Here wire fruad is a *huge* deal ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/u sc_sec_18_00001343----000-.html )--like up to twenty years. If you defraud a bank, it goes up to thirty. On the other hand, you can beat the living hell out of someone and get probation. Usually because it's a local (not federal) charge and there are no empty slots in the prisons due to mandatory sentencing for minor drug offenses.
So calm down. I know it's fun to build up a big load of righteous indignation, but there's just no call for it.
You've put your finger on something here. It really is "fun to build up a big load of righteous indignation." That's a big part of the problems in the world and 99.999% of the problems on/.
I've never heard that term before (though a quick Google search reveals that there is indeed such as thing), is it a US law? Either way, since this clown would have been facing mail/wire fraud charges, I don't think that he was in any position to call law enforcement. In the US, mail/wire fraud is a federal beef with possible huge jail terms.
Four or five years ago, some clown on eBay ripped me off and I found him using only his first name and his eBay name, which meant a certain animal in French + a two-digit number, which I took to be his birth year. This year would have made him about 20 years old. I Googled the eBay name in English only sites and got a number of hits. On a discussion site, I found the same username with a university email address, which had a partial name. Interestingly enough, in the discussion group this guy used a certain phrase that, combined with his age, made me pretty sure that it was the same person. I Googled the university + partial name and got a few hits. One of them was the school newspaper and included a picture of the French Club with a listing of all of the names of the people in the photos.
I imagine he was very surprised when I emailed him a picture of himself at his university email addresss and demanded my money. Needless to say, I got my money back.
Why is this a troll? I'm a serious Mac fan, but that little "jab at Microsoft" *was* pretty classless.
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When I was a kid we were firing a golf ball out of homemade cannon and broke the neighbor's windshield. Crap, what was I thinking? I should have blamed Ford for not making their windshields stronger!
...My theory is that they they would let people backorder till they felt comfortable ordering a batch. Then, other people would order, and by the time the processors got to Ingram, they were already taken....But we were able to source them from other distributors, and even from retailers who ended up getting us a better price than Ingram (who pretty much rips us off).
I wondered about that too. Ditto my experience. I hate to say it, but I haven't found Synnex, TechData or any of the larger wholesalers to be any help to me on price either. Like you (if I'm understanding you correctly), I buy lots of things at retail. I have actually thought that I could probably buy a system on sale at BB or CC, put the guts in my own case and make more money. This would actaully make sense with my non-profit or business customers who have a Windows multi-license and don't need an OS. Pathetic, but true.
I also use a small distributor, malabs, especially for their own brand (supertalent) of memory. They are usually better than retail on general PC components but you can't order on the web. I find it annoying to have to talk to a salesperson (a new one every week) and I like to order at night when I get back from the field. Obviously, they are closed then.
However, I need my Ingram account for their huge inventory to order unusual things. Until lately, I have been able to make $$ on printer consumables, but even that is drying up. Thank God that we make most of our money with service. That doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. Looking forward to Vista and all of the problems/opportunities/upgrades that will cause.
Give those old machines to churches or other non-profits if you never touch them. Any chance to save money is always welcome by them and they don't need powerful systems.
I have given them to NPs in the past and still do. But there's the problem with that now.
Most NPs have Windows XP and Office through the MS Software Donation Program and thus need somewhat more memory than most of these older machines have. Unfortunately, PC100 and PC133 memory is obsolete and is hard-to-find/expensive. Often, the cost of additional memory exceeds the value of the machine. What I do is combine the larger memory mods into the few machines that have more than two DIMMs and donate them.
So, in the end, I get left with a bunch of decent machines with little or no memory. And tons of 64MB and 128MB memory mods. I ought to get rid of them but I keep thinking that it's such a waste.
You know, there's a vast market out there for people who just want CPUs that run a word processor and connect them to the internet. Vast.
True indeed. My wife's computer has a 2400 Sempron. All that is installed is FF and MS Office. And she rarely uses Office. Shopping on the net and Yahoo mail is all that she does. Because it is running so lean and mean, it boots faster than my 4200+ 64 X2.
I don't know the stats, but I would bet that most adult non-gamers are the same way. Heck, I have a garage full of Slot A Athlon, P3 and TBird boxes that most people could use.
