That would be great!!! An anthropomorphically associated emotional frustration placebo. That's a lot of big words. I think this would help many users frustration levels. especially if there was an option to switch you mouse cursor to different tools to beat clippy with.
That sounds like an interesting project to get involved with. Would allow me to get frustrated, and give me a target for those same frustrations at the same time.
Just imagine...
"It sounds like you are getting frustrated. What can I do to change your attitude? 1. Shut down your computer without saving your work. 2. Shut down somone else's computer without saving their work. 3. Download p0rn in the background for your later viewing pleasure. 4. Send useless e-mail messages to your cell-mates. 5. Plan world domination. 6. Start playing Unreal Tournament in the background with the volume turned up. 6. Die in a strangely satisfying way - with audio."
Some artists write songs that are self contained, but can follow on really well. Chris de Burgh is one, with the songs at the end of albums like Crusader. They are a linked set on the album, but with random play and I'm listening to one expecting that the following one should be next...
Do you know of any shops where I can get one of these wonderful sounding headpieces?
I did find this site useful for information, but seeing that you've posted with your real-login, I assume that you are a person of some repute who wouldn't be out to rip me off.
His name was chosen so that he would easily fit into the dominate culture that he was researching for. He's probably just lucky that he looks like one of us though.
We've had a clean out of our main contact list for our superannuation clients, and found some strange names, but none of them were real, just bad mis-typing.
Though we have had to add a filter for superannuation funds that stops '/' from being in the name of the fund. We use the fund name to create directory entries for saving some documentation in, and some people like entering P/L instead of Pty Ltd. This created problems later when we tried to reload the documents, at they had been saved under the wrong directory name.
I also used to work with a company that dealt with a poor girl who had a real doozer of a long name. Her first name was hyphenated, and her surname was hyphenated twice. Her normal name was 35 characters long including the three hyphens. Many programs only allow 20 characters for surnames and she had 24.
I would think the best way to describe the moon's situation would be as a body orbiting the Sun which is in turn also orbiting the Earth. So, Emperor Palpatine and Dr. Evil have a great meeting of minds and Earth is no more. The moon continues its approximate orbit, disturbed due to the lack of Earth, though still not different nearly to the degree of the previous scenerio.
Don't forget that there are many others whom have planned the destruction of the Earth, and some have apparently even succeded.
The Vogons succeded in destroying the Earth. Emperor Ming had a go too, though I don't think that he succeded. The Daleks have tried quite a few times too.
There are many people we should thank that the Earth is still here....
The Mice would be pissed to have gone to all that effort just to have it destroyed.
Somthing that makes this more useful is if they can return the favours in a meaningful way.
My father is a mechanic (well was - bus driver now), but he likes tinkering with my car, changes oil, hunts down the squeaks and rattles while I play with/fix their computer. Mum always has dinner ready for when I'm done. And if I've been a good boy - dessert...mmmmm
Likewise I've installed antivirus, firewall, adaware, googlebar software on their computer (well my old one). Virus software prompts for updates, and they do them before checking for e-mail. Windows update run in background. My hard drive has a ghost image from the last time I was at their place, so if the worst happens I can make a new image here and get it shipped to them.
Whenever me or my brother are home, we clean things up a little for them.
I have a hard enough time getting them to open e-mails from me, let alone strangers.
I'm fairly good with telephone support for them, we normally talk at least once per week, so they just ask me then if there's anything that is playing up.
They have all their important documents saved on floppy as well as the HD. And dad has a cd burner now, so next time I'm there I'll show him how to do data cd's.
Had same problem with Symantec AV, and had a very similar story to you:-(
Found over 5800 copies of the virus the next day when the signatures were updated. And the little sod had deleted over 8Gb of ducuments, spreadsheets and databases. We had an Access database that had been in use all day, so was ok, but come 5pm and people exited it and go home. One staffer remembers they had still to finish something, and attempts to get back in - nothing left. This was about 3 minutes after last person exited.
But wait there's more.
The very next day (after finding the virus everywhere, and starting to recover through backups), I sent an e-mail out about what had happaned and what people should not do.
I created a new e-mail address (unlike any that we use) and used it to send an exe file to everyone. We put the file within a zip file just like the fun virus that we were still recovering from. The included file was a small program that would e-mail us if it was run, with the name of the user who did it - only thing done on the users computer was bring up a dialog box saying software updated.
This was the text of the e-mail -- Hi,
I am a qasi e-mail program automatically sending you a freeware virus. Please open the attached zipped file and double click on the attachment to receive the virus update.
