I keep my drives extremely well organized. I have a data folder that is broken up into main file types (Text, Graphics, Audio, etc...) and those folders are broken down into more granular organizational elements (GIF, IFF, HTML, ASCII, OO.o, etc...). So, I can get to my files pretty quickly. However, after using a Mac with Tiger and after using Copernic Desktop Search, I can totally understand the desire for desktop search. I can find files more quickly with Spotlight or CDS than by hand, even with my highly organized filesystem. Not having to know where a file is located IS a huge advance. Besides, MOST users just put their files on the system willy-nilly. And that probably will never change. Indexed desktop search is the future. You don't have to use it, but I'll bet you will.
We used to install NT4 on FAT filesystems anyway, so that if the OS got hosed somehow (not uncommon at the time), we could boot from a DOS floppy and try to fix it without formatting and reinstalling. Don't know if they still do it that way where I worked at the time, but I've abandoned the practice. Took a while, though.:)
From everything I've been hearing over the last several years, the only certifications that hold any weight with managers that know anything about tech are the Cisco certs. It used to be that you could pretty much write your own salary with a Cisco cert. Don't know if it's that way anymore.
Microsoft certifications have been worthless for closing in on a decade now. Unless they've changed things drastically in the last couple of years, they simply handed out too many of them. An entire industry has sprung up that basically teaches the tests for MCSE certifications, thus effectively making them worth less than the paper they're printed on. I'd definitely look at a potential employee's work experience WELL before I looked at the long string of capital letters after their name.
Personally, I don't have any certs and have never had trouble getting a well paying job. Of course, now that I'm self employed (computer consultant), they're even more meaningless. Clients never even ask about certifications.
I wouldn't count it out just yet. Games are what will make or break it, and it hasn't been great in that department - yet. Then again, the DS hasn't really had many stellar games either until very recently (or on the horizon). This fight isn't over yet. Not by a long shot.
Microsoft has repeatedly been caught commiting intentional, illegal, anti-competitive acts. All of the "evil" attributed to Google has simply been side-effects of being a successful business. The two are not even remotely comparable.
CD32 Jaguar N64 Saturn Playstation 1 Dreamcast PS2 Gamecube
Of those, the only one I didn't buy at launch was the Gamecube. I have no plans on getting a 360, but if they do this same thing with the PS3, I'll have to wait until it's available unbundled. I don't see the logic of throwing FOUR games into a bundle. Well, I see the greed logic behind it, but not the rational logic behind it. If there are supposed to be up to 40 games available at launch, shouldn't they at least make it four games of your choice? Better yet, why not ONE game of your choice? $700.00 is just too much to drop on a game system at one time. I think Little Timmy might have to play his X-Box 1 for a while longer.
First, no, I wasn't a "dimwit" that thought for a second that the CGI was ripped from anything. However, it is up to the courts to decide if something is satire or not. Just because you SAY something is satire doesn't make it so. And second, regardless of whether the cgi was pulled from an episode of whatever or not, the CONTENT of the cgi is IP owned by WB/Paramount. And, as I said, Paramount especially, has a bad track record about letting fans do ANYthing with their IP. And did they license the models from Paramount/WB? Or the people that created the models that are based on Paramount/WB's IP? Which would actually open up the model creators themselves for action as they are making profit on IP that doesn't belong to them.
From the trailer, it looks like they're headed for some serious lawsuits for selling this on DVD. Paramount is not exactly known for playing nice with fan sites, much less fan flicks that use their IP. And I doubt WB is all too pleased, either.
And where are all the comments? This is like the fourth/. story with NO comments. O.o
not seeing its reputation tainted by someone's experience with a cheesy, ill-behaved, flaky third-party add-on. Because some 10 year old is going to come back from his friend's house talking Dad into buying him a Sony box since the Xbox kept hanging up when they were using the Acme Kick Boxing Motion Sensor Gloves that only cost $10 on eBay.
Chances are that 10 year old will know that the AKBMSGs are not an original product (don't have the Certified X-Box logo) and not hold it against the system. I know that I've bought crappy 3rd party controllers. All it did was drive me back to first party or Logitech controllers. Never had an impact on my impressions of a given system.
