>Bill Gates >A, B, C, D, E, F, G,... oh, you get the picture.
Order yours now! Call 1-800-ABCDEFG and have your credit card ready! (Kids, ask your parents for help before calling). Sorry, no Personal Cheques or CODs.
>Though I've written my resume using TextEdit and saved it in Adobe PDF format from that built-in feature of Mac OS X, I still get recruiters requesting my resume in M$ Word format
Choices, choices, choices!. So many choices! What will I do? I know, I'll click here and make those recruiters happy! (Warning, some solutions may require wine!)
>The computer help center simply refuses all questions related to Apple Macintosh. Sounds like some wierd politics going on.
Makes sense to me... they have about 90% of all computer users covered by supporting PCs with Windows/Linux and Unix boxes. Welcome to the world of Linux users 5 years ago. Sorry... Sometimes thinking differently and thinking outside the box means you're thinking outside your realm of support.
>I wonder which university administrator got paid a healthy bonus for pushing Apple out.
Seriously, he doubt he got the bonus for pushing Apple out. He got the bonus for satisfying more customers with fewer resources. Unless your course mandates your use of Apple, I really don't think you can expect the Uni. to help you with it. Now, if it does, that's another story...
>One of the few joys I had rubbing Mac OS X in my advisor's face
You see, this is why I'm anti-Mac. Well, one of the reasons. Mac people pretend to be better than me. That really pisses me off.
>All I needed was the laser printer's IP address and Mac OS X was happy. Pissed him off to no end (LMAO).
You're sorta lucky he was nice enough not to care after your earlier bout... If he was nasty he'd just lock down the routable nets to the printer, like he should have in the first place, but hey, he was nice. Anyways, you can do this with any OS (including windows, all the way back to 3.0 if you made/found a DOS print redirector that would let you access an lp spool). Maybe he wanted it this way so he could do it at home too?
Hey, don't take it too hard. I just hope you were taking some literary license with those comments there...
>This may seem heavy-handed, but most of the stuff they're uploading is probably copyrighted, and hence illegal to share.
Did you know that most pencil torches, easily available from Radio Shack are infact used to heat crack spoons, and that "surprisingly" they aren't used to melt solder onto tram cables?
So, why aren't they busting Radio Shack for their illegal sales?
Oh, right, because the possibly illegal use of something doesn't mean you can't sell/use it (legally). That's why I can still buy/use indian cerimonial tobacco-water bongs, if I want to.
>Just because you don't agree with a law doesn't make it ok to break it with impunity - if that was the case, nobody would drive the speed limit.
But you speak as if all cars should be goverened to to a maximum of 65 MPH... Fortunately, this isn't the way things work (although some rice-burners are governed, for your safety).
>Up here in Canada, I was informed that I can only photocopy up to roughly 10% of a book
I believe you are talking about CANCOPY. This is normally applied to books borrowed for your educational use, and to photocopied handouts given to students.
Otherwise, my local library explained to me that with a map book I needed to copy, published by the government, but copyrighted, and no longer published, I would have to choose up to 25% of the book I wanted to copy.
Making a copy of a book you own for personal use would be difficult unless you own your own copier, since Kinko's, etc. will kick you out for trying to copy a whole book (I suggest you copy 100 pages at each shop -- I did this because I had a book stolen from me that was no longer available). I doubt it's illegal, though.
Someone needs to repeal copyright law on all government documents, though.
>Make me something useful in the laboratory- like ISA an to PCI adapter
Many PCI cards are infact ISA designs using one of the many PCI to ISA bridge ICs. PCI is a complex interface to design for, so engineers love these chips.
So, it certainly isn't impossible to do, but it isn't cheap or simple.
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>Whenever someone comes to me claiming to have built their PC, I ask them to describe their technique for etching multi-layer circuit boards.
Well, since you asked...
Personally I prefer positive photoetch and 3M 77 myself (if I were to do anything past 2 layer, that is), but this guy has better plans.
(You came to the wrong place to ask that question.;-) And I hate Ferric Chloride. Yech. Stains worse than anything. And the smell...)
Why can't this half of the world simply copy what already works?
DVB/S and DVB/T work very well for all other continents already. Why is it so hard to make it work for us here? Is it because of some sort of insatiable desire for HDTV that I've never actually seen?
Oh well. At least things will get more standardized, which is good.
>To really save on shipping you have to spread the storage facilities out, reducing both the distances pallets travel & the distance a shipment has to go to the customer.
Not if you ship FedEx. The owner of FedEx was laughed at for his "crazy" idea of forcing all packages to travel through a "hub" in Memphis, TN (IIRC -- it could be a different city).
