I'll say it again, there already exists a backdoor, its called a warrant. Issue me one, and I'll be happy to let them listen. Until then you aint getting my keys. What happened to my presumed innocence?
Isn't that kinda like "if you speak english we are okay with that since we can understand it. NO FAIR speaking portuguese! We cant understand that shit." As I remember I thought there was a backdoor made a couple hundred years ago, what was it called? Oh YEAH a Warrant. Until you serve me one of those I aint giving you the keys to my front door.
My favorite and most frustrating service call was from a lady who's laser printer wouldn't stop printing. I get a call and can hear it in the background just running printing random crap on pages. She says the printer has been printing for 3 hours and it wont stop. I ask "um at some point I would imagine it ran out of paper right what did you do then." Of course she filled it up with new paper every time it ran out. So here is this lady shoving reams of paper into this printer for 3 hours. The fix... "have you tried turning it off?" After she turned it off and turned it back on, problem solved. I figure the most logical thing most of us would do is turn the damn thing off, but then again users are not so logical are they?
No you are right, the point I was making was that they changed vendors from Apple to Dell. And how this move is going to seriously be a bad idea. The whole reason they got a new contract is exactly as you state, their service agreement went out.
Its all about contracts my friend. There was a 4 year service and hardware contract with Apple for these laptops. Dell and Microsoft came in and wowed the board with some crazy low price for a new contract and suckered as they are, the board accepted it. Although no thoughts of which went to the price amount in maintenance that i am sure the Dells and Microsoft is going to cost in addition to that. At least with the ibooks you knew they "worked." I can only immagine future price increasese such as Anti-Virus clients, and patches that will surly rock that small contract number.
The sale was only valid for Henrico County taxpayers and citizens. That way, we who actually paid for the damn things, could get them for this rediculous price. Otherwise we would have been paying more for a laptop we already paid for.
I had submitted this article this morning, with a little more information in case people were interested here is what I had posted:
Henrico Co. Schools of VA decided to change laptop suppliers at the end of their contract with Apple, opting instead for a contract deal with Dell and Microsoft. The result was a couple thousand laptops of no use. In a first attempt, Henrico Co. was going to sell laptops in a free for all at $50 dollars each, but subsequent meetings and enraged tax payers made them change to limiting the sale (at least this first sale) to Henrico citizens and tax payers. The sale occurred at the Richmond International Raceway where 1000 laptops would be given on a first come first serve basis with proof of residency/tax payments. The facilitators of the event decided to close the main gates of the area until 7 AM and begin the sale at 9 AM. This did little to deter people arriving as early as 1 AM and circling the area until the main gates opened. At 6:54 AM the main gates were opened and a massive stampede of over 12 thousand attendants for the event fought to be the first in line. Injuries (albeit minor according to the Times Dispatch) and chaos ensued. One unconfirmed report I was given by an attendee was of a lady who.s ankle was broken and her baby carriage trampled by the sheer number of people shoving to get through the gates. Police support was supposedly small with off duty officers working, the event planners obviously underestimating the popularity of this event. The details of the event including the specs for the iBook (12 inch, G3 500 MHz) can be seen at this posting on the Henrico Co Schools website. In the fall there is to be another sale of which no restriction will be made on buyers, but after today.s incident, one could only imagine that it will differ highly from the chaos of today. Photos of the scene can be viewed at the article in the Richmond Times Dispatch website .
We have used 3 LSI 150-6 MegaRaid Cards and I must say that its the most increadible card / bang for buck you can get. Works perfectly in linux (Slackware 10.0 - 10.1 in our case), uses either the megaraid or megaraid2 (for those that want verbose information) right from the stock kernel compile. In each server we put in 6 Seagate SATA drives 250 GB each, totalling an impressive 1.2 TB total space. For under a grand (card + 6x 250 GB drives) you cant get a cheaper more reliable alternative. The thing aint slow either, consitantly get access of 100 mbps transfer speeds or more (hdparm tests / benchmarks). Initialization is almost instantanious, and while its doing the background inits (after the initial quick init), you can already access the entire contents of the full raided container. Do yourself a favor and grab one of these cards, you'll wonder why you stuck with the almost 3x price of scsi. Newegg.com has em for I think 290 bucks for the 150-6. Pay the extra money for the 150-6 its worth it. Optional battery packs available as well for the card.
