what I've seen in that reguard is the mis-use of that tip.
Many companies will rely on the lower management to make the intelligent desicion for how things should go. ie: "Instead of buying you all 25 pencil packs, we realized if we only bought 10 packs, you call can share." or even my fav... "I did the math, and I only ordered XX many toners, because if each toner can print 5k sheets of paper per toner, then that will be enough for the business season." (after lowering the dpi on the printer to nill squat, running out of paper a few hundred times, and still having to order XX many more toner because the dumbass did 'THE MATH'.
anywho, this has always been my business policy (not the above paragraph), to max the use, and qualities while reinvesting my income. I only work until it seems I cannot dedicate enough personal time to each one of my clients. I limit the amount of client appointments per day, thus allowing enough free time to myself, AND for those emergency calls. There is never a day where I have not alloted enough time for either a emergency call, or extra time off for the day.
While BofA loses income, and then bellies up, you have smaller businesses taking up the slack, and making them stronger. Once again, these smaller businesses get bigger, then outsource, lose domestic income, go out of business, finally another smaller business takes the slack and becomes bigger.
I see it a ever so rolling events that just tend to repeat themselves.
My prior job, was being a tech for a small computer business. When BestBlury came out with GeekSquat, GeekQuat shot themselves in the foot by hiring unqualified people to fix peoples computers... not only that but media got ahold of the "OMG GeekSquat are pirates or... "That HDD we supposedly destroyed, well it got sold at a flee market." Their business went down the tubes as small businesses and home users began to rely on the small computer shop I worked for.
The small shop began growing faster than it could handle, it begun to hire unqualified techs, and pulling the same stunts as GeekSquat did. I left the company due to financial issues...
I started my own computer repair business (consulting is more like it), as my old employer began cutting corners, and screwing up his clients, I began to see those clients come to me. However, learn from history! instead of getting bigger, or raking in more money. I limit myself to my clients, I've successfully capped my income well enough to meet my clientel demands, and not over extend my business so that I begen to sacrafice quality over income. Sure i piss off some potential clients by saying goto the next guy with your "I found this ad for a $300 computer, I want you to build me one just like it for the same price."
Well there goes my rant again...
What comes around, eventually kills you! (wait... thats not righ
Many gamers (and thats what this card is for) purchase larger cases. I have enough room in my two towers to house these extra long video cards. I still cannot see a longer card even if it ment going back to the original size of the SVGA cards, ever getting close to the front end of a case.
Now as for the ATX spec of the boards themselvess, I I have just skimmed through the looks of MSI, Asus, and Gigabit boards, most of the pictures of the SLI designs, behing the PCI-X slot nothing protrudes above the level of the PCI-X slot.
As for the standard, I never saw the ATX standard prevent longer PCI cards from going to far to the front end of the board. But this is my assumption, because I have only been through... 9 boards since the introduction of the ATX standard (something about my recent tower case... I think its haunted... because I am now on my third motherboard for it, within the past year alone) Thats why it leads me to believe that having a longer PCB for a dual chip sli video card couldn't be prevented.
MSI's Diamond Plus (SLi Board), it has its northbridge & southbridge located out of the way of the PCI-x slots, including the copper heatsink pipe directing the coil to the side of the PCI-x slots. (my current board is the MSI Diamond Plus SLi w00t...)
Again to sum it all down... I don't see a problem extending the length of the video cards so that dual gpus could fit on one board. But thats just me, I could be an idiot (don't answer that)
I overlooked the logical layout. The concept is there.. two cores on one pcb. logically!
I don't doubt that gamers already have the large enough rigs to have a longer than usual video card. I mean, hell, if I can fit a old SCSI card into a standard PC case. (Remember those old ass SVGA cards, so long that it actually contacted the front end of the case.)
I am sure they could have lengthened the PCB, placed both cores on the same PCB, then actually made a air duct system using less parts. After seeing the 'logical' diagram, I know we will soon see, these duals on a stick. just gotta get the engineers involved.
Now, I know about a month ago I read about NVIDIA releasing the quad card setup to high end PC manufactures for those that wanted "Lambo" price & performance. The reason why people (and nvidia) released these quad setups to high end manufactures was the fact that these cards took too much room for DIY do make an efficent setup not to light a fire within the case.
