It is called a phone, use it to call Verizon. Explain to the person on the phone. When you start getting their canned response ask for their manager (repeat the ask for your manager a few more times). Then they will set your account and password up for you.
No installation of software needed. (done this at least 10 times in the last year)
The Constitution is for the United States citizens. He took an oath to protect United States Constitution and through that document the US citizens. Other countries are not protected by the Constitution and hence the US Constitution does not apply to them.
When visiting another country you must follow the rules of that land. Only in your country's embassy do the laws of your land apply.
Bush's actions were bad. But he was approved by congress. He thought he was protecting US citizens by "taking the war to them". So if you want to convict Bush, you may as well convict all those in congress (both houses) during the last 8 years as well.
To the average US citizen which looks worse: a war in Iraq or a war on US soil against people who want to see the US destroyed?
I do not think armies of terrorists would show up on US shores. That would be too easy.
Where have I seen this before? Oh yea can we tag this VForVendetta?
If the governments want to do anything, they should make the parents responsible for their kids and them selves. Parents should be teaching their kids right from wrong, what those parents want their kids to know. It looks like parents want their kids to be raised at school. Which is wrong. Children learn writing, reading, math... Children are raised at home by the parents. Your job as a parent is not done after the DNA combination and birth of said child.
Define boot time? The time it takes for the computer to start? Or the time it takes for the computer to start and be able to be used?
Most regular people think boot time is when the computer is ready and waiting on them. 4-5 from totally off to usable? Sounds like a great idea. Possible is a command line based OS but with GUI unlikely. I like to see it, I just do not see it happening. To many things are running. Turning them off means people then complain about certain programs taking too long to start.
More insulation does help though. Also blocking/covering the windows in summer helps lower the heat input.
If you are lucky enough to be building your house, make sure to get 2X6 (or 2X8) construction in the exterior walls. The extra insulation will pay for itself very quickly in lower heating and cooling bills. I know a new development in MD where this is proving true. There are two houses, same model, same layout, and both having southern exposures. The two houses are 500 feet away from each other so the same area. Both houses are all electric with a heat pump for the second story and regular AC unit for the first story. The heat is oil forced air. The oil is only used for heating not for hot water. Both houses have the same make model and size heaters, AC, and heat pump units. The only difference is one house has 2X6 exterior walls and the other has 2X4 exterior walls.
The 2X6 house uses 40-50 gallons of oil a year. The oil company cannot believe it. The 2X4 house uses 200 gallons a year. Not bad but higher then the 2X6 house. Electric bills with no heat or AC running both houses are the same (within $5-$10 of each other). During the summer there is a difference. The 2X6 house is $200-$250 a month. The 2x4 house is $400-$450 a month. Both houses have two people living there full time. The 2X4 guy asked and matched the temp settings of the 2X6 guy. So the temps are not higher in the 2x4 house. The 2X4 guy is sort of pissed for opting to save a little in the building cost and not use 2X6 in the exterior walls. He would have recouped the cost in the first year.
How much sleep does everyone really need? Maybe this should be an ask slashdot thing. People are amazed that I get 3-4 hours of sleep a night. One Saturday a month I sleep on and off till noon. But unless I take a sleeping pill I never get 7-8 straight hours of sleep. I sleep for 1-2 hours then wake up. stair at the ceiling for a bit. Then hopefully fall sleep again. There has got to be others who do not need this 6-8 hours of sleep every night.
I'd rather have the 4 day 10 (or 11 for lunch) hour shift and three day weekends all the time.
The 1980s called and want their Apple computers back. Apple had K-12 education back in the 80s. Apple lost it in the 90s. While the schools still had a few Apple machines lying around. The computer labs and most used computers were windows ones. Schools went with price and what they could use. Many schools had unlimited installs of windows back in the 90s. They could buy lower end hardware on the cheap and but already paid for windows on it.
I remember a whole school system still using win 98 in 2004. Why asked why, they responded we already have 98. it works for our needs. When our needs change, we will look at the options. Many schools do not have the budgets to replace computers every year. They often use computers (and software) long past what business would.
I can see it now. In ten years from now the talk will be, remember that company that thought it could beat everyone at everything and wound up going out of business because they were spread so thing trying to solve every problem ever conceived.
Use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Most LCD displays have their own USB hub built in, and the Apple displays even have their own laptop power lead.
