I also can't stress that that if consumer laptops are the only option, DO NOT go to stores like Best Buy or Staples or Walmart to purchase them. Go online and deal DIRECTLY with the manufacturer. ALWAYS. Here's a classic example: There was a huge faulty nvidia GPU lawsuit a few years back that affected a slew of laptops causing them to overheat, and I still see these machines fairly often. All the customers who DIDNT buy them from the retailers got a class action settlement, but the ones who bought their junk from Best Buy or what have you were SOL.
Computers sold in a retail setting may be Dells or Acers or HP's, but they have their own unique model numbers TO THAT RETAILER with hardware parts that are difficult to find or incredibly expensive due to short supply. They purposefully do not create a huge inventory of replacement parts for these retail laptops. When you bring them into the Geek Squad or whatever, they don't send them to the manufacturer, they send it to one of the retailer's regional service centers where, if you're lucky, you'll get your component replaced if they have it in stock. Otherwise, you're up fudge creek, and they'll try to sell you a new laptop and/or credit you for the throwaway piece of junk your already purchased.
If you want to know a thing or two about our wonderful foreign policy, take 10-minutes and get you up to speed on Iran and ask yourself just who is the real evil.
While I agree based on Dell's new stuff, I still have an old Inspiron 4150 that I use for light tasks, and let me tell you that was one of the best designed consumer laptops for its time.
- Dual battery bays -- if i have enough batteries, I can hot-swap batteries infinitely, or use one bay for the CD-R/DVD-ROM drive or floppy drive. All the batteries had LED indicators directly on them showing you their charge. - Excellent docking bay/monitor stand. I used it as a desktop machine for years and never had problems with heat. - Very durable for being made of plastic. - Trackpad and pointing stick, thinkpad-style. - Very easy to disassemble - all the screws are labeled and makes following the documentation a snap if you need to replace anything. The Hard drive, RAM, MiniPCI a breeze to access to add/remove components. - I once shorted out the motherboard after accidentally spilling a drink - Dell sent me a pre-paid shipping container and threw in a new motherboard. Didn't cost me a cent, and IIRC I only had a two-year standard warranty at the time.
So does this mean I have to bar morbidly obese people from my house? A head crash by someone walking in the vicinity of my computer is likely to take out terabytes of data!
I can't help but wonder what the ramifications will be for health care. Are they going to start offering discounts on insurance premiums for people who sign away their DNA for study?
To be completely honest, I would hope they would so it goes all the way up to SCOTUS. There's a snowball's chance in hell that this would ever be OK'ed by the Supreme Court and if there was ever a better time or reason to cement a ruling, it's now. When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, they never brought up the issue of copyright, even though he painstakingly xeroxed thousands of documents and leaked them to the press.
Great. First we have the McCarthyist Enemy Expatration Act and now the Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy. Two really different things, the first being far more egregious than the latter. This is how you get clueless people to think they are supporting something good when all they can remember is "that expatriation bill".
I'm not a photography expert especially when it comes to infrared imagery, but are there RAW files of that sort of thing where the post-processing could be done in an image editor? I think some people would prefer green for vegitation. This looks like we have plenty of Spice reserves.
Use Debian stable. Yeah, you'r a few years behind the latest and greatest, but it works far better than Ubuntu if stability is what you're after. In fact, I've got several Debian servers that have gone through several stable updates with zero breakage. There's a reason they are slow, because it "Just Works".
Ubuntu simply has a shorter release cycle, thus is more bug-ridden.
Ideally, we won't even need to necessarialy own cars in major metro areas. Want to get a cab wherever you are? Pull out your smart phone and hit a button, and the closest available car is instantly enroute to your location to take you wherever you need to go. Drunk at the bar? No problem.
Who needs two vehicles for a family of four? You take your car to work, and send it back home. It takes the kids to school and it drives itself home, leaving your wife to do what she needs to. Suddenly, a car of the future that might cost $40k that meets the needs of a family household will significantly reduce the amount of maintenance costs and pollution.
Needless to say, I'm VERY excited about these prospects.
