HOW THE FUCK IS THIS REDUNDANT? It was the 16 POST, and the FIRST ONE talking about anyone dieing in their sleep, and it's a true story. Excuse the fuck out of me for sharing a life experience that I thought was relevant.
There used to be this kid, can't remember his name, that hung out with me and my friends when we were between the ages of ten to thirteen. He didn't go to our school, but he was a friend of another kid that was a neighbor of a friend or something. I think that made sense. Either way, he would QUIT BREATHING COMPLETELY when he slept and you'd have to wake him up or he'd DIE. I can remember his mom explaining that it was some sort of condition and we'd have to be careful to watch him when he slept over. Needless to say, how the fuck are you going to sleep at all if you are worried some kid you hardly know is going to die on you? We'd take turns watching him sleep. I can remember him turning blue a few times because someone dozed off that was watching him. Sometimes we'd all stay up together bullshitting about life and watch him. We started to resent the fact that we had such a huge responsibility thrust on us just to hang out with some kid we didn't even like that much. It didn't help that his attitude was along the lines of "Oh well, if I die I die" and we were like "We are saving your life asshole!". I can remember when he just quit showing up one day and I made the joke that he probably died. There was one of those 5 second pauses then everybody busted up laughing because when you are young, cruel can be funny. We never did find out what happened to him.
10 Things I Hate About You 101 Dalmations Abyss SE Alien Boxset Bad Boys - repressed Contact - repressed Gremlins Notorious Independence Day SE Hercules L.A Confidential - repressed Little Mermaid Men in Black CE Moonraker Planet of the Apes 1968 Pinnochio Stuart Little Tarzan
R1
Antz Boogie Nights - first release Bone Collector Chicken Run Contact Dances With Wolves Galaxy Quest Devil's Advocate L.A Confidential The Negotiator Stuart Little T2:UE (Dual Sided Disc) War Games
Take off the tinfoil hat my friend. I don't know if you've been exposed to much government, but let me tell you, they don't have the desire, motivation, or courage to be part of any grand design like that. Government workers are, by and large, very poor, unmotivated, and won't do anything to jepoardize their meager existence. Grand designs like these are right the hell out.
Ok, so finding some evidence of "grand design" effectively moots your point on this one.
I could go on but I don't see the point. Ok, that's one for me. They don't seem like lazy Govt workers fearing for their jobs now do they.
Then you said: Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either. And what you're talking about implies generations of development.
Ok. Got a little creative with some numbers you can't possible produce anything to back up. Lets see what I can produce other than the obvious trend for a whole bunch of presidents coming from the same families that have had a ton of money since the beginning of this USA experiment:
The best part of all this is that my "this makes sense" post was kinda sort supposed to be taken as a joke. Shameless flamebait to stir up the nuts. I never assumed I'd hook someone from the other extreme. I seriously don't understand you guys. Is it a "white guilt"? I mean, I made a bundle the past 15 years. That doesn't change the fact that I know things are heavily skewed in favor of "pretty white people". Hell, I've counted on it a number of times when negotiating with venture capitalists. But I mean, how many evil dictators that just happened to be funded/trained/ put in power by the USA do we have to pick a fight with in an election year to clue you in? Does another president have to be publicly executed to raise your suspicions that there just might be things going on that nobody in their right mind would want to know about? As for my URL, why not try actually going to it and see what it is. Understanding it's more in character for you to exert all your energies into crafting a high quality "flame" instead of actually taking the time to know what you are talking about.:) As an AC said already, you should feel pretty stupid.
