True story: Some consultant around here set up a chain of day care centers with new computers and printers. He bought Dell computers which considering support and service isn't bad but he also had them buy Dell photo printers. Now, they might have a need to print out a pic of a kid or something once in a while but these were primarily used as office printers. One lady told me they were spending over $200/month on ink. For the price of ink for one month they could have had an inexpensive laser printer and a spare cartridge that would last them 6 months to a year.
One may complain that we demonize the man because he took away something as trivial as movies. This is not true. We demonize the man because, for something as trivial as movies, he was willing to take away our freedom.
I blew my mod points by posting earlier in this thread but this is the best comment I've seen here. Honorary +5 Insightful and a mod parent up!
I was a Dell field tech around Christmas time a few years ago. For a while the Dell support line played "If I only had a brain." from the Wizard of OZ for their hold music. They pulled it after a short time.
There's a lot of talk here about what you should do from armchair lawyers. As one who worked in the insurance industry for many years I'll just add a bit of info that your lawyer probably told you but in case he didn't...
Since the loss of your house will be at least partially covered by the insurance company, they will subrogate against Dell if it's warranted. The thing you need to do is to ask your insurance company to include any of your uninsured losses in their subrogation. That way, if your insurance company collects anything, you will collect a percentage of that based on what the insurance company paid out vs. your uninsured losses. It's easier than going after Dell yourself and you can still do that later if need be. Also, it would be easier to collect additional uninsured losses after (if?) they are found libel in a lawsuit by your insurance company. Let them do the heavy and expensive work. Just make sure your rights over and above your insured losses are known and protected.
Why don't they use those terminals like they have at McDonalds. Push a button and your choice lights up on the screen. If McDonalds employees can use them you would expect that even Florida voters could. Or maybe they'd just end up electing Mayor McCheese.
One of the car rags touched on this years ago, they described it as "damning with faint praise", when you get a bad product in you still give a positive review, but throw in lots of qualifiers.
PC Mag & PC World do this too. I get a kick out of their reviews for a poor product that end with something like "This software will eat your first born and wipe out the registry on a daily basis but if you like its ability to save to a floppy drive it may be just what you're looking for."
I will keep buying CD's until you can download music at the same or better quality, with no DRM.
Same here. My ears are old and I won't take a 128k mp3 unless it's free. 160k is my minimum, 192k optimal and 256k is great. None match a CD though even with my ears but they're acceptable.
I remember reading a site (too long ago to even dream about being able to find it again) about a sound engineer and the antics around producing an album. Part of the story was how they tried different drum kits, amps and other equipment then tweak it lovingly to get just the right sound. Now all of that is for naught as it gets compressed to hell and sold as a digital download. Might as well hook a couple of mics up to a Soundblaster16, record it and ship it.
Once again I awoke this morning hungry. I installed food into my mouth yesterday when I woke up hungry too. In fact, I installed food three times yesterday. And they day before that. And the day before that. This seems like such a cheap hack to a simple problem. Is there any way I can automate a solution to this problem? I have a few requirements though. Of course it must be open source and patent free. Also, I would prefer a linux based solution. Any suggestions would be great!
If it can't read the IFO it'll read the BUP. If it can't read the BUP it'll fail the disk. Not sure if the Xbox MS dvd player will work, but XBMC can just play the VOBs and ignore the rest of the DVD if needed.
PowerDVD and others will do the same thing in Windows. We don't need no stinkin' IFO.
Burger King has been doing the unlockable thing for quite some time. I believe there's been 2 or 3 race games that they had an unlockable vehicle already. Having 'The King' be in your entourage is hilarious to me. I might even work towards that, if I were inclined to play sports games at all.
I wouldn't mind having a BK King bot in UT 2007 so I could blast his friggin' ass off the planet.
My website is now pink for the month. I put a nipple on it too. Posting the URL would be too easy, just google for boobs, breasts or titties. You'll find it I'm sure...
I have drives working for years. I do mean YEARS! I have 2x 173M still running and working quite well in a firewall (486 computer at that).
