"The mice will also have a feature that lets people switch between open applications by pressing down on the scroll wheel instead of using the keyboard. "
I hate the default operation these wheel mice have for the wheel click. I prefer to assign double click to the wheel mouse. Makes moving around the desktop much faster.
My biggest problem isn't the cell phone provider (I have AT&T and it works fine). My problem is the lack of decent phones. I'm tired of the el cheapo phones they try and push and the ultra expensive ones that look nice, but are built like crap and have all kinds of crappy features that don't work right. But I guess thats more a problem with the phone makers and not the providers.
It just transfers the heat to the heat sink. You'll still need a massive heatsink and massive fan to pull the heat away from the heatsink into the air. And then you have to deal with all that heat lingering inside your case so you'll need a way to get it out of there along with the heat from the powersupply, chipset, ram, video and sound cards.
Better pastes is good, but shouldn't they also be trying to increase performance while also decreasing power requirements?
I wrote my rep awhile ago. I got a letter the other day saying he was on the board of some intellectual rights group and that he will do everything he can to uphold copywrites and that basically I'm wrong. I asked him, among other things, if he was prepared to start sending 10s of millions of americans to jail and fining them thousands of dollars over downloading music. I also asked him if he is prepared to be responsible for sending family and friends to jail and fining them for the same thing. His reply wasn't a very nice letter. I tossed it, should have kept it. One more person to put on the list of "I'm never voting for them no matter what".
Thats true, but they aren't supposed to call cell phones AT ALL. It is already illegal and has been for years so no one should be getting consistant calls to their cells. Usually its just an accident and never happens again.
Yup. The way I look at it is if I want to buy something I seek the sellers out, not the other way around. Same goes for charities. If I want to donate money I'll find someone to donate it to on my own. Which is why I purposely don't donate to charities that call me.
"I see the removal of spyware, freeing system resources, etc. as a favor."
They are not paying you for a favor. If you are going to do something that will further break applications on the PC its your duty to inform them what you are doing BEFORE you do it.
"I tell these people it's illegal to download copyrighted material, but it's not my job to enforce it."
Its not your job to tell them that in the first place. You job is to get the computer running not to judge or inform them something is legal or illegal on their PC. Very rarely is spyware from these p2p apps the cause of the problem anyways. Don't try to justify YOUR illegal action by saying your doing these people a favor. Sounds like your a minimum wage comp-usa 'tech' to me. I wouldn't trust your 'skills' with any of my hardware and I'm surprised people you 'help' don't complain. Then again you probably prey on the ignorant.
Kazaa Lite when you say "no" to those questions at install time (well at least the desktop icon). And the process icon only shows up when you launch it and don't quit it. But being a computer repair dude you would know this...right?
Uhhh...its really none of your business what people have on their PC's. Do you open their quicken installs and check their bank acounts to make sure they have money to pay you also? Or check their history for IE to see what porn sites they've visited? How about their documents directories to see what letters they've sent to grandma?
Butt out of other peoples business and just do your damn job! I'd sue your ass if you installed something on my PC without telling me about it and it broke an application that was working when my PC arrived at your shop.
If I didn't specifically turn on sharing how can I be responsible for it? You install Kazaa and sharing is on by default. I'm not the one sending the copy out, others are the ones making the request to send it out. I didn't write the software, I don't have the ability to say yes or no to every request. The request is made and it starts transfering. Yes you can stop it, but once its started its too late, damage is done.
"It doesn't take a particularly smart person to see right through that one."
You realize we are talking about the RIAA right? They don't exactly get the point to start with.
Just the fact that there is so much discussion and "what if" questions/scenarios just proves how much of a grey area this whole topic is. The RIAA flat out says its wrong, so that means millions and millions of people are all criminals and deserve 5 years or so in jail. Doesn't sound like something that is illegal.
So they are going to match IP addresses...well the IP address they get is the address of my router. I know for a fact that my router doesn't run kazaa so how is it that I could be in trouble?
Yeah yeah, I know, stupid defense, but this is lawyers were dealing with. Probably technology inept ones too.
This whole think irks me. If I leave a cd out on my front porch and someone steals it, makes a copy, then returns it how am I liable?
