I have about 10 years on you. I didn't see Star Wars in the theater, but one of my very first memories was watching Empire Strikes Back at the base theater when I was 5 or 6, that was back in '80/81.
I tried watching it on HBO the other week, but couldn't take it. It wasn't as bad as 2, and by far better then 1, but still not good. I never realized Yoda was a gummy bear before. Bouncing here and there and everywhere...
I probably should have picked up on that back at episode 2.
Could be, but after watching and loving the first three my entire childhood, I can no longer watch them. Of course this comes after seeing the first two of the new trilogy.
Sadly, and to my personal dissappointment, those are also Star Wars movies. The guy who created the first three also made the last. And as much as I would rather he did not, they are cannon.
That is why I always, always, verify the partition scheme prior to installing. It is a pain to burrow down that many levels YAST install, but it works.
I think Price will be a non-issue for a lot of use who can't wait to dump Cingular. We had AT&T, Cingular bought us and reduced services forcing us to migrate and sign a new contract, then they rename themselves Cingular and have an overcrowded/substandard network. Apple honestly found the one thing that will keep me from buying the phone.
I was an AT&T customer until Cingular bought us out. We made the switch to Cingular when they started taking down our towers. I'm on my 2nd and 3rd phone from them. A cheap Nokia and an equally cheap Sony Erickson. I fully agree with you about GSM, but the minute our contract is up we are off there Network. I live and work just outside of Washington DC, and the company I work for has a Cingular repeater in the office. However I still drop calls frequently, and the network is over crowded. If I have to return a call between 5 and 7pm it is not uncommon to have to try 3 or 4 times before the call will go through. But this is all personal experience. I know happy Cingular customers, admittedly not many of them. My step mother, who made the switch to Cingular right after we did, has pointedly stated she will no longer base her decisions on who I use, mostly due to the capacity issues. Hey, I said not to go with them. I think we will look at T-Mobile next. I want to stay with a GSM Provider.
Funny, that is the exact model that I have been told was used to roll out NT by Microsoft. Woo the execs, and they place the order and force the staff to impliment their decision.
On my thank you letter to Steve Jobs for making sure I wouldn't buy an Iphone. If he had launched with anyone except Cingular I would have had my credit card ready, but with Cingular there is no way on earth I am extending the contract 1 day longer then I have to.
Sheepish Acceptance on whose part? Not mine. All it did for me was convince me that when my contract with Cingular was up I wouldn't be going back to Verizon Wireless.
I am one of those people with a regretable tendancy to bookmark the FCC complaint form and use it when I can't get proper service.
It could be worse. It could be like the Verizon Wireless coupon settlement that was just approved. $15.00 off your bill or a qualifying Verizon Wireless service. Customers no longer with Verizon Wireless must sign up for a Verizon Wireless plan to use the coupon.
Tell me who approved that?
I have all three OS's at home. I have a Sempron based linux box that is now running Samba, MythTV, and Folding at home, an Athlon X2 desktop running XP and SuSE 10.2 (until 10.2 melts down again), and my MacBook...and a G4 Cube.
The thing about Mac's is that they can do 99% of what any Windows Box can do, and make it easier. As for Games, you just have to go look at the Games in the Mac Section, or at gogamer, or wherever. There are a lot of them, but they seem to be a bit behind. I expect this to change a bit now that Apple is using Intel chips.
A lot of money yes, but a lot more was raised from individual contributors. I think you can find a break down online, I've not looked for one in a few weeks.
I honestly don't expect a lot, but they have to keep a few of the key promises. I'm waiting to see how that pans out.
Not to mention the rotted meat and other positive things the government provided them. I believe it is one of the saddest chapters of American history. Although when I studied history I have to say American History shows we have been anything but the caring, wonderful, people we like to think we have been. Our motives have been at least as self serving as any other countries. But we are trying to be better.
Ahh, yes, early biological warfare. We showed up with illnesses that none of them had ever had a chance to develop a resistance to, and then killed any that survived.
It is also seriously possible that a driver was bad, something didn't happen the way it should durring install, or I don't know. I had mouse updates faster then 4 times a second, but programs that would spring open in XP such as Word, Firefox, IE would all have in some cases over 10 second opening times. Installs took considerably longer then in XP and I did time a few, and multitasking was for some reason not a good idea in that the times involved were not at the point they should be. Let me get my hands on an RC2 disc and I will redo the test. On the P IV at the office performance seemed on par with the Athlon 3400+ I had at home when we evaluated it except with Aero. Again the difference there was an X700Pro vs an Radeon 9250. Something that was not realistic to compare. The Macbook is what really got me, a Core Duo backing fairly well supported hardware should not have taken (RC 1 was the installed version) several seconds to open the Start Menu, much less the...for lack of a better word, control panel. I admit the graphics chip was not supported however.
