Had a user on the phone for quite a while trying to get the cable modem working. Had her verify all the cables were plugged in, but Windows was not detecting her USB modem. Turned out she was plugging the USB cable into the Ethernet port on her computer. As soon as I hung up I had to try it...a little tight, but, sure enough, fit right in there.
I spent more time playing Super Mario Brothers 3 than any other game...ever. SMB1 was fun, and I can still usually beat the game losing only one or two lives, but SMB3 was the pinnacle. It was previewed in the movie "The Wizard", and I remember the talk at school the day after the movie opened. It wasn't about how good or bad the movie was, it was ALL about the new Mario game coming out.
Despite what others may tell you, US patent laws are applicable outside of the United States...indirectly. It has nothing to do with lawsuits or payoffs, though. It has to do with US Trade Policy. It is the policy of the US that we require our trade partners to respect the patents of US companies. Now, granted, trade policy is as full of holes as shotgunned swiss cheese, but foreign countries do have to abide by US patent laws if, for no other reason, it is only to give them one more bargaining chip on the table when diplomats discuss new policy.
Because IE automatically ships with Windows, he said, users satisfied with IE7 may not find enough reasons to download and install Firefox when they buy a new computer.
If they are tech savvy enough, start with the IE7 blog at MSDN.
If they don't know the difference between a USB and a Firewire cable, just tell them how much you charge to burn down a machine and rebuild it after their teenage son picks up a dozen worms while searching for pr0n.
Example: if they offered movies for download, or online streaming movies and paid subscription, and the price wasn't retarded, a LOT of people would ditch piratebay et al.
I disagree. Maybe at the inception of the concept of online movies, this would have worked. Now, while you may regain some market share from the "pirates", the cat is already out of the bag on this one. Keeping it there would have been easy by providing a legal, affordable alternative. Now that it's out, offering paid movie streams is not going to convince people to just stop going to piratebay.
I don't remember the model, but with our first camera you framed the shot by holding it at chest level and looking straight down into the viewfinder. Not that much different from today's method.
Nonsense, taxes to pay for services (War, natural disaster, etc.) are commonly pulled from places where money "existed somewhere". Why do you think there is such a huge tax on alcohol, tobacco, gasoline, etc.? Do you really think that drunks cost the government that much money?
I disagree. Reality TV is already rapidly dwindling, with only a few (Survivor, American Idol, etc.) remaining popular (did anyone actually watch Unanimous?) Quality actors like Hugh Laurie (House) and John C. McGinley (Scrubs) are creating a rennaisance in network television, reminiscent of the pre-reality tv era, when you could pay big bucks for talent and still turn a tidy profit (The Cosby Show, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.) The Reality TV fad is dead. Basing an entire revenue stream on it would be financial suicide.
Ok, as someone said, you can trade in your points for cash. This begs the question of why the company would do this. This would have to add overhead to maintain the site for cashing points, providing gifts, etc. Why not just give you the money?
My guess is that if they give you points, then you redeem them for things (including cash), you will be taxed the Gift Tax rate of approximately 40% and the company will not be required to pay various taxes that they have to pay for regular employees.
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In other words, no, you're not going to get paid for helping. You will receive 10 Bazooka Joe comics for each Apache installation, and 5 Chuck E. Cheese tickets per debugged line of code.
This problem has already been addressed by Scott Adams in his book "The Dilbert Future".
To paraphrase, as I don't have the book handy, he determined that in the future, public surveillance would be ubiquitous and the key to personal privacy is to be dangerously boring, thus giving nobody a reason to spy on you.
Judging by my sphere of contacts, I am apparently not the only person to read this book.
Megan: That's right. There's also family members, friends, co-conspirators, friends... the possibilities are exponential...
Charlie: Uh... exponential... would mean that the growth rate is proportionate to its size. So yeah... the mathematically correct term would be...(smiling) more.
You'd think on a geek forum, we'd have less abuse of this word.
This will last all of 2 weeks before the list of questions and answers is published in its entirety on the Internet and the spike in successful entries causes Jeopardy to shut down the program.
On a side note, I took one of these tests when the Jeopardy bus was touring the US and thought the questions were very age-biased. There were a disproportionate number of questions about events about late 60's / early 70's pop culture. I wonder if they target those in their mid 30's to mid 50's, as this is probably their target viewing audience as well. As a child of the 80's, I could have told them who shot John Lennon or Ronald Reagan, but not who shot Andy Warhol. I also would have preferred they ask about bumbling superheros with suits from outer space and not superheros with the powers of an Egyptian goddess.
"I refuse to divulge my PGP private key & passphrase."
