For some reason, though, I suspect that the size of attachments will be limited, or the MB/email will be limited. For example, maybe each mail may not exceed 5MB.
After all, if your email account was 800MB in size with just 5 emails, they wouldn't have as much material for data mining as they want.
I have a 4-5 year old Gateway Solo 2500 notebook. It came with 64MB of memory and a 6.4GB HDD. Nice back then.
About a year or two ago, I added a 128MB SODIMM which helped a lot.
After using it for about a year after that, the original hard drive started to get bad sectors. 4-5 YEARS out of a 2.5" HDD! I thought it was pretty nice. The original was a Toshiba, so I bought another one; 40GB (it was $101 at newegg.com). Gateway's website says that the max HDD this notebook will accept is 30GB. This is probably true, since it locks up when trying to automatically detect the 40GB drive. So, I specified the parameters in the BIOS so that it recognizes 8.455GB, and install LILO (or the Windows loader) to the MBR, and the full drive is detected.
Well, when the drive arrived, I was very anxious to get it in my laptop. "Yay! 40GB! Imagine all the BitTorrenting I can do now!", I thought. Unfortunately, there is a little piece that goes between the motherboard and the drive that I broke when attaching it to the new drive, and I bent a bunch of pins out of whack and the machine wouldn't detect any drives.
I was prepared to pay $35-60 for a new sled for the drive which would be more than I needed (I only needed the little piece that goes on the drive) but would make my laptop work again. So, the next weekend, I went to the local Gateway store and explained my problem at the service desk. The guy went back and talked to a tech (who I wish I could have spoken with in the first place, but...) and eventually came back and said that the part was standard (I didn't know it at the time, but it's proprietary), but I had the serial number of the sled, which he took back. I waited around a bit and the tech eventually came back out with a sled.
"This is what your sled looks like, right?"
"Yeah, I guess." (I'd seen it before, but it was hard to remember exactly.)
"And this is the little piece you need?"
"Yep."
"Well, this is your lucky day. Normally we'd have to have a warehouse ship these over and it would be pretty costly."
"Mmhmm.."
*I reach for my wallet.*
"So, how much will this cost?"
"*Shrug*"
"!! Wow, thanks!"
So, I got the part for free. I didn't even expect them to be able to help me and they were able to do that and then some.
On the way out, my dad joked that he probably just took the other notebook out of the trash and gave me the part. He later joked that it was me who made them have to shut down their stores.
Anyway, that was my Gateway story. I actually found that local store rather helpful. I'm not sure what I would have done otherwise. Maybe they will outsource their local support to a more general company.
BTW, this comment typed with that very notebook. Still going strong with a nice new hard drive and a fresh installation of Slackware. And, I was surprised to find, it will even run Windows XP! But not for long, in my case;-) .
If you just need to unlock accounts (if, say, you forgot Administrator's password), try this. There are bootable ISOs and floppy disk images.
It's not the most intuitive thing to use, but it is pretty easy if you follow the command prompts. It could probably be extended to include more tools like KNOPPIX.
Actually, something with that, KNOPPIX, and MemTest86 would be really nice and alleviate the need for 3 CDs for performing diagnostic tests on wonky PCs.
The DVD for Finding Nemo has some interesting extras. One of them is with one of the directors (or someone in charge). He talks about how they went scuba diving and took video. They then gave the video to their CG people who recreated a scene from underwater looking to the water's surface. When played side-by-side, it was hard to tell the two apart, and so they had to work on making it believable that it could exist, while also making it obviously not real.
I also recall something along the same lines with the princess in Shrek, they made her too realistic, and then had to make her more "fake".
But, it really depends on what you're animating, though. I saw the Final Fantasy movie that was supposed to look all real, and it was good animation, but just "not right."
Similar to booting Knoppix on machines in a campus/library lab, which have the sound muted in Windows (rather than disabled in the BIOS) to keep the annoyance down.
Then, Knoppix installs working sound drivers and the "silence" of the computer lab is broken by a female with an English accent saying (very impressively) "Initializing startup sequence..."
Hooray for Knoppix' great hardware detection!:-/
(Yes, I know you can disable such things at the startup lilo prompt.)
