Welcome to Metronomy, the revolutionary new concept which provides a FREE IBM HOME PC in exchange for your commitment to watch up to 3 minutes of advertising per hour of use.
Rakido
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hmm, why not. If used as a server, it's switched on all the time.
Rakido"Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."
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this looks to me just as a new form of spy-ware<font face="verdana, arial, helvetica" size="1" >epox 8RDA+ running an Athlon XP 1600+ @ 1.7Ghz with 2x256mb Crucial PC2700, an Adaptec 1200A IDE-Raid with 2x WD 7200rpm 40Gb striped + a 120Gb and a 20Gb Seagate, 2x 17" LG Flatron 775FT, a Cordless Logitech Trackman wheel and a <b>banding enhanced</b> Matrox Parhelia 128 retail shining thru a Koolance PC601-Blue case window<br>and for God's sake pay my <a href="http://www.drslump.biz">site</a> a visit!</font> -
get the PC, take it apart and use it as spare parts.
"You have not been watching your required 3 minutes of ads."
"I don't ever turn it on."
Jammrock“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get outâ€
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Read the license agrement!Originally posted by Jammrock
get the PC, take it apart and use it as spare parts.
"You have not been watching your required 3 minutes of ads."
"I don't ever turn it on."
JammrockAccording to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..
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They could make v. cheap distributed computing boxen though (although limited to 1 per household...)DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.netComment
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Makes me wonder why I have to pay good money for a TV that seems to be approaching 20 minutes of commercials per friggen hour.
You'd think they could give TVs away free too using that business model.
chuckChuck
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Better yet, just don't get a TV. I haven't had one for over 5 years.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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read ... ?“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get outâ€
–The Light Fantastic, Terry PratchettComment
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I've got a TV, but it's only hooked up to a DVD player and occasionally my PC. Got a piece of coax with one end split a part to form a dipole that'll do an ok job of picking up the local stations when there's severe weather and I don't feel like leaving the computer plugged in to monitor the radar. But even then I use my 2m ham radio to listen to the actual facts about the situation from the official storm chasers.
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I didn't have one while I was a School Teacher. No time...Originally posted by Wombat
Better yet, just don't get a TV. I haven't had one for over 5 years.
As it is we have it mainly for new/weather and movies.
chuck
PS Jammer, we have thousands of books in our house.
I can't bear to part with them.
I still have the SciFi stuff I had in high school 33 - 37 years ago.
Chuck
秋音的爸爸
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Actually "click this to accept" is no longer a valid "contract", at least not under US Contract Law.
Neither is "by opening this you agree..."
Gotta love the Supreme Court.
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Don't you need consideration for a valid contract anyway? Even if a nominal sum? That's why you see companies being bought for "a dollar".DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.netComment
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Actually for a family that isn't well off that needs a pc for the kids to use for school. It isn't such a bad system.
Chepo ISP dial-up account - dial in the once a month and at least the kids have a word processer for school/uniJuu nin to iro
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True. In fact I suspect that the economics for the company running the scheme are dodgy and it won't last more than a year... tech support provision will kill them or their reputation.DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.netComment
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