Not too far distant future, in a galaxy that is essentially this one:
Happy-go-lucky users were using Office 2000 in a XP era just chugging along quite nicely, thx.
Someone on the other end of a shared database upgraded (did not setup, just supported) to Office Xp and hosed out ability to open said DB because of the built in incompatability.
So, upgrade time came about and I and fellow workers (with boss' blessing and shark's grin) did the upgrade to 2003 just to share the 'fun' of Office format wars.
Not a big deal you say?
Normally I'd agree, but the thing is it "was my job" plus a bit of schadenfreude on behalf of my users toward people that inadvertantly (I think) put us on the upgrade treadmill became on of the guilty pleasures of being an SA.
Honestly, I think MS is well aware of the psychology of what does and doesn't motivate upgrades and counts on incompatibility to be one of the things that pushes upgrades, plus the desire to mess with those that piss us off.
Even those of us that know better (me included, though I tried to initally push "Office 2k" formats) fall victim to those "pressures and cleavages" (BSG's Baltar quote) despite knowing or thinking better.
One way or another the master manipulators are at work alongside the programmers and marketers.
Does this mean that the guy I saw at the Best Buy buying 3 spindles of blank DVDs was, in fact, about to record 160 discs full of porn? I'd think he'd get carpal tunnel....
Depends on the orientation of the arm, wrist and hand motion used the two could cancel each other out by ripping first then checking the quality of the rip...
No, but I thought along the lines of (echo-y voice)OFFICE COMBAT!!!
Yardsticks for swords, mice for maces, cd's and floppies for shriuken and bubble wrap for armor.
I suppose if you took off the guard for the mouse ball, and used another cord you could make a mouse sling, too.
You can make darts out of those solid plastic pens, a nail, and some thin cardboard for fins. (Yeah, my former supervisor found my set one day and did not even have to ask anyone else whom they belonged to. I think the one or two chunks of missing cinderblock kind of gave it away).
Bet your ass they won't be using their own food (take out, anyone?) because if they do the world will see this sub as the first "goldfish'd" sub (i.e. floating belly-up somewhere about a week out).
(/Flame off)
Considering the article mention only "one" previous (and failed) sub class, and now this one which seems destined for 'greatness' *coff*choke*sarcasm*coff*.
What do you want to bet that the SSBN will stand for Sea Sick By Nitefall?
Did not RTFFA (read the full f'n article), but I'm curious as to the size of these cards.
It's hard to fathom until you actually hold it in your hands, much less install it in you case.
I did not fully appreciate it until trying to install a 1900pro in my case to replace the X800pro.
The 800 is a big card and has about 1/2" clearance from the hd's and cables in my case (Antec solution series full tower. 5 drive cage parallel to the case). Tried the 1900, and holy fsck this thing is huge! 9.5" and the last 2+" of the card is for the dual molex connectors and row of resistors.
Even after moving HD's, it *STILL* was pressed into the cables of my raid...not good.
So, while all the talk of die shrinks is wonderful, how about shrinking the damn cards, eh?
I was put off a long time ago by PB when Desert Combat was at its height of popularity.
Yeah, that long ago.
What made me see that was only going to get worse was being flagged as a cheater on my own server for removing the intro movies...you know, those half dozen annoying adverts EA games spew out before connecting. BS on that.
I see that things have not improved for the users/players.
Lan games or building trust among other players is the best way, IMO/E.
Yeah, prostitution is the most people-ready business I know.
Reminds me of the story of an engineer that was thinking about switching jobs for more pay and a local where he was at (South America?) said he was "Prostituting himself".
His reply was dead on:
"We all prostitute ourselves in some way, the trick is knowing when to change pimps".
Particularly important when you have to do Phone/Desktop Sup-whore-t.
Along the same lines as what got Ati in the running in the grfx market, pre 9500. (they were "in" the market, yeah, but they did not matter, IMO until the 9500)
All of the grfx being put on screen were being drawn, even if you could not see it, say like a house with a fence in the back yard, grass, lawn chair and other stuff that you can't see because you are standing in front of it.
