I bought a WRT610N refurbished a few years ago. It was a V1. I found out they made a V2 because the V1's CPU was too slow to run wireless N at full speed, and running DD-WRT on it was even slower. It also ran pretty hot and had internal antennas. It didn't seem to like DD-WRT much but that was probably because it was new and not well supported yet.
I replaced it with an ASUS (N-16?) which has external antennas and has worked great. Supposedly the ASUS firmware is bad but I wouldn't know because I replaced it immediately (decided to try Tomato).
Linksys has always been much better with replacement firmware (they didn't used to have static DHCP in their stock firmware). Now other brands are offering better hardware and practically encourage you to replace the firmware. Personally I wouldn't bother with Linksys anymore unless you're putting it somewhere visible and want something that looks pretty.
The funny part is that originally the investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Bear Sterns) were not part of the FDIC and thus could not receive money from the Federal Reserve because they were not real banks. They had to be re-classified as normal banks to make it legal to give them money. But that wasn't a problem because The Secretary of the Treasury at the time was a former CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Two old adages: if you aren't paying, then you aren't the customer, you are the product, as well as "if you aren't at the table, you are on it."
When people stop wanting to consume corporate culture, then they are far freer from the fretters that come with it.
Even if you are paying, you may still be the product. Do you really think your TV provider isn't tracking everything you do with those nifty little boxes?
I remember the idea of a small tax on trading came up back in 08/09 when the government was trying to figure out how to fix the system. The big players killed that one off real quick.
I don't believe Access comes with a standard Office installation. And while it does have VBA built in which would allow you to write software to interact with the database, VBA is a horrible horrible language. In fact if you're really that masochistic why don't you go all out and write a VBA application in an Excel spreadsheet to interact with your Access database. You'll know you're doing it right if you feel really dirty the whole time you're writing it.
I don't see how that would be a problem. The issue with thumb drives is to avoid viruses that exploit autorun. Windows allows you to disable USB mass storage devices. Smart phones are not an issue unless you try to connect them to your computer, which wouldn't work because they would likely be recognized as mass storage devices and prevented from being mounted.
Just to chime in here years ago I bought some Sony ear buds. I had to RMA one pair because the cord self destructed. The replacement was an upgraded model that also self destructed, but this time after the warranty expired.
To be fair I had the same problem with Shure headphones. The rubber couldn't handle the oil from my skin and would eventually crack. But at least the Shures had a 2 year warranty rather than the 1 month BS the Sonys had. I guess it's not as big of a problem if you're not using ear buds you're in contact with all the time but I've sworn off of Sony because of this and other quality issues with their products. I would rather spend $100 more and get something that won't break and sounds much better anyway.
That's a shame. I've always gone there when I need a new pair of ear buds. That's how I found out about the Fischer Audio DBA-02s I bought over a year ago and couldn't be happier with. diyaudio looks like it's oriented more towards large sound systems and headroom desn't seem to cover the obscure brands.
Well, MS is somewhat to blame for providing the OEMs with keys that only let you activate copies of Windows installed by their crapware-loaded discs. At least this was the case last time I tried to use a normal disc on a new HP computer (admittedly it was Win XP).
Lately I've been using both Eclipse (for Python) and VS2010 (for C#) at work and I really don't get why people are so crazy about VS. I work with someone who kept talking about how great it is and when I asked why his only response was "Eclipse is slow".
The first thing I did when I installed VS2010 was look for a way to turn on the 80 character vertical line. I couldn't find it under the options so I searched Google. I got some instructions to install a third party plugin then edit my registry. It also seems to make quite a mess with the folder structure when creating a new project or solution, though I admit that could be my own failure to configure it properly.
Aside from the lack of the 80 character line the editor is much like any other. You can write code, autocomplete, etc. It has a decent debugger, maybe slightly better than other IDEs but not drastically. Qt has a much better GUI editor. And you really can't ignore Eclipse's extendability and the fact that you can zip up a copy of Eclipse with a bunch of plugins and hand it to someone as a preconfigured development tool. I just don't see what VS has that makes it sooo much better than everything else.