Since this article stated this was NVIDIA's way of releasing the Quad setup to DIYs, where is the dual on a stick idea? (after reading the article & comments, I think this was submitters hype)
At first I was really actually hoping that this would be dual graphics chips on one PCB. Not two PCBs attached together. Nothing different compared to the ones released awhile back to "only manufactures". I like a clean case. Thats why I spend the extra cash on longer cables, and spend at minimum an hour or so getting the cables out of the way of airflow. Seriously, I have a great gamer rig with only half the fans that most gamer rigs will require just to keep them cooler.
Having to have a oversized video card (other than bragging rights) is just causing the proper airflow from being efficent. Again, this article just spoiled my hopes of buying a dual sli on one pcb, but just one pcb.
wake me when these get IC'ed onto one PCB and then I will be surprised. AND WILLING TO BUY.
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I want to elaborate your analogy a bit about the toll booth freeways.
I for one, wouldn't get a private plane... have you heard about the Oil Companies that are raking in the dough, thanks to rising gas prices. (LoL, I'm gonna get funny)
I would lean towards the new devices have been killed by DMCA. Lets say instead of driving by yourself, and getting hit to pay (.25-.75) per booth, including insults, you instead join a caravan of people heading in your general direction. The driver of the caravan only charges you 1/3 the cost to take you through all those toll booths. But because he/she is driving 10 -15 people at a time, that person makes a killing. (its still a single vehicle, but with many people skipping the bill/insults) because of the DMCA we lose these abilities to provide ourselves alternatives to corporate America "shove it down your throat mentality)
Thanks to the death of new technologies that could improve our experiences, that caravan driver was killed long before we could have experienced (environmental savings, including personal financial savings). DMCA has really harmed the inventors age, even though we have things like cable with Ads, thanks to DMCA we don't have ReplayTV to skip the commercials. We are therefor stuck with having to drive our own cars on the freeways. (helping oil companies get richer, while causing more polution for the environment)
Let not even get into the topic about private roads made by neighborhoods, people that want to skip the freeway will travel slower routes (tiered internet?) Because the toll booth freeways offer faster drive times, are we willing to go ahead and pay more so we can get (download) our destined wants sooner?
woah... I'm getting into some serious ideas for this analogy... I better stop before I come up with a solution to our current delimas or I might get sued.
You know the old tech joke... Error between Keyboard and Chair!
Now you actually can have the computer tell you that. Well I just can't wait to start telling my computer users this... "Yeah, the error is between the keyboard and chair.... no seriously, its you... stop touching the computer, and it wont break."
But then, we have always been able to say that... just now we can have the computer tell the user this. Then confirm it. Oh my job gets easier... Thanks Merl.
Is it me... or was this link intentionally placed here so that all of the wonderous world could report this single point that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, has been doing wrong???....
This same logic can also be applied to the built in Windows Firewall especially since SP2 release for XP.
Prior to Windows XP SP2, people were concerned about firewall protection either through hardware (routers, NAT/PAT, etc), or software (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, etc). By this they kept thinking oh the built in Windows Firewall was never activated by default, or too complicated to configure/setup, so people went out and purchased 3rd party software and/or hardware.
Since SP2 released for XP, many people dumped the 3rd party firewall software because Windows indicated that its own built in firewall was working. This also lead to the crippling of third party software like Norton IS, which then required a special download WMI applet to allow NIS to communicate with Windows.
This was inconvenancing to most, thus people took the easy route and started using the built in firewall. Same situation applies for anti-spyware. Since MS Anti-Spyware (now Defender), is going to be included into Vista, then who needs a outside program doing the same task.
I know I teach my clients to understand that if they have more than one product installed doing the same repetitive task, then they could possibly cause more harm than good. AV are a great example, including AS software.
People will take the easy road. use what is already installed until it proves to be useless. That what happened to windows firewall before SP2.
I was in the local supermarket today, and I had to stand in line for a good 30 minutes. I stopped a manager 'looking' person and asked them "why the hell was there only 3 tellers open when there are 20 teller stations, and over 45 people standing in line for just the 3 open ones" Her reply was, no one had told her to open another teller to ease the wait.
"WTF, someone has to tell you, "there are 45 people waiting in line for only three tellers, go open one or two more.", your an idiot." -My reponse.
Still I waited only to finally get to the front of the line only to see one more teller getting to a station to open, but by the time he was ready to open, no one was left to be taken care of.
All I can say is, if it wasn't for my ipod (and the soft, easy going music I was listening to.) I would have snapped and killed someone. Or even worse... snapped and killed myself.
