My coworker had a G4 Tower he sold me and I used it and I got my OS X fix in. After a few months I got tired of it and wanted to go back to Windows. It was nice but it got annoying and I felt very limited when I was using it. I sold it and now I have no urge to use OS X.
So here I am 6 months later typing this on Windows XP...
Look Microsoft is trying to compete with OS X and how it has the same feel no matter what machine your on ( more or less ). The majority of people who get Vista are going to buy it with a PC from an OEM company like Dell. Those are the people who are likely to think Vista is unstable rather then the software that it comes with. Everyones acting like Microsoft doesn't want any software on it that isn't certified. Microsoft just wants the OEMs to be more careful when they put 'crap' on the machines because they are the majority of users who use Vista. People who go out and buy Vista or download it off the internet are going to know if they install something and it makes there computer run like crap that its not Vista's fault.
I meean Dell, HP, Lenova, etc should be required to put more effort into making sure the stuff they put on the machines don't make it unstable. They owe it to there customers and Microsoft.
Does anyone find it ironic that there speaker system advertises audiophile-quality sound and the bitrate of there songs on itunes music store are 128KB.
They haven't even released it and everyone is calling them evil and yada yada yada. Remember this IS google and I wouldnt be surprised if they released there ads with images but in a different non obtrusive way. I think we should all just wait and see what happens first.
Well with Sprint the cost of the cancelation fee is no more then the discount you got on the phone. A lot of the time you will get additional savings on top of that as well.
So if you sign a contract and get the discounted phone and you end up staying you save $150+ some other discounts. If you cancel you only pay back the amount they took off the phone. So atleast you have the chance to save the money if you end up staying with the company. Not to mention with all cell phone providers if you don't want to sign a contract right away you most likely will end up signing one at one point or another because if you want to change anything on your plan it requires you to sign/renew your contract.
Whereis if you just pay full price for the phone to not have a contract if you end up staying you don't have the chance to save that $150.
iono just some reasoning I use while at work, Sprint, to convince people to get the 2 year contract.
You are on par about companies targeting poor people to get rich. There are numerous examples of this. Real Estate, Cell Phones, etc. With real estate you can get the higher interest rate and they don't mind it because they are just happy they are able to get a house and you will make a lot more off that. Also with cell phones they are more likely to be late on payments and have late fees. Also they have to pay deposits on activation.
All this is why me and a friend of mine started up our website ScrewBookPrices.com. It allows students to buy books from other students on campus. Its a WIN WIN alternative. The student selling the book gets more then what the school would buy it back for and the student buying the book gets it for cheaper then the book store would sell it for.
Sadly in todays society its "acceptable" to ream students. People complain about the high book prices but very few actually do anything about it so the cycle continues.
Why doesn't microsoft release a toolbar or even just a little box on IE that works like there antispyware. People can submit sites for review that they believe are phishing and if a normal user using IE comes upon it it will blink red and say SITE IS MOST LIKELY A SCAM SITE or something like that. If microsoft has this on by default then wouldn't that help stop most cases of this?
I was getting sick of my old 50lb Antec 830 case so I just recently bought... Antec Solution SLK3700BQE Thermalright XP-90 with a POS fan
Right away I reduced the voltage of the fan on the XP90 to 5v so it is running at half the RPM. It is considerably quieter and now the only thing I really hear is my Radeon 8500 fan and my hard drive.
Whats nice about that case is it comes with a farely quiet PSU and grommets for the hard drives so they dont touch the metal directly. I am currently trying to quiet down the radeon fan becuase it is I believe 25 dBa.
I really don't think shoplifting is a problem. It comes down to peoples morals. There is nothing stopping you from walking out of a food store with an item besides your concious and possibly an associate which is rare at large grocery store.
Or having those items under your shopping cart that you tell the checker about even though you could've gotten away with 'stealing' it.
And all I have to say is what do you have to loose except for a couple clicks on a website and a disposable email getting spammed?
Most offers are free and/or you can cancel in time so you don't get charged a thing.
A lot of my friends thought the same way as you and after recieving my iPod I just called them up and let them know the good news. Now some of them are signing up as well.
What sites are you using to get the money without referrals? Could you share them with me? I got a freeipod from Gratis so I know these places are legit. Thanks!
I got my iPod thru Gratis. Signed up in september and had my link wh0red on my website and a couple others then 1 month or so later I open my door and there is a package from UPS. Got mine in October I believe. Took about a month to process it but I cannot complain since I got a $300 item for FREE!