Ah my friend you have truly stated the difference between Computer Scientists and those technical college graduates. Real Computer Scientists are a dying unwanted breed. Until businesses realize the fundamental differences between these two groups it will be a self perpetuating problem of their business not being able to adapt. Unfortunately businesses are too preoccupied by a meaningless certificate of certification than can do spirited and capable scientists. This is what tech colleges and night schools can't teach.
Actually I never played so many games in my life until I was unemployed for a year. Searching for jobs is about the same as having a job, its only good 9-5 and then you got the waiting factor. Calling people all day only to get shut down left and right put me in quite a depression. I needed the release of a good involving video game. If what you said was true and no one would splurge even with the lack of jobs, then why is it that alcohol, cigs, etc go up in sales when the US is in a recession. Of all the adictive self medicating things out there, video games is quite harmless indulgence.
Okay I have heard about 3 or 4 different ways of pronouncing SuSE. Is it "souse" like as in Dr Seuss rhymes with Zeus? Is it "susa" as in how you say porche? Some of my German friends said the second was the proper way of saying it. I also have an IT manager here trying to make everyone pronounce it as "Suzy" which I am almost 100% sure is not correct. Forgive my ignorance; I am a Slackware guy myself.
Well if they can have the founder of the internet admit that it is used to send and recieve files, and files can be illegle and not have any copywright protection, then they can push for the government to give them more power over the users of the internet and push for the copywright protection on computers like they have been trying to like here
Well Discovery channel or TLC (cant remember which) did have a robot competition show. Only this one was competition between robots underwater. In the episode i saw they had the Navy and some other professionals who designed underwater salvage robots (modified of course to fight) against these highschoolers. They had weapons from buzz saws to underwater welders. The beginning of the show started with a series of manuverability competitions and speed races, and the final competition was to destroy each other and have one sink to the bottom of a 60 foot pit under the water. Pretty kewl stuff, much more unpredictable and interesting to see than robots on a modified rollerskate rink. Please someone help me out with the name of this show its going to drive me crazy!
Probably the best and most needful thing I wish my house had was conduit to run cables through. This makes your house infinitly easier to upgrade telecommunications and run other such cabling between floors, behind walls, etc. Its absolutly a must if you have an opotunity to build a house.
Common Rev, you teach us about love, forgivness, and honoring your common man. But this case is complete crap. Didn't it say in the bible to "turn the other cheek"? You wonder why people stopped going to church and trusting their religious leaders because they dont practice what they preach. Common Rev, think about "what would Jesus do?" I bet he has more sites hating him and making fun of him than you do. Do you think he would sue?
You can already see that this kind of advertising is soon to come. Ya get hundreds of email spam with your name on it and you get tons of phone calls a day congradulating YOU for being accepted for a new low rate card. How many of you agree that if not the eyes being scanned, there is at least this huge war for the eye balls at every website you go to. Remember those obnoxious flash adds, flashing adds, adds that run all over the page you are trying to read, and not to mention the ones with audio. I think there is a line that consumers are going to put up with. We have been pounded and proded by product placement in every single medium we use, and there is a point where you start to loose customers who get pissed off with this invasion of sanity. Hopefully people will speak up before the ads in this movie become a reality otherwise I am going to start wearing mirror sunglasses.
I think you guys are not giving enough validity to the scientific value this experiment would give. Now scientist can study the effects of silicone implants in a weightless environment. Perhaps it will allow us to design the perfect breast.
I had an interesting experience at Wal-Mart the other day buying a new game. I am surprised with Wal-Mart's zero tolerance for adult lyric music and movies and yet right there in the PlayStation 2 bin i was (pleasantly) shocked that they had Grand Theft Auto 3. I picked it up and went to the checkout center and was actually made to show 2 forms of ID for my age. I mean I am 23 and I haven't been check for my age buying cigarettes for about 5 years now and was amazed that I was carded for a frickin videogame. I personally agree that there should be some kind of rating system for parents to determine what kinds of games they can buy their children and I don't know how "art" argument could possibly hold any water.
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It has been proven that those working for the RIAA have are more than 97% likely to smoke crack and kick kittens.
Well a bit of history on the 3.5 FD, here .
You forgot about the 3.5 inch floppy disk which we are still using.
I'll say it again, there already exists a backdoor, its called a warrant. Issue me one, and I'll be happy to let them listen. Until then you aint getting my keys. What happened to my presumed innocence?
