the school district most likely has insurance to cover this. once this is litigated i bet every insurance company will be telling all the other school districts that if you spy on kids at home than they won't cover the liability
if you have ever worked for the government, a lot of the people that work there think they know what is better for all the peons and how they need to make up all kinds of crazy rules for everyone to live by
when i first started working for private industry after working for uncle sam for years, the first thing i noticed was a lack of paper. government employees had mountains of it in every cube and office. the real world had long ago moved to electronic format
never bought anything from there but years ago when accidental damage insurance first came out the sales people would tell me how awesome it was because you could throw the laptop out of the window and you would get the latest new one
every state does this to lure companies and jobs to their states. every company including Google, Apple and all the slashdot favorites take advantage of this. one reason why Silicon Valley and the movie industry are in California and don't move their industries elsewhere is because California gives out big tax breaks to tech and the movie industries. in the last few years they talked about taking them away and everyone involved told the idiot legislators that it would result in an exodus out of the state. just like the home contractors left after the idiotic workman's comp rules went into effect a few years ago.
the new unibody macbookpro's don't have user replaceable batteries. $179 at the apple store includes the labor. if it dies before applecare is up than you are covered. unlike Dell/HP where the 3 year warranty doesn't cover batteries. it evens out
on windows 7 the iphone comes up as the iphone. you can copy and past pictures and videos off it to your computer easily. Don't really care about the SD slot since 32GB in a phone is enough for me. and i'm not one of the OCD people that has to carry their entire music collection everywhere.
and a lot of people hate Apple Mice. on my Mac Mini i like to use a Microsoft mouse and the right click works perfectly
At least Apple learns from it's mistakes. they finally found a home for the cube/box computer as the Mac Mini and a lot of people like it. and if you look at almost everything Steve Jobs has built over the years starting from the 1980's, it's like he's making the same computer over and over again. everything in one unit except for the keyboard and mouse
duplicating the bits might not cost very much, but creating them does. studio time, producer fees, etc aren't cheap. i work near a music studio and pass it by on the way home. once in a while i see musicians hanging out. one time I think i saw the Foo Fighters going in and out, but i wasn't a big fan back then and didn't recognize them. another time a few session guitarists walked out and headed toward the subway walking in front of me. and they talked about how some guy they know tried out for The Smashing Pumpkins. i imagine they got paid for whatever work they did that day to make the bits.
and how is this different from Apple and Google which are current tech rag favorites? both are on a buying spree. Almost every new Google service in the last few years has been based on a company they bought. just like Apple's multi-touch was as a result of a tiny startup they bought a few years ago
Google Wave sucks because it doesn't solve any problem that isn't better solved by someone else. i tried it a few months ago and even a lot of the public waves are people saying how cool this is and then nothing posted for weeks at a time. the apps are untrusted, at least by me.
the only point of Wave seems to be Google trying to redirect facebook, twitter and forums traffic through their systems to make money off it, but it's a very poor attempt.
and it's slow. horribly slow and a resource hog. Google Chrome was using over 600MB of RAM on my system when i checked out a few public waves.
yes, you can now sue them for eleventy billion dollars
of course the lawyers will get the eleventy billion $$$ and you will get a coupon for a one month credit to your Verizon Wireless service to be redeemed when you renew for a new 2 year contract
someone carried a story yesterday that Google has sold only 80,000 so far. 20,000 were sold at launch. even apple sold more of the original iphone 2G.
fact is that Google has to rely on it's Android partners to advance the platform and they can't be successful in selling their own handset since no one wants to help a competitor.
they already probably have enough problems with their partners who are competitors coding new features in secret and only releasing the code after the product is released. Android has been fairly successful as a platform, but it's only the cheapest manufacturers making the phones for it. Samsung, HTC and LG who make dozens of new handsets every year, each one sells a few and the marketing departments are overworked trying to find new names for next years models. it's almost like they only company it's hurting is Microsoft. Apple and Blackberry don't seem hurt by Android.
