I agree -- Dell's service can be great. My Latitude C810 fell off the couch onto the wireless card's antenna breaking the PCMCIA slot clean in two. I called them on New Year's eve. The tech was at my house at 10AM on the 2nd with motherboard in hand. He swapped it out and was on his way in less then an hour. It didn't cost me a dime becuase I spent the extra $50 on accidental damage protection when I bought the laptop.
I agree. I just looked at the screenshots and then at my Outlook 2003 window and thought 'Not only does Outlook 2003 have these features, it looks like they do it better.'
When looking only at usability, Outlook 2003 is great. If only MS would fix everything else.
So I wonder, why are devices like Hubble not built to be retooled - built with some type of standard socket connections so batteries, comupters, lenses, etc. could be more easily upgraded by swapping out major units and bolting them together on a frame just like a computer?
I always find it entertaining how our entire prison establishment feels these laws are unimportant... I find it makes me sick to my stomach.
Breaking and entering, vandalism, trespassing and destruction of private property are all illegal acts that are regularly committed by virus authors.
Go on back to prison and let those 'large black men' sodomize your racist ass a little more. I think you need some more instruction about respect for other's property.
Personally, I say do away with consentual crime laws. Get rid of them and you can get rid of prisons -- punishment of real crimes could then be handled by a bullet.
..is that most people generally have very good reasons for sounding distressed during a call an insurance company.
How is someone supposed to calmly explain they just lost their entire family to a car crash, saw their child die in a terrorist attack, or just permanently lost the use of their arm to the wood chipper?
You've read your statement, right? I would think the proof of validity of the claims to be self-evident in the cases you describe.
How is SCO going to know who is running linux and who isn't??? I mean, how did you get YOUR copy? I know mine didn't come with a receipt. Even if they subpeona the sales records of CompUSA, RedHat, etc. What about those of us who downloaded our copies or purchased them with cash or didn't get them through a normal chain?
It seem to me that even if SCO wins, they'll have a hard time collecting.
I'm not arguing that at all -- you're absolutely right. My point is that it doesn't happen nearly enough to be significant. Most of the crashes listed on that site fall into four main categories:
1-Crashed into mountain
2-Collision
3-Crashed on landing/takeoff
4-Crashed into the ocean
The soft-wall system proposed would steer the aircraft around the city IF the aircraft was still flyable. If it isn't flyable, well, the whole issue is moot anyway.
Suppose for instance that an aircraft happens to suffer from a problem like multiple engine failure and the only way to avoid crashing into a densely populated urban area would be to trespass an area of protected airspace.
How often, in the 40 odd years of commercial air travel, has an engine (or any failure) caused a commercial aircraft to crash in a 'densly' populated area? The only one I can only think of was Air Florida Flight 90 -- it hit the 14th street bridge and went into the Potomac. Other than that, and the B-25 that slammed into the Empire State Building way back when.
My point being that 'engine failures causing aircraft to smash into densly populated areas' just isn't a statistical reality. Hijackings are.
I would think that, if the proposed system was implemented, you would setup the no-fly-zone far enough out so that you in your Cessna 182, cruising at a max of 200kts, wouldn't have a chance of getting close enough because of the SAM batteries backing up the NFZ.
"Jim Gray, left, and Gordon Bell, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, say that research will increasingly be data-driven and make use of inexpensive clusters of PC's.
BARC. It just doesn't quite have the same ring to it."
Don't you mean it doesn't have the same bite (or byte)?
"We interrupt this broadcast for another public execution of a spammer and as a bonus execution, three patent lawyers. Please stand by, after the executions you will be returned to your regularly scheduled programming.
Thank you."
Am I the only person that doesn't mind junk mail all that much? I mean the paper stuff. Anything addressed "Resident" (of course I screen it) goes to my 4 year old daughter. She loves getting 'mail'.
If the marketing companies want to waste their postage to provide my kid with entertainment, that's on them.
Sorry, but anyone that trusts email as confidential deserves what they get in the end. Didn't anyone learn from the Halloween Memo? If you don't want it to become public, don't put it in writing.
Why some people think that reporters should be able to disregard the law is beyond me
When their only purpose is sensationalism and ratings, they deserve the maximum penalty possible. Those reports are usually easy to spot.
When the reports are made in the best interest of the public then I think there needs to be some leeway given.
This particular report, I think, was in the best interest of the public and national security. Do you think it's that easy to walk into the same areas since the report hit? I doubt it. That alone is a credit./.'ers love to talk about freedom of information and all of that, but I don't think that many of them would question the need for tight security at a place like Los Alamos.
