however - it's a policy I've long since known about. It isn't secret but rather openly declared when you ordered the product. I can understand the policy to a certain extent; and after all, if you're bothering to custom configure the thing then you're obviously aware of what you're buying to such an extent that you shouldn't want to return it unless it's malfunctioning - in which case their warranty should cover repair/replacement.
Actually - You seem yourself to display a powerful example of a much larger problem with our society today - "unable to go into their cars?" No, I'm not referring to your poor sentence but rather to the concept presented. People can't use their remote keyless entry and so they're unable to enter their cars! If, in order to enter their car, they're forced to the incredible inconvenience and severe physical strain of inserting their key into their lock and actually TURNING it then they're actually unable to enter their car. How worthless can people get? My stepfather lost one of the keyless entry devices for my car and I don't use the other. Trust me, using a key isn't difficult - I do so daily. On my air-cooled VW, I even roll the windows up and down manually!!!!!
There are some major differences. The original Palm OS shipped (so far as I know) on time. The Palm OS has never tried to be Newton OS. Palm OS has always been quite stable. Palm OS actually works. Palm doesn't seem to make a habit of taking the most popular software for Palm OS and making their own versions which they sell for less and/or bundle. The Palm interface is good. Palm released an app allowing users to read their Palm-format eBooks on competing operating systems. Palm encourages developers to build apps to access data in their propietary formats on other machines under other vendor's OSes. Palm OS runs usably on slow machines with very little RAM - it even runs usably on machines meeting the official minimum requirements... anyway, I need to get back to work - I suggest you buy a Palm OS device if you want to know the rest of the differences.
Hallelujah to that! With deaths in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich, my salary less than half what it was a couple of years ago civil liberties disappearing, and more doom and gloom, it's good to see some good news at last. The truth is that Trek hasn't produced anything decent in many years and blind allegiance to it is ridiculous - though at least less dangerous to society at large than blind obedience to other causes.
If even the dedicated Trekkies don't watch it in sufficient numbers to keep it on the air that's a sign it's normally every bit as bad as it's been the few times I've given it a chance.
or possibly 7 or more - I remember being homeless (my roommate intercepted the eviction notices until the night before the sheriff's deputies were scheduled to arrive) and staying at the home of a co-worker who left in 97, so...
Anyway, I used Macamp and found my mp3s on Hotline in the good old days before they released Windoze clients and banner servers took over. It was so tough finding bootleg, unreleased and OOP stuff on Hotline, though, and I've never really liked to DL commercially available material except to review for possible purchase. Early stuff included indie stuff I couldn't sample elsewhere (Amazing Grace by Ani Difranco was an early DL - she's profited nicely from my illicit mp3 use; Rodan; crazy japanese stuff) and just about any bootleg in which I had the slightest interest (early 80s REM, Replacements, etc) because they were free and it was all I could find that wasn't a commercial release.
Just check out their recent financial statements. That's their proof of ownership over linux source code. They need to own it, so they do. Hey, if it works for Saddam/Al Quaeda links...
they released a new WMA format superior to the current one. Considering how lousy the current WMA format is, coming up with a superior version shouldn't be too difficult so I'm amazed they've waited so long.
Just what I was looking for before starting a new top-level thread. My comment was going to be along the lines of: did anyone else see this article and think it was going to be refer to REAL CLI DOS games rather than a bunch of graphical shoot-em-ups? These days, it's easy to find games that require much practice, some skill, and little thought; finding good games which require much thought and little else is difficult.
I remember hating that app when I had to use it at a temp position I had for a few months, but I was coming from MacWrite II rather than from DOS apps. I occasionally remember it with some fondness when forced to deal with WinWord these days.
That's recording performer John Mayer, not recording artist/ I found that out a few months back when I finally had the misfortune of hearing him perform. After the sort of hype encountered, I'd gotten the impression he may actually have talent; imagine my disappointment.
