I don't have that experience... My 1999 Logitech keyboard has not changed batteries ONCE in 4,5 years! I find this quite incredible and I'm currently pondering if the batteries in the keyboard are plutonium or something. The mouse needs new batteries maybe twice a year, but the keyboard is still going strong on the 1999 Duracell batteries.
Next time, try a portable tape recorder. Speak into it your thoughts as you walk around, then write it all out when you get to your hotel room,
Won't work. I work for an online newspaper. Where the deadline is NOW! (With the exclamation mark...), and I just did not have time to even find a quiet spot. Just to fire up the laptop and write the story home.
I had to cover a wounded Norwegian citizen at the San Fermin festival. It was incredibly crowded everywhere and I had to write an article sitting on the pavement among piles of wine-induced vomit and write it as this was the only place to sit down. Thousands of drunk USAians and Australians raved around me and spilled wine on the laptop.
Most bosses I know of really do seem to think that all employees are potentially on call 24/7. I'm on call 24/7, it is in my contract. In fact, it's in everyones contract. But the boss understands that if I need my privacy, I turn the phone off. So the next in order gets the call. And if I'm called out to work in my spare time, I get GOOD compensation.
For the ones that don't get compensated even while being forced to work; let the boss have a taste of his / her own medicine. Call the boss up at his / her home after you have been called out to discuss details, give updates etc. Let them see how funny it is.
No knowledgeable Windows user actually gets BSOD's on a regular basis anymore.
That is so funny! I was walking down to the railwaystation in Oslo sometime this fall, and what did I see on the newspaper Aftenposten newsscreen? You guessed it! A BSOD on the huge 40 m2 screen. So, not only do the BSODs appear, they appear in places where persons take extra care to not have them there. Like this newsscreen.
It's a fact that 99% (possibly more) of BSOD's in modern day Windows operating systems are caused by bad hardware or bad drivers.
To this I agree.
At least for Windows, I can find drivers for _all_ my hardware.
To this I do not agree. I tried to install the Microsoft Bluetooth Cordless (duh!) Mouse on an XP computer. It did not work, since it needed XP SP1. 1/2 hour later after installing SP1 + a couple of reboots, the driver CD (why would you require a diver for a mouse?) went in and promptly told us that since the PC wasn't using one of the languages on the driver disc, your were shit out of luck(tm). This bluetooth mouse is now employed at my moms iBook, where it needed no (None, zip, nada, nichts) drivers to function from the get-go. And oh, the mouse worked on my Debian setup too. Infact, the only place the Microsoft mouse hasn't worked is on a Windows system.
There's no way that a small passenger car is going to get through the roads after an overnight, two foot snowstorm.
Tell that to the Jeep I pulled out of the snow with my 1987 Golf (1) GL. SUVs are worthless on snow. American SUVs are worthless in general. I can honestly say that I have not ever seen a double-bogey Explorer (or whatever it was) more pitiful than last week at Tryvann ski center. 25 cm with snow at it was stuck and had to be pulled out and to asphalt with a tractor.
Who is the boss after you punch out? If your contract doesn't state that you are on work (or call) 24/7, turn it off. If your boss wants to call you all the time, get another boss.
(And if you are a sysadmin, get a really good wtchdog system that delivers failure messages to your pager and keep the pager a secret.)
I'm just going to be an asshole and quote my own post from another topic: OK. So my GF, who liked the iPod and nothing more, did not represent a large part of urban females when she yelled out "ooooooh! it's in PINK, it's in PINK" and "it's even smaller" and "look at that arm strap, now I can jog with it" (1) and " 'only' a thousand songs, I don't have more than a hundre to job to what would I need more than a thousand songs for" (2)?
There are probably people in Norway who believe things that would disgust you as well as me
I'm from Norway. I believe that Bill Gates is a misunderstood genius who makes his company put in all possible effort to make the Software Of Excellence; Windows. Windows is a remarkable, groundbreaking system and if we'd all just use it, Bill would get enough money to perfect it.
