I'm just as skeptical as the next geek, but remember: MP3 changed everything in audio. Compressing a 60M song to ~6M?!? 10-12X compression with only minor quality loss? No one believed it when they were told, but once we started hearing it ourselves, we couldnt believe our ears. I hope they have made the next quantum leap in compression. I doubt it, but I hope.
Don't forget Quakecon 2001 this weekend. They have their annual Case Mod Contest, and this year should be quite good. I heard rumour of a question asked of one of the organizers: 'You think a goldfish would live if its water was heated by my P4?'
Absolutely Life-Changing..., December 27, 2000
Reviewer: Paul Sorano (see more about me) from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
OH MY! I am so glad I purchased this guide. I went from hardly knowing how to turn my computer on to making $1000's of dollars in weeks, just by simply running a website on the internet. Thanks so much for introducing this easy to follow guide. Nothing could have been easier! You have truly outdone yourselves!!
I'm a bit skeptical: this comment was written during the dot.com boom.;)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
So this is how my family feels when I talk to my friends in pure acronyms. I'm confused:
ISP: I thought that meant Internet Service Provider. But it makes no sense in this context.
SSME: Second Series [of Windows] Millenium Edition (ala Win98SE)?
SRB:...not even the slightest...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
So does anyone know where I can get a case similar to the ones that VA sold? Specifically, with the blue leds - thats really the only reason I want one. I dont want to get all fancy with it, but that one blue light shining into a dark room always made me smile.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Riiiiiight. Now is this what you think, or what they're telling you? Cause I had the CEO of the company stand in front of the entire Corporate office and say that we had enough money to last us till at least June (this was in March). Then this happened. In March. March is a bit before June.
The PHBs always tell you that the company will be fine. Could you imagine if they said otherwise?;)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I went with a few guys cause we wanted to see the CG. For those of you with a life: take a date! A KILLER date movie, one you dont have to worry about being a bit uncomfortable when the obligitory sex scene hits in the typical grown up film. It seriously drew out the helpless (err, hopeless) romantic in me. It truly plays on looking past the exterior and seeing the person within. Quite good.
Other thoughts: anyone see the dragon's "lair/castle" and think "this would make a really cool Quake level"? maybe it was just me...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I was working for a guy and his consulting company doing misc computer work for companies who were too small to have a full time IS person, but big enough to have a handful of PCs. One of our ongoing jokes that he had told me, and I still carry on till this day is when you encounter an I/O error. more specifically: an Idiot/Opperator [error].
One day we had been doing some major work on thier tiny little network, and my boss and I had been running around to misc machines, using them to test this and that. Logging in to the windows boxes as 'administrator' to handle the old 3.12 novel network wasnt uncommon. So we had pretty much finished up, and as I was cleaning up some of the networking tools while he was talking to the boss, just shootin the breeze. The boss' wife came up to me and my boss (I was right next to them) and mentioned that her computer wasnt working. frustrated, but not showing it (as her machine had been a problem child all day long), I followed her around the corner to figure it out. she sat down to type in her passwd, and lo-and-behold it would not let her log in! I hopped in there, cleared out the 'administrator' username out of the box, put her login name, and told her to try again. amazingly it worked.
She thanked me and we both walked back over to the bosses (her husband and my boss). My boss asked me what the problem was, and I casually (cleverly, thoguht I) said 'Oh, just an I/O error.' knowing my boss was the/only/ person who would understand that. As the company boss looked at us quisically, my boss stopped, chuckled, looked at the lady whom I had just helped and explained, "Basically, you're an idiot."
I turned about 5 shades of bright red while everyone else laughed. I didnt quite understand that they had that good of a friendship/business relationship, but man I will never forget that feeling, nor my boss telling someones wife "you're an idiot!"
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
As I read the story, I read they're giving away cash prizes. I thought to myself, 'I could use a few grand.' Then I got to the part that indicated it all going to a non-profit OSS group. Why wouldn't IBM give money to the person who made the theme instead of an OSS group (aside from the claim of 'intl $$ swapping being a pain' on their site)? They're getting a tax write off for it!
Ya know, thats actually quite good marketing of them: spending six thousand dollars to get who knows how many people to their site, via a few posts from a number of different OSS-esque sites. Not to mention it falls in line with their current marketing scheme and is a writeoff after all that. Can't say that I wouldn't do the same if I were in their position.
Have we read through enough lines yet?
