While I'm inclined to share your skepticism, it's also a fact that there are a lot of incompetent lawyers out there whose advice isn't worth a thing. Having done business with quite a number of lawyers over the years, I can only assume there's more than one way to pass the bar exam.
I used to save and scan all receipts at the beginning of each month as part of my regular accounting, but now sometimes they fade to point of being useless before the month is even up. I've gone to scanning receipts daily over morning tea, as a result.
The floor, seriously? I have a desk and file cabinet at home for "normal" important papers, and a safe for things like passport, birth cert, etc. That's what adults do. Grow up already!
Important papers, like receipts, banking stuff, identity papers?! Barring thieves and fire, flood, earthquake, etc there's really no reason to lose important papers. But I'm always amazed at the people who lose important things like keys or identification. They're usually the kind of people who become indignant when you don't accept "l lost it" as a valid excuse, too. There's definitely a "type" that loses important things.
That's not the proper slashdot spirit. The tradition is "anyone who doesn't see it my way is an idiot who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground".
They seem to want acceptance, but then throw up roadblocks to that acceptance. I guess its cooler to be the smart kid using different software than the ordinary people.
The zealots who want everyone to use Linux are rarely the people who contribute code. The people who code are usually not particularly concerned with whether or not 605dave likes the name. Besides, there are always some people who will complain about the name no matter what it is. Also, there is no "marketing dept" to sit around all day making up new buzzwords and running up the cost of services/goods.
Besides, if you think about things that have been super popular that have names like flickr, digg, slashdot, google, yahoo, lycos, etc one can easily see that the name has almost nothing to do with whether or not it becomes popular.
Corporations ARE people. They are deemed artificial persons with all the Constitutional protections and rights of 'real' people (and the added benefits of a corporation, to boot). The SCOTUS has upheld this in their previous decisions.
Words on paper do not have the power to redefine reality. Corporations are *not* people. SCOTUS is corrupt and their rulings mean nothing IRL. The fact that so many people tolerate this kind of silly word juggling doesn't help, either. ***glare***
If I'd heard anyone claim that the US is literally (offering to) writing other countries' IP laws, I'd tell them to remove their tinfoil hats.
It isn't "the US" per se, it's US government being used to enforce the mafiAA's agenda.
This sort of corruption is rampant and it's every US taxpayer's burden. We desperately need to take back our government from the large, corporate interests which are systematically bleeding all the wealth from this country.
If these leaked memos are accurate, I guess I was being very naive thinking that.
Grumpy people whose default setting is "no new information" do indeed label themselves skeptics. The funny thing is a lot of them seem to be incredibly gullible once they let that guard down. Makes me wonder if the "skeptic" pose is a form of self-protection.
Here where I live the choices are AT&T DSL, comcast's "xfinity", dial-up, or satellite. AT&T actually does fine with their service in this area for a consumer-grade line, it's the billing dept that makes one think about sending a bomb in the mail. A cap of any size is disappointing, but in practice not many people will use more than 150GB/month. Yet.
Well it's nice to hear that microsoft have finally coded a media player for their new phone platform that works. Curious choice to do so after release of the platform to customers everywhere, but at least their platform is now almost caught up to where Apple, Palm, and Nokia were in 2006. Or will be, when updating doesn't strand anyone anymore.
Oh yeah? Well just you wait. Eventually the carriers will make them the default "giveaway" phones for new accounts, and when that happens, bang, zoom win(ce)7 will be everywhere. For a few months, anyway...
If you do any windows work at all as an admin you get the latest version of windows if you need it paid for by the client. Besides, every non-Mac desktop and laptop computer I own came with a windows license, so what difference does it make? If you own a non-Apple x86 machine odds are greater than 95% you also own a windows license (yes, I know about people building PCs and those few who buy bare metal, they are a drop in the bucket).
The summary's habit of using the word "part" is kind of adorable, in a Simple English Wikipedia sort of way. What is a memory part, anyway? Is this specialized manufacturing jargon (i.e. part numbers) or just weird writing?)
Surely they refer to a SSD, which would then be "storage", not "memory". But it's usually the OEM at fault for this sort of silliness. "Storage" and "memory" get used interchangeably in a surprising amount of ads and brichures.
I like it, that's some witty copy! Unfortunately, I fear the day is not that far off people will wonder "Did they really not have ads in their dreams as recently as 2011? Wow, what did they dream about?".