It isn't a blatent lie for one. I have common, name brand, supported hardware. My desktop flies with XP, and is stable. I think I last restarted it, two, maybe three weeks back. But under Vista is crawls.
I have no problem with Microsoft, I use their software, and I buy it legally. I prefer OS X, but simply for design and functionality, but it doesn't play games so I have XP. I honestly looked forward to Vista until I tried it out. I like the look of Aero.
Currently, and subject to change depending on disposable income my desktop is as follows
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo (939)
ASUS A8N5X Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4
2 X 1GB Corsair XMS PC3200 (dual channel)
120GB WD Sata 3.0
300GB Maxtor PATA
1 Soundblaster Live
EVGA 7600GT w/256MG GDDR3
Currently dual booting Kubuntu Edgy and Windows XP Pro.
I installed Vista first when it was a beta, then RC1. Pretty much all my hardware has Vista drivers available, and has for sometime. Why it ran dog slow is beyond me. Here at the lab, we installed it on a few machines, but the fastest thing we have is a P IV 3.0 w/HT desktop (2 1/2 years old) with 2 gig of PC3200, Corsair Value Select and an 80gig sata. Again, RC1 was slow, but I attributed that to the Radeon 9250 w/64MB DDR.
Now my Macbook is not yet fully supported by Vista, so it is not totally fair to consider that. But my desktop should not have a performance rating of 2.
I don't know where those system requirements came from, maybe magic fairy land. When I installed Vista on my Athlon 64 3400+ w/an X700Pro and 1gig of Ram it was slow.
When I thought maybe RC1 would be faster, I installed it on my Macbook, still slow, on the same desktop with 2 gig of ram and an 7600GT still slow.
When I upgraded the processor to an Athlon X2 4400 and the 2gig of Ram now ran dual channel and it was installed to Sata Drive, not as slow, but still not as fast as XP.
Oh, and we tried it on an old 3ghz PIV Mobile and it would barely move. That machine had a Directx 9 graphics card too.
I tried going to college right out of the Army on their dime, but couldn't hack that and a full time job. I just couldn't believe it mattered. So now with the clock ticking down on my benefits (less then 12 months before they expire) I'm back in and have been on the deans list ever semester I've taken enough credits to qualify.
Sadly, as we are learning here at my office, many schools, churches, etc... have more powerful machines. We couldn't even unload them on homeless shelters. Have to bite the bullette and recycle them.
That said.
I recently upgraded my Athlon 64 3400+ to an X2 4400+. The why for that is price. I was able to get a much better price on a Socket 939 motherboard and this processor while keeping my 2 gig of Corsair XMS PC3200.
My home server runs a Sempron 3100+ w/SuSE 10.0. Again, price. I was able to use my old Corsair Value Select and Socket 754 Motherboard.
I said that once myself and I'm posting from my MacBook as I type. Only real problem is gaming. There just isn't a Mac available that falls into the same price performance category that my Athlon X2 4400, formerly an Athlon 64 3400+ with over 3 different motherboards, 4 different graphics cards, and everything handed down, passed on, rebuilt into new Machines all with legal copies of XP purchased for them. The only original parts in that box are 1 of the hard drives and the case.
Decent Insurance is out there, I used to have it. However after my last job search it was stay in a job that pays less and has really good insurance like you describe or take this job I'm in now. Get a substantial raise, work in the field I want to be in, and have crap insurance with deductables on everything.
Basically $25 per office visit.
$500 annual deductable before insurance kicks in, except in the case of in network doctor visits.
10%/90% split for all hospital visits and stays including Emergency room care after satisfying the $500 annual deductable and the $250 hospital, well it amounts to a co-pay.
Now 10% doesn't sound like much, until you look at the bills to have your gall bladder out.
I just had to reinstall OS X on my MacBook after trying to figure out how to install Linux into Boot camp (Some kind of perverse habit I have), and it still takes about half an hour to go through and get rid of all the crap software they put on there. This doesn't even take into account the time required to hunt through the install options to get the default install down to about 10gig.
