" It only said people were more interested in WindowsXP with Media Player.. Given the same price, would you take the car with stereo or car without stereo?"
Well if the factory stereo is impossible to remove without destroying parts of the car, then without. If for no other reason than so i can easily put an after market one in. Personally though, I wouldnt buy windows N on the off chance that 1) thats not all they took out and 2) the fact that they could have put something more buggy in. Its not open source so how can you know thats all they changed?
besides i switched back to win2k 4 months ago and have far fewer system instability problems, not to mention less random hangs and no more disks mysteriously chugging away in the middle of the night.
i just wanted to say that your stupid, everything you think is stupid and pretty much your the reason why society sucks.
let me get my clue by four son and lets educate you a bit. I have broken the education down into short explanations of why you are a complete bafoon.
1) Theres nothing wrong with running drugs. Drugs should be legal.
2) Oh im sorry, my unwillingness to talk must mean im a criminal. further more, being a criminal of an unknown crime makes me deserve to be shot. Real sound logic there man.
3) Artists produce art for other people. NOT FOR THEMSELVES. if they wanted to produce it for themselves they should keep it to themselves. If you broadcast something on all known media channels, dont be surprised if people listen to it.
4) Your just stupid. stupid stupid stupid. or young. You are obviously not an artist. Artists LOVE being told that their art has moved you. To a REAL artist this is why they exist. Period. If that altercation occurred, baring them not being egotistical metalicaesque sods, they would be overjoyed. MONEY IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD when it comes right down to it.
5) there will always be music made. if you are in doubt of this fact, please go downtown to a bar and witness all the people there listening to some unknown, or perhaps slightly known band. battle of the bands nights are also very informative.
in conclusion you are wrong. furthermore, i believe you to be a societally brainwashed tool who gets mommy and daddy to buy him everything he needs. i dont really care about moderation for this because your post was just SO WRONG i would not have been able to live with myself if i let you continue rambling unattacked.
"But keep in mind, they can always take their toys and go home, and where will that leave you?"
browsing to another site?
i remmeber before their were banner ads. just because you jumped on teh internets bandwagon late doesnt mean thats how it was and always will be. do you remmeber newsgroups? BBS? message boards? IRC? FTP? theres so many ways to get information on the internet. as long as someone has a connection and a computer there will be stuff out there.
well except for that fact that its not funny at all. The daily show is funny. They take the news and give a nice slant to it. 50% news 50% funny. I honestly dont get the onion. Ive personally never liked it. Why would you want to read completly made up news?
yeah this is a COMMENT because i dont find the onion funny at all. im sure some people do, i just cant for the life of me see why completly made up fake news articles should be funny. its obviously not true.
he is right though. we have given up alot for our global commerce lifestyles. Obviously i was not alive in 1958, and i do enjoy many of the devices developed since then. You do realize that you "working from the couch, with your children" paradigm represents a very very small subset of people in the world right? Your one of the lucky few, most of us are stuck behind desks or in cubes. I at least, have 1/8th of a window to look out of which is more than some can say.
The idea he was getting at is that we are becoming much more disconnected from life and more dependant on technology. I don't think this is a good thing. What if one day all the glorious technology goes away? would you still be able to feed yourself? i sure as hell wouldnt. and thats kind of scary.
another thing to consider was that in 1958 a single income could support a family, buy a house, 2 cars and be able to take vacations every year with the kids. very rare is it to have a single parent working these days. most families have 2 incomes, and wouldnt be able to survive on just one. All the gadgets, the toys, the useless consumer goods one buys - this is why. advertising tells us to consume more, but in order to consume more we have to work more. that is what he meant by us sustaining the very machine that will kill us. or some such thing.
And as a cross enlightenment, bring forth the XANC troll.
AS pointed out by others, japan had agreed to surrender untill the Allies took out the clause that stated the emperor would be free of war crimes. they then dropped the bomb because they realized this was there one big chance to test it. After perl harbour , it was easy to think of them as evil.
but they weren't evil, and your country murdered them. It is the victors who write the textbooks that you so happily follow.
