my ball bag. This is horrific. They've completely fucked up groups. I hope those fuckers roll it back and give me back the old one. If they wanted to piss away some of that IPO money they should have sent me a check.
I dont disagree with you entirely but the options that now have to be twiddled were, more or less, default in the old system. They worked well because they were common-sense choices that flowed nicely with the way one used groups (usenet). Putting them behind other options just doesn't make sense.
I don't know. When I use a link that I have to microsoft.public I get the old interface. If I go directly to the groups page, I get the new. I hope they give up on that new crap, it is terrible and not just because it is new....
I agree that it mostly seems to work. The only sticking point for me so far has been the very specific versions of different drivers that you need to have. I still haven't gotten my AIW to work right but I've got a hauppage 350 that works just fine. I did, however, have to go to a third party site and download version 3.24.54.67.54 of the driver to get it to work. This isn't a real big problem for me but I'm unsure it will ever be a software-only solution for the unwashed masses.
First of all, let me know when Google finishes their "Google OS". Second, let me know when it will run Half-life 2. Granted, Google has a great search engine and that desktop thing ain't too shabby either but it is, with the exception of mail, variations on a theme. Google isn't so much in the business of coming up with new ideas and bringing them to market, they are just perfecting what others do. I'm not saying it isn't valuable (what other website name has been transformed into a verb) but to compare their handful of products with the breadth and depth of the Ms product line is laughable.
I've got a Sony Wega 36" and the damn thing is almost square. It also weighs in excess of 100lbs and the weight isn't all concentrated in the front like most tv's. I gave up the cabinet and cut a hole in the wall to mount it in. Took several people to get it in. I'm not buying anything else until that bastard dies.
You're right about the "gods at junior wages". I see those ads from time to time and I wonder what the company is up to. Have they read too many newspaper articles about the IT market and think tha t trolling the bottom is ok? Has the bell curve of pay for the IT industry shifted downwards that much? I don't know.
In my case, I wanted a guy to go kill spyware and fix defective computer parts and I advertised for just that. Imagine my shock at opening resume's for guys (and gals) with 5-10 years of experience willing to work for $15/hour. My initial reaction was that it was some idiot coming out of a big gov't contractor who was vastly overpayed due to a sea of paper credentials. Some were just idiots but many were experienced people that wanted a better quality of life.
You're probably right. They guys I talked to weren't necessarily bitter, they had just had enough of the day to day bullshit on the highways. Also, working at a small company (as long as you boss ins't an asshole) is usually pretty easy.
and while I don't know much about the economy overall I can say this much: it seems like the older It guys who survived the.com implosion are kinda burning out and looking towards different types of IT employment. Many are willing to give up high-paying (and/or high-pressure) jobs miles away in the city in order to be near home and, in many cases, a new child or wife. I know it's not unique to our field but I do believe that most IT people tend to think a bit differently about this and come to the decision that money isn't the be-all. I recently put a listing in the local paper for a desktop support guy, $10-$20/hour. I got an amazing number of responses from people who were *already employed* making way more money than I was offering and were clearly over qualified. Number one reason was to be closer to home. Number two was traffic.
At first I chalked it up to people who were lying about already being employed but after talking to them on the phone I'm not so sure. I'm near Washington and our IT scene isn't as bleak as other places so this may be a local trend.
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I don't know much about TB but I was having a discussion with a doctor the other day and he passed along this tidbit: Humans have never devised a way to kill viruses once inside the body. The common cold? Virus. What can you do? Wait it out. Sure we can treat symptoms and, in some cases, endrun the virus to head off some of its bad affects but meet it head to head and win? Hasn't happened yet. This discussion was in the context of the "every patient who has a cold wants an antibiotic" discussion. He has a tough time explaining to people that anitbiotics don't treat colds. Sure, they can contain a secondary infection but it won't help the cold at all...I don't know how much he was talking out of his ass but it was interesting.
