I wouldn't close my paypal account just based on this. You have other payment options when buying stuff off ebay, you don't have to use paypal. If the seller only accepts paypal try to work out other payment terms or bid on the same item where the seller does accept other forms of payment. The article claims that less than.5% of all paypal transactions are fraud. That's pretty damn good considering how many transactions go through paypal in a day. If it weren't for paypal, I'd have to mail my rent checks to my landlord every month. (shudder)
There, I answered your question. Now why don't you answer it yourself? (Instead of just saying "X was better") What exactly does Master & Commander, Lost in Translation, and Last Samurai have that proves superior "artistic merit"?
Having seen both Lost in Translation and RotK I think that Lost in Translation was the better film and deserved the award more than RotK. Lost in Translation was about two people who were isolated by being foreigners. No matter how welcome the locals made them feel, at the end of the day the protagonists would wind up at the bar lonely. Having been to Japan I could relate to how the characters felt. You may be welcomed with open arms in Japan, but to the Japanese you're still a gaijin.
RotK deserved a lot of the awards it received, but not best picture.
Spybot truely is a godsend. I just spent about an hour cleaning up a user's laptop. He was complaining about pop-ups that were constantly appearing. I installed Spybot and ran a scan, it found 197 bots. Everything from porn to student loans. If anyone out there uses a Windows box, I highly recommend installing Spybot S&D.
Microsoft's muscular Herculean right arm has no idea what its tiny, flubbering nub of a left hand is doing.
Now imagining this congealing beast of a company with the head of Steve Ballmer gives me an interesting image. Kind of like the Trapper Keeper blob from South Park.
Actually I think he would look more like this guy.
One good benefit for Americans is that this allows their employers to use that money elsewhere.
Where do you think that money will go? It will go into the pockets of the company executives and stock holders. The rank and file workers will get the pink slip.
I'm willing to bet that as far as possessions go, the average unemployed computer geek is significanlty better off than the Indian worker who "stole" his job.
Not necessarily. The cost of living in India is much much less than that in the US. If a programmer in India earns $11,000/yr they can get a nicely furnished apartment and have plenty of luxeries that your average Indian can't. Assuming that the median income in India of $480.00 is a livable wage, $11,000 would be a fortune. That's nearly 23 times more money per year.
Compare that with the median income in the US of around $36,000/yr. I don't know where you live, but 36k doesn't go very far in California. Just to put that into perspective, 23 times 36k is nearly 830,000/yr. If my assumption of $480/yr in India is correct, that's the difference between taking a bus to work and having a chauffer.
Basically I see the whole outsourcing phenomenon as contributing to the demise of the middle class. There will be more and more people, who are highly skilled and educated, having to take low paying jobs.
I completely agree with your statement. If any elected official has to cover their tracks they are certainly up to no good and likely breaking the law. If that's the case they don't belong in the position they were elected to.
I've seen problems like that caused simply by loose screws in the chassis so check that all those are nice and tight first. If you're comfortable opening up the laptop and playing with it's innards just check the ribbon connection with the Mobo and make sure that the ribbon is inserted deep enough and that it's locked down properly. If that doesn't do it check the ribbon that connects to the LCD, it should be wrapped around the left hinge. If that looks good too I'd buy a replacement LCD on ebay.
I haven't seen this problem with IBMs that I can recall, but plenty of the Dell laptops I work on have LCD problems similar to yours.
I am suprised to see so many positive posting on Dell hardware/support. My company has a service contract with Dell and nearly all of our systems are Dell. I've had nothing but problems from Dell. Tech support, customer support, even my rep all cause me to run around in circles when I need something. I basically get stuck in transfer hell each time I place a call to Dell for anything.
One example is some replacement keyboards I need for my Asia users. I thought it would be realatively easy to get a replacement keyboard in Korean or Japanese for a Latitude but they don't sell foreign language keyboards in the U.S. Trying Dell Asia Pacific results in a response that "...because these systems were purchased in the U.S. you must contact the Dell spare parts dept in the U.S...." I've been hounding Dell for months on this with no resolution in sight.
