...you file independently. Tell mom & dad that if they want to keep that juicy deduction, their asses had better cough up some cash to the cause of getting you educated. If they're not supporting you and you're filing returns of your own, they shouldn't be claiming you. I'm sure you love mom & dad, but point out to them that they are screwing you over by:
1) Claiming you. 2) Not giving you shit. 3) Messing with your FAFSA (and thereby awards & grants) due to #1.
And that if they don't fix the situation, you call the IRS. Christmas may be awkward for a few years, but remember that they're screwing you.
See my post above. When my 40GB 60GXP bit the big one, they replaced it in January with a 40GB 120GXP. I suspect that that is their new practice with RMA's on the Deskstar line, so you'll probable get a 120GXP - Option 3.
Not only that, but what about replacements?
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I purchased a 40GB 60GXP about this time last year. The reason I purchased it was because of two reasons. First, every review I could find at the time was talking about the great performance of the 75GXP and the 60 GXP. Second, I was working at a computer tech at Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. Our tech shop was resposible for every computer on base, and out of the vast number of HDD's that I saw go bad, only one was an IBM (a SCSI drive on a Sparc Station). So, I thought I was buying the ultimate in IDE performance & reliability.
Then around August, I started hearing about problems with the 75GXP & possible problems with the 60GXP. Sure enough, in November the drive developed a bad sector. IBM replaced it (finally) in early January. However, they replaced my 40GB 60GXP with a 40GB 120GXP. Now, the article stated:
For the 120GXP, the restriction is noted in the two-page "Data Sheet and Specification" document under the "Reliability" section.
Neither the 75GXP nor the 60GXP have the 333 hour-per-month specification mentioned in their own versions of that document, however. The 60GXP lists this setting only in its "Functional Specifications" document--a hefty 195 page engineering-level PDF. The specification in question is located 'prominently' on page 50 in a relatively small section. The 75GXP, on the other hand, does not have a "Functional Specification" link and does not mention the limitation on its data sheet either. I was unable, in fact, to even FIND mention of such a limitation for this particular model.
So, here's my question. I sure as hell wasn't aware of the limitation when I purchased the 60GXP. I read most of the documentation, but I don't have the damn time to read a 195-page engineering manual for a limitation whose existence wouldn't have even occured to me (or most other people, for that matter). The tech who processed my RMA mentioned heat as a problem or the Win98 HDD cache shutdown bug as problems. When I told him that the machine only got powered off once a month and the drive was mounted in a 5.25" bay with dual fans on the front & nothing above or below, he was satified & didn't mention shit about any 333 hour-limitation. I didn't look into the limitations on the 120GXP, because "Hey, the new whiz-bang model should be able to do all the same stuff as well or better, right?" What I want to know is, when this drive tanks, is IBM going to say "Tough shit, you ran it for more than double the monthly limit! Forget about your warranty replacement."? What kind of recourse will be availible to me when the drive containing my OS partitions (Linux & Windows) shits itself?
Oops, good point. However, probably the reason you don't have any help files is becuase those are on the MSDN CD's. Either way, it really doesn't matter, because I'll probably just sell it or maybe install it to play with for a week or two when I'm bored. Also, according to the description, the help system with this one is as follows:
The documentation features provided with Visual Studio.NET Academic support use at both faculty and student levels. The faculty documentation describes the teaching tools and instructions for deploying Visual Studio.NET Academic in computer science laboratory settings. The student documentation includes walk-throughs for creating console applications and using the debugger, as well as a rich student reference for Visual Studio.
Well, it's at no up-front cost to me and they have free food. Plus, if I sell the software for any amount of money - more beer for me. You obviously don't understand college student economics. ;-)
Oh, yes, I understand that the cost for them is marginal, I was merely pointing out the following:
Visual Studio.NET Professional - Full Packaged Product $1,079 US Windows XP Professional - Full version $299 US
So, really it's only$1378.00 of software (that I wouldn't buy anyway) that they're giving away (for next to no cost for them). The $1700 figure is a product of my faulty memory, due to much beer consumption.
