Our family business has an embroidery machine that reads patterns from floppy disks. We also had to buy USB floppy drives for the PCs were patterns are created.
I've never had problems with WPA, but I've had serious problems with WEP. They have to do with the password length - basically, if the password is not 5 or 13 characters in length, it will only work on Windows, but not on OSX. That happens to me at the university, I have to use bootcamp in order to get on the wireless network. And the network admin can't change the password at this point, even though he now understands the problem.
I think it was actually "about" how spain lost its innocence during the civil war, using woman's suffering and the girl's imagination (denial?) as an analogy. It is still kinda what you mention, innocence == virginity.
It is one of my favorites movies from the past few years. Children of Men was great as well.
Or better yet - vote on a Sunday. That's how it is here in the country where I live. And if you work on a Sunday, by law, your employee has to give you enough time to go and vote.
A friend had this expansion card that was the only thing (at the time) able to copy copy-protected games... I think it was called Copy II PC, and worked with a software program to make a bit by bit copy.
He used to charge something like $5 to make a copy of King's Quest I and II.
Yes, that happens quite a bit in the US. People in other countries at least know that Costa Rica != Puerto Rico, but every once in a while I get a German or Dutch saying something like "Oh, I've heard it is a nice island".
BTW, I'm not really sure this is true (I would think that the tag scanning is automated), but a friend of mine that works at the airport told me that the reason why our luggage ends up in Puerto Rico so often is because the airport codes are very similar. From Wikipedia:
SJO (MROC) - Juan Santamaría International Airport - San José, Costa Rica
SJU (TJSJ) - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Good to see someone else from Costa Rica here in/.
I was in the Philippines two weeks ago, and it surprised me the amount of call centers opening up over there. I also saw tons of ads from "call center institutes", that certify that you have the minimum skills to be employed in a call center. And not only call centers - I was actually meeting with a client that's moving its outsourced development from some other country to the Philippines in the next 6 months.
But the point remains that large numbers of 'adults' don't excercise, or even worse, they pay for a gym membership and don't go. Only two or three of my friends regularly exercise. The rest just eat right.
I don't remember who called this the "FAT TAX". You pay up so you can eat whatever you want.
I am a native Spanish speaker from latin america, but I went to a school and high school that teaches everything in English (except for Spanish and Math). The funny part is that me and most of my peers think more in english than in spanish, and we use english constructs when we talk in spanish.
One day a coworker was having some liquid yogurt, when another coworker bumped into him and spilled the whole glass in his keyboard. What we did was to take it outside, and wash the keyboard with water from the garden's hose. Then we left it in the sun for the whole day, so that it dried up. We had to do that process a couple of times, since the keyboard will get full of ants as soon as we brought it back into the office. But, it eventually worked.
Plus, with Sailing Clicker, I can actually control iTunes from my bed with the Mac on the other side of the room. It also allows me to use the phone as a wireless presentation controller - that always starts conversations at conferences.
I have a 15" Powerbook, and I love the size of both the screen and of the powerbook in general - I think it is indeed very portable.
OTOH, I am starting a consulting business for which I'll need a Windows laptop... and the one I'm considering is a Dell 700m, 12" Widescreen. If you really need to be portable (I'll be going to several clients throughout the day for meetings and such), nothing beats these laptops.
I am hopefully completing my M.Sc. in CS this semester, after 5 years of working and studying at the same time. I have been (I think) successful at work - I'm right now on my way to my third job as a consultant//Project Manager, traveling all over the world working with big companies.
This will be the first time since I got into kindergarden that I wouldn't be studying. I enjoy learning new things, so I started thinking today of what else I could dig my teeth into. I've been considering some type of social science, either psicology or sociology, since I've always been intriged about human behavior and interaction. Or, there's the requisite MBA. Or, I've always wanted to get a degree in math.
I think the best bet for my career would be to go with the MBA. But I think I'm going to end up on psicology... maybe it'll help me, maybe it'll not, but it is something I've always wanted to know about.
Yes, I understand you. I'm flying to New Zealand to do some business there, and I just bought Fire Emblem for my SP to endure the 17hr (5hrs to LA, 12hrs to Auckland) flight... I'm slightly over that demographic (25...), but still the point stands.
