...the important psychological role that driving plays in older people's lives in contributing to feelings of independence and freedom and maintaining their quality of life.
Is anyone worried about maintaining the quality of life of the unfortunate pedestrians in the crosswalk in front of grandpa when he gets the brake and gas pedals confused?
I'm seeing *lots* of Intel Macs with one of Parallels/VirtualBox/VMWare. More than half, I'd estimate. Almost all with XP.
Because Vista is a bloated pig. An XP VM will run just fine with 512MB of RAM allocated to it. Vista needs at least twice that. The older Intel Macs can only take a maximum of 2GB, so it's pretty dumb to make a VM with an OS that will consume half your RAM and still run like shit.
I had one client with a newer MacBook that would take 4GB, and my original MacBook's XP VM with its paltry 512MB was much more responsive than the Vista VM, even when it was allocated 2GB. That client would not listen to me when I tried to talk them out of Vista, but having used it for a while they now regret not going with XP.
So I guess by "colossal fuckup" you mean "likes to brag to his peers while 18", since the evidence doesn't support anything else.
How about the dead woman, and the other woman in critical condition in a hospital in Philadelphia because this asshat thought it was cool to drink and/or get high and then put the pedal to the metal on a public street? The evidence supports a pattern of substance abuse and reckless driving that finally caught up with him.
Last week some 18 year-old punk was speeding and hit two women who were in town from St. Louis to see the Cardinals play the Phillies. One of them later died.
The cops found his MySpace page, and it's apparently full of pics of him drinking and smoking pot, and the article even says he used a mugshot from a prior arrest as his default photo. The cops got wind of it and snagged his computer and other stuff from his house with a search warrant, and they'll probably use it to stave off any attempt at the "but he's a good boy who just made a mistake" defense.
After reading the article, I am completely disgusted... especially with his parents, under whose noses it seems much of his bad behavior has been going on. Call me old-fashioned, but I think parents should try to raise their kids to, you know, not be a colossal fuckup.
The best part, IMHO, is that for all his "I'm just Mr. Buster Badass" posturing on his MySpace page, he is apparently throwing up in jail because he's so scared (insert derisive Nelson Muntz laugh here).
"Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working."
Shopping carts at some of the supermarkets around here work kinda like that. They have some kind of invisible fence thing around the perimeter of the parking lot, and if you cross it with one of the store's shopping carts, the wheels lock up.
Like a previous reply to you mentioned, some GPS units do this... unless they are powered on in the 'home location' they require a PIN.
I also like the idea of equipping cars with wireless stuff like this. The owner reports it missing, the car starts reporting its location to the cops and they can nab the perps.
LoJack works like that, and I assume OnStar offers the feature as well. From what I hear, cops love LoJack because many times retrieving one stolen LoJacked car has led them to a chop shop with many stolen cars.
I don't know about anyone else, but one of my pet peeves about Windows is how the desktop appears but the machine isn't actually ready for me to do anything at that point, even though it looks like it is. That's when people get frustrated and start clicking furiously on things because the computer seems to be ignoring them, and then they end up with eight instances of IE opening at once when the computer finally decides it's ready to acknowledge user input. What's the point of the desktop showing up if the computer is not ready? It's like a tease.
I remember reading years ago that Gates was complaining about when in the boot process the desktop appeared (I think this was during the development of Windows 95). He felt that having it show up when it did made Windows feel slow. As a result of his complaining, the developers moved the appearance of the desktop up in the boot process. It seems to have remained that way all the way through XP and Vista. Anyway, I think this was supposed to show Gates' attention to details most people would ignore, but I always thought it showed that he cared more about appearances than having the shit actually work correctly-- it was a lot easier to just have the desktop pop up early and be useless than to figure out why Windows was so damn slow to finish its boot process and do something about it. Certainly makes me think that the "If you can't make it good, make it look good" quote that gets attributed to Gates all the time is legit. It also draws a contrast with another story I read about the development of the original Mac, which Google has shown me can be found here.
Another of my Windows pet peeves is how the hard drive will start thrashing for an extended period of time, for no apparent reason, even when the machine sits idle with no programs open. And it's not because of malware or anything like that, I've seen it on freshly-reinstalled machines not connected to a network. I'm one of those people who likes to know why my computer is doing something, and that mystery drive thrashing has always driven me crazy.
