Same on HP AIOs. I'm guessing most of them want the cartridges in place to do ANYTHING.
Not true. I have an HP AIO printer/fax/scanner. The cartridges have never been installed and it works nicely as a scanner. I have been unable to install the Windows software and drivers on my XP machine -- perhaps it needs the cartridges installed to be able to complete the software installation, but scanning using XSANE under Linux works well.
Or, for a lot less, buy a cheap inkjet multi-function device and never install the ink cartridges. Let all those other people who actually print using these things subside your "scanner" purchase whenever they buy ink.
Basically your linked "story" says that because SoundExchange doesn't have contact information for a bunch of marginal little know and little played "artists", they are somehow evil?
If you read some of the other stories about SoundExchange, you will see that many of the artists that Sound Exchange could not find were easily found by people who actually tried. Meanwhile SoundExchange has millions of dollars in its accounts that should be paid to these "marginal" artists.
Your post exemplifies how Groklaw FUDs gullible people into believing nonsense. First of all the headline, summary and Groklaw are flat out twisting the facts about 'it turns out MS is the one without certification' as if MS claimed it, which it never ever did, at any point. Groklaw is the one lying by implying that MS said it's offering was FISMA certified. If you're quoting the summary, then you're the one that's being misled.
No, you are the one being disingenuous. Neither Groklaw nor the summary imply that "MS said it's offering was FISMA certified". You read this into your interpretation and then complain about Groklaw for saying something it did not. Pot, meet kettle. Go back to your desk at Redmond!
Usually email marketing databases include a lot more than name and email.
Perhaps you are correct. However, I just got an email from that claims that only my name and email address were compromised. Exactly what data was compromised may depend on the particular company's relationship with Epsilon.
It may come time at some point that they really are forced to focus on what they do best... business desktop software. This could mean the (forced) abandonment of WP software, Bing, etc.
Microsoft can't afford to do this. In the past, Microsoft's success was enabled by owning the complete flow, from the proprietary exchange formats to the proprietary office document formats.
But now, the "must have" is the smartphone. Hence Microsoft is playing on the other foot -- the Office and Windows have to play nice with the smartphones. But if Office and Windows play nice with smartphones, then other tools can interact with Office and Wndows, dramatically reducing the value of Microsoft's proprietary format lock-in.
The personal computing landscape has shifted and Microsoft has yet to catch up -- and, indeed, may never catch up.
I have used eSata for external hard drives. The connection goes through an eSata bracket. During heavy data transfer, the port will go offline and no amount of plugging and unplugging will bring it back up. A reboot is the only solution. This happens for 2 ports on the same MB and two hard drive enclosures.
It's simply viewed as a lesser evil compared to cancer which is all but guaranteed to kill the patient anyway
Most thyroid cancers are quite slow-growing, so this is far from certain. And the use of I-131 does not normally result in the symptoms you describe. There can be other effects, on salivary glands, for example. All very local.
So no, just because it's used in cancer treatments doesn't make it safe
I did not say it was "safe", rather, I was refuting your comment that the irradiation from I-131 lasts a "long-time" and that it affects the whole body.
Plus, the thyroid does not absorb all the iodine in the bloodstream -- only what it needs --- so any amount significantly more than the thyroid would absorb quickly passes through the body.
They don't get it. If the device is all locked down so you can't swap the firmware, then it isn't an android device in the most meaningful sense (openness)
What would you recommend instead of the Motorola phones, assuming a key requirement is a slide-out keyboard and running on T-Mobile's network?
Iodine 131 is even safer. It's risks are based on the fact that thyroid gland tends to vacuum all the iodine in the body, including isotope 131 where it irradiates your body from inside for a long time.
You know that Iodine-131 is frequently given to thyroid cancer patients, don't you? I think that the problem with I-131 is mostly local to the thyroid and the concentration in the thyroid is the problem. I-131 is used in medicine to destroy thyroid tissue. In smaller doses, it is also (or was) used to detect the presence of (possibly cancerous) thyroid tissue after complete removal of the thyroid. I-123 is also used for imaging purposes.
However, 12 month is way to short a period time for something as serious as citizenship. It takes time for a person to adequately acculturate to the point where they can function independently in society
Where do you get 12 months from? There may be exceptions for some people, but normally, it is 5 years spent in the USA after the time you got your green card after before you can apply for citizenship.
Additionally, a lot of stories only come to light because of the competitive nature of the industry wanting to beat everybody else to the story so as to have something to rub their nose in.
Yeah, just like how the mainstream media warned everyone about the financial crash before it happened and Bernie Madoff before his ponzi scheme collapsed.
I'm tired of hearing how we need mainstream media for its investigative reporting, when that media missed the biggest stories of the decade. Mainstream media is failing because it isn't dong the investigation.
