And to troll a little bit, what happens to my coffeepot if it dies with a bluescreen?
You get a cup of water? Or maybe they keep some blue food coloring in a small reservoir (or a big one?) so you can tell by the output that it blue "screened".
Oregonians aren't weird... As an Oregonian (now living in New York City) I can say that Oregon is one of the most normal places in the U.S. It's the rest of the country that's just plain weird.
WHat I wanted to know is who is buying $200 headphones from a vending machine in a train station
Presumably somebody going on a trip who either realizes shortly before departure they forgot to pack some headphones, or decides while killing time in the station they'd like to upgrade to a more luxurious model for their trip.
... would consider this a failure of New York Subway's and not an indication how good OS/2 really is.
Why is that a failure of the subway system? I live in New York and I take the subway every day. The computer system always works fine for me, there's hardly any time that I swipe my card and it erroneously doesn't open the turnstile for me. From a customer perspective, whatever software they're using, it's very reliable.
I have my own desktop printer at home. I use it periodically, it's a useful tool. Maybe it's not cheaper, and maybe not better quality results than using some other service, but it's convenient.
Most of what I'm printing with it is related to my wife's green card application, lots of forms and copies of our documents and things. I could use some other service, but I'd just end up putting it off for weeks on end with "ug, I don't feel like it today, maybe on the weekend" and so forth.
Having my own printer just means I actually do the tasks I need to do.
is that (for the most part...) today's new music is just not that good
You know, I'll bet every generation since the beginning of music has been saying that once they hit middle age... My parents thought the stuff I listened to as a teenager wasn't any good, their parents thought the stuff they listened to was terrible and so forth...
Three ounces of pure LSD would send the entire Island of Manhattan into orbit for a solid week
I just moved to Manhattan last week. I hope they don't test this until after I get my stereo hooked up so I can play nice, psychedelic music and enjoy the trip...
It's hard to see why one could claim that the first mac was "not even in Jobs' wildest dreams" when Windows 1.0 came out, since the mac had been on the market for nearly two years by the time Windows came out
Well, in the early 90's, when OS/2 was out and Windows 95 not yet in beta, Microsoft's marketing people were telling businesses not to both with OS/2 because "it doesn't do anything the next version of Windows doesn't do" and "IBM just copied the next version of Windows."
I never really played real pinball machines. Once or twice, but I've never been good enough at them (or arcade video games, for that matter) to get my money's worth from a quarter...
But I've long loved pinball games on computers... My favorite has got to be Night Mission.
Nowadays I mostly play one with a sea mission theme on the iPad, along with the Slayer one.
Ah, the memories... In the mid-90's I did tech support for a DOS-based utility software company. Most of my workdays were spent on the phone helping customers configure their config.sys and autoexec.bat files to optimize memory usage. Days upon days of customers reading them to me line-by-line while I told them what to type to make changes...
More efficient spending, not more (or less) spending, please.
This is what I'd like to see... Spend on whatever gives us more bang for the buck... Somehow, I don't think war is giving it to us, it's spending a lot of money with little return, when there's a million other things the same money can be spent on that'll help people and help boost the economy. All that we're spending on war is just like burning bucks for bangs, with very little return back into the system.
This isn't unlike an episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from the 80's where between scenes of some bad horror movie she was asking a guest to comment on the ghetto slang used. He explained the difference between "bad" and "baaaaaad" that "bad" means bad and "baaaaaad" means good.
His example was funny. "The movies you show are bad, but your cleavage is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"
I think my first "copy party experience" was in a church, in 1983ish... Everybody had their box of 100+ floppies and you'd walk around and see if there was anything you wanted, "borrow it" for 5 minutes to make a copy, rinse, lather, and repeat, for hours.
For me it was in high school, all the nerds wandered around with boxes of flopppies, some of us custom painted our boxes, or put stickers so everyone knew who was cool...
When the school had all Apple computers we used to trade games and utilities straight across, disk for disk... If you didn't have something someone else was interested in, you didn't get their stuff. But once we all started upgrading to PCs, we were a lot more free about "sure, copy anything you want". I don't know what changed, really, same people, mostly the same physical floppy disks, too...
The government previously declared that Facebook users worldwide 'liking' a lese majeste Facebook link would also be prosecuted
Yikes! I haven't knowingly liked any lese majeste posts or links, but you never know... I guess I'd better make sure none of my international travels involve a stopover at the airport in Bangkok, I'd hate to get a surprise arrest for something like that...
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And to troll a little bit, what happens to my coffeepot if it dies with a bluescreen?
You get a cup of water? Or maybe they keep some blue food coloring in a small reservoir (or a big one?) so you can tell by the output that it blue "screened".
The characters aren't weird enough.
Oregonians aren't weird... As an Oregonian (now living in New York City) I can say that Oregon is one of the most normal places in the U.S. It's the rest of the country that's just plain weird.
How about an entire glass full of frozen chocolate stout?
That reminds me of the McMenamins pubs in Portland, Oregon that serve a milkshake with their Terminator stout in it. It's a delicious combination!
WHat I wanted to know is who is buying $200 headphones from a vending machine in a train station
Presumably somebody going on a trip who either realizes shortly before departure they forgot to pack some headphones, or decides while killing time in the station they'd like to upgrade to a more luxurious model for their trip.
