True, though then you just file an addendum and get the money back. That probably means you have to do it by hand though since they probably won't fix the problem once the season is over.
One of the benefits of TurboTax is that if there's a mistake that doesn't involve inputing the wrong numbers, TT will be liable and will pay the difference. So if there's an addition error somewhere, they pay not you.
Where do you get your spyware from anyway? I've never had a piece of spyware I wasn't responsible for, read AIM and it's back end game thing that watches you. I've been running IE for 4+ years and nothing that was IEs fault.
MS made a version of IE for solaris a while back, say 98ish. While they may use *nix in some groups, it is in no way prominante there, maybe.1% (50) of people there . I worked there for 3 different summers and never ran across anyone using *nix for a project.
You're statement is flawed. MS employees are not the regular users of windows, it's a whole freaking shop of developers. Running in admin mode isn't 'bad' if you know what you're doing and need the added functionality, and presumably everyone, ie all the developers, do.
This however opens perhaps an issue. With everyone being the sort of users that needs and should run with admin rights what is being done to account for those that don't?
I've interned at MS three times though never in a windows group, always in an application or web side group so I really don't know.
hmm mine was a bit much but it was 'state of the art' at the time. it's 3.2 Mp and was $400 ish i guess when I got it, maybe more. The xD card was a lot though:/ 256MB for over $100
I can't even get the thing to run, I click the 'click here' and nothing.
Canon's make good into cameras, I have a Powershot S330, then a year later I moved up to an Olympus C740 UZ as it had a 10x optical zoom in a still small body, it was one of the first.
When it comes to cameras, just get something that looks good, eg a lower end canon, then figure out what you like don't like and want for the next one.
Maybe we need to discover some sort of funnel looking device that can pull in psychic signals much like out ears do auditory and stick in our ear to conentrate the 'waves'
You are correct, which means that to be in any way feasible for the average user it needs to be quick and accurate. There's a HCI technique called Fitt's law which measures the amount of movement required to perform actions with an interface, the lower the number the better and you could conclude that high numbers lead to RSI et al.
So something that removed the need to make many fine grained movement, which we are good at but maybe shouldn't do to the excess that computers require, would be a good thing
On the first Harry Potter DVD they made you go through this 'game' of which was really just going through the extras menu's in a certain way to get to the deleted scene's, it was quite involved about 10 steps, apparantly you can just hit back chapter on the DVD though and it wraps to the end where the menu for the deleted scenes is. Nice little trick that doesn't seem to work so much on others.
You know, for some reasion I really just don't like Settlers. Love carcassone, Puerto Rico, Torres but can't stand that one. I really don't know why either.
Check out my current latest JE for a good online site for playing board games.
Yea, when I search for my name with quotes it finds my page on the first non ad hit. When I search without it just finds my last name on a bunch of pages. that's.. useful. Google returns my homepage as the #1 hit for both and I don't have to scroll to see it.
that's kinda like saying people are going to use file based favorites because it's a feature of IE which is bundled with windows. Online portals are a little different than bundled software.
They seem to have things distributed enough that they aren't problems anymore. They have a large number of exchange servers so it's just a matter of if yours went down, probably a necessary consiquence of what you described. Now the real problem is if you get a dogfood server, cause then your going to be interupted a lot more.
All kidding aside, MS is probably the best user of their own software, which probably leads to some of the problems. I love using Outlook the times I was at MS, I don't like it as much using it on my own in a non exchange environment. So MS actually has really good security especially on their firewalls and remote access, maybe if they didn't individual computer security would be better....
It is rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email then maybe you deserve to be fired for wasting his time.
That said after an intern dinner at his place I wrote him an email asking about his house, a question I was sure no one else at the dinner would really care about. Not too long later I got a short though informative response from Bill. It was in the first person and since it concerned his house I was pretty sure it was from him directly.
An intern friend wrote him and asked him to go to lunch but never got a response, not sure if he got rehired.
A while ago I wrote about some other funny run ins with Bill in my journal
It's rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email directly then maybe you should be fired for wasting his time.
That said, after going to an intern dinner at his house I wrote him afterwards asking a question I was sure no one else care about if I acked it at the dinner, I got a relatively quick if not short response.
Another intern friend of mine emailed him asking if he wanted to go to lunch sometime and never got a response.
I've also had some other funny run ins with Bill Gates while interning at MS that I wrote up a while ago in my journal
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True, though then you just file an addendum and get the money back. That probably means you have to do it by hand though since they probably won't fix the problem once the season is over.
One of the benefits of TurboTax is that if there's a mistake that doesn't involve inputing the wrong numbers, TT will be liable and will pay the difference. So if there's an addition error somewhere, they pay not you.
wow :)
On the counter point, *nix is like having 10 fingers but only knowing that 6 of them are there, and then only actually knowing how to use 3 of them.
I'm still waiting for the days of OSX but with windows.... cygwin will have to suffice for now.
What about built in spam blocking like that in yahoo, MSN, gmail mail as well in Outlook and other mail apps?
