ASUS EEE PC - 7 inch 4 gig SSD model: Screen's flakey in less than a year. You have to sometimes bend & twist the display, otherwise it shows just pure gray for an image.
Acer Aspire One: Windows died randomly on one occasion(reinstall fixed that). Bios died a few weeks ago, but took only 5 minutes to fix.
Looker came out in 1980, and that featured some cool wireframe models of humans. IIRC it also had textures. Not sure if it was entirely CGI, but it looked wonderful nonetheless.
1. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription fee for a device that I'm not going to make phone calls with. I want the other stuff.
2. Most likely, it's going to be a cell provider that's not the one I want, or already have.
3. It will need a 2-year agreement. It will be obsolete in 1 year.
Can we please break away from the cell phone-ness for all these new neat gadgets? It's a lockdown we don't need, nor can all of us afford. If I want a GPS for my car, I want a GPS. Not 2-year commitment and monthly fees.
There's an innovation in smartphones: the lack of a 2-year contract to use it.:)
It's not the installation that bothers me but the assumption by software vendors that their software is so important that it should auto-start.
This cannot be stressed enough. Not everything needs a systray icon. Not everything needs to be so complicated to remove from startup without asking me in advance. Apple is a guilty party of this, even moreso with Itunes. Going to system.msc to try to remove a startup item(which is hard to read) is going to give you a guaranteed "access denied".
To this day I sometimes still see a little "hp" icon on the systray that disappears before I can get to it. No idea what it is. All I wanted was a printer driver. A CD burning util doesn't need to run 24/7.
When can we just start having sw vendors just label it what it really is: spyware? Sure it might not phone home, but it still has all the other symptoms in common. I thought there were a few court cases about that topic.
That's what struck me as odd. I wanted to try ubuntu netbook remix on my EEE PC. It's available as an.IMG file, but Ubuntu's own utility won't even support it to write to a USB stick. Great jaerb, guys.
1. Getting no less than NINE calls each from different headhunters for a position I already interviewed for, that I waited 6 months for. The interview went horrible.
2. Having a headhunter give me the usual in-person interview, then asking me a week later, "so, any new leads?". I told him that was his job.
3. Seeing a headhunter post a job ad on a local board. Guess what? It was the exact same text from the company's job ad on the first one I mentioned.
4. Daily calls from India for a job to submit me to. Oh I despised them.
5. Having a headhunter NOT submit my resume, but not telling me about it until I asked. Ditched that company after the 3rd employee from that place called me.
A headhunter is often a middleman where it is often un-needed. I would rather apply directly & keep them out of the hoops. Sadly, monster.com and friends have TONS of job ads..all made by consulting firms, with the relevant data(ie company you would be working for) left out. What do you expect when there are 10 headhunters to ONE job?
One of the best parts of the GTA series are the hilarious fake radio commercials & stupid billboards. I swear they have a 12 year old heading the creative department at Rockstar with all the toilet humor. But all the fake media MAKES the game. You end up playing more to find all those silly things. Still want one of those degenatrons(it takes quarters!).
You can almost tell the graphic artists get bored so they put some real inappropriate content in there. I remember in one of the Carmageddon games there was a billboard showing a pic of a woman holding what looks like lemonade. Then you see the label URINE underneath it.
The "you have new email" icon looks more like you have a new burrito waiting. Seriously, who designed this thing? It still looks like the Lotus Notes I used back in '95 with the primitive looking GUI.
I don't have an iPhone. I have an almost-luddite Samsung phone. When I had a Sprint PCS no-frills cell phone, many games had monthly subscriptions. I found that to be annoying. I found it annoying when I switched phones, several games I already paid for(no subs, just a 1-time fee) couldn't be played on my newer phone.
Maybe just 1 cell platform for games isn't such a bad idea.
You have numerous bookmarks in several folders deep. Maybe you want to keep nice & neat with your subjects & the like. So you drag & drop some bookmarks here & there. If you "miss" the drop, you have to navigate through the bookmark folders AGAIN and drop carefully. It gets a bit annoying you are trying to drag & drop a bookmark to an empty folder, where there's nothing for it to pop out.
Okay, firefox is not so bad.
Chrome's UI in general is just too slimmed down to be useful, and I slow down pretty badly. I just dun like zig zag actions, missing & having to start over. Later versions of IE are terrible with this.
I remember playing Tribes 2 on my AMD system many moons ago. It kept locking up about 12 minutes in due to overheating. Finally switched over to an AMD-approved case, and the overheating problems went away. While it would have been nice to keep an old case & keep putting better systems inside, I had no choice on that one.
I don't miss the old AT cases where to access anything inside meant having to unbolt the side-top-side u-shaped cover. The switch to individual removable sides was a good one.
I admit, I'm great with a standard QWERTY keyboard, but when it comes to remote controls for cable boxes/vcrs, etc, I slow down to a crawl. Perhaps it's just what you are used to. I almost never look at my keyboard(maybe for typing in tough passwords), but for my VCR remote control(infrequently used), it's a bit more difficult.
