It's a wonder they didn't tell you to reboot your modem, reboot your PC and verify that the network card is listed in Device Manager.
You know, that puzzles me. I have Charter and I have called them maybe 10 or 12 times over the two years I've had their cable modem service. Now, I pay for the top package, so that might be why I get better treatment, but I have always had a very positive experience with them. And they don't care a whit that I have assloads of computers on my home network -- they've even helped me troubleshoot home networking problems.
I know this is one of those "It works for me!" posts, but, well...I sometimes wonder if you're all cranky on the phone or something.
If you can't get the tech support to help, try escalating and turboing the problem
This is important. It's surprising how many people will get a moronic brick wall from 1st level tech support and then go "Nuts, what now?" Turboing is as simple as calling up the CEO and saying "Can you please tell me who in your organization can help me with this problem?" The CEO then hands off the problem directly to a capable person within the company. This way, it's like the CEO's problem that needs fixing, and so it gets done pronto.
All you need for making reasonable economic decisions you can learn in one macro econ course. In a money-driven economy, e.g. the financial sector, the more funds move around the more money everybody makes. Any broker can tell you that, and it's the basis of things like stocks.
Simple transition: in an information economy, e.g. the IT sector (and everything tech related), the more information moves around the more innovation happens -- and the more that innovation helps everyone in the entire sector. If you're too slow to follow, that means increased business investment.
Basic economic theory dictates that the more you slow information flow down, the less innovation you will get, and the more stagnant business investment will become.
It feels so good to read something like this. Of course, all the links are already slashdotted, so it's incredibly light on details yet, but yeehaw it would be great to see this proven out.
The opening bit at the top from Starr's legislative assistant made me think of something my brother told me. He did a stint as a staffer for U.S. House Rep Dick Army. I asked him what the effect was of people submitting their opinion to their representative in Congress. My brother made the following points:
If you send your opinion on one side of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, it will get to the decision maker and have an effect on his/her opinion.
The "decision maker" is the senior staffer in charge of that content area. The Rep just asks the staffer what opinion to have, because it's impossible to have an informed opinion on thousands of issues.
If nobody from the constituency submits an opinion, the staffer will go with whatever the lobbyists tell him/her.
The staffers are not subject matter experts on anything except being a staffer.
The take-home was that just typing up a short opinion and mailing it to your rep's office has a tremendous effect on the political process.
OMG you can get 4380234 FPS with the ATI card but only 4380100 FPS with the nVidia card!!!! ATI 0wnZ nVidia!!! Whoever would buy nVidia is a l4m3 n00b!
This is why I don't like ATI. First off, their driver-writing skills are not good, and never have been. But the main issue I have is that, when I owned ATI cards (little more than a year ago) they had a statement on their web site to the effect of "Linux drivers are not going to happen. Piss off." When they finally had some drivers, they would not support such "ancient" hardware as the VE chipset (i.e., 7000 series), and, as per my first point, the drivers they released sucked ass anyway and aren't being maintained well at all (see parent).
The pervasiveness of american culture and media (cinema, McDonalds, nike trainers.... maybe I mean corporate american culture and media) means that everyone in the world not in the US has knowledge of at least two cultures, that of US corporatism and their own, and when one is seen to be overpowering the other it leads to conflict.
Let's take the lefty propoganda down a notch. There is no "culture of US corporatism" stomping around evilly destroying foreign victims. How about we apply a much simpler theory that doesn't require a bunch of convoluted motives?
Because we have the freedom to pursue whatever business we like, Americans have gotten very good at supplying what people want. In other words, people have a much easier time satisifying desires [1] in the U.S. than in, say, Saudi Arabia. It seems like simple logic to me that any human being would naturally gravitate toward systems that bring greater satisfaction. There, no complex motives required, just basic human behavior.
Now if you want to talk about motives, the likely reason there is a reaction against choosing the American way of life is that there are people (i.e., dictators, zealots) benefiting from the status quo who don't want to see that go away. Joe Saudi might say what the cleric tells him to say vis a vis the U.S., but he does so while wearing a GAP shirt and Sketchers on his feet.
[1] Desires means, for example, praying how you like or reading a book of your choice as much as it means eating a Big Mac and watching X2.
