Yeah, I don't know what the deal is. It's one of those things - the comp generally works now, but there are things that gradually slow down or stop working as an XP install gets "old". Right now, active desktop is broken, opening or deleting files takes 15 seconds longer than it should, and etc. There are about 20 little problems here or there that individually aren't worth fixing, but together make it worth spending a few hours reinstalling.
I'm thinking about it though, and I have 2 HDs here that are swappable, both set to cable select, so it should not be that hard to clean one off and swap it to C, then set up Linux on that..and still have all my data undisturbed on the other. Seems less risky and less of a pain than partitioning. Sounds like I have a project this next week....
I wasn't referring to the OS - spending $100-300 on an OS is *nothing* compared to buying a few Adobe creative suites, an architectural CAD package, and several games with expansion packs. That's the real barrier to switching.
Thank you for the recommend. Maybe I'll give it a shot. The apps do require an awful lot of memory - I've seen both Sims 2 and Photoshop using upwards of 300mb each - but hey, a possible solution is better than none.
So now in order to switch to Linux I have to buy all new software, AND all new hardware? And you wonder why people don't switch? It's a mystery, isn't it?
At that point, the PITAs would probably balance out better, yes.:p I am completely unwilling to purchase another Microsoft OS, but right now, comparing reinstalling XP again (free, not that difficult) to choosing a Linux distro, partitioning the HD, installing, learning, trying to get my old stuff to work (also free, but a huge PITA), it's easy to find a winner.
My XP install has reached its half-life again - which in my experience takes around 16 months - and quite a bit of stuff on it no longer works. Soon, I'll be installing an OS again, and whether that's Windows or a Linux distro is being decided.
The problem I'm up against right now is that I have $1500+ of legitimately purchased software for Windows - an Adobe creative suite, Sims2 with expansion packs, CAD software, F-secure's security suite, etc. And it's not within the realm of possibility to replace these with Linux versions because in most cases, that's not affordable, let alone that the Linux versions don't exist...
I've heard that some people have gotten some of these to work on Linux under WINE, but all the posts I've seen report instability and missing elements (sound not working, crashes on "X" etc). I've never seen anyone say, "Yep, Sims2 and Photoshop are working perfectly under X distro running X and here is how I did it."
I thought about partitioning and setting up both XP and a Linux distro (which one is another story, there are too damn many to choose from) but that wouldn't even work. First, the only things I do on this computer are 1. use the above expensive software, and 2. waste time on the internet, which I do AT THE SAME TIME as using the above software. So in short, there would really be no reason for me to boot up the Linux distro, aside from curiousity.
The worst part is that I'm relatively computer-savvy. Been using them for a healthy 13 years, good at general troubleshooting, experience with Mac OS9, OSX, and Windows 3.11 through XP, and if I can't do it from memory, I can figure out how as long as I have internet access. I'm not your average computer user, but switching to Linux looks to be more of a PITA than even I am willing to deal with.
When I lived in Utah, we had a drive by shooting in my neighborhood - against a convicted, registered sex offender, who happened to be sitting in his living room with the blinds drawn, holding his infant child, at the time of the shooting.
I don't know the details of his conviction (whether he was a bonafide perv or just someone having consentual sex with a slightly underage girlfriend), but thought this was a good example relating to your post.
Actually, in a fairly recent Utah case, a 12 year old boy and a 13 year old girl had consentual (not legally consentual, but both of them did it deliberately) sex, and the girl became pregnant.
They were BOTH charged with "Sexual abuse of a child". Both are considered simultaneous victims and perpetrators.
FYI, there are plugins that you can get for any car with an OBD-II system (everything after 1996, by law, but available on some earlier cars), which will give you a live fuel economy readout.
I would like to get one of these myself when I have a few spare hundred dollars, but just haven't bought one yet.
I was thinking of Lance Armstrong specifically in my post too - remember all the media attention about how brave he was, not in his fight against cancer, but how brave he was to be public about the specific type of cancer he had?
Men are generally, also unwilling to discuss testicular cancer. Bring it up at the next dinner party you attend. All the males present will flinch and then slowly move away. Same with prostate cancer.
