I work for a division of Sun's tech support and I know that we get $50 a call for anything after the first 30 days of support. Higher level services pull in anywhere from $200 and up per hour. The home market for this is a little tricky, i doubt they'll pay $50 a call if something breaks.
Do you consider Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and N`Sync artists? They make money on lyrics they don't right, music they don't play and dance moves they paid someone else to come up with.
3/4 of commercial pop music today isn't "art"...hell if it is we're in a load of trouble.
Are these or any others available with firmware upgrades? I have a Philips version of mp3 cd player and i was disappointed to see that firmware cannot be updated, thus i can't ever play Vorbis files.
I'd be eager to see if anyone releases a mp3 cd player that will allow firmware updates for their decoders.
At least that was my understanding when I was at IBM working and was able to get the specs in actual paper form. The boards aren't difficult to build, but I don't have the rom to be able to make it "Apple" friendly.
Actually you could download the specs on the PPC procs, but it wouldn't do any good seeing that Apple has a rom on their boards that the OS searches for upon installation. If it's not present, it doesn't install. That's the only reason I'm not building my own MacOS box.
I don't know why it took so long. I installed Slackware back in 1995 in about 5 hours. Not a month, not weeks...5 hours. I had never tried a *nix operating system other than telneting into a VMS multicluster to check email.
What did you do wrong? Read folks, even in 1995 it was pretty easy to find information.
I just don't understand why people have to bring morality into the imaginary. What would the world be like without the imaginations of great thinkers? Leave the parents to decide if they want children to play violent games. I like the idea of being able to build a half a million person city in less than a hundred years using like 100 thousand dollars.
anti-christian? Hmmm...some of us aren't Christian. Some of the children growing up around here aren't christian or Jewish or islamic. The fact is, religion shouldn't be a factor when designing a game unless it's a christian oriented game. Books, games, television and music spark the imagination, not believing one thing and letting your views spoil the love "pagan gods and working magic".
I was working for a company in NY state and the printer went down. I was unavailable at the time and when the call went through on my cell phone, I had them call IBM tech support. On the phone, the techie asked her all kinds of questions and she didn't know anything. Finally out of frustration, the guy asked her if it was windy outside. This woman looked outside and said "yes it is, why?". IBM man said "well that's the problem...when it's windy, it affects the way printers work". The woman said "ok" and hung up.
Or how about the classic problem "My printer doesn't work...help me!"
Tech: "is the cable that connects the printer to the computer tangled?"
User: "yes, why would that make a difference?"
Tech: "Because data travels in 1's and 0's, the 0's slide through curves alright because they are rounded, but the 1's get caught and can't move"
User: "Oh, that makes sense. Thank you, goodbye"
Never even checks to make sure uncoiling the cable will do the trick...
Yes the cd rom cupholder is old...maybe you can use these huh?
I've been a UFie for almost 2 years now and since I started reading it, I've been, for the most part, laughing at every cartoon Illiad has posted. Upon going to Scott Kurtz's sight, I was subjected to his idea of "humor"...gaming. He admits comics about computer games are not funny, but I have to disagree with his idea that comics about gamers begin funny. Even his "HelpDesk" comic recommendation is bland and not what I would consider humorous. Then again...my mom doesn't find Monty Python or George Carlin funny either. I suspect Mr Kurtz lacks the same sense of humor that my mother lacks. The ability to laugh because something is funny and forget about the fact that it might be "morally wrong". One famous comic, I forget his name, has, what, 2 videos filled with people making toasts and totally making fun of him. People love those videos but, alas, they are morally wrong.
I really don't they they would hire someone who knew absolutely nothing about computers for tech support...and after four years of tech support you shouldn't really be proud that you can build a computer.
I can't understand your mentality. I've grown up in small WASP towns and I've been listening to KMFDM, MM, NIN, Fear Factory, Depeche Mode, Mxpx. Not stuff relgious folk tend the think of as "good wholesome music"...but they never ever put assumptions that I was a devil worshiper, or a criminal because I wasn't. The people around me looked down on me for my musical tastes, but only for that. If you believe that I'll be scrutinized because of what I listen to, then you are the one being suspicious of us, not the others.
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I work for a division of Sun's tech support and I know that we get $50 a call for anything after the first 30 days of support. Higher level services pull in anywhere from $200 and up per hour. The home market for this is a little tricky, i doubt they'll pay $50 a call if something breaks.
