I've found that football is the best thing to watch delayed. For a 12:00 (CST) game, I'll start watching at 2:30pm and watch the whole thing (without missing a play) in less than 45 minutes..finishing the same time as everyone else.
Just after each play, I hit the quickskip (30 sec) and the offense will be coming out of the huddle... ahh.. perfect.
2. Open the "DefaultStore," which is a view of WinFX through the Win32(R) APIs. Drag in copies of a variety of photos, music, and documents. (Use only copies of your data to prevent data loss.)
In Europe cars are on average more expensive compared to the average working person's salary than in the US... The cars that are sold are also higher in quality. A Ford Escort in Europe is almost like a luxury car in the US.
This tells me that Europe has worse quality cars, if a Ford Escort is deemed a luxury car..
Actually, obesity *is* a disability. Just ask my bro-in-law, a pilot who has to deal with those few people who can barely squeeze through the main door (sideways), and barely fit in the seatbelt with double-extenders...
I think it back-fired. Despite my rational arguments for using Linux, one of my MCSE-obsessed Microsoft-loving (because that's all he knows) coworkers always jokes about how hippie Linux is, and that's it's only for 13 year old geek freaks.
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The non-verbal communication seriously helps the efficiency of using a telephone.
My wife picking something up from the store? I describe with my hands.. it's this big, shaped like this, etc.. It would also help when you say something sarcastic but have a smile on your face.. much easier to see what the person is actually intending to say.
As for seeing people when they wake up, etc, it's easy enough to have a little button that will turn the video feeds on/off.
The concern I have is sick people calling random numbers and displaying nasty stuff on the screen.. though I guess you could just have the video off by default until you know who you're speaking with.
Actually, I think this would have a chance of getting off the ground, in conjunction with the Internet due to the advertising possibilities.
After reading some of the comments, it seems that people agree that almost all viruses used lately are somewhat harmful, but not as bad as they could be.
What was the last virus that really did exploit a serious security hole to the worse possible extent? SQL Slammer maybe? I would imagine that any virus that has access to run a process on a remote machine with administrative rights could do some real, permanent damage (e.g. delete all system files that don't happen to be in use at the time).
Why do virus writers write malicious viruses that aren't *that* malicious (or at least as much as they could be)? I mean, some of those lately are set to expire! Do they hope that if they get caught, the judge will go easier on them since it "wasn't really that bad"?
Personally, download size matters little to me with a broadband connection and the option to download in the background/ahead of time (though this depends heavily on having broadband vs dialup).
Reboots absolutely, positively are the reason I wait to actually run the updates when I see the "Windows has new updates to install" message. When you have 20 applications open, the last thing you want to do is close them all, run some updates, and reboot.
It'd be nice if, when displaying the mouseover text in the systray, in parens they could say "(no reboot required)" or "(reboot required)", and maybe be bold if they're critical updates.
Wow, why not just use dyndns.org or similar? I guess if you're going the full-blown web hosting route, that might not work, but then again 128kbps wouldn't be enough for that anyway, so I'm assuming the server(s) are just for personal use.
Seems to me like $29/month is not worth losing a bunch of bandwidth just to gain a static IP.
At the risk of being -1, redundant, that's exactly what I was going to say. I've seen nothing but problems with my linksys router, and the same with a bunch of coworkers who have them. My two netgear routers have been flawless since I've bought them, and are built much more sturdy also.
Really? Seriously, I can't skate exceptionally well, but am generally quite athletic (I can start -- just not hockey stop). I thought amateur leagues were for those who played in high school and/or college and just wanted to keep playing for the fun of it..
How can you start at age 23 and play semi-competitively? Or did you already know how to skate really well?
Tecmo Super Bowl was indeed an awesome game, but...
What about Baseball Stars??
You won games, which got you money, and then you could "power up" your players.. one of the first (if not *the* first) sports game where you could name your players.. that was so awesome. (until the memory accidentally got erased...)
A question for you all -- (please answer! I need to make a decision within a week and didn't want to do an "Ask Slashdot".. thanks!)
Is it normal when switching positions within a huge corporation, to not get a base salary increase, even when the job requires much more technical expertise?
Here are some details.. I am currently in an IT job, due to the market for software engineers and the fact that I just recently graduated with my BS in CS.
