Didn't we (U.S. Tax payers) give $200B to ATT and Verizon (GTE maybe) back in the late 90s to put fiber everywhere within 10-Years (for 45/45 down/up speeds) and got nothing except -$200B Wasted in the end with a "it can't be done response"?
Maybe we should collect it back and give the contract to someone who can actually get the job done.
"Either society pays a few bucks now, or tens of thousands for the next 18 years"
No the people who were not careful should be paying, If that means they have to work their ass off for the next 18 years with zero fun time or leisure activities and no vacations so be it, then they should have been more careful in the first place. (force them to take responsibility, they will be careful next time)
I'm tired of everyone think that every one else should pitch in to cover their accidents, get you own damn money. It's simple as STOP PAYING and giving safety nets. (to EVERYONE!)
safety nets just give more excuses for more risk that people are not responsible for (i don't have to worry about it, some massive govt. bailout will take care of it, etc...)
"That Rich man knew his business was doomed when he asked for a bail out."
They Asked the Bush administration first and they told them to get lost because they ran the numbers and came to the same conclusion ("business was doomed"), then Obama took office and despite being warned that it was a bad idea from the previous administration's advisors decided to approve it anyway.
Maybe instead of playing petty politics and doing the opposite just because the other guys said it's bad no one would of ever heard of Solyndra.
Previous politicians bad deeds do not excuse the current ones.
I consider myself an Apple hater and even i know this is not solely an Apple problem it is a mostly a Foxconn problem. (Apple is just one of very many of their clients)
This is not a Tablet-OS, It is a "Desktop-OS". If I Wanted a FUCKING Phone or Tablet, I would buy a FUCKING Phone or Tablet! and there are already better interfaces than the Shit that is Gnome3 and Unity for them (iOS and Adroid 3.x)
STOP SHOVING SHITTY MOBILE PHONE TOUCH-SCREEN INTERFACES DOWN OUR THROATS FOR DESKTOPS!
And must take a 1000 question test and pass with 100%, If it's too long shorten it (won't need 1000 questions to cover all basis of the bill if it's not 5000+ pages long)
What point does it do to read it if they don't/won't understand it anyway.
HDMI is just a smaller connector for DVI it just has some extra pin-out options for Audio, CEC, and Ethernet built-in but the video signal is still the same as DVI even supports the same DRM (HDCP)
$250? Got OEM from newegg for $160. never use it much, XP is faster for games and ubuntu runs fine for my every day usage (work e-mail, office docs, internet browsing online video playback)
Games are the main reason for XP usage outside of businesses, I get well over 100fps with full settings on many games, the same games on 7 Ultimate with the same settings don't go above 40fps most of the time (some are capped at 8-10fps) and there are numerous video/audio glitches i come across that i don't get on XP (color glitching, black/blanking screens during auto-saves/quick-save,having to hack audio drivers to get stereo down-mix or half won't even have audio, and it's just plain slower)
I have used it for gaming only to see the difference between DX9 and DX10/11 and i don't see any and it's slower so i only keep it around just for testing now.
(Core i7 920/6GB/NV GTX 275.)
And still no Cisco IPsec VPN client support in 7 so i can't even use it to work at home. Both my work laptops, 2 netbooks, and 6 desktops run XP PRO. (and ubuntu) and we are just now evaluating 7 for deployment and are already racking up quote$ for hardware upgrades and still have 10% of our systems that barely run XP at all. (that will be over 70% if we were using 7 without Ram upgrades/hundreds of desktop/laptop replacements.)
XP will be around for a while until MS comes to their senses and stop trying to make 3D pretty interfaces that don't work and get serious on optimizing the core OS more. (quit experimenting with the damn metro tablet interface and just make the OS more stable run better and quit moving everything around for no damn reason.)
There is a difference between stealing a car and making an exact 1:1 copy without effecting the original.
You are trying to clam "Theft" (taking a physical object from someone else) and "Copyright Infringement" (making a copy of a digital object) are the same, they are not.
Yes, Lets take the vigilante route with Murder and Arson, Like that will somehow get their money back instead of prison time.
And the reason there are not more people along with is maybe they don't want to squat in their own filth for weeks/months and are not raging lunatic animals. (like the OWS group is behaving like.)
And more to the point everyone seems to think that all wall-street/bank people should be in jail for their so-called "crimes" except they are not (except for a few so far) because NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED! (none on the books for the most part)
If you think it should be a crime then advocates such a position and change/update the laws, don't spout out crap about punishing people for non-crimes that don't exist.
Maybe you should be arrested, but you didn't commit a crime... oh well i think you should just because i say so. (doesn't sound so reasonable now does it?)
I don't mind those, But the newer web-looking half-page (almost flash-looking) banners they try to integrate into the movie/tv scenes are what is annoying.
These "Bills" do not amend/modify the constitution, they circumvent it.
Amending the constitution is fine, but there is right way to do it (constitutional convention,voting, state ratification, etc...), and there is the wrong way (adding legislation by re-defining common terms and trying to work around it because you know there is no way you can successfully modify it when you don't have the votes or issuing executive orders).
