Its a pain in the ass, it'll cost you some money, but they don't have a case so don't let it stress you out. The new company will need to deal with the suit on their end, the likelihood is their attorney can handle your suit as well.
Its happened to me twice, I think the total it cost me in legal expenses was $500 and a few hours to show up in court.
You may have good luck counter suing. Blog about it, too. Make sure potential customers of theirs know how they treat their employees.
The important thing is to not let it stress you out.
Thats actually how I got the machine in question. A company was getting rid of it because it "didn't work" -- it was spyware infested. Its actually, I believe, a 1.8ghz Celeron or something like that. The drive is bigger, 60gb perhaps, and its got on-board video and sound. Nothing special. I bet the machine didn't cost $500 two years ago.
Vista runs fine on it. The "experience" score was a bit low, but everything worked fine.
People who want the latest and greatest whiz-bang crap may need to upgrade, but those people are the type who drop $3k on a gaming rig every few years anyway and secretly are looking for an excuse.
Is there a chance that the uninformed will be taken advantage of by the likes of Best Buy to buy things they don't need? Of course, but Best Buy does that even without the excuse of Vista.
Vista is 5 years more advanced than XP. Of course it needs more resources. Go compare what a Linux system typically would install nicely on in 1998 and 2003, or worse 1994 and 1999. I ran Linux on 8 meg systems for 4-5 years, now most installers won't even load in a system with less than 64 meg.
Somehow I suspect the extent of his scientific credentials is a copy of the Starfleet Technical Manual with pages that are strangely stuck together, and a tattered Burger King hat hung from a nail in his parents' basement.
Its not just going forward, my understanding is they're already battling that in New Hampshire. In the wealthy southern edge of New Hampshire, we've had FIOS in some towns for a year or more. (I'm just about to hit a year here)
When talking to a tech recently about when we might see TV service here, as they have it now in a good number of MA communities, I was told that Verizon was fighting pretty hard with NH and that was holding up any further development state wide -- I guess NH told them they couldn't do any new service rollouts if they weren't going to cover the state evenly, or something to that effect.
Now mind you, NH is generally not the wealthiest, or most culturally sophisticated state. Most of it is very sparsely populated, and its staggering to think what it would cost Verizon to roll out fiber service to a town of 1000 people spread out over dozens of miles of which few if any would actually purchase the higher-end services.
If this frees up Verizon to continue their more focused rollouts, more power to it. Sure, its not ideal for people in those towns not serviced by it, but thats the trade off you make -- property costs half, its quiet, no traffic. Boo hoo if you can't get 15mbit fiber service.
The latest versions of Putty can provide SOCKS5 automatically -- no need to install anything else. You set up a dynamic port forward on, say, port 12345, and then use that port as your SOCKS5 server. It dyanamically sets up the port forwards for you.
If you've got the resources to run an SSH server at home, use Putty with a dynamic proxy and point your browser and IM clients to it via SOCKS5.
I wouldn't trust any network like that... even if the service itself isn't watching what you're doing, do you trust the other people on that network aren't?
Its easy to surf or do other network apps safely on questionable networks. At least among the Slashdot crowd its easy... but I've educated even my parents on doing that when using public or hotel internet and gave them an SSH account to use at my house.
If MS had indeed dropped their manufacturing costs over $100 per unit in the last year, they're in no worse place offering $100 discounts than they were during the holidays last year, and hitting 10m is a big milestone.
Plus GoW is like Halo 2 was -- not only does it drive a 360 sale when someone wants to play it, it drivers further 360 AND GoW sales as those people's friends want in on the action. Getting lots of them out there, even if it means giving up your console profit for a month, makes a LOT of sense.
Thats not entirely true... the increasing life expectancy these days is mostly because of two things -- better workplace safety and most importantly a massive reduction in infant mortality rates.
It doesn't take a lot of people dying at 1 to pull the averages down a lot...
Thats true of differences between countries today, too. Pull out children below the age of 5, and the numbers start to even out a lot more.
Look at the labels on the shelf for them... the dimwits I talked to *never* knew what I was talking about until I dragged them over and pointed at the label. Then they could look it up in the computer.
Home Depot, amazingly enough, but getting enough meant wiping out 5 local stores of them and none of them have gotten any more. Your best bet is to ask them to check local stores for stock.
