My previous system was a SB LIVE system, with a Geforce 2 and an Athlon 800. I had constant lock-ups of the most annoying kind. I spent a month trying to figure out why, shuffling hardware in and out, and was swearing at all of it. Then one day the strangest thing hit me -- it was Internet Explorer 5.5. I downgraded to 5.0 and I was lock-up free forever after that.
I know this. You know this. MS even knows this. I was responding to the guy who kept spouting RTFA. I guess this is what I get for setting my default as Nested...
Q. Why should a donor include the operating system with their PC donation?
A. It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC.
If you donate the computer, the OS has to come with it. Furthermore:
PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC.
And:
Microsoft recommends that educational institutions only accept computer donations that are accompanied by proper operating system documentation. If the donor cannot provide this documentation, it is recommended that you decline the donated PC(s).
Damn, dude, didn't you read anything about that Supreme Court decision yesterday? What they're going to do is get it tossed by the courts because of the untenable part of the bill. They get to look good without actually doing anything. Business as usual.
Actually, if you'll remember back to past NBA All-Star games, this is essentially what they did. They had their vote in based on the performance of the first three periods, then one player absolutely destroyed the opposition, but was completely ignored, since the voting was done.
Ah, but you must remember that to the majority of the world, Web = Internet. If you refer to the Internet, most people instantly associate that with the web.
It's not that way to the real world. It's that way to an uneducated, luddite media (this writer's the technology anchor, for crying out loud, so there's no excuse whatsoever, including "dumbing it down"). When the real world is given 15 seconds of information, they figure out that the web is one part of the internet. They remember that. Really, they do. Go try it with your neighbors sometime -- they're smarter than you give them credit for. If their top technology guy doesn't know the difference between "web" and "Internet", this tells me what I need to know about CNN, and, scarily enough, about AOLTW.
Computer security expert Chad Harrington regularly surfs Internet Relay Chat (IRC), one of the oldest chat technologies on the Web.
Now, anyone who thinks this is going to be a smartly written tech story after that sentence needs to be lined up against the wall.
My group was just the opposite growing up. A couple were Sega fiends, and a couple worshipped at the house of Nintendo. One was cross-platform, and I got the oddball systems (7800, TG-16). Overall, it gave us the best exposure to all different types of systems, and different types of games. Phenomenally cool time.
1) Fractured viewship means that they have to show more commercials to get the same revenue.
2) They're putting out crap, while making erroneous claims about the ratings their programming will carry, and when the commercials aren't seen by as many people as they should be, the networks have to make good on the lost viewership by giving free spots.
I'm confused. I had thought that one of the big problems with all the UQ expansions is all of the RAM needed for all of the new stuff, and all of the possible combinations of character/items that it has to worry about displaying. Doesn't the PS2 have, like, 8 Meg? How is this going to happen in anything but a stripped down version?
Guys like you and me who are "hogging" the bandwidth are also the guys recommending to our consumer-type neighbors that they get broadband. In many cases we're the ones installing it for them. I don't feel guilty about sending across a few hundred meg a day when I'm the early adoptor who's converting my friends and neighbors to broadband.
Airwolf eh. That was actually Barnstorming. 8 years old and you bought a Taiwanese pirate cart. Just goes to show how long you've been a nonconformist I suppose.
Duck Hunt is only fun for shooting at the person next to you. What's fun is if you've got a particularly wanky gun, you can set a high score this way.
Zelda 2 wasn't a bad game. Underrated, really. It just... wasn't Zelda. Kinda like how SMB2 wasn't Mario. And New Coke wasn't Coke. And South Park with Butters...
FFIII (VI for elitists), well, hell it was a 16-bit benchmark. End of discussion.
Two of the options are to have people contact me via telephone and snail mail. If I opted out of phone contacts, and they've opted me back in, is that a naughty?
I like to have a high-powered system available to me when I'm on the road, and my budget doesn't allow for a high-end laptop (plus I don't like them). Given that when I'm on site there are generally extra monitors available, and peripherals can fit in spare space in my suitcase, this is just the sort of thing I'd like to have my computer in so I can take it on airplanes with me instead of shipping it or sending it with baggage. Just peachy!
But, hating a company and not buying its stuff should go hand-in-hand. Here's why:
Corporations, as an entity, don't have feelings. If you walk up to me, and tell me I'm scum, and that you hate my guts, I get a pretty good measure on your thoughts about me. Maybe I'm even hurt a bit.
If you say, "I hate Corporation-X", but you don't change your spending habits, how much impact does it have? None at all. Corporation-X only knows you're pissed if you don't buy its stuff.
Guaranteed quality. I don't have time to check every mp3 I download to make sure that it was ripped by someone intelligent enough to do it correctly.
Um... let me get this straight, if I can. Do you regularly download music that you never listen to, just for the sake of archival/P2P distribution? Forgive me if I'm not mistaken, but this is exactly one of the biggest naughties that we have going on. People aren't even downloading music to listen to it -- they're downloading it so other people can get it from them.
(Yes, I know you're pro music-services. I'm just trying to make a small Devil's Advocate type of point.)
I'm a non-driver who was on a trip to Chicago -- tried to get into the Excalibur. The bouncer actually had a nice thick book, about 100 pages, with details on what all of these different licenses and ID's look like. He thumbed to Louisiana, looked over my ID, and waved me in. As for my friend who didn't have a collared shirt... Anyway, how hard is it for these knuckleheads to get something like this?
Yes, but implicit in this is the idea that Loki was going to pay its employees. A representation. Question: can it be established that the board/founder knew that payment wasn't coming, yet kept asking people to defer pay on the expectation of receiving it later? If so, that's fraudulent.
