I'm someone who relies on drugs everyday. If they weren't doing it in part for the money there would be no reason for them to continue.
I think medicine-for-profit is bad, and has denied me a lot of treatment I could have received thus far. The other half if the non-doctors making medical decisions [read: HMO].
Medicine-for-profit isn't good, but it's better than no medicine at all. Many drug companies are making moves to offer even their most expensive drugs to seniors for a low flat rate cost.
They do spend billions, if not trillions on reaserch. If they didn't, no one else would.
I'm looking at RAM prices now, and for the $350 difference, that means about a gig-o-ram.
I think I would save the cash and rather have the gig-o-ram than have no RAM at all.
Of course you can also go the dual-cpu route, and that seems nice too. But for someone who wants a computer to do whatever on, get the AMD and gig-o-ram.
I just like thinking gig-o-ram. A few [3-4] years ago I upgraded to 64MB and was like "wow! this is smoking!"
In short, you have to believe what they want you to believe.
Yeah, in short: If you are a sucker. Why would you believe it? No one says you have to.
Being a large company makes people not trust you. Look at the gov't. Who believes anything they say?
AOL has had a great reputation of doing business with everyone. In fact, on the netscape page I see xbox listed as one of the highest searched items. Looks to me they don't mind. Considering this isn't a paid spot, makes you wonder.
Monster.com was the pop-up when I visted the page. Not a TW company is it?
Doesn't Netscape come with bookmarks for a number of companies? The only links I see on my 'Favorites' from a fresh XP install is Microsoft sites.
Imagine a Red Hat 'lite' version that everyone in America got in the mail. Usually there are 2 R-Hat CDs, but they get you to buy the box set for that.
But let's be honest, no one has tried to help me. They throw the same old ideas out. They claim it's the drivers... so on. My favorite is buying more hardware [that may not even be supported].
I've tried different configure it 20 different ways, there is a limit to things you can do.
Spending ~80 bucks on a router doesn't seem fair. Why should I carry the burden? *They* are the ones that claim it works, they are the 'experts'.
Isn't this obvious?
If this same exact problem was with linux a million MS-heads would be ragging on me because it would be the OS's fault.
You know, I didn't know how many people are having problems with USB until I dug deeper. The funniest part is they've already bought new hardware and the fix is rumored to be released with SP1
I don't have anything VIA in my computer. All my hardware is Certified Compatible with XP, I checked the website.
All the drivers are 'signed'.
I'm also not the only who has the problem.
It is clearly an XP problem. I'm not the first to report it.
Why is it obvious to only me that Microsoft needs to fix the problem? How much of a fanboy do you have to be to suggest anyone besides them should fix it?
Why do I have to buy more products to fix something that buying more products ruined in the first place?
oh, reading this response has let me have faith in humanity again.
I am pissed. I was pissed, on the inside when I started that thread. But since I stated in the opening article that those types of suggestions aren't needed it came out through my keyboard.
Just to mention, I'm not the only one. I also have a USB camera which doesn't work. Before putting XP back on this machine I tested Redhat with that. The USB camera dies just like the Cable Modem. After loading Red Hat, the cam worked fine. Then I took Red Hat off. I can't use Red Hat on this machine due to a riptide sound card.
Not saying anything like 'linux vs windows'. I just wanted to troubleshoot. If you look on this/. thread you can see my response from Toshiba. He even said it seems to be a OS problem because like me he knows how the process of elimination works.
Thank you, I don't even care that you said I was an asshole. I'm steaming from this shit. Do you know what it's like when you are doing something and the connection dies every 10 mins? Try putting up with that for at least a month... I've thought about suicide and blaming Bill Gates in the note.
If you weren't so abrasive about it, that would help.
I would understand if people were trying to help. I really would. But their help comes in the form of 1) Denying the problem 2) Throwing the same generic solutions [drivers, flash the mobo!] 3) Defending XP.
I wasn't trying to set out on knocking XP, or MS. I do that here on slashdot just fine. The problem, or the reason I get so pissed, is because people can't read when the words are on the screen.
In the first post I believe that I stated what wouldn't work. Since that post I lost all my data due to another problem [Partition Magic, power went out, trying to put '98 back on]. If it was a config problem that would have been wiped out as well. Installed with the new drivers from the ground up. Still didn't work
You now have joined the club of people who can't read and that also puts you into the group that should offer any advice because of your limited skills.
