Why is this on the list... it made perfect sense (Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere) if you remember the ton of flesh-colored little figures you could collect. I think I had a few of them myself.
Almost forgot... Google Sketchup is a really easy to use program for simple 3D modeling. And Google Earth is just cool too. It would be even cooler if they combined Celestia features with Google Earth, so we could zoom by other planets as well.
True, to me GMail is their best product and I love it more than Google.com itself. But they also have the best map/directions site. The best image search. The most useful features into their search engine (do a search for "movie: movies" without the quotes... much more convenient than any other showtime listings).
The one thing they make that I can't live without now though is Google Calendar. The ability to access it anywhere, and have alerts sent to my cellphone is just something I've come to rely upon now. The only thing I wish they would improve on, is the fact that times can only be scheduled in 30 minute increments. So if I had a class that begins at something like 9:15 and ends at 10:40, I would have to say it runs from 9:00 to 10:30 in Google Calendar.
Usually those videos are made by cheating... using emulators and the ability to save-state and pick up where they left off if they screw up even slightly.
I saw this on digg a few days ago and was wondering about it then.
I always had XP set to prompt me for what new updates are available and from the first time I saw WGA and read its description I decided it was crap I didn't need to install.
If I've never installed WGA... then what piece of software in XP is going to detect that WGA isn't installed, and do this 30 day thing? They would have either had to plan this well in advance back to when I guess XP SP2 came out... or else they snuck some functionality into one of the other updates.
I think computer rooms used to look more impressive than they do now.
I've seen the datacenter here at my university (ASU) and it's just a few rows of blade servers. It's powerful, but not that much to look at.
In contrast, I remember when my dad took me to work sometime back in the 80's at Lawson software and there was a TON more machines. The room had much higher security. It was a bigger room with brighter lighting. There were a few terminals with people behind them. Lots of those tape storage systems with the cool spinning action going on. Not to mention the color of those computers and designs were just so cool and retro. There was a lot more to look at.
I grew up around Minneapolis and then moved to Phoenix about 10 years ago.
Before I moved here, I thought the Mormons were the people who built Stonehenge.
Down here in Arizona about half my high school was Mormon, and the other half Baptist. Quite a change from Minnesota where it was about half Lutheran (ELCA) and half Catholic. Quite a bit more conservative down here I must say.
Look at it this way... the innocent, clueless, trusting customer who bought a computer from Best Buy or Circuit City is going to go to the Geek Squad or IQ Crew anyway for repairs and pay that huge amount of money regardless. If you weren't there, then it would have been one of the worthless "techs" who tried to fix the computer. At least with someone knowledgeable there, then there's the chance the computer ACTUALLY gets fixed. It's still a rip-off, but it's better than paying all that money and getting NOTHING of value from it. So maybe that should ease that hole in your essence.
I noticed that the two XServe systems on the list got bumped down.
Number 21: MACH5 (Apple XServe, 2.0 GHz, Myrinet) at COLSA Number 28: System X (1100 Dual 2.3 GHz Apple XServe/Mellanox Infiniband 4X/Cisco GigE) at Virginia Tech
MACH5 was number 15 back in 2005, and System X was ranked at number 7 back in 2004.
Someone needs to make a new, huge XServe cluster... but maybe wait until there are Intel XServes.
I think I mentioned this a few posts up... but movie theaters generally throw out a couple of huge trash bags full of popcorn at the end of every day. Knowing better, I can honestly say that someone getting a free refill on popcorn is absolutely not going to increase popcorn prices for anyone else at all.
And in any case, I don't think a thing like this is worth being a dick about to other people and ruining their day. You've lost perspective.
You're the guy that makes employees' lives hell, but then we go back the break room and share stories about this horrible customer who made a big deal about something, and that at least helps make things a little better.
I remember being at Del Taco... and they asked me what size drink I wanted. I looked over at the drink fountain and asked him, "it's free refills right?" He said yeah. So I asked why would anyone *not* get a small? He laughed and said he had no idea and had wondered that before.
