Technically speaking, in the US at least, there's no requirement that there be any kind of sexual act or activity, only that there are minors engaged in something that can be described as lewd or lascivious.
What that means is that if some prude thinks the picture where you're giving your infant kid a bath in the bathroom sink... that can be child porn. That sort of thing actually does happen, and it ruins people's lives.
As another example, there are deeply creepy web sites where parents dress up their 12-year-old daughters in bikinis and miniskirts and get them to pose in very adult (think Penthouse) ways. People have gotten in trouble for that, too. I don't have links. I don't really want to go looking for links, but that stuff is out there.
I have a 32GB SSD in my T61. My real life usage shows that I get between 30 and 45 more minutes of battery life out of my SSD-equipped notebook than on my other T61, which has a 160GB 7200rpm drive in it, when both of them are on the "medium" power saving setting in Windows.
I'm not sure the bullet casings or newspapers did, and given that essentially every PC game that's not City of Heroes is either a D&D ripoff, a Doom clone or a WWII shooter, I didn't want there to be any confusion.
It makes City of Heroes look all awesome, particularly if you use Gravity, Storm, Kinetics or Assault Rifle power sets.
Having bullet casings, leaves, newspapers and the like drop and swirl around in response to player actions is actually pretty nifty from an immersion standpoint, particularly for a game that's essentially set in something that resembles the real, modern world.
I had a RAID10 of six EIDE 16GB SuperTalent Flash drives set up on a 3ware 8000-series card. The drives didn't belong to me, so I don't have it any more, but I timed Windows Server 2003 as starting up in 10.3 seconds (using a stopwatch, from the moment the 3ware's BIOS initialized to a login prompt). Transfer rates were ~270MB/sec using a mix of several thousand JPEGs and some CD.ISO files.
I use the paid Yahoo mail service. I get maybe 10 spam messages a week, but I also have Yahoo auto-deleting everything that goes in the "bulk" mail folder.
I get about the same amount of Spam on a Gmail account that has never been used to send E-mail, actually.
Generally games from back in the days of DOS orWin95 (most of which were non-accelerated DirectDraw or DirectX3 if they were Windows titles) run well in a virtual machine. I'm not sure I'd want to try a Doom-derivative, but my old strategy games (Master of Magic, Xcom) work well that way.
An identical box plugged into the same (gigabit) switch and same (cat5e) cabling but running Server 2003 copied that volume of data from the same source in about 25 minutes. I started the transfers on Sunday night at roughly the same time and I watched it finish on one while the 2008 machine just did an extraordinary amount of disk thrashing and a great deal of what I'm going to go ahead and say is Not Copying Data Very Quickly.
At this point, it's just morbid fascination with how bad the software is.
I find your comment particularly amusing given that I've been watching a brand new 8 CPU Server 2008 machine copy 33GB (thirty three gigabytes) of data from a gigabit LAN connection for the last two days... the file transfer dialog says I only have 225 minutes to go!
Honestly, if I want to see video, I'll fire up some porn. Would it have been too much to ask to get some transcripts and/or replies in the standard, text only format that I expect from every single other post on Slashdot, or would all that typing be too much of a hassle?
It does not work with SP1. Also there are some system boards that it does not work with, notably some new Intel-made budget boards. Other than that the Paradox crack is very useful. It beats the shit out of installing a legit copy (potentially wasting an activation) of Vista just to test something in a virtual machine (yes, I know I can install the activationless trial install, but I like having the same VM for longer than two months).
One of my customers had a whole office full of legit Vista installs magically lose their activation, probably because of Microsoft provided driver updates overwriting those from 3rd party vendors.
I can't believe that anyone puts up with that crap.
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Voice chat is a reason to not play a game. There's nothing worse than having some 12-year-old dipshit sharing his musical tastes for your gaming group, or finding out that Princess Fairyglen has a voice like Harvey Firestein. Or being the only keyboarder on a team that can't be bothered to share their Ventrillo server. Or being kicked from a team for not having a Mic.
