Agreed. The Chuck E. Cheese approach was the first thing that came to my mind as well. The tokens were never reason enough to strive for good grades, but when my report card came around, it's the first place I wanted to go to get my free tokens, and I imagine my parents spent a few bucks as well.
Chuck E. Cheese's approach seems like good business to me, unlike this guy's apparent practice of denying paying customers and having them walk around the corner, and probably causing them to avoid Gamestops altogether and sending them to the competition permanently. It's no wonder they let him go.
What happens when your computer or mp3 player gets stolen and 6 months later there's files all over the p2p nets with your name on them. How could you prove you weren't the one that put them on there in the first place?
I use two screens for CAD work, and what I found works well is keeping the drawing window as large as possible on one screen, and keeping all the extraneous windows like command input, properties, etc on the second screen. Having a large enough screen would let you accomplish the same thing, but I find that having two screens is more versatile, for instance, I can display PDFs, digital photos, maps, etc on one screen for reference while still drafting on the second screen.
Of course, I wouldn't mind replacing my two 19" CRT's with a couple 30" LCD's either...
Personally I'm not sure if that's the right way to go, or if we could find better ways to perform these tasks using alternative designs that don't have a natural influence.
For robots dedicated to a single task (such as assembly line robots) I would agree, but for a general purpose robot that can adapt to varying conditions and situations, it's hard to argue with hundreds of millions of years worth of evolution.
I haven't used it, but it caught my eye a while back and looks promising. 500GB per disk, 15 disks per 3U shelf, and up to 65,536 shelves per network means it's expandable from 7.5 TB for one shelf up to (theoretically) 480 PB or so.
Pelican makes excellent protective cases. Almost unbreakable, water-tight, air-tight, dust-tight. The ones with the "pick-and-pluck" foam can be configured to fit a laptop and all accessories nice and snug. They have a few laptop-specific cases, and several general-purpose cases of all sizes/colors.
If you don't know where to find them near you, check with surveying supply shops, and electronics parts supply (the commercial type, not Radio Shack)
Yes, I know. That works everywhere *but* the IE address bar, which was my point. Maybe it's just a fluke of my particular Windows/IE version, but double-clicking a word in the IE address bar to select it definately does not work here - it selects the whole line.
Perhaps if there were more virii like this these days, I wouldn't have to remind users not to open attachments so often. And perhaps they wouldn't be so prone to ignoring my reminders...
Sounds like you need a Gateway2000 Programmable Keyboard... I swear by them. They let you set macros to virtually any key or compination of key and modifiers, and even give you an extra set of Function keys so you have tons of possibilities.
I use one at work for AutoCAD to set up snap and common commands for easy access. And I have one at home with common Linux commands and Java keywords.
They stopped making them several years ago, but you can still get new ones on eBay, or used ones at used computer shops or thrift shops.
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Do you automatically get support with closed source? Not usually. Just about every time I try to get ahold of a 'real person', you still have to pay for anything if you want more than what they happen to have already on their website.
The open source community typically provides much better online support than closed source, and you can still purchase support from RedHat et al, if it is needed. So support is really a non-issue, at least in my book.
I almost always buy Western Digital. I've never had a problem with them.
We did get one IBM 80GB (not Deskstar - some other model iirc) and it's been our main 'server' hard drive for about two years now with no problems. - Regardless, I still do my backups religiously;)
Anyway, I buy nothing for WD for my own systems, and i always recommend WD to people that ask me about which hard drive to buy.
It's getting to be alot of hassle to design websites.
Not if you stick to the standards, and get rid of stupid stuff like flash buttons. Or at the very least, provide both flash and non-flash versions of your site.
If you can't stick to standards, you shouldn't be writing a web page anyway - at least not one that you want to make sure people are able to read.
There are 4 people in my office who have gone in for the surgury, and the three that got it done were back in action with 20/20 vision within a day or two. The one that didn't get it, the doctor flat out told her that her with particular eye problems, that it would not be a safe option.
