I think that the idea of aerostats was to address the issue of "if we had a persistent CAP (Combat Air Patrol) over the USA on 9/11 - it wouldn't have happened" BUT "a CAP is extremely expensive, so the next best thing is . . . well, let's ask Lockheed Martin"?
In other words: Security Theater.
Security Theater because Security Bank doesn't sound right to the public?;)
That's the especially baffling thing: theoretically, "XPS" is supposed to come in with the price premium over "Inspiron" that you would expect, but a bit cheaper than "Optiplex"; but Dell's enthusiasm for constantly-changing-but-sometimes-quite-large deals/discount codes/temporary sales/different prices between home and 'small business' stores/etc. actually meant that you could get a given 'XPS' for less than the closest equivalent 'Inspiron' depending on the phase of the moon.
I heard you can get $25 off any order over $250 today because it's 4 days past quarter moon. lol
You don't have to hear and/or feel your phone notify you every 2 minutes of an email coming through, 99% of which is SPAM.
I already don't have to hear and/or feel my phone do anything when email arrives. Why would I want to? It's email, not voice.
So, the point remains, why have a spam filter on your email when the spam filter is so bad at detecting spam that you have to read all the spam to verify that it is spam? AND you have to do it using a web browser instead of your normal email client because the only way to mark something as "not spam" and get it delivered normally is via the web interface.
If you can figure that out, you may have a salable product.
What good is a spam filter if you have to go read all the spam anyway?
You don't have to hear and/or feel your phone notify you every 2 minutes of an email coming through, 99% of which is SPAM.
Yes, on my Google account, 99%+ is spam. Only get false positives on mass mailings from valid businesses I deal with, but hey... I'm not missing anything important.:)
Charge $5/month to act as a spam filter. Plus they save on delivery by round filing junk mail for you at its origination point.
Flat price isn't lucrative enough. I see a damn auction coming...
e.g.
"Spam delivery is 5/mo, 5/mo, can I get 6/mo, 6/mo for non-delivery? That's 6/mo for non-delivery. Can I get 7, 7, 7/mo for delivery? That's 7/mo for delivery. That's 8 for non-delivery!! 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, can I get a 9 for delivery?"
I'll pay $20/mo for no junk mail. Violators will have to pay $100 per violation. The USPS is born again! Ah, I'm dreaming. Back to work.
What? Really? All I can say is finally! Waaaaaaaaaayyy less junk mail will get to me and everyone else now (99% of mail I get is junk -- goes right from my mail box straight into the recycling) Sure, there's probably some poor people who depend on this extra day of mail (I know we kinda did as I was growing up), but too bad...
What the......?
This only means that a larger chunk of mail (AND junk mail) will arrive on Monday now.
The potential of mail in your box doesn't affect the "feel" of your weekend. If you get all OCD about it that's your decision.
I don't understand how the feeling of a weekend (less weekday events and responsibilities involved) is correlated with OCD.
If I feel good because I'm driving down the road at a good rate and everyone else is acting responsibly, am I having OCD feelings of safety?
On the weekend, I can wake as I please, eat as I please, engage in whatever activities I choose, and now not have to remember to get the mail. It's sort of like two Sundays. Unless you're all religious and factor the church thing in.
Never trust research from a guy named "anal potty".
I quote:
"We've seen a lot of retraction..." "...one partial retraction..." "...tend to be pretty complete." "...when we saw one in CHEST... we were experiencing something similar"
Actually Dell's Enterprise level support is fairly good. Fortunately I haven't had much experience with consumer level support.
For somewhat mysterious reasons, they semi-bifurcated their consumer line into "Inspiron" and "XPS". There is a lot of overlap in specs(most models on one side of the fence are just a plastics kit away from a model on the other, though 'XPS' usually has more of the optional upgrades pre-added); but the "XPS" line also comes with nicer support, reasonably close to the support on enterprise desktop/laptop stuff, with just a few more dumb questions ahead of time because they aren't sure you are an actual tech.
"Inspiron" support is rather less exciting.
