases from the Whitehouse.
No way. You're for real?
I and a few of my friends spoof righty arguments out on blogs, and yours is the type of claims we'd make. It's very much like how Stephen Colbert makes fun of you guys.
I'll have to write these arguments down, so that next time I'm spoofing a righty I can use 'em. That's good. That all the bad news is the media's fault, not the Presidents for invading Iraq without any justification.
It's always someone elses fault, ain't it?
"Poll numbers are not a reflection of a president's job. Those numbers are a reflection of the press's portrayal of the president and the president's effectiveness at countering that negative portrayal."
Oh come on. You gotta be a spoof. Nobody serious would believe that.
This wasn't protest. It was satire.
I gotta give him credit. He stood up there and pointed out failures not just with the administration, but with the Media as a whole.
Well done.
Not really. It's better than my Toshiba 2415, and is no worse than my Compaq nw8240 I have at work. The keyboard is better than my Toshiba, as is the touchpad. Although not quite as good as the Compaq's, it is close.
I did reinstall the OS, because of all the crap they throw on and I must say it wasn't the easiest process to find all the drivers... and they don't include all the nice utilities on their reinstall CD.
The battery management app isn't nearly as good as that which came with my Toshiba, where I could just right click on the taskbar and change my profile on the fly.
I just bought an Inspiron E1505 laptop, and I don't agree about the shoddy product. It's better built than my last Toshiba, and the HP/Compaqs I've had at work.
That being said, what did disturb me was the ordering process. Dell used to pride itself on having good knowledge of it's supply chain and streamlining their delivery.
I ordered on March 23rd. The expected delivery date when I first ordered was April 10. By the time I got the email confirmation it had become April 18th. Dell has a website where you can track the status of your order. It went from prepping to build to testing all in one day.
Then it sat in the 'boxing' stage for 3 days.
The laptop finally arrived on April 5th. Ahead of their initial schedule.
But I found it disturbing that they really had no idea of how long it would take. In reading the notebookforums dell boards, there are others who have ordered different models who are still waiting 2-3 months later, because of a shortage of some part, or an engineering flaw, etc.
I believe part of the reason for the change, is that all assembly(at least for the Inspiron laptops) is done in Malaysia. It took 3 days to box the laptop because they had to fly it back from over there.
Anyway, just interesting. I had not purchased a Dell for myself in 10 years, and while I like it and still feel I got a better deal than the competition. I will have to say the process left much to be desired.
Naw, this requirement will simply encourage people to use bad technology, simply to get out of having to write up paperwork justifying the purchase.
Again, the point was... Ideally what you want are Open Systems. That is, the ability to interoperate, retrieve data, etc. in a useful manner. It's more complicated than just the file store specification.
Sadly, I live in Minnesota, so I get to suffer in the pocketbook from this idea.
What FUD?
The Tivo is worthless without the subscription. You need to learn how these things work.
Features of Tivo which are worthwhile and useful:
- Recording Live TV, giving you ability to pause or rewind
- Storing 80 hours of programming on the disk, deleting off old stuff as necessary so you don't have to worry about forgetting to stick a tape in.
- Ability to quickly fast forward through commercials and other crap
None of these require a subscription.
Unfortunately Tivo was so desperate for money they crippled their boxes so you have to have the bloody subscription. I figure another year or two the DVR will be everywhere, and Tivo will be dead because they failed to acknowledge the utility of their box without the greed.
I'm a big proponent of Open Systems, and have been for years.
If you look at this solely in terms of word processing, yeah it makes sense.
But consider a database product like say Oracle. Since they don't document the file format, they're in violation of this bill. Yet it's relatively trivial to extract data from an Oracle database and use it elsewhere. And if your app uses ANSI SQL you can move relatively easily between Oracle and other database servers. Hence the historical definition of Open Systems, as opposed to other uses of the word Open.
I understand the intent, but I think this is going to cripple the government's ability to procure technology. From my experience working with the state, further crippling is not something they really need.
