We need to GET RID of this optical medium shit that is easily destroyed.
If you are careful with the media and the media is not junk in the first place you shouldn't have many problems. Sure, the media is not nearly as robust as other alternatives but if you stick your discs in cases when they are not in use and don't leave them in extreme heat/cold then you shouldn't have many discs get "easily destroyed".
We will be rid of optical media only if a replacement comes along that is just as cheap and easy to transport. I can mail/hand someone 8.5GB on a DVD+R DL and the media would only be about $1. I can put the disc into a cheap DVD case, put that in a CD/DVD mailer and mail it off for $2 at the most for the case/media. Optical media makes it very easy to transport a decent amount of data to someone quickly and extremely cheaply and nearly every modern computer has a CD/DVD drive so the person getting the media should have no problem reading the data. It also is great to use to get somewhat large amounts of data to a location that does not have any internet/network connection.
Another benefit is since the media is so cheap, you don't have to worry about needing to get the discs back from whoever they are given to. I can give someone ~100GB using a stack of 12 DVD+R DL's for a few bucks and who cares what happens to the discs after the person is done using them. If I gave the person a hard disk instead they would need to get it back to me or else I would be out quite a bit of money relatively speaking.
What other media can you do the same with so cheaply? The answer is none.
We don't own the building our office is in, we rent, so we cannot go around modifying the bathrooms. Quitting would not be logical either since the problem is out of my employers hands (within reasonable measures, and by reasonable I mean not having to move to another location). If I quit for that reason I would not receive any unemployment payment or other benefits since it would be me who put myself in the situation. Plust I love my job, love my house which requires a significant mortgage payment, and enjoy having extra income to have fun with.
Really, is that the best you could come up with? I wasn't expecting anything great since you are in the wrong, but I thought you would come up with something halfway decent.
Come back when you have a solution that doesn't require a magic wand to overcome fundamental problems. Or better yet... don't come back.
No wonder the US is so full of fatties - nobody can be bothered working up a sweat any more. You should be able to jog 5 miles to work, doing that on a bike is cheating.
I can jog 5 miles no problem. If you could be bothered to comprehend what I wrote you would have realized that if I biked or jogged to work I would have NO PLACE TO SHOWER ONCE I GOT THERE. The temperature here is 110+f most of the year, so walking even just 100 meters results in a person being drenched in sweat. I cannot show up to work drenched in sweat and then proceed to not shower (since the nearest shower is back at my home) and stink up my office. Do you think people in Siberia who live more than a mile from work are lazy to not walk/run/bike when it is winter time and they have subzero temperatures? That is about the same thing we have here except with heat.
Face it, it is just too hot here to bike to work unless you have access to shower facilities where you are employed and that is not common at all. The nearest shower I have access to would be located back at my house, so that is not a feasible option. Fix that problem for me, maybe this outsourced problem to be solved will actually return with an answer that is not laughable like the last reply or more likely you will not have an answer and then should just admit defeat like a man.
There's no excuse in clothing not to cycle to work.
You are the one who is silly, you obviously don't live anywhere it is extremely hot and all employers DO NOT have showers.
Is it common to have showers at most employers in your part of the world? Here in the US I have never worked anywhere that had shower facilities and the only places I have heard that have them are some of the larger employers. So your quick fix of showering at work isn't viable for the majority of people is my guess.
Also, I live in Arizona (Phoenix area) where we don't have much humidity but for most of the year the temperture is in triple digits and when it is 110-120 out biking will leave you DRENCHED in sweat. Last year I rode my bike to work almost every day since it was only about 1.5 miles, but now that I bought a house about 5 miles away there will be almost no more biking for me. It is just too hot, too dangerous (the drivers here are INSANE), and if I did ride to work the nearest shower I would have access to would be located 5 miles away... at my house. I know my co-workers would not appreciate me stinking up the office all day!
There are valid excuses to not cycle to work for some people.
Wow, that is crazy they pulled it even though it was 5 years old! Do you know if it was pulled by an automated system or not? If it was something like a computer program that checks the auctions for "CD" and "Promo" and then pulls the auction if both of those are found then that would not be as bad but that still would be horrible to have happen. If it was a human screener on the other hand then this is just crazy and probably the result of some draconian standard operating procedures being in place.
