You can see why - the person who supplies the computer keyboard/mouse is "enabling" the user to download a copyrighted work. So is the monitor manufacturer, and the ISP, and the electricity company.
Not to mention the most supreme enabler of them all - the artist who created the original copyrighted works. If those works hadn't been created, nobody would download copyrighted material!
Let's talk about items costing less than a laptop, so less than 2000.
Where were you able to buy a home furnace that cost you less than 2000?
What ever happened to the dollar sign? Am I just meant to infer that you're talking about dollars because of the context? Why is it so hard to type $2000 instead of 2000?
I try to not grammar nazi too much but this kind of thing just irks me - having to read a sentence twice while skimming to figure out that you're not referring to a year or a quantity of some other sort seems silly to me.
Can't say I like the trolls, but pretending that what happens on the semi-productive section of Slashdot is of some grand importance seems like a bit of a reach.
There's a semi-productive section of this site? Wow. Hey, post the link to it when you get a chance.
Boynton and his team had noticed, on a test version of TEGA, that the brackets at the bottom of this cover were just a hair's width too big, and as a result obstructed the doors. They sent revised designs for the cover to the manufacturer, Honeybee Robotics of New York. New parts were delivered and installed. But Honeybee had made the new parts using the original flawed designs -- and nobody in Tucson checked them. "They should've caught it and we should've caught it, but neither of us did," says Boynton, ruefully.
Doesn't NASA of all institutions have the capacity in-house to machine off a couple thou from whichever dimension was oversize?
The sloppy fat geek computer genius semi-buried in a pile of pizza boxes and cola cans is a mythical creature, best buried deep, never to be seen again.
As a pizza delivery driver, I have to take exception to this. I see all kinds of folks but one guy in particular stands out. He always orders at least a large pizza and two lasagnas, usually with 2 or 3 2L bottles of pop and a couple (or three!) slices of cheesecake.
He weighs a good 400lbs, has 3 monitors and a laptop on the go at all times (one monitor for CSI or whatever show, one for a terminal, one for IM), with WoW on the go on the laptop. His desk has a path cleared to it amongst piles and piles of garbage - empty pizza boxes, empty takeout containers, half-eaten food..
There's your problem - no Chinese guys are touching your Snap-On tools unless they're working in an American factory. Snap-On's one of the few companies who still make their tools in US and A.
Also, what kind of snap on boxes are you guys buying for $300 and where can I get one? Their cheapest roll cabs are in the region of $2-3k...
It might be worth noting you may have gotten honked at because you became a moving obstacle when you pulled out from a near-stop in front of a car traveling 110 km/h. Having to slam on the brakes and risk being rear ended because some dingbat pulls out in front of you and doesn't get up to speed is worthy of a horn blast, in my opinion.
For the record, I understand the futility of accelerating when you've just got to slow down a short ways ahead. However, the guy already in that lane has probably noted the slowdown in front of him and has planned when to begin decelerating based on having nothing between him and the blockage. Having another car suddenly in front of him throws a wrench into the works.
Sounds great, until some idiotic company gets ahold of the idea, butchers the standards, and you're left wondering why you dropped the coin for this piece of junk while you get up to flip the light switch.
In all seriousness, how do these people stay in business? Are they just charging and not delivering any product? If not, where are they getting the shit that they're selling?
And why can't some authority just make a purchase and then trace where the money's going to track them down? Is selling this pseudo-medical crap and prescription drugs even legal?
Try to look through your haze of frustration. Your photos needn't be in iPhoto - hell, I don't even -have- a copy of iPhoto on my macbook. All it requires is you not clicking 'import' when you plug your camera in. You can even set up iPhoto (I know, it's so difficult, bear with me) to not open automatically when you plug in a camera.
Look in Applications for an app called Image Capture, it'll take images/videos off your camera and dump them in whatever folder you tell it to.
