Composed the Windows '95 startup sound. I always get this image of him wearing a sparkly cape thinking hard in front of a modular Moog while staring hard at a PC. The image is accentuated by the long hair and bald patch.
I remember jumping from my roof in my batsuit after eating a litre of baked beans. I was eight at the time, don't remember much but I flew from the roof to the hospital bed, which was a whole 10 miles away...
It would be nice if there were some kind of way that people could subscribe money if they wanted to so that they could provide a pool of money for scientific research. Stuff like this could provide an alternative source of research funding for some people. There could be public votes on how much and where it should be distributed to, votes by the public and other scientists. Even if it's a paypal account. Then each year a research body would put in its submissions to get some of this cash and the public would vote.
Ripping my CD's (~450) to a minimum of 192kbps using CDex, you can rip from two drives at the same time, put two CD's in, eyeball the CDDB entries, press rip. Then from that point I go do something else, pop in every few minutes, change CD's rinse and repeat. Worked ok.
I just have one fucking huge bulb attached to a bayonet I installed on the top of my house. When that sucker lights up it's the equivalent of living above the arctic circle. 24 hours of daylight baby!
I like to make my comments interesting by inserting snippets from bash.org, keeps the code reviewers occupied.../*
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W2K does everything we need right now for both developers and users in the company. The only reason I can think of to upgrade would be ongoing support from Microsoft for the platform. We call them once in a blue moon, mainly due to there being so much information elsewhere for most domestic stuff, only calling them when something weird goes on with something like Exchange (which is an expensive call in itself and not related to our desktop installs). We don't need the Fisher Price interface just something that works so we don't have to fix it.
If you went to our CIO and said "We need to upgrade all our PC's to XP" and gave one reason, even if it's a good one, he'd get out the calculator and say no. It would have to be a reason like "We have to upgrade to XP otherwise the company will explode killing all executive management". Then he'd probably sign a check.
I remember in the height of my Lego interest (around 1981-1982) the family went to some department store in London just before christmas and there was a big Lego section all setup. In the middle was this huge castle, the turrets reached the ceiling. It had this whole town setup leading up to it. It was awesome. I must have spent a good half hour looking around it at all the detail, gathering ideas for my own smaller creations. I owned other building stuff around the same time, including some European thing called Tente, which had a ton of specialised bricks back then, you could build all kinds of space stuff with it. But it always felt like you were being "hand-held" during the construction of anything, like with Lego you can take the basic blocks and make it and it was more of a challenge. I guess it's that whole boundary->creativity thing.
They should invent a 'dumb neighbour aggregator' application which combines the bandwidth of all the unsecured wireless networks in the immediate area and provides you with a single big pipe to play with. I think there was some MS 'virtual' wireless adaptor thing, maybe that could do it.
Not that I condone that kind of activity. Nope, not in any way shape or form...
Certainly does help, we have telemarketers who use an autodialler connected to a button on an intranet site. They click the button, it routes the phone call to their workstation immediately. Before the autodialler they had to manually punch in the numbers, three things to swap between, phone-keyboard-mouse. After installing the auto-dialler (fixing up all the mis-dials), I removed as much of the mouse keyboard swapping that I could using button shortcuts and field jumps so they were primarily keyboard users, which works pretty well. The data entry is fairly straight forward, tab, enter, lots of typing, alt+whatever. But when they are faced with having to scroll down the screen because the form is just a touch to long to display all at once, they head towards the scroll wheel on the mouse. We've considered purchasing keyboards with a mousewheel tacked onto the side and some kind of trackball (their desk real estate is fairly limited) but we've come to the conclusion that they're happy the way they are now and it works.
Then again, sometimes I find myself typing in word then trying to use CTRL+K combinations...
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"You can hire coons, niggers and wops, but don't hire fucking stupid people."
He also allowed smokers to smoke in the office because he did.
Turns out I just wasn't paying enough attention the first two times this was posted.
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You'd be messing with the Phantom Zone, and we'd perish under the rule of the great General Zod!
They can do all the work, we'll be down the beach.
Composed the Windows '95 startup sound. I always get this image of him wearing a sparkly cape thinking hard in front of a modular Moog while staring hard at a PC. The image is accentuated by the long hair and bald patch.
