When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't.
Or you'll pick the one that's cheapest if you don't give a shit about brands. So you'll take the store brand because it's cheaper than the brand name. That's what I do when faced with multiple brands and no way to differentiate them.
To think that everyone is affected by ads the same way you are is naive indeed. I can watch ads all day long and it's not going to make me buy their product unless it happens to be on sale for cheaper than the generic. I might think the Coke ad is cooler than the generic store ad, but beyond that, the ad has no effect on my buying decision.
That said, I actually prefer Pepsi over Coke because I like the taste of Pepsi better (yes, they do taste different, even if it's barely noticeable).
We would have to completely replace all of Congress in three consecutive electoral seasons if we wanted to take our country back from abusive corporate interests.
Except that you'd end up replacing one set of greedy politicians with another every election season. There aren't that many Ron Paul's out there with enough funds to successfully run every season.
Of course, such reform would have to start with the elimination of all corporate and organizational contributions.
Good luck with that being effective. So instead of donating money as a corporation or an organization, they'll just do it as private donors. You'd have to check the background of each and every person everytime they donate any money. I highly doubt that every person that donates money to Obama's campaign has no affiliation with a large corporation.
No organization should have the right to push its agenda through what amounts to legalized bribery....
So instead of having one organization do it with large sums of money, you'd have lots of people do it with small sums of money. The results would still be the same.
What exactly was the problem you were having? I had no problem with HD playback on a 7 series card. No stutters or anything. That was on an Athlon x2 3800+ with a 7950 GT. And this was all running on XP. I was, however, running them directly from the hard drive. Were you running them over the network? Perhaps that was the problem and not the HD acceleration.
Let's take a couple of common things: The only people who should pay for schools are those that use them. Well, kids can't pay. So the next step is to force their parents to pay. So, if you aren't rich enough, you don't get education? It's an interesting idea, but this model was slowly abandoned because it led to a noble class and a serf class. So in this case, a universal system seems to work best for society as a whole. People who are "rich" end up with better educations anyway since they can afford private school. So this is flawed argument. The public school system hasn't led to a better educated middle/lower class, it's simply led to an educated one. The upper class still walks away with a better education.
Let's take roads. By the model you suggest, people travelling between two major cities would have 18 lane highways, lots of trains, airports, seaports. The usage tax would support that. But if you moved 50 miles away from this path, you could never build roads because you couldn't recoup the cost. Unless you decide to invest privately, which some people did before the government decided they should do it. Even today, people are making road improvements themselves that the government is to lazy to do. For a while, there was a missing exit sign on the I-5 in SoCal. One guy finally took it upon himself to put it up (he kept missing the exit). I think it's the only exit sign on the freeway system that isn't an "official" sign, but you'd never know that by looking at it.
How about airports. Most people never fly, but they end up having to use tax revenue to support the airports. Seems pretty unfair and illogical. Actually, it's completely unfair and illogical and it pisses me off everytime they do it. If the airlines can't survive on their own, they need to go out of business. The cost of travel is getting higher and higher everyday. Maybe it's time for new modes of travel to be introduced.
Flat rate postal rates? What a rip off. I send a letter next door and it costs the same as sending it across the country. I am getting ripped off. Actually, you'd be retarded in that case. But for a flat fee, that same letter takes longer to get across the country. If you want that letter to get across the country faster (like next day), you pay more. So you do pay more for better service.
Let's talk about private industry. Verizon has flat rate, no-long-distance phone service. How could that work? Aren't people just calling to call? Aren't people abusing the system? Seems pretty unfair to me, I hardly call people. But I looked into it and they do have plans as you suggest. The only trouble is they charge more money for them. So I'm locked into a flat-rate plan, and am forced to pay less so I subsidize other users. When you say subsidize, it sounds like you're referring to that little bit of tax on your phone bill so "poor" people can get a phone. Yeah, that's pretty much bullshit too and it's not due to private industry. That's due to government regulation...again.
Also, if you hardly call people, do you even need a phone? I know a lot of people that got rid of their home phones and simply used their cell phones. If you have no need for a home phone, get rid of it and stop paying Verizon.
The world sure doesn't seem logical. That's because politicians keep touching shit that they have no business touching. Most of the time, they make it worse. They need to simply keep their hands off.
