On a semi-related note do not run your credit through freecreditreport.com they are just an info harvester and you will just get massive amounts of junk mail from lenders.
How about www.annualcreditreport.com, as recommended in Today's USA Today?
And doesn't your free annual credit report include the FULL version?
What torques me about the credit reporting bureaus is the useless information they supply.
True case in point: My sister worked for a bank that did mortgage and consumer lending. When they pulled an applicant's credit record, that record includes everyone else who has also accessed that credit record. Although it should be illegal, they would use any reason possible to turn down someone who had recent hits on their credit reports because they didn't want to deal with customers who might be "shopping around for the best credit deal." In this circumstance, totally irrelevant credit data -- i.e. who else had accessed your credit record recently -- was used against you.
How, exactly, do freezes legitimately cut into their business? No one is supposed to be able to get a credit report on you without your explicit authorization anyway.
They sell solicitation mailing lists to credit card companies who specify the parameters of the consumer they're most trying to reach (i.e. Visa might want to market to current AmEx card holders with household incomes above $75,000, no late payments in the last year, and living on the eastern seaboard). That's a major source of additional income for them.
Expect these big three troublemakers to lobby for a weaker federal law that preempts all state regulation in the process. After all, that's the American way these days.
They're still about an order of magnitude away from lithium ion batteries. The power power density and durability are much better, but that doesn't mean much when it has to be 10 times as big.
But are they 10X as heavy, to provide the same power? Weight is more of an issue than size in a car.
I'm not interested until it can store as much energy as my common alkaline battery does now -- or at least a NiMH rechargable. Seems someone else awhile ago felt they could build a capacitor with nanotubes that might approach this value, while still having the advantages of speeed and near limitless charge/discharge cycles. THAT's what interests me at the moment.
Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman of Warner Music Group, reinforced that idea at a recent investor conference, saying "we believe that not every song, not every artist, not every album, is created equal."
And yet you sell all your CD's at $16.99 regardless of that fact now, don't you?
At the same time, Mr. Jobs has refused the industry's calls for Apple to license its proprietary copy restriction software to other manufacturers. Music executives want the software to be shared so that services other than iTunes can sell music that can be played on the iPod, and so that other devices can play songs bought from iTunes.
Another load of crap. iPods can play music from any other DRM-free music seller. This joker wants you to believe iPods only play iTMS music, which is a lie. And iPod owners would likely buy music from other sources if: 1) It didn't have yet another, incompatible, version of DRM; 2) It was priced right; 3) It was the music they wanted to hear; 4) It had a nice interface to easily purchase and load said music onto their iPod. The record companies themselves are the ones to blame here.
All that really matters here is how fast it runs Microsoft Word and Excel. You may not like it. You may want to mod me Troll or Flamebait, but to 80%+ of the population, as long as their PC brings up e-mail faster than they can type, shows movies without dropped frames, and quickly runs Word and Excel, that's all they care about. Blazing Folding@Home scores simply don't translate to a computing experience improvement. It's either faster enough in MSOffice, or it isn't. Sad, but very true.
I'm amazed AT&T or any cell company would allow a cell to enter their market that has built in wifi.
The problem is that the WiFi part of the phone isn't unlocked until you've bought the AT&T unlimited data plan. While this is clear fraud on the purchaser, who might only be planning to use wireless access through WiFi points, AT&T gets their money regardless of how you use the iPhone. In fact, they'll want you to use WiFi as much as possible, to keep traffic down on their own networks.
3,456 ports. Now there's a non-computer number if I've ever seen one. It looks like someone asked, "And just how many ports do we need to be competitive," and someone else just started hitting the number keys in sequence across the top of the keyboard, starting at "3", until either Marketing was happy, or the engineer in charge fainted.
What would be fascinating to know here is if this affects the performance of the processor itself. Sometimes things are fixed by inserting wait states, or other, more inefficient ways, of performing the function. What if someone performed benchmarks before and after this patch, and found a 2% degradation in performance? Would that be news?
