I've only needed to get hold of Newegg twice, and had no problems either time. I was through to a human in 2 or 3 minutes, and had the problem solved in 10 minutes.
OK, why would I say "Nintendo"? OK, the article mentioned a Nintendo product in conjunction with it, but also other products. It didn't specifically say "Nintendo DS", just "DS" and that there was a Nintendo product that had something to do with it.
Sure, I could go look it up, but should I have to go look up every product and concept talked about in an article? If it just said "Nintendo DS handheld" then I'd know it was nothing I gave a damn about, and could go on to the next article.
back in the 90's when I was building PCs, we tried to be as neat as possible, folding cables to keep them flat, running them under mainboards to hide them, etc. When someone came up with a nice fold pattern, we'd call them the cablegami master for the day.
That sounds about right to me. I've tried the others and keep coming back to Slackware. I've been using it since it came on a fistful of floppies. I remember downloading my first copy from a friend's FTP site on a 14.4K modem.
I still don't like package management. If I have the choice, I'll download the source and compile it myself.
Slackware seems to be the only distro that actually believes you and does the right thing when you try to set up a box without a GUI. All the others I've tried install all kinds of X stuff even if you try to turn it off. I was working with Red Hat Enterprise AS 3 the other day; I said NO samba, NO bind, NO a bunch of other stuff. Needless to say, it installed samba, bind, and a bunch of other stuff anyway.
The campaign pledges will give you insight into what rubs the pleasure centers of the U.S. electorate. It will not tell you what the candidate is actually going to do.
Campaign pledges are finely crafted by very highly paid people to maximize votes. Any resemblance to eventual fulfillment is entirely coincidence.
The U.N. knew the location of, and was keeping tabs on, those hundreds of tons of high explosives. The knew right where they were, and exactly how much, and had pictures of them. Ditto the WMD manufacturing precursors ("dual use") that were reported several weeks back.
The U.S. invasion led directly to such chaos that all of this stuff was able to be trucked out. As you say, moving this stuff requires a massive effort. It's amazing the amount of incompetence and understaffing that had to be going on that this could happen. Even with full knowledge of the exact location and inventory of all sensitive materials before the invasion had even begun, they still couldn't keep the bad guys from hauling off truck after truck full of stuff. Hell, in the case of the WMD manufacturing, they even dismantled and took off with the buildings!
Before the invasion: a very bad guy had lots of conventional explosives, and was wishing for WMDs but probably wouldn't have been able to get them unless the sanctions were lifted (per the inspection group). He was an egomaniacal dictator, hated in the region, and jealously guarded what he had. It is not apparent that he would have sold his stuff to others. He was a bad guy, but was not a direct or apparently indirect threat to the U.S.
After the invasion: it's almost certain that a large chunk of the stuff we went to war so that Saddam wouldn't sell it to the terrorists is, well, in the hands of the terrorists.
I personally believe that this is NOT the fault of the troops, who did the best they could; it was the fault of the administration only seeing what they wanted to see, ignoring intelligence, estimates and requests they didn't like, and George W. "we're not going to have any casualties" Bush trying to do the job on the cheap because he thought he could get away with it.
Thus, as a direct result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there are now hundreds of tons of high explosives, plus entire buildings full of specialized WMD manufacturing machinery and tools in the hands of we know not who.
That may be true, but in his first four years, Bush has eviscerated the EPA. Give him another four, and he'll probably have completely dismantled it. We already have the "clean air" act legalizing more air pollution. I don't want to see his "clean water" act - it'll probably call for a 95% pollution-free standard for rivers, which would sound good while allowing businesses to dump raw pollution until 5% of the flow was pure chemicals/sewage.
Yeah, yeah, troll. Go ahead, knock yourself out, my karma can take it.
DC is also dangerous to people. If you get shocked with AC, you are likely to be able to pull away. If you get shocked with DC on the side of your body where the strongest muscles are, say you grab hold of something and get a DC current through your palm into your arm, your muscles will contract violently and you will not be able to release. I got a very bad shock by grabbing hold of a wet electric floor scrubber in a pool of water and bare feet once as a kid. My muscles were contracting but I was able to make them work a little, and was able to loosen my grip a bit and back away so that the handle dropped out of my hand.
