I've already started buying low power equipment just to drop the heat generation to give our aircon a fighting chance. I'm sure you'll have heaps of reasons why you've got to have exactly the equipment you've got, but have a really good think about how you might reduce power requirements and you'll probably find something that won't adversely affect your business as much as, say, moving.
'01 I think -- you can see it in the URL. But I got my drive only a few months back at a stocktake sale. Even managed to find a new 240 disk for it, which I'm using for irregular backup of my email and such like.
If it's retail box, it phones home doesn't it? I don't use XP, but I thought only the enterprise licensed version didn't.
Education is the wildcard you're missing. We get good deals without having to sign on to such restrictive licencing. Funnily enough, staff at educational institutions are more able to spot stupid licencing tricks.
I can make a floppy 32MB and it works reliably. Still don't have any idea what to do with it afterwards though.
I can also recall having over 800MB of data on a 640MB hard drive. Removing Drivespace was a bastard.:) More recently I copied 8GB of student files off a 6GB partition on a Novell server -- 7zipped down to 2Gig though.
If you use XP, you've already bought into a subscription. The product activation will prevent you from re-installing XP once MS decides it's obsolete, so all you have is a subscription to use XP until then.
The install CD I use for XP doesn't phone home for activation. Also, I'm very good at keeping a Windows system running smoothly without having to reinstall the OS periodically. Finally, if I ever have problems re-installing any version of Windows due to product activation, I'm sure as hell not buying another copy of Windows for that machine. The first PC that happens to will become my test machine for learning how to setup Linux for the desktop.
Absolutely no choice, retail box it is. I will buy, or recommend the purchase of, only two types of software deals. A retail box, or a licence that lets me install an extra copy of whatever version I already have the installation media for. The only place a subscription to anything comes into it is for anti-virus software and that's a subscription to the patterns. I'm also against leasing PCs. I do not want to have to perform unecessary maintenance on my company's PCs on someone else's schedule. The disruption costs more than these enterprise software agreements claim to save.
You would quickly find yourself very socially crippled, would you not?
Only when dealing with people too stupid to cope with your differences.
Look, I'm sure I'm bitter and that was a particularly snide remark, but it really does depend on the environment. Lets say that the majority of people were more interested in science and math than smalltalk. If you never really came to grips with, say, integration, you'd have problems interacting with the majority. Would this mean that you had some sort of medical condition that needed to be treated with drugs?
Real, provable medical conditions are one thing. Syndromes that appear to exist purely due to an abitrary definition of normal worry me.
Okay, strawmen aside, I have a hell of a time "fitting in" to most social occasions. Always have. However, I've noticed that I have no problems in social situations with English people. I'm first generation Australian, both my parents are English. I have concluded that there are a huge number of Australian social cues that I'm completely oblivious to, while I obviously react exactly how the average English person might expect. Tell me that Asperger's "sufferers" can't interact amongst themselves any better than amongst a typical crowd and I'll shut up and let someone else continue the argument.
That you got beat up actually backs my position. Explain to me how these social skills that include picking on anyone different are desirable. If you'd been able to play baseball like the others, you'd probably be a prat like the others. You're better off. Someone's worth is not soley determined by the number of people they claim to have as friends.
Telling someone that there's something wrong with them because they don't fit into your definition of normal is cruel and ignorant. If someone has trouble fitting in with the jocks and cheerleaders they should be proud, not seek treatment.
Example time; You grow up in a society where bribery is the norm. You have ethical problems giving or receiving bribes. This makes your life hard. Should you change? Same question, replace bribery with slavery.
You don't think that perhaps the people that judge the value of your communication based on the tone of your voice or how long you hold eye contact rather than the actual content of what you're saying are the ones with the problem?
The kids at school I couldn't make friends with were exactly the sort of people that I wouldn't want any child of mine socialising with anyway. I submit that your definition of functioning socially is too narrow. When I was a kid I started a environmental conservation club for kids. I consider that to be socially responsible. I don't recall seeing any of the "normal" kids with their social skills doing anything like this. I have a strong social concience. I have weak social skills. I might be arrogant, but I'm generous. The end result is that I think I am a nicer person than the average idiot, bless 'em;)
Anyone's behaviour can be changed by "behavioral and pharmacological techniques" from anything to anything. Just because I can use drugs to turn you into something else doesn't mean that's a good idea or that you were undesirable to begin with. I'm saying that Asperger's Syndrome does not describe a problem that needs to be fixed.
