You wanted the best for $200 or less? Go with the Klipsch 2.1. Loud enough for just about anybody and possibly better than your home stereo speakers (depends, of course). They have changed the way I listen to music -- only ripping MP3's at 192kbps, etc. And games - the helicopter blades in Comanche can be truly felt with the subwoofer.... Go with the Logitechs if you want to save some money, but if you truly want the best... stop looking & buy the Klipsch's....
And who out there is genuinely surprised by this move??? My only surprise is how long it took for MS to move on.pdf.
Personally, I find.pdf files a pain - they are memory intensive and usually the machine I am working on doesn't have Acrobat loaded on it (already noted here).
If MS can make this a simpler and more ubiquitous process, then so be it.... Adobe has a hell of lot more going for it than Acrobat - why didn't they just sell it to MS for a profit and be done with it? Adobe makes money and their Acrobat becomes a defacto standard.
Was it really that slow of a day; so slow that this actually was selected? How we have neglected/. - to allow this to happen. Don't you see? This is a cry for help - next it will be the occasional article on the favorite color of iMacs, then an in depth review on who really uses the right mouse button..... it will only spiral down from here people. We must act now!!!
We must wrest control of/. away from whoever is allowing this to happen....
btw, the best way to pack is to truly just dump it all in boxes by location - where is it in the house. When you get to the new house, don't immediately unpack everything, but unpack as you use things. On the one year anniversary of living there, anything that has not been unpacked goes either to charity or in the garbage....
It would depend upon the reasons why you want to take a year off. I took 10 years away from school, went back to college and finished both my bachelor's and master's all in one long session (7 years).... and currently have a great job that is turning into an incredible career. The 10 years off gave me the opportunity to get a bunch of immature bullshit out of my system and when I did decide to go on to college, I was ready and it was my own decision. I seemed to take it more seriously than the rest of my class, but then again, I was 10 years older than most of them and had burned off the binge-drinking, chasing cheerleaders, and trying to figure out what was and wasn't kewl... so I actually studied and got something out of my educational experience.
If yo don't think you are ready to go on to college, don't -- you'll waste your time and money (even if the $$$ aren't yours)...
"We' as in the good old U S of A... training and financially supporting bin Laden and his cronies during the Soviet invasion, then abandoning them after the Sov's pulled out...
Saddened only because of the farcical patriotism that has been 'discovered' due to the attacks...
Saddened because we blatantly refuse to accept any responsibility for the attacks...
Saddened because we were not nearly as 'patriotic' after the Oklahoma City bombing - one of own did that, right??
Saddened because our civil rights are being thrown away for a thin veil of 'security' when anyone can tell you that you are not any safer today that you were a year ago.... It is just as easy today to buy weapons of mass destruction, hijack a plane, buy forged documents, illegally enter the country... nothing has changed except for your lack of freedom..
Like all things, television should be taken in moderation... not on all the time, but some of the time, etc. On the other hand, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander is a convincing diatribe on turning the set off completely and forever...
and the American vs British discussion on general hygiene and the genetics of height was quite interesting.... how in the hell did that happen over a posting on the 75th anniversary of TV, anyway???
Yeah - I don't like giving out my credit card info to questionable people behind the register either, but what are you going to do? Start using cash in all of your transactions?
Digital signatures can be used by less-than-ethical sods just like your credit card number by the same people. Make sure your credit card company has fraud protection and be done with it....
This is similar to the people who will willing give their credit card to a person behind the counter but refuse to shop online because 'it isn't secure enough'..... Get over the paranoia and get on with your life... it is too damn short to take up your time with menial crap like this....
"A workaholic, the Echostar boss knows the value of the money he has just borrowed to secure the deal. According to reports he watches every penny affecting the bottom line"
Seems like a great reason not to trust him.... and anyone who knows anything about gambling, to become a professional (and successful) at it requires an amazing amount of skill. If he is applying this skill and is watching every penny affecting the bottomline, why shouldn't I trust him? Any other CEO's out there I shouldn't trust based upon how they acquired the management skills? Anybody trust Andersen, Worldcom, Enron, or Martha Stewart before they went tits up? (yeah, I know Martha hasn't - yet)....
Stop worrying over the professionals' personal lives -- check their record - if they are getting the job done, great. Hell, we elected Clinton and Bush, so don't tell me about trust!
Thank you for labelling this edjit's post as flamebait - quite insightful of you.
