--I hate the French as much as anyone, but it's because of reasons like their lowest-in-Europe per-capita soap consumption. When it comes to fighting, you Americans still owe the French.--
I don't hate the French, but you are incorrect. We paid that debt in WWII when we liberated them from the Nazi's.
--We have created a global system that runs on money and power. To think that this system has any other aim but to continue its own existence and increase the wealth and power of those who run it is illogical--
It has always been this way and will be for some time to come. The question is do you want the US to be on top or someone else? The US is imperfect but whom else would you have lead the world. The EU already has a higher GDP. Someone has to do it.
Yes, but if you find a problem somewhere you solve it. This may require thought or just trying all of the possible combinations to arrive @ an answer. Accidents and failure can also cause creative things to happen.
--I'm sure that having a second monitor to provide extra game info is probably way cool, especially with games like flight sims and driving sims. But how many people really have two monitors?--
I do, but not for gaming. I use a CAD program on one monitor an a spreadsheet on the other. I've got a Ge Force FX 5600 card from ASUS. The point is to to get dual dvi out. It's not the fastest thing int the world but faster than comparable Matrox cards. I've got a 21" crt and a 19" lcd. The dual monitors are worth it. They are a fine time saver.
--Or to borrow a joke from the SCO threads, "Wow, look at all of the i++; statements those damned open source commies used, just like in SCO's code!"--
Yea, it's like saying you copied the book that I wrote because it had the letter "a" in it.
Or, better yet - the letters "f", "m", "c", "o", "i", "r", "s", and "t" - with the number "6".
Outlook and Exchange are what there really needs to be alternatives to. Whatever the replacement for Exhange is, would have to work with Outlook as well since so many are acustomed to Outlook working on their clients.
I have both here at work, 21" CRT and 19" LCD dual monitor setup. The CRT is old. The LCD is a brand new Viewsonic with little motion flicker. Yet it is still anoying for cetain applications. It just depends on what it is.
When I was a kid we had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill coming and going as we went to school. We did, however, wrap barbwire around our feet to get traction.
--XBox -- Everyone's got a PS2. Sorry. Putting a P3-700 in a box with a harddrive and a TV-out running a stripped down windows kernel and DirectX doesn't count as "innovation". That's called "building a computer that plugs into the TV". And Sony's done it better.--
Agree with what you say but...
Playing devil's advocate here, what about the xbox's hard drive and multiplayer capability? I don't think PS2 is necessarly better in every way.
--As happened with the Moon shot? If this Bush makes a declaration, he will try and keep it. Otherwise he'll end up compared to his father. Jr. wants to be a JFK and Reagan in one compassionate conservative package--
I'm sure if he was assinated then congress would come of with the $$$ then;)
Also the memory controller is onboard. I just built 2 2.0ghz machines with an MSI KT8 neo mother board and 2 WD SATA drives in raid 0 and am more than satisfied with the result.
--Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.--
Agreed
--Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.--
Not so. I once knew of someone that was blackballed. "If you hire him then we refuse to do business with you" sort of thing.
--If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.--
Try getting fired in Virgina. The employer will call you back to work doing some shit job and get you to quit.
--Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.--
I don't know on this one but I've seen it done.
--We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.--
Yes, that's true, only the penalty is usually less on the employers end unless your not easily replaced.
--Or perhaps we should just disallow 'donations' to political offices.
How far do you want to go with this? And are you imagining the probable unintended consequences while you make that decision?--
Or we could allow only individual contributions up to $1000. No company money. No soft money. No special interest money. Just individual contributions. Simple ain't it?
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Yes,
I know know that "common sense" is very uncommon indeed.
Everything is BIG in Texas too.
--Get yourself a good CPA to do quarterly taxes,--
And...
get yourself a good lawyer.
--Unless what you want is to copy and paste between applications, in which case the opposite is true.--
I know this is modded funny but this IS the very thing Linux needs to make it on the desktop.
good one...
--I hate the French as much as anyone, but it's because of reasons like their lowest-in-Europe per-capita soap consumption. When it comes to fighting, you Americans still owe the French.--
I don't hate the French, but you are incorrect. We paid that debt in WWII when we liberated them from the Nazi's.
--We have created a global system that runs on money and power. To think that this system has any other aim but to continue its own existence and increase the wealth and power of those who run it is illogical--
It has always been this way and will be for some time to come. The question is do you want the US to be on top or someone else? The US is imperfect but whom else would you have lead the world. The EU already has a higher GDP. Someone has to do it.
