Let me tell you why: I've been bullied for more then 12 years, and it resulted in a behavior that sometimes can be a little bit... hard for others to understand. Most people I meet don't have a clue what is going on, but I feel almost always paranoid that whatever I tell them is going to be used against me some time later on.
The biggest problem I have with this is that I realize what I'm doing... but I can't change it. It's not only bitterness, it's also hate, it's also disappointment.
Yes, I'm in treatment, because I started to realize that this was not only making it a very tough time for others... it's also a daily battle against myself.
The main thing that aches the most is that I have to pay lots of money for this treatment. While those who originally caused it just had their fun with me. And live happily every after. I feel the urge to take revenge... sometimes. I feel that it's quite unfair. It costs me >$300 a month for treatments while those bullies just walk around now without probably having a clue of what they did.
Oh yes, I did meet a couple of them later on. But none of them ever said how wrong they were. I'm pretty sure that if they would have the chance, they would do it all over again.
I want this trouble to end. I thought about killing them, but that's not a solution. But quite frankly, I don't see any other way. It's revenge I want to take and it's something I'm pretty sure of that is legitimate. Well, it is to me. Restoring balance...
I see people around me and talk with people who had minor problems in comparison with what I had, but I fail to see what the big deal is. One person told me that she almost killed herself, but didn't do it and got better over time. She told me the story to offer me a perspective... that I'm not the only one with trouble. I didn't tell her that I tried twice and that I've done lots of other things, because she clearly thought that her problem, which she overcame was much more important and better then mine.
Lots of people are like this... It's called "detraumatising": you give a much worse example to illustrate to the person that his/her problem is not a big deal, just a minor nuisance. The effect is pretty predictable: the person who gets to hear the story feels misunderstood and quits.
I didn't tell that person what I really thing about her "suicide-confession", but I'm willing to.
Now I'm going to stop typing... my hands are shaking just writing about it.
Let me make it clear to you one more time: I would like nothing more then these feelings and this state to STOP, the sooner the better!!!! It's NO fun.
...there isn't much you can do. Behavior like anger and frustration when you talk about it usually means that the person knows that he/she is addicted, but doesn't want to acknowledge it or accept it. The best thing you can do is leave you phone number and tell the friend that you are willing to listen to his troubles whenever it goes wrong. (and by the sound of it, it looks like it will)
"Any attempt to physically prevent him from playing the game would most likely result in an outburst of anger and possibly physical violence." It looks like you are not certain what will really happen. You can always try to find out, but it's equally important to know how to tell the friend what you think is wrong. Use a positive connotation like: "we would find it really nice if you would eat together with us when it's dinner time"
"Attempts at telling him he has a problem have been met with derision and angry retorts" It could just be fear for seeing what is really going wrong. It's a form of resistance.
I've done this once with my own therapist, and all she did was sit still and listen to my venting. I wanted to quit, I've had enough, I rather wanted to walk away instead of doing something about my problems. After 15 minutes of venting and threatening to leave, she just asked me: "and what are you going to do then? Flee again?" She was right... and I started crying because I didn't know how to handle myself any longer. I was scared and it cause the anger and resistance to change, to do something about it.
She helped me so much that once I was OK, I decided that I wanted to help others this way as well.:)
Most anger I see now is based on fear.
You can block ports, cut the cables or something like that, but as long as the person wants to escape reality by doing something like this, there isn't much you can do.
It's not cheap at first glance, but it couldn't be more obvious that it is cheap, if you take everything involved into account. I'm just a bit afraid of the response from RIAA. They proved time and time again that they start suits with or even without a solid reason, so I guess it won't take long before they will say that this service should be taken down immediately. Which would be a shame.
I'm not a dermatologist, but the image shows sores and skin removed the same way I experience it when I handle rough material. I usually cut down one or two trees a year, and after an extensive use of a saw and an axe - to cut and chop it all into pieces, collecting the wood and stocking it to let it dry in the summer to use next winter - I have the same wounds on my hands as in the included picture. It's usually even worse! I just make sure it's clean afterwards and use anti-bacterial cream on it. After a week, the skin heals perfectly fine all by itself.