Perhaps because Macs already are all that much better. I use a Mac and service Windows and Linux users - and use Windows and Linux sporadically at work. The Windows and Linux systems - particularly Windoze, but also Linux - have many more problems which take much more time to solve than OS X (or the OS 9 systems I still serve at a couple of clients' offices). When similar problems do arise on the Macs, they're more quickly and easily resolved. My boss has been providing tech support for Windoze for the past 8 years, used it as his desktop for over 8 years, and still wound up having to replace his computer to resolve Direct X issues. He and another full time Windows-servicing employee couldn't fix problems on an office box, even after multiple OS installations (and upgrading from 2k to XP), but installing Linux on it resolved what had appeared to be a hardware issue. As I move from Perl and PHP applications which can run with no changes on my OS X laptop to GUI apps and scanning applications which must be run on their destination OS, I use the Intel test box at my house much more often and am plagued by the sort of problems/issues/patches with which I've never previously had to deal at home and it's a major pain in the patootie.
It's a 77 VW bus. I've been told that the FI on air-cooled VWs is a bunch of transistors/resistors rather than an integrated circuit, so there is a company which will repair broken computers by replacing the bad parts. Since the individual pieces can be relatively easily identified, the "source" is openly available. However - my car is much roomier than an SUV, very dependable, only gets 20-24 MPH, and has a bed for use on those late nights at work but those are the sacrifices one makes when one owns a vehicle with oodles of spare parts available for (probably) decades to come. Of course, since the model is still one of the most popular models of new cars in Brazil I suppose it's actually a modern car and doesn't belong in a thread about classic cars...
Considering the fact that he could buy a (used) faster Mac for $200, I think it just means two things. 1. The original poster is cheap (or perhaps simply can't afford a new Mac at the same time as a Quark upgrade). 2. Mac users are accustomed to having their computers remain usable for longer than are Windopes.
Besides - if he wants to run Linux, he can do so on his Mac. You do realize that Linux isn't just for Intel boxes, don't you? Also - a Dell? Dells are often more expensive than comparable Macs; a Dell is one of the last x86 boxes he should buy to have a mega-cheap system.
Yes, it's more important to understand the language than to have good, solid code examples which I can't actually use because either they don't do what I need to do or I just can't understand them well enough to implement them where I need them. It's also more important to be able to write the best code for the job than to be able to grab some inefficient code which allows me to work around its inadequacies for my specific usage so that I can just about do what needs to be done. I choose comprehension over examples.
I've used Energizer NiMH AA, C and AAA and Archos supplied AA with similar good results, but I've noticed a difference in chargers. The AAs last noticeably longer in my mother's camera when I charge them in my Rayovac PS3 or Archos Jukebox than when I charge them in her Energizer CHM4AA. I seem to recall only getting ~15-20 photos when they were charged in the Energizer vs dozens when they're charged elsewhere.
The hat I sold you is working. The world is obeying your wishes. You do not want a refund. You are quite pleased with your tin foil hat. It is better than Cats.
There are situations in which PHP's easiness actually make it more difficult to use, but generally ASP using VBScript suffers even worse. I remember the difficulty I had trying to explain to a friend at my last job that VBScript sacrificed power and therefore ease of use for more accomplished programmers in favor of an easy learning curve and simplicity for beginners. I don't think he ever quite understood that VBScript is actually easier to learn, because he repeatedly suffered from what it lacks.
There are times when I miss some options I had with ASP/would have with.Net (mainly OOP), but there were more times I missed what I would have had with PHP when working with ASP. Still, the biggest problem is that.Net, as with virtually everything Micro$oft, does an inadequate and troublesome job of implementation even with what it gets right. The well-publicized flaws of.Net should suffice to show that it needs to be replaced/refurbished and that this time M$ needs to have a tight, talented core of coders focus on it rather than a huge assemblage of folk working willy-nilly rushing to completion with inadequate coordination. It's amazing that Open Source projects seem to maintain better coordination and more tightly inegrated code than M$ (no slight intended toward OSS - my point is one of respect).
I would dislike using.Net both because I don't care for the tools and because, again, the flaws seem to overwhelm the advantages. the weaknesses of the entire platform are also discouraging - I wouldn't care to use all that Windows has to "offer" as a system and server platform. However - my dislike for M$ is strong enough that I am (shame on me) not at all disappointed that M$ hasn't introduced a set of tools strong enough to make me want to use them.
I'm quite pleased to have been able to move from ASP to PHP in the past three years - although at least.Net seems better than the options which preceeded it.
