It seems to be that religion is a ploy to keep simple minded people happy, is there just to make money, and explains nothing if you really think about it. God did it. Sorry, that doesn't explain anything to me at all. How did God come to be?
. . . "Keep them doped on religion, sex and TV." - John Lennon - Working Class Hero
Tell me again why I would want to live in the deep south. Wisconsin has its share of crazies, but the liberal atheists and freethinkers tend to balance out the Bible-thumpers.
If the person who sold you the new box sold you an underpowered XP machine running Vista Home, you are guaranteed to be unhappy with the performance.
With basic system overhead of over one gig of RAM, you gotta have two gigs to run Vista. There is NO Vista-capable box costing $500 at Wal-Mart.
A 4-gig box running Vista Ultimate 64-bit can cost well over 1,000 dollars. Add dual HD's, DL DVD burner, and a nice video card, and you'll be dancing toward 2,000 dollars. Add a nice LED monitor, and you will be at 2,500 dollars or more.
Your BushCo (TM) tax rebate will not be much help here.
Use a familiar phrase, complete with caps and punctuation, perhaps a poetry couplet or song lyric.
Any computer used by minors has to allow the parents to have administrator access, with the kids as users. Kids are kids, and need to be protected from themselves.
I read this story first in Digg. I took the impression that the supposedly wronged customer was just being an asshole, and as a result, ruined a social event with his family. I would expect this behavior from a five-year-old, but an adult is supposed to behave better.
Sometimes, when shopping, I buy a product that has multiple security tags, and until each tag is deactivated, I set off an alarm in the exit. Is this my fault? No. Is it the clerk's fault? Of course not.
Another issue is the "wronged" customer's attitude toward the low-wage clerk. Trust me on this, you can lose your high-paying job in a heartbeat, and have no choice but to become a low-wage worker yourself.
Every time i read this post I get mad at the "wronged" customer all over again. His parents did a lousy job teaching him proper behavior out in the real world. If you don't want your kids to behave like this idiot, they have to be taught.
The very first time I read this, I used my username and password to access my account on Monster, only to discover a different person's name and data. I did the right thing, and changed the data in some of the fields to nonsense, and removed data in other fields. I have not been back.
I am quite happy listening to my MP3 tunage with WIN XP PRO w/SP2. I was an early buyer for WIN 95 . . . disappointment ensued. Then I was an early buyer for XP . . . it did not work well until SP2 was rolled in. I'll wait until at least SP2 for Vista. Thanks anyway!
I have been using Mozilla and subsequently Firefox since their inception. I continue to use Internet Explorer, though, for web sites that put up so much cookie and adware activity that Firefox blocks access.
Currently I use Firefox 2.0.0.6 and IE 7. Any issues I have with either product is the result of my firewall activity.
"Eventually it was discovered that God did not want us to be all the same.
This was bad News for the Governments of The World as it seemed contrary to the doctrine of Portion Controlled Servings.
Mankind must be made more uniformly if the Future was going to work.
Various ways were sought to bind us all together. But, alas, same-ness was unenforcable.
It was about this time that someone came up with the idea of Total Criminalization.
Based on the principle that if we were all crooks, we could at least be uniform to some degree in the eyes of The Law.
Shrewdly, our legislators calculated that most people were too lazy to perform a Real Crime. So new laws were manufactured, making it possible for anyone to violate them any time of the day or night, and once we had all broken some kind of law we'd all be in the same big happy club, right up there with the President, the most exalted industrialists, and the clerical big shots of all your favorite religions
Total Criminalization was the greatest idea of its time, and was vastly popular except with those people who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws.
So, of course, they had to be tricked Into It, which is one of the reasons why Music was eventually made illegal."
Buy the cheapest coffee you can find. I get the house brand at Aldis. If you care about what your guests think, save and re-use an old can from a top shelf branded coffee or else use a coffee canister. No matter.
Make the coffee by the directions on the can. Don't skimp on the coffee.
When the coffee is done brewing, decant it into a thermos container of some sort. If you insist on keeping the coffee in the coffee maker, try to drink it all in about 45 minutes. Exposing coffee to continuous heat is what causes really vile-tasting coffee.