... the usage and theory of chakra's is familiar for me. And still, even I, had a good laugh from this. I've encountered more morons in the alternative religions and therapies then I can count... Seriously, the theory is nice, as long as you can keep your reality check mechanism going. But alas, most of them are far off.
It's NOT a coincidence that people like these shout that Wifi's, DECT's, power lines, etc. hurt their 'inner self', but most of them just talk about it to *sell* an object like the one in the picture with the fine article.
It's nice to see how much they shout about these negative waves hurting your, but in the same breath they also mention that they happen to have a special device to make it all go away... for the minimum price of half a month's salary.
*sigh* It will never stop. The only enlightment that MOST of those people achieve is making your wallet lighter.
I dare say that I try to practice it all honestly. If somebody has a headache, I advise them to seek a doctor, if they hear somebody talking in their head, I direct them to a psychologist. I don't start working on chakra's, advice to drink 'healing' water or tell them to meditate daily half an hour before the sun sets.
There are a lot of coocoo-heads. Too much, if you ask me.
Easily even. I know an editor in my home country (Belgium) who has an author called Pieter Aspe that wrote his first issues on a C64. The editor had one machine that could convert his text automatically, so if an editor can do it with minor efforts, surely a bunch of IT personnel will be able to do this easily. No security thread in this at all.
I would sure like to see how popular auctions on retro home computers will chance after this news.
Hmmm, your right. I still stand with the fact that the lightweight DE's and window managers which do support some form of office application should be applicable for ODF. I don't like KOffice however. I'll stick to OO, because I like it and I use it at my work.
Good thing to see that KDE has joined the alliance, but I sure hope the other major and minor desktop environments follow along. It would especially be very nice to see some lightweight DE's like Fluxbox, Xfce, Icewm, etc. to join. After all, isn't the chance to install linux with a graphical client on very old PC's one of those main advantages to consider installing linux? Might as well make sure then when you recycle those PC's, they follow the same standards. I think a good kernel version and standards like these make all the difference.
Your right about that. Some things regretfully are still far from our reach, even with high tech or low tech, like I stated in my prevention. But I'm at least a little frustrated to see that there are lots of people who take news like this the wrong way. They shape their attitude with "oh well, if there's a cure, why should I worry?" I didn't mean to offend the technology, but far too often, it doesn't get to those who would really need it.
Wouldn't it just be better to invest in prevention instead of thinking about all this high tech when the damage has already been made? I know I will be trolled for this, but face it: most people who live in more "advanced" states and countries have serious trouble with high obesity figures. Face it: you all take your car far too often, visiting your neighbour who sometimes lives 20m away from you or going to the shop to buy some small groceries. Exercise seems to be the tool of the devil, since nobody ever does it, except when it's a social determination that you HAVE to do it (i.e. fitness...)
Learn to cook instead of seeing the inside of a prepared-meal-in-a-plastic-box (which has way too many salt, fat and sugar in them!) and you will certainly taste the difference after a while. In fatc, you will even know what's in it for a change! Seriously: try preparing more vegetables and meat or tofoe/quorn/soy/etc. (if your a vegetarian) without using much butter and adding salt and sugar. If you can pull through eating this, you will certainly feel much better after a while and taste the difference when you open canned or pre-maid food again.
Oh yeah: stop smoking! People around you don't have a choise when you smoke: they HAVE to smoke with you. Don't start calling yourself social when you smoke, since you just smoke for yourself, you selfish loner! Your environment, your collegues and your body will thank you for it (I don't care about your wallet!)
I know I know I know, all this prevention is pretty low tech of course... It's better to invest millions into solutions which are going to be available for the happy few (which are pretty weak, in a social-deterministic point of view) Darwin is laughing when he sees those people who think they can escape the selection mechanism when they use all those high tech solutions, costing them billions of $'s.
I have neither a certification from a major vendor nor a CS degree. And I'm asked time and again how/why I got my computer skills.
