I am looking to get a new laptop in a few weeks (probably from Circuit City) and the laptops seem to have 'special' versions of other video cards. What kind of laptop card will work 'well' with Doom3?
Best Buy has done horrable things to my family reguarding not honoring their extended warranty contract.
Circuit City, however, has always treated us great with their extended warranties. They are great with stuff like free cleanings for our double-decker VCR. My most recent experience with CC was reguarding a DVD player that died with only two months left on its extended warranty. They didn't carry that player anymore so they offered to replace it with the current price equivalent or store credit for the entire price of the player plus the prorated remaining value of the extended warranty!
Basically I a new player and got to use the old one for the past two years for just the price of the extended warranty.
Yeah, Circuit City definitly is getting continued business from us. We are like the people in the article in that we actually use the extended warranties for repairs and free cleanings, but we also buy our expensive stuff from them and recomend them to all our friends.
Um, they are more 'interested' in Linux than we are! Well, kind of... When I visited Kyoto, all the university nerds wanted to learn was Windows because all the universities tought was Linux. In my university in the US we wanted to learn Linux while all that the university (Columbus State University) tought was windows.:P
Well, my point is to not be too suprised when you see a Japanese product runing Linux because a LOT of Japanese students are being tought how to use it and program for it.
The ACM had a vote (in which I voted) about this very issue. The vote was in responce to this bill and used it as an example, but the concept that we (the members of the ACM) were deciding was generalized. The winning opionion by far was that current legislation already offers sufficient protection. As such, additional legislation can only be rudundant or bad.
So in order to actually pass this bill, both houses need to consider why a huge organization of professionals (as opposed to some slashdotters and pirates) are against it.
While the dye you mention is probably a joke, having a radioactive liquid that would spill on a catastrophic crash would be released. The dye would obviously not be visible at all, but we do have the technology to track radiation from quite a ways away...
Well, this isn't exactly a me to post because you seemed to mention a theory... I actually have gotten angry emails from people telling me that I am an evil spammer. Someone spoofed using my email to send a ton of spam, so all at once I got all this email telling me how evil I was. It was not cool. : Unfortunately, alot of spammers DO use webpages or phone numbers instead of email addresses to sell their chrud.
That exact same quote bothered me too. IBM DOES work on open source software. He makes it out like OSS is just a bunch of evil hacker chrud 'given' away like a virus is 'given.' Or maybe like Gator, except you can modify the source yourself.
Then the guy goes on to say that changing the source yourself is evil and was discredited long ago. What the..!?
OSS is worse than Gator iow according to this guy.:P
This whole article is slanderous and devoid of details/support. It is really just flamebait.
Hmm... does that mean that every single post here is just food for a troll?:P
This kind of exists- there is hardware/software for the PC that lets you record HDTV channels; copy bit and all. With the actual waves recorded, you then use homebrewed software to decode the signal (ignoring the copy bit).
Hey, that as a pretty neat article. While I don't agree with all of it, it has some pretty good points.
"Computers in the classroom are a wonderful distraction, and they give politicians something to point at and say "See my commitment to education!" But they do fsck-all to enhance learning. "
I think that realistically the having computers in classrooms will help kids in only one important way. Yet it is indeed important. It will help them not be technophobic. It won't make them computer geniuses, but it will help take the fear out of computing. That will help them be able to learn whatever software they need to use in the future.
Alot of people only know how to use the software that they need for their jobs, and that is fine. But for the people who are too afraid to do even that... that is cripling.
I am actually think of 'sanity checking,' like in software or math problems. You can easily perform a sanity check on the equation 99999+12345 = 30. You can easly see that the answer is going to have more than two digits.
Their assertions are indeed idiotic; they don't pass a sanity check and neither do their alleged reasons for filing this suit (cellphones, microwaves etc are all over... they have no chance of changing that and no evidence there is even a problem)
Trying to get money is the only aspect of this that does pass the sanity check. "I can use the goofed up courts and some pseudo-science to make a few $" does pass the sanity check. It is something that is quite possible to do, and desirable if you are a leech. It is evil and money-grubbing, but it is a reasonable explanation for their (wacky) behavior.
