... explaining that it is illegal to require me to provide it...
Except for the purposes of a credit check.
Part of the reason companies keep this information, in my estimation, is to have ready to perform future credit checks if you request additional service.
I know with my cell contracts, every time I have added a line, my credit gets checked. Nevermind that I have been a customer in good standing for many years.
I guess a big part of my new development project has to be rewritten.
New entry in the user manual:
Updates:
Users must check their notification page(s) regularly for new content, comments or results. (I know e-mail, sms, etc would be easier, but we cannot risk a lawsuit to make, you, the user's life easier. Sorry. Please send complaints to idiots@techradium.com.)
Sounds like a self-fulfilled prophet. I've known people like this. "Everybody thinks I'm a(n) [insert term here], so I will act like a(n) [insert term here]."
The sad thing is they often think that the world will stop viewing them that way.
If they successfully put through this ban, how long until they ban acetaminophen outright? Like another responder said, it won't prevent the mixing of acetaminophen with codeine based medications to get the same effect.
As it is now, acetaminophen is one of the few OTC analgesics that are in the mainstream. You have aspirin, acetaminophen, ibupophin and naproxen. Doctors are shying away from naproxen as there are poswible detrimental side-effects, ibuprophin has had its share of kidney related complications, etc, etc.
Me, I can say there were times that between vicodin and extrastrength tylenol, I probably took as much as 6000mg a day of acetaminophen. I used to take 3 or 4 500mg caplets at a time. Last I checked, I am not dead. I have enough medical issues that I have had a lot of blood work done over the years and never once was there a concern over my liver. Granted, I no longer do that. I choose to live with my pain rather than live under a drug induced mask.
I am not saying there are not risks, but at some point we need to be allowed the opportunity to decide for ourselves. These law, bazns, regulations, etc, often do nothing more than inconvenience the intelligent and/or law abiding citizens of the planet.
Everything out there has the ability to bring harm to us. That is why we develop common sense. Those who don't may find themselves the brunt of a Darwin Award. Take, for example, Dihyderogen Monoxide, it can be very deadly if you do not use common sense when around it. But when use/handled correctly, there is nothing wrong with it.
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My opinion is based on my personal experience and observation. That is why it is called an opinion.
When I ask people why they have an iPhone vs , the first response I get a majority of the time is "its cool" or "it has a lot of cool features". The common word being cool.
I will admit, freely, that iPhone was, when released, the best at what it offered. It was a whale in a pond. Now it is an old fish in a lake full of younger fish.
I will also admit, I did not jump on the iPhone bandwagon for the same reason I did not jump on the iPOD band wagon, I don't like Macintosh. However, IO do not let that cloud my judgment as to their technical capabilities.
But I digress.
A large portion of iPOD/iPhone success is marketing. Whether it be traditional advertising or partnering with other companies/vendors to offer exclusive rights or focused "value-add" products that are unique to iPOD/iPhone.
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You can add multi-touch to the G1.
As to the "round and bubbly". If I wanted round and bubbly I would own a Mac instad of a PC running GNU/Linux.
I do not judge the worthiness of a tool by its outward appearance and whether or not it makes me feel all fuzzy inside. Likewise, I do not make my puchases based on how popular something is in a pathetic attempt to be part of the "in crowd". The latter is, IMNSHO, the reason the iPOD/iPhone is as popular as it is.
I was at the poker table last night comparing my G1 with two of the dealers' iPhone. As far as functionality, there is not too much difference. The biggest difference is not getting raped by AT&T for a dedicated data plan just for the iPhone. When I added my sister to the family plan, she wanted an iPhone. I said no, as the existing text/data coverage on the plan did not cover the iPhone, it requirfed its own ancillary addons.
However, the downside of the fully integrated model is maintenance for hardware failures.
If your iMac LCD goes, you have to have the machine serviced or replace it entirely. I can throw a spare LCD on it. Comes in handy when I am on a project under a deadline.
Even if I need other hardware, finding parts or service locally is a lot easier as well.
Not sure what all the 'tinkering' is everyone keeps talking about though. Not a single bit of 'tinkering' was needed for the GUI on either my desktop or my laptop, save for the wireless on the laptop which is not that much of a bother.
Except for the video editing, I do everything you do. I do not currently have a TV Tuner in it though. I also run multiple BOINC threads simultaneously as well as several automated processes 24/7.
I have a Kindle (2), purchased just under a month ago.
While it is annoying that these flags exist, it is part of the TOS that you have to agree to.
Personally, the TTS feature is not of great value to me. If I'd been concerned with audio books, I would not have purchased a device to read them. Besides, it is clearly stated on the product page that the TTS is experimental and available where allowed by the publisher.
However, I fairly certain that the flag exists in the book itself and not in the Kindle. If a publisher decides to withdraw TTS rights, Amazon only needs to update the book in you server side library and upon next sync, you receive the updated book that blocks TTS. Otherwise, the Kindle's minimal storage would need to be used to maintain a database of disallowed content for the TTS tools. From a developer standpoint, that is poor implementation.
