I use IE at most once a month, usually to fill out some form on some backwards government website or something similar, that for some stupid reason has to have IE. Other than that, I haven't bothered in years. However, FF is starting to turn into a bloated pig, and is now being targeted by attackers too, so who knows maybe I'll check out IE again one of these days.
Because I'm sick of Linux distros not being able to do dual screens. Windows has been plug and play for this for over a decade. Yes, I know that SUSE can do it most... some of the time, but I would like to use Kubuntu without spending two days of my life hacking at XFree86 to make it work.
Ever since I saw how badly Apple screwed us Mac owners over back in '94-'96 regarding Rhapsody, I've been trying to explain to folks how Apple's corporate culture was far FAR MORE EVIL than Microsoft Corporation could ever hope to me. I tend to use Linux (OpenSUSE these days for compability reasons) as much as I can, and then XP on my Desktop and Laptop to get work done. I just will not touch an Apple product again ever, and not because I think the hardware and software is better or worse, but because I just don't feel like putting any more money into the hand that bit me.
Apple is all sheik and sexy to the Hollywood types because
1. "Artists" use macs. 2. Apple is an openly gay-friendly company. (I don't think this is a bad thing, it is merely another reason Hollywood/Mass media folks love them) 3. The great unwashed masses, that Hollywood types secretly loathe, use Windows. 4. They are located in N. Cali and N.Cali is Mecca to hollywood.
Don't underestimate the subtle but powerful influence the love of Apple by the mass media has over us all. It's a great part of the reason that people think Microsoft==Bad and Apple==good.
Microsoft just wants to make money. As much money as they can. They don't care how they do it, or who they screw over, as long as it makes them richer. I don't worry about a philosophy like that, because I can see it coming and I know where it is going. Apple has many other deep and twisted agendas, and we don't know what they all are. I'm glad as hell that Microsoft has the monopoly rather than Apple. I hail from *before* the AppleII days, and remember when Apple more or less had that monopoly in certain markets, especially schools. They were completely evil then too, although I didn't realize it at the time.
Typical elitist socialist ivory tower BS I've seen my whole life. Look at what 40 years of elitist causes have done for Africal so far.
There are plenty of people down here in New Orleans living in trailers and on the streets and in gutted (or worse, not yet gutted) houses full of mold and feces (No everyone, New Orleans is NOT back to normal, and won't be for at least 20 years, even though the TV keeps showing you the French Quarter is full of puking tourists), living in conditions worse than in many parts of Africa.
But whatever. Africa is the Elitist cause celebre even 10 years like clockwork. It's a way they psychologically deal with their guilt arising from being elitist snobs.
I already hacked my RAZR V3i to do more than the iPhone will supposedly be able to do -- a FREAKING YEAR AGO. Don't believe me? Head over to the Motox forums and see what we can do with Motorola phones. iWhatever, I don't care and havn't since 1996 when Apple screwed me and a few million folks over regarding Rhapsody.
Twelve years I fell for one of those "free for 30 days" offers, and canceled within a week as I was already on the 'net and didn't see anything special about AOL. Somehow, probably because I didn't have a credit card at the time, they managed to keep sucking money out of my bank account every month for the next three months, no matter how much I complained to the bank, and to AOL. I never was reimbursed, and the only way I managed to make them stop was just to close my bank account.
cursing those maniacs in the early 21st century responsible for cleaning it up and weep for the days where we couldn't see the stars around large cities.
Not being able to see the stars has nothing to do with particulate pollution, rather it has to do with those horrible sodium (the orange ones) lamps that started popping up in the 70's. I wish to God we would stop lighting up the night.
I thought the problem was the sonic booms, not the engine noise. A little difficult to fly from New York to Tokyo in six hours if you've gotta go around South America, isn't it?
The Concorde went over my house once when I was in Maryland. I have no idea why. Maybe it was being diverted around thunderstorms or something. Anyway, this is how I happened to see it flying over head. I was sitting in my living room on the couch on a peaceful afternoon and OH MY GOD ITS THE END OF THE WORLD SATAN AND JESUS ARE HERE RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD! so I ran outside to watch as the earth exploded before my eyes and all it was, was the Concorde, drifting slowly overhead, at about 5000 feet (I used to fly small private planes and can estimate altitude pretty well).
