Damnit, you just had to go and say that out in the open didn't you? Now the NSA/. snoop-bots will find that and tomorrow morning there'll be a memo on W's desk, and by noon, we'll be dropping daisy cutters on all the waterways, then send in the 82nd airborne.
"until you can deal with the fundamental dilema that windows users face..."
That's why I am using linux, myself. You see, I don't use 3dmax, I play UT, GIMP has all the imaging power that I really need, and I don't have to play catchup by forking over money ever so many years for a new operating system.
Give developers time, and they'll keep coming up with newer and better things for linux that will maybe not stay on the cutting edge, but will be good enough for a lot of us to sit back laughing every time there's a new windows out, and people are shelving out tons of money just to stay current because the version they have just got its support dropped.
That's not rhetoric, that's sound finance for the majority of the people who use pcs. Shame they don't get it. There's no need for them to fork out one penny for an operating system. Those who just browse the internet, email friend, instant message; they don't need windows, heck they have a computer, just load up ubuntu, run automatix, and bam, Microsoft goes down the shitter. Really, if everyone who uses a pc for the above mentioned things (which is the overwhelming majority of people using pcs), would realize there's no need to run windows, Microsoft be relegated to business systems, and some schools. What's the point in paying for something you don't need?
Anyway, my point is, yeah, you folks need some stuff microsoft has, but linux has more than enough for the majority of the pc owners.... or something, heck, it's late, and I saw you sputtering away being all mean to each other in here and for some reason thought I could come in here and make sense, lol. Guess not. Blah. Gnight.
We were offered the choice of using a voice menu and mail boxes, but opted out because of the nature of our business. If we don't have any electronic interaction, then a call can never be routed to the wrong person, no one can ever claim to have left a message, and the EPD can't jump on us for wiping out half the county. That's in my department, mind you, then there's billing... they use it as a way to NOT answer the phone. But my number is listed as an option, so I get all their calls. So I transfer all them to the director of billing and smile.... (it was her idea to have voice menus down there)
Interesting propaganda links. To think that people actually believe any of that stuff is sickening. All the old dead Nazis are grinning from ear to ear right now over the prospect of all those lies being told and people swallowing them up and Jews looking like the Nazis in the middle east. A long time ago, I always wondered why Israel was acting like Jews, then I started learning more and more about what is really going on. The Arabs are masters at holding your foot in dog poo and making you think you stepped in it. Let Israel fight, and quit getting in their way already!
The wierdest thing I've ever done to a computer to make it work, and I am ashamed to admit it, is to put the Windows Operating System on it. I still don't know why it works once it's up, albeit there seems to be some hit or miss...
Well duh, look what he was doing. If you want to have a cyber cafe, don't get all bent out of shape with the cafe part until you get off the ground. Stick with good service, and plenty of fun. Hey, do you have a swat team or an armed forces base in town? City and county police or sheriff's dept? Hit them up with the idea of having computers they can rent to use for practicing team work, then subtly hint that sheriff Joe Blob said his good old boys can take on the local city cops, then have competition nights! Yep, they'll bring in their spouses and friends, who will consume mass quantities of imbibables. Or how about if there is a local collage with a digital arts class? Get with the teacher about 3d design, maybe have them make maps or something for extra credit. Computer sciences? Mods and new game types. It's there, you just have to be inventive. I want to do this in Rome, Ga, but I'm just too afraid of biting off more than I can handle, myself. One of these days, maybe... but good luck to anyone who tries this.
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Wow, that's harsh, but I agree with you 100 percent. I do use Gimp as much as possible, especially at work because we're too cheap to buy anything, and I need to do image enhancement quite often. It takes a while to learn, but once you get the knack for it... you wish someone would make it easier, because you realize you just wasted weeks and weeks learning something that ought to have been more intuitive.
And the comments by propellor heads against such reasoning just goes to show you that book learning don't mean a feller's all that smart.:)
You're kidding, right? What do you think caused the ebb and flow of ice ages over the eons? As I have stated before, my 6th grade teacher warned us all about this back in the 60s. She said were on the warming up side of things, and that there would be years when we would not see snowfall here. She was right, we haven't had a good snow in 8 years. When I was a kid, we had one or two a year. But she also said that it was all cyclical in nature, and would go back to cooling again.
