As for your other (helpful!) suggestions, where were you before?;) jk. I guess my main point is that I kept finding how it wasn't easy. I need my time for school. My friends (half joking and half serious) said that the frustrations and problems were called "learning" and "fun".
That's fabulous for some, but it's difficult to know what to look for to find help when the "fun" gets to you. It sucked because I felt experienced in Windows(I can be decent tech support at work), but I felt like a total fish out of water in linux. It was long enough ago that this all happened that I don't remember the printer drivers(I'm supposed to remember printer drivers? Why isn't there one printer driver for my printer?). Either way, the fix you describe still sounds like a lot to me. "Switch the print commands"? If I still had linux installed, that would be my first hurdle. I would need to know that _that_ is what I had to do, and only _then_ could I search for an answer. A quick search at linuxquestions.org just now for "switch printer driver" did not yield anything useful.
I work in a video store, and some customers just seem to have bad luck with renting defective items, yet some customers seem surprised to even hear that we could possibly _have_ defective items that we have to deal with in a video store. I came into this linux thing as the latter, and exited as the former. However, this article and its responses shows me that my "lots of defective movies" experiences may not be due to bad luck.
No matter his motivation, taunting, etc...the current article still hits home with some people (like me). I tried Linux twice (Mandrake 9 and Red Hat 9). And I mean really tried. I put up with problems that required ridiculous workarounds(or none...sure I can listen to a CD, but I get no audio for flash on websites...no homestarrunner for me) for months until I realized that I was spending two or three times as long trying to print out the lecture notes for my classes because the Linux drivers couldn't handle something as wacky as "landscape".
I searched, and I searched, for resources to help me learn about the directory tree better, some useful commands, etc...but all I found were things that already assumed that I knew how to install packages(in the right place, no less) or books that assumed I didn't know the difference between a CD drive and a drinkholder.
And when I would tell my hardcore linux friends about the difficulties I was having, they would ask me why I'm using such and such a distro or program anyway. "Um, why do I need powerpoint? Because that's how the lecture notes were given to me."
The software learning CD that comes with my BioPsych textbook works on Windows and Macs...not Linux. With a heavy heart (and my friends outright calling my actions "laaaaaaaaame"), I got rid of Linux.
I'm definitely not saying that Windows is better. But I've only managed to crash Win2kpro about 3 times in 2 years, yet I somehow managed to crash a linux app or two when I tried to do something crazy(open a pdf file). I'm a programmer, so I tried to see what apparently _I_ was doing wrong...but no, the steps I took didn't seem to be unreasonable (Open...Print...ok, print won't work...Help...crash. Hmm.) I thought I was ready for Linux -- obviously it's not ready for me.:)
I work at a large video store chain in Canada where we also have the cell phone kiosks that we have to be familiar with. I'm getting a little sick of it. The cell phone division of the company can be a little...ok, sometimes they're downright mean to us.
I'm sick of hearing from my coworkers when calling in an activation or trying to fix something on a customer's phone that "I should have this information ready at the start" or something like that. How do I know what information you need until I call about the problem?
Sometimes customers complain about the service they get when they call the customer service lines. I don't blame them and usually quietly mention how they're not always the nicest to us, either.
Things are getting competitive up here sometimes...currently one of our competitors is offering a deal where you can get your landline transferred to your cell phone. Our customers who want to cancel and switch to that are then offered six months free local calling...on the 2-year contract.
heh, personally, I just wish that I got some warning about the specials we'll have on our cell phones. Currently the "hot" deal is buy a cell phone on a 2-year plan, and get a free DVD player. Our store was sent 5 DVD players. We sold 4 in one day. Of the five, four of them were sold to staff members. Sounds like it's reeeeeally working with customers, guys.
I think that the first company up here who offers number portability would just lead the way. They'd get the benefits, and the others would just have to follow suit...but I know nothing about marketing or competition or anything, so what do I know?
I'm just a video-store till biscuit. Would you like some popcorn for just 99 cents with your movies this evening?
Gah, I posted a while ago and then was away from slashdot for a while.
I guess I just wanted to point out that yes, I am in Canada, so yes, the parents are legally required to be in store. Which means that I should point out the ratings, because there are those times when the parents get a different game because they forgot to check the ratings themselves.
So, yes, I will point out the ratings, and yes, it's company policy, and yes, it's also the law up here in Canada.
I work in a video store...on Fridays and Saturdays, I see at least 100 transactions per shift, usually up to about 160 transactions. That's a lot of people. And there's a lot to do per transaction, while trying to keep track with game and movie ratings. I'll admit...I feel secretly proud when I find myself checking the ratings and reading it out to parents. It's good to know that "sweet, I remembered this time and I actually caught something." "You know this is rated M for Mature, right?"
