but what lunch time I do take, I like to have it quietly alone away from work and coworkers.
Same here I've always enjoyed the solitude of a snack and a paper for my lunches, it never ceases to infuriate me when you become obligated to take part in company lunches/doughnut parties/etc, etc. I've had jobs seriously impacted by my lack of a desire to attend christmas parties or company birthday parties for people I don't even know.
It's funny how you can be expected to put forth all this excitement, commitment and seeming loyalty towards companies that would just as soon lay you off if it was amiable for them.
Nonsense. There are plenty of us on here who dialed in to BBSes at those speeds every day for years. Nothing's stopping anyone in Egypt from setting up a BBS today.
I said you would be "hard pressed" to find a service you could use effectively and a BBS would not be effective. You are too dependent on in bound lines; at best you could provide communication to perhaps a handful of users at any given time. Not to mention the fact only a small subset of computer users are likely to have any experience utilizing such an archaic technology, let alone in Egypt where in all likelihood their telecommunications infrastructure and familiarness with the technology are all probably fairly recent.
and I bet at least one person has had to dig out the old rubber cup version.
I'm not so sure, IIRC the head set coupled modems topped off at fairly low speeds.
From Wiki:
The practical upper limit for acoustic-coupled modems was 1200-baud, first made available in 1973 by Vadic and 1977 by AT&T. It became widespread in 1985 with advent of the Hayes Smartmodem 1200A.
At those speeds you'd be hard pressed to find a service you could use effectively.
I thought I would find this in th NetworkWorld article.
Networkworld sure does seem to get linked to a lot around here lately.
That aside, the summary states 22.4% of Google Searches produced malware results. Okay so obviously 22% of searches aren't going to be for anti virus software and the like, so can we just call this one a stupidity tax and move on? I recently had to remove a virus from an acquaintance's machine (3ghz celeron w/ 248mb RAM) by the time I was done I wanted to put it back on for the gentleman assumed it must of been the government out to get him to stop him from speaking his mind on the internet.
0_0
Can't help but wonder if these people even need a connection to the internet. Now granted that's not to say infections can't happen to everyone, because they can and they do but I think we can all agree the vast majority of infections delivered by shady sites are borne by the vast vapid masses. I mean you don't turn on your car and get on the freeway with nary a clue how it works do you? Why on earth should you get on the information superhighway when you don't even what a processor or memory is? Can the knowledge really get any more fundamental than that, for at some degree shouldn't we be held accountable for our own actions or lack thereof? If ignorance of the law is no excuse I fail to see why we give such a large free pass when it comes to computing. For the consequences can be just as real when you find you just sent your life savings to a scammer in Nigera, or got your dumb ass key logged while going into your PayPal. Or whose to say a virus won't come along that dumps addresses? Oops your 19 year old daughter's college address was in your Outlook now someone has that... Oops she's murdered!... Granted a stretch but my point is for far to long we've gone after the symptoms and never treated the cause.
I just find it silly that so much of what is being discussed is all based upon this supposed tool with nary a source to be found. This whole seem things more like a plug for AVG than any real discussion on matters of import.
Mayhaps it was mayhaps it wasn't; but one thing I do know: This article is a joke.
"Windows 2 was, I believe, still in DOS," Easterling says. "Windows 3 was the first GUI one that I remember seeing."
Why even write the article if you're going to be talking with people so unfamiliar with the software. You're arguing semantics whether it was in or on DOS for it wasn't until XP that the consumer line stopped using it. Kind of like Apple and BSD w/ their shiny UI.
Everquest was the same way about Alt+Tab, you could do it, but you couldn't come back. Many swears were shouted to the heavens due to a stray press of the Win Key.
Never viewed it as too big a deal, if you really need to alt+tab out then you aren't really playing your game anyways.
Um, what? HD-DVD allowed for 30 GB dual layer at the same read speed as Blu-Ray while Blu-Ray allows for 50 GB dual layer.
While it could be argued that Blu-Ray has been more proprietary than HD-DVD was, I wouldn't call the practical specifications inferior.
Yeah but HD-DVD used tech much closer to the industry standard DVD; most notably a red laser. Had the format war not occurred, there is good reason to believe adoption rate and prices would of been much better.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well.
and car radios.
And thinking about things you plan to do that day.
How about we just ditch the cars period? Build our homes close to where we work and play, walk a bit more... man up some as a society. I dunno, just a thought!
But it's a helluva a lot more important for a power company to stay up than FB, no power can cause serious problems. But FB down for two hours, man, the gods forbid you actually are productive or something . ..
Slashdot Mirror
but what lunch time I do take, I like to have it quietly alone away from work and coworkers.
Same here I've always enjoyed the solitude of a snack and a paper for my lunches, it never ceases to infuriate me when you become obligated to take part in company lunches/doughnut parties/etc, etc. I've had jobs seriously impacted by my lack of a desire to attend christmas parties or company birthday parties for people I don't even know.
It's funny how you can be expected to put forth all this excitement, commitment and seeming loyalty towards companies that would just as soon lay you off if it was amiable for them.
...but they forget that they did not get a free win 7 disk in the mail.
Except for those of us that did.
Nonsense. There are plenty of us on here who dialed in to BBSes at those speeds every day for years. Nothing's stopping anyone in Egypt from setting up a BBS today.