Question is, when? There have been times when the earth was a solid chuck of ice for ages, and other times when it was a barren desert for ages. Are we headed into one of these, or is this just a small scale warming trend? Who knows, but imho we need to find a way to erect a solar shade or something just case. (I have been so afraid to say that for years in fear of being tagged nuttier than I aleady am)
But pollution is bad, so we ought to be doing something about it anyway without people thinking that we have offended the weather gods and trying to appease them being the driving force. Clean air and water are things we should demand.
From reading slashdot threads for a few years now, it has become evident as to why Europeans invented the concept of the TROLL. What is that, like a continental mascot?
The weather's hot.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
The weather's cold.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
... um, the sky is blue.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
... okay, your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberrys.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
and on and on and on ad infinitum. I see why my ancestors left now.
Nice. A gazillion more wires in America than any other place on the planet, and all you Einsteins out there taking pot shots at us at every turn. Perhaps there's way more development going on here than other places, too, therefore there's a higher likely hood that incidents will occur. Nice bit of trolling, thank you for your inept response.
Argentina went totally wireless back in the 90s didnt they? It's a legitimate question, and all of the issues you bring up are solvable. That is if you keep your head out of the sand.
I can tell you why they should not be buried underground: utility cuts.
Put fiber optics underground, and no matter how well you try, someone is going to hit them. Whether by contractor laziness/mistake, or due to utility locates being off by more than 20 feet, it's going to happen. Also, you have the problem of lazy install contractors who will find the softest dirt, and bury fiber optics right smack dab on top of existing utilities. And repairing overhead is more cost efficient than repairing underground utilities. I work in this field, so I know what I'm talking about.
In my opinion, string that garbage up in the air where it can be seen, and make a "treefall" zone around any above ground utility (nothing shall remain standing that can at any time fall and interupt service. There are plenty of trees, and what would be cut can be replaced).
Why do we use fiber optics anyway when there's wireless? The only thing that should be in the ground are gas, storm drains, and water and sewer lines.
This experiment in burying wires has gone on long enough, time for it to end.
You do of course realize that there are non God believers who think homosexuality is stupid and make sport of the fairier sex? (fairier, lmao, I made a funny) Nice knee jerk, there, one dimensional thinking turd.
(I can't believe I just flamed on/. but I had to do it)
Bingo. What is that pretentious little tart doing unsupervised on the internet in the first place? Did her mum not explain to her that one must be lame beyond pale to strike up relationships with the other sex over the internet? Predators, hello? Myspace ought to sue her mother for bearing children.
On my computer (I'm sorry, the government's computer) at work, just to tick the I(dio)T folks off, I renamed my "my computer" to "IT Blocker". Probably never noticed it though.
I've found that, since the phone modem days, that if someone complains about slow speeds and the computer doesn't seem to be the problem, that the wiring/connections is usually at fault. People would rant on and on about what a horrid service they were getting when in actuality it was usually loose nuts at the jack (no sexual innuendo intended) or old encrusted wiring.
Verify that the wiring connections are clean (not black and corroded, but shiny), and that "between your interface on the outside of the house and the computer" that the wire is as short a run as is physically possible, and that if not new, then that all connections are as I said shiny.
New phone jacks, new wires, wires tighly secured; you'd be amazed at how a good solid connection will enhance your online experience.
Sad thing is, this "good wiring practice" is often times the one thing most people overlook. (same goes for cable, too, btw)
The biggest problem in education is the lack of educators and teachers. We employ too many people who think they need only instruct people and let them learn on their own. I was ADD back before anyone knew what it was, and I totally lost interest in school because I ran into teachers who said I wasn't trying, that I needed to memorize stuff and quit trying to understand "why". These people work for 180 days a year for way over 30K, and don't try to do what is expected of them.
When I was in 6th grade back in the 60s, our teacher, Mrs. Newton, said that because we were between glacial epochs, that we would be more than likely to see, in our lifetime, temperatures rise significantly. She then went on to postulate on how mankind would probably come up with some way to out some solar tent or reflector in space to ward off some of the sun's rays, and that it would have more catestrophic effects than the warming trend would. I saw her a while back, and she pish poshed the whole "mankind is causing global warming" thing, and said that just when things turn around will coincide with a culmination of the efforts made by man to curb pollutants (which is a good thing anyway), and man would claim triumph over the weather Gods.
