I think you're exaggerating it a bit. If that would be the case, the "FP" first postings would be dead and Informative/Insightful first-post would start appearing.
Apart from that I think using the word "insiders" in the same sencence as "pay cash dollars" is a bit weird: An insider has by definition extra information - paid or unpaid.
Before you point me out that I actually have first post in this story: let me tell you this. It's the first time I every tried to after several years of reading and posting on slashdot. Apart from that, I don't hold "one of the worst troll accounts", nor do I have a "highest respected account".
Crapflooders, I don't know. I read at +1 (because I post at +1, even though I have the bonus).
Nope... We get as much dupes as the freeloaders do. Subscribed users just get to see the article before everyone else (instead of the time it says "Posted by [submitter] in The Mysterious Future!").
You can't comment, just go there before the server is dead. Apart from that, it's really useful for first posting;-)
Yes, but in that case, my bluetooth connection with the internet would drop and my modified Apache for PalmOS couldn't serve my addressbook of "sluts-that-likes-nerds" anymore! As a good P2P citizen I share useful information.
Because it's *two way* and completely transparent to the user. See, there will be applications running on these Tablet PC's that will interact directly with database on a server over wireless. These tablets won't be running just Word or Office, they will be running custom-written applications for specific tasks.
Now, see.... to get back to my nurse example. Imagine the nurse has to fill in an electronic form for each patient. This form is sent in real-time to the central database. Well, just add timestamps to the records (which should be done anyway...) and then the boss can use his application to see the progress of a nurse. Progress not good enough? Send Intstant Message. Happens too much? No worry, I'll probably be able to send a digital Pink Slip.... (Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit here)
Compare to today: fill in paper, fill into system later. No timestamps to track you.
I am not kidding you: these were the kind of applications that werd *demoed* to me on that presentation. The presenter actually admitted that some of these things were quite Orwellian, when I asked him about it.
What were you so impressed about? The handwriting recognition works indeed, but I wouldn't want to write a lengthy text with it.
Finish and engineering are just something that can be attributed to the manufacturer. For every good tablet PC, you'll find 100 crappy ones.
Fact remains: it's meant to be a niche product. Heck, that was how it was presented to us, and as I told you I work for a company that *makes* these things.
While this is indeed not Tablet PC, I have had a real tablet PC in my hands. I will tell you this: I was *not* impressed. Since I work for one of the companies that manufacture Table PC's, we got a little "brainwashing session". Uhm, didn't work on me: basically a tablet PC is a device for a niche market. Medical profession, Police, workers in warehouses and other highly mobile workers. Note, not salesmen, for my viewpoint a salesman can always sit down with a prospective client and take out is -less expensive- laptop.
The tablet PC is useful in some situations, but you won't see them getting as mainstream as laptops and desktop PC's.
On top of that, what people fail to mention, is that tablet PC's will be used to show the productivity of workers *in real time* to your boss. That is literally "big brother" is watching you. Imagine the nice little instant message that a nurse could get from her boss because she stays with a patient a little longer (IM="Work faster lazy bum!"). This only because she only listended to the patients lament, instead of robotically going to the next patient? She will be the "lesser productive" one, but she does her work better.
Uhm...Not really, since due to the "without karma" and "without breasts" both the pretty girl and the nerd are specialized forms of the collections "pretty girls" respectively "nerds".
Ergo, you cannot go back to the less specialized form. You cannot say "a nerd is like a pretty girl (with out without breast)", nor can you say "a nerd without karma is like a pretty girl".
Changing the gender, doesn't really help, because never did I state that a "petty girl" was equivalent with "pretty guy", nor did I state the gender of the nerd in question (might have been a girl in the first place!)
So essentially, your deduction based on my statement is incorrect. Funny...but incorrect.
And if you mean that "a pretty girls without breasts" == "a pretty guy", you should check the part below the belly button. For the record: I know some girls with very tiny breasts that I would consider "damned hot", I just got recently converted to the D-size formats. (Not that's not "FORMAT D:")
A way? Probably by measuring the voltage fluctuation and stuff like that. As I said: I never experienced it myself, I always buy "overkill" power supplies.
