Sadly, there are plenty of uninformed "OMG, the latest XBox! Shiny!" types, who don't give a rat's ass about DRM, "First Sale" or used games. They alone will ensure that M$ will make gobs of money. Especially if Sony follows suit with the next Playstation.
Lotus Magellan. Not as old as some of the real oldies like Viscalc, but in the early 90s it was the absolute best file explorer available. Really haven't see the same ability to browse, manage and view file contents (without launching them) again. Vintage print ad
Haven't read the details of Peer1's trials and tribulations, but the situation reminds me of the Interdictor blog, about keeping DirectNIC running during Hurricane Katrina. That was one of the most thrilling blogs I've ever read.
"So, will you be following the President's lead and shop local this holiday season, or is the siren song of online shopping convenience and savings too hard to resist?"
I think shopping local is great, and I support many local, independent businesses with my hard-earned cash. But during the holiday shopping season, I suspect the President's shopping experience is far different from mine -- considering I don't have a Secret Service detail to scout ahead to the store(s) I want to visit and clear out any other pesky shoppers so I don't have to stand in interminable lines with the unwashed masses. So yeah -- at holiday season, I go online.
The made a land-line phone that did the same thing automatically. The Telezapper. You put one on your line and when you or your answering machine picked up, the Telezapper would play those tones (SIT Tones) before your message played. I had one and it worked well. Sadly, today's call center software is wily and has figured out that particular exploit.
Now I just don't pick up calls from number I don't recognize. If it's valid and important, they'll leave a message.
A Pentel Energel 0.5 is my usual instrument to overwhelm mighty swords at my desk, but I almost always carry a Fisher SpacePen too, because it's damn convenient and writes anywhere on anything.
Not really. They'll just turn around and publicize how many hits and downloads they've gotten. If they hit their bandwidth cap, I'm sure Pamela Anderson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Drew Barrymore and other easily swayed Hollywood types will pony (hah pun!) up the cash necessary.
I switched to Ting in August. The "catch" is that you pay retail for the phone. (not subsidized by two year agreements like on most carriers.) You can stop Ting anytime with no penalty. Even "suspend" your account if you don't need it for a while.
So I paid $240 for A Galaxy S2. With 2 days left till my bill, I have used 101 minutes, sent 287 txts and used 60Mb of data -- so unless I suddenly make 400 minutes of calls, send 700 texts or download 40Mb of data, my bill will be $23. (Yes, I'm a light user -- and I tend to do most of my surfing/downloading when I've got wi-fi)
I've calculated that when I switch over my wife and daughter too, I will be saving $100+ per month over AT&T. Even with paying full-price on the phones, it'll pay for itself in about 6 months.
The bad thing is that Sprint is not a great choice outside of major metros. Up here in New England, I'm roaming pretty frequently -- no cost for voice on that, but Ting doesn't "roam" data, so access to wi-fi becomes more necessary.
Overall, for $100/month savings, I'm willing to put up with a little aggravation when it comes to signal coverage.
Women have a significantly higher chance of taking maternity leave than men. This does on average make them less valuable to an employer. My childfree girlfriend hates this.
It may be sexist and not politically correct to mention, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
The statement is undoubtedly true, whether or not it is consciously applied.
However, following that trail of logic a little further -- why wouldn't salaries start to equalize once women are past typical child-bearing age? If companies are afraid of lost-productivity in younger women, by age 40 or 45, you'd expect to see women's salaries evening up with mens. But studies show that doesn't happen.
He might have confused disk space used for actual file size. A windows notepad file with a single character takes up 4k on disk even though its actual size is only be 1 byte.
THAT bit of unreality is what offends you? Methinks you're stretching to find fault. It IS of course, Fantasy. We're talking about a world where faeries, trolls, etc., live inside of the earth (undetected by humans) and utilize high technology the likes of which make us look like cavemen. (And might, at a stretch, explain that the Mpeg video in question DID leave traces of itself...) I'm reminded of A.C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Absolutely common to skip versions. My company went from 95/98 directly to XP. Even with Office we still have most of the installs at Office 97 or 2000 with only a few Office 2003 copies.
