I was trying to download the latest Intellipoint mouse drivers from Microsoft's website using Mozilla. I drilled down to a page that listed the latest (or so I thought) ver. 3.x drivers for my mouse.
I clicked the link to download and was taken to a custom 404 page that offered links to other pages where I might find what I was looking for, those pages took me to even more 404 pages and so forth and so on.
Out of curiousity, I tried downloading the drivers using IE 5.5, this time I was taken to a different page that listed the (real) latest drivers for the Intellipoint mouse, version 4.x.
It seems like a whole lot of effort to go through to make it difficult for people that haven't been assimiliated by the M$ borg.
And besides, drivers should be freely available to anyone, regardless of what browser/platform they are using. What if I was downloading it from my Solaris machine to use on a Win9x machine that didn't have a fast connection?
Hmm, the best I've done is maybe 20mph, which, I'm told, is good for weighing nearly 300lbs (not including bike) and not being too terribly aerodynamic. I'm in shape, round is a shape.
You could just NOT drink and drive. Quite simple, really.
OTOH, I wouldn't buy a car that had one of these installed. Most mouthwash and breath freshener products contain alcohol. Not enough to get you drunk, but enough to trip up a breathalyzer test. How would you like to get pulled over on your way to work for having minty fresh breath?
I have ruined memory sticks, cache on motherboards and who knows what else due to static charges, but you don't see me running to a lawyer crying "mommy, mommy, the bad man MADE me do it! waaaaaaahhhh!!!"
This just looks like another case of someone trying to get rich off their ignorance of technology.
You are correct, the spacing changed between the original PC and the PC XT.
I remember being very confused when my brand-spanking-new 386DX-20 motherboard wouldn't fit quite right in my old PC case. I think I used the get-a-bigger-hammer method until I managed to un-seat some surface mount chips.
It's bad because it usually doesn't lead to reasoned discussion. ...and by the responses to the troll (mine included) we have accomplished this purpose.
Then its time to push it down everyone's throats until the other one disappears. Yep, seen it before!
Honestly, I'm having a hard time accepting the whole 'wireless' thing, anyway. Why would I want to load web pages on my cel phone? I don't like to waste vital (and costly) minutes to do something I can do at the office or home.... Actually, the whole idea of using the cel phone as a phone can be applied to the same statement!
Imagine a chess match in which the players drop some LSD or eat some magic shrooms...
The players would get into a philosophical discussion on the underlying meanings of the game or they might feel sorry for the pawns since they always get the shaft.
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Super soakers make great cat behavior-correction devices too.
Yes, but use extreme caution around home electronics! I speak from experience.
Whachyoo like to do? Oh, I dunno...play chess...screw
Why? Who benefits from such threats and suits? Lawyers. Who makes up 90% of our government? Layers.
Amen, brudda!
The US government has becoem so corp-centric it's disgusting. So much emphasis has been put on the ideals of capitalism that the consumer/individual has lost all identity. We have become a mutation of capitalism and communism: communo-capitalism or capito-communism, aw hell, i dunno. Buy our products and enjoy them without complaining or be sent to the Gulag!
Whachyoo like to do? Oh, I dunno...play chess...screw
it represents a higher measure of safety for my family
Yeah, right, like you really cart your whole family around in it more than 5% of the time you drive it! On my way to and from work every day, 9 out of 10 SUV's I see have only ONE PERSON in the vehicle. Why do these shitheads buy a car that can carry 12-15 people but rarely use it for that purpose. Since you're such a rich SOB, why don't you buy 2 vehicles, one small vehicle to drive to work and an SUV so you can show the Jones' how big your wanker is!
Hey, us 'have-nots' finance that goverment, too! We're tired of listening to you bastards talk about how we are poor by choice and don't want to work for a living! The have-nots work a lot harder than you do, and for a lot less!
First off, I don't condone the torching of the SUV dealership. I think it's pretty funny, you reap what you sow, right? However, the burning probably released as much crap into the air as 10 of their vehicles do in a weeks time.
You might consider thanking us, as we, from a proportional perspective, subsidize the quality of the roads that you enjoy driving on.
Yep, that's the kind of conservative rhetoric I would expect from someone who drives an SUV. Trying to justify your miserable existence, eh? Subsidize the quality of the roads? My ass! Your oversized vehicles are destoying the roads and the county maintenance crews can't keep up with the repairs fast enough! And when they do get the time to repair the roads you all complain about it and vote 'no' for funding the next time it comes up in election!
As for reducing the visibility of those around me, that can easily be compensated for by increasing your following distance. Don't you adjust your following distance when behind an 18-wheel tractor trailer?
Hahaha!!! That's rich! I hope you remember your words here the next time you're tailgating some poor sap in a Hyundai! Besides the obvious fuel effeciency and road wear issues raised by driving something that is almost the same size as a rig, people that drive SUV's tend to get a false sense of security and power. They ride people asses on the road because they can see over the smaller vehicles. They don't look when they change lanes, either. I'll bet you yak on your cell phone while you drive, too! I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been nearly run off the road because of some SOB in his Excursion, Navigator or Escalade.
