There are free patch CD alternatives out there. Try www.autopatcher.com. It's got some other stuff in the Full release, but offers you the ability to choose just what you want to install, and will do it all unattended once the process starts. You can run it from CD, over a network or from a local disk. I use it several times a week to bring new SP2 installs up and patched to the latest month's releases. From there it just requires one or two downloads from MS. It's a relatively painless way to to get all the updates.
I couldn't agree more. The government is a really smart entity. All those research folks actually DO stuff. The problems is, even though they could fix so many things, it would go against the xenophobic (or, homophobic, terrorphobic, (n)phobic...) tendencies of a part of their voting base, and they'd all lose their jobs.
It's too bad preservation of self is more important to everyone than preservation of the whole.
I got a pack of Apple stickers with an iPod Shuffle I got for a birthday gift. It's the first Apple product I've had the pleasure to own, and I think it's great that they give you the stickers. It appeals to the side of me that still watches cartoons and plays with Lego bricks (the same side my girlfriend doesn't understand).
I can't tell whether or not you're trolling or actually believe that. Nothing will be good for the United States if it involves a lowering or loss of human rights. Sure, those hopelessly poor illegal immigrants won't be competing with more well off US citizens for higher paying jobs and educations paid for by citizens' taxes, but they will just end up in a cycle of poverty and all the troubles associated with it.
The United States would be forever improved by accepting immigrants, making them citizens (gotta have those taxes), allowing them to become educated (not the same as just giving them an education; that's a whole other can of worms I do not wish to open) and helping them to become successful in our nation. There will ALWAYS be poorer or uneducated US citizens and immigrants to "provide cheap Wal*Mart labor", for a variety of reasons. You can look at it as a renewable workforce. This way, at least, there will be less competition for AVAILABLE low-end jobs for both groups with the possibility of making your way up the ladder through hard work. Poorer families won't be stuck in a poverty cycle, and can better their situation, or at least the situation for their descendants, and their position will be filled by others when they leave, be it a native citizen who's fallen on hard times, or another immigrant-turned-citizen.
My point is, after that long-winded argument, is that the US will be better improved through aid and human rights than by a self-perpetuating low-income slave class of illegal immigrants.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Recreation? Competition? Exercise? Something fun to do? Not everything has to have a "point". Sometimes folks can just get together and have fun, you know?
Not that I agree with her actions, but perhaps if he hadn't given her reason to suspect an affair (or even better, didn't have an affair) then she wouldn't resort to logging his activity.
So maybe with a better partner, she would be a better, or at least less tempted, woman.
I think the "slight" risk of contracting an incurable, terminal disease is worth the chance to be rid of an incurable, terminal disease. Really, what have you got to loose?
Very good point. That immediately brings to mind the folks I know who take every little thing and make it into a much bigger, dramatic (and by that point, wholly distorted) problem, then spend the rest of the day "warning" everyone about it.
While I still think it's much more difficult to find "good" people in the news, and as a consequence many of them never get noticed, I agree that your point probably also accounts for a large portion of the problem, as well.
Unfortunately, just like any other group of people, it's not the "good cops" that stand out from the crowd and get noticed. Those tens of thousands officers will never be recognized by the public. It's only those officers who get in trouble and make it on the news that everyone hears about.
Right, everyone knows Thriftway is just a front for secret government projects. Watch out for seven-11, too. Your Slim-Jim preferences are being logged into the anti-terrorist database. And don't even THINK about buying gas there. Then they'll KNOW about your ties to Al-Qaeda.
Disclaimer: all tongue-in-cheek; no attack on parent
You know, I was going to rant about how this was modded informative, and that even as a joke modding it informative would be stupid.
Then I realized maybe being modded informative was an accident, so I decided to rant about being more careful and using the wonderful preview button.
Then I thought about it and said to myself, "Self, why do you care?" And I don't.
But I had to rant about something! Spelling, or posting AC...anything. Otherwise I wouldn't even rate with the big boys.
Then I realized it was funny. And even though I used to hear jokes like that in elementary school, I was entertained, and chuckled to myself in spite of myself.
I think you might be focusing on the wrong continuing cast. It's not necessarily the villains who are or should be continuous.
All six movies do have a continuous cast: Vader (Anakin), the Emperor, Yoda and Obi Wan. The rest of the characters are really just a supporting cast for the main character.
And the main character isn't always who you'd think it is. All 6 movies are really a biography of Vader, just told from different and varying points of view. Quite interesting idea, actually.
I understand where you're coming from. I'm not a church going individual either, and have often pondered the "If there is a God, then why do bad things happen to good people?" question. I'm neither arguing for or against the existence of a God.
