What's so uncool about that? If everybody uses it as a 'protest' feature it will flood the vendors with complaints.
In some ways, it's similar to a trick I pulled when someone at work started putting their initials on Semiconductor data books. He 'claimed' the manuals that vendors had delivered and wanted nobody else to remove them from his area. He did this by marking the book edge with his initials.
So I quietly put his initials on every databook and manual I could find anywhere in the company. They all then had his initials and the ones he 'claimed' were indistinguisable from any others.
If George Walker Bush had been in power during Dubya's campaign, and Dubya had used the White House as a springboard and resource to launch his campaign, your comparision would have more credibility.
Hillary is as legitimate a Senator for New York as Alan Keyes would be for Illinois. And about as politically extreme (to the opposite pole, though).
Dunno about the 'fixation on Hillary' thing, tho. Lots of people seem to hate her. The demagogery about her is fairly comparable to a similar frenzy whipped up about the current President Bush.
For years I was unable to listen to the White Album. "Martha My Dear" had developed a bad skip in it, and since the White Album is something that has to be listened to straight through (with delays to flip the LP disks) I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
Thank goodness the Public Library had a CD copy that I recently checked out and duped.
I posted some strong opinions once on a Slashdot account where I had my email address exposed.
That email account is pretty much worthless now. Nothing of the kind has EVER happened due to all the USENET posts I have made with a public email address.
There are some some really nasty and hostile elements involved in the threads on this site. It's a serious mistake to reveal an email address if you have any strongly held opinions.
A considerable number of the 'insurgents' are also foreign invaders. The whole Iraq conflict has drawn in Islamic extremists from all over the world. It's another Chechnya in that regard.
And until they butt out, it will remain problematic who should be forced to leave first.
Not to cast any negative vibes, but 'install it, rip it out, install something else, rip it out' practices are a lot of PC Techs' bread-and-butter.
Not saying it's good or bad (psst. actually it's BAD, Microsoft's bad, specifically). But most people don't 'tweak' that way, and have essentially fairly stable systems as a result.
You're pretty safe, even with a gateway setting. The IE v.2 that comes preinstalled on NT4 won't even load Microsoft's website anymore, to download a newer version of IE.
You're right. If Star Trek hadn't made the mistake of making a TV Show, all the paperbacks and Souvineer LPs and stuff would have been far more successful.
Or, perhaps this will be representatives of an unelected body, like the EU, where the second-stringers of Europe (who can't win an election in their own Nation) tend to appoint themselves.
The maddening thing is that the attempt to find a clear winner through measurement was given up too early and abandoned to the procedurists.
By necessity, indeed by law, the method of voting and vote-counting is a written procedure. That all sorts of 'pundits' showed up and tried to fiddle with and tweak the process after the fact was the entire problem.
The last thing we need is for a precedent to be set where stasticians diddle with the numbers afterward in the name of some nebulous 'the will of the people.'
Furthermore, Al Gore lost the election when he couldn't even carry his home state. If he'd had the Tennessee votes the Florica electors would have been irrelevant.
No. This is the United States. As much power as possible should be distributed at the State level. Actually, as much power as possible should fall down to the local level.
That's how the Constitution is set up. The most populous states can run the government in their state the way they like.
I used to budget things that way. I said I would never buy a non-clone (proprietary footprint) system.
But then I started buying skid lots of used Dell Optiplexes at auction. I paid about 80 cents apiece for the machines I current use for my main desktops now. I say desktops in plural, because a 4-way KVM switch is a geek's best friend.
If I have a 'challanging' task for a machine, I stick it over on machine 3 and let it churn there.
And these $0.80 machines play the games I use as a diversion (Diablo II occasionally, etc.) with no problem at all.
All that Fisher-Price GUI layering adds little or no functionality. I'm not saying we should all be using Trident Chipset ISA video cards, but there seems to be a contingent of 'fans' who chase after something that's pretty illusory.
There's very little non-game software that requires those cards. I can remember the $1-2K cards people bought to run Cad programs back in the 80's. That level of performance often comes embedded right into the motherboard on current systems.
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Oops, typo. It's a 2-1/2" SCSI drive.
Rare as hens' teeth today.
I checked, and the hard drive in my PowerBook 165c is a 3-1/2" SCSI drive.
So much for a hard drive upgrade. Good luck finding a SCSI laptop drive at any reasonable cost.
I guess my PowerBook will just remain as it is.
The introduction of man made ozone would be of little consequence as it couldnt be done a scale necessary to offset the CFC destruction.
Perhaps the same can be said about the introduction of man made ozone depleting chemicals.
The jury is still out on this. Meanwhile, let's smash some Western Civilization, just in case.
What's so uncool about that? If everybody uses it as a 'protest' feature it will flood the vendors with complaints.
In some ways, it's similar to a trick I pulled when someone at work started putting their initials on Semiconductor data books. He 'claimed' the manuals that vendors had delivered and wanted nobody else to remove them from his area. He did this by marking the book edge with his initials.
