I recently got a Samsung SyncMaster 712n LCD. I immediately noticed the mouse didn't respond properly. This lead me to believe it had something to do w/ my new LCD somehow. However, I also noticed if i tilted my mousepad, the mouse worked better. So now I assume it's the mouse or mousepad, but I've had the same mouse and mousepad even before this new LCD and I hadn't had any of these issues...so I'm not sure what to think.
the worst sites are ones created by idiots who, although they themselves exclusively use IE and also preview their website in IE only, implement some sort of mechanism to prevent other browsers from viewing it. spoofing what browser you're using ends up resulting in a prefectly viewable website....might not be w3c compliant but it's good enough the browser knows how to handle it. do they not want more people to view their website? why shut the door at thoee with non-IE browsers?
even worse is when people confuse "then" and "than".
HOWEVER....on slashdot I always keep in mind that people posting messages might not always be from the US. It's quite possible that it is somebody who has a primary language other than Elgish(US). We certainly can not expect them to perfect this language when some native-English speakers can't do it themselves.
my favorite episode was one where some lady was supposed to fly out from Burbank, but because she was running late, she called SouthWest to ask if she could fly out of LA, shorter drive for her. They said it was ok as long as she made it to the security checkpoint within 15minutes of the plane's departure time.
So yes, she got there not 15 minutes before the departure, but 20 minutes. She was delayed because she had a bunch of presents and they had to examine them (I'm certain she didn't mention that to the rep. when she called S.W.). So now she missed her flight and is pissed of and is talking to one of the managers.
She goes on to say about how she made it on time, blah blah blah. The manager says that she should ahve arrived at least an hour early to have some buffer time. Then the angry customer says something along the lines "Oh that's besides the point. Me being late is not an issue." And proceeds to bitch as to why they did not let her board the plan.
Ha!
#2 was some idiot customer crying about her luggage being lost and yelling at the baggage claim person. She tells them her bag is brown. Turns out her bag was in the carrusel all this time....oh yeah, and it wasn't brown. It was green.
how exactly do you determine whether it came from an email or not? and how do you explain this to the customer? i'd be surprised if only a few dispute your findings as to how the PC got infected.
...yet they are still being displayed in the "CD's" section. The stores do nothing to make the customer aware of this bit of important fact.
Oh and even though *we* may know these aren't technically CD's, the average joe doesn't.
Likewise, for message boards, I use the same pw all across. Other than that, I use diferent, more complext pw's for the more important stuff. To remmeber all the pw's I use Oubliette. It stores info such as username, pw, email address, and notes all in one file. You then have to remember only the pw to that file which is encrypted. It also has a random pw generator.
oohhh yes, i remember the day my brother and i bought a cd-r/rw...close to $500. we polled our money and saved enough to get the RW. at first, there WERE separate cd-r and cd-rw models to choose from. now-a-days burners are RW as a standard.
similar thing to your story happend at a walmart (can't find the article, but it was posted on fark).
some people dressed up as those who drive armored trucks walked in without a care in the world. they left with bags of money. shortly after, the real people came in to pick up the money....OOPS!
simple....just pass this to the underground cracking groups...and have it cracked within a week. they always seem to come through when it comes to cracking software protection algorithms:)
Although TSS is geared toward newbie/novice computer users, I do watch it. I personally do not like Leo at all. What really ticked me off about Leo is not so much how he treats people like 3rd graders like some here have said...it's all the time he wasted trying to be a clown. It just irritated me that even when a caller was trying to ask his/her question, Leo would go offtrack. And when they get back on track, he'd resume with his stupid antics. You could tell that sometimes even Pat would get annoyed and would shut him up in a graceful and polite way. Now w/out Leo, TSS seems to cover more topics, caller's questions, etc.
But you are right, I wouldn't care *why* you did it because the end result is the same regardless of your rationalizations to ease your conscience.
Of course, this includes if my reason was "I downloaded the music/movie/program because I could and felt pretty cool knowing I had in my possession the album/movie/program not released in retail yet. So how would I rate this album/movie/program? Oh I coudln't say. I dont even listen/watch/use it".
Would I buy it in retail if it was for $1? Probably not. How is it that me having possession is a lost revenue case? I haven't the slightest clue.
It was unjust to have Mitnick held w/out bail/trial for years, that they were charging him for millions of dollars on behalf of companies who did not even report such losses in Annual Reports, asinine how they would not allow him/his lawyers to copy the HD of evidence they had of him (they wanted him to give them the pw to decrypt the info). ETc etc etc.
