I have over 100 entries on my phone, 70 of them have voice commands.
With my job, I use well over 3000 minutes per month, so much for
being left out like you...at least I don't post ANONYMOUSLY..........
I don't know why I would want this.......my Sony Ericsson W810i has
"voice commands", along with the ringtones I have assigned for various
people, I know who's calling me by the voice command and/or the
ringtone. 200.00 for a watch? With my job, I go through watches
about once a year. I just pick up a cheap one...time is time......I
don't need a pound (or kilogram) of metal hanging on my wrist just
to impress someone.
They are sore loosers....For some reason, they think they are "entitled" to hold office and
that the rest of us in "flyover" country, are redneck,nascar,trailerpark idiots that can't
hold a job. The reason that liberals don't win elections, is that they do NOT give an
alternative. All they know how to do is whhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnneeeeeeee if they
don't get their way.
Go back and look at the 1960 election. If anyone had reason to dispute the election, it
was Nixon! Asked why he didn't dispute the election he said that it would divide the
country. Well DUH! Look, for the last 6 years, all we've heard out of the democratic
moonbats is that the election was stolen.
Well, GET OVER IT! You think conservatives liked having Clinton elected twice? Nope, but
did I whinnneeee about it? Nope....but I did laugh when he got caught LYING before a federal
judge and was impeached. Too bad the non-conservatives in the senate didn't impeach him
also. And no, he wasn't impeached for "lying about sex". He was impeached for LYING under
oath! THAT, is a crime. Period. It's black & white...you tell the truth or you LIE.
I know that is something a lot of liberals don't like. Everything is gray with that bunch.
Explains why we have so much political correctness.
Look at the major cities that have such a problem with crime, and you'll find they are the
same BLUE states that keep electing liberals.
THANK GOD we have an electoral college to even out the small less populus states with the large
populated states. Read the documents the founding fathers wrote as to why we have an electoral
college.
The TSA, is a bunch of idiots (for the most part), who, cannot or will not "improve" themselves.
They have these jobs, and are taking advantage of thier position to wield power over a captive
crowd. This, will be the ONLY time in their lives that they can actually have any authority over
anyone, and these dolts are going to screw up your lives. Why? Because they can. If they were
not working for TSA, they would be working in a McDonalds, Burger King, or on welfare. Have you
seen some of these idiots at work? 2/3 of them barely have a working knowledge of ENGLISH. I
quit flying anywhere after 9/11, just because it's just too much of a hassle to waste an ENTIRE
day to travel. You have to figure 2-3 hours MINIMUM before your flight just to bother with all
the prescreening if you travel through a major airport.
It wasn't the "bj" that got him in trouble. It was LYING to a GRAND JURY. It's called Perjury
That is why he was "hounded"......The fact he was and is a LIAR had nothing to do with the CRIMINAL
nature of the case. It was the FACT that he LIED under OATH.
From Wikipedia:
Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law or in any of various sworn statements in writing. Perjury is a crime because the witness has sworn to tell the truth and, for the credibility of the court, witness testimony must be relied on as being truthful. Perjury is considered a very serious crime as it could be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice. In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law provides for a prison sentence of up to five years, and is found at 18 U.S.C. 1621. See also 28 U.S.C. 1746.
I doubt it......the Roswell types will say that the image was doctored
to distort the truth bla bla bla. It is a formation of ROCKS....period.
Same as the "old man on the mountain" in Georgia. Heck, as a kid, you
ever see "things" in clouds?
The colorized movies. Part of the "appeal" of Star Trek the Original series are the campy
graphics. Sometimes you can actually see the wires holding things up, where the matte images
doesn't line up etc. Leave it alone.
Personally, if they want to "revive" star trek, TAKE IT OFF ALL MEDIA AIRWAVES for about 5-10
years, THEN bring back a new movie, without Bergman et al.
