I've been using TV for a while now. While I don't particularly enjoy "Family Tech Support Guru", this tool has made my job MUCH easier.
The previous tool I used was WebConference.com. While WC.C worked for most of my clients, it didn't always. Plus, for somebody who isn't very computer literate, the install is scary as fuck.
Now all I need my mom to do is start up the program, give me her ID number (in case I don't feel like looking it up and since I don't want to install it to be persistently connected) and boom. A minute later I'm on her machine. Fixin' her stuff.
Now my uncle, whose machine is just a never-ending nightmare...
Actually went to the address provided by the article.
96 Cross Street, Mid Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
She's barely in the initial panorama. But she's out ahead of the location of the Google Van. You have to "step" forward several times before anything other than her back is visible.
She just happened to be slowly walking her dog on the day that the Google van drove by.
Put it this way, if someone wants to put down 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars a nanosecond until the natural end of my lifespan, I'll agree that this is the value of my life (to me).
Neither you, nor the regulators, nor even the people who BUILT THE DAMN PLANES have any notion of how much ash intake into could cause an unrecoverable failure.
Yet you and a bunch of bean counters who just see dollar signs slipping away say "to hell with safety".
Tell me. Does the term "DARWIN AWARD" sound like something you'd find appealing?
Yeah, being stranded and inconvenienced is a pain in the balls. But dying because of stupid impatience, greed, and and an unwillingness to heed signs of danger is a hell of a lot worse.
The last console I owned was a Sega Genesis. And only owned it to play a single game.
Haven't ever been happy with the state of controllers. Haven't cared for the fact that consoles weren't as flexible as my computer. And HATED the fact that they wanted you to put the machine on the internet of some of the latest systems. This is just one more reason for me to stay the fuck away from consoles.
Why can't we do better? Are you fucking kidding?
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After a week of losing millions every day, airlines are starting to ask why we can't do better.
Tell you what. Let all the bean counters volunteer to get into a jet and fly back and forth through an ash plume until the engines fail and the jet crashes, killing everyone.
THEN ask that stupid fucking question again.
The reason nobody can say is there's no metrics for uptake by a jet and no guarantee that the ash plume is going to be consistent with whatever testbed is set up.
Honestly, losing millions a day? Do they want to invest a couple billion a year (if not a month) into testing every plausible (and some implausible) ash-to-air-to-engine-intake ratio for every commercial jetliner extant?
With various air carriers already cutting finances close to the bone, I don't think they really have the money to spend on this kind of research or on remediation methods and practices for overhauling engines on planes after scenarios like this.
Never mind that The Moon is our stepping stone to missions further out in our solar system.
What? He think's the ISS is an appropriate waypoint on our way out?
NOT
EVEN
CLOSE!
This is what happens when you put someone who understands nothing more than fundraisers and Chicago Cronyism (aka Chicago Politics) in a position to affect the financing of people several orders of magnitude more intelligent and important to our world than he is.
And this is differnt to being beaten to death how?
This is exactly my point.
If a cop wants to kill someone in custody (or anywhere else) remember the only thing stopping him or her is the fact they will be punished for it. Thus the problem is procedural, if you treat the discharge of a taser the same as the discharge of any firearm then they become significantly less lethal.
Except, out here in the real world, it's a LOT harder to blame a gaping bullet hole on "excited delerium" and essentially shift the blame for the death to your victim for not being strong enough to survive electroshock torture.
I'm waiting for the statistic that shows more people have died in custody due to tasers. I doubt this statistic exists, this is a knee-jerk reaction to isolated incidents.
Everything you describe can be fixed by treating each taser discharge the same as a firearm discharge (they already do this in Australia).
Sorry, but no it can't.
Personally I'd rather be shot with a taser (given the pain and danger) then a 9mm pistol (something tells me that would have even more pain and danger then the taser, given gunshot wounds never heal completely).
Personally, I'd rather the police restrain non-compliant people in ways that don't inflict agony on someone and don't run the risk of killing them.