To be fair what normally comes with Linux, not everyone knows PHP, Python, etc. So most of the time(aside from installing other people's scripts), said compilers are of no use to Joe User. I know Ubuntu installed a Palm OS sync tool without me asking, and I don't even own a working Handspring anymore. There's quite a few things that come with a linux distro that to a non-developer, serve no purpose.
I'm 33 years old. My mom hid my christmas present from me in the house, which was the 8880 super car. I was 18 at the time, working on my first real car. I do miss hard core Technic. Gears, axels, levers and such are quite educational to a future mechanical engineer.
The Adobe Flash plug-in was terrible. I had to use it when I was testing a SVG drawing ap. One problem noted was that nothing showed up until it was entirely loaded. For larger images, this was frustrating, as it made it slower than Flash.
I wish SVG would have taken off, but sadly, it didn't.
I read the book "Author Unknown" which talked about this for the forensic side. It was only an okay book. Here's how I would do it. 1. Inconsistently spell things wrong. Misspell a word one way, then down a few paragraphs, misspell it another way. 2. Type in all caps. All capitalization errors you might normally make goes away. 3. Don't use your regional sayings for things. Use some other region's, or use all of them. 4. Run it back & forth with translation services to really obfuscate it.
I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. You would just need the spherical surface to have enough universal contacts so it can touch all neighboring spheres. Inside said sphere is your CPU, Capsela piece, or whatever. I'm sure some college is doing that for a fun project. Ball pit computing.
You have just re-invented Lego. Seriously, I like this idea. Want a gaming system? Put these together. Want a server? Put those together instead. Some component break? Swap it out.
Then what is the difference between someone selling a full pc(with or without windows) and a pre-assembled set of hardware(mobo, case, video card, etc)? You don't have to buy Windows if you buy just one component, but why for all of them?
I wonder if there's some loophole where a PC maker sells you a whole PC minus the video card insatlled, you install the video card and avoid the MS tax. I know there's some tax loophole automakers(USA automakers selling to foreign countries) had where they ship almost-assembled vehicles & do the final assembly there.
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He should stick to his word with his own bathroom that has a webcam connected 24/7. I mean, sure, what you do in the bathroom is private...
ASUS EEE PC - 7 inch 4 gig SSD model: Screen's flakey in less than a year. You have to sometimes bend & twist the display, otherwise it shows just pure gray for an image.
Acer Aspire One: Windows died randomly on one occasion(reinstall fixed that). Bios died a few weeks ago, but took only 5 minutes to fix.
Looker came out in 1980, and that featured some cool wireframe models of humans. IIRC it also had textures. Not sure if it was entirely CGI, but it looked wonderful nonetheless.
This this this:
1. I don't want to pay a monthly subscription fee for a device that I'm not going to make phone calls with. I want the other stuff.
2. Most likely, it's going to be a cell provider that's not the one I want, or already have.
3. It will need a 2-year agreement. It will be obsolete in 1 year.
Can we please break away from the cell phone-ness for all these new neat gadgets? It's a lockdown we don't need, nor can all of us afford. If I want a GPS for my car, I want a GPS. Not 2-year commitment and monthly fees.
There's an innovation in smartphones: the lack of a 2-year contract to use it. :)
It's not the installation that bothers me but the assumption by software vendors that their software is so important that it should auto-start.
This cannot be stressed enough. Not everything needs a systray icon. Not everything needs to be so complicated to remove from startup without asking me in advance. Apple is a guilty party of this, even moreso with Itunes. Going to system.msc to try to remove a startup item(which is hard to read) is going to give you a guaranteed "access denied".
To this day I sometimes still see a little "hp" icon on the systray that disappears before I can get to it. No idea what it is. All I wanted was a printer driver. A CD burning util doesn't need to run 24/7.
When can we just start having sw vendors just label it what it really is: spyware? Sure it might not phone home, but it still has all the other symptoms in common. I thought there were a few court cases about that topic.
That's what struck me as odd. I wanted to try ubuntu netbook remix on my EEE PC. It's available as an .IMG file, but Ubuntu's own utility won't even support it to write to a USB stick. Great jaerb, guys.
So scientists just invented the mouse version of Green Lantern?
Please tell me it uses a small wooden crate for tomatoes for an ammo box.
1. Getting no less than NINE calls each from different headhunters for a position I already interviewed for, that I waited 6 months for. The interview went horrible.
2. Having a headhunter give me the usual in-person interview, then asking me a week later, "so, any new leads?". I told him that was his job.
3. Seeing a headhunter post a job ad on a local board. Guess what? It was the exact same text from the company's job ad on the first one I mentioned.
4. Daily calls from India for a job to submit me to. Oh I despised them.
5. Having a headhunter NOT submit my resume, but not telling me about it until I asked. Ditched that company after the 3rd employee from that place called me.
