"Day one revealed what all Apple aficionados fear. That AT&T, through the depths of its incompetence, could derail the iPhone."
I am sorry, but what the hell is this supposed to mean? For one thing, this is day one of the damn phone being sold, and it is no surprise that the AT&T monkeys were in a panic trying to get the phones to activate on the spot. If it hadn't occurred to anyone, those who went to the Apple stores got their boxes and then left and activated the phone via iTunes. Those who went to AT&T had their phones activated in-store, thus causing slower activations and the incompetence that you expect from your mobile phone carriers.
Does anyone see the difference here now? The summary of this article is pure crap.
Mac OS has virtually no keyboard shortcuts that are actually consistant across applications. Cut/copy/paste are about it. Even moving within lines of text is not consistant on the Mac. Talk about stupid for the sake of stupid.
You appear to be quite the expert on Mac OS X. Do you use it daily? It appears that you certainly do.
I used to work as a computer salesperson and in the Geek Squad department.
This is not the only thing that Best Buy does illegally when it comes to its Geek Squad department. If you buy a computer that has a recovery disc off of the floor, chances are you will not get its recovery disc, or a legitimate copy of it, because they have already took the copy out of the contents stored and have incorporated it into the Geek Squad's disc collection.
What does that mean?
Well, when you buy a computer, most stores will push for their "ultimate" package, which includes recovery discs, anti-virus, and system optimizations. The copy of the anti-virus will be legitimate, but half of the time, they'll encourage you to go with this because they'll fear you into thinking if your hard drive goes that the recovery partition will not be there. Half of the time, there were discs already in the box, so the extra copy of the recovery discs were pointless. If you bought an open box computer that originally had discs, you would not get the originals because the Geek Squad had already acquired them.
Most of the guys who work as technicians in Geek Squad are working as technicians when there is work to do. Unfortunately, when there is little or no work to do, they go on the sales floor to push their products and basically fear-monger customers into their services. I will admit, most of the time, they are trying to be helpful when the manager/supervisor-types are not pushing for things.
Mind you, Best Buy will do some good for its employees, but some of the sales tactics just appall me. For instance, shortly before I left to the current job I absolutely love, I got in trouble because I didn't use the clipboard to get the person's lifestyle choices over a bloody USB cable for a printer. The clipboard does serve a useful purpose, but do I need to ask if this cable is going to be used for a laser or inkjet printer? Hell, half of the time, I told the customer to get the cheapest cable because the markup was going to be 1000% regardless of what length.
Ah well. If you want to work at Best Buy, work in inventory or in merchandising, because there is no sales expectation there. I was a good salesman and always scored high marks with their sales scoring method, but I didn't like the job at all.
If you have bothered to take a look at the forums, there is no piracy going on. MP3s were barred alongside torrents from the forums roughly a year ago, as it was just becomming a legal nightmare.
My work is accepting donations for the Canadian Red Cross, and I do not see our bank shutting us down because we're pulling in donations to give to some charity.
Paypal fucked everyone over, and it is unfortunate.
Cairo has always promised several new developments in storage technologies. The first is a full-blown content indexing engine to let users locate files anywhere on their networks. Microsoft incorporated the Cairo indexer engine as an ISAPI application that's available now as the indexer engine for IIS 2 and above. This high-performance engine allows full searching of the custom document tags I described in my article, "Exploring Cairo: Object File System," November 1995.
To make a searchable tree, you need a way to span multiple machines. NT's Distributed File System (DFS) has been in beta for a while (for information about DFS, see Sean Deuby and Tim Daniels, "DFS: A Logical View of Physical Resources," December 1996), but the real product will be Fault Tolerant DFS. Fault Tolerant DFS lets you create one large tree that spans clients and servers in your network. Obviously, such a tree is ideal for the indexer engine, and I expect we'll see more and more users leveraging this system in the future.
The final breakthrough in Cairo storage technology is the granddaddy of OLE storage, Structured Storage (SS) and the Object Filing System. Unfortunately, development on this front has gone quiet. However, Microsoft has notably improved SS in Office 97. For example, Word now allows multiple document versioning within one file, and many applications now allow concurrent read and write. I've heard that Microsoft's OFS, the set of server-side extensions to NTFS that lets it work with structured storage in a client/server fashion, is still under development but will see the light of day this year.
If WinFS gets out of this beta stage then I will be amazed.
