This article has about as much content as a mainstream print magazine. So many words, so little message. All I got out of this was, "People are angry about lack of porn backup. They're going to try and do something about it. Film at 11." Wake me up please, when "turned it up to 11" actually means something was accomplished.
Call me old fashioned, but we don't allow electronics at the dinner table. When we see those things, they are immediately removed to a chair or the floor.
The local community access television station here as recent as 2013 had an Amiga whose sole purpose was text crawls for advertisements and subtitles like the ones that pop up showing the names of the hosts or interviewers.
Correlation is not causation. It reads like they went way out in left field to get to this point. Then again, they always say, "a fool and his money soon part ways".
I currently work for Comcast as an internet tech support rep in the northeast US. If I received a call regarding linux or any other unsupported OS, I'd do two things. Ask if they're set up using DHCP. We don't support any other config. Ask if they're using a router. We don't support anything but one computer directly connected. Barring that, I'll poll the modem and ping it 25 times from our servers in Denver. I will also check the SnR to and from the modem. If none of those are out of line, I will have the customer reboot his machine, and if they still cannot connect, they're on their own. We are taught to never provide ANY support to anything that is not windows 2000 or windows xp, or mac os 10.1,2,3, or 4. Just thought I'd shed some light.
Wow, is it possible I'll be able to understand the vendors at my local computer shows now? Eh, maybe not, Sony probably programmed it with DRM that "protects" whatever they're saying anyway.
What I don't understand is how putting a CD burner in is such a big deal. Hook up two cables (maybe enslave the evil drive). Install your burning software of choice or use windows' (bleh) software. And it works. I've been doing it for years, and never took more than a half hour. Unless I neglected to enslave said drive. Oh well, I guess some computers just plain suck sometime.
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Goose as a verb (idiom) means to play a practical joke upon someone. Not entirely sure how that is apropos to the article.
This article has about as much content as a mainstream print magazine. So many words, so little message. All I got out of this was, "People are angry about lack of porn backup. They're going to try and do something about it. Film at 11." Wake me up please, when "turned it up to 11" actually means something was accomplished.
Call me old fashioned, but we don't allow electronics at the dinner table. When we see those things, they are immediately removed to a chair or the floor.
The local community access television station here as recent as 2013 had an Amiga whose sole purpose was text crawls for advertisements and subtitles like the ones that pop up showing the names of the hosts or interviewers.
Both of your statements are correct.
Glad I took the time to read TFA. I would have been thoroughly confused given the headline and the summary text. Thanks for that.
Correlation is not causation. It reads like they went way out in left field to get to this point. Then again, they always say, "a fool and his money soon part ways".
I currently work for Comcast as an internet tech support rep in the northeast US. If I received a call regarding linux or any other unsupported OS, I'd do two things. Ask if they're set up using DHCP. We don't support any other config. Ask if they're using a router. We don't support anything but one computer directly connected. Barring that, I'll poll the modem and ping it 25 times from our servers in Denver. I will also check the SnR to and from the modem. If none of those are out of line, I will have the customer reboot his machine, and if they still cannot connect, they're on their own. We are taught to never provide ANY support to anything that is not windows 2000 or windows xp, or mac os 10.1,2,3, or 4. Just thought I'd shed some light.
Wow, is it possible I'll be able to understand the vendors at my local computer shows now? Eh, maybe not, Sony probably programmed it with DRM that "protects" whatever they're saying anyway.
What I don't understand is how putting a CD burner in is such a big deal. Hook up two cables (maybe enslave the evil drive). Install your burning software of choice or use windows' (bleh) software. And it works. I've been doing it for years, and never took more than a half hour. Unless I neglected to enslave said drive. Oh well, I guess some computers just plain suck sometime.