You can get the best brands for the least amounts of money. Seriously, the prices for PSUs and other computer components have dropped drastically, as long as you are smart enough to stay away from dying retail stores with their aged inventory at horrible pre-Recession prices, and do your due diligence on online price engines you can score some insane bargains. Newegg and a bunch of other onliners kick Frys and Best Buys ass every time.
Seriously, if Nikola Tesla's notes were not usurped upon his death by some goverment spooks, we would have had free electricity long ago. He got close to proving the concept with Wardenclyffe tower, before he got funding pulled by greedy bastards. Ironic really, that he made so much money for so many people (even bailed out the worthless Westinghouse), and in the end was left with nothing to wither away, his lifes work stolen, hidden and distorted by the people who really run the world. Beyond the obvious, how many top secret cutting edge technologies have been and being derived from the seeds of his genius?! I bet the stolen compillation of his works is a more fascinating read than Leonardo's sketches, but it will never see the light....
Solar flares DO effect temperatures, and that has been consistently downplayed by the humanity-loathing environazis in their ongoing duchbaggery crusade for world luddism. But hey, lets not start any religious debates on/.
Yet again, some self appointed pundit climbs the soap box to preach Linux uberness. OpenOffice is ass, it is slow, buggy and not ready for Prime Time. As far as actual day to day use, I really challenge the writer of the article to actually USE the products that he exaults and disses before making innane recommendations, among other things with a straight face compare Xandros to XP... I finally upgraded to Samsungs NC10-14GW from the POS EEE and it freakin rocks, nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to it. Before buying the Sammy I used my bosses Asus 1000 (he tried Ubuntu 8.10 install first with OO and then installed XP Pro and M$ Office instead because OO choked on most of the Excel spreadsheets. I also tried (although very briefly) my friends MSI Wind (he put XP Pro in it, but I didnt like the ergonomics and the battery life was a joke). Considering how stupid cheap these things are, why not get the best and most stable set up so you dont have to dick around after the fact and pay with the most expensive thing of all - your time. BTW to satisfy my occasional naughty need for Linux I still run Backtrack 3 from a 2cm USB minidongle with a 4gb microSD. So when I am stuck in an airport I can still catch up on work and play games (you know, the kind that dont work on Linux).
BTW, as far as "The Economists" writers credibility, I think this pretty much trashes it The Acer has a built-in webcam, which makes it ideal for video-calling services such as Skype. Admittedly, installing third-party software can be a bit of a fiddle, and some of the advice available online threatens to lure users into the tangled depths of the Linux undergrowth, where few people will want to venture. But as netbooks become more prevalent, such difficulties are likely to ease.
Please note, vast majority of the Netbooks shipping TODAY (not the alpha batch) is shipping with Windows.
Another great "Big Brother" innovation. Can't you just imagine, during the next "threat escalation" all laptops get cockblocked "just in case" for the Greater Good ®, of the patriotic nation?
But... Have they removed that "Big Brotherly" unique ID "feature", that each of the Chrome Beta installations came with, that loudly identified you on the web?
Holly crap, who would have though it was this easy?! Hey can Apple please disable GPS on the iPhones in Afganistan and Iraq so our troops can come home?! Since there are no other obvious alternatives to getting GPS besides the iPhone, and since GPS capability is clearly the only tool used by the terrorists around the world, we can pretty much end the war on terror with a simple phone call to Steve Jobs. Then the world governments can get back to sipping hot cocoa and laughing at the terrorists while ignoring their pitiful sobbing.
"They" already have your SSN... This whole illusion that your privacy is protected because you withold your SSN is naive. All of these institutions already have access to your SSN and all of your financial information, only reason they want it is because it holds just a little more weight than your signature for the purpose of fraud verification. As far as your privacy, its been screwed into the ground from the day you were born, you have been cataloged, assessed, verified and filed by the spooks and the corporations that sleep with them. Welcome to the Machine, you were already there.
and when did they get the arrogance to dictate Tax policy? BTW instead of "sharing" music, isn't it easier to just go to a site like www.tagoo.ru and get it for free?
