Let's not forget that H5N1 could be Weaponized by Islamic Radicals and used to Strike at our Way of Life. These are people who will use Bioterror agents to Incite Panic and Fear in our peoples.
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First, it's $12.95 per month, not $15. Second, you don't need a landline. I have one, but I don't use Tivo connected to it. Tivo connects via WiFi.
I ran the numbers. The payback period alone on a home-brew PC-based PVR is fucking astronomical. The time required makes it even more unattractive. IF you have a PC lying around, you're still about $250 away from anything usable.
Tivo for $50 is up and running in 15 minutes from the second you open the box. I figured about $400 would get a PC-based DVR that had all the features of Tivo. Payback period on that is 28 months. Fuck that.
I'm with you man. These fuckers who won't shut the fuck up about the Free options are either some Rainman type accountants (How much does a PC cost? About $100. How much does it cost to build and airplane? About $100. How much does a satellite cost? About $100), or they just ignore the realities and keep pumping this fucking software AS IF IT WASN'T SAID A MILLION TIMES BEFORE.
For years in the multimedia.erotica groups on usenet, people have been posting porn ripped from VHS. It looks like shit, but so do many of the people in the vids. Not that I would know. This is what I hear from "friends." At any rate, I figure that within a year or two all the good VHS porn will be converted to mpegs and avis and posted thereby negating the need to deal with those worthless rectangle things.
How about keep your fucking mouth shut until you actually have something? Sounds like the people who are really talking it up are the very people bitching about other people talking it up.
Too bad this fucker didn't just use a little common sense to convert it. These assholes seem to think that an American website should cater to each and every fucking whim of them.
English? Why not use the language spoken by the bulk of the world? Can I get a Mandarin translation?
Good. It was such a pain in the ass anyway to deal with those places. They weren't mom and pop places either. That's a fucking joke. They were just ho hum businesses. Sounds like if they could be creative once they'll need to do it again.
Shh...I think I hear the world's smallest violin playing for all those worthless We Roast Our Own Beans coffee places.
No kidding. You never see homeless in cold, Republican towns of the great plains. They offer no services so the homeless get the fuck out of town and head to places like SF. Those towns come out ahead for spending NOTHING. I'm with this plan.
Tetanus shot. Rifle Pistol Bullets for rifle. Bullets for pistol. Shopping cart to put loot in. Lots of really big duffel bags. Ski mask. Super sharp shank. Weather radio. Poncho. Crack cocaine in little bags for trading purposes. Cigarettes for same purpose. Beer. Lots of beer. More bullets Another pistol. Everything else, I can steal.
I hope you can spell WalMart, unlike the author of this article. You know you're a Geezer when you can't read the store name despite it being in 18' high illuminated plastic letters on the store front, or on every surface within the store, or on the screen of the credit card reader... etc.
Exactly. I'm bathed in XM, cellular, WiFi, and DishNetwork signals now. I can receive them, but I cannot circumvent them legally. That's theft of service.
I always hated that fucking saying too. I really mean that. Give a man a fish, he eats for lunch then uses the afternoon to tell everyone how great getting free fish was and how much better free fish is than fish that came with the plate. He'll claim that fish that is sold cannot possibly be as good as free fish given to the public, despite the smell and odd color. He'll then pretend as if he's a fucking sage about fish and insist that everyone have the same beliefs about fish as he.
Because they can use the laptop to go to google.com and search for "clothing", "shelter", "how to dress and clean machete wounds", "purifying drinking water".
Then they can use facebook and form a "I have a laptop but nothing to eat" group. It's a great plan.
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I only bothered with the intelligent part, and ignored the rest. I was being quite generous go all the way to the period.
Fast like 3 ghz fast? Is that fast enough? People have been saying this stuff for a long time. You can do a lot with 3 ghz. I think that will suffice.
Yeah, but could you seriously expect to take over a plane with them?
Yes. People did. Solves that issue.
Let's not forget that H5N1 could be Weaponized by Islamic Radicals and used to Strike at our Way of Life. These are people who will use Bioterror agents to Incite Panic and Fear in our peoples.
First, it's $12.95 per month, not $15. Second, you don't need a landline. I have one, but I don't use Tivo connected to it. Tivo connects via WiFi.
