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- Gateway C-141XL
Pro: Cheapest
Con: Comes w/ Vista but can be XPed - HP Pavilion tx2000z
Pro: moderately priced
Con: Only works w/ Vista - Toshiba Portege M700-S7008
Pro: Comes with XP
Con: Most expensive
| Friday, February 22nd, 2008 | |||||||
| 1:35 pm | PC Tablet XP or Vista Help/guidance/advice requested I'm torn and I don't know what to do. I'm going to buy a tablet PC in the near future. I've got the selection narrowed down to about three candidates each with its own pros and cons, but the real issue is to Vista or not to Vista. You see, I hate Vista or at least I did when I got my desktop last year and discovered that it was royally incompatible with most of the programs I wanted to use. It's also bloated and counterintuitive to use. So I had it removed in favor of XP. And it was good. Now Vista has been patched and apparently some of the compatibility issues are going to the wayside... slowly. Also Vista comes with apparently some fairly sophisticated tablet functionality. XP Tablet apparently runs everything XP does with some added tablet functions, but the handwriting recognition and quick movement responsiveness is not the greatest. If all of the Tablets I’ve been looking at worked with XP Tablet it would be a no brainer. I would just get the Machine with XP on it and upgrade to Vista when it and I were good and ready. Unfortunately some of my possible choices have new hardware that doesn’t have XP drivers. So if I want that machine I have to use Vista. This would also be a no brainer if it were a conventional laptop but the tablet aspect adds an unfamiliar dimension to the equation. If it matters the choices are: Current Mood:  confused | ||||||
| Monday, September 17th, 2007 | |||||||
| 3:47 pm | Oh happy day! http://www.time.com/time/business/artic Maybe some American courts will strap on a pair and side against this travesty to computing! I especially love this bullshit line of reasoning: "The company said it would undermine efforts by market-leading firms across the globe to improve their products for consumers, as they would not be able to benefit from their own innovations." It's like logic only happens to other people. The problem with Monopolies is that they stifle innovation, not promote it. They have no incentive to improve. Actual healthy competition might force them to make a decent product, for a change! Computing has been set back over a decade by this behemoth’s ham handed excuse for programs and operating systems. Maybe we'll finally see some lean, mean coding that gets the job done without being buggy and bloated to within an inch of it's life! Yes, I'm still bitter about that abortion they call Vista! Current Mood:  thankful | ||||||
| Thursday, August 9th, 2007 | |||||||
| 9:29 am | Now there's a name for a town :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Franke I'm half tempted to visit just so that I can send post cards from there. Current Mood:  silly | ||||||
| Saturday, May 26th, 2007 | |||||||
| 2:00 pm | Okay... that's one way to deal with tooth decay http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_ So we have tainted rice, bad drugs and now toothpaste. Again, I'm not an alarmist and this isn't a consumer form of chemical and biological warfare, but gang China cuts too many corners! We shouldn't be buying anything consumable from them! Current Mood:  concerned | ||||||
| Sunday, May 20th, 2007 | |||||||
| 12:00 pm | Let me tell you all of the stupid things about this article http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/millionret Let us start with its assumption that you make $80,000 a year. For those you don't know, that's deep into the 2nd quintile of the US's income level. So basically if you're already wealthy, we have a plan for you. Great because the wealthy need these clever plans. Then it goes on to make the cavalier statement that all you need to do is save up twice your exorbitant annual income. The average American can't even manage to save up 10% of their annual income never mind 200%. Of coarse you would have to make $80,000 even to think in terms of such aggressive saving in the first place, since much less than that and your operating expenses pretty much preclude such non-sense all together. But really this is the kicker; the big payoff. The entire article is about getting up to a million dollars in retirement savings so that you can draw a pension of $45,000 a year... *boggle* A) what do you think the buying power of $45,000 20 years from now is going to be? B) Of course after spending a life time of making $80,000 the small bump down to $45,000 with be perfectly acceptable amount for maintaining the standard of living you've become accustomed to. This is what passes for financial advice from the Wall Street Journal. Current Mood:  incredulous | ||||||
| Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 | |||||||
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| Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | |||||||
