The only reason I use Skype is because it's free. And if they ever start using it as a platform to push ads I'll be dropping it. I'll use Ventrilo or something similar, or go back to AIM since most of my communications using Skype are just normal text IMs.
Also, the Skype linux client SUCKS, they're really letting it lag behind the Windows version.
If your machine is relatively new, it may even run faster than XP would because Vista is better at using your RAM to cache programs. Every animation and effect can be disabled until you're back to what looks like XP. Most of the new stuff they added to the GUI is pleasing and useful though, the only thing I turn off is the transparency.
Except the post-invasion deaths in Iraq are their own fault. It's mostly Muslim on Muslim violence--admittedly, allowed to happen by the Bush admin's botched invasion and post-war strategy for reconstruction, but I've already said I don't support the war in Iraq or Bush. If a country is a theocracy, that makes me worried about them having nuclear weapons. I start to think, maybe they're not so concerned with the repercussions of their actions HERE as they are with them in the afterlife (that doesn't exist, or, at least not for all of us as with their view of Islam). The lesson the world should take from this whole mess is, you try and get nukes, expect the full fury of the American military to come down on you like a sledgehammer to stop that from happening. The Iraq debacle proved that some people don't even need PROOF that you're trying to get nukes, a suspicion was all Bush and Co. had, and when the rest of the world refused we nearly unilaterally invaded Iraq anyway. As much as it sucks, that's the history of it so far.
There wouldn't be a problem if Iran dropped it's nuclear ambitions. They're refusing to do so. We can avoid all out war this time around if we engaged Iran diplomatically, but Bush is refusing to do that. I only hope the next President will turn things around.
The average computer I own lasts for around...forever (so far). Before I bought a new laptop last year I was using one I got in 2000. That one still works too, so the clock is still going on its life--nearly 8 years. Hell, desktops I bought BEFORE 2000 are still running strong (but not with windows), serving files, routing packets, various other things. Your second point; I've never bought anti-virus/security/firewall software before, and I've never had any problems. Free solutions exist if you need them, but I do fine just not being a dumbass and practicing some common sense when it comes to security. OSX is a nice OS, I'd definitely run it on at least one machine if I could install it on computers I build myself. As long as I have to pay the Apple luxury hardware tax for the "privilege" to run their OS, I'll stick with Windows and Linux.
Macs are still more expensive for the same spec system.
I own licenses for all mine (two) but the installs are technically illegal because it just ended up being easier to deal with. I'm not unhappy with it. With aero turned off and all the features that I don't use disabled it runs faster than XP (I do the same with XP, classic interface + most background services disabled). It seems like programs launch faster and everything feels more responsive.
Ultimately the commander-in-chief assumes the responsibilities as the highest military leader of our armed forces. I'm merely saying the deaths are not considered murders. Call them what they are, casualties of an all volunteer military at the command of a Democratic government that answers to the people.
US military causalities are by no stretch of the imagination considered to be murders. I oppose the war completely, but you're really being ridiculous and needlessly confusing the debate with hyperbole when you talk like this.
you want to forbid Iran to have a nuclear programme? Precisely.
A sizeable part of the world's population also is unsure of which leader of the two countries in question is the more evil dictator. That sizeable part is more like the lunatic fringe such as and including, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. There isn't anyone seriously questioning if the US is more credible than Iran. I'm sure you can find protest groups and fringe movements in nearly every country INCLUDING the US but no one is listening to these people or taking them seriously.
The real problem about it is the feeling that you have the RIGHT to forbid another country from having a nuclear programme. We have a right to protect our people from harm. I draw a direct line from Iran developing a nuclear program and US citizens being put in danger. Therefore, yes we in fact do have a right to stop them.
Basically, if we hadn't fucked with them arabs for years I'd bet we wouldn't have to be scared of them now. It's like the school bully who torments those weaker than him for two years and hiding the third when the others are fed up with him and start working together to pay him back. I completely agree.
And for the record, I'm not a Republican, and don't support the President on anything, including the war in Iraq. The Bush administrations stance of not engaging Iran in diplomacy is backwards and counterproductive. That doesn't mean I don't take the threat Iran poses seriously though.
The part where I'm an atheist advocating a slow, peaceful, and voluntary stabilization and eventual reduction of the birthrate to bring population levels back under control. That's where I'd begin.
