It is false advertising to sell you a product which says it does X but does not. They don't require that you make phone calls either, but it is expected. This, in California, falls under the merchantability laws. Those statements in warranties that a product isn't useful for anything are completely bunk, and have been thrown out in many courts as utter garbage. If the phone isn't useful, it isn't merchantable, and for a company to sell a product as something which they know isn't useful for that specific purpose is illegal.
You're right, because popping off the EEPROM is so expensive. I had to do this to a bunch of computers back when that chernoble virus decided to erase their BIOS. Back In My Day cpu upgrades came with a small booklet on how to do it, and a leverage rake thing to pry the old chip out.
I must say Mac users have been doing firmware updates for a long while now, and I don't hear many of them screaming about toasted computers. It is mainly the conception that is has to be hard and difficult to do. ASUS has a nice little utility to update its motherboards.
Does the power really go out that often around you that a 15 second process risks failure? If so, buy some batteries and a generator. Don't do it in a rain storm. My internet gateway shows 120 days since my last power failure. People throw $5 away on a hand of blackjack with worse odds.
That is grounds for return right there. If you paid for the item with your evil credit card, VISA (et al.) will back you up on this. No cell phone contract is valid if the phone they so intricatly tied into it does not meet the advertised specifications. $25 more so it can sync to (say) PalmOS, but the box had the Palm logo on it? Sorry, I will go elsewhere, and I won't be out dime one when I leave, save the gas to get to and from the store.
This brings me to another point. Do not ever purchase contracts for a cell phone or anything from those in mall third parties. That is trouble waiting to happen. Go to a retail store and make sure the contract you are signing is with Cingular/Verizon, etc, not "JoesCellphones for Verizon".
While the hiss I get from the cassette is annoying, I'm in my not-that-soundproofed car. The hum of the road kills off anything I'm chopping off using a tape.
My main reason for suggesting the tape adapter is in response to the person who had the cd/mp3 player for $20. This is a portable unit, etc. I have been waiting until I have the time and energy to tear open my dash to install an AUX/cd-in to mini adapter . This is my ideal solution. If I were using the ipod in a sort of "home theatre" or stereo situation, I would not hesitate to hook it into a RCA stereo IN port.
Sucks to be you if you goof off on the job. This goes right along with the employer reading your email, monitoring your web usage, and tapping your phone calls. There is something to be said about morale, but if 8hours a working day they spend at the local bar, then thats a pink slip. If the employees don't like it, they should speak with management.
In my car? No thank you. I would however like to see police officers start pulling people over who drive with their high beams on, turn into the wrong lane, etc. A few $50 slaps on the wrist and you will learn not to do it. Make it a sliding scale. $0-50-100-200-suspended should teach you.
So create some plausible deniability. Let your friends and neighbors drive your car around a bit. This does get hairy though, as they say the person who owns the car is ultimately responsible for how it is used. Were you driving it? Don't recall. Could have been my {Wife|Son|Daughter|Husband|GoodFriend}. What I don't get is why those red-light systems aren't being shot down with a gun. There are none in my community yet, but if there were I would out there protesting it. (Yes, my community has active protestors, not saying much ever gets done, but they can raise a stink.)
Being a car stereo owner, I have an iPod and a 8 year old Sony discman cd-to-tape adapter. It is actually just a 1/8" mini to tape adapter. I have been happily using this for about 8 months now. Shoulda seen the funny looks I got when shopping for a car with these specifications:
-5-speed manual -room for my height -tape deck -non-asshole headlights (those overly bright headlights, not high beams) -"A trunk for 2" (bodies)
Most of the dealers laughed at my trunk for 2 option, but were utterly confused when I would negate a car because it had a CD player. They kept trying to upsell to that, I had to explain to them time and time again that a CD player would be wrong for me since I have a tape adapter for my iPod.
Oh, and after a year and a half of ownership, I still get roughly 6-8 hours playtime, depending on how much skipping around I do. My laptop also still gets close to the reccomedned charge. All it takes is planning ahead. Sure sometimes you wind up with having to charge a battery thats at 50%, but there are ways to get around it.
This is the default way to charge your ipod, actually. Plug it in to your Apple, and use the bus power on FireWire. Few hours on the charger and it's ready to go. I get about a weeks playtime out of a single charge, or a weekend of driving.