So you also want to pay per mile of road you use? No, bandwidth should be flat rate. Just like roads and air. Technically you do pay per mile of road you use if you're driving a car (which actually does the most damage to a road anyway). Every time you fill up your tank, you pay the gas tax which goes toward a general road maintenance/construction fund. If you stop driving, you stop paying into that fund.
And the last time I was at a gas station, air for my tires wasn't free either.
A machine as old as my G4 could not be running Vista today. Yes it could. Vista requirements are a 1 GHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM. Since the CPU on your G4 exceeds that, Vista could be installed and would run. It may not run Aero (don't know what your video card is), but it'll run. And since you only use it for a web/database/file server, it doesn't matter how long it takes to boot up as long as it does.
25 years in IT and you don't even bother to recommend a Mac to your neighbor? I recommend Macs to people all the time even though I don't own a single one. Why? Because most of the time those people are just doing some basic word processing, web surfing, and email. A Mac is perfect for them. When they ask why I don't have one, I simply say "I'm a gamer. It would cost me more money to get a Mac and then set it up with Windows to play games than it would for me to just build my machine and install Windows on it".
The problem isn't the cheap Dells or HPs of the world. The problem is that people expect their computers to think for them. They'll install 3 different toolbars in IE and then wonder why it gets so slow (disabling the toolbars makes it faster). They'll have their desktop filled with icons and then wonder why it takes so long to boot up (putting all the icons into a single folder makes it boot up faster).
I have 3 PCs at home (all custom built) and have never had a problem with any of them. I even have a Dell Laptop that's nearly 9 years old and it still runs fine. Hell, I'm sure the Toshiba laptop that's 12 years old probably works, I just haven't bothered to turn it on (runs Win95, so not exactly stable).
The difference between us and your neighbors isn't just that they're buying cheap Dells, it's that they don't really know how to treat their computers. Just like a car, computers require some maintenance. They have to be updated at the very least(drivers, security, etc). Most people have this idea that they can buy a computer and never have to think about it again once they start using it and that's simply not the case. When you or I find a driver problem, we upgrade the driver and the problem is usually fixed. When they find a driver problem suddenly their system is "crashing" or "doing all kinds of weird things". Nevermind that it could simply be dust in the fans that's making it get to hot (a common problem that affects all computers), it's simply "broken" to them.
You don't need to buy a Mercedes in order to get a quality car either. My first car was a 1977 Honda Accord. We had it for 15 years. That car still ran great. We only got rid of it because the roof was starting to rust through from where I installed a CB antenna (I didn't seal it properly). I'm driving a 1991 Honda right now and my wife drives a 2000 Honda. Both cars run fine. The AC is a little weak on the 1991, but I think it just needs to be charged up (can't remember what they fill it with).
Quality PC parts and tools are one thing. Luxury cars (Mercedes definitely falls into the luxury category) vs consumer level cars are entirely different. Both will last the buyer just as long as long as they take care of it.
So your big complaint is that a 7 year old OS (SP2 was released in 2004) doesn't install on a device that was released 3 years after it was? And of course, that hardware wasn't widely available until probably a year or two later.
Have you tried installing Red Hat 5 on anything modern recently with much success?
Yes, it's so horrible that an OS from 2001, when floppies were still pretty common, needs a floppy to install a driver that didn't even exist at the time.
Oops, I forgot, this is Slashdot. We're suppose to complain whether it makes sense or not.
Microsoft actually supplies a script that you can use to launch your vbscripts. At least, it worked when I tried it to launch my drive mapping scripts.
Just search their support site for "Vista login script". I think that's how I found it.
I don't even manage 80 computers and I had no problem getting Vista to run a vbscript at login with no UAC prompt (and I left UAC enabled).
A dose of tylenol every 4 hours will usually calm a child down. We certainly don't take our kid into the ER every time he wakes up screaming.
Give them a dose of tylenol, then call the doctor in the morning. They will usually work you in before 3 or 4pm for something like that.
Unless your kid is running a 103+ fever, the ER is not necessary. Sure, they'll give you a prescription and tylenol while you're there (tylenol to get the fever down), but unless you live near a 24 hour pharmacy, you're still screwed until around 6am.
Except that the only thing that requires reactivation is a new motherboard. Adding RAM won't cause a reactivation. Replacing a dead hard drive might if you end up having to reinstall.
Why, as a developer, aren't you on MSDN? Then you'd get copies of all MS products with volume license keys that don't need activation.
