I live approximatley 1 mile from the center of downtown dallas, or 1/2 mile outside of downtown (where nobody lives, by the way - its just a fancy office park) and I can assure you it never got below 84 degrees outside in august except for the 5 min immediately before and after a torrential rainpour (which itself lasts five minutes in Dallas).
That's an excellent question, is it going to be a shell level restriction, or at the kernel level, like you said, RAM is. If its the Kernel, can you just paste in the SYS32 folder from an uncrippled installation and have a fully functioning system? A 40mb sys3e folder is a lot easier to pirate and check against viruses than an entire installation ISO
I'm guessing that a new 3rd party shell will be released within a month of Windows 7 that defeats this. Anyone want to take a wager on when or how this will be cracked?
Texas might be on the same latitude as Egypt, but it doesn't cool down at night like the desert does; I suspect that has to do with the high humidity (thermal mass) of the air here. But yeah I agree with the other person who responded to you, you've clearly never been to Texas in August. The idea of it cooling off below 85 degrees at night in August is laughable. Let me say that again, from July-September, it NEVER cools down to room temperature outside.
I think most of our brick comes by train from mexico, lumber from washington. Early settlers lived in log cabins, but if you look at the replica of the original cabin for Dallas tx that served as a trading post so many years ago the logs are only 6" in diameter at best. Dallas is full of 20' shrubby looking oaks but you have to drive to Tyler, tx to see a tree you could begin to cut a single 2"x12' from. Most houses in north dallas are timber framed with brick walls for looks. At least 30% of homes in dallas still have single pane windows wtf.
And yet, the DFW area didn't have its population boom until the advent of AC... Not to mention any house built since 1960 (that would be 95%, possibly higher) were designed for closed window ventilation via AC. Not having air condtitioning working is a MAJOR emergency here come august, a house with closed windows and no ac can easily reach 95 degrees in August. Plus it takes several days to pump most of the heat out of the internal walls, furniture appliances etc. In other words its fucking miserable. Its possible to built another style house but I haven't seen one built here in ages.
Your parents are either fabulously wealthy or you're too young to hold a job, or both. A house with 3' thick stone walls would cost a million dollars, minimum. Not to mention both dallas and houston sit on top of 50 ft of clay the consistency of partially frozen jello pudding. There's zero rock locally avalible.
Not to mention the 24 MILLION people living in Texas, notably Dallas and Houston. Dallas is less than one degree north of Cairo, Egypt, and come June-September you wouldn't be at all surprised if one day you saw pyramids here. From June-September the temperature never, ever, ever drops below 84 degrees, even at night. Meaning that the houses get heat soaked and really you're just cooling the air inside the house - the walls and structure never get below 90 degrees. People set their AC at 78 degrees but even then all you're doing is removing some of the humidity and the AC kicks on every 10-15 minutes for 1/3rd of the year.
Oklahoma is pretty much in the same situation but I heard only recently did major cities there start supplying their citizens with electricity and indoor plumbing:)
Its not. Its the media's attempt at grasping at straws for new leads on how to sell papers. You're reading about it more, but people arent actually using it more.
Take a look at my SID#, I promise you I'm not trolling. Most people who return stuff on a regular basis, for the most part, buy stuff and return stuff on a regular basis. Yes you're correct I didn't use any tact when saying "the novelty has worn off" but ultimately that's the truth of it. Either a) you're one of these people that thinks returning things is a typical thing to do once a month, or b) you've never worked retail. TBH your post sounds like more of a troll than mine. Mine is coming from the POV of someone who worked six long years of retail and is tired of the BS that goes on in returns. Companies are too lenient with douchebags like you and everyone thinks its ok to make poor decisions and let stores eat the cost of your mistakes. You're wrong.
I think making returns is totally acceptable. Once every six months or so. If you're doing it more often than that, you're
a)renting shit, stop it you dumbass b) not paying attention to the reviews saying what you're buying is worthless crap or c) the store needs to stop selling it because it's total trash represented as a good value
if you're buying anything other than "a good value", I hope you die, because you're the people that got us into this whole sub prime mess in the first place.