Back in, oh, December 2003 I was diagnosing a problem with Windows NT SBS 4 (not 4.5). We called Microsoft to open a ticket, and were told they needed to hunt down the person who could still support NT SBS. We got someone in the phone, in his house, who said he would call us back in 15 minutes after he got some coffee. He knew his stuff forwards and backwards, our problem was resolved in about thirty minutes. It came down to "have you tried just deleting the file?".
The problem I forsee is unlike water, electricity, gas, etc, they can tell what I'm doing with data. They don't know if i'm using that electricty to power a grow light or book light. A network like this should bring forth encryption to the masses (IE: "the web" is now port 443 instead of 80), but it won't unless we can get a certificate chain going with some trusted company. Are you going to trust the government to sign your cert and run the network? Private companies can make money selling your data, etc, but the government can use it as against you in ways that may not have been dreamed.
Encryption shouldn't need to be a tin foil hat, but a standard article of clothing. A thick coat in the winter, not the mini bikini in the heat of summer it is now. Something which covers all, regardless, not something which covers the important bits and little more.
I have a similar setup, but only 2 monitors. I must say the Matrox Milleniums were nice for doing web browsing and IRC on the other monitor, but any games loaded on it dragged. I found the $30 investment in a GeForce2 MX to add OpenGL acceleration to the second monitor well worth it. Since my primary monitor is a GeForce4 drivers are also easy and simple to install. The installer goes through and updates all your nvidia cards with the latest drivers and reboots once. I have never, ever, had a problem with nvidia drivers. I have dealt with about 6 or 7 different nvidia cards across my computers and friends computers, and their unified driver worked flawlessly. Can't say the same for ATI or Matrox.
Their "close friends" though might want a little bit of material to tell their close friends in return about why they should vote for said candidate. Sometimes people know why they like someone, but have difficulty expressing this to others. It can help to have a clear cut list of views or political propaganda to use with your friends. Maybe they would want to hear about something you couldn't care less about.
So and so supports technology and the environment! Now I couldn't care less what those tree huggers are doing, but I do have a few friends who do, now I know what to push with them.
Never. Remember Microsoft is currently their big supporter, a long with Sun Microsystems? They both took out large contracts with SCO at the beginning of the whole lawsuit business. Both companies know they could sue for damages later (against who? I don't know.) since the contracts could be seen as invalid. "You sold us this product under the guise we were required to buy it, but that's not true".
I don't know what the big deal is. In the cache options of Mozilla there is the option to "Check every time I view a webpage". This should get you the caching you want.
The real problem here is Exchange or your proxy. If Exchange isn't properly setting Cache-Control directives, and/or your proxy is ignoring them, I would fully expect to get a cached view. This is not Mozilla's fault. Talk to your systems administrator.
This doesn't always work. Windows forgets. I have been clicking the "do nothing" and "always do this" for ages. Works like a charm for CD's, however, my iPod and my digital camera get subjected to the file search. I have been meaning to go disable autoplay all together, but then, that would require effort.
That makes a lot of sense. This country would never buy it. Why not? How dare you force those who cannot get to the post office to not be able to vote.
As opposed to current absentee ballots, where I hold a gun to your head int he privacy of your home, and have you fill in the ballot. I do agree that voting in a public place is the best way to do it, but absentee voting is just as prone to problems.
The thing they see as the issue with internet voting isn't the gun to the head, it's stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes.
ARP traffic coming out of california is an obvious mis-configuration, however seeing the various classes of addresses is not. IIRC cable comapnies were given the class A "24" to play with as they chose. When you get a DHCP lease in the 24 network, it should be chopped up by a subnet mask (like, 255.255.255.0) which turns it into 255^2 class C net blocks.
Your analogy to the phone system is flawed though. Speakerphone, answering machines (voicemail), people talking over HAM radio instead of picking up the phone all involve nothing which harms the Telco, or your neighbors. When you sign up for service, you agree that you will buy 1.5m/256k for $60/month. When you uncap your modem, you now use much much more than that, but at the same price. I would go after you as well.
If I generated electricity in my back yard with buttered toast and a cat, and then agreed to sell you a kilo-watt of energy every hour, hooked you up to a transformer which would only provide that much juice, and you came in and recalibrated it to give you two kilowatts per hour, I would either bill you twice as much, or cut you off. The only difference there is I'm not "the big bad cable company" nor THE MAN.