And 90% of the time, the parent nods and says yes, they know. And then the kid, insulted that I had to point out how young they are, brags that they've already played that game before. And they often mention that they've already played GTA: Vice City.
At least it's not as bad as when the kids come up to the counter with a game without a parent. Those kids are just plain jerks sometimes. "But my mom is _waiting_ right _there_ in the _car_."
That's great, legally she has to be in store. "You can call my dad at home!"
Anybody who picks up the phone and sounds male could sound like your dad to me. I can't do it.
"*walks out swearing up a storm to their mom in the car*"
...and whether or not they asked for a meal without pork.
"Ok, ladies and gentlemen, for our meal service today, we have a choice of chicken, fish, a vegetarian dish, or our terrorist surprise. Thank you and enjoy your meal."
There's been a lot of questions regarding actually defining what you are looking for. In other words, what _is_ intelligence(Being faster than the person next to you figuring out a word or math problem? Being able to learn a physical skill like throwing a ball with more accuracy than someone else? Recognizing subtle differences in colour and shading in a painting and thus being called an 'artistic genius'? Being able to 'read people' and approach them in a way that will likely achieve your goal in your interactions with them?) has come up a lot.
Do you think that there is a way to actually define intelligence in one particular sense, and once it is defined, try to achieve the singular definition of intelligence? Or is artificial intelligence only reached when many aspects are put together into a single machine(one that, for example, has excellent communication skills that one team worked on, advanced math skills worked on by another team, is able to move around without crashing into things that another group of researchers worked on, able to write sheet music care of yet another area of research, etc)? And if the latter is the case, which and how many aspects are required before it is considered artificially intelligent?
I can vouch for it being out on DVD...and VHS, of course. I spent 8 hours working at a video store yesterday answering questions of "Do you have any Training Day in?" "Can I put Training Day on reserve?", as well as looking in the drop box bins myself and searching.
It has been recently discovered I fit quite nicely in those when they're empty. I await the day my coworkers actually lock me in.
The writers/performers have said that they watch each movie they riff about 8 or 9 times. And they have consistently told the fans that after taping an episode, any memory of the movie is conveniently erased from their memories. They have a theory that it's their brains' way of protecting the writers/performers from deep, deep trauma that would make even Freud squirm.
Gah...if Manos was the only episode of MST3K I had watched, I'd be dead right now. My whole world view changed. I saw evil in its purest fertilizer-salesman form.
I dread the day when my friends finally make me show them the episode...cuz yeah, I do own it.
I've protected them this long from the horror.
I'm going to miss those friends.
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Unless you just meant strictly a TV series that could possibly be a cartoon or anime...in which case, ignore this post.
Heh, at the video store I work at, the occasional customer rents the cartoon, evidently failing to read the display case at _all_...
As for your other (helpful!) suggestions, where were you before? ;) jk. I guess my main point is that I kept finding how it wasn't easy. I need my time for school. My friends (half joking and half serious) said that the frustrations and problems were called "learning" and "fun".
That's fabulous for some, but it's difficult to know what to look for to find help when the "fun" gets to you. It sucked because I felt experienced in Windows(I can be decent tech support at work), but I felt like a total fish out of water in linux. It was long enough ago that this all happened that I don't remember the printer drivers(I'm supposed to remember printer drivers? Why isn't there one printer driver for my printer?). Either way, the fix you describe still sounds like a lot to me. "Switch the print commands"? If I still had linux installed, that would be my first hurdle. I would need to know that _that_ is what I had to do, and only _then_ could I search for an answer. A quick search at linuxquestions.org just now for "switch printer driver" did not yield anything useful.
I work in a video store, and some customers just seem to have bad luck with renting defective items, yet some customers seem surprised to even hear that we could possibly _have_ defective items that we have to deal with in a video store. I came into this linux thing as the latter, and exited as the former. However, this article and its responses shows me that my "lots of defective movies" experiences may not be due to bad luck.
No matter his motivation, taunting, etc...the current article still hits home with some people (like me). I tried Linux twice (Mandrake 9 and Red Hat 9). And I mean really tried. I put up with problems that required ridiculous workarounds(or none...sure I can listen to a CD, but I get no audio for flash on websites...no homestarrunner for me) for months until I realized that I was spending two or three times as long trying to print out the lecture notes for my classes because the Linux drivers couldn't handle something as wacky as "landscape".
:)
I searched, and I searched, for resources to help me learn about the directory tree better, some useful commands, etc...but all I found were things that already assumed that I knew how to install packages(in the right place, no less) or books that assumed I didn't know the difference between a CD drive and a drinkholder.
And when I would tell my hardcore linux friends about the difficulties I was having, they would ask me why I'm using such and such a distro or program anyway. "Um, why do I need powerpoint? Because that's how the lecture notes were given to me."