"No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful..."
Seriously, the wave of nostalgia hit me like a 2x4 across the back of the head. When they pulled out the "Main Street" set, which I got when it first came out and still have at age 34, I got a little verklempt.
Hit eBay and buy some old magazine ads for computer-related stuff. They look nice if you frame them, and it's cool to see how far we've come (and funny to see ads bragging about things like 10MB hard drives that are only the size of the average household refrigerator).
I have one of these as part of my "classic computer" collection, and it was the best eBay find I ever got. For something like a hundred bucks I got a Model 100 in near mint condition, with a faux-leather carrying case that was in such good condition it still had the cardboard insert from the packaging in it, a boxed cassette recorder, some software on cassette (remember the good old days when software came with a leather-bound binder containing printed instructions?), all the hardware and software manuals, and a few other items.
Everything is in simply amazing condition for its age, and works great except for the Y2K issue (for which I understand the Model 100 users groups have a fix).
My guess is that someone at Apple is either pulling this out of their arse, or it's from some sort of survey of Fortune 500 executives
Actually, it's from their quarterly earnings conference call last week. Apple reported that over one-third of the Fortune 500 has applied to Apple's iPhone 2.0 beta Enterprise program, along with over 400 higher-education institutions.
Who cares about the eventual outcome? I just want to read more of the damning stuff that gets uncovered in discovery, and clap my hands together with glee!
There's a documentary that airs on the History Channel from time to time called "The Boneyard" that covers this.
There are a few levels for mothballed planes... some are prepped for long term storage, some are kept in a condition that they can be recalled to flight status in about a month or so IIRC, and others are kept as just a spare part repository.
It was actually an interesting show, besides the planes it covered ships and missiles being decommissioned and . If you've got a TiVo or other DVR with the feature, put "boneyard" in your wish list so it'll catch it the next time it airs. There's a site for it, but the TV schedule page is empty:
Well considering it was stolen, seems like LoJacking it was money well spent, dunnit?
The Accord is one of the most frequently-stolen cars in the United States. Google the following four words: Honda Accord most stolen
An article I found dated November of 2006 said, "For those driving a 1991, 1994 or 1996 Honda Accord, here's a tip: Thieves want your ride. Those were the most commonly stolen vehicles last year in the country..."
You mean I've been driving a Prius and spending my beer money on renewable energy only to have this happen!??!
Bart: Aw, recycling's useless, Lis. Once the Sun burns out, this planet is doomed. You're just making sure we spend our last days using inferior products.
The science on that episode (and most later episodes) was like the computer terminology thrown around in Hackers-- if you knew how wrong it was, it was almost painful to watch/hear. IIRC, the pulsars looked like empty toilet paper rolls with light coming out of the ends. And they didn't just irradiate Earth and leave it physically intact but lifeless, they made it blow up. Ugh, I'm shaking my head in disgust at the mere memory of it.
That show started off great and is 100% responsible for me getting interested in the alternate-history genre. Unfortunately, after the creator left they just resorted to stealing movie plots and it got downright ridiculous and pathetic.
How many times over the years have we read about incidents of cybercrime, where the FBI was contacted for assistance and promptly blew off the victim because they didn't lose enough money, or weren't some big important corporation?
They weren't interested in nipping the cybercrime problem in the bud in the early years, and now the internet is a hive of scum and villainy.
The problem with Micro Center is they've only got something like 20 stores in the entire country.
I do prefer them when I need something faster than next day, though. There was a CompUSA 20 minutes away from me, but I would still drive for an hour to go to Micro Center if I needed a part the same day.
I pretty much only shop at Best Buy when I get a gift card from someone or I'm spending other people's money.
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...the important psychological role that driving plays in older people's lives in contributing to feelings of independence and freedom and maintaining their quality of life.
Is anyone worried about maintaining the quality of life of the unfortunate pedestrians in the crosswalk in front of grandpa when he gets the brake and gas pedals confused?
~Philly
I could almost hear the sphincter of his direct report slam shut from across the room,
That was the funniest goddamn thing I've read all week. If I had points I'd mod the post up just for that line.
After she made solar cells in a pizza oven, for an encore she built a time machine out of a DeLorean.
~Philly
I'm seeing *lots* of Intel Macs with one of Parallels/VirtualBox/VMWare. More than half, I'd estimate. Almost all with XP.