Now you understand my strange logic a little bit better.:P
"If someone studies law or business or theology instead of science and engineering, does that make them less important? Does it mean their opinions don't count?" It means that I don't see how idiots get off suing people over things they know nothing about.
Besides, I think that in this case this is just an attempt at easy $ from the gov. I read their claims. These people aren't really that stupid; they know exactly what they are doing.
"Besides, despite all the money that is lavished on public schools in the US, most american children can't even read. That's the crisis in education the G. W. Bush is trying so hard to fix."
We sure are getting further and further down this tangent.:> I spent the last four years working with 'at risk' students; even the very worst students in the worst schools in my area (GA, 49th best educational system in the US) were able to read a little. Literacy is not a binary thing; the 'illiterate' students just read VERY slow. They can puzzle it out given time, unless you are talking about mentally challenged kids. That is something most people misunderstand when they quote illiteracy rates.
It is a big problem though; reading really is the golden source of education in our society (be it in the form of books or the Internet).
I noticed that too. However, the children were not the only plantiffs listed. I think that it is basically supposed to be the children suing through representation of their parrents and lawyers in a legal sense. Of course it is the parrents who are actually doing this. I am sure law school teaches you all sorts of chrud like this.:P
They are claiming 'grave' damages to their children's health. That is a pretty big 'indication of actual damages' if they actually can 'prove' this chrud. But no, they won't get kicked out because they are claiming no damages. They are setting themselves up to get $ millions in 'damages.'
The people who started this suit were probably literate but rather stupid if they believe that WiFi is magically evil. In the modern world, literacy is merely the beginning of education. You learn how to read so that you can study more.
Sorry, but they are seeking $. The pdf outlinging their wannabe class action suit does include "injunctive relief," as well as "other and further relief" immediately after "threatened immediate, irreparable harm." Further up they clearify what they think this harm is "threatened with irreparable harm by Defendants' conduct in that they have been exposed to grave health risks, many of which lead to permament injury, disease and death."
That is the language you use when you are trying to get a few $million per kid. They are indeed seeking vast amounts of money, which is the only sane reason for this suit to begin with.
I REALLY hope that other parrents who have kids going to this school district sue the parrents who are suing the schools. They are trying to steal away educational tools from their children! For the sake of insane paranoia! (and this is comming from a slashdotter!) Heck, this can even cause other school districts to not follow this upgrade. MY children may not get to have this technology in their schools in the future because of these losers, and I don't even live in Indiana.
The actual class action movement does mention compensation, so it seems to me that the real reason for this is that some losers found a 'surefire' way of making a ton of money through a lawsuit that just happens to have a side effect of removing tools from children's schools.
BTW, WiFi is regulated by the federal gov; it is 'officially safe.' Realistically no finding-of-fact can legitimately ignore that. Let us pray that this can allow the lawsuit to recieve a quick judgement before it does too much damage.
In Greensboro, I tried using mapquest to get to a movie theatre. The directions didn't make sense at one point. After driving around the area for a while we figured out what went wrong. For no apparent reason, one of the streets mapquest wanted us to drive down stopped, then resumed a quarter mile away. It reminded me of what happens on SimCity when you don't pay for road maintainence and individual road tiles dissappear. The area even had large trees, so you couldn't tell from a glance that there was a continuation of the road nearby.
Anyway, my guess is that the not-constructed section of road was never official. IOW the legal records show that the road is continuous when in real life it is not. This won't be the only oddity in this city that is like that; the road that my home lives in is officially non-existent. Actually, they have the name wrong. I live on a court and they omit the "court." Every now and then mail doesn't make it here because of that wierdness.
But it is inconsistencies like that that cause mapquest to be occasionally off, rather than mapquest itself being inaccurate.