On another note, what effect would this have on collectors if Universal wins? Collectors usually want EVERYTHING and rare things such as this CD are worth even more to them. I know this is just eBay and collectors can always go to stores/swap meets/etc but it is just hard to me to understand how something sent to you for free and unsolicited cannot be sold.
A flag (off by default) which indicates a willingness to share would be express permission to use the access point.
Or a password, on by default, set to "admin", indicates an unwillingness to share and expresses permission to use the access point would be to contact the owner and ask them for the password.
Flags can be missed due to ignorance so failure to miss seeing/obeying a flag is much less proof of intent as actually entering a password no matter how trivial. Lets go with something actually useful for a change.
It's really a shame that no part of the 802.11 standards allow for a bit that identifies that the user of the access point intends to share his access.
Yes, I guess that would be nice but you get the same effect by having a WEP/WPA password set or not. A password is actually much better than just a flag since a flag could just be ignored but a password cannot. IMO AP's really just need to be distributed with a default password set. Then the owner can decide to make the AP open or not and you get out of this whole mess. I like that idea much better than making more stupid laws.
Remember that when I come and run an extension cord from your outdoor plugin to my equipment. Yes hour honour, he did authorize me to use it since there was power to that plug. (Saw that analaogy somewhere else in this discussion and its the best one I've seen).
That analogy is flawed since electricity is metered and most internet access in the US (at least at the consumer level which this would affect the most) is not. Most "normal" internet usage such as checking email and browsing some websites would NOT end up costing the person who is paying for the internet connection more money at ALL. Running an extension cord is completely different since you would first have to trespass on the homeowners property and then if you plugged something into it you would actually be costing them money. If you just ran the extension cord but didn't plug anything into it then that would be a closer analogy and all you would be guilty of is trespassing.
I think a better analogy (that works for metered as well as unmetered internet access) would be if your neighbor decided to keep a hose constantly running on the edge of his property right next to yours and you decided to rig up a system to store the runoff water that comes on your property to water your plants with it would not be illegal. The neighbor is freely allowing the "goods" to cross his property lines, if he doesn't want you to benefit from that then he needs to fix how he has things setup.
My guess is that this law was most likely pushed by ISP's who want everyone to pay them their monthly fee's and want to prevent people from freely sharing internet access. Like usual it sounds like it is all about the money.
So what you're saying is, man buys broken BD player, but wants to sue Samsung instead of taking it back to the store?
If the problem was something like the player could not read any discs or some other defect that getting an exchange for the same model would fix then just taking it back to the store would be the correct option. However, in this case ALL Samsung players of this particular model have problems playing some REGULAR blu-ray discs. It is not even a problem of just not being able to use the new features in the new profiles, some discs just WILL NOT PLAY.
All of this fault is on Samsung who released a shoddy product to the market and because of that Samsung deserves to be sued. Companies need to realize that customers will not take being beta-testers any longer. It is one thing to get a product that has a few bugs that can be fixed via firmware updates but this is clearly an example where the product DOESN'T WORK and never should have been released to the public.
Thanks for the correction and you are correct about DVD's having the data layer sandwiched between 2 polycarbonate discs. I should have specified the "scratching the top" problem as CD only.
Still, whether the disc is CD or DVD does not matter with regard to "repainting" the metal layer. CD-R/DVD+-R's both have the reflective metal layer directly adhered to the organic dye which means if you lose one you lose the other and recovery will be impossible for that portion of the disc. The rest of the disc should still be readable although it might require some specialized hardware to do so since a normal drive might not go into the ready state with the damaged disc.
The organic layer is connected to the aluminum layer so you either lose both layers or none and any portion that are lost or damaged will lose all of that data completely. You cannot recoat because the data is already gone at that point. This is a reason why it is MUCH more dangerous to damage the top part of a recordable CD/DVD because if you scratch the bottom of a disc then you can usually buff the scratch out and the disc is like new. However, if you scratch the TOP of the disc (don't use regular pens on discs!) then any area that has the coating scratched off has just lost a lot of data which will never be able to be recovered.
FWIW I work in the CD/DVD forensic and data recovery business as a software developer.
Especially when Disney is Blu-Ray exclusive - never underestimate the number of parents buying Ratatouille for their kids.