However, Bernie S.'s story was more interesting to me than Mitnick's. He wasn't doing anything to defraud the phone company. He was simply selling something that Radio Shack was *also* selling at the time. Selective prsection if you ask me. Charging him for *potentially* having materials that could be used as explosives? That's crazy. And on top of that, the material they believed to be explosives turned out to be dentist's putty left behind by the previous tenant.
Ehh, just read his story if you haven't already.
http://www.2600.com/law/bernie.html
isn't it obvous? all they have to do is make funny/stupid/revealing commercials then they make a collection of those commercials and make it into a "world's funniest commercials" , then people WILL sit and watch em:)
From the article The television companies estimate they could have lost $900 million in business.
Oh pooh!! The satelite TV industry is not exactly one that is risk-free...no industry is. If they wanna be in the satellite industry, they gotta realize that there are gonna be losses. If I open up a gas station in the corner, I can't expect everybody that passes by to stop and fuel up. In addition, I shouln't be surprised if another gas station opens up in front of mine! As the topic states, "Maybe if I catch someone trying to break into my car, I can sue him for the damage he would have caused if he succeeded..."...Sue him for all the days I would have missed work, all the job offers I could have gotten (because I got fired for the other one since I didn't have a car to get there on time every day), etc.
So how exactly did they come up with that figure? X potential customers * X descrabling units * X service calls to set up the satelite * Y for call-backs * Z tech's hourly wage....etc.??? As far as I can tell, they aren't loosing anything. The box would have just decrypted signals and would have not deprived these companies in any way....Well, yes could have been deprived in customers, but not in the other stuff.
...ReplayTV's ability to send video to another TV isn't that much different than TiVo's Home Media Option.
You mean, TiVo's Home Media Option isn't that much different than Replay's feature. From TiVo's Home Media Option Page you see that it consists of:
1) Digital Music
2) Remote Scheduling
3) Digital Photos
4) Multi-Room Viewing
Sure, (1) isn't part of ReplayTV, but the rest are, and its free, whereas TiVo charges an additional fee for these features. And it's been around, Home Media Option only became avaliable not too long ago.
I would undoubtedly buy another ReplayTV unit regardless of the outcome of the Commercial Avance Feature. Plus, I've read posts from many ReplayTV users who own TiVos _AS WELL_ and praise ReplayTV's for their superior video encoding. And lets not get into TiVo's daunting menu's.
I've used computers for about 30 years and over that time their hardware reliability has improved (but not that much), but their software reliability has remained largely unchanged.
I read through most of the replies, and skimmed through the rest...none seemed to touched on the subject that the companies that sell the software (haven't really payed attention to hardware) immideately release themselves from any harm their software causes. They state that they are not liable for any data loss, etc. in result of use of their software. It really ticks me off that it is so easy for them to do that. I would like to be able to have the DMV accept a terms and agreement stating since they granted me the drivers lisence I (the driver) can not be held responsible if I crash [waiting for soembdy to show how this analogy is not so good]. I would imagine if software companies could be held liable they would clean up their code a bit more, make it less likely to crash, etc....Afterall they're making money from this. I could understand programs released under GNU GPL to have "as is" notices. It's free!:)
At the other end...people do crazy stuff with computers and applications they run on them. It's tough to account for every single little point-and-click a user can possibly think of.
I would also agree with AvengerXP's statement:
I've found out over time that the reason computer equipment crashes in general is lack of maintenance. Would you drive a car without changing it's oil for 5 years straight? Then why should a computer be any different. It's much more complex than a toaster, and yet the average toaster doesn't last much longer than a CPU. I think it's time people start treating things as they do with themselves. Take care of it/them.
I've come across many computers that don't have the most recent drivers or software upates a ka-jillion programs (and spyware) installed, no anti-virus app. (or if so, waaaaaayyyyyy out of date), yet the woner wonders why their computer is so sluggish. They just dont seem to maintain them at all.
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Chazmyrr says:Long Answer: Don't do it. It isn't worth the aggravation. When something goes wrong, it's automatically your fault. It doesn't matter they dropped the box while they were moving and unseated the boards. It's still your fault. It doesn't matter that they tested the huge electro- magnet for the science fair project right next to the hard drive. They still expect you to fix it over the phone.