BUt i guess, like so many brainwashed tools posting in these threads, you troll the party line. Time to get smacked with a cluestick
The desire of the Emperor for an end to the war never came true until both atomic bombs had been dropped on two of Japan's key industrial cities, as the Emperor never formally expressed this desire. In the samurai tradition, the Emperor is held at a God-like status and therefore, is considered above politics, so therefore he never intervenes, and was never expected to intervene in political issues, his role was to sanction decisions made by the Cabinet, whether he personally approved of them or not. For this reason, the Emperor never expressed his desire for peace to the Cabinet; it was an unprecedented act (Long).
The retention of the Emperor was crucial to the surrender, as the Japanese believed their Emperor was a god, the heart of the people and the culture (Long). This Japanese belief is a part of a tradition that dates back to 660 B.C. when the first Japanese Emperor, Jimmu, who according to legend was a descendant of the sun god, Amaterasu. So there fore, according to the tradition, the emperor during this time, Hirohito, was said to be a divine being. It is for this reason that the Japanese sued for peace based on the "Atlantic Charter of 1941" that was drafted up by Roosevelt and Churchill on August 4th, 1941.
According to the "Atlantic Charter," every nation could choose its own form of government, thus, if Japan were to surrender based on these terms, they would be able to retain the emperor, their God (Alperovitz). However, when the United States offered a peace agreement based on "Unconditional Surrender," the Japanese refused this offer as no provisions had been made for their Emperor. As Leon V. Sigal states, "...one point was clear to senior [United States] officials, regardless of where they stood on war termination... the critical condition for Japanese surrender was the assurance that the throne would be preserved" (Alperovitz 31). It turns out that the unconditional surrender clause of the peace agreement was the major factor that hindered Japanese surrender at this point in the war. According to the surrender agreement, "the authority that deceived the people into embarking on world conquest must be eliminated from Japan" (Long). To the Japanese this sounded like a threat being made to their Emperor. This to the Japanese would almost be like the crucifixion of Jesus in the Christian faith. The Japanese feared that if they surrendered based on these terms, first of all, they would loose their Emperor, and second, it sounds as if the Emperor would be treated as a war criminal. The Japanese officials and people were not willing to take such a risk.
"The correct choice was to end the war ASAP." Fear. Fear and Uncertanty and doubt. Thats all it takes to kill millions. Iraq, communists in vietnam, japan. I sense a recuring theme. We are talking weeks not years of negotiations. you say fucking ASAP. asap.. asap = hundreds of thousands dead. waiting, and treating peoples perceived GOD fairly. Do you think a peaceful surrender could not have been achived? when the japanese were willing to negotiate?
But when would america ever care about what dem crazy foreigners think, when we just got all these nice new toys to play with. (yes i do think the mil
"So, in short, yes, I think 100,000 lives were worth it. I happen to like Japan, and am glad that we dropped the bombs on them"
spoken like a true american. the ends justify the means and i guess you can sort of rationalize the horror out of your past. in retrospect its far easier to say with certainty what COULD HAVE happened, because anything *could* have happened. thats the beauty of the word "could". what actually did happen was the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. then of course the next step is to jump up and down shouting, see see we actually *saved* lives by killing thousands! they should thank us!
and i now recall the following words
Myrick: "If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that?" "Those men are heroes." Luthan: "But you chose for them." and "You're a doctor, not God." -extreme measures
I am become death destroyer of worlds. and deep down you _know_ it, and in some sense it makes you proud. the sickness of the republic of the united states of america.
" Err, I don't like SP2 because I've personally witnessed it fuck up 2 PCs to the extent that they wouldn't even boot."
if you properly clean the PC this isnt an issue. you cant just hold back peoples security updates because you dont know how to go into safe mode and disinfect a PC.