Cool read up to the bagging on Vista part. Look, its really simple, my Vista PCs work, work fine and are stable, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say about my frigging Ubuntu box and laptop which had choked since 8.04 and forced me to reformat the box to Vista and laptop to BackTrack 3.
So this is going to be a service that I didn't ask for and will not use, paid for with my Tax Dollars, regulated by a government agency that I didn't vote for (FCC thugs are appointed not voted). They only let you to opt out of using it, not paying for it.
Have there been any studies done on how this interacts with the human body? There have been many "wonder materials" that in the long run turned to be people hostile - asbestos, Teflon, whole slew of oil based synthetics, etc...
Depending on where you live, I highly recommend going on a ride-along with your local Police Department. Some of the cities in Silicon Valley have Police Departments equipped with some amazing tech. From on the fly license plate scanning of all vehicles around you and bouncing those plates off the various alert lists, to their real-time map of all police, ambulance and fire trucks in the area that show them converging on accidents or violators. BTW, license plate scans are stored by time and gps location and can be used at a later time to locate people of interest... The car I was in also had video (pretty darn good quality) being recorded and accessable tby the PD "overseer" at any time. BTW, it gets even more interesting on their helicopters (didnt get to go but a friend works as a pilot for CHP). They got super high res, high end cams that automatically track people (touch screen - just touch the perps car and the camera and if necessary the spot light will stay on them), same deal as far as character recognizing the plates from way up high and storing time, gps, and pics of them for "other uses". Anectodally, the newest generation of plate recognition is completely nonplussed by the various covers or spray-on reflective crap - they get your info no matter what. Pretty cool stuff from tech point of view, and pretty creepy from the civil rights side.
Just because I post on Slashdot, does not mean I have the know-how to dig through the source code to see if there is a unique identifier... The only reason I know about the IE identifier is because I have seen examples of it.
With Internet Explorer each installation has a unique ID that can be queried by the website being visited, thus enabling tracking more reliable than simple IP logging. Does anyone know if FireFox has a similar unique ID for each installation that can be obtained by visited websites? The product is "free" but it comes at a price of privacy.
Crappy Lego knockoffs have been available for a long time, thats not what the original article is about. As a parent I have to say that giving your kid any of the cheap crappy Chinese dull colored poorly made knockoffs that all apart is sort of like giving your kid a crappy Chinese MP3 knockoff instead if an iPod. I got 3 happy kids with 3 iPods and about 4 cubic meters of REAL LEGOS:)
PS. If someone claims comparable quality between Legos and crap like Megablocks, they never played with them both.
From the ruling - he can not WORK for Apple, but he can be an ADVISOR to Steve Jobs. Seems like a punitive move, I do not think Mr. Papermasters compensation or contribution will diminish, although the way he gets his compensation will have a different label and channel... There really is no real way to stop someone from working for someone else if thats what they want. That said, I am sure he will bear no ill will towards IBM and not go that extra mile to screw his formal employer. IBM energy and expenses would have been betters spent on retaning their employee than trying to mess afterwards.
Their upside has always been that their floor demos worked and they actually had a decent selection of high end electronics out on demo. Their downside has been their absolutely inept, comission driven sales people, who cared only about selling you warranty extension contracts. I think most customers used them to check out the tech toys in person and then buy them online.
If you read through EAs Terms of Service you are agreeing to pretty much anything they want to do to your computer. Its vague and broad and pretty much absolves EA of any wrong doing. I chose to vote with my wallet, I stopped buying their products few years ago. Hitting companies in their pocket books, especially in todays economy, is the way to go. Regards!
I wonder if that is part of his success as a pitcher. He avoids the typical lengthy warmups that other pitchers go through and pitches "cold". I am not saying this is the reason for his greatness, but it may be a factor.