Should I even inquire what the price tag on the XPS line you're referencing is?;)
My office is all dell. Server died a few Fridays ago. Never saw anything like it before - start up, get to "applying computer settings", flash bluescreen, restart and do the same thing again. After not to long on the phone, running some diagnostics which didn't include asking for the error code, or acting at all interested when I tried to tell them what it was, they resolved to send a new motherboard and raid controller. Forgot to tell you, but i was clear to them, the situation was repeatable booting from the cd. Tuesday arrived, the tech installed it, same thing. Resolved that it must be software, never mind that it was blue screening from the cd, formatted the drive and same thing. Called again, after hours where you knew the tech was trying to get me to hang up, he offered new ram and CPU. I said maybe they should send new drives too, since that would be all that hadn't been replaced. At that point, he had me go in the raid bios, destroy the raid and create a new one, and that fixed it. I stayed til 6 in the morning restoring the thing and couldn't help but think that they must not track error codes at all - they never asked for them and didn't wan them when offered. Can't help but think hat if they did such simple things my office wouldn't have been dead in the water for three days. I mean, im paying for support, not just a tech to mindlessly send replacement parts that won't fix the issue.
So, no, no mor dell for me. I'll try my chances elsewhere.
Not to sound rude, but if you have a tech who can install motherboards, why can't that tech discern between a hardware and a software problem?
Something is missing here. If you have the ability to make choices, what went wrong here?
So, sparky, anybody who likes Dell systems, and has had good experiences with their support and dares to tell about it on a public forum is, to you, a shill... Have I got that right?? I also like Dell's enterprise systems (Optiplex/Precision/PowerEdge/Latitude), and the support for those systems. Since until about 2 years ago, I'd been supporting about 200 of these Dell systems in my then day-job, and have been doing so for 10+ years, I think I might know a thing or two about these Dell systems, and have some credibility in what I've experienced with their support... But you go right ahead and keep calling people shills who haven't had the same experience as you....
If someone has nothing but negative experiences and hears someone else say they are awesome will generally react with a "WTF" followed by a "tell me all about it so I can believe you; here's MY story."
I have owned one Dell laptop. I had a problem with that laptop, so I was forced to call customer support. It was an awesome experience. They walked me through all the regular nonsense (restart, etc), had me run one diagnostic and tell them the results, and they sent a tech out to fix the issue within a week. Overall, 8.5/10 experience (it would have been higher, but it was a new laptop and shouldn't have had hardware issues to begin with. But the tech was hot.)
Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been employed by, paid by in any fashion, or at all related to Dell computers. Except for that laptop, that is.
What in the heck kind of support did you pay for and what country do you live in? I've said it before and I'll say it again - I wish people like you had audio and video recordings of these experiences. Every story and personal experience I've had is the POLAR OPPOSITE.
My experience of Dell tech support - during the time I had a Dell - was pretty good. They were one of the few who didn't put me to some girl in India who didn't know the difference between a hub and a router.
You know, I wish people with your experiences actually had audio recordings of said experiences.
Hunting - check, self-defense - check, defense against the government - also check.
By all means enlighten us on these "reasons".
a.) Corporate control of personal activities and b.) secondary, monetary, control of the government.
Remember, 'b' feeds 'a' and 'a' feeds 'b'.
Money talks. I'm not disagreeing with you by any means (in fact, I agree). The point is that we can't really show an example of where guns are free to be used to stop the flow of money unless it's a component of war.
I think it calls for a bit more civil disobedience than that. See how many open WiFi networks you can get strikes for. Obviously, don't do anything illegal - only share files that will cause a false positive... not actual copyrighted works, and don't break into anything.
Aw, hell no! That will get rid of all of the free internet in the 'states over a few months. Have the malware do the work.:)
Well, you could always stand up and demand your leaders repeal this nonsense. Is that not one of the stipulations of the political system in the US, that one must participate? I see a LOT of folks complaining on/., but I never hear about anyone actually DO anything. And no, a strongly worded facebook post is not doing something. Say what you want about the French, but they have it right. Their leaders are scared shitless of the population. That is how it must be. When the leaders do the things the US politicians do each day, France burns. So, I would say, If you don't like it, "man up" and do something.
If "leaders" weren't paid off by the industries in question, action would have been taken long ago because people SO speak, and DO write, and DO call them to action.
