Some mailmen walk and/or cycle when they deliver mail.
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Well, IMHO, most cards with the Orinoco or Prism 2 chipsets work well. I'm quite satisfied with my Microsoft MN-520 card (the horror!:-).
They're selling for cheaper than that driver, too. Heh.
BTW: If you remove the rectangular black sticker on top of the black plastic (it doesn't look like a sticker, so you might have to hunt for it) you may be surprised that it will reveal a jack for an antenna.
Being that the laser in Sony's PS2 is so weak I've seen consoles less than 1 year old worn out, is there any chance this device will have a laser that justifies the pricetag?
Re:which are the best of the....
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I don't know, but I have a tough time believing they're the ones that are only supported through a third-party NDIS interface to (generally crappy) windows drivers. I'd go with a card that has the manufacturer's support behind it anytime above one that's not even supposed to work.
>As for PCs, I'm pretty sure you can put a password on the BIOS, but if you lose it, you're screwed.
Exactly. You're screwed because you have to open the case screws and either remove the battery or short the CMOS clear jumper.
Oh, and unlike Macs, for the PC you can buy a hardware PCI card lock that will lock any unwanted changes from ocurring to the harddrive. Now those babies are N-E-A-T-O. They even include imaging software built into the card itself.
Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):
Try this dictionary. Unfortunately, the author has some copyright rules that'd make Microsoft cry, so it might not be the best source, although it is accurate.
BenQ is/was Acer. The proud manufacturers of old Apple laptops.
Let me just put it this way: Budget prices, budget brand, budget use. >:-D
We bought a couple of hundred 56i Acer monitors for labs at my old college. I do believe the failure rate approached 99%. In the end, a special deal was made so that the wholesaler could work on the warranty situation. All in all, it kept me busy!:-D
Yes, it most certainly does. RIM offered to donate money to the city in exchange for the city building a park in their name. Not all that complex, really.
>The city of Waterloo got screwed over by the same contractors that screwed over Windsor and Toronto around the same time. Bidding super low on big municipal projects and billing 5-10x the amount. Why the cities don't communicate and let the same company screw everybody over no one knows.
I'm not mentioning the scandal. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The fact is that RIM donated money to the city to get a park built in their name, and now the city's residents are having to pay for it.
Perhaps I'm bitter, but in my world you don't get to pay next to nothing for something, make others pay for most of it, and then get your name on it.
>Oh, maybe Mike Harris knows...
No, that'd be Dalton McGuinty, since he's the one holding the cards now. You know, the guy who makes 100 promises and breaks every single one of them? Yeah. That guy.
>RIM has sued tons of companies on patent infrigment (they patented every little thing they could).
Yup. That's how they got the nickname, "Lawsuits in Motion". Let's not forget about RIM Park, which they managed to weasel their name on to despite the city's population having to pay an additional $35.26 tax (5.47% of taxes overall) just to cover the city's funding of the park. Can someone explain to me how you can get your name on a park without either paying for the whole thing, or being a dead celebrity?
>But I think creating genetically-modified foods in the first place are terrorist activites!
"We're 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion; I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear."
-- Norman Borlaug on Penn and Teller's Bullshit! - "Eat This!", speaking on the effects of removing modern farming techniques and genetic engineering from the food supply.
Sorry. I'm gonna have to take the word of a man who is estimated to have saved 1 billion lives and has a nobel peace prize over yours. Hope you understand. Don't take it personally.
>How the hell is suggesting that you save a little bit of money make me a Troll?
Because it's nearly impossible to do?
Let's pretend we managed to put ALL expenses on hold. Saving up 6 months of paycheque in Canada, assuming you have an above average salary, will take about 12 months due to the tax levels in this country (there's more than just those percentages, too - many, many, many Canadians pay more than 50% of their income in tax before they see a dime).
Now, in the real world, you can't live without ANY money. So let's say we managed to cut expenses down to the point where they're half of our disposable income. We now need to wait 29 months (50% of income after tax + 15% sales taxes = 35% disposable).
To put a dollar amount on it, let's say you make $100,000 a year (if only!). You need to save $600,000 to save 6 months of salary.
$100,000 after income taxes (50%) is $50,000.
$50,000 * 12 months = $600,000.
$50,000 - ($25,000 * 1.15) = $21,250
$21,250 * 29 = $616,250
Over 2 years is not reasonable. That's 5% of your working lifetime.