If there's one thing I learned from DDO it's that I'm done gaming when I have to listen to all the other shitbags argue about rappers and NASCAR in the game I'm playing to escape the world of rappers and NASCAR.
On my home Comcast segment, FTP uploads are filtered and shaped to hell, too. So are SSH and PPTP VPNs. And NNTP. I've got a big set of iptables rules to deal with what I can detect, but essentially if I'm doing anything but HTTP(S) or some kind of mail protocol, I can watch network latencies for all the traffic on my cable modem go up 500% and my bandwidth drop to about 20% of the real-world amount I normally have. I stop VPN-ing or NNTPing or torrenting and my connection goes back a few minutes later.
I support about two dozen Tecras, various models, for one of my contracting customers. How shoddy are they? Well, I can flick keys off the keyboards with my fingers, and if I take one into a darkened room, I can see light leaking out the sides of the LCD. That's not what I'd call quality.
For what it's worth Lenovo 3000s are fairly impressive for consumer notebooks. I wouldn't buy one, but they're solid and well-constructed. I'd put them ahead of any current Dell Vostro/Inspiron model or non-pro Macbook.
There is no such thing as a well built Toshiba. There probably were some 10 or 15 years ago, but Toshiba is a company that, like Sony, trades on its name in place of any actual quality. Not that I'm bitter about the shitty laptops I have to support. However, speaking to the quality of current Thinkpads... my cat managed to knock my T61 off my desk a couple weeks ago. It fell four feet or so on to a hardwood floor. There's a ding on the floor. My Thinkpad is fine.
I have to fight and fight to get business users to look at $1000 Latitudes instead of $700 Inspirons that have essentially the same specs. And then I have another uphill battle to get them to look at $1200 Thinkpads instead of $1000 Latitudes. I can't even make a direct step from $700 Inspiron to $1200 Thinkpad.
My understanding is that they're made by different OEMs. The build standards are very obviously different even down to the quality of the plastic on the external chassis, as are some basic components like keyboards and the LCD parts.
Form factor becomes an issue with what you're talking about. I can do all the stuff with the $500 smartphone (HTC 6800 in my case) I have clipped to my belt, but for anything beyond very simple information retrieval, it's too small to be useful. I have multiple input options including touch on screen and hard keyboard, but they're all a pain in the ass.
Were my phone any larger, it would wind up in the same category as my notebook, which is to say, too much of a hassle to carry with me all the time, everywhere I go.
The main objections I've run into with Thinkpads from non-professional users are: 1. Small screens, from people who don't understand why a notebook needs to be portable. 2. Poor multimedia options, from people who expect a notebook to play Doom 3 in 1080p with surroundsound on a notebook. 3. High price, which is a complaint I might see as legitimate (though, I think that the support Lenovo provides more than justifies the added cost).
Actually I meant "Vostro" and not "Inspiron" in that last post. They're the same shitty laptops, but Dell markets one for business users and the other for people who don't know any better.
I'd rather they give the toy computers a different name. I know they're trying to draw an association with the Cadillac of laptops, but I'm essentially certain that Ideapads are going to be missing all the things that make Thinkpads genuinely good, like titanium frames and godly support. You can look at a Thinkpad and see a serious and well constructed computer; that's not true with other business notebooks and frankly I'd rather not have to explain why an Ideapad is different from a Thinkpad, any more than I want to explain why the POS Inspiron isn't the same thing as a Latitude.
My customers love their Thinkpads, but I'm going to hate having to tell them that the Lenovos with 17" screens and bright colors on the chassis just aren't the same as the decent ones. Because I know I'll have customers (having years of experience that says "Thinkpad = good laptop") that won't understand the difference until it's too late.
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Technically speaking, in the US at least, there's no requirement that there be any kind of sexual act or activity, only that there are minors engaged in something that can be described as lewd or lascivious.
