if you normally click on a shortcut to open a program, you'll have to find the actual.exe to change compatibility settings... a task i know my mother could never do.
Good news for your mother! Just right-click on the shortcut and choose properties. Then click the "Find Target" button. It's that easy.
If every person in the US turned on everything electric in their house, the grid would be brought to it's knees.
I would think that local breakers would trip, cutting off branches that are drawing excessive power. The grid would be fine, but there would be a lot of unhappy customers.
If every person in the US tried to fill up their car at once, the fuel industry would be brought to it's knees.
The fuel industry would be celebrating. That just means that they can raise the price of gas to $79 a gallon. This in turn would probably prevent a lot of people from filling up their cars...
If every person in the US tried to fly at once, the airline industry would be brought to it's knees.
Somehow, I don't think that enough people would be able to get through security to adversely affect the airlines. It's more likely that the price of gas from the previous scenario would have a worse affect on the industry.
If every person in the US hit slashdot at once, slashdot would be brought to it's knees.
For starters, they should make Slimer more evil than friendly. That really seemed to be too focused to the kiddies in the second film.
Another thing they really must do is get Rick Moranis to make out with more women. Maybe the blonde from his party in the original. Sure, it's more of an adult theme, but it would make for a better movie.
Lastly, there should be no "passing of the torch" crap. We all know the original cast is old, and not getting any younger, but there is no need to introduce someone like Jimmy Fallon as Venkman's nephew or some crap like that. Make us BELIEVE that the ghostbusters we know and love will be our ghostbusters FOREVER.
If we take this to the extreme, the fat people live longer and the skinny people die sooner. Over time, the skinny people will die out, and the human race will have evolved into disgusting blobs. What is really scary is that it would seem that humans were intended to evolve that way...
The original designers of all that equipment have either retired or died. The manufacturing methods were too slow anyway. It's also possible that some of the components may have even become outlawed because of environmental concerns (lead solder or maybe some really toxic fuels). Does the lander HAVE to be wrapped in gold foil like the LEM? I have heard that the price of copper is going through the roof. It just makes sense to completely re-invent the technology, and start fresh.
I'm not worried about the technology, it's the implementation and deployment that bothers me. Why bother to design a lander that runs off of sunlight and generates its own oxygen from waste products when it's going to be launched by people who can't tell the difference between yards and meters? It might not even make it to the moon. Those knuckleheads will probably send it towards Omicron Persei 8.
Ubuntu is getting more and more exposure, and is getting quite the reputation for the easiest to use Linux around. If this trend continues, then the Silly Names will be associated with Ease-of-Use and Supportability. Then, only fly-by-night Linux distributions will be using boring, non-alliterative version numbers to identify their releases. Who will be laughing THEN?
It's been a while, but Seagate's model number naming convention used to be very consistent, and solid, based on a set of hard rules. The model number starts with an ST (to indicate Seagate), then a single digit indicating the form factor of the drive, followed by the UNFORMATTED capacity of the drive, and then A letter indicating interface type. I believe the insertion of the "N" in the model number originally meant "NOVELL", because some drives were specifically designed for 24/7 server operation.
In the early days of installing Netware, you had the option to run a program called COMPSURF (COMPrehensive SURFace analysis) that would scrub the disk for defects and map them out. It would take hours (sometimes days) to run, so that's why Seagate offered drives that were already compsurfed, to speed up the installation of the NOS.
Of course, back then, Novell was pretty much the only network operating system, so they used the N in the model number for Novell. Today, everybody makes operating systems, so it's easy to forget what the N means.
Did you know that there were 3 different incarnations of Voltron?
The first, was the vehicle Voltron, made from 15 different vehicles. (5 land based, 5 submersible, and 5 air/space craft)
The second, was not as well known, and was never translated to English. There were 3 humanoid robots that could join together and become Voltron.
The third, is made up of the 5 lions that most people are familiar with. The stories for this version were directed more toward younger children, probably to market towards a larger audience.
I actually preferred the first Voltron to the one with the Lions. The Vehicle Voltron seemed to have a neater sequence for joining, also the villians were much more evil, and there was a bit more of an adult theme to the whole thing.
