that's a different "why not?" than the "why not?" that gets asked when one asks why one builds a jet engine for the purposes of keeping one's beer cold while in one's garage.
to be more specific, contrary to what it looks like, that's actually the "why?" that prompts the "why not?". the appropriate response to thx's "why not?" is actually a "why?".
I'm "thinking" of getting a new computer, but not because I need it. I'm using an eMachines Win98Se that I upgraded to WinME. I'm totally happy with that. I have heard about a lot of problems with XP. Is that still true?
I'm cheap, so what I'd get is the eMachines bundle for $399 after rebates. (or $499 with a 16x burner and 256K memory.)
i've been running xp for several months now, and the only problem i had with it was when i tried to install both nero's and roxio's cd burning software on it, and did something funky when i uninstalled, and lost access to all my cd rom drives. the machine itself's actually been running nonstop for several weeks.
No kidding...this explains a lot of your answers to other "questions of the day", and that isn't said to "piss you off", it is just an observation on your comment.
Anyone else getting a lot of this type of crap in their e-mail lately? Does anyone fall for it and say "Here you go, here's my bank account #'s"?
Dear Sir,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you because of the urgency of this transaction.
As a matter of fact, I am Engr. James Onpuru, a Chief Engineer in the national electric power authority (N.E.P.A). Also I was privileged to be a member of Tenders board that awarded and supervised the Execution of a Multi-Million U.S. dollars contract in 1996. The contract has been completed and Commissioned in august 1998, and original contract Value paid in October 1999, to the foreign firm that Actually executed the contract.
However, as a result of over-invoicing and series of Revision carried out in the course of the contract Execution, their now exists a floating sum of US$12.5m (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only). This money is now due for payment in The government quarterly payment schedule and we wish To remit this fund into your designated personal or Corporate accounts overseas.
We want to use this fund to finance international business and shipment of hardware to Africa market. We needed you to help us in lodging this fund in your account because we are civil servant and we can not claim this fund as we are not allow to operate a foreign account.
1. An assurance of your ability, willingness and Readiness to fully corporate with us during disbursement overseas and to maintain the maximum Confidentiality required in a business of this nature In all places at all times on both sides.
2. Particulars of your banks including name of bank, here the fund will be lodge
3. your private fax and telephone numbers for Safe, quick and effective communications.
upon receipt of your reply to this proposal more information on how to effectively remit the fund will be forwarded to you, we will also need the services of an attorney for notarization for a successful claiming of the fund, we shall offer you 15% of the total sum during disbursement which is negotiable.
Yeah, I've heard about them but never actually got one until recently. This is the fourth one I've gotten. All pretty much the same. Just little variations in the story.
all the time, thx. mostly through various mailing lists. and a scam is what it is. same letter every time, just with a different job description, relation to some high ranking government offical, a varying country, and a varying sum of money.
I have two, and am very satisfied. I haveupgraded both, adding a CD burner, and memory. The one you've seen for $399 has 2-1/2 times the hard drive and double the mhz, plus a 17' monitor (I got a 15") I'm not crazy about the printer, but it's still a hell of a deal. I'd upgrade the memory right away, tho.
I've got an OK printer already, so that wouldn't be an issue. Does the one for $399 come with 128 RAM? How tough is it to upgrade that? Also, do the machines have additional hard drive bays? I didn't look at the flyers in this Sunday's paper real close, so I'm just going off memory.
in theory you can. aol 7.0 (i think thats the version) puts its own dial-up networking driver in the system that does a good job screwing things up if you try to remove it.
Yep, that's the story I had heard too Ares. That's why I was wondering if it could come without AOL. From everybody I've talked to, once AOL is on your machine, it's worse to get rid of than herpes. I've heard the same thing about Compuserve, of which I am a disgruntled consumer. For the next 7 months anyway.
for anyone who's looking for an isp change, i will personally highly recommend visi. unless of course you want to go with a cable modem. if for no other reason than they cater to business. which means as a residential customer you're gonna get business quality service for a consumer quality price. and no i'm not saying that to get any sort of referral credit either. since i'm on dsl, it appears i'm not eligible.
red light cameras, yes. photo radar, i don't believe so, although there is that one stretch of 35w south between the crosstown and 494 where they've got what look like cameras on a pedestrian bridge and interesting pavement markings.
