I hear you there. I had a shit load of sony before the rootkit shit, plus they fucked me over on my plampilot. A laptop, HD TV, camera, PS2, 400 DVD changer, home theater surround sound system, HD directv reciever, and the fore mentioned TH-55. I won't mention all the other odds and ends like blank sony dvd's and dvd writers.
Sony fucked me on the th-55 first. I died. I sent it in for repairs the fuckers at the repair shop fuck it up. They say its not their fault and refused to honor the warranty. How the fuck can it not be covered? It died, i put it in a box and that is all I did. Some tech at the repair shop fucked it and covered his ass. That's what happened.
That day I ebayed the camera, what was left of the palm (got a 100 bucks for it, go figure), and the laptop. I have a dell now. The TV croaked so I replaced it with a walmart knock off till LCD comes down and gets better. The HD reciever got replaced with a free H20 from directv. The DVD changer and home theater are still going strong but their days are numbered.
The only the only thing that I think I'll have trouble to dump will be the ps2. Not going to own a ps3 anytime soon so I'll keep the ps2 till it croaks. I have my eyes set on a xbox360 anyway.
I figure by this time next year I'll be sony free. Except for all the sony movies I download or copy. I have to make up the cost of that pda some how.
I almost had a problem like that when I was in high school. Now this was many years ago, to many that I don't want to go into. The school news paper was nothing but a mouth piece for the jocks and victorian society, i.e. people with all the money. It was not even worth wiping your ass with that rag.
My friends and I being nerds had access to our own computers, C-64, a damn good printer, and a copy machine. We did what any pissed off geeks would do, we started our own underground newspaper. But we where not so underground handing them out in 3rd hall like that.
We got away with it for the first few weeks. Then it turned out we we're more popular than the offical newspaper and people stopped buying that one. That pissed off the teacher, a real bitch, in charge of the school paper. That or the article I wrote about her being a real bitch, hey! I didn't mention her name.. but maybe let it slip what parking place she parked in.
Well the bitch, bitched an we got called into the principals office. He read us the riot act and was going to supend us. Called our parents and all that shit. What I don't think he was expecting that one of our parents was a hippy freak from the '60s and believed in all that free speach jazz.
He showed up with a lawyer in tow. We where told to wait out in the hall while they talked about our "problem." Fifteen minutes later the principals secretary came out an told us to go back to class. We continued to publish our paper all the way up to our senior year, 3 years. Never was another word spoken to us about it ether.
I would think that you would be correct in that "n00b" statement. When I tried to do the mythbox I had been out of touch with linux at that level for years. I beat on it for 3 days before giving it up for lost. To my credit I had most of it working. I had the S/dpif sound working, the remote needed programming but worked, and I had video at 1920x1080. The only problem was I couldn't get the video on the mythbox as good as I could get it on MP under windows. What is was is the graphics card, radeon 9700, drivers that I had to use under myth just where not as good as the windows.
I beat on that thing for 3 days before saying "fuck it." I had MP up and running in full 1920x1080 glory in about an hour. No, I didn't need to run it in 1920x1080 but by god I had a HD tv and I was going to use it as such. Damn the lack of media!
Oh an by the way. I'm not an English teacher and I don't give a flying ratts ass about what you people think of my spelling or grammer. I would think that you fuck nuggets that must correct that would figure that out by now.
Mark Twann, I think, once said, "it's best to keep your mouth shut an let the world think your a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt." I'm pretty sure I butchered that quote but you should get the point. I would suggest that you take Mark Twann's advice to heart.
I'm betting this is exactlly what it is. I'm thinking he got caught with his dick up some intern's ass probably on Bill's desk too. I would think that woudl be grounds for firing even if it wasn't corp. policy.
An there are people who switch from linux to windows. I'm guilty of that. I started off with a linux dominated system in '95. It had a a windows '95, small, partition on it to play games. Over the years that small partition got bigger but I was still primary linux.