What happens when you fill that up and you need to create more video? With tapes you can have a couple in your bag for those long recording sessions but with the hard drive once its full are you out of luck?
>> sorry I didnt read the article though NYTimes Reg. Req.
Having it as a plugin and trying to blame GAIM for it is the same as having kazaa installed and blaming microsoft because windows allows it to be installed. I know they would figure out a way to blame gaim and get them shut them down somehow though.
a 60 GB iPod is just unpractical. Also picture viewing capabilites is sorta lame IMO. I know people will buy them but it justs seems like over kill. Also at $500 most average people won't want to spend that much just to listen to music. You can get a dang good PDA for that cost with a hi res screen and movie/picture/248953245 other features. Granted they dont have as much space.
I agree with you. The main reason most people get the ipod is it's "cool". I am still amazed how much people have this thing. I live in San Jose and work at Valley Fair mall which has a fairly rich demographic and you see people of all shades and sizes coming in asking if we sell IPOD acessories. Most people are unaware of the other mp3 players and base there whole opinion that the ipod is the best on the fact that it is so mainstream, its hip and fashionable, and it is from a company like apple. Now that's not to say that they aren't good quality but 80+% of people who own them just get it because of those reasons.
When you guys update off the Windows Update do you install ALL of the updates or only some of them? I had the impression that having all of them sorta bogs down the computer but I was never sure. Tips for which ones to install and which not to are appreciated.
THANKS!
I have 2 wireless cards...
Hawking Tech. 11m Wireless Ethernet Card
P/N: WE110p+
Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter
P/N: WPC11 ver. 4
I will buy another if another one works out of the box with linux due to my n00bness with it. I was hoping to use the Knoppix STD(sp?) to war drive and what not.
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So the cell phone companys invest into the networks and build them up and Skype wants use them for free? Iono I'm just trying to get first post....
My coworker had a G4 Tower he sold me and I used it and I got my OS X fix in. After a few months I got tired of it and wanted to go back to Windows. It was nice but it got annoying and I felt very limited when I was using it. I sold it and now I have no urge to use OS X.
So here I am 6 months later typing this on Windows XP...
just my 2 cents.
Look Microsoft is trying to compete with OS X and how it has the same feel no matter what machine your on ( more or less ). The majority of people who get Vista are going to buy it with a PC from an OEM company like Dell. Those are the people who are likely to think Vista is unstable rather then the software that it comes with. Everyones acting like Microsoft doesn't want any software on it that isn't certified. Microsoft just wants the OEMs to be more careful when they put 'crap' on the machines because they are the majority of users who use Vista. People who go out and buy Vista or download it off the internet are going to know if they install something and it makes there computer run like crap that its not Vista's fault.
I meean Dell, HP, Lenova, etc should be required to put more effort into making sure the stuff they put on the machines don't make it unstable. They owe it to there customers and Microsoft.
Does anyone find it ironic that there speaker system advertises audiophile-quality sound and the bitrate of there songs on itunes music store are 128KB.
They haven't even released it and everyone is calling them evil and yada yada yada. Remember this IS google and I wouldnt be surprised if they released there ads with images but in a different non obtrusive way. I think we should all just wait and see what happens first.
Well with Sprint the cost of the cancelation fee is no more then the discount you got on the phone. A lot of the time you will get additional savings on top of that as well.
So if you sign a contract and get the discounted phone and you end up staying you save $150+ some other discounts. If you cancel you only pay back the amount they took off the phone. So atleast you have the chance to save the money if you end up staying with the company. Not to mention with all cell phone providers if you don't want to sign a contract right away you most likely will end up signing one at one point or another because if you want to change anything on your plan it requires you to sign/renew your contract.
Whereis if you just pay full price for the phone to not have a contract if you end up staying you don't have the chance to save that $150.
iono just some reasoning I use while at work, Sprint, to convince people to get the 2 year contract.
You are on par about companies targeting poor people to get rich. There are numerous examples of this. Real Estate, Cell Phones, etc. With real estate you can get the higher interest rate and they don't mind it because they are just happy they are able to get a house and you will make a lot more off that. Also with cell phones they are more likely to be late on payments and have late fees. Also they have to pay deposits on activation.
All this is why me and a friend of mine started up our website ScrewBookPrices.com. It allows students to buy books from other students on campus. Its a WIN WIN alternative. The student selling the book gets more then what the school would buy it back for and the student buying the book gets it for cheaper then the book store would sell it for.
