I am not saying leasing is a bad deal, I am just saying that it should not be the ONLY deal; some of us like to tinker, bolt in an extra HDD, try a 3rd party software mod, add or unlock features (ala 30 sec skip) and so on
Why should tinkerers be treated like second class citezens? we arent stealing HBO (which oddly enough I actually have, and PAY FOR) or PPV events; we just want to tinker!
Think of it like a car; want to get back and forth to work/achool/church and that is it, then leasing may be a good deal; want to drop the suspention, add lighting effects, a super-charger and cold-air-induction, you'd better buy.
Directv makes all new users LEASE equipment, that meaqns no "hacking" or upgrading if I were to go from Insight(a division of Cox) to Directv...welcome to the beginnings a world where you LEASE all of your electronics (or in the case of PCs the software running on them) to keep the corperations in control of every aspect of life...
Is using a copyrighted image to prove that there is a potentialy dangerous problem with a consumer product illegal? it is for the public good - imagine how the shit would hit the fan if GM or Ford were doing the same thing to hide defects in cars...could you be sued using a repair manual to figure out that they are, for example over filling the radiator, and recomend it to be over filled by any repair shop that works on that model?
Is that a violation of intelectual property law, is there not an exception for portecting public safty?
Let me start by saying You can have my mac when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Now, about the first rev thing: why is it only Apple with these problems? you never hear anyone say "dont buy that Dell/HP/Lenovo, its a rev A, wait for the QC issues to be fixed in the rev b"
I thought that these problems werer because they were the only mass-PPC hardware vendor, but that is now de-bunked -- and on that note, no one at Intel evaluated a finidhed laptop?? God knows, as much as Apple throws the I-word around, you would think it is a partnership!
...for force-bundling the yahoo spy/spam/crudware with Adobe reader, and even the FULL RETAIL version of Acrobat PRO 7? when I (or the company I work for) pay $300+ for an app, I/we dont want the bulls**t!
de-selecting the yahoo tools option in the install has no effect!
(FYI DLing the 56k version of the reader seems to cut out most of the bloat)
How can any LAN data be admissible in court? There are two ways that the RIAA can get the data: 1: gain unauthotized access to the network: a crime or 2: pay off students, who are not experts, or potentialy worse, students with know-how and malis to collect the data, so how can they prove that the data is valid, and not tamperd with?
Most entry level jobs in IT seem to demant an A+, and even a network+ cert, even if you have an AS or BS degree in the feild -- and the sad part is the A+ and Net+ are FRIGGEN JOKES...hardware questions that were either all useless crap like "what slot/socket does (insert 10 year old Cyrex CPU here) fit in?" or just dumb like "Nothing happens when you press the power button, would you A:check the power cable connectivity B: swap HDDs or C: push the button harder" NETWORK+ was just outdated; In March 2006, when I sat for it I got 2 questions about networking NT3.5 and Netware 3 with Apple System 7
A buddy of mine has a AMD 3800, ATI radion x1900xtx, and 2 gb ram, and maxing the graphics out in some of the latest games cause it to be noticably jittery, so why spend $2000 on a gaming PC when an xBox 360 does jitter free HD for $400?
To prepare for war, all MS execs are now attending boot camp, here is a recent exchange between private Balmer and the lead drill instructor, Gunnery Sgt. Heartman
GSH: Let me hear your war cry!
SB: Developers!
GSH:Bullshit, I didnt buy it!
SB: developers, Developers! Developers Developers Developers Developers DEVELOPERS!!!!!!
GSH: Bullshit! Sound off like you've got a pair!
SB: I WILL FUCKING KILL GOOGLE!!!
GSH: Work on it.
Copyright, and fair use have been a pendulum swinging from consumers to creators and back over the last 100 years or more, it started with player pianos, and the phonograph, then radio/tv, then consumer recorders, and so on.
This is a step in pushing the pendulum back, as is, I believe the forthcoming HDMI/HDCP time-bomb. Just stick to it and the pendulum will go back. When we win, the media comenies win too, look at radio, look at vinal/tape/CD...
Let not your heart be troubled and keep up the good fight.
One of my teachers in college had some really good advice, (within the last year) he said "if you wouldnt buy a house without reviewing your vredit report, you shouldnt look for work without looking for dirt on yourself"
He said "go to myspace, google. yahoo, MSN, hotjobs, anything that a potential employer may use, and make sure that anything that shows up is accurate"
If someone online is posting false info on you, then call the service and demand its removal, hire a lawyer if necessary.
