So they are pretty different from a chemical standpoint. Good old Ethylene Glycol melts at -13C, while the "poly" melts at 60C. However, when looking up an MSDS on this stuff, I get "May act as an irritant. Toxicology not fully investigated" so I wonder about it being completely non-toxic.
Most likely has to do with the fact that.mp3 and.jpeg are ubiquitous more so than anything. If they said, for example,.FLAC, they would have confuzlled the hell out of a good chunk of people.
"Affected employees include computer systems analysts, programmers, software engineers or anyone with a similar title."
Admittedly, I didn't RTFA, but that statements just SCREAMS for pointy-hairs to change the job titles of the people who they don't want to have to pay for overtime.
What I'm saying is not at all that I don't want to hear about new technology; even if it doesn't have the damndest bit of a place in my life at the moment or even possibly in my lifetime.
What I AM saying is that I don't care to hear things being touted as replacements to things which they obviously are NOT. At least not yet. Does the article tout this so? Not necessarily. Will some/.-ers? Yes.
You're talking to someone who's going into pharmaceutical research--I damned well know the difference. It's like the Venturi effect you seemed to feel the need to point out to mae your arguement sound smarter--sure it had meaning before commercial airlines, but it didn't mean a damned thing to the non-science interested consumer. And that's what my point was. To me AS A CONSUMER this is pretty worthless right now. That's all.
Somebody wake me when there's a new data storage more cost effective than a traditional hard disk, because that's what 99% of us care about for mass storage.
But does it seem to anyone else like Lindows is the total opposite of SCO? SCO tried to sue when they have no chance of winning, while Lindows seems to be actively trying to be sued by people they have chance of beating...
Actually he mostly does tax work for medium-sized business, with a couple hundred employees. I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about doing my taxes/getting the software/adding more stress on top of work and college.
This is a very good point. For example I have a friend (who is actually an engineer) who, if he could do ANYTHING he wanted to, would work on old cars all day.
This would make me go insane, I HATE even changing my oil.
AOL isn't the biggest problem. After all, dial up cuts down on these things;).
We *try* to either sell, if that's not working, point to free AV or firewall utilities, like I said earlier.
AdAware is on every PC out our door. Got service done? You now have AdAware, instructions on how to use it on your receipt. We also pop AV and Firewalls when we can.
Bear in mind though, I'm not the salesperson who deals with customers. I'm the tech who're in the back or on-site 98% of the time. And there's only so much I can do in that positition if the sales guys don't follow through.
We told him what the problem was, walked him through using AdAware and Spybot, showed him how to update his AV and add a trusted site or app to Zonealarm. We're small enough that we can do that at times.
We even offered to "check up on it" again for free in another month. The problem is, people HATE being told their problems are their fault (myself included).
We do bundle machines with AV software, in fact we usually give Norton Systemworks. You would not believe how often they are removed from start up because the pop ups (i.e. from the firewall) are annoying.
For those who don't want to pay the $20 we charge to have this included with a PC, we ask if they would like free trials or something of the like.
A surprising number don't. In a perfect world, I would have Norton AV with auto updates and Black Ice on every PC out the door. But some people will in a heartbeat turn of that firewall COMPLETELY never to turn it on again when it ONCE is even suspect for not letting them do something, such as send over IM or the like.
Same goes when they download that file on Kazaa the viri scanner won't let them update.
You can't teach people who don't want to learn. you just hope that they listen to you and take your advice.
I work at a local mom and pop computer store, and it seems like somewhere around half of all PCs brought in with problems stem from broadband used improperly.
We had one guy come in, who had always-on Comcast cable, the same provider I use myself. He had bought a PC from us roughly 2 weeks before, and was hell bent that the "piece of shit" we sold him was to blame. Of course, no antivirus, no firewall, AOL for broadband added...so much spyware. That AdAware count was, I kid you not, 3,250 or so.
As a person who has to deal with people like this quite often, it's not hard for me to see the side of an ISP who would LIKE to impose restrictions. There is also part of me who wouldn't be against it. As much as I would like unfettered access, I know most people (those on/. aside) can't deal with it. They destroy the usuability of their PCs with it.
