i've run those kinds of apps before (trapster in my case)

and you know what i'm doing the whole time i'm running it? I'M LOOKING OUT FOR COPS AND STAYING VERY AWARE OF MY SPEED!

in other words, i'm being safe!

i know i'm posting this late, long after attention has turned its focus to newer stories.

but i know a doctor and i asked for his opinion on this article...

and boy did he have one!

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What a fuckin Joke,
To think all the voting public is out there, being influenced by this....this guys a fuckin Idiot, but ignorant people believe this guy... life Ain't fair -

Its b/c of attorneys....

The article speaks of the 1 out of 100 we can save...as though that's minor.

The authors a fucking idiot.
If his wifed was 1 in a hundred, now he'd be concerned, or if that was his kid.

I do a hundred patients every 5 weeks, u saying I want death, or a compication?....ONLY ONCE EVERY 5 or 6 weeks?

U think I wanna give away my MD licence for some attorneys Re-Creation of the truth in front of ignorant dumb american jury.?

Fuck you I say to the author, I wish he'd come into my OR, he'd be my next poor outcome, oops, shit happens ...
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i'm just copying and pasting it - his words - probably typed it out on his cell ph

there was more - but i'm sure his opinion wouldn't play well to the slashdot crowd!lol

he probably wouldn't have designed our knee the way it is either - or the octopus or the elephant or.... (etc etc) - but the crazy thing is --- it works!

bingo! that was the first thing i thought when i saw that he obviously doesn't work with wifi much....

i always thought the statement in the constitution about being secure in our papers and effects would cover that - ??

As a boot drive, it does impact boot speed significantly, and to a very limited extent other operations, but is that really a value? Saving 15 seconds once a week or so booting a desktop, is that really worth not only $110, but the complexity of needing 2 drives, and having to micromanage windows to keep it running pretty much at all in less than 80GB of space (40GB for win7? give it up, I have a boot, app, swap, and data drive, yes 4, and I'm careful about what I put on C:, and migrated what services I can to other drives, and I"ve got over 70GB used on C:. Widows is a hidden file and temp space bloat nightmare, not to mention swap space, ram dump space, and snapshots... The Windows folder alone is 11.4GB).

An SSD used for a heavy use volume, like DB logs, swap volume (though you;re better off buying more RAM for less), a video editing/scrub drive, etc, is a good idea for power users, but not really viable for the masses. At a 50-75% premium, you might see this more common, but in notebooks limited to 1` drive, unless they're extremely purpose focussed machines, and hold no audio or video files, an SSD is a grossly overprices waste with little run-time benefits.

Waiting areas in hospitals, taxpayer funded clinics, and other municipal offices. They mayor certainly needs a TV handy, as does any office impacted or having to react to national news. As you said, firemen (and others) on 1on-2off shift rotations. Guard desks in rather un-trafficked locations (can't stare at a video camera showing no change all day). There are a lot of reasons a municipality has a TV contract. Most of them actually do pay for much of it.

What's likely the issue here is that the vast majority of the TVs in use here are older tubes, and do not support digital cable decoding onboard as pretty much every TV does today. ("cable ready" TVs all do analog, but mostly only HDTVs do digital as well). If Comcast is not using a digital TV compatible signal, they should provide the boxes at no charge as part of their agreement to provide basic cable service.

If the municipality is still using 5+ year old TVs in great numbers that are not digital capable (TVs over 24" were all to be digital capable as of 2005, half of all of them in 2004, and all TVs 32"+ before then), they should switch, as the electric savings alone will likely pay for the TVs over the next 5 years, and that's not Comcast's problem. In order to hook up their free cable, they had to buy those TVs inistially, right? Anything more than 5 years okld in a government building is legally depreciated, and should have been scheduled for replacement. The municipalities' failure to rotate out TVs crossing age markers by including such in the budget is their own problem.

Agreed.

Not to mention, After 5-7 years, I've sold machines for half their purchase price. They cost more up front, but less to maintain (mostly in software savings), and their resale value is great!

I just checked out a site for reselling old hardware when you buy new. My 18 month old Core quad, 4GB, high end graphics, multiple HDDs in RAID, and custom case? They claimed it had a street value of $0. I had to pick an i5 processor for it to tell me my street value was over $50. Looking on eBay and Craigs list, I can buy used machiones 1-2 years old for under $100 any day. Macs? I sold a 17" iMac 1GHz (lamp model) with 768MB of RAN for $750 18 months ago. I sold a 20" first gen Intel iMac for $600. I sold a 6 year old PowerCompouting Clone for $850.

You pay more, but the return is so much greater that the next mac is cheaper than any PC. The service is far superior. I've even gotten help with Windows on Macs for my mom via tech support, something even Dell won't do on their own PCs.

