There were some others I saw back on either Fresh Gear or Screen Savers, but I can't remember the name for the life of me. Google isn't any help because I can't remember the name. "high capacity batteries" just brings up a ton of sites with laptop batteries..:(
The others I was thinking of could let you go up to 12 hours on their batteries, but they were considerably more expensive than the batterygeek batteries...
Tell your relatives to ONLY use IE when absoloutly neccessary. That'll solve quite abit of the problem.
My mother goes to every stupid "free" game site imaginable. With Firefox, I haven't had to do any major cleanings in some time.
Sometimes she slips up and uses IE (which is why I have to do any cleaning at all).
Overall, things are much better. Of course, you don't have to switch to Firefox - there are plenty other browsers that work equally well. That's just what I like.:)
Wouldn't one think that having a one dimensional stack (IE: a wall) of them would automatically be more effective for maintenance than 'a big stack' of them, if for no other reason that you can just pull one out of the wall, but must tear into the 'big stack'?
Seems like wasted dollars for research there - like the rumored USA gub'mint study of the flow rates of various brans of catsup.
Guess it really depends on exactly how high an uptime you need on your data wall/pile....
While I haven't read TFA, if the circuits are small enough, you could have the screen doing the video/audio decoding eleminating a small room full of audio/video gear. You would just need the amplifiers for the speakers plus the actuall interface (DVD drive, bank of HDD's, whatever) in the room, saving some space and possibly some heat. Havning never worked in a movie theater, I don't know how much heat is generated in the projection booth.
Apropos of nothing, I saw a movie in the theaters a few days ago. At the official start time, the lights dimmed. Then there were 14 minutes of commercials (Pepsi, hair mousse, cologne, etc.) followed by 13 minutes of movie trailers (which are also advertising), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie. I can't imagine why people would want to download movies when they have that great theater experience to compare against.
I've already told the local theater owner that if I ever go to see a movie at his theater and get ANY commercials except the movie trailers, I will never go there again, and do as much as I can to make sure no one else does either. When he started to stammer, I told him that if he wasn't making enough to pay the bills that he needed to raise prices, not put advertisements in. It's bad enough that he has a slide show with local ads (but they play before 'start time' so they are easy to avoid if you don't go to the movie on the day it's released) We don't have any of the 'national chains' here. It's a locally owned theater.
If he ever does put the ads in, I'll just wait for the DVD. And before someone chimes in about how they will be in the DVD too, well, let's just say that my modded Xbox doens't care. I can start where ever I want on the DVD. That includes skipping the commercials.
With how many vehicles and mobile homes he destroyed, all of which could have been occupied (especially the mobile homes), yes, I think murder was justified. Especially given the fact that he attempted to go into oncoming traffic with the implied intent of destroying even more vehicles which would definatly have been occupied....
Why, that'd be by making their software take up very little space, ONLY monitor, for example, what web sites you are visiting (something that should take very little CPU time, or could even be scheduled to run in the wee-hours, and then, again in the wee-hours, reporting back to it's home company.
Said home company could then gather up all the data, find out what sites are being visited the most, and direct their 'customers' to advertise at said sites.
If done properly, even 10 of these types of programs should not be noticable...
Or something...
Off to the patent office with me! Gotta patent the idea before them aweful software companies steal it!
Actually, MS *IS* to blame for it? How do you think the browser security failures got into the system in the first place?
Yes, software mistkes will happen (Perfect example: Microsoft). But the least they can do is repair the holes and release updates.
Sure, many won't install the updates on a regular basis, but every customer of mine will. Same will go for many other techs. With the security holes closed/closing, there would be less spyware (as we know it today).
I'm not taking blame from users. As long as they continue to not understand that there is *never* such thing as a free lunch, this crap will happen to them...
If the techs at the Best Buy you mention are using the personal SE version from somewhere like download.com, then I believe they are abusing it's license and should be dealt with.
They would need a special licence to do what you suggest they are doing.
I'd report them to the Lavasoft people if, in fact, they are doing what you mention in your post.
To get around loosing the data, the online word processor could simply store what you are typing to it's own local storage 'automatically', similar to how Word keeps a 'temporary' file and updates it every x minutes.
This way, you have the minimum loss of data if the browser is unexpectedly closed. It could even be made to auto-open to the last point you were at if you were to point your browser back to the online word processor -- like Word does when you re-open it after it has crashed/you lost power/etc.