I said you would be "hard pressed" to find a service you could use effectively and a BBS would not be effective. You are too dependent on in bound lines; at best you could provide communication to perhaps a handful of users at any given time. Not to mention the fact only a small subset of computer users are likely to have any experience utilizing such an archaic technology, let alone in Egypt where in all likelihood their telecommunications infrastructure and familiarness with the technology are all probably fairly recent.
Examples that come to mind: tools used to build the pyramids.
You mean rocks?
and I bet at least one person has had to dig out the old rubber cup version.
I'm not so sure, IIRC the head set coupled modems topped off at fairly low speeds.
From Wiki:
The practical upper limit for acoustic-coupled modems was 1200-baud, first made available in 1973 by Vadic and 1977 by AT&T. It became widespread in 1985 with advent of the Hayes Smartmodem 1200A.
At those speeds you'd be hard pressed to find a service you could use effectively.
I thought I would find this in th NetworkWorld article.
Networkworld sure does seem to get linked to a lot around here lately.
... Granted a stretch but my point is for far to long we've gone after the symptoms and never treated the cause.
That aside, the summary states 22.4% of Google Searches produced malware results. Okay so obviously 22% of searches aren't going to be for anti virus software and the like, so can we just call this one a stupidity tax and move on? I recently had to remove a virus from an acquaintance's machine (3ghz celeron w/ 248mb RAM) by the time I was done I wanted to put it back on for the gentleman assumed it must of been the government out to get him to stop him from speaking his mind on the internet.
0_0
Can't help but wonder if these people even need a connection to the internet. Now granted that's not to say infections can't happen to everyone, because they can and they do but I think we can all agree the vast majority of infections delivered by shady sites are borne by the vast vapid masses. I mean you don't turn on your car and get on the freeway with nary a clue how it works do you? Why on earth should you get on the information superhighway when you don't even what a processor or memory is? Can the knowledge really get any more fundamental than that, for at some degree shouldn't we be held accountable for our own actions or lack thereof? If ignorance of the law is no excuse I fail to see why we give such a large free pass when it comes to computing. For the consequences can be just as real when you find you just sent your life savings to a scammer in Nigera, or got your dumb ass key logged while going into your PayPal. Or whose to say a virus won't come along that dumps addresses? Oops your 19 year old daughter's college address was in your Outlook now someone has that... Oops she's murdered!
I just find it silly that so much of what is being discussed is all based upon this supposed tool with nary a source to be found. This whole seem things more like a plug for AVG than any real discussion on matters of import.
Where can I purchase it? I mean if they state there is a product and even quote a price one would assume it's purchasable somewhere.
Windows 1.0 was a complete joke
Mayhaps it was mayhaps it wasn't; but one thing I do know: This article is a joke.
"Windows 2 was, I believe, still in DOS," Easterling says. "Windows 3 was the first GUI one that I remember seeing."
Why even write the article if you're going to be talking with people so unfamiliar with the software. You're arguing semantics whether it was in or on DOS for it wasn't until XP that the consumer line stopped using it. Kind of like Apple and BSD w/ their shiny UI.
It looks like it has bindings for other languages that C++:
If he needs that much hand holding I think it's a lost cause bro.
And nothing of value was lost...
Everquest was the same way about Alt+Tab, you could do it, but you couldn't come back. Many swears were shouted to the heavens due to a stray press of the Win Key.
Never viewed it as too big a deal, if you really need to alt+tab out then you aren't really playing your game anyways.
I've been having the same problem for a while now.
...people expect lawyers (and everyone else) to work for free.
With this sense of proletariat entitlement you would think that we were all posting from the Soviet Union rather than the US of A and Western Europe.
Although the percentage here is a bit much. Somewhere around 1/3rd is more the norm.
Although most people have only two choices: Allow for the "thick percentage" or have no representation at all.
Lapdogs of the bourgeois hard at work!
an inferior standard to HD-DVD,
Um, what? HD-DVD allowed for 30 GB dual layer at the same read speed as Blu-Ray while Blu-Ray allows for 50 GB dual layer. While it could be argued that Blu-Ray has been more proprietary than HD-DVD was, I wouldn't call the practical specifications inferior.
Yeah but HD-DVD used tech much closer to the industry standard DVD; most notably a red laser. Had the format war not occurred, there is good reason to believe adoption rate and prices would of been much better.
It's no more a colonization effort than Mexican immigration is into the united states.
Lol, what's the alternative an archaic CLI with shell?
Xbox's version of the "Eye Toy" is actually the "Xbox Live Vision".
I've found PSP9 to be a better alternative to GIMP when you do not need to launch PS or Illustrator.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well. and car radios. And thinking about things you plan to do that day.
How about we just ditch the cars period? Build our homes close to where we work and play, walk a bit more... man up some as a society. I dunno, just a thought!
Lol numbers and video card features don't a good game make bro.
Ideas and Competance, Mofos. Where is the Nation?
But it's a helluva a lot more important for a power company to stay up than FB, no power can cause serious problems. But FB down for two hours, man, the gods forbid you actually are productive or something . . .
This. FB needs perspective.
Step 3: Get someone other than Micheal Scott to come up your business plans.
If you have not made it to management
Spoken like a true fucktard.