I was going to moderate this story, but read the link that you posted and decided to reply instead. From the article:
This situation stems from Christians' failure to apply the scientific method to their interpretation of Genesis. A great irony, here, is that the scientific method comes from the Bible and from biblical theology. The core of this method is an appeal to the interpreter to delay drawing conclusions until both the frame of reference and the initial conditions have been established. If we approach Genesis in this way, we discover that we can, indeed, discern there a scientifically plausible, objectively defensible account of creation.
I have reservations about delving into a "scientific" theory by folks who claim that the scientific method "comes from the Bible." They make this claim and then offer no proof to back it up (because there isn't any). Then they make a new definition of the scientific method that "fits" the criteria they need it to in order to apply it to the creation account in Genesis.
Now, granted, I have no knowledge of the reviews that Newegg rejects, but they do post negative reviews. The only edits I've noticed have been removal of prices and mentions of competitors. I can understand them not wanting to have a review that says that web site X has this same item for Y amount less, but still finding value in the other content in the review.
I wouldn't extend this to substance abuse, either. As long as what I'm doing outside of work isn't affecting what I'm doing inside of work, it's no business of my employer. At all. They have management to make sure that everyone is performing their job satisfactorily. If management can't tell that you're hung over or stoned on the job, management needs to be replaced with people that can. If you ARE performing your duties on the job satisfactorily, then the substance abuse is clearly not a factor at your job, so why should your employer care?
Actually, the OP is totally correct. Were it not for Firefox, IE7 wouldn't even exist, much less attempt to adhere to standards. Or did you miss all of the press about the IE team having been shut down at Microsoft until Firefox started eating into IE's market share?
Agreed. DSL is cheaper and faster here, too. And I haven't had cable in years (going on a decade). I got DirecTV and never looked back. I've had digital TV from day one all those years ago. Some of my friends recently "upgraded" from standard cable to "digital" cable and I'd take DirecTV any day of the week over the crappy picture they get. The only thing I DO wish is that I could get naked DSL here. It stinks to have to pay for a phone that I don't really need. That's coming, I assume, though.
Erm... The PS2 seems to be selling an awful lot of games for an "obsolete" system. Have you seen the latest games for the PS2? They look anything BUT obsolete. If anything, the PS2 will have a similar shelf life to the PSOne. I know at least a handful of people that are waiting for the PS3 release to buy a PSTwo.
As for MS having too much of a lead for Sony to overcome - remember the Dreamcast... I'm not going to predict that the X-Box 360 is going to flame out like the Dreamcast did, but being first to market has historically had very little to do with dominance in the console market. What matters most is the games. And this generation has proved that more than any other. The PS2 has a vast library of compelling content. That's reflected in its market penetration. X-Box and GameCube have fewer titles and are locked in a defacto tie (worldwide) for second place. And each of those systems has fallen into a niche. Nintendo is the young gamer niche system. Microsoft went after the older gamers. If Microsoft (or Nintendo) intends to gain on Sony, they'll need to rely on more than Halo to do it.
Add me to the list that, for the most part, couldn't care less about online play. I got into Final Fantasy XI for a good long while, but 99% of the time, I just want an immersive, single player experience. I was interested in Battlefield2 because it looks really cool, but I can't find mention of any single player missions, so I assume it's online only. Which means I'm not getting it.
Well, i think im to late to join the party on this one, however i should lay out a couple of things, expecially in reflection of all the previous comments.
Well, I think I'm late to join the party on this one.However,I should lay out a couple of things;especially in...
is often the source of an undo amount of grief and ironicly... confusion.
undue... ironically
If your wondering what i mean, pick up a book of shakespeare. It is near to impossible to understand ANYHTING written in the old english that preceeded that, and shakespeare along with his contemporaries is also a task to go through.
If you're wondering what I mean... ANYTHING... Old English... Shakespeare,
and along with the times it's change is an evolution.
its
This same evolution took latin into italian, french, spanish, portugese, etc... And is a constant process.
Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese
convey your meaning in the most percise and direct format possible givin your audience and the necesary words
most precise... possible given... and the necessary...
If your speaking in the southern section of the US you'll likely convey your thoughts in a southern twang shuold you have any inclination or desire to reach people more effectively.
