I just told them over the phone that they were to bring cable to the demarq spot outside the building, and they weren't coming inside anyways.
I can't call in a service request because the cable broke between the splitter and my daughters bedroom, so why do they need to come in to "install" it there, if they dont support it?
It took a bit of arguing, but I didn't have to hang around between "8AM and 3PM". Curiously, my neighbour said that the truck pulled up about 10 after 8. Enough proof for me that they only fuck around when they know they're wasting your time, and not their own.
It's not even remotely difficult to keep a Microsoft box secure online, but that's besides the point.
Comcast and others are already automatically blocking off nodes that, for example, send out an inordinate amount of SMTP traffic.
It shouldn't necessarily be the users responsibility. It's not my responsibility if Ford sells cars with defective tires, it's up to them to issue a recall, or hell, at least inform me that the vehicle I'm driving may be unsafe. Which is, to their credit, what MSFT is trying to do with XP SP2.
There are plenty of primer-colored shitboxes out on the highway, and there's little that can be done about it. In some cases, a cop can issue a citation for specific defects (no working taillights, etc).
But AFAIK there's no law holding me responsible if I don't get my oil changed regularly, or even check it, and my engine siezes on the highway. Every other driver assumes part of that risk when they get in their car. Which is why I drive somewhat defensively, and just assume that every other vehicle is about to fall apart, and every other driver is a fucking moron.
By the same token, everyone who goes online (including you) does so with full knowledge of all the spam and malware about. If you really don't want to deal with it, don't go online.
Kerry said he would raise $30 billion to create high-tech jobs and promote innovation by auctioning to private companies the spectrum made available after more households transfer to digital television.
Was that not already the plan?
I guess it's just politics in action.
According to the Bush commercial I've been seeing, apparently Kerry is in favor of violence against pregnant women, since he voted against the Laci Peterson law.
"Chinese" isn't a language. They speak all kinds of languages and dialects in China. IIRC, mandarin is the most popular. There's little point in learning to speak "chinese" because the odds that any given Chinese person you try to talk to speaks the same dialect you just learned is fairly low.
A lot of people I know don't do anything more than read email, or at best get the latest scores for their favorite sports.
It's hard to sell these folks on the idea of paying 5 times as much by telling them it'll be "faster", when their entire online experience lasts a half hour a month.
The "killer app" for broadband hasn't really materialized yet.
You had to take a half a day off? I just phoned in the MAC of the cablemodem I'd just bought. Waited about 15 minutes, and hooray, I was browsing the interweb at speeds up to 300 times faster than dial-up.
Of course, that was bending Comcast rules at the time, and I had to sign a waiver saying that I'd be the one to pay if I fucked up and they had to roll a truck.
Nielsen chose us once, they offer some cool stuff in return for letting them monitor. I think you could get a DVD player or a new TV, etc..
They wanted a box connected to every device capable of TV reception. I didn't have a problem with them putting them on the TVs or VCRs, but when I found out it included the TV tuner in the Voodoo 3 3500 I had at the time, I told them no. I draw the line right around fucking with my PC, even if it's a completely external device.
But others probably wouldn't care. Hell, if all you do is read e-mail and do a little online browsing, it wouldn't be a big deal, expecially if you got something cool in return.
They aren't just replacing a defective (and potentially very dangerous) part, nor are they providing the expected warrantee services, they're giving you something for free! How nice of them!
"The tires sold with the car were defective, and the treads seperated at highway speeds, and I'm now a quadrapalegic and both my children are dead. But check it out, Ford's giving me free tires! What an AWESOME compnay!"
It's not that hard to do. For the premium you pay for an Apple laptop, they shove in the cheapest korean-made battery on the market.
Just like the el cheap-o eMachines-calibur power supplies they use, even in the "top dollar" G5 machines.
Batteries/PSU and cabling are where costs are cut. They aren't sexy specs to list in the marketting material, and you cant see them from the outside, so it's irrelevant if they're pretty or not.
They're thinking about how to spin Apple's obvious lack of QA as a "great innovation in computer science". They'll be here. They'll respond to this Apple-critical post in droves, just watch!
You think for as much as one of those things cost, relative to a PC laptop, they'd have tested them to make sure they dont overheat.
It's like the iPod battery problem. For 400 bucks they couldn't make sure they put a good battery in there?
What exactly are you paying the extra cash for, if not a higher quality? This isn't the first line of overheating Mac-tops, the last ones actually caught fire, IIRC.