I was hired, believe it or not, technically under a "help desk" position, and was transferred within a couple of weeks (as they had told me I would) to deskside support, since they didn't currently have a slot for it.
I'm now in the position of taking an application installer developer position within the company, that also requires some programming. They need someone pretty bad, and I have two years experience and much more education than anyone that's currently on the team now.
My current manager is strongly hinting that I'm just going to transfer with my current salary if I take that position, but that they'll try and "catch me up" in terms of base salary, though also hinted that a rough amount would be 10%/year if I'm lucky. I should be paid about 30-40% more right now, if I took the job (no, really -- remember they started me at the high-end of a help desk salary).
The question is, is this normal? Isn't it the case that the employee I'm replacing was making X, so I should (based on experience, technical knowledge, etc) be possible to be paid up to X amount? How do I confront the new manager on this issue? Thanks a lot for any insight!
I'd much rather use that bandwidth for video phones, cheaply available, a la the Jetsons. Audio quality is good enough for now, I think -- once we have good video, then they can send audio muxed with it.
One belief states that the world and the human race is 10 000 years old (give or take) , and that both were willed into existance by God. The other states that world is several billion years old..
This is not necessarily true -- there are plenty of creationists who believe the earth is several billion years old (me included). The difference being what the word "day" means in the book of Genesis. Original Hebrew can show it to mean "period of time". Similarly, the Bible says to God "a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day" (i.e. human's time is mostly incomparable to God's time)
Ergo, the 6 days God took to create the earth was actually a lot longer.
Most people do not receive that kind of legitimate mail. It'll work for most people, and actually seems like a very good implementation (I'll fall short of using the word "solution"...)
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I've had Verizon for 5 months... excellent sales person at the mall, and excellent coverage. Haven't used the phone customer support yet.
I've found that football is the best thing to watch delayed. For a 12:00 (CST) game, I'll start watching at 2:30pm and watch the whole thing (without missing a play) in less than 45 minutes..finishing the same time as everyone else.
Just after each play, I hit the quickskip (30 sec) and the offense will be coming out of the huddle... ahh.. perfect.
Definitely my favorite quote on that page:
2. Open the "DefaultStore," which is a view of WinFX through the Win32(R) APIs. Drag in copies of a variety of photos, music, and documents. (Use only copies of your data to prevent data loss.)
Maybe, but if I were as stupid as them, I'd be *avoiding* the spotlight and media, not trying to get back in it because of my stupidity.
Everyone knows that you get the HP 48Gs for the Minesweeper game...
I knew plenty of non-geeks who only knew "Purple-Three-D-A".... (the shortcut to the game), and nothing else about the calculator.
Yeah, you all remember those days...
In Europe cars are on average more expensive compared to the average working person's salary than in the US ... The cars that are sold are also higher in quality. A Ford Escort in Europe is almost like a luxury car in the US.
This tells me that Europe has worse quality cars, if a Ford Escort is deemed a luxury car..
They're all out already -- I get emails soliciting me all the time, especially the SHPE.
What's the payment system for a nickel-and-dime pricing scheme?... Unless you have a subscription... credit cards aren't realistic.
My favorite quote:
"One wonders how much mathematical masturbation takes place when analysing and generating these numbers," he writes.
Actually, obesity *is* a disability. Just ask my bro-in-law, a pilot who has to deal with those few people who can barely squeeze through the main door (sideways), and barely fit in the seatbelt with double-extenders...
I think it back-fired. Despite my rational arguments for using Linux, one of my MCSE-obsessed Microsoft-loving (because that's all he knows) coworkers always jokes about how hippie Linux is, and that's it's only for 13 year old geek freaks.
The non-verbal communication seriously helps the efficiency of using a telephone.
My wife picking something up from the store? I describe with my hands.. it's this big, shaped like this, etc.. It would also help when you say something sarcastic but have a smile on your face.. much easier to see what the person is actually intending to say.
As for seeing people when they wake up, etc, it's easy enough to have a little button that will turn the video feeds on/off.
The concern I have is sick people calling random numbers and displaying nasty stuff on the screen.. though I guess you could just have the video off by default until you know who you're speaking with.
Actually, I think this would have a chance of getting off the ground, in conjunction with the Internet due to the advertising possibilities.
After reading some of the comments, it seems that people agree that almost all viruses used lately are somewhat harmful, but not as bad as they could be.
