I've had my ~$60 VCR for almost 3 years now, and I've had no problems with it at all. But then, I have to turn on my TV to program it (I'm actually not even sure that's true, it's not like I had to read my manual to use it).
1) Not to insult your intelligence, but make sure you're not expecting 54MB/s. 54Mb/s is 54/8 or 6.75MB/s.
2) Make sure both ends are set to use 54Mb/s. Maybe one is set to 10Mb/s somewhere.
3) Make sure you don't have a 10Mb/s wireless connection also talking. It will degrade all your wireless connections to 10Mb/s.
4) Make sure there's no other 2.4GHz interference around (phones, baby monitors, X10 cameras, right next to a CRT, etc.). Might be a problem if you're in an apartment.
If you're sure none of there are problems, then you obviously have defective equipment and should return it.
Curiosity is why most people click on the execs, too. "Usually careful" is why large companies get slammed by these things. Everyone is "usually careful"; and that means that only 5 out of the 500 people infect themselves and start the mail flood going.
I can't say that I've never done it, but never after tracing a virus infection (possibly) back to an attachment (was also using floppies in a comp lab). I now know that no matter what I think I know, somebody can screw me over. You just DON'T open things from people you don't expect.
Even if you know them, you ask them about it before opening something you didn't plan on getting. Here at work, a lady clicked on a virus that came from John because, well, she knows John. Too bad she didn't know he had gotten infected.
Also, like others have said, it wasn't a WinZip exploit. Either you were tricked into thinking it was a.zip file or you executed whatever was in it.
I would argue, but I realized after I posted that the original postulation of just moving a HD from an IBM to a Dell and expecting to pretty much just boot it up and go (what the parent was making it seem like), was laughable.
Also, as you said, there's no good reason that you shouldn't be able able to read a drive from a Mac with another OS.
But PLEASE quit talking about putting a Mac drive into another Mac. That's not what the parent was talking about. You're changing the argument there.
And maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything about not liking OSX or Apple hardware. I don't know why you keep mentioning that, too.
The comment seemed, if I may borrow a phrase from The Shawshank Redemption, intentionally obtuse.
What the poster meant (and might not have known it) was that it will be tokenized as a a different token. The compiler chokes because it sees what was MEANT to be a variable, but can't find a reference to its existence. Sure, it never *becomes* a variable because the compile never finishes, but even the compiler know that is *should* be (was meant to be) a variable. Thus, the Undeclared Variable error message.
But, yes; strickly speaking, a pedantic interpretation would say that a misspelled variable is not a variable at all.
No, you're wrong. The comment was about being able to take a drive out of an IBM computer and put it in a Dell computer, etc. He was implicitly saying that you cannot pull a drive out of a Mac and put it in a Dell, you have to put it into another Mac. Only being able to put your drive into a Mac is vendor lock-in. YOU are the one who went off on a tangent.
I really hope that this post, especially the last sentence, was a troll, but I don't think it was. I'm continually disappointed in the ability of/.ers to follow a simple conversation.
By offloading processing power... ie, the "dumb terminal" approach, you take away the power to customize your experience.
No, you don't. With a supercomputer on the other side, all you need is a display/interface device. Let the supercomputer decide what to send and how to display it. The dumb terminal only has to do the human interface part (draw pixels, get inputs, etc.).
No, it's like paying to see a movie, paying for 10 bags of popcorn, and then, while you're sitting in the theater and the movie is just starting, you offer to sell sombody a bag of popcorn for a profit. If it's worth it to them to have the popcorn and not have to miss the start of the movie, then they'll pay a premium. If they don't want to pay the premium, they can take their own time and get their own (still paying the base price of course); if they can't afford the premium, that's too bad for them (unfortunately, most avid gamers probably fall into that category).
National Geographic, I believe, did a story a number of years ago about Chernobyl. The amazing number of deformed, sterile, or stillborn children (both animal and human) from a region near there was horrible. Great herds of reindeer disappeared, as did the people that relied on the herds. There may have only been 14 "direct" deaths, but the effects were much worse than that and will continued for generations (assuming that the mutations are enough to cause deformity but not sterility).
HTF was this moderated insightful? Vacuum is the perfect insulator against conducted thermal transfer. Radiated transfer (carrying energy via EM waves), is another matter, but does not take away the fact that a vacuum is a insulator (of a given type).
Bullshit. The first thing you see after an Office 2000 install is Clippy sitting at the bottom. I think it's the same for Office XP, but I know for sure that he'll pop up (i.e. not only installed, but on by default). And "hide" doesn't work well, only for that instance, or until you restart the app at best.