"...And We Thought That Nation-States Were A Bad Idea"
"publicly subsidized! privately profitable!" that's the anthem of the upper-tier (the puppeteer untouchable). we focus a moment, nod in approval and bury our head back in the bar-codes of these neo-colonials while our former nemesis (ah, the romance!): the nation-state, now plays fund-raiser for a new brand of power-concentrate. try again, but now we're confused- what is "class-war"? is this class war? yes, this is class war. and i'm just a kid- i can't believe that i gotta worry about this kind of shit! what a stupid world! yeah, this is just beautiful... absolutely no regard for principle. what a stupid world. (we're): 1) born 2) hired 3) disposed! where that job lands, everybody knows and you can tell by the smile on the ceo's that the environmental restraints are about to go. you can bet that laws will be set to ensure the benefit of unrestricted labor-laws (all kept in place by displaced government death squads). they own us. they produce us. they consume us. can you fucking believe this? what a stupid world. fuck this bullshit display of class-loyalties. the media and "our" leaders wrap it all up in a flag"
It's not the how the 1 percenters got there, it's how they keep their gains whether they be ill gotten or righteous. There is a moral issue because THEY make it a moral game by taking the moral highground when attempts are made to call bullshit on their practices. The 99 percent don't owe anything to anybody because they are wage slaves at this point. I wonder how much the American Indian feels they owe the 1 percent, or how many of those original native Americans comprise that one percent. Your post reeks of the kind of mentality the british had for marching right on in and ruining perfectly fine societies. They actually believed they were doing the people they slaughtered, jailed, and diseased a favor by giving them the 'british system of order', saving them from their perceived savagery. It's a country. It's a people. It's supposed to be about an idea called America. America isn't SUPPOSED to be run like a company like you seem to suggest. I doubt the original founding fathers envisioned a future where marketers compete to brainwash people through all forms of media in order to peddle worthless products in the name of progress. Communism was highly flawed. Capitalism looks awesome on paper, but is very flawed. We still have a system in place that rewards the worse kind of human behavior, and encourages outright selfishness in spite of progress. Greed. The manufacturing of devils and scapegoats to justify the wants of the higher authority (School of the Americas). Keep the people fat dumb and happy, keep churning out "respectable" people from "respectable" families that still have those horrid 1950's values that the Govt seems to love so much. Keep "people like us" behind the wheel. Keep our stranglehold on things. My only hope is that 6 or 7 generations down the line, after all the babyboomers have finally died, that all that 1950's mentality will finally go away like it should have decades ago and the regime pulling the strings doesn't fuck things up as badly as they have.
In an economy where being able to constantly pull the wool over the eyes of the 99 percent of the populace that's doing all the work for the 1 percent that own everything, it's a liability to have smart folk around. If they can outsource as many of the smart people (more likely to question authority) or at least crush the spirits of the smart people that are here by giving their jobs away, there will be a higher contingent of the nascar loving, reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans that we need in this society to watch the the commercials and buy the crap necessary to fuel our economic model.
Actually, the BBB exists for the "Business" and not the consumer. I swear their role is specifically to "make the annoying consumer shut the fuck up and take some sort of pitiance and go away" instead of actual problem resolving. They tend to pretend they are some sort of government sanctioned agency, which they ARE NOT, instead of the private company they are. Your absolute best course of action is:
#1 check all company's out at www.resellerrating.com before making a purchase. And a note: just because they have a high rating doesn't mean you shouldn't read the comments posted by prior customers, and you shouldn't pay special attention to how good they are at refunds/replacements. A lot of these fly-by-night companys have high ratings, but extremely low ratings for warrantee service. As long as what you get from them works, great. But you can be SOL if you get sent something broken.
#2 If you do get screwed, use google to find out what state the company does business in, and contact that states ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE for consumer affairs. Almost all states have an online complaint filing system. The good thing about going through the AG is that your complaint will stay on file forever. The next person that files a complaint will add to the pile, and they'll notice. I've had 4 experiences recently with the AG's consumer affairs offices in NJ, NY, CA, and TX, and they ALL got me my refund/replacements within a month. They all have an online fraud complaint filing system. Hope this helps.
Is to make sure to be extra abusive to your batteries so they die well in advance of the seemingly standard 1 year warrantee. That way you get a fresh battery before the warrantee wears out.
I drink about 3 large glasses of iced tea an hour. That means I have to get up 4 times an hour. 3 times for refills, and once to P. That and I'm so hyped on caffiene I'm constantly tapping my feet while talking to myself and the other deathmatch players in (place any first person shooter that works on linux here) while in absolute heaven on my caffiene high. Lately it's been the navy seals covert operations mod for quake3. Damn slick.
