No, there are boobs.. (.)(.) for knee knockers then you have (*)(*) for pert, firm pointers or you have (o)(o) and if you like them bigger, (O)(O) and of course there's (0)(0) or if you frequent tiddy bars these might look familiar ($)($) ( O )( O ) and if you like them extra large..
who are the 144 people that have me on their lists? And why and how? I have less than 6 "buddies" on my list and am considering dropping half of them.
Who gives a shit about being popular anyway? I consider IM to be a horrible nuisance and a pita. I only have it because I don't have a home phone and I despise talking on my cell phone. When someone "rings me up" it better be important. For the most part, I don't want to talk to anyone.
"DO NOT CALL" do you not understand? Are these people so F-n brain dead that they can't take a hint? I think the list is way to lame. I think they should have a "will beat your ass if you call" list. That's right. If you call me to peddle bullshit I will come find you and beat your ass. Now that would be an effective list.
Really, I don't understand why they don't flat out outlaw all telemarketing. It's intrusive and obnoxious at the very least.
"significantly fewer students at the college level -- 60 percent fewer -- wanted to study computer science in 2004 as opposed to the year 2000. "
most of these younger folks think they were born gifted hotshots. Most of them think they don't need no steenkin education because they already know it all..
There is a large number of young people that grew up with computers, someone 20 years old now has probably had a home computer all his life. Someone old enough to be his parent did not have a home computer when they were his age.
Same as the "free TV" option on CNN and MSNBC sites. When is it "free" when you are required to use an non-free and expensive operating system to view it?
Why should we be so gung-ho to unseat M$?? Really, if Linux were as big and wide spread as M$ is would fall to the same corruption as M$.. Greedsters and profiteers would crowd out the well intentioned geeks and nerds and FREE software would go the way of the dodo bird. And being a bigger product means being a bigger target. Virus and spyware and all the other malware crap would soon be a problem.
There's just so many good reasons to leave things as they are.
I'm perfectly happy with Linux being a tiny, minority, niche thing. The rest of the world treats me as if I were from another planet and that's fine with me. I bask in the warm happiness of my very secure and very stable Linux network and all the happy Linux machines on it..
Thanks but no thanks to pushing Linux into the mainstream.. If it ain't broke, don't fix it..
Freaking cardboard... And hanging an expensive laptop on cardboard? WTF is he smoking??
That little strip of wood in the back isn't enough to hold that thing up. Wait a few days and see what happens then get back to us. Let the humidity go up some. Here, it's in the high 90's all the time. That little project of his would last about 30 seconds and that laptop would be bouncing off the floor..
That's about the worst idea I've ever seen. Visually it's cool but in reality, it's dangerous, this guy is going to lose that laptop..
She CLAIMED the accounting could be done in 45 minutes. I did not believe that. As for answering phones, there was an average of 20 phone calls and hour and those involved maybe 4 dispatches per day to work crews.
SOMEONE had to be there to answer the phones, people hang up on answering machines, fact. And hang ups = lost business.
The real pisser was that she was more interested in playing the games than answering the phones, dispatching or doing the accounting. When I walked in, she was hypnotized by the stupid computer. When I would talk to her, she would just keep playing and sort of throw answers back to me, after long periods of silence. It was like talking to an autistic person.
I litterally had to tell her to turn the screen off while talking to me. She was obsessed with the computer games to the point that she was pretty much non-functional in her office duties.
Cell phone service here was very spotty then, towers were few and far between and service was very expensive. Not at all worth the expense. They finally began to install more towers and brought in competitors, service improved and prices went down. I finally got cell service when the expense of the secretary outweighed the expense of shutting all but one phone line down and forwarding all numbers to my cell phone so I could be in the field and run the office on the road.
You people have no idea what a screwed up deal it was, there is no way that anyone can understand unless they were there to live it. Family businesses are always a pain in the ass. DO NOT HIRE FAMILY MEMBERS!! Was it a perfect scenario? Hell no. Don't sit there and nit-pick me to death, it was how it was. I learned some hard lessons in those early days of my personal small business. You live, learn and move forward.
What a total farce.. I got wise to the inkjet scam a few years ago. I went completely, 100% laserjet and will never go back.
