How much yen do you want to bet that it's one of those stupid "Are you sure?" dialog boxes that everyone clicks "Yes" to without actually thinking about what it's asking? Ah, how I love ignoring those warnings, too.
Ha. Quick story.
A few years ago, I was working on $BIG_PROJECT. The code had gone into UAT and there was a 'bug report' that essentially said that the users were clicking on things without 'considering the implications' and we should add a confirmation box. I fought the bug, because everyone knows that it's only a matter of time before said users would simply click through the warning message out of rote memorization also.
Management won, of course, so I had to add a dialog box saying "Are you sure?" or something like that. I went a step further and added a timer that, if a user clicked 'Yes' in less than a second, it would display another box saying "Look, you didn't read the first message. ARE YOU REALLY SURE?". Of course, because the users spent the first week or so actually reading the box, the snotty extra warning box didn't start showing until they began rote-clicking 'Yes'.
And, boy howdy, were they pissed. I nearly got fired.:)
If anyone is interested in checking out 'smart folders' ahead of time, I encourage you to try the mail client included with Opera.
It works under the 'everything is a database' premise for email, with 'smart filters', multiple views, multiple email integration, everything controlled via CSS and much, much more.
Today is Tuesday, so we like the MPAA today? I thought Tuesday was "Anti-EULA Day", but it's July, which is normally "Pro-GFDL Month", and it's still the first week of the month, which is "Anti-EU-Parliament Week", and the second half of the year, which is usually "Mac Bashing".
You idiots fuel your own doom. Quit giving your money to these people!
I thought that there was some sort of 'Quiet Period' before an IPO. Posting something like "I bought another Maserati today and I'll buy Caesar's Palace when I cash out my shares next week! Hahahahaha, see you in Hell, suckers!" cannot be considered a Good Thing.
Of course, IANAMW - I am not a market weenie. My money's in CDs...
As a side note, I also have something of a grizzly-proofing tool. It's called a gun.
Reminds me of a Grizzly hunting joke:
Man arrives at the hunting lodge and meets with his guide. Guide is going down the checklist of things, when he starts talking about ammunition. Guy says 'Got it!' and pulls out a loaded.45. Guide looks at it for a second and asks if remembered to get the sights filed off before he goes out.
"Why?", asks the man.
"So when the Grizzly takes it from you and shoves it up your a$$ it doesn't hurt as much.", he says.
No, Dijkstra has it right; there are styles one should use and styles one should not. BASIC forces you to use the latter. This must later be beaten out of you if you are to become proficient.
Your seeming moral ambiguity about the styles one can use spring from a personal coping mechanism attemptimg to rationalize your bad habits as valid. They are not.
a) find a company to make a powerpoint alternative which saves to html files b) make the aforementioned software themselves.
(Aside) I admire your unwillingness to use the HTML tags to make lists! Down with the man! Up with formless blobs of text!
It's probably too late to mention this, but you did know that they're talking about OperaShow, right? If you've seen it in action, you'd be gobsmacked at how nice it is. One little stylesheet can turn just about anybody's HTML into a slide show.
For those of you who own a Rocketbook-capable reader, I converted it over to RB format. I've sent it to him, but for now you can get it from my Page of Free eBooks. (Direct Link)
FWIW: I've converted the book in the "Rocketbook" (REB) format for use on Gemstar and RCA eBooks. You can find it (and lots of other free Tech ebooks)
on my ebook webpage.
Look, TiVo is the best thing since sliced bread - that's the problem. You'll get hooked. It's a top-notch product; you'll never watch TV the same again.
1000 years ago, they probably would not have believed in Lions or a round earth or some magical force that cannot be explained like gravity.. but they all exist.
Jee-e-e-bus. Seriously. Let me add that they would have also not believed in dragons, griffins, or Invisible Pink Unicorns.
As a self-professed Skeptic, I have to say that the thing that I utter the most often is "I don't know. And you know what? Neither do you." So many people believe in so many things without any sort of examination, it boggles the mind.
Sure there are cranks, but there are cranks everywhere, with everything. Don't turn into a sheep simply because you disagree with the hardliners.
You know, I cut my true programming teeth on Pascal. Sure, I started on BASIC, but I never progressed past...
10 print "girlIhadacrushonatthetime ",
20 goto 10
30 end
Once I moved into Pascal and actual STRUCTURE, I finally understood, really understood, programming. To this day (working as a C programmer now) I still
use the lessons taught to me by Pascal.
