Papantine has a new student named Dooku or something like that. The people on the TheForce.net forums are theorizing that Dooku was always a student and Darth Maul was just there as an extra.
the company I work for is moving to active directory. All our problems will go away and we will soon be saving millions of $$$ a year. Thank you microsoft.
I actually thought making 10 million barcode scanners and giving them out for free was a great idea. Everyone knows that most websurfers are too dumb to surf the web on their own and someone needs to point them to the "right" sites. And if they see an ad the like everyone knows they will immediatly run up to their computer and start barcode scanning like crazy.
And how about selling groceries over the internet. Who wouldn't pay more just for the privilege of buying food online? Who really wants to select their own fruit and vegetables anyway? And who wants a good selection of food? I guess if they got another $1 billion in financing they were going to make it up on volume.
And of course everyone knew the future of cinema was watching a 1" by 1" sized picture on your monitor that takes 12 hours to download over a 56k connection.
But the.com's did have some good tv ads. My favorites were for that internet based college book store and that website where you ask for advice or something like that. The ad where the construction workers are hitting on that girl and she learns ESP and bends the steel and the construction workers plunge to their deaths.
1 week battery life and integrated fast ethernet?
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"Insanely long battery life. I don't mean 'barely survive the flight from NWK to LAX'. I mean 'I'm only going to be in Tokyo for a week, so I won't need the AC adapter.'"
"Good built-in networking. No PCMCIA stuff, dongles, or other junk. The system should have a respected 100base-T card built in, and probably an 802.11b card and high-gain antenna as well."
1 week battery life? I think you should invest in an international power adapter. And you don't want PCMCIA sockets, why not? What about expansion?
Check out Sceptre . I remember reading a few years ago that they were the original oem for dell, quantex and a few other laptop makers. Can't confirm it though. I think PC Magazine even had a story about how Quantex and Dell Inspiron were essentially the same laptop with a few small differences.
what's in store for Internet 3? In a few years every one with DSL or cable will be hooked into Internet 2. What's next? Enough bandwith for total immersion porn simulation?
I'm running Win XP, p3 933, 512MB ram, audigy and Geforce 2 GTS with original XP drivers. My pagefile is 1-2 GB. Only 1 crash in a few days playing. Thank God for autosave. Otherwise everything works fine.
The problem is the latest nvidia drivers. You need to rollback to an earlier version. I had the same problem and used the rollback feature in XP and now all is well.
This bug with the 21.83 drivers is well documented on the comp.ibm.sys.pc.games.strategic or whatever you call it newsgroup.
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Here in NYC they are advertising a broadband service from Optimum Online. On the posters in the subway they are specifically mentioning that it is "AOL compatible".
I used to do tech support for 140 people. With NT I had work, but I was a paper MCSE and still learning. Once I deployed win2000 to all the workstations I sat around for a few months surfing the internet until the client decided to cut back to only a sys admin who would also do help desk.
Only time I had a serious problem is with liveware from creative labs. And it was a known issue. Otherwise I had people use machines for months with only some how do I do this questions.
It seems some nix zealots blame anything on windows. But when it comes to nix it's a legitimate compatibility problem or hardware problem.
A shirt is one thing. You buy a PC, decide you don't like it and return it. PC maker is out a lot of money trying to resell a used and depreciated PC. Why should they lose money just because you changed your mind? Why should everyone else's prices go up because you can't make up your mind?
Washers and toasters don't depreciate like computer components.
And how much time do you spend putting all this stuff together? How about troubleshooting problems? How much run arounds do you get from people saying it's the other guy's part? At lest with an OEM box you get one number for support.
And if you buy the corporate machine and pay more for support you actually get decent support. Otherwise the cost of the machine is barely over brake even. Why should they bother to support you if it's going to cost them money?
My last job we were an all dell shop. Around May timeframe we bought all new servers. After I left a few months ago a HD went bad. A new one was there the next day.