Also, have you ever seen the results of incorrectly applied electroshock treatments? Sure, lots of people are, more or less, okay afterward. The lucky ones. Ever see electroshock-induced nerve damage? I have. Not pretty. Not fun. And in a lot of cases, a LOT more inconvenient than a bullet wound over the course of your life.
Stop using knee-jerk reaction and start thinking of the taser as an alternative to the pistol, this has worked quite well in some sane nations.
Sorry, but I'm in zero mood to trade one lethal weapon for another that inflicts torture on someone.
I've seen what tasers can do, even to ostensibly "healthy" people. I've even subjected myself to one so I know what the fuck I'm talking about.
No it isn't. A taser is a lot less lethal then a 9mm pistol.
Tell that to someone who's died in police custody due to being tasered (or tasered excessively).
Translation: Excited delerium MY ASS.
Second, let's be straight about this. Pain-compliance via taser is TORTURE. Whether it hurts more, less, or about the same as being racked or pressed to death is IRRELEVANT. It's STILL torture. Waterboarding is relatively painless (physically), yet it's still illegal. Why is DELIBERATELY hurting someone (permanently or temporarily) acceptable here?
Second, not when a taser discharge is NOW treated the same as other firearm discharges by police SOME forces.
Fixed that for you. And the reason it's treated this way NOW, in SOME places is exactly BECAUSE of the excessive use and negative side effects have generated publicity.
So a 9mm pistol or baton is going to be much better.
No. The police doing their damn job without resorting to torture devices is better.
Basically he's the fuckwit who goes to court when someone sues Taser or Taser sues someone to shut them up. He testifies "I am a doctor, and I say it's all good." He then goes and collects a nice fat payday for his couple minutes on the stand.
Let's just say I'm not extremely impressed with RIM or it's partners of choice.
I'm sure all the end-users and central-config buffs out there LOVE the RIM platform and all.
As someone who's had to SUPPORT one for some time now, I'm much LESS enamored of it.
And I foresee the same exact thing happening to QNX over the next several years. Gradually dragged down by lousy support and indifferent-at-best developers.
I'm sorry, schmucks like Kevin Trudeau need to be in jail for the same reason you put violent offenders in jail. To protect the public from their predatory behavior. And make no mistake, that's all Kevin Trudeau is about. You cut off one avenue of exploitation for him, he simply rolls over into another. And another. And another. Until they physically stop this jackass, he'll continue preying on gullible people via any and every means possible.
More crap to buy now and mortgage off onto the next 30-50 years of taxpayers.
Who knows! Maybe Chicago won't be happy until taxes on everything in the city are at 50% plus whatever the Obama Administration decides to tack on for "free universal health care".
Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy! HAPPY! Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy! HAPPY!
*Finds a grave for SCO* *Erects a dance floor* *Breakdances to the point of passing out from the exertions* *Returns every once in a while for a return engagement*
You not only hit the nail on the head, you drove it in with a single blow Daniel-san style.
This is why I've avoided Sony hardware like the plague for years now. It's not that they don't release some EXCELLENT stuff. It's just that they're such control freaks that they eventually decide to take their ball and go home with it. Never mind that they're killing their own product. Never mind that they're destroying a potential developer base. Never mind that some of the things being developed on said platform are incredibly innovative uses of the equipment.
Seriously. Not all gamers are pimply teen-to-twentysomethings with a McJob living in their mom's basement. We're starting to see second and even third generation gamers with lots of disposable income. If someone who's affluent and wants a nice playing surface that doubles as book/paraphernalia storage, why should they settle for a pool table or a plastic folding table? Yes, if you're still a pimply 20-something, whose job consists of "Would you like fries with that?", this is probably isn't an economical buy for you. That's besides the point. This is a luxury item. Nobody ever said it had to be cheap enough for "the masses". Additionally, stretch the cost of the table out over a decade or more. For a single decade, this table would come down to a cost of about $20 a week. Some people spend more than that on coffee. The way these things are built, it'll last a lot longer than that.