ANY suspicious mail that falls into my hotmail box (usually paypal, or ebay) I immediately
go to the official sites and send them as much as I can. Usually, within an hour or so, the
site in question has been taken down. If more people like us (hard core computer users)
would take the lead in reporting phishers as quickly as possible, instead of deleting the
junk mail, maybe it would help cut down on phishers. It only takes a minute or two to report
them. Also, if we could do what we can with our relatives (we all know they call US when something
goes haywire), to explain and show them what not to do, maybe it would go away. My dad has
gotten in the habit of calling me on the phone before clicking on a linked website if he
isn't sure. He even called me one time when he was going to buy something online, and he
didn't see "the padlock" or the https in firefox. If we can get others in the habit of what
to look for, phishing could be reduced. I'd much rather take a call from a friend or family
member asking if a site is legit, then have them get scammed, or their computer hosed.
This is about the DUMBEST thing I've seen yet. A VISUAL website must be made ADA complient
for a BLIND person?
Until we get rid of all these STUPID lifetime appointment judges, who are NOT elected by the
people, STUPID crap like this will continue. If I were a judge, I'd dump about 90% of the
lawsuits in this country. You slip and fall on your butt? too bad, you're clumsy. You
spill hot coffee in your lap from a drive-through? You're a dumbass. People wonder why
it costs so much for items anymore, and why there are countless stickers, warning labels
etc.....this is why? Idiotic rulings like this! And anyone who sues a corporation and
wins, thinking they have "stuck it to the man" is another product of GOVERNMENT education.
They know zero about economics 101. They just factor in the loss to the cost of doing
business. In other words, the price of your stupid big mac & fries just went up!
These lazy ass people who go around suing everyone for everything need to get off their fat
butts and get out and actually GET A JOB and become a productive member of society!
It all depends on the type of machine. I've been working on these machines for 25 years.
If it is a slow speed (under 20 cpm) you could probably get away with it for a while, as
long as you feed it in landscape (8 1/2 x 11R) with the grain of the paper. On higher
speed models, (seg 3,4,5) machines, the quality of the paper is the majority factor in
producing a quality print. When the speed of the machine pushes above 60 cpm, the paper
isn't spending much time over the drum/transfer section, not to mention the fuser section
where the image is actually "saved" on the paper. Machines now handle "recycled" paper
a lot better than they did 10 years ago, but the real problem you get in a dry process
machine, is moisture content of the paper. A low quality paper, or a "DP" "dual purpose"
paper doesn't work as well as a dedicated "xerographic" paper. Paper of the "DP" type is
made to work in a large range of machines, dry AND wet process. Inkjet, offset machines
obviously use liquids, and therefore the paper needs to be able to "absorbe" the ink.
If that paper is exposed to a higher humidity, or stored improperly, it will inhibit the
transfer process to some extent on a plain (dry) paper copier/printer. Also, a lot of
recycled paper has LOTS of paper dust. This dust will get transfered to the photoconductor
drum, and when the cleaning blade (works like a windshild wiper) cleans off the drum, sometimes
this paper dust gets trapped between the blade and the drum and after a few thousand copies,
can actually scratch the drum surface, causing blade lines on the copies. The drum is a
VERY sensitive and easily scratched device. Paper is wood pulp, and very abrasive.
I try to steer my customers away from recycled paper on high speed machines, since they will
waste a lot of time clearing paper jams. It doesn't seem specific to any particular brand.
I've seen it happen on Canon, Ricoh, Minolta, Konica, Sharp, Toshiba. If you want consistant
output, use good quality paper.
As for the "paperless" office, yeah right. I remember when the paperwork reduction act went
through over a decade ago, and just laughed. ANYTIME the government is involved (or lawyers),
the paperwork goes UP. A couple of years ago, the healthcare industry was forced into the
HIPPA act (healthcare information privacy protection act), and you should have seen the increase
in the volume of copies! One hospital I service, the output has increased at least by 1/3.
As long as there is a government, or lawyers, paperwork will be a necessary evil.
I have one account, a educational department that runs anywhere between 1.5 to 2.0 million
copies per year! Even with a connected (networked) machine, where they can email the output
to a mailbox instead of printing it for each department, they haven't cut their output by
much, because when each department gets the email, they usually print the email. Everyone
wants a "hard copy" to either file or have in their hands.
The transition to a "paperless" office will probably take longer than accepting a "fax" as
a real document was in the early 80's.
I changed all of my bulbs to CFL's, but not for the "enviroment".....I HATE
changing burned out bulbs, which, as we all know, go out at the worst time.
I changed them so I don't have to change them for a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGG time.
