All I use and recommend now as well. Previously good AV suites have become pointlessly (for the consumer) bloated and I'm having a higher occurence of machines being bought in with faults explicitly attributable to the AV suites.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I have to say that MSE does tend to do an acceptable job given that inevitably all AV suites let stuff slip past.
Thanks for putting the right term to this jarring experience - sincerely appreciated. I knew it was more than just plain aesthetics that made me express such disdain towards the full screen start menu effect.
"People who suffer mental illness should just get the f*ck over it."
I used to be like you. Sincerely hoping you get through life without finding out first hand how wrong your statement is.
One day I was just stressed, it's life, keep strong, get over it, the next I was a man grasping for a chance for the rational mind to regain control. I'd love nothing more than to just get the f*ck over it.
Agreed. I was trying to change the Annex type my connection is on to trade some of my down speed for a lot more up ( drop to about 10,000 down but 1,800 up ), but thus far I've been told that Telstra backhaul won't let me switch ( subsequently I can't get Dodo to switch ).
Sorry to hear about the copper situation in your GF's location. If the coalition gets in (which likely they will) I'll see you in 12 years again perhaps when we finally get FTTH on the cards again:(
We already have FTTN for most of the places around here, and most places even have 12,000/800 or so on ADSL2+, so the coalitions vision of the NBN is just what we essentially have but they get to forfil their promised delivery of "12Mbps" to most locations ( for the record, I'm in a rural zone on ADSL2+ on Dodo[Telstra backhaul] ), it's just a case of waiting a couple of years to push the price down a bit more ($69/mth here) and get more people migrated off ADSL over to ADSL2+.
The rediculous thing is that the maintanence costs on the FTTN/Copper system that we already have will consume more than the FTTH within a couple of years regardless. Sadly, I don't have much hope of FTTH being sufficiently entrenched by the time September comes along, and thus like the the 90's, we'll again be left in the dark-ages of delivery.
Because if you want the money to flow back to the "masses" you better find something interesting for those "rich bastards" to spend it on, rather than having it stagnate in some bank account. Money is most effective when it is in use, lubricating the economy engine.
If B&N want to improve their chances of success in the online/eBook market, they really need to sort out their PubIt side of matters. Currently unless you're in the US, or have gone through the extensive red-tape to obtain a US business cred, you are not permitted to get on board with directly publishing via PubIt. Conversely, Amazon and Kobo both allow international publishers to work directly through them.
While small publishers outside of the "Big 6" don't contribute a lot financially, as individuals there are however many many thousands of us, and a lot of our potential readers do have Nook units.
TLDR; B&N (PubIt) needs to be open for international publishers.
The 3GS still is one of the best ergonomic phones from Apple and so far as repairability goes it's miles ahead over the 4, 4S and the 5. About the biggest complaint with the 3GS is that the battery is indeed burried under the PCB and it's a bit of a bother to remove (7 screws) unless you know what you're doing, with a lot of people destroying the case or breaking the gold contacts because they thought they knew better and ham-fisted it.
Getting one myself. Not a lot of change out of $1000 when shipped ( cheaper if you're in the US ~$500 ), but certainly well worth the investment none the less.
I've tried different brands of CFL ( generic, GE, Philips, Nelson ) , many sizes as well (including a monster 65W unit) and the failure rate is high compared to the proposed life on the boxes. Initially I think it was that I had them in enclosed diffuser bulbs and I dare say with the way our Summer weather is here it killed the first batch through overheating of the electronics in the CFL bases. However, after ensuring they all had good cooling (even bare bulbs) there were still plenty of failures, so I'm just thinking that overall it would seem that CFL drivers aren't yet up to scratch, or at least the manufactures are cutting corners on the components.
I've switched to the faux-traditional-halogen replacement bulbs and they seem to be doing a lot better. Looking forward to converting to LEDs soon.
