Wallet took a serious beating today...
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
Anybody else having buyer's remorse today?
Nope. Sweet buys, by the way.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Steve Echols wrote:
Anybody else having buyer's remorse today?
Nope. Sweet buys, by the way.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Skis are a solid. The laptop I'm a little nervous about, but I'm sure it will be fine for what I have planned for it. Now it's install, install, install time. Amazing how many little utility programs I rely on....
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Skis are a solid. The laptop I'm a little nervous about, but I'm sure it will be fine for what I have planned for it. Now it's install, install, install time. Amazing how many little utility programs I rely on....
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Yeah, I can hardly wait for snow :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Yeah, I can hardly wait for snow :)
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Still some in the mountains where I live (Jackson, Wy), just have to hike up to it, with your rock skis of course. Man, don't even want to think about winter yet, it's still mountain biking season!
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Still some in the mountains where I live (Jackson, Wy), just have to hike up to it, with your rock skis of course. Man, don't even want to think about winter yet, it's still mountain biking season!
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
Still some in the mountains where I live
Lucky you. Our highest peak around here is at 11,502' and it finally melted off a couple weeks ago.
Steve Echols wrote:
don't even want to think about winter
I ready, just have to get past this fall's fire season in one piece, though.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Steve Echols wrote:
Still some in the mountains where I live
Lucky you. Our highest peak around here is at 11,502' and it finally melted off a couple weeks ago.
Steve Echols wrote:
don't even want to think about winter
I ready, just have to get past this fall's fire season in one piece, though.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Yeah, fire season sucks. We've been lucky this year, mostly just smoke from the Cali fires, but with all the Western Beetle damage, were ripe for another big one like Yellowstone in '88. Bring on the snow instead!!
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Yeah, fire season sucks. We've been lucky this year, mostly just smoke from the Cali fires, but with all the Western Beetle damage, were ripe for another big one like Yellowstone in '88. Bring on the snow instead!!
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
I know what you mean about those bark beetles. They wrecked havoc here in '03, some arsonist decided to light up and that was a real mess :mad:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I know what you mean about those bark beetles. They wrecked havoc here in '03, some arsonist decided to light up and that was a real mess :mad:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
Bummer. At least the fuel is gone for a little while. Our biggest threat is lightening and cigarettes flicked out windows.
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Bummer. At least the fuel is gone for a little while. Our biggest threat is lightening and cigarettes flicked out windows.
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
cigarettes flicked out windows
Yeah, we get a lot of those, and we do have one website for all the mountain communities, and the people that post in the site's forum love to publicly humiliate cigarette flickers by posting their license plates and make of vehicle on the internet. It seems to work though I would imagine someone might sue for libel. The local highway patrol guys and the sheriff tell them they can only cite offenders when they see it going down.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Steve Echols wrote:
cigarettes flicked out windows
Yeah, we get a lot of those, and we do have one website for all the mountain communities, and the people that post in the site's forum love to publicly humiliate cigarette flickers by posting their license plates and make of vehicle on the internet. It seems to work though I would imagine someone might sue for libel. The local highway patrol guys and the sheriff tell them they can only cite offenders when they see it going down.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
That's a great idea - public humiliation of the flickers! Most of the cig flickers here are tourists, so might not be as effective, and you're right, they can only site if they see them, unless they start a 10,000 acre fire, then they'll track their ass down and make them pay the cost of fighting the fire. (that could have been a run on sentence, but hey, that's what a few Mirror Ponds gets me these days :-D).
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
You can down grade to XPP for Free. Microsoft sells Vista at higer price and User reloads XPP xillion timmes. It is like Buying Vista for 300 bucks and Settling for XPP for 150. but Microsoft gets to keet the difference. This is out right scam and will get sued very soon. WTF.
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Hello, In what way is usability worse in Vista than XP? For a Tablet PC Vista should be a much better choice as the Tablet functionality is actually included in the OS. For XP you need a Tablet version to get all the features out of your Tablet. I for one found Vista a bit odd at first, but after about 3 days I realized the usability was actually better from the point of view that I find stuff I need faster, mainly due to the search function in the start menu. Now I find XP very award and hard to work with, actually frustrating to work with as getting things done is much harder. Anyways. Good luck
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish
Wow, hell of an impulse buy :omg: awesome product though :) Regards, --Perspx
"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Nobody ships honest-to-god OS install CDs anymore. If you want one, you gotta buy it separately. Newegg still sells XP Pro and XP64 for $139 each. In fact, you almost never get a recovery CD anymore either. Most of the time, the recovery image is on a hidden hard drive partition. That's where my Acer has it. To avoid warranty issues, I went out and bought a new (larger) hard drive to install XP on, and stored the original away in case any of the hardware became dodgy under the warranty period.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Nobody ships honest-to-god OS install CDs anymore. If you want one, you gotta buy it separately. Newegg still sells XP Pro and XP64 for $139 each. In fact, you almost never get a recovery CD anymore either. Most of the time, the recovery image is on a hidden hard drive partition. That's where my Acer has it. To avoid warranty issues, I went out and bought a new (larger) hard drive to install XP on, and stored the original away in case any of the hardware became dodgy under the warranty period.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
To avoid warranty issues, I went out and bought a new (larger) hard drive to install XP on, and stored the original away in case any of the hardware became dodgy under the warranty period.
Good idea.
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
In the past ten days, I've purchased an MSI 9600GT, which runs amazingly cool, a new 120mm case fan, which moves an amazing amount of air, dropping my CPU temps by a good 5 degrees C. I reserved four nights in two hotels in Oahu. I won a few auctions for games--mostly for the kids--on eBay where I also sold a hard drive and one of the kids old games. The only buyer remorse are for a new pair of sneakers which were too painful to wear after two days. They're going back. (I'm also a bit puzzled by the complaints about Vista usability. While I haven't used it extensively--chiefly on my daughter's laptop--I found the transition almost seamless. It was certainly much easier overall than switching to Office 2007 and, to a lesser extent, IE7.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Started out with a pair of demo skis (salomon xwings) + bindings for $275, then an impulse buy of an HP Pavilion tx2510us $1000-ish (wanted a semi-ultra-mobile-tablet-pc with touchscreen). Finally got to experience why some people hate Vista so much. Blech, blech, blech - gollum! The graphics are cool - I have no problem with them - but the usability flat out sucks big donkey turds! Thinking seriously about installing XP on it, but am worried because it didn't come with any Vista, et al, CD's, just a piece of paper saying something about a recovery disc. Is that normal HP BS? Anybody else having buyer's remorse today? :)
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Steve Echols wrote:
Anybody else having buyer's remorse today?
Yes, my wallet is empty from all the beer and other drinks last week.
