I thought the same thing when I saw "quite well behaved". Don't forget that Mac OS X also can't traverse DFS shares without third party software. Sure, I can look on my Windows box and see where the DFS share points to and map it directly, but I shouldn't have to do that either.
Don't forget Java. Out-of-date versions of Java are also largely responsible for infections. I'd actually love to have a way to see method of infection, whether it's Flash or Java. I've been able to tell sometimes simply because infected.jar files are detected in a scan of the system, but that's not really a reliable way of telling. Flash updates seem to be much more reliable in terms of asking to install the update than Java. In 99.9% of infections, I see an out-of-date version of Java installed on the system.
I have to agree. I haven't tried Hulu, but I know that YouTube has always worked perfectly on the PS3 even before they launched a PS3-friendly portal. A dedicated HTPC would still be the best solution, but a PS3 would be sufficient. You can even install linux on a PS3 (non-slim) if you desire.
(1) "Mayor Tommy Battle" and his "task force to include 25 community leaders" does not equate to Alabama congresscritters, Alabama citizens in general, or the tea party movement.
You are absolutely right. As an Alabamian, I can tell you that there are plenty of people here who aren't included in that. The political situation here is quite screwy, but appears to be on the brink of changing at least somewhat. The corrupt Birmingham mayor has been convicted and sentenced, the Jefferson County Commission is hopefully about to be overhauled (we're trying!), and public sentiment for our idiot governor seems to be sufficiently negative that we might have a chance of making that situation better as well. What does this have to do with the topic at hand? Alabama is well-known for being "behind" in many ways. In fact, the running joke here is that the only state worse than us at many things is Mississippi. The point is that there are plenty of people who are trying to change this backwards system. Sure, there are plenty of people who support it as well, but don't just assume that the news reports are indicative of all of us.
On some terminals, pressing the backspace key causes the characters "^H" to display rather than showing the previous character being deleted as it should. Therefore, it's commonly used as a humor device, to show that you started to type something and then backspaced it.
I had problems with "COM Surrogate" crashing often when I first installed Vista. Mine was related to video codecs - one of the codecs I had installed (not sure which) wasn't compatible with the way Vista generates video thumbnails in explorer. Yours may or may not be related - but installing versions that specifically say they work with vista fixed my issues.
The reason people say that a judge declared something illegal is that in order for there to be consequences in such a case, there must be a trial. A trial will always go through a judge, so a judge always has to interpret the law. Part of this interpretation depends upon past precedent...therefore it is possible that if the next judge isn't bright enough to recognize a bad precedent when he/she sees one, he/she will follow the precedent. This further strengthens the precedent for later cases.
Seriously now? How long ago did you live in the Birmingham area, the 1950's?
I live in a suburb of Birmingham (Hueytown for those curious), and I've lived here for most of my life (I'm 25). I haven't gone to church regularly since my childhood (and know a fair number of people who also don't attend), and nobody really pays attention. In the past, I've worked with and been friends with gay/lesbian/bi-sexual men and women. I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the level of bias you're suggesting. There is a very large focus on religion, and traditional values in general, though.
I don't think you get it. He's basically saying you can use unlocked phones that AT&T doesn't sell on AT&T service. He DOESN'T mean using T-Mobile service with their towers/network. T-Mobile is the same way - I'm currently using an unlocked Motorola Z6 bought straight from Motorola on my T-Mobile service. They won't provide tech support for the phone, but you can use it just fine. So, if you unlocked your Sidekick and put an AT&T sim card in it, it would work on the AT&T network without the problems you describe. The situation you describe has to do with roaming agreements AT&T has with other carriers, such as T-Mobile. Very often I'll search for network and I'll see a Cingular/AT&T tower, and it won't allow me to register. It's because T-Mobile doesn't have an agreement with them for that particular area, therefore no permission to register on their tower. By the same token, the agreement in the area you were in probably only allowed a certain number of GPRS connections from T-Mobile users in order to ensure service for AT&T customers.
Windows 2000 was released on February 17, 2000. That's the day I bought it, and the version I bought (still sitting on my bookshelf) allowed me to upgrade from Windows 98 to 2000. As a side note - I also bought XP the day it came out (Oct 15 2001). I thought it was a huge improvement over 2000, honestly. Although the first thing I did was enable the classic start button and look.;) I got Vista through MSDNAA the day it was released. I used it for 8 months and just couldn't stand the slowdowns and bugs, and switched back to XP.
I guess this is a YMMV scenario, because I also have 1GB of RAM, and things slow down all the time for me. For instance, right now I've got AIM and FireFox going, and my RAM usage is up at 530MB (that's a bit high IMHO but I'll leave that to another discussion). Things aren't slow at the moment...but wait until I get a few more tabs open in FireFox, start up uTorrent, etc. Sometimes under moderate load, the mouse stops responding completely. I've *never* had that happen in XP. Why? I don't know. I thought Vista was supposed to be better about I/O than XP? Most of the things that were supposed to be better in Vista just don't work like they're supposed to, it seems. Honestly? Linux is looking better and better.