*looks out the window* Honey! Get the kids to the basement, a Google car just turned the corner! (,,,wait, radio waves travel through windows and other openings! Shit shit shit.... ) *runs to the breaker box* *Google car drives by* NOOOOO!!!! *Power goes dead*
*sobbing* Honey, I think we just made a bad investment.
The only reason Twitter probably refused to comply is because they could have been sued for doing so. It should, but if CISPA passes, the US government can make up the most bogus and untrue story about a person, tell Twitter they want this data, and they'll gladly hand over everything they want, and can't get sued for doing so. They probably are after IP addresses and deleted tweets, too.
Keep in mind that the character limit for SMS is part of the Signaling System 7 (SS7) specification, which is why there's a character limit. It is not intended, nor ever was to transfer data, so really you're comparing apples to oranges on a technical level.
That said, SS7 has been around for a long time, and doesn't cost telephone companies a penny more as it's the integral part of our public-switched telephone network.
Yeah. If you understand all that civil rights stuff belongs cemented in the constitution and not a federal law that could be repealed at any time by the Supreme Court if they chose. When alcohol was made illegal, it was unfathomable to create a federal law banning it, because they correctly understood back then that the federal government is supposed to have very limited power, as it says right there in the constitution. We simply stopped paying attention to that a long time ago, and look what it got us -- massive debt, wars, our rights being stripped away, the patriot act, notions of SOPA, possibly CISPA, etc. If there's any place for existing federal laws, like social security, health care, regulations, copyright laws, etc. they belong in the hands of the states. Both Pauls have been saying "ur doin it wrong" as long as they've been in office, and whether you agree with them or not, they are 100% correct. Yet people why Congress has 9% approval ratings .
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I also can't stress that that if consumer laptops are the only option, DO NOT go to stores like Best Buy or Staples or Walmart to purchase them.
Go online and deal DIRECTLY with the manufacturer. ALWAYS. Here's a classic example:
There was a huge faulty nvidia GPU lawsuit a few years back that affected a slew of laptops causing them to overheat, and I still see these machines fairly often. All the customers who DIDNT buy them from the retailers got a class action settlement, but the ones who bought their junk from Best Buy or what have you were SOL.
Computers sold in a retail setting may be Dells or Acers or HP's, but they have their own unique model numbers TO THAT RETAILER with hardware parts that are difficult to find or incredibly expensive due to short supply. They purposefully do not create a huge inventory of replacement parts for these retail laptops. When you bring them into the Geek Squad or whatever, they don't send them to the manufacturer, they send it to one of the retailer's regional service centers where, if you're lucky, you'll get your component replaced if they have it in stock. Otherwise, you're up fudge creek, and they'll try to sell you a new laptop and/or credit you for the throwaway piece of junk your already purchased.
If you want to know a thing or two about our wonderful foreign policy, take 10-minutes and get you up to speed on Iran and ask yourself just who is the real evil.
I think we can rightfully call this the "reddit effect".
While I agree based on Dell's new stuff, I still have an old Inspiron 4150 that I use for light tasks, and let me tell you that was one of the best designed consumer laptops for its time.
- Dual battery bays -- if i have enough batteries, I can hot-swap batteries infinitely, or use one bay for the CD-R/DVD-ROM drive or floppy drive. All the batteries had LED indicators directly on them showing you their charge.
- Excellent docking bay/monitor stand. I used it as a desktop machine for years and never had problems with heat.
- Very durable for being made of plastic.
- Trackpad and pointing stick, thinkpad-style.
- Very easy to disassemble - all the screws are labeled and makes following the documentation a snap if you need to replace anything. The Hard drive, RAM, MiniPCI a breeze to access to add/remove components.
- I once shorted out the motherboard after accidentally spilling a drink - Dell sent me a pre-paid shipping container and threw in a new motherboard. Didn't cost me a cent, and IIRC I only had a two-year standard warranty at the time.
It's a hackerspace for feds.
So does this mean I have to bar morbidly obese people from my house? A head crash by someone walking in the vicinity of my computer is likely to take out terabytes of data!
I can't help but wonder what the ramifications will be for health care. Are they going to start offering discounts on insurance premiums for people who sign away their DNA for study?