You are yet another person who didn't bother to read the article. Your logic is true, but does not apply. The first person who had their Linux stuff deleted didn't even have X-Box Live. MechWarrior updated his system so that there was an X-Box Live button on his dashboard, and he (foolishly) configured his X-Box for ethernet. Ne never bought the Live service or agreed to any of it's terms.
In your analogy, you modded your tires to monster truck size and put it in your (um, big) garage. Then a police officer came, looked in your garage while the door was open and gave you a ticket because you might one day put that on the road.
You agreed to the EULA by buying the thing; the EULA is on the outside of the box (on the side). You had a couple of seconds while they rang it up to read the EULA, and now you have to stick by it.:P
No, the point really is to make a platform that is totally controlled (both hardware and software). Everything since the NES has been that way; the NES lockout chips, legal and business actions are what set the pace for current day consoles. It is ironic that you gripe about this AND worship nintendo...
At least sony is letting normal people learn about, program and install Linux on the PS2 (via the PS2 Linux kit).
The difference between my house and a company is that the company is responsible for the saftey (information-wise) of thousands of customers and employees. If their security is bad then there are problems. On the other hand, if the security of my home is bad and I don't care then there is no problem; nobody is depending on me and I haven't sold my home to anyone as being a secure haven of any sort.
I like your idea about seperating critical updates from feature updates, but there is another problem. Microsoft frequently puts nasty licensing changes on their click-through agreements for updates. You may ignore this, but a business can only do so at their own peril.
"Sorry, we haven't installed the blaster update because we have not yet cleared the EULA with our lawyers..."
While that update may not have something previously unseen in it, we have all seen this in security updates and in media player updates (remember that media player has some arbitrary code exploits that are exposed every now and then... to fix those you need to update media player and 'agree' to their fruity terms).
With the likes of the BSA, software licensing can cause a business alot of pain. On the other hand, actual virus/worm can be blaimed on evil hackers, avoiding litigation.
Business will update more when it is not a legal liability to do so.
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I am looking to get a new laptop in a few weeks (probably from Circuit City) and the laptops seem to have 'special' versions of other video cards. What kind of laptop card will work 'well' with Doom3?
Best Buy has done horrable things to my family reguarding not honoring their extended warranty contract.
Circuit City, however, has always treated us great with their extended warranties. They are great with stuff like free cleanings for our double-decker VCR. My most recent experience with CC was reguarding a DVD player that died with only two months left on its extended warranty. They didn't carry that player anymore so they offered to replace it with the current price equivalent or store credit for the entire price of the player plus the prorated remaining value of the extended warranty!
Basically I a new player and got to use the old one for the past two years for just the price of the extended warranty.
Yeah, Circuit City definitly is getting continued business from us. We are like the people in the article in that we actually use the extended warranties for repairs and free cleanings, but we also buy our expensive stuff from them and recomend them to all our friends.
But that means that your computer will become a Continuous Blue Screen System (CBSS)
Jar Jar Binks... that would be the Phantom Console!
Um, they are more 'interested' in Linux than we are! Well, kind of... When I visited Kyoto, all the university nerds wanted to learn was Windows because all the universities tought was Linux. In my university in the US we wanted to learn Linux while all that the university (Columbus State University) tought was windows. :P
Well, my point is to not be too suprised when you see a Japanese product runing Linux because a LOT of Japanese students are being tought how to use it and program for it.
The ACM had a vote (in which I voted) about this very issue. The vote was in responce to this bill and used it as an example, but the concept that we (the members of the ACM) were deciding was generalized. The winning opionion by far was that current legislation already offers sufficient protection. As such, additional legislation can only be rudundant or bad.
So in order to actually pass this bill, both houses need to consider why a huge organization of professionals (as opposed to some slashdotters and pirates) are against it.
While the dye you mention is probably a joke, having a radioactive liquid that would spill on a catastrophic crash would be released. The dye would obviously not be visible at all, but we do have the technology to track radiation from quite a ways away...
