Most Americans don't, when you get right down to it: everything might as well be powered by magic. Wrong friend. It is powered by magic as I should know, being an american. It takes spells and wizzardry to even understand the stock market or bank. What about your insurance? I don't understand it, don't know why I need it yet I must have it. How does the Telephone Work or TV or the internet Tubes? It's all magic and anyone who try's telling you otherwise is demon and spawn of Satan out to garner your soul.
Give me an e-reader that can do what a book can - full color, allows me to keep my purchases in as secure a manner as possible, won't break if I drop it or is trivially replaceable (not at $400, sorry), and I think I'd wobble over towards the e-reader zone, as it were. Right now, it seems to me that the technology basically represents a giant step backwards. And yes, I'm aware of the bookmarking and so forth that an e-reader offers; that's great, but it isn't enough. That's probably the biggest reason e-readers haven't taken off yet. Price
When I can buy a cheap laptop for $399.00 that does more then an e-reader, why in hell would I spend the money for an e-reader?
Now if they got the price down to $20.00 for the reader and offered the books as downloads for $2.99/3.99 then I'd be willing to enter the e-book market but until then they're overpriced for the market as I can buy a paperback for $4.99/6.99 latest in print that doesn't need batteries, will survive getting wet/being dropped and will survive when subjected to an EMP that takes out all other electronic devices and results in Nuclear Winter.
why on earth does any one person need more than a laptop, a desktop computer with monitor and one printer at home? To answer your question is easy:
Dad's Computer
Mom's Computer
Kids Computers
Dad's printer - Laser
Mom's Printer - Scanner/Injet
Kids Printer - injet
and that's just in my house. Dad's printer is used for work, Mom's is an all-in-one and the kids get basic injet for school work, while ensuring when they run out of ink/paper, it's doesn't mean dad's out.
Add in a home network and I've now got all three desktops Folding 24/7
This of course doesn't count the Media Center (don't have one anyhow) the fact that there's a home NAS, Dad/Mom/Kids all have backup folders on them. Plus doesn't include the game consoles, Gaming Rig, and so on. All told, there are 7 computers in my house running 24/7 for a total of 5 people (3 pre-teens).
Now if you asked are they in use all the time then Hell Yes - Folding at Home on all of them and every system is as energy saving as possible.
I don't think candidates should be allowed to concede an election. An election isn't over until all the votes are counted and certified. period. If the candidate concedes before then, that should nullify the election as the voters were not choosing from the actual candidates. They were instead choosing between one person who wanted the job and another person who wanted to distract voters in some fashion. You know, that actually makes damn good sense but I think the better solution is to have the conceeding party pay not only for the current election (all of it) but require them to pay for the new election that is now required.
and the first thing that's going to happen when Joe Sixpack can't run that shiny new copy of the Sims bought at the same time is a demanded refund for the computer and the software and some damn lawyer gets the bright idea to file a class action lawsuit against Walmart for false advertising because any reasonable joe sixpack knows that a PC runs windows.
That's right, it's not a PC according to joe sixpack because it's not running windows and I'm really sorry to say that it's the lowest common denominator of Joe Sixpack that's going to decide this case in favor of Windows.
if Microsoft sent me a $100k check in exchange of not caring "as much" about open standards, I don't know if I would resist. (If I would resist, I probably wouldn't resist if they doubled the offer). Boy you're cheap. I wouldn't settle for less then One Million Euro. That gives me enough money to live comfortably where ever I want.
Ever heard of a ban on 'Cruel and Unusual' punishments? Which is exactly why the criminal justice system no longer works to deter crime. They get a slap on the wrist, food shelter and clothing, better medical care then many have access to nowdays while sitting on their asses doing make work if anything at all. Where's the punishment in that?
Now if we went back to Public Floggings in the town sqaure and telivised them. People would be more likely to remember the old saying If you can't do the Time then don't do the Crime. The other thing I'd like to see is the switch back to public hangings with the jury required to attend and witness sentence being carried out as it will reduce the number of death penalty sentences handed down. It's also a fundemental requirement that a Death Sentence has to be unanimous and with the jury having to witness the results of their judgment, I damn well guaranty very few will sentence to death unless it's warranted.
You're right that it's the writers guild that has pushed the credit rules and the reason is damn simply. it's called Residuals. Who gets paid for all the reruns/vhs/DVD releases. Money is the entire damn reason.
Why simply activate my Nuclear Powered Firewall, unlocking all Weapons Stations and drop the central core into sub basement 1 lauch facility and then launch before the firewall wipes all life out on earth
Google could be doing this simply to begin using existing U.S. laws like HIPPA to turn the tables on the government. AFAIK: Under HIPPA, the government must get a warrant for any and all information and if Google can tie a users profile up with the HIPPA law (equal? to EU Privacy laws) as it is the strongest privacy law in the United States.
