their selection is still small.
the unreleased and worst of all your favorite artists (plus those annoying interview discs), and peole you haven't heard of yet (some of which, trust me, you're better off without experiencing.)
I got my membership, one month free when I bought my neuros in March of '04. I just recently canceled it, because I felt I wasn't getting $9.99 out of the service per month. Canceling was a breeze though, not like the usual - find your reg id that was sent to you months ago, blah blah. It was simple.
I don't know. I'm stil not sold. I wanna see some physical evidence. Bones, fossils, physical junk that can be hauled back to DC, put on display at the
Smithsonian Museum, and drooled on by elementary school students.
Hypothesizing over gases and trace h20 evidence, and similar will not get me interested. Just like I told the church, faith won't get me there alone, I wanna see something.
Yessir, but if you went to the store today would you be able to buy a non-cable ready tv? There are plenty of folks that can get by on older tech, but it's another thing to start off behind the curve.
But you're right - dude would be able to get by, as you have. But it would be nice to see something in a dual format. One tech for now, one tech for the future.
The firm i worked at up until recently decided to do some "sponsored marketing" thru Claria/Gator. I tried to preach their evils to the marketing department, but my protesting fell on deaf ears. A few weeks later, one of the marketing folks called me into his office because he was having terrible troubles with I.E. Turns out, as expected his lappie was riddled with spyware, w/ Gator/Claria products being the chief offender. When he asked what the major problem was, and I showed him the ad-aware, hijack this, and spybot entries w/ gator/claria all over them - i think he finally realized. The initial short term advertising contract wasn't renewed, or so i hear.
If more comapnies knew how bad these apps are, and what problems they created, maybe they wouldn't want their services and products advertised in this manner.
Me too.
And it's only getting worse.
The other day a fellow network tech here at my new job mentioned he had to de-spyware his own pc as it was getting absolutely over-run with browser hijackers, spyware, and the ilk.. We've all gotten something we didn't want before, but his laptop is as bad as some of our worst offendrs'.
I quietly told him not to mention that to anyone else, and gave him the url for mozilla.
Thanks for replying, I'm curious about this, though - That's almost true. In the past 20 years, I've encountered exactly ONE problem I couldn't fix, and to this day have no idea what the problem was. It actually occured on two machines...
Do you consider formatting the HDD, and slapping a fresh image of the OS and apps a solution, or is that a last ditch effort?
As far as calling MS - forget that. You're right. It's a waste of time and money.
Here's the situation I've been in for the (up until recently) past two years. Doing desktop support for a corporation that; is constantly changing (application level) platforms, buying terriblely buggy software with horrendous vendor support, allowing users to install whatever crap they want on their machines (users are local admins on their boxen), and employees too few technicians per users.
If someone blue screens, i'm not going to chase my tail for hours if a reboot is going to solve their problem for the 'medium' term. If someone is having daily problems, or even a couple times a week, you're right something needs to be done. The way i see it, it comes down to the amount of time spent. It's the equivilant of hospital triage for the help desk.
Hold on there, killer, I disagree. Do you use Windows?
How often do you hear from an IT person "Ooops, it bluescreened, that means it's time to reboot!"!"? No, if you got a bluescreen, that's a friggin' error message.
Yes - but the blue screen is indicating that the OS is no longer stabile - you DO NEED to reboot.
Read it and find out what went wrong.
MS error messages contained in blue screens is sometimes cryptic at best. Researching a blue screen message can often point to a bug in an application, or in the OS itself. I've had MS give me indications that I may have older drivers. Downloaded the newest vesions just a day or so prior. Sometimes the advice is just wrong. There's not always something else that CAN be done on a Win box.
I'd also argue that these clueless masses of IT folks think that reboots are the cure for all problems. If you're forced to reboot a machine, that machine has a problem....FIX IT!
You're certainly right, reboots are not the answer for ALL problems. But they are solutions (and pretty darm good ones at times) for the weird, occassional problem. Reboot, log-in, run your app, and you're fine for days. But what is the problem, when I take a perfectly well running Win XP Home Ed. pc, install AOL and it starts crashing? I uninstall AOL, re-install, the problem still exists. I already have the latest version of AOL. Who's fault is this? Mine? MIcrosoft's? AOLs?
Don't flame out against Help Desk employees and desktop technicians if the software designers are creating the problem.
This is industry standard upgrade practice. Dell does it too. Years ago we paid an arm and a leg (hundreds of dollars) for a "memory upgrade" for a PERC3 DCL Raid Controller in a Poweredge server. Imagine how pissed my boss was when it came in and the 128MB stick of SDRAM matched perfectly the sticks we were buying from Crucial.com for $26 each, shipped.
that one should have went back, but it didn't because corporate had already cut the check and bossman had to save face - "Now our e-mail server is faster..."
actually, no. i was invited to check it out whenever i wanted. i just was bored one day and wanted to see what all the fuse was about.
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Parent is modded 'Funny' but that hits close to home.
