It's always the low-tech pranks that take people the longest to fix.
I unintentionally freaked out my poor mom when I got smarmy and edited the Win98 logoff screen in mspaint. I changted a W to a T so that it said "It is not safe to turn off your computer." She left it like that for 3 days until I let her in on the joke. Oopsie.
My school district, for both elementary and secondary, was incredibly overpopulated and underfunded. In high school our computers classroom had 30 computers all sharing one 14.4 baud modem for internet access. I probably didn't help people do their work any faster by playing web bingo or using ICQ.
That's awesome! My shenanigans were never grandiose enough to involve the whole computer lab. Having used nothing but standalone computers all my life I was too busy being astonished by the realtime local chat client on our Unisys Icon QNX systems.
As a noncommercial musician and DJ I argue that the CRIA doesn't deserve a penny of that tariff for most of my use as well. My acid test for a new DJ mix is to listen to it in my car, which requires me to burn it to a disc. Why the hell should Bryan Adams get paid for me to listen to my own creations? What kind of scumbag convinced our government that there isn't a single non-infringing use of blank recordable media? Why do I have to pay a penalty to the Canadian recording industry if I want to create and publish music for free?
The Norton uninstall program often does not work, leaving many of Nortons "hooks" still installed in the OS.
I can attest to this. Not only does the uninstaller do this on occasion (especially if you're installing the last of several Norton products) but there are many viruses that target Norton specifically, disabling its AV functionality without uninstalling it. Either way, the next time you try to install another vendor's program the installer usually stops you in your tracks, proclaiming that Norton is still alive and kicking on your machine, yet you are unable to uninstall it in its undead limbo state.
For the record, been using the freeward version of Avast for years and it's served me very well.
This sounds very much like the Opera issue on msn.com a few years ago. Opera suddenly couldn't render the site correctly, so the programmers investigated, spoofed the user agent from "Opera" to the nonexistent browser "Oprah", and suddenly the page rendered perfectly well.
As much as I like to put a cap on alarmist propaganda in favour of government control, I have to admit that I've used pseudoephedrine for the purpose you mention. I actually bought some at a rave (knowingly) to pep me up. It worked great so I bought some from a health store (it's since become illegal to sell). Considering the alternatives is it so bad?
Here's a link to my blog with over 2 years of original written works. Note the Kopimi logo at the top right-hand corner. That logo, designed by the folks at The Pirate Bay, means that anyone may copy, make derivative works, or do whatever they want with my original content, with or without my consent. It's digital media I've posted on the internet so I'd be a fool to think I had any power to keep others from doing so anyway.
Some people embrace digital media and some stick their fingers in their ears and pretend it's still 1962. It all ends up copied in the end but people like me are the only ones without ulcers. The world has changed; change with it or swim upstream forever.
It's phenomenally important to ensure your documentation is written accurately, coherently, uniformly, and is organized properly. If you ask 50 employees to contribute tidbits to a common repository you're going to wind up with a shoddy patchwork - 50 different voices, assumptions of prior knowledge, steps written in paragraphs instead of points, and worse. Don't underestimate the importance of a professional Technical Writer to write or rewrite your standard operating procedures.
Well-written docs are inviting and reliable. Each time an employee helps himself instead of asking a peer or manager it halves the cost of that issue. Technical Writers don't cost you money, they make you money.
Am I hallucinating or did this band wilfully advertise (and directly profit from) the device that is supposedly killing them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiV4jzWitnA
There is always uncertainty, so the vote should be recounted every time. I say, do the first count by hand, the second by computer, and the third again by hand. $3000 per state recount is peanuts. This is the most important democratic action a democracy can have. Isn't it worth double- and triple-checking?
My nitpickey post was not so much intended to state my political agenda, nor to discredit Ron Paul. I was simply attempting, perhaps unsuccessfully, to rebut the parent commenter's statement that Ron Paul is a champion of individual rights. He is a moral conservative on many issues and if he had his way he would dictate the options Americans may choose (freely) between.
