The more you know, the more you know you Don't know. So, don't feel bad. It's a good thing that you often feel dumb and/or ignorant about some things. You'd be much more foolish to assume you know everything about a given subject.
Man, if it was me, and I was in a business situation with a very very close and important deadline, and this junk pops up? I'd have that key piece of software cracked so fast it wouldn't know what hit it.
The software is meant to serve ME, not the other way around. If I've got a license sitting RIGHT THERE, and I CAN'T USE IT? Crack it, not worth the time to play their silly games.
I know of (at least) one G4 Imac user who has a lot of trouble with his OSX whenever it hiccupps. He seems to have more problems with it, and he calls me with "My mac is broken again, help!" Just because my wife has a G3 Imac with OS 8.6, he thinks we can help him.
I'm like - "Well, if you had an old mac or a winXP machine, maybe we could help. Here's what we would do if it was on OUR Imac..."
That's a pretty good one. And perhaps not a bad idea either.
But regarding SBC itself, I've actually set up a small lan with router using SBC DSL. I had some confusion stemming from a discrepency between their "install CD" instructions and the process when using XP. It was a thursday night around 8:30, I called the tech support number and GOT A LIVE PERSON, who HAD A CLUE, and was actually HAPPY TO HELP ME!
So, yeah, SBC DSL appears to be pretty good all around.
>The advertising world doesn't threaten to hack the entire world either, and that's a plus too...
Wait a minute, wasn't the possible main purpose of one of these latest virii to act as a trojan for spammers? Sorta sounds like the "advertising world" trying to hack the entire world...
Yes, that is a distinction I would like to be made clear to **AA et. al. Piracy is when something is copied and SOLD. P2P is not piracy, nothing is being sold.
Of course, there is the problem, for some, that... nothing is being sold... But that's not my point.
Sorry, I've got to call bs on this one. Please explain the timeframes of these installs, your hard drive space can't possibly be sufficient to hold win2k if it was from the era of win3.1!
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Like the "Please stop sending me this crap!" responses...
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NO NO NO!
Yes, this idea sounds good but we can't forget the internet mailing lists. They ARE legit, they DO send out lots of emails per day, and they WILL die instantly if it costs a listowner for every email sent.
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I think he means FAUCET, like a WATER FAUCET. I've seen one before, it's got a clear plastic pipe running water up about 7 feet with a fake FAUCET on top, and water spurts out from the top and runs down the sides of the clear tube, giving the illusion of water coming out of thin air from a magical faucet floating in space.
Maybe he's from BAHston and he says Faaacit.
The virus would have updated to the site anyway. Which would you rather have? A patched virus that does more harm or a patched virus that removes itself? I fail to see the problem here.
I've heard this a number of times "things just feel faster on a Mac".
And you state that you do the work on a Mac, and then pass the rendering onto the PC.
Sure, that makes sense. We should all buy $4000 G4's to pre-process our graphical work and then use a $2000 x86 box as our compute server.
Meanwhile in the real world we'll save a ton of cash AND do the work faster, all on just one x86 box. Who cares if it FEELS faster when in reality it is NOT faster?
My wallet doesn't care how I or anyone else feels.
If you've got the mac sitting around and your approach works for you, that's perfectly fine. However, anyone looking to enter into the graphical world should NOT pay 2x the cash just for the warm fuzzies the mac interface gives you.
Macs are dead.
Regardless, it is true that hanging from a girder by two strands of dental floss is much more secure than one strand BUT....
At my company I've found that letting a salaried person go is NOT A PROBLEM... We've cut folk who moved from far off, to a small town in the middle of nowhere, less than a year after hiring. That = screwed.
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Or was he mistaken and he meant to state that the Median IQ is 100?
The more you know, the more you know you Don't know. So, don't feel bad. It's a good thing that you often feel dumb and/or ignorant about some things. You'd be much more foolish to assume you know everything about a given subject.
Man, if it was me, and I was in a business situation with a very very close and important deadline, and this junk pops up? I'd have that key piece of software cracked so fast it wouldn't know what hit it. The software is meant to serve ME, not the other way around. If I've got a license sitting RIGHT THERE, and I CAN'T USE IT? Crack it, not worth the time to play their silly games.