So I read the story and went to GIANT and bought a pack. I'm smoking one right now. It's kinda hard to describe what it's like, but I just ordered a carton of them. I bought the Quest3, or "Nicotene Free" variety. It's about as light as a marlboro ultralight, but the flavor is, IMHO, better. There is something missing. Cigarettes usually have a "bite" to them. Like a sharp edge that's part of the flavor. It's completely gone. It actually (IMHO again) makes them taste better. The problem is that collective bite is what keeps me from picking up another smoke in 10 minutes. I can see smoking a lot more of these than the ultralights I normally smoke. But if after a few weeks I'm over the nicotene addiction, it will be worth it. I'm very impressed with this product.
On a side note, Anheuser-Busch is having a beer promotion right now for beer distributors. They are going to be the exclusive importers for a line of beers from an italian company called "libero". If you fill in the blanks at the page below, you can "pretend" to be an interested distributor and score 5 cases of this stuff. I hope it doesn't suck. The page is in italian, but it's not hard to understand. YMMV.
So I read the story and went to GIANT and bought a pack. I'm smoking one right now. It's kinda hard to describe what it's like, but I just ordered a carton of them. I bought the Quest3, or "Nicotene Free" variety. It's about as light as a marlboro ultralight, but the flavor is, IMHO, better. There is something missing. Cigarettes usually have a "bite" to them. Like a sharp edge that's part of the flavor. It's completely gone. It actually (IMHO again) makes them taste better. The problem is that collective bite is what keeps me from picking up another smoke in 10 minutes. I can see smoking a lot more of these than the ultralights I normally smoke. But if after a few weeks I'm over the nicotene addiction, it will be worth it. I'm very impressed with this product.
Even use the latest video card without scrambling for seventy-two kernel patches!
Pull your hair out because your ATI drivers for windows are crap, and there is NOTHING you can do to fix that! There is no enormous group of developers donating free time to fix it immediately!
Install a new camera without restarting 6 times to find the right driver!
Deal with problems stemming from accidentally clicking "YES" to remove an older working version of a file when you install some new software and end up breaking 5 other pieces of software!
you can actually install programs without scheduling the time to do so!
Sit for hours waiting for tech support that you have to pay for if something does break! Get the "It's not us, it's the vendor" run around and end up calling all over the place all day running up your long distance bill!
Oh, and..
Sit and cry because a word macro virus ate your computer! Everything is gone! WOW what a product!
But seriously, It's a little bit of time up front, whole heck of a lot less time and problems later. I think it took me about 25 seconds of actual work getting an epson stylus c42ux working on Gentoo recently. I had to install cups "emerge cups" and foomatic "emerge foomatic". It pretty much did the rest. I filled in a few blanks and pow, printer working. I had to do an "emerge gtkam" to get my powershot s200 working. As far as games, I have quake 1,2,3 UT, ut2003, wolfenstein, and many other working just fine one click away in blackbox. My Geforce3 ti500 is getting around 176 frames per sec at 1280 by 1024 with all the goodies cranked up the whole way in quake3 timedemo four. I'm using an Athlon XP 2100+ with no issues. I haven't really found anything that I want to do that I can't do. Everything just works, and works better than any alternative. Little bit of time up front, less hassel and BS later on. Oh, and it's free.
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There was a story on/. a while ago about the PKI system. It's a computerized diagnosis system that most doctors are reluctant to use because it does a large part of their job. They absolutely refuse to admit that the PKI system can diagnose a patient better than they can, or even be considered a useful tool. I can draw parallels with certain UNIX Guru's I've had the displeasure of working with that absolutely refuse to embrace new technology, then go ahead and blow deadlines because they "Know the right way to do something, and that's their way". Figure out a way to force medical professionals to embrace life saving technology like the PKI, make the use of a computer a mandatory skill for the degree program, and you might see a lessening of misdiagnosis.
It's more about playing region locked games, being able to install linux, and having the right to do with your hardware what you want because you PAID for it. By all means, please perpetuate the FUD though. Your corporate masters love it.
