Works fine, and I have a decently powered Virgin Mobile Awe (4.4 Cyanogen, 2nd core enabled). HD stutters a bit, but that it works at all (unlike others who can't get it working on their top of the line phones) is amazing.
On a similar note what about school? I believe it is mandatory for you to send your little sproglet to school still in the states? Should we just leave that up to the parents entirely as well even though a child getting to 16 and being unable to read and write is pretty much guaranteed to be a grade A fuckup who can't earn a living and will therefore cost society a fortune in prison fees (prisons are expensive btw)?
In the US you don't have to send your kid to school, though state laws differ as to how to handle they want homeschooling handled. in Idaho, they don't care. If they can get a GED or diploma, wonderful. If not, guess the parent screwed up. Other states want you to submit a full year course and teaching outlines.
We've homeschooled my step-daughter many times, only because she has issues with picking up social cues and had a terrible time. We would homeschool her more if we could, but she fights everything, and seems to have this notion that the teacher is always right, even when proven wrong.
But when we homeschooled, she would start a grade behind, and when we had to send her back to public school (my wife's health generally has been an issue), she would be a grade ahead. If she didn't have an idiot of a dad and an even more idiot of a family on his side, she would probably be homeschooled all the time.
We found a school that works for us and her locally that helps with her social skills and learning social cues, and they don't move on from a lesson unless she's scoring a "C". She's gone from a 2.0 grade average to a 3.5 grade average. We get to see her grades online and what is going on, which helps since this school doesn't do homework (for 7th grade, 8th grade she'll have some), which makes her happy too. Class size is limited to 15 students per teacher, so more child-teacher interaction time. It's certainly a luxury that a lot of public school (which this one is) don't have these days/
Parents can do just as good a job or better being the teacher if they can put the time into it (and one parent makes enough money to support a spouse staying home). Unless you were my wife's parents, who took her and her brothers out of school to homeschool, only to actually just clean the house and not actually teach anything. My wife basically went to college with a 4th grade education and graduated, because luckily she was smart enough to read while she was out of school and learn on her own and with her brothers. Now she wants to go back to learn how to program to make apps for children.
My wife and I went to a birthing center for our last two boys and received information on letting the cord finish pulsating before the cord is cut. Basically the logic is if you're cutting the cord early your depriving your baby of the blood they need to live and breathe when they are first born. I'd rather they get all their blood now so they can be healthy later, not have their body fight for a bit while they regain the blood they lost from the transfer.
Sometimes it's just easier to see what's going on rather than being told what the problem is, though they should always get permission first. Despite some best efforts, knowledge documentation the help desks use can be outdated and/or incorrect. I've had my own experiences where the person on the phone was refusing to let me remote into their desktop and just tell me where they were clicking or what boxes they were highlighting. I tried my best to work with them, but people use their computers differently so what they were describing didn't make sense to me. Once I finally was able to convince them to let me remote into the damned thing 20 minutes later I was able to fix their issues in 2 minutes, including testing to make sure that what I had done is what they wanted.
All I can say is don't be a pain to help desk staff. Most are willing to genuinely help people (as much as we lament at their lack of help, or don't want to be put on with the kid who thinks he knows everything) and the good ones try to better themselves to help you better. Stonewalling them because for whatever reason you don't want them seeing your desktop doesn't exactly help you in the future, as your ticket will sit in limbo longer because they don't want to deal with "that guy".
All of those reasons you listed are why my wife and I will be homeschooling our 1-month old son when the time comes. My stepdaughter is in public school now, and they continually convince me that I do not want to trust my son's education in their hands. As it is, we try to supplement her education so that she doesn't fall behind, especially when the teacher doesn't have time to go over papers with her.
I will be more than thankful when we move out of our current district and into one that will hopefully have better teachers than she has now. And she'll be in a school that isn't proud of the fact that 85% of the students can't even afford lunch.
Have you used VNC with 24-bit color? It's slow to refresh when I'm away from home.
NX is nice and all, but the "need to match color depth" is a show stopper. Even X won't let me run in 32-bit color. The best I can make it do is 24-bit.
