I had been wondering about all those blue screen complaint posts too. Every systems I managed came up fine. I usually test patch one system first before I continue doing the rest.
When I was grading programming homework a decade or two ago (theoretical physics, oddly enough) it was obvious when people shared their code. The use of spaces, indentation, variable names, curly braces etc. really made each assignment unique, and the people who resorted in copying someone's code almost never bothered to make any changes at all. My solution was to give the first assignment turned in whatever grade it deserved, and each subsequent copy a 0, and that seemed to make short work of the practice. At my current university the response would be significantly harsher.
I second that. You'd be amazed at how many different styles the code will look. Duplicates can only implicate them as likely cheaters. I graded math assigments too, and I was amazed that each student turned in differently structured work to arrived at an answer. I was also able to immediately spot the duplicates, even after I had gone past and corrected dozens of other papers. They stick out like sore thumbs.
You are one of the few who obey the rules on a bicycle. I also obey all the rules of the road when I bicycle, but an overwhelming majority don't. I come to full and complete stops at red lights, behind the crosswalk or limit lines. I don't go unless the light is green. I stop at all stop signs. I'll hop off my bike and walk it across a crosswalk on busy intersections. Others just zip through traffic, ignore stop signs and red lights. They zip around pedestrians in the crosswalk and won't bother to stop for others. They just won't give up any right of way. It's the entire reason why bicyclists are hated. Because of this, many drivers don't know exactly how to behave around bicyclists because too many bicyclists do unexpected things and expect others to read their minds. That's where the animosity comes from.
Part of the problem is that there aren't enough regular people who bicycle in the USA. Too many are just weekend warriors or just adrenaline junkies. Many of them don't know that bicycles are considered vehicles and must follow the same rules of the road as a car. Too many think that they're pedestrians when they bicycle. Some drivers even come to full and complete stops for bicyclists as if the were pedestrians. The weekend warriors aren't out everyday and don't realize that they need to courteous to other traffic. The adrenaline junkies just ride for the thrill and do dangerous things. The standard rules of the road are ignored. This may explain why there are many more accidents in the USA.
The oblivious, accident prone drivers that use cell phones are likely to still using cell phones. The ones who generally pay more attention to the roads tend to try to obey the rules and not cause accidents aren't. I still see many drivers obliviously using their cell phones while driving even after laws are passed.
I have on occasion used a cell phone before the law was passed, but I was always careful about it. I'd move over to a slower lane and slow down. I avoided using it during rush hour. If I had to use it during rush hour I pulled off at an off-ramp and used it there, not while driving. With the law, I have an excuse not to answer the phone in the car and I'll tell people I was driving when I called them back.
School is a baby sitting service. We supplement our kids education at home, otherwise, they get the standard brainwashing to train them to be cashiers and burger flippers.
The solution to the sitting around problem is to get up walk around the office, carouse with coworkers every hour or two. Take the hour lunch break and go do something. While I probably couldn't do a full day of farm work, I have no problems mounting the occassional 50-100 pound servers. After finishing each section of a project I get up and walk around, quench my thirst, check in with other people and get them off their butts too(at least the ones who want to get off their butts). I usually try to get people to work with me moving equipment around. While I could cary 50-100 pounds on my own, it's boring by myself and work gets done faster with help.
Another thing to do is always take the stairs. I decided long ago to only take an elevator when I have to wheel a cart of heavy items between floors, and that's quite infrequent. If it's more than 4 floors, I might use the elevator, but I decided that anything less could be done by my own leg power. I'll even carry a single system or CRT up or down a floor or two.
I would never go to a gym as a separate routine just to work out, but making simple small changes to part of my routine negates my need to go. The thing to know is that it's always hardest when you first start, especially that first week, but once it becomes easy, just keep doing it. If you can manage that, you'd be in much better shape than you are now. If you live close enough to work you can even start bicycling to work. I started bicycling because it's faster than public transit with all the transfers and stops. It saves me money too and keeps healthy without that extra unnatural step.