What I think Microsoft is terrified of is the user who really only needs Windows to run a couple of Windows-only apps. Say MS Office because his company requires it still for.doc format, a couple favorite PC games, and some small vendor's Windows only application that will never be updated. All he really needs is Home Basic for this, the cheapest Vista out there.
Now normally, he couldn't use this at work at all. Ever since the intentionally crippled Windows ME was created to force businesses to migrate to the more expensive Windows 2000/XP Pro, instead of running on Windows 98SE, Microsoft, like the airlines who find ways to make business travelers pay more (e.g. advance purchase requirements for cheap fares, Saturday night stays, etc.), has been able to create versions of Windows that companies with more money to spend have to buy the expensive ones. If you want to connect into Active Directory, home versions just won't do it. They held on to the home market as well by offering much cheaper versions of Windows there.
Now, however, if your base operating system (Linux, OS/X) can handle connectivity to your business needs, then the cheapest Windows in a virtual environment can be used for your Windows only apps.
Furthermore, this gives you an easy way to migrate away over time from Windows apps altogether. You no longer have to go Cold Turkey on being cutoff from Windows. You can keep what you need until the next software upgrade cycle, running less and less on Windows Vista, until you don't need it any longer at all.
Yeah, if I was Microsoft I'd really be scared too!
While it's actually rather limited due to the slow 2.5EDGE system, does this mean you can buy minimum minutes and VoIP your calls all month? Enquiring minds and all that yada yada.
All this just goes to show that there really is nothing special about Vista, and the only reason to upgrade to it are artificial barriers created to try and force you that way. Your software is fully capable of running just fine on XP into the foreseeable future, but Microsoft wants your money, and Hollywood wants you forced into the worst DRM infested system yet foisted on us.
Instead of titling this article: Citizen Journalism Combating Chinese Censorship, wouldn't it be more accurate to have said: Chinese Censorship Combating Citizen Journalism.
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Although I must admit that playing Super Mario 64 in his 3-dimensional world was also pretty d@mn amazing up to the time before Zelda arrived.
How about www.annualcreditreport.com, as recommended in Today's USA Today?
And doesn't your free annual credit report include the FULL version?
True case in point: My sister worked for a bank that did mortgage and consumer lending. When they pulled an applicant's credit record, that record includes everyone else who has also accessed that credit record. Although it should be illegal, they would use any reason possible to turn down someone who had recent hits on their credit reports because they didn't want to deal with customers who might be "shopping around for the best credit deal." In this circumstance, totally irrelevant credit data -- i.e. who else had accessed your credit record recently -- was used against you.
These bastards have to go down!
They sell solicitation mailing lists to credit card companies who specify the parameters of the consumer they're most trying to reach (i.e. Visa might want to market to current AmEx card holders with household incomes above $75,000, no late payments in the last year, and living on the eastern seaboard). That's a major source of additional income for them.
Expect these big three troublemakers to lobby for a weaker federal law that preempts all state regulation in the process. After all, that's the American way these days.
You saying you're right, and a thousand smarter people shouting that you're wrong!
Ecma sounds like a skin disease.
But are they 10X as heavy, to provide the same power? Weight is more of an issue than size in a car.
I'm not interested until it can store as much energy as my common alkaline battery does now -- or at least a NiMH rechargable. Seems someone else awhile ago felt they could build a capacitor with nanotubes that might approach this value, while still having the advantages of speeed and near limitless charge/discharge cycles. THAT's what interests me at the moment.
And yet you sell all your CD's at $16.99 regardless of that fact now, don't you?
At the same time, Mr. Jobs has refused the industry's calls for Apple to license its proprietary copy restriction software to other manufacturers. Music executives want the software to be shared so that services other than iTunes can sell music that can be played on the iPod, and so that other devices can play songs bought from iTunes.
