But it still means you have to wear sunglasses over your regular glasses, and the picture is darker and harder to see. I'll wait and see it projected in 2d, or if they only do 3d, pirate it for initial viewing, and then buy the DVD when it comes out.
No, linux would not re-enable it. It actually disabled it on the motherboard so neither OS would even see it. If I rebooted the machine into Windows7 it didn't work either. Powering off the machine didn't work. The only thing that actually did work was to pull the power plug from the wall. As long as the power supply was plugged in, it would hold that state.
It's not a laptop, it's a desktop. Her old computer had died and I could buy the HP for less than building her a new one. It just happened to come with Windows 7. She has been using a KDE desktop for years, and that is what she likes. It probably is like someone who has been on a Mac for years, and then goes to Windows. They probably don't like it. She played with Windows 7 for a couple of days and did not like it at all, so I set the default boot to Ubuntu. The power issue really is not a problem. It's just something we found out the hard way.
BTW, she hardly uses the desktop now that she has a firesale HP Touchpad. She loves WebOS.
My wife's HP desktop runs linux, but came with Windows 7. It is set up dual boot, but she never runs Windows. Not long after she got it, it lost the nic. It wouldn't show up in the bios or windows as well. We returned the computer for repair and when we got it back it worked fine. The problem started again though. I was able to figure out that power management/suspend in linux was disabling the nic. The simple act of unplugging the power cable would reset it and it would run as normal then. Needless to say, suspend is no longer used. The point is that we returned a functional machine due to a linux problem. It happens.
Agreed. It is a consumption device. I think the folks that think they need an IPad or IPhone or some other Apple branded device don't realize that other other ones do a fine job for 99% of what they want. BTW, I have a nook color running CM7 that we keep next to the TV for looking up stuff while we are watching. Nook colors can be had for around $100 (though you have to be a nerd to run Android on it). On the phone side, she has a simple pre-paid flip phone, and mine is a work provided Blackberry.
That's the funny thing about HP touchpads. The exact same thing is applicable since most users use the devices the way you said. Except the Touchpad only cost $150 on blowout. Ever since my wife got hers, she hardly uses her desktop anymore. Heck, she doesn't use her nook any more either. She uses the nook and kindle apps on the Touchpad.
A small, rural independent local bank . Quote from Raising Arizona... "The locals call it the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of La Grange. Looks like a hayseed bank. Tell you the truth, it is a hayseed bank. But the last Friday of every financial quarter, it has more cash than flies at a barbecue. - And guess what day it is tomorrow. - When all the hayseeds come in and cash their farm subsidies checks. "
You can refuse to an extent. My cell is work provided, wife's is a prepaid flip phone. We paid off all debts several years ago including mortgage. We bank at a hayseed bank. We don't buy new gadgets but go the craig's list, refurb route. Our phone/internet is a co-op. We got rid of cable. The little over the air we watch, we dvr and skip the ads. All browsers run adblockers.
However, I'd say we are far from "Amish" or "caveman".
Your roomate sounds smart. Since they charge you for inbound texts, that makes sense. Paygo is way better than contract if you use your phone as a phone and dont have diarrhea of the mouth. The paygo I am on is 5/minute, 2/text, 10/mb. Your $5 example would be 250 texts.
They are cheap if you go refurb. Cheetahdeals has Gateways and Dells cheap. Specs on the cheapest one($400) completely blow away any tablet. The Gateway One ZX4951-33e Refurbished All-In-One PC's 21.5" Full HD display saves space, is easy to use and is perfect for any room in your home providing interactive computing, enhanced media sharing with social networks and stunning HD entertainment.
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This happened to my wife's machine. If you enabled suspend, it would shut down the NIC completely. It would not even function in Windows 7. It was as if the NIC did not exist. We warrantied the machine back to HP because of it. It turns out all you had to do was pull the power cord and wait a minute or 2. If there was still power to the system, the NIC vanished.
Wow! We get a whole $10 off per led bulb. CFLs get a rebate of 50%. Not going to play in Iowa. However, the same utility is replacing the streetlights with LED bulbs. I don't see that saving much money or energy.
Not that it is related to the Slashdot subject, but I replaced my toilet a couple of years ago, and it is magical. It uses 1/3 the amount of water as the old one, and does a better job too!
If you are ever out in the sticks of west Texas. Drive over to Clovis, NM and you can see the Norm Petty studio where Buddy Holly recorded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Petty
That's pretty much my point. Facebook is not private. It's been proven over and over. If you post stuff on it, consider that it is public. As I understand it, if you "friend" some entity, that gives them access to some of your info. If you install an app, you give them the keys to the kingdom. So as I see it, the prospective employer can ask you to install their app, and barring that, to "friend" them. They don't need a password.
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But it still means you have to wear sunglasses over your regular glasses, and the picture is darker and harder to see. I'll wait and see it projected in 2d, or if they only do 3d, pirate it for initial viewing, and then buy the DVD when it comes out.
No, linux would not re-enable it. It actually disabled it on the motherboard so neither OS would even see it. If I rebooted the machine into Windows7 it didn't work either. Powering off the machine didn't work. The only thing that actually did work was to pull the power plug from the wall. As long as the power supply was plugged in, it would hold that state.
It's not a laptop, it's a desktop. Her old computer had died and I could buy the HP for less than building her a new one. It just happened to come with Windows 7. She has been using a KDE desktop for years, and that is what she likes. It probably is like someone who has been on a Mac for years, and then goes to Windows. They probably don't like it. She played with Windows 7 for a couple of days and did not like it at all, so I set the default boot to Ubuntu. The power issue really is not a problem. It's just something we found out the hard way.