Especially the difference between subroutines and functions. Argh! If I had a nickel for every time that subroutines caused side effects from modifying p-b-reference parameters, I'd be Bill Gates. Jesus, people! This is programming 101!
I mean, it took ascii art, which is in itself pretty geeky, and single-handedly made it completely obsolete.
I respectfully disagree. Compare my ASCII art site with what's been shown. It's completely different. Mine is more 'line-based' while this stuff is far more 'blocky'.
Is it cool? Sure. Are we obsolete? No way.
[I'd give you an example right now, but the lameness filter eats it...]
No joke. I wrote a story about getting a Tivo in the house and then trying to get rid of it, against the protests of my wife (both ways, mind you).
That just doesn't happen. I'm always hauling home electronics that drive her nuts...
"Look honey! It's called X-10 and I can turn any light in the house on and off with this remote... What? Well, sure, replacing all those switches in the house did cost a little, but look - a remote! No, you can't just switch it off, the remote won't work anymore... Now, hon, put down the gun..."
She loved the Tivo however. So did I. So it had to go...
Re:I just bought one of these last week.
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TiVo Series 2 Review
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· Score: 2, Funny
Dude, I was in just your situation a few months ago and that (@*#@(%* thing worked so well that I finally had to get rid of it.
If your perception of a product's quality depends solely on it's relationship with Microsoft, you really need to be more critical of the product itself, and less concerned with their affiliations.
Uh, no, I think the original poster had it right and you've got it wrong: there's much more to any product than simple benchmarks and price/performance. A company's socio-politcal stance has to be factored in as well. It's the old problem of trying to convince people that they're really not saving a dollar when they buy a toaster at Wal-Mart.
I ditched Intel over the processor ID thing, after reading this I will no longer buy AMD. What should I buy next? PowerPC? Sparc? Any help?
Eh, might as well just make it the Jeff Minter Channel (J-MTV? JMET? YAK?). Of course, 14 hours of it would be just electronica with light synth shows and the rest would be ovine related things and game reviews where the ratings are in sheep with "Goaty" at the top and "Pants" at the bottom
(A few years ago an online game rag (don't recall which) had a little "Vid Gamers as The Simpsons". I don't remember all the slots, but Jeff was definitely Otto. (Jack Tramiel was Dr. Nick too, I think.))
Here's one. I had Cable access through Charter in Southern Minnesota. Just last month I dumped it in favor of dial-up. The cost/use ratio just wasn't there for me. I picked up 30hr/month dial-up for $12/month (cable was $50) and haven't looked back.
When I program, I don't surf much and I tend to program more than anything. Sure, I miss the, ahem, scenic route but in the end I just couldn't justify it anymore.
If you question my creds, feel free to look here. I'm head of a LUG, too.
As someone who 'purchased' TL (with a rebate == purchase price, lots of profit there, guys), I can definitively say "Good riddance". It was a truly awful distribution. The installer sucked and what the hell was up with that 'Workstation'/'Server' edition nonsense?
I installed it a spare machine and couldn't bear to keep it around more than a few hours. Blech.
How about a little signal to all this noise on this topic?
After reading about Holland, MI, USA on this site last year (or so), I decided that it would be in my best interest for this 25 yr. old h*cker to 'get involved'.
We recently moved (2000-12-01) to a new town and I read in the paper that the Mayor was taking applications to fill the city boards, one of them being the Library Board. So, even though I had zero experience and really didn't know anyone in town, I applied.
On the application I mentioned my tech background, spoke about the issues of filtering and mentioned that the city could use a few people who 'understood the technology and the issues at hand'.
After a couple of interviews with the mayor, I was appointed last week! You're looking at the newest Library Board member (3 year term) for the city of Northfield, MN.
Filtering proponents beware! You have no friend here!
It will be a sad day when the government has control of all programming.
It's not the government you should be worried about here. The US government is bought and paid for byt he large corporations already. It has become almost nothing but a legislative mouthpiece for them. If you want to rebel against something, fight the Sonys, the Microsofts, the Qwests, the "soft money" bribery, Big Oil, the NAB... They are the ones looking to hook you up to a perma-infotainment pipe, not the government.
The preceding rant will get me labeled a Pinko Commie Whiner. Hey, that's not a bad moderator field: Score -1: Pinko Commie Whiner...