Global warming is a bunch of hogwash anyway. Data from so called "experts" is
only 50 years worth, AT BEST.....which is what in the grand scheme of things?
A BLINK in the history of the earth! Plus, the OUTPUT from the sun has been
on the increase for years.......hello? hotter sun = hotter earth? Everyone
crying about the icecaps melting which will cause the sea level to rise. Well,
try this trick. Fill a glass with water with ice cubes. Fill it RIGHT TO the
edge. Now, let the ice melt and see if the water runs over the top of the
glass.......buzzzzz....it won't! The melting ice will displace the volume
and weight of the solid when it becomes a liquid.
Once again, more scare tactics of the looney left anti-capitalist, anti-western,
anti-American idiots. I know, socialism will really really work, it just hasn't
been tried by the right people yet........LOL!
One of the problems with the so called "global warming" (among others) is that the so called
"science" that says global warming is a serious danger, is that it is based on 50 years worth
of data. Now, considering the earth is millions or billions of years old, what is 50 years
in the scheme of things? Couple that with the proven FACT that the output from the sun has
been on the increase in the last 10 years and wouldn't a somewhat intelligent person conclude
that if the output from the sun has been on the increase, that the temperatures would be
also on a increase?
There is a well known time magazine cover from the 70's about global cooling.
http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0 ,23657,944914,00.html
It's like anything else "scientist" come up with.......eat oatbran, don't eat oatbran, drink
alcohol, don't drink alcohol.....geez! No wonder everyone is screwed up!
ok, correct me if I'm wrong....."office" is a BUSINESS (as it is sold) piece of software.
Then who cares how "pretty" it is....if it works, then leave it alone.
What they "should" do is something like the UI in Windows. Allow the IT departments to
have it in "pretty" mode, or "standard" mode. Most of the office monkey types that use
Office are use to the old interface. Takes longer to learn something new, then, just
give them the option instead of forcing a new UI on everyone.
I'm must glad the connection between sony & ericsson looks to be ok LOL.
Last couple of SE cell phones I've had work perfectly. Currently using
the W810i which is probably the best phone I've ever used!
AMEN to that!
Privledges should be EARNED.....abuse the privledges, take them away.
Only way you will TEACH responsibility, is to let them know that
their actions have consequences. When I was in my teens, I thought
my parents were the worst parents in the world. Wouldn't let me
do the "cool things" everyone else did. I thank god every day that
they raised me the way they did. I can go back to my old hometown
that I left 26 years ago, and STILL find a few of "the cool kids"
doing basically the same thing they were doing when I was in school!
I don't "blame" the kids for being rude, disrespectful etc 100% of
the time, because their stupid parents didn't teach/raise them
When I was in high school back in the 70's, I worked in a TV shop. It wasn't that
hard to make any color TV look good or bad, depending on the lighting. Under florescent
lights, since most of them are more toward the higher end of the light spectrum, you have
to add the compliment of blue, which is red to make the picture look "better". The problem
with monitors, computer or TV is that almost everyone "sees" color a little different.
What looks good to one person, looks like crap to someone else. I could set up a tv and
make it look good to me, but then after it was delivered, we would usualy have to tweak it
for the customer, to look good to them. I always found that if you adjusted the colors
for flesh tones on a live tv show, to the end user, then pretty much everything else would
look good. I have a PSD picture file that I downloaded somewhere (huge file) with a lot of
color stripes, flesh tones etc. I use that to set tv's and monitors to start with, then
let the end user tell me what looks best to them.
I'll get flamed for this, but I don't really care.
Considering kids are NOT brought up with a sense of right
and wrong, doesn't surprise me that kids would think it ok
to illegally copy music, software etc. Everything taught
by government schools is socailism. Capitialism is "wrong"
according to liberals. Everything belongs to the "collective"
It starts at a young age. First day of school, all the supplies
your parent bought for YOU are taken away, put in a big basket
for the entire class. It starts there, and the indoctranation
continues. Government good...private business bad.
Founding fathers bad......hollywierd "celebs" good.
BB had the 1 gig's on sale so I bought a few to add to my toolbox. I found reformatting
didn't get rid of U3, then went to the sandisk website and downloaded the uninstaller.
