You should try going to school in some of the east asian countries. Vietnam for example, the children there go to school 7 days a week. I went to school in a scandinavian country that also pushed their students as hard as possible. It should be required to push them that hard. Foreign countries do it and it's just one of the many reasons they kick our ass in the hard sciences...
>>I don't understand why anyone bothers with Microsoft Windows any more.
Are you really that stupid? Really? Find me, oh wise one, an enterprise solution replacement for TaxCut, or Quicken, or AutoCAD, or Lightroom or Bridge, or Photoshop that will run on Linux.
What about the millions of custom-written business-specific applications for niche markets (legg rolling machines for tobacco industry for example, or real-time CNC milling boxes, multi-million dollar units controlled by very specific windows NT based, software)
>>But really, the solution isn't just to leave Iraq, we need to find an different approach to "handling" religious extremism.>..it appears our unwaivering support of Israel is the main problem there.
Also agreed, but we, as America the nation, can't just give up on them, too many people here, in power, won't let it happen.
And so, as long as we remain friends with a country that was created by taking land away from other countries, peace will be difficult, or impossible, to come by.
Listen, during WW2 we fought people with a political difference. When Germany fell, though there were "terrorists" until the 1950s, remants of Nazis that refused to give up, they eventually were either captured, died out or simply gave up and accepted things the way they had become.
Today, we are fighting religious fanatics.
They will simply never, ever, ever, quit. And more are being indoctrinated every day. You cannot argue, or reason with, a fanatic. It simply will not occur.
So we either accept we will forever be in Iraq being pecked to death, fighting for a gov't and country that doesn't want us there and may not understand what to do with democracy once they get it, or give up, go home, and admit we can't fight religious nuts.
I am a fan (I still use it) of AmiPro, for windows 3.1! (works great under, suppose it should work under wine, though never tested that)
The main point is it never tries to second guess you or interfere with your work, unlike MS Word, it gets out of the way and lets you do what needs to be done.
AbiWord and GoBe Productive are prime examples of good word processors that do not imitate MS Office.
I see this slavish imitation of MS Office to be the prime downfall of OO.org...I hate the office suite, so why would I want to use a free clone of it?
There is, perhaps another possibility:
He simply didn't like his family. People like that do exist. They are shackled with unwanted children, bad step-kids, etc. It could be all kinds of revenge motif going on inside his head. No one will know what went through his head, but it could be something something as simple as pure hate for the world, and everyone in it.
Not to slight your comment, but my experience was the exact opposite. Now mind you I was using a testbed computer: single core 2.6 ghz P4, 2 gigs DDR RAM, nvidia 7300gt video card.
My experiences were as follows:
leo4allv2 ran flawlessly, faster than I'd ever seen Apple's OS run on any Apple hardware...I was actually stunned.
Vista - about as I expected, slow and laggy
Server2008 - everything Vista should have been, but isn't. Ultra fast, clean interface, hyper responsive, etc.
I didn't put it in the main post, because I thought it was not relevant, but this was done for testing purposes only. In other words, to see how hard it was to do...the answer is, not that hard at all.
I don't have OS X on the box anymore (now playing with linux) but I believe my points still stand. If I were to keep it as a OS X box, then yes, I would purchase the OS outright
Step 1: Visit your local friendly torrent site and find "leo4all.v2" Step 2: download and burn onto dvd Step 3: Use Intel hardware. SATA for hard drive if you wish, but use IDE for the DVD rom Step 4: let the "leo4all.v2" do the rest. Step 5: there is no step 5
I first started with AMD hardware, and had endless issues (no surprise really, AMD isn't fully supported by OS X) but the switch to intel hardware went much more smoothly.
The system I used was a D945GNT board, with an off-the-shelf nVidia 7300GT. OS X picked up everything but the sound (still working on why, claims it's suported) and for the fisrt time ever, I've had the pleasure of playing with OS X on fast hardware.
