well, mine's not tucked under a desk, and to be certain, it definitely ain't pretty. i usually remove all plastic/sheet metal plates/coverings and just have the grey metal chassis with wires and cables hanging out all over the place.
like you, though, i just can't see the point in these "circus computers," as i like to call them(as in "hey, nice computer. better get it back to the circus before they find out it's missing").
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someone's sig on here sums up the whole driving force behind why these types of experiments are carried out:
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
on the contrary, smoking dope has only been illegal since about 1973(i believe. i'm tired and going to bed in like 2 mins. and don't feel like checking, so i am open to corrections). it became illegal to smoke pot when it became a Schedule II drug. prior to this, the only reason it was "illegal" was because of the Marijuana Tax Act, passed on August 2nd, 1937 and, whereby, the taxes were raised so high that it was a felony to be in possession w/o having paid taxes.
but the thing is, is that here in the States, we've already got ID cards. It's called a State ID or a Driver's License. why should there be a need for a National ID card?
perhaps you should consider what the GPL does for a moment.
the GPL allows for others to change the source code of someone else's work and to distribute that work, as long as the person doing so provides the source code of their changes, and the proper credit to those whose work it was built upon. patents, however do not necessarily allow for such things and are generally used to squelch others from building upon someone's work. most patents tend to be used for closed and proprietary works.
those who would steal IP from GPL'ed products and use it in closed, proprietary products deserve neither the protections of the GPL or any other protection of IP.
if you're smoking herbs in the damn thing, no wonder you ain't getting high from it, you dipshit. try smoking marijuana and use a fucking one-hitter if you're so goddamned concerned about not wasting weed.
hey!! that's a splendid fucking idea!! i agree. we should ship every fucking bastard who isn't of Native American blood back to the goddamn shitholes they came from. why those Native Americans have suffered enough from terrorist activity. i say something damn well needs to be done about it.
fucking yay. another four fucking years of a shitty economy, a bloated deficit, rising gas prices, and an extremely inflated military budget, which i'm quite sure you boys down at the DoD are just pissing all over yourselves and running around screaming like schoolgirls about.
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correction....america is fake, ridiculous, and sickeningly overly-commercial. ah, but then i guess that's the nature of corporate america, the only place where "polish it, package it, make it shine" marketing, over technical skill and merit, matters most.
no...they were talking about delivering IPTV over Fiber...not copper...ordinary POTS copper can't attain the speeds necessary to pipe HDTV-quality content to your home. This requires at least speeds in Gbps range. POTS lines can't handle that. Fiber, however can. in fact:
Through Project Lightspeed, the company will deploy 38,800 miles of fiber
there's no way SBC can deliver those services over DSL. I have SBC DSL and i'm lucky to get 384kbps because of the shitty lines INTO my house and i live right at the edge of the service loop. Trust me, the day they offer F2TH(Fiber To The Home), i'm jumpin all over it. However, i hardly think SBC will be willing to jump back into the mobile phone service. They did it here for a few years (Bell Mobile), decided it wasnt making them enough money(their service was expensive, in typical SBC fashion), hardly any one used Bell Mobile, and thusly, they sold off the unit to Cingular Wireless. I wouldn't get your hopes up about getting mobile phone service bundled in with these other services. And if i know Bell, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep from letting other companies offer these same services within their areas.
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and to think i used to make jokes abot people living in cardboard condos.
and you spell 'grammar' like a kindergartener....please tell you're a kindergartener,,,,
um...yay. more fucking china-bashing again today. didn't get it out of your system yesterday huh ?
well, mine's not tucked under a desk, and to be certain, it definitely ain't pretty. i usually remove all plastic/sheet metal plates/coverings and just have the grey metal chassis with wires and cables hanging out all over the place.
like you, though, i just can't see the point in these "circus computers," as i like to call them(as in "hey, nice computer. better get it back to the circus before they find out it's missing").
someone's sig on here sums up the whole driving force behind why these types of experiments are carried out:
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
well the Air Force certainly seems to have stuck their necks out on a half-assed OS.
wtf is w/ all the anti-chinese rants today??
ballmer? is that you?
What does that convert to in miles and gallons?? I'm an American, you insenstive metric clod!!
on the contrary, smoking dope has only been illegal since about 1973(i believe. i'm tired and going to bed in like 2 mins. and don't feel like checking, so i am open to corrections). it became illegal to smoke pot when it became a Schedule II drug. prior to this, the only reason it was "illegal" was because of the Marijuana Tax Act, passed on August 2nd, 1937 and, whereby, the taxes were raised so high that it was a felony to be in possession w/o having paid taxes.
the, comma, is, your, friend, isn't, it, ?
but the thing is, is that here in the States, we've already got ID cards. It's called a State ID or a Driver's License. why should there be a need for a National ID card?
perhaps you should consider what the GPL does for a moment.
the GPL allows for others to change the source code of someone else's work and to distribute that work, as long as the person doing so provides the source code of their changes, and the proper credit to those whose work it was built upon. patents, however do not necessarily allow for such things and are generally used to squelch others from building upon someone's work. most patents tend to be used for closed and proprietary works.
those who would steal IP from GPL'ed products and use it in closed, proprietary products deserve neither the protections of the GPL or any other protection of IP.
man i'll say. look at the shit that comes outta that one company from redmond, washington. i think they call themselves Microsoft.
where in the fuck do you freaks come from ??
are you that naive as to think he wouldn't leave town ? just because the man is on a disability pension doesn't mean he has a disability to disappear.
if you're smoking herbs in the damn thing, no wonder you ain't getting high from it, you dipshit. try smoking marijuana and use a fucking one-hitter if you're so goddamned concerned about not wasting weed.
hey!! that's a splendid fucking idea!! i agree. we should ship every fucking bastard who isn't of Native American blood back to the goddamn shitholes they came from. why those Native Americans have suffered enough from terrorist activity. i say something damn well needs to be done about it.
fucking yay. another four fucking years of a shitty economy, a bloated deficit, rising gas prices, and an extremely inflated military budget, which i'm quite sure you boys down at the DoD are just pissing all over yourselves and running around screaming like schoolgirls about.
either fucking spell the words out or don't bother to fucking use them.hinting at profanity shows a lack of balls.
if all you do is treat your computer like a toy, then windows is absolutely perfect for you.
holy shit!! there's more gnomes there than my mothers garden!
what is this GNOME of which you speak??
correction....america is fake, ridiculous, and sickeningly overly-commercial. ah, but then i guess that's the nature of corporate america, the only place where "polish it, package it, make it shine" marketing, over technical skill and merit, matters most.
thank you. please drive through.
ahhh...but america is the richest country. just that 10% of america's population has possession of 80% of the world's money. and they want more.
what will they do when no one has any more money to give them ?
there's no way SBC can deliver those services over DSL. I have SBC DSL and i'm lucky to get 384kbps because of the shitty lines INTO my house and i live right at the edge of the service loop. Trust me, the day they offer F2TH(Fiber To The Home), i'm jumpin all over it. However, i hardly think SBC will be willing to jump back into the mobile phone service. They did it here for a few years (Bell Mobile), decided it wasnt making them enough money(their service was expensive, in typical SBC fashion), hardly any one used Bell Mobile, and thusly, they sold off the unit to Cingular Wireless. I wouldn't get your hopes up about getting mobile phone service bundled in with these other services. And if i know Bell, they'll fight tooth and nail to keep from letting other companies offer these same services within their areas.