Agreed. I can't remember the last time a web site I visited looked funny under Mozilla (well, discounting the fact that I don't have Flash installed in Moz). Pretty much everything I've come across in Moz looking just as good as it did in IE. The only annoyance I have is web "developers" using ALT tags instead of or not in addition to TITLE tags for tooltip information on images. It's not that tough to include them both, people!
Although I admit I am probably no more innocent than these poor saps, I agree with most of the folks here who feel that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
Oops, I just realized what I posted didn't make sense. There was still response from the keyboard, which is how I got it to shutdown... : But the humor in the customer's response remains.
I am reminded of a time during my short term at Best Buy where I was demoing an eMachine with Windows XP for a customer. All of a sudden, the screen froze and there was no response from keyboard or mouse. Embarrassed, I quickly made up some excuse and went to Start -> "Turn off computer" to restart the machine.
The next words out of the customer's mouth were, "Oooh, I like how it fades."
Apparently, this customer was an ex-Millenium user who looked past computer lockups as commonplace, or perhaps they just really dig user interfaces and could care less about the fact that a new display computer is having problems locking up during a simple mouse meneuver.
> Well, maybe that's why attendance is down... we've all got our offices decorated now.
More likely, I think a rather large portion of us here don't have offices to decorate anymore and those of us who do can't convince our bosses to send us to some notorious geek expo.
Don't worry, you're not alone. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in the Midwest talks like the folks in the movie Fargo. Although I do enjoy my cheese and brats (not necessarily at the same time), I have no desire to milk cows or drive anything less than 20 miles over the speed limit.
> and thus falls into the same geek category as Cold Fusion, Office macros, and, well, ASP
I think ASP is fairly general purpose. VBscript can be used for system scripts (WSH), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), web pages (ASP), and if you know VBscript you pretty much know Visual Basic 6 for making applications. Of course, for the most part, it only works on Microsoft operating systems, but in a great deal of environments that's okay.
> I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people pick it for web apps.
I use it because it's free and I can develop with PHP and MySQL on my Windows XP computer at home and upload it to my Linux web host without having to change anything (except for the occasional file path). Very slick! I can mirror my Linux web site on my Windows machine for development purposed quite easily. The documentation for both is simply excellent too.
> It's STILL better/cheaper than buying a 3GHz P4.
Ok, I'll give you that one. Your solution is cheaper, and arguably better, that buying a 3GHz Intel chip (for now). I'd like to see an Athlon, however, beat an Pentium 4 running Rhambus on an Intel mainboard in stability tests, but I'm sure someone will post a comparison link any second now.
Then again, I work at Best Buy, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about:)
> are trivial to mod for dual CPU operation and easily overclock to 2.25GHz
Some of us need reliability and warranty. I'm not going to throw an overclocked, modded AMD POS in the server farm at work. If I do, I'm going to make sure my resume is updated and my suit is free from little white fuzzies.
I'm gonna go overclock my laundry machine now and cook a pizza in self cleaning clean mode in my oven. Should be done by the time the laundry dings.
If requested, I would gladly put on a dress and lipstick and hum the melody to Eternal Flame by the Bangles if someone would just give me a chance at a job. Dress code is the least of my worries.
Yeah, *if* you can find your own web hosting. I mean, web hosting with MySQL and Perl can be found for a couple of bucks a month now. If you can't afford that, nobody wants to visit your cheesy Geocities-linked blog anyway.
> All you have to do is modify this third-party program to have it spit out a random MAC address each time and *poof* the system is worthless.
How about just not cheating at all?
I think their solution will reduce the number of medicore cheaters (ie, gamers who know nothing about computers), but it won't stop the geek of courses. But from their POV, isn't even a moderate reduction in cheating worth their time and effort even if some will find ways around it?
> Actually they have to fairly apply their standard (algorthmic or otherwise) the same to everyone.
Says who?!?
Does Macromedia need to make sure their web site is equally viewable by all users? What about my personal web page? Does Slashdot (or any other news source) *have to* represent both sides of the story without bias? What about the AMA reporting and cigarette smoking is bad for you - doesn't this disparage Philip Morris (sp)? Why is Google under some requirement to represent all web sites fairly? Do Lycos and Altavista have the same obligation? If so, what about payola?
