Well, the surprising thing to me is that a similarly configured (but with more features) loaded 2.5 Ghz Dual G5 from Apple (with liquid cooling as well) runs about $2300 cheaper than the Alienware box.
I'm sorry, you can't use weak girly excuses, like logical arguments, on gamers. They're all after the shiny. Maybe if the next G5 system went back to a cube design, with blue neon...
Well, I wasn't trying to complain so much as warn others will be racing to download it.
No, I don't program, so I won't be coding anything:) I'd donate to Mozilla again, but I just quit my job and went majorly in debt for school. So... what can I do?:)
The plugin versions work in Firefox and and Thunderbird. Yet they're totally separate from any install of Sunbird you may also have. So you pretty much need to choose one or the other, or risk forgetting some appointments because you have the wrong instance loaded. They can import across, but they don't just share one calendar file, which makes no sense to me.
Also, the biggest problem I have: there is no way to make the alarm trigger a selectable sound? There's a checkbox to "play a sound," but that's it, and if it actually does make a sound, I can't hear it across the room. Sadly, even the alarm clock in Windows XP's Plus pack beats this with a wet noodle. (Except, of course, when the alarm clock just fails to trigger at the time, which is whenever you need it most)
Since I'm already an iTunes user, the way to get me interested in a competing store is to give me tracks I want that Apple doesn't have. I'm an '80s fan, for example, and can't find in iTunes a lot of tracks that were very popular back then. Yet Microsoft's store doesn't seem to have them, either.
I guess I might care more if I had a portable device, but I don't. Even if I did, it's easy to convert what I get from Apple into other formats, so I don't understand Microsoft's claims.
Perhaps the people should pay their fucking bills on time and not just ignore them for weeks/months/years?
I just recently quit a job tgat I'd been working since December. I worked the night shift, and several times a week I'd find a collection call left in my voice mail from someone trying to reach whoever had my extension before me. At first, they knew they weren't calling that person any more, but later on they just had a machine do it almost daily.
Collection agencies shouldn't have the right to waste my time and my employer's money.
Well, I was an engineer for a couple of years at a Tier-1 service provider. Only messed with confs up through aggregate level, Cisco and Juniper, no backbone experience, but some multi-hop BGP when required, etc. Plenty of national on-call experience. Then I got laid off. Now I'm in a cert program to back up the experience on my resume with a CCNA, and extend with PIX and CCSP.
The reason women do not have as many of the 'top jobs' in this world is economics. If you hire a woman and she has a kid, then she will be gone for several months and you will have to pay her maternity leave even though she isn't there. Economically speaking, it's better to hire the man. I don't mean that a woman does not deserve the job or isn't capable of doing it, but managers look at the demographics and see that it is more profitable to hire a man. You could even argue that they are obligated to hire the man for the sake of the shareholders.
Interestingly, most European nations take care of this disparity by granting new fathers potential leave as well.
Also, the Slashdot submitter appears to be the buckle-maker, but hasn't bothered to mention this.
If I still had voting privileges, and hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd upvote you myself. I can't believe I was in such a rush to post that I forgot to check for the obvious astroturfing.
A much more entertaining game to play is, which product(s) is Engadget actually shilling in its latest article?
We all know that this is a commercial blog, so for this last article, was it Windows Media 9, Dogpile's SearchSpy, the PocketPC division of Microsoft, or some combination of them all?
Many vendors say clearly don't upgrade if the router, mobo, or whatever else you have is currently working properly for you. Sometimes new BIOS revisions are specifically created for new hardware revisions that are slipstreamed in, and they don't always properly document that.
Unless you've read in the changelog that it patches a hole/bad code or adds functionality that you need, don't take the chance that it's going to crater. Even if your vendor is nice enough to replace the component out of warranty, you're still going to be inconvenienced waiting.
The only BG ref I can recall is a Cylon Centurion suit in the "Robot" section - no "Galactica" in the Space Dock - and I don't recall even seeing a passing ref in any of the video footage.
That's pathetic. The series cost around a million dollars an episode to make, absolutely unheard of for that time, and it's reduced to a chrome suit with a sweeping light in the helmet.
I wonder if there was a little button on the base: "press here to hear the Cylon speak!" Ooooh!
Before the opening, the museum's website had information on lending props and other materials to the museum. I suspect that a lot of the rotating "stock" will be moved in and out as people lend, then want their artifacts back.
