It's entirely possible for a Dem to get elected in Utah. More difficult, sure, but being a Republican doesn't guarantee victory. There are plenty of Dems in the state legislature.
Jim Matheson is a Dem Congressman that covers Salt Lake City. He's actually pretty moderate, and has been re-elected. He barely won the first time, but he got re-elected by a larger margin against the same guy he ran against the first time (and that guy was an idiot too).
I'd have voted for him if he were in my district, but I had good ol' Chris Cannon as my rep. He was more pro-consumer on digital matters, but I have no idea where he stands now as I no longer live in Utah.
It's more important now to vote for people as both parties are significantly screwed up right now. I think even people in Utah are waking up to that fact.
There are ways to do it. I ripped the audio from U2 Live from Boston DVD and used software that came with my sound card to divide up the tracks. Burn to CD and voila.
While I generally agree with the sentiment that AMD has the better processor right now (I own an X2 at home), AMD has one albratross around its neck that still keeps it down: the platform.
Dealing with the Nforce 4 platform has been nothing but a pain. Knowing which drivers to install, which ones to leave with the MS defaults, NAM bluescreening and corrupting downloads, chipset drivers not upgrading properly or causing blue screens on install, etc, etc.
If I'm experiencing this with AMD's "premier" platform, it doesn't bode well for me wanting to install Opteron servers at work.
Intel is just plug and go... it just works without me having to do a virgin sacrifice and a rain dance. I'll gladly sacrifice a little performance if it means a lot less work to maintain on my part. I have enough to do without baby sitting a server.
Intel's processors may suck right now, but their platforms are hella stable. I have time to tweak an AMD computer at home. I don't at work. Until AMD gets me an Intel quality platform, they're not touching my network at work.
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It's entirely possible for a Dem to get elected in Utah. More difficult, sure, but being a Republican doesn't guarantee victory. There are plenty of Dems in the state legislature.
Jim Matheson is a Dem Congressman that covers Salt Lake City. He's actually pretty moderate, and has been re-elected. He barely won the first time, but he got re-elected by a larger margin against the same guy he ran against the first time (and that guy was an idiot too).
I'd have voted for him if he were in my district, but I had good ol' Chris Cannon as my rep. He was more pro-consumer on digital matters, but I have no idea where he stands now as I no longer live in Utah.
It's more important now to vote for people as both parties are significantly screwed up right now. I think even people in Utah are waking up to that fact.
There are ways to do it. I ripped the audio from U2 Live from Boston DVD and used software that came with my sound card to divide up the tracks. Burn to CD and voila.
It took some work, but works great.
While I generally agree with the sentiment that AMD has the better processor right now (I own an X2 at home), AMD has one albratross around its neck that still keeps it down: the platform. Dealing with the Nforce 4 platform has been nothing but a pain. Knowing which drivers to install, which ones to leave with the MS defaults, NAM bluescreening and corrupting downloads, chipset drivers not upgrading properly or causing blue screens on install, etc, etc. If I'm experiencing this with AMD's "premier" platform, it doesn't bode well for me wanting to install Opteron servers at work. Intel is just plug and go ... it just works without me having to do a virgin sacrifice and a rain dance. I'll gladly sacrifice a little performance if it means a lot less work to maintain on my part. I have enough to do without baby sitting a server.
Intel's processors may suck right now, but their platforms are hella stable. I have time to tweak an AMD computer at home. I don't at work. Until AMD gets me an Intel quality platform, they're not touching my network at work.