God forbid AOL get a hold on what is arguably the best client I've ever used. I'd have to go looking for another program that does it all without the ads. I never got a single ad or pr0n spam before AOL bought out ICQ.
My, My, someone has a bit of a persecution complex. I wasn't going to reply at first, but seeing as how this guy said the same thing that went through my head, I couldn't resist. I never called you "wrong", I merely made a clarification (something the English language demands more frequently than should be). So, in rebuttle, it is stupid for you to say it is stupid for me to call you wrong, as I never called you wrong in the first place. The world is full of varying and contrasting opionions, that is what makes it an interesting place.;)
And that means absolutely nothing, really.
I have a copy of Stephen King's "The Waste Land" with the reciept (showing the ISBN of said book) dated December 7, 1991. The copy info on the book says "First Published: January 1992". Although that's a reverse example, my point is that publishing a book in the 50s would take a tremendous amount of time as compared to today. I belive Tolkien actually finished writing those books sometime in the mid to late 40s (the whole thing has somewhat of a WW2 allegory about it).
If you watch the extra disc that comes with the first DVD, his original publisher takes credit for splitting the Lord of the Rings into 3 volumes instead of one massive book.
Actually, JRR Tolkien did not want/ choose for the book (meaning, "The Lord of the Rings") split up into smaller volumes, although he had written it in three parts. That was a decision on the behalf of his first publisher.
The second disc of the now "older" DVD set explains this in great detail.
So which is supposed to have the more firm ethical footing, so to speak? A church that promises salvation in the afterlife, or a public institution that assures it's public safety in this life?
"In that case, simply search for it on every p2p service. When you find it, determine the IP's of those that have it. From that, get their ISP's.
I don't know about you, but what I share online is not movies. I'm not interested in having zillions of people clog up my bandwidth for hours on end getting a film, in particular not such a hot one as this. Sharing an mp3 that even on a 56k download takes 30mins to get and typically has a much narrower audience is a different matter altogether.
So, what if I download the movie, and take it out of my shared folder? How on earth would I ever turn up on your list of search results? For the UberParanoid of you out there, what if I take the file, burn it to cd, and delete the original? To go even a step further, what if I have a hard drive that gets formatted everytime I do something like this?
I really don't agree with the software being offered here (as apparently much of you don't either).
I have had internet access for just about as long as commercial ISPs have been offering it (for a cheap price, naturally), and to me it seems that if there are employees screwing off on the company's dime, it is just as much the fault of the manager of that employee as it is of the employee themselves.
You motivate your people to take pride in thier work, and they have good output, despite the fact that they might check yahoomail or/. from time to time.
If the output is quality work, who really cares what happened between instruction of task and completetion? (barring of course, those fools who surf pr0n all day on work and subject themselves and the company to a fat sexual harrassment lawsuit, of course.)
For high end, the Phaser series that Xerox acquired from Tektronix were always the best (but look out on the supplies costs). More info can be found here -> http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/produ ct.pl?mode=color.
For the consumer, I find the HP 11** series to be the best for most folks. A nice twist here is the ability to insert camera media (CF and SM) directly into the printer and print from there. More info here -> http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/category.p hp?high_level_category_id=2&category_id=1
I think people are missing my point. You are 100% correct... but I don't expect someone to come in and know the difference between PCI, AGP, USB, IEEE1394, ad naseum.
What I do expect is for them to not come blindly groping in and expect me to telepathically extract vital data (sometimes the question "do you have a Windows machine or a Macintosh" is too much) from them.
Back to the car: when you take your car in, you can tell the mechanic at least the following: the make, model, year, last time you had an oil change. All I want from my customers is the computational equivalent to this (make, cpu speed, number of devices on the ide chain. It's a pain in the ass to sell an internal FOO to someone only to find out later they have no more FOO slots.). As far as I'm concerned, they don't need to live and breathe this info; they can simply bring me the manual and I can figure things out from there.
