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⬅ Return to Torture: America's Export
Feb 6th, 2013 at 8:21pm
The U.S. is at a real disadvantage in the war on terror. Reason is that the U.S. doesn't have the guts to fight this kind of war. I was talking to a friend that told me that even if we could water board a terrorist to save a entire u.s. city that it shouldn't be done. WoW! Now, we are in a fetal postion over drone strikes. If the terrorist had an I.Q. of ..oh, say 4 1/2 he could calculate the he should surround his den with innocent women and children and sacrifice him so he can live another day to blow himself up in a kindergarten. Sounds dark doens't it? This enemy is willing to take the fight to a level that we can't go due to our lack of ability to understand that this enemy is defeated only by power. Not by imposing rules on ourselves that tie our hands. I would say that ..Frankly, we have little chance of winning. But, wait a minute" Atlease we will be nice!
Feb 7th, 2013 at 12:13pm
Yes! Lets abandon all of our principles because we're afraid of the slim chance of being killed by terrorists! Great idea! What could possibly go wrong?
Feb 8th, 2013 at 5:17pm
I totally agree with Derrick,
When the enemy has a different set of rules than we do, we are bound to lose. People just don't understand what needs to be done. People are also clueless to the fact that our soldiers when captured are tortured and then killed. If we don't play by the same ruthless rules they play by then we might as well admit defeat now.
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One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP? 617
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that's because marketing keeps changing history to suit their needs.
It is one thing about linux I like. you can see the progression of change in the software. everyone else tries to hide what horrible things and stupid ideas they tried in the past. In 6 years time people are going to go there was Vista?
Marketing is changing nothing. Now I hear this new Windows Mojave rocks! I can't wait till it gets released!!!
What do you mean? We have always been at war with Eurasia.
that's because marketing keeps changing history to suit their needs.
It is one thing about linux I like. you can see the progression of change in the software. everyone else tries to hide what horrible things and stupid ideas they tried in the past. In 6 years time people are going to go there was Vista?
I agree. One of the great things about Linux is it's more or less linear progression. Things that work well and can't be improved much are left alone. Things that don't work right are constantly revisited and modified. Support for new file systems, hardware, network protocols, etc.. are added.
Windows just moves stuff around, slaps a new GUI on and calls it a major release.
Not even a first. Anybody remember Windows ME? Redmond is forgetting their history apparently....
Nonsense. Redmond was always at war with East Asia.
A larger OS will of course use more resources. This does not surprise me in the least anyway since I am sure close to 1/3 of the people who buy new PC's get 1GB of ram or even less nowadays....and with less then 1gb and even 2gb of ram vista will bog down the system when running anything but word processing/email.
I think MS screwed up by launching vista so soon before the hardware was really ready for it. Many people may say it does nothing to improve computing, but I just think its a little before its time... (probably a first for MS anyway.)
You really should consider reading up a little bit on Aero and the compositing window manager in Vista.
Just 'slapping' it on XP is not as simple as you seem to be suggesting.
If nothing else, it would force a bunch of changes to the core, to pull out the video drivers to userspace (like it is in Vista).
And then you're halfway to re-inventing Vista anyway.
Not driver changes. They redid the entire rendering system from the old 2D (GDI) that has been in use and mostly unchanged since 95 and created something almost entirely new that leverages 3D (WGF), tossing the old 3D system (which was relatively unstable). This was a Major Change, and is likely the cause of 60% of vista problems, with likely another 30% being driver problems related to it (It's taken the driver devs awhile to get up to speed on the completely different way of doing things), and another 10% for other stuff.
So...why has compositing always been fairly straight forward with Linux then?
So...why has compositing always been fairly straight forward with Linux then?
Mostly because the much-maligned network transparency of X forced a clean separation between GUI applications and the X server, while the fact that XFree86 and the Linux kernel were developed by different groups kept the two from getting tangled up in each other.
The typical GNU/Linux distribution is about a million times more modular than Microsoft Windows, so major changes to any one part have few undesired effects on other parts.
Let me be more specific, so that you dont get too caught up on my 'halfway to vista' comment, and use that (rather than the obvious point) to comment on:
Completely re-writing the desktop imaging/management system on XP to support a compositing system like Vista uses, including pulling the bulk of the video drivers out, is major, major surgery on XP. If you actually did that to XP, it would result in a system that would need all new types of drivers for video cards.
Not to mention changes to the kernel to support some sort of mini-driver (to do all the kernel level calls that the video driver themselves used to do, and are no longer able to do since they run in user-space.)
