I have an old laptop that does the same thing. I need to completely power it down, instead of just rebooting the machine, for the sound to work when switching OS's. I used to have another old laptop that had a similar issue, but with the pcmcia system.
Of course there's a good reason: the AV companies can't blame TeH EVIL HA>0RZ!! that their marketing departments have been playing off that for almost 2 decades.
American Idol has absolutely zero to do with the post. It could have just as easily read "Seinfeld reruns" or "Deadwood" or "Mythbusters", but those wouldn't have put forth the same idea at all - because they're not _completely_ banal for banality's sake like the craptastic idol show. So feel free to insert "Sex & The City" or "American Chopper" or what have you to demonstrate the mediocrity I was trying to put forth, because I don't believe that you are getting the gist of it.
The gist is, is that Americans used to have, or at least demand, for the most part, the best of everything, be it entertainment, electronics, homes, and cars 'back in the day' - cripes, my first car in 1985 was a '66 Dodge Dart with a slant-6 225 in it that's probably still running out there today somewhere. Hell, it probably got better mileage than the majority of similar sized American cars built today. You'd be hard pressed to try to get more than a couple years out of a modern American car. When's the last time a Carol Burnett or a Johnny Carson got put on the air? They're few and far between, and most people won't watch them because they're too busy buying a 55 gallon drum of pickles down at the WalMart Super Center.
These days, the more mediocre (American Idol, WalMart, Applebee's, yada yada) the better. It's all about marketing and appearance now, which, in my not so humble opinion, is nothing short of pathetic. And that mediocrity has spilled out into the populace as far as civics goes too.
Look at your sig and its disdain of SUVs
That sig has very little to do with SUVs, if you read the entire line, it's about Americans losing sight of the ideals our country was founded on.
Those 2 ideas you picked up on were a bit off the mark, but I guess the main point is that, and as much as it pains me to say so, Americans have become fat, lazy, complacent sheep, and I don't disclude myself in that.
Good god I feel like shouting "Get off my lawn!":o(
The US government must think that Americans are lazy, brainless sheep who will shut out even the most obvious evidence that criminals are running the country. I mean seriously, only the most idiotic... Oh look! American Idol is on!
Yet users wanting to operate Linux on the laptop will also need to purchase SLED software licensing from Novell, either via Novell's Web site or a reseller
So... for a starting price of $3,099 USD, you get a laptop with a blank hard drive, and have to purchase SUSE on your own separately.
Nice. /vomit
Isn't that like stealing a car off a dealer's lot, and then saying "Why's everyone so upset? It was a lemon anyway...."?
No, it's like going to the dealer and test-driving the car you're considering for purchase and finding out that the suspension's loose, the clutch slips, and it's a complete piece of shit and you're glad you didn't start the sales papers on it.
So, are we, the end users and/or administrators out there going to have to expect the older IE to be as dead, it's not like Microsoft has done diddly squat for IE6 functionality/standards adherance/years long security issues/blah blah blah as it is. What are the bazillions win2k machines out there supposed to do since IE7 isn't for them? I'm not trolling, I have clients that have to use IE for whatever reasons and are on Win2k. Of course, IE 6 will stagnate, leaving Win2k users out in the cold. Ahhh... the love of expensive forced upgrades...
What's funny about this is that the White House wants to keep their activities private, but not ours. Did I say funny? Scary.
Nah, that's the _republican_ whitehouse. Are you forgetting...? Women who willingly, even enthusiastically give the president blow jobs should be part of the public record, because the people have the right to know, but powerful industrial representatives who meet with the administration in secret should have the meetings, the attendees, the topics and effects of those meetings kept secret, because that would interfere with the ability to the government to conduct the people's business without public scrutiny.
"of the people, by the people, for the people"... sorry Abe, your vision is long since dead.
and despite all the bells and whistles, it loads extremely fast
Um, you do realize that it adds a pre-loader to the machine startup so that it's running whether you're using it or not, and that's why it fires up so fast, don't you?
Yes, and the folks a couple of years older than you think YOUR music sucks too. Guess what... you just realized that you got old. The vericose veins should start popping up any day now. Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!
That's yet another person who'll refuse to look at alternatives and will stick with Microsoft. Why? I don't know, I really don't... and I find it scary.
"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in."
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What do you expect when your marketing department, rather than your Q&R department, pushes your software product out the door?
Apparently you've never had to split "$50 + a case of beer" or "$100 against the door" between 6 people before.
Your slashdot membership card has been revoked for posting a link to a dvorak article. Who do you think you are... Zonk?