If you're speaking... Southern section... - and, for what it's worth, we Southerners understand you people from the rest of the country just fine in the absence of any sort of "twang" thank you very much. In fact, if you try to affect a Southern drawl, you'll just end up sounding ridiculous.
Secondarily, Short hand speech, and the various amorphisms that have entered popular culture are not to be discounted as simply "mangling" the language. Prominent words such as FUCK and GOLF were once simple slang words (acronyms both) along with a host of other words which we take for granted today.
Yes, they should, because, yes, they are. And others have already pointed out your inaccuracies on the "Fuck" and "Golf" things.
Someone commented that shortening a 5 letter word into 3 isnt saving any time. I beg to differ. In shortening a whole sentance of words down to significantly less letters, expecialy in the context of commonly spoken terms, and doing so on a longer term IM conversation... Your reducing a great deal of physical effort as well as conveying the meaning you want to send effectively.
isn't saving... whole sentence... significantly fewer... especially in the context... You're reducing...
For exmaple while programming, i get hit with IM's that need confirmation.
example, while programming, I...
in about a second i have switched from my script to the IM, aknowledged the other persons comment, and returned to my work.
In about a second I... acknowledged the other person's...
Should i have siwthced over and said "Okay"?... or maybe "Yes, i understand and agree".... or maybe i should eshew ever saying "OK" at all since it is not really a "word". While im at it i should probably drop Snafu and laser, and all those other lovely acronyms we use from my words and just spell em out.
Should I have switched... "Yes, I... should eschew... "word." While I'm at it, I should... drop snafu, laser, and all... spell them out.
Im sure most people will acknowledge that there are some "slang" or formerly "slang" words that have such a obiquotus (sp) use they're most certainly acceptable as "real" words. However they didn't just appear over-night, they were at first only
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I keep my drives extremely well organized. I have a data folder that is broken up into main file types (Text, Graphics, Audio, etc...) and those folders are broken down into more granular organizational elements (GIF, IFF, HTML, ASCII, OO.o, etc...). So, I can get to my files pretty quickly. However, after using a Mac with Tiger and after using Copernic Desktop Search, I can totally understand the desire for desktop search. I can find files more quickly with Spotlight or CDS than by hand, even with my highly organized filesystem. Not having to know where a file is located IS a huge advance. Besides, MOST users just put their files on the system willy-nilly. And that probably will never change. Indexed desktop search is the future. You don't have to use it, but I'll bet you will.
We used to install NT4 on FAT filesystems anyway, so that if the OS got hosed somehow (not uncommon at the time), we could boot from a DOS floppy and try to fix it without formatting and reinstalling. Don't know if they still do it that way where I worked at the time, but I've abandoned the practice. Took a while, though. :)
From everything I've been hearing over the last several years, the only certifications that hold any weight with managers that know anything about tech are the Cisco certs. It used to be that you could pretty much write your own salary with a Cisco cert. Don't know if it's that way anymore.
Microsoft certifications have been worthless for closing in on a decade now. Unless they've changed things drastically in the last couple of years, they simply handed out too many of them. An entire industry has sprung up that basically teaches the tests for MCSE certifications, thus effectively making them worth less than the paper they're printed on. I'd definitely look at a potential employee's work experience WELL before I looked at the long string of capital letters after their name.
Personally, I don't have any certs and have never had trouble getting a well paying job. Of course, now that I'm self employed (computer consultant), they're even more meaningless. Clients never even ask about certifications.
Here are my reasons why the PSP failed:
I wouldn't count it out just yet. Games are what will make or break it, and it hasn't been great in that department - yet. Then again, the DS hasn't really had many stellar games either until very recently (or on the horizon). This fight isn't over yet. Not by a long shot.
Microsoft has repeatedly been caught commiting intentional, illegal, anti-competitive acts. All of the "evil" attributed to Google has simply been side-effects of being a successful business. The two are not even remotely comparable.
GameStop and EBGames will be one in the same by January. Perhaps sooner. Just an FYI.