Dude, the only thing that thread proves is that you are a complete fucking asshole. You obviously are just soliciting others to say Windows XP is crap, and when they don't agree with you you whine like a bitch. It's like talking to chicks they want to tell you about their problems, but they don't want them solved. Bitch bitch bitch. If XP doesn't work with your hardware don't use it. It doesn't really matter why or what anyone else thinks.
I love you. You show the type of smarts I would want on my team. I just want someone to fix this problem I'm having. Calling MS doesn't help. Toshiba says it's out of their hands... what should I do? The mobo maker and AMD both say they can't do anything because they didn't write the OS. I actually like XP. I use it as well as other products. I was a beta tester for '98. I don't like however, the fact that people like you just want to label me and that's it.
Sure, I am so stupid as to think 'Windows' means Windows 95. I'm only 17. Sure. I'm so dumb to think a problem I have only with XP isn't an XP problem at all. Surely I faked those two other posts by people who have the same problem as me. I didn't recently break a stack of CD-R's because I'm so pissed that I wasted so much money on XP to find out that it has 'crippled' USB on my system.
From Toshiba tech support:
[name cut],
This is very interesting, but is most likely a problem with XP as it is such a new operating system. I will look into this and let you know my findings.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to e-mail or call.
[name cut]
Toshiba America Information Systems
Network Products Division
Direct : [number cut]
Support : [number cut]
Fax : [number cut]
http://www.internet.toshiba.com
Seems kinda mysterious to me. Why can't anyone figure it out. And when I say 'figure it out' I don't mean the problem, I mean that I'm not 'bashing' I'm trying to get a fix.
Sorry I'm verbal about it. I think it will be the only way to get things done.
Buying hardware and ingnoring the problem helps no one but the hardware maker.
I bought XP, that is why there is no reason to buy hardware to fix this XP problem.
You obviously can't read, and haven't been on the phone with me, M$, Toshiba, RR and the rest of the usual suspects.
I'm not the only one having the problem.
If you're too cheap to get a $20 ethernet card, you have no right to be whining about Windows XP.
This is the kind of shit I expect from people. You missed the point that it ISN'T AN OPTION for two reasons. The cable modem uses the ethernet connection for another computer - and - I simply refuse buying hardware to fix this problem.
When do people realize that buying more hardware and software to fix a bug is not the way to fund the computing industry? Why? You get more buggy software.
Let's also remember that my USB camera dies as well.
Once again, for the record, it's not a hardware problem when everything works fine with every other OS.
I'd say start with comics that have been out for a long time.
Like all those #1's your grandpa used to read that are now worth a fortune.
Shit, I might subscribe if I could read the comics I own now. They sit there doing nothing but making me money, and I haven't read a one.
Ok, I read a few.
[I've got a friend that claims the comic _book_ industry is a huge rip off. He worked at shows and said they gave stuff away, like to each other. This shit was supposed to be real 'collectors items']
Problem with getting away from MHZ system
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Yes another one of these posts, it has nothing to do with the hardware!
But does anyone here but me want to question 'Benchmarks' instead of Mhz? I mean the CPU does run at said Mhz, that hasn't changed.
The problem is, when I see a chart comparing two companies chips, I can't believe it. I want to look for the footnote that says their system was tested with 93749234 GB of RAM, while the other companies was only tested with 1 MB of RAM.
That is why they should just give the CPU a name, or number, or whatever and let use read these reviews. Although sometimes reviews can also be biased, I can't trust anything that comes right from the company.
I used to have a chart showing how an AMD chip was like 50% faster than a Pentium of the same clock speed. This bothered me to no end. [it could be the other way around, that isn't important. What is: I didn't trust it.]
It's like a detergent commercial by 'Tide' which shows you two shirts and it cleans the whole stain while 'Era' doesn't. Just seems faked.
Obviously not by my long going thread in a MS newsgroup:
Basically I'm having USB and XP problems and the people there say that it's gotta be a hardware problem. Even though the problem doesn't exist in any other OS, even Microsoft ones. They can only suggest buying more hardware... although it was getting this XP that `broke` USB on my PC. They don't understand that `Hardware Problem` == `Broken/Dead Hardware`
This isn't because of servers, rather Code Red... and that is because everyone was warez'n win2k server.