The hardest thing to do as an unprivileged user is to change your monitor power settings. The effects of this setting is VERY visible to the user, and very annoying if it is not set correctly. It gets more annoying when you can't change the settings, because you don't have high enough privileges. So, you log out, and then login as an administrator, make the change to the power settings, log off and then log back in as your unprivileged user only to find out that the changes that you just made as an administrator only affect the administrator's user profile.
Sigh.
OK, Logout, login as administrator, grant your unprivileged user rights so he can change the power settings, logout, login as your new super user, change the power settings, remove the privileges so you are an unprivileged user again, log out, and then login as the unprivileged user once again.
While I agree that IBM's mainframe systems are rock-solid (and, as a colleague is fond of saying, self-healing), accidents *DO* happen. I'm sure the mainframe is happily running its code just fine only seconds before a hurricane rips the roof off of the data center and hurls the machine into the next county....
It's those kinds of things that make disaster recovery necessary. If the apps were distributed across discrete servers, its possible that not all of them would have been destroyed. Remember the end of Twister? The barn was wasted, but the house was left intact.
Some OEMs don't even supply you with install discs of the OS. So, you're saying that Microsoft's tech support, which is probably outsourced to India, will ask you to look at a miniscule photo on the DVD that you may not have even been provided, rather than just have you look at the product ID sticker on the side of your case?
Just deciding not to press the button isn't good enough to cause a paradox. You would need to make sure that nobody else could come along and press the button.... Or maybe there was an earthquake, and some plaster falls on the button. No, in order to cause a paradox, you would need to not even invent the machine in the first place.
I always thought that the orange plug at the end of a toy pistol was so that the cops would not mistake it for a real gun, and tragically shoot the child.
If your steampunk ray gun needs an orange plug, then I would say that your local police force has been eating doughnuts filled with LSD.
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Good news for your mother! Just right-click on the shortcut and choose properties. Then click the "Find Target" button. It's that easy.
"Massive corn clog in port 7!"
The fuel industry would be celebrating. That just means that they can raise the price of gas to $79 a gallon. This in turn would probably prevent a lot of people from filling up their cars...
Somehow, I don't think that enough people would be able to get through security to adversely affect the airlines. It's more likely that the price of gas from the previous scenario would have a worse affect on the industry.
Well, you're right.
For starters, they should make Slimer more evil than friendly. That really seemed to be too focused to the kiddies in the second film.
Another thing they really must do is get Rick Moranis to make out with more women. Maybe the blonde from his party in the original. Sure, it's more of an adult theme, but it would make for a better movie.
Lastly, there should be no "passing of the torch" crap. We all know the original cast is old, and not getting any younger, but there is no need to introduce someone like Jimmy Fallon as Venkman's nephew or some crap like that. Make us BELIEVE that the ghostbusters we know and love will be our ghostbusters FOREVER.
Maybe a booming disembodied voice will say "Parallel KILL!"
How about a banana peel?
What, you think that Taiwan doesn't already have enough barely legal asian teen pron as it is?
If we take this to the extreme, the fat people live longer and the skinny people die sooner. Over time, the skinny people will die out, and the human race will have evolved into disgusting blobs. What is really scary is that it would seem that humans were intended to evolve that way...
Or the study's conclusion could just be wrong.
Have her route the output of the detectors to a DAC and feed it into an amplifier. Then she can play the moon like a giant lunar CD.
The original designers of all that equipment have either retired or died. The manufacturing methods were too slow anyway. It's also possible that some of the components may have even become outlawed because of environmental concerns (lead solder or maybe some really toxic fuels). Does the lander HAVE to be wrapped in gold foil like the LEM? I have heard that the price of copper is going through the roof. It just makes sense to completely re-invent the technology, and start fresh.
I'm not worried about the technology, it's the implementation and deployment that bothers me. Why bother to design a lander that runs off of sunlight and generates its own oxygen from waste products when it's going to be launched by people who can't tell the difference between yards and meters? It might not even make it to the moon. Those knuckleheads will probably send it towards Omicron Persei 8.
Write on it.
...And I don't mean write a note with a thumb-sized on screen keyboard. I mean with a stylus.
Draw a picture on it.
Now install one of a million different free add-ons for it.