That's ok, we'll just subpoena you're personal computer, PDA, desk, cell phone, etc. to find your private key. I'm sure there's a copy of it around here somewhere.
Oh, and this is Jack Bauer. He'll be asking you for your passphrase in Holding Room B.
There is no gambling in "gambling" or "gaming". If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose exactly the percentage they say you will lose. "Gambling" is a tax on those who don't understand the mathematics of statistics.
You should probably qualify this with "Gambling against the house". Playing online poker against other players is not the same as pulling a virtual slot machine handle. I would liken it to other "games" such as golf, bowling, bridge, etc. Those who are skilled in the game have a decided advantage over those who are not. The only difference is that the score is kept in dollars instead of points.
I challenge anyone to explain the moral difference between paying an entry fee to play in a golf tournament where the prizes awarded are cash prizes, and paying an entry fee to play in a poker tournament where the prizes awarded are cash prizes.
I can't decide which will garner more Funny mods...a Lemmiwinks joke or an obscure Star Trek TNG cellular peptide with mint frosting reference. Decisions decisions...
I'm assuming that he's talking about the TLA IT company founded by the little guy with big ears. The CEO didn't "rob" him of his 401K and options so much as drive the stock price into the ground, making his options worthless and halving his 401K. And yes, the board did pay a king's ransom to get rid of the guy and his expensive wife.
So perhaps maybeGoogle can build a search engine solution that is "better" than Yahoo. Of course, there's no way to know until it is useable.
However - and this is big - how can Google change the habits and behavior of many millions of users? Yahoo has almost become synonymous with "web search" in the hearts and minds of millions.
I am sure we have not heard the last of this. It would not surprise me that the mayor would use the city mailing list for personal political gain, and once Ryan has the list in hand, I'm sure he will not be hesitant about making public his findings.
Check out his website for more details about this case, as well as his movie about this administration's other questionable practices. Quite impressive collection, especially for a 16 year old. Reminds me of a young Alex Jones.
Laugh if you want, but there are some high end sports cars that do not come with a radio, back seat, automatic transmission, air conditioning, and many other "features". And yes, the purpose is to enhance the driving experience, whether by making room for more power or forcing the user to concentrate on the driving, not the radio/cell phone/passengers.
Also, it'd be nice if comments weren't able to be modded down after 2 or more people mod them up, this will help prevent political and ignorance bias. I've had a couple comments go from +5 to -1.
I disagree. What happens more often is that someone posts something that, at first glance, seems Insightful or Informative, only to be debunked as speculation or an outright fabrication.
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Had a user on the phone for quite a while trying to get the cable modem working. Had her verify all the cables were plugged in, but Windows was not detecting her USB modem. Turned out she was plugging the USB cable into the Ethernet port on her computer. As soon as I hung up I had to try it...a little tight, but, sure enough, fit right in there.
I spent more time playing Super Mario Brothers 3 than any other game...ever. SMB1 was fun, and I can still usually beat the game losing only one or two lives, but SMB3 was the pinnacle. It was previewed in the movie "The Wizard", and I remember the talk at school the day after the movie opened. It wasn't about how good or bad the movie was, it was ALL about the new Mario game coming out.
Despite what others may tell you, US patent laws are applicable outside of the United States...indirectly. It has nothing to do with lawsuits or payoffs, though. It has to do with US Trade Policy. It is the policy of the US that we require our trade partners to respect the patents of US companies. Now, granted, trade policy is as full of holes as shotgunned swiss cheese, but foreign countries do have to abide by US patent laws if, for no other reason, it is only to give them one more bargaining chip on the table when diplomats discuss new policy.
If they are tech savvy enough, start with the IE7 blog at MSDN.
If they don't know the difference between a USB and a Firewire cable, just tell them how much you charge to burn down a machine and rebuild it after their teenage son picks up a dozen worms while searching for pr0n.
I disagree. Maybe at the inception of the concept of online movies, this would have worked. Now, while you may regain some market share from the "pirates", the cat is already out of the bag on this one. Keeping it there would have been easy by providing a legal, affordable alternative. Now that it's out, offering paid movie streams is not going to convince people to just stop going to piratebay.
I don't remember the model, but with our first camera you framed the shot by holding it at chest level and looking straight down into the viewfinder. Not that much different from today's method.
So can I, and, this being a lame play on words joke, it should probably follow this post
I love that word...Mycarthyism. A combination of
I can think of no better word to describe the current administration!
Nonsense, taxes to pay for services (War, natural disaster, etc.) are commonly pulled from places where money "existed somewhere". Why do you think there is such a huge tax on alcohol, tobacco, gasoline, etc.? Do you really think that drunks cost the government that much money?