Total box cost set me back ~300$ US. Not bad...(mind you, the board and CPU were used)
Apple updates worked fine, as did other software updates, so kudos to the OSX86.org crew for their outstanding work.
I have a Pixma IP4200 inkjet. Bought for about $150 (not on sale) and the individual carts are about 6$, for Canon ones, why bother with 3rd party? At this rate I can toss them out the window and still come out ahead.
This is why I love my Canon. HP could learn a thing or two about ink pricing from them...
Technically this is correct, but I have installed XP on a number of "vista only" laptops and gotten full driver support. The trick is to find out the hardware ID, and then find a driver, which may not be from the same maker of the laptop. The biggest hurdle is typically in the video card. You have to force the installation of the driver, put up with all kinds of dire warnings from XP, and yet is runs fine.
A typical installation is from 2-3 hours, but in the end, you have a fully working XP laptop.
potentially off topic, but date an Indian woman (from India that is) they are raised not to have much in the way of their own desires, only to have your desires.
Dating one is a lot like dating a servant...or a robot.
And once again we as americans sit back and do nothing.
The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.
Get angry.
The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here -- it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can.
Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference -- the only difference in their eyes -- between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people, they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
As told by Quellcrist Falconer, and I have to agree.
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Then spend the rest on hookers and blow.
Hey, the gov't does that all the time, why are you staring at me like that??
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Your sig website, saferdomainsearch doesn't work. Everything I checked it said was available, including my company's website, which I know isn't.
You should try going to school in some of the east asian countries. Vietnam for example, the children there go to school 7 days a week. I went to school in a scandinavian country that also pushed their students as hard as possible. It should be required to push them that hard. Foreign countries do it and it's just one of the many reasons they kick our ass in the hard sciences...
>>I don't understand why anyone bothers with Microsoft Windows any more.
Are you really that stupid? Really? Find me, oh wise one, an enterprise solution replacement for TaxCut, or Quicken, or AutoCAD, or Lightroom or Bridge, or Photoshop that will run on Linux.
What about the millions of custom-written business-specific applications for niche markets (legg rolling machines for tobacco industry for example, or real-time CNC milling boxes, multi-million dollar units controlled by very specific windows NT based, software)
Grow up, linux isn't the be-all-end-all.
No Happy Fun Ball?
That's a very interesting view, I hadn't heard that, and yet it makes a lot of sense!
>>But really, the solution isn't just to leave Iraq, we need to find an different approach to "handling" religious extremism.>..it appears our unwaivering support of Israel is the main problem there.
Also agreed, but we, as America the nation, can't just give up on them, too many people here, in power, won't let it happen.
And so, as long as we remain friends with a country that was created by taking land away from other countries, peace will be difficult, or impossible, to come by.
The only way to win, is not to play.
Listen, during WW2 we fought people with a political difference. When Germany fell, though there were "terrorists" until the 1950s, remants of Nazis that refused to give up, they eventually were either captured, died out or simply gave up and accepted things the way they had become.
Today, we are fighting religious fanatics.
They will simply never, ever, ever, quit. And more are being indoctrinated every day. You cannot argue, or reason with, a fanatic. It simply will not occur.
So we either accept we will forever be in Iraq being pecked to death, fighting for a gov't and country that doesn't want us there and may not understand what to do with democracy once they get it, or give up, go home, and admit we can't fight religious nuts.
I am a fan (I still use it) of AmiPro, for windows 3.1! (works great under, suppose it should work under wine, though never tested that) The main point is it never tries to second guess you or interfere with your work, unlike MS Word, it gets out of the way and lets you do what needs to be done. AbiWord and GoBe Productive are prime examples of good word processors that do not imitate MS Office. I see this slavish imitation of MS Office to be the prime downfall of OO.org...I hate the office suite, so why would I want to use a free clone of it?
Well that depends, if it's Italian, then that's par for the course...
(Owner of many Italian cars, I speak from experience)
Seems obvious, but follow the money trail, does PCMark get backing from Intel?
