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I can tell you that thousands of people at least find my site daily! And let me tell ya', if you can get your porn site in good with Google, well, let's just say that money won't ever be a problem again.
This is much, much better. You don't have to give away your e-mail address, and you can be rest assured that they'll be getting email forever. Just make one post with their email address anywhere on Usenet. They'll be on spam lists for years, possibly even getting their own spam. Just one little post will set it off. A few spammers will pick it up, use it, sell it, re-sell it, etc.
Use that computer you claim to know so much about and buy Quicken or something. It will really save you dearly in the end, and perhaps save your family.
Dammit, when are you going to learn? You've got to wait for GNUicken of XQuicken or Open K Quicken to be done first. In the mean time, any idea where I can get one of those full-size replicas?
I didn't understand this: I'd be happy to switch from a crappy, slow, unstable system with dependencies that never work out, and programs that continually conflict with each other, where I could play my games,
I thought the whole point was that it's hard as hell to get what few games there are to work on Linux? Are you able to play a lot of games on Linux?
So what if every kid isn't a techie? There's more to life than tech. The geeky kids will continue to delve into computers. Now, those who don't want to won't have to. By the looks of your post, you probably should spend a bit more times with books and less with a computer, yourself. I can tell from your post that you can just barely read & write correctly.
Linux is not "free" in the sense of "having no cost". You pay for Linux by contributing. If you don't contribute, please stay off the platform. And if you can't even make the minimal effort to determine for yourself whether Linux is good for you or not, it looks like you aren't planning on contributing anything down the road.
Contribution has nothing to do with using ANY OSS. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. That's the gamble that developers of OSS take... they can work and work and work for free, and never get any help, any remuneration, etc. If you don't like it, then don't program for free and then hand it out to the public. Screw contributing. There's not much in life for free, so if someone's dumb enough to actually give me something for free, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Personally, I get a kick out of watching IBM and Oracle and others make many millions on the backs of a bunch of naive college students coding away furiously during the best years of their lives. Those companies are laughing all the way to the bank.
Part of the problem is that drives have no buffering, and the whole thing is reliant on the CPU. It's tough to burn CD's at a decent speed unless you have a 1Ghz+ (Intel speeds) CPU. And even then, from reading the other posts, it sounds like I'm not the only one with problems burning at higher speeds.
... I just want solid, reliable recording first. Sounds like the cart is being put before the horse first. I want a CD-R that's gonna burn perfectly every time. I don't care how fast it is. Burning something at 52x 4 times to get it to work (and making 3 coasters in the process) is slower than burning it at 12x. Besides, CD-R isn't generally a process that is needed to be done fast. It's for dupes or backups. Right now, I burn at 4x and it works every time. I won't go every faster until the drives/software are better.
They're so amazingly great! So, do you just copy and paste, or do you have a script that posts for you? And, is this a formal experiment in karma, or just a fun little game you're playing, or is this maybe a sociology experiment? Whichever it is, it seems to be working! Every time you post this rant with the blanks filled in, you get modded up, and not as funny either! You actually are hooking suckers with every single post! Too bad karma numbers aren't available any more to check your progress.
You're absolutely right. I think that a bunch of big, meat-eating, smoking, spitting, arm-wresting super-macho lumberjacks that work for the company that owns the land should go "protest" in the tree-sitter's apartments. They should sit there indefinitely. Maybe then they'll understand that you can't just tresspass and take away a person (or company)'s right to own and use private property.
Ah, well, there are other methods... Set fire to the tree, and smoke 'em out. Shoot 'em with rubber bullets or beanbags. As another poster said, kill the tree, and let it slowly fall apart. Put lots of really, really hungry marmots in the tree. Lots of way to get those bastards down without killing them. Maiming maybe, but hey, don't these people deserve it?
Have you ever tried to remove someone from a tree? As the older brother of five avid tree-climbers, let me assure you that it is QUITE difficult. Especially when they don't want to co-operate with the removal.
Give me a Stihl with a 3 foot blade and 5 minutes. I can get *anyone* down from a tree, guaranteed.
These people don't do this because you're right, #2 takes effort. It's much easier (and more fun!) to play "warrior" by sitting in a tree, whining, and getting press.
You know, along those lines, I'm a bit short on cash. You think I could camp out in a bank lobby until they give me some?
This is real, honest to god, natural selection. With medical facilities as good as they are in this day and age, deaths due to stupidity are rare, but here's a classic example. Good to see at least one more idiot won't be contributing to the gene pool.