On the downside, turning The Force into super-intelligent germs was a huge mistake
No way - it could turn out to be the key to the series. Consider:
What if the Jedi are wrong? What if those germs aren't the Force, but rather inhabit those who have the Force? (Like detecting anti-bodies to something rather than detecting the something itself...)
These little guys could be the key to the eradication of the Jedi. If you're going to try and kill off the Jedi, how would you do it? Hand to hand combat with every single one? Bomb the annual JediCon? What if you could attack the one thing that distinguishes Jedi from the rest of the populace? What if you could turn the symbiotic relationship into something harmful?
Darth and Co. decimate the ranks of the Jedi sometime between now and when Luke comes on the scene. Wanna bet how they do it? I bet those idiot little germs have something to do with it.
And it could be played as one of those 'spiritual enlightenment' scenes for Obi-Wan... "Those germs have died - I no longer have The Force. Wait! I have The Force still! The Force must be inside me, more than something physical..." and so on and so forth until we all barf.
But, then again, I could be wrong and Lucas could play it out straight and drive us even further away...
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Ha. Quick story.
A few years ago, I was working on $BIG_PROJECT. The code had gone into UAT and there was a 'bug report' that essentially said that the users were clicking on things without 'considering the implications' and we should add a confirmation box. I fought the bug, because everyone knows that it's only a matter of time before said users would simply click through the warning message out of rote memorization also.
Management won, of course, so I had to add a dialog box saying "Are you sure?" or something like that. I went a step further and added a timer that, if a user clicked 'Yes' in less than a second, it would display another box saying "Look, you didn't read the first message. ARE YOU REALLY SURE?". Of course, because the users spent the first week or so actually reading the box, the snotty extra warning box didn't start showing until they began rote-clicking 'Yes'.
And, boy howdy, were they pissed. I nearly got fired.
http://tinyurl.com/4ucvt is topical, I think. La la lah....
It works under the 'everything is a database' premise for email, with 'smart filters', multiple views, multiple email integration, everything controlled via CSS and much, much more.
It's free as in beer, too.
You idiots fuel your own doom. Quit giving your money to these people!
Of course, IANAMW - I am not a market weenie. My money's in CDs...
Reminds me of a Grizzly hunting joke:
Man arrives at the hunting lodge and meets with his guide. Guide is going down the checklist of things, when he starts talking about ammunition. Guy says 'Got it!' and pulls out a loaded .45. Guide looks at it for a second and asks if remembered to get the sights filed off before he goes out.
"Why?", asks the man.
"So when the Grizzly takes it from you and shoves it up your a$$ it doesn't hurt as much.", he says.
No, Dijkstra has it right; there are styles one should use and styles one should not. BASIC forces you to use the latter. This must later be beaten out of you if you are to become proficient.
Your seeming moral ambiguity about the styles one can use spring from a personal coping mechanism attemptimg to rationalize your bad habits as valid. They are not.
Or something.
(Aside) I admire your unwillingness to use the HTML tags to make lists! Down with the man! Up with formless blobs of text!
It's probably too late to mention this, but you did know that they're talking about OperaShow, right? If you've seen it in action, you'd be gobsmacked at how nice it is. One little stylesheet can turn just about anybody's HTML into a slide show.
For those of you who own a Rocketbook-capable reader, I converted it over to RB format. I've sent it to him, but for now you can get it from my Page of Free eBooks. (Direct Link)
Share and enjoy!
Mine worked so well, I had to sell it. Seriously, read the story.
Do yourself a favor and don't even touch this digital crack. Please.
Let me answer that one for you:
As the Rep for the first company to deliver the TC BIOS that MS wanted: "On large piles of cash, surrounded by beautiful women."
Jee-e-e-bus. Seriously. Let me add that they would have also not believed in dragons, griffins, or Invisible Pink Unicorns.
As a self-professed Skeptic, I have to say that the thing that I utter the most often is "I don't know. And you know what? Neither do you." So many people believe in so many things without any sort of examination, it boggles the mind.
Sure there are cranks, but there are cranks everywhere, with everything. Don't turn into a sheep simply because you disagree with the hardliners.
10 print "girlIhadacrushonatthetime ",
20 goto 10
30 end
Once I moved into Pascal and actual STRUCTURE, I finally understood, really understood, programming. To this day (working as a C programmer now) I still use the lessons taught to me by Pascal.