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You can get the best brands for the least amounts of money. Seriously, the prices for PSUs and other computer components have dropped drastically, as long as you are smart enough to stay away from dying retail stores with their aged inventory at horrible pre-Recession prices, and do your due diligence on online price engines you can score some insane bargains. Newegg and a bunch of other onliners kick Frys and Best Buys ass every time.
Seriously, if Nikola Tesla's notes were not usurped upon his death by some goverment spooks, we would have had free electricity long ago. He got close to proving the concept with Wardenclyffe tower, before he got funding pulled by greedy bastards. Ironic really, that he made so much money for so many people (even bailed out the worthless Westinghouse), and in the end was left with nothing to wither away, his lifes work stolen, hidden and distorted by the people who really run the world. Beyond the obvious, how many top secret cutting edge technologies have been and being derived from the seeds of his genius?! I bet the stolen compillation of his works is a more fascinating read than Leonardo's sketches, but it will never see the light....
Solar flares DO effect temperatures, and that has been consistently downplayed by the humanity-loathing environazis in their ongoing duchbaggery crusade for world luddism. But hey, lets not start any religious debates on /.
Wait! Who the hell are you people?! GET OFF MY LAWN!
Yet again, some self appointed pundit climbs the soap box to preach Linux uberness. OpenOffice is ass, it is slow, buggy and not ready for Prime Time. As far as actual day to day use, I really challenge the writer of the article to actually USE the products that he exaults and disses before making innane recommendations, among other things with a straight face compare Xandros to XP... I finally upgraded to Samsungs NC10-14GW from the POS EEE and it freakin rocks, nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to it. Before buying the Sammy I used my bosses Asus 1000 (he tried Ubuntu 8.10 install first with OO and then installed XP Pro and M$ Office instead because OO choked on most of the Excel spreadsheets. I also tried (although very briefly) my friends MSI Wind (he put XP Pro in it, but I didnt like the ergonomics and the battery life was a joke). Considering how stupid cheap these things are, why not get the best and most stable set up so you dont have to dick around after the fact and pay with the most expensive thing of all - your time. BTW to satisfy my occasional naughty need for Linux I still run Backtrack 3 from a 2cm USB minidongle with a 4gb microSD. So when I am stuck in an airport I can still catch up on work and play games (you know, the kind that dont work on Linux).
BTW, as far as "The Economists" writers credibility, I think this pretty much trashes it
The Acer has a built-in webcam, which makes it ideal for video-calling services such as Skype. Admittedly, installing third-party software can be a bit of a fiddle, and some of the advice available online threatens to lure users into the tangled depths of the Linux undergrowth, where few people will want to venture. But as netbooks become more prevalent, such difficulties are likely to ease.
Please note, vast majority of the Netbooks shipping TODAY (not the alpha batch) is shipping with Windows.
Is there is no Cybersecurity Plan... You do not talk about the Cybersecurity Plan....
Another great "Big Brother" innovation. Can't you just imagine, during the next "threat escalation" all laptops get cockblocked "just in case" for the Greater Good ®, of the patriotic nation?
But... Have they removed that "Big Brotherly" unique ID "feature", that each of the Chrome Beta installations came with, that loudly identified you on the web?
Holly crap, who would have though it was this easy?! Hey can Apple please disable GPS on the iPhones in Afganistan and Iraq so our troops can come home?! Since there are no other obvious alternatives to getting GPS besides the iPhone, and since GPS capability is clearly the only tool used by the terrorists around the world, we can pretty much end the war on terror with a simple phone call to Steve Jobs. Then the world governments can get back to sipping hot cocoa and laughing at the terrorists while ignoring their pitiful sobbing.
"They" already have your SSN... This whole illusion that your privacy is protected because you withold your SSN is naive. All of these institutions already have access to your SSN and all of your financial information, only reason they want it is because it holds just a little more weight than your signature for the purpose of fraud verification. As far as your privacy, its been screwed into the ground from the day you were born, you have been cataloged, assessed, verified and filed by the spooks and the corporations that sleep with them. Welcome to the Machine, you were already there.
and when did they get the arrogance to dictate Tax policy? BTW instead of "sharing" music, isn't it easier to just go to a site like www.tagoo.ru and get it for free?