I dunno I think consumer protection laws work pretty well. I guess I can understand if you were born before 1980 buying something and expecting it to last > 10 years but for the recent walmart generation, you're delusional if you think any plastic/sheet metal chintsy piece of crap with a 30 day warranty (if you're lucky) you buy at a big box store is going to last more than your attention span for the item. If you're relying on marketing to buy a product, you're doing it wrong. You might as well be asking a used car salesman about the reliability of the brand car he's trying to sell you.
Frys is the Harbor Freight Tools of computer hardware. If I need it to work today I'll buy it there and order the correct (name brand) replacement part off newegg and wait for it to arrive. But I wouldn't trust most items from Frys to last more than a year (and I agree most of my items from there dont).
If your account is flagged for returning shit, you're just dumb. Don't buy crap and then return it and expect to stay in a company's good graces for long. I think I speak for all people who ever retail when I say this to people who return more than 1 item every 6 months: Eat Shit And Die. You wouldn't abuse your friends and family like that, so why harrass stores and their employees, even if they're owned/employed by a soulless corperation. Something like 15% of items are returned (dollar amount perhaps), which significantly cuts into profits and drives up prices for everyone else. Fuck You.
And people who don't torrent their copy(copies?) of XP. I think XP authentication has been pretty thoroughly defeated for quite some time now with several Very Good, virus free editions that don't have authentication and WGA bypass.
You'd be shocked how many people still use T1s. If you're an office of 10-30 people (especially if that office has a high phone call volume) you're probably using one, possibly 2-3 bonded, depending on a variety of factors to stream your calls over. Its not really a matter of bandwidth only, its a matter of CAN you get that bandwidth 100% of the time, because if not you're going to start dropping calls which can be very bad for buisness. The last thing you want is to drop a call in the middle of a $40,000 deal. I get 10mbps down at home but I wouldn't run a call center using it, and I'm sure the phone company would start throttling me pretty quickly.
Are you kidding? A residential T1 is in the neighborhood (pun intended) of $320-400/month, depending on where you live. And that's just for 100kb/s. Most of my downloads are in the 130-230kb/s down range on modern cable internet.
Obilig note that 150gb is really 75gb DOWN and 75gb UP. During the fall when the bulk of the TV shows are released I think, downloading at "standard quality", not 720p, downloading the top tier of shows worth watching, plus whatever HBO and Showtime series are decent, will put you at about 80gb a month right there, not including any movies, music or online games you play. This has been my experience. I only watch perhaps 1-2 hours of "TV" during the busy fall season a day.
$150 a month would be nice, and not that much more expensive than paying for cable internet + cable TV, and it's about half the price of a T1 line in a residential neighborhood. The bonus is that you can now download and upload 720p TV shows without being throttled after X gigabytes a week (X = about 20gb a week for Time Warner in Dallas). Once you upgrade to a 22 or 24" monitor, there's a noticeable difference between "standard definition" pirated TV and 720p. I'm not sure if it's worth an extra $100 a month though.
Do you live in Houston or Miami? It's fairly humid here in Dallas but I've never had a CD stick to another one. I move on average every 18 months so, so maybe them getting jostled around helps prevent it. Also I'm only using the 25 & 50 CD stacks, not 100.
Increase your strength by 1000% ! Attaches to your body with... velcro?
Still waiting for the "in use" videos to pop up on youtube. I'd love to see a driver unload a freight truck wearing one of these, instead of a forklift.
Optical media almost never gets scratched unless you're eight years old and still can't care for your toys. I lent my beloved copy of Parappa the Rapper to my 8 year old cousins and it came back unplayable, I'm still angry about that 8 years later. All of my optical media from high school is still in great shape, mostly sitting in old CD-R spindles (the best way to store media IMO)
Seriously if it's a DOS program, just run it on Free DOS, off of either flash memory, or a 5400rpm drive, doesnt really matter. Or run a regular drive that backs up to flash once a week or something. Plugged into a fanless VIA mini-atx motherboard you can just mount in the old box or whatever.
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I live approximatley 1 mile from the center of downtown dallas, or 1/2 mile outside of downtown (where nobody lives, by the way - its just a fancy office park) and I can assure you it never got below 84 degrees outside in august except for the 5 min immediately before and after a torrential rainpour (which itself lasts five minutes in Dallas).