I think though they have lifted that by now... but I think they still SAY it's blocked on their website.
Your best bet, I think[?], would be to use a port higher than 65555. But if your report to dsheild or something it would look like an attack because it won't know what you are doing.
Slashdot Mirror
I have to second that. [mee too!]
I'm someone who relies on drugs everyday. If they weren't doing it in part for the money there would be no reason for them to continue.
I think medicine-for-profit is bad, and has denied me a lot of treatment I could have received thus far. The other half if the non-doctors making medical decisions [read: HMO].
Medicine-for-profit isn't good, but it's better than no medicine at all. Many drug companies are making moves to offer even their most expensive drugs to seniors for a low flat rate cost.
They do spend billions, if not trillions on reaserch. If they didn't, no one else would.
[note: bitchslap comming]
but if this is true, which needs to be studied more,
Needs to be studied more? Of course it does. Who ever said they weren't going to?
Thank you for the wonderful insight. If it's true there will be more research than, well, you can shake a chromosome at. If it's false... who cares?
I'm looking at RAM prices now, and for the $350 difference, that means about a gig-o-ram.
:-)
I think I would save the cash and rather have the gig-o-ram than have no RAM at all.
Of course you can also go the dual-cpu route, and that seems nice too. But for someone who wants a computer to do whatever on, get the AMD and gig-o-ram.
I just like thinking gig-o-ram. A few [3-4] years ago I upgraded to 64MB and was like "wow! this is smoking!"
gig-o-ram
...and the lost treasures of the Taliban.
It's with the times, and we can all kill Nazi's at home with RTCW.
Like he meets bin Laden, but in a twist of humor, he can't do anything to him because there are snakes and he's afraid of them.
Or you could go rip off other movies and do a I.J. And The Golden Ring. Maybe a Indiana Jones and The Beowulf Cluster.
He just sits there drinking jolt cracking RC5, and runs all the current Seti data.
[[will *he* be the father in this one? we aren't going to introduce the 'new' Indy are we? I've heard this is a possibility]]
No joke:
a vs /large/gates.jpg
I had a buddy print off 500 of those Bill Gates' arrest pictures.
We will be distributing them around town.
The best part, 150 are these:
http://www.allyourbase.net/pictures/index.php/f
I suggest people do the same.
In short, you have to believe what they want you to believe.
Yeah, in short: If you are a sucker. Why would you believe it? No one says you have to.
Being a large company makes people not trust you. Look at the gov't. Who believes anything they say?
AOL has had a great reputation of doing business with everyone. In fact, on the netscape page I see xbox listed as one of the highest searched items. Looks to me they don't mind. Considering this isn't a paid spot, makes you wonder.
Monster.com was the pop-up when I visted the page. Not a TW company is it?
Doesn't Netscape come with bookmarks for a number of companies? The only links I see on my 'Favorites' from a fresh XP install is Microsoft sites.
the funny thing... I had a 5+ paragraph written up to dispute this crazy claim. Where did it go? Data heaven with the rest of my opened documents.
I won't type it again. It was too good.
So read this:
What a normal computer person KNOWS about microsoft
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=3, Total=3?
How is my joke, which is directly relavent, offtopic?
I guess if you don't get the joke you shouldn't moderate.
....I don't want to be anti-social so let me be the first to say:
Hiii Everybody!
Now leave me the fuck alone while I fire up my favorite file sharing program and go into hours of searching and downloading.
Did you hear me? I said piss off!
At least it's pre-paid and doesn't suggest that sometime down the line you will get a bill for the thousands of dollars that you 'saved'.
I've read complete web pages warning that Fast Track keeps track of what you dl, and may use it against you some day.
This is something I breifly was on my mind.
Imagine a Red Hat 'lite' version that everyone in America got in the mail. Usually there are 2 R-Hat CDs, but they get you to buy the box set for that.
It's free, as in beer.
You can stream it! And a little app called abcde works great with it.
It's slowly becoming a new standard are more software players are supporting it.
