Violent video games make you violent....looking at porn eventually turns you into a rapist...drinking an occasional drink means you'll become an alcoholic....smoke a little weed once and you'll become a crack addict down the road who steals and kills to keep his habit going. Oh and let's not forget that good food is like an addictive drug, webcomics are like drugs, television is like a drug, the internet is like a drug. Everything that's fun is bad and addictive. Be good little worker drones, obey the elite, and eliminate all that is fun and enjoyable from your lives...it's for your own good and the good of society you know.
I hear the word "recession" now and then from certain politicians and news media complaining about the economy. But that's just their jobs. politicians want you to think the economy is bad so they can trot out their favorite pet economics program and screw everything straight to hell, and the news media...well...all economic news is bad news because good news doesn't get ratings.
We've heard it all before folks. At least, on the security and performance claims. The rest of it? Well, Superfetch is something new....but pretty much every other Vista feature is an attempt (in most cases, a poor attempt...probably all cases actually, but I'll be generous) to catch up to Unix/Linux features. So why should I use a poor, knock off imitation, when I have the real thing? Why should anyone upgrade, when they can have the real thing?
If Bill Gates is evil, I hate to think what Steve Jobs is. All trolling aside, Mr. & Mrs. Gates have donated countless millions of dollars to better the world. What has Steve Jobs done? Oh yeah, that's right. Nothing. Unless releasing the iPod and iTunes DRM should be counted as a Good Thing (tm).
Did I say one thing about Mr Jobs? No I did not. I don't even use a Mac. I'm a Linux man thank you very much. As for Bill Gates' charity....that doesn't make him a good man working for the betterment of the world any more than when gangsters give to charity. Many evil, vile men have given to charity....that didn't make them good men. It made them good at public relations.
10) Upgrade hell....a new motherboard counts as a "new computer" and thus requires a new Windows license.
Given that that's true of no other version of Windows so far released, do you have any proof of that claim?
Maybe it's time for the old tired nags of Civil War politics (the Republican and Democratic parties) to get taken to the glue factory. We need a right-wing that isn't caught up in uber-nationalism and religious nuttery, and a left-wing that isn't tied to old Confederate politics (just niced up, polished a bit, and the rhetoric edited for a small touch of political correctness).
10) Upgrade hell....a new motherboard counts as a "new computer" and thus requires a new Windows license.
9) If you don't have a computer capable of running it to it's full potential...why bother?
8) DRM embedded into the OS. Less control for the user.
7) Viruses
6) Worms
5) Spyware
4) Vista will feature ads.
3) It's still Windows, so it'll still look like something made by Playskool.
2) You're going to have to relearn everything anyway, particularly the Office interface which will be radically different with the new release....might as well switch to something new anyway
So let's not call chess, poker, golf, pool, darts, or any of the other things which adults play "games" either! Clearly, we must make up an entirely new word because a handful of people have a giant stick up their asses over the term GAME!
This was my first real home computer too. I had mine set up with permanent storage of course....tapes, lots and lots of tapes storing lots of lots of software. Most of it self written. I also had the little thermal printer. Didn't have the memory expansion pack, or the modem (they did have modems for them) though. I do remember how much I wanted them though, but it was hard to find the parts around here. I spend a lot of time programming my own simple video games, and text based games into it. Also wrote some more "practical" software such as a menu driven system (to pull software off a cassette), a simple database program, and checkbook balancing software...I tried to get my family into the "modern computer era" and help them computerize their business but that didn't really fly.
After it exploded (long story), I picked up a used CBM 8032 for practically nothing. This was said to be the business version of the old Commodore PET....but really just a PET renamed. It had disk drives (they came in a big, bulky, seperate unit you could fit a PC in today), 32K RAM, and 1MHZ processor! And I also got two (enormous) printers with it!
It's not Linux users that want Photoshop for the most part. It's some Windows users who want it to ever even consider Linux, mainly because they don't know any better.