Had one of these on loan from the GeekChic guys in our booth at GenCon last year.
VERY NICE
GAME
TABLE
If I had space and the spare cash to front for one, I'd buy one.
I've seen people ragging about not being able to sit around one. This is what the fold-down desks are for.
I've seen people complaining that the drawers would get in the way. They don't. PERIOD. You don't leave them open during play. The drawers are for storage.
I've seen people ragging on the price. Look at the cost of nice hardwood furniture. And I said NICE. My mother's a friggin' oak fanatic. So I know how pricey this stuff gets.
Their prices are only outrageous when viewed in a vacuum. People are talking about being able to buy the materials and tools for less. Sure. If your labor is worthless and you have already figured out all the joinery and other neat tricks that they've incorporated into one of these tables.
Very likely though, you have not. As such, you're paying a skilled craftsman for labor.
Sure, you can buy a pool table or a folding table for a lot less. But the utility for gaming is also a lot less.
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I've been using TV for a while now. While I don't particularly enjoy "Family Tech Support Guru", this tool has made my job MUCH easier.
The previous tool I used was WebConference.com. While WC.C worked for most of my clients, it didn't always. Plus, for somebody who isn't very computer literate, the install is scary as fuck.
Now all I need my mom to do is start up the program, give me her ID number (in case I don't feel like looking it up and since I don't want to install it to be persistently connected) and boom. A minute later I'm on her machine. Fixin' her stuff.
Now my uncle, whose machine is just a never-ending nightmare...
Actually went to the address provided by the article.
96 Cross Street, Mid Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
She's barely in the initial panorama. But she's out ahead of the location of the Google Van. You have to "step" forward several times before anything other than her back is visible.
She just happened to be slowly walking her dog on the day that the Google van drove by.
Put it this way, if someone wants to put down 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 dollars a nanosecond until the natural end of my lifespan, I'll agree that this is the value of my life (to me).
Until then, my life is equivalently PRICELESS.
You, sir, are a fucking moron.
Neither you, nor the regulators, nor even the people who BUILT THE DAMN PLANES have any notion of how much ash intake into could cause an unrecoverable failure.
Yet you and a bunch of bean counters who just see dollar signs slipping away say "to hell with safety".
Tell me. Does the term "DARWIN AWARD" sound like something you'd find appealing?
Yeah, being stranded and inconvenienced is a pain in the balls. But dying because of stupid impatience, greed, and and an unwillingness to heed signs of danger is a hell of a lot worse.
The last console I owned was a Sega Genesis. And only owned it to play a single game.
Haven't ever been happy with the state of controllers.
Haven't cared for the fact that consoles weren't as flexible as my computer.
And HATED the fact that they wanted you to put the machine on the internet of some of the latest systems.
This is just one more reason for me to stay the fuck away from consoles.
After a week of losing millions every day, airlines are starting to ask why we can't do better.
Tell you what. Let all the bean counters volunteer to get into a jet and fly back and forth through an ash plume until the engines fail and the jet crashes, killing everyone.
THEN ask that stupid fucking question again.
The reason nobody can say is there's no metrics for uptake by a jet and no guarantee that the ash plume is going to be consistent with whatever testbed is set up.
Honestly, losing millions a day? Do they want to invest a couple billion a year (if not a month) into testing every plausible (and some implausible) ash-to-air-to-engine-intake ratio for every commercial jetliner extant?
With various air carriers already cutting finances close to the bone, I don't think they really have the money to spend on this kind of research or on remediation methods and practices for overhauling engines on planes after scenarios like this.
Not even Microsoft at their most abusive would have attempted that kind of developer lockout.
Perfect mating of nail and hammer at high velocity there.
People have said in the past that Jobs and Apple would be just as bad as Microsoft were their positions reversed.
This is complete and utter nonsense.
They'd be worse... And this closed, gated developer model is just a highlight of that fact.
