Is Bush going to save us all from terrorism such as is practiced by the RIAA? The legit interests of the songwriters and bands are ill served by this group of thieves. I'm pretty damn sure none of the "settlements" they get will ever be passed down the line to the bands themselves.
Jefferson said the well of democracy has to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants every so often. How about we start with these tyrants and then move on to all the other things ( Social Security, Work-Until-You-Drop-Dead lousy USA labor policy, total political corruption from top to bottom, health care that's more expensive than Canada's system while offering NONE of the benefits of that system, etc. ) until we start to make things right.
How many of you are gonna keep voting for the Democrats and Republicans that made all this wonderful goodness possible?
Maybe there's a reason why they didnt spend much time on the Itanic. AMD64 is the iceberg that the Itanic is gonna hit and it's gonna sink pretty fast. Intel will have Plan B in place by Feb. 04. They have to, Opteron is making too much headway too fast, and unlike Athlon XP's, these chip are making AMD some serious green stuff for the first time in a long time. If AMD is in the black next quarter, look out. Intel is gonna have to play by AMD's rules.
yeah. Nobody should give a shit anymore about what platform is better - Pc's are a dime a dozen and you can game away. When it come down to doing serious work, Mac is there. The prices are that you dont have to switch! Just get A PC or Mac and dual everything up with a kvm switchbox setup and youre DONE!
Nope. A lot of those peeps are like my Dad, 76, who emails and looks up things he's interested on the web. He sees no need for cable or DSL, even though he can get both for about 20 bucks more a month than he does now thru Earthlink.
He said the same thing about the computer before I gave it to him. If he had had to buy it, he still would be internetless. There's no way he would want this to become a reality.
This is the typewriter generation. They dont know broadband from broads.
Mormons are about the last people in the world to want to look at pr0n. I'm surprised they even have sex to procreate. If they could make babies without fucking somehow thats the way they would do it.
I went to school with one - you could'nt even say "damn" around her without her getting offended. All of the 4 I've known have been that way. They take their Book of Mormon thumping very seriously.
We are at the end of the bell curve re computers. 5 years from now we might be seeing 6 ~ 7 Ghz from the high end. 5 year old G3's with stock configs are getting 400 bucks on ebay. I sold my G4 for only a 150 dollar loss after using the thing for 9 months. Macs do hold value better than PC's - it's a fact. Go use a Dual 2.0 and tell me if you think it will be outdated to the point of non usefulness in 5 years. I dont think it will.
I still cant figure out why anyone would bother to buy it. I'm sure all your guests would *LOVE* to hear about how it does this with only one speaker. YAWN......another bose wave radio in disguise....
I'd like to see a company simply return to the days when radio was king and make a kick ass old fashioned table cathedral style radio that uses tube audio and isnt some cheap "reproduction" made with slave labor in Indonesia. If done correctly all the radiophiles would get it in a flash.
Yes, but it wont run OS X.:) I used it in the 10.0 and 10.1 days and sold it all - it had great promise but the reality was too far away. Kinda like the dood from RH said. The difference is, Panther really works well, aside the usual bugs in every new release, and this is no exception. 97% of the software on the windows shelf are me-too games, apps, and crap I dont want. Does the world really need another "Deer Hunter" game or another "windows cleaner" app????
The other 3% either works better on OS X or was Mac stuff ported to the PC. There's only one thing thats making me not switch 100% and sell my PC right now: Battlefield 1942, the BEST FREAKIN GAME OF ALL TIME. If they port that to OS X, I'm gone and probably not coming back. I dont like what I see in store for Windows in the next few years.
Yeah. Thats what I thought when I saw the article. I could'nt believe the guy was recommending Windows instead of OS X.
Personally, I think Linux is slippin a bit. Apple is making some great strides lately. The new G5 cluster ( now up to 10.2 teraflops, BTW, solidly in #3 ) has really woken up the true geeks. Panther is an hit, and unlike Windows, it makes old computers *faster* instead slower. I think I'm about ready to jump that ship over to Mac again.
