For me, it's always been "what do you use your operating system for?" If you only use your computer for entertainment, then maybe Windows is a good choice. If you're a nuts-and-bolts programmer, then maybe Linux is the right choice. Still, it shouldn't be a war for the desktop. Sounds like more of a war for the uses (like alternatives to MS Office, or Networking software)
This book was assigned to us for use in an Applied Software Development class. Never needed to crack it open though, since the instructor didn't refer to it. From what I could tell it would have been a pretty ambitious 24 hours though.
I'm glad you cleared that up. It's amazing how many people confuse "memory" with "storage". Whenever anybody tells me "I'm out of memory", I have to stop myself from talking about ending program tasks and instead ask "Wait, you mean disk space?" It's all just labeling, but still, it's an important point.
This is how my father learned what "FORMAT.COM" was on my first computer with a disk drive. Lost the first disk of games I ever had before even seeing them... *sniff*
I wonder if there's a way to test if a kid is able to distriguish between the game and reality? Slapping an age limit on it just seems unfair to me. I know some very intelligent 8 year olds, and I know some quite stupid 16 year olds.
Maybe at this point you should clarify which type of students are being taught. I would think that college students require a lot more after-class hours to grade/prepare for than, say, grade school children. I'm not in the know, but that just seems logical.
Our local library does this. They don't even charge for it. Granted, their selection of CD's isn't what you'd find in a retail store.
I would think that the reason you don't see these music rental stores now is for copy protection problems. I suppose once they develop sturdier copy protection for music CD's, these music rental places may start popping up.
Fine. Let the record companies stop making music. One stop at a place like garageband.com shows that quality and talent will prevail. Distribution isn't that big of a deal once the internet's involved.
I still don't get the attraction to King of the Hill... It's animated, but why? It doesn't seem to do anything for the genre; doesn't take advantage of the animation capabilities. Wouldn't it have been a more successful show if it had been live-action? I definately see the comparison to the Simpsons, especially the first season Simpsons, where the storylines were more "real" and less zany.
I definately agree... I still enjoy the Simpsons, and occasionally they have something completely unexpected (my favorite part of animated shows since that kind of thing is very hard for live action to accomplish). Futurama more so, for the same reason (being set in the future leave open all sorts of possibilities for weirdness). However, Family Guy has surprised me almost every single episode with something like Stewie suddenly breaking into a Broadway dance number or one of the characters carrying on in some sort of odd tirade... Just last night I laughed my head off at Peter being in a small glass enclosed box and struggling for air as he lets one go. Sure, it's just a fart joke, but who would've expected that? I even had to rewind at the end of the episode to watch it again right away.
I actually have a good anecdote about being careful to check who's calling before asking to be taken off their call list.
I once got a call from Sears asking for me with my full name (which no one I know uses). They started this little speal, and I broke in with "Oh, before you go on, could you take me off your call list?". The guy came back with "Actually, we're calling to let you know about a past due notice on your Sears card. If you will make arrangements to pay it off we'll *gladly* take you off our call list." He finished this sentence sounding more than a bit smug. I couldn't blame him though, and I sheepishly agreed and hung up the phone. I was even embarrassed enough that I went in the very next day in person to pay it off.
Normally I pay all bills on time, but the invoice for this had been lost in the mail and so I hadn't paid it by the due date. These days, I wait until I'm *positive* that it's really a telemarketing call. Some of those are actually legit!
Oh, but you know what would happen... Someone would just hack it and fool it into thinking a person was really riding. Plus, I see these visions a la Junkyard Wars of devices to spin the pedals.
I noticed that Deflator Mouse and American Maid had been changed to Batman-uel and "Captain Liberty". Why the change from the animated series? Those characters and their rivalry were a great side story, and to use similar characters but have them deeply in love with one another seems like a major switch.