This person is willing to trade his freedom for security, and along with it, my freedom.... Apparently, he is uninformed and a trifle naive, but he is using his Constitutional right to express his opinion... interesting, isn't that one of the rights he is willing to give up for security's sake?
While you claim to be a WTC survivor, you have not researched why/how the 9/11 attacks were allowed to happen at all.
Your government - the almighty US of A - is responsible for allowing this to happen (almost to you, in fact). The Taliban and Osama bin Laden are creations of the CIA - funded and trained to resist the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets. Once the USSR admitted that the invasion would never be a success and pulled out of Afghanistan, bin Laden and his cronies (being the strongest in a weakened country) became the ruling regime. While the US was aware of this, bin Laden & Co. were responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks and a generally unpleasant view of the US. But your government did nothing.
Now you want this same government (with the same ideals/morals/culture) to spy on its own citizens - and you are willing to give your Constitutional rights to allow them to do so. Wake up - you are no safer today than you were on 9/8/01. Beleive it or not - the surveillance is already there - it was there before, but it was (and is) horribly misused and bogged down by an incredibly inefficient bureaucracy. I guarantee you that, today, you can still:
-- Buy forged documents, including Social Security cards, passports, driver's licenses, etc
-- Enter illegally into the USA, with little or no suspicion raised
-- Purchase enough explosive/radioactive material and a delivery system to cause 9/11 look like a coincidental industrial accident
Do not willingly give up your rights for security -- it is a false hope for security and an unfortunate reality for many Americans.
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eedjit: "because obviously, it takes sound a while to travel through space"
sound does not travel through space. Space is a vacuum: there is nothing for sound to move through.... sound does not travel at all through space...
Not sure which is worse: the fact that you know this (or made it up) or that you decided to share this......
Correct me if I am wrong, but you are discussing a work of fiction, which means it doesn't have to make sense/follow logic/conform to our physics models. The whole point of the original story and link was for fun and information....
Not to be confused with a "Me, too!" posting (never done on/.) but it would seem to be a typo as far as the 3rd part of the series being released in 12/2000....
Of course, it could also be a bug in the Matrix that was not caught by an agent.... not deja-vous, but something else entirely... unless someone did see the 3rd edition in 12/2000.... oh, man, I need some coffee now....
The usual: Noam Chomsky's latest on 9/11, just about any and all bioterror fiction novels, and anything that pisses Bill O'Reilly off (that is always a good choice).
Read whatever is on the banned book list -- I always try to get a copy of whatever the government doesn't want me to read; there is usually a good reason they don't......
Thank you, AC, for those scintillating, incisive criticisms. I don't recall stating that I only used AMD procs - just have never used an Intel proc.
As far a broadening the criteria by which I select components: 1) Cost - bang for buck, currently AMD is far ahead of Intel here; 2) Options - currently there are 2 chipsets that support Intel P4 procs, while there are at least 4 that support Athlon XP; 3)Reliability - granted this is a toss-up here, but I have not had any problems running non-Intel platforms....
I don't know how much broader the criteria need to be to select quality, reliable components....
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Thanks, but no thanks, nVidia, I will run along with my Radeon 9700 Pro
You wanted the best for $200 or less? Go with the Klipsch 2.1. Loud enough for just about anybody and possibly better than your home stereo speakers (depends, of course). They have changed the way I listen to music -- only ripping MP3's at 192kbps, etc. And games - the helicopter blades in Comanche can be truly felt with the subwoofer.... Go with the Logitechs if you want to save some money, but if you truly want the best... stop looking & buy the Klipsch's....
Nope - 3 dogs here. 2 of the 3 fetch properly, the third is a dachsund and doesn't much care...
Personally, I find .pdf files a pain - they are memory intensive and usually the machine I am working on doesn't have Acrobat loaded on it (already noted here).
If MS can make this a simpler and more ubiquitous process, then so be it.... Adobe has a hell of lot more going for it than Acrobat - why didn't they just sell it to MS for a profit and be done with it? Adobe makes money and their Acrobat becomes a defacto standard.We must wrest control of /. away from whoever is allowing this to happen....
btw, the best way to pack is to truly just dump it all in boxes by location - where is it in the house. When you get to the new house, don't immediately unpack everything, but unpack as you use things. On the one year anniversary of living there, anything that has not been unpacked goes either to charity or in the garbage....If yo don't think you are ready to go on to college, don't -- you'll waste your time and money (even if the $$$ aren't yours)...
or at least be a bit more proactive prior to handing out training/$$$ to terrorist groups, whether they are working for us or not....
Nothing I need to get off of my chest...
