Is it just me or is anyone else in a perpetual state of battery hell? I'm looking at the devices on my desk right now that I use throught my day -- PDA, Graphing Calculator, Cell Phone, Digital Camera, and two MP3 players (one solid state for jogging, one HD based one for trips).
Between all these things I'm drowning in power transformers, docking stations, and battery chargers! I feel like a fleet manager, its practically a full time job making sure everything has power.
I've got a better one then that -- my "American Beauty" DVD died of DVD Ro. Think Warner Brothers is going to replace it?:) I refuse to buy new one out of principle.
I wonder if Intel will learn a lesson from RAMBUS's demise
Wasn't Intel part and parcel of the rambus problem? IIRC they owned a major stake of the company which was deeded to them so they would SUPPORT Rambus technologies so Rambus could extort people? Wasn't it only after consumers collectively said "Fuck that shit" that Intel stopped producing Rambus motherboards?
Ummm WTF are you talking about? The Win32s are FILLED with functions that only work on a specific platforms or are buggy on ceartin platforms making them unreliable. Its only plain vanilla applications that work on any platform -- and you'll find alot of code in there that says if(WINDOWS_VERSION == 98) {} elif (WINDOWS_VERSION == 2000) -- thats not really cross platform compatibility.
lemme tell you what you do if someone is being rude with a cell phone -- just tell them to shut the fuck up instead of pulling out your cell phone jammer. Are YOU such an antisocial nerd you cant tell someone to stuff it?
no shit! True story, I have a back problem and I have to go jog or walk before bed to be able to sleep (otherwise I wake up after a few hours with back pain). I usually goto bed at 1 or 2am which means I need to jog at 12 or 1. Long story short -- last week I was jogging around midnight, tripped, and broke my ankle (how did I know I broke my ankle? I heard it snap *shiver*). Since I always bring my cell phone I was able to call a family member for help. The nearest house was only 1000 feet away -- not much, but with a broken ankle let me tell you 1000 feet was simply an impossible distance for me to traverse. I was also in shock, I was having trouble seeing/thinking clearly and was on the verge of throwing up. Were it not for the cell phone I probably would have had no choice but to lay there until dawn (about 6 hours) and risk hypothermia.
I suppose what I'm trying to say is, there are circumstances where even help thats only 1000 feet away can be impossible to reach. There's probably not a scenario where I would have died without my cell phone, but god damn was I glad to have it.
well moron or not atleast you had the balls to reply with your real account. Nothing worse then some 15 year old posting AC:)
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Those questions are definatley inappropriate but probably not illegal. It should be a good indication that something is wrong at that company. To give you a contrast -- I've had several interviews where there was a SCRIPT -- they interviewers were not allowed to deviate from the script, AT ALL.
I think the issues here is A company having iron-fisted control of art work *40 years* after it was written. Is that what was meant by the constitution of the united states?
And once again a big corporation forgets the primary rule of the internet -- I had never heard of this thing, and probably wouldn't be interested in it until EMI made a big deal of trying to destroy it. Now I fucking want it
I hope thats +1 funny otherwise its -1 stupid. Sexual harrasment is traumatic and degrading to women, even I know that and Im the biggest jerk this side of the mississipi.
Good DJ's are incredibly talented, but they exist in a grey area between musician and perfomance artist. There are some talented hiphop acts but 99.99% of them are pure garbage (and I share your despise of them), and talented rap artists? I could count them all with a quadraplegics fingers and toes. If gloating about your misery and bragging about the drugs and bitches you fuck makes you a great musician, then Im sure in the right fucking business minus drugs and bitches:-)
So, what are we in store for in the future. Going to see Synth programmers in concert?
Never been to a chemical brothers concert have ya?:) Im going to be a little hard on you because Im an electronic musician myself, electronic instruments opens up NEW avenues for creativity, you can be just as expressive with a filter sweep or a finely tuned spectral delay but the 99% rule still applies (99% of everything is crap).