I don't get it.
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I'd tell him to set up a forwarding address now and start telling people of the possibility. If it were cut off abruptly, it's a lot easier to forward your mail to a different provider than it is to tell everyone that your e-mail address has changed (hell, half the people that send me e-mail don't have my account in their address book - they just find a message from me in their inbox and click REPLY).
Funny, I always make sure I am at the movie on time so I don't miss the trailers. I often catch a movie that I really want to see in the previews. Trailers do bug me on DVD/VHS, most of the time because they are trailers for some moldy movie that came out about the time of the rental and I have see a bazillion times. Boring.
And the most annoying thing of all, while I'm on the subject of DVDs, is *ANYTHING* on the DVD that I cannot skip over or fast-forward through when I spend hard earned money to buy the video. Why am I *forced* to watch the FBI warning every time I view the movie. Did you think I missed it the first time? How about other shit like production company ads? Fuck you, I'm the customer and I paid for a product - I expect it to be delivered in a satisfying manor.
Oh yeah, and why do people spell is T-H-E-A-T-R-E? Are we watching the movie at the olde plowe shoppe in colour at the local movie centre?
Go to Best Buy and purchase the "Broadband Quality Telephone Cable". That should help you connection speed. LOL! While you're at it, get a gold plated USB cable for a better "connection".
Seriously though, I was referring, of course, to those who HAVE it available but choose to waste roughly the same amount of money on something worse. Doesn't make sense to me. Obviously, you are using the best option available in your situation.
Do you have a second phone line? A second phone line and ISP fees can run in the area of $40/mo. Is $45 really that much more?
To answer your question, you can get 384k cable or DSL in Eau Claire, WI for $30/month. You can get 768k cable for $40, and 1.5Mb cable for $50.
Too bad you'd have to move to Wisconsin. You'd probably be too broke to afford it anyway, since the only jobs up here are in agriculture and roadside deer collection.
Wow, I just HAD to reply. Apparently we live on different planets...
> you're barking up the wrong tree, in the wrong forest, in the wrong hemisphere.
Why? After nine months of searching, Best Buy is the only job I could get with my degree. So it appears my degree and I are worth $7.50 per hour. I think this is dog shit and I want to be worth more, so I think a Master's degree is a logical next step. If a bachelor's degree is worth $7.50/hour to Best Buy, and $7.50 isn't the highest pay, more education can only make me more marketable (and thus be able to demand more money). Or so they say, anyway. I just hope I don't end up with YET ANOTHER degree and no hope of finding work... I would probably put a bullet in my head.
>Figure out what it is you want to do, that would make you happy.
Hah! Pardon my langauge, but like that fucking matters. If I had any sort of chance getting a job I would actually like, do you think I would be working at Best Buy? See the part above about how it was the only job I could find after sending out countless resumes and doing several interviews after nine months.
> You could always study material on your own time not-for-credit you know
True, but at the moment, I need some immediate income. Debt is growing too fast for me to keep up with. Plus, I can't afford a decent computer right now. All my money goes towards bills, which makes it tough to study.
> get a job that will pay for tuition and encourages you to use it
Oh, it's that simple, huh? Where do you live? I'm not trying to be a bitch or a troll, but your "solutions" require nothing short of a miracle. I have tried everything you have mentioned and Best Buy appears to be my best hope at the moment. I *need* to go back to school so I have a chance at the sort of jobs you mention in your post (IMO).
Well, maybe I don't have as much of a clue as I once thought. After all, I'm working at Best Buy with a Bachelor's degree in MIS:)
You can imagine how much Best Buy values higher education (hint: It means jack shit to them). I wanted to go to night school to try to get a master's degree, but they won't help me out with hours. They said if I go to night school (and thus not be available 24x7), they would seriously cut my hours. Education BAD!
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Agreed. I can't remember the last time a web site I visited looked funny under Mozilla (well, discounting the fact that I don't have Flash installed in Moz). Pretty much everything I've come across in Moz looking just as good as it did in IE. The only annoyance I have is web "developers" using ALT tags instead of or not in addition to TITLE tags for tooltip information on images. It's not that tough to include them both, people!
> I've gained a lot from using Linux, moreso than any other person or thing that I've used so far in my short life.