Because everyone is more comfortable discussing breast cancer, it gets more attention and more funding.
Parent may appear to be trolling, but as someone who lives here, in a city where it's illegal to sell pornography or sex toys, in a city where we celebrated New Year's on Dec 30 and Independence Day on July 3 last year (both days had the audacity to fall on Sunday), in a city where you can't buy liquour except at the state-owned store, in a city...I think you get the picture. Parent may be trolling, but he's also accurate.
How would you feel if I came along and told you that in "my society", doing depraved things like drinking coffee and having missionary-style sex with your girlfriend are (or, at the very least, should be) illegal? Wouldn't you feel that this is an intrusion into your private matters - that as long as your girlfriend wants to have sex with you, there's no reason why the two of you shouldn't, and that whether you drink coffee or not is noone's business but your own?
It took me 6 years to work up to that wage, and that was a management position. It is a decent job in this city. I actually made more than the median income (for females or for males) here, and my husband will be doing better than the median where we move. Of course this is a city where you can expect $9-10 an hour with a bachelor's degree, but I digress...
I'm not offended, honestly. I think you need to think about what you're saying more than I do. We do pay taxes. Just not income taxes. We pay sales taxes and property taxes just like anyone else. And really, most couples in their 20s with kids will be at the lower end of the economic scale. Statistically, households headed by people 25 and under have the lowest per capita income. Following your rules, most retired people, and most young families, would no longer be eligible to vote. What you're not taking into account is that most young families and retired folks will pay plenty of income tax, just at other phases of their lives. And honestly, don't blame me, I am not the one who set the EITC cutoffs. I just qualify. You're nearing the richest phase of your life, statistically, with 20+ years of on-the-job-experience and/or education behind you. You're going to, on average, be in a very different income bracket than I.
We earn enough on one income to own a small house, a paid-off car, with no consumer debt. Our kids are not, and have never been, in day-care. Are we supposed to put the kids with a sitter so we can work two jobs just to pay income tax? It wouldn't work - the child-care cost would offset the additional income and we'd be back at square one, only there'd be someone else raising our kids. We're living responsibly and setting up patterns - such as 401K contributions - that will ensure we're at a more comfortable (and tax-paying) bracket eventually. IMO, that's more constructive in the long run than focusing on income outright. Smart spending and smart investing will benefit us (and the government, and the economy) no matter what tax bracket we're in.
I also take slight issue with your assumption that I (and others like me) would only vote for programs that amounted in handouts for us. I have not ever voted for that. I've voted solidly Libertarian, except last Senate election I voted for the Green party candidate because he was the only one in favor of gay marriage. I have my principles. I don't vote only for things that benefit me in the short term, as I know that my economic situation won't always be what it is.
Regardless, your statement, "We all owe at the end of the year," is incorrect - my tax rate last year was negative 8.5%. This year it will be negative again.
Also RE your sig - that's not an internet thing. In the newspaper and publishing business we've been using one space for decades. Don't blame us if your middle-school teacher taught you wrong.
Many times, the speed limit is 75, BUT the grade is 5-15% uphill.
In that case, yes you would need a car with a higher top speed. A car with a top speed of 117 (my old Sentra) has a top speed of about 55 on this particular stretch of interstate, and yes, it does impede traffic in a dangerous way.
Your Escalade, with a curb weight of 5333-5560 lbs (depending on what trim you bought) and a GVWR of 6800 - 7000 lbs (again depending on trim) and your Tahoe were both exempt from the following government-minimum safety standard:
Standard No. 216: Roof Crush Resistance
Scope and Purpose:
This standard establishes strength requirements for the passenger compartment roof to reduce deaths and injuries due to the crushing of the roof into the occupant compartment in rollover crashes.
Application:
Passenger cars (except convertibles) and multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks and buses (except school buses) with a GVWR of 2,722 kg (6,000 lb) or less
And that roof crush standard, which neither of your vehicles even had to meet, is incredibly lax. Thanks in large part to Detroit's automakers, that roof crush standard hasn't been updated since 1971. And it only requires a vehicle to support 1.5 times its weight on the roof - trivial compared to the actual forces exerted in a rollover.