Yes, I plead guilty to being a fanboy of the Constitution of The United Staes of America. The problem is, there's not many of us left anymore, and when we pipe up and object to something, we are dismissed as throwbacks to the Dark Ages.
These days, the only use for the document is in court cases and for burning in protest. Everyone who has said: "There should be a law against xyz!" for the last 135 years or so has made it so. Listen to your candidates for public office. They dont know whats in it, have never read it, dont know what it means, yet you will vote for them in droves this coming election cycle.
I think one man, one vote is a crock of shit. It has become that a certifed dolt with a I.Q. of 60 has a vote equal to mine. This was not always the case.
"But this is not a perfect world, and those that have take more from those that have not."
Bullshit. Why would a have want anything the have not has got? Besides that, the part of the document that was "concealed" basically said that the Affirmative Action concept was not working out in practice. The very subject of this article says it does not work.
Yeah, I'll take a shot. He probably used the wrong amount of thermal paste, and/or has the heatsink on crooked. Socket A heatsinks are a bear to get on and off. If he guessed at where to put the heatsink compound, and guessed wrong, ( by putting it on the HSF rather than the die of the cpu itself ) he may only have 1/3 of the die covered with stuff.
My Barton here runs all day long @ 2366 Mhz. Temp 46 C at hard work. PR Rating 3700+ in Sandra.:D
Yep. All true. The sillest thing I see with other folk is that they have a blazing fast gaming system and then use a 56K modem connection to play FPS's with. These are also the ones screaming about lag and such. Think 15 year olds with fixed allowances.:) They have hi speed available, but they cant spend the 50 bucks a month if the parents dont want it.
FTTH is a pipe dream for now. As long as you have the phone companys protecting their copper last mile and the cable TV guys protecting their TV lines, you'll never see it. It would take government action on a massive scale. Since currently our guv'ment values giving Iraqi's infrastructure a boost more than our's, I think that say will be far away indeed.:(
Yes, they did. They also knew a lot more than the CURRENT office holders do, and thats the problem. The USA is no longer the same country that it was back when those freedoms reigned supreme.
The problem of 2003 America is two fold: 1. everyone now pays MUCH more than their "fare share" in taxes, becuase we have too many forced income transfers. The retiree who has has grown children for years must pay into the local school system for years after their own kids are grown. Meanwhile, those children are forced to pay 15.5% of their LIFETIME earnings from work into Social Security, and the money is not even theirs!
2. The United States has too much social spending. The taxes required to pay for all this social spending are now close to 48% averaged over Federal, State, County, City, Sales, Death, Excise, Property, and so on. In other owrds, if you took Joe Blow and figured his total tax load for ALL taxes, it would be almost half his income.
America is spending itself under the table, using borrowed money from other nations to do it. Thats why the Soviet Union hauled down it's flag - it was actually BROKE. We are going down the same path, it will just take us about 20 years longer to get there. Iraq is another push in that direction. So is the proposed Medicare Drug Benefit.Democrats and Republicans are the only ones responsible for all this, as they are the only ones to hold power during this decline.
Yet, no one will even think of voting for someones else.:/
pretty much says it all. Going to the Apple Store today after work and buying a new mac. I'm tired of Microsoft's bullshit, I'm tired of worms and virii, and I'm tired of DRM windows style - it's gonna be intrusive and nasty when it hits full force, and there will be no OFF button. Time to switch and leave the windows machine for playing games, which is the only thing they are better at the mac anyways.
"FOR THE REST OF US, LINUX IS WHERE IT'S AT"?
huh?
you make it sound like Linux is the op system that has 90% market share. Please.:/ I'm REALLY GLAD you LUB LINUX SO MUCH, but lets not get carried away. Repeat after me please....it's just an operating system.....it's just an operating system.....maybe I can de-program you.
Yeah go ahead, mod this a troll. I dont care. It needed to be said.
and have his face used on a "switcher" commercial.:D
Only if the control strings are loosened.
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The big problem with todays radio is that 3 companies, namely Viacom, Clear Channel, and Infinity Broadcasting, control the vast majority of your local stations thru ownership and program every station the exact same way in genre: every Clear Channel country station sounds like every other Clear Channel owned country station, no matter where it is. This is why radio sucks. All the stations in any genre sound the same.
