All too often you get some script reader on the other end of the line :
A customer brought a PC in for service. No symptoms were described. We plugged it it and it flickered video on the test monitor for a few seconds before it SMOKED.
Tech Support : I need you to turn the PC on and hit the F(whatever) key and tell me your CMOS settings please. Me : The PC us burning when power is applied. Tech Support : I need you to turn the PC on and hit the F(whatever) key and tell me your CMOS settings please.
Okay Habib, I get it, you are a script reader. I need level 2 support.
Transfered.
Hello, this is Patricia(yeah right) Pat Ri Cia , heavy Indian accent, Haw can I hep you?
Me : This PC smokes when power is applied, no signs of spillage or anything that may incicate abuse on the user's part. Pat Ri Cia : Will you turn on the PC and press F(whatever) while booting to get to CMOS please.
Habibette , trained to pretend she was an English speaker, reading the same script. Hewlett Packard was the manufacturer. Needless to say, we refunded the user's money. We shipped the defective unit back to HP under the "cap" allowed for defective merchandise. Screw them outsourcing idiots.
Let's see, horrendous radiation beyond the Van Allen belts. Plus "cosmic" and Gamma rays and X-rays.
Add the temperature extremes, nearly Zero Degrees Kelvin in the shade and hotter than hell in the sunlight.
Plus the logistical problems boosting Oxygen and water in sufficient quantities for actual use.
(mine the asteroids?) You have to GET there alive first. Presumably using the as yet un-built lunar "colony".
Food, medicine and other stuff. Wow, and the International Space Station is falling apart now. How will this ever happen?
You would need a structure that is both SOLID, non-deteriorating and AIR Tight. O-rings crap out in vacuum eventually.
The money needed to get there and construct the "settlement" will bankrupt the world. Not to mention depleting a lot of resources. The engineering is not there, and what would we do once we get there? Play golf? Have sex in reduced gravity? (may be a help for some over-endowed chicks)
Wish in one hand and shit in the other, tell me which fills up first.
"In any case, if she's worried that note-taking is a distraction, why doesn't she just prepare all her material ahead of time, provide it to the students, and then go over it in class in detail?"
She DOES, it is called a syllabus. What she adds in the lectures is what needs to be absorbed to pass the class. Having a bunck of two fingered typists clattering away, attempting to take notes on laptops is retarded.
Professors set the class rules, NOT the students. Students or someone supporting the students pay for the class attendance.
Frankly, any aid other a pencil and paper in the class is just a toy. Been there and done that.
They do not call it Tiger High for nothing. Graduates of that institution seldom find meaningful employment outside the insular world of Memphis.
http://www.spectacle.org/795/amateur.html is a story of the reality of "venue shopping". Sad, but true that ANYONE can drag anyone in the US into their local courts and prosecute them.
I want Information and the Technology to utilize that information. Without bells and whistles which detract from the job at hand. It would be nice to have valid data too.
It would be nice to have an IT department with no politics and one that is immune to the whims of management. Long term planning. Not band-aid fixes.
"Citrin pointed out that his employment contract permitted him to "destroy" data in the laptop when he left the company." If TRUE then all else is pure unadulterated hogwash.
The Court found that the U.S. Constitution did not apply? The "court" was a kangaroo court. There IS a reason we have a Second and Fifth Ammendments to the Constitution !!!
Individuals, Companies, States, or the Federal government cannot usurp the protections afforded us by our Constitution.
This is the BASIS of our form of government. The Bill of Rights was written to inform the Brain Dead Idiots who cannot read, write or think, as to what is implicitly guaranteed by the basic wording of the Constitution. NOTHING MORE. Some people try to stretch concepts to fit THEIR desires, versus the reality of the words. We call them Conmen, Lawyers, Representatives, Senators and government workers. Yes, the Commander-in-Chief is a government worker, a TEMP at best.
According to the article "Various postings on message boards claim the trouble was caused by capacitors that were overfilled with a liquid electrolyte that helps the component protect the processor from excess power; convert energy from 5 volts to around 1.5 volts; and deal with current surges."
Capacitors Maintain VOLTAGE, Inductors try to maintain current. Time to return to school and re-learn Components 101.
Before, the Bell System enjoyed a monopoly, a subsidized monopoly, in the US. It was then broken up. 90 percent of what ANY Bell spin-off is beholden to that monopoly. WE, the US consumers paid for 90 percent of their copper. ANY profits made since then, if paid back to the US consumer, would NOT BE ENOUGH to reimburse us for what we endured.. This fool thinks anyone owes his present corporation anything? He needs to pull his head out of his ass, he needs fresh air. Yeah bubba, I am talking to YOU. Maybe it is time to call in past "favors". WE PAID FOR MOST OF IT. Figure it out. You are here MERELY due to our past support, albiet unwilling(see monopoly is any dictionary).