I remember as a kid, that fat people were frequently made fun of, since there weren't very many fat people back then. Theses days being fat almost seems a badge of honor. It's quite sad. From my experience, Saint Nick couldn't have been jolly.
250W is not enough power. Over $2k is ridiculous
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The electric bicycle rules need to be changed. A 20 mph limit is just not useful to commuters. I can't even fathom the 15 mph limit set for other countries. If I want to use it to commute, I want it to be able to keep up with traffic in a 25mph zone and not block traffic. Even with a 20mph limit, it should maintain at least 20mph going uphill. 275 Watts is just insufficient to keep it going even 5mph up the hills where I live. The only advantage to these e-bikes, is that they can prevent you from sweating profusely when you arrive at work, especially if you had no access to a shower there. Which is what I used it for when I started out. I didn't have to sweat going up the hill.
I tried out an older 375W Charger Bike when I got back to bicycling to work and my muscles had atrophied from 7 years of having to drive an hour each way to work. It sells for around $750 from a guy who bought the remaining stock ( http://abc.eznettools.net/D300013/X300109/eBike1.html ) and it just wasn't enough power to really go up the hills where I live. It went about 7 mph uphill unless you stood up and forcefully assisted it and possibly doubled the speed. Has anyone seen how fast Lance Armstrong biked up a hill while huffing & puffing? He's not exactly speeding up a hill.
The 20 mph limit is also too low for me since I now pedal faster than that on a level surface. It's absolutely useless for going downhill too. The motor would cut off at the legally set speed of 20mph. The only time I got the extra power was when I went up a hill and at best it added 5mph to my peddaling. It's been sitting in storage for several years now since I use a more convenient folding bicycle for easier commuting on public transit legs of my trip. The batteries are likely dead now, and I haven't used that in a while. Luckily, the bicycle is still usefull by itself without the battery pack.
as an admin, I prefer to maintain control of what is installed on the systems
That's the way it always is. The admins want to limit control to make their jobs easier, and the developers want full control to make their jobs easier, and never the twain shall meet.
This is only a problem in the Windows development environment. Unix allows developers, other than kernel developers, to be unhampered by user permissions. There are still too many programs that do not run properly in a remote desktop environment with multiple users.
Children do not need electronics to learn. Wasting money on gadgets will not make children learn faster or be smarter. It's an utter waste of educational funds to start k-3 on computers. Even with 4th & 5th graders, the best thing to start them on is typing, which means a cheap, old hand-me-down-computer is sufficient. That's assuming the 4th grader's hands are big enough to start touch typing. We still have far too many adults that can't touch type. Kids will learn all other aspects of computers fast enough on their own.
The main reason I see for having ocmputers at home, especially for the kids, is mainly for playing games. Education is and has always been a minor part of that equation. Kids have enough toys these days and need to get off their rear and go play outside. We've got more than enough unhealthy fat adults and we're getting too many unhealthy fat children these days.
The fact that Windows systems require programmers to need admin rights is utterly broken. It's the cause for so many non multiuser capable programs still being made.
One of the main reasons people in third-world countries have lots of kids is that they need them, particularly in areas where people are regularly knocked out of commission by malaria for half the year.
Gains in agriculture and medicine contributed much more to the boom than you think. The European conquest and technology has brought along a population boom planet wide. No one, including those in Africa, need as many children as you might believe. That may have been the case 100 years ago, but no longer. If anything, all those charities dropping food and medicine into remote areas have created a "sustainable" population boom.
Los Angeles county is not a city. It's just a giant suburban sprawl. The City of LA and Downtow LA is the only place that could be "metropolitan" and it has few high rises. It's not grandiose by any means. Banning cars there would be ludicrous. No one really drives through downtown anymore that I've seen in recent years. During the day, I saw maybe 2 cars going through when I drove through. I'm guessing the average LA suburbanite doesn't go through there anymore. Everyone's stuck on the freeway bypassing downtown anyway. Downtown LA is also just a business slum. Also, if any stupid Californians think earthquakes are the reason for very few high rises, they should look to most of Japan. Californians are just pampered by their suburban sprawl lifestyle.
