I was told it was because a few years ago, Dell signed some exclusive license with Intel. They get the chips cheaper, but they can only ship Intel computers.
Can't find anything on the web to back it up, other than some statements about how dell "reevaluates AMD every six months" or some other PR BS.
We're lucky - we're an authorized dell service shop or something - basiclly our help desk can service dells, and decide when something needs to be replaced or not - htye put in something on the web and they new part is shipped right out. And we get paid some small amount ($25?) per incident cause Dell didn't have to get involved.
Okay...how long ago did people start using 2.4Ghz for things - perhaps at that point Sirius should have thought things out.
And even then - they are complaining they have spent sooo much money on something not even in place yet, so everyone else with stuff out there already should spend money just because it might interfere with the Sirius stuff.
Hell...I'll hook my AP antenna up to 220V to see if I can knock out the whole southeast for sat radio:)
Seriously - they should come up with some small little product that it doesn't matter if they have to release the source code to. They should put some GPL'd code in there - perhaps not even try to hide it too much.
And then they should see what happens. I guess they figure not many in the GNU crowds care much for them anyway, so they won't lose "loyal customers".
However, it'd either do two things:
a) show MS that it doesn't matter cause no one dared to file a suit
b) give the GPL it's day in court and see what happens.
The only downside is that whoever decides to take this to court better be loaded. It could be a long uphill battle.
It would be interesting to see the outcome though...however with MS's legal team, perhaps it may not be a good outcome.
When I was in 8th grade, I was an avid D&D player, along with some others in the neighboorhood.
During that time, we travelled to Ohio to visit some high-school friends of my mom and some old friends of my grandmother.
I remember sitting in my grandmothers friends house and my grandmother asking the other ladys grandson if he played Dungeons and Dragons.
The other lady started blabbing on and on about how it was an evil game made by the devil and it was not allowed in her daughters house and so on.
I think about the most evil thing D&D has ever made me do is spend a lot of time on ebay trying to obtain an original version of Dieties and Demigods to complete my collection.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go crawl around some steam tunnels and put curses on people
I'm sure there are tons more. I think that it would the most depressing thing to come out with something like Apples, D&D, Ultima - something that catches on, something that you created, and then eventually lose it/have it taken away from you.
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Well...it's a bullshit answer. Most neighboors I know won't sign up cause they don't like the cost.
Of the neighboors that do have it, they have it so they can send pics to family, get movie listings, recipies, etc...
I know of one neighboor who, when he got his new computer, just wanted to know how to download songs and burn them to CD. This is out of about 20 neighboors who I know have computers and are online.
When I was in college, I remember sitting on a dock on the hudson and some freshmen came down, stipped down to their undies and jumped in, got out, got dressed and walked off.
I think I still have nightmares about them. Ewww...
There are some advantages. When I had one cause I was doing travelling....
- I didn't have to put anything on my own cards which was a delicate situation at the time. - Also means that while I was away racking up charges, since they were not on my card, I didn't have to worry if my wife got in an emergency situation requiring funds. - The statement was very nice and useful in filing expenses. Everything was broken down into categories, and I think the meals even had the tip amount or something like that. It's been a few years and I don't quite remember anything other than going "Damn...that's nice" - Some unnatural limit
The only downside is that there were a few places that would not take AmEx cause of the extra fees the place had to pay - only hit me once.
In addition, assuming you only used it for corporate stuff, depending on where you work, you may just be able to turn in the bill and call that an expense report.
I have a ton of LED's in my computer room. It used to have an odd glow, but some electrical tape over them fixed that. Now, with the exception of my speakers, you can't see any of the LED's - it's now secure from LED sniffing.
So, I just applied the same fix for this, since my monitor faces a window. There is now a few strips (about 30) of electrical tape covering my monitor and the flicker is gone.
I appologize for any typing errors though. Every fix has a downside:)
When I lived in Missouri, I remember having to run from our neighboors house to ours (about 50 yards) as one of those supercells was going over.