fighting one of the photo radar tickets ought to be a walk in the park unless you're identifiable in the picture.
actually if you mail me a ticket, unless its a school bus ticket, which the law explicitly makes an exception for, i'm gonna make an exception for the ticket and throw it in the trash.
the only way they could even get away with such a thing is if they put a similar exception into the law, stating that the owner of the vehicle is responsible. and i guarantee if that happens, there are some 67 state senators, and 134 state representatives who would be without jobs at the end of their terms. with a photo ticket its a matter of going in and saying "prove it was me". they can't, you walk. on the other hand, they could institute an "owner responsible" policy, which could be a good thing, as theoretically one could keep the insurance companies from raising rates from a photo cop ticket.
Man, wish I would have thought of it!
come on, jt. i was even opening the door for it! you're gonna have to learn to be quicker than that :)
In hindsight I see the wide open door.
However, my first observation was that, yes I can understand that mentality.
Scribe always asks me those sort of questions where my response is simply "Just because".
actually i'm reading through the guy's site where he talks about how he built it:
The first question I always get asked is 'Why?'
The answer is of course 'Because I can.'
methinks that's a common answer. probably the only reason technology is always advancing too.
Better answer, "Why not?"
Better answer, "Why not?"
I've found that to be my question.
It goes something like this.
THX: I want a new computer.
Scribe: What for?
THX: Just because.
Scribe: I don't think so.
THX: Why not?
Scribe: I need new skates.
THX: What for?
Scribe: Just because.
THX: I don't think so.
Scribe: Why not?
THX: Cuz I want a new computer.
Scribe: What for?..............
that's a different "why not?" than the "why not?" that gets asked when one asks why one builds a jet engine for the purposes of keeping one's beer cold while in one's garage.
Exactly.
to be more specific, contrary to what it looks like, that's actually the "why?" that prompts the "why not?". the appropriate response to thx's "why not?" is actually a "why?".
I'm so confused.
I'm so confused.
Why? ;-)
Windows XP
I'm "thinking" of getting a new computer, but not because I need it. I'm using an eMachines Win98Se that I upgraded to WinME. I'm totally happy with that. I have heard about a lot of problems with XP. Is that still true?
I'm cheap, so what I'd get is the eMachines bundle for $399 after rebates. (or $499 with a 16x burner and 256K memory.)
i've been running xp for several months now, and the only problem i had with it was when i tried to install both nero's and roxio's cd burning software on it, and did something funky when i uninstalled, and lost access to all my cd rom drives. the machine itself's actually been running nonstop for several weeks.
Is that like "Because I say so"?
No kidding...this explains a lot of your answers to other "questions of the day", and that isn't said to "piss you off", it is just an observation on your comment.
I don't understand what you're saying.
Please explain.
Please elaborate.
Ian, have you been happy with your e-machine? I keep seeing them in the paper and thinking about buying one.
Anyone else getting a lot of this type of crap in their e-mail lately? Does anyone fall for it and say "Here you go, here's my bank account #'s"?
Dear Sir,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. I have decided to contact you because of the urgency of this transaction.
As a matter of fact, I am Engr. James Onpuru, a Chief Engineer in the national electric power
authority (N.E.P.A). Also I was privileged to be a member of Tenders board that awarded and supervised the Execution of a Multi-Million U.S. dollars contract in 1996. The contract has been completed and Commissioned in august 1998, and original contract Value paid in October 1999, to the foreign firm that Actually executed the contract.
However, as a result of over-invoicing and series of Revision carried out in the course of the contract Execution, their now exists a floating sum of US$12.5m (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars Only). This money is now due for payment in The government quarterly payment schedule and we wish To remit this fund into your designated personal or Corporate accounts overseas.
We want to use this fund to finance international business and shipment of hardware to Africa market. We needed you to help us in lodging this fund in your account because we are civil servant and we can not claim this fund as we are not allow to operate a foreign account.
1. An assurance of your ability, willingness and Readiness to fully corporate with us during disbursement overseas and to maintain the maximum
Confidentiality required in a business of this nature In all places at all times on both sides.
2. Particulars of your banks including name of bank, here the fund will be lodge
3. your private fax and telephone numbers for Safe, quick and effective communications.
upon receipt of your reply to this proposal more information on how to effectively remit the fund will be forwarded to you, we will also need the services of an attorney for notarization for a successful claiming of the fund, we shall offer you 15% of the total sum during disbursement which is negotiable.