Solar activity is at a record high, we just got out of an ice age in the early 1800s, and there's not been a decent volcano eruption in ages. Yet Man, in his infinite wisdom, pulls a typical man-stunt, and thinks that he can appease the weather gods by cleaning up his act and bring about less warmth. Yay. I can see it now when the cycle tilts back towards cooler times, after all has been done to clean up the air, man will claim a victory. It's like sitting at a red light for ever, and deciding to edge forward... suddenly the light changes, and you are now positive that you influenced the light to change. Too much sun, not enough sun, too much pollution, not enough pollution. Looks to me like they are bracketting the target looking for a hit if you ask me. Surely it's gotta be ONE of those explanations...
That said, please allow me to state that I am all for getting off of fossil fuels and cleaning up the air and water.
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Yay, they caught up with linux. Maybe.
OMG, it's the dreaded Y2K*8388.608 bug!
Where's censorship when it's truly needed?
That's why I am using linux, myself. You see, I don't use 3dmax, I play UT, GIMP has all the imaging power that I really need, and I don't have to play catchup by forking over money ever so many years for a new operating system.
Give developers time, and they'll keep coming up with newer and better things for linux that will maybe not stay on the cutting edge, but will be good enough for a lot of us to sit back laughing every time there's a new windows out, and people are shelving out tons of money just to stay current because the version they have just got its support dropped.
That's not rhetoric, that's sound finance for the majority of the people who use pcs. Shame they don't get it. There's no need for them to fork out one penny for an operating system. Those who just browse the internet, email friend, instant message; they don't need windows, heck they have a computer, just load up ubuntu, run automatix, and bam, Microsoft goes down the shitter. Really, if everyone who uses a pc for the above mentioned things (which is the overwhelming majority of people using pcs), would realize there's no need to run windows, Microsoft be relegated to business systems, and some schools. What's the point in paying for something you don't need?
Anyway, my point is, yeah, you folks need some stuff microsoft has, but linux has more than enough for the majority of the pc owners. ... or something, heck, it's late, and I saw you sputtering away being all mean to each other in here and for some reason thought I could come in here and make sense, lol. Guess not. Blah. Gnight.
Slap them with humanity! I love it. I agree with your installation instructions. Very concise.
Bah, I'm using Ubuntu anyway. Microflop can keep their viruses and bsods for all I care.
We were offered the choice of using a voice menu and mail boxes, but opted out because of the nature of our business. If we don't have any electronic interaction, then a call can never be routed to the wrong person, no one can ever claim to have left a message, and the EPD can't jump on us for wiping out half the county. That's in my department, mind you, then there's billing... they use it as a way to NOT answer the phone. But my number is listed as an option, so I get all their calls. So I transfer all them to the director of billing and smile.... (it was her idea to have voice menus down there)
Interesting propaganda links. To think that people actually believe any of that stuff is sickening. All the old dead Nazis are grinning from ear to ear right now over the prospect of all those lies being told and people swallowing them up and Jews looking like the Nazis in the middle east. A long time ago, I always wondered why Israel was acting like Jews, then I started learning more and more about what is really going on. The Arabs are masters at holding your foot in dog poo and making you think you stepped in it. Let Israel fight, and quit getting in their way already!
Well, think about it. They'll nuke the gays... and the jews... and you and me.
The wierdest thing I've ever done to a computer to make it work, and I am ashamed to admit it, is to put the Windows Operating System on it. I still don't know why it works once it's up, albeit there seems to be some hit or miss...
Well duh, look what he was doing. If you want to have a cyber cafe, don't get all bent out of shape with the cafe part until you get off the ground. Stick with good service, and plenty of fun. Hey, do you have a swat team or an armed forces base in town? City and county police or sheriff's dept? Hit them up with the idea of having computers they can rent to use for practicing team work, then subtly hint that sheriff Joe Blob said his good old boys can take on the local city cops, then have competition nights! Yep, they'll bring in their spouses and friends, who will consume mass quantities of imbibables. Or how about if there is a local collage with a digital arts class? Get with the teacher about 3d design, maybe have them make maps or something for extra credit. Computer sciences? Mods and new game types. It's there, you just have to be inventive. I want to do this in Rome, Ga, but I'm just too afraid of biting off more than I can handle, myself. One of these days, maybe... but good luck to anyone who tries this.
