oh no, you didn't say that did you? the GW stores were a complete failure, bled more money than Bing. walking in to one of those was like walking in to a black hole... Apple has redefined what a store should be
It has been my hope for years they would make the last three movies with or without the real actors. If it takes a digital Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford to get it done then so be it. We know George owns them all... so why not.
Apple makes some of the dumbest moves in regards to the lifeline of their app store - the developers! Boy are they good at pissing people off! I'm a very happy shareholder (picked it up at 27 back when...!) but every day there's some new twist that they've pulled and alienated this group or that. I think parental controls and allowing any app that doesn't do harm to the phone itself would be their best stance - how many sales are they missing because of these China-like rules?
The air really belongs to those animals... anything we do to prevent them from being in the areas is only going to cause more harm. Can't we just develop teleportation already?!
I get it all the time - nobody can say Firefox, it's always Foxfire. Drives me nuts. I've been doing on-site service with the company I started for 10+ years and I really would love to be insulated from the customers. I don't want to deal with them on the phone or via e-mail, I want to show up and fix what needs fixin' or whatever else I have to do. Babbling on the phone about the same thing over and over again is driving me crazy.
Vista SUCKS. Period. It is an annoying kink in the neck. It's not just hype, it SUCKS. They can try all the spin they want "oh the bloggers gave us a bad rap!" BS If you create an operating system and purposely make it to annoy the users, what do you think you'll get?
I thought Dell 'got it' and was behind those of us that want XP instead of the nightmare that is Vista. How can they be raising the cost of older software?! Makes me sick. (They do run deals with no upgrade costs *sometimes* as far as I know.) On a side note: It was $99 before for the upgrade/downgrade to Vista, how is $150 three times the previous cost?
I've worked on many a Vista computer (including beta testing back when) and I've never liked it, and have really grown hate it. What a waste of power. On a brand new system, "Please wait while Vista tests the performance..." Are you kidding? Nice out of box experience. Simply transferring files can be such a pain and so slooooooooow. UAC triggers a gag reflex.
This sounds scarily just like IE and Win95 and the motives back then. I'm sure Billy G is jealous of Mark Zuckerberg and Brad Greenspan and sits at home at night poking needles in to doll and chanting curses at them. "Another idea I should have had!" Ahhh, The Road Ahead...
I'm so tired of hearing all this crap about Windows Vista and the steps backwards it's taking. What a joke! It's just one thing after another...
"oh, you mean you want to play music on your new computer AND use the Internet?"
It really is a step backwards from XP. What is Microsoft thinking? Oh yeah, we need more money.
With the iPhone drama and now the delay in 10.5 plus iCal server, I pray this is a replacement to Windows Mobile, Outlook, and Exchange. Please, please, please.
I never thought it would come from Microsoft since they want their OEM customers to be happy, but it's about time somebody raised a stink about the BS that gets installed by the OEMs themselves. Toshiba & Sony I believe are the worst culprits. They install so much shit on the computer - at least 10 startup items and services - it's a complete joke. And then when you encounter something like what Toshiba does to the built-in power management functions of Windows - they won't let you get to it! "Please use the Toshiba power management applet..." BYTE ME! You'd think they would want the overall PC experience to reflect well on their brand too, so slowing down everyone's brand new PC with a load of junk isn't the way to go.
Microsoft just continues to prove that they don't get it. Virtualization is where it's at - if every home user had Windows running in a VM aka sandbox, and every time they shut off their box it went back to a clean snapshot... hey, we'd probably have a lot less bot nets out there ey?
I've been waiting for a live weather layer in Google Earth for months. Makes sense right? Even if the imagery isn't completely up-to-date, the weather in the area is very helpful. Zoom, tilt, rotate, and see where that storm is going to hit!:)
I still have my original VHS tapes which were recorded off of regular TV way back when. I remember using our VCR that had a wired remote control! lol At this point they've been viewed so many times you can barely see ANYTHING in ESB because everything is so dark. I was extremely pumped that they were releasing the "originals" on DVD, only to be crushed by this mess with a bad transfer. Didn't they digitally remaster the originals before making all of those changes?! Can't they use that to make these new DVDs?! They took away the orignal Ewok song / celebration at the end of ROTJ. That part always gave me the shivers. Now we've got that awful multi-world celebration and that horrible music - what were they thinking! And that f'n' animated creature singing in Jabba's palace - hold on, I have to wipe the puke off my shoes.