Oh, man, what are you thinking?!?!?! Never purchase a tin-foil hat! It could secretly be rigged with a mind-control device or fake foil which transfers the rays unfettered! You can't trust a tin-foil hat unless you've assembled it yourself.
It's best if you can mine and smelt the ore and roll the foil yourself. Remember, you need to get it thin enough that it won't develop metal fatigue and crack along the bends - otherwise the microwaves and mind-control rays can seep in.
***grumble*** store-bought tin-foil hats... what next?
Wow. I never read the Times article because I really wasn't interested. I didn't think "who wants to read about some loser who games" or "silly gamer, get a life" or anything such; I just didn't care. I doubted the story could have been so outrageously untrue as it was suggested to be - no more than 5% of what you read in the papers is untrue/miscontrued - but I wasn't certain. However, after reading only two Deacon comments on Slashdot I feel that it would be impossible for any story to properly express what a waste of existence the fellow is unless it consists solely of massive quotes (to keep them completely in context) from the Deacon. It is incredibly rare that I encounter evidence of the existence of such a vicious, warped, obnoxious, judgemental fellow - although the second posting is less outrageous than the first.
I'm particularly amused by his description of slashdotters. Saying "I work from home - that's why I'm online so much" to the same folk he calls losers partly because they're online posting all the time is too much. The kettle calling the pot black, perhaps. The defense of bankruptcy with discussion of income - anyone who makes that much and can't pay the bills has serious problems. There's no excuse unless The Deacon has about 10 relatives in need of financial support. Get a cheaper apartment, dump the car for a nice $800 honda with double the mileage and low insurance payments, eat more rice, beans and vegetables cooked at home... Live within your means! When you make over $20,000/year it's not difficult. I was only making $37,000 when I moved to Madison and I was saving money. After two years there, Deacon, I was only making $53,000 and feel free to laugh at me if you like - but I paid the bills, splurged on expensive meals, bought a car and still saved money.
I do give the Deacon credit for having the guts to post that embarassing photo of himself, though. Anyone willing to show a photo of himself looking like such silly, goofy loser has something going for him. Of course, most of us have had to take goofy poses such as that in HS but at least most of us don't have such a silly, arrogant expression.
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however - it's a policy I've long since known about. It isn't secret but rather openly declared when you ordered the product. I can understand the policy to a certain extent; and after all, if you're bothering to custom configure the thing then you're obviously aware of what you're buying to such an extent that you shouldn't want to return it unless it's malfunctioning - in which case their warranty should cover repair/replacement.
Actually -
You seem yourself to display a powerful example of a much larger problem with our society today - "unable to go into their cars?" No, I'm not referring to your poor sentence but rather to the concept presented. People can't use their remote keyless entry and so they're unable to enter their cars! If, in order to enter their car, they're forced to the incredible inconvenience and severe physical strain of inserting their key into their lock and actually TURNING it then they're actually unable to enter their car. How worthless can people get?
My stepfather lost one of the keyless entry devices for my car and I don't use the other. Trust me, using a key isn't difficult - I do so daily. On my air-cooled VW, I even roll the windows up and down manually!!!!!
There are some major differences. The original Palm OS shipped (so far as I know) on time. The Palm OS has never tried to be Newton OS. Palm OS has always been quite stable. Palm OS actually works. Palm doesn't seem to make a habit of taking the most popular software for Palm OS and making their own versions which they sell for less and/or bundle. The Palm interface is good. Palm released an app allowing users to read their Palm-format eBooks on competing operating systems. Palm encourages developers to build apps to access data in their propietary formats on other machines under other vendor's OSes. Palm OS runs usably on slow machines with very little RAM - it even runs usably on machines meeting the official minimum requirements... anyway, I need to get back to work - I suggest you buy a Palm OS device if you want to know the rest of the differences.
and now the Algonquin? I'm a big Robert Benchley fan. I could imagine him doing an excellent short on RFID.
I understand the Simon and Garfunkel reference, but why the Nirvana reference? Do you get that excited by RFID?