MS is hosting an event here at Miami University (Ohio) in conjucntion with the CS department to celebrate the rollout of Visual Studio.NET tomorrow. "All attendees will receive the full version of Visual Studio.NET Academic, a full version of Windows XP Professional, and other valuable items. Join us for an overview of the.NET Framework and a live demonstration of Visual Studio.NET." That's about $1700 (retail) of software that they're giving away. My suitemate and I are both Linux junkies, but we're both going for the software and out of curiosity. They giving out free food & even have a band scheduled to play. The notice is on MS's website here. They're also giving away an Xbox, Microsoft Press Books, $500 American Express Gift Certificates, MP3 Players, "and more!" MS is definetly pulling out all of the stops to try and hook the next generation (big surprise). I'm interested to see how it will go...
I was never around for the nut cakes (only 5.5 years for me so far), but I have had the chocolate covered oatmeal cookie. Very good, but I want to know how they make it sooooo damn hard. I swear, if I ever run outta ammo, forget bashing the enemy upside the head with my butt-stock, e-tool, or Kevlar. He's getting his cranium smashed in with the ol' chocolate covered oatmeal cookie.
Actually, I think the formula for CS gas with the MRE had something to do with the coffee creamer, which is (used to be?) flammable. Toss a match on that shit and it would go up in a fireball. Kinda makes a good case for drinking you coffee black...
They also came with cigarettes and had delightful nicknames, such as "Shit-on-a-Shingle".
Of course, I'm just glad they got rid of "Chicken-a-la-Shit"
MRE (Meal Ready to Eat): Three lies for the price of one!
And don't forget MRE babies: you don't take a dump for three days, beacuse of the preservatives. When you do, it comes out square, like the damn box...
Re:Rock or something ....
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Amen. Seriously, I usually just use my boot. You pop the clips on your LBV (load bearing vest) and lean back on the butt-pack, sort of like a field-expedient recliner, and lean the heater on you boot. It's in the box and if you can feel the heat, you have problems to begin with. Really, I rarely use the heater (too hungry), but most of my fellow Marines prefer hot meals. When I was stationed at Quantico, I had the chance to sample some of the new menus that MARCORSYSCOM (Marine Corps Systems Command - the people who decide what we're going to buy) had approved about a year ago, and even got my picture in the Marine Corps Times. I recommed everything except the Gumbo. It tasted like asshole du-jour.
To quote the article: The teen was also charged with possession of a Molotov cocktail, which is considered an "unregistered firearm" by the FBI.
Now, I took that to mean that he had it already put together. I didn't see anything about the "makings", but if you have another source, I'd like to see it.
If that is the case, you are correct that "makings" is a different case and they could get nearly anyone on that. The only time I could see a bust on "makings" being legit would be if some crazy had like 100 bottles, 100 rags, and several gallons of gasoline all lined up, i.e. obviously preparing to make molotov cocktails. However, I think the wording indicates that he had actually prepared one.
Sorry, I should have qualified that comment. I meant that I would be unlikely in today's environment. Yes, I know that both of them were hounded by the government. They also legitimized their approach.
theres a difference between punk kids who need guidence and terrorists
I say again, bullshit. ANYONE who has a molotov cocktail is a criminal. Punk kids with wacko ideas and crazed terrorists alike. A 17-year-old with a nuke or a memeber of al Quaeda with a nuke would vaporize just as many people. And either with an incindiary device would still burn down your house, Buddy.
But the speech acts as an enabler, so we should outlaw it, right? The problem becomes deciding which instructions for illegal activities should not be allowed. Fine, everyone agrees that bomb-making instructions are bad. But what about civil disobedience instructions? What about instructions for breaking an encryption? What about instructions for hiding money from the government? Which will we allow and which will we not?
The critical point is that somehing that is violent in nature is prohibited. Look at your examples. Civil disobediance instructions are one thing. I'm assuming you're refering to tactics used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi. Those aren't a problem, per se, and I doubt you would see a government agency trying to curb those type of instructions. Encryption is a diffucult issue, and I'm not going to dwell upon it, because that is a large can of worms in itself. Hiding money must be illegal, or you will have half the jackasses in the country not filing tax returns for "political beliefs", or some such bullshit.