If you do that, you've got something that is fundamentally not XP, is not driver or image or kernel compatible.
They should have just slapped the Aero GUI on XP and called it Vista. It'd Just Work(tm) and it would still consume much less resources than Vista does now. Vista didn't even deliver most of the stuff like WinFS that was supposed to make the upgrade headache worthwhile. It did, however, include the latest and most virulent DRM as well as other non-critical crap.
Again, Microsoft, just put Aero on Windows XP as service pack 4, and then you can pretend that your customers really, really do prefer Vista over XP.
They don't even need Aero - the content already exists for XP. I just installed the phenomenal Area o4.2 [customize.org] Visual Style on an installation of XP SP2, and it looks and runs wonderfully. This [belchfire.net] is a reasonably helpful explanation of how to install non-MS visual styles in XP.* There are also various packages around to add widgets and other bits and pieces to give XP a convincingly Vista/Aero feel in terms of the desktop (Rainmeter or Samurize, for example).
Microsoft should absolutely get a few visual styles alo
I think MS screwed up by launching vista so soon before the hardware was really ready for it.
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it".
If Saab made a car that could only run on some super high-test gasoline that is not sold in gas stations, would you say that "the gasoline was not ready for it" or that "it was a stupid design and poor business decision to release it"?
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it"
Isn't that kind of a lot for a duck to say?
It's a canard to say that the problem with Vista is that "the hardware is not ready for it".
If Saab made a car that could only run on some super high-test gasoline that is not sold in gas stations, would you say that "the gasoline was not ready for it" or that "it was a stupid design and poor business decision to release it"?
If, for instance, Saab released a new hybrid car which ran on hydrogen, and there was no infrastructure in place to supply that. I would not call the car stupid design because there was no infrastructure in place. I could, if I believed (or in foresight knew) that someday there would be, call it "Ahead of it's time" or "We just weren't ready for it".
However, that has nothing to do with Vista, because it was stupid design. And while the hardware still isn't ready for it, even if it were, it'd be a stupid design.
I don't know if the people making decisions on Vista just weren't all on the same page or what, but Vista is a pile of poorly planned half implemented aborted attempts at doing what the marketers over sold it as being capable of doing.
That has nothing to do with hardware other than the fact that having a beefier machine might, might, mitigate the issues the same way an elephant gun might do as a fly swatter.
Are you saying that Vista requires more memory and a faster processor because it's more efficient than XP? Because it's so muhc more useful and advanced? Here - let me fix the analogy for you.
It's as if Saab released a new car that used standard gasoline, but needed so MUCH of that gasoline to run that your local gas station had trouble supplying your needs. But the new Saab is WORTH that much expense on gas, becaus
If Saab made a car that could only run on some super high-test gasoline that is not sold in gas stations, would you say that "the gasoline was not ready for it" or that "it was a stupid design and poor business decision to release it"?
How could you possibly suggest that what you've written is a valid parallel.
You're suggesting that hardware didnt exist that would run Vista decently. This is obviously and trivially not the case.
A better analogy was to say that Saab release a vehicle that claimed it ran fine on 87 octane gas, but in actually, it ran like crap all the time, unless you used 92 octane gas. (ie, a parallel on the Vista Ready campaign).
I have quite a few friends who work at MS and most of them recommend running XP over vista when asked the obvious question. It isn't a question of hardware being ready for it as much as the OS isn't optimized enough. To add to vista woes, MS brought out tons of SKUS to further confuse customers.
A friendly conversation I had with an MS employee led to his asking me as to why people wouldn't want to upgrade to the latest supported OS and my response was a local school scenario where the budget for the school doesn't exactly accommodate upgrading 30 PCs to be vista capable. An underpaid overworked school employee in charge of the computing lab would probably find it easier to use XP till the OS is supported and switch to a distribution like Ubuntu OR do a smart thing and make the switch to a Linux distribution now and not worry about the change later.
Also in the above scenario it's easier to get the kids used to a new distribution and even keeps them from the mischief they can do in the windows world. My friend had no answer to this except that if the school made a strong case and appealed for aid, MS might donate hardware and I believed my buddy that MS might actually do it.
This is not a case of MS being ahead in the timeline (BeOS was ahead of its time, not Vista) - this is a case of getting a halfbaked product out (look up "code optimization"). I give you just one example as to why not using Vista is beneficial but I am sure there are tons others.