At the time that was a lot of CPU/GPU power being wasted, until the question "why" was asked by Ati. Something as simple as occlusion in relation to POV. We take it for granted now, but somewhere between the 95/9700 these things put their NV counterparts to shame, an people noticed.
I liked my TNT2, GF2 even liked the PCI GF4 (dual proc intel bx2, pci only, game box...don't laugh, it held up to Max Payne2 until multiple sounds), but eventually heat, power and money became the issues to deal with.
Now, after owning a 95/98 and current X800pro cards, heat is meh, power a bit (98 to X800, --along with 9HDs-- made the 350W cry) and money...well the X800 hurt a little more money wise buying when it was shortly after release.
Not changing with the times is what made 3dfx (moment of silence) hurt, killed was the fab change (in house/outsource, I forget).
Now the issue is size, and the X800 ain't tiny, but fit in my case, but the 1900 I tried would cut into data cables even if I moved drives, or I'd break/degrade the raid. Not...gonna...happen.
That said, I still wonder why the grfx market feels like the Mhz race?
But, hey, nobody notices from all the shiny objects on the screen...OOooooh.
IIRC, NT4 maxed out at DX3 and "could not go any higher" according to the wisdom at the time, but it was possible to graft DX5 onto it and it worked quite well as I recall.
Look at games such as "Slave Zero" (picture Carmageddon, only giant robot instead of a car) that were so tied to Win98's directX calls that it usually did not function under other WinOS's. Some enterprising hacker replaced the 98 DX calls with more generic functions and it worked great.
Vista exclusive games (DX10 Only) will be out sooner or later, and I'm sure that eventually it will overcome the 5+ year's momentum that XP has, but I think it'll be very slow going.
The intent of game makers is to sell games, and locking out 90% of thier target markets is suicide. (DX8/9 compatability at the very least will be around for a while, I'd think.)
Same with Microsoft, its intent is to sell Vista anyway it can, but unlike games you want/don't have, you are likely running a WinOS of some stripe (gaming requirement, almost). The lack of want/need of a new os, lack of games that won't run on XP (yet), resistance to change and XP "just working" (for the most part) and/or just the way you like it setup makes for some heavy resistance.
The realy trick/story will be DX10 working under XP, or, DX10 game that have been changed like Slave Zero to work under DX9 with few, if any problems.
There is no easy way to apply corrections to pen and paper. Are you serious? You could: A) cross out your mistake B) use white out C) write with erasable pens
In Soviet Russia, we use a pencil^W^W^W^W...errr...Pencil uses YOU!
Seriously, though, learning Calc in college, the biggest impediment was using programs to "help" us learn, but if you did not know WTF you were doing, using Maple, mathcad or whatever program just made the problem worse with learning how to program the damn thing.
If I were not the one that went through it, it would have been funny because the programmers (engineers, etc) were there to learn calc, and the math majors had to learn how to program.
Smart ones teamed up, because the best way to learn calc is to use pencil and paper and work the problem, not massage the computer software and hope to hell you did not make a typo, syntax error or fuck up the equasion because you'd never be sure unless you could solve the problem yourself.
IME, school/learning is about teachers and their skills, not computers and technology.
Only children of the world are snickering and saying "HA! HA!" (/nelson).
Some of these points (Tounge in cheek, of course):
Blaise Pascal- always trying to get with the program, cited as not very object oriented.
Niels Bohr- Dude was a mechanic, nuff said.
Faraday- Cagey guy, did not like being waved at.
Ernest Rutherford- dude was a gas, loved his gamma.
Van de Graaff- 3 brothers in football, bet that generated a lot of static at this poor guy. (/TiC)
I dunno, I pictured the older saying to the younger "miss a few questions, or I'll hurt you" as the source of the discrepancy. Not that that would *ever* happen, no not at all.