Then why are unions compulsory in some places, Why don't these union bosses ask their members to voluntarily pay their dues instead writing laws that make them mandatory and their membership a requirement to work. (most of these union bosses are paid more than the company executives they are so against.)
Maybe these workers should be able to "Democratically" choose to be a union or not, and be able to voluntarily pay their dues instead of the money be spent before they have a say.
And btw the US is a "Democratic Republic" not a "Democracy" (there is a big difference in rule by mob and equal rule by law)
"...Microsoft is incapable of producing a basic utility like that on their own and must buy it from another company."
Where do you think all of Microsoft's products came from in the first place?
DOS: MS Bought it Original Windows interface: MS Bought out the company that made the DOS shell for it. SQL: MS paid Sybase for it. MS TCP/IP: MS got it from BSD
MS Hasn't really created anything, they have acquired it from somewhere else.
You forgot the current trend of Volume bursting during commercials. (what ever happened to AVL from the older CRT TVs? I could really use that now.)
That is the most annoying thing ever, i have to turn the volume way up (some times 12-13/30) during shows/movies and the commercials blast in at 20x volume and i have to turn down to below 2-3/30.
Both cable and sat. companies do this, I heard there was some law about to be passed by congress 1-2 years ago to stop this but i guess the advertising bribers...eh lobbyists prevented it.
An SSN is only for use as by the SSA for retirement benefits, says so on the card (i even have that specifically says no to be used as ID and i am keeping it since some of the new ones don't)
They shouldn't be using it for these purposes and that "Is" the problem.
No, it was more stupidity of deploy $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE now and don't properly estimate/evaluate the impact of deploying 1,000s of $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE systems and just spend the damn money without thinking ahead.
Don't give it, you would be surprised how many of those won't push you when you refuse.
I have done this at govt. facilities and they usually will skip it or not even notice you put nothing down, Most places/forms simply have a field and ask you to fill them all out.
Most people will simply fill out all fields that are asked on the forms, just because it is there does not mean it is necessary.
I don't fill it out for for govt. entry passes or medical forms. (no one has ever noticed or asked 99% of the time and those that do i remind them that number/info has nothing to to with the form I'm filling out and they drop it)
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Didn't we (U.S. Tax payers) give $200B to ATT and Verizon (GTE maybe) back in the late 90s to put fiber everywhere within 10-Years (for 45/45 down/up speeds) and got nothing except -$200B Wasted in the end with a "it can't be done response"?
Maybe we should collect it back and give the contract to someone who can actually get the job done.
Monster? You haven't heard of Denon have you?
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
Monster is a saint compared to that.
"Either society pays a few bucks now, or tens of thousands for the next 18 years"
No the people who were not careful should be paying, If that means they have to work their ass off for the next 18 years with zero fun time or leisure activities and no vacations so be it, then they should have been more careful in the first place. (force them to take responsibility, they will be careful next time)
I'm tired of everyone think that every one else should pitch in to cover their accidents, get you own damn money. It's simple as STOP PAYING and giving safety nets. (to EVERYONE!)
safety nets just give more excuses for more risk that people are not responsible for (i don't have to worry about it, some massive govt. bailout will take care of it, etc...)
"That Rich man knew his business was doomed when he asked for a bail out."
They Asked the Bush administration first and they told them to get lost because they ran the numbers and came to the same conclusion ("business was doomed"), then Obama took office and despite being warned that it was a bad idea from the previous administration's advisors decided to approve it anyway.
Maybe instead of playing petty politics and doing the opposite just because the other guys said it's bad no one would of ever heard of Solyndra.
Previous politicians bad deeds do not excuse the current ones.
I consider myself an Apple hater and even i know this is not solely an Apple problem it is a mostly a Foxconn problem. (Apple is just one of very many of their clients)
WHAT THE FUCK?
This is not a Tablet-OS, It is a "Desktop-OS". If I Wanted a FUCKING Phone or Tablet, I would buy a FUCKING Phone or Tablet! and there are already better interfaces than the Shit that is Gnome3 and Unity for them (iOS and Adroid 3.x)
STOP SHOVING SHITTY MOBILE PHONE TOUCH-SCREEN INTERFACES DOWN OUR THROATS FOR DESKTOPS!
And must take a 1000 question test and pass with 100%, If it's too long shorten it (won't need 1000 questions to cover all basis of the bill if it's not 5000+ pages long)
What point does it do to read it if they don't/won't understand it anyway.
That's already in place for xbox the 360 psus have had the ability to set house on fire for years now.
HDMI is just a smaller connector for DVI it just has some extra pin-out options for Audio, CEC, and Ethernet built-in but the video signal is still the same as DVI even supports the same DRM (HDCP)
Someone Mod this up.
