If the veggie in question is called bieslook in Dutch (assuming Dutch, because of the.nl in the website, assuming bieslook because of the image name) according to a dictionary, those would be chives.
What, they couldn't hear Apple laughing? If I were Apple, and you told me that, I'd be laughing so loud that you could hear me from here to China (pun intended).
Why do people think others are so dumb based purely upon their computer knowledge? Does the plumber think I am a stupid idiot when I call him when I have a problems with my sink? Does the pool guy think I am a dumbass when I ask him for help fixing the pool pump?
A lot of my professors in the MS/PhD Industrial Engineering program at my school are some of the biggest names in their research areas, however many of them have a hard time typing even a couple lines of an email, most of them want you to drop by their office hours. In class if they cannot get the computer system to work generally one of the students knows and gets things running. However, these guys are brilliant engineers.
Lack of computer knowledge does not correlate to a lack of intelligence, get over it.
It's not the lack of computer knowledge that causes me (and others) to think people are dumb. It's the application (or lack thereof) of common sense, when applied to computers. If you have problems with your sink, do you smash the pipes with a hammer, in the effort to fix it? No? If the power went out in your neighborhood, do you sit there in amazement and wonder why your pool pump doesn't work? No? Well, that kind of stuff happens with people and computers.
It's one thing to not know how to do something, or how to fix something. It's another to suffer a total disconnect of intelligence, which many people do in front of a computer (we're talking smart people here; doctors, Ph.D's, engineers, hell, I've had a few people with computer science degrees exhibit bizarre behavior in front of their PCs).
I could probably write a book on the things I've seen; not the run of the mill, "how do I do this" kind of thing, or "what is this MP3 stuff" kind of thing. We're not even talking "less than bright" people. I'll even disregard the "disconnect things while the computer is on, despite being asked to shut the computer off no less than 3 times in 3 minutes". We're talking about the Ph.D calling in, mad at the company because his burner doesn't work (he installed it backwards, and had the cables running around the outside of the case). We're talking the engineering professor who insisted that his product was defective, despite showing him that it worked in every configuration, except one (through a USB hub, where everything stopped working, once 3 things get plugged in; any 3 items, even without the product in question plugged in). Those guys. That's a lack of common sense, right there.
See, there's a lack of computer knowledge, then there's lack of sense
(the examples above are real...I'm not creative enough to make them up. They are incidents that actually have happened to me and my coworkers).
Not really. Layer 8, PEBKAC, ID10T errors were covered under the "23% Bad gear and user negligence", even if the user wasn't purposely being negligent.
You know, things like: *Using a pair of pliers to get a firewire cable to fit into a USB port. *Pressing the "burn" button on the computer to burn a CD and wondering why the computer reset itself (the "burn" button turned out to be on the computer and labelled "reset") *Plugging in a new drive and wondering why there were sparks coming out when it was connected *Forgetting to pay the electric bill and wondering why their computer didn't work.
Maybe those should be for a tech support horror story thread (BTW, these have all been users I've run into, at one time or another).
No, Dr. Pepper sometimes uses Coke to bottle the drinks, but they are not owned by Coke (nor does Coke make them). The Coca Cola Corp has a Dr. Pepper clone (Mr. Pibb).
(plus the fact that I've seen places that only serve Pepsi, like Taco Bell, have Dr. Pepper available).
I doubt things are different in the UK, but who knows.
If you simply buy nothing, they will not hear your "vote"
Well, let's base this on those sales numbers. If you look, it's about 5-6 million copies (or so) for the two football games. Now, if next year, Madden+Take 2's football game (if there is one) only sells 2-3 million, perhaps a message will be sent? I'm not planning on buying Madden next year (I did buy ESPN 2k5, mostly because of the pricing).