A headhunter is often a middleman where it is often un-needed. I would rather apply directly & keep them out of the hoops. Sadly, monster.com and friends have TONS of job ads..all made by consulting firms, with the relevant data(ie company you would be working for) left out. What do you expect when there are 10 headhunters to ONE job?
One of the best parts of the GTA series are the hilarious fake radio commercials & stupid billboards. I swear they have a 12 year old heading the creative department at Rockstar with all the toilet humor. But all the fake media MAKES the game. You end up playing more to find all those silly things. Still want one of those degenatrons(it takes quarters!).
You can almost tell the graphic artists get bored so they put some real inappropriate content in there. I remember in one of the Carmageddon games there was a billboard showing a pic of a woman holding what looks like lemonade. Then you see the label URINE underneath it.
The "you have new email" icon looks more like you have a new burrito waiting. Seriously, who designed this thing? It still looks like the Lotus Notes I used back in '95 with the primitive looking GUI.
I don't have an iPhone. I have an almost-luddite Samsung phone. When I had a Sprint PCS no-frills cell phone, many games had monthly subscriptions. I found that to be annoying. I found it annoying when I switched phones, several games I already paid for(no subs, just a 1-time fee) couldn't be played on my newer phone.
Maybe just 1 cell platform for games isn't such a bad idea.
Tell me if this has happened to you.
You have numerous bookmarks in several folders deep. Maybe you want to keep nice & neat with your subjects & the like. So you drag & drop some bookmarks here & there. If you "miss" the drop, you have to navigate through the bookmark folders AGAIN and drop carefully. It gets a bit annoying you are trying to drag & drop a bookmark to an empty folder, where there's nothing for it to pop out.
Okay, firefox is not so bad.
Chrome's UI in general is just too slimmed down to be useful, and I slow down pretty badly. I just dun like zig zag actions, missing & having to start over. Later versions of IE are terrible with this.
I remember playing Tribes 2 on my AMD system many moons ago. It kept locking up about 12 minutes in due to overheating. Finally switched over to an AMD-approved case, and the overheating problems went away. While it would have been nice to keep an old case & keep putting better systems inside, I had no choice on that one.
I don't miss the old AT cases where to access anything inside meant having to unbolt the side-top-side u-shaped cover. The switch to individual removable sides was a good one.
I admit, I'm great with a standard QWERTY keyboard, but when it comes to remote controls for cable boxes/vcrs, etc, I slow down to a crawl. Perhaps it's just what you are used to. I almost never look at my keyboard(maybe for typing in tough passwords), but for my VCR remote control(infrequently used), it's a bit more difficult.
To be fair what normally comes with Linux, not everyone knows PHP, Python, etc. So most of the time(aside from installing other people's scripts), said compilers are of no use to Joe User. I know Ubuntu installed a Palm OS sync tool without me asking, and I don't even own a working Handspring anymore. There's quite a few things that come with a linux distro that to a non-developer, serve no purpose.
Improved acronym support!
Numbers higher than the last version!
greater infusion processor link array warp drive systems!
so then... not too many PAX attendees need be worried about this?
Well, sitting in your parent's basement for years can't be good for building up a good immunity system.
I'm 33 years old. My mom hid my christmas present from me in the house, which was the 8880 super car. I was 18 at the time, working on my first real car. I do miss hard core Technic. Gears, axels, levers and such are quite educational to a future mechanical engineer.
The Adobe Flash plug-in was terrible. I had to use it when I was testing a SVG drawing ap. One problem noted was that nothing showed up until it was entirely loaded. For larger images, this was frustrating, as it made it slower than Flash.
I wish SVG would have taken off, but sadly, it didn't.
I read the book "Author Unknown" which talked about this for the forensic side. It was only an okay book. Here's how I would do it.
1. Inconsistently spell things wrong. Misspell a word one way, then down a few paragraphs, misspell it another way.
2. Type in all caps. All capitalization errors you might normally make goes away.
3. Don't use your regional sayings for things. Use some other region's, or use all of them.
4. Run it back & forth with translation services to really obfuscate it.
easy peasy.
I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. You would just need the spherical surface to have enough universal contacts so it can touch all neighboring spheres. Inside said sphere is your CPU, Capsela piece, or whatever. I'm sure some college is doing that for a fun project. Ball pit computing.
You have just re-invented Lego. Seriously, I like this idea. Want a gaming system? Put these together. Want a server? Put those together instead. Some component break? Swap it out.
Then what is the difference between someone selling a full pc(with or without windows) and a pre-assembled set of hardware(mobo, case, video card, etc)? You don't have to buy Windows if you buy just one component, but why for all of them?
I wonder if there's some loophole where a PC maker sells you a whole PC minus the video card insatlled, you install the video card and avoid the MS tax. I know there's some tax loophole automakers(USA automakers selling to foreign countries) had where they ship almost-assembled vehicles & do the final assembly there.
"ithey would simply stop accepting the browser at ALL OF THEIR SITES."
Except for that one site that lets you upgrade to IE 7 or 8. That would be an important one.