Although Nicads will have some memory effect after a while of recharging from about halfway depleted, but if you completely discharge the battery and fully charge it two or three times, the memory effect is almost completely reversed.
If the USPS (Postal Service) can give a contract to AOL so that space is allowed for AOL CD's with a USPS sticker, why can't every state, county, city or even the water department office sell advertising?
The USPS says AOL is providing a service by letting people know there is an easy way to get on the internet (or some trivia like that).
Note that we pay taxes to support the USPS and a place to hold AOL CD's.
I jumped to the beta site and was intrigued by the
"'Showgirls' Bares All in Self-Mocking DVD"
I clicked and it took me to the wrong link. Yet another little bit of MS software presented to the public without being double-checked for accuracy. Following is the bad link, but don't bother, you'll just waste your time.
http://g.msn.com/0PNENUS/1?http://c.moreover.com/c lick/here.pl?z180993149&z=50237909
Back in the early 80's a "Nixie Tube" manufacturer's rep had an article saying that the LED display would never become low cost enough to replace the nixie tube neon display.
OK, pretend you are looking at a three dimensional CAD view of a computer from the front. The power supply is back behind the CD-ROM. With the 3D mouse you zoom into the system until see the front of the power supply box. You have zoomed right through the CD-ROM and are seeing the cables and box and maybe even part of the back panel (from inside the box). Your intent is to change the power supply mounting hardware. With a 2-D mouse you could only have moved up/down and side to side on the view of the front panel. That's one use of a 3-D mouse.
The reason for MS's success is that they had a useable system that would work for most people. Then, they starting upgrading and forcing use of upgrades by requiring companies to preload and sell only the newer versions (which were not backwards compatible but could easily have been).
This "forced" revenue stream continued until just recently when some companies started preloading Linux. MS no longer controls the forced upgrade market. If they stop supporting their older systems now, the 'big' users will start investigating other lower cost operating systems. MS is threatened by Linux because people do not like to be controlled and basically extorted.
Seems to me that LINDOWS is a combination of:
LINUX (first three letters) and
WINDOWS (Last four letters)
Should the Linux community have been outraged that he was joining that OS with Windows?
Unfortunately that also included the last 6 letters of Windows.
Was he in it just for the money? If you were $5 million in debt, had already changed your name for Europe, and had a chance to pick up a cool $20 million, which way would you go? Would a court case in which the loser would appeal and keep eating away at your company for 4-5 years be a real alternative to a struggling company? I think not. Going to court for the principle would have probably been the end of Lindows / Lindspire.
I am starting a new company to challenge the Windows Trademark. The company name will be "Vindows". I fully expect that there will be a legal challenge by that big nasty company with all the money. I expect a need to raise about two million to be financially viable before introducing the new company and its products. I promise that I will not store my software in a warehouse somewhere, but will provide direct links to the manufacturer's websites where you will be allowed to obtain software at no cost to you once you become a partner in my company. I am currently soliciting investment funds from entrepeneurs in the amounts of $50.00 or more each toward this goal. Private share certificates will be issued for each investment of $50.00, and for the first $1000 (oops) I meant 1000 people who have limited funds and can only donate (oops again) invest $25 dollars, I will divide the investment shares accordingly.
If the venture company really takes off, we will all become rather rich. However, the best we can hope for is for that big nasty company to come try to put us out of business by claiming they have rights to our name. The way I see it, with two million dollars to pay attorney fees, we will still have $18 million to share after we change our name and settle out of court. For those who have invested in the initial two million dollars, your return will be a whopping 400 percent, allowing you to recoup your investment plus 300 percent in less than 3 years. That leaves me as CEO and owner, having made the company what it is, with just enough to limp along and start over with --- well, I was thinking of something like "Rindows". Please forward your donations to me at my websites, vindows.com and three years from now, rindows.com. Please don't get the names mixed up since others may try to scam you out of money by registering similar websites like "dindows" of "findows" or even "zindows". Thanks ahead for your donation (oops still again). I meant investment. CEO and Owner, Vindows
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Yesterday, my daughter told me that she was having trouble hearing me because her next door neighbor's phone conversation was too loud. She even recognized the voice!