Suffice it to say, the engines on that thing were freaking LOUD, even when it was floating around at 250kts (well under supersonic), and no one, not even an aviation fan like myself would want it going over their city every day, several times a day.
Let's not forget where the idea for digital music distribution (more or less the only reason Apple is still afloat). Without song swapping on the net, that was around long before Apple, there would be no apple.
Fascinating. This is the first time I've pulled out my Fujitsu P-1120 in two months, and slashdot was the first place I went to to make sure I was connecting OK, and what do I see. Sigh. I feel bad for all the folks that will never have the opportunity to buy a P1120. All signs are that Fujitu won't be making a replacement with all the same features, namely:
1. The clearest screen I've ever seen on *anything* 2. TOUCHSCREEN!!!! 3. Size of a small hardcover book 4. Weight of a small hardcover book 5. Runs *cool* 6. Runs forever on battery power 7. No fan, silent except for the hard drive 8. Built in Wifi & Ethernet 9. Etc., etc. 10. Very nice, *useable* keyboard
Heck, I'm thinking about buying another one to have in case my current one ever breaks!
The older folks here may remember the teeny little laptop that HP came out with in the early '90s with the mouse that popped out from the side? I never bought one 'cause I figured they'd eventually come out with a faster model, and then HP just discontinued it. I always berated myself for not buying one when it was available. So when the P1000 series came out, I bought one, even though I really could have used the money for a lot of other things at the time. Two years later, I'm still convinced it's the best $1100 I've ever spent. I don't need a laptop that often, but when I *do* need one, it's the most convenient full featured, yet smallest laptop ever made.
The only downside is that it needs a bit of tweaking before it can play full screen videos, but it *can* play them, and that's all that matters. It's also well supported by Linux and has it's own forum
I'm sure many of you would strongly disagree with the idea that XP can run acceptably with 128MB of RAM.
I'm running XPsp2 on two boxes right now.
Box1:
7200rpm 256megs ram AthlonXP2000+
Box2:
5000rpm 128megs ram Athlon 950
There's little difference between the two for everyday tasks. Gaming is another matter, but I doubt the typical email/WP/websurfer would notice much difference... or care.
I'm not psychotic (at least in this instance). People said I was nuts. I always knew in my heart it was a conspiracy.
It actually IS A FUCKING CONSPIRACY to make me wear A FUCKING TIE.
I fucking knew it. Damn. Fucking bastards.
I read the article, here's the short version: THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE has been using PR firms to plant fake news stories in all the major newspaper business sections telling everyone that suits and ties are expected wear in the office?
And you know what? I have a closet full of fucking $400 those fucks MEN'S WEARHOUSE suits. If that isn't a freaking conspiracy, I don't know what is. Thousands of dollars of my hard earned cash going to those bastards so I look like I'm expected to, because of those fake news stories, even though they are REDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE, itchy, hot, strangling and totally impractical things to wear while working.
I am so angry I'm seeing red.
Well I'll tell you what. My FUCKING SUIT WEARING DAYS ARE OVER, RIGHT NOW. No ties either, period.
Anyone has a problem with it, I show them the evidence of what the fuck has really been going on. If they still can't handle it, tough shit, fire me.
. I think once we get the bugs worked out of these new features, then we can look into more advanced stuff like "hot-plug monitors" and dynamic resolutions.
Excuse me? Dynamic resolutions haven't been "advanced stuff" since at least 1985. I know the Amiga 1000 I bought then could do it on the fly. That was TWENTY YEARS AGO.
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I use IE at most once a month, usually to fill out some form on some backwards government website or something similar, that for some stupid reason has to have IE. Other than that, I haven't bothered in years. However, FF is starting to turn into a bloated pig, and is now being targeted by attackers too, so who knows maybe I'll check out IE again one of these days.
Neither. Humans are completely irrelevant, as far as the universe as a whole is concerned.
I wonder if CERN's lawyers will try that argument after the universe winks out.
Because I'm sick of Linux distros not being able to do dual screens. Windows has been plug and play for this for over a decade. Yes, I know that SUSE can do it most... some of the time, but I would like to use Kubuntu without spending two days of my life hacking at XFree86 to make it work.