Your computer was manufactured with the same processes.
So, why are you using a computer, and not thinking of the children?
BTW, fab processes get ever more environmentally friendly, practically daily. There's no real reason for toxic runoff, and much of it has been reduced or stopped. There are emerging, and some existing, truly "green" techniques for fabbing electronics. So don't get so upset.
Will it be compatible with my BIOS system and VGA adapter? I use a DOS system, and the FAT table is corrupted. Hopefully it plugs into the PCI interface, because I have no free ISA adapters.
I also hate the GNAA association and the CLIT trolls.
Cheap cameras have existed ever since Polaroid entered the scene.
Hell, people used to make their own pinhole boxes, and just buy the photographic plates to slide into the back. This is what I suggest for the OP.
Take your giant, wooden, inefficient, and ridiculous contraption to disneyland, and ask the guy in the Mickey suit to hold still for 30 minutes in the searing midday sun.
The article calls them "disposable" cameras, and says they'll go "on sale". Of course, in reality, all they have to do is put up a sign that says "digital camera rentals, $20"
The term of the "rental" can then be indefinite. The upside (for them) is that it would make it illegal to take the device apart to hack it, since it's not your property.
Disney and other theme parks are where this will make the bucks. They have a captive audience. You forgot your camera, huh? Here, buy one of ours. Only 50 bucks. I can guarantee you Disney won't charge MSRP to use the thing.
Or, better yet.. At the front gates. "Sorry sir, but to improve the customer experience, our Fun-gineering department now requires that no cameras or recording devices may be allowed in the park. If you like, you can buy one of our disposable cameras on Main Street USA".
Thirsty? We have water. 5 bucks. Etc. It's no secret to anyone who's been to a theme park that they do everything they can to gouge you once inside.
It'll cost 20 bucks at the local Rite Aid, but I can guarantee you that once past the gates of Disney, it'll cost at least 40 or 50. Or any other amusement park, for that matter. Enough that it'd negate any economy. But, you forgot your own camera, so you pay.
Actually, I envision the park security no longer allowing you to bring your own camera. You know, to improve safety and give you a more enjoyable experience.
Nowhere did I see anything saying the LCD was color.
What's a lo-res black and white LCD display worth? Something similar to what was in the original gameboy. Hell, even cheaper. Who cares about response time, or resolution. It just has to be good enough to let the user know which picture was which.
LCDs are generally cheaper than the electronics used to drive them.
Some of the best (read: most effective) political campaigning techniques involve campaigning for your opponent.. By cold calling at 3 AM, or putting bumper stickers on cars without the owners permission, etc..
A good campaign for Burger King would be "Try McDonalds' new Big Mac, now contains 75% more rat feces!" or "Eat at Applebees! We fired the guy who was pissing in the barbeque sauce!"
You do know that it's usually logically impossible to prove a negative?
Ie; Prove to me you have not used google.com today. Logs and caches dont mean anything, anyone could delete google references in them. Just because google's logs dont show your IP doesn't mean you didnt use a proxy or anonymizer, etc..
What (if any) recourse does a site accused of spam-vertising have? Do the ISPs just refer to the vague "we can do whatever we want with your account and redefine what's acceptable as we see fit" language in the FAP to drop sites?
I've never seen spam redirect me to a.uk page, I dont know if spammers are just smart enough to keep geography in mind, or what..
How many people do you think look at a map of America and think the nations capital is in the far northwest.
Hell, plenty of Americans dont even know that the State of Washington has nothing to do with Washington in the District of Columbia.
Hell, do they even know that D.C. isn't a state, it's a special district with it's own government?
Do they know that Peurto Rico belongs to the US, but is it's own nation? I suppose referring to Peurto Rico as a state would offend some Peurto Ricans.
The difference between this example and China or India, is it's not a criminal offense to mistakenly refer to Peurto Rico as a "state", neither in the USA or in Peurto Rico. It is a criminal offense to refer to Taiwan as a country in China.
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I just told them over the phone that they were to bring cable to the demarq spot outside the building, and they weren't coming inside anyways.
I can't call in a service request because the cable broke between the splitter and my daughters bedroom, so why do they need to come in to "install" it there, if they dont support it?
It took a bit of arguing, but I didn't have to hang around between "8AM and 3PM". Curiously, my neighbour said that the truck pulled up about 10 after 8. Enough proof for me that they only fuck around when they know they're wasting your time, and not their own.