I know nothing about actuall programming languages, but I'd think if the word processor were written in java (or something), I would think it would be easy for it to send what you've typed so far to the server for storage without even having to refresh the page, as it were.
Not EXACTLY what you were looking for, but should go a long way to help.:)
I remember that when the AOL floppies were great, so was punching a hole in the other side (opposite the write protect tab) to make them into 1.44mb floppies.. =]
How the hell is this a troll? I call the guy on an exaggeration, put in statements of fact to back up my claim, and then state that while it's not as bad as he stated, I personally would not have gotten the PSP either (because I agreed with the point he was trying to get across). Why does that make me a troll?
Nice exaggeration. I looked at bestbuy.com to see what the price *really* was on the warranty.
I selected the Samsung Progressive-Scan DVD Player (DVD-P241) that was featured on their main page when I selected the DVD Players catagory. It's $59.99. The PSP on that item is $49.99.
Now, personally, I would more than likely NOT get this, even though it's a 4 year coverage. The player itself is only $10 more and in 4 years time, will end up even cheaper.
You just look silly when you exaggerate like that. What, are you going to say that it's orders of magnitude more expensive for the next comparison you attempt? =]
Thanks for the sweeping generalization. I cite my mother and stepfathers computers (they each have one). My grandmothers. Both of my brothers. My father and his wife's. Every computer I have built and sent out the door. Every customer who has had a infested PC that I have cleaned up and installed Mozilla/Firefox and Thunderbird. Now, take into consideration that I clear 30-50 service calls a month, some of those calls dealing with multiple computers, and multiply those by how many months that the spyware and email viruses have gotten REALLY popular (this last year, and at least most of last year), and that is quite a few computers. The other three technicians I work with do exactly the same. Now, I don't know about you, but if you take our shop as an example and apply even one shop like ours to each city of about 10k people or more, that is a lot of people who are being converted to better software. Yes, there is still a ways to go, but I am far from using myself as the sole example of which I speak.
Adding a pair of comparable speakers to the Dell is a whopping $9. That's right. Nine US dollars.
As to your point about video. The Dell site doesn't make it immediatly obvious what type of video chip is in the machine. No big deal. A quick gander at newegg shows a Rosewill ATI 128mb 9600 for $66. Put that in, and you get your system ram back.
You may not be playing Doom 3 in 1280x1204 on this rig, but to say that you can't play games properly on it is just silly and stupid on your part.
As for the sound. Other than the morons with $5000 PC's with clear side windows, dumb-assed LED fans, and all the other bells and whistles that NO ONE needs to play these games, when was the last time you saw anyone that needed Dolby Digital 5.1 surround for playing Doom, or any other game for that matter? Hum? That's what I thought.
And firewire/bluetooth. Both are addable to the Dell, should the person who owned it actually need those functions. Very few people *need* either. I know I've never needed it. The guys I work with have never needed it (and they use their computers for compressing DVD's. One of the other guys in the shop has actually created some sort of movie with a camcorder of some kind. The thing transfers it's video to the PC via USB. Sure, he could probably have gotten it a tad faster with firewire, but he, and many others, don't see the point.)
Yes, the Dell did require an 'upgrade' to get a DVD burner. At least it was an option. What you failed to mention was that in order to get a DVD burner on the eMac, that requires upgrading to a $999!!! machine. Hardly worth it, in my opinion. Sure, you also get an 80gb HDD, but the Dell already has that.
Next time you try to add to the FUD, do it with someone who hasn't been a computer technician for 11 years. You might sound a little more intelligent. Would probably have helped if you had come armed with any facts to back up your statements.
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You mean like those?
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There were some others I saw back on either Fresh Gear or Screen Savers, but I can't remember the name for the life of me. Google isn't any help because I can't remember the name. "high capacity batteries" just brings up a ton of sites with laptop batteries..
The others I was thinking of could let you go up to 12 hours on their batteries, but they were considerably more expensive than the batterygeek batteries...
and sticking two fingers up to the US (which hates them).
For those of us in the US, that be the equivelent of 'flipping the bird'.
I know you were trying to make a joke - and I did chuckle a little..
:)
But that still doesn't make it neccessary for life.
If it were suddenly removed from their possession, will their life cease?
I'm thinking not.
Remind me how this is a "must have" again?
If it's a "must have" item these days, then why have I been able to go without one since they first came out?
