Having worked at IBM before, there was a lot of legacy software than ran on PC which would often stop working because of a problem with a remote server. The only way to report such problems would be by calling the help desk. It wouldn't matter whether it was a problem with Windows, or whether you knew exactly what the problem was. It all had to be reported through the help desk.
I imagine that if you use a Mac then it means you don't need to run any of the legacy software. And if you don't need to run the legacy software, there's no reason to ever call the help desk.
I would believe if there were fewer hardware-related help desk calls with the Mac, but I have a hard time believing that PCs require more help desk calls simply because Windows/PCs sucks.
I remember when Chrome first came. I thought Google was wasting their time because Firefox was clearly the best browser, and there was no reason to think it would ever stop being the best. And the browser market already seemed too crowed with IE, Safari, Firefox, and Opera all competing for market share.
Keep now is not what Keep will be in the future. Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Android, and many other Google products are almost indistinguishable from what they were during their first iteration. And of those I listed, Gmail and Google Maps are the only ones I would say were actually better from the competition from day 1.
Evernote should be sweating at least a little bit.
A few months ago I was pretty excited to have been given a top-of-the-line laptop at work. I quickly ran into problems with graphics card support. My previous 4-year-old linux laptop ran Compiz flawlessly. My new laptop was running like crap. I finally realized it was because of the Nvidia Optimus technology, which is supposed to save power by dynamically switching between discrete and integrated graphics chips. A lot of hacking away later, I finally got it working, although it still doesn't seem as snappy as my old laptop.
I also recently built a new Linux desktop with the intention of playing games on Steam through Wine. Again I hit problems with the graphics card support and finally gave up and installed Windows 8 dev preview.
In the future I'll do more research before buying hardware.
Why on earth do these things appear to have screensavers?
The Kindle does display an image, usually of a famous author, when it's turned off. While displaying that image does use some power, it's a negligible amount considering how many page turns the thing gets on a single charge. And it looks pretty cool too.
The problem is that you don't know the origin of the code. The person who posted the code on the forum isn't guaranteed to be the author. He or she could have taken the code out of a book, another website, or decompiled it from a non-OSS library. And what if the code was taken from a GPLed project? Using external code of an unknown pedigree is always a bad idea.
That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.
You and your friends are well-educated Atheists, but I'm sure that most people aren't as educated, and even more aren't Atheists. You're less typical than you think.
Nintendogs is too much of a chore
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I got Nintedogs about two weeks ago, and I enjoyed it for about the first week. Now it's starting to get old. The problem is that you have to actually feed the dog everyday. Shouldn't a virtual pet have the benefit of not having to be fed and washed like a real dog? I even tried setting the DS's game clock backwards to try to fool it, but it somehow knows if you've done that. The last straw was when one of the virtual people in the game yelled at me for not picking up my dog's virtual poop. Nintendogs needs a virtual shotgun so that I can end it Old Yeller style.
The problem is that the hacker would be using your computer resources for other illicit purposes, such as hacking computers belonging to other businesses. It would solve your problems at the expense of others. And imagine the liability of having their attacks traced back to your computers.
It would be no different than giving guns to thugs to protect your business. When they do finally get busted, the FBI will find your fingerprints on the guns.
I hope that they do something with all the flash-based advertisements on IGN. I had to stop browsing IGN on my mac mini because it caused my CPU load to jump up to 100%, even when in another browser tab (both Safari and Firefox). It was so annoying when I would leave the Mac on overnight, and I'd wake up in the morning realizing that I accidently left IGN open and my CPU had been running on full speed all night. I wish IGN would reimburse me for all the wasted electricity.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (with sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me? This baby is right off the charts, mm-hai.
Comic Book Guy: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
If it weren't for Ross Perot, Bill Clinton wouldn't have won. If it weren't for Nader, George W. Bush wouldn't have won. The third party candidates allow the non-favorites to win.
They actually use the Greek word transliterated as "epi" which is a pretty general preposition. In the King James Version, it's translated as "on" 196 times, "in" 120 times, and "upon" 159 times.
I'm having a hard enough time trying to convince myself to watch the actual Reloaded or Revolutions. So there's no way I'm going to sit down and watch a spoof of the whole thing. I'd rather watch the uber Race for the Double Helix
But either way, props to the creators if the CGI is that good.
I'm part of the original GB generation (although I actually had a Game Gear), and I can say that I have almost no desire to play a hand held these days. When I was a kid, it was the perfect remedy for a short attention span and nothing better to do. But these days the "adult world" keeps me pretty busy. And I'm able to entertain myself on the typical commute by listening to my ipod and looking at all the weird people.
It's all part of the irony that by the time you can afford the toys you've always wanted, you outgrow them. But that won't keep me from gettng that Optimus Prime my parents never got me for Christmas!
I remember when the first mp3s players started coming out (Rio, Lyra, etc...). Most of them had 32mb and claimed to store an hour of music. They must have assumed either it was 22khz or mono.
While almost all the mp3s I get now or 192kbps, the majority of my collection is still 128kbs. The 128kbs/4min assumption seems reasonable enough. They're not fudging the figures nearly as bad as the could. And I doubt anybody is going to be disappointed when the only manage to get 3000 songs on their player. Besides, if you get caught by the RIAA with only 3000 songs, that might be a few less billion dollars they'll sue you for.
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Having worked at IBM before, there was a lot of legacy software than ran on PC which would often stop working because of a problem with a remote server. The only way to report such problems would be by calling the help desk. It wouldn't matter whether it was a problem with Windows, or whether you knew exactly what the problem was. It all had to be reported through the help desk.