I can only agree with this poster. I've been using and learning to work with various things computer related since I was 5 years old. Now I'm 24, but I can't find a job in IT, since I don't have a CS or a cert. You can't even prove you skills. I tried, a lot... If HR doesn't see the acronyms they love so much, you simply don't stand a chance!
I'm starting to loose my interest, another illusion in my life. Now I was thinking of getting a cert in order to have a "piece of paper", in order to get even slightly access to a IT company. But as far as I have read here, most people see certs as worthless pieces of paper, acquired by people who happen to love learning questions out of their head in order to pass the exam. It doesn't surprise me that the negative point of view comes from those who have a CS.
If I can't get somewhere without taking university classes for at least 4 years, since certs aren't worth it, I can only quit. I'll just stay with my Sociology "piece of paper" from then on. Too bad certs form a good alternative to those who can't get a CS but are viewed in such a negative spotlight. No wonder IT has a negative image.
I've posted various comments on various forums and I always noticed that putting the brands in your posts results in a flame war for the rest of the topic in 90% of the cases. I'm not even talking about all the e-mail I received from those people who think that what THEY have is the best and what you and others have is pure junk.
However, I have almost never received an e-mail or reply in a forum from a user which tells me WHY they prefer their brand product and why mine isn't good. I'm always willing to go into a debate when there are ARGUMENTS. But most of them just stick with the pep talk. So: no arguments, no facts, no debate, just flame war...
Oh well, it's safe for me to say that I posted this from a linux PC. Linux isn't a brand (yet) and I hope it stays that way!
Hmmm, Why do people always depend on others when the list can be constructed with relative ease? Here's my list: 1. Run antivirus-update 2. Run full antivirus scan 3. Update firewall 4. Update Windowz 5. Update spyware program 6. Run spyware program & delete entries 7. Clean out TEMP folder 8. Reboot 9. Cold boot 10. Run disk check 11. Uninstall redundant software through configuration menu - Software 12. Run defragmentation 13. Uninstall drivers 14. Install up-to-date drivers 15. Degauss your CRT 16. Remove side-panel of case
And my all time favorite... 17. Read my Wishlist on Amazon and see what you can buy for me before I come over to repair your PC.:)
I remember compressing with JPEG. Very nice to cut down on the filesize when it was necessary. But there are 2 things that made me think this article was obsolete: a. compression at 30% and more with JPEG doesn't decrease quality in the image so that it's noticable. Only the trained eye will see the difference. b. harddisks are huge these days. The problem of space which made JPEG-compression so popular is gone, since CD/DVD's have replaced floppies and +200GB HDD's have replaced your average 210MB HDD from 1996.
210MB was a lot of space back then, but it was nice to have JPEG, just to cut back on the size so that you could use the extra megabytes for more usefull data, and not pron...
It's nice to see this (way better) alternative to IE becoming so popular. But it keeps bugging me that I have to patch up a lot of PC's from people who get the newest worms or viruses on their PC, thanks to IE bugs... Even when these people dislike IE and install Mozilla right away, they are still stuck with IE installed somewhere on the background... If IE wouldn't have been installed in the first place, it would save A LOT of bandwidth for every customer and for MS themselves. I'm not even talking about all the hours of programming time it would save them, since they wouldn't have to write bugfixes for IE all the time... But it's MS again, and as much as I have their way of handling their customers, it's the same people who are standing at my front door, asking to repair their PC, who are the victoms.
I'm not even talking about Outlook and OE.
So hooray for Mozilla! I know that I have a fair share in this number, since I installed Mozilla numerous times on the MS-victims PC's.
Cheers for the programmers of Mozilla! Keep on going!
The downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons, it added.
Well, instead of driving around on scooters, why do you people start realising that there is a good healthy (*gasp*) to get around town or the country... It's a bike! Yes, it never needs sodium borate/fuelcells/solar energy/fusion or compact nuclear reactor cores. Bikes use devices that are called LEGS. You never need to refuel them once in a while and they don't cause meltdowns.