I guess in some ways I've gotten off topic, but in another, this is just a really good example of why companies will *always* find a way to skirt government regs, or better yet, keep them outdated and ineffectual, even when it harms customers.
Your description of the show is VERY inaccurate - the main person featured in the show, Lydia, was not a hermaphrodite. She did not have male eggs. She did not have male cells.
When she was DNA tested to receive welfare, the DNA indicated that her children weren't hers - but the mother would've been someone with similar DNA *like a brother* of hers.
Somehow you took that to mean that she had hermaphroditism, which would have made her infertile. That's pretty illogical - how the hell does a person have male eggs? And how would they think that her kids had been fathered by two males? They didn't.
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I'm thinking about it though, and I have 2 HDs here that are swappable, both set to cable select, so it should not be that hard to clean one off and swap it to C, then set up Linux on that..and still have all my data undisturbed on the other. Seems less risky and less of a pain than partitioning. Sounds like I have a project this next week....
I wasn't referring to the OS - spending $100-300 on an OS is *nothing* compared to buying a few Adobe creative suites, an architectural CAD package, and several games with expansion packs. That's the real barrier to switching.
Thank you for the recommend. Maybe I'll give it a shot. The apps do require an awful lot of memory - I've seen both Sims 2 and Photoshop using upwards of 300mb each - but hey, a possible solution is better than none.
So now in order to switch to Linux I have to buy all new software, AND all new hardware? And you wonder why people don't switch? It's a mystery, isn't it?
If I had points, you'd be modded up.
At that point, the PITAs would probably balance out better, yes. :p I am completely unwilling to purchase another Microsoft OS, but right now, comparing reinstalling XP again (free, not that difficult) to choosing a Linux distro, partitioning the HD, installing, learning, trying to get my old stuff to work (also free, but a huge PITA), it's easy to find a winner.
My XP install has reached its half-life again - which in my experience takes around 16 months - and quite a bit of stuff on it no longer works. Soon, I'll be installing an OS again, and whether that's Windows or a Linux distro is being decided.
The problem I'm up against right now is that I have $1500+ of legitimately purchased software for Windows - an Adobe creative suite, Sims2 with expansion packs, CAD software, F-secure's security suite, etc. And it's not within the realm of possibility to replace these with Linux versions because in most cases, that's not affordable, let alone that the Linux versions don't exist...
I've heard that some people have gotten some of these to work on Linux under WINE, but all the posts I've seen report instability and missing elements (sound not working, crashes on "X" etc). I've never seen anyone say, "Yep, Sims2 and Photoshop are working perfectly under X distro running X and here is how I did it."
I thought about partitioning and setting up both XP and a Linux distro (which one is another story, there are too damn many to choose from) but that wouldn't even work. First, the only things I do on this computer are 1. use the above expensive software, and 2. waste time on the internet, which I do AT THE SAME TIME as using the above software. So in short, there would really be no reason for me to boot up the Linux distro, aside from curiousity.
The worst part is that I'm relatively computer-savvy. Been using them for a healthy 13 years, good at general troubleshooting, experience with Mac OS9, OSX, and Windows 3.11 through XP, and if I can't do it from memory, I can figure out how as long as I have internet access. I'm not your average computer user, but switching to Linux looks to be more of a PITA than even I am willing to deal with.
I don't know the details of his conviction (whether he was a bonafide perv or just someone having consentual sex with a slightly underage girlfriend), but thought this was a good example relating to your post.
They were BOTH charged with "Sexual abuse of a child". Both are considered simultaneous victims and perpetrators.
sit on the elliptical while you wii..would that work?
I would like to get one of these myself when I have a few spare hundred dollars, but just haven't bought one yet.
I was thinking of Lance Armstrong specifically in my post too - remember all the media attention about how brave he was, not in his fight against cancer, but how brave he was to be public about the specific type of cancer he had?
Because everyone is more comfortable discussing breast cancer, it gets more attention and more funding.
