When I worked electronics at Staples a few years back, 2 or 3 stores in our district were "reorganized" and all management at those stores fired for similar practices.
One store was printing the higher price tags for big ticket items to sell warranties and replacement plans without having to even offer them. Another would lie about inventory levels on everything from printers to laptops.
All of this happened about 2 weeks after they sent 2 people from each store to the highest performing in our district for "training". This store had been performing TOO well, and as soon as the training session started, most of us start exchanging puzzled looks, as their methods were clearly against company policy.
Hypothetically, if this were to happen to me, and I got a message from my bank asking me to call them to verify information, and I called this automated system, what message would I be presented with?
Are the phishers going to look up the phone number stored under 'Bank' and see which bank it actually is and then record the voicemail using my bank's actual name, and then ALSO have an automated system with my bank's actual name in it?
What if you were using a small-town bank? I highly doubt the phisher would be able to accurately determine your address to get the city and state required to lookup said bank, unless you also had that stored in your address book.
As a previous poster said, too many ifs and maybes.
I think most of the news we are subject to these days is inaccurate in some way. I really don't care if any of it is accurate at all, I tend to take most news with a grain of salt because there's no telling how many times a company or organization can change their mind about something before we finally see the outcome.
Say ATI puts out a press release stating they are suddenly releasing a line of cards that is 5 generations away because of a sudden technological breakthrough. Some might believe them, some may not. But ATI could change their mind again and again before they finally come out and say it was a fluke and they actually can't produce cards that awesome.
I didn't mean it was too expensive. I meant that I'm lacking the money to buy another computer at the moment. My next computer will probably be one of Apple's. Oh, and I don't believe in credit.
I didn't say that I've never used a Mac, I said that I didn't own one. There is a slight difference. I've used a Mac plenty of times before for various projects when forced to, mainly because I wasn't used to them. Once I used one a few times for a few video editing projects, creating presentations, and a few miscellaneous things, I grew to like them, in fact, I like them more than PC's now.
And as for Linux, I've got a nix box running right here next to me that I use for programming, playing music, and recording tv, that I haven't had crash in about 4 months, and the last time wasn't even really a crash, there was a required video codec missing that caused it to hang until I killed the program responsible and replaced the codec file.
I know you were just posting flamebait anyways, because you posted as an AC instead of standing behind your comments.
Apple putting out complete and all-encompassing software packages like this make me want to invest in Apple hardware, but I'm lacking enough funds to make the switch...
To me, Apple seems a much better development house than Microsoft (not really necessary to state), and their products seem much more reliable/functional than Microsoft's efforts. Maybe it's the extra time spent in development, maybe it's the extra attention spent on details, or perhaps it's just the hardware.
Even though I don't currently use Apple hardware, I still appreciate what they are doing for the computing community in general with products like these that show what great design teams are really capable of.
Offtopic, but the submitter opened the door: according to their specs sheet [mmm.com] (PDF warning), this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F). Processors burn hotter than that, how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?
Well, if the Sapphire were cooled low enough and moving fast enough, when it absorbs the heat from the processor, you wouldn't have to worry about it evaporating because each molecule wouldn't absorb enough heat to reach the boiling point.
Not sure on the math here, because I don't know the exact specs of the heat absorbancy of the material, but if you had to cooled down to...say...34 degrees farenheit and had it moving fast enough, it would take an amount of heat much higher than the normal range of heat given off by a processor to get the temperature of the fluid up to boiling point.
What about if I'm in a different state and I record a conversation I'm having with someone in New Hampshire? Am I breaking the law? Technically, I really couldn't be prosecuted because it crosses state lines and becomes a federal issue, which there is no federal 'two-party consent' law. Anyone care to venture a guess?
The fact that many news stories shown on national TV now don't contain nearly the amount of content that international news stations have. Like the 'war' in Iraq going on right now. Most news broadcasts from overseas have much more gruesome, but effective imagery that conveys what is really happening over there. Our news stations show only Americans getting killed, or only the bad things happening to arouse emotions and make Americans support the war.
I have yet to see a news broadcast that showed anything relatively good that was longer than 5 seconds, like when they caught Saddam, 5-10 seconds spent saying "Saddam was captured" then on to the stories about people getting eaten by a bear in Utah.
What would Google use it's own currency for? I really don't see a use for another useless internet currency (remember Beenz?). Actual currencies like USD or euros are actually backed by governments, whereas an e-currency like Beenz or Google's currency only has the backing of the company that created it.
I don't trust Google enough to believe that their currency has an actual value, and then they would have to convince actual businesses to take this currency. And then, if Google suddenly went bankrupt (not likely to happen, but nevertheless) the currency would be worthless.
The only way I would ever use a Google-backed currency (Goobacks anyone?) was if they took over the government of a small country.
In other news, Google plans to buy Denmark for 1.2 trillion in Goobacks.
Actually, seeing as how I recently moved and had to switch from cable to dialup again, I haven't downloaded many songs in the past year, maybe 4, and I've actually purchased a few CD's since then as well.
What the RIAA should understand, is that if the CD's that are put out were actually decent people might buy them. Instead, they see that not enough copies of a certain CD are being sold and chalk it up to file-sharing. The other part of this problem is that the execs from the RIAA that make the decisions about marketing CD's are morons, and think that this crap that is being released on CD nowadays is what people want. In fact, I hate the RIAA so much that the last couple of CD's I've purchased over the past year, I went straight to the artist's website and ordered from them.