While my laserjets are old, they serve me well. Quite well indeed because I got them for almost nothing. I have a Laserjet 4SiMX (17ppm) with a 100 envelope feeder, a 1,500 sheet feeder and a duplexer. I can print manuals in minutes. I have a 4MV (16ppm) with a 500 sheet 11x17 tray for large mono prints I have a 4500n (4ppm clr & 8ppm bw) for small, light duty color jobs and I have a Ricoh AP3800c (11x17) with duplexer and other goodies for the big, heavy duty color jobs, it's 28ppm clr and 38ppm bw, and that includes duplex printing.
I keep them all loaded up with paper and envelopes and use which ever one suits the job. I refill my own toner carts. I also buy them from ebay sometimes very cheap because all of these printers are considered to be obsolete.
They are plenty fast for me and being that they are "obsolete" they are plentiful and CHEAP...
Some years back in my small business I put a PC on the desk of my receptionist, around 1996 I think. She was *supposed* to use it to do my accounting.. I didn't put it on the Internet, though she begged for it, because I wasn't about to add another phoneline for something I didn't consider important.
Rather than doing my accounting, she spent 98% of her time playing solitaire.. Nothing pissed me off worse than to walk in and see her clicking away at that frigging retarded game while on the clock. I was paying her to play games and have a good time. So I went in after closing and deleted the damn games. She whined and cried about it, I told her the computer crashed and they were "eaten up".. She managed to click around and find some other BS game to play, which I also deleted. Again, more whining. I then told her she was paid to work, not play games. She said she could do her job in 45 minutes and that the rest of the day there was nothing else to do. I would have fired her if I hadn't needed her to answer the phones and dispatch jobs. That and she was my cousins wife.. (don't hire relatives.....) She told me if I didn't put the games back on she would quit.
Finally, cell phone service came to our area, (yes, we were very backwards here) and I fired her, took the computer home, cut 4 of my land lines and forwarded them all to my cell phone.
I know this won't work for most people, it's just my experience with employees wasting MY time and MY money...
Please stop using these old cliched arguments as they are no longer valid. Windows 2000 and XP do not BSOD any more than any other OS.
Sorry, BSOD is a WINDOWS ONLY feature. Linux can not BSOD.. They say Linux can crash but that's only a rumor.
I have never had my Windows XP laptop ever infected I presume you've never connected it to the Internet?
The firewall and the paint program are free. You get what you pay for. The Windows XP firewall is proven to be lame, OOTB.. And the paint program? Man, who are you trying to kid? 16 colors with a dozen or so capabilities at best?? Come on now...
As for the X number of reboots comment, I guess you've never installed any software, downloaded any patches, changed any security settings, etc.. FFS, I was working on a XP box last week and it's genuine, brand spanking new MS Wheel Mouse does not work. Yeah, it points and clicks and XP says that it's a wheel mouse but you can't use the wheel feature at all.. Totally non-functional.. And when I went into control panel to make adjustments to the mouse, it insisted I reboot.. Just because I changed one small setting on the mouse. And connect up and install all the service packs and updates. You'll reboot dozens and dozens of times before they are all installed and operational.
And the real pisser? My main machine dual boots, I have win2k and Suse 9.3 Pro on it. I only boot into win2k to capture video on my Nvidia VIVO card because Nvidia does not provide info to Linux developers for their proprietary hardware. So my Nvidia card rocks like crazy on Linux for anything except video capture.
So, I go to capture some video, to convert a instructional video from VHS to DVD. I boot up into Win2k and decide to update to the latest service pack and to make sure that all the patches are installed so it's nice and safe... Well, 20-30 reboots later, it finally gets to the last update, it downloads, installs and tells me to reboot. I reboot and BAM! BSOD... The machine will no longer boot windows. It's screwed. So now I will have to re-install windows all over again, lose my data because windows does that to you, then after it's finished reinstalling, I'll have to reboot from my Linux DVD and repair the MBR and grub because windows screws that up too...
Oh what joy...
Yeah, I'll concede one thing, Windows has better driver support because the hardware manufacturers build proprietary hardware that's locked into M$. In return, M$ gives them trade secrets to writing the drivers. I just spent days fighting with trying to install a winmodem in my dads Linux machine. Linuxant wanted $$ for a Linux driver. Screw that. From what I've found, the 2.6 kernel doesn't play well with HCF / HSP modems. So I put my dad back down to the 2.4 kernel and used an old Linuxant beta that I found. Works fine now.
