Yeah leave the servers up and cut the clients. I think I going to do that, we'll wait a minute there is got to bee a catch somewhere. Let's read some more.
I think that's why I built the last few boxes that are here, but sucks in what way?
1.) Time on hold? 2.) Nota speka gooda egliz? 3.) Telling you a hardware problem is software and not their responsibility? ???
I never did pay for extra support or even call them for that matter. I just bought the cheap stuff and fixed what breaks. That's easy, it's just a commodity PC. With Apple you really would need the support but if Dell sells you extra support, then they should provide it. Maybe they have a Diamond Protection Plan now.
I am old enough to remember when Dell and some of the other companies had real good support. They would send a tech down here just to change a floppy drive next day. Now maybe with the economy going down companies that succeed will finally realize that their customers are their most valuable assets.
If I was a home user I would want a Mac (What's $200 for a better product). If I were in small business it would still be Microsoft (They have small businesses by the balls and wont let go). If I were in a mid size or larger company, I would go with Linux (Because I could afford to hire a programmer to fill in the small gaps).
--I'm not an Apple fan; but I still think nothing good should be said about M$. The company is still getting nailed for illegal business practices like the price fixing scheme in Germany.
Everything the company does is suspect, and part same old embrace, extend, and extinguish business model.--
Isn't ITunes getting the same treatment from the EU? Apple is trying to do the same thing there.
I would like to embrace the free software concept as in freedom to do what I want with it once I have bought it, got it open source, etc. Unfortunately, I can't find everything to make our businesses work that way.
You are right, but no big companies seem trustworthy anymore either on this side of the Atlantic or your side of it.
I gotta reply to this too. I think you can get the next day stuff from Dell but you have to buy their premium support and then the $200 difference the parent was mentioning probably vanishes.
This will probably change when apple puts some decent graphics cards into their expensive machines.
Microsoft is the taxer though. Just when you have everything the way you want it, they pull the rug out from under you by not providing security updates for XP. Why don't they just keep improving and selling XP? Like adding direct x 10 support or whatever instead of trying to be my nanny.
There is nothing wrong with the way eastern Kentucky looks vs. Hawaii. It's more to do with the employment situation there. They should have studied that.
Let's see if you want to work it's either coal mining, logging, and/or farming. Your wife make make more than you in the health care industry since there are so many casualties from those other jobs not to mention about half or a third the pay for mining that you would get out west for doing a job less dangerous and then you can see why the depression level is high.
Hopefully, one of these days someone will see the light and develop tourism more here in Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, etc. because the view, things to do, etc. are much better than the Gatlinburg, DollyWood area in Tennessee.
There is good whitewater rafting here, many places to ride four wheelers and do other extreme things. It is in the mountains and things are a lot stricter now on coal mining. There has to be land reclamation and where you don't have coal there is no mining. It's a beautiful place but depressing because it's not more than what it is.
--But still, kind of puts things in perspective, huh? Imagine if we bought fewer consumer goods from 8000 miles away... and how much less energy would be consumed. It could dwarf the savings from spam filtering -- not that this makes spam filtering any less of a good idea.--
Shipping stuff by container is probably more efficient than rail or trucks to move them. What we really need is to able to capture more energy from the sun whether we create an artificial one here (fusion) or improve the efficiency of solar arrays or both. If we could do that we would have all of the cheap energy that we could ever want.
Money needs to be thrown at these problems instead of keeping what will not work at some point.
Back to the original subject. Lets get some good games, CAD, and small business financial software for Linux and Windows and their bot nets will go away. That would help lots. And before someone says GNU cash or something like that. It will not work without payroll and host of other things that are tailored for small businesses. That is where Microsoft has it's strongest grip on small businesses.
H2O is the result (Old Joke BTW). Isn't most hydrogen actually produced using natural gas? It takes energy to crack it from H2O you know.
Making batteries takes energy. Keeping an extra battery at home is a good idea, but lets say you even get the range of gasoline, some are going to want to drive from New York to LA and don't want to wait for a 12 hour fill up. For those in that kind of need there could be battery swap out stations just like gas stations or hydrogen stations. Either storage method can probably work but getting every company to standardize on one is the HUGE problem, not building the vehicle itself.