Are tehy ecpected to look through the entire HDD of any emploee on the way out or something? Standard pracice where I work is a re-image of the PC to make sure it is up to spec for the next emploee to use, we dont care about the crap om the drive unless they were known or suspected of mis-use of it, but that is a whole differant matter...
Frankly, I would delete anything like email, temp files caches and whatnot too, not because I am hiding anything, but because I dont know who may touch the computer between when I leave and when it is reimaged, and there are things that some people dont need to see (you wouldnt want a lie worker to stumble accross HR salery records for example) so it seems like he could have been doing them a little bit of a favor...
Cant speak to Franken, but I can tell you as a former subscriber that Limbaugh gives you WAY more than podcasts, the information archive, or "stacks of stuff" make a really handy political/civic repository, with lots of oppinion thrown in, but always pointers to the real thing.
His service was there way before podcasts, it started as video streaming (and commercial free audio feed - breaks filled with music/parodys)
What I am saying is that Limbaugh (and other Premere Radio subscribtions that I have seen) have a lot of value added, not just podcasts.
Bandwidth on the WAN side is too expencive for anything more than what we have now - for Christs sake, a T1 is nearly 500$/mo. The baby bells are screwing us, they promised us hundreds of times the bandwith of today at a fraction of the price if only we "pay it forward" in user fees in the 90s, we did, they didnt keep their end, so no...cant happen.
...And more specificly, Lafayette!!! This couch is the biggest thing that this town has done in a long time for the locals, now Cletus doesnt have to get his ass off the couch and fetch another beer, he can take the couch with him!
...in the game if not gay? are 20-somethings who sit in their parents' basment playing games that are FEMALE???? And where can I get a list of names, and IM handles?
At least someone in the entertainment industry knows when to say "its been agood run" and move along to new things. The problem with entertainment today is that the industry has gotten so big that they have forgotten the first rule of showbiz, always leve 'em wanting more.
I see some here saying that "the companies" shouldnt lobby, but cho owns the companies? I would say that a great majority here have a stake in Goog, MSFT, Walmart, Bell South, Verizon and other "evil big companies" via investment vehicals like retierment plans, and mutual funds. If these xompanies didnt make money, a lot of people would be worse off.
I dont support some actions of major companies, but they are owned by a LOT of people, not just the C*O.
I understand the search engines catching guff, but Cisco and their subsidiaries make networking equipment, while it can be used by evil governments, it also does lots of good, like securing large scale private networks with good reliability.
At its most basic, Cisco stuff routes and switches, it doesnt censor unless the end user tells it to with ACLs and filters and whatnot, most of which are implemented by responsable and ethical sysadmins in a responsable and ethical way every day.
China is using the equipment for evil, how is that Ciscos fault?
If several companies relocate emploees to small rual towns, thee towns will grow, becoming the dreaded "medium size City" these cities have all the urban problems like crime, taxes, clogged roadways, condtant swelling expantion and so on with none or little of the good stuff in the big cities like the arts, recreation and nightlife, dining, shopping and society in general.
The content owners already pay for network access, when last I checked Verixon and Bell south werent exactly giving away optical carrier lines...or even T1s or T3s for that matter.
If the customer pays for connectivity, and the content pays for conectivity, they are already making money off both ends, and this is just blatent extortion.
I understand that dual booting because you can is nice, but I would much rather see Apple and MS work together on a wine-like semi-seemless solution that would allow the use of apps like Visio Pro in OSX
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Why should tinkerers be treated like second class citezens? we arent stealing HBO (which oddly enough I actually have, and PAY FOR) or PPV events; we just want to tinker!
Think of it like a car; want to get back and forth to work/achool/church and that is it, then leasing may be a good deal; want to drop the suspention, add lighting effects, a super-charger and cold-air-induction, you'd better buy.
Directv makes all new users LEASE equipment, that meaqns no "hacking" or upgrading if I were to go from Insight(a division of Cox) to Directv...welcome to the beginnings a world where you LEASE all of your electronics (or in the case of PCs the software running on them) to keep the corperations in control of every aspect of life...
Is that a violation of intelectual property law, is there not an exception for portecting public safty?
