This has been going on since phone carriers began offering accidental damage insurance. Some people deliberately break their phone every year or two to get a free upgrade. And some people are genuinely rough or careless with their phones, and break them during normal use. Since they can't tell the difference, some carriers limit the frequency that you can claim on the insurance.
Same here, although it could be like Firefox, which only automatically updates for minor releases. Also, auto-update functions often lag behind the actual release of the software.
And at least they just downgrade you - they could instead just shut your system down for a suspected license violation and prevent any log-ins.
There are numerous reports of false WGA activations on machines with genuine Windows installations. Where do they stop? Why not just publish your tax returns and bank information to 4chan and then erase everything on your hard drive?
Agree about the distinction between its and it's. Disagree about the "parmesan comma," since in this case, it's used to signify a pause. The form of the OP's statement is the same form that Jeremy Clarkson uses to introduce The Stig on each episode of Top Gear: "Some say [pause] [statement]. And [statement]. All we know is he's called The Stig." See below for context:
For those who may be interested, here's a report from the Boston Globe on the rise and fall of Dr. David Arndt, the doctor who abandoned a patient on the operating table to go to the bank:
It seems logical that the machine should have some sort of sensor on it to verify the amount (and physical pattern) of radiation given. Set up like this, you could even do a test run of the treatment with no one in the room in order to be certain that it was doing what you intended.
"I've had (nominally) adult patients who were upset that they were going to have to be conscious when their IV was placed."
I would be one of those patients. I really hate needles and tend to get nervous to the point of having panic attacks. When I had my wisdom teeth removed (under general anesthesia), the oral surgeon prescribed me an EMLA patch to apply to my arm so that I wouldn't feel the general anesthetic IV go in my arm.
That used to be true, but Canon has been putting chips in their cartridges for several years now (my ip4300 has chipped cartridges). I had two Canon S520s that I ran thousands of pages through--those took $2 generic ink tanks. The ip4300 has similar looking ink tanks (no printhead), but they have chips on them, and generics are more like $8 due to the chip.
And users (with both legit and pirated copies) are leery of applying patches because of Microsoft Genuine Advantage and its ilk. Does this come as a surprise to them?
Germs are EVERYWHERE. Hospitals do all kinds of disinfection that you wouldn't and couldn't do in your own home, and people still get staph infections.
I'm active on Howardforums and I've heard of the service issues with Tracfone...
Tmobile has even worse coverage than AT&T in my area, and it appears that they are no longer sharing towers. I don't mind using AT&T's service, just not at $70 per month.
I've had an original iPhone from the beginning. I live in a rural area with no AT&T 3G service. The 2G service at my office is terrible--I've complained to AT&T several times about this, and have been essentially told to fuck off and die each time I've complained.
I'm no longer under contract and don't use that many minutes per month. I'm on the verge of dumping the voice and data service and switching to a TracFone for my cell phone service. I'd keep using the iPhone for music, video, and wifi web access. AT&T can suck it.
"Current" is a relative term. It takes months for a critical update to make it into Dell's system images. The latest batch of crippleware/shovelware, on the other hand, is certain to be included.
From a classmate at a panel discussion in law school: "We're the most powerful country in the world. Why bother to use diplomacy?" The speaker replied that it wasn't quite as stupid a question as it sounded.
If deterrence is so important to our legislators, why don't we have $10,000 fines for using a cell phone while driving and $100,000 fines for texting, web browsing, or movie watching while driving? Something tells me that deterrence was not the intent behind the law.
The originals and replacements were regular Li-ion. Newer machines have Li-ion Polymer batteries that seem to be good for several years. I've also seen a lot of 2-3 year old Dell computers recently that still had good battery life. I used to tell people to count on battery replacement about every 2 years, but I don't anymore.
I used to have a 12" PowerBook. Great machine, but the battery packs wore out every 18 months or so (modern machines have more advance Li-ion technology and seem to have better longevity). Also, the thing I could never get over was the machine's thickness. I didn't need to carry an optical drive everywhere, and I couldn't help but wonder how much smaller the thing would've been without that goofy DVD burner.
I no longer need a portable, so I sold the PowerBook. It still performed most tasks adequately (but not quickly), but I'm happier with one iMac at home and one at work rather than trying to use the PowerBook as my work machine. I still wish Apple would make an inexpensive Intel-powered machine without a widescreen.
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They ruined TiVo when they put freakin' ads on it. One of the main selling points of TiVo was the ability to conveniently skip commercials.
This has been going on since phone carriers began offering accidental damage insurance. Some people deliberately break their phone every year or two to get a free upgrade. And some people are genuinely rough or careless with their phones, and break them during normal use. Since they can't tell the difference, some carriers limit the frequency that you can claim on the insurance.