At 7pm, the skies where an honest-to-god GREEN. It was the erriest thing I've ever seen (and I am on USENet:) I remember another afternoon watching funnel clouds drop out of a cell to the north of us, but that was nothing compared to the green skies.
If I ever get back out there, as cool as I think nature can be, I'll be buring my ass deep into the ground.
I dunno about california, but if I go out onto a public road and do donuts, speed, etc... I get in a wee bit of trouble.
Anyway, since when is the Internet a public resource? It may have been started by the US gov, but isn't the public internet now owned by MCI, Sprint, etc...
I used to use Netscape religiously. Up til about IE 4.0. The reason I switched is because NS sucked.
No MS standing over my shoulder or anything. A decision based on better support of the HTML standards, namely CSS - too much stuff just didn't work right in Netscape.
Netscape killed itself by stagnating for far too long why trying to be all things to all people - e-mail, LDAP, Portal, etc... everything but a browser.
Okay...we all know that there are some beefs with MS and their way of doing things. I can even see the Sun whining about the fragmentation of Java (not that Sun isn't doing that well enough on its own - Java 2 version 1.x - yeah that makes sense.)
But why oh why should MS have to include anything of Sun's in their OS? Okay...XP pulled out Java support. And now it really looks like Sun is complaining that the only way they can get Java everywhere is if MS is forced to include it.
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Every person walking down the street gets rendered to your eyes as Ali Larter.
Don't like the color or your car - write a mod so you see it as you like.
Change fonts on signs/books/etc... as you wish with OCR.
I was told it was because a few years ago, Dell signed some exclusive license with Intel. They get the chips cheaper, but they can only ship Intel computers.
Can't find anything on the web to back it up, other than some statements about how dell "reevaluates AMD every six months" or some other PR BS.
We're lucky - we're an authorized dell service shop or something - basiclly our help desk can service dells, and decide when something needs to be replaced or not - htye put in something on the web and they new part is shipped right out. And we get paid some small amount ($25?) per incident cause Dell didn't have to get involved.
And none of the dude...you need win98 stuff.
Okay...how long ago did people start using 2.4Ghz for things - perhaps at that point Sirius should have thought things out.
:)
And even then - they are complaining they have spent sooo much money on something not even in place yet, so everyone else with stuff out there already should spend money just because it might interfere with the Sirius stuff.
Hell...I'll hook my AP antenna up to 220V to see if I can knock out the whole southeast for sat radio
It looked like everything on there was real recent. At most the CNN/SI thing went back a couple more years.
What about the SNL thing from the 80s?
Hell....fuckedcompany.com is much funner reading!
Seriously - they should come up with some small little product that it doesn't matter if they have to release the source code to. They should put some GPL'd code in there - perhaps not even try to hide it too much.
And then they should see what happens. I guess they figure not many in the GNU crowds care much for them anyway, so they won't lose "loyal customers".
However, it'd either do two things:
a) show MS that it doesn't matter cause no one dared to file a suit
b) give the GPL it's day in court and see what happens.
The only downside is that whoever decides to take this to court better be loaded. It could be a long uphill battle.
It would be interesting to see the outcome though...however with MS's legal team, perhaps it may not be a good outcome.
No no no...
ping uss-dallas -one-ping-only
When I was in 8th grade, I was an avid D&D player, along with some others in the neighboorhood.
During that time, we travelled to Ohio to visit some high-school friends of my mom and some old friends of my grandmother.
I remember sitting in my grandmothers friends house and my grandmother asking the other ladys grandson if he played Dungeons and Dragons.
The other lady started blabbing on and on about how it was an evil game made by the devil and it was not allowed in her daughters house and so on.
I think about the most evil thing D&D has ever made me do is spend a lot of time on ebay trying to obtain an original version of Dieties and Demigods to complete my collection.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go crawl around some steam tunnels and put curses on people
Gary Gygax
Steve Jobs
Richard Garriot
I'm sure there are tons more. I think that it would the most depressing thing to come out with something like Apples, D&D, Ultima - something that catches on, something that you created, and then eventually lose it/have it taken away from you.
Oh...well that makes it okay then.