Microsoft, at it's worst, never moved on a premise of a single "divinely inspired" technologist dictating what was and was not "good computing".
I was related to Mary Coyle Chase
Technically, you still are.
One of the key administrators involved has been answering all questions about the program by invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Hope this asshat understands that pleading the Fifth isn't going to prevent a judge or jury from finding/ruling against him and punishing him.
"If I don't say anything I'm safe." doesn't work in the real world when you've already been caught.
No going back to The Moon.
Never mind that The Moon is our stepping stone to missions further out in our solar system.
What? He think's the ISS is an appropriate waypoint on our way out?
NOT
EVEN
CLOSE!
This is what happens when you put someone who understands nothing more than fundraisers and Chicago Cronyism (aka Chicago Politics) in a position to affect the financing of people several orders of magnitude more intelligent and important to our world than he is.
And this is differnt to being beaten to death how?
This is exactly my point.
If a cop wants to kill someone in custody (or anywhere else) remember the only thing stopping him or her is the fact they will be punished for it. Thus the problem is procedural, if you treat the discharge of a taser the same as the discharge of any firearm then they become significantly less lethal.
Except, out here in the real world, it's a LOT harder to blame a gaping bullet hole on "excited delerium" and essentially shift the blame for the death to your victim for not being strong enough to survive electroshock torture.
I'm waiting for the statistic that shows more people have died in custody due to tasers. I doubt this statistic exists, this is a knee-jerk reaction to isolated incidents.
Nah. Taser just sues everyone who even intimates that their devices have had a hand in the victim's death in any way shape or form.
Everything you describe can be fixed by treating each taser discharge the same as a firearm discharge (they already do this in Australia).
Sorry, but no it can't.
Personally I'd rather be shot with a taser (given the pain and danger) then a 9mm pistol (something tells me that would have even more pain and danger then the taser, given gunshot wounds never heal completely).
Personally, I'd rather the police restrain non-compliant people in ways that don't inflict agony on someone and don't run the risk of killing them.
Also, have you ever seen the results of incorrectly applied electroshock treatments? Sure, lots of people are, more or less, okay afterward. The lucky ones. Ever see electroshock-induced nerve damage? I have. Not pretty. Not fun. And in a lot of cases, a LOT more inconvenient than a bullet wound over the course of your life.
Stop using knee-jerk reaction and start thinking of the taser as an alternative to the pistol, this has worked quite well in some sane nations.
Sorry, but I'm in zero mood to trade one lethal weapon for another that inflicts torture on someone.
I've seen what tasers can do, even to ostensibly "healthy" people. I've even subjected myself to one so I know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Never...
EVER...
Again.
No it isn't. A taser is a lot less lethal then a 9mm pistol.
Tell that to someone who's died in police custody due to being tasered (or tasered excessively).
Translation: Excited delerium MY ASS.
Second, let's be straight about this. Pain-compliance via taser is TORTURE. Whether it hurts more, less, or about the same as being racked or pressed to death is IRRELEVANT. It's STILL torture. Waterboarding is relatively painless (physically), yet it's still illegal. Why is DELIBERATELY hurting someone (permanently or temporarily) acceptable here?
Second, not when a taser discharge is NOW treated the same as other firearm discharges by police SOME forces.
Fixed that for you. And the reason it's treated this way NOW, in SOME places is exactly BECAUSE of the excessive use and negative side effects have generated publicity.
So a 9mm pistol or baton is going to be much better.
No. The police doing their damn job without resorting to torture devices is better.
Basically he's the fuckwit who goes to court when someone sues Taser or Taser sues someone to shut them up. He testifies "I am a doctor, and I say it's all good." He then goes and collects a nice fat payday for his couple minutes on the stand.
Let's just say I'm not extremely impressed with RIM or it's partners of choice.
I'm sure all the end-users and central-config buffs out there LOVE the RIM platform and all.
As someone who's had to SUPPORT one for some time now, I'm much LESS enamored of it.