Taxing the people that drive SUV's won't solve any problems. They'll all just figure out some way to cheat on their taxes to get around it or call up their GOP buddies in congress to block legislation. However, I do think it would be wiser to nip it in the bud and place the burden on the manufacturer - If you produce cars that have lower than x mpg, you pay more taxes. The manufacturers would pass it down to the dealer, the dealer would pass it down to the consumer. The consumer would then choose to buy a more economical vehicle. The manufacturer would then slow production of SUV's due to decreased demand. Problem solved! The truth of the matter is that the consumer (like our SUV driving friend, Pii here) would buy anything if the commercial made him think it would give him a 10% increase in penis size. The manufacturers/dealerships are mostly to blame for the increased number of SUV's on the road because they hype them up so much on TV.
This is typical of someone that cannot afford an SUV. Mine cost quite a bit, but to me, it represents a higher measure of safety for my family, and a more pleasurable driving experience.
Fine then, go ahead and waste your money since your so freakin rich! My little $9k Toyota Tercel will last a lot longer than your SUV, regardless of whether it was made in America, Germany or Japan! In the end I'll be the victor!!!!!
When I was doing web design and hosting, I had something I call a "headache fee". This is where you charge those problem clients extra for being a complete pain in the ass!
if you're a knee jerk liberal who doesn't care to find out the facts
That's pretty funny coming from a knee-jerk right-winger who would eat dog-poo if the republicans said it would lower taxes!
The greatest misconception that people have about the republicans is that they are looking out for the little guy. They may say it during the campaigns, and all the ditto-heads get a warm fuzzy in their shorts about it, but when it comes down to putting their promises into action it all ends up helping big corps and rich people.
And the little guy gets the shaft again and again...
What is also amazing is that it was built in like 9 months at the height of the depression. the construction project provided lots of jobs for people who would have otherwise starved.
No, actually people have been pretty stoopid for centuries, nay, millenia. The problem here is that the really rich, stupid ones have lawyers to back up their idiotic agendas.
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I was trying to download the latest Intellipoint mouse drivers from Microsoft's website using Mozilla. I drilled down to a page that listed the latest (or so I thought) ver. 3.x drivers for my mouse.
I clicked the link to download and was taken to a custom 404 page that offered links to other pages where I might find what I was looking for, those pages took me to even more 404 pages and so forth and so on.
Out of curiousity, I tried downloading the drivers using IE 5.5, this time I was taken to a different page that listed the (real) latest drivers for the Intellipoint mouse, version 4.x.
It seems like a whole lot of effort to go through to make it difficult for people that haven't been assimiliated by the M$ borg.
And besides, drivers should be freely available to anyone, regardless of what browser/platform they are using. What if I was downloading it from my Solaris machine to use on a Win9x machine that didn't have a fast connection?
Hmm, the best I've done is maybe 20mph, which, I'm told, is good for weighing nearly 300lbs (not including bike) and not being too terribly aerodynamic.
I'm in shape, round is a shape.
stoping people at (mor or less) random
Umm, cops don't pull people over at random... ever hear about racial profiling?
Now, if you would have said 'stopping people for no good reason', that would have been more accurate.
OR...
You could just NOT drink and drive. Quite simple, really.
OTOH, I wouldn't buy a car that had one of these installed. Most mouthwash and breath freshener products contain alcohol. Not enough to get you drunk, but enough to trip up a breathalyzer test.
How would you like to get pulled over on your way to work for having minty fresh breath?
Off the subject, but I must say that Sir Arthur C. Clarke has to be the coolest smartest mofo on earth!
Here's to you Arthur!
Will they be going IPO soon? Can I get a loan?
I have ruined memory sticks, cache on motherboards and who knows what else due to static charges, but you don't see me running to a lawyer crying "mommy, mommy, the bad man MADE me do it! waaaaaaahhhh!!!"
This just looks like another case of someone trying to get rich off their ignorance of technology.
You are correct, the spacing changed between the original PC and the PC XT.
I remember being very confused when my brand-spanking-new 386DX-20 motherboard wouldn't fit quite right in my old PC case. I think I used the get-a-bigger-hammer method until I managed to un-seat some surface mount chips.
It's bad because it usually doesn't lead to reasoned discussion.
...and by the responses to the troll (mine included) we have accomplished this purpose.
Then its time to push it down everyone's throats until the other one disappears.
Yep, seen it before!
Honestly, I'm having a hard time accepting the whole 'wireless' thing, anyway. Why would I want to load web pages on my cel phone? I don't like to waste vital (and costly) minutes to do something I can do at the office or home.... Actually, the whole idea of using the cel phone as a phone can be applied to the same statement!
Imagine a chess match in which the players drop some LSD or eat some magic shrooms...
The players would get into a philosophical discussion on the underlying meanings of the game or they might feel sorry for the pawns since they always get the shaft.
Super soakers make great cat behavior-correction devices too.
Yes, but use extreme caution around home electronics!