That's an excellent question, is it going to be a shell level restriction, or at the kernel level, like you said, RAM is. If its the Kernel, can you just paste in the SYS32 folder from an uncrippled installation and have a fully functioning system? A 40mb sys3e folder is a lot easier to pirate and check against viruses than an entire installation ISO
I'm guessing that a new 3rd party shell will be released within a month of Windows 7 that defeats this. Anyone want to take a wager on when or how this will be cracked?
Texas might be on the same latitude as Egypt, but it doesn't cool down at night like the desert does; I suspect that has to do with the high humidity (thermal mass) of the air here. But yeah I agree with the other person who responded to you, you've clearly never been to Texas in August. The idea of it cooling off below 85 degrees at night in August is laughable. Let me say that again, from July-September, it NEVER cools down to room temperature outside.
I think most of our brick comes by train from mexico, lumber from washington. Early settlers lived in log cabins, but if you look at the replica of the original cabin for Dallas tx that served as a trading post so many years ago the logs are only 6" in diameter at best. Dallas is full of 20' shrubby looking oaks but you have to drive to Tyler, tx to see a tree you could begin to cut a single 2"x12' from. Most houses in north dallas are timber framed with brick walls for looks. At least 30% of homes in dallas still have single pane windows wtf.
And yet, the DFW area didn't have its population boom until the advent of AC... Not to mention any house built since 1960 (that would be 95%, possibly higher) were designed for closed window ventilation via AC. Not having air condtitioning working is a MAJOR emergency here come august, a house with closed windows and no ac can easily reach 95 degrees in August. Plus it takes several days to pump most of the heat out of the internal walls, furniture appliances etc. In other words its fucking miserable. Its possible to built another style house but I haven't seen one built here in ages.
Your parents are either fabulously wealthy or you're too young to hold a job, or both. A house with 3' thick stone walls would cost a million dollars, minimum. Not to mention both dallas and houston sit on top of 50 ft of clay the consistency of partially frozen jello pudding. There's zero rock locally avalible.
Not to mention the 24 MILLION people living in Texas, notably Dallas and Houston. Dallas is less than one degree north of Cairo, Egypt, and come June-September you wouldn't be at all surprised if one day you saw pyramids here. From June-September the temperature never, ever, ever drops below 84 degrees, even at night. Meaning that the houses get heat soaked and really you're just cooling the air inside the house - the walls and structure never get below 90 degrees. People set their AC at 78 degrees but even then all you're doing is removing some of the humidity and the AC kicks on every 10-15 minutes for 1/3rd of the year.
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Oklahoma is pretty much in the same situation but I heard only recently did major cities there start supplying their citizens with electricity and indoor plumbing
Its not. Its the media's attempt at grasping at straws for new leads on how to sell papers. You're reading about it more, but people arent actually using it more.
Your friends and family wouldn't call you an idiot to your face for over paying for a USB cable either welcome to the internet, idiot.
Take a look at my SID#, I promise you I'm not trolling. Most people who return stuff on a regular basis, for the most part, buy stuff and return stuff on a regular basis. Yes you're correct I didn't use any tact when saying "the novelty has worn off" but ultimately that's the truth of it. Either a) you're one of these people that thinks returning things is a typical thing to do once a month, or b) you've never worked retail. TBH your post sounds like more of a troll than mine. Mine is coming from the POV of someone who worked six long years of retail and is tired of the BS that goes on in returns. Companies are too lenient with douchebags like you and everyone thinks its ok to make poor decisions and let stores eat the cost of your mistakes. You're wrong.
I think making returns is totally acceptable. Once every six months or so. If you're doing it more often than that, you're
a)renting shit, stop it you dumbass
b) not paying attention to the reviews saying what you're buying is worthless crap or
c) the store needs to stop selling it because it's total trash represented as a good value
if you're buying anything other than "a good value", I hope you die, because you're the people that got us into this whole sub prime mess in the first place.