And I foresee the same exact thing happening to QNX over the next several years. Gradually dragged down by lousy support and indifferent-at-best developers.
I'm sorry, schmucks like Kevin Trudeau need to be in jail for the same reason you put violent offenders in jail.
To protect the public from their predatory behavior.
And make no mistake, that's all Kevin Trudeau is about. You cut off one avenue of exploitation for him, he simply rolls over into another. And another. And another.
Until they physically stop this jackass, he'll continue preying on gullible people via any and every means possible.
Just a note to our cousins across the pond, British police officers *do not* look like that :(
Damn! I could see myself getting arrested over and over (and over and over and over) again if they did.
"I'm not going to be compliant ma'am...err officer. You're just going to have to wrestle me to the ground and handcuff me!"
Note to the British Police Forces. SEND TO SCOTLAND FOR MORE SEXY REDHEADS!
More crap to buy now and mortgage off onto the next 30-50 years of taxpayers.
Who knows! Maybe Chicago won't be happy until taxes on everything in the city are at 50% plus whatever the Obama Administration decides to tack on for "free universal health care".
This about sums up my feelings. If you want to be truthful, double it.
"Further, if you decrease the significance level from 95% to something like 85%"
And ask serious researchers about results lying outside the 5% being relegated to sloppy science and outside of 10% being "utter crap".
Here's a review of the same setup by HardOCP. Complete with video of not only gaming but screen setup, etc.
Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy!
HAPPY!
Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy!
HAPPY!
*Finds a grave for SCO*
*Erects a dance floor*
*Breakdances to the point of passing out from the exertions*
*Returns every once in a while for a return engagement*
HAAA-HAAA!
Hot? Cold? Revenge is a dish best SERVED!
'Nuff said.
Please tell me the various social busybodies in the government aren't going to start with this shit.
You not only hit the nail on the head, you drove it in with a single blow Daniel-san style.
This is why I've avoided Sony hardware like the plague for years now.
It's not that they don't release some EXCELLENT stuff.
It's just that they're such control freaks that they eventually decide to take their ball and go home with it.
Never mind that they're killing their own product.
Never mind that they're destroying a potential developer base.
Never mind that some of the things being developed on said platform are incredibly innovative uses of the equipment.
No, it's "MY BALL! MY BALL! MY BALL!"
Wake me when someone catches a clue.
Seriously. Not all gamers are pimply teen-to-twentysomethings with a McJob living in their mom's basement.
We're starting to see second and even third generation gamers with lots of disposable income.
If someone who's affluent and wants a nice playing surface that doubles as book/paraphernalia storage, why should they settle for a pool table or a plastic folding table?
Yes, if you're still a pimply 20-something, whose job consists of "Would you like fries with that?", this is probably isn't an economical buy for you.
That's besides the point. This is a luxury item. Nobody ever said it had to be cheap enough for "the masses".
Additionally, stretch the cost of the table out over a decade or more. For a single decade, this table would come down to a cost of about $20 a week. Some people spend more than that on coffee. The way these things are built, it'll last a lot longer than that.
Had one of these on loan from the GeekChic guys in our booth at GenCon last year.
VERY
NICE
GAME
TABLE
If I had space and the spare cash to front for one, I'd buy one.
I've seen people ragging about not being able to sit around one. This is what the fold-down desks are for.
I've seen people complaining that the drawers would get in the way. They don't. PERIOD. You don't leave them open during play. The drawers are for storage.
I've seen people ragging on the price. Look at the cost of nice hardwood furniture. And I said NICE. My mother's a friggin' oak fanatic. So I know how pricey this stuff gets.
Their prices are only outrageous when viewed in a vacuum. People are talking about being able to buy the materials and tools for less. Sure. If your labor is worthless and you have already figured out all the joinery and other neat tricks that they've incorporated into one of these tables.
Very likely though, you have not. As such, you're paying a skilled craftsman for labor.
Sure, you can buy a pool table or a folding table for a lot less. But the utility for gaming is also a lot less.