For that matter, I've never even *touched* one.
I must be dieing. Think I'll take Apple and BSD with me on my way out...
Tell your relatives to ONLY use IE when absoloutly neccessary. That'll solve quite abit of the problem.
:)
My mother goes to every stupid "free" game site imaginable. With Firefox, I haven't had to do any major cleanings in some time.
Sometimes she slips up and uses IE (which is why I have to do any cleaning at all).
Overall, things are much better. Of course, you don't have to switch to Firefox - there are plenty other browsers that work equally well. That's just what I like.
I KNEW this sounded familiar!
See here.
From this current story, it sounds like they've made some improvements, but the two are basically the same...
Wouldn't one think that having a one dimensional stack (IE: a wall) of them would automatically be more effective for maintenance than 'a big stack' of them, if for no other reason that you can just pull one out of the wall, but must tear into the 'big stack'?
Seems like wasted dollars for research there - like the rumored USA gub'mint study of the flow rates of various brans of catsup.
Guess it really depends on exactly how high an uptime you need on your data wall/pile....
While I haven't read TFA, if the circuits are small enough, you could have the screen doing the video/audio decoding eleminating a small room full of audio/video gear. You would just need the amplifiers for the speakers plus the actuall interface (DVD drive, bank of HDD's, whatever) in the room, saving some space and possibly some heat. Havning never worked in a movie theater, I don't know how much heat is generated in the projection booth.
This will get you started.
This is who made the modchip that I put into my Xbox.
I am using Xbox Media Center for all my media playing needs.
Apropos of nothing, I saw a movie in the theaters a few days ago. At the official start time, the lights dimmed. Then there were 14 minutes of commercials (Pepsi, hair mousse, cologne, etc.) followed by 13 minutes of movie trailers (which are also advertising), followed by a few minutes of junk, followed by a 100-minute movie. I can't imagine why people would want to download movies when they have that great theater experience to compare against.
I've already told the local theater owner that if I ever go to see a movie at his theater and get ANY commercials except the movie trailers, I will never go there again, and do as much as I can to make sure no one else does either. When he started to stammer, I told him that if he wasn't making enough to pay the bills that he needed to raise prices, not put advertisements in. It's bad enough that he has a slide show with local ads (but they play before 'start time' so they are easy to avoid if you don't go to the movie on the day it's released) We don't have any of the 'national chains' here. It's a locally owned theater.
If he ever does put the ads in, I'll just wait for the DVD. And before someone chimes in about how they will be in the DVD too, well, let's just say that my modded Xbox doens't care. I can start where ever I want on the DVD. That includes skipping the commercials.
Don't you think that for $1100 you could have fixed the desk problem (for far less than that, actually) instead of wasting that much on a monitor?
"I needed it for the space", indeed...
Sounds kinda like a troll, but I'll bite...
With how many vehicles and mobile homes he destroyed, all of which could have been occupied (especially the mobile homes), yes, I think murder was justified. Especially given the fact that he attempted to go into oncoming traffic with the implied intent of destroying even more vehicles which would definatly have been occupied....
Apple either needs to create a surface that's a little more durable.
Or what?
Why, that'd be by making their software take up very little space, ONLY monitor, for example, what web sites you are visiting (something that should take very little CPU time, or could even be scheduled to run in the wee-hours, and then, again in the wee-hours, reporting back to it's home company.
Said home company could then gather up all the data, find out what sites are being visited the most, and direct their 'customers' to advertise at said sites.
If done properly, even 10 of these types of programs should not be noticable...
Or something...
Off to the patent office with me! Gotta patent the idea before them aweful software companies steal it!
Easy. Have him start using Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, or any other web browser to visit porn sites.
I use Firefox personally. Used to frequent badpuppy.com untill I discovered the MSN/Yahoo! groups...
Actually, MS *IS* to blame for it? How do you think the browser security failures got into the system in the first place?
Yes, software mistkes will happen (Perfect example: Microsoft). But the least they can do is repair the holes and release updates.
Sure, many won't install the updates on a regular basis, but every customer of mine will. Same will go for many other techs. With the security holes closed/closing, there would be less spyware (as we know it today).
I'm not taking blame from users. As long as they continue to not understand that there is *never* such thing as a free lunch, this crap will happen to them...
If the techs at the Best Buy you mention are using the personal SE version from somewhere like download.com, then I believe they are abusing it's license and should be dealt with.