The best way around this is to promote and force the FCC to issue LPFM ( Low Power FM ) licenses with the 1,000 watt power level restored. It was taken out by Congress after the broadcasters lobbied to have it removed, citing interference claims. A new study has proven those claims to be rubbish, opening the way for LPFM stations that can really be heard in a local town.
Thousands of these stations on your FM dial ( and why not TV as well? ) would be able to put choice back into radio....and any other broadcast media so liberalized. If corporate control can be done away with, ordinary poeple would happily do the rest, and your radio would be worth listening to again.
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Jefferson said the well of democracy has to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants every so often. How about we start with these tyrants and then move on to all the other things ( Social Security, Work-Until-You-Drop-Dead lousy USA labor policy, total political corruption from top to bottom, health care that's more expensive than Canada's system while offering NONE of the benefits of that system, etc. ) until we start to make things right.
How many of you are gonna keep voting for the Democrats and Republicans that made all this wonderful goodness possible?
Maybe there's a reason why they didnt spend much time on the Itanic. AMD64 is the iceberg that the Itanic is gonna hit and it's gonna sink pretty fast. Intel will have Plan B in place by Feb. 04. They have to, Opteron is making too much headway too fast, and unlike Athlon XP's, these chip are making AMD some serious green stuff for the first time in a long time. If AMD is in the black next quarter, look out. Intel is gonna have to play by AMD's rules.
12 to 15 yr ols girls were the target for that crap and thats the only poeple who ever watched it.
yeah. Nobody should give a shit anymore about what platform is better - Pc's are a dime a dozen and you can game away. When it come down to doing serious work, Mac is there. The prices are that you dont have to switch! Just get A PC or Mac and dual everything up with a kvm switchbox setup and youre DONE!
Nope. A lot of those peeps are like my Dad, 76, who emails and looks up things he's interested on the web. He sees no need for cable or DSL, even though he can get both for about 20 bucks more a month than he does now thru Earthlink. He said the same thing about the computer before I gave it to him. If he had had to buy it, he still would be internetless. There's no way he would want this to become a reality. This is the typewriter generation. They dont know broadband from broads.
Mormons are about the last people in the world to want to look at pr0n. I'm surprised they even have sex to procreate. If they could make babies without fucking somehow thats the way they would do it. I went to school with one - you could'nt even say "damn" around her without her getting offended. All of the 4 I've known have been that way. They take their Book of Mormon thumping very seriously.
We are at the end of the bell curve re computers. 5 years from now we might be seeing 6 ~ 7 Ghz from the high end. 5 year old G3's with stock configs are getting 400 bucks on ebay. I sold my G4 for only a 150 dollar loss after using the thing for 9 months. Macs do hold value better than PC's - it's a fact. Go use a Dual 2.0 and tell me if you think it will be outdated to the point of non usefulness in 5 years. I dont think it will.
I still cant figure out why anyone would bother to buy it. I'm sure all your guests would *LOVE* to hear about how it does this with only one speaker. YAWN......another bose wave radio in disguise....
I'd like to see a company simply return to the days when radio was king and make a kick ass old fashioned table cathedral style radio that uses tube audio and isnt some cheap "reproduction" made with slave labor in Indonesia. If done correctly all the radiophiles would get it in a flash.
whole thread is rubbish - Mc D is denying there is any deal or will be any deal. Planted story the Post didnt check the facts on.
Canadian, eh? :)
When those computers run OS X, I'm sure he and many others will be in line. Until then, STFU.
The other 3% either works better on OS X or was Mac stuff ported to the PC. There's only one thing thats making me not switch 100% and sell my PC right now: Battlefield 1942, the BEST FREAKIN GAME OF ALL TIME. If they port that to OS X, I'm gone and probably not coming back. I dont like what I see in store for Windows in the next few years.
