IE is so tied to the OS that when it goes down so does the whole 'puter
Which OS are you talking about? Not XP, I guess. In my XP, when I have to End Task on explorer.exe it starts right back up again every time. I do remember Windows 98 doing that, though.
Is there a browser that can run entirely off a USB memory stick? A while back I tried to do this with Firefox, but the sticky part was how (depending on which drives are present in the PC you put it into) it gets a different drive letter associated with it. Could be F: on one PC, and E: on another. For Firefox, there was a batch file workaround (that never quite worked right) and so I gave up on it. Have things changed?
I basically want to be able to travel with my browser and links to various PCs and just have it work without a lot of trouble.
That's my favorite feature, too. Even if it crashes with 5 tabs in use, it brings back each one. No struggling to figure out which search terms you used and which pages you had opened, if you get a crash partway into researching something. Of course, other browsers might do that too, I haven't done a whole lot of searching since I'm satisfied with Opera.
I was just doing a training for my coworkers about what spyware is/does. No one had ever heard of it, and didn't know they should be scanning their PCs. I remember telling them that I hoped it would be the next "big thing" they'd start passing laws about (like they did with viruses and spam). Glad to see that hope may come true!
It'd really be nice to see this issue talked about in the more mainstream press, so that it gets a negative following like spam has. Might not solve it, but at least people will know it exists.
Good for the swinging 60s I'm sure, but I'm just a little too sober for it these days.
You know, you've hit on a point here I've often brought up. A 1968 review about a movie made in 1968 is different than a review about the same movie written in 2004.
If we're going to be comparing apples to apples, I think we should compare reviews written at the same time.
If you're not using it for jogging, you could also look into getting an inexpensive MP3 CD player. Bring along 6 CD-R's of your favorite tunes and you've got quite a bit of storage. A $50 one I got works great in the car and never skips. Runs quite a while on the 2 AA batteries too (and it's pretty easy to throw an extra pair in wherever I'm going). Don't think it would work well for jogging, though. After a year of that, I finally broke down and got a car MP3 player, but I still use the portable player to take to parties, etc, along with a cable to patch it into friends' audio systems.
I agree! I've been to the Oregon one three different times. In addition to the KSR's, they have water bottle rocket contests as well. The local kids create compressed air/water rockets and see which ones go the farthest in a straight line. Always a lot of fun to see kids excited about science and innovation...
I've been struggling with getting various browsers to work on a USB key. The biggest problem seems to be the drive letter assigned to the key when used in different PCs. On my system, it's G:. On other users' systems, it is normally E: or F:.
I tried messing with Opera and Firefox and such, and no luck there (even tried some of the bizarre batch file routines that are supposed to make them work, but no dice).
Does crazybrowser work around this problem somehow?
I guess I shouldn't have signed up for all that free crap back in the mid to late 90's. *sigh*.
See, that's the main problem right there. People who have recent emails (say, before 5 years ago) know not to post the address in certain places. For those of us who have older email addresses, back before SPAM was a problem, we're just screwed if we want to continue using that email.
One of my favorites has always been "Cannibal: The Musical". The south park guys drink at least one bottle of scotch during the recording, and get progressively sillier. They only end up commenting on 2/3rds of the movie.
I'm not sure I agree. I watch a lot of non-anime animation, and I've always thought the Sam and Max cartoon was meant for a much younger audience. The comic book version and the video game are just edgier, I guess. I tried to watch a collection of the cartoons recently and they just seemed too silly and lacked the abrasiveness of the comic book version. I imagine this was intentional, since I remember the time slot being early (like, a Saturday morning before-10am slot). I guess I was hoping for more of a Simpsons or Futurama style show, than an Ed Edd and Eddy one. Well, also I just got really attached to the voices in the video game version... That Max voice was just perfect IMO (as perfect as Bugs Bunny's voice was for him)
I've heard that BPL is a "last mile" solution. Does that mean that something like fiber optic cable would be used up to that last mile? If so, how does that help a hard-to-reach rural area when you're primarily using fiber lines to reach them anyway? I mean, I can understand how it might help a dense "last mile" area (say, a block of apartment buildings not having to be rewired) but everyone's touting the rural area idea.
Aside from the phone technical support, a lot of companies try to get you to use email support as an option. Does this actually work better than phone support? I would imagine it's just easier to delete emails and remove the problem of pesky customers than it is on the phone. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I'd just like to mention that it's a very underrated book. I bought it (like most people, I suspect) for the Dirk Gently story chapters. I found, however, that the parts I most enjoyed were his essays and interviews. Douglas Adams is a great speaker and essayist, and has a lot of fascinating viewpoints of different areas of life (especially religion). It kind of reminded me of when I saw "An Evening With Kevin Smith". Smith's movies are pretty good (Clerks especially), but his public speaking and storytelling were just outstanding. I had a friend over watching it, and he had never seen a Smith movie (imagine that) but still enjoyed the talks immensely.