When Microsoft first introduced WinFS in 2003, the company said it would include a new synchronization engine that could index a host of disparate Windows files
In 2003? Jesus Christ!
I seem to remember that in 1994, Cairo was all the rage. Hell, it has been an idea since 1991. If I did not toss them out before I moved into my current house, I'd have scans of each individual article in Windows Magazine about Cairo from 1994, 1995, and 1997.
In the Province of British Columbia, every police officer has a payscale to use when they hand out driving infraction tickets. When speeding, the scale here starts at 20 KM/h over the limit and higher. So if you were to do 10-15 KM/h over the limit, the officer cannot properly give you a ticket.
In Alberta, where photo radar prevails (it was abolished in BC), the camera only triggers at 15 KM/h over the limit.
To be honest, photo radar is stupid because people here just avoided it by claiming they never got a ticket. Eventually the government got tired of people sitting on tickets and scrapped the project due to the cost of sending police officers to each ticketed home.
I am having a difficult time finding a copy of Code Rush, a documentry released and presented by PBS in 2000. It was a neat documentry on how Mozilla came to be and the struggles the team at Netscape had.
So you twat, have you been finally fired? You deserve it.
Fucking pansie has not even replied to a comment in over a year.
I may as well post the article here...
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Fansubbers Under Fire
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Ten years ago, it would have never been thought of to see anime plentiful in stores like HMV (a music and video store chain in the Commonwealth), the video department of Best Buy, or to see entire companies acquiring rights to anime on a monthly basis and releasing professional copies every single month. Of course now, it is reality and many of us spend oodles of money buying anime on DVD and enjoying it on a daily basis.
What has also changed is fansubbing. Years ago, you would have had to go on the Internet to see who was distributing what, mail them a VHS tape, and then wait a few weeks for a copy of whatever series you wanted. It was a slow process and I remember a few times having to do that in order to get copies of certain titles.
These days, it's as simple as going to a website, finding a torrent, and then download the series. With hard drives becoming larger and cheaper, broadband Internet access being provided to millions of people around the world, and with write-able DVDs providing gigabytes of space on a single disc, it's really easy to download anime today without having to worry about space or time.
The process has changed too. Today, anime fansubbers have people working in Japan ripping digital television feeds, encoding them for use on computer, have them sent to Japan, and then the fansubbers go to work at it, having it done in a period of a few days.
Beforehand, most would have had to wait for the laserdisc to come available, and then it would be translated by hand, timed, then the script would be checked before the master copy was made on to a SVHS or VHS tape.
The huge difference here besides speed is the fact that ten years ago, the fansubbers themselves knew each other by face and lived rather close-by in most cases, whereas today most of the fansubbers live on six different points of the planet instead of six kilometres from each other.
However, fansubbers today lack class.
If you paid attention to what I said two paragraphs ago, fansubbers ten years ago would have had to wait for a laserdisc to come available in Japan before being able to do their work. That would have meant having to pay for a copy, which would mean that at the very least the fansubbers were paying for a copy of the series.
The huge difference here is that fansubbers do not pay for a copy of the anime they subtitle. In fact, unlike their former analogue counterparts, all their work is done in digital means, and there is very little loss to quality of the video when they release their works.
Ever looked at a fansub VHS copy of your favourite series and then seen it on DVD or a master VHS copy? Do you notice that the quality is VASTLY different? Do you notice that the translation is generally better?
Compare a fansub copy of Mahoromatic to the same episode on DVD. Notice how the image quality is similar? Notice how the sound is somewhat similar?
Fansubbers today think they're doing the right thing by promoting a series and of course, at the same time throw their dicks around when they're the first to release a certain series. They plaster their names all over the series during the openings as if they're involved with the anime series itself, when in fact they're not.
Their idea of having their releases with the best quality what so ever does not make themselves look all that great when you take a sober look at things. The incentive years ago was that you'd get a copy of the series on VHS from a fansub group, then once a copy was licensed, you'd record over your fansub copy and then buy the legitimate product.
I have met many friends who do not do that. They collect anime on nothing but recordable CDs and DVDs. And it cannot just be my friends, as I know numerous of people out there do not buy the DVDs once they're licensed and still continue to watch the series via their fan subbed copies.
To make matters worse, fansubbers today are all kids. Just like kids, they squabble over stupid little things and get into a
Slashdot Mirror
Nah. Pink taco.
Just send out the Canadia to fix the problem!