It's stuff like this "stand up" message that's just a result of conditioning. TV ads came out encouraging people to take stands on things so now it's just simply as a way to express that one has an opinion.
To make it clear that this isn't trolling material - people *DO* take action and are given response letters of "yes, I [we] care and will do something about it" from their representatives, but those same representatives vote in favor of the industry. Money talks.
You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.
Very true. Not to go off-topic, but think about the corporate entity and the personal entity. They both do the same thing - have times (or units) inside that break their own rules.
Some people are religious but break the rules on a daily basis.
I'd like to see the count of people that work for the music and movie corporations that don't copy media. If they don't, it's only because their own entity gives them free copies as a bonus for working there (read: discouragement).
I've said it a hundred times on Slashdot before... we live in a caste system.
Guess what, if you're reading this, you're in the lower caste.
And yet still, people boggle and question why laws seem to work differently for individuals than they do for the 1% and corporations.
CASTE SYSTEM PEOPLE! LOOK IT UP! If the smart people of Slashdot and elsewhere would actually acknowledge this and finally get around to fucking accepting it (because it's already here, and if you're in the lower caste... and you are... you CANNOT fight it. Get this through your heads), then maybe they can put their heads together and come up with a way to make working WITHIN the lower caste more comfortable.
But just accept it already people. The fight against this has been lost YEARS ago. It's as bad as the USA thinking they didn't lose the war on terror.
The fact that you mentioned War on Terror just gave the corporations bait. They will now buy gov't officials off to declare high bandwidth as a tool of terrorism. Thanks a lot.:->
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I think that the idea of aerostats was to address the issue of "if we had a persistent CAP (Combat Air Patrol) over the USA on 9/11 - it wouldn't have happened" BUT "a CAP is extremely expensive, so the next best thing is . . . well, let's ask Lockheed Martin"?
In other words: Security Theater.
Security Theater because Security Bank doesn't sound right to the public? ;)
That's the especially baffling thing: theoretically, "XPS" is supposed to come in with the price premium over "Inspiron" that you would expect, but a bit cheaper than "Optiplex"; but Dell's enthusiasm for constantly-changing-but-sometimes-quite-large deals/discount codes/temporary sales/different prices between home and 'small business' stores/etc. actually meant that you could get a given 'XPS' for less than the closest equivalent 'Inspiron' depending on the phase of the moon.
I heard you can get $25 off any order over $250 today because it's 4 days past quarter moon. lol
Playing Post Office on Saturdays are some of my fondest memories.
So this feels like Fred Rogers dying?
Or are you talking about ANOTHER kind of play? :)
You don't have to hear and/or feel your phone notify you every 2 minutes of an email coming through, 99% of which is SPAM.
I already don't have to hear and/or feel my phone do anything when email arrives. Why would I want to? It's email, not voice.
So, the point remains, why have a spam filter on your email when the spam filter is so bad at detecting spam that you have to read all the spam to verify that it is spam? AND you have to do it using a web browser instead of your normal email client because the only way to mark something as "not spam" and get it delivered normally is via the web interface.
If you can figure that out, you may have a salable product.
What good is a spam filter if you have to go read all the spam anyway?
You don't have to hear and/or feel your phone notify you every 2 minutes of an email coming through, 99% of which is SPAM.
Yes, on my Google account, 99%+ is spam. Only get false positives on mass mailings from valid businesses I deal with, but hey... I'm not missing anything important. :)
They should offer that as a service.
Charge $5/month to act as a spam filter. Plus they save on delivery by round filing junk mail for you at its origination point.
Flat price isn't lucrative enough. I see a damn auction coming...
e.g.
"Spam delivery is 5/mo, 5/mo, can I get 6/mo, 6/mo for non-delivery? That's 6/mo for non-delivery. Can I get 7, 7, 7/mo for delivery? That's 7/mo for delivery. That's 8 for non-delivery!! 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, can I get a 9 for delivery?"
I'll pay $20/mo for no junk mail. Violators will have to pay $100 per violation. The USPS is born again! Ah, I'm dreaming. Back to work.