To be completely honest, I would hope they would so it goes all the way up to SCOTUS. There's a snowball's chance in hell that this would ever be OK'ed by the Supreme Court and if there was ever a better time or reason to cement a ruling, it's now. When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, they never brought up the issue of copyright, even though he painstakingly xeroxed thousands of documents and leaked them to the press.
Great. First we have the McCarthyist Enemy Expatration Act and now the Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy. Two really different things, the first being far more egregious than the latter. This is how you get clueless people to think they are supporting something good when all they can remember is "that expatriation bill".
We must attack the Sun because it hates our freedom, our way of life and wants to destroy us.
Ask the ghost of Lyndon Johnson or the robot of Dick Cheney.
I'm not a photography expert especially when it comes to infrared imagery, but are there RAW files of that sort of thing where the post-processing could be done in an image editor? I think some people would prefer green for vegitation.
This looks like we have plenty of Spice reserves.
Use Debian stable. Yeah, you'r a few years behind the latest and greatest, but it works far better than Ubuntu if stability is what you're after. In fact, I've got several Debian servers that have gone through several stable updates with zero breakage. There's a reason they are slow, because it "Just Works".
Ubuntu simply has a shorter release cycle, thus is more bug-ridden.
Ideally, we won't even need to necessarialy own cars in major metro areas. Want to get a cab wherever you are? Pull out your smart phone and hit a button, and the closest available car is instantly enroute to your location to take you wherever you need to go. Drunk at the bar? No problem.
Who needs two vehicles for a family of four? You take your car to work, and send it back home. It takes the kids to school and it drives itself home, leaving your wife to do what she needs to. Suddenly, a car of the future that might cost $40k that meets the needs of a family household will significantly reduce the amount of maintenance costs and pollution.
Needless to say, I'm VERY excited about these prospects.
They weren't Y1K compliant and it killed them all off!
*looks out the window*
Honey! Get the kids to the basement, a Google car just turned the corner!
(,,,wait, radio waves travel through windows and other openings! Shit shit shit.... )
*runs to the breaker box*
*Google car drives by*
NOOOOO!!!! *Power goes dead*
*sobbing*
Honey, I think we just made a bad investment.
The only reason Twitter probably refused to comply is because they could have been sued for doing so.
It should, but if CISPA passes, the US government can make up the most bogus and untrue story about a person, tell Twitter they want this data, and they'll gladly hand over everything they want, and can't get sued for doing so.
They probably are after IP addresses and deleted tweets, too.
Keep in mind that the character limit for SMS is part of the Signaling System 7 (SS7) specification, which is why there's a character limit. It is not intended, nor ever was to transfer data, so really you're comparing apples to oranges on a technical level.
That said, SS7 has been around for a long time, and doesn't cost telephone companies a penny more as it's the integral part of our public-switched telephone network.
It's OK, Obama will have "more flexibility" after the election to deal with Missile defense. World War III anyone?
Continuing about the Alcohol prohibition, this is why they made it a constitutional amendment that was ratified by the states.
Yeah. If you understand all that civil rights stuff belongs cemented in the constitution and not a federal law that could be repealed at any time by the Supreme Court if they chose. When alcohol was made illegal, it was unfathomable to create a federal law banning it, because they correctly understood back then that the federal government is supposed to have very limited power, as it says right there in the constitution. We simply stopped paying attention to that a long time ago, and look what it got us -- massive debt, wars, our rights being stripped away, the patriot act, notions of SOPA, possibly CISPA, etc.
If there's any place for existing federal laws, like social security, health care, regulations, copyright laws, etc. they belong in the hands of the states.
Both Pauls have been saying "ur doin it wrong" as long as they've been in office, and whether you agree with them or not, they are 100% correct. Yet people why Congress has 9% approval ratings .
And didn't they kill the Skype linux client as well?
Thanks for the clarification -- 21 drives ought to be enough for anybody. :)
Look at FreeNAS or Unraid. Unraid has a 3-drive limit IIRC for the free version, but supports an unlimited amount of drives for the non-free version.