Don't think for a minute that no one can hear. Even if you are on a wire connection, the other end may not be.
The first link says MS, AOL and Yahoo have joined forces. The Liberty Alliance page shows AOL as one of the 15 "Management Board Members". Seems AOL is positioning themselves to be a win/win member.
OK, so you had trouble with that one. When people start a new document, they are planning to type some information and they should be immediately presented with the default blank document, ready to type. Most likely, they will never make a template, and if they do they will not make more than one every few months. If they want to do something other than type, then that should be on another menu, after the program is in "type" mode.
You don't get it do you. Ranting without stopping to understand the problem just gives the world more poorly thought out software. Just because you have expertise in computers or some other area does not mean everyone does. For instance, in MSWord-97, I type file/new and it asks me if I want a blank document or blank template. Duh!! Try to load your old Netscape or Mozilla mail files to your new computer so you can continue seamlessly. Same for the bookmarks. Think ahead, not behind. Programs do not need bells and whistles to be good, but they do need to do the things people need done.
Although I run W-2000 at work and on my most used at home, my backup is still using W-95 that I loaded from Floppy disks. Except when I run ACDSee and Photoshop LE along with Netscape 4.7, it never has a problem. If third world countries are having as few problems as that computer has, why would they spend money to upgrade from 95 or 98 to something new. Think of it this way. If you have $5.00 and food and housing costs $4.75, are you going to spend the other quarter on a software upgrade?
I choose to use IE for downloading updates to IE or windows ---- mainly because I get a blank page with google.
My browser tells me I need a plug-in from Quick-Time to be able to view some page. I go to quicktime and find that they want to sell me some new program instead of allowing my needed download to progress. I have no idea what plug-in to download and install.
McAfee tells me that my firewall (90 day trial on new computer) has expired and that I need to buy a new one to keep from having internet problems. Since I have never heard of a firewall, I think this is a name for part of the virus protection, and that it must be ordered to continue the virus protection. They tell me this everytime my computer starts up. How do I stop it? I decide to order the upgrade and find it cannot be done from my non-IE browser.
I've heard about Mozilla and would like to have it, but I don't know how to download (or download is a foreign word to me) and even if it is downloaded, I don't know how to unzip it and run it. I don't even know what unzip means on a computer. (I only know it comes in handy about 9:45 am after a bowl of cereal with milk, some juice and about three cups of coffee.)
My plumbing under the sink leaks, and there's all those fittings and S-curved pieces and all. I know I can find them at Home Depot and I guess with a little ingenuity, I can repair the leak. I will call a plumber, because I don't know a trap from a reducer. You probably will tell me I'm too lazy to learn how to be a home plumber.
If you are reading this, you probably know what to do in each of my case studies (except the plumbing.
Next time you write a program or discuss what you think are the competence levels of your user, think about yourself as a plumber or a transmission mechanic, or even a research chemist. Are you too lazy to learn how to use the tools of the trade? Your choices are; 1. Learn the tools of the trade and make the repair. 2. Call a plumber. 3. let it continue to leak.
Well, everyone is allowed their own opinion as to the operation of our political system. Perhaps you can convince a few influential people that your's is the way to go.
Now for the budget reason you commented on. Do you think for a minute that tax rebates of $500 to $1000 for each tax payer did not contribute heavily to the increased budget deficit? What do you get for $10 billion or more in interest over four years?
Do you wonder why you pulled out just one line of a satire to comment on?
Extending the life of a product like the Rovers or the Hubble telescope takes millions of dollars. Why should we do that when we can spend a few billion dollars to build a new one that will have twice the expected life of the present ones?
What! Are you telling me the present Rovers have lasted that long already? And the Hubble also? Well, then, looks they should be abandoned or we won't have enough money to start the new version with real rubber wheels. Keeping a staff of NASA data-takers costs a lot of money. That comes right out of our budget plans for new projects.
Budget deficit you ask? Well, I'll tell you this. The only way we are going to solve that budget problem is to get it to the attention of the American voters, and what better way than to have the media report on it's enormous size every day. Now if we just give one more tax rebate of $500 to $2000, everyone will be happy and the next administration will have the problem of solving the budget deficit. Sooner or later the Democrats will be in office and will get the budget back to a place where we can manage it again.
