restrictions on profanity etc. no, half the good scifi/action etc. shows have this in them.
Frack! What the frell are you talking about? Sounds like a pile of dren to me. I think you're the zarking son of a tralk hazmot. Grow a pair of mivonks.
The problem is that the margins in the PC industry are razor thin, and with the number of people needed to man those phones, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Retail customers aren't willing to pay for quality tech support. [Corporates are though.]
Even if they were able to pay them more (which they aren't), you aren't going to get good people who know what they are doing to sit on a phone all day every day dealing with angry/frustrated customers. No one ever calls tech support to tell them how happy they are with their purchase. I was a tech for a year, and it was horrible. You only get angry/upset people talking to you, and most of the problems can be resolved by following a script.
Add to this the PHBs who measure your performance based on average call times (not in actually resolving issues) and you get yourself micro-managed into mediocrity. Good people don't like being told to do a shitty job, and they will leave.
If you've got the skills to be a good tech, you can make more money doing a job that is more satisfying somewhere else.
These police aren't just appearing in public. They work for the public, represent the public. They absolutely should expect to be recorded when in public.
In fact, all police should be recorded every minute they're on duty, with explicit (and logged) privacy breaks.
That argument doesn't really wash. You could claim the same about a paper pusher in a government office. Just because the public pays their salary and they represent the public doesn't give you the right to set up Orwellian monitoring.
Saying that they are given special privileges by the law which should make them subject to special monitoring would be a better angle.
These laws were drafted before video taping was possible. There was a problem with audio taping, so they addressed that problem directly. Like our law makers like to do, they made it overly specific and failed to capture the general idea: recording someone without their knowledge.
an employee or executive of the company must be present at the trial - not a lawyer, and not somebody hired specifically for the purpose of defending the small claims suit.... If Gateway doesn't send an employee,
You don't think that Gateway has a lawyer on staff?
What does this do that previous ones don't? Why is this so much better than existing technology that it will supplant it?
The USB interface is a nice feature, but a USB nub is pretty clunky, and is, in and of itself, bigger than competing media cards. XD and microSD are both smaller than a USB connector. Every format is flatter (CF, XD, SD, MMC, MemoryStick). How is this going to be better than any of those? If it doesn't have a standard USB nub, then is it going to need an adaptor, therefore defeating the while "card reader not required" argument?
I really only see three markets for these cards. Large: currently filled very well by Compact Flash. Medium (a niche): filled by SD. And small: where microSD is doing well [I was routing for xD].
PS. "Taiwan's miCard chosen as global memory card standard" by the companies invested in promoting that standard. Check the list of supporters. It's all media manufacturers. There are no device designers on the list (possible exceptions are BenQ and Asus).
Should we be pleased that the kids can out-think TV producers?" The right question is: "Should we be surprised that the kids can out-think TV producers?"
The right question is: "Should we be surprised that the kids have been lulled into a sense of unquestioning trust of our corporate overlords and technology?"
Lead additives to paint and blinds turned out to be totally safe (not). And the blue ditto machines were too (methanol exposure). Mercury fillings (banned in Europe at least). All those banned pesticides that we used to think were safe. Oh, and cattle being fed ground up cow brains (mad cow) and shot full of all kinds of hormones and antibiotics are safe too!
Yes, a tinfoil hat looks stupid, but how do we know that these kids wont turn out to be analogous to the kids being fogged by DDT?
Have you had that verified by scientists in a double blind study?
Yes, because we all have everything verified by double-blind studies. Why, just this morning, I was all set to leave the house, but I needed to conduct a double-blind study to verify that my shoes were tied. I mean, I can't trust anything to my own senses.
Supporting the GP, I too can here the high-pitched hiss from some electronics. CRTs are the most noticeable. I verified this through years of my brother leaving the TV on after playing console games. He'd turn the console off (so there was no sound and a black screen), but leave the TV on drawing power. I didn't have to see him playing and leave. Sometimes he would turn it off, sometimes he wouldn't. Sometimes I would wake up, come downstairs in the morning, and hear it ringing before it was anywhere within sight. There was never a false positive.
I've got a TV that I picked up at the salvation army in my house now. When the screen is all white, it makes this hissing sound. When it's black, it doesn't. It's loud enough (and low enough) for normal people to hear it. That's probably why it was at the SA.
Can you not hear a monitor powering up? There are no audio components in there. Maybe one moving part to establish a physical electrical connection. But how do you explain the rest of the sounds? What about monitors that hum when their flybacks start to go? So we can hear them when they power up, and when they are defective, but no one can hear them when they are just "on"? That doesn't seem right.
What about the hum from a high voltage transformer? An old streetlight? These all make sounds, and are electronic equipment, but no-one doubts them. Why can't other electronics make sound too?
Electronics are not 100% efficient. Most energy is lost through heat, but it would be foolish to think that the electricity -> radiation conversion is 100% efficient. Some of it is lost to vibration. All of those electrons whipping around create little magnetic fields. All those transistors switching create oscillations in them. All those cheap metal components held in place be the cheapest possible metal solder and flexible plastic bits. It's not hard to imagine that sympathetic vibrations can be created.
now they've added a disclaimer to the website (so i've read here today) that the prices on the website aren't available in the stores.