My advice to anyone looking to buy a laptop stick with IBM or Apple. Dell makes inferior machines and the support is pretty poor.
Working as an IT tech I've done a few transplant procedures of IBM thinkpad LCDs myself. I always seem to have about a half dozen laptops in my custody that have one problem with them or another, and when the need arises I just take the good components from a few of the junkers and put together a working system.
I even managed to get an IBM Thinkpad 600x that my former employer was going to shitcan back up and running. Needless to say it's been my personal laptop for 2 years and counting...
I purchased a refurbished 600x from my former.com. The machine was probably used by a few users before I bought it so I imagine it had the original battery. I can typically get about 2.5 hours out of it and I've had it about a year now.
My personal experience with the 600 series is that they are built like an M1 tank. They handle abuse well and keep working. Never had any problems with the ones I used. However the users I supported always managed to break them, imagine that.
Some of you are also forgetting the propaganda that the US military sends to recruiters to get people to enlist. Promises of learning cutting edge technology, etc. When the recruiters called me at home incessantly for months they never mentioned anything about typewriters or Wordstar (I've never used either). If the military wants to continue to get fresh meat to enlist they have to promise the recruits an education that will translate to a job in the private sector when their service is up.
Makes sense to me.
Davis has finally done something I approve of by signing this. The timing of it definately has the look of a publicity grab though. Davis's performance has been sub-par at best and all the mudslinging has only deepend my dislike for him.
Recently Davis has extended the phaseout of MTBE in our gasoline for another few years when Ethanol is widely available as an oxygenate and doesn't pollute ground water as MTBE does. Union 76 stations throughout the state all contain ethanol but the other stations don't. Anyone know if the other oil companies have lobbied Davis prior to him signing the extension on the federal ban of MTBE?
I think this election comes down to who do you dislike more Davis or Simon?
Sounds like human nature to me, and I think Lucas got it right. Just look around at the various conflicts around the world right now. Numerous rebel groups are just fighting for control of whatever, but when they get it they're not interested in governing, they bully the local populace and take what they want. Check out what's going on with the Tamil Tigers in Indonesa. People still don't know what they're all about, they appear to just fight for the sake of fighting.
I don't think you need to worry about missing it due to a sporting event for 2 reasons. 1) UPN doesn't broadcast sporting events. (Yes I'm aware they broadcast Pro Wrestling but that doesn't count.) 2) The only compelling sporting event on tonight is the A's Vs. Angels game which is being broadcast on ESPN.
So if you're a baseball fan, get some dual screen action going and watch both. I myself am going to be at the game so gonna miss Enterprise.
I recently built my first PC after a little practice on rebuilding my parent's PC. I was amazed at how easy it was now. Everything was configured with the BIOS, no jumpers, dip switches, or any of that crap. The HDD, power LED, etc cables were a pain in the ass tho.
End result is a speedy P4 geeked out to insane proportions. So nice to be a gamer again.
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Reminds me of a user my friends had to support on numerous occasions.
About every 3 months this guy would come to the IT support team my friends worked at and say his hard drive was dying. They would swap in a new hard drive and restore his files from backup and send him on his merry way. After the 3rd time, my friend noticed a bracelet on the guys wrist and asked him about it. Turns out he's into holistic healing mumbo jumbo and it was a magnetic bracelet that he'd been wearing just inches from the hard drive.
I really think that people that tend to swerve while talking on their phone are just bad drivers. Take the cell phone out of their hand and they'd find some other distraction to cause them to drive like morons.
Thats why you have to keep your eyes darting around constantly sizing up the other commuters. Remember, they're all out to get you.
As someone who has a tattoo I would imagine that as long as the tattoo were kept out of the sun it could last at least 30 years. However the article doesn't mention anything about the dissapation of the polyethylene glycol beads.