The average consumer (and there are millions of them) doesn't want a smaller ipod with colors, they wanted a cheaper ipod.
OK. So my GF, who liked the iPod and nothing more, did not represent a large part of urban females when she yelled out "ooooooh! it's in PINK, it's in PINK" and "it's even smaller" and "look at that arm strap, now I can jog with it" (1) and " 'only' a thousand songs, I don't have more than a hundre to job to what would I need more than a thousand songs for" (2)?
When they launch here (thank you very much Apple, I have to wait to April to buy me, my GF and mom one), I'm first on the list to get some.
(1) I know that you can jog with the iPode, but she thought it was a little bit big for the arm. Now, there's an alternative. (2) I also know that 15 GB is a lot more storage, but she don't care, since it's cheaper, smaller, lighter, and PINK.
Aaaahhh... The innocent days of high school, with excursions to the Technical Musum in Oslo. Where they had a fax machine. That could dial any landline for free so kids could say "Hi" to dad at work. But we tapet three sheets of paper together, hacked the line to dial the Information, got the school fax number and sent the longest fax I've ever seen.
So an attacker who can gain access to your network ? over a wired connection or wirelessly ? can trick an affected system into trusting a rogue machine, and when the compromised machine reboots, take it over and even attack other systems on the network.
This is creepy. He just described what happened with me as I installed Win2000 on my girlfriends computer last week! It installed, and before I could download a firewall via the dial-up, the computer was infected with a variant of the Blaster virus.
What do you say? He's talking about Macs? But my girlfriend just got her iBook and she did not get the Blaster virus within 10 minutes of dialing up to the net.
Just after I had a lecture for my parents / friends on how to validate URLs, some shit like this comes up. Using Microsoft products is like fighting windmills all the time. Lucky for me, I have ended all friend-support for anyone not using Linux or MacOS.
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Firstly, they're not doing anything anyone couldn't have done 20 years ago with a walkman
Well, I have walked around with a Walkman, then Discman and now a Minidisc since 1987 and not heard about this once in that time. If it's a first, it's news.
Just exactly how do these 'iPod regulars' identify themselves to each other ? It seems to me, if I had an iPod, it would be in my breast pocket, and noone outside would know I had one. Unless these guys are wearing these things around their neck ("hey, look at me"), I can't see how people taking walks in parks would be able to identify each other
Spotting another iPod owner is one of the easiest things in the world. Just watch out for the snow-white earbuds with the odd design. I can see an iPod owner at least 10 meters away. I can also spot owners of Samsung S300M phones on the odd shape of the headsets.
I don't think iPod would ever be like a Prada handbag commodity. It is jsut too useful for that. A handbag like Prada has simply two functions: the handbag function and the advertisment function. The advertisment function doubles as status announcement. The iPod is primarily a music device but also calendar, external disc and simple game unit. The advertisment function is also there like on every product, but very toned down due to the fact that it mainly rests in a pocket or bag. Another iPod owner would recognize the earbuds at a glance, but most people would just assume it's another Walkman unless you openly brag. And the you are the advertisment function.
The con artists of the Nigerian scams don't actually make a lot of money. The millions and millions of dollars they claim to have don't exist of course, and they make money by saying they need "5000 USD for plane tickets, 1000 for charges when moving the money" etc.
It is rare for these scams to bring in more than some thousands per sucker. If they strike gold, the sucker would actually go to Nigeria of whereever, be kidnapped and held for ransom. That's where the big bucks is in this buisness.
MS offering a discount in response to not being chosen is, in fact, a prime exame of competition. It is competition at work. Whether it is 'secret' or not is immaterial.
No. Competition would be if the playing field was dominated by many small companies adjusting their prices to find a common, sustainable price. If you are an actor with oh, say 90% of the market and lower your prices drastically when a competitor enters, it's called dumping. The fact that they did it in secret is probably due to the stricter competition rules in Germany.
This is also called "the clambake twist", where the church of scientology caught their nuts in a blender when they sued Operation Clambake. By suing, they confirmed that the insane documents were indeed theirs.