He's absolutely right. Ignoring AC costs, IMO its house size that is causing the increase in usage, and its changes in how houses are lit. 20 years ago houses were lit typically with a single fixture in a room, and lamps. (Or, if you're in the northeast US, typically just lamps, although I couldn't tell you why that is...)
These days lighting design is all the rage, and its common to have 4 or more fixtures in a room, often R30 can lights at 65w each projecting downward so you need 4 or more to light a room. The room I'm in right now visiting my parents has 4 can lights, a light with 4 60 watt bulbs in it, and two recessed spot lights of unknown power. Ignoring those, its still 500 watts to light this room.
My house is 60+ years old, but was renovated six years ago -- most of it is can lit as well. It has 24 65 watt R30 can lights in it, among all the other lights.
I saw a nearly $30 a month drop in my electric bill switching the entire house to CFL. Dimmable R30 bulbs are pricey, $12+ each, but they will have payed themselves off in a year. I typically am facist about keeping lights off, too... I'm sure the savings would be double that if I had kids leaving them on all the time.
On a geek note, I also got a $30 savings a month by making changes in the data center in the basement. An old HP rack server was replaced with a much less power hungry desktop box which was faster... that saved 75% of the electricity it used to use. Three other desktop boxes which were slower were replaced with two free laptops with broken screens I got from friends who tend to break their laptops. The upside as well is that one small UPS can power everything for almost an hour.
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In America you can sue anyone for anything.
Its a pain in the ass, it'll cost you some money, but they don't have a case so don't let it stress you out. The new company will need to deal with the suit on their end, the likelihood is their attorney can handle your suit as well.
Its happened to me twice, I think the total it cost me in legal expenses was $500 and a few hours to show up in court.
You may have good luck counter suing. Blog about it, too. Make sure potential customers of theirs know how they treat their employees.
The important thing is to not let it stress you out.
Next time try your balls.
Thats actually how I got the machine in question. A company was getting rid of it because it "didn't work" -- it was spyware infested. Its actually, I believe, a 1.8ghz Celeron or something like that. The drive is bigger, 60gb perhaps, and its got on-board video and sound. Nothing special. I bet the machine didn't cost $500 two years ago.
Vista runs fine on it. The "experience" score was a bit low, but everything worked fine.
People who want the latest and greatest whiz-bang crap may need to upgrade, but those people are the type who drop $3k on a gaming rig every few years anyway and secretly are looking for an excuse.
Is there a chance that the uninformed will be taken advantage of by the likes of Best Buy to buy things they don't need? Of course, but Best Buy does that even without the excuse of Vista.
Vista is 5 years more advanced than XP. Of course it needs more resources. Go compare what a Linux system typically would install nicely on in 1998 and 2003, or worse 1994 and 1999. I ran Linux on 8 meg systems for 4-5 years, now most installers won't even load in a system with less than 64 meg.
I didn't have to upgrade a damn thing... on a two year old Celeron system.
Maybe MSDN Vista is missing the "upgrade all your crap" bit being set.
Give me Kirsten Dunst, and I'll take care of some polishing...
Not sure why you got modded up.
Clearly there are people with mod points that don't know geology or understand the timeframes in which mountain ranges like them rose.
Somehow I suspect the extent of his scientific credentials is a copy of the Starfleet Technical Manual with pages that are strangely stuck together, and a tattered Burger King hat hung from a nail in his parents' basement.
Its not just going forward, my understanding is they're already battling that in New Hampshire. In the wealthy southern edge of New Hampshire, we've had FIOS in some towns for a year or more. (I'm just about to hit a year here)
When talking to a tech recently about when we might see TV service here, as they have it now in a good number of MA communities, I was told that Verizon was fighting pretty hard with NH and that was holding up any further development state wide -- I guess NH told them they couldn't do any new service rollouts if they weren't going to cover the state evenly, or something to that effect.
Now mind you, NH is generally not the wealthiest, or most culturally sophisticated state. Most of it is very sparsely populated, and its staggering to think what it would cost Verizon to roll out fiber service to a town of 1000 people spread out over dozens of miles of which few if any would actually purchase the higher-end services.
If this frees up Verizon to continue their more focused rollouts, more power to it. Sure, its not ideal for people in those towns not serviced by it, but thats the trade off you make -- property costs half, its quiet, no traffic. Boo hoo if you can't get 15mbit fiber service.