$250? Got OEM from newegg for $160. never use it much, XP is faster for games and ubuntu runs fine for my every day usage (work e-mail, office docs, internet browsing online video playback)
Games are the main reason for XP usage outside of businesses, I get well over 100fps with full settings on many games, the same games on 7 Ultimate with the same settings don't go above 40fps most of the time (some are capped at 8-10fps) and there are numerous video/audio glitches i come across that i don't get on XP (color glitching, black/blanking screens during auto-saves/quick-save,having to hack audio drivers to get stereo down-mix or half won't even have audio, and it's just plain slower)
I have used it for gaming only to see the difference between DX9 and DX10/11 and i don't see any and it's slower so i only keep it around just for testing now.
(Core i7 920/6GB/NV GTX 275.)
And still no Cisco IPsec VPN client support in 7 so i can't even use it to work at home. Both my work laptops, 2 netbooks, and 6 desktops run XP PRO. (and ubuntu) and we are just now evaluating 7 for deployment and are already racking up quote$ for hardware upgrades and still have 10% of our systems that barely run XP at all. (that will be over 70% if we were using 7 without Ram upgrades/hundreds of desktop/laptop replacements.)
XP will be around for a while until MS comes to their senses and stop trying to make 3D pretty interfaces that don't work and get serious on optimizing the core OS more. (quit experimenting with the damn metro tablet interface and just make the OS more stable run better and quit moving everything around for no damn reason.)
There is a difference between stealing a car and making an exact 1:1 copy without effecting the original.
You are trying to clam "Theft" (taking a physical object from someone else) and "Copyright Infringement" (making a copy of a digital object) are the same, they are not.
Yes, Lets take the vigilante route with Murder and Arson, Like that will somehow get their money back instead of prison time.
And the reason there are not more people along with is maybe they don't want to squat in their own filth for weeks/months and are not raging lunatic animals. (like the OWS group is behaving like.)
And more to the point everyone seems to think that all wall-street/bank people should be in jail for their so-called "crimes" except they are not (except for a few so far) because NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED! (none on the books for the most part)
If you think it should be a crime then advocates such a position and change/update the laws, don't spout out crap about punishing people for non-crimes that don't exist.
Maybe you should be arrested, but you didn't commit a crime... oh well i think you should just because i say so. (doesn't sound so reasonable now does it?)
I don't mind those, But the newer web-looking half-page (almost flash-looking) banners they try to integrate into the movie/tv scenes are what is annoying.
They do now. Why do you think they bought Motorola?
These "Bills" do not amend/modify the constitution, they circumvent it.
Amending the constitution is fine, but there is right way to do it (constitutional convention,voting, state ratification, etc...), and there is the wrong way (adding legislation by re-defining common terms and trying to work around it because you know there is no way you can successfully modify it when you don't have the votes or issuing executive orders).
Then why are unions compulsory in some places, Why don't these union bosses ask their members to voluntarily pay their dues instead writing laws that make them mandatory and their membership a requirement to work. (most of these union bosses are paid more than the company executives they are so against.)
Maybe these workers should be able to "Democratically" choose to be a union or not, and be able to voluntarily pay their dues instead of the money be spent before they have a say.
And btw the US is a "Democratic Republic" not a "Democracy" (there is a big difference in rule by mob and equal rule by law)
"...Microsoft is incapable of producing a basic utility like that on their own and must buy it from another company."
Where do you think all of Microsoft's products came from in the first place?
DOS: MS Bought it
Original Windows interface: MS Bought out the company that made the DOS shell for it.
SQL: MS paid Sybase for it.
MS TCP/IP: MS got it from BSD
MS Hasn't really created anything, they have acquired it from somewhere else.
And the judge should have thrown the gavel right at the lawyers head that did that.
"but as it's currently deployed by carriers it doesn't have the ability to record SMS messages, phone calls or keystrokes."
"Currently" is the key word here and is subject to change over time!
You forgot the current trend of Volume bursting during commercials. (what ever happened to AVL from the older CRT TVs? I could really use that now.)
That is the most annoying thing ever, i have to turn the volume way up (some times 12-13/30) during shows/movies and the commercials blast in at 20x volume and i have to turn down to below 2-3/30.
Both cable and sat. companies do this, I heard there was some law about to be passed by congress 1-2 years ago to stop this but i guess the advertising bribers...eh lobbyists prevented it.
An SSN is only for use as by the SSA for retirement benefits, says so on the card (i even have that specifically says no to be used as ID and i am keeping it since some of the new ones don't)
They shouldn't be using it for these purposes and that "Is" the problem.
No, it was more stupidity of deploy $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE now and don't properly estimate/evaluate the impact of deploying 1,000s of $NEW_SHINY_DEVICE systems and just spend the damn money without thinking ahead.
Careful what you wish for, instead of being "Designed for low-end consoles" -> PC port.
It will be "Designed for lowest common denominator smart-phones/tablets (or flash) -> PC port.
Don't give it, you would be surprised how many of those won't push you when you refuse.
I have done this at govt. facilities and they usually will skip it or not even notice you put nothing down, Most places/forms simply have a field and ask you to fill them all out.
Most people will simply fill out all fields that are asked on the forms, just because it is there does not mean it is necessary.
I don't fill it out for for govt. entry passes or medical forms. (no one has ever noticed or asked 99% of the time and those that do i remind them that number/info has nothing to to with the form I'm filling out and they drop it)