If you throw white phosphorous and napalm under the chemical weapon boogie-man umbrella then you have to include every weapon that explodes. Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and cyclonite (C-4) are as much chemicals as WP and Napalm. Sorry to rain on your US-bashing parade.
We used them TWICE over a half century ago in a war against another nation state, and only when we were in the most dire of need to find a solution that wouldn't have slaughtered countless millions of not just our own soldiers, but Japanese as well. I guess what the rest of the world hates is that we're able to do the math. 100,000 or 10 million? And we're not afraid to make those kinds of decisions when we have to. Frankly, I don't trust Iran not to develop and then export either the components themselves, or the scientists and materials needed to make them to other states or groups that could strike the United States or our interests overseas. The restraints we have in place (it begins with secular Democracy) don't exist in Iran. Excuse me for not trusting a mad religious crack-pot dictator with an apocalyptic world view not to use a nuclear program to leverage his position in the world, and intimidate or harm "the great Satan".
Specifically the advances in medical tech and body armor. Wounds that would have been fatal in previous wars are only leaving our soldiers horribly scared and maimed, but they do live (You can debate if that's a worse fate though). While your chances of coming back have increased, your chances of coming back whole aren't so good for those that do get wounded.
Right, it would never work in the USA. If only there was somewayto get the word out before we started doing it. Maybe even provide a way for people to use the internet for free if they don't have access at home. Then there's the apathy, why the hell would people care about having a say in the laws they'll be required to obey?
Way too impractical for the US. Democracy is better off left in the capable hands of our trustworthy and honorable representatives in Washington.
If even one library survives, you've pretty much got enough knowledge there to do whatever you want. Eventually. The problem is, even simple electronic components like the 8088 represent more man-hours of total development than you could contribute in your entire lifetime working alone. Simple things like guns though, those actually aren't very difficult to understand and make (at least simple ones). Either way, I'm sure the WW-IV soldier will be able to do better than simple sticks and stones, it's instantly apparent to everyone that you could combine them;) I'd even go so far as to say that doesn't even require any teaching or previous knowledge of that implement, we're natural tool builders.
OEM keys require OEM installation media. Regardless of version of Vista, he's going to need to find a DVD (or the ISO made from one) that was shipped with a new computer from the OEM. Usually schools or businesses have pretty clean copies. I took a Dell XP Pro SP2 CD from my school it was a clean install with just an extra DELL folder on the C drive with a few extra things, I deleted it without consequence. As for drivers, I've got a downloaded Vista DVD I use to install for new computers (because of the bloat and crapware they install) and I've never had it fail to detect every piece of hardware automatically. And after install, as soon as I plug in a piece of hardware vista detects it, installs or downloads and installs the right drivers and it's working in a few seconds. The driver situation is much better than XP was or is, I don't understand why people always single that out. It's a big improvement.
Even if you can find an ISO, your key won't work for that version. Shhhh! Don't say that too loud, I don't want my XP systems to hear you and spontaneously deactivate!:P
Seriously though, for XP at least, as long as you have an OEM ISO or CD (I stole one from school (; ) you can use any OEM CD key to install it with. I had a computer with XP MCE and using a Dell XP Pro SP2 CD was able to install and activate the Dell OEM copy with the MCE Key that came with the computer. I would have done the same thing with my Vista installations, but I just use an OEM bios crack because it's actually a lot simpler (imagine that, hacked version easier than the legit way).
Buy from a different OEM? Demand proper installation media? Hell, just download the ISO and use your CD key to install that version. Most of these are above or beyond the abilities or even imagination of most people so yeah I do understand where you're coming from. I'm just not going to blame MS for the bad business practices of other companies (they have plenty of their own bad business practices I can blame them for!).
That all sounds good, but right now our hardware is way ahead of the software. The programs and operating systems aren't smart enough to make full use of the extra cores in the way you describe to get the real performance boosts that are possible. I'm sure that will change as dual and quad core processors become more and more common and eventually standard.
To be fair, that's probably the fault of the OEM you bought from loading tons of crap and free offers on top of the system. A clean install of Vista Ultimate on an Aspire 5100 (1GB RAM) works just fine for me performance wise and I like it. I'm seriously doubting your claim of a 6 minute boot time too. Something is definitely wrong if you weren't exaggerating, and it's not with Vista.
