The fact is, you cannot tell how many machines have been taken apart and put together again. All you can tell is that a certain number definitely have. You don't know if you're detecting a minority, majority, or all of them. All you know is that some machines have been taken apart and put back together again.
It's the disk access in XP that's a pig. If you tweak the VPC settings, you can get pretty decent performance out of XP, except where it hits the disk to load programs and swap, then it slows to a pig crawl. Maybe there's some disk features you can tweak in XP to speed up disk access.
I've tweaked my VPC and actually get pretty acceptable performance out of it. I run it on a 1.3 GHz Powerbook with 768 MB of RAM.
I've tweaked it for XP and for Win98. I currently use Win98 because of the lower memory requirements and faster disk access and get speed about equivalent to a 400 MHz PC with no graphics acceleration (no doom 3 guys, but the original Doom, Descent, etc. play fine.).
XP is about the same performance except when the disk gets accessed at which time it slows to a painful crawl.
Here's my tweaking:
Fixed Size disk (do not use dynamic sizing).
Convert the volume to NTFS if you're running XP, VPC makes the disk image Fat32 by default.
128 MB RAM for 98, 384 MB RAM for XP.
Make sure the video RAM slider is set all the way to 16 (it makes a huge difference).
Disable dock integration.
Disable USB.
If you can, disable networking (this makes a big difference in XP)
Set background CPU priority to medium
In Windows, turn off all the eye candy.
Set color depth to 16 bit in windows.
Run windows at the smallest screen you can tolerate. I run at 800x600.
In Windows 98, uncheck the audio setting for simultaneous playback and recording on the sound card driver.
I use VPC for playing old Windows games that I still enjoy (alpha centauri, risk) and for running that odd windows program here and there, and this configuration works well for me.
Heck, when you're this far left, Stalin looks like a right wing reactionary. You probably think Che is an agrarian reformer and Mugabe a civil rights pioneer.
Because, of course, we all know that Iraqi scientists would tell the absolute truth about weapons programs under Saddam Hussein. After all, those heads from raped women stuck on pig poles around Baghdad were to keep the common folk in line, not the important scientists.
Talk to a green long enough and their real agenda comes out: Telling you what and how much you can have. It was tyranny when the soviets did it, and it's tyranny when the greens do it. This is why greens are nothing more than watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.
--- You said it baby! Setting off car bombs that kill innocent people in the middle of the market place certainly makes a strong impact on a dictator and his murderous sons who are sitting in their luxurious palaces sipping their martinis. ---
Because, of course, we all know that Saddam and his sons did all their dirty work completely by themselves and every other person in Iraq was completely innocent.
--- any one know where all these village-idiots come from anyways? ---
It becomes environmental when the implication is your are harming the planet by not doing it. But, you already knew that.
This stuff is nothing more than a punch of elitist snobs trying to guilt people into letting them run their lives. Of course the elitists themselves will be exempted from all the crap they'll make everyone live under because their work is just too important, you see.
Read Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm sometime. The tyranny he describes in those books is eternal even though the label the tyrants name themselves changes.
Because we all know, of course, that setting off car bombs against a dictatorial regime that maintains rape rooms, torture chambers and children's prisons is morally equivalent to setting off car bombs against a government that is trying to hold elections and set up democratic rule.
Cognitivie Dissonance is the primary symptom of Moral Equivalence Syndrome.
Because, of course, we all know the only way for these people to cast a ballot is to use the blocked government website. That's why they couldn't vote at all before the internet. Those pesky paper forms they could order via mail or pick up at the embassy never existed. They are a figment of your imagination.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
The home is 800 SF for a reason. They likely made it that small in order to get it self-sufficient. Larger homes have greater radiating surfaces and a larger volume of air to heat and cool.
800 sf is a joke. How about a 2400 square foot home?
Typical environmentalism. Make everyone more miserable in order to "save the environment."
How about we just find ways to make energy so cheap and abundant that we can be as wasteful as nature in using it.
An interesting conclusion, considering nearly all your facts used to reach it are false.
Iraq's economy is actually stronger now than under Saddam.
More cities have electricity now than under Saddam.
There are several thousand foreign workers in Iraq. Less than 20 have been abducted. That's not terribly commonplace.
