Yeah,,,if they *were* backup tapes, which they weren't.
When I worked in finance we'd send out tapes each month in the format specified by the reporting agency. I'm guessing that's what the tapes were, or for "pre-approval" solicitation.
Spam, referring to unwanted e-mail, came about quite a bit after referring to obnoxious, mass unsenet postings.
The cross-posting of unwanted messages generated the term spam, and it *was* from the Monty Python skit, where spam was all over the place.
Does no one remember usenet?
I don't run MS software ('cept for games), but this reminds me a lot of Stacker and the memory management programs before DOS 6.0
Somone other than Microsoft was making money off enhancing the OS, and in those cases MS just made changes that rendered the other company's products unneccessary. Here, if all goes as it did in the past, MS will be doing the same to Symantec and McAfee.
I'm rather like that, too. Using multi-button mice is a familiar and easy thing *now* but at first I was confused. Now, that's probably because I'm not as smart as the typical./ reader, who point out people are too dumb to use mice or computers, but in my case it was mostly a case of familiarity.
I worked tech support for years and had to convince everyone that I wasn't a genius, that I was experienced, that I'd made many of the same mistakes they did.
I spent a long time renaming files instead of opening them, and I see that mouse effect done by many others. It no longer freaks me out, and I no longer inadvertantly do it, but it happens all the time.
As to the subject, I recall in the late eighties working with a Mac gugru who'd laugh and wonder why anyone needed more than one button. I was used to two, and later three, and think it's just what we're comfortable with. My family isn't computer savvy, but I'd hesitate to call them dumb.
I always thought since Apple was going after the less tech savvy user they figured all those who love Macs but can't be bothered with learning about bits and CPUs and stuff would have no interest in upgrading. Besides, it's more income for them to have you drop it off at a reputable dealer.
The majority of the Mac users I've spoken with have no desire to insert memory and would probably do it wrong, anyway, and hose the mobo.
Not only did I have a sub to both CS and Byte, but I frequented the compuserve CS forum, where Bill talked mostly about his Camaro.
My only claim to fame is that I got a letter printed in Hard Edge, detailing my regrets with OS/2, the OS I tried so hard to love.
>My girlfriend's parents said, "I'll just google for it."
Google's problem with this is once your product name is used as a verb you begin losing your rights. Think of Xerox, for example.
It doesn't help Google at all to become generic and that's why I do a Google search.
"Dad is pretty much the average user: Word documents, spreadsheets, occasional presentation, email and web browsing."
What? No pr0n? How is he average?
" It strikes me as a little unfair that someone who is accused of breaking the law doesn't get the legal protections of those who are charged with crimes with a smaller penalty."
Tell that to Fred Goldman. He used it pretty well against OJ.
Today's US music industry relies on people not hearing the crap on the disc ahead of time, so that they might be fooled into buying it. Since they have managed to get their industry into such a run-down state that the only way they can manage to sell anything is by accident or deceit (wouldn't you call filling a CD with two good songs which get radio advertising time, and the remainder with remixes or other crap deceit?) they have to force people to not preview the music
Um, this has been true for the last fifty years that I know of. There have always been tracks on LPs that never made it to the air, and one of the joys of buying an album was hearing those "non-popular" tracks. To say nothing of the flip side of singles.
While a "legal person," Microsoft is not a "natural person." We restrict office-holders to that hold carbon-based life form thing here. Yeah, I know, archaic.
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You talk as if penis enlargement isn't a good thing.
Loudly.
Does this mean *more* of those "I saw your profile..." spam?
If sw were developed by people who write as poorly as the guy who blogged, the house would be even worse.
Yeah,,,if they *were* backup tapes, which they weren't.
When I worked in finance we'd send out tapes each month in the format specified by the reporting agency. I'm guessing that's what the tapes were, or for "pre-approval" solicitation.
Spam, referring to unwanted e-mail, came about quite a bit after referring to obnoxious, mass unsenet postings. The cross-posting of unwanted messages generated the term spam, and it *was* from the Monty Python skit, where spam was all over the place. Does no one remember usenet?
>>it was in a sock and died I gotta ask. WTF was it doing in a sock???
I know.
I don't run MS software ('cept for games), but this reminds me a lot of Stacker and the memory management programs before DOS 6.0
Somone other than Microsoft was making money off enhancing the OS, and in those cases MS just made changes that rendered the other company's products unneccessary. Here, if all goes as it did in the past, MS will be doing the same to Symantec and McAfee.
It was nice knowing you...
At least they've eliminated the problem of software crashing with a zero-divide error when the onboard computer thinks you're out of gas.
I worked tech support for years and had to convince everyone that I wasn't a genius, that I was experienced, that I'd made many of the same mistakes they did.
I spent a long time renaming files instead of opening them, and I see that mouse effect done by many others. It no longer freaks me out, and I no longer inadvertantly do it, but it happens all the time.
As to the subject, I recall in the late eighties working with a Mac gugru who'd laugh and wonder why anyone needed more than one button. I was used to two, and later three, and think it's just what we're comfortable with. My family isn't computer savvy, but I'd hesitate to call them dumb.
I always thought since Apple was going after the less tech savvy user they figured all those who love Macs but can't be bothered with learning about bits and CPUs and stuff would have no interest in upgrading. Besides, it's more income for them to have you drop it off at a reputable dealer. The majority of the Mac users I've spoken with have no desire to insert memory and would probably do it wrong, anyway, and hose the mobo.
They may need to stand in line behind Hormel, who are *still* upset about Spam(tm).
Not only did I have a sub to both CS and Byte, but I frequented the compuserve CS forum, where Bill talked mostly about his Camaro. My only claim to fame is that I got a letter printed in Hard Edge, detailing my regrets with OS/2, the OS I tried so hard to love.
Shouldn't that be "number" instead of "amount?"
>My girlfriend's parents said, "I'll just google for it." Google's problem with this is once your product name is used as a verb you begin losing your rights. Think of Xerox, for example. It doesn't help Google at all to become generic and that's why I do a Google search.
I'm just glad they didn't sue those p*e*n*1*s enlargement people because I'd hate to stop getting those.
"Dad is pretty much the average user: Word documents, spreadsheets, occasional presentation, email and web browsing." What? No pr0n? How is he average?
" It strikes me as a little unfair that someone who is accused of breaking the law doesn't get the legal protections of those who are charged with crimes with a smaller penalty." Tell that to Fred Goldman. He used it pretty well against OJ.
As he did for most things, Mark Twain said it best: There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
"Peter Jennings would cover the Administration's claims" Yeah, but he doesn't count. He's Canadian.
"Speach" is used because it rhymes with "compleat."
Today's US music industry relies on people not hearing the crap on the disc ahead of time, so that they might be fooled into buying it. Since they have managed to get their industry into such a run-down state that the only way they can manage to sell anything is by accident or deceit (wouldn't you call filling a CD with two good songs which get radio advertising time, and the remainder with remixes or other crap deceit?) they have to force people to not preview the music Um, this has been true for the last fifty years that I know of. There have always been tracks on LPs that never made it to the air, and one of the joys of buying an album was hearing those "non-popular" tracks. To say nothing of the flip side of singles.
And hence the huge majority who refuse to see this as theft.
While a "legal person," Microsoft is not a "natural person." We restrict office-holders to that hold carbon-based life form thing here. Yeah, I know, archaic.
Oh, c'mon. Mod the parent up. Has no one ever read his writings?