Given this, I fail to see how a dock is in any way superior to popping your MacBook onto a desk, plugging in the display, power, and USB cable (the ports for which are all on the same side of the laptop for the new Mini DisplayPort models, and the leads from the display are all part of a single cable that terminates in the three connectors), and starting to use it. Heck, the MacBooks will even happily run with the lid closed, driving solely the external display. Where is the advantage of a space-wasting dock then the display itself effectively is the dock?
Yaz.
Time. And it is a lot harder to screw up plugging a laptop to a dock then all the connections everyday.
I do mean a real dock. Not the USB ones. The USB ones have terrible network speed. Everything is going through that one USB port. That special connection on the bottom (or back depending on laptop) made thing a lot easier. Remember not every laptop user is going to take the time to gently plug in the monitor, USB keyboard, mouse, and network cable. Many people have a type of keyboard they prefer. The blue tooth ones often do not fit what the end user is looking for. So just get a blue tooth keyboard and mouse is often not a viable option.
Also wireless keyboards and mice use some kind of battery. Which has a bad habit of dying at the worst time. At your office, having a monitor, corded keyboard, and mouse is not out of the realm of possibilities. Being able to go in your office/cube slide in or drop in your laptop. Turn it on and use the regular keyboard, mouse, and monitor is a very good thing. I know a few people that dual monitor their docked laptops while at work.
And exactly is a wireless network your dock? And as others have said, wireless doesn't always cut it for work functions.
there are ways to adjust the head lights on cars. They have been there for years. Some newer cars have head lights that change direction a little when you turn. For the most part, cars with fixed (not auto turning) head lights are supposed to light up the road straight ahead (a little but to the sides but nothing more). If your head lights are lighting up more of one side of the road, they are out of adjustment.
Your road sign reasoning is wrong. On the roads around here signs are to the left, right, and overhead. Which would mean that head lights should shine on things over your car, to the left, and to the right at the same time.
The black and white TVs still worked with no issues. Same goes for the AM only radios. The older devices ignored the newer signals (FM and color) but they still worked just fine. There was no forcing out of the old TVs and radios. When you wanted a new one you had to get a color TV or AM/FM radio. There are still AM radio stations. I do not see them being forced to shut down (yet). That was the difference. This time around we the people seem to being forced into a change and our older TV will not work. That is something new.
Depends on how you get the signal. If over the air, you are out of luck. If you already have a digital box sitting there near your TV you are fine.
My issue is what about regular cable? No separate box just regular cable. I have called my cable company four times and got two different answers. Two said that I need a converter box and two said that I would be fine. It seems like a waste to have to toss a working TV (with a great picture too). I may just wait and see. I do have a PC already recording TV which will work with all the new signals. I can watch TV on it if need be.
They may not censor what you do at home, but you will be held accountable for the information on that work laptop. So if you visit a porn site at home and the work IT people find out (a scan is done a t work and tracking cookies or other malware is found) you will be held accountable.
I went out and got a new laptop when my personal one died so that I do not have to worry about where/what I look at on it. My work has laptops for me to take home. My own personal laptop, none of works rules apply. Someone got a music rule put in place. Something about no offensive music on company computers. My itunes music collection would violate the rule. What is offensive to one is fine for another. I didn't want to bother with trying to figure out what is ok or not ok with my music.
Actually there seems to be a trend with the 64 bit vista ultimate being better then the 32 bit vista ultimate. Even with 3GB of RAM in both.
I know a few people with 32 bit vista ultimate laptops who had disk I/O issues. They switched to 64 bit vista ultimate on the exact same hardware and no issues.
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It is called a phone, use it to call Verizon. Explain to the person on the phone. When you start getting their canned response ask for their manager (repeat the ask for your manager a few more times). Then they will set your account and password up for you.
No installation of software needed. (done this at least 10 times in the last year)
The Constitution is for the United States citizens. He took an oath to protect United States Constitution and through that document the US citizens. Other countries are not protected by the Constitution and hence the US Constitution does not apply to them.
When visiting another country you must follow the rules of that land. Only in your country's embassy do the laws of your land apply.
Bush's actions were bad. But he was approved by congress. He thought he was protecting US citizens by "taking the war to them". So if you want to convict Bush, you may as well convict all those in congress (both houses) during the last 8 years as well.