;)
Maybe if you'd stop using people you'd have more friends and wouldn't need to hack Linux so much.
> GET REAL.
Although I admit I am probably no more innocent than these poor saps, I agree with most of the folks here who feel that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
> I'd be curious to know if the service contract mentions anything about modifying your system to increase bandwidth.
I don't think the FBI would show up unless they had a somewhat valid case. The ATF, maybe, but not the FBI.
Oops, I just realized what I posted didn't make sense. There was still response from the keyboard, which is how I got it to shutdown... : But the humor in the customer's response remains.
I am reminded of a time during my short term at Best Buy where I was demoing an eMachine with Windows XP for a customer. All of a sudden, the screen froze and there was no response from keyboard or mouse. Embarrassed, I quickly made up some excuse and went to Start -> "Turn off computer" to restart the machine.
The next words out of the customer's mouth were, "Oooh, I like how it fades."
Apparently, this customer was an ex-Millenium user who looked past computer lockups as commonplace, or perhaps they just really dig user interfaces and could care less about the fact that a new display computer is having problems locking up during a simple mouse meneuver.
> Well, maybe that's why attendance is down... we've all got our offices decorated now.
More likely, I think a rather large portion of us here don't have offices to decorate anymore and those of us who do can't convince our bosses to send us to some notorious geek expo.
> Our goal is to simply piss off consumers, hit bottom, and then blame folks.
I suppose step 4 is unknown and step 5 is to "Profit???".
Don't worry, you're not alone. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in the Midwest talks like the folks in the movie Fargo. Although I do enjoy my cheese and brats (not necessarily at the same time), I have no desire to milk cows or drive anything less than 20 miles over the speed limit.
> and thus falls into the same geek category as Cold Fusion, Office macros, and, well, ASP
I think ASP is fairly general purpose. VBscript can be used for system scripts (WSH), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), web pages (ASP), and if you know VBscript you pretty much know Visual Basic 6 for making applications. Of course, for the most part, it only works on Microsoft operating systems, but in a great deal of environments that's okay.
> I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people pick it for web apps.
I use it because it's free and I can develop with PHP and MySQL on my Windows XP computer at home and upload it to my Linux web host without having to change anything (except for the occasional file path). Very slick! I can mirror my Linux web site on my Windows machine for development purposed quite easily. The documentation for both is simply excellent too.
> It's STILL better/cheaper than buying a 3GHz P4.
:)
Ok, I'll give you that one. Your solution is cheaper, and arguably better, that buying a 3GHz Intel chip (for now). I'd like to see an Athlon, however, beat an Pentium 4 running Rhambus on an Intel mainboard in stability tests, but I'm sure someone will post a comparison link any second now.
Then again, I work at Best Buy, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about
> are trivial to mod for dual CPU operation and easily overclock to 2.25GHz
Some of us need reliability and warranty. I'm not going to throw an overclocked, modded AMD POS in the server farm at work. If I do, I'm going to make sure my resume is updated and my suit is free from little white fuzzies.
I'm gonna go overclock my laundry machine now and cook a pizza in self cleaning clean mode in my oven. Should be done by the time the laundry dings.
If requested, I would gladly put on a dress and lipstick and hum the melody to Eternal Flame by the Bangles if someone would just give me a chance at a job. Dress code is the least of my worries.
Yeah, *if* you can find your own web hosting. I mean, web hosting with MySQL and Perl can be found for a couple of bucks a month now. If you can't afford that, nobody wants to visit your cheesy Geocities-linked blog anyway.
One of my greatest annoyances is when people use "your" instead of "you're".
> All you have to do is modify this third-party program to have it spit out a random MAC address each time and *poof* the system is worthless.
How about just not cheating at all?
I think their solution will reduce the number of medicore cheaters (ie, gamers who know nothing about computers), but it won't stop the geek of courses. But from their POV, isn't even a moderate reduction in cheating worth their time and effort even if some will find ways around it?
> What if slashdot refused to allow me to post on its site because I run SlashdotSucks? Don't you think that would be an unfair trade practice?
Hell no. They can do what they want with THEIR site.
> Google has a monopoly on is PageRank technology.
Again, confusing innovation with domination.
> Actually they have to fairly apply their standard (algorthmic or otherwise) the same to everyone.
