I was holding out for a version that comes with interchangeable heatsink attachments.
A Hibachi Heatsink attachment for frying up some pork fried rice in the evenings.
A Space heater attachment as a fireplace replacement on those cold winter nights.
A blow dryer/curler attachment for the modern day multi tasking lady who needs to look sexy and code at the same time.
A heating pad attachment for the elderly developer whose bad back needs comfort after years of poor seating posture in WoW.....coding sessions.
Why is linux unthinkable?
I have a smartphone, sound card, and multi-card memory reader that I wouldn't be able to use at all if I switched back to linux. I suspect that there are many people who face the same predicament that I do. When I am at home I don't want to go searching for and applying patches to get my hardware to work properly. My karma is going to go down the toilet for saying this on Slashdot but Linux won't be ready for the masses until hardware vendors feel an obligation to write, maintain, and support linux drivers. And please spare me the "buy supported hardware" nonsense. The average person has already made an initial investment in hardware why should they be forced to purchase new hardware just to run an OS when they should be purchasing an OS to run their hardware.
My home media server runs on gentoo (Yes it finally finished compiling), all of my work and personal files are on an ubuntu file server along with images of my base windows install for when windows craps out on me. Despite all of this I run windows xp for my day to day tasks at home because all of my existing hardware already works on windows. When I can just plugin my smartphone and have it sync with kmail/evolution/thunderbird/pine/whatever and not have to decipher some poorly written manual that MAY OR MAY NOT work after an hour of editing config files that MIGHT be in the correct directories depending on how Distro X has their packages configured (wth happened to LSB??).
I agree wholeheartedly VISTA is a total disaster but linux isn't the great savior for desktop users, not yet.
So what they are saying we are the product of intergalactic sperm that fertilized this ovum we call earth. Maybe we aren't inside a giant snow globe but a giant uterus and when it contracts our universe will come to a sudden and brutal end.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, $some_entity will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Does it make sense now or should I break it down even further?
Here is a hint, the comparison wasn't between victims of racism and Microsoft. The comparison was between people who spew extremism of any form. Anyone who believes microsoft, linux, freebsd, blacks, jews, homosexuals, dolphins, ants, trees, oxygen, arm pit hair, etc... Should be obliterated off the face of the earth has serious issues and should probably seek psychological counseling.
Go forth and overstate the seriousness of children's cartoons wherever you shall go. Be a menace to all those who may decry the merits of such entertainment for this is your calling!!
Let's see them for what they are: Organised crime. One day justice will be done, Muslims will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, America will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Jews will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Gays will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Blacks will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Extremism serves no one. And yes I do realize the discussion of Linux and Microsoft is not comparable to the examples above, but you sound no less ridiculous.
People with health issues caused by being overweight (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) are already charged higher premiums because of their health issues, that or they get denied coverage completely. There are already mechanisms that take care of this so it seems more like a way to justify a bigger money grab by insurance companies because I highly doubt the savings will be passed on to those of us who are health conscious.
Good economic reasons? I keep laughing when I hear people look to plug-in cars as being economical. I live in NY and the electricity costs are so high a plug-in car would be even MORE expensive than gas. Is there anyone else who lives in an area where this is the case or is it just my section of NY?
They better be good with those fingers, with the weight I see a lot of "gamers" putting on these days they won't be able to find their dick under the rolls of fat. Although with diabetes, hypertension, and ED that comes with being that fat pharmaceutical companies will probably be the biggest sponsors of the gaming channel. I can see it now.....
Don't let a 15 hour session of WOW get in the way of a 45 second romp with your gaming groupies. Cialis it will be there.....when the moment is right.
I agreed with you but then I thought about when I was a child. At one of the local hangout spots there was a street fighter arcade machine where literally dozens of people would stand around for hours to watch this guy I knew in middle school kick the crap out of every person that dared to challenge him with every character there was. Just to entertain himself he would allow himself to get the crap kicked out of him on purpose until he had almost no energy left then proceed to taunt his opponent while he blocked their every move and slowly killed them.
We were all amazed as kids and enjoyed every second of it, how it will play out with adults I'm not sure; but it will only work if they can find gamers who do things that are sufficiently unique and amazing that people will want to watch for extended periods of time.
Plus people watch poker and NASCAR so anything can make it on tv.
