http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre
"At 12:33 p.m. JST, a man hit a crowd with a truck, eventually killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife[1]), killing four people and injuring eight.[2][3][4][5]"
or 411631.5 Yen. or 3144.99 Pound Sterling. or 3899.6450 Euro.
Yeah...I remember when "The Internet" was a big enough buzzword on its own...
Line-item veto. In Texas, it's granted to the governor only over budgetary bills, but it's one of the ways an executive could potentially put a stop to the amendment abuse. Granted, of course, that said executive isn't the one who pushed for, or is at least complicit in, adding these ridiculous amendments in the first place.
Well, you're talking about the representative from the Austin area...which tends to be a lot more liberal than the rest of the state. He also has name recognition, as well as a given name that has some ties to Texas history.
Actually, that illustration you have for "Apple were [sic] first" is not an apple device at all, but a Compaq IPAQ, originally released by Compaq in 2000. it's nominally a predecessor of the Touchpad, along with Palm. Perhaps you were trying to reference the Apple Newton, which first released in 1993? However, if you are looking for the first touchscreen telephony device that would be the IBM Simon Personal Communicator, of which the initial prototype was demo'd at COMDEX in 1992.
So...no, Apple was not the first. They were one of several companies working on similar technology through the 80's and 90's, each of which had their own take on things. Oddly enough, the iDevices remind me of the Palm IIIx and m500 devices I used back in the late 90's/early 2000's with the "screen full of icons" layout.
What leeches? The drivers don't cost the user anything extra (far as I know?). If I've already paid for the hardware, I expect drivers that work and support all the functionality, and there is no valid excuse for any hardware manufacturer to withhold them.
So Google is taking what is really a useful tool for consumers and make it another bidding system...only where the seller is doing the bidding. Now, if this means that all the ebay ads for products I'm searching for disappear, I wouldn't complain too much. however, all I see is this becoming another useless marketing site for moneyed resellers to push their drek, and price fixing so there won't really be any more deals to find. I don't mind ads but if I want to read a site with nothing but, I'll go to my local newspaper's classified section.
As I used to write many times on SpywareInfo.com's forums...MSCONFIG is not a solution. it's a diagnosis tool. Once you diagnose the problem, either uninstall or disable the problem startup items correctly, then return msconfig to normal operations state. As a home service tech for three years I actually "fixed" at least a dozen PCs were the user had "stopped" their problem with MSCONFIG...except in the process they also disabled their audio drivers, or print utility, or some other vital system service. The most fun was that disabling things with MSCONFIG didn't even stop half the crapware/malware/virii; most of them just recreated their startup entries automatically the moment it was missing anyway.
Cleaning a PC, or tuning, requires looking at data (hijackthis log, CCleaner, whatever tool does the job best nowadays), identifying the problem items, and correctly removing or disabling them. Step 2 (identifying) is the most difficult, and I dare say most home users wouldn't have a clue about what the dozens of startup entries and services actually do. Personally I think the $99 price tag to optimize a PC is a bit high, but then we charged $65/hr to do it at someone's home or business ($45 if they brought it to us), and most malware cleanups took 12-15 hours although we stopped charging at 4 hours.
It's certainly copyright infringement and that would have civil implications.
Where in the world did you get copyright infringement out of this story? and yes, i did RTFA. There is no mention of copyright at all. It may have been a violation of some "trade secret" law, but certainly not any copyright laws.
Just try and go return a Blu-ray or DVD to Walmart without having to go through three levels of bureaucratic bullshit, like the clerk, her supervisor and the supervisor's supervisor telling you that "We can't take back electronic media because federal law says we can't do that". And from my quick googling, it's not just our local store but a chain-wide FUD policy to scare the customer from returning what appears to be a defective product. I finally got the disk returned as a "customer satisfaction issue", but the outright lie about "federal law" just really pissed me off.
Wow, this has been around since at least '97, and probably before. It's false, and if I never see it again it will be too soon.
Sorry, I missed your reply comment before! Yes, the RHCT for V5 is still valid, but to take the RHCE for V6 I had to pass the RHCSA for V6 first.
Also, they have re-vamped the valid period and V6 certs are valid for three calendar years from the date of the exam. The date is extended if you pass one of the Expertise exams.
http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/recertification.html
Correct, the RHCT/RHCSA and RHCE certs do require a hands-on lab exam. I've done both of those--actually, all three since the RHEL5 to RHEL6 update happened between when I got my RHCT and RHCE, I had to take the RHCSA for RHEL6 before I could take the RHCE.
(wow, I don't usually type that many initialisms in one sentence...)
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