Use it as an infrared remote control for your television.
Write your own little program on it in BASIC or LUA.
If you can't do those things, it's not a PDA... It's just a glorified phone.
He didn't HAVE to sue every one of his customers while Microsoft made deals with system builders to have Windows installed on every new PC sold....
He could have made a deal with Apple. Can you imagine Unixware on the iPhone?
Ubuntu is getting more and more exposure, and is getting quite the reputation for the easiest to use Linux around. If this trend continues, then the Silly Names will be associated with Ease-of-Use and Supportability. Then, only fly-by-night Linux distributions will be using boring, non-alliterative version numbers to identify their releases. Who will be laughing THEN?
It's been a while, but Seagate's model number naming convention used to be very consistent, and solid, based on a set of hard rules. The model number starts with an ST (to indicate Seagate), then a single digit indicating the form factor of the drive, followed by the UNFORMATTED capacity of the drive, and then A letter indicating interface type. I believe the insertion of the "N" in the model number originally meant "NOVELL", because some drives were specifically designed for 24/7 server operation.
In the early days of installing Netware, you had the option to run a program called COMPSURF (COMPrehensive SURFace analysis) that would scrub the disk for defects and map them out. It would take hours (sometimes days) to run, so that's why Seagate offered drives that were already compsurfed, to speed up the installation of the NOS.
Of course, back then, Novell was pretty much the only network operating system, so they used the N in the model number for Novell. Today, everybody makes operating systems, so it's easy to forget what the N means.
One of them actually HAS landing gear...
Did you know that there were 3 different incarnations of Voltron?
The first, was the vehicle Voltron, made from 15 different vehicles. (5 land based, 5 submersible, and 5 air/space craft)
The second, was not as well known, and was never translated to English. There were 3 humanoid robots that could join together and become Voltron.
The third, is made up of the 5 lions that most people are familiar with. The stories for this version were directed more toward younger children, probably to market towards a larger audience.
I actually preferred the first Voltron to the one with the Lions. The Vehicle Voltron seemed to have a neater sequence for joining, also the villians were much more evil, and there was a bit more of an adult theme to the whole thing.
The hardest thing to do as an unprivileged user is to change your monitor power settings. The effects of this setting is VERY visible to the user, and very annoying if it is not set correctly. It gets more annoying when you can't change the settings, because you don't have high enough privileges.
So, you log out, and then login as an administrator, make the change to the power settings, log off and then log back in as your unprivileged user only to find out that the changes that you just made as an administrator only affect the administrator's user profile.
Sigh.
OK, Logout, login as administrator, grant your unprivileged user rights so he can change the power settings, logout, login as your new super user, change the power settings, remove the privileges so you are an unprivileged user again, log out, and then login as the unprivileged user once again.
Thankfully, there are ways to deal with this.
While I agree that IBM's mainframe systems are rock-solid (and, as a colleague is fond of saying, self-healing), accidents *DO* happen. I'm sure the mainframe is happily running its code just fine only seconds before a hurricane rips the roof off of the data center and hurls the machine into the next county....
It's those kinds of things that make disaster recovery necessary. If the apps were distributed across discrete servers, its possible that not all of them would have been destroyed. Remember the end of Twister? The barn was wasted, but the house was left intact.
Yes, but when you try to weigh it, it keeps rolling off the scale.
Some OEMs don't even supply you with install discs of the OS. So, you're saying that Microsoft's tech support, which is probably outsourced to India, will ask you to look at a miniscule photo on the DVD that you may not have even been provided, rather than just have you look at the product ID sticker on the side of your case?
You're right, I don't get it.
Just deciding not to press the button isn't good enough to cause a paradox. You would need to make sure that nobody else could come along and press the button.... Or maybe there was an earthquake, and some plaster falls on the button. No, in order to cause a paradox, you would need to not even invent the machine in the first place.
I sure hope he gets more funding...
Do you mean:
"Press 1 Meow..."
I always thought that the orange plug at the end of a toy pistol was so that the cops would not mistake it for a real gun, and tragically shoot the child.
If your steampunk ray gun needs an orange plug, then I would say that your local police force has been eating doughnuts filled with LSD.