Wow. I understand the limited time thing, but not only are you letting yourself be pigeonholed into stereotypes, you're letting advertisers do it. You're letting advertisers and network executives decide what you should watch based on what they think the target audience of the show is.
If it's working for you, that's great... but you're relying on the exact people I'd be running away from. heh.
Huh. Ok. You know that's not normally what most people mean when they use a phrase like "you have no idea how many times the following happened", right?
Every time it happened after the first one or two, it was your fault.
"Please click on the 'My Computer' icon". "Click on the icon labeled 'My Computer'."
Either of the examples above would have probably solved your communication problem. I know, it's funnier to have IT helpdesk war stories to relate about how your users were stupider than dirt, but when you grow tired of it and just want to get your work done, you learn how to adapt. Or, rather, I did.
Yeah, I'm a former HelpDeskGuy too.
Sorry if this sounds snarky. I'm still recovering from those dark days...
Ok, we're way off-topic here, but this is the second time I've seen you make this sort of comment:
Heck, even the soldiers doing the actual killing hardly ever see who they kill.
While that may be partially true for some soldiers, it's hardly accurate enough to be used as such a blanket statement. The Marines on the ground weren't/aren't on vacation in places like Bagdad and Fallujah.
I support your overall sentiment with regards to the leadership, but I think you're off-base when you're talking about the average soldier.
What is it about people (anti-nuke types in particular) that they feel the need to exaggerate the horrors of nuclear war? I suppose it's just wishful thinking on their part: if (for example) there were exactly enough nukes to "destroy the entire world", it would be impossible to justify building any additional warheads.
I'd counter their argument with the possibility that there are other worlds for us to destroy too and planning for only ONE is lazy. Heh, silly short-sighted anti-nuke people!
Wait, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, but I would like some clarification and I don't have any Windows machines handy.
What you are implying is that there's TWO checkboxes... one for all the normal file extensions and another one for the 'advanced' ones like.lnk and.url. Is that right? Because he was talking about extensions that don't show up even if you check the styandard "Always show file extensions" checkbox...
Ahh, who'd have thought remembering "Upload/Download" ratios would be a fond memory so many years later... they were so annoying at the time. What?! I'm not a leach! I'm not, I'm not!
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mac os x is emerging as the best place to develop and deploy your java applications
mac os x is provided in the mac os x developer tools bundle
mac os x is a rock
mac os x is apple's new operating system
mac os x is targeted at any mac that apple shipped with a powerpc g3 processor or better
mac os x is available from the xonx project
mac os x is based on unix
mac os x is visionary and practical
mac os x is riding the wave just right
I once responded to one of these Nigerian scammer mails, thinking it would be a little amusing to string them a long for a while with funny responses. (Hardly an original idea, I know. There's more than one example of this on the web.) So I made up a name, a persona and everything. I emailed him and started talking percentages and trying to broker "myself" a better deal and teasing them about when I might be able to fly to wherever to do their business deal.
Well, I eventually got wrapped up in a big project at work and didn't have enough time or energy to continue the charade so I just stopped replying.
SIX MONTHS LATER, they still occasionally email me to try and get out deal going because they "still need my help".
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Wow. I understand the limited time thing, but not only are you letting yourself be pigeonholed into stereotypes, you're letting advertisers do it. You're letting advertisers and network executives decide what you should watch based on what they think the target audience of the show is.
If it's working for you, that's great... but you're relying on the exact people I'd be running away from. heh.
>>It happened once...
Huh. Ok. You know that's not normally what most people mean when they use a phrase like "you have no idea how many times the following happened", right?
Every time it happened after the first one or two, it was your fault.
"Please click on the 'My Computer' icon".
"Click on the icon labeled 'My Computer'."
Either of the examples above would have probably solved your communication problem. I know, it's funnier to have IT helpdesk war stories to relate about how your users were stupider than dirt, but when you grow tired of it and just want to get your work done, you learn how to adapt. Or, rather, I did.
Yeah, I'm a former HelpDeskGuy too.
Sorry if this sounds snarky. I'm still recovering from those dark days...
Ok, we're way off-topic here, but this is the second time I've seen you make this sort of comment:
Heck, even the soldiers doing the actual killing hardly ever see who they kill.
While that may be partially true for some soldiers, it's hardly accurate enough to be used as such a blanket statement. The Marines on the ground weren't/aren't on vacation in places like Bagdad and Fallujah.
I support your overall sentiment with regards to the leadership, but I think you're off-base when you're talking about the average soldier.
*=I dunno if Rather lied but he was wrong either way and has certainly paid for it.
Noah seems like a right jerk for not including some of the smaller dinosaurs on the Ark...
(Ok, so I am responding two days later and thus this will probably never be seen, but...)
Fair enough. I shoulda left off the "Hence the +Funny mod?" bit.
Wasn't it a joke? Hence the +Funny mod?
In the US, "X" is often meant to be "eXtreme" or "eXtra" or some other marketing angle. (re: X-Games, X-Men, X11... er...)
Ok, that's what I thought. The A.C. was just so confident that the parent was wrong. heh. (Go fig.)
Thanks.
Wait, sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, but I would like some clarification and I don't have any Windows machines handy.
.lnk and .url. Is that right? Because he was talking about extensions that don't show up even if you check the styandard "Always show file extensions" checkbox...
What you are implying is that there's TWO checkboxes... one for all the normal file extensions and another one for the 'advanced' ones like
thanks
Thank you.
I was trying to remember where I heard that before.
Dude, Wolverine could so take SnakeEyes!
Ouch! My leg! Crap, it's a geektrap!
er... I DO that, I mean.
Dammit. heh.
Ok, ok... you can launch them from my backyard. Sheesh.
Ahh, who'd have thought remembering "Upload/Download" ratios would be a fond memory so many years later... they were so annoying at the time. What?! I'm not a leach! I'm not, I'm not!
The Japanese have already been working hard on their robot war dogs. We need to hurry up.
What is Mac OS X?
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mac os x is a real peach
mac os x is as innovative as the computers that run it
mac os x is emerging as the best place to develop and deploy your java applications
mac os x is provided in the mac os x developer tools bundle
mac os x is a rock
mac os x is apple's new operating system
mac os x is targeted at any mac that apple shipped with a powerpc g3 processor or better
mac os x is available from the xonx project
mac os x is based on unix
mac os x is visionary and practical
mac os x is riding the wave just right
I once responded to one of these Nigerian scammer mails, thinking it would be a little amusing to string them a long for a while with funny responses. (Hardly an original idea, I know. There's more than one example of this on the web.) So I made up a name, a persona and everything. I emailed him and started talking percentages and trying to broker "myself" a better deal and teasing them about when I might be able to fly to wherever to do their business deal.
Well, I eventually got wrapped up in a big project at work and didn't have enough time or energy to continue the charade so I just stopped replying.
SIX MONTHS LATER, they still occasionally email me to try and get out deal going because they "still need my help".
Tenacious.
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Well, the "plan" is to do this RIGHT AFTER they make a bunch of Carmen Electra clones that have a thing for geneticists.
Of course... it's quite unlikely that there will be any progress on ANY genetic research after that.