Agree 100%. I have the following systems:
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N64
Saturn
Playstation 1
Dreamcast
PS2
Gamecube
Of those, the only one I didn't buy at launch was the Gamecube. I have no plans on getting a 360, but if they do this same thing with the PS3, I'll have to wait until it's available unbundled. I don't see the logic of throwing FOUR games into a bundle. Well, I see the greed logic behind it, but not the rational logic behind it. If there are supposed to be up to 40 games available at launch, shouldn't they at least make it four games of your choice? Better yet, why not ONE game of your choice? $700.00 is just too much to drop on a game system at one time. I think Little Timmy might have to play his X-Box 1 for a while longer.
First, no, I wasn't a "dimwit" that thought for a second that the CGI was ripped from anything. However, it is up to the courts to decide if something is satire or not. Just because you SAY something is satire doesn't make it so. And second, regardless of whether the cgi was pulled from an episode of whatever or not, the CONTENT of the cgi is IP owned by WB/Paramount. And, as I said, Paramount especially, has a bad track record about letting fans do ANYthing with their IP. And did they license the models from Paramount/WB? Or the people that created the models that are based on Paramount/WB's IP? Which would actually open up the model creators themselves for action as they are making profit on IP that doesn't belong to them.
From the trailer, it looks like they're headed for some serious lawsuits for selling this on DVD. Paramount is not exactly known for playing nice with fan sites, much less fan flicks that use their IP. And I doubt WB is all too pleased, either.
/. story with NO comments. O.o
And where are all the comments? This is like the fourth
Erm... ALL of it?
not seeing its reputation tainted by someone's experience with a cheesy, ill-behaved, flaky third-party add-on. Because some 10 year old is going to come back from his friend's house talking Dad into buying him a Sony box since the Xbox kept hanging up when they were using the Acme Kick Boxing Motion Sensor Gloves that only cost $10 on eBay.
Chances are that 10 year old will know that the AKBMSGs are not an original product (don't have the Certified X-Box logo) and not hold it against the system. I know that I've bought crappy 3rd party controllers. All it did was drive me back to first party or Logitech controllers. Never had an impact on my impressions of a given system.
I was going to moderate this story, but read the link that you posted and decided to reply instead. From the article:
This situation stems from Christians' failure to apply the scientific method to their interpretation of Genesis. A great irony, here, is that the scientific method comes from the Bible and from biblical theology. The core of this method is an appeal to the interpreter to delay drawing conclusions until both the frame of reference and the initial conditions have been established. If we approach Genesis in this way, we discover that we can, indeed, discern there a scientifically plausible, objectively defensible account of creation.
I have reservations about delving into a "scientific" theory by folks who claim that the scientific method "comes from the Bible." They make this claim and then offer no proof to back it up (because there isn't any). Then they make a new definition of the scientific method that "fits" the criteria they need it to in order to apply it to the creation account in Genesis.
Now, granted, I have no knowledge of the reviews that Newegg rejects, but they do post negative reviews. The only edits I've noticed have been removal of prices and mentions of competitors. I can understand them not wanting to have a review that says that web site X has this same item for Y amount less, but still finding value in the other content in the review.
I wouldn't extend this to substance abuse, either. As long as what I'm doing outside of work isn't affecting what I'm doing inside of work, it's no business of my employer. At all. They have management to make sure that everyone is performing their job satisfactorily. If management can't tell that you're hung over or stoned on the job, management needs to be replaced with people that can. If you ARE performing your duties on the job satisfactorily, then the substance abuse is clearly not a factor at your job, so why should your employer care?
Actually, the OP is totally correct. Were it not for Firefox, IE7 wouldn't even exist, much less attempt to adhere to standards. Or did you miss all of the press about the IE team having been shut down at Microsoft until Firefox started eating into IE's market share?
Agreed. DSL is cheaper and faster here, too. And I haven't had cable in years (going on a decade). I got DirecTV and never looked back. I've had digital TV from day one all those years ago. Some of my friends recently "upgraded" from standard cable to "digital" cable and I'd take DirecTV any day of the week over the crappy picture they get. The only thing I DO wish is that I could get naked DSL here. It stinks to have to pay for a phone that I don't really need. That's coming, I assume, though.
Aren't the 360 controllers using some sort of proprietary RF wireless thingamabob?
Workes fine in Firefox 1.0.6 for me. Really nicely done, too.