Wasn't there an old (pre theregister.co.uk) BOFH article where the Bastard tricked his boss into proposing the use of the network as a storage medium?
And the telemarketers will probably still be making phone calls anyway.
I know of (at least) one G4 Imac user who has a lot of trouble with his OSX whenever it hiccupps. He seems to have more problems with it, and he calls me with "My mac is broken again, help!"
Just because my wife has a G3 Imac with OS 8.6, he thinks we can help him.
I'm like - "Well, if you had an old mac or a winXP machine, maybe we could help. Here's what we would do if it was on OUR Imac..."
No, really. It was a real person.
That's a pretty good one. And perhaps not a bad idea either.
But regarding SBC itself, I've actually set up a small lan with router using SBC DSL. I had some confusion stemming from a discrepency between their "install CD" instructions and the process when using XP. It was a thursday night around 8:30, I called the tech support number and GOT A LIVE PERSON, who HAD A CLUE, and was actually HAPPY TO HELP ME! So, yeah, SBC DSL appears to be pretty good all around.
>The advertising world doesn't threaten to hack the entire world either, and that's a plus too... Wait a minute, wasn't the possible main purpose of one of these latest virii to act as a trojan for spammers? Sorta sounds like the "advertising world" trying to hack the entire world...
Naw, of course not. All those people OPTED IN, see?
Yes, that is a distinction I would like to be made clear to **AA et. al. Piracy is when something is copied and SOLD. P2P is not piracy, nothing is being sold. Of course, there is the problem, for some, that ... nothing is being sold... But that's not my point.
37 cents last I checked...
Just curious - how do you know that? No doubt it's true, chickens are about as smart as cows (not very), I'm just curious.
Makes perfect sense, sorry!
Sorry, I've got to call bs on this one. Please explain the timeframes of these installs, your hard drive space can't possibly be sufficient to hold win2k if it was from the era of win3.1!
Like the "Please stop sending me this crap!" responses...
NO NO NO! Yes, this idea sounds good but we can't forget the internet mailing lists. They ARE legit, they DO send out lots of emails per day, and they WILL die instantly if it costs a listowner for every email sent.
I think he means FAUCET, like a WATER FAUCET. I've seen one before, it's got a clear plastic pipe running water up about 7 feet with a fake FAUCET on top, and water spurts out from the top and runs down the sides of the clear tube, giving the illusion of water coming out of thin air from a magical faucet floating in space. Maybe he's from BAHston and he says Faaacit.
The virus would have updated to the site anyway. Which would you rather have? A patched virus that does more harm or a patched virus that removes itself? I fail to see the problem here.
Ummm.... So where do you work and are they taking applications?
Let's see, we've got IBM, Windows, Linux, Apple, OSX, and AMD all in one topic. POST that sucker!
I've heard this a number of times "things just feel faster on a Mac". And you state that you do the work on a Mac, and then pass the rendering onto the PC. Sure, that makes sense. We should all buy $4000 G4's to pre-process our graphical work and then use a $2000 x86 box as our compute server. Meanwhile in the real world we'll save a ton of cash AND do the work faster, all on just one x86 box. Who cares if it FEELS faster when in reality it is NOT faster? My wallet doesn't care how I or anyone else feels. If you've got the mac sitting around and your approach works for you, that's perfectly fine. However, anyone looking to enter into the graphical world should NOT pay 2x the cash just for the warm fuzzies the mac interface gives you. Macs are dead.
64 bit Finite Element Analysis, 8GB ram on a wintel SMP box. Woo Hoo! Oh, wait, can't get 64bit intel until 2007. Oh well.
Regardless, it is true that hanging from a girder by two strands of dental floss is much more secure than one strand BUT.... At my company I've found that letting a salaried person go is NOT A PROBLEM... We've cut folk who moved from far off, to a small town in the middle of nowhere, less than a year after hiring. That = screwed.
Don't use hairspray OR deodorant. We always used PROPANE!!!