Wow! Thanks for the compliment! Isn't that the definition of a geek? Someone who takes stuff apart to learn how it works?
Did you know that the Wright Brothers where amateurs? How about Thomas Edison? Yep, him too. Look what they accomplished.
I spent 2 years at University, I dropped out for stupid reasons but to be honest, I know more than most of the people there who graduated. Unfortunately, that silly piece of paper is all most employers care about.
Similar experience here, but with Quantum Fireball 9 Gig drives that where shipped in our HP VEi8's and VL400's (yes, old hardware). I think HP got a bad batch, we had a 25% failure rate here (that's a LOT of hard drives!).
Personally, I've had a 10Gb Quantum Fireball drive running fine for 6 years in my home PC. Hmm, I probably just jinxed myself saying that...:-)
Yep, been there done that but with Novell Netware in my case, though. The sysadmin at the place I did it at was a cool guy though so I did it purely for educational purposes... honest. We where all 16 and stupid once:)
Laptops can be quickly secured with a BIOS password. In general, they're much harder to reset when you forget them as well. I would hope anyone with a laptop and an ounce of common sense would have it secured in this manner!
The consensus is that the Pioneer probes have run out of power and are not reachable. An interesting mission would be to building something more powerful than the current relays we have on Earth and try to contact at least one of them to confirm this, but I doubt the money is there.
"Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword."
That's the best sentence I've read in a long time.
I'm sure there's plenty of Slashdotters who'd rather she stabbed him with it, though... *grin*.
You don't need money, you need to be a British Citizen, or Subject. Bill can't call himself Sir because he's an American Citizen. According to the Declaration of Independence, in America all men are created equal so nobody can have titles.
If Bill wanted to become Sir Bill he'd have to give up his US Citizenship and become a British Citizen.
This the same reason why you never see Anthony Hopkins credited as "Sir Anthony" in US films.
My cell phone has a bunch of ring tones, all the crap Samsung added. I use two of them, one is a normal US ringer, the other is vibrate. Most of the time it's set on vibrate.
There are few things more annoying than being out in public listening to some horrible scratchy version of the latest "music" the Top 40 has inflicted on us. Bonus irritation points if you're in the movie theatre (those sort of people need to be tortured without mercy).
I want my DVR (which I have from my cable company) to do three things:
1. Record all of my shows... 2....in High Definition if available 3. Let me download what I recorded to my computers
It does 1 and 2 and it has 20 hours of storage (80 for non HD shows). That's all the storage I need, and for $6 a month I'm not complaining.
It won't let me download (silly copyright thing I suppose:-)), that's the only caveat. I own a video capture card so I can hook it up to that if I need to save stuff, it's a nuisance but it works. Still, 2 out of 3 aint bad.
Please tell me one thing TiVo offers beyond this that makes it worthwhile.
Tell that to all the idiot reporters I watched last summer broadcasting from the beach. In the middle of a hurricane. I'm actually astonished none of them where killed by flying debris.
On the flip side, right after the Hurricane Charley all the street lights where out, there were power lines and the emergency services where rightly telling everyone to stay inside. What did I see moving past my window every 10 minutes for the rest of the night? Emergency vehicles? Nope. Idiots in cars driving around with their lights off surveying the damage.
Humans are just naturally curious, usually it's a good thing, sometimes it can get us in big trouble!
1991: TV-out, twice (A Spectrum +2B no less, silly Amstrad mods but didn't suffer from the sound problems the +2A had). Dixons really screwed us on this deal, remember the huge scandal about them overcharging on interest? Yep, that was us. My Mum (who paid for it) was furious! After the 2nd failure we got our money back and bought a new one from Tandy. It still works great 1994: Power supply, 3 times. Those Amstrad 7-486's had a design flaw with the power supply. The 4th power supply is still working though, as far as I know (I've not turned the box on in years) 1999: Motherboard.
That's it... I've been pretty lucky with my computers. I didn't even like Amstrad but still somehow ended up owning 2 PCs made by them. Oh, well.
I'm sure one reason for this is when you've been drinking, and you make the decision to drive, you make DAMN sure you are doing all you can to focus on driving.