ACK! Flashbacks to Merchant/Ivory films I was dragged to by a girlfriend. Ack, I say!
Oh, and btw - what in Sony's history would lead you to believe that they'll ship a console late?
Erm... The PS2 seems to be selling an awful lot of games for an "obsolete" system. Have you seen the latest games for the PS2? They look anything BUT obsolete. If anything, the PS2 will have a similar shelf life to the PSOne. I know at least a handful of people that are waiting for the PS3 release to buy a PSTwo.
As for MS having too much of a lead for Sony to overcome - remember the Dreamcast... I'm not going to predict that the X-Box 360 is going to flame out like the Dreamcast did, but being first to market has historically had very little to do with dominance in the console market. What matters most is the games. And this generation has proved that more than any other. The PS2 has a vast library of compelling content. That's reflected in its market penetration. X-Box and GameCube have fewer titles and are locked in a defacto tie (worldwide) for second place. And each of those systems has fallen into a niche. Nintendo is the young gamer niche system. Microsoft went after the older gamers. If Microsoft (or Nintendo) intends to gain on Sony, they'll need to rely on more than Halo to do it.
...exclusive to any particular system?
Add me to the list that, for the most part, couldn't care less about online play. I got into Final Fantasy XI for a good long while, but 99% of the time, I just want an immersive, single player experience. I was interested in Battlefield2 because it looks really cool, but I can't find mention of any single player missions, so I assume it's online only. Which means I'm not getting it.
Software piracy is illegal. Software piracy is not theft.
And away we go!
Well, i think im to late to join the party on this one, however i should lay out a couple of things, expecially in reflection of all the previous comments.
Well, I think I'm late to join the party on this one. However, I should lay out a couple of things; especially in...
is often the source of an undo amount of grief and ironicly... confusion.
undue... ironically
If your wondering what i mean, pick up a book of shakespeare. It is near to impossible to understand ANYHTING written in the old english that preceeded that, and shakespeare along with his contemporaries is also a task to go through.
If you're wondering what I mean... ANYTHING... Old English... Shakespeare,
and along with the times it's change is an evolution.
its
This same evolution took latin into italian, french, spanish, portugese, etc... And is a constant process.
Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese
convey your meaning in the most percise and direct format possible givin your audience and the necesary words
most precise... possible given... and the necessary...
If your speaking in the southern section of the US you'll likely convey your thoughts in a southern twang shuold you have any inclination or desire to reach people more effectively.
If you're speaking... Southern section... - and, for what it's worth, we Southerners understand you people from the rest of the country just fine in the absence of any sort of "twang" thank you very much. In fact, if you try to affect a Southern drawl, you'll just end up sounding ridiculous.
Secondarily, Short hand speech, and the various amorphisms that have entered popular culture are not to be discounted as simply "mangling" the language. Prominent words such as FUCK and GOLF were once simple slang words (acronyms both) along with a host of other words which we take for granted today.
Yes, they should, because, yes, they are. And others have already pointed out your inaccuracies on the "Fuck" and "Golf" things.
Someone commented that shortening a 5 letter word into 3 isnt saving any time. I beg to differ. In shortening a whole sentance of words down to significantly less letters, expecialy in the context of commonly spoken terms, and doing so on a longer term IM conversation... Your reducing a great deal of physical effort as well as conveying the meaning you want to send effectively.
isn't saving... whole sentence... significantly fewer... especially in the context... You're reducing...
For exmaple while programming, i get hit with IM's that need confirmation.
example, while programming, I...
in about a second i have switched from my script to the IM, aknowledged the other persons comment, and returned to my work.
In about a second I... acknowledged the other person's...
Should i have siwthced over and said "Okay"?... or maybe "Yes, i understand and agree".... or maybe i should eshew ever saying "OK" at all since it is not really a "word". While im at it i should probably drop Snafu and laser, and all those other lovely acronyms we use from my words and just spell em out.
Should I have switched... "Yes, I... should eschew... "word." While I'm at it, I should... drop snafu, laser, and all... spell them out.
Im sure most people will acknowledge that there are some "slang" or formerly "slang" words that have such a obiquotus (sp) use they're most certainly acceptable as "real" words. However they didn't just appear over-night, they were at first only