I helped my neighbor hookup his new TV a couple months ago. The house next to me is a divided into three apartments. The guy I helped is illiterate, which is why he needed help with the TV.
Anyway, I go over to hook him up and he's got a set of Radio Shack rabbit ears and wants to know if they're what he needed since he didn't have cable. I said yes and proceded to hook him up. When I was done and started programming the channels in I found, to my amazment, that he had the full extended cable package (Discovery, History, SciFi, CNN, etc.) coming through clear as a bell over his rabbit ears. I did the eye rub thing, checked the antenna hookup about 30 times and there was no explaining it. There wasn't even a CATV jack near the thing. Just plain old rabbit ears and this guy's signal was as good as my digital cable. He was also picking up the local broadcast stations on the freqs that he should have. To the best of my knowledge, he's still getting it.
I can't say that he's getting it illegally. I just want to know HOW he's getting it at all.
Yes, I could go to a Library and borrow books, CD's, and movies. That doesn't change the fact most Libraries won't loan you more than 3-4 items at a time; and unless the Library is within walking distance of your house you're still going to have to take a bus or drive. Either way it's going to cost you money.
Ever hear of an antenna? That combined with all of the other entertainment options you listed should satisfy your needs. If it doesn't, why not try riding a bike or something like that instead of sitting inside all the time?
It sounds like laziness to me. Entertainment options are abundant -- quit whining about it, get off your ass and go find some of them.
Just don't buy the CDs. I stopped buying CDs over a year ago. I'm not worried about it, nor do I care. I haven't heard anything released since then that I'd want to spend my cash on anyway. If I hear anything that I really like, I'll download it. If the RIAA is sucessful in stopping me from doing that then I just don't listen to new music any more. I have enough music in my collection that I've legally purchaed to keep me happy for a long, long time -- especially at the rate good music is coming out these days.
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I agree -- Dell's service can be great. My Latitude C810 fell off the couch onto the wireless card's antenna breaking the PCMCIA slot clean in two. I called them on New Year's eve. The tech was at my house at 10AM on the 2nd with motherboard in hand. He swapped it out and was on his way in less then an hour. It didn't cost me a dime becuase I spent the extra $50 on accidental damage protection when I bought the laptop.
I agree. I just looked at the screenshots and then at my Outlook 2003 window and thought 'Not only does Outlook 2003 have these features, it looks like they do it better.'
When looking only at usability, Outlook 2003 is great. If only MS would fix everything else.
So I wonder, why are devices like Hubble not built to be retooled - built with some type of standard socket connections so batteries, comupters, lenses, etc. could be more easily upgraded by swapping out major units and bolting them together on a frame just like a computer?
Still using that old 8088 are you?
Even with no intention of retreiving it in the future, why not send it Out There?
My guess is that on the off chance we ever really do start using space it would probably be better to have LESS junk floating around to smash into.
(Loud booming voice from shopping cart) "Might I suggest sensual lubricants to go with those Trojans?"
If the thing had a geek sensor, it would suggest a girl instead of the lube.
S&T is great. Expedia's maps are the same for those out there not running Windows.
Amen.
Finally, they can actually say that there is something else out there that is LESS secure than Windows.
Go ahead and TRY to use cash to rent a car at an airport. No credit card, no car - period, end of the argument.
Sure, you can't use it to RENT the car, but you can most certainly use it to PAY the rental fees. There's a distinct difference between the two.
I always find it entertaining how our entire prison establishment feels these laws are unimportant... I find it makes me sick to my stomach.
Breaking and entering, vandalism, trespassing and destruction of private property are all illegal acts that are regularly committed by virus authors.
Go on back to prison and let those 'large black men' sodomize your racist ass a little more. I think you need some more instruction about respect for other's property.
No aspect of prison is funny.
Then don't end up there. It's easy enough to do.
Personally, I say do away with consentual crime laws. Get rid of them and you can get rid of prisons -- punishment of real crimes could then be handled by a bullet.
..is that most people generally have very good reasons for sounding distressed during a call an insurance company. How is someone supposed to calmly explain they just lost their entire family to a car crash, saw their child die in a terrorist attack, or just permanently lost the use of their arm to the wood chipper?
You've read your statement, right? I would think the proof of validity of the claims to be self-evident in the cases you describe.
How is SCO going to know who is running linux and who isn't??? I mean, how did you get YOUR copy? I know mine didn't come with a receipt. Even if they subpeona the sales records of CompUSA, RedHat, etc. What about those of us who downloaded our copies or purchased them with cash or didn't get them through a normal chain?
It seem to me that even if SCO wins, they'll have a hard time collecting.