And as for your issue with dragging things between windows, set up expose. If I had iPhoto, dragging photos out of it is as simple as picking up the photo in iPhoto, dragging into the corner to see all windows, hovering over whatever window I want, then dropping it once it's focused. Or if you're really that hard up about trackpad use, it's as easy as clicking the photo and holding as if you were going to drag it, then pressing whatever key the expose all windows key is (on mine it's F9, on the newer ones it's F3 or something), then hovering over whatever window you want.
I'm not a mac fanboy, I use whatever works, and you can use whatever the hell you want. But I really don't see how having to navigate some 'file open' dialog to upload a picture is easier than dragging an object (photo) and dropping it onto another object (upload box). If you can't work a trackpad, use an external mouse. If you can't figure out how to drag things between windows without resizing them, maybe you should just sell the macbook and buy a Vista box. At least it'll baby you through it.
sounds to me like a lot of the problem is you don't really understand how your computer works and instead of figuring it out you just blame the computer.
iphoto doesn't "hijack" pictures unless you tell it to grab pictures/videos off your camera and then also tell it to delete them off the camera. it won't just do it by itself, you've gotta click the "download" button or whatever.
In all seriousness, proper grammar and spelling might not be important in terms of people understanding your message
That's the thing - it IS important. Someone who forgets a word in a sentence or spells a word so badly it's illegible is going to have a hard time being understood.
I've never understood that attitude towards bad spelling and grammar - it's not difficult, and if you don't do it right you run the risk of sounding like an idiot and/or being misunderstood. Simple!
Hoax -noun
1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
Scam -noun
1. a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, esp. for making a quick profit; swindle.
It is both a scam and a hoax.
So, you're saying it's a scoax then. Or, it's a ham!
mm.. ham.
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You can see why - the person who supplies the computer keyboard/mouse is "enabling" the user to download a copyrighted work. So is the monitor manufacturer, and the ISP, and the electricity company.
Not to mention the most supreme enabler of them all - the artist who created the original copyrighted works. If those works hadn't been created, nobody would download copyrighted material!
Still doesn't explain why you couldn't just type in the title of the movie...
Goddamnit, slashcode. Expose.
Get a Mac, use Exposé, thank me later. Seriously, I don't know how anyone can even bother with virtual desktops (and I've tried) - it's so much easier to just drag my mouse to the corner and pick from all my tiled windows.
The man you trusted isn't Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time I've been smoking harmless tobacco.
And you were perfectly productive on that, too; why the change?
Let's talk about items costing less than a laptop, so less than 2000.
Where were you able to buy a home furnace that cost you less than 2000?
What ever happened to the dollar sign? Am I just meant to infer that you're talking about dollars because of the context? Why is it so hard to type $2000 instead of 2000?
I try to not grammar nazi too much but this kind of thing just irks me - having to read a sentence twice while skimming to figure out that you're not referring to a year or a quantity of some other sort seems silly to me.
Forcing the player to restarting huge segments at the smallest error is a very cheap way to make something "difficult".
Like, um.. say, Nethack?
Can't say I like the trolls, but pretending that what happens on the semi-productive section of Slashdot is of some grand importance seems like a bit of a reach.
There's a semi-productive section of this site? Wow. Hey, post the link to it when you get a chance.
idle.slashdot.org
From the blog:
Boynton and his team had noticed, on a test version of TEGA, that the brackets at the bottom of this cover were just a hair's width too big, and as a result obstructed the doors. They sent revised designs for the cover to the manufacturer, Honeybee Robotics of New York. New parts were delivered and installed. But Honeybee had made the new parts using the original flawed designs -- and nobody in Tucson checked them. "They should've caught it and we should've caught it, but neither of us did," says Boynton, ruefully.
Doesn't NASA of all institutions have the capacity in-house to machine off a couple thou from whichever dimension was oversize?
Hahaha I wonder what guy would say if I busted out a camera and snapped a photo of his shithole next time he orders his disgusting smorgasbord?
Pics to follow!
As a pizza delivery driver, I have to take exception to this. I see all kinds of folks but one guy in particular stands out. He always orders at least a large pizza and two lasagnas, usually with 2 or 3 2L bottles of pop and a couple (or three!) slices of cheesecake.