Must be hidden somewhere on the drive, but at least the uninstaller trashed U3 for good:)
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I have over 100 entries on my phone, 70 of them have voice commands. With my job, I use well over 3000 minutes per month, so much for being left out like you...at least I don't post ANONYMOUSLY..........
I don't know why I would want this.......my Sony Ericsson W810i has "voice commands", along with the ringtones I have assigned for various people, I know who's calling me by the voice command and/or the ringtone. 200.00 for a watch? With my job, I go through watches about once a year. I just pick up a cheap one...time is time......I don't need a pound (or kilogram) of metal hanging on my wrist just to impress someone.
They are sore loosers....For some reason, they think they are "entitled" to hold office and that the rest of us in "flyover" country, are redneck,nascar,trailerpark idiots that can't hold a job. The reason that liberals don't win elections, is that they do NOT give an alternative. All they know how to do is whhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnneeeeeeee if they don't get their way. Go back and look at the 1960 election. If anyone had reason to dispute the election, it was Nixon! Asked why he didn't dispute the election he said that it would divide the country. Well DUH! Look, for the last 6 years, all we've heard out of the democratic moonbats is that the election was stolen. Well, GET OVER IT! You think conservatives liked having Clinton elected twice? Nope, but did I whinnneeee about it? Nope....but I did laugh when he got caught LYING before a federal judge and was impeached. Too bad the non-conservatives in the senate didn't impeach him also. And no, he wasn't impeached for "lying about sex". He was impeached for LYING under oath! THAT, is a crime. Period. It's black & white...you tell the truth or you LIE. I know that is something a lot of liberals don't like. Everything is gray with that bunch. Explains why we have so much political correctness. Look at the major cities that have such a problem with crime, and you'll find they are the same BLUE states that keep electing liberals. THANK GOD we have an electoral college to even out the small less populus states with the large populated states. Read the documents the founding fathers wrote as to why we have an electoral college.
The TSA, is a bunch of idiots (for the most part), who, cannot or will not "improve" themselves. They have these jobs, and are taking advantage of thier position to wield power over a captive crowd. This, will be the ONLY time in their lives that they can actually have any authority over anyone, and these dolts are going to screw up your lives. Why? Because they can. If they were not working for TSA, they would be working in a McDonalds, Burger King, or on welfare. Have you seen some of these idiots at work? 2/3 of them barely have a working knowledge of ENGLISH. I quit flying anywhere after 9/11, just because it's just too much of a hassle to waste an ENTIRE day to travel. You have to figure 2-3 hours MINIMUM before your flight just to bother with all the prescreening if you travel through a major airport.
It wasn't the "bj" that got him in trouble. It was LYING to a GRAND JURY. It's called Perjury That is why he was "hounded"......The fact he was and is a LIAR had nothing to do with the CRIMINAL nature of the case. It was the FACT that he LIED under OATH. From Wikipedia: Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law or in any of various sworn statements in writing. Perjury is a crime because the witness has sworn to tell the truth and, for the credibility of the court, witness testimony must be relied on as being truthful. Perjury is considered a very serious crime as it could be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice. In the United States, for example, the general perjury statute under Federal law provides for a prison sentence of up to five years, and is found at 18 U.S.C. 1621. See also 28 U.S.C. 1746.
I doubt it......the Roswell types will say that the image was doctored to distort the truth bla bla bla. It is a formation of ROCKS....period. Same as the "old man on the mountain" in Georgia. Heck, as a kid, you ever see "things" in clouds?
The colorized movies. Part of the "appeal" of Star Trek the Original series are the campy graphics. Sometimes you can actually see the wires holding things up, where the matte images doesn't line up etc. Leave it alone. Personally, if they want to "revive" star trek, TAKE IT OFF ALL MEDIA AIRWAVES for about 5-10 years, THEN bring back a new movie, without Bergman et al.
ANY suspicious mail that falls into my hotmail box (usually paypal, or ebay) I immediately go to the official sites and send them as much as I can. Usually, within an hour or so, the site in question has been taken down. If more people like us (hard core computer users) would take the lead in reporting phishers as quickly as possible, instead of deleting the junk mail, maybe it would help cut down on phishers. It only takes a minute or two to report them. Also, if we could do what we can with our relatives (we all know they call US when something goes haywire), to explain and show them what not to do, maybe it would go away. My dad has gotten in the habit of calling me on the phone before clicking on a linked website if he isn't sure. He even called me one time when he was going to buy something online, and he didn't see "the padlock" or the https in firefox. If we can get others in the habit of what to look for, phishing could be reduced. I'd much rather take a call from a friend or family member asking if a site is legit, then have them get scammed, or their computer hosed.
trolling are we?