My father also has diabetes and I would love for him to get a tattoo instead of using the finger pricking method, only so I could return all the grief he gave me when I got my tat:)
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I wouldn't close my paypal account just based on this. You have other payment options when buying stuff off ebay, you don't have to use paypal. If the seller only accepts paypal try to work out other payment terms or bid on the same item where the seller does accept other forms of payment. The article claims that less than .5% of all paypal transactions are fraud. That's pretty damn good considering how many transactions go through paypal in a day. If it weren't for paypal, I'd have to mail my rent checks to my landlord every month. (shudder)
There, I answered your question. Now why don't you answer it yourself? (Instead of just saying "X was better") What exactly does Master & Commander, Lost in Translation, and Last Samurai have that proves superior "artistic merit"?
Having seen both Lost in Translation and RotK I think that Lost in Translation was the better film and deserved the award more than RotK. Lost in Translation was about two people who were isolated by being foreigners. No matter how welcome the locals made them feel, at the end of the day the protagonists would wind up at the bar lonely. Having been to Japan I could relate to how the characters felt. You may be welcomed with open arms in Japan, but to the Japanese you're still a gaijin.
RotK deserved a lot of the awards it received, but not best picture.
Spybot truely is a godsend. I just spent about an hour cleaning up a user's laptop. He was complaining about pop-ups that were constantly appearing. I installed Spybot and ran a scan, it found 197 bots. Everything from porn to student loans. If anyone out there uses a Windows box, I highly recommend installing Spybot S&D.
Microsoft's muscular Herculean right arm has no idea what its tiny, flubbering nub of a left hand is doing.
Now imagining this congealing beast of a company with the head of Steve Ballmer gives me an interesting image. Kind of like the Trapper Keeper blob from South Park.
Actually I think he would look more like this guy.
One good benefit for Americans is that this allows their employers to use that money elsewhere.
Where do you think that money will go? It will go into the pockets of the company executives and stock holders. The rank and file workers will get the pink slip.
I'm willing to bet that as far as possessions go, the average unemployed computer geek is significanlty better off than the Indian worker who "stole" his job.
Not necessarily. The cost of living in India is much much less than that in the US. If a programmer in India earns $11,000/yr they can get a nicely furnished apartment and have plenty of luxeries that your average Indian can't. Assuming that the median income in India of $480.00 is a livable wage, $11,000 would be a fortune. That's nearly 23 times more money per year.
Compare that with the median income in the US of around $36,000/yr. I don't know where you live, but 36k doesn't go very far in California. Just to put that into perspective, 23 times 36k is nearly 830,000/yr. If my assumption of $480/yr in India is correct, that's the difference between taking a bus to work and having a chauffer.
Basically I see the whole outsourcing phenomenon as contributing to the demise of the middle class. There will be more and more people, who are highly skilled and educated, having to take low paying jobs.
I completely agree with your statement. If any elected official has to cover their tracks they are certainly up to no good and likely breaking the law. If that's the case they don't belong in the position they were elected to.
Nemesys-co? What, are they a division of the E-Ville Group or something?
I think you have the E-Ville group confused with these guys
I've seen problems like that caused simply by loose screws in the chassis so check that all those are nice and tight first. If you're comfortable opening up the laptop and playing with it's innards just check the ribbon connection with the Mobo and make sure that the ribbon is inserted deep enough and that it's locked down properly. If that doesn't do it check the ribbon that connects to the LCD, it should be wrapped around the left hinge. If that looks good too I'd buy a replacement LCD on ebay.
I haven't seen this problem with IBMs that I can recall, but plenty of the Dell laptops I work on have LCD problems similar to yours.
I am suprised to see so many positive posting on Dell hardware/support. My company has a service contract with Dell and nearly all of our systems are Dell. I've had nothing but problems from Dell. Tech support, customer support, even my rep all cause me to run around in circles when I need something. I basically get stuck in transfer hell each time I place a call to Dell for anything.
One example is some replacement keyboards I need for my Asia users. I thought it would be realatively easy to get a replacement keyboard in Korean or Japanese for a Latitude but they don't sell foreign language keyboards in the U.S. Trying Dell Asia Pacific results in a response that "...because these systems were purchased in the U.S. you must contact the Dell spare parts dept in the U.S...." I've been hounding Dell for months on this with no resolution in sight.
My advice to anyone looking to buy a laptop stick with IBM or Apple. Dell makes inferior machines and the support is pretty poor.