Most schools have several computers that any kid can use. Many school systems alter the password-protected BIOS of EVERY computer in the school district to preclude booting from any drive but the C:\ drive. The Internet access is locked down to prohibit viewing most websites. All access to changing ANY aspect of the computer's operation is password protected at the school district level. If the little bastards want porn or music or Myspace, they will have to do it at home.
Any other practice only enables students to mess up the computers and prevent others from using them. Broken computers are not replaced or repaired by rubbing a magic lamp; taxpayers have to buy them! When a student breaks a machine or makes it otherwise unusable, he/she should be banned from school computers and his/her parents compelled to pay for the IT department's time and any needed new parts.
The author of the original article is a hack writer and spokesperson for several industries. Google the name, for chrissakes. Don't let/. get a reputation for bogus stories.
Backing up your stuff has been part of the drill of owning a PC since the first day with an 8088, back in the mid-eighties. Then I took a 5-1/4" floppy disk full of Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 files and threw it into the drawer every time. My neighbor had a computer store, and warned me to make a copy of the copy every six months or so. When I got my first hard drive, a 40-megabyte Western Digital that had to be partitioned because MS-DOS 3.0 would only address 32 megabytes, I still copied everything onto a rotating set of floppies. Here we are, twenty years later, and with DVD disks selling for less than 25 cents, there is no excuse for not having copies of everything in a zippered folder in a drawer. I have multiple internal and external hard drives, and I still make a copy of all the new MP3's, Word and Excel docs, PDF's, and photos every month! I had a total hard drive failure one time, back in 1990, but my system made it possible to be up and running again shortly after a new drive was installed! With Ghost, an entire OS, complete with settings could be waiting on an external hard drive. You have to lose your digital life one time, I guess.
Every time I change the cartridge on my HP 712C, it's like it just got overhauled. I paid about 100 dollars for this guy about four computers ago, and it still works excellently. As long as I can get parts, I will keep it!
Glue two disks together, shiny sides out. Then drill a hole through them at some point about one-quarter of an inch from the outer edge. Insert a Christmas ornament hanging hook into the drilled hole. Drill another hole about one-quarter of an inch from the inner rim. Using fishing line, attach a miniature Xmas ornament or any other reflective object to the original disks. Great for a geek Xmas tree, or perhaps an office cube wall, hanging from a short tinsel garland.
Otherwise, cycle the cd-r's through a shredder, and toss the others into a landfill!
Conspicuous consumption has had paybacks from the proles in the past, notably the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. Twenty million dollars would keep several dying American school districts open. Put his ass into a tumbrel headed to the guillotine or up against a wall to be shot! Class warfare and anarchy is coming.
Even a three-year-old PC can run multiple copies of the same program and have several screens or tabs running. But a second monitor? This is crazy. Most cubes in which I have ever toiled have almost enough room for a single 19" screen. Two monitors? If you cannot move among several open programs on the same monitor, you may be merely unskilled.
In TV-Land everyone has more than one monitor. Some movie-land monitors are even holographic. In the real world in which we all are compelled to live this is not feasible. Get back to work or go away, but quit whining!
1. The person who wants to see what the computer can do, how fast it can go, how many processes can be opened before it stops working, etc., etc.
2. The person who needs to do work with the computer.
The second person is more common, and like it or not, the majority of running systems are running on either Windows 98 or Windows XP.
For myself, I always have two internal drives, one for programs and the other exclusively for data. Then I have two external drives, which are copies of the contents of the data drive, internet profiles for IE and Firefox, and accumulated downloads. If my computer takes a total shit, all I have to do is plug one of the external drives into either a USB or Firewire port and get back to work.
The last time I went through the process of setting up a new PC, it took about two hours to make it behave a great deal like the previous one, only faster!
The main reason for the flagging sales has to be the fact that Windows XP Professionbal, if completely up-to-date and secured, is pretty much the same thing as Vista minus the flashy video gimcrackery.
I was one of the first people to adapt to WIN XP when it came OEM with an Athlon 1800, and that product was not nearly completely under control until it was almost four years old! I will wait for Service Pack One to be applied to Vista before I jump this time.
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It seems to be that religion is a ploy to keep simple minded people happy, is there just to make money, and explains nothing if you really think about it. God did it. Sorry, that doesn't explain anything to me at all. How did God come to be? . . . "Keep them doped on religion, sex and TV." - John Lennon - Working Class Hero
Tell me again why I would want to live in the deep south. Wisconsin has its share of crazies, but the liberal atheists and freethinkers tend to balance out the Bible-thumpers.