>I just hope their programmers aren't unionized. Heads should roll for this one. In cases like this, you should be lucky if you aren't held 100% liable.
Not unless it was the programmers fault. The only errors that I'd consider it fair to hold them liable for are purposely tainting the code, or absolute incompetence (Not a missing break statement, but more like "Oh, you mean an int isn't for floating point math?").
>Just because it's common practice doesn't make it right.
No, what makes it right is that's how the banks themselves work. If he did do this (which he doesn't admit), he's simply following by example.
In fact, what makes it right is that's EXACTLY how new money gets printed. Yup. New money gets flushed into the system from nowhere each time someone does this. I can explain if you'd like...:-)
Keep floating the cheques. You're keeping the economy moving. (But be smart enough to be reasonably sure you can pay them).
>I'm not trying to be an troll or anything, I just think that you share a part of the blame for your checks bouncing.
The minute the banks share their part of the blame for becoming the money printers rather than the federal government, I think I'd agree.
>There was once this material called 'metal' (pronounced me' tal).
Yes, quite tasty metals, such as lead, aluminum, and cadmium.
Can I be the first to have that cool mercury trackball?
Re:"ALLLOT" IS NOT A WORD!
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irregardless is not a word, it's an word that idiots use because they think it makes them look clever. "regardless" would be fine. "irrespective" would be fine. But no, you have to show the world what an idiot you are.
Incorrect. Quoted from m-w.com:
Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word."
There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
Just to whet your grammarian appetite, squoze is in the dictionary, too. My next mission: Find the word "shooted" in a popular dictionary.
virii is not a word.
Virii is as much not a word as smush is not a word. It's a play on words, and a funny one at that. If you don't share my humour, that's your prerogative. That said, almost 1/2 million people do (check regular google & groups). Belittling people who use it amongst supposed friends who perfectly understand its meaning as a computer related only entity disparate from animal viruses is petty, and, overall, not cool. Especially when you, yourself, know the meaning.
>The people as a whole are far smarter than anti-democrats think they are.
If only. To prove adults are just as stupid, Penn and Teller did their own DHMO questionnaire and presented it to a set of people who should be best informed on such issues, environmentalists. The majority of them voted in favour of banning water.
>You're making the typical (wrong) assumption that more direct democracy removes Constitutional protections automagically.
Ahhh, sorry. I suppose constitutional amendments don't count. That's fine. Allow me to rephrase, then:
Q: Should everyone making less than $250,000 be without any form of tax, while those making over $250,000 be imposed a sliding tax rate to produce a total income after tax of less than $250,000?
>Most common use for car codes: fixing your car...
...with "pirate" parts. I doubt the people who would benefit from this legislation will be going to the original dealers for parts. Instead, they'll use knockoff parts, similar to the ones the original engineers spent so long designing and creating, but just created from a copy of the originals (a lot like ripping a DVD game) with zero engineering overhead.
It's really a lot like a few modchippers play copied games illegally. Instead, of course, copied car parts are legal pretty much anywhere, whereas knockoff games are outlawed in most places.
>This is not an invasion of privacy, nor is it some grandiose conspiracy.
No, it's just a big fat boring waste of my time and absolutely illegal just a couple of hundred miles north (where I am), because it is, in fact, an invasion of privacy (ask the canadian privacy commissioner if you don't believe me).
Personally, I don't read any NYT stuff because I have more important things to do, like actually ENJOYING wasting my time on slashdot posting comments like this. I'd also tell someone handing out free physical newspapers to screw off if they handed me a multipage form to fill out to get one.
You'd be surprised at what a slippery slope this information requirements can be. That's the whole reason we got this legislation in Canada. We got tired of telling the teenager at radioshack where we live so we can buy a pack of batteries. We got tired of handing over our Driver's Licence or SIN just to buy a satellite system (no, not subscribe, just to walk out the door of a store with one). People are too busy for that.
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Some mailmen walk and/or cycle when they deliver mail.
Well, IMHO, most cards with the Orinoco or Prism 2 chipsets work well. I'm quite satisfied with my Microsoft MN-520 card (the horror! :-).
They're selling for cheaper than that driver, too. Heh.
BTW: If you remove the rectangular black sticker on top of the black plastic (it doesn't look like a sticker, so you might have to hunt for it) you may be surprised that it will reveal a jack for an antenna.