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Although Nicads will have some memory effect after a while of recharging from about halfway depleted, but if you completely discharge the battery and fully charge it two or three times, the memory effect is almost completely reversed.
It IS the color of the rack.
The USPS says AOL is providing a service by letting people know there is an easy way to get on the internet (or some trivia like that). Note that we pay taxes to support the USPS and a place to hold AOL CD's.
I thought it said "orgasm".
I jumped to the beta site and was intrigued by the "'Showgirls' Bares All in Self-Mocking DVD" I clicked and it took me to the wrong link. Yet another little bit of MS software presented to the public without being double-checked for accuracy. Following is the bad link, but don't bother, you'll just waste your time. http://g.msn.com/0PNENUS/1?http://c.moreover.com/c lick/here.pl?z180993149&z=50237909
Regardless of your woman or the actual location of penguins, your chances are still very high.
I don't know anybody in the UK to call.
Back in the early 80's a "Nixie Tube" manufacturer's rep had an article saying that the LED display would never become low cost enough to replace the nixie tube neon display.
OK, pretend you are looking at a three dimensional CAD view of a computer from the front. The power supply is back behind the CD-ROM. With the 3D mouse you zoom into the system until see the front of the power supply box. You have zoomed right through the CD-ROM and are seeing the cables and box and maybe even part of the back panel (from inside the box). Your intent is to change the power supply mounting hardware.
With a 2-D mouse you could only have moved up/down and side to side on the view of the front panel.
That's one use of a 3-D mouse.
This "forced" revenue stream continued until just recently when some companies started preloading Linux. MS no longer controls the forced upgrade market. If they stop supporting their older systems now, the 'big' users will start investigating other lower cost operating systems. MS is threatened by Linux because people do not like to be controlled and basically extorted.
Seems to me that LINDOWS is a combination of: LINUX (first three letters) and WINDOWS (Last four letters) Should the Linux community have been outraged that he was joining that OS with Windows? Unfortunately that also included the last 6 letters of Windows. Was he in it just for the money? If you were $5 million in debt, had already changed your name for Europe, and had a chance to pick up a cool $20 million, which way would you go? Would a court case in which the loser would appeal and keep eating away at your company for 4-5 years be a real alternative to a struggling company? I think not. Going to court for the principle would have probably been the end of Lindows / Lindspire.
Well, no, I don't think it is new!
h/simself?? New word?
I am starting a new company to challenge the Windows Trademark. The company name will be "Vindows". I fully expect that there will be a legal challenge by that big nasty company with all the money. I expect a need to raise about two million to be financially viable before introducing the new company and its products. I promise that I will not store my software in a warehouse somewhere, but will provide direct links to the manufacturer's websites where you will be allowed to obtain software at no cost to you once you become a partner in my company.
I am currently soliciting investment funds from entrepeneurs in the amounts of $50.00 or more each toward this goal. Private share certificates will be issued for each investment of $50.00, and for the first $1000 (oops) I meant 1000 people who have limited funds and can only donate (oops again) invest $25 dollars, I will divide the investment shares accordingly.
If the venture company really takes off, we will all become rather rich. However, the best we can hope for is for that big nasty company to come try to put us out of business by claiming they have rights to our name. The way I see it, with two million dollars to pay attorney fees, we will still have $18 million to share after we change our name and settle out of court. For those who have invested in the initial two million dollars, your return will be a whopping 400 percent, allowing you to recoup your investment plus 300 percent in less than 3 years.
That leaves me as CEO and owner, having made the company what it is, with just enough to limp along and start over with --- well, I was thinking of something like "Rindows".
Please forward your donations to me at my websites, vindows.com and three years from now, rindows.com. Please don't get the names mixed up since others may try to scam you out of money by registering similar websites like "dindows" of "findows" or even "zindows".
Thanks ahead for your donation (oops still again). I meant investment.
CEO and Owner, Vindows
Yesterday, my daughter told me that she was having trouble hearing me because her next door neighbor's phone conversation was too loud. She even recognized the voice! Don't think for a minute that no one can hear. Even if you are on a wire connection, the other end may not be.
