How can you not hate an oligopoly that has charged for touch tone service since it's been invented? It's now 2003 and we're all still paying an individual fee for touch tone service. We'll be paying for it until the day the last landline is disconnected.
Yet they will put up a fuss if you try to cancel it.
Um, whether you call from small business, large business, premier, etc, does not matter! We buy Dells on the order of a couple hundred PER YEAR and we still get people in india when we call tech support!
It's been so bad that we recently opened a dialog with our "specialist" to get them to shape up...
Who cares if YOU haven't gone over 1.5gb. Obviously you don't do much with binary files. Everything you listed is text-based.
What if a whole lot of us enjoy trying out such things as the very latest of many different linux distributions? This *IS* slashdot you know. Those things are usually many ISO's worth, which is basically 700mb PER FILE. I think Redhat9 is like 6 CDs if you get it all. Same with Debian.
I download pretty much every new distro that comes out. Just like I'll be getting the new Knoppix 3.3 to replace my 3.1 version. To say that I shouldn't be able to do this on a service that's $40/mo is ludicrous.
I'm pretty sure that most (if not all) air-bags have the speed threshold.
My father is a service director at a GM dealer and I believe he said the threshold on GM airbags is 30 mph. That was a few years ago, so things might have changed since then.
This accomplishes many goals:
-Safety
-Expense of replacing airbags. (They are damn expensive. There is actually a black market for them!)
-Lower insurance premiums because airbags don't add to the cost of low-speed collisions.
Have you bought a text book recently? They are rediculously expensive. I'm not saying they aren't a valuable resource, but I think they're marked up because you have no choice but to buy them when the instructor requires it. They average $80-90. Some are over $100. Some classes require more than 1 text book. It's easy to drop over $400 on textbooks for ONE semester.
These are all your own opinions. There are not any "facts" that "they are much more likely..." blah blah blah.
They are much more often driven by younger drivers with less experience/less sense.
Bullshit. Look at the parking lot of the local highschool once. Most teenagers have cheap little sub-compacts as their first cars. I have absolutely no idea why you think that younger drivers are driving pickups.
They are much more likely to be driven by those who are the most likely to be aggrressive drivers.
Right. Cuz all those Honda Civics with the coffee can mufflers and oodles of aftermarket parts are never trying to race every single car from the stoplight. Uh huh...
They are much more likely to be driven by manual laborers who are too tired to be driving in the first place.
Wait a minute. I thought you said that they "are much more often driven by younger drivers with less experience" Which is it? A mid-thirties blue collar worker or a high school kid? I guess *everyone* is driving pickups these days.
The Logitech drivers are buggy. Just don't install them. The mouse will work fine, as will the extra buttons. You just won't be able to assign them to anything and will have to accept the default Back, Forward, Scroll configuration.
Most people that I've talked to about this agree that the mice actually work better without the drivers.
I got a deal on this mouse ($35), and my opinion is the same. Best mouse I've ever used. The optical sensor in this sucker puts other opticals to shame.
You'd probably be a lot better if you separated your aiming hand from your movement hand. I mean, you have to move backwards and strafe with the other hand anyway, so why wouldn't you keep the forward movement key with them as well?
the MX700 comes with an additional wallwart that must be plugged in to actually charge the battery
Indeed, this would definitely be a problem if you move your computer a lot. I would never get a MX700 for a laptop, for instance...
Btw, do other MX700 owners find that you had to retrain yourself to place the mouse in its charging cradle each time you stop using the computer? That's really not natural--usually I just set my mouse down and leave.
I really only put it on the charger about once ever 4 days. And I do it when I turn off my monitor, before I go to bed.
First, they can tell you what the battery levels in your devices are. Second, they let you map all the extra buttons on the mouse to actions. (Maybe the default drivers do too, I can't remember).
I have a MX700 wireless optical mouse.
First, isn't the little blinking red light that means "battery low" good enough for a battery indicator? I've used it for at least an hour while blinking, and literally 5 minutes on the charger will give another hour of use. I can see where if you have to actually replace the batteries when they die, it would be useful to have a full-blown meter, but I can't understand why anyone in their right mind would buy a mouse that you have to physically replace batteries on!