I am a gamer (and yet I do not care about DX10 for now) and I have stayed away from Vista. I do not want a larger OS - I want an OS optimized for gaming. I have a dual core processor with 3 GB of ram and I do not want an OS that can use it all just for the sake of using resources. I am surprised you have been modded interesting...
I downgraded my Vista machine to XP. A critical pice of software I use was dog slow on vista. Dead-dog slow. By accident, i found out how to speed it up considerably - I unplugged the network cable.
No, this was not a network app. It's a CAD program. It does absolutely nothing over the network. Whassup with that? Unfortunately, I need the network, and after much fiddling and tweaking the network settings (I am qualified...) There was no change.
But, every time I disabled the network, my CAD program sped up. Until I wiped out the HD and installed XP. Now it's always fast as ever on my vista-class hardware.
VIsta gave me absolutely no benefit over XP. What's the reason for this OS?
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Walmart.com currently stocks 16 Vista laptops with 4 GB RAM. starting at $1000. You can get 64 Bit Vista Premium at this price point.
The 64 bit Vista Premium desktop at Walmart.com with 4 GB RAM also starts at $1000:
Quad Core CPU, 750 GB HDD, NVIDIA 9500 GS Graphics, HDTV Tuner and Combo Blu-Ray Player and DVD Burner.
HP Pavilion s3530f Slimline Desktop [walmart.com]
Every machine I've ordered from CDW has been preloaded with Windows XP, for which I thank them with my continued business. Vista has no place here.
Every machine I've ordered from CDW has been preloaded with Windows XP, for which I thank them with my continued business. Vista has no place here.
Agreed. Our office has ordered around 120 PCs in the past few months, all with XP preloaded. We wipe and reimage them before the end users see them, but the gesture is appreciated.
Everything I've seen clearly shows me that Vista is an OS that should never have left the barn
Or better yet - BURN THE BARN!
On a serious note, it is sort of sad that Vista has performed so poorly. I mean, I really enjoy Linux, but on my gaming desktop I'd like to have the best OS for the job (with DX10 if it's used). As a gamer, the whole thing put a sour taste in my mouth. I guess I can say I'm happy with Linux, but a bit sad that nothing useful came out of Microsoft's work, except for being able to lord it over them.
On a serious note, it is sort of sad that Vista has performed so poorly. I mean, I really enjoy Linux, but on my gaming desktop I'd like to have the best OS for the job (with DX10 if it's used). As a gamer, the whole thing put a sour taste in my mouth. I guess I can say I'm happy with Linux, but a bit sad that nothing useful came out of Microsoft's work, except for being able to lord it over them.
Yeah, it's really kinda sad. I mean, I don't use Windows at all, I don't play games that won't run in Linux (wi
Try Server 2008 for gaming. It rocks
90% of users are Joe Sixpacks, and still 35% of them jump through the hurdles to drop Vista. It's hard to imagine what Microsoft would need to do to fare worse than this.
90% of users are Joe Sixpacks, and still 35% of them jump through the hurdles to drop Vista. It's hard to imagine what Microsoft would need to do to fare worse than this.
Think again. For microsoft, it's a positive. They get someone to use for XP and pay for Vista, which is more expensive. It's a win for them.
Only in the short term. In the long term, it entrenches the idea in peoples' minds that newer is not necessarily better when it's coming from Microsoft, which is not a mindset MS wants people to have. The debacle of Vista makes people more wary of new offerings from MS, and will harm them in the long run.
Subject says it all.
and said that its OS is not going out without a fight!
Seriously, some variation of NT 5 is going to live for a long time, ReactOS [reactos.org] is proof positive of this.
It boggles the mind why anyone would want a low to mid range laptop to come with Vista preinstalled. And yet that's the only way to get them (reasonably).
And apparently Toshiba's only honouring the warranty now if none of the original bundled software has been removed. So a friend of mine ended up buying a cheap Toshiba, with the understanding that it functionally has no warranty, since he's immediately nuking Vista off of it.
And apparently Toshiba's only honouring the warranty now if none of the original bundled software has been removed.
Dear [deity], what?!? So, even if you remove the crapware trial software, upgrade to an open driver, remove crap Windows services, etc, you're screwed?
If this is true, I think this point alone should be front page news.
Somehow I suspect this might not be legal, since the warranty is ostensibly to cover the hardware. Wasn't there a
Back up your system, "recover" all the crapware from the recover DVDs, send in for warrentee repairs. You have to plan on your hard drive being wiped any time you send you machine for repairs anyway, so it's not really even extra work.