Have a nice day, --
go on - guess.
We had a staff member open the message, open the zip, and run the executable...
This was after me sending a message reminding that people should not do any of this!!!!
Thankfully I had many staff that actually e-mailed me a copy that they had received the message, or even called me to let me know.
We'll have another go early next month. I'll try the zip with password trick. Fortunatly because we wrote it in-house there's no way it'll trigger the virus software.
I don't get to write many programs for use at my work. But if a user has to call me to find how to operate my applications, then I consider that I haven't done it right.
Interface design is important, especially if there is an information flow to follow. Put different areas on tabs, allow them to be followed left to right. Have defaults that work out of the box and provide feedback on what changing them will do. (windows msgbox can be your friend. ok)
Get someone who isn't a geek to test run your application before it leaves your computer.
pet peeve - ensure that the help screens can be opened while a dialog box is on the screen.
Recent ASUS motherboard in computer at work. Plug a device into one of the soundcard ports, brings up a dialog box that checks you've plugged when you have into the right hole, and gives you option to work the way that you've done it, or to unplug and reuse the correct hole.
Saved pulling the computer out from under desk as I accidently used the wrong hole (found it by feel) then I knew what I'd done wrong.
Also in Australia you can be arrested for being drunk in charge of a vehicle, even if you are parked on the side of the road, asleep in the passenger seat. If you've got the keys, you've got the control. Maybe the policeman is an Aussie working the winter in the US.
I think that he was more worried about this not being a nail gun that uses normal nails. It fires bolts by the looks of the pictures - long cylindrical pieces of metal - more like a bullet.
The nail would quickly loose velocity as it's momentum would not be a lot, but these would be a different story I guess.
A good application for Aerogel? Either as a target, or a stopping material.
Jesus was the head of this new way of thinking about God.
Linus is the effective head of the new ways of open source. Best known one maybe.
So if we offer Linus to Bill as a sacrifice for all our sinful behavious. Nail him to a windows box. People will come to see the error of their ways. Linus death would then have extra meaning, in that he died so set us free from closed-source.
Ok so it is not a great argument, but passed a few minutes.
Have you been to any developing countries and spent time out in the sticks?
Education is often only primary school (6 years), if at all. People who can read are useful as they can read the books that are in the school library (if there is one) about things like crop-rotation, medicine, how to build a long-drop, nutrition, malaria, sanitation, building, history. These books are often years out of date too.
Having internet access means that the people have up to date information about all these things, and - can also e-mail their children who had to go off to the far away city to get a decent education. - contact aid agencies with current information. - should we plant vanilla, coffee, or rice this year, and where can we sell it? - where to sell these woven baskets, sleeping mats, tapa cloths, beads, and carvings - that tourists go ape over, but we throw away when we've finished with them:-) - learn new skills, read, learn, communicate. - bypass the middle man.
There are many reasons.
Remember that the electricity is often only there for a few hours a day when the generator is running, provided that there is also petrol.
God knows about that the times I've spent in remote parts of PNG; seen something that was broken, and thought to myself - I'm sure there are better ways to do this, must remember to check it out when I get home.
They might not want all the trappings of modern living. I'm content with cold showers in the water that comes from the creek. OK so it has to be filtered and purified before you can drink it. The food is nice if a bit bland. The people are wonderful. Don't need labour saving devices for every single thing - would make us all fat slobs - IT Geeks!!
A few disjointed thoughts, but covers most I think.
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I don't understand SBC either.
Perhaps is it the Single Businessmen Convention.
Though the CWA is the Christian Women's Association.
Maybe this is one of those US centric stories that we occasionally get.
What about me?
I've got congenital cataracts of different size in each eye.
Instead of a nice clear pupil, I've got a great lump of junk blocking most of the light that gets to my eye.
If the system shines light in my eye to take readings the light will get reflected all over the place - am I going to fail?
Or should I just go stand in line for the cavity search straight away?
That would be great!!! An anthropomorphically associated emotional frustration placebo. That's a lot of big words. I think this would help many users frustration levels. especially if there was an option to switch you mouse cursor to different tools to beat clippy with.
That sounds like an interesting project to get involved with. Would allow me to get frustrated, and give me a target for those same frustrations at the same time.
Just imagine...
"It sounds like you are getting frustrated. What can I do to change your attitude?