Hell, we were still playing Archon and Archon II (on an Atari computer) in the early 90's at my high school; it was the geeky thing to do (plus it brought back memories of playing it for hours on end in the 80's)
In addition to storing all of my MP3s (why would I put them on DVD-Rs, when I have the actual CD tucked away somewhere?), I don't uninstall games I enjoy playing, regardless if I've "won" the game. I can play it again, play it online, etc, without hunting for and reinstalling the game. Why should I restrict myself? The computer works for me, I bend it to my needs; I don't modify my behavior to fit what the computer can do. The computer is supposed to empower me to do things I couldn't before (like have all of my music at my fingertips, instead of hunting for my CDs, or making mix CDs to play while at home, only holding 15-20 songs).
Sports stars fall into the same category as actors do; they are raking in millions of dollars for the sport, they should get paid for it. Perhaps even more so than an actor, as the working career of a sports star is brief and can be over due to injury.
The reason why local governments subsidize the stadiums is because of the local revenue a sports team can bring in, and of the jobs that it helps create (concession stands, parking, etc.). Some of the local governments may retain some rights (and perhaps a small cut of the revenue) for events held at the stadium (not necessarily sports events).
Does this friend also know the labor/manufacturing costs? How about Apple's overhead costs? How is he guessing on the price of the components how much Apple is making on the iPod? Is that company also sourcing the hard drives for Apple (from Toshiba and Hitachi), likely the main component in terms of cost? I'm somehow doubting that.
I'm getting stuff from Brazil (in Portugese) on one of my work accounts; I don't know how it happened, but it's not something I can just disable (as it's a customer contact email, but the address itself isn't published). So, I get to just live with the ones that come through.
For VCD, actually, it doesn't use MP3; rather it uses MPEG-1 Layer 2 (at 224 kb/s). Whether or not this is covered under the same Fraunhofer/Thompson patent, I don't know.
According to that same Wikipedia article, Compaq and Samsung funded a private company called Alpha Processor Inc.
It looks like that list, especially the Sparc and the S/390, was made by someone not all that familiar with the system/processor families and perhaps used their Google-fu to find a bit of info on them. While Sparc is technically handled through Sparc International, most of us know it as Sun's technology (it is) and they are the main user's of it. S/390 is just IBM's System/390 platform (zSeries might be what they are calling the latest systems on the S/390 platform).
Lightscribe has been talked about for a few years now. Similar to the Yamaha technology, except you're not using the data layer for drawing; it's a dye on the other side of the disc that you will be burning.
I don't get the concern with "backwards compatibility" (these discs certainly won't be playable on older players, at least from a logical standpoint, if not physical); the blue laser players will be able to play CDs and DVDs back; if not initially, soon after (it's required for mass market appeal).
Not only did they spend more, but they got a whole lot more, in terms of the OS. Be was an OS with great potential, but there was still a lot to be done. NeXT was much more polished and mature; it made more sense to me at the time that Apple went with NeXT.
Plus Madden technically works for them (ABC/ESPN).
I was wondering about that (ESPN using Madden, instead of ESPN 2K5), but I think the links go a little farther than just $$$ (since EA would still want to advertise on Sunday and Monday night football broadcasts).
Obviously mathematically there is a narrow area at each step up where you do get penalized. However, by the time you reach that level, you have a college education, and hopefully can figure out that you need to get an increase of at least X to cover the tax increase. Don't accept a wage increase less than X.
Actually, it's not obvious, because it doesn't work that way. Let's use $20,000 and $30,000 as our tax rate points (ie, make than than, get taxed differently). X will the be the tax rate for $20,000 and below, Y will be for above $20,000 but below $30,000. Z will be for above $30,000
Man A makes $19,000. He pays in tax ($19,000)*(X) Man B makes $22,000. He pays in tax ($20,000)*(X) + ($2000)*(Y) Man C makes $35,000. He pays ($20,000)*(X) + ($10,000)*(Y)+($5,000)*Z
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If the veggie in question is called bieslook in Dutch (assuming Dutch, because of the .nl in the website, assuming bieslook because of the image name) according to a dictionary, those would be chives.
Are you sure iTunes is set to burn an audio CD? Perhaps it's set to burn a data CD (it's an option in the preferences).
Yeah, I can see people trying to emulate a PowerPC to run Linux. That's got to be the main reason why people do this.