But right now are the majority of parents really going to buy the Blu-Ray version of Disney movies? Especially when you can get all of the older movies on DVD for much cheaper?
While Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive definitely is something that hurts HD-DVD's stand I don't think it really matters in the battle going on RIGHT NOW. I mean how many parents out there will buy the high definition version of Disney movies for their kids when the regular DVD is cheaper and the kids will like it just as much? I would guess that what most people with HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray players who have kids are doing is sticking with buying regular DVD's for the kids movies and using the money saved from doing so to buy the HD versions of non-kid and non-Disney movies that they like instead. I don't have any kids but if I did I know that is what I would be doing. Why spend $25+ on a blu-ray Disney movie when you can get 5 or more Disney movies on regular DVD on sale or used for the same amount of money? The kids will enjoy having more movies to watch and they won't notice a difference anyway (or at least won't care about the difference) so at least to me that makes more sense.
I just don't think Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive matters that much at this point in time. In fact, I would say that the price of the players will have a MUCH larger effect on who wins the war than Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive. Don't underestimate the masses of people at Wal-Mart or other stores looking to get a high definition DVD player and going with the cheapest one available!
The most humorous thing was a day later finding out she had her lighter in her jacket pocket the entire flight home, so even on the connecting flight up from Florida it was on her and she didn't know and no one checked for it.
What kind of lighter was it? As long as it was not a Torch Lighter TSA has allowed lighters since April of last year so unless she flew before then it would not have been a problem. You can read more about TSA's lighter guidelines here and here
They later tried to sick a series of collection agencies on me, each of which I wrote a polite letter to explaining the situation and why I did not feel the need to pay anything. I never got a second attempt from any of the collection agencies, so at least they had the decency and intelligence to understand the situation.
I would definitely check your credit report if I was you. Earlier this year I had a similar situation where a former landlord of mine turned me into a collection agency when I refused to pay a bunch of extra fee's they wanted when I moved out, fee's that were NOT anywhere in the contract I signed with them. I did the same thing as you where I wrote the collection agency a nice letter and gave them all of my contact information and told them my half of the story and I never heard anything from them so I figured I was in the clear. Well then I checked my credit last month and found out the collections agency is on there saying the money I owe them is "disputed by customer". I have no idea how bad that is to have on my credit report but I am certain it is not a good thing. Needless to say I am not very happy.
If anyone out there knows much about credit in the US and can clue me in more as to how bad this is to have on my credit report I would appreciate it!
I am pretty sure the change to allow lighters was really recent (last 6 months maybe?). I travelled to Germany about a month ago and had a lighter in my carry-on the whole way there and the whole way back and nobody ever said a word. This was a trip from Phoenix to DC where I stayed overnight and then continued on to Philly and then off to Munich. I also travelled to LA last week and had the same experience.
It does now clearly state in the TSA rules that lighters are allowed as long as they are not torch lighters and you can only bring them in your carry-on, you are not supposed to check them so it is actually now encouraged to bring them on board.
Thanks to the combined magic of closed source software, and support that's reserved for paying customers, I have no way to fix it.
You do have a way to fix it, PAY FOR IT. Can't do or don't want to do that? Then that sucks but don't complain that there exists no way you can fix it. Seriously, if you use something for free where it is clear support is something that must be paid for then don't come here complaining about how you can't fix something because you don't want to pony up the money for the support. They also do have "pay per incident" support which is much less expensive than the subscription cost.
If all you use NoMachine for is playing games (just a guess bassed on your D3D problem) then you should just be happy you can get something for free that does something so complicated. If you use it for more than personal entertainment then either don't knock it for some bugs it has that you "have no way of fixing" or pay for the support so the people providing you that support can fix your issue as well as put some food on the table.
Maybe if this fellow wasn't kicking and fighting while held on the floor tasering wouldn't have been deemed necessary. You see the whole pile move as he tries to lash out again and again. At that point the police could have used more physical force or tasering. The police are just doing a job and getting kicked repeatedly by some punk while trying not to hurt him is VERY frustrating.
Maybe if they let him HEAR the answers (since Kerry said he wanted to answer the students questions) to his questions this whole thing would have turned out to be nothing. Anyway, yeah the kid was obnoxious but he was NOT violent or a threat to anyone and only should have been tazered if he had shown threat of violence. The only "lashing out" he did was to get the officers hands off him so he could stand up and listen to the answers to his questions.