This is sort of my situation. I know there are certain items Best Buy completely rips you off on. I went in there to buy a hard drive and found out it was $20 over MSRP. Fry's had it for MSRP but was much farther away.
Though as far as cables go I never buy them from any physical store, Best Buy or otherwise. Any time I realize I need something I just buy a few from Monoprice. My dad got confused between my Monoprice cable and the Monster cable Best Buy sold him because the ~$1 Monoprice one had filters and the Monster cable didn't.
I tried TaxAct a couple of years ago and it was good but I ended up not using it. I forget what the exact problem was that drove me away, but one unfortunate thing about it was that most other services (such as Charles Schwab) allow TurboTax to pull information directly. The process for TaxAct wasn't nearly as simple. I know it's not TaxAct's fault and I've been meaning to give them another shot. Maybe next year I will (filed my taxes back in February).
Laugh all you want but I really have been afraid of this. Vista is the most recent version of Windows Microsoft gave me for free. When it stops working I'm in for a lot more WINE configuration unless Microsoft realizes how awesome I am and sends me a free copy of their latest OS.
I buy a decent amount of music. I'm just finding that most of the stuff I listen to is not on an RIAA label and tends to be from other countries. The RIAA stuff I do listen to are bands that have been around a long time (like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden). The internet made it possible to find good music from all over the world rather than buying whatever is on the radio, and it turns out people on the other side of the world aren't as eager to move to Hollywood to get screwed over by a big record label.
Unfortunately by the time we get the technology to move the Earth any workable plan to do so would rely on patents that make it prohibitively expensive to execute. We're pretty much screwed.
That's just a decision you'll have to make. Do you really want to swerve and slam on the brakes and take the premium hike or will it cost less to just take a scrape and make him pay for it without reporting the incident?
As someone who has recently been looking at washing machines I think I should correct this.
If you're looking for a washing machine that will last over 10 years problem free they exist but they aren't made in the U.S. or China. You go for Miele (German), Bosch (German), or Asko (Swedish -- only the small capacity ones are made in Sweden though). So we're seeing the same thing that happened in the automobile industry. Eventually the consumers wise up and buy from the guys who consistently offer quality (mostly Germany). American manufacturers could have an advantage because the downside of German is usually customer service and having to import parts for repair, but American businesses would all prefer to fight over the potentially more profitable "as cheap as possible" market rather than trying to build and maintain a good reputation.
In some fields, Chinese companies have recognized that there is a market for quality and they happily fill that need. Lenovo and Gigabyte come to mind. So I do see a rise in the market for quality goods, especially now that we can use the internet to make informed purchases. Unfortunately, it isn't happening with American companies and it isn't happening with things made in the U.S.
I don't know. Passing this bill might work out for the best.
It is backed by Ron Wyden who is pretty consistently on the right side of things and they're inviting everyone to give input and craft the bill. I'm only worried that someone will manage to add a bunch of garbage to it.
On the other hand, Hollywood has convinced enough politicians that we have to do *something* about copyright infringement so I don't see this fight ending until they pass something. I would prefer it be this over something closer to SOPA/PIPA.
This is really just a digital version of writing on the document. Storing it in a separate file is an obvious way of implementing this feature on a digital device. Modifying the original file is another way of implementing it but these are the types of design decisions software developers deal with on a daily basis and giving patents that span multiple decades for them is absurd.
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Christ, for $300 they'd better show nothing but stock tips from the future and Anne Hathaway wardrobe malfunctions.
What kind of moron pays $300 to watch a bunch of sweaty, overpaid, and debatably-heterosexual guys hug each other? I don't understand sports.
It's probably aimed at sports bars, who can make extra money from the fact that people will come in to see games they can't watch at home.