Nothing more to say!
cmdrtaco.net has just been slashdotted. I never thought I'd see the day!
I take it you're not and optimist!
The first link says MS, AOL and Yahoo have joined forces.
The Liberty Alliance page shows AOL as one of the 15 "Management Board Members".
Seems AOL is positioning themselves to be a win/win member.
OK, so you had trouble with that one. When people start a new document, they are planning to type some information and they should be immediately presented with the default blank document, ready to type. Most likely, they will never make a template, and if they do they will not make more than one every few months. If they want to do something other than type, then that should be on another menu, after the program is in "type" mode.
You don't get it do you. Ranting without stopping to understand the problem just gives the world more poorly thought out software. Just because you have expertise in computers or some other area does not mean everyone does.
For instance, in MSWord-97, I type file/new and it asks me if I want a blank document or blank template. Duh!!
Try to load your old Netscape or Mozilla mail files to your new computer so you can continue seamlessly. Same for the bookmarks.
Think ahead, not behind. Programs do not need bells and whistles to be good, but they do need to do the things people need done.
So that's where it came from!!
Although I run W-2000 at work and on my most used at home, my backup is still using W-95 that I loaded from Floppy disks. Except when I run ACDSee and Photoshop LE along with Netscape 4.7, it never has a problem. If third world countries are having as few problems as that computer has, why would they spend money to upgrade from 95 or 98 to something new. Think of it this way. If you have $5.00 and food and housing costs $4.75, are you going to spend the other quarter on a software upgrade?
I choose to use IE for downloading updates to IE or windows ---- mainly because I get a blank page with google.
My browser tells me I need a plug-in from Quick-Time to be able to view some page. I go to quicktime and find that they want to sell me some new program instead of allowing my needed download to progress. I have no idea what plug-in to download and install.
McAfee tells me that my firewall (90 day trial on new computer) has expired and that I need to buy a new one to keep from having internet problems. Since I have never heard of a firewall, I think this is a name for part of the virus protection, and that it must be ordered to continue the virus protection. They tell me this everytime my computer starts up. How do I stop it? I decide to order the upgrade and find it cannot be done from my non-IE browser.
I've heard about Mozilla and would like to have it, but I don't know how to download (or download is a foreign word to me) and even if it is downloaded, I don't know how to unzip it and run it. I don't even know what unzip means on a computer. (I only know it comes in handy about 9:45 am after a bowl of cereal with milk, some juice and about three cups of coffee.)
My plumbing under the sink leaks, and there's all those fittings and S-curved pieces and all. I know I can find them at Home Depot and I guess with a little ingenuity, I can repair the leak.
I will call a plumber, because I don't know a trap from a reducer. You probably will tell me I'm too lazy to learn how to be a home plumber.
If you are reading this, you probably know what to do in each of my case studies (except the plumbing.
Next time you write a program or discuss what you think are the competence levels of your user, think about yourself as a plumber or a transmission mechanic, or even a research chemist. Are you too lazy to learn how to use the tools of the trade? Your choices are; 1. Learn the tools of the trade and make the repair. 2. Call a plumber. 3. let it continue to leak.
Now for the budget reason you commented on. Do you think for a minute that tax rebates of $500 to $1000 for each tax payer did not contribute heavily to the increased budget deficit? What do you get for $10 billion or more in interest over four years?
Do you wonder why you pulled out just one line of a satire to comment on?
What! Are you telling me the present Rovers have lasted that long already? And the Hubble also? Well, then, looks they should be abandoned or we won't have enough money to start the new version with real rubber wheels. Keeping a staff of NASA data-takers costs a lot of money. That comes right out of our budget plans for new projects.
Budget deficit you ask? Well, I'll tell you this. The only way we are going to solve that budget problem is to get it to the attention of the American voters, and what better way than to have the media report on it's enormous size every day. Now if we just give one more tax rebate of $500 to $2000, everyone will be happy and the next administration will have the problem of solving the budget deficit. Sooner or later the Democrats will be in office and will get the budget back to a place where we can manage it again.