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
May I suggest using a shell interpreter of some type? I like bash, but csh may be your calling since you guys have some C/C++ background. Forget the PHP/Perl/Python thing. Just use the URL and/or cookies to store variables! No need for a database, either! I say make the client do all the work.:-D
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Yes, I know there's a windoze port of it, but with ALL respect to the guy(s) who slave at porting it (and theres alot of respect), its just too big for a few guys. This could mean runnin the latest version(s) of gimp when they're released rather than waiting for the guys to port it.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Oh yea. Committies are the way to go. Linux has gotten this far having a committee, so we should implement one now. Oh, and I'm sure when Bill G makes a solid decision, he retracts it if the committee isnt unanimous on the decision. Larry E is also noted for being a major team player, correct?
Sorry, the sarcasm key was stuck...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Anybody else remember the good ol days when not only was it a big deal that a 'major' news site noted Linux, but just as cool would have been the/. link in the middle of the page? I remember a quickies one time linking to stories on 'major' news sites who had linked back to slashdot - it was a big deal cause our favorite hole-in-the-wall website was getting noticed. Esp after Taco had made his editorial on NS's source code release, and then it happened what, a week later? Ah yes, the good ol grass roots days...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I read about the kid who pulled (well, kinda) the Emulex hoax (he lives in the same county as I, so it was all over the local news paper). Although the 15 years in prison doesnt sound too enticing, the fact that he got docked half a mil isnt as bad as it sounds: he pulled in over $900K from the prank. You do the math:)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Depending on where you look, many are sold out: Amazon
and Buy for instance. I did find some in stock at Kmart (anyone know what model that is? it doesnt say) as well as Circuit City (link may not work, uses sessionID stuff).
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Slashdot Mirror
I'm just as skeptical as the next geek, but remember: MP3 changed everything in audio. Compressing a 60M song to ~6M?!? 10-12X compression with only minor quality loss? No one believed it when they were told, but once we started hearing it ourselves, we couldnt believe our ears. I hope they have made the next quantum leap in compression. I doubt it, but I hope.
...remind me of my favorite line:
Everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Vulnerable? Yes. Stupid? No. Note that the majority of the time they spent on the surface recharging was at night.
Actually, this isnt too far off. ABC News had an article about Sony cams with 'night vision' and a filter, and can (kinda) see through clothes.
According to Symantec's page on CR2:
Also Known As: CodeRed.v3, CodeRed.C, CodeRed III, W32.Bady.C
Don't forget Quakecon 2001 this weekend. They have their annual Case Mod Contest, and this year should be quite good. I heard rumour of a question asked of one of the organizers: 'You think a goldfish would live if its water was heated by my P4?'
Absolutely Life-Changing..., December 27, 2000
;)
Reviewer: Paul Sorano (see more about me) from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
OH MY! I am so glad I purchased this guide. I went from hardly knowing how to turn my computer on to making $1000's of dollars in weeks, just by simply running a website on the internet. Thanks so much for introducing this easy to follow guide. Nothing could have been easier! You have truly outdone yourselves!!
I'm a bit skeptical: this comment was written during the dot.com boom.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
So this is how my family feels when I talk to my friends in pure acronyms. I'm confused:
...not even the slightest...
ISP: I thought that meant Internet Service Provider. But it makes no sense in this context.
SSME: Second Series [of Windows] Millenium Edition (ala Win98SE)?
SRB:
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
The poor lil bugs only have one thing that turns them on. Heck, I got lotsa things that turn me on ;)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
So does anyone know where I can get a case similar to the ones that VA sold? Specifically, with the blue leds - thats really the only reason I want one. I dont want to get all fancy with it, but that one blue light shining into a dark room always made me smile.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Slashdot should be unaffected.
;)
Riiiiiight. Now is this what you think, or what they're telling you? Cause I had the CEO of the company stand in front of the entire Corporate office and say that we had enough money to last us till at least June (this was in March). Then this happened. In March. March is a bit before June.
The PHBs always tell you that the company will be fine. Could you imagine if they said otherwise?
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I went with a few guys cause we wanted to see the CG. For those of you with a life: take a date! A KILLER date movie, one you dont have to worry about being a bit uncomfortable when the obligitory sex scene hits in the typical grown up film. It seriously drew out the helpless (err, hopeless) romantic in me. It truly plays on looking past the exterior and seeing the person within. Quite good.
