1) Mao died in 1976, while he's still a cultural hero of sorts to some, he stifled the economy and education while in power. The government since has switched the focus from ideological communism to RAMPAGING CAPITALISM.
The Communist party recently allowed PRIVATE land ownership.
The Communist party also recently allowed businessmen to join.
So, say what you will about the Chinese state being BigBrother, but, things are getting much better. They're just trying to make sure things don't fall apart on their way to the top. Give it 30 years and things will be very different, (in soviet america...)
After spending 45 minutes removing blaster, patching, removing around 300 bits of spyware (according to Ad-aware),and defragmenting I figured the guy was going to hand me a twenty or possibly even a fifty (he owned a used car dealership) for doing all that work and making it to where his computer was usable again. What was my grand reward for taking over an hour and a half (this includes driving time) of my time on a Sunday night? A yummy bottle of Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink
This is why you always install a keytroke logger while you work and take their bank account information for immediate payment and email passwords for future blackmail.
Also, carry a business card that has an hourly rate on it and tell them to give you a call if they ever need help in the future.
I can seriously respect doing that, in fact this gives me a great idea!
I'm a university student who owns an iBook, often times, friends in the library ask to use my book; i don't like them mucking with my settings so I've created an account called "Other". This command if it works as that well could be used to just clean the "Other" account up every now and then.
Cheers,
-S
yeah same here.
I can't not use it now, I was using a windows box at school the other day and found I had to click the start menu repeatedly to get my stuff from application to application. This really sucks when you've got over 2 applications going.
There's a windows program called winows exposer or something, it's a riot! instead of doing that neat moving the window/shrinking it thing, it clears the desktop then redraws each window one by one, it takes about twice as long as 1 epose swipe to start, and twice as long as one expose swipe to redraw each window. If you have 4 windows open, it takes about 10 expose time periods.
Go windows!
I'm more of a user than a coder or anything so here's the list of the average folk.
1) MS Office (Select edu. discount at my school means it was ridiculously cheap and OO looks tacky on my ibook). 2) Fire instant messenger 3) bittorrent 4) VLC 5) blank 6) run mac update once (that's sort of an application) 7) ummmm... is resizing the doc an application? 8) blank 9) blank 10) blank
Interesting, I find I'm able to crash/lock up more or less anything. I tend to use things until I find their limits and then get pissed off about their shody workmanship. With computers this really isn't that hard is it?
This is true for the coffee chain called "secondcup" and Starbucks. Second cup is home grown and wildly successful, starbucks just comes in and parks next to them. Stabucks has better coffee though, so I don't really care.
Oh well, at least it's still cooler than the competition.
ibook12" annecdote:
I was complaining to my friend in a cafe the other day that when I use airport to download large files as well as listen to itunes, run word, Fire im, and a dozen other apps, my battery life only lasts for about 3 and a half hours instead of 5. He told me to go fuck myself because his computer lasts about half as long and most of that time is spent configuring his wireless card, then his computer froze up and he had to take out the battery to reboot it.
the problem with keynote is that it makes all of the people who have never seen it before too distracted.
What's that?
Why doesn't my powerpoint look that good?
How did you make it do that thingy with the cube! that was too cool!
How come your inlaid videos work and mine never do?
No one ever pays attention to my presentation!!!
; )
I don't know who paid for all of your tuitions, but chez nous, $ is pretty dear. The emac and ibook line are an incredible buy for the student who doesn't necesarily have 2600$ to throw around.
I was converted some time around christmas, my friends check out my ibook all the time in class and now they all want one. I think next year's class here (McGill) is going to have at least 5 of them. I've also shown the light to my girlfriend and my mom.
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1) Mao died in 1976, while he's still a cultural hero of sorts to some, he stifled the economy and education while in power. The government since has switched the focus from ideological communism to RAMPAGING CAPITALISM.
The Communist party recently allowed PRIVATE land ownership.
The Communist party also recently allowed businessmen to join.
So, say what you will about the Chinese state being BigBrother, but, things are getting much better. They're just trying to make sure things don't fall apart on their way to the top. Give it 30 years and things will be very different, (in soviet america...)
Go China!
I'm going to second that motion.
In other somewhat unrelated news, I can get DSL where I'm going to be living in China for about 12$ US a month.