I guess some people pay double for drinks for the convenience of not having to get up and walk ALL THE WAY across the room to the drink fountain to get a refill. Then again, they could just sit closer to it, I suppose.
Well the popcorn refills where I worked at were "same visit only"... but I'd say about 75% of the people who got popcorn refills were bringing in bags that were clearly from weeks ago (sometimes they'd have movies on the bag from a year ago). Honestly, we the employees didn't much care and just gave them the refill. The managers only sort of cared.
I actually was really annoyed by an AMC employee a few months ago. I was buying tickets for me and a friend... and I got the student discount on mine, but she refused to give me a discount on the other one, too. So I just bought one and then went to a different counter to buy another student ticket. But she saw me and made a big fuss about it saying "Don't sell him a student ticket! He just bought one from me!"
She didn't HAVE to go out of her way to make a fuss about it. But she did.
It was ridiculous to me, because that ticket money (which was still about $6.50 or more) wasn't even going to them, it was going to the movie studios and MPAA. Plus, I just don't know how she could care so much to be such a dick to me about it... she's only making minimum wage, and this is likely going to be the worst job she ever has. Back in my day at the movie theater I wouldn't have cared. And usually, most people who work there don't care, and just give you the student discount even if you don't show them your college ID. But oh no, not her. She took her job SERIOUSLY.
And by the way, how irritating of you to be the kind of guy who goes out of his way to report people who are getting popcorn refills from past days... do you have no happiness in your life?
I can imagine being the guy behind the counter, knowing full well this guy's popcorn bag is old, but being nice enough to refill it anyway so he can enjoy a movie and be happy. Then along comes another customer (in this case, you) making a big fuss about how this guy is a thief and how you know his popcorn bag is old, etc. It really doesn't make anyone's day better.
I don't think that makes you cheap at all. Movies are ridiculously overpriced.
One thing though, the movie ticket money pretty much all goes back to the movie studio, not to the theater itself. The theater I worked for in high school claimed they only got about $0.25 from every ticket sold, and they essentially made all their money from food... which had to cover the cost of employees, electricity, equipment, supplies, the building itself, movie reels too I guess.... This is why movie theaters don't want you bringing in outside food or drink, and why they usually try to suggest you buy candy or get a bigger tub of popcorn.
So it's not fair to say that the cost of the popcorn is subsidized in the movie ticket price.
But then again, popcorn is REALLY cheap... we used to throw out at least two huge garbage bags full of popcorn every night... sometimes employees would load them into their cars and take them home to munch on for the next month or two.
This would be especially nice for students at the University here... where the Tues/Thurs classes are usually about an hour and a half long, but the parking meters only let you put in a maximum of 1 hour's worth of coins. And summer session classes can be even longer.
Would much rather send a text message on my cellphone from in class, and pay a 30 cent convenience charge than have a ticket.
Then again, I'm sure the University would never adopt these meters... I think they limit the time on purpose so they can rake in more money from tickets.
Ahhh...! I remember when that was in the news. Those pictures were so creepy! It was like a ghost child was molested. The kid wasn't grayed out, they tried to reconstruct the hotel room or bedspread or whatever it was that was behind the child... but you could still see the outline of where the child was. It was sort of like from the movie Predator.
Apple has a good tutorial on their site for those who want to jump right in and figure it all out. I think you can do this with Java/Cocoa just by selecting Java as your project instead of ObjC.
I actually did this in ObjC and it all worked fine, then tried to go back and make it Java... and it was kind of odd how it worked with Java I thought. It seems for this kind of programming model and IDE, that Objective C is better suited.
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i believe you meant "sycophant"... and not "sychophant", which is a crazy elephant... not to be confused with "psychopants" which were a 70's fad.
Wow, that made no sense to me at all until I actually read what I wrote, since I had forgotten already. Haha.
Where is "Don't Ruin a Kid's Life for Being a Stupid Kid" Panda when you need him?
Why is this on the list... it made perfect sense (Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere) if you remember the ton of flesh-colored little figures you could collect. I think I had a few of them myself.
Almost forgot... Google Sketchup is a really easy to use program for simple 3D modeling. And Google Earth is just cool too. It would be even cooler if they combined Celestia features with Google Earth, so we could zoom by other planets as well.
