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Some drives are going back to three years. Wonder why? http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/warranty_&_returns_assistance/product_warranty_matrix/

Imagine how quick these suckers are going to depreciate....

After penalties and interest, that might be a different story.

UPS sends packages via train. Even after one of my packages was in a derailment, it still arrived on time.

Ah, but did you deduct it correctly? It could be difficult to explain why your home office equipment is not in your home office....

I have a rebate which was about to have the check cut when they went foo foo. Now it's in limbo. May have to do a charge back on my credit card to make sure I get the money.

Sometimes the dead guy *is* a better choice....

Incorrect. More reasonable translation: We tried this and couldn't get it to work right. Or, we tried this and it broke something else. Or, we didn't have the time/money to try this, so we don't know if it works. If they hated their customers, they'd require QuickTime.

Ah, I get it... Republicans are stupid: http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12599247

Like a NAS server, nothing that you couldn't do for less... if you want to put the time into it.

I translate "cannot" in minimum requirements listings as "is not supported."

Normally? How many doors do you have?

You're obviously doing something wrong. Did you take them out of the packaging?

Ah, but they're always not the fastest and will only fail once. That's not something that Western Digital can brag about.

Ah, but now you can complain about snow instead of a lack of real representation!

Do you have an Xbox 360?

Beggars can't be choosers.

Maverick

You need to move to Maine. Olympia Snowe is your girl.

Wasn't Bush supposed to be your man?

This seems to explain some things: What Video Game System Should I Own?

I don't like nVidia's mobile graphics. I wish they'd go back to ATi. Anyway, I'm figuring that the Intel crap graphics should be sufficient for her. She hasn't gotten back with the exact applications that she wants to be able to use, but I doubt that "games" moves much beyond solitaire.

Crap. Hasn't someone come up with a extension to make Thunderbird look like Outlook? Maybe you can just concoct some seemingly reasonable way to make sticking with Outlook wildly expensive.

She was willing to pay the $3k for the XPS if I had told her it fit her needs; so, as long as I can explain why she's spending money on certain components, it should fly. Now, I used to spec R-series as a desktop replacement, but you can't even seem to get discrete graphics on them any more...

Isn't that illegal? If not, then obviously, Indiana needs to get out of the backwoods with its cousin....

What are folks suggesting these days? I have a librarian who had enough sense to realise that the $3000 XPS laptop that the Dell salesman quoted her was a bit much and came to me for advice. Normally, I would pick a R-series Thinkpad out for her, but Lenovo seems to have completely rejimmied...

If you were to strip out all of the crap, would Vista not run lickity-split?

Have you tried running the installer in compatibility mode?

Well, they do seem to have money pouring out of their ears. At this point, a lot of money now being donated to the campaign isn't going to be used on the campaign. They've programmed out to November 4 based on the money they pulled in up to the end of September -- and that's plenty.

Troopergate It actually has a fairly long and in-depth Wikipedia entry.

I wonder if the the controller's onboard cache is changing the results of the software RAID.

Actually, I think it's Hitachi that's been doing that. They know how to fit that fifth platter, so they've been coming the market sooner with the higher capacities. This time around, however, it seems as if they've fallen too far behind in platter density to press that advantage. Won't get me...

Maybe the problem is that HP sucks, and Microsoft simply aids and abets.

I believe that means that we could reduce the deficit by socializing the health care system. Where are the fiscal conservatives?

Basically, you're saying that the government doesn't know how to run a printing press. You know how much *more* ridiculous that sounds? Are you clinging to your gun and bible, too? "These banks" don't work for depositors. They work for shareholders. Depositors are a source of cash. They...

Reasons to vet the veep: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_el_pr/palin_family_travel And, fun with Flash: http://www.palinaspresident.us/

You can't upgrade because it's not "up." At best, it's sideways, and, in any case, a different platform. It would be vaguely akin to taking a drive out of a PowerPC Macintosh, sticking it into an Intel Mac, and then expecting to be able to upgrade to the latest MacOS. Although, you might...

How do they stay in business with all of these shenanigans?

Has that dialog seriously changed since 3.1 days?

This is a great idea. Maybe we can start to pay back the debt tear that Reagan started up. http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP-L.gif

From what? A good interest rate? Maybe you like losing value to inflation? The FDIC/NCUA will insure your deposits up to $250,000 at even the most unsafe institution. Are you scared that the government will come in a keep its promise? Scary, I know. No one has ever lost a single penny of...

I've never liked PCL. I've never worked with a PCL printer that didn't cough up some stupid PCL error every once in a while. Went a little out of my way to make sure to get a PostScript printer for my purchase recently. Never a problem.

SuperVGA (800x600) is the minimum requirement for Windows XP. So, it's the fall-back resolution.

I'm glad that I wasn't drinking anything, as I would have snorted it. I was at the local Wachovia (formerly World Savings and soon to be Wells Fargo) branch, and was shown the standard CD rate sheet. Nothing but one point something rates; terrible. This is where you are at. You need to at...

The problem with CDSes is that they were unregulated so no one was checking to see if the issuer could cover. AIG issued these like candy, thinking that they'd never have to pay. And then they did. If there were regulations on CDSes, and people used them as a hedge (as they were meant)...

Well, if you had been reading this thread, you'd know that I doubt that it will. But then again, that's you using that stuff between your ears.

Back on topic, an op-ed from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?em

Actually, he's from New England, just like his father. Remember Kennebunkport? Lovely little town. I don't know where he gets that accent, but it isn't the same one that his father and brother have.

Like I said, I don't think that you guys understand the problem. The issue is confidence. Nobody trusts anybody when it comes to commercial lending anymore. Investors got so scared of lending to commercial institutions, that they were willing to pay to keep their money in treasuries...

Does XP x64 not support GPT? It's exactly like Server 2k3, only it's actually XP.