I've been ripped off a few times and reported it to the BBB. They do nothing. Giving that host a bad rating on sites like hostsearch.com could do more damage. Of course after this Slashdot story, they can pretty much kiss their business goodbye:)
I am a young male living in North Carolina. I was hospitalized for depression when I was 15. I was under the impression that, by law, all my medical records would be destroyed when I recently turned 18. I'm far from a legal expert here, so someone help me out. Isn't Pinkerton breaking a law or two? If the local mental health agency can't keep my records on file, how does some huge company, only looking to make a profit, get a hold of my files and keep them forever? It seems to me that our government is dipping their hand into Pinkerton's pockets.
do you have a 2nd hard drive with linux on the same IDE channel? I'm primarily a windows user, I admit it. But I have an old hard drive in my machine now with redhat on it, and whenever I open an open dialog in windows, it tries to scan the 2nd drive. it never stops. no matter how many times I do something and it scans the drive, it just doesn't give up. so every time it scans the drive, I have to sit and wait for about 10 seconds. I've tried disabling the drive in Windows, but Windows doesn't care. Win2K BTW.
It's not just MS, have you downloaded Real Player lately? or any of the dozens of once usefull applications now packed full of worthless stuff? All I want is a widely-used text editor with spell check and formatting options! That's it! Are these companies ever going to understand?
What are the chances we'll actually see these in our home systems in 5 years? What are the chances we'll NEED that much power in 10-15 years? I'd say none. Even if they could perfect a unit for home computing, who would buy it? I know very few people with CPUs over 400MHz, even with these 1GHz+ CPUs out today, there's very few real needs for that much power.
Just me or has there been one CPU news post per day on average lately? If I see that Intel logo one more time I'm going to hurt small kittens.
The LCD screen on that can be no bigger than 5". Playing on a 13" tv is hard enough! The only way I would buy a portable playstation is if it was either all one unit (not probable) or was about the size of a discman that could clip onto a belt or fit into a small bag, and had the screen and controller on one unit. Carrying around that big thing just makes you an easy target to be robbed.
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I've been ripped off a few times and reported it to the BBB. They do nothing. Giving that host a bad rating on sites like hostsearch.com could do more damage. Of course after this Slashdot story, they can pretty much kiss their business goodbye :)
I am a young male living in North Carolina. I was hospitalized for depression when I was 15. I was under the impression that, by law, all my medical records would be destroyed when I recently turned 18. I'm far from a legal expert here, so someone help me out. Isn't Pinkerton breaking a law or two? If the local mental health agency can't keep my records on file, how does some huge company, only looking to make a profit, get a hold of my files and keep them forever? It seems to me that our government is dipping their hand into Pinkerton's pockets.
At least I can buy a gun now...
anyone want my computer? I'm going to find an Atari! Screw Quake3 and CounterStrike, Pacman is where real challenege is at! l33t p4cm4n 5k1[[Z!!!
do you have a 2nd hard drive with linux on the same IDE channel? I'm primarily a windows user, I admit it. But I have an old hard drive in my machine now with redhat on it, and whenever I open an open dialog in windows, it tries to scan the 2nd drive. it never stops. no matter how many times I do something and it scans the drive, it just doesn't give up. so every time it scans the drive, I have to sit and wait for about 10 seconds. I've tried disabling the drive in Windows, but Windows doesn't care. Win2K BTW.
It's not just MS, have you downloaded Real Player lately? or any of the dozens of once usefull applications now packed full of worthless stuff? All I want is a widely-used text editor with spell check and formatting options! That's it! Are these companies ever going to understand?
What are the chances we'll actually see these in our home systems in 5 years? What are the chances we'll NEED that much power in 10-15 years? I'd say none. Even if they could perfect a unit for home computing, who would buy it? I know very few people with CPUs over 400MHz, even with these 1GHz+ CPUs out today, there's very few real needs for that much power. Just me or has there been one CPU news post per day on average lately? If I see that Intel logo one more time I'm going to hurt small kittens.
Isn't this pretty much the same thing Timothy posted earlier?
The LCD screen on that can be no bigger than 5". Playing on a 13" tv is hard enough! The only way I would buy a portable playstation is if it was either all one unit (not probable) or was about the size of a discman that could clip onto a belt or fit into a small bag, and had the screen and controller on one unit. Carrying around that big thing just makes you an easy target to be robbed.