Braile on a DRIVE UP ATM always cracks me up...but, I guess if we are going to give ILLEGAL aliens drivers licenses, why not BLIND people?
Not my fault you fell, that was YOUR fault! So you can "STFU"
This is about the DUMBEST thing I've seen yet. A VISUAL website must be made ADA complient for a BLIND person? Until we get rid of all these STUPID lifetime appointment judges, who are NOT elected by the people, STUPID crap like this will continue. If I were a judge, I'd dump about 90% of the lawsuits in this country. You slip and fall on your butt? too bad, you're clumsy. You spill hot coffee in your lap from a drive-through? You're a dumbass. People wonder why it costs so much for items anymore, and why there are countless stickers, warning labels etc.....this is why? Idiotic rulings like this! And anyone who sues a corporation and wins, thinking they have "stuck it to the man" is another product of GOVERNMENT education. They know zero about economics 101. They just factor in the loss to the cost of doing business. In other words, the price of your stupid big mac & fries just went up! These lazy ass people who go around suing everyone for everything need to get off their fat butts and get out and actually GET A JOB and become a productive member of society!
bite me how's that?
It all depends on the type of machine. I've been working on these machines for 25 years. If it is a slow speed (under 20 cpm) you could probably get away with it for a while, as long as you feed it in landscape (8 1/2 x 11R) with the grain of the paper. On higher speed models, (seg 3,4,5) machines, the quality of the paper is the majority factor in producing a quality print. When the speed of the machine pushes above 60 cpm, the paper isn't spending much time over the drum/transfer section, not to mention the fuser section where the image is actually "saved" on the paper. Machines now handle "recycled" paper a lot better than they did 10 years ago, but the real problem you get in a dry process machine, is moisture content of the paper. A low quality paper, or a "DP" "dual purpose" paper doesn't work as well as a dedicated "xerographic" paper. Paper of the "DP" type is made to work in a large range of machines, dry AND wet process. Inkjet, offset machines obviously use liquids, and therefore the paper needs to be able to "absorbe" the ink. If that paper is exposed to a higher humidity, or stored improperly, it will inhibit the transfer process to some extent on a plain (dry) paper copier/printer. Also, a lot of recycled paper has LOTS of paper dust. This dust will get transfered to the photoconductor drum, and when the cleaning blade (works like a windshild wiper) cleans off the drum, sometimes this paper dust gets trapped between the blade and the drum and after a few thousand copies, can actually scratch the drum surface, causing blade lines on the copies. The drum is a VERY sensitive and easily scratched device. Paper is wood pulp, and very abrasive. I try to steer my customers away from recycled paper on high speed machines, since they will waste a lot of time clearing paper jams. It doesn't seem specific to any particular brand. I've seen it happen on Canon, Ricoh, Minolta, Konica, Sharp, Toshiba. If you want consistant output, use good quality paper. As for the "paperless" office, yeah right. I remember when the paperwork reduction act went through over a decade ago, and just laughed. ANYTIME the government is involved (or lawyers), the paperwork goes UP. A couple of years ago, the healthcare industry was forced into the HIPPA act (healthcare information privacy protection act), and you should have seen the increase in the volume of copies! One hospital I service, the output has increased at least by 1/3. As long as there is a government, or lawyers, paperwork will be a necessary evil. I have one account, a educational department that runs anywhere between 1.5 to 2.0 million copies per year! Even with a connected (networked) machine, where they can email the output to a mailbox instead of printing it for each department, they haven't cut their output by much, because when each department gets the email, they usually print the email. Everyone wants a "hard copy" to either file or have in their hands. The transition to a "paperless" office will probably take longer than accepting a "fax" as a real document was in the early 80's.
No where NEAR the coast!