It's not even remotely difficult to keep a Microsoft box secure online, but that's besides the point.
Comcast and others are already automatically blocking off nodes that, for example, send out an inordinate amount of SMTP traffic.
It shouldn't necessarily be the users responsibility. It's not my responsibility if Ford sells cars with defective tires, it's up to them to issue a recall, or hell, at least inform me that the vehicle I'm driving may be unsafe. Which is, to their credit, what MSFT is trying to do with XP SP2.
There are plenty of primer-colored shitboxes out on the highway, and there's little that can be done about it. In some cases, a cop can issue a citation for specific defects (no working taillights, etc).
But AFAIK there's no law holding me responsible if I don't get my oil changed regularly, or even check it, and my engine siezes on the highway. Every other driver assumes part of that risk when they get in their car. Which is why I drive somewhat defensively, and just assume that every other vehicle is about to fall apart, and every other driver is a fucking moron.
By the same token, everyone who goes online (including you) does so with full knowledge of all the spam and malware about. If you really don't want to deal with it, don't go online.
Kerry said he would raise $30 billion to create high-tech jobs and promote innovation by auctioning to private companies the spectrum made available after more households transfer to digital television.
Was that not already the plan?
I guess it's just politics in action.
According to the Bush commercial I've been seeing, apparently Kerry is in favor of violence against pregnant women, since he voted against the Laci Peterson law.
Do sympatico and other bb providers in Canada get rid of the ridiculous download caps?
It may be cheaper there, but I don't get any nasty letters because I downloaded too many gigabytes in a given month.
What the article doesn't say, is that busy signals are retried until someone answers.
Ie; they generate a big list of numbers, then work through that list. They don't get a busy signal and just cross it off the list automatically.
It could just as well that you have broadband, and your TiVo's just phoning home to sell you out.
I thought all /.'ers ran linux, and would be used to having to log in.
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"Chinese" isn't a language. They speak all kinds of languages and dialects in China. IIRC, mandarin is the most popular. There's little point in learning to speak "chinese" because the odds that any given Chinese person you try to talk to speaks the same dialect you just learned is fairly low.
A lot of people I know don't do anything more than read email, or at best get the latest scores for their favorite sports.
It's hard to sell these folks on the idea of paying 5 times as much by telling them it'll be "faster", when their entire online experience lasts a half hour a month.
The "killer app" for broadband hasn't really materialized yet.
That said, I could never go back to dialup.
You had to take a half a day off? I just phoned in the MAC of the cablemodem I'd just bought. Waited about 15 minutes, and hooray, I was browsing the interweb at speeds up to 300 times faster than dial-up.
Of course, that was bending Comcast rules at the time, and I had to sign a waiver saying that I'd be the one to pay if I fucked up and they had to roll a truck.
Nielsen chose us once, they offer some cool stuff in return for letting them monitor. I think you could get a DVD player or a new TV, etc..
They wanted a box connected to every device capable of TV reception. I didn't have a problem with them putting them on the TVs or VCRs, but when I found out it included the TV tuner in the Voodoo 3 3500 I had at the time, I told them no. I draw the line right around fucking with my PC, even if it's a completely external device.
But others probably wouldn't care. Hell, if all you do is read e-mail and do a little online browsing, it wouldn't be a big deal, expecially if you got something cool in return.
See, there's the fanboy spin!
They aren't just replacing a defective (and potentially very dangerous) part, nor are they providing the expected warrantee services, they're giving you something for free! How nice of them!
"The tires sold with the car were defective, and the treads seperated at highway speeds, and I'm now a quadrapalegic and both my children are dead. But check it out, Ford's giving me free tires! What an AWESOME compnay!"
Can't help but notice you felt it was important to use the qualifier "normally".
I *always* wear pants (or another suitable garment to cover my genitals) when in the same room with other men, whether I'm using a computer or not.
It's not that hard to do. For the premium you pay for an Apple laptop, they shove in the cheapest korean-made battery on the market.
Just like the el cheap-o eMachines-calibur power supplies they use, even in the "top dollar" G5 machines.
Batteries/PSU and cabling are where costs are cut. They aren't sexy specs to list in the marketting material, and you cant see them from the outside, so it's irrelevant if they're pretty or not.
They're thinking about how to spin Apple's obvious lack of QA as a "great innovation in computer science". They'll be here. They'll respond to this Apple-critical post in droves, just watch!
