Honestly. I live in a cottage by the seashore, all year round. I am not wealthy (phone companys cut me off twice in the past three years, once over $0.90, barstartds).
My commute is longer than the rest of the IT department put together (OK, it's a small demartment but still). I have chosen to live here for lifestyle reasons, even though it is a finachial burden.
And as for my internet, I had a similar problem when I frist moved in, but wasn't against putting in a giant wireless arial.
That is seriosly the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
The first time I ever saw an EEE (and discovered that they where being sold in NZ, often cool tech like this isn't) was when my sister in law brought one with XP on it, and asked me how to use it. I did mention that they also came with linux, and she asked if that was a shade of green.
Non MS/Apple OSs freak the little people out, it's that simple. I want one with linux on it (and not the green either) but I can't justify it to myself since there's still plenty of life in my Dual booting HP.
Silly boy.
The MIAAFIA is from the US. The sack-wag is made up of canadians/brits/ozies/kiwis.
Additionaly, I think this is less l33t-haxors with badges, but rather more traditional policing on an international scale with a veiw to finding bot herders.
When I read this, I instantly thought of my eyeballs catching Malware and not being able to see anything but online casinos and hot young singles, even when I closed my eyes.
Thats the sort of thing that send people insane.... I mean more insane.
I rember that feeling, I was in a similar position. When several of my friends had NESs, me and my brothers naged my mum for months for one (I remember hiring one once, a little later on, it was cool). What we ended up with was an old Atari 2600 that looked like it had been thrown out of a secend story window, then stuck back to together with duct tape. It came with no games anyone recognised, not even later when I talked to 2600 fanbois (who had played 1000s of games): Phenox (a space invaders clone, but the bad guys where all birds and you could shoot their wings off) and Draconius (which seems to have originaly been a sinclar game, but the game we had bears no resemblence at all to the sinclar version).
There is absolutly No way this is real. Check out this and look at the photo on the left, halfway down the page which is quite obviosly a headphone/audio jack. Most of the others are photoshoped or have a cobbled together look(remember Brian Frouds photo books? Particularly "Strange stains and misterious smells").
I smell investor bait and patent grabing: in ten years time, when this is actualy possible I see them coming out of the woodwork and suing anyone using this emerging tech.
Not to pop your bubble, but after giving it a go I'd found a bug inside 10 seconds: If you search using a key other than Google, the key is passed to the search engine. For instance, if you type in "live tree" (to use the MSN live serach) it presents searched for the word "live" (topped by live media downloads).
I'm not saying "your site sucks!", actualy it's a neat idea if you have to use several diferent search engines, but I thought you should know that I found a (fairly obvious) bug realy quickly.
Biffing in my 2c worth, I noticed that but just assumed it was a sponnerisim for "gift that your nerdy nephew or niece". It never even ocured to me that it was sexist untill you pionted it out.
I'm also the uncle of several nieces, most of whom are tom boys, some of whom are budding geeks to boot. This sort of thing pisses me off too, particularly their extended family (on the other side) trying to push them to being 'girly' girls, even though this is a mould that dosen't fit them.
Actualy, I think this has more to do with weight ratios. A vehicle with a highly efficent motor will go farther and require fewer support stops than with an inefficent motor, even though they (vehicle+fuel)weigh the same. For unmanned vhicles, this means fewer support personel on the ground being shot at, leading to fewer injurys.
Honestly, if the milatary is going to work at something, fewer friendly injurys is a worthy goal.
Oddly, the NZ public probibly wouldn't give a dam about the Porn and would posibly elect them again just for the pot (especialy Northlanders). What would we would get up in arms about is 2Gigs of data on the publics Sihilling. We had a parlimetory inqiry over an MP buying underpants with public money, for #insert diety here#s sake.
