I love the lawnmower vs. rabbit... rabbit's in the bag;)
But seriously, i used to spend about an hour or so a night adding to articles helping out and such, They just keep coming with more hoops and crap to waste my time - so finally I say screw em'
Winning it??? seems more political than anything else, gotta hand it to the monies/people/politicians behind the nobel prize yeah let's nominate him --what 18 days after his inauguration-- oh well the prize kinda lost it's grandeur a long time ago.
2) liability: you're adding ca. $75-100,000 in 'value' to each homeowner's home? Who pays for the insurance? Does the home's value go up, and if so, does the homeowner get to keep that increased value on home sale?
And lets not forget #3
$100,000.00 MORE in taxable value on initial investment the government will recoup their outgo of monies in less than 10 years!!!! seems like a win-win situation for big Govther;-)
Personally I think nothing has changed. Almost everyone who liked Obama before they heard the preacher still likes him. And everyone who didn't like Obama before still don't like him. I doubt a huge segment of the population has changed their minds about any of the candidates.
I agree with you there I have been to many a black church and the clip they showed on the news is no different then hundreds of 'sermons' I have seen in person this is just how they preach, it is the norm even though when you are one of the few non-black tech-support people in the church it does make you feel kind of uneasy when the reverend is refering to whites as 'the man', 'cracker', 'honkey', etc... but oh well we are just there to help out the church and the methods they use to preach are their choosing guided by God, so who am I to criticize I just do my job as best I know how:)
->>I have never, ever, not even once, heard of anyone getting an OEM copy of Windows, and then going out and buying another flavor<<-
Well now.. I am hear to tell you for the first time that is exactaly what just happened to a couple I just installed Kubuntu on a Dell XPS720 (sweeeeet machine). I set it up to dual boot with vista and so far they have gone into windows twice in the last week, I talked to them yesterday about how it was working with the dual boot setup and they wanted to know if I could remove windows! I was shocked...I told them you have over 2.5 terabytes of harddrive thats plenty of room to leave it on there, but his wife said "If were not gonig to use it why have it there?" can't argue with that 0:). I will hold out a little longer to see if she doesn't change her mind;) Hmmm I wonder if I can report to Microsoft somehow the number of windows UN-installs I have performed in the past, to be honest I have replaced linux with win98 a few times in the past also mainly because you couldn't play command & conquer on mandrake or slackware! but now the tables have turned and you can plat c&c red alert2 and others on linux easier than XP or vista...Oh did I say easier I meant play it at all.
Sorry, you thought my comment was filled with sarcasm; I only put in a little to do with windows and games(personally I like my windows machines running games). My post was based on FACTS I have learned the hard way through my own trials and errors(quite a few) and helping out other people with problems usually with trying to get games to work on windows (remember myst on 98) I must have had hundereds of calls just with that one game! So any more I just say my mind when it comes to what I prefer and what works with respect to computers, I have been using windows since it's very first version(beta) and dos before that(still have the origional 5.25 floppies) I have been using unix and its variants for almost as long as well as everything from apple IIe's to zenith's running everything from custom dos's to full blown highly customized gui's. My opinion on windows is it is great as a game machine while vista tries to change that only by making it game-unfriendly not by making it usefull-friendly...now I am not saying it isn't pretty cool and advanced compared to win98 or even nt3.5 currently I don't see it near as customizable as kubuntu 7 nor does it have even a fraction of the bells,whistles,glitz and responsiveness of kubuntu even running on a machine with twice the memory and same mhz! Of course this is my opinion most of the machines I put together use AMD cpu's every now and then I will build one with a celeron or whatever else I can get cheap(and overclock). You mention that I might have problems with windows, actually I know windows pretty much inside out except for vista which MS seems to have made changes in the most inobvious places...unexplainable... I mean usermode drivers are impossible to write ?;) in fact drivers in general are a PITA just to make a custom driver(grfx included) for an old citizen MSP-15 printer we had took several days of trials to find out why the code printed messed up pics randomly not too mention the size of the finished driver was 85.6 MB! I mean come on M$ what is with the size of programs these days. On the other hand I have been using unix and it's 'L' variants for a year or two less than windows and I have to say I know enough to really mess up a linux,debian,etc...system(same in windows just delete indiscriminantly in system dir) but like any system don't go peek'in and poke'in where you shouldn't and things will usually be a bit more stable in the long run. Of course if you were using mandrake 6-7 or redhat 5-7 they were not all that great when it came to properly pre-configured X or it's counterparts plus the autodetection didn't work all that great for a lot of hardware, now SUSE had it down to the nuts with 10.2 that was one slick linux <drools> anything I threw at it worked! I was impressed. Again I apologize if you thought I was attacking you with misinformation and FUD, just stating my opinions and observations and hey like you said if the end user is happy that is all that counts and right now my end users(mainly retired people) really like kubuntu according to them it is much more easy and intuitive than windows vista to use even just for email and web surfing.