Well, this isn't exactly a me to post because you seemed to mention a theory... I actually have gotten angry emails from people telling me that I am an evil spammer. Someone spoofed using my email to send a ton of spam, so all at once I got all this email telling me how evil I was. It was not cool. : Unfortunately, alot of spammers DO use webpages or phone numbers instead of email addresses to sell their chrud.
"It's like Freddy Krugar, with #comments." You should make a slightly modified version of that your sig.
That exact same quote bothered me too. IBM DOES work on open source software. He makes it out like OSS is just a bunch of evil hacker chrud 'given' away like a virus is 'given.' Or maybe like Gator, except you can modify the source yourself.
:P
:P
Then the guy goes on to say that changing the source yourself is evil and was discredited long ago. What the..!?
OSS is worse than Gator iow according to this guy.
This whole article is slanderous and devoid of details/support. It is really just flamebait.
Hmm... does that mean that every single post here is just food for a troll?
This kind of exists- there is hardware/software for the PC that lets you record HDTV channels; copy bit and all. With the actual waves recorded, you then use homebrewed software to decode the signal (ignoring the copy bit).
Hey, that as a pretty neat article. While I don't agree with all of it, it has some pretty good points.
"Computers in the classroom are a wonderful distraction, and they give politicians something to point at and say "See my commitment to education!" But they do fsck-all to enhance learning. "
I think that realistically the having computers in classrooms will help kids in only one important way. Yet it is indeed important. It will help them not be technophobic. It won't make them computer geniuses, but it will help take the fear out of computing. That will help them be able to learn whatever software they need to use in the future.
Alot of people only know how to use the software that they need for their jobs, and that is fine. But for the people who are too afraid to do even that... that is cripling.
I am actually think of 'sanity checking,' like in software or math problems. You can easily perform a sanity check on the equation 99999+12345 = 30. You can easly see that the answer is going to have more than two digits.
:P
Their assertions are indeed idiotic; they don't pass a sanity check and neither do their alleged reasons for filing this suit (cellphones, microwaves etc are all over... they have no chance of changing that and no evidence there is even a problem)
Trying to get money is the only aspect of this that does pass the sanity check. "I can use the goofed up courts and some pseudo-science to make a few $" does pass the sanity check. It is something that is quite possible to do, and desirable if you are a leech. It is evil and money-grubbing, but it is a reasonable explanation for their (wacky) behavior.
Now you understand my strange logic a little bit better.
"If someone studies law or business or theology instead of science and engineering, does that make them less important? Does it mean their opinions don't count?"
:> I spent the last four years working with 'at risk' students; even the very worst students in the worst schools in my area (GA, 49th best educational system in the US) were able to read a little. Literacy is not a binary thing; the 'illiterate' students just read VERY slow. They can puzzle it out given time, unless you are talking about mentally challenged kids. That is something most people misunderstand when they quote illiteracy rates.
It means that I don't see how idiots get off suing people over things they know nothing about.
Besides, I think that in this case this is just an attempt at easy $ from the gov. I read their claims. These people aren't really that stupid; they know exactly what they are doing.
"Besides, despite all the money that is lavished on public schools in the US, most american children can't even read. That's the crisis in education the G. W. Bush is trying so hard to fix."
We sure are getting further and further down this tangent.
It is a big problem though; reading really is the golden source of education in our society (be it in the form of books or the Internet).
I noticed that too. However, the children were not the only plantiffs listed. I think that it is basically supposed to be the children suing through representation of their parrents and lawyers in a legal sense. Of course it is the parrents who are actually doing this. I am sure law school teaches you all sorts of chrud like this. :P
They are claiming 'grave' damages to their children's health. That is a pretty big 'indication of actual damages' if they actually can 'prove' this chrud. But no, they won't get kicked out because they are claiming no damages. They are setting themselves up to get $ millions in 'damages.'
The people who started this suit were probably literate but rather stupid if they believe that WiFi is magically evil. In the modern world, literacy is merely the beginning of education. You learn how to read so that you can study more.