What I really take issue with is when someone implies or says that everything should be protected, due to that fact that the judgement of others may be incorrect or go too far. Well, welcome to a democracy, Bub. It's easy to sit there like an armchair quarterback and cry "foul" whenever the line is crossed. Yes, there will be mistakes and problems. Laws written by people and enforced by people always will be, by definition, imperfect. But to suggest that teaching people to engage in patently illegal, and especially dangerous, activites should be protected is BS. What if the government did nothing to stop it? Morons who want to build bombs or chemical weapons because they don't like the government ought to have easy access to this information? Is that really what you're suggesting? Think about it: That information is provided for a reason. This idiot kid wasn't putting up bomb instructions because he thought it would be a good thing for someone to know if the question ever came up in Trivial Pursuit. He wants to see the violent overthrow of the government. I know, hell, let's let them. Let the overthrow the government, and if we don't like it, then we can overthrow that one. And so on and so forth, until we plunge into total anarchy.
Don't get me wrong, I think free speach is one of the most vital of our rights. But don't sit there and say that hard judgements and tough calls shouldn't be made, simply beacuse you fear the results. If you're really worried about it, join the FBI or the Justice Department and then someday you can be the one making the tough calls. Although, I suspect you'd end up explaining to a roomfull of reporters why a 6th-grader made mustard gas and unleashed it at his school with instrutions he downloaded from a website you didn't want to shut down. Your arguments are good ones, but you're not thinking to the next step: consequences. Thanks.
I've done hardly any programming for Linux yet. Mostly I've just used a text editor. If Borland doesn't release a GUI for C++, what's another good one? I thought gcc was command-line only & didn't have an IDE. Is there something else? I always assumed there was but have never got around to checking into it. Thanks.
I won't take the bait for most of this crap. However, I will say two things:
1) Your Medal of Honor comparison is misleading. If you take away the Civil War (in which the Marine Corps was reduced to pitifully small levels) and the campaigns against the American Indians (in which the Marine Corps had very little participation) the numbers become 726 (Army) vs. 279 (Marines). Considering the large size difference between the Army and the Corps, especially in times of war, we have more per capita. If you want to hit below the belt, at least do it with realistic numbers.
2) I thinks it is sad and pathetic that you have to lash out like that in a public forum in response to an honest operational and doctrinal critique. If you want to talk shit, do it in-house or at least have the courage to post your name. Grow up.
The commander should have either refused or changed the plan so that his men and helos were not so exposed. Personally, I would give up my command before I would have executed a plan that fragile. It would suck, but a commander has a moral obligation to the well-being of his men. We stopped believing in "cannon-fodder" after WWI. Unfortunatly, the commander believed that he could either "make it work" or that luck would be on their side...
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I wasn't aware of the old language, thanks for the correction. I'm glad to hear that mom got dad to step up. Good luck with school.
...you file independently. Tell mom & dad that if they want to keep that juicy deduction, their asses had better cough up some cash to the cause of getting you educated. If they're not supporting you and you're filing returns of your own, they shouldn't be claiming you. I'm sure you love mom & dad, but point out to them that they are screwing you over by:
1) Claiming you.
2) Not giving you shit.
3) Messing with your FAFSA (and thereby awards & grants) due to #1.
And that if they don't fix the situation, you call the IRS. Christmas may be awkward for a few years, but remember that they're screwing you.
See my post above. When my 40GB 60GXP bit the big one, they replaced it in January with a 40GB 120GXP. I suspect that that is their new practice with RMA's on the Deskstar line, so you'll probable get a 120GXP - Option 3.
Then around August, I started hearing about problems with the 75GXP & possible problems with the 60GXP. Sure enough, in November the drive developed a bad sector. IBM replaced it (finally) in early January. However, they replaced my 40GB 60GXP with a 40GB 120GXP. Now, the article stated:
So, here's my question. I sure as hell wasn't aware of the limitation when I purchased the 60GXP. I read most of the documentation, but I don't have the damn time to read a 195-page engineering manual for a limitation whose existence wouldn't have even occured to me (or most other people, for that matter). The tech who processed my RMA mentioned heat as a problem or the Win98 HDD cache shutdown bug as problems. When I told him that the machine only got powered off once a month and the drive was mounted in a 5.25" bay with dual fans on the front & nothing above or below, he was satified & didn't mention shit about any 333 hour-limitation. I didn't look into the limitations on the 120GXP, because "Hey, the new whiz-bang model should be able to do all the same stuff as well or better, right?" What I want to know is, when this drive tanks, is IBM going to say "Tough shit, you ran it for more than double the monthly limit! Forget about your warranty replacement."? What kind of recourse will be availible to me when the drive containing my OS partitions (Linux & Windows) shits itself?
