They already have my fingerprints. They already have a picture of me for photo identification. They already have videocameras scatter all over in public looking at me. They already have my SSN, my address, my phone number. Shit, they probably know more about me than even I do. Therefore, everytime I step outside I really don't have any privacy as it is. Meanwhile, when I'm at home, I can be found at will by strangers. So, what difference does it really make anymore if they have my DNA, too?
People can scream about the threat of a police state all they want, but the police state is already here. Where was the tinfoil hat crowd when they were collecting fingerprints, taking my picture, installing cameras everywhere, giving me a number, and assigning to me a color coded threat level? It's going to take a lot more than just sitting on our asses and bitching amongst ourselves if we want to effect a positive change in our government. However, I'm not going to hold my breath, either as the public these days are sheep, eager to be spoonfed the right wing neocon bullshit from our 'Great Leader'. (sarcasm) And don't even get me started with Congress and how they stuck their business where it doesn't belong in the Terri Schivo matter, either.
As another DIY fan, I'll have to agree. It's in my opinion the best way to get my hands on a computer system. I know what kind of parts I'm putting in, each component has it's own warranty so I don't have to box up the whole damn system just for RMA service, there's the satisfaction of DIY, the choice of boring beige, slick and extreme, or anything in between, and even if you're on a limited budget, you can spread the cost and still have a bitching setup. You simply can't get that with Apple hardware. All you really get is either their way or no way. Anybody really need another reason why proprietary hardware lock-in sucks?
If it wasn't for Compaq reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and AMD reverse engineering the x86, we wouldn't have the commodity computers and the type of industry standard hardware that we've got now, let alone the low prices that come with competition in a free marketplace. Now, if I could build a OS-X / G5 setup in the same manner that I can do an x86 machine, then perhaps I might consider switching. Until that happens, (and I won't hold my breath) I'll keep my Athlon64. Linux will still run anyway.
....I think they ought to just keep the DNA data. I simply don't see the perceived threat here. Besides, if I were to go 'splat' somewhere or die in a horrible way, I'd want to be identified so that my family would have closure and piece of mind.
With all the store bought and burned stuff that I've amassed throughout the years, it's the only thing I have that will contain it all without collapsing.
Because people here are fat, complacent, and lazy sheep that only care about being spoonfed the garbage and '**AA approved opinions' on TV. You could have a fascist dictator at the helm and as long as he's waving the flag and talking out of his ass about the great American Dream and other 'patriotic' bullshit, the sheep will remain happy, safe, and 'secure'. Freedom? All they know of freedom is: French Fries or Onion Rings?
I made one of those almost 5 years ago from the 486dx2/66 chip in my first PC. Put the sucker in a vice and sheared off the pins with a cutoff toll, then drilled the hole. I may have ADD, but I'm not completely fucked - I had safety goggles on at least. But, I never thought to get a patent!;-)
Sadly, if I would've known that, I wouldn't have taken a sledgehammer to it two months ago. Oh well. I've had some built up anger and frustration for a long time and needed a satisfying release.
When this one dies after the warranty runs out, it will also serve it's final purpose for anger management and emotional well being.;-)
Sorry to hear that about LG. I once had an LG CD burner from about three years back. It was slow, only 8x 4x 32x without buffer underrun protection, but it never made me a coaster. Unfortunately, I killed it with a bad firmware flash a couple months ago.
I'll certainly go with another brand if I end up having to RMA the same part over, and over again. Shipping costs add up too quickly after so many returns. If that happens, there'll be two brands I'll avoid when I go out shopping again.
I'll have to agree. I've just RMA'd a DVD burner a day after I got it back from the last RMA. Not to mention having to RMA a stick of RAM not three months ago. QA seems to be a really sad joke, these days.
We've already got enough bad components floating around. We surely don't need any more.
I hear that. Doesn't make any sense to me, either. Then again, it's pretty much a market driod's game. Just grab any ol' damn thing, slap some paint and decals on it, jack up the price, call it 'Extreme', and the weenie kidz will buy it up. I agree, it's crazy. Then again, what do I know? I like my cooling stock and my cases in beige. I don't care for that 'X-treme overclocking' shit nor am I interested in tricking out my box. Meanwhile, I'm not buying what the site says about stock heatsinks running in the 50-60C range. I get 36C on mine and I don't need water tubing and the problems with leaking, either. Guess I'll have to be a kid to understand.
...until the electronics in these shopping carts get totally thrashed by either vandalism, rough use, stolen, weather, vibration, impact damage, etc. 3 months? Six? A year, tops? What an utter waste of time and money here, imo.
