I think if you asked a Walmart employee for help with your system you'd get laughed out of the store. (okay, so they'd probably saay to call HP or Everex or whoever) Returns were probably a bitch though.
Cuba's crimes against humanity were so bad that even China and the USSR thought it was unacceptable. So US propaganda is hardly the be all end all of thinking of Cuba as evil.
As long as I have an expert here, do they have any candidates for liquids that store hydrogen yet? I've heard of one solid form fuel (tetraborohydride or something equally tongue twisting), but it seems to pose a nightmare to refuel/dispose of waste product.
Y'know, mentioning Hatch in this context makes me think of something. He gets about 40 grand a year in royalties for his music, is it at all possible for us to find out exactly what percentage he gets? if it's substantally larger than the 13% other songwriters get, or if he lacks the standard loss of production cost (and since his music is orchestral, his production cost must be extreme). Would it be enough to force an ethics investigation if the resulting onformation had enough of a sivk to it? I'm sure the dems would love to tarnish the republican reputation again with scandal this election cycle.
Anybody out there know the avilability of his sales records? Or the legal possibility of forcing the contract terms out of the RIAA? HE is a Senator after all, transactions like those are supposed to be public.
"The OEM Bios exploit, which involves modifying system files and the BIOS of the motherboard to mimic a type of product activation performed on copies of Windows that are pre-installed by OEMs in the factory."
They can't do this to me, do they have any idea how many OEM installs WGA breaks daily already? The dead systems from that 'fix' are going to flood the call centers.
Apparently I need a new job before mid march, I am not going through that.
2 dollars less a share than yahoo was very recently, and right now tech stocks are largely deflated (Google and MS are the obvious exceptions, and even MS is only stable(ish), not hot). At the very least, Yahoo! probably feels it deserves the 33 a share, and it could be worth a lot more .
Especially if Google bites. Yahoo's big problem as a company is keeping costs down and monetizing it's customer base, two things that Google excels at doing. Google potentially gets a fat paycheck for playing consultant, and on top of that, more or less nixes any anti-trust investigations for the next little bit. All on top of bloodying Ballmer's nose.
Also keep in mind a hostile takeover is potentially better for investors, since 33 a share wouldn't cut it if MS started buying in bulk.
Editing the registry is pretty easy if you have a guide for what you're doing. The only real trick is being told which hex code means 'drives' and the like.
Just wish microsoft would republish the registry spec, only complete doc for it is for windows 2000.
Patenting extended release I never got. At least, to my understanding extended release is the same procedure every time. IE, binding the drug into a substance that dissolves slowly. But then, the pharmaceuticals make software patent abuse look downright wholesome.
Hmm, completely different bug then, the usual one happens with standby mode, even for only a few seconds, not with logging out. (though the ame problem with usb based wireless)
Though I do need to ask, whats wrong with the WLAN card that came with the machine? Not working with x64?
Dunno about now, but in my parent's day, a skilled degree (anything in the engineering department) could net you 30k to start. Note that that's before inflation.
Though money is hardly the biggest problem. Top reasons why people quit where I work (we have a turnover of 200%, tech support).
The customer's suck.
Lack of money. Yeah, ok, it's big.
Lack of opportunity. There is exactly one position (outside of management) that we can be promoted to, it involves the same money, worse hours, and has nothing (outside of management) above it. The first level promotion to management actually involves *less* money.
Lack of training. There's very little in the way of experience to be gained past the first 6 months.
Most of these offers are 2-6 dollars extra. But think about it. For a device that's usually on, you need to plany about one tree per watt, or generate a watt via solar/wind/tidal.
That means that $2 tree planting you got offered with your last system is supposed to plant 150 (or more) trees.
I doubt you'll ever see more than 10% of that speed at any appreciable distance. (IE, more than a foot). N is definitely good enough for internet, but for home networking, a traditional cat 5, or 5E if you can afford the switch, will give a lot better performance.
It's futureproof because with fiber, you don't have to replace the fiber to upgrade the speed. Just pop in some new hardware at the ends and you're good to go.
That means no getting stuck with a 30 year old networking speed because rewiring will cost a fortune. (I've been in buildings still running 10 Mbps).
HDMI actually uses HDCP whether the media in question tells it to or not. In fact, the only technical difference between HDMI and DVI is that HDCP is mandatory on HDMI.
Yeah, but itunes doesn't convert the songs to lossless, they convert it to AAC.
And I don't know about what they do now, but when my brother first got his ipod, itunes converted his entire mp3 collection to AAC, intead of just playing the mp3s.
The lossy to lossless thing does work though. In fact, I saved a bit of space converting a couple AACs to FLAC, quality is still horrid of course, but very compact. (The songs in question were victims in the itunes rampage, MP3 to ACC compression sounds really bad).
(Which also eplains while in europe one can find a lot of devices playing OGG/Vorbis but not in the US where the device aren't allowed)
Um, ogg vorbis players are available and allowed in the US. You just won't find them in stores. (I just bought one from Newegg). For a really amusing time, ask for an Ogg music player at Best Buy. Or even better, ask them for an MP3 player and watch them try to sell you an ipod.
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1) Okay, I modded you down, that was wrong, I apologize. This post will undo my mod though.
2) Secondly, you are a fucking moron, the GP was a joke, please don't take it seriously when someone references a bloody shock artist.
The ACLU has openly attacked the second amendment its newsletter.
I think if you asked a Walmart employee for help with your system you'd get laughed out of the store. (okay, so they'd probably saay to call HP or Everex or whoever) Returns were probably a bitch though.