Well, it's at no up-front cost to me and they have free food. Plus, if I sell the software for any amount of money - more beer for me. You obviously don't understand college student economics.
;-)
Oh, yes, I understand that the cost for them is marginal, I was merely pointing out the following:
.NET Professional - Full Packaged Product $1,079 US
Visual Studio
Windows XP Professional - Full version $299 US
So, really it's only $1378.00 of software (that I wouldn't buy anyway) that they're giving away (for next to no cost for them). The $1700 figure is a product of my faulty memory, due to much beer consumption.
MS is going to start pusing .NET tomorrow - BIG TIME.
MS is hosting an event here at Miami University (Ohio) in conjucntion with the CS department to celebrate the rollout of Visual Studio .NET tomorrow. "All attendees will receive the full version of Visual Studio .NET Academic, a full version of Windows XP Professional, and other valuable items. Join us for an overview of the .NET Framework and a live demonstration of Visual Studio .NET." That's about $1700 (retail) of software that they're giving away. My suitemate and I are both Linux junkies, but we're both going for the software and out of curiosity. They giving out free food & even have a band scheduled to play. The notice is on MS's website here. They're also giving away an Xbox, Microsoft Press Books, $500 American Express Gift Certificates, MP3 Players, "and more!" MS is definetly pulling out all of the stops to try and hook the next generation (big surprise). I'm interested to see how it will go...
I was never around for the nut cakes (only 5.5 years for me so far), but I have had the chocolate covered oatmeal cookie. Very good, but I want to know how they make it sooooo damn hard. I swear, if I ever run outta ammo, forget bashing the enemy upside the head with my butt-stock, e-tool, or Kevlar. He's getting his cranium smashed in with the ol' chocolate covered oatmeal cookie.
And add LOTS of salt!!!
Actually, I think the formula for CS gas with the MRE had something to do with the coffee creamer, which is (used to be?) flammable. Toss a match on that shit and it would go up in a fireball. Kinda makes a good case for drinking you coffee black...
They also came with cigarettes and had delightful nicknames, such as "Shit-on-a-Shingle".
Of course, I'm just glad they got rid of "Chicken-a-la-Shit"
MRE (Meal Ready to Eat): Three lies for the price of one!
And don't forget MRE babies: you don't take a dump for three days, beacuse of the preservatives. When you do, it comes out square, like the damn box...
Amen. Seriously, I usually just use my boot. You pop the clips on your LBV (load bearing vest) and lean back on the butt-pack, sort of like a field-expedient recliner, and lean the heater on you boot. It's in the box and if you can feel the heat, you have problems to begin with. Really, I rarely use the heater (too hungry), but most of my fellow Marines prefer hot meals. When I was stationed at Quantico, I had the chance to sample some of the new menus that MARCORSYSCOM (Marine Corps Systems Command - the people who decide what we're going to buy) had approved about a year ago, and even got my picture in the Marine Corps Times. I recommed everything except the Gumbo. It tasted like asshole du-jour.
Pound cake rules!!!
Hey, Jackass, I'm in the Marine Corps. I work to protect the rights all of us are discussing. The sig is a bit of joke directed at my profession.
To quote the article: The teen was also charged with possession of a Molotov cocktail, which is considered an "unregistered firearm" by the FBI.
Now, I took that to mean that he had it already put together. I didn't see anything about the "makings", but if you have another source, I'd like to see it.
If that is the case, you are correct that "makings" is a different case and they could get nearly anyone on that. The only time I could see a bust on "makings" being legit would be if some crazy had like 100 bottles, 100 rags, and several gallons of gasoline all lined up, i.e. obviously preparing to make molotov cocktails. However, I think the wording indicates that he had actually prepared one.
