So does it make you happy that by having this tripe posted at/. Dvorak gets an extra 50,000 hits on his article? That in turn generates more ad revenue, which makes Dvorak a great writer from a monetary perspective.
Until people stop reading this garbage, he'll get to keep writing it, because it brings in the hits.
If you can come down to my office and teach half a dozen secretarys how to use ANYTHING else I'll be more than happy to jump onboard the "get rid of Word" bandwagon.
Fact is, that's not going to happen.
So, what you're faced with is trying to make the "it will save us money" argument. However, the people who save the money traditionally aren't the ones who have to pay the price. (in this case learning new software).
Sorry, but the save money argument holds no water unless the folks who are going to benefit from said savings are also the same people who have to pay the price of learning how to use new software. Until then, Word works just like it has for years, and papers get written.
No one is as much of a pain in the ass as a user who is forced to use software they don't want to use. Forcing users onto systems they hate isn't a good way to convince people to switch.
Considering 90+% of the possible targets would qualify, as almost everyone still uses IE.
nNt exactly a sporting hunt.
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no, i'm just really bad at proof reading.
Lucas directed the movie, but it was basically a ripoff of an older, Japanese title. what i don't understand is why he'd make a fairly significant change without an excellent reason.
in our society, we have justifiable homocide. if you're protecting yourself from someone who's trying to kill you, and you kill them, you don't go to jail.
if, on the other hand, you murder someone, you have problems. Han murders Greedo. (or whatever his name is) because he doesn't want to go back to Jabba. the character that murders someone to me is a fundamentally different character than the guy who's just trying to keep from getting shot.
If he does, I'm not buying them, period. I can't believe that they'd change what basically amounts to a massive character development over three movies, and rework it to crap. all because it's not nice for Han to shoot first. that was the WHOLE FREEKING point. ugh.
Because new technology is interesting to geeks? This is the first (to my knowledge) USB powered access point. That's news, at least to people who travel a lot.
Every day I get people walking into my office asking me advice about technology I personally haven't had a chance to play around with. An article like this gives me a shot to read about a cool new product that I probably wouldn't have thought to look up until a day or so before I was leaving for a trip. Dunno, I don't mind having articles posted that give out info on new tech. that has unique features.
The first time one of those Freshman herds wanders their way into Frat row looking for beer, it's going to get ugly.
I can see a bunch of pissed of Seniors beating the ever loving crap out of incoming freshman for their iPods. How do you tell them apart (unless they laser engrave them all).
Man, there have been a number of times that I've been trying to build something, and ended up with the hacked HomeDepot route.
It involves going to said Mega Store, browse through their crappy selection (3 items, but 200 of each) and then beating the snot out of it back at your house to try and make it do what you want.
I really hope that this technology stays in the hands of people who love to build and tinker, and doesn't just end up the "Next big thing" for some retail chain. I have a feeling it would wipe out the variabilty like it has in everything else they touch.
First, you get the speed of RAID drives, and you only lose 1 drive of your entire set. (So the more drives you have, the better it gets)
Of course, if you're going to go with RAID, you need to duplicate that data somewhere else, just to be safe.
Along these lines I'd recommend another RAID 5 in (at minimum) another location. With RAID 5 it also covers the eventual loss of a drive from your array, and can rebuild it. Of course, you can now spend as much or as little you want on your RAID 5 setup, so the costs will vary widely.
that works. then you have to copy the files from the broodwars cd irrc., and it should work. i know it was easier than i thought. i installed in on my dual G5 (massive overkill) and i know i didn't have to boot into classic at any point to do it, since i don't have it on there. if you can't get it, let me know and i'll try and redo the process from the beginning, see if i can figure out what i did exactly.
Except in one case it was a home console, in this case it's for a portable game player.
when i'm looking to play games on the road, i don't want a gigantor game system taking up precious space in my laptop bag. the smaller the game system the better.
I guess I'm just surprised that before deleting an entire home directory, there's no confirmation dialogue, even though it's using the command line to do it.
Of course, it might have, but I'm not about to test it out on my machine to find out.
I did find that if you try to move your user directory to the Trash, it tells you it can't sit in the trash, and has to be deleted immediately and asks for confirmation. However, it doesn't surprise me that that dialogue would be different that the rm -rf command.
He doesn't mention this in the article, but I was wondering if this asked him for a password before it executed.
I would assume it would have to before it runs an rf command on his home directory.
If it didn't ask for one, that's not good. If it did and he entered it in, he's a complete moron. Although the reality is, any OS will always be vunerable to user stupidity. It's the worms etc., that are a serious problem.