BTW, she hardly uses the desktop now that she has a firesale HP Touchpad. She loves WebOS.
My wife's HP desktop runs linux, but came with Windows 7. It is set up dual boot, but she never runs Windows. Not long after she got it, it lost the nic. It wouldn't show up in the bios or windows as well. We returned the computer for repair and when we got it back it worked fine. The problem started again though. I was able to figure out that power management/suspend in linux was disabling the nic. The simple act of unplugging the power cable would reset it and it would run as normal then. Needless to say, suspend is no longer used. The point is that we returned a functional machine due to a linux problem. It happens.
Agreed. It is a consumption device. I think the folks that think they need an IPad or IPhone or some other Apple branded device don't realize that other other ones do a fine job for 99% of what they want. BTW, I have a nook color running CM7 that we keep next to the TV for looking up stuff while we are watching. Nook colors can be had for around $100 (though you have to be a nerd to run Android on it). On the phone side, she has a simple pre-paid flip phone, and mine is a work provided Blackberry.
That's the funny thing about HP touchpads. The exact same thing is applicable since most users use the devices the way you said. Except the Touchpad only cost $150 on blowout. Ever since my wife got hers, she hardly uses her desktop anymore. Heck, she doesn't use her nook any more either. She uses the nook and kindle apps on the Touchpad.
A small, rural independent local bank .
Quote from Raising Arizona...
"The locals call it the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of La Grange.
Looks like a hayseed bank.
Tell you the truth, it is a hayseed bank.
But the last Friday of every financial quarter,
it has more cash than flies at a barbecue.
- And guess what day it is tomorrow.
- When all the hayseeds come in and cash their farm subsidies checks. "
You can refuse to an extent. My cell is work provided, wife's is a prepaid flip phone. We paid off all debts several years ago including mortgage. We bank at a hayseed bank. We don't buy new gadgets but go the craig's list, refurb route. Our phone/internet is a co-op. We got rid of cable. The little over the air we watch, we dvr and skip the ads. All browsers run adblockers.
However, I'd say we are far from "Amish" or "caveman".
Yep. That would be me. I ditched Cable, and have a set of rabbit ears plugged into the tuner card on my HTPC.
Your roomate sounds smart. Since they charge you for inbound texts, that makes sense. Paygo is way better than contract if you use your phone as a phone and dont have diarrhea of the mouth. The paygo I am on is 5/minute, 2/text, 10/mb. Your $5 example would be 250 texts.
RoA #125 You can't make a deal if you're dead
I support the right to arm bears.
They are cheap if you go refurb.
Cheetahdeals has Gateways and Dells cheap.
Specs on the cheapest one($400) completely blow away any tablet.
The Gateway One ZX4951-33e Refurbished All-In-One PC's 21.5" Full HD display saves space, is easy to use and is perfect for any room in your home providing interactive computing, enhanced media sharing with social networks and stunning HD entertainment.
Intel Core i3-550 3.20GHz
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel HD Graphics
4GB DDR3 and 1TB HDD
21.5-inch HD widescreen touchscreen display
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
http://www.cheetahdeals.com/All-In-One-s/35.htm
Or HP's refurbs often has good prices on TouchSmarts. They don't now, but stock changes all the time.
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/html/hpremarketing/daily.asp
Omni reference.. Jesus I feel old!
Logging in to Google is something many people choose not to do...
They will go lowest common denominator and serve you up results appropriate to Zippy the Pinhead.... Yow!
I was not a member of that "tribe" when it happened. I don't think that it was an Intel NIC though, as the MOBO is an AMD chipset.
This happened to my wife's machine. If you enabled suspend, it would shut down the NIC completely. It would not even function in Windows 7. It was as if the NIC did not exist. We warrantied the machine back to HP because of it. It turns out all you had to do was pull the power cord and wait a minute or 2. If there was still power to the system, the NIC vanished.
Wow! We get a whole $10 off per led bulb. CFLs get a rebate of 50%. Not going to play in Iowa. However, the same utility is replacing the streetlights with LED bulbs. I don't see that saving much money or energy.
Not that it is related to the Slashdot subject, but I replaced my toilet a couple of years ago, and it is magical. It uses 1/3 the amount of water as the old one, and does a better job too!
I don't trust Google, so I only use it as a spam catcher and for work voicemail transcribed.
Using 159 MB of your 7701 MB
I wouldn't trust them for storage as well, unless I encrypted everything before storing it.
I am still using my same ISP for email for the last 11 years. If my imap gets full, I down load and archive it locally.
If you are ever out in the sticks of west Texas. Drive over to Clovis, NM and you can see the Norm Petty studio where Buddy Holly recorded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Petty
They actually were for a couple of weeks at Microsoft stores. now they are giving away $25 gift certificates.
http://slickdeals.net/f/4120241-FREE-25-GC-to-Microsoft-Store-if-you-own-a-working-Smartphone-Android-Blackberry-iPhone-PalmOS-WebOS-some-Symbian-B-M-Only-Smoked-by-Windows-Phone-thru-April-12-2012
That's pretty much my point. Facebook is not private. It's been proven over and over. If you post stuff on it, consider that it is public. As I understand it, if you "friend" some entity, that gives them access to some of your info. If you install an app, you give them the keys to the kingdom. So as I see it, the prospective employer can ask you to install their app, and barring that, to "friend" them. They don't need a password.
I tried it, and the report only goes back 1 month. Doesn't show much at all.
http://i.imgur.com/dEZW3.jpg