How about a nuclear-powered cell phone charger? That's the ticket!
If my Vista Ultimate is less than a year old, do I get a free upgrade? I have a VERY bad feeling about this.
Oh shit!
If the person who sold you the new box sold you an underpowered XP machine running Vista Home, you are guaranteed to be unhappy with the performance. With basic system overhead of over one gig of RAM, you gotta have two gigs to run Vista. There is NO Vista-capable box costing $500 at Wal-Mart. A 4-gig box running Vista Ultimate 64-bit can cost well over 1,000 dollars. Add dual HD's, DL DVD burner, and a nice video card, and you'll be dancing toward 2,000 dollars. Add a nice LED monitor, and you will be at 2,500 dollars or more. Your BushCo (TM) tax rebate will not be much help here.
Use a familiar phrase, complete with caps and punctuation, perhaps a poetry couplet or song lyric.
Any computer used by minors has to allow the parents to have administrator access, with the kids as users. Kids are kids, and need to be protected from themselves.
While this pointless argument goes on, Toyota continues to sell more cars. Banzai!
I read this story first in Digg. I took the impression that the supposedly wronged customer was just being an asshole, and as a result, ruined a social event with his family. I would expect this behavior from a five-year-old, but an adult is supposed to behave better.
Sometimes, when shopping, I buy a product that has multiple security tags, and until each tag is deactivated, I set off an alarm in the exit. Is this my fault? No. Is it the clerk's fault? Of course not.
Another issue is the "wronged" customer's attitude toward the low-wage clerk. Trust me on this, you can lose your high-paying job in a heartbeat, and have no choice but to become a low-wage worker yourself.
Every time i read this post I get mad at the "wronged" customer all over again. His parents did a lousy job teaching him proper behavior out in the real world. If you don't want your kids to behave like this idiot, they have to be taught.
The very first time I read this, I used my username and password to access my account on Monster, only to discover a different person's name and data. I did the right thing, and changed the data in some of the fields to nonsense, and removed data in other fields. I have not been back.
I am quite happy listening to my MP3 tunage with WIN XP PRO w/SP2. I was an early buyer for WIN 95 . . . disappointment ensued. Then I was an early buyer for XP . . . it did not work well until SP2 was rolled in. I'll wait until at least SP2 for Vista. Thanks anyway!
I have been using Mozilla and subsequently Firefox since their inception. I continue to use Internet Explorer, though, for web sites that put up so much cookie and adware activity that Firefox blocks access.
Currently I use Firefox 2.0.0.6 and IE 7. Any issues I have with either product is the result of my firewall activity.
I have to add that Firefox has cooler add-ons!
"Eventually it was discovered that God did not want us to be all the same.
This was bad News for the Governments of The World as it seemed contrary to the doctrine of Portion Controlled Servings.
Mankind must be made more uniformly if the Future was going to work.
Various ways were sought to bind us all together. But, alas, same-ness was unenforcable.
It was about this time that someone came up with the idea of Total Criminalization.
Based on the principle that if we were all crooks, we could at least be uniform to some degree in the eyes of The Law.
Shrewdly, our legislators calculated that most people were too lazy to perform a Real Crime. So new laws were manufactured, making it possible for anyone to violate them any time of the day or night, and once we had all broken some kind of law we'd all be in the same big happy club, right up there with the President, the most exalted industrialists, and the clerical big shots of all your favorite religions
Total Criminalization was the greatest idea of its time, and was vastly popular except with those people who didn't want to be crooks or outlaws.
So, of course, they had to be tricked Into It, which is one of the reasons why Music was eventually made illegal."
FRANK ZAPPA - "Joe's Garage" (1979)
Buy the cheapest coffee you can find. I get the house brand at Aldis. If you care about what your guests think, save and re-use an old can from a top shelf branded coffee or else use a coffee canister. No matter.
Make the coffee by the directions on the can. Don't skimp on the coffee.
When the coffee is done brewing, decant it into a thermos container of some sort. If you insist on keeping the coffee in the coffee maker, try to drink it all in about 45 minutes. Exposing coffee to continuous heat is what causes really vile-tasting coffee.
I loves the caffeine!
Install a rudimentary spam filter, as found in Gmail and Firefox. First, lose the FAX machine.