I used to date a highly intelligent, but emotionally needy software designer. She bought the first Sims when it came out, and played it daily. I did notice many nights where the television wouldn't get turned on, meals went uncooked. Laundry remained dirty and friends and family didn't get phone calls. I could care less about all these things, but I did notice her obsession with the game.
One day out of sheer curiosity I fired up her PC, logged in as her, and loaded up her saved game. Sure enough, there was our place, right on the monitor. She had gone to painstaking detail to make sure everything was as close the reality as possible - nevermind the fact she'd been ignoring reality for a month solid.
I think folks with control issues get a kick out of this game, as they can do whatever they want to the charcters, their enviornment,etc.
Let's examine this a little bit. Microsoft releases a partial version of a (no flames, please) halfway decent OS. Sooner or later consumers of this cut down product are going to want the full thing. They're going to want the full featured product. They have three choices;
1. Upgrade. We've already acknowledged that these areas are poor, which means they have a limited cash flow. If they weren't willing to pay for the full blown product before, do you think they're going to be more likely to pay AGAIN? I don't think so which leads us to
2. Piracy. This is the real reason this product is even available. Cracked CD Keys, reg hacks that allow Win Update regardless. I think this move is going to INCREASE piracy. More users. More users wanting more.
3. Move to Linux. If you are going to shell out some money anyway - why not buy a retail linux distro. You get better support and a full blown product. Not enough $$ to cough up fiddy bucks for a retail copy? Download that mother for free!
I think MS had a few objectives that this product was supposed to accomplish. I think it won't make as big of an impact as they expect.
Yeah, see. If i caught a co-worker playing games 70% of the time, notified management and they did nothing about it, you know what i'd start doing?
Nothing. I mean, sure i'd probably spend a little more time playing games myself, and a little less time worrying about the guy in the cube next door. Kinda an 'i'm ok, you're ok' arrangement, shared by a pair of individuals with nothing more in common than mutual boredom.
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their selection is still small. the unreleased and worst of all your favorite artists (plus those annoying interview discs), and peole you haven't heard of yet (some of which, trust me, you're better off without experiencing.)
I got my membership, one month free when I bought my neuros in March of '04. I just recently canceled it, because I felt I wasn't getting $9.99 out of the service per month. Canceling was a breeze though, not like the usual - find your reg id that was sent to you months ago, blah blah. It was simple.
Darl misread it too, and he was preparing to file suite against IBM for the presidency...
we want the money so we can get the sex. marriage is just the subscripton.
And yet AOL still reccommends to its home users that they store their passwords in a less than secure format on their local PCs.
I don't know. I'm stil not sold. I wanna see some physical evidence. Bones, fossils, physical junk that can be hauled back to DC, put on display at the Smithsonian Museum, and drooled on by elementary school students.
Hypothesizing over gases and trace h20 evidence, and similar will not get me interested. Just like I told the church, faith won't get me there alone, I wanna see something.
synergy!
I was waiting for synergy to pop up there somewhere...
What's a mission statement, About Us page, or memo from management without synergy?!?
PS - I chose SPOON!
At my former company the marketing folks have short term memories, so their hearing never improves.
Yessir, but if you went to the store today would you be able to buy a non-cable ready tv? There are plenty of folks that can get by on older tech, but it's another thing to start off behind the curve. But you're right - dude would be able to get by, as you have. But it would be nice to see something in a dual format. One tech for now, one tech for the future.
I figured you guys would love this...
The firm i worked at up until recently decided to do some "sponsored marketing" thru Claria/Gator. I tried to preach their evils to the marketing department, but my protesting fell on deaf ears. A few weeks later, one of the marketing folks called me into his office because he was having terrible troubles with I.E. Turns out, as expected his lappie was riddled with spyware, w/ Gator/Claria products being the chief offender. When he asked what the major problem was, and I showed him the ad-aware, hijack this, and spybot entries w/ gator/claria all over them - i think he finally realized. The initial short term advertising contract wasn't renewed, or so i hear.
If more comapnies knew how bad these apps are, and what problems they created, maybe they wouldn't want their services and products advertised in this manner.
Me too.
And it's only getting worse.
The other day a fellow network tech here at my new job mentioned he had to de-spyware his own pc as it was getting absolutely over-run with browser hijackers, spyware, and the ilk.. We've all gotten something we didn't want before, but his laptop is as bad as some of our worst offendrs'.
I quietly told him not to mention that to anyone else, and gave him the url for mozilla.
Thanks for replying, I'm curious about this, though - That's almost true. In the past 20 years, I've encountered exactly ONE problem I couldn't fix, and to this day have no idea what the problem was. It actually occured on two machines...
Do you consider formatting the HDD, and slapping a fresh image of the OS and apps a solution, or is that a last ditch effort?
As far as calling MS - forget that. You're right. It's a waste of time and money.
Here's the situation I've been in for the (up until recently) past two years. Doing desktop support for a corporation that; is constantly changing (application level) platforms, buying terriblely buggy software with horrendous vendor support, allowing users to install whatever crap they want on their machines (users are local admins on their boxen), and employees too few technicians per users.