The cheapest way to ship with them (and, unless it's USmail, AFAIK their rates are pretty good) would be to locate all operations in Memphis, TN.
>Now you're just being silly. If you look up "alternative" in the dictionary I bet it doesn't say "an available choice that costs thousands of dollars more than a similar choice."
Actually, the price is at most double that of a decent quality TV of the same size.
IIRC, The Screen Savers were reviewing a 30" (or so, I can't remember the exact dimensions) monitor/TV combo with full VGA input and (according to them) a totally flat, high quality display that provided easy to read text for under $2000. They say that these monitors are very popular in meeting rooms for presentations. In comparison to a "regular" high-end TV, for example the Sony KV-32HV600, this represents a price inflation of only $100, which makes this an easy choice on the pocketbook.
I will furnish you with links and a model, if you would like. I would just need to search The Screen Savers site for past articles.
As far as heat and monitors goes, here's the story, straight up from what I remember in EET:
Leaving a tube (not the monitor) on all the time, even if it is displaying a blank image will shorten its life because the heater in the back will eventually wear out (just like a light bulb). Again, just like a light bulb there is a thermal shock to the heater in the tube which can cause it to fail prematurely during power on, so there is a tradeoff (I have a thread where I discussed this. Only a physicist can tell you the numbers; sorry, I'm not one.) as to how long you leave it on before it is worth turning off. It is a very safe bet to say it is best left off overnight.
Now, we have the electronics. It's more than parts jumping out of their sockets due to thermal expansion and contraction. It's also poor solder joints cracking, and very poorly designed circuit board traces frying up from the turn on current surge, and crappy capacitors boiling.
Overall, you should leave the tube off when not in use, and the electronics on, since unlike the tube the electronics generally do not perform worse over time. ie: Use your power saving mode.
It just takes a while longer to happen. On the order of 1 week to 1 month. I've seen _many_ modern colour monitors with screen burn. Do not leave static images on them.
The worst are computers with login screens that have no screen savers or screen blanking functions. These ALWAYS end up burned in at my work (in this case with the novell client) because people get lazy/forgetful about turning the screen off.
>You'd piss away miore time than your bill is worth even trying to get them to acknowledge you.
I agree it would take time. That's the idea, they don't want to deal with piss-ant cases.
The process seems more than clear enough to me, and if they don't acknowledge you, then you have even more case to sue (you can sue the city court for refusing to apply the law). The process should be:
- Write the courthouse in Yahoo!'s state.
- Tell them you want to sue over a cross state unpaid bill.
- They write you, telling you the filing fee is $80.
- You send them the filing fee, they send you a mound of papers to fill out.
- You happily spend an hour or two reading and filling out forms.
- You return the forms to the court.
- You wait 6-12 months for a court date letter to appear. If you are lucky it is in your state. If not, it isn't. It can go either way.
There you go. But don't take my word for it, take the words of someone better informed about suing people out of state.
However, according to this lawyer, you may need to elevate it past small claims level to get anywhere if it is out of state. Again, just keep tallying up the bills until they reach the point where it becomes worth your while to sue in civil court ($1000 maybe?). I do not believe the federal court will be prohibitively priced assuming you represent yourself (it's such a cut and dried case, why shouldn't you?). And now if Yahoo! doesn't get their ass down to court, the judge will be _seriously_ pissed off.
You can find out much more information about suing in small claims court here.
>AM = ante-meridian. PM = post-meridian. Meridian=noon. So is 12 noon before noon or after it?
Dictionary.com helps solve this.
Ante means before in latin. Post means after in latin.
So, we have before noon and after noon. If we look at the current day (today is december 18) the time before noon is the hours prior to it. ie: The hours before 12:00 pm. Now, if we look at the current day and look at what times occurr after noon, they are the hours after 12:00 pm.
Now, using your deduction skills, you realize that any time that minutes before:00 minues on a clock require the subtraction of an hour, but minutes occurring after do not require chaging the hour. Also, if the time is midnight, you not only change the hour, but you also change the day.
Knowing this we deduce that noon is 12:00 pm, since times ocurring after it are numbered as 12:01 pm, 12:02 pm, etc by NIST standard. Any other deduction requires a change in the hours unit, which defies logic.
Knowing that 12:00 pm is noon, we can deduce that 12:00 am is midnight by the same logic (in fact the 12:00 am midnight argument is stronger, since one would have to change the current day to make it PM, as PM is only for after noon).
And I wish that someone at NIST would apply this simple deducting and logic to these times, since it is clear when one looks that them in this way which goes with what.