Steven Levy: Good. How are you? Congratulations for the year. A couple questions, related questions, about the negotiations with the labels there. One, was there any discussion from their point of view of changing the price? We've been hearing about how the labels might want to get more for online songs. And second, did they ask you to make the songs purchased on the iTunes store playable from other devices? In other words, ask you to license FairPlay to other third parties?
Steve Jobs: Great. Let me answer those two things. First one is the price for songs in the iTunes store is remaining 99 cents per song, and we think that's what customers want and that's what we're delivering. So the prices will remain 99 cents per song and any rumors to the contrary are simply not true.
THIS IS FUD. Until I see something to say otherwise, I'll take my news from the horse's mouth.
people talk about crap channels on TV, but that's the point. the reason you can't just pick the channels you want, and skip the crap is because companies like viacom make you take the good with the bad.
of all the viacom channels they offer, the one i want is comedy central. that's it. but i still have to get mtv, nickelodian (sp?), and all their other crap. I DON'T WANT IT.
but i have to get it whether i want it or not, because that's the only way viacomm will sell it.
remind anyone of a certain software companies business practices? you want Windows? you're getting IE and WMP bundled together.
good for dish network sticking standing up to them. hell, i'll probably sign up tomorrow in support of the stance they're taking.
wow. that's just uncanny. i've been using this *exact* rule for a while now and i've found it works like a charm.
for those who think it will be "easier" just to use a PC, i don't have all the support issues down the line. for those who are willing to try something new and use a Mac, i find i'm not nearly as burned out helping them with their computers.
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So it throttles Windows in general, thereby slowing the spread of viruses! I like it!
Take out Windows, and you take out the problem. Go HP!
So does it make you happy that by having this tripe posted at /. Dvorak gets an extra 50,000 hits on his article? That in turn generates more ad revenue, which makes Dvorak a great writer from a monetary perspective.
Until people stop reading this garbage, he'll get to keep writing it, because it brings in the hits.
If you can come down to my office and teach half a dozen secretarys how to use ANYTHING else I'll be more than happy to jump onboard the "get rid of Word" bandwagon.
Fact is, that's not going to happen.
So, what you're faced with is trying to make the "it will save us money" argument. However, the people who save the money traditionally aren't the ones who have to pay the price. (in this case learning new software).
Sorry, but the save money argument holds no water unless the folks who are going to benefit from said savings are also the same people who have to pay the price of learning how to use new software. Until then, Word works just like it has for years, and papers get written.
No one is as much of a pain in the ass as a user who is forced to use software they don't want to use. Forcing users onto systems they hate isn't a good way to convince people to switch.
Considering 90+% of the possible targets would qualify, as almost everyone still uses IE.
nNt exactly a sporting hunt.
no, i'm just really bad at proof reading.
Lucas directed the movie, but it was basically a ripoff of an older, Japanese title. what i don't understand is why he'd make a fairly significant change without an excellent reason.
in our society, we have justifiable homocide. if you're protecting yourself from someone who's trying to kill you, and you kill them, you don't go to jail.
if, on the other hand, you murder someone, you have problems. Han murders Greedo. (or whatever his name is) because he doesn't want to go back to Jabba. the character that murders someone to me is a fundamentally different character than the guy who's just trying to keep from getting shot.
If he does, I'm not buying them, period. I can't believe that they'd change what basically amounts to a massive character development over three movies, and rework it to crap. all because it's not nice for Han to shoot first. that was the WHOLE FREEKING point. ugh.
i hate people sometimes.
Because new technology is interesting to geeks? This is the first (to my knowledge) USB powered access point. That's news, at least to people who travel a lot.
Every day I get people walking into my office asking me advice about technology I personally haven't had a chance to play around with. An article like this gives me a shot to read about a cool new product that I probably wouldn't have thought to look up until a day or so before I was leaving for a trip. Dunno, I don't mind having articles posted that give out info on new tech. that has unique features.
So which audio cable do you include?
1/8" to RCA
1/8" to 1/8"
1/8" to 1/4"
I'm sure there are a lot more options, but it's not necessarily straight forward which one to include.
To me the big problems seems to be that their one leg left is their case against IBM.
Dunno about you, but I don't think I'd want my last legal hope to rest on my defeating IBM, especially not in this case.
The first time one of those Freshman herds wanders their way into Frat row looking for beer, it's going to get ugly.
I can see a bunch of pissed of Seniors beating the ever loving crap out of incoming freshman for their iPods. How do you tell them apart (unless they laser engrave them all).