Same thing with a mobo. Integrated NIC broke and Dell sent a new mobo UPS Sonic Air . Tech was there a few hours later to install it.
The secret is to buy only "corporate" products. Of course you will overpay, but that's where the support costs come from. Person I worked for at previous job gave me this tip.
We used to buy Optiplex desktops. Only 2 or 3 prblems in a year. Good machines. If you called tech support the secret was to run the diagnostics CD if you think it's a bad part. Otherwise you have to explanin the problem in a way that would prevent you from running the diagnostics CD. Right before I left we started purchasing their workstations. Forgot the model name. One of the first I screwed up the CD burner with a firmware upgrade. They came out with no problems and even called me to make an appointment. These machines cost $500 more than a similar home configuration so you get what you pay for.
Same thing with laptops. For good support you have to get the latitude. I've had a user break his. Clear case of something not covered by warranty. Called tech support. I said I had no idea how it happened and that the user just gave it to me like this. Dell was out there the next day. Again latitudes cost more, but you get what you pay for.
Is this hypermedia 15 years old? SInce everyone knows that only 15 year olds produce anything of value I bet all the really good reporters in this hypermedia thing are 15 years old. They decided to learn reporting and in a few weeks of reading books they are now hypermedia.
Reporters have always seen their role as reporting the news, and not getting involved. While it may have on occasion involed risking one's life to get a story, the risk has always been voluntary. Now two popular journalists have been the targets of an attempted murder. Suddenly they are part of the news and they have no control over the situation.
This is probably one of the most stupid things a terrorist could have done. Most reporters have a liberal slant. That's no secret. If they weren't targets of anthrax, they may have intruduced a liberal bias into their reporting as civilian casualties mounted. Or they could have simply tried to find something negative about the war effort. No since they are pissed off at being target they may simply say screw the bastards and give a more hawkish bias into their reporting.
Another thing is the sending of anthrax to only democrats. Democrats are liberals and usually doves. They would probably be the first ones to try to bring about a peaceful ending. Before the Gulf War the vast majority of democrats voted against the war resolution. You don't try to kill of the peacemakers.
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I was really hoping they Lucas would use happier colors like pink, strawberry blonde, and sky blue.
Papantine has a new student named Dooku or something like that. The people on the TheForce.net forums are theorizing that Dooku was always a student and Darth Maul was just there as an extra.
Dell Inspirons go up to 1500x1400 or something like that. A 1024x768 resulotion is the minimum I'd look for in a laptop.
the company I work for is moving to active directory. All our problems will go away and we will soon be saving millions of $$$ a year. Thank you microsoft.
And how about selling groceries over the internet. Who wouldn't pay more just for the privilege of buying food online? Who really wants to select their own fruit and vegetables anyway? And who wants a good selection of food? I guess if they got another $1 billion in financing they were going to make it up on volume.
And of course everyone knew the future of cinema was watching a 1" by 1" sized picture on your monitor that takes 12 hours to download over a 56k connection.
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"Good built-in networking. No PCMCIA stuff, dongles, or other junk. The system should have a respected 100base-T card built in, and probably an 802.11b card and high-gain antenna as well."
1 week battery life? I think you should invest in an international power adapter. And you don't want PCMCIA sockets, why not? What about expansion?
Check out Sceptre . I remember reading a few years ago that they were the original oem for dell, quantex and a few other laptop makers. Can't confirm it though. I think PC Magazine even had a story about how Quantex and Dell Inspiron were essentially the same laptop with a few small differences.
You need to sleep your way to the top. And don't be picky who you sleep with.
That would be awesome. Pretty good money and all the pretty girls you could want.
what's in store for Internet 3? In a few years every one with DSL or cable will be hooked into Internet 2. What's next? Enough bandwith for total immersion porn simulation?
is did it hit Sodom or Gomorrah?
Great show. People will definetly be watching it in 50 years.
I'm running Win XP, p3 933, 512MB ram, audigy and Geforce 2 GTS with original XP drivers. My pagefile is 1-2 GB. Only 1 crash in a few days playing. Thank God for autosave. Otherwise everything works fine.