I see those vending machines in airports, too...
... would consider this a failure of New York Subway's and not an indication how good OS/2 really is.
Why is that a failure of the subway system? I live in New York and I take the subway every day. The computer system always works fine for me, there's hardly any time that I swipe my card and it erroneously doesn't open the turnstile for me. From a customer perspective, whatever software they're using, it's very reliable.
Yeah, at least a free meal at the zoo cafeteria to replenish what you're giving them...
Yeah, it's working. I pay for it, not because I can't get around the paywall, but because they provide a product I think is worth the money.
I have my own desktop printer at home. I use it periodically, it's a useful tool. Maybe it's not cheaper, and maybe not better quality results than using some other service, but it's convenient.
Most of what I'm printing with it is related to my wife's green card application, lots of forms and copies of our documents and things. I could use some other service, but I'd just end up putting it off for weeks on end with "ug, I don't feel like it today, maybe on the weekend" and so forth.
Having my own printer just means I actually do the tasks I need to do.
is that (for the most part...) today's new music is just not that good
You know, I'll bet every generation since the beginning of music has been saying that once they hit middle age... My parents thought the stuff I listened to as a teenager wasn't any good, their parents thought the stuff they listened to was terrible and so forth...
And when you start typing the name of what you want to run in the search box, it still doesn't find it?
Then turn the computer off and go outside.
lax-001
lax-002
lax-003
That name is PERMANENT unless it gets shipped to a new location
I take it then you prepend "ex-" to the name indicating they used to be lax...
Three ounces of pure LSD would send the entire Island of Manhattan into orbit for a solid week
I just moved to Manhattan last week. I hope they don't test this until after I get my stereo hooked up so I can play nice, psychedelic music and enjoy the trip...
It's hard to see why one could claim that the first mac was "not even in Jobs' wildest dreams" when Windows 1.0 came out, since the mac had been on the market for nearly two years by the time Windows came out
Well, in the early 90's, when OS/2 was out and Windows 95 not yet in beta, Microsoft's marketing people were telling businesses not to both with OS/2 because "it doesn't do anything the next version of Windows doesn't do" and "IBM just copied the next version of Windows."
I guess that marketing stuff worked...
I never really played real pinball machines. Once or twice, but I've never been good enough at them (or arcade video games, for that matter) to get my money's worth from a quarter...
But I've long loved pinball games on computers... My favorite has got to be Night Mission.
Nowadays I mostly play one with a sea mission theme on the iPad, along with the Slayer one.
Ah, the memories... In the mid-90's I did tech support for a DOS-based utility software company. Most of my workdays were spent on the phone helping customers configure their config.sys and autoexec.bat files to optimize memory usage. Days upon days of customers reading them to me line-by-line while I told them what to type to make changes...
Just how bad can it be to drink a nice coffee?
Sounds like an improvement. If you drink a nice cup of coffee you seen need to pee a cup of coffee... This eliminates half of that inconvenience...
a quarter that didn't sound quite right
And after the research did that "weird" sound become "music to your ears"?
10000 sheets per workbook? Yup, lack of sheets was exactly what was stopping me from using Calc.
Dang... And while I was waiting for 10,000 sheets my workbook has grown to 10,001 sheets...
Is the desktop still gonna suck?
Nope, not this year. If you hadn't heard, 2012 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
More efficient spending, not more (or less) spending, please.
This is what I'd like to see... Spend on whatever gives us more bang for the buck... Somehow, I don't think war is giving it to us, it's spending a lot of money with little return, when there's a million other things the same money can be spent on that'll help people and help boost the economy. All that we're spending on war is just like burning bucks for bangs, with very little return back into the system.
This isn't unlike an episode of Elvira's Movie Macabre from the 80's where between scenes of some bad horror movie she was asking a guest to comment on the ghetto slang used. He explained the difference between "bad" and "baaaaaad" that "bad" means bad and "baaaaaad" means good.
His example was funny. "The movies you show are bad, but your cleavage is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!"
I think my first "copy party experience" was in a church, in 1983ish... Everybody had their box of 100+ floppies and you'd walk around and see if there was anything you wanted, "borrow it" for 5 minutes to make a copy, rinse, lather, and repeat, for hours.
For me it was in high school, all the nerds wandered around with boxes of flopppies, some of us custom painted our boxes, or put stickers so everyone knew who was cool...
When the school had all Apple computers we used to trade games and utilities straight across, disk for disk... If you didn't have something someone else was interested in, you didn't get their stuff. But once we all started upgrading to PCs, we were a lot more free about "sure, copy anything you want". I don't know what changed, really, same people, mostly the same physical floppy disks, too...
And how different will my world be post-MegaUpload? I never even heard of MegaUpload until they got busted... Sure rocks my world...
Unless you can read thai I'm pretty sure you're in the clear.
Well, that could be a problem... Not reading Thai means I could've liked something accidentally and not had a clue what it was...
The government previously declared that Facebook users worldwide 'liking' a lese majeste Facebook link would also be prosecuted
Yikes! I haven't knowingly liked any lese majeste posts or links, but you never know... I guess I'd better make sure none of my international travels involve a stopover at the airport in Bangkok, I'd hate to get a surprise arrest for something like that...