The kid really is lucky. After the first swing on an officer (you can see it before he gets taken down) the officers could have clubbed him. As far as I could see the police were all very well behaved.
He never swung at any of the officers, what he did was throw his arms up to break the hold they had on him. There is a HUGE difference between taking a swing at an officer and flailing around trying to get loose. I agree the officers seemed to be behaved until of course the tazering occurred.
They tried to talk him down. They tried to escort him peacefully. When he resisted escort they restrained him. When he broke free of his restraining officers they restrained him with a couple bigger officers. When he broke free again and started lashing out at officers they took him down to the floor. Then on the floor he kept kicking and lashing out as they tried to talk him down. All of the violence was initiated by this punk.
Both sides are at fault but I still think they should have just let Kerry answer the student and then if the student didn't shut up they could have escorted him out. At one point the student even said he would leave if they let him up, did they do that? No, they tazered him instead and charged him with a felony, that is a crock of shit.
I am a huge proponent for free speech, but he was preventing others from having a chance to speak and provoking the police at every turn. He might even have been paid to create an incident, but it appears the incident was all his fault. He will have a fine, and his "resisting arrest" could get him time if any of those officers were hurt. They were just trying to do their job and this nutjob attacks them. How would you like to have their job? You are being polite as possible and you get attacked by a screaming lunatic who shoves your friend and then nails you in the head with a wild swing.
Don't sign up for a job you know is going to have you deal with people such as this if you will be bothered by it. The guy NEVER ATTACKED THE COPS you moron. If anything it was the cops who initiated the arms flailing around by trying to restrain him before Kerry answered his questions.
Those policemen and women did a damn fine job. I am sorry that he had to be tasered, but when several policemen are having trouble restraining someone who is lashing out there are very few choices left.
Those policemen and women should be investigated and punished for what happened. Especially the one who actually tazered the kid. The kid was already subdued by about 6 cops, tazering was not needed and to me it looks like they only did it to get him to shut up. He was not a threat (do you see anyone around him taking off running scared?) and should not have been tazered. The only time anyone in the audience seemed scared was when the poor guy got tazered.
What a shitty thing to happen on the anniversary of the Constitution getting signed. Someone at a political Q&A session is not allowed to ask questions and hear the answers to his questions and ends up getting tazered and charged with a felony. This is a sad day indeed.
I just went to the comcast website and while they don't mention "unlimited" service they also fail to mention ANYWHERE that there is a download limit. All it says is what the "expected speed" is. In the past however they definitely advertised it as unlimited and it was not, I found out myself a few times that it wasn't unlimited.
So, while they may no longer advertise it as unlimited, IMO they still should be required to say that there is a download limit and what it is. They should also be required to state this in the ADVERTISEMENT, not on line 4234234 of the terms of service. It is clearly deceptive practice to sell a service without stating something such as this which is a basic part of the service.
'Researchers say the final version of the flying wing will contain an electronic system that will take care of some of the steering for the pilot which today can be a little tricky, researchers say.
So why don't you do something simple like disconnect the cable(s) from the network adapter(s) or configure your network to not allow the machine(s) to access anything outside of your LAN? Surely if you MUST NEVER have your long term tests interrupted then you would not want to have the machines connected to anything that could open them up to outside attacks/interference?
If MS really is updating computers that are not set to auto-update then I definitely do not think that is right but even still I think you should reconsider how you have your test boxes setup before bitching about MS causing a problem. ANYONE doing testing should consider and prepare to protect against all types of failures including this type.
NOBODY is FORCING you to use Windows. You said so yourself that you don't want to take the time to learn a new OS, so the only person to blame is yourself. WINE might work so you can run the Windows apps you use for work. If WINE won't do the job then maybe you should contact the company that develops the software you want to use and see if they have any non-windows versions available and if not maybe you can find something else that does run on another OS that can do the job.
I can't stand you people who say you are forced to use Windows, you have 100% the choice to move to another OS, you just don't want to deal with the work involved.
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We need to GET RID of this optical medium shit that is easily destroyed.
If you are careful with the media and the media is not junk in the first place you shouldn't have many problems. Sure, the media is not nearly as robust as other alternatives but if you stick your discs in cases when they are not in use and don't leave them in extreme heat/cold then you shouldn't have many discs get "easily destroyed".