There is, perhaps another possibility: He simply didn't like his family. People like that do exist. They are shackled with unwanted children, bad step-kids, etc. It could be all kinds of revenge motif going on inside his head. No one will know what went through his head, but it could be something something as simple as pure hate for the world, and everyone in it.
>>All I can say is I think the audience is going to like this one.
Where were you when Vista was being developed? Who sat around a table and decided all the crap currently in Vista was a good idea??
http://billstclair.com/DoingFreedom/000623/df.0600.fa.lipidleggin.html Written in 1978...scary and well worth reading (it's a short story, won't take long to read)
On the comment of "improving customer relations" the local branch of the bank I deal with was recently closed down.
A sign on the front door said "In order to serve you better, this branch has been closed"
The branch wasn't *that* bad, but I thought the wording of the sign was funny.
Interesting-
Not to slight your comment, but my experience was the exact opposite. Now mind you I was using a testbed computer: single core 2.6 ghz P4, 2 gigs DDR RAM, nvidia 7300gt video card.
My experiences were as follows:
leo4allv2 ran flawlessly, faster than I'd ever seen Apple's OS run on any Apple hardware...I was actually stunned.
Vista - about as I expected, slow and laggy
Server2008 - everything Vista should have been, but isn't. Ultra fast, clean interface, hyper responsive, etc.
Just an informal post.
I didn't put it in the main post, because I thought it was not relevant, but this was done for testing purposes only. In other words, to see how hard it was to do...the answer is, not that hard at all.
I don't have OS X on the box anymore (now playing with linux) but I believe my points still stand. If I were to keep it as a OS X box, then yes, I would purchase the OS outright
Step 1: Visit your local friendly torrent site and find "leo4all.v2"
Step 2: download and burn onto dvd
Step 3: Use Intel hardware. SATA for hard drive if you wish, but use IDE for the DVD rom
Step 4: let the "leo4all.v2" do the rest.
Step 5: there is no step 5
I first started with AMD hardware, and had endless issues (no surprise really, AMD isn't fully supported by OS X) but the switch to intel hardware went much more smoothly.
The system I used was a D945GNT board, with an off-the-shelf nVidia 7300GT. OS X picked up everything but the sound (still working on why, claims it's suported) and for the fisrt time ever, I've had the pleasure of playing with OS X on fast hardware.
Total box cost set me back ~300$ US. Not bad...(mind you, the board and CPU were used)
Apple updates worked fine, as did other software updates, so kudos to the OSX86.org crew for their outstanding work.
I have a Pixma IP4200 inkjet. Bought for about $150 (not on sale) and the individual carts are about 6$, for Canon ones, why bother with 3rd party? At this rate I can toss them out the window and still come out ahead.
This is why I love my Canon. HP could learn a thing or two about ink pricing from them...
Technically this is correct, but I have installed XP on a number of "vista only" laptops and gotten full driver support. The trick is to find out the hardware ID, and then find a driver, which may not be from the same maker of the laptop. The biggest hurdle is typically in the video card. You have to force the installation of the driver, put up with all kinds of dire warnings from XP, and yet is runs fine.
A typical installation is from 2-3 hours, but in the end, you have a fully working XP laptop.
potentially off topic, but date an Indian woman (from India that is) they are raised not to have much in the way of their own desires, only to have your desires.
Dating one is a lot like dating a servant...or a robot.
Spooky how Quellism is so common-sense, and quite relevant for today
And once again we as americans sit back and do nothing.
The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.
Get angry.
The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here -- it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide out from under with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can.
Get your message across. That way you stand a far better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous, marks the difference -- the only difference in their eyes -- between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people, they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life, and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
As told by Quellcrist Falconer, and I have to agree.
And this is the problem with the US today, no discipline. Everyone is too soft. Ever hear of 'tough love"? Look into it and get back to me
Bag that noise, kick them out of the house.
Let them see how the real world deals with "rebellion".
Children will learn there are rules in society that must be obeyed if they wish to live in that society.
If they will not follow the rules, then out they go, from the house, from society, from everything. Simple fix.