Any large scale functionality changes require a firmware upgrade. Currently my Kindle is unable to receive these as I have a hack to use custom idle screens. I have to remove the hack in order to update.
As long as they tax it like any other business or income then there isn't an issue.
This is already a set precedent as the brothels in Nevada are taxed federally. The girls working there have the federal withholding.
Now just imagine, prostitution and pandering is made legal. There will be a potentially more open plying of the trade. This increases accessibility and potentially utilization, thereby potentially increasing the underlying workforce.
So, if you have legalized prostitution and pandering, some of the existing practitioners will license, thereby submitting to taxation, whereas now there is no taxation. If the workforce increases, it is likely due to demand and thereby drawing in the fence-sitters that had contemplated it, but shied away for legal and/or safety reasons. They too will be taxed.
While it is true that our screwed up tax system often taxes the customers with "luxury tax", this is a service and not a consumable good.
But, all that being said, I do not think it will ever happen and if it does, Uncle Sam and/or the State of transaction will find a way to screw us for screwing.
I live in an area that has piss-poor coverage from T-Mobile.
I wanted the G1 and considered the dev phone.
However, I did it cheaper. I bought a G1 on eBay for $329.99 (w/shipping) and paid $24.99 for an unlock code. Setup the APN info for AT&T and I have a (almost 100%) functioning G1.
I do not have 3G as AT&T uses different frequencies and the G1 cannot use them. So, I am on the Edge/GPRS network.
I have yet to get MMS working.
Other than that, I am happy. And I did it for $350.
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... explaining that it is illegal to require me to provide it...
Except for the purposes of a credit check.
Part of the reason companies keep this information, in my estimation, is to have ready to perform future credit checks if you request additional service.
I know with my cell contracts, every time I have added a line, my credit gets checked. Nevermind that I have been a customer in good standing for many years.
Charter Communications does this as well.
IIRC, a few years ago, this was attempted at a lower level and reversed.
I guess a big part of my new development project has to be rewritten.
New entry in the user manual:
Updates:
Users must check their notification page(s) regularly for new content, comments or results. (I know e-mail, sms, etc would be easier, but we cannot risk a lawsuit to make, you, the user's life easier. Sorry. Please send complaints to idiots@techradium.com.)
Sounds like a self-fulfilled prophet. I've known people like this. "Everybody thinks I'm a(n) [insert term here], so I will act like a(n) [insert term here]."
The sad thing is they often think that the world will stop viewing them that way.
If they successfully put through this ban, how long until they ban acetaminophen outright? Like another responder said, it won't prevent the mixing of acetaminophen with codeine based medications to get the same effect.
As it is now, acetaminophen is one of the few OTC analgesics that are in the mainstream. You have aspirin, acetaminophen, ibupophin and naproxen. Doctors are shying away from naproxen as there are poswible detrimental side-effects, ibuprophin has had its share of kidney related complications, etc, etc.
Me, I can say there were times that between vicodin and extrastrength tylenol, I probably took as much as 6000mg a day of acetaminophen. I used to take 3 or 4 500mg caplets at a time. Last I checked, I am not dead. I have enough medical issues that I have had a lot of blood work done over the years and never once was there a concern over my liver. Granted, I no longer do that. I choose to live with my pain rather than live under a drug induced mask.
I am not saying there are not risks, but at some point we need to be allowed the opportunity to decide for ourselves. These law, bazns, regulations, etc, often do nothing more than inconvenience the intelligent and/or law abiding citizens of the planet.
Everything out there has the ability to bring harm to us. That is why we develop common sense. Those who don't may find themselves the brunt of a Darwin Award. Take, for example, Dihyderogen Monoxide, it can be very deadly if you do not use common sense when around it. But when use/handled correctly, there is nothing wrong with it.
My opinion is based on my personal experience and observation. That is why it is called an opinion.
When I ask people why they have an iPhone vs , the first response I get a majority of the time is "its cool" or "it has a lot of cool features". The common word being cool.
I will admit, freely, that iPhone was, when released, the best at what it offered. It was a whale in a pond. Now it is an old fish in a lake full of younger fish.
I will also admit, I did not jump on the iPhone bandwagon for the same reason I did not jump on the iPOD band wagon, I don't like Macintosh. However, IO do not let that cloud my judgment as to their technical capabilities.
But I digress.
A large portion of iPOD/iPhone success is marketing. Whether it be traditional advertising or partnering with other companies/vendors to offer exclusive rights or focused "value-add" products that are unique to iPOD/iPhone.
You can add multi-touch to the G1.
As to the "round and bubbly". If I wanted round and bubbly I would own a Mac instad of a PC running GNU/Linux.
I do not judge the worthiness of a tool by its outward appearance and whether or not it makes me feel all fuzzy inside. Likewise, I do not make my puchases based on how popular something is in a pathetic attempt to be part of the "in crowd". The latter is, IMNSHO, the reason the iPOD/iPhone is as popular as it is.