| 9:21 am | I'm glad I'm not a kid these days So this VT killer is supposed to have been picked on, isolated, made fun of and wrote violent and disturbing stories. That and he was striking out at the rich and privileged around him. My last name is Funk and I was raised in the military. If you don't think that I was isolated and picked on constantly all through my childhood, you're fucking high. When I was in middle school I was wearing “tough skin” Sears brand jeans in Monterey where all the kids were in $100 Jordache and Britania jeans. I had to BEG my mom for a pair of Levis just to tone down the ridicule. I drew pictures of bloody scenes, battles, warrior women holding decapitated heads, human sacrifice and I wrote stories about vampires that saw death as an art form! In high school I was the Bay Area's best rifle shooter. I shot a bird, once, and felt bad about it for a week. Look elsewhere for your killer’s motives. That fucker was broken and society didn't make him that way. ETA: Though it should be obvious why I am glad I'm not a kid these days, I can just imagine all of the "concern" there would have been over my behavior that fortunately I didn't have to deal with. I'd have a record of "counseling" and "disturbing behavior" I would have never been able to excel at riflery and get a block jacket and trophies. I would have been, I believe, even further stigmatized for having found creative non-violent outlets for my frustrations. I might have even been on medication that I didn’t need. Though something for depression might have helped... Current Mood:  bitchy | ||||||
| Saturday, April 14th, 2007 | |||||||
| 12:56 pm | Incompetence and corruption Inc. marches on Just when you thought the neocon shrubites couldn't get any more obvious in their mutual back scratching and cronyism, I give you Wolfowitz. How did this paragon of virtue get to be the leader of the world bank? Do you remember the last great piece of financial advice he gave? "We'll pay for the Iraq war with Iraqi oil!" Has anyone noticed how fabulously that's worked out? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070414/pl_ Current Mood:  Disgusted | ||||||
| Monday, March 26th, 2007 | |||||||
| 11:31 am | Better late than never... or not We ordered Indian food from a place fairly regularly. One time it didn't show up for over two hours, granted it was a dark and stormy night, but still. Well we like their food so we ordered from them again... This time the order never came... At all... As in no food for you. We will not be ordering from them again. Current Mood: miffed | ||||||
| Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 | |||||||
| 4:42 pm | Well that blew. Doesn't work for me for some reason WTF? | ||||||
| Sunday, February 25th, 2007 | |||||||
| 8:14 pm | Microsoft is dead, long live microsoft Thanks to my 1337 brother's mad skillz the abomination is purged from my precious! I now have the much more sane and compatible XP humming along. Soon I shall know the glory of gaming on a working computer. Oh... yeah! Current Mood:  satisfied | ||||||
| Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | |||||||
| 11:28 pm | Microsoft, you officially blow goats! I cannot even begin to express the extent to which Vista is the worst thing to happen to computing since Bill Gates was not smothered as an infant by his parents! Not only does it take a cool 600 MEGABYTES OF RAM just to operate, but glory of glories... IT ISN'T EVEN FUCKING BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE!!! That's right you have created the worst of both possible worlds! Not only do you suck up ALL of the advanced computing technology to do basically NOTHING, but you have adopted Macs capacity to not be able to play games! YOU BITE MAGGOTS MICROSOFT! I will make it my soul mission in life to purge my precious new computer of this pustulant blight as quickly as humanly possible. I sincerely hope from the bottom of my heart that your development team DIES in a plane crash! You have managed to do the very concept of computing a disservice. You should be ashamed that you let this bullshit piece of truly bloatware get developed but then blackmail computer companies to installing it on their products as the default operating system! I hope Satan butt-fucks each and every one of you with sand paper condoms for all of eternity you pathetic excuse for programmers! Current Mood: infuriated | ||||||
| Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 | |||||||
| 6:02 pm | Having actually gotten a response from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jonathankorman, I am obligated.Comment and I will: 1) Tell you why I friended you. 2) Associate you with a song/film. 3) Tell a random fact about you. 4) Tell a first memory about you. 5) Associate you with a character/pairing. 6) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. 7) Tell you my favourite user pic of yours. 8) In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ. | ||||||
| Monday, January 1st, 2007 | |||||||