I looked at this museum a while back, in fact, because I was considering lending out props I have from Battlestar Galactica, but as you can see, I decided not to do so, because I was concerned about their safety.
(If anyone else goes to the museum, I'd like to know if there's a BG section, and what it's like, etc.)
If you're bright but you're not making As, I'm going to assume it's because you're not doing your homework, and that you're skating by on tests. Especially if you're coming up through the public schools, here.
Look. You'd better decide now that you're willing to study and do all the work, even for those crummy basic courses you either are not interested in or just know you know all about.
Take it from someone who managed to blow his National Merit Scholarship: don't play; study!!! Don't assume you're going to get the basic stuff easy, and that you don't have to spend time on things - there really will be stuff that can trip you up, and you have to have good study habits. If you're having trouble getting motivated for a particular class, join a study team or something. You've probably heard this a million times (I did but ignored it), but don't let yourself get distracted. You have plenty of time to play after the homework is done, and if you don't, remember that you have vacations, and this is your job, and you're paying for the privilege, even if you're on full scholarship (like I was).
Trust me, you don't want to find yourself in a situation where you have to recover from some bad grades in your first year. The consequences of a low GPA in high school are nothing compared to what's going to happen if you get bad grades in college, at least if you intend to go on to graduate school, get teaching certification, or something similar.
Don't be afraid to change majors if you discover you don't love a subject as much as you thought you did in the beginning, but while you are enrolled in a subject, give it your best and chalk it up to experience after. There will not be a nice, understanding professor who will step in and say, oh, I know you're capable, I'll give you the 4.0 anyway, even though you stopped participating... and if there is, he or she is doing you a disservice.
Don't even enroll until you're actually ready to focus and do your homework and ask questions in class and ask for help when you stop understanding. It's not going to be always simple. It's not going to be always fun. And if you think you can get by slacking off like before, you have an expensive and painful lesson ahead, that really will ripple through much of your future life.
(oh, and don't room with that guy you'll meet in second semester who seems really bright but has the alcohol problem... etc.)
The one thing I've heard about it (besides the crime) that bothers me is that there's apparently some serious racism and de-facto segregation by neighbourhood.
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I wonder what's going to happen to advertising, now.
Useful baby formula? Or that Nestle's crap that they weren't allowed to sell in the U.S., that was nutritionally deficient, and that kids died from?
That certainly puts the literate at a disadvantage, though, doesn't it?
I'm sorry, you can't use weak girly excuses, like logical arguments, on gamers. They're all after the shiny.
Maybe if the next G5 system went back to a cube design, with blue neon...
What if you're trying to add the functionality to a laptop, or more usefully, an iMac?
Those nifty new widescreen iMacs don't come with video tuners, nor can you install a card in them, from what I can tell.
Well, I wasn't trying to complain so much as warn others will be racing to download it.
:) :)
No, I don't program, so I won't be coding anything
I'd donate to Mozilla again, but I just quit my job and went majorly in debt for school. So... what can I do?
The plugin versions work in Firefox and and Thunderbird. Yet they're totally separate from any install of Sunbird you may also have. So you pretty much need to choose one or the other, or risk forgetting some appointments because you have the wrong instance loaded. They can import across, but they don't just share one calendar file, which makes no sense to me.
Also, the biggest problem I have: there is no way to make the alarm trigger a selectable sound? There's a checkbox to "play a sound," but that's it, and if it actually does make a sound, I can't hear it across the room. Sadly, even the alarm clock in Windows XP's Plus pack beats this with a wet noodle. (Except, of course, when the alarm clock just fails to trigger at the time, which is whenever you need it most)
Since I'm already an iTunes user, the way to get me interested in a competing store is to give me tracks I want that Apple doesn't have. I'm an '80s fan, for example, and can't find in iTunes a lot of tracks that were very popular back then. Yet Microsoft's store doesn't seem to have them, either.
I guess I might care more if I had a portable device, but I don't. Even if I did, it's easy to convert what I get from Apple into other formats, so I don't understand Microsoft's claims.
I just recently quit a job tgat I'd been working since December. I worked the night shift, and several times a week I'd find a collection call left in my voice mail from someone trying to reach whoever had my extension before me. At first, they knew they weren't calling that person any more, but later on they just had a machine do it almost daily.
