I got an E1705, and the service tag didn't work on the dell vista site. Bah, it was ordered well after the October time range. A chat guy said that it would be added to the database in 3-5 days... And, the site was down on 1/30 (Vista's release). The whole thing has seemed sloppy to me...
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Sounds pretty clear to me. Maybe the Framers didn't think anybody would be stupid enough to say "it doesn't say I have to do this, just that I don't have to not do it", so they didn't explicitly word it out. They'd probably not even conceive of a world in which basic common law is questioned...
Also, it's pretty much irrelevant. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." The power to have habeas corpus?
research done has shown a left-of-center bias in the press.
The news has a left-of-center bias. At least with this administration. You don't have to look hard to see that Bush and co. are simply blind to reality.
I have a built-in Broadcom BCM4318 wireless card. I actually found Linux drivers for it. To use it, I needed to extract the firmware from the windows drivers. After that (and tinkering) I could actually connect and send packets. But, alas, any request was painfully slow and had a lot of duplicate packets. So, I just gave up and went with Ndiswrapper. Oh well...
I am all for the idea of informing people about the dangers of Vista, trusted(sic) computing, and others. But, they all seem to have an amateurish feel to them. I signed up to recieve the DefectiveByDesign emails, and they just have this childish feel to them. One was to tag products on Amazon with defectivebydesign if they contained/used DRM. I mean, WTF?
This may backfire on them. You know, those hippies with the bad argument, or pretty shiny Vista that I got for free...
They need a backer, somebody like Google, for people to pay any attention to them.
They're trying to create an entire new network? Not even the telco's did that (used existing telephone infrastructure). And, they plan to finance it by selling domain names in this network. But, no company will buy one (they must be expensive...) until they see a need. There's no need until the network exists...
Anybody with any idea how they could possibly create an entire new network spanning much of the US (forget the world), with essentially no prospect of money until it's finished?
Bah, I say. This is about as likely to happen in 2007 as DNF being released.
They talk about "not enough bandwidth" to transmit the necessary information.
But wait, there's more! There are so many unanswered questions. How do you connect (not by DSL or cable!)? What's the interface? Does it run on a computer, or a separate appliance?
On another note, this should not make references to the Matrix. It's nothing more than a Second Life, with lower entry requirements (for the providers, of course)
Congrats. As another 15-year old, I can only say that I'm glad I'm not the only one interested in all this stuff. Out of about 130 kids, myself and maybe 2 or 3 other students in my sophomore class have any interest whatsoever in science in general.
Oh well. If we are the only ones fascinated by it, more money for us in 15 years, right?
Funny how Porn makes or breaks much new video technology. IIRC(can't verify...), a major reason VHS won over Betamax was because of pornography and its embrace. Interesting that he is acknowledging it as a major driving factor in video technology. Especially because of its stigmatization.
Now who will write a MythTV plugin, so I can use Inter-room transfers (or whatever TiVo calls them) between TiVo and Myth? It has already worked the other way, right (at least if you use MPEG2 encoding)?
...about how saying that the Homeland Security act is "acknowledged as being an important part of combating terrorism". I think it's an otherwise valid argument (although the bit about the long-established act having to be removed for a brand-new one is slightly disconcerting), but that line put me off.
Also, (since I'm too lazy to Google it) what else does the Communications Act cover, and how good of an idea is it to "have it go"?
They can do whatever they want. I won't buy it, and it doesn't harm me
Wait, huh? Oh crap, I forgot. Microsoft's "we'll-pay-you-an-'all-our-users-are-thieves'-tax" shenanigans are setting "precedent". Now, everyone else (Apple) is "encouraged" to do the same...
All you did was spout excuses - as far as I could make out, the only substantive thing you were saying was that they couldn't predict weather %100 accurately, therefore we shouldn't be predicting climate change over ~30 years. And, global warming aside, carbon dioxide is the cause of the greenhouse effect. So, we'd be screwed without it. However, with too much, more heat is trapped... it is a pretty logical "assumption", and I don't see why it's blowing smoke.
Weather forecasts are pretty accurate. And these global warming predictions are even less specific to area. All you should have to do to be scared is realize that: 1) higher CO2=higher temperatures (the greenhouse effect) and 2) it takes several years for changes on the surface to propagate into the upper atmosphere.
So, we pump CO2 into the atmosphere, and even if it was possible to stop emissions tomorrow, it would still take ten years for those changes to take effect.
I guess what I'm saying is: how would you like to find out (through experience) that global warming existed when your house was flooded by melting polar ice caps, and know that you still had ten more years of worsening conditions?
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I got an E1705, and the service tag didn't work on the dell vista site. Bah, it was ordered well after the October time range. A chat guy said that it would be added to the database in 3-5 days... And, the site was down on 1/30 (Vista's release). The whole thing has seemed sloppy to me...
I don't think the guy with the 3digit UID is new... but I hope that's why you didn't actually make a "You must be new here" comment...
(x+1.2753753742387482352584944152792)(x+-1.2753829 441755014136856886560713)
"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
Sounds pretty clear to me. Maybe the Framers didn't think anybody would be stupid enough to say "it doesn't say I have to do this, just that I don't have to not do it", so they didn't explicitly word it out. They'd probably not even conceive of a world in which basic common law is questioned...
