You should check with your bank to see if you can turn this "feature" off. I recently did with my bank account. All it took was simply stopping by any branch and signing a piece of paper to initiate the change in terms. Problem solved!:-)
The action that kills laptop batteries quicker than anything is using the computer, plugged into the wall AND the battery inserted into the machine. FWIU, if the battery is in the machine, you should be using only battery power, unless it's charging.
Once the battery is full, either unplug the computer from the wall and use only the battery, or take the battery out and use only the AC power.
The issue that will get me to upgrade is when I want to increase the RAM of my computer. If I want to have a Windows machine running more than 4GB of RAM, I have to upgrade to a 64-bit OS and Vista/7 is better than XP in that regard.
No, he's in a committed relationship with the woman (one woman!) that he loves. There is a level of trust built between the two; a trust built upon the fact that neither one of them will go flirting with other people.
As I've grown up I developed my signature with its own style. I never write cursive and someone got past that requirement in grade school. What I find fascinating is after about 5 years of tweaking it and getting to a consistent style that I like and is easy to write, it has turned out very similar to my dad's. Great minds think alike, I guess.:-)
I got that message a couple days ago. What happened was Flash did an automatic update as my computer was starting up. I had Firefox open at the time, so I had to close it to complete the update. I did and launched Firefox again, only to find that it didn't update successfully. So, I had to download it again, this time manually, and install the software. Then I went ahead and rebooted the computer for good measure. Everything's been fine since then.
(I can't believe you've been modded +3 interesting.)
Hahaha...I thought the same thing. However, I think it's good that it is being modded up, so people can see the entire discourse between him and everyone else, it seems.
Not when you distrust Microsoft for a reason that has no bearing on Google whatsoever.
If people distrusted Microsoft because they gathered lots of information about people, yeah, they should distrust Google as well.
But people don't.
They distrust Microsoft for a completely different reason than you distrust Google. And that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion on this. You can live your life and not use any Google product and stay as far away from them as possible. And guess what? They won't have any information on you!
Just don't try to make up some fake argument about how if you distrust one you must distrust the other. It is simply not true.
See Sec. 4, paragraph (a) which states in part: "Nothing in this Act is intended to prevent a licensee of a television broadcast station from terminating the broadcasting of such station's analog television signal (and continuing to broadcast exclusively in the digital television service) prior to the date established by law under section 3002(b) of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 for termination of all licenses for full-power television stations in the analog television service (as amended by section 2 of this Act) so long as such prior termination is conducted in accordance with the Federal Communications Commission's requirements in effect on the date of enactment of this Act,.."
(typical government wordiness)
What it means is that before this bill was introduced, stations could sign off their analogs before Feb. 17th upon giving 30 days notice to the FCC and the viewers. Should the bill pass into law, paragraph (a) ensures they can still sign off before June 12th, again provided they give 30 days notice.
Several hundred stations have already given such notice. Including most of the major-network affiliates in Nashville, New Orleans, and Wichita among other cities.
The stations around here have all been covering the changeover as news stories for months now, including explaining what to do to be able to keep watching. I assume it's the same elsewhere.
Overlay banners are annoying. Especially if they would run 24x7
Why not do this for a week, or three days? It seems it would be in the interest of the local station, to insure that their viewers know what steps they must take to see the station. Or, maybe have a repeating 20 minute informercial that actually walks through the steps of making the transition?
This is something that's been on my mind about digital channel numbering.
KETK-TV is my local NBC station. It's on analog 56 and digital 22. However, the station refers to itself at channel 56 and shows up on my digital box as channel 56, through virtual channels.
My question, once the transition finally takes place and the dust settles, will KETK start referring to itself at channel 22, or continue to use the virtual moniker of channel 56?
I understand your frustration and agree with you. However, have you ever had a commercial electric account? My experience with commercial electric has been that if you use the electricity in a certain manner...say, turning on three air conditioners at once, you will be pushed into a higher rate bracket because you are deemed a heavy demand on the system. I wonder if a system like this would work for ISPs and consumers alike?
For anyone interested in help with achieving exactly this, check out daveramsey.com. Dave's plan is not his own, he admits that up front. It's just common sense advice, motivation, and tools to succeed in life. And, for the record, I am not employed by him--I just believe in his work.