That star wars thing was a great idea in the 80's. Throw some money at it and watch the soviets squirm. Now? I just don't know what the hell is going on with it. Sure, it might be good to research and test at a low level of funding but to start sticking those interceptors in silos when we haven't had a real unscripted test of the real launch vehicle? It seems like we're spending a lot of money on it before we're sure it's actually going to do anything. As far as what the N. Koreans will do, who knows. Their leader is as crazy as a shithouse rat.
"but let's not put windows on too high a pedestal"
fair enough but your characterization of installing a DVD player on windows is out of proportion. I just bought a $35 DVD drive that came with a copy of power dvd. Not a great program but it works and all I had to do was stick the CD in and it installed, the S/N was on a sticker right on the sleeve. I was driven to this after spending 2.5 hours trying to get the mother@#$#@!$#$ing DVD player software installed on linux. I tried following the directions and wound up with jack. The final straw started when I had to edit yum.conf (what a name) with a longish string. I edited it, ran the update command and watched as it downloaded god only knows what for the next half hour (on a T-1 line). Maybe I went about it wrong but it just shouldn't be that hard. I think linux is great, it's my swiss-army knife for just about everything. I like nothing better than to whip out a copy of linux and solve a problem for almost nothing that somebody wanted to sell me a $2000 solution for. However, a desktop replacement? Not yet.
there's plenty of competition in the linux sector. Now if we could just get someone to make a distro that actually competes with windows we'd be all set. If you want to flame me, please include an answer as to why in the world I would have to edit my yum.conf file to install a dvd player and compare that to the difficulties of installing the same software on windows. If you are stumped as to why I ask this, then employ your sage wisdom and explain why the average user would be excited about spending hours on usenet trying to figure out how to accomplish the most mundane tasks on linux. I love linux - it's my swiss army knife of choice but a desktop replacement? Yeah, I'm off topic, bite me.
You're getting a bit high-handed in your defense. The only way your files get bonked is if you use a pirated number. As far as the "presumption of innocence goes, think of it as getting a traffic ticket by a photo-red camera....:)
I did try paintshop pro and it kicks ass. Having to pay $649 for editing idiotic web graphics is just insane. For me, a program that costs $650 better do a whole lot more than the $100 alternative and Photoshop just didn't. Granted, I ain't trying to do a digital Monet but there are few who are. Maybe you are one of those few. Most that I have encountered aren't (to put it kindly).
I didn't miss the point. I addressed that when I said "if it's against the TOS then don't do it." I'll clarify: If the TOS say not to use any other number than the one you were given then don't do it. I don't, of course, know this to be the case but the software is his and he can set the rules....
Ayup, I gave up on the shareware world long ago. I wrote a script for drawing water well logs inside of AutoCAD. It wasn't terribly inventive but it worked well and eliminated a lot of tedious drawing time. I got a couple of registrations but took the program offline when I got a call from a huge company (1500 employees) wanting to know when I was going to add a feature. They were, of course, not registered and wouldn't register unless I added the feature. The fee was like $20. I still see plans where I know they've used it. I don't know that I'd ever go to the extreme of deleting files but it is heartbreaking when you realize that people are just whoring you. Damn, at least talk dirty to me before you fuck me.
I saw a show on some channel (maybe history) about that dude. It seems impossible that someone that kooky could actually be in charge of anything much more complicated than a milkshake machine.
so I don't have to worry about new phones with any kind of new features. Nextel phones are good but wrt functionality, they really do stick with the Henry Ford credo about car colors. Nextel's idea of a "new phone" is to put some nascar shit on it. The features are the same as the first nextel phone i bought like 4 years ago. Oh wait, they added java. That is very useful, I can play tiger woods golf demo (!) while I'm waiting for something to happen.
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my ball bag. This is horrific. They've completely fucked up groups. I hope those fuckers roll it back and give me back the old one. If they wanted to piss away some of that IPO money they should have sent me a check.
