Trunk would open or not close, anti-collision system would freak out, car would be "dead" forcing you to get into the trunk and reset something. Ya the iDrive on my mother-in-laws BMW 745 LI is fun!!
Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report or
The Enterprise Mission Which reads in part "Ice core samples, from places like Greenland and our old pal Lake Vostok, have shown that the Earth has undergone drastic and rapid climate change in the past. The most recent major shift was about 12,000 years ago, with the vast majority of the change occurring in only 40 years. In fact, some key indicators of global climate change, such as average annual temperatures, increased by 5 to 10 degrees C in only 10 years! Various prosaic explanations have been asserted to explain these odd and sudden shifts, mostly centering around the suns energy output and sun spots. Indeed, our own recent warming trend has been alternately explained as the result of this same "solar instability," or blamed on increasing human fossil fuel activity (which is not the case)."
Dont get me wrong I love the smell of clean air but I think someone in the global warming camp has been feeding us a lot of horse crap.
I have actually watched it snore, then come back several hours later and had no charge left. I think there must be a miss-behaving application. If I put it to sleep before closing the lid it seems to behave. Thsi all started (I think) around 10.4.7 .
I've turned into a bit of a Mac snob since my (get this) mother in-law gave me MacBook Pro for my B-Day. Anyways I can say right now that Apple does not have it right. I have put my "sleeping" Mac in its hard case more then once only to find it hotter then a AMD 1Gig without a cooling fan and down to 3% battery.
I was in line behind a TSA employee from a local small airport. She was telling the cashier that she had left the check to pay for a number of photocopied documents in her car and must retrieve it to pay. BUT she could not leave the documents and had to take them with her to the car as they were VERY VERY sensitive. Here's the kicker, she left them at Staples overnight to be copied.
I wonder if they let her sleep there and then shot the copier tech out in the alley?
with a QWest installer a few months ago at a location that used to be serviced solely be Cox Cable. MAN you should see th shit written on the wall about each others mothers, race and personal hygiene! I've seen nicer biker bar bathrooms!
I've been reading some of the comments posted since I wrote this and I have come to the conclusion theat the whole system is screwed from the top down. Teachers are really just the most visible issue. Maybe its time to get the goverment out of the indoctrination process.. errr education and turn it over to the corporate world?
Tenure Can't tell you how many losers with teaching credentials I had to suffer through in my California High School days. Most should have been fired some arrested. Big difference from Canada. All though I will say I had one, Mr. Rosen, for 4 years of math, 2 for chemistry and one for physics and he was the reason I went on to college.
and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life. They are trying to teach these people in order to raise their standard of living. Get a clue MSN. Am I wrong?
Well most of the people I speak with seem aware they have a problem, they know that web pages and pop-ups are happening outside of their control. Frankly you can only use so much Viagra.
I expect banner ads or pop-ups some what relevant to the pages I'm visiting, not porn, poker or penis enlargement ads. Most others do as well. As for some paralles with T.V. I don't see it. Most people feel they should have control of their web surfing while with T.V. they simply tun on a channel they think they want to watch and go along for the ride. If they don't have Tivo they simply watch the ads. Spambots, spam and pop-ups at best represent the least desirable part of ad revenue, at worst they are a criminal enterprise and should be treated as such. The economics do nothing to benefit the medium they only enrich the sender.
And no I don't expect anyone to go to the library to surf, those keyboards are icky with germs! But I would love to see some real education for these users. If that has to be by losing their internet till they clean up then so be it.
I only see this getting worse as these things burrow deeper into the OS. Maybe Vista will help.
I just looked at mine and thats what it says. The ISPs should use this as a business opportunity. They ID a problem client, send him a email/snail mail/call whatever giving him a stated number of days to fix the issue or get the plug pulled. Include links/info on cleaning up their machine and offer a service to go do it. In larger metro areas ISPs could partner with an outside service to just clean PC's.
Now before anyone accuses me of taking advantage of the poor infected end-user remember he is causing trouble for the ISP and he will need to find someone to clean his machine simply to regain control and enjoy the whole surfing experience! I can see the whole process for IDing the bot to fixing it becoming very smooth and efficient.
Better analogy, and if the driver was even remotely aware there was a problem he should fix it or get off the road. Actually their called snow chains and you do get smacked if you run them on clean roadway.
Normal? Hardly, first pop-up my dad had on his Dell had him on the phone to me for support. He's a novice user but even he saw the pop-up as an abuse. TV ads are used to support the medium and have been with use as such almost from the beginning. The second infection my Dad got slowed his machine, it was a bot, and again he had enough sense to call for help.
When you are ignorant as to the effect your computer is having on me and the rest of the internet community, you ignore the signs ( I can't tell you how often I've heard "It's sooooooo much slower then when I bought it, maybe the internet is full") and refuse to at least try and understand then you don't need a computer. Go use one a the library.