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When I worked electronics at Staples a few years back, 2 or 3 stores in our district were "reorganized" and all management at those stores fired for similar practices. One store was printing the higher price tags for big ticket items to sell warranties and replacement plans without having to even offer them. Another would lie about inventory levels on everything from printers to laptops.
All of this happened about 2 weeks after they sent 2 people from each store to the highest performing in our district for "training". This store had been performing TOO well, and as soon as the training session started, most of us start exchanging puzzled looks, as their methods were clearly against company policy.
Hypothetically, if this were to happen to me, and I got a message from my bank asking me to call them to verify information, and I called this automated system, what message would I be presented with?
Are the phishers going to look up the phone number stored under 'Bank' and see which bank it actually is and then record the voicemail using my bank's actual name, and then ALSO have an automated system with my bank's actual name in it?
What if you were using a small-town bank? I highly doubt the phisher would be able to accurately determine your address to get the city and state required to lookup said bank, unless you also had that stored in your address book.
As a previous poster said, too many ifs and maybes.
I think most of the news we are subject to these days is inaccurate in some way. I really don't care if any of it is accurate at all, I tend to take most news with a grain of salt because there's no telling how many times a company or organization can change their mind about something before we finally see the outcome.
Say ATI puts out a press release stating they are suddenly releasing a line of cards that is 5 generations away because of a sudden technological breakthrough. Some might believe them, some may not. But ATI could change their mind again and again before they finally come out and say it was a fluke and they actually can't produce cards that awesome.
I didn't mean it was too expensive. I meant that I'm lacking the money to buy another computer at the moment. My next computer will probably be one of Apple's. Oh, and I don't believe in credit.
I didn't say that I've never used a Mac, I said that I didn't own one. There is a slight difference. I've used a Mac plenty of times before for various projects when forced to, mainly because I wasn't used to them. Once I used one a few times for a few video editing projects, creating presentations, and a few miscellaneous things, I grew to like them, in fact, I like them more than PC's now.
And as for Linux, I've got a nix box running right here next to me that I use for programming, playing music, and recording tv, that I haven't had crash in about 4 months, and the last time wasn't even really a crash, there was a required video codec missing that caused it to hang until I killed the program responsible and replaced the codec file.
I know you were just posting flamebait anyways, because you posted as an AC instead of standing behind your comments.
Apple putting out complete and all-encompassing software packages like this make me want to invest in Apple hardware, but I'm lacking enough funds to make the switch...
To me, Apple seems a much better development house than Microsoft (not really necessary to state), and their products seem much more reliable/functional than Microsoft's efforts. Maybe it's the extra time spent in development, maybe it's the extra attention spent on details, or perhaps it's just the hardware.
Even though I don't currently use Apple hardware, I still appreciate what they are doing for the computing community in general with products like these that show what great design teams are really capable of.
CmdrTaco must be slacking again, he didn't even catch that 'suprise' was spelled wrong...
Offtopic, but the submitter opened the door: according to their specs sheet [mmm.com] (PDF warning), this stuff has a boiling point of 49.2C (120.6F). Processors burn hotter than that, how useful would it still be for cooling purposes if it were a gas?
Well, if the Sapphire were cooled low enough and moving fast enough, when it absorbs the heat from the processor, you wouldn't have to worry about it evaporating because each molecule wouldn't absorb enough heat to reach the boiling point.
Not sure on the math here, because I don't know the exact specs of the heat absorbancy of the material, but if you had to cooled down to...say...34 degrees farenheit and had it moving fast enough, it would take an amount of heat much higher than the normal range of heat given off by a processor to get the temperature of the fluid up to boiling point.
What about if I'm in a different state and I record a conversation I'm having with someone in New Hampshire? Am I breaking the law? Technically, I really couldn't be prosecuted because it crosses state lines and becomes a federal issue, which there is no federal 'two-party consent' law. Anyone care to venture a guess?
The fact that many news stories shown on national TV now don't contain nearly the amount of content that international news stations have. Like the 'war' in Iraq going on right now. Most news broadcasts from overseas have much more gruesome, but effective imagery that conveys what is really happening over there. Our news stations show only Americans getting killed, or only the bad things happening to arouse emotions and make Americans support the war.
I have yet to see a news broadcast that showed anything relatively good that was longer than 5 seconds, like when they caught Saddam, 5-10 seconds spent saying "Saddam was captured" then on to the stories about people getting eaten by a bear in Utah.
What would Google use it's own currency for? I really don't see a use for another useless internet currency (remember Beenz?). Actual currencies like USD or euros are actually backed by governments, whereas an e-currency like Beenz or Google's currency only has the backing of the company that created it.
I don't trust Google enough to believe that their currency has an actual value, and then they would have to convince actual businesses to take this currency. And then, if Google suddenly went bankrupt (not likely to happen, but nevertheless) the currency would be worthless.
The only way I would ever use a Google-backed currency (Goobacks anyone?) was if they took over the government of a small country.
In other news, Google plans to buy Denmark for 1.2 trillion in Goobacks.
Actually, seeing as how I recently moved and had to switch from cable to dialup again, I haven't downloaded many songs in the past year, maybe 4, and I've actually purchased a few CD's since then as well.
What the RIAA should understand, is that if the CD's that are put out were actually decent people might buy them. Instead, they see that not enough copies of a certain CD are being sold and chalk it up to file-sharing. The other part of this problem is that the execs from the RIAA that make the decisions about marketing CD's are morons, and think that this crap that is being released on CD nowadays is what people want.
In fact, I hate the RIAA so much that the last couple of CD's I've purchased over the past year, I went straight to the artist's website and ordered from them.