Yeah, that's a good idea, if you want to kill yourself and wreck your equipment. You need AC, not DC. DC is highly dangerous to get shocked by, and neither transformers nor the motors in the heating system can work on DC. The motors will just lock and start smoking almost immediately.
Yes, and the car will also be round, with bar stool type seats. It'll look great, but you won't be able to tell which direction you're actually pointing.
As a father of two, the youngest 7, I say NO! My kids can damn well learn to read, play games, draw, etc rather than to turn on the ocular-cerebral tube and going semi-conscious.
It's hard enough trying to force them to be something other than drooling consumer zombies without putting this crap into the car as well. I try not to even turn the radio on with others in the car, unless it's a long trip, it's a welcome opportunity to talk to my family.
If you use your "credit/debit" card as a debit card, the grocery store pays less (if anything), but you pay a transaction fee that can be over $3.00 in some cases.
Maybe you should look into another bank, or better yet, a credit union. I know not of these "transaction fees" of which you speak. I live off my debit card.
Right, and those people are going to buy Macs exactly 0.0001% of the time (there's got to be one guy out there).
I dunno about the lifetime arguments. I'm currently throwing away 200 MHz PC machines, but still using 400 MHz ones. That's a pretty long life, probably equivalent to Mac users just now starting to throw away the last pre-PPC units.
The folks that I know that are throwing away newer machines than that are mainly gamers looking for hot machines, which has a negligible overlap with the interests of Mac users (who do not tend to be gamers if Macs are all they own).
Thanks, that's interesting. I'll keep it in mind if I ever buy a laptop again, but at this point my laptop just sits in the closet, while my desktops run 24/7. The desktops do still seem to fetch a premium, though as I pointed out, only against commodity machines, not against the top-of-the-line machines, which I don't need.
Every time the subject of Apple computers and prices comes up, I see no end of Apple fans talking about how Apple hardware is really tops, they don't sell junk, etc, etc.
Now, I have no doubt that's true. I've only looked inside a couple of macs, and they seemed as nice as any PC I've worked on, at least.
Know what, though? Most of us don't really care that much. Mercedes makes cars like Mac makes computers, but most of us can't afford them, and have no real reason to need one. Not every person who needs a hammer needs a $50 Estwing, not everyone who needs a car has any real reason to spend $100000 instead of $15000.
I've been using Windows and Linux since forever, but recently I tried Mac out of curiosity. I must say, it is a very nice platform. I'd like to have one. But I'm not going to pay that kind of a premium.
Everyone makes the tradeoff, every day; money versus time. Bill Gates may not bend over to pick up a $5 bill, but I sure as hell do. For some people it may be worth it to them to spend an extra $500 to get a machine that has a 5% chance of breaking in its 4 year lifespan, rather than a 10% chance. Some people would pay the same $500 extra to get a machine where they don't have to learn to use safe computing practices to keep viruses and worms away. The rest of us can spend the 20 minutes to learn what to do, 30 minutes to install Firefox/Thunderbird, and the 10 minutes a week it takes to run Windows Update, and save our $500.
It seems to me that one of Apple's original sales quotes could easily be used by the Wintel camp these days. Apples are computers for those with the cash to afford them, and Wintel is "the computer for the rest of us."
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That's unusual, I bought my last TV 3 years ago, and most TVs at the time (except the REALLY cheap stuff) had s-video)
Anyway, yes, you can get cheap adaptors starting at $10, or you can wire your own. Here are some (google, 10 seconds) http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo 2cvideo.ht ml http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat _id= 2012
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I've only needed to get hold of Newegg twice, and had no problems either time. I was through to a human in 2 or 3 minutes, and had the problem solved in 10 minutes.
OK, why would I say "Nintendo"? OK, the article mentioned a Nintendo product in conjunction with it, but also other products. It didn't specifically say "Nintendo DS", just "DS" and that there was a Nintendo product that had something to do with it.
Sure, I could go look it up, but should I have to go look up every product and concept talked about in an article? If it just said "Nintendo DS handheld" then I'd know it was nothing I gave a damn about, and could go on to the next article.
politics. Truth and right doesn't matter, money and influence does.