I might make a mold for a.60 cal ice bullet. oh wait... myth busters busted that one. BUT WAIT. they busted that based on a rifle. what if it was a high powered paintball marker like my Araikon SIM-4. (it a weight to design resemblance to the military's M4 rifle.)
What really pissed me off was the fact that my stereo was the Sony CDX-M630 series. meaning the hideaway faceplate. When the car is turned off the face flips backwards, only showing a blank insert. I paid good money for the thing (ok, I bought it from a crackhead... but he was an expensive crack head with 1 year warrantees "ba da ding!")
As for the charger, radar detector, power inverter, and so forth, all those items were in the glove box. (which I think I should have mentioned more clearly in the last post.)
All in all, what really pyst me off was the fact that they poped the trunk, and took my craftsman toolbox. it was a birthday gift from a beloved and it really ment something to me (yeah Man with his tools)
Well here is an update. I finally got my Araikon SIM-4 R.I.S. Elite paintball marker with the HP remote + tank, and I froze a few paintballs.
I parked my car in the bad neighborhood where the theft happened, and I pretty much camped out for the late friday night @ 3am. Low and behold, someone was walking down the street checking door handles. (mind you I see all of this through the attached generic 'craptastic' 10x scope, far behind in a bush, (yes I do have way too much time on my hands)), the guy comes to my car, peers in, only to keep walking.
I swear I should have shot the dude just for looking, but I know I couldn't prove a thing if I had called the police. I'm pretty sure he looked into my car, realizing it was a car he hit prior, and it most likely had nothing left to take. I should have left my laptop, or my ipod, or something worthwhile. (no, not the SIM-4... if I left that, then what would I shoot the guy with... my 9mm?... Thats way too redneckish... I want the guy to suffer, and live through it.)
I did follow the guy for awhile, and it seemed to me that he wasn't really interested in stealing things 'seriously', more like a casual thief 'when the opportunity presents itself, go for it' kind of thief. When we reached the end of the block, the guy just kept walking as if he was just... well you know... walking. "It ruined my night." -Joe
The interesting thing about this topic is the fact that people are for AND afraid of this.
I for one welcome........
As for my serious note about this topic, I'm still bias about the subject. One side of me says I like the idea, and the other basically repulses at the thought of someone being able to steal private information about me. Being able to locate me, either alive or dead is one thing for authorities should be able to know, if anything negative was to happen against me.
The part of me that is for this, are for two types of authentication. I would prefer a ID card system that ties with the implanted RFID. Homeland security would be for this because if everyone were to arrive at the airport to take a flight, it would only require two levels of authentication. Possibly a third, which CAN be thought up using extensive precautionary measures to ensure that both belong to the actual person using them.
I would take some of the technology of a American Express card (at least the advertised security features are appealing to me) Having a credit card sized ID card, that uses an encrypted key with identity binding information. Having the RFID encoded with your same identity information on the card, along with some level of genetic identification.
At least on that level it could verify who you are to government level authorities. So Big Brother could/would be able to know what you were doing or where you are. As for a level of protecting your personal information, or collecting all your personal information, who better to control that than the.... nah not them. Some other higher level of information secured firm/company/government authorative agency.
I imagine that if I were to support a system like this, I would describe it similar to what I just stated, but let me try and be a bit more clearer.
I would want an RFID chip implant somewhere that only professional medical doctors are capable of performing the procedure w/o doing serious harm. While other doctors COULD perform the procedure of the implant, in order to prove the level of authenticity would be to locate the implant in an area of the head/brain. If the chip is sensed/located in other areas, then the chip would be deemed non-authorative/requires additional Ident. I would want this RFID to be able to contain a small level capacity of information about me. photo, medical ID (no records), drivers ID, state ID, basically information that could be used if my body was to ever be unidentifiable.
As for the card, I would want it to contain more space to hold more information. it would be nice to have the card contain a photo level of ident (digital, and printed on the card), a tied level to my bank and/or credit card(s)
Hell if all I had to do was carry around one card to make purchases, prove my idenity, and gain medical benefits just by one item, then I would be happy. Right now I carry a SS card (flimsy paper that I tend to have to get a new one every 5 years because i happen to wash one into oblivion), photo ID, Drivers license (in Texas its one or the other), 3 credit cards, student ID (expired), petco card, petsmart card, ATM bank card, business cards, and cash. kill the credit cards, and IDs into one complex card, I would be much happier.
