Half of my rant was that anything funded, if such a term could even apply to receiving zero dollars ($0), by the school system, cannot afford the ludicrous prices by internet companies in order to get legitimate status from ISPs for our mail server!
Yeah, but buddy...we use our own mail server for professional reasons. I can control what my staff sends out and gets in, and also can provide server-side address (LDAP) and other resource support.
We're even considering moving to Exchange for the feature (we use RHEmS now), but with AOL blocking us, I try to keep a slightly tighter ship, so to speak, in an effort to show what the Avg. Joe can do with their mailserv. I dunno guys, the Net seems to be heading down the tubes faster than we can be righteous, but I hope we don't see this again. Come on! Students having their ALTERNATIVE ENERGY publication's mail serv blocked? It's a shame.
wavelengths discovered this one a while ago. As an academic publication, hence receiving zero (0) dollars, we can't very well afford to go ahead and get a static IP, business DSL line, or something as out of this world as a T1.
I think this is an egregious violation of the community's trust on part of AOL, not to mention that it's ridiculous considering that a LOT of the spam coming at them won't be from home lines, but from established spamwhores like pm0 and others.
So that's right, a group of 10 students can't send mail to AOL accounts because we can't afford to pay the piper for $300/month. This is RIDICULOUS. It's bad enough that we were forced away from school hosting because they "didn't have enough room" and that we actually needed features for our site, but then the fact that we can't get in touch with half of the MAST Academy student body through the wavelengths Journal email server...that's sad.
Centurion doesn't have a credit limit. The general concept is that if you somehow get one of these...you either have more money than anything resembling God, or you pay your bills with exacting precision.
I hate to incur more comments from people brandishing Goatse as their link, but I do have to step in and say something.
I'm getting a Segway because of a number of reasons, with my own laziness being at the very bottom of the list. First of all is that I don't want to be reliant on everyone else for transportation. It shakes up my own agenda, something which really can't be avoided nowadays. As a school student with some issues at home, this gives me another way to get to OfficeMax and everything for school supplies and things I need without having to deal with another chaotic situation. It lets me get out of the house and escape the stress of life as a student. I sail all the time (contrary to your all too genius comment), and my Seg will simply get me there more often and easier. So no, it doesn't make me a fatass that I'm a geek, or that I have a Segway coming. If anything, I'll be better physically and mentally for it.
And for those of you who have this penchant for trolling, allow me to quickly state that it is instead you who seem to be the chair vegetables. Goatse.cx? How old are you man? Why don't you provide some constructive discussion for this forum? I'm surprised you even dare to show up around here, because all of us know that you don't very well do so in RW. So either get a couple of IQ points or get another message board. Slashdot has had enough of this monstrosity caused by antisocial psychopaths who seem to get their rocks off harassing others in an anonymouse medium. Grow up.
Completely 180 from this simply genius previous comment, I'd like to add my two cents where this counts.
I've had an order placed for an i167 Segway HT since two hours after the launch of them. It should be showing up in March, but not before I attend a day-long training session up in Orlando (or any other major city of my choice). I'm a high school student and plan on using it for pretty much everything. I'm a complete tech geek, and this just compliments the iBrick(err...I mean, iPAQ) and giant Inspiron 8200 which serve as gadgets that are often quite productive.
I don't see where San Francisco comes off in outright banning the HT. I can understand mandatory training or other legislation which still allows all purchasers from Segway LLC to operate their devices as intended. Segway, to the best of my knowledge, plans on instituting the required training for everyone, and those in the Amazon Pre-Order are required to attend 30 days before shipment.
I personally love the whole thing. If anyone has any questions or comments you can reach me at opti6600 @ bellsouth.net . I live in Miami, and I can only hope that our government here has something better to do than to entertain a walking activists group. Did I mention perhaps that I'm a high school student? These legislators need to focus their time on things that count, not things that are as bombproof as the Segway HT.
Or better yet...who will want to install a system in their office which will take them out of a job?
If I were these guys, INCLUDING Sun employees, because they'd be the first to go, I'd start setting up bugs in the company setups so the Sun techs at least keep their jobs.
So yeah, who's going to be watching the watchers while they're busy watching the watchers watching the watchers?
Guys, remember again that even though AMD and Intel are the most well-known x86 chipmakers, they are not the best, nor the only ones.
Transmeta Crusoe processors are starting to beat their way into the mainstream, slowly but surely, and not only will they most likely not support the TCPA, but they have less of a thermal load, use less power, and are going to find their way into smaller devices, yet still be compatible with x86 software.
Then again, VIA, I believe, has its own x86 compatible chips on its Mini-ITX mobos.
So don't despair. But when Transmeta starts saying that they'll support TCPA, thats when I'm going to start stocking up on Coppermines and Xeon-4s.