I think the best way to check is just to try another powersupply and see if the problem goes away. Of course, that's a problem if you don't have a powersupply lying around (I have a 320W and a 500W powersupply just lying in my spare parts box...Both of them never used... long story.)
Agreed! That would be really nifty. Is there any system that actually does that?
Anyways, the three main causes of flakyness in computer are:
a) Bad cooling
b) Flaky RAM
c) Weak power supply
I personally had a) and b), which makes your computer completely unpredictable. c) was reported to me on several instances by other geeks. Now, if a computer does weird things, it's this little list that I check.
I have seen molestedcars.com before, yet it doesn't impress me as much as it's french equilavent The Jacky Touch . Even if you don't speak a word french, go and take a look at the atrocities in the galleries. If you do know french, go and read the comments... That guy is incredibly funny.
Okay... Uhm. I am not native frenchmen. Let's just say that I speak french all day professionally, and started learning it when I was 6 years old or so. (I'm now 26).
The problem with inexisting words in french is to attribute their gender. I usually do that on feeling, and I think you should ask a real frenchman to get the most accurate answer. However I have noticed that borrowed english words typically get the male gender. I don't know if this is a rule, but it might. Consider "un pullover", "un steak", "un bug", "un compact disc" ("Cédé", actually), "un toaster",...
I can think of one exception "une disquette", but as you see they also changed the spelling of the word.
I just asked the opinion of google on this issue (Advanced search: French only):
5000$ on an engagement ring??? Wow.... I've never in my whole life spent more than 3000$ on a computer so I'm not going to spend so much ever on an engagement ring.
If my girl wants a 5000$ engagement ring, she has two choices: help me pay it, or go see elsewhere. Love is not about money... If she's not happy to get *you* along with a budget engagement ring (let's say a 1000$ engagement ring), then she doesn't love *you* but your money...
Oh, and don't worry... My girl knows how I feel. So don't call me a cheap bastard. (She can of course, if she wants...)
I had the same problem: had to download the W2K drivers from my mobo manufacturer to get the speed on an acceptable level. (No, I don't run XP...) I actually had this problem on three systems: two with a ASUS motherboard and one with a Tyan motherboard.
Once the drivers are there, everything works fine. Heck in one case, for the primary HD it switched from PIO mode to Ulta-DMA mode, so nuff said...
I'm also thankful he didn't make that mistake, but you should change your sig to "Ceci n'est pas UN post". You could use "une poste", but that's not what you mean because then you would be talking about the postal office. Better yet, say: "Ceci n'est pas un commentaire" to keep it fully french.
I do realise you just took Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and substituted "pipe" with "post". On a secondary note: "pipe" also means blowjob in French... but that is a completely different tale.
You have these cassette-adapter thingies for your car. It's just a casette with a magnetic head in it and a cable coming out from the side. The cable hangs out of your car-casette player and you can hang anything on it. I personally use it to plug my portabel MiniDisc player into it. Guess, you could do that with a MP3 player too. Of course quality is not as high as purely digital, but neither are your standard audio-casettes;
I have a recent car (3 years old) and it came with a casette player "in front" and a CD changer. I just don't like chaning the CD's every few days, because It's behind the seat and not really easy to access. So I work around it by using my MiniDisc player (yes, I know MiniDisc is not popular around here)
In Luxembourg too. (Called MiniCash) That would make it the whole Benelux. Unfortunately those systems Proton, MiniCash and whatever it's called in The Netherlands are not compatible. That's rather annoying: I cannot come along with my MiniCash card in Belgium and pay with it. That just doesn't work.
No there isn't.... In europe you have to use the "Alt-Gr" key in combination with "E" in order to get the sign. However, the "Alt-Gr" key doesn't exist on American keyboards. The "Alt-Gr" key is on the right side of the space bar on european keyboards, while on american keyboards there is another "Alt" key.