On the page regarding Guinness, they say that it is Extra Stout and from St. James Gate. However, all of the Extra Stout that I've ever been able to get here in the States is from Canada and is brewed by Labatt (according to my favorite local general store). It's the "Guinness Draught" that comes in the "nitro" bottles that seems to have been actually brewed in Ireland.
With that, they did choose the better of the two. More expensive, but better.
Don't post this to slashdot. You will murder my cable modem.
Unless that is your cable modem, in which case, nevermind.
It's an interesting idea. I chatted with someone (you? redbeardscove was the channel, i think.. on undernet?) about it; the guy who started that site.
Like I said, it's interesting. However, I don't know if enough trustworthy, hard-working people are out there just yet to really do it right. Hell, I have enough time trying to download BitTorrents of stuff which has been downloaded over 400 times and there are one or two seeds. I don't know how ready people are yet to share such a network without messing it up.
What's to keep you from buying, say, a 10GB iPod ($299), and a 40GB 2.5" HDD ($139 at newegg.com) and putting the 40GB HDD in the iPod. Then, you would get a 40GB iPod for ~$439, plus you would have an extra 10GB 2.5" HDD lying around. You could put the extra hard drive in a 2.5" external enclosure with firewire and usb2 for just $40 extra.
Admittedly, when all is said and done, this would be quite a bit more work, would only save you $20, and would likely void any warranty.
Does Apple do something to prevent this? I thought they were just regular 2.5" hard drives in the iPod (I could very well be wrong, though.)
But it takes time to add the support for Vorbis/MP3/WMA. Be it in an employee writing code, or a machine printing extra circuitry. The added time is where costs come in.
For those who aren't up on who makes what portable audio player these days, you can find this player on newegg.com under their MP3-Digital Audio Players and then under SonicBlue.
The SonicBlue part was what was tripping me up. I was looking for Rio. So, it's the SonicBlue Rio Karma 20GB. Eesh.
As shitty as some of the lower jobs are, hiring someone that will do them well is invaluable.
So if this mail room person has been doing this job for 2 years, they are obviously very dedicated to it and know how to do thie job well enough without getting fired. So they'd probably do the same for you. Wouldn't you rather get your mail all the time and not have to sort out someone elses stuff?
Because this is Slashdot, a software analogy should be acceptable. You don't want to know that the mail server software you're using has been a proven solution for 4 months, do you?
Where I work, we've had some okay janitor/cleaning people, but the most recent is the best I think we've ever had. He mops, emptys trash cans, vacuums, refills toilet paper, cleans the toilet. Yeah, it may sound like a crap job, but someone needs to do it, and you know you don't want to sit down on a toilet seat with tinkle drips on it and then realize that all of the toilet paper is gone when you're finished.
Anyway, FWIW, what I was taught as a kid is "Whatever job you're given, do it well."
So, if you've got a crap job, do it well, because someone has to.
I had a similar experience. The UI felt slow. Probably due to not using native Windows widgets. I pointed and clicked and 15 minutes later, still hadn't found Nemo.
Some people are just really good at picking up these interfaces. Some people actually code in vi!
The following paragraph from the Rotten.com Library's entry on cannibalism has completely turned me off McDonalds, and I wasn't too excited about their food to begin with:
Then again, we live in a culture in which people would run vomiting to the bathroom if they saw what went into making their McDonald's hamburgers, in which a cow is brutally killed with blunt-force trauma, its innards are outered, and then the whole thing is ground up into a mealy paste, intestines, feces, bones and all.
So is that why little hard things get caught in my teeth when I eat their burgers?
Have no fear! Your super-old shortwave radio that your long-dead father used to use will still work.
Hell, you may even get to speak with him through the wormhole so you can change the course of history. (Perhaps you could do something about this Darl McBride guy.)
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Yeah. I thought the same thing...
"Hey, mail me that ISO, will ya?"
For some reason, though, I suspect that the size of attachments will be limited, or the MB/email will be limited. For example, maybe each mail may not exceed 5MB.
After all, if your email account was 800MB in size with just 5 emails, they wouldn't have as much material for data mining as they want.
I have a 4-5 year old Gateway Solo 2500 notebook. It came with 64MB of memory and a 6.4GB HDD. Nice back then.
;-) .
About a year or two ago, I added a 128MB SODIMM which helped a lot.