There are several systems for paying via the mobile phone here, and they range from complicated to dead simple. The most complicated is the Mobilhandel system by Telenor. It is very complicated to set up but once it is done you can pay via SMS for ski passes, lattes, cinema tickets, even sex toys.
The war between the systems is on and the firs casualty seem to be Payex with high fees and complicated systems. The Mobilhandel system is complicated but has the backing of the telecom company Telenor while the Contopronto system seem to be a fast-moving cute alternative.
And it is easy to use. You don't even have to be a customer there to recieve money through the phone.
On my Mac, I ran iTunes and clicked 'Share Library'. On the Win2000 machine my Mac's music library automatically appeared in the left panel. No complex setup either.
I just wish I was a big enough computer wiz to get sound in Debian under a 2.4 kernel. But nooo...
All the college students bitching about the Jews really need to watch out. Western Europeans have a dangerous pogrom tradition that goes back 1000 years. It's a serious case of glass houses.
Well, my heritage chose not to be mean to the jews so I'll have my two cents here as a member of one of the few European peoples that were nice to the jews through history. No glass houses here.
This sentence applies to both the palestinians and the israeli: What the hell are you doing?!? This moronic spiral of violence is instigated by your leaders and fanatics. Not you.
That was the mandatory voice of reason. Now for the solution: Israel; get the hell out of the UN-defined borders and while you're at it, stop executing people with apaches. Palestine, get your police off their fat asses and arrest the key instigators before you collapse in civil war.
They just aren't going to win the speed race and they need to realize that.
Yeah, weel it makes for lousy marketing. I remember the Norwegian state railways' last ad campaign. You see, they positively suck at anything related to speed, customer service and are almost more expensive than the airlines. So they came up with a new slogan: "Gives you time to think". It's like admitting that they can't be fast so would you, please, like our other qualities. Needless to say, this campaign is a shining beacon of bad marketing history.
I agree with the fact that speed is only part of the computer esperience. But it is vital for first impressions, and it is one of the first thing people complain about on their computers.
Yeah, well, memory is cheap. My time isn't. I opened OO Write on an older Debian-running computer and it used just over a minute to open. Hate to say it, but Word used round 20 seconds when Windows was installed. Once running, everything is snappy though.
The sad thing is that it contributes to a bad image of the whole suite. I know that it is a very good suite, but my friend doesn't and the long load time makes him believe it isn't.
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I don't have that experience... My 1999 Logitech keyboard has not changed batteries ONCE in 4,5 years! I find this quite incredible and I'm currently pondering if the batteries in the keyboard are plutonium or something. The mouse needs new batteries maybe twice a year, but the keyboard is still going strong on the 1999 Duracell batteries.
Amazing.
Next time, try a portable tape recorder. Speak into it your thoughts as you walk around, then write it all out when you get to your hotel room,
Won't work. I work for an online newspaper. Where the deadline is NOW! (With the exclamation mark...), and I just did not have time to even find a quiet spot. Just to fire up the laptop and write the story home.
I had to cover a wounded Norwegian citizen at the San Fermin festival. It was incredibly crowded everywhere and I had to write an article sitting on the pavement among piles of wine-induced vomit and write it as this was the only place to sit down. Thousands of drunk USAians and Australians raved around me and spilled wine on the laptop.
Most bosses I know of really do seem to think that all employees are potentially on call 24/7.
I'm on call 24/7, it is in my contract. In fact, it's in everyones contract. But the boss understands that if I need my privacy, I turn the phone off. So the next in order gets the call. And if I'm called out to work in my spare time, I get GOOD compensation.
For the ones that don't get compensated even while being forced to work; let the boss have a taste of his / her own medicine. Call the boss up at his / her home after you have been called out to discuss details, give updates etc. Let them see how funny it is.
Sir, I must object to these claims.
No knowledgeable Windows user actually gets BSOD's on a regular basis anymore.