How I wish I had mod points for you. That was fantastic. All of it.
Parent may appear to be trolling, but as someone who lives here, in a city where it's illegal to sell pornography or sex toys, in a city where we celebrated New Year's on Dec 30 and Independence Day on July 3 last year (both days had the audacity to fall on Sunday), in a city where you can't buy liquour except at the state-owned store, in a city...I think you get the picture. Parent may be trolling, but he's also accurate.
I'd feel like you're probably in Utah like I am.
I'm not offended, honestly. I think you need to think about what you're saying more than I do. We do pay taxes. Just not income taxes. We pay sales taxes and property taxes just like anyone else. And really, most couples in their 20s with kids will be at the lower end of the economic scale. Statistically, households headed by people 25 and under have the lowest per capita income. Following your rules, most retired people, and most young families, would no longer be eligible to vote. What you're not taking into account is that most young families and retired folks will pay plenty of income tax, just at other phases of their lives. And honestly, don't blame me, I am not the one who set the EITC cutoffs. I just qualify. You're nearing the richest phase of your life, statistically, with 20+ years of on-the-job-experience and/or education behind you. You're going to, on average, be in a very different income bracket than I.
We earn enough on one income to own a small house, a paid-off car, with no consumer debt. Our kids are not, and have never been, in day-care. Are we supposed to put the kids with a sitter so we can work two jobs just to pay income tax? It wouldn't work - the child-care cost would offset the additional income and we'd be back at square one, only there'd be someone else raising our kids. We're living responsibly and setting up patterns - such as 401K contributions - that will ensure we're at a more comfortable (and tax-paying) bracket eventually. IMO, that's more constructive in the long run than focusing on income outright. Smart spending and smart investing will benefit us (and the government, and the economy) no matter what tax bracket we're in.
I also take slight issue with your assumption that I (and others like me) would only vote for programs that amounted in handouts for us. I have not ever voted for that. I've voted solidly Libertarian, except last Senate election I voted for the Green party candidate because he was the only one in favor of gay marriage. I have my principles. I don't vote only for things that benefit me in the short term, as I know that my economic situation won't always be what it is.
Regardless, your statement, "We all owe at the end of the year," is incorrect - my tax rate last year was negative 8.5%. This year it will be negative again.
Last year, I claimed 9 exemptions and still got $5800 back.
You obviously do not have children, and/or do not know about EIC.
Me too...and as I'm currently in the -8.5% tax bracket, I was filing within 3 hours of receiving my last W2.
I keep hearing that, but every year my mortgage interest comes nowhere near my standard deduction. Apparently I need to buy a better house.
Also RE your sig - that's not an internet thing. In the newspaper and publishing business we've been using one space for decades. Don't blame us if your middle-school teacher taught you wrong.
Many times, the speed limit is 75, BUT the grade is 5-15% uphill. In that case, yes you would need a car with a higher top speed. A car with a top speed of 117 (my old Sentra) has a top speed of about 55 on this particular stretch of interstate, and yes, it does impede traffic in a dangerous way.
Your Escalade, with a curb weight of 5333-5560 lbs (depending on what trim you bought) and a GVWR of 6800 - 7000 lbs (again depending on trim) and your Tahoe were both exempt from the following government-minimum safety standard:
And that roof crush standard, which neither of your vehicles even had to meet, is incredibly lax. Thanks in large part to Detroit's automakers, that roof crush standard hasn't been updated since 1971. And it only requires a vehicle to support 1.5 times its weight on the roof - trivial compared to the actual forces exerted in a rollover.
I guess in some ways I've gotten off topic, but in another, this is just a really good example of why companies will *always* find a way to skirt government regs, or better yet, keep them outdated and ineffectual, even when it harms customers.
When she was DNA tested to receive welfare, the DNA indicated that her children weren't hers - but the mother would've been someone with similar DNA *like a brother* of hers.
Somehow you took that to mean that she had hermaphroditism, which would have made her infertile. That's pretty illogical - how the hell does a person have male eggs? And how would they think that her kids had been fathered by two males? They didn't.
A more accurate summary of the show is here.