Electr is cheaper at night because fewer ppl use it.
But when you USA are asleep, the rest of the world are still awake. Our uni tried off peak rates. It just made more people stay up late. And they bought bandwidth at a fixed rate.
It has been shown by some studies that fingerprints aren't really as unique as we imagine. What do you do when you are the 1 in the millionth person who has the same print as someone else? I'd imagine you'd start noticing it when someone else's groceries start getting delivered to your door, or somehow your address keeps getting changed at your health club or whatever.
When you lose your card, you cancel it and get a new #. Sure, say your pin is secure both ways, but you've effectively lost one line of defence forever if you get your fingerprint copied.
Also, different banks (say) would have different # for my account. Not so with fingerprints. Anyone at any company can lift your prints from their DB and search on any other company for any details they want.
I'd bet your Congresscritters too would be delighted if he could be greeted with "I bet you want the new WWF video: click here to order" when he logged in.
I'd bet that his secretary who reads all his emails appreciates that information too.
He may have to hire more secretaries when he realises just the wealth of information out there in his mailbox waiting to be read.
He's probably just too busy to sign up for these himself.
Maybe some enterprising individual can assist their representative?
(Disclaimer: I am not in the US, and am only guessing your rep likes WWF, since we don't get it here. It is your own responsibility to find out your rep's interests.)
"When kids play video games, they assume the identity of the characters in the games.... Do you really want your kids assuming the role of a mass murderer or car jacker
when you are away at work?"
And when normal people are elected to congress, they assume the persona of one who is concerned about the nation's kids.
The difference is, kids know games are not real, and stop the role when the game is over.
I was using a Celeron at 450 up until last month. I u/g to an AthXP 1700, and I wouldn't say I feel it's even twice as fast generally. Only compiling is noticibly faster.
Then came an ATA100 HD to replace my old HD as the backup disk. A little faster for things that need lots of HD access, but really, how many apps do that?
Anyway, my primary SCSI disk from 98 still beats it.
Then I tried a few games. Maybe I don't have very intensive games, but again, OK it loads a ~little~ faster, 6s instead of 9s. Gameplay unaffected.
Really different from the old days when I remember the huge difference adding 16MB ram to my P133, or the jump from that to the 450.
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Because you don't demand it. Almost everyone, including half the 'geeks' out there just want something that looks cool.
There ARE some (well actually only seen 2) cases retailers stock that allow easy installation (sorta, the drive bays still can't be taken out).
But the really good ones always look plan and also need to be ordered in.
So next time you go to a shop and ask for a case, remember to WALK AWAY when they don't show you an easy to use one. You can come back later for a crappy one, but at least they'll think a bit about stocking some quality cases next time.
Not so much a problem you need the permission of the parents, but more like is Walmart supposed to keep signed release forms with their game dockets now?
Here in Australia, they just send you a tix and say you can come drive 2hrs to our headquarters to see the pix, or send us $25 and we'll mail it to you.
Some of his users were pissing on him by using adaware.
He found a way to piss back on those users? Since only adaware users can have their adaware removed.
It's kinda funny really.
What he should have said in the installer was "You bastard! You're using adaware and stripping me of my income. Press Yes to remove adaware or no to format your hard disk"
As someone who lives outside the US, I can say that we can buy handsets from anywhere (even outside the country) and buy a sim card from any carrier and expect it to work flawlessly.
Maybe the US are just technologically inept?
Or more likely, it's just the effect of companies too comfortable with their power.
Here, we can send SMS from any carrier to any other carrier, even from GSM network to CDMA ones.
We can change carriers and keep our phone no.s.
So why can't the US, with a market 100 times larger to spread the cost over, do the same thing?
A psychologist diagnosed him with schizoid personality disorder
The mum herself said. "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints on the computer."
Yet she let him continue playing.
Next she'll be asking pen makers to put stickers on warning 'can poke eyes out'.
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See, in a corp, spyware does NOT have to be invisible. Rather employees not do illegal stuff than catch them later.
The only place where it should be invisible is in private homes and the like where the installer prolly doesn't have 100% right to spy on the other users.
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Electr is cheaper at night because fewer ppl use it.
But when you USA are asleep, the rest of the world are still awake. Our uni tried off peak rates. It just made more people stay up late. And they bought bandwidth at a fixed rate.
What's worse, getting 64windows popup when typing in a wrong URL, or , actually buying something from one of the 64 windows and being scammed?
Doesn't this just mean we should still buy shares, but sell them sooner rather than later?
When crazed armed men storm the building:
I'd certainly rather lose my RSA number keychain than my finger!
(Make mental note never to go work in ultra secure environments)
It has been shown by some studies that fingerprints aren't really as unique as we imagine. What do you do when you are the 1 in the millionth person who has the same print as someone else? I'd imagine you'd start noticing it when someone else's groceries start getting delivered to your door, or somehow your address keeps getting changed at your health club or whatever.
When you lose your card, you cancel it and get a new #. Sure, say your pin is secure both ways, but you've effectively lost one line of defence forever if you get your fingerprint copied.