Because Vista is a bloated pig. An XP VM will run just fine with 512MB of RAM allocated to it. Vista needs at least twice that. The older Intel Macs can only take a maximum of 2GB, so it's pretty dumb to make a VM with an OS that will consume half your RAM and still run like shit.
I had one client with a newer MacBook that would take 4GB, and my original MacBook's XP VM with its paltry 512MB was much more responsive than the Vista VM, even when it was allocated 2GB. That client would not listen to me when I tried to talk them out of Vista, but having used it for a while they now regret not going with XP.
~Philly
...that he's moving to Massachusetts and taking up amateur chemistry.
You don't generate your own electricity, too? Slacker!
You bet you would be making less and been on the fast track to nowheresville.
You sounded like Dirty Harry just then.
So I guess by "colossal fuckup" you mean "likes to brag to his peers while 18", since the evidence doesn't support anything else.
How about the dead woman, and the other woman in critical condition in a hospital in Philadelphia because this asshat thought it was cool to drink and/or get high and then put the pedal to the metal on a public street? The evidence supports a pattern of substance abuse and reckless driving that finally caught up with him.
Sorry, but all signs point to "colossal fuckup."
~Philly
Last week some 18 year-old punk was speeding and hit two women who were in town from St. Louis to see the Cardinals play the Phillies. One of them later died.
The cops found his MySpace page, and it's apparently full of pics of him drinking and smoking pot, and the article even says he used a mugshot from a prior arrest as his default photo. The cops got wind of it and snagged his computer and other stuff from his house with a search warrant, and they'll probably use it to stave off any attempt at the "but he's a good boy who just made a mistake" defense.
After reading the article, I am completely disgusted... especially with his parents, under whose noses it seems much of his bad behavior has been going on. Call me old-fashioned, but I think parents should try to raise their kids to, you know, not be a colossal fuckup.
The best part, IMHO, is that for all his "I'm just Mr. Buster Badass" posturing on his MySpace page, he is apparently throwing up in jail because he's so scared (insert derisive Nelson Muntz laugh here).
~Philly
"Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working."
Shopping carts at some of the supermarkets around here work kinda like that. They have some kind of invisible fence thing around the perimeter of the parking lot, and if you cross it with one of the store's shopping carts, the wheels lock up.
Like a previous reply to you mentioned, some GPS units do this... unless they are powered on in the 'home location' they require a PIN.
I also like the idea of equipping cars with wireless stuff like this. The owner reports it missing, the car starts reporting its location to the cops and they can nab the perps.
LoJack works like that, and I assume OnStar offers the feature as well. From what I hear, cops love LoJack because many times retrieving one stolen LoJacked car has led them to a chop shop with many stolen cars.
~Philly
I don't know about anyone else, but one of my pet peeves about Windows is how the desktop appears but the machine isn't actually ready for me to do anything at that point, even though it looks like it is. That's when people get frustrated and start clicking furiously on things because the computer seems to be ignoring them, and then they end up with eight instances of IE opening at once when the computer finally decides it's ready to acknowledge user input. What's the point of the desktop showing up if the computer is not ready? It's like a tease.
I remember reading years ago that Gates was complaining about when in the boot process the desktop appeared (I think this was during the development of Windows 95). He felt that having it show up when it did made Windows feel slow. As a result of his complaining, the developers moved the appearance of the desktop up in the boot process. It seems to have remained that way all the way through XP and Vista. Anyway, I think this was supposed to show Gates' attention to details most people would ignore, but I always thought it showed that he cared more about appearances than having the shit actually work correctly-- it was a lot easier to just have the desktop pop up early and be useless than to figure out why Windows was so damn slow to finish its boot process and do something about it. Certainly makes me think that the "If you can't make it good, make it look good" quote that gets attributed to Gates all the time is legit. It also draws a contrast with another story I read about the development of the original Mac, which Google has shown me can be found here.
Another of my Windows pet peeves is how the hard drive will start thrashing for an extended period of time, for no apparent reason, even when the machine sits idle with no programs open. And it's not because of malware or anything like that, I've seen it on freshly-reinstalled machines not connected to a network. I'm one of those people who likes to know why my computer is doing something, and that mystery drive thrashing has always driven me crazy.
~Philly
"No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful..."