Being that the laser in Sony's PS2 is so weak I've seen consoles less than 1 year old worn out, is there any chance this device will have a laser that justifies the pricetag?
I don't know, but I have a tough time believing they're the ones that are only supported through a third-party NDIS interface to (generally crappy) windows drivers. I'd go with a card that has the manufacturer's support behind it anytime above one that's not even supposed to work.
Just my opinion, of course.
$19.95 is the cost (if not more) of a new wireless network card that is already linux supported.
Also, $14.95 is *more* than the cost of a linux supported modem. CRAZY.
Who's buying these licenses? If they were both $4.99 or less, it might makes sense.
>As for PCs, I'm pretty sure you can put a password on the BIOS, but if you lose it, you're screwed.
Exactly. You're screwed because you have to open the case screws and either remove the battery or short the CMOS clear jumper.
Oh, and unlike Macs, for the PC you can buy a hardware PCI card lock that will lock any unwanted changes from ocurring to the harddrive. Now those babies are N-E-A-T-O. They even include imaging software built into the card itself.
>Uh, that guy is a nut
Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):
Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.
Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?
And the magic Canadian Only answer is...
..."Soft Drink". It's what's on the menu at Swiss Chalet.
Try this dictionary. Unfortunately, the author has some copyright rules that'd make Microsoft cry, so it might not be the best source, although it is accurate.
BenQ is/was Acer. The proud manufacturers of old Apple laptops.
:-D
Let me just put it this way: Budget prices, budget brand, budget use. >:-D
We bought a couple of hundred 56i Acer monitors for labs at my old college. I do believe the failure rate approached 99%. In the end, a special deal was made so that the wholesaler could work on the warranty situation. All in all, it kept me busy!
If what you are saying is true, I'm even more deeply depressed with this city and RIM than before (The employees paid the donation? Ugh.) Oh well...
>RIM Park has nothing to do to RIM.
Yes, it most certainly does. RIM offered to donate money to the city in exchange for the city building a park in their name. Not all that complex, really.
>The city of Waterloo got screwed over by the same contractors that screwed over Windsor and Toronto around the same time. Bidding super low on big municipal projects and billing 5-10x the amount. Why the cities don't communicate and let the same company screw everybody over no one knows.
I'm not mentioning the scandal. Two wrongs don't make a right.
The fact is that RIM donated money to the city to get a park built in their name, and now the city's residents are having to pay for it.
Perhaps I'm bitter, but in my world you don't get to pay next to nothing for something, make others pay for most of it, and then get your name on it.
>Oh, maybe Mike Harris knows...
No, that'd be Dalton McGuinty, since he's the one holding the cards now. You know, the guy who makes 100 promises and breaks every single one of them? Yeah. That guy.
>RIM has sued tons of companies on patent infrigment (they patented every little thing they could).
Yup. That's how they got the nickname, "Lawsuits in Motion". Let's not forget about RIM Park, which they managed to weasel their name on to despite the city's population having to pay an additional $35.26 tax (5.47% of taxes overall) just to cover the city's funding of the park. Can someone explain to me how you can get your name on a park without either paying for the whole thing, or being a dead celebrity?
>But I think creating genetically-modified foods in the first place are terrorist activites!
"We're 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion; I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear."
-- Norman Borlaug on Penn and Teller's Bullshit! - "Eat This!", speaking on the effects of removing modern farming techniques and genetic engineering from the food supply.
Sorry. I'm gonna have to take the word of a man who is estimated to have saved 1 billion lives and has a nobel peace prize over yours. Hope you understand. Don't take it personally.
>How the hell is suggesting that you save a little bit of money make me a Troll?
Because it's nearly impossible to do?
Let's pretend we managed to put ALL expenses on hold. Saving up 6 months of paycheque in Canada, assuming you have an above average salary, will take about 12 months due to the tax levels in this country (there's more than just those percentages, too - many, many, many Canadians pay more than 50% of their income in tax before they see a dime).
Now, in the real world, you can't live without ANY money. So let's say we managed to cut expenses down to the point where they're half of our disposable income. We now need to wait 29 months (50% of income after tax + 15% sales taxes = 35% disposable).
To put a dollar amount on it, let's say you make $100,000 a year (if only!). You need to save $600,000 to save 6 months of salary.
$100,000 after income taxes (50%) is $50,000.