Hallelujah to that! With deaths in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich, my salary less than half what it was a couple of years ago civil liberties disappearing, and more doom and gloom, it's good to see some good news at last. The truth is that Trek hasn't produced anything decent in many years and blind allegiance to it is ridiculous - though at least less dangerous to society at large than blind obedience to other causes.
If even the dedicated Trekkies don't watch it in sufficient numbers to keep it on the air that's a sign it's normally every bit as bad as it's been the few times I've given it a chance.
Although in my case, it's a friend who uses his Commodore 64 monitor as his sole TV. He (and his family) use a VCR for channel selection.
I occasionally use my early Macs which, of course, have built-in monitors which are from the late 80s as are the computers themselves.
Anyway, I used Macamp and found my mp3s on Hotline in the good old days before they released Windoze clients and banner servers took over. It was so tough finding bootleg, unreleased and OOP stuff on Hotline, though, and I've never really liked to DL commercially available material except to review for possible purchase. Early stuff included indie stuff I couldn't sample elsewhere (Amazing Grace by Ani Difranco was an early DL - she's profited nicely from my illicit mp3 use; Rodan; crazy japanese stuff) and just about any bootleg in which I had the slightest interest (early 80s REM, Replacements, etc) because they were free and it was all I could find that wasn't a commercial release.
Just check out their recent financial statements. That's their proof of ownership over linux source code. They need to own it, so they do. Hey, if it works for Saddam/Al Quaeda links...
they released a new WMA format superior to the current one. Considering how lousy the current WMA format is, coming up with a superior version shouldn't be too difficult so I'm amazed they've waited so long.
Just what I was looking for before starting a new top-level thread. My comment was going to be along the lines of: did anyone else see this article and think it was going to be refer to REAL CLI DOS games rather than a bunch of graphical shoot-em-ups? These days, it's easy to find games that require much practice, some skill, and little thought; finding good games which require much thought and little else is difficult.
I remember hating that app when I had to use it at a temp position I had for a few months, but I was coming from MacWrite II rather than from DOS apps. I occasionally remember it with some fondness when forced to deal with WinWord these days.
That's recording performer John Mayer, not recording artist/ I found that out a few months back when I finally had the misfortune of hearing him perform. After the sort of hype encountered, I'd gotten the impression he may actually have talent; imagine my disappointment.
Perhaps because Macs already are all that much better. I use a Mac and service Windows and Linux users - and use Windows and Linux sporadically at work. The Windows and Linux systems - particularly Windoze, but also Linux - have many more problems which take much more time to solve than OS X (or the OS 9 systems I still serve at a couple of clients' offices). When similar problems do arise on the Macs, they're more quickly and easily resolved. My boss has been providing tech support for Windoze for the past 8 years, used it as his desktop for over 8 years, and still wound up having to replace his computer to resolve Direct X issues. He and another full time Windows-servicing employee couldn't fix problems on an office box, even after multiple OS installations (and upgrading from 2k to XP), but installing Linux on it resolved what had appeared to be a hardware issue. As I move from Perl and PHP applications which can run with no changes on my OS X laptop to GUI apps and scanning applications which must be run on their destination OS, I use the Intel test box at my house much more often and am plagued by the sort of problems/issues/patches with which I've never previously had to deal at home and it's a major pain in the patootie.
I seriously doubt that you want your Linux free of all bsd-derived code - that's a little too pure.
It's a 77 VW bus. I've been told that the FI on air-cooled VWs is a bunch of transistors/resistors rather than an integrated circuit, so there is a company which will repair broken computers by replacing the bad parts. Since the individual pieces can be relatively easily identified, the "source" is openly available. However - my car is much roomier than an SUV, very dependable, only gets 20-24 MPH, and has a bed for use on those late nights at work but those are the sacrifices one makes when one owns a vehicle with oodles of spare parts available for (probably) decades to come. Of course, since the model is still one of the most popular models of new cars in Brazil I suppose it's actually a modern car and doesn't belong in a thread about classic cars...
Wrong answer. Correct answer: Find a better Operating System! ;)
Considering the fact that he could buy a (used) faster Mac for $200, I think it just means two things. 1. The original poster is cheap (or perhaps simply can't afford a new Mac at the same time as a Quark upgrade). 2. Mac users are accustomed to having their computers remain usable for longer than are Windopes. Besides - if he wants to run Linux, he can do so on his Mac. You do realize that Linux isn't just for Intel boxes, don't you? Also - a Dell? Dells are often more expensive than comparable Macs; a Dell is one of the last x86 boxes he should buy to have a mega-cheap system.