I know that a few colleges (at least) have stopped teachers from copying sections from textbooks to hand out to classes due to copyright law. The last class I took had a teacher who wanted us to read a chapter in an $80 textbook. Since we didn't require the whole book, it seemed like a waste to have each student spend $80 for it.
Well, the administration ruled that the teacher wasn't allowed to copy it, so instead the teacher bought 4 of the books and cycled them around the class. Actually, since the time allowed with the book was so short, many of the students ended up copying the chapter anyway. I guess it's harder to prosecute one person making one copy at various times/various places, vs. a teacher making over 30 copies in one location at once.
I suppose the transition from this story to one involving music CDs wouldn't be too much of a stretch. If a teacher wished for his class to study a particular song (like a chapter in a book), the same thing would happen with it (buy 4 copies, students make copies of the song on their own anyway).
I need to amend my last post, which assumes you know the station you're watching and can therefore look it up in a Guide. To do this, I usually just change the channel up one, and then back down one.
I'm sorry, but don't use use things like TV Guides that tell you when shows are on? I rely on those more than any on-screen logo. Having to wait until the end of the show seems ridiculous.
Where I work I used to have an old AST 286 PC (it had this funny habit of rebooting when you'd touch the keylock on the front of it, but that's beside the point). I think it was running MSDOS 3.22 or something like that.
One day, I had a major crash on the hard drive (a Maxtor, IIRC), couldn't get a directory listing and had to reformat it.
Funny thing was, after I reformatted it, I was presented with a FAT table listing that contained not only the file tree before the format, but a few directories I had even deleted over the years.
I thought I had performed a miracle, until I noticed that the directories didn't truly "exist" and I couldn't change into them...
The second format took care of the problem somehow, but I still wonder how I could have ended up with such an old FAT...
At my company (WinNT network) we have a lot of MS Access database designers and spreadsheet designers who use plugins that can only be installed by someone with admin rights.
You may be setting yourself up for a lot of running around to workstations for setting up these minor things if the users don't have the ability to do so.
I ended up calling TigerDirect a moment ago, and they said that they have no idea when more might be coming in... They said to keep checking back and "perhaps" it will show up again. For now, I guess it's eBay or nothing...?
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For me, it's always been "what do you use your operating system for?" If you only use your computer for entertainment, then maybe Windows is a good choice. If you're a nuts-and-bolts programmer, then maybe Linux is the right choice. Still, it shouldn't be a war for the desktop. Sounds like more of a war for the uses (like alternatives to MS Office, or Networking software)
This book was assigned to us for use in an Applied Software Development class. Never needed to crack it open though, since the instructor didn't refer to it. From what I could tell it would have been a pretty ambitious 24 hours though.
90 days, if you take their link that makes it 30 and change the 30 to 90
I'm glad you cleared that up. It's amazing how many people confuse "memory" with "storage". Whenever anybody tells me "I'm out of memory", I have to stop myself from talking about ending program tasks and instead ask "Wait, you mean disk space?" It's all just labeling, but still, it's an important point.
This is how my father learned what "FORMAT.COM" was on my first computer with a disk drive. Lost the first disk of games I ever had before even seeing them... *sniff*
Don't forget "Dazed And Confused" as a good looking-back movie too. Lots of scenes in that "DAC" movie were straight out of my high school years.
I wonder what they think about Crazy Taxi...
I wonder if there's a way to test if a kid is able to distriguish between the game and reality? Slapping an age limit on it just seems unfair to me. I know some very intelligent 8 year olds, and I know some quite stupid 16 year olds.
Maybe at this point you should clarify which type of students are being taught. I would think that college students require a lot more after-class hours to grade/prepare for than, say, grade school children. I'm not in the know, but that just seems logical.
I would think that the reason you don't see these music rental stores now is for copy protection problems. I suppose once they develop sturdier copy protection for music CD's, these music rental places may start popping up.
Fine. Let the record companies stop making music. One stop at a place like garageband.com shows that quality and talent will prevail. Distribution isn't that big of a deal once the internet's involved.