An indication of the hassle people had with downloading 3 years of updates is this quote from Paul Thurrott, who is over-the-top pro-Microsoft, and who often apologizes for Microsoft's abusiveness in a way that tries to make abusive behavior sound less destructive:... the 100+ updates that Microsoft has shipped since SP2 can be a nightmare to deploy. [winsupersite.com]
Sure, if you're dumb enough to not have an update server deployed already. Or, for home users, if you're dumb enough to not just download all the updates as they became available and store them in a directory. After a reinstall, it's a simple matter of running all the updates again or letting your update server take care of it.
Give me a break. The people that "originally" used computers were mostly CS students that knew the computers inside and out. They could not only build the computers, they could program them as well. That is not the vast majority of users anymore.
Users today do not care how their computers work, as long as they do. I can't count the number of times I got a call from someone about an update notification window because "I don't want to mess anything up". Their own home computers are so loaded with crap that they're slow. They prefer having "the IT guy" around to make sure their system is running properly and has all the updates it needs. Even if they were shown how to troubleshoot their system, they wouldn't care enough to remember it. Accounting, purchasing, sales, etc, etc. They're all the same. They do not care how it works, as long as it does work.
The auto mechanic thinks the same thing about you when you bring your car in to get it fixed. He can explain what's wrong and what it needs, but you're not going to fix it the next time (maybe breaks and oil is all you'll do), simply because you either 1) don't have the time or 2) don't care. You bring it to him to fix it or make sure it's in tip top shape. You don't care about all the little details and you don't need to, because he's always there to fix it.
Bzzz! Wrongo! Maybe exact replica lightsabers that carry a certain name have to be licensed, but Jeff Parks sells Parks Sabers that are completely non licensed. A lot of his designs look just like the ones from the movies. Lucas tried to sue him before Ep 1 came out and was unsuccessful because he couldn't produce the copyrights.
Everyone here keeps assuming that Hollywood and the Lucas of today is the same as they were back in 1975-76. It was a completely different world back then. Nobody cared about merchandising rights or sequel rights or any of that garbage. That's why Lucas totally owns Star Wars, because Fox didn't give a shit about the rights.
More than likely, since Lucas didn't expect it to take off the way it did, he had a verbal agreement with the guy to make some armor. Lucas probably didn't give a shit at the time since it was only going to be a stand alone space opera. I'm just wondering why Lucas waited so long if this guy has been doing this for a while.
You do know that the camera is automated right? It sits on top of the vehicle taking pictures in every direction the whole time the driver is driving. So it's not like the driver, or someone else, was taking snapshots every few feet. They probably just drove straight up the road and then turned around.
That's because college juniors have to start with the basics... making coffees, not copies.
And if you think I'm joking, we had a breaker reset twice Friday because someone plugged a kettle into the same circuit as several desktops and a server... they learned that a watched kettle never boils/* grumble grumble */
Who's the idiot that put that outlet on the same circuit as the server? Or maybe, who's the idiot who decided to plug a server (generally considered an important machine) into the same circuit as one that could be used for a coffee machine? I've never been anywhere large enough (20+ people) where the servers weren't on their own circuit.
Luke 22:17 "And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, "Take this and share it among yourselves;"
And the full verse of which you're only quoting half.
Luke 22:20 "And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood."
So first he does tell them to drink it (ie share it among yourselves) and then he tells them that it is his blood.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with the parent post. Even the Jews of the time thought Jesus was referring to cannibalism , which he clearly wasn't. It had nothing to do with gaining Christ's knowledge and becoming immortal. That was to come anyway as long as they accepted him. But please, don't try to say that the bread and wine weren't his body and blood when that's exactly what he said.
Answer honestly. If the CoS suddenly decided to go donation only would you agree they are now a religion or would you move the goalposts?
Most people wouldn't have a problem with the CoS if they were 1) donation only, 2) totally open about their beliefs and not trying to hide everything, and 3) didn't try to keep their members locked up inside the church, while cutting them off from outside influences like family. When was the last time you heard about someone that had trouble leaving any church that wasn't considered a cult? Oh, that's right, never.
If they want to call themselves a religion, so be it. But their tactics are sickening and THAT is what most people have trouble with. That is also why most people want the "religion" monicker removed from them.
1. I bought and installed XP. 2. I was surfing some questionable sites and ended up getting some nasty virus/malware and my system got totally hosed. 3. After I reformatted, XP wouldn't activate because it's already activated. 4. Now I'm to lazy to call support to get the activation cleared so I can reactivate.