I've got an old CDC 5.25" full height 10 meg drive that still works after 20+ years. I ran the hell out of it (database stuff) for the first 10. I last accessed the data on it a year ago and it worked fine. Don't use it much now except to heat my house.
Never tried it myself, though everyone on the intrawebs largely agrees that there are legions of the mighty dust army waiting breathlessly for you to crack open the drive so that they can invade it.
Technically of course you are correct, but I've tried it.
Years ago I had a Seagate ST-whatever SCSI drive, one of the ones with the stiction problem. I backed it up as soon as I started having problems and wanted to see how long it would last. I took it out of the case and ran it sitting on the desk. It worked fine until I turned it off but had to whack it on the side with a screwdriver handle to get it going again.
Fast forward a few months and even that didn't work so I popped the cover off and got it started with my finger on the side of the platter. That worked until I got tired of the whole thing so I put a tiny drop of WD-40 on the spindle. That's when I started getting read errors. My conclusion? WD-40 erases hard drives.;>)
BTW, others have said it but don't toss those old drives without snarfing the magnets out of them. They make the worlds greatest fridge magnets or are handy for sicking stuff to the side of your tool box. 1001 uses.
I designed the power drive chip used in the Quantum Fireball...
So you were the guy... (just kidding)
I had (still have on the shelf) one of those. Had a 5 year warranty and Quantum replaced it once a year for 4 years. By that time I decided it wasn't worth the bother anymore. The worst drive I've ever owned.
Oh, I don't know about that. I've found it useful to chuck a few grenades into a room before I enter. Other than the janitor at work getting royally pissed it has served me well.
Aside from the very specific extensions, most general features I've heard someone ask about are already in Opera. There are smaller and larger steps for zooming in and out built in. I find the number one cause of extensions for Firefox is Opera, but Opera is smaller and faster with more features before you add in the buggy 3rd party extensions.
I agree 100%. I recently put Firefox on my work machine just to see what the fuss was about. Plain jane, no extensions. While it works OK (although it has crashed a few times and has a few quirks that bug me) and I'd certainly use it before IE, it doesn't hold a candle to Operaa out of the box. Even by adding a buttload of extensions it would be tough if not impossible to match the features and customizability of Opera. I'll keep it around to support the cause but my heart belongs to Opera.
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There, I re-secured it for you.
True story: Some consultant around here set up a chain of day care centers with new computers and printers. He bought Dell computers which considering support and service isn't bad but he also had them buy Dell photo printers. Now, they might have a need to print out a pic of a kid or something once in a while but these were primarily used as office printers. One lady told me they were spending over $200/month on ink. For the price of ink for one month they could have had an inexpensive laser printer and a spare cartridge that would last them 6 months to a year.
I blew my mod points by posting earlier in this thread but this is the best comment I've seen here. Honorary +5 Insightful and a mod parent up!
Or to paraphrase a comment from Bette Davis about the death of Joan Crawford:
"they say you should only speak good of the dead. He is dead. GOOD!"
Karma be damned.
I was a Dell field tech around Christmas time a few years ago. For a while the Dell support line played "If I only had a brain." from the Wizard of OZ for their hold music. They pulled it after a short time.
There may be something to this. Up here in Minnesota, we use cell phones to keep the alligators away. Works very well.
Or maybe it's because Dell can't make any money off OO?
They have to make you use IE. They need to force the download of that activex control so you can't watch it.
It doesn't affect me. I rent all my movies from that place on the net that we don't talk about.
There's a lot of talk here about what you should do from armchair lawyers. As one who worked in the insurance industry for many years I'll just add a bit of info that your lawyer probably told you but in case he didn't...
Since the loss of your house will be at least partially covered by the insurance company, they will subrogate against Dell if it's warranted. The thing you need to do is to ask your insurance company to include any of your uninsured losses in their subrogation. That way, if your insurance company collects anything, you will collect a percentage of that based on what the insurance company paid out vs. your uninsured losses. It's easier than going after Dell yourself and you can still do that later if need be. Also, it would be easier to collect additional uninsured losses after (if?) they are found libel in a lawsuit by your insurance company. Let them do the heavy and expensive work. Just make sure your rights over and above your insured losses are known and protected.