I speak from experience.
Whachyoo like to do?
Oh, I dunno...play chess...screw
Why? Who benefits from such threats and suits?
Lawyers.
Who makes up 90% of our government?
Layers.
Amen, brudda!
The US government has becoem so corp-centric it's disgusting. So much emphasis has been put on the ideals of capitalism that the consumer/individual has lost all identity. We have become a mutation of capitalism and communism: communo-capitalism or capito-communism, aw hell, i dunno.
Buy our products and enjoy them without complaining or be sent to the Gulag!
Whachyoo like to do?
Oh, I dunno...play chess...screw
it represents a higher measure of safety for my family
Yeah, right, like you really cart your whole family around in it more than 5% of the time you drive it!
On my way to and from work every day, 9 out of 10 SUV's I see have only ONE PERSON in the vehicle. Why do these shitheads buy a car that can carry 12-15 people but rarely use it for that purpose. Since you're such a rich SOB, why don't you buy 2 vehicles, one small vehicle to drive to work and an SUV so you can show the Jones' how big your wanker is!
using a government that we finance
Hey, us 'have-nots' finance that goverment, too! We're tired of listening to you bastards talk about how we are poor by choice and don't want to work for a living! The have-nots work a lot harder than you do, and for a lot less!
First off, I don't condone the torching of the SUV dealership. I think it's pretty funny, you reap what you sow, right?
However, the burning probably released as much crap into the air as 10 of their vehicles do in a weeks time.
You might consider thanking us, as we, from a proportional perspective, subsidize the quality of the roads that you enjoy driving on.
Yep, that's the kind of conservative rhetoric I would expect from someone who drives an SUV. Trying to justify your miserable existence, eh? Subsidize the quality of the roads? My ass! Your oversized vehicles are destoying the roads and the county maintenance crews can't keep up with the repairs fast enough! And when they do get the time to repair the roads you all complain about it and vote 'no' for funding the next time it comes up in election!
As for reducing the visibility of those around me, that can easily be compensated for by increasing your following distance. Don't you adjust your following distance when behind an 18-wheel tractor trailer?
Hahaha!!! That's rich! I hope you remember your words here the next time you're tailgating some poor sap in a Hyundai!
Besides the obvious fuel effeciency and road wear issues raised by driving something that is almost the same size as a rig, people that drive SUV's tend to get a false sense of security and power. They ride people asses on the road because they can see over the smaller vehicles. They don't look when they change lanes, either. I'll bet you yak on your cell phone while you drive, too! I can't begin to tell you how many times I've been nearly run off the road because of some SOB in his Excursion, Navigator or Escalade.
Taxing the people that drive SUV's won't solve any problems. They'll all just figure out some way to cheat on their taxes to get around it or call up their GOP buddies in congress to block legislation. However, I do think it would be wiser to nip it in the bud and place the burden on the manufacturer - If you produce cars that have lower than x mpg, you pay more taxes. The manufacturers would pass it down to the dealer, the dealer would pass it down to the consumer. The consumer would then choose to buy a more economical vehicle. The manufacturer would then slow production of SUV's due to decreased demand. Problem solved!
The truth of the matter is that the consumer (like our SUV driving friend, Pii here) would buy anything if the commercial made him think it would give him a 10% increase in penis size. The manufacturers/dealerships are mostly to blame for the increased number of SUV's on the road because they hype them up so much on TV.
This is typical of someone that cannot afford an SUV. Mine cost quite a bit, but to me, it represents a higher measure of safety for my family, and a more pleasurable driving experience.
Fine then, go ahead and waste your money since your so freakin rich! My little $9k Toyota Tercel will last a lot longer than your SUV, regardless of whether it was made in America, Germany or Japan! In the end I'll be the victor!!!!!
does it make coffee for me or not?
no coffee, no life, know coffee, know life!
Why is it that this post is labeled 'offtopic', yet we all have to see that rascist shit the other guy posted?
in certain cases!
When I was doing web design and hosting, I had something I call a "headache fee". This is where you charge those problem clients extra for being a complete pain in the ass!
if you're a knee jerk liberal who doesn't care to find out the facts
That's pretty funny coming from a knee-jerk right-winger who would eat dog-poo if the republicans said it would lower taxes!
The greatest misconception that people have about the republicans is that they are looking out for the little guy. They may say it during the campaigns, and all the ditto-heads get a warm fuzzy in their shorts about it, but when it comes down to putting their promises into action it all ends up helping big corps and rich people.
And the little guy gets the shaft again and again...
Amen to that, brother!
Privacy and anonymity are contraban in Dubya's new economy of capito-communism.
What is also amazing is that it was built in like 9 months at the height of the depression. the construction project provided lots of jobs for people who would have otherwise starved.
No, actually people have been pretty stoopid for centuries, nay, millenia. The problem here is that the really rich, stupid ones have lawyers to back up their idiotic agendas.
They're borg ships waiting until Bush takes office to assimilate us!!!!!!
We are Republican. Resistance is futile. We have more lawyers than you, so there!