Collection agencies shouldn't have the right to waste my time and my employer's money.
Well, I was an engineer for a couple of years at a Tier-1 service provider. Only messed with confs up through aggregate level, Cisco and Juniper, no backbone experience, but some multi-hop BGP when required, etc. Plenty of national on-call experience. Then I got laid off. Now I'm in a cert program to back up the experience on my resume with a CCNA, and extend with PIX and CCSP.
:)
So... hopefully, I'm skilled, not a monkey
I prefer the term "router jockey," myself.
Interestingly, most European nations take care of this disparity by granting new fathers potential leave as well.
If I still had voting privileges, and hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd upvote you myself.
I can't believe I was in such a rush to post that I forgot to check for the obvious astroturfing.
A much more entertaining game to play is, which product(s) is Engadget actually shilling in its latest article?
We all know that this is a commercial blog, so for this last article, was it Windows Media 9, Dogpile's SearchSpy, the PocketPC division of Microsoft, or some combination of them all?
He's sort of the apple of their ire, then, right?
Many vendors say clearly don't upgrade if the router, mobo, or whatever else you have is currently working properly for you. Sometimes new BIOS revisions are specifically created for new hardware revisions that are slipstreamed in, and they don't always properly document that.
Unless you've read in the changelog that it patches a hole/bad code or adds functionality that you need, don't take the chance that it's going to crater. Even if your vendor is nice enough to replace the component out of warranty, you're still going to be inconvenienced waiting.
I prefer to think of nutria.
What's the eggshell for?
That's nothing. Try dual-booting on a dual-processor, DDR RAM, dual-head box that is of course 2u ("double u") in size... and logging in twice.
That's pathetic. The series cost around a million dollars an episode to make, absolutely unheard of for that time, and it's reduced to a chrome suit with a sweeping light in the helmet.
I wonder if there was a little button on the base: "press here to hear the Cylon speak!" Ooooh!
Before the opening, the museum's website had information on lending props and other materials to the museum. I suspect that a lot of the rotating "stock" will be moved in and out as people lend, then want their artifacts back.
I looked at this museum a while back, in fact, because I was considering lending out props I have from Battlestar Galactica, but as you can see, I decided not to do so, because I was concerned about their safety.
(If anyone else goes to the museum, I'd like to know if there's a BG section, and what it's like, etc.)
If you're bright but you're not making As, I'm going to assume it's because you're not doing your homework, and that you're skating by on tests. Especially if you're coming up through the public schools, here.
Look. You'd better decide now that you're willing to study and do all the work, even for those crummy basic courses you either are not interested in or just know you know all about.
Take it from someone who managed to blow his National Merit Scholarship: don't play; study!!! Don't assume you're going to get the basic stuff easy, and that you don't have to spend time on things - there really will be stuff that can trip you up, and you have to have good study habits. If you're having trouble getting motivated for a particular class, join a study team or something. You've probably heard this a million times (I did but ignored it), but don't let yourself get distracted. You have plenty of time to play after the homework is done, and if you don't, remember that you have vacations, and this is your job, and you're paying for the privilege, even if you're on full scholarship (like I was).
Trust me, you don't want to find yourself in a situation where you have to recover from some bad grades in your first year. The consequences of a low GPA in high school are nothing compared to what's going to happen if you get bad grades in college, at least if you intend to go on to graduate school, get teaching certification, or something similar.
Don't be afraid to change majors if you discover you don't love a subject as much as you thought you did in the beginning, but while you are enrolled in a subject, give it your best and chalk it up to experience after. There will not be a nice, understanding professor who will step in and say, oh, I know you're capable, I'll give you the 4.0 anyway, even though you stopped participating... and if there is, he or she is doing you a disservice.
Don't even enroll until you're actually ready to focus and do your homework and ask questions in class and ask for help when you stop understanding. It's not going to be always simple. It's not going to be always fun. And if you think you can get by slacking off like before, you have an expensive and painful lesson ahead, that really will ripple through much of your future life.
(oh, and don't room with that guy you'll meet in second semester who seems really bright but has the alcohol problem... etc.)
I'd have said something like, "and you're talking this way to the guy who was going to tip you? What does that make you?" while smiling.
That explains it. I've been out east, towards the Pendleton area, and I believe you, now. It's like west Texas out there, except not as flat.
You mean like "Lake No Negroes"?