I'm not arguing that at all -- you're absolutely right. My point is that it doesn't happen nearly enough to be significant. Most of the crashes listed on that site fall into four main categories:
1-Crashed into mountain
2-Collision
3-Crashed on landing/takeoff
4-Crashed into the ocean
The soft-wall system proposed would steer the aircraft around the city IF the aircraft was still flyable. If it isn't flyable, well, the whole issue is moot anyway.
Suppose for instance that an aircraft happens to suffer from a problem like multiple engine failure and the only way to avoid crashing into a densely populated urban area would be to trespass an area of protected airspace.
How often, in the 40 odd years of commercial air travel, has an engine (or any failure) caused a commercial aircraft to crash in a 'densly' populated area? The only one I can only think of was Air Florida Flight 90 -- it hit the 14th street bridge and went into the Potomac. Other than that, and the B-25 that slammed into the Empire State Building way back when.
My point being that 'engine failures causing aircraft to smash into densly populated areas' just isn't a statistical reality. Hijackings are.
This site has a lot of info.
I would think that, if the proposed system was implemented, you would setup the no-fly-zone far enough out so that you in your Cessna 182, cruising at a max of 200kts, wouldn't have a chance of getting close enough because of the SAM batteries backing up the NFZ.
"Jim Gray, left, and Gordon Bell, scientists at Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco, say that research will increasingly be data-driven and make use of inexpensive clusters of PC's. BARC. It just doesn't quite have the same ring to it."
Don't you mean it doesn't have the same bite (or byte)?
"We interrupt this broadcast for another public execution of a spammer and as a bonus execution, three patent lawyers. Please stand by, after the executions you will be returned to your regularly scheduled programming. Thank you."
You forgot to add: "Would you like to know more?"
Am I the only person that doesn't mind junk mail all that much? I mean the paper stuff. Anything addressed "Resident" (of course I screen it) goes to my 4 year old daughter. She loves getting 'mail'.
If the marketing companies want to waste their postage to provide my kid with entertainment, that's on them.
Sorry, but anyone that trusts email as confidential deserves what they get in the end. Didn't anyone learn from the Halloween Memo? If you don't want it to become public, don't put it in writing.
Why some people think that reporters should be able to disregard the law is beyond me
/.'ers love to talk about freedom of information and all of that, but I don't think that many of them would question the need for tight security at a place like Los Alamos.
When their only purpose is sensationalism and ratings, they deserve the maximum penalty possible. Those reports are usually easy to spot.
When the reports are made in the best interest of the public then I think there needs to be some leeway given.
This particular report, I think, was in the best interest of the public and national security. Do you think it's that easy to walk into the same areas since the report hit? I doubt it. That alone is a credit.
I helped my neighbor hookup his new TV a couple months ago. The house next to me is a divided into three apartments. The guy I helped is illiterate, which is why he needed help with the TV.
Anyway, I go over to hook him up and he's got a set of Radio Shack rabbit ears and wants to know if they're what he needed since he didn't have cable. I said yes and proceded to hook him up. When I was done and started programming the channels in I found, to my amazment, that he had the full extended cable package (Discovery, History, SciFi, CNN, etc.) coming through clear as a bell over his rabbit ears. I did the eye rub thing, checked the antenna hookup about 30 times and there was no explaining it. There wasn't even a CATV jack near the thing. Just plain old rabbit ears and this guy's signal was as good as my digital cable. He was also picking up the local broadcast stations on the freqs that he should have. To the best of my knowledge, he's still getting it.
I can't say that he's getting it illegally. I just want to know HOW he's getting it at all.
Yes, I could go to a Library and borrow books, CD's, and movies. That doesn't change the fact most Libraries won't loan you more than 3-4 items at a time; and unless the Library is within walking distance of your house you're still going to have to take a bus or drive. Either way it's going to cost you money.
Ever hear of an antenna? That combined with all of the other entertainment options you listed should satisfy your needs. If it doesn't, why not try riding a bike or something like that instead of sitting inside all the time?
It sounds like laziness to me. Entertainment options are abundant -- quit whining about it, get off your ass and go find some of them.
Just don't buy the CDs. I stopped buying CDs over a year ago. I'm not worried about it, nor do I care. I haven't heard anything released since then that I'd want to spend my cash on anyway. If I hear anything that I really like, I'll download it. If the RIAA is sucessful in stopping me from doing that then I just don't listen to new music any more. I have enough music in my collection that I've legally purchaed to keep me happy for a long, long time -- especially at the rate good music is coming out these days.
Really, who cares? Let them bankrupt themselves.
Come on moderators -- mod this guy up! He's dead on.