Microsoft has always gone out of its way to blame drivers or 3rd-party software for its own quality / stability problems.
Maybe, but you can't say that there haven't been shitty, shitty, shitty drivers from companies - and these weren't just fluke cases - I'm talking about cases where, for months at a time, every single version of a driver that was released was buggy crap. I don't even want to try and guess how many blue screens ATI drivers caused before they got their shit together. Yet - even with all that, they still were allowed to put that "designed for xp" logo on their boxes (which, really, is the ultimate problem, microsoft takes the cash, tests some stuff for a bit and then steps back and doesn't really care what happens). By and large, if you take a clean windows install and use just the drivers that came on the cd, you're looking at a pretty damn stable system. Of course, it all goes down hill when you plug in your brand new _____________. Or have windows update on, which installs a buggy pos hotfix.
I don't want to flame apple, but ituneshelper.exe and ipodservice is a fucking blight to everything it shares the usb bus with. I've seen it cause problems with mfp printers on both mac and pc platforms. Granted, these were shitty drivers that were coded by indians (shouts out to all the folks in canada doing mac HP MFP support, I enjoyed weekly unemployment cheques for quite some time because of you;), but still...
$30? Christ, I picked up 2 30" box fans at lowe's last year for 8 bucks each and a round one that sweeps the room for under $25 including a piece of shit cheap metal stand...
Security wears red, command wears gold and women wear less... And if you're on a space station, you wear a blue jumpsuit with a section that unfolds for some reason and have a damn radio glued to the top of your hand...
Really, is this so much of a challenge?
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It isn't like these people are going to live up there for months at a time - they will go up for a few hours and then come back. Do you really need a new wardrobe? Pants will work just fine in zero gee, as will most shirts, especially if they are tucked in. If you want a skirt / dress, great, toss some plastic strips (hell, zip ties would probably work) inside to prevent it from floating up (or don't, I don't think most/.'ers will mind seeing the trophy wives that go up doing a futuristic M. Monroe thing;) And what the hell is with some of the designs? It looks like someone took drugs while watching the jetsons on one tv and anime on the other and then started drawing. Extra crap will only cause problems since the people are going to be sitting for most of the flight. I do think that realistically, if a couple drops a couple (dozen) million for a trip up there and as the zero g time grows longer, there is a good chance that a couple will want to have sex up there - with the company's approval or not, so I think that skirts will become pretty popular (unless the company provides a jumpsuit to prevent "easy access"). Call it the 100 mile high club or whatever. I haven't seen many numbers on it, but every time I've flown internationally, I've seen at least one couple go into the bathroom together - nobody talks about it, but it seems to be fairly accepted as long as it is discreet.
The obvious solution is to make them tighter.... And out of PVC or rubber... And black... And hobble skirts would probably work pretty well too./hits pause on Matrix DVD// Whoa...
In many (most? all?) US states possession of firearms without having the appropriate permit/license is illegal
You must live in Canada or California (or some of the eastern states that have stricter gun regs) Most US states require no permit and not even any registration of the firearm with the exclusion of the NCIC background check that "they promise won't be used as a gun registry". Nothing like we have up here in Canada, but hey, if they are authorizing a transfer, they don't need the gun's serial number unless they actually are registering the firearms somewhere (It is a mandatory part of the form and NCIC will not run a background check without it.
Most states do, however, have concealed carry permits, although a disassembled firearm in your checked luggage can hardly be considered as concealed carry. Still, airlines do have their regs and people can get pissy if you don't announce it or follow their regulations.
Although... If you find yourself strapped on a table with a room full of NSA or CIA agenents with one of them weilding a cattle prod and other asking for those keys in a stern german accent... Well... Best of luck then.
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Although I like the 5 year warranty and will probably buy their drives in the future exclusively because of that (I have a fair number of drives, replacement costs do add up) I did have to wait a little bit over a month and a half for them to get a replacement 300 gig drive in stock and they still didn't have the drive available when I called, complained and sent me a 300 gig 10k scsi drive. Hard to be pissed about that, but to me it looks like they have had beaucoup rmas on the 7200.9 drives.