I agree it's a pain sometimes to go to people's houses to fix things, but if you turn it in to a career... it's great. I keep updated versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, MozBackup, AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaser, HiJackThis, KillBox, AIMFix, CWShredder, SmitRemove, Google Earth (or just GooglePack installer these days), Adobe, iTunes, Symcln (can't f'n' stand when Norton products can't even uninstall properly!), and finally the best Matrix screensaver I know of - http://www.nthelp.com/matrix.htm - and I think that's it. Of course there's some funny videos, pictures of cops that have gotten their car stuck (http://www.edlippjr.com/pictures/funny/popo-crash -02.JPG), and the like. No p0rn on the thumbdrive.:)
You know this because you were there, correct? Or you just take the govt's word for it? My point is simple; How on earth could they lose or misplace those recordings of such a monumental event?! Any why on Earth have we not landed and played football on the moon by now if we were walking on it that long ago? It was propoganda to try and prove that we're better than Russia, simple as that. This is what I believe, that's all. It's like the old religion arguement. People can say all they want, but I say "prove it".
Then so is the child... for you to get so upset that someone else doesn't buy in to the story that we never went to the moon... and now OOOPS! We've lost the original recordings! How convenient! I am a sci-tech nut, I love the exploration of space, but sadly I do not think we ever landed on walked on the moon. We did it 50 years ago but not once since then? No moon base yet? Nothing?! Losing the tapes is the last straw for me. Humans can and do accomplish extraordinary things, but landing and walking on the moon isn't one of them.
Realplayer pissed me off way back... when they started with their systray crap. EUREKA - I think they may have been the pioneer of annoying, increadibly usesless system tray icons! Ya feel me? Apple and Quicktime, yes, you are also idiots. What a waste of space! I don't need or want extra, pointless icons and software that adds itself to startup only to waste memory & time. The fact that Firefox comes with Realplayer and not the other way around is the only good thing about this move. Here's to the sites that force folks to get deal with Realplayer in the first place - you're idiots too. Wow, I've wanted to vent on that for a long time.
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Yeah some great proofreading therrrrr "two 3, 1.4Ghz, quad-core"
oh no, you didn't say that did you? the GW stores were a complete failure, bled more money than Bing. walking in to one of those was like walking in to a black hole... Apple has redefined what a store should be
I can't see, could someone please lift the wool from my eyes?!
It has been my hope for years they would make the last three movies with or without the real actors. If it takes a digital Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, and Harrison Ford to get it done then so be it. We know George owns them all... so why not.
"Yeah, we didn't think flying these huge things in the air and burning thousands of gallons of fuel would actually do anything..."
Apple makes some of the dumbest moves in regards to the lifeline of their app store - the developers! Boy are they good at pissing people off! I'm a very happy shareholder (picked it up at 27 back when...!) but every day there's some new twist that they've pulled and alienated this group or that. I think parental controls and allowing any app that doesn't do harm to the phone itself would be their best stance - how many sales are they missing because of these China-like rules?
The air really belongs to those animals... anything we do to prevent them from being in the areas is only going to cause more harm. Can't we just develop teleportation already?!
I get it all the time - nobody can say Firefox, it's always Foxfire. Drives me nuts. I've been doing on-site service with the company I started for 10+ years and I really would love to be insulated from the customers. I don't want to deal with them on the phone or via e-mail, I want to show up and fix what needs fixin' or whatever else I have to do. Babbling on the phone about the same thing over and over again is driving me crazy.
Vista SUCKS. Period. It is an annoying kink in the neck. It's not just hype, it SUCKS. They can try all the spin they want "oh the bloggers gave us a bad rap!" BS If you create an operating system and purposely make it to annoy the users, what do you think you'll get?
I read something that said he has a rare form of pancreatic cancer which is treatable.
...is there another type of blizzard? ;)
I thought Dell 'got it' and was behind those of us that want XP instead of the nightmare that is Vista. How can they be raising the cost of older software?! Makes me sick. (They do run deals with no upgrade costs *sometimes* as far as I know.) On a side note: It was $99 before for the upgrade/downgrade to Vista, how is $150 three times the previous cost? I've worked on many a Vista computer (including beta testing back when) and I've never liked it, and have really grown hate it. What a waste of power. On a brand new system, "Please wait while Vista tests the performance..." Are you kidding? Nice out of box experience. Simply transferring files can be such a pain and so slooooooooow. UAC triggers a gag reflex.
This sounds scarily just like IE and Win95 and the motives back then. I'm sure Billy G is jealous of Mark Zuckerberg and Brad Greenspan and sits at home at night poking needles in to doll and chanting curses at them. "Another idea I should have had!" Ahhh, The Road Ahead...
