If you're an "illegal alien," you are probably working in this country. That's what most of the fuss is around them. They're "Not Authorized To Work In The United States," the little checkbox on any job application. So right off, they're paying payroll taxes, including federal income tax, and social security and medicare tax--which they'll never be able to collect on with their fake SSN's, and they won't be able to file a tax return to get part of that money back. Then they go out and buy things (like $800 apiece rims) and pay 7-10% sales tax on them. Ditto for all the tons of taxes on cars, on gas, on cigarettes, on phone service...
You obviously have no clue what illegals do for a living. They are the guys mowing your lawn, trimming your hedge, serving your food at that restaurant or maybe working at the local carwash. Regardless, they almost always work hard, work long hours and work for cash paid daily under the table. No annoying forms for the employer or employee and our Uncle Sam can claim to be all the wiser.
I was speaking of the lack of G4 updates for the longest time, as well as the G5 will be at 3.0GHz in one year that Steve Jobs said when the G5 PowerMac was first announced.
Motorola and IBM both have direct control over Apple ship dates (makers of the G4 and G5 processors). Besides, Apple of late has done the "look at this great new iDevice now available to buy.... um yeah... we sold out in 10 minutes and your lead time is 2-4 weeks." And it is even worse for the Apple customers outside the USA (Australia is notoriously bad from what I have heard).
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What the fuck is wrong with all of you?
You are too cheap to:
1. buy TiVo with lifetime subscription 2. buy TiVo with month to month 3. buy anything new 'cuz it'll get cheap later
How again do you get to complain about their services if you are not using them?
I chose to support a cool company buy buying their box for $99 and then paying the monthly subscription for however long. Funny that... if others did the same this thread would not exist.
Appears to be operating under Axentra.com now. I had this back in the first release days... it was to far from linux to be usefull for me. Still... glad to see something different than the usual KDE/Gnome/Whatever desktop for a *nix based OS.
land line only for initial setup. at tivo website is a page telling which wireless devices work with it out of the box (usb interface). 5 seconds on google could have told you that...
Otherwise, Apple could as well sue slashdot for publishing information on a site reporting that Apple is going to release something new. And endlessly...sue the one that reported that Slashdot reported that... Unless you americans really lost the right for free speech and publishing and it's really THAT obvious that USA is now governed by big companies, this sounds more like Apple trying to make noise.
*ding ding ding* "We have a winner!"
There is no such thing as the right to free speech in the USA anymore. We are being watched... and if we abuse some corporate entity in some way that hits their bottom line... watch out.
It really should be the United Corporate States of America.
Comparing this to Starbuck's is foolish. People go to Starbuck's so they can say they go there. And to be seen there.
Your average coffee drinker does not even realize that most all Starbuck's coffee is over roasted and made of inferior quality beans. The really scary thing; the quality of Dunkin Donuts coffee beans are higher than Starbuck's! I did not know this, but a coffee guru (bean tester and whatnot for major coffee companies) tells me it is true.
The point is that many IE users are now starting to get half a clue, and the people that are buying those brand new Dell's with SP 2 installed out of the box may actually read the pop-up boxes and not go ahead with the FF install just because it is not signed.
Just because it is more secure than IE does not mean FF does not have to appear more secure than IE to the average user.
Last night I installed a new faucet and sprayer in the kitchen sink, and then went over and replaced the sink and faucet in the bathroom. You bet your ass I used the instructions (although the bathroom instructions were horribly incomplete). Most other projects (new chainsaw was the last one) I do use the instructions the first time. Messing around on my Mac; don't bother with them.
No idea on the 'Freaks' list thing. I have not edited that stuff in ages.
As to the iBook, I said it was a robust design. If I threw a Dell or HP laptop that far it would have shattered into bits. My statement was intended as a compliment. To the 'flaky' nature... that is directly attributable to my anger and than attempts to repair it.
mine was fine until i threw it 15 feet across a room about a year ago. between the new hdd and me doing the work... it still works. just a little flaky now (can not pick up by left side near palm rest as there is a loose connection and the machine blinks out.:( other than that, seems to be a rather robust design. 800mhz g3 by the way.
F7 in MS Word is a beautiful thing. and my email clients always scan for spelling before sending. does not catch my grammar though. most emails i got at my old job from chinese and taiwanese people were more comprehensible than the ones from my idiot american customers. of course, with a 12 or 13 hour time difference the message had to be correct the first time.
i think this is why IM is becoming more used in the corporate world. so the idiot clones know what they are stating to each other.
of course i work for a $700M corporation that has had no network access for my branch for 6 calendar days. took 5 days forr the to figure out it may be the router. turns out the guy that did the un-install at the old location cut off all the cat5 cables with metal snips, while the router was still running. being a person of laziness (note lack of caps), why would someone cut them, just to unplug them later? the cable was to be thrown away in either case. i don't get it...
sounds like you need a better hobby outside of work. something completely and totally non-IT related. you gotta be able to leave work at work. it sounds like you are not de-stressing enough when you leave. has something changed recently? loss of sig other perhaps? </dr phil>
60mpg is not impressive. Look at the Toyota Prius. And that is a real sized car. Not to mention power steering is an option... many thick headed lugs in the USA won't buy a car without power steering.:/
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In most places, when a new DL is invented, the first thing to happen is the DMV gets robbed, and the bad guys have authentic state made DL's....