So I have mixed feelings on all this. What would I like to see? You have no fetters, at first. Then, you start acting as a spam relay or something, you get restrictions (I know, this happens, and I applaud for it). You act as a waypoint to spread viri and trojans, cut back another notch. And so on. This should all be spelled out in the license agreement, but I think it's nearing necessary.
Internet usage is not a RIGHT. It's a PRIVILEDGE. And it's one you should have to be responsible to keep.
I must admit, while I love the various flavors of UT, I dislike the naming convention. The same problem sports games have: once a year, they will seem out of date.
They're basically making themselves stay on a once a year schedule: let's be real, how many gaming companies can do that (HL2, Doom 3...deadlines go to hell).
And, unless there's actual changes, I would rather not buy a new version every year just to keep up with the online play (though I know you can always play the old versions).
That said, I want this game. The vehicles are great, as is the gameplay and graphics in the demo.
It was modded down because you said "There are a number of open source projects that are no longer being maintained, but are in fairly wide use." yet felt that you had no need to provide examples to back up your argument.
This isn't court, you're not innocent until proven guilty. Welcome to debate, you're wrong until you prove yourself right.
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It's fun to watch them blow their horn...on SCO :)
Ethylene Glycol: C2H6O2
Polyethylene Glycol: C2H4O
So they are pretty different from a chemical standpoint. Good old Ethylene Glycol melts at -13C, while the "poly" melts at 60C. However, when looking up an MSDS on this stuff, I get "May act as an irritant. Toxicology not fully investigated" so I wonder about it being completely non-toxic.
See link here.
That would probably make sense, but then there's people like me who hear "gif" and instantly think "animated porn thumbnail." Errr, I mean...
Most likely has to do with the fact that .mp3 and .jpeg are ubiquitous more so than anything. If they said, for example, .FLAC, they would have confuzlled the hell out of a good chunk of people.
While I somehow got modded "Insightful"...that was actually a joke.
/.!
Leave it to
"Affected employees include computer systems analysts, programmers, software engineers or anyone with a similar title."
Admittedly, I didn't RTFA, but that statements just SCREAMS for pointy-hairs to change the job titles of the people who they don't want to have to pay for overtime.
Didn't read my post at all, did you AC?
I said I AM INTERESTED from a scientific standpoint BUT NOT from a consumer standpoint.
What I'm saying is not at all that I don't want to hear about new technology; even if it doesn't have the damndest bit of a place in my life at the moment or even possibly in my lifetime.
/.-ers? Yes.
What I AM saying is that I don't care to hear things being touted as replacements to things which they obviously are NOT. At least not yet. Does the article tout this so? Not necessarily. Will some
You're talking to someone who's going into pharmaceutical research--I damned well know the difference. It's like the Venturi effect you seemed to feel the need to point out to mae your arguement sound smarter--sure it had meaning before commercial airlines, but it didn't mean a damned thing to the non-science interested consumer. And that's what my point was. To me AS A CONSUMER this is pretty worthless right now. That's all.
Somebody wake me when there's a new data storage more cost effective than a traditional hard disk, because that's what 99% of us care about for mass storage.
*ZZZZZZZZzzzzZZzzzzzzZ*
But does it seem to anyone else like Lindows is the total opposite of SCO? SCO tried to sue when they have no chance of winning, while Lindows seems to be actively trying to be sued by people they have chance of beating...
My brain hurts.
If what you're worried about is playing them on a Linux box, not on a portable mp3 player, why don't you use a loseless codec for the recompression?
If that's your only complaint, that CDAUDIO-->mp3/aac/ogg whatever is lossy, use FLAC or something like it.
iBook G3 900MHz
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Also, if you're interested in running that update prebindings command sometime to get a better idea of what it does:
sudo -u root update_prebinding -verbose -root
Password: ********
And watch it scroll away.
Actually he mostly does tax work for medium-sized business, with a couple hundred employees. I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about doing my taxes/getting the software/adding more stress on top of work and college.
...I'm glad that my father is an accountant.
This is a very good point. For example I have a friend (who is actually an engineer) who, if he could do ANYTHING he wanted to, would work on old cars all day.