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This article is probably too stale to start a new thread, but what the hey. There are two SF books that I really enjoyed that have privacy as a main theme. One is The Light of Other Days by Clarke and Baxter, and the other is Earth
by Brin. The era is quickly coming in which we will not have privacy of any kind, and we should just get used to it. What makes privacy issues ugly is when "one side" gets to know things and the "other side" doesn't. But if everyone has equal access to all knowledge, things work out well.
in reality, over 95% of bands do not make money touring...[They] lose money playing out. Lucky to get a beer for a show.
Are you sure about that? That sounds like BS to me. A lot of bands make a fair living playing gigs. Sure it might not be their full-time job, but so what. Probably 95% of writers can't live full time on their writing either (or at least not on a single writing job). People aren't morons. If the thousands of small bands playing gig to gig were losing money each time they did it, they would stop real quick.
humans have a history of using [gender] differences for the greater bad
Correction: That may be true for the last few thousand years (post invention of agriculture) but for the last, oh, million years the leveraging of gender differences have afforded humans great success in virtually every environment on earth. A tribe of hunter-gatherers circa 50,000 BCE using their biological gender differences to bring prosperity to the tribe does not sound like "the greater bad" to me.
the constitution protects my right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of the Press
I will take some of whatever you are smoking. That is a nice theory, but unfortunately your constitutional protections have been under assult for a long time now, and they nolongerapply.
I personally think the Matrix is cheese...CHEESE..and not even real cheese, like cheeze in a can.
Troll, ahoy. But I think you are egregiously off. I am a literary critisicm fellow, and what grabbed me about The Matrix was its epic/heroic/mythic themes. I found the "humans as batteries" concept complete BS as a scientific speculation, but as a mythic theme, HOLY SHIT that is good stuff. Star Wars did the same thing (originally, in IV) with the mechanistic, soulless Empire as "the State" crushing your will to self-realization. Only The Matrix did it so much more personally and powerfully.
The liability he may have for [direct infringement] could easily force him to settle with the RIAA without ever bringing up the more-questionable "contributory infringement" copyright issues to court.
Ding, ding, ding! You win the prize. The RIAA does not believe it will collect nearly 100 billion dollars from a college student. They do, however, believe they can threaten this fellow with, let's say, 100,000 dollars in direct infringement liability -- a number they could probably get a judge to buy -- and get him to cave. NDA the settlement and then go tell Congress how this proves they're up against 100-billion-dollar "piracy emporiums" on Uni campuses.
You know, just like they seized the equivalent of 421 CD burners.
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There's no "U" or "D" going on here. OK maybe just a little "FU" but mainly "F".
am I the only person on/. that doesn't like farscape?
No.
I know it's got a story arc and all, but I forced myself to watch through about 8 episodes when Sci-Fi was running Farscape and B5 back to back a year or so ago. Although I really loved B5, I couldn't stand the, um, "demented" aspect of Farscape with the creepy fetish-like costumes, torture scenes (in virtually every episode), etc.
Since when did blatant conspiracy theory become insightful?
Agreed. And at any rate the idea that GWB could be undertaking war as a business venture is absurd. The inbound estimate for the price of war against Iraq is 100 billion - 200 billion dollars. Given that the outcome of war is extremely uncertain (i.e., no one can predict whether oil companies will benefit or be harmed from this action), that is a horrible business gamble by any stretch of the imagination.
This is just one more example of how China is going to blow right past the U.S. in the next 20 years. While we are busy sticking our heads up our own assess with "intellectual property" lawsuits China will be busy creating new prodcuts and new applications for existing ware. Also, c.f., Lunar mining, et al.
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You know, that puzzles me. I have Charter and I have called them maybe 10 or 12 times over the two years I've had their cable modem service. Now, I pay for the top package, so that might be why I get better treatment, but I have always had a very positive experience with them. And they don't care a whit that I have assloads of computers on my home network -- they've even helped me troubleshoot home networking problems.
I know this is one of those "It works for me!" posts, but, well...I sometimes wonder if you're all cranky on the phone or something.
This is important. It's surprising how many people will get a moronic brick wall from 1st level tech support and then go "Nuts, what now?" Turboing is as simple as calling up the CEO and saying "Can you please tell me who in your organization can help me with this problem?" The CEO then hands off the problem directly to a capable person within the company. This way, it's like the CEO's problem that needs fixing, and so it gets done pronto.
