My Canon S3 records in AVI format, but my old Olympus camera recorded in.MOV.
I always figured that Apple has a relatively cheap and easy-to-implement authoring code API or something that makes it easy for the bean counters to approve of.
Some cameras have basic editing functionality built into the firmware, but yeah it sucks that it's not in a more open format.
Here, let me store your hard drive against the fridge with this rare earth magnet, right next to my holographic disc until I get some time to check out what you put on there...
2 weeks later
Hey! I thought you told me your hard drive had the latest Nirvana's Shotgun album collection!
Great, I guess it's back to my Zampfir's Greatest Pan Flute Performances, which was stored on my holographic disc.
I don't know about commercial network coverage, but I do know many PBS stations carried it on their post primetime schedules. I remember watching it in the early 1990s in Houston, and I've encountered many people who were exposed to it from there as well.
I don't think it ever got as popular as 'Are You Being Server?', but it was big enough to garner a pretty wide fanbase.
Or you could install the upgrade on a clean disk by inserting your old media at the appropriate time.
I've been installing Windows ever since 95 and not once have I been forced to install an older version before "upgrading" to the newer one. I just wipe the drive, show the installer I have an older version of Windows, and get the exact same thing as a full OEM verson.
Stories with red headings are stories that are in the future. Generally it's just subscribed folks who see it, but every once in a while, you'll refresh at the exact right time where it's available for everyone, but still "locked."
Either that, or it's Chinese hackers attempting to mess with your head.
The range is much better than the RF or IR kits I've tried (1 Microsoft and 1 Logitech set), and it's really very sturdy.
It's a full keyboard, with no funky key mappings, and a nice media control layout. The mouse has 6 buttons (right, left, wheel, and two on the left side, mine are mapped for FWD and Back) and horizontal scrolling.
Both have survived numerous falls to the wood floor, a growing 2 year old, a dog, and occasionally 2 adult users.
The Dell is actually a rebranded Logitech, and the Logitech software works much more reliably than the Dell software, but all in all, the kit was worth the cost many times over.
One awesome thing is that it came with a Bluetooth adapter for the PC (obviously), which also allows my computer to wirelessly transfer photos and ringtones to our phones, which saves us money since we don't have to use SMS to load content.
Obligatory Monty Python quote: Reg:
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
I just got done dealing with USPS insurance, and while it was frustrating at times, it was nowhere near "years of fighting past insane bureaucracy" to get my money back. I shipped a package in April, and by the time everything was over and done with, I had a check for the full amount of my insurance plus shipping costs in October.
Sure, it took a while, but I got all my money back, and I was able to repurchase a very expensive piece of equipment and get it to a friend.
Also, sometimes USPS is your only real alternative. Shipping the exact package that cost me $80 (fully insured and tracked) through USPS would have been over $250 with FedEx or UPS (before insurance costs).
Are copied cards really that much of a concern?
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Personally I'd be more worried about some junior level government worker losing my data along with that of everyone else in the country when he goes digging through his pocket for enough change to buy lunch at the pub down the street.
It's a bad idea to give away excess merchandise to employees though. It can encourage people to intentionally overbuy products simply because they know it will be given to them when it doesn't sell.
A better solution is to have someone box it all up and donate it, assuming it's something worth donating.
I don't know... when you consider all the costs of illuminating 900+ square feet of space, a $5,000 one time cost to get light isn't bad, especially considering: - electricity during the middle of the day is at peak usage and cost - electrical lights (even fluorescent) warm up the room, increasing climate control demands
Taking those items into account, you wind up with a good case for implementing it, not to mention the fact that big businesses love having unique things that they can brag about to customers and potential clients.
Because many people are still ignorant of how TLDs can actually work, and it's easier to just buy up a bunch of domains (which they'd probably need to do ANYWAY to prevent this sort of thing in the first place) than it is to explain to someone that yes, foo.dell.com is actually Dell.com, and that no, you don't put www in front of foo, and no, it's not dell.com/foo or foodell.com or any other permutation.