Technically, we are. You see, Ice Ages have a big long period where...well...glaciers come down and everything freezes and everyone's just plain miserable, then there's middle warming period where the glaciers withdraw for a time (this is the period we're in and supposed to be coming up on the end of) with the occasional "mini ice-ages" inside this period, then it gets colder and the glaciers return for round two of "freezing your ass off." Normally (talking about over really huge chunks of time), the Earth is actually quite a bit warmer, even warmer than it is now. Now global warming has entered the picture and screwed this process up, the "middle warming period" is at the very least getting a fairly decent extension...and quite possibly we're cancelling the last round of horrible sucky freezing altogether. For some reason...this is considered a bad thing.
Around here there's only one county that I know of that went to a trunking system. And I was surprised that even the State Capital was all wide open freqs for police, fire, medical, etc... Of course, this is a State with a strong pro-scanner lobby. Something about a right of the public to know what our government is up to...:-)
Heck, I don't know why anyone would be without a police scanner, unless their State is one of those dumbass ones that has some law against it. You get to hear all sorts of stuff that never makes the news, but probably should.
Yellowdog has stated in the past that they intend on remaining a PPC distro as that is entirely where their interest lies. They are probably looking for another hardware vendor.
Or to find that all that land and physical assets were long ago destroyed...along with the rest of the Earth and a large number of other planets...to make room for the Dyson Swarm...and he's not even physically revived, but an uploaded and reconstructed mental pattern running in in a vitual environment. And the kicker? The superintelligent posthumans only revived him because they thought it'd be amusing to watch his silly antics, sort of like a simple minded pet gerbil.
I live in a "rural area." There are lots of small towns around here, granted, they are a bit closer to the charming variety...they have shops and cafes and local flavor... I've been through "small towns" in other areas that are just...well...nothing but houses, a grain bin, and a church. Even when they are the same size! So I suppose it makes a difference what regional culture you are speaking of, as in some "small town" isn't exactly dead.
Now, around here...lots of small towns, not much in the way of "city." But we do have lots of good connecting highways which we put to good use, towns are a short drive from each other, and each is different. Very few can be considered dying, maybe some could be considered "sleepy" but they at least tend to serve a purpose. The smallest towns providing additional places to live for people to work in somewhat larger towns (say, population 5000 or so) where the industry is. But yes, industry...lots of factories and shipping and processing and industrial repair...or maybe oil industry, or coal. Of course, the big transportation hubs tend to be bigger, 12,000-16,000 people or so. Jobs are plentiful, and the economy is doing pretty well. I can understand those regions where they have nothing that the economy might not be so hot...but it's jumping here. Oh and we've had tech for years, ISPs, small town computer stores/computer repair, cellphones, etc...none of it "saved/saving" the economy...just one more necessity. Heck, even farming is high tech these days, and they need internet as much as the rest of us. But it's just one more service that's out there.
And so when we get some bozo who suggests that all of rural America is dying and that only tech jobs can save it. Don't be a little surprised if some of us aren't just a little bit insulted by him. Then again....those city slickers will believe anything.;-)
There is a popular myth about the productivity deficit of "Third world agricultural practices" vs "First-world practices".
I wouldn't really agree here. In the US it is not unusual for a single farmer, perhaps with one or two helpers at most with modern equipment to be farming many hundreds or thousands of acres of land, with fairly high crop yields, without backbreaking labor. Food animals like pigs, chickens, turkeys, and other animals are also raised by the tens of thousands per facility in what can only be described as "meat factories" (one near here raises 17,000 hogs, this is just one of 6 facilities owned by one farmer). We can produce far more food, using modern biotechnology and agribusiness methods, per person actually working in agriculture, than any country using old fashioned 3 world agricultural methods ever could. And we're improving all the time, finding ways to imrpove crop yields, reduce the amounts of chemicals needed, improve meat quality and quantity per animal, and so forth. Heck, we're even experimenting with robots to work in the fields now.