The only people that have the right to worry about this sort of question are people taking calculus, where there actually are values for things that don't exist.:-)
And this gives you cause to sue them in small claims court.
If the amount of messaging exceeds $50-$100, it could be worth suing them in small claims. They probably won't even show up, and a decision will be reached (probably in your favour) in absentia.
Of course, IANAL, so don't follow that as legal advice.:-)
I am surprised that you, as a lawyer, haven't learned to revel in being screwed with. Of all people you should know best how to string up a company like this with th absolute minimum effort.
I love toying with people who think they've got me by the balls. In fact, the _lower_ the value of the dispute, the more likely I am to pursue it, as long as I don't have a paying job to do for the next five minutes.
Why? Because I've learned to enjoy being toyed with. I consider that an important strength.
It it were me, I'd be a daily showing at midnight outside that theater until I had some satisfaction. It might be a good thing for me... it could break the slashdot habit.;-) Maybe I'd end up like Hungry, Hungry Homer!
Maybe I should make a career out of this quality. I get called on enough to solve people's problems that they just don't want to deal with (oh no, I could _never_ call up and complain to someone type attitude). Heh, my 45 minute 800 number complaint call to a spammer is coming to mind... Because hey, they wasted 1 second of my time! It's hard to get any more valueless than that!
Then what time is 12 AM? Zero-hundred hours? Zulu time? 0' 0" 0? 0 seconds?
12 AM seems perfectly fine to me, and it did to everyone who had a "real" clock before japan discovered quartz movement. My grandmother, who has a hard time working the radio, never mind a digital clock, doesn't get confused over it.
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>Bill Gates ... oh, you get the picture.
>A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
Order yours now! Call 1-800-ABCDEFG and have your credit card ready! (Kids, ask your parents for help before calling). Sorry, no Personal Cheques or CODs.
(For all those outside North America)
>Though I've written my resume using TextEdit and saved it in Adobe PDF format from that built-in feature of Mac OS X, I still get recruiters requesting my resume in M$ Word format
Choices, choices, choices!. So many choices! What will I do? I know, I'll click here and make those recruiters happy! (Warning, some solutions may require wine!)
>The computer help center simply refuses all questions related to Apple Macintosh. Sounds like some wierd politics going on.
Makes sense to me... they have about 90% of all computer users covered by supporting PCs with Windows/Linux and Unix boxes. Welcome to the world of Linux users 5 years ago. Sorry... Sometimes thinking differently and thinking outside the box means you're thinking outside your realm of support.
>I wonder which university administrator got paid a healthy bonus for pushing Apple out.
Seriously, he doubt he got the bonus for pushing Apple out. He got the bonus for satisfying more customers with fewer resources. Unless your course mandates your use of Apple, I really don't think you can expect the Uni. to help you with it. Now, if it does, that's another story...
>One of the few joys I had rubbing Mac OS X in my advisor's face
You see, this is why I'm anti-Mac. Well, one of the reasons. Mac people pretend to be better than me. That really pisses me off.
>All I needed was the laser printer's IP address and Mac OS X was happy. Pissed him off to no end (LMAO).
You're sorta lucky he was nice enough not to care after your earlier bout... If he was nasty he'd just lock down the routable nets to the printer, like he should have in the first place, but hey, he was nice. Anyways, you can do this with any OS (including windows, all the way back to 3.0 if you made/found a DOS print redirector that would let you access an lp spool). Maybe he wanted it this way so he could do it at home too?
Hey, don't take it too hard. I just hope you were taking some literary license with those comments there...
>without them, we wouldn't have cheap and fast PCs today to run our software on.
I disagree. My C64 was much cheaper than my current PC, even after inflation conversion.
>So, technical challenges aside, there's no purely mathematical reason why base 2 makes more sense than any other base.
;-)
Okay, if there's no mathematical reason, tell me the value of 0.3 in binary to the last digit.
Yo moderator: YHBT. YHL. HAND.
(And jeez... I even put a warning there... wow... It wasn't even meant to be a troll originally...)
>where the hell do you live that WC actually means something?
Japan, maybe?
[Those of you whose eyes are not impervious to spontaneous combustion, should not click anything, anywhere. Ever.]
>This may seem heavy-handed, but most of the stuff they're uploading is probably copyrighted, and hence illegal to share.
Did you know that most pencil torches, easily available from Radio Shack are infact used to heat crack spoons, and that "surprisingly" they aren't used to melt solder onto tram cables?
So, why aren't they busting Radio Shack for their illegal sales?
Oh, right, because the possibly illegal use of something doesn't mean you can't sell/use it (legally). That's why I can still buy/use indian cerimonial tobacco-water bongs, if I want to.