Even San Francisco is only slightly more metropolitan with a few more high rises. It has only recently started building some more high rises, otherwise it was all mostly within a 6 block radius, and those are really short blocks. It's still sprawl over much of San Francisco, just more tightly grouped than most other suburbs. The only truely Metropolitan cities in the US that I've been to are NYC and Chicago. Seattle had a few high rises that quickly sprawled out just like SF. You wouldn't be able to easily spot Houston from the air if it weren't for the handful of skyscrapers sticking out above the trees.
That's the modus operandi of most US "metropolises", a small central area of skycrapers leading quickly to a vast sprawl. It's because the US is a relatively young country that hasn't exhausted much of its resourses yet. Wood and land among other things is still relatively cheap and easy to manipulate into single family homes for the masses. Farming is not productive for a small family and a lot of once productive farmland has turned into suburb.
I don't drive a behemoth SUV or minivan. I have a car and a mid sized station wagon. The SUV and minivan isn't a necessity even in the suburban sprawl. I won't be able to accmodate my fellow Americans with their larger girths. People don't really need to go to CostCo, but I guess it's the fashionable thing for the rest of the denizens of suburban sprawl to add to their waist sprawl. Food is still just too cheap in this country.
Why shouldn't an ATM run Windows? Cue the standard Windows-bashing, but a decently hardened copied of XP is more than sufficient for the minimal work that an ATM has to do.
Also, anyone with any network design sense would vlan & firewall the ATMs off of the rest of the network.
Yes, it's Windows. But without crazy Aunt Judy trying to install her cat screensavers Windows should be fine for the task.
The ATM runs a very stripped down version of Windows XP. It then runs a single app that does all the work. The bank tellers also run XP desktops with a single application that connects to the centralized database. Nothing else is allowed to run on these systems, so why does it even need Windows XP. It's a ludicrous setup. The ATMs and bank teller systems have no need of Windows XP in any way shape or form.
Banks used to run dumb terminals that connected to a centralized server. That's all they still need now, because they run a single application to do just that. What idiot decided several years ago that they needed brand new Dells with XP that needed someone to whittle down to just run one and only one application? The banks make lots of money off us and demonstrate that they can waste it all on the expensive Dell systems.
"By the way, when you copy a file across a file system, from one drive to another, it gets a new creation time, so if all the files were "created" on a single day, that was when they were migrated over."
Not on a Windows system it doesn't. The only time you get a new date on it is when you download from an external system, or you manually change the date/time stamp.
You obviously don't know much about filesystems. On Windows, unix and linux filesystems, there are 3 timestamps, access, creation, and modification. They've existed for as long as I remember them back to first IBM PC. You normally only see the modification timestamp when you look at files. The other 2 are "hidden," and you'll be screwed if you think that the modification time is the only timestamp on your system.
Timestamp are not 100% proof since they can be manipulated. You don't need to set the bios date to change timestamps. The access timestamp is changed everytime the file is accessed or even listed and is only usefull if you made the disk read only before any access, otherwise, it is pretty worthless.
A single timestamp is worthless. Multiple timestamps across the system to prove correlation is necessary to prove guilt. Unless you're good enough to write a script to manipulate numerous timestamps to make deletions and modifications look like normal access, changing timestamps, either through bios or software is pretty useless. Guilt only needs to be proven Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Reasonable Doubt is actually quite a low bar and very different than a Shadow of a Doubt.
If your boss is paying for the cable and insists on ready made. Get the ready made and save yourself some time. Unless that extra money is coming back to you, don't argue.
I've never had a problem with TigerDirect. Then again, I know exactly what I'm purchasing, I don't try to buy rebate items, and I don't need or use their customer service. They're prices are cheap, but I don't buy the super low end junk either.
If the US would just upgrade Amtrak's tracks first, the trains could already start going 124 mph(200kph), which would increase Amtrak's viability for intercity travel. Currently, Amtrak is limited to 79 mph (127 kmh) over many parts of the US, and many people already drive faster than that.
