Now that will be something to blog about! Be safe.
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[quote who="Jythier" reply="8" id="3318044"]He pushed off only in order to get free, when the defender wrapped his arms around him. And, it looked like 'oh he'd never catch that' because HE WAS BEING HELD. He would have been an extra couple steps and would definitely be in a place to catch it. Also, the defender was playing him, not the ball.[/quote] And SF got to the SuperBowl only because of a missed call against them in the NFC championship game.
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[quote who="Jafo" reply="182" id="3317786"]I'll be the first to suggest the Kernel [of 8] may be fine and dandy...[/quote] I can BSOD it in a heart beat. Not to say I really want to keep crashing it, but alas, while the hieroglyphics are gone, the blue is not.
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[quote who="Savyg" reply="180" id="3317754"]Are you really trying to make the argument that EVERY SINGLE PERSON who likes Windows 8 is clueless?[/quote] I never said my mother was clueless. Nor does "not experienced computer user" = clueless. Perhaps you just need a refresher course in English Comprehension?
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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="3" id="3317610"]create tightly integrated hardware-software systems[/quote] Let' see, Novell tried that (their PC business died aborning). Sun tried that. Apple is doing that. But who are the major players in the Corporate world? Not Sun, not Novell, not Apple. I think I would reject that analysts opinion. Tight integration equates to niche market. Side bar: (and I do not mean
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[quote who="Savyg" reply="174" id="3317611"]Been using computers for 27 years now and I love it, so that's bullshit.[/quote] "using computer" =/= Experienced Computer user My mother has been using computers for the last 50+ years (she was weened as an IBM Operator), but she will be the first to tell you she is not an "experienced computer user".
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[quote who="Jafo" reply="173" id="3317598"]We're a select group of desperados....rebels-without-a-clue...[/quote] I guess I am clueless then! ;-) [quote who="Jafo" reply="173" id="3317598"]Shall devise a secret handshake so it's trendy...[/quote] It will go well with my tin foil hat.
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Or any of the other mass murderers. The pattern is that all were committed in gun free zones. Guns are not the killers, the absence of guns is the trigger for the people who decide to kill.
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Twitter Hacked, 250K Accounts Compromised–Good News, Bad News.
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Good news - I do not have a twitter account. Bad news - I do not want one.
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Only works if there is a store near you.
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[quote who="Anthony R" reply="2" id="3316750"]Yeah isn't that weird. [/quote] What was weird was a 34 minute brown out. That changed the momentum of the game. You got the team right, but the score wrong. However the inevitable "what-ifs" will always be played. SF was going down until then, and almost pulled it off. In my mind, there is no question the better team won Sunday night. But then brown outs and missed calls are just fa
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This one flew past my radar! Thanks for the heads up. I suspect Microsoft has one more "Apple cloning" in mind, and dell is the lucky fellow that will be the test baby. I love Dell, and hope this will not ruin a good product, but will have to wait to see how things turn out.
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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="3" id="3317117"]I'm sure there have been many like me who grabbed licenses at $40 as insurance and haven't installed it on anything (and may not). So the 'real' rate of adoption may be even lower.[/quote] True - but MS still has your $40. I doubt they care whether you install it or not.
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I have used Windows 8 on both a Surface Rt and a desktop. I will qualify my decision by saying I am sure there are some computer neophytes that will find it useful, but any experienced computer user will find it sux. The speed of the computer is irrelevant if you cannot do what you want to do. While you can do most things as you have in the previous versions of windows, it takes a lot more key strokes to get there. It is also very unforgiving of anything not
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[quote who="MasonM" reply="4" id="3314907"]I would love to say I'm headed someplace warm, but sadly I will be going to northern Michigan.[/quote] I here Hell is in northern Michigan. ;-)
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[quote who="HangfireW8" reply="10" id="3314968"]What is absurd is tripling an already-large national deficit in a grand anti-capitalistic gesture that benefits primarily CEO's. Ask any retired auto worker how their pension plan is working out after being destroyed by the "targeted" "focused" bankruptcy proceedings. How about this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/tarp-pay-czar-executive-pay_n_2569328.html [/quote] The white collar workers lost their pensio
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[quote who="Flakey101" reply="11" id="3315005"]What does your good book say about bearing false witness Lula? Congress, and the Senate, passed the "Budget control act" last year, that makes the budget a law, not just a resolution, for last year and this year. So you are running under a current budget.[/quote] The books says thou shalt not. So why did you? The act is not a budget. The senate has not passed a budget in over 4 years. The LAST one they
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[quote who="MasonM" reply="10" id="3314911"]Oh, I'm sure that everyone having less money to spend will help the economy greatly. [/quote] Why else would Obama shut down his Jobs Council (other than the fact it had not met in over a year).
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We turned warm for the past couple of days. But that ends tonight. It is still winter. I hope you get out of there soon.
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I saw where the Marines were dropping 20,000 active duty persons. I figure the other branches are doing likewise because of sequestration. I do not see it getting any better any time soon.
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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="55" id="3313746"]I believe full-price phones are unlocked out of the box new. Phone has to be locked before you can commit the crime of unlocking.[/quote] Some are. But the LOC clearly acknowledged that many were not, and that unlocking them was difficult (and now illegal). They gave you 90 days to address the issue of a fully paid phone being unlocked.
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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="54" id="3313729"]Correct... until you purchase it and have the "paid in full"... if you can ever understand the legalese in the contract. No such thing as "plain English".[/quote] But the ruling does not differentiate. It merely says that unlocking is illegal. Indeed, while the LOC said they were "sorry" for the models that are not easily unlocked, and that was what the 90 day window was intended for. So once again, you are at the mercy o
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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="19" id="3313179"]Nope. Not until you fulfill all the purchase contract terms. Until then, it isn't. Please don't argue. It's the law, not what you might think the law "should" be.[/quote] But the rules do not differentiate. Many chose not to go with a contract and pay the full cost up front. Yet the new rules still make it illegal. Which means the issue is still - did you buy it or just rent it. Copyright says you are rent
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It is fascinating. I am surprised the US is the number one place, especially given the publicity of the current "regimes" take down of Mega Upload.
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Understandable. With all the scams going on, people are getting skeptical of "Gift Horses".
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