I've always heard that "Alt-Gr" is equal to "Ctrl-Alt", so you migh try "Ctrl-Alt-E" in order to produce the sign. I wouldn't bet on it though.
Not only that... You can actually get some Asterix and Obelix comics in Latin. I remind reading excerpts in my Latin classes. I actually have "Asterix Gallus". Really cool:-)
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Apart from that I think using the word "insiders" in the same sencence as "pay cash dollars" is a bit weird: An insider has by definition extra information - paid or unpaid.
Before you point me out that I actually have first post in this story: let me tell you this. It's the first time I every tried to after several years of reading and posting on slashdot. Apart from that, I don't hold "one of the worst troll accounts", nor do I have a "highest respected account".
Crapflooders, I don't know. I read at +1 (because I post at +1, even though I have the bonus).
Nope... We get as much dupes as the freeloaders do. Subscribed users just get to see the article before everyone else (instead of the time it says "Posted by [submitter] in The Mysterious Future!"). ;-)
You can't comment, just go there before the server is dead. Apart from that, it's really useful for first posting
Dupe!
Look six headlines down (assuming you don't block topics) and it's still here on the main page.
Yes, but in that case, my bluetooth connection with the internet would drop and my modified Apache for PalmOS couldn't serve my addressbook of "sluts-that-likes-nerds" anymore! As a good P2P citizen I share useful information.
I want a cellphone that alerts me whenever there is a slut in proximity that wouldn't mind being screwed by a pasty-skinned-underweight-nerd!
Anyone knows that *true* time travellers use Sports Alamanacs to make bets!
Now, see.... to get back to my nurse example. Imagine the nurse has to fill in an electronic form for each patient. This form is sent in real-time to the central database. Well, just add timestamps to the records (which should be done anyway...) and then the boss can use his application to see the progress of a nurse. Progress not good enough? Send Intstant Message. Happens too much? No worry, I'll probably be able to send a digital Pink Slip.... (Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit here)
Compare to today: fill in paper, fill into system later. No timestamps to track you.
I am not kidding you: these were the kind of applications that werd *demoed* to me on that presentation. The presenter actually admitted that some of these things were quite Orwellian, when I asked him about it.
Finish and engineering are just something that can be attributed to the manufacturer. For every good tablet PC, you'll find 100 crappy ones.
Fact remains: it's meant to be a niche product. Heck, that was how it was presented to us, and as I told you I work for a company that *makes* these things.
The tablet PC is useful in some situations, but you won't see them getting as mainstream as laptops and desktop PC's.
On top of that, what people fail to mention, is that tablet PC's will be used to show the productivity of workers *in real time* to your boss. That is literally "big brother" is watching you. Imagine the nice little instant message that a nurse could get from her boss because she stays with a patient a little longer (IM="Work faster lazy bum!"). This only because she only listended to the patients lament, instead of robotically going to the next patient? She will be the "lesser productive" one, but she does her work better.
Ergo, you cannot go back to the less specialized form. You cannot say "a nerd is like a pretty girl (with out without breast)", nor can you say "a nerd without karma is like a pretty girl".
Changing the gender, doesn't really help, because never did I state that a "petty girl" was equivalent with "pretty guy", nor did I state the gender of the nerd in question (might have been a girl in the first place!)
So essentially, your deduction based on my statement is incorrect. Funny...but incorrect.
And if you mean that "a pretty girls without breasts" == "a pretty guy", you should check the part below the belly button. For the record: I know some girls with very tiny breasts that I would consider "damned hot", I just got recently converted to the D-size formats. (Not that's not "FORMAT D:")
A way? Probably by measuring the voltage fluctuation and stuff like that. As I said: I never experienced it myself, I always buy "overkill" power supplies.
I think the best way to check is just to try another powersupply and see if the problem goes away. Of course, that's a problem if you don't have a powersupply lying around (I have a 320W and a 500W powersupply just lying in my spare parts box...Both of them never used... long story.)