When we upgrade, I expect it will be directly to "Windows 7". And since I'm the IT Director, my expectations will probably prove accurate.;)
Being a small company, the cost of upgrading is prohibitive, so we squeeze the last bit of usage out of our expenditures.
Two IBM Model M keyboards dated 1988 & 1989. (work and home)
Also a 1957 vintage Gillette SuperSpeed double edged razor. Real "wet-shaving" is a whole different experience than 5 minutes in the shower with can of goo and a multi-bladed face shredder.
Meh. I don't know what her qualifications are, (too lazy to Google) but basically she seems like a cute babe who likes to blow shit up. Certainly not a bad thing, and very entertaining (and she's easy on the eyes), but it hardly equates to real geek cred.
I can't believe you just lumped the Mythbusters in with Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard. The Mythbusters, while entertaining, do not follow the scientific method. In fact, when they try to, they often don't get a "big enough" explosion (or whatever) and go completely off the deep end just trying to make a bigger reaction. They do not TEACH science, they play with science. There have been several times where I (not a scientist) could easily see the flaws in their "experiment" which either doomed it to failure, or invalidated the results compared to the "myth" they were trying to prove. Real scientists probably get the giggles watching them.
The Mythbusters have a very entertaining TV show, but that's all it is -- entertainment. It is not an really an educational show.
Does Exchange 07 do away with the 16Gb limit for the mail store? Unless you have the "Enterprise" version of Exchange 2003, the total of all your mailboxes can't exceed 16GB. I'm at a company which is small enough to not want or need the added expense of Enterprise, but is large enough to be able to easily store 16Gb of mail total. I have about 50 users, each of whom I try to limit to 250-500 MB of mail. You do the math. I'm always after people to clean up the mailboxes. And don't say use archiving. Archiving sucks. Most users don't know how to use it, and those who try it often lose their archives. If MS would just get rid of the store limit, life would be happy.
I have a large propane tank in my back yard. I think it's a 200 pound one (about 4 ft high, 2ft dia). Anyway, I run a Gas range and oven a.long with a gas-fired heating stove (like a wood stove, but gas) The tank is filled about 3 times a year. So in an "off grid" scenario if it was wintertime (I'm in NH) and figuring that I'd be using the gas heating stove far more than usual because my normal oil furnace would be out (electrically lit), I guess I could get about a month of heat and cooking out of it. If it was a milder time of year and heat wasn't an issue I could go for many months. That being said, the lack of electricity would be a far greater incentive to abandon the home than any lack of propane.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one. Actually, I know there are many of us "super-casuals", but you rarely hear anyone admit it. I've been playing WoW for a year and my "main" is still only a level 37. I have four "alts" all scattered between level 12 and 25. I play almost exclusively solo. My two highest level characters are in a guild, but only because it's run by my best RL friend and he doesn't expect me to raid or contribute to the guild, it's simply a way for me to avoid "sign my charter" requests.
Although I understand why Blizzard doesn't cater to us solo/casual players "un-addictable" types, I still really wish they would add more content for us.
-->Unless they were going to cast Denise Richards as the Master Chief, and replace that heavily padded combat armored with some spandex/licra--
Dear god. And it would still suck. Denise Richards is quite possibly a worse actress than Paris Hilton -- and sorry, even her boobs can't make up for completely awful "acting". Did you not see her in the Bond movie? Nuclear Scientist? I've never laughed so hard in my life.
+1
All one needs to do is Google for "Rona Jaffe Mazes and Monsters" to see that this stupid hysteria has been following "fantasy" gaming sinc ethe pen and paper versions of D&D.
No kidding. I'm having an absolute blast with Lego Star Wars II, and it definitely has a kid feel to it. Mind you, I'm not that old (19 next week)
Hell, I'm having a blast with Lego SW II and I'm 42....
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Sadly, there are plenty of uninformed "OMG, the latest XBox! Shiny!" types, who don't give a rat's ass about DRM, "First Sale" or used games. They alone will ensure that M$ will make gobs of money. Especially if Sony follows suit with the next Playstation.
