Dan Greene

Dan Greene

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I agree, walking in another countries' or persons' shoes for a day makes it easier to understand where other people come from. Why they are they way they are and think in that way as well. Good points in your post. Thanks.

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Appleton two elections ago passed a no smoking on any business property ordinance, with the help of some out of date anti-smoking activist groups. I think Madison has the same thing too, a business smoking ban, It was re-affirmed via referendum during the mid term election. Anyway, in our community though, there are about a dozen surrounding communities where businesses have the choice to allow customers to smoke on their property or not. It's worked out quiet well for the commmunity I

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So how exactly is poverty being crminalized? I've been out of the loop for a bit so I'm curious as to what new info there is in this case. I really don't see any injustice in a city enforcing it's laws and ordinances. Obviously they have an interest in keeping the potable water supply from being contaminated, their well water being uncontaminated, their land values stable or increasing rather then decreasing, and people from digging in the garbage which the city/town owns so as

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Well there you are then, I'd rather you challenge me and get a good response on something then just hand it to you anyway, especially if my list of improvement on a simple set of paragraphs wasn't necessarily welcome in the first place. I'm glad it worked out, have a great weekend.

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"If your not gaming, your PC will run fine on 512MB RAM under Win XP." Ok, so who the hell is worried about RAM latency if they aren't gaming? Give me a break. You're talking about two mutually exclusive groups. Grandma Emailers and letter writters they would be fine running on 256 MB or RAM cause that's all they do. Or midrange users who game and also email or demanding uses who hardcore game, burn music/movies, email, use their comps alot, and use them online a lot, that need robust s

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Wouldn't you say it's most likely that with the way people use their systems today, at least in the US, personal systems, not necessarily business systems, though I had open four different applications simultaneously at work yesterday all day... That with 512MB, your odds of swapping data off the Harddrive's page file are much greater then with 1GB, simply because of the volume difference and the OS's percentage of occupation inside 512MB and inside 1BG? And that being the case

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These are some ideas I have about the future of computing. 2010 First nano computers Computers that are buildt at the nano level, using molecules to processing computuations. Not very useful until you need to conserve space like crazy, then these systems could become very useful, such as on aircraft or spacecraft. 2015 Computers that routinely recognize speech with accuracy better then humans. Operating Systems that interface with people rather then people interf

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I have been optimistically surprised at how smooth the transition appears to be going, and how well the R's are cooperating with the D's. Give it a few more weeks/months and we should be back to partisan bickeringshipsnititselz.

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I understand what latency time is and how it works, but when loading programs everything starts at the harddrive which is vastly slower of an upload then anything going on between the ram and the CPU, so if you can get more of the data into RAM even slow ram, that's good, if you have less ram, meaning more harddrive access then the latency of your ram is moot. Agreed? In the case of 512MB vs 1024MB of RAM where XP is using about 192 MB outright by itself, that mean yous have either abou

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Don't ram timings mean marginal improvment bonuses anyway? I mean can you get from the same quantity of ram, lets say two systems with a single 1GB stick of ram inside, one with the best latencies and one with average or slightly below average, what would be your performance increase with the better ram, 5%, 10%,20%? I know that adding ram, doubling the quantity of RAM gives you vastly more improvement for the same money so if the question is increasing quantity over latency times, then adding m

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LOL. Well I've had em try to hawk older less capable PC2700 ram as the hottest thing, so when you say that they make statements that make u just wanna say, "how the hell did you get this job?", I agree with ya. On a scale of 1-10 the competentcy level of an employee necessary for blowing out the inside of a computer case, is about a 1. LOL in the case of your Besy Buy that might be pushing it. <br/

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The Col has got is right more often then now in his replies. "To end both the sectarian violence and deny the foreign terrorists a place to operate in Iraq would require many more troops then 500,000 and the loss of American and Iraqis would be massive." I agree, at this point it would be much more costly in terms of money and troops on the ground, troops the UN should be providing to this cause if any foreign troops at all be provided to maintaining stability in Iraq. Since

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I have to agree with you on everything you've said, except having Best Buy do anything. I think they can handel blowing out the dust without screwing it up. But competentcy is a random and general thing. Their special geek skills are not to be thought unobtainable by the general populations, no matter how lame/geeky they'd like to perpetuate the stereotype.

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People world wide have witnessed it, and according to Barret, 90% of the muslim world believe we committed the acts to start a holy war. Kinda give some creedance to lil whips post about Opinion in the Muslim is scary. Yeah it is in some circles and communities, but when you consider their opinion is based on the perception that we invade countries at will, and attack nations that don't conform with our world views it can start to make at least some sense. The facts of what h

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"Hey Dan, ya ever feel like you came in right in the middle of a movie? " That doesn't mean if the movie sucks I can't help you sneak into another one in the theatre. Ok, so you got a nice speed 2.66 GHZ Celeron, with a gig of ram, and 80Gigs of HD. That's a pretty well balanced system. For queiting the fan noise, yes it probably needs a good blow out, but unless you are goin

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What exactly do you have for system specs. Are you able to run Vista? System Specs CPU speed RAM Quantity Hard Drive Space Graphics Card That kinda thing. Are you using a Celeron processor or Pentium 4? Here's an example, when I bought this system back in 2003, it came with a P4 2.4 ghz non Hyper threading processor, 256 MB RAM, a 60 gig HD, and a GeForce 4 MX 440 graphics card with 64 MB or ram on that. The first upgrade I performed w

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