You think for as much as one of those things cost, relative to a PC laptop, they'd have tested them to make sure they dont overheat.
It's like the iPod battery problem. For 400 bucks they couldn't make sure they put a good battery in there?
What exactly are you paying the extra cash for, if not a higher quality? This isn't the first line of overheating Mac-tops, the last ones actually caught fire, IIRC.
Your computer was manufactured with the same processes.
So, why are you using a computer, and not thinking of the children?
BTW, fab processes get ever more environmentally friendly, practically daily. There's no real reason for toxic runoff, and much of it has been reduced or stopped. There are emerging, and some existing, truly "green" techniques for fabbing electronics. So don't get so upset.
Will it be compatible with my BIOS system and VGA adapter? I use a DOS system, and the FAT table is corrupted. Hopefully it plugs into the PCI interface, because I have no free ISA adapters.
I also hate the GNAA association and the CLIT trolls.
Cheap cameras have existed ever since Polaroid entered the scene.
Hell, people used to make their own pinhole boxes, and just buy the photographic plates to slide into the back. This is what I suggest for the OP.
Take your giant, wooden, inefficient, and ridiculous contraption to disneyland, and ask the guy in the Mickey suit to hold still for 30 minutes in the searing midday sun.
The article calls them "disposable" cameras, and says they'll go "on sale". Of course, in reality, all they have to do is put up a sign that says "digital camera rentals, $20"
The term of the "rental" can then be indefinite. The upside (for them) is that it would make it illegal to take the device apart to hack it, since it's not your property.
Disney and other theme parks are where this will make the bucks. They have a captive audience. You forgot your camera, huh? Here, buy one of ours. Only 50 bucks. I can guarantee you Disney won't charge MSRP to use the thing.
Or, better yet.. At the front gates. "Sorry sir, but to improve the customer experience, our Fun-gineering department now requires that no cameras or recording devices may be allowed in the park. If you like, you can buy one of our disposable cameras on Main Street USA".
Thirsty? We have water. 5 bucks. Etc. It's no secret to anyone who's been to a theme park that they do everything they can to gouge you once inside.
It'll cost 20 bucks at the local Rite Aid, but I can guarantee you that once past the gates of Disney, it'll cost at least 40 or 50. Or any other amusement park, for that matter. Enough that it'd negate any economy. But, you forgot your own camera, so you pay.
Actually, I envision the park security no longer allowing you to bring your own camera. You know, to improve safety and give you a more enjoyable experience.
Hey, a bottle of water costs 3 bucks in there.
Nowhere did I see anything saying the LCD was color.
What's a lo-res black and white LCD display worth? Something similar to what was in the original gameboy. Hell, even cheaper. Who cares about response time, or resolution. It just has to be good enough to let the user know which picture was which.
LCDs are generally cheaper than the electronics used to drive them.
Some of the best (read: most effective) political campaigning techniques involve campaigning for your opponent.. By cold calling at 3 AM, or putting bumper stickers on cars without the owners permission, etc..
A good campaign for Burger King would be "Try McDonalds' new Big Mac, now contains 75% more rat feces!" or "Eat at Applebees! We fired the guy who was pissing in the barbeque sauce!"
Not legit? Prove it
Ahh, the old guilty until proven innocent.
You do know that it's usually logically impossible to prove a negative?
Ie; Prove to me you have not used google.com today. Logs and caches dont mean anything, anyone could delete google references in them. Just because google's logs dont show your IP doesn't mean you didnt use a proxy or anonymizer, etc..
Any measures in place to prevent that?
.uk page, I dont know if spammers are just smart enough to keep geography in mind, or what..
What (if any) recourse does a site accused of spam-vertising have? Do the ISPs just refer to the vague "we can do whatever we want with your account and redefine what's acceptable as we see fit" language in the FAP to drop sites?
I've never seen spam redirect me to a
How many people do you think look at a map of America and think the nations capital is in the far northwest.
Hell, plenty of Americans dont even know that the State of Washington has nothing to do with Washington in the District of Columbia.
Hell, do they even know that D.C. isn't a state, it's a special district with it's own government?
Do they know that Peurto Rico belongs to the US, but is it's own nation? I suppose referring to Peurto Rico as a state would offend some Peurto Ricans.
The difference between this example and China or India, is it's not a criminal offense to mistakenly refer to Peurto Rico as a "state", neither in the USA or in Peurto Rico. It is a criminal offense to refer to Taiwan as a country in China.