Lotus Magellan. Not as old as some of the real oldies like Viscalc, but in the early 90s it was the absolute best file explorer available. Really haven't see the same ability to browse, manage and view file contents (without launching them) again.
Vintage print ad
Haven't read the details of Peer1's trials and tribulations, but the situation reminds me of the Interdictor blog, about keeping DirectNIC running during Hurricane Katrina. That was one of the most thrilling blogs I've ever read.
"So, will you be following the President's lead and shop local this holiday season, or is the siren song of online shopping convenience and savings too hard to resist?"
I think shopping local is great, and I support many local, independent businesses with my hard-earned cash. But during the holiday shopping season, I suspect the President's shopping experience is far different from mine -- considering I don't have a Secret Service detail to scout ahead to the store(s) I want to visit and clear out any other pesky shoppers so I don't have to stand in interminable lines with the unwashed masses.
So yeah -- at holiday season, I go online.
The made a land-line phone that did the same thing automatically. The Telezapper. You put one on your line and when you or your answering machine picked up, the Telezapper would play those tones (SIT Tones) before your message played. I had one and it worked well. Sadly, today's call center software is wily and has figured out that particular exploit.
Now I just don't pick up calls from number I don't recognize. If it's valid and important, they'll leave a message.
A Pentel Energel 0.5 is my usual instrument to overwhelm mighty swords at my desk, but I almost always carry a Fisher SpacePen too, because it's damn convenient and writes anywhere on anything.
Not really. They'll just turn around and publicize how many hits and downloads they've gotten. If they hit their bandwidth cap, I'm sure Pamela Anderson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Drew Barrymore and other easily swayed Hollywood types will pony (hah pun!) up the cash necessary.
I switched to Ting in August.
The "catch" is that you pay retail for the phone. (not subsidized by two year agreements like on most carriers.) You can stop Ting anytime with no penalty. Even "suspend" your account if you don't need it for a while.
So I paid $240 for A Galaxy S2.
With 2 days left till my bill, I have used 101 minutes, sent 287 txts and used 60Mb of data -- so unless I suddenly make 400 minutes of calls, send 700 texts or download 40Mb of data, my bill will be $23.
(Yes, I'm a light user -- and I tend to do most of my surfing/downloading when I've got wi-fi)
I've calculated that when I switch over my wife and daughter too, I will be saving $100+ per month over AT&T. Even with paying full-price on the phones, it'll pay for itself in about 6 months.
The bad thing is that Sprint is not a great choice outside of major metros. Up here in New England, I'm roaming pretty frequently -- no cost for voice on that, but Ting doesn't "roam" data, so access to wi-fi becomes more necessary.
Overall, for $100/month savings, I'm willing to put up with a little aggravation when it comes to signal coverage.
Women have a significantly higher chance of taking maternity leave than men. This does on average make them less valuable to an employer. My childfree girlfriend hates this.
It may be sexist and not politically correct to mention, but that doesn't mean it's not true.
The statement is undoubtedly true, whether or not it is consciously applied.
However, following that trail of logic a little further -- why wouldn't salaries start to equalize once women are past typical child-bearing age? If companies are afraid of lost-productivity in younger women, by age 40 or 45, you'd expect to see women's salaries evening up with mens. But studies show that doesn't happen.
Nicely Done.
He might have confused disk space used for actual file size.
A windows notepad file with a single character takes up 4k on disk even though its actual size is only be 1 byte.
LOL, nice!
But no, L. Ron Hubbard had DC-8's (or DC-9's) in mind when he was making up that religious malarky.
THAT bit of unreality is what offends you? Methinks you're stretching to find fault. It IS of course, Fantasy.
We're talking about a world where faeries, trolls, etc., live inside of the earth (undetected by humans) and utilize high technology the likes of which make us look like cavemen. (And might, at a stretch, explain that the Mpeg video in question DID leave traces of itself...)
I'm reminded of A.C. Clarke:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
There was a lot of parts that just really dragged on.
