I don't know why they ever bought into the name in the first place. I never had any of the drives that exhibited the dreaded "click of death", but once I was foolish enough to buy a CD-RW drive made by someone else but in an Iomega box. It had problems from day 1. I later learned that the manufacturer had firmware updates for their version that fixed the problems, but even years later there were never firmware fixes offered for the Iomega version of the drive. First and last thing with the Iomega name on it that I'll ever buy.
It's odd that Putin was quoted talking about 'European colleagues' when the Americans were responsible for cutting T-Platforms off.
Seems likely to me that Putin didn't actually say this in English. He said something in his native tongue and we are being told that this is the English translation. Could it be that the translation was distorted for political purposes?
It is clearly race related because she wants a pass for being black, no matter who she put in danger with the chemical reaction that caused a glass jar to fly apart and throw around sharp broken glass. Don't you know that when a black person is held responsible for their actions and not given a pass for being black, that is racist?
I recently got an email from Living Social welcoming me and the I started getting spammed. Of course, I had never signed up and there was never any "click here to confirm" type email. Fortunately my mail provider (Gmail) can easily filter out and delete anything from them before I ever see it. But now I guess I'll start getting more spam as well.
As to how they got my email in the first place, I do protect it by only giving out Spamgourmet addresses, but my Gmail address is simply my last name, so it ends up getting hit by spammers doing phone book type attacks.
In a small company like that? The head accountant who was there for forty years could certainly make the call to upgrade the system if she wanted to. At the most she might need the OK of the boss that she is on a first name basis with. But simply saying to the boss, "we really need to update this ancient equipment, it will save up a lot of money in just a few years" should be enough. No, the only thing that makes much sense is someone standing in the way of the logical choice. And if it is the boss he isn't being well advised.
OK, I get it, Sparkler hates trees. But the insanity of someone protecting their job by never updating technology is just amazing. I would love to see what they have spent on maintenance over the years for that electromechanical junk. And I really wonder where they are getting punch cards. Can you even get them any more, or are they having a printer make custom batches for them? And, of course, there is no really useable backup of all of the company's data for when the inevitable final failure hits. For less than the cost of their next punch card order they could be on a modern system with performance and good data backup. But then I guess that Lutricia Wood might be concerned that others might be able to do thing that only the high priestess of data systems does now. Good thing that she will live forever and never retire, otherwise Sparkler would be in a very bad position.
Sure, you always have the option to decline, and, of course, waste your air-fare and any deposits you have paid for your trip. And you can take comfort in the knowledge that the Jews are such good and honest people and would never abuse this to the detriment of their victims, err, I mean visitors. And we can take comfort in knowing that any enemy of Israel are just too stupid to have multiple email accounts, so that they could give the people who demand access the "safe" account and go about their business safely. People should just accept this when they get there and are greeted this way.
could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall
Another wasted effort. Who has a wall that is only one meter square? And if it costs as much as paint and covers one square meter, wouldn't it also cost as much as paint to cover a more useful size structure?
Sure, some machines might be lasting longer. And some people might be forcing their machines to last longer. But, even though there are people with mod points and Win 8 who will mod down anyone who suggests that they may have made a poor choice, I can assure you (at least until I'm silenced by being modded down as a "troll") that there are people like me who are not buying a machine because of Win 8. I'm definitely in the market for a new laptop. 0But you just can't get anything at a decent price new that doesn't include Win 8. And I don't want to pay new or higher prices for a refurb, when that system will likely have a compromised battery, a screen with stuck or dead pixels, or come pre-infested with malware and perhaps unable to make that "only-one-to-a-machine" set of backup disks that they used to send out with the machine but now require you to make for yourself. If I could find a comparable deal to some current Win 8 laptops on a similar New Win 7 system I would snap it up, but I didn't have the cash free before Win 8 came out and now it is too late. Can't even buy a Win 8 system and them pay again for Win 7 and install it, since Microsoft forced the manufacturers to make machines that you couldn't install other operating systems on!
So some Microsoft fan boy might have written a counter argument to what most of the industry is saying, but the real truth is Win 8 is awful and few people want it. Microsoft ad blitzes and modding people down who disagree will not change that.
How can something that has no real value drop by almost half of its real value? BitCoin is based on the "other idiot" principle. No surprise that the value has "adjusted", the shock is that it is still so high. Consider the advice of the great philosophers Mr. T and Nelson.