I've found that the time it takes to get good (192kbps+) versions of songs off of a complete album is much longer and expensive than simply shelling out 10 bucks for the CD at a music store.
But, you know something? It's all give and take. If I'm not willing to pay for an album, I'm willing to settle for poor quality. If I really wanted the quality to matter, it's worth a purchase.
...and when it does make it in front of a judge, you might get Judge Snyder from the Simpsons calling for a writ of "Boys will be boys". I wonder how many cases involving children get that kind of response...
This kind of reminds me of a security training we had at work. This guy came out and pretty much scared the living daylights out of us with horror stories about personal safety, with a clever sales pitch about all the gasses and alarms and stickers that could have helped those people. Afterwards, lo and behold, all those items mentioned were on sale...
Sure, fill a kids head up with evil drug thoughts and he's going to use that "suggestion box" out of fear alone.
I don't buy anything from telemarketers. But I don't get as worked up about it when they call me, I simply say no, and hang up.
I simply hang up. I try to devote as little time to telemarketers as I can. Sure, I could be more civil and wait until I can politely say "No" and "Goodbye", but let's face it: They're eager to end the call so they can start a new one, and I'm just eager to end the call. Definately no point in getting worked up over it; that would take even more of my time...
I completely agree with you. In fact, since prisoner rape is pretty much a given these days, I think courtroom judges should take it into account when sentencing people.
The simplest solution is that a car that thinks it is pirated start warning 30 days before it's going to shut itself off to give the user a chance to do something and finally disable itself. That is effective and friendly.
I think that's an excellent idea for a number of reasons:
* Perhaps the user had the software installed by a friend and didn't know it was pirated. A 30 day warning doesn't assume guilt.
* A lot of share/trialware does this already, so people are used to these kind of reminders.
* If it was a mistake (maybe the other person with the same serial number is actually the pirate) it gives the company/user time to fix the error before simply shutting down.
* If the software was obtained illegally, there's still time to correct it and 'repent'.
* And as reidbold said, it's effective and friendly (in a world where most things are CYA and nuts to the other guy).
Many times, if I'm having trouble with an application or a piece of hardware, I'll look there before even going to the company's website. Odds are someone has mentioned the problem, and then there's a nice thread of messages that describes all the opinions of what it might be.
I've solved a lot of hardware conflicts this way, because a lot of times the corporate website's "support" answers only the most basic of questions.
I agree with you completely. I've always thought one could substitute "cars" for "computers" and in both cases, intelligence doesn't really enter into it. If you don't know computers, you can't interpret their messages correctly. If you don't know cars, you can't interpret their messages correctly either.
I once had a "check engine" light on (that took a dealer $50 to "fix") because the ignition had been turned on without the air filter installed. Nothing to do with the engine per-se (although it could have been, since there wasn't an "air filter" light).
Same thing with messages that say "Your computer is not secure!" Could be that the software they are selling may actually make your computer more secure (just like the engine light could actually indicate a problem with the engine).
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Which OS are you talking about? Not XP, I guess. In my XP, when I have to End Task on explorer.exe it starts right back up again every time. I do remember Windows 98 doing that, though.
I basically want to be able to travel with my browser and links to various PCs and just have it work without a lot of trouble.
That's my favorite feature, too. Even if it crashes with 5 tabs in use, it brings back each one. No struggling to figure out which search terms you used and which pages you had opened, if you get a crash partway into researching something. Of course, other browsers might do that too, I haven't done a whole lot of searching since I'm satisfied with Opera.
It'd really be nice to see this issue talked about in the more mainstream press, so that it gets a negative following like spam has. Might not solve it, but at least people will know it exists.
You know, you've hit on a point here I've often brought up. A 1968 review about a movie made in 1968 is different than a review about the same movie written in 2004.
If we're going to be comparing apples to apples, I think we should compare reviews written at the same time.
If you're not using it for jogging, you could also look into getting an inexpensive MP3 CD player. Bring along 6 CD-R's of your favorite tunes and you've got quite a bit of storage. A $50 one I got works great in the car and never skips. Runs quite a while on the 2 AA batteries too (and it's pretty easy to throw an extra pair in wherever I'm going). Don't think it would work well for jogging, though. After a year of that, I finally broke down and got a car MP3 player, but I still use the portable player to take to parties, etc, along with a cable to patch it into friends' audio systems.
Free time is still around for adults. I'm taking a 9 1/2 hour plane ride later this week, and you better believe I'm taking the GBA along.
