Posts by ckr

Facts, gentlemen, not flames will allow this thread to continue to be an interesting discourse. Personal attacks will not prove anyones point, and will force the mods to shut down an interesting thread.

Protectionism is bad -- when you have a way to replace the jobs that you're losing. Thing is, we're not creating any hi-value jobs in this country. We're sending them overseas. Our technical knowledge base is being offshored as well. ...

Laffingbilly, this is my final post that will reference anything you say. Because you are, deliberately or not, drawing conclusions that are completely specious. I am not supporting free downloads of music. I'm not really all that...

I'm afraid that I disagree. For one thing, since you know absolutely nothing about me personally, I have to assume that you're using the word 'me' in a general sense. My experience in life suggests that you are either fairly young,...

Billy, I suspect you won't be laughing in about 10 years. At least, if you live in the US. The point that people are making is that by offshoring work, America, not necessarly, Americans, are getting screwed. You think that...

I fear that this is not about what kind of work Americans will or won't take. It's about how much money corporations can rake in. And as for the so call remittances? I'm sure you know where *that* money is going. True, there are...

This is, unfortunately, nothing new. Every major corporation in America takes money from American's, then screws them out of the oppertunity to work. We hear that the economy is improving... sure it is. If you'd like to work at...

Following up on the choking problem.... It seems like the problem *is* the speedstep software. I don't know this for absolute certainty, since I installed 1 gig of ram at the same time I installed SpeedswitchXP. But when I set...

I'm unfamiliar with your particular router, but when I set up encryption on my computers, I had to set it up on both the router and the computer. If it's not set up on the computer, then you won't be able to get onto your network.

Cool. I'll try and grab FanGUI tonight. My 8600 is no longer in the same state as it was when Dell sent it. I changed a lot of the power settings already.