Plus, why not ditch your $60/month internet, and go with $30/month DSL, anyways? OR did that $60 include some form of CATV watching as well? I bet you want free HBO as well, since it's just a config in the box restricting you. It's just the lock on my door keeping you out of my house. I'll hit you with a baseball bat if you break it, though.
Or you get to people like me, who when I did slave around with a watch on, would straight faced tell people that I deliberatly keep the wrong time on it.
My biggest grief are analog watches with those tiny digital readouts. I mean, really.
Two hundred day uptimes are taken for granted with FreeBSD users.
I chuckled when I read that, because when I went to upgrade my workstation to 5.2 I did a quick check of the uptime first, almost 200 days. It made me sit back and think "Gee, I never did have to reboot my computer, did I..."
Checking my 4.x server whenever I thought it needed an upgrade brought about even higher uptimes, generally regulated by central power failure +90minutes until the UPS gave up and the system shut itself down. The only race my FreeBSD boxes are given for uptime is by the Solaris computer next to it.
I wouldn't reccomend it for high load server applications though. What with it dying and all.
I bet what the poster is thinking is the battery is made for this kind of use. Editing movies on my ipod w/o wall-power would drain the battery very very quickly (Use a 6-to-4 pin firewire cable). However with juice, the ipod runs just like a laptop.
I leave my ipod plugged into my windows computer all day long charging when the battery dies, and windows doesn't know how to spin down the disk. I come back and sure it's warm, but as another poster said, just flip it over and it cools right off. My mac does spin down the hard drive after a few minutes of non-use.
Total cost 200$? No sir. How many hours did you spend setting up all this in the first place? How often has email become clogged due to AV taking forever to scan?
With all this up to the second scanning you're doing, CPU cycles are burning away, something which is a scarce resource, so someone somewhere is ponying up for beefier servers for you to play on. You also had to learn about the virus, test your mail gateways to make sure legitimate email doesn't get canned, especially from spam traps.
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It is false advertising to sell you a product which says it does X but does not. They don't require that you make phone calls either, but it is expected. This, in California, falls under the merchantability laws. Those statements in warranties that a product isn't useful for anything are completely bunk, and have been thrown out in many courts as utter garbage. If the phone isn't useful, it isn't merchantable, and for a company to sell a product as something which they know isn't useful for that specific purpose is illegal.
You're right, because popping off the EEPROM is so expensive. I had to do this to a bunch of computers back when that chernoble virus decided to erase their BIOS. Back In My Day cpu upgrades came with a small booklet on how to do it, and a leverage rake thing to pry the old chip out.
I must say Mac users have been doing firmware updates for a long while now, and I don't hear many of them screaming about toasted computers. It is mainly the conception that is has to be hard and difficult to do. ASUS has a nice little utility to update its motherboards.
Does the power really go out that often around you that a 15 second process risks failure? If so, buy some batteries and a generator. Don't do it in a rain storm. My internet gateway shows 120 days since my last power failure. People throw $5 away on a hand of blackjack with worse odds.
That is grounds for return right there. If you paid for the item with your evil credit card, VISA (et al.) will back you up on this. No cell phone contract is valid if the phone they so intricatly tied into it does not meet the advertised specifications. $25 more so it can sync to (say) PalmOS, but the box had the Palm logo on it? Sorry, I will go elsewhere, and I won't be out dime one when I leave, save the gas to get to and from the store.
This brings me to another point. Do not ever purchase contracts for a cell phone or anything from those in mall third parties. That is trouble waiting to happen. Go to a retail store and make sure the contract you are signing is with Cingular/Verizon, etc, not "JoesCellphones for Verizon".
While the hiss I get from the cassette is annoying, I'm in my not-that-soundproofed car. The hum of the road kills off anything I'm chopping off using a tape.
My main reason for suggesting the tape adapter is in response to the person who had the cd/mp3 player for $20. This is a portable unit, etc. I have been waiting until I have the time and energy to tear open my dash to install an AUX/cd-in to mini adapter . This is my ideal solution. If I were using the ipod in a sort of "home theatre" or stereo situation, I would not hesitate to hook it into a RCA stereo IN port.
Sucks to be you if you goof off on the job. This goes right along with the employer reading your email, monitoring your web usage, and tapping your phone calls. There is something to be said about morale, but if 8hours a working day they spend at the local bar, then thats a pink slip. If the employees don't like it, they should speak with management.