Years ago I worked for the parent company of Packard-Hell err Bell, or boss used to send to phone support at PB instead of writing us up. I went once and just about slit my wrists. Yes the equipment was crap but even crap needs to be plugged in before you complain to me that its dead and won't turn on.
find something to piss you off about the person you vote for. Lokk at Bush, conservatives were generally happy with him till he started up with the amnesty crap (I can say that after going through the two years of legal hoops need to come down out of the cold north)
The government is the road, if your equipment does not come up to standards then your not driving, in theory. I was behind a VW bus in Aracta yesterday spewing enough crap to run my Honda if I just connect a pipe to his exhaust.
I think it's in the ISP's best interest to start pruning these bots before the Feds or states decide they need to step in. And they will.
Give me a better analogy and no the more I look at the more it works. Essentially I was using it to show that the owner is responsible for the performance of his/her equipment. Believe me if your spewing smog out of your tail pipe in California the government could care less about why, they just tell you to FIX IT NOW or PARK IT!
Make it up in service calls, some one needs to go out and re-install widows and all the service packs. Also in the long run you would reduce equipment and bandwidth costs not to mention personnel costs.
Well then this would pretty much fall on Microsoft's shoulders.
But I still think people should be held responsible, people should realize that there is a problem with their computer when a million pop-ups flood their screen or their computer starts moving like molasses in January. Biggest problem is most users are dumber then a sock full of hammers!
Its time we force ISPs to pull the plug on infected client machines or block entire ISPs. There is no valid argument to support end users who refuse to clean up their machines. The argument that either they are not responsible for the infection or are unable to clean their own machines is crap. If end users don't know how to maintain their equipment then perhaps they should be off the net.
Look at a car as an example. If I refuse to do or pay for routine maintenance it will begin to create more and more pollution and use more and more fuel. Is it the manufactures job to fix it, no, is it the road builders job, no, is it the jerks that sold me crappy fuel, only if I can catch them. So when I fail smog tests I need to either quit using the car or pay to fix it. Might not be the best analogy.
Wouldn't millions of high speed launches over ten years cause massive localized heating due to friction? A why just use it as a cloud why not convert that lost energy into something that can be sent back to earth?
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Trunk would open or not close, anti-collision system would freak out, car would be "dead" forcing you to get into the trunk and reset something. Ya the iDrive on my mother-in-laws BMW 745 LI is fun!!
Mars Is Warming, NASA Scientists Report or The Enterprise Mission Which reads in part "Ice core samples, from places like Greenland and our old pal Lake Vostok, have shown that the Earth has undergone drastic and rapid climate change in the past. The most recent major shift was about 12,000 years ago, with the vast majority of the change occurring in only 40 years. In fact, some key indicators of global climate change, such as average annual temperatures, increased by 5 to 10 degrees C in only 10 years! Various prosaic explanations have been asserted to explain these odd and sudden shifts, mostly centering around the suns energy output and sun spots. Indeed, our own recent warming trend has been alternately explained as the result of this same "solar instability," or blamed on increasing human fossil fuel activity (which is not the case)."
Dont get me wrong I love the smell of clean air but I think someone in the global warming camp has been feeding us a lot of horse crap.
I have actually watched it snore, then come back several hours later and had no charge left. I think there must be a miss-behaving application. If I put it to sleep before closing the lid it seems to behave. Thsi all started (I think) around 10.4.7 .
I've turned into a bit of a Mac snob since my (get this) mother in-law gave me MacBook Pro for my B-Day. Anyways I can say right now that Apple does not have it right. I have put my "sleeping" Mac in its hard case more then once only to find it hotter then a AMD 1Gig without a cooling fan and down to 3% battery.
Can they fine themselves?
I was in line behind a TSA employee from a local small airport. She was telling the cashier that she had left the check to pay for a number of photocopied documents in her car and must retrieve it to pay. BUT she could not leave the documents and had to take them with her to the car as they were VERY VERY sensitive. Here's the kicker, she left them at Staples overnight to be copied.
I wonder if they let her sleep there and then shot the copier tech out in the alley?
we use it with DSL, works great!
with a QWest installer a few months ago at a location that used to be serviced solely be Cox Cable. MAN you should see th shit written on the wall about each others mothers, race and personal hygiene! I've seen nicer biker bar bathrooms!
I've been reading some of the comments posted since I wrote this and I have come to the conclusion theat the whole system is screwed from the top down. Teachers are really just the most visible issue. Maybe its time to get the goverment out of the indoctrination process.. errr education and turn it over to the corporate world?
Ahhh crap see they didn't even teach me proper html coding!! That should be Tenure on a line all by itself, grrr.
Tenure Can't tell you how many losers with teaching credentials I had to suffer through in my California High School days. Most should have been fired some arrested. Big difference from Canada. All though I will say I had one, Mr. Rosen, for 4 years of math, 2 for chemistry and one for physics and he was the reason I went on to college.
and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life. They are trying to teach these people in order to raise their standard of living. Get a clue MSN. Am I wrong?
