JoshK

Bullshit and bullshit. That's what this discussion is about. Go digging for yourself. I have...obviously from my post I have, at a minimum, read his offical documents for recieving the stars. Why don't you eleborate on exactly *what* it is you don't like? I'm not arguing with you, but before you sling shit my way you might want to clarify exactly what we are arguing about.

Oh, and on AMD, they make great desktop chips. The Athlon and Athlon 64 are right up there with the P4s. There weakness, hwoever, is in their mobile chips. For pure mobility, the PentiumM (aka centrino) is still the best choice.

OK, first off, let me just say to discount whatever eternalX has said. To address a few of his points: 1.)You can remove the Sony apps you don't want. Reinstgall the OS, and using the recovery disks only insall what you want. Or you can just add/remove what you want. 2.)Many would consider the design better. Who are you to say that bland white is nicer than silver/black? It's a personal thing. 3.)If you think HD speed has nothing to do with performance you haven't a clue how any operating system using virtual memory works. While most people look for HD capacity, a bigger factor, IMHO, is rotation speed. the common desktop speeds are 5400, 7200, and occasionally 10,000. Common notebook speed is 4,200, but thankfully 5400 and 7200 rpm notebook drives are gettin more commonplace now. Any decent laptop should be available with 512mb ram, and that should suit your needs. Now, the issue with the HD hits when windows has to do something called "swapping" (shutup mac users: all OSs do this), where virtual memory is paged off the disk into physical memory. The whole point of having more RAM is to avoid paging as much as possible. Even with 1gig of RAM, however, you will have to page. The faster the harddisk, the quicker paging can be done. If eternalX wants to argue this, I invite him to come use my notebook (where I opened it up and replaced the HD with a 7200rpm, 16mb cache drive) with it's stock quivilent, and it's 4200rpm, 2mb cache drive. It feels like a completely different computer. The difference is felt other times than simply paging of course. Loading a new program (or file) that is not yet in ram, such as word, excel, a large image, etc. will happen monumentally faster on a fast HD than a slow HD. Loading windows of course will happen much faster as well. The DR has left the building...

BWAHAHAHAH "Sildenafil is used because there is a biochemical similarity between the penis and the lungs. "

Bingo. I don't think any of us here has the right to decide what Kerry did in vietnam, or if it was brave or not. Check out the accounts of the actions for which he won the silver and bronze stars. Those guys are more than willing to thank him, as are the majority of the people on his swift boat. It is really hard to seperate what is truth and what is mud slinging in a presidential race. Add to it that the fact that this was 30 years ago, and under the fog of war. One thing is clear to me...the guy DID servce his country. I personally believe he did it well, but with all the shit being slung one way or another, well, I guess I'll never know. But when I compare actually serving to what GW did...well,

ggt, I think you may have trouble finding people who used the "lower" alternative since practically everybody just goes over the red ledge. I didn't even know there was an alternative. Well, I should say I didn't know there was a suggested alternative. If you dont like the way something looks you can always find another way.

have you actually ever compared a powerbook to a PC equiv or do you just assume they are the best? Yes, their style is nice but they are seriously fucking overpriced. It isn't even like the iPod where their design is nice and the wheel thing is cool. You just get to pay more for the little apple logo. They also use suck ass HDs, which is the limiting factor in notebooks these days. Lots of the PC manufactures are now offering 5400 and 7200 rpm drives in notebooks now as options, thank god. BTW, for what it's worth, if you are intersted in style, check out the new Sony S series. Widescreen 13" WXGA super-brite screens and great components. From your requirements it looks like you are looking for something cheaper and more utilitarian tho... Nols posted a pic of the centrino stuff.that is the key. well, centrino is basically just marketing for built in wireless + pentium M, but the Pentium M is far and away the best mobile processor on the market today. Their battery life can't be beat. On a random note...the super-brite screens (like in the sony I mention above) are fucking amazing. They are nite and day better than the standard laptop screens.

Fuck I hate getting gas in oregon. "Yes, please, fill it up, and make sure to drip gas all over the side of my car and on the ground while you are at it."