Why do they want to take out my game server?
Why don't they use those terminals like they have at McDonalds. Push a button and your choice lights up on the screen. If McDonalds employees can use them you would expect that even Florida voters could. Or maybe they'd just end up electing Mayor McCheese.
PC Mag & PC World do this too. I get a kick out of their reviews for a poor product that end with something like "This software will eat your first born and wipe out the registry on a daily basis but if you like its ability to save to a floppy drive it may be just what you're looking for."
Same here. My ears are old and I won't take a 128k mp3 unless it's free. 160k is my minimum, 192k optimal and 256k is great. None match a CD though even with my ears but they're acceptable.
I remember reading a site (too long ago to even dream about being able to find it again) about a sound engineer and the antics around producing an album. Part of the story was how they tried different drum kits, amps and other equipment then tweak it lovingly to get just the right sound. Now all of that is for naught as it gets compressed to hell and sold as a digital download. Might as well hook a couple of mics up to a Soundblaster16, record it and ship it.
Once again I awoke this morning hungry. I installed food into my mouth yesterday when I woke up hungry too. In fact, I installed food three times yesterday. And they day before that. And the day before that. This seems like such a cheap hack to a simple problem. Is there any way I can automate a solution to this problem? I have a few requirements though. Of course it must be open source and patent free. Also, I would prefer a linux based solution. Any suggestions would be great!
http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm
I don't care how they spin it, if government rules/laws/whatever take money out of my pocket it's a tax!
PowerDVD and others will do the same thing in Windows. We don't need no stinkin' IFO.
I wouldn't mind having a BK King bot in UT 2007 so I could blast his friggin' ass off the planet.
My website is now pink for the month. I put a nipple on it too. Posting the URL would be too easy, just google for boobs, breasts or titties. You'll find it I'm sure...
I've got an old CDC 5.25" full height 10 meg drive that still works after 20+ years. I ran the hell out of it (database stuff) for the first 10. I last accessed the data on it a year ago and it worked fine. Don't use it much now except to heat my house.
Technically of course you are correct, but I've tried it.
Years ago I had a Seagate ST-whatever SCSI drive, one of the ones with the stiction problem. I backed it up as soon as I started having problems and wanted to see how long it would last. I took it out of the case and ran it sitting on the desk. It worked fine until I turned it off but had to whack it on the side with a screwdriver handle to get it going again.
Fast forward a few months and even that didn't work so I popped the cover off and got it started with my finger on the side of the platter. That worked until I got tired of the whole thing so I put a tiny drop of WD-40 on the spindle. That's when I started getting read errors. My conclusion? WD-40 erases hard drives.
BTW, others have said it but don't toss those old drives without snarfing the magnets out of them. They make the worlds greatest fridge magnets or are handy for sicking stuff to the side of your tool box. 1001 uses.
So you were the guy... (just kidding)
I had (still have on the shelf) one of those. Had a 5 year warranty and Quantum replaced it once a year for 4 years. By that time I decided it wasn't worth the bother anymore. The worst drive I've ever owned.
I love you,
You love me,
We're a happy family,
Then a shot rang out and Barney hit the floor,
No more fucking dinosaur.
Oh, I don't know about that. I've found it useful to chuck a few grenades into a room before I enter. Other than the janitor at work getting royally pissed it has served me well.
I agree 100%. I recently put Firefox on my work machine just to see what the fuss was about. Plain jane, no extensions. While it works OK (although it has crashed a few times and has a few quirks that bug me) and I'd certainly use it before IE, it doesn't hold a candle to Operaa out of the box. Even by adding a buttload of extensions it would be tough if not impossible to match the features and customizability of Opera. I'll keep it around to support the cause but my heart belongs to Opera.