Oh yeah, and it keeps you fit. Riding with a bike to work is an excellent outdoor fitness which doesn't even cost you a yearly subscription or special equipment and trainers (like some fitness centers do) and it is as effective for your health as running your *ss off and even having to pay for it each year!
And why do some people think that your country leaders will start fighting a war in the countries who happend to have tons of sodium borate when there are plenty of alternatives worked out right now. But then again, you will start fighting a war to possess those alternatives as well...
Big buttocks are also important. 'Have you ever looked at an ape? They have no buns
Makes me think of a song: "We can feel like... sandwiches You can be the bun, I can be the burger."
And of course we were born to run. Look at all the things we have to run away from today:
Microsoft
Terrorists
Mother-in-laws
Those 360 pounds "I eat a couple of burgers a day" big mama's
SCO employees
CowboyNeal
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Well, Since I've had to repair a couple of BSOD-prone Windowz boxes already with the help of Knoppix, I think this book can form a nice introduction to those same people who think Linux is just some sort of hacker software or who think that Windowz is the only OS on the planet!
But, looking at it from a different perspective, I do see that when it comes to using Knoppix as a general introduction to Linux, it won't work!!! Most people will see Knoppix as a good way to see what Linux is all about, but they only want to see it when: a. they are sure that when they remove the CD and reboot the PC, they see their "trusted" Win screen again, and b. it can solve the problems that Win produced or when the OS messed up (again)
I've had to reply a while ago to somebody who would like to know how to mount a NTFS partition from a rescue disc, and while he was at it, he would like to see this enabled in all Linux Live CD's, so that "people would see what Linux is all about and would eventually change OS". Yeah right!
Soon after I gave him the advice to use Knoppix and gave him some links to programs and commands that made him able to mount a NTFS partition, I asked him what he was going to do after he successfully mounted the NTFS partition and recovered his data... Well, he was used to the OS he liked, so it was obvious that Linux wasn't going to be the only OS on his HDD after the data recovery...
What is the conclusion to this? Well, most people will see Linux as a TOOL to clean up the mess that Win made. Some other people will actually see it as a nice introduction to Linux. But most people will not change OS, since they are so used to working or playing in their everyday environment, that it will demand a HUGE effort and willpower to format C it all and use Linux only.
Migrating people to Linux is becoming a lot harder when most people just see Linux as a tool or as a nice introduction, but nothing more then that...
Despite what most have posted, Intel is going to win out of this. Dell queries AMD and AMD replies, while Dell secretly hopes that Intel is going to jump on this and lower their prices for CPU's, so that Dell can sell the PC's at the same price, but get more profit out of them. So Dell should be the winner, right?
Well, no... Since Intel sees what Dell is up to, it plays the game and acts like it's totally ignorant. It gives new features and lower prices for the CPU's, but therefore it's going to need Intel chipsets and motherboards... You can see what this is going to cause? Chipset and Intel motherboard prices will rise and I'm not sure Intel is going to lower their CPU prices that much either. It's simply enough for them to advertise "Now, Intel CPU's got better, faster and cheaper". But when the whole media campaign is over, Intel has revenue from it's motherboard and chipsets, while raising the CPU price again.
The linked Liti Holo site has a slight typo in it's text. It mentions that "IN ABOUT AN HOUR from the time you open the box, you could be looking at your first hologram"
Shouldn't that be "IN ABOUT AN HOUR from the time you open the box, you will be drooling at your first hologram"???
Just like karma whores, you are going to end up with stats whores for different games. It's far better to have a player with less kills but good tactics then someone who always runs for the same mass-destruction gun and blows everything up (almost always including himself/herself...)
I remember playing a UT2003 game at which point a player always runs for the redeemer and launched it whenever the opportunity was there. Enemies would be standing 2 meters away, but that didn't stop him using the weapon... Sad.
BTW, what good does it do to have 5000 kills stats ? What are you going to do with that? Put it on your resume? It ain't gonna impress anybody when they read that and who even remotely cares about your stats except yourself?
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Seen the animation a while ago, but it still gives a good view of what forced smiling could end up to when placed in the wrong hands...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/165898
But it sounds very familiar for me.