The one thing that keeps me from running NX is that it won't let me connect to my session unless both the server and client run the exact same color depth. With VNC, I can connect to my 16-bit color X session at home on my 32-bit color Windows client at work. With NX, unless both desktops are running the exact same color depth, it won't connect. If there's a way around this, Google's search hasn't shown me anything.
Idaho is very typically a red state, but if you go by any of the parties that get thrown down here for primaries and whatnot, you'll find that Ron Paul was better liked than McCain. I think it's the first time disgruntled democrats and gruntled republicans every agreed on someone in this state.
Someone's bitter...better go use that free hand of yours to relieve some of that pent up tension, because that's all you're going to get with language like that.
make MythTV work on this! Since I see no distributed frontends that don't suck or won't work correctly in Windows, this may finally be the answer to all those prayers. My girlfriend is not interested in running Linux, but she sometimes wants to watch her shows while she's running raids in WoW. This would make her very happy as running her shows through a SMB share doesn't help since the shows use their own naming scheme that doesn't exactly tell her what it is.
I seem to have a problem with Vista and my monitor, or video driver, or even the video card. I can't tell which because whenever I change resolutions with my Nvidia Geforce 7900GTX my monitor turns into junk and from there I can either reboot or log in to the computer with remote desktop just so my monitor quits sending banding lines to the monitor.
I found that if decrease my RAM speed from stock to 10Mhz less, I don't get the banding problems most of the time. It could also be related to the refresh rate, which Vista allows more options to change than XP does. I can't tell, because it seems very few people have this problem.:P Vista won't even let me install the monitor drivers for my LCD unless I hack them a little, then it complains about them not being signed anymore.
On the other hand, XP has no issues with my video card, so I have no idea how to solve the problem. This has been the first time that a Windows install has caused me problems, so maybe my luck with Windows is running out now that it knows I'm using Linux and Mac OS X more.
With terrorists, we tend to at least know who they are when they blow themselves up.
So can we call Microsoft a terrorist when Vista blows up my computer?
Thankfully I can't use Vista anyway. I've tried to get it installed several times but after it detects and installs drivers for my video card (Nvidia 7900GT) Vista won't load at all unless I use safe mode, which is about as useful as Vista is to me anyway.
and I happily call the teachers thieves when they ask for more money
Riiight, because only you are allowed a raise, and teachers just need to be stuck at their current salary forever. If you actually know anyone who teaches, I want you to go right now tell them that they're a thief. I doubt you would have the balls to do so.
You don't seem to understand that teaching can be a thankless job when you have parents bitching at you because their little Jimmy doesn't deserve a B, and is a cute little angel because he can do no wrong when he continuously disrupts class. And thanks to underfunding education, teachers can spend $500 or more easily just to get the supplies they need for their classroom to actually teach. Also, "No Child Left Behind" doesn't help them either when, instead of teaching to expand minds, they have to teach to a test to make sure that their school doesn't get their funding cut even further.
Maybe I'm a bit biased because my girlfriend is in college to become a grade school teacher and my friend's wife is a teacher as well, but at least I have a clue what goes on inside a school to make a better judgment on why those "thieving" teachers would want a raise in the first place.
I feel sorry for the people who you "bring over to your side" when you're pushing for downsizing of a already finacially-strained institution that has enough problems trying to fit 50 kids into one classroom. Why don't you use that power to help the school become more efficient instead of being a greedy bastard?
The PS2 worked out for Sony for DVD because there was a big difference between watching a VHS tape of your favorite movie, and having it in 5.1 surround sound with better video, even if DVD movies were expensive then. DVD players were about the cost of a PS2, so this was a no-brainer to get a system that could play DVDs as well as games, plus the PS1 library was backwards compatible with it.
The PS3 is trying to push the same kind of magic, but DVDs are now so entrenched to the point where all you need is to wait a couple of months and you can get the "new" releases you wanted for about half the price, while HD movies are around $30-$35 for a new release and take longer for the prices will fall in the same way regular DVDs do (unless the movie sales suck, then they'll try to push them out as quick as they can). People have built up their DVD library from the VHS collections they replaced, and they don't seem to want to do the same thing again for HD-DVD or BluRay.