On a related note, the sitter in this article named her tree "Jerry". And takers on when she's gonna be the next example of natural selection in action?
I don't even use an office suite of any kind. And word processing is done on Textpad or Wordpad.
I'd need CD burning software, and a kick ass POS system that is EASY to use (ie: big pretty buttons) that supports a Hand Held Products barcode scanner, a Star TSP 600 thermal printer, a cash drawer, and a credit card swipe (don't know manufacturer). It also has to integrate in credit card processing with my merchant bank. It also has to swap data with Quickbooks. I didn't find anything even close when I was investigating.
And that's not to mention the nasty heavy metals used in circuit board manufacture. And of course, I hope that none of them are using CRT's. Lots of lead.
I don't understand why these people aren't just lead away in handcuffs. They're tresspassing. If anybody did that on my property, they'd be looking down the barrel of a gun, and they'd come down out of that damn tree, one way or another.
Oh no, I'm not talking about blind employees. I just have employees that need 640x480, and some that prefer 800x600. Bob comes in and uses 800x600 because he can see more inventory on the screen at one time, but the type is too small for Sue, so she needs 640x480. I was just saying that something as simple as that would cost me a lot of time and/or money. And that's just scratching the surface.
I only set up my business a few months ago. It's not software that I've been using for years and years. In about July, when I was setting up my systems, just the nightmare of trying to install Redhat and get basic functionality working on a few old frankenstein boxes with generic parts made me realize that doing anything past the install was going to be expensive. Very expensive in terms of time.
Switching isn't really an option. I have a working solution now. There are also no benefits in "being able to switch". Uprooting my entire (albeit tiny) IT system at any point would be a tremendously bad idea. When I made my decision, I fully expected (and still do) to simply use what I've got for at least 5-7 years. That's almost like saying that you'd like your house to be built as flexible as possible so that you could change the foundation to another type if you ever wanted to. Generally speaking, that's a bad idea. You don't generally change foundations. You put one in, and as long as nothing serious happens, and it's still holding up the house, why in the world would you ever change it?
Literally the only thing that changes on my hard drives are my apps' data files, and my browser cache. There's no conceivable way that anything could break since nothing changes (especially with a few RAID controllers). Business machines aren't like desktop machines. You're not always constantly changing things, installing/reinstalling things, etc. You set up, and then forget. Literally. I think that your assumption that "Flexibility" is an important feature is false. I don't want flexibility. I want software that works, and continues to work in the same, predictable way. I'm not in a computer-related field, so to me, the computer is just a tool. Once it's working, you don't change it unless you have a *very* good reason.
As far as "fixing" Windows, I've never had even a tiny hiccup with my current system, so that's a moot point.
I couldn't care less about personal use. In my business, *nix would kill my business, literally. I couldn't run the apps I needed, and the expense I'd have training my people and myself, and having non-existent apps written and just installing my boxes would literally force me to shutter my business. I've never seen "Lycoris", but I have seen several recent versions of RedHat, Debian, and even the latest Corel. Each one was a headache from the first minute. I've mentioned it before... I had to do *hours* of research to find the . file to change my resolution to make it useable. If I have an employees with different vision abilities, what am I supposed to do? Train each one on where this file is, how to get to it, and how to change it? Or do I pay someone to write an app that enables users to change the resolution through a GUI?
And, with the lack of drivers for my specialized hardware, I literally couldn't open my doors to the public.
As far as using *nix, I'd literally have to paid somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars in order to make it feasable. So, if somebody wants to give me a 10 or 20 thousand for my downtime, training, re-purchasing of new hardware (not to mention the research time to find usable hardware), money I'd spend getting apps and drivers written, I'll take it. But as is, I'll jsut happily pay a few hundred per box for W2K.
No, you're right. I wouldn't expect it to be Windows, just to replace the functionality. In order to fill my business needs, I'd need to spend thousands for a *nix expert to set up and configure the machines in my small business, and I'd need to pay many thousands for for equivalent apps to be created. And, I'd have to spend even more training employees how to use it if, say, my custom built app failed and they had to touch the OS in any way (say, restore a backup).
Functionality-wise, it doesn't even come close to being able to do what I need it to do.
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I can tell you that thousands of people at least find my site daily! And let me tell ya', if you can get your porn site in good with Google, well, let's just say that money won't ever be a problem again.