And how much fallout do you think there would be if North Korea carries out their promise and attacks Washington D.C. with their nukes? Should we wait around after they have threatened it and let them hit us first? You can argue that it's just some crackpot son of another crackpot, but if the people there don't have the guts to rise up against him then I'm going to be more concerned about my country then theirs. China could certainly pressure North Korea if they wanted to, so I'm not going to worry about any fallout they might get more than I'm worried about any we get when North Korea follows up on its threats. South Korea is already at risk, that madman is threatening to "reunite" Korea under his benevolent leadership. It would do far less harm to just erase the problem. And with the U.S.A.'s history lately it is far more likely than not that if North Korea did invade South Korea we would not stop them and they would become even more of a threat.
If we are going to worry to excess about the people that North Korea is already killing, then perhaps we can never defend ourselves against them at all.
Not genocide. I'm not suggesting we get rid of all Orientals, just the ones in and around the capital of a county that has been threatening us with a preemptive strike. Besides, ACs don't get mod points.
I think we should send some of what we have now on a one-way trip to North Korea. That would make everyone happy. For the liberals we would have actually reduced the number left. For the conservatives we would have used them as intended and made the U.S. much safer by demonstrating that they can be used and are not just an empty threat.
Right! I can buy crappy Pandigital tablets (new) for less than that with an old 2.x version of Android. Work fine as an e-reader (not good for games) and don't need some other device to load them via Bluetooth. For that matter if you already have an Android tablet with Bluetooth that this piece of junk supposedly needs as a companion to work, why do you need or want this at all? The tablet can easily be used as a better e-reader.
Sure, if my 7" tablet had GPS and I had a clean way to mount it in the car, I certainly would use it for navigation. Don't want a cell phone solution, want GPS that works when I'm out of range of my cell provider. So an Android solution that I can download the maps for wherever I expect to be would be great. Next best solution is a stand-alone GPS. I actually already have one but the maps are getting somewhat dated, and it is insanely expensive to update the maps. Better to just buy a new GPS, but that seems foolish when a good tablet could do that and so much more.
But there are plenty of things beyond just navigation that a tablet can do when it has GPS. GeoTagging pictures. Logging locations and mileage. Even reporting back its location when it has been stolen. And I doubt if all of the GPS related apps have even been written yet. Sure, if I'm buying a tablet well over $100 in price I want GPS, the current flavor of Android, Google Play access (not some crappy third party imitation that never works right) good screen resolution and decent graphics performance. A rear facing camera that can focus on things like bar codes and QR codes, as well as NFC would be nice too. If you don't care about any of these, you can buy plenty of low end Android tablets around the $50 price point. They will work OK as e-readers. I just can't see getting the HP Slate at its announced price and doing without the GPS. Even a few months later when it is closed out and sold at prices that compete with the $50 Chinese tablets I'll find myself asking if I should waste my money on one or just get a good tablet with the features that are important.
Not sure why people feel the need to speculate to "apologize" for Google's mistakes. But the tablet uses Android and the Andriod file system for its internal flash memory. That is also a FAT system, so there is no excuse to not use an external connector. Also, Microsoft doesn't own the patent on the SDHC pinout or connector, so just adding one would incur no extra cost from Microsoft. Microsoft might get a licensing fee from some SDHC makers, but that is irrelevant. And if Google were using some different format internally then they could obviously reformat an external card to avoid the "problem" and make it a non-issue. This would have some side effects, since you couldn't easily just move a reformatted card between the tablet and your PC or your digital camera, but it would still be vastly better than no memory card slot at all.
Also note that Google came up with a $50 more expensive version that had $5 or less of extra memory. If it were a cost issue then the more expensive unit certainly could have had an expansion slot, or they could have offered a third expensive option.
No, this poor choice on the part of Google for the Nexus 7 was done to try to force users to use Google's on-line storage. Even though that may cut into Internet providers "caps" every time you watch a movie or even play music. Google is putting a lot of effort into their vision of "the cloud" and wants every way they can get to steer people to it.
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I don't know why they ever bought into the name in the first place. I never had any of the drives that exhibited the dreaded "click of death", but once I was foolish enough to buy a CD-RW drive made by someone else but in an Iomega box. It had problems from day 1. I later learned that the manufacturer had firmware updates for their version that fixed the problems, but even years later there were never firmware fixes offered for the Iomega version of the drive. First and last thing with the Iomega name on it that I'll ever buy.