No, but seriously; they (CherryOS bastards) are advertising the fact that you can do something illegal (according to Apple's license). That is:
With CherryOS -- a G4 Emulator -- you can install Panther, Apple's award-winning operating system, onto your PC.
I would expect a call from Apple's lawyers soon, if I were those guys.
What, they couldn't hear Apple laughing? If I were Apple, and you told me that, I'd be laughing so loud that you could hear me from here to China (pun intended).
Not just a Pepsi cap, but gift cards, too.
Why do people think others are so dumb based purely upon their computer knowledge? Does the plumber think I am a stupid idiot when I call him when I have a problems with my sink? Does the pool guy think I am a dumbass when I ask him for help fixing the pool pump?
A lot of my professors in the MS/PhD Industrial Engineering program at my school are some of the biggest names in their research areas, however many of them have a hard time typing even a couple lines of an email, most of them want you to drop by their office hours. In class if they cannot get the computer system to work generally one of the students knows and gets things running. However, these guys are brilliant engineers.
Lack of computer knowledge does not correlate to a lack of intelligence, get over it.
It's not the lack of computer knowledge that causes me (and others) to think people are dumb. It's the application (or lack thereof) of common sense, when applied to computers. If you have problems with your sink, do you smash the pipes with a hammer, in the effort to fix it? No? If the power went out in your neighborhood, do you sit there in amazement and wonder why your pool pump doesn't work? No? Well, that kind of stuff happens with people and computers.
It's one thing to not know how to do something, or how to fix something. It's another to suffer a total disconnect of intelligence, which many people do in front of a computer (we're talking smart people here; doctors, Ph.D's, engineers, hell, I've had a few people with computer science degrees exhibit bizarre behavior in front of their PCs).
I could probably write a book on the things I've seen; not the run of the mill, "how do I do this" kind of thing, or "what is this MP3 stuff" kind of thing. We're not even talking "less than bright" people. I'll even disregard the "disconnect things while the computer is on, despite being asked to shut the computer off no less than 3 times in 3 minutes". We're talking about the Ph.D calling in, mad at the company because his burner doesn't work (he installed it backwards, and had the cables running around the outside of the case). We're talking the engineering professor who insisted that his product was defective, despite showing him that it worked in every configuration, except one (through a USB hub, where everything stopped working, once 3 things get plugged in; any 3 items, even without the product in question plugged in). Those guys. That's a lack of common sense, right there.
See, there's a lack of computer knowledge, then there's lack of sense
(the examples above are real...I'm not creative enough to make them up. They are incidents that actually have happened to me and my coworkers).
Not really. Layer 8, PEBKAC, ID10T errors were covered under the "23% Bad gear and user negligence", even if the user wasn't purposely being negligent.
You know, things like:
*Using a pair of pliers to get a firewire cable to fit into a USB port.
*Pressing the "burn" button on the computer to burn a CD and wondering why the computer reset itself (the "burn" button turned out to be on the computer and labelled "reset")
*Plugging in a new drive and wondering why there were sparks coming out when it was connected
*Forgetting to pay the electric bill and wondering why their computer didn't work.
Maybe those should be for a tech support horror story thread (BTW, these have all been users I've run into, at one time or another).
No, Dr. Pepper sometimes uses Coke to bottle the drinks, but they are not owned by Coke (nor does Coke make them). The Coca Cola Corp has a Dr. Pepper clone (Mr. Pibb).
(plus the fact that I've seen places that only serve Pepsi, like Taco Bell, have Dr. Pepper available).
I doubt things are different in the UK, but who knows.
Darth Vader has a sled named Rosebud?
If you simply buy nothing, they will not hear your "vote"
Well, let's base this on those sales numbers. If you look, it's about 5-6 million copies (or so) for the two football games. Now, if next year, Madden+Take 2's football game (if there is one) only sells 2-3 million, perhaps a message will be sent? I'm not planning on buying Madden next year (I did buy ESPN 2k5, mostly because of the pricing).
