it's easy to forget such a thing, since they've only been around for a half century...

As far as you know.....

I believe this is all part of that new "no president left behind" rhetoric. Oh.. wait..

In the situation you describe, I agree 100% the neighbor shares the blame. Honestly I don't know how people sleep at night. And this being said by a person who eats wild game, fishes regularly and even enjoys rabbit on occasion.

Switch out "rabbit" for "child". See if that clears it up for you. I am not saying a rabbit's life is equal to that of a child. Hell, I eat rabbits; but they were not tortured before I ate them.

She let a rabbit *starve* to death. Think about that for a minute. You don't "accidentally forget" to feed an animal in your care for days on end. That is animal abuse plain and simple and would also fall into the category of torture. Both of these are (low-level) felonies in all states to the best of my knowledge.

To be honest, both of these people sound like the dregs of society and not anyone I would want to admit associating with.

Do the timeless isle "Treasure, Treasure Everywhere" achievement.

The purpose of every single DLL in the windows system is known, and documented.

This may or may not be true, I leave that argument to others mor knowledgable than I. However, the *documented purpose* of a DLL may have very little to do with what it is actually doing and what hidden payload it may have.

Everyday. Twice on Sunday.

I am not arguing one way or the other about what is or is not MS responsibility here. I don't condone piracy, but then again I don't use MS software either.

I was only arguing that GP's comment insinuating Windows 7 will run ( presumably as well ) on the same hardware as XP when the GGP stated the hardware was already pushed to its limits with XP is not realistic.

Lastly, if the machine is stressed running XP I would guess that puts it in the early P4 era of machines. You aren't going to find 2GB ( 2x1GB ) of 133 laptop memory anywhere for $30; if you can find that at all any more.

....then continue to have XP running under Wine for those specific programs...

I think you are a bit confused about what Wine is and how it is used. You can run many XP applications under Wine, but not all of them. You certainly do not run XP under Wine.

Having said that, there are many virtualization options that will let you run XP in all its glory. For the desktop, I prefer VirtualBox, but YMMV. For Linux there are several others as well (qemu, kvm, xen etc...) though none are as well suited to desktop use as VirtualBox, again IMHO.

If the friends machine is barely capable of running XP, what makes you think windows 7 is going to be an enjoyable experience? And I call bullshit that W7 is as fast as XP. This only works with 2GB+ RAM which I am guessing the aforementioned machine does not have. Try to run W7 on 1GB -- it is a swap/page fest that will burn up the hard-drive before drawing the desktop.

I applaud them for getting around the blocks. Teachers need to use that ingenuity.

Realistically, one kid should be applauded. The remaining students were just copycats.

You have a better way to determine a file is not corrupted? Please, do share.

/me hangs head in shame. Here is my membership card. May //DIETY// have mercy on my soul.

I have 3 characters for you. M.D.5.