"A woeful inability to provide some of its most loyal customers with stock" can only mean that demand for AMD chips still exceeds supply. Otherwise, they would be happy to deliver.
True. But very frustrating as a VAR. To paraphrase Barabara Mandrell, we were AMD when AMD wasn't cool. We used to take a beating from customers who were Intel brainwashed, and now, now that AMD has begun to enter the mainstream consciousness, I can't get them.
Ingram Micro is the largest distributor, and they are almost always out of stock on nearly every AMD processor. So, I either have to buy them retail or use Intel.
I'm glad for AMD, but sad for me (sorry about the cheesy rhyme).
I don't agree with the things that Howard Stern says and does, but is he really a no-talent hack? Stern is a natural. Like another radio personality I try to avoid, Rush Limbaugh, he has a great voice, great feel for the medium, and obviously has an innate understanding of what people want to hear. I concede that he's a jerk while on the air, but to make it on talk radio, you definitely have to be over-the-top.
Good point(s). I basically concede the issue. My only caveat is that I still think that there would be more criticism--all things being equal--if it were a Windows OS. Even if Windows could use all of the other OSes as well.
basicly he was being perfectly reasonable
While I will admit that he was being reasonable while doing so, his OP was a red herring (since we're getting into logical fallacies). It did not address the point in my OP at all. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi#Red _herrings. Not that it justified my little outburst, mind you.
and you are a sarcastic stroppy little prick who is making shit up to try and save face.
Generally guilty as charged (see breakdown below), although you didn't have to sugar-coat it like you did.
1=Not me at all-------2--------3---------4---------5=Me exactly
sarcastic=5 (I'm working on that)
stroppy=4 (I had to look that one up)
little=2 (actually, I'm pretty big)
prick=4 (see sarcastic)
I gave specific examples of cases where file integrity across reboots does not matter. You, on the other hand, chose hyperbole and personal attacks as your argument.
Okay, so I did. Sorry, that was childish. I guess that it was in response to what I perceived as a mocking tone in your first reply (you know, the "OMG, he's not kidding" thing).
In any event, my original point wasn't a criticism of XFS. I was merely commenting that the general/. audience would be far less accepting of XFS's limitations/optimizations/features if it were a Windows FS. That is all.
Me too. I also send stuff across town because it's cheaper and quicker than driving it. I can honestly say that nothing I have ever sent in the mail has ever been lost. Well, except for a couple of BestBuy rebates...imagine the odds.
I know that this is going to sound ass-kissy, but that has to be one of the best posts I have seen on/.
Very informative with none of the "you're a dumbass because you don't know this" kind of crap typical on/.. Also, well organized, very readable and generally grammatical. Bravo!
Only a fool would think that the $$ doesn't buy them some serious influence. Think about the absurdity of it: lawyers giving lawyers money to win elections, so that the government will make it easy to drum up more business. Democracy will always be in jeopardy because money decides elections.
So, let me get this straight, a "high-performance" file system is one that screws up your files. And somebody actually modded that "insightful."
From wikipedia: "Fanboys" remain loyal to their particular obsession, disregarding any factors that differ from their point of view. They are also typically hateful the opposing brand of their obession regardless of its merits or achievements.
But quite often a painter doesn't paint like 'himself'.
Amen...I wonder how they deal with that. For instance, one of my favorites, Rufino Tamayo (examples: http://www.kolahstudio.com/Underground/?p=62) definitely doesn't always paint like "himself."
True, but when I upgraded to 1.5, almost all of my extensions worked fine. I didn't have to reinstall them at all. The extensions manager thingy went out and got the updates and I was back in business in a couple of minutes. That being said, I still think that Opera is better than FF.
There are lots of things that I enjoy in moderation that I don't think I'd like anymore, if I started doing them as my day job. Maybe it's just me...but I just think that playing games for a living might take the fun out of it.
I took a Psychology of Motivation class in college and I believe that they taught us that there is an ample amount of research out there that suggests that anytime you get paid to do something, your motivation to do it will be less.
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Here wire fruad is a *huge* deal ( http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/u sc_sec_18_00001343----000-.html )--like up to twenty years. If you defraud a bank, it goes up to thirty. On the other hand, you can beat the living hell out of someone and get probation. Usually because it's a local (not federal) charge and there are no empty slots in the prisons due to mandatory sentencing for minor drug offenses.
