I have talked to some people who claimed that they never received rebates. But as for me, I have turned in about 50 mail-in rebates over my lifetime, and I have received all of them. Sometimes they really do take the full 8 weeks stated in the fine print, but I have always gotten them eventually.
where you can be in a password-protected channel, and the only two people who can prove that you downloaded anything are you and the guy who sent the files to you.
Maybe it's just me, but whining about Windows just sounds like a cop-out to me. What the judge wants is the code that Diebold wrote. Diebold is just trying make excuses so that they don't have to turn over their code. It has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Your average Joe likes to talk about help the environment, doing what's right, etc, but when it comes down to action, most people (in the US anyway) are going to look out for their own interests first. Hybrids are going to have to save people a noticable amount of money before we see a sizable percentage of the population adopt them. It's just the unfortunate mentality of most people.
I agree that banks should do more in the fight against fishing. They have the ability to track people down and take them to court, RIAA style. However, even though I don't have too much love for gigantic banking corporations, I can't help but feel like making banks completely responsible for phishing would be like making my apartment complex responsible for someone breaking into my apartment when I'm the one who was tricked into giving them my key.
I didn't mean that there's anything wrong with a company helping itself, especially if it helps others also. The headline just seemed to imply that Intel was doing some kind of public service... standing up for consumers for the sake of being good citizens. My point was, Intel is doing this because it helps themselves in some way... not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's cheap, but it's just another way to increase the raw materials we use and the waste we produce. It's interesting technology, but I'm still happy renting DVDs.
Somehow, I doubt that they are standing up for consumers. They are probably just planning on marketing a nice, "home server" to us instead. Most companies don't do things to help people. They do things to benefit themselves. While there are a few exceptions out there, I really doubt that Intel is one of them.
You mention a family, and that is a good point. For me, movie prices suck at $8.75 a ticket. However, if I was paying for a girlfriend/wife and/or kids, it would be horrible, especially if popcorn was involved.
Every time I send a drive in for repair, the one I get back ends up failing within a year anyway. Drives are so cheap anymore, I prefer to trash the old one, and buy a new one.
I don't think that they committed a crime. They were given the computers (with the password taped to the back.) Sure they changed the password and disabled some things, but does that really count as hacking? I would mark this up as unauthorized use... Sort of like if a kid got caught playing warcraft on a school computer during class.
It shouldn't matter if he made negative comments too, unless he specifically asked for people to post the defaming comments. It's like, if I made a blog where I complained about the president, it wouldn't be my fault if someone posted a threat against him on my message board.
I think that there are inate differences between men and women. But I think that most of the differences that we notice have more to do with social conditioning than biology. Also, IQ tests are full of crap. There are many kinds of intelligence, and IQ tests don't hit them all.
One night when I was house sitting my grandma's house, where there was only a dial up connection, I got bored and started drinking. After about 6 beers, I found an AOL disk and decided to install. I screwed around with it for a few hours and went to sleep.
I obviously didn't want the account, so I called a few days later to cancel it. They completely refused to close it. They basically told me that I had to wait the remainder of my free month to cancel the account. Not wanting to do this, I straight up told them that I signed up for the account when I was drunk and bored, and I never planned on using it. The AOL guy told me (dead seriously) that what I did was "extremely dangerous" and I could get myself in "a lot of trouble" doing things like that. He said that if I ever did that again, there could be "serious consequences."
Needless to say, I took extra care to watch my credit card at the end of the month to make sure they didn't charge anything.
I'm not buying either one until I either know which one is going to stick around or, in the case of current DVD writables, I know that both are going to stick around.
Seriously, I didn't buy current generation DVD writabiles until the dual-format writers came out, and I saw that nearly every DVD player could play either.
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I have talked to some people who claimed that they never received rebates. But as for me, I have turned in about 50 mail-in rebates over my lifetime, and I have received all of them. Sometimes they really do take the full 8 weeks stated in the fine print, but I have always gotten them eventually.
where you can be in a password-protected channel, and the only two people who can prove that you downloaded anything are you and the guy who sent the files to you.