As for Les Mis, you're dead on -- I hate Les Mis with a passion (and all the other early 90's "we're so cultred we went to a musical" bullshit pop-musicials -- Phantom of the Opera, and cats to name a few (and I don't care if cats is cool because it uses poetry as narative structure)), but i've seen just about every other musical there is, and going to the theater is about seeing people not about listening to synthesizers. It REALLY cheezes me off when you hear synthesizers used inappropriatley -- if I came to a Les Mis show in t-shirt and shorts wearing a rastafarian hat -- wouldn't that also be inappropriate?:)
Excuse the repost slashdot ate about half of my last message for some reason
And even if that weren't the case, the filet mignon which goes for $14.99@lb gets its RFID code "augmented" so it looks like $1.99@lb ground chuck. Who's going to look that closely?
Actually, I worked for a month at a walmart one winter *shiver*. The thing is, that is the oldest trick in the book. The checkers aren't stupid -- what you're forgetting is that they check stuff all day and they KNOW what its supposed to cost. Wanna-be theft monkeys would take a barcode off something cheap and stick it on something expensive. So the question is -- will they glance at the price? because if they do theres a very good chance you'll be caught. However -- if they scan a whole bag at once and don't examine the contents, you may well get away with it:)
The local Kmart where I live used to have a self checkout station. It even had a device where you could demagnatize your products. I kept thinking, what would keep me from demagnatizing something very expensive -- and then paying for something very cheap -- walking out with the expensive thing in my pocket, and when the alarm went off on the cheap thing I say -- oh look, heres my reciept, I guess I dont know how to use that machine over there, im not very good with computers.
And even if that weren't the case, the filet mignon which goes for $14.99@lb gets its RFID code "augmented" so it looks like $1.99@lb ground chuck. Who's going to look that closely?
Actually, I worked for a month at a walmart one winter >shiverThe local Kmart where I live used to have a self checkout station. It even had a device where you could demagnatize your products. I kept thinking, what would keep me from demagnatizing something very expensive -- and then paying for something very cheap -- walking out with the expensive thing in my pocket, and when the alarm went off on the cheap thing I say -- oh look, heres my reciept, I guess I dont know how to use that machine over there, im not very good with computers.
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Is it just me or is anyone else in a perpetual state of battery hell? I'm looking at the devices on my desk right now that I use throught my day -- PDA, Graphing Calculator, Cell Phone, Digital Camera, and two MP3 players (one solid state for jogging, one HD based one for trips).
Between all these things I'm drowning in power transformers, docking stations, and battery chargers! I feel like a fleet manager, its practically a full time job making sure everything has power.
Yea I did actually :) The bottom of the disc started to turn murky and, eventually the dvd player woudln't even recognize it anymore :)
I've got a better one then that -- my "American Beauty" DVD died of DVD Ro. Think Warner Brothers is going to replace it? :) I refuse to buy new one out of principle.
You've never seen an Eddie Bauer Land Rover have ya? There's sooo many things wrong with that concept its not funny :)
if you want to understand bush a bit better, read this
Except its been done.
Seriously, like theres any women reading your comment :) And if they are I doubt they're the type who'll be getting much for v-day heh.
Yea, while reading I was reminded of the phrase "Captin obvious strikes again!"
Wasn't Intel part and parcel of the rambus problem? IIRC they owned a major stake of the company which was deeded to them so they would SUPPORT Rambus technologies so Rambus could extort people? Wasn't it only after consumers collectively said "Fuck that shit" that Intel stopped producing Rambus motherboards?
Classic business mistake: telling your customers what they want.
I wouldn't call them idiots-- but I think it demonstrates that they don't take it seriously.
Ummm WTF are you talking about? The Win32s are FILLED with functions that only work on a specific platforms or are buggy on ceartin platforms making them unreliable. Its only plain vanilla applications that work on any platform -- and you'll find alot of code in there that says if(WINDOWS_VERSION == 98) {} elif (WINDOWS_VERSION == 2000) -- thats not really cross platform compatibility.
lemme tell you what you do if someone is being rude with a cell phone -- just tell them to shut the fuck up instead of pulling out your cell phone jammer. Are YOU such an antisocial nerd you cant tell someone to stuff it?