Maybe its because you have safe mode on. The first thing i do before i do any sort of virus spyware removal is turn off safe mode!! i have never seen safe mode do anything useful ever. if you know enough that you can go back and restore points, you know enough not to have your PC infected in the first place. for the rest of the world it just eats up gobs of diskspace and cultures spyware.
for what its worth i wont touch XP at all on my own system. 2k all the way. that is, if you want some semblance of stability/reliability.
Is there any set of circumstances that hitler could propose something that I would like? Sure. Would that some how make me ignore his past crimes? No because its fucking hitler.
Just because someone throws some space geeks a bone does not in any way diminsh their reputation for evil. You cant go around killing thousands upon thousands of people and then throw money at the proles and say, `look look, see im really a great guy!'. Some people have more than a 5 minute memory. "And ill stand over your grave till im sure that your dead" -masters of war, bob dylan
" I find it rare when a linix distro can locate ALL device drivers and properly set them up....."
You are clearly on crack. When i installed fedora 3 it detected everything. perfectly. XP? i dont think ive ever had it detect everything perfectly. Maybe if your computer is +3 years before the latest release of windows then maybe it will all go fine. Try it yourself since you aparently build many more PC's than I do at my job building PC's. Take a modern motherboard and modern processor with everything on board and let me know how many things get auto configured. Intel, via, sis.. every major chipset is not supported in XP, without manually goign to the manufacturers website and downloading the releases.
You sure picked a really bad point to argue on because one thing linux has going for it is the sheer amount of built in drivers. XP is at least a few years old, even with SP2, which im pretty sure didnt come with any driver updates. Fedora was released this week. Tell me which one do you expect to have better out of the box drivers?
"The question is which crowd do you want to fit in with? Do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is going somewhere, or do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is strung out on dope."
grow up. everyones on some sort of dope these days. Cant I be part of the crowd thats going somewhere, on dope? its a much funner crowd.
"Natalie Merchant, Rage Against The Machine, Al Stewart, Janes Addiction, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Widespread Panic, Rush, The Police - all artists for whom I own tapes or damaged cds, and can't easily replace via p2p"
So roughly that translates to " I suck at finding what I want online ". Congratulations for broadcasting your lazy ineptitude to the world.
Seriously, intel and apple are i would say both the big #2's in the computing world. I really hope they end up killing each other off. Id rather see amd vs powerpc and linux vs windows. id buy the popping corn for that!
well that was really long and i only ahve 10 minutes of work yet so ill just say two things.
"My problem with such an answer is that it doesn't agree at all with history"
I would hope so! then we will not fall into the familiar patterns of scarcity. In the world of the matter duplicator, there exsists no scarcity of resources. Just tell the machine to combine some of the earths crust into a sandwitch. The problem is people dont think ahead. If we let copyright get in the way of advancing the human civilization, when we do get matter replication it will only be used by the very rich (corporations) to further drive the outdated profit model.
"Some, of course, will be so driven by the artistic/altruistic drive, but do you honestly believe that is even a significant minority, much less the majority of the population?"
do you think the majority of the population would make good artists/writers/content producers? of course not. they'll just sit there, get bored, or they will get off their ass and do something benificial. either way is perfectly fine by me. I really dont care if some couch potato sits on his couch 24x7 in a world of limitless resources. let him consume till he explodes for all i care.
"Wrapping up a long post: it seems to me that, in the absence of universal replicator technology, your theory relies on the presence of a large number of artists and altruists, correct? If so, does your experience with humanity seem to validate that theory?"
yes. because there would be nothing left to work for except your own creative interests. All basic needs being taken care of, people would definately need to fill up the time. Does my experience with humanity validate that theory? also yes. Examples include StrongBad and The Open Source Movement.
People create things, not always for money, but alot of the time to fill a technological or creative gap that they see. This would also have the effect of making said content more beautiful as people would lovingly design each subroutene, each comic. I honestly think that some people are really doing what they love (kubrick would be a good example) and the money comes second.