each itunes account can support up to 5 computers and as far as i know an unlimited number of idevices like the iphone, ipod or apple TV. you buy something once from the iTunes store and you can play it back on any device associated with that account
did you buy them from a trusted source? there are a lot of Joe's Ethernet shop or Al's Used Switches dot com type places on the internet. One place i deal with for used server power supplies for old servers has buyers scour the internet and used sales for equipment. not much control. not as controlled as an authorized reseller but they are cheaper.
i've read of authorized resellers selling counterfeit as well but then it comes down to trust and buying from someone you believe gets the gear from Cisco and not just passing it from another distributor
complete BS, a lot of women need surgery after a birth to repair damage. a lot of children used to die during birth because the placenta twisted around their neck and suffocated them. or if they didn't die it would result in development problems due to reduced oxygen to the brain. a lot of women also lose the ability to give birth to second and third children because the baby causes a lot of internal damage. one person i know said that in order for her to have a third child, she would spend months in the hospital due to complications with the second one.
in the US a lot of women are given the option of some anesthetic that is very powerful and safe. it's administered by a needle directly to the spinal cord.
A lot of other mammals are born with the ability to run from predators hours after birth or they develop to adulthood a lot faster than humans. go read wikipedia. until 100 years ago the biggest killer of women was having children.
until 100 years ago when pre-natal care became accessible to a lot of people something like 30% of women would die during child birth or from complications of having a child. and the child mortality rate was something like 20% of children dying before 1 or 2. all the natural birth people are like the anti-vaccine wackos.
my grandparent's generation went through WW2 in the old USSR and almost every single person i've met who has given birth from the late 1930's to the early 1950's has had a child die either in the womb, during child birth or before the age of 5 due to lack of nutrition. and a lot of people had abortions at the time because they didn't want to go through the experience of losing a child
no they won't, they will just price the risk in and make money on it
medical care is becoming so expensive that a lot of employer plans where there is no prior condition clauses already have something called co-insurance where you pay 20% of the charges plus the premiums. if you want to destroy your health no one cares and no one will let you die in the street. they will just make you pay to cover the cost of your care
Talked to our HP rep a few weeks ago about them. As soon as HP ships proliant servers with the new CPU's, we're going to buy 4 of them. Just haven't decided if we're going with 36GB RAM or 72GB RAM. 72GB RAM is only $2000 more than 36GB RAM these days.
flash is also a big culprit. i've noticed that surfing facebook i get barely 90 minutes of battery life when i should have 3 hours. tried it by surfing non-flash sites and my battery life improved
Put Windows 7 on there to give to my inlaws and i thought it was a coincidence that the battery died. still works when plugged in, but battery life is like 10 minutes.
formattted it and put Vista on it because the graphics were glitchy with windows 7 and the problem is still there
the trick is getting noticed and having someone find your content. and if you want access to a professional recording studio you need to have a lot of cash upfront that a record company normally pays for. in exchange for tiny royalties on your CD's the record company takes a big risk on you and invests a lot of money to produce an album and market it. same goes for touring. it takes so much upfront cash to go on tour that you need someone like LiveNation to take a risk.
Look at Lady Gaga. very talented. she got into Juliard but had to go to another music school. but then got into the NYU music school. playing music since she was 4. Took Akon to get her noticed and invest the money to produce her music professionally. she could have uploaded something she recorded herself to iTunes without any marketing but then she wouldn't be singing at the Grammy's with Elton John.