Seriously. As far as the software knows, he bought a new PC and is attempting to install it a second time. Maybe he should be a bit more careful about the sites he visits and his other actions in the future.
Every software product on the planet does this now (oh, except free software). And they all have one thing in common. If you end up thrashing it and need to reinstall, a quick call to tech support gets the activation cleared. It's sure a hell of a lot easier than some of the high end engineering packages I work with. Those are tied to the computer name and have, if I remember correctly, a 5 step process just to get a license key.
$30,000 a year might have been enough money to live on in 1990, but it isn't anymore. Try and rent an apartment in a major city in this country on a $30,000 a year salary. Now pay your power bill, your internet bill (so that you can work even while you're AT HOME), pay your car payment, your insurance, buy the clothes that meet your companies dress code, oh yeah, and maybe even buy food while you're at it. Don't even THINK about buying gas for that car too.
First, I don't know anyone that's making only $30k per year that's expected to work from home. That's about $15/hr. Second, if you are working from home, then submit your internet bill for reimbursement from your company. If they aren't willing to reimburse at least half the bill (assuming you're not just using it for company work) then tell them you can't work from home anymore. Finally, if you really are expected to work from home at that pay grade, then yeah, it's time to find a new job. Again, I don't know anyone that has ever been expected to work from home at that pay grade.
WHO GIVES A FUCK! The FAA requires that the GOD DAMN PHONE be turned OFF before the pilot can take off! For the sake of everyone on the plane who wants the flight to take off on time so they can make it to their destination ON TIME, TURN OFF THE FUCKING PHONE! If you have a problem with the rule, write your FUCKING representative and get the rule CHANGED! Don't start protesting the fucking rule on the plane where nobody on board can do anything about it! The pilot and flight attendants are NOT going to debate it with you. Nope. You turn it off or you'll be escorted off the fucking plane!
In fact, that's probably what I would have done if I had been on with an asshat like you. I would have politely asked the flight attendant to escort your ass off the plane. I'll be damned if I'm going to be late to my destination. If you want to break the rules and be late to yours, fine by me. Just get off the FUCKING PLANE!
You act like following the rules at all makes everyone a sheep. Some of us just want to get to our destination. Stop bitching about people being sheep.
I personally always question the rules, but I'm not going to do it in a situation where it's likely going to get me detained ie at an airport. I recently flew and we had to dump the water in our 14 month old sippy cup. YEAH! "It's for the baby" "It doesn't matter, you have to dump it". I was not about to get in an argument with a TSA moron about 5 oz of water. It was easier to dump the damn cup and mix his milk (water in the bottle mixed with formula, yeah, they let that through) then it was to argue the point with them.
If you want shit changed, call and write your representatives. If you want to sit and call people sheep all day, you can do that too, but it's not going to get anything changed.
Not true. I'm a white guy with chinese relatives (wife's chinese). All 3 of us (myself, wife, and her brother) got stopped a few years back (post 9/11) for extra special scrutiny. In fact, it was my backpack that got wiped down for explosive residue.
Next time maybe you should try watching more than just a few people.
Oh and lets not forget about the blanket licensing fees. What is the average? $12,000 per year for licensing and support per desktop?
You got a source on that number? By my estimate, the cost is nowhere near that for any decent admin. It may be that high for non decent admins, but you have those in both camps (Linux and Windows), in which case your support costs are going to be high either way.
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When faced with 10 different choices, and having no data by which to differentiate them, humans choose the familiar. If you've never had a Coke in your life, but you've seen the logo everywhere you go for a decade, when faced with 10 unknown colas and no opportunity to do research, you're most likely to pick the Coke because it feels like a known element even though it isn't.
Or you'll pick the one that's cheapest if you don't give a shit about brands. So you'll take the store brand because it's cheaper than the brand name. That's what I do when faced with multiple brands and no way to differentiate them.
To think that everyone is affected by ads the same way you are is naive indeed. I can watch ads all day long and it's not going to make me buy their product unless it happens to be on sale for cheaper than the generic. I might think the Coke ad is cooler than the generic store ad, but beyond that, the ad has no effect on my buying decision.
That said, I actually prefer Pepsi over Coke because I like the taste of Pepsi better (yes, they do taste different, even if it's barely noticeable).
We would have to completely replace all of Congress in three consecutive electoral seasons if we wanted to take our country back from abusive corporate interests.
