Strange, that... I actually found that Vista ran noticeably faster than XP on a computer I was using as a media centre with your suggested settings. I was dully impressed, right up until Vista started randomly rebooting and throwing up BSoDs (which I personally have found to be few and far-between on XP).
IMHO, I think XP is the best thing they ever done did, and I thought that right from day one.
I'm not only speaking from experience (as a trained and sadly experienced relief worker), but also conveying information that comes from colleagues of mine who work in epidemiology, and presuming that you do not have an anti-government reflex, the Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization. Well, shit, hero! Why didn't you say all that in the first place, instead of waiting for me to answer like some ignorant civvie?
I'll tell you what - next time a cyclone rolls up on our respective cribs, I'll bury my dead, and you can pile yours off to the side, and we'll agree to disagree. Towmatoes and tomahtos, etc...
Actually, this is not entirely true... Anyone who touches a corpse which has cholera, and then touches an orifice on their person will almost certainly contract it, not to mention anyone who touches anyone else, or anyone else's food. In the devastation they are now witnessing, I'm sure that hand-washing stations are few and far between.
Now, remember, this is just cholera - there are many other diseases that can be spread in this way: Yellow fever, typhoid fever, etc...
The easiest and safest way to avoid this - and the scourge of insects and wild animals (if any survived) - is to bury the dead. Simple, easy.
If it's a Federal case, life means life, no possibility of parole. Otherwise, it depends on the state, but no state that I know of has a sentence that lasts more than 25, and most of them allow parole after 15 years, sometimes 10. That is, of course, if they haven't had the possibility of parole taken away for some reason.
I thought I was the only one that ever did that, only I used to lightly pinch my thumbs and forefingers together, then touch the tips to their respective tips on the other hand and in doing so, form a diamond-shaped hole that I could change the size of, focusing at different lengths.
I had the same thought once, in regards to roadblocks... How are the police able to pull you over with no probable cause, and investigate your vehicle, when they can't do anything even close to that to your person as you walk down the street?
Turns out the law is funny on this one - Since driving and using vehicles is a licensed and controlled activity, they are allowed to routinely pull people over for things that relate ONLY to the operation and licensing of the vehicle, ie. Is the driver intoxicated, are the plates up-to-date, are things falling off the car, etc...? They aren't allowed to search inside unless given permission by the driver.
Not sure how this 'licensed activity' thing will hold up as it has become essentially a necessary thing for anyone in the US, and should probably be considered a basic human right at some point, which would render it free of much government control.
That's the irony - in the areas where Cogeco serves customers, they *are* the competition to Rogers. In most respects, they are superior to them; but I guess in this they fall down.
Ditto! I switched to Teksavvy in December (from Rogers), and even though I took a 3 Mb/s cut (and a $30/month cut in price), everything - especially torrents - downloads at a face-melting speed, comparatively.
I have worked in Cable for the last fifteen years, and was worried about the switch to DSL, but man... I needn't have worried. If you're in the GTA (I'm actually up in Barrie, an hour away), I can't recommend them highly enough.
This is true, but even more people aren't annoyed by anything, because they don't know any better and just know what they know. People on the whole are just too busy with other things to worry about how those things are delivered to them.
I have found that what most people mistake for arrogance and fascism on Microsoft's part is really just what makes Microsoft's products so ubiquitous - ease of use, and minimal guesswork. Not everyone wants a customisable interface with thousands of widgets and doohickeys. It's the whole Ray Kroc philosophy in software form - different computer, same simple interface.
Which, tangentially speaking, is why I think Linux is having difficulty establishing itself in the desktop world - non-computer literates just don't want choice. If you have anything less than a plug-it-into-the-wall-and-go system (not that Windows follows this every time, but most times) then the user just gets frustrated, because it's like being asked to untangle a rat's nest of wires using only tweezers. In the dark. While wearing oven mitts.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't plants inhale oxygen and exhale CO2 at night? I'm pretty sure their 'carbon footprint' isn't as small as the sandalistas would have you believe.
It makes you realise just how utterly huge this place is, if someone and their entire light aircraft can just disappear in a matter of minutes. Reminds me a lot of this case:
It's spooky, really, but I have to think that there'll be a Slashdot story in a few years about how his bones and his plane were found using new Google Maps Streetview - Desert Edition.
Hrmm... Funny, he didn't come across that way to me at all. You, however, come across as a pompous linguistic Nazi, much like Orwell. If you compose sentences for people who don't have command of the language, then you are really quite delusional.
As is my understanding, resources are utilised, while tools are used. He was correct in its usage.
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I think he mistyped it on purpose, in order to be 'folksy'.
Strange, that... I actually found that Vista ran noticeably faster than XP on a computer I was using as a media centre with your suggested settings. I was dully impressed, right up until Vista started randomly rebooting and throwing up BSoDs (which I personally have found to be few and far-between on XP).