Anyways, the three main causes of flakyness in computer are:
a) Bad cooling
b) Flaky RAM
c) Weak power supply
I personally had a) and b), which makes your computer completely unpredictable. c) was reported to me on several instances by other geeks. Now, if a computer does weird things, it's this little list that I check.
Why in hell would you want to do that? If it's defective, it should be replaced.
Anyways, for me "Bells and whistles" is the same as the parent poster thinks: eyecandy, integrated webbrowsers, cutesy helpers, etc...
I have seen molestedcars.com before, yet it doesn't impress me as much as it's french equilavent The Jacky Touch . Even if you don't speak a word french, go and take a look at the atrocities in the galleries. If you do know french, go and read the comments... That guy is incredibly funny.
A traffic jam?
The problem with inexisting words in french is to attribute their gender. I usually do that on feeling, and I think you should ask a real frenchman to get the most accurate answer. However I have noticed that borrowed english words typically get the male gender. I don't know if this is a rule, but it might. Consider "un pullover", "un steak", "un bug", "un compact disc" ("Cédé", actually), "un toaster",...
I can think of one exception "une disquette", but as you see they also changed the spelling of the word.
I just asked the opinion of google on this issue (Advanced search: French only):
- 53 results for "Ceci n'est pas un post"
- 0 results for "Ceci n'est pas une post"
Hope the guy who gave you that advice has a good excuse...5000$ on an engagement ring??? Wow.... I've never in my whole life spent more than 3000$ on a computer so I'm not going to spend so much ever on an engagement ring.
If my girl wants a 5000$ engagement ring, she has two choices: help me pay it, or go see elsewhere. Love is not about money... If she's not happy to get *you* along with a budget engagement ring (let's say a 1000$ engagement ring), then she doesn't love *you* but your money...
Oh, and don't worry... My girl knows how I feel. So don't call me a cheap bastard. (She can of course, if she wants...)
I had the same problem: had to download the W2K drivers from my mobo manufacturer to get the speed on an acceptable level. (No, I don't run XP...) I actually had this problem on three systems: two with a ASUS motherboard and one with a Tyan motherboard.
Once the drivers are there, everything works fine. Heck in one case, for the primary HD it switched from PIO mode to Ulta-DMA mode, so nuff said...
I do realise you just took Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" and substituted "pipe" with "post". On a secondary note: "pipe" also means blowjob in French... but that is a completely different tale.
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Fun eh?
Hunn si eng email geschriwwen... Sinn mol gespaant.
You have these cassette-adapter thingies for your car. It's just a casette with a magnetic head in it and a cable coming out from the side. The cable hangs out of your car-casette player and you can hang anything on it. I personally use it to plug my portabel MiniDisc player into it. Guess, you could do that with a MP3 player too. Of course quality is not as high as purely digital, but neither are your standard audio-casettes;
I have a recent car (3 years old) and it came with a casette player "in front" and a CD changer. I just don't like chaning the CD's every few days, because It's behind the seat and not really easy to access. So I work around it by using my MiniDisc player (yes, I know MiniDisc is not popular around here)
In Luxembourg too. (Called MiniCash) That would make it the whole Benelux. Unfortunately those systems Proton, MiniCash and whatever it's called in The Netherlands are not compatible. That's rather annoying: I cannot come along with my MiniCash card in Belgium and pay with it. That just doesn't work.
No there isn't.... In europe you have to use the "Alt-Gr" key in combination with "E" in order to get the sign. However, the "Alt-Gr" key doesn't exist on American keyboards. The "Alt-Gr" key is on the right side of the space bar on european keyboards, while on american keyboards there is another "Alt" key.
I've always heard that "Alt-Gr" is equal to "Ctrl-Alt", so you migh try "Ctrl-Alt-E" in order to produce the sign. I wouldn't bet on it though.
Not only that... You can actually get some Asterix and Obelix comics in Latin. I remind reading excerpts in my Latin classes. I actually have "Asterix Gallus". Really cool :-)