So, just like the books then.....
Absolutely common to skip versions.
;)
My company went from 95/98 directly to XP. Even with Office we still have most of the installs at Office 97 or 2000 with only a few Office 2003 copies.
When we upgrade, I expect it will be directly to "Windows 7". And since I'm the IT Director, my expectations will probably prove accurate.
Being a small company, the cost of upgrading is prohibitive, so we squeeze the last bit of usage out of our expenditures.
Two IBM Model M keyboards dated 1988 & 1989. (work and home)
Also a 1957 vintage Gillette SuperSpeed double edged razor.
Real "wet-shaving" is a whole different experience than 5 minutes in the shower with can of goo and a multi-bladed face shredder.
Meh. I don't know what her qualifications are, (too lazy to Google) but basically she seems like a cute babe who likes to blow shit up. Certainly not a bad thing, and very entertaining (and she's easy on the eyes), but it hardly equates to real geek cred.
I can't believe you just lumped the Mythbusters in with Bill Nye and Mr. Wizard.
The Mythbusters, while entertaining, do not follow the scientific method. In fact, when they try to, they often don't get a "big enough" explosion (or whatever) and go completely off the deep end just trying to make a bigger reaction. They do not TEACH science, they play with science. There have been several times where I (not a scientist) could easily see the flaws in their "experiment" which either doomed it to failure, or invalidated the results compared to the "myth" they were trying to prove. Real scientists probably get the giggles watching them.
The Mythbusters have a very entertaining TV show, but that's all it is -- entertainment. It is not an really an educational show.
Does Exchange 07 do away with the 16Gb limit for the mail store? Unless you have the "Enterprise" version of Exchange 2003, the total of all your mailboxes can't exceed 16GB. I'm at a company which is small enough to not want or need the added expense of Enterprise, but is large enough to be able to easily store 16Gb of mail total. I have about 50 users, each of whom I try to limit to 250-500 MB of mail. You do the math. I'm always after people to clean up the mailboxes. And don't say use archiving. Archiving sucks. Most users don't know how to use it, and those who try it often lose their archives.
If MS would just get rid of the store limit, life would be happy.
I have a large propane tank in my back yard. I think it's a 200 pound one (about 4 ft high, 2ft dia). Anyway, I run a Gas range and oven a.long with a gas-fired heating stove (like a wood stove, but gas)
The tank is filled about 3 times a year. So in an "off grid" scenario if it was wintertime (I'm in NH) and figuring that I'd be using the gas heating stove far more than usual because my normal oil furnace would be out (electrically lit), I guess I could get about a month of heat and cooking out of it. If it was a milder time of year and heat wasn't an issue I could go for many months.
That being said, the lack of electricity would be a far greater incentive to abandon the home than any lack of propane.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one. Actually, I know there are many of us "super-casuals", but you rarely hear anyone admit it.
I've been playing WoW for a year and my "main" is still only a level 37. I have four "alts" all scattered between level 12 and 25.
I play almost exclusively solo. My two highest level characters are in a guild, but only because it's run by my best RL friend and he doesn't expect me to raid or contribute to the guild, it's simply a way for me to avoid "sign my charter" requests.
Although I understand why Blizzard doesn't cater to us solo/casual players "un-addictable" types, I still really wish they would add more content for us.
-->Unless they were going to cast Denise Richards as the Master Chief, and replace that heavily padded combat armored with some spandex/licra--
Dear god. And it would still suck. Denise Richards is quite possibly a worse actress than Paris Hilton -- and sorry, even her boobs can't make up for completely awful "acting". Did you not see her in the Bond movie? Nuclear Scientist? I've never laughed so hard in my life.
+1 All one needs to do is Google for "Rona Jaffe Mazes and Monsters" to see that this stupid hysteria has been following "fantasy" gaming sinc ethe pen and paper versions of D&D.
No kidding. I'm having an absolute blast with Lego Star Wars II, and it definitely has a kid feel to it. Mind you, I'm not that old (19 next week)
Hell, I'm having a blast with Lego SW II and I'm 42....
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