Let me guess, this is not a concern because: A) All the buildings that show up on the Google Earth site have been moved OR B) Terrorists cannot read maps accurately.
They utilized a very polluting method to do something that can be done with less environmental impact by doing it the way we are currently doing it. Semiconductor manufacture is one of the MOST polluting things on the planet. And if the inverse Seebeck effect was useful, processors would already have this built-in. Braindead post.
"The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market." What "market"????? Firefox is free. People do not "go to market" to burchase free stuff.
I have seen many such implementations, WebEX, and Macromedia Breeze. I like http://www.camfrogweb.com/ for Video clarity and decent audio, plus text. The price seems steep, but the software has tremendous possibilities. Just think of the Travel Expenses that would be saved alone. The price would justify the purchase almost instantly.
The sensors can be either inductance or capacitance. Detecting changes in an electrical field. Bikes, alas, do not have enough metal in then to grossly affect either sensor, they are set to a higher threshold. I would go into the theory, but that is for another post, I suspect will be comming soon.
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I think NOT. The Apple community are the FIRST to have knee-jerk responses,
despite their being around 4 percent of the PC users on the planet.
Oh well.
With the possibility of pollution taken into consideration,
user(Lay people) input would be the best thing ever.
Prior art would be seen faster etc.
Multiply it by 20 MB or so for HD. See how it scales?
Well , DUH !!!!! Where exactly, did you think the article mentioned?????
All too often you get some script reader on the other end of the line :
A customer brought a PC in for service. No symptoms were described.
We plugged it it and it flickered video on the test monitor for a few
seconds before it SMOKED.
Tech Support : I need you to turn the PC on and hit the F(whatever) key
and tell me your CMOS settings please.
Me : The PC us burning when power is applied.
Tech Support : I need you to turn the PC on and hit the F(whatever) key
and tell me your CMOS settings please.
Okay Habib, I get it, you are a script reader. I need level 2 support.
Transfered.
Hello, this is Patricia(yeah right) Pat Ri Cia , heavy Indian accent,
Haw can I hep you?
Me : This PC smokes when power is applied, no signs of spillage or anything
that may incicate abuse on the user's part.
Pat Ri Cia : Will you turn on the PC and press F(whatever) while booting to
get to CMOS please.
Habibette , trained to pretend she was an English speaker, reading the
same script. Hewlett Packard was the manufacturer. Needless to say, we
refunded the user's money. We shipped the defective unit back to HP under
the "cap" allowed for defective merchandise. Screw them outsourcing idiots.
Sign him up for kiddie porn, he deserves no less.
Failing to find kiddie porn, send gay porn. His
wife will love it, his kids will be proud.
Look and Feel stuff was settled in court LONG ago. :)
GOOGLE it
Is the movie itself. I do not want ANY options other than to play
the movie. No advertisements, trailers or anything else.
Will they do that?
"There's a maniac with an axe in the server room!"?
We call those Programmers, how else do you share
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Gun control, is hitting the target.
Check the wording of the Second Ammendment. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
That looks awful like a COMMANDMENT to me. Not an option at some later time.
Simply go after the PRODUCTS and their manufacturers.
Make THEM police the net or be shut down with huge fines.
I would fine the manufacturers 150 % of the company's worth.
I would also add infinite jail time. Yeah, I am evil.
Actually, if she had the grades and the money to get into M.I.T. , she should have had enough 'smarts' to not do what she did.
Think of this as intellectual Darwinism at it's finest. If she had no clue about pirating , she is NOT
M.I.T. material.
Let's see, horrendous radiation beyond the Van Allen belts.
Plus "cosmic" and Gamma rays and X-rays.
Add the temperature extremes, nearly Zero Degrees Kelvin in
the shade and hotter than hell in the sunlight.
Plus the logistical problems boosting Oxygen and water in
sufficient quantities for actual use.
(mine the asteroids?) You have to GET there alive first.
Presumably using the as yet un-built lunar "colony".
Food, medicine and other stuff. Wow, and the International
Space Station is falling apart now. How will this ever
happen?
You would need a structure that is both SOLID, non-deteriorating
and AIR Tight. O-rings crap out in vacuum eventually.