Let me tell you why: I've been bullied for more then 12 years, and it resulted in a behavior that sometimes can be a little bit... hard for others to understand. Most people I meet don't have a clue what is going on, but I feel almost always paranoid that whatever I tell them is going to be used against me some time later on.
The biggest problem I have with this is that I realize what I'm doing... but I can't change it. It's not only bitterness, it's also hate, it's also disappointment.
Yes, I'm in treatment, because I started to realize that this was not only making it a very tough time for others... it's also a daily battle against myself.
The main thing that aches the most is that I have to pay lots of money for this treatment. While those who originally caused it just had their fun with me. And live happily every after. I feel the urge to take revenge... sometimes.
I feel that it's quite unfair. It costs me >$300 a month for treatments while those bullies just walk around now without probably having a clue of what they did.
Oh yes, I did meet a couple of them later on. But none of them ever said how wrong they were. I'm pretty sure that if they would have the chance, they would do it all over again.
I want this trouble to end.
I thought about killing them, but that's not a solution. But quite frankly, I don't see any other way. It's revenge I want to take and it's something I'm pretty sure of that is legitimate.
Well, it is to me. Restoring balance...
I see people around me and talk with people who had minor problems in comparison with what I had, but I fail to see what the big deal is.
One person told me that she almost killed herself, but didn't do it and got better over time.
She told me the story to offer me a perspective... that I'm not the only one with trouble.
I didn't tell her that I tried twice and that I've done lots of other things, because she clearly thought that her problem, which she overcame was much more important and better then mine.
Lots of people are like this...
It's called "detraumatising": you give a much worse example to illustrate to the person that his/her problem is not a big deal, just a minor nuisance. The effect is pretty predictable: the person who gets to hear the story feels misunderstood and quits.
I didn't tell that person what I really thing about her "suicide-confession", but I'm willing to.
Now I'm going to stop typing... my hands are shaking just writing about it.
Let me make it clear to you one more time: I would like nothing more then these feelings and this state to STOP, the sooner the better!!!!
It's NO fun.
Glad I see my therapist soon...
...there isn't much you can do. Behavior like anger and frustration when you talk about it usually means that the person knows that he/she is addicted, but doesn't want to acknowledge it or accept it. The best thing you can do is leave you phone number and tell the friend that you are willing to listen to his troubles whenever it goes wrong. (and by the sound of it, it looks like it will)
"Any attempt to physically prevent him from playing the game would most likely result in an outburst of anger and possibly physical violence."
It looks like you are not certain what will really happen. You can always try to find out, but it's equally important to know how to tell the friend what you think is wrong. Use a positive connotation like: "we would find it really nice if you would eat together with us when it's dinner time"
"Attempts at telling him he has a problem have been met with derision and angry retorts"
It could just be fear for seeing what is really going wrong. It's a form of resistance.
I've done this once with my own therapist, and all she did was sit still and listen to my venting. I wanted to quit, I've had enough, I rather wanted to walk away instead of doing something about my problems. After 15 minutes of venting and threatening to leave, she just asked me: "and what are you going to do then? Flee again?"
She was right... and I started crying because I didn't know how to handle myself any longer. I was scared and it cause the anger and resistance to change, to do something about it.
She helped me so much that once I was OK, I decided that I wanted to help others this way as well. :)
Most anger I see now is based on fear.
You can block ports, cut the cables or something like that, but as long as the person wants to escape reality by doing something like this, there isn't much you can do.
It's not cheap at first glance, but it couldn't be more obvious that it is cheap, if you take everything involved into account. I'm just a bit afraid of the response from RIAA. They proved time and time again that they start suits with or even without a solid reason, so I guess it won't take long before they will say that this service should be taken down immediately.
Which would be a shame.
What if rocks feel pain as well? What do we eat then?
I'm not a dermatologist, but the image shows sores and skin removed the same way I experience it when I handle rough material. I usually cut down one or two trees a year, and after an extensive use of a saw and an axe - to cut and chop it all into pieces, collecting the wood and stocking it to let it dry in the summer to use next winter - I have the same wounds on my hands as in the included picture.