# T-Mobile annually won awards for their incredible customer service. Hopefully AT&T adopts their paradigms.
Yeah, good luck with that. Chance of that happening: 0%
# With AT&T being the only GSM carrier in the US, manufacturer agreements will be way easier and, thus, we'll finally be getting a vast selection of high-end phones. (T-Mobile has been steadily improving in this front.)
Again, good luck with that. AT&T offers iPhones, what else do you want? You don't want that commie Android system do you?
# HOPEFULLY AT&T customers will get UMA (GAN), probably one of T-Mobile's best and most exclusive features. They would be incredibly short-sighted to throw that technology away.
The main reason I like T-Mobile. I can travel internationally and pay for calls as if I were still in the USA.
It's easy to do more research than the news networks. I saw news reports of a mass exodus from Japan, but on a whim, I checked to see if there were seats available on the next flights out.
There were economy class seats available, I think it unlikely that there would be economy class tickets available if there were a mass exodus taking place.
FTFA: "But I think Microsoft should understand that it doesnâ(TM)t have an engineering or a product problem, it has a marketing problem and that it needs to address it"
You are being disingenuous with that quote. The article is about comments made by "Wu Sa, ZTEâ(TM)s U.K. director of mobile device operations", but the words you quoted are a comment by the author of the article, not by the above ZIE executive. They are words by someone whose livelihood is following Microsoft.
Anyone who thinks 'evacuation' from an urbanized area is possible in the US ought to watch rush hour in major cities a couple of times. If you live in an urban area and are serious about being prepared for some form of catastrophe, you need to be able to survive in place for at least a couple of weeks
Which is why my emergency preparedness involves boxes outside my house with food, clothing, tents, camping stoves, and water purification systems. Also in the boxes are a crank-powered radio and a large crowbar (to access my house, assuming it is damaged by an earthquake). I can live in my back yard for 2-3 weeks.
What's your point? All you have shown is that it would cost you, the buyer a lot to get that fancy tech from another source. So what?
Look at a plastic molding. Imagine how much it would cost your to get a plastic molding that wasn't made by the normal manufacturer of said part.
The point that you have completely missed is that the cost to the manufacturer is far, far less than the price paid by the end user, when buying the parts individually. This is tru for just about anything on a car, even if generic parts are available.
Parts manufacturers will even sell parts to the OEM at a loss (or near loss), knowing they they can make a profit on aftermarket sales of the same device, simply because it is installed on a particular type of car.
Other than poorly designed clocks, what other devices actually care about the power line frequency?
Poorly designed? In the UK, power line frequency is very tightly controlled and fluctuations are corrected for during the night, so clocks that were synchronous to the power were very accurate. The problem isn't the clocks, its the power generation. Also, sotting in my garage, I have an old turntable, with a synchronous motor. Again, any frequency error is far less than one's ability to distinguish from the correct frequency.
My answer would be car-related. From the ludicrous stereo to the 50p light snesing diode that seems to translate to hundreds of pounds when translated into the phrase "automatic headlights", in-car tech is ripe for commoditisation.
You don't really think that the car manufacturer actually pays anything like those prices, do you? The manufacturer is paying pennies, but charges many dollars for these items (especially if you are buying the parts as replacements).. Those options prices and spare part prices are how the manufacturer makes a profit!
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The article suggests that, if your are running Windows, that you upgrade to Windows 7 or Vista.
It also has advice for MAC users.
Just because it has no advice for Linux or BSD users doesn't mean that the article suggests that Linux or BSD users should switch to Windows.
[But you all knew that -- whenever are /. summaries accurate?]
Not true. I have an HP AIO printer/fax/scanner. The cartridges have never been installed and it works nicely as a scanner. I have been unable to install the Windows software and drivers on my XP machine -- perhaps it needs the cartridges installed to be able to complete the software installation, but scanning using XSANE under Linux works well.
Or, for a lot less, buy a cheap inkjet multi-function device and never install the ink cartridges. Let all those other people who actually print using these things subside your "scanner" purchase whenever they buy ink.
If you read some of the other stories about SoundExchange, you will see that many of the artists that Sound Exchange could not find were easily found by people who actually tried. Meanwhile SoundExchange has millions of dollars in its accounts that should be paid to these "marginal" artists.
And that's sooo different to SoundExchange failing to pay artists because it "can't find them"!
No, you are the one being disingenuous. Neither Groklaw nor the summary imply that "MS said it's offering was FISMA certified". You read this into your interpretation and then complain about Groklaw for saying something it did not. Pot, meet kettle. Go back to your desk at Redmond!
Perhaps you are correct. However, I just got an email from that claims that only my name and email address were compromised. Exactly what data was compromised may depend on the particular company's relationship with Epsilon.