Well, I would think that if some super fast-paced game didn't utilize the 2nd screen and CPU, the unit would automatically turn them off; thus doubling the battery life.
But, it seems that you could also use it for a nice large font ammo indicator, weapon selector, or similar. Then you have more usable space on the main play screen. I really can't envision many games that couldn't get some added value from this.
Hmm, funny. About once a month when I'm looking at a directory with thumbnails turned on, I get a BSOD (and I only use that feature a few times a week, so I'd say it happens about 10% of the time).
I've also had a couple games crash and the system quickly destabalize afterward. I should mention that I have had games crash and they system stay stable, too.
And I hope that by "knowledgeable" you mean "know better than to install tons of 3rd party shareware and chat programs". Because if it means I need to know how to tweak my registry, etc., than that's too much to expect. MS Windows is marketed and distributed as if it's useable by the masses. If it's only useable by and stable for experts, then it's OK to bitch.
Or, if you were out of school, $25-$100K in debt, no support network, and trouble finding a job in this market, you'd take whatever salary and hours and leashes they'd give you so that you could eat and not have to declare bankruptcy.
Having the motivation to look for a job in that situation would be nice; but I know that personally, for years 2 and 3 after I graduated (year 2 being when I had to start paying school loans), if I would have had to move to change jobs I wouldn't have been able to pay most of my bills for 3-4 months (because of needing security deposit for renting, moving expenses, etc.).
It sounds like to me that you're used to being lucky enough to be in a better position than most. Or, maybe I'm unlucky enough be in a worse position than most;)
Some experiments do leave mice to die. However, they are supposed to anesthetise them before their food and water supplies run out. Also, if they are going to let them die and freeze them or something for later study, they'll want to kill them quickly and humanely so they know that bone mass loss is a result of the lack of gravity and not starving.
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Interesting link. I just found out a new unit of measurement: the peanut! Apparently, your daughter's phone is 3 peanuts tall!
I've had my ~$60 VCR for almost 3 years now, and I've had no problems with it at all. But then, I have to turn on my TV to program it (I'm actually not even sure that's true, it's not like I had to read my manual to use it).
Why can't we just shoot some people, like the numb-fucking-nuts who modded this Insightful?
But then, I guess a good troll is one indestinguishable from true stupidity.
Umm, I really hope that's a formatting error and you weren't suggesting that people use Excel and FilemakerPro to do AI in games!!!
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1) Not to insult your intelligence, but make sure you're not expecting 54MB/s. 54Mb/s is 54/8 or 6.75MB/s.
2) Make sure both ends are set to use 54Mb/s. Maybe one is set to 10Mb/s somewhere.
3) Make sure you don't have a 10Mb/s wireless connection also talking. It will degrade all your wireless connections to 10Mb/s.
4) Make sure there's no other 2.4GHz interference around (phones, baby monitors, X10 cameras, right next to a CRT, etc.). Might be a problem if you're in an apartment.
If you're sure none of there are problems, then you obviously have defective equipment and should return it.
Curiosity is why most people click on the execs, too. "Usually careful" is why large companies get slammed by these things. Everyone is "usually careful"; and that means that only 5 out of the 500 people infect themselves and start the mail flood going.
.zip file or you executed whatever was in it.
I can't say that I've never done it, but never after tracing a virus infection (possibly) back to an attachment (was also using floppies in a comp lab). I now know that no matter what I think I know, somebody can screw me over. You just DON'T open things from people you don't expect.
Even if you know them, you ask them about it before opening something you didn't plan on getting. Here at work, a lady clicked on a virus that came from John because, well, she knows John. Too bad she didn't know he had gotten infected.
Also, like others have said, it wasn't a WinZip exploit. Either you were tricked into thinking it was a
I would argue, but I realized after I posted that the original postulation of just moving a HD from an IBM to a Dell and expecting to pretty much just boot it up and go (what the parent was making it seem like), was laughable.
Also, as you said, there's no good reason that you shouldn't be able able to read a drive from a Mac with another OS.
But PLEASE quit talking about putting a Mac drive into another Mac. That's not what the parent was talking about. You're changing the argument there.
And maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything about not liking OSX or Apple hardware. I don't know why you keep mentioning that, too.
The comment seemed, if I may borrow a phrase from The Shawshank Redemption, intentionally obtuse.
What the poster meant (and might not have known it) was that it will be tokenized as a a different token. The compiler chokes because it sees what was MEANT to be a variable, but can't find a reference to its existence. Sure, it never *becomes* a variable because the compile never finishes, but even the compiler know that is *should* be (was meant to be) a variable. Thus, the Undeclared Variable error message.