It's usually even worse! I just make sure it's clean afterwards and use anti-bacterial cream on it. After a week, the skin heals perfectly fine all by itself.
... the usage and theory of chakra's is familiar for me. And still, even I, had a good laugh from this. I've encountered more morons in the alternative religions and therapies then I can count...
Seriously, the theory is nice, as long as you can keep your reality check mechanism going. But alas, most of them are far off.
It's NOT a coincidence that people like these shout that Wifi's, DECT's, power lines, etc. hurt their 'inner self', but most of them just talk about it to *sell* an object like the one in the picture with the fine article.
It's nice to see how much they shout about these negative waves hurting your, but in the same breath they also mention that they happen to have a special device to make it all go away... for the minimum price of half a month's salary.
*sigh*
It will never stop. The only enlightment that MOST of those people achieve is making your wallet lighter.
I dare say that I try to practice it all honestly. If somebody has a headache, I advise them to seek a doctor, if they hear somebody talking in their head, I direct them to a psychologist. I don't start working on chakra's, advice to drink 'healing' water or tell them to meditate daily half an hour before the sun sets.
There are a lot of coocoo-heads. Too much, if you ask me.
Easily even. I know an editor in my home country (Belgium) who has an author called Pieter Aspe that wrote his first issues on a C64. The editor had one machine that could convert his text automatically, so if an editor can do it with minor efforts, surely a bunch of IT personnel will be able to do this easily.
No security thread in this at all.
I would sure like to see how popular auctions on retro home computers will chance after this news.
It's very simple actually: somebody needed some tape to record the episodes of Friends on them. You know how we all love that serie, right? *ducks*
Hmmm, your right. I still stand with the fact that the lightweight DE's and window managers which do support some form of office application should be applicable for ODF. I don't like KOffice however. I'll stick to OO, because I like it and I use it at my work.
Good thing to see that KDE has joined the alliance, but I sure hope the other major and minor desktop environments follow along. It would especially be very nice to see some lightweight DE's like Fluxbox, Xfce, Icewm, etc. to join. After all, isn't the chance to install linux with a graphical client on very old PC's one of those main advantages to consider installing linux? Might as well make sure then when you recycle those PC's, they follow the same standards. I think a good kernel version and standards like these make all the difference.
Your right about that. Some things regretfully are still far from our reach, even with high tech or low tech, like I stated in my prevention. But I'm at least a little frustrated to see that there are lots of people who take news like this the wrong way. They shape their attitude with "oh well, if there's a cure, why should I worry?"
I didn't mean to offend the technology, but far too often, it doesn't get to those who would really need it.
Wouldn't it just be better to invest in prevention instead of thinking about all this high tech when the damage has already been made? I know I will be trolled for this, but face it: most people who live in more "advanced" states and countries have serious trouble with high obesity figures. Face it: you all take your car far too often, visiting your neighbour who sometimes lives 20m away from you or going to the shop to buy some small groceries. Exercise seems to be the tool of the devil, since nobody ever does it, except when it's a social determination that you HAVE to do it (i.e. fitness...)
Learn to cook instead of seeing the inside of a prepared-meal-in-a-plastic-box (which has way too many salt, fat and sugar in them!) and you will certainly taste the difference after a while. In fatc, you will even know what's in it for a change!
Seriously: try preparing more vegetables and meat or tofoe/quorn/soy/etc. (if your a vegetarian) without using much butter and adding salt and sugar. If you can pull through eating this, you will certainly feel much better after a while and taste the difference when you open canned or pre-maid food again.
Oh yeah: stop smoking! People around you don't have a choise when you smoke: they HAVE to smoke with you. Don't start calling yourself social when you smoke, since you just smoke for yourself, you selfish loner! Your environment, your collegues and your body will thank you for it (I don't care about your wallet!)
I know I know I know, all this prevention is pretty low tech of course...
It's better to invest millions into solutions which are going to be available for the happy few (which are pretty weak, in a social-deterministic point of view)
Darwin is laughing when he sees those people who think they can escape the selection mechanism when they use all those high tech solutions, costing them billions of $'s.