Except that you'd end up replacing one set of greedy politicians with another every election season. There aren't that many Ron Paul's out there with enough funds to successfully run every season.
Of course, such reform would have to start with the elimination of all corporate and organizational contributions.
Good luck with that being effective. So instead of donating money as a corporation or an organization, they'll just do it as private donors. You'd have to check the background of each and every person everytime they donate any money. I highly doubt that every person that donates money to Obama's campaign has no affiliation with a large corporation.
No organization should have the right to push its agenda through what amounts to legalized bribery....
So instead of having one organization do it with large sums of money, you'd have lots of people do it with small sums of money. The results would still be the same.
What exactly was the problem you were having? I had no problem with HD playback on a 7 series card. No stutters or anything. That was on an Athlon x2 3800+ with a 7950 GT. And this was all running on XP. I was, however, running them directly from the hard drive. Were you running them over the network? Perhaps that was the problem and not the HD acceleration.
Also, if you hardly call people, do you even need a phone? I know a lot of people that got rid of their home phones and simply used their cell phones. If you have no need for a home phone, get rid of it and stop paying Verizon. The world sure doesn't seem logical. That's because politicians keep touching shit that they have no business touching. Most of the time, they make it worse. They need to simply keep their hands off.
And the last time I was at a gas station, air for my tires wasn't free either.
25 years in IT and you don't even bother to recommend a Mac to your neighbor? I recommend Macs to people all the time even though I don't own a single one. Why? Because most of the time those people are just doing some basic word processing, web surfing, and email. A Mac is perfect for them. When they ask why I don't have one, I simply say "I'm a gamer. It would cost me more money to get a Mac and then set it up with Windows to play games than it would for me to just build my machine and install Windows on it".
The problem isn't the cheap Dells or HPs of the world. The problem is that people expect their computers to think for them. They'll install 3 different toolbars in IE and then wonder why it gets so slow (disabling the toolbars makes it faster). They'll have their desktop filled with icons and then wonder why it takes so long to boot up (putting all the icons into a single folder makes it boot up faster).
I have 3 PCs at home (all custom built) and have never had a problem with any of them. I even have a Dell Laptop that's nearly 9 years old and it still runs fine. Hell, I'm sure the Toshiba laptop that's 12 years old probably works, I just haven't bothered to turn it on (runs Win95, so not exactly stable).
The difference between us and your neighbors isn't just that they're buying cheap Dells, it's that they don't really know how to treat their computers. Just like a car, computers require some maintenance. They have to be updated at the very least(drivers, security, etc). Most people have this idea that they can buy a computer and never have to think about it again once they start using it and that's simply not the case. When you or I find a driver problem, we upgrade the driver and the problem is usually fixed. When they find a driver problem suddenly their system is "crashing" or "doing all kinds of weird things". Nevermind that it could simply be dust in the fans that's making it get to hot (a common problem that affects all computers), it's simply "broken" to them.
You don't need to buy a Mercedes in order to get a quality car either. My first car was a 1977 Honda Accord. We had it for 15 years. That car still ran great. We only got rid of it because the roof was starting to rust through from where I installed a CB antenna (I didn't seal it properly). I'm driving a 1991 Honda right now and my wife drives a 2000 Honda. Both cars run fine. The AC is a little weak on the 1991, but I think it just needs to be charged up (can't remember what they fill it with).
Quality PC parts and tools are one thing. Luxury cars (Mercedes definitely falls into the luxury category) vs consumer level cars are entirely different. Both will last the buyer just as long as long as they take care of it.
So your big complaint is that a 7 year old OS (SP2 was released in 2004) doesn't install on a device that was released 3 years after it was? And of course, that hardware wasn't widely available until probably a year or two later.
Have you tried installing Red Hat 5 on anything modern recently with much success?
Yes, it's so horrible that an OS from 2001, when floppies were still pretty common, needs a floppy to install a driver that didn't even exist at the time.
Oops, I forgot, this is Slashdot. We're suppose to complain whether it makes sense or not.
Microsoft actually supplies a script that you can use to launch your vbscripts. At least, it worked when I tried it to launch my drive mapping scripts.
Just search their support site for "Vista login script". I think that's how I found it.
I don't even manage 80 computers and I had no problem getting Vista to run a vbscript at login with no UAC prompt (and I left UAC enabled).
A dose of tylenol every 4 hours will usually calm a child down. We certainly don't take our kid into the ER every time he wakes up screaming.
