The company I work for does satellite phones, and we are currently activating lots of them for the emergency response groups in New York and DC. Still, do please try to keep off the ground lines.
"I know not to randomly delete dll's, or bad things are likely to happen. (I don't recall where I learned this, though.) On the other hand, I don't really comprehend what dll's do. But here's what gets me about this situation: how was this woman supposed to know not to delete dll's? Did the various manuals which came with her computer say, anywhere in them, not to delete dll's? I bet not!"
Yes, and did your car come with specific instructions not to remove the tires, or to pull loose some of the wires under the hood? No. Analogies are inherently difficult to pull off, I know, because invariably you are talking apples and oranges.
I have to agree, the concept of the 'simple restore' is great for the average consumer. but therein also lies another problem. I work at my local Best Buy as a tech, and we have 99% of the people who come in there either a) have no idea een how to follow those simple insert and reboot direction (you'd be surprised...) or b) want to do a simple windows restore. Well, you can reinstall just Windows without wiping the HD in the process with the Toshiba restore Cd's... but no others. Basically their choices are wipe completely or be screwed. And to ask the average person to do a data backup? "Umm, this file won't fit on a disk. how can I make it fit??" for their 7 meg Powerpoint presentation. Basically, average Joe and Jane user STILL get bogged down with restore CD's, and aren't able to make use of them either.
I believe it was up, up, down, down, left right, left, right, B,A,Start. Konami put this in a LOT of their games. I remember in Gradius 3, though, it killed you..... but the best lil code of the type was Ikari Warriors... A, B, B, A, Start.. Infinite lives....
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The company I work for does satellite phones, and we are currently activating lots of them for the emergency response groups in New York and DC. Still, do please try to keep off the ground lines.
"I know not to randomly delete dll's, or bad things are likely to happen. (I don't recall where I learned this, though.) On the other hand, I don't really comprehend what dll's do. But here's what gets me about this situation: how was this woman supposed to know not to delete dll's? Did the various manuals which came with her computer say, anywhere in them, not to delete dll's? I bet not!" Yes, and did your car come with specific instructions not to remove the tires, or to pull loose some of the wires under the hood? No. Analogies are inherently difficult to pull off, I know, because invariably you are talking apples and oranges.
Yes, truly hard to fool a mastermind like you. Especially when it was the Washington Post!
For most of what is done in the schools, that is enough.
Same go for Toshiba notebooks.
I have to agree, the concept of the 'simple restore' is great for the average consumer. but therein also lies another problem. I work at my local Best Buy as a tech, and we have 99% of the people who come in there either a) have no idea een how to follow those simple insert and reboot direction (you'd be surprised...) or b) want to do a simple windows restore. Well, you can reinstall just Windows without wiping the HD in the process with the Toshiba restore Cd's... but no others. Basically their choices are wipe completely or be screwed. And to ask the average person to do a data backup? "Umm, this file won't fit on a disk. how can I make it fit??" for their 7 meg Powerpoint presentation. Basically, average Joe and Jane user STILL get bogged down with restore CD's, and aren't able to make use of them either.
Yeah, but the code worked MUCH better in the game called Gradius 3 =)
Hehe... got a funny feeling they may have been /.'ed......
I believe it was up, up, down, down, left right, left, right, B,A,Start. Konami put this in a LOT of their games. I remember in Gradius 3, though, it killed you..... but the best lil code of the type was Ikari Warriors... A, B, B, A, Start.. Infinite lives....
>For my money, i'd just get a DSL, ISDN or Cable connection
Agreed, cable and DSL are good ways to get that connection, but ISDN?? pricewise, it is absolutely ridiculous.