Commuting, and McDonalds? He who commutes a long drive, ends up eating meals on the way to or from. These meals oft end up being the kind served in drive thru. The same cohort sleeps less because they spend all those hours at work, and in the car. This is assuming that they've factored in the age problems, old people are fat, and sleep less. In your twenties you can live on a handful of hours a night and stay fit and thin all at the same time.
I live in a red state, just above the buckle of the bible belt. I understand that some people around here would be somewhat distressed by the portrayal of demons and demonic images. But after all wouldn't our fearless hero be blasting the crap out of the demons? Waging a sort of literal spiritual warfare? Blowing the crap out of all things demonic? If they're worried about the suspension of disbelief. Well it's a movie based on a video game were stuff gets blown up a lot. I mean a LOT. So I don't get the virus over the escape from hell thing. I don't see Christians being alienated after all. The literalist bible belter types seem to believe that there are literal bogeymen type demons like Cacodemons and lost souls, well if they don't then perhaps they just act like they do.
Why not put all software funded with public monies into the public domain so that both private enterprise (Closed source projects) and open source projects can benefit from it equally? I don't understand why publicly funded software should be "forced" to participate in the "viral" nature of the GPL? Am I missing something here or is this not a legitimate objection?
If Colt made a disposable, all plastic smoothbore, with anti-powder burn on your finger features. Then marketed it as "The Colt Assassin" would they be in some way responsible? Technology of any kind is not entirely nuetral. If you're selling sheet metal, and someone makes it into a burglar tool. That is one thing. If you're selling burglar tools in a plastic baggie with instructions on how to break into the most popular models of cars you might be a bit more responsible.
Now I'm not even equating what Microsoft is doing to marketing the "Colt Assasin" described above. I'm just pointing out that when you sell something you're aware what it's potential uses are, and not completely without responsibility for those uses.
Unless someone's willing to fight back. Keep in mind the failings of Vietnam were *NOT* the failings of 70s technology to bring lethal firepower to bear on an inferior foe, rather they were the successess of a foe who would simply not be beaten. The "enemy" in Iraq (twice) and Kosovo, once were ill determined and didn't have much fight in them. Given equal technology and weapons the west would have won both contests in almost as lopsided ways as they did anyway. The great untold story of "shock and awe" "high tech warfare" is that so far it's only proven that very good, professional armies can thrash ill motivated rabble that's dying to desert using these techniques. I'll be a believer in this new age of warfare once it's been shown to defeat an enemy who's not prepared to surrender to an unmaned survalliance drone.
They should get the chair! They should be force fed herbal viagra and penis enlarging pills, which they'll have to pay for using the new home loans they can get approved for instantly. They should be fined $1 per unsolicited e-mail sent. Not recieved, but sent all the bounces, everything. This debt should be attached to their families and children, their organs should be sold in an effort to make good on the debt if need be. I really hate to advocate such lenient penalties for spammers, but inside I'm a big softy.
GUI preference is largely a matter of familiarity. I loved 3.1 I had no frame of reference, since then I've been configuring whatever GUI I use, (From KDE, afterstep, XP, 98 NT4 whatever) to work essentially the same way. Groups of "windows" you open up and use a number of icons inside to start the programs you use most often, or windows to double click on frequently used files. I hate the "start" menu, and I probably always will. I use the command line for a certain set of tasks, but I hate the whole start menu popup, it's 'cause I'm old and because I've developed these habits. Others love the start menu style GUIs I haven't seen a single.
How many times have MS supplies updates deliberately broken a competitors product? Who in their right mind is going trust Redmond not to send a patch at midnight on Sunday that "accidently" breaks a competitors app? They've been busted in court for this before. They've paid fines, kept on doing it and they're not even pretending to be sorry. This is the dumbest idea. Ever. Period.
I agree completely. If you're going to allow all these little programs to load at startup, clog up the machine, create conflicts and hog resources you need to provide the user with a nice, *easy* to understand and use tool to remove them and monitor the amount of resources going to waste, a load monitor for the taskbar applets. I'd also make it expressly forbidden for printer drivers and scanner drivers and all manner of whatnot to have some kind of stupid monitor that has to load every time you boot the machine or they require that you have some knowledge of windows configurations in order to make them work.
Rebates are paid by the manufacturer! Usually, not the retailer, th retailer gets to keep your $69 either way the manufacturer pays you back $39 in 8 weeks, IF you send it in, usually limited to one purchase. This is part of the way these items are marketed. The rebate is available only on items purchase between such and such dates from certain stores etc. There's a host of reasons for this practice beyond just getting your personal info, although that is a nice bonus as well.