"Asberger's Syndrome" describes me fairly well, but I don't have the depression bit of it and I do take a holistic approach. However, I contend that the syndrome is an artificial side effect of too narrow a view of "normal". It basically says if you're not a Jock or a Cheerleader, there's something wrong with you. This is, of course, crap.
In any given community there is a core group of people that think the same, act the same and think of themselves as normal. They are, in fact, the freaks. The vast majority of people in the world are in fact distinctly different from every other person on the planet due to their genes, their upbringing or some other event.
Trying to be the same as this core group of freaks is a significant cause of depression, since it's actually impossible. So, don't mention "Asberger's Syndrome", never imply that there's anything wrong with being different. Everyone is better than you at something.
"Gifted" people are often gifted because they focus their time on science and math rather than "social skills". However, since "social skills" appear to involve mocking people that are different to you, you're better off without them. Just teach the kid how to be polite, particularly teach them that they can be wrong and they're always best to ask why something is occuring before they try to change it.
Remember, if they were like everyone else they wouldn't be gifted.
I gave up on PayPal when they started charging an "International transaction fee" when someone outside the US was involved in a purely US$ transaction. There's no basis for that fee.
If you want a CD player with no OS, buy a stand-alone one. If I've built a PC to do multimedia stuff, I've done it because I want to, for example, stream TV shows over a wireless network and remote control it via a web interface. Case in point: My (work) laptop can play audio CDs without having to be booted up using a little LCD screen and a bunch of buttons. I used this once before deciding it was pointless.
The potential for seizures from video games has been widely known for so long that I described a MegaDrive (Genesis for our US friends) as "Really earning it's epilepsy warning". The rate of seizures now is so low as to be attributable to random chance. How is this still clogging up the courts? Is it alleged that Nintendo hid known health problems on purpose like the cigarette companies?
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Needlessly long reply to what I'm sure was sarcasm, but eh.
To be fair, I haven't actually used a social network service (never invited *sniff*), so I don't really know what they do and don't offer. However, I'd be suprised if they provided anything as useful as Slashdot or any of the many phpBB forums I frequent.
You're smart enough to avoid Real, but you bought and N-Gage?
Yup. And I had a C64 emulator on there same day I bought it. Closely followed by a GB/GBC emulator. Now I have a heap of great apps including the Opera Web browser and Agile Messenger for MSN/ICQ connection. Application packer to fit more in the limited storage, Dictaphone (which works great), an SSH client, Ogg Vorbis player. Sure, you can do all this with a 3650 or better yet a 6600 (which wasn't out when I got my N-Gage), but for gamers the N-Gage's layout is much easier to play games with. Bonus - no camera.
Sure, Quicktime associates itself with things it shouldn't, like JPGs and PSDs (Photoshop Documents), but Apple never ran a "users stuck to flypaper" ad like Real did.
Aside: Anyone else noticed that Win XP keeps a list of all the programs that at one time associated themselves with an extension? So no matter what latest craplet you install, you always have the old app available from Open With...
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I've already started buying low power equipment just to drop the heat generation to give our aircon a fighting chance. I'm sure you'll have heaps of reasons why you've got to have exactly the equipment you've got, but have a really good think about how you might reduce power requirements and you'll probably find something that won't adversely affect your business as much as, say, moving.
'01 I think -- you can see it in the URL. But I got my drive only a few months back at a stocktake sale. Even managed to find a new 240 disk for it, which I'm using for irregular backup of my email and such like.
Unknown variable $people assuming "people".
Unknown variable $stupid assuming "stupid".
Unknown variable $anything assuming "anything".
Unknown variable $believable assuming "believable".
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I can also recall having over 800MB of data on a 640MB hard drive. Removing Drivespace was a bastard. :) More recently I copied 8GB of student files off a 6GB partition on a Novell server -- 7zipped down to 2Gig though.
Can we just have a "companies in their death throws" category so I can check the little box that takes it off my frontpage?