It boggles the mind why anyone would want a low to mid range laptop to come with Vista preinstalled. And yet that's the only way to get them (reasonably).
That's why I bought a macbook instead.
That, and having two HP laptops die within 12 months of their original purchase dates.
I bought my laptop with the intention of downgrading to Windows XP for increased stability and performance.
I was shocked, on the other hand, to find that there were no Windows XP drivers and that inserting the Windows XP CD and booting from it caused a BSOD before the installing starts. I have an HP Pavilion DV5-1002NR.
Do not purchase this laptop if you want to use Windows XP on it.
I was shocked, on the other hand, to find that there were no Windows XP drivers and that inserting the Windows XP CD and booting from it caused a BSOD before the installing starts. I have an HP Pavilion DV5-1002NR.
Do not purchase this laptop if you want to use Windows XP on it.
On the upside, Kubuntu runs perfectly out of the box on a HP Pavilion DV5-1002NR.
How come no one is talking about the new version of Windows called Mojave? It looks great, and has little utilities called gadgets
How is XP a downgrade?
I'm not a Vista hater. I actually like it better - it's UI for explorer (folders) is much better and I like that, unlike XP Home, UAC is in every release of Vista. I think the security is also better but not great yet -- services shouldn't run in administrator level but just be sandboxed to their own account.
But it is dog slow out of the box for many computers with integrated video chipsets (why some manufacturers don't set the Aero level appropriately for their models is beyond me). It takes up too many resources of low-end computers. And Microsoft has gotten way too version happy - 12 versions IIRC (counting 32 and 64 bit seperately). Microsoft is also squeezing wallets for truly inane things - I can't even get 64bit business upgrade easily when I have 32 bit business even though such an upgrade should be minimal costs (somehow my disc doesn't count for alternative media...).
Why is this? I don't know if it's peculiar to Vista, but it really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it -- which pretty much summarizes how Microsoft is treating the customer base in a lot of decisions.
No wonder Macs are starting to get popular on the high end and Linux is starting to get popular on the low end mini notebooks. XP sucks in a lot of regards security-wise, but at least it's small and fast and there were only 2 versions of it for a desktop and all the Apps work on it (Endicia Dazzle still isn't 100% Vista ready...)
"really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it"
Try shutdown
Try shutdown
On Linux, you need to know advanced terminal commands to do things like force the system to shut down.
On Windows, you need to know advanced terminal commands to stop the system from doing things to you...
Sounds like Linux is finally catching up by having Windows drop down to its level and heading the wrong way past!
Does anybody see a pattern here? Most people thought XP was rubbish for the first couple of years that it was out for, and now those same people are proclaiming it to be Microsoft's best OS to date.
I think you can attribute that asstistic to the fact that Service Pack 2 was released.
those same people are proclaiming it to be Microsoft's best OS to date.
Do any of those people not work for one of the major computer magazines?
My latest computer came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed. It's got 4 gig RAM and a quad-core processor. I back-graded to XP Pro so I could get work done, but recently, I threw away a weekend giving Vista a second chance. Now I'm back on XP Pro and I've lost about 18 hours that I'll never get back again.
Before I give Vista another chance, Microsoft is going to have to arrange to have my dick sucked, preferably by one of their division heads.
But, since I still craved a great new OS after my failure with Vista, I am now very impressed with the latest Ubuntu Studio, and for the first time can actually do professional work on a Linux machine. I guess I owe Microsoft thanks for forcing me to give Linux another chance.
So now I can record and edit digital audio using Reaper on my XP machine and offload some of the rendering work to my Ubuntu machine using Reamote and ReaRoute over fast ethernet. Cool cool cool.
there is a trend, except XP and 98 were both improvements over their predecessors (real and perceived).
"Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware."
On a 486 with decent memory, it was hard to tell the difference in performance between 95 and 98. There's no mistaking the difference between XP and Vista on the same hardware, though. 1 gig of memory is fast for XP. On the same amount, Vista runs like a dog. Well, actually, Vista runs like a dog with any amount of memory.
As far as 98 to XP, Microsoft has an out there... 98 ran on the old DOS-based core, while XP has the much-more-capable but resource intensive NT core. So you're really comparing apples and oranges there. Vista has an NT based kernel, just like XP, so no excuse there.
XP was an upgrade from Win2k, not 98
And in that regard, XP is faster than 2000 is.
XP Professional was an upgrade from Windows 2000.
XP Home was an upgrade from Windows 98/ME.