I dont disagree with you entirely but the options that now have to be twiddled were, more or less, default in the old system. They worked well because they were common-sense choices that flowed nicely with the way one used groups (usenet). Putting them behind other options just doesn't make sense.
I don't know. When I use a link that I have to microsoft.public I get the old interface. If I go directly to the groups page, I get the new. I hope they give up on that new crap, it is terrible and not just because it is new....
Does anyone else have a workable alternative? I suppose that I can do my own usenet feed but....this sucks.
Why that view thread link is gone is beyond me. They have essentially ruined it.
I agree that it mostly seems to work. The only sticking point for me so far has been the very specific versions of different drivers that you need to have. I still haven't gotten my AIW to work right but I've got a hauppage 350 that works just fine. I did, however, have to go to a third party site and download version 3.24.54.67.54 of the driver to get it to work. This isn't a real big problem for me but I'm unsure it will ever be a software-only solution for the unwashed masses.
ok, hl2 might have been a bad example so how about photoshop, illustrator, word, outlook, etc. How about those for cleints (sic)?
First of all, let me know when Google finishes their "Google OS". Second, let me know when it will run Half-life 2. Granted, Google has a great search engine and that desktop thing ain't too shabby either but it is, with the exception of mail, variations on a theme. Google isn't so much in the business of coming up with new ideas and bringing them to market, they are just perfecting what others do. I'm not saying it isn't valuable (what other website name has been transformed into a verb) but to compare their handful of products with the breadth and depth of the Ms product line is laughable.
I've got a Sony Wega 36" and the damn thing is almost square. It also weighs in excess of 100lbs and the weight isn't all concentrated in the front like most tv's. I gave up the cabinet and cut a hole in the wall to mount it in. Took several people to get it in. I'm not buying anything else until that bastard dies.
You're right about the "gods at junior wages". I see those ads from time to time and I wonder what the company is up to. Have they read too many newspaper articles about the IT market and think tha t trolling the bottom is ok? Has the bell curve of pay for the IT industry shifted downwards that much? I don't know.
In my case, I wanted a guy to go kill spyware and fix defective computer parts and I advertised for just that. Imagine my shock at opening resume's for guys (and gals) with 5-10 years of experience willing to work for $15/hour. My initial reaction was that it was some idiot coming out of a big gov't contractor who was vastly overpayed due to a sea of paper credentials. Some were just idiots but many were experienced people that wanted a better quality of life.
You're probably right. They guys I talked to weren't necessarily bitter, they had just had enough of the day to day bullshit on the highways. Also, working at a small company (as long as you boss ins't an asshole) is usually pretty easy.
and while I don't know much about the economy overall I can say this much: it seems like the older It guys who survived the .com implosion are kinda burning out and looking towards different types of IT employment. Many are willing to give up high-paying (and/or high-pressure) jobs miles away in the city in order to be near home and, in many cases, a new child or wife. I know it's not unique to our field but I do believe that most IT people tend to think a bit differently about this and come to the decision that money isn't the be-all. I recently put a listing in the local paper for a desktop support guy, $10-$20/hour. I got an amazing number of responses from people who were *already employed* making way more money than I was offering and were clearly over qualified. Number one reason was to be closer to home. Number two was traffic.
At first I chalked it up to people who were lying about already being employed but after talking to them on the phone I'm not so sure. I'm near Washington and our IT scene isn't as bleak as other places so this may be a local trend.
or worse yet, your spelling one.....
Like I said, I don't know a hell of alot about it but your 76 hour timeline makes me suspicious. Does it kill the virus or not?
I don't know much about TB but I was having a discussion with a doctor the other day and he passed along this tidbit: Humans have never devised a way to kill viruses once inside the body. The common cold? Virus. What can you do? Wait it out. Sure we can treat symptoms and, in some cases, endrun the virus to head off some of its bad affects but meet it head to head and win? Hasn't happened yet. This discussion was in the context of the "every patient who has a cold wants an antibiotic" discussion. He has a tough time explaining to people that anitbiotics don't treat colds. Sure, they can contain a secondary infection but it won't help the cold at all...I don't know how much he was talking out of his ass but it was interesting.