Microsoft can't afford to do this. In the past, Microsoft's success was enabled by owning the complete flow, from the proprietary exchange formats to the proprietary office document formats.
But now, the "must have" is the smartphone. Hence Microsoft is playing on the other foot -- the Office and Windows have to play nice with the smartphones. But if Office and Windows play nice with smartphones, then other tools can interact with Office and Wndows, dramatically reducing the value of Microsoft's proprietary format lock-in.
The personal computing landscape has shifted and Microsoft has yet to catch up -- and, indeed, may never catch up.
I have used eSata for external hard drives. The connection goes through an eSata bracket. During heavy data transfer, the port will go offline and no amount of plugging and unplugging will bring it back up. A reboot is the only solution. This happens for 2 ports on the same MB and two hard drive enclosures.
Most thyroid cancers are quite slow-growing, so this is far from certain. And the use of I-131 does not normally result in the symptoms you describe. There can be other effects, on salivary glands, for example. All very local.
I did not say it was "safe", rather, I was refuting your comment that the irradiation from I-131 lasts a "long-time" and that it affects the whole body.
Plus, the thyroid does not absorb all the iodine in the bloodstream -- only what it needs --- so any amount significantly more than the thyroid would absorb quickly passes through the body.
What would you recommend instead of the Motorola phones, assuming a key requirement is a slide-out keyboard and running on T-Mobile's network?
I never really understood that. The first time I borrowed a RAZR, my first thought was how crap the sound quality of the call was.
You know that Iodine-131 is frequently given to thyroid cancer patients, don't you? I think that the problem with I-131 is mostly local to the thyroid and the concentration in the thyroid is the problem. I-131 is used in medicine to destroy thyroid tissue. In smaller doses, it is also (or was) used to detect the presence of (possibly cancerous) thyroid tissue after complete removal of the thyroid. I-123 is also used for imaging purposes.
Where do you get 12 months from? There may be exceptions for some people, but normally, it is 5 years spent in the USA after the time you got your green card after before you can apply for citizenship.
Yeah, just like how the mainstream media warned everyone about the financial crash before it happened and Bernie Madoff before his ponzi scheme collapsed.
I'm tired of hearing how we need mainstream media for its investigative reporting, when that media missed the biggest stories of the decade. Mainstream media is failing because it isn't dong the investigation.
I *think* some of the newer T-Mobile handsets support the necessary frequencies to get 3G service on both AT&T and T-Mobile's networks.
Yeah, good luck with that. Chance of that happening: 0%
Again, good luck with that. AT&T offers iPhones, what else do you want? You don't want that commie Android system do you?
The main reason I like T-Mobile. I can travel internationally and pay for calls as if I were still in the USA.
It's easy to do more research than the news networks. I saw news reports of a mass exodus from Japan, but on a whim, I checked to see if there were seats available on the next flights out. There were economy class seats available, I think it unlikely that there would be economy class tickets available if there were a mass exodus taking place.
You are being disingenuous with that quote. The article is about comments made by "Wu Sa, ZTEâ(TM)s U.K. director of mobile device operations", but the words you quoted are a comment by the author of the article, not by the above ZIE executive. They are words by someone whose livelihood is following Microsoft.
Which is why my emergency preparedness involves boxes outside my house with food, clothing, tents, camping stoves, and water purification systems. Also in the boxes are a crank-powered radio and a large crowbar (to access my house, assuming it is damaged by an earthquake). I can live in my back yard for 2-3 weeks.
Please click the "Parent" link enough times that you can see the context for the comments.
What's your point? All you have shown is that it would cost you, the buyer a lot to get that fancy tech from another source. So what?
Look at a plastic molding. Imagine how much it would cost your to get a plastic molding that wasn't made by the normal manufacturer of said part.
The point that you have completely missed is that the cost to the manufacturer is far, far less than the price paid by the end user, when buying the parts individually. This is tru for just about anything on a car, even if generic parts are available.
Parts manufacturers will even sell parts to the OEM at a loss (or near loss), knowing they they can make a profit on aftermarket sales of the same device, simply because it is installed on a particular type of car.
Big on words, implementation "lagging"
Poorly designed? In the UK, power line frequency is very tightly controlled and fluctuations are corrected for during the night, so clocks that were synchronous to the power were very accurate. The problem isn't the clocks, its the power generation. Also, sotting in my garage, I have an old turntable, with a synchronous motor. Again, any frequency error is far less than one's ability to distinguish from the correct frequency.
You don't really think that the car manufacturer actually pays anything like those prices, do you? The manufacturer is paying pennies, but charges many dollars for these items (especially if you are buying the parts as replacements).. Those options prices and spare part prices are how the manufacturer makes a profit!