Isn't that kinda like "if you speak english we are okay with that since we can understand it. NO FAIR speaking portuguese! We cant understand that shit." As I remember I thought there was a backdoor made a couple hundred years ago, what was it called? Oh YEAH a Warrant. Until you serve me one of those I aint giving you the keys to my front door.
You mean like "The Principality of Sealand"? I think thats about as close to perfect as you can get, check it out here.
My favorite and most frustrating service call was from a lady who's laser printer wouldn't stop printing. I get a call and can hear it in the background just running printing random crap on pages. She says the printer has been printing for 3 hours and it wont stop. I ask "um at some point I would imagine it ran out of paper right what did you do then." Of course she filled it up with new paper every time it ran out. So here is this lady shoving reams of paper into this printer for 3 hours. The fix ... "have you tried turning it off?" After she turned it off and turned it back on, problem solved. I figure the most logical thing most of us would do is turn the damn thing off, but then again users are not so logical are they?
No you are right, the point I was making was that they changed vendors from Apple to Dell. And how this move is going to seriously be a bad idea. The whole reason they got a new contract is exactly as you state, their service agreement went out.
G3 500 mhz, 10 gig hard drive, 256 megs of ram, 12 inch screen, air port wireless card, cdrom
Its all about contracts my friend. There was a 4 year service and hardware contract with Apple for these laptops. Dell and Microsoft came in and wowed the board with some crazy low price for a new contract and suckered as they are, the board accepted it. Although no thoughts of which went to the price amount in maintenance that i am sure the Dells and Microsoft is going to cost in addition to that. At least with the ibooks you knew they "worked." I can only immagine future price increasese such as Anti-Virus clients, and patches that will surly rock that small contract number.
The sale was only valid for Henrico County taxpayers and citizens. That way, we who actually paid for the damn things, could get them for this rediculous price. Otherwise we would have been paying more for a laptop we already paid for.
I had submitted this article this morning, with a little more information in case people were interested here is what I had posted:
Henrico Co. Schools of VA decided to change laptop suppliers at the end of their contract with Apple, opting instead for a contract deal with Dell and Microsoft. The result was a couple thousand laptops of no use. In a first attempt, Henrico Co. was going to sell laptops in a free for all at $50 dollars each, but subsequent meetings and enraged tax payers made them change to limiting the sale (at least this first sale) to Henrico citizens and tax payers. The sale occurred at the Richmond International Raceway where 1000 laptops would be given on a first come first serve basis with proof of residency/tax payments. The facilitators of the event decided to close the main gates of the area until 7 AM and begin the sale at 9 AM. This did little to deter people arriving as early as 1 AM and circling the area until the main gates opened. At 6:54 AM the main gates were opened and a massive stampede of over 12 thousand attendants for the event fought to be the first in line. Injuries (albeit minor according to the Times Dispatch) and chaos ensued. One unconfirmed report I was given by an attendee was of a lady who.s ankle was broken and her baby carriage trampled by the sheer number of people shoving to get through the gates. Police support was supposedly small with off duty officers working, the event planners obviously underestimating the popularity of this event. The details of the event including the specs for the iBook (12 inch, G3 500 MHz) can be seen at this posting on the Henrico Co Schools website. In the fall there is to be another sale of which no restriction will be made on buyers, but after today.s incident, one could only imagine that it will differ highly from the chaos of today. Photos of the scene can be viewed at the article in the Richmond Times Dispatch website .
Not as bad as the Nintendo cereal commercial:
"Nintendo it's a cereal now!"
"Nintendo it's for breakfast WOW!"
We have used 3 LSI 150-6 MegaRaid Cards and I must say that its the most increadible card / bang for buck you can get. Works perfectly in linux (Slackware 10.0 - 10.1 in our case), uses either the megaraid or megaraid2 (for those that want verbose information) right from the stock kernel compile. In each server we put in 6 Seagate SATA drives 250 GB each, totalling an impressive 1.2 TB total space. For under a grand (card + 6x 250 GB drives) you cant get a cheaper more reliable alternative. The thing aint slow either, consitantly get access of 100 mbps transfer speeds or more (hdparm tests / benchmarks). Initialization is almost instantanious, and while its doing the background inits (after the initial quick init), you can already access the entire contents of the full raided container. Do yourself a favor and grab one of these cards, you'll wonder why you stuck with the almost 3x price of scsi. Newegg.com has em for I think 290 bucks for the 150-6. Pay the extra money for the 150-6 its worth it. Optional battery packs available as well for the card.