| 1:06 pm | The year in closing This past year ended on a challenging note, but all in all the blessings are still piled high and deep. It seems like kind of a downer to think that the best you can do in recount all of the things that didn't go wrong, but that's kind of an attitude thing. The truth is actually quite a few good things have happened. I feel very optimistic about work. We ended with the most effective budget presentation that the board has seen in years. I got high praise on a redesign project. I really got to shine and make positive impressions at the office holiday party, something that in the past has been a liability to be overcome. One of my greatest challenges in my professional life has been getting on the wrong side of people. It's been a very difficult lesson to learn, but I've definitely gotten better at the game. I'm still a novice, but I'm impressing the right people, winning over more and more advocates and even winning over a few tough customers as well. My reviews, which started off well, are showing an upward trend. I fought off a repetitive stress disorder. That is a tremendous victory having watched what a chronic condition can do to people. Discipline and responsibility; these are areas of integrity that I've had very solid progress in. I have managed to create my own personal budget and stick to and even exceed it in terms of savings and fiscal soundness. My place, thought it gets a little cluttered, never looks like a disgusting frat house. I’m back in school and doing well thus far. I made a lot of good decisions. One crowning one was the move. It was carefully considered, well executed and has proven again and again to have been a wise choice in terms of place and placement. This all adds up to a good reality, a reality that I actively had a hand in creating. I have no delusions about being “in control” or “the master of my domain.” I’m a cleaver monkey that looked sharp and knew an opportunity when it saw it. Be that as it may, this last trip around the big fusion ball on this rock has been a decidedly good one and there is every indication that it doesn’t have to be an isolated event. Current Mood:  content | ||||||
| Thursday, December 14th, 2006 | |||||||
| 8:49 am | Okay this going to have me giggling for a while On the twelfth day of Christmas,  black_reaver sent to me...Twelve movies gaming Eleven Tori Amos skiing Ten cats a-skydiving Nine bauhaus drawing Eight folktales a-camping Seven metaphysics a-winemaking Six dionysus a-cooking Five ope-e-e-en relationships Four vampire books Three eleusinian mysteries Two roleplaying games ...and an aikido in a coffee. Skydiving cats OMGZ #7 always knew I was working with spirits ;-p Don't think the world could handle 6 Dionysus (dionysi?) A recombination of 6 and 7 whould come dangerously close to making sense 8-O Current Mood:  sleepy | ||||||
| Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 | |||||||
| 10:38 am | The stars really do determine our fate! http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061 Current Mood:  contemplative | ||||||
| Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 | |||||||
| 11:36 am | Mostly I am generally pleased with how the elections have gone, however I have grave reservations about Proposition 83. Now, I am not a fan of sexual predators, especially not pedophiles, but GPS tagging someone FOR LIFE and restricting where they can live is essentially telling an ex-offender that they will NEVER BE FREE AGAIN! My understanding of the criminal system is once you serve your time and are off parole you are once again a citizen/resident alien/whatever just like you were before you were caught and convicted. You can vote, you can do anything anyone else can do, but not any more. With Proposition 83 if you have EVER been convicted of a sexual felony you will always be tracked and can never live in certain places. One conviction on a false accusation of date rape and you are traceable for life! One retroactive act of regret to save face and you will never live near a school or a park. One mistake and you can watch your life and liberties get eroded year after year as more and more propositions and laws like this one gets passed. Now let's consider the precedent this establishes. You can legislate where these people can live. Landlords can already evict convicted sex offenders. Now imagine communities passing ordinances; gated communities establishing by-laws; other propositions that further extend the exception zones. Consider what it means to permit permanent tracking for life. Imagine that getting extended to other criminal circumstances. Imagine the severity of the condition getting lessened. Current Mood:  concerned | ||||||
| Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 | |||||||
| 8:15 pm | A higher resolution image to work with would still be nice, but this is the basic gist of it. Current Mood:  artistic | ||||||
| 12:20 pm | Geek love request Is someone could send me a screen capture of the scene in "Serenity" when the blast doors open and River is standing in the middle of a pile of carnage; I have an idea for an icon that I'd love to make. K thanx Current Mood: artistic | ||||||
| Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 | |||||||
| 9:23 am | Because why stop at one
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