1. Shut down your computer without saving your work.
2. Shut down somone else's computer without saving their work.
3. Download p0rn in the background for your later viewing pleasure.
4. Send useless e-mail messages to your cell-mates.
5. Plan world domination.
6. Start playing Unreal Tournament in the background with the volume turned up.
6. Die in a strangely satisfying way - with audio."
This is exactly what I want.
Some artists write songs that are self contained, but can follow on really well. Chris de Burgh is one, with the songs at the end of albums like Crusader. They are a linked set on the album, but with random play and I'm listening to one expecting that the following one should be next...
Do you know of any shops where I can get one of these wonderful sounding headpieces?
I did find this site useful for information, but seeing that you've posted with your real-login, I assume that you are a person of some repute who wouldn't be out to rip me off.
That is similar to Ford Prefect.
His name was chosen so that he would easily fit into the dominate culture that he was researching for. He's probably just lucky that he looks like one of us though.
Though US viewers didn't get the joke.
We've had a clean out of our main contact list for our superannuation clients, and found some strange names, but none of them were real, just bad mis-typing.
Though we have had to add a filter for superannuation funds that stops '/' from being in the name of the fund. We use the fund name to create directory entries for saving some documentation in, and some people like entering P/L instead of Pty Ltd. This created problems later when we tried to reload the documents, at they had been saved under the wrong directory name.
I also used to work with a company that dealt with a poor girl who had a real doozer of a long name. Her first name was hyphenated, and her surname was hyphenated twice. Her normal name was 35 characters long including the three hyphens. Many programs only allow 20 characters for surnames and she had 24.
We were taught one that was even related to planets.
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets, Still.
I would think the best way to describe the moon's situation would be as a body orbiting the Sun which is in turn also orbiting the Earth. So, Emperor Palpatine and Dr. Evil have a great meeting of minds and Earth is no more. The moon continues its approximate orbit, disturbed due to the lack of Earth, though still not different nearly to the degree of the previous scenerio.
Don't forget that there are many others whom have planned the destruction of the Earth, and some have apparently even succeded.
The Vogons succeded in destroying the Earth. Emperor Ming had a go too, though I don't think that he succeded. The Daleks have tried quite a few times too.
There are many people we should thank that the Earth is still here....
The Mice would be pissed to have gone to all that effort just to have it destroyed.
Somthing that makes this more useful is if they can return the favours in a meaningful way.
My father is a mechanic (well was - bus driver now), but he likes tinkering with my car, changes oil, hunts down the squeaks and rattles while I play with/fix their computer. Mum always has dinner ready for when I'm done. And if I've been a good boy - dessert...mmmmm
That's right! Breed with your Mom.
Come on there - it's hard enough to imagine that my parents ever had sex. (well must have twice)
Sex with mum is an exen more remote possibility.
My mates say she was good - though I hope that's in jest.
Likewise I've installed antivirus, firewall, adaware, googlebar software on their computer (well my old one). Virus software prompts for updates, and they do them before checking for e-mail. Windows update run in background. My hard drive has a ghost image from the last time I was at their place, so if the worst happens I can make a new image here and get it shipped to them.
Whenever me or my brother are home, we clean things up a little for them.
I have a hard enough time getting them to open e-mails from me, let alone strangers.
I'm fairly good with telephone support for them, we normally talk at least once per week, so they just ask me then if there's anything that is playing up.
They have all their important documents saved on floppy as well as the HD. And dad has a cd burner now, so next time I'm there I'll show him how to do data cd's.
Had same problem with Symantec AV, and had a very similar story to you :-(
Found over 5800 copies of the virus the next day when the signatures were updated. And the little sod had deleted over 8Gb of ducuments, spreadsheets and databases. We had an Access database that had been in use all day, so was ok, but come 5pm and people exited it and go home. One staffer remembers they had still to finish something, and attempts to get back in - nothing left. This was about 3 minutes after last person exited.
But wait there's more.
The very next day (after finding the virus everywhere, and starting to recover through backups), I sent an e-mail out about what had happaned and what people should not do.
I created a new e-mail address (unlike any that we use) and used it to send an exe file to everyone. We put the file within a zip file just like the fun virus that we were still recovering from. The included file was a small program that would e-mail us if it was run, with the name of the user who did it - only thing done on the users computer was bring up a dialog box saying software updated.
This was the text of the e-mail
--
Hi,
I am a qasi e-mail program automatically sending you a freeware virus.
Please open the attached zipped file and double click on the attachment
to receive the virus update.
Have a nice day,
--
go on - guess.
We had a staff member open the message, open the zip, and run the executable...