Sony has made the best Palm OS Handhelds for a while. They included the Jog wheel, for example, which is something I really like for one-hand operation.
I recently purchased a Clie TJ37, and I am very very happy with it. At that price point (300 bucks) the alternative from palm didn't look too good (Zire 71?), and they still don't have the one feature I craved: 802.11b connectivity.
I hope they either reconsider or that PalmOne starts doing cool PDAs in an accesible price range. Thei high-end models are cool, but there's no chance that I'll buy a PDA for $400+...
I've owned a Targus Top Loading Notepac Plus for 3 or so years, and it is the perfect bag for me. It's now on its third notebook (a TiBook, previously two toshibas), has travelled with me through more than 125,000 frequent flyer miles, and doesn't show a sign of wear. I recommed it.
I live in Costa Rica, and purchase most of my tech stuff through the web (the markup in Costa Rica is just too high - imagine paying almost $350 for a $149 Nintendo Gamecube, and don't get me started on Apple Macs... they get up to $1000 markup.
As people have pointed out, they won't sell/ship/etc oversees, so here's what we do:
We use a courier service for shipments. There are several, I like to use one called AeroCasillas. They usually charge me around $7 per shipment, which is quite reasonable. They have offices around Latin America, and I'm sure there should be something similar in other countries.
For credit card transactions, we normally use Master Card's e-cards (spanish link). They charge around $0.50 per purchase, which isn't that bad either.
Depending on your bank, you may tell them to change the CC's billing address to AeroCasillas' shipping address. These don't always work, though, since some sites will pick up its an international card anyway.
Use the company credit card - my former employee would allow me to purchase stuff along company items.
BidPay - never fails:o)
The only website we do have tons of problems with is paypal - they won't take any of the above methods, even though we're on the list of countries you should be able to send money to.
The big problem here is customs. If you order something and it gets ramdomly selected for customs inspection, you may expect to pay up to 80% taxes for some things - our little-minded goverment still thinks that a PDA, a notebook or a cell phone is a luxury item, and taxes it as such. Normally your packages will get through (they go after the big guys), though.
I had the same concerns as you did, but in the end I finally broke down and bought a Gamecube.
The reason (at least what I keep telling to myself): even though my computer is a P3 w/ a GF2MX Graphics card, I don't really want to upgrade it yet again only to play games. The other things I use my home computer for are web, email, transfer music to my minidisc and some light Java development for moonlightning jobs, and it does all those functions pretty well. Even the games I've been playing lately (RTCWolfenstein and Warcraft 3) get a decent framerate on my machine.
And consider the games. You HAVE to play the Zeldas on the Gamecube. And Metroid Prime. And Ikaruga. They are all great games. I am a huge Metroid fan, and have played through all of them (except for MFusion), so when I noticed the great reviews the GC version was getting I finally made up my mind.
It also helped me for the decision that I managed to combine a couple of offers Nintendo was having at the begining of the year, so I got a free game with the GC (Metroid), and Zelda64 with the new Zelda game. The console, some memory, and 3 games for less than it would have taken to upgrade my PC.
They have actually been very good investments, I am still playing Z:OoT and haven't even started Z:WW, and I got the GC in february. (been very busy at work - see below)
The only place I play network games is at work (after hours, of course...), and the machines there have more than enough capacity for this and the next generation of games - right now we're playing UT2003 and a little WC3.
Civilization: Incredibly adictive game. On of the first times I just wanted for classes to end to get home and play.
Quest for Glory 1 & 2: I played these games with some friends, so we used to meet to discuss new things one had found, and laugh at the great humor these series had. This and other great adventure games, specially the ones from Sierra or LucasArts, really made you use your brain, and I think may have helped the development of problem-solving skills.
Street Fighter II & variants: The best fighting game so far. I still have the SNES versions, and the GBA versions as well. I used to play tournaments on weekends with some friends, and they were always a lot of fun - a somewhat bloody version of Mario Party...
Diablo: Introduced me (and several others) to online playing, and actually made me spend part of my savings to pay for the phone bill (didn't had broadband back then). I even had a Diablo website set up to discuss about the game and coordinate games with friends.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Incredible game, with an amazing story that really sucked you in. I recently went through it again on the gamecube re-release, and its incredible the amount of good memories associated with this game.