. BTW those wikipedia articles are almost completely wrong, the systems I am working on don't work anything like how they describe, not even close
Maybe you should go fix it. After all, that's the whole point of Wikipedia.
Why don't you provide a link to the technology? I'd like to know what it should be. I found your company website. http://www.babcockpower.com/ What the company claims to achieve is pretty good, but I'd like to see some sort of independent review and I also like to know how long it's been in business.
Then buy the one with Windows installed on it, remove Windows and install Ubuntu. Then send Asus a refund request for the Windows Home license that you didn't use.
What you describe is not what I call easy. It's time consuming to get refunds. That's assuming they manage it properly. What if you are denied a refund?
Who decided to use touch pads in these netbooks. Why not go with the more controllable clit mouse. Much more pleasurable to use - for both the user and the computer. I refuse to purchase a new laptop/netbook unless it has the clit mouse. Also, the touch pad wastes too much realestate.
Licensing cost is most likely the reason why it's not used. Touch pads are probably much cheaper to license.
I have used both kinds, and with only a touch pad, I find myself resorting to using a mouse. With the Trackpoint(tm), a mouse is unnecessary for finer control. Mouse controlled games are playable using just the Trackpoint. Touch pads require you to lift your fingers and move them around (repetitively) much more.
This woman is beyond stupid, though. She dropped out of school because she couldn't figure out how to make her computer work. And then, apparently, her solution to this life crisis wasn't to ask someone knowledgeable about computers - it was to call the local news!
RTFA. She called the local news channel's consumer help center to get help with contacting Dell for a mistaken order. Dell was at fault for giving her the run-around and not helping her.
The news got Verizon to help set up her internet connection properly with Ubuntu. Verizon only uses windows install disks which were not helpful for her situation. They also got the online course to accept her work in Non-Word format.
Since the woman got a resolution to her consumer product problem, she wasn't stupid. It was Dell being stupid and giving her the run-around causing her grief with an unfamiliar system. Sometimes you need consumer advocates from the local news to prod the companies to resolve a problem for you quickly.
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Most consumers just want ease of use. If it requires too many steps, then it's not going to sell well.
I had been wondering about all those blue screen complaint posts too. Every systems I managed came up fine. I usually test patch one system first before I continue doing the rest.
Besides, how many ways can you write a QuickSort?
When I was grading programming homework a decade or two ago (theoretical physics, oddly enough) it was obvious when people shared their code. The use of spaces, indentation, variable names, curly braces etc. really made each assignment unique, and the people who resorted in copying someone's code almost never bothered to make any changes at all. My solution was to give the first assignment turned in whatever grade it deserved, and each subsequent copy a 0, and that seemed to make short work of the practice. At my current university the response would be significantly harsher.
I second that. You'd be amazed at how many different styles the code will look. Duplicates can only implicate them as likely cheaters. I graded math assigments too, and I was amazed that each student turned in differently structured work to arrived at an answer. I was also able to immediately spot the duplicates, even after I had gone past and corrected dozens of other papers. They stick out like sore thumbs.
You are one of the few who obey the rules on a bicycle. I also obey all the rules of the road when I bicycle, but an overwhelming majority don't. I come to full and complete stops at red lights, behind the crosswalk or limit lines. I don't go unless the light is green. I stop at all stop signs. I'll hop off my bike and walk it across a crosswalk on busy intersections. Others just zip through traffic, ignore stop signs and red lights. They zip around pedestrians in the crosswalk and won't bother to stop for others. They just won't give up any right of way. It's the entire reason why bicyclists are hated. Because of this, many drivers don't know exactly how to behave around bicyclists because too many bicyclists do unexpected things and expect others to read their minds. That's where the animosity comes from.
Part of the problem is that there aren't enough regular people who bicycle in the USA. Too many are just weekend warriors or just adrenaline junkies. Many of them don't know that bicycles are considered vehicles and must follow the same rules of the road as a car. Too many think that they're pedestrians when they bicycle. Some drivers even come to full and complete stops for bicyclists as if the were pedestrians. The weekend warriors aren't out everyday and don't realize that they need to courteous to other traffic. The adrenaline junkies just ride for the thrill and do dangerous things. The standard rules of the road are ignored. This may explain why there are many more accidents in the USA.
