Yes, one of my cellphones would cause the screen to waver if I put it anywhere near my CRT monitor. I always knew a call was coming in (or if my phone was checking for voicemail in the background) 1 or 2 seconds before my phone would even begin to ring.
Hah! That's a good one, format and reinstall. If that was even remotely the case the number of Windows users would not be anywhere near as high, they'd all just get Macs or learn Linux. I would agree with you on the first sentence, but not the second. You're right in saying that the average user won't format and reinstall if something goes wrong. You're wrong in saying that they'd just get Macs or use Linux. From my experience in dealing with average Windows users, once they get a problem, they'll just *complain* about it, all the time. They'll keep using it until the problem happens again, then they'll throw up their hands in frustration and walk away from it. The only way it gets fixed is if they bring it to someone like me, who won't want to waste the time tracking down problems that are more than superficial. *I* am the one who decides to format and reinstall it (after getting their important data backed up on an external usb drive) because I am the one who has to deal with it. I look at it as a bonus to them because I will give them the software they *need* and not whatever the store they bought it from decides to try cramming down their throats.
Formatting/reinstalling may not be the "expert" way of doing it, but it sure fits the bill when I don't want to waste my day removing 1,000 spyware programs and updating their Norton crap. If it was my day job to fix the computers, sure, I'd take the long route and track down registry problems. If it's not your job to do that, don't waste your time.
One example to the contrary would be the game of peek-a-boo. Repeat that scenario a few times and you've trained a child not to rule out a reappearance.
Faith keeps women from leaving abusive husbands because the hope they'll see the light. Faith keeps people from speaking out against the government because they hope their God will intervene. Faith keeps people from enjoying the only life they know they have because they hope that the words in a particular book are true. I've seen this happen several times to people in my family. It's very sad indeed. I try to tell them that they need to stop using their religion as a crutch and that they have the power to make a change themselves. Doesn't work though.
Windows is still not for everyone, and people need to come to terms with that. We need to stop trying to give it away to the masses - it's still too buggy. Build a more secure operating system and you won't have to spend so much time applying patches to a legacy operating system. Wait until "it just works correctly", otherwise we're going to continue to turn computers into zombies.
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Yes, one of my cellphones would cause the screen to waver if I put it anywhere near my CRT monitor. I always knew a call was coming in (or if my phone was checking for voicemail in the background) 1 or 2 seconds before my phone would even begin to ring.
translation: "nerd, dork, geek, hacker, whatever. u so l33t"
used http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp
I took it to mean "Ballmer".
Bring a hose.
Formatting/reinstalling may not be the "expert" way of doing it, but it sure fits the bill when I don't want to waste my day removing 1,000 spyware programs and updating their Norton crap. If it was my day job to fix the computers, sure, I'd take the long route and track down registry problems. If it's not your job to do that, don't waste your time.
See the first paragraph of this article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/real.id/ind ex.html
you obviously meant to say that "George Bush *hates* night elves!"
Sheesh. That's the second time I've been an accident.
I'm not here right now. Leave a message at the *BEEEEEP*
It's safe and funny, and gives a new meaning to "stretching your dollar".
>Might lose some sales, though, but you can't copy *going* to a concert or theater.
If virtual reality ever progresses to what we've seen in science-fiction, someday this statement will be false.
You hate apples more than apples?
*sirens* he said the F word!
WoW is officially supported on Transgaming's Cedega (a fork of Wine). So no need to run Windows just for that game.
One example to the contrary would be the game of peek-a-boo. Repeat that scenario a few times and you've trained a child not to rule out a reappearance.
I fail to see how "losing" triplicates of 9/11 footage is a joke...
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http://infowars.net/articles/february2007/280207B
RealBasic may have just lost some customers...
The problem isn't drinking. The problem is drinking to excess.
-Frustrated with people who don't understand the difference.
by the way, DCLXVI translates to 666 (i.e. parent is a troll)
Windows is still not for everyone, and people need to come to terms with that. We need to stop trying to give it away to the masses - it's still too buggy. Build a more secure operating system and you won't have to spend so much time applying patches to a legacy operating system. Wait until "it just works correctly", otherwise we're going to continue to turn computers into zombies.
It's a NERD show! (and I love it)
This being slashdot, I was surprised the article wasn't entitled 'Google "looses" Gmail in Europe'.
The nofollow tag is only for the *external* links. Google will still be able to index all Wikipedia urls. It will help Wikipedia's ranking.