How do you get dragged into the lawsuit to begin with when it isn't your name? When they brought the papers by why didn't he just say "Sorry. That's not my name, you have the wrong address," and close the door on them?
That is fundamentally exactly what happened in this case:
1. He is not "Paule Wilke" which is the name he was sued under.
I think what petes_PoV was picking up on is just the fact that 'overseas types' is such a crass and outdated notion and turn of phrase. For a start, the internet is an international audience, so using this term is very US-centric and out of place. It is also a really easy way to offend all of us 'overseas types'. It's like me saying "those USA types are really dodgy characters" - IOW it's a sweeping generalisation with no basis in fact.
Is Canada overseas? How about Mexico? Columbia? It's a fairly big continent!
Finally, the notion that all the scammers are 'overseas' and that the US is a haven of law abiding citizens is also quite incorrect.
The Louis Vuitton design is tacky as hell these days IMNSHO
The bombproof and Bulletproof ones are nonsense - they dont offer any protection for the screen or touchpad
The iKitty and Fluffpod are cute - if you are a 10 year old girl.
And in any case - why bother trying to protect an iPod when the battery will die in a year and you will throw it away and get the latest one (to keep up with the Jones's).
a video could be coded so a person watching could run a cursor over the shirt an actor is wearing, right click on it to find out more about it and left click on it to buy it, Pulver said.
... as he took another hit from his bong.
Who is going to sit and encode this information, mapped frame by frame? You would have to encode EVERYTHING in the film this way, otherwise it would be worse than mystery meat navagation, it would be MOVING mystery meat navagation!
It's funny Bose was brought up. I agree they are bad sounding speakers. They have systems with 4 small satelites and a subwoofer (which is quite a common setup), the sub still has to have a reasonable size of paper cone woofer in it, and they are usualy tuned and ported to provide nothing but a rumble box unless the box is of some size.
Thats great for video, but what about audio? When is someone going to make a loudspeaker that doesn't have to be 8 inches across with a kilo of magnet to get anywhere near a full range sound? I mean, we have been using paper cone speakers for over 100 years, and they are still the first choise for most systems!
Just got the Plextor SATA DVD/CD RW 716SA... very happy with it, 100% compatable with my Intel motherboard and NO MORE PARALELL CABLES! This was an upgrade to my Yamaha SCSI 8x CD writer from 2001... hopefully the Plextor will last me at least 4 years as it's replacement.
Anyone who has tried powering a single LED with a reasonable capacitor knows you need a BIG, EXPENSIVE cap on there to store any rasonable charge for very long. And they aren't cheep, upwards of $5 each!
IMNSHO this whole idea is stupid hype, ePaper will be used for 1100001 more things than as disposible type on cerial boxes. Even adding a few pence onto the cost of the box isn't viable for most packaging. Stupid idea badly thought out... we'll be lucky if we see one example of this ever. hyper-gimmick.
I use exclusivly Seagate internal drives for all the computers I build. They are very reliable drives that come with a good warinty. The fact that they had some USB external drive with problems says nothing about the long term experence with Seagate. It sounds like that USB drive had some programing issues on the drive, not problems with the drive itself IMHO. I personaly would tend to stay away from USB external drives if possible.
Seagate make the quietest, most reliable drives I know of. I specify them in all my audio (recording studio) computers. Not one (touch wood) failure in 6 years.
If your computer is scanning the drives, make sure you have fast search turned OFF in XP, it will try to index your HDD everytime it 'thinks' you aren't needing to access the drive. Also check for spyware and all the usual nonsense running in the background.
Finaly, you can suspend your HDD or use sleeves to stop the drive transmitting the vibrations to the case. The case can act a little like a guitar body and amplify the grinding sounds.
I have been modding my PC's to be quiet for years - there is no need for any computer to sound like a leaf blower. Check out Silent PC Review for more info!
"Baryons, along with mesons, belong to the family of particles known as hadrons, meaning they are composed of quarks. Baryons are fermions composed of three quarks, while mesons are bosons composed of a quark and an antiquark."
Silent night, holey night,
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin PC and screen,
Holey computer, so exploitable and keen,
Sleep with spyware downloading,
Sleep with spyware downloading.
You'll find that the Shuttle Buran was the USSR's copycat of the USA's space shuttle. The colours and shape of this new vehicle are based strictly on the materials used (heat shealding) and aerodynamics, surely you don't think rocket scientists choose colours from an aesthetic point of view!
20khz is way too high for a phone, bandwith for phone speach is about 400hz to 3khz I think. Also, 20kHz is way too high for a lot of people to hear. Better to blast with a 1kHz tone, that is where the ear is more sensitive. But then again, better not to torture the poor telemarketing monkey at the tnd of the phone with permament tinitus. I want to punch the people that set-up and run these things though.
In fact, I got a call a couple of days ago from Florida (I am in Scotland) trying to sell me hollidays. I told the person it was illegal here and I was on the UK list, se said it was legal in the USA, I told her I WASNT in the USA... Anyway, i got some address and company name, but I bet neither are true... how does one get these people back? I hate them with a vengence.
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How do you get dragged into the lawsuit to begin with when it isn't your name? When they brought the papers by why didn't he just say "Sorry. That's not my name, you have the wrong address," and close the door on them?
That is fundamentally exactly what happened in this case:
1. He is not "Paule Wilke" which is the name he was sued under.
*SLAM*!
Headline : "Quasi the Intelligent Robot
WRONG! It is an animatronic figure, and nothing more.
Quasi appears capable of holding intelligent conversations.