I have neither a certification from a major vendor nor a CS degree. And I'm asked time and again how/why I got my computer skills.
I can only agree with this poster. I've been using and learning to work with various things computer related since I was 5 years old. Now I'm 24, but I can't find a job in IT, since I don't have a CS or a cert. You can't even prove you skills. I tried, a lot...
If HR doesn't see the acronyms they love so much, you simply don't stand a chance!
I'm starting to loose my interest, another illusion in my life. Now I was thinking of getting a cert in order to have a "piece of paper", in order to get even slightly access to a IT company. But as far as I have read here, most people see certs as worthless pieces of paper, acquired by people who happen to love learning questions out of their head in order to pass the exam.
It doesn't surprise me that the negative point of view comes from those who have a CS.
If I can't get somewhere without taking university classes for at least 4 years, since certs aren't worth it, I can only quit. I'll just stay with my Sociology "piece of paper" from then on. Too bad certs form a good alternative to those who can't get a CS but are viewed in such a negative spotlight. No wonder IT has a negative image.
I've posted various comments on various forums and I always noticed that putting the brands in your posts results in a flame war for the rest of the topic in 90% of the cases.
I'm not even talking about all the e-mail I received from those people who think that what THEY have is the best and what you and others have is pure junk.
However, I have almost never received an e-mail or reply in a forum from a user which tells me WHY they prefer their brand product and why mine isn't good. I'm always willing to go into a debate when there are ARGUMENTS. But most of them just stick with the pep talk. So: no arguments, no facts, no debate, just flame war...
Oh well, it's safe for me to say that I posted this from a linux PC. Linux isn't a brand (yet) and I hope it stays that way!
Hmmm, Why do people always depend on others when the list can be constructed with relative ease?
:)
Here's my list:
1. Run antivirus-update
2. Run full antivirus scan
3. Update firewall
4. Update Windowz
5. Update spyware program
6. Run spyware program & delete entries
7. Clean out TEMP folder
8. Reboot
9. Cold boot
10. Run disk check
11. Uninstall redundant software through configuration menu - Software
12. Run defragmentation
13. Uninstall drivers
14. Install up-to-date drivers
15. Degauss your CRT
16. Remove side-panel of case
And my all time favorite...
17. Read my Wishlist on Amazon and see what you can buy for me before I come over to repair your PC.
I remember compressing with JPEG. Very nice to cut down on the filesize when it was necessary. But there are 2 things that made me think this article was obsolete:
a. compression at 30% and more with JPEG doesn't decrease quality in the image so that it's noticable. Only the trained eye will see the difference.
b. harddisks are huge these days. The problem of space which made JPEG-compression so popular is gone, since CD/DVD's have replaced floppies and +200GB HDD's have replaced your average 210MB HDD from 1996.
210MB was a lot of space back then, but it was nice to have JPEG, just to cut back on the size so that you could use the extra megabytes for more usefull data, and not pron...
It's nice to see this (way better) alternative to IE becoming so popular. But it keeps bugging me that I have to patch up a lot of PC's from people who get the newest worms or viruses on their PC, thanks to IE bugs...
Even when these people dislike IE and install Mozilla right away, they are still stuck with IE installed somewhere on the background...
If IE wouldn't have been installed in the first place, it would save A LOT of bandwidth for every customer and for MS themselves. I'm not even talking about all the hours of programming time it would save them, since they wouldn't have to write bugfixes for IE all the time...
But it's MS again, and as much as I have their way of handling their customers, it's the same people who are standing at my front door, asking to repair their PC, who are the victoms.
I'm not even talking about Outlook and OE.
So hooray for Mozilla! I know that I have a fair share in this number, since I installed Mozilla numerous times on the MS-victims PC's.
Cheers for the programmers of Mozilla! Keep on going!
The downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons, it added.
Well, instead of driving around on scooters, why do you people start realising that there is a good healthy (*gasp*) to get around town or the country...