I ran the numbers. The payback period alone on a home-brew PC-based PVR is fucking astronomical. The time required makes it even more unattractive. IF you have a PC lying around, you're still about $250 away from anything usable.
Tivo for $50 is up and running in 15 minutes from the second you open the box. I figured about $400 would get a PC-based DVR that had all the features of Tivo. Payback period on that is 28 months. Fuck that.
I'm with you man. These fuckers who won't shut the fuck up about the Free options are either some Rainman type accountants (How much does a PC cost? About $100. How much does it cost to build and airplane? About $100. How much does a satellite cost? About $100), or they just ignore the realities and keep pumping this fucking software AS IF IT WASN'T SAID A MILLION TIMES BEFORE.
For years in the multimedia.erotica groups on usenet, people have been posting porn ripped from VHS. It looks like shit, but so do many of the people in the vids. Not that I would know. This is what I hear from "friends." At any rate, I figure that within a year or two all the good VHS porn will be converted to mpegs and avis and posted thereby negating the need to deal with those worthless rectangle things.
I only DL the DVD-ripped porn.
And let's not forget: "What should they do?"
How about keep your fucking mouth shut until you actually have something? Sounds like the people who are really talking it up are the very people bitching about other people talking it up.
Even better -- throw the shit into someone elses trash. Then its double not your problem.
That's because all the other "long time unix hackers" got tired of waiting in the bread line and starving all the time.
Too bad this fucker didn't just use a little common sense to convert it. These assholes seem to think that an American website should cater to each and every fucking whim of them.
English? Why not use the language spoken by the bulk of the world? Can I get a Mandarin translation?
I don't agree with anything in the above comment except this: "If you have to ask slashdot, you are NOT QUALIFIED for the job."
Ditto on that. And we wonder what the fuck happened to higher education? Small rocks have been know to have more ingenuity than this.
I've got a fever, and the only cure is more THROUGHPUT.
I'm with you there. I switched from Thunderbird to Outlook. Vast improvement in satisfaction.
You'd be a dumb fuck to compare a computer with off-the-shelf components to a hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind dream car specially made for each owner.
No, Linux would make it a 300% project and Mac would turn a 20% project into something for a 3% userbase.
a &rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&hl=en&q=windows% 20xp&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wf
Here's Google's plan for dealing with the "Where's Linux!? Where's Mac?!"
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?client=firefox-
Good. It was such a pain in the ass anyway to deal with those places. They weren't mom and pop places either. That's a fucking joke. They were just ho hum businesses. Sounds like if they could be creative once they'll need to do it again.
Shh...I think I hear the world's smallest violin playing for all those worthless We Roast Our Own Beans coffee places.
No kidding. You never see homeless in cold, Republican towns of the great plains. They offer no services so the homeless get the fuck out of town and head to places like SF. Those towns come out ahead for spending NOTHING. I'm with this plan.
Tetanus shot.
Rifle
Pistol
Bullets for rifle.
Bullets for pistol.
Shopping cart to put loot in.
Lots of really big duffel bags.
Ski mask.
Super sharp shank.
Weather radio.
Poncho.
Crack cocaine in little bags for trading purposes.
Cigarettes for same purpose.
Beer. Lots of beer.
More bullets
Another pistol.
Everything else, I can steal.
Usenet?
I hope you can spell WalMart, unlike the author of this article. You know you're a Geezer when you can't read the store name despite it being in 18' high illuminated plastic letters on the store front, or on every surface within the store, or on the screen of the credit card reader... etc.
Exactly. I'm bathed in XM, cellular, WiFi, and DishNetwork signals now. I can receive them, but I cannot circumvent them legally. That's theft of service.
I don't want to subsidize shit. I want it for $100. I don't want to pay $200 so someone gets a laptop for free.
I always hated that fucking saying too. I really mean that. Give a man a fish, he eats for lunch then uses the afternoon to tell everyone how great getting free fish was and how much better free fish is than fish that came with the plate. He'll claim that fish that is sold cannot possibly be as good as free fish given to the public, despite the smell and odd color. He'll then pretend as if he's a fucking sage about fish and insist that everyone have the same beliefs about fish as he.
Fuck fish. I'm eating pork.
Because they can use the laptop to go to google.com and search for "clothing", "shelter", "how to dress and clean machete wounds", "purifying drinking water".
Then they can use facebook and form a "I have a laptop but nothing to eat" group. It's a great plan.