yeah, not really sarcasm, it's just so rare for someone to say that the civil war was over states rights. In the book 'Lies my Teacher Told Me' he essentially argues that you can measure racism as a function of high school textbooks that say the civil war was about states' rights. Actually I might be remembering that wrong. But whatever, saying the civil war was about states' rights is about as un-PC as it gets.
you make good points with your car analogy, but to nitpick, a car is even more difficult to operate than a computer.
Consider:
In order to drive your car you need a driver's license and a vehicle license. In order to get your drivers license you have to go to one place and take a test, to get your car license you have to go to (often) a different place and pay some money and show them 2 or 3 forms. In my state before you can do that you have to take it through an emissions test
every 3000 miles you have to take it in for an oil change
every 5,000 or so you need to rotate the tires
every 20,000 to 30,000 it needs a tune up
every 90,000 you need to have the timing belt changed
every 45,000 or so, new tires.
brakes? muffler?
worse yet if your car starts making weird sounds or doing weird things, good luck figuring it out
Cars are not easy to operate, they are very confusing. However, people are no longer afraid of them because they've been around for so long. My grandfather owned a car when he was young. He did not own a computer. So the fear is not there for cars, they are part of our society, they've been around forever (for certain values of forever).
We have detected that your political sensibilities are obsolete.... automatically updating...... the civil war was fought over slavery not states rights...... columbus was a villian not a hero.......More updates to come as we re-evaluate history to better reflect modern liberal thinking.
Europeans often seem to suffer from severe reality dysfunction.
For better or for worse, the USA is an 800 pound gorilla, and the EU is a bunch of bickering countries trying to collective bargain (much like OPEC). The result of the EU "standing up" to the U.S. is nearly always the same, the USA gets what they want with some tiny concession to the EU so that the EU can save face and feel like it is being all independent and stuff.
I'm not saying this is a good thing, but I am saying you're full of shit.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends - for this is not a new battle, what we are seeing with those who would promise us gold riches for the small price of our freedom in cyberspace are the same devils, if with different faces, that have offered this deal since time immemorial. Choose your side, and remember that history will be our judge.
I find this paragraph most enjoyable if read with a mental Charleton Heston impersonation.
I saw a comment earlier about the US and Rome. Really that analogy is quite apt - the nicely integrated but at the core rotten Roman empire was brought to its knees by infighting, oppression of the people and rampaging barbarian hordes who they thought were no match for the Roman army, but turned out to be a lot more sophisticated than they thought. Are we going to see it acted out all over again?
Have you been to the U.S.? That's a pretty week analogy. Oppression of the people? Are you daft? Do you really think Democrats and Republicans really qualify as "infighting"? And where are these barbarian hordes? Iraq? North Korea? Rotten at the core? I can see some arguments for that - our poor education system and reliance on outsourcing labor and eventually R&D to third world countries - but still, the U.S. is not ancient Rome before the fall, give it a few hundred years at least.
I've found that pork tastes especially delicious cooked on the grill. Don't forget to baste with Kraft BBQ (Original or Spicey are the best, I think) sauce approximately 20 minutes before it's done cooking. Goes great with some corn on the cob (also cooked on the grill - wrap in tin foil, grill for ~15 minutes) on the side. Hope that helps!
This is referred to as an "apples and oranges" comparison. computers and cars are different. If your computer crashes, you reboot it, if your car crashes, you're out several thousand dollars, and maybe dead. computers and cars are very different, there's really no point in comparing them, mr. Mach 1.2
Congratulations on your insightful predictions. Your ability to see into the "future" is astounding. I herebypredict that George Bush will win the 2000 presidential elections, that CDs will replace cassette tapes and records in popularity, and that Arnold Schwartzeneiger will star in an action movie.
I agree. Dell offers some really great deals, but overall you're better putting together a computer yourself, here's my reasoning:
Dell is only marginally cheaper than buying equivalent components and putting it together yourself, sometimes not cheaper at all
The "advantages" of going with a Dell are really just smoke and mirrors. Tech support is a joke if you know anything about computers - I think the small print even says that they only have to support your computer in it's original state - i.e. the first thing they tell you to do when you call is pretty much "insert your system restore CD and reboot the computer." The reason I bought a Dell - to have a tested, well working machine - turned out to be crap, the sound card it came with was a POS and so was the video card
Dell skimps to save money in places that you won't realize. This includes using a power supply that is the abosolute minimum to run your system, cheap video and sound as mentioned before, and a few other things you'll discover later.
Proprietary. Don't know if this is still the case, but my Dell came with a proprietary connection between the motherboard and the case. Meaning that I can't put a new motherboard in the case now that my Dell needs upgrading. I understand that new Dells include a proprietary connection between the power supply and the motherboard.
Dell is tempting, the deals they have are pretty impressive, but overall I think you're better off putting a computer together yourself and learning a few things along the way. I recommend NewEgg as a good place to look for components. TigerDirect and buy.com also have some good deals. If you do buy a dell, be sure to check out DealCatcher.com, a lot of times they list discounts and coupons for Dell that you would never find on your own.