Anyone who actually supports individual freedom is sure to be popular among the unpopular and oppressed minority groups
Yeah, minorities love the individual freedom of their kids being forced to play Joseph of Arimathea in Christmas plays in public schools. Women love the right to be told whether they can abort their unborn foetuses. The terminally ill support and respect leaders whose religious morals prevent them from supporting potentially lifesaving stem cell research. Individual Slashdotters will certainly support Ron Paul's staunch blackballing of net neutrality - we can spend more time reading the first article while we wait and wait for the second to load.
Libertarians who love being told what to do and how to do it can't get enough of Ron Paul.
I hope the gloves incorporate rumble. That's my favourite aspect of the Wii OS. Feeling that little bump when you scroll the cursor over a button is so tactile and tangible. It reinforces that you should immediately pay attention because you're about to execute a command.
It's self-imposed evolution. Mankind is capable of greater feats and faster answers now than ever before, and subsequent generations take this as the baseline, not the peak. Forward ever, backward never. Our kids will invent some nifty stuff in their day that will extend our five senses farther than we can imagine.
The GSA is getting there. The new version 5.0 of the software/firmware added some new functionality and enabled some improved interoperability (by eliminating the need to web-enable secure local file shares, for example). At the end of the day Google will always have a superior search algorithm and Microsoft will always have superior interoperability. Whichever is more important will dictate the winner in the enterprise space. I'll be extremely interested to see which methodology wins out.
IIRC, domain squatting is illegal. I think all that needs to be done, if NSI is indeed doing this, is to document it thoroughly and send a nice explanatory letter to the Attorney General. In TFA the original poster reported this to ICANN. They didn't care and couldn't help.
No it isn't. It's limited to 2 megabit/sec, which amounts to a throughput of around 100k/sec. That's why Download Play never takes longer than a minute to download a game into the DS's 4 MB of RAM. It's completely feasible to do this because the DS already does it with other DS systems.
Really? I've tried some homebrew FTP and web browsing apps and I've never ever downloaded faster than 10KB/s. Perhaps this is an imposed limit to improve battery life, but it's odd that all the apps I've tried used that specific bottleneck. Maybe download play uses a protocol other than 802.11?
FYI, the DS is limited to 10KB/s transfer rate over Wifi which is a pretty narrow bottleneck. Also, the Wifi really kills the battery. I wouldn't expect anything too fancy with the wireless cross-platform features.
When did cute start meaning completely illogical and moronic? The game didn't even need Vista or DX10 to run but they just hacked the install to check for it and force it. There are work-arounds for XP and DX9 but they are not reliable. The game was a complete disaster for this reason alone, let alone all the bugs in the game at release. According to the interview I linked to in my original post, it wasn't the developers' idea to limit the game to Vista - it was Microsoft's. I'd wager this is true because what developer would purposefully alienate a huge potential customer base? I've seen many patches and full downloads of the game available here and there that enable it to work on XP, which confirms everyone's suspicions that the Vista limitation is synthetic.
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It's always the low-tech pranks that take people the longest to fix.
I unintentionally freaked out my poor mom when I got smarmy and edited the Win98 logoff screen in mspaint. I changted a W to a T so that it said "It is not safe to turn off your computer." She left it like that for 3 days until I let her in on the joke. Oopsie.
My school district, for both elementary and secondary, was incredibly overpopulated and underfunded. In high school our computers classroom had 30 computers all sharing one 14.4 baud modem for internet access. I probably didn't help people do their work any faster by playing web bingo or using ICQ.
That's awesome! My shenanigans were never grandiose enough to involve the whole computer lab. Having used nothing but standalone computers all my life I was too busy being astonished by the realtime local chat client on our Unisys Icon QNX systems.
In grade 8 mid-last-decade a friend and I wrote a little BASIC program on our class's standalone Apple IIe something like this:
10 ? "Bwahahaha! I am the Michaelangelo virus!";
20 GOTO 10
This caused a bit of a stir in our class for half a day before we fessed up. I suppose I'm fortunate to have escaped without prosecution.
As a noncommercial musician and DJ I argue that the CRIA doesn't deserve a penny of that tariff for most of my use as well. My acid test for a new DJ mix is to listen to it in my car, which requires me to burn it to a disc. Why the hell should Bryan Adams get paid for me to listen to my own creations? What kind of scumbag convinced our government that there isn't a single non-infringing use of blank recordable media? Why do I have to pay a penalty to the Canadian recording industry if I want to create and publish music for free?
