if you're going to put one country first then you'd better rank everyone in order of use.
Which is what I was implying. And which makes a hell of a lot more sense, at least for the top 5 or so countries (which probably make up 80-90% of all Internet users) than a completely alphabetized list.
Shit yeah, we should be at the top. We have, per capita, the most people on the Internet and we have, by numbers alone, the most people on the Internet by country. It simply makes sense, from a marketing perspective, to have the countries with the "biggest" presence on the Internet at the top of the list. Make it convenient for the largest amount of customers. If the odd Angolan has to scroll down a little, that's fine. How many of them are there on the Net?
This isn't some petty "my country is better than yours!" pissing contest. It's simple common sense.
The only patches I've ever seen for a CPU are for the "innovative" Intel f00f and MTH bugs. Every single AMD cpu I've ever used has worked perfectly with Linux, no matter what version.
We need
to tell industry and our political figures that we WILL NOT stand for such things, and will fight them
every step of the way!
That's the problem, though. We need to do this and we need to do that, but, when it comes right down to it, how many of us actually get off our fucking asses and do anything? How many people who constantly whine and bitch as their freedoms are slowly usurped from them also support the EFF through donations? How many write (not email, WRITE) their congressman every time a boneheaded bill is introduced? Judging by the outcome of trials and the passage of various and sundry laws in the past few years, I'm willing to bet the number is pretty damned low.
If bitching could really solve problems, slashdot would have ended world hunger by now.
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*how* much cheaper can faulty RAM be? I mean, 256MB SDRAM DIMMs are already $135 apiece... Would it really be worth it to get a dodgy piece of memory if the difference in price is negligible?
This is a FREE site, on which people can vent all sorts of
more or less stupid opinions (go ahead, this one's to easy) while staying within a certain group of
subjects. If you don't like it, sod off.
If you're gonna be transferring a few gigs of data, expect to sit around for an hour or two while you wait for your data to transfer over the snail-like USB bus. Then expect to wait a couple hours when you get home to transfer the data onto your home machines. Not exactly fun.
I used to shuttle data with an old 1GB SCSI drive, which took a few minutes to fill. Other people mentioned removeable IDE drives, too. If you don't mind rebooting, you can look into this too. (Though not recommended, I've had no problem "hot-swapping" SCSI drives.)
I've always wanted to get three big SCSI drives, each with their own LED connections, and hook each positive terminal to one of the three positive ones on the full-color LED. Then I wanted to wait until 7:40 AM for a little light show.
The P6 (Pentium Pro) core was a masterpiece, and its performance sent
shock waves throughout the industry.
Calling anything from the x86 world a "masterpiece" seems, to me, like putting a gold star on the best-looking fingerpainting in the special-needs Kindergarten class.
SCENE: Shapiro is in a bar, chatting up a pair of rather attractive chicks, who don't seem to be taking much notice of him.
SHAPIRO: Heh, so, anyway, Trixie, anyway I says to the guy, I says, "You have installed Red Hat on your Optiplex. Prepare to FACE MY WRAFTH!" And then I whipped out my Windows 98 bootable CD and wiped his crappy installation clean off his hard drive. Then I told his boss on him. He's in for a heapin' helpin' of trouble come Monday morning!
TRIXIE: You smell like armpit.
TRIXIE'S FRIEND MARCIA: Good God, did you bathe in sweat this morning?
SHAPIRO: So, what say? Wanna go back to my van and screw?
TRIXIE knees SHAPIRO in the GONADS. MARCIA laughs to herself. TRIXIE and MARCIA leave with A LEET LINUX SYSADMIN.
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Back to the drawing board.
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Which is what I was implying. And which makes a hell of a lot more sense, at least for the top 5 or so countries (which probably make up 80-90% of all Internet users) than a completely alphabetized list.
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This isn't some petty "my country is better than yours!" pissing contest. It's simple common sense.
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Great troll, though.
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But still not high enough to keep the morons on eBay who willfully pay $1500 for a $300 console away.
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Yeah, some of us actually have (gasp!) jobs and can afford shit like this. Hell, a 1.2 GHz Athlon only costs $500.
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to tell industry and our political figures that we WILL NOT stand for such things, and will fight them
every step of the way!
That's the problem, though. We need to do this and we need to do that, but, when it comes right down to it, how many of us actually get off our fucking asses and do anything? How many people who constantly whine and bitch as their freedoms are slowly usurped from them also support the EFF through donations? How many write (not email, WRITE) their congressman every time a boneheaded bill is introduced? Judging by the outcome of trials and the passage of various and sundry laws in the past few years, I'm willing to bet the number is pretty damned low.
If bitching could really solve problems, slashdot would have ended world hunger by now.
- A.P. (and, yes, I support the EFF. You should too.)
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Well, what if the shareholders demand it, then?
This isn't exactly a free site anymore...
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I used to shuttle data with an old 1GB SCSI drive, which took a few minutes to fill. Other people mentioned removeable IDE drives, too. If you don't mind rebooting, you can look into this too. (Though not recommended, I've had no problem "hot-swapping" SCSI drives.)
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It would have been lame, but cool.
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Calling anything from the x86 world a "masterpiece" seems, to me, like putting a gold star on the best-looking fingerpainting in the special-needs Kindergarten class.
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I think I'll just work from home from now on.
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SHAPIRO: Heh, so, anyway, Trixie, anyway I says to the guy, I says, "You have installed Red Hat on your Optiplex. Prepare to FACE MY WRAFTH!" And then I whipped out my Windows 98 bootable CD and wiped his crappy installation clean off his hard drive. Then I told his boss on him. He's in for a heapin' helpin' of trouble come Monday morning!
TRIXIE: You smell like armpit.
TRIXIE'S FRIEND MARCIA: Good God, did you bathe in sweat this morning?
SHAPIRO: So, what say? Wanna go back to my van and screw?
TRIXIE knees SHAPIRO in the GONADS. MARCIA laughs to herself. TRIXIE and MARCIA leave with A LEET LINUX SYSADMIN.
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Apple also invented oxygen, arable land, and perfected the practice of rubbing sticks together to produce "fire".
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