"Day one revealed what all Apple aficionados fear. That AT&T, through the depths of its incompetence, could derail the iPhone."
I am sorry, but what the hell is this supposed to mean? For one thing, this is day one of the damn phone being sold, and it is no surprise that the AT&T monkeys were in a panic trying to get the phones to activate on the spot. If it hadn't occurred to anyone, those who went to the Apple stores got their boxes and then left and activated the phone via iTunes. Those who went to AT&T had their phones activated in-store, thus causing slower activations and the incompetence that you expect from your mobile phone carriers.
Does anyone see the difference here now? The summary of this article is pure crap.
Mac OS has virtually no keyboard shortcuts that are actually consistant across applications. Cut/copy/paste are about it. Even moving within lines of text is not consistant on the Mac. Talk about stupid for the sake of stupid.
You appear to be quite the expert on Mac OS X. Do you use it daily? It appears that you certainly do.
I used to work as a computer salesperson and in the Geek Squad department.
This is not the only thing that Best Buy does illegally when it comes to its Geek Squad department. If you buy a computer that has a recovery disc off of the floor, chances are you will not get its recovery disc, or a legitimate copy of it, because they have already took the copy out of the contents stored and have incorporated it into the Geek Squad's disc collection.
What does that mean?
Well, when you buy a computer, most stores will push for their "ultimate" package, which includes recovery discs, anti-virus, and system optimizations. The copy of the anti-virus will be legitimate, but half of the time, they'll encourage you to go with this because they'll fear you into thinking if your hard drive goes that the recovery partition will not be there. Half of the time, there were discs already in the box, so the extra copy of the recovery discs were pointless. If you bought an open box computer that originally had discs, you would not get the originals because the Geek Squad had already acquired them.
Most of the guys who work as technicians in Geek Squad are working as technicians when there is work to do. Unfortunately, when there is little or no work to do, they go on the sales floor to push their products and basically fear-monger customers into their services. I will admit, most of the time, they are trying to be helpful when the manager/supervisor-types are not pushing for things.
Mind you, Best Buy will do some good for its employees, but some of the sales tactics just appall me. For instance, shortly before I left to the current job I absolutely love, I got in trouble because I didn't use the clipboard to get the person's lifestyle choices over a bloody USB cable for a printer. The clipboard does serve a useful purpose, but do I need to ask if this cable is going to be used for a laser or inkjet printer? Hell, half of the time, I told the customer to get the cheapest cable because the markup was going to be 1000% regardless of what length.
Ah well. If you want to work at Best Buy, work in inventory or in merchandising, because there is no sales expectation there. I was a good salesman and always scored high marks with their sales scoring method, but I didn't like the job at all.
Don't worry, once the Conserv...Allia...Reform Party is out, all will be good again up here.
http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details/0 ,,46,00.html
Motorola already offers a Linux phone.
FIRST POST.. finally. Anyway, New Orleans is unlivable anyway. This is global warming, kids.
Funny, I am on my Mac running Adium, which uses GAIM as a base, and it works fine with MSN.
If you have bothered to take a look at the forums, there is no piracy going on. MP3s were barred alongside torrents from the forums roughly a year ago, as it was just becomming a legal nightmare.
EARN SOME HISTORY, FAG
My work is accepting donations for the Canadian Red Cross, and I do not see our bank shutting us down because we're pulling in donations to give to some charity.
Paypal fucked everyone over, and it is unfortunate.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/48/
And an excerpt...
If WinFS gets out of this beta stage then I will be amazed.
When Microsoft first introduced WinFS in 2003, the company said it would include a new synchronization engine that could index a host of disparate Windows files
In 2003? Jesus Christ!
I seem to remember that in 1994, Cairo was all the rage. Hell, it has been an idea since 1991. If I did not toss them out before I moved into my current house, I'd have scans of each individual article in Windows Magazine about Cairo from 1994, 1995, and 1997.
WinFS is not even close to being called "new."
In the Province of British Columbia, every police officer has a payscale to use when they hand out driving infraction tickets. When speeding, the scale here starts at 20 KM/h over the limit and higher. So if you were to do 10-15 KM/h over the limit, the officer cannot properly give you a ticket.
In Alberta, where photo radar prevails (it was abolished in BC), the camera only triggers at 15 KM/h over the limit.