I wonder does selling said picture to a tabloid for lots of money qualify as "news"? Based on the spirit of the law, I say no, but we all know how interpretations change from one person to the next.
What, pray tell, is wrong with Dallas or Houston? Both cities have established themselves as strong business centers with great resources for the companies that call those places home. I've got news for you, Silicon Valley is not the only place where technology business gets run.
Or how's about, if it takes the user five tries to get past the question, the account gets locked out. I'm sorry but if you're that stupid, I don't feel sorry for you not being able to use the internet.
Microsoft's Cleartype technology makes text more blurry. What kind of monitor did you use to test this? CRT or LCD? So true. I've been nothing but happy with my experiences with ClearType. Every LCD equipped computer in my office is using it.
And I have also had experiences with two laptops designed for Windows Vista. Both of these machines were brand-new and I wanted to get some first hand experience installing software, setting up wireless networks, etc. under Vista. On laptop number one, Vista crashed no less than three times in 30 minutes. One laptop number two, Vista ran so slow I was tempted to sling it out the window (no pun intended). Laptop two, by the way, has a 1.73 Ghz Celeron processor and 2 GB of RAM.
I reformatted both computers and installed Windows XP Pro. Both run much quicker and are much more enjoyable to use. I will not be upgrading to Vista if there are any other options, and I will not be recommending that my company upgrade, either.
Not only is compatibility a big issue, but with the 2007 edition of Microsoft Office, I find myself wanting to use it for the user interface. The "ribbon" is one of best new features I've seen in a long time. It's been a long time since I've seen a Microsoft product I've actually been wanting to use.
The reason for buying it is to have all of the information in an easy to use reference guide. Yes, most (if not all) of this information is available on the internet. But what if your connection is jacked up and not working? Second, the target audience of this book probably prefers to have material published in a book instead of reading it on a computer. It's much easier to keep your place in a book than on a website.
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Would changing the background white to a shade of grey make things easier to read?
You should check with your bank to see if you can turn this "feature" off. I recently did with my bank account. All it took was simply stopping by any branch and signing a piece of paper to initiate the change in terms. Problem solved! :-)
To make sure I understand correctly, you're saying that newer laptops should recognize that the battery is charged and then stop charging?
That would make sense, considering my laptop is about 4 years old.
The action that kills laptop batteries quicker than anything is using the computer, plugged into the wall AND the battery inserted into the machine. FWIU, if the battery is in the machine, you should be using only battery power, unless it's charging.
Once the battery is full, either unplug the computer from the wall and use only the battery, or take the battery out and use only the AC power.
The issue that will get me to upgrade is when I want to increase the RAM of my computer. If I want to have a Windows machine running more than 4GB of RAM, I have to upgrade to a 64-bit OS and Vista/7 is better than XP in that regard.
Yes, that equates him with a fungus or swine flu.
No, he's in a committed relationship with the woman (one woman!) that he loves. There is a level of trust built between the two; a trust built upon the fact that neither one of them will go flirting with other people.
As I've grown up I developed my signature with its own style. I never write cursive and someone got past that requirement in grade school. What I find fascinating is after about 5 years of tweaking it and getting to a consistent style that I like and is easy to write, it has turned out very similar to my dad's. Great minds think alike, I guess. :-)
I got that message a couple days ago. What happened was Flash did an automatic update as my computer was starting up. I had Firefox open at the time, so I had to close it to complete the update. I did and launched Firefox again, only to find that it didn't update successfully. So, I had to download it again, this time manually, and install the software. Then I went ahead and rebooted the computer for good measure. Everything's been fine since then.
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(I can't believe you've been modded +3 interesting.)
Hahaha...I thought the same thing. However, I think it's good that it is being modded up, so people can see the entire discourse between him and everyone else, it seems.
Not when you distrust Microsoft for a reason that has no bearing on Google whatsoever.
If people distrusted Microsoft because they gathered lots of information about people, yeah, they should distrust Google as well.
But people don't.
They distrust Microsoft for a completely different reason than you distrust Google. And that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion on this. You can live your life and not use any Google product and stay as far away from them as possible. And guess what? They won't have any information on you!