Of course this ID card would have to authenticate with my RFID chip. hell if both the card and implant were RFID, using private/public keys to encrypt data between each other, only can either work unless both were together.
Second method, I just thought up was implant the chip into the thumb or index finger. However this could be easy to hack/replicate because it would be placed somewhere that even a talented DIY could implant a edited chip. But to have the card ident to the implant too. But all this is defeatable, and I dunno what I am talking about....
Correction... Car Alarm systems seem useless in a situation like this...
What if the car battery goes dead. useless alarm. You overcome the problem of people accidently bumping into your car, setting off your car alarm... who needs that... its annoying.... The Grenade Anti-Stereo Theft system is perfect. It makes no sounds, (until someone steals your stereo)
(Yes I had a Car Alarm installed in my car after the third year of the stereo theives hit, the last two times, the alarm system failed to go off.) Remember the movie of 'the super' superattendant (I know I messed that one up). Car was on blocks after everything was stolen, but as soon as the dude throws a rock at the car, the alarm goes off.... yeah I have one of those systems.
I know this comment will be offtopic! ITS OFFTOPIC!
My car been broken into for the 5th time for the past 5 years. And it seems to me it happens in April every year. I want a anti-theft system that will stop those trying to steal my car stereo, incl anything else they want to steal.
This time around, they took my $650 stereo, DC-AC power inverter, power adaptor for my laptop, and adaptor for my cell phones (while leaving behind the plugs). Emptied my glove box for the radar detector, and $100 cash hidden underneith in a black cash fold, while causing $500+ in damage to the center console they tore up trying to take the well mounted stereo and they took my insurance papers for my car. (didn't notice the missing insurance papers until after I got pulled over a week later... the police officer was kind enough to let me go because my car was hit prior)
I've devised a nice anti-theft system for car stereos, so please bear with me on this.
I intend on placing a live grenade behind the stereo head unit. Now I know heat might set the thing off... but I'm willing to take that risk on the test bed. alot of trial and error will happen while I test this system with many cars, in very bad neighborhoods.
I plan on mounting a grenade behind car stereos, fashioned together by a trigger release wire, that is attached to the rear of the stereo and the mounting harnest.
(I've tried the 12guage wire, to help prevent the theft of my last stereo, and learned with enough force, the weak point in yanking out my stereo was the screw holding the wire to the frame of the car.)
Now this time the wire will hold the pin and tab of the grenade until the stereo is yanked out of the mount, the wire seperates from the head unit. I say, time/set the grenade for 5 seconds.
You know what happens at this point. We loose a theif, and a car + stereo + other vehicles nearby, and some casualties of war. But in the grand scheme of it all. I feel better because the bastard didn't get my stereo.
Then, by any chance... will they find more bagpipe players?
I personally want a bagpipe pleyer... Thanks to those damn highlander movies, and other irish/scottish based flick that has a funeral, the bagpipes sound much better.
Again... screw the trumpet player (I used to play Trombone, Baratone, and Trumpet), get a bagpipe player any day. One man show every time... How often do you see a man in a dress.
seven years later bomb self detonates because person id 46465456456489715678984 never walked by. Someone didn't do the homework, and realize that person id 46465456456489715678984 uses the back door instead.
My Inspiron 8100 came with 2 drives. DVD/RW 24x, and a CDRW 24x drive. Those spare media bays are really nice.
I've noticed any mobile desktop replacement is usually large enough to have two drives either stacked on top of each other, or one on each side of the keyboard.
As for the lighterweight notebooks, like Sony Vaio SZ series, one drive is all your gonna get.
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Yeah but Edward Diego, had to just hire a damn hacker to take out the ethics...
Now look at what we get... a new dominating AI, who now has a supercooled complex of computers to overtake. I welcome my new Google AI overlord.
what I've seen in that reguard is the mis-use of that tip.
Many companies will rely on the lower management to make the intelligent desicion for how things should go. ie: "Instead of buying you all 25 pencil packs, we realized if we only bought 10 packs, you call can share." or even my fav... "I did the math, and I only ordered XX many toners, because if each toner can print 5k sheets of paper per toner, then that will be enough for the business season." (after lowering the dpi on the printer to nill squat, running out of paper a few hundred times, and still having to order XX many more toner because the dumbass did 'THE MATH'.
anywho, this has always been my business policy (not the above paragraph), to max the use, and qualities while reinvesting my income. I only work until it seems I cannot dedicate enough personal time to each one of my clients. I limit the amount of client appointments per day, thus allowing enough free time to myself, AND for those emergency calls. There is never a day where I have not alloted enough time for either a emergency call, or extra time off for the day.