People will innovate for a need and or to better mankind.
In your example, the companies labs and resources would be offered up free to anyone with apropriate backgrounds. They would then use the facilities to do research and release the end product into the public domain.
This would require repossing companies and getting something like a management AI to allocate time and shit. This plan would require no money and your food/resources would be allocated by super smart AI's.
The person would get satisfaction not from money or credits, but from noteriety and philanthropy (like bill gates).
use avaya man. our site has about 50 real phones and 100+ software phones with plantronics headsets.
voicemail is instantanious, uses VOIP and POE switches for the unpowered phones. also you can fax to peoples phones which is sort of the cool.
i have my ext forwarded to my cel phone so i can pick up a call on my cel when it rings on my desk phone. this alone is invaluable, as i can be sitting on the beach or at a bar and people will just dial ext x549 and blamo im in the office!
some people realized that they didnt want to be stuck in a hardware and software monopoly a LONG time ago.
those people baught clone PC hardware and ran whatever OS they wanted. see theres a reason why apple is a "niche" market. The "nichers" didnt realize that having only one company producing hardware was a bad idea. and now... wait for it... _you do_.
you kind of have a point but i would really rather spend my time investigating interesting unix bugs and designing and implementing solutions than rebuilding outlook PST files for the 4th time this month. or disinfecting spyware or explaining to a user why they shouldnt ignore the helpful little triangle that says "WARNING: delayed write failed" on their primary hard disk, instead of just ignoring it and bitching that "i lost all their work" because there roaming profile didnt save to the server because their network card is flakey.
"A swift click on a spell checker sure would add a lot of credibility to some whois telling you their code will check your's for it's grammer and spelling."
astounding. so when you run a spell checker over your document it makes you into a better speller? here i was thinking that the worst spellers are the ones who use spell checkers. oh and its GRAMMAR you stupid newbie. god damnit your an idiot man
"But consider this - I doubt that either state sees nukes as an offensive weapon. They know full well that any use of a nuke will almost certainly result in the obliteration of their own country. It is unlikely that either nation is that suicidal."
Do you think the NK government cares about what happens to its citizens? If Kim Jong saw himself losing power, do you not think he would take out at the very least south korea before china slapped him down?
on the same line, do you think there is a 100% chance of bu$h not using the bomb if he felt threatened? never underestimate these "leaders" comitment to being remembered throughout history. Good or bad is merely spin that both countries have used to brainwash the populace. I think america would use the bomb, same as NK, if it felt in the least way threatened and helpless.
we are not talking about sane countries here, and both have brainwashed citizenry who would, if pushed, kill every living thing on the planet to save their glorious ethos.
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" It only said people were more interested in WindowsXP with Media Player..
Given the same price, would you take the car with stereo or car without stereo?"
Well if the factory stereo is impossible to remove without destroying parts of the car, then without. If for no other reason than so i can easily put an after market one in. Personally though, I wouldnt buy windows N on the off chance that 1) thats not all they took out and 2) the fact that they could have put something more buggy in. Its not open source so how can you know thats all they changed?
besides i switched back to win2k 4 months ago and have far fewer system instability problems, not to mention less random hangs and no more disks mysteriously chugging away in the middle of the night.
i just wanted to say that your stupid, everything you think is stupid and pretty much your the reason why society sucks.
let me get my clue by four son and lets educate you a bit. I have broken the education down into short explanations of why you are a complete bafoon.
1) Theres nothing wrong with running drugs. Drugs should be legal.
2) Oh im sorry, my unwillingness to talk must mean im a criminal. further more, being a criminal of an unknown crime makes me deserve to be shot. Real sound logic there man.
3) Artists produce art for other people. NOT FOR THEMSELVES. if they wanted to produce it for themselves they should keep it to themselves. If you broadcast something on all known media channels, dont be surprised if people listen to it.