After using it for about a year after that, the original hard drive started to get bad sectors. 4-5 YEARS out of a 2.5" HDD! I thought it was pretty nice. The original was a Toshiba, so I bought another one; 40GB (it was $101 at newegg.com). Gateway's website says that the max HDD this notebook will accept is 30GB. This is probably true, since it locks up when trying to automatically detect the 40GB drive. So, I specified the parameters in the BIOS so that it recognizes 8.455GB, and install LILO (or the Windows loader) to the MBR, and the full drive is detected.
Well, when the drive arrived, I was very anxious to get it in my laptop. "Yay! 40GB! Imagine all the BitTorrenting I can do now!", I thought. Unfortunately, there is a little piece that goes between the motherboard and the drive that I broke when attaching it to the new drive, and I bent a bunch of pins out of whack and the machine wouldn't detect any drives.
I was prepared to pay $35-60 for a new sled for the drive which would be more than I needed (I only needed the little piece that goes on the drive) but would make my laptop work again. So, the next weekend, I went to the local Gateway store and explained my problem at the service desk. The guy went back and talked to a tech (who I wish I could have spoken with in the first place, but...) and eventually came back and said that the part was standard (I didn't know it at the time, but it's proprietary), but I had the serial number of the sled, which he took back. I waited around a bit and the tech eventually came back out with a sled.
"This is what your sled looks like, right?"
"Yeah, I guess." (I'd seen it before, but it was hard to remember exactly.)
"And this is the little piece you need?"
"Yep."
"Well, this is your lucky day. Normally we'd have to have a warehouse ship these over and it would be pretty costly."
"Mmhmm.."
*I reach for my wallet.*
"So, how much will this cost?"
"*Shrug*"
"!! Wow, thanks!"
So, I got the part for free. I didn't even expect them to be able to help me and they were able to do that and then some.
On the way out, my dad joked that he probably just took the other notebook out of the trash and gave me the part. He later joked that it was me who made them have to shut down their stores.
Anyway, that was my Gateway story. I actually found that local store rather helpful. I'm not sure what I would have done otherwise. Maybe they will outsource their local support to a more general company.
BTW, this comment typed with that very notebook. Still going strong with a nice new hard drive and a fresh installation of Slackware. And, I was surprised to find, it will even run Windows XP! But not for long, in my case
If you just need to unlock accounts (if, say, you forgot Administrator's password), try this. There are bootable ISOs and floppy disk images.
It's not the most intuitive thing to use, but it is pretty easy if you follow the command prompts. It could probably be extended to include more tools like KNOPPIX.
Actually, something with that, KNOPPIX, and MemTest86 would be really nice and alleviate the need for 3 CDs for performing diagnostic tests on wonky PCs.
The DVD for Finding Nemo has some interesting extras. One of them is with one of the directors (or someone in charge). He talks about how they went scuba diving and took video. They then gave the video to their CG people who recreated a scene from underwater looking to the water's surface. When played side-by-side, it was hard to tell the two apart, and so they had to work on making it believable that it could exist, while also making it obviously not real.
I also recall something along the same lines with the princess in Shrek, they made her too realistic, and then had to make her more "fake".
But, it really depends on what you're animating, though. I saw the Final Fantasy movie that was supposed to look all real, and it was good animation, but just "not right."
Also,
Never use a preposition to end a sentance with.
Similar to booting Knoppix on machines in a campus/library lab, which have the sound muted in Windows (rather than disabled in the BIOS) to keep the annoyance down.
:-/
Then, Knoppix installs working sound drivers and the "silence" of the computer lab is broken by a female with an English accent saying (very impressively) "Initializing startup sequence..."
Hooray for Knoppix' great hardware detection!
(Yes, I know you can disable such things at the startup lilo prompt.)
On the page regarding Guinness, they say that it is Extra Stout and from St. James Gate. However, all of the Extra Stout that I've ever been able to get here in the States is from Canada and is brewed by Labatt (according to my favorite local general store). It's the "Guinness Draught" that comes in the "nitro" bottles that seems to have been actually brewed in Ireland.
With that, they did choose the better of the two. More expensive, but better.
Huh?
"Surprise, honey! I have a penis!" ?
Surprising, indeed.
Sadly this will get modded to Troll.
:-).
Actually, it's pretty common that any semi-serious comment including a line about it being moderated down will more likely be moderated up.