>Just because you don't agree with a law doesn't make it ok to break it with impunity - if that was the case, nobody would drive the speed limit.
But you speak as if all cars should be goverened to to a maximum of 65 MPH... Fortunately, this isn't the way things work (although some rice-burners are governed, for your safety).
>If so, that explains why they ask for handouts.
However, it doesn't explain why they haven't given up already.
You're 18 years too late, my friend. Seems that Sony has stronly disproven the old proverb "A tiger can't change its stripes", doesn't it?
>Up here in Canada, I was informed that I can only photocopy up to roughly 10% of a book
I believe you are talking about CANCOPY. This is normally applied to books borrowed for your educational use, and to photocopied handouts given to students.
Otherwise, my local library explained to me that with a map book I needed to copy, published by the government, but copyrighted, and no longer published, I would have to choose up to 25% of the book I wanted to copy.
Making a copy of a book you own for personal use would be difficult unless you own your own copier, since Kinko's, etc. will kick you out for trying to copy a whole book (I suggest you copy 100 pages at each shop -- I did this because I had a book stolen from me that was no longer available). I doubt it's illegal, though.
Someone needs to repeal copyright law on all government documents, though.
>Make me something useful in the laboratory- like ISA an to PCI adapter
Many PCI cards are infact ISA designs using one of the many PCI to ISA bridge ICs. PCI is a complex interface to design for, so engineers love these chips.
So, it certainly isn't impossible to do, but it isn't cheap or simple.
>Whenever someone comes to me claiming to have built their PC, I ask them to describe their technique for etching multi-layer circuit boards.
;-) And I hate Ferric Chloride. Yech. Stains worse than anything. And the smell...)
Well, since you asked...
Personally I prefer positive photoetch and 3M 77 myself (if I were to do anything past 2 layer, that is), but this guy has better plans.
(You came to the wrong place to ask that question.
Why can't this half of the world simply copy what already works?
DVB/S and DVB/T work very well for all other continents already. Why is it so hard to make it work for us here? Is it because of some sort of insatiable desire for HDTV that I've never actually seen?
Oh well. At least things will get more standardized, which is good.
>To really save on shipping you have to spread the storage facilities out, reducing both the distances pallets travel & the distance a shipment has to go to the customer.
Not if you ship FedEx. The owner of FedEx was laughed at for his "crazy" idea of forcing all packages to travel through a "hub" in Memphis, TN (IIRC -- it could be a different city).
The cheapest way to ship with them (and, unless it's USmail, AFAIK their rates are pretty good) would be to locate all operations in Memphis, TN.
>Now you're just being silly. If you look up "alternative" in the dictionary I bet it doesn't say "an available choice that costs thousands of dollars more than a similar choice."
Actually, the price is at most double that of a decent quality TV of the same size.
IIRC, The Screen Savers were reviewing a 30" (or so, I can't remember the exact dimensions) monitor/TV combo with full VGA input and (according to them) a totally flat, high quality display that provided easy to read text for under $2000. They say that these monitors are very popular in meeting rooms for presentations. In comparison to a "regular" high-end TV, for example the Sony KV-32HV600, this represents a price inflation of only $100, which makes this an easy choice on the pocketbook.
I will furnish you with links and a model, if you would like. I would just need to search The Screen Savers site for past articles.
HTH.
As far as heat and monitors goes, here's the story, straight up from what I remember in EET:
Leaving a tube (not the monitor) on all the time, even if it is displaying a blank image will shorten its life because the heater in the back will eventually wear out (just like a light bulb). Again, just like a light bulb there is a thermal shock to the heater in the tube which can cause it to fail prematurely during power on, so there is a tradeoff (I have a thread where I discussed this. Only a physicist can tell you the numbers; sorry, I'm not one.) as to how long you leave it on before it is worth turning off. It is a very safe bet to say it is best left off overnight.
Now, we have the electronics. It's more than parts jumping out of their sockets due to thermal expansion and contraction. It's also poor solder joints cracking, and very poorly designed circuit board traces frying up from the turn on current surge, and crappy capacitors boiling.
Overall, you should leave the tube off when not in use, and the electronics on, since unlike the tube the electronics generally do not perform worse over time. ie: Use your power saving mode.
It just takes a while longer to happen. On the order of 1 week to 1 month. I've seen _many_ modern colour monitors with screen burn. Do not leave static images on them.
The worst are computers with login screens that have no screen savers or screen blanking functions. These ALWAYS end up burned in at my work (in this case with the novell client) because people get lazy/forgetful about turning the screen off.