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My previous system was a SB LIVE system, with a Geforce 2 and an Athlon 800. I had constant lock-ups of the most annoying kind. I spent a month trying to figure out why, shuffling hardware in and out, and was swearing at all of it. Then one day the strangest thing hit me -- it was Internet Explorer 5.5. I downgraded to 5.0 and I was lock-up free forever after that.
Sometimes the weirdest stuff happens like that...
I know this. You know this. MS even knows this. I was responding to the guy who kept spouting RTFA. I guess this is what I get for setting my default as Nested...
A. It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC.
If you donate the computer, the OS has to come with it. Furthermore:
PC owners have to transfer their license rights to the operating system to your school along with the PC.
And:
Microsoft recommends that educational institutions only accept computer donations that are accompanied by proper operating system documentation. If the donor cannot provide this documentation, it is recommended that you decline the donated PC(s).
I did RTFA. Now, STFU.
Damn, dude, didn't you read anything about that Supreme Court decision yesterday? What they're going to do is get it tossed by the courts because of the untenable part of the bill. They get to look good without actually doing anything. Business as usual.
Actually, if you'll remember back to past NBA All-Star games, this is essentially what they did. They had their vote in based on the performance of the first three periods, then one player absolutely destroyed the opposition, but was completely ignored, since the voting was done.
It's not that way to the real world. It's that way to an uneducated, luddite media (this writer's the technology anchor, for crying out loud, so there's no excuse whatsoever, including "dumbing it down"). When the real world is given 15 seconds of information, they figure out that the web is one part of the internet. They remember that. Really, they do. Go try it with your neighbors sometime -- they're smarter than you give them credit for. If their top technology guy doesn't know the difference between "web" and "Internet", this tells me what I need to know about CNN, and, scarily enough, about AOLTW.
Computer security expert Chad Harrington regularly surfs Internet Relay Chat (IRC), one of the oldest chat technologies on the Web. Now, anyone who thinks this is going to be a smartly written tech story after that sentence needs to be lined up against the wall.
My group was just the opposite growing up. A couple were Sega fiends, and a couple worshipped at the house of Nintendo. One was cross-platform, and I got the oddball systems (7800, TG-16). Overall, it gave us the best exposure to all different types of systems, and different types of games. Phenomenally cool time.
1) Fractured viewship means that they have to show more commercials to get the same revenue. 2) They're putting out crap, while making erroneous claims about the ratings their programming will carry, and when the commercials aren't seen by as many people as they should be, the networks have to make good on the lost viewership by giving free spots.
I'm confused. I had thought that one of the big problems with all the UQ expansions is all of the RAM needed for all of the new stuff, and all of the possible combinations of character/items that it has to worry about displaying. Doesn't the PS2 have, like, 8 Meg? How is this going to happen in anything but a stripped down version?
Guys like you and me who are "hogging" the bandwidth are also the guys recommending to our consumer-type neighbors that they get broadband. In many cases we're the ones installing it for them. I don't feel guilty about sending across a few hundred meg a day when I'm the early adoptor who's converting my friends and neighbors to broadband.
Hey Cletus, all this Arctic Ocean ice is makin' me cold. Let's turn up the heat a lit--
-=SPLASH=-
Duck Hunt is only fun for shooting at the person next to you. What's fun is if you've got a particularly wanky gun, you can set a high score this way.
It's not about extensibility -- it's about functionality.
Two of the options are to have people contact me via telephone and snail mail. If I opted out of phone contacts, and they've opted me back in, is that a naughty?
I like to have a high-powered system available to me when I'm on the road, and my budget doesn't allow for a high-end laptop (plus I don't like them). Given that when I'm on site there are generally extra monitors available, and peripherals can fit in spare space in my suitcase, this is just the sort of thing I'd like to have my computer in so I can take it on airplanes with me instead of shipping it or sending it with baggage. Just peachy!
But, hating a company and not buying its stuff should go hand-in-hand. Here's why: Corporations, as an entity, don't have feelings. If you walk up to me, and tell me I'm scum, and that you hate my guts, I get a pretty good measure on your thoughts about me. Maybe I'm even hurt a bit. If you say, "I hate Corporation-X", but you don't change your spending habits, how much impact does it have? None at all. Corporation-X only knows you're pissed if you don't buy its stuff.
Um... let me get this straight, if I can. Do you regularly download music that you never listen to, just for the sake of archival/P2P distribution? Forgive me if I'm not mistaken, but this is exactly one of the biggest naughties that we have going on. People aren't even downloading music to listen to it -- they're downloading it so other people can get it from them.
(Yes, I know you're pro music-services. I'm just trying to make a small Devil's Advocate type of point.)
I'm confused: "If I sell your burgers, you'll give me $5 per hour." What part of contract am I missing here?
Damn, dude, who rolled a 4 on your Strength stat?
Wow... openly gay pirates! That proves right there that Disney's liberal!
I'm a non-driver who was on a trip to Chicago -- tried to get into the Excalibur. The bouncer actually had a nice thick book, about 100 pages, with details on what all of these different licenses and ID's look like. He thumbed to Louisiana, looked over my ID, and waved me in. As for my friend who didn't have a collared shirt... Anyway, how hard is it for these knuckleheads to get something like this?
That's funny. In my school system, it was against the rules to bring a gun. Who'd've thought it wasn't an important thing....
Hmmm, I suggest that if this happens, we all sign our "evaluation" copies as Bill Gates. That way we'll at least get him for something.
Yes, but implicit in this is the idea that Loki was going to pay its employees. A representation. Question: can it be established that the board/founder knew that payment wasn't coming, yet kept asking people to defer pay on the expectation of receiving it later? If so, that's fraudulent.