So calm down. I know it's fun to build up a big load of righteous indignation, but there's just no call for it.
/.
You've put your finger on something here. It really is "fun to build up a big load of righteous indignation." That's a big part of the problems in the world and 99.999% of the problems on
Isn't this bordering on demanding with menaces?
I've never heard that term before (though a quick Google search reveals that there is indeed such as thing), is it a US law? Either way, since this clown would have been facing mail/wire fraud charges, I don't think that he was in any position to call law enforcement. In the US, mail/wire fraud is a federal beef with possible huge jail terms.
Four or five years ago, some clown on eBay ripped me off and I found him using only his first name and his eBay name, which meant a certain animal in French + a two-digit number, which I took to be his birth year. This year would have made him about 20 years old. I Googled the eBay name in English only sites and got a number of hits. On a discussion site, I found the same username with a university email address, which had a partial name. Interestingly enough, in the discussion group this guy used a certain phrase that, combined with his age, made me pretty sure that it was the same person. I Googled the university + partial name and got a few hits. One of them was the school newspaper and included a picture of the French Club with a listing of all of the names of the people in the photos.
I imagine he was very surprised when I emailed him a picture of himself at his university email addresss and demanded my money. Needless to say, I got my money back.
Why is this a troll? I'm a serious Mac fan, but that little "jab at Microsoft" *was* pretty classless.
WARNING: OBLIGATORY CAR ANALOGY!!!
When I was a kid we were firing a golf ball out of homemade cannon and broke the neighbor's windshield. Crap, what was I thinking? I should have blamed Ford for not making their windshields stronger!
...My theory is that they they would let people backorder till they felt comfortable ordering a batch. Then, other people would order, and by the time the processors got to Ingram, they were already taken. ...But we were able to source them from other distributors, and even from retailers who ended up getting us a better price than Ingram (who pretty much rips us off).
I wondered about that too. Ditto my experience. I hate to say it, but I haven't found Synnex, TechData or any of the larger wholesalers to be any help to me on price either. Like you (if I'm understanding you correctly), I buy lots of things at retail. I have actually thought that I could probably buy a system on sale at BB or CC, put the guts in my own case and make more money. This would actaully make sense with my non-profit or business customers who have a Windows multi-license and don't need an OS. Pathetic, but true.
I also use a small distributor, malabs, especially for their own brand (supertalent) of memory. They are usually better than retail on general PC components but you can't order on the web. I find it annoying to have to talk to a salesperson (a new one every week) and I like to order at night when I get back from the field. Obviously, they are closed then.
However, I need my Ingram account for their huge inventory to order unusual things. Until lately, I have been able to make $$ on printer consumables, but even that is drying up. Thank God that we make most of our money with service. That doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. Looking forward to Vista and all of the problems/opportunities/upgrades that will cause.
Give those old machines to churches or other non-profits if you never touch them. Any chance to save money is always welcome by them and they don't need powerful systems.
I have given them to NPs in the past and still do. But there's the problem with that now.
Most NPs have Windows XP and Office through the MS Software Donation Program and thus need somewhat more memory than most of these older machines have. Unfortunately, PC100 and PC133 memory is obsolete and is hard-to-find/expensive. Often, the cost of additional memory exceeds the value of the machine. What I do is combine the larger memory mods into the few machines that have more than two DIMMs and donate them.
So, in the end, I get left with a bunch of decent machines with little or no memory. And tons of 64MB and 128MB memory mods. I ought to get rid of them but I keep thinking that it's such a waste.
You know, there's a vast market out there for people who just want CPUs that run a word processor and connect them to the internet. Vast.
True indeed. My wife's computer has a 2400 Sempron. All that is installed is FF and MS Office. And she rarely uses Office. Shopping on the net and Yahoo mail is all that she does. Because it is running so lean and mean, it boots faster than my 4200+ 64 X2.
I don't know the stats, but I would bet that most adult non-gamers are the same way. Heck, I have a garage full of Slot A Athlon, P3 and TBird boxes that most people could use.
"A woeful inability to provide some of its most loyal customers with stock" can only mean that demand for AMD chips still exceeds supply. Otherwise, they would be happy to deliver.