Then I installed some red hat patches and for some reason my keyboard and mouse stopped working. The patches had nothing to do with the keyboard and mouse. camel meets straw. I formated the fucker that night and installed windows.
Two years went by and I need a server so I pulled together some spare hardware and installed linux on a duron 700. I used it for awhile keeping it current in the hardware. When I retired the linux box the hardware was a athlon 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM and Suse 10.2. I even tried to make it into a myth box but mythtv kicked my ass. After three days of fucking with it, I said "fuck it" and had mediaportal running on XP up in an hour.
Recently I needed the hardware the linux box was running on. So I moved the suse 10.2 to a mickysoft virtual server. It stayed as a virtual server for a few months. A couple weeks ago I tried to upgrade it to 10.3 The results where not pretty so I shut it down. It will probably be down for good.
Linux doesn't do what I need it to do anymore. I'm a photographer and linux just doesn't have the support for the equipment and software I need, like for the printers and photoshop. If you say gimp is as good as photoshop then your and idiot and need to just shut up.
recently I've been thinking about a Mac. I'm sure it will pass but not so certain it will pass in time....
Which is exactly what you should do. Just take tour through your local yellow pages and call some sharks. Most of them won't charge you anything to answer a simple question. Some of them will be more than willing to fire off a letter for you for 50 bucks or so. A letter from a lawyer can work wonders. Just tell this fucker to take a hike all nice and legal.
Of course I like the idea of registering yours as trademark and suing the fucker yourself. I hate domain farmers. I registered a domain for my niece when she turned 10. It expired 2 years later and some fucker scooped it up and wanted to charge me a 1000 bucks to get it back. Since the domain was my nieces name, I had a lawyer fire off a letter. It cost me 35 bucks. I checked the domain name a week later and it was unregistered again. Still not sure how that worked. But anyway I own my nieces domain name until she turn 18 now.
Yeah, I noticed that same effect too. When my uncle bought his first HD tv, a very nice lpd unit, and plugged it in there was a noticeable improvement over in the picture quality over the last POS he owned. I just figured that the new set has better logic in it that clears up the crappy analog signal some what.
Now it was just the opposite for me with digital channels. I noticed when I plugged my new "digital" tv into directv I could tell the channels that where being shorted bitrates. The digital artifacts where much more noticeable than with my old POS Emerson.
I just read over 70 comments and I noticed that no one stated the obvious answer to the problem. Just dispute the charges on your credit cards. Sure it takes longer than bitching about it but it usually does work. You might have to fill out some paper work and mail some letter but the results are usually far more satisfying. You get your money back and the company that you are bitch'n about, if they get enough charge backs will have their credit card account yanked.
I'm not sure any more, but if the merchant didn't have a signed form that stated they where authorized to charge your account and you disputed the charges, the credit card companies would usually side with the card owner. I don't know how it works any more but it's worth a shot.
How's the picture look to Joe Sixpack? Nice and clear with warm colors? That wins over the techno-babble jabber malarkey.
Call him a troll if you want to but he has a point. 90% of the HDtv's are not going to be bought at BestBarf, ChokeCity, or [insert your towns high priced fancy tv store here]. They are going to be bought at wallyworld, kmart, and *shutter* radiohack. They are not going to know anything about 1080i/p upscanning and most of them will not know the difference between 720p and 1080p. Most of them won't give a damn ether. All they are going to see is "damn that is a prutty picture." That and that magic HD sticker ont he front.
That and the price. Most of the new tv's are going to be right around 1000 bucks give or take a few hundred. We all know what kind of tv's those are. And you know something? That's fine. Those tv's are good enough.
Infact they are so good enough that I bought one. Yeap, I paid 900 bucks for my HD tv from walmart. The picture is absolutly wonderful. I didn't see a reason to pay 1500+ bucks or more for a tv that only gets slightly better picture quality for what I do with it.