The fact that "professionals" are using Word ( or similar ) for their work for quality output betrays the lack of their sanity in the first place. 20 years ago Microsoft-Word was a joke of a tool for legitimately professional publishing tasks, a Fisher-Price mallet in a world of steel hammers. Back then it was LaTeX, Quark or some other probably-insanely-obscure DTP system, even WP5.1, but over the years people have forgotten how it was (probably with good reason though, none of them were all that fun and easy to use and never came with cheesy clipart). As a publisher, I still find ms-doc files to be inconsistent a lot of the time (especially from some writers) and almost always needs to be fixed up by selecting the text, copying in to a fresh file with a very strict style and manually reworking it; as opposed to LaTeX (hand generated or via LyX) where you can generate print-ready novels consistently without all the screwing around.
It would seem we've traded the steeper learning curve for substandard results and since it's been happening long enough now, it has become the 'professional way'.
Indeed. Most systems that come in here with N360, McAfee, even AVG now (try removing that sucker, it's really persistent unless everything is perfect!) are a mess in terms of performance and hijacking the browser search fields and forcibly reinstating excessive services and apps in the startup.
Clear it all away and install MSE, sure the client possibly will get infected in the future but I've found regardless of what they have had installed they invariably get infected, may as well go with the AV system that doesn't choke the system to death nor constantly shove itself in your face while you're trying to get work done. The client still "feels" protected and their system doesn't suffer profoundly.
Not initially, because people go blind when confronted with the unfamiliar and cannot see a damned thing despite it being "right there, in front of you!". Sure, once you see and know it, it's dead easy.
I repair a lot of different phones, but I have to say the 3GS is a nice beast overall - anyhow, the point of this post is, if at some point you get that battery replaced in your 3GS, be aware that you might run in to a few hiccups with it shutting down at 60~30% capacity and then going into an endless reboot. If that happens you can break out of it using instructions at this location - http://ctpc.biz/iphone3gs-battery-fix.html - oh and try get the APN: 616-0435 battery.
The number of times I've watched my own projects go from "beautiful and clean" to "crufty hack jobs" all because of handling corner-cases is probably well... the same as the number of projects I have:(
A lot of new content/producers/ are avoiding DRM like the plague as well ( We are, and almost all members of our loose, but large association are ). So it's changing.
I do wish Amazon would just get over itself and add ePub ability and be done with it... likewise release a linux-native reader.
It's a legitimate pain in the butt. Intel deliberately does this to prevent the chips/chipset cannibalising their other offerings. I for one would have no problems running this hardware if I had 4~8GB. Not that it matters to Intel, but I'll be going with the AMD E450 APU instead.
You have OBVIOUSLY never done appliance repair in your household. Most appliances have a drop away panel or backplate, that when removed, has ALL schematics, part numbers, wiring diagrams and in some cases full manuals taped to the inside.
Would love to be in your household, especially finding a full manual! Most devices here will give you a wiring layout (for hookup and minor diganosis, namely stoves and fridges) but not an actual schematic of all the fun bits in the system (eg, dishwasher or washing machine control panels) - for those you more often than not need to do some digging. The manufacturers generally don't bother putting out those finer details because most of their accredited service personel do module replacements, not circuit board repairs. In the older days, for sure, you'd get a full schem in your TV, radio, heck almost everything, but starting from the 80's that dried up more and more.
That all said, I'm glad with some of the progress, we've moved to almost all surface-mount type gear and that is a lot easier to work on than the horrid pin-through (oh dear god, I am glad I don't have to go desoldering DIP40 any more), okay, BGAs can be a bother but are still do-able.
Many "properly" ceramic knives have enough metal in the ceramic to trigger the detectors - but of course I'm sure there's plenty of places making them without bothering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_knife
Well, humour aside,I really hate MIME as well - I write a few MIME handling tools (ripMIME, alterMIME and such) and I have to say I just HATE IT.
Would have much rathered we ended up with something more akin to a zip or even tar.gz. Sure Microsoft tried to give us TNEF but that was a disaster for its own reasons.
If you try to sign up to Google checkout as a seller/merchant you are given UK or US only. That is the issue.
As a customer, yes, everything is just fine for most people.
I'll be very happy to be proven wrong, but right now every time I try to sign up as a seller, those are the only two countries that appear in the list.
Slashdot Mirror
All I use and recommend now as well. Previously good AV suites have become pointlessly (for the consumer) bloated and I'm having a higher occurence of machines being bought in with faults explicitly attributable to the AV suites.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I have to say that MSE does tend to do an acceptable job given that inevitably all AV suites let stuff slip past.