The software learning CD that comes with my BioPsych textbook works on Windows and Macs...not Linux. With a heavy heart (and my friends outright calling my actions "laaaaaaaaame"), I got rid of Linux.
I'm definitely not saying that Windows is better. But I've only managed to crash Win2kpro about 3 times in 2 years, yet I somehow managed to crash a linux app or two when I tried to do something crazy(open a pdf file). I'm a programmer, so I tried to see what apparently _I_ was doing wrong...but no, the steps I took didn't seem to be unreasonable (Open...Print...ok, print won't work...Help...crash. Hmm.) I thought I was ready for Linux -- obviously it's not ready for me.
I work at a large video store chain in Canada where we also have the cell phone kiosks that we have to be familiar with. I'm getting a little sick of it. The cell phone division of the company can be a little...ok, sometimes they're downright mean to us.
I'm sick of hearing from my coworkers when calling in an activation or trying to fix something on a customer's phone that "I should have this information ready at the start" or something like that. How do I know what information you need until I call about the problem?
Sometimes customers complain about the service they get when they call the customer service lines. I don't blame them and usually quietly mention how they're not always the nicest to us, either.
Things are getting competitive up here sometimes...currently one of our competitors is offering a deal where you can get your landline transferred to your cell phone. Our customers who want to cancel and switch to that are then offered six months free local calling...on the 2-year contract.
heh, personally, I just wish that I got some warning about the specials we'll have on our cell phones. Currently the "hot" deal is buy a cell phone on a 2-year plan, and get a free DVD player. Our store was sent 5 DVD players. We sold 4 in one day. Of the five, four of them were sold to staff members. Sounds like it's reeeeeally working with customers, guys.
I think that the first company up here who offers number portability would just lead the way. They'd get the benefits, and the others would just have to follow suit...but I know nothing about marketing or competition or anything, so what do I know?
I'm just a video-store till biscuit. Would you like some popcorn for just 99 cents with your movies this evening?
Fags like guys, right? Well, so do I.
'cept I'd also need to be a guy to be a fag.
You're quick to assume, dude.
Just thought I'd let you know.
Thanks.
Gah, I posted a while ago and then was away from slashdot for a while.
I guess I just wanted to point out that yes, I am in Canada, so yes, the parents are legally required to be in store. Which means that I should point out the ratings, because there are those times when the parents get a different game because they forgot to check the ratings themselves.
So, yes, I will point out the ratings, and yes, it's company policy, and yes, it's also the law up here in Canada.
Sorry it took so long to reply.
And 90% of the time, the parent nods and says yes, they know. And then the kid, insulted that I had to point out how young they are, brags that they've already played that game before. And they often mention that they've already played GTA: Vice City.
At least it's not as bad as when the kids come up to the counter with a game without a parent. Those kids are just plain jerks sometimes.
"But my mom is _waiting_ right _there_ in the _car_."
That's great, legally she has to be in store.
"You can call my dad at home!"
Anybody who picks up the phone and sounds male could sound like your dad to me. I can't do it.
"*walks out swearing up a storm to their mom in the car*"
Buncha savages in this town.
"Ok, ladies and gentlemen, for our meal service today, we have a choice of chicken, fish, a vegetarian dish, or our terrorist surprise. Thank you and enjoy your meal."
Do you think that there is a way to actually define intelligence in one particular sense, and once it is defined, try to achieve the singular definition of intelligence? Or is artificial intelligence only reached when many aspects are put together into a single machine(one that, for example, has excellent communication skills that one team worked on, advanced math skills worked on by another team, is able to move around without crashing into things that another group of researchers worked on, able to write sheet music care of yet another area of research, etc)? And if the latter is the case, which and how many aspects are required before it is considered artificially intelligent?
It has been recently discovered I fit quite nicely in those when they're empty. I await the day my coworkers actually lock me in.
Believe it or not, apparently, from the beginning of it, they cut out...MORE DRIVING!
The writers/performers have said that they watch each movie they riff about 8 or 9 times. And they have consistently told the fans that after taping an episode, any memory of the movie is conveniently erased from their memories. They have a theory that it's their brains' way of protecting the writers/performers from deep, deep trauma that would make even Freud squirm.
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Yeah I know! I like MST3K too!
Nope, fairly certain that was Manos. The only episode where the Mads actually feel bad for the pain they cause.
Well, Mike Nelson was head writer on the show for most of its run, so if you want to see examples of him ripping into hollywood movies...get the book.
Even the KTMA? With Beeper? That'd be the neatest.
rhino.com --> search for mst3k
Gah...if Manos was the only episode of MST3K I had watched, I'd be dead right now. My whole world view changed. I saw evil in its purest fertilizer-salesman form. I dread the day when my friends finally make me show them the episode...cuz yeah, I do own it. I've protected them this long from the horror. I'm going to miss those friends.