To the average US citizen which looks worse: a war in Iraq or a war on US soil against people who want to see the US destroyed?
I do not think armies of terrorists would show up on US shores. That would be too easy.
There a few other unelected presidents. All before Ford.
President who died /Who took over
William Henry Harrison/ John Tyler
Zachary Taylor/ Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln/ Andrew Johnson
James A. Garfield /Chester A. Arthur
William McKinley / Theodore Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding /Calvin Coolidge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt /Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy /Lyndon B. Johnson
Some may have run for the office later, but all were unelected Presidents for a time.
Where have I seen this before? Oh yea can we tag this VForVendetta?
If the governments want to do anything, they should make the parents responsible for their kids and them selves. Parents should be teaching their kids right from wrong, what those parents want their kids to know. It looks like parents want their kids to be raised at school. Which is wrong. Children learn writing, reading, math... Children are raised at home by the parents. Your job as a parent is not done after the DNA combination and birth of said child.
Define boot time? The time it takes for the computer to start? Or the time it takes for the computer to start and be able to be used?
Most regular people think boot time is when the computer is ready and waiting on them. 4-5 from totally off to usable? Sounds like a great idea. Possible is a command line based OS but with GUI unlikely. I like to see it, I just do not see it happening. To many things are running. Turning them off means people then complain about certain programs taking too long to start.
More insulation does help though. Also blocking/covering the windows in summer helps lower the heat input.
If you are lucky enough to be building your house, make sure to get 2X6 (or 2X8) construction in the exterior walls. The extra insulation will pay for itself very quickly in lower heating and cooling bills. I know a new development in MD where this is proving true. There are two houses, same model, same layout, and both having southern exposures. The two houses are 500 feet away from each other so the same area. Both houses are all electric with a heat pump for the second story and regular AC unit for the first story. The heat is oil forced air. The oil is only used for heating not for hot water. Both houses have the same make model and size heaters, AC, and heat pump units. The only difference is one house has 2X6 exterior walls and the other has 2X4 exterior walls.
The 2X6 house uses 40-50 gallons of oil a year. The oil company cannot believe it. The 2X4 house uses 200 gallons a year. Not bad but higher then the 2X6 house. Electric bills with no heat or AC running both houses are the same (within $5-$10 of each other). During the summer there is a difference. The 2X6 house is $200-$250 a month. The 2x4 house is $400-$450 a month. Both houses have two people living there full time. The 2X4 guy asked and matched the temp settings of the 2X6 guy. So the temps are not higher in the 2x4 house. The 2X4 guy is sort of pissed for opting to save a little in the building cost and not use 2X6 in the exterior walls. He would have recouped the cost in the first year.
How much sleep does everyone really need? Maybe this should be an ask slashdot thing. People are amazed that I get 3-4 hours of sleep a night. One Saturday a month I sleep on and off till noon. But unless I take a sleeping pill I never get 7-8 straight hours of sleep. I sleep for 1-2 hours then wake up. stair at the ceiling for a bit. Then hopefully fall sleep again. There has got to be others who do not need this 6-8 hours of sleep every night.
I'd rather have the 4 day 10 (or 11 for lunch) hour shift and three day weekends all the time.
But the graph is a pretty picture!
Many bosses only understand pictures. You can tell them all the fact. You can show them all the facts. Give them a graph and they suddenly understand.
But the 50 cal make a much bigger hole...
The 1980s called and want their Apple computers back. Apple had K-12 education back in the 80s. Apple lost it in the 90s. While the schools still had a few Apple machines lying around. The computer labs and most used computers were windows ones. Schools went with price and what they could use. Many schools had unlimited installs of windows back in the 90s. They could buy lower end hardware on the cheap and but already paid for windows on it.
I remember a whole school system still using win 98 in 2004. Why asked why, they responded we already have 98. it works for our needs. When our needs change, we will look at the options. Many schools do not have the budgets to replace computers every year. They often use computers (and software) long past what business would.
Last Stand by Stephen King
I can see it now. In ten years from now the talk will be, remember that company that thought it could beat everyone at everything and wound up going out of business because they were spread so thing trying to solve every problem ever conceived.
thin?
"We have 6..."
That one guy used one of them to peek at the other guys card. And he got very cold when the drink was put on it.