Thanks for putting the right term to this jarring experience - sincerely appreciated. I knew it was more than just plain aesthetics that made me express such disdain towards the full screen start menu effect.
"People who suffer mental illness should just get the f*ck over it."
I used to be like you. Sincerely hoping you get through life without finding out first hand how wrong your statement is.
One day I was just stressed, it's life, keep strong, get over it, the next I was a man grasping for a chance for the rational mind to regain control. I'd love nothing more than to just get the f*ck over it.
Agreed. I was trying to change the Annex type my connection is on to trade some of my down speed for a lot more up ( drop to about 10,000 down but 1,800 up ), but thus far I've been told that Telstra backhaul won't let me switch ( subsequently I can't get Dodo to switch ).
Sorry to hear about the copper situation in your GF's location. If the coalition gets in (which likely they will) I'll see you in 12 years again perhaps when we finally get FTTH on the cards again :(
We already have FTTN for most of the places around here, and most places even have 12,000/800 or so on ADSL2+, so the coalitions vision of the NBN is just what we essentially have but they get to forfil their promised delivery of "12Mbps" to most locations ( for the record, I'm in a rural zone on ADSL2+ on Dodo[Telstra backhaul] ), it's just a case of waiting a couple of years to push the price down a bit more ($69/mth here) and get more people migrated off ADSL over to ADSL2+.
The rediculous thing is that the maintanence costs on the FTTN/Copper system that we already have will consume more than the FTTH within a couple of years regardless. Sadly, I don't have much hope of FTTH being sufficiently entrenched by the time September comes along, and thus like the the 90's, we'll again be left in the dark-ages of delivery.
Because if you want the money to flow back to the "masses" you better find something interesting for those "rich bastards" to spend it on, rather than having it stagnate in some bank account. Money is most effective when it is in use, lubricating the economy engine.
If B&N want to improve their chances of success in the online/eBook market, they really need to sort out their PubIt side of matters. Currently unless you're in the US, or have gone through the extensive red-tape to obtain a US business cred, you are not permitted to get on board with directly publishing via PubIt. Conversely, Amazon and Kobo both allow international publishers to work directly through them.
While small publishers outside of the "Big 6" don't contribute a lot financially, as individuals there are however many many thousands of us, and a lot of our potential readers do have Nook units.
TLDR; B&N (PubIt) needs to be open for international publishers.
The 3GS still is one of the best ergonomic phones from Apple and so far as repairability goes it's miles ahead over the 4, 4S and the 5. About the biggest complaint with the 3GS is that the battery is indeed burried under the PCB and it's a bit of a bother to remove (7 screws) unless you know what you're doing, with a lot of people destroying the case or breaking the gold contacts because they thought they knew better and ham-fisted it.
Getting one myself. Not a lot of change out of $1000 when shipped ( cheaper if you're in the US ~$500 ), but certainly well worth the investment none the less.
I've tried different brands of CFL ( generic, GE, Philips, Nelson ) , many sizes as well (including a monster 65W unit) and the failure rate is high compared to the proposed life on the boxes. Initially I think it was that I had them in enclosed diffuser bulbs and I dare say with the way our Summer weather is here it killed the first batch through overheating of the electronics in the CFL bases. However, after ensuring they all had good cooling (even bare bulbs) there were still plenty of failures, so I'm just thinking that overall it would seem that CFL drivers aren't yet up to scratch, or at least the manufactures are cutting corners on the components.
I've switched to the faux-traditional-halogen replacement bulbs and they seem to be doing a lot better. Looking forward to converting to LEDs soon.
The fact that "professionals" are using Word ( or similar ) for their work for quality output betrays the lack of their sanity in the first place. 20 years ago Microsoft-Word was a joke of a tool for legitimately professional publishing tasks, a Fisher-Price mallet in a world of steel hammers. Back then it was LaTeX, Quark or some other probably-insanely-obscure DTP system, even WP5.1, but over the years people have forgotten how it was (probably with good reason though, none of them were all that fun and easy to use and never came with cheesy clipart). As a publisher, I still find ms-doc files to be inconsistent a lot of the time (especially from some writers) and almost always needs to be fixed up by selecting the text, copying in to a fresh file with a very strict style and manually reworking it; as opposed to LaTeX (hand generated or via LyX) where you can generate print-ready novels consistently without all the screwing around.