What was the last virus that really did exploit a serious security hole to the worse possible extent? SQL Slammer maybe? I would imagine that any virus that has access to run a process on a remote machine with administrative rights could do some real, permanent damage (e.g. delete all system files that don't happen to be in use at the time).
Why do virus writers write malicious viruses that aren't *that* malicious (or at least as much as they could be)? I mean, some of those lately are set to expire! Do they hope that if they get caught, the judge will go easier on them since it "wasn't really that bad"?
I disagree and agree.
Personally, download size matters little to me with a broadband connection and the option to download in the background/ahead of time (though this depends heavily on having broadband vs dialup).
Reboots absolutely, positively are the reason I wait to actually run the updates when I see the "Windows has new updates to install" message. When you have 20 applications open, the last thing you want to do is close them all, run some updates, and reboot.
It'd be nice if, when displaying the mouseover text in the systray, in parens they could say "(no reboot required)" or "(reboot required)", and maybe be bold if they're critical updates.
We're gonna have to buy it all again after the fourth movie comes out, right?
Maybe the fourth movie is the commentary...
Wow, why not just use dyndns.org or similar? I guess if you're going the full-blown web hosting route, that might not work, but then again 128kbps wouldn't be enough for that anyway, so I'm assuming the server(s) are just for personal use.
Seems to me like $29/month is not worth losing a bunch of bandwidth just to gain a static IP.
At the risk of being -1, redundant, that's exactly what I was going to say. I've seen nothing but problems with my linksys router, and the same with a bunch of coworkers who have them. My two netgear routers have been flawless since I've bought them, and are built much more sturdy also.
Really? Seriously, I can't skate exceptionally well, but am generally quite athletic (I can start -- just not hockey stop). I thought amateur leagues were for those who played in high school and/or college and just wanted to keep playing for the fun of it..
How can you start at age 23 and play semi-competitively? Or did you already know how to skate really well?
Only now you'd have 4 illegitimate children from different mothers and lots of child support payments...
(semi-joking, semi-serious)
Tecmo Super Bowl was indeed an awesome game, but...
What about Baseball Stars??
You won games, which got you money, and then you could "power up" your players.. one of the first (if not *the* first) sports game where you could name your players.. that was so awesome. (until the memory accidentally got erased...)
A question for you all -- (please answer! I need to make a decision within a week and didn't want to do an "Ask Slashdot".. thanks!)
Is it normal when switching positions within a huge corporation, to not get a base salary increase, even when the job requires much more technical expertise?
Here are some details.. I am currently in an IT job, due to the market for software engineers and the fact that I just recently graduated with my BS in CS.
I was hired, believe it or not, technically under a "help desk" position, and was transferred within a couple of weeks (as they had told me I would) to deskside support, since they didn't currently have a slot for it.
I'm now in the position of taking an application installer developer position within the company, that also requires some programming. They need someone pretty bad, and I have two years experience and much more education than anyone that's currently on the team now.
My current manager is strongly hinting that I'm just going to transfer with my current salary if I take that position, but that they'll try and "catch me up" in terms of base salary, though also hinted that a rough amount would be 10%/year if I'm lucky. I should be paid about 30-40% more right now, if I took the job (no, really -- remember they started me at the high-end of a help desk salary).
The question is, is this normal? Isn't it the case that the employee I'm replacing was making X, so I should (based on experience, technical knowledge, etc) be possible to be paid up to X amount? How do I confront the new manager on this issue? Thanks a lot for any insight!
I'd much rather use that bandwidth for video phones, cheaply available, a la the Jetsons. Audio quality is good enough for now, I think -- once we have good video, then they can send audio muxed with it.
One belief states that the world and the human race is 10 000 years old (give or take) , and that both were willed into existance by God. The other states that world is several billion years old.. This is not necessarily true -- there are plenty of creationists who believe the earth is several billion years old (me included). The difference being what the word "day" means in the book of Genesis. Original Hebrew can show it to mean "period of time". Similarly, the Bible says to God "a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day" (i.e. human's time is mostly incomparable to God's time) Ergo, the 6 days God took to create the earth was actually a lot longer.
Most people do not receive that kind of legitimate mail. It'll work for most people, and actually seems like a very good implementation (I'll fall short of using the word "solution"...)
Sheesh, then buy a friggin VCR. If you want ease of use, suck up the $400 and be done with it.