This is one reason I stay away from building custom PC's for relatives. If the PC breaks down, they expect me to fix it ASAP. It doesn't matter that they download and execute every file e-mailed to them, or that they click on YES for every Active-X control in websites, or as Bull999999 already mentioned (a.k.a. AOL, Real Player, Bonzi Buddy, Hot Bar, etc)...No, it's my fault.:(
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I recently got a Samsung SyncMaster 712n LCD. I immediately noticed the mouse didn't respond properly. This lead me to believe it had something to do w/ my new LCD somehow. However, I also noticed if i tilted my mousepad, the mouse worked better. So now I assume it's the mouse or mousepad, but I've had the same mouse and mousepad even before this new LCD and I hadn't had any of these issues...so I'm not sure what to think.
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skurd for scared
he be [verb] for he is [verb]
the worst sites are ones created by idiots who, although they themselves exclusively use IE and also preview their website in IE only, implement some sort of mechanism to prevent other browsers from viewing it. spoofing what browser you're using ends up resulting in a prefectly viewable website....might not be w3c compliant but it's good enough the browser knows how to handle it. do they not want more people to view their website? why shut the door at thoee with non-IE browsers?
i knew i should have waited 10 years instead of getting that $300 dvd player!
wasn't this bug known for a while and was just recently issued a fix for it?
HOWEVER....on slashdot I always keep in mind that people posting messages might not always be from the US. It's quite possible that it is somebody who has a primary language other than Elgish(US). We certainly can not expect them to perfect this language when some native-English speakers can't do it themselves.
is there any possibility that there is a scam /cheating involved?
So yes, she got there not 15 minutes before the departure, but 20 minutes. She was delayed because she had a bunch of presents and they had to examine them (I'm certain she didn't mention that to the rep. when she called S.W.). So now she missed her flight and is pissed of and is talking to one of the managers.
She goes on to say about how she made it on time, blah blah blah. The manager says that she should ahve arrived at least an hour early to have some buffer time. Then the angry customer says something along the lines "Oh that's besides the point. Me being late is not an issue." And proceeds to bitch as to why they did not let her board the plan.
Ha!
#2 was some idiot customer crying about her luggage being lost and yelling at the baggage claim person. She tells them her bag is brown. Turns out her bag was in the carrusel all this time....oh yeah, and it wasn't brown. It was green.
how exactly do you determine whether it came from an email or not? and how do you explain this to the customer? i'd be surprised if only a few dispute your findings as to how the PC got infected.
...yet they are still being displayed in the "CD's" section. The stores do nothing to make the customer aware of this bit of important fact. Oh and even though *we* may know these aren't technically CD's, the average joe doesn't.
Aahhh yes. I too read the last two winners as one. I personally use the comma after the "and."
dont forget that they also own a bunch of billboards and also have pretty good control of many venus.
Likewise, for message boards, I use the same pw all across. Other than that, I use diferent, more complext pw's for the more important stuff. To remmeber all the pw's I use Oubliette. It stores info such as username, pw, email address, and notes all in one file. You then have to remember only the pw to that file which is encrypted. It also has a random pw generator.
oohhh yes, i remember the day my brother and i bought a cd-r/rw...close to $500. we polled our money and saved enough to get the RW. at first, there WERE separate cd-r and cd-rw models to choose from. now-a-days burners are RW as a standard.
similar thing to your story happend at a walmart (can't find the article, but it was posted on fark). some people dressed up as those who drive armored trucks walked in without a care in the world. they left with bags of money. shortly after, the real people came in to pick up the money....OOPS!
simple....just pass this to the underground cracking groups...and have it cracked within a week. they always seem to come through when it comes to cracking software protection algorithms :)
Although TSS is geared toward newbie/novice computer users, I do watch it. I personally do not like Leo at all. What really ticked me off about Leo is not so much how he treats people like 3rd graders like some here have said...it's all the time he wasted trying to be a clown. It just irritated me that even when a caller was trying to ask his/her question, Leo would go offtrack. And when they get back on track, he'd resume with his stupid antics. You could tell that sometimes even Pat would get annoyed and would shut him up in a graceful and polite way. Now w/out Leo, TSS seems to cover more topics, caller's questions, etc.