Especially the difference between subroutines and functions. Argh! If I had a nickel for every time that subroutines caused side effects from modifying p-b-reference parameters, I'd be Bill Gates. Jesus, people! This is programming 101!
I respectfully disagree. Compare my ASCII art site with what's been shown. It's completely different. Mine is more 'line-based' while this stuff is far more 'blocky'.
Is it cool? Sure. Are we obsolete? No way.
[I'd give you an example right now, but the lameness filter eats it...]
That just doesn't happen. I'm always hauling home electronics that drive her nuts...
"Look honey! It's called X-10 and I can turn any light in the house on and off with this remote... What? Well, sure, replacing all those switches in the house did cost a little, but look - a remote! No, you can't just switch it off, the remote won't work anymore... Now, hon, put down the gun..."
She loved the Tivo however. So did I. So it had to go...
I even wrote a little blurb about it. - Beware, it's heroin-ware, baby!
Uh, no, I think the original poster had it right and you've got it wrong: there's much more to any product than simple benchmarks and price/performance. A company's socio-politcal stance has to be factored in as well. It's the old problem of trying to convince people that they're really not saving a dollar when they buy a toaster at Wal-Mart.
I ditched Intel over the processor ID thing, after reading this I will no longer buy AMD. What should I buy next? PowerPC? Sparc? Any help?
Eh, might as well just make it the Jeff Minter Channel (J-MTV? JMET? YAK?). Of course, 14 hours of it would be just electronica with light synth shows and the rest would be ovine related things and game reviews where the ratings are in sheep with "Goaty" at the top and "Pants" at the bottom
(A few years ago an online game rag (don't recall which) had a little "Vid Gamers as The Simpsons". I don't remember all the slots, but Jeff was definitely Otto. (Jack Tramiel was Dr. Nick too, I think.))
When I program, I don't surf much and I tend to program more than anything. Sure, I miss the, ahem, scenic route but in the end I just couldn't justify it anymore.
If you question my creds, feel free to look here. I'm head of a LUG, too.
8^) Ahh, US businesses... What evil *won't* they do?
I installed it a spare machine and couldn't bear to keep it around more than a few hours. Blech.
But, hey, free useless documentation!
After reading about Holland, MI, USA on this site last year (or so), I decided that it would be in my best interest for this 25 yr. old h*cker to 'get involved'.
We recently moved (2000-12-01) to a new town and I read in the paper that the Mayor was taking applications to fill the city boards, one of them being the Library Board. So, even though I had zero experience and really didn't know anyone in town, I applied.
On the application I mentioned my tech background, spoke about the issues of filtering and mentioned that the city could use a few people who 'understood the technology and the issues at hand'.
After a couple of interviews with the mayor, I was appointed last week! You're looking at the newest Library Board member (3 year term) for the city of Northfield, MN.
Filtering proponents beware! You have no friend here!
It's not the government you should be worried about here. The US government is bought and paid for byt he large corporations already. It has become almost nothing but a legislative mouthpiece for them. If you want to rebel against something, fight the Sonys, the Microsofts, the Qwests, the "soft money" bribery, Big Oil, the NAB... They are the ones looking to hook you up to a perma-infotainment pipe, not the government.
The preceding rant will get me labeled a Pinko Commie Whiner. Hey, that's not a bad moderator field: Score -1: Pinko Commie Whiner...
No way - it could turn out to be the key to the series. Consider:
What if the Jedi are wrong? What if those germs aren't the Force, but rather inhabit those who have the Force? (Like detecting anti-bodies to something rather than detecting the something itself...)
These little guys could be the key to the eradication of the Jedi. If you're going to try and kill off the Jedi, how would you do it? Hand to hand combat with every single one? Bomb the annual JediCon? What if you could attack the one thing that distinguishes Jedi from the rest of the populace? What if you could turn the symbiotic relationship into something harmful?
Darth and Co. decimate the ranks of the Jedi sometime between now and when Luke comes on the scene. Wanna bet how they do it? I bet those idiot little germs have something to do with it.
And it could be played as one of those 'spiritual enlightenment' scenes for Obi-Wan... "Those germs have died - I no longer have The Force. Wait! I have The Force still! The Force must be inside me, more than something physical..." and so on and so forth until we all barf.
But, then again, I could be wrong and Lucas could play it out straight and drive us even further away...