What that means is that if some prude thinks the picture where you're giving your infant kid a bath in the bathroom sink... that can be child porn. That sort of thing actually does happen, and it ruins people's lives.
As another example, there are deeply creepy web sites where parents dress up their 12-year-old daughters in bikinis and miniskirts and get them to pose in very adult (think Penthouse) ways. People have gotten in trouble for that, too. I don't have links. I don't really want to go looking for links, but that stuff is out there.
I have a 32GB SSD in my T61. My real life usage shows that I get between 30 and 45 more minutes of battery life out of my SSD-equipped notebook than on my other T61, which has a 160GB 7200rpm drive in it, when both of them are on the "medium" power saving setting in Windows.
I'm not sure the bullet casings or newspapers did, and given that essentially every PC game that's not City of Heroes is either a D&D ripoff, a Doom clone or a WWII shooter, I didn't want there to be any confusion.
That is kind of a non-sequitur when you work in a whorehouse.
It makes City of Heroes look all awesome, particularly if you use Gravity, Storm, Kinetics or Assault Rifle power sets.
Having bullet casings, leaves, newspapers and the like drop and swirl around in response to player actions is actually pretty nifty from an immersion standpoint, particularly for a game that's essentially set in something that resembles the real, modern world.
I had a RAID10 of six EIDE 16GB SuperTalent Flash drives set up on a 3ware 8000-series card. The drives didn't belong to me, so I don't have it any more, but I timed Windows Server 2003 as starting up in 10.3 seconds (using a stopwatch, from the moment the 3ware's BIOS initialized to a login prompt). .ISO files.
Transfer rates were ~270MB/sec using a mix of several thousand JPEGs and some CD
I use the paid Yahoo mail service.
I get maybe 10 spam messages a week, but I also have Yahoo auto-deleting everything that goes in the "bulk" mail folder.
I get about the same amount of Spam on a Gmail account that has never been used to send E-mail, actually.
Generally games from back in the days of DOS orWin95 (most of which were non-accelerated DirectDraw or DirectX3 if they were Windows titles) run well in a virtual machine. I'm not sure I'd want to try a Doom-derivative, but my old strategy games (Master of Magic, Xcom) work well that way.
An identical box plugged into the same (gigabit) switch and same (cat5e) cabling but running Server 2003 copied that volume of data from the same source in about 25 minutes. I started the transfers on Sunday night at roughly the same time and I watched it finish on one while the 2008 machine just did an extraordinary amount of disk thrashing and a great deal of what I'm going to go ahead and say is Not Copying Data Very Quickly.
At this point, it's just morbid fascination with how bad the software is.
I find your comment particularly amusing given that I've been watching a brand new 8 CPU Server 2008 machine copy 33GB (thirty three gigabytes) of data from a gigabit LAN connection for the last two days... the file transfer dialog says I only have 225 minutes to go!
Honestly, if I want to see video, I'll fire up some porn. Would it have been too much to ask to get some transcripts and/or replies in the standard, text only format that I expect from every single other post on Slashdot, or would all that typing be too much of a hassle?
It does not work with SP1. Also there are some system boards that it does not work with, notably some new Intel-made budget boards. Other than that the Paradox crack is very useful. It beats the shit out of installing a legit copy (potentially wasting an activation) of Vista just to test something in a virtual machine (yes, I know I can install the activationless trial install, but I like having the same VM for longer than two months).
One of my customers had a whole office full of legit Vista installs magically lose their activation, probably because of Microsoft provided driver updates overwriting those from 3rd party vendors.
I can't believe that anyone puts up with that crap.
Voice chat is a reason to not play a game.
There's nothing worse than having some 12-year-old dipshit sharing his musical tastes for your gaming group, or finding out that Princess Fairyglen has a voice like Harvey Firestein. Or being the only keyboarder on a team that can't be bothered to share their Ventrillo server. Or being kicked from a team for not having a Mic.