XCom UFO Defense: Best game ever, period. Pretty scary when you were down to one or two last aliens, had your squad spread out looking for them, the $!#@& mind-controlled your soldiers, and someone opened the door on the room you were playing in without knocking...
Lately I've been playing several games that I think are amazing, such as Advanced Wars on the GBA, but I think the way to get on this list is to see, in a few years, how I'll remember them.
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It is also out for the Wii. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5Npu9fjRw
We play it at family gatherings, it is pretty funny and even my parents love it.
Our family business has an embroidery machine that reads patterns from floppy disks. We also had to buy USB floppy drives for the PCs were patterns are created.
Then you should never, ever, under any circumstance, read any of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books.
I've never had problems with WPA, but I've had serious problems with WEP. They have to do with the password length - basically, if the password is not 5 or 13 characters in length, it will only work on Windows, but not on OSX. That happens to me at the university, I have to use bootcamp in order to get on the wireless network. And the network admin can't change the password at this point, even though he now understands the problem.
Apple has a KB article about this problem here.
I think it was actually "about" how spain lost its innocence during the civil war, using woman's suffering and the girl's imagination (denial?) as an analogy. It is still kinda what you mention, innocence == virginity.
It is one of my favorites movies from the past few years. Children of Men was great as well.
Or better yet - vote on a Sunday. That's how it is here in the country where I live.
And if you work on a Sunday, by law, your employee has to give you enough time to go and vote.
A friend had this expansion card that was the only thing (at the time) able to copy copy-protected games ... I think it was called Copy II PC, and worked with a software program to make a bit by bit copy.
He used to charge something like $5 to make a copy of King's Quest I and II.
Yes, that happens quite a bit in the US. People in other countries at least know that Costa Rica != Puerto Rico, but every once in a while I get a German or Dutch saying something like "Oh, I've heard it is a nice island".
BTW, I'm not really sure this is true (I would think that the tag scanning is automated), but a friend of mine that works at the airport told me that the reason why our luggage ends up in Puerto Rico so often is because the airport codes are very similar. From Wikipedia:
- SJO (MROC) - Juan Santamaría International Airport - San José, Costa Rica
- SJU (TJSJ) - Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Good to see someone else from Costa Rica here inYou can have that in Windows as well. You just need to add the
It is documented here: Memory Support and Windows Operating Systems
I was in the Philippines two weeks ago, and it surprised me the amount of call centers opening up over there. I also saw tons of ads from "call center institutes", that certify that you have the minimum skills to be employed in a call center.
And not only call centers - I was actually meeting with a client that's moving its outsourced development from some other country to the Philippines in the next 6 months.
I don't remember who called this the "FAT TAX". You pay up so you can eat whatever you want.
I am a native Spanish speaker from latin america, but I went to a school and high school that teaches everything in English (except for Spanish and Math). The funny part is that me and most of my peers think more in english than in spanish, and we use english constructs when we talk in spanish.
This is what I thought as soon as I saw the other song lyrics. I was going to hit reply, and somebody had already added them...
Hang the dj, hang the dj, hang the dj...
One day a coworker was having some liquid yogurt, when another coworker bumped into him and spilled the whole glass in his keyboard. What we did was to take it outside, and wash the keyboard with water from the garden's hose. Then we left it in the sun for the whole day, so that it dried up.
We had to do that process a couple of times, since the keyboard will get full of ants as soon as we brought it back into the office. But, it eventually worked.
I have a Sony Ericsson T637 and it works like a charm over Bluetooth.
Plus, with Sailing Clicker, I can actually control iTunes from my bed with the Mac on the other side of the room. It also allows me to use the phone as a wireless presentation controller - that always starts conversations at conferences.
Overall, I am happy with the phone.
It could also be a stolen Nintendo-only video for a failed concept for the console.
Me, I think it is a fraud.
I have a 15" Powerbook, and I love the size of both the screen and of the powerbook in general - I think it is indeed very portable.
