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What are your least favorite companies?
Just thought I'd start a thread to rant about the companies doing the most to make our lives living hells.
Can be one or more, you don't need to do them all at once
Number #1 ATI:
ATI has been boiling my blood recently as apart from the ATI graphics card in my laptop It would be ideal. Especially including the huge educational discount I got it for (it was about 40% off) but in the same way a computer is as slow as it's slowest part it is also as annoying as its most annoying part. And the graphics card is oh so bad.
In Windows: In terms of performance I couldn't ask for better. I came from what was practically the same system but in desktop form so seeing slightly better graphics on a laptop was somewhat staggering and with recent driver updates look even better. Yet it was the most recent driver update that started the downward spiral into madness. When i tried using UT2k4 I immediately noticed a lag between when I released the keyboard and when I stopped moving. I spent a night trying to figure out the solution and ended up installing the old drivers which still didn't work.
In Linux: Then I saw posted that UT2k4 has a linux installer (games.. on linux?) which required you to use the proprietary ATI driver. I installed and switched over to the proprietary drivers and things didn't work, (some problem with openGL I found via command prompt). After another night trying to get things to work I just went to change back to the Xorg (the open source drivers) and the config crashed each time I went into it. I am now stuck with this and it has caused a series of errors so as I am speaking I'm burning Gentoo (previously using Kubuntu) and preparing to take the big step beyond.
Anyone else hate ATI? or even like them?
Can be one or more, you don't need to do them all at once
Number #1 ATI:
ATI has been boiling my blood recently as apart from the ATI graphics card in my laptop It would be ideal. Especially including the huge educational discount I got it for (it was about 40% off) but in the same way a computer is as slow as it's slowest part it is also as annoying as its most annoying part. And the graphics card is oh so bad.
In Windows: In terms of performance I couldn't ask for better. I came from what was practically the same system but in desktop form so seeing slightly better graphics on a laptop was somewhat staggering and with recent driver updates look even better. Yet it was the most recent driver update that started the downward spiral into madness. When i tried using UT2k4 I immediately noticed a lag between when I released the keyboard and when I stopped moving. I spent a night trying to figure out the solution and ended up installing the old drivers which still didn't work.
In Linux: Then I saw posted that UT2k4 has a linux installer (games.. on linux?) which required you to use the proprietary ATI driver. I installed and switched over to the proprietary drivers and things didn't work, (some problem with openGL I found via command prompt). After another night trying to get things to work I just went to change back to the Xorg (the open source drivers) and the config crashed each time I went into it. I am now stuck with this and it has caused a series of errors so as I am speaking I'm burning Gentoo (previously using Kubuntu) and preparing to take the big step beyond.
Anyone else hate ATI? or even like them?
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What do you mean, i can't make a .htaccess file?
After Hours Formal Wear - Rym can explain that much better than I can.
The companies listed on the "Republican Boycott". These are companies that give substantial contributions to right-wing candidates.
I also really dislike K-Mart. Since Ames went out of business, they have taken the "crappiest department store" title.
Hmmm. I'm sure there are companies whose entire business is telephone marketing. You know, the people the companies that are advertising their wares are subcontracting to. Whatever those companies are called, I hate them desperately.
After Hours Formal Wear - Rym can explain that much better than I can.
The companies listed on the "Republican Boycott". These are companies that give substantial contributions to right-wing candidates.
I also really dislike K-Mart. Since Ames went out of business, they have taken the "crappiest department store" title.
Any particular reason you dislike Mormons?
But why is everyone's dislike directed towards Mormons? Why cant it be Catholics?
You know, I can say the same thing about Mormons.
//On paper anyways.
But why is everyone's dislike directed towards Mormons? Why cant it be Catholics?Catholics can at least restrain their sex need to one or fewer women. Sadly I cannot say the same thing about Mormons. //On paper anyways.
That's because, we believe in purity. Saving ourselves for the one that we one day will marry. We, or at least I, can control myself. I don't go running around with a pocket full of condoms, restraining my sexual needs to my girlfriend, because that's not what life is about. It's pretty much about staying pure, and I really haven't been following the rule. But other than that, You guys just got to respect me and everyone here for our religious beliefs. Our religion is something we believe in, and we don't harm you in the process, so why look down on us, if we really did nothing to you?
I mean seriously, haven't you ever spoken to one of those chaps in youth group back in high school? Fun stuff.
/Jason's green sarcasm font
The reason is that this belief is not only intellectually dishonest to myself, it is also potentially harmful to the masses, if not you directly. This belief I hold goes against evidence that has been firmly laid many times over. And, left unchecked, can be both physically and mentally poisoning to others.
"What many people may take long to find, or sadly perhaps never at all, is that there is a strong difference between the person you are, and what you believe in."
Now, this made sense to me, at one point in time (Some of it still holds true). I should also point out this was a little before I discovered reason (i.e.) so I never dreamed to consider peoples indignation and down right misinformation as a part of that equation.
But that is the equation.
In the case of people like, say the presidential candidate Romney, it really is just mad to take his legitimacy and competence seriously if his core beliefs in faith are not only drastically radical to a laymen of sound mind, but even disagreeable with much of the Christian community as a whole.
Hell, Sails my age, and he and WiP basically laid down the points. I think this a rather harsh way to put it, but it (Mormonism belief) is intellectually dishonest in a forum of debate, a forum which is not laughing with you.