I'd like to add some outside perspetive. Here in New Zealand, we only have two non-dailup internet options thanks to a goverment sposored monopoly: ADSL and microwave. Thanks to our aging phone system, our ADSL is the same speed as good dailup in the US, and Dailup is on par with nailing ones own hand to the table. What the microwave providers have done is produce a resonable speed and price connection that is slowly crawling down the contry. The odd thing is that ADSL will magicaly 'apear' in areas that have microwave towers going up. I used to live in a verry rural area where the only way to get any net at all was dailup, and then only at about 8kb/s (serious), the phone company claimed that it was too expesive to install the ADSL repeaters on the old phone hardware running there. Then the power company put up a microwave tower ofering high speed internet, and suddenly the phone company worked out how to do it.
The piont I'm trying to make here is that if it's making companys money (especialy hand over fist) then you can have all the discusions about a new net you like, it's not going to happen unless the almighty buck says it is.
Our IT policy is "no MS probucts on the network without SP1" and "Don't scare the clients with interfaces wich don't look like win95". So I know that feeling. Whenever I have ordered laptops or PCs I have always told acusisions do not buy vista. Just recently, they've started replying "we can't", and I get the job of stripping the dam thing and installing XP.
So far I've had to do it on a HP laptop, an Acer laptop, a HP desktop and a No-Name beige box(with no OS at all). The reason I mention this is that they all took a day each to do, except the Acer which took more than a week, was a nightmare to get drivers for (why does win98 just work on it with standard drivers but XP dosen't even recognise the HDD?) and it still dosen't work properly.
As a side note, I toyed with the laptops when they came in, becuse I haden't had a chance to try Vista yet. I do not like it. The Acer locked up on me twice (straight out of the Box! how does MS get away with this?), so I aree with the Olympic comitie, if you have to use Windows (#insert diety here# knows why) then XP or 2000 is the way to go.
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Honestly.
I live in a cottage by the seashore, all year round. I am not wealthy (phone companys cut me off twice in the past three years, once over $0.90, barstartds).
My commute is longer than the rest of the IT department put together (OK, it's a small demartment but still). I have chosen to live here for lifestyle reasons, even though it is a finachial burden.
And as for my internet, I had a similar problem when I frist moved in, but wasn't against putting in a giant wireless arial.
That is seriosly the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
The first time I ever saw an EEE (and discovered that they where being sold in NZ, often cool tech like this isn't) was when my sister in law brought one with XP on it, and asked me how to use it.
I did mention that they also came with linux, and she asked if that was a shade of green.
Non MS/Apple OSs freak the little people out, it's that simple.
I want one with linux on it (and not the green either) but I can't justify it to myself since there's still plenty of life in my Dual booting HP.
Silly boy.
The MIAAFIA is from the US. The sack-wag is made up of canadians/brits/ozies/kiwis.
Additionaly, I think this is less l33t-haxors with badges, but rather more traditional policing on an international scale with a veiw to finding bot herders.
The whole premise of this articlie is that males 25-44 are the ones clicking all those adds.
I don't think that it's a coincidence that this is the major porn veiwing public, nor that most adds (and add supported sites) are for porn
When I read this, I instantly thought of my eyeballs catching Malware and not being able to see anything but online casinos and hot young singles, even when I closed my eyes.
Thats the sort of thing that send people insane.... I mean more insane.
I rember that feeling, I was in a similar position. When several of my friends had NESs, me and my brothers naged my mum for months for one (I remember hiring one once, a little later on, it was cool). What we ended up with was an old Atari 2600 that looked like it had been thrown out of a secend story window, then stuck back to together with duct tape.
It came with no games anyone recognised, not even later when I talked to 2600 fanbois (who had played 1000s of games): Phenox (a space invaders clone, but the bad guys where all birds and you could shoot their wings off) and Draconius (which seems to have originaly been a sinclar game, but the game we had bears no resemblence at all to the sinclar version).
There is absolutly No way this is real. Check out this and look at the photo on the left, halfway down the page which is quite obviosly a headphone/audio jack. Most of the others are photoshoped or have a cobbled together look(remember Brian Frouds photo books? Particularly "Strange stains and misterious smells").