True, to me GMail is their best product and I love it more than Google.com itself. But they also have the best map/directions site. The best image search. The most useful features into their search engine (do a search for "movie: movies" without the quotes... much more convenient than any other showtime listings).
The one thing they make that I can't live without now though is Google Calendar. The ability to access it anywhere, and have alerts sent to my cellphone is just something I've come to rely upon now. The only thing I wish they would improve on, is the fact that times can only be scheduled in 30 minute increments. So if I had a class that begins at something like 9:15 and ends at 10:40, I would have to say it runs from 9:00 to 10:30 in Google Calendar.
While I don't disagree with what you say in general...
From your link: "We manufacture each module in the factory to include your choice of exterior and interior finishes"
Those images are blueprints (well... "greyprints") not the actual house color.
Usually those videos are made by cheating... using emulators and the ability to save-state and pick up where they left off if they screw up even slightly.
I saw this on digg a few days ago and was wondering about it then.
I always had XP set to prompt me for what new updates are available and from the first time I saw WGA and read its description I decided it was crap I didn't need to install.
If I've never installed WGA... then what piece of software in XP is going to detect that WGA isn't installed, and do this 30 day thing? They would have either had to plan this well in advance back to when I guess XP SP2 came out... or else they snuck some functionality into one of the other updates.
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Well you never know when you will have a power failure at the exact same time your laptop's battery falls out mysteriously.
Seriously, how could you even try to sell that to someone? I mean, what would you even say to them?
I think computer rooms used to look more impressive than they do now.
I've seen the datacenter here at my university (ASU) and it's just a few rows of blade servers. It's powerful, but not that much to look at.
In contrast, I remember when my dad took me to work sometime back in the 80's at Lawson software and there was a TON more machines. The room had much higher security. It was a bigger room with brighter lighting. There were a few terminals with people behind them. Lots of those tape storage systems with the cool spinning action going on. Not to mention the color of those computers and designs were just so cool and retro. There was a lot more to look at.
I grew up around Minneapolis and then moved to Phoenix about 10 years ago.
Before I moved here, I thought the Mormons were the people who built Stonehenge.
Down here in Arizona about half my high school was Mormon, and the other half Baptist. Quite a change from Minnesota where it was about half Lutheran (ELCA) and half Catholic. Quite a bit more conservative down here I must say.
Look at it this way... the innocent, clueless, trusting customer who bought a computer from Best Buy or Circuit City is going to go to the Geek Squad or IQ Crew anyway for repairs and pay that huge amount of money regardless. If you weren't there, then it would have been one of the worthless "techs" who tried to fix the computer. At least with someone knowledgeable there, then there's the chance the computer ACTUALLY gets fixed. It's still a rip-off, but it's better than paying all that money and getting NOTHING of value from it. So maybe that should ease that hole in your essence.
I noticed that the two XServe systems on the list got bumped down.
Number 21: MACH5 (Apple XServe, 2.0 GHz, Myrinet) at COLSA
Number 28: System X (1100 Dual 2.3 GHz Apple XServe/Mellanox Infiniband 4X/Cisco GigE) at Virginia Tech
MACH5 was number 15 back in 2005, and System X was ranked at number 7 back in 2004.
Someone needs to make a new, huge XServe cluster... but maybe wait until there are Intel XServes.
Nope, not a manager in sight. She just took it too seriously, and was probably the least popular person on staff.
Besides, losing a job at a movie theater is a blessing in disguise. The people I feel sorry for are the ones who end up working there for years.
I think I mentioned this a few posts up... but movie theaters generally throw out a couple of huge trash bags full of popcorn at the end of every day. Knowing better, I can honestly say that someone getting a free refill on popcorn is absolutely not going to increase popcorn prices for anyone else at all.
And in any case, I don't think a thing like this is worth being a dick about to other people and ruining their day. You've lost perspective.
You're the guy that makes employees' lives hell, but then we go back the break room and share stories about this horrible customer who made a big deal about something, and that at least helps make things a little better.