WRONG! Its a human inside.
Poor editorial.
I think what petes_PoV was picking up on is just the fact that 'overseas types' is such a crass and outdated notion and turn of phrase. For a start, the internet is an international audience, so using this term is very US-centric and out of place. It is also a really easy way to offend all of us 'overseas types'. It's like me saying "those USA types are really dodgy characters" - IOW it's a sweeping generalisation with no basis in fact.
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Is Canada overseas? How about Mexico? Columbia? It's a fairly big continent!
Finally, the notion that all the scammers are 'overseas' and that the US is a haven of law abiding citizens is also quite incorrect.
Less 'them-and-us' please
The Louis Vuitton design is tacky as hell these days IMNSHO
The bombproof and Bulletproof ones are nonsense - they dont offer any protection for the screen or touchpad
The iKitty and Fluffpod are cute - if you are a 10 year old girl.
And in any case - why bother trying to protect an iPod when the battery will die in a year and you will throw it away and get the latest one (to keep up with the Jones's).
... as he took another hit from his bong.
Who is going to sit and encode this information, mapped frame by frame? You would have to encode EVERYTHING in the film this way, otherwise it would be worse than mystery meat navagation, it would be MOVING mystery meat navagation!
Pulver needs to think things through!
It's funny Bose was brought up. I agree they are bad sounding speakers. They have systems with 4 small satelites and a subwoofer (which is quite a common setup), the sub still has to have a reasonable size of paper cone woofer in it, and they are usualy tuned and ported to provide nothing but a rumble box unless the box is of some size.
Thats great for video, but what about audio? When is someone going to make a loudspeaker that doesn't have to be 8 inches across with a kilo of magnet to get anywhere near a full range sound? I mean, we have been using paper cone speakers for over 100 years, and they are still the first choise for most systems!
Cum again?
Just got the Plextor SATA DVD/CD RW 716SA... very happy with it, 100% compatable with my Intel motherboard and NO MORE PARALELL CABLES! This was an upgrade to my Yamaha SCSI 8x CD writer from 2001... hopefully the Plextor will last me at least 4 years as it's replacement.
Actually a thin foil coating on the outside and inside of the box would be signifigantly more than sufficient. Cheap and easy.
Nonsense mate - what value capacitor can you get from some cardboard and tin foil over that area? There is NO WAY that would fly!
Anyone who has tried powering a single LED with a reasonable capacitor knows you need a BIG, EXPENSIVE cap on there to store any rasonable charge for very long. And they aren't cheep, upwards of $5 each! IMNSHO this whole idea is stupid hype, ePaper will be used for 1100001 more things than as disposible type on cerial boxes. Even adding a few pence onto the cost of the box isn't viable for most packaging. Stupid idea badly thought out... we'll be lucky if we see one example of this ever. hyper-gimmick.
I use exclusivly Seagate internal drives for all the computers I build. They are very reliable drives that come with a good warinty. The fact that they had some USB external drive with problems says nothing about the long term experence with Seagate. It sounds like that USB drive had some programing issues on the drive, not problems with the drive itself IMHO. I personaly would tend to stay away from USB external drives if possible.
I suppose the obvious one is pen + paper and a good text reading software package at home!
Anyway, $200 - $300 is quite cheap anyway, no?
You mean:
"watch that mother burn silicon dioxide", which is in fact 'burnt' already, and wouldn't burn any more in the thin martian atmosphere.
Sorry for sucking the fun out of that one...
You insensitive klod!!!!!
Seagate make the quietest, most reliable drives I know of. I specify them in all my audio (recording studio) computers. Not one (touch wood) failure in 6 years.
If your computer is scanning the drives, make sure you have fast search turned OFF in XP, it will try to index your HDD everytime it 'thinks' you aren't needing to access the drive. Also check for spyware and all the usual nonsense running in the background.
Finaly, you can suspend your HDD or use sleeves to stop the drive transmitting the vibrations to the case. The case can act a little like a guitar body and amplify the grinding sounds.
I have been modding my PC's to be quiet for years - there is no need for any computer to sound like a leaf blower. Check out Silent PC Review for more info!
So if these robots crash they are called....
Japanisawawreck?
Here is the Goggle translation
"Baryons, along with mesons, belong to the family of particles known as hadrons, meaning they are composed of quarks. Baryons are fermions composed of three quarks, while mesons are bosons composed of a quark and an antiquark."
Wikipedia cleared that one up nicely!
Silent night, holey night,
All is calm, all is bright,
Round yon virgin PC and screen,
Holey computer, so exploitable and keen,
Sleep with spyware downloading,
Sleep with spyware downloading.
You'll find that the Shuttle Buran was the USSR's copycat of the USA's space shuttle. The colours and shape of this new vehicle are based strictly on the materials used (heat shealding) and aerodynamics, surely you don't think rocket scientists choose colours from an aesthetic point of view!
20khz is way too high for a phone, bandwith for phone speach is about 400hz to 3khz I think. Also, 20kHz is way too high for a lot of people to hear. Better to blast with a 1kHz tone, that is where the ear is more sensitive. But then again, better not to torture the poor telemarketing monkey at the tnd of the phone with permament tinitus. I want to punch the people that set-up and run these things though.
In fact, I got a call a couple of days ago from Florida (I am in Scotland) trying to sell me hollidays. I told the person it was illegal here and I was on the UK list, se said it was legal in the USA, I told her I WASNT in the USA... Anyway, i got some address and company name, but I bet neither are true... how does one get these people back? I hate them with a vengence.
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