Ah my friend you have truly stated the difference between Computer Scientists and those technical college graduates. Real Computer Scientists are a dying unwanted breed. Until businesses realize the fundamental differences between these two groups it will be a self perpetuating problem of their business not being able to adapt. Unfortunately businesses are too preoccupied by a meaningless certificate of certification than can do spirited and capable scientists. This is what tech colleges and night schools can't teach.
Actually I never played so many games in my life until I was unemployed for a year. Searching for jobs is about the same as having a job, its only good 9-5 and then you got the waiting factor. Calling people all day only to get shut down left and right put me in quite a depression. I needed the release of a good involving video game. If what you said was true and no one would splurge even with the lack of jobs, then why is it that alcohol, cigs, etc go up in sales when the US is in a recession. Of all the adictive self medicating things out there, video games is quite harmless indulgence.
Okay I have heard about 3 or 4 different ways of pronouncing SuSE. Is it "souse" like as in Dr Seuss rhymes with Zeus? Is it "susa" as in how you say porche? Some of my German friends said the second was the proper way of saying it. I also have an IT manager here trying to make everyone pronounce it as "Suzy" which I am almost 100% sure is not correct. Forgive my ignorance; I am a Slackware guy myself.
Well if they can have the founder of the internet admit that it is used to send and recieve files, and files can be illegle and not have any copywright protection, then they can push for the government to give them more power over the users of the internet and push for the copywright protection on computers like they have been trying to like here
Well Discovery channel or TLC (cant remember which) did have a robot competition show. Only this one was competition between robots underwater. In the episode i saw they had the Navy and some other professionals who designed underwater salvage robots (modified of course to fight) against these highschoolers. They had weapons from buzz saws to underwater welders. The beginning of the show started with a series of manuverability competitions and speed races, and the final competition was to destroy each other and have one sink to the bottom of a 60 foot pit under the water. Pretty kewl stuff, much more unpredictable and interesting to see than robots on a modified rollerskate rink. Please someone help me out with the name of this show its going to drive me crazy!
Well not all of us can afford a flying car, the price is too high for most of us to put up with. Are you willing to do this for a flying car?
Probably the best and most needful thing I wish my house had was conduit to run cables through. This makes your house infinitly easier to upgrade telecommunications and run other such cabling between floors, behind walls, etc. Its absolutly a must if you have an opotunity to build a house.
Common Rev, you teach us about love, forgivness, and honoring your common man. But this case is complete crap. Didn't it say in the bible to "turn the other cheek"? You wonder why people stopped going to church and trusting their religious leaders because they dont practice what they preach. Common Rev, think about "what would Jesus do?" I bet he has more sites hating him and making fun of him than you do. Do you think he would sue?
You can already see that this kind of advertising is soon to come. Ya get hundreds of email spam with your name on it and you get tons of phone calls a day congradulating YOU for being accepted for a new low rate card. How many of you agree that if not the eyes being scanned, there is at least this huge war for the eye balls at every website you go to. Remember those obnoxious flash adds, flashing adds, adds that run all over the page you are trying to read, and not to mention the ones with audio. I think there is a line that consumers are going to put up with. We have been pounded and proded by product placement in every single medium we use, and there is a point where you start to loose customers who get pissed off with this invasion of sanity. Hopefully people will speak up before the ads in this movie become a reality otherwise I am going to start wearing mirror sunglasses.
I think you guys are not giving enough validity to the scientific value this experiment would give. Now scientist can study the effects of silicone implants in a weightless environment. Perhaps it will allow us to design the perfect breast.
I had an interesting experience at Wal-Mart the other day buying a new game. I am surprised with Wal-Mart's zero tolerance for adult lyric music and movies and yet right there in the PlayStation 2 bin i was (pleasantly) shocked that they had Grand Theft Auto 3. I picked it up and went to the checkout center and was actually made to show 2 forms of ID for my age. I mean I am 23 and I haven't been check for my age buying cigarettes for about 5 years now and was amazed that I was carded for a frickin videogame. I personally agree that there should be some kind of rating system for parents to determine what kinds of games they can buy their children and I don't know how "art" argument could possibly hold any water.