The flaw in your assumption is the mere fact you assumed. I know they can drop out when they become adults (I dropped out way before I became an adult because I proved I was smarter than 98% of the high school seniors, and about half of the staff as well) but once they're adults, that opens up more options that involve me dealign with them. If I were to catch them as teenagers trying to break into my house, and I laid hands on them, I'd be asking for a lawsuit. Once they're adults, that risk goes away, and turns into possibilities for assault charges if I beat the hapless burglar's ass too much.
The rule is no dropout unless you turn 18, period. Until then, you have no legal right to make that decision for yourself. My brother tried dropping out at 17 to get his GED, school system nor a judge would allow it.
Around East 18th street in Plano, Texas, after 7AM you won't find a damned cop until 10PM, when the Mexicans come out with loud music and loads of beer after a hard day of work. In Dallas, some areas cops just won't go to, period.
Can't drop out if you're being constantly monitored. Dallas will send police to your house to take you to school if a parent or court decides it's necessary.
Deep Ellum isn't a neighborhood, it's a grouping of graffiti art, bars, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors. There's no residencies anywhere near, with the exception of some apartment complexes that are reminiscient of the projects back in Memphis.
Take an AMD-based image, throw it on an Intel laptop, Windows XP will go "I'm in the wrong machine!!! PIRACY!!!!1!1!" and the computer will lock out.
That is all purely Microsoft's fault, not HP or Dell or Toshiba or IBM, it's purely Microsoft's fault. This is why HP has to custom-tailor their system images.
There was no point, Plug n Play never fully worked, s evidenced by Windows XP's behavior to reinstall a driver for a USB device if I move it to a different USB port on the same machine.
If the fucker is truant, *I CARE* because I don't want some teenaged punk wandering the streets raising shit or breaking into my shit while I'm away at work and everyone else is at school.
As a native Texan, born in the Dallas area, let me tell you, Deep Ellum went to shit about 5 years ago. The music scene has died immensely with no-smoking indoors, crime rates have gone up (my mother recently had her Explorer broken into while she was working at Bar of Soap) and the people are just idiots.
Your video editing is a little off. All of the sound was in the left channel. Otherwise, it was neat. I'd do somethign like that, but I'm somewhat banned from owning any weapons.
nVidia does produce MXM hardware, you just can't buy it from them direct. They sell their chips to manufacturers and the manufacturers produce the board. This is done to compete with Toshiba and Alienware, since their solutions are not cross-compatible, nVidia aims to dominate the upgradable laptop arena by providing a common-interface solution and removing hardware vendor lock-in.
I hardly count x64 as a new architecture when it's just an x86 chip with additional registers. There's no real new opcode to speak of, minus what's needed to address 64-bit space.
"Why not? Shouldn't Windows be flexible enough to use a single system image for commonly available hardware?"
Sadly, no. Due to HP's design methodology, the differences between Intel and AMD based systems are vast. Almost none of the hardware is common, minus the video and perhaps the sound. AMD laptops generally use a Broadcom wireless adapter while Intel uses an Intel-branded wireless adapter, for example. Even the SATA controllers use different drivers (different chipsets, after all,) so even more special drivers are required.
I hated working on laptops for just that reason, so many images to remember for each model and variation. I used to keep a copy of just drivers and a fresh OEM install disc, say screw the laptop reimage bench, and get the OS reinstalled far faster than the overloaded GHOST network.
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DDR3 is worthless anyways. I've only seen about a 5% or so increase in performance in various tests (Gaming, video editing, loading huge photographs,) not much to justify the extra 50% increase in price.
Just how many "alternative architectures" does XP run on? Last I checked, none. I think Microsoft's multi-architecture support for their main operating systems died after NT4 (along with support for DEC's Alpha) and they went x86. Looking at Microsoft's support page, they say Pentium or compatible processor, so that means x86 only.
HP should NOT be using the same image for their Intel and AMD-based systems. There's always one for the Intel systems and one for AMD systems of each type (So, a DV2000 laptop has two generic system images, one for Intel-based and one for AMD-based. It's almost ALWAYS been this way.)