Maybe if they had spent time trying to make a game console instead of trying to sneak BluRay in the backdoor as a marketing ploy and not insult their market by being pricks, they might be doing better than they are now.
After reading the wiki on it to refresh my memory (I worked at a TV station that aired this), I can safely say that I wouldn't have been surprised if all the cars came together to form a giant robot, since it featured two motorcycles that joined together. Why not go all the way? It really did have the feeling of a very expensive Power Ranger series.
I also work in the IT industry, more specifically desktop support, which means I get to replace a computer when the hard drive dies out.
I believe that Maxtor sells their bottom-of-the-line hard drives that barely pass testing to places like HP for cheap computers. My theory for this is that I have nine Maxtor drives at home, and they're at least three years old (PATA and SATA), and I haven't had any kind of failure to them.
On the other hand, the HP computers we have here have had a lot of Maxtors die within three years. They're the 40GB Diamondmax 9 series, which I believe was only one platter since it's so thin (and looks as cheap).
Maxtor retail seem to be the better of the bunch, but stay away from their OEM stuff if you come across it (usually identified by a "Replace with HP Spare" sticker). At least I don't mind Seagate drives. I have two 80GB drives in a mirror for my/home and/var dirs.
Apart from Wii sports I really don't find much reason to play my Wii now Do you have a GameCube? If not, then you can probably find plenty of GameCube games that you would be interested in that you never played or missed during its tenure. I know this is all supposed to be about the next-gen of games, but from the comments I see it's like people forget past the Virtual Console that it can play GameCube games too. For $25 you can have a used controller and a memory card and be good to go. Used GameCube games will probably run you $10-$25 if you don't want to rent.
He did. He's saying give you head a bigass bloody wound (equal to the amount of baldness you have) so the skin will heal, and with it you'll get your hair back with new follicle growth.
The tricky part is finding something that will take off the skin without taking the rest of your head with it.
Assuming someone bought her the retail version and upgraded her computer (probably after begging to upgrade it and then giving in, but it's generally easy to put the disk in and click upgrade themselves and think everything is normal), they don't generally have the OEM stickers to put on the computer unless they changed that practice these days.
The install keys I've seen in retail versions are on a yellow sticker inside the brochure-like envelope they put in the box which doesn't detach unless you rip it off and superglue it to the case.:)
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They can't make babies and their sex acts are filthy, and contrary to nature and basic of anatomy.
So it's ok if a man and a woman have anal sex, but if two men do it, it goes against nature.
Also, your argument seems to be that if you're not producing offspring, you shouldn't get married. So couples who choose or one way or another cannot have a baby, they shouldn't be allowed to get married? Holy double standards, Batman!
Homosexuals dont really want to be married as much as they hate not being able to.
Yes, I'm sure every homosexual hates not being able to not have the ability to go out and marry a complete stranger you don't even know, or to be like Britney Spears and annul a marrage that was 55 hours in. That whole "santity of marriage" B.S.
They are desperate to pretend their peccadillos are "normal" and want to force it on society via the courts.
Like when a black man wanted to marry a white woman. People didn't think that was normal either, and would lead to polygamy and bestiality, the same arguments that are being used right now. When you have fill-in-the-blank discrimination, things need to be looked at, especially when the argument is "God/My Deity says this is bad, so I must put my views on the rest of society". You're welcome to your views, but in this nation it's not "my religion is the only law and you must follow".
It's another step down in social decay and not a rise up in civil rights.
Name one nation/state that has had social decay since making gay marriage legal. If you really want to stop social decay, maybe we need to see why the US has a 50% divorce rate, giving little Jimmy and Susan the overall possibility of having two moms and two dads (possibly more with subsequent marriages), but in the socially acceptable way. And it seems lots of parent want the government to do their job for them, because we have to be friends with our children now and scold them as lightly as we can.
And that's only two subjects that would probably go a long way in stopping social decay, which is to start learning to have some respect for other people's views and actually try to compromise, and take responsibility for your actions (manners would be nice too). It's not wonder the world sees us as fat and lazy and rude, because that's what most of the US is becoming.