Boy do i feel stupid buying one of those big heavy SLR things with the expensive lenses...
Modded funny, but this is more insightful than most people think because no matter the MP rating on a camera the receptor is the main part. How fast, how receptive it is to color and such. (may have the wrong word here, but photo-receptor comes to mind)
The MPxl rating is *supposed* to tell you how good it is, but a good film camera can be subject to the film quality/speed.
I got an education (and warnings) against some cameras that were advertised as 8MP, but the reality was closer to 2 to 4MP either because of upsampling done in camera, poor receptor or substandard electronics.
Camera phones...I can see why, just not for me and IME sometimes even "professionals" are clueless about their new toys. Case in point: worked for newspaper and $50K worth of cameras was bough + storage (mini-drives). These guys/gals were bringing these drives into work to use the reader a PCMCIA SCSI device attached to a desktop. They were lugging in their cameras, drives and laptops when the storage filled up instead of slapping them in the laptop, copy/move and send electronically.
What it means is, sometimes the uses/gotchas are not obvious and sometimes the tech is deceptive. (Hard drive size, monitor size measurements anyone?)
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I don't know, perhaps that can be the next /poll:
Did the flash exploit affect you:
Shake your WiiMote side to side for "NO" and Up and down for "YES".
If the answer is being typed in for you by the exploiter...well choose the "Taco" option.
Not too far distant future, in a galaxy that is essentially this one:
Happy-go-lucky users were using Office 2000 in a XP era just chugging along quite nicely, thx.
Someone on the other end of a shared database upgraded (did not setup, just supported) to Office
Xp and hosed out ability to open said DB because of the built in incompatability.
So, upgrade time came about and I and fellow workers (with boss' blessing and shark's grin) did
the upgrade to 2003 just to share the 'fun' of Office format wars.
Not a big deal you say?
Normally I'd agree, but the thing is it "was my job" plus a bit of schadenfreude on behalf of my
users toward people that inadvertantly (I think) put us on the upgrade treadmill became on of
the guilty pleasures of being an SA.
Honestly, I think MS is well aware of the psychology of what does and doesn't motivate upgrades
and counts on incompatibility to be one of the things that pushes upgrades, plus the desire
to mess with those that piss us off.
Even those of us that know better (me included, though I tried to initally push "Office 2k"
formats) fall victim to those "pressures and cleavages" (BSG's Baltar quote) despite knowing
or thinking better.
One way or another the master manipulators are at work alongside the programmers and marketers.
The reason the job is made easier is that Vista's file copy moves at the speed of the court systems.
Bah-dum-ching!
Close, the term you are looking for is conslutant.
(Best typo of consultant on
Depends on the orientation of the arm, wrist and hand motion used the two could cancel each other out by ripping first then checking
the quality of the rip...
Errrr...no comment.
Of course it is, but "With a gun in your mouth, you only speak in vowels".
Same thing though it sounds different.
Is there a mac equivalent of Terminals or RoyalTS?
Russian Toilet System: $14M
Toilet's "Star Wars" Laser Targeting System: $4M
Installation: $1M
Hitting the Whitehouse from space, Priceless.
No, but I thought along the lines of (echo-y voice)OFFICE COMBAT!!!
Yardsticks for swords, mice for maces, cd's and floppies for shriuken and bubble wrap for armor.
I suppose if you took off the guard for the mouse ball, and used another cord you could make a
mouse sling, too.
You can make darts out of those solid plastic pens, a nail, and some thin cardboard for fins.
(Yeah, my former supervisor found my set one day and did not even have to ask anyone else whom
they belonged to. I think the one or two chunks of missing cinderblock kind of gave it away).
(Editor's note: for those of you viewing pr0n at home, just a show of hand will suffice)
Or how about:
(Drill Sgt.): Alright maggots, COUNT OFF:
(thousands/millions of linux users): ONE!
Dismissed! Thanks for coming.
(Ed note: for those of you still viewing pr0n at home, don't take that literally. Please.)