But, yes; strickly speaking, a pedantic interpretation would say that a misspelled variable is not a variable at all.
No, you're wrong. The comment was about being able to take a drive out of an IBM computer and put it in a Dell computer, etc. He was implicitly saying that you cannot pull a drive out of a Mac and put it in a Dell, you have to put it into another Mac. Only being able to put your drive into a Mac is vendor lock-in. YOU are the one who went off on a tangent.
/.ers to follow a simple conversation.
I really hope that this post, especially the last sentence, was a troll, but I don't think it was. I'm continually disappointed in the ability of
No, you don't. With a supercomputer on the other side, all you need is a display/interface device. Let the supercomputer decide what to send and how to display it. The dumb terminal only has to do the human interface part (draw pixels, get inputs, etc.).
Ahh. Call of the Calla. Can't wait for 6 and 7, coming out this year!
Ummm, you measure your hairline every day? Do you keep a trend line?
No, it's like paying to see a movie, paying for 10 bags of popcorn, and then, while you're sitting in the theater and the movie is just starting, you offer to sell sombody a bag of popcorn for a profit. If it's worth it to them to have the popcorn and not have to miss the start of the movie, then they'll pay a premium. If they don't want to pay the premium, they can take their own time and get their own (still paying the base price of course); if they can't afford the premium, that's too bad for them (unfortunately, most avid gamers probably fall into that category).
National Geographic, I believe, did a story a number of years ago about Chernobyl. The amazing number of deformed, sterile, or stillborn children (both animal and human) from a region near there was horrible. Great herds of reindeer disappeared, as did the people that relied on the herds. There may have only been 14 "direct" deaths, but the effects were much worse than that and will continued for generations (assuming that the mutations are enough to cause deformity but not sterility).
HTF was this moderated insightful? Vacuum is the perfect insulator against conducted thermal transfer. Radiated transfer (carrying energy via EM waves), is another matter, but does not take away the fact that a vacuum is a insulator (of a given type).
Yes, an undeclared variable that is not the same variable as thisIsImportant. Thus... DIFFERENT!!!
But the charge was that Clippy isn't installed by default. If the admin has to change default settings to keep him from getting installed... :)
Public Domain is easy. You put a disclaimer at the top saying "This had been released by me to the public domain".
Isn't that against the whole spirit of free software?
WTF??? Why would the number or type of people have anything to do with whether or not the source is available?
Bullshit. The first thing you see after an Office 2000 install is Clippy sitting at the bottom. I think it's the same for Office XP, but I know for sure that he'll pop up (i.e. not only installed, but on by default). And "hide" doesn't work well, only for that instance, or until you restart the app at best.
Hmmm, nice troll!
Well, I would think that if some super fast-paced game didn't utilize the 2nd screen and CPU, the unit would automatically turn them off; thus doubling the battery life. But, it seems that you could also use it for a nice large font ammo indicator, weapon selector, or similar. Then you have more usable space on the main play screen. I really can't envision many games that couldn't get some added value from this.
Hmm, funny. About once a month when I'm looking at a directory with thumbnails turned on, I get a BSOD (and I only use that feature a few times a week, so I'd say it happens about 10% of the time).
I've also had a couple games crash and the system quickly destabalize afterward. I should mention that I have had games crash and they system stay stable, too.
And I hope that by "knowledgeable" you mean "know better than to install tons of 3rd party shareware and chat programs". Because if it means I need to know how to tweak my registry, etc., than that's too much to expect. MS Windows is marketed and distributed as if it's useable by the masses. If it's only useable by and stable for experts, then it's OK to bitch.
Or, if you were out of school, $25-$100K in debt, no support network, and trouble finding a job in this market, you'd take whatever salary and hours and leashes they'd give you so that you could eat and not have to declare bankruptcy. Having the motivation to look for a job in that situation would be nice; but I know that personally, for years 2 and 3 after I graduated (year 2 being when I had to start paying school loans), if I would have had to move to change jobs I wouldn't have been able to pay most of my bills for 3-4 months (because of needing security deposit for renting, moving expenses, etc.). It sounds like to me that you're used to being lucky enough to be in a better position than most. Or, maybe I'm unlucky enough be in a worse position than most ;)
s/anesthetise/euthanize/
Some experiments do leave mice to die. However, they are supposed to anesthetise them before their food and water supplies run out. Also, if they are going to let them die and freeze them or something for later study, they'll want to kill them quickly and humanely so they know that bone mass loss is a result of the lack of gravity and not starving.