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I have about 10 years on you. I didn't see Star Wars in the theater, but one of my very first memories was watching Empire Strikes Back at the base theater when I was 5 or 6, that was back in '80/81.
I tried watching it on HBO the other week, but couldn't take it. It wasn't as bad as 2, and by far better then 1, but still not good. I never realized Yoda was a gummy bear before. Bouncing here and there and everywhere... I probably should have picked up on that back at episode 2.
Could be, but after watching and loving the first three my entire childhood, I can no longer watch them. Of course this comes after seeing the first two of the new trilogy.
Sadly, and to my personal dissappointment, those are also Star Wars movies. The guy who created the first three also made the last. And as much as I would rather he did not, they are cannon.
That is why I always, always, verify the partition scheme prior to installing. It is a pain to burrow down that many levels YAST install, but it works.
I think Price will be a non-issue for a lot of use who can't wait to dump Cingular. We had AT&T, Cingular bought us and reduced services forcing us to migrate and sign a new contract, then they rename themselves Cingular and have an overcrowded/substandard network.
Apple honestly found the one thing that will keep me from buying the phone.
I was an AT&T customer until Cingular bought us out. We made the switch to Cingular when they started taking down our towers. I'm on my 2nd and 3rd phone from them. A cheap Nokia and an equally cheap Sony Erickson.
I fully agree with you about GSM, but the minute our contract is up we are off there Network. I live and work just outside of Washington DC, and the company I work for has a Cingular repeater in the office. However I still drop calls frequently, and the network is over crowded. If I have to return a call between 5 and 7pm it is not uncommon to have to try 3 or 4 times before the call will go through.
But this is all personal experience. I know happy Cingular customers, admittedly not many of them. My step mother, who made the switch to Cingular right after we did, has pointedly stated she will no longer base her decisions on who I use, mostly due to the capacity issues. Hey, I said not to go with them.
I think we will look at T-Mobile next. I want to stay with a GSM Provider.
Funny, that is the exact model that I have been told was used to roll out NT by Microsoft. Woo the execs, and they place the order and force the staff to impliment their decision.
On my thank you letter to Steve Jobs for making sure I wouldn't buy an Iphone. If he had launched with anyone except Cingular I would have had my credit card ready, but with Cingular there is no way on earth I am extending the contract 1 day longer then I have to.
Sheepish Acceptance on whose part? Not mine. All it did for me was convince me that when my contract with Cingular was up I wouldn't be going back to Verizon Wireless. I am one of those people with a regretable tendancy to bookmark the FCC complaint form and use it when I can't get proper service.
It could be worse. It could be like the Verizon Wireless coupon settlement that was just approved. $15.00 off your bill or a qualifying Verizon Wireless service. Customers no longer with Verizon Wireless must sign up for a Verizon Wireless plan to use the coupon. Tell me who approved that?
I have all three OS's at home. I have a Sempron based linux box that is now running Samba, MythTV, and Folding at home, an Athlon X2 desktop running XP and SuSE 10.2 (until 10.2 melts down again), and my MacBook...and a G4 Cube. The thing about Mac's is that they can do 99% of what any Windows Box can do, and make it easier. As for Games, you just have to go look at the Games in the Mac Section, or at gogamer, or wherever. There are a lot of them, but they seem to be a bit behind. I expect this to change a bit now that Apple is using Intel chips.
A lot of money yes, but a lot more was raised from individual contributors. I think you can find a break down online, I've not looked for one in a few weeks. I honestly don't expect a lot, but they have to keep a few of the key promises. I'm waiting to see how that pans out.
No, I can't say we are. I would say we got a lot worse, but some people finally woke up. Now it is time to see if anything changes.
Not to mention the rotted meat and other positive things the government provided them. I believe it is one of the saddest chapters of American history. Although when I studied history I have to say American History shows we have been anything but the caring, wonderful, people we like to think we have been. Our motives have been at least as self serving as any other countries. But we are trying to be better.
Ahh, yes, early biological warfare. We showed up with illnesses that none of them had ever had a chance to develop a resistance to, and then killed any that survived.
It is also seriously possible that a driver was bad, something didn't happen the way it should durring install, or I don't know. I had mouse updates faster then 4 times a second, but programs that would spring open in XP such as Word, Firefox, IE would all have in some cases over 10 second opening times. Installs took considerably longer then in XP and I did time a few, and multitasking was for some reason not a good idea in that the times involved were not at the point they should be.
Let me get my hands on an RC2 disc and I will redo the test.