They would need a special licence to do what you suggest they are doing.
I'd report them to the Lavasoft people if, in fact, they are doing what you mention in your post.
To get around loosing the data, the online word processor could simply store what you are typing to it's own local storage 'automatically', similar to how Word keeps a 'temporary' file and updates it every x minutes.
:)
This way, you have the minimum loss of data if the browser is unexpectedly closed. It could even be made to auto-open to the last point you were at if you were to point your browser back to the online word processor -- like Word does when you re-open it after it has crashed/you lost power/etc.
I know nothing about actuall programming languages, but I'd think if the word processor were written in java (or something), I would think it would be easy for it to send what you've typed so far to the server for storage without even having to refresh the page, as it were.
Not EXACTLY what you were looking for, but should go a long way to help.
I remember that when the AOL floppies were great, so was punching a hole in the other side (opposite the write protect tab) to make them into 1.44mb floppies.. =]
How the hell is this a troll? I call the guy on an exaggeration, put in statements of fact to back up my claim, and then state that while it's not as bad as he stated, I personally would not have gotten the PSP either (because I agreed with the point he was trying to get across). Why does that make me a troll?
You people don't deserve the mod points you get.
Nice exaggeration. I looked at bestbuy.com to see what the price *really* was on the warranty.
I selected the Samsung Progressive-Scan DVD Player (DVD-P241) that was featured on their main page when I selected the DVD Players catagory. It's $59.99. The PSP on that item is $49.99.
Now, personally, I would more than likely NOT get this, even though it's a 4 year coverage. The player itself is only $10 more and in 4 years time, will end up even cheaper.
You just look silly when you exaggerate like that. What, are you going to say that it's orders of magnitude more expensive for the next comparison you attempt? =]
First, the title should read "Round-Up resistant Coca Plants", not Round-Up Ready.
Second, I have one word for the government that is using the plant poisons:
Napalm.
Thanks for listening.
Thanks for the sweeping generalization. I cite my mother and stepfathers computers (they each have one). My grandmothers. Both of my brothers. My father and his wife's. Every computer I have built and sent out the door. Every customer who has had a infested PC that I have cleaned up and installed Mozilla/Firefox and Thunderbird. Now, take into consideration that I clear 30-50 service calls a month, some of those calls dealing with multiple computers, and multiply those by how many months that the spyware and email viruses have gotten REALLY popular (this last year, and at least most of last year), and that is quite a few computers. The other three technicians I work with do exactly the same. Now, I don't know about you, but if you take our shop as an example and apply even one shop like ours to each city of about 10k people or more, that is a lot of people who are being converted to better software. Yes, there is still a ways to go, but I am far from using myself as the sole example of which I speak.
Thanks.
Adding a pair of comparable speakers to the Dell is a whopping $9. That's right. Nine US dollars.
As to your point about video. The Dell site doesn't make it immediatly obvious what type of video chip is in the machine. No big deal. A quick gander at newegg shows a Rosewill ATI 128mb 9600 for $66. Put that in, and you get your system ram back.
You may not be playing Doom 3 in 1280x1204 on this rig, but to say that you can't play games properly on it is just silly and stupid on your part.
As for the sound. Other than the morons with $5000 PC's with clear side windows, dumb-assed LED fans, and all the other bells and whistles that NO ONE needs to play these games, when was the last time you saw anyone that needed Dolby Digital 5.1 surround for playing Doom, or any other game for that matter? Hum? That's what I thought.
And firewire/bluetooth. Both are addable to the Dell, should the person who owned it actually need those functions. Very few people *need* either. I know I've never needed it. The guys I work with have never needed it (and they use their computers for compressing DVD's. One of the other guys in the shop has actually created some sort of movie with a camcorder of some kind. The thing transfers it's video to the PC via USB. Sure, he could probably have gotten it a tad faster with firewire, but he, and many others, don't see the point.)
Yes, the Dell did require an 'upgrade' to get a DVD burner. At least it was an option. What you failed to mention was that in order to get a DVD burner on the eMac, that requires upgrading to a $999!!! machine. Hardly worth it, in my opinion. Sure, you also get an 80gb HDD, but the Dell already has that.
Next time you try to add to the FUD, do it with someone who hasn't been a computer technician for 11 years. You might sound a little more intelligent. Would probably have helped if you had come armed with any facts to back up your statements.
Move along - nothing to see in the previous post.