Same here, although it could be like Firefox, which only automatically updates for minor releases. Also, auto-update functions often lag behind the actual release of the software.
And at least they just downgrade you - they could instead just shut your system down for a suspected license violation and prevent any log-ins.
There are numerous reports of false WGA activations on machines with genuine Windows installations. Where do they stop? Why not just publish your tax returns and bank information to 4chan and then erase everything on your hard drive?
Agree about the distinction between its and it's. Disagree about the "parmesan comma," since in this case, it's used to signify a pause. The form of the OP's statement is the same form that Jeremy Clarkson uses to introduce The Stig on each episode of Top Gear: "Some say [pause] [statement]. And [statement]. All we know is he's called The Stig." See below for context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig#Introductions
For those who may be interested, here's a report from the Boston Globe on the rise and fall of Dr. David Arndt, the doctor who abandoned a patient on the operating table to go to the bank:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/03/21/what_went_wrong/
It seems logical that the machine should have some sort of sensor on it to verify the amount (and physical pattern) of radiation given. Set up like this, you could even do a test run of the treatment with no one in the room in order to be certain that it was doing what you intended.
"I've had (nominally) adult patients who were upset that they were going to have to be conscious when their IV was placed."
I would be one of those patients. I really hate needles and tend to get nervous to the point of having panic attacks. When I had my wisdom teeth removed (under general anesthesia), the oral surgeon prescribed me an EMLA patch to apply to my arm so that I wouldn't feel the general anesthetic IV go in my arm.
Whoever wrote this list appears to have omitted Steve Ballmer. I assume the article will be corrected in short order.
That used to be true, but Canon has been putting chips in their cartridges for several years now (my ip4300 has chipped cartridges). I had two Canon S520s that I ran thousands of pages through--those took $2 generic ink tanks. The ip4300 has similar looking ink tanks (no printhead), but they have chips on them, and generics are more like $8 due to the chip.
Exactly. Which means it is Microsoft's fault after all.
And users (with both legit and pirated copies) are leery of applying patches because of Microsoft Genuine Advantage and its ilk. Does this come as a surprise to them?
I have been on /. since it launched (yeah, back then we nerds were quite resistant to ever creating logins for sites, hence my non-low account ID).
Given the number of account IDs now in circulation, I'd say that anything under 120,000 or so is now a low ID.
If they were spending millions in Federal money to combat Congress.
Germs are EVERYWHERE. Hospitals do all kinds of disinfection that you wouldn't and couldn't do in your own home, and people still get staph infections.
I'm active on Howardforums and I've heard of the service issues with Tracfone...
Tmobile has even worse coverage than AT&T in my area, and it appears that they are no longer sharing towers. I don't mind using AT&T's service, just not at $70 per month.
I've had an original iPhone from the beginning. I live in a rural area with no AT&T 3G service. The 2G service at my office is terrible--I've complained to AT&T several times about this, and have been essentially told to fuck off and die each time I've complained.
I'm no longer under contract and don't use that many minutes per month. I'm on the verge of dumping the voice and data service and switching to a TracFone for my cell phone service. I'd keep using the iPhone for music, video, and wifi web access. AT&T can suck it.
"Current" is a relative term. It takes months for a critical update to make it into Dell's system images. The latest batch of crippleware/shovelware, on the other hand, is certain to be included.
I'd like mine with an Argentinean girlfriend and some unexplained hiking trips, please.
Reading Rambo will not be airing tonight, because Rambo has not learned how to read.
Are you sure it's a white MacBook, and not a black MacBook that's been Photoshopped white?
From a classmate at a panel discussion in law school: "We're the most powerful country in the world. Why bother to use diplomacy?" The speaker replied that it wasn't quite as stupid a question as it sounded.
If deterrence is so important to our legislators, why don't we have $10,000 fines for using a cell phone while driving and $100,000 fines for texting, web browsing, or movie watching while driving? Something tells me that deterrence was not the intent behind the law.
The originals and replacements were regular Li-ion. Newer machines have Li-ion Polymer batteries that seem to be good for several years. I've also seen a lot of 2-3 year old Dell computers recently that still had good battery life. I used to tell people to count on battery replacement about every 2 years, but I don't anymore.
I used to have a 12" PowerBook. Great machine, but the battery packs wore out every 18 months or so (modern machines have more advance Li-ion technology and seem to have better longevity). Also, the thing I could never get over was the machine's thickness. I didn't need to carry an optical drive everywhere, and I couldn't help but wonder how much smaller the thing would've been without that goofy DVD burner.
I no longer need a portable, so I sold the PowerBook. It still performed most tasks adequately (but not quickly), but I'm happier with one iMac at home and one at work rather than trying to use the PowerBook as my work machine. I still wish Apple would make an inexpensive Intel-powered machine without a widescreen.