On the P IV at the office performance seemed on par with the Athlon 3400+ I had at home when we evaluated it except with Aero. Again the difference there was an X700Pro vs an Radeon 9250. Something that was not realistic to compare.
The Macbook is what really got me, a Core Duo backing fairly well supported hardware should not have taken (RC 1 was the installed version) several seconds to open the Start Menu, much less the...for lack of a better word, control panel. I admit the graphics chip was not supported however.
It isn't a blatent lie for one. I have common, name brand, supported hardware. My desktop flies with XP, and is stable. I think I last restarted it, two, maybe three weeks back. But under Vista is crawls. I have no problem with Microsoft, I use their software, and I buy it legally. I prefer OS X, but simply for design and functionality, but it doesn't play games so I have XP. I honestly looked forward to Vista until I tried it out. I like the look of Aero. Currently, and subject to change depending on disposable income my desktop is as follows AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo (939) ASUS A8N5X Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 2 X 1GB Corsair XMS PC3200 (dual channel) 120GB WD Sata 3.0 300GB Maxtor PATA 1 Soundblaster Live EVGA 7600GT w/256MG GDDR3 Currently dual booting Kubuntu Edgy and Windows XP Pro. I installed Vista first when it was a beta, then RC1. Pretty much all my hardware has Vista drivers available, and has for sometime. Why it ran dog slow is beyond me. Here at the lab, we installed it on a few machines, but the fastest thing we have is a P IV 3.0 w/HT desktop (2 1/2 years old) with 2 gig of PC3200, Corsair Value Select and an 80gig sata. Again, RC1 was slow, but I attributed that to the Radeon 9250 w/64MB DDR. Now my Macbook is not yet fully supported by Vista, so it is not totally fair to consider that. But my desktop should not have a performance rating of 2.
I don't know where those system requirements came from, maybe magic fairy land. When I installed Vista on my Athlon 64 3400+ w/an X700Pro and 1gig of Ram it was slow. When I thought maybe RC1 would be faster, I installed it on my Macbook, still slow, on the same desktop with 2 gig of ram and an 7600GT still slow. When I upgraded the processor to an Athlon X2 4400 and the 2gig of Ram now ran dual channel and it was installed to Sata Drive, not as slow, but still not as fast as XP. Oh, and we tried it on an old 3ghz PIV Mobile and it would barely move. That machine had a Directx 9 graphics card too.
Uhm, you just did. We didn't save anyone from Hitler's father. You are thinking of the Kaiser I believe.
I tried going to college right out of the Army on their dime, but couldn't hack that and a full time job. I just couldn't believe it mattered. So now with the clock ticking down on my benefits (less then 12 months before they expire) I'm back in and have been on the deans list ever semester I've taken enough credits to qualify.
Sadly, as we are learning here at my office, many schools, churches, etc... have more powerful machines. We couldn't even unload them on homeless shelters. Have to bite the bullette and recycle them. That said. I recently upgraded my Athlon 64 3400+ to an X2 4400+. The why for that is price. I was able to get a much better price on a Socket 939 motherboard and this processor while keeping my 2 gig of Corsair XMS PC3200. My home server runs a Sempron 3100+ w/SuSE 10.0. Again, price. I was able to use my old Corsair Value Select and Socket 754 Motherboard.
I said that once myself and I'm posting from my MacBook as I type. Only real problem is gaming. There just isn't a Mac available that falls into the same price performance category that my Athlon X2 4400, formerly an Athlon 64 3400+ with over 3 different motherboards, 4 different graphics cards, and everything handed down, passed on, rebuilt into new Machines all with legal copies of XP purchased for them. The only original parts in that box are 1 of the hard drives and the case.
Decent Insurance is out there, I used to have it. However after my last job search it was stay in a job that pays less and has really good insurance like you describe or take this job I'm in now. Get a substantial raise, work in the field I want to be in, and have crap insurance with deductables on everything. Basically $25 per office visit. $500 annual deductable before insurance kicks in, except in the case of in network doctor visits. 10%/90% split for all hospital visits and stays including Emergency room care after satisfying the $500 annual deductable and the $250 hospital, well it amounts to a co-pay. Now 10% doesn't sound like much, until you look at the bills to have your gall bladder out.
I just had to reinstall OS X on my MacBook after trying to figure out how to install Linux into Boot camp (Some kind of perverse habit I have), and it still takes about half an hour to go through and get rid of all the crap software they put on there. This doesn't even take into account the time required to hunt through the install options to get the default install down to about 10gig.