Yes, but if you find a problem somewhere you solve it. This may require thought or just trying all of the possible combinations to arrive @ an answer. Accidents and failure can also cause creative things to happen.
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha gonna do?
--In an anarchist society, it is possible to be organized (worker and community groups) and peaceful.--
Please show evidence of this in practice? Also, how would defence of this theoretical nation work?
--I'm sure that having a second monitor to provide extra game info is probably way cool, especially with games like flight sims and driving sims. But how many people really have two monitors?--
I do, but not for gaming. I use a CAD program on one monitor an a spreadsheet on the other. I've got a Ge Force FX 5600 card from ASUS. The point is to to get dual dvi out. It's not the fastest thing int the world but faster than comparable Matrox cards. I've got a 21" crt and a 19" lcd. The dual monitors are worth it. They are a fine time saver.
--Or to borrow a joke from the SCO threads, "Wow, look at all of the i++; statements those damned open source commies used, just like in SCO's code!"--
Yea, it's like saying you copied the book that I wrote because it had the letter "a" in it.
Or, better yet - the letters "f", "m", "c", "o", "i", "r", "s", and "t" - with the number "6".
--3. No one really has come out and said if there is a fee for filing a prior art claim against an existing patent. Is there?--
I believe $90,000 is the amount that you have to come up with.
Outlook and Exchange are what there really needs to be alternatives to. Whatever the replacement for Exhange is, would have to work with Outlook as well since so many are acustomed to Outlook working on their clients.
Yes, and with bigger monitors, it's still a problem. Some are better than others, but I can still detect motion flicker on all LCD's that I've seen.
I have both here at work, 21" CRT and 19" LCD dual monitor setup. The CRT is old. The LCD is a brand new Viewsonic with little motion flicker. Yet it is still anoying for cetain applications. It just depends on what it is.
--I have Moz 1.6 and Firebird 0.71 on OS X, and I find Firebird to be lacking some little bits that prevent it from being anywhere near as good.--
I disagree. Those little bits that are lacking are actually what make firebird better. It just seems so much faster than Mozilla.
When I was a kid we had to walk barefoot in the snow uphill coming and going as we went to school. We did, however, wrap barbwire around our feet to get traction.
Just curious, what is the difference between your idea and an existing heat exchanger? They work in a similar fashion.
--XBox -- Everyone's got a PS2. Sorry. Putting a P3-700 in a box with a harddrive and a TV-out running a stripped down windows kernel and DirectX doesn't count as "innovation". That's called "building a computer that plugs into the TV". And Sony's done it better.--
Agree with what you say but...
Playing devil's advocate here, what about the xbox's hard drive and multiplayer capability? I don't think PS2 is necessarly better in every way.
--As happened with the Moon shot? If this Bush makes a declaration, he will try and keep it. Otherwise he'll end up compared to his father. Jr. wants to be a JFK and Reagan in one compassionate conservative package--
;)
I'm sure if he was assinated then congress would come of with the $$$ then
Also the memory controller is onboard. I just built 2 2.0ghz machines with an MSI KT8 neo mother board and 2 WD SATA drives in raid 0 and am more than satisfied with the result.
--No worker's rights?--
--Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.--
Agreed
--Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.--
Not so. I once knew of someone that was blackballed. "If you hire him then we refuse to do business with you" sort of thing.
--If a company lets you go, are you entitled to unemployment compenstation of some sort? Yes.--
Try getting fired in Virgina. The employer will call you back to work doing some shit job and get you to quit.
--Can a company legally tell another company that you don't bathe, you write shitty code and your mother-in-law calls you 17 times a day distracting you at work? No.--
I don't know on this one but I've seen it done.
--We have rights, they just don't seem to be as nice when you're the one getting let go for no reason. Rights go both ways, unfortunately it's usually the employer that is on the receiving end of the benefit.--
Yes, that's true, only the penalty is usually less on the employers end unless your not easily replaced.
--Or perhaps we should just disallow 'donations' to political offices.
How far do you want to go with this? And are you imagining the probable unintended consequences while you make that decision?--
Or we could allow only individual contributions up to $1000. No company money. No soft money. No special interest money. Just individual contributions. Simple ain't it?
Humans are still the best at wisdom. Uhm, on second thought, never mind.