I changed all of my bulbs to CFL's, but not for the "enviroment".....I HATE changing burned out bulbs, which, as we all know, go out at the worst time. I changed them so I don't have to change them for a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGG time. Global warming is a bunch of hogwash anyway. Data from so called "experts" is only 50 years worth, AT BEST.....which is what in the grand scheme of things? A BLINK in the history of the earth! Plus, the OUTPUT from the sun has been on the increase for years.......hello? hotter sun = hotter earth? Everyone crying about the icecaps melting which will cause the sea level to rise. Well, try this trick. Fill a glass with water with ice cubes. Fill it RIGHT TO the edge. Now, let the ice melt and see if the water runs over the top of the glass.......buzzzzz....it won't! The melting ice will displace the volume and weight of the solid when it becomes a liquid. Once again, more scare tactics of the looney left anti-capitalist, anti-western, anti-American idiots. I know, socialism will really really work, it just hasn't been tried by the right people yet........LOL!
makes sense to me
One of the problems with the so called "global warming" (among others) is that the so called "science" that says global warming is a serious danger, is that it is based on 50 years worth of data. Now, considering the earth is millions or billions of years old, what is 50 years in the scheme of things? Couple that with the proven FACT that the output from the sun has been on the increase in the last 10 years and wouldn't a somewhat intelligent person conclude that if the output from the sun has been on the increase, that the temperatures would be also on a increase? There is a well known time magazine cover from the 70's about global cooling. http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/printout/0 ,23657,944914,00.html
It's like anything else "scientist" come up with.......eat oatbran, don't eat oatbran, drink
alcohol, don't drink alcohol.....geez! No wonder everyone is screwed up!
If caught, feed these idiots to the tigers at the zoo. I'm a member of PETA......people EATING tasty animals!
ok, correct me if I'm wrong....."office" is a BUSINESS (as it is sold) piece of software. Then who cares how "pretty" it is....if it works, then leave it alone. What they "should" do is something like the UI in Windows. Allow the IT departments to have it in "pretty" mode, or "standard" mode. Most of the office monkey types that use Office are use to the old interface. Takes longer to learn something new, then, just give them the option instead of forcing a new UI on everyone.
I'm must glad the connection between sony & ericsson looks to be ok LOL. Last couple of SE cell phones I've had work perfectly. Currently using the W810i which is probably the best phone I've ever used!
AMEN to that! Privledges should be EARNED.....abuse the privledges, take them away. Only way you will TEACH responsibility, is to let them know that their actions have consequences. When I was in my teens, I thought my parents were the worst parents in the world. Wouldn't let me do the "cool things" everyone else did. I thank god every day that they raised me the way they did. I can go back to my old hometown that I left 26 years ago, and STILL find a few of "the cool kids" doing basically the same thing they were doing when I was in school! I don't "blame" the kids for being rude, disrespectful etc 100% of the time, because their stupid parents didn't teach/raise them
When I was in high school back in the 70's, I worked in a TV shop. It wasn't that hard to make any color TV look good or bad, depending on the lighting. Under florescent lights, since most of them are more toward the higher end of the light spectrum, you have to add the compliment of blue, which is red to make the picture look "better". The problem with monitors, computer or TV is that almost everyone "sees" color a little different. What looks good to one person, looks like crap to someone else. I could set up a tv and make it look good to me, but then after it was delivered, we would usualy have to tweak it for the customer, to look good to them. I always found that if you adjusted the colors for flesh tones on a live tv show, to the end user, then pretty much everything else would look good. I have a PSD picture file that I downloaded somewhere (huge file) with a lot of color stripes, flesh tones etc. I use that to set tv's and monitors to start with, then let the end user tell me what looks best to them.
I'll get flamed for this, but I don't really care. Considering kids are NOT brought up with a sense of right and wrong, doesn't surprise me that kids would think it ok to illegally copy music, software etc. Everything taught by government schools is socailism. Capitialism is "wrong" according to liberals. Everything belongs to the "collective" It starts at a young age. First day of school, all the supplies your parent bought for YOU are taken away, put in a big basket for the entire class. It starts there, and the indoctranation continues. Government good...private business bad. Founding fathers bad......hollywierd "celebs" good.
BB had the 1 gig's on sale so I bought a few to add to my toolbox. I found reformatting didn't get rid of U3, then went to the sandisk website and downloaded the uninstaller. Must be hidden somewhere on the drive, but at least the uninstaller trashed U3 for good :)