Well if I manufacture my own hardware then my proprietary OS damned well ought to provide flawless power management, so yes of course if your top priority is hardware/software integration then by all means use a Mac. I don't have a problem with people pointing out flaws in Linux. I have a problem with people portraying themselves as "experts", and further portraying known problems many of us successfully fix everyday as "insurmountable by experts". That amounts to FUD, and I object. The fact that a few retards mod me "troll" over it doesn't dissuade me in the slightest, since all things are relative and the number of informative, insightful, or funny posts modded "troll" is very high. Moderation is not an indicator of merit, it's just kind of infotainment on the side. That's why I usually browse at -1.
I tend to research it further after verifying it's on the relevant supported hardware list(s). User forums have saved me from making many, many mistakes. But occasionally in spite of being so careful I get bit. Seems like the sketchiest area is video chipset support, which is unsurprising considering the complexity. But you're right, it's very annoying when unqualified people verify the basics appear to work and mark it "supported" so the rest of us can throw money away and/or waste inordinate amounts of time getting it working after trying so hard to avoid that sort of thing.
As a matter of fact, the very worst hard time I ever got from hardware listed as "fully supported" was Apple powerpc hardware. Man, they lied through their teeth about testing that G4 and ATI Rage combination I had!
But you're not claiming to be a "Linux expert", like old timeOday up there. Neither are you claiming to "run fvwm over gnome or kde" (it's a bit like saying "I distill my own turn signal fluid"). I'm not saying Linux has flawless power management support out-of-the-box, that simply wouldn't be true. I had to recompile my kernel and jump through several other hoops to get mine working, but nothing that a "Linux expert" would find daunting.
It works just fine on my Thinkpad running gentoo. Yes, there are chipsets with little or no acpi support in Linux -- so if you like using Linux don't buy those. You *did* check your choices against the lists of supported hardware before spending, right? 'Cause that usually works pretty well over here...:)
I was a Linux desktop user for 10 years and just switched to Mac - not because of some nebulous "experience" (I still run fvwm over gnome or kde when given the choice), but I was sick of waiting for my laptop to reboot all the time, and the MacBook is the first computer I've ever used where power management actually, really works. For me it's all about nuts and bolts.
That would make you a classic example of someone who is actually Apple's natural market -- the non-geek. Obviously, someone who can't even get power management working and uses "fvwm over gnome or kde" is probably either one of those clueless perpetual n00b types or is a liar.
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While I'm inclined to share your skepticism, it's also a fact that there are a lot of incompetent lawyers out there whose advice isn't worth a thing. Having done business with quite a number of lawyers over the years, I can only assume there's more than one way to pass the bar exam.
I used to save and scan all receipts at the beginning of each month as part of my regular accounting, but now sometimes they fade to point of being useless before the month is even up. I've gone to scanning receipts daily over morning tea, as a result.
The floor, seriously? I have a desk and file cabinet at home for "normal" important papers, and a safe for things like passport, birth cert, etc. That's what adults do. Grow up already!
Important papers, like receipts, banking stuff, identity papers?! Barring thieves and fire, flood, earthquake, etc there's really no reason to lose important papers. But I'm always amazed at the people who lose important things like keys or identification. They're usually the kind of people who become indignant when you don't accept "l lost it" as a valid excuse, too. There's definitely a "type" that loses important things.
That's not the proper slashdot spirit. The tradition is "anyone who doesn't see it my way is an idiot who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground".
And lawyers don't have extended canine teeth for piercing the jugular, so at least they aren't "totally vampires".
The zealots who want everyone to use Linux are rarely the people who contribute code. The people who code are usually not particularly concerned with whether or not 605dave likes the name. Besides, there are always some people who will complain about the name no matter what it is. Also, there is no "marketing dept" to sit around all day making up new buzzwords and running up the cost of services/goods.
Besides, if you think about things that have been super popular that have names like flickr, digg, slashdot, google, yahoo, lycos, etc one can easily see that the name has almost nothing to do with whether or not it becomes popular.
Words on paper do not have the power to redefine reality. Corporations are *not* people. SCOTUS is corrupt and their rulings mean nothing IRL. The fact that so many people tolerate this kind of silly word juggling doesn't help, either.