This would make me go insane, I HATE even changing my oil.
To each their own.
How are they going to add the time travel feature if they don't make new models?!?! I WAS PROMISED A TIME TELEPORTING CAR.
http://www.delorean.com/
Using spam to punish criminals. Priceless!
AOL isn't the biggest problem. After all, dial up cuts down on these things ;).
We *try* to either sell, if that's not working, point to free AV or firewall utilities, like I said earlier.
AdAware is on every PC out our door. Got service done? You now have AdAware, instructions on how to use it on your receipt. We also pop AV and Firewalls when we can.
Bear in mind though, I'm not the salesperson who deals with customers. I'm the tech who're in the back or on-site 98% of the time. And there's only so much I can do in that positition if the sales guys don't follow through.
We told him what the problem was, walked him through using AdAware and Spybot, showed him how to update his AV and add a trusted site or app to Zonealarm. We're small enough that we can do that at times.
We even offered to "check up on it" again for free in another month. The problem is, people HATE being told their problems are their fault (myself included).
We do bundle machines with AV software, in fact we usually give Norton Systemworks. You would not believe how often they are removed from start up because the pop ups (i.e. from the firewall) are annoying.
For those who don't want to pay the $20 we charge to have this included with a PC, we ask if they would like free trials or something of the like.
A surprising number don't. In a perfect world, I would have Norton AV with auto updates and Black Ice on every PC out the door. But some people will in a heartbeat turn of that firewall COMPLETELY never to turn it on again when it ONCE is even suspect for not letting them do something, such as send over IM or the like.
Same goes when they download that file on Kazaa the viri scanner won't let them update.
You can't teach people who don't want to learn. you just hope that they listen to you and take your advice.
I work at a local mom and pop computer store, and it seems like somewhere around half of all PCs brought in with problems stem from broadband used improperly.
/. aside) can't deal with it. They destroy the usuability of their PCs with it.
We had one guy come in, who had always-on Comcast cable, the same provider I use myself. He had bought a PC from us roughly 2 weeks before, and was hell bent that the "piece of shit" we sold him was to blame. Of course, no antivirus, no firewall, AOL for broadband added...so much spyware. That AdAware count was, I kid you not, 3,250 or so.
As a person who has to deal with people like this quite often, it's not hard for me to see the side of an ISP who would LIKE to impose restrictions. There is also part of me who wouldn't be against it. As much as I would like unfettered access, I know most people (those on
So I have mixed feelings on all this. What would I like to see? You have no fetters, at first. Then, you start acting as a spam relay or something, you get restrictions (I know, this happens, and I applaud for it). You act as a waypoint to spread viri and trojans, cut back another notch. And so on. This should all be spelled out in the license agreement, but I think it's nearing necessary.
Internet usage is not a RIGHT. It's a PRIVILEDGE. And it's one you should have to be responsible to keep.
Wrong. Apple makes next to no money on the iTunes store, they make their money on the hardware. And this is a pretty blatant rip off.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Apple didn't make money on iTMS?
Also, this isn't even reverse engineering. It is a poorly mimicked interface, no actual reverse engineering of the iPod occured I'm sure.
Well, I don't think we can compare them directly to Microsoft.
/.-er do you know who honestly would expect MS to keep up with any set schedule (look at Windows 64 bit...).
After, what
On the other hand...UT ripped off Quake...MS ripped off Apple...
Maybe there are parallels! I await the release of an awful, awful UT Me to correlate.
I must admit, while I love the various flavors of UT, I dislike the naming convention. The same problem sports games have: once a year, they will seem out of date. They're basically making themselves stay on a once a year schedule: let's be real, how many gaming companies can do that (HL2, Doom 3...deadlines go to hell). And, unless there's actual changes, I would rather not buy a new version every year just to keep up with the online play (though I know you can always play the old versions). That said, I want this game. The vehicles are great, as is the gameplay and graphics in the demo.
It was modded down because you said "There are a number of open source projects that are no longer being maintained, but are in fairly wide use." yet felt that you had no need to provide examples to back up your argument. This isn't court, you're not innocent until proven guilty. Welcome to debate, you're wrong until you prove yourself right.