*shrug* Either I expect too much from people who are in a college town (and most of them are enrolled in this college), or I pay too much attention to details when I shop.
(yeah yeah mods, blow my karma of 4 away with a -1 offtopic *sigh*)
Well, AC, I'll not respond to your meaty bit of flamebait there.
I'm talking about educating yourself to find out what you need before you go off and render any help I might be able to have useless because you don't know what you want.
Perfect example.
Them: "Uh, I want a new video card."
Me: "Allrighty then, do you need AGP or PCI?"
Them: "Uh... I have a laptop..."
_You_ work in computer retail for a bit. See if you don't develop a case of cynical attitude.
I never said these people don't walk away with me standing there laughing in the isle; more often than not I can piece together the little pieces they _do_ know and have them walk out happy, and usually a little more enlightened.
Lastly, being geek through and through to the core, I don't have a car (public transportation is excellent where I live), and thus I tend to spend quite a bit more on my computer. No, not $20k worth, but a bit more than I probably should. Do I go rushing blindly off to buy whatever buzzword of the day? No, I study and read and question whether or not it will be useful to me. Would I put as much thought into the car I will eventually buy? Absolutely.
There are buyers and there are consumers. Don't be a consumer.
I'm no elitist (see, I didn't even spell it right), but I totally agree. I work in a computer retail store that is on campus at a rather large southeastern university that is trying very desperately to move away from it's former Agriculture days and into the Tech society (they even changed thier name to reflect this).
Nonetheless, day after day I deal with this:
Them: "Uhm, I like, uhm, need to by some like, um, ink for my like, um, printer?"
Me: "Allrighty, what sort of printer to you have?"
Them: *pause, widen eyes* "Uhm. Uh, uhm. Uh. It's like, uhm, Beige?"
And of course who can forget the myriad of people who walk in and say:
"Uhm, uh. I'd like to uhm, by a copy of Microsoft Windows Office Word XP Mellenium Edition Home Pro 2000?" One day, in absolute frustration, I asked this customer, "Would you ever consider walking into a car lot and asking for a 'Toyota Lexus Marquis Miyata Ranger Jimmy'?" Thank Zaphod he had a sense of humor.
Try this (pay attention to the 2nd paragraph down) for some down to earth talk of laser beams. No, I haven't looked at ThinkGeek's stuff. And too, you can see any laser (green,/.-loved, or otherwise) provided you have enough particles in the air. Otherwise, it's a bright source with a point at the end.;).
Well, actually...
You can't see a laser beam without dust or some other sort of fine particle floating in the air. Anyone with one of those cheap laser pointers that you see in business all the time can tell you they never see the beam.
Actually, doing so can burn your retina so fast you won't know you are blind. Your retina has no pain receptors, so that's why its especially important not to look. In some cases, blindness set in slowly over a period of up to 6 hours after viewing an eclipse.
It's better to poke a pinhole in a piece of paper, and then look at the shadow the paper casts on the ground. You should see the eclipse fairly well and safely... provided you are west of the Rockies anyway.
*boggle* Call me a newbie and mod me down to "offtopic" but sometimes my.sig is there, sometimes it isn't.
Is this just me or am I stoned again?
I'm stoned again, aren't I...
You should have bought the higher end series, perhaps a M500 or M505. They seem to be a lot sturdier than the lower-end models. Conversely, if you look at the lower end Handspring models, they seem to be made entirely of cheap see through plastic: one drop can almost assure you a nice crack and possible inoperability.
Then again, you could always go back to the tried and true personal organizer: pen and paper;).
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God forbid AOL get a hold on what is arguably the best client I've ever used. I'd have to go looking for another program that does it all without the ads. I never got a single ad or pr0n spam before AOL bought out ICQ.