Man, there have been a number of times that I've been trying to build something, and ended up with the hacked HomeDepot route.
It involves going to said Mega Store, browse through their crappy selection (3 items, but 200 of each) and then beating the snot out of it back at your house to try and make it do what you want.
I really hope that this technology stays in the hands of people who love to build and tinker, and doesn't just end up the "Next big thing" for some retail chain. I have a feeling it would wipe out the variabilty like it has in everything else they touch.
It has a few bonuses going for it.
First, you get the speed of RAID drives, and you only lose 1 drive of your entire set. (So the more drives you have, the better it gets)
Of course, if you're going to go with RAID, you need to duplicate that data somewhere else, just to be safe.
Along these lines I'd recommend another RAID 5 in (at minimum) another location. With RAID 5 it also covers the eventual loss of a drive from your array, and can rebuild it. Of course, you can now spend as much or as little you want on your RAID 5 setup, so the costs will vary widely.
Then again, you often get what you pay for.
Here I was, looking at the article and two things light up in my eyes.
.000004% of people who clicked on that link who will actually got to see the car have parked itself.
No comments yet, and the word "Video" in the article.
Choices, Choices. On the one hand there's the elusive first post. Chased after by geeks for some unknown reason over the ages.
On the other hand, there's an arguably cool video about a car that parks itself.
If I go for the first post, by the time I'm done writing "FP blah blah" the video will be dead.
Oh well, screw first post. I'm probably one of the
It was cool.
well, yes.
:D
i'm assuming you rerip the files from the original CD's.
for those complaining about not being able to fill the HD, the easiest way to use the space is to reencode the music you already have.
just with some quick calculations i did on my own, saving your music as in a lossless format uses approx. 5x as much space as a 256kb MP3.
so only 12GB of mp3's will give you your 60GB of music.
Odds are it will be an iPod shaped flash player, holding 128 megs or so. the "advanced" micro drive version will cost a lot more than $50.
look at feel aren't really tech specs. when this thing is actually for sale then we'll be able to tell how good of a deal it is.
halfway down this page:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msc0411p
that works. then you have to copy the files from the broodwars cd irrc., and it should work. i know it was easier than i thought. i installed in on my dual G5 (massive overkill) and i know i didn't have to boot into classic at any point to do it, since i don't have it on there. if you can't get it, let me know and i'll try and redo the process from the beginning, see if i can figure out what i did exactly.
there is an OSX native installer for starcraft. i was just installed it last week.
Except in one case it was a home console, in this case it's for a portable game player.
when i'm looking to play games on the road, i don't want a gigantor game system taking up precious space in my laptop bag. the smaller the game system the better.
but then again, time will tell.
I guess I'm just surprised that before deleting an entire home directory, there's no confirmation dialogue, even though it's using the command line to do it.
Of course, it might have, but I'm not about to test it out on my machine to find out.
I did find that if you try to move your user directory to the Trash, it tells you it can't sit in the trash, and has to be deleted immediately and asks for confirmation. However, it doesn't surprise me that that dialogue would be different that the rm -rf command.
He doesn't mention this in the article, but I was wondering if this asked him for a password before it executed.
I would assume it would have to before it runs an rf command on his home directory.
If it didn't ask for one, that's not good. If it did and he entered it in, he's a complete moron. Although the reality is, any OS will always be vunerable to user stupidity. It's the worms etc., that are a serious problem.
THIS IS FUD. Until I see something to say otherwise, I'll take my news from the horse's mouth.
people talk about crap channels on TV, but that's the point. the reason you can't just pick the channels you want, and skip the crap is because companies like viacom make you take the good with the bad.
of all the viacom channels they offer, the one i want is comedy central. that's it. but i still have to get mtv, nickelodian (sp?), and all their other crap. I DON'T WANT IT.
but i have to get it whether i want it or not, because that's the only way viacomm will sell it.
remind anyone of a certain software companies business practices? you want Windows? you're getting IE and WMP bundled together.
good for dish network sticking standing up to them. hell, i'll probably sign up tomorrow in support of the stance they're taking.
wow. that's just uncanny. i've been using this *exact* rule for a while now and i've found it works like a charm.
for those who think it will be "easier" just to use a PC, i don't have all the support issues down the line. for those who are willing to try something new and use a Mac, i find i'm not nearly as burned out helping them with their computers.
real soon, people learn.
My Windows copy is VERY secure. It's sitting right in the fireproof software safe I put it in two years ago when I started using OSX.
Since then I haven't had ONE spyware problem! Amazing!