Thank you. If I were a KDE developer, I'd be pleased that more people liked and used my software, regardless of the underlying OS. I don't know what this guy's problem is.
I pay around $50 a month for 3000/384 cable internet access and its worth every penny.
This is a case of people wanting something for nothing (or super cheap). Its like the people who complain about gas prices incessantly.
Now I can see the issue that high speed access is not available everywhere. THAT should be remedied, and quickly. No excuses from the phone/cable companies.
I was going to write pretty much this exact post. I work for a mid-sized telecommunications company who is actually not going bankrupt. The work is challenging and the people are good. We recently even hired a few more into our group.
We're not getting huge double-digit raises annually but the pay is good and the work usually enjoyable, and its stable, all of which I would take over anything from the late 90's.
The IT world (at least in my view) is finally righting itself from the boom of the late 90's and the doldrums of 2001-2004.
I had a HiVal 4x burner a few years ago and it was the biggest piece of shit I had the displeasure of owning. I had to make sure NOTHING was running on the system while I burned a CD or else it would fail (at 4x) Screen saver and all, the system had to be IDLE except for the cd burning software.
This happened under Windows and Linux.
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They did briefly for WinNT 3.51, but then shit-canned it pretty quickly. They had a MIPS version as well, and an Alpha version that lasted even to 4.0 IIRC.
I didnt buy the PC for the sole purpose of gaming.:) Certainly it cost more than the $250 I'd spend on a PS2 and a game to go with it, but it does much more.
For a long time I wanted to play GTA3. I pondered buying a $199 PS2 and then said "Naah, I'll wait for the price to go down". That was a year and a half ago, and they are still $179. Last year I bought GTA3 for my PC and a game controller very similar to the PS2 controller. Together the pair cost me maybe $65 and the graphics blow away the PS2.
I've gotten my last two jobs thru companies searching on monster.com and calling me directly.
Both are here in metro Atlanta and both are companies you have heard of.
The first was in June 2001 and the second was in May 2002 (the first one was WebMD, and I didnt want to be downsized, the second one is a large, stable telco)
The roller rinks i used to skate at and play video games as a kid are no longer around. I looked like a year ago and there was 1 and it was an hour and a half drive. There are less bowling alleys.
Well, yeah, the skating rinks are disappearing fast, but bowling is getting new life breathed into it. Every Bowling Alley I see is jam-packed full of kids who want to spend $5/game (or $30/lane/hour or more) bowling with blinky lights and loud music playing on Saturday nights... cosmic bowling has been a boon to many bowling alleys that struggled thru the 90's.
Not if you copy it at a different size. You can enlarge or reduce the size, but it has to be by some percentage (ie, having too small of a change in size to be obvious its a copy of a bill is not allowed)
I ran Linux as my desktop OS from 1993-2002. It was those "almost, but not quite fully functional" issues with my hardware that finally made me switch to XP.
Drinking OJ instead of water (meaning you dont drink any plain water) will not only make you rotund as another poster wrote, but it will give you kidneystones. Not just ouch. But twenty-ouch.
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Class B? Hell, I used to block out 210.*.*.* and 211.*.*.*
I switched ISPs and cant use spamassassin (or any server-side software) now, but that did a good job of reducing spam while it lasted.
You mean that's NOT photoshopped?!
Ugh. The nightmares.
Thank you. If I were a KDE developer, I'd be pleased that more people liked and used my software, regardless of the underlying OS. I don't know what this guy's problem is.
I pay around $50 a month for 3000/384 cable internet access and its worth every penny.
This is a case of people wanting something for nothing (or super cheap). Its like the people who complain about gas prices incessantly.
Now I can see the issue that high speed access is not available everywhere. THAT should be remedied, and quickly. No excuses from the phone/cable companies.
I was going to write pretty much this exact post. I work for a mid-sized telecommunications company who is actually not going bankrupt. The work is challenging and the people are good. We recently even hired a few more into our group.
We're not getting huge double-digit raises annually but the pay is good and the work usually enjoyable, and its stable, all of which I would take over anything from the late 90's.
The IT world (at least in my view) is finally righting itself from the boom of the late 90's and the doldrums of 2001-2004.
I think HotJava was just a proof of concept anyway. They certainly never made it into anything really useful.
Not to mention its helping drive sales of satellite radio. Both XM and Sirius carry Air America.
I'm sure the people who bought VA Linux at $200-300 a share are still crying in their beer.
On the flip side, how did RHAT get up to $25.. it seems like it was at like $5 not so long ago. Mini-bubble in progress?
Yeah its all the same until you try to cut and paste.
I had a HiVal 4x burner a few years ago and it was the biggest piece of shit I had the displeasure of owning. I had to make sure NOTHING was running on the system while I burned a CD or else it would fail (at 4x) Screen saver and all, the system had to be IDLE except for the cd burning software.
This happened under Windows and Linux.
They did briefly for WinNT 3.51, but then shit-canned it pretty quickly. They had a MIPS version as well, and an Alpha version that lasted even to 4.0 IIRC.
I didnt buy the PC for the sole purpose of gaming. :) Certainly it cost more than the $250 I'd spend on a PS2 and a game to go with it, but it does much more.
For a long time I wanted to play GTA3. I pondered buying a $199 PS2 and then said "Naah, I'll wait for the price to go down". That was a year and a half ago, and they are still $179. Last year I bought GTA3 for my PC and a game controller very similar to the PS2 controller. Together the pair cost me maybe $65 and the graphics blow away the PS2.
Charter recently upped the speed of its cable modems too! :D
I've gotten my last two jobs thru companies searching on monster.com and calling me directly.
Both are here in metro Atlanta and both are companies you have heard of.
The first was in June 2001 and the second was in May 2002 (the first one was WebMD, and I didnt want to be downsized, the second one is a large, stable telco)
A lot of my ancestors had to be tethered to posts in their front-yards because they had a tendency to go running out into roads
I bet they bit the mailman too.
The roller rinks i used to skate at and play video games as a kid are no longer around. I looked like a year ago and there was 1 and it was an hour and a half drive. There are less bowling alleys.
Well, yeah, the skating rinks are disappearing fast, but bowling is getting new life breathed into it. Every Bowling Alley I see is jam-packed full of kids who want to spend $5/game (or $30/lane/hour or more) bowling with blinky lights and loud music playing on Saturday nights... cosmic bowling has been a boon to many bowling alleys that struggled thru the 90's.
It was always a Chicago thing, though WGN carried the ads nationwide. ;)
Not everyone wants to spend the extra $29-$99 to get the "data transfer" kit so they can sync their phone with their PC....
Never underestimate the power of the booth babe. :)
Not if you copy it at a different size. You can enlarge or reduce the size, but it has to be by some percentage (ie, having too small of a change in size to be obvious its a copy of a bill is not allowed)
You use the mail www.yahoo.com front page? I have my "My Yahoo" set up to give me what I want in the format I want it in.
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I nominate George W Bush to be first in line. :)
I ran Linux as my desktop OS from 1993-2002. It was those "almost, but not quite fully functional" issues with my hardware that finally made me switch to XP.
Drinking OJ instead of water (meaning you dont drink any plain water) will not only make you rotund as another poster wrote, but it will give you kidneystones. Not just ouch. But twenty-ouch.