Too bad there is no hardware support. I think we should start off with a DC port. What do ya' think?
From what I can see now there are roughly 1751 posts 'whining' about hardware problems in XP.
Isn't that what the NG is for?
I've contacted plenty of tech support people, but only MS once. Why? Because they didn't even understand my problem.
It's the first time I've had to call tech support in years.
If you are E.D. I see your post.
I will try it now.
But let's be honest, no one has tried to help me. They throw the same old ideas out. They claim it's the drivers... so on. My favorite is buying more hardware [that may not even be supported].
I've tried different configure it 20 different ways, there is a limit to things you can do.
Spending ~80 bucks on a router doesn't seem fair. Why should I carry the burden? *They* are the ones that claim it works, they are the 'experts'.
Isn't this obvious?
If this same exact problem was with linux a million MS-heads would be ragging on me because it would be the OS's fault.
You know, I didn't know how many people are having problems with USB until I dug deeper. The funniest part is they've already bought new hardware and the fix is rumored to be released with SP1
Thank you for being on my side.
In your case you knew where the problem was, and there was a fix. Who was responsible for the fix? The person who made the hardware right?
In my case the hardware is fine. It's XP that is broken. Why is only clear to us that THEY need to do something about it, not me?
I mean, buying hardware to replace my 'Certified' hardware is silly.
[i'm sorry about the asshole thing, if you want to you can call me that now. *blushing*]
OMG!
I was kidding about all that nice stuff.
I don't have anything VIA in my computer. All my hardware is Certified Compatible with XP, I checked the website.
All the drivers are 'signed'.
I'm also not the only who has the problem.
It is clearly an XP problem. I'm not the first to report it.
Why is it obvious to only me that Microsoft needs to fix the problem? How much of a fanboy do you have to be to suggest anyone besides them should fix it?
Why do I have to buy more products to fix something that buying more products ruined in the first place?
Get a grip.
Almost as bad as CD cleaning products that have "Dreamcast" slapped on them when they are just rubbing alc. and a lint free cloth.
For that matter anything for CD's labeled 'Game' or 'PS2' and the rest.
It's all a scheme. They figure, it does work with these things... we can use that.
oh, reading this response has let me have faith in humanity again.
/. thread you can see my response from Toshiba. He even said it seems to be a OS problem because like me he knows how the process of elimination works.
I am pissed. I was pissed, on the inside when I started that thread. But since I stated in the opening article that those types of suggestions aren't needed it came out through my keyboard.
Just to mention, I'm not the only one. I also have a USB camera which doesn't work. Before putting XP back on this machine I tested Redhat with that. The USB camera dies just like the Cable Modem. After loading Red Hat, the cam worked fine. Then I took Red Hat off. I can't use Red Hat on this machine due to a riptide sound card.
Not saying anything like 'linux vs windows'. I just wanted to troubleshoot. If you look on this
Thank you, I don't even care that you said I was an asshole. I'm steaming from this shit. Do you know what it's like when you are doing something and the connection dies every 10 mins? Try putting up with that for at least a month... I've thought about suicide and blaming Bill Gates in the note.
If you weren't so abrasive about it, that would help.
I would understand if people were trying to help. I really would. But their help comes in the form of 1) Denying the problem 2) Throwing the same generic solutions [drivers, flash the mobo!] 3) Defending XP.
I wasn't trying to set out on knocking XP, or MS. I do that here on slashdot just fine. The problem, or the reason I get so pissed, is because people can't read when the words are on the screen.
In the first post I believe that I stated what wouldn't work. Since that post I lost all my data due to another problem [Partition Magic, power went out, trying to put '98 back on]. If it was a config problem that would have been wiped out as well. Installed with the new drivers from the ground up. Still didn't work
You now have joined the club of people who can't read and that also puts you into the group that should offer any advice because of your limited skills.
Dude, the only thing that thread proves is that you are a complete fucking asshole. You obviously are just soliciting others to say Windows XP is crap, and when they don't agree with you you whine like a bitch. It's like talking to chicks they want to tell you about their problems, but they don't want them solved. Bitch bitch bitch. If XP doesn't work with your hardware don't use it. It doesn't really matter why or what anyone else thinks.