My, My, someone has a bit of a persecution complex. I wasn't going to reply at first, but seeing as how this guy said the same thing that went through my head, I couldn't resist. I never called you "wrong", I merely made a clarification (something the English language demands more frequently than should be). So, in rebuttle, it is stupid for you to say it is stupid for me to call you wrong, as I never called you wrong in the first place. The world is full of varying and contrasting opionions, that is what makes it an interesting place. ;)
Then again, this is the same Peter Jackson that directed Meet the Feebles. One can only hope he doesn't use the same spider as Shelob ;).
And that means absolutely nothing, really. I have a copy of Stephen King's "The Waste Land" with the reciept (showing the ISBN of said book) dated December 7, 1991. The copy info on the book says "First Published: January 1992". Although that's a reverse example, my point is that publishing a book in the 50s would take a tremendous amount of time as compared to today. I belive Tolkien actually finished writing those books sometime in the mid to late 40s (the whole thing has somewhat of a WW2 allegory about it). If you watch the extra disc that comes with the first DVD, his original publisher takes credit for splitting the Lord of the Rings into 3 volumes instead of one massive book.
Actually, JRR Tolkien did not want/ choose for the book (meaning, "The Lord of the Rings") split up into smaller volumes, although he had written it in three parts. That was a decision on the behalf of his first publisher. The second disc of the now "older" DVD set explains this in great detail.
So which is supposed to have the more firm ethical footing, so to speak? A church that promises salvation in the afterlife, or a public institution that assures it's public safety in this life?
"In that case, simply search for it on every p2p service. When you find it, determine the IP's of those that have it. From that, get their ISP's. I don't know about you, but what I share online is not movies. I'm not interested in having zillions of people clog up my bandwidth for hours on end getting a film, in particular not such a hot one as this. Sharing an mp3 that even on a 56k download takes 30mins to get and typically has a much narrower audience is a different matter altogether. So, what if I download the movie, and take it out of my shared folder? How on earth would I ever turn up on your list of search results? For the UberParanoid of you out there, what if I take the file, burn it to cd, and delete the original? To go even a step further, what if I have a hard drive that gets formatted everytime I do something like this?
I really don't agree with the software being offered here (as apparently much of you don't either). I have had internet access for just about as long as commercial ISPs have been offering it (for a cheap price, naturally), and to me it seems that if there are employees screwing off on the company's dime, it is just as much the fault of the manager of that employee as it is of the employee themselves. You motivate your people to take pride in thier work, and they have good output, despite the fact that they might check yahoomail or /. from time to time.
If the output is quality work, who really cares what happened between instruction of task and completetion? (barring of course, those fools who surf pr0n all day on work and subject themselves and the company to a fat sexual harrassment lawsuit, of course.)
For high end, the Phaser series that Xerox acquired from Tektronix were always the best (but look out on the supplies costs). More info can be found here -> http://www.officeprinting.xerox.com/perl-bin/produ ct.pl?mode=color.
For the consumer, I find the HP 11** series to be the best for most folks. A nice twist here is the ability to insert camera media (CF and SM) directly into the printer and print from there. More info here -> http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/category.p hp?high_level_category_id=2&category_id=1
I'll quote Richard Patrick of Filter on this one... "Yeah that new album 'The Flaccid' fuckin rocks man... whatever..."
I think people are missing my point. You are 100% correct ... but I don't expect someone to come in and know the difference between PCI, AGP, USB, IEEE1394, ad naseum.
What I do expect is for them to not come blindly groping in and expect me to telepathically extract vital data (sometimes the question "do you have a Windows machine or a Macintosh" is too much) from them.
Back to the car: when you take your car in, you can tell the mechanic at least the following: the make, model, year, last time you had an oil change. All I want from my customers is the computational equivalent to this (make, cpu speed, number of devices on the ide chain. It's a pain in the ass to sell an internal FOO to someone only to find out later they have no more FOO slots.). As far as I'm concerned, they don't need to live and breathe this info; they can simply bring me the manual and I can figure things out from there.
*shrug* Either I expect too much from people who are in a college town (and most of them are enrolled in this college), or I pay too much attention to details when I shop.
