Trust me, my friend, these things still happen. Maybe it doesnt happen to you, because you know what you're doing. But the folks I talk to with Bonzi Buddy, Gator, Comet Cursor, Download Accelerators etc etc etc. still nuke their systems from time to time.
I just dropped quite a bit of change on my new TV, so lets see...
Rudy's TVs: 37", 20", 20"
Rudy's monitors: 17", 15", 15"(Laptop)
No Thanks. I'll get one of those projectors for now.
First off, I work for Dell as an Escalations Tech.
I called in because my system would not detect my Hard Drive. I did all I needed to do to get it replaced. I even did more than I needed to. So, I call in and identified myself as a Dell employee. I told her what I did, and she wanted me to run the diagnostics!!! Dell systems give 2 quick beeps when there is no hard drive installed, but for the life of me, she would not send a part. She insisted that we run more tests. Sheesh.
But if we farm out more and more jobs, then are we not going to have the money to buy good and services?
Or, will the goods and services be so cheap, (presumably since they are made and supported elsewhere) that we can afford to work Burger King?
It would start a market, particularly in college, when you need to know something. Just implant a piece of brain with some knowledge, kinda like the matrix.
You: I need a bubble sort.
Tank: Comin right up
* Eyes flutter *
You: Lets go!
So, my son, you frequent this evil site named X which shall remain nameless for I cannot speak such an evil name.
How can you look at a site that features:
a nasty goat man
the defimation of poor inocent Natalie Portman
Thousands of references to the heart of all evil: SOVIET RUSSIA??
For this, I shall cast ye into a lake of fire, made up of poor,/.ed servers!!
So, what's a "warp-off"? Well, unlike the other three kinds of interruptions, in which other people interrupt you, a "warp-off" is when you interrupt yourself. Generally this happens because you're stuck - you don't know what to do next - so you switch tasks and do something you know how to do. My favorite warp-off is surfing the
Internet...
Come on guys, this website is just one big "warp off"
At least it is for me.
/.ed already. I'm, 2 for 2 today. Oh well.
Anyways, it's exactly like that where I work. However, most of that "email everything mentality" is for CYA purposes. You never know when something you wrote will come back to haunt you, so be very very careful with what you write, my friends. Esp. you young guys, who aren't in the real world just yet. Just imagine:
Call some girl a slut in a personal eMail sent to your buddy from college.
A few days later, you get a message that an HR rep wants to talk to you in the lobby.
Turn in badge an pick up your plant and LOTR poster.
It can happen to you, and not just in Soviet Russia.
Unless they have some awesome incentive to join, I really don't see a massive move to the new Napster. What that incentive could be, well:
Maybe higher bit rates?
Some video?
Maybe some high quality bootlegs from concerts (assuming the person has material worthy of boot legs)
Deep discounts on concert tix/T Shirts/trinklets for my desk. etc
Profit????
But for them to get my money, I need something like that one M$ commercial, where everyone likes what is going on and simply replies "Sweet"
I wonder would we be able to alert the moderators about dupes. That way, we could eliminate one of the ed's most beloved past times. We could also tell them about any spleing mistaks we find in the posts.
Would I pay for such power. Hmmm. Maybe, but I like/. the way it is. Warts and all. Esp when we have a dupe and 95% of the posts are all:
This is a dupe!
or
We saw this story here yesterday!
or
RTF/.
Thats exactly what I'm saying. No CD Writer-Nothing gets written to the CD.
Could it be used for such things: probably. But then again, people will always find a way around it. Even if that makes standard CDROMS illegal under ye olde DMCA.
my old school LITEON CDROM. Sorry, it can't write to the disc, but it can sure read when it wants to.
So i guess its back to floppies for me.
sigh
Seriously, in terms of DRM, how good is this if we don't have CDR/CDRW/DVD+R+RW-R-RW-RAM etc etc drive on our systems.
its not for tracking files on file networks, so far. But if this is used to track files downloaded from a certian place, say www.my_cool_site.com and it ends up on Kazaa or whatever, would my_cool_site.com get charged more?
But honestly, once it hits P2P, that doesn't matter since it'll be all over the place in a matter of hours.