Absolutely no choice, retail box it is. I will buy, or recommend the purchase of, only two types of software deals. A retail box, or a licence that lets me install an extra copy of whatever version I already have the installation media for. The only place a subscription to anything comes into it is for anti-virus software and that's a subscription to the patterns. I'm also against leasing PCs. I do not want to have to perform unecessary maintenance on my company's PCs on someone else's schedule. The disruption costs more than these enterprise software agreements claim to save.
Deal with me or don't deal with me, but don't lump me in with the criminals and expect me to stay.
Look, I'm sure I'm bitter and that was a particularly snide remark, but it really does depend on the environment. Lets say that the majority of people were more interested in science and math than smalltalk. If you never really came to grips with, say, integration, you'd have problems interacting with the majority. Would this mean that you had some sort of medical condition that needed to be treated with drugs?
Real, provable medical conditions are one thing. Syndromes that appear to exist purely due to an abitrary definition of normal worry me.
Okay, strawmen aside, I have a hell of a time "fitting in" to most social occasions. Always have. However, I've noticed that I have no problems in social situations with English people. I'm first generation Australian, both my parents are English. I have concluded that there are a huge number of Australian social cues that I'm completely oblivious to, while I obviously react exactly how the average English person might expect. Tell me that Asperger's "sufferers" can't interact amongst themselves any better than amongst a typical crowd and I'll shut up and let someone else continue the argument.
That you got beat up actually backs my position. Explain to me how these social skills that include picking on anyone different are desirable. If you'd been able to play baseball like the others, you'd probably be a prat like the others. You're better off. Someone's worth is not soley determined by the number of people they claim to have as friends.
Example time; You grow up in a society where bribery is the norm. You have ethical problems giving or receiving bribes. This makes your life hard. Should you change? Same question, replace bribery with slavery.
The kids at school I couldn't make friends with were exactly the sort of people that I wouldn't want any child of mine socialising with anyway. I submit that your definition of functioning socially is too narrow. When I was a kid I started a environmental conservation club for kids. I consider that to be socially responsible. I don't recall seeing any of the "normal" kids with their social skills doing anything like this. I have a strong social concience. I have weak social skills. I might be arrogant, but I'm generous. The end result is that I think I am a nicer person than the average idiot, bless 'em ;)
Anyone's behaviour can be changed by "behavioral and pharmacological techniques" from anything to anything. Just because I can use drugs to turn you into something else doesn't mean that's a good idea or that you were undesirable to begin with. I'm saying that Asperger's Syndrome does not describe a problem that needs to be fixed.
"Asberger's Syndrome" describes me fairly well, but I don't have the depression bit of it and I do take a holistic approach. However, I contend that the syndrome is an artificial side effect of too narrow a view of "normal". It basically says if you're not a Jock or a Cheerleader, there's something wrong with you. This is, of course, crap.
In any given community there is a core group of people that think the same, act the same and think of themselves as normal. They are, in fact, the freaks. The vast majority of people in the world are in fact distinctly different from every other person on the planet due to their genes, their upbringing or some other event.
Trying to be the same as this core group of freaks is a significant cause of depression, since it's actually impossible. So, don't mention "Asberger's Syndrome", never imply that there's anything wrong with being different. Everyone is better than you at something.
Remember, if they were like everyone else they wouldn't be gifted.
I gave up on PayPal when they started charging an "International transaction fee" when someone outside the US was involved in a purely US$ transaction. There's no basis for that fee.
If you want a CD player with no OS, buy a stand-alone one. If I've built a PC to do multimedia stuff, I've done it because I want to, for example, stream TV shows over a wireless network and remote control it via a web interface. Case in point: My (work) laptop can play audio CDs without having to be booted up using a little LCD screen and a bunch of buttons. I used this once before deciding it was pointless.
The potential for seizures from video games has been widely known for so long that I described a MegaDrive (Genesis for our US friends) as "Really earning it's epilepsy warning". The rate of seizures now is so low as to be attributable to random chance. How is this still clogging up the courts? Is it alleged that Nintendo hid known health problems on purpose like the cigarette companies?
Sure, Quicktime associates itself with things it shouldn't, like JPGs and PSDs (Photoshop Documents), but Apple never ran a "users stuck to flypaper" ad like Real did.
Aside: Anyone else noticed that Win XP keeps a list of all the programs that at one time associated themselves with an extension? So no matter what latest craplet you install, you always have the old app available from Open With...