->>First, there are too many distros<<- and twenty different distros of windows isn't the same?
->>Then, you have to pick a desktop. KDE or GNOME or other?<<- once you have picked the distro the desktop is already picked for you! although you can change it later just like windows!
->>Linux is made by thousands and thousands of undirected tinkerers around the world<<- I cab only think of about a dozen who actually make the decision of what goes into the finished product similar to microsoft and the people that program for them, just as misdirected.
->>When people giving Linux a try look to the online community for help, they get told how stupid they are and asked why they even have a computer<<- With microsoft software they don't tell you how stupid you are they just ask if the computer is plugged in? or is the power switch ON? or are you looking at the back of the monitor?
->>I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux dorks were doing The Church Lady's "I'm Superior" dance while berating the n00bs<<- I doubt they can dance but I am sure the microsofties are dancing while on vacation in the bahamas on your nickel that you overpaid them for a product that takes 'integration' to new lows.;0-+<=|
Yeh, they tried for 6 months to get some M$ games to run probably in wine or some other converter;) and no matter how hard they tried the games would not run as fast or at all in linux; So they went back to windows to play and now all is fine as they are hard at work playing games again at full speed with an occasional BSOD's and freezes.
Strange how it is always an import company that gets away with this kind of playful advertising long enough to get entrenched in first place against the local competitors???
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Yep. I seen quite a few 'Manuals' on the internet, never hurts to have a copy here & there. ;)
Because 0bama want to do something....before it's too late...We have to do something !!! Think of the children!!!!
I love the lawnmower vs. rabbit... rabbit's in the bag ;)
But seriously, i used to spend about an hour or so a night adding to articles helping out and such, They just keep coming with more hoops and crap to waste my time - so finally I say screw em'
Shoot, I was going to say that...It's the first thing that came to mind :)
Bravo!!! Sir I am pleased to find a fellow slashdotter that knows what the 2nd amendment is and that it is part of the bill of rights!
Humans... so easy, a caveman can do them.
ROFLMAO Thats great!!!!!!!
Does anyone think this will work underwater, if I am to put the laptop in ziplock bag for undersea research?
Winning it??? seems more political than anything else, gotta hand it to the monies/people/politicians behind the nobel prize yeah let's nominate him --what 18 days after his inauguration-- oh well the prize kinda lost it's grandeur a long time ago.
;)
just my --->.02 now there is some change
Just another reason Oblamo will decree that ALL computers shall be made according to gubmint standards....
don't you mean up their a$$ with a baggie ;)
Finally, the dollar is worth more than the paper it is printed on!!!!!
ya' don't need a tax stamp to bump fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6cAmoWCZQ
Yeah and I wonder what the percent is for the globalwarming pusher crowd ???
...kill the bureacrats, and THEN the lawyers.
All I can say is RIGHT ON!!!!
2) liability: you're adding ca. $75-100,000 in 'value' to each homeowner's home? Who pays for the insurance? Does the home's value go up, and if so, does the homeowner get to keep that increased value on home sale?
;-)
And lets not forget #3
$100,000.00 MORE in taxable value on initial investment the government will recoup their outgo of monies in less than 10 years!!!! seems like a win-win situation for big Govther
Yea, I meant to type 2003 but my brain was on another planet ;-) after I hit submit I realized it....
Didn't NASA switch to windows ME in 2007?
Personally I think nothing has changed. Almost everyone who liked Obama before they heard the preacher still likes him. And everyone who didn't like Obama before still don't like him. I doubt a huge segment of the population has changed their minds about any of the candidates.
:)
I agree with you there I have been to many a black church and the clip they showed on the news is no different then hundreds of 'sermons' I have seen in person this is just how they preach, it is the norm even though when you are one of the few non-black tech-support people in the church it does make you feel kind of uneasy when the reverend is refering to whites as 'the man', 'cracker', 'honkey', etc... but oh well we are just there to help out the church and the methods they use to preach are their choosing guided by God, so who am I to criticize I just do my job as best I know how
"let's kill Joe Smith because our religion says so"
...Well you got an address or what????
So I'm in
C,mon guys who else is gonna go after this joe guy???