Also, it's pretty much irrelevant. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people." The power to have habeas corpus?
Talking to yourself, eh? Mind if I join you?
Don't worry about your mod points. Your post refunded them!
It seems as though the features will be included, but not activated... How long until a patch of some sort opens up that functionality?
Mod parent funny! Haha, that's the funniest thing I've read today...
The news has a left-of-center bias. At least with this administration.
You don't have to look hard to see that Bush and co. are simply blind to reality.
I have a built-in Broadcom BCM4318 wireless card. I actually found Linux drivers for it. To use it, I needed to extract the firmware from the windows drivers. After that (and tinkering) I could actually connect and send packets. But, alas, any request was painfully slow and had a lot of duplicate packets. So, I just gave up and went with Ndiswrapper. Oh well...
I am all for the idea of informing people about the dangers of Vista, trusted(sic) computing, and others. But, they all seem to have an amateurish feel to them. I signed up to recieve the DefectiveByDesign emails, and they just have this childish feel to them. One was to tag products on Amazon with defectivebydesign if they contained/used DRM. I mean, WTF?
This may backfire on them. You know, those hippies with the bad argument, or pretty shiny Vista that I got for free...
They need a backer, somebody like Google, for people to pay any attention to them.
Plus, their icon/logo thing is just plain stupid.
They're trying to create an entire new network? Not even the telco's did that (used existing telephone infrastructure). And, they plan to finance it by selling domain names in this network. But, no company will buy one (they must be expensive...) until they see a need. There's no need until the network exists...
Anybody with any idea how they could possibly create an entire new network spanning much of the US (forget the world), with essentially no prospect of money until it's finished?
Bah, I say. This is about as likely to happen in 2007 as DNF being released.
They talk about "not enough bandwidth" to transmit the necessary information.
But wait, there's more! There are so many unanswered questions. How do you connect (not by DSL or cable!)? What's the interface? Does it run on a computer, or a separate appliance?
On another note, this should not make references to the Matrix. It's nothing more than a Second Life, with lower entry requirements (for the providers, of course)
Congrats. As another 15-year old, I can only say that I'm glad I'm not the only one interested in all this stuff. Out of about 130 kids, myself and maybe 2 or 3 other students in my sophomore class have any interest whatsoever in science in general.
Oh well. If we are the only ones fascinated by it, more money for us in 15 years, right?
Psst...look at your parent's poster!
I submitted one ~5 minutes after it showed up on C|Net RSS feed... still pending
Oh well.
Oh, they enforce it alright. Just not against people who actually cause harm (the people who the law is SUPPOSED to punish)...
Funny how Porn makes or breaks much new video technology. IIRC(can't verify...), a major reason VHS won over Betamax was because of pornography and its embrace. Interesting that he is acknowledging it as a major driving factor in video technology. Especially because of its stigmatization.
Now who will write a MythTV plugin, so I can use Inter-room transfers (or whatever TiVo calls them) between TiVo and Myth? It has already worked the other way, right (at least if you use MPEG2 encoding)?
OK, sorry. I thought there might have been a typo...
Neat experiment. I might have to try it...
Not to sound like some sort of a bitch, but do you mean oxygen and hydrogen?
...about how saying that the Homeland Security act is "acknowledged as being an important part of combating terrorism". I think it's an otherwise valid argument (although the bit about the long-established act having to be removed for a brand-new one is slightly disconcerting), but that line put me off.
Also, (since I'm too lazy to Google it) what else does the Communications Act cover, and how good of an idea is it to "have it go"?
They can do whatever they want. I won't buy it, and it doesn't harm me
" shenanigans are setting "precedent". Now, everyone else (Apple) is "encouraged" to do the same...
Wait, huh? Oh crap, I forgot. Microsoft's "we'll-pay-you-an-'all-our-users-are-thieves'-tax
Damn...
Bullshit. The RIAA sees a IP address infringing.
Now, let's say I have an open wi-fi network. Or, somebody hacks the password (it's WEP). They're on my IP address, right?
So, if they steal music, am I stealing music? From behind a NAT, how can they tell? And that is one major flaw in their argument.
All you did was spout excuses - as far as I could make out, the only substantive thing you were saying was that they couldn't predict weather %100 accurately, therefore we shouldn't be predicting climate change over ~30 years. And, global warming aside, carbon dioxide is the cause of the greenhouse effect. So, we'd be screwed without it. However, with too much, more heat is trapped... it is a pretty logical "assumption", and I don't see why it's blowing smoke.
Weather forecasts are pretty accurate. And these global warming predictions are even less specific to area. All you should have to do to be scared is realize that: 1) higher CO2=higher temperatures (the greenhouse effect) and 2) it takes several years for changes on the surface to propagate into the upper atmosphere.
So, we pump CO2 into the atmosphere, and even if it was possible to stop emissions tomorrow, it would still take ten years for those changes to take effect.
I guess what I'm saying is: how would you like to find out (through experience) that global warming existed when your house was flooded by melting polar ice caps, and know that you still had ten more years of worsening conditions?