The problem is the latest nvidia drivers. You need to rollback to an earlier version. I had the same problem and used the rollback feature in XP and now all is well.
This bug with the 21.83 drivers is well documented on the comp.ibm.sys.pc.games.strategic or whatever you call it newsgroup.
Here in NYC they are advertising a broadband service from Optimum Online. On the posters in the subway they are specifically mentioning that it is "AOL compatible".
Actually a game I have that won't run in W2K will run on XP.
If it's so mission critical then why don't they choose a more mature platform that doesn't require as much patching?
I used to do tech support for 140 people. With NT I had work, but I was a paper MCSE and still learning. Once I deployed win2000 to all the workstations I sat around for a few months surfing the internet until the client decided to cut back to only a sys admin who would also do help desk.
Only time I had a serious problem is with liveware from creative labs. And it was a known issue. Otherwise I had people use machines for months with only some how do I do this questions.
It seems some nix zealots blame anything on windows. But when it comes to nix it's a legitimate compatibility problem or hardware problem.
MOD this up. Funny.
A shirt is one thing. You buy a PC, decide you don't like it and return it. PC maker is out a lot of money trying to resell a used and depreciated PC. Why should they lose money just because you changed your mind? Why should everyone else's prices go up because you can't make up your mind?
Washers and toasters don't depreciate like computer components.
And how much time do you spend putting all this stuff together? How about troubleshooting problems? How much run arounds do you get from people saying it's the other guy's part? At lest with an OEM box you get one number for support.
And if you buy the corporate machine and pay more for support you actually get decent support. Otherwise the cost of the machine is barely over brake even. Why should they bother to support you if it's going to cost them money?
My last job we were an all dell shop. Around May timeframe we bought all new servers. After I left a few months ago a HD went bad. A new one was there the next day.
Same thing with a mobo. Integrated NIC broke and Dell sent a new mobo UPS Sonic Air . Tech was there a few hours later to install it.
The secret is to buy only "corporate" products. Of course you will overpay, but that's where the support costs come from. Person I worked for at previous job gave me this tip.
We used to buy Optiplex desktops. Only 2 or 3 prblems in a year. Good machines. If you called tech support the secret was to run the diagnostics CD if you think it's a bad part. Otherwise you have to explanin the problem in a way that would prevent you from running the diagnostics CD. Right before I left we started purchasing their workstations. Forgot the model name. One of the first I screwed up the CD burner with a firmware upgrade. They came out with no problems and even called me to make an appointment. These machines cost $500 more than a similar home configuration so you get what you pay for.
Same thing with laptops. For good support you have to get the latitude. I've had a user break his. Clear case of something not covered by warranty. Called tech support. I said I had no idea how it happened and that the user just gave it to me like this. Dell was out there the next day. Again latitudes cost more, but you get what you pay for.
Is this hypermedia 15 years old? SInce everyone knows that only 15 year olds produce anything of value I bet all the really good reporters in this hypermedia thing are 15 years old. They decided to learn reporting and in a few weeks of reading books they are now hypermedia.
Reporters have always seen their role as reporting the news, and not getting involved. While it may have on occasion involed risking one's life to get a story, the risk has always been voluntary. Now two popular journalists have been the targets of an attempted murder. Suddenly they are part of the news and they have no control over the situation.
This is probably one of the most stupid things a terrorist could have done. Most reporters have a liberal slant. That's no secret. If they weren't targets of anthrax, they may have intruduced a liberal bias into their reporting as civilian casualties mounted. Or they could have simply tried to find something negative about the war effort. No since they are pissed off at being target they may simply say screw the bastards and give a more hawkish bias into their reporting.
Another thing is the sending of anthrax to only democrats. Democrats are liberals and usually doves. They would probably be the first ones to try to bring about a peaceful ending. Before the Gulf War the vast majority of democrats voted against the war resolution. You don't try to kill of the peacemakers.