I smell investor bait and patent grabing: in ten years time, when this is actualy possible I see them coming out of the woodwork and suing anyone using this emerging tech.
msgbox "This Application as Caused an Ilegal Operation and will now exit"
Exit()
You're missing the piont, it's not for your advantage, it's to microsofts advantage.
And what's with labeling windows "genuine windows vista"? That's like geing some pig poo and selling it to a resturant as "genuine pork products"
Not to pop your bubble, but after giving it a go I'd found a bug inside 10 seconds: If you search using a key other than Google, the key is passed to the search engine. For instance, if you type in "live tree" (to use the MSN live serach) it presents searched for the word "live" (topped by live media downloads).
I'm not saying "your site sucks!", actualy it's a neat idea if you have to use several diferent search engines, but I thought you should know that I found a (fairly obvious) bug realy quickly.
Biffing in my 2c worth, I noticed that but just assumed it was a sponnerisim for "gift that your nerdy nephew or niece". It never even ocured to me that it was sexist untill you pionted it out.
I'm also the uncle of several nieces, most of whom are tom boys, some of whom are budding geeks to boot. This sort of thing pisses me off too, particularly their extended family (on the other side) trying to push them to being 'girly' girls, even though this is a mould that dosen't fit them.
Actualy, I think this has more to do with weight ratios. A vehicle with a highly efficent motor will go farther and require fewer support stops than with an inefficent motor, even though they (vehicle+fuel)weigh the same. For unmanned vhicles, this means fewer support personel on the ground being shot at, leading to fewer injurys. Honestly, if the milatary is going to work at something, fewer friendly injurys is a worthy goal.
Oddly, the NZ public probibly wouldn't give a dam about the Porn and would posibly elect them again just for the pot (especialy Northlanders). What would we would get up in arms about is 2Gigs of data on the publics Sihilling. We had a parlimetory inqiry over an MP buying underpants with public money, for #insert diety here#s sake.
I'd like to add some outside perspetive. Here in New Zealand, we only have two non-dailup internet options thanks to a goverment sposored monopoly: ADSL and microwave. Thanks to our aging phone system, our ADSL is the same speed as good dailup in the US, and Dailup is on par with nailing ones own hand to the table. What the microwave providers have done is produce a resonable speed and price connection that is slowly crawling down the contry. The odd thing is that ADSL will magicaly 'apear' in areas that have microwave towers going up. I used to live in a verry rural area where the only way to get any net at all was dailup, and then only at about 8kb/s (serious), the phone company claimed that it was too expesive to install the ADSL repeaters on the old phone hardware running there. Then the power company put up a microwave tower ofering high speed internet, and suddenly the phone company worked out how to do it. The piont I'm trying to make here is that if it's making companys money (especialy hand over fist) then you can have all the discusions about a new net you like, it's not going to happen unless the almighty buck says it is.
Our IT policy is "no MS probucts on the network without SP1" and "Don't scare the clients with interfaces wich don't look like win95". So I know that feeling. Whenever I have ordered laptops or PCs I have always told acusisions do not buy vista. Just recently, they've started replying "we can't", and I get the job of stripping the dam thing and installing XP.
So far I've had to do it on a HP laptop, an Acer laptop, a HP desktop and a No-Name beige box(with no OS at all). The reason I mention this is that they all took a day each to do, except the Acer which took more than a week, was a nightmare to get drivers for (why does win98 just work on it with standard drivers but XP dosen't even recognise the HDD?) and it still dosen't work properly.
As a side note, I toyed with the laptops when they came in, becuse I haden't had a chance to try Vista yet. I do not like it. The Acer locked up on me twice (straight out of the Box! how does MS get away with this?), so I aree with the Olympic comitie, if you have to use Windows (#insert diety here# knows why) then XP or 2000 is the way to go.