Well, they're probably dying in the US due to the cheaper and larger availability of high speed cable internet, not to mention the increased number of people owning personal computers. Maybe opening one up in a vacation spot so people who are visiting could pop in and e-mail friends/family, but outside the use of that, I can't think of anything.
This isn't quite what you're asking about but I figured I'll give you some useful information. I put in some security hardware called Centurion Guard at my library. I must say, if you're worries about malicious conduct on the computers, either viri or people sabotaging systems (damn teenagers), I suggest you consider it. Basically it keeps a partition of itself and whenever you reboot everything not on the partition (which normal users can't screw around with) is wiped and restored to it's original state. Just giving you my 2 cents.
I use trillian and I first noticed yahoo crapping out on Thursday the 25th. You sure you just didn't get a patch to fix the change in protocol which Trillian patched a week prior?
My mother works at a library and part of the staff has been taught how to work the system, etc (her half). However, whenever they type up any sort of bulletin or flyer (done frequently) they NEVER use tabs. They space everything out with spaces, or occasionally the default tabs. So I deeply sugget you, in your office explanation, show them the basic tabs. Be sure to include all types of tabs (left, right, justified) and how you can put them wherever you want instead of relying on the default half inch.
I agree fully. We, the customers, are obviously disatisfied with their business practices. But instead of listening, they're attacking. I'm sick of paper doll bands which are all exactly the same. I'm sick of remix CDs which shouldn't even have been wasted with. I'm sick of 30 minute CDs. I'm sick of CDs which only have 1 or 2 decent tracks. I'm sick of artists being advertised as a genre they're not. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay 14 bucks to take a gamble on a CD.
If the recording industry just made a cut in their executives, I bet there'd be more room for cheaper CDs, seeing as how the company makes money from CDs while the artists mainly gets it from touring.
And they also gotta knock it off with controlling music types. I'm not a big fan or rap or pop so I can't watch music TV or listen to the radio. I want to be able to go in a store and be able to see more then 4 music types. The day I see VNV Nation in a Best Buy or FYE for at most 9 bucks is the day I'll stop bitching.
Before I played it, I was religions in no way whatsoever. Agnostic I'd say. But after playing it, it really got me thinking. It made me realize how much corruption there is, not only in the church, but in every aspect of the world. Then again, that was also when my political agenda was being formed.
You know those internet accelerators? Do you know how they work? It's teh same idea, info gets sent to them, compressed, and sent to you. Then your software decompresses. Of course the ISP probably won't have spyware in it, but they'll probably track where you go for marketing purposes like other ones.
oh great, they can use to track speeding. This is just another step towards them trying to stop people from speeding. First they have cops on patrol. Then they have air tracking. Then they check times with EZPass. Next they time the amount of time it takes to go througha security camara. And now this! They have gone too far in trying to keep people from speeding! This is the last straw... AGAIN!
Well how many of you can honestly say looks had nothing to do with the purchase of a car, stereo, walkman, etc. Or even in finding a spouse, how many of you can say that you never took how it looks into factor?
I don't think this is gonna fly. While yes, it's a great idea, it also has a good amount of cons to it. First of all is the aethetics of it. The thing about normal (qwerty) keyboards is that you can modify angle, etc. But these are at minimum height. Then there is the one which didn't even have a visualization. Then you'd have to worry about where the center of your keyboard is, etc. THen there is the sight factor, how would people react so see a person typing on a projection? Next is the fact that it HAS to have a surface, an advantage you don't need for fold-up keyboards or using the pen-on-screen approach. What I think they should do is make them similar to DDR pads. Seriously, You make them small, they'll have plenty of room for keys, you can fold them up so you have portability. Then you can have just a thin foldup sheet of some sort of stiff material for support so you can use it on your lap while being on a subway or something like that.
Actually, I did a paper on LotR, and I found that Gandalf is based more on scattered mythologies. some excerpts of my paper: "Gandalf, the tall, wise Istari is noticeably modeled after the Scandinavian god Odin. Odin was known to wander among humans as an old man who was tall, with a long gray cloak, a white beard, and supernatural powers. Meanwhile Gandalf is also old and tall with a white beard and gray cloak. And being an Istari, he has magical powers, which can be the equivalent to supernatural ones (Magill 3298). Alternately, Gandalf may have been modeled after the hero in the Finnish tale Kalevala, where the hero was an old wise shaman. Once again, this character bears likeness to Gandalf."
We can have bots go up there and get audio, visual, and geological samples, so why send up a person then? I say we set up moon colonies, then we'll talk about mars.
Nostalgics, collectors, people tricked into thinking there is new material, and people who never got any of the prior albums. That and people belonging to record clubs:D
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Well, they're probably dying in the US due to the cheaper and larger availability of high speed cable internet, not to mention the increased number of people owning personal computers. Maybe opening one up in a vacation spot so people who are visiting could pop in and e-mail friends/family, but outside the use of that, I can't think of anything.
Whenever I see "This page is best viewed with..." I just think they hired a lazy web designer.
I think the real question everyone wants to know is "Will it keep Major League Baseball from spying on me?"