Such a reduced population working in agriculture allows us to have that population working in other productive areas of our society. This is an advantage we have over the typical old style agriculture.
He was a patriot to his people, the American people...who had by that time formed as a culture. His country wasn't England, his country was America....which happened to be ruled by English tyrants at the time.
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Violent video games make you violent....looking at porn eventually turns you into a rapist...drinking an occasional drink means you'll become an alcoholic....smoke a little weed once and you'll become a crack addict down the road who steals and kills to keep his habit going. Oh and let's not forget that good food is like an addictive drug, webcomics are like drugs, television is like a drug, the internet is like a drug. Everything that's fun is bad and addictive. Be good little worker drones, obey the elite, and eliminate all that is fun and enjoyable from your lives...it's for your own good and the good of society you know.
I hear the word "recession" now and then from certain politicians and news media complaining about the economy. But that's just their jobs. politicians want you to think the economy is bad so they can trot out their favorite pet economics program and screw everything straight to hell, and the news media...well...all economic news is bad news because good news doesn't get ratings.
We've heard it all before folks. At least, on the security and performance claims. The rest of it? Well, Superfetch is something new....but pretty much every other Vista feature is an attempt (in most cases, a poor attempt...probably all cases actually, but I'll be generous) to catch up to Unix/Linux features. So why should I use a poor, knock off imitation, when I have the real thing? Why should anyone upgrade, when they can have the real thing?
Maybe it's time for the old tired nags of Civil War politics (the Republican and Democratic parties) to get taken to the glue factory. We need a right-wing that isn't caught up in uber-nationalism and religious nuttery, and a left-wing that isn't tied to old Confederate politics (just niced up, polished a bit, and the rhetoric edited for a small touch of political correctness).
10) Upgrade hell....a new motherboard counts as a "new computer" and thus requires a new Windows license.
9) If you don't have a computer capable of running it to it's full potential...why bother?
8) DRM embedded into the OS. Less control for the user.
7) Viruses
6) Worms
5) Spyware
4) Vista will feature ads.
3) It's still Windows, so it'll still look like something made by Playskool.
2) You're going to have to relearn everything anyway, particularly the Office interface which will be radically different with the new release....might as well switch to something new anyway
1) Gates is evil. What more do you need?
Hell the OS under the hood is technically Darwin not BSD, it's just somewhat based on BSD.
So let's not call chess, poker, golf, pool, darts, or any of the other things which adults play "games" either! Clearly, we must make up an entirely new word because a handful of people have a giant stick up their asses over the term GAME!
This was my first real home computer too. I had mine set up with permanent storage of course....tapes, lots and lots of tapes storing lots of lots of software. Most of it self written. I also had the little thermal printer. Didn't have the memory expansion pack, or the modem (they did have modems for them) though. I do remember how much I wanted them though, but it was hard to find the parts around here. I spend a lot of time programming my own simple video games, and text based games into it. Also wrote some more "practical" software such as a menu driven system (to pull software off a cassette), a simple database program, and checkbook balancing software...I tried to get my family into the "modern computer era" and help them computerize their business but that didn't really fly.
After it exploded (long story), I picked up a used CBM 8032 for practically nothing. This was said to be the business version of the old Commodore PET....but really just a PET renamed. It had disk drives (they came in a big, bulky, seperate unit you could fit a PC in today), 32K RAM, and 1MHZ processor! And I also got two (enormous) printers with it!
http://oldcomputers.net/pet4032.htmlIt's not Linux users that want Photoshop for the most part. It's some Windows users who want it to ever even consider Linux, mainly because they don't know any better.
Technically, we are. You see, Ice Ages have a big long period where...well...glaciers come down and everything freezes and everyone's just plain miserable, then there's middle warming period where the glaciers withdraw for a time (this is the period we're in and supposed to be coming up on the end of) with the occasional "mini ice-ages" inside this period, then it gets colder and the glaciers return for round two of "freezing your ass off." Normally (talking about over really huge chunks of time), the Earth is actually quite a bit warmer, even warmer than it is now. Now global warming has entered the picture and screwed this process up, the "middle warming period" is at the very least getting a fairly decent extension...and quite possibly we're cancelling the last round of horrible sucky freezing altogether. For some reason...this is considered a bad thing.