Sure do.
This is much, much better. You don't have to give away your e-mail address, and you can be rest assured that they'll be getting email forever. Just make one post with their email address anywhere on Usenet. They'll be on spam lists for years, possibly even getting their own spam. Just one little post will set it off. A few spammers will pick it up, use it, sell it, re-sell it, etc.
Use that computer you claim to know so much about and buy Quicken or something. It will really save you dearly in the end, and perhaps save your family.
Dammit, when are you going to learn? You've got to wait for GNUicken of XQuicken or Open K Quicken to be done first. In the mean time, any idea where I can get one of those full-size replicas?
I didn't understand this: I'd be happy to switch from a crappy, slow, unstable system with dependencies that never work out, and programs that continually conflict with each other, where I could play my games,
I thought the whole point was that it's hard as hell to get what few games there are to work on Linux? Are you able to play a lot of games on Linux?
So what if every kid isn't a techie? There's more to life than tech. The geeky kids will continue to delve into computers. Now, those who don't want to won't have to. By the looks of your post, you probably should spend a bit more times with books and less with a computer, yourself. I can tell from your post that you can just barely read & write correctly.
Even better. Try Unix. The Unix of, uh, Unix.
Linux is not "free" in the sense of "having no cost". You pay for Linux by contributing. If you don't contribute, please stay off the platform. And if you can't even make the minimal effort to determine for yourself whether Linux is good for you or not, it looks like you aren't planning on contributing anything down the road.
Contribution has nothing to do with using ANY OSS. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. That's the gamble that developers of OSS take... they can work and work and work for free, and never get any help, any remuneration, etc. If you don't like it, then don't program for free and then hand it out to the public.
Screw contributing. There's not much in life for free, so if someone's dumb enough to actually give me something for free, I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Personally, I get a kick out of watching IBM and Oracle and others make many millions on the backs of a bunch of naive college students coding away furiously during the best years of their lives. Those companies are laughing all the way to the bank.
Part of the problem is that drives have no buffering, and the whole thing is reliant on the CPU. It's tough to burn CD's at a decent speed unless you have a 1Ghz+ (Intel speeds) CPU. And even then, from reading the other posts, it sounds like I'm not the only one with problems burning at higher speeds.
CD-R drives burn YOU at 52x!
... I just want solid, reliable recording first. Sounds like the cart is being put before the horse first. I want a CD-R that's gonna burn perfectly every time. I don't care how fast it is. Burning something at 52x 4 times to get it to work (and making 3 coasters in the process) is slower than burning it at 12x. Besides, CD-R isn't generally a process that is needed to be done fast. It's for dupes or backups. Right now, I burn at 4x and it works every time. I won't go every faster until the drives/software are better.
They're so amazingly great! So, do you just copy and paste, or do you have a script that posts for you? And, is this a formal experiment in karma, or just a fun little game you're playing, or is this maybe a sociology experiment? Whichever it is, it seems to be working! Every time you post this rant with the blanks filled in, you get modded up, and not as funny either! You actually are hooking suckers with every single post! Too bad karma numbers aren't available any more to check your progress.
You're absolutely right. I think that a bunch of big, meat-eating, smoking, spitting, arm-wresting super-macho lumberjacks that work for the company that owns the land should go "protest" in the tree-sitter's apartments. They should sit there indefinitely. Maybe then they'll understand that you can't just tresspass and take away a person (or company)'s right to own and use private property.
Ah, well, there are other methods... Set fire to the tree, and smoke 'em out. Shoot 'em with rubber bullets or beanbags. As another poster said, kill the tree, and let it slowly fall apart. Put lots of really, really hungry marmots in the tree. Lots of way to get those bastards down without killing them. Maiming maybe, but hey, don't these people deserve it?
I didn't see anything mentioning the bugeoning ubiquity of people reverting to the CLI. Somehow I'm not surprised.
Was that that funny one with the whales?
Have you ever tried to remove someone from a tree? As the older brother of five avid tree-climbers, let me assure you that it is QUITE difficult. Especially when they don't want to co-operate with the removal.
Give me a Stihl with a 3 foot blade and 5 minutes. I can get *anyone* down from a tree, guaranteed.
These people don't do this because you're right, #2 takes effort. It's much easier (and more fun!) to play "warrior" by sitting in a tree, whining, and getting press.
You know, along those lines, I'm a bit short on cash. You think I could camp out in a bank lobby until they give me some?