It's a proven fact that more people hack Windows than Linux. I think they'd open the competition up to more people if they use the number one operating system for the target. There is an enormous pool of MCSE's nationwide they could draw upon to defend the windows server. I personally think that would be a lot more fun to watch. *cough* *cough*:)
I hate to say I got sick of waiting and installed Gentoo. I'm also sad to say that I'm enjoying the better compatibility with my kt333 chipset, sound, network, etc. I'm also enjoying the serious stability and performance increases with the linux nVidia drives for my ti500. It's also just a workstation/gaming platform. All the machines I've done on contract recently have been FreeBSD. At some point in the future if I can get AGP 4x with all the goodies like page-flipping and whatnot to work with the nVidia drivers for FreeBSD, and the issues with the kt333 chipset are resolved, and I can pry myself away from UT2003 and inferno long enough to do it, I'll go back to FreeBSD on my workstation.:)
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Sure, it's cool that they're getting drivers out the door, especially with nVIDIA's history of buggy drivers.
nVidia doesn't have a history of buggy drivers. You are thinking of ATI.
But "almost as fast as Windows" isn't going to cut it
Actually, it's a crap shoot. Some things are faster on windows (d3d stuff) and most opengl stuff is slightly faster on linux/freebsd. granted we are talking about 1-3 percent differences here.
We Linux users are used to, and demand, superior software. Mozilla, Nautilus, XMMS, the GIMP, EMACS...these applications blow away anything available for Windows. 95-99% of Windows speed is "too little, too late."
Here is where the obvious troll is. Who actually bought this crap?
Going on SNL is a great way to make the people think you are "hip" and "cool" and not as bad as everybody thought you were. It totally worked for Al Gore. AOL should hire Al Gore's agent.
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HOW THE FUCK IS THIS REDUNDANT? It was the 16 POST,
and the FIRST ONE talking about anyone dieing in
their sleep, and it's a true story. Excuse the fuck
out of me for sharing a life experience that I
thought was relevant.
There used to be this kid, can't remember his name,
that hung out with me and my friends when we were
between the ages of ten to thirteen. He didn't go
to our school, but he was a friend of another kid
that was a neighbor of a friend or something.
I think that made sense. Either way, he would
QUIT BREATHING COMPLETELY when he slept and you'd
have to wake him up or he'd DIE. I can remember his
mom explaining that it was some sort of condition
and we'd have to be careful to watch him when he slept
over. Needless to say, how the fuck are you going to
sleep at all if you are worried some kid you hardly
know is going to die on you? We'd take turns watching
him sleep. I can remember him turning blue a few times
because someone dozed off that was watching him.
Sometimes we'd all stay up together bullshitting
about life and watch him. We started to resent the
fact that we had such a huge responsibility thrust
on us just to hang out with some kid we didn't
even like that much. It didn't help that his
attitude was along the lines of "Oh well, if I
die I die" and we were like "We are saving your
life asshole!". I can remember when he just quit
showing up one day and I made the joke that he
probably died. There was one of those 5 second
pauses then everybody busted up laughing because
when you are young, cruel can be funny. We never
did find out what happened to him.
R4
10 Things I Hate About You
101 Dalmations
Abyss SE
Alien Boxset
Bad Boys - repressed
Contact - repressed
Gremlins
Notorious
Independence Day SE
Hercules
L.A Confidential - repressed
Little Mermaid
Men in Black CE
Moonraker
Planet of the Apes 1968
Pinnochio
Stuart Little
Tarzan
R1
Antz
Boogie Nights - first release
Bone Collector
Chicken Run
Contact
Dances With Wolves
Galaxy Quest
Devil's Advocate
L.A Confidential
The Negotiator
Stuart Little
T2:UE (Dual Sided Disc)
War Games
Lets see...
:) As an AC said already, you
Take off the tinfoil hat my friend. I don't know if you've been exposed to much government, but let me tell you, they don't have the desire, motivation, or courage to be part of any grand design like that. Government workers are, by and large, very poor, unmotivated, and won't do anything to jepoardize their meager existence. Grand designs like these are right the hell out.
Ok, so finding some evidence of "grand design"
effectively moots your point on this one.
Iran Contra
Kangaland Spills The Beans
I could go on but I don't see the point.
Ok, that's one for me. They don't seem like lazy
Govt workers fearing for their jobs now do they.
Then you said:
Maybe you'll then say that it's not the goverment but the wealthy fueling your conspiracy. Well, considering that of that 1% you're talking about, only 10% of their children will manage to do anything but piss that wealth away, I don't see a successful continuation there either. And what you're talking about implies generations of development.