To me this is the point. When my employer does something I disagree with this is what I do. First I explain exactly why I think it is a bad idea and that in the long run we'd be better off doing it some other way. Then once the decision making phase is over I run with whatever my employer decides, and do my best to make it work. You see it's his money, but more than that it's his priorities, and I am not always aware of the overall scheme of things. The same is true when you're doing consulting work you should always express your misgivings, but then (assuming it's legal and ethical) do your best to make their bad idea work.
Here's what you need to fix PCs older one's especially I _was_ an expert PC mechanic until say two years ago. (Everything I know is "obsolete")
1 Hemostats 2 Phillips head screwdriver 3 Flashlight 4 CD with.cab files for win 9/98/98se 5 CD with full install files for as many versions of IE as you can fit. 6 A norton utilities CD maybe two of them. 7 The newest best command line antivirus file scanner you can come up with. 8 Your favorite linux distro. 9 DOS 6.22 and windows 3.11 disks 10 You could substitute dos 5.0/and win 3.1 and 6.22 and 3.11 and whatever other flavors
This does not assume you're going to engage in any piracy of said microsoft products, on numerous occasions I've discovered PCs that could be repaired by a simple re-install but the owner has lost one of the 14 floppies that he got win95 on or the win98se disk is ruined. Other times I've found machines with a license only, and no CD, or some OEM boot/restore disk that absolutely will not work. (Think Packard Bell) and you could save the day with a simple re-install and copy of the.cab files to the hard drive
The cheaper the printer the more it costs per page. Period, it's not just a function of laser vs inkjet. A high output multi drum digital colour copier will print out what looks like shiny magazine (national geographic/cosmo) looking output for a few pennies a page, best of all a machine like that will only set you back thirty grand or so. Think of a lexmark/dell printer as a Polaroid camera(ya'll do remember polaroids, right?) and don't stress over the whole thing.
Honestly, the quality of refilled printer cartridges is uneven, and that's putting it nicely. A great many consumers don't know much about PCs, and less about printers, many of them plan on printing about a hundred pictures and then getting bored with the whole "computer" thing anyway. Those cheap lexmark printer are awesome, cheap and print high quality for next to nothing. Sure price per page sucks, but does your great aunt really want a colour laser printer so she can print pictures of her gawd awful great grandbabies?
It is not just windows. Look I'm booted to win98 right now and it works... well it works just fine if you know how to use it and are willing to live with its' faults. But the problem with "20 items in the taskbar making the machine crash" isn't so much windows problem as it is the fault of morons who develop applications based on the premise that the piece of software they make is so important that it needs to have a process running in the background all the time to intercept any action the user might make that would enable it to sell more product or do whatever the hell it is that the application does.
I'm quite certain that ever since men have been grinding metal in order to fabricate things the rather obvious fact that powdered metal burns furiously has been well known. Blatantly obvious to anyone who's ever worked in the tool & die industry.
>Proposition 1. Popular kids don't play computers.. etc...
The 80s are long since over, and incedentaly so are the 90's "popular" kids and dumb jocks and whoever else it is that you don't identify yourself. Are no longer "technophobic" Todays kids barely even identify the "computer" as anything but another appliance.
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Using the example of the cold war to show how great dterrence can be is a pretty skimpy example, sample size of one, success rate %100, but can you really quantify how close we came to nuclear war? How many times? I suspect it's a bit like this example. I used to drive drunk a lot, I never hit anything, therefore drunk driving is quite safe.
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How is it that Ozark Softwares Command HQ is not the first real time strategy game for the PC? It came before the others, release date of about 1990, it's a strategy game, it's real time. Without a doubt I spent more hours playing HQ than any other single game, with the possible exception of DOOM. Yeah I know I'm a geezer, but I still can't see how this one slipped by.
I mean, seriously guys, this is so 8 days ago. If you use your company network to send e-mail, webmail, or whatever, that's not encrypted, then you could get caught, and snooped on, if you feel you can reasonably defend those actions, on the basis that, "well it took less time than a personal phone call, and we're allowed to make a few of those on the clock" etc, then go for it, otherwise take precautions, or send a fax!
Don Middendorf
Sure, and we all know that MS would NEVER even think of doing something they know good and well is against the law, doing it anyway, then paying the fine in five years, what's another few million towards keeping a monopoly position in one of most profitable sectors of the economy?
What are you saying? Are you trying to imply that AOLers are in some inferior to you and I? Are you lumping them in a category and calling them lame just for their choice of ISP? Don Middendorf Trust me, in context this is glistening with cosmic irony.