(yeah yeah mods, blow my karma of 4 away with a -1 offtopic *sigh*)
Well, AC, I'll not respond to your meaty bit of flamebait there. I'm talking about educating yourself to find out what you need before you go off and render any help I might be able to have useless because you don't know what you want. Perfect example. Them: "Uh, I want a new video card." Me: "Allrighty then, do you need AGP or PCI?" Them: "Uh... I have a laptop..." _You_ work in computer retail for a bit. See if you don't develop a case of cynical attitude. I never said these people don't walk away with me standing there laughing in the isle; more often than not I can piece together the little pieces they _do_ know and have them walk out happy, and usually a little more enlightened. Lastly, being geek through and through to the core, I don't have a car (public transportation is excellent where I live), and thus I tend to spend quite a bit more on my computer. No, not $20k worth, but a bit more than I probably should. Do I go rushing blindly off to buy whatever buzzword of the day? No, I study and read and question whether or not it will be useful to me. Would I put as much thought into the car I will eventually buy? Absolutely. There are buyers and there are consumers. Don't be a consumer.
I'm no elitist (see, I didn't even spell it right), but I totally agree. I work in a computer retail store that is on campus at a rather large southeastern university that is trying very desperately to move away from it's former Agriculture days and into the Tech society (they even changed thier name to reflect this). Nonetheless, day after day I deal with this: Them: "Uhm, I like, uhm, need to by some like, um, ink for my like, um, printer?" Me: "Allrighty, what sort of printer to you have?" Them: *pause, widen eyes* "Uhm. Uh, uhm. Uh. It's like, uhm, Beige?" And of course who can forget the myriad of people who walk in and say: "Uhm, uh. I'd like to uhm, by a copy of Microsoft Windows Office Word XP Mellenium Edition Home Pro 2000?" One day, in absolute frustration, I asked this customer, "Would you ever consider walking into a car lot and asking for a 'Toyota Lexus Marquis Miyata Ranger Jimmy'?" Thank Zaphod he had a sense of humor.
Try this (pay attention to the 2nd paragraph down) for some down to earth talk of laser beams. No, I haven't looked at ThinkGeek's stuff. And too, you can see any laser (green, /.-loved, or otherwise) provided you have enough particles in the air. Otherwise, it's a bright source with a point at the end. ;).
Well, actually... You can't see a laser beam without dust or some other sort of fine particle floating in the air. Anyone with one of those cheap laser pointers that you see in business all the time can tell you they never see the beam.
I like AT commands, myself. Not so cryptic if you have a handy printout close by ;).
What a great idea! At last you can get those pesky modem drivers without actually having the drivers themselves needed to make the modem work.
Yes, that works very well too; I was just giving the lo-tech version. Mostly because I don't have any binoculars :D.
Actually, doing so can burn your retina so fast you won't know you are blind. Your retina has no pain receptors, so that's why its especially important not to look. In some cases, blindness set in slowly over a period of up to 6 hours after viewing an eclipse. It's better to poke a pinhole in a piece of paper, and then look at the shadow the paper casts on the ground. You should see the eclipse fairly well and safely... provided you are west of the Rockies anyway.
Actually no, I've been on it since '94.
/. as a launching point for interesting articles, and rarely post a comment.
:)
However, I use
You must be a real asshole.
(our conclusions were based on the same faulty logic, before you go flaming me)
*boggle* Call me a newbie and mod me down to "offtopic" but sometimes my .sig is there, sometimes it isn't.
Is this just me or am I stoned again?
I'm stoned again, aren't I...
These work exceptionally well in preventing that particular problem and may even help restore some usability.
Hey mods, what the hell is the big idea of taking out my signature?
Sheesh.
You should have bought the higher end series, perhaps a M500 or M505. They seem to be a lot sturdier than the lower-end models. Conversely, if you look at the lower end Handspring models, they seem to be made entirely of cheap see through plastic: one drop can almost assure you a nice crack and possible inoperability.
;).
Then again, you could always go back to the tried and true personal organizer: pen and paper