- Owner of 2 acres of thick, unused forest
This is real, honest to god, natural selection. With medical facilities as good as they are in this day and age, deaths due to stupidity are rare, but here's a classic example. Good to see at least one more idiot won't be contributing to the gene pool.
On a related note, the sitter in this article named her tree "Jerry". And takers on when she's gonna be the next example of natural selection in action?
I don't even use an office suite of any kind. And word processing is done on Textpad or Wordpad.
I'd need CD burning software, and a kick ass POS system that is EASY to use (ie: big pretty buttons) that supports a Hand Held Products barcode scanner, a Star TSP 600 thermal printer, a cash drawer, and a credit card swipe (don't know manufacturer). It also has to integrate in credit card processing with my merchant bank. It also has to swap data with Quickbooks. I didn't find anything even close when I was investigating.
And that's not to mention the nasty heavy metals used in circuit board manufacture. And of course, I hope that none of them are using CRT's. Lots of lead.
I don't understand why these people aren't just lead away in handcuffs. They're tresspassing. If anybody did that on my property, they'd be looking down the barrel of a gun, and they'd come down out of that damn tree, one way or another.
Oh no, I'm not talking about blind employees. I just have employees that need 640x480, and some that prefer 800x600. Bob comes in and uses 800x600 because he can see more inventory on the screen at one time, but the type is too small for Sue, so she needs 640x480. I was just saying that something as simple as that would cost me a lot of time and/or money. And that's just scratching the surface.
I only set up my business a few months ago. It's not software that I've been using for years and years. In about July, when I was setting up my systems, just the nightmare of trying to install Redhat and get basic functionality working on a few old frankenstein boxes with generic parts made me realize that doing anything past the install was going to be expensive. Very expensive in terms of time.
Switching isn't really an option. I have a working solution now. There are also no benefits in "being able to switch". Uprooting my entire (albeit tiny) IT system at any point would be a tremendously bad idea. When I made my decision, I fully expected (and still do) to simply use what I've got for at least 5-7 years. That's almost like saying that you'd like your house to be built as flexible as possible so that you could change the foundation to another type if you ever wanted to. Generally speaking, that's a bad idea. You don't generally change foundations. You put one in, and as long as nothing serious happens, and it's still holding up the house, why in the world would you ever change it?
Literally the only thing that changes on my hard drives are my apps' data files, and my browser cache. There's no conceivable way that anything could break since nothing changes (especially with a few RAID controllers). Business machines aren't like desktop machines. You're not always constantly changing things, installing/reinstalling things, etc. You set up, and then forget. Literally. I think that your assumption that "Flexibility" is an important feature is false. I don't want flexibility. I want software that works, and continues to work in the same, predictable way. I'm not in a computer-related field, so to me, the computer is just a tool. Once it's working, you don't change it unless you have a *very* good reason.
As far as "fixing" Windows, I've never had even a tiny hiccup with my current system, so that's a moot point.
I couldn't care less about personal use. In my business, *nix would kill my business, literally. I couldn't run the apps I needed, and the expense I'd have training my people and myself, and having non-existent apps written and just installing my boxes would literally force me to shutter my business. I've never seen "Lycoris", but I have seen several recent versions of RedHat, Debian, and even the latest Corel. Each one was a headache from the first minute. I've mentioned it before... I had to do *hours* of research to find the . file to change my resolution to make it useable. If I have an employees with different vision abilities, what am I supposed to do? Train each one on where this file is, how to get to it, and how to change it? Or do I pay someone to write an app that enables users to change the resolution through a GUI?
And, with the lack of drivers for my specialized hardware, I literally couldn't open my doors to the public.
As far as using *nix, I'd literally have to paid somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars in order to make it feasable. So, if somebody wants to give me a 10 or 20 thousand for my downtime, training, re-purchasing of new hardware (not to mention the research time to find usable hardware), money I'd spend getting apps and drivers written, I'll take it. But as is, I'll jsut happily pay a few hundred per box for W2K.
No, you're right. I wouldn't expect it to be Windows, just to replace the functionality. In order to fill my business needs, I'd need to spend thousands for a *nix expert to set up and configure the machines in my small business, and I'd need to pay many thousands for for equivalent apps to be created. And, I'd have to spend even more training employees how to use it if, say, my custom built app failed and they had to touch the OS in any way (say, restore a backup).
Functionality-wise, it doesn't even come close to being able to do what I need it to do.