OMG that is the funniest thing I've read in years!
Ever since I saw how badly Apple screwed us Mac owners over back in '94-'96 regarding Rhapsody, I've been trying to explain to folks how Apple's corporate culture was far FAR MORE EVIL than Microsoft Corporation could ever hope to me. I tend to use Linux (OpenSUSE these days for compability reasons) as much as I can, and then XP on my Desktop and Laptop to get work done. I just will not touch an Apple product again ever, and not because I think the hardware and software is better or worse, but because I just don't feel like putting any more money into the hand that bit me.
Apple is all sheik and sexy to the Hollywood types because
1. "Artists" use macs.
2. Apple is an openly gay-friendly company. (I don't think this is a bad thing, it is merely another reason Hollywood/Mass media folks love them)
3. The great unwashed masses, that Hollywood types secretly loathe, use Windows.
4. They are located in N. Cali and N.Cali is Mecca to hollywood.
Don't underestimate the subtle but powerful influence the love of Apple by the mass media has over us all. It's a great part of the reason that people think Microsoft==Bad and Apple==good.
Microsoft just wants to make money. As much money as they can. They don't care how they do it, or who they screw over, as long as it makes them richer. I don't worry about a philosophy like that, because I can see it coming and I know where it is going. Apple has many other deep and twisted agendas, and we don't know what they all are. I'm glad as hell that Microsoft has the monopoly rather than Apple. I hail from *before* the AppleII days, and remember when Apple more or less had that monopoly in certain markets, especially schools. They were completely evil then too, although I didn't realize it at the time.
Typical elitist socialist ivory tower BS I've seen my whole life. Look at what 40 years of elitist causes have done for Africal so far.
There are plenty of people down here in New Orleans living in trailers and on the streets and in gutted (or worse, not yet gutted) houses full of mold and feces (No everyone, New Orleans is NOT back to normal, and won't be for at least 20 years, even though the TV keeps showing you the French Quarter is full of puking tourists), living in conditions worse than in many parts of Africa.
But whatever. Africa is the Elitist cause celebre even 10 years like clockwork. It's a way they psychologically deal with their guilt arising from being elitist snobs.
I already hacked my RAZR V3i to do more than the iPhone will supposedly be able to do -- a FREAKING YEAR AGO. Don't believe me? Head over to the Motox forums and see what we can do with Motorola phones. iWhatever, I don't care and havn't since 1996 when Apple screwed me and a few million folks over regarding Rhapsody.
Apple officially said that it has no objections to running anything you like on hardware you bought from them.
Kind of weird that Apple has officially said that it has objections to you runing software you bought from them on anything you like, huh?
I thought it was a joke, but I wasn't sure. I guess the mods didn't get the joke either, as you got modded up informative (!)
That atom chip corporation is a hoax
7 gigaherz 64 bit processor, 2 terabytes flash hard drive in a laptop? sure...
Twelve years I fell for one of those "free for 30 days" offers, and canceled within a week as I was already on the 'net and didn't see anything special about AOL. Somehow, probably because I didn't have a credit card at the time, they managed to keep sucking money out of my bank account every month for the next three months, no matter how much I complained to the bank, and to AOL. I never was reimbursed, and the only way I managed to make them stop was just to close my bank account.
cursing those maniacs in the early 21st century responsible for cleaning it up and weep for the days where we couldn't see the stars around large cities.
Not being able to see the stars has nothing to do with particulate pollution, rather it has to do with those horrible sodium (the orange ones) lamps that started popping up in the 70's. I wish to God we would stop lighting up the night.
Oh, I forgot it was dupeday.
I thought the problem was the sonic booms, not the engine noise. A little difficult to fly from New York to Tokyo in six hours if you've gotta go around South America, isn't it?
The Concorde went over my house once when I was in Maryland. I have no idea why. Maybe it was being diverted around thunderstorms or something. Anyway, this is how I happened to see it flying over head. I was sitting in my living room on the couch on a peaceful afternoon and OH MY GOD ITS THE END OF THE WORLD SATAN AND JESUS ARE HERE RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD! so I ran outside to watch as the earth exploded before my eyes and all it was, was the Concorde, drifting slowly overhead, at about 5000 feet (I used to fly small private planes and can estimate altitude pretty well).