Out of hundreds of Iraqi cities, three are causing problems, and only one, Fallujah, which was a Saddam stronghold is the site of continued on-going military action.
The interim government is not resented by the general populace as evidenced by large numbers of iraqis signing up to be police in the new government and by the fact that the insurgents are targeting the interim government infrastructure more and more frequently. They would not do this unless they saw the interim government as effective and a threat to their goals of de-stablilzing the country.
There are something like thirty different newspapers all through Iraq publishing widely different political viewpoints. As long as they don't call for riots and assassinations, they are allowed to operate (calling for riots and assassinations will get your paper shut down in any European democracy as well. Heck, calling a Muslim a scarf-wearing terrorist will get you hauled to court in France).
Schools are opening all over Iraq where they were once closed.
Iraq is not as safe as, say, downtown Singapore, but it's a whole lot safer than downtown Washington D.C. or Mexico City.
And thank goodness it isn't. Democracy is a horrible form of government. It's nothing more than mob rule backed up by power of government.
Representative republics and parliamentary systems with checks and balances are a much more effective form of government at preserving individual liberties.
Of course, civics education in the various "democracies" around the world sucks so badly, that hardly anyone realizes this.
Some ass compares the interim government, which is going to do their level best to hold democratic elections in January with Saddam junior Al Sadr who institutes Sharia law and goes around executing people after holding secret trials, and he gets modded as a plus 5 insightful?
Absolutely unreal, and yet further evidence that programming requires no intelligence.
Twisted visions of late nights hunched over the green glow of my IBM XT sweating through trying to write a Fortran 77 program to data crunch my analytical Chem class lab reports are running through my brain like nails on a blackboard.
Translation: The television ads aren't talking about things I think are important, therefore they aren't talking about any issues at all, because the only issues that matter are the issues that are important to me, and anyone who disagrees is an unsuspecting idiot.
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You just said the same thing phrased differently.
The fact is, you cannot tell how many machines have been taken apart and put together again. All you can tell is that a certain number definitely have. You don't know if you're detecting a minority, majority, or all of them. All you know is that some machines have been taken apart and put back together again.
Maybe you should go get a job with CBS.
It's the disk access in XP that's a pig. If you tweak the VPC settings, you can get pretty decent performance out of XP, except where it hits the disk to load programs and swap, then it slows to a pig crawl. Maybe there's some disk features you can tweak in XP to speed up disk access.
I've tweaked my VPC and actually get pretty acceptable performance out of it. I run it on a 1.3 GHz Powerbook with 768 MB of RAM.
I've tweaked it for XP and for Win98. I currently use Win98 because of the lower memory requirements and faster disk access and get speed about equivalent to a 400 MHz PC with no graphics acceleration (no doom 3 guys, but the original Doom, Descent, etc. play fine.).
XP is about the same performance except when the disk gets accessed at which time it slows to a painful crawl.
Here's my tweaking:
I use VPC for playing old Windows games that I still enjoy (alpha centauri, risk) and for running that odd windows program here and there, and this configuration works well for me.
Heck, when you're this far left, Stalin looks like a right wing reactionary. You probably think Che is an agrarian reformer and Mugabe a civil rights pioneer.
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Truth is subjective
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What is really sad is you probably don't even realize you just made a totally non-subjective definition of truth.
Because, of course, we all know that Iraqi scientists would tell the absolute truth about weapons programs under Saddam Hussein. After all, those heads from raped women stuck on pig poles around Baghdad were to keep the common folk in line, not the important scientists.
--- ...overconsume
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Talk to a green long enough and their real agenda comes out: Telling you what and how much you can have. It was tyranny when the soviets did it, and it's tyranny when the greens do it. This is why greens are nothing more than watermelons. Green on the outside, red on the inside.
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You said it baby! Setting off car bombs that kill innocent people in the middle of the market place certainly makes a strong impact on a dictator and his murderous sons who are sitting in their luxurious palaces sipping their martinis.
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Because, of course, we all know that Saddam and his sons did all their dirty work completely by themselves and every other person in Iraq was completely innocent.
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any one know where all these village-idiots come from anyways?
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Look in the mirror.
OK. In Saddam's Iraq, running a rape room in a prison gets you promoted. In America, it gets you thrown in the stockade. See the difference?