Good intentions. Bad Bill.
Companies are starting to offer DVR technology in other devices now. LG has it in a television and a DVD recorder. There are plenty of Windows Media Center PCs being sold these days, etc.
The problem with Tivo is the subscription service. First, the cost, second the fact that you need a phone line. It's inconvenient, and the subscription fee is a hidden cost for buyers. I even had Tivo with my DirecTV service in my old house, and I had to pay an extra $5.95 for it. That's ridiculous.
They ought to figure out a way to make it work just like a standard VCR easily and foolproof, and then license the technology to anybody and everybody who wants to build it into their existing devices. TV's could have a DVR built in for an extra $100. Why not?
The fact that they haven't realized this yet is evidence that their business acumen isn't very innovative.
In any case, the Republican Party says the Democrats' real agenda involves the censure and possible impeachment of President George W. Bush.
Apparently the Republican rally cry will be...
Don't vote for the Democrats because they want to be mean to the guy that most of you don't like anyway!
Anyway, it's curious that all the wingers are posting as anonymous, apparently afraid to admit they support a failed ideology in public.
To try to claim that this is somehow comparable to a few bad reporters at the NYTimes shows your blind partisanship on this subject.
Look, either step up to the plate and prove CNS news is credible, or not. But whining because some of us point oug they're biased, is pretty stupid. They even admit they're a propaganda outfit on the front page of their website with all the links to the MRC.
It's the responsibility of the reader to consider the source and make appropriate judgements, so complaining about bias is just another way of saying you prefer the biases of other news sources.
Interesting how you are whining about people providing information to the reader that this news source is generally filled with complete bullshit.
Apparently it's ok to be biased, it's just not ok to let people know someone is biased.
Now how on earth did you go from "guarantees every American will have affordable access to broadband within five years" to some sort of big government program?
I've got affordable broadband, so do my parents.
My friend does not. He lives outside of the city and is too far for DSL and has no cable. Sure would like to find a way to get him broadband. Maybe a wireless system of some sort? There were talks of mounting antennas on top of grain elevators, etc. Sounds like a good project to promote.
The government isn't the solution to everything and I think that this is one of the things that the government should say out of.
right now, I'm more concerned with the government staying out of foreign nations my bedroom, and my families private affairs.
Working on a way to improve the infrastructure in America so that everybody has access to affordable broadband. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Right.
You've taken issue with Pelosi's supposed agenda as published by a rightwing propaganda site.
You've been had, and I think you like it.
However, if you track through the links to various articles about Microsoft and the Longhorn 'reboot', you find that .NET was pulled from this OS role due to the lateness of .NET 2.0 and the fact that machines that would run .NET services at a reasonable speed are 6 years (now 3 years) down the road.
:-)
Interesting supposed "fact", when you consider in this article, he does some benchmarks and basically comes to the conclusion that managed code is perhaps 2% slower than unmanaged code.
So Richard Grimes bust the myth of you claiming he said something as a fact. Take that!
So I was curious about the author...
http://www.edtittel.com/etbio.htm
This is the shorter version...
Ed started out with an academic career in Anthropology. He then realized that digging up old bones had no future, so he got into computers in 1981.
Since then, Ed has been utilizing his anthropology experience in the computer field, by digging up old computing techniques and trying to do things the hard way, just like back when he started in 1981. That's why he advocates for you to compile your own version of every package rather than just accepting the defaults, like we did in the old days. Ed also advocates recompiling because it allows you to pick options, being completely unaware of new modern technologies such as dynamic link libraries(otherwise known as DLLs) which incorporate optional components at runtime instead of needing to be linked in at compile time.
Ed spends an awful lot of time writing books and articles instead of having to get real work done like most of us in the business, which is why he's so concerned with a stupid question like compiling packages from scratch.
In short... this is by far the stupidest article I've read this month on slashdot, and Zonk posts a lot of really dumb articles so that's really hitting the bottom of the barrel.