The first time I saw an IMAC with the 17" flat panel...I almost wanted to own one. Despite being a die hard pc user, the flat panel on the imac came close to converting me.
To this day it just seems like the quality of the image with the bold, bright colors is the best flat panel out there.
Instructor myself...I would just declare certain lecture times to be "computer's down". When I'm trying to get across a critical point, I would make people close their laptops, stop writing away on their notes and just listen to me.
When I'm confident that they've gotten the point or the majority of them had, I would then hand out an addendum to their notes covering what we just discussed.
This would be a commonplace event, happening most likely once per classroom day.
People have sued for harassment and won against police departments showing them "undo attention".
Following something with some probably or just cause and noting their movements within reason is perfectly fine. But lojacking everyone just in case they do something wrong is the issue at hand...that is not fine by any stretch.
If they instituted something like this, it would only be a matter of time before someone tries to subpoena these records for a trial.
Lawyer to court: We can see that you were in fact in the vicinity of the crime, because your GPS records, people's exhibit C, show clearly you were there at the time.
They have already used arguments like this in other states with EZPass toll records, like in New York. But signing up for EZ Pass is voluntary, this wouldn't be.
As for discrimination, that would be much harder to prove. This is obviously a case of being double taxed for gas. But at least then you have a choice of what grade fuel you use and what you put it in. Even if you own an enviro-friendly, none gas using motor vehicle, you'd still be penalized for this "GPS" tax.
First of all, this is an invation of privacy. The State government has no right to know how many miles I drive or where I drive.
Secondly, this tax will discriminate against those people who are forced to drive more miles then others because of their occupation or place of residence.
In saying that, I was trying to convey the message that my comments were a summary of a portion of the discussion added to provide relevance to my comments. Sorry if this was confusing.
Of the fact that lawyers will argue over anything.
Heh, this seems to be a discussion about whether they used "approved methods" of retrieving a deleted email. According to one person, the LinuxGNU was the only one approved by NIST (national institute of standards and technologies). This of course, is wrong...NIST doesn't "approve" software, they just test it and declare whether or not it works.
Using Mozilla, and I love it. There's only one small problem. I really miss being able to click my mouse wheel and move the mouse up and down to scroll through the page faster.
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They can certainly try. Bluffing is not against the law. Corporations, government, lobbyists, lawyers, churches, private individuals... all of these groups will at times attempt to pressure others with legalize, bad press and the like.
This is interesting...
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I happen to think that for the most part you have the right to put anything you want on your website. If you want to run a parody of Dow, the Pope or John Lennon, go for it.
However, with that being said. Your ISP doesn't necessarily have to put up with that. They also have a right to decide what content they will host on their servers. If they take offense at your postings or bow to pressure from a corporation or the government, that's well within their right.
They run a business. Just because you want to take a risk with something you choose to write. Doesn't meant they have to take the risk with you.
A company can easily fold just because people lose confidence in it. As far as the public is concerned, all AMD does is make CPU's in a big war with Intel that they are losing.
AMD hasn't done enough to disparage people of that belief. Meaning that, in my opinion, unless they make some news in the CPU markets coming soon, confidence in them will further drop and their days will likely be numbered.
Not sure of your exact requirements, But the Dell portable precision Workstation M50 is pretty nice. 15" UXGA LCD. GeForce Quadro4 to go video card. 5400 RPM 60gb hdd. 1 gig of ram, etc.
Better yet...the Coffee started brewing when the alarm clock in your bed room went off. Of course, that was about the same time your shower came on to the temperature you like.
Actually...I was thinking more along the lines of RAS into the home network. Issue your "startup" command while you drive home from Dinner.
Lights come on, the heat is turned up a few notches, bath water starts running at a comfortable 106 degrees, the stereo comes on to your favorite cd...etc.
Add some BlueTooth and you might finally have a decent platform to run all those household appliances you've been wanting to network at home. Interesting possibilities at least...
Boy some Moderator woke up in a cranky mood today when you get +1 troll for slamming Microsoft over their business practices. Go ahead, mod me down some more, I have Karma to burn.
You'd think that if your company was worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you could at least take time out of your busy "screwing over the consumer schedule" to pay the people you work with.
Which Linux version should I install now to escape the hell that is M$?
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To the William Shatner school of overacting?
Cannot...seem...to...communicate...with...the aliens...must get...somekindof...resolution before Enterprise...is...destroyed!
Derviative is derived from Derivative...
The first time I saw an IMAC with the 17" flat panel...I almost wanted to own one. Despite being a die hard pc user, the flat panel on the imac came close to converting me.