4) Your just stupid. stupid stupid stupid. or young. You are obviously not an artist. Artists LOVE being told that their art has moved you. To a REAL artist this is why they exist. Period. If that altercation occurred, baring them not being egotistical metalicaesque sods, they would be overjoyed. MONEY IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD when it comes right down to it.
5) there will always be music made. if you are in doubt of this fact, please go downtown to a bar and witness all the people there listening to some unknown, or perhaps slightly known band. battle of the bands nights are also very informative.
in conclusion you are wrong. furthermore, i believe you to be a societally brainwashed tool who gets mommy and daddy to buy him everything he needs. i dont really care about moderation for this because your post was just SO WRONG i would not have been able to live with myself if i let you continue rambling unattacked.
the minute they said they believed an invisible man in the sky that manipulated world events?
"But keep in mind, they can always take their toys and go home, and where will that leave you?"
browsing to another site?
i remmeber before their were banner ads. just because you jumped on teh internets bandwagon late doesnt mean thats how it was and always will be. do you remmeber newsgroups? BBS? message boards? IRC? FTP? theres so many ways to get information on the internet. as long as someone has a connection and a computer there will be stuff out there.
why is this tripe modded up?
if im the driver rollin with my peeps and some fool starts steppin, my boy smokes him and its some how my fault?
man i hope i never roll with you
well except for that fact that its not funny at all. The daily show is funny. They take the news and give a nice slant to it. 50% news 50% funny. I honestly dont get the onion. Ive personally never liked it. Why would you want to read completly made up news?
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Life is funny enough without making up completly impossible news stories. Reuters oddly enough is plenty funny and those stories actually happen
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsChannel.aspx?
yeah this is a COMMENT because i dont find the onion funny at all. im sure some people do, i just cant for the life of me see why completly made up fake news articles should be funny. its obviously not true.
ewww
come on man thats fucking discusting right there.
he is right though. we have given up alot for our global commerce lifestyles. Obviously i was not alive in 1958, and i do enjoy many of the devices developed since then. You do realize that you "working from the couch, with your children" paradigm represents a very very small subset of people in the world right? Your one of the lucky few, most of us are stuck behind desks or in cubes. I at least, have 1/8th of a window to look out of which is more than some can say.
The idea he was getting at is that we are becoming much more disconnected from life and more dependant on technology. I don't think this is a good thing. What if one day all the glorious technology goes away? would you still be able to feed yourself?
i sure as hell wouldnt. and thats kind of scary.
another thing to consider was that in 1958 a single income could support a family, buy a house, 2 cars and be able to take vacations every year with the kids. very rare is it to have a single parent working these days. most families have 2 incomes, and wouldnt be able to survive on just one. All the gadgets, the toys, the useless consumer goods one buys - this is why. advertising tells us to consume more, but in order to consume more we have to work more. that is what he meant by us sustaining the very machine that will kill us. or some such thing.
i was going to go try and figure out if i could do someting evil to this website but looks like someone beat me to it
http://www.marketingmetrixgroup.com/
AS pointed out by others, japan had agreed to surrender untill the Allies took out the clause that stated the emperor would be free of war crimes. they then dropped the bomb because they realized this was there one big chance to test it. After perl harbour , it was easy to think of them as evil.
but they weren't evil, and your country murdered them. It is the victors who write the textbooks that you so happily follow.
BUt i guess, like so many brainwashed tools posting in these threads, you troll the party line. Time to get smacked with a cluestick
from http://www.essays.cc/free_essays/a1/lpf224.shtml
"The correct choice was to end the war ASAP."
Fear. Fear and Uncertanty and doubt. Thats all it takes to kill millions. Iraq, communists in vietnam, japan. I sense a recuring theme. We are talking weeks not years of negotiations. you say fucking ASAP. asap.. asap = hundreds of thousands dead. waiting, and treating peoples perceived GOD fairly. Do you think a peaceful surrender could not have been achived? when the japanese were willing to negotiate?