By the way, this appears to be Microsoft's problem, since HP maintains and is responsible for their own recovery images (all customized for each model and revision of laptop) and their own drivers.
"as nobody but Alienware (in one model, iirc) ever cared to implement swappable mobile graphics modules with the intent of actually selling different adapters."
That's a LIE. HP offers MXM-slot graphics in their nx9420 series of commercial laptops and higher, and in the DV series of consumer laptop. Have you ever shopped around for laptops with removable cards, before, let alone performed repair work for a company that manufactures cards with swappable graphics cards?
And when you just pick up a power saw and start using it, and you lop off those fingers because you don't understand it or how it works, you keep repeating what you just said while you rock back and forth, holding your bleeding stump.
People NEED to know how things work, or bad shit can happen. It doesn't matter if it's using a hammer, or a nail gun, or a computer loaded with software, if you don't know what you're doing, you can fuck something up.
When we outsource everything to other countries, we run the risk of getting bad goods, made with a malicious intent. Any company that's outsourcing is potentially harming us. It should be made a crime.
I had a very wasted life. I learned to read circuit diagrams before I learned to read English. I spent so much time in computers that I had practically no social life whatsoever.;)
Implement banning by MAC address, problem solved until either the user changes their MAC (only some network cards allow this,) or replaces the network card. One is simple (but most don't know how to do it) and the other costs the end-user money.
The picture *IS* the 400MB seagate drive. I can tell by the traces and the dimensions of the drive (which there is a ruler at the bottom of the image - it's not a 3.5" factor drive, it's 5.25")
"They're trying out the legal theory that a software creator retains complete control over how a program is used, meaning that anyone who uses it in a different way could be found guilty of copyright infringement, at $750 a pop."
If they can state the different usage of a program without the creator's permission is copyright infringement, then I can say that their program operating in an improper way on my computer without my permission constitutes hacking or a faulty product, and demand damages in return.
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The flaw in your assumption is the mere fact you assumed. I know they can drop out when they become adults (I dropped out way before I became an adult because I proved I was smarter than 98% of the high school seniors, and about half of the staff as well) but once they're adults, that opens up more options that involve me dealign with them. If I were to catch them as teenagers trying to break into my house, and I laid hands on them, I'd be asking for a lawsuit. Once they're adults, that risk goes away, and turns into possibilities for assault charges if I beat the hapless burglar's ass too much.
In bad form, I'm replying to my own post. In Texas, it's 18. In Tennessee, it's 16. Same for Mississippi, not sure about Arkansas.
The rule is no dropout unless you turn 18, period. Until then, you have no legal right to make that decision for yourself. My brother tried dropping out at 17 to get his GED, school system nor a judge would allow it.
I'd be willing to bet there's nothing but space in the lawyers' heads as well.
Around East 18th street in Plano, Texas, after 7AM you won't find a damned cop until 10PM, when the Mexicans come out with loud music and loads of beer after a hard day of work. In Dallas, some areas cops just won't go to, period.
Can't drop out if you're being constantly monitored. Dallas will send police to your house to take you to school if a parent or court decides it's necessary.
Deep Ellum isn't a neighborhood, it's a grouping of graffiti art, bars, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors. There's no residencies anywhere near, with the exception of some apartment complexes that are reminiscient of the projects back in Memphis.
Take an AMD-based image, throw it on an Intel laptop, Windows XP will go "I'm in the wrong machine!!! PIRACY!!!!1!1!" and the computer will lock out. That is all purely Microsoft's fault, not HP or Dell or Toshiba or IBM, it's purely Microsoft's fault. This is why HP has to custom-tailor their system images.
There was no point, Plug n Play never fully worked, s evidenced by Windows XP's behavior to reinstall a driver for a USB device if I move it to a different USB port on the same machine.
If the fucker is truant, *I CARE* because I don't want some teenaged punk wandering the streets raising shit or breaking into my shit while I'm away at work and everyone else is at school.