That star wars thing was a great idea in the 80's. Throw some money at it and watch the soviets squirm. Now? I just don't know what the hell is going on with it. Sure, it might be good to research and test at a low level of funding but to start sticking those interceptors in silos when we haven't had a real unscripted test of the real launch vehicle? It seems like we're spending a lot of money on it before we're sure it's actually going to do anything. As far as what the N. Koreans will do, who knows. Their leader is as crazy as a shithouse rat.
"but let's not put windows on too high a pedestal"
fair enough but your characterization of installing a DVD player on windows is out of proportion. I just bought a $35 DVD drive that came with a copy of power dvd. Not a great program but it works and all I had to do was stick the CD in and it installed, the S/N was on a sticker right on the sleeve. I was driven to this after spending 2.5 hours trying to get the mother@#$#@!$#$ing DVD player software installed on linux. I tried following the directions and wound up with jack. The final straw started when I had to edit yum.conf (what a name) with a longish string. I edited it, ran the update command and watched as it downloaded god only knows what for the next half hour (on a T-1 line). Maybe I went about it wrong but it just shouldn't be that hard. I think linux is great, it's my swiss-army knife for just about everything. I like nothing better than to whip out a copy of linux and solve a problem for almost nothing that somebody wanted to sell me a $2000 solution for. However, a desktop replacement? Not yet.
there's plenty of competition in the linux sector. Now if we could just get someone to make a distro that actually competes with windows we'd be all set. If you want to flame me, please include an answer as to why in the world I would have to edit my yum.conf file to install a dvd player and compare that to the difficulties of installing the same software on windows. If you are stumped as to why I ask this, then employ your sage wisdom and explain why the average user would be excited about spending hours on usenet trying to figure out how to accomplish the most mundane tasks on linux. I love linux - it's my swiss army knife of choice but a desktop replacement? Yeah, I'm off topic, bite me.
You're getting a bit high-handed in your defense. The only way your files get bonked is if you use a pirated number. As far as the "presumption of innocence goes, think of it as getting a traffic ticket by a photo-red camera....:)
I did try paintshop pro and it kicks ass. Having to pay $649 for editing idiotic web graphics is just insane. For me, a program that costs $650 better do a whole lot more than the $100 alternative and Photoshop just didn't. Granted, I ain't trying to do a digital Monet but there are few who are. Maybe you are one of those few. Most that I have encountered aren't (to put it kindly).
I didn't miss the point. I addressed that when I said "if it's against the TOS then don't do it." I'll clarify: If the TOS say not to use any other number than the one you were given then don't do it. I don't, of course, know this to be the case but the software is his and he can set the rules....
Ayup, I gave up on the shareware world long ago. I wrote a script for drawing water well logs inside of AutoCAD. It wasn't terribly inventive but it worked well and eliminated a lot of tedious drawing time. I got a couple of registrations but took the program offline when I got a call from a huge company (1500 employees) wanting to know when I was going to add a feature. They were, of course, not registered and wouldn't register unless I added the feature. The fee was like $20. I still see plans where I know they've used it. I don't know that I'd ever go to the extreme of deleting files but it is heartbreaking when you realize that people are just whoring you. Damn, at least talk dirty to me before you fuck me.
If it's against the terms of service then don't do it. Besides, the thing is 20 fucking dollars. Get a life and pay the man.
I saw a show on some channel (maybe history) about that dude. It seems impossible that someone that kooky could actually be in charge of anything much more complicated than a milkshake machine.
so I don't have to worry about new phones with any kind of new features. Nextel phones are good but wrt functionality, they really do stick with the Henry Ford credo about car colors. Nextel's idea of a "new phone" is to put some nascar shit on it. The features are the same as the first nextel phone i bought like 4 years ago. Oh wait, they added java. That is very useful, I can play tiger woods golf demo (!) while I'm waiting for something to happen.