So I quietly put his initials on every databook and manual I could find anywhere in the company. They all then had his initials and the ones he 'claimed' were indistinguisable from any others.
In other ways it's not similar, of course.
If George Walker Bush had been in power during Dubya's campaign, and Dubya had used the White House as a springboard and resource to launch his campaign, your comparision would have more credibility.
Hillary is as legitimate a Senator for New York as Alan Keyes would be for Illinois. And about as politically extreme (to the opposite pole, though).
Dunno about the 'fixation on Hillary' thing, tho. Lots of people seem to hate her. The demagogery about her is fairly comparable to a similar frenzy whipped up about the current President Bush.
Actually, I prefer the Yoko 'Plastic Ono Band' album to the John one. (there are two, most people have never heard Yoko's)
For years I was unable to listen to the White Album. "Martha My Dear" had developed a bad skip in it, and since the White Album is something that has to be listened to straight through (with delays to flip the LP disks) I just couldn't listen to it anymore.
Thank goodness the Public Library had a CD copy that I recently checked out and duped.
I posted some strong opinions once on a Slashdot account where I had my email address exposed.
That email account is pretty much worthless now. Nothing of the kind has EVER happened due to all the USENET posts I have made with a public email address.
There are some some really nasty and hostile elements involved in the threads on this site. It's a serious mistake to reveal an email address if you have any strongly held opinions.
The free flow of information.
Without a bunch of plutonium it's just information. Which 'wants to be free.'
A considerable number of the 'insurgents' are also foreign invaders. The whole Iraq conflict has drawn in Islamic extremists from all over the world. It's another Chechnya in that regard.
And until they butt out, it will remain problematic who should be forced to leave first.
No other administration in history has used the White House as a springboard to get the First Lady into the Senate, however.
Not to cast any negative vibes, but 'install it, rip it out, install something else, rip it out' practices are a lot of PC Techs' bread-and-butter.
Not saying it's good or bad (psst. actually it's BAD, Microsoft's bad, specifically). But most people don't 'tweak' that way, and have essentially fairly stable systems as a result.
Original IE which is never used.
You're pretty safe, even with a gateway setting. The IE v.2 that comes preinstalled on NT4 won't even load Microsoft's website anymore, to download a newer version of IE.
You're right. If Star Trek hadn't made the mistake of making a TV Show, all the paperbacks and Souvineer LPs and stuff would have been far more successful.
That just means the battery will be completely forgotten, while absolutlely essential, by the time it expires.
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Believe me, thats how things work. .
Or, perhaps this will be representatives of an unelected body, like the EU, where the second-stringers of Europe (who can't win an election in their own Nation) tend to appoint themselves.
The maddening thing is that the attempt to find a clear winner through measurement was given up too early and abandoned to the procedurists.
By necessity, indeed by law, the method of voting and vote-counting is a written procedure. That all sorts of 'pundits' showed up and tried to fiddle with and tweak the process after the fact was the entire problem.
The last thing we need is for a precedent to be set where stasticians diddle with the numbers afterward in the name of some nebulous 'the will of the people.'
Furthermore, Al Gore lost the election when he couldn't even carry his home state. If he'd had the Tennessee votes the Florica electors would have been irrelevant.
How is the average voter supposed to know how their vote is counted?
By, perhaps, participating in the local/state process???
Why are people so disturbed that the whole thing isn't as uniform and Nation-wide as MTV or the Emmy Awards? Why should it be?
4. The Democrats are defeated in a huge landslide in 2008, because their 'usual tricks*' don't work anymore.
(*all that tricky shit with busses full of 'get out the vote' drones cloaked as 'populism', the Chicago machine, the New York machine, etc.)
A Gore administration would have airlifted in all the engineering drawings for the US Survellience Plane to China, as an act of atonement.
Not so sure what would have happened after that...
No. This is the United States. As much power as possible should be distributed at the State level. Actually, as much power as possible should fall down to the local level.
That's how the Constitution is set up. The most populous states can run the government in their state the way they like.
I used to budget things that way. I said I would never buy a non-clone (proprietary footprint) system.
But then I started buying skid lots of used Dell Optiplexes at auction. I paid about 80 cents apiece for the machines I current use for my main desktops now. I say desktops in plural, because a 4-way KVM switch is a geek's best friend.
If I have a 'challanging' task for a machine, I stick it over on machine 3 and let it churn there.
And these $0.80 machines play the games I use as a diversion (Diablo II occasionally, etc.) with no problem at all.
The guy in Mississippi probably makes his own music, and is probably pretty happy doing so.
Computer software gets better and more demanding.
Only for certain values of 'better'.
All that Fisher-Price GUI layering adds little or no functionality. I'm not saying we should all be using Trident Chipset ISA video cards, but there seems to be a contingent of 'fans' who chase after something that's pretty illusory.
They are talking about gaming video cards.
There's very little non-game software that requires those cards. I can remember the $1-2K cards people bought to run Cad programs back in the 80's. That level of performance often comes embedded right into the motherboard on current systems.