I dunno I think consumer protection laws work pretty well. I guess I can understand if you were born before 1980 buying something and expecting it to last > 10 years but for the recent walmart generation, you're delusional if you think any plastic/sheet metal chintsy piece of crap with a 30 day warranty (if you're lucky) you buy at a big box store is going to last more than your attention span for the item. If you're relying on marketing to buy a product, you're doing it wrong. You might as well be asking a used car salesman about the reliability of the brand car he's trying to sell you.
Frys is the Harbor Freight Tools of computer hardware. If I need it to work today I'll buy it there and order the correct (name brand) replacement part off newegg and wait for it to arrive. But I wouldn't trust most items from Frys to last more than a year (and I agree most of my items from there dont).
If your account is flagged for returning shit, you're just dumb. Don't buy crap and then return it and expect to stay in a company's good graces for long. I think I speak for all people who ever retail when I say this to people who return more than 1 item every 6 months: Eat Shit And Die. You wouldn't abuse your friends and family like that, so why harrass stores and their employees, even if they're owned/employed by a soulless corperation. Something like 15% of items are returned (dollar amount perhaps), which significantly cuts into profits and drives up prices for everyone else. Fuck You.
/rant off.
i would kill myself before working retail again.
And people who don't torrent their copy(copies?) of XP. I think XP authentication has been pretty thoroughly defeated for quite some time now with several Very Good, virus free editions that don't have authentication and WGA bypass.
You'd be shocked how many people still use T1s. If you're an office of 10-30 people (especially if that office has a high phone call volume) you're probably using one, possibly 2-3 bonded, depending on a variety of factors to stream your calls over. Its not really a matter of bandwidth only, its a matter of CAN you get that bandwidth 100% of the time, because if not you're going to start dropping calls which can be very bad for buisness. The last thing you want is to drop a call in the middle of a $40,000 deal. I get 10mbps down at home but I wouldn't run a call center using it, and I'm sure the phone company would start throttling me pretty quickly.
Are you kidding? A residential T1 is in the neighborhood (pun intended) of $320-400/month, depending on where you live. And that's just for 100kb/s. Most of my downloads are in the 130-230kb/s down range on modern cable internet.
Obilig note that 150gb is really 75gb DOWN and 75gb UP. During the fall when the bulk of the TV shows are released I think, downloading at "standard quality", not 720p, downloading the top tier of shows worth watching, plus whatever HBO and Showtime series are decent, will put you at about 80gb a month right there, not including any movies, music or online games you play. This has been my experience. I only watch perhaps 1-2 hours of "TV" during the busy fall season a day.
$150 a month would be nice, and not that much more expensive than paying for cable internet + cable TV, and it's about half the price of a T1 line in a residential neighborhood. The bonus is that you can now download and upload 720p TV shows without being throttled after X gigabytes a week (X = about 20gb a week for Time Warner in Dallas). Once you upgrade to a 22 or 24" monitor, there's a noticeable difference between "standard definition" pirated TV and 720p. I'm not sure if it's worth an extra $100 a month though.
Do you live in Houston or Miami? It's fairly humid here in Dallas but I've never had a CD stick to another one. I move on average every 18 months so, so maybe them getting jostled around helps prevent it. Also I'm only using the 25 & 50 CD stacks, not 100.
Increase your strength by 1000% ! Attaches to your body with... velcro?
Still waiting for the "in use" videos to pop up on youtube. I'd love to see a driver unload a freight truck wearing one of these, instead of a forklift.
Optical media almost never gets scratched unless you're eight years old and still can't care for your toys. I lent my beloved copy of Parappa the Rapper to my 8 year old cousins and it came back unplayable, I'm still angry about that 8 years later. All of my optical media from high school is still in great shape, mostly sitting in old CD-R spindles (the best way to store media IMO)
What? None of the users of my personal blog, http://www.nearlydeaf.com/ would ever shamelessly plug their website on slashdot!
Seriously if it's a DOS program, just run it on Free DOS, off of either flash memory, or a 5400rpm drive, doesnt really matter. Or run a regular drive that backs up to flash once a week or something. Plugged into a fanless VIA mini-atx motherboard you can just mount in the old box or whatever.
In addition to GSM, it supports Dual-band 800/1900 Mhz CDMA2000 in addition to GSM. So I am correct and you sir, are wrong! You have egg on your face.