Why on earth would you need wi-fi and rfid at the beach? Maybe its just me but when I go to the beach I don't bring anything that would allow someone to contact me except an old cellphone which is usually OFF. Why an old cellphone? Theft is a huge problem at beaches these days leave your average device that is wi-fi enabled and you'll probably find it gone by the time you are out of the water.
I know that/. is full of posts from global warming deniers
I don't really believe its really global warming that people are denying exists. It is more likely the theory of man made global warming that a lot of people, including myself, have a problem with. It is very obvious the earth is warming, you would have to be a fool to deny that. The problem is that you have idiots claiming that man is the cause of global warming as if it is an irrefutable fact when the reality is that no one really knows for certain what is causing global warming. To make things worse the topic has become so politicized that getting honest, unbiased, and meaningful research on the subject is next to impossible these days. It also does not help that the "leaders" on either side of the man made global warming issue tend to be fanatics which makes them even less credible.
Personally I'd like someone in a position of power to say the truth we've done a lot of research on the matter and the evidence suggests but really don't know for certain nor will we anytime soon. I would be much more likely to believe a group who spoke in such terms instead of the nutcases who have turned the issue of man made global warming into a religion with anyone who doubts or opposes them labeled a heretic.
Normally I don't respond to AC's but you do realize that Asian and Africa are the #1 and #2 continents in terms of total population? You do also realize that the majority of their populations are of a fairly tan to brown complexion right? Given the greater mobility due to technology (thank you great white inventor of everything overlords), baring some sort of race fueled genocide the world population will eventually be fairly uh brown.
I know, VERY scary thought hide under your couch, form a hate group, colonize mars and make it white only because "the blacks" are coming, they are reproducing at a rate that would make rabbits feel inadequate, and they are coming for your pure white mothers, daughters, and aunts!!!!
Hey at least they weren't as laughable as AllAdvantage, they pretty much paid for my books freshman year of college and I even had a little drinking money left over. The best part was I never saw one of their ads.
Not all places give you a full report, many places will give you a shortened consumer report that doesn't contain your full credit history which is pretty useless for obtaining most loans.
I hate to rain on our parade but lending institutions especially mortgage banks do not like to lend to shoppers because too many recent inquiries on your credit report can bring your score down your significantly. It has nothing to do with them not wanting competition if anything it would make it easier for them to compete because they would know what programs another bank offers.
The algorithm that is used to determine credit score assumes that people who are looking for credit (shoppers) must need it and therefore are a greater lending risk, thus the decrease in score. Generally this is true, people who have good credit typically do not shop around because they are inundated with people offering them low interest rate credit. I can only speak from the real estate mortgage side of lending because that is all that I have experience in but shoppers are a banks worst nightmare.
The reason for this is that in order to sell a mortgage on the secondary market a bank may have to run the persons credit a second time right before closing to ensure the borrower has not taken on any large debts or had a drop in their credit score between the time they applied for the loan and closing. So a person who, hypothetically, had a 640 score may have a 630 score after running their credit with multiple lenders and they no longer qualify for the loan program they applied for and in many cases they no longer qualify for ANY loan programs.
There is an easy way to get around this if you want to shop around. DO NOT have multiple lenders run your credit score, get your FULL credit report (not a customer copy) through one of the BIG three agencies (Equifax, Transunion, and Experian). I believe they offer this for a small fee on their websites. Take a recent copy of your credit report to wherever you intend to shop around. As long as it is less than 30 days old it should be acceptable at any lending institution. Do not do business with any bank that says otherwise because they are lying, provided that you have a FULL copy and not a customer copy of your report.
On a semi-related note do not run your credit through freecreditreport.com they are just an info harvester and you will just get massive amounts of junk mail from lenders.
"When asked whether his own e-mail had been compromised, Gates responded, 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
Later, when notified that his carrier pigeon had been intercepted on its way to Iraq, Gates declared a state of emergency and had the threat level raised to orange.
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I was holding out for a version that comes with interchangeable heatsink attachments.
A Hibachi Heatsink attachment for frying up some pork fried rice in the evenings.
A Space heater attachment as a fireplace replacement on those cold winter nights.
A blow dryer/curler attachment for the modern day multi tasking lady who needs to look sexy and code at the same time.
A heating pad attachment for the elderly developer whose bad back needs comfort after years of poor seating posture in WoW.....coding sessions.
