Researchers later admitted that the technology was developed in response to those idiots who insist on talking on using their cell phone *during* the movie.
I thought I was going to see "Lord of the Rings", instead I ended up being treated to "Lord of the Ring Tones".
It happens at about every third movie I attend.
I too attend UCF. The guy known as EtherMage is also a UCF student. We worked together briefly as tech support reps for Omnisky/Palm. Man, was he a dork, but the kid knew every programming language you could think of.
Messed up my MBR and then lycoris didn't boot so I had to reinstall XP to rewrite the MBR. Lycoris was beautiful and easy to use, but dual-booting has always been a nightmare for me, so had to delete it.
I recommend Grisoft's AVG. It's doesn't seem to slow my XP at all. In comparison I installed Norton and my machine slowed to a crawl. It checks all email and can be intergrated into the shell making it very easy to scan files. I download sharware and other programs a lot so I need to scan them. You can download updates regularly also. I has so far found a couple infected files and let me delete them safely.
I worked at a video store briefly and we had people come in all time saying "This DVD is broke. It won't play in my dvd player." I always would ask what kind of player they had, and it was APEX or ORITRON. Sure enough the DVD was fine but it was dual-layer. It seems like many of the major studio new releases are. The store was in a lower-middle class part of town where the Wal-Mart was very popular so it was no surprise. I kind of felt sorry for those people who spent their hard earned $88 on those things. The most ironic thing is that the district manager had a raffle for a free DVD player, and guess what... it was a piece of crap, ORITRON. The winners came back a week later and said that many discs didn't work and yep, they were dual-layer. When I finally decided to get one, I got a moderately expensive JVC.
I've always wondered why college textbook publishers use ring bindings for their programming textbooks, but regular publishers make their programming books the normal way? Who reads the book, then closes it, then sits down to the keyboard? The point of putting sample code in a book is so that it can be copied but the reader(who is sitting at the keyboard, with both hands on). ALthough from the publishers standpoint, a ring binded book doesn't give them a chance to put a flashy name and logo on the binding. This would make it hard for people to find it on the shelf at the bookstore.
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Researchers later admitted that the technology was developed in response to those idiots who insist on talking on using their cell phone *during* the movie. I thought I was going to see "Lord of the Rings", instead I ended up being treated to "Lord of the Ring Tones". It happens at about every third movie I attend.
the ucf guy is coder of the week http://www.topcoder.com/index?t=statistics&c=coder _of_week
I too attend UCF. The guy known as EtherMage is also a UCF student. We worked together briefly as tech support reps for Omnisky/Palm. Man, was he a dork, but the kid knew every programming language you could think of.
Messed up my MBR and then lycoris didn't boot so I had to reinstall XP to rewrite the MBR. Lycoris was beautiful and easy to use, but dual-booting has always been a nightmare for me, so had to delete it.
I recommend Grisoft's AVG. It's doesn't seem to slow my XP at all. In comparison I installed Norton and my machine slowed to a crawl. It checks all email and can be intergrated into the shell making it very easy to scan files. I download sharware and other programs a lot so I need to scan them. You can download updates regularly also. I has so far found a couple infected files and let me delete them safely.
I worked at a video store briefly and we had people come in all time saying "This DVD is broke. It won't play in my dvd player." I always would ask what kind of player they had, and it was APEX or ORITRON. Sure enough the DVD was fine but it was dual-layer. It seems like many of the major studio new releases are. The store was in a lower-middle class part of town where the Wal-Mart was very popular so it was no surprise. I kind of felt sorry for those people who spent their hard earned $88 on those things. The most ironic thing is that the district manager had a raffle for a free DVD player, and guess what ... it was a piece of crap, ORITRON. The winners came back a week later and said that many discs didn't work and yep, they were dual-layer. When I finally decided to get one, I got a moderately expensive JVC.
I've always wondered why college textbook publishers use ring bindings for their programming textbooks, but regular publishers make their programming books the normal way? Who reads the book, then closes it, then sits down to the keyboard? The point of putting sample code in a book is so that it can be copied but the reader(who is sitting at the keyboard, with both hands on). ALthough from the publishers standpoint, a ring binded book doesn't give them a chance to put a flashy name and logo on the binding. This would make it hard for people to find it on the shelf at the bookstore.