Very few people ran Windows 2000 at home. For most people, XP Home is their first OS from the NT line, and they came from 95/98/ME.
Funny. I only ran Windows 95 for about 6 months before I switched to NT 3.51.
NT 3.51 to NT 4.0 was not a huge hit in performance, and NT 4.0 was totally solid, even at beta 1 (a couple service packs later on changed that). It had some nice UI changes, but didn't require any huge changes to the way I did things.
NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 was not a huge hit in performance. Windows 2000 was very solid. It had some nice UI changes, but didn't require any huge changes to the way I did things.
Windows 2000 to XP was a performance hit but it wasn't too bad. XP was very solid. It had some really horrible UI changes, but you could turn them off. It didn't require any huge changes to the way I did things.
Windows XP to Vista was a huge performance hit. Vista came bundled with the laptop I bought, and yet it still managed to blue screen pretty regularly. It had UI changes which were mildly neat for about 30 seconds, but got tedious really fast, and I eventually found them ugly and turned them off. Almost nothing I did worked in Vista. I had to tinker around with permissions. I had to dodge security dialogs like the 9th level of Tempest just to rename an icon on the desktop. A bunch of my apps wouldn't run. Network file transfer performance, which I use A LOT, was totally crippled. I finally got sick of adjusting myself to Vista, with absolutely no return in terms of anything being superior to XP. There was literally nothing I found to be improved over XP, but the disadvantages were numerous and significant.
Finally, I switched my laptop to Ubuntu (like all my desktops already were). I got a huge performance boost. It's very solid. It has more UI flexibility that I could possibly want, and I've tweaked it out to look just perfect. And the funniest thing is that it _would_ run on a P3-800 with a dot matrix printer from 1977.
So your point fails. Having experienced the Microsoft OS change from DOS 1.1 to DOS 6 through Windows 2 up to Windows 95 briefly and then on the NT side from 3.51 through Vista, I found pluses and minuses each time, but going to Vista had the most minuses and no pluses.
That's just my experience and my opinion. I was willing to drop a Benjamin to get XP before I finally went to Linux and gave the XP license on a spare machine to my kids for their games.
God, this feels horrible, but I have to defend Microsoft/Windows here a bit
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
While part of me understands that as time goes on hardware requirements will increase, the fact that many *nix GUIs (ie: KDE, XFCE, Gnome) as well as the *nix core itself are able to IMPROVE the performance of their software between
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
You should see DOS 3.3 on a 2.6 GHz Xeon.
I think I need to try 2.15 too. Now if I could only find that floppy...
The question in the title of this story is: "One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?" The answer is: This is a trick question. PCs are not being downgraded to Windows XP; they are being upgraded to Windows XP.
Let me explain. No, that'll take too long. Let me sum up. Windows XP is actually a very decent operating system, if you know how to install it. For that, there is a program called nLite. This is a program that allows you to insert your factory original Windows XP installation disc, choose basically all the various options that you would, on a normal installation, go through all the Control Panel windows, the registry, and maybe even some INI files, and then it makes you a new Windows XP installation disc that installs Windows with all those options set. So you can go ahead and switch all of Microsoft's defaults to their opposite. You tell it to optimize for best performance; get rid of those cartoonish looking blue and red windows in favor of the Windows 95 style; tell it to display extensions and hidden files; tell it to basically do everything backwards from the way Microsoft installs it normally. And once you do all those things, Windows installs in 30 minutes and runs like a meteor through cyberspace. A few additional utilities like CCleaner (set it to run on startup and check all the boxes) and a better editor than notepad (like UltraEdit-32, commercial software you have to pay for and it's worth every penny ten times over) and whatever other utilities you want... like FileZilla client and server for transferring files around your network (Windows SMB networking sucks -- that is unless you do it through Samba, in which case it works great), Wireshark for figuring out why Computer A can't "see" Computer B when you just transferred a file from Computer B to Computer A and that worked like a charm, those sorts of things. If you set it up using nLite to be a more businesslike OS and a less "let's make everything really easy so even the experts won't be able to move a file from one folder to another" then Windows XP is a wonderful operating system.
Windows Vista? I'll use it when it goes Open Source. (Hmmm, maybe I'd better be careful. Sarge was released; Apple did go Intel; and who knows, maybe Duke Nukem Forever will come out one of these days... You never know.)