This was after me sending a message reminding that people should not do any of this!!!!
Thankfully I had many staff that actually e-mailed me a copy that they had received the message, or even called me to let me know.
We'll have another go early next month. I'll try the zip with password trick. Fortunatly because we wrote it in-house there's no way it'll trigger the virus software.
The motherboard is an ASUS P4P800, it is an AI series with 6 channel - SoundMAX.
0 /o verview.htm
http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4p80
I don't get to write many programs for use at my work. But if a user has to call me to find how to operate my applications, then I consider that I haven't done it right.
Interface design is important, especially if there is an information flow to follow. Put different areas on tabs, allow them to be followed left to right. Have defaults that work out of the box and provide feedback on what changing them will do.
(windows msgbox can be your friend. ok)
Get someone who isn't a geek to test run your application before it leaves your computer.
pet peeve - ensure that the help screens can be opened while a dialog box is on the screen.
Recent ASUS motherboard in computer at work. Plug a device into one of the soundcard ports, brings up a dialog box that checks you've plugged when you have into the right hole, and gives you option to work the way that you've done it, or to unplug and reuse the correct hole.
Saved pulling the computer out from under desk as I accidently used the wrong hole (found it by feel) then I knew what I'd done wrong.
Also in Australia you can be arrested for being drunk in charge of a vehicle, even if you are parked on the side of the road, asleep in the passenger seat. If you've got the keys, you've got the control. Maybe the policeman is an Aussie working the winter in the US.
there is always kazaa lite. on rare occasions, i've used it as a last resort for extremely rare files that are otherwise unobtainable
What, porn & movies & mp3 & warez & games?
I know there are legit reasons for Kazaa, but I've never seen any of them.
I think that he was more worried about this not being a nail gun that uses normal nails. It fires bolts by the looks of the pictures - long cylindrical pieces of metal - more like a bullet.
The nail would quickly loose velocity as it's momentum would not be a lot, but these would be a different story I guess.
A good application for Aerogel? Either as a target, or a stopping material.
And you can also believe that there is no God, horoscopes, luck, karma, we are alone in the eniverse.
Yes, some people will believe anything.
Jesus was the head of this new way of thinking about God.
Linus is the effective head of the new ways of open source. Best known one maybe.
So if we offer Linus to Bill as a sacrifice for all our sinful behavious.
Nail him to a windows box.
People will come to see the error of their ways.
Linus death would then have extra meaning, in that he died so set us free from closed-source.
Ok so it is not a great argument, but passed a few minutes.
Have you been to any developing countries and spent time out in the sticks?
:-)
Education is often only primary school (6 years), if at all.
People who can read are useful as they can read the books that are in the school library (if there is one) about things like crop-rotation, medicine, how to build a long-drop, nutrition, malaria, sanitation, building, history. These books are often years out of date too.
Having internet access means that the people have up to date information about all these things, and
- can also e-mail their children who had to go off to the far away city to get a decent education.
- contact aid agencies with current information.
- should we plant vanilla, coffee, or rice this year, and where can we sell it?
- where to sell these woven baskets, sleeping mats, tapa cloths, beads, and carvings - that tourists go ape over, but we throw away when we've finished with them
- learn new skills, read, learn, communicate.
- bypass the middle man.
There are many reasons.
Remember that the electricity is often only there for a few hours a day when the generator is running, provided that there is also petrol.
God knows about that the times I've spent in remote parts of PNG; seen something that was broken, and thought to myself - I'm sure there are better ways to do this, must remember to check it out when I get home.
They might not want all the trappings of modern living. I'm content with cold showers in the water that comes from the creek. OK so it has to be filtered and purified before you can drink it. The food is nice if a bit bland. The people are wonderful. Don't need labour saving devices for every single thing - would make us all fat slobs - IT Geeks!!
A few disjointed thoughts, but covers most I think.
You could sleep on the floor. More comfy (and cleaner) than some train beds anyway.
Even in the sitter cars. I've slept on the floor. Never had a single person tread on me yet.
Though I can sleep anywhere, and usually just sleep in the sitter.
So now there will be a whole slab of new password that have be added to checking databases.
All the combo moves in fighting games.
The alt-characters are occasionally allowed by systems as well. Alt-255 is a nice replacement for a space character if your password goes there.
This could be the start of something that the slashdot editors could do instead of checking for duplicate posts.
/. database and check how insecure the community passwords for a geek site are.
Perhaps run a password checking program against the
On the otherhand that could also show that 95% of the accounts are actually the same as the username.