We await your urgent response.
Best regard.
Engr. James Onpuru.
I don't know much about this, but scams of this kind have been coming to U.S. mailboxes from Africa for years.
Yeah, I've heard about them but never actually got one until recently. This is the fourth one I've gotten. All pretty much the same. Just little variations in the story.
all the time, thx. mostly through various mailing lists. and a scam is what it is. same letter every time, just with a different job description, relation to some high ranking government offical, a varying country, and a varying sum of money.
I think there's a place where you can report it, but I don't know exactly -- does anyone else out there know?
I'm sure you can report it but, I haven't taken the time to look into it.
I have two, and am very satisfied. I haveupgraded both, adding a CD burner, and memory. The one you've seen for $399 has 2-1/2 times the hard drive and double the mhz, plus a 17' monitor (I got a 15") I'm not crazy about the printer, but it's still a hell of a deal. I'd upgrade the memory right away, tho.
I've got an OK printer already, so that wouldn't be an issue. Does the one for $399 come with 128 RAM? How tough is it to upgrade that? Also, do the machines have additional hard drive bays? I didn't look at the flyers in this Sunday's paper real close, so I'm just going off memory.
http://www.bestbuy.com/ComputersPeripherals/Desktops/ViewSelection.asp?m=488&cat=490&scat=491
http://www.compusa.com/products/products.asp?srch_type=catg2&category_id=5
http://www.circuitcity.com/ewebIMa/searchresults.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0125322682.1017691227@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdjadcekjjfdhgcfngcfkmdffhdffg.0&category=Desktops&department=Computers&first=yes
Hmmm, don't tempt me THX. Wonder if I can get them to give me one that's not pre-loaded with AOL software.
What do you mean? I didn't look at the machines in detail. Can't you just remove it after you buy it?
in theory you can. aol 7.0 (i think thats the version) puts its own dial-up networking driver in the system that does a good job screwing things up if you try to remove it.
Doesn't it just figure?
Yep, that's the story I had heard too Ares. That's why I was wondering if it could come without AOL. From everybody I've talked to, once AOL is on your machine, it's worse to get rid of than herpes. I've heard the same thing about Compuserve, of which I am a disgruntled consumer. For the next 7 months anyway.
for anyone who's looking for an isp change, i will personally highly recommend visi. unless of course you want to go with a cable modem. if for no other reason than they cater to business. which means as a residential customer you're gonna get business quality service for a consumer quality price. and no i'm not saying that to get any sort of referral credit either. since i'm on dsl, it appears i'm not eligible.
What's service cost from visi?
their dial-up rates.
The magic camera.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51205,00.html
I think there was a 1.6mhz Athlon processer, 256mb, 40 gig with a 16x burner for $599 in one of the links THX posted.
From what I hear Athlon is supposed to be a great processor.
I've heard good things about it too. I'd certainly be willing to give it a shot.
they're typically a lot less pricey than a comparable intel.
I've also heard that they're faster than a comparably rated intel. Though this might be a load of hoo-ha.
Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers Users
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,51461,00.html
Technology used for evil purposes!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,49343,00.html
Don't they already have these cameras here in the cities?
I believe so.
red light cameras, yes. photo radar, i don't believe so, although there is that one stretch of 35w south between the crosstown and 494 where they've got what look like cameras on a pedestrian bridge and interesting pavement markings.
fighting one of the photo radar tickets ought to be a walk in the park unless you're identifiable in the picture.
You could always do like the old joke. They mail you a pic of your car breaking the law with a $75 fine. You mail them a pic of $75.
actually if you mail me a ticket, unless its a school bus ticket, which the law explicitly makes an exception for, i'm gonna make an exception for the ticket and throw it in the trash.
A few years back I heard they had the photo radar in Bloomington.
the only way they could even get away with such a thing is if they put a similar exception into the law, stating that the owner of the vehicle is responsible. and i guarantee if that happens, there are some 67 state senators, and 134 state representatives who would be without jobs at the end of their terms. with a photo ticket its a matter of going in and saying "prove it was me". they can't, you walk. on the other hand, they could institute an "owner responsible" policy, which could be a good thing, as theoretically one could keep the insurance companies from raising rates from a photo cop ticket.