I find Vista lacking in just too many ways. Until recently, I have never actually used it however. The facts before it is used speak well enough on their own. So throwing out any discussion about the user interface, enhanced effects, backward compatibility, increased stability or anything else that often results in subjective discussion, there still remains the two most important facts about Vista:
1. It requires more memory and processor resources to do the same job that XP does
2. It doesn't do more than XP does
Those are the reasons I have avoided Vista like the plague. Now the fact that in the office, the version of AutoCAD we use is known not to work particularly well with Vista is simply leverage over the fact that I see no business reason to change. Pursuant to my reluctance to change, I bought volume licenses for Vista... so that I maintained my right to downgrade to Windows XP. So now that machines are ONLY shipping with Vista, I am careful to be sure that XP drivers for devices are still available in any hardware selections I make and simply reload machines with XP.
My plan has started to pay off as I needed to buy a Lenovo laptop for one of my users. It came with Vista. I decided to test what should have been a PERFECTLY tweaked and tuned Vista installation. After all, it came with the hardware right? Pre-installed? One would think that it was done right. Perhaps I am over-estimating Lenovo, but I have never had a problem with the stock software load from Lenovo when it is running XP. In fact, those Lenovos [IBM Thinkpads] running XP have lasted years and have never been reloaded and are still running efficiently today. (That's saying a lot considering the typical pattern of "Windows Rot" I'm sure we're all familiar with.) So my expectations of quality and stability are based on my previous experience with Thinkpads and XP.
I powered up the Vista laptop and went about trying things out just in case my own prejudiced had really colored my view too badly. I'm really quick to admit when I'm wrong. That's why I use the name "erroneus" to begin with.
The machine suffered a very bad error that I can only describe. It wasn't a blue screen and it wasn't a lock-up exactly. It was something else... something weird. It was going through some sort of self-configuration stage after I agreed to not hold Lenovo or Microsoft liable for their products. I decided to move one of the Aero styled windows while the circle was circling so that I could entertain myself with the semi-transparent windows. The process was taking an odd amount of time in my opinion. Anyway, the window stopped moving and the circular cursor stopped rotating. The mouse cursor did move away from the window and in a particular rectangular region of the screen, the "busy" circle cursor would resume its rotation but there was no window there. In all other areas of the screen, it was the normal arrow. The hard drive was still chunking away so I let it go thinking it might catch up. It never did even after 45 minutes of doing "something." I tried to three-finger it, but no reaction could be observed. I waited longer... another 20 minutes or so. (I do other things too, so letting things ride for long periods of time is no big deal!) No changes could be observed. I forced the power off and powered back on. It resumed its setup process and continued on as if almost nothing were wrong. (It did acknowledge that something bad must have happened but at least it didn't try to blame me the way Windows9X used to do.)
Things seemed to go better this second go around but the hard drive NEVER stopped chunking and churning. I let it idle for hours and eventually over-night. It did eventually fall asleep only to wake up with a beep and go back to sleep again.
This machine has 1GB of RAM. It *should* be enough for Vista. It's not. And I haven't even loaded a single application on it. It's JUST the OS. What the hell? The damned swap file was growing and growing with no indication that it wo
High on the list of Microsoft's greatest fears is virtualization.
I'm seeing *lots* of Intel Macs with one of Parallels/VirtualBox/VMWare. More than half, I'd estimate. Almost all with XP.
Virtualization, while it means an upgrade path for Microsoft, also means that people can upgrade to another OS. And, when they specify their next round of software, it's going to be software that runs natively on Mac or Linux.
Also, people are finding hardware without XP drivers (elsewhere in this thread). Virtualization can get around that. If Linux runs on it, xVM will.
Vista is bloated for many reasons, but the fact that its bulk and overhead make it a poor choice for virtual machines is surely considered a real positive around Redmond. That is, if they can make enough software *not* work in XP, people will stay in Windows, rather than Windows becoming a little legacy corner of their screen (Right now, I'm watching Olympic coverage in Silverlight in a corner of my Linux desktop).
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by Paul Craig Roberts
"The data about Assad's use of chemical weapons is fabricated by the same facility that made up the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Obama is walking George W. Bush's path." Here in America no one will ever hear straight talk like this from the US presstitutes. Orwellian double-speak is now the language of the United States government."–Aleksey Pushkov, Chairman of the Russian Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee
In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don't even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff in the wind.
Polls demonstrate that 65% of the US population opposes US intervention in Syria. Despite this clear indication of the people's will, the Obama regime is ramping up a propaganda case for more arming of Washington's mercenaries sent to overthrow the secular Syrian government and for a "no-fly zone" over Syria, which, if Libya is the example, means US or NATO aircraft attacking the Syrian army on the ground, thus serving as the air force of Washington's imported mercenaries, euphemistically called "the Syrian rebels."