OTOH, I am starting a consulting business for which I'll need a Windows laptop... and the one I'm considering is a Dell 700m, 12" Widescreen. If you really need to be portable (I'll be going to several clients throughout the day for meetings and such), nothing beats these laptops.
I am hopefully completing my M.Sc. in CS this semester, after 5 years of working and studying at the same time. I have been (I think) successful at work - I'm right now on my way to my third job as a consultant//Project Manager, traveling all over the world working with big companies.
This will be the first time since I got into kindergarden that I wouldn't be studying. I enjoy learning new things, so I started thinking today of what else I could dig my teeth into. I've been considering some type of social science, either psicology or sociology, since I've always been intriged about human behavior and interaction. Or, there's the requisite MBA. Or, I've always wanted to get a degree in math.
I think the best bet for my career would be to go with the MBA. But I think I'm going to end up on psicology... maybe it'll help me, maybe it'll not, but it is something I've always wanted to know about.
Yes, I understand you. I'm flying to New Zealand to do some business there, and I just bought Fire Emblem for my SP to endure the 17hr (5hrs to LA, 12hrs to Auckland) flight...
I'm slightly over that demographic (25...), but still the point stands.
ScummVM is great. I'm halfway through Monkey Island 2 using ScummVM on my Sony clie. I play while waiting in line, on planes, etc...
... (at least on the version I'm using)
Too bad the music doesn't work
Sony has made the best Palm OS Handhelds for a while. They included the Jog wheel, for example, which is something I really like for one-hand operation.
I recently purchased a Clie TJ37, and I am very very happy with it. At that price point (300 bucks) the alternative from palm didn't look too good (Zire 71?), and they still don't have the one feature I craved: 802.11b connectivity.
I hope they either reconsider or that PalmOne starts doing cool PDAs in an accesible price range. Thei high-end models are cool, but there's no chance that I'll buy a PDA for $400+...
I've owned a Targus Top Loading Notepac Plus for 3 or so years, and it is the perfect bag for me. It's now on its third notebook (a TiBook, previously two toshibas), has travelled with me through more than 125,000 frequent flyer miles, and doesn't show a sign of wear. I recommed it.
The powerbook fits a bit loose, though...
I live in Costa Rica, and purchase most of my tech stuff through the web (the markup in Costa Rica is just too high - imagine paying almost $350 for a $149 Nintendo Gamecube, and don't get me started on Apple Macs... they get up to $1000 markup.
As people have pointed out, they won't sell/ship/etc oversees, so here's what we do:
The big problem here is customs. If you order something and it gets ramdomly selected for customs inspection, you may expect to pay up to 80% taxes for some things - our little-minded goverment still thinks that a PDA, a notebook or a cell phone is a luxury item, and taxes it as such. Normally your packages will get through (they go after the big guys), though.
I had the same concerns as you did, but in the end I finally broke down and bought a Gamecube.
The reason (at least what I keep telling to myself): even though my computer is a P3 w/ a GF2MX Graphics card, I don't really want to upgrade it yet again only to play games. The other things I use my home computer for are web, email, transfer music to my minidisc and some light Java development for moonlightning jobs, and it does all those functions pretty well. Even the games I've been playing lately (RTCWolfenstein and Warcraft 3) get a decent framerate on my machine.
And consider the games. You HAVE to play the Zeldas on the Gamecube. And Metroid Prime. And Ikaruga. They are all great games. I am a huge Metroid fan, and have played through all of them (except for MFusion), so when I noticed the great reviews the GC version was getting I finally made up my mind.
It also helped me for the decision that I managed to combine a couple of offers Nintendo was having at the begining of the year, so I got a free game with the GC (Metroid), and Zelda64 with the new Zelda game. The console, some memory, and 3 games for less than it would have taken to upgrade my PC.
They have actually been very good investments, I am still playing Z:OoT and haven't even started Z:WW, and I got the GC in february. (been very busy at work - see below)
The only place I play network games is at work (after hours, of course ...), and the machines there have more than enough capacity for this and the next generation of games - right now we're playing UT2003 and a little WC3.
So far, I've been very happy with the purchase.
Here is a quick list:
Lately I've been playing several games that I think are amazing, such as Advanced Wars on the GBA, but I think the way to get on this list is to see, in a few years, how I'll remember them.