This is indeed true. I should have singled out the admninistration from repubs in general. I bow my head and admit that there are some respectable and decent repubs. It's too bad they can't stand up for what is right and admit this administration is bad for the country *and* their party! Ok...enuf partisan stuff. I can see why the repubs would be questioning this too. Maybe their reasons are different, but the FS policy is something that most repubs and dems can agree SUCKS in it's current form.

This time of year it's not much of an epic. The snow lake trail can be done basically as a trail run. DOn't take too heavy of a rack and rope (pack efficiently, in other words) and you can make it a long, but reasonably day. Otherwise pack small and bivy on the otherside of prusik, I doubt anybody will go looking back there...

Ahhh...ok, now I understand better. As stupid as this sounds I thought this "slush cup" thing was somehow going to involve bringing up those snowcone flavorings and adding them to the snow to eat or something. So is that snowpatch pictured the "pinnacle glacier"? That is where I got beginning of season turns year before this. I figured with it being a glacier underneath the new snow I would be protected from rocks, etc. From what I could determine from all my rock damage, the glacier seemd to be about 1000 sq ft. Looks like I was right!

The red ledge was definiltey much easier than it looked from afar. I figured it was going to be serious scrambling from a distance but wasn't hard at all. If one person in the group is uncomfortable you could always belay them across, assuming you already have a rope for the glacier crossings.

Are trails allowed on those trails (trust me, I dont give a shit one way or another...just curious) I've done my share of ranger-avoidance-biking but it would be neat to know some interesting places where you can pedal through the broad daylight

If I plan on going out for a few hard days I'll try to overeat a bit before hand. It seems I start burning into muscle after the first day anyway When I lifted my ass off and ate like a linebacker I still could only gain a few pounds and it was hard at that. I'll notice after coming back from a very hard climb I am much colder cause I'm a skinny lil' bitch.

My dad said this in response to the post-9/11 speechs given by Bush (stuttering) and Blair(eliquent) "They have their Churchill, unfortunately we don't have our roosevelt"

I steal chalk from the local elementary schools and grind it up in my mom's pasta maker.

teddy roosevelt would be ashamed with what the republican party has become...at least in regard to the environment.

nols, how are da cracks when the glacier is dry? From a distance with a big ass zoom lens (yes, not good beta at all) the thing looks rather tame. I take it that other glacier, whateva it's called isn't as casual? thanks man.

You got it man. In fact, the E ridge is a great solo, until I put my foot through a crack on the eldorado glacier. Now I am too pussy to cross that thing w/o a rope, thus relegating me to bring a long a "partner"

does this mean that when I am pulling the 5.6 crux with all the fine ass prahna hunnies looking on, I can dust my armpits and ballz with super chalk to maintain a stink free body for hitting on said chicks after rapping off? If this is the case I would like to see super chalk with added old spice and right guard scents. "Metolious Super Chalk: If you ain't gettin' pussy, than there's no point in climbin'"

PP, that is the lot we saw when we checked out the climb. Definiltey makes the approach fast. I wonder if the avy-control over there? Seems like that slope is prime house-wiping-out territory.

recycled pop bottles. yes, I know where the pop bottles come from, but it is still a re-use of something we already have in bulk.

Any story on that mudslide? It looks like it covers part of a glacier? Maybe major ice collapse or something? looks pretty wild in any event...

I wonder when synthetic building materials will be cost effectie enough to make an inroads? Apparently they are better now, but just cost a lot. the place we are in has composite siding or something like with a 100 year guarantee. obviously much better than wood. If the government's arguement for timber subsidies (as it has been before) is to keep people employed our money would be better spent retraining these folks. It would cost a hellavu lot less. Next step...getting oil subsidies cut.

OK, I read somewhere that it takes 6000 calories to build a pound of tissue. Anybody know if this is true? I find if I take in about 3000 calories a day I still lose weight over a few days. The other thing I have noticed is I start to eat less as they days pass on a climb...