What? Really? All I can say is finally! Waaaaaaaaaayyy less junk mail will get to me and everyone else now (99% of mail I get is junk -- goes right from my mail box straight into the recycling) Sure, there's probably some poor people who depend on this extra day of mail (I know we kinda did as I was growing up), but too bad...
What the......?
This only means that a larger chunk of mail (AND junk mail) will arrive on Monday now.
Need some coffee?
The potential of mail in your box doesn't affect the "feel" of your weekend. If you get all OCD about it that's your decision.
I don't understand how the feeling of a weekend (less weekday events and responsibilities involved) is correlated with OCD.
If I feel good because I'm driving down the road at a good rate and everyone else is acting responsibly, am I having OCD feelings of safety?
On the weekend, I can wake as I please, eat as I please, engage in whatever activities I choose, and now not have to remember to get the mail. It's sort of like two Sundays. Unless you're all religious and factor the church thing in.
It saves money (first-off) and more importantly, makes a weekend feel more like a true weekend.
Never trust research from a guy named "anal potty".
I quote:
"We've seen a lot of retraction..."
"...one partial retraction..."
"...tend to be pretty complete."
"...when we saw one in CHEST... we were experiencing something similar"
Man it's loaded. Ha. Load.
Let's see if any judge and group of peers can look at date/time references in logs and/or pages and make any sense of that simple concept at all. :)
Aw, sweet!
Someone published a paper. Watch the patent system disappear tomorrow!
Is there a DABDA clause in socio-economic data and research? /snark
Haven't ordered Dell machines for over 5 years now. HP gets all of our business.
How's that goin' for ya?
Actually Dell's Enterprise level support is fairly good. Fortunately I haven't had much experience with consumer level support.
For somewhat mysterious reasons, they semi-bifurcated their consumer line into "Inspiron" and "XPS". There is a lot of overlap in specs(most models on one side of the fence are just a plastics kit away from a model on the other, though 'XPS' usually has more of the optional upgrades pre-added); but the "XPS" line also comes with nicer support, reasonably close to the support on enterprise desktop/laptop stuff, with just a few more dumb questions ahead of time because they aren't sure you are an actual tech.
"Inspiron" support is rather less exciting.
Should I even inquire what the price tag on the XPS line you're referencing is? ;)
My office is all dell. Server died a few Fridays ago. Never saw anything like it before - start up, get to "applying computer settings", flash bluescreen, restart and do the same thing again. After not to long on the phone, running some diagnostics which didn't include asking for the error code, or acting at all interested when I tried to tell them what it was, they resolved to send a new motherboard and raid controller. Forgot to tell you, but i was clear to them, the situation was repeatable booting from the cd. Tuesday arrived, the tech installed it, same thing. Resolved that it must be software, never mind that it was blue screening from the cd, formatted the drive and same thing. Called again, after hours where you knew the tech was trying to get me to hang up, he offered new ram and CPU. I said maybe they should send new drives too, since that would be all that hadn't been replaced. At that point, he had me go in the raid bios, destroy the raid and create a new one, and that fixed it. I stayed til 6 in the morning restoring the thing and couldn't help but think that they must not track error codes at all - they never asked for them and didn't wan them when offered. Can't help but think hat if they did such simple things my office wouldn't have been dead in the water for three days. I mean, im paying for support, not just a tech to mindlessly send replacement parts that won't fix the issue.
So, no, no mor dell for me. I'll try my chances elsewhere.
Not to sound rude, but if you have a tech who can install motherboards, why can't that tech discern between a hardware and a software problem?
Something is missing here. If you have the ability to make choices, what went wrong here?
So, sparky, anybody who likes Dell systems, and has had good experiences with their support and dares to tell about it on a public forum is, to you, a shill... Have I got that right?? I also like Dell's enterprise systems (Optiplex/Precision/PowerEdge/Latitude), and the support for those systems. Since until about 2 years ago, I'd been supporting about 200 of these Dell systems in my then day-job, and have been doing so for 10+ years, I think I might know a thing or two about these Dell systems, and have some credibility in what I've experienced with their support... But you go right ahead and keep calling people shills who haven't had the same experience as you....
If someone has nothing but negative experiences and hears someone else say they are awesome will generally react with a "WTF" followed by a "tell me all about it so I can believe you; here's MY story."