I really hope you're not referring to yourself here, cause if you are please let me know what roads you drive on so I can avoid them.
I just recently acquired a cell phone after not owning one for 5 years. Driving with my previous cell phone was never an option since I couldn't drive back then.:)
I tried driving whilst talking on my cell phone (helping a friend troubleshoot his PC as it happens) just once to see what it was like on some back roads. Now, I've never driven drunk (really!) but it certainly felt that way. I kept over correcting and had a hard time keeping the vehicle under control. Incidentally, this was without a hands-free kit.
Now, I've only been driving 12 months and therefore lack experience so it may have affected me more than an experienced driver. It certainly cemented why I hate driving behind someone else who's talking on their phone, though.
In my humble opinion it would probably be better to send a couple of dozen humans to Mars on a one way trip the first time around so they can start building a colony. It's just to far to think about a short hop return mission.
This will never happen, the budget will have been cut so much by the time we get around to sending humans to mars it'll be a couple of guys spending a couple of weeks there with minimal scientific experiments. Which is a shame. Yes, I am cynical; look at the moon landings, they where just getting some real science started and it was cancelled.
Actually, I was in the same court as you. Someone bought me a picture phone for Christmas (thanks Grandma:-)) and I've found in invaluable - especially when troubleshooting stuff. A picture tells a thousand words. Plus, I can take cute pictures of my children and annoy people by insisting they look at them.:)
I don't want to play MP3s with my phone.
I do, and I would pay money for a phone that supported this. Anyone know of a decent one with decent storage?
I don't want to check my e-mail with my phone.
I need that for work.
I don't want to browse the web with my phone. I don't want to play games with my phone.
I really don't care one way or the other, browsing the web on a cell phone is frustrating but it is useful from time to time. The games I can take or leave.
What I really, really want is for those annoying ring tones to be banned.
I'm still waiting. I still cringe over every single embarassing memory in the 30-year period that is my life. Those memories, when I recall them, are much too clear, and it feels like it just happened, despite the fact that some of those events had occurred over 20-25 years ago. Sometimes it's so strong, I feel the need to shut down, and lately, it's started to cause nervous reactions; too many things are drawing them up as I work to re-integrate myself into that thing known as "Humanity."
You just need to stop beating yourself up about it. If we didn't have excrutiatingly embarassing things happen to us (hell, just look at some of the ill-advised comments I've made in the past and resulting flames...:-)) we wouldn't grow as people.
I've done so many dumb things so far in my life I could spend the rest of it just hiding in a corner somewhere. I know I'm doing to do a ton more, but I also know I'll learn from then, move on, and grow.
For example, I now know that if you drink to much Archers and Coke you will get sick, and if you have floppy disks in your pocket they may just fall in the toilet with your vomit and cause a blockage. I further know that your friends don't appreciate you staggering home without cleaning the resultant mess up.:-)
You've obviously not met my parents. They have tons of old technology. It works but, more importantly, they know how it works. My Mother will cheerfully tell you that she didn't have electricity until she was 12 years old. Yep, we younger people have it easy. (I'm 26).
They just got digital terrestrial over Christmas after living with the 5 freebie channels available in the UK (all they ever wanted). I was floored.
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It was also called Toothing apparently. Also, the fact that I actually looked this up proves I'm a helpless geek.
The world realised it was a silly phrase invented by the media and it was quietly retired? Or maybe all the "toothers" met up and did it properly?
Who knows, or cares?
Wow! Thanks for the compliment! Isn't that the definition of a geek? Someone who takes stuff apart to learn how it works?
Did you know that the Wright Brothers where amateurs? How about Thomas Edison? Yep, him too. Look what they accomplished.
I spent 2 years at University, I dropped out for stupid reasons but to be honest, I know more than most of the people there who graduated. Unfortunately, that silly piece of paper is all most employers care about.
"Daddy. Wake up. Wake up Daddy. Daddy. Wake up.... Wake up! DADDY. DADDY!!!! WAKE UP!!! DA-DEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!... WAKE UP DADDY!!!