200 mile range with electricity and batteries to store it on board with with swap out stations at least every 200 miles seems like a good plan because people like to go on trips too.
You have to buy 2 according to Top Gear having one on charge. Why not carry that idea further and have an easy change battery station where all of the gas stations are and it will work.
That's the real tough nut to crack, infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.
Oil is going to run out folks. What are we going to do? Make a choice. Doesn't Honda make a hydrogen powered fuel cell to electric already for sale in California?
The way I see it is that we have to build new infrastructure if the batteries can't be made to work reasonably well. The first and only way to do it is to use something that is already proven. Hydrogen is already proven but probably made from fossil fuels now. Maybe embedding induction in the highways for electric transport on the interstates and batteries to get you home from there might work.
It's a tough problem to crack and will cost trillions in infrastructure alone no matter what is chosen. It seems narrowed down to electricity, but how do you produce it? We need to either get solar cells at 80% efficiency or maybe fusion power to work. These problems have not been solved yet but seem to be the only answer for clean energy and lots of it.
So there you have it. A storage problem that has not been solved plus a generation problem that has not been solved.
Giving money to small companies can sometimes solve the small problems in a bigger problem. So yeah if GM gets money so should Tesla. I hope they both spend it wisely this damn time.
--Conversely, browse a rural paper and you'll find quite a bit of commenting coming from a relatively blue/liberal point of view.--
We have one of those here. It actually reports more of just news and lets the reader decide. I don't think it is either liberal or conservative or whatever label that you want to apply, but it sure does have a lot of gossip in it.
And... the local TV stations here are MUCH more unbiased than the national news. The paper here is almost totally unbiased except for the gossip column, but it more or less points that out. They have to have that gossip column for all of the people that move to the big city but still get the paper to get gossip from back home. There really isn't news as such very often because nothing happens here. So they report everything everyone does down to parking tickets, land transactions, new businesses, etc. It is very boring in fact and I think that is what you will mostly find in a rural newspaper, not whatever label that you just applied like a blanket.
--In my personal opinion, there's no other way to experience Slashdot. The folks who don't browse at -1 have no idea what they're missing, or maybe they're the easily offended and want to reduce their stress not by becoming less easily offended (that'd be too straightforward) but by refusing to read the posts that are most likely to be trolls and such.--
I agree, that's the only way to go. Sometimes it actually makes it easier to find the good stuff that way.
--I realize VA is far from the federal government--
Your dead wrong about. We are very near to the government. DC is just across the border you know. God bless those government employees. They are the only ones buying anything right now and a lot of companies will agree with this just because of politics.
I don't personally care but it is a crazy waste of money that you would think they could have spent better somehow.
--I'd like to use my absentee vote to bring the US closer to the standard of living we have here, but there's no US party that falls in that portion of the political spectrum.--
Point taken. Suggest a fix because I for one would like to know what the fix is?
Right lay those pictures out of what they thought were WMD's in Iraq just like they did in Cuba with the photos of the missiles being deployed. It's no big secret that they can probably even listen to stuff from in the past. That stuff is got to be on a hard drive somewhere and if so and it's connected to a network, then they can probably read All the traffic. Now what to make of it is another challenge. That's where they are not too smart and don't want us to know. We'll we do. I just doesn't matter at this point. What's the plan to fix things?
I've got no problem with them doing it right then, if that is the case then the judge can approve the evidence gained at a later time, but some third party (judge) needs to make damn sure that they have a really good reason like that. If not then all the records should be destroyed.
I wouldn't dismiss that at all. Crazy Americans just about sums it up. The system that we have now is pretty much serfdom if something even minor goes wrong with you.
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I kinda gotta agree with you but jail for a civil offense is a we bit harsh, don't you think?
I don't think they would have been treated that bad in the US. They would have been shut down and fined for sure but jailed.
It's a bold/scarry new world out there it's looking like.
Yeah leave the servers up and cut the clients. I think I going to do that, we'll wait a minute there is got to bee a catch somewhere. Let's read some more.
I think that's why I built the last few boxes that are here, but sucks in what way?
1.) Time on hold?
2.) Nota speka gooda egliz?
3.) Telling you a hardware problem is software and not their responsibility?
???