In my car? No thank you. I would however like to see police officers start pulling people over who drive with their high beams on, turn into the wrong lane, etc. A few $50 slaps on the wrist and you will learn not to do it. Make it a sliding scale. $0-50-100-200-suspended should teach you.
So create some plausible deniability. Let your friends and neighbors drive your car around a bit. This does get hairy though, as they say the person who owns the car is ultimately responsible for how it is used. Were you driving it? Don't recall. Could have been my {Wife|Son|Daughter|Husband|GoodFriend}. What I don't get is why those red-light systems aren't being shot down with a gun. There are none in my community yet, but if there were I would out there protesting it. (Yes, my community has active protestors, not saying much ever gets done, but they can raise a stink.)
Being a car stereo owner, I have an iPod and a 8 year old Sony discman cd-to-tape adapter. It is actually just a 1/8" mini to tape adapter. I have been happily using this for about 8 months now. Shoulda seen the funny looks I got when shopping for a car with these specifications:
-5-speed manual
-room for my height
-tape deck
-non-asshole headlights (those overly bright headlights, not high beams)
-"A trunk for 2" (bodies)
Most of the dealers laughed at my trunk for 2 option, but were utterly confused when I would negate a car because it had a CD player. They kept trying to upsell to that, I had to explain to them time and time again that a CD player would be wrong for me since I have a tape adapter for my iPod.
Oh, and after a year and a half of ownership, I still get roughly 6-8 hours playtime, depending on how much skipping around I do. My laptop also still gets close to the reccomedned charge. All it takes is planning ahead. Sure sometimes you wind up with having to charge a battery thats at 50%, but there are ways to get around it.
This is the default way to charge your ipod, actually. Plug it in to your Apple, and use the bus power on FireWire. Few hours on the charger and it's ready to go. I get about a weeks playtime out of a single charge, or a weekend of driving.
Back in, oh, December 2003 I was diagnosing a problem with Windows NT SBS 4 (not 4.5). We called Microsoft to open a ticket, and were told they needed to hunt down the person who could still support NT SBS. We got someone in the phone, in his house, who said he would call us back in 15 minutes after he got some coffee. He knew his stuff forwards and backwards, our problem was resolved in about thirty minutes. It came down to "have you tried just deleting the file?".
The problem I forsee is unlike water, electricity, gas, etc, they can tell what I'm doing with data. They don't know if i'm using that electricty to power a grow light or book light. A network like this should bring forth encryption to the masses (IE: "the web" is now port 443 instead of 80), but it won't unless we can get a certificate chain going with some trusted company. Are you going to trust the government to sign your cert and run the network? Private companies can make money selling your data, etc, but the government can use it as against you in ways that may not have been dreamed.
Encryption shouldn't need to be a tin foil hat, but a standard article of clothing. A thick coat in the winter, not the mini bikini in the heat of summer it is now. Something which covers all, regardless, not something which covers the important bits and little more.
I have a similar setup, but only 2 monitors. I must say the Matrox Milleniums were nice for doing web browsing and IRC on the other monitor, but any games loaded on it dragged. I found the $30 investment in a GeForce2 MX to add OpenGL acceleration to the second monitor well worth it. Since my primary monitor is a GeForce4 drivers are also easy and simple to install. The installer goes through and updates all your nvidia cards with the latest drivers and reboots once. I have never, ever, had a problem with nvidia drivers. I have dealt with about 6 or 7 different nvidia cards across my computers and friends computers, and their unified driver worked flawlessly. Can't say the same for ATI or Matrox.
Their "close friends" though might want a little bit of material to tell their close friends in return about why they should vote for said candidate. Sometimes people know why they like someone, but have difficulty expressing this to others. It can help to have a clear cut list of views or political propaganda to use with your friends. Maybe they would want to hear about something you couldn't care less about.
So and so supports technology and the environment! Now I couldn't care less what those tree huggers are doing, but I do have a few friends who do, now I know what to push with them.
Never. Remember Microsoft is currently their big supporter, a long with Sun Microsystems? They both took out large contracts with SCO at the beginning of the whole lawsuit business. Both companies know they could sue for damages later (against who? I don't know.) since the contracts could be seen as invalid. "You sold us this product under the guise we were required to buy it, but that's not true".