-<>- ;=)
:=)
Actually you should return 95,000-- since the punishment should be less
Btw..I love your sig
->>I have never, ever, not even once, heard of anyone getting an OEM copy of Windows, and then going out and buying another flavor<<-
;) Hmmm I wonder if I can report to Microsoft somehow the number of windows UN-installs I have performed in the past, to be honest I have replaced linux with win98 a few times in the past also mainly because you couldn't play command & conquer on mandrake or slackware! but now the tables have turned and you can plat c&c red alert2 and others on linux easier than XP or vista...Oh did I say easier I meant play it at all.
Well now.. I am hear to tell you for the first time that is exactaly what just happened to a couple I just installed Kubuntu on a Dell XPS720 (sweeeeet machine). I set it up to dual boot with vista and so far they have gone into windows twice in the last week, I talked to them yesterday about how it was working with the dual boot setup and they wanted to know if I could remove windows! I was shocked...I told them you have over 2.5 terabytes of harddrive thats plenty of room to leave it on there, but his wife said "If were not gonig to use it why have it there?" can't argue with that 0:). I will hold out a little longer to see if she doesn't change her mind
Sorry, you thought my comment was filled with sarcasm; I only put in a little to do with windows and games(personally I like my windows machines running games). My post was based on FACTS I have learned the hard way through my own trials and errors(quite a few) and helping out other people with problems usually with trying to get games to work on windows (remember myst on 98) I must have had hundereds of calls just with that one game! So any more I just say my mind when it comes to what I prefer and what works with respect to computers, I have been using windows since it's very first version(beta) and dos before that(still have the origional 5.25 floppies) I have been using unix and its variants for almost as long as well as everything from apple IIe's to zenith's running everything from custom dos's to full blown highly customized gui's. ,whistles ,glitz and responsiveness of kubuntu even running on a machine with twice the memory and same mhz! Of course this is my opinion most of the machines I put together use AMD cpu's every now and then I will build one with a celeron or whatever else I can get cheap(and overclock).
My opinion on windows is it is great as a game machine while vista tries to change that only by making it game-unfriendly not by making it usefull-friendly...now I am not saying it isn't pretty cool and advanced compared to win98 or even nt3.5 currently I don't see it near as customizable as kubuntu 7 nor does it have even a fraction of the bells
You mention that I might have problems with windows, actually I know windows pretty much inside out except for vista which MS seems to have made changes in the most inobvious places...unexplainable... I mean usermode drivers are impossible to write ?;) in fact drivers in general are a PITA just to make a custom driver(grfx included) for an old citizen MSP-15 printer we had took several days of trials to find out why the code printed messed up pics randomly not too mention the size of the finished driver was 85.6 MB! I mean come on M$ what is with the size of programs these days. On the other hand I have been using unix and it's 'L' variants for a year or two less than windows and I have to say I know enough to really mess up a linux,debian,etc...system(same in windows just delete indiscriminantly in system dir) but like any system don't go peek'in and poke'in where you shouldn't and things will usually be a bit more stable in the long run. Of course if you were using mandrake 6-7 or redhat 5-7 they were not all that great when it came to properly pre-configured X or it's counterparts plus the autodetection didn't work all that great for a lot of hardware, now SUSE had it down to the nuts with 10.2 that was one slick linux <drools> anything I threw at it worked! I was impressed.
Again I apologize if you thought I was attacking you with misinformation and FUD, just stating my opinions and observations and hey like you said if the end user is happy that is all that counts and right now my end users(mainly retired people) really like kubuntu according to them it is much more easy and intuitive than windows vista to use even just for email and web surfing.
->>First, there are too many distros<<-
;0-+<=|
and twenty different distros of windows isn't the same?
->>Then, you have to pick a desktop. KDE or GNOME or other?<<-
once you have picked the distro the desktop is already picked for you! although you can change it later just like windows!
->>Linux is made by thousands and thousands of undirected tinkerers around the world<<-
I cab only think of about a dozen who actually make the decision of what goes into the finished product similar to microsoft and the people that program for them, just as misdirected.
->>When people giving Linux a try look to the online community for help, they get told how stupid they are and asked why they even have a computer<<-
With microsoft software they don't tell you how stupid you are they just ask if the computer is plugged in? or is the power switch ON? or are you looking at the back of the monitor?
->>I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux dorks were doing The Church Lady's "I'm Superior" dance while berating the n00bs<<-
I doubt they can dance but I am sure the microsofties are dancing while on vacation in the bahamas on your nickel that you overpaid them for a product that takes 'integration' to new lows.
Don't agree???
Yeh, they tried for 6 months to get some M$ games to run probably in wine or some other converter ;) and no matter how hard they tried the games would not run as fast or at all in linux; So they went back to windows to play and now all is fine as they are hard at work playing games again at full speed with an occasional BSOD's and freezes.
Strange how it is always an import company that gets away with this kind of playful advertising long enough to get entrenched in first place against the local competitors???