you need a license from the NFL to call it the Super Bowl. If you haven't noticed most of the TV commercials call it The Big Game because they don't want to pay royalties to the NFL
since/. takes advertising i'm going to report this evil website so the NFL can sue you out of existance. you just cost them eleventy billion $$$$ in lost sales
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the school district most likely has insurance to cover this. once this is litigated i bet every insurance company will be telling all the other school districts that if you spy on kids at home than they won't cover the liability
if you have ever worked for the government, a lot of the people that work there think they know what is better for all the peons and how they need to make up all kinds of crazy rules for everyone to live by
this is the government
when i first started working for private industry after working for uncle sam for years, the first thing i noticed was a lack of paper. government employees had mountains of it in every cube and office. the real world had long ago moved to electronic format
never bought anything from there but years ago when accidental damage insurance first came out the sales people would tell me how awesome it was because you could throw the laptop out of the window and you would get the latest new one
every state does this to lure companies and jobs to their states. every company including Google, Apple and all the slashdot favorites take advantage of this. one reason why Silicon Valley and the movie industry are in California and don't move their industries elsewhere is because California gives out big tax breaks to tech and the movie industries. in the last few years they talked about taking them away and everyone involved told the idiot legislators that it would result in an exodus out of the state. just like the home contractors left after the idiotic workman's comp rules went into effect a few years ago.
the new unibody macbookpro's don't have user replaceable batteries. $179 at the apple store includes the labor. if it dies before applecare is up than you are covered. unlike Dell/HP where the 3 year warranty doesn't cover batteries. it evens out
on windows 7 the iphone comes up as the iphone. you can copy and past pictures and videos off it to your computer easily. Don't really care about the SD slot since 32GB in a phone is enough for me. and i'm not one of the OCD people that has to carry their entire music collection everywhere.
and a lot of people hate Apple Mice. on my Mac Mini i like to use a Microsoft mouse and the right click works perfectly
At least Apple learns from it's mistakes. they finally found a home for the cube/box computer as the Mac Mini and a lot of people like it. and if you look at almost everything Steve Jobs has built over the years starting from the 1980's, it's like he's making the same computer over and over again. everything in one unit except for the keyboard and mouse
duplicating the bits might not cost very much, but creating them does. studio time, producer fees, etc aren't cheap. i work near a music studio and pass it by on the way home. once in a while i see musicians hanging out. one time I think i saw the Foo Fighters going in and out, but i wasn't a big fan back then and didn't recognize them. another time a few session guitarists walked out and headed toward the subway walking in front of me. and they talked about how some guy they know tried out for The Smashing Pumpkins. i imagine they got paid for whatever work they did that day to make the bits.
and how is this different from Apple and Google which are current tech rag favorites? both are on a buying spree. Almost every new Google service in the last few years has been based on a company they bought. just like Apple's multi-touch was as a result of a tiny startup they bought a few years ago
if you think Google is going to have 1gbps of bandwidth for everyone one of their users then you are deluding yourself
Google Wave sucks because it doesn't solve any problem that isn't better solved by someone else. i tried it a few months ago and even a lot of the public waves are people saying how cool this is and then nothing posted for weeks at a time. the apps are untrusted, at least by me.
the only point of Wave seems to be Google trying to redirect facebook, twitter and forums traffic through their systems to make money off it, but it's a very poor attempt.
and it's slow. horribly slow and a resource hog. Google Chrome was using over 600MB of RAM on my system when i checked out a few public waves.
yes, you can now sue them for eleventy billion dollars
of course the lawyers will get the eleventy billion $$$ and you will get a coupon for a one month credit to your Verizon Wireless service to be redeemed when you renew for a new 2 year contract
someone carried a story yesterday that Google has sold only 80,000 so far. 20,000 were sold at launch. even apple sold more of the original iphone 2G.
fact is that Google has to rely on it's Android partners to advance the platform and they can't be successful in selling their own handset since no one wants to help a competitor.
they already probably have enough problems with their partners who are competitors coding new features in secret and only releasing the code after the product is released. Android has been fairly successful as a platform, but it's only the cheapest manufacturers making the phones for it. Samsung, HTC and LG who make dozens of new handsets every year, each one sells a few and the marketing departments are overworked trying to find new names for next years models. it's almost like they only company it's hurting is Microsoft. Apple and Blackberry don't seem hurt by Android.
