Please RTFM. The RAZR has a setting that displays either one OR three entries for a person with three numbers. So, in the act of making things more flexible, it makes some people who do not explore things angry and soured.
I'm just tired of all this crap. Aren't you? I refuse to be an indentured customer to a specific music store and a specific computer and a specific portal device.
No - a huge percentage of the population have no idea that sound permanently damages their ears. I go to the F1 races each year at Indianapolis(this is the non-Nascar crowd). The start of the race hits 135db and a pass by a single car hits 117 to 123db(depending on the car). This is well documented. With 200 laps, that is a pretty constant 120db for a little over three hours. One pass by a single car is painful and leaves your ears ringing for an hour. Translated, that is serious life long permanent damage. They sell earplugs at every fricken corner there..............
Only about 70% of the people wear earplugs there!!!
Of those 75% none of their kids have earplugs. I see babies there with no protection all the time. It makes me want to kill people.
Point is - experience teaches people that you can listen to loud music and your ears may ring but, they get back to "normal" the next day. People can't seem to grasp that hearing damage is cumulative, even when told.
To this day, my roommate from college can't sleep without a fan at his bedside to drown out the ringing in his ears. He stood next to a speaker in a concert and bragged that he couldn't hear anything when he got home. The next day his ears were still ringing and I asked him if he knew the dangers, and he said that he did.
New cards are coming out that allow gamers to put 2 or 4 cards into the system. If you have a multicard GPU system, you want as much horsepower on those cards rather than on the CPU.
Agreed - every time you I see the accumlation of power, coruption and collusion of some form is soon to follow. Also, Google was not that innocent to begin with.
It pains me that one day I may hate Google more than Microsoft.
That 1% of/.ers who are for the Chinese are ruining it for the rest of use. Clearly/. is going downhill if they are leting the Chinese post freely. They are not even supposed to be seeing sites that have non-government opinions.
NEVER buy a lifetime subscription to anything that is technology dependant.
I have been burned by ReplayTV. I paid $250 for a lifetime subscription thinking it would last long enough to pay for itself. The box blew up and after I got that fixed - they went out of business and I had a unit that did not have a number to call to get guide information - reducing it to a paper weight in my home theater.
Maybe we could put these things in happy meals so/.ers could collect the full set of disabilities and disfigurements. Of course, it wouldn't take many to do it.
I'm hoping that the increased money from the IPO will help their service. I have friends that use it and don't have an issue, but I have had many.
Among them
Vonage voicemail Web site down with surprising regularity
Cannot access voicemail with the same regularity
Vonage service stops working for 3 days
about 25% of the time it sounds like we are talking on a cell phone with a cell tower in New Zeland
Constant Echos
Delayed voice response - sounds like we are talking to the lunar lander
Voice message greeting does not work occasionally - interrupts the caller 11 seconds into message to tell them they have 10 seconds left to give their message - then doesn't give them the 10 seconds
Call forwarding does not always work. If I call home from my cell phone, it works, but from my work phone it does not.
Others not worth mentioning
I know what you are thinking - maybe your bandwidth is as issue. No - I play online games and need millisecond response time. My bandwidth is solid - and large!
All of the issues I mention do NOT go away with the reboot of the Vonage modem.
The worst part of this is that if you use the computer at all or if there is any traffic to any of your computers in the house, the service becomes terrible. Even a small amount! You can put the Vonage modem in front of your network, but then it interferes with online games - even when there is no call coming through.
We have friends that use it and have little or no problems. We use the phone for 3-4 hours a day and really see the issues day in and day out. We got Vonage to avoid SBC and to save $40 bucks a month. We are now waiting for SBC to call us with a deal so we can switch back. Never thought I would say something like that in my life.
Vonage's service seems like it is one month old, not one of the most mature out there.
My advice: stay away if you use the phone a lot. Let it mature until they have another generation of the Vonage routers(and service).
So.....IF I told everyone on slashdot to make the school their homepage for 2006(cause it's a really great site), would I be a felon or a hero for helping them promote the site?
How about Jiffy Lube now charging an additional $39.99 for a water change. They will probably suggest that you change the water every 2000 miles - and you might as well get your oil changed while you are there.