The other problem I've found is scanner support. Most scanners now are cheap crap. I've had a damn hard time finding cheap scanners that work with Linux. Friends and family members want a Walmart or Best Buy scanner, something in the $45-90 price range. They don't want to spend hundreds of dollars for a high end SCSI scanner and SCSI card. Once again, proprietary crap.. Printer support? No problem. Never found a printer I couldn't make work outside of Lezmark. Avoid them like the plague no matter how bad you are enticed. I stick with HP hardware when I want it to work.
Will these other vendors ever begin to cater to Linux? No. They all feed at Bill's trough and the slop is good there.
"Linux runs on just about anything, whereas Windows has a targeted platform focus," he said, adding that one of the main reasons people started looking at Linux was to avoid vendor lock-in.
No. Try again.. People quit M$ because they are sick and tired of dishing out bucketloads of money everytime they want to do anything, because they are sick of rebooting 400 times a day, because they are sick of BSODs.. And on and on and on...
An entire OS on a single CDROM that does NOTHING out of the box except get you on the internet and get infected before you can patch it.. I didn't want to spend hundreds and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a word processor, a paint program, virus protection, firewall, etc...
For the cost of a blank DVD and an hour or so to download an ISO, I can have everything I want and more.
And the absolute best part is is that I no longer have the big pain in my wallet and my ass called M$..
Oh yeah, and I have ZERO pirated stuff.. ZERO... No warez, no serialz, no gamez, nothing...
The military has been doing this for YEARS. MRE heaters.. No big deal. You can buy them by the crateloads at gun shows for 50 cents each, will heat a meal in a few minutes, just add water. Stores forever. Must have items if you live on the coast where you may lose power from hurricanes, etc..
and I mean ALL of them, land line, cell phone, etc. are processed in Israel. There is a huge company there that handles the processing and billing for every phone company in the world.
Google for "israel phone records" and see for yourself.
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( o | o ) Oh yeah, I almost forgot, CLEAVAGE!!
No, there are boobs.. (.)(.) for knee knockers
then you have (*)(*) for pert, firm pointers
or you have (o)(o) and if you like them bigger, (O)(O)
and of course there's (0)(0) or if you frequent tiddy bars these might look familiar ($)($)
( O )( O ) and if you like them extra large..
who are the 144 people that have me on their lists?
And why and how? I have less than 6 "buddies" on my list and am considering dropping half of them.
Who gives a shit about being popular anyway? I consider IM to be a horrible nuisance and a pita.
I only have it because I don't have a home phone and I despise talking on my cell phone. When someone "rings me up" it better be important. For the most part, I don't want to talk to anyone.
"DO NOT CALL" do you not understand?
Are these people so F-n brain dead that they can't take a hint? I think the list is way to lame. I think they should have a "will beat your ass if you call" list.
That's right. If you call me to peddle bullshit I will come find you and beat your ass. Now that would be an effective list.
Really, I don't understand why they don't flat out outlaw all telemarketing. It's intrusive and obnoxious at the very least.
I grew up with TOS, it had a HUGE influence on me.
Damn...
Get your DVR's warmed up, I smell a TOS marathon coming up on scifi..
Beam me up Scotty, this planet sucks....
"significantly fewer students at the college level -- 60 percent fewer -- wanted to study computer science in 2004 as opposed to the year 2000. "
most of these younger folks think they were born gifted hotshots. Most of them think they don't need no steenkin education because they already know it all..
There is a large number of young people that grew up with computers, someone 20 years old now has probably had a home computer all his life. Someone old enough to be his parent did not have a home computer when they were his age.
WTF is this Mickey Mouse bullshit?
Personally, I'm waiting for the torrent version to come out...
Man are you people slipping up or what....
Linux users need not apply..
Same as the "free TV" option on CNN and MSNBC sites.
When is it "free" when you are required to use an non-free and expensive operating system to view it?
Leave things as they are.
Why should we be so gung-ho to unseat M$??
Really, if Linux were as big and wide spread as M$ is would fall to the same corruption as M$..
Greedsters and profiteers would crowd out the well intentioned geeks and nerds and FREE software would go the way of the dodo bird.
And being a bigger product means being a bigger target. Virus and spyware and all the other malware crap would soon be a problem.
There's just so many good reasons to leave things as they are.
I'm perfectly happy with Linux being a tiny, minority, niche thing. The rest of the world treats me as if I were from another planet and that's fine with me.
I bask in the warm happiness of my very secure and very stable Linux network and all the happy Linux machines on it..
Thanks but no thanks to pushing Linux into the mainstream.. If it ain't broke, don't fix it..
Freaking cardboard... And hanging an expensive laptop on cardboard? WTF is he smoking??