I'm so tired of hearing all this crap about Windows Vista and the steps backwards it's taking. What a joke! It's just one thing after another... "oh, you mean you want to play music on your new computer AND use the Internet?" It really is a step backwards from XP. What is Microsoft thinking? Oh yeah, we need more money.
With the iPhone drama and now the delay in 10.5 plus iCal server, I pray this is a replacement to Windows Mobile, Outlook, and Exchange. Please, please, please.
...they'd be able to offer OS X as an option. I know it's been said before, but think what that would do for Apple's market share! Through the roof!
Sure, Acer will sell you a laptop with a rootkit preinstalled! How nice of them!
I never thought it would come from Microsoft since they want their OEM customers to be happy, but it's about time somebody raised a stink about the BS that gets installed by the OEMs themselves. Toshiba & Sony I believe are the worst culprits. They install so much shit on the computer - at least 10 startup items and services - it's a complete joke. And then when you encounter something like what Toshiba does to the built-in power management functions of Windows - they won't let you get to it! "Please use the Toshiba power management applet..." BYTE ME! You'd think they would want the overall PC experience to reflect well on their brand too, so slowing down everyone's brand new PC with a load of junk isn't the way to go.
Microsoft just continues to prove that they don't get it. Virtualization is where it's at - if every home user had Windows running in a VM aka sandbox, and every time they shut off their box it went back to a clean snapshot... hey, we'd probably have a lot less bot nets out there ey?
I've been waiting for a live weather layer in Google Earth for months. Makes sense right? Even if the imagery isn't completely up-to-date, the weather in the area is very helpful. Zoom, tilt, rotate, and see where that storm is going to hit! :)
I still have my original VHS tapes which were recorded off of regular TV way back when. I remember using our VCR that had a wired remote control! lol At this point they've been viewed so many times you can barely see ANYTHING in ESB because everything is so dark. I was extremely pumped that they were releasing the "originals" on DVD, only to be crushed by this mess with a bad transfer. Didn't they digitally remaster the originals before making all of those changes?! Can't they use that to make these new DVDs?! They took away the orignal Ewok song / celebration at the end of ROTJ. That part always gave me the shivers. Now we've got that awful multi-world celebration and that horrible music - what were they thinking! And that f'n' animated creature singing in Jabba's palace - hold on, I have to wipe the puke off my shoes.
I agree it's a pain sometimes to go to people's houses to fix things, but if you turn it in to a career... it's great. I keep updated versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, MozBackup, AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaser, HiJackThis, KillBox, AIMFix, CWShredder, SmitRemove, Google Earth (or just GooglePack installer these days), Adobe, iTunes, Symcln (can't f'n' stand when Norton products can't even uninstall properly!), and finally the best Matrix screensaver I know of - http://www.nthelp.com/matrix.htm - and I think that's it. Of course there's some funny videos, pictures of cops that have gotten their car stuck (http://www.edlippjr.com/pictures/funny/popo-crash -02.JPG), and the like. No p0rn on the thumbdrive. :)
You know this because you were there, correct? Or you just take the govt's word for it? My point is simple; How on earth could they lose or misplace those recordings of such a monumental event?! Any why on Earth have we not landed and played football on the moon by now if we were walking on it that long ago? It was propoganda to try and prove that we're better than Russia, simple as that. This is what I believe, that's all. It's like the old religion arguement. People can say all they want, but I say "prove it".
Then so is the child... for you to get so upset that someone else doesn't buy in to the story that we never went to the moon... and now OOOPS! We've lost the original recordings! How convenient! I am a sci-tech nut, I love the exploration of space, but sadly I do not think we ever landed on walked on the moon. We did it 50 years ago but not once since then? No moon base yet? Nothing?! Losing the tapes is the last straw for me. Humans can and do accomplish extraordinary things, but landing and walking on the moon isn't one of them.
Realplayer pissed me off way back... when they started with their systray crap. EUREKA - I think they may have been the pioneer of annoying, increadibly usesless system tray icons! Ya feel me? Apple and Quicktime, yes, you are also idiots. What a waste of space! I don't need or want extra, pointless icons and software that adds itself to startup only to waste memory & time. The fact that Firefox comes with Realplayer and not the other way around is the only good thing about this move. Here's to the sites that force folks to get deal with Realplayer in the first place - you're idiots too. Wow, I've wanted to vent on that for a long time.