Just don't try to make up some fake argument about how if you distrust one you must distrust the other. It is simply not true.
Actually, from the conversation I'm picking up on, many stations are planning on switching on Feb. 17.
The original bill didn't require analog stations to stay on until June either.
(if the link breaks, try this PDF link)
See Sec. 4, paragraph (a) which states in part: "Nothing in this Act is intended to prevent a licensee of a television broadcast station from terminating the broadcasting of such station's analog television signal (and continuing to broadcast exclusively in the digital television service) prior to the date established by law under section 3002(b) of the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 for termination of all licenses for full-power television stations in the analog television service (as amended by section 2 of this Act) so long as such prior termination is conducted in accordance with the Federal Communications Commission's requirements in effect on the date of enactment of this Act,.."
(typical government wordiness)
What it means is that before this bill was introduced, stations could sign off their analogs before Feb. 17th upon giving 30 days notice to the FCC and the viewers. Should the bill pass into law, paragraph (a) ensures they can still sign off before June 12th, again provided they give 30 days notice.
Several hundred stations have already given such notice. Including most of the major-network affiliates in Nashville, New Orleans, and Wichita among other cities.
The proposed new bill (PDF version) contains the same paragraph.
Is there a list of stations that have given their switch notice?
The stations around here have all been covering the changeover as news stories for months now, including explaining what to do to be able to keep watching. I assume it's the same elsewhere.
Overlay banners are annoying. Especially if they would run 24x7
Why not do this for a week, or three days? It seems it would be in the interest of the local station, to insure that their viewers know what steps they must take to see the station. Or, maybe have a repeating 20 minute informercial that actually walks through the steps of making the transition?
This is something that's been on my mind about digital channel numbering.
KETK-TV is my local NBC station. It's on analog 56 and digital 22. However, the station refers to itself at channel 56 and shows up on my digital box as channel 56, through virtual channels.
My question, once the transition finally takes place and the dust settles, will KETK start referring to itself at channel 22, or continue to use the virtual moniker of channel 56?
I understand your frustration and agree with you. However, have you ever had a commercial electric account? My experience with commercial electric has been that if you use the electricity in a certain manner...say, turning on three air conditioners at once, you will be pushed into a higher rate bracket because you are deemed a heavy demand on the system. I wonder if a system like this would work for ISPs and consumers alike?
For anyone interested in help with achieving exactly this, check out daveramsey.com. Dave's plan is not his own, he admits that up front. It's just common sense advice, motivation, and tools to succeed in life. And, for the record, I am not employed by him--I just believe in his work.
I wonder does selling said picture to a tabloid for lots of money qualify as "news"? Based on the spirit of the law, I say no, but we all know how interpretations change from one person to the next.
What, pray tell, is wrong with Dallas or Houston? Both cities have established themselves as strong business centers with great resources for the companies that call those places home. I've got news for you, Silicon Valley is not the only place where technology business gets run.
Or how's about, if it takes the user five tries to get past the question, the account gets locked out. I'm sorry but if you're that stupid, I don't feel sorry for you not being able to use the internet.
And I have also had experiences with two laptops designed for Windows Vista. Both of these machines were brand-new and I wanted to get some first hand experience installing software, setting up wireless networks, etc. under Vista. On laptop number one, Vista crashed no less than three times in 30 minutes. One laptop number two, Vista ran so slow I was tempted to sling it out the window (no pun intended). Laptop two, by the way, has a 1.73 Ghz Celeron processor and 2 GB of RAM.
I reformatted both computers and installed Windows XP Pro. Both run much quicker and are much more enjoyable to use. I will not be upgrading to Vista if there are any other options, and I will not be recommending that my company upgrade, either.
Not only is compatibility a big issue, but with the 2007 edition of Microsoft Office, I find myself wanting to use it for the user interface. The "ribbon" is one of best new features I've seen in a long time. It's been a long time since I've seen a Microsoft product I've actually been wanting to use.
The reason for buying it is to have all of the information in an easy to use reference guide. Yes, most (if not all) of this information is available on the internet. But what if your connection is jacked up and not working? Second, the target audience of this book probably prefers to have material published in a book instead of reading it on a computer. It's much easier to keep your place in a book than on a website.