Sorry, but they are seeking $. The pdf outlinging their wannabe class action suit does include "injunctive relief," as well as "other and further relief" immediately after "threatened immediate, irreparable harm." Further up they clearify what they think this harm is "threatened with irreparable harm by Defendants' conduct in that they have been exposed to grave health risks, many of which lead to permament injury, disease and death."
That is the language you use when you are trying to get a few $million per kid. They are indeed seeking vast amounts of money, which is the only sane reason for this suit to begin with.
I REALLY hope that other parrents who have kids going to this school district sue the parrents who are suing the schools. They are trying to steal away educational tools from their children! For the sake of insane paranoia! (and this is comming from a slashdotter!) Heck, this can even cause other school districts to not follow this upgrade. MY children may not get to have this technology in their schools in the future because of these losers, and I don't even live in Indiana.
The actual class action movement does mention compensation, so it seems to me that the real reason for this is that some losers found a 'surefire' way of making a ton of money through a lawsuit that just happens to have a side effect of removing tools from children's schools.
BTW, WiFi is regulated by the federal gov; it is 'officially safe.' Realistically no finding-of-fact can legitimately ignore that. Let us pray that this can allow the lawsuit to recieve a quick judgement before it does too much damage.
In Greensboro, I tried using mapquest to get to a movie theatre. The directions didn't make sense at one point. After driving around the area for a while we figured out what went wrong. For no apparent reason, one of the streets mapquest wanted us to drive down stopped, then resumed a quarter mile away. It reminded me of what happens on SimCity when you don't pay for road maintainence and individual road tiles dissappear. The area even had large trees, so you couldn't tell from a glance that there was a continuation of the road nearby.
Anyway, my guess is that the not-constructed section of road was never official. IOW the legal records show that the road is continuous when in real life it is not. This won't be the only oddity in this city that is like that; the road that my home lives in is officially non-existent. Actually, they have the name wrong. I live on a court and they omit the "court." Every now and then mail doesn't make it here because of that wierdness.
But it is inconsistencies like that that cause mapquest to be occasionally off, rather than mapquest itself being inaccurate.
You are yet another person who didn't bother to read the article. Your logic is true, but does not apply. The first person who had their Linux stuff deleted didn't even have X-Box Live. MechWarrior updated his system so that there was an X-Box Live button on his dashboard, and he (foolishly) configured his X-Box for ethernet. Ne never bought the Live service or agreed to any of it's terms.
In your analogy, you modded your tires to monster truck size and put it in your (um, big) garage. Then a police officer came, looked in your garage while the door was open and gave you a ticket because you might one day put that on the road.
You agreed to the EULA by buying the thing; the EULA is on the outside of the box (on the side). You had a couple of seconds while they rang it up to read the EULA, and now you have to stick by it. :P
No, the point really is to make a platform that is totally controlled (both hardware and software). Everything since the NES has been that way; the NES lockout chips, legal and business actions are what set the pace for current day consoles. It is ironic that you gripe about this AND worship nintendo...
At least sony is letting normal people learn about, program and install Linux on the PS2 (via the PS2 Linux kit).
The difference between my house and a company is that the company is responsible for the saftey (information-wise) of thousands of customers and employees. If their security is bad then there are problems. On the other hand, if the security of my home is bad and I don't care then there is no problem; nobody is depending on me and I haven't sold my home to anyone as being a secure haven of any sort.
I like your idea about seperating critical updates from feature updates, but there is another problem. Microsoft frequently puts nasty licensing changes on their click-through agreements for updates. You may ignore this, but a business can only do so at their own peril.
"Sorry, we haven't installed the blaster update because we have not yet cleared the EULA with our lawyers..."
While that update may not have something previously unseen in it, we have all seen this in security updates and in media player updates (remember that media player has some arbitrary code exploits that are exposed every now and then... to fix those you need to update media player and 'agree' to their fruity terms).
With the likes of the BSA, software licensing can cause a business alot of pain. On the other hand, actual virus/worm can be blaimed on evil hackers, avoiding litigation.
Business will update more when it is not a legal liability to do so.