Seriously, the wave of nostalgia hit me like a 2x4 across the back of the head. When they pulled out the "Main Street" set, which I got when it first came out and still have at age 34, I got a little verklempt.
~Philly
Hit eBay and buy some old magazine ads for computer-related stuff. They look nice if you frame them, and it's cool to see how far we've come (and funny to see ads bragging about things like 10MB hard drives that are only the size of the average household refrigerator).
I have one of these as part of my "classic computer" collection, and it was the best eBay find I ever got. For something like a hundred bucks I got a Model 100 in near mint condition, with a faux-leather carrying case that was in such good condition it still had the cardboard insert from the packaging in it, a boxed cassette recorder, some software on cassette (remember the good old days when software came with a leather-bound binder containing printed instructions?), all the hardware and software manuals, and a few other items.
Everything is in simply amazing condition for its age, and works great except for the Y2K issue (for which I understand the Model 100 users groups have a fix).
My guess is that someone at Apple is either pulling this out of their arse, or it's from some sort of survey of Fortune 500 executives
Actually, it's from their quarterly earnings conference call last week. Apple reported that over one-third of the Fortune 500 has applied to Apple's iPhone 2.0 beta Enterprise program, along with over 400 higher-education institutions.
Who cares about the eventual outcome? I just want to read more of the damning stuff that gets uncovered in discovery, and clap my hands together with glee!
~Philly
There's a documentary that airs on the History Channel from time to time called "The Boneyard" that covers this.
There are a few levels for mothballed planes... some are prepped for long term storage, some are kept in a condition that they can be recalled to flight status in about a month or so IIRC, and others are kept as just a spare part repository.
It was actually an interesting show, besides the planes it covered ships and missiles being decommissioned and . If you've got a TiVo or other DVR with the feature, put "boneyard" in your wish list so it'll catch it the next time it airs. There's a site for it, but the TV schedule page is empty:
http://www.history.com/minisites/boneyard
~Philly
People have LoJack on '93 Accords?
Well considering it was stolen, seems like LoJacking it was money well spent, dunnit?
The Accord is one of the most frequently-stolen cars in the United States. Google the following four words: Honda Accord most stolen
An article I found dated November of 2006 said, "For those driving a 1991, 1994 or 1996 Honda Accord, here's a tip: Thieves want your ride. Those were the most commonly stolen vehicles last year in the country..."
From CNN, a 1998 article titled "Honda Accord Tops List of Most-Stolen Vehicles": http://www.cnn.com/US/9809/30/stolen.autos/
~Philly
What 'green' options were there 10 or 15 years ago?
Here's one.
~Philly
You mean I've been driving a Prius and spending my beer money on renewable energy only to have this happen!??!
Bart: Aw, recycling's useless, Lis. Once the Sun burns out, this planet is doomed. You're just making sure we spend our last days using inferior products.
~Philly
The science on that episode (and most later episodes) was like the computer terminology thrown around in Hackers-- if you knew how wrong it was, it was almost painful to watch/hear. IIRC, the pulsars looked like empty toilet paper rolls with light coming out of the ends. And they didn't just irradiate Earth and leave it physically intact but lifeless, they made it blow up. Ugh, I'm shaking my head in disgust at the mere memory of it.
That show started off great and is 100% responsible for me getting interested in the alternate-history genre. Unfortunately, after the creator left they just resorted to stealing movie plots and it got downright ridiculous and pathetic.
~Philly
on second thought, being dead hasn't stopped candidates from running for office before
Don't forget, being dead hasn't stopped candidates from winning, either!
~Philly
Unless it's a prequel of sorts, what clan are they talking about? Cleveland's wife left him, and his son hasn't been seen in who knows how long.
How many times over the years have we read about incidents of cybercrime, where the FBI was contacted for assistance and promptly blew off the victim because they didn't lose enough money, or weren't some big important corporation?
They weren't interested in nipping the cybercrime problem in the bud in the early years, and now the internet is a hive of scum and villainy.
~Philly
The problem with Micro Center is they've only got something like 20 stores in the entire country.
I do prefer them when I need something faster than next day, though. There was a CompUSA 20 minutes away from me, but I would still drive for an hour to go to Micro Center if I needed a part the same day.
I pretty much only shop at Best Buy when I get a gift card from someone or I'm spending other people's money.
~Philly