The Ranting Room

crimhead wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-04-22-moore-obama-endorsement_N.htm?csp=34 Thank goodness I can vote for Obama now.

Thank the good Lord today is primary day.  I am so goddamn sick of the Obama/Clinton political commercials every two f**king minutes!

1800iareyay wrote: Guy [now horrified]: Well, I'm gonna pray for you

Which tells you all you need to know about where he was coming from: the very top of the high horse of self-righteous belief, from where it's obvious to all who read the faith-book of choice that every life is sacred...

...unless they don't believe, that is, in which case it's Holy War time.

I took the plunge and (against advice) bought Vista lappie back in Jan......... I am SO in love with it!   I do understand your frustration, but the programmes you use on XP will have to vista compatible soon James, I'm sure it'll come good for you.

You could always investigate a non-Microsoft alternative...

Say it quietly, say it soft...

Mac

My Rant today - why was the American Idol thread closed ? Too many inane posts stating that a TV show meant for mass entertainment was responsible for allowing the mainstream (i.e. the supposedly knuckle dragging uneducated idiotic lowest common denominator loving pile of pooh eating people) to watch  something that they enjoy ! Too many insecure proggers wanting to believe that somehow their favourite music would attain mass success and   (which sounds remarkably like the early English punk rockers thinking that if Genesis and Pink  Floyd weren't around to hog all the record sales that their own albums .Hi Mr guy with the Jam et al) would be selling the millions it so not obviously deserved to sell ! Too many overly serious critics of modern day society who see danger & damaging trends wherever and whenever something they don't like (or, to use a fave PA putdown - "dont' get") in what most other people, some of whom they may even know & love (except for their objectively obvious poor taste) prefer to watch, read, and listen to.
In essence, too many folks arguing about something that frankly ranks very low on the list of things that the inhabitants of this one & only planet that we know should be worrying about.

Let's see - Darfur, Tibet, hockey's inability to crack the major american tv networks, food prices increasing and causing shortages/possible Ethiopia like disasters, internet pedophile rings, identity theft, international organized crime, wars, wars, wars, home less people, lonely people, sick people, poor people, Aids, cancer, massive self -inflicted health problems such as obesity/drug & alcohol abuse/ overwork, trade deals omitting human right & labour condition clauses, racism, religious factionalism, corporate takeover of the public "good", mass media misinformation led by celebrity know-it-all-not-by-a- mile (let's get started on the annual media superstars' trek to the seal hunt where they protest these non extinction endangered animals being killed for human use, without any mention that cows, pigs, fish,fowl, and many other animals meet the same end. Anyone for a little foie gras ? Force feed a goose ? Sounds defensible - the ends justify the means. UMMMMM GOOOD!), the never ending race to the bottom for tax cutting at the expense of social programs, the never ending promotion of dog eat dog attitude amongst civil society, pollution, .......... and many other ills that we should be discussing & TRYING  to come up with solutions, even if they are compromises.

There ... that is my rant today.
The tortured progger or artist shall confront his "bourreau" and find that it is He/She. As most non-proggers aren't even aware of their so-called efforts to kill a type of music.
Remember the old saying - You can't kill Rock n Roll ? Well, we couldn't kill disco either, so why think that someone could actually kill prog ?

Headline
Country Music Fan Kills King Crimson Connoisseur, Twanging Commentary at the Through.
Rapper Rips Rush Fanatic's Face Off. Rhythmic Report to Follow.
American Idol Whips Anglagard Assistant Manager's Ass.
Timberlake tosses Taal Guitarist in Trash Compactor.
Puff Daddy puts Porcupine Tree in their Place - the Thresher !
Mujahadeen incite new Gabriel Vs Collins mass slaughter!
Punkers Piss On Possibility that Prog is perfect.


That's all folks. All you need to sift through the inanities of humanity, the perverse perspective of people who should know better.



Edited by debrewguy - April 23 2008 at 12:57

^ it's called progress James,
Even though some people might find it hard to get used to.

I'm happy with VIsta, I have no issues with it.



Edited by king of Siam - April 23 2008 at 16:37

James wrote: Patrick, that is all well and good, but I have a lot of Microsoft products I want to keep and some don't do Linux alternatives. It's a complete travesty in my opinion.  I'm hating Microsoft and hardware producers more and more and I read how difficult it is to dual boot with XP/Vista, as well as the annoying backwards compatibility issues. I don't care if Microsoft lose customers over this, but I do care about the customers being shafted.  VIsta isn't ready yet, it still has many issues, even after Service Pack 1.  Lots of Software does not work on Vista yet.  What is so wrong with dual booting?  Microsoft hate the idea, companies like HP hate the idea. Yet from what I've been reading, there's a lot of people wanting to dual boot or even downgrade to XP.  It's a very difficult process for most people.  There's issues with SATA drives for starters and if your BIOS won't allow you to sort that out, you'll need a floppy drive to install the XP SATA drivers and if you have a Laptop, then you need to purchase a USB or external floppy disc drive.  That's a complete and utter pain! Some people, like myself, also don't have XP to install, so we're going to be stuck with an Operation System we cannot use fully. I'm using a desktop using Windows 2000 with a 1 GHz. processer, but I cannot put up with it for much longer, it's slow and a lot of things I want to do, I cannot. I'm frustrated.  All I want is an XP laptop with a non Intel AGP card in it... preferably nVidia GeForce.  Yet they're almost impossible to find!

It's odd that, apparently, the UK has such slim offerings in this regard.  The US Dell Site gave me this config in about 2 minutes:



Edited by NaturalScience - April 23 2008 at 17:20

prog-chick wrote: yeah actually you can still buy Dell laptop with XP in the UK if you are a business customer...  but you could probably get around that fairly easily!   Good Luck!

Just tell them you're a consultant for an internet site. 

NaturalScience wrote: prog-chick wrote: yeah actually you can still buy Dell laptop with XP in the UK if you are a business customer...  but you could probably get around that fairly easily!   Good Luck!     Just tell them you're a consultant for an internet site.

Well the fact that my spec seems to be a bit pro-gamer, I doubt I'll need to justify it.