Ok. Got a little creative with some numbers you
can't possible produce anything to back up. Lets
see what I can produce other than the obvious
trend for a whole bunch of presidents coming from
the same families that have had a ton of money
since the beginning of this USA experiment:
The Breakdown
The best part of all this is that my "this makes
sense" post was kinda sort supposed to be taken
as a joke. Shameless flamebait to stir up the
nuts. I never assumed I'd hook someone from the
other extreme. I seriously don't understand you
guys. Is it a "white guilt"? I mean, I made a
bundle the past 15 years. That doesn't change the
fact that I know things are heavily skewed in
favor of "pretty white people". Hell, I've counted
on it a number of times when negotiating with
venture capitalists. But I mean, how many evil
dictators that just happened to be funded/trained/
put in power by the USA do we have to pick a
fight with in an election year to clue you in?
Does another president have to be publicly
executed to raise your suspicions that there just
might be things going on that nobody in their
right mind would want to know about?
As for my URL, why not try actually going to it
and see what it is. Understanding it's more in
character for you to exert all your energies into
crafting a high quality "flame" instead of
actually taking the time to know what you are
talking about.
should feel pretty stupid.
"...And We Thought That Nation-States Were A Bad Idea"
"publicly subsidized! privately profitable!" that's the anthem of the upper-tier (the puppeteer untouchable). we focus a moment, nod in approval and bury our head back in the bar-codes of these neo-colonials while our former nemesis (ah, the romance!): the nation-state, now plays fund-raiser for a new brand of power-concentrate. try again, but now we're confused- what is "class-war"? is this class war? yes, this is class war. and i'm just a kid- i can't believe that i gotta worry about this kind of shit! what a stupid world! yeah, this is just beautiful... absolutely no regard for principle. what a stupid world. (we're): 1) born 2) hired 3) disposed! where that job lands, everybody knows and you can tell by the smile on the ceo's that the environmental restraints are about to go. you can bet that laws will be set to ensure the benefit of unrestricted labor-laws (all kept in place by displaced government death squads). they own us. they produce us. they consume us. can you fucking believe this? what a stupid world. fuck this bullshit display of class-loyalties. the media and "our" leaders wrap it all up in a flag"
It's not the how the 1 percenters got there, it's
how they keep their gains whether they be ill gotten
or righteous. There is a moral issue because THEY
make it a moral game by taking the moral highground
when attempts are made to call bullshit on their
practices. The 99 percent don't owe anything to
anybody because they are wage slaves at this point.
I wonder how much the American Indian feels they
owe the 1 percent, or how many of those original
native Americans comprise that one percent. Your
post reeks of the kind of mentality the british
had for marching right on in and ruining perfectly
fine societies. They actually believed they were
doing the people they slaughtered, jailed, and
diseased a favor by giving them the 'british
system of order', saving them from their perceived
savagery. It's a country. It's a people. It's
supposed to be about an idea called America.
America isn't SUPPOSED to be run like a company
like you seem to suggest. I doubt the original
founding fathers envisioned a future where
marketers compete to brainwash people through all
forms of media in order to peddle worthless
products in the name of progress. Communism was
highly flawed. Capitalism looks awesome on paper,
but is very flawed. We still have a system in
place that rewards the worse kind of human
behavior, and encourages outright selfishness
in spite of progress. Greed. The manufacturing
of devils and scapegoats to justify the wants
of the higher authority (School of the Americas).
Keep the people fat dumb and happy, keep churning
out "respectable" people from "respectable"
families that still have those horrid 1950's values
that the Govt seems to love so much. Keep "people
like us" behind the wheel. Keep our stranglehold
on things. My only hope is that 6 or 7 generations
down the line, after all the babyboomers have
finally died, that all that 1950's mentality will
finally go away like it should have decades ago
and the regime pulling the strings doesn't fuck
things up as badly as they have.
In an economy where being able to constantly pull
the wool over the eyes of the 99 percent of the
populace that's doing all the work for the 1 percent
that own everything, it's a liability to have
smart folk around. If they can outsource as many of
the smart people (more likely to question authority)
or at least crush the spirits of the smart people
that are here by giving their jobs away, there will
be a higher contingent of the nascar loving,
reality tv watching, wrestling, Jerry Springer fans
that we need in this society to watch the
the commercials and buy the crap necessary to
fuel our economic model.