You young bucks ain't seen nothin'. In my day you had to buy two $300 video cards and connected them up through a special process called "scan-line interlace" if you wanted to be cool.
Notice how every game requires a CD-check? It's easy to get around, but illogical and annoying
Easy to get around? How so? Downloading a hack?
Anyway, I f'n hate CD checks. There's nothing more annoying than not being able to play a game because you can't find the damn CD. (usually turns up in the CD case for a beck CD 3 months later). I go and pay $50 for a game and then they make me jump through hoops like a goddamn monkey every time I want to play it!
Another point is that if you tried to tell people you were going to charge them $600/year for cable they'd go crazy. And yet, cable here costs $50/month. I think people just don't do the math. $600/year and mostly all I watch is NBC, FOX, and UPN, all of which are free with a $20 antenna.
There are several problems with the Tivo, and please don't do your goofy things where you put these points in italics and spout goofy zealotry.
1) Monthly fee. You may be willing to pay it, but I'm not. I know it's not much money, I don't care. I don't care about downloading programming, etc, etc, all that stuff is available free on the web, I won't pay for it.
2) (and this is a minor point) Can't do a lot of cool stuff that it should be able to. The new Tivo's will come with a NIC, right? I should be able to connect to the Tivo and download mpegs. I should be able to send shows to friends, download them to my laptop, burn them to VCD, etc. Obviously I realize why Tivo will never include this functionality.
There's this new technology called "The internet." Apparently Al Gore invented it. Since I discovered it I never use floppies any more to transfer files.
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I think it's funny when people suggest a price-per-track of $.50 or even $1.00. The music industry isn't interested in doing things on-line unless it drastically increases their revenues. Since the MSRP price for a CD is something like $17, and since if people could just buy the track they wanted, they'd only buy probably 2 or 3 off most albums, I doubt the music industry will ever offer downloadable tracks that can actually be used for anything (i.e. mp3's you can burn to CD and download to portable mp3 player), for less than $4 or $5 per track.
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yeah, not really sarcasm, it's just so rare for someone to say that the civil war was over states rights. In the book 'Lies my Teacher Told Me' he essentially argues that you can measure racism as a function of high school textbooks that say the civil war was about states' rights. Actually I might be remembering that wrong. But whatever, saying the civil war was about states' rights is about as un-PC as it gets.
republican in california? Yeah, right, and I'm a jew living in Saudi Arabia.
XP runs great on my pentium II 400, btw.
Consider:
In order to drive your car you need a driver's license and a vehicle license. In order to get your drivers license you have to go to one place and take a test, to get your car license you have to go to (often) a different place and pay some money and show them 2 or 3 forms. In my state before you can do that you have to take it through an emissions test
every 3000 miles you have to take it in for an oil change
every 5,000 or so you need to rotate the tires
every 20,000 to 30,000 it needs a tune up
every 90,000 you need to have the timing belt changed
every 45,000 or so, new tires.
brakes? muffler?
worse yet if your car starts making weird sounds or doing weird things, good luck figuring it out
Cars are not easy to operate, they are very confusing. However, people are no longer afraid of them because they've been around for so long. My grandfather owned a car when he was young. He did not own a computer. So the fear is not there for cars, they are part of our society, they've been around forever (for certain values of forever).
We have detected that your political sensibilities are obsolete.... automatically updating... ... the civil war was fought over slavery not states rights... ... columbus was a villian not a hero .... ...More updates to come as we re-evaluate history to better reflect modern liberal thinking.
Europeans often seem to suffer from severe reality dysfunction.
For better or for worse, the USA is an 800 pound gorilla, and the EU is a bunch of bickering countries trying to collective bargain (much like OPEC). The result of the EU "standing up" to the U.S. is nearly always the same, the USA gets what they want with some tiny concession to the EU so that the EU can save face and feel like it is being all independent and stuff.
I'm not saying this is a good thing, but I am saying you're full of shit.
He's on crack, I think, but not the kind you think. Rather he's on the goatse.cx variety.
Yeah, I guess that joke makes me a troll, but note that I didn't link to goatse.cx, that has to count for something.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends - for this is not a new battle, what we are seeing with those who would promise us gold riches for the small price of our freedom in cyberspace are the same devils, if with different faces, that have offered this deal since time immemorial. Choose your side, and remember that history will be our judge.
I find this paragraph most enjoyable if read with a mental Charleton Heston impersonation.
I saw a comment earlier about the US and Rome. Really that analogy is quite apt - the nicely integrated but at the core rotten Roman empire was brought to its knees by infighting, oppression of the people and rampaging barbarian hordes who they thought were no match for the Roman army, but turned out to be a lot more sophisticated than they thought. Are we going to see it acted out all over again?