I imagine that if you use a Mac then it means you don't need to run any of the legacy software. And if you don't need to run the legacy software, there's no reason to ever call the help desk.
I would believe if there were fewer hardware-related help desk calls with the Mac, but I have a hard time believing that PCs require more help desk calls simply because Windows/PCs sucks.
I remember when Chrome first came. I thought Google was wasting their time because Firefox was clearly the best browser, and there was no reason to think it would ever stop being the best. And the browser market already seemed too crowed with IE, Safari, Firefox, and Opera all competing for market share.
Keep now is not what Keep will be in the future. Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome, Android, and many other Google products are almost indistinguishable from what they were during their first iteration. And of those I listed, Gmail and Google Maps are the only ones I would say were actually better from the competition from day 1.
Evernote should be sweating at least a little bit.
Every time there's a minor version update or security patch released, I spend a day trying to migrate to it.
A few months ago I was pretty excited to have been given a top-of-the-line laptop at work. I quickly ran into problems with graphics card support. My previous 4-year-old linux laptop ran Compiz flawlessly. My new laptop was running like crap. I finally realized it was because of the Nvidia Optimus technology, which is supposed to save power by dynamically switching between discrete and integrated graphics chips. A lot of hacking away later, I finally got it working, although it still doesn't seem as snappy as my old laptop.
I also recently built a new Linux desktop with the intention of playing games on Steam through Wine. Again I hit problems with the graphics card support and finally gave up and installed Windows 8 dev preview.
In the future I'll do more research before buying hardware.
It's time to change the expression from curse like a sailor to curse like a 2-year old.
I also had to add
127.0.0.1 w1.tcr62.tynt.com
I'm guessing that they have a huge pool of *.*.tynt.com addresses.
Why on earth do these things appear to have screensavers?
The Kindle does display an image, usually of a famous author, when it's turned off. While displaying that image does use some power, it's a negligible amount considering how many page turns the thing gets on a single charge. And it looks pretty cool too.
I know they'll devise an alternative way of doing this, but I at least like to dream that this might kill off mail-in rebates.
No longer will I have to wait 3-6 months for a $5 check that never comes.
The problem is that you don't know the origin of the code. The person who posted the code on the forum isn't guaranteed to be the author. He or she could have taken the code out of a book, another website, or decompiled it from a non-OSS library. And what if the code was taken from a GPLed project? Using external code of an unknown pedigree is always a bad idea.
That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.
You and your friends are well-educated Atheists, but I'm sure that most people aren't as educated, and even more aren't Atheists. You're less typical than you think.
I got Nintedogs about two weeks ago, and I enjoyed it for about the first week. Now it's starting to get old. The problem is that you have to actually feed the dog everyday. Shouldn't a virtual pet have the benefit of not having to be fed and washed like a real dog? I even tried setting the DS's game clock backwards to try to fool it, but it somehow knows if you've done that. The last straw was when one of the virtual people in the game yelled at me for not picking up my dog's virtual poop. Nintendogs needs a virtual shotgun so that I can end it Old Yeller style.
The problem is that the hacker would be using your computer resources for other illicit purposes, such as hacking computers belonging to other businesses. It would solve your problems at the expense of others. And imagine the liability of having their attacks traced back to your computers.
It would be no different than giving guns to thugs to protect your business. When they do finally get busted, the FBI will find your fingerprints on the guns.
I hope that they do something with all the flash-based advertisements on IGN. I had to stop browsing IGN on my mac mini because it caused my CPU load to jump up to 100%, even when in another browser tab (both Safari and Firefox). It was so annoying when I would leave the Mac on overnight, and I'd wake up in the morning realizing that I accidently left IGN open and my CPU had been running on full speed all night. I wish IGN would reimburse me for all the wasted electricity.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (with sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me? This baby is right off the charts, mm-hai.
Comic Book Guy: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
I don't use kitchen appliances for pr0n or playing games.
I used the Wake County website to look up Jeremy's million-dollar home. We should send him some mail and see how he likes it : )
If it weren't for Ross Perot, Bill Clinton wouldn't have won. If it weren't for Nader, George W. Bush wouldn't have won. The third party candidates allow the non-favorites to win.
Was there a white cloth tied to the antenna or door?
I just want to know when I can get a BD-RW off of newegg.
Why would you link from commercials that nobody watches if they have a TiVo anyways?
They actually use the Greek word transliterated as "epi" which is a pretty general preposition. In the King James Version, it's translated as "on" 196 times, "in" 120 times, and "upon" 159 times.
But either way, props to the creators if the CGI is that good.
I'm part of the original GB generation (although I actually had a Game Gear), and I can say that I have almost no desire to play a hand held these days. When I was a kid, it was the perfect remedy for a short attention span and nothing better to do. But these days the "adult world" keeps me pretty busy. And I'm able to entertain myself on the typical commute by listening to my ipod and looking at all the weird people.
It's all part of the irony that by the time you can afford the toys you've always wanted, you outgrow them. But that won't keep me from gettng that Optimus Prime my parents never got me for Christmas!
I remember when the first mp3s players started coming out (Rio, Lyra, etc...). Most of them had 32mb and claimed to store an hour of music. They must have assumed either it was 22khz or mono. While almost all the mp3s I get now or 192kbps, the majority of my collection is still 128kbs. The 128kbs/4min assumption seems reasonable enough. They're not fudging the figures nearly as bad as the could. And I doubt anybody is going to be disappointed when the only manage to get 3000 songs on their player. Besides, if you get caught by the RIAA with only 3000 songs, that might be a few less billion dollars they'll sue you for.