That's when you get a cheap old beatermobile and ram into some shopping carts to get great justice. I suppose you could try it with an uber-expensive SUV, but dents, scratches, and cracked plastic grilles cost a lot more to repair than entire beatermobiles these days. Why pay more? Besides, they're also great for killing orange barrels throughout the nine month road construction season. It's a great Michigan pastime!;-)
I tried a similar attempt after reading your post, and there's no way I would trust my system to run like that. Then again, I have a NewCastle 3500+. Anyways, I've underclocked this sucker all the way down to 800MHz, adjusted the juice down to 0.9Vcore, unplugged the fan, left the heatsink on, and entered the hardware monitor through the BIOS just to watch the temperature slowly run away. Once it got close to 55c after less than about 30 seconds, I killed the power and plugged the CPU fan back in. So nope, I can't do that with my setup.
So my property rights don't mean dick the minute someone else wants to assert theirs - real or imagined? So, that means I can legally walk into your property unopposed by you to see if you have my car in your garage, my TV in your living room, and my bitch in your bedroom at any time I choose, correct?
Wow! Not only is the slope slippery, but it seems to be crumbling away right before my eyes!
..that for the most part I'll agree with you about Granholm. Even her Cool Cities initiative seems a bit silly to me, and if you've ever lived in Port Huron long enough, and got fed enough to move out of there, it's hard to comprehend how it can be a Cool City. Rich snobs on the north end, poor human trash on the south, and the landlord's guild in control of the city council. Yup. Really cool.;-(
It seems that from what I can make with your accident, I think the other guy's insurance company is trying to pull a fast one on you. I'd recommend getting the advice of a lawyer and see what he/she has to say before I'd accept the meager $500. The other guy's insurance company is NOT your friend, nor do they care for your best interests, and they'll tell you anything and everything to hold onto the money and make you go away, so I really wouldn't take them for their word. Definately get a lawyer. I wouldn't be too surprised if he tells you different.
Shouldn't the US Gov't have thought of this over three and a half fucking years ago?!? Hello? Anybody home? Bueller?
God help us because the nation is run by total mindless clusterfucks and assclowns! Glad that at least I didn't vote for them, at least. Just a different bunch of nimrods and dipshits, that's all. (end of rant)
I hear that. Nothing more frustrating as trying to install SP2 the 'easy' way just to have the line drop near the end of the download and having to start over. I ended up having to resort to getting the over 100Mb+ redistributable file just because I could pause and resume the download. However, it took 2 1/2 days to grab it, too. Hell, if time is precious to you, and all you have is dialup, you're almost better off not patching. You're going to get 0wned either way, why even bother?
Thanx M$ for your great customer service ya rotten pieces of shit!
To be honest, I'd rather build my own just so that whenever I have a problem, I don't have to pack up the whole damned computer system, pay big bucks to ship it all, and counting on losing all my data I put on it when I get it back. Nor am I subject to the whim of just one company that can put me on hold and jerk me off until I get fed up and hang up. The way I see it, why do I have to take the whole outfit back just because of bad RAM when I can simply pull the memory out and RMA that? It's less hassle for me that way, but of course, YMMV.
That being said though, I agree that people ought to have the right to buy an OEM outfit and be able to choose what kind of operating system they want, or no operating system at all if they choose, but you can count on M$ not to feel the same way. So for me, if I want that choice, then I'll have to roll my own because M$ will never give me that choice if I want to buy from an OEM and I'm not holding my breath for M$ to change their policy. Neither should you.
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If I had mod points, I'd give you some. Well said.
People can scream about the threat of a police state all they want, but the police state is already here. Where was the tinfoil hat crowd when they were collecting fingerprints, taking my picture, installing cameras everywhere, giving me a number, and assigning to me a color coded threat level? It's going to take a lot more than just sitting on our asses and bitching amongst ourselves if we want to effect a positive change in our government. However, I'm not going to hold my breath, either as the public these days are sheep, eager to be spoonfed the right wing neocon bullshit from our 'Great Leader'. (sarcasm) And don't even get me started with Congress and how they stuck their business where it doesn't belong in the Terri Schivo matter, either.
Rant done.
If it wasn't for Compaq reverse engineering the IBM BIOS, and AMD reverse engineering the x86, we wouldn't have the commodity computers and the type of industry standard hardware that we've got now, let alone the low prices that come with competition in a free marketplace. Now, if I could build a OS-X / G5 setup in the same manner that I can do an x86 machine, then perhaps I might consider switching. Until that happens, (and I won't hold my breath) I'll keep my Athlon64. Linux will still run anyway.