I always agreed with this way of thinking. You choose how your own emotions are manifested. When I was taking German in high school I found it interesting how you construct a sentence similar to, "That makes me mad.", literally you say I anger myself over/about that. I just thought it was cool that they sort of had personal responsibility built into their language. Although they have a habit of using passive voice (the house IS BEING built, mistakes WERE made, etc) to describe things they do so that probably makes up for it.
Censorship is always more offensive than what you're trying to censor. Always.
Words, ideas, thoughts, are inherently amoral; they are merely as powerful or as useful as the meaning we attach to them.
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The only reason I use Skype is because it's free. And if they ever start using it as a platform to push ads I'll be dropping it. I'll use Ventrilo or something similar, or go back to AIM since most of my communications using Skype are just normal text IMs.
Also, the Skype linux client SUCKS, they're really letting it lag behind the Windows version.
If your machine is relatively new, it may even run faster than XP would because Vista is better at using your RAM to cache programs. Every animation and effect can be disabled until you're back to what looks like XP. Most of the new stuff they added to the GUI is pleasing and useful though, the only thing I turn off is the transparency.
In an e-mail? How impersonal. That's really something that should be done over the phone, or at least in an IM.
You think they're kissing other men?
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Except the post-invasion deaths in Iraq are their own fault. It's mostly Muslim on Muslim violence--admittedly, allowed to happen by the Bush admin's botched invasion and post-war strategy for reconstruction, but I've already said I don't support the war in Iraq or Bush. If a country is a theocracy, that makes me worried about them having nuclear weapons. I start to think, maybe they're not so concerned with the repercussions of their actions HERE as they are with them in the afterlife (that doesn't exist, or, at least not for all of us as with their view of Islam). The lesson the world should take from this whole mess is, you try and get nukes, expect the full fury of the American military to come down on you like a sledgehammer to stop that from happening. The Iraq debacle proved that some people don't even need PROOF that you're trying to get nukes, a suspicion was all Bush and Co. had, and when the rest of the world refused we nearly unilaterally invaded Iraq anyway. As much as it sucks, that's the history of it so far.
There wouldn't be a problem if Iran dropped it's nuclear ambitions. They're refusing to do so. We can avoid all out war this time around if we engaged Iran diplomatically, but Bush is refusing to do that. I only hope the next President will turn things around.
The average computer I own lasts for around...forever (so far). Before I bought a new laptop last year I was using one I got in 2000. That one still works too, so the clock is still going on its life--nearly 8 years. Hell, desktops I bought BEFORE 2000 are still running strong (but not with windows), serving files, routing packets, various other things. Your second point; I've never bought anti-virus/security/firewall software before, and I've never had any problems. Free solutions exist if you need them, but I do fine just not being a dumbass and practicing some common sense when it comes to security. OSX is a nice OS, I'd definitely run it on at least one machine if I could install it on computers I build myself. As long as I have to pay the Apple luxury hardware tax for the "privilege" to run their OS, I'll stick with Windows and Linux.
Macs are still more expensive for the same spec system.
I own licenses for all mine (two) but the installs are technically illegal because it just ended up being easier to deal with. I'm not unhappy with it. With aero turned off and all the features that I don't use disabled it runs faster than XP (I do the same with XP, classic interface + most background services disabled). It seems like programs launch faster and everything feels more responsive.
Ultimately the commander-in-chief assumes the responsibilities as the highest military leader of our armed forces. I'm merely saying the deaths are not considered murders. Call them what they are, casualties of an all volunteer military at the command of a Democratic government that answers to the people.
US military causalities are by no stretch of the imagination considered to be murders. I oppose the war completely, but you're really being ridiculous and needlessly confusing the debate with hyperbole when you talk like this.
The part where I'm an atheist advocating a slow, peaceful, and voluntary stabilization and eventual reduction of the birthrate to bring population levels back under control. That's where I'd begin.
If you throw white phosphorous and napalm under the chemical weapon boogie-man umbrella then you have to include every weapon that explodes. Trinitrotoluene (TNT) and cyclonite (C-4) are as much chemicals as WP and Napalm. Sorry to rain on your US-bashing parade.