(/Human Torch mode: {/snaps fingers} Flame on!) ...a cheap export knock-off from China. Whodathunkit?
Bet your ass they won't be using their own food (take out, anyone?) because if they do the
world will see this sub as the first "goldfish'd" sub (i.e. floating belly-up somewhere about
a week out).
(/Flame off)
Considering the article mention only "one" previous (and failed) sub class, and now this one
which seems destined for 'greatness' *coff*choke*sarcasm*coff*.
What do you want to bet that the SSBN will stand for Sea Sick By Nitefall?
Did not RTFFA (read the full f'n article), but I'm curious as to the size of these cards.
It's hard to fathom until you actually hold it in your hands, much less install it in you case.
I did not fully appreciate it until trying to install a 1900pro in my case to replace the X800pro.
The 800 is a big card and has about 1/2" clearance from the hd's and cables in my case (Antec solution
series full tower. 5 drive cage parallel to the case).
Tried the 1900, and holy fsck this thing is huge! 9.5" and the last 2+" of the card is for the dual
molex connectors and row of resistors.
Even after moving HD's, it *STILL* was pressed into the cables of my raid...not good.
So, while all the talk of die shrinks is wonderful, how about shrinking the damn cards, eh?
I was put off a long time ago by PB when Desert Combat was at its height of popularity.
Yeah, that long ago.
What made me see that was only going to get worse was being flagged as a cheater on my
own server for removing the intro movies...you know, those half dozen annoying adverts
EA games spew out before connecting. BS on that.
I see that things have not improved for the users/players.
Lan games or building trust among other players is the best way, IMO/E.
Reminds me of the story of an engineer that was thinking about switching jobs for more pay and a
local where he was at (South America?) said he was "Prostituting himself".
His reply was dead on:
"We all prostitute ourselves in some way, the trick is knowing when to change pimps".
Particularly important when you have to do Phone/Desktop Sup-whore-t.
Along the same lines as what got Ati in the running in the grfx market, pre 9500.
(they were "in" the market, yeah, but they did not matter, IMO until the 9500)
All of the grfx being put on screen were being drawn, even if you could not see it, say
like a house with a fence in the back yard, grass, lawn chair and other stuff that you
can't see because you are standing in front of it.
At the time that was a lot of CPU/GPU power being wasted, until the question "why" was
asked by Ati. Something as simple as occlusion in relation to POV. We take it for
granted now, but somewhere between the 95/9700 these things put their NV counterparts
to shame, an people noticed.
I liked my TNT2, GF2 even liked the PCI GF4 (dual proc intel bx2, pci only, game box...don't
laugh, it held up to Max Payne2 until multiple sounds), but eventually heat, power and
money became the issues to deal with.
Now, after owning a 95/98 and current X800pro cards, heat is meh, power a bit (98 to X800,
--along with 9HDs-- made the 350W cry) and money...well the X800 hurt a little more money
wise buying when it was shortly after release.
Not changing with the times is what made 3dfx (moment of silence) hurt, killed was the fab
change (in house/outsource, I forget).
Now the issue is size, and the X800 ain't tiny, but fit in my case, but the 1900 I tried would
cut into data cables even if I moved drives, or I'd break/degrade the raid. Not...gonna...happen.
That said, I still wonder why the grfx market feels like the Mhz race?
But, hey, nobody notices from all the shiny objects on the screen...OOooooh.
must..resist...joke..about..spoiler..tags...
In soviet russia spoilers tag you!
Aw, man you just gave away the ending to the Autozone game! For shame!
(damn, oh well)
or possibly lack thereof.
IIRC, NT4 maxed out at DX3 and "could not go any higher" according to the wisdom at the time, but it
was possible to graft DX5 onto it and it worked quite well as I recall.
Look at games such as "Slave Zero" (picture Carmageddon, only giant robot instead of a car) that were
so tied to Win98's directX calls that it usually did not function under other WinOS's.
Some enterprising hacker replaced the 98 DX calls with more generic functions and it worked great.