Sadly in todays society its "acceptable" to ream students. People complain about the high book prices but very few actually do anything about it so the cycle continues.
I hope this doesn't just get regarded as a plug.
Why doesn't microsoft release a toolbar or even just a little box on IE that works like there antispyware. People can submit sites for review that they believe are phishing and if a normal user using IE comes upon it it will blink red and say SITE IS MOST LIKELY A SCAM SITE or something like that. If microsoft has this on by default then wouldn't that help stop most cases of this?
As long as its not halle berry we should all be ok.
I dont think anyone could kill such a good concept as catwomen more then halle berry.
I was getting sick of my old 50lb Antec 830 case so I just recently bought...
Antec Solution SLK3700BQE
Thermalright XP-90 with a POS fan
Right away I reduced the voltage of the fan on the XP90 to 5v so it is running at half the RPM. It is considerably quieter and now the only thing I really hear is my Radeon 8500 fan and my hard drive.
Whats nice about that case is it comes with a farely quiet PSU and grommets for the hard drives so they dont touch the metal directly. I am currently trying to quiet down the radeon fan becuase it is I believe 25 dBa.
I really don't think shoplifting is a problem. It comes down to peoples morals. There is nothing stopping you from walking out of a food store with an item besides your concious and possibly an associate which is rare at large grocery store.
Or having those items under your shopping cart that you tell the checker about even though you could've gotten away with 'stealing' it.
here is a screenshot of the processing page...
http://seanism.com/freeipod/ipodorder.gif
http://seanism.com/freeipod/senttovendor.gif
and a clip of the screenshot after they sent it...
http://seanism.com/freeipod/shipped.gif
And all I have to say is what do you have to loose except for a couple clicks on a website and a disposable email getting spammed? Most offers are free and/or you can cancel in time so you don't get charged a thing. A lot of my friends thought the same way as you and after recieving my iPod I just called them up and let them know the good news. Now some of them are signing up as well.
What sites are you using to get the money without referrals? Could you share them with me? I got a freeipod from Gratis so I know these places are legit. Thanks!
I got my iPod thru Gratis. Signed up in september and had my link wh0red on my website and a couple others then 1 month or so later I open my door and there is a package from UPS. Got mine in October I believe. Took about a month to process it but I cannot complain since I got a $300 item for FREE!
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftech2. nytimes.com%2F2004%2F11%2F25%2Ftechnology%2Fcircui ts%2F25stat.html&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 &client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:offici a/
What happens when you fill that up and you need to create more video? With tapes you can have a couple in your bag for those long recording sessions but with the hard drive once its full are you out of luck? >> sorry I didnt read the article though NYTimes Reg. Req.
Having it as a plugin and trying to blame GAIM for it is the same as having kazaa installed and blaming microsoft because windows allows it to be installed. I know they would figure out a way to blame gaim and get them shut them down somehow though.
a 60 GB iPod is just unpractical. Also picture viewing capabilites is sorta lame IMO. I know people will buy them but it justs seems like over kill. Also at $500 most average people won't want to spend that much just to listen to music. You can get a dang good PDA for that cost with a hi res screen and movie/picture/248953245 other features. Granted they dont have as much space.
Have you considered buying an E-Bike? Something like the Sharper Image One... http://store.yahoo.com/sharperimage-best/si791.htm l
$1000
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I agree with you. The main reason most people get the ipod is it's "cool". I am still amazed how much people have this thing. I live in San Jose and work at Valley Fair mall which has a fairly rich demographic and you see people of all shades and sizes coming in asking if we sell IPOD acessories. Most people are unaware of the other mp3 players and base there whole opinion that the ipod is the best on the fact that it is so mainstream, its hip and fashionable, and it is from a company like apple. Now that's not to say that they aren't good quality but 80+% of people who own them just get it because of those reasons.
When you guys update off the Windows Update do you install ALL of the updates or only some of them? I had the impression that having all of them sorta bogs down the computer but I was never sure. Tips for which ones to install and which not to are appreciated. THANKS!
I have 2 wireless cards... Hawking Tech. 11m Wireless Ethernet Card P/N: WE110p+ Linksys Wireless-B Notebook Adapter P/N: WPC11 ver. 4 I will buy another if another one works out of the box with linux due to my n00bness with it. I was hoping to use the Knoppix STD(sp?) to war drive and what not. Thanks