Actually, the BBB exists for the "Business" and not
the consumer. I swear their role is specifically to
"make the annoying consumer shut the fuck up and
take some sort of pitiance and go away" instead of
actual problem resolving. They tend to pretend they
are some sort of government sanctioned agency,
which they ARE NOT, instead of the private company
they are. Your absolute best course of action is:
#1 check all company's out at www.resellerrating.com
before making a purchase. And a note: just because
they have a high rating doesn't mean you shouldn't
read the comments posted by prior customers, and
you shouldn't pay special attention to how good
they are at refunds/replacements. A lot of these
fly-by-night companys have high ratings, but
extremely low ratings for warrantee service. As
long as what you get from them works, great. But
you can be SOL if you get sent something broken.
#2 If you do get screwed, use google to find out
what state the company does business in, and
contact that states ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE for
consumer affairs. Almost all states have an online
complaint filing system. The good thing about
going through the AG is that your complaint will
stay on file forever. The next person that files
a complaint will add to the pile, and they'll
notice. I've had 4 experiences recently with the
AG's consumer affairs offices in NJ, NY, CA, and
TX, and they ALL got me my refund/replacements
within a month. They all have an online fraud
complaint filing system. Hope this helps.
Is to make sure to be extra abusive to your
batteries so they die well in advance of the
seemingly standard 1 year warrantee. That way
you get a fresh battery before the warrantee
wears out.
I drink about 3 large glasses of iced tea an hour.
That means I have to get up 4 times an hour. 3 times
for refills, and once to P. That and I'm so hyped on
caffiene I'm constantly tapping my feet while
talking to myself and the other deathmatch players
in (place any first person shooter that works
on linux here) while in absolute heaven on my caffiene
high. Lately it's been the navy seals covert
operations mod for quake3. Damn slick.
So I read the story and went to GIANT and bought a
pack. I'm smoking one right now. It's kinda hard to
describe what it's like, but I just ordered a carton
of them. I bought the Quest3, or "Nicotene Free"
variety. It's about as light as a marlboro
ultralight, but the flavor is, IMHO, better. There
is something missing. Cigarettes usually have a
"bite" to them. Like a sharp edge that's part of
the flavor. It's completely gone. It actually
(IMHO again) makes them taste better. The problem
is that collective bite is what keeps me from
picking up another smoke in 10 minutes. I can see
smoking a lot more of these than the ultralights
I normally smoke. But if after a few weeks I'm
over the nicotene addiction, it will be worth it.
I'm very impressed with this product.
On a side note, Anheuser-Busch is having a
beer promotion right now for beer
distributors. They are going to be the exclusive
importers for a line of beers from an italian
company called "libero". If you fill in the blanks
at the page below, you can "pretend" to be an
interested distributor and score 5 cases of this
stuff. I hope it doesn't suck. The page is in
italian, but it's not hard to understand. YMMV.
http://digilander.libero.it/caricacell/
So I read the story and went to GIANT and bought a
pack. I'm smoking one right now. It's kinda hard to
describe what it's like, but I just ordered a carton
of them. I bought the Quest3, or "Nicotene Free"
variety. It's about as light as a marlboro
ultralight, but the flavor is, IMHO, better. There
is something missing. Cigarettes usually have a
"bite" to them. Like a sharp edge that's part of
the flavor. It's completely gone. It actually
(IMHO again) makes them taste better. The problem
is that collective bite is what keeps me from
picking up another smoke in 10 minutes. I can see
smoking a lot more of these than the ultralights
I normally smoke. But if after a few weeks I'm
over the nicotene addiction, it will be worth it.
I'm very impressed with this product.
nice sig!
Even use the latest video card without scrambling for seventy-two kernel patches!
Pull your hair out because your ATI drivers for
windows are crap, and there is NOTHING you can do
to fix that! There is no enormous group of
developers donating free time to fix it immediately!
Install a new camera without restarting 6 times to find the right driver!
Deal with problems stemming from accidentally
clicking "YES" to remove an older working version
of a file when you install some new software and
end up breaking 5 other pieces of software!
you can actually install programs without scheduling the time to do so!
Sit for hours waiting for tech support that you
have to pay for if something does break! Get
the "It's not us, it's the vendor" run around
and end up calling all over the place all day
running up your long distance bill!
Oh, and..