It would seem we've traded the steeper learning curve for substandard results and since it's been happening long enough now, it has become the 'professional way'.
Now get off my lawn!
Indeed. Most systems that come in here with N360, McAfee, even AVG now (try removing that sucker, it's really persistent unless everything is perfect!) are a mess in terms of performance and hijacking the browser search fields and forcibly reinstating excessive services and apps in the startup.
Clear it all away and install MSE, sure the client possibly will get infected in the future but I've found regardless of what they have had installed they invariably get infected, may as well go with the AV system that doesn't choke the system to death nor constantly shove itself in your face while you're trying to get work done. The client still "feels" protected and their system doesn't suffer profoundly.
Not initially, because people go blind when confronted with the unfamiliar and cannot see a damned thing despite it being "right there, in front of you!". Sure, once you see and know it, it's dead easy.
I repair a lot of different phones, but I have to say the 3GS is a nice beast overall - anyhow, the point of this post is, if at some point you get that battery replaced in your 3GS, be aware that you might run in to a few hiccups with it shutting down at 60~30% capacity and then going into an endless reboot. If that happens you can break out of it using instructions at this location - http://ctpc.biz/iphone3gs-battery-fix.html - oh and try get the APN: 616-0435 battery.
So needed some good mod points for this.
The number of times I've watched my own projects go from "beautiful and clean" to "crufty hack jobs" all because of handling corner-cases is probably well... the same as the number of projects I have :(
A lot of new content /producers/ are avoiding DRM like the plague as well ( We are, and almost all members of our loose, but large association are ). So it's changing.
I do wish Amazon would just get over itself and add ePub ability and be done with it... likewise release a linux-native reader.
It's a legitimate pain in the butt. Intel deliberately does this to prevent the chips/chipset cannibalising their other offerings. I for one would have no problems running this hardware if I had 4~8GB. Not that it matters to Intel, but I'll be going with the AMD E450 APU instead.
We do have 4G here in Australia, it's just on a band that the Apple iPad doesn't support.
"They great games, like online scrabble..."
"I'm in!"
Hilarious - the post that picked up on the OP's hidden message and it gets modded as off-topic.
For those who it went WOOSH for, take the first letter of each word...
>> Firefox Is Really Struggling To (survive).
F.I.R.S.T.
The rabid geekness in this place blinds so many.
You have OBVIOUSLY never done appliance repair in your household. Most appliances have a drop away panel or backplate, that when removed, has ALL schematics, part numbers, wiring diagrams and in some cases full manuals taped to the inside.
Would love to be in your household, especially finding a full manual! Most devices here will give you a wiring layout (for hookup and minor diganosis, namely stoves and fridges) but not an actual schematic of all the fun bits in the system (eg, dishwasher or washing machine control panels) - for those you more often than not need to do some digging. The manufacturers generally don't bother putting out those finer details because most of their accredited service personel do module replacements, not circuit board repairs. In the older days, for sure, you'd get a full schem in your TV, radio, heck almost everything, but starting from the 80's that dried up more and more.
That all said, I'm glad with some of the progress, we've moved to almost all surface-mount type gear and that is a lot easier to work on than the horrid pin-through (oh dear god, I am glad I don't have to go desoldering DIP40 any more), okay, BGAs can be a bother but are still do-able.
Many "properly" ceramic knives have enough metal in the ceramic to trigger the detectors - but of course I'm sure there's plenty of places making them without bothering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_knife
Well, humour aside,I really hate MIME as well - I write a few MIME handling tools (ripMIME, alterMIME and such) and I have to say I just HATE IT.
Would have much rathered we ended up with something more akin to a zip or even tar.gz. Sure Microsoft tried to give us TNEF but that was a disaster for its own reasons.
Thanks, seems like you've found the essential point of divergence between our experiences. Yes, I was going for the classic checkout. :(
If you try to sign up to Google checkout as a seller/merchant you are given UK or US only. That is the issue.
As a customer, yes, everything is just fine for most people.
I'll be very happy to be proven wrong, but right now every time I try to sign up as a seller, those are the only two countries that appear in the list.