I never said anyone could d/l what I have in my directories, but I also didn't say they couldn't. I leave it up to them and their conscience.
The best thing about Id's games is what comes after them. The companies that use the engines usually put out some pretty awesome games. i look at Id games as basically technology demos that you can buy.
Another reason the ngage is going to fail is you aren't going to be able to play this thing on a plane without causing a problem. Everyone will see you playing a game on a cell phone. Having the cell phone on is a (currently) major no-no. Even if its not transmitting they aren't going to take your word for it and will have you turn it off. The main reason I've got a GBA is to play it while I'm travelling.
There is no way around this. The developers cannot kick people out who don't speak 'ye olde english' or something like that. People will play games the way they want to play them and you can't force them to act how you want them to act. Its the same way with other types of games.
And whose to say the people that aren't 'acting' like some people want them to act aren't roleplaying in their own way?
"Okay, tell me something you can do with XP, but not with Win95. Don't spout all that Active Directory, Disk Fragmenting, AutoUpdate and other crap. Any useful app that runs on XP, but not on 95?"
So basically you want to know something that xp does that 95 doesn't EXCEPT for everything that you don't like. You can't just make a blanket statement like you did and then say, "Oh wait, except for, this, this, and this just because."
Native support of hyperthreaded processors, actually use more than 128 (or is it 256)MB of memory. Those are 2 biggies. Playing the latest games, I doubt they would work until 95.
Yeah and can you sue orkin for throwing a shoe at your tv because their 'commercial' has a roach climbing across it that makes it look like its on your tv?
Which is where the "someones bound to stand up" comes from. No doubt many will just settle without saying a word, but with the large number of people they are talking about pulling in there is going to be someone who just doesn't care and will be willing to put it all on the line to fight back.
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"The mice will also have a feature that lets people switch between open applications by pressing down on the scroll wheel instead of using the keyboard. "
I hate the default operation these wheel mice have for the wheel click. I prefer to assign double click to the wheel mouse. Makes moving around the desktop much faster.
And clog up the court system even more for something that is an annoyance but really doesn't directly concern you. Hmmm...yeah...good plan.
My biggest problem isn't the cell phone provider (I have AT&T and it works fine). My problem is the lack of decent phones. I'm tired of the el cheapo phones they try and push and the ultra expensive ones that look nice, but are built like crap and have all kinds of crappy features that don't work right. But I guess thats more a problem with the phone makers and not the providers.
The current 3ghz + P4 processors actually come with a tube of paste instead of the pad. I don't know what quality that paste is though.
It just transfers the heat to the heat sink. You'll still need a massive heatsink and massive fan to pull the heat away from the heatsink into the air. And then you have to deal with all that heat lingering inside your case so you'll need a way to get it out of there along with the heat from the powersupply, chipset, ram, video and sound cards.
Better pastes is good, but shouldn't they also be trying to increase performance while also decreasing power requirements?
I wrote my rep awhile ago. I got a letter the other day saying he was on the board of some intellectual rights group and that he will do everything he can to uphold copywrites and that basically I'm wrong. I asked him, among other things, if he was prepared to start sending 10s of millions of americans to jail and fining them thousands of dollars over downloading music. I also asked him if he is prepared to be responsible for sending family and friends to jail and fining them for the same thing. His reply wasn't a very nice letter. I tossed it, should have kept it. One more person to put on the list of "I'm never voting for them no matter what".
Thats true, but they aren't supposed to call cell phones AT ALL. It is already illegal and has been for years so no one should be getting consistant calls to their cells. Usually its just an accident and never happens again.
Yup. The way I look at it is if I want to buy something I seek the sellers out, not the other way around. Same goes for charities. If I want to donate money I'll find someone to donate it to on my own. Which is why I purposely don't donate to charities that call me.
Telemarketers calling cell phones is already illegal. I got sears to stop just by telling them its a cell phone.
"I see the removal of spyware, freeing system resources, etc. as a favor."
They are not paying you for a favor. If you are going to do something that will further break applications on the PC its your duty to inform them what you are doing BEFORE you do it.
"I tell these people it's illegal to download copyrighted material, but it's not my job to enforce it."