I was at the poker table last night comparing my G1 with two of the dealers' iPhone. As far as functionality, there is not too much difference. The biggest difference is not getting raped by AT&T for a dedicated data plan just for the iPhone. When I added my sister to the family plan, she wanted an iPhone. I said no, as the existing text/data coverage on the plan did not cover the iPhone, it requirfed its own ancillary addons.
However, the downside of the fully integrated model is maintenance for hardware failures.
If your iMac LCD goes, you have to have the machine serviced or replace it entirely. I can throw a spare LCD on it. Comes in handy when I am on a project under a deadline.
Even if I need other hardware, finding parts or service locally is a lot easier as well.
You have every right to that decision.
Not sure what all the 'tinkering' is everyone keeps talking about though. Not a single bit of 'tinkering' was needed for the GUI on either my desktop or my laptop, save for the wireless on the laptop which is not that much of a bother.
It is a trade off.
I could have done the same with OTS and RAM & HDD upgrades for a few hundred more.
I mostly build my own to avoid the Microsoft tax.
However, OTS, even with the Microsoft tax, is still cheaper for a comparable system than Mac's current high-end offerings.
Whoops! Math error. $1400.
Overall price for my current machine, about $1000.
Quad core 64 bit,
8GB RAM
5 TB HDD (4TB usable - RAID 5)
2 - 24" 1080p HDMI flat panels.
KUbuntu 9.04
Except for the video editing, I do everything you do. I do not currently have a TV Tuner in it though. I also run multiple BOINC threads simultaneously as well as several automated processes 24/7.
still 100% overpriced.
Sure, Mac OSX is less, but you are paying for that with the outrageously over-priced hardware.
1.5 TB for storage, yes. However, I have several Terabytes of disk space in my computer, but my OS and apps are on two smaller drives.
A 256GB SSD for OS and another 32GB SSD for swap/scratch disk use and the loading performance increases greatly.
I'll still keep my multi-terabyte RAID to store files.
I have a Kindle (2), purchased just under a month ago.
While it is annoying that these flags exist, it is part of the TOS that you have to agree to.
Personally, the TTS feature is not of great value to me. If I'd been concerned with audio books, I would not have purchased a device to read them. Besides, it is clearly stated on the product page that the TTS is experimental and available where allowed by the publisher.
However, I fairly certain that the flag exists in the book itself and not in the Kindle. If a publisher decides to withdraw TTS rights, Amazon only needs to update the book in you server side library and upon next sync, you receive the updated book that blocks TTS. Otherwise, the Kindle's minimal storage would need to be used to maintain a database of disallowed content for the TTS tools. From a developer standpoint, that is poor implementation.
Any large scale functionality changes require a firmware upgrade. Currently my Kindle is unable to receive these as I have a hack to use custom idle screens. I have to remove the hack in order to update.
I tried my best to keep it strait. :P
As long as they tax it like any other business or income then there isn't an issue.
This is already a set precedent as the brothels in Nevada are taxed federally. The girls working there have the federal withholding.
Now just imagine, prostitution and pandering is made legal. There will be a potentially more open plying of the trade. This increases accessibility and potentially utilization, thereby potentially increasing the underlying workforce.
So, if you have legalized prostitution and pandering, some of the existing practitioners will license, thereby submitting to taxation, whereas now there is no taxation. If the workforce increases, it is likely due to demand and thereby drawing in the fence-sitters that had contemplated it, but shied away for legal and/or safety reasons. They too will be taxed.
While it is true that our screwed up tax system often taxes the customers with "luxury tax", this is a service and not a consumable good.
But, all that being said, I do not think it will ever happen and if it does, Uncle Sam and/or the State of transaction will find a way to screw us for screwing.
That is because wine is a 32 bit emulated environment on the 64 bit host OS. There is not, AFAIK, a 64 bit version of wine as of yet.
Whoosh!!!
It comes into play for forms control.
You can dynamically control the document, available elements, behaviors, etc based on object states.
It is also used to pre-populate data (not fdf) for eForms.
Whoops, too early, that should read $360.
I live in an area that has piss-poor coverage from T-Mobile.
I wanted the G1 and considered the dev phone.
However, I did it cheaper. I bought a G1 on eBay for $329.99 (w/shipping) and paid $24.99 for an unlock code. Setup the APN info for AT&T and I have a (almost 100%) functioning G1.
I do not have 3G as AT&T uses different frequencies and the G1 cannot use them. So, I am on the Edge/GPRS network.
I have yet to get MMS working.
Other than that, I am happy. And I did it for $350.
*looks up*
Cool. I guess my mom was right, I am *special*.
And where is that UID threshold?
4 digits? 5?
Interesting how status seems to be derived from the low numbers.
Just not as a pre-installed option.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/02/06/hp_drops_mini_1000_uk/