Recently the wife and I tried an experiment, we put an ad on Facebook for a few days about her eBook. I targeted it to 18+ females with an interest in reading/romance/kindle and so on... In theory it's pretty cool how you can target an audience based on their profiles. Facebook will tell you dynamically exactly how many people meet the criteria as you add and remove options.
We saw no effect in book sales. Before, during and after the advertising, sales remained on average the same.
There are lots of sysadmins and programmers without work that have much better attitude. People who would actually care about the company and their work.
While admirable, the problem with this line of thought is that the company does not care about you. Not a bit. If it benefited the company to let you go, you would be gone in a heartbeat without a thought to your loyalty.
Isn't this basically the same thing? Albeit on a much larger scale and capability given Amazons (presumably) more numerous data centers and backbone capacity.
I'm totally not a programmer (dipped my toes in Basica in my youth) and I used this to make a little dialer app specific to my companies PBX setup. It's working great! Unfortunately now I'll never be able to update it if need be.
I was doing this (actually with the window defroster repair kit trick) and that was when I realized my eyesight was beginning to go farsighted. I couldn't see the traces when I held them closer to my eyes! Weird!
I'm using a T61 that's I've been using daily for 3 solid years now. I had to replace the keyboard because I spilled coffee on it. Lenovo thinkpads are friggin tanks.
I no longer enjoy playing against 1's and 0's once I've played against humans. It's much more challenging and satisfying as well. Nothing beats making a headshot across the map and just KNOWING that someone is pissed off. When hit by said shot, I'm both pissed and admiring the shot as well.
One of the first things I got my dad to buy for me was the corded, regular keyboard. the infrared was neat but on the kitchen table - at certain times of the day - the sun would keep me from using the computer.
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Since my desktop is completely-clean of any icons
Why do people do this? What's the purpose of a blank desktop? That's usable space to put stuff that's frequently used.
If tablets are made as toys for rich kids they aren't going to have value in the classroom.
Well, someone needs to work on these rich kids/later adults devices right?
Actually, they don't even sell video cards. They make GPU's that go on video cards...
Back in the day, alt.sysadmin.recovery always said this (they probably still do) all OS's suck.
Recently the wife and I tried an experiment, we put an ad on Facebook for a few days about her eBook. I targeted it to 18+ females with an interest in reading/romance/kindle and so on... In theory it's pretty cool how you can target an audience based on their profiles. Facebook will tell you dynamically exactly how many people meet the criteria as you add and remove options.
We saw no effect in book sales. Before, during and after the advertising, sales remained on average the same.
There are lots of sysadmins and programmers without work that have much better attitude. People who would actually care about the company and their work.
While admirable, the problem with this line of thought is that the company does not care about you. Not a bit. If it benefited the company to let you go, you would be gone in a heartbeat without a thought to your loyalty.
I'll pay you minimum wage to level up my character for me while I'm at work...
Isn't this basically the same thing? Albeit on a much larger scale and capability given Amazons (presumably) more numerous data centers and backbone capacity.
No, it's a full blown android tablet. Without a camera or mike, which I myself never use anyway on a tablet.
Why not deliver this rover the same way the other rovers were delivered?
I'm totally not a programmer (dipped my toes in Basica in my youth) and I used this to make a little dialer app specific to my companies PBX setup. It's working great! Unfortunately now I'll never be able to update it if need be.
I was unhappy when Byte died. I was left with only PC World and PC Magazine both of which suck. I have a new love in CPU magazine though.
Whatever happened to John Katz?
I was doing this (actually with the window defroster repair kit trick) and that was when I realized my eyesight was beginning to go farsighted. I couldn't see the traces when I held them closer to my eyes! Weird!
Hah, I get it - RENDERING
I can fetch it, but I will NOT make one for you.
Agreed, the SL series are different. The "traditional" models - R,T and X are still tanks though.
This is true. I would much rather order something from Newegg than from Ebay or somethingfishy.ch even at vast savings.
Are you a wizard?
"You get less choice when you buy stuff online" Whaaaaat?
I'm using a T61 that's I've been using daily for 3 solid years now. I had to replace the keyboard because I spilled coffee on it. Lenovo thinkpads are friggin tanks.
As a teenager I paid $75 for The Ancient Art of War at Service Merchandise. I think MS Flight Simulator 1.0 was around that price too.
Huh? Is there some special cachet around a 5 digit UID?
I no longer enjoy playing against 1's and 0's once I've played against humans. It's much more challenging and satisfying as well. Nothing beats making a headshot across the map and just KNOWING that someone is pissed off. When hit by said shot, I'm both pissed and admiring the shot as well.
One of the first things I got my dad to buy for me was the corded, regular keyboard. the infrared was neat but on the kitchen table - at certain times of the day - the sun would keep me from using the computer.