With the law, I have an excuse not to answer the phone in the car
The same excuse was available before the law.
True, but now it has more weight.
The oblivious, accident prone drivers that use cell phones are likely to still using cell phones. The ones who generally pay more attention to the roads tend to try to obey the rules and not cause accidents aren't. I still see many drivers obliviously using their cell phones while driving even after laws are passed.
I have on occasion used a cell phone before the law was passed, but I was always careful about it. I'd move over to a slower lane and slow down. I avoided using it during rush hour. If I had to use it during rush hour I pulled off at an off-ramp and used it there, not while driving. With the law, I have an excuse not to answer the phone in the car and I'll tell people I was driving when I called them back.
School is a baby sitting service. We supplement our kids education at home, otherwise, they get the standard brainwashing to train them to be cashiers and burger flippers.
The solution to the sitting around problem is to get up walk around the office, carouse with coworkers every hour or two. Take the hour lunch break and go do something. While I probably couldn't do a full day of farm work, I have no problems mounting the occassional 50-100 pound servers. After finishing each section of a project I get up and walk around, quench my thirst, check in with other people and get them off their butts too(at least the ones who want to get off their butts). I usually try to get people to work with me moving equipment around. While I could cary 50-100 pounds on my own, it's boring by myself and work gets done faster with help.
Another thing to do is always take the stairs. I decided long ago to only take an elevator when I have to wheel a cart of heavy items between floors, and that's quite infrequent. If it's more than 4 floors, I might use the elevator, but I decided that anything less could be done by my own leg power. I'll even carry a single system or CRT up or down a floor or two.
I would never go to a gym as a separate routine just to work out, but making simple small changes to part of my routine negates my need to go. The thing to know is that it's always hardest when you first start, especially that first week, but once it becomes easy, just keep doing it. If you can manage that, you'd be in much better shape than you are now. If you live close enough to work you can even start bicycling to work. I started bicycling because it's faster than public transit with all the transfers and stops. It saves me money too and keeps healthy without that extra unnatural step.
I remember as a kid, that fat people were frequently made fun of, since there weren't very many fat people back then. Theses days being fat almost seems a badge of honor. It's quite sad. From my experience, Saint Nick couldn't have been jolly.
The electric bicycle rules need to be changed. A 20 mph limit is just not useful to commuters. I can't even fathom the 15 mph limit set for other countries. If I want to use it to commute, I want it to be able to keep up with traffic in a 25mph zone and not block traffic. Even with a 20mph limit, it should maintain at least 20mph going uphill. 275 Watts is just insufficient to keep it going even 5mph up the hills where I live. The only advantage to these e-bikes, is that they can prevent you from sweating profusely when you arrive at work, especially if you had no access to a shower there. Which is what I used it for when I started out. I didn't have to sweat going up the hill.
I tried out an older 375W Charger Bike when I got back to bicycling to work and my muscles had atrophied from 7 years of having to drive an hour each way to work. It sells for around $750 from a guy who bought the remaining stock ( http://abc.eznettools.net/D300013/X300109/eBike1.html ) and it just wasn't enough power to really go up the hills where I live. It went about 7 mph uphill unless you stood up and forcefully assisted it and possibly doubled the speed. Has anyone seen how fast Lance Armstrong biked up a hill while huffing & puffing? He's not exactly speeding up a hill.
The 20 mph limit is also too low for me since I now pedal faster than that on a level surface. It's absolutely useless for going downhill too. The motor would cut off at the legally set speed of 20mph. The only time I got the extra power was when I went up a hill and at best it added 5mph to my peddaling. It's been sitting in storage for several years now since I use a more convenient folding bicycle for easier commuting on public transit legs of my trip. The batteries are likely dead now, and I haven't used that in a while. Luckily, the bicycle is still usefull by itself without the battery pack.
as an admin, I prefer to maintain control of what is installed on the systems
That's the way it always is. The admins want to limit control to make their jobs easier, and the developers want full control to make their jobs easier, and never the twain shall meet.
