So you really believe that present-day Iraq is now the equivalent of the "stone age" because of bombing runs from five years ago?
Wow. You really must believe what you read/hear on CNN. Way to think for yourself.
//Of course, the real reason to hate the game was that the gameplay sucked, no matter what the price.//
That's stellar logic, considering how incredibly popular it was in arcades. Just because you had trouble playing it didn't mean the game (or gameplay) sucked.
//traced the problem down to trying to install with my CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I went out bought a simple DVD-ROM, and plugged it in just long enough to install Vista, and it worked perfect.//
hmmm... that might be it... i'm using a combo-mombo drive. I'll try a regular 'ol DVD drive.
... if it runs better on an Intell-Mac than it did on my own standard PC.
In fact, Vista Beta 2 wouldn't even install -- I kept getting a "error copying Windows files" after 30% of the files had copied. This, on two different hard drives. Oy.
First time I've ever encountered that from a.ISO image... countless Linux ISOs installed without a hitch.
//Lose the Microsoft Office Applications off of the Windows platform and the home user suddenly has less and less reason to be sitting on a MS platform//
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Just wait until March. BFD.
Funny, I'm in operations, not a manager, but I get four days off. Maybe it's because we have Linux servers ...
So you really believe that present-day Iraq is now the equivalent of the "stone age" because of bombing runs from five years ago? Wow. You really must believe what you read/hear on CNN. Way to think for yourself.
Wow. Way to believe what you hear in the media about "all us corps." Not all are bad. Just the ones you hear about in the liberal-rag media.
Huh? So you're saying the armed forces of the USA didn't do squat for European countries during WW1 and WW2?
You're so delusional it's amusing.
// The last game I got was HL2: Episode One. Once again, only $8 at Circuit City.//
Geez, where do you live? In Chicagoland, all Circuit City's are selling HL2:EP1 for $19.99.
// use my laptop 18 hours a day,//
... with your upcoming nuptials, that figure is sure to decrease. (Mac)Book it.
heh
//There does not exist in all of slashdotdome more of a nerd than Bill Gates (nor anyone as rich).//
... more like, "nor anyone as rich, if you combine all of their salaries."
Heh
//Of course, the real reason to hate the game was that the gameplay sucked, no matter what the price.//
That's stellar logic, considering how incredibly popular it was in arcades. Just because you had trouble playing it didn't mean the game (or gameplay) sucked.
//Take away the curse... //
With a great big ZOTZ!!
Abra-Cadaver, is that you?
//traced the problem down to trying to install with my CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I went out bought a simple DVD-ROM, and plugged it in just long enough to install Vista, and it worked perfect.//
... that might be it ... i'm using a combo-mombo drive. I'll try a regular 'ol DVD drive.
hmmm
... if it runs better on an Intell-Mac than it did on my own standard PC.
.ISO image ... countless Linux ISOs installed without a hitch.
In fact, Vista Beta 2 wouldn't even install -- I kept getting a "error copying Windows files" after 30% of the files had copied. This, on two different hard drives. Oy.
First time I've ever encountered that from a
with your apparent lack of math skills, I doubt yer stats ...
unbelievably moronic post. kudos.
moreso with electronics, not necessarily with cars.
... and could have been purchased for $3,000 new.
A 1969 Hemi Plymouth Barracuda convertible is worth about $300,000
run-n-gun-n-shoot-n-blood-n-boring
wake me when Bioshock releases.
//Now, if I can just get that DS away from her....//
Me hopes you have *some* way of distracting her away from her computer games. I know it works in the reverse, for my wife and I.
//I'm very much a believer in moral subjectivity.// ... which basically leads to anarchy, or worse. What fun.
* let idiots like danceswithtrees engage in "free speech," no matter how utterly asinine it may be.
So ... you feel that freedom of speech isn't a inherent right for the Chinese?
//MS fans represent democrats ... in general they're a smaller, more educated less generic group//
Democrats? Educated? Since when?
//Lose the Microsoft Office Applications off of the Windows platform and the home user suddenly has less and less reason to be sitting on a MS platform//
Uh, yah. That will happen soon.
no offense, but I doubt "the media" will troll /. boards for sound bites ...
Come again? You really think Hydrogen is going to be a viable powersource for millions of people in the next *two years*?
After that, GWB will be out of office. No WAY it will happen fast enough to help his cronies.
Hell, they're doing fine right now (Exxon, Mobil, etc.). Like they need it.
That's because the "average user" has the IQ of a coconut. In the States, anyway.