Did anyone else watch Dave Attell last night? He was in Charleston, and one of the places he stopped by was someone's house where they were having a LAN party. I must say it was pretty amusing to watch him try to figure out what was going on, but he did seem interested. Probably the best part was when he had a beer with the kids mom. =]
It's more cultural sensitivity than politically correctness. United Statesians tend to forget the rest of the world exists, and most of it did so long before the United States. It is important to recognize cultural differences and to respect them.
I consider myself a citizen of the United States of America. I have ancestors from Europe, but I am not a 'European-American' anymore than anyone is an Indian-American or African-American. I am as American as a Canadian and Mexican and Brazilian.
Besides, we're all human in the end, (unless we're non-human animals). My point is that labels such as these are pointless and only lead to more bigotry and hatred as they tend to create divides. Yes it is important to recognize where you came from and your ancestors, but it is more important to realize that your ancestors, where they lived, and their ancestors are NOT what defines you. You are what defines you. Ethnical classifications are becoming more and more moot anyway, due to extensive interbreeding, etc. I for one, wish that the need to even keep track of ethnicity on any form would be done away with all together.
In that case they shouldn't be allowed to back out of the deal. But that contract is only with one specific person. They don't have to sell it to everyone else for the same price if they change it before making contracts with other people. Otherwise raising or lowering prices on any product at any time would be illegal =]
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Unless he can get a false arrest suit through. But yeah, you can't sue for defamation or whatever just because you were arrested (if they had reason enough to justify you being arrested). Unless you're a minor, the media and everyone is free to tell the story of your arrest and why you were arrested. They just can't say that you actually committed the crime. They can say things like 'allegedly', etc. The media is usually very careful about these sort of things. If he is acquitted, then it's not on his record, and while people might remember it, they can't use it to keep from hiring him, deny services, etc.
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Sears has always had better customer service and warrantys than just about every place. Especially on their 'Craftsman' line of products. Lifetime warrantys, wheeeeeee...
Yep. The only thing you can do in the case of 'False Advertising' is get a Cease & Desist order to stop the advertising, but you don't get to sue their pants off.
I think that if it was a typo, and they can prove it (i.e., records of what the price was supposed to be and someone in data entry f'ed it up), then all of you whining that you want your $129 video card need to smack yourself in the forehead and pay up if you really want one.
If a store manager or other higher level employee (maybe even clerks, I'm not sure how they fit in) tells you that that is the price, that is a lot different. It is no longer an advertisement, but an offer for a contract. If you accept and agree to pay that price, then yes, you are entitled to your very cheap video card. Just because you say the advertisement somewhere and click 'ok' doesn't mean you're entitled to that price.
An 'Indian American' would be a United States Citizen/Otherwise who is from India. You're thinking of so-called 'Native Americans', who may or may not be the original inhabitants of the land which we call America. I believe there have been many remains found which do not show connection to 'Native Americans' and predate all 'Native American' bones, etc. that have been found. This leads me to believe that they were't necessarily the first either.
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They still owe me about $50 for a rebate I sent in nearly a year ago, any chance I'm ever going to get that check in the mail? And what I can do to get them to send it to me?
I don't have any linkage for you, but I guess I could walk outside and take some pictures. A local hospital is footing the bill for an approximately 3 mile monorail line in downtown Indianapolis to connect Methodist Hospital with the IUPUI Campus and all the hospitals around it.
Clarian Health, who owns most of these hospitals is foot the 34 million dollar bill for this, and the city will get monthly payments from them for taking land away I guess. I just have to find out if I can catch a ride to class on the thing, or if it will be limited to medical personel only.
I'm here in Indianapolis, so not too far from him (saw this story in the Star again today), who wants to get a group together and head out to ride this beast? =]
IP is a different story. I can't take Stephen King's latest novel, touch it up, and sell it under a very similar name and try to profit off of it. That's where the problem is.
Goods, services, IP, and software are all very different interrelated things.
I wonder how surprised the bnetd people were to hear from Vivendi that money is in their future. Ha.
Yes, I also found it surprising that you can sue someone because you think they're going to turn around make money off of something. On that basis, they could say that anyone making copies of their own vhs tapes, cds, whatever, should be sued because they are going to seek to profit from it.
We're not talking conspiracy to commit murder here, it's conspiracy to profit, and we have no proof!
Linux users didn't have to spend $200 on their OS, so they've got $200 more to spend on games than everyone else. Heh.. Just a thought.
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Well, it's a whole day into the Slashdot blackout, and it appears to have been largely unsuccessful. The total number of comments posted has changed marginally. It's remaining about the same even with 1/2 of us studying our brains out with finals coming up. The story about the lone gunmen still drew 400+ comments. Guess what? I've actually seen less trolls. Maybe all the blockouters were trolls. HAH!