So if all they used were swords, you don't think people using guns would be newsworthy?
A massive sword battle would definitely be news worthy.
and possibly fun to watch.
*ducks*
Use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Most LCD displays have their own USB hub built in, and the Apple displays even have their own laptop power lead.
Given this, I fail to see how a dock is in any way superior to popping your MacBook onto a desk, plugging in the display, power, and USB cable (the ports for which are all on the same side of the laptop for the new Mini DisplayPort models, and the leads from the display are all part of a single cable that terminates in the three connectors), and starting to use it. Heck, the MacBooks will even happily run with the lid closed, driving solely the external display. Where is the advantage of a space-wasting dock then the display itself effectively is the dock?
Yaz.
Time. And it is a lot harder to screw up plugging a laptop to a dock then all the connections everyday.
I do mean a real dock. Not the USB ones. The USB ones have terrible network speed. Everything is going through that one USB port. That special connection on the bottom (or back depending on laptop) made thing a lot easier. Remember not every laptop user is going to take the time to gently plug in the monitor, USB keyboard, mouse, and network cable. Many people have a type of keyboard they prefer. The blue tooth ones often do not fit what the end user is looking for. So just get a blue tooth keyboard and mouse is often not a viable option.
You have a wireless monitor? Where you get it?
Also wireless keyboards and mice use some kind of battery. Which has a bad habit of dying at the worst time. At your office, having a monitor, corded keyboard, and mouse is not out of the realm of possibilities. Being able to go in your office/cube slide in or drop in your laptop. Turn it on and use the regular keyboard, mouse, and monitor is a very good thing. I know a few people that dual monitor their docked laptops while at work.
And exactly is a wireless network your dock? And as others have said, wireless doesn't always cut it for work functions.
MP3 format: just about ever player can play the file.
AAC format: fewer players can play the file.
Why not have the format that most players can use without issue.
there are ways to adjust the head lights on cars. They have been there for years. Some newer cars have head lights that change direction a little when you turn. For the most part, cars with fixed (not auto turning) head lights are supposed to light up the road straight ahead (a little but to the sides but nothing more). If your head lights are lighting up more of one side of the road, they are out of adjustment.
Your road sign reasoning is wrong. On the roads around here signs are to the left, right, and overhead. Which would mean that head lights should shine on things over your car, to the left, and to the right at the same time.
The black and white TVs still worked with no issues. Same goes for the AM only radios. The older devices ignored the newer signals (FM and color) but they still worked just fine. There was no forcing out of the old TVs and radios. When you wanted a new one you had to get a color TV or AM/FM radio. There are still AM radio stations. I do not see them being forced to shut down (yet). That was the difference. This time around we the people seem to being forced into a change and our older TV will not work. That is something new.
Depends on how you get the signal. If over the air, you are out of luck. If you already have a digital box sitting there near your TV you are fine.
My issue is what about regular cable? No separate box just regular cable. I have called my cable company four times and got two different answers. Two said that I need a converter box and two said that I would be fine. It seems like a waste to have to toss a working TV (with a great picture too). I may just wait and see. I do have a PC already recording TV which will work with all the new signals. I can watch TV on it if need be.
Must be Duncan. Connor had Duncan take his head.
Your eyes can tell the difference between 160hz and 100hz refresh rates? I thought the human eye topped out around 60hz-75hz. Your super human.
Well that explains the hot Iranian girls that arrived this semester. Now to find out if any want to stay here.....
They may not censor what you do at home, but you will be held accountable for the information on that work laptop. So if you visit a porn site at home and the work IT people find out (a scan is done a t work and tracking cookies or other malware is found) you will be held accountable.
I went out and got a new laptop when my personal one died so that I do not have to worry about where/what I look at on it. My work has laptops for me to take home. My own personal laptop, none of works rules apply. Someone got a music rule put in place. Something about no offensive music on company computers. My itunes music collection would violate the rule. What is offensive to one is fine for another. I didn't want to bother with trying to figure out what is ok or not ok with my music.
Actually there seems to be a trend with the 64 bit vista ultimate being better then the 32 bit vista ultimate. Even with 3GB of RAM in both.
I know a few people with 32 bit vista ultimate laptops who had disk I/O issues. They switched to 64 bit vista ultimate on the exact same hardware and no issues.