I meant for their desktop line. Terrasoft has several excellant PPC-based server/cluster suppliers.
Around here there's only one county that I know of that went to a trunking system. And I was surprised that even the State Capital was all wide open freqs for police, fire, medical, etc... Of course, this is a State with a strong pro-scanner lobby. Something about a right of the public to know what our government is up to... :-)
Heck, I don't know why anyone would be without a police scanner, unless their State is one of those dumbass ones that has some law against it. You get to hear all sorts of stuff that never makes the news, but probably should.
Yellowdog has stated in the past that they intend on remaining a PPC distro as that is entirely where their interest lies. They are probably looking for another hardware vendor.
You are obviously someone who doesn't own cats.
Or to find that all that land and physical assets were long ago destroyed...along with the rest of the Earth and a large number of other planets...to make room for the Dyson Swarm...and he's not even physically revived, but an uploaded and reconstructed mental pattern running in in a vitual environment. And the kicker? The superintelligent posthumans only revived him because they thought it'd be amusing to watch his silly antics, sort of like a simple minded pet gerbil.
I live in a "rural area." There are lots of small towns around here, granted, they are a bit closer to the charming variety...they have shops and cafes and local flavor... I've been through "small towns" in other areas that are just...well...nothing but houses, a grain bin, and a church. Even when they are the same size! So I suppose it makes a difference what regional culture you are speaking of, as in some "small town" isn't exactly dead.
Now, around here...lots of small towns, not much in the way of "city." But we do have lots of good connecting highways which we put to good use, towns are a short drive from each other, and each is different. Very few can be considered dying, maybe some could be considered "sleepy" but they at least tend to serve a purpose. The smallest towns providing additional places to live for people to work in somewhat larger towns (say, population 5000 or so) where the industry is. But yes, industry...lots of factories and shipping and processing and industrial repair...or maybe oil industry, or coal. Of course, the big transportation hubs tend to be bigger, 12,000-16,000 people or so. Jobs are plentiful, and the economy is doing pretty well. I can understand those regions where they have nothing that the economy might not be so hot...but it's jumping here. Oh and we've had tech for years, ISPs, small town computer stores/computer repair, cellphones, etc...none of it "saved/saving" the economy...just one more necessity. Heck, even farming is high tech these days, and they need internet as much as the rest of us. But it's just one more service that's out there.
And so when we get some bozo who suggests that all of rural America is dying and that only tech jobs can save it. Don't be a little surprised if some of us aren't just a little bit insulted by him. Then again....those city slickers will believe anything. ;-)
Nah, that's the USAF's project...
You know what....people like you are actually part of the problem that exists today with computer users.
I wouldn't really agree here. In the US it is not unusual for a single farmer, perhaps with one or two helpers at most with modern equipment to be farming many hundreds or thousands of acres of land, with fairly high crop yields, without backbreaking labor. Food animals like pigs, chickens, turkeys, and other animals are also raised by the tens of thousands per facility in what can only be described as "meat factories" (one near here raises 17,000 hogs, this is just one of 6 facilities owned by one farmer). We can produce far more food, using modern biotechnology and agribusiness methods, per person actually working in agriculture, than any country using old fashioned 3 world agricultural methods ever could. And we're improving all the time, finding ways to imrpove crop yields, reduce the amounts of chemicals needed, improve meat quality and quantity per animal, and so forth. Heck, we're even experimenting with robots to work in the fields now.
Such a reduced population working in agriculture allows us to have that population working in other productive areas of our society. This is an advantage we have over the typical old style agriculture.
He was a patriot to his people, the American people...who had by that time formed as a culture. His country wasn't England, his country was America....which happened to be ruled by English tyrants at the time.