Other thoughts: anyone see the dragon's "lair/castle" and think "this would make a really cool Quake level"? maybe it was just me...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I was working for a guy and his consulting company doing misc computer work for companies who were too small to have a full time IS person, but big enough to have a handful of PCs. One of our ongoing jokes that he had told me, and I still carry on till this day is when you encounter an I/O error. more specifically: an Idiot/Opperator [error].
/only/ person who would understand that. As the company boss looked at us quisically, my boss stopped, chuckled, looked at the lady whom I had just helped and explained, "Basically, you're an idiot."
One day we had been doing some major work on thier tiny little network, and my boss and I had been running around to misc machines, using them to test this and that. Logging in to the windows boxes as 'administrator' to handle the old 3.12 novel network wasnt uncommon. So we had pretty much finished up, and as I was cleaning up some of the networking tools while he was talking to the boss, just shootin the breeze. The boss' wife came up to me and my boss (I was right next to them) and mentioned that her computer wasnt working. frustrated, but not showing it (as her machine had been a problem child all day long), I followed her around the corner to figure it out. she sat down to type in her passwd, and lo-and-behold it would not let her log in! I hopped in there, cleared out the 'administrator' username out of the box, put her login name, and told her to try again. amazingly it worked.
She thanked me and we both walked back over to the bosses (her husband and my boss). My boss asked me what the problem was, and I casually (cleverly, thoguht I) said 'Oh, just an I/O error.' knowing my boss was the
I turned about 5 shades of bright red while everyone else laughed. I didnt quite understand that they had that good of a friendship/business relationship, but man I will never forget that feeling, nor my boss telling someones wife "you're an idiot!"
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
As I read the story, I read they're giving away cash prizes. I thought to myself, 'I could use a few grand.' Then I got to the part that indicated it all going to a non-profit OSS group. Why wouldn't IBM give money to the person who made the theme instead of an OSS group (aside from the claim of 'intl $$ swapping being a pain' on their site)? They're getting a tax write off for it!
Ya know, thats actually quite good marketing of them: spending six thousand dollars to get who knows how many people to their site, via a few posts from a number of different OSS-esque sites. Not to mention it falls in line with their current marketing scheme and is a writeoff after all that. Can't say that I wouldn't do the same if I were in their position.
Have we read through enough lines yet?
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I tell you who has good nature pictures: National Geographic! Now THAT was educational...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
May I suggest using a shell interpreter of some type? I like bash, but csh may be your calling since you guys have some C/C++ background. Forget the PHP/Perl/Python thing. Just use the URL and/or cookies to store variables! No need for a database, either! I say make the client do all the work. :-D
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
The fact that you know about this page...what does that imply? :)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
GIMP.
Yes, I know there's a windoze port of it, but with ALL respect to the guy(s) who slave at porting it (and theres alot of respect), its just too big for a few guys. This could mean runnin the latest version(s) of gimp when they're released rather than waiting for the guys to port it.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Oh yea. Committies are the way to go. Linux has gotten this far having a committee, so we should implement one now. Oh, and I'm sure when Bill G makes a solid decision, he retracts it if the committee isnt unanimous on the decision. Larry E is also noted for being a major team player, correct?
Sorry, the sarcasm key was stuck...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Anybody else remember the good ol days when not only was it a big deal that a 'major' news site noted Linux, but just as cool would have been the /. link in the middle of the page? I remember a quickies one time linking to stories on 'major' news sites who had linked back to slashdot - it was a big deal cause our favorite hole-in-the-wall website was getting noticed. Esp after Taco had made his editorial on NS's source code release, and then it happened what, a week later? Ah yes, the good ol grass roots days...
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
the first sign that something is out of the ordinary is a line of giant transformers.
;)
But are they Autobots or Decepticons?
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I read about the kid who pulled (well, kinda) the Emulex hoax (he lives in the same county as I, so it was all over the local news paper). Although the 15 years in prison doesnt sound too enticing, the fact that he got docked half a mil isnt as bad as it sounds: he pulled in over $900K from the prank. You do the math :)
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
But on what planet are devices 1-10 millimeters in size "smaller than the width of a human hair"?
You obviously havent seen this guy.
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Depending on where you look, many are sold out: Amazon and Buy for instance. I did find some in stock at Kmart (anyone know what model that is? it doesnt say) as well as Circuit City (link may not work, uses sessionID stuff).
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
Just like we learned from the movie Armageddon, anyone can go into space!
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...