As a native Texan, born in the Dallas area, let me tell you, Deep Ellum went to shit about 5 years ago. The music scene has died immensely with no-smoking indoors, crime rates have gone up (my mother recently had her Explorer broken into while she was working at Bar of Soap) and the people are just idiots.
Your video editing is a little off. All of the sound was in the left channel. Otherwise, it was neat. I'd do somethign like that, but I'm somewhat banned from owning any weapons.
nVidia does produce MXM hardware, you just can't buy it from them direct. They sell their chips to manufacturers and the manufacturers produce the board. This is done to compete with Toshiba and Alienware, since their solutions are not cross-compatible, nVidia aims to dominate the upgradable laptop arena by providing a common-interface solution and removing hardware vendor lock-in.
I hardly count x64 as a new architecture when it's just an x86 chip with additional registers. There's no real new opcode to speak of, minus what's needed to address 64-bit space.
"Why not? Shouldn't Windows be flexible enough to use a single system image for commonly available hardware?"
Sadly, no. Due to HP's design methodology, the differences between Intel and AMD based systems are vast. Almost none of the hardware is common, minus the video and perhaps the sound. AMD laptops generally use a Broadcom wireless adapter while Intel uses an Intel-branded wireless adapter, for example. Even the SATA controllers use different drivers (different chipsets, after all,) so even more special drivers are required.
I hated working on laptops for just that reason, so many images to remember for each model and variation. I used to keep a copy of just drivers and a fresh OEM install disc, say screw the laptop reimage bench, and get the OS reinstalled far faster than the overloaded GHOST network.
DDR3 is worthless anyways. I've only seen about a 5% or so increase in performance in various tests (Gaming, video editing, loading huge photographs,) not much to justify the extra 50% increase in price.
Just how many "alternative architectures" does XP run on? Last I checked, none. I think Microsoft's multi-architecture support for their main operating systems died after NT4 (along with support for DEC's Alpha) and they went x86. Looking at Microsoft's support page, they say Pentium or compatible processor, so that means x86 only.
HP should NOT be using the same image for their Intel and AMD-based systems. There's always one for the Intel systems and one for AMD systems of each type (So, a DV2000 laptop has two generic system images, one for Intel-based and one for AMD-based. It's almost ALWAYS been this way.)
By the way, this appears to be Microsoft's problem, since HP maintains and is responsible for their own recovery images (all customized for each model and revision of laptop) and their own drivers.
"as nobody but Alienware (in one model, iirc) ever cared to implement swappable mobile graphics modules with the intent of actually selling different adapters."
That's a LIE. HP offers MXM-slot graphics in their nx9420 series of commercial laptops and higher, and in the DV series of consumer laptop. Have you ever shopped around for laptops with removable cards, before, let alone performed repair work for a company that manufactures cards with swappable graphics cards?
And when you just pick up a power saw and start using it, and you lop off those fingers because you don't understand it or how it works, you keep repeating what you just said while you rock back and forth, holding your bleeding stump.
People NEED to know how things work, or bad shit can happen. It doesn't matter if it's using a hammer, or a nail gun, or a computer loaded with software, if you don't know what you're doing, you can fuck something up.
When we outsource everything to other countries, we run the risk of getting bad goods, made with a malicious intent. Any company that's outsourcing is potentially harming us. It should be made a crime.
I had a very wasted life. I learned to read circuit diagrams before I learned to read English. I spent so much time in computers that I had practically no social life whatsoever. ;)
Implement banning by MAC address, problem solved until either the user changes their MAC (only some network cards allow this,) or replaces the network card. One is simple (but most don't know how to do it) and the other costs the end-user money.
The picture *IS* the 400MB seagate drive. I can tell by the traces and the dimensions of the drive (which there is a ruler at the bottom of the image - it's not a 3.5" factor drive, it's 5.25")
"They're trying out the legal theory that a software creator retains complete control over how a program is used, meaning that anyone who uses it in a different way could be found guilty of copyright infringement, at $750 a pop." If they can state the different usage of a program without the creator's permission is copyright infringement, then I can say that their program operating in an improper way on my computer without my permission constitutes hacking or a faulty product, and demand damages in return.