Yeah, Debian is good. I should probably use it, but I've just gotten so used to where Slackware puts things. Right or wrong, it's what I know.
If I have to learn anything very new, I'll probably buy a mac and learn BSD.
back in the 90's when I was building PCs, we tried to be as neat as possible, folding cables to keep them flat, running them under mainboards to hide them, etc. When someone came up with a nice fold pattern, we'd call them the cablegami master for the day.
That sounds about right to me. I've tried the others and keep coming back to Slackware. I've been using it since it came on a fistful of floppies. I remember downloading my first copy from a friend's FTP site on a 14.4K modem.
I still don't like package management. If I have the choice, I'll download the source and compile it myself.
Slackware seems to be the only distro that actually believes you and does the right thing when you try to set up a box without a GUI. All the others I've tried install all kinds of X stuff even if you try to turn it off. I was working with Red Hat Enterprise AS 3 the other day; I said NO samba, NO bind, NO a bunch of other stuff. Needless to say, it installed samba, bind, and a bunch of other stuff anyway.
it's a joke, son. try to stay with me.
The campaign pledges will give you insight into what rubs the pleasure centers of the U.S. electorate. It will not tell you what the candidate is actually going to do.
Campaign pledges are finely crafted by very highly paid people to maximize votes. Any resemblance to eventual fulfillment is entirely coincidence.
If politicians delivered half of what they promised, the U.S. would be a smoking financial hole in about 2 years.
My favorite lately is GWB saying "John Kerry would have to raise taxes x amount to deliver what he promises."
GWB, OTOH, will spend the money WITHOUT raising taxes, and leave the bill for the next guy to pay.
Yup, and taxes got raised anyway. Surprise!
The U.N. knew the location of, and was keeping tabs on, those hundreds of tons of high explosives. The knew right where they were, and exactly how much, and had pictures of them. Ditto the WMD manufacturing precursors ("dual use") that were reported several weeks back.
The U.S. invasion led directly to such chaos that all of this stuff was able to be trucked out. As you say, moving this stuff requires a massive effort. It's amazing the amount of incompetence and understaffing that had to be going on that this could happen. Even with full knowledge of the exact location and inventory of all sensitive materials before the invasion had even begun, they still couldn't keep the bad guys from hauling off truck after truck full of stuff. Hell, in the case of the WMD manufacturing, they even dismantled and took off with the buildings!
Before the invasion: a very bad guy had lots of conventional explosives, and was wishing for WMDs but probably wouldn't have been able to get them unless the sanctions were lifted (per the inspection group). He was an egomaniacal dictator, hated in the region, and jealously guarded what he had. It is not apparent that he would have sold his stuff to others. He was a bad guy, but was not a direct or apparently indirect threat to the U.S.
After the invasion: it's almost certain that a large chunk of the stuff we went to war so that Saddam wouldn't sell it to the terrorists is, well, in the hands of the terrorists.
I personally believe that this is NOT the fault of the troops, who did the best they could; it was the fault of the administration only seeing what they wanted to see, ignoring intelligence, estimates and requests they didn't like, and George W. "we're not going to have any casualties" Bush trying to do the job on the cheap because he thought he could get away with it.
Thus, as a direct result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there are now hundreds of tons of high explosives, plus entire buildings full of specialized WMD manufacturing machinery and tools in the hands of we know not who.
Feel safer?
That's right, only those fussy stuck-up types pronounce it NOOK-you-lur.
That may be true, but in his first four years, Bush has eviscerated the EPA. Give him another four, and he'll probably have completely dismantled it. We already have the "clean air" act legalizing more air pollution. I don't want to see his "clean water" act - it'll probably call for a 95% pollution-free standard for rivers, which would sound good while allowing businesses to dump raw pollution until 5% of the flow was pure chemicals/sewage.
Yeah, yeah, troll. Go ahead, knock yourself out, my karma can take it.
DC is also dangerous to people. If you get shocked with AC, you are likely to be able to pull away. If you get shocked with DC on the side of your body where the strongest muscles are, say you grab hold of something and get a DC current through your palm into your arm, your muscles will contract violently and you will not be able to release.