We will be rid of optical media only if a replacement comes along that is just as cheap and easy to transport. I can mail/hand someone 8.5GB on a DVD+R DL and the media would only be about $1. I can put the disc into a cheap DVD case, put that in a CD/DVD mailer and mail it off for $2 at the most for the case/media. Optical media makes it very easy to transport a decent amount of data to someone quickly and extremely cheaply and nearly every modern computer has a CD/DVD drive so the person getting the media should have no problem reading the data. It also is great to use to get somewhat large amounts of data to a location that does not have any internet/network connection.
Another benefit is since the media is so cheap, you don't have to worry about needing to get the discs back from whoever they are given to. I can give someone ~100GB using a stack of 12 DVD+R DL's for a few bucks and who cares what happens to the discs after the person is done using them. If I gave the person a hard disk instead they would need to get it back to me or else I would be out quite a bit of money relatively speaking.
What other media can you do the same with so cheaply? The answer is none.
We don't own the building our office is in, we rent, so we cannot go around modifying the bathrooms. Quitting would not be logical either since the problem is out of my employers hands (within reasonable measures, and by reasonable I mean not having to move to another location). If I quit for that reason I would not receive any unemployment payment or other benefits since it would be me who put myself in the situation. Plust I love my job, love my house which requires a significant mortgage payment, and enjoy having extra income to have fun with.
Really, is that the best you could come up with? I wasn't expecting anything great since you are in the wrong, but I thought you would come up with something halfway decent.
Come back when you have a solution that doesn't require a magic wand to overcome fundamental problems. Or better yet... don't come back.
No wonder the US is so full of fatties - nobody can be bothered working up a sweat any more. You should be able to jog 5 miles to work, doing that on a bike is cheating.
I can jog 5 miles no problem. If you could be bothered to comprehend what I wrote you would have realized that if I biked or jogged to work I would have NO PLACE TO SHOWER ONCE I GOT THERE. The temperature here is 110+f most of the year, so walking even just 100 meters results in a person being drenched in sweat. I cannot show up to work drenched in sweat and then proceed to not shower (since the nearest shower is back at my home) and stink up my office. Do you think people in Siberia who live more than a mile from work are lazy to not walk/run/bike when it is winter time and they have subzero temperatures? That is about the same thing we have here except with heat.
Face it, it is just too hot here to bike to work unless you have access to shower facilities where you are employed and that is not common at all. The nearest shower I have access to would be located back at my house, so that is not a feasible option. Fix that problem for me, maybe this outsourced problem to be solved will actually return with an answer that is not laughable like the last reply or more likely you will not have an answer and then should just admit defeat like a man.
There's no excuse in clothing not to cycle to work.
You are the one who is silly, you obviously don't live anywhere it is extremely hot and all employers DO NOT have showers.
Is it common to have showers at most employers in your part of the world? Here in the US I have never worked anywhere that had shower facilities and the only places I have heard that have them are some of the larger employers. So your quick fix of showering at work isn't viable for the majority of people is my guess.
Also, I live in Arizona (Phoenix area) where we don't have much humidity but for most of the year the temperture is in triple digits and when it is 110-120 out biking will leave you DRENCHED in sweat. Last year I rode my bike to work almost every day since it was only about 1.5 miles, but now that I bought a house about 5 miles away there will be almost no more biking for me. It is just too hot, too dangerous (the drivers here are INSANE), and if I did ride to work the nearest shower I would have access to would be located 5 miles away... at my house. I know my co-workers would not appreciate me stinking up the office all day!
There are valid excuses to not cycle to work for some people.
Wow, that is crazy they pulled it even though it was 5 years old! Do you know if it was pulled by an automated system or not? If it was something like a computer program that checks the auctions for "CD" and "Promo" and then pulls the auction if both of those are found then that would not be as bad but that still would be horrible to have happen. If it was a human screener on the other hand then this is just crazy and probably the result of some draconian standard operating procedures being in place.
On another note, what effect would this have on collectors if Universal wins? Collectors usually want EVERYTHING and rare things such as this CD are worth even more to them. I know this is just eBay and collectors can always go to stores/swap meets/etc but it is just hard to me to understand how something sent to you for free and unsolicited cannot be sold.