The point I was trying to make was more along the lines of "Why can't we ponder the possibility in a friendly or respectful manner"; the ability to do which seems to evaporate into "Your God Sucks!/Nuh-un, He Rocks!" knock-down, drag-out, flamewars.
I can tell from some of the very well reasoned and thought out posts that a large part of the/. community is pretty intelligent. You would think that would lead to discussions and debates the like of which are common to college students who spend hours discussing the finer points of every aspect of life into the wee hours of the night just for the opportunity to contemplate such ideas with peers of comparable intelligence.
It is a shame that such discussions cannot take place here.
I've haven't seen so many AC replies to a single posting before. Methinks people are scared to be associated with such a "controversial" topic.
It's a shame the topic can't be approached more open-mindedly, as the parent was neither malicious or forceful. Whether you believe in a God or not, is the idea so black and white that people can't even maintain a healthy, respectful dialogue about it?
This kind of fear has more to do with a "bandwagon" mentality combined with a kind of herding instinct than it does with people not trusting machines. I'll agree that there is a general phobia of anything new, but would argue that the herding-bandwagon mentality is more responsible for the kind of reaction you envision. The same reaction is evident all the time toward specific incidents that are over-hyped out of proportion. One innocent shark mistakes a swimmer for a seal and all of the sudden the local government is issuing rewards for shark skins. The only key is that something has to happen to the victim that they themselves could not do anything about. No eating the pretty (and poisonous) mushroom, no bungee jumping accidents. You have to have been walking along a cliff and have it cave in under you to make sure it gets fenced off to the rest of the world.
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There are free patch CD alternatives out there. Try www.autopatcher.com. It's got some other stuff in the Full release, but offers you the ability to choose just what you want to install, and will do it all unattended once the process starts. You can run it from CD, over a network or from a local disk. I use it several times a week to bring new SP2 installs up and patched to the latest month's releases. From there it just requires one or two downloads from MS. It's a relatively painless way to to get all the updates.
I saw another article about the same thing on Technocrat.net yesterday. They make the distinction that it's not related to the Sterling Engine:
There is some other info in the article that explains things from a different perspective, as well, so it might be good for compare and contrast.
"Solar Powered Air Conditioning Getting Real" via TreehuggerI couldn't agree more. The government is a really smart entity. All those research folks actually DO stuff. The problems is, even though they could fix so many things, it would go against the xenophobic (or, homophobic, terrorphobic, (n)phobic...) tendencies of a part of their voting base, and they'd all lose their jobs.
It's too bad preservation of self is more important to everyone than preservation of the whole.
I got a pack of Apple stickers with an iPod Shuffle I got for a birthday gift. It's the first Apple product I've had the pleasure to own, and I think it's great that they give you the stickers. It appeals to the side of me that still watches cartoons and plays with Lego bricks (the same side my girlfriend doesn't understand).
I can't tell whether or not you're trolling or actually believe that. Nothing will be good for the United States if it involves a lowering or loss of human rights. Sure, those hopelessly poor illegal immigrants won't be competing with more well off US citizens for higher paying jobs and educations paid for by citizens' taxes, but they will just end up in a cycle of poverty and all the troubles associated with it.
The United States would be forever improved by accepting immigrants, making them citizens (gotta have those taxes), allowing them to become educated (not the same as just giving them an education; that's a whole other can of worms I do not wish to open) and helping them to become successful in our nation. There will ALWAYS be poorer or uneducated US citizens and immigrants to "provide cheap Wal*Mart labor", for a variety of reasons. You can look at it as a renewable workforce. This way, at least, there will be less competition for AVAILABLE low-end jobs for both groups with the possibility of making your way up the ladder through hard work. Poorer families won't be stuck in a poverty cycle, and can better their situation, or at least the situation for their descendants, and their position will be filled by others when they leave, be it a native citizen who's fallen on hard times, or another immigrant-turned-citizen.
My point is, after that long-winded argument, is that the US will be better improved through aid and human rights than by a self-perpetuating low-income slave class of illegal immigrants.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
It's an evening drama on FOX about rich kids in Orange County.
http://www.fox.com/oc/
Recreation? Competition? Exercise? Something fun to do? Not everything has to have a "point". Sometimes folks can just get together and have fun, you know?
Not that I agree with her actions, but perhaps if he hadn't given her reason to suspect an affair (or even better, didn't have an affair) then she wouldn't resort to logging his activity.
So maybe with a better partner, she would be a better, or at least less tempted, woman.