The Dell folks probably have some market experience in this matter, and they probably have it pretty well figured out what the customer expects and will do with regards to accessing the Dell website.
Sears and Kmart are suffering heavily from their competitors like Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes. They need to find new revenue streams, and this is probably some marketing tech-savvy manager's way of doing that.
They link up with a spyware company, get people to sign up for a community or whatever, then rake in the user data that is generated from their browsing. There may or may not be any specific danger to an individual user, and most of the gathered data is probably used in an aggregate sense, but the problem lies in the fact that no one knows what's there, how it's gathered, coded, or stored, and how secure it is.
I wonder if a SHC Community member has their identity stolen because of weak software programming on the spyware company if that company can be held liable, or if there's a clause in there that absolves them of any real responsibility regarding the security of the data being collected.
I worked for some folks one time who "rewarded" problem employees with telecommuting. This was at a call center for a state wide group who had extremely busy queues and very little down time.
Morale was pretty low by the time upper management started to notice what the call center manager was doing.
Telecommuting wasn't cheap for us, either. We were extending dialtone from the central switch to wherever those folks lived, and paying over a dollar a month per mile for those lines, plus the fees for the call center services we needed on the line. We had some single phone lines costing us over $1000 a year, and we had dozens of telecommuters.
Service packs are largely comprised of all the service updates and software patches that MS releases between major service packs. They're basically a "catchup" package that allows people to ensure that their software is completely up to date up to a certain time. They occasionally bundle in extra stuff, but IIRC they didn't do that all too often before XP SP2.
Since people's machines are nominally downloading and applying these updates automatically, there's less of a need to release a "catchup" package, since most people are supposedly already caught up.
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My Canon S3 records in AVI format, but my old Olympus camera recorded in .MOV.
I always figured that Apple has a relatively cheap and easy-to-implement authoring code API or something that makes it easy for the bean counters to approve of.
Some cameras have basic editing functionality built into the firmware, but yeah it sucks that it's not in a more open format.
It shames me to say it but yes, the whole thing.
I once a whole 5D-II forum with a lot of activity.
I'll never do that again.
Here, let me store your hard drive against the fridge with this rare earth magnet, right next to my holographic disc until I get some time to check out what you put on there...
2 weeks later
Hey! I thought you told me your hard drive had the latest Nirvana's Shotgun album collection!
Great, I guess it's back to my Zampfir's Greatest Pan Flute Performances, which was stored on my holographic disc.
I think I accidentally tuned into a conversation between Lie-Bot and Vlad.
I don't know about commercial network coverage, but I do know many PBS stations carried it on their post primetime schedules. I remember watching it in the early 1990s in Houston, and I've encountered many people who were exposed to it from there as well.
I don't think it ever got as popular as 'Are You Being Server?', but it was big enough to garner a pretty wide fanbase.
Or you could install the upgrade on a clean disk by inserting your old media at the appropriate time.
I've been installing Windows ever since 95 and not once have I been forced to install an older version before "upgrading" to the newer one. I just wipe the drive, show the installer I have an older version of Windows, and get the exact same thing as a full OEM verson.
Stories with red headings are stories that are in the future. Generally it's just subscribed folks who see it, but every once in a while, you'll refresh at the exact right time where it's available for everyone, but still "locked."
Either that, or it's Chinese hackers attempting to mess with your head.
I want to get the "The April Fool" achievement!
Up, up we go, with nothing but a wing and a prayer!
And solid rocket boosters
And trajectory data
And rocket engineers
And computer scientists
I'd rather have NYCL speak defiantly for me. He at least has some experience doing that sort of thing against the RIAA.
The range is much better than the RF or IR kits I've tried (1 Microsoft and 1 Logitech set), and it's really very sturdy.
It's a full keyboard, with no funky key mappings, and a nice media control layout. The mouse has 6 buttons (right, left, wheel, and two on the left side, mine are mapped for FWD and Back) and horizontal scrolling.
Both have survived numerous falls to the wood floor, a growing 2 year old, a dog, and occasionally 2 adult users.