What I would think would be funny is to see the logs from the Accidental Damage Protection programs at major companies today. I wonder if Dell could provide us with a list of their more humorous ones...like they get a call saying "oops I dropped it", and they pick it up, it's in nine pieces, all a different color of the rainbow, plastic and all.
My friends and I have done some crazy stuff to exploit the warranty, but accidents generally are much more interesting.
The even funnier thing...is that they missed the huge Taco-raft. Eh, I'm going to start to watch out when these satellites start reaching their deorbit years. Eek, I can see my sailing classes right now...
"Jordan! Satellite on your right! Quick...oh well, too late."
I found that the best customer service has to be American Express for their Platinum cards. I can't say as far as Centurion goes, we didn't go with their offer on that ($1000 a year...uh-uh). But these people are great. Highly recommended.
Hehe, you ever done that with Babelfish one day when you're really bored? Just use babelfish over and over again on some piece of language, and you end up with "The Kiss of the Blue Bananas" when you started off with "The Penguins are coming to steal My sanity".
Jordan
Yeah, but REAL geeks stay at home and play Quake, so they're just as out of touch.
Hehe, just finished a good round of Western Quake...good stuff!
-Jordan
Erm. Actually, guys, they do have things like this, and I think Canon or somebody makes them (can somebody spot me a link? im passing out!). May even be automated, but they have really advanced imaging software that can automatically compensate for lighting, rotation, fold, warping, etc, and then OCR it at a fairly high accuracy rate.
Hunting is no fun. Easy way to do it, in the middle east for instance, just use neutron bombs, wipes out anything alive, leaves the oil reserves and all the good stuff. Just come back in a year.
Another option, in the case of Africa, where there are viable, living, natural resources where it would be stupid to kill them (animals shouldn't die, lets start killing humans). In which case, just start wiping them out with conventional arsenals.
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How blind are you people!?
Half of my rant was that anything funded, if such a term could even apply to receiving zero dollars ($0), by the school system, cannot afford the ludicrous prices by internet companies in order to get legitimate status from ISPs for our mail server!
Argh.
Yeah, but buddy...we use our own mail server for professional reasons. I can control what my staff sends out and gets in, and also can provide server-side address (LDAP) and other resource support.
We're even considering moving to Exchange for the feature (we use RHEmS now), but with AOL blocking us, I try to keep a slightly tighter ship, so to speak, in an effort to show what the Avg. Joe can do with their mailserv. I dunno guys, the Net seems to be heading down the tubes faster than we can be righteous, but I hope we don't see this again. Come on! Students having their ALTERNATIVE ENERGY publication's mail serv blocked? It's a shame.
wavelengths discovered this one a while ago. As an academic publication, hence receiving zero (0) dollars, we can't very well afford to go ahead and get a static IP, business DSL line, or something as out of this world as a T1.
I think this is an egregious violation of the community's trust on part of AOL, not to mention that it's ridiculous considering that a LOT of the spam coming at them won't be from home lines, but from established spamwhores like pm0 and others.
So that's right, a group of 10 students can't send mail to AOL accounts because we can't afford to pay the piper for $300/month. This is RIDICULOUS. It's bad enough that we were forced away from school hosting because they "didn't have enough room" and that we actually needed features for our site, but then the fact that we can't get in touch with half of the MAST Academy student body through the wavelengths Journal email server...that's sad.
Best regards,
Jordan
Or for learning a bit more American English spelling...
"congratulations" (think congrats)
I make note of this because I really botched a spelling bee one year with a careless error on this word.
Centurion doesn't have a credit limit. The general concept is that if you somehow get one of these...you either have more money than anything resembling God, or you pay your bills with exacting precision.
I'm willing to bet that our dear friend Bill doesn't carry a Visa as his normal card, but a Centurion American Express. The Black Card.
Ironic, isn't it?
The best post duplicator around!
Well, to a Miamian...
Yeah, he does still smoke Cubans...it's a little agency we call INS...it's their job.
I hate to incur more comments from people brandishing Goatse as their link, but I do have to step in and say something.
I'm getting a Segway because of a number of reasons, with my own laziness being at the very bottom of the list. First of all is that I don't want to be reliant on everyone else for transportation. It shakes up my own agenda, something which really can't be avoided nowadays. As a school student with some issues at home, this gives me another way to get to OfficeMax and everything for school supplies and things I need without having to deal with another chaotic situation. It lets me get out of the house and escape the stress of life as a student. I sail all the time (contrary to your all too genius comment), and my Seg will simply get me there more often and easier. So no, it doesn't make me a fatass that I'm a geek, or that I have a Segway coming. If anything, I'll be better physically and mentally for it.