Why is linux unthinkable? I have a smartphone, sound card, and multi-card memory reader that I wouldn't be able to use at all if I switched back to linux. I suspect that there are many people who face the same predicament that I do. When I am at home I don't want to go searching for and applying patches to get my hardware to work properly. My karma is going to go down the toilet for saying this on Slashdot but Linux won't be ready for the masses until hardware vendors feel an obligation to write, maintain, and support linux drivers. And please spare me the "buy supported hardware" nonsense. The average person has already made an initial investment in hardware why should they be forced to purchase new hardware just to run an OS when they should be purchasing an OS to run their hardware.
My home media server runs on gentoo (Yes it finally finished compiling), all of my work and personal files are on an ubuntu file server along with images of my base windows install for when windows craps out on me. Despite all of this I run windows xp for my day to day tasks at home because all of my existing hardware already works on windows. When I can just plugin my smartphone and have it sync with kmail/evolution/thunderbird/pine/whatever and not have to decipher some poorly written manual that MAY OR MAY NOT work after an hour of editing config files that MIGHT be in the correct directories depending on how Distro X has their packages configured (wth happened to LSB??).
I agree wholeheartedly VISTA is a total disaster but linux isn't the great savior for desktop users, not yet.
So what they are saying we are the product of intergalactic sperm that fertilized this ovum we call earth. Maybe we aren't inside a giant snow globe but a giant uterus and when it contracts our universe will come to a sudden and brutal end.
It is obvious this went completely over your head
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, $some_entity will be obliterated and the world will
be a better place for it.
Does it make sense now or should I break it down even further?
Here is a hint, the comparison wasn't between victims of racism and Microsoft. The comparison was between people who spew extremism of any form. Anyone who believes microsoft, linux, freebsd, blacks, jews, homosexuals, dolphins, ants, trees, oxygen, arm pit hair, etc... Should be obliterated off the face of the earth has serious issues and should probably seek psychological counseling.
Outraged? Put down your pitchfork and torch there are much worse issues in the world that are much more worthy of being fought for.
I consider Microsoft's transgressions a large annoyance but outraged? Did Gates, Allen, and Ballmer run a train on your mother or something?
I dub thee Comic Book Guy.
Go forth and overstate the seriousness of children's cartoons wherever you shall go. Be a menace to all those who may decry the merits of such entertainment for this is your calling!!
Let's see them for what they are: Organised crime. One day justice will be done, Muslims will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, America will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Jews will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Gays will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Let's see them for what they are: Organized crime. One day justice will be done, Blacks will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Extremism serves no one. And yes I do realize the discussion of Linux and Microsoft is not comparable to the examples above, but you sound no less ridiculous.
It is a well known fact Chuck Norris does not use guns only roundhouses of death.
Popups, Wet Dreams, and no napkins. What a mess.
People with health issues caused by being overweight (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) are already charged higher premiums because of their health issues, that or they get denied coverage completely. There are already mechanisms that take care of this so it seems more like a way to justify a bigger money grab by insurance companies because I highly doubt the savings will be passed on to those of us who are health conscious.
Since when did you start visiting slashdot Chris Hansen?
Good economic reasons? I keep laughing when I hear people look to plug-in cars as being economical. I live in NY and the electricity costs are so high a plug-in car would be even MORE expensive than gas. Is there anyone else who lives in an area where this is the case or is it just my section of NY?
They better be good with those fingers, with the weight I see a lot of "gamers" putting on these days they won't be able to find their dick under the rolls of fat. Although with diabetes, hypertension, and ED that comes with being that fat pharmaceutical companies will probably be the biggest sponsors of the gaming channel. I can see it now.....
Don't let a 15 hour session of WOW get in the way of a 45 second romp with your gaming groupies. Cialis it will be there.....when the moment is right.
I agreed with you but then I thought about when I was a child. At one of the local hangout spots there was a street fighter arcade machine where literally dozens of people would stand around for hours to watch this guy I knew in middle school kick the crap out of every person that dared to challenge him with every character there was. Just to entertain himself he would allow himself to get the crap kicked out of him on purpose until he had almost no energy left then proceed to taunt his opponent while he blocked their every move and slowly killed them.
We were all amazed as kids and enjoyed every second of it, how it will play out with adults I'm not sure; but it will only work if they can find gamers who do things that are sufficiently unique and amazing that people will want to watch for extended periods of time.