I love you. You show the type of smarts I would want on my team. I just want someone to fix this problem I'm having. Calling MS doesn't help. Toshiba says it's out of their hands... what should I do? The mobo maker and AMD both say they can't do anything because they didn't write the OS. I actually like XP. I use it as well as other products. I was a beta tester for '98. I don't like however, the fact that people like you just want to label me and that's it.
Sure, I am so stupid as to think 'Windows' means Windows 95. I'm only 17. Sure. I'm so dumb to think a problem I have only with XP isn't an XP problem at all. Surely I faked those two other posts by people who have the same problem as me. I didn't recently break a stack of CD-R's because I'm so pissed that I wasted so much money on XP to find out that it has 'crippled' USB on my system.
From Toshiba tech support:
[name cut],
This is very interesting, but is most likely a problem with XP as it is such a new operating system. I will look into this and let you know my findings.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to e-mail or call.
[name cut]
Toshiba America Information Systems
Network Products Division
Direct : [number cut]
Support : [number cut]
Fax : [number cut]
http://www.internet.toshiba.com
Seems kinda mysterious to me. Why can't anyone figure it out. And when I say 'figure it out' I don't mean the problem, I mean that I'm not 'bashing' I'm trying to get a fix.
Sorry I'm verbal about it. I think it will be the only way to get things done.
Buying hardware and ingnoring the problem helps no one but the hardware maker.
lol...
I bought XP, that is why there is no reason to buy hardware to fix this XP problem.
You obviously can't read, and haven't been on the phone with me, M$, Toshiba, RR and the rest of the usual suspects.
I'm not the only one having the problem.
If you're too cheap to get a $20 ethernet card, you have no right to be whining about Windows XP.
This is the kind of shit I expect from people. You missed the point that it ISN'T AN OPTION for two reasons. The cable modem uses the ethernet connection for another computer - and - I simply refuse buying hardware to fix this problem.
When do people realize that buying more hardware and software to fix a bug is not the way to fund the computing industry? Why? You get more buggy software.
Let's also remember that my USB camera dies as well.
Once again, for the record, it's not a hardware problem when everything works fine with every other OS.
I'd say start with comics that have been out for a long time.
Like all those #1's your grandpa used to read that are now worth a fortune.
Shit, I might subscribe if I could read the comics I own now. They sit there doing nothing but making me money, and I haven't read a one.
Ok, I read a few.
[I've got a friend that claims the comic _book_ industry is a huge rip off. He worked at shows and said they gave stuff away, like to each other. This shit was supposed to be real 'collectors items']
Yes another one of these posts, it has nothing to do with the hardware!
But does anyone here but me want to question 'Benchmarks' instead of Mhz? I mean the CPU does run at said Mhz, that hasn't changed.
The problem is, when I see a chart comparing two companies chips, I can't believe it. I want to look for the footnote that says their system was tested with 93749234 GB of RAM, while the other companies was only tested with 1 MB of RAM.
That is why they should just give the CPU a name, or number, or whatever and let use read these reviews. Although sometimes reviews can also be biased, I can't trust anything that comes right from the company.
I used to have a chart showing how an AMD chip was like 50% faster than a Pentium of the same clock speed. This bothered me to no end. [it could be the other way around, that isn't important. What is: I didn't trust it.]
It's like a detergent commercial by 'Tide' which shows you two shirts and it cleans the whole stain while 'Era' doesn't. Just seems faked.
Obviously not by my long going thread in a MS newsgroup:
n &s coring=d&selm=fa8f861.0201210250.2959a5c0%40postin g.google.com&rnum=3
Basically I'm having USB and XP problems and the people there say that it's gotta be a hardware problem. Even though the problem doesn't exist in any other OS, even Microsoft ones. They can only suggest buying more hardware... although it was getting this XP that `broke` USB on my PC. They don't understand that `Hardware Problem` == `Broken/Dead Hardware`
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=imalamer&hl=e
Or This Link
In my case [isp's] the only port blocked is 80.
This isn't because of servers, rather Code Red... and that is because everyone was warez'n win2k server.
I think though they have lifted that by now... but I think they still SAY it's blocked on their website.
Your best bet, I think[?], would be to use a port higher than 65555. But if your report to dsheild or something it would look like an attack because it won't know what you are doing.