I think that most doctors would stay on the safe side when either recommending or not recommending that you get this surgury - even one bad surgury could be disasterous to their practice.
I would say go with a doctor who is recommended by someone that has had the surgury done before, and if possible get a second opinion to confirm that the procedure will be safe.
Very little, but it does have it's strengths...
For example, you can easily send files back and forth without having to share a folder over the whole network, and it prevents people from e-mailing 2-meg documents back and forth all day, which not only wastes time, but also bandwidth.
I haven't set people up with IM's in the office where I work, but I have thought about it. Perhaps it doesn't seem like such a bad idea in my case since it is a small business and half the employees are owners as well, so wasted time comes out of their pocket in the end anyway... heh
Tying the OS to the current machine means they have to purchase a new Windows license along with a new computer. However, tying a user's data to the current machine would discourage people from upgrading, and so MS would lose out on that new Windows license.
Of course, this would lead to the next logical step (to Microsoft, anyway) - a subsription model. And it's even further downhill from there..
I agree. I had a Sony Clie (the original S300) for about a year, and what I discovered was that I was spending more time making sure it was charged and synced than time it saved me.
By the time you get the thing out, turned on, get out of whatever program it was in, get where you want to be, and find the address or whatever you were looking for, you've been standing there probably a minute. Entering information was even more of a chore. By the time you get something written in there with Graffiti or the on-screen keypad, you could've jotted it on a peice of paper and been off doing other things by then.
After a while I found all I was using my Clie for was to play Bejeweled instead of paying attention in my courses. I ended up selling it on eBay and picking up a little Dayrunner thing for much cheaper. It's a little more bulky, but it's ten times more convenient.
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Agreed. The Chuck E. Cheese approach was the first thing that came to my mind as well. The tokens were never reason enough to strive for good grades, but when my report card came around, it's the first place I wanted to go to get my free tokens, and I imagine my parents spent a few bucks as well.
Chuck E. Cheese's approach seems like good business to me, unlike this guy's apparent practice of denying paying customers and having them walk around the corner, and probably causing them to avoid Gamestops altogether and sending them to the competition permanently. It's no wonder they let him go.
What happens when your computer or mp3 player gets stolen and 6 months later there's files all over the p2p nets with your name on them. How could you prove you weren't the one that put them on there in the first place?
I use two screens for CAD work, and what I found works well is keeping the drawing window as large as possible on one screen, and keeping all the extraneous windows like command input, properties, etc on the second screen. Having a large enough screen would let you accomplish the same thing, but I find that having two screens is more versatile, for instance, I can display PDFs, digital photos, maps, etc on one screen for reference while still drafting on the second screen.
Of course, I wouldn't mind replacing my two 19" CRT's with a couple 30" LCD's either...
Personally I'm not sure if that's the right way to go, or if we could find better ways to perform these tasks using alternative designs that don't have a natural influence.
For robots dedicated to a single task (such as assembly line robots) I would agree, but for a general purpose robot that can adapt to varying conditions and situations, it's hard to argue with hundreds of millions of years worth of evolution.
http://www.coraid.com/products.htm
I haven't used it, but it caught my eye a while back and looks promising. 500GB per disk, 15 disks per 3U shelf, and up to 65,536 shelves per network means it's expandable from 7.5 TB for one shelf up to (theoretically) 480 PB or so.
Pelican makes excellent protective cases. Almost unbreakable, water-tight, air-tight, dust-tight. The ones with the "pick-and-pluck" foam can be configured to fit a laptop and all accessories nice and snug. They have a few laptop-specific cases, and several general-purpose cases of all sizes/colors.
If you don't know where to find them near you, check with surveying supply shops, and electronics parts supply (the commercial type, not Radio Shack)
Yes, I know. That works everywhere *but* the IE address bar, which was my point. Maybe it's just a fluke of my particular Windows/IE version, but double-clicking a word in the IE address bar to select it definately does not work here - it selects the whole line.
What the heck are you talking about?
I'm running WinXP here, with Mozilla 1.5 and IE 6.0. Seems to me you got it totally backwards.