But honestly, why is it that companies don't 3rd party audit departments that are so important to their continuation every year?
Do they just let the accounting department run wild?
Seems to me the company looks just as stupid as this guy for never picking this up.
>You'd piss away miore time than your bill is worth even trying to get them to acknowledge you.
I agree it would take time. That's the idea, they don't want to deal with piss-ant cases.
The process seems more than clear enough to me, and if they don't acknowledge you, then you have even more case to sue (you can sue the city court for refusing to apply the law). The process should be:
- Write the courthouse in Yahoo!'s state.
- Tell them you want to sue over a cross state unpaid bill.
- They write you, telling you the filing fee is $80.
- You send them the filing fee, they send you a mound of papers to fill out.
- You happily spend an hour or two reading and filling out forms.
- You return the forms to the court.
- You wait 6-12 months for a court date letter to appear. If you are lucky it is in your state. If not, it isn't. It can go either way.
There you go. But don't take my word for it, take the words of someone better informed about suing people out of state.
However, according to this lawyer, you may need to elevate it past small claims level to get anywhere if it is out of state. Again, just keep tallying up the bills until they reach the point where it becomes worth your while to sue in civil court ($1000 maybe?). I do not believe the federal court will be prohibitively priced assuming you represent yourself (it's such a cut and dried case, why shouldn't you?). And now if Yahoo! doesn't get their ass down to court, the judge will be _seriously_ pissed off.
You can find out much more information about suing in small claims court here.
I hope this helps.
>AM = ante-meridian. PM = post-meridian. Meridian=noon. So is 12 noon before noon or after it?
:00 minues on a clock require the subtraction of an hour, but minutes occurring after do not require chaging the hour. Also, if the time is midnight, you not only change the hour, but you also change the day.
:-)
Dictionary.com helps solve this.
Ante means before in latin. Post means after in latin.
So, we have before noon and after noon. If we look at the current day (today is december 18) the time before noon is the hours prior to it. ie: The hours before 12:00 pm. Now, if we look at the current day and look at what times occurr after noon, they are the hours after 12:00 pm.
Now, using your deduction skills, you realize that any time that minutes before
Knowing this we deduce that noon is 12:00 pm, since times ocurring after it are numbered as 12:01 pm, 12:02 pm, etc by NIST standard. Any other deduction requires a change in the hours unit, which defies logic.
Knowing that 12:00 pm is noon, we can deduce that 12:00 am is midnight by the same logic (in fact the 12:00 am midnight argument is stronger, since one would have to change the current day to make it PM, as PM is only for after noon).
And I wish that someone at NIST would apply this simple deducting and logic to these times, since it is clear when one looks that them in this way which goes with what.
The only people that have the right to worry about this sort of question are people taking calculus, where there actually are values for things that don't exist.
>I'm sure Yahoo! would happily ignore your bill.
:-)
And this gives you cause to sue them in small claims court.
If the amount of messaging exceeds $50-$100, it could be worth suing them in small claims. They probably won't even show up, and a decision will be reached (probably in your favour) in absentia.
Of course, IANAL, so don't follow that as legal advice.
I am surprised that you, as a lawyer, haven't learned to revel in being screwed with. Of all people you should know best how to string up a company like this with th absolute minimum effort.
;-) Maybe I'd end up like Hungry, Hungry Homer!
I love toying with people who think they've got me by the balls. In fact, the _lower_ the value of the dispute, the more likely I am to pursue it, as long as I don't have a paying job to do for the next five minutes.
Why? Because I've learned to enjoy being toyed with. I consider that an important strength.
It it were me, I'd be a daily showing at midnight outside that theater until I had some satisfaction. It might be a good thing for me... it could break the slashdot habit.
Maybe I should make a career out of this quality. I get called on enough to solve people's problems that they just don't want to deal with (oh no, I could _never_ call up and complain to someone type attitude). Heh, my 45 minute 800 number complaint call to a spammer is coming to mind... Because hey, they wasted 1 second of my time! It's hard to get any more valueless than that!
Then what time is 12 AM? Zero-hundred hours? Zulu time? 0' 0" 0? 0 seconds?
12 AM seems perfectly fine to me, and it did to everyone who had a "real" clock before japan discovered quartz movement. My grandmother, who has a hard time working the radio, never mind a digital clock, doesn't get confused over it.
The proof that underpaying workers and treating them like shit makes you a world power?
McDonald's.
Think about it for a moment and you'll see why this is the way it works, assuming the owner has no conscience whatsoever.
There's far more Nintendo games with nudity than that. First thing that comes to mind is a nudity hack for SMB.
I haven't even gotten started, though. Here's more.