To be honest, photo radar is stupid because people here just avoided it by claiming they never got a ticket. Eventually the government got tired of people sitting on tickets and scrapped the project due to the cost of sending police officers to each ticketed home.
http://animefreak.ath.cx:9000/index.php/2005/07/24 /telus-tell-us-we-suck/
With your logic, here are valid reasons for blocking everything else.
No.
Airport = Orinoco
Airport Extreme = Broadcom
None of the 802.11g adapters Apple used were Orinoco.
I am having a difficult time finding a copy of Code Rush, a documentry released and presented by PBS in 2000. It was a neat documentry on how Mozilla came to be and the struggles the team at Netscape had.
What frequencies would one have to listen to to hear data going through ethernet cable?
Canadian GSM is much better than American GSM. Same reason, Microcell/Fido provides two-line phones, which again is something no US GSM has.
However, iDen, which is what Nextel and Telus Mike (Canadian) uses, uses something along the lines of GSM.
However, I am on crappy CDMA now courtesy of Verizon's cousin, Telus Mobility. Am I happy? Fuck no.
Canada has free local calling.
Out of the 200 units we received on Tuesday, 30 have sold.
CSA = Canadian Standards Association
They have more restrictions than UL does. If it CSA approved, then you got a really safe product.
So you twat, have you been finally fired? You deserve it.
Fucking pansie has not even replied to a comment in over a year.
Ten years ago, it would have never been thought of to see anime plentiful in stores like HMV (a music and video store chain in the Commonwealth), the video department of Best Buy, or to see entire companies acquiring rights to anime on a monthly basis and releasing professional copies every single month. Of course now, it is reality and many of us spend oodles of money buying anime on DVD and enjoying it on a daily basis.
What has also changed is fansubbing. Years ago, you would have had to go on the Internet to see who was distributing what, mail them a VHS tape, and then wait a few weeks for a copy of whatever series you wanted. It was a slow process and I remember a few times having to do that in order to get copies of certain titles.
These days, it's as simple as going to a website, finding a torrent, and then download the series. With hard drives becoming larger and cheaper, broadband Internet access being provided to millions of people around the world, and with write-able DVDs providing gigabytes of space on a single disc, it's really easy to download anime today without having to worry about space or time.
The process has changed too. Today, anime fansubbers have people working in Japan ripping digital television feeds, encoding them for use on computer, have them sent to Japan, and then the fansubbers go to work at it, having it done in a period of a few days.
Beforehand, most would have had to wait for the laserdisc to come available, and then it would be translated by hand, timed, then the script would be checked before the master copy was made on to a SVHS or VHS tape.
The huge difference here besides speed is the fact that ten years ago, the fansubbers themselves knew each other by face and lived rather close-by in most cases, whereas today most of the fansubbers live on six different points of the planet instead of six kilometres from each other.
However, fansubbers today lack class.
If you paid attention to what I said two paragraphs ago, fansubbers ten years ago would have had to wait for a laserdisc to come available in Japan before being able to do their work. That would have meant having to pay for a copy, which would mean that at the very least the fansubbers were paying for a copy of the series.
The huge difference here is that fansubbers do not pay for a copy of the anime they subtitle. In fact, unlike their former analogue counterparts, all their work is done in digital means, and there is very little loss to quality of the video when they release their works.
Ever looked at a fansub VHS copy of your favourite series and then seen it on DVD or a master VHS copy? Do you notice that the quality is VASTLY different? Do you notice that the translation is generally better?
Compare a fansub copy of Mahoromatic to the same episode on DVD. Notice how the image quality is similar? Notice how the sound is somewhat similar?
Fansubbers today think they're doing the right thing by promoting a series and of course, at the same time throw their dicks around when they're the first to release a certain series. They plaster their names all over the series during the openings as if they're involved with the anime series itself, when in fact they're not.
Their idea of having their releases with the best quality what so ever does not make themselves look all that great when you take a sober look at things. The incentive years ago was that you'd get a copy of the series on VHS from a fansub group, then once a copy was licensed, you'd record over your fansub copy and then buy the legitimate product.
I have met many friends who do not do that. They collect anime on nothing but recordable CDs and DVDs. And it cannot just be my friends, as I know numerous of people out there do not buy the DVDs once they're licensed and still continue to watch the series via their fan subbed copies.
To make matters worse, fansubbers today are all kids. Just like kids, they squabble over stupid little things and get into a
http://animefreak.ath.cx:9000/index.php/2004/08/16 /fansubbers-today/
People need to spend more time seeing how it was done in the past. Fansubbers today have NO talent.