I got a very bad shock by grabbing hold of a wet electric floor scrubber in a pool of water and bare feet once as a kid. My muscles were contracting but I was able to make them work a little, and was able to loosen my grip a bit and back away so that the handle dropped out of my hand.
Yeah, that's a good idea, if you want to kill yourself and wreck your equipment. You need AC, not DC. DC is highly dangerous to get shocked by, and neither transformers nor the motors in the heating system can work on DC. The motors will just lock and start smoking almost immediately.
Yes, and the car will also be round, with bar stool type seats. It'll look great, but you won't be able to tell which direction you're actually pointing.
Get used to buying used cars. Eventually, get used to building your own cars.
I feel the same, but I also feel like I'm running from a turbocharged steam roller.
As a father of two, the youngest 7, I say NO! My kids can damn well learn to read, play games, draw, etc rather than to turn on the ocular-cerebral tube and going semi-conscious.
It's hard enough trying to force them to be something other than drooling consumer zombies without putting this crap into the car as well. I try not to even turn the radio on with others in the car, unless it's a long trip, it's a welcome opportunity to talk to my family.
Spyware is one of the biggest pains in the ass right now. Spam is just irritating, spyware makes computers unusable.
Spyware is written by companies without morals.
But in general I agree with you. I used the internet before companies got in, and it wasn't 2% as useful as it is now.
So is speeding.
If you use your "credit/debit" card as a debit card, the grocery store pays less (if anything), but you pay a transaction fee that can be over $3.00 in some cases.
Maybe you should look into another bank, or better yet, a credit union. I know not of these "transaction fees" of which you speak. I live off my debit card.
Right, and those people are going to buy Macs exactly 0.0001% of the time (there's got to be one guy out there).
I dunno about the lifetime arguments. I'm currently throwing away 200 MHz PC machines, but still using 400 MHz ones. That's a pretty long life, probably equivalent to Mac users just now starting to throw away the last pre-PPC units.
The folks that I know that are throwing away newer machines than that are mainly gamers looking for hot machines, which has a negligible overlap with the interests of Mac users (who do not tend to be gamers if Macs are all they own).
Thanks, that's interesting. I'll keep it in mind if I ever buy a laptop again, but at this point my laptop just sits in the closet, while my desktops run 24/7. The desktops do still seem to fetch a premium, though as I pointed out, only against commodity machines, not against the top-of-the-line machines, which I don't need.
Every time the subject of Apple computers and prices comes up, I see no end of Apple fans talking about how Apple hardware is really tops, they don't sell junk, etc, etc.
Now, I have no doubt that's true. I've only looked inside a couple of macs, and they seemed as nice as any PC I've worked on, at least.
Know what, though? Most of us don't really care that much. Mercedes makes cars like Mac makes computers, but most of us can't afford them, and have no real reason to need one. Not every person who needs a hammer needs a $50 Estwing, not everyone who needs a car has any real reason to spend $100000 instead of $15000.
I've been using Windows and Linux since forever, but recently I tried Mac out of curiosity. I must say, it is a very nice platform. I'd like to have one. But I'm not going to pay that kind of a premium.
Everyone makes the tradeoff, every day; money versus time. Bill Gates may not bend over to pick up a $5 bill, but I sure as hell do. For some people it may be worth it to them to spend an extra $500 to get a machine that has a 5% chance of breaking in its 4 year lifespan, rather than a 10% chance. Some people would pay the same $500 extra to get a machine where they don't have to learn to use safe computing practices to keep viruses and worms away. The rest of us can spend the 20 minutes to learn what to do, 30 minutes to install Firefox/Thunderbird, and the 10 minutes a week it takes to run Windows Update, and save our $500.
It seems to me that one of Apple's original sales quotes could easily be used by the Wintel camp these days. Apples are computers for those with the cash to afford them, and Wintel is "the computer for the rest of us."
That's unusual, I bought my last TV 3 years ago, and most TVs at the time (except the REALLY cheap stuff) had s-video)
o 2cvideo.ht mlt _id= 2012
Anyway, yes, you can get cheap adaptors starting at $10, or you can wire your own. Here are some (google, 10 seconds)
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svide
http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?ca