This is only a problem in the Windows development environment. Unix allows developers, other than kernel developers, to be unhampered by user permissions. There are still too many programs that do not run properly in a remote desktop environment with multiple users.
Children do not need electronics to learn. Wasting money on gadgets will not make children learn faster or be smarter. It's an utter waste of educational funds to start k-3 on computers. Even with 4th & 5th graders, the best thing to start them on is typing, which means a cheap, old hand-me-down-computer is sufficient. That's assuming the 4th grader's hands are big enough to start touch typing. We still have far too many adults that can't touch type. Kids will learn all other aspects of computers fast enough on their own.
The main reason I see for having ocmputers at home, especially for the kids, is mainly for playing games. Education is and has always been a minor part of that equation. Kids have enough toys these days and need to get off their rear and go play outside. We've got more than enough unhealthy fat adults and we're getting too many unhealthy fat children these days.
Your own ignorance is showing. Ethnic jokes, regardless of race, may be funny to you, but not necessarily to those you make fun of.
The fact that Windows systems require programmers to need admin rights is utterly broken. It's the cause for so many non multiuser capable programs still being made.
One of the main reasons people in third-world countries have lots of kids is that they need them, particularly in areas where people are regularly knocked out of commission by malaria for half the year.
Gains in agriculture and medicine contributed much more to the boom than you think. The European conquest and technology has brought along a population boom planet wide. No one, including those in Africa, need as many children as you might believe. That may have been the case 100 years ago, but no longer. If anything, all those charities dropping food and medicine into remote areas have created a "sustainable" population boom.
Los Angeles county is not a city. It's just a giant suburban sprawl. The City of LA and Downtow LA is the only place that could be "metropolitan" and it has few high rises. It's not grandiose by any means. Banning cars there would be ludicrous. No one really drives through downtown anymore that I've seen in recent years. During the day, I saw maybe 2 cars going through when I drove through. I'm guessing the average LA suburbanite doesn't go through there anymore. Everyone's stuck on the freeway bypassing downtown anyway. Downtown LA is also just a business slum. Also, if any stupid Californians think earthquakes are the reason for very few high rises, they should look to most of Japan. Californians are just pampered by their suburban sprawl lifestyle.
Even San Francisco is only slightly more metropolitan with a few more high rises. It has only recently started building some more high rises, otherwise it was all mostly within a 6 block radius, and those are really short blocks. It's still sprawl over much of San Francisco, just more tightly grouped than most other suburbs. The only truely Metropolitan cities in the US that I've been to are NYC and Chicago. Seattle had a few high rises that quickly sprawled out just like SF. You wouldn't be able to easily spot Houston from the air if it weren't for the handful of skyscrapers sticking out above the trees.
That's the modus operandi of most US "metropolises", a small central area of skycrapers leading quickly to a vast sprawl. It's because the US is a relatively young country that hasn't exhausted much of its resourses yet. Wood and land among other things is still relatively cheap and easy to manipulate into single family homes for the masses. Farming is not productive for a small family and a lot of once productive farmland has turned into suburb.
I don't drive a behemoth SUV or minivan. I have a car and a mid sized station wagon. The SUV and minivan isn't a necessity even in the suburban sprawl. I won't be able to accmodate my fellow Americans with their larger girths. People don't really need to go to CostCo, but I guess it's the fashionable thing for the rest of the denizens of suburban sprawl to add to their waist sprawl. Food is still just too cheap in this country.
Why shouldn't an ATM run Windows? Cue the standard Windows-bashing, but a decently hardened copied of XP is more than sufficient for the minimal work that an ATM has to do.
Also, anyone with any network design sense would vlan & firewall the ATMs off of the rest of the network.
Yes, it's Windows. But without crazy Aunt Judy trying to install her cat screensavers Windows should be fine for the task.