I agree! I've been to the Oregon one three different times. In addition to the KSR's, they have water bottle rocket contests as well. The local kids create compressed air/water rockets and see which ones go the farthest in a straight line. Always a lot of fun to see kids excited about science and innovation...
I tried messing with Opera and Firefox and such, and no luck there (even tried some of the bizarre batch file routines that are supposed to make them work, but no dice).
Does crazybrowser work around this problem somehow?
See, that's the main problem right there. People who have recent emails (say, before 5 years ago) know not to post the address in certain places. For those of us who have older email addresses, back before SPAM was a problem, we're just screwed if we want to continue using that email.
One of my favorites has always been "Cannibal: The Musical". The south park guys drink at least one bottle of scotch during the recording, and get progressively sillier. They only end up commenting on 2/3rds of the movie.
I'm not sure I agree. I watch a lot of non-anime animation, and I've always thought the Sam and Max cartoon was meant for a much younger audience. The comic book version and the video game are just edgier, I guess. I tried to watch a collection of the cartoons recently and they just seemed too silly and lacked the abrasiveness of the comic book version. I imagine this was intentional, since I remember the time slot being early (like, a Saturday morning before-10am slot). I guess I was hoping for more of a Simpsons or Futurama style show, than an Ed Edd and Eddy one. Well, also I just got really attached to the voices in the video game version... That Max voice was just perfect IMO (as perfect as Bugs Bunny's voice was for him)
I've heard that BPL is a "last mile" solution. Does that mean that something like fiber optic cable would be used up to that last mile? If so, how does that help a hard-to-reach rural area when you're primarily using fiber lines to reach them anyway? I mean, I can understand how it might help a dense "last mile" area (say, a block of apartment buildings not having to be rewired) but everyone's touting the rural area idea.
Aside from the phone technical support, a lot of companies try to get you to use email support as an option. Does this actually work better than phone support? I would imagine it's just easier to delete emails and remove the problem of pesky customers than it is on the phone. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I'd just like to mention that it's a very underrated book. I bought it (like most people, I suspect) for the Dirk Gently story chapters. I found, however, that the parts I most enjoyed were his essays and interviews. Douglas Adams is a great speaker and essayist, and has a lot of fascinating viewpoints of different areas of life (especially religion). It kind of reminded me of when I saw "An Evening With Kevin Smith". Smith's movies are pretty good (Clerks especially), but his public speaking and storytelling were just outstanding. I had a friend over watching it, and he had never seen a Smith movie (imagine that) but still enjoyed the talks immensely.
I agree with you to a point. If it's possible to program the ability to save at any point in the game, why would a designer make save points? Anyone?
But, you know something? It's all give and take. If I'm not willing to pay for an album, I'm willing to settle for poor quality. If I really wanted the quality to matter, it's worth a purchase.
...and when it does make it in front of a judge, you might get Judge Snyder from the Simpsons calling for a writ of "Boys will be boys". I wonder how many cases involving children get that kind of response...
Sure, fill a kids head up with evil drug thoughts and he's going to use that "suggestion box" out of fear alone.
Someday they may even release "The Cat Returns" to Disney for dubbing (which is a pretty whimsical film, but fun to hear the word "neko" a lot)
I simply hang up. I try to devote as little time to telemarketers as I can. Sure, I could be more civil and wait until I can politely say "No" and "Goodbye", but let's face it: They're eager to end the call so they can start a new one, and I'm just eager to end the call. Definately no point in getting worked up over it; that would take even more of my time...
I completely agree with you. In fact, since prisoner rape is pretty much a given these days, I think courtroom judges should take it into account when sentencing people.
I think that's an excellent idea for a number of reasons:
* Perhaps the user had the software installed by a friend and didn't know it was pirated. A 30 day warning doesn't assume guilt.
* A lot of share/trialware does this already, so people are used to these kind of reminders.
* If it was a mistake (maybe the other person with the same serial number is actually the pirate) it gives the company/user time to fix the error before simply shutting down.
* If the software was obtained illegally, there's still time to correct it and 'repent'.
* And as reidbold said, it's effective and friendly (in a world where most things are CYA and nuts to the other guy).
Many times, if I'm having trouble with an application or a piece of hardware, I'll look there before even going to the company's website. Odds are someone has mentioned the problem, and then there's a nice thread of messages that describes all the opinions of what it might be.
I've solved a lot of hardware conflicts this way, because a lot of times the corporate website's "support" answers only the most basic of questions.
I once had a "check engine" light on (that took a dealer $50 to "fix") because the ignition had been turned on without the air filter installed. Nothing to do with the engine per-se (although it could have been, since there wasn't an "air filter" light).
Same thing with messages that say "Your computer is not secure!" Could be that the software they are selling may actually make your computer more secure (just like the engine light could actually indicate a problem with the engine).