But when would america ever care about what dem crazy foreigners think, when we just got all these nice new toys to play with. (yes i do think the mil
"So, in short, yes, I think 100,000 lives were worth it. I happen to like Japan, and am glad that we dropped the bombs on them"
spoken like a true american. the ends justify the means and i guess you can sort of rationalize the horror out of your past. in retrospect its far easier to say with certainty what COULD HAVE happened, because anything *could* have happened. thats the beauty of the word "could". what actually did happen was the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians. then of course the next step is to jump up and down shouting, see see we actually *saved* lives by killing thousands! they should thank us!
and i now recall the following words
Myrick: "If you could cure cancer by killing one person, wouldn't you have to do that?" "Those men are heroes."
Luthan: "But you chose for them." and "You're a doctor, not God."
-extreme measures
I am become death destroyer of worlds.
and deep down you _know_ it, and in some sense it makes you proud. the sickness of the republic of the united states of america.
if you properly clean the PC this isnt an issue. you cant just hold back peoples security updates because you dont know how to go into safe mode and disinfect a PC.
Maybe its because you have safe mode on. The first thing i do before i do any sort of virus spyware removal is turn off safe mode!! i have never seen safe mode do anything useful ever. if you know enough that you can go back and restore points, you know enough not to have your PC infected in the first place. for the rest of the world it just eats up gobs of diskspace and cultures spyware.
for what its worth i wont touch XP at all on my own system. 2k all the way. that is, if you want some semblance of stability/reliability.
Is there any set of circumstances that hitler could propose something that I would like? Sure. Would that some how make me ignore his past crimes?
No because its fucking hitler.
Just because someone throws some space geeks a bone does not in any way diminsh their reputation for evil. You cant go around killing thousands upon thousands of people and then throw money at the proles and say, `look look, see im really a great guy!'. Some people have more than a 5 minute memory.
"And ill stand over your grave till im sure that your dead" -masters of war, bob dylan
" I find it rare when a linix distro can locate ALL device drivers and properly set them up....."
You are clearly on crack. When i installed fedora 3 it detected everything. perfectly. XP? i dont think ive ever had it detect everything perfectly. Maybe if your computer is +3 years before the latest release of windows then maybe it will all go fine. Try it yourself since you aparently build many more PC's than I do at my job building PC's. Take a modern motherboard and modern processor with everything on board and let me know how many things get auto configured. Intel, via, sis.. every major chipset is not supported in XP, without manually goign to the manufacturers website and downloading the releases.
You sure picked a really bad point to argue on because one thing linux has going for it is the sheer amount of built in drivers. XP is at least a few years old, even with SP2, which im pretty sure didnt come with any driver updates. Fedora was released this week. Tell me which one do you expect to have better out of the box drivers?
"The question is which crowd do you want to fit in with? Do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is going somewhere, or do you want to fit in with the crowd that looks like it is strung out on dope."
grow up. everyones on some sort of dope these days. Cant I be part of the crowd thats going somewhere, on dope? its a much funner crowd.
"Natalie Merchant, Rage Against The Machine, Al Stewart, Janes Addiction, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Widespread Panic, Rush, The Police - all artists for whom I own tapes or damaged cds, and can't easily replace via p2p"
So roughly that translates to " I suck at finding what I want online ". Congratulations for broadcasting your lazy ineptitude to the world.
1. www.mininova.org
2. shareaza.sourceforge.net
Seriously, intel and apple are i would say both the big #2's in the computing world. I really hope they end up killing each other off. Id rather see amd vs powerpc and linux vs windows.
id buy the popping corn for that!
well that was really long and i only ahve 10 minutes of work yet so ill just say two things.
"My problem with such an answer is that it doesn't agree at all with history"
I would hope so! then we will not fall into the familiar patterns of scarcity. In the world of the matter duplicator, there exsists no scarcity of resources. Just tell the machine to combine some of the earths crust into a sandwitch. The problem is people dont think ahead. If we let copyright get in the way of advancing the human civilization, when we do get matter replication it will only be used by the very rich (corporations) to further drive the outdated profit model.