Cuba's crimes against humanity were so bad that even China and the USSR thought it was unacceptable. So US propaganda is hardly the be all end all of thinking of Cuba as evil.
As long as I have an expert here, do they have any candidates for liquids that store hydrogen yet? I've heard of one solid form fuel (tetraborohydride or something equally tongue twisting), but it seems to pose a nightmare to refuel/dispose of waste product.
One other thing, which is a perpetual frustration not to have access to for me, in the form the the liquefy tool.
No really. http://i31.tinypic.com/jk7nsm.jpg
Y'know, mentioning Hatch in this context makes me think of something. He gets about 40 grand a year in royalties for his music, is it at all possible for us to find out exactly what percentage he gets? if it's substantally larger than the 13% other songwriters get, or if he lacks the standard loss of production cost (and since his music is orchestral, his production cost must be extreme). Would it be enough to force an ethics investigation if the resulting onformation had enough of a sivk to it? I'm sure the dems would love to tarnish the republican reputation again with scandal this election cycle.
Anybody out there know the avilability of his sales records? Or the legal possibility of forcing the contract terms out of the RIAA? HE is a Senator after all, transactions like those are supposed to be public.
"The OEM Bios exploit, which involves modifying system files and the BIOS of the motherboard to mimic a type of product activation performed on copies of Windows that are pre-installed by OEMs in the factory."
They can't do this to me, do they have any idea how many OEM installs WGA breaks daily already? The dead systems from that 'fix' are going to flood the call centers.
Apparently I need a new job before mid march, I am not going through that.
2 dollars less a share than yahoo was very recently, and right now tech stocks are largely deflated (Google and MS are the obvious exceptions, and even MS is only stable(ish), not hot). At the very least, Yahoo! probably feels it deserves the 33 a share, and it could be worth a lot more .
Especially if Google bites. Yahoo's big problem as a company is keeping costs down and monetizing it's customer base, two things that Google excels at doing. Google potentially gets a fat paycheck for playing consultant, and on top of that, more or less nixes any anti-trust investigations for the next little bit. All on top of bloodying Ballmer's nose.
Also keep in mind a hostile takeover is potentially better for investors, since 33 a share wouldn't cut it if MS started buying in bulk.
Oh, also, the search function *sucks* badly. You pretty much do need a tool just for that operation.
Editing the registry is pretty easy if you have a guide for what you're doing. The only real trick is being told which hex code means 'drives' and the like.
Just wish microsoft would republish the registry spec, only complete doc for it is for windows 2000.
Patenting extended release I never got. At least, to my understanding extended release is the same procedure every time. IE, binding the drug into a substance that dissolves slowly. But then, the pharmaceuticals make software patent abuse look downright wholesome.
Hmm, completely different bug then, the usual one happens with standby mode, even for only a few seconds, not with logging out. (though the ame problem with usb based wireless)
Though I do need to ask, whats wrong with the WLAN card that came with the machine? Not working with x64?
If you want to fix the resume bug for your hardware, disable the power off of the given device in power management.
Well gee, maybe it would be the part where a man who has a serious chance to win the presidency wants to change the constitution to reflect them.
The first second and third commandments.
Dunno about now, but in my parent's day, a skilled degree (anything in the engineering department) could net you 30k to start. Note that that's before inflation.
Though money is hardly the biggest problem. Top reasons why people quit where I work (we have a turnover of 200%, tech support).
The customer's suck.
Lack of money. Yeah, ok, it's big.
Lack of opportunity. There is exactly one position (outside of management) that we can be promoted to, it involves the same money, worse hours, and has nothing (outside of management) above it. The first level promotion to management actually involves *less* money.
Lack of training. There's very little in the way of experience to be gained past the first 6 months.
Crappy benefits.
Lack of respect.
Incompetence of upper management.
Incompetence of the IT department.
They aren't legit.
Most of these offers are 2-6 dollars extra. But think about it. For a device that's usually on, you need to plany about one tree per watt, or generate a watt via solar/wind/tidal.
That means that $2 tree planting you got offered with your last system is supposed to plant 150 (or more) trees.
I doubt you'll ever see more than 10% of that speed at any appreciable distance. (IE, more than a foot). N is definitely good enough for internet, but for home networking, a traditional cat 5, or 5E if you can afford the switch, will give a lot better performance.
It's futureproof because with fiber, you don't have to replace the fiber to upgrade the speed. Just pop in some new hardware at the ends and you're good to go.
That means no getting stuck with a 30 year old networking speed because rewiring will cost a fortune. (I've been in buildings still running 10 Mbps).
And if that money had been spent in the private sector, mamograms would be patented by Pfizer, and cost 5 times as much as the old method.
HDMI actually uses HDCP whether the media in question tells it to or not. In fact, the only technical difference between HDMI and DVI is that HDCP is mandatory on HDMI.
That is way too many acronyms.
Yeah, but itunes doesn't convert the songs to lossless, they convert it to AAC.
And I don't know about what they do now, but when my brother first got his ipod, itunes converted his entire mp3 collection to AAC, intead of just playing the mp3s.
The lossy to lossless thing does work though. In fact, I saved a bit of space converting a couple AACs to FLAC, quality is still horrid of course, but very compact. (The songs in question were victims in the itunes rampage, MP3 to ACC compression sounds really bad).
Um, ogg vorbis players are available and allowed in the US. You just won't find them in stores. (I just bought one from Newegg). For a really amusing time, ask for an Ogg music player at Best Buy. Or even better, ask them for an MP3 player and watch them try to sell you an ipod.