peddle/pedl/Verb
1. Try to sell (something, esp. small goods) by going from house to house or place to place.
2. Sell (an illegal drug or stolen item).
pedal/pe-dl/noun
1 : a lever pressed by the foot in the playing of a musical instrument (as an organ or piano)
2 : a foot lever or treadle by which a part is activated in a mechanism
Next time buy Lenovo. Where I work, the T60, T61 and T400 models in use all use the same power block, and that very same power block powers the docking station. That's 4-5 years now that Lenovo has had a standardized power supply and even uses the same one for docking station and laptop.
That depends on what tasks you use it for. The AMD is quite competitive for gaming, 3d modeling/CAD and a number of other tasks.
Not to mention that when you compare a $300 AMD to a $300 Intel setup, you end up with a hexacore processor running against a quad. If you run programs that can utilize those extra cores, the performance difference is pretty much non-existent. Not to mention you don't have to triple check to make sure AMD hasn't disabled hardware virtualization for no good reason or otherwise crippled their chips. Spend $50 more on the AMD processor and add a $50 aftermarket cooler on it and overclock it a good bit. I have a significantly overclocked AMD quad core that beats the pants off a similarly priced Intel of the same era and spent about $50 less. If I were to upgrade right now, I'd go with a 12-core Opteron mostly because I use my workstation for virtualization a lot, and 12 cores means I can boot up a virtual server with 2 cores, a few virtual workstations on a core each, and still have plenty of cores left idle for other tasks.
Every application on Android that uses GPS or Coarse location data explicitly tells you it does when you install it, and if upgraded, it also tells you that it pulls location data if it still uses it, or if the upgrade added that feature.
Nothing on the Android store can use GPS data without you knowing.
One thing would help would be to make bachelor's and master's require something more than paying tuition and sitting your ass in a chair for a few hours a few days a week. Most of the "graduate" level classes I've been in/around have people in them that don't know the difference between your/you're/yore and their/there/they're among other 3rd grade level English rules. These are not non-native English speakers either.
Pretty much the only thing required to get a bachelor's/master's is being there and turning in something for each paper/project. It's nearly impossible to fail unless you skip class or fail to do assignments. Until a significant portion of those who start college actually fail out and are unable to get a degree simply by being there, the "education inflation" won't ever stop.
Make getting a bachelor's or master's mean something and less people will have to get a PhD. Right now, unless you get a PhD, you basically have proved that you can pay some cash and follow simple directions. It does not, in no way whatsoever, prove you actually know a damn thing.
Don't forget multitasking, at the time, was seen as a "power user" option only. We'd experimented with all sorts of crap such as dos-based task switchers (remember Desqview 386?) but it was regarded that most people didn't want or need multitasking. They wrote a letter in Wordstar 4, then they loaded Lotus 1-2-3 to do their spreadsheets. Do both at the same time? that was far too confusing for "normal" people. I know it sounds silly now, but that was genuinely what IT management thought back in those days.
Obviously you don't work in IT, as I can confirm that even to this day, the average computer "user" gets confused with simple things such as multitasking.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Someone obviously hacked your code and caused your computer to remove the space between "no" and "one." Either that, or you know someone whose name is "Noone" which is an odd name indeed.
Tell that to Microsoft! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx
I hate it every time I see "x64" too, but I think the battle is lost on getting the ignorant masses to realize that there is no such thing.
So that's there are DOZENS of add-ons that ALREADY block google's ads in Chrome?? Right...
And that's why Chrome ALREADY allows you to shut off JS? Right...
Perhaps you should spend less time posting here, and more time removing your foot from your mouth.
Is it really that god-damn hard to just go the speed limit? All the time?
I'm firmly in favor of progressive penalties for doing completely avoidable things while driving, such as speeding, being the 5th car in a row of people making a left turn on red. Sure, the first guy needs to clear the intersection, and maybe the second if it's a big intersection, but around here, you'll see people 3 or 4 cars behind the start of the intersection just follow the people in front of them through, well after the red and well after the other direction of traffic has a green. They already have a red light, they are already at a complete stop behind the start of the intersection, yet they decide to hit the gas, on a red, proceed into the intersection, on a red, all because what, they are more important than everyone else around them? They have a right to make people who now have a green wait on them?
My suggestion:
First time someone does stupid crap like this: standard fine
Second time: 3x standard
Third time: 10x and 3 month suspension
Fourth time: 50x fine and 5 year suspension
Fifth time: Permanent suspension
Penalty for driving while under suspension: spending the duration of said suspension in jail, ie 3 months, 5 years, life. Again, this is a completely avoidable crime. It take a TON of WILLFUL decisions to have a car and get behind the wheel while you have a suspended license.
Driving is a privilege and there is NO REASON AT ALL to not follow the few, simple rules.
$20 more for what? A processor that runs hotter "ALL THE TIME", uses more battery "ALL THE TIME" and requires louder fans "ALL THE TIME". No thanks, I prefer my laptop to be cool, quiet and have long battery life. If I can save $20 in the process, that's just a bonus.