For the record, been using the freeward version of Avast for years and it's served me very well.
If you use a right-to-left input language is the browser called Harpo?
This sounds very much like the Opera issue on msn.com a few years ago. Opera suddenly couldn't render the site correctly, so the programmers investigated, spoofed the user agent from "Opera" to the nonexistent browser "Oprah", and suddenly the page rendered perfectly well.
I'm with you on that one. The last thing I want is to swipe my federal ID card whenever I need rave drugs. :)
As much as I like to put a cap on alarmist propaganda in favour of government control, I have to admit that I've used pseudoephedrine for the purpose you mention. I actually bought some at a rave (knowingly) to pep me up. It worked great so I bought some from a health store (it's since become illegal to sell). Considering the alternatives is it so bad?
Here's a link to my blog with over 2 years of original written works. Note the Kopimi logo at the top right-hand corner. That logo, designed by the folks at The Pirate Bay, means that anyone may copy, make derivative works, or do whatever they want with my original content, with or without my consent. It's digital media I've posted on the internet so I'd be a fool to think I had any power to keep others from doing so anyway.
Some people embrace digital media and some stick their fingers in their ears and pretend it's still 1962. It all ends up copied in the end but people like me are the only ones without ulcers. The world has changed; change with it or swim upstream forever.
It's phenomenally important to ensure your documentation is written accurately, coherently, uniformly, and is organized properly. If you ask 50 employees to contribute tidbits to a common repository you're going to wind up with a shoddy patchwork - 50 different voices, assumptions of prior knowledge, steps written in paragraphs instead of points, and worse. Don't underestimate the importance of a professional Technical Writer to write or rewrite your standard operating procedures.
Well-written docs are inviting and reliable. Each time an employee helps himself instead of asking a peer or manager it halves the cost of that issue. Technical Writers don't cost you money, they make you money.
Am I hallucinating or did this band wilfully advertise (and directly profit from) the device that is supposedly killing them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiV4jzWitnA
There is always uncertainty, so the vote should be recounted every time. I say, do the first count by hand, the second by computer, and the third again by hand. $3000 per state recount is peanuts. This is the most important democratic action a democracy can have. Isn't it worth double- and triple-checking?
My nitpickey post was not so much intended to state my political agenda, nor to discredit Ron Paul. I was simply attempting, perhaps unsuccessfully, to rebut the parent commenter's statement that Ron Paul is a champion of individual rights. He is a moral conservative on many issues and if he had his way he would dictate the options Americans may choose (freely) between.
Libertarians who love being told what to do and how to do it can't get enough of Ron Paul.
I hope the gloves incorporate rumble. That's my favourite aspect of the Wii OS. Feeling that little bump when you scroll the cursor over a button is so tactile and tangible. It reinforces that you should immediately pay attention because you're about to execute a command.
It's self-imposed evolution. Mankind is capable of greater feats and faster answers now than ever before, and subsequent generations take this as the baseline, not the peak. Forward ever, backward never. Our kids will invent some nifty stuff in their day that will extend our five senses farther than we can imagine.
The GSA is getting there. The new version 5.0 of the software/firmware added some new functionality and enabled some improved interoperability (by eliminating the need to web-enable secure local file shares, for example). At the end of the day Google will always have a superior search algorithm and Microsoft will always have superior interoperability. Whichever is more important will dictate the winner in the enterprise space. I'll be extremely interested to see which methodology wins out.
I'll give it a try. I appreciate the advice!
No it isn't. It's limited to 2 megabit/sec, which amounts to a throughput of around 100k/sec. That's why Download Play never takes longer than a minute to download a game into the DS's 4 MB of RAM. It's completely feasible to do this because the DS already does it with other DS systems.
Really? I've tried some homebrew FTP and web browsing apps and I've never ever downloaded faster than 10KB/s. Perhaps this is an imposed limit to improve battery life, but it's odd that all the apps I've tried used that specific bottleneck. Maybe download play uses a protocol other than 802.11?FYI, the DS is limited to 10KB/s transfer rate over Wifi which is a pretty narrow bottleneck. Also, the Wifi really kills the battery. I wouldn't expect anything too fancy with the wireless cross-platform features.