According to the People's Daily (read: propaganda double plus) they're succeeding so far: count on post Mao China to be economically sensible.
This is why you always install a keytroke logger while you work and take their bank account information for immediate payment and email passwords for future blackmail.
Also, carry a business card that has an hourly rate on it and tell them to give you a call if they ever need help in the future.
Damn Straight! I happen to like starbucks coffee, I find it's somehow a richer taste. My city is infested with smokers and I hate the smell of smoke.
mike moore.
I can seriously respect doing that, in fact this gives me a great idea! I'm a university student who owns an iBook, often times, friends in the library ask to use my book; i don't like them mucking with my settings so I've created an account called "Other". This command if it works as that well could be used to just clean the "Other" account up every now and then. Cheers, -S
yeah same here. I can't not use it now, I was using a windows box at school the other day and found I had to click the start menu repeatedly to get my stuff from application to application. This really sucks when you've got over 2 applications going. There's a windows program called winows exposer or something, it's a riot! instead of doing that neat moving the window/shrinking it thing, it clears the desktop then redraws each window one by one, it takes about twice as long as 1 epose swipe to start, and twice as long as one expose swipe to redraw each window. If you have 4 windows open, it takes about 10 expose time periods. Go windows!
I would have paid the 100$ just for exposé.
so,
are you saying the US should disolve into entities of about the same size as canada?
If so, I think it would probably be a good idea!
I'm more of a user than a coder or anything so here's the list of the average folk.
1) MS Office (Select edu. discount at my school means it was ridiculously cheap and OO looks tacky on my ibook).
2) Fire instant messenger
3) bittorrent
4) VLC
5) blank
6) run mac update once (that's sort of an application)
7) ummmm... is resizing the doc an application?
8) blank
9) blank
10) blank
you didn't look very hard...
n ce /rformacosxwithaquagui.html
I just googled for R Mac OS X
and came up with this
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_scie
Interesting,
I find I'm able to crash/lock up more or less anything. I tend to use things until I find their limits and then get pissed off about their shody workmanship. With computers this really isn't that hard is it?
How does one go about becoming a tester?
IIRC,
PEG is used as a humectant in most salad dressings...
you mean like near the sex shops?
Now that's just annoying. it's like having a reatrded little brother who keeps following you around and swearing at strangers.
This is true for the coffee chain called "secondcup" and Starbucks. Second cup is home grown and wildly successful, starbucks just comes in and parks next to them. Stabucks has better coffee though, so I don't really care.
Yeah, I just got mine in december...
Oh well, at least it's still cooler than the competition.
ibook12" annecdote:
I was complaining to my friend in a cafe the other day that when I use airport to download large files as well as listen to itunes, run word, Fire im, and a dozen other apps, my battery life only lasts for about 3 and a half hours instead of 5. He told me to go fuck myself because his computer lasts about half as long and most of that time is spent configuring his wireless card, then his computer froze up and he had to take out the battery to reboot it.
Man I wish I owned a wintel!
: )
Hooray for pedants!
Your sandwich heavy portfolio is finally showing a profit!
the problem with keynote is that it makes all of the people who have never seen it before too distracted. What's that? Why doesn't my powerpoint look that good? How did you make it do that thingy with the cube! that was too cool! How come your inlaid videos work and mine never do? No one ever pays attention to my presentation!!! ; )
MS office does export to PDF, as long as you're using Mac Office.
Open office actually blows the monkey compared to mac office and seeing as how my school is blowing M$ on the side, it only cost me 100$.
I don't know who paid for all of your tuitions, but chez nous, $ is pretty dear. The emac and ibook line are an incredible buy for the student who doesn't necesarily have 2600$ to throw around.
emac= well priced.
Some of us here (students) are poor. The eMac is more or less all we can afford to buy. Do NOT turn it into something unaffordable!
upgradage? why the emac, it's got ilife and it runs office/mail/addressbook and ical. What exactly do we need it to be doing faster?
I was converted some time around christmas, my friends check out my ibook all the time in class and now they all want one. I think next year's class here (McGill) is going to have at least 5 of them. I've also shown the light to my girlfriend and my mom.
I think showing expose alone got a few converts.
thanks that was actually very interesting.
I grew up on TNG, here's to hoping that they got a few things right in that too!