Sit and cry because a word macro virus ate your
computer! Everything is gone! WOW what a product!
But seriously,
It's a little bit of time up front, whole heck of
a lot less time and problems later. I think it
took me about 25 seconds of actual work getting
an epson stylus c42ux working on Gentoo recently.
I had to install cups "emerge cups" and foomatic
"emerge foomatic". It pretty much did the rest.
I filled in a few blanks and pow, printer working.
I had to do an "emerge gtkam" to get my powershot
s200 working. As far as games, I have quake 1,2,3
UT, ut2003, wolfenstein, and many other working
just fine one click away in blackbox. My Geforce3
ti500 is getting around 176 frames per sec at
1280 by 1024 with all the goodies cranked up the
whole way in quake3 timedemo four. I'm using an
Athlon XP 2100+ with no issues. I haven't really
found anything that I want to do that I can't do.
Everything just works, and works better than any
alternative. Little bit of time up front, less
hassel and BS later on. Oh, and it's free.
There was a story on /. a while ago about the
PKI system. It's a computerized diagnosis system
that most doctors are reluctant to use because
it does a large part of their job. They absolutely
refuse to admit that the PKI system can diagnose
a patient better than they can, or even be
considered a useful tool. I can draw parallels with
certain UNIX Guru's I've had the displeasure of
working with that absolutely refuse to embrace new
technology, then go ahead and blow deadlines because
they "Know the right way to do something, and that's
their way". Figure out a way to force medical
professionals to embrace life saving technology
like the PKI, make the use of a computer a
mandatory skill for the degree program, and you
might see a lessening of misdiagnosis.
Didn't read the article did ya? :)
It's not about a single thing you are talking
about.
It's more about playing region locked games, being
able to install linux, and having the right to do
with your hardware what you want because you PAID
for it. By all means, please perpetuate the FUD
though. Your corporate masters love it.
Perhaps my scarcasm was lost on just you.
It's a proven fact that more people hack Windows :)
than Linux. I think they'd open the competition up
to more people if they use the number one operating
system for the target. There is an enormous pool of
MCSE's nationwide they could draw upon to defend the
windows server. I personally think that would be a
lot more fun to watch. *cough* *cough*
I hate to say I got sick of waiting and installed :)
Gentoo. I'm also sad to say that I'm enjoying the
better compatibility with my kt333 chipset, sound,
network, etc. I'm also enjoying the serious
stability and performance increases with the linux
nVidia drives for my ti500. It's also just a
workstation/gaming platform. All the machines I've
done on contract recently have been FreeBSD. At
some point in the future if I can get AGP 4x with
all the goodies like page-flipping and whatnot to
work with the nVidia drivers for FreeBSD, and the
issues with the kt333 chipset are resolved, and
I can pry myself away from UT2003 and inferno
long enough to do it, I'll go back to FreeBSD on
my workstation.
A Ecosystem Torn
Necessary Motto
Nectary Toe Moss
Not A Core System
An Erect Moss Toy
One Try Ass Comet
Tycoon Ass Meter
So Scram Teen Toy
Scam Teensy Root
Am On Cosy Street
Sony Scat Remote
Mac Rotten Yes So
Sears Cottony Me
Comatose Sentry
Easy Scent Motor
Stony Acme Store
And my personal favorite:
WAIT FOR IT.......
Taco Semen Story
It's obvious they bought the acorn they built the
platform out of at home depot.
Sure, it's cool that they're getting drivers out the door, especially with nVIDIA's history of buggy drivers.
nVidia doesn't have a history of buggy drivers. You
are thinking of ATI.
But "almost as fast as Windows" isn't going to cut it
Actually, it's a crap shoot. Some things are faster
on windows (d3d stuff) and most opengl stuff is
slightly faster on linux/freebsd. granted we are
talking about 1-3 percent differences here.
We Linux users are used to, and demand, superior software. Mozilla, Nautilus, XMMS, the GIMP, EMACS...these applications blow away anything available for Windows. 95-99% of Windows speed is "too little, too late."
Here is where the obvious troll is. Who actually
bought this crap?
Going on SNL is a great way to make the people
think you are "hip" and "cool" and not as bad
as everybody thought you were. It totally worked
for Al Gore. AOL should hire Al Gore's agent.