***glare***
It isn't "the US" per se, it's US government being used to enforce the mafiAA's agenda. This sort of corruption is rampant and it's every US taxpayer's burden. We desperately need to take back our government from the large, corporate interests which are systematically bleeding all the wealth from this country.
Indeed.
Grumpy people whose default setting is "no new information" do indeed label themselves skeptics. The funny thing is a lot of them seem to be incredibly gullible once they let that guard down. Makes me wonder if the "skeptic" pose is a form of self-protection.
Here where I live the choices are AT&T DSL, comcast's "xfinity", dial-up, or satellite. AT&T actually does fine with their service in this area for a consumer-grade line, it's the billing dept that makes one think about sending a bomb in the mail. A cap of any size is disappointing, but in practice not many people will use more than 150GB /month. Yet.
Oh, those. Yes, I've met a few...
Well it's nice to hear that microsoft have finally coded a media player for their new phone platform that works. Curious choice to do so after release of the platform to customers everywhere, but at least their platform is now almost caught up to where Apple, Palm, and Nokia were in 2006. Or will be, when updating doesn't strand anyone anymore.
Oh yeah? Well just you wait. Eventually the carriers will make them the default "giveaway" phones for new accounts, and when that happens, bang, zoom win(ce)7 will be everywhere. For a few months, anyway...
If you do any windows work at all as an admin you get the latest version of windows if you need it paid for by the client. Besides, every non-Mac desktop and laptop computer I own came with a windows license, so what difference does it make? If you own a non-Apple x86 machine odds are greater than 95% you also own a windows license (yes, I know about people building PCs and those few who buy bare metal, they are a drop in the bucket).
I'm afraid it's far worse than that, AC -- godless tornadoes from space! (Heard it from Les Nessman, WKRP so it has to be true)
Gosh, I haven't seen a hotel room without a microwave (coffee maker, minibar, etc) since like the '80s...
Surely they refer to a SSD, which would then be "storage", not "memory". But it's usually the OEM at fault for this sort of silliness. "Storage" and "memory" get used interchangeably in a surprising amount of ads and brichures.
I like it, that's some witty copy! Unfortunately, I fear the day is not that far off people will wonder "Did they really not have ads in their dreams as recently as 2011? Wow, what did they dream about?".
Well if I manufacture my own hardware then my proprietary OS damned well ought to provide flawless power management, so yes of course if your top priority is hardware/software integration then by all means use a Mac. I don't have a problem with people pointing out flaws in Linux. I have a problem with people portraying themselves as "experts", and further portraying known problems many of us successfully fix everyday as "insurmountable by experts". That amounts to FUD, and I object. The fact that a few retards mod me "troll" over it doesn't dissuade me in the slightest, since all things are relative and the number of informative, insightful, or funny posts modded "troll" is very high. Moderation is not an indicator of merit, it's just kind of infotainment on the side. That's why I usually browse at -1.
I tend to research it further after verifying it's on the relevant supported hardware list(s). User forums have saved me from making many, many mistakes. But occasionally in spite of being so careful I get bit. Seems like the sketchiest area is video chipset support, which is unsurprising considering the complexity. But you're right, it's very annoying when unqualified people verify the basics appear to work and mark it "supported" so the rest of us can throw money away and/or waste inordinate amounts of time getting it working after trying so hard to avoid that sort of thing.
As a matter of fact, the very worst hard time I ever got from hardware listed as "fully supported" was Apple powerpc hardware. Man, they lied through their teeth about testing that G4 and ATI Rage combination I had!
And this mean precisely nothing, esoecially coming from an AC. Oh, and quote fail, dumbass. :)
But you're not claiming to be a "Linux expert", like old timeOday up there. Neither are you claiming to "run fvwm over gnome or kde" (it's a bit like saying "I distill my own turn signal fluid"). I'm not saying Linux has flawless power management support out-of-the-box, that simply wouldn't be true. I had to recompile my kernel and jump through several other hoops to get mine working, but nothing that a "Linux expert" would find daunting.
It works just fine on my Thinkpad running gentoo. Yes, there are chipsets with little or no acpi support in Linux -- so if you like using Linux don't buy those. You *did* check your choices against the lists of supported hardware before spending, right? 'Cause that usually works pretty well over here... :)
That would make you a classic example of someone who is actually Apple's natural market -- the non-geek. Obviously, someone who can't even get power management working and uses "fvwm over gnome or kde" is probably either one of those clueless perpetual n00b types or is a liar.