That little strip of wood in the back isn't enough to hold that thing up. Wait a few days and see what happens then get back to us. Let the humidity go up some. Here, it's in the high 90's all the time. That little project of his would last about 30 seconds and that laptop would be bouncing off the floor..
That's about the worst idea I've ever seen. Visually it's cool but in reality, it's dangerous, this guy is going to lose that laptop..
She CLAIMED the accounting could be done in 45 minutes. I did not believe that.
As for answering phones, there was an average of 20 phone calls and hour and those involved maybe 4 dispatches per day to work crews.
SOMEONE had to be there to answer the phones, people hang up on answering machines, fact.
And hang ups = lost business.
The real pisser was that she was more interested in playing the games than answering the phones, dispatching or doing the accounting.
When I walked in, she was hypnotized by the stupid computer. When I would talk to her, she would just keep playing and sort of throw answers back to me, after long periods of silence. It was like talking to an autistic person.
I litterally had to tell her to turn the screen off while talking to me. She was obsessed with the computer games to the point that she was pretty much non-functional in her office duties.
Cell phone service here was very spotty then, towers were few and far between and service was very expensive. Not at all worth the expense. They finally began to install more towers and brought in competitors, service improved and prices went down.
I finally got cell service when the expense of the secretary outweighed the expense of shutting all but one phone line down and forwarding all numbers to my cell phone so I could be in the field and run the office on the road.
You people have no idea what a screwed up deal it was, there is no way that anyone can understand unless they were there to live it. Family businesses are always a pain in the ass. DO NOT HIRE FAMILY MEMBERS!!
Was it a perfect scenario? Hell no. Don't sit there and nit-pick me to death, it was how it was. I learned some hard lessons in those early days of my personal small business. You live, learn and move forward.
What a total farce..
I got wise to the inkjet scam a few years ago.
I went completely, 100% laserjet and will never go back.
While my laserjets are old, they serve me well. Quite well indeed because I got them for almost nothing.
I have a Laserjet 4SiMX (17ppm) with a 100 envelope feeder, a 1,500 sheet feeder and a duplexer. I can print manuals in minutes.
I have a 4MV (16ppm) with a 500 sheet 11x17 tray for large mono prints
I have a 4500n (4ppm clr & 8ppm bw) for small, light duty color jobs
and I have a Ricoh AP3800c (11x17) with duplexer and other goodies for the big, heavy duty color jobs, it's 28ppm clr and 38ppm bw, and that includes duplex printing.
I keep them all loaded up with paper and envelopes and use which ever one suits the job.
I refill my own toner carts. I also buy them from ebay sometimes very cheap because all of these printers are considered to be obsolete.
They are plenty fast for me and being that they are "obsolete" they are plentiful and CHEAP...
Inkjets? Never again.. Never, ever again...
Some years back in my small business I put a PC on the desk of my receptionist, around 1996 I think.
She was *supposed* to use it to do my accounting..
I didn't put it on the Internet, though she begged for it, because I wasn't about to add another phoneline for something I didn't consider important.
Rather than doing my accounting, she spent 98% of her time playing solitaire.. Nothing pissed me off worse than to walk in and see her clicking away at that frigging retarded game while on the clock.
I was paying her to play games and have a good time.
So I went in after closing and deleted the damn games.
She whined and cried about it, I told her the computer crashed and they were "eaten up"..
She managed to click around and find some other BS game to play, which I also deleted.
Again, more whining.
I then told her she was paid to work, not play games.
She said she could do her job in 45 minutes and that the rest of the day there was nothing else to do.
I would have fired her if I hadn't needed her to answer the phones and dispatch jobs. That and she was my cousins wife.. (don't hire relatives.....)
She told me if I didn't put the games back on she would quit.
Finally, cell phone service came to our area, (yes, we were very backwards here) and I fired her, took the computer home, cut 4 of my land lines and forwarded them all to my cell phone.
I know this won't work for most people, it's just my experience with employees wasting MY time and MY money...
Please stop using these old cliched arguments as they are no longer valid. Windows 2000 and XP do not BSOD any more than any other OS.
Sorry, BSOD is a WINDOWS ONLY feature. Linux can not BSOD.. They say Linux can crash but that's only a rumor.
I have never had my Windows XP laptop ever infected
I presume you've never connected it to the Internet?
The firewall and the paint program are free.
You get what you pay for. The Windows XP firewall is proven to be lame, OOTB.. And the paint program? Man, who are you trying to kid? 16 colors with a dozen or so capabilities at best?? Come on now...