"loses signal, sometimes doesn't ring then notifies her she has voice mail"
Are you sure that it's not just her location not having good signal quality? I'm sure that sounds obvious, but it happens to me sometimes, depending on where I am. I'll appear to have a low signal but I'll lose my signal just long enough to miss a call, but a few seconds later my phone's back on the network and notifies me of voicemail, all without the phone ever realizing it lost its signal. It appears that you don't have a phone, so you have no other metric for seeing how the signal should be at any given place. Assuming you haven't already, I would find a friend with a phone on the same network as your mom's and see if it has the same problems in the same places. Also, depending on the carrier, sometimes if you tell them you're having problems such at the ones you're experiencing, they'll try to make some sort of arrangement to swap for a different model, especially if you threaten to cancel it and get sent to the customer retention department.
I was actually laughing at loud at how true that is. I never thought of it that way! I think that comparison was the best of the OS->president comparisons.
Since when is the "Recording Industry Association of America" a company? Last time I checked, it was a trade group, and the record companies themselves are members of this group.
Exactly. I work for a well known grocery chain and even if we are SURE the person setting off the alarm stole something, there is absolutely nothing we can do unless we (1) saw them conceal an item and (2) never lost sight of them after they concealed it (gotta be sure they didn't hand it off or change their mind). The only people whose bags we can search without seeing it happen are the employees. So, as a result, if you hear the detector beep, most of the time it will be closely followed by the 3 people closest to it saying "You're ok sir/ma'am, go ahead." The only time we actually find whatever it is and deactivate it is if the customer wants/expects us to, which is about 1 time out of 100.
why? some of the best episodes have included time travel...as long as it's not totally absurd. the whole idea of a temporal cold war seemed pretty farfetched to me, but i really liked "e2" - the one with the other enterprise that got thrown back in time trying to reach degra.
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...does it run Android?
I thought the same thing when I saw "quite well behaved".
Don't forget that Mac OS X also can't traverse DFS shares without third party software. Sure, I can look on my Windows box and see where the DFS share points to and map it directly, but I shouldn't have to do that either.
Don't forget Java. Out-of-date versions of Java are also largely responsible for infections. I'd actually love to have a way to see method of infection, whether it's Flash or Java. I've been able to tell sometimes simply because infected .jar files are detected in a scan of the system, but that's not really a reliable way of telling.
Flash updates seem to be much more reliable in terms of asking to install the update than Java. In 99.9% of infections, I see an out-of-date version of Java installed on the system.
I have to agree. I haven't tried Hulu, but I know that YouTube has always worked perfectly on the PS3 even before they launched a PS3-friendly portal. A dedicated HTPC would still be the best solution, but a PS3 would be sufficient. You can even install linux on a PS3 (non-slim) if you desire.
(1) "Mayor Tommy Battle" and his "task force to include 25 community leaders" does not equate to Alabama congresscritters, Alabama citizens in general, or the tea party movement.
You are absolutely right. As an Alabamian, I can tell you that there are plenty of people here who aren't included in that. The political situation here is quite screwy, but appears to be on the brink of changing at least somewhat. The corrupt Birmingham mayor has been convicted and sentenced, the Jefferson County Commission is hopefully about to be overhauled (we're trying!), and public sentiment for our idiot governor seems to be sufficiently negative that we might have a chance of making that situation better as well.
What does this have to do with the topic at hand? Alabama is well-known for being "behind" in many ways. In fact, the running joke here is that the only state worse than us at many things is Mississippi. The point is that there are plenty of people who are trying to change this backwards system. Sure, there are plenty of people who support it as well, but don't just assume that the news reports are indicative of all of us.
On some terminals, pressing the backspace key causes the characters "^H" to display rather than showing the previous character being deleted as it should.
Therefore, it's commonly used as a humor device, to show that you started to type something and then backspaced it.
I had problems with "COM Surrogate" crashing often when I first installed Vista.
Mine was related to video codecs - one of the codecs I had installed (not sure which) wasn't compatible with the way Vista generates video thumbnails in explorer. Yours may or may not be related - but installing versions that specifically say they work with vista fixed my issues.
The parent makes a good point.
Another idea - maybe there's some known issue (or the developers THINK there is), and it's just not readily apparent.
Why not just install XP on the laptop she already has?
Am I missing something?
The reason people say that a judge declared something illegal is that in order for there to be consequences in such a case, there must be a trial. A trial will always go through a judge, so a judge always has to interpret the law. Part of this interpretation depends upon past precedent...therefore it is possible that if the next judge isn't bright enough to recognize a bad precedent when he/she sees one, he/she will follow the precedent. This further strengthens the precedent for later cases.
I was going to make this same point.