It's odd that Putin was quoted talking about 'European colleagues' when the Americans were responsible for cutting T-Platforms off.
Seems likely to me that Putin didn't actually say this in English. He said something in his native tongue and we are being told that this is the English translation. Could it be that the translation was distorted for political purposes?
Who you callin' homomorphic?
It is clearly race related because she wants a pass for being black, no matter who she put in danger with the chemical reaction that caused a glass jar to fly apart and throw around sharp broken glass. Don't you know that when a black person is held responsible for their actions and not given a pass for being black, that is racist?
I recently got an email from Living Social welcoming me and the I started getting spammed. Of course, I had never signed up and there was never any "click here to confirm" type email. Fortunately my mail provider (Gmail) can easily filter out and delete anything from them before I ever see it. But now I guess I'll start getting more spam as well.
As to how they got my email in the first place, I do protect it by only giving out Spamgourmet addresses, but my Gmail address is simply my last name, so it ends up getting hit by spammers doing phone book type attacks.
In a small company like that? The head accountant who was there for forty years could certainly make the call to upgrade the system if she wanted to. At the most she might need the OK of the boss that she is on a first name basis with. But simply saying to the boss, "we really need to update this ancient equipment, it will save up a lot of money in just a few years" should be enough. No, the only thing that makes much sense is someone standing in the way of the logical choice. And if it is the boss he isn't being well advised.
OK, I get it, Sparkler hates trees. But the insanity of someone protecting their job by never updating technology is just amazing. I would love to see what they have spent on maintenance over the years for that electromechanical junk. And I really wonder where they are getting punch cards. Can you even get them any more, or are they having a printer make custom batches for them? And, of course, there is no really useable backup of all of the company's data for when the inevitable final failure hits. For less than the cost of their next punch card order they could be on a modern system with performance and good data backup. But then I guess that Lutricia Wood might be concerned that others might be able to do thing that only the high priestess of data systems does now. Good thing that she will live forever and never retire, otherwise Sparkler would be in a very bad position.
Article has Anti-Semitic Purpose. Well, yea, and it is also completely true. Perhaps the truth is Anti-Semitic. Shame on you for pointing that out.
Sure, you always have the option to decline, and, of course, waste your air-fare and any deposits you have paid for your trip. And you can take comfort in the knowledge that the Jews are such good and honest people and would never abuse this to the detriment of their victims, err, I mean visitors. And we can take comfort in knowing that any enemy of Israel are just too stupid to have multiple email accounts, so that they could give the people who demand access the "safe" account and go about their business safely. People should just accept this when they get there and are greeted this way.
could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall
Another wasted effort. Who has a wall that is only one meter square? And if it costs as much as paint and covers one square meter, wouldn't it also cost as much as paint to cover a more useful size structure?
Heck with this, when are they going to go after the criminals that run the bay that begins with an E?
Principal Scientist for Consumer Security at PayPal
How many oxymorons can you find in that title?
The OP failed to offer any support for the position that those "millions of lives" should be saved.
Sure, some machines might be lasting longer. And some people might be forcing their machines to last longer. But, even though there are people with mod points and Win 8 who will mod down anyone who suggests that they may have made a poor choice, I can assure you (at least until I'm silenced by being modded down as a "troll") that there are people like me who are not buying a machine because of Win 8. I'm definitely in the market for a new laptop. 0But you just can't get anything at a decent price new that doesn't include Win 8. And I don't want to pay new or higher prices for a refurb, when that system will likely have a compromised battery, a screen with stuck or dead pixels, or come pre-infested with malware and perhaps unable to make that "only-one-to-a-machine" set of backup disks that they used to send out with the machine but now require you to make for yourself. If I could find a comparable deal to some current Win 8 laptops on a similar New Win 7 system I would snap it up, but I didn't have the cash free before Win 8 came out and now it is too late. Can't even buy a Win 8 system and them pay again for Win 7 and install it, since Microsoft forced the manufacturers to make machines that you couldn't install other operating systems on!
So some Microsoft fan boy might have written a counter argument to what most of the industry is saying, but the real truth is Win 8 is awful and few people want it. Microsoft ad blitzes and modding people down who disagree will not change that.