Another load of crap. iPods can play music from any other DRM-free music seller. This joker wants you to believe iPods only play iTMS music, which is a lie. And iPod owners would likely buy music from other sources if: 1) It didn't have yet another, incompatible, version of DRM; 2) It was priced right; 3) It was the music they wanted to hear; 4) It had a nice interface to easily purchase and load said music onto their iPod. The record companies themselves are the ones to blame here.
You know, It's the DRM, stupid!
As if you needed another reason to Just Say No to Vista.
All that really matters here is how fast it runs Microsoft Word and Excel. You may not like it. You may want to mod me Troll or Flamebait, but to 80%+ of the population, as long as their PC brings up e-mail faster than they can type, shows movies without dropped frames, and quickly runs Word and Excel, that's all they care about. Blazing Folding@Home scores simply don't translate to a computing experience improvement. It's either faster enough in MSOffice, or it isn't. Sad, but very true.
The problem is that the WiFi part of the phone isn't unlocked until you've bought the AT&T unlimited data plan. While this is clear fraud on the purchaser, who might only be planning to use wireless access through WiFi points, AT&T gets their money regardless of how you use the iPhone. In fact, they'll want you to use WiFi as much as possible, to keep traffic down on their own networks.
All things considered, I'd rather have a nasty text message or two...
than a punch in the face!
Get this guy an Exorcist.
Frankly, MS, that's smaller than my current USB drive, and that drive isn't actually very large by today's standards. And it has faster access, too.
It's easier, when I want to store something, to GMail it to myself. They have over 5X this amount of storage -- and aren't Microsoft!
3,456 ports. Now there's a non-computer number if I've ever seen one. It looks like someone asked, "And just how many ports do we need to be competitive," and someone else just started hitting the number keys in sequence across the top of the keyboard, starting at "3", until either Marketing was happy, or the engineer in charge fainted.
What would be fascinating to know here is if this affects the performance of the processor itself. Sometimes things are fixed by inserting wait states, or other, more inefficient ways, of performing the function. What if someone performed benchmarks before and after this patch, and found a 2% degradation in performance? Would that be news?
Follow up with, are there other lakes that didn't exist before the explosion, but do since?
You can, for the most part, use Windows apps running on the cheapest version of Windows XP or Vista available seamlessly...
Now normally, he couldn't use this at work at all. Ever since the intentionally crippled Windows ME was created to force businesses to migrate to the more expensive Windows 2000/XP Pro, instead of running on Windows 98SE, Microsoft, like the airlines who find ways to make business travelers pay more (e.g. advance purchase requirements for cheap fares, Saturday night stays, etc.), has been able to create versions of Windows that companies with more money to spend have to buy the expensive ones. If you want to connect into Active Directory, home versions just won't do it. They held on to the home market as well by offering much cheaper versions of Windows there.
Now, however, if your base operating system (Linux, OS/X) can handle connectivity to your business needs, then the cheapest Windows in a virtual environment can be used for your Windows only apps.
Furthermore, this gives you an easy way to migrate away over time from Windows apps altogether. You no longer have to go Cold Turkey on being cutoff from Windows. You can keep what you need until the next software upgrade cycle, running less and less on Windows Vista, until you don't need it any longer at all.
Yeah, if I was Microsoft I'd really be scared too!
While it's actually rather limited due to the slow 2.5EDGE system, does this mean you can buy minimum minutes and VoIP your calls all month? Enquiring minds and all that yada yada.
All this just goes to show that there really is nothing special about Vista, and the only reason to upgrade to it are artificial barriers created to try and force you that way. Your software is fully capable of running just fine on XP into the foreseeable future, but Microsoft wants your money, and Hollywood wants you forced into the worst DRM infested system yet foisted on us.
Instead of titling this article: Citizen Journalism Combating Chinese Censorship, wouldn't it be more accurate to have said: Chinese Censorship Combating Citizen Journalism.