Ah but wait... the story isn't over.
While BofA loses income, and then bellies up, you have smaller businesses taking up the slack, and making them stronger. Once again, these smaller businesses get bigger, then outsource, lose domestic income, go out of business, finally another smaller business takes the slack and becomes bigger.
I see it a ever so rolling events that just tend to repeat themselves.
My prior job, was being a tech for a small computer business. When BestBlury came out with GeekSquat, GeekQuat shot themselves in the foot by hiring unqualified people to fix peoples computers... not only that but media got ahold of the "OMG GeekSquat are pirates or... "That HDD we supposedly destroyed, well it got sold at a flee market." Their business went down the tubes as small businesses and home users began to rely on the small computer shop I worked for.
The small shop began growing faster than it could handle, it begun to hire unqualified techs, and pulling the same stunts as GeekSquat did. I left the company due to financial issues...
I started my own computer repair business (consulting is more like it), as my old employer began cutting corners, and screwing up his clients, I began to see those clients come to me. However, learn from history! instead of getting bigger, or raking in more money. I limit myself to my clients, I've successfully capped my income well enough to meet my clientel demands, and not over extend my business so that I begen to sacrafice quality over income. Sure i piss off some potential clients by saying goto the next guy with your "I found this ad for a $300 computer, I want you to build me one just like it for the same price."
Well there goes my rant again...
What comes around, eventually kills you! (wait... thats not righ
Depends on the case structure.
... 9 boards since the introduction of the ATX standard (something about my recent tower case... I think its haunted... because I am now on my third motherboard for it, within the past year alone) Thats why it leads me to believe that having a longer PCB for a dual chip sli video card couldn't be prevented.
Many gamers (and thats what this card is for) purchase larger cases. I have enough room in my two towers to house these extra long video cards. I still cannot see a longer card even if it ment going back to the original size of the SVGA cards, ever getting close to the front end of a case.
Now as for the ATX spec of the boards themselvess, I I have just skimmed through the looks of MSI, Asus, and Gigabit boards, most of the pictures of the SLI designs, behing the PCI-X slot nothing protrudes above the level of the PCI-X slot.
As for the standard, I never saw the ATX standard prevent longer PCI cards from going to far to the front end of the board. But this is my assumption, because I have only been through
MSI's Diamond Plus (SLi Board), it has its northbridge & southbridge located out of the way of the PCI-x slots, including the copper heatsink pipe directing the coil to the side of the PCI-x slots. (my current board is the MSI Diamond Plus SLi w00t...)
Again to sum it all down... I don't see a problem extending the length of the video cards so that dual gpus could fit on one board. But thats just me, I could be an idiot (don't answer that)
I overlooked the logical layout. The concept is there.. two cores on one pcb. logically!
I don't doubt that gamers already have the large enough rigs to have a longer than usual video card. I mean, hell, if I can fit a old SCSI card into a standard PC case. (Remember those old ass SVGA cards, so long that it actually contacted the front end of the case.)
I am sure they could have lengthened the PCB, placed both cores on the same PCB, then actually made a air duct system using less parts. After seeing the 'logical' diagram, I know we will soon see, these duals on a stick. just gotta get the engineers involved.
Now, I know about a month ago I read about NVIDIA releasing the quad card setup to high end PC manufactures for those that wanted "Lambo" price & performance. The reason why people (and nvidia) released these quad setups to high end manufactures was the fact that these cards took too much room for DIY do make an efficent setup not to light a fire within the case.
Since this article stated this was NVIDIA's way of releasing the Quad setup to DIYs, where is the dual on a stick idea? (after reading the article & comments, I think this was submitters hype)
At first I was really actually hoping that this would be dual graphics chips on one PCB. Not two PCBs attached together. Nothing different compared to the ones released awhile back to "only manufactures". I like a clean case. Thats why I spend the extra cash on longer cables, and spend at minimum an hour or so getting the cables out of the way of airflow. Seriously, I have a great gamer rig with only half the fans that most gamer rigs will require just to keep them cooler.
