Letterboxing (.org if you are too lazy to google) is great fun, and I'd venture to say somewhat more challenging IMHO than Geocaching, since you aren't given exact coordinates. Rather, you get clues (look for the 10th tree, go west 100 paces, etc) which can be rather fun to figure out, and sometimes downright frustrating.
"My FF has 93 extensions, at least half of which are features that are standard in Opera."
Exactly why I don't use Opera... too bloated, but to each their own
Exactly why I don't use Firefox. It tried, really. But endlessly searching for extensions (and deleting the ones that sucked, lather, rinse, repeat) to give me the functionality I was used to was just too much hassle.
For example, Opera automatically tracks your browsing session so if your computer crashes (yes I run Windows) or you close Opera, it automatically restores your session when you restart Opera. Since I typically have about 10 browser tabs open at any time, this was a must have feature for me. I tried to get similar functionality from Firefox plugins. At the time (last year) I only found a few, and they either had lousy functionality or were extremely slow.
Maybe things have improved but I really don't care. Opera works for me and I see no compelling reason to switch, especially with a free reg code (not that the ads bothered me to begin with)
It means that in a few year's time, the maintenence cost of mainframes is going to go up significantly
Exactly, which is why for the past few years I've been secretly training as a mainframe support specialist.
Now the Boston Globe comes out with this article and foils my master plan to profit from this. Before you know it, colleges will be revamping their CS programs and cranking out mainframe experts faster than Microsoft passes out MCSE certificates.
"Why is there almost no proper capitalization? I mean, it's already damn near impossible to read but a five minute skim/correct session wouldn't have been too much to ask, would it?"
You must have missed the last question from the interview....
Q: Many gamers and non-gamers alike choose to communicate with the generally accepted practice of capitalizing the first character of each sentence. Does Microsoft restrict your usage of the Shift key, or is there some other reason?
A: Great question. The fact of the matter is that I'm typing this on the Microsoft "core" keyboard, which does not include a Shift key. Our market research indicates nearly 75% of our target market prefers to be lazy and not use a shift key. While our "premium" keyboard does offer this advanced technology, one was not available at the time of this interview.
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Wonderful. Now mom can nag me from the grave.
Especially if you get it with the wireless internet and cellphone option.
"The best are funny posts modded Informative or Interesting, as seen in the grandparent. It seems to indicate the naivete or perhaps even stupidity of the modder, and it makes me laugh out of warm sympathy."
Perhaps the moderator is modding "incorrectly" *just* to make you laugh.
"I want to go on the trip, yet I'm a poor 14 year old boy in Kentucky"
Cheer up. Maybe one day you'll move out of the house, get your name in the phone book, find your special purpose, and invent the Opti-grab(tm). *Then* you'll be livin' the good life.
Ok, so apparently they got a clue and changed their pricing at some point. I have a Directv Tivo myself and havent been in the market for a DVR for some time, but when I was, at the time Replay only offered the service bundled with the DVR, and the price was well over $600. That factor alone is what gave Tivo a decent headstart and much larger marketshare IMHO.
"Then MPAA sued the pants off Replay TV & forced them into bankuruptcy."
No doubt that the MPAA helped in Replay's demise, but pricing their units with the subscription fee built in was a stupid move and probably hurt them even more. Not many people were willing to shell out $600+ for a "digital VCR" (Yes, we all know what DVRs can do now, but back then it was just an expensive box for recording shows digitally, and most people were happy with they $89 Bestbuy VCR)
OTOH, Tivo priced out the service fee separately, and offered both a one time and monthly version. Consumers too stupid to see the value of the upfront fee could easily accept the small monthly fee.
"When you are talking about significantly large amounts of data (hundreds of GBs to TBs) it is actually faster and cheaper to put it on a hard drive and FedEx or (insert your favorite delivery company here) and ship it"
Damn kids and your fancy "hard drives". In my day, when we pirated music we did it with a stationwagon full of 9-track tapes.
Slashdot Mirror
makes me want to bitch-slap the entire Federal government
ME TOO!
"to Start Mining Operations of Uranus"
Where do you think they got their business plan?
"I let it download for alomst a minute, and it was still hardly at 10%. Probably too many nerds trying to get it."
Either that, or the Alpha Beta's are trashing the servers.
But would "Gross" be a negative or positive modifier?
It would be a negative, but won't affect your karma.
2. Tore the box apart wondering if we could finally find a flux capacitor [Check]
I must say I'm disappointed that this is what Google passes off as a flux capacitor.
Mod this up!
Letterboxing (.org if you are too lazy to google) is great fun, and I'd venture to say somewhat more challenging IMHO than Geocaching, since you aren't given exact coordinates. Rather, you get clues (look for the 10th tree, go west 100 paces, etc) which can be rather fun to figure out, and sometimes downright frustrating.
Definitely a fun time.
Not only that, but who came up with the completely nonintuitive color coding for the "Spam senders by geographic region" world map, Tom Ridge?