Yeah. Thats what I thought when I saw the article. I could'nt believe the guy was recommending Windows instead of OS X. Personally, I think Linux is slippin a bit. Apple is making some great strides lately. The new G5 cluster ( now up to 10.2 teraflops, BTW, solidly in #3 ) has really woken up the true geeks. Panther is an hit, and unlike Windows, it makes old computers *faster* instead slower. I think I'm about ready to jump that ship over to Mac again.
Why the hell do Mac users need Winamp? Just the name WIN-amp would make em barf.
These days, the only use for the document is in court cases and for burning in protest. Everyone who has said: "There should be a law against xyz!" for the last 135 years or so has made it so. Listen to your candidates for public office. They dont know whats in it, have never read it, dont know what it means, yet you will vote for them in droves this coming election cycle. I think one man, one vote is a crock of shit. It has become that a certifed dolt with a I.Q. of 60 has a vote equal to mine. This was not always the case.
Macintosh G5. Try getting your family to use Linux successfully. You might make it if you have a computer background, but your wife and kids wont.
"But this is not a perfect world, and those that have take more from those that have not." Bullshit. Why would a have want anything the have not has got? Besides that, the part of the document that was "concealed" basically said that the Affirmative Action concept was not working out in practice. The very subject of this article says it does not work.
My Barton here runs all day long @ 2366 Mhz. Temp 46 C at hard work. PR Rating 3700+ in Sandra. :D
FTTH is a pipe dream for now. As long as you have the phone companys protecting their copper last mile and the cable TV guys protecting their TV lines, you'll never see it. It would take government action on a massive scale. Since currently our guv'ment values giving Iraqi's infrastructure a boost more than our's, I think that say will be far away indeed. :(
Microsoft sold all their shares in Apple years ago! They dont have any shares in Apple anymore!
Ok, my work is finished here.
The problem of 2003 America is two fold: 1. everyone now pays MUCH more than their "fare share" in taxes, becuase we have too many forced income transfers. The retiree who has has grown children for years must pay into the local school system for years after their own kids are grown. Meanwhile, those children are forced to pay 15.5% of their LIFETIME earnings from work into Social Security, and the money is not even theirs!
2. The United States has too much social spending. The taxes required to pay for all this social spending are now close to 48% averaged over Federal, State, County, City, Sales, Death, Excise, Property, and so on. In other owrds, if you took Joe Blow and figured his total tax load for ALL taxes, it would be almost half his income.
America is spending itself under the table, using borrowed money from other nations to do it. Thats why the Soviet Union hauled down it's flag - it was actually BROKE. We are going down the same path, it will just take us about 20 years longer to get there. Iraq is another push in that direction. So is the proposed Medicare Drug Benefit.Democrats and Republicans are the only ones responsible for all this, as they are the only ones to hold power during this decline.
Yet, no one will even think of voting for someones else. :/
pretty much says it all. Going to the Apple Store today after work and buying a new mac. I'm tired of Microsoft's bullshit, I'm tired of worms and virii, and I'm tired of DRM windows style - it's gonna be intrusive and nasty when it hits full force, and there will be no OFF button. Time to switch and leave the windows machine for playing games, which is the only thing they are better at the mac anyways.
"FOR THE REST OF US, LINUX IS WHERE IT'S AT"? huh? you make it sound like Linux is the op system that has 90% market share. Please. :/ I'm REALLY GLAD you LUB LINUX SO MUCH, but lets not get carried away. Repeat after me please....it's just an operating system.....it's just an operating system.....maybe I can de-program you.
Yeah go ahead, mod this a troll. I dont care. It needed to be said.
and have his face used on a "switcher" commercial. :D
The best way around this is to promote and force the FCC to issue LPFM ( Low Power FM ) licenses with the 1,000 watt power level restored. It was taken out by Congress after the broadcasters lobbied to have it removed, citing interference claims. A new study has proven those claims to be rubbish, opening the way for LPFM stations that can really be heard in a local town.
Thousands of these stations on your FM dial ( and why not TV as well? ) would be able to put choice back into radio....and any other broadcast media so liberalized. If corporate control can be done away with, ordinary poeple would happily do the rest, and your radio would be worth listening to again.