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Works fine, and I have a decently powered Virgin Mobile Awe (4.4 Cyanogen, 2nd core enabled). HD stutters a bit, but that it works at all (unlike others who can't get it working on their top of the line phones) is amazing.
On a similar note what about school? I believe it is mandatory for you to send your little sproglet to school still in the states? Should we just leave that up to the parents entirely as well even though a child getting to 16 and being unable to read and write is pretty much guaranteed to be a grade A fuckup who can't earn a living and will therefore cost society a fortune in prison fees (prisons are expensive btw)?
In the US you don't have to send your kid to school, though state laws differ as to how to handle they want homeschooling handled. in Idaho, they don't care. If they can get a GED or diploma, wonderful. If not, guess the parent screwed up. Other states want you to submit a full year course and teaching outlines.
We've homeschooled my step-daughter many times, only because she has issues with picking up social cues and had a terrible time. We would homeschool her more if we could, but she fights everything, and seems to have this notion that the teacher is always right, even when proven wrong.
But when we homeschooled, she would start a grade behind, and when we had to send her back to public school (my wife's health generally has been an issue), she would be a grade ahead. If she didn't have an idiot of a dad and an even more idiot of a family on his side, she would probably be homeschooled all the time.
We found a school that works for us and her locally that helps with her social skills and learning social cues, and they don't move on from a lesson unless she's scoring a "C". She's gone from a 2.0 grade average to a 3.5 grade average. We get to see her grades online and what is going on, which helps since this school doesn't do homework (for 7th grade, 8th grade she'll have some), which makes her happy too. Class size is limited to 15 students per teacher, so more child-teacher interaction time. It's certainly a luxury that a lot of public school (which this one is) don't have these days/
Parents can do just as good a job or better being the teacher if they can put the time into it (and one parent makes enough money to support a spouse staying home). Unless you were my wife's parents, who took her and her brothers out of school to homeschool, only to actually just clean the house and not actually teach anything. My wife basically went to college with a 4th grade education and graduated, because luckily she was smart enough to read while she was out of school and learn on her own and with her brothers. Now she wants to go back to learn how to program to make apps for children.
My wife and I went to a birthing center for our last two boys and received information on letting the cord finish pulsating before the cord is cut. Basically the logic is if you're cutting the cord early your depriving your baby of the blood they need to live and breathe when they are first born. I'd rather they get all their blood now so they can be healthy later, not have their body fight for a bit while they regain the blood they lost from the transfer.
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/cordNFM.html
Sometimes it's just easier to see what's going on rather than being told what the problem is, though they should always get permission first. Despite some best efforts, knowledge documentation the help desks use can be outdated and/or incorrect. I've had my own experiences where the person on the phone was refusing to let me remote into their desktop and just tell me where they were clicking or what boxes they were highlighting. I tried my best to work with them, but people use their computers differently so what they were describing didn't make sense to me. Once I finally was able to convince them to let me remote into the damned thing 20 minutes later I was able to fix their issues in 2 minutes, including testing to make sure that what I had done is what they wanted.
All I can say is don't be a pain to help desk staff. Most are willing to genuinely help people (as much as we lament at their lack of help, or don't want to be put on with the kid who thinks he knows everything) and the good ones try to better themselves to help you better. Stonewalling them because for whatever reason you don't want them seeing your desktop doesn't exactly help you in the future, as your ticket will sit in limbo longer because they don't want to deal with "that guy".
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All of those reasons you listed are why my wife and I will be homeschooling our 1-month old son when the time comes. My stepdaughter is in public school now, and they continually convince me that I do not want to trust my son's education in their hands. As it is, we try to supplement her education so that she doesn't fall behind, especially when the teacher doesn't have time to go over papers with her.
I will be more than thankful when we move out of our current district and into one that will hopefully have better teachers than she has now. And she'll be in a school that isn't proud of the fact that 85% of the students can't even afford lunch.
