I'm with you on that. I always check a seller's history to see if it's something they typically sell. I'd probably pass over someone selling iPods when all they sold in the past was hummels.
Maybe they're smart for Americans, but they're pretty dumb for Canadians. Why are they here and not in Canada? It's sure not for the affordable health care and moderate politics. Or is Canada secretly shipping its less intelligent citizens south?
If you want to split hairs, there's no such word as Lego either. "Lego" is as much made up as "Legos." Just because some trademark attorney would like us to believe it doesn't make it so.
I can remember reading this piece of bogus corporate PR on a Lego brochure when I was a kid. Something to the effect of: "Parents, when referring to Lego-brand construction blocks, please make sure your children say 'Mother, I would like ever so much to play with my Lego-brand construction blocks, please'".
I knew it was a load of BS then just as it is now.
Not to mention he's skewed it so both Xmas and New Years fall on Sundays. I suspect this loon is just some management efficiency expert in disguise, hoping to save corporations big $$ in needless holiday pay.
It has nothing to do with the support staff. The application is crap. It violates standard user-interface rules constantly. Pop-up reminders that don't go away, overriding active windows, automatic URL formatting that won't turn off, the list goes on... Even something as simple as copy & paste doesn't work reliably. I now find myself hitting ctrl-c twice in other applications simply because it never works right in GroupWise.
It didn't used to be that way. Now that Mattel owns both, their preference is clear. It could be a matter of taste, but at the time when I was growing up, Hot Wheels was flame-decaled crap and Matchbox was the real deal. No longer. It's a shame.
you do realize you just posted your sister's photo, name, job and location to thousands of desperate single geeks? is this some kind of subconscious retribution for her getting you shocked?
That's great -- my sister-in-law actually is a trademark attorney, and once spent her days doing nothing but writing C&D letters... I immediately sent the link to the PA strip to her.
I think it was actually Tucker that pioneered the turning headlights in the 50s. (Though for all I know Citroen was the first major corp do it on a large scale). But, yes, I was equally amused by those ads.
It's called lath. It's basically wire mesh that the plaster is applied to. It was less labor intensive than installing the wood lath strips you would find in even older homes.
If your house really has plaster and was built in 1954, it's probably sheetrock with a plaster skimcoat.
Didn't they have the spin-off game "The Streets of Sim-City" or something, which I seem to recall from the box was like Death Track, but you used the city map from SimCity...
who modded this offtopic? the parent is right. the links are totally useless. I had hoped to find a story about the problems they encountered, and instead see a big cisco ad.
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I won't accuse you of being offtopic, but I will suggest you RTFA. (This is slashdot, so I'm reluctant to say "RTFA" but there, I said it.)
The review does in fact state that most of this info is all in google -- but when your system is fried, good luck getting to google. (at least if it's your only machine.)
That being said, I find it quite ironic that the book is not so much a book as it is a PDF file -- so one must have the foresight (and a ream or two of paper) to print it out in advance of any serious mishap.
believe it or not, I used this quote on my application to Grad School, and still got in.
of course, now look at me, 7 years later, reading slashdot -- er... updating crappy web pages instead of making the games I planned to back in those heady days...
There's a Morphix module (Morphix Gamer) that already provides this. Plus there are related projects like KnoppixMame.
However, I tried Morphix-Gamer a week or two back and feel compelled to point out that easily half of the games that came included either would not run at all (at least not from the CD), or were unbearably slow and clunky (TuxRacer for one). My machine at home is nothing to brag about (Athlon XP 1800, 1/2 gb ram), but it seemed to me it should have been sufficient to run whatever was bundled with the gamer module.
Not sure why they bothered included games that wouldn't run tolerably well from the CD. Sure someone might choose to install it to HD, but the whole point of a live-cd is just that.
It's generally accepted that the big automakers certainly used whatever resources (legitimate or otherwise) they had to 'torpedo' Preston Tucker back in the 40s...
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I'm with you on that. I always check a seller's history to see if it's something they typically sell. I'd probably pass over someone selling iPods when all they sold in the past was hummels.
Could be worse. I bet it's still cheaper to have 2 kids in grad school than 2 kids in daycare.
Maybe they're smart for Americans, but they're pretty dumb for Canadians. Why are they here and not in Canada? It's sure not for the affordable health care and moderate politics. Or is Canada secretly shipping its less intelligent citizens south?