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Commuting, and McDonalds? He who commutes a long drive, ends up eating meals on the way to or from. These meals oft end up being the kind served in drive thru. The same cohort sleeps less because they spend all those hours at work, and in the car. This is assuming that they've factored in the age problems, old people are fat, and sleep less. In your twenties you can live on a handful of hours a night and stay fit and thin all at the same time.
I live in a red state, just above the buckle of the bible belt. I understand that some people around here would be somewhat distressed by the portrayal of demons and demonic images. But after all wouldn't our fearless hero be blasting the crap out of the demons? Waging a sort of literal spiritual warfare? Blowing the crap out of all things demonic? If they're worried about the suspension of disbelief. Well it's a movie based on a video game were stuff gets blown up a lot. I mean a LOT. So I don't get the virus over the escape from hell thing. I don't see Christians being alienated after all. The literalist bible belter types seem to believe that there are literal bogeymen type demons like Cacodemons and lost souls, well if they don't then perhaps they just act like they do.
Why not put all software funded with public monies into the public domain so that both private enterprise (Closed source projects) and open source projects can benefit from it equally? I don't understand why publicly funded software should be "forced" to participate in the "viral" nature of the GPL? Am I missing something here or is this not a legitimate objection?
If Colt made a disposable, all plastic smoothbore, with anti-powder burn on your finger features. Then marketed it as "The Colt Assassin" would they be in some way responsible? Technology of any kind is not entirely nuetral. If you're selling sheet metal, and someone makes it into a burglar tool. That is one thing. If you're selling burglar tools in a plastic baggie with instructions on how to break into the most popular models of cars you might be a bit more responsible. Now I'm not even equating what Microsoft is doing to marketing the "Colt Assasin" described above. I'm just pointing out that when you sell something you're aware what it's potential uses are, and not completely without responsibility for those uses.
Unless someone's willing to fight back. Keep in mind the failings of Vietnam were *NOT* the failings of 70s technology to bring lethal firepower to bear on an inferior foe, rather they were the successess of a foe who would simply not be beaten. The "enemy" in Iraq (twice) and Kosovo, once were ill determined and didn't have much fight in them. Given equal technology and weapons the west would have won both contests in almost as lopsided ways as they did anyway. The great untold story of "shock and awe" "high tech warfare" is that so far it's only proven that very good, professional armies can thrash ill motivated rabble that's dying to desert using these techniques. I'll be a believer in this new age of warfare once it's been shown to defeat an enemy who's not prepared to surrender to an unmaned survalliance drone.
They should get the chair! They should be force fed herbal viagra and penis enlarging pills, which they'll have to pay for using the new home loans they can get approved for instantly. They should be fined $1 per unsolicited e-mail sent. Not recieved, but sent all the bounces, everything. This debt should be attached to their families and children, their organs should be sold in an effort to make good on the debt if need be. I really hate to advocate such lenient penalties for spammers, but inside I'm a big softy.
GUI preference is largely a matter of familiarity. I loved 3.1 I had no frame of reference, since then I've been configuring whatever GUI I use, (From KDE, afterstep, XP, 98 NT4 whatever) to work essentially the same way. Groups of "windows" you open up and use a number of icons inside to start the programs you use most often, or windows to double click on frequently used files. I hate the "start" menu, and I probably always will. I use the command line for a certain set of tasks, but I hate the whole start menu popup, it's 'cause I'm old and because I've developed these habits. Others love the start menu style GUIs I haven't seen a single.
How many times have MS supplies updates deliberately broken a competitors product? Who in their right mind is going trust Redmond not to send a patch at midnight on Sunday that "accidently" breaks a competitors app? They've been busted in court for this before. They've paid fines, kept on doing it and they're not even pretending to be sorry. This is the dumbest idea. Ever. Period.
I agree completely. If you're going to allow all these little programs to load at startup, clog up the machine, create conflicts and hog resources you need to provide the user with a nice, *easy* to understand and use tool to remove them and monitor the amount of resources going to waste, a load monitor for the taskbar applets. I'd also make it expressly forbidden for printer drivers and scanner drivers and all manner of whatnot to have some kind of stupid monitor that has to load every time you boot the machine or they require that you have some knowledge of windows configurations in order to make them work.
Uhm what about the Whiskey rebellion? Uhm, or maybe the american revolution?
Rebates are paid by the manufacturer! Usually, not the retailer, th retailer gets to keep your $69 either way the manufacturer pays you back $39 in 8 weeks, IF you send it in, usually limited to one purchase. This is part of the way these items are marketed. The rebate is available only on items purchase between such and such dates from certain stores etc. There's a host of reasons for this practice beyond just getting your personal info, although that is a nice bonus as well.