Do you consider Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys and N`Sync artists? They make money on lyrics they don't right, music they don't play and dance moves they paid someone else to come up with.
3/4 of commercial pop music today isn't "art"...hell if it is we're in a load of trouble.
They are performers, not artists.
Are these or any others available with firmware upgrades? I have a Philips version of mp3 cd player and i was disappointed to see that firmware cannot be updated, thus i can't ever play Vorbis files.
I'd be eager to see if anyone releases a mp3 cd player that will allow firmware updates for their decoders.
Have you tried to update debian at all? I don't see the difficulty of apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade.
Remember Linux isn't Redhat. Not every distribution relies on rebooting to do a full distribution upgrade.
Not to mention Hauppauge
At least that was my understanding when I was at IBM working and was able to get the specs in actual paper form. The boards aren't difficult to build, but I don't have the rom to be able to make it "Apple" friendly.
Actually you could download the specs on the PPC procs, but it wouldn't do any good seeing that Apple has a rom on their boards that the OS searches for upon installation. If it's not present, it doesn't install. That's the only reason I'm not building my own MacOS box.
I don't know why it took so long. I installed Slackware back in 1995 in about 5 hours. Not a month, not weeks...5 hours. I had never tried a *nix operating system other than telneting into a VMS multicluster to check email.
What did you do wrong? Read folks, even in 1995 it was pretty easy to find information.
I don't have windows leftover on my system...
Heh :)
I just don't understand why people have to bring morality into the imaginary. What would the world be like without the imaginations of great thinkers? Leave the parents to decide if they want children to play violent games. I like the idea of being able to build a half a million person city in less than a hundred years using like 100 thousand dollars.
anti-christian? Hmmm...some of us aren't Christian. Some of the children growing up around here aren't christian or Jewish or islamic. The fact is, religion shouldn't be a factor when designing a game unless it's a christian oriented game. Books, games, television and music spark the imagination, not believing one thing and letting your views spoil the love "pagan gods and working magic".
I prefer "quasi" ironic...
I was working for a company in NY state and the printer went down. I was unavailable at the time and when the call went through on my cell phone, I had them call IBM tech support. On the phone, the techie asked her all kinds of questions and she didn't know anything. Finally out of frustration, the guy asked her if it was windy outside. This woman looked outside and said "yes it is, why?". IBM man said "well that's the problem...when it's windy, it affects the way printers work". The woman said "ok" and hung up.
Or how about the classic problem "My printer doesn't work...help me!"
Tech: "is the cable that connects the printer to the computer tangled?"
User: "yes, why would that make a difference?"
Tech: "Because data travels in 1's and 0's, the 0's slide through curves alright because they are rounded, but the 1's get caught and can't move"
User: "Oh, that makes sense. Thank you, goodbye"
Never even checks to make sure uncoiling the cable will do the trick...
Yes the cd rom cupholder is old...maybe you can use these huh?
I didn't understand this...maybe it's my lower intelligence level seeing I read UF or something
I've been a UFie for almost 2 years now and since I started reading it, I've been, for the most part, laughing at every cartoon Illiad has posted. Upon going to Scott Kurtz's sight, I was subjected to his idea of "humor"...gaming. He admits comics about computer games are not funny, but I have to disagree with his idea that comics about gamers begin funny. Even his "HelpDesk" comic recommendation is bland and not what I would consider humorous. Then again...my mom doesn't find Monty Python or George Carlin funny either. I suspect Mr Kurtz lacks the same sense of humor that my mother lacks. The ability to laugh because something is funny and forget about the fact that it might be "morally wrong". One famous comic, I forget his name, has, what, 2 videos filled with people making toasts and totally making fun of him. People love those videos but, alas, they are morally wrong.
I really don't they they would hire someone who knew absolutely nothing about computers for tech support...and after four years of tech support you shouldn't really be proud that you can build a computer.
I would normally never respond to something like this, but...I actually laughed at this one.
I still buy WHAM-O frisbees :)
I can't understand your mentality. I've grown up in small WASP towns and I've been listening to KMFDM, MM, NIN, Fear Factory, Depeche Mode, Mxpx. Not stuff relgious folk tend the think of as "good wholesome music"...but they never ever put assumptions that I was a devil worshiper, or a criminal because I wasn't. The people around me looked down on me for my musical tastes, but only for that. If you believe that I'll be scrutinized because of what I listen to, then you are the one being suspicious of us, not the others.