Sorry my mod points from yesterday are gone, or I'd have given them to you....
If you want to split hairs, there's no such word as Lego either. "Lego" is as much made up as "Legos." Just because some trademark attorney would like us to believe it doesn't make it so.
I can remember reading this piece of bogus corporate PR on a Lego brochure when I was a kid. Something to the effect of: "Parents, when referring to Lego-brand construction blocks, please make sure your children say 'Mother, I would like ever so much to play with my Lego-brand construction blocks, please'".
I knew it was a load of BS then just as it is now.
Legos. Legos. Legos.
apostrophes do not make plurals!!
Not to mention he's skewed it so both Xmas and New Years fall on Sundays. I suspect this loon is just some management efficiency expert in disguise, hoping to save corporations big $$ in needless holiday pay.
Or you get an early model Colt Revolver. If I recall correctly, Samuel Colt was left handed and his early revolvers were designed accordingly.
It has nothing to do with the support staff. The application is crap. It violates standard user-interface rules constantly. Pop-up reminders that don't go away, overriding active windows, automatic URL formatting that won't turn off, the list goes on... Even something as simple as copy & paste doesn't work reliably. I now find myself hitting ctrl-c twice in other applications simply because it never works right in GroupWise.
Hey, don't feel bad. It sucks on XP too. and before that it sucked on Windows 2000.
I have never hated an application more than I hate GroupWise.
It's a rather crude tool used for trepanning and/or barbeques.
It didn't used to be that way. Now that Mattel owns both, their preference is clear. It could be a matter of taste, but at the time when I was growing up, Hot Wheels was flame-decaled crap and Matchbox was the real deal. No longer. It's a shame.
you do realize you just posted your sister's photo, name, job and location to thousands of desperate single geeks? is this some kind of subconscious retribution for her getting you shocked?
That's great -- my sister-in-law actually is a trademark attorney, and once spent her days doing nothing but writing C&D letters... I immediately sent the link to the PA strip to her.
I think it was actually Tucker that pioneered the turning headlights in the 50s. (Though for all I know Citroen was the first major corp do it on a large scale). But, yes, I was equally amused by those ads.
thank you. again, thank you.
It's called lath. It's basically wire mesh that the plaster is applied to. It was less labor intensive than installing the wood lath strips you would find in even older homes.
If your house really has plaster and was built in 1954, it's probably sheetrock with a plaster skimcoat.
Didn't they have the spin-off game "The Streets of Sim-City" or something, which I seem to recall from the box was like Death Track, but you used the city map from SimCity...
Anyone ever play this?
who modded this offtopic? the parent is right. the links are totally useless. I had hoped to find a story about the problems they encountered, and instead see a big cisco ad.
I won't accuse you of being offtopic, but I will suggest you RTFA. (This is slashdot, so I'm reluctant to say "RTFA" but there, I said it.)
The review does in fact state that most of this info is all in google -- but when your system is fried, good luck getting to google. (at least if it's your only machine.)
That being said, I find it quite ironic that the book is not so much a book as it is a PDF file -- so one must have the foresight (and a ream or two of paper) to print it out in advance of any serious mishap.
believe it or not, I used this quote on my application to Grad School, and still got in.
of course, now look at me, 7 years later, reading slashdot -- er... updating crappy web pages instead of making the games I planned to back in those heady days...
"So, a round of applause for...this inanimate carbon rod!"
ok -- I confess the rods in this case are apparently tungsten but they're still (mostly) inanimate...
Clearly you missed the irony in his statement -- note the quotes around "saved."
There's a Morphix module (Morphix Gamer) that already provides this. Plus there are related projects like KnoppixMame.
However, I tried Morphix-Gamer a week or two back and feel compelled to point out that easily half of the games that came included either would not run at all (at least not from the CD), or were unbearably slow and clunky (TuxRacer for one). My machine at home is nothing to brag about (Athlon XP 1800, 1/2 gb ram), but it seemed to me it should have been sufficient to run whatever was bundled with the gamer module.
Not sure why they bothered included games that wouldn't run tolerably well from the CD. Sure someone might choose to install it to HD, but the whole point of a live-cd is just that.
It's generally accepted that the big automakers certainly used whatever resources (legitimate or otherwise) they had to 'torpedo' Preston Tucker back in the 40s...