I've had auto updates disabled since prior to SP1 on all Windows machines for one damn reason. To many updates that bork something or other. I currently have a test system, Not the latest/greatest hardware that currently will not shutdown preferring to reboot instead. This is after 3 rounds of Windows updates and I've still not identified which update is causing the problem.
Now tell me again why I should allow MS to automatically update my computers?
Historically, I've had to many issues with buggy patches that bork something, so I've developed a policy of test before installing any patch. I don't care who's software, Nothing and I mean Nothing is allowed to auto-update due to past problems.
I recently had someone decided to sue upon the eve of the statues limitation for cases and I was able to show the court both the current and evolutioniary trail of my written document retention policy. That's been in effect for 10 years. Now I'm a small, home based business and I've had a written retention policy since I started on the advice of my business law instructor; which turned out to be the best damn $100 ever spent (class and textbook) because I got to pick a lawyers brain once a week for an entire semester. How many can say they got over 20 hours of legal advice for free?
Because of my written retention policy, I was able to show the court that
1) didn't have the documents in question any longer and why I didn't
2) a retention policy for complaints/support tickets life of statues limitations/contract terms
3) that I did have a retention policy in place for trouble tickets/complaints covering Period of Statues of Limitations
and these written policies helped cover my ass in the courtroom because I had no record of complaints or support tickets and that the contractual obligation had been satisfied at time of purchase since the sale was without warranty (except required by law) or recourse (except allowed by law).
Made me look damn good to the judge and if it had gone to a jury (would insist on it) to them that I wasn't some idiot who might have broken the law through ignorance.
I'm not willy-waving bragging about uptimes even though I leave my system on 24/7. It's because I'm running 2x Folding at home Clients.
As to climate change, hell yes we're suffering climate changes but are the man-made or because we've entered the 50 year increased solar activity period of the 100 year cycle? The other question is who pays for the demanded changes and will they do any damn good? The damn research has gone about finding a solution the wrong way.
Instead of looking at how to cut energy demands by
getting rid of all parasitic electronic loads
and you'd be surprised how fast those parasitic loads add up. The simple example is a 5watt load that's on 24/7. That consumes 1kw every 8d:6h, meaning just under 3kw in a month. Check how much is being used by the tv/stereo/surround sound, digital clocks, cordless phones, cable box, printers and such and you'll get an idea why the average household now uses more then 7.5kw per month.
Now go and check all of your electronics and see if they're actually off instead of in standby before you bring up global warming again.
In the Via K8 problems with grub, you simply can't get a usable splash image/menu using grub. That's been a problem on over 100 K8 based systems I've attempted to install grub onto from HP/Dell/Gateway and over the last 7 years when I started using linux regularly.
As to grub failing to boot on my shiny new DQ965GF with only SATA, the error there was couldn't find bootable disk and yes I'm using AHCI mode only. No IDE emulation (it's emulation after all). Grub simply couldn't find either h/sd0,0 to boot from, which made it unusable.
On the console being offered by grub, I consider that completely useless because I can boot into single mode using Lilo and busy box in the same amount of time as the grub console and once I've fixed what ever if foobarred on the system, finish bringing it up. Otherwise, it aint booting at all. Further more, grub refuses to compile on x86_64 systems in 64bit mode as it's not x86_64 compatible - WTF??
Nice link but notice that almost all of the systems are using the standard Intel boot mode of IDE Emulation, whereas I'm using pure AHCI, while the 2nd one down couldn't get the system to boot reliably (suggestion was to disable acpi),Third one down is Ubunta 7.04 grub reinstall failed from Live-CD. Opps your effort has backfired as the first four (although the 5th does hold promise) search results all failed with grub. Seems you have to pass the option all-generic-ide to get grub to boot, which although workable is not acceptable to me because I don't have to pass any options to Lilo other then image=/boot/bzImage, root=/dev/sda3. Label=Crash read-only.
Simply put, on a pure SATA system, grub isn't able to successfully mount/boot in order to boot the system without some kind of screwy work-around that's not well documented as yet. The Ubunta Forum post that listed the "all-generic-ide" option was posted in Late April, almost 6 months ago meaning they should have at least documented the work around on the grub site by now.
Now the $64,000.00 question. Are you using AHCI/Advanced mode and if so, how bout sharing a copy of your grub conf to fturtle@gmail.com with grub in the subject line? If I'm able to use your config as the base and get it working, I can post an Update to the Gentoo Docs for the board so folks can take advantage of it. Otherwise, I'll have to call "BS" on your post.
I'm seriously asking this question as I've tried Grub on Via KM800 boards, No Splash screen available, Intel DQ965GF (new board with SATA only) couldn't finish booting.
So what does grub offer? The Via K?800 problem has been unresolved over the last 5 years and there's no reason not to have fixed it by now. Hell if I was repurposing old windows machines to Linux, more then likely they'd have that damn chipset.