Then why do they want you to type this when you re-set up your database? ALTER DATABASE mythconverg DEFAULT CHARACTER SET latin1;
Office 2010 is version 14. Where did version 13 go? I guess Office 2008.5 wouldn't work for their numbering scheme.
Have you used VNC with 24-bit color? It's slow to refresh when I'm away from home. NX is nice and all, but the "need to match color depth" is a show stopper. Even X won't let me run in 32-bit color. The best I can make it do is 24-bit.
The one thing that keeps me from running NX is that it won't let me connect to my session unless both the server and client run the exact same color depth. With VNC, I can connect to my 16-bit color X session at home on my 32-bit color Windows client at work. With NX, unless both desktops are running the exact same color depth, it won't connect. If there's a way around this, Google's search hasn't shown me anything.
Idaho is very typically a red state, but if you go by any of the parties that get thrown down here for primaries and whatnot, you'll find that Ron Paul was better liked than McCain. I think it's the first time disgruntled democrats and gruntled republicans every agreed on someone in this state.
Someone's bitter...better go use that free hand of yours to relieve some of that pent up tension, because that's all you're going to get with language like that.
make MythTV work on this! Since I see no distributed frontends that don't suck or won't work correctly in Windows, this may finally be the answer to all those prayers. My girlfriend is not interested in running Linux, but she sometimes wants to watch her shows while she's running raids in WoW. This would make her very happy as running her shows through a SMB share doesn't help since the shows use their own naming scheme that doesn't exactly tell her what it is.
I seem to have a problem with Vista and my monitor, or video driver, or even the video card. I can't tell which because whenever I change resolutions with my Nvidia Geforce 7900GTX my monitor turns into junk and from there I can either reboot or log in to the computer with remote desktop just so my monitor quits sending banding lines to the monitor.
:P Vista won't even let me install the monitor drivers for my LCD unless I hack them a little, then it complains about them not being signed anymore.
I found that if decrease my RAM speed from stock to 10Mhz less, I don't get the banding problems most of the time. It could also be related to the refresh rate, which Vista allows more options to change than XP does. I can't tell, because it seems very few people have this problem.
On the other hand, XP has no issues with my video card, so I have no idea how to solve the problem. This has been the first time that a Windows install has caused me problems, so maybe my luck with Windows is running out now that it knows I'm using Linux and Mac OS X more.
Because Fox is just that much more trustworthy.
With terrorists, we tend to at least know who they are when they blow themselves up.
So can we call Microsoft a terrorist when Vista blows up my computer?
Thankfully I can't use Vista anyway. I've tried to get it installed several times but after it detects and installs drivers for my video card (Nvidia 7900GT) Vista won't load at all unless I use safe mode, which is about as useful as Vista is to me anyway.
Riiight, because only you are allowed a raise, and teachers just need to be stuck at their current salary forever. If you actually know anyone who teaches, I want you to go right now tell them that they're a thief. I doubt you would have the balls to do so.
You don't seem to understand that teaching can be a thankless job when you have parents bitching at you because their little Jimmy doesn't deserve a B, and is a cute little angel because he can do no wrong when he continuously disrupts class. And thanks to underfunding education, teachers can spend $500 or more easily just to get the supplies they need for their classroom to actually teach. Also, "No Child Left Behind" doesn't help them either when, instead of teaching to expand minds, they have to teach to a test to make sure that their school doesn't get their funding cut even further.
Maybe I'm a bit biased because my girlfriend is in college to become a grade school teacher and my friend's wife is a teacher as well, but at least I have a clue what goes on inside a school to make a better judgment on why those "thieving" teachers would want a raise in the first place.
I feel sorry for the people who you "bring over to your side" when you're pushing for downsizing of a already finacially-strained institution that has enough problems trying to fit 50 kids into one classroom. Why don't you use that power to help the school become more efficient instead of being a greedy bastard?
Have you ever worked IT at an affiliate television station (doesn't matter which network)?
I wish I had this guy's guts to use his techniques. Would've shut up a few of the people I had trouble with.
I notice finger-pointers try to play the politics within a company. If they can get away with bitching an inch they'll try to fuck you over by a mile.
