When I had Comcast(2 years ago) the cable always went down when the power failed. I haven't had that problem with Charter, however they go down 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes all by themselves.
I started hearing PC enclosures being referred to as "harddrives" several years ago, towards the end of my stint as a tech. I did ask a couple of people where they picked up the term and they said a previous "buy more" tech had told them that was what it was called. They were actually looking for a term that described a loaded box, sans anything plugged into it because they weren't cognizant that "PC" didn't need to refer to anything more than the box itself and that replacing a harddrive didn't mean they needed a new PC.
In my day, we didn't buy Sony machines (towers) because they tried to bundle PIV systems with ALi motherboards (and wanted to put SDR memory on it as well) as their base config while charging as much as systems with much better specs. I considered those Sony machines defective (by design) too.
My point was that I wouldn't have even considered this to be a prevalent design flaw as it was not, to the best of my knowledge, in the past. Since, pretty much every notebook on display in a store is sans battery, it should be a pretty easy test and should give a broad spectrum of models and mfgs.
While I believe you, I've never owned or seen a notebook that wouldn't boot without a battery. I'm only on my 7th notebook/laptop and my total sample size of anecdotality is probably less than 25 machines, but if it didn't boot without a battery it would get returned to the store as defective.
"Have you ever used someone else's Wi-Fi connection without their permission?
Yes 54% No 46%
Sophos online survey, 560 respondents, 31 October - 6 November 2007."
Permisson is key here. Where I live permission is implicit by not securing your Access Point. That pretty much every new AP tries to secure itself unless you opt out, and most people's WiFi card will, by default automatically associate with every AP with a generic SSID and no password, means that it has it be that way. It has even been proposed to outlaw open access points, but that won't be a popular idea until a pedo gets nabbed.
Now, loitering in front of my house is a misdemeanor(arrested and fined), cracking a password (or spoofing a MAC or sniffing a nontransmitted SSID) to gain access will get you put in jail, but there is nothing illegal or wrong with connecting to an OPEN access point.
You know, the last DVD set I bought was Firefly. That was a couple of years ago and I only bought it because I didn't want to wait for the rental to see the episodes I missed when FOX fucked with the scheduling. I watched the series a few times, but it would've been cheaper if I just Netflixed it. I don't really think I'll ever buy a another disk. I've got a pretty good memory, so I don't have a compelling reason to see most movies more than once, even if they're really good. Hell, I can't even be bothered to download them anymore, why would I go buy them? I'll just wait till they show up in my mailbox.
If we are buying software designed for a cheap 250+ watt massively parallel machine or an expensive 40 watt massively parallel machine, it isn't going to run well on your 1 watt massively parallel phone no matter what year it is.
The frequencies THEY really don't want you to know about are in the 385 to 750THz range. Our governments allow us to be barraged by THOUSANDS of watts DAILY in this range without any form of regulation in the world. PERMANENT BLINDNESS is a PROVEN side effect for the unfortunate persons who simply fail to avoid optic nerve exposure!
And from what I understand there are tons of college kids that do just that. Get 4 guys with different ips and just voice chat. You'll rape everyone else at the table.
In Atlanta, short term parking is $1 for the first hour. When I need to pick someone at the airport I can usually check the status of the flight online so I don't have to wait too long.
An Afterdawn published LG pr release http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11419.cfm dated oct9,2007 states that LG has only recently began manufacturing an OTA-HD to NTSC converter box. It also says that they are the first to do so.
Of course, whether they exist or not is pointless to me. I do own a HDTV-Wonder card that does the same thing, but the signal at my house is too weak to receive anything more than 15 seconds of HD programming, followed by a still image, followed by a bluescreen until another cloud/airplane passes overhead to bounce down some more signal.
But at least it looks like they should soon be available.
Always is an awfully long freakin time and that's bullshit anyways. The idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent is relatively recent one and developed from polytheistic religions comprised of decidedly non-omni beings. These developed from animistic beliefs that the world was actually a turtle swimming in the sea. No doubt this was just a cro-mag bedtime story originally, but their sapiens neighbors weren't smart enough to figure that out.
I think that cycle of glaciation is particularly adept at concealing and then revealing the good places to develop a technical society.
I also think there are plenty of places on this earth where humans "did nothing" beyond develop neolithic skills/technology well into the 20th century. When presented with alien technical knowledge these people don't seem to have trouble comprehending it. But if the whole world was just like Borneo I don't believe anyone would done much of anything, beyond fishing. I sure wouldn't.
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When I had Comcast(2 years ago) the cable always went down when the power failed. I haven't had that problem with Charter, however they go down 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes all by themselves.