Except, of course, whenever I try it
From that link:
Don't post this to slashdot. You will murder my cable modem.
Unless that is your cable modem, in which case, nevermind.
It's an interesting idea. I chatted with someone (you? redbeardscove was the channel, i think.. on undernet?) about it; the guy who started that site.
Like I said, it's interesting. However, I don't know if enough trustworthy, hard-working people are out there just yet to really do it right. Hell, I have enough time trying to download BitTorrents of stuff which has been downloaded over 400 times and there are one or two seeds. I don't know how ready people are yet to share such a network without messing it up.
Blah.
I believe I first saw a "third-wheel" design for the Segway at maddox's site.
What's to keep you from buying, say, a 10GB iPod ($299), and a 40GB 2.5" HDD ($139 at newegg.com) and putting the 40GB HDD in the iPod. Then, you would get a 40GB iPod for ~$439, plus you would have an extra 10GB 2.5" HDD lying around. You could put the extra hard drive in a 2.5" external enclosure with firewire and usb2 for just $40 extra.
Admittedly, when all is said and done, this would be quite a bit more work, would only save you $20, and would likely void any warranty.
Does Apple do something to prevent this? I thought they were just regular 2.5" hard drives in the iPod (I could very well be wrong, though.)
But it takes time to add the support for Vorbis/MP3/WMA. Be it in an employee writing code, or a machine printing extra circuitry. The added time is where costs come in.
Oh for pervasive wireless...
You: Merry Christmas, neighbor. Here's a wireless AP. Be sure to use it often. It gets better with more use!
Neighbor: Oh, wow. Thanks!
You: *Hee hee*
Was that a mistake?
It looks like you pasted in some URL other than the one you intended. The one you posted was fairly interesting, though.
It may be obvious to some, but it wasn't to me.
For those who aren't up on who makes what portable audio player these days, you can find this player on newegg.com under their MP3-Digital Audio Players and then under SonicBlue.
The SonicBlue part was what was tripping me up. I was looking for Rio. So, it's the SonicBlue Rio Karma 20GB. Eesh.
Or a Jaz drive.
Only available in SCSI because they have to be hotswappable and (maybe at one time) IDE couldn't do that for some reason or another.
I know you're making a joke, but...
As shitty as some of the lower jobs are, hiring someone that will do them well is invaluable.
So if this mail room person has been doing this job for 2 years, they are obviously very dedicated to it and know how to do thie job well enough without getting fired. So they'd probably do the same for you. Wouldn't you rather get your mail all the time and not have to sort out someone elses stuff?
Because this is Slashdot, a software analogy should be acceptable. You don't want to know that the mail server software you're using has been a proven solution for 4 months, do you?
Where I work, we've had some okay janitor/cleaning people, but the most recent is the best I think we've ever had. He mops, emptys trash cans, vacuums, refills toilet paper, cleans the toilet. Yeah, it may sound like a crap job, but someone needs to do it, and you know you don't want to sit down on a toilet seat with tinkle drips on it and then realize that all of the toilet paper is gone when you're finished.
Anyway, FWIW, what I was taught as a kid is "Whatever job you're given, do it well."
So, if you've got a crap job, do it well, because someone has to.
Yay Tokyo Breakfast!
IBM has commercials?
They are funny?
"...and I spend my $500 buying music at work to put on my iPod."
:-)
Boss: Here, GoodEmployee, here's a toy to thank you for your hard work.
GE: Wow, thanks! *goes away playing with toy*
Boss:
Productivity: *flush*
I had a similar experience. The UI felt slow. Probably due to not using native Windows widgets. I pointed and clicked and 15 minutes later, still hadn't found Nemo.
Some people are just really good at picking up these interfaces. Some people actually code in vi!
So is that why little hard things get caught in my teeth when I eat their burgers?
*Shudder*
Don't want a logo?
I've got a logo for you!
Actually, I'd vote some sort of raccoon. Smart, great at getting around access controls, love to go dumpster-diving. Raccoons are hackers.
(For that matter, those monkies using sticks to fish out termites could be considered hackers as well, but I still think raccoons seem cooler.)
Have no fear! Your super-old shortwave radio that your long-dead father used to use will still work.
Hell, you may even get to speak with him through the wormhole so you can change the course of history. (Perhaps you could do something about this Darl McBride guy.)
Just remember to mention Yahoo!