I suppose what I'm trying to say is, there are circumstances where even help thats only 1000 feet away can be impossible to reach. There's probably not a scenario where I would have died without my cell phone, but god damn was I glad to have it.
well moron or not atleast you had the balls to reply with your real account. Nothing worse then some 15 year old posting AC :)
Those questions are definatley inappropriate but probably not illegal. It should be a good indication that something is wrong at that company. To give you a contrast -- I've had several interviews where there was a SCRIPT -- they interviewers were not allowed to deviate from the script, AT ALL.
This moron has an engineering degree, and is a talented musician, infact I think there is just one moron here, and it aint me :)
I think the issues here is A company having iron-fisted control of art work *40 years* after it was written. Is that what was meant by the constitution of the united states?
And once again a big corporation forgets the primary rule of the internet -- I had never heard of this thing, and probably wouldn't be interested in it until EMI made a big deal of trying to destroy it. Now I fucking want it
heh, well I think you can FLIRT, but once rebuffed you have to quit, no? :)
I hope thats +1 funny otherwise its -1 stupid. Sexual harrasment is traumatic and degrading to women, even I know that and Im the biggest jerk this side of the mississipi.
knowing slashdot he could have submitted this story two months ago. I have had stories sit in the que for 6, 7 or 8 weeks easy.
So, what are we in store for in the future. Going to see Synth programmers in concert?
Never been to a chemical brothers concert have ya? :) Im going to be a little hard on you because Im an electronic musician myself, electronic instruments opens up NEW avenues for creativity, you can be just as expressive with a filter sweep or a finely tuned spectral delay but the 99% rule still applies (99% of everything is crap).
As for Les Mis, you're dead on -- I hate Les Mis with a passion (and all the other early 90's "we're so cultred we went to a musical" bullshit pop-musicials -- Phantom of the Opera, and cats to name a few (and I don't care if cats is cool because it uses poetry as narative structure)), but i've seen just about every other musical there is, and going to the theater is about seeing people not about listening to synthesizers. It REALLY cheezes me off when you hear synthesizers used inappropriatley -- if I came to a Les Mis show in t-shirt and shorts wearing a rastafarian hat -- wouldn't that also be inappropriate? :)
Excuse the repost slashdot ate about half of my last message for some reason
And even if that weren't the case, the filet mignon which goes for $14.99@lb gets its RFID code "augmented" so it looks like $1.99@lb ground chuck. Who's going to look that closely?
Actually, I worked for a month at a walmart one winter *shiver*. The thing is, that is the oldest trick in the book. The checkers aren't stupid -- what you're forgetting is that they check stuff all day and they KNOW what its supposed to cost. Wanna-be theft monkeys would take a barcode off something cheap and stick it on something expensive. So the question is -- will they glance at the price? because if they do theres a very good chance you'll be caught. However -- if they scan a whole bag at once and don't examine the contents, you may well get away with it :)
The local Kmart where I live used to have a self checkout station. It even had a device where you could demagnatize your products. I kept thinking, what would keep me from demagnatizing something very expensive -- and then paying for something very cheap -- walking out with the expensive thing in my pocket, and when the alarm went off on the cheap thing I say -- oh look, heres my reciept, I guess I dont know how to use that machine over there, im not very good with computers.
Actually, I worked for a month at a walmart one winter >shiverThe local Kmart where I live used to have a self checkout station. It even had a device where you could demagnatize your products. I kept thinking, what would keep me from demagnatizing something very expensive -- and then paying for something very cheap -- walking out with the expensive thing in my pocket, and when the alarm went off on the cheap thing I say -- oh look, heres my reciept, I guess I dont know how to use that machine over there, im not very good with computers.