Actually the water change will need to be done by the BMW dealer until Jiffy learns how to do it - making the price upwards of $200 bucks.
I have around 11TB of disk drives at home. You will too, within the timeframe of something like this becoming available. At that point, 300GB/disc will be just as worthless a 8.5GB DVD would be to you right now.
Uh, I try to keep my p0rn collection low res and portable. You should run a Gimp script to reduce the size of your images. Seriously bra, once you start spank'in, the resolution just doesn't matter.
Companies like Dell do burn in tests on ALL their ordered computers. It is absoulutely needed to improve quality. Recalling boxes and the bad PR are much more expensive than testing boxes.
People that say they have "no problem with it" have not yet had a problem with it, and are simply naive. Well, I have a problem with it!
IT IS THE BAD THINGS THAT THEY *COULD* DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION. NOT WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE GOING TO DO WITH IT.
Sure, if all they are doing is targeting ads, fine, whatever. But as we all know, you can only trust companies to do what's in our best interest, only if it is in their best interest. Think about it, do you really trust ANY company?
There is always a provision for changing the contract. They may even notify you of the change.
CDW is a huge retailer of computers and electronics. Check out the second paragraph CDWs provacy policy. At least they put it in the second paragraph and not buried.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time; the effective date noted above will indicate the date that this policy was last updated. You should visit our Web site periodically to review any changes.
So, do I need to continue to visit the site to protect my privacy? Do I need to check back with every company I interact with? No, because I trust that the company and all the companies that my information is sold to, will keep my information safe.....right. Even if there is no clause like this, they can still change the privacy statement. They company I work for does regularly.
This is why you should Google yourself regularly. And do what you can to control the information.
Google responded this way because it shows the power of Google to dig into information that is not immediately obvious. I everyone knew the true power of information that is internally and externally collected by Google, everyone would be scared. This is why I will NEVER have a gmail account, and advise people against it.
Allegedly, it is all public information, but the aggregation of it can bother people and cause the average reactionary to shoot up their skirt on privacy issues.
Asian Loghorn beatles are eating many trees in many American states. Should we let the beatles eat all the trees because they can compete better? How about dandylions, do you let them take over your yard because that are more hardy than grass? I bet your paying a low payed illegal to do it for you. Try highing your neighbors kid next time.
I enjoy the lifestyle of what non-third world contries give. I don't want 1st world contries to salary norm to 3rd world contries. Then I'll have to move to India and make $8,000 a year but avoid sharp things given the lower benifits provided.
Point is that not all change is good for us. We should protect our way of life as long as we can.
I bet you would not be on this soap box if you were training your replacement.
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Please RTFM. The RAZR has a setting that displays either one OR three entries for a person with three numbers. So, in the act of making things more flexible, it makes some people who do not explore things angry and soured.
I'm just tired of all this crap. Aren't you? I refuse to be an indentured customer to a specific music store and a specific computer and a specific portal device.
I didn't know I was so happy. Other jobs must suck. Sounds like they only interview people at gaming companies. http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/07/pf/bestjobs_moneym ag_bestjob/index.htm
My 62 year old mother kicks my ass in Freecell! She plays every night.
Only about 70% of the people wear earplugs there!!!
Of those 75% none of their kids have earplugs. I see babies there with no protection all the time. It makes me want to kill people.
Point is - experience teaches people that you can listen to loud music and your ears may ring but, they get back to "normal" the next day. People can't seem to grasp that hearing damage is cumulative, even when told.
To this day, my roommate from college can't sleep without a fan at his bedside to drown out the ringing in his ears. He stood next to a speaker in a concert and bragged that he couldn't hear anything when he got home. The next day his ears were still ringing and I asked him if he knew the dangers, and he said that he did.
New cards are coming out that allow gamers to put 2 or 4 cards into the system. If you have a multicard GPU system, you want as much horsepower on those cards rather than on the CPU.
Right now it's difficult for the novice to figure out an easy way to transfer the cash.
It's the novices that poker players want to have easy cash access. For sharks, online poker is much less appealing without the fish.
It pains me that one day I may hate Google more than Microsoft.