If someone blue screens, i'm not going to chase my tail for hours if a reboot is going to solve their problem for the 'medium' term. If someone is having daily problems, or even a couple times a week, you're right something needs to be done. The way i see it, it comes down to the amount of time spent. It's the equivilant of hospital triage for the help desk.
Wait a minute... Haven't America Online and Microsoft been working together on an e-mail tracking technology called Sender-ID for a while now?
I hear Intel is getting in on the action too.
Hold on there, killer, I disagree. Do you use Windows?
How often do you hear from an IT person "Ooops, it bluescreened, that means it's time to reboot!"!"? No, if you got a bluescreen, that's a friggin' error message.
Yes - but the blue screen is indicating that the OS is no longer stabile - you DO NEED to reboot.
Read it and find out what went wrong.
MS error messages contained in blue screens is sometimes cryptic at best. Researching a blue screen message can often point to a bug in an application, or in the OS itself. I've had MS give me indications that I may have older drivers. Downloaded the newest vesions just a day or so prior. Sometimes the advice is just wrong. There's not always something else that CAN be done on a Win box.
I'd also argue that these clueless masses of IT folks think that reboots are the cure for all problems. If you're forced to reboot a machine, that machine has a problem....FIX IT!
You're certainly right, reboots are not the answer for ALL problems. But they are solutions (and pretty darm good ones at times) for the weird, occassional problem. Reboot, log-in, run your app, and you're fine for days. But what is the problem, when I take a perfectly well running Win XP Home Ed. pc, install AOL and it starts crashing? I uninstall AOL, re-install, the problem still exists. I already have the latest version of AOL. Who's fault is this? Mine? MIcrosoft's? AOLs?
Don't flame out against Help Desk employees and desktop technicians if the software designers are creating the problem.
This is industry standard upgrade practice. Dell does it too. Years ago we paid an arm and a leg (hundreds of dollars) for a "memory upgrade" for a PERC3 DCL Raid Controller in a Poweredge server. Imagine how pissed my boss was when it came in and the 128MB stick of SDRAM matched perfectly the sticks we were buying from Crucial.com for $26 each, shipped.
that one should have went back, but it didn't because corporate had already cut the check and bossman had to save face - "Now our e-mail server is faster..."
and the wheel goes round.
Didn't Killer have a brother? What was his name?
actually, no. i was invited to check it out whenever i wanted. i just was bored one day and wanted to see what all the fuse was about.
Parent is modded 'Funny' but that hits close to home.
I used to date a highly intelligent, but emotionally needy software designer. She bought the first Sims when it came out, and played it daily. I did notice many nights where the television wouldn't get turned on, meals went uncooked. Laundry remained dirty and friends and family didn't get phone calls. I could care less about all these things, but I did notice her obsession with the game.
One day out of sheer curiosity I fired up her PC, logged in as her, and loaded up her saved game. Sure enough, there was our place, right on the monitor. She had gone to painstaking detail to make sure everything was as close the reality as possible - nevermind the fact she'd been ignoring reality for a month solid.
I think folks with control issues get a kick out of this game, as they can do whatever they want to the charcters, their enviornment,etc.
Let's examine this a little bit. Microsoft releases a partial version of a (no flames, please) halfway decent OS. Sooner or later consumers of this cut down product are going to want the full thing. They're going to want the full featured product. They have three choices;
1. Upgrade. We've already acknowledged that these areas are poor, which means they have a limited cash flow. If they weren't willing to pay for the full blown product before, do you think they're going to be more likely to pay AGAIN? I don't think so which leads us to
2. Piracy. This is the real reason this product is even available. Cracked CD Keys, reg hacks that allow Win Update regardless. I think this move is going to INCREASE piracy. More users. More users wanting more.
3. Move to Linux. If you are going to shell out some money anyway - why not buy a retail linux distro. You get better support and a full blown product. Not enough $$ to cough up fiddy bucks for a retail copy? Download that mother for free!
I think MS had a few objectives that this product was supposed to accomplish. I think it won't make as big of an impact as they expect.
but didn't you agree to their terms when you bought their lock? they only warrant their cable - they'll say you should have read and understood that.
Did you have examples of that? Not to go against the grain by defending MS, but i don't recall many IE updates that large.
But I use MS @ work - so i'm uncool anyway.
Jesus too.
Or is it red that He rights in?
Mod parent up! It's a Bob Newhart reference for chrissakes!
But i think actually it's Darl's other brother, Durl.
Yeah, see. If i caught a co-worker playing games 70% of the time, notified management and they did nothing about it, you know what i'd start doing?
Nothing. I mean, sure i'd probably spend a little more time playing games myself, and a little less time worrying about the guy in the cube next door. Kinda an 'i'm ok, you're ok' arrangement, shared by a pair of individuals with nothing more in common than mutual boredom.
or kill your paper shredder. i have a pretty cheap one.