Give them a dose of tylenol, then call the doctor in the morning. They will usually work you in before 3 or 4pm for something like that.
Unless your kid is running a 103+ fever, the ER is not necessary. Sure, they'll give you a prescription and tylenol while you're there (tylenol to get the fever down), but unless you live near a 24 hour pharmacy, you're still screwed until around 6am.
Except that the only thing that requires reactivation is a new motherboard. Adding RAM won't cause a reactivation. Replacing a dead hard drive might if you end up having to reinstall.
Why, as a developer, aren't you on MSDN? Then you'd get copies of all MS products with volume license keys that don't need activation.
An indication of the hassle people had with downloading 3 years of updates is this quote from Paul Thurrott, who is over-the-top pro-Microsoft, and who often apologizes for Microsoft's abusiveness in a way that tries to make abusive behavior sound less destructive: ... the 100+ updates that Microsoft has shipped since SP2 can be a nightmare to deploy. [winsupersite.com]
Sure, if you're dumb enough to not have an update server deployed already. Or, for home users, if you're dumb enough to not just download all the updates as they became available and store them in a directory. After a reinstall, it's a simple matter of running all the updates again or letting your update server take care of it.
Give me a break. The people that "originally" used computers were mostly CS students that knew the computers inside and out. They could not only build the computers, they could program them as well. That is not the vast majority of users anymore.
Users today do not care how their computers work, as long as they do. I can't count the number of times I got a call from someone about an update notification window because "I don't want to mess anything up". Their own home computers are so loaded with crap that they're slow. They prefer having "the IT guy" around to make sure their system is running properly and has all the updates it needs. Even if they were shown how to troubleshoot their system, they wouldn't care enough to remember it. Accounting, purchasing, sales, etc, etc. They're all the same. They do not care how it works, as long as it does work.
The auto mechanic thinks the same thing about you when you bring your car in to get it fixed. He can explain what's wrong and what it needs, but you're not going to fix it the next time (maybe breaks and oil is all you'll do), simply because you either 1) don't have the time or 2) don't care. You bring it to him to fix it or make sure it's in tip top shape. You don't care about all the little details and you don't need to, because he's always there to fix it.
Bzzz! Wrongo! Maybe exact replica lightsabers that carry a certain name have to be licensed, but Jeff Parks sells Parks Sabers that are completely non licensed. A lot of his designs look just like the ones from the movies. Lucas tried to sue him before Ep 1 came out and was unsuccessful because he couldn't produce the copyrights.
Everyone here keeps assuming that Hollywood and the Lucas of today is the same as they were back in 1975-76. It was a completely different world back then. Nobody cared about merchandising rights or sequel rights or any of that garbage. That's why Lucas totally owns Star Wars, because Fox didn't give a shit about the rights.
More than likely, since Lucas didn't expect it to take off the way it did, he had a verbal agreement with the guy to make some armor. Lucas probably didn't give a shit at the time since it was only going to be a stand alone space opera. I'm just wondering why Lucas waited so long if this guy has been doing this for a while.
You do know that the camera is automated right? It sits on top of the vehicle taking pictures in every direction the whole time the driver is driving. So it's not like the driver, or someone else, was taking snapshots every few feet. They probably just drove straight up the road and then turned around.
That's because college juniors have to start with the basics ... making coffees, not copies.
... they learned that a watched kettle never boils /* grumble grumble */
And if you think I'm joking, we had a breaker reset twice Friday because someone plugged a kettle into the same circuit as several desktops and a server
Who's the idiot that put that outlet on the same circuit as the server? Or maybe, who's the idiot who decided to plug a server (generally considered an important machine) into the same circuit as one that could be used for a coffee machine? I've never been anywhere large enough (20+ people) where the servers weren't on their own circuit.
Dude, come on.
Luke 22:17 "And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, "Take this and share it among yourselves;"
And the full verse of which you're only quoting half.
Luke 22:20 "And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood."
So first he does tell them to drink it (ie share it among yourselves) and then he tells them that it is his blood.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with the parent post. Even the Jews of the time thought Jesus was referring to cannibalism , which he clearly wasn't. It had nothing to do with gaining Christ's knowledge and becoming immortal. That was to come anyway as long as they accepted him. But please, don't try to say that the bread and wine weren't his body and blood when that's exactly what he said.
Answer honestly. If the CoS suddenly decided to go donation only would you agree they are now a religion or would you move the goalposts?