I bought a WRT610N refurbished a few years ago. It was a V1. I found out they made a V2 because the V1's CPU was too slow to run wireless N at full speed, and running DD-WRT on it was even slower. It also ran pretty hot and had internal antennas. It didn't seem to like DD-WRT much but that was probably because it was new and not well supported yet.
I replaced it with an ASUS (N-16?) which has external antennas and has worked great. Supposedly the ASUS firmware is bad but I wouldn't know because I replaced it immediately (decided to try Tomato).
Linksys has always been much better with replacement firmware (they didn't used to have static DHCP in their stock firmware). Now other brands are offering better hardware and practically encourage you to replace the firmware. Personally I wouldn't bother with Linksys anymore unless you're putting it somewhere visible and want something that looks pretty.
The funny part is that originally the investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Bear Sterns) were not part of the FDIC and thus could not receive money from the Federal Reserve because they were not real banks. They had to be re-classified as normal banks to make it legal to give them money. But that wasn't a problem because The Secretary of the Treasury at the time was a former CEO of Goldman Sachs.
I'll have you know that I am very cool. I listen to hip-hop.
Don't worry we already had patent reform. The America Invents Act. All fixed! Thank you Congress!
Two old adages: if you aren't paying, then you aren't the customer, you are the product, as well as "if you aren't at the table, you are on it."
When people stop wanting to consume corporate culture, then they are far freer from the fretters that come with it.
Even if you are paying, you may still be the product. Do you really think your TV provider isn't tracking everything you do with those nifty little boxes?
I remember the idea of a small tax on trading came up back in 08/09 when the government was trying to figure out how to fix the system. The big players killed that one off real quick.
I don't believe Access comes with a standard Office installation. And while it does have VBA built in which would allow you to write software to interact with the database, VBA is a horrible horrible language. In fact if you're really that masochistic why don't you go all out and write a VBA application in an Excel spreadsheet to interact with your Access database. You'll know you're doing it right if you feel really dirty the whole time you're writing it.
I don't see how that would be a problem. The issue with thumb drives is to avoid viruses that exploit autorun. Windows allows you to disable USB mass storage devices. Smart phones are not an issue unless you try to connect them to your computer, which wouldn't work because they would likely be recognized as mass storage devices and prevented from being mounted.
Yeah things like code completion and syntax checking are terrible for people trying to learn.
Just to chime in here years ago I bought some Sony ear buds. I had to RMA one pair because the cord self destructed. The replacement was an upgraded model that also self destructed, but this time after the warranty expired.
To be fair I had the same problem with Shure headphones. The rubber couldn't handle the oil from my skin and would eventually crack. But at least the Shures had a 2 year warranty rather than the 1 month BS the Sonys had. I guess it's not as big of a problem if you're not using ear buds you're in contact with all the time but I've sworn off of Sony because of this and other quality issues with their products. I would rather spend $100 more and get something that won't break and sounds much better anyway.
That's a shame. I've always gone there when I need a new pair of ear buds. That's how I found out about the Fischer Audio DBA-02s I bought over a year ago and couldn't be happier with. diyaudio looks like it's oriented more towards large sound systems and headroom desn't seem to cover the obscure brands.
Well, MS is somewhat to blame for providing the OEMs with keys that only let you activate copies of Windows installed by their crapware-loaded discs. At least this was the case last time I tried to use a normal disc on a new HP computer (admittedly it was Win XP).
Lately I've been using both Eclipse (for Python) and VS2010 (for C#) at work and I really don't get why people are so crazy about VS. I work with someone who kept talking about how great it is and when I asked why his only response was "Eclipse is slow".
The first thing I did when I installed VS2010 was look for a way to turn on the 80 character vertical line. I couldn't find it under the options so I searched Google. I got some instructions to install a third party plugin then edit my registry. It also seems to make quite a mess with the folder structure when creating a new project or solution, though I admit that could be my own failure to configure it properly.