On the new Intel chipset, as stated grub couldn't even finish booting. Wheres the kernel couldn't see the damn SATA drive (scsi mode idiots), thus making it absolutely useless, while Lilo has worked on every x86 based system I've installed it on and this makes me wonder, why should I use something as buggy and flawed as Grub for a stupid splash screen? It's Linux idiots, we don't reboot systems every stinking time we install/upgrade software (thankyou very much MS). Hell I haven't shut my system down fo 2 weeks since the last install (Gentoo from Stage1 - GCC-4.2.0) and I'm always testing things.
So once again, Why use something that doesn't work well on common Via K8 chipsets and can't even finish booting on a brand new Intel 965 board with only SATA installed?
In other words, I think all licensing of patents should be compulsory. I can't see any argument why any party should disallow any other party from implementing their patents. It seems this is only ever used for anticompetitive purposes, which harms the market and harms consumers, and is illegal when done in other ways. And based on my moral and ethical decisions, I don't allow you to license my patent, which is exactly my right. Or in other words I don't like your market on religous/personal beliefs and wont share the use of my invention.
Of course not: CSI has a quantum computer that uses the spooky effect to assemble all of the pixels no matter when in time they are. That's why they're able to do so many image recoveries.
Don't forget that Las Vegas is in reality a Quantum Computer for Area51. How else do you think the government could hide the massive computer resources needed for deciphering those unknown alien languages and tech manuals?
Everyone who's talking about blur/twirl/pixelation has forgoten the important thing. Interpol had multiple images. Think of this as having several frames from a film. This gave them enough information to not only un blur/twirl but to compensate for pixelization. So there was a bit more then that used to get the recovered images
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Sanyo 4930 Phone!! It is only a phone
When I can buy a cheap laptop for $399.00 that does more then an e-reader, why in hell would I spend the money for an e-reader?
Now if they got the price down to $20.00 for the reader and offered the books as downloads for $2.99/3.99 then I'd be willing to enter the e-book market but until then they're overpriced for the market as I can buy a paperback for $4.99/6.99 latest in print that doesn't need batteries, will survive getting wet/being dropped and will survive when subjected to an EMP that takes out all other electronic devices and results in Nuclear Winter.
Guess MS designed Windows to be like an elephant and never forget anything.
Dad's Computer
Mom's Computer
Kids Computers
Dad's printer - Laser
Mom's Printer - Scanner/Injet
Kids Printer - injet
and that's just in my house. Dad's printer is used for work, Mom's is an all-in-one and the kids get basic injet for school work, while ensuring when they run out of ink/paper, it's doesn't mean dad's out.
Add in a home network and I've now got all three desktops Folding 24/7
This of course doesn't count the Media Center (don't have one anyhow) the fact that there's a home NAS, Dad/Mom/Kids all have backup folders on them. Plus doesn't include the game consoles, Gaming Rig, and so on. All told, there are 7 computers in my house running 24/7 for a total of 5 people (3 pre-teens).
Now if you asked are they in use all the time then Hell Yes - Folding at Home on all of them and every system is as energy saving as possible.
Should get damn interesting
That's right, it's not a PC according to joe sixpack because it's not running windows and I'm really sorry to say that it's the lowest common denominator of Joe Sixpack that's going to decide this case in favor of Windows.
Now if we went back to Public Floggings in the town sqaure and telivised them. People would be more likely to remember the old saying If you can't do the Time then don't do the Crime. The other thing I'd like to see is the switch back to public hangings with the jury required to attend and witness sentence being carried out as it will reduce the number of death penalty sentences handed down. It's also a fundemental requirement that a Death Sentence has to be unanimous and with the jury having to witness the results of their judgment, I damn well guaranty very few will sentence to death unless it's warranted.
You're right that it's the writers guild that has pushed the credit rules and the reason is damn simply. it's called Residuals. Who gets paid for all the reruns/vhs/DVD releases. Money is the entire damn reason.
What do you mean? The expedition was less then a Decade ago IE 1999 not 1899.
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That's my burning question. Does the update now allow Konqueror to use the advanced interface? If not, then there's no benefit to me as yet.
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Why simply activate my Nuclear Powered Firewall, unlocking all Weapons Stations and drop the central core into sub basement 1 lauch facility and then launch before the firewall wipes all life out on earth
Google could be doing this simply to begin using existing U.S. laws like HIPPA to turn the tables on the government. AFAIK: Under HIPPA, the government must get a warrant for any and all information and if Google can tie a users profile up with the HIPPA law (equal? to EU Privacy laws) as it is the strongest privacy law in the United States.
Now tell me again why I should allow MS to automatically update my computers?
Historically, I've had to many issues with buggy patches that bork something, so I've developed a policy of test before installing any patch. I don't care who's software, Nothing and I mean Nothing is allowed to auto-update due to past problems.