Mozilla 1.5: 1 click selects all, another click places the cursor, double-click selects a word.
IE 6.0: 1 click selects all, another click places the cursor, double click selects the whole line again - there is no way to select just a word, afaik
Perhaps if there were more virii like this these days, I wouldn't have to remind users not to open attachments so often. And perhaps they wouldn't be so prone to ignoring my reminders...
Sounds like you need a Gateway2000 Programmable Keyboard... I swear by them. They let you set macros to virtually any key or compination of key and modifiers, and even give you an extra set of Function keys so you have tons of possibilities. I use one at work for AutoCAD to set up snap and common commands for easy access. And I have one at home with common Linux commands and Java keywords. They stopped making them several years ago, but you can still get new ones on eBay, or used ones at used computer shops or thrift shops.
This may be a hint..
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Do you automatically get support with closed source? Not usually. Just about every time I try to get ahold of a 'real person', you still have to pay for anything if you want more than what they happen to have already on their website.
The open source community typically provides much better online support than closed source, and you can still purchase support from RedHat et al, if it is needed. So support is really a non-issue, at least in my book.
Oops.. just checked, and it is a Deskstar - the 120GXP 80GB 7200.
Still, just one example of a good drive - maybe we just got lucky?
I almost always buy Western Digital. I've never had a problem with them.
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We did get one IBM 80GB (not Deskstar - some other model iirc) and it's been our main 'server' hard drive for about two years now with no problems. - Regardless, I still do my backups religiously
Anyway, I buy nothing for WD for my own systems, and i always recommend WD to people that ask me about which hard drive to buy.
It's getting to be alot of hassle to design websites.
Not if you stick to the standards, and get rid of stupid stuff like flash buttons. Or at the very least, provide both flash and non-flash versions of your site.
If you can't stick to standards, you shouldn't be writing a web page anyway - at least not one that you want to make sure people are able to read.
There are 4 people in my office who have gone in for the surgury, and the three that got it done were back in action with 20/20 vision within a day or two. The one that didn't get it, the doctor flat out told her that her with particular eye problems, that it would not be a safe option. I think that most doctors would stay on the safe side when either recommending or not recommending that you get this surgury - even one bad surgury could be disasterous to their practice. I would say go with a doctor who is recommended by someone that has had the surgury done before, and if possible get a second opinion to confirm that the procedure will be safe.
The authentic ones are though.. at least they were monkeys at one time
Very little, but it does have it's strengths... For example, you can easily send files back and forth without having to share a folder over the whole network, and it prevents people from e-mailing 2-meg documents back and forth all day, which not only wastes time, but also bandwidth. I haven't set people up with IM's in the office where I work, but I have thought about it. Perhaps it doesn't seem like such a bad idea in my case since it is a small business and half the employees are owners as well, so wasted time comes out of their pocket in the end anyway... heh
Minix will run more than happily on that.. :)
Tying the OS to the current machine means they have to purchase a new Windows license along with a new computer. However, tying a user's data to the current machine would discourage people from upgrading, and so MS would lose out on that new Windows license. Of course, this would lead to the next logical step (to Microsoft, anyway) - a subsription model. And it's even further downhill from there..
That is the 30 man code.. there is no 5 man code..
So the RIAA knows who to target first?
I agree. I had a Sony Clie (the original S300) for about a year, and what I discovered was that I was spending more time making sure it was charged and synced than time it saved me. By the time you get the thing out, turned on, get out of whatever program it was in, get where you want to be, and find the address or whatever you were looking for, you've been standing there probably a minute. Entering information was even more of a chore. By the time you get something written in there with Graffiti or the on-screen keypad, you could've jotted it on a peice of paper and been off doing other things by then. After a while I found all I was using my Clie for was to play Bejeweled instead of paying attention in my courses. I ended up selling it on eBay and picking up a little Dayrunner thing for much cheaper. It's a little more bulky, but it's ten times more convenient.
Yeah, until it learns to play for itself and beats all your high scores...