This isn't quite what you're asking about but I figured I'll give you some useful information. I put in some security hardware called Centurion Guard at my library. I must say, if you're worries about malicious conduct on the computers, either viri or people sabotaging systems (damn teenagers), I suggest you consider it. Basically it keeps a partition of itself and whenever you reboot everything not on the partition (which normal users can't screw around with) is wiped and restored to it's original state. Just giving you my 2 cents.
I enjoy eclipse, it's my fav java compiler. Would be nice for the compatability, but it's really Sun's loss.
That'd be all find and dandy, but I doubt people will be all too happy to find that their computer has been switched to linux.
2010? By then won't we be in our hydrogen fuel celled hybrid solar hover cars?
I use trillian and I first noticed yahoo crapping out on Thursday the 25th. You sure you just didn't get a patch to fix the change in protocol which Trillian patched a week prior?
My mother works at a library and part of the staff has been taught how to work the system, etc (her half). However, whenever they type up any sort of bulletin or flyer (done frequently) they NEVER use tabs. They space everything out with spaces, or occasionally the default tabs. So I deeply sugget you, in your office explanation, show them the basic tabs. Be sure to include all types of tabs (left, right, justified) and how you can put them wherever you want instead of relying on the default half inch.
So if the RIAA leaves out the files to be DLed, would they be able to hold a lawsuit against it?
So how much do you think M$ paid buy.com to make it IE and Windows Media player 9 only?
I agree fully. We, the customers, are obviously disatisfied with their business practices. But instead of listening, they're attacking. I'm sick of paper doll bands which are all exactly the same. I'm sick of remix CDs which shouldn't even have been wasted with. I'm sick of 30 minute CDs. I'm sick of CDs which only have 1 or 2 decent tracks. I'm sick of artists being advertised as a genre they're not. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay 14 bucks to take a gamble on a CD.
If the recording industry just made a cut in their executives, I bet there'd be more room for cheaper CDs, seeing as how the company makes money from CDs while the artists mainly gets it from touring.
And they also gotta knock it off with controlling music types. I'm not a big fan or rap or pop so I can't watch music TV or listen to the radio. I want to be able to go in a store and be able to see more then 4 music types. The day I see VNV Nation in a Best Buy or FYE for at most 9 bucks is the day I'll stop bitching.
Before I played it, I was religions in no way whatsoever. Agnostic I'd say. But after playing it, it really got me thinking. It made me realize how much corruption there is, not only in the church, but in every aspect of the world. Then again, that was also when my political agenda was being formed.
You know those internet accelerators? Do you know how they work? It's teh same idea, info gets sent to them, compressed, and sent to you. Then your software decompresses. Of course the ISP probably won't have spyware in it, but they'll probably track where you go for marketing purposes like other ones.
It's Karbon Kitty!
oh great, they can use to track speeding.
This is just another step towards them trying to stop people from speeding. First they have cops on patrol. Then they have air tracking. Then they check times with EZPass. Next they time the amount of time it takes to go througha security camara. And now this! They have gone too far in trying to keep people from speeding! This is the last straw... AGAIN!
Well how many of you can honestly say looks had nothing to do with the purchase of a car, stereo, walkman, etc. Or even in finding a spouse, how many of you can say that you never took how it looks into factor?
I don't think this is gonna fly. While yes, it's a great idea, it also has a good amount of cons to it. First of all is the aethetics of it. The thing about normal (qwerty) keyboards is that you can modify angle, etc. But these are at minimum height.
Then there is the one which didn't even have a visualization. Then you'd have to worry about where the center of your keyboard is, etc.
THen there is the sight factor, how would people react so see a person typing on a projection?
Next is the fact that it HAS to have a surface, an advantage you don't need for fold-up keyboards or using the pen-on-screen approach.
What I think they should do is make them similar to DDR pads. Seriously, You make them small, they'll have plenty of room for keys, you can fold them up so you have portability. Then you can have just a thin foldup sheet of some sort of stiff material for support so you can use it on your lap while being on a subway or something like that.
Actually, I did a paper on LotR, and I found that Gandalf is based more on scattered mythologies. some excerpts of my paper:
"Gandalf, the tall, wise Istari is noticeably modeled after the Scandinavian god Odin. Odin was known to wander among humans as an old man who was tall, with a long gray cloak, a white beard, and supernatural powers. Meanwhile Gandalf is also old and tall with a white beard and gray cloak. And being an Istari, he has magical powers, which can be the equivalent to supernatural ones (Magill 3298). Alternately, Gandalf may have been modeled after the hero in the Finnish tale Kalevala, where the hero was an old wise shaman. Once again, this character bears likeness to Gandalf."
Excellent idea
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
They're coming to take me away!
How do you know they won't be living in underground bunkers?
We can have bots go up there and get audio, visual, and geological samples, so why send up a person then? I say we set up moon colonies, then we'll talk about mars.
Hey, in 2015 we can start In Soviet Mars jokes instead. We'll be ascending to the next level.
Nostalgics, collectors, people tricked into thinking there is new material, and people who never got any of the prior albums. That and people belonging to record clubs :D