Suffice it to say, the engines on that thing were freaking LOUD, even when it was floating around at 250kts (well under supersonic), and no one, not even an aviation fan like myself would want it going over their city every day, several times a day.
Except that both their stock market value, and their market share had tanked.
I meant ipod as the last word, not apple. Apple was in deep sh*t before ipod happened, that's just a fact.
Let's not forget where the idea for digital music distribution (more or less the only reason Apple is still afloat). Without song swapping on the net, that was around long before Apple, there would be no apple.
Fascinating. This is the first time I've pulled out my Fujitsu P-1120 in two months, and slashdot was the first place I went to to make sure I was connecting OK, and what do I see. Sigh. I feel bad for all the folks that will never have the opportunity to buy a P1120. All signs are that Fujitu won't be making a replacement with all the same features, namely:
1. The clearest screen I've ever seen on *anything*
2. TOUCHSCREEN!!!!
3. Size of a small hardcover book
4. Weight of a small hardcover book
5. Runs *cool*
6. Runs forever on battery power
7. No fan, silent except for the hard drive
8. Built in Wifi & Ethernet
9. Etc., etc.
10. Very nice, *useable* keyboard
Heck, I'm thinking about buying another one to have in case my current one ever breaks!
The older folks here may remember the teeny little laptop that HP came out with in the early '90s with the mouse that popped out from the side? I never bought one 'cause I figured they'd eventually come out with a faster model, and then HP just discontinued it. I always berated myself for not buying one when it was available. So when the P1000 series came out, I bought one, even though I really could have used the money for a lot of other things at the time. Two years later, I'm still convinced it's the best $1100 I've ever spent. I don't need a laptop that often, but when I *do* need one, it's the most convenient full featured, yet smallest laptop ever made.
The only downside is that it needs a bit of tweaking before it can play full screen videos, but it *can* play them, and that's all that matters. It's also well supported by Linux and has it's own forum
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I'm sure many of you would strongly disagree with the idea that XP can run acceptably with 128MB of RAM.
I'm running XPsp2 on two boxes right now.
Box1:
7200rpm
256megs ram
AthlonXP2000+
Box2:
5000rpm
128megs ram
Athlon 950
There's little difference between the two for everyday tasks. Gaming is another matter, but I doubt the typical email/WP/websurfer would notice much difference... or care.
Really, why, in North America, are we so fixated on the automobile for personal transport?
Because it is too dangerous for whites to use mass transit. Of course since this is truth it will be modded down.
I'm not psychotic (at least in this instance). People said I was nuts. I always knew in my heart it was a conspiracy.
It actually IS A FUCKING CONSPIRACY to make me wear A FUCKING TIE.
I fucking knew it. Damn.
Fucking bastards.
I read the article, here's the short version: THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE has been using PR firms to plant fake news stories in all the major newspaper business sections telling everyone that suits and ties are expected wear in the office?
And you know what? I have a closet full of fucking $400 those fucks MEN'S WEARHOUSE suits. If that isn't a freaking conspiracy, I don't know what is. Thousands of dollars of my hard earned cash going to those bastards so I look like I'm expected to, because of those fake news stories, even though they are REDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE, itchy, hot, strangling and totally impractical things to wear while working.
I am so angry I'm seeing red.
Well I'll tell you what. My FUCKING SUIT WEARING DAYS ARE OVER, RIGHT NOW. No ties either, period.
Anyone has a problem with it, I show them the evidence of what the fuck has really been going on. If they still can't handle it, tough shit, fire me.
. I think once we get the bugs worked out of these new features, then we can look into more advanced stuff like "hot-plug monitors" and dynamic resolutions.
Excuse me? Dynamic resolutions haven't been "advanced stuff" since at least 1985. I know the Amiga 1000 I bought then could do it on the fly. That was TWENTY YEARS AGO.
With all this insulation worry, why can't they put the stuff on the inside of the liquid fuel tank?
Here's why:
HD-DVD sounds more like "VHS"
Blu-Ray sounds more like "Betamax"
Therefore, consumers will choose HD-DVD.
Logic, you see, although most people can't do logic.