You'll have to consider all the anime / manga "specialists" who are looking for an Asian gal (and possibly something like "must like shibari, nosehooks and tentacles" (not that anything is wrong with that). There seems to be a great many of their number in the/. crowd.
Really, doesn't matter, you can't guard it all. Militaries have a crazy amount of explosives, bits here and there, the whole point being that someone can't take it all out at the same time. It was a disgrace that what we knew of wasn't secured, but I'm pretty sure that we'd have the IED problem in either case - I had friends over there who have pictures of a building (opposite a school) containing literally thousands of mortars that were discovered a year or so into the conflict. The ordinance disposal folks have also been busy blowing huge stockpiles of that stuff up.
He sort of does have a point - most Fry's electronics aren't located in downtown centers or the main residential part of the city but out in the sticks. I lived approximately 20 miles from the Frys in Portland and I was still on the Fry's side of the major river that cuts the city in two. The cheapest gas is $2.91 a gallon, and if you have a car that averages 20mpg, you're looking at about 6 bucks for a return trip assuming that you won't be sitting in traffic. My neon is good for 38 on the highway, but if gas goes up another buck or two, I'm looking at a similar hit to the wallet. When you factor in stuff like Amazon prime, buying online is begining to make a lot of sense.
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I liked the one that would reboot your box as soon as you logged in (/wave last known good) if you had a via chipset, but yeah....
Dane cook is great. Someone who is equally insane (perhaps a bit more so) is Stephen Lynch.
Microsoft has always gone out of its way to blame drivers or 3rd-party software for its own quality / stability problems.
Maybe, but you can't say that there haven't been shitty, shitty, shitty drivers from companies - and these weren't just fluke cases - I'm talking about cases where, for months at a time, every single version of a driver that was released was buggy crap. I don't even want to try and guess how many blue screens ATI drivers caused before they got their shit together. Yet - even with all that, they still were allowed to put that "designed for xp" logo on their boxes (which, really, is the ultimate problem, microsoft takes the cash, tests some stuff for a bit and then steps back and doesn't really care what happens).
By and large, if you take a clean windows install and use just the drivers that came on the cd, you're looking at a pretty damn stable system. Of course, it all goes down hill when you plug in your brand new _____________. Or have windows update on, which installs a buggy pos hotfix.
I don't want to flame apple, but ituneshelper.exe and ipodservice is a fucking blight to everything it shares the usb bus with. I've seen it cause problems with mfp printers on both mac and pc platforms. Granted, these were shitty drivers that were coded by indians (shouts out to all the folks in canada doing mac HP MFP support, I enjoyed weekly unemployment cheques for quite some time because of you ;), but still...
The omega molecule would clearly be a better choice.
Actually, I believe the next step is to go through town setting cars on fire .
No kidding. I was there a couple weeks ago and the entire street was blocked off by 25 foot fences and guards with mp5s.
$30? Christ, I picked up 2 30" box fans at lowe's last year for 8 bucks each and a round one that sweeps the room for under $25 including a piece of shit cheap metal stand...
Security wears red, command wears gold and women wear less... And if you're on a space station, you wear a blue jumpsuit with a section that unfolds for some reason and have a damn radio glued to the top of your hand...
It isn't like these people are going to live up there for months at a time - they will go up for a few hours and then come back. /.'ers will mind seeing the trophy wives that go up doing a futuristic M. Monroe thing ;)
Do you really need a new wardrobe?
Pants will work just fine in zero gee, as will most shirts, especially if they are tucked in.
If you want a skirt / dress, great, toss some plastic strips (hell, zip ties would probably work) inside to prevent it from floating up (or don't, I don't think most
And what the hell is with some of the designs? It looks like someone took drugs while watching the jetsons on one tv and anime on the other and then started drawing. Extra crap will only cause problems since the people are going to be sitting for most of the flight.
