downloading enough to cause problems for other people in the service area
When I complained to Comcast that my average speed around 10PM was measured in the single-digit *bytes* per second (but perfectly acceptable around 2AM), they said "Perceived slowness may be improved by cleaning your cache".
Every time I got email generated by Symantec telling me I may have sent a virus to someone (where the mail had a forged From, of course - I don't run mail on Windows), I forward it to Symantec and tell them to fix the bug in their software.
I don't know if they paid attention, but I haven't seen one of those in months.
I like how in Linux all my development tools "just work" and I don't need to futz with gcc and libraries
Lucky you - so you never had to link in a library from someone who used a newer version of gcc, which would only run on a newer version of Linux, which didn't support one of the *other* libraries you needed.
If everyone's on the same Linux it works fine, but when you're supporting multiple versions on multiple platforms, it can be a headache - and I'm a cross-platform compatibility expert.
...blithely opening attachments has made most Mac users pretty carefree, and careless.
My mom doesn't even open attachments from people she knows, much less strangers, because odds are it's not going to run on her machine. Any Mac virus she got would go to the trash with everything else.
I had to install OS/2 on a cheap laptop with no CD-ROM drive once. Trouble was, it would overheat and die if you ran the floppy drive too long (as in, not quite long enough to install from one floppy), and the OS/2 install took 15. The only way to keep it cool was to do it in the server room.
I used that incident to get them to buy a much better laptop, so it worked out OK.
If you do this, *please* make sure to e-mail the maintainers of the website. Tell them you use Mozilla, and what you had to do -- and whether or not their site actually *does* work with standards.
You're assuming they're going to care. Frex, I cannot see why Yahoo Launch (the music service) can't run on OS X Safari, or even OS X IE, or at the very least launch the standalone OS X WindowsMedia player, but when I email them to ask when they're going to support OSX, they just send me mail saying it only works on OS 9. Duh.
This is an indicator of the overwhelming but subliminal racism that permeates Asian culture. It never occurs to the Japanese that there actually could real decent intelligent civilized human beings outside of Japan that could be encouraged to move to Japan, do the work, and eventually become Japanese citizens and even, over time, actually even become Japanese.
Contrast that frame of mind with the Americans.
Yes, the way Americans find real people in India, encourage them to move to America, do the work - no, wait, there's an extra step in there.
$5000? I thought PCs were supposed to be cheaper. From my Apple ][ to my G4, every Apple I bought was around $2000, and was top of the line at the time.
Very, very few people purchase a movie and then sit and watch it over and over every day for a month
You don't know many small children,then. The average 4-yo has most of the recent Disney releases memorized. Since DVDs aren't the sturdiest things in the world, parents are against DRM because it would prevent them from ripping a copy so that when it inevitably gets damaged, they can just make another from the master.
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There are only two things that keep me stuck on windows - corporate policy which requires me to have one, and one weird Solaris app that requires 8-bit color to run.
My desktop machine is a Solaris.
Drug adds in particular piss me off. At one point I started a list of drugs my TV had told me I need, but that I didn't know what they did. You've gotta ask yourself, can that be for anything OTHER than pissing people off?
When they tell you what they do, they also have to tell you the side effects. So they have some ads that say what they do, and others that are just there to build up name recognition. The second kind are shown far more frequently than the first.
This is almost certainly the wrong place to ask (not because of the "geeks don't even date" stereotype, but because geeks tend to be more sensible about such things):
Why do people care so much about wedding photos? Do they really look at them that often? What's the point? I'm female, but I just don't get it. For the average price of a wedding, I could get a really sweet dual-processor G5, and still have money left for peripherals.
Typically, a transaction is priced at what, 20 cents per transaction plus 1% or something (assuming Apple gets a very good deal with them)? That means 21 cents of Apple's 34 is on its way right to the CCC... leaving Apple with 13 cents per download to manage its costs
That's assuming each song is a separate transaction; actually, all purchases made on the same day are combined into one transaction. I'm sure the average songs/day/user is > 1.
And this is good because? By your rules, UNIX is not a good name - anyone who doesn't know what GNU is isn't likely to know what UNIX is either. So why is sounding like it good?
As for "Audacity" or "Evolution" - what's good about them? And "X-Chat" sounds like a place where extreme sports fans hang out.
they'd notice that google points out that that "to be or not to be" occurs only in pages pointing to these pages.
Which is of no use unless it tells you *what* those pages are. I hit one of those results recently, and the page I got had nothing to do with the phrase I'd searched for. If it's going to do that, it should tell me on the results page, before I waste my time.
]f they had high quality databases then the issue wouldn't occur. And the "they will send it anyway"-argument is non-sense because unwanted offers are at best useless and at worst even damageing (bad reputation etc.).