wrong
each itunes account can support up to 5 computers and as far as i know an unlimited number of idevices like the iphone, ipod or apple TV. you buy something once from the iTunes store and you can play it back on any device associated with that account
did you buy them from a trusted source? there are a lot of Joe's Ethernet shop or Al's Used Switches dot com type places on the internet. One place i deal with for used server power supplies for old servers has buyers scour the internet and used sales for equipment. not much control. not as controlled as an authorized reseller but they are cheaper.
i've read of authorized resellers selling counterfeit as well but then it comes down to trust and buying from someone you believe gets the gear from Cisco and not just passing it from another distributor
complete BS, a lot of women need surgery after a birth to repair damage. a lot of children used to die during birth because the placenta twisted around their neck and suffocated them. or if they didn't die it would result in development problems due to reduced oxygen to the brain. a lot of women also lose the ability to give birth to second and third children because the baby causes a lot of internal damage. one person i know said that in order for her to have a third child, she would spend months in the hospital due to complications with the second one.
in the US a lot of women are given the option of some anesthetic that is very powerful and safe. it's administered by a needle directly to the spinal cord.
A lot of other mammals are born with the ability to run from predators hours after birth or they develop to adulthood a lot faster than humans. go read wikipedia. until 100 years ago the biggest killer of women was having children.
until 100 years ago when pre-natal care became accessible to a lot of people something like 30% of women would die during child birth or from complications of having a child. and the child mortality rate was something like 20% of children dying before 1 or 2. all the natural birth people are like the anti-vaccine wackos.
my grandparent's generation went through WW2 in the old USSR and almost every single person i've met who has given birth from the late 1930's to the early 1950's has had a child die either in the womb, during child birth or before the age of 5 due to lack of nutrition. and a lot of people had abortions at the time because they didn't want to go through the experience of losing a child
if you get insurance from your employer than they will cover existing conditions
no they won't, they will just price the risk in and make money on it
medical care is becoming so expensive that a lot of employer plans where there is no prior condition clauses already have something called co-insurance where you pay 20% of the charges plus the premiums. if you want to destroy your health no one cares and no one will let you die in the street. they will just make you pay to cover the cost of your care
Talked to our HP rep a few weeks ago about them. As soon as HP ships proliant servers with the new CPU's, we're going to buy 4 of them. Just haven't decided if we're going with 36GB RAM or 72GB RAM. 72GB RAM is only $2000 more than 36GB RAM these days.
flash is also a big culprit. i've noticed that surfing facebook i get barely 90 minutes of battery life when i should have 3 hours. tried it by surfing non-flash sites and my battery life improved
Put Windows 7 on there to give to my inlaws and i thought it was a coincidence that the battery died. still works when plugged in, but battery life is like 10 minutes.
formattted it and put Vista on it because the graphics were glitchy with windows 7 and the problem is still there
the trick is getting noticed and having someone find your content. and if you want access to a professional recording studio you need to have a lot of cash upfront that a record company normally pays for. in exchange for tiny royalties on your CD's the record company takes a big risk on you and invests a lot of money to produce an album and market it. same goes for touring. it takes so much upfront cash to go on tour that you need someone like LiveNation to take a risk.
Look at Lady Gaga. very talented. she got into Juliard but had to go to another music school. but then got into the NYU music school. playing music since she was 4. Took Akon to get her noticed and invest the money to produce her music professionally. she could have uploaded something she recorded herself to iTunes without any marketing but then she wouldn't be singing at the Grammy's with Elton John.
you need a license from the NFL to call it the Super Bowl. If you haven't noticed most of the TV commercials call it The Big Game because they don't want to pay royalties to the NFL
since /. takes advertising i'm going to report this evil website so the NFL can sue you out of existance. you just cost them eleventy billion $$$$ in lost sales