"Some, of course, will be so driven by the artistic/altruistic drive, but do you honestly believe that is even a significant minority, much less the majority of the population?"
do you think the majority of the population would make good artists/writers/content producers? of course not. they'll just sit there, get bored, or they will get off their ass and do something benificial. either way is perfectly fine by me. I really dont care if some couch potato sits on his couch 24x7 in a world of limitless resources. let him consume till he explodes for all i care.
"Wrapping up a long post: it seems to me that, in the absence of universal replicator technology, your theory relies on the presence of a large number of artists and altruists, correct? If so, does your experience with humanity seem to validate that theory?"
yes. because there would be nothing left to work for except your own creative interests. All basic needs being taken care of, people would definately need to fill up the time. Does my experience with humanity validate that theory? also yes. Examples include StrongBad and The Open Source Movement.
People create things, not always for money, but alot of the time to fill a technological or creative gap that they see. This would also have the effect of making said content more beautiful as people would lovingly design each subroutene, each comic. I honestly think that some people are really doing what they love (kubrick would be a good example) and the money comes second.
People will innovate for a need and or to better mankind.
In your example, the companies labs and resources would be offered up free to anyone with apropriate backgrounds. They would then use the facilities to do research and release the end product into the public domain.
This would require repossing companies and getting something like a management AI to allocate time and shit. This plan would require no money and your food/resources would be allocated by super smart AI's.
The person would get satisfaction not from money or credits, but from noteriety and philanthropy (like bill gates).
use avaya man. our site has about 50 real phones and 100+ software phones with plantronics headsets.
voicemail is instantanious, uses VOIP and POE switches for the unpowered phones. also you can fax to peoples phones which is sort of the cool.
i have my ext forwarded to my cel phone so i can pick up a call on my cel when it rings on my desk phone. this alone is invaluable, as i can be sitting on the beach or at a bar and people will just dial ext x549 and blamo im in the office!
some people realized that they didnt want to be stuck in a hardware and software monopoly a LONG time ago.
... wait for it... _you do_.
those people baught clone PC hardware and ran whatever OS they wanted. see theres a reason why apple is a "niche" market. The "nichers" didnt realize that having only one company producing hardware was a bad idea. and now
OT: anyone else getting ALOT of 503 errors?
you kind of have a point but i would really rather spend my time investigating interesting unix bugs and designing and implementing solutions than rebuilding outlook PST files for the 4th time this month. or disinfecting spyware or explaining to a user why they shouldnt ignore the helpful little triangle that says "WARNING: delayed write failed" on their primary hard disk, instead of just ignoring it and bitching that "i lost all their work" because there roaming profile didnt save to the server because their network card is flakey.
sorry that was kind of a run on sentance
"A swift click on a spell checker sure would add a lot of credibility to some whois telling you their code will check your's for it's grammer and spelling."
astounding. so when you run a spell checker over your document it makes you into a better speller? here i was thinking that the worst spellers are the ones who use spell checkers.
oh and its GRAMMAR you stupid newbie. god damnit your an idiot man
" What's wrong with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium/?"
it doesnt exsist?
Do you think the NK government cares about what happens to its citizens? If Kim Jong saw himself losing power, do you not think he would take out at the very least south korea before china slapped him down?
on the same line, do you think there is a 100% chance of bu$h not using the bomb if he felt threatened? never underestimate these "leaders" comitment to being remembered throughout history. Good or bad is merely spin that both countries have used to brainwash the populace. I think america would use the bomb, same as NK, if it felt in the least way threatened and helpless.
we are not talking about sane countries here, and both have brainwashed citizenry who would, if pushed, kill every living thing on the planet to save their glorious ethos.
I am become death destroyer of worlds.