That is so funny! I was walking down to the railwaystation in Oslo sometime this fall, and what did I see on the newspaper Aftenposten newsscreen? You guessed it! A BSOD on the huge 40 m2 screen. So, not only do the BSODs appear, they appear in places where persons take extra care to not have them there. Like this newsscreen.
It's a fact that 99% (possibly more) of BSOD's in modern day Windows operating systems are caused by bad hardware or bad drivers.
To this I agree.
At least for Windows, I can find drivers for _all_ my hardware.
To this I do not agree. I tried to install the Microsoft Bluetooth Cordless (duh!) Mouse on an XP computer. It did not work, since it needed XP SP1. 1/2 hour later after installing SP1 + a couple of reboots, the driver CD (why would you require a diver for a mouse?) went in and promptly told us that since the PC wasn't using one of the languages on the driver disc, your were shit out of luck(tm).
This bluetooth mouse is now employed at my moms iBook, where it needed no (None, zip, nada, nichts) drivers to function from the get-go.
And oh, the mouse worked on my Debian setup too. Infact, the only place the Microsoft mouse hasn't worked is on a Windows system.
Tell that to the Jeep I pulled out of the snow with my 1987 Golf (1) GL. SUVs are worthless on snow. American SUVs are worthless in general. I can honestly say that I have not ever seen a double-bogey Explorer (or whatever it was) more pitiful than last week at Tryvann ski center. 25 cm with snow at it was stuck and had to be pulled out and to asphalt with a tractor.
(And if you are a sysadmin, get a really good wtchdog system that delivers failure messages to your pager and keep the pager a secret.)
See? They're not so different...
I'm from Norway. I believe that Bill Gates is a misunderstood genius who makes his company put in all possible effort to make the Software Of Excellence; Windows. Windows is a remarkable, groundbreaking system and if we'd all just use it, Bill would get enough money to perfect it.
OK. So my GF, who liked the iPod and nothing more, did not represent a large part of urban females when she yelled out "ooooooh! it's in PINK, it's in PINK" and "it's even smaller" and "look at that arm strap, now I can jog with it" (1) and " 'only' a thousand songs, I don't have more than a hundre to job to what would I need more than a thousand songs for" (2)?
When they launch here (thank you very much Apple, I have to wait to April to buy me, my GF and mom one), I'm first on the list to get some.
(1) I know that you can jog with the iPode, but she thought it was a little bit big for the arm. Now, there's an alternative.
(2) I also know that 15 GB is a lot more storage, but she don't care, since it's cheaper, smaller, lighter, and PINK.
Aaaahhh... The innocent days of high school, with excursions to the Technical Musum in Oslo. Where they had a fax machine. That could dial any landline for free so kids could say "Hi" to dad at work. But we tapet three sheets of paper together, hacked the line to dial the Information, got the school fax number and sent the longest fax I've ever seen.
Those were the days, indeed.
Uh, yes that is the point. I prefer to use a superior OS instead of an inferor one. If you think that is besides the point, be my guest.
And for the record: I use Debian.
This is creepy. He just described what happened with me as I installed Win2000 on my girlfriends computer last week! It installed, and before I could download a firewall via the dial-up, the computer was infected with a variant of the Blaster virus.
What do you say? He's talking about Macs? But my girlfriend just got her iBook and she did not get the Blaster virus within 10 minutes of dialing up to the net.
My head hurts...
Just after I had a lecture for my parents / friends on how to validate URLs, some shit like this comes up. Using Microsoft products is like fighting windmills all the time. Lucky for me, I have ended all friend-support for anyone not using Linux or MacOS.
Firstly, they're not doing anything anyone couldn't have done 20 years ago with a walkman
Well, I have walked around with a Walkman, then Discman and now a Minidisc since 1987 and not heard about this once in that time. If it's a first, it's news.