Have you been to the U.S.? That's a pretty week analogy. Oppression of the people? Are you daft? Do you really think Democrats and Republicans really qualify as "infighting"? And where are these barbarian hordes? Iraq? North Korea? Rotten at the core? I can see some arguments for that - our poor education system and reliance on outsourcing labor and eventually R&D to third world countries - but still, the U.S. is not ancient Rome before the fall, give it a few hundred years at least.
I've found that pork tastes especially delicious cooked on the grill. Don't forget to baste with Kraft BBQ (Original or Spicey are the best, I think) sauce approximately 20 minutes before it's done cooking. Goes great with some corn on the cob (also cooked on the grill - wrap in tin foil, grill for ~15 minutes) on the side. Hope that helps!
Oh Lord! Take me now, I don't want to live any more!
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1
and it seems to be only #$@#% real audio
This is referred to as an "apples and oranges" comparison. computers and cars are different. If your computer crashes, you reboot it, if your car crashes, you're out several thousand dollars, and maybe dead. computers and cars are very different, there's really no point in comparing them, mr. Mach 1.2
Congratulations on your insightful predictions. Your ability to see into the "future" is astounding. I herebypredict that George Bush will win the 2000 presidential elections, that CDs will replace cassette tapes and records in popularity, and that Arnold Schwartzeneiger will star in an action movie.
You work for TurboTax, don't you?
Seriously, though, I think fake reviews are everywhere. You can't trust anything you read on the web.
- Dell is only marginally cheaper than buying equivalent components and putting it together yourself, sometimes not cheaper at all
- The "advantages" of going with a Dell are really just smoke and mirrors. Tech support is a joke if you know anything about computers - I think the small print even says that they only have to support your computer in it's original state - i.e. the first thing they tell you to do when you call is pretty much "insert your system restore CD and reboot the computer." The reason I bought a Dell - to have a tested, well working machine - turned out to be crap, the sound card it came with was a POS and so was the video card
- Dell skimps to save money in places that you won't realize. This includes using a power supply that is the abosolute minimum to run your system, cheap video and sound as mentioned before, and a few other things you'll discover later.
- Proprietary. Don't know if this is still the case, but my Dell came with a proprietary connection between the motherboard and the case. Meaning that I can't put a new motherboard in the case now that my Dell needs upgrading. I understand that new Dells include a proprietary connection between the power supply and the motherboard.
Dell is tempting, the deals they have are pretty impressive, but overall I think you're better off putting a computer together yourself and learning a few things along the way. I recommend NewEgg as a good place to look for components. TigerDirect and buy.com also have some good deals. If you do buy a dell, be sure to check out DealCatcher.com, a lot of times they list discounts and coupons for Dell that you would never find on your own.You young bucks ain't seen nothin'. In my day you had to buy two $300 video cards and connected them up through a special process called "scan-line interlace" if you wanted to be cool.
Notice how every game requires a CD-check? It's easy to get around, but illogical and annoying
Easy to get around? How so? Downloading a hack?
Anyway, I f'n hate CD checks. There's nothing more annoying than not being able to play a game because you can't find the damn CD. (usually turns up in the CD case for a beck CD 3 months later). I go and pay $50 for a game and then they make me jump through hoops like a goddamn monkey every time I want to play it!
your analog hole should be find, but your anal log hole might not be
oh man, the moderators are going to rip me a new one.
I purchased a PVR that has no monthly fee
Could you be more specific, please? I didn't think these existed, much like the holy grail and mythical magnetic monopole.
Much like most of the reviews on Epinions, your review of Epinions is gushing and glowing.
Preach it, brother.
Another point is that if you tried to tell people you were going to charge them $600/year for cable they'd go crazy. And yet, cable here costs $50/month. I think people just don't do the math. $600/year and mostly all I watch is NBC, FOX, and UPN, all of which are free with a $20 antenna.
Fuck cable.
Why are Tivo Zealots so, well, zealous?
There are several problems with the Tivo, and please don't do your goofy things where you put these points in italics and spout goofy zealotry.
1) Monthly fee. You may be willing to pay it, but I'm not. I know it's not much money, I don't care. I don't care about downloading programming, etc, etc, all that stuff is available free on the web, I won't pay for it.
2) (and this is a minor point) Can't do a lot of cool stuff that it should be able to. The new Tivo's will come with a NIC, right? I should be able to connect to the Tivo and download mpegs. I should be able to send shows to friends, download them to my laptop, burn them to VCD, etc. Obviously I realize why Tivo will never include this functionality.
There's this new technology called "The internet." Apparently Al Gore invented it. Since I discovered it I never use floppies any more to transfer files.
I think it's funny when people suggest a price-per-track of $.50 or even $1.00. The music industry isn't interested in doing things on-line unless it drastically increases their revenues. Since the MSRP price for a CD is something like $17, and since if people could just buy the track they wanted, they'd only buy probably 2 or 3 off most albums, I doubt the music industry will ever offer downloadable tracks that can actually be used for anything (i.e. mp3's you can burn to CD and download to portable mp3 player), for less than $4 or $5 per track.