Sure, it will most likely drop dead in a few years but that is fine. I'll get my 900 bucks out of it. By then the fat ass LCD's will come down to the magic 1000 buck range and I'll buy one of those to replace it.
But that is what is going to win the format war. Joe Six pack an his $1000 walmart tv and sub $200 whatever dvd player.
I have no where near an exact understanding, but I did read that they wrote their own virtual machine to do the job.
From what limited knowledge I have and what I've just read it seem to me the simplest way to do would be to write your own virtual machine that simply lies to the disk. No matter what the disk ask the virtual machine return 'OK'. I'm pretty sure it's more complex than this and I'm sure they thought about it. But then again they didn't think of that fucking shift key ether.
Actually, I've heard of *gamers* running Server 2003 because it's even faster than XP at a lot of things. Of course, installing DirectX is a tiny bit of a challenge, but once that's done, they manage to get performance boosts (small ones, I believe) over regular XP.
I wouldn't call them small. I'm running server 2003 x64 now and I think with out a doubt that it's the best OS mickysoft has ever put out. Alot of the speed comes from that most of the shit that is in XP comes turned off by default. You can turn most of it back on of course but that defeats the purpose of running 2003 in the first place. Luna is a fucking pig.
Almost everything you can do in XP you can do in 2003. The only thing that I have found is fast user switching and XP's pretty login. Directx went in easy but bluetooth was a bitch. I had to use a 3rd party BT stack.
I don't know about gamming since I don't use my computer for games, hello ps2, but for everyday use that fucker screams.
Damn, these people are treating this damn thing like it's alive. Stop attacking the bot and find the fucker who wrote it. Then beat your answers out of him.
While the average reader here has never been to such a site
I'm calling bullshit on this! my studies show that on average "pussy" is the third word every new user types into google. Second if the user is between the ages of 12 and 15.
In windows a good key combo that I've found is to do a start-d. That will drop everyting on every screen to the system task bar in winblows leaving you with a clean desk top. It even has an undo feature. If you press start-d again it will open all your windows back up and place them right where you left them.
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Sounds about right. Works for me.
It was a self done. I have a great recovery system. I just rebooted and reinstalled from a clean backup.
I hear you there. I had a shit load of sony before the rootkit shit, plus they fucked me over on my plampilot. A laptop, HD TV, camera, PS2, 400 DVD changer, home theater surround sound system, HD directv reciever, and the fore mentioned TH-55. I won't mention all the other odds and ends like blank sony dvd's and dvd writers.
Sony fucked me on the th-55 first. I died. I sent it in for repairs the fuckers at the repair shop fuck it up. They say its not their fault and refused to honor the warranty. How the fuck can it not be covered? It died, i put it in a box and that is all I did. Some tech at the repair shop fucked it and covered his ass. That's what happened.
That day I ebayed the camera, what was left of the palm (got a 100 bucks for it, go figure), and the laptop. I have a dell now. The TV croaked so I replaced it with a walmart knock off till LCD comes down and gets better. The HD reciever got replaced with a free H20 from directv. The DVD changer and home theater are still going strong but their days are numbered.
The only the only thing that I think I'll have trouble to dump will be the ps2. Not going to own a ps3 anytime soon so I'll keep the ps2 till it croaks. I have my eyes set on a xbox360 anyway.
I figure by this time next year I'll be sony free. Except for all the sony movies I download or copy. I have to make up the cost of that pda some how.
I almost had a problem like that when I was in high school. Now this was many years ago, to many that I don't want to go into. The school news paper was nothing but a mouth piece for the jocks and victorian society, i.e. people with all the money. It was not even worth wiping your ass with that rag.
My friends and I being nerds had access to our own computers, C-64, a damn good printer, and a copy machine. We did what any pissed off geeks would do, we started our own underground newspaper. But we where not so underground handing them out in 3rd hall like that.
