>Along the same lines, how in the hell would this speed up airport check-in times? If I bring a standard state issued ID, they look at it and hand it back.
Because, there are only about 3 guys checking ID, so you have to wait in a queue.
usually they were just tied with ropes around their wrists.
Jesus, i believe, was tied and nailed. (If he existed, etc..)
If you've ever tried nailing someone suspended to something with nails through their palms, it doesn't work. The hand just splits down the middle under their own weight.
Why should everyone need a gig of ram, to run the same word processor, email client and web browser they did on Win98 with 64M? Okay, we didn't have Firefox back then;) and the word processor is probably a newer, more bloated version..
But it's clear that people are getting nowhere near as much bang for their buck.
The software companies are in league with the hardware manufacturers. They all want us to upgrade everything on a 3-year cycle. It's not 1992 anymore. New uses for the higher-powered technology are not being explored every day. It's just a big scam.
Unless you're a gamer or use specific processor-intensive workstation apps most of the time, a six or seven year old computer would meet most anyone's needs with well designed, well supported software.
Windows XP is really a bitch for this. I dual-boot Linux and XP on a pretty new, low-end laptop. Linux fscks up sometimes, and doesn't always open applications fast, but it's responsive.
XP leaves me hanging on for literally seconds after i right-click, waiting for the menu to open. This is really annoying, because: I'm right in the middle of doing something that I right-clicked for and have to hold the thought, and I can't do anything else in that time, otherwise if I click anywhere else, the menu will (eventually) just open and close again straight away. The Start and Programs menus are the same, and take even longer sometimes.
I don't find Windows to be a bad OS in general, if you can keep it secure, but this is just one of many small things that are incredible bone-headed and frustrating, without which I would never take the trouble to use an alternative OS most of the time.
translation: i have been reading slashdot on the job for ooh, ages and i like to think i know what's what about all this technology stuff. so i pester the it guys about how they should do their jobs.
they are resistent to this harassment, and since most of them have 'asperger's syndrome', are quite good at ignoring people.
Why does anyone get to choose? This just encourage people to use names of pets etc.
I stopped trying to choose passwords that would be secure enough for my college login, and instead choose one of the list of suggestions. You'll remember any password soon enough if you use it everyday, and if forgetting it means getting locked out / having to go and get it reset..
>They only need to copy the information on the magnetic stripe onto a card that doesn't have a picture on it.
or a picture of Osama bin Laden (or whoever) on it. cloning magnetic cards is not rocket science.
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We could even have a dense uncountable set of measure zero which is in Baire category two.
>Along the same lines, how in the hell would this speed up airport check-in times? If I bring a standard state issued ID, they look at it and hand it back.
Because, there are only about 3 guys checking ID, so you have to wait in a queue.
usually they were just tied with ropes around their wrists.
Jesus, i believe, was tied and nailed. (If he existed, etc..)
If you've ever tried nailing someone suspended to something with nails through their palms, it doesn't work. The hand just splits down the middle under their own weight.
Why should everyone need a gig of ram, to run the same word processor, email client and web browser they did on Win98 with 64M? Okay, we didn't have Firefox back then ;) and the word processor is probably a newer, more bloated version..
But it's clear that people are getting nowhere near as much bang for their buck.
The software companies are in league with the hardware manufacturers. They all want us to upgrade everything on a 3-year cycle. It's not 1992 anymore. New uses for the higher-powered technology are not being explored every day. It's just a big scam.
Unless you're a gamer or use specific processor-intensive workstation apps most of the time, a six or seven year old computer would meet most anyone's needs with well designed, well supported software.
Windows XP is really a bitch for this. I dual-boot Linux and XP on a pretty new, low-end laptop. Linux fscks up sometimes, and doesn't always open applications fast, but it's responsive.
XP leaves me hanging on for literally seconds after i right-click, waiting for the menu to open. This is really annoying, because: I'm right in the middle of doing something that I right-clicked for and have to hold the thought, and I can't do anything else in that time, otherwise if I click anywhere else, the menu will (eventually) just open and close again straight away. The Start and Programs menus are the same, and take even longer sometimes.
I don't find Windows to be a bad OS in general, if you can keep it secure, but this is just one of many small things that are incredible bone-headed and frustrating, without which I would never take the trouble to use an alternative OS most of the time.
if your name really is Hunter S. Thompson.
there'll be plenty of false positives.
This is because dictionaries are no longer written by experts but by internet anarchists.
It's a plot by the chinese communist party to make americans stupid.
In France, a country in Western Europe (near Belgium), they have such a thing as 'licenciement abusif'. This is a standard term of employment law.
'Licenciement' is French (the language spoken in France, and other countries such as Belgium) for layoff. 'Abusif' is French for 'abusive'.
HTH. HAND.
He should call it Mandrake.
how do you blow money on credit card debt?
translation:
i have been reading slashdot on the job for ooh, ages and i like to think i know what's what about all this technology stuff. so i pester the it guys about how they should do their jobs.
they are resistent to this harassment, and since most of them have 'asperger's syndrome', are quite good at ignoring people.
what should i do?
Why does anyone get to choose? This just encourage people to use names of pets etc.
I stopped trying to choose passwords that would be secure enough for my college login, and instead choose one of the list of suggestions. You'll remember any password soon enough if you use it everyday, and if forgetting it means getting locked out / having to go and get it reset..
me too!
>EU ruled for Microsoft to leave the EU market, the EU would be denying the citizens choice
(rolling on floor laughing)
>They only need to copy the information on the magnetic stripe onto a card that doesn't have a picture on it. or a picture of Osama bin Laden (or whoever) on it. cloning magnetic cards is not rocket science.
ATM's don't read chips (yet?) - just stripes.
In the uk at least.
i think you should know md5 is broken
welcome to last year
..only old people run botnets.
>...or some other place where the laws of the U.S. are not particularly respected.
Obviously not the uk, then.
But it's made slightly harder by the fact that the measurement in K was given as a measurement in F, don't you think? Fool.
as the first person to try to draw an analogy between computers and houses or cars, you have automatically lost.
better luck next time.
welcome to missing the joke, einstein
is a guy whose internet connection is a bit slow, wondering if it's because his computer is 'too old'.
if you take down the ip or the machine, you're also attacking this guy, who's never even heard of botnets.
porn != spam
welcome to missing the joke
drive carefully.