I didn't think so. There are none so blind as those who hate.
It becomes environmental when the implication is your are harming the planet by not doing it. But, you already knew that.
This stuff is nothing more than a punch of elitist snobs trying to guilt people into letting them run their lives. Of course the elitists themselves will be exempted from all the crap they'll make everyone live under because their work is just too important, you see.
Read Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm sometime. The tyranny he describes in those books is eternal even though the label the tyrants name themselves changes.
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I'm not entitled to get them by theft, including externalizing my costs.
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You're not. This is just newspeak used by the envirowacko crowd to guilt you into letting them run your life. Seems to be working in your case.
Because we all know, of course, that setting off car bombs against a dictatorial regime that maintains rape rooms, torture chambers and children's prisons is morally equivalent to setting off car bombs against a government that is trying to hold elections and set up democratic rule.
Cognitivie Dissonance is the primary symptom of Moral Equivalence Syndrome.
Because, of course, we all know the only way for these people to cast a ballot is to use the blocked government website. That's why they couldn't vote at all before the internet. Those pesky paper forms they could order via mail or pick up at the embassy never existed. They are a figment of your imagination.
It's too much work for them to actually get off their butts and obtain the paper form from their embassy or via mail.
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That's pretty unlikely
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In other words, it would be finitely improbable. Quick, get me a hot cup of tea!
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Problem with many people is they're lazy and they want to take all their crap all over the place with them.
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Ah, the great environmental battle cry: How dare you want comfort, ease and prosperity, you lazy good for nothing slob.
True. The Wall Within is a much better example of Dan Rather's flights of fancy.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill
The home is 800 SF for a reason. They likely made it that small in order to get it self-sufficient. Larger homes have greater radiating surfaces and a larger volume of air to heat and cool.
800 sf is a joke. How about a 2400 square foot home?
Typical environmentalism. Make everyone more miserable in order to "save the environment."
How about we just find ways to make energy so cheap and abundant that we can be as wasteful as nature in using it.
An interesting conclusion, considering nearly all your facts used to reach it are false.
Iraq's economy is actually stronger now than under Saddam.
More cities have electricity now than under Saddam.
There are several thousand foreign workers in Iraq. Less than 20 have been abducted. That's not terribly commonplace.
Out of hundreds of Iraqi cities, three are causing problems, and only one, Fallujah, which was a Saddam stronghold is the site of continued on-going military action.
The interim government is not resented by the general populace as evidenced by large numbers of iraqis signing up to be police in the new government and by the fact that the insurgents are targeting the interim government infrastructure more and more frequently. They would not do this unless they saw the interim government as effective and a threat to their goals of de-stablilzing the country.
There are something like thirty different newspapers all through Iraq publishing widely different political viewpoints. As long as they don't call for riots and assassinations, they are allowed to operate (calling for riots and assassinations will get your paper shut down in any European democracy as well. Heck, calling a Muslim a scarf-wearing terrorist will get you hauled to court in France).
Schools are opening all over Iraq where they were once closed.
Iraq is not as safe as, say, downtown Singapore, but it's a whole lot safer than downtown Washington D.C. or Mexico City.
And thank goodness it isn't. Democracy is a horrible form of government. It's nothing more than mob rule backed up by power of government.
Representative republics and parliamentary systems with checks and balances are a much more effective form of government at preserving individual liberties.
Of course, civics education in the various "democracies" around the world sucks so badly, that hardly anyone realizes this.
Some ass compares the interim government, which is going to do their level best to hold democratic elections in January with Saddam junior Al Sadr who institutes Sharia law and goes around executing people after holding secret trials, and he gets modded as a plus 5 insightful?
Absolutely unreal, and yet further evidence that programming requires no intelligence.
Winston Churchill gave some wonderful advice you might consider taking:
It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Better Red than Dead, eh?
Twisted visions of late nights hunched over the green glow of my IBM XT sweating through trying to write a Fortran 77 program to data crunch my analytical Chem class lab reports are running through my brain like nails on a blackboard.
Translation: The television ads aren't talking about things I think are important, therefore they aren't talking about any issues at all, because the only issues that matter are the issues that are important to me, and anyone who disagrees is an unsuspecting idiot.