That shouldn't be allowed. What's next, fliers in your newspaper that say that the prices "at participating locations only," where none of the actual stores are participating? Or maybe each store could participate in one sale item only.
It's clearly intending to mislead. If they want separate pricing, they should have to use separate names.
Why would they even have an internal/external distinction if not to cheat customers out of an advertised price?
If "Best Buy" has something for 29.95 on their website, then I expect "Best Buy" to have it for 29.95 in store. The only exceptions to this would be refurbs or other odd items that are not available in-store at all. If they want separate pricing, then they should be using separate names.
Sale above advertised price - The Competition Act prohibits the sale or rent of a product at a price higher than its advertised price. The provision does not apply if the advertised price was a mistake and the error was immediately corrected.
Double ticketing - The Competition Act prohibits the supply of a product at a price that exceeds the lowest of two or more prices. In other words, where two or more prices are clearly shown on a product, it must be supplied at the lower price.
I assume that you have no experience with, technology, business or government.
Mission creep will be a serious problem. Once the technology is in place, it's mission will forever be expanded by just-one-more-use, and it will eternally erode away whatever freedoms that you have.
Sure, it's just to protect the yellow jackets now, then it will be "used to identify offenders" then "used to gather evidence of offence." Then instead of being referred to for specific instances, it will be used for blanked reviews of crimes that were committed in the area while the officer was there... to look for anything suspicious or that can be used as evidense.
Then they will tack on some facial recognition (whenever that works) to search for known terrorists, then regular people with warrants will be added to that list, then any other undesirables. Before you know it, you kid places a tip that you didn't wash your hands before dinner, leading to a computerized review of everything that you've ever done, revealing a date 10 years ago (before everything was computer analyzed as a matter of course) where you met a woman in a blue trench coat wearing mismatched socks, causing a computerized voice in the cops ear to tell him to pick you up on suspicion of evasion of surveillance.
They could delay the inevitable by reallocating existing IPv4 space more efficiently. Many old/historical allocations are inefficient. Apple Computer, for example, has all of the 17.x.x.x space, comprising 256^3 = more than 16 million addresses, which is just plain absurd in this day and age.
This would meet with more resistance, and would be harder to do, than just switching to IPv6.
My mom, bless her soul, doesn't quite get the concept of digital photography. She always complains that we never print them out for her,
I know that this doesn't answer the question that you've asked, but why don't you just print them? There are kiosk machines in lots of places now that print at photo quality. Prints are on the order of 20 cents each for a 4x6. I use them. They're great.
Your mom is more comfortable with prints, don't try to force an unwanted solution on her.
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Frack! What the frell are you talking about? Sounds like a pile of dren to me. I think you're the zarking son of a tralk hazmot. Grow a pair of mivonks.
I did not blockquote you, and this is not a reply.
Not on a server. Forking on the accept call is embarrassingly parallel.
The problem is that the margins in the PC industry are razor thin, and with the number of people needed to man those phones, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
Retail customers aren't willing to pay for quality tech support. [Corporates are though.]
Even if they were able to pay them more (which they aren't), you aren't going to get good people who know what they are doing to sit on a phone all day every day dealing with angry/frustrated customers. No one ever calls tech support to tell them how happy they are with their purchase. I was a tech for a year, and it was horrible. You only get angry/upset people talking to you, and most of the problems can be resolved by following a script.
Add to this the PHBs who measure your performance based on average call times (not in actually resolving issues) and you get yourself micro-managed into mediocrity. Good people don't like being told to do a shitty job, and they will leave.
If you've got the skills to be a good tech, you can make more money doing a job that is more satisfying somewhere else.
That argument doesn't really wash. You could claim the same about a paper pusher in a government office. Just because the public pays their salary and they represent the public doesn't give you the right to set up Orwellian monitoring.
Saying that they are given special privileges by the law which should make them subject to special monitoring would be a better angle.
These laws were drafted before video taping was possible. There was a problem with audio taping, so they addressed that problem directly. Like our law makers like to do, they made it overly specific and failed to capture the general idea: recording someone without their knowledge.
Zoom the image out and pan a little to the left (above the first parking meter). He's walking in front of a security camera.
Not pertinent, but thought it was interesting.
Not if you read the headline as: "Texas raises barrier to entry for competitors of Dell and HP."
Notice how it does not affect business buyers, where the large players are already protected by a high barrier to entry.
Actually, it sounds like a classic MUD.
You don't think that Gateway has a lawyer on staff?
You mean, like... Windows?
Apple.
(referring to the original Apple suit, not after iTunes)
What does this do that previous ones don't? Why is this so much better than existing technology that it will supplant it?
The USB interface is a nice feature, but a USB nub is pretty clunky, and is, in and of itself, bigger than competing media cards. XD and microSD are both smaller than a USB connector. Every format is flatter (CF, XD, SD, MMC, MemoryStick). How is this going to be better than any of those? If it doesn't have a standard USB nub, then is it going to need an adaptor, therefore defeating the while "card reader not required" argument?