Now, about the first rev thing: why is it only Apple with these problems? you never hear anyone say "dont buy that Dell/HP/Lenovo, its a rev A, wait for the QC issues to be fixed in the rev b"
I thought that these problems werer because they were the only mass-PPC hardware vendor, but that is now de-bunked -- and on that note, no one at Intel evaluated a finidhed laptop?? God knows, as much as Apple throws the I-word around, you would think it is a partnership!
de-selecting the yahoo tools option in the install has no effect!
(FYI DLing the 56k version of the reader seems to cut out most of the bloat)
1: gain unauthotized access to the network: a crime
or
2: pay off students, who are not experts, or potentialy worse, students with know-how and malis to collect the data, so how can they prove that the data is valid, and not tamperd with?
Any lawyers in the house? Care to give it a shot?
Why were CompTIA certs ever taken seriously?
A buddy of mine has a AMD 3800, ATI radion x1900xtx, and 2 gb ram, and maxing the graphics out in some of the latest games cause it to be noticably jittery, so why spend $2000 on a gaming PC when an xBox 360 does jitter free HD for $400?
GSH: Let me hear your war cry!
SB: Developers!
GSH:Bullshit, I didnt buy it!
SB: developers, Developers! Developers Developers Developers Developers DEVELOPERS!!!!!!
GSH: Bullshit! Sound off like you've got a pair!
SB: I WILL FUCKING KILL GOOGLE!!!
GSH: Work on it.
127.0.0.1 localhost
search.msn.com google.com
This is a step in pushing the pendulum back, as is, I believe the forthcoming HDMI/HDCP time-bomb. Just stick to it and the pendulum will go back. When we win, the media comenies win too, look at radio, look at vinal/tape/CD...
Let not your heart be troubled and keep up the good fight.
He said "go to myspace, google. yahoo, MSN, hotjobs, anything that a potential employer may use, and make sure that anything that shows up is accurate"
If someone online is posting false info on you, then call the service and demand its removal, hire a lawyer if necessary.
Frankly, I would delete anything like email, temp files caches and whatnot too, not because I am hiding anything, but because I dont know who may touch the computer between when I leave and when it is reimaged, and there are things that some people dont need to see (you wouldnt want a lie worker to stumble accross HR salery records for example) so it seems like he could have been doing them a little bit of a favor...
His service was there way before podcasts, it started as video streaming (and commercial free audio feed - breaks filled with music/parodys)
What I am saying is that Limbaugh (and other Premere Radio subscribtions that I have seen) have a lot of value added, not just podcasts.
Bandwidth on the WAN side is too expencive for anything more than what we have now - for Christs sake, a T1 is nearly 500$/mo. The baby bells are screwing us, they promised us hundreds of times the bandwith of today at a fraction of the price if only we "pay it forward" in user fees in the 90s, we did, they didnt keep their end, so no...cant happen.
I can bash Purdue/Lafayette, I live here...
...in the game if not gay? are 20-somethings who sit in their parents' basment playing games that are FEMALE???? And where can I get a list of names, and IM handles?
Dont those in the third world need reliable power and healthcare before they worry about setting up a TV and cell phone to check their email?
At least someone in the entertainment industry knows when to say "its been agood run" and move along to new things. The problem with entertainment today is that the industry has gotten so big that they have forgotten the first rule of showbiz, always leve 'em wanting more.
I dont support some actions of major companies, but they are owned by a LOT of people, not just the C*O.
He made copys, it is the same if he had prints and the equipment to duplicate. What is the problem here?
At its most basic, Cisco stuff routes and switches, it doesnt censor unless the end user tells it to with ACLs and filters and whatnot, most of which are implemented by responsable and ethical sysadmins in a responsable and ethical way every day.
China is using the equipment for evil, how is that Ciscos fault?
If several companies relocate emploees to small rual towns, thee towns will grow, becoming the dreaded "medium size City" these cities have all the urban problems like crime, taxes, clogged roadways, condtant swelling expantion and so on with none or little of the good stuff in the big cities like the arts, recreation and nightlife, dining, shopping and society in general.
If the customer pays for connectivity, and the content pays for conectivity, they are already making money off both ends, and this is just blatent extortion.
I understand that dual booting because you can is nice, but I would much rather see Apple and MS work together on a wine-like semi-seemless solution that would allow the use of apps like Visio Pro in OSX