If you have bad service, I suggest paying by American Express since (as I recall) their network fees are about double what Visa and MasterCard are.
I remember being at Del Taco... and they asked me what size drink I wanted. I looked over at the drink fountain and asked him, "it's free refills right?" He said yeah. So I asked why would anyone *not* get a small? He laughed and said he had no idea and had wondered that before.
I guess some people pay double for drinks for the convenience of not having to get up and walk ALL THE WAY across the room to the drink fountain to get a refill. Then again, they could just sit closer to it, I suppose.
Thief? Give me a break.
Well the popcorn refills where I worked at were "same visit only"... but I'd say about 75% of the people who got popcorn refills were bringing in bags that were clearly from weeks ago (sometimes they'd have movies on the bag from a year ago). Honestly, we the employees didn't much care and just gave them the refill. The managers only sort of cared.
I actually was really annoyed by an AMC employee a few months ago. I was buying tickets for me and a friend... and I got the student discount on mine, but she refused to give me a discount on the other one, too. So I just bought one and then went to a different counter to buy another student ticket. But she saw me and made a big fuss about it saying "Don't sell him a student ticket! He just bought one from me!"
She didn't HAVE to go out of her way to make a fuss about it. But she did.
It was ridiculous to me, because that ticket money (which was still about $6.50 or more) wasn't even going to them, it was going to the movie studios and MPAA. Plus, I just don't know how she could care so much to be such a dick to me about it... she's only making minimum wage, and this is likely going to be the worst job she ever has. Back in my day at the movie theater I wouldn't have cared. And usually, most people who work there don't care, and just give you the student discount even if you don't show them your college ID. But oh no, not her. She took her job SERIOUSLY.
And by the way, how irritating of you to be the kind of guy who goes out of his way to report people who are getting popcorn refills from past days... do you have no happiness in your life?
I can imagine being the guy behind the counter, knowing full well this guy's popcorn bag is old, but being nice enough to refill it anyway so he can enjoy a movie and be happy. Then along comes another customer (in this case, you) making a big fuss about how this guy is a thief and how you know his popcorn bag is old, etc. It really doesn't make anyone's day better.
I don't think that makes you cheap at all. Movies are ridiculously overpriced.
One thing though, the movie ticket money pretty much all goes back to the movie studio, not to the theater itself. The theater I worked for in high school claimed they only got about $0.25 from every ticket sold, and they essentially made all their money from food... which had to cover the cost of employees, electricity, equipment, supplies, the building itself, movie reels too I guess.... This is why movie theaters don't want you bringing in outside food or drink, and why they usually try to suggest you buy candy or get a bigger tub of popcorn.
So it's not fair to say that the cost of the popcorn is subsidized in the movie ticket price.
But then again, popcorn is REALLY cheap... we used to throw out at least two huge garbage bags full of popcorn every night... sometimes employees would load them into their cars and take them home to munch on for the next month or two.
This would be especially nice for students at the University here... where the Tues/Thurs classes are usually about an hour and a half long, but the parking meters only let you put in a maximum of 1 hour's worth of coins. And summer session classes can be even longer.
Would much rather send a text message on my cellphone from in class, and pay a 30 cent convenience charge than have a ticket.
Then again, I'm sure the University would never adopt these meters... I think they limit the time on purpose so they can rake in more money from tickets.
Ahhh...! I remember when that was in the news. Those pictures were so creepy! It was like a ghost child was molested. The kid wasn't grayed out, they tried to reconstruct the hotel room or bedspread or whatever it was that was behind the child... but you could still see the outline of where the child was. It was sort of like from the movie Predator.
*shivers*
Apple has a good tutorial on their site for those who want to jump right in and figure it all out. I think you can do this with Java/Cocoa just by selecting Java as your project instead of ObjC.
I actually did this in ObjC and it all worked fine, then tried to go back and make it Java... and it was kind of odd how it worked with Java I thought. It seems for this kind of programming model and IDE, that Objective C is better suited.
I'll have you know that Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is a very good coder!
This is kind of depressing... whoever wrote this must have had a really bad life as an adult.