Hell, we were still playing Archon and Archon II (on an Atari computer) in the early 90's at my high school; it was the geeky thing to do (plus it brought back memories of playing it for hours on end in the 80's)
In addition to storing all of my MP3s (why would I put them on DVD-Rs, when I have the actual CD tucked away somewhere?), I don't uninstall games I enjoy playing, regardless if I've "won" the game. I can play it again, play it online, etc, without hunting for and reinstalling the game. Why should I restrict myself? The computer works for me, I bend it to my needs; I don't modify my behavior to fit what the computer can do. The computer is supposed to empower me to do things I couldn't before (like have all of my music at my fingertips, instead of hunting for my CDs, or making mix CDs to play while at home, only holding 15-20 songs).
Sports stars fall into the same category as actors do; they are raking in millions of dollars for the sport, they should get paid for it. Perhaps even more so than an actor, as the working career of a sports star is brief and can be over due to injury.
The reason why local governments subsidize the stadiums is because of the local revenue a sports team can bring in, and of the jobs that it helps create (concession stands, parking, etc.). Some of the local governments may retain some rights (and perhaps a small cut of the revenue) for events held at the stadium (not necessarily sports events).
Am I the only one that needs a Kleenex after reading this???
Yes, you are the only one. At least, I hope so.
Does this friend also know the labor/manufacturing costs? How about Apple's overhead costs? How is he guessing on the price of the components how much Apple is making on the iPod? Is that company also sourcing the hard drives for Apple (from Toshiba and Hitachi), likely the main component in terms of cost? I'm somehow doubting that.
I'm not sure I believe your friend.
I'm getting stuff from Brazil (in Portugese) on one of my work accounts; I don't know how it happened, but it's not something I can just disable (as it's a customer contact email, but the address itself isn't published). So, I get to just live with the ones that come through.
For VCD, actually, it doesn't use MP3; rather it uses MPEG-1 Layer 2 (at 224 kb/s). Whether or not this is covered under the same Fraunhofer/Thompson patent, I don't know.
According to that same Wikipedia article, Compaq and Samsung funded a private company called Alpha Processor Inc.
It looks like that list, especially the Sparc and the S/390, was made by someone not all that familiar with the system/processor families and perhaps used their Google-fu to find a bit of info on them. While Sparc is technically handled through Sparc International, most of us know it as Sun's technology (it is) and they are the main user's of it. S/390 is just IBM's System/390 platform (zSeries might be what they are calling the latest systems on the S/390 platform).
Opposing Forces yes, Blue Shift, well, it doesn't show up on my list.
Lightscribe has been talked about for a few years now. Similar to the Yamaha technology, except you're not using the data layer for drawing; it's a dye on the other side of the disc that you will be burning.
I don't get the concern with "backwards compatibility" (these discs certainly won't be playable on older players, at least from a logical standpoint, if not physical); the blue laser players will be able to play CDs and DVDs back; if not initially, soon after (it's required for mass market appeal).
Not only did they spend more, but they got a whole lot more, in terms of the OS. Be was an OS with great potential, but there was still a lot to be done. NeXT was much more polished and mature; it made more sense to me at the time that Apple went with NeXT.
You weren't the only one, but given those choices back then, I was in the NeXT camp. There were quite a few people favoring Be instead, though.
Plus Madden technically works for them (ABC/ESPN).
I was wondering about that (ESPN using Madden, instead of ESPN 2K5), but I think the links go a little farther than just $$$ (since EA would still want to advertise on Sunday and Monday night football broadcasts).
Obviously mathematically there is a narrow area at each step up where you do get penalized. However, by the time you reach that level, you have a college education, and hopefully can figure out that you need to get an increase of at least X to cover the tax increase. Don't accept a wage increase less than X.
Actually, it's not obvious, because it doesn't work that way. Let's use $20,000 and $30,000 as our tax rate points (ie, make than than, get taxed differently). X will the be the tax rate for $20,000 and below, Y will be for above $20,000 but below $30,000. Z will be for above $30,000
Man A makes $19,000. He pays in tax ($19,000)*(X)
Man B makes $22,000. He pays in tax ($20,000)*(X) + ($2000)*(Y)
Man C makes $35,000. He pays ($20,000)*(X) + ($10,000)*(Y)+($5,000)*Z
Wikipedia on Progressive tax