To me this is the point. When my employer does something I disagree with this is what I do. First I explain exactly why I think it is a bad idea and that in the long run we'd be better off doing it some other way. Then once the decision making phase is over I run with whatever my employer decides, and do my best to make it work. You see it's his money, but more than that it's his priorities, and I am not always aware of the overall scheme of things. The same is true when you're doing consulting work you should always express your misgivings, but then (assuming it's legal and ethical) do your best to make their bad idea work.
Here's what you need to fix PCs older one's especially I _was_ an expert PC mechanic until say two years ago. (Everything I know is "obsolete")
.cab files for win 9/98/98se
.cab files to the hard drive
1 Hemostats
2 Phillips head screwdriver
3 Flashlight
4 CD with
5 CD with full install files for as many versions of IE as you can fit.
6 A norton utilities CD maybe two of them.
7 The newest best command line antivirus file scanner you can come up with.
8 Your favorite linux distro.
9 DOS 6.22 and windows 3.11 disks
10 You could substitute dos 5.0/and win 3.1 and 6.22 and 3.11 and whatever other flavors
This does not assume you're going to engage in any piracy of said microsoft products, on numerous occasions I've discovered PCs that could be repaired by a simple re-install but the owner has lost one of the 14 floppies that he got win95 on or the win98se disk is ruined. Other times I've found machines with a license only, and no CD, or some OEM boot/restore disk that absolutely will not work. (Think Packard Bell) and you could save the day with a simple re-install and copy of the
The cheaper the printer the more it costs per page. Period, it's not just a function of laser vs inkjet. A high output multi drum digital colour copier will print out what looks like shiny magazine (national geographic/cosmo) looking output for a few pennies a page, best of all a machine like that will only set you back thirty grand or so. Think of a lexmark/dell printer as a Polaroid camera(ya'll do remember polaroids, right?) and don't stress over the whole thing.
Honestly, the quality of refilled printer cartridges is uneven, and that's putting it nicely. A great many consumers don't know much about PCs, and less about printers, many of them plan on printing about a hundred pictures and then getting bored with the whole "computer" thing anyway. Those cheap lexmark printer are awesome, cheap and print high quality for next to nothing. Sure price per page sucks, but does your great aunt really want a colour laser printer so she can print pictures of her gawd awful great grandbabies?
It is not just windows. Look I'm booted to win98 right now and it works... well it works just fine if you know how to use it and are willing to live with its' faults. But the problem with "20 items in the taskbar making the machine crash" isn't so much windows problem as it is the fault of morons who develop applications based on the premise that the piece of software they make is so important that it needs to have a process running in the background all the time to intercept any action the user might make that would enable it to sell more product or do whatever the hell it is that the application does.
I'm quite certain that ever since men have been grinding metal in order to fabricate things the rather obvious fact that powdered metal burns furiously has been well known. Blatantly obvious to anyone who's ever worked in the tool & die industry.
Don Middendorf
>Proposition 1. Popular kids don't play computers.. etc...
The 80s are long since over, and incedentaly so are the 90's "popular" kids and dumb jocks and whoever else it is that you don't identify yourself. Are no longer "technophobic" Todays kids barely even identify the "computer" as anything but another appliance.
Using the example of the cold war to show how great dterrence can be is a pretty skimpy example, sample size of one, success rate %100, but can you really quantify how close we came to nuclear war? How many times? I suspect it's a bit like this example. I used to drive drunk a lot, I never hit anything, therefore drunk driving is quite safe.
How is it that Ozark Softwares Command HQ is not the first real time strategy game for the PC? It came before the others, release date of about 1990, it's a strategy game, it's real time. Without a doubt I spent more hours playing HQ than any other single game, with the possible exception of DOOM. Yeah I know I'm a geezer, but I still can't see how this one slipped by.
What does this have to say about the way we mistreat our outcast geek-youth?
I mean, seriously guys, this is so 8 days ago. If you use your company network to send e-mail, webmail, or whatever, that's not encrypted, then you could get caught, and snooped on, if you feel you can reasonably defend those actions, on the basis that, "well it took less time than a personal phone call, and we're allowed to make a few of those on the clock" etc, then go for it, otherwise take precautions, or send a fax! Don Middendorf
Sure, and we all know that MS would NEVER even think of doing something they know good and well is against the law, doing it anyway, then paying the fine in five years, what's another few million towards keeping a monopoly position in one of most profitable sectors of the economy?
I don't know, but I saw it as well, cut & pasted the address and that didn't work either...
What are you saying? Are you trying to imply that AOLers are in some inferior to you and I? Are you lumping them in a category and calling them lame just for their choice of ISP? Don Middendorf Trust me, in context this is glistening with cosmic irony.