A flag (off by default) which indicates a willingness to share would be express permission to use the access point.
Or a password, on by default, set to "admin", indicates an unwillingness to share and expresses permission to use the access point would be to contact the owner and ask them for the password.
Flags can be missed due to ignorance so failure to miss seeing/obeying a flag is much less proof of intent as actually entering a password no matter how trivial. Lets go with something actually useful for a change.
It's really a shame that no part of the 802.11 standards allow for a bit that identifies that the user of the access point intends to share his access.
Yes, I guess that would be nice but you get the same effect by having a WEP/WPA password set or not. A password is actually much better than just a flag since a flag could just be ignored but a password cannot. IMO AP's really just need to be distributed with a default password set. Then the owner can decide to make the AP open or not and you get out of this whole mess. I like that idea much better than making more stupid laws.
Remember that when I come and run an extension cord from your outdoor plugin to my equipment. Yes hour honour, he did authorize me to use it since there was power to that plug. (Saw that analaogy somewhere else in this discussion and its the best one I've seen).
That analogy is flawed since electricity is metered and most internet access in the US (at least at the consumer level which this would affect the most) is not. Most "normal" internet usage such as checking email and browsing some websites would NOT end up costing the person who is paying for the internet connection more money at ALL. Running an extension cord is completely different since you would first have to trespass on the homeowners property and then if you plugged something into it you would actually be costing them money. If you just ran the extension cord but didn't plug anything into it then that would be a closer analogy and all you would be guilty of is trespassing.
I think a better analogy (that works for metered as well as unmetered internet access) would be if your neighbor decided to keep a hose constantly running on the edge of his property right next to yours and you decided to rig up a system to store the runoff water that comes on your property to water your plants with it would not be illegal. The neighbor is freely allowing the "goods" to cross his property lines, if he doesn't want you to benefit from that then he needs to fix how he has things setup.
My guess is that this law was most likely pushed by ISP's who want everyone to pay them their monthly fee's and want to prevent people from freely sharing internet access. Like usual it sounds like it is all about the money.
So what you're saying is, man buys broken BD player, but wants to sue Samsung instead of taking it back to the store?
If the problem was something like the player could not read any discs or some other defect that getting an exchange for the same model would fix then just taking it back to the store would be the correct option. However, in this case ALL Samsung players of this particular model have problems playing some REGULAR blu-ray discs. It is not even a problem of just not being able to use the new features in the new profiles, some discs just WILL NOT PLAY.
All of this fault is on Samsung who released a shoddy product to the market and because of that Samsung deserves to be sued. Companies need to realize that customers will not take being beta-testers any longer. It is one thing to get a product that has a few bugs that can be fixed via firmware updates but this is clearly an example where the product DOESN'T WORK and never should have been released to the public.
Thanks for the correction and you are correct about DVD's having the data layer sandwiched between 2 polycarbonate discs. I should have specified the "scratching the top" problem as CD only.
Still, whether the disc is CD or DVD does not matter with regard to "repainting" the metal layer. CD-R/DVD+-R's both have the reflective metal layer directly adhered to the organic dye which means if you lose one you lose the other and recovery will be impossible for that portion of the disc. The rest of the disc should still be readable although it might require some specialized hardware to do so since a normal drive might not go into the ready state with the damaged disc.
The organic layer is connected to the aluminum layer so you either lose both layers or none and any portion that are lost or damaged will lose all of that data completely. You cannot recoat because the data is already gone at that point. This is a reason why it is MUCH more dangerous to damage the top part of a recordable CD/DVD because if you scratch the bottom of a disc then you can usually buff the scratch out and the disc is like new. However, if you scratch the TOP of the disc (don't use regular pens on discs!) then any area that has the coating scratched off has just lost a lot of data which will never be able to be recovered.
FWIW I work in the CD/DVD forensic and data recovery business as a software developer.
Especially when Disney is Blu-Ray exclusive - never underestimate the number of parents buying Ratatouille for their kids.
But right now are the majority of parents really going to buy the Blu-Ray version of Disney movies? Especially when you can get all of the older movies on DVD for much cheaper?
While Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive definitely is something that hurts HD-DVD's stand I don't think it really matters in the battle going on RIGHT NOW. I mean how many parents out there will buy the high definition version of Disney movies for their kids when the regular DVD is cheaper and the kids will like it just as much? I would guess that what most people with HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray players who have kids are doing is sticking with buying regular DVD's for the kids movies and using the money saved from doing so to buy the HD versions of non-kid and non-Disney movies that they like instead. I don't have any kids but if I did I know that is what I would be doing. Why spend $25+ on a blu-ray Disney movie when you can get 5 or more Disney movies on regular DVD on sale or used for the same amount of money? The kids will enjoy having more movies to watch and they won't notice a difference anyway (or at least won't care about the difference) so at least to me that makes more sense.
I just don't think Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive matters that much at this point in time. In fact, I would say that the price of the players will have a MUCH larger effect on who wins the war than Disney being Blu-Ray exclusive. Don't underestimate the masses of people at Wal-Mart or other stores looking to get a high definition DVD player and going with the cheapest one available!
The most humorous thing was a day later finding out she had her lighter in her jacket pocket the entire flight home, so even on the connecting flight up from Florida it was on her and she didn't know and no one checked for it.
What kind of lighter was it? As long as it was not a Torch Lighter TSA has allowed lighters since April of last year so unless she flew before then it would not have been a problem. You can read more about TSA's lighter guidelines here and here
What if Sony never agreed to the GPL?
They later tried to sick a series of collection agencies on me, each of which I wrote a polite letter to explaining the situation and why I did not feel the need to pay anything. I never got a second attempt from any of the collection agencies, so at least they had the decency and intelligence to understand the situation.
I would definitely check your credit report if I was you. Earlier this year I had a similar situation where a former landlord of mine turned me into a collection agency when I refused to pay a bunch of extra fee's they wanted when I moved out, fee's that were NOT anywhere in the contract I signed with them. I did the same thing as you where I wrote the collection agency a nice letter and gave them all of my contact information and told them my half of the story and I never heard anything from them so I figured I was in the clear. Well then I checked my credit last month and found out the collections agency is on there saying the money I owe them is "disputed by customer". I have no idea how bad that is to have on my credit report but I am certain it is not a good thing. Needless to say I am not very happy.
If anyone out there knows much about credit in the US and can clue me in more as to how bad this is to have on my credit report I would appreciate it!
I am pretty sure the change to allow lighters was really recent (last 6 months maybe?). I travelled to Germany about a month ago and had a lighter in my carry-on the whole way there and the whole way back and nobody ever said a word. This was a trip from Phoenix to DC where I stayed overnight and then continued on to Philly and then off to Munich. I also travelled to LA last week and had the same experience.
It does now clearly state in the TSA rules that lighters are allowed as long as they are not torch lighters and you can only bring them in your carry-on, you are not supposed to check them so it is actually now encouraged to bring them on board.
Thats what buffering is for! :-)
Thanks to the combined magic of closed source software, and support that's reserved for paying customers, I have no way to fix it.
You do have a way to fix it, PAY FOR IT. Can't do or don't want to do that? Then that sucks but don't complain that there exists no way you can fix it. Seriously, if you use something for free where it is clear support is something that must be paid for then don't come here complaining about how you can't fix something because you don't want to pony up the money for the support. They also do have "pay per incident" support which is much less expensive than the subscription cost.
If all you use NoMachine for is playing games (just a guess bassed on your D3D problem) then you should just be happy you can get something for free that does something so complicated. If you use it for more than personal entertainment then either don't knock it for some bugs it has that you "have no way of fixing" or pay for the support so the people providing you that support can fix your issue as well as put some food on the table.
Maybe if this fellow wasn't kicking and fighting while held on the floor tasering wouldn't have been deemed necessary. You see the whole pile move as he tries to lash out again and again. At that point the police could have used more physical force or tasering. The police are just doing a job and getting kicked repeatedly by some punk while trying not to hurt him is VERY frustrating.
Maybe if they let him HEAR the answers (since Kerry said he wanted to answer the students questions) to his questions this whole thing would have turned out to be nothing. Anyway, yeah the kid was obnoxious but he was NOT violent or a threat to anyone and only should have been tazered if he had shown threat of violence. The only "lashing out" he did was to get the officers hands off him so he could stand up and listen to the answers to his questions.