Secondly, the extra buttons all work just fine without any drivers. Back, Forwards, scroll up, down, etc...
WINSTON (concerned)
What do you mean "big?"
[Spengler picks up a Hostess Twinkie from the workbench]
SPENGLER
Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning's PKE sample, the current level in the city would be a Twinkie 35 feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds.
WINSTON
That's a big Twinkie.
DirectX 9b is listed under the "Critical Updates" section on WindowsUpdate now. Apparently there's some nasty vulnerability (who'd a guessed?) in DirectX that 9b fixes.
Outlook Express tends to re-enable itself, so it's best to actually have it be patched, in case it ends up being used.
There are patches for vulnerabilities in every WMP, and you can't really "remove it" per se, so you need to have it patched.
I think you don't understand the problem I refer to.
1. Obtain a numbered email list.
2. Create a small jpg image, for example, called "image_X" where X corresponds to each number on your email address list.
3. Mail out tons of spam with the only difference being that the X in image_X is incremented each time.
4. Parse your webserver log for all the image_X references that have been accessed, crosscheck that with your email list, and you now have a list of active email addresses.
I love reading stories like this because they show how new technologies such as cell phones and the internet help people make good decisions and cut through all the BS.
I think things like this are a HUGE win for consumers, as such common rip-off business practices as deception and mega-advertising have much less of an effect on an educated consumer.
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So you're comparing a $200 printer with the lowest end Canon "40 dollar clearance printer?" Does apples to oranges mean anything to you?
When you buy a mid-priced Canon, maybe you'll see another decently performing solution *AND* have cheap ink.
How can you not hate an oligopoly that has charged for touch tone service since it's been invented? It's now 2003 and we're all still paying an individual fee for touch tone service. We'll be paying for it until the day the last landline is disconnected.
Yet they will put up a fuss if you try to cancel it.
Besides, every time I see an exploit, it's after Microsoft has already issued a patch
Perhaps you just aren't aware of how many exploits there actually are...
31 unpatched IE security holes
And that's only IE!
Interesting... I wouldn't be surprised if government status gets you non-Indian support.
Um, whether you call from small business, large business, premier, etc, does not matter! We buy Dells on the order of a couple hundred PER YEAR and we still get people in india when we call tech support!
It's been so bad that we recently opened a dialog with our "specialist" to get them to shape up...
"All generalizations are bad."
Who cares if YOU haven't gone over 1.5gb. Obviously you don't do much with binary files. Everything you listed is text-based.
What if a whole lot of us enjoy trying out such things as the very latest of many different linux distributions? This *IS* slashdot you know. Those things are usually many ISO's worth, which is basically 700mb PER FILE. I think Redhat9 is like 6 CDs if you get it all. Same with Debian.
I download pretty much every new distro that comes out. Just like I'll be getting the new Knoppix 3.3 to replace my 3.1 version. To say that I shouldn't be able to do this on a service that's $40/mo is ludicrous.
That cluster is probably capable of compiling Gentoo from source in only 2 days!
I'm pretty sure that most (if not all) air-bags have the speed threshold.
My father is a service director at a GM dealer and I believe he said the threshold on GM airbags is 30 mph. That was a few years ago, so things might have changed since then.
This accomplishes many goals:
-Safety
-Expense of replacing airbags. (They are damn expensive. There is actually a black market for them!)
-Lower insurance premiums because airbags don't add to the cost of low-speed collisions.
Have you bought a text book recently? They are rediculously expensive. I'm not saying they aren't a valuable resource, but I think they're marked up because you have no choice but to buy them when the instructor requires it. They average $80-90. Some are over $100. Some classes require more than 1 text book. It's easy to drop over $400 on textbooks for ONE semester.
These are all your own opinions. There are not any "facts" that "they are much more likely..." blah blah blah.
They are much more often driven by younger drivers with less experience/less sense.
Bullshit. Look at the parking lot of the local highschool once. Most teenagers have cheap little sub-compacts as their first cars. I have absolutely no idea why you think that younger drivers are driving pickups.
They are much more likely to be driven by those who are the most likely to be aggrressive drivers.