How can something that has no real value drop by almost half of its real value? BitCoin is based on the "other idiot" principle. No surprise that the value has "adjusted", the shock is that it is still so high. Consider the advice of the great philosophers Mr. T and Nelson.
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Shouldn't that headline say "without" rather than "with"?
And how much fallout do you think there would be if North Korea carries out their promise and attacks Washington D.C. with their nukes? Should we wait around after they have threatened it and let them hit us first? You can argue that it's just some crackpot son of another crackpot, but if the people there don't have the guts to rise up against him then I'm going to be more concerned about my country then theirs. China could certainly pressure North Korea if they wanted to, so I'm not going to worry about any fallout they might get more than I'm worried about any we get when North Korea follows up on its threats. South Korea is already at risk, that madman is threatening to "reunite" Korea under his benevolent leadership. It would do far less harm to just erase the problem. And with the U.S.A.'s history lately it is far more likely than not that if North Korea did invade South Korea we would not stop them and they would become even more of a threat.
If we are going to worry to excess about the people that North Korea is already killing, then perhaps we can never defend ourselves against them at all.
Not genocide. I'm not suggesting we get rid of all Orientals, just the ones in and around the capital of a county that has been threatening us with a preemptive strike. Besides, ACs don't get mod points.
I think we should send some of what we have now on a one-way trip to North Korea. That would make everyone happy. For the liberals we would have actually reduced the number left. For the conservatives we would have used them as intended and made the U.S. much safer by demonstrating that they can be used and are not just an empty threat.
Right! I can buy crappy Pandigital tablets (new) for less than that with an old 2.x version of Android. Work fine as an e-reader (not good for games) and don't need some other device to load them via Bluetooth. For that matter if you already have an Android tablet with Bluetooth that this piece of junk supposedly needs as a companion to work, why do you need or want this at all? The tablet can easily be used as a better e-reader.
Do you really think anyone in the government flying these things around will admit to this?
Sure, if my 7" tablet had GPS and I had a clean way to mount it in the car, I certainly would use it for navigation. Don't want a cell phone solution, want GPS that works when I'm out of range of my cell provider. So an Android solution that I can download the maps for wherever I expect to be would be great. Next best solution is a stand-alone GPS. I actually already have one but the maps are getting somewhat dated, and it is insanely expensive to update the maps. Better to just buy a new GPS, but that seems foolish when a good tablet could do that and so much more.
But there are plenty of things beyond just navigation that a tablet can do when it has GPS. GeoTagging pictures. Logging locations and mileage. Even reporting back its location when it has been stolen. And I doubt if all of the GPS related apps have even been written yet. Sure, if I'm buying a tablet well over $100 in price I want GPS, the current flavor of Android, Google Play access (not some crappy third party imitation that never works right) good screen resolution and decent graphics performance. A rear facing camera that can focus on things like bar codes and QR codes, as well as NFC would be nice too. If you don't care about any of these, you can buy plenty of low end Android tablets around the $50 price point. They will work OK as e-readers. I just can't see getting the HP Slate at its announced price and doing without the GPS. Even a few months later when it is closed out and sold at prices that compete with the $50 Chinese tablets I'll find myself asking if I should waste my money on one or just get a good tablet with the features that are important.
Not sure why people feel the need to speculate to "apologize" for Google's mistakes. But the tablet uses Android and the Andriod file system for its internal flash memory. That is also a FAT system, so there is no excuse to not use an external connector. Also, Microsoft doesn't own the patent on the SDHC pinout or connector, so just adding one would incur no extra cost from Microsoft. Microsoft might get a licensing fee from some SDHC makers, but that is irrelevant. And if Google were using some different format internally then they could obviously reformat an external card to avoid the "problem" and make it a non-issue. This would have some side effects, since you couldn't easily just move a reformatted card between the tablet and your PC or your digital camera, but it would still be vastly better than no memory card slot at all.
Also note that Google came up with a $50 more expensive version that had $5 or less of extra memory. If it were a cost issue then the more expensive unit certainly could have had an expansion slot, or they could have offered a third expensive option.
No, this poor choice on the part of Google for the Nexus 7 was done to try to force users to use Google's on-line storage. Even though that may cut into Internet providers "caps" every time you watch a movie or even play music. Google is putting a lot of effort into their vision of "the cloud" and wants every way they can get to steer people to it.