> Most call center type places buy a block of phone numbers in a row
Yes, but most of them are designated so that they can only make calls and not receive them (unless some brainless idiot set up their phone system). Yes, they have call rollever, but that rollover is only for certain lines (ie, 4700-4710 are incoming lines w/ rollover, while 4711-4775 are on the call center's outgoing phone switch) -- that's programmed in their phone system server.
> This isn't some huge coordinated effort that requires one of our "leaders" to perform
Oh how I don't like making this parallel, but I will anyway:
This statement can also be used in understanding "terrorist" activities (esp. Palestinian/Isreali) and how they won't stop just because some fake government agreed on a "roadmap" to peace. Individuals attack others because they want to sometimes, not because they were told to.
I'm not calling hackers terrorists or making any assumptions about either; I'm just making an observation on human motivation.
What the hell is wrong with people. Do you REALLY need to hit return after every five words? This is the most annoying waste of space on/.
Unfortunately, the post was good, and now I hate you because you don't know how to post something readable. Here's a hint: Even if you keep typing on the "same line," your words are not going to go off the right side of the page. No one else has that problem, so get a clue!
Yeah, I deserve -mods for flaming, so what.
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> > Take a fresh look @ Microsoft as the IBM of the new millenium > Now take a look at what IBM is doing now.
Please excuse my ignorance; I don't feel the desire to follow what every company out there is doing at any given time.
What are you referring to? What is IBM doing now (other than getting a pot-shot taken at them by SCO)?
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> Here's the link.
I have heard, somewhere, that some of the companies listed are, in fact, NOT actually members of the RIAA, they are just added in to make the list longer. Of course, I probably heard it on/., so the accuracy may not be 100%.
> I'm remembering the strain of looking at stereoscopic images
If you mean that magic-eye stuff, this is a bit different. With "Magic Eye," you had to try to unfocus your eyes and move them in a way that feels unnatural, that's why it can hurt. This is more like watching a 3-D movie, because one image is seen by the right eye, and the other by the left, mimicing more naturally 3-D sight.
> it is tiring for your eyes to continuously have to focus that close.
Bingo. Your eyes weren't meant to focus on something that close for a long period of time. it stretches your eye (squashes it, really) to change the focal length between the retina & the cornea to make you focus. Your eye is only supposed to "squash" so much. That's why it starts to hurt most people when they cross their eyes.
Of course, I'm no opthamologist (uh, that's right, yeah?), so if I made a mistake, someone please correct me.
> tell us why he thought this was an 'interesting' comment
Hmmm, well, I guess in a REEEEEEEE[...]EEEEELY wierd way, the O.P. was right. If you take one eye, you see in 2D, so each respective eye sees in 2-D. It's just that our brain takes the two images and puts them together to create a 3D image. That, of course, assumes that by "sight" he meant vision and did not include what our brain interprets it as, which is obviously wrong. Wrong, because, without the brain, we would see squat.
Lame jokes aside, I can't stand those things because of the entire lack of accuracy (although, admittedly, my only experience with them is on old IBM laptops). It's nice to not have to move your hand across the desk, but that's why I use a touchpad.
With practice, do you find that you can handle timing your hold to get the necessary precision, or do you still over-/under- shoot things a bit and have to tap it to get it exactly on?
> a noname four button, dual wheel "internet mouse"
Four buttons and two wheels? Geez, what do you do with all those? And where does your sixth finger come from? I'm assuming you program those extra buttons & wheel to do something, but what do you use often enough to warrant extra buttons? As for the second wheel, is one a scroll u/d and the other page u/d?
> I could only love this mouse if one LED was UV and the other IR.
*** WARNING: DORK ALERT!!! St00pid 14m3r HW mod follows ***
I have a Logitech optical with translucent sides, and the red (infrared) LED points forward. I decided to add a blue LED pointing backward in front of it, which looks really neat. Especially since the (infra)red has two light levels and the blue is constant. When I'm moving it, the light emitted looks bright red, and when it's still, it is violet-blue. When the PC is shutting down, it goes all blue, which looks really cool in the dark.
So, yes, I think your idea is a very good one, aesthetically.
> so far the Logitech's I've tried didn't track as nicely as the MS ones
Good personal experiences are only useful to those with the good experience, but where I work we bought a bunch of Dells that came with Logitech Opticals, and I have been very happy with the performance of them. I haven't even seen a dual-optical, and only one MS, but I haven't experienced any lag in response, nor have any of them failed -- wish I could say the same for the keyboards, we've had to replace 5 out of 50 so far.
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> Hey! Salshdot gets more effective every day! The number has been disconnected.
Hate to rain on your parade, but the number was disconnected before it was posted here. I guess this would be the Barry effect, in this case.
> The telemarking company I work at
I think you just opened yourself up for a world of hurt.
> Most call center type places buy a block of phone numbers in a row
Yes, but most of them are designated so that they can only make calls and not receive them (unless some brainless idiot set up their phone system). Yes, they have call rollever, but that rollover is only for certain lines (ie, 4700-4710 are incoming lines w/ rollover, while 4711-4775 are on the call center's outgoing phone switch) -- that's programmed in their phone system server.
> This isn't some huge coordinated effort that requires one of our "leaders" to perform
Oh how I don't like making this parallel, but I will anyway:
This statement can also be used in understanding "terrorist" activities (esp. Palestinian/Isreali) and how they won't stop just because some fake government agreed on a "roadmap" to peace. Individuals attack others because they want to sometimes, not because they were told to.