I do think that realistically, if a couple drops a couple (dozen) million for a trip up there and as the zero g time grows longer, there is a good chance that a couple will want to have sex up there - with the company's approval or not, so I think that skirts will become pretty popular (unless the company provides a jumpsuit to prevent "easy access"). Call it the 100 mile high club or whatever. I haven't seen many numbers on it, but every time I've flown internationally, I've seen at least one couple go into the bathroom together - nobody talks about it, but it seems to be fairly accepted as long as it is discreet.
The obvious solution is to make them tighter.... /hits pause on Matrix DVD // Whoa...
And out of PVC or rubber...
And black...
And hobble skirts would probably work pretty well too.
In many (most? all?) US states possession of firearms without having the appropriate permit/license is illegal
You must live in Canada or California (or some of the eastern states that have stricter gun regs)
Most US states require no permit and not even any registration of the firearm with the exclusion of the NCIC background check that "they promise won't be used as a gun registry". Nothing like we have up here in Canada, but hey, if they are authorizing a transfer, they don't need the gun's serial number unless they actually are registering the firearms somewhere (It is a mandatory part of the form and NCIC will not run a background check without it.
Most states do, however, have concealed carry permits, although a disassembled firearm in your checked luggage can hardly be considered as concealed carry. Still, airlines do have their regs and people can get pissy if you don't announce it or follow their regulations.
Precisely, this was not a win for Kopp in any sense of the word. This is bullshit, not a settlement.
What ever happened to the America I used to know, which questioned and challenged every thing and fought for its rights?
I can't be sure, but there is a good chance the public education system had something to do with it...
Although... If you find yourself strapped on a table with a room full of NSA or CIA agenents with one of them weilding a cattle prod and other asking for those keys in a stern german accent... Well... Best of luck then.
Well... That's what truecrypt is for.
How many people had the FCKGW key before that got pulled in SP1? :)
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The fact that there is a wikipedia entry for fckgw (and that lots of geeks recognize it) should tell you enough
I'm guessing - just guessing - that some of the fine young men being paid minimum wage at the geek squad decided to copy down a couple oem keys...
Goddamn!
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These folks didn't seem to have too much trouble trying to get the signal through walls ;)
http://www.uwb.org/RadarVision2i/rv2iperf.htm
That is a pretty primitive picture, some of the stuff in labs is quite a bit more advanced.
BTW, is anyone noticing font corruption on that page in Firefox?
Although I like the 5 year warranty and will probably buy their drives in the future exclusively because of that (I have a fair number of drives, replacement costs do add up) I did have to wait a little bit over a month and a half for them to get a replacement 300 gig drive in stock and they still didn't have the drive available when I called, complained and sent me a 300 gig 10k scsi drive. Hard to be pissed about that, but to me it looks like they have had beaucoup rmas on the 7200.9 drives.
I do believe Guild Wars, WoW and EQ are the drugs of choice these days.
You'll have to consider all the anime / manga "specialists" who are looking for an Asian gal (and possibly something like "must like shibari, nosehooks and tentacles" (not that anything is wrong with that). /. crowd.
There seems to be a great many of their number in the
Well, why use net2phone if skype out is free till the end of the year in us / canda?
Really, doesn't matter, you can't guard it all. Militaries have a crazy amount of explosives, bits here and there, the whole point being that someone can't take it all out at the same time.
It was a disgrace that what we knew of wasn't secured, but I'm pretty sure that we'd have the IED problem in either case - I had friends over there who have pictures of a building (opposite a school) containing literally thousands of mortars that were discovered a year or so into the conflict. The ordinance disposal folks have also been busy blowing huge stockpiles of that stuff up.
He sort of does have a point - most Fry's electronics aren't located in downtown centers or the main residential part of the city but out in the sticks. I lived approximately 20 miles from the Frys in Portland and I was still on the Fry's side of the major river that cuts the city in two. The cheapest gas is $2.91 a gallon, and if you have a car that averages 20mpg, you're looking at about 6 bucks for a return trip assuming that you won't be sitting in traffic. My neon is good for 38 on the highway, but if gas goes up another buck or two, I'm looking at a similar hit to the wallet. When you factor in stuff like Amazon prime, buying online is begining to make a lot of sense.