....... Yellow (high)
(low) Blue/Purple/Red......... Orange
Not sure why exactly you'd want 3 color changes for the low end of the scale, but only 1 long drawn out color change for the high end.
That's insane.
Seriously, how can this type of patent not get laughed out of the office?
Agreed.
It's patently insane.
"My FF has 93 extensions, at least half of which are features that are standard in Opera."
Exactly why I don't use Opera... too bloated, but to each their own
Exactly why I don't use Firefox. It tried, really. But endlessly searching for extensions (and deleting the ones that sucked, lather, rinse, repeat) to give me the functionality I was used to was just too much hassle.
For example, Opera automatically tracks your browsing session so if your computer crashes (yes I run Windows) or you close Opera, it automatically restores your session when you restart Opera. Since I typically have about 10 browser tabs open at any time, this was a must have feature for me. I tried to get similar functionality from Firefox plugins. At the time (last year) I only found a few, and they either had lousy functionality or were extremely slow.
Maybe things have improved but I really don't care. Opera works for me and I see no compelling reason to switch, especially with a free reg code (not that the ads bothered me to begin with)
It means that in a few year's time, the maintenence cost of mainframes is going to go up significantly
Exactly, which is why for the past few years I've been secretly training as a mainframe support specialist.
Now the Boston Globe comes out with this article and foils my master plan to profit from this.
Before you know it, colleges will be revamping their CS programs and cranking out mainframe experts faster than Microsoft passes out MCSE certificates.
THANKS BOSTON GLOBE!!!!
I truly believe that our beloved Internet is to blame. You're seeing the same death knell in brick and mortar retail, restaurants, and even car buying
or translated into slashdot-speak
"Internet Wins, Signals Movie Theaters' Death Toll?"
"but I thought irony was like rain on your wedding day?"
No, that's called a stay of execution.
"Funny doesn't get you any Karma"
Not on slashdot, but it does in real life.
"Why is there almost no proper capitalization? I mean, it's already damn near impossible to read but a five minute skim/correct session wouldn't have been too much to ask, would it?"
You must have missed the last question from the interview....
Q: Many gamers and non-gamers alike choose to communicate with the generally accepted practice of capitalizing the first character of each sentence. Does Microsoft restrict your usage of the Shift key, or is there some other reason?
A: Great question. The fact of the matter is that I'm typing this on the Microsoft "core" keyboard, which does not include a Shift key. Our market research indicates nearly 75% of our target market prefers to be lazy and not use a shift key. While our "premium" keyboard does offer this advanced technology, one was not available at the time of this interview.
Wonderful. Now mom can nag me from the grave.
Especially if you get it with the wireless internet and cellphone option.
"How come you never visit your Mother?!"
"Harrah's, the largest casino group in the world and on the Las Vegas Strip"
Not redundant at all. Las Vegas is an *entirely* different world.
"The best are funny posts modded Informative or Interesting, as seen in the grandparent. It seems to indicate the naivete or perhaps even stupidity of the modder, and it makes me laugh out of warm sympathy."
Perhaps the moderator is modding "incorrectly" *just* to make you laugh.
"i hope alex p keaton isn't your real name"
Nope, just a pseudonym. His real name is Marty McFly
"The Jerk". A true Steve Martin classic.
Sorry, didnt have time to do an IMDB URL
Don't think he was from Kentucky either.
"I want to go on the trip, yet I'm a poor 14 year old boy in Kentucky"
Cheer up. Maybe one day you'll move out of the house, get your name in the phone book, find your special purpose, and invent the Opti-grab(tm).
*Then* you'll be livin' the good life.
Ok, so apparently they got a clue and changed their pricing at some point. I have a Directv Tivo myself and havent been in the market for a DVR for some time, but when I was, at the time Replay only offered the service bundled with the DVR, and the price was well over $600. That factor alone is what gave Tivo a decent headstart and much larger marketshare IMHO.
"I have patented the idea of communicating using small drawings to represent sounds over TCP/IP. Please stop or pay my royalties."
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"Then MPAA sued the pants off Replay TV & forced them into bankuruptcy."
No doubt that the MPAA helped in Replay's demise, but pricing their units with the subscription fee built in was a stupid move and probably hurt them even more. Not many people were willing to shell out $600+ for a "digital VCR" (Yes, we all know what DVRs can do now, but back then it was just an expensive box for recording shows digitally, and most people were happy with they $89 Bestbuy VCR)
OTOH, Tivo priced out the service fee separately, and offered both a one time and monthly version. Consumers too stupid to see the value of the upfront fee could easily accept the small monthly fee.
"When you are talking about significantly large amounts of data (hundreds of GBs to TBs) it is actually faster and cheaper to put it on a hard drive and FedEx or (insert your favorite delivery company here) and ship it"
Damn kids and your fancy "hard drives". In my day, when we pirated music we did it with a stationwagon full of 9-track tapes.
Again with the grandma, and the hot coffee, and the lawsuits....
When will they learn to stay away from hot coffee.