Leaping and hopping
I remember jumping from my roof in my batsuit after eating a litre of baked beans. I was eight at the time, don't remember much but I flew from the roof to the hospital bed, which was a whole 10 miles away...
It would be nice if there were some kind of way that people could subscribe money if they wanted to so that they could provide a pool of money for scientific research. Stuff like this could provide an alternative source of research funding for some people. There could be public votes on how much and where it should be distributed to, votes by the public and other scientists. Even if it's a paypal account. Then each year a research body would put in its submissions to get some of this cash and the public would vote.
Ripping my CD's (~450) to a minimum of 192kbps using CDex, you can rip from two drives at the same time, put two CD's in, eyeball the CDDB entries, press rip. Then from that point I go do something else, pop in every few minutes, change CD's rinse and repeat. Worked ok.
By far my favourite multi billionaire.
Maybe a worm hole will open up and swallow every AOL user.
I just have one fucking huge bulb attached to a bayonet I installed on the top of my house. When that sucker lights up it's the equivalent of living above the arctic circle. 24 hours of daylight baby!
I like to make my comments interesting by inserting snippets from bash.org, keeps the code reviewers occupied... /*
what is wrong with slashdot.org?? I am almost done reading my 1997-2001 Slashdot.org cache CD-ROM set, if I finish and its not back up, I may perish
*/
But I can't be arsed.
W2K does everything we need right now for both developers and users in the company. The only reason I can think of to upgrade would be ongoing support from Microsoft for the platform. We call them once in a blue moon, mainly due to there being so much information elsewhere for most domestic stuff, only calling them when something weird goes on with something like Exchange (which is an expensive call in itself and not related to our desktop installs). We don't need the Fisher Price interface just something that works so we don't have to fix it.
If you went to our CIO and said "We need to upgrade all our PC's to XP" and gave one reason, even if it's a good one, he'd get out the calculator and say no. It would have to be a reason like "We have to upgrade to XP otherwise the company will explode killing all executive management". Then he'd probably sign a check.
I remember in the height of my Lego interest (around 1981-1982) the family went to some department store in London just before christmas and there was a big Lego section all setup. In the middle was this huge castle, the turrets reached the ceiling. It had this whole town setup leading up to it. It was awesome. I must have spent a good half hour looking around it at all the detail, gathering ideas for my own smaller creations. I owned other building stuff around the same time, including some European thing called Tente, which had a ton of specialised bricks back then, you could build all kinds of space stuff with it. But it always felt like you were being "hand-held" during the construction of anything, like with Lego you can take the basic blocks and make it and it was more of a challenge. I guess it's that whole boundary->creativity thing.
I've learn't something today. Thanks!
My passion is loading surprise PDF's into by browser. I can't get enough of them.
They should invent a 'dumb neighbour aggregator' application which combines the bandwidth of all the unsecured wireless networks in the immediate area and provides you with a single big pipe to play with. I think there was some MS 'virtual' wireless adaptor thing, maybe that could do it.
Not that I condone that kind of activity. Nope, not in any way shape or form...
All is forgiven!
Certainly does help, we have telemarketers who use an autodialler connected to a button on an intranet site. They click the button, it routes the phone call to their workstation immediately. Before the autodialler they had to manually punch in the numbers, three things to swap between, phone-keyboard-mouse. After installing the auto-dialler (fixing up all the mis-dials), I removed as much of the mouse keyboard swapping that I could using button shortcuts and field jumps so they were primarily keyboard users, which works pretty well. The data entry is fairly straight forward, tab, enter, lots of typing, alt+whatever. But when they are faced with having to scroll down the screen because the form is just a touch to long to display all at once, they head towards the scroll wheel on the mouse. We've considered purchasing keyboards with a mousewheel tacked onto the side and some kind of trackball (their desk real estate is fairly limited) but we've come to the conclusion that they're happy the way they are now and it works.
Then again, sometimes I find myself typing in word then trying to use CTRL+K combinations...
Maybe. Maybe not, who can tell?
Hope they get the right one or they'll be melting the local chocolate shop.
Dinosaurs 'chewed' grass. Entire dinosaur population killed while driving 5mph to the nearest corner store to buy munchies.
I can extract geothermal energy from my early morning dutch ovens...