Then, he starts hitting me. I've had my alarm clock disconnected for months. Waste of electricity.
Similar experience here, but with Quantum Fireball 9 Gig drives that where shipped in our HP VEi8's and VL400's (yes, old hardware). I think HP got a bad batch, we had a 25% failure rate here (that's a LOT of hard drives!).
:-)
Personally, I've had a 10Gb Quantum Fireball drive running fine for 6 years in my home PC. Hmm, I probably just jinxed myself saying that...
Yep, been there done that but with Novell Netware in my case, though. The sysadmin at the place I did it at was a cool guy though so I did it purely for educational purposes... honest. We where all 16 and stupid once :)
Laptops can be quickly secured with a BIOS password. In general, they're much harder to reset when you forget them as well. I would hope anyone with a laptop and an ounce of common sense would have it secured in this manner!
The consensus is that the Pioneer probes have run out of power and are not reachable. An interesting mission would be to building something more powerful than the current relays we have on Earth and try to contact at least one of them to confirm this, but I doubt the money is there.
They already have, at least with the Laurel & Hardy movies. I would be surprised if they hadn't with Charlie Chaplain either.
"Among the pomp and grandeur of the formal state rooms at the palace, Gates will kneel in front of the sovereign, who will gently tap him on the shoulder with a sword."
That's the best sentence I've read in a long time.
I'm sure there's plenty of Slashdotters who'd rather she stabbed him with it, though... *grin*.
You don't need money, you need to be a British Citizen, or Subject. Bill can't call himself Sir because he's an American Citizen. According to the Declaration of Independence, in America all men are created equal so nobody can have titles.
If Bill wanted to become Sir Bill he'd have to give up his US Citizenship and become a British Citizen.
This the same reason why you never see Anthony Hopkins credited as "Sir Anthony" in US films.
My cell phone has a bunch of ring tones, all the crap Samsung added. I use two of them, one is a normal US ringer, the other is vibrate. Most of the time it's set on vibrate.
There are few things more annoying than being out in public listening to some horrible scratchy version of the latest "music" the Top 40 has inflicted on us. Bonus irritation points if you're in the movie theatre (those sort of people need to be tortured without mercy).
I want my DVR (which I have from my cable company) to do three things:
...in High Definition if available
:-)), that's the only caveat. I own a video capture card so I can hook it up to that if I need to save stuff, it's a nuisance but it works. Still, 2 out of 3 aint bad.
1. Record all of my shows...
2.
3. Let me download what I recorded to my computers
It does 1 and 2 and it has 20 hours of storage (80 for non HD shows). That's all the storage I need, and for $6 a month I'm not complaining.
It won't let me download (silly copyright thing I suppose
Please tell me one thing TiVo offers beyond this that makes it worthwhile.
Until MS adds support for it in a future version of Windows. It'll happen, trust me.
Woah... yep that worked, but adblocking the entire site that the offending ad came from fixed it the second time.
Little unnevering, though since that's the first pop-up I've seen in about a year.
Tell that to all the idiot reporters I watched last summer broadcasting from the beach. In the middle of a hurricane. I'm actually astonished none of them where killed by flying debris.
On the flip side, right after the Hurricane Charley all the street lights where out, there were power lines and the emergency services where rightly telling everyone to stay inside. What did I see moving past my window every 10 minutes for the rest of the night? Emergency vehicles? Nope. Idiots in cars driving around with their lights off surveying the damage.
Humans are just naturally curious, usually it's a good thing, sometimes it can get us in big trouble!
I know it was meant in humour but, actually I am really sick of seeing them. I have two eyes, but only one of them works :(
:)
Anyone else who is blind in one eye feel left out?
1991: TV-out, twice (A Spectrum +2B no less, silly Amstrad mods but didn't suffer from the sound problems the +2A had). Dixons really screwed us on this deal, remember the huge scandal about them overcharging on interest? Yep, that was us. My Mum (who paid for it) was furious! After the 2nd failure we got our money back and bought a new one from Tandy. It still works great
1994: Power supply, 3 times. Those Amstrad 7-486's had a design flaw with the power supply. The 4th power supply is still working though, as far as I know (I've not turned the box on in years)
1999: Motherboard.
