La Fonera routers are great: They sent me mine for free, and then I reflashed it with DD-WRT. It's a real piece of crap, but I can't complain about getting a free router:-)
I would love to, just ONCE, see some sort of technical review that doesn't use the word WHOPPING somewhere. This word is annoying as all hell and out of control!
I can see those students having a problem with that, after all it is your work and you don't really want others to keep hold of it while checking. It's like turning up to an airport, handing your mobile over for them to check it wasn't dangerous, and then them handing it back to you after copying your phone book and all of your messages off of it. The company should check it against the database, and then get rid of it, their database shouldn't be automatically updating with every paper that goes through it because eventually it will start catching out genuine work purely due to the amount of data that is being processed through it.
I think the problem here is that the company is permenantly keeping it, and I'd be pretty smarted about that as well, but then on the flip side of the coin for the company and the school, the more copies they have, the more likely (in their view) it is that they will catch those who for example, are using their older brothers essays to go through or using work taken from old pupils. It's a tough situation to gauge, but the students have a strong point on the IP there. That being said, why not just add Wikipedia to the database and catch 99.9% of students, heh. Juding from teachers I know, Wikipedia is the bane of their existance when it comes to schoolwork.
About five years ago I worked for Best Buy as a computer tech (before the whole Geek Squad moniker) and I experienced the exact same thing you did. In several cases, I would have been able to fix a problem with the computer right then and there, but because of the type of problem it was, I was always told not to fix it because they would instead have to send the computer out.
I quit after two days for pretty much the same reasons you said.
I just got my Intel iMac yesterday, and I installed Boot Camp and Windows on it. I am willing to be that what happened was these users didn't know what they were doing. When you use Boot Camp to install XP, Windows exposes the entire partition table when you are installing, which includes a couple of small system partitions. Chances are these users didn't understand that those partitions were necessary and they deleted them while they were installing Windows.
It's not Windows' fault, it's ID10T error.
I always wondered when they were going to start doing this.
Luckily, they're not the only game in town. Though I would probably feel dirty renting movies through them.
7680 x 4320.....I'm not entirely sure that it would be good to have porn in THAT much resolution. I don't need to be able to count the creases in some guy's hairy anus:-)
I'm waiting for Vivid Entertainment's new line: Slutty Bandwidth Chokers Volumes 1-90.
The box tagline could read "Come on baby, I want to suck your bandwidth!"
One thing that gets me is that even in their top of the line machine, they still only put 512 megs of RAM? At this point in time (especially considering it will hold 16 gigs!) you would think they would at least put in one gig standard.
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After reaching ludicrous speed, everything turns to plaid.
Didn't anyone ever tell you to make sure your optics are clean?
LOL that was the first thing I thought of too :-)
My density has popped me to you!
This was already done in 2001 (the year, not the movie): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q
Let it go, will ya? The "do not talk about usenet" trolls are about as bad as the "macs are gay" trolls. And here I am trolling about trolls.
La Fonera routers are great: They sent me mine for free, and then I reflashed it with DD-WRT. It's a real piece of crap, but I can't complain about getting a free router :-)
I would love to, just ONCE, see some sort of technical review that doesn't use the word WHOPPING somewhere. This word is annoying as all hell and out of control!
I can see those students having a problem with that, after all it is your work and you don't really want others to keep hold of it while checking. It's like turning up to an airport, handing your mobile over for them to check it wasn't dangerous, and then them handing it back to you after copying your phone book and all of your messages off of it. The company should check it against the database, and then get rid of it, their database shouldn't be automatically updating with every paper that goes through it because eventually it will start catching out genuine work purely due to the amount of data that is being processed through it.
I think the problem here is that the company is permenantly keeping it, and I'd be pretty smarted about that as well, but then on the flip side of the coin for the company and the school, the more copies they have, the more likely (in their view) it is that they will catch those who for example, are using their older brothers essays to go through or using work taken from old pupils. It's a tough situation to gauge, but the students have a strong point on the IP there. That being said, why not just add Wikipedia to the database and catch 99.9% of students, heh. Juding from teachers I know, Wikipedia is the bane of their existance when it comes to schoolwork.
Glancing over it quickly, I thought it said robocops! I could just imagine them catching computer viruses and creating deadly "bot-nets" heh
Plus he was the Monarch to the Kingdom of the Dead.
About five years ago I worked for Best Buy as a computer tech (before the whole Geek Squad moniker) and I experienced the exact same thing you did. In several cases, I would have been able to fix a problem with the computer right then and there, but because of the type of problem it was, I was always told not to fix it because they would instead have to send the computer out. I quit after two days for pretty much the same reasons you said.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
I just got my Intel iMac yesterday, and I installed Boot Camp and Windows on it. I am willing to be that what happened was these users didn't know what they were doing. When you use Boot Camp to install XP, Windows exposes the entire partition table when you are installing, which includes a couple of small system partitions. Chances are these users didn't understand that those partitions were necessary and they deleted them while they were installing Windows. It's not Windows' fault, it's ID10T error.
Damn, a few more words and you would have had a decent limerick going...
I always wondered when they were going to start doing this. Luckily, they're not the only game in town. Though I would probably feel dirty renting movies through them.
Maybe I misread that. Were you implying that you hope you get pounded in the ass?
It's driving me nuts!!
Looks like Lego will have to take their toys and go home.
"Consumer notebook buyers don't want less than 15-inches, " he said.
I think this is because Apple customers by now are accustomed to taking it up the rear.
7680 x 4320.....I'm not entirely sure that it would be good to have porn in THAT much resolution. I don't need to be able to count the creases in some guy's hairy anus :-)
It sounds like he needs to "clean the pipes" a bit more often, he's too uptight :-)
I'm waiting for Vivid Entertainment's new line: Slutty Bandwidth Chokers Volumes 1-90. The box tagline could read "Come on baby, I want to suck your bandwidth!"
One thing that gets me is that even in their top of the line machine, they still only put 512 megs of RAM? At this point in time (especially considering it will hold 16 gigs!) you would think they would at least put in one gig standard.
Or possibly her breast enhancement is leaking, we're not sure :-)