No matter how much those of us on cable bitch about the shitty tech support or what-not, I don't believe there is a single one of us that would rather go back to dialup. DSL, sure, but not dial-up. Broadband rules and once you've had that speed, there's no going back.
Rogers doesn't hassle me about anything... probably because I call up and scream at them whenever there's a problem with the email server, or DNS server, or router, or whatever the breakdown of the week is. They probably have a note attached to my account that says, "Don't piss this guy off or he WILL scream at you."
I run ftp, http, blah blah blah. I just tell them I haven't used DHCP since I rebooted one day and the DHCP server was down.
I will ridicule you everytime your flaky Athlon system crashes. I'm not placing blame on AMD - from all reports it's actually the chipsets that suck. I run a PIII 800 on a BX based motherboard, and it's the most stable thing I've ever used. WTF do I need anything faster for? So I can burn SETI work units faster??? Whatever.
I bet all you AMD zealots would secretly love it if Intel made Athlon chipsets. This, of course, will never happen, but that's not my point.
I'm sure there are legitimate cases, but not nearly as many as have been claimed. I'm also sure that the makers of those stupid (IMHO) split keyboards will tell anyone who feels the slightest twinge that they have RSI.
I can certainly appreciate your argument, as well as those opposed to yours, but.... Just how is it you've come to know what browser/OS everyone uses?
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Yeah. He also ended up in a flamewar with Tanenbaum on the minix newsgroup. It must have really sucked to have the author of a book that inspired you trash your operation system in a public forum. I found that to be one of the more interesting parts of the book. (Though there were many more)
That's one of the few exceptions. This is where you're lucky. Being american, you aren't force-fed all the Canadian content, and so you only hear the Canadian stuff that's actually any good. If it wasn't, american radio wouldn't play it.
It would be nice if we could convince enough people to operate that way. Then the artist would be paid for their work, and the record companies would stop getting rich from other people's work.
I thought the same thing for a while. After giving it some thought, it may not be so bad... after all, they'll still be using today's technology for the special effects. Keeping that in mind, I won't dismiss it just because it's about an era 100 years or so before TOS. Besides, it should be neat to see some of the transition from Cochran's Phoenix to Kirk's Enterprise.
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As a matter of fact, it is available in DivX.
No idea where to get it though, nosiree.
The victims are wrong for now being a little more levelheaded and creative in dealing with bullies?
Perhaps bullies never bothered you when you were a kid. Based on that statement of yours, I would be surprised to hear that you were. I went through that when I was in school, so I consider myself somewhat of an authority on the subject.
How on earth do you expect a kid to be "levelheaded" or "creative" when he's scared and angry? It's not gonna happen. You can't fault a kid for not knowing the proper way to deal with a situation that he shouldn't have to endure in the first place.
I can tell you this: I have no kids of my own, but I can guarantee my nieces and nephews won't have any bully problems or the bully's parents will see our point of view.
They don't go away if you ignore them.
It is an outrage that you feel you have the right to come here and preach your morals to everyone else. Not all of us read the bible. Not all of us are prudes. Some of us like porn. Your statement that pornography is indestinguishable from rape represents your opinion. You would present it as fact.
Go away and pray for our eternal souls or something.
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Let me make this perfectly clear.
No matter how much those of us on cable bitch about the shitty tech support or what-not, I don't believe there is a single one of us that would rather go back to dialup. DSL, sure, but not dial-up.
Broadband rules and once you've had that speed, there's no going back.
I once found a pic on the net of a strange individual copulating with a stuffed Barney doll.
I wonder what they'd have to say about that. At least it's not violent.
Who is modding this down?
I love Slackware, but he does make a valid point. Slack is NOT for newbies.
Rogers doesn't hassle me about anything... probably because I call up and scream at them whenever there's a problem with the email server, or DNS server, or router, or whatever the breakdown of the week is.
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They probably have a note attached to my account that says, "Don't piss this guy off or he WILL scream at you."
I run ftp, http, blah blah blah.
I just tell them I haven't used DHCP since I rebooted one day and the DHCP server was down.
As a customer, I am SUCH an asshole
I will ridicule you everytime your flaky Athlon system crashes. I'm not placing blame on AMD - from all reports it's actually the chipsets that suck.
I run a PIII 800 on a BX based motherboard, and it's the most stable thing I've ever used.
WTF do I need anything faster for? So I can burn SETI work units faster??? Whatever.
I bet all you AMD zealots would secretly love it if Intel made Athlon chipsets.
This, of course, will never happen, but that's not my point.
So you want AMD to whip Intel's ass to the point that THEY end up with a semi-monopoly and THEY start price gouging?
Oh wait, they're the good guys, they wouldn't do that. My mistake.
I'm sure there are legitimate cases, but not nearly as many as have been claimed.
I'm also sure that the makers of those stupid (IMHO) split keyboards will tell anyone who feels the slightest twinge that they have RSI.
I can certainly appreciate your argument, as well as those opposed to yours, but....
Just how is it you've come to know what browser/OS everyone uses?
Yeah. He also ended up in a flamewar with Tanenbaum on the minix newsgroup. It must have really sucked to have the author of a book that inspired you trash your operation system in a public forum.
I found that to be one of the more interesting parts of the book. (Though there were many more)
I'm another grammar nazi. Thanks for jumping all over him so I don't have to.
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They make mention of Linus' book (which is great, for those who haven't picked it up yet)
Pity.
2 monopolies?
OK, Micro$oft and who?
That's one of the few exceptions.
This is where you're lucky. Being american, you aren't force-fed all the Canadian content, and so you only hear the Canadian stuff that's actually any good. If it wasn't, american radio wouldn't play it.
It would be nice if we could convince enough people to operate that way.
Then the artist would be paid for their work, and the record companies would stop getting rich from other people's work.
Yeah..... can you imagine not being able to use anything without it crashing?
*shudder*
I thought the same thing for a while. After giving it some thought, it may not be so bad... after all, they'll still be using today's technology for the special effects. Keeping that in mind, I won't dismiss it just because it's about an era 100 years or so before TOS.
Besides, it should be neat to see some of the transition from Cochran's Phoenix to Kirk's Enterprise.
As a matter of fact, it is available in DivX.
No idea where to get it though, nosiree.
Are you kidding?
I'm running 2.4.4 and my USB keyboard, mouse, printer and game controller all work great.
Have you been to www.linux-usb.org?
I've actually thought about running a telnet BBS on my other machine.
Does anyone know of decent software for Linux?
...doors of ports for Linux?
It doesn't list my old BBS from '90 ;)
I mean, so what if it ran on a modified Atari 130XE at 2400 baud?
The victims are wrong for now being a little more levelheaded and creative in dealing with bullies?
Perhaps bullies never bothered you when you were a kid. Based on that statement of yours, I would be surprised to hear that you were.
I went through that when I was in school, so I consider myself somewhat of an authority on the subject.
How on earth do you expect a kid to be "levelheaded" or "creative" when he's scared and angry? It's not gonna happen. You can't fault a kid for not knowing the proper way to deal with a situation that he shouldn't have to endure in the first place.
I can tell you this: I have no kids of my own, but I can guarantee my nieces and nephews won't have any bully problems or the bully's parents will see our point of view. They don't go away if you ignore them.
It is an outrage that you feel you have the right to come here and preach your morals to everyone else.
Not all of us read the bible.
Not all of us are prudes.
Some of us like porn.
Your statement that pornography is indestinguishable from rape represents your opinion. You would present it as fact.
Go away and pray for our eternal souls or something.
Well, you said yours about half as well as you could have.
If this is such a silly question, why does SETI@Home boast about 2.9 million users?