Didn't ol' Doc Brown sell the Libyans a bomb casing filled with pinball machine parts and keep the uranium to power his time machine?
Come on, now....
I think the "slight" risk of contracting an incurable, terminal disease is worth the chance to be rid of an incurable, terminal disease. Really, what have you got to loose?
Yeah. At that point, the star would probably just be catching us in the face.
I think he might have meant if we were to be run over by a random sun moving at that speed. Could be wrong, though.
Very good point. That immediately brings to mind the folks I know who take every little thing and make it into a much bigger, dramatic (and by that point, wholly distorted) problem, then spend the rest of the day "warning" everyone about it.
While I still think it's much more difficult to find "good" people in the news, and as a consequence many of them never get noticed, I agree that your point probably also accounts for a large portion of the problem, as well.
Unfortunately, just like any other group of people, it's not the "good cops" that stand out from the crowd and get noticed. Those tens of thousands officers will never be recognized by the public. It's only those officers who get in trouble and make it on the news that everyone hears about.
It's probably not much more inconvenient than some of the "Self Checkout" lines they have in a lot of grocery stores.
But then a Pay By Touch system became quite popular among the store regulars.
I don't imagine it would have become quite so popular if it was incredibly inconvenient.
Right, everyone knows Thriftway is just a front for secret government projects. Watch out for seven-11, too. Your Slim-Jim preferences are being logged into the anti-terrorist database. And don't even THINK about buying gas there. Then they'll KNOW about your ties to Al-Qaeda.
Disclaimer: all tongue-in-cheek; no attack on parent
Then I realized that my entire post was stupid, and maybe I have answered one too many help desk calls this morning.
Please forgive me. That's probably the most retarded post I've ever made.
You know, I was going to rant about how this was modded informative, and that even as a joke modding it informative would be stupid.
Then I realized maybe being modded informative was an accident, so I decided to rant about being more careful and using the wonderful preview button.
Then I thought about it and said to myself, "Self, why do you care?" And I don't.
But I had to rant about something! Spelling, or posting AC...anything. Otherwise I wouldn't even rate with the big boys.
Then I realized it was funny. And even though I used to hear jokes like that in elementary school, I was entertained, and chuckled to myself in spite of myself.
Good Show!
I think you might be focusing on the wrong continuing cast. It's not necessarily the villains who are or should be continuous.
All six movies do have a continuous cast: Vader (Anakin), the Emperor, Yoda and Obi Wan. The rest of the characters are really just a supporting cast for the main character.
And the main character isn't always who you'd think it is. All 6 movies are really a biography of Vader, just told from different and varying points of view. Quite interesting idea, actually.
Well, all the NOAA guys are all buying them...
Not even most of them...just over 50% of them.
I love my country. I'm embarrassed by my countrymen.
I understand where you're coming from. I'm not a church going individual either, and have often pondered the "If there is a God, then why do bad things happen to good people?" question. I'm neither arguing for or against the existence of a God.
The point I was trying to make was more along the lines of "Why can't we ponder the possibility in a friendly or respectful manner"; the ability to do which seems to evaporate into "Your God Sucks!/Nuh-un, He Rocks!" knock-down, drag-out, flamewars.
I can tell from some of the very well reasoned and thought out posts that a large part of the /. community is pretty intelligent. You would think that would lead to discussions and debates the like of which are common to college students who spend hours discussing the finer points of every aspect of life into the wee hours of the night just for the opportunity to contemplate such ideas with peers of comparable intelligence.
It is a shame that such discussions cannot take place here.
I've haven't seen so many AC replies to a single posting before. Methinks people are scared to be associated with such a "controversial" topic.
It's a shame the topic can't be approached more open-mindedly, as the parent was neither malicious or forceful. Whether you believe in a God or not, is the idea so black and white that people can't even maintain a healthy, respectful dialogue about it?
Or I could just not see your whole last sentence.
Well, Instead of a rebuttal, apparently I just agree with you.
This kind of fear has more to do with a "bandwagon" mentality combined with a kind of herding instinct than it does with people not trusting machines. I'll agree that there is a general phobia of anything new, but would argue that the herding-bandwagon mentality is more responsible for the kind of reaction you envision. The same reaction is evident all the time toward specific incidents that are over-hyped out of proportion. One innocent shark mistakes a swimmer for a seal and all of the sudden the local government is issuing rewards for shark skins. The only key is that something has to happen to the victim that they themselves could not do anything about. No eating the pretty (and poisonous) mushroom, no bungee jumping accidents. You have to have been walking along a cliff and have it cave in under you to make sure it gets fenced off to the rest of the world.