We got away with it for the first few weeks. Then it turned out we we're more popular than the offical newspaper and people stopped buying that one. That pissed off the teacher, a real bitch, in charge of the school paper. That or the article I wrote about her being a real bitch, hey! I didn't mention her name.. but maybe let it slip what parking place she parked in.
Well the bitch, bitched an we got called into the principals office. He read us the riot act and was going to supend us. Called our parents and all that shit. What I don't think he was expecting that one of our parents was a hippy freak from the '60s and believed in all that free speach jazz.
He showed up with a lawyer in tow. We where told to wait out in the hall while they talked about our "problem." Fifteen minutes later the principals secretary came out an told us to go back to class. We continued to publish our paper all the way up to our senior year, 3 years. Never was another word spoken to us about it ether.
For one, you are mistaken in your assumption that I complain. I do not complain about anything. I Bitch. There is a difference.
Two, I like your answer so I'm writing it down for future use.
Three, (yes I could have used a list), I have no idea what complaint you are bitching about.
I beat on that thing for 3 days before saying "fuck it." I had MP up and running in full 1920x1080 glory in about an hour. No, I didn't need to run it in 1920x1080 but by god I had a HD tv and I was going to use it as such. Damn the lack of media!
Oh an by the way. I'm not an English teacher and I don't give a flying ratts ass about what you people think of my spelling or grammer. I would think that you fuck nuggets that must correct that would figure that out by now.
Mark Twann, I think, once said, "it's best to keep your mouth shut an let the world think your a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt." I'm pretty sure I butchered that quote but you should get the point. I would suggest that you take Mark Twann's advice to heart.
Yeap, I'm definally adding that phrase to my list for future use.
.. glued steve and bills butts together...
Yeah, we can go on all day with this.
I'm betting this is exactlly what it is. I'm thinking he got caught with his dick up some intern's ass probably on Bill's desk too. I would think that woudl be grounds for firing even if it wasn't corp. policy.
An there are people who switch from linux to windows. I'm guilty of that. I started off with a linux dominated system in '95. It had a a windows '95, small, partition on it to play games. Over the years that small partition got bigger but I was still primary linux.
Then I installed some red hat patches and for some reason my keyboard and mouse stopped working. The patches had nothing to do with the keyboard and mouse. camel meets straw. I formated the fucker that night and installed windows.
Two years went by and I need a server so I pulled together some spare hardware and installed linux on a duron 700. I used it for awhile keeping it current in the hardware. When I retired the linux box the hardware was a athlon 3000+ with 1 GB of RAM and Suse 10.2. I even tried to make it into a myth box but mythtv kicked my ass. After three days of fucking with it, I said "fuck it" and had mediaportal running on XP up in an hour.
Recently I needed the hardware the linux box was running on. So I moved the suse 10.2 to a mickysoft virtual server. It stayed as a virtual server for a few months. A couple weeks ago I tried to upgrade it to 10.3 The results where not pretty so I shut it down. It will probably be down for good.
Linux doesn't do what I need it to do anymore. I'm a photographer and linux just doesn't have the support for the equipment and software I need, like for the printers and photoshop. If you say gimp is as good as photoshop then your and idiot and need to just shut up.
recently I've been thinking about a Mac. I'm sure it will pass but not so certain it will pass in time....
Which is exactly what you should do. Just take tour through your local yellow pages and call some sharks. Most of them won't charge you anything to answer a simple question. Some of them will be more than willing to fire off a letter for you for 50 bucks or so. A letter from a lawyer can work wonders. Just tell this fucker to take a hike all nice and legal.
Of course I like the idea of registering yours as trademark and suing the fucker yourself. I hate domain farmers. I registered a domain for my niece when she turned 10. It expired 2 years later and some fucker scooped it up and wanted to charge me a 1000 bucks to get it back. Since the domain was my nieces name, I had a lawyer fire off a letter. It cost me 35 bucks. I checked the domain name a week later and it was unregistered again. Still not sure how that worked. But anyway I own my nieces domain name until she turn 18 now.