He weighs a good 400lbs, has 3 monitors and a laptop on the go at all times (one monitor for CSI or whatever show, one for a terminal, one for IM), with WoW on the go on the laptop. His desk has a path cleared to it amongst piles and piles of garbage - empty pizza boxes, empty takeout containers, half-eaten food..
Such a sight to behold.
So no, they're not extinct.
Yeah, I know all that. They make Blu-Point tools in China. Snap-On branded hand tools are still all USA made.
There's your problem - no Chinese guys are touching your Snap-On tools unless they're working in an American factory. Snap-On's one of the few companies who still make their tools in US and A.
Also, what kind of snap on boxes are you guys buying for $300 and where can I get one? Their cheapest roll cabs are in the region of $2-3k...
It might be worth noting you may have gotten honked at because you became a moving obstacle when you pulled out from a near-stop in front of a car traveling 110 km/h. Having to slam on the brakes and risk being rear ended because some dingbat pulls out in front of you and doesn't get up to speed is worthy of a horn blast, in my opinion.
For the record, I understand the futility of accelerating when you've just got to slow down a short ways ahead. However, the guy already in that lane has probably noted the slowdown in front of him and has planned when to begin decelerating based on having nothing between him and the blockage. Having another car suddenly in front of him throws a wrench into the works.
Sounds great, until some idiotic company gets ahold of the idea, butchers the standards, and you're left wondering why you dropped the coin for this piece of junk while you get up to flip the light switch.
How about your desire to not be distracted by phone calls while driving?
Strikes me as odd you see that as a problem - if you've not got the discipline to enable the thing when you're driving, why pay for it at all?
In all seriousness, how do these people stay in business? Are they just charging and not delivering any product? If not, where are they getting the shit that they're selling?
And why can't some authority just make a purchase and then trace where the money's going to track them down? Is selling this pseudo-medical crap and prescription drugs even legal?
and all boat docks across america?
nay, the world?
so.. um.. why don't you write up an article about those companies and submit it? slashdot is user-driven, you know...
Try to look through your haze of frustration. Your photos needn't be in iPhoto - hell, I don't even -have- a copy of iPhoto on my macbook. All it requires is you not clicking 'import' when you plug your camera in. You can even set up iPhoto (I know, it's so difficult, bear with me) to not open automatically when you plug in a camera.
Look in Applications for an app called Image Capture, it'll take images/videos off your camera and dump them in whatever folder you tell it to.
And as for your issue with dragging things between windows, set up expose. If I had iPhoto, dragging photos out of it is as simple as picking up the photo in iPhoto, dragging into the corner to see all windows, hovering over whatever window I want, then dropping it once it's focused. Or if you're really that hard up about trackpad use, it's as easy as clicking the photo and holding as if you were going to drag it, then pressing whatever key the expose all windows key is (on mine it's F9, on the newer ones it's F3 or something), then hovering over whatever window you want.
I'm not a mac fanboy, I use whatever works, and you can use whatever the hell you want. But I really don't see how having to navigate some 'file open' dialog to upload a picture is easier than dragging an object (photo) and dropping it onto another object (upload box). If you can't work a trackpad, use an external mouse. If you can't figure out how to drag things between windows without resizing them, maybe you should just sell the macbook and buy a Vista box. At least it'll baby you through it.
sounds to me like a lot of the problem is you don't really understand how your computer works and instead of figuring it out you just blame the computer. iphoto doesn't "hijack" pictures unless you tell it to grab pictures/videos off your camera and then also tell it to delete them off the camera. it won't just do it by itself, you've gotta click the "download" button or whatever.
In all seriousness, proper grammar and spelling might not be important in terms of people understanding your message
That's the thing - it IS important. Someone who forgets a word in a sentence or spells a word so badly it's illegible is going to have a hard time being understood. I've never understood that attitude towards bad spelling and grammar - it's not difficult, and if you don't do it right you run the risk of sounding like an idiot and/or being misunderstood. Simple!
It is both a scam and a hoax.
So, you're saying it's a scoax then. Or, it's a ham! mm.. ham.