The Dell is actually a rebranded Logitech, and the Logitech software works much more reliably than the Dell software, but all in all, the kit was worth the cost many times over.
One awesome thing is that it came with a Bluetooth adapter for the PC (obviously), which also allows my computer to wirelessly transfer photos and ringtones to our phones, which saves us money since we don't have to use SMS to load content.
Obligatory Monty Python quote:
Reg:
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
I just got done dealing with USPS insurance, and while it was frustrating at times, it was nowhere near "years of fighting past insane bureaucracy" to get my money back. I shipped a package in April, and by the time everything was over and done with, I had a check for the full amount of my insurance plus shipping costs in October.
Sure, it took a while, but I got all my money back, and I was able to repurchase a very expensive piece of equipment and get it to a friend.
Also, sometimes USPS is your only real alternative. Shipping the exact package that cost me $80 (fully insured and tracked) through USPS would have been over $250 with FedEx or UPS (before insurance costs).
Personally I'd be more worried about some junior level government worker losing my data along with that of everyone else in the country when he goes digging through his pocket for enough change to buy lunch at the pub down the street.
It's a bad idea to give away excess merchandise to employees though. It can encourage people to intentionally overbuy products simply because they know it will be given to them when it doesn't sell.
A better solution is to have someone box it all up and donate it, assuming it's something worth donating.
I don't know... when you consider all the costs of illuminating 900+ square feet of space, a $5,000 one time cost to get light isn't bad, especially considering:
- electricity during the middle of the day is at peak usage and cost
- electrical lights (even fluorescent) warm up the room, increasing climate control demands
Taking those items into account, you wind up with a good case for implementing it, not to mention the fact that big businesses love having unique things that they can brag about to customers and potential clients.
Man, some guys get all the lick^W luck
Because many people are still ignorant of how TLDs can actually work, and it's easier to just buy up a bunch of domains (which they'd probably need to do ANYWAY to prevent this sort of thing in the first place) than it is to explain to someone that yes, foo.dell.com is actually Dell.com, and that no, you don't put www in front of foo, and no, it's not dell.com/foo or foodell.com or any other permutation.
The Dell folks probably have some market experience in this matter, and they probably have it pretty well figured out what the customer expects and will do with regards to accessing the Dell website.
It depends on what your definition of the word "is" is.
Sears and Kmart are suffering heavily from their competitors like Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes. They need to find new revenue streams, and this is probably some marketing tech-savvy manager's way of doing that.
They link up with a spyware company, get people to sign up for a community or whatever, then rake in the user data that is generated from their browsing. There may or may not be any specific danger to an individual user, and most of the gathered data is probably used in an aggregate sense, but the problem lies in the fact that no one knows what's there, how it's gathered, coded, or stored, and how secure it is.
I wonder if a SHC Community member has their identity stolen because of weak software programming on the spyware company if that company can be held liable, or if there's a clause in there that absolves them of any real responsibility regarding the security of the data being collected.
I worked for some folks one time who "rewarded" problem employees with telecommuting. This was at a call center for a state wide group who had extremely busy queues and very little down time.
Morale was pretty low by the time upper management started to notice what the call center manager was doing.
Telecommuting wasn't cheap for us, either. We were extending dialtone from the central switch to wherever those folks lived, and paying over a dollar a month per mile for those lines, plus the fees for the call center services we needed on the line. We had some single phone lines costing us over $1000 a year, and we had dozens of telecommuters.
Jenny? Is that you?
I highly doubt he was taking unpaid leave to do this.
He was being paid to wait at the DMV to renew his tag.
Service packs are largely comprised of all the service updates and software patches that MS releases between major service packs. They're basically a "catchup" package that allows people to ensure that their software is completely up to date up to a certain time. They occasionally bundle in extra stuff, but IIRC they didn't do that all too often before XP SP2.
Since people's machines are nominally downloading and applying these updates automatically, there's less of a need to release a "catchup" package, since most people are supposedly already caught up.