Yeah, I noticed that same effect too. When my uncle bought his first HD tv, a very nice lpd unit, and plugged it in there was a noticeable improvement over in the picture quality over the last POS he owned. I just figured that the new set has better logic in it that clears up the crappy analog signal some what.
Now it was just the opposite for me with digital channels. I noticed when I plugged my new "digital" tv into directv I could tell the channels that where being shorted bitrates. The digital artifacts where much more noticeable than with my old POS Emerson.
You know? I actually miss that POS. Not sure why
I just read over 70 comments and I noticed that no one stated the obvious answer to the problem. Just dispute the charges on your credit cards. Sure it takes longer than bitching about it but it usually does work. You might have to fill out some paper work and mail some letter but the results are usually far more satisfying. You get your money back and the company that you are bitch'n about, if they get enough charge backs will have their credit card account yanked.
I'm not sure any more, but if the merchant didn't have a signed form that stated they where authorized to charge your account and you disputed the charges, the credit card companies would usually side with the card owner. I don't know how it works any more but it's worth a shot.
Call him a troll if you want to but he has a point. 90% of the HDtv's are not going to be bought at BestBarf, ChokeCity, or [insert your towns high priced fancy tv store here]. They are going to be bought at wallyworld, kmart, and *shutter* radiohack. They are not going to know anything about 1080i/p upscanning and most of them will not know the difference between 720p and 1080p. Most of them won't give a damn ether. All they are going to see is "damn that is a prutty picture." That and that magic HD sticker ont he front.
That and the price. Most of the new tv's are going to be right around 1000 bucks give or take a few hundred. We all know what kind of tv's those are. And you know something? That's fine. Those tv's are good enough.
Infact they are so good enough that I bought one. Yeap, I paid 900 bucks for my HD tv from walmart. The picture is absolutly wonderful. I didn't see a reason to pay 1500+ bucks or more for a tv that only gets slightly better picture quality for what I do with it.
Sure, it will most likely drop dead in a few years but that is fine. I'll get my 900 bucks out of it. By then the fat ass LCD's will come down to the magic 1000 buck range and I'll buy one of those to replace it.
But that is what is going to win the format war. Joe Six pack an his $1000 walmart tv and sub $200 whatever dvd player.
I think that was the whole point. Nobody gives a damn.
From what limited knowledge I have and what I've just read it seem to me the simplest way to do would be to write your own virtual machine that simply lies to the disk. No matter what the disk ask the virtual machine return 'OK'. I'm pretty sure it's more complex than this and I'm sure they thought about it. But then again they didn't think of that fucking shift key ether.
Problems is, it's not the fucking warts that kill. It's the fucking frogs that are the problem.
I wouldn't call them small. I'm running server 2003 x64 now and I think with out a doubt that it's the best OS mickysoft has ever put out. Alot of the speed comes from that most of the shit that is in XP comes turned off by default. You can turn most of it back on of course but that defeats the purpose of running 2003 in the first place. Luna is a fucking pig.
Almost everything you can do in XP you can do in 2003. The only thing that I have found is fast user switching and XP's pretty login. Directx went in easy but bluetooth was a bitch. I had to use a 3rd party BT stack.
I don't know about gamming since I don't use my computer for games, hello ps2, but for everyday use that fucker screams.
Damn, these people are treating this damn thing like it's alive. Stop attacking the bot and find the fucker who wrote it. Then beat your answers out of him.
Same here. Maybe we should have read the article?
I'm calling bullshit on this! my studies show that on average "pussy" is the third word every new user types into google. Second if the user is between the ages of 12 and 15.
In windows a good key combo that I've found is to do a start-d. That will drop everyting on every screen to the system task bar in winblows leaving you with a clean desk top. It even has an undo feature. If you press start-d again it will open all your windows back up and place them right where you left them.
Now that was cool. Learn something new every day.
Hey, I got a plan. Why don't you go fuck yourself too?