You know what - I would tell you that I hope you die of your own idiocy... but I'll just forgive your idiocy and hope you find a happy life living in your hate-filled world.
The "calories burned" calculations are based on an outdated AVERAGE. Many doctors know this to be untrue. Some refuse to admit it.
Myself, I'm 33, 6'1" and weigh 275. I wear size 40 waist. I considered joining the army (as an officer since I have a degree) a couple of years ago and talked to a recruiter. By THEIR calculations (which take into account build and density) I was only slightly overweight. Yet by my doctor's calculation I'm obese. This is the same doctor that tried to tell me to eat THREE THOUSAND (3000) calories a day to lose weight. I told him he was full of shit - if I eat 3000 calories a day, I'd blow up like a balloon.
Fact is, the basal metabolism varies in different people - just like different cars get better or worse gas mileage. Even body temperature varies from the standard. So does mental activity, and the amount of glucose uptake in the brain.
If you don't believe that, then just try getting Thyroid cancer some day. Many people (including a sister of mine) are thin their entire lives, and take credit for it by pointing to diet, only to be shocked when their metabolism changes due to thyroid trouble, and suddenly they weigh 2x or 3x what they did before on the SAME diet.
Excuse me? I have brown eyes - why doesn't everybody? It's called DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
I eat LESS than a very good friend of mine. Yet she weighs 118 and I weigh 275. This attitude that naturally skinny (LUCKY) people have is getting on my nerves. Regardless of the reasons, it is not so simple as simply all overweight people are overeating. Yes, some people are overweight because they overeat. If I were to allow my body to dictate how much food I eat - I'd weigh TWICE as much as I do. I am practically starving all the time just to MAINTAIN this weight - and my daily calorie intake is around 2000. When I make an attempt to diet, I can get as low as 800 a day, yet I only lose a small amount of weight and then it comes back if I even think about looking at starch/sugar.
You have no business talking about a problem that you obviously don't have as if you know the causes of it.
He said "Core Duo" not "Core 2 Duo".... the Core Duo series chips were basically just re-badged P4 chips.... However, I thought all of those were 64 bit anyway, though I could be mistaken. Core Solo definitely did have some non-64 bit versions, and there are a lot of laptops that aren't that old with Core Solo chips.
A $400 video card is not "dabbling".... it is realizing that paying $600 for a few FPS more at resolutions most monitors only dream of in their worst nightmares is insane. To say that ATI's new cards don't compete is to ignore the fact that the majority of the market doesn't buy $600 video cards. Of course, now people will read that "nVidia cards are faster", then go out and overpay for a 7600GS when for the same money they could've had a faster ATI card.
Actually, the truth is, much of the hardware in question was advertised as being Vista-ready, many items actually shipping with this on the outside of the box in the last few months. nVidia has not only missed the target on video drivers, but chipset drivers as well.
The audio driver they provided Microsoft (at the very last minute) blue-screens and doesn't even support more than two speakers on many systems. I had to go "up the food chain" and use a Realtek driver, that gives some minor errors, but works.
As a contrast, I have an HP Laserjet 1018. I am mildly miffed at HP missing the vista release date with drivers for this printer - since they said on their vista page that it would have drivers by the end of january. However - nowhere on the printer, in its packaging, or any promotional materials, does it actually say it will work in Vista. The Vista drivers will be (hopefully unless they change their mind) a gesture of "good will" as it were.
With nVidia, they have clearly been advertising and promoting their current products as Vista compatible, when the fact is, if you buy it off the shelf TODAY, it isn't likely to work very well despite packaging claims.
Funny thing is my ATI card has drivers that work just fine, provided by ATI themselves... And I'm even using that disgusting little twerp of an OS known as Windows XP... If such a lousy OS as XP can have decent drivers, I'm shocked that the Holy Grail of the OS world, Linux, doesn't.
When you bought your ATI video card - did the box say "Linux" or "Windows" on the system requirements?
Now, for on-topic... It would be nice if they would be able to support older ATI cards as well such as my x800GTO. I'm about to be moving to an apt where the electric is included in rent, so I'm ready to use my money's worth of electricity and do some distributed computing!
In the U.S., these "banned" and "challenged" books aren't typically illegal. In fact, I think that no books short of those with photographs depicting pedophilia and the like would be illegal. In this context, it means that parents (typically) get schools to ban the books from their libraries and reading lists. Sometimes they are "banned" from public libraries as well. In either case, there's not any law saying the books can't be read, just a group of people (parents) who have convinced another group of people (school boards) to not include the books in their libraries.
