If I buy a nefariously gained stereo, I can still be in trouble for buying stolen property.
Wouldn't people who sent spam to addresses obtained by a virus be just as culpable?
Gov't sets up a couple thousand new email addresses, sends them to nobody, infects their machines, then rains holy fury on spam that hits their inboxes (if a spam got through from a random generator, they just happen to be unlucky, but still get the holy fury). Why wouldn't that work?
but give your mom/grandma/etc an install cd of MS Office and a download of OO, and see which gets running faster. As someone mentioned about the saving and graphics conventions, if Mom got both installed, which do you think she'd like to use more?
Not that OO isn't functional in X, but the whole point of why Apple's own software, and much of the major third party software is so great, is that it is incredibly consistent.
In every other Macintosh program holding the Command key and hitting the left or right arrow will take you to the start or end of the line.
Hmm. While yes, most things (I tried Mail, Stickies, Sherlock and TextEdit) in OS X are that way, both my Photoshop and InDesign are word by word (Adobe's choice?)
In OS 9, I tried Quark, Word, Photoshop and Entourage; all go word by word.
Maybe MS is just trying to stick with familiar conventions (if they even noticed them). I, for one, like word by word. By Command-Shift-Arrow'ing, I like that I can take out several words at once with a couple key taps.
OK, now get under the hood of your car, find the TDC mark and make sure your timing is correct. Oh, and if it's not fuel injected, now might be a good time to test the richness of your carb mix.
What? As long as the car works you don't need to know how to do those things? Hmm. My mechanic friend thinks everyone should know how to do that. What are you, stupid? Do you distain work so much you neglect your car's maintenance until it quits on you?
For some people, it's fun/their job to make computers work well. Good on ya'.
For others, a computer is for getting other work done not directly related to the machine itself. Why, oh why do these people need to know whats 'under the hood'? Sure, it'll save em a few bucks if they knew some basic troubleshooting, but the same could be said for cars, and I think very few of us (I didn't all, Slash Goodwrench...) could do much more than open the hood of our auto's and stare at it.
At work, I generally have a couple of books close to hand, printouts of specs, a project plan or two, etc.
Aha! Enter my newest innovation, the iMilkCrate. Sold in modular stacks, and infinitely configurable, they are the perfect companion for this stylish desk. They retail for $49.00 for a starter kit of 3 modules. This includes zip-ties for increasing the stability of self-configured modules. Make checks out to "4m-ovr-fnctn Inc."
...but also with infrared and motion sensors. ...'see' when anyone intrudes into that area.
Slave THAT to some artilery
If camels have nightmares, I think you just summed up what they are about.
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...just build a model in a jewel cut and set it to have varying refract indices, rendering for each one. Be aware that you'll have to set the 'number of bounces' as high as you can get it to see the full effect...
I worked in phone tech support for an ISP for about 3 years...
2) Don't get stressed out.It's not YOUR computer that isn't working. It's theirs. Yours is working just fine, right?
So as an experienced person in the feild, what does happen when a tech support employee's computer eats dirt and they can't fix it right away? Is there just a huge sucking sound and their cubicle implodes in a irony vaccum?
LOL, you should think of the children and if they beowulf clustered these then SCO would suck! You're new here, aren't you Captain Obvious... (ad nauseum)
Can I just ask, pretty please, to not have to wade through 46 SCO jokes everytime anything has to do with code?
then you can just take a ton of shots, then back at the store they can pop them all up on a screen and you can choose the ones you like. Seems doable.
Totally doable. But, with more and more stores(camera shops/processing places) offering digital printing services, I don't know if they'd move to this. It adds the cost of time to their 'diposable' camera workflow. If the throw-away cams had this as part of their feature-set (I am not a marketer, I just know how to talk like one!), I would think it would cannibalize their traditional digital printing service (and the $500 camera sales that go with it).
Doesn't this seem like a bit of a semi-useless feature? Most of my bad shots, I can't even tell are bad until I get 'em on my laptop. There's a couple I can decide to delete just from the camera's screen, but I'd say that with most of my bad shots, I didn't know they sucked when I took the shot.
So without a preview (review?) unless someone walks in front of you right as you take the shot, or some other way you know it's screwed up, it's just like a disposable film camera, in that you pay out the nose, only to get your shots back and have 2/3 stink.
Speaking from skydiving experience, if you open your parachute at 360kph, the parachute will be ripped right off your back and probably break a few bones in the process.
Speaking from the experience of watching funny-cars from my couch, and noticing they don't toss out giant parachutes (if they want the convenience of having a car in one piece), wouldn't high speed diving utilize maybe a two-stage parachute? A tiny one first to bring you to a safe enough speed to deploy the main chute?
you know this guy's a mod freak...