And the comments by propellor heads against such reasoning just goes to show you that book learning don't mean a feller's all that smart. :)
Question is, when? There have been times when the earth was a solid chuck of ice for ages, and other times when it was a barren desert for ages. Are we headed into one of these, or is this just a small scale warming trend? Who knows, but imho we need to find a way to erect a solar shade or something just case. (I have been so afraid to say that for years in fear of being tagged nuttier than I aleady am)
But pollution is bad, so we ought to be doing something about it anyway without people thinking that we have offended the weather gods and trying to appease them being the driving force. Clean air and water are things we should demand.
The weather's hot.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
The weather's cold.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
Eet ees because joo Uhmericahns air so eenfeeriar.
and on and on and on ad infinitum. I see why my ancestors left now.
Argentina went totally wireless back in the 90s didnt they? It's a legitimate question, and all of the issues you bring up are solvable. That is if you keep your head out of the sand.
Put fiber optics underground, and no matter how well you try, someone is going to hit them. Whether by contractor laziness/mistake, or due to utility locates being off by more than 20 feet, it's going to happen. Also, you have the problem of lazy install contractors who will find the softest dirt, and bury fiber optics right smack dab on top of existing utilities. And repairing overhead is more cost efficient than repairing underground utilities. I work in this field, so I know what I'm talking about.
In my opinion, string that garbage up in the air where it can be seen, and make a "treefall" zone around any above ground utility (nothing shall remain standing that can at any time fall and interupt service. There are plenty of trees, and what would be cut can be replaced).
Why do we use fiber optics anyway when there's wireless? The only thing that should be in the ground are gas, storm drains, and water and sewer lines.
This experiment in burying wires has gone on long enough, time for it to end.
You do of course realize that there are non God believers who think homosexuality is stupid and make sport of the fairier sex? (fairier, lmao, I made a funny) Nice knee jerk, there, one dimensional thinking turd. (I can't believe I just flamed on /. but I had to do it)
Bingo. What is that pretentious little tart doing unsupervised on the internet in the first place? Did her mum not explain to her that one must be lame beyond pale to strike up relationships with the other sex over the internet? Predators, hello? Myspace ought to sue her mother for bearing children.
On my computer (I'm sorry, the government's computer) at work, just to tick the I(dio)T folks off, I renamed my "my computer" to "IT Blocker". Probably never noticed it though.
Verify that the wiring connections are clean (not black and corroded, but shiny), and that "between your interface on the outside of the house and the computer" that the wire is as short a run as is physically possible, and that if not new, then that all connections are as I said shiny.
New phone jacks, new wires, wires tighly secured; you'd be amazed at how a good solid connection will enhance your online experience.
Sad thing is, this "good wiring practice" is often times the one thing most people overlook. (same goes for cable, too, btw)
The biggest problem in education is the lack of educators and teachers. We employ too many people who think they need only instruct people and let them learn on their own. I was ADD back before anyone knew what it was, and I totally lost interest in school because I ran into teachers who said I wasn't trying, that I needed to memorize stuff and quit trying to understand "why". These people work for 180 days a year for way over 30K, and don't try to do what is expected of them.
When I was in 6th grade back in the 60s, our teacher, Mrs. Newton, said that because we were between glacial epochs, that we would be more than likely to see, in our lifetime, temperatures rise significantly. She then went on to postulate on how mankind would probably come up with some way to out some solar tent or reflector in space to ward off some of the sun's rays, and that it would have more catestrophic effects than the warming trend would. I saw her a while back, and she pish poshed the whole "mankind is causing global warming" thing, and said that just when things turn around will coincide with a culmination of the efforts made by man to curb pollutants (which is a good thing anyway), and man would claim triumph over the weather Gods.
That said, please allow me to state that I am all for getting off of fossil fuels and cleaning up the air and water.
I just saw these two over at the UT General Discussion forums at Atari: http://gprime.net/video.php/sonyrevolution (sony revolution)and http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=iVI6xw9Zph8&fea ture=PlayList&p=98B15976635B28C2 (talk about desktop eyecandy!!!
seriously, in my opinion, IT would be the last thing in the world I would want to do in the computer industry.