One of the problems I've run into in cleaning my own credit (and I used to work for Experian so I know how to navigate the system), is that the agencies often verify your identity by checking the information you provide against what they see on the report. The problem I had was that I had a car which was repossessed in 1996 (voluntary, the car was a piece of junk and I couldn't justify paying the remaining $3000 on a junk car and taking the bus). Around 7-8 years later, I knew I could have the debt removed if it was still on my credit, because it was over 7 years old. The problem was that I failed the "verification" statements when trying to retrieve my credit report. One of them was along these lines: "Our records show that in 2001 you bought a car. What was the amount of the loan?"... Two problems. I hadn't bought a car in 2001 on credit (indeed, the only auto loan I ever had was the one in 1996), and none of the amounts even matched the 1996 loan. Turns out one of the collection agencies had attempted to extend the life of the debt past 7 years by reporting it as opened in 2001, with the current (with past due fees, collectionfees, etc) balance listed as the opening balance. Because I didn't know this, I "failed" to prove who I was.
I did finally manage to prove my identity, and successfully got the account removed from my credit (as it should have been due to age). The collection agency, of course, is still trying to collect on a 10 year old debt (they're still convinced the account was opened in 2001), but the credit reporting agencies keep even removed accounts on file, so they can see that this account number has already been successfully disputed, so it won't show back up on my credit.
My worst problem with this is, as others, when the RFID tags are not deactivated. In my case, it was a pair of shoes someone had bought me for a gift. Problem was, the tag wasn't deactivated. Additionally, the tag was BUILT INTO the shoes! Every time I entered and left a store wearing the shoes, it would set off the alarms. I had more than one overzealous doordude try to stop me. Eventually I got to where I would warn them before I even stepped through and hold my hands out so they could see I wasn't carrying anything. One refused to listen and tried to detain me - I told him to get his *@*## hands off me before I had to defend myself against unlawful detainment. He was furious, but I had already explained to him the situation, and he was too stupid to comprehend that a tag might be on something I OWN and not have been deactivated!
Finally, when the shoes were completely worn out, I cut them up and found the tag. It was deep inside between two layers of cloth - it had to have been put in there at the factory.
I, like many others I suspect, actually DID spend my mod points trying to mod down the post being referred to last night. Problem is there are more out there modding junk like that UP because it's "interesting" or somesuch.
Actually, I've found the opposite to be true, at least as far as conversation starter goes... my Palm computer has started many conversations. People find it amazing.
It is actually not much different in the U.S.A. However, you do retain the right to represent *yourself* in a court of law. Only a lawyer can represent someone else - but every person has the right to represent themselves.
As others have pointed out, the Tungstens that don't use a cradle (like the E, upon which the T5 appears to be based) don't charge off USB when using the factory USB cable.
However, many people (myself included) use the Belkin cable that also plugs into the charge port. I suspect that the only improvement here is that the T5 either includes such a cable, or charges straight from the USB port itself rather than needing a splitter.
That is of course why as soon as you got notice that you were the victim of such a suit, you formatted your drive, government wiped it several times with random and nonrandom patterns, and proceded to write lots of new, perfectly legal data over the old. Nothing to find.
Anyone who is the victim of such a lawsuit who does not clear such infringing material off their PC is just stupid. And so far, they haven't gone to the extremes of sending the FBI in to confiscate everything before you even know you've been targetted like they used to do with Warez BBS's back in "the day". Of course, that's probably the next step... Armed raids...
When I installed this, my firewall went crazy during the update with attempted connections all over the net by the update installer (after the download had finished)....
Anybody know what's up with that? What exactly are they doing with this update that requires connecting to several different hosts during the install?
It must be noted (since you mention Texas) that the woman who they used to represent the Texas sound, according to their site, actually lived 20 years of her life in Missouri. I don't know where that falls in her learning of the language - but as a native Texan myself (and not far from Carthage, which is where she claims to be from) I can tell you for certain that her accent is very mild compared to most people in the area, and I have no doubt it is because of her years spent in the midwest.
If they're going to do such a survey, they should have been careful to pick NATIVE speakers - that is, those who were born, grew up, went to school, and worked most of their lives in the place they are representing.
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What's my digit count anyway??....
Besides - didn't we all bitch they weren't coming out with it FAST ENOUGH? Now it's TOO FAST.... geez, nobody is ever happy.
You know what - I would tell you that I hope you die of your own idiocy... but I'll just forgive your idiocy and hope you find a happy life living in your hate-filled world.
The "calories burned" calculations are based on an outdated AVERAGE. Many doctors know this to be untrue. Some refuse to admit it.