I wish I could mod that up, but since you replied to me, I can't.
I didn't know about that setting, and thats excellent information. Hope others mod you up.
The latest versions of Putty can provide SOCKS5 automatically -- no need to install anything else. You set up a dynamic port forward on, say, port 12345, and then use that port as your SOCKS5 server. It dyanamically sets up the port forwards for you.
If you've got the resources to run an SSH server at home, use Putty with a dynamic proxy and point your browser and IM clients to it via SOCKS5.
I wouldn't trust any network like that... even if the service itself isn't watching what you're doing, do you trust the other people on that network aren't?
Its easy to surf or do other network apps safely on questionable networks. At least among the Slashdot crowd its easy... but I've educated even my parents on doing that when using public or hotel internet and gave them an SSH account to use at my house.
You do realize that universities produce a huge number of patents every year... and their endowments often depend on the licensing fees for them?
If MS had indeed dropped their manufacturing costs over $100 per unit in the last year, they're in no worse place offering $100 discounts than they were during the holidays last year, and hitting 10m is a big milestone.
Plus GoW is like Halo 2 was -- not only does it drive a 360 sale when someone wants to play it, it drivers further 360 AND GoW sales as those people's friends want in on the action. Getting lots of them out there, even if it means giving up your console profit for a month, makes a LOT of sense.
Thats not entirely true... the increasing life expectancy these days is mostly because of two things -- better workplace safety and most importantly a massive reduction in infant mortality rates.
It doesn't take a lot of people dying at 1 to pull the averages down a lot...
Thats true of differences between countries today, too. Pull out children below the age of 5, and the numbers start to even out a lot more.
Yes, you're missing something. And yes, $40 is less than $500.
Doesn't he realize he'd feel so much better if he just went a beat up a hooker or two?
Now thats a microwave I'd buy! One with more self control than I!
Can I get a freezer that will do the same with ice cream as well?
Thats my standard order -- short nonfat cappuccino.
Its the only palatable drink there, IMO.
Probably 25% of the time I have to tell the barista to ask someone else when they say they don't have it, though.
Look at the labels on the shelf for them... the dimwits I talked to *never* knew what I was talking about until I dragged them over and pointed at the label. Then they could look it up in the computer.
If by "we" you mean "people who aren't educated in climatology", then yes.
Otherwise, no.
All of mine are on two-way X10 dimmer circuits, no problem with any of them.
Of course these are $100 switches, not the cheapo $10 X10 ones, but they work great.
Home Depot, amazingly enough, but getting enough meant wiping out 5 local stores of them and none of them have gotten any more. Your best bet is to ask them to check local stores for stock.
He's absolutely right. Ignoring AC costs, IMO its house size that is causing the increase in usage, and its changes in how houses are lit. 20 years ago houses were lit typically with a single fixture in a room, and lamps. (Or, if you're in the northeast US, typically just lamps, although I couldn't tell you why that is...)
These days lighting design is all the rage, and its common to have 4 or more fixtures in a room, often R30 can lights at 65w each projecting downward so you need 4 or more to light a room. The room I'm in right now visiting my parents has 4 can lights, a light with 4 60 watt bulbs in it, and two recessed spot lights of unknown power. Ignoring those, its still 500 watts to light this room.
My house is 60+ years old, but was renovated six years ago -- most of it is can lit as well. It has 24 65 watt R30 can lights in it, among all the other lights.
I saw a nearly $30 a month drop in my electric bill switching the entire house to CFL. Dimmable R30 bulbs are pricey, $12+ each, but they will have payed themselves off in a year. I typically am facist about keeping lights off, too... I'm sure the savings would be double that if I had kids leaving them on all the time.
On a geek note, I also got a $30 savings a month by making changes in the data center in the basement. An old HP rack server was replaced with a much less power hungry desktop box which was faster... that saved 75% of the electricity it used to use. Three other desktop boxes which were slower were replaced with two free laptops with broken screens I got from friends who tend to break their laptops. The upside as well is that one small UPS can power everything for almost an hour.
They've been selling well below retail for about ten days now, most of the time.
Silly, actually... once the market dropped I'm surprised people didn't just return them.
No, its like firing a shotgun. A few pellets may miss the target but most will hit.
And its funny.
Hell, I'm Republican and I still like playing the "blame everything on Bush" game.