The solution to this problem is that most people listen to music while they work to avoid such distractions. Well, that's only a solution if your work doesn't require peace and quiet in order to get things done.
Trying to devise coding solutions with LOUD music to drown out the noisy co-workers is a recipe for wooly-thinking and concomitant bugaciousness, in my experience, for instance.
Not to mention an increasing propensity to verbosity and obfuscation by word-inventing-osis due to a barely-contained desire to SHOUT DOWN THE INCONSIDERATE CLODS YELLING AT EACH OTHER NEXT DOOR.
People "understand" how they work in the strangest ways. many... have "proven" their systems work in dozens of installations. But when these are based on false premises, they are still wrong, even if they stumbled upon something that works.
"workable", and "Useful", do not mean "correct". Something can be wrong and still supported by an awful lot of experiments and data. I've seen a lot of software code that matches that description, my own included. There are car and sports analogies, too, of course;-)
Not just one copy - each person that purchased a copy could 'lend' out their 'copy'. The 'waiting for a semaphore' is just part of the provisioning process for the loan.
> If the record is too popular and thousands more wish to check it out, the library will buy extra copies...
Hm, but not thousands of extra copies, right? Probably not even tens of extra copies.
So we're also talking about a level of degree, otherwise all those people visiting the library and borrowing the books, etc. (except some small subset) are acting like pirates!
And, really, we're arguing about a timesharing system. Would it be OK to share my music out as long as I have a semaphore system in place so that only one person can listen to it at a time? If so, is it OK for each person to hold the semaphore for one play, and then be able to play it back later as often as they wish - like my Tivo can with my cable and tv shows?
That doesn't sound terribly inconvenient, really, just like visiting a library is not a hardship for many people.
And it sounds like the punishment is not fitting the 'crime' here.
Well, when you put yourself ON a do-not-call list, is it surprising that your details remain ON that list?
Asking them to delete your details is going to allow them to re-add your mailing information again later, through whatever means, since they know nothing about you.
Not sure about the specifics of your points 4 thru 6, though. Sounds like FUD to me.
I have a Pioneer Head Unit that plays MP3s off CD-Rs that has six buttons - not in a row, though, plus a four way rocker button. All the buttons are modal, and also can be held for a 2-second-ish duration to get a different function.
The rocker button behaves differently depending on which button mode you are in.
There are a *lot* of settings to play with on this device, but the UI means they are not optimal 99% of the time.
Why they didn't just go with simple point-and-shoot menus using not much more than the rocker button, I cannot understand.
The manual is probably 100 pages long, and the unit is useless without it, and not much use with it. Grrrr.
OT: I have a 4+ too, and found a use for three sticks of 16MB of EDO memory from the K6-2 I was keeping.
The printer now has 52MB memory, and prints pretty much anything I've tried without skipping a beat, even with duplexing turned on - it used to stall on complex graphics when it only had 4MB...
It's pretty picky on which memory it will use, though - several 4 and 8MB cards were ignored or gave a console error on power-up.
Parent is Insightful? Is "box full of rocks" what HP/Compaq delivered? They've been selling computers through WalMart for years...
Can you quote some sources for any of the "quite a few" times you've seen this two-level-of-quality happen, please?
It seems to me that Dell sells consumer products at a competitive price already, and this opens up more channels for them, with risk of dealing with more product returns, as other posters have noted, which is not their preferred way of doing warranty support.
It is true that cable signal strength may affect your Internet Enjoyment Experience.
If you see these kinds of spiky lags, it may be related to line quality; I had this problem, and it wasn't until I reached second or third level Comcast tech support that I got any joy in resolving the problem. The first two engineers couldn't figure out how to boost the signal strength at the cable junction box.
It was fixed two years ago by boosting the signal after months and months of spotty service, and we haven't seen a problem since.
Also, I'm interested in what the "'fiber lines offer nearly unlimited potential.'" means. Infinity Internet?
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... and when you 'freeze - print that!', will it come out on a POLAROID?
My son and his friend cracked up when they saw that...
Trying to devise coding solutions with LOUD music to drown out the noisy co-workers is a recipe for wooly-thinking and concomitant bugaciousness, in my experience, for instance.
Not to mention an increasing propensity to verbosity and obfuscation by word-inventing-osis due to a barely-contained desire to SHOUT DOWN THE INCONSIDERATE CLODS YELLING AT EACH OTHER NEXT DOOR.
