I'd love to have the firmware to my Intel MB that they're not updating anymore, even though they know it is buggy; the latest version broke stuff that worked in the previous version but fixed other bugs from that version, so you have to pick your poison.
The other thing is drivers for hardware. If you're not going to update your buggy, crappy drivers, let us do it.
Word. That video is so close to self-porn, but it has an emperor's new clothes feel. The narrator just goes on talking while the guy with the device looks, well, like he's having fun with the device.
I just tell the boss, "Hey, I've got a lot of crap laying around here, including these still-good USB cables/CD Rom drives/memory sticks/Motherboards/CPU's/monitors/whatever. What should I do with them?" She says, "Will we use any of it ever?" I reply truthfully, "Probably not in the next year." She says "Throw it away then." Which I then proceed to do. Into the back of my truck. It keeps me from lying, and she doesn't care. I've told her plenty of times I'm taking old stuff home to tinker with that the office will never use. Maybe she's just cool that way. Plus, if we need something back I've scavenged, I just charge the company back whatever it cost when it was brand new. Just kidding.:)
Technically you're correct, because he could have been working those 2 hours, but putting in the water heater by himself didn't make his bank account balance $100 smaller, as a repairman's install would have.
Just because he didn't make money those 2 hours (or whatever it was,) doesn't mean it didn't save him money. If he installed the water heater instead of sitting on the couch watching TV, which is what he was going to do for those 2 hours anyway, he did make $100. Some people actually like to do a little manual labor after sitting behind a computer reading slashd^w^w working all day.
I'd actually like to know how he lost money on the deal? Unless he could be working somewhere else that paid > $50/hour during that time, I don't see your point.
Haven't we already gone far enough down the path of the Romans already? You may not know this, but there are actually gay people who live in America these days. The fall is coming quickly for sure.:)
That's the beauty of the Internet. There isn't one "place" you can buy stuff. They're talking about the online Wal-Mart music store here. It's not like there aren't any other choices when it comes to online buying of music. This isn't censorship, it's a company choosing not to sell a certain product. Wal-Mart doesn't have a monopoly here. Ever hear of iTunes? go there if you don't like Wal-Mart's modus operandi. It's just a click away.
I used to be one who thought that reading/. or any of the other blogs/technews sites/new software reviews was something I should do at home and that I was wasting company time if I did it at work.
That all changed when we hired a temp to do some web work for us (we were a small company- 15-20 employees depending on the season) and he pointed out some great software that would save us a ton of time. I can't remember exactly what the software was, but I'll never forget that the temp said he found it on one of the tech news sites he regularly read. It's true that sometimes I go off on a./ tangent story, but the other things I've learned here make up for that.
Digg OTOH, is an entirely different story. a 99:1 tangent to real story ratio is just way to high IMHO.
I think I should have put <tongue in cheek> in there somewhere. I got what you said. I was trying to say (poorly, obviously) that any station that actually plays the Pixies and also considers playing a Pixies song 6 times in 8 years as heavy rotation must have a HUGE rotation list and would be a great place to find some new music. If not for internet radio, I'd have never heard of the best singer/songwriter in the world, Elliott Smith,[0] as well as a lot of other bands who are among my favorites [1]. So I was humbly asking if this station you speak of has an internet feed I could check out.
So do they?
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*0 Or, rather, re-heard of. I saw Good Will Hunting and him all over dressed at the Academy Awards, but, regretably, I never got around to finding out who the songwriter was until much later. I still get a little teary-eyed thinking that I could have seen him live on several occasions had I followed that initial intuition that I had when I saw him on the Oscars. Sadly, he killed himself a few years ago, a few months before I started listening to him.
*1 Stars, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Travis, Badly Drawn Boy, Built to Spill, Deathcab for Cutie, Metric, the Postal Service, Silversun Pickups, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, etc.
Are they streaming their feeds on the net? A url would be great. I love the Pixies, and anyone who plays them that much would have to be a good station.
Holy crap!
The rest of the country is going to think Utah's even more back-woods hick-yokel inbreds than we already. It's really not that bad here, but Jebus, please, can we get a freaking sane law passed in this state, PLEASE???
That may be true, but _so far_, in this century, it IS one of the most talked about raids that has happened. It's also the most talked about raid from this decade, this half-century, and this millennia, so far.
I've heard (rarely) of a monitor dying because someone tweeked the X vid settings a little too much, but that was a long time ago. And we're talking about a keyboard here. How could Linux possibly kill a keyboard? I've never heard of that, but I'm sure there's a lot of linux stuff I've not heard. This article is more to the point that support people love to pass the buck on to another company/user error/anything but our product. If it really is their product, they actually have to do work to fix the problem, that's why it's easier to pass it along the support hell chain.
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They're just letting us know that MS wants its own employees to use the best possible tech available.
So, is this going to be a good thing to put on your resume?
* Stay focused and attentive to work.
* Hard worker
* Level 32 Visual Studio Achievements
* Stays on task
Uhhhh...
I'd love to have the firmware to my Intel MB that they're not updating anymore, even though they know it is buggy; the latest version broke stuff that worked in the previous version but fixed other bugs from that version, so you have to pick your poison.
The other thing is drivers for hardware. If you're not going to update your buggy, crappy drivers, let us do it.
We are Borg you will be assimilated... STOMP. Assimilate that.