It was more of a mixed comment. The person I replied made it sound like the wireless was part of the cpu. The story said that there was a system being built on a specific chipset that would have the wireless on it. I think that is cool, but that specific one, designed for a laptop, probably isn't going to have AGP or PCI support, so you would want a different chipset if you were going to put it in your desktop. Make sense?
I'll revise my statement a bit =] Computers could definitely be made smaller and more power efficient (for us power hungry USians, we just don't really care about power consumption too much, we leave our home pcs on 24/7 anyway, eh?) But, smaller pcs cost a little bit more, and the parts (such as a laptop hard drive) are a little more susceptible to damage. If you're that worried about space, go buy a new iMac.
PCI video is nice, but AGP is better. I'd argue for more than just games, but that's all I use that is heavy in the video department so I can't speak for it too much.
Also, is PCMCIA still limited to 11mpbs throughput? I haven't looked up on this lately, but that's another to consider in lieu of lack of PCI =]
Another odd note.. I just bought a small box and put a flex atx in it, so maybe I care about space too =]
Yes! Less regulation is better. *Hopefully* consumers will eventually be smart enough to see that they shouldn't deal with companies who abuse their personal information. Of course, if you end up having a lot of big corps abusing information like this, then I think there should be at least a "right to know" type of law where they are forced to make it clean and obvious what they are going to do with any information you provide them. If they lie, they pay big time.
The wireless ethernet is part of the chipset, so basically, it'd be like onboard ethernet, but why on earth would you want a friggin mobile cpu in a desktop? You don't have to worry about power consumption, space limitations, excessive heat, etc.
There are already alternatives for wireless on desktops as well, I believe linksys makes a PCI card for wireless now, you can also buy a pcmcia thingy for a desktop and slip a pcmcia wireless card in that.
The chipset probably won't have AGP or PCI support, or limited, so why on earth would you want it in a desktop?
The article does mention that: To cut energy consumption, Banias automatically shuts off its different subcomponents when not in use. Although it's designed for notebooks, the chip will also appear in thin "blade" servers.
I'm curious what the cost of turning off the subcomponents is to performance? Anyone have a clue?
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Did anyone else watch Dave Attell last night? He was in Charleston, and one of the places he stopped by was someone's house where they were having a LAN party. I must say it was pretty amusing to watch him try to figure out what was going on, but he did seem interested. Probably the best part was when he had a beer with the kids mom. =]
It's more cultural sensitivity than politically correctness. United Statesians tend to forget the rest of the world exists, and most of it did so long before the United States. It is important to recognize cultural differences and to respect them.
I consider myself a citizen of the United States of America. I have ancestors from Europe, but I am not a 'European-American' anymore than anyone is an Indian-American or African-American. I am as American as a Canadian and Mexican and Brazilian.
Besides, we're all human in the end, (unless we're non-human animals). My point is that labels such as these are pointless and only lead to more bigotry and hatred as they tend to create divides. Yes it is important to recognize where you came from and your ancestors, but it is more important to realize that your ancestors, where they lived, and their ancestors are NOT what defines you. You are what defines you. Ethnical classifications are becoming more and more moot anyway, due to extensive interbreeding, etc. I for one, wish that the need to even keep track of ethnicity on any form would be done away with all together.
In that case they shouldn't be allowed to back out of the deal. But that contract is only with one specific person. They don't have to sell it to everyone else for the same price if they change it before making contracts with other people. Otherwise raising or lowering prices on any product at any time would be illegal =]
Unless he can get a false arrest suit through. But yeah, you can't sue for defamation or whatever just because you were arrested (if they had reason enough to justify you being arrested). Unless you're a minor, the media and everyone is free to tell the story of your arrest and why you were arrested. They just can't say that you actually committed the crime. They can say things like 'allegedly', etc. The media is usually very careful about these sort of things. If he is acquitted, then it's not on his record, and while people might remember it, they can't use it to keep from hiring him, deny services, etc.
Sears has always had better customer service and warrantys than just about every place. Especially on their 'Craftsman' line of products. Lifetime warrantys, wheeeeeee...
Yep. The only thing you can do in the case of 'False Advertising' is get a Cease & Desist order to stop the advertising, but you don't get to sue their pants off.
I think that if it was a typo, and they can prove it (i.e., records of what the price was supposed to be and someone in data entry f'ed it up), then all of you whining that you want your $129 video card need to smack yourself in the forehead and pay up if you really want one.
If a store manager or other higher level employee (maybe even clerks, I'm not sure how they fit in) tells you that that is the price, that is a lot different. It is no longer an advertisement, but an offer for a contract. If you accept and agree to pay that price, then yes, you are entitled to your very cheap video card. Just because you say the advertisement somewhere and click 'ok' doesn't mean you're entitled to that price.