Well said, morgan_greywolf.
3000 pages???
Just printing the budget puts a nice dent in the budget, huh?
Glad they made this change. More accessible AND less expensive.
Seriously now?
How long ago did you live in the Birmingham area, the 1950's?
I live in a suburb of Birmingham (Hueytown for those curious), and I've lived here for most of my life (I'm 25).
I haven't gone to church regularly since my childhood (and know a fair number of people who also don't attend), and nobody really pays attention. In the past, I've worked with and been friends with gay/lesbian/bi-sexual men and women. I haven't seen anywhere NEAR the level of bias you're suggesting. There is a very large focus on religion, and traditional values in general, though.
I don't think you get it. He's basically saying you can use unlocked phones that AT&T doesn't sell on AT&T service. He DOESN'T mean using T-Mobile service with their towers/network.
T-Mobile is the same way - I'm currently using an unlocked Motorola Z6 bought straight from Motorola on my T-Mobile service. They won't provide tech support for the phone, but you can use it just fine.
So, if you unlocked your Sidekick and put an AT&T sim card in it, it would work on the AT&T network without the problems you describe.
The situation you describe has to do with roaming agreements AT&T has with other carriers, such as T-Mobile.
Very often I'll search for network and I'll see a Cingular/AT&T tower, and it won't allow me to register. It's because T-Mobile doesn't have an agreement with them for that particular area, therefore no permission to register on their tower. By the same token, the agreement in the area you were in probably only allowed a certain number of GPRS connections from T-Mobile users in order to ensure service for AT&T customers.
If I've misunderstood, please correct me.
Windows 2000 was released on February 17, 2000. That's the day I bought it, and the version I bought (still sitting on my bookshelf) allowed me to upgrade from Windows 98 to 2000. ;)
As a side note - I also bought XP the day it came out (Oct 15 2001). I thought it was a huge improvement over 2000, honestly. Although the first thing I did was enable the classic start button and look.
I got Vista through MSDNAA the day it was released. I used it for 8 months and just couldn't stand the slowdowns and bugs, and switched back to XP.
I guess this is a YMMV scenario, because I also have 1GB of RAM, and things slow down all the time for me.
For instance, right now I've got AIM and FireFox going, and my RAM usage is up at 530MB (that's a bit high IMHO but I'll leave that to another discussion).
Things aren't slow at the moment...but wait until I get a few more tabs open in FireFox, start up uTorrent, etc.
Sometimes under moderate load, the mouse stops responding completely. I've *never* had that happen in XP. Why? I don't know. I thought Vista was supposed to be better about I/O than XP?
Most of the things that were supposed to be better in Vista just don't work like they're supposed to, it seems.
Honestly? Linux is looking better and better.
"loses signal, sometimes doesn't ring then notifies her she has voice mail"
Are you sure that it's not just her location not having good signal quality?
I'm sure that sounds obvious, but it happens to me sometimes, depending on where I am. I'll appear to have a low signal but I'll lose my signal just long enough to miss a call, but a few seconds later my phone's back on the network and notifies me of voicemail, all without the phone ever realizing it lost its signal.
It appears that you don't have a phone, so you have no other metric for seeing how the signal should be at any given place.
Assuming you haven't already, I would find a friend with a phone on the same network as your mom's and see if it has the same problems in the same places.
Also, depending on the carrier, sometimes if you tell them you're having problems such at the ones you're experiencing, they'll try to make some sort of arrangement to swap for a different model, especially if you threaten to cancel it and get sent to the customer retention department.
Hope this helps.
I was actually laughing at loud at how true that is. I never thought of it that way!
I think that comparison was the best of the OS->president comparisons.
Since when is the "Recording Industry Association of America" a company?
Last time I checked, it was a trade group, and the record companies themselves are members of this group.
not just to theft, product going out of date is also shrink...
How is the parent post a troll?!
It's a valid opinion...not mine, but valid nonetheless.
Exactly. I work for a well known grocery chain and even if we are SURE the person setting off the alarm stole something, there is absolutely nothing we can do unless we (1) saw them conceal an item and (2) never lost sight of them after they concealed it (gotta be sure they didn't hand it off or change their mind). The only people whose bags we can search without seeing it happen are the employees.
So, as a result, if you hear the detector beep, most of the time it will be closely followed by the 3 people closest to it saying "You're ok sir/ma'am, go ahead." The only time we actually find whatever it is and deactivate it is if the customer wants/expects us to, which is about 1 time out of 100.
why? some of the best episodes have included time travel...as long as it's not totally absurd.
the whole idea of a temporal cold war seemed pretty farfetched to me, but i really liked "e2" - the one with the other enterprise that got thrown back in time trying to reach degra.
i can hear it now - "hey, scott bakula will be available soon, we'll throw him in as the doctor!"
ahem.
how about no.
opinion != troll
You forget, this is slashdot....