As for the X number of reboots comment, I guess you've never installed any software, downloaded any patches, changed any security settings, etc..
FFS, I was working on a XP box last week and it's genuine, brand spanking new MS Wheel Mouse does not work. Yeah, it points and clicks and XP says that it's a wheel mouse but you can't use the wheel feature at all.. Totally non-functional.. And when I went into control panel to make adjustments to the mouse, it insisted I reboot.. Just because I changed one small setting on the mouse.
And connect up and install all the service packs and updates. You'll reboot dozens and dozens of times before they are all installed and operational.
And the real pisser? My main machine dual boots, I have win2k and Suse 9.3 Pro on it. I only boot into win2k to capture video on my Nvidia VIVO card because Nvidia does not provide info to Linux developers for their proprietary hardware. So my Nvidia card rocks like crazy on Linux for anything except video capture.
So, I go to capture some video, to convert a instructional video from VHS to DVD. I boot up into Win2k and decide to update to the latest service pack and to make sure that all the patches are installed so it's nice and safe... Well, 20-30 reboots later, it finally gets to the last update, it downloads, installs and tells me to reboot. I reboot and BAM! BSOD... The machine will no longer boot windows. It's screwed. So now I will have to re-install windows all over again, lose my data because windows does that to you, then after it's finished reinstalling, I'll have to reboot from my Linux DVD and repair the MBR and grub because windows screws that up too...
Oh what joy...
Yeah, I'll concede one thing, Windows has better driver support because the hardware manufacturers build proprietary hardware that's locked into M$. In return, M$ gives them trade secrets to writing the drivers.
I just spent days fighting with trying to install a winmodem in my dads Linux machine.
Linuxant wanted $$ for a Linux driver. Screw that.
From what I've found, the 2.6 kernel doesn't play well with HCF / HSP modems. So I put my dad back down to the 2.4 kernel and used an old Linuxant beta that I found. Works fine now.
The other problem I've found is scanner support. Most scanners now are cheap crap. I've had a damn hard time finding cheap scanners that work with Linux. Friends and family members want a Walmart or Best Buy scanner, something in the $45-90 price range.
They don't want to spend hundreds of dollars for a high end SCSI scanner and SCSI card.
Once again, proprietary crap..
Printer support? No problem. Never found a printer I couldn't make work outside of Lezmark. Avoid them like the plague no matter how bad you are enticed.
I stick with HP hardware when I want it to work.
Will these other vendors ever begin to cater to Linux?
No. They all feed at Bill's trough and the slop is good there.
and bullshit..
"Linux runs on just about anything, whereas Windows has a targeted platform focus," he said, adding that one of the main reasons people started looking at Linux was to avoid vendor lock-in.
No. Try again.. People quit M$ because they are sick and tired of dishing out bucketloads of money everytime they want to do anything, because they are sick of rebooting 400 times a day, because they are sick of BSODs.. And on and on and on...
An entire OS on a single CDROM that does NOTHING out of the box except get you on the internet and get infected before you can patch it..
I didn't want to spend hundreds and hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a word processor, a paint program, virus protection, firewall, etc...
For the cost of a blank DVD and an hour or so to download an ISO, I can have everything I want and more.
And the absolute best part is is that I no longer have the big pain in my wallet and my ass called M$..
Oh yeah, and I have ZERO pirated stuff.. ZERO...
No warez, no serialz, no gamez, nothing...
That was no problem for Simon Phoenix...
The military has been doing this for YEARS.
MRE heaters.. No big deal. You can buy them by the crateloads at gun shows for 50 cents each, will heat a meal in a few minutes, just add water. Stores forever.
Must have items if you live on the coast where you may lose power from hurricanes, etc..
(one of MANY places to get the things..)
http://militarysurplusdepot.com/m_r_e_heater.html
flamebait?? Since when is documented fact flamebait?
Jeez....
and I mean ALL of them, land line, cell phone, etc.
are processed in Israel.
There is a huge company there that handles the processing and billing for every phone company in the world.
Google for "israel phone records" and see for yourself.
The question is, why is this happening?
Amen brother, go tell it on the mountain!
I see the program is for windows only.
Has anyone found a way to do this with skype for linux?
thanks to everyone for the very interesting links.
I find this sort of reading to be very entertaining and very interesting.
Links please... Please expand upon this.
This is the most interesting description I've ever heard of alchemy.