I have been burned by ReplayTV. I paid $250 for a lifetime subscription thinking it would last long enough to pay for itself. The box blew up and after I got that fixed - they went out of business and I had a unit that did not have a number to call to get guide information - reducing it to a paper weight in my home theater.
Maybe we could put these things in happy meals so /.ers could collect the full set of disabilities and disfigurements. Of course, it wouldn't take many to do it.
Could I order 5 female and 5 male kick ass mice that would kick ass on all other mice and then set them loose in the wild to take over the world?
Muhahaha
Among them
I know what you are thinking - maybe your bandwidth is as issue. No - I play online games and need millisecond response time. My bandwidth is solid - and large!
All of the issues I mention do NOT go away with the reboot of the Vonage modem.
The worst part of this is that if you use the computer at all or if there is any traffic to any of your computers in the house, the service becomes terrible. Even a small amount! You can put the Vonage modem in front of your network, but then it interferes with online games - even when there is no call coming through.
We have friends that use it and have little or no problems. We use the phone for 3-4 hours a day and really see the issues day in and day out. We got Vonage to avoid SBC and to save $40 bucks a month. We are now waiting for SBC to call us with a deal so we can switch back. Never thought I would say something like that in my life.
Vonage's service seems like it is one month old, not one of the most mature out there.
My advice: stay away if you use the phone a lot. Let it mature until they have another generation of the Vonage routers(and service).
So.....IF I told everyone on slashdot to make the school their homepage for 2006(cause it's a really great site), would I be a felon or a hero for helping them promote the site?
Actually the water change will need to be done by the BMW dealer until Jiffy learns how to do it - making the price upwards of $200 bucks.
Uh, I try to keep my p0rn collection low res and portable. You should run a Gimp script to reduce the size of your images. Seriously bra, once you start spank'in, the resolution just doesn't matter.
Is this being powered by the xbox?
Companies like Dell do burn in tests on ALL their ordered computers. It is absoulutely needed to improve quality. Recalling boxes and the bad PR are much more expensive than testing boxes.
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I got an inappropriate site warning from my corporate firewall/proxy when visiting this link!!!
Shit, my car is so fast, it kicks the Earth around like a rag doll.
IT IS THE BAD THINGS THAT THEY *COULD* DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION. NOT WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE GOING TO DO WITH IT.
Sure, if all they are doing is targeting ads, fine, whatever. But as we all know, you can only trust companies to do what's in our best interest, only if it is in their best interest. Think about it, do you really trust ANY company?
There is always a provision for changing the contract. They may even notify you of the change.
CDW is a huge retailer of computers and electronics. Check out the second paragraph CDWs provacy policy. At least they put it in the second paragraph and not buried.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy from time to time; the effective date noted above will indicate the date that this policy was last updated. You should visit our Web site periodically to review any changes.
So, do I need to continue to visit the site to protect my privacy? Do I need to check back with every company I interact with? No, because I trust that the company and all the companies that my information is sold to, will keep my information safe.....right. Even if there is no clause like this, they can still change the privacy statement. They company I work for does regularly.
Identity theft is steadly growing people....
This is why you should Google yourself regularly. And do what you can to control the information. Google responded this way because it shows the power of Google to dig into information that is not immediately obvious. I everyone knew the true power of information that is internally and externally collected by Google, everyone would be scared. This is why I will NEVER have a gmail account, and advise people against it. Allegedly, it is all public information, but the aggregation of it can bother people and cause the average reactionary to shoot up their skirt on privacy issues.
Not as much as the Pentagon
Asian Loghorn beatles are eating many trees in many American states. Should we let the beatles eat all the trees because they can compete better? How about dandylions, do you let them take over your yard because that are more hardy than grass? I bet your paying a low payed illegal to do it for you. Try highing your neighbors kid next time.
I enjoy the lifestyle of what non-third world contries give. I don't want 1st world contries to salary norm to 3rd world contries. Then I'll have to move to India and make $8,000 a year but avoid sharp things given the lower benifits provided.
Point is that not all change is good for us. We should protect our way of life as long as we can.
I bet you would not be on this soap box if you were training your replacement.