Yes, this. The annoyance of UI changes is by app, not just for OS updates. If something is working and not causing me trouble, I'm probably not going to update it. I had a third party keyboard actually switch around the long press symbols on some of the keys for an update... really, guys?
My wife teaches at a state funded school just south of Boston and they don't even have a photocopier that works properly, never mind a Mac per student.
My wife & I have definite watching modes... the TV is almost always on, but there are only certain shows we actually actively engage in watching, mostly because you have to or a lot of things get missed (csi, lost, house, family guy). Other shows it hardly matters if you just glance up at it from cooking, cleaning, the laptop, whatever.
The shows we actively watch, the commercials get skipped. The background ones they usually get to play.
I don't mind some commercials, as there is a good amount of pop culture buried in the commercials we all become familiar with... After all, who doesn't love the freecreditreport.com songs?
I don't mind the presence of the ads, but more the ads themselves. Once in awhile one will come out that's truly entertaining, and I enjoy that. I can't stand the commercials that are insultingly stupid (the new DD commercials, and the "gellin' like magellan" series, to name a couple). A more frequent refresh of content would be nice too. Having to watch the same clip 4 times every half hour for weeks or months on end, anything will get annoying. I really don't mind *new* commercials... but it's usually just the same ones over and over and over.
I wouldn't mind watching the commercials if they were new more often... the first time or two that I see one, it's sometimes mildly entertaining, if it doesn't make me feel dumber for having seen it (see subject line)... but I have to see the same spot 4 times during a half hour show during every episode of that show for months, and I just want to shoot the TV.
Though I have a DVR, I probably let the commercials run more often than I skip them... that's when I pay attention to the laptop screen or get up to go to the bathroom or the fridge.
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As I understand it, the "on fire" entry in the printer status indicates when a line printer has a paper jam and is still online, thus potentially generating enough heat to *actually* catch fire... or so I've been told.
My wife is an elementary teacher, so I get a lot of stories. The biggest thing is that parents need to take some responsibility for their childrens' education.
She was tutoring one student in reading after school. Basically they'd only read a half dozen pages and talk about them, but it's the only progress the kid made in the book because he doesn't read at home because his parents don't make him. I wonder why he needs tutoring?
There are other kids who never do homework because their parents don't make them and don't care. They think it's not their problem.
Once early on during a unit on the metric system she assigned some homework and one of the problems covered something they hadn't talked about yet, but it was in the book and, while I don't remember the specific example, it was something that I considered fairly general knowlege... but one student's mother sent in an annoyed note with the homework saying that teachers shouldn't assign homework problems with concepts that haven't been covered in class and that her child didn't know how to do it and neither did she.
Parents don't want to be involved and don't want to admit it when their child is anything less than perfect. Apparently it's better to deny there's a problem than to get some extra help.
One time I installed one of those amd 5x86 cpus turned 90-degrees... smoked the motherboard, but when we put the cpu the right way onto another board, it worked just fine.
I use this transmitter on my home jukebox: http://www.hobbytron.net/UK333.html
and it's been nearly perfect. Not hi-fi, sure... but for casual listening around the house I've no complaints. If I want good sound, I'm not listening to my mp3's anyway... I'll just go put the CD in.
You *DO* own all the CD's you have digitally, right?;)
I've had at&t for a bit over a year and it's been just horrendous. I was going to switch sometime soon even if it means changing my number... but the Nov 24th date will probably help my procrastinating...
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Yes, this. The annoyance of UI changes is by app, not just for OS updates. If something is working and not causing me trouble, I'm probably not going to update it. I had a third party keyboard actually switch around the long press symbols on some of the keys for an update... really, guys?
When I telecommute they're lucky if I wear pants!
The first rule about Project Mayhem is you don't ask questions!
Looks like it's completely disabled now... Think maybe the cops don't want the general public reading everything they've been saying?
so diebold's ATMs are as good as their voting machines!
I'm waiting for the headline, "RIAA Sues Everyone With Ears" ... and I only partially expect that The Onion will be the one to carry that.
This is sounding a lot less like "data haven" and a bit more like "evil lair"...
They actually just showed him some old Bugs & Marvin cartoons
Third launch attempt, third failure... why is it that DoD and NASA and Scotty's family all trusted these guys to get anything into space?
My wife teaches at a state funded school just south of Boston and they don't even have a photocopier that works properly, never mind a Mac per student.
I'd think if Lord British wanted to go into space, he'd just use a moongate
My wife & I have definite watching modes... the TV is almost always on, but there are only certain shows we actually actively engage in watching, mostly because you have to or a lot of things get missed (csi, lost, house, family guy). Other shows it hardly matters if you just glance up at it from cooking, cleaning, the laptop, whatever.
The shows we actively watch, the commercials get skipped. The background ones they usually get to play.
I don't mind some commercials, as there is a good amount of pop culture buried in the commercials we all become familiar with... After all, who doesn't love the freecreditreport.com songs?
I knew I haven't been barrelling this stuff for nothing!
I don't mind the presence of the ads, but more the ads themselves. Once in awhile one will come out that's truly entertaining, and I enjoy that. I can't stand the commercials that are insultingly stupid (the new DD commercials, and the "gellin' like magellan" series, to name a couple). A more frequent refresh of content would be nice too. Having to watch the same clip 4 times every half hour for weeks or months on end, anything will get annoying. I really don't mind *new* commercials... but it's usually just the same ones over and over and over.
I wouldn't mind watching the commercials if they were new more often... the first time or two that I see one, it's sometimes mildly entertaining, if it doesn't make me feel dumber for having seen it (see subject line)... but I have to see the same spot 4 times during a half hour show during every episode of that show for months, and I just want to shoot the TV.
Though I have a DVR, I probably let the commercials run more often than I skip them... that's when I pay attention to the laptop screen or get up to go to the bathroom or the fridge.
As I understand it, the "on fire" entry in the printer status indicates when a line printer has a paper jam and is still online, thus potentially generating enough heat to *actually* catch fire... or so I've been told.
My wife is an elementary teacher, so I get a lot of stories. The biggest thing is that parents need to take some responsibility for their childrens' education.
She was tutoring one student in reading after school. Basically they'd only read a half dozen pages and talk about them, but it's the only progress the kid made in the book because he doesn't read at home because his parents don't make him. I wonder why he needs tutoring?
There are other kids who never do homework because their parents don't make them and don't care. They think it's not their problem.
Once early on during a unit on the metric system she assigned some homework and one of the problems covered something they hadn't talked about yet, but it was in the book and, while I don't remember the specific example, it was something that I considered fairly general knowlege... but one student's mother sent in an annoyed note with the homework saying that teachers shouldn't assign homework problems with concepts that haven't been covered in class and that her child didn't know how to do it and neither did she.
Parents don't want to be involved and don't want to admit it when their child is anything less than perfect. Apparently it's better to deny there's a problem than to get some extra help.
One time I installed one of those amd 5x86 cpus turned 90-degrees... smoked the motherboard, but when we put the cpu the right way onto another board, it worked just fine.
I use this transmitter on my home jukebox:
;)
http://www.hobbytron.net/UK333.html
and it's been nearly perfect. Not hi-fi, sure... but for casual listening around the house I've no complaints. If I want good sound, I'm not listening to my mp3's anyway... I'll just go put the CD in.
You *DO* own all the CD's you have digitally, right?
I've had at&t for a bit over a year and it's
been just horrendous. I was going to switch
sometime soon even if it means changing my
number... but the Nov 24th date will probably
help my procrastinating...