It's a bike! Yes, it never needs sodium borate/fuelcells/solar energy/fusion or compact nuclear reactor cores. Bikes use devices that are called LEGS. You never need to refuel them once in a while and they don't cause meltdowns.
Oh yeah, and it keeps you fit. Riding with a bike to work is an excellent outdoor fitness which doesn't even cost you a yearly subscription or special equipment and trainers (like some fitness centers do) and it is as effective for your health as running your *ss off and even having to pay for it each year!
And why do some people think that your country leaders will start fighting a war in the countries who happend to have tons of sodium borate when there are plenty of alternatives worked out right now. But then again, you will start fighting a war to possess those alternatives as well...
Big buttocks are also important. 'Have you ever looked at an ape? They have no buns
Makes me think of a song:
"We can feel like... sandwiches
You can be the bun,
I can be the burger."
And of course we were born to run. Look at all the things we have to run away from today:
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Since I've had to repair a couple of BSOD-prone Windowz boxes already with the help of Knoppix, I think this book can form a nice introduction to those same people who think Linux is just some sort of hacker software or who think that Windowz is the only OS on the planet!
But, looking at it from a different perspective, I do see that when it comes to using Knoppix as a general introduction to Linux, it won't work!!!
Most people will see Knoppix as a good way to see what Linux is all about, but they only want to see it when:
a. they are sure that when they remove the CD and reboot the PC, they see their "trusted" Win screen again, and
b. it can solve the problems that Win produced or when the OS messed up (again)
I've had to reply a while ago to somebody who would like to know how to mount a NTFS partition from a rescue disc, and while he was at it, he would like to see this enabled in all Linux Live CD's, so that "people would see what Linux is all about and would eventually change OS".
Yeah right!
Soon after I gave him the advice to use Knoppix and gave him some links to programs and commands that made him able to mount a NTFS partition, I asked him what he was going to do after he successfully mounted the NTFS partition and recovered his data...
Well, he was used to the OS he liked, so it was obvious that Linux wasn't going to be the only OS on his HDD after the data recovery...
What is the conclusion to this? Well, most people will see Linux as a TOOL to clean up the mess that Win made. Some other people will actually see it as a nice introduction to Linux.
But most people will not change OS, since they are so used to working or playing in their everyday environment, that it will demand a HUGE effort and willpower to format C it all and use Linux only.
Migrating people to Linux is becoming a lot harder when most people just see Linux as a tool or as a nice introduction, but nothing more then that...
Despite what most have posted, Intel is going to win out of this.
Dell queries AMD and AMD replies, while Dell secretly hopes that Intel is going to jump on this and lower their prices for CPU's, so that Dell can sell the PC's at the same price, but get more profit out of them.
So Dell should be the winner, right?
Well, no...
Since Intel sees what Dell is up to, it plays the game and acts like it's totally ignorant. It gives new features and lower prices for the CPU's, but therefore it's going to need Intel chipsets and motherboards...
You can see what this is going to cause?
Chipset and Intel motherboard prices will rise and I'm not sure Intel is going to lower their CPU prices that much either.
It's simply enough for them to advertise "Now, Intel CPU's got better, faster and cheaper".
But when the whole media campaign is over, Intel has revenue from it's motherboard and chipsets, while raising the CPU price again.
Who is losing now???
The linked Liti Holo site has a slight typo in it's text. It mentions that "IN ABOUT AN HOUR from the time you open the box, you could be looking at your first hologram"
Shouldn't that be "IN ABOUT AN HOUR from the time you open the box, you will be drooling at your first hologram"???
Just like karma whores, you are going to end up with stats whores for different games. It's far better to have a player with less kills but good tactics then someone who always runs for the same mass-destruction gun and blows everything up (almost always including himself/herself...)
I remember playing a UT2003 game at which point a player always runs for the redeemer and launched it whenever the opportunity was there. Enemies would be standing 2 meters away, but that didn't stop him using the weapon... Sad.
BTW, what good does it do to have 5000 kills stats ? What are you going to do with that? Put it on your resume? It ain't gonna impress anybody when they read that and who even remotely cares about your stats except yourself?