I never did pay for extra support or even call them for that matter. I just bought the cheap stuff and fixed what breaks. That's easy, it's just a commodity PC. With Apple you really would need the support but if Dell sells you extra support, then they should provide it. Maybe they have a Diamond Protection Plan now.
I am old enough to remember when Dell and some of the other companies had real good support. They would send a tech down here just to change a floppy drive next day. Now maybe with the economy going down companies that succeed will finally realize that their customers are their most valuable assets.
If I was a home user I would want a Mac (What's $200 for a better product). If I were in small business it would still be Microsoft (They have small businesses by the balls and wont let go). If I were in a mid size or larger company, I would go with Linux (Because I could afford to hire a programmer to fill in the small gaps).
--I'm not an Apple fan; but I still think nothing good should be said about M$. The company is still getting nailed for illegal business practices like the price fixing scheme in Germany.
Everything the company does is suspect, and part same old embrace, extend, and extinguish business model.--
Isn't ITunes getting the same treatment from the EU? Apple is trying to do the same thing there.
I would like to embrace the free software concept as in freedom to do what I want with it once I have bought it, got it open source, etc. Unfortunately, I can't find everything to make our businesses work that way.
You are right, but no big companies seem trustworthy anymore either on this side of the Atlantic or your side of it.
I gotta reply to this too. I think you can get the next day stuff from Dell but you have to buy their premium support and then the $200 difference the parent was mentioning probably vanishes.
This will probably change when apple puts some decent graphics cards into their expensive machines.
Microsoft is the taxer though. Just when you have everything the way you want it, they pull the rug out from under you by not providing security updates for XP. Why don't they just keep improving and selling XP? Like adding direct x 10 support or whatever instead of trying to be my nanny.
If you have Apple stuff then chicks know you have money or at least you did have it. I guess that could work the other way too.
Do you want a Cadillac or VW beetle, that is the question.
and say Microsoft is great for let's say $10,000. I think this is less than what they paid. Think M$, I can do the same thing cheaper.
Odd. I thought LA was supposed to be a laid back.
Exactly, and most don't have a chance for that in the area that TFA is talking about.
There is nothing wrong with the way eastern Kentucky looks vs. Hawaii. It's more to do with the employment situation there. They should have studied that.
Let's see if you want to work it's either coal mining, logging, and/or farming. Your wife make make more than you in the health care industry since there are so many casualties from those other jobs not to mention about half or a third the pay for mining that you would get out west for doing a job less dangerous and then you can see why the depression level is high.
Hopefully, one of these days someone will see the light and develop tourism more here in Eastern Kentucky, Southwest Virginia, etc. because the view, things to do, etc. are much better than the Gatlinburg, DollyWood area in Tennessee.
There is good whitewater rafting here, many places to ride four wheelers and do other extreme things. It is in the mountains and things are a lot stricter now on coal mining. There has to be land reclamation and where you don't have coal there is no mining. It's a beautiful place but depressing because it's not more than what it is.
--But still, kind of puts things in perspective, huh? Imagine if we bought fewer consumer goods from 8000 miles away... and how much less energy would be consumed. It could dwarf the savings from spam filtering -- not that this makes spam filtering any less of a good idea.--
Shipping stuff by container is probably more efficient than rail or trucks to move them. What we really need is to able to capture more energy from the sun whether we create an artificial one here (fusion) or improve the efficiency of solar arrays or both. If we could do that we would have all of the cheap energy that we could ever want.
Money needs to be thrown at these problems instead of keeping what will not work at some point.
Back to the original subject. Lets get some good games, CAD, and small business financial software for Linux and Windows and their bot nets will go away. That would help lots. And before someone says GNU cash or something like that. It will not work without payroll and host of other things that are tailored for small businesses. That is where Microsoft has it's strongest grip on small businesses.
H2O is the result (Old Joke BTW). Isn't most hydrogen actually produced using natural gas? It takes energy to crack it from H2O you know.
Making batteries takes energy. Keeping an extra battery at home is a good idea, but lets say you even get the range of gasoline, some are going to want to drive from New York to LA and don't want to wait for a 12 hour fill up. For those in that kind of need there could be battery swap out stations just like gas stations or hydrogen stations. Either storage method can probably work but getting every company to standardize on one is the HUGE problem, not building the vehicle itself.