You obviously have no clue what illegals do for a living. They are the guys mowing your lawn, trimming your hedge, serving your food at that restaurant or maybe working at the local carwash. Regardless, they almost always work hard, work long hours and work for cash paid daily under the table. No annoying forms for the employer or employee and our Uncle Sam can claim to be all the wiser.
I am all for it. I have been into maglev stuff since the early 1990's. ;)
love my verizon service (phone is crap though).
sultan of brunei has a more valuable station wagon: here.
did not work on my mac. still best to get it from the ftp site for me:
here
I was speaking of the lack of G4 updates for the longest time, as well as the G5 will be at 3.0GHz in one year that Steve Jobs said when the G5 PowerMac was first announced.
Motorola and IBM both have direct control over Apple ship dates (makers of the G4 and G5 processors). Besides, Apple of late has done the "look at this great new iDevice now available to buy.... um yeah... we sold out in 10 minutes and your lead time is 2-4 weeks." And it is even worse for the Apple customers outside the USA (Australia is notoriously bad from what I have heard).
What the fuck is wrong with all of you?
You are too cheap to:
1. buy TiVo with lifetime subscription
2. buy TiVo with month to month
3. buy anything new 'cuz it'll get cheap later
How again do you get to complain about their services if you are not using them?
I chose to support a cool company buy buying their box for $99 and then paying the monthly subscription for however long. Funny that... if others did the same this thread would not exist.
Appears to be operating under Axentra.com now. I had this back in the first release days... it was to far from linux to be usefull for me. Still... glad to see something different than the usual KDE/Gnome/Whatever desktop for a *nix based OS.
huh.
ignorance is bliss i suppose.
land line only for initial setup. at tivo website is a page telling which wireless devices work with it out of the box (usb interface). 5 seconds on google could have told you that...
*ding ding ding* "We have a winner!"
There is no such thing as the right to free speech in the USA anymore. We are being watched... and if we abuse some corporate entity in some way that hits their bottom line... watch out.
It really should be the United Corporate States of America.
As I don my tin foil hat
I never turn off my iBook unless the battery runs dry..............
Comparing this to Starbuck's is foolish. People go to Starbuck's so they can say they go there. And to be seen there.
Your average coffee drinker does not even realize that most all Starbuck's coffee is over roasted and made of inferior quality beans. The really scary thing; the quality of Dunkin Donuts coffee beans are higher than Starbuck's! I did not know this, but a coffee guru (bean tester and whatnot for major coffee companies) tells me it is true.
The point is that many IE users are now starting to get half a clue, and the people that are buying those brand new Dell's with SP 2 installed out of the box may actually read the pop-up boxes and not go ahead with the FF install just because it is not signed.
Just because it is more secure than IE does not mean FF does not have to appear more secure than IE to the average user.
Last night I installed a new faucet and sprayer in the kitchen sink, and then went over and replaced the sink and faucet in the bathroom. You bet your ass I used the instructions (although the bathroom instructions were horribly incomplete). Most other projects (new chainsaw was the last one) I do use the instructions the first time. Messing around on my Mac; don't bother with them.
No idea on the 'Freaks' list thing. I have not edited that stuff in ages.
As to the iBook, I said it was a robust design. If I threw a Dell or HP laptop that far it would have shattered into bits. My statement was intended as a compliment. To the 'flaky' nature... that is directly attributable to my anger and than attempts to repair it.
Sincerely,
BigBir3d (iPC over on MacRumors)
mine was fine until i threw it 15 feet across a room about a year ago. between the new hdd and me doing the work... it still works. just a little flaky now (can not pick up by left side near palm rest as there is a loose connection and the machine blinks out. :( other than that, seems to be a rather robust design. 800mhz g3 by the way.
F7 in MS Word is a beautiful thing. and my email clients always scan for spelling before sending. does not catch my grammar though. most emails i got at my old job from chinese and taiwanese people were more comprehensible than the ones from my idiot american customers. of course, with a 12 or 13 hour time difference the message had to be correct the first time.
i think this is why IM is becoming more used in the corporate world. so the idiot clones know what they are stating to each other.
of course i work for a $700M corporation that has had no network access for my branch for 6 calendar days. took 5 days forr the to figure out it may be the router. turns out the guy that did the un-install at the old location cut off all the cat5 cables with metal snips, while the router was still running. being a person of laziness (note lack of caps), why would someone cut them, just to unplug them later? the cable was to be thrown away in either case. i don't get it...
sounds like you need a better hobby outside of work. something completely and totally non-IT related. you gotta be able to leave work at work. it sounds like you are not de-stressing enough when you leave. has something changed recently? loss of sig other perhaps?
</dr phil>
go out and have some fun dude!
CNN has a good story about this. My favorite is the last bit about H&R Block offering him free tax preparations for life. LOL
but he is mormon. ???
I try to do something that requires no follow up work. House painting is a good one.
alt-tab between windows in same program on os x is alt-tilde (no shift button - i don't know the name of the ` character).
you can highlight a line of work with triple-click anywhere in the line. not always convenient, but it does work.
scroll section on a track pad is here.
there is a lot of stufff out there, it just takes time to find it all. keep asking questions, and you will get some surprising answers.
I'd settle for 75/75 myself.
:/
60mpg is not impressive. Look at the Toyota Prius. And that is a real sized car. Not to mention power steering is an option... many thick headed lugs in the USA won't buy a car without power steering.