And for those of you who have this penchant for trolling, allow me to quickly state that it is instead you who seem to be the chair vegetables. Goatse.cx? How old are you man? Why don't you provide some constructive discussion for this forum? I'm surprised you even dare to show up around here, because all of us know that you don't very well do so in RW. So either get a couple of IQ points or get another message board. Slashdot has had enough of this monstrosity caused by antisocial psychopaths who seem to get their rocks off harassing others in an anonymouse medium. Grow up.
Completely 180 from this simply genius previous comment, I'd like to add my two cents where this counts.
I've had an order placed for an i167 Segway HT since two hours after the launch of them. It should be showing up in March, but not before I attend a day-long training session up in Orlando (or any other major city of my choice). I'm a high school student and plan on using it for pretty much everything. I'm a complete tech geek, and this just compliments the iBrick(err...I mean, iPAQ) and giant Inspiron 8200 which serve as gadgets that are often quite productive.
I don't see where San Francisco comes off in outright banning the HT. I can understand mandatory training or other legislation which still allows all purchasers from Segway LLC to operate their devices as intended. Segway, to the best of my knowledge, plans on instituting the required training for everyone, and those in the Amazon Pre-Order are required to attend 30 days before shipment.
I personally love the whole thing. If anyone has any questions or comments you can reach me at opti6600 @ bellsouth.net . I live in Miami, and I can only hope that our government here has something better to do than to entertain a walking activists group. Did I mention perhaps that I'm a high school student? These legislators need to focus their time on things that count, not things that are as bombproof as the Segway HT.
Or better yet...who will want to install a system in their office which will take them out of a job?
If I were these guys, INCLUDING Sun employees, because they'd be the first to go, I'd start setting up bugs in the company setups so the Sun techs at least keep their jobs.
So yeah, who's going to be watching the watchers while they're busy watching the watchers watching the watchers?
-Jordan
Guys, remember again that even though AMD and Intel are the most well-known x86 chipmakers, they are not the best, nor the only ones.
Transmeta Crusoe processors are starting to beat their way into the mainstream, slowly but surely, and not only will they most likely not support the TCPA, but they have less of a thermal load, use less power, and are going to find their way into smaller devices, yet still be compatible with x86 software.
Then again, VIA, I believe, has its own x86 compatible chips on its Mini-ITX mobos.
So don't despair. But when Transmeta starts saying that they'll support TCPA, thats when I'm going to start stocking up on Coppermines and Xeon-4s.
I have yet to find a PDA company that replaces things. Who do you work for?
Then what the heck do they use for the BEW11S4 Wireless Router?
What I would think would be funny is to see the logs from the Accidental Damage Protection programs at major companies today. I wonder if Dell could provide us with a list of their more humorous ones...like they get a call saying "oops I dropped it", and they pick it up, it's in nine pieces, all a different color of the rainbow, plastic and all.
My friends and I have done some crazy stuff to exploit the warranty, but accidents generally are much more interesting.
-Jordan
Yeah, well, we learned that if we played it stupid like Dilbert when the House comes for us, we'll be safe. Just don't end up as Gates' towelboy.
(Score 0, Funny? I would assume that more than one person modded this guy, right?)
The even funnier thing...is that they missed the huge Taco-raft. Eh, I'm going to start to watch out when these satellites start reaching their deorbit years. Eek, I can see my sailing classes right now...
"Jordan! Satellite on your right! Quick...oh well, too late."
I found that the best customer service has to be American Express for their Platinum cards. I can't say as far as Centurion goes, we didn't go with their offer on that ($1000 a year...uh-uh). But these people are great. Highly recommended.
Hehe, you ever done that with Babelfish one day when you're really bored? Just use babelfish over and over again on some piece of language, and you end up with "The Kiss of the Blue Bananas" when you started off with "The Penguins are coming to steal My sanity". Jordan
An interesting thread...but nonetheless... coughcoughcoughfreeadvertisingcough
At least they're not calling it Bush and letting you create your own Homeland Security Force.
It's actually called a Sybian. Get your porn terms right...and you call yourself a geek...
Yeah, but REAL geeks stay at home and play Quake, so they're just as out of touch. Hehe, just finished a good round of Western Quake...good stuff! -Jordan
Erm. Actually, guys, they do have things like this, and I think Canon or somebody makes them (can somebody spot me a link? im passing out!). May even be automated, but they have really advanced imaging software that can automatically compensate for lighting, rotation, fold, warping, etc, and then OCR it at a fairly high accuracy rate.
Hunting is no fun. Easy way to do it, in the middle east for instance, just use neutron bombs, wipes out anything alive, leaves the oil reserves and all the good stuff. Just come back in a year.
Another option, in the case of Africa, where there are viable, living, natural resources where it would be stupid to kill them (animals shouldn't die, lets start killing humans). In which case, just start wiping them out with conventional arsenals.