The kid really is lucky. After the first swing on an officer (you can see it before he gets taken down) the officers could have clubbed him. As far as I could see the police were all very well behaved.
He never swung at any of the officers, what he did was throw his arms up to break the hold they had on him. There is a HUGE difference between taking a swing at an officer and flailing around trying to get loose. I agree the officers seemed to be behaved until of course the tazering occurred.
They tried to talk him down. They tried to escort him peacefully. When he resisted escort they restrained him. When he broke free of his restraining officers they restrained him with a couple bigger officers. When he broke free again and started lashing out at officers they took him down to the floor. Then on the floor he kept kicking and lashing out as they tried to talk him down. All of the violence was initiated by this punk.
Both sides are at fault but I still think they should have just let Kerry answer the student and then if the student didn't shut up they could have escorted him out. At one point the student even said he would leave if they let him up, did they do that? No, they tazered him instead and charged him with a felony, that is a crock of shit.
I am a huge proponent for free speech, but he was preventing others from having a chance to speak and provoking the police at every turn. He might even have been paid to create an incident, but it appears the incident was all his fault. He will have a fine, and his "resisting arrest" could get him time if any of those officers were hurt. They were just trying to do their job and this nutjob attacks them. How would you like to have their job? You are being polite as possible and you get attacked by a screaming lunatic who shoves your friend and then nails you in the head with a wild swing.
Don't sign up for a job you know is going to have you deal with people such as this if you will be bothered by it. The guy NEVER ATTACKED THE COPS you moron. If anything it was the cops who initiated the arms flailing around by trying to restrain him before Kerry answered his questions.
Those policemen and women did a damn fine job. I am sorry that he had to be tasered, but when several policemen are having trouble restraining someone who is lashing out there are very few choices left.
Those policemen and women should be investigated and punished for what happened. Especially the one who actually tazered the kid. The kid was already subdued by about 6 cops, tazering was not needed and to me it looks like they only did it to get him to shut up. He was not a threat (do you see anyone around him taking off running scared?) and should not have been tazered. The only time anyone in the audience seemed scared was when the poor guy got tazered.
What a shitty thing to happen on the anniversary of the Constitution getting signed. Someone at a political Q&A session is not allowed to ask questions and hear the answers to his questions and ends up getting tazered and charged with a felony. This is a sad day indeed.
I just went to the comcast website and while they don't mention "unlimited" service they also fail to mention ANYWHERE that there is a download limit. All it says is what the "expected speed" is. In the past however they definitely advertised it as unlimited and it was not, I found out myself a few times that it wasn't unlimited.
So, while they may no longer advertise it as unlimited, IMO they still should be required to say that there is a download limit and what it is. They should also be required to state this in the ADVERTISEMENT, not on line 4234234 of the terms of service. It is clearly deceptive practice to sell a service without stating something such as this which is a basic part of the service.
FTFS
The number pairs are stored as a compound 60 bit data (first 30 bytes for the first number, and the next 30 bytes for the second).
Interesting that they can store 60 bytes of data in 60 bits! I think someone made a typo...
I'd love to pay $75 or $80 for it. I can't wait. Seriously, I can't wait! Maybe I can bride a kid for one, huh?
So you are a pimp eh?
'Researchers say the final version of the flying wing will contain an electronic system that will take care of some of the steering for the pilot which today can be a little tricky, researchers say.
Researchers say!
So why don't you do something simple like disconnect the cable(s) from the network adapter(s) or configure your network to not allow the machine(s) to access anything outside of your LAN? Surely if you MUST NEVER have your long term tests interrupted then you would not want to have the machines connected to anything that could open them up to outside attacks/interference?
If MS really is updating computers that are not set to auto-update then I definitely do not think that is right but even still I think you should reconsider how you have your test boxes setup before bitching about MS causing a problem. ANYONE doing testing should consider and prepare to protect against all types of failures including this type.
NOBODY is FORCING you to use Windows. You said so yourself that you don't want to take the time to learn a new OS, so the only person to blame is yourself. WINE might work so you can run the Windows apps you use for work. If WINE won't do the job then maybe you should contact the company that develops the software you want to use and see if they have any non-windows versions available and if not maybe you can find something else that does run on another OS that can do the job.
I can't stand you people who say you are forced to use Windows, you have 100% the choice to move to another OS, you just don't want to deal with the work involved.