I'm not calling hackers terrorists or making any assumptions about either; I'm just making an observation on human motivation.
What the hell is wrong with people. Do you REALLY need to hit return after every five words? This is the most annoying waste of space on /.
Unfortunately, the post was good, and now I hate you because you don't know how to post something readable. Here's a hint: Even if you keep typing on the "same line," your words are not going to go off the right side of the page. No one else has that problem, so get a clue!
Yeah, I deserve -mods for flaming, so what.
> > Take a fresh look @ Microsoft as the IBM of the new millenium
> Now take a look at what IBM is doing now.
Please excuse my ignorance; I don't feel the desire to follow what every company out there is doing at any given time.
What are you referring to? What is IBM doing now (other than getting a pot-shot taken at them by SCO)?
> Here's the link.
/., so the accuracy may not be 100%.
I have heard, somewhere, that some of the companies listed are, in fact, NOT actually members of the RIAA, they are just added in to make the list longer. Of course, I probably heard it on
> My kids watch a show on Nick or TV Land or something, and its called "Dexter's Laboratory"
Hmm, FYI, It's on Cartoon Network. I like the show (and the network in general), so I had to give credit where due.
> there is an unrelated company called GroupSoft.
And there's also an unrelated company called Big Fun Balloons, what's your fucking point?
> > Because of morons like you,
> That's spelled MORMON, sir.
Tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to; Moron, mormon, it'a all the same. Well, actually mormon implies somethign far worse.
> What's a BSOD?
"Blue Screen of Death," Microsoft's stupid answer to a fatal error.
> I think someone tried to reverse engeneer the signal from a cats eyeball to the brain
FYI, here it is from the BBC:
Computer uses cat's brain to see.
> I'm remembering the strain of looking at stereoscopic images
If you mean that magic-eye stuff, this is a bit different. With "Magic Eye," you had to try to unfocus your eyes and move them in a way that feels unnatural, that's why it can hurt. This is more like watching a 3-D movie, because one image is seen by the right eye, and the other by the left, mimicing more naturally 3-D sight.
> it is tiring for your eyes to continuously have to focus that close.
Bingo. Your eyes weren't meant to focus on something that close for a long period of time. it stretches your eye (squashes it, really) to change the focal length between the retina & the cornea to make you focus. Your eye is only supposed to "squash" so much. That's why it starts to hurt most people when they cross their eyes.
Of course, I'm no opthamologist (uh, that's right, yeah?), so if I made a mistake, someone please correct me.
Maybe this was the last piece of the "puzzle" to create Duke Nukem Forever! True 3D. Maybe I'm wrong!
> You have 4 variables here: x,y,z, and then t for time.
Oh, in that case, find one of these things and display only a cross-section of the t dimension.
> tell us why he thought this was an 'interesting' comment
Hmmm, well, I guess in a REEEEEEEE[...]EEEEELY wierd way, the O.P. was right. If you take one eye, you see in 2D, so each respective eye sees in 2-D. It's just that our brain takes the two images and puts them together to create a 3D image. That, of course, assumes that by "sight" he meant vision and did not include what our brain interprets it as, which is obviously wrong. Wrong, because, without the brain, we would see squat.
> here are no IR LEDs on any optical mice I've seen
:)
Whatever. It's close enough that you knew what I meant
> Just feels wierd to use my middle finger for anything but scrolling
I've got a use for your middle...
Aaagh... MUST... RESIST... SATAN...
MAKE IT UP... TO HIM... LATER...
> I actually prefer the IBM nipple
Lame jokes aside, I can't stand those things because of the entire lack of accuracy (although, admittedly, my only experience with them is on old IBM laptops). It's nice to not have to move your hand across the desk, but that's why I use a touchpad.
With practice, do you find that you can handle timing your hold to get the necessary precision, or do you still over-/under- shoot things a bit and have to tap it to get it exactly on?
> I rest the base of my palm on the mousepad and let my fingers move the mouse around.
/.ing and no typing.
I do the same, only problem is, it makes my wrist hurt like hell after too much
> we made organic computers by cultivation our athlets foot.
:)
That's disgusting, yet somehow, hilarious
> a noname four button, dual wheel "internet mouse"
Four buttons and two wheels? Geez, what do you do with all those? And where does your sixth finger come from? I'm assuming you program those extra buttons & wheel to do something, but what do you use often enough to warrant extra buttons? As for the second wheel, is one a scroll u/d and the other page u/d?
> I could only love this mouse if one LED was UV and the other IR.
*** WARNING: DORK ALERT!!! St00pid 14m3r HW mod follows ***
I have a Logitech optical with translucent sides, and the red (infrared) LED points forward. I decided to add a blue LED pointing backward in front of it, which looks really neat. Especially since the (infra)red has two light levels and the blue is constant. When I'm moving it, the light emitted looks bright red, and when it's still, it is violet-blue. When the PC is shutting down, it goes all blue, which looks really cool in the dark.
So, yes, I think your idea is a very good one, aesthetically.
> so far the Logitech's I've tried didn't track as nicely as the MS ones
Good personal experiences are only useful to those with the good experience, but where I work we bought a bunch of Dells that came with Logitech Opticals, and I have been very happy with the performance of them. I haven't even seen a dual-optical, and only one MS, but I haven't experienced any lag in response, nor have any of them failed -- wish I could say the same for the keyboards, we've had to replace 5 out of 50 so far.