I disagree. Reality TV is already rapidly dwindling, with only a few (Survivor, American Idol, etc.) remaining popular (did anyone actually watch Unanimous?) Quality actors like Hugh Laurie (House) and John C. McGinley (Scrubs) are creating a rennaisance in network television, reminiscent of the pre-reality tv era, when you could pay big bucks for talent and still turn a tidy profit (The Cosby Show, Friends, Seinfeld, etc.) The Reality TV fad is dead. Basing an entire revenue stream on it would be financial suicide.
Ok, as someone said, you can trade in your points for cash. This begs the question of why the company would do this. This would have to add overhead to maintain the site for cashing points, providing gifts, etc. Why not just give you the money?
My guess is that if they give you points, then you redeem them for things (including cash), you will be taxed the Gift Tax rate of approximately 40% and the company will not be required to pay various taxes that they have to pay for regular employees.
Try the third paragraph here.
From their website:
In other words, no, you're not going to get paid for helping. You will receive 10 Bazooka Joe comics for each Apache installation, and 5 Chuck E. Cheese tickets per debugged line of code.
This problem has already been addressed by Scott Adams in his book "The Dilbert Future".
To paraphrase, as I don't have the book handy, he determined that in the future, public surveillance would be ubiquitous and the key to personal privacy is to be dangerously boring, thus giving nobody a reason to spy on you.
Judging by my sphere of contacts, I am apparently not the only person to read this book.
[Begin Pedantic Rant]
Numb3rs quote:
You'd think on a geek forum, we'd have less abuse of this word.
This will last all of 2 weeks before the list of questions and answers is published in its entirety on the Internet and the spike in successful entries causes Jeopardy to shut down the program.
On a side note, I took one of these tests when the Jeopardy bus was touring the US and thought the questions were very age-biased. There were a disproportionate number of questions about events about late 60's / early 70's pop culture. I wonder if they target those in their mid 30's to mid 50's, as this is probably their target viewing audience as well. As a child of the 80's, I could have told them who shot John Lennon or Ronald Reagan, but not who shot Andy Warhol. I also would have preferred they ask about bumbling superheros with suits from outer space and not superheros with the powers of an Egyptian goddess.
That's ok, we'll just subpoena you're personal computer, PDA, desk, cell phone, etc. to find your private key. I'm sure there's a copy of it around here somewhere.
Oh, and this is Jack Bauer. He'll be asking you for your passphrase in Holding Room B.
You should probably qualify this with "Gambling against the house". Playing online poker against other players is not the same as pulling a virtual slot machine handle. I would liken it to other "games" such as golf, bowling, bridge, etc. Those who are skilled in the game have a decided advantage over those who are not. The only difference is that the score is kept in dollars instead of points.
I challenge anyone to explain the moral difference between paying an entry fee to play in a golf tournament where the prizes awarded are cash prizes, and paying an entry fee to play in a poker tournament where the prizes awarded are cash prizes.
I can't decide which will garner more Funny mods...a Lemmiwinks joke or an obscure Star Trek TNG cellular peptide with mint frosting reference. Decisions decisions...
I'm assuming that he's talking about the TLA IT company founded by the little guy with big ears. The CEO didn't "rob" him of his 401K and options so much as drive the stock price into the ground, making his options worthless and halving his 401K. And yes, the board did pay a king's ransom to get rid of the guy and his expensive wife.
So perhaps maybe Google can build a search engine solution that is "better" than Yahoo. Of course, there's no way to know until it is useable.
However - and this is big - how can Google change the habits and behavior of many millions of users? Yahoo has almost become synonymous with "web search" in the hearts and minds of millions.
- September 21, 1999
I am sure we have not heard the last of this. It would not surprise me that the mayor would use the city mailing list for personal political gain, and once Ryan has the list in hand, I'm sure he will not be hesitant about making public his findings.
Check out his website for more details about this case, as well as his movie about this administration's other questionable practices. Quite impressive collection, especially for a 16 year old. Reminds me of a young Alex Jones.
Laugh if you want, but there are some high end sports cars that do not come with a radio, back seat, automatic transmission, air conditioning, and many other "features". And yes, the purpose is to enhance the driving experience, whether by making room for more power or forcing the user to concentrate on the driving, not the radio/cell phone/passengers.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany
Third Reich (1933-1945)
We were invited. Punch was served. Check with Poland. Thomas Mann left to manage a Dairy Queen.
I disagree. What happens more often is that someone posts something that, at first glance, seems Insightful or Informative, only to be debunked as speculation or an outright fabrication.