Wait... Is this only Excite @Home? Or does this include AT&T @Home service?
I still don't get the attraction to King of the Hill... It's animated, but why? It doesn't seem to do anything for the genre; doesn't take advantage of the animation capabilities. Wouldn't it have been a more successful show if it had been live-action? I definately see the comparison to the Simpsons, especially the first season Simpsons, where the storylines were more "real" and less zany.
I definately agree... I still enjoy the Simpsons, and occasionally they have something completely unexpected (my favorite part of animated shows since that kind of thing is very hard for live action to accomplish). Futurama more so, for the same reason (being set in the future leave open all sorts of possibilities for weirdness). However, Family Guy has surprised me almost every single episode with something like Stewie suddenly breaking into a Broadway dance number or one of the characters carrying on in some sort of odd tirade... Just last night I laughed my head off at Peter being in a small glass enclosed box and struggling for air as he lets one go. Sure, it's just a fart joke, but who would've expected that? I even had to rewind at the end of the episode to watch it again right away.
Most of the time I try that I get burned and have to go use a search engine anyway.
I once got a call from Sears asking for me with my full name (which no one I know uses). They started this little speal, and I broke in with "Oh, before you go on, could you take me off your call list?". The guy came back with "Actually, we're calling to let you know about a past due notice on your Sears card. If you will make arrangements to pay it off we'll *gladly* take you off our call list." He finished this sentence sounding more than a bit smug. I couldn't blame him though, and I sheepishly agreed and hung up the phone. I was even embarrassed enough that I went in the very next day in person to pay it off.
Normally I pay all bills on time, but the invoice for this had been lost in the mail and so I hadn't paid it by the due date. These days, I wait until I'm *positive* that it's really a telemarketing call. Some of those are actually legit!
Oh, but you know what would happen... Someone would just hack it and fool it into thinking a person was really riding. Plus, I see these visions a la Junkyard Wars of devices to spin the pedals.
I noticed that Deflator Mouse and American Maid had been changed to Batman-uel and "Captain Liberty". Why the change from the animated series? Those characters and their rivalry were a great side story, and to use similar characters but have them deeply in love with one another seems like a major switch.
Well, the administration ruled that the teacher wasn't allowed to copy it, so instead the teacher bought 4 of the books and cycled them around the class. Actually, since the time allowed with the book was so short, many of the students ended up copying the chapter anyway. I guess it's harder to prosecute one person making one copy at various times/various places, vs. a teacher making over 30 copies in one location at once.
I suppose the transition from this story to one involving music CDs wouldn't be too much of a stretch. If a teacher wished for his class to study a particular song (like a chapter in a book), the same thing would happen with it (buy 4 copies, students make copies of the song on their own anyway).
I need to amend my last post, which assumes you know the station you're watching and can therefore look it up in a Guide. To do this, I usually just change the channel up one, and then back down one.
I'm sorry, but don't use use things like TV Guides that tell you when shows are on? I rely on those more than any on-screen logo. Having to wait until the end of the show seems ridiculous.
One day, I had a major crash on the hard drive (a Maxtor, IIRC), couldn't get a directory listing and had to reformat it.
Funny thing was, after I reformatted it, I was presented with a FAT table listing that contained not only the file tree before the format, but a few directories I had even deleted over the years.
I thought I had performed a miracle, until I noticed that the directories didn't truly "exist" and I couldn't change into them...
The second format took care of the problem somehow, but I still wonder how I could have ended up with such an old FAT...
At my company (WinNT network) we have a lot of MS Access database designers and spreadsheet designers who use plugins that can only be installed by someone with admin rights.
You may be setting yourself up for a lot of running around to workstations for setting up these minor things if the users don't have the ability to do so.
I ended up calling TigerDirect a moment ago, and they said that they have no idea when more might be coming in... They said to keep checking back and "perhaps" it will show up again. For now, I guess it's eBay or nothing...?