The "Red Line"
Washington declared some time ago that the "red line" that would bring Syria under Washington's military attack was the Assad government's use of chemical weapons of mass destruction against Washington's mercenaries. Once this announcement was made, everyone with a brain immediately knew that Washington would fabricate false intelligence that Assad had used chemical weapons, just as Washington presented to the United Nations the intentional lie via Secretary of State Colin Powell that Saddam Hussein in Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction. Remember National Security Advisor Condi Rice's image of a "mushroom cloud over American cities?" Propagandistic lies were Washington's orders of the day.
And they still are. Now Washington has fabricated the false intelligence, and president obama has announced it with a straight face, that Syria's Assad has used sarin gas on several occasions and that between 100 and 150 "of his own people," a euphemism for the US supplied foreign mercenaries, have been killed by the weapon of mass destruction.
Think about that for a minute. As unfortunate as is any death from war, is 100-150 deaths "mass destruction?" According to low-ball estimates, the US-sponsored foreign mercenary invasion of Syria has cost 93,000 lives, of which 150 deaths amounts to 0.0016%. If we round up, Washington's 150 deaths comes to two-thousands of one percent.
In other words, 99.998% of the deaths did not cross the "red line." But the 0.002 (rounded up) percent did.
Yes, I know. Washington's position makes no sense. But when has it ever made any sense?
Why would Assad violate it?
Let's stretch our minds just a tiny bit farther. Assad knows about Washington's "red line." It has been repeated over and over in order to create in the minds of the distracted American public that there is a real, valid reason for attacking Syria. Why would Assad use the proscribed weapons of mass destruction in order to kill a measly 100-150 mercenaries when his army is mopping up the US mercenaries without the use of gas and when Assad knows that the use of gas brings in the US military against him?
As the Russian government made clear, Washington's accusation is not believable. No informed person could possibly believe it. No doubt, many Americans wearing patriotism on their sleeves will fall for Washington's latest lie, but no one else in the world will. Even Washington's NATO puppets calling for attacking Syria know that the justification for the attack is a lie. For the NATO puppets, Washington's money overwhelms integrity, for which the rewards are low.
The Russians certainly know that Washington is lying. The Russian Foreign Minister Larov said: "The [Assad] government, as the opposition is saying openly, is enjoying military success on the ground. The [Assad] regime isn't driven to the wall. What sense is there for the regime to use chemical arms–especially in such small amounts."
Larov is a relatively civilized person in the role of Russia's main diplomat. However, other Russian officials can be more pointed in their dismissal of Washington's latest blatant lies. Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Putin said: "The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the [Assad] regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing. We wouldn't like to invoke references to [the infamous lies of] Secretary of State Powell [at the UN alleging Iraqi WMD], but the facts don't look convincing in our eyes." Aleksey Pushkov, the chairman of the Russian Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee, cut to the chase. "The data about Assad's use of chemical weapons is fabricated by the same facility that made up the lies about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Obama is walking George W. Bush's path."
Here in America no one will ever hear straight talk like this from the US presstitutes.
Orwellian Double-Speak
Orwellian double-speak is now the language of the United States government. Secretary of State john kerry condemned Assad for harming "peace talks" while the US arms its Syrian mercenaries.
Washington's double-speak is now obvious to the world. Not only Assad, but also the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and every US puppet state which includes all of NATO and Japan, are fully aware that Washington is again lying through its teeth. The Russians, Chinese, and Iranians are trying to avoid confrontation with Washington, as war with the modern nuclear weapons would destroy all life on planet earth. What is striking is that despite 24/7 brainwashing by the presstitutes, a large majority of the American population opposes obama's war on Syria.
This is good news. It means more Americans are developing the ability to think independently of the lies Washington feeds to them.
What the neocon nazis, the bush/obama regime, and the presstitute media have made clear is that Washington is going to push its agenda of world hegemony to the point of starting World War III, which, of course, means the end of life on earth.
Russia and China know US is lying
Russia and China, either one of which can destroy the United States, have learned that the US government is a liar and cannot be trusted. The Libyan "no-fly" policy to which Russia and China agreed turned out to be a NATO air attack on the Libyan army so that the CIA-sponsored mercenaries could prevail.