Aside from the lack of the 80 character line the editor is much like any other. You can write code, autocomplete, etc. It has a decent debugger, maybe slightly better than other IDEs but not drastically. Qt has a much better GUI editor. And you really can't ignore Eclipse's extendability and the fact that you can zip up a copy of Eclipse with a bunch of plugins and hand it to someone as a preconfigured development tool. I just don't see what VS has that makes it sooo much better than everything else.
This is sort of my situation. I know there are certain items Best Buy completely rips you off on. I went in there to buy a hard drive and found out it was $20 over MSRP. Fry's had it for MSRP but was much farther away.
Though as far as cables go I never buy them from any physical store, Best Buy or otherwise. Any time I realize I need something I just buy a few from Monoprice. My dad got confused between my Monoprice cable and the Monster cable Best Buy sold him because the ~$1 Monoprice one had filters and the Monster cable didn't.
I tried TaxAct a couple of years ago and it was good but I ended up not using it. I forget what the exact problem was that drove me away, but one unfortunate thing about it was that most other services (such as Charles Schwab) allow TurboTax to pull information directly. The process for TaxAct wasn't nearly as simple. I know it's not TaxAct's fault and I've been meaning to give them another shot. Maybe next year I will (filed my taxes back in February).
Laugh all you want but I really have been afraid of this. Vista is the most recent version of Windows Microsoft gave me for free. When it stops working I'm in for a lot more WINE configuration unless Microsoft realizes how awesome I am and sends me a free copy of their latest OS.
I buy a decent amount of music. I'm just finding that most of the stuff I listen to is not on an RIAA label and tends to be from other countries. The RIAA stuff I do listen to are bands that have been around a long time (like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden). The internet made it possible to find good music from all over the world rather than buying whatever is on the radio, and it turns out people on the other side of the world aren't as eager to move to Hollywood to get screwed over by a big record label.
Unfortunately by the time we get the technology to move the Earth any workable plan to do so would rely on patents that make it prohibitively expensive to execute. We're pretty much screwed.
So he likes KDE, Iron Maiden, and Jimi Hendrix? And he tries to weed out astroturfers? Sounds like a pretty awesome dude.
If it's watching for badly managed turns does that mean I get deductions from my next bill every time I nail the apex?
That's just a decision you'll have to make. Do you really want to swerve and slam on the brakes and take the premium hike or will it cost less to just take a scrape and make him pay for it without reporting the incident?
As someone who has recently been looking at washing machines I think I should correct this.
If you're looking for a washing machine that will last over 10 years problem free they exist but they aren't made in the U.S. or China. You go for Miele (German), Bosch (German), or Asko (Swedish -- only the small capacity ones are made in Sweden though). So we're seeing the same thing that happened in the automobile industry. Eventually the consumers wise up and buy from the guys who consistently offer quality (mostly Germany). American manufacturers could have an advantage because the downside of German is usually customer service and having to import parts for repair, but American businesses would all prefer to fight over the potentially more profitable "as cheap as possible" market rather than trying to build and maintain a good reputation.
In some fields, Chinese companies have recognized that there is a market for quality and they happily fill that need. Lenovo and Gigabyte come to mind. So I do see a rise in the market for quality goods, especially now that we can use the internet to make informed purchases. Unfortunately, it isn't happening with American companies and it isn't happening with things made in the U.S.
I don't know. Passing this bill might work out for the best.
It is backed by Ron Wyden who is pretty consistently on the right side of things and they're inviting everyone to give input and craft the bill. I'm only worried that someone will manage to add a bunch of garbage to it.
On the other hand, Hollywood has convinced enough politicians that we have to do *something* about copyright infringement so I don't see this fight ending until they pass something. I would prefer it be this over something closer to SOPA/PIPA.
This is really just a digital version of writing on the document. Storing it in a separate file is an obvious way of implementing this feature on a digital device. Modifying the original file is another way of implementing it but these are the types of design decisions software developers deal with on a daily basis and giving patents that span multiple decades for them is absurd.