Because of my written retention policy, I was able to show the court that
1) didn't have the documents in question any longer and why I didn't
2) a retention policy for complaints/support tickets life of statues limitations/contract terms
3) that I did have a retention policy in place for trouble tickets/complaints covering Period of Statues of Limitations
and these written policies helped cover my ass in the courtroom because I had no record of complaints or support tickets and that the contractual obligation had been satisfied at time of purchase since the sale was without warranty (except required by law) or recourse (except allowed by law).
Made me look damn good to the judge and if it had gone to a jury (would insist on it) to them that I wasn't some idiot who might have broken the law through ignorance.
As to climate change, hell yes we're suffering climate changes but are the man-made or because we've entered the 50 year increased solar activity period of the 100 year cycle? The other question is who pays for the demanded changes and will they do any damn good? The damn research has gone about finding a solution the wrong way.
Instead of looking at how to cut energy demands by
getting rid of all parasitic electronic loads
and you'd be surprised how fast those parasitic loads add up. The simple example is a 5watt load that's on 24/7. That consumes 1kw every 8d:6h, meaning just under 3kw in a month. Check how much is being used by the tv/stereo/surround sound, digital clocks, cordless phones, cable box, printers and such and you'll get an idea why the average household now uses more then 7.5kw per month.
Now go and check all of your electronics and see if they're actually off instead of in standby before you bring up global warming again.
As to grub failing to boot on my shiny new DQ965GF with only SATA, the error there was couldn't find bootable disk and yes I'm using AHCI mode only. No IDE emulation (it's emulation after all). Grub simply couldn't find either h/sd0,0 to boot from, which made it unusable.
On the console being offered by grub, I consider that completely useless because I can boot into single mode using Lilo and busy box in the same amount of time as the grub console and once I've fixed what ever if foobarred on the system, finish bringing it up. Otherwise, it aint booting at all. Further more, grub refuses to compile on x86_64 systems in 64bit mode as it's not x86_64 compatible - WTF??
Nice link but notice that almost all of the systems are using the standard Intel boot mode of IDE Emulation, whereas I'm using pure AHCI, while the 2nd one down couldn't get the system to boot reliably (suggestion was to disable acpi),Third one down is Ubunta 7.04 grub reinstall failed from Live-CD. Opps your effort has backfired as the first four (although the 5th does hold promise) search results all failed with grub. Seems you have to pass the option all-generic-ide to get grub to boot, which although workable is not acceptable to me because I don't have to pass any options to Lilo other then image=/boot/bzImage, root=/dev/sda3. Label=Crash read-only.
Simply put, on a pure SATA system, grub isn't able to successfully mount /boot in order to boot the system without some kind of screwy work-around that's not well documented as yet. The Ubunta Forum post that listed the "all-generic-ide" option was posted in Late April, almost 6 months ago meaning they should have at least documented the work around on the grub site by now.
Now the $64,000.00 question. Are you using AHCI/Advanced mode and if so, how bout sharing a copy of your grub conf to fturtle@gmail.com with grub in the subject line? If I'm able to use your config as the base and get it working, I can post an Update to the Gentoo Docs for the board so folks can take advantage of it. Otherwise, I'll have to call "BS" on your post.
Grub couldn't complete booting on a system with either SATA or IDE drive installed and yet it could install itself into the mbr from a running kernel
The VIA K8 chipset problem is a known issue with the splash images that's over 5 years old and still unsolved
So the question once again What Does Grub offer over Lilo?
So what does grub offer? The Via K?800 problem has been unresolved over the last 5 years and there's no reason not to have fixed it by now. Hell if I was repurposing old windows machines to Linux, more then likely they'd have that damn chipset.
On the new Intel chipset, as stated grub couldn't even finish booting. Wheres the kernel couldn't see the damn SATA drive (scsi mode idiots), thus making it absolutely useless, while Lilo has worked on every x86 based system I've installed it on and this makes me wonder, why should I use something as buggy and flawed as Grub for a stupid splash screen? It's Linux idiots, we don't reboot systems every stinking time we install/upgrade software (thankyou very much MS). Hell I haven't shut my system down fo 2 weeks since the last install (Gentoo from Stage1 - GCC-4.2.0) and I'm always testing things.
So once again, Why use something that doesn't work well on common Via K8 chipsets and can't even finish booting on a brand new Intel 965 board with only SATA installed?
Don't forget that Las Vegas is in reality a Quantum Computer for Area51. How else do you think the government could hide the massive computer resources needed for deciphering those unknown alien languages and tech manuals?
Everyone who's talking about blur/twirl/pixelation has forgoten the important thing. Interpol had multiple images. Think of this as having several frames from a film. This gave them enough information to not only un blur/twirl but to compensate for pixelization. So there was a bit more then that used to get the recovered images