Just exactly how do these 'iPod regulars' identify themselves to each other ? It seems to me, if I had an iPod, it would be in my breast pocket, and noone outside would know I had one. Unless these guys are wearing these things around their neck ("hey, look at me"), I can't see how people taking walks in parks would be able to identify each other
Spotting another iPod owner is one of the easiest things in the world. Just watch out for the snow-white earbuds with the odd design. I can see an iPod owner at least 10 meters away. I can also spot owners of Samsung S300M phones on the odd shape of the headsets.
I don't think iPod would ever be like a Prada handbag commodity. It is jsut too useful for that. A handbag like Prada has simply two functions: the handbag function and the advertisment function. The advertisment function doubles as status announcement. The iPod is primarily a music device but also calendar, external disc and simple game unit. The advertisment function is also there like on every product, but very toned down due to the fact that it mainly rests in a pocket or bag. Another iPod owner would recognize the earbuds at a glance, but most people would just assume it's another Walkman unless you openly brag. And the you are the advertisment function.
Tell that to the victims of human trafficing. And, yes, a lot of them end up in porn photo- and videoshoots.
The con artists of the Nigerian scams don't actually make a lot of money. The millions and millions of dollars they claim to have don't exist of course, and they make money by saying they need "5000 USD for plane tickets, 1000 for charges when moving the money" etc.
It is rare for these scams to bring in more than some thousands per sucker. If they strike gold, the sucker would actually go to Nigeria of whereever, be kidnapped and held for ransom. That's where the big bucks is in this buisness.
No. Competition would be if the playing field was dominated by many small companies adjusting their prices to find a common, sustainable price. If you are an actor with oh, say 90% of the market and lower your prices drastically when a competitor enters, it's called dumping. The fact that they did it in secret is probably due to the stricter competition rules in Germany.
This is also called "the clambake twist", where the church of scientology caught their nuts in a blender when they sued Operation Clambake. By suing, they confirmed that the insane documents were indeed theirs.
Too bad. I really liked the all-white design, it made all the difference from the gray mass.
Oh well, off to buy one I guess.
There are several systems for paying via the mobile phone here, and they range from complicated to dead simple.
The most complicated is the Mobilhandel system by Telenor. It is very complicated to set up but once it is done you can pay via SMS for ski passes, lattes, cinema tickets, even sex toys.
You also have the Payex system, Contopronto and a few minor.
The war between the systems is on and the firs casualty seem to be Payex with high fees and complicated systems. The Mobilhandel system is complicated but has the backing of the telecom company Telenor while the Contopronto system seem to be a fast-moving cute alternative.
And it is easy to use. You don't even have to be a customer there to recieve money through the phone.
I just wish I was a big enough computer wiz to get sound in Debian under a 2.4 kernel. But nooo...
My newx computer purchase will be a Mac.
Well, my heritage chose not to be mean to the jews so I'll have my two cents here as a member of one of the few European peoples that were nice to the jews through history. No glass houses here.
This sentence applies to both the palestinians and the israeli: What the hell are you doing?!? This moronic spiral of violence is instigated by your leaders and fanatics. Not you.
That was the mandatory voice of reason. Now for the solution: Israel; get the hell out of the UN-defined borders and while you're at it, stop executing people with apaches. Palestine, get your police off their fat asses and arrest the key instigators before you collapse in civil war.
Yeah, weel it makes for lousy marketing. I remember the Norwegian state railways' last ad campaign. You see, they positively suck at anything related to speed, customer service and are almost more expensive than the airlines. So they came up with a new slogan: "Gives you time to think". It's like admitting that they can't be fast so would you, please, like our other qualities. Needless to say, this campaign is a shining beacon of bad marketing history.
I agree with the fact that speed is only part of the computer esperience. But it is vital for first impressions, and it is one of the first thing people complain about on their computers.
Yeah, well, memory is cheap. My time isn't. I opened OO Write on an older Debian-running computer and it used just over a minute to open. Hate to say it, but Word used round 20 seconds when Windows was installed. Once running, everything is snappy though.
The sad thing is that it contributes to a bad image of the whole suite. I know that it is a very good suite, but my friend doesn't and the long load time makes him believe it isn't.