If there's one thing I learned from DDO it's that I'm done gaming when I have to listen to all the other shitbags argue about rappers and NASCAR in the game I'm playing to escape the world of rappers and NASCAR.
Did anyone else mis-read that headline as "Birth Control for gamers" or is it just me?
On my home Comcast segment, FTP uploads are filtered and shaped to hell, too. So are SSH and PPTP VPNs. And NNTP. I've got a big set of iptables rules to deal with what I can detect, but essentially if I'm doing anything but HTTP(S) or some kind of mail protocol, I can watch network latencies for all the traffic on my cable modem go up 500% and my bandwidth drop to about 20% of the real-world amount I normally have. I stop VPN-ing or NNTPing or torrenting and my connection goes back a few minutes later.
I support about two dozen Tecras, various models, for one of my contracting customers. How shoddy are they? Well, I can flick keys off the keyboards with my fingers, and if I take one into a darkened room, I can see light leaking out the sides of the LCD. That's not what I'd call quality.
For what it's worth Lenovo 3000s are fairly impressive for consumer notebooks. I wouldn't buy one, but they're solid and well-constructed. I'd put them ahead of any current Dell Vostro/Inspiron model or non-pro Macbook.
I put it up on a shelf that's on the desk itself so that I can see the screen while I'm sitting in front of it.
There is no such thing as a well built Toshiba. There probably were some 10 or 15 years ago, but Toshiba is a company that, like Sony, trades on its name in place of any actual quality. Not that I'm bitter about the shitty laptops I have to support.
However, speaking to the quality of current Thinkpads... my cat managed to knock my T61 off my desk a couple weeks ago. It fell four feet or so on to a hardwood floor.
There's a ding on the floor. My Thinkpad is fine.
I have to fight and fight to get business users to look at $1000 Latitudes instead of $700 Inspirons that have essentially the same specs. And then I have another uphill battle to get them to look at $1200 Thinkpads instead of $1000 Latitudes. I can't even make a direct step from $700 Inspiron to $1200 Thinkpad.
My understanding is that they're made by different OEMs. The build standards are very obviously different even down to the quality of the plastic on the external chassis, as are some basic components like keyboards and the LCD parts.
Form factor becomes an issue with what you're talking about. I can do all the stuff with the $500 smartphone (HTC 6800 in my case) I have clipped to my belt, but for anything beyond very simple information retrieval, it's too small to be useful. I have multiple input options including touch on screen and hard keyboard, but they're all a pain in the ass.
Were my phone any larger, it would wind up in the same category as my notebook, which is to say, too much of a hassle to carry with me all the time, everywhere I go.
The main objections I've run into with Thinkpads from non-professional users are:
1. Small screens, from people who don't understand why a notebook needs to be portable.
2. Poor multimedia options, from people who expect a notebook to play Doom 3 in 1080p with surroundsound on a notebook.
3. High price, which is a complaint I might see as legitimate (though, I think that the support Lenovo provides more than justifies the added cost).
Actually I meant "Vostro" and not "Inspiron" in that last post. They're the same shitty laptops, but Dell markets one for business users and the other for people who don't know any better.
I'd rather they give the toy computers a different name. I know they're trying to draw an association with the Cadillac of laptops, but I'm essentially certain that Ideapads are going to be missing all the things that make Thinkpads genuinely good, like titanium frames and godly support. You can look at a Thinkpad and see a serious and well constructed computer; that's not true with other business notebooks and frankly I'd rather not have to explain why an Ideapad is different from a Thinkpad, any more than I want to explain why the POS Inspiron isn't the same thing as a Latitude.
My customers love their Thinkpads, but I'm going to hate having to tell them that the Lenovos with 17" screens and bright colors on the chassis just aren't the same as the decent ones. Because I know I'll have customers (having years of experience that says "Thinkpad = good laptop") that won't understand the difference until it's too late.
My Thunderbird has three IMAP accounts and three POP3 accounts, and I get mail on all of them all the time.
Maybe it's not Thunderbird?