But I don't care about that. What I hate is that they have the network set up so I cannot look at anything but Windows Media Player Files. No realplayer, no quicktime. Nada
There was an Aggie that was down on his luck. In order to raise some money he decided to kidnap a kid and hold him for ransom. He went to the playground, grabbed a kid, took him behind a tree and told him, "I've kidnapped you." The Aggie wrote a note saying "I've kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning, put $10,000 in a paper bag and put it beneath the pecan tree next to the slide on the north side of the city playground. Signed, An Aggie." The Aggie then pinned the note to the kid's shirt and sent him home to show it to his parents.
The next morning the Aggie checked, and sure enough a paper bag was sitting beneath that pecan tree. The Aggie opened up the bag and found the $10,000 with a note. The note said, "How could one Aggie do this to another Aggie?"
Sic em Bears!
For not going out and looking for alternatives. Also, that simPrinter looks pretty cool. Check this out:
With SimPrinter, any computer can print to any printer connected to the Internet. This patented process works like this: User A is viewing a file in his office and needs to print it to his client's office for his client to sign. He selects a printer connected to a computer in his client's office. The mainframe computer at the Service Provider then spools the file to the computer in the client's office and instructs the printer there to print the data. Once the printing is complete, the computer in the client's office notifies the mainframe. The mainframe in turn notifies the user in User A's office.
Printers are given names that can be given out to other users in much the same way a fax number is given out. However, instead of receiving a poor copy of a contract from your lawyer on your fax machine, you can get a sharp, crisp copy printed on your laser printer.
Sweet! Imagine priting out pr0n and such on your buddy's computer and have his momma find it! Good times.
We've had 10 digit dialing in Houston for years. Just like Houston, the transition will be smooth, even though people are worried about grandma dialing the wrong area code blah blah blah. They'll be fine.
I love my XM radio. I had to go down to Mexico a while back and it was with me all the way. I got a nice strong signal while in Mexico as well. Plus, I love having CNN and my 90s station at all times.
Long live the Delphi Skyfi radio!!!
I know what you mean. A buddy of mine got text messaging on his newest ***bling bling*** phone. Total number of text messages he got:
0
Maybe it has something to do with all of us having different providers or that the systems are incompatible. I really don't know. What I do know is typing something like this small post would take too long on a phone.
In fact, I still remember those commercials(was it M Life) that said the new language was stuff like IMG8=I am great or something like that. Whatever. Theory Follows...
I always hear how in other countries, you see people text messaging each other as they are riding in a trian/bus/public transportation. Now, as we all know, in the US, public transportation isn't used as much as it is elsewhere. Could this be a factor?
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Trust me, my friend, these things still happen. Maybe it doesnt happen to you, because you know what you're doing. But the folks I talk to with Bonzi Buddy, Gator, Comet Cursor, Download Accelerators etc etc etc. still nuke their systems from time to time.
I just dropped quite a bit of change on my new TV, so lets see...
Rudy's TVs: 37", 20", 20"
Rudy's monitors: 17", 15", 15"(Laptop)
No Thanks. I'll get one of those projectors for now.
ALAN COX LOGS INTO YOU!!
First off, I work for Dell as an Escalations Tech.
I called in because my system would not detect my Hard Drive. I did all I needed to do to get it replaced. I even did more than I needed to. So, I call in and identified myself as a Dell employee. I told her what I did, and she wanted me to run the diagnostics!!! Dell systems give 2 quick beeps when there is no hard drive installed, but for the life of me, she would not send a part. She insisted that we run more tests. Sheesh.
But if we farm out more and more jobs, then are we not going to have the money to buy good and services?
Or, will the goods and services be so cheap, (presumably since they are made and supported elsewhere) that we can afford to work Burger King?
It would start a market, particularly in college, when you need to know something. Just implant a piece of brain with some knowledge, kinda like the matrix.
You: I need a bubble sort.
Tank: Comin right up
* Eyes flutter *
You: Lets go!
So, my son, you frequent this evil site named X which shall remain nameless for I cannot speak such an evil name. /.ed servers!!
How can you look at a site that features:
a nasty goat man
the defimation of poor inocent Natalie Portman
Thousands of references to the heart of all evil: SOVIET RUSSIA??
For this, I shall cast ye into a lake of fire, made up of poor,
What if we are all dead by the time the aliens come???
Lets cure cancer first!!
Come on guys, this website is just one big "warp off"
At least it is for me.
/.ed already. I'm, 2 for 2 today. Oh well.