I wonder how long until this becomes part of the Symantec Suite of malware that comes pre-installed as a trial in most big-box computers. Just think of the kind of money they'll rake in when the 60 days is up and the user is unable to decrypt their data...
Of course, I'm sure it won't be encrypted by default, but it will certainly have some big red flashy box letting users know their computer is "at risk" and give them a shiny button to click to set up whole disk encryption. Then when the trial period is over, the passphrase quits working until they re-activate their encryption. Brilliant!!!
Perhaps you should try "Anti-Executable" by the same company that makes Deep-freeze and other security software, Faronics. Here's a link to it: http://www.faronics.com/en/Products/AntiExecutable/AntiExecutableCorporate.aspx
It's not automatic though, I think you have to actually set up the list of programs that are allowed to run. Also note that a lot of stuff uses one.exe to spawn other.exe files, so you can't just whitelist the.exes linked to in your application shortcuts.
It's not too much different than how most linux distros maintain their repositories. If Apple simply limited it to not approving malicious applications, it'd be fine. Having a single, easy to use and trusted source for your applications is a good thing, and sure beats downloading random crap from wherever on the internet and hoping that it doesn't send you personal information and credit card numbers to China or something.
I think the role of government should be as little as possible -- provide services that are otherwise impossible, like a military force, roads, water / sewer, police, fire, etc.
Except things like AFFORDABLE health care are also not available anywhere other than from the government. Last I checked, the goal of private health care is to cover as little as possible, reject as many claims as possible and charge as much as possible for it. Government health care is 180 degrees opposite that. Don't go trying to claim that "competition" between companies promotes anything other than than the claim-denying, pre-existing condition denying, price-gouging system we have today, because that's false, not to mention I can't buy out of state insurance, so it's not really competition anyway.
Amazing! All this time I thought that the MAJORITY of diseases were communicable...
Oh, wait, they are. So you not getting treated when you get sick DOES affect me.
Plus, it's been proven a million times that preventative medicine is FAR cheaper than reactive. People without health insurance forgo cheaper preventative medicine, then end up with catastrophic reactive costs, costs which often end up getting paid by everyone else, either through government programs, or by the hospital needing to charge more for MY procedures due to them having taken a loss on YOU.
Health insurance is no different when it comes to benefiting others just as much, if not more than, it benefits individuals.
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peddle/pedl/Verb 1. Try to sell (something, esp. small goods) by going from house to house or place to place. 2. Sell (an illegal drug or stolen item). pedal/pe-dl/noun 1 : a lever pressed by the foot in the playing of a musical instrument (as an organ or piano) 2 : a foot lever or treadle by which a part is activated in a mechanism
I highly doubt any of these guys use Windows...
Next time buy Lenovo. Where I work, the T60, T61 and T400 models in use all use the same power block, and that very same power block powers the docking station. That's 4-5 years now that Lenovo has had a standardized power supply and even uses the same one for docking station and laptop.
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That depends on what tasks you use it for. The AMD is quite competitive for gaming, 3d modeling/CAD and a number of other tasks. Not to mention that when you compare a $300 AMD to a $300 Intel setup, you end up with a hexacore processor running against a quad. If you run programs that can utilize those extra cores, the performance difference is pretty much non-existent. Not to mention you don't have to triple check to make sure AMD hasn't disabled hardware virtualization for no good reason or otherwise crippled their chips. Spend $50 more on the AMD processor and add a $50 aftermarket cooler on it and overclock it a good bit. I have a significantly overclocked AMD quad core that beats the pants off a similarly priced Intel of the same era and spent about $50 less. If I were to upgrade right now, I'd go with a 12-core Opteron mostly because I use my workstation for virtualization a lot, and 12 cores means I can boot up a virtual server with 2 cores, a few virtual workstations on a core each, and still have plenty of cores left idle for other tasks.
Every application on Android that uses GPS or Coarse location data explicitly tells you it does when you install it, and if upgraded, it also tells you that it pulls location data if it still uses it, or if the upgrade added that feature. Nothing on the Android store can use GPS data without you knowing.
One thing would help would be to make bachelor's and master's require something more than paying tuition and sitting your ass in a chair for a few hours a few days a week. Most of the "graduate" level classes I've been in/around have people in them that don't know the difference between your/you're/yore and their/there/they're among other 3rd grade level English rules. These are not non-native English speakers either. Pretty much the only thing required to get a bachelor's/master's is being there and turning in something for each paper/project. It's nearly impossible to fail unless you skip class or fail to do assignments. Until a significant portion of those who start college actually fail out and are unable to get a degree simply by being there, the "education inflation" won't ever stop. Make getting a bachelor's or master's mean something and less people will have to get a PhD. Right now, unless you get a PhD, you basically have proved that you can pay some cash and follow simple directions. It does not, in no way whatsoever, prove you actually know a damn thing.
They made it to the top so fast because they were leaps and bounds better than the competition and still are.
Virii? Perhaps you should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in_-us There is no such word. Virii doesn't exist in English, nor does/did it exist in Latin.