Myself, I'm 33, 6'1" and weigh 275. I wear size 40 waist. I considered joining the army (as an officer since I have a degree) a couple of years ago and talked to a recruiter. By THEIR calculations (which take into account build and density) I was only slightly overweight. Yet by my doctor's calculation I'm obese. This is the same doctor that tried to tell me to eat THREE THOUSAND (3000) calories a day to lose weight. I told him he was full of shit - if I eat 3000 calories a day, I'd blow up like a balloon.
Fact is, the basal metabolism varies in different people - just like different cars get better or worse gas mileage. Even body temperature varies from the standard. So does mental activity, and the amount of glucose uptake in the brain.
If you don't believe that, then just try getting Thyroid cancer some day. Many people (including a sister of mine) are thin their entire lives, and take credit for it by pointing to diet, only to be shocked when their metabolism changes due to thyroid trouble, and suddenly they weigh 2x or 3x what they did before on the SAME diet.
Excuse me? I have brown eyes - why doesn't everybody? It's called DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
I eat LESS than a very good friend of mine. Yet she weighs 118 and I weigh 275. This attitude that naturally skinny (LUCKY) people have is getting on my nerves. Regardless of the reasons, it is not so simple as simply all overweight people are overeating. Yes, some people are overweight because they overeat. If I were to allow my body to dictate how much food I eat - I'd weigh TWICE as much as I do. I am practically starving all the time just to MAINTAIN this weight - and my daily calorie intake is around 2000. When I make an attempt to diet, I can get as low as 800 a day, yet I only lose a small amount of weight and then it comes back if I even think about looking at starch/sugar.
You have no business talking about a problem that you obviously don't have as if you know the causes of it.
Read better.
He said "Core Duo" not "Core 2 Duo".... the Core Duo series chips were basically just re-badged P4 chips.... However, I thought all of those were 64 bit anyway, though I could be mistaken. Core Solo definitely did have some non-64 bit versions, and there are a lot of laptops that aren't that old with Core Solo chips.
A $400 video card is not "dabbling".... it is realizing that paying $600 for a few FPS more at resolutions most monitors only dream of in their worst nightmares is insane. To say that ATI's new cards don't compete is to ignore the fact that the majority of the market doesn't buy $600 video cards. Of course, now people will read that "nVidia cards are faster", then go out and overpay for a 7600GS when for the same money they could've had a faster ATI card.
Actually, the truth is, much of the hardware in question was advertised as being Vista-ready, many items actually shipping with this on the outside of the box in the last few months. nVidia has not only missed the target on video drivers, but chipset drivers as well.
The audio driver they provided Microsoft (at the very last minute) blue-screens and doesn't even support more than two speakers on many systems. I had to go "up the food chain" and use a Realtek driver, that gives some minor errors, but works.
As a contrast, I have an HP Laserjet 1018. I am mildly miffed at HP missing the vista release date with drivers for this printer - since they said on their vista page that it would have drivers by the end of january. However - nowhere on the printer, in its packaging, or any promotional materials, does it actually say it will work in Vista. The Vista drivers will be (hopefully unless they change their mind) a gesture of "good will" as it were.
With nVidia, they have clearly been advertising and promoting their current products as Vista compatible, when the fact is, if you buy it off the shelf TODAY, it isn't likely to work very well despite packaging claims.
Sounds like a case of BLS - Bad Lawyer Syndrome.... if the case really is as simple as you portray here.
Dunno, slashdot on my system loads in about 2 seconds. Maybe your connection is just slow?
Funny thing is my ATI card has drivers that work just fine, provided by ATI themselves... And I'm even using that disgusting little twerp of an OS known as Windows XP... If such a lousy OS as XP can have decent drivers, I'm shocked that the Holy Grail of the OS world, Linux, doesn't.
When you bought your ATI video card - did the box say "Linux" or "Windows" on the system requirements?
Now, for on-topic... It would be nice if they would be able to support older ATI cards as well such as my x800GTO. I'm about to be moving to an apt where the electric is included in rent, so I'm ready to use my money's worth of electricity and do some distributed computing!
In the U.S., these "banned" and "challenged" books aren't typically illegal. In fact, I think that no books short of those with photographs depicting pedophilia and the like would be illegal. In this context, it means that parents (typically) get schools to ban the books from their libraries and reading lists. Sometimes they are "banned" from public libraries as well. In either case, there's not any law saying the books can't be read, just a group of people (parents) who have convinced another group of people (school boards) to not include the books in their libraries.