Russia and China, having learned their lesson, are protesting Washington's assault on Syria that Washington pretends is a "civil war." If Syria falls, Russia and China know that Iran is next.
Iran is Russia's underbelly, and for China Iran is 20% of its energy imports. Both Russian and Chinese governments know that after Iran falls, they are next. There is no other explanation for Washington surrounding Russia with missile bases and surrounding China with naval and air bases.
Both Russia and China are now preparing for the war that they see as inevitable. Washington's crazed, demented drive for world hegemony is bringing unsuspecting Americans up against two countries with hydrogen bombs whose combined population is five times the US population. In such a conflict everyone dies.
Considering the utterly insane government ruling in Washington, if human life exists in 2020, it will be a miracle. All the worry about future Medicare and Social Security deficits is meaningless. There will be no one here to collect the benefits.
Jim Fetzer
McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he has also conducted extensive research into the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11, and the plane crash that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone.
The founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, his latest books include The Evolution of Intelligence (2005), The 9/11 Conspiracy (2007), Render Unto Darwin (2007), and The Place of Probability in Science (2010).
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Good article on Vineyardsaker.blogspot
"Obama makes a strategical mistake in Syria and now it's "GAME OVER" for the US strategy for the Middle East".
No need to be too scared of nuclear wars right now.
For a year now, almost every journalist and analyst in MSM and alternative media has announced WW3 "any day now"..
"Israel will attack Iran", "US will attack Iran", "Israel and US will attack Iran", "Israel will attack Syria".
No, the war is in US and Europe.
Under normal circumstances the US would go ahead on Syria and then either US or Russia will blink.
Is Syria worth risking WW3 for Russia or US? Is Iran?
This is a bigger game, and US/Europe are in a jam.
If they withdraw, it will create an earthquake in the geopolitcal balance world wide, and the collapse of the US/Europe empire and great hardship for their citizens.
BRICS will take their place.
So they have to go on, for a year already, but they don't, what's stopping them?
Russia is openly challenging US/Europe, leaks all over the place, Snowden in Hong Kong talking about "The Gang of Eight "(?) in the Senate, Erdogan and Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) in trouble etc.
And total silence from China and Israel.
US can't withdraw, can't push on.
The balance has been tipped against the Rothschild-controlled countries in favor of BRICS.
The only one that can tip that balance is Israel.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said Iran prepared to stop 20% uranium enrichment,West must reciprocate.(lifting sanctions)
Brilliant move.
Housing Minister Uri Ariel confirmes building freeze east of 1949 line,including east Jerusalem.
Direct orders from Nethanyahu.
Is Washington insane?
Or is the–at least one hundred year old–drive to implement the NWO "by conquest or consent"(James Paul Warburg 1950) failing?
And why is that?
US/Europe(Rothschild/Rockefeller) wil push this until the last moment, since losing this conflict will have very grave implications for the NWO.
Who's gonna stop them? The US population? The MSM? The UN?
China and Russia can stop it, but that will cause nuclear armageddon.
They can only be stopped from the inside–and that's the US military. But will/can they?
And then there's the Wild Card, Israel.
The desperation and "insanity"of Obama/Cameron/Hollande is caused by a serious threat from the inside.
Guess who?
Answer to Mommyplayer,up the board,pushed wrong buton
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Foster the People Settle for Modern-Pop Pastiche on the Bloated 'Supermodel'
Raise your hand if you spent your 2011 Playa Del Carmen vacation driving up and down the Mexican Riviera listening to Foster the People's Torches. Anyone? Anyone? That was just me? OK, fine, but still: It was a pretty boss record, right? Not exactly something you're going to love and cherish for the rest of your days (no "Tenth Anniversary of Torches" features coming your way in 2021), but good the way a new Taco Bell menu item is good: old flavors re-imagined into something vibrantly new, art and science and focus groups collaborating on something spiritually empty yet delicious.Actually, I made up the focus-group thing; I have no idea if that happened. Still, it sounded like it did, given the record's perfectly balanced indie/dance/soul/pop equation.
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Can I just patch this? Or do I need to cut out the drywall around the hole and add new drywall around the outlet? I plan on sealing the rest of the damaged drywall with Gardz and will be tiling over it.
For a deep patch like this I would use Ready Patch. It is available in a half pint.
Here is a link that might be useful: Ready Patch
If you fill it with ready patch you can cover all of it with an oversized wall plate and avoid using multiple coats of compound, sanding and perhaps paint.
The wall finish seems a bit strange. Maybe you plan to refinish all of it anyway.