Yes, it's more important to understand the language than to have good, solid code examples which I can't actually use because either they don't do what I need to do or I just can't understand them well enough to implement them where I need them. It's also more important to be able to write the best code for the job than to be able to grab some inefficient code which allows me to work around its inadequacies for my specific usage so that I can just about do what needs to be done. I choose comprehension over examples.
I've used Energizer NiMH AA, C and AAA and Archos supplied AA with similar good results, but I've noticed a difference in chargers. The AAs last noticeably longer in my mother's camera when I charge them in my Rayovac PS3 or Archos Jukebox than when I charge them in her Energizer CHM4AA. I seem to recall only getting ~15-20 photos when they were charged in the Energizer vs dozens when they're charged elsewhere.
The hat I sold you is working. The world is obeying your wishes. You do not want a refund. You are quite pleased with your tin foil hat. It is better than Cats.
There are situations in which PHP's easiness actually make it more difficult to use, but generally ASP using VBScript suffers even worse. I remember the difficulty I had trying to explain to a friend at my last job that VBScript sacrificed power and therefore ease of use for more accomplished programmers in favor of an easy learning curve and simplicity for beginners. I don't think he ever quite understood that VBScript is actually easier to learn, because he repeatedly suffered from what it lacks.
.Net (mainly OOP), but there were more times I missed what I would have had with PHP when working with ASP. Still, the biggest problem is that .Net, as with virtually everything Micro$oft, does an inadequate and troublesome job of implementation even with what it gets right. The well-publicized flaws of .Net should suffice to show that it needs to be replaced/refurbished and that this time M$ needs to have a tight, talented core of coders focus on it rather than a huge assemblage of folk working willy-nilly rushing to completion with inadequate coordination. It's amazing that Open Source projects seem to maintain better coordination and more tightly inegrated code than M$ (no slight intended toward OSS - my point is one of respect).
.Net both because I don't care for the tools and because, again, the flaws seem to overwhelm the advantages. the weaknesses of the entire platform are also discouraging - I wouldn't care to use all that Windows has to "offer" as a system and server platform. However - my dislike for M$ is strong enough that I am (shame on me) not at all disappointed that M$ hasn't introduced a set of tools strong enough to make me want to use them.
There are times when I miss some options I had with ASP/would have with
I would dislike using
I'm quite pleased to have been able to move from ASP to PHP in the past three years - although at least .Net seems better than the options which preceeded it.
Oh, man, what are you thinking?!?!?! Never purchase a tin-foil hat! It could secretly be rigged with a mind-control device or fake foil which transfers the rays unfettered! You can't trust a tin-foil hat unless you've assembled it yourself. It's best if you can mine and smelt the ore and roll the foil yourself. Remember, you need to get it thin enough that it won't develop metal fatigue and crack along the bends - otherwise the microwaves and mind-control rays can seep in. ***grumble*** store-bought tin-foil hats... what next?
I'm particularly amused by his description of slashdotters. Saying "I work from home - that's why I'm online so much" to the same folk he calls losers partly because they're online posting all the time is too much. The kettle calling the pot black, perhaps. The defense of bankruptcy with discussion of income - anyone who makes that much and can't pay the bills has serious problems. There's no excuse unless The Deacon has about 10 relatives in need of financial support. Get a cheaper apartment, dump the car for a nice $800 honda with double the mileage and low insurance payments, eat more rice, beans and vegetables cooked at home... Live within your means! When you make over $20,000/year it's not difficult. I was only making $37,000 when I moved to Madison and I was saving money. After two years there, Deacon, I was only making $53,000 and feel free to laugh at me if you like - but I paid the bills, splurged on expensive meals, bought a car and still saved money.
I do give the Deacon credit for having the guts to post that embarassing photo of himself, though. Anyone willing to show a photo of himself looking like such silly, goofy loser has something going for him. Of course, most of us have had to take goofy poses such as that in HS but at least most of us don't have such a silly, arrogant expression.