Most people wouldn't have a problem with the CoS if they were 1) donation only, 2) totally open about their beliefs and not trying to hide everything, and 3) didn't try to keep their members locked up inside the church, while cutting them off from outside influences like family. When was the last time you heard about someone that had trouble leaving any church that wasn't considered a cult? Oh, that's right, never.
If they want to call themselves a religion, so be it. But their tactics are sickening and THAT is what most people have trouble with. That is also why most people want the "religion" monicker removed from them.
No, it sounds a bit more like:
1. I bought and installed XP.
2. I was surfing some questionable sites and ended up getting some nasty virus/malware and my system got totally hosed.
3. After I reformatted, XP wouldn't activate because it's already activated.
4. Now I'm to lazy to call support to get the activation cleared so I can reactivate.
Seriously. As far as the software knows, he bought a new PC and is attempting to install it a second time. Maybe he should be a bit more careful about the sites he visits and his other actions in the future.
Every software product on the planet does this now (oh, except free software). And they all have one thing in common. If you end up thrashing it and need to reinstall, a quick call to tech support gets the activation cleared. It's sure a hell of a lot easier than some of the high end engineering packages I work with. Those are tied to the computer name and have, if I remember correctly, a 5 step process just to get a license key.
$30,000 a year might have been enough money to live on in 1990, but it isn't anymore. Try and rent an apartment in a major city in this country on a $30,000 a year salary. Now pay your power bill, your internet bill (so that you can work even while you're AT HOME), pay your car payment, your insurance, buy the clothes that meet your companies dress code, oh yeah, and maybe even buy food while you're at it. Don't even THINK about buying gas for that car too.
First, I don't know anyone that's making only $30k per year that's expected to work from home. That's about $15/hr. Second, if you are working from home, then submit your internet bill for reimbursement from your company. If they aren't willing to reimburse at least half the bill (assuming you're not just using it for company work) then tell them you can't work from home anymore. Finally, if you really are expected to work from home at that pay grade, then yeah, it's time to find a new job. Again, I don't know anyone that has ever been expected to work from home at that pay grade.
No blu-ray players under $200 before Christmas 2009
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/a-299-sony-blu-ray-player-but-no-cheap-chinese-models/?ref=technology
Why? Because they happen to keep backups of email, like everyone else on the planet?
WHO GIVES A FUCK! The FAA requires that the GOD DAMN PHONE be turned OFF before the pilot can take off! For the sake of everyone on the plane who wants the flight to take off on time so they can make it to their destination ON TIME, TURN OFF THE FUCKING PHONE! If you have a problem with the rule, write your FUCKING representative and get the rule CHANGED! Don't start protesting the fucking rule on the plane where nobody on board can do anything about it! The pilot and flight attendants are NOT going to debate it with you. Nope. You turn it off or you'll be escorted off the fucking plane!
In fact, that's probably what I would have done if I had been on with an asshat like you. I would have politely asked the flight attendant to escort your ass off the plane. I'll be damned if I'm going to be late to my destination. If you want to break the rules and be late to yours, fine by me. Just get off the FUCKING PLANE!
You act like following the rules at all makes everyone a sheep. Some of us just want to get to our destination. Stop bitching about people being sheep.
I personally always question the rules, but I'm not going to do it in a situation where it's likely going to get me detained ie at an airport. I recently flew and we had to dump the water in our 14 month old sippy cup. YEAH! "It's for the baby" "It doesn't matter, you have to dump it". I was not about to get in an argument with a TSA moron about 5 oz of water. It was easier to dump the damn cup and mix his milk (water in the bottle mixed with formula, yeah, they let that through) then it was to argue the point with them.
If you want shit changed, call and write your representatives. If you want to sit and call people sheep all day, you can do that too, but it's not going to get anything changed.
Not true. I'm a white guy with chinese relatives (wife's chinese). All 3 of us (myself, wife, and her brother) got stopped a few years back (post 9/11) for extra special scrutiny. In fact, it was my backpack that got wiped down for explosive residue.
Next time maybe you should try watching more than just a few people.
Oh and lets not forget about the blanket licensing fees. What is the average? $12,000 per year for licensing and support per desktop?
You got a source on that number? By my estimate, the cost is nowhere near that for any decent admin. It may be that high for non decent admins, but you have those in both camps (Linux and Windows), in which case your support costs are going to be high either way.