The ATM runs a very stripped down version of Windows XP. It then runs a single app that does all the work. The bank tellers also run XP desktops with a single application that connects to the centralized database. Nothing else is allowed to run on these systems, so why does it even need Windows XP. It's a ludicrous setup. The ATMs and bank teller systems have no need of Windows XP in any way shape or form.
Banks used to run dumb terminals that connected to a centralized server. That's all they still need now, because they run a single application to do just that. What idiot decided several years ago that they needed brand new Dells with XP that needed someone to whittle down to just run one and only one application? The banks make lots of money off us and demonstrate that they can waste it all on the expensive Dell systems.
You almost made me lose my soup.
"By the way, when you copy a file across a file system, from one drive to another, it gets a new creation time, so if all the files were "created" on a single day, that was when they were migrated over."
Not on a Windows system it doesn't. The only time you get a new date on it is when you download from an external system, or you manually change the date/time stamp.
You obviously don't know much about filesystems. On Windows, unix and linux filesystems, there are 3 timestamps, access, creation, and modification. They've existed for as long as I remember them back to first IBM PC. You normally only see the modification timestamp when you look at files. The other 2 are "hidden," and you'll be screwed if you think that the modification time is the only timestamp on your system.
Timestamp are not 100% proof since they can be manipulated. You don't need to set the bios date to change timestamps. The access timestamp is changed everytime the file is accessed or even listed and is only usefull if you made the disk read only before any access, otherwise, it is pretty worthless.
A single timestamp is worthless. Multiple timestamps across the system to prove correlation is necessary to prove guilt. Unless you're good enough to write a script to manipulate numerous timestamps to make deletions and modifications look like normal access, changing timestamps, either through bios or software is pretty useless. Guilt only needs to be proven Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Reasonable Doubt is actually quite a low bar and very different than a Shadow of a Doubt.
If your boss is paying for the cable and insists on ready made. Get the ready made and save yourself some time. Unless that extra money is coming back to you, don't argue.
I've never had a problem with TigerDirect. Then again, I know exactly what I'm purchasing, I don't try to buy rebate items, and I don't need or use their customer service. They're prices are cheap, but I don't buy the super low end junk either.
If the US would just upgrade Amtrak's tracks first, the trains could already start going 124 mph(200kph), which would increase Amtrak's viability for intercity travel. Currently, Amtrak is limited to 79 mph (127 kmh) over many parts of the US, and many people already drive faster than that.
Maybe you should go fix it. After all, that's the whole point of Wikipedia.
Why don't you provide a link to the technology? I'd like to know what it should be. I found your company website. http://www.babcockpower.com/ What the company claims to achieve is pretty good, but I'd like to see some sort of independent review and I also like to know how long it's been in business.
I can't get Linux easily.
Then buy the one with Windows installed on it, remove Windows and install Ubuntu. Then send Asus a refund request for the Windows Home license that you didn't use.
What you describe is not what I call easy. It's time consuming to get refunds. That's assuming they manage it properly. What if you are denied a refund?
Licensing cost is most likely the reason why it's not used. Touch pads are probably much cheaper to license.
I have used both kinds, and with only a touch pad, I find myself resorting to using a mouse. With the Trackpoint(tm), a mouse is unnecessary for finer control. Mouse controlled games are playable using just the Trackpoint. Touch pads require you to lift your fingers and move them around (repetitively) much more.
This woman is beyond stupid, though. She dropped out of school because she couldn't figure out how to make her computer work. And then, apparently, her solution to this life crisis wasn't to ask someone knowledgeable about computers - it was to call the local news!
RTFA. She called the local news channel's consumer help center to get help with contacting Dell for a mistaken order. Dell was at fault for giving her the run-around and not helping her.
The news got Verizon to help set up her internet connection properly with Ubuntu. Verizon only uses windows install disks which were not helpful for her situation. They also got the online course to accept her work in Non-Word format.
Since the woman got a resolution to her consumer product problem, she wasn't stupid. It was Dell being stupid and giving her the run-around causing her grief with an unfamiliar system. Sometimes you need consumer advocates from the local news to prod the companies to resolve a problem for you quickly.