Seriously - a Buck Rogers theme park?
Someone rolled a 3 on the ole intelligence.
Well...it's a bullshit answer. Most neighboors I know won't sign up cause they don't like the cost.
Of the neighboors that do have it, they have it so they can send pics to family, get movie listings, recipies, etc...
I know of one neighboor who, when he got his new computer, just wanted to know how to download songs and burn them to CD. This is out of about 20 neighboors who I know have computers and are online.
After looking at the picture of the sub, it makes me think that is the kinda stuff Gulianni worked so hard to get out of times square.
When I was in college, I remember sitting on a dock on the hudson and some freshmen came down, stipped down to their undies and jumped in, got out, got dressed and walked off.
I think I still have nightmares about them. Ewww...
Perhaps there is a LAN on the ship?
Perhaps someone dials in via satellite, gets some virus, and later plugs into the LAN to see what is for dinner and it spreads.
Like you said - the nav systems should be seculuded, but you never know. Perhaps the Captain likes to look at the info in his cabin?
and they know you have the equipment
:)
Ah....the key phrase
There are some advantages. When I had one cause I was doing travelling....
- I didn't have to put anything on my own cards which was a delicate situation at the time.
- Also means that while I was away racking up charges, since they were not on my card, I didn't have to worry if my wife got in an emergency situation requiring funds.
- The statement was very nice and useful in filing expenses. Everything was broken down into categories, and I think the meals even had the tip amount or something like that. It's been a few years and I don't quite remember anything other than going "Damn...that's nice"
- Some unnatural limit
The only downside is that there were a few places that would not take AmEx cause of the extra fees the place had to pay - only hit me once.
In addition, assuming you only used it for corporate stuff, depending on where you work, you may just be able to turn in the bill and call that an expense report.
So...you are saying Britney Spears and Natalie Portman in the same movie?
:)
Hell...even if the sound system in the theater bit the dust, I'd still be there for that one
I have a ton of LED's in my computer room. It used to have an odd glow, but some electrical tape over them fixed that. Now, with the exception of my speakers, you can't see any of the LED's - it's now secure from LED sniffing.
:)
So, I just applied the same fix for this, since my monitor faces a window. There is now a few strips (about 30) of electrical tape covering my monitor and the flicker is gone.
I appologize for any typing errors though. Every fix has a downside
When I lived in Missouri, I remember having to run from our neighboors house to ours (about 50 yards) as one of those supercells was going over.
:) I remember another afternoon watching funnel clouds drop out of a cell to the north of us, but that was nothing compared to the green skies.
At 7pm, the skies where an honest-to-god GREEN. It was the erriest thing I've ever seen (and I am on USENet
If I ever get back out there, as cool as I think nature can be, I'll be buring my ass deep into the ground.
Also handy for taking out singing munchkins and evil witches?
I guess if you mix two so-so films, you get a not-so-so film?
I dunno about california, but if I go out onto a public road and do donuts, speed, etc... I get in a wee bit of trouble.
:)
Anyway, since when is the Internet a public resource? It may have been started by the US gov, but isn't the public internet now owned by MCI, Sprint, etc...
BTW - where is your house...my garage is full
Wasn't TORN the comeback (no pun intended) film for Ginger Lynn Allen?
I used to use Netscape religiously. Up til about IE 4.0. The reason I switched is because NS sucked.
No MS standing over my shoulder or anything. A decision based on better support of the HTML standards, namely CSS - too much stuff just didn't work right in Netscape.
Netscape killed itself by stagnating for far too long why trying to be all things to all people - e-mail, LDAP, Portal, etc... everything but a browser.
Okay...we all know that there are some beefs with MS and their way of doing things. I can even see the Sun whining about the fragmentation of Java (not that Sun isn't doing that well enough on its own - Java 2 version 1.x - yeah that makes sense.)
But why oh why should MS have to include anything of Sun's in their OS? Okay...XP pulled out Java support. And now it really looks like Sun is complaining that the only way they can get Java everywhere is if MS is forced to include it.
Still sounds like whining to me.