Of course, this includes if my reason was "I downloaded the music/movie/program because I could and felt pretty cool knowing I had in my possession the album/movie/program not released in retail yet. So how would I rate this album/movie/program? Oh I coudln't say. I dont even listen/watch/use it". Would I buy it in retail if it was for $1? Probably not. How is it that me having possession is a lost revenue case? I haven't the slightest clue.
i give it 6 months tops before somebody figures out how to replicate the decoder :)
It was unjust to have Mitnick held w/out bail/trial for years, that they were charging him for millions of dollars on behalf of companies who did not even report such losses in Annual Reports, asinine how they would not allow him/his lawyers to copy the HD of evidence they had of him (they wanted him to give them the pw to decrypt the info). ETc etc etc. However, Bernie S.'s story was more interesting to me than Mitnick's. He wasn't doing anything to defraud the phone company. He was simply selling something that Radio Shack was *also* selling at the time. Selective prsection if you ask me. Charging him for *potentially* having materials that could be used as explosives? That's crazy. And on top of that, the material they believed to be explosives turned out to be dentist's putty left behind by the previous tenant. Ehh, just read his story if you haven't already. http://www.2600.com/law/bernie.html
isn't it obvous? all they have to do is make funny/stupid/revealing commercials then they make a collection of those commercials and make it into a "world's funniest commercials" , then people WILL sit and watch em :)
The television companies estimate they could have lost $900 million in business.
Oh pooh!! The satelite TV industry is not exactly one that is risk-free...no industry is. If they wanna be in the satellite industry, they gotta realize that there are gonna be losses. If I open up a gas station in the corner, I can't expect everybody that passes by to stop and fuel up. In addition, I shouln't be surprised if another gas station opens up in front of mine! As the topic states, "Maybe if I catch someone trying to break into my car, I can sue him for the damage he would have caused if he succeeded..."...Sue him for all the days I would have missed work, all the job offers I could have gotten (because I got fired for the other one since I didn't have a car to get there on time every day), etc.
So how exactly did they come up with that figure? X potential customers * X descrabling units * X service calls to set up the satelite * Y for call-backs * Z tech's hourly wage....etc.??? As far as I can tell, they aren't loosing anything. The box would have just decrypted signals and would have not deprived these companies in any way....Well, yes could have been deprived in customers, but not in the other stuff.
You mean, TiVo's Home Media Option isn't that much different than Replay's feature. From TiVo's Home Media Option Page you see that it consists of:
1) Digital Music
2) Remote Scheduling
3) Digital Photos
4) Multi-Room Viewing
Sure, (1) isn't part of ReplayTV, but the rest are, and its free, whereas TiVo charges an additional fee for these features. And it's been around, Home Media Option only became avaliable not too long ago.
I would undoubtedly buy another ReplayTV unit regardless of the outcome of the Commercial Avance Feature. Plus, I've read posts from many ReplayTV users who own TiVos _AS WELL_ and praise ReplayTV's for their superior video encoding. And lets not get into TiVo's daunting menu's.
-rtv owner
I read through most of the replies, and skimmed through the rest...none seemed to touched on the subject that the companies that sell the software (haven't really payed attention to hardware) immideately release themselves from any harm their software causes. They state that they are not liable for any data loss, etc. in result of use of their software. It really ticks me off that it is so easy for them to do that. I would like to be able to have the DMV accept a terms and agreement stating since they granted me the drivers lisence I (the driver) can not be held responsible if I crash [waiting for soembdy to show how this analogy is not so good]. I would imagine if software companies could be held liable they would clean up their code a bit more, make it less likely to crash, etc....Afterall they're making money from this. I could understand programs released under GNU GPL to have "as is" notices. It's free! :)
At the other end...people do crazy stuff with computers and applications they run on them. It's tough to account for every single little point-and-click a user can possibly think of.
I would also agree with AvengerXP's statement: I've found out over time that the reason computer equipment crashes in general is lack of maintenance. Would you drive a car without changing it's oil for 5 years straight? Then why should a computer be any different. It's much more complex than a toaster, and yet the average toaster doesn't last much longer than a CPU. I think it's time people start treating things as they do with themselves. Take care of it/them.
I've come across many computers that don't have the most recent drivers or software upates a ka-jillion programs (and spyware) installed, no anti-virus app. (or if so, waaaaaayyyyyy out of date), yet the woner wonders why their computer is so sluggish. They just dont seem to maintain them at all.
This is one reason I stay away from building custom PC's for relatives. If the PC breaks down, they expect me to fix it ASAP. It doesn't matter that they download and execute every file e-mailed to them, or that they click on YES for every Active-X control in websites, or as Bull999999 already mentioned (a.k.a. AOL, Real Player, Bonzi Buddy, Hot Bar, etc)...No, it's my fault. :(