Says who?!?
Does Macromedia need to make sure their web site is equally viewable by all users? What about my personal web page? Does Slashdot (or any other news source) *have to* represent both sides of the story without bias? What about the AMA reporting and cigarette smoking is bad for you - doesn't this disparage Philip Morris (sp)? Why is Google under some requirement to represent all web sites fairly? Do Lycos and Altavista have the same obligation? If so, what about payola?
I don't get it.
I'd tell him to set up a forwarding address now and start telling people of the possibility. If it were cut off abruptly, it's a lot easier to forward your mail to a different provider than it is to tell everyone that your e-mail address has changed (hell, half the people that send me e-mail don't have my account in their address book - they just find a message from me in their inbox and click REPLY).
> 6. Six or seven trailers before the show starts
Funny, I always make sure I am at the movie on time so I don't miss the trailers. I often catch a movie that I really want to see in the previews. Trailers do bug me on DVD/VHS, most of the time because they are trailers for some moldy movie that came out about the time of the rental and I have see a bazillion times. Boring.
And the most annoying thing of all, while I'm on the subject of DVDs, is *ANYTHING* on the DVD that I cannot skip over or fast-forward through when I spend hard earned money to buy the video. Why am I *forced* to watch the FBI warning every time I view the movie. Did you think I missed it the first time? How about other shit like production company ads? Fuck you, I'm the customer and I paid for a product - I expect it to be delivered in a satisfying manor.
Oh yeah, and why do people spell is T-H-E-A-T-R-E? Are we watching the movie at the olde plowe shoppe in colour at the local movie centre?
Go to Best Buy and purchase the "Broadband Quality Telephone Cable". That should help you connection speed. LOL! While you're at it, get a gold plated USB cable for a better "connection".
Seriously though, I was referring, of course, to those who HAVE it available but choose to waste roughly the same amount of money on something worse. Doesn't make sense to me. Obviously, you are using the best option available in your situation.
Do you have a second phone line? A second phone line and ISP fees can run in the area of $40/mo. Is $45 really that much more?
To answer your question, you can get 384k cable or DSL in Eau Claire, WI for $30/month. You can get 768k cable for $40, and 1.5Mb cable for $50.
Too bad you'd have to move to Wisconsin. You'd probably be too broke to afford it anyway, since the only jobs up here are in agriculture and roadside deer collection.
Wow, I just HAD to reply. Apparently we live on different planets...
> you're barking up the wrong tree, in the wrong forest, in the wrong hemisphere.
Why? After nine months of searching, Best Buy is the only job I could get with my degree. So it appears my degree and I are worth $7.50 per hour. I think this is dog shit and I want to be worth more, so I think a Master's degree is a logical next step. If a bachelor's degree is worth $7.50/hour to Best Buy, and $7.50 isn't the highest pay, more education can only make me more marketable (and thus be able to demand more money). Or so they say, anyway. I just hope I don't end up with YET ANOTHER degree and no hope of finding work... I would probably put a bullet in my head.
>Figure out what it is you want to do, that would make you happy.
Hah! Pardon my langauge, but like that fucking matters. If I had any sort of chance getting a job I would actually like, do you think I would be working at Best Buy? See the part above about how it was the only job I could find after sending out countless resumes and doing several interviews after nine months.
> You could always study material on your own time not-for-credit you know
True, but at the moment, I need some immediate income. Debt is growing too fast for me to keep up with. Plus, I can't afford a decent computer right now. All my money goes towards bills, which makes it tough to study.
> get a job that will pay for tuition and encourages you to use it
Oh, it's that simple, huh? Where do you live? I'm not trying to be a bitch or a troll, but your "solutions" require nothing short of a miracle. I have tried everything you have mentioned and Best Buy appears to be my best hope at the moment. I *need* to go back to school so I have a chance at the sort of jobs you mention in your post (IMO).
Well, maybe I don't have as much of a clue as I once thought. After all, I'm working at Best Buy with a Bachelor's degree in MIS :)
You can imagine how much Best Buy values higher education (hint: It means jack shit to them). I wanted to go to night school to try to get a master's degree, but they won't help me out with hours. They said if I go to night school (and thus not be available 24x7), they would seriously cut my hours. Education BAD!