Having to have a oversized video card (other than bragging rights) is just causing the proper airflow from being efficent. Again, this article just spoiled my hopes of buying a dual sli on one pcb, but just one pcb.
wake me when these get IC'ed onto one PCB and then I will be surprised. AND WILLING TO BUY.
I want to elaborate your analogy a bit about the toll booth freeways.
I for one, wouldn't get a private plane... have you heard about the Oil Companies that are raking in the dough, thanks to rising gas prices. (LoL, I'm gonna get funny)
I would lean towards the new devices have been killed by DMCA. Lets say instead of driving by yourself, and getting hit to pay (.25-.75) per booth, including insults, you instead join a caravan of people heading in your general direction. The driver of the caravan only charges you 1/3 the cost to take you through all those toll booths. But because he/she is driving 10 -15 people at a time, that person makes a killing. (its still a single vehicle, but with many people skipping the bill/insults) because of the DMCA we lose these abilities to provide ourselves alternatives to corporate America "shove it down your throat mentality)
Thanks to the death of new technologies that could improve our experiences, that caravan driver was killed long before we could have experienced (environmental savings, including personal financial savings). DMCA has really harmed the inventors age, even though we have things like cable with Ads, thanks to DMCA we don't have ReplayTV to skip the commercials. We are therefor stuck with having to drive our own cars on the freeways. (helping oil companies get richer, while causing more polution for the environment)
Let not even get into the topic about private roads made by neighborhoods, people that want to skip the freeway will travel slower routes (tiered internet?) Because the toll booth freeways offer faster drive times, are we willing to go ahead and pay more so we can get (download) our destined wants sooner?
woah... I'm getting into some serious ideas for this analogy... I better stop before I come up with a solution to our current delimas or I might get sued.
no wait this is an analogy...
I can just see it... The scientists have cloaked all the investors money... I can just see it now. (well not really, because the money has disapeared.
Thats one hell of a magic trick.
I know companies that have done this same scientific project. which comes to mind... Enron... Money here now, but tomorrow its vanished.
I'm trying not to be so skeptic about this, but I just can't comprehend this at the moment. (I read the article... maybe my stupid meter is broken.)
You know the old tech joke... Error between Keyboard and Chair!
Now you actually can have the computer tell you that. Well I just can't wait to start telling my computer users this... "Yeah, the error is between the keyboard and chair.... no seriously, its you... stop touching the computer, and it wont break."
But then, we have always been able to say that... just now we can have the computer tell the user this. Then confirm it. Oh my job gets easier... Thanks Merl.
Is it me... or was this link intentionally placed here so that all of the wonderous world could report this single point that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, has been doing wrong???....
nah its just my imagination at work again.
I thought it was... "A black Sheriff?"
OT I know...
This same logic can also be applied to the built in Windows Firewall especially since SP2 release for XP.
Prior to Windows XP SP2, people were concerned about firewall protection either through hardware (routers, NAT/PAT, etc), or software (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, etc). By this they kept thinking oh the built in Windows Firewall was never activated by default, or too complicated to configure/setup, so people went out and purchased 3rd party software and/or hardware.
Since SP2 released for XP, many people dumped the 3rd party firewall software because Windows indicated that its own built in firewall was working. This also lead to the crippling of third party software like Norton IS, which then required a special download WMI applet to allow NIS to communicate with Windows.
This was inconvenancing to most, thus people took the easy route and started using the built in firewall. Same situation applies for anti-spyware. Since MS Anti-Spyware (now Defender), is going to be included into Vista, then who needs a outside program doing the same task.
I know I teach my clients to understand that if they have more than one product installed doing the same repetitive task, then they could possibly cause more harm than good. AV are a great example, including AS software.
People will take the easy road. use what is already installed until it proves to be useless. That what happened to windows firewall before SP2.
Hell yes!
I was in the local supermarket today, and I had to stand in line for a good 30 minutes. I stopped a manager 'looking' person and asked them "why the hell was there only 3 tellers open when there are 20 teller stations, and over 45 people standing in line for just the 3 open ones" Her reply was, no one had told her to open another teller to ease the wait.
"WTF, someone has to tell you, "there are 45 people waiting in line for only three tellers, go open one or two more.", your an idiot." -My reponse.
Still I waited only to finally get to the front of the line only to see one more teller getting to a station to open, but by the time he was ready to open, no one was left to be taken care of.