I would hope you realize the nigerian philanthropist story was satire, right?
One of the problems I've run into in cleaning my own credit (and I used to work for Experian so I know how to navigate the system), is that the agencies often verify your identity by checking the information you provide against what they see on the report. The problem I had was that I had a car which was repossessed in 1996 (voluntary, the car was a piece of junk and I couldn't justify paying the remaining $3000 on a junk car and taking the bus). Around 7-8 years later, I knew I could have the debt removed if it was still on my credit, because it was over 7 years old. The problem was that I failed the "verification" statements when trying to retrieve my credit report. One of them was along these lines: "Our records show that in 2001 you bought a car. What was the amount of the loan?"... Two problems. I hadn't bought a car in 2001 on credit (indeed, the only auto loan I ever had was the one in 1996), and none of the amounts even matched the 1996 loan. Turns out one of the collection agencies had attempted to extend the life of the debt past 7 years by reporting it as opened in 2001, with the current (with past due fees, collectionfees, etc) balance listed as the opening balance. Because I didn't know this, I "failed" to prove who I was.
I did finally manage to prove my identity, and successfully got the account removed from my credit (as it should have been due to age). The collection agency, of course, is still trying to collect on a 10 year old debt (they're still convinced the account was opened in 2001), but the credit reporting agencies keep even removed accounts on file, so they can see that this account number has already been successfully disputed, so it won't show back up on my credit.
My worst problem with this is, as others, when the RFID tags are not deactivated. In my case, it was a pair of shoes someone had bought me for a gift. Problem was, the tag wasn't deactivated. Additionally, the tag was BUILT INTO the shoes! Every time I entered and left a store wearing the shoes, it would set off the alarms. I had more than one overzealous doordude try to stop me. Eventually I got to where I would warn them before I even stepped through and hold my hands out so they could see I wasn't carrying anything. One refused to listen and tried to detain me - I told him to get his *@*## hands off me before I had to defend myself against unlawful detainment. He was furious, but I had already explained to him the situation, and he was too stupid to comprehend that a tag might be on something I OWN and not have been deactivated!
Finally, when the shoes were completely worn out, I cut them up and found the tag. It was deep inside between two layers of cloth - it had to have been put in there at the factory.
I, like many others I suspect, actually DID spend my mod points trying to mod down the post being referred to last night. Problem is there are more out there modding junk like that UP because it's "interesting" or somesuch.
Actually, I've found the opposite to be true, at least as far as conversation starter goes... my Palm computer has started many conversations. People find it amazing.
So you're telling me I'll want to trade my 21" Sony Trinitron G520? I don't think so!
It is actually not much different in the U.S.A. However, you do retain the right to represent *yourself* in a court of law. Only a lawyer can represent someone else - but every person has the right to represent themselves.
As others have pointed out, the Tungstens that don't use a cradle (like the E, upon which the T5 appears to be based) don't charge off USB when using the factory USB cable.
However, many people (myself included) use the Belkin cable that also plugs into the charge port. I suspect that the only improvement here is that the T5 either includes such a cable, or charges straight from the USB port itself rather than needing a splitter.
PalmOS already has a background mode for playing MP3's, even without full multitasking.
Wouldn't a Tatoo be considered Prior Art?
*bow* *bow*
All that's left now is to merge EMACS and Mozilla. Then we'll have everything in one application.
That is of course why as soon as you got notice that you were the victim of such a suit, you formatted your drive, government wiped it several times with random and nonrandom patterns, and proceded to write lots of new, perfectly legal data over the old. Nothing to find.
Anyone who is the victim of such a lawsuit who does not clear such infringing material off their PC is just stupid. And so far, they haven't gone to the extremes of sending the FBI in to confiscate everything before you even know you've been targetted like they used to do with Warez BBS's back in "the day". Of course, that's probably the next step... Armed raids...
When I installed this, my firewall went crazy during the update with attempted connections all over the net by the update installer (after the download had finished)....
Anybody know what's up with that? What exactly are they doing with this update that requires connecting to several different hosts during the install?
It must be noted (since you mention Texas) that the woman who they used to represent the Texas sound, according to their site, actually lived 20 years of her life in Missouri. I don't know where that falls in her learning of the language - but as a native Texan myself (and not far from Carthage, which is where she claims to be from) I can tell you for certain that her accent is very mild compared to most people in the area, and I have no doubt it is because of her years spent in the midwest.
If they're going to do such a survey, they should have been careful to pick NATIVE speakers - that is, those who were born, grew up, went to school, and worked most of their lives in the place they are representing.