"workable", and "Useful", do not mean "correct". Something can be wrong and still supported by an awful lot of experiments and data. I've seen a lot of software code that matches that description, my own included.
There are car and sports analogies, too, of course
... but this is the slippery slope at the thin end of the wedge to 'meet the new boss, same as...'
Not just one copy - each person that purchased a copy could 'lend' out their 'copy'.
The 'waiting for a semaphore' is just part of the provisioning process for the loan.
> If the record is too popular and thousands more wish to check it out, the library will buy extra copies...
Hm, but not thousands of extra copies, right? Probably not even tens of extra copies.
So we're also talking about a level of degree, otherwise all those people visiting the library and borrowing the books, etc. (except some small subset) are acting like pirates!
And, really, we're arguing about a timesharing system. Would it be OK to share my music out as long as I have a semaphore system in place so that only one person can listen to it at a time? If so, is it OK for each person to hold the semaphore for one play, and then be able to play it back later as often as they wish - like my Tivo can with my cable and tv shows?
That doesn't sound terribly inconvenient, really, just like visiting a library is not a hardship for many people.
And it sounds like the punishment is not fitting the 'crime' here.
... consider a world in which people have a right to invest and produce capitol... Invest and produce a seat of government? Don't get me started.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol
Windows XP Home has automatic login as the default, with no username/password screen.
It was a Canon PowerShot - it's probably limited to 20-sec clips...
All this indiscretion is making me (sic).
Is it unethical to protect a customer's data?
Maybe they were just backing up important files prior to software install?
It could happen... and apparently did.
Well, when you put yourself ON a do-not-call list, is it surprising that your details remain ON that list?
Asking them to delete your details is going to allow them to re-add your mailing information again later, through whatever means, since they know nothing about you.
Not sure about the specifics of your points 4 thru 6, though. Sounds like FUD to me.
Ah! Then small, green, and old-looking with a German-style of speech phrasing, equipped with the latest in light-sabres, please.
I have a Pioneer Head Unit that plays MP3s off CD-Rs that has six buttons - not in a row, though, plus a four way rocker button.
All the buttons are modal, and also can be held for a 2-second-ish duration to get a different function.
The rocker button behaves differently depending on which button mode you are in.
There are a *lot* of settings to play with on this device, but the UI means they are not optimal 99% of the time.
Why they didn't just go with simple point-and-shoot menus using not much more than the rocker button, I cannot understand.
The manual is probably 100 pages long, and the unit is useless without it, and not much use with it. Grrrr.
OT:
I have a 4+ too, and found a use for three sticks of 16MB of EDO memory from the K6-2 I was keeping.
The printer now has 52MB memory, and prints pretty much anything I've tried without skipping a beat, even with duplexing turned on - it used to stall on complex graphics when it only had 4MB...
It's pretty picky on which memory it will use, though - several 4 and 8MB cards were ignored or gave a console error on power-up.
I told you it was OT.
Parent is Insightful? Is "box full of rocks" what HP/Compaq delivered?
They've been selling computers through WalMart for years...
Can you quote some sources for any of the "quite a few" times you've seen this two-level-of-quality happen, please?
It seems to me that Dell sells consumer products at a competitive price already, and this opens up more channels for them, with risk of dealing with more product returns, as other posters have noted, which is not their preferred way of doing warranty support.
This guy is guilty of not buying a cup of coffee.
That's all, really.
It is true that cable signal strength may affect your Internet Enjoyment Experience.
If you see these kinds of spiky lags, it may be related to line quality; I had this problem, and it wasn't until I reached second or third level Comcast tech support that I got any joy in resolving the problem. The first two engineers couldn't figure out how to boost the signal strength at the cable junction box.
It was fixed two years ago by boosting the signal after months and months of spotty service, and we haven't seen a problem since.
Also, I'm interested in what the "'fiber lines offer nearly unlimited potential.'" means. Infinity Internet?
Ah! Do you talk when your car breaks down, or are you out of the calling area?
"Come back here and I shall taunt you a second time".
> Yes, Microsoft does innovate sometimes. This is one of those occasions.
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Well, DEC VMS had this capability decades ago, so is it really innovation?
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/commercial/decdtm/index
Stewie?
Is that you?
Isn't going 30mph in a 25mph considered 'exceeding the speed limit' where you live?
"but with this application of technology Tivo is not providing access to what any one individual user watches via the service."