I started hearing PC enclosures being referred to as "harddrives" several years ago, towards the end of my stint as a tech. I did ask a couple of people where they picked up the term and they said a previous "buy more" tech had told them that was what it was called. They were actually looking for a term that described a loaded box, sans anything plugged into it because they weren't cognizant that "PC" didn't need to refer to anything more than the box itself and that replacing a harddrive didn't mean they needed a new PC.
But if you choose to not believe in god, there is no observable phenomena that others can learn from.
In my day, we didn't buy Sony machines (towers) because they tried to bundle PIV systems with ALi motherboards (and wanted to put SDR memory on it as well) as their base config while charging as much as systems with much better specs. I considered those Sony machines defective (by design) too.
My point was that I wouldn't have even considered this to be a prevalent design flaw as it was not, to the best of my knowledge, in the past. Since, pretty much every notebook on display in a store is sans battery, it should be a pretty easy test and should give a broad spectrum of models and mfgs.
While I believe you, I've never owned or seen a notebook that wouldn't boot without a battery. I'm only on my 7th notebook/laptop and my total sample size of anecdotality is probably less than 25 machines, but if it didn't boot without a battery it would get returned to the store as defective.
"Have you ever used someone else's Wi-Fi connection without their permission?
Yes 54%
No 46%
Sophos online survey, 560 respondents, 31 October - 6 November 2007."
Permisson is key here. Where I live permission is implicit by not securing your Access Point. That pretty much every new AP tries to secure itself unless you opt out, and most people's WiFi card will, by default automatically associate with every AP with a generic SSID and no password, means that it has it be that way. It has even been proposed to outlaw open access points, but that won't be a popular idea until a pedo gets nabbed.
Now, loitering in front of my house is a misdemeanor(arrested and fined), cracking a password (or spoofing a MAC or sniffing a nontransmitted SSID) to gain access will get you put in jail, but there is nothing illegal or wrong with connecting to an OPEN access point.
And now I'm listening to LVX Nova, because you said that.
I would pay to come down with a case of Gwyneth Paltrow.
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You can't oppress a robot. At least not yet.
You know, the last DVD set I bought was Firefly. That was a couple of years ago and I only bought it because I didn't want to wait for the rental to see the episodes I missed when FOX fucked with the scheduling. I watched the series a few times, but it would've been cheaper if I just Netflixed it. I don't really think I'll ever buy a another disk. I've got a pretty good memory, so I don't have a compelling reason to see most movies more than once, even if they're really good. Hell, I can't even be bothered to download them anymore, why would I go buy them? I'll just wait till they show up in my mailbox.
I haven't seen a K-Mart in years. It's all WalMarts and Targets now.
Yeah, no kidding... sounds like work gave him a laptop without dual monitor support. Talk about cheap.
If we are buying software designed for a cheap 250+ watt massively parallel machine or an expensive 40 watt massively parallel machine, it isn't going to run well on your 1 watt massively parallel phone no matter what year it is.
Adam was a Clay Golem.
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The frequencies THEY really don't want you to know about are in the 385 to 750THz range. Our governments allow us to be barraged by THOUSANDS of watts DAILY in this range without any form of regulation in the world. PERMANENT BLINDNESS is a PROVEN side effect for the unfortunate persons who simply fail to avoid optic nerve exposure!
And from what I understand there are tons of college kids that do just that. Get 4 guys with different ips and just voice chat. You'll rape everyone else at the table.
In Atlanta, short term parking is $1 for the first hour. When I need to pick someone at the airport I can usually check the status of the flight online so I don't have to wait too long.
An Afterdawn published LG pr release http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11419.cfm dated oct9,2007 states that LG has only recently began manufacturing an OTA-HD to NTSC converter box. It also says that they are the first to do so.
Of course, whether they exist or not is pointless to me. I do own a HDTV-Wonder card that does the same thing, but the signal at my house is too weak to receive anything more than 15 seconds of HD programming, followed by a still image, followed by a bluescreen until another cloud/airplane passes overhead to bounce down some more signal.
But at least it looks like they should soon be available.
Always is an awfully long freakin time and that's bullshit anyways. The idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent is relatively recent one and developed from polytheistic religions comprised of decidedly non-omni beings. These developed from animistic beliefs that the world was actually a turtle swimming in the sea. No doubt this was just a cro-mag bedtime story originally, but their sapiens neighbors weren't smart enough to figure that out.
I think that cycle of glaciation is particularly adept at concealing and then revealing the good places to develop a technical society.
I also think there are plenty of places on this earth where humans "did nothing" beyond develop neolithic skills/technology well into the 20th century. When presented with alien technical knowledge these people don't seem to have trouble comprehending it. But if the whole world was just like Borneo I don't believe anyone would done much of anything, beyond fishing. I sure wouldn't.
So is the "Surge" a zerg rush?
It an old nurfherder saying, I know...