$50,000 * 12 months = $600,000.
$50,000 - ($25,000 * 1.15) = $21,250
$21,250 * 29 = $616,250
Over 2 years is not reasonable. That's 5% of your working lifetime.
>I just hope their programmers aren't unionized. Heads should roll for this one. In cases like this, you should be lucky if you aren't held 100% liable.
Not unless it was the programmers fault. The only errors that I'd consider it fair to hold them liable for are purposely tainting the code, or absolute incompetence (Not a missing break statement, but more like "Oh, you mean an int isn't for floating point math?").
>Just because it's common practice doesn't make it right.
:-)
No, what makes it right is that's how the banks themselves work. If he did do this (which he doesn't admit), he's simply following by example.
In fact, what makes it right is that's EXACTLY how new money gets printed. Yup. New money gets flushed into the system from nowhere each time someone does this. I can explain if you'd like...
Keep floating the cheques. You're keeping the economy moving. (But be smart enough to be reasonably sure you can pay them).
>I'm not trying to be an troll or anything, I just think that you share a part of the blame for your checks bouncing.
The minute the banks share their part of the blame for becoming the money printers rather than the federal government, I think I'd agree.
tar -zxvf new-qmail-or-djbdns-hack-full-version-includes-or
less BIG-IMPORTANT-README
Makes this software something from depths of hades. Can you enlighten me?
>There was once this material called 'metal' (pronounced me' tal).
Yes, quite tasty metals, such as lead, aluminum, and cadmium.
Can I be the first to have that cool mercury trackball?
Incorrect. Quoted from m-w.com:
Just to whet your grammarian appetite, squoze is in the dictionary, too. My next mission: Find the word "shooted" in a popular dictionary.
virii is not a word.
Virii is as much not a word as smush is not a word. It's a play on words, and a funny one at that. If you don't share my humour, that's your prerogative. That said, almost 1/2 million people do (check regular google & groups). Belittling people who use it amongst supposed friends who perfectly understand its meaning as a computer related only entity disparate from animal viruses is petty, and, overall, not cool. Especially when you, yourself, know the meaning.
In sum, good comment.
>The people as a whole are far smarter than anti-democrats think they are.
If only. To prove adults are just as stupid, Penn and Teller did their own DHMO questionnaire and presented it to a set of people who should be best informed on such issues, environmentalists. The majority of them voted in favour of banning water.
>You're making the typical (wrong) assumption that more direct democracy removes Constitutional protections automagically.
Ahhh, sorry. I suppose constitutional amendments don't count. That's fine. Allow me to rephrase, then:
Q: Should everyone making less than $250,000 be without any form of tax, while those making over $250,000 be imposed a sliding tax rate to produce a total income after tax of less than $250,000?
A: ( ) Yes / ( ) No
>Most common use for car codes: fixing your car...
...with "pirate" parts. I doubt the people who would benefit from this legislation will be going to the original dealers for parts. Instead, they'll use knockoff parts, similar to the ones the original engineers spent so long designing and creating, but just created from a copy of the originals (a lot like ripping a DVD game) with zero engineering overhead.
It's really a lot like a few modchippers play copied games illegally. Instead, of course, copied car parts are legal pretty much anywhere, whereas knockoff games are outlawed in most places.
>This is not an invasion of privacy, nor is it some grandiose conspiracy.
No, it's just a big fat boring waste of my time and absolutely illegal just a couple of hundred miles north (where I am), because it is, in fact, an invasion of privacy (ask the canadian privacy commissioner if you don't believe me).
Personally, I don't read any NYT stuff because I have more important things to do, like actually ENJOYING wasting my time on slashdot posting comments like this. I'd also tell someone handing out free physical newspapers to screw off if they handed me a multipage form to fill out to get one.
You'd be surprised at what a slippery slope this information requirements can be. That's the whole reason we got this legislation in Canada. We got tired of telling the teenager at radioshack where we live so we can buy a pack of batteries. We got tired of handing over our Driver's Licence or SIN just to buy a satellite system (no, not subscribe, just to walk out the door of a store with one). People are too busy for that.
>...people could choose the best software for the job, instead of the software that's compatible with a certain license's idiotic restrictions.
Ain't _that_ the truth...
If only. One *can* dream, I suppose, of a corporate owned future. It'll be full of tangerine trees and marmalade skies!