Vista exclusive games (DX10 Only) will be out sooner or later, and I'm sure that eventually it will overcome
the 5+ year's momentum that XP has, but I think it'll be very slow going.
The intent of game makers is to sell games, and locking out 90% of thier target markets is suicide.
(DX8/9 compatability at the very least will be around for a while, I'd think.)
Same with Microsoft, its intent is to sell Vista anyway it can, but unlike games you want/don't have, you
are likely running a WinOS of some stripe (gaming requirement, almost). The lack of want/need of a new
os, lack of games that won't run on XP (yet), resistance to change and XP "just working" (for the most part)
and/or just the way you like it setup makes for some heavy resistance.
The realy trick/story will be DX10 working under XP, or, DX10 game that have been changed like Slave Zero
to work under DX9 with few, if any problems.
In Soviet Russia, we use a pencil^W^W^W^W...errr...Pencil uses YOU!
Seriously, though, learning Calc in college, the biggest impediment was using programs to
"help" us learn, but if you did not know WTF you were doing, using Maple, mathcad or whatever
program just made the problem worse with learning how to program the damn thing.
If I were not the one that went through it, it would have been funny because the programmers
(engineers, etc) were there to learn calc, and the math majors had to learn how to program.
Smart ones teamed up, because the best way to learn calc is to use pencil and paper
and work the problem, not massage the computer software and hope to hell you did not make
a typo, syntax error or fuck up the equasion because you'd never be sure unless you could
solve the problem yourself.
IME, school/learning is about teachers and their skills, not computers and technology.
Actually, you left out the best part:
Blooker
(horses whinney)
C'mon, I can be the only one who made that sound after reading that?
Only children of the world are snickering and saying "HA! HA!" (/nelson).
Some of these points (Tounge in cheek, of course):
Blaise Pascal- always trying to get with the program, cited as not very object oriented.
Niels Bohr- Dude was a mechanic, nuff said.
Faraday- Cagey guy, did not like being waved at.
Ernest Rutherford- dude was a gas, loved his gamma.
Van de Graaff- 3 brothers in football, bet that generated a lot of static at this poor guy.
(/TiC)
I dunno, I pictured the older saying to the younger "miss a few questions, or I'll hurt you" as the
source of the discrepancy. Not that that would *ever* happen, no not at all.
UAC for a EULA, by jove that'd make it a EUACLA (You-ACK-LA).
Innovation, at last!
That's the old description, recently it was a series of tubes, soon it'll be a Super Highway Information Tubes!
Or SHIT, for short.
That would get expensive, having to put both a BR and HD version of the same movie in the player
and only getting a single one back.
I suggest Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, that way you can put both movies in the duel player and
chant "TWO DISKS ENTER, ONE DISK LEAVES!".
Modded funny, but this is more insightful than most people think because no matter the MP
rating on a camera the receptor is the main part. How fast, how receptive it is to color
and such. (may have the wrong word here, but photo-receptor comes to mind)
The MPxl rating is *supposed* to tell you how good it is, but a good film camera can be
subject to the film quality/speed.
I got an education (and warnings) against some cameras that were advertised as 8MP, but
the reality was closer to 2 to 4MP either because of upsampling done in camera, poor receptor
or substandard electronics.
Camera phones...I can see why, just not for me and IME sometimes even "professionals" are
clueless about their new toys. Case in point: worked for newspaper and $50K worth of
cameras was bough + storage (mini-drives). These guys/gals were bringing these drives into
work to use the reader a PCMCIA SCSI device attached to a desktop.
They were lugging in their cameras, drives and laptops when the storage filled up instead of
slapping them in the laptop, copy/move and send electronically.
What it means is, sometimes the uses/gotchas are not obvious and sometimes the tech is deceptive.
(Hard drive size, monitor size measurements anyone?)
Yeah, with all the feline named OS's it's only a matter of time before someone lets the cat out of the bag.
(/ducks and runs)