WRONG!! I live in Texas and have been on 3 juries, We were always given notepads and pens to take notes if we wanted to remember anything during deliberations. We were simply instructed that we could not leave with them (during breaks for lunch or for breaks for multi-day trials) as the info we were to write was confidential/property of the court during the trial, some people do keep them afterwards otherwise they throw them out/destroy them.
Agree with the parking though, we have several "Free Public Parking" lots in our downtown area and all have signs stating "No Juror Parking" so everyone usually has to park at nearby churches (only ones willing to donate parking space apparently)
Except that the people that are always arguing that driving is a right rather than a privilege forget that drivers license is an operating license, as in you are are trained to operate that class of vehicle and are trained in it's safety operations and now they forget what they are supposed to do. (after all we have states that seem to hand them out like candy)
Yes, M$N Is still sneaking in charges on my credit card for a trial i was dumb enough (at the time when i still liked MS) to activate a trial for one that i won at a conference (Comdex 03 i think?) Despite the fact the page stated it would only use my CC for verification purposes for the trial (which i never renewed because the damn thing didn't even work)
I can't call to cancel since i have no flipping idea what disposable msn acct name i created just to play with this damn thing so i just keep telling the CC people to dispute and say i never signed up for such a service (i signed up for a free trial and didn't renew, i never signed up for anything to purchase) MS only started charging about 2 years later and keep trying to sneak it in every so ofter. (Fucking M$N Assholes are worse than AOhelL)
Not to mention you can mount network volumes under UNIX mounts and apps only treat is as another directory, it's nice having everything fall under one root (/) and treating everything as a local folder/file hell i can mount FTP, SSH, NFS, whatever else TCP protocols that are available (or non TCP even, if it's networkable you can probably create a mounting option for it) and in the end it is just seen as a folder. (I have had several windows apps that refuse to install if it detects a network folder simply because it is too old and when it was written this was too slow/unreliable.
Although i will give credit to MS for more extensive easy to use ACLs (no matter how complex they can get)
Have had this working under 2000 Pro. and XP for years in a domain (although 2000 was a lot harder with no standard interface) even worked for startup-scripts that provided needed connectivity for users before they login, in fact i had to create a GPO for XP since MS wanted the marketing of XP booting faster than windows by dropping skipping thing at boot by default even part of theie own documentation at the time stated that users should have their my docs folders fully re-directed by the 3rd or 4th login (end-users did not like to hear that excuse) tried setting this in our image only to find MS has sysprep reset it back to default - nice.
Proper Gigabit Ethernet support
Not sure about desktop OS but in my experience 2000 Server had 10x performance throughput (on both 100Mb and 1Gb) than 2003, MS really fucked this up AFAIC if that is any indication win7 will probably be slower
File copies that don't fail if one file out of 20,000 can't be read
Have not seen this yet but if does not tell you which file and where it is located it is still useless IMO, I'm still waiting for an option in explorer that when i click "Yes to All" on a copy/delete/move/anything else dialog box i do really mean "YES TO EVERY MOTHER-FUCKING BOX THAT YOU CAN THROW UP AFTER I HAVE ALREADY CLICKED YES TO ALL!" and not one for "Yes for read-only", "Yes to system", "Yes to hidden", "Yes to files with the letter A", etc...
DVD burning and ISO handling (Still waiting for proper ISO mounting though)
So they finally upgraded the ancient (and stripped-down) version of roxio that came with XP, i have already found other more useful (and free) tools for this
Much better driver support (Most current corporate desktops don't need any additional drivers installed)
This is not news this will only last until the next tech/hardware versions come out and it will be the same, all they did was cram whatever drivers that are available right now onto the DVD (most will be old in a year or two) every new OS that comes out will always have this (XP had more drivers than 2000, 2000 had more drivers than 98, 98 had more drivers than 95,...)
Powershell, IPv6, XP-Mode (if it even works), Multi-monitor RDP (WTF?), Bit-Locker, 64-bit (64-bit apps still lacking) - No plans to use any of these for a while.
MS can pry XP licenses from my dead hands, XP can barely run on some of the hardware we have, no way i want to trouble-shoot user's machines that take 30Mins to boot Vista SP2 (what do you think 7 is?)