True. But very frustrating as a VAR. To paraphrase Barabara Mandrell, we were AMD when AMD wasn't cool. We used to take a beating from customers who were Intel brainwashed, and now, now that AMD has begun to enter the mainstream consciousness, I can't get them.
Ingram Micro is the largest distributor, and they are almost always out of stock on nearly every AMD processor. So, I either have to buy them retail or use Intel.
I'm glad for AMD, but sad for me (sorry about the cheesy rhyme).
I don't agree with the things that Howard Stern says and does, but is he really a no-talent hack? Stern is a natural. Like another radio personality I try to avoid, Rush Limbaugh, he has a great voice, great feel for the medium, and obviously has an innate understanding of what people want to hear. I concede that he's a jerk while on the air, but to make it on talk radio, you definitely have to be over-the-top.
Good point(s). I basically concede the issue. My only caveat is that I still think that there would be more criticism--all things being equal--if it were a Windows OS. Even if Windows could use all of the other OSes as well.
basicly he was being perfectly reasonabled _herrings. Not that it justified my little outburst, mind you.
While I will admit that he was being reasonable while doing so, his OP was a red herring (since we're getting into logical fallacies). It did not address the point in my OP at all. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi#Re
and you are a sarcastic stroppy little prick who is making shit up to try and save face.
Generally guilty as charged (see breakdown below), although you didn't have to sugar-coat it like you did.
1=Not me at all-------2--------3---------4---------5=Me exactly
sarcastic=5 (I'm working on that)
stroppy=4 (I had to look that one up)
little=2 (actually, I'm pretty big)
prick=4 (see sarcastic)
I gave specific examples of cases where file integrity across reboots does not matter. You, on the other hand, chose hyperbole and personal attacks as your argument.
/. audience would be far less accepting of XFS's limitations/optimizations/features if it were a Windows FS. That is all.
Okay, so I did. Sorry, that was childish. I guess that it was in response to what I perceived as a mocking tone in your first reply (you know, the "OMG, he's not kidding" thing).
In any event, my original point wasn't a criticism of XFS. I was merely commenting that the general
Me too. I also send stuff across town because it's cheaper and quicker than driving it. I can honestly say that nothing I have ever sent in the mail has ever been lost. Well, except for a couple of BestBuy rebates...imagine the odds.
I know that this is going to sound ass-kissy, but that has to be one of the best posts I have seen on /.
/.. Also, well organized, very readable and generally grammatical. Bravo!
Very informative with none of the "you're a dumbass because you don't know this" kind of crap typical on
Right, because they profit either way it goes. Predictable in light of this: http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.asp
Only a fool would think that the $$ doesn't buy them some serious influence. Think about the absurdity of it: lawyers giving lawyers money to win elections, so that the government will make it easy to drum up more business. Democracy will always be in jeopardy because money decides elections.
So, let me get this straight, a "high-performance" file system is one that screws up your files. And somebody actually modded that "insightful."
From wikipedia: "Fanboys" remain loyal to their particular obsession, disregarding any factors that differ from their point of view. They are also typically hateful the opposing brand of their obession regardless of its merits or achievements.
Sound like the guy in the mirror?
That's what backups are for. Seriously, with XFS you run a very real risk of zeroing out a file if the file system isn't shut down properly.
/. would be going crazy about it. It would be more famous than the BSoD.
OMG, are you kidding? If it was NTFS or FAT, people on
But quite often a painter doesn't paint like 'himself'.
Amen...I wonder how they deal with that. For instance, one of my favorites, Rufino Tamayo (examples: http://www.kolahstudio.com/Underground/?p=62) definitely doesn't always paint like "himself."
My position is that all people, myself included, are "inherintly [sic] contriving assholes."
True, but when I upgraded to 1.5, almost all of my extensions worked fine. I didn't have to reinstall them at all. The extensions manager thingy went out and got the updates and I was back in business in a couple of minutes. That being said, I still think that Opera is better than FF.
It's right here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2324/
There are lots of things that I enjoy in moderation that I don't think I'd like anymore, if I started doing them as my day job. Maybe it's just me...but I just think that playing games for a living might take the fun out of it.
I took a Psychology of Motivation class in college and I believe that they taught us that there is an ample amount of research out there that suggests that anytime you get paid to do something, your motivation to do it will be less.
Well said.
I never understood why this is such a problem with so many people. It's simple--you wouldn't write "alittle," would you?