... and aside from his loud but empty rhetoric will have no impact on the Internet in Italy, much less in the EC or G8.
Cool read up to the bagging on Vista part. Look, its really simple, my Vista PCs work, work fine and are stable, which is a hell of a lot more than I can say about my frigging Ubuntu box and laptop which had choked since 8.04 and forced me to reformat the box to Vista and laptop to BackTrack 3.
So this is going to be a service that I didn't ask for and will not use, paid for with my Tax Dollars, regulated by a government agency that I didn't vote for (FCC thugs are appointed not voted). They only let you to opt out of using it, not paying for it.
Have there been any studies done on how this interacts with the human body? There have been many "wonder materials" that in the long run turned to be people hostile - asbestos, Teflon, whole slew of oil based synthetics, etc...
Depending on where you live, I highly recommend going on a ride-along with your local Police Department. Some of the cities in Silicon Valley have Police Departments equipped with some amazing tech. From on the fly license plate scanning of all vehicles around you and bouncing those plates off the various alert lists, to their real-time map of all police, ambulance and fire trucks in the area that show them converging on accidents or violators. BTW, license plate scans are stored by time and gps location and can be used at a later time to locate people of interest... The car I was in also had video (pretty darn good quality) being recorded and accessable tby the PD "overseer" at any time. BTW, it gets even more interesting on their helicopters (didnt get to go but a friend works as a pilot for CHP). They got super high res, high end cams that automatically track people (touch screen - just touch the perps car and the camera and if necessary the spot light will stay on them), same deal as far as character recognizing the plates from way up high and storing time, gps, and pics of them for "other uses". Anectodally, the newest generation of plate recognition is completely nonplussed by the various covers or spray-on reflective crap - they get your info no matter what. Pretty cool stuff from tech point of view, and pretty creepy from the civil rights side.
Just because I post on Slashdot, does not mean I have the know-how to dig through the source code to see if there is a unique identifier... The only reason I know about the IE identifier is because I have seen examples of it.
With Internet Explorer each installation has a unique ID that can be queried by the website being visited, thus enabling tracking more reliable than simple IP logging. Does anyone know if FireFox has a similar unique ID for each installation that can be obtained by visited websites? The product is "free" but it comes at a price of privacy.
Crappy Lego knockoffs have been available for a long time, thats not what the original article is about. As a parent I have to say that giving your kid any of the cheap crappy Chinese dull colored poorly made knockoffs that all apart is sort of like giving your kid a crappy Chinese MP3 knockoff instead if an iPod. I got 3 happy kids with 3 iPods and about 4 cubic meters of REAL LEGOS :)
PS. If someone claims comparable quality between Legos and crap like Megablocks, they never played with them both.
From the ruling - he can not WORK for Apple, but he can be an ADVISOR to Steve Jobs. Seems like a punitive move, I do not think Mr. Papermasters compensation or contribution will diminish, although the way he gets his compensation will have a different label and channel... There really is no real way to stop someone from working for someone else if thats what they want. That said, I am sure he will bear no ill will towards IBM and not go that extra mile to screw his formal employer. IBM energy and expenses would have been betters spent on retaning their employee than trying to mess afterwards.
Their upside has always been that their floor demos worked and they actually had a decent selection of high end electronics out on demo. Their downside has been their absolutely inept, comission driven sales people, who cared only about selling you warranty extension contracts. I think most customers used them to check out the tech toys in person and then buy them online.
If you read through EAs Terms of Service you are agreeing to pretty much anything they want to do to your computer. Its vague and broad and pretty much absolves EA of any wrong doing. I chose to vote with my wallet, I stopped buying their products few years ago. Hitting companies in their pocket books, especially in todays economy, is the way to go. Regards!
I wonder if that is part of his success as a pitcher. He avoids the typical lengthy warmups that other pitchers go through and pitches "cold". I am not saying this is the reason for his greatness, but it may be a factor.
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