The money needed to get there and construct the "settlement"
will bankrupt the world. Not to mention depleting a lot of
resources. The engineering is not there, and
what would we do once we get there? Play golf? Have sex in
reduced gravity? (may be a help for some over-endowed chicks)
Wish in one hand and shit in the other, tell me which fills up first.
"In any case, if she's worried that note-taking is a distraction, why doesn't she just prepare all her material ahead of time, provide it to the students, and then go over it in class in detail?"
She DOES, it is called a syllabus. What she adds in the lectures is what needs to be absorbed to pass
the class. Having a bunck of two fingered typists clattering away, attempting to take notes on laptops
is retarded.
Professors set the class rules, NOT the students. Students or someone supporting the students pay for the
class attendance.
Frankly, any aid other a pencil and paper in the class is just a toy. Been there and done that.
They do not call it Tiger High for nothing. Graduates of that institution seldom find meaningful employment outside the insular world of Memphis.
http://www.spectacle.org/795/amateur.html is a story of the reality of "venue shopping".
Sad, but true that ANYONE can drag anyone in the US into their local courts and prosecute them.
I want Information and the Technology to utilize that information. Without
bells and whistles which detract from the job at hand. It would be nice to
have valid data too.
It would be nice to have an IT department with no politics and one that is immune to the whims of management. Long term planning. Not band-aid fixes.
"Citrin pointed out that his employment contract permitted him to "destroy" data in the laptop when he left the company." If TRUE then all else is pure unadulterated hogwash.
The Court found that the U.S. Constitution did not apply? The "court" was a kangaroo court.
There IS a reason we have a Second and Fifth Ammendments to the Constitution !!!
Individuals, Companies, States, or the Federal government cannot usurp the protections afforded us by
our Constitution.
This is the BASIS of our form of government. The Bill of Rights was written to inform the Brain Dead
Idiots who cannot read, write or think, as to what is implicitly guaranteed by the basic wording of
the Constitution. NOTHING MORE. Some people try to stretch concepts to fit THEIR desires, versus the
reality of the words. We call them Conmen, Lawyers, Representatives, Senators and government workers. Yes, the Commander-in-Chief is a government worker, a TEMP at best.
Can we sat "Barney Fife Syndrome"? Sure you can.
He has a RIGHT to not incriminate himself. The company, while "fishing" for
some evidence, they did not say what evidence.
If he had even one personal email on the laptop, he had the RIGHT to not
incriminate himself.
The company was trying to violate his "rights" before the fact.
It is pure bullshit.
According to the article "Various postings on message boards claim the trouble was caused by capacitors that were overfilled with a liquid electrolyte that helps the component protect the processor from excess power; convert energy from 5 volts to around 1.5 volts; and deal with current surges."
Capacitors Maintain VOLTAGE, Inductors try to maintain current. Time to return to school and
re-learn Components 101.
Before, the Bell System enjoyed a monopoly, a subsidized monopoly, in the US. It was then broken up.
90 percent of what ANY Bell spin-off is beholden to that monopoly. WE, the US consumers paid for 90 percent of their copper. ANY profits made since then, if paid back to the US consumer, would NOT BE ENOUGH to reimburse us for what we endured.. This fool thinks anyone owes his present corporation anything? He needs to pull his head out of his ass, he needs fresh air. Yeah bubba, I am talking to YOU.
Maybe it is time to call in past "favors". WE PAID FOR MOST OF IT. Figure it out. You are here MERELY due to our past support, albiet unwilling(see monopoly is any dictionary).
Let me guess, this is not a concern because:
A) All the buildings that show up on the Google Earth site have been moved OR
B) Terrorists cannot read maps accurately.
Let me know which is correct.
They utilized a very polluting method to do something that can be done with less environmental impact by doing it the way we are currently doing it. Semiconductor manufacture is one of the MOST polluting things on the planet. And if the inverse Seebeck effect was useful, processors would already have this built-in. Braindead post.
"The spawn of Netscape, Firefox, has never been more popular, and is poised to beat Microsoft in the browser market." What "market"????? Firefox is free. People do not "go to market" to burchase free stuff.
I have seen many such implementations, WebEX, and Macromedia Breeze. I like http://www.camfrogweb.com/ for Video clarity and decent audio, plus text. The price seems steep, but the software has tremendous possibilities. Just think of the Travel Expenses that would be saved alone. The price would justify the purchase almost instantly.
The sensors can be either inductance or capacitance. Detecting changes in an electrical field. Bikes, alas, do not have enough metal in then to grossly affect either sensor, they are set to a higher threshold. I would go into the theory, but that is for another post, I suspect will be comming soon.