yeah, i agree these government officals are the very ones that pissed off the rest of the world with their draconian policies enough to want to attack the USA in the first place...
if a meteor hit the earth causing catastrophic damage where most life died, i wont want to be protected in a bunker only to come out and see a dead planet, what then? slowly starve to death because the environment is ruined, or die quickly from a poisoned atmosphere? living in a sterile bubble wont be a life it would be a prison sentence
if they get their way they would gladly turn the USA in to a primitave backwards nation run by religious/superstitious whackos that are no better than the Taliban...
to quote another's sig i read in here: "If God hates the same people you do then maybe you made God in your image"
i am trying to xorg's X with Nvidia's driver compiled in to give me screen resolution that is somewhere close to halfway in-between 800x600 and 1024x768 say maybe in the 9XXx6XX or 9XXx7XX range, i once had an old Voodoo3 card that gave me an in-between resolution when i was using Win98 years ago, i have since abandoned MS-Windows in favor of GNU/Linux...
anyone ever try this?
cellphone, i dont need a camera or mp3 player or any other multimedia device included, i only want phone service and voice mail so callers can leave a message if i am not available, nothing more...
i am semi retired, but i still enjoy working part time for fun and profit. i work with a friend of mine that does finish/trim carpentry about 80 miles away and i can not affored to drive it everyday, so i boing an army cot & etc. and and camp out in one of the unfinished apartments (with plumbing & electric). drive up on a monday morning and back home thursday evening - four days on three days off.
MSNBC is just being patriotic and helping the government bash Lenovo...
what i would love to see is sub-500 ($495.00?) dollar USD lenovo lappys with GNU/Linux pre-installed for sale in brick & morter computer stores & large dept. stores (Wal-Mart & etc) i bet that would cause ballmer to have a stroke and/or throw a truckload of chairs...
you can get the fingerprint of every type of material in the known universe and use it for lots of different applications from hunting for gold and other metals, to finding the optimum soil conditions for growing vegetables, to finding cancer in humans (maybe - i hope)
i can see lots of good this can do...
Star Treck - sounds like the tricorder device Spock used to use analizing the local environment when they land on some strange planet...
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yeah, i agree these government officals are the very ones that pissed off the rest of the world with their draconian policies enough to want to attack the USA in the first place...
if a meteor hit the earth causing catastrophic damage where most life died, i wont want to be protected in a bunker only to come out and see a dead planet, what then? slowly starve to death because the environment is ruined, or die quickly from a poisoned atmosphere? living in a sterile bubble wont be a life it would be a prison sentence
dupe this story when the results & cartoons are ready, please :)
Thanks for the warning, i now wont be purchasing any of your products in the future, i hope a Lenovo executive reads /. today
Orbiting brain lasers...
YES! i can go for that idea...
is to drive the ones that legally cross the border underground or to the places where the illegals cross.
:p
what then? have drone aircraft flying the border strafing illegals with RFID bullets from a machinegun?
just build a GNU/Linux distro instead :p
the parallels are so close it is scary!
RE:"In Soviet Russia, the government controls the commerce."
:p
In Capitalistic society commerce controls the government
mirrored their data to another machine in another nation where the authorities can not touch it...
i will save Ubuntu the cost of shipping & handleing and download an ISO and keep a stack of blank CD-Rs and burn a few for anyone that asks
if they get their way they would gladly turn the USA in to a primitave backwards nation run by religious/superstitious whackos that are no better than the Taliban...
to quote another's sig i read in here: "If God hates the same people you do then maybe you made God in your image"
the normal screen resolutions are already there, what i want is some in-between resolutions...
i am trying to xorg's X with Nvidia's driver compiled in to give me screen resolution that is somewhere close to halfway in-between 800x600 and 1024x768 say maybe in the 9XXx6XX or 9XXx7XX range, i once had an old Voodoo3 card that gave me an in-between resolution when i was using Win98 years ago, i have since abandoned MS-Windows in favor of GNU/Linux... anyone ever try this?
WTF? i thought Slackware-11.0 was just released!
umm, RMS told me to tell you that is GNU/Linux you incensitive clod!
cellphone, i dont need a camera or mp3 player or any other multimedia device included, i only want phone service and voice mail so callers can leave a message if i am not available, nothing more...
i am semi retired, but i still enjoy working part time for fun and profit. i work with a friend of mine that does finish/trim carpentry about 80 miles away and i can not affored to drive it everyday, so i boing an army cot & etc. and and camp out in one of the unfinished apartments (with plumbing & electric). drive up on a monday morning and back home thursday evening - four days on three days off.
the Bull Shit Aint never going to stop...
65% of all statistics are made up on the spot, including this one.
i hope this interfaces with my orbiting brain lazor.
Kongratulations:)
MSNBC is just being patriotic and helping the government bash Lenovo...
what i would love to see is sub-500 ($495.00?) dollar USD lenovo lappys with GNU/Linux pre-installed for sale in brick & morter computer stores & large dept. stores (Wal-Mart & etc) i bet that would cause ballmer to have a stroke and/or throw a truckload of chairs...
good comeback :)
if i had mod points i would give it a +* Funny
you can get the fingerprint of every type of material in the known universe and use it for lots of different applications from hunting for gold and other metals, to finding the optimum soil conditions for growing vegetables, to finding cancer in humans (maybe - i hope)
i can see lots of good this can do...
Star Treck - sounds like the tricorder device Spock used to use analizing the local environment when they land on some strange planet...