All I can say is, if it wasn't for my ipod (and the soft, easy going music I was listening to.) I would have snapped and killed someone. Or even worse... snapped and killed myself.
interesting... keep talking... LoL
.60 cal ice bullet. oh wait... myth busters busted that one. BUT WAIT. they busted that based on a rifle. what if it was a high powered paintball marker like my Araikon SIM-4. (it a weight to design resemblance to the military's M4 rifle.)
I might make a mold for a
Was I talking aloud? doh!
Actually I did hide all my stuff..
What really pissed me off was the fact that my stereo was the Sony CDX-M630 series. meaning the hideaway faceplate. When the car is turned off the face flips backwards, only showing a blank insert. I paid good money for the thing (ok, I bought it from a crackhead... but he was an expensive crack head with 1 year warrantees "ba da ding!")
As for the charger, radar detector, power inverter, and so forth, all those items were in the glove box. (which I think I should have mentioned more clearly in the last post.)
All in all, what really pyst me off was the fact that they poped the trunk, and took my craftsman toolbox. it was a birthday gift from a beloved and it really ment something to me (yeah Man with his tools)
Well here is an update. I finally got my Araikon SIM-4 R.I.S. Elite paintball marker with the HP remote + tank, and I froze a few paintballs.
I parked my car in the bad neighborhood where the theft happened, and I pretty much camped out for the late friday night @ 3am. Low and behold, someone was walking down the street checking door handles. (mind you I see all of this through the attached generic 'craptastic' 10x scope, far behind in a bush, (yes I do have way too much time on my hands)), the guy comes to my car, peers in, only to keep walking.
I swear I should have shot the dude just for looking, but I know I couldn't prove a thing if I had called the police. I'm pretty sure he looked into my car, realizing it was a car he hit prior, and it most likely had nothing left to take. I should have left my laptop, or my ipod, or something worthwhile. (no, not the SIM-4... if I left that, then what would I shoot the guy with... my 9mm?... Thats way too redneckish... I want the guy to suffer, and live through it.)
I did follow the guy for awhile, and it seemed to me that he wasn't really interested in stealing things 'seriously', more like a casual thief 'when the opportunity presents itself, go for it' kind of thief. When we reached the end of the block, the guy just kept walking as if he was just... well you know... walking. "It ruined my night." -Joe
who would do an android in a wheelchair...?
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I had one girl stab herself and tell me she would be in the hospital, so she couldn't make it to our 'used to be blind date'.
SHeeesh... I so see the AI on these improving just to do the same thing to the rest of the
The interesting thing about this topic is the fact that people are for AND afraid of this.
I for one welcome........
As for my serious note about this topic, I'm still bias about the subject. One side of me says I like the idea, and the other basically repulses at the thought of someone being able to steal private information about me. Being able to locate me, either alive or dead is one thing for authorities should be able to know, if anything negative was to happen against me.
The part of me that is for this, are for two types of authentication. I would prefer a ID card system that ties with the implanted RFID. Homeland security would be for this because if everyone were to arrive at the airport to take a flight, it would only require two levels of authentication. Possibly a third, which CAN be thought up using extensive precautionary measures to ensure that both belong to the actual person using them.
I would take some of the technology of a American Express card (at least the advertised security features are appealing to me) Having a credit card sized ID card, that uses an encrypted key with identity binding information. Having the RFID encoded with your same identity information on the card, along with some level of genetic identification.
At least on that level it could verify who you are to government level authorities. So Big Brother could/would be able to know what you were doing or where you are. As for a level of protecting your personal information, or collecting all your personal information, who better to control that than the.... nah not them. Some other higher level of information secured firm/company/government authorative agency.
I imagine that if I were to support a system like this, I would describe it similar to what I just stated, but let me try and be a bit more clearer.
I would want an RFID chip implant somewhere that only professional medical doctors are capable of performing the procedure w/o doing serious harm. While other doctors COULD perform the procedure of the implant, in order to prove the level of authenticity would be to locate the implant in an area of the head/brain. If the chip is sensed/located in other areas, then the chip would be deemed non-authorative/requires additional Ident. I would want this RFID to be able to contain a small level capacity of information about me. photo, medical ID (no records), drivers ID, state ID, basically information that could be used if my body was to ever be unidentifiable.