I have owned one Dell laptop. I had a problem with that laptop, so I was forced to call customer support. It was an awesome experience. They walked me through all the regular nonsense (restart, etc), had me run one diagnostic and tell them the results, and they sent a tech out to fix the issue within a week. Overall, 8.5/10 experience (it would have been higher, but it was a new laptop and shouldn't have had hardware issues to begin with. But the tech was hot.)
Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been employed by, paid by in any fashion, or at all related to Dell computers. Except for that laptop, that is.
What in the heck kind of support did you pay for and what country do you live in? I've said it before and I'll say it again - I wish people like you had audio and video recordings of these experiences. Every story and personal experience I've had is the POLAR OPPOSITE.
My experience of Dell tech support - during the time I had a Dell - was pretty good. They were one of the few who didn't put me to some girl in India who didn't know the difference between a hub and a router.
You know, I wish people with your experiences actually had audio recordings of said experiences.
Hunting - check, self-defense - check, defense against the government - also check.
By all means enlighten us on these "reasons".
a.) Corporate control of personal activities and
b.) secondary, monetary, control of the government.
Remember, 'b' feeds 'a' and 'a' feeds 'b'.
Money talks. I'm not disagreeing with you by any means (in fact, I agree). The point is that we can't really show an example of where guns are free to be used to stop the flow of money unless it's a component of war.
Time Warner Cable actually split from Time Warner recently, so they're not related.
Yeah, show us who has stock in one but not the other.
I think it calls for a bit more civil disobedience than that. See how many open WiFi networks you can get strikes for. Obviously, don't do anything illegal - only share files that will cause a false positive... not actual copyrighted works, and don't break into anything.
Aw, hell no! That will get rid of all of the free internet in the 'states over a few months. Have the malware do the work. :)
Well, you could always stand up and demand your leaders repeal this nonsense. Is that not one of the stipulations of the political system in the US, that one must participate? /., but I never hear about anyone actually DO anything. And no, a strongly worded facebook post is not doing something.
I see a LOT of folks complaining on
Say what you want about the French, but they have it right. Their leaders are scared shitless of the population. That is how it must be. When the leaders do the things the US politicians do each day, France burns.
So, I would say, If you don't like it, "man up" and do something.
If "leaders" weren't paid off by the industries in question, action would have been taken long ago because people SO speak, and DO write, and DO call them to action.
It's stuff like this "stand up" message that's just a result of conditioning. TV ads came out encouraging people to take stands on things so now it's just simply as a way to express that one has an opinion.
To make it clear that this isn't trolling material - people *DO* take action and are given response letters of "yes, I [we] care and will do something about it" from their representatives, but those same representatives vote in favor of the industry. Money talks.
You forget that, in the USA, corporations _are_ people. Therefore they aren't made up of people, because they are their own living and thinking entity.
Very true. Not to go off-topic, but think about the corporate entity and the personal entity. They both do the same thing - have times (or units) inside that break their own rules.
Some people are religious but break the rules on a daily basis.
I'd like to see the count of people that work for the music and movie corporations that don't copy media. If they don't, it's only because their own entity gives them free copies as a bonus for working there (read: discouragement).
Which ones? I'd like to know who doesn't want my money.
AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon. It's in the article. :)
The only ones available in some peoples' areas.
I've said it a hundred times on Slashdot before... we live in a caste system.
Guess what, if you're reading this, you're in the lower caste.
And yet still, people boggle and question why laws seem to work differently for individuals than they do for the 1% and corporations.
CASTE SYSTEM PEOPLE! LOOK IT UP! If the smart people of Slashdot and elsewhere would actually acknowledge this and finally get around to fucking accepting it (because it's already here, and if you're in the lower caste... and you are... you CANNOT fight it. Get this through your heads), then maybe they can put their heads together and come up with a way to make working WITHIN the lower caste more comfortable.
But just accept it already people. The fight against this has been lost YEARS ago. It's as bad as the USA thinking they didn't lose the war on terror.
The fact that you mentioned War on Terror just gave the corporations bait. They will now buy gov't officials off to declare high bandwidth as a tool of terrorism. Thanks a lot. :->