Anyways, it's exactly like that where I work. However, most of that "email everything mentality" is for CYA purposes. You never know when something you wrote will come back to haunt you, so be very very careful with what you write, my friends. Esp. you young guys, who aren't in the real world just yet. Just imagine:
Call some girl a slut in a personal eMail sent to your buddy from college.
A few days later, you get a message that an HR rep wants to talk to you in the lobby.
Turn in badge an pick up your plant and LOTR poster.
It can happen to you, and not just in Soviet Russia.
and almost 24 hours since the site was posted, but is it still /.ed? I can't seem to get in there.
At any rate, I'll stick to Mandrake.
Thanks!
Unless they have some awesome incentive to join, I really don't see a massive move to the new Napster. What that incentive could be, well:
Maybe higher bit rates?
Some video?
Maybe some high quality bootlegs from concerts (assuming the person has material worthy of boot legs)
Deep discounts on concert tix/T Shirts/trinklets for my desk. etc
Profit????
But for them to get my money, I need something like that one M$ commercial, where everyone likes what is going on and simply replies "Sweet"
...when you have SUBSPACE!!
I swear, we wasted so much time on this game back in college. That, Command and Conquer, and Duke Nukem 3-D
I wonder would we be able to alert the moderators about dupes. That way, we could eliminate one of the ed's most beloved past times. We could also tell them about any spleing mistaks we find in the posts. /. the way it is. Warts and all. Esp when we have a dupe and 95% of the posts are all:
Would I pay for such power. Hmmm. Maybe, but I like
This is a dupe!
or
We saw this story here yesterday!
or
RTF/.
doesnt /. want to be free??
;)
Thats exactly what I'm saying. No CD Writer-Nothing gets written to the CD.
Could it be used for such things: probably. But then again, people will always find a way around it. Even if that makes standard CDROMS illegal under ye olde DMCA.
my old school LITEON CDROM. Sorry, it can't write to the disc, but it can sure read when it wants to.
So i guess its back to floppies for me.
sigh
Seriously, in terms of DRM, how good is this if we don't have CDR/CDRW/DVD+R+RW-R-RW-RAM etc etc drive on our systems.
its not for tracking files on file networks, so far. But if this is used to track files downloaded from a certian place, say www.my_cool_site.com and it ends up on Kazaa or whatever, would my_cool_site.com get charged more?
But honestly, once it hits P2P, that doesn't matter since it'll be all over the place in a matter of hours.
... be embedded in CD audio tracks and used to track piracy or... Used to show which versions of songs are crappy quality, RIAA Fakes, etc....
But I don't care about that. What I hate is that they have the network set up so I cannot look at anything but Windows Media Player Files. No realplayer, no quicktime. Nada
There was an Aggie that was down on his luck. In order to raise some money he decided to kidnap a kid and hold him for ransom. He went to the playground, grabbed a kid, took him behind a tree and told him, "I've kidnapped you." The Aggie wrote a note saying "I've kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning, put $10,000 in a paper bag and put it beneath the pecan tree next to the slide on the north side of the city playground. Signed, An Aggie." The Aggie then pinned the note to the kid's shirt and sent him home to show it to his parents.
The next morning the Aggie checked, and sure enough a paper bag was sitting beneath that pecan tree. The Aggie opened up the bag and found the $10,000 with a note. The note said, "How could one Aggie do this to another Aggie?" Sic em Bears!
Sweet! Imagine priting out pr0n and such on your buddy's computer and have his momma find it! Good times.
We've had 10 digit dialing in Houston for years. Just like Houston, the transition will be smooth, even though people are worried about grandma dialing the wrong area code blah blah blah. They'll be fine.
I love my XM radio. I had to go down to Mexico a while back and it was with me all the way. I got a nice strong signal while in Mexico as well. Plus, I love having CNN and my 90s station at all times.
Long live the Delphi Skyfi radio!!!
I know what you mean. A buddy of mine got text messaging on his newest ***bling bling*** phone. Total number of text messages he got:
0
Maybe it has something to do with all of us having different providers or that the systems are incompatible. I really don't know. What I do know is typing something like this small post would take too long on a phone.
In fact, I still remember those commercials(was it M Life) that said the new language was stuff like IMG8=I am great or something like that. Whatever.
Theory Follows...
I always hear how in other countries, you see people text messaging each other as they are riding in a trian/bus/public transportation. Now, as we all know, in the US, public transportation isn't used as much as it is elsewhere. Could this be a factor?