Don't forget multitasking, at the time, was seen as a "power user" option only. We'd experimented with all sorts of crap such as dos-based task switchers (remember Desqview 386?) but it was regarded that most people didn't want or need multitasking. They wrote a letter in Wordstar 4, then they loaded Lotus 1-2-3 to do their spreadsheets. Do both at the same time? that was far too confusing for "normal" people. I know it sounds silly now, but that was genuinely what IT management thought back in those days.
Obviously you don't work in IT, as I can confirm that even to this day, the average computer "user" gets confused with simple things such as multitasking.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noone Pronoun noone 1. Common misspelling of no one. 2. Common misspelling of no-one. 3. Common misspelling of noöne.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. Someone obviously hacked your code and caused your computer to remove the space between "no" and "one." Either that, or you know someone whose name is "Noone" which is an odd name indeed.
Tell that to Microsoft! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/default.mspx
I hate it every time I see "x64" too, but I think the battle is lost on getting the ignorant masses to realize that there is no such thing.
So that's there are DOZENS of add-ons that ALREADY block google's ads in Chrome?? Right... And that's why Chrome ALREADY allows you to shut off JS? Right... Perhaps you should spend less time posting here, and more time removing your foot from your mouth.
Is it really that god-damn hard to just go the speed limit? All the time? I'm firmly in favor of progressive penalties for doing completely avoidable things while driving, such as speeding, being the 5th car in a row of people making a left turn on red. Sure, the first guy needs to clear the intersection, and maybe the second if it's a big intersection, but around here, you'll see people 3 or 4 cars behind the start of the intersection just follow the people in front of them through, well after the red and well after the other direction of traffic has a green. They already have a red light, they are already at a complete stop behind the start of the intersection, yet they decide to hit the gas, on a red, proceed into the intersection, on a red, all because what, they are more important than everyone else around them? They have a right to make people who now have a green wait on them? My suggestion: First time someone does stupid crap like this: standard fine Second time: 3x standard Third time: 10x and 3 month suspension Fourth time: 50x fine and 5 year suspension Fifth time: Permanent suspension Penalty for driving while under suspension: spending the duration of said suspension in jail, ie 3 months, 5 years, life. Again, this is a completely avoidable crime. It take a TON of WILLFUL decisions to have a car and get behind the wheel while you have a suspended license. Driving is a privilege and there is NO REASON AT ALL to not follow the few, simple rules.
$20 more for what? A processor that runs hotter "ALL THE TIME", uses more battery "ALL THE TIME" and requires louder fans "ALL THE TIME". No thanks, I prefer my laptop to be cool, quiet and have long battery life. If I can save $20 in the process, that's just a bonus.
I think his point is the fact that you are still paying bills for your cancer treatments...something most Europeans wouldn't ever have to do.
I wonder how long until this becomes part of the Symantec Suite of malware that comes pre-installed as a trial in most big-box computers. Just think of the kind of money they'll rake in when the 60 days is up and the user is unable to decrypt their data... Of course, I'm sure it won't be encrypted by default, but it will certainly have some big red flashy box letting users know their computer is "at risk" and give them a shiny button to click to set up whole disk encryption. Then when the trial period is over, the passphrase quits working until they re-activate their encryption. Brilliant!!!
That's what "Jury Nullification" is for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Perhaps you should try "Anti-Executable" by the same company that makes Deep-freeze and other security software, Faronics. Here's a link to it: http://www.faronics.com/en/Products/AntiExecutable/AntiExecutableCorporate.aspx It's not automatic though, I think you have to actually set up the list of programs that are allowed to run. Also note that a lot of stuff uses one .exe to spawn other .exe files, so you can't just whitelist the .exes linked to in your application shortcuts.
It's not too much different than how most linux distros maintain their repositories. If Apple simply limited it to not approving malicious applications, it'd be fine. Having a single, easy to use and trusted source for your applications is a good thing, and sure beats downloading random crap from wherever on the internet and hoping that it doesn't send you personal information and credit card numbers to China or something.
But I don't want to pay for some 80 year old grannies new hip.
Unless that 80 year old granny is your granny, or yourself/spouse in a number of years. Right?
I think the role of government should be as little as possible -- provide services that are otherwise impossible, like a military force, roads, water / sewer, police, fire, etc.
Except things like AFFORDABLE health care are also not available anywhere other than from the government. Last I checked, the goal of private health care is to cover as little as possible, reject as many claims as possible and charge as much as possible for it. Government health care is 180 degrees opposite that. Don't go trying to claim that "competition" between companies promotes anything other than than the claim-denying, pre-existing condition denying, price-gouging system we have today, because that's false, not to mention I can't buy out of state insurance, so it's not really competition anyway.
Amazing! All this time I thought that the MAJORITY of diseases were communicable... Oh, wait, they are. So you not getting treated when you get sick DOES affect me. Plus, it's been proven a million times that preventative medicine is FAR cheaper than reactive. People without health insurance forgo cheaper preventative medicine, then end up with catastrophic reactive costs, costs which often end up getting paid by everyone else, either through government programs, or by the hospital needing to charge more for MY procedures due to them having taken a loss on YOU. Health insurance is no different when it comes to benefiting others just as much, if not more than, it benefits individuals.
one of the ten fastest computers in the worls uses Linux as its OS.
One of ten? How about ALL ten.