We only buy Macs now. I had not had one for years (dad still did, but not one in my house since 2003, as I was a Microsoft and Linux admin, and had too much crap already to keep track of than add a mac to it all). My wife wanted one for video editing and for using in her classroom, so we got her a PowerMac last year to replace her PC notebook. I'm working on replacing my VM desktop with a 27" iMac (what better platform to virtualize several systems on), and the only PC I expect to have by the end of next year is my performance gaming rig.

I've called Dell about inferior replacements that showed up onsite, and Dell's policy was "they never advertised performance, only size and spin speed" and this part met those qualifications, and was the approved replacement part.

I've also seen many techs with the right part screw up rewiring the board, not being able to get USBs working again (or thinking they had a bad board when they simply failed to double check if the power connector was in the right pins). I've seen techs there to replace a hot spare kill a raid by pulling the wrong drive a dozen times, and I've seen techs who can't do anything beyond replacing the part (don't know how to even get in the BIOS to establish the new drive as a RAID member).

After market replacements are not covered under warranty, so I can't fault Dell for screwing that up. As far as replacing them with better at one time, then lesser (but still better than original) later, I've never seen that happen once. Per my understanding, Dell, as does HP and Acer, track each part by ID number in a build, not a default config of generic parts. They know exactly which part is in each machine, because almost everything they sell is custom order. I've even been told before that a part in my machine was not covered because it was not the part they had in their database, because a tech came out to replace 2 drives in 2 machines, and put the wrong one in each, swapping serial numbers.

Fact is, more often than not, and I've seen Dell contractors in 11 cities, the guys coming out are not even as good as BestBuy's in-store techs/geeks. They're generic, $12/hour part jockeys with little training and no knowledge who are on staff merely because that's all a company can afford to pay someone who gets $70 flat fee for an onsite job, and no one who knows more takes pay that low.

Real service? you find it at your local outlet or service center, not by rent-a-geeks. Apple's in store people ROCK. When IBM had shops around town, their people knew their stuff too. When I worked for a compaq certified server shop, we had to continually train people, even in high class products we didn't sell. I was in training 3-4 days a month just for compaq, another 2 for HP, Then DEC, NEC, Okidata, and more. If I wasn't inside a machine, I was inside a book, or a classroom, and failure to keep all our techs to that standard meant loss of our contract for repair. Then comes along some company faxing us offers to fix Dell stuff, flat rates, no materials, not even access to service manuals, at at lower pay and no travel expenses included. It was a joke, and we told all our customers that what you got when you bought Dell, a guy dispatched by a fax with no data...

Blame the FCC for that, not AT&T. Maximum frequency density has been achieved, only more air space can solve the issue. The iPhone 4 supports an additional band of 850MHz signal, not available on most other current AT&T phones, not to mention HSDPA, and now the the rollout is complete in NY, and since started in Cali, it should not be long until you see the same 70% fewer reported issues come your way. Most NYers did not notice not as the rollout was gradual, but the numbers are significantly better now. I was in NY and NY 2 months ago, and had no issues at all on several iPhones and an iPad, and Verizon gave us all sorts of issues for the few in our group with their wares.

Verizon is better there because they have significantly fewer callers per sq mile per channel, but as people flee AT&T to Verizon, this only makes verizon's issue worse. Also, Verizon's LTE is no 700MHz band, they're rushing to market a keyword, not a technology, and in it;s airspace it will get basically the same speed as 3G HSDPA, but at 2.5 times the power drain. (same as sprint it seeing with their WiMAX 4G, which is benchmarking slower than AT&T and HSDPA phones in Charlotte where both services are deployed). AT&T is rolling our 700MHz LTE, which will be delayed by several months due to restrictions, but since it's a NEW airspace, not taking signal away from an existing one, AT&T can continually add network and 2-3x the speed of Verizon LTE, starting in June next year, while Verizon has to cripple their existing towers to segregate off LTE in the same airspace, further accelerating their inevitable signal issues.

A few hours of some lawyers debating over the legality of this issue (let alone the legal battle that I can nearly guarantee will occur, combined with a mass exodus from their game servers by the paranoid masses), would be well in excess of the cost of a few months of a few hundred people having their accounts suspended, and even companies that make profits don't miss those from the very lowest scum of their subscribers when they boot them. Plus, booting people can also be a big positive for those who pay and equally want the scum gone. Good morale in a forum by banning those who deserve it can go a long way.

Confirmed they're all on the same tower and frequency using APple exclusive diagnostic tools or electronics to measure and confirm frequency response? Doubt you did that.

School radio facilities should not interfere in AT&T airspace (if they do, AT&T would be crawling up your ass (also would love to se a written statement from your school confirming this was done, as I call BS on that idea completely).

Water behaves nothing like tissue in regards to SAR, interference, or more. Water can actually amplify some signals, and refracts and causes interference with others, depending on angle and size of water body.

Did you use a large sample size of iPhones? doubt that too.

HOw about comparing that to some folks with actual signal measuring equipment, professional lab setups, not to mention the FCC and each government's equivalent to that in more than 20 countries all testing the device and reporting no complaints.