IMHO, I think XP is the best thing they ever done did, and I thought that right from day one.
I'll tell you what - next time a cyclone rolls up on our respective cribs, I'll bury my dead, and you can pile yours off to the side, and we'll agree to disagree. Towmatoes and tomahtos, etc...
Then what's this for?
And not to be pedantic, but I do believe it's 'lawn maintenance'...
HAHAHAHAH!!!
He tried to cross
As fast train neared
Death didn't draft him
He volunteered
Burma-Shave
Actually, this is not entirely true... Anyone who touches a corpse which has cholera, and then touches an orifice on their person will almost certainly contract it, not to mention anyone who touches anyone else, or anyone else's food. In the devastation they are now witnessing, I'm sure that hand-washing stations are few and far between.
Now, remember, this is just cholera - there are many other diseases that can be spread in this way: Yellow fever, typhoid fever, etc...
The easiest and safest way to avoid this - and the scourge of insects and wild animals (if any survived) - is to bury the dead. Simple, easy.
If it's a Federal case, life means life, no possibility of parole. Otherwise, it depends on the state, but no state that I know of has a sentence that lasts more than 25, and most of them allow parole after 15 years, sometimes 10. That is, of course, if they haven't had the possibility of parole taken away for some reason.
Thank god for MSN... I mean... Live Messenger! So much better, or so it tells me.
According to their home page, this is the first interesting thing to happen to Slackware since 2005. It's the most boringest of all distros!
I thought I was the only one that ever did that, only I used to lightly pinch my thumbs and forefingers together, then touch the tips to their respective tips on the other hand and in doing so, form a diamond-shaped hole that I could change the size of, focusing at different lengths.
So it turns out I'm just another geek. Sigh.
So my question is... What happens if two Apteras hit each other head-on... Who rides up? Does the universe end?
I had the same thought once, in regards to roadblocks... How are the police able to pull you over with no probable cause, and investigate your vehicle, when they can't do anything even close to that to your person as you walk down the street?
Turns out the law is funny on this one - Since driving and using vehicles is a licensed and controlled activity, they are allowed to routinely pull people over for things that relate ONLY to the operation and licensing of the vehicle, ie. Is the driver intoxicated, are the plates up-to-date, are things falling off the car, etc...? They aren't allowed to search inside unless given permission by the driver.
Not sure how this 'licensed activity' thing will hold up as it has become essentially a necessary thing for anyone in the US, and should probably be considered a basic human right at some point, which would render it free of much government control.
Someone mod parent up... This is the answer to 90% of his question.
That's the irony - in the areas where Cogeco serves customers, they *are* the competition to Rogers. In most respects, they are superior to them; but I guess in this they fall down.
Ditto! I switched to Teksavvy in December (from Rogers), and even though I took a 3 Mb/s cut (and a $30/month cut in price), everything - especially torrents - downloads at a face-melting speed, comparatively.
I have worked in Cable for the last fifteen years, and was worried about the switch to DSL, but man... I needn't have worried. If you're in the GTA (I'm actually up in Barrie, an hour away), I can't recommend them highly enough.
This is true, but even more people aren't annoyed by anything, because they don't know any better and just know what they know. People on the whole are just too busy with other things to worry about how those things are delivered to them.
I have found that what most people mistake for arrogance and fascism on Microsoft's part is really just what makes Microsoft's products so ubiquitous - ease of use, and minimal guesswork. Not everyone wants a customisable interface with thousands of widgets and doohickeys. It's the whole Ray Kroc philosophy in software form - different computer, same simple interface.
Which, tangentially speaking, is why I think Linux is having difficulty establishing itself in the desktop world - non-computer literates just don't want choice. If you have anything less than a plug-it-into-the-wall-and-go system (not that Windows follows this every time, but most times) then the user just gets frustrated, because it's like being asked to untangle a rat's nest of wires using only tweezers. In the dark. While wearing oven mitts.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't plants inhale oxygen and exhale CO2 at night? I'm pretty sure their 'carbon footprint' isn't as small as the sandalistas would have you believe.
It makes you realise just how utterly huge this place is, if someone and their entire light aircraft can just disappear in a matter of minutes. Reminds me a lot of this case:
http://iroc305.tripod.com/id53.htm
It's spooky, really, but I have to think that there'll be a Slashdot story in a few years about how his bones and his plane were found using new Google Maps Streetview - Desert Edition.
I digress.
I'm a troll, and he's modded +5 insightful? Must be a lot of non-English speakers here.
Hrmm... Funny, he didn't come across that way to me at all. You, however, come across as a pompous linguistic Nazi, much like Orwell. If you compose sentences for people who don't have command of the language, then you are really quite delusional.
As is my understanding, resources are utilised, while tools are used. He was correct in its usage.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of geeks crying out in terror were suddenly silenced.
Hell yes.
And the carved quote would read, "President of what?" or possibly, "What did you do to me asshole?"
The Coast Guard?