I do it on my bootlegged wifi in about 3-4 hours, while Im sleeping. Or in about 1.5 hours on my buddies DSL. I only have a 11b usb wireless card so its slow.
"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do." -- Terry Pratchett
It'll hurt me more than help me. I abandoned most products that the Chinese make and carved out little niches that are too small or the entry fee is too high, I use proprietary technology. Unfortunately, one of my wire suppliers moved from England to Taiwan, and we import some odds and ends from China that there are no domestic suppliers for. I will be introducing a new line of power brushes this year but the Chinese can't get product liability insurance on this type of stuff.
========== While this may indeed be the case, the only effect will be to move the off-shore production from Asia to Eastern Europe or Latin America.
Even if the US government were to take the highly unlikely position of telling the WTO to pound sand, and reimposed universal protective tarrifs, it is not at all clear that the American economy still has the plants, equipment, trained manpower and expertise to resume domestic production, without an extend and expensive learning curve. It is always much easier and cheaper to tear down than to build up.
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
------------------------------ Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), U.S. journalist. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, "Plantation Proverbs" (1880).
Yes I'm on a cable connection and it won't take too long.
Wayne...
I run Autocad 2000 on Ubuntu with wine. Most of it works. I think it all will if I figure out whats missing and load it in the right place. I have read where others have it all working.
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On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:45:22 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Don Foreman quickly quoth:
Thanks, Don. What's your bill for that line, sans long distance, for the month, if I might ask? They advertise $26/mo but when you check, they say $31.99, does not include taxes, surcharges, fees, graft, etc. (OK, so it doesn't say "graft".)
I dunno. My phone bill runs about $60/mo which includes landline, DSL and a L.D. "package" that includes the UK. I'm sure it's no bargain, but it works all of the time and has been zero hassle. We don't use or need cellphones.
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 01:03:47 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm, Don Foreman quickly quoth:
I'm paying $50/mo for Starband alone and $30 for a single line, so $60 looks good to me. Starband uploads go at 56kbaud, too, so DSL will be much, much better.
I'm wondering if I want to just turn off the damned idiot box and let go of my DISH setup, too, moving to Sirius or XM for music. I can rent a DVD if I want a movie. I'll miss the ISKA Karate matches, though.
Anyone here using those two music systems? $10-15/mo sounds great to avoid all those damned commercials and talk/humor shows on broadcast FM. Egad!
I had Sirius for a while. Commercial free is a misnomer. The only place that has no paid commercials is the music channels, and they still have commercial like interruptions advertising the other channels, etc. I switched to Internet radio when I got a broadband card for my laptop from Verizon. The money I save on the Sirius subscription helps offset the $60 a month to Verizon. It's nice to have fast Internet in the truck anywhere I go. I have only found a couple of dead spots in the southeast US. Sprint has a similar service.
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:24:45 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm, joe quickly quoth:
Oh, jess, jess; sometimes Indiagrish can be very hard to discern, Babu.
You've given me lots of good info, Joe. Thanks heaps!
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You took your last vacation in the Islets of Langerhans.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, and a weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a weasel's rump. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.
I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell?
You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe player. You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world that rejects the likes of you. You didn't crawl out of a normal egg, either, but rather a mutant maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist as being below his low standards. Your alleged parents abandoned you at birth and then died of shame in recognition of what they had done to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late.
Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it ever so much more rapidly. If cluelessness were crude oil, your scalp would be crawling with caribou.
You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than you have. You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short of a full deck, a few bytes short of a full core dump, and a few chromosomes short of a full human. Worse than that, you top-post. God created houseflies, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites, then he lowered his standards and made you. I take it back; God didn't make you. You are Satan's spawn. You are Evil beyond comprehension, half-living in the slough of despair. You are the entropy which will claim us all. You are a green-nostriled, crossed eyed, hairy-livered inbred trout-defiler. You make Ebola look good.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI compliant and your markup doesn't validate. You have a couple of address lines shorted together. You should be promoted to Engineering Manager.
Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be read? Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your tantrums and conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001 worth of electricity used to send them? Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T. and your future doesn't look promising either. We need to trace your bloodline and terminate all siblings and cousins in order to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes. The good news is that no normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to go into the sewers in search of your git.
You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a loathsome disease, a drooling inbred cross-eyed toesucker. You make Quakers shout and strike Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0 mind in a version 6.12 world. Your mother had to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get your dog to play with you. You think that
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. Spammers look down on you. Phone sex operators hang up on you. Telemarketers refuse to be seen in public with you. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. May you choke on your own foolish opinions. You are a Pusillanimous galactophage and you wear your sister's training bra. Don't bother opening the door when you leave - you should be able to slime your way out underneath. I hope that when you get home your mother runs out from under the porch and bites you.
You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking half-twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You bloody churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill. May your spouse be blessed with many bastards.
You are so clueless that if you dressed in a clue skin, doused yourself in clue musk, and did the clue dance in the middle of a field of horny clues at the height of clue mating season, you still would not have a clue. If you were a movie you would be a double feature; _Battlefield_Earth_ and _Moron_Movies_II_. You would be out of focus.
You are a fiend and a sniveling coward, and you have bad breath. You are the unholy spawn of a bandy-legged hobo and a syphilitic camel. You wear strangely mismatched clothing with oddly placed stains. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just knowing that you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won't make it. I beg for sweet death to come and remove me from a world which became unbearable when you crawled out of a harpy's lair.
It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled far beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid. This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of nature. I must apologize. I can't go on. This is my epiphany of stupid. After this experience, you may not hear from me for a while. I don't think that I can summon the strength left to mock your moronic opinions and malformed comments about boring trivia or your other drivel. Duh.
The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of what you wrote, because, well ... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things to be difficult. If I had known that this was true in your case then I would have never have exposed myself to what you wrote. It just wouldn't have been "right." Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, EDLINoid, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dyspeptic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, and Generally Not Good.
I hope this helps...
Your radio doesnt have a tuning knob?
Gunner
Fred Thompson and Condi Rice in '08!!!
Linux is only at 2.x.x now after 16 years. Three more major releases (5.x.x kernels) will likely be decades away.
As far as when Linux was "there"... IMO it was 10 years ago, about the time the 2.0.x kernels came out.
If you search around on
======= Enough of the euphemisms -- tell us how you really feel and don't hold back -- this is usenet after all.
Unka' George [George McDuffee]
------------------------------ Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), U.S. journalist. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, "Plantation Proverbs" (1880).
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:52:10 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Ron Thompson quickly quoth:
I listen to Sirius via DISH now and love the lack of commercials and not having to put up with loud, obnoxious, inane DJs.
That's cool.
On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:25:29 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:
Every four minutes, only to find six other stations playing a similar commercial for some other jerk and none playing the music I like best? Yeah, sure. What would you know about music? You listen to talk radio all the time.
I like Sirius now, but am wondering if XM might even be better. I sure don't miss all the commercial crap, lemme tell ya. i don't watch live TV any more, either. I record everything and watch it later when I can zip through the commercials with six finger clicks of the remote. I'm seriously thinking of giving up TV for more creative and shop time, though. About all I'm watching now are karate matches, old movies, and Star Trek Voyager reruns. Oh, the program HEROES is good, too.
In case Nick the Dick spouts off about this thread, point out the words "shop time" in the above paragraph and tell him to stuff it.
I thought Al Franken was off the air ?
Gunner
"Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide"
- James Burnham
I am using a Mac with Parallels. Do almost all of my work in Mac OS-X, and just run the one or two applications that need Windows on the Windows side. As long as I do not web-surf or download email on the Windows side I do not have to worry about viruses. I can run Linux if I want to at the same time. Best of all worlds. :)
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