....I think they ought to just keep the DNA data. I simply don't see the perceived threat here. Besides, if I were to go 'splat' somewhere or die in a horrible way, I'd want to be identified so that my family would have closure and piece of mind.
And toss out years worth of pr0n? No way!
With all the store bought and burned stuff that I've amassed throughout the years, it's the only thing I have that will contain it all without collapsing.
If people went with that train of thought, then slavery would still be legal in the Southern States right now.
Copyright itself is the bigger problem and it needs to be reformed NOW!
Because people here are fat, complacent, and lazy sheep that only care about being spoonfed the garbage and '**AA approved opinions' on TV. You could have a fascist dictator at the helm and as long as he's waving the flag and talking out of his ass about the great American Dream and other 'patriotic' bullshit, the sheep will remain happy, safe, and 'secure'. Freedom? All they know of freedom is: French Fries or Onion Rings?
Better to beat up a broken drive than to beat up a person, is it not? Your concern is unnecessary, but thanks for playing.
I made one of those almost 5 years ago from the 486dx2/66 chip in my first PC. Put the sucker in a vice and sheared off the pins with a cutoff toll, then drilled the hole. I may have ADD, but I'm not completely fucked - I had safety goggles on at least. But, I never thought to get a patent! ;-)
When this one dies after the warranty runs out, it will also serve it's final purpose for anger management and emotional well being. ;-)
I'll certainly go with another brand if I end up having to RMA the same part over, and over again. Shipping costs add up too quickly after so many returns. If that happens, there'll be two brands I'll avoid when I go out shopping again.
We've already got enough bad components floating around. We surely don't need any more.
Oh, and with AMD Cool 'n Quiet turned on, I get 27C.
I hear that. Doesn't make any sense to me, either. Then again, it's pretty much a market driod's game. Just grab any ol' damn thing, slap some paint and decals on it, jack up the price, call it 'Extreme', and the weenie kidz will buy it up. I agree, it's crazy. Then again, what do I know? I like my cooling stock and my cases in beige. I don't care for that 'X-treme overclocking' shit nor am I interested in tricking out my box. Meanwhile, I'm not buying what the site says about stock heatsinks running in the 50-60C range. I get 36C on mine and I don't need water tubing and the problems with leaking, either. Guess I'll have to be a kid to understand.
...until the electronics in these shopping carts get totally thrashed by either vandalism, rough use, stolen, weather, vibration, impact damage, etc. 3 months? Six? A year, tops? What an utter waste of time and money here, imo.
That's when you get a cheap old beatermobile and ram into some shopping carts to get great justice. I suppose you could try it with an uber-expensive SUV, but dents, scratches, and cracked plastic grilles cost a lot more to repair than entire beatermobiles these days. Why pay more? Besides, they're also great for killing orange barrels throughout the nine month road construction season. It's a great Michigan pastime! ;-)
I tried a similar attempt after reading your post, and there's no way I would trust my system to run like that. Then again, I have a NewCastle 3500+. Anyways, I've underclocked this sucker all the way down to 800MHz, adjusted the juice down to 0.9Vcore, unplugged the fan, left the heatsink on, and entered the hardware monitor through the BIOS just to watch the temperature slowly run away. Once it got close to 55c after less than about 30 seconds, I killed the power and plugged the CPU fan back in. So nope, I can't do that with my setup.
Wow! Not only is the slope slippery, but it seems to be crumbling away right before my eyes!
It seems that from what I can make with your accident, I think the other guy's insurance company is trying to pull a fast one on you. I'd recommend getting the advice of a lawyer and see what he/she has to say before I'd accept the meager $500. The other guy's insurance company is NOT your friend, nor do they care for your best interests, and they'll tell you anything and everything to hold onto the money and make you go away, so I really wouldn't take them for their word. Definately get a lawyer. I wouldn't be too surprised if he tells you different.
God help us because the nation is run by total mindless clusterfucks and assclowns! Glad that at least I didn't vote for them, at least. Just a different bunch of nimrods and dipshits, that's all. (end of rant)
My bad. I stand corrected! ;-)
All those Pentium 4's running sure are a threat for the future.
Thanx M$ for your great customer service ya rotten pieces of shit!
That being said though, I agree that people ought to have the right to buy an OEM outfit and be able to choose what kind of operating system they want, or no operating system at all if they choose, but you can count on M$ not to feel the same way. So for me, if I want that choice, then I'll have to roll my own because M$ will never give me that choice if I want to buy from an OEM and I'm not holding my breath for M$ to change their policy. Neither should you.