Also, different banks (say) would have different # for my account. Not so with fingerprints. Anyone at any company can lift your prints from their DB and search on any other company for any details they want.
Anyone with a smart card reader (retailers/universities/etc) can read and write a smart card.
It's just a blob of data.
Each institution (hopefully) has the said data encrypted and has some tamper checking on it.
Interesting.
I'd bet your Congresscritters too would be delighted if he could be greeted with "I bet you want the new WWF video: click here to order" when he logged in.
I'd bet that his secretary who reads all his emails appreciates that information too.
He may have to hire more secretaries when he realises just the wealth of information out there in his mailbox waiting to be read.
He's probably just too busy to sign up for these himself.
Maybe some enterprising individual can assist their representative?
(Disclaimer: I am not in the US, and am only guessing your rep likes WWF, since we don't get it here. It is your own responsibility to find out your rep's interests.)
See, in the 1st 5 months, nobody would buy the damned stuff, instead choosing to wait for SP2/3 to come out.
Meanwhile MS spends 24hrs/day paying ppl to fix it.
It's easy to see why MS prefers the slow way.
Actually, other ActiveX controls in your win\sys dirs or wherever can be uninstalled by calling regsvr32 /u and then deleting the file.
And when normal people are elected to congress, they assume the persona of one who is concerned about the nation's kids.
The difference is, kids know games are not real, and stop the role when the game is over.
Save the world, ban imagination.
I was using a Celeron at 450 up until last month.
I u/g to an AthXP 1700, and I wouldn't say I feel it's even twice as fast generally. Only compiling is noticibly faster.
Then came an ATA100 HD to replace my old HD as the backup disk. A little faster for things that need lots of HD access, but really, how many apps do that?
Anyway, my primary SCSI disk from 98 still beats it.
Then I tried a few games. Maybe I don't have very intensive games, but again, OK it loads a ~little~ faster, 6s instead of 9s. Gameplay unaffected.
Really different from the old days when I remember the huge difference adding 16MB ram to my P133, or the jump from that to the 450.
Because you don't demand it. Almost everyone, including half the 'geeks' out there just want something that looks cool.
There ARE some (well actually only seen 2) cases retailers stock that allow easy installation (sorta, the drive bays still can't be taken out).
But the really good ones always look plan and also need to be ordered in.
So next time you go to a shop and ask for a case, remember to WALK AWAY when they don't show you an easy to use one. You can come back later for a crappy one, but at least they'll think a bit about stocking some quality cases next time.
While true in many cases, my Epson actually has the print head as part of the printer.
It's not replacable, I guess they want me to dump the whole printer instead. OTOH, the ink carts aren't that expensive.
Still, if Joe wants to use crap to print, Joe should expect the printouts to be crap. Maybe that's all he needs. Who is HP to decide for him?
(see MS/PC bundling)
Not so much a problem you need the permission of the parents, but more like is Walmart supposed to keep signed release forms with their game dockets now?
Here in Australia, they just send you a tix and say you can come drive 2hrs to our headquarters to see the pix, or send us $25 and we'll mail it to you.
Talk about unfair.
Just goes to show. The key is pulling off a scam quickly, and not being greedy after the 1st few mil. Disappear and nobody would have called the FBI.
Wierd stuff.
At the rate IDE disk densities are ballooning, they won't NEED 10K rpm to get good performance.
5Yrs ago I bought a 4.5G SCSI drive. With the same money I can get about 18G now.
5Yrs ago the money for a 9G IDE drive can get you about 80G now.
Why are techs used in increasing IDE densities not being used in SCSI drives?
With the increase in CPU speeds, any advantage SCSI has in many cases will cost too much for too little.
Hrm. Unless the US phone companies work very differently from the rest of the world, I'd say no, that's absolute crap.
But then again...
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say:
Some of his users were pissing on him by using adaware.
He found a way to piss back on those users? Since only adaware users can have their adaware removed.
It's kinda funny really.
What he should have said in the installer was "You bastard! You're using adaware and stripping me of my income. Press Yes to remove adaware or no to format your hard disk"
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As someone who lives outside the US, I can say that we can buy handsets from anywhere (even outside the country) and buy a sim card from any carrier and expect it to work flawlessly.
Maybe the US are just technologically inept?
Or more likely, it's just the effect of companies too comfortable with their power.
Here, we can send SMS from any carrier to any other carrier, even from GSM network to CDMA ones.
We can change carriers and keep our phone no.s.
So why can't the US, with a market 100 times larger to spread the cost over, do the same thing?
Why are you spending your $ on a new MB so you can run DOS5?
Except when you find their admin email and press send on your browser, you find that it really takes you to their purchase page...
A psychologist diagnosed him with schizoid personality disorder
The mum herself said. "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints on the computer."
Yet she let him continue playing.
Next she'll be asking pen makers to put stickers on warning 'can poke eyes out'.
See, in a corp, spyware does NOT have to be invisible. Rather employees not do illegal stuff than catch them later.
The only place where it should be invisible is in private homes and the like where the installer prolly doesn't have 100% right to spy on the other users.