To this day it just seems like the quality of the image with the bold, bright colors is the best flat panel out there.
YMMV
Instructor myself...I would just declare certain lecture times to be "computer's down". When I'm trying to get across a critical point, I would make people close their laptops, stop writing away on their notes and just listen to me.
When I'm confident that they've gotten the point or the majority of them had, I would then hand out an addendum to their notes covering what we just discussed.
This would be a commonplace event, happening most likely once per classroom day.
People have sued for harassment and won against police departments showing them "undo attention".
Following something with some probably or just cause and noting their movements within reason is perfectly fine. But lojacking everyone just in case they do something wrong is the issue at hand...that is not fine by any stretch.
If they instituted something like this, it would only be a matter of time before someone tries to subpoena these records for a trial.
Lawyer to court: We can see that you were in fact in the vicinity of the crime, because your GPS records, people's exhibit C, show clearly you were there at the time.
They have already used arguments like this in other states with EZPass toll records, like in New York. But signing up for EZ Pass is voluntary, this wouldn't be.
As for discrimination, that would be much harder to prove. This is obviously a case of being double taxed for gas. But at least then you have a choice of what grade fuel you use and what you put it in. Even if you own an enviro-friendly, none gas using motor vehicle, you'd still be penalized for this "GPS" tax.
First of all, this is an invation of privacy. The State government has no right to know how many miles I drive or where I drive.
Secondly, this tax will discriminate against those people who are forced to drive more miles then others because of their occupation or place of residence.
this seems to be a discussion
In saying that, I was trying to convey the message that my comments were a summary of a portion of the discussion added to provide relevance to my comments. Sorry if this was confusing.
huh? my comment hasn't been moderated. It started at +2 and is still at +2 as of this writing...
Of the fact that lawyers will argue over anything.
Heh, this seems to be a discussion about whether they used "approved methods" of retrieving a deleted email. According to one person, the LinuxGNU was the only one approved by NIST (national institute of standards and technologies). This of course, is wrong...NIST doesn't "approve" software, they just test it and declare whether or not it works.
Using Mozilla, and I love it. There's only one small problem. I really miss being able to click my mouse wheel and move the mouse up and down to scroll through the page faster.
They can certainly try. Bluffing is not against the law. Corporations, government, lobbyists, lawyers, churches, private individuals ... all of these groups will at times attempt to pressure others with legalize, bad press and the like.
I happen to think that for the most part you have the right to put anything you want on your website. If you want to run a parody of Dow, the Pope or John Lennon, go for it.
However, with that being said. Your ISP doesn't necessarily have to put up with that. They also have a right to decide what content they will host on their servers. If they take offense at your postings or bow to pressure from a corporation or the government, that's well within their right.
They run a business. Just because you want to take a risk with something you choose to write. Doesn't meant they have to take the risk with you.
Really cared about the security of your garbage, you wouldn't set it on the curb so a guy who makes $7.50 an hour can come by and take it with him.
come to the U.S. and apply for a gov't grant to study this...probably get $5 million a year at least.
Important research!
Heh, if they weren't losing, you wouldn't have found it for $69.00...
A company can easily fold just because people lose confidence in it. As far as the public is concerned, all AMD does is make CPU's in a big war with Intel that they are losing.
AMD hasn't done enough to disparage people of that belief. Meaning that, in my opinion, unless they make some news in the CPU markets coming soon, confidence in them will further drop and their days will likely be numbered.
Doesn't perform..and I mean really perform...I'm not sure if AMD will be with us much longer, which would be a shame.
Not sure of your exact requirements, But the Dell portable precision Workstation M50 is pretty nice. 15" UXGA LCD. GeForce Quadro4 to go video card. 5400 RPM 60gb hdd. 1 gig of ram, etc.
Better yet...the Coffee started brewing when the alarm clock in your bed room went off. Of course, that was about the same time your shower came on to the temperature you like.
Actually...I was thinking more along the lines of RAS into the home network. Issue your "startup" command while you drive home from Dinner.
Lights come on, the heat is turned up a few notches, bath water starts running at a comfortable 106 degrees, the stereo comes on to your favorite cd...etc.
Add some BlueTooth and you might finally have a decent platform to run all those household appliances you've been wanting to network at home. Interesting possibilities at least...
Boy some Moderator woke up in a cranky mood today when you get +1 troll for slamming Microsoft over their business practices. Go ahead, mod me down some more, I have Karma to burn.
It's News for Nerds...not Uptodate News for Nerds...jeez *grins*
You'd think that if your company was worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you could at least take time out of your busy "screwing over the consumer schedule" to pay the people you work with.
Which Linux version should I install now to escape the hell that is M$?