I've often thought that you should just copy a friends CD then send the artist directly $10-$15.
Where do you get your spyware from anyway? I've never had a piece of spyware I wasn't responsible for, read AIM and it's back end game thing that watches you. I've been running IE for 4+ years and nothing that was IEs fault.
You should think about taking part in Dean Kamen ( inventory of the segway and the one axle wheelchair)'s FIRST with a local highschool
MS made a version of IE for solaris a while back, say 98ish. While they may use *nix in some groups, it is in no way prominante there, maybe .1% (50) of people there . I worked there for 3 different summers and never ran across anyone using *nix for a project.
You're statement is flawed. MS employees are not the regular users of windows, it's a whole freaking shop of developers. Running in admin mode isn't 'bad' if you know what you're doing and need the added functionality, and presumably everyone, ie all the developers, do.
This however opens perhaps an issue. With everyone being the sort of users that needs and should run with admin rights what is being done to account for those that don't?
I've interned at MS three times though never in a windows group, always in an application or web side group so I really don't know.
Who wants to bet that this suite is going to be bundled in the next Windows
It'd be kind of stupid of them not to right? Where exactly is the line drawn between a cheap move and a bad move?
Firefox automatically includes the google search, that just makes FF users go for google, away from MS, right? How's it different?
hmm mine was a bit much but it was 'state of the art' at the time. it's 3.2 Mp and was $400 ish i guess when I got it, maybe more. The xD card was a lot though :/ 256MB for over $100
I can't even get the thing to run, I click the 'click here' and nothing.
Canon's make good into cameras, I have a Powershot S330, then a year later I moved up to an Olympus C740 UZ as it had a 10x optical zoom in a still small body, it was one of the first.
When it comes to cameras, just get something that looks good, eg a lower end canon, then figure out what you like don't like and want for the next one.
and flirting with the cute co-eds.
I go to Georgia Tech, I know not what you speak of.
I do actually in two different situations; I am also a graduate student though.
The first is when I'm working and also want to watch tv, I'll sit on the couch laptop in lap.
The second is on and near campus we have coffee houses with wireless access and a good number of couches not tables.
I find using a laptop to not be all that comfortable in general as far as typing goes, though it is less so on a desk surface.
Maybe we need to discover some sort of funnel looking device that can pull in psychic signals much like out ears do auditory and stick in our ear to conentrate the 'waves'
You are correct, which means that to be in any way feasible for the average user it needs to be quick and accurate. There's a HCI technique called Fitt's law which measures the amount of movement required to perform actions with an interface, the lower the number the better and you could conclude that high numbers lead to RSI et al.
So something that removed the need to make many fine grained movement, which we are good at but maybe shouldn't do to the excess that computers require, would be a good thing
On the first Harry Potter DVD they made you go through this 'game' of which was really just going through the extras menu's in a certain way to get to the deleted scene's, it was quite involved about 10 steps, apparantly you can just hit back chapter on the DVD though and it wraps to the end where the menu for the deleted scenes is. Nice little trick that doesn't seem to work so much on others.
You know, for some reasion I really just don't like Settlers. Love carcassone, Puerto Rico, Torres but can't stand that one. I really don't know why either.
Check out my current latest JE for a good online site for playing board games.
Yea, when I search for my name with quotes it finds my page on the first non ad hit. When I search without it just finds my last name on a bunch of pages. that's .. useful. Google returns my homepage as the #1 hit for both and I don't have to scroll to see it.
Wake me when this becomes something good.
that's kinda like saying people are going to use file based favorites because it's a feature of IE which is bundled with windows. Online portals are a little different than bundled software.
They seem to have things distributed enough that they aren't problems anymore. They have a large number of exchange servers so it's just a matter of if yours went down, probably a necessary consiquence of what you described. Now the real problem is if you get a dogfood server, cause then your going to be interupted a lot more.
hehe.
All kidding aside, MS is probably the best user of their own software, which probably leads to some of the problems. I love using Outlook the times I was at MS, I don't like it as much using it on my own in a non exchange environment. So MS actually has really good security especially on their firewalls and remote access, maybe if they didn't individual computer security would be better....
It is rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email then maybe you deserve to be fired for wasting his time.
That said after an intern dinner at his place I wrote him an email asking about his house, a question I was sure no one else at the dinner would really care about. Not too long later I got a short though informative response from Bill. It was in the first person and since it concerned his house I was pretty sure it was from him directly.
An intern friend wrote him and asked him to go to lunch but never got a response, not sure if he got rehired.
A while ago I wrote about some other funny run ins with Bill in my journal
It's rumoured that if you email billg from inside MS it goes directly to him, the idea being if you're stupid enough to send him a stupid email directly then maybe you should be fired for wasting his time.
That said, after going to an intern dinner at his house I wrote him afterwards asking a question I was sure no one else care about if I acked it at the dinner, I got a relatively quick if not short response.
Another intern friend of mine emailed him asking if he wanted to go to lunch sometime and never got a response.
I've also had some other funny run ins with Bill Gates while interning at MS that I wrote up a while ago in my journal
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