The experiment would probably work better if they built the prototype in a cup of tea!
Most schools have several computers that any kid can use. Many school systems alter the password-protected BIOS of EVERY computer in the school district to preclude booting from any drive but the C:\ drive. The Internet access is locked down to prohibit viewing most websites. All access to changing ANY aspect of the computer's operation is password protected at the school district level. If the little bastards want porn or music or Myspace, they will have to do it at home.
Any other practice only enables students to mess up the computers and prevent others from using them. Broken computers are not replaced or repaired by rubbing a magic lamp; taxpayers have to buy them! When a student breaks a machine or makes it otherwise unusable, he/she should be banned from school computers and his/her parents compelled to pay for the IT department's time and any needed new parts.
The author of the original article is a hack writer and spokesperson for several industries. Google the name, for chrissakes. Don't let /. get a reputation for bogus stories.
Backing up your stuff has been part of the drill of owning a PC since the first day with an 8088, back in the mid-eighties. Then I took a 5-1/4" floppy disk full of Word Perfect and Lotus 1-2-3 files and threw it into the drawer every time. My neighbor had a computer store, and warned me to make a copy of the copy every six months or so. When I got my first hard drive, a 40-megabyte Western Digital that had to be partitioned because MS-DOS 3.0 would only address 32 megabytes, I still copied everything onto a rotating set of floppies. Here we are, twenty years later, and with DVD disks selling for less than 25 cents, there is no excuse for not having copies of everything in a zippered folder in a drawer. I have multiple internal and external hard drives, and I still make a copy of all the new MP3's, Word and Excel docs, PDF's, and photos every month! I had a total hard drive failure one time, back in 1990, but my system made it possible to be up and running again shortly after a new drive was installed! With Ghost, an entire OS, complete with settings could be waiting on an external hard drive. You have to lose your digital life one time, I guess.
Every time I change the cartridge on my HP 712C, it's like it just got overhauled. I paid about 100 dollars for this guy about four computers ago, and it still works excellently. As long as I can get parts, I will keep it!
Glue two disks together, shiny sides out. Then drill a hole through them at some point about one-quarter of an inch from the outer edge. Insert a Christmas ornament hanging hook into the drilled hole. Drill another hole about one-quarter of an inch from the inner rim. Using fishing line, attach a miniature Xmas ornament or any other reflective object to the original disks. Great for a geek Xmas tree, or perhaps an office cube wall, hanging from a short tinsel garland.
Otherwise, cycle the cd-r's through a shredder, and toss the others into a landfill!
Conspicuous consumption has had paybacks from the proles in the past, notably the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. Twenty million dollars would keep several dying American school districts open. Put his ass into a tumbrel headed to the guillotine or up against a wall to be shot! Class warfare and anarchy is coming.
At least Bill Gates is giving his vast pile away.
Even a three-year-old PC can run multiple copies of the same program and have several screens or tabs running. But a second monitor? This is crazy. Most cubes in which I have ever toiled have almost enough room for a single 19" screen. Two monitors? If you cannot move among several open programs on the same monitor, you may be merely unskilled.
In TV-Land everyone has more than one monitor. Some movie-land monitors are even holographic. In the real world in which we all are compelled to live this is not feasible. Get back to work or go away, but quit whining!
First, there are two computer users.
1. The person who wants to see what the computer can do, how fast it can go, how many processes can be opened before it stops working, etc., etc.
2. The person who needs to do work with the computer.
The second person is more common, and like it or not, the majority of running systems are running on either Windows 98 or Windows XP.
For myself, I always have two internal drives, one for programs and the other exclusively for data. Then I have two external drives, which are copies of the contents of the data drive, internet profiles for IE and Firefox, and accumulated downloads. If my computer takes a total shit, all I have to do is plug one of the external drives into either a USB or Firewire port and get back to work.
The last time I went through the process of setting up a new PC, it took about two hours to make it behave a great deal like the previous one, only faster!
The main reason for the flagging sales has to be the fact that Windows XP Professionbal, if completely up-to-date and secured, is pretty much the same thing as Vista minus the flashy video gimcrackery.
I was one of the first people to adapt to WIN XP when it came OEM with an Athlon 1800, and that product was not nearly completely under control until it was almost four years old! I will wait for Service Pack One to be applied to Vista before I jump this time.