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my favorite line: I didn't have a 1/2" drill bit, so I drilled a smaller hole and widened it using a Dremel tool.
See, a normal guy would have just gone and bought a 40 cent drill bit while he was out shopping for parts. With the gratuitous Dremel use, we know we have a true modder on our hands, here.
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So you're saying the earlier Apple models had support for
one little, two little, three little endians?
Wouldn't people who sent spam to addresses obtained by a virus be just as culpable?
Gov't sets up a couple thousand new email addresses, sends them to nobody, infects their machines, then rains holy fury on spam that hits their inboxes (if a spam got through from a random generator, they just happen to be unlucky, but still get the holy fury). Why wouldn't that work?
My wife issues them all the time when she sees me headed toward my laptop 5 minutes before dinner is ready.
Wha'?! It's what?
"What are you doing, Dave? I wouldn't do that, Dave."
Yeah, cause voting him out probably won't work. ;)
Not that OO isn't functional in X, but the whole point of why Apple's own software, and much of the major third party software is so great, is that it is incredibly consistent.
Hmm. While yes, most things (I tried Mail, Stickies, Sherlock and TextEdit) in OS X are that way, both my Photoshop and InDesign are word by word (Adobe's choice?)
In OS 9, I tried Quark, Word, Photoshop and Entourage; all go word by word.
Maybe MS is just trying to stick with familiar conventions (if they even noticed them). I, for one, like word by word. By Command-Shift-Arrow'ing, I like that I can take out several words at once with a couple key taps.
It'll be selectable by choosing "Default".
What? As long as the car works you don't need to know how to do those things? Hmm. My mechanic friend thinks everyone should know how to do that. What are you, stupid? Do you distain work so much you neglect your car's maintenance until it quits on you?
For some people, it's fun/their job to make computers work well. Good on ya'.
For others, a computer is for getting other work done not directly related to the machine itself. Why, oh why do these people need to know whats 'under the hood'? Sure, it'll save em a few bucks if they knew some basic troubleshooting, but the same could be said for cars, and I think very few of us (I didn't all, Slash Goodwrench...) could do much more than open the hood of our auto's and stare at it.
If you can't name what the "1-liter bottle" thing is, you will probably wind up killing yourself.
Aha! Enter my newest innovation, the iMilkCrate. Sold in modular stacks, and infinitely configurable, they are the perfect companion for this stylish desk. They retail for $49.00 for a starter kit of 3 modules. This includes zip-ties for increasing the stability of self-configured modules. Make checks out to "4m-ovr-fnctn Inc."
Slave THAT to some artilery
If camels have nightmares, I think you just summed up what they are about.
I'll take your word for it. :)
2) Don't get stressed out.It's not YOUR computer that isn't working. It's theirs. Yours is working just fine, right?
So as an experienced person in the feild, what does happen when a tech support employee's computer eats dirt and they can't fix it right away?
Is there just a huge sucking sound and their cubicle implodes in a irony vaccum?
Not so much greater flexibility and greater market penetration. Get it...penetration...you can walk through it...
Oh man,....I've hit bottom.
Ladieees and gentlemen. We have a winnah!
Very nice. I cede to you.
Somewhere in the ramifications of that, is the delicious idea of a "Troll Tax".
Can I just ask, pretty please, to not have to wade through 46 SCO jokes everytime anything has to do with code?
Totally doable. But, with more and more stores(camera shops/processing places) offering digital printing services, I don't know if they'd move to this. It adds the cost of time to their 'diposable' camera workflow. If the throw-away cams had this as part of their feature-set (I am not a marketer, I just know how to talk like one!), I would think it would cannibalize their traditional digital printing service (and the $500 camera sales that go with it).
Doesn't this seem like a bit of a semi-useless feature? Most of my bad shots, I can't even tell are bad until I get 'em on my laptop. There's a couple I can decide to delete just from the camera's screen, but I'd say that with most of my bad shots, I didn't know they sucked when I took the shot.
So without a preview (review?) unless someone walks in front of you right as you take the shot, or some other way you know it's screwed up, it's just like a disposable film camera, in that you pay out the nose, only to get your shots back and have 2/3 stink.
Speaking from the experience of watching funny-cars from my couch, and noticing they don't toss out giant parachutes (if they want the convenience of having a car in one piece), wouldn't high speed diving utilize maybe a two-stage parachute? A tiny one first to bring you to a safe enough speed to deploy the main chute?
See, a normal guy would have just gone and bought a 40 cent drill bit while he was out shopping for parts. With the gratuitous Dremel use, we know we have a true modder on our hands, here.