Sorry, I should have qualified that comment. I meant that I would be unlikely in today's environment. Yes, I know that both of them were hounded by the government. They also legitimized their approach.
theres a difference between punk kids who need guidence and terrorists
I say again, bullshit. ANYONE who has a molotov cocktail is a criminal. Punk kids with wacko ideas and crazed terrorists alike. A 17-year-old with a nuke or a memeber of al Quaeda with a nuke would vaporize just as many people. And either with an incindiary device would still burn down your house, Buddy.
But the speech acts as an enabler, so we should outlaw it, right? The problem becomes deciding which instructions for illegal activities should not be allowed. Fine, everyone agrees that bomb-making instructions are bad. But what about civil disobedience instructions? What about instructions for breaking an encryption? What about instructions for hiding money from the government? Which will we allow and which will we not?
The critical point is that somehing that is violent in nature is prohibited. Look at your examples. Civil disobediance instructions are one thing. I'm assuming you're refering to tactics used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi. Those aren't a problem, per se, and I doubt you would see a government agency trying to curb those type of instructions. Encryption is a diffucult issue, and I'm not going to dwell upon it, because that is a large can of worms in itself. Hiding money must be illegal, or you will have half the jackasses in the country not filing tax returns for "political beliefs", or some such bullshit.
What I really take issue with is when someone implies or says that everything should be protected, due to that fact that the judgement of others may be incorrect or go too far. Well, welcome to a democracy, Bub. It's easy to sit there like an armchair quarterback and cry "foul" whenever the line is crossed. Yes, there will be mistakes and problems. Laws written by people and enforced by people always will be, by definition, imperfect. But to suggest that teaching people to engage in patently illegal, and especially dangerous, activites should be protected is BS. What if the government did nothing to stop it? Morons who want to build bombs or chemical weapons because they don't like the government ought to have easy access to this information? Is that really what you're suggesting? Think about it: That information is provided for a reason. This idiot kid wasn't putting up bomb instructions because he thought it would be a good thing for someone to know if the question ever came up in Trivial Pursuit. He wants to see the violent overthrow of the government. I know, hell, let's let them. Let the overthrow the government, and if we don't like it, then we can overthrow that one. And so on and so forth, until we plunge into total anarchy.
Don't get me wrong, I think free speach is one of the most vital of our rights. But don't sit there and say that hard judgements and tough calls shouldn't be made, simply beacuse you fear the results. If you're really worried about it, join the FBI or the Justice Department and then someday you can be the one making the tough calls. Although, I suspect you'd end up explaining to a roomfull of reporters why a 6th-grader made mustard gas and unleashed it at his school with instrutions he downloaded from a website you didn't want to shut down. Your arguments are good ones, but you're not thinking to the next step: consequences. Thanks.
I wish both of you nothing but the best. :-)
This was a Saturday Night Live skit from the 11/18/1995 episode. Happy to see it, but make sure you credit where you got it from... :-)
The video is avalible here (High-Res) or here (Low-Res), BTW.
I've done hardly any programming for Linux yet. Mostly I've just used a text editor. If Borland doesn't release a GUI for C++, what's another good one? I thought gcc was command-line only & didn't have an IDE. Is there something else? I always assumed there was but have never got around to checking into it. Thanks.
I won't take the bait for most of this crap. However, I will say two things:
1) Your Medal of Honor comparison is misleading. If you take away the Civil War (in which the Marine Corps was reduced to pitifully small levels) and the campaigns against the American Indians (in which the Marine Corps had very little participation) the numbers become 726 (Army) vs. 279 (Marines). Considering the large size difference between the Army and the Corps, especially in times of war, we have more per capita. If you want to hit below the belt, at least do it with realistic numbers.
2) I thinks it is sad and pathetic that you have to lash out like that in a public forum in response to an honest operational and doctrinal critique. If you want to talk shit, do it in-house or at least have the courage to post your name. Grow up.
Really? Huh, I never knew that... oh well, that's fair, right? ;-)
The commander should have either refused or changed the plan so that his men and helos were not so exposed. Personally, I would give up my command before I would have executed a plan that fragile. It would suck, but a commander has a moral obligation to the well-being of his men. We stopped believing in "cannon-fodder" after WWI. Unfortunatly, the commander believed that he could either "make it work" or that luck would be on their side...