I really only see three markets for these cards. Large: currently filled very well by Compact Flash. Medium (a niche): filled by SD. And small: where microSD is doing well [I was routing for xD].
PS. "Taiwan's miCard chosen as global memory card standard" by the companies invested in promoting that standard. Check the list of supporters. It's all media manufacturers. There are no device designers on the list (possible exceptions are BenQ and Asus).
I think that the Greys may have something to say about that.
The right question is: "Should we be surprised that the kids have been lulled into a sense of unquestioning trust of our corporate overlords and technology?"
Lead additives to paint and blinds turned out to be totally safe (not). And the blue ditto machines were too (methanol exposure). Mercury fillings (banned in Europe at least). All those banned pesticides that we used to think were safe. Oh, and cattle being fed ground up cow brains (mad cow) and shot full of all kinds of hormones and antibiotics are safe too!
Yes, a tinfoil hat looks stupid, but how do we know that these kids wont turn out to be analogous to the kids being fogged by DDT?
Yes, because we all have everything verified by double-blind studies. Why, just this morning, I was all set to leave the house, but I needed to conduct a double-blind study to verify that my shoes were tied. I mean, I can't trust anything to my own senses.
Supporting the GP, I too can here the high-pitched hiss from some electronics. CRTs are the most noticeable. I verified this through years of my brother leaving the TV on after playing console games. He'd turn the console off (so there was no sound and a black screen), but leave the TV on drawing power. I didn't have to see him playing and leave. Sometimes he would turn it off, sometimes he wouldn't. Sometimes I would wake up, come downstairs in the morning, and hear it ringing before it was anywhere within sight. There was never a false positive.
I've got a TV that I picked up at the salvation army in my house now. When the screen is all white, it makes this hissing sound. When it's black, it doesn't. It's loud enough (and low enough) for normal people to hear it. That's probably why it was at the SA.
Can you not hear a monitor powering up? There are no audio components in there. Maybe one moving part to establish a physical electrical connection. But how do you explain the rest of the sounds? What about monitors that hum when their flybacks start to go? So we can hear them when they power up, and when they are defective, but no one can hear them when they are just "on"? That doesn't seem right.
What about the hum from a high voltage transformer? An old streetlight? These all make sounds, and are electronic equipment, but no-one doubts them. Why can't other electronics make sound too?
Electronics are not 100% efficient. Most energy is lost through heat, but it would be foolish to think that the electricity -> radiation conversion is 100% efficient. Some of it is lost to vibration. All of those electrons whipping around create little magnetic fields. All those transistors switching create oscillations in them. All those cheap metal components held in place be the cheapest possible metal solder and flexible plastic bits. It's not hard to imagine that sympathetic vibrations can be created.
That shouldn't be allowed. What's next, fliers in your newspaper that say that the prices "at participating locations only," where none of the actual stores are participating? Or maybe each store could participate in one sale item only.
It's clearly intending to mislead. If they want separate pricing, they should have to use separate names.
Why would they even have an internal/external distinction if not to cheat customers out of an advertised price?
If "Best Buy" has something for 29.95 on their website, then I expect "Best Buy" to have it for 29.95 in store. The only exceptions to this would be refurbs or other odd items that are not available in-store at all. If they want separate pricing, then they should be using separate names.
If you find a discrepancy, file a complaint.
Is it legal for you to wear a camera to monitor the police?
N. O.
That has been established as obstruction.
I assume that you have no experience with, technology, business or government.
Mission creep will be a serious problem. Once the technology is in place, it's mission will forever be expanded by just-one-more-use, and it will eternally erode away whatever freedoms that you have.
Sure, it's just to protect the yellow jackets now, then it will be "used to identify offenders" then "used to gather evidence of offence." Then instead of being referred to for specific instances, it will be used for blanked reviews of crimes that were committed in the area while the officer was there... to look for anything suspicious or that can be used as evidense.
Then they will tack on some facial recognition (whenever that works) to search for known terrorists, then regular people with warrants will be added to that list, then any other undesirables. Before you know it, you kid places a tip that you didn't wash your hands before dinner, leading to a computerized review of everything that you've ever done, revealing a date 10 years ago (before everything was computer analyzed as a matter of course) where you met a woman in a blue trench coat wearing mismatched socks, causing a computerized voice in the cops ear to tell him to pick you up on suspicion of evasion of surveillance.
That would require a change to all TCP/IP stacks, and replacement of core routers.
Why not just fix the problem outright if you are going to do that?
This would meet with more resistance, and would be harder to do, than just switching to IPv6.
I know that this doesn't answer the question that you've asked, but why don't you just print them? There are kiosk machines in lots of places now that print at photo quality. Prints are on the order of 20 cents each for a 4x6. I use them. They're great.
Your mom is more comfortable with prints, don't try to force an unwanted solution on her.
Why is this getting modded as insightful? This man innovates nothing, and contributes nothing to society. Sarcasm is supposed to be funny.