Its not your job to tell them that in the first place. You job is to get the computer running not to judge or inform them something is legal or illegal on their PC. Very rarely is spyware from these p2p apps the cause of the problem anyways. Don't try to justify YOUR illegal action by saying your doing these people a favor. Sounds like your a minimum wage comp-usa 'tech' to me. I wouldn't trust your 'skills' with any of my hardware and I'm surprised people you 'help' don't complain. Then again you probably prey on the ignorant.
Kazaa Lite when you say "no" to those questions at install time (well at least the desktop icon). And the process icon only shows up when you launch it and don't quit it. But being a computer repair dude you would know this...right?
Don't forget to light the shit-bag on fire...its funnier that way.
If anyone is willing to stand up to the RIAA and not just outright settle. It will have to go to a jury eventually. Then the real fun will start.
So if I drive my PC with Kazaa and mp3's on it across state lines is it now a federal case?
Uhhh...its really none of your business what people have on their PC's. Do you open their quicken installs and check their bank acounts to make sure they have money to pay you also? Or check their history for IE to see what porn sites they've visited? How about their documents directories to see what letters they've sent to grandma?
Butt out of other peoples business and just do your damn job! I'd sue your ass if you installed something on my PC without telling me about it and it broke an application that was working when my PC arrived at your shop.
If I didn't specifically turn on sharing how can I be responsible for it? You install Kazaa and sharing is on by default. I'm not the one sending the copy out, others are the ones making the request to send it out. I didn't write the software, I don't have the ability to say yes or no to every request. The request is made and it starts transfering. Yes you can stop it, but once its started its too late, damage is done.
"It doesn't take a particularly smart person to see right through that one."
You realize we are talking about the RIAA right? They don't exactly get the point to start with.
Just the fact that there is so much discussion and "what if" questions/scenarios just proves how much of a grey area this whole topic is. The RIAA flat out says its wrong, so that means millions and millions of people are all criminals and deserve 5 years or so in jail. Doesn't sound like something that is illegal.
So they are going to match IP addresses...well the IP address they get is the address of my router. I know for a fact that my router doesn't run kazaa so how is it that I could be in trouble?
Yeah yeah, I know, stupid defense, but this is lawyers were dealing with. Probably technology inept ones too.
This whole think irks me. If I leave a cd out on my front porch and someone steals it, makes a copy, then returns it how am I liable?
I never said anyone could d/l what I have in my directories, but I also didn't say they couldn't. I leave it up to them and their conscience.
"why not make a change?"
Because as long as it continues to make money they can spend more time on the technology and no time on the story.
The best thing about Id's games is what comes after them. The companies that use the engines usually put out some pretty awesome games. i look at Id games as basically technology demos that you can buy.
Another reason the ngage is going to fail is you aren't going to be able to play this thing on a plane without causing a problem. Everyone will see you playing a game on a cell phone. Having the cell phone on is a (currently) major no-no. Even if its not transmitting they aren't going to take your word for it and will have you turn it off. The main reason I've got a GBA is to play it while I'm travelling.
There is no way around this. The developers cannot kick people out who don't speak 'ye olde english' or something like that. People will play games the way they want to play them and you can't force them to act how you want them to act. Its the same way with other types of games.
And whose to say the people that aren't 'acting' like some people want them to act aren't roleplaying in their own way?
"Okay, tell me something you can do with XP, but not with Win95. Don't spout all that Active Directory, Disk Fragmenting, AutoUpdate and other crap. Any useful app that runs on XP, but not on 95?"
So basically you want to know something that xp does that 95 doesn't EXCEPT for everything that you don't like. You can't just make a blanket statement like you did and then say, "Oh wait, except for, this, this, and this just because."
Native support of hyperthreaded processors, actually use more than 128 (or is it 256)MB of memory. Those are 2 biggies. Playing the latest games, I doubt they would work until 95.
Yeah and can you sue orkin for throwing a shoe at your tv because their 'commercial' has a roach climbing across it that makes it look like its on your tv?
This lawsuit is stupid.
Which is where the "someones bound to stand up" comes from. No doubt many will just settle without saying a word, but with the large number of people they are talking about pulling in there is going to be someone who just doesn't care and will be willing to put it all on the line to fight back.
Its called a settlement for a reason. Its a deal struck between the 2 opposing sides. Its not just one sided.