That's it... I've been pretty lucky with my computers. I didn't even like Amstrad but still somehow ended up owning 2 PCs made by them. Oh, well.
The speaker usually enunciates very loudly and clearly directly into the mic
n ow ...howyalldoin?"
:) Perhaps you mean Ham operators?
Typical Floridian CB operator:
"WellhowdypardnerI'mdrivindowni95inmachevyright
Not very clear to me...
I'm sure one reason for this is when you've been drinking, and you make the decision to drive, you make DAMN sure you are doing all you can to focus on driving.
I really hope you're not referring to yourself here, cause if you are please let me know what roads you drive on so I can avoid them.
I just recently acquired a cell phone after not owning one for 5 years. Driving with my previous cell phone was never an option since I couldn't drive back then. :)
I tried driving whilst talking on my cell phone (helping a friend troubleshoot his PC as it happens) just once to see what it was like on some back roads. Now, I've never driven drunk (really!) but it certainly felt that way. I kept over correcting and had a hard time keeping the vehicle under control. Incidentally, this was without a hands-free kit.
Now, I've only been driving 12 months and therefore lack experience so it may have affected me more than an experienced driver. It certainly cemented why I hate driving behind someone else who's talking on their phone, though.
Or get back to earth for that matter?
:-)
Well, it slows down with retro rockets.
In my humble opinion it would probably be better to send a couple of dozen humans to Mars on a one way trip the first time around so they can start building a colony. It's just to far to think about a short hop return mission.
This will never happen, the budget will have been cut so much by the time we get around to sending humans to mars it'll be a couple of guys spending a couple of weeks there with minimal scientific experiments. Which is a shame. Yes, I am cynical; look at the moon landings, they where just getting some real science started and it was cancelled.
msnbot.msn.com hit my web site no less than 10,661 times last month so I'll be interested to see what difference this has on my vistor numbers.
When Google launched I saw my hits go up quite considerably in the space of 6 months.
I don't want to take pictures with my phone.
:-)) and I've found in invaluable - especially when troubleshooting stuff. A picture tells a thousand words. Plus, I can take cute pictures of my children and annoy people by insisting they look at them. :)
Actually, I was in the same court as you. Someone bought me a picture phone for Christmas (thanks Grandma
I don't want to play MP3s with my phone.
I do, and I would pay money for a phone that supported this. Anyone know of a decent one with decent storage?
I don't want to check my e-mail with my phone.
I need that for work.
I don't want to browse the web with my phone.
I don't want to play games with my phone.
I really don't care one way or the other, browsing the web on a cell phone is frustrating but it is useful from time to time. The games I can take or leave.
What I really, really want is for those annoying ring tones to be banned.
I'm still waiting. I still cringe over every single embarassing memory in the 30-year period that is my life. Those memories, when I recall them, are much too clear, and it feels like it just happened, despite the fact that some of those events had occurred over 20-25 years ago. Sometimes it's so strong, I feel the need to shut down, and lately, it's started to cause nervous reactions; too many things are drawing them up as I work to re-integrate myself into that thing known as "Humanity."
:-)) we wouldn't grow as people.
:-)
You just need to stop beating yourself up about it. If we didn't have excrutiatingly embarassing things happen to us (hell, just look at some of the ill-advised comments I've made in the past and resulting flames...
I've done so many dumb things so far in my life I could spend the rest of it just hiding in a corner somewhere. I know I'm doing to do a ton more, but I also know I'll learn from then, move on, and grow.
For example, I now know that if you drink to much Archers and Coke you will get sick, and if you have floppy disks in your pocket they may just fall in the toilet with your vomit and cause a blockage. I further know that your friends don't appreciate you staggering home without cleaning the resultant mess up.
You've obviously not met my parents. They have tons of old technology. It works but, more importantly, they know how it works. My Mother will cheerfully tell you that she didn't have electricity until she was 12 years old. Yep, we younger people have it easy. (I'm 26).
They just got digital terrestrial over Christmas after living with the 5 freebie channels available in the UK (all they ever wanted). I was floored.