Plus people watch poker and NASCAR so anything can make it on tv.
In windows no but in linux using kde fish:// is a godsend.
Why on earth would you need wi-fi and rfid at the beach? Maybe its just me but when I go to the beach I don't bring anything that would allow someone to contact me except an old cellphone which is usually OFF. Why an old cellphone? Theft is a huge problem at beaches these days leave your average device that is wi-fi enabled and you'll probably find it gone by the time you are out of the water.
I know that /. is full of posts from global warming deniers
I don't really believe its really global warming that people are denying exists. It is more likely the theory of man made global warming that a lot of people, including myself, have a problem with. It is very obvious the earth is warming, you would have to be a fool to deny that. The problem is that you have idiots claiming that man is the cause of global warming as if it is an irrefutable fact when the reality is that no one really knows for certain what is causing global warming. To make things worse the topic has become so politicized that getting honest, unbiased, and meaningful research on the subject is next to impossible these days. It also does not help that the "leaders" on either side of the man made global warming issue tend to be fanatics which makes them even less credible.
Personally I'd like someone in a position of power to say the truth we've done a lot of research on the matter and the evidence suggests but really don't know for certain nor will we anytime soon. I would be much more likely to believe a group who spoke in such terms instead of the nutcases who have turned the issue of man made global warming into a religion with anyone who doubts or opposes them labeled a heretic.
Normally I don't respond to AC's but you do realize that Asian and Africa are the #1 and #2 continents in terms of total population? You do also realize that the majority of their populations are of a fairly tan to brown complexion right? Given the greater mobility due to technology (thank you great white inventor of everything overlords), baring some sort of race fueled genocide the world population will eventually be fairly uh brown.
I know, VERY scary thought hide under your couch, form a hate group, colonize mars and make it white only because "the blacks" are coming, they are reproducing at a rate that would make rabbits feel inadequate, and they are coming for your pure white mothers, daughters, and aunts!!!!
FEAR!!
FEAR I SAY THE WORLD IS AT AN END!!!
My solution -- never let group #2 touch a computer again. Ever.
Congratulations you just put group #1 out of work.
Hey at least they weren't as laughable as AllAdvantage, they pretty much paid for my books freshman year of college and I even had a little drinking money left over. The best part was I never saw one of their ads.
How do you seriously expect your average computer user to find that? You know the people who go to sheep squad and pay $100 to do simple installs?
Not all places give you a full report, many places will give you a shortened consumer report that doesn't contain your full credit history which is pretty useless for obtaining most loans.
I hate to rain on our parade but lending institutions especially mortgage banks do not like to lend to shoppers because too many recent inquiries on your credit report can bring your score down your significantly. It has nothing to do with them not wanting competition if anything it would make it easier for them to compete because they would know what programs another bank offers.
The algorithm that is used to determine credit score assumes that people who are looking for credit (shoppers) must need it and therefore are a greater lending risk, thus the decrease in score. Generally this is true, people who have good credit typically do not shop around because they are inundated with people offering them low interest rate credit. I can only speak from the real estate mortgage side of lending because that is all that I have experience in but shoppers are a banks worst nightmare.
The reason for this is that in order to sell a mortgage on the secondary market a bank may have to run the persons credit a second time right before closing to ensure the borrower has not taken on any large debts or had a drop in their credit score between the time they applied for the loan and closing. So a person who, hypothetically, had a 640 score may have a 630 score after running their credit with multiple lenders and they no longer qualify for the loan program they applied for and in many cases they no longer qualify for ANY loan programs.
There is an easy way to get around this if you want to shop around. DO NOT have multiple lenders run your credit score, get your FULL credit report (not a customer copy) through one of the BIG three agencies (Equifax, Transunion, and Experian). I believe they offer this for a small fee on their websites. Take a recent copy of your credit report to wherever you intend to shop around. As long as it is less than 30 days old it should be acceptable at any lending institution. Do not do business with any bank that says otherwise because they are lying, provided that you have a FULL copy and not a customer copy of your report.
On a semi-related note do not run your credit through freecreditreport.com they are just an info harvester and you will just get massive amounts of junk mail from lenders.
"When asked whether his own e-mail had been compromised, Gates responded, 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
Later, when notified that his carrier pigeon had been intercepted on its way to Iraq, Gates declared a state of emergency and had the threat level raised to orange.
You get BadMail. NEXT!