I don't know what the big deal is. In the cache options of Mozilla there is the option to "Check every time I view a webpage". This should get you the caching you want.
The real problem here is Exchange or your proxy. If Exchange isn't properly setting Cache-Control directives, and/or your proxy is ignoring them, I would fully expect to get a cached view. This is not Mozilla's fault. Talk to your systems administrator.
This doesn't always work. Windows forgets. I have been clicking the "do nothing" and "always do this" for ages. Works like a charm for CD's, however, my iPod and my digital camera get subjected to the file search. I have been meaning to go disable autoplay all together, but then, that would require effort.
Don't forget, W2K is built in NT (New Technology).
That makes a lot of sense. This country would never buy it. Why not? How dare you force those who cannot get to the post office to not be able to vote.
As opposed to current absentee ballots, where I hold a gun to your head int he privacy of your home, and have you fill in the ballot. I do agree that voting in a public place is the best way to do it, but absentee voting is just as prone to problems.
The thing they see as the issue with internet voting isn't the gun to the head, it's stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes.
ARP traffic coming out of california is an obvious mis-configuration, however seeing the various classes of addresses is not. IIRC cable comapnies were given the class A "24" to play with as they chose. When you get a DHCP lease in the 24 network, it should be chopped up by a subnet mask (like, 255.255.255.0) which turns it into 255^2 class C net blocks.
Your analogy to the phone system is flawed though. Speakerphone, answering machines (voicemail), people talking over HAM radio instead of picking up the phone all involve nothing which harms the Telco, or your neighbors. When you sign up for service, you agree that you will buy 1.5m/256k for $60/month. When you uncap your modem, you now use much much more than that, but at the same price. I would go after you as well.
If I generated electricity in my back yard with buttered toast and a cat, and then agreed to sell you a kilo-watt of energy every hour, hooked you up to a transformer which would only provide that much juice, and you came in and recalibrated it to give you two kilowatts per hour, I would either bill you twice as much, or cut you off. The only difference there is I'm not "the big bad cable company" nor THE MAN.
Plus, why not ditch your $60/month internet, and go with $30/month DSL, anyways? OR did that $60 include some form of CATV watching as well? I bet you want free HBO as well, since it's just a config in the box restricting you. It's just the lock on my door keeping you out of my house. I'll hit you with a baseball bat if you break it, though.
Or you get to people like me, who when I did slave around with a watch on, would straight faced tell people that I deliberatly keep the wrong time on it.
My biggest grief are analog watches with those tiny digital readouts. I mean, really.
Sega Saturn is all I can think of. *sniff* RIP Sega Hardware division.
Two hundred day uptimes are taken for granted with FreeBSD users.
I chuckled when I read that, because when I went to upgrade my workstation to 5.2 I did a quick check of the uptime first, almost 200 days. It made me sit back and think "Gee, I never did have to reboot my computer, did I..."
Checking my 4.x server whenever I thought it needed an upgrade brought about even higher uptimes, generally regulated by central power failure +90minutes until the UPS gave up and the system shut itself down. The only race my FreeBSD boxes are given for uptime is by the Solaris computer next to it.
I wouldn't reccomend it for high load server applications though. What with it dying and all.
I bet what the poster is thinking is the battery is made for this kind of use. Editing movies on my ipod w/o wall-power would drain the battery very very quickly (Use a 6-to-4 pin firewire cable). However with juice, the ipod runs just like a laptop.
I leave my ipod plugged into my windows computer all day long charging when the battery dies, and windows doesn't know how to spin down the disk. I come back and sure it's warm, but as another poster said, just flip it over and it cools right off. My mac does spin down the hard drive after a few minutes of non-use.
Total cost 200$? No sir. How many hours did you spend setting up all this in the first place? How often has email become clogged due to AV taking forever to scan?
With all this up to the second scanning you're doing, CPU cycles are burning away, something which is a scarce resource, so someone somewhere is ponying up for beefier servers for you to play on. You also had to learn about the virus, test your mail gateways to make sure legitimate email doesn't get canned, especially from spam traps.
Thats why I own both the don't blame me it's a hardware problem and the don't blame me it's a software problem shirt from Thinkgeek.
Sorry, I couldn't find the direct links to the shirts, I hope they didn't discontinue them.