This would bring on a lot of abuse if implemented.
Maybe it's just me, but whining about Windows just sounds like a cop-out to me. What the judge wants is the code that Diebold wrote. Diebold is just trying make excuses so that they don't have to turn over their code. It has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Your average Joe likes to talk about help the environment, doing what's right, etc, but when it comes down to action, most people (in the US anyway) are going to look out for their own interests first. Hybrids are going to have to save people a noticable amount of money before we see a sizable percentage of the population adopt them. It's just the unfortunate mentality of most people.
I agree that banks should do more in the fight against fishing. They have the ability to track people down and take them to court, RIAA style. However, even though I don't have too much love for gigantic banking corporations, I can't help but feel like making banks completely responsible for phishing would be like making my apartment complex responsible for someone breaking into my apartment when I'm the one who was tricked into giving them my key.
I didn't mean that there's anything wrong with a company helping itself, especially if it helps others also. The headline just seemed to imply that Intel was doing some kind of public service... standing up for consumers for the sake of being good citizens. My point was, Intel is doing this because it helps themselves in some way... not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's cheap, but it's just another way to increase the raw materials we use and the waste we produce. It's interesting technology, but I'm still happy renting DVDs.
When I said that companies don't help people, I meant that they generally don't help people unless they're helping themselves by doing it.
Somehow, I doubt that they are standing up for consumers. They are probably just planning on marketing a nice, "home server" to us instead. Most companies don't do things to help people. They do things to benefit themselves. While there are a few exceptions out there, I really doubt that Intel is one of them.
That's rough. It sounds like the whole Edison vs Tesla thing.
I don't consider this a priority at this time. Clean up Iraq and Louisiana, then we can knitpick about pr0n.
Why is only the Korean version infected? The North Korean leader is already paranoid enough. This will push him over the edge.
//Headline: North Korea Bans Use of Computers
You mention a family, and that is a good point. For me, movie prices suck at $8.75 a ticket. However, if I was paying for a girlfriend/wife and/or kids, it would be horrible, especially if popcorn was involved.
Marketing! Intel spends a huge amount of money on advertising.
Every time I send a drive in for repair, the one I get back ends up failing within a year anyway. Drives are so cheap anymore, I prefer to trash the old one, and buy a new one.
Oh, wait...
I don't think that they committed a crime. They were given the computers (with the password taped to the back.) Sure they changed the password and disabled some things, but does that really count as hacking? I would mark this up as unauthorized use... Sort of like if a kid got caught playing warcraft on a school computer during class.
It shouldn't matter if he made negative comments too, unless he specifically asked for people to post the defaming comments. It's like, if I made a blog where I complained about the president, it wouldn't be my fault if someone posted a threat against him on my message board.
Think about the crazy shapes they can cut diamond rings into now.
I think that there are inate differences between men and women. But I think that most of the differences that we notice have more to do with social conditioning than biology. Also, IQ tests are full of crap. There are many kinds of intelligence, and IQ tests don't hit them all.
Is it a regular duel-layer DVD that's the size of a laserdisc?
One night when I was house sitting my grandma's house, where there was only a dial up connection, I got bored and started drinking. After about 6 beers, I found an AOL disk and decided to install. I screwed around with it for a few hours and went to sleep.
I obviously didn't want the account, so I called a few days later to cancel it. They completely refused to close it. They basically told me that I had to wait the remainder of my free month to cancel the account. Not wanting to do this, I straight up told them that I signed up for the account when I was drunk and bored, and I never planned on using it. The AOL guy told me (dead seriously) that what I did was "extremely dangerous" and I could get myself in "a lot of trouble" doing things like that. He said that if I ever did that again, there could be "serious consequences."
Needless to say, I took extra care to watch my credit card at the end of the month to make sure they didn't charge anything.
I guess by "animals" I was referring to exotic ones.
I'm not buying either one until I either know which one is going to stick around or, in the case of current DVD writables, I know that both are going to stick around.
Seriously, I didn't buy current generation DVD writabiles until the dual-format writers came out, and I saw that nearly every DVD player could play either.