Well most of the people I speak with seem aware they have a problem, they know that web pages and pop-ups are happening outside of their control. Frankly you can only use so much Viagra.
I expect banner ads or pop-ups some what relevant to the pages I'm visiting, not porn, poker or penis enlargement ads. Most others do as well. As for some paralles with T.V. I don't see it. Most people feel they should have control of their web surfing while with T.V. they simply tun on a channel they think they want to watch and go along for the ride. If they don't have Tivo they simply watch the ads. Spambots, spam and pop-ups at best represent the least desirable part of ad revenue, at worst they are a criminal enterprise and should be treated as such. The economics do nothing to benefit the medium they only enrich the sender.
And no I don't expect anyone to go to the library to surf, those keyboards are icky with germs! But I would love to see some real education for these users. If that has to be by losing their internet till they clean up then so be it.
I only see this getting worse as these things burrow deeper into the OS. Maybe Vista will help.
I just looked at mine and thats what it says. The ISPs should use this as a business opportunity. They ID a problem client, send him a email/snail mail/call whatever giving him a stated number of days to fix the issue or get the plug pulled. Include links/info on cleaning up their machine and offer a service to go do it. In larger metro areas ISPs could partner with an outside service to just clean PC's.
Now before anyone accuses me of taking advantage of the poor infected end-user remember he is causing trouble for the ISP and he will need to find someone to clean his machine simply to regain control and enjoy the whole surfing experience! I can see the whole process for IDing the bot to fixing it becoming very smooth and efficient.
Better analogy, and if the driver was even remotely aware there was a problem he should fix it or get off the road. Actually their called snow chains and you do get smacked if you run them on clean roadway.
Normal? Hardly, first pop-up my dad had on his Dell had him on the phone to me for support. He's a novice user but even he saw the pop-up as an abuse. TV ads are used to support the medium and have been with use as such almost from the beginning. The second infection my Dad got slowed his machine, it was a bot, and again he had enough sense to call for help.
When you are ignorant as to the effect your computer is having on me and the rest of the internet community, you ignore the signs ( I can't tell you how often I've heard "It's sooooooo much slower then when I bought it, maybe the internet is full") and refuse to at least try and understand then you don't need a computer. Go use one a the library.
Years ago I worked for the parent company of Packard-Hell err Bell, or boss used to send to phone support at PB instead of writing us up. I went once and just about slit my wrists. Yes the equipment was crap but even crap needs to be plugged in before you complain to me that its dead and won't turn on.
find something to piss you off about the person you vote for. Lokk at Bush, conservatives were generally happy with him till he started up with the amnesty crap (I can say that after going through the two years of legal hoops need to come down out of the cold north)
The government is the road, if your equipment does not come up to standards then your not driving, in theory. I was behind a VW bus in Aracta yesterday spewing enough crap to run my Honda if I just connect a pipe to his exhaust.
I think it's in the ISP's best interest to start pruning these bots before the Feds or states decide they need to step in. And they will.
Give me a better analogy and no the more I look at the more it works. Essentially I was using it to show that the owner is responsible for the performance of his/her equipment. Believe me if your spewing smog out of your tail pipe in California the government could care less about why, they just tell you to FIX IT NOW or PARK IT!
Make it up in service calls, some one needs to go out and re-install widows and all the service packs. Also in the long run you would reduce equipment and bandwidth costs not to mention personnel costs.
Well then this would pretty much fall on Microsoft's shoulders.
But I still think people should be held responsible, people should realize that there is a problem with their computer when a million pop-ups flood their screen or their computer starts moving like molasses in January. Biggest problem is most users are dumber then a sock full of hammers!
I've seen the Great Pumpkin, he lives on a farm in Jersey.
Its time we force ISPs to pull the plug on infected client machines or block entire ISPs. There is no valid argument to support end users who refuse to clean up their machines. The argument that either they are not responsible for the infection or are unable to clean their own machines is crap. If end users don't know how to maintain their equipment then perhaps they should be off the net.
Look at a car as an example. If I refuse to do or pay for routine maintenance it will begin to create more and more pollution and use more and more fuel. Is it the manufactures job to fix it, no, is it the road builders job, no, is it the jerks that sold me crappy fuel, only if I can catch them. So when I fail smog tests I need to either quit using the car or pay to fix it. Might not be the best analogy.
who is going to take the blame for warming on mars http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-age _031208.html
Wouldn't millions of high speed launches over ten years cause massive localized heating due to friction? A why just use it as a cloud why not convert that lost energy into something that can be sent back to earth?
Huh ? I'm using it on 5 different Macs and a Toshiba laptop with no problems. Maybe you should get some of the spyware off your machine.