Working as an IT tech I've done a few transplant procedures of IBM thinkpad LCDs myself. I always seem to have about a half dozen laptops in my custody that have one problem with them or another, and when the need arises I just take the good components from a few of the junkers and put together a working system.
I even managed to get an IBM Thinkpad 600x that my former employer was going to shitcan back up and running. Needless to say it's been my personal laptop for 2 years and counting...
I purchased a refurbished 600x from my former .com. The machine was probably used by a few users before I bought it so I imagine it had the original battery. I can typically get about 2.5 hours out of it and I've had it about a year now.
My personal experience with the 600 series is that they are built like an M1 tank. They handle abuse well and keep working. Never had any problems with the ones I used. However the users I supported always managed to break them, imagine that.
Some of you are also forgetting the propaganda that the US military sends to recruiters to get people to enlist. Promises of learning cutting edge technology, etc. When the recruiters called me at home incessantly for months they never mentioned anything about typewriters or Wordstar (I've never used either). If the military wants to continue to get fresh meat to enlist they have to promise the recruits an education that will translate to a job in the private sector when their service is up. Makes sense to me.
Maybe he thought he'd respawn or something.
That's why laptops with wireless network cards are so usefull.
Davis has finally done something I approve of by signing this. The timing of it definately has the look of a publicity grab though. Davis's performance has been sub-par at best and all the mudslinging has only deepend my dislike for him.
Recently Davis has extended the phaseout of MTBE in our gasoline for another few years when Ethanol is widely available as an oxygenate and doesn't pollute ground water as MTBE does. Union 76 stations throughout the state all contain ethanol but the other stations don't. Anyone know if the other oil companies have lobbied Davis prior to him signing the extension on the federal ban of MTBE?
I think this election comes down to who do you dislike more Davis or Simon?
Sounds like human nature to me, and I think Lucas got it right. Just look around at the various conflicts around the world right now. Numerous rebel groups are just fighting for control of whatever, but when they get it they're not interested in governing, they bully the local populace and take what they want. Check out what's going on with the Tamil Tigers in Indonesa. People still don't know what they're all about, they appear to just fight for the sake of fighting.
I was pretty braindead after working 12-18 hour days for a week straight trying to cleanup that mess.
I don't think you need to worry about missing it due to a sporting event for 2 reasons.
1) UPN doesn't broadcast sporting events. (Yes I'm aware they broadcast Pro Wrestling but that doesn't count.)
2) The only compelling sporting event on tonight is the A's Vs. Angels game which is being broadcast on ESPN.
So if you're a baseball fan, get some dual screen action going and watch both. I myself am going to be at the game so gonna miss Enterprise.
I recently built my first PC after a little practice on rebuilding my parent's PC. I was amazed at how easy it was now. Everything was configured with the BIOS, no jumpers, dip switches, or any of that crap. The HDD, power LED, etc cables were a pain in the ass tho.
End result is a speedy P4 geeked out to insane proportions. So nice to be a gamer again.
Reminds me of a user my friends had to support on numerous occasions.
About every 3 months this guy would come to the IT support team my friends worked at and say his hard drive was dying. They would swap in a new hard drive and restore his files from backup and send him on his merry way. After the 3rd time, my friend noticed a bracelet on the guys wrist and asked him about it. Turns out he's into holistic healing mumbo jumbo and it was a magnetic bracelet that he'd been wearing just inches from the hard drive.
The mind wobbles.
I really think that people that tend to swerve while talking on their phone are just bad drivers. Take the cell phone out of their hand and they'd find some other distraction to cause them to drive like morons. Thats why you have to keep your eyes darting around constantly sizing up the other commuters. Remember, they're all out to get you.
Even if the cloak is only 50% effective, when worn with standard camouflage beneath, that could certainly provide enough protection from prying eyes.
As someone who has a tattoo I would imagine that as long as the tattoo were kept out of the sun it could last at least 30 years. However the article doesn't mention anything about the dissapation of the polyethylene glycol beads. My father also has diabetes and I would love for him to get a tattoo instead of using the finger pricking method, only so I could return all the grief he gave me when I got my tat :)