We used them TWICE over a half century ago in a war against another nation state, and only when we were in the most dire of need to find a solution that wouldn't have slaughtered countless millions of not just our own soldiers, but Japanese as well. I guess what the rest of the world hates is that we're able to do the math. 100,000 or 10 million? And we're not afraid to make those kinds of decisions when we have to. Frankly, I don't trust Iran not to develop and then export either the components themselves, or the scientists and materials needed to make them to other states or groups that could strike the United States or our interests overseas. The restraints we have in place (it begins with secular Democracy) don't exist in Iran. Excuse me for not trusting a mad religious crack-pot dictator with an apocalyptic world view not to use a nuclear program to leverage his position in the world, and intimidate or harm "the great Satan".
Specifically the advances in medical tech and body armor. Wounds that would have been fatal in previous wars are only leaving our soldiers horribly scared and maimed, but they do live (You can debate if that's a worse fate though). While your chances of coming back have increased, your chances of coming back whole aren't so good for those that do get wounded.
Right, it would never work in the USA. If only there was some way to get the word out before we started doing it. Maybe even provide a way for people to use the internet for free if they don't have access at home. Then there's the apathy, why the hell would people care about having a say in the laws they'll be required to obey?
Way too impractical for the US. Democracy is better off left in the capable hands of our trustworthy and honorable representatives in Washington.
If even one library survives, you've pretty much got enough knowledge there to do whatever you want. Eventually. The problem is, even simple electronic components like the 8088 represent more man-hours of total development than you could contribute in your entire lifetime working alone. Simple things like guns though, those actually aren't very difficult to understand and make (at least simple ones). Either way, I'm sure the WW-IV soldier will be able to do better than simple sticks and stones, it's instantly apparent to everyone that you could combine them ;) I'd even go so far as to say that doesn't even require any teaching or previous knowledge of that implement, we're natural tool builders.
Isn't he also like 9 feet tall with bones as dense as steel?
OEM keys require OEM installation media. Regardless of version of Vista, he's going to need to find a DVD (or the ISO made from one) that was shipped with a new computer from the OEM. Usually schools or businesses have pretty clean copies. I took a Dell XP Pro SP2 CD from my school it was a clean install with just an extra DELL folder on the C drive with a few extra things, I deleted it without consequence. As for drivers, I've got a downloaded Vista DVD I use to install for new computers (because of the bloat and crapware they install) and I've never had it fail to detect every piece of hardware automatically. And after install, as soon as I plug in a piece of hardware vista detects it, installs or downloads and installs the right drivers and it's working in a few seconds. The driver situation is much better than XP was or is, I don't understand why people always single that out. It's a big improvement.
Seriously though, for XP at least, as long as you have an OEM ISO or CD (I stole one from school (; ) you can use any OEM CD key to install it with. I had a computer with XP MCE and using a Dell XP Pro SP2 CD was able to install and activate the Dell OEM copy with the MCE Key that came with the computer. I would have done the same thing with my Vista installations, but I just use an OEM bios crack because it's actually a lot simpler (imagine that, hacked version easier than the legit way).
Buy from a different OEM? Demand proper installation media? Hell, just download the ISO and use your CD key to install that version. Most of these are above or beyond the abilities or even imagination of most people so yeah I do understand where you're coming from. I'm just not going to blame MS for the bad business practices of other companies (they have plenty of their own bad business practices I can blame them for!).
That all sounds good, but right now our hardware is way ahead of the software. The programs and operating systems aren't smart enough to make full use of the extra cores in the way you describe to get the real performance boosts that are possible. I'm sure that will change as dual and quad core processors become more and more common and eventually standard.
To be fair, that's probably the fault of the OEM you bought from loading tons of crap and free offers on top of the system. A clean install of Vista Ultimate on an Aspire 5100 (1GB RAM) works just fine for me performance wise and I like it. I'm seriously doubting your claim of a 6 minute boot time too. Something is definitely wrong if you weren't exaggerating, and it's not with Vista.
I always agreed with this way of thinking. You choose how your own emotions are manifested. When I was taking German in high school I found it interesting how you construct a sentence similar to, "That makes me mad.", literally you say I anger myself over/about that. I just thought it was cool that they sort of had personal responsibility built into their language. Although they have a habit of using passive voice (the house IS BEING built, mistakes WERE made, etc) to describe things they do so that probably makes up for it.
Censorship is always more offensive than what you're trying to censor. Always.
Words, ideas, thoughts, are inherently amoral; they are merely as powerful or as useful as the meaning we attach to them.
Too bad you posted AC. I would have friended you for that correct prediction.