An 'Indian American' would be a United States Citizen/Otherwise who is from India. You're thinking of so-called 'Native Americans', who may or may not be the original inhabitants of the land which we call America. I believe there have been many remains found which do not show connection to 'Native Americans' and predate all 'Native American' bones, etc. that have been found. This leads me to believe that they were't necessarily the first either.
They still owe me about $50 for a rebate I sent in nearly a year ago, any chance I'm ever going to get that check in the mail? And what I can do to get them to send it to me?
I believe he had an open invitation for people to come ride it. It said so in the newspaper article, and I recall from the /. article as well.
I don't have any linkage for you, but I guess I could walk outside and take some pictures. A local hospital is footing the bill for an approximately 3 mile monorail line in downtown Indianapolis to connect Methodist Hospital with the IUPUI Campus and all the hospitals around it.
Clarian Health, who owns most of these hospitals is foot the 34 million dollar bill for this, and the city will get monthly payments from them for taking land away I guess. I just have to find out if I can catch a ride to class on the thing, or if it will be limited to medical personel only.
I'm here in Indianapolis, so not too far from him (saw this story in the Star again today), who wants to get a group together and head out to ride this beast? =]
to print your own of course! I was almost half hoping that's what this article was about.
Not to mention the countless businesses that make regular uses of them. Not everyone gets their cds pressed.
IP is a different story. I can't take Stephen King's latest novel, touch it up, and sell it under a very similar name and try to profit off of it. That's where the problem is.
Goods, services, IP, and software are all very different interrelated things.
I wonder how surprised the bnetd people were to hear from Vivendi that money is in their future. Ha.
Yes, I also found it surprising that you can sue someone because you think they're going to turn around make money off of something. On that basis, they could say that anyone making copies of their own vhs tapes, cds, whatever, should be sued because they are going to seek to profit from it.
We're not talking conspiracy to commit murder here, it's conspiracy to profit, and we have no proof!
Sony will also try to tell you that you have to register with them or your warranty isn't valid. Ran into this problem with a Sony Vaio.(sp?)
Linux users didn't have to spend $200 on their OS, so they've got $200 more to spend on games than everyone else. Heh.. Just a thought.
Well, it's a whole day into the Slashdot blackout, and it appears to have been largely unsuccessful. The total number of comments posted has changed marginally. It's remaining about the same even with 1/2 of us studying our brains out with finals coming up. The story about the lone gunmen still drew 400+ comments. Guess what? I've actually seen less trolls. Maybe all the blockouters were trolls. HAH!
They tried a disc made out of kevlar, still destroyed it. Aye..
It was more of a mixed comment. The person I replied made it sound like the wireless was part of the cpu. The story said that there was a system being built on a specific chipset that would have the wireless on it. I think that is cool, but that specific one, designed for a laptop, probably isn't going to have AGP or PCI support, so you would want a different chipset if you were going to put it in your desktop. Make sense?
I'll revise my statement a bit =] Computers could definitely be made smaller and more power efficient (for us power hungry USians, we just don't really care about power consumption too much, we leave our home pcs on 24/7 anyway, eh?) But, smaller pcs cost a little bit more, and the parts (such as a laptop hard drive) are a little more susceptible to damage. If you're that worried about space, go buy a new iMac.
PCI video is nice, but AGP is better. I'd argue for more than just games, but that's all I use that is heavy in the video department so I can't speak for it too much.
Also, is PCMCIA still limited to 11mpbs throughput? I haven't looked up on this lately, but that's another to consider in lieu of lack of PCI =]
Another odd note.. I just bought a small box and put a flex atx in it, so maybe I care about space too =]
Yes! Less regulation is better. *Hopefully* consumers will eventually be smart enough to see that they shouldn't deal with companies who abuse their personal information. Of course, if you end up having a lot of big corps abusing information like this, then I think there should be at least a "right to know" type of law where they are forced to make it clean and obvious what they are going to do with any information you provide them. If they lie, they pay big time.
The wireless ethernet is part of the chipset, so basically, it'd be like onboard ethernet, but why on earth would you want a friggin mobile cpu in a desktop? You don't have to worry about power consumption, space limitations, excessive heat, etc.
There are already alternatives for wireless on desktops as well, I believe linksys makes a PCI card for wireless now, you can also buy a pcmcia thingy for a desktop and slip a pcmcia wireless card in that.
The chipset probably won't have AGP or PCI support, or limited, so why on earth would you want it in a desktop?
The article does mention that:
To cut energy consumption, Banias automatically shuts off its different subcomponents when not in use. Although it's designed for notebooks, the chip will also appear in thin "blade" servers.
I'm curious what the cost of turning off the subcomponents is to performance? Anyone have a clue?
wow, BASIC in a sig. I'm going to die =]
Friend of mine had an Acer about 8 years ago that was black. They made some good pcs too, whatever happened to them?