Considering a bicycle company came into - and went out of - business in the late 70s with The Original Plastic Bicycle Company, with no reason to go out of business (great product, made of foamed Lexan except for the chain and the hubs) other than the unwillingness of the public to buy said product, I don't see any rosier future for this one.

Hey, I know I have the long hair and beard thing, but you gotta stop confusing me for Jesus. HP does not carry the drivers on their website for machines the age of this one. I had to get them to dig through their hidden files to get the install disks. Thanks for assuming I'm stupid. I'll do the same for you some day.

Thank you for your kind and generous comment. A "Real" copy of Windows, which is not even a real operating system but a revenue stream, would not include the "Real" drivers for my "Real" hardware. Getting rid of bloatware is easy. I was suggesting that nobody yet has told me how to disable the nagware, which your comment does not address. Your comment is as helpful as [insert negative metaphor].

Give this guy irony points. My HP desktop has nannyware built into it that forces me to reinstall the operating system if I install anything that modifies the MBR (e..g, most distros of Linux, as dual boot). Nobody has yet shown me how to disable that, and several attempts have only caused me to, yup, reinstall the software. The only way around this is to install Linux outright, and throw my Windoze disks out.

I take it you don't find Ubuntu as easy as Windows? I find it much easier, not to mention finding support is much easier and faster. It doesn't have all the apps you want/need? WINE runs most Windows programs, and Crossover runs virtually all of them, plus GNU/Linux has replacement apps that, for the most part, run every bit as well or better than Windows apps, and for a lot less money (Crossover itself is $39.95, WINE is free, and most Linux apps are free).

I'd be happy to see this. I'm still using my old Handspring Visor, so I'm not fully aware of the benefits of WebOS over older PalmOS, but I love my Visor. The thing I love least about it is that the synch software is still only written for Windows 3 and 3.1... I'm about to try the Palm Synch in Ubuntu if I get brave enough...

Are you forgetting that the large percentage listed for Debian "influence" is mostly made up of Ubuntu users? Your statement seems to imply that Ubuntu is not Debian...

And yeah, Ubuntu left me behind when they went to Unity -- my laptop is too old to have a driver that allows it to run Unity. But I can still run older versions of UNR/UNE, or slightly older versions of GNOME, or just load Puppy (MacPup 5.11 preferred), and I'm still using Ubuntu AND Debian.

No, this is a taxpayer-funded project of DARPA (note archive.org -- host of the Wayback Machine, a project that we pay for so the government can spy on our websites). They're trying to limit how many of our dollars they spend? Or they're trying to monitor our book-reading patterns, more likely.

They have plenty of social. They don't know how to sell it. Might not be the best social, but it has its features. Check out Orkut.com for instance...

Every word is negative
Just like he's being paid
I think this troll's from Microsoft
Or just needs to get laid.

Burma Shave.

...that's how to do it...

Pardon the inaccuracy of my statement. I meant those who were "killed off" in "Serenity", such as Shepherd Book and Wash.

There is still plenty of stuff that can be done with the cast members who are left, and add new ones. I note that most of the actors have done rather well with jobs in TV. So we'd get Nathan Fillion back, but what about the others? (Gina Torres, yum!)

My guess would be that Haggis himself didn't have the information on those things. It was a good read, and I read it all the way to the end.

Stop playing Jedi mind tricks on me!

LOL Palm hasn't made me happy since my original PalmPilot (upgraded to Pro) had its screen break. In fact, a friend just gave me an old PalmPilot Pro, and I just bought a keyboard for it. I don't mind PP at all, but my carrier is AT&T and I haven't seen any good deals on upgrades.