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WRONG!! I live in Texas and have been on 3 juries, We were always given notepads and pens to take notes if we wanted to remember anything during deliberations. We were simply instructed that we could not leave with them (during breaks for lunch or for breaks for multi-day trials) as the info we were to write was confidential/property of the court during the trial, some people do keep them afterwards otherwise they throw them out/destroy them.
Agree with the parking though, we have several "Free Public Parking" lots in our downtown area and all have signs stating "No Juror Parking" so everyone usually has to park at nearby churches (only ones willing to donate parking space apparently)
Except that the people that are always arguing that driving is a right rather than a privilege forget that drivers license is an operating license, as in you are are trained to operate that class of vehicle and are trained in it's safety operations and now they forget what they are supposed to do. (after all we have states that seem to hand them out like candy)
That drive in the link is 500GB, NOT 1.5TB, and refurbished.
The only drive that is 1.5TB is $119 USD http://3btech.net/sebalowpo159.html
Yes, M$N Is still sneaking in charges on my credit card for a trial i was dumb enough (at the time when i still liked MS) to activate a trial for one that i won at a conference (Comdex 03 i think?) Despite the fact the page stated it would only use my CC for verification purposes for the trial (which i never renewed because the damn thing didn't even work)
I can't call to cancel since i have no flipping idea what disposable msn acct name i created just to play with this damn thing so i just keep telling the CC people to dispute and say i never signed up for such a service (i signed up for a free trial and didn't renew, i never signed up for anything to purchase) MS only started charging about 2 years later and keep trying to sneak it in every so ofter. (Fucking M$N Assholes are worse than AOhelL)
Not to mention you can mount network volumes under UNIX mounts and apps only treat is as another directory, it's nice having everything fall under one root (/) and treating everything as a local folder/file hell i can mount FTP, SSH, NFS, whatever else TCP protocols that are available (or non TCP even, if it's networkable you can probably create a mounting option for it) and in the end it is just seen as a folder. (I have had several windows apps that refuse to install if it detects a network folder simply because it is too old and when it was written this was too slow/unreliable. Although i will give credit to MS for more extensive easy to use ACLs (no matter how complex they can get)
Pre-logon wireless support
Have had this working under 2000 Pro. and XP for years in a domain (although 2000 was a lot harder with no standard interface) even worked for startup-scripts that provided needed connectivity for users before they login, in fact i had to create a GPO for XP since MS wanted the marketing of XP booting faster than windows by dropping skipping thing at boot by default even part of theie own documentation at the time stated that users should have their my docs folders fully re-directed by the 3rd or 4th login (end-users did not like to hear that excuse) tried setting this in our image only to find MS has sysprep reset it back to default - nice.
Proper Gigabit Ethernet support
Not sure about desktop OS but in my experience 2000 Server had 10x performance throughput (on both 100Mb and 1Gb) than 2003, MS really fucked this up AFAIC if that is any indication win7 will probably be slower
File copies that don't fail if one file out of 20,000 can't be read
Have not seen this yet but if does not tell you which file and where it is located it is still useless IMO, I'm still waiting for an option in explorer that when i click "Yes to All" on a copy/delete/move/anything else dialog box i do really mean "YES TO EVERY MOTHER-FUCKING BOX THAT YOU CAN THROW UP AFTER I HAVE ALREADY CLICKED YES TO ALL!" and not one for "Yes for read-only", "Yes to system", "Yes to hidden", "Yes to files with the letter A", etc...
DVD burning and ISO handling (Still waiting for proper ISO mounting though)
So they finally upgraded the ancient (and stripped-down) version of roxio that came with XP, i have already found other more useful (and free) tools for this
Much better driver support (Most current corporate desktops don't need any additional drivers installed)
This is not news this will only last until the next tech/hardware versions come out and it will be the same, all they did was cram whatever drivers that are available right now onto the DVD (most will be old in a year or two) every new OS that comes out will always have this (XP had more drivers than 2000, 2000 had more drivers than 98, 98 had more drivers than 95,...)
Powershell, IPv6, XP-Mode (if it even works), Multi-monitor RDP (WTF?), Bit-Locker, 64-bit (64-bit apps still lacking) - No plans to use any of these for a while.
MS can pry XP licenses from my dead hands, XP can barely run on some of the hardware we have, no way i want to trouble-shoot user's machines that take 30Mins to boot Vista SP2 (what do you think 7 is?)