If it was "damaging", they'd be making more of an effort to clean up their databases now - obviously that isn't the case. Unwanted offers may be "useless" to the receiver, but that doesn't affect the sender.
The problem is that there's no additional cost involved in sending those "useless" offers, while there is a cost in cleaning up the database. Cost of cleanup, after all, is one of the telemarketers arguments about the do-not-call list.
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When I complained to Comcast that my average speed around 10PM was measured in the single-digit *bytes* per second (but perfectly acceptable around 2AM), they said "Perceived slowness may be improved by cleaning your cache".
So I switched to DSL.
Since when has zip been self-extracting?
Every time I got email generated by Symantec telling me I may have sent a virus to someone (where the mail had a forged From, of course - I don't run mail on Windows), I forward it to Symantec and tell them to fix the bug in their software.
I don't know if they paid attention, but I haven't seen one of those in months.
Lucky you - so you never had to link in a library from someone who used a newer version of gcc, which would only run on a newer version of Linux, which didn't support one of the *other* libraries you needed.
If everyone's on the same Linux it works fine, but when you're supporting multiple versions on multiple platforms, it can be a headache - and I'm a cross-platform compatibility expert.
My mom doesn't even open attachments from people she knows, much less strangers, because odds are it's not going to run on her machine. Any Mac virus she got would go to the trash with everything else.
I had to install OS/2 on a cheap laptop with no CD-ROM drive once. Trouble was, it would overheat and die if you ran the floppy drive too long (as in, not quite long enough to install from one floppy), and the OS/2 install took 15. The only way to keep it cool was to do it in the server room. I used that incident to get them to buy a much better laptop, so it worked out OK.
You're assuming they're going to care. Frex, I cannot see why Yahoo Launch (the music service) can't run on OS X Safari, or even OS X IE, or at the very least launch the standalone OS X WindowsMedia player, but when I email them to ask when they're going to support OSX, they just send me mail saying it only works on OS 9. Duh.
ICE Link (http://icelink.densionusa.com/) lets you control the iPod with the steering wheel radio controls
There was an x86 version of NeXT, but there is no x86 version of OS X.
No problem, the chemicals under my sink are alcoholic.
Contrast that frame of mind with the Americans.
Yes, the way Americans find real people in India, encourage them to move to America, do the work - no, wait, there's an extra step in there.
$5000? I thought PCs were supposed to be cheaper. From my Apple ][ to my G4, every Apple I bought was around $2000, and was top of the line at the time.
You don't know many small children,then. The average 4-yo has most of the recent Disney releases memorized. Since DVDs aren't the sturdiest things in the world, parents are against DRM because it would prevent them from ripping a copy so that when it inevitably gets damaged, they can just make another from the master.
There are only two things that keep me stuck on windows - corporate policy which requires me to have one, and one weird Solaris app that requires 8-bit color to run. My desktop machine is a Solaris.
When they tell you what they do, they also have to tell you the side effects. So they have some ads that say what they do, and others that are just there to build up name recognition. The second kind are shown far more frequently than the first.
The link says "As far as we know, this legend is based upon a true incident"
Why do people care so much about wedding photos? Do they really look at them that often? What's the point? I'm female, but I just don't get it. For the average price of a wedding, I could get a really sweet dual-processor G5, and still have money left for peripherals.
Typically, a transaction is priced at what, 20 cents per transaction plus 1% or something (assuming Apple gets a very good deal with them)? That means 21 cents of Apple's 34 is on its way right to the CCC... leaving Apple with 13 cents per download to manage its costs That's assuming each song is a separate transaction; actually, all purchases made on the same day are combined into one transaction. I'm sure the average songs/day/user is > 1.
Um, no, I can't
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And this is good because? By your rules, UNIX is not a good name - anyone who doesn't know what GNU is isn't likely to know what UNIX is either. So why is sounding like it good?
As for "Audacity" or "Evolution" - what's good about them? And "X-Chat" sounds like a place where extreme sports fans hang out.
Well, I do know those, and I am working - but not on those, because I wasn't fool enough to put them on my resume.
Exactly. You only need to look at OS/2 drivers to see how well that would have worked.
Which is of no use unless it tells you *what* those pages are. I hit one of those results recently, and the page I got had nothing to do with the phrase I'd searched for. If it's going to do that, it should tell me on the results page, before I waste my time.
If it was "damaging", they'd be making more of an effort to clean up their databases now - obviously that isn't the case. Unwanted offers may be "useless" to the receiver, but that doesn't affect the sender.
The problem is that there's no additional cost involved in sending those "useless" offers, while there is a cost in cleaning up the database. Cost of cleanup, after all, is one of the telemarketers arguments about the do-not-call list.
OS X's Mail.app's "Bounce" feature does this. Only trouble is that a lot of my bounces bounce right back to me.
I'd heard it was thermals caused by all that concrete radiating heat.