200 mile range with electricity and batteries to store it on board with with swap out stations at least every 200 miles seems like a good plan because people like to go on trips too.
You have to buy 2 according to Top Gear having one on charge. Why not carry that idea further and have an easy change battery station where all of the gas stations are and it will work.
That's the real tough nut to crack, infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure.
Oil is going to run out folks. What are we going to do? Make a choice. Doesn't Honda make a hydrogen powered fuel cell to electric already for sale in California?
The way I see it is that we have to build new infrastructure if the batteries can't be made to work reasonably well. The first and only way to do it is to use something that is already proven. Hydrogen is already proven but probably made from fossil fuels now. Maybe embedding induction in the highways for electric transport on the interstates and batteries to get you home from there might work.
It's a tough problem to crack and will cost trillions in infrastructure alone no matter what is chosen. It seems narrowed down to electricity, but how do you produce it? We need to either get solar cells at 80% efficiency or maybe fusion power to work. These problems have not been solved yet but seem to be the only answer for clean energy and lots of it.
So there you have it. A storage problem that has not been solved plus a generation problem that has not been solved.
Giving money to small companies can sometimes solve the small problems in a bigger problem. So yeah if GM gets money so should Tesla. I hope they both spend it wisely this damn time.
--Also, all your data belongs to Microsoft.--
I think it's supposed to say "All your base belong to M$".
--I wonder if this questionnaire took into account businsses that got Vista.--
Which ones did that?
Laptops are how the OS worms it's way in to an organization.
We are still on XP hardware and all and it still works for now.
--Conversely, browse a rural paper and you'll find quite a bit of commenting coming from a relatively blue/liberal point of view.--
We have one of those here. It actually reports more of just news and lets the reader decide. I don't think it is either liberal or conservative or whatever label that you want to apply, but it sure does have a lot of gossip in it.
And... the local TV stations here are MUCH more unbiased than the national news. The paper here is almost totally unbiased except for the gossip column, but it more or less points that out. They have to have that gossip column for all of the people that move to the big city but still get the paper to get gossip from back home. There really isn't news as such very often because nothing happens here. So they report everything everyone does down to parking tickets, land transactions, new businesses, etc. It is very boring in fact and I think that is what you will mostly find in a rural newspaper, not whatever label that you just applied like a blanket.
--In my personal opinion, there's no other way to experience Slashdot. The folks who don't browse at -1 have no idea what they're missing, or maybe they're the easily offended and want to reduce their stress not by becoming less easily offended (that'd be too straightforward) but by refusing to read the posts that are most likely to be trolls and such.--
I agree, that's the only way to go. Sometimes it actually makes it easier to find the good stuff that way.
--I realize VA is far from the federal government--
Your dead wrong about. We are very near to the government. DC is just across the border you know. God bless those government employees. They are the only ones buying anything right now and a lot of companies will agree with this just because of politics.
I don't personally care but it is a crazy waste of money that you would think they could have spent better somehow.
--this movement has the potential to inspire lone wolf behavior in the cyber realms.--
I don't think it's even a happening much less a full blown movement. I thought it was all kids being kids and playing pranks.
Looks like the prank is on the State of Virginia. Is everyone of interest?
--I'd like to use my absentee vote to bring the US closer to the standard of living we have here, but there's no US party that falls in that portion of the political spectrum.--
Point taken. Suggest a fix because I for one would like to know what the fix is?
Right lay those pictures out of what they thought were WMD's in Iraq just like they did in Cuba with the photos of the missiles being deployed. It's no big secret that they can probably even listen to stuff from in the past. That stuff is got to be on a hard drive somewhere and if so and it's connected to a network, then they can probably read All the traffic. Now what to make of it is another challenge. That's where they are not too smart and don't want us to know. We'll we do. I just doesn't matter at this point. What's the plan to fix things?
I've got no problem with them doing it right then, if that is the case then the judge can approve the evidence gained at a later time, but some third party (judge) needs to make damn sure that they have a really good reason like that. If not then all the records should be destroyed.
I wouldn't dismiss that at all. Crazy Americans just about sums it up. The system that we have now is pretty much serfdom if something even minor goes wrong with you.