I have an old laptop that does the same thing. I need to completely power it down, instead of just rebooting the machine, for the sound to work when switching OS's. I used to have another old laptop that had a similar issue, but with the pcmcia system.
Hell, some of them aren't even testing out thier own updates.
Of course there's a good reason: the AV companies can't blame TeH EVIL HA>0RZ!! that their marketing departments have been playing off that for almost 2 decades.
American Idol has absolutely zero to do with the post. It could have just as easily read "Seinfeld reruns" or "Deadwood" or "Mythbusters", but those wouldn't have put forth the same idea at all - because they're not _completely_ banal for banality's sake like the craptastic idol show. So feel free to insert "Sex & The City" or "American Chopper" or what have you to demonstrate the mediocrity I was trying to put forth, because I don't believe that you are getting the gist of it.
The gist is, is that Americans used to have, or at least demand, for the most part, the best of everything, be it entertainment, electronics, homes, and cars 'back in the day' - cripes, my first car in 1985 was a '66 Dodge Dart with a slant-6 225 in it that's probably still running out there today somewhere. Hell, it probably got better mileage than the majority of similar sized American cars built today. You'd be hard pressed to try to get more than a couple years out of a modern American car. When's the last time a Carol Burnett or a Johnny Carson got put on the air? They're few and far between, and most people won't watch them because they're too busy buying a 55 gallon drum of pickles down at the WalMart Super Center.
These days, the more mediocre (American Idol, WalMart, Applebee's, yada yada) the better. It's all about marketing and appearance now, which, in my not so humble opinion, is nothing short of pathetic. And that mediocrity has spilled out into the populace as far as civics goes too.
That sig has very little to do with SUVs, if you read the entire line, it's about Americans losing sight of the ideals our country was founded on.
Those 2 ideas you picked up on were a bit off the mark, but I guess the main point is that, and as much as it pains me to say so, Americans have become fat, lazy, complacent sheep, and I don't disclude myself in that.
Good god I feel like shouting "Get off my lawn!"
Thanks creating useless strawman arguements.
Thanks bunches.
I'll reiterate:
The US government must think that Americans are lazy, brainless sheep who will shut out even the most obvious evidence that criminals are running the country. I mean seriously, only the most idiotic... Oh look! American Idol is on!
FYI... according to the Lenovo website, the T60p currently prices out at $1,919.00.. with WinXP Pro pre-installed.
Cripes.
So... for a starting price of $3,099 USD, you get a laptop with a blank hard drive, and have to purchase SUSE on your own separately. Nice.
Why not? /. is trying to implement the digg business model.
Seems
There. Fixed that for you.
...we decrease the believability of any TV news...
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Isn't that like stealing a car off a dealer's lot, and then saying "Why's everyone so upset? It was a lemon anyway...."?
No, it's like going to the dealer and test-driving the car you're considering for purchase and finding out that the suspension's loose, the clutch slips, and it's a complete piece of shit and you're glad you didn't start the sales papers on it.
Get off my lawn!
violently shakes cane in the air
That's preposterous. How would you set the thing up if you had no wired connection?
So, are we, the end users and/or administrators out there going to have to expect the older IE to be as dead, it's not like Microsoft has done diddly squat for IE6 functionality/standards adherance/years long security issues/blah blah blah as it is. What are the bazillions win2k machines out there supposed to do since IE7 isn't for them? I'm not trolling, I have clients that have to use IE for whatever reasons and are on Win2k.
Of course, IE 6 will stagnate, leaving Win2k users out in the cold. Ahhh... the love of expensive forced upgrades...
What's funny about this is that the White House wants to keep their activities private, but not ours. Did I say funny? Scary.
Nah, that's the _republican_ whitehouse.
Are you forgetting...?
Women who willingly, even enthusiastically give the president blow jobs should be part of the public record, because the people have the right to know, but powerful industrial representatives who meet with the administration in secret should have the meetings, the attendees, the topics and effects of those meetings kept secret, because that would interfere with the ability to the government to conduct the people's business without public scrutiny.
"of the people, by the people, for the people"... sorry Abe, your vision is long since dead.
Guess I'll have to buy the White Album again...
and despite all the bells and whistles, it loads extremely fast
Um, you do realize that it adds a pre-loader to the machine startup so that it's running whether you're using it or not, and that's why it fires up so fast, don't you?
Unfortunately, these devices are sold like they are toasters.
See also:
http://www.linux.org/groups/usa/newhampshire.html
Yes, and the folks a couple of years older than you think YOUR music sucks too.
Guess what... you just realized that you got old. The vericose veins should start popping up any day now.
Oh, and GET OFF MY LAWN!