Simple transition: in an information economy, e.g. the IT sector (and everything tech related), the more information moves around the more innovation happens -- and the more that innovation helps everyone in the entire sector. If you're too slow to follow, that means increased business investment. Basic economic theory dictates that the more you slow information flow down, the less innovation you will get, and the more stagnant business investment will become.
Insightful? No. Bullshit? Yes.
See sig. This is not a "science fiction movie" a la The Twilight Zone or Star Trek or any other shit story writing that you are used to.
PLEASE mod parent up. This is as good a point as ever gets made on /.
The take-home was that just typing up a short opinion and mailing it to your rep's office has a tremendous effect on the political process.
Let's take the lefty propoganda down a notch. There is no "culture of US corporatism" stomping around evilly destroying foreign victims. How about we apply a much simpler theory that doesn't require a bunch of convoluted motives?
Because we have the freedom to pursue whatever business we like, Americans have gotten very good at supplying what people want. In other words, people have a much easier time satisifying desires [1] in the U.S. than in, say, Saudi Arabia. It seems like simple logic to me that any human being would naturally gravitate toward systems that bring greater satisfaction. There, no complex motives required, just basic human behavior.
Now if you want to talk about motives, the likely reason there is a reaction against choosing the American way of life is that there are people (i.e., dictators, zealots) benefiting from the status quo who don't want to see that go away. Joe Saudi might say what the cleric tells him to say vis a vis the U.S., but he does so while wearing a GAP shirt and Sketchers on his feet.
[1] Desires means, for example, praying how you like or reading a book of your choice as much as it means eating a Big Mac and watching X2.
Plink, plink.
Are you sure about that? That sounds like BS to me. A lot of bands make a fair living playing gigs. Sure it might not be their full-time job, but so what. Probably 95% of writers can't live full time on their writing either (or at least not on a single writing job). People aren't morons. If the thousands of small bands playing gig to gig were losing money each time they did it, they would stop real quick.
Correction: That may be true for the last few thousand years (post invention of agriculture) but for the last, oh, million years the leveraging of gender differences have afforded humans great success in virtually every environment on earth. A tribe of hunter-gatherers circa 50,000 BCE using their biological gender differences to bring prosperity to the tribe does not sound like "the greater bad" to me.
I will take some of whatever you are smoking. That is a nice theory, but unfortunately your constitutional protections have been under assult for a long time now, and they no longer apply.
Oh if only it were so.
Dang. My Athlon 900 played it fine. Maybe you need a different player. I used IrfanView.
Goddammit where are my mod points when I need them the most? Mod it up!
Troll, ahoy. But I think you are egregiously off. I am a literary critisicm fellow, and what grabbed me about The Matrix was its epic/heroic/mythic themes. I found the "humans as batteries" concept complete BS as a scientific speculation, but as a mythic theme, HOLY SHIT that is good stuff. Star Wars did the same thing (originally, in IV) with the mechanistic, soulless Empire as "the State" crushing your will to self-realization. Only The Matrix did it so much more personally and powerfully.
No, it was not cheese at all.
Ding, ding, ding! You win the prize. The RIAA does not believe it will collect nearly 100 billion dollars from a college student. They do, however, believe they can threaten this fellow with, let's say, 100,000 dollars in direct infringement liability -- a number they could probably get a judge to buy -- and get him to cave. NDA the settlement and then go tell Congress how this proves they're up against 100-billion-dollar "piracy emporiums" on Uni campuses.
You know, just like they seized the equivalent of 421 CD burners.
I accept universal surveillance as long as I get equal powers of surveillance on those looking at me.
I think you discovered the killer application for this technology: the voice reads erotic stories to you while you surf pr0n.
No.
I know it's got a story arc and all, but I forced myself to watch through about 8 episodes when Sci-Fi was running Farscape and B5 back to back a year or so ago. Although I really loved B5, I couldn't stand the, um, "demented" aspect of Farscape with the creepy fetish-like costumes, torture scenes (in virtually every episode), etc.
Agreed. And at any rate the idea that GWB could be undertaking war as a business venture is absurd. The inbound estimate for the price of war against Iraq is 100 billion - 200 billion dollars. Given that the outcome of war is extremely uncertain (i.e., no one can predict whether oil companies will benefit or be harmed from this action), that is a horrible business gamble by any stretch of the imagination.