As for the card, I would want it to contain more space to hold more information. it would be nice to have the card contain a photo level of ident (digital, and printed on the card), a tied level to my bank and/or credit card(s)
Hell if all I had to do was carry around one card to make purchases, prove my idenity, and gain medical benefits just by one item, then I would be happy. Right now I carry a SS card (flimsy paper that I tend to have to get a new one every 5 years because i happen to wash one into oblivion), photo ID, Drivers license (in Texas its one or the other), 3 credit cards, student ID (expired), petco card, petsmart card, ATM bank card, business cards, and cash. kill the credit cards, and IDs into one complex card, I would be much happier.
Of course this ID card would have to authenticate with my RFID chip. hell if both the card and implant were RFID, using private/public keys to encrypt data between each other, only can either work unless both were together.
Second method, I just thought up was implant the chip into the thumb or index finger. However this could be easy to hack/replicate because it would be placed somewhere that even a talented DIY could implant a edited chip. But to have the card ident to the implant too. But all this is defeatable, and I dunno what I am talking about....
Correction... Car Alarm systems seem useless in a situation like this...
What if the car battery goes dead. useless alarm.
You overcome the problem of people accidently bumping into your car, setting off your car alarm... who needs that... its annoying.... The Grenade Anti-Stereo Theft system is perfect. It makes no sounds, (until someone steals your stereo)
(Yes I had a Car Alarm installed in my car after the third year of the stereo theives hit, the last two times, the alarm system failed to go off.) Remember the movie of 'the super' superattendant (I know I messed that one up). Car was on blocks after everything was stolen, but as soon as the dude throws a rock at the car, the alarm goes off.... yeah I have one of those systems.
I'm working on a maybe IPing this thing.
I know this comment will be offtopic! ITS OFFTOPIC!
My car been broken into for the 5th time for the past 5 years. And it seems to me it happens in April every year. I want a anti-theft system that will stop those trying to steal my car stereo, incl anything else they want to steal.
This time around, they took my $650 stereo, DC-AC power inverter, power adaptor for my laptop, and adaptor for my cell phones (while leaving behind the plugs). Emptied my glove box for the radar detector, and $100 cash hidden underneith in a black cash fold, while causing $500+ in damage to the center console they tore up trying to take the well mounted stereo and they took my insurance papers for my car. (didn't notice the missing insurance papers until after I got pulled over a week later... the police officer was kind enough to let me go because my car was hit prior)
I've devised a nice anti-theft system for car stereos, so please bear with me on this.
I intend on placing a live grenade behind the stereo head unit. Now I know heat might set the thing off... but I'm willing to take that risk on the test bed. alot of trial and error will happen while I test this system with many cars, in very bad neighborhoods.
I plan on mounting a grenade behind car stereos, fashioned together by a trigger release wire, that is attached to the rear of the stereo and the mounting harnest.
(I've tried the 12guage wire, to help prevent the theft of my last stereo, and learned with enough force, the weak point in yanking out my stereo was the screw holding the wire to the frame of the car.)
Now this time the wire will hold the pin and tab of the grenade until the stereo is yanked out of the mount, the wire seperates from the head unit. I say, time/set the grenade for 5 seconds.
You know what happens at this point. We loose a theif, and a car + stereo + other vehicles nearby, and some casualties of war. But in the grand scheme of it all. I feel better because the bastard didn't get my stereo.
Then, by any chance... will they find more bagpipe players?
I personally want a bagpipe pleyer... Thanks to those damn highlander movies, and other irish/scottish based flick that has a funeral, the bagpipes sound much better.
Again... screw the trumpet player (I used to play Trombone, Baratone, and Trumpet), get a bagpipe player any day. One man show every time... How often do you see a man in a dress.
(its a joke... laugh!)
What about the poor guy running an ISP in Iraq....
He gets to use Tactical Hand-Grenades. Motar rounds, and M16s. Oh wait... hes a tech... nope, he just has to take it, no fighting back for that geek.
And you guys thought you had a fun work environment.
seven years later bomb self detonates because person id 46465456456489715678984 never walked by. Someone didn't do the homework, and realize that person id 46465456456489715678984 uses the back door instead.
Dell customizing.
My Inspiron 8100 came with 2 drives. DVD/RW 24x, and a CDRW 24x drive. Those spare media bays are really nice.
I've noticed any mobile desktop replacement is usually large enough to have two drives either stacked on top of each other, or one on each side of the keyboard.
As for the lighterweight notebooks, like Sony Vaio SZ series, one drive is all your gonna get.
I have AdD , not a problem for me. only took me half a