The PS2 worked out for Sony for DVD because there was a big difference between watching a VHS tape of your favorite movie, and having it in 5.1 surround sound with better video, even if DVD movies were expensive then. DVD players were about the cost of a PS2, so this was a no-brainer to get a system that could play DVDs as well as games, plus the PS1 library was backwards compatible with it.
The PS3 is trying to push the same kind of magic, but DVDs are now so entrenched to the point where all you need is to wait a couple of months and you can get the "new" releases you wanted for about half the price, while HD movies are around $30-$35 for a new release and take longer for the prices will fall in the same way regular DVDs do (unless the movie sales suck, then they'll try to push them out as quick as they can). People have built up their DVD library from the VHS collections they replaced, and they don't seem to want to do the same thing again for HD-DVD or BluRay.
Maybe if they had spent time trying to make a game console instead of trying to sneak BluRay in the backdoor as a marketing ploy and not insult their market by being pricks, they might be doing better than they are now.
After reading the wiki on it to refresh my memory (I worked at a TV station that aired this), I can safely say that I wouldn't have been surprised if all the cars came together to form a giant robot, since it featured two motorcycles that joined together. Why not go all the way? It really did have the feeling of a very expensive Power Ranger series.
I also work in the IT industry, more specifically desktop support, which means I get to replace a computer when the hard drive dies out.
/home and /var dirs.
I believe that Maxtor sells their bottom-of-the-line hard drives that barely pass testing to places like HP for cheap computers. My theory for this is that I have nine Maxtor drives at home, and they're at least three years old (PATA and SATA), and I haven't had any kind of failure to them.
On the other hand, the HP computers we have here have had a lot of Maxtors die within three years. They're the 40GB Diamondmax 9 series, which I believe was only one platter since it's so thin (and looks as cheap).
Maxtor retail seem to be the better of the bunch, but stay away from their OEM stuff if you come across it (usually identified by a "Replace with HP Spare" sticker). At least I don't mind Seagate drives. I have two 80GB drives in a mirror for my
He did. He's saying give you head a bigass bloody wound (equal to the amount of baldness you have) so the skin will heal, and with it you'll get your hair back with new follicle growth.
The tricky part is finding something that will take off the skin without taking the rest of your head with it.
Assuming someone bought her the retail version and upgraded her computer (probably after begging to upgrade it and then giving in, but it's generally easy to put the disk in and click upgrade themselves and think everything is normal), they don't generally have the OEM stickers to put on the computer unless they changed that practice these days.
:)
The install keys I've seen in retail versions are on a yellow sticker inside the brochure-like envelope they put in the box which doesn't detach unless you rip it off and superglue it to the case.
Also, your argument seems to be that if you're not producing offspring, you shouldn't get married. So couples who choose or one way or another cannot have a baby, they shouldn't be allowed to get married? Holy double standards, Batman!
Yes, I'm sure every homosexual hates not being able to not have the ability to go out and marry a complete stranger you don't even know, or to be like Britney Spears and annul a marrage that was 55 hours in. That whole "santity of marriage" B.S.
Like when a black man wanted to marry a white woman. People didn't think that was normal either, and would lead to polygamy and bestiality, the same arguments that are being used right now. When you have fill-in-the-blank discrimination, things need to be looked at, especially when the argument is "God/My Deity says this is bad, so I must put my views on the rest of society". You're welcome to your views, but in this nation it's not "my religion is the only law and you must follow".
Name one nation/state that has had social decay since making gay marriage legal. If you really want to stop social decay, maybe we need to see why the US has a 50% divorce rate, giving little Jimmy and Susan the overall possibility of having two moms and two dads (possibly more with subsequent marriages), but in the socially acceptable way. And it seems lots of parent want the government to do their job for them, because we have to be friends with our children now and scold them as lightly as we can.
And that's only two subjects that would probably go a long way in stopping social decay, which is to start learning to have some respect for other people's views and actually try to compromise, and take responsibility for your actions (manners would be nice too). It's not wonder the world sees us as fat and lazy and rude, because that's what most of the US is becoming.