Right. Cuz all those Honda Civics with the coffee can mufflers and oodles of aftermarket parts are never trying to race every single car from the stoplight. Uh huh...
They are much more likely to be driven by manual laborers who are too tired to be driving in the first place.
Wait a minute. I thought you said that they "are much more often driven by younger drivers with less experience" Which is it? A mid-thirties blue collar worker or a high school kid? I guess *everyone* is driving pickups these days.
Do I need to keep going?
The Logitech drivers are buggy. Just don't install them. The mouse will work fine, as will the extra buttons. You just won't be able to assign them to anything and will have to accept the default Back, Forward, Scroll configuration.
Most people that I've talked to about this agree that the mice actually work better without the drivers.
I got a deal on this mouse ($35), and my opinion is the same. Best mouse I've ever used. The optical sensor in this sucker puts other opticals to shame.
You'd probably be a lot better if you separated your aiming hand from your movement hand. I mean, you have to move backwards and strafe with the other hand anyway, so why wouldn't you keep the forward movement key with them as well?
the MX700 comes with an additional wallwart that must be plugged in to actually charge the battery
Indeed, this would definitely be a problem if you move your computer a lot. I would never get a MX700 for a laptop, for instance...
Btw, do other MX700 owners find that you had to retrain yourself to place the mouse in its charging cradle each time you stop using the computer? That's really not natural--usually I just set my mouse down and leave.
I really only put it on the charger about once ever 4 days. And I do it when I turn off my monitor, before I go to bed.
First, they can tell you what the battery levels in your devices are. Second, they let you map all the extra buttons on the mouse to actions. (Maybe the default drivers do too, I can't remember).
I have a MX700 wireless optical mouse.
First, isn't the little blinking red light that means "battery low" good enough for a battery indicator? I've used it for at least an hour while blinking, and literally 5 minutes on the charger will give another hour of use. I can see where if you have to actually replace the batteries when they die, it would be useful to have a full-blown meter, but I can't understand why anyone in their right mind would buy a mouse that you have to physically replace batteries on!
Secondly, the extra buttons all work just fine without any drivers. Back, Forwards, scroll up, down, etc...
WINSTON (concerned) What do you mean "big?" [Spengler picks up a Hostess Twinkie from the workbench] SPENGLER Well, let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this morning's PKE sample, the current level in the city would be a Twinkie 35 feet long weighing approximately six hundred pounds. WINSTON That's a big Twinkie.
I did not say that my rules are superior to others; I said that God's rules are superior to others.
Accoring to YOUR belief, they are.
Ultimately, God's rules are best.
Accoring to YOUR belief, they are. You do realize that not everyone in the world shares YOUR beliefs, right?
Didn't the Scientologists solve this already? That's what Tom Cruise says anyway...
DirectX 9b is listed under the "Critical Updates" section on WindowsUpdate now. Apparently there's some nasty vulnerability (who'd a guessed?) in DirectX that 9b fixes.
Outlook Express tends to re-enable itself, so it's best to actually have it be patched, in case it ends up being used.
There are patches for vulnerabilities in every WMP, and you can't really "remove it" per se, so you need to have it patched.
Have you installed WMP 9?
If so, you've just added an uninstallable DRM system.
Yep, no graphics allowed in my inbox. :)
I think you don't understand the problem I refer to.
1. Obtain a numbered email list.
2. Create a small jpg image, for example, called "image_X" where X corresponds to each number on your email address list.
3. Mail out tons of spam with the only difference being that the X in image_X is incremented each time.
4. Parse your webserver log for all the image_X references that have been accessed, crosscheck that with your email list, and you now have a list of active email addresses.
...that Ernie Ball has been my sole supplier of guitar strings for at least five years now. Go Ernie Ball!
I love reading stories like this because they show how new technologies such as cell phones and the internet help people make good decisions and cut through all the BS.
I think things like this are a HUGE win for consumers, as such common rip-off business practices as deception and mega-advertising have much less of an effect on an educated consumer.
I'm not worried about cookies. I'm worried about images. I thought I made that clear.
I'm evaluating Thunderbird. If it's half as good as Firebird, I'll be using it for sure.