Ummm, I beg to differ.
The "Dude!," "Sweet!" tattoo scene was brilliant. And Jennifer Garner was hot back then.
Heh. My random quote came up thusly:
Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!?!!!!
Where'd you get THAT word? And does Stephen Colbert know about it? It's a fairly brilliant word.
Word. That video is so close to self-porn, but it has an emperor's new clothes feel. The narrator just goes on talking while the guy with the device looks, well, like he's having fun with the device.
Not to mention xenophobes.
Errrr, wait...
I just tell the boss, "Hey, I've got a lot of crap laying around here, including these still-good USB cables/CD Rom drives/memory sticks/Motherboards/CPU's/monitors/whatever. What should I do with them?" :)
She says, "Will we use any of it ever?"
I reply truthfully, "Probably not in the next year."
She says "Throw it away then."
Which I then proceed to do. Into the back of my truck.
It keeps me from lying, and she doesn't care. I've told her plenty of times I'm taking old stuff home to tinker with that the office will never use. Maybe she's just cool that way. Plus, if we need something back I've scavenged, I just charge the company back whatever it cost when it was brand new. Just kidding.
Technically you're correct, because he could have been working those 2 hours, but putting in the water heater by himself didn't make his bank account balance $100 smaller, as a repairman's install would have.
Just because he didn't make money those 2 hours (or whatever it was,) doesn't mean it didn't save him money. If he installed the water heater instead of sitting on the couch watching TV, which is what he was going to do for those 2 hours anyway, he did make $100. Some people actually like to do a little manual labor after sitting behind a computer reading slashd^w^w working all day.
I'd actually like to know how he lost money on the deal? Unless he could be working somewhere else that paid > $50/hour during that time, I don't see your point.
Haven't we already gone far enough down the path of the Romans already? You may not know this, but there are actually gay people who live in America these days. The fall is coming quickly for sure. :)
That's the beauty of the Internet. There isn't one "place" you can buy stuff. They're talking about the online Wal-Mart music store here. It's not like there aren't any other choices when it comes to online buying of music. This isn't censorship, it's a company choosing not to sell a certain product. Wal-Mart doesn't have a monopoly here. Ever hear of iTunes? go there if you don't like Wal-Mart's modus operandi. It's just a click away.
Is Harry Reid trying to take over the position of Orrin Hatch as "most technologically stupid Mormon Senator"?
Only if you print it on a Kleenex and have a Coke afterwards.
I used to be one who thought that reading /. or any of the other blogs/technews sites/new software reviews was something I should do at home and that I was wasting company time if I did it at work.
./ tangent story, but the other things I've learned here make up for that.
That all changed when we hired a temp to do some web work for us (we were a small company- 15-20 employees depending on the season) and he pointed out some great software that would save us a ton of time. I can't remember exactly what the software was, but I'll never forget that the temp said he found it on one of the tech news sites he regularly read. It's true that sometimes I go off on a
Digg OTOH, is an entirely different story. a 99:1 tangent to real story ratio is just way to high IMHO.
I think I should have put <tongue in cheek> in there somewhere. I got what you said. I was trying to say (poorly, obviously) that any station that actually plays the Pixies and also considers playing a Pixies song 6 times in 8 years as heavy rotation must have a HUGE rotation list and would be a great place to find some new music. If not for internet radio, I'd have never heard of the best singer/songwriter in the world, Elliott Smith,[0] as well as a lot of other bands who are among my favorites [1]. So I was humbly asking if this station you speak of has an internet feed I could check out.
So do they?
--------*0 Or, rather, re-heard of. I saw Good Will Hunting and him all over dressed at the Academy Awards, but, regretably, I never got around to finding out who the songwriter was until much later. I still get a little teary-eyed thinking that I could have seen him live on several occasions had I followed that initial intuition that I had when I saw him on the Oscars. Sadly, he killed himself a few years ago, a few months before I started listening to him.
*1 Stars, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Travis, Badly Drawn Boy, Built to Spill, Deathcab for Cutie, Metric, the Postal Service, Silversun Pickups, Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, etc.
Are they streaming their feeds on the net? A url would be great. I love the Pixies, and anyone who plays them that much would have to be a good station.
My question is, "Why would you want to use this as an iPod replacement?"
Seriously, you can get a regular Video iPod for less money that has more memory than this phone.
Just check your sig. The RIAA is a ball of laughs right about now.
4. ???? 5 Profit!
Holy crap! The rest of the country is going to think Utah's even more back-woods hick-yokel inbreds than we already. It's really not that bad here, but Jebus, please, can we get a freaking sane law passed in this state, PLEASE???
> People who need govt to enforce their religion must not have much faith in the power of its message.
Possibly, but, People who need to purge that message from public places must be scared of it.
That may be true, but _so far_, in this century, it IS one of the most talked about raids that has happened. It's also the most talked about raid from this decade, this half-century, and this millennia, so far.
I've heard (rarely) of a monitor dying because someone tweeked the X vid settings a little too much, but that was a long time ago. And we're talking about a keyboard here. How could Linux possibly kill a keyboard? I've never heard of that, but I'm sure there's a lot of linux stuff I've not heard. This article is more to the point that support people love to pass the buck on to another company/user error/anything but our product. If it really is their product, they actually have to do work to fix the problem, that's why it's easier to pass it along the support hell chain.