Saddened because we blatantly refuse to accept any responsibility for the attacks...
Saddened because we were not nearly as 'patriotic' after the Oklahoma City bombing - one of own did that, right??Saddened because our civil rights are being thrown away for a thin veil of 'security' when anyone can tell you that you are not any safer today that you were a year ago.... It is just as easy today to buy weapons of mass destruction, hijack a plane, buy forged documents, illegally enter the country... nothing has changed except for your lack of freedom..
Being a VW, shouldn't it remain air-cooled??
and the American vs British discussion on general hygiene and the genetics of height was quite interesting.... how in the hell did that happen over a posting on the 75th anniversary of TV, anyway???
Experience culture in real-time, forget the tripe broadcast on TV... get outside and soak up a little sunshine and real people...
Digital signatures can be used by less-than-ethical sods just like your credit card number by the same people. Make sure your credit card company has fraud protection and be done with it....
This is similar to the people who will willing give their credit card to a person behind the counter but refuse to shop online because 'it isn't secure enough'..... Get over the paranoia and get on with your life... it is too damn short to take up your time with menial crap like this....Anyway, what were we talking about??? Oh, yeah, backups..... gee, aren't CD-R drives about $50 now?.... how many CD-R's would it take???
Seems like a great reason not to trust him.... and anyone who knows anything about gambling, to become a professional (and successful) at it requires an amazing amount of skill. If he is applying this skill and is watching every penny affecting the bottomline, why shouldn't I trust him? Any other CEO's out there I shouldn't trust based upon how they acquired the management skills? Anybody trust Andersen, Worldcom, Enron, or Martha Stewart before they went tits up? (yeah, I know Martha hasn't - yet)....
Stop worrying over the professionals' personal lives -- check their record - if they are getting the job done, great. Hell, we elected Clinton and Bush, so don't tell me about trust!
Thank you for labelling this edjit's post as flamebait - quite insightful of you.
This person is willing to trade his freedom for security, and along with it, my freedom.... Apparently, he is uninformed and a trifle naive, but he is using his Constitutional right to express his opinion... interesting, isn't that one of the rights he is willing to give up for security's sake?Your government - the almighty US of A - is responsible for allowing this to happen (almost to you, in fact). The Taliban and Osama bin Laden are creations of the CIA - funded and trained to resist the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets. Once the USSR admitted that the invasion would never be a success and pulled out of Afghanistan, bin Laden and his cronies (being the strongest in a weakened country) became the ruling regime. While the US was aware of this, bin Laden & Co. were responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks and a generally unpleasant view of the US. But your government did nothing.
Now you want this same government (with the same ideals/morals/culture) to spy on its own citizens - and you are willing to give your Constitutional rights to allow them to do so. Wake up - you are no safer today than you were on 9/8/01. Beleive it or not - the surveillance is already there - it was there before, but it was (and is) horribly misused and bogged down by an incredibly inefficient bureaucracy. I guarantee you that, today, you can still:-- Buy forged documents, including Social Security cards, passports, driver's licenses, etc
-- Enter illegally into the USA, with little or no suspicion raised-- Purchase enough explosive/radioactive material and a delivery system to cause 9/11 look like a coincidental industrial accident
Do not willingly give up your rights for security -- it is a false hope for security and an unfortunate reality for many Americans.sound does not travel through space. Space is a vacuum: there is nothing for sound to move through.... sound does not travel at all through space...
Correct me if I am wrong, but you are discussing a work of fiction, which means it doesn't have to make sense/follow logic/conform to our physics models. The whole point of the original story and link was for fun and information....
Artificial colors or not - just being able to see such an image is an affirmation of life. Thank god for technology!
Of course, it could also be a bug in the Matrix that was not caught by an agent.... not deja-vous, but something else entirely... unless someone did see the 3rd edition in 12/2000.... oh, man, I need some coffee now....
The red ones are DayQuil, but I suppose you could mix them with the green ones.....
Read whatever is on the banned book list -- I always try to get a copy of whatever the government doesn't want me to read; there is usually a good reason they don't......
As far a broadening the criteria by which I select components: 1) Cost - bang for buck, currently AMD is far ahead of Intel here; 2) Options - currently there are 2 chipsets that support Intel P4 procs, while there are at least 4 that support Athlon XP; 3)Reliability - granted this is a toss-up here, but I have not had any problems running non-Intel platforms....
I don't know how much broader the criteria need to be to select quality, reliable components....To paraphrase "Office Space", I haven't exactly been missing anything....