You think that is good? Check the trailer from http://www.starwreck.com/ (granted a parody/fusion of ST and B5, but anyway - amazing for a fan production).
Ok, I just went to their site, and downloaded (started to anyway) the Full Reader install, which was 19MB. Still a lot when v5 seems to do everything at 3MB or so IIRC. Has anyone looked into 3rd party PDF renderers? If so, and they were any good, you could do PDF (a great format IMHO for transferring printable docs) without the Adobe bloat.
Look, I wasn't trolling. Maybe I'm locked into the windows way of thinking. I did not think of that. I was looking at the bar at the bottom of the screen, the dock I think. I thought it might work like the start menu, or the KDE bar.
As to typing cd/, which I tried, because I didn't know the exact dir name (I had heard OS X had changed the setup from default *nix a little) nothing happened. IDK why.
My point out of this is to show that someone who is very comfortable with Windows can blunder around quite a lot in OS X.
The OS you normally use will dictate where you are most productive.
All of you dissing me also ought to note I was given about 3 minutes to try before the owner was convinced I could not help him (I told him I didn't know macs much, and I last used OS 8. something). I do not doubt given a few hours, I could figure it out, or get help online.
But in the 3 minute, show me what you can do, I looked far more inept than I would have on Windows. Or SuSe 9.x for that matter, though to a far lesser degree as I don't use it much at all, maybe an hour every 6 months or so in VMWare.
I think it has to come down to what you are used to.
I feel equally ackward on OS X, Win 98, somewhat less on Linux, but I only use it infrequemtly etc compared to WinXP. It's just what I use.
I tried to troubleshoot a non working firewire cdburner under OS X. I swear I couldn't find anything like control panel, a system menu like in KDE 3.x or how to get out of/home/user in terminal to check/dev. I had no way to proceed. Just totally opaque to me. It didn't help that the person with the problem knew I was a "computer (not getting the diff from my PC) guy" and got impatient in about 2 minutes of me going, hmmm, not there, not there, terminal not going like I remember from *nix, what permissions do you have??? you got an admin/root password?
Of course I don't think I could have helped him as he was in a user account, and didn't know the root/admin password for any access to the filesystem outside his home dir.
Seeing as I wasn't getting paid, and he got bored, I wasn't interested in doing further research.
My point here is that on windows I not only know where to check for low level device recognition, but I also know how to reset the admin (or any) password in an emergency. So it comes back to what you know.
Also, for me, a lot of the software I know is windows only sadly. SO not only would I be learning an new OS, I'd have to learn all new software too, and some software doesn't have equivelents (mostly stupid class software that comes in the back of the textbooks, but I need that).
Speaking of lists, I had been using Yahoo for ad hoc groups for class groupwork. The list setup, web access, and file storage is exactly what I need for most projects. Lately however, Yahoo has been randomly eating files, which is very bad for getting work done.
Are there any other sites that offer the same service free, perhaps with an easier signup process as well?
Actually I like maps24.com's interactive interface better than google maps. I still find mapsonus.com to have the best what's nearby and search by landmark capability
Well, let me say I didn't study for the SATs. I did however study for the GMAT. You know why? I looked over one of the books once, to get some idea of what it was about. I realized that it was the SAT all over again, testing things I hadn't taken orlearned about since highschool.
There was no calculous (the only math taken in college (in the SUNY system for non math majors - assuming you meet the minimum req out of High School and don't need remedial math - the majority of students).
One essay that was again not based on a reading, or on analyzing anything, but straight out of highschool, ie here's a sentance, write an essay in 30 minutes without a dictionary, thesaurous, etc. ..(and as you can tell, I NEED spellcheck).
There was no business concepts, or such. Nothing taught in College. Not even writing styles used in college. The anaylitical reasoning part was geometry and trig, mixed with word problems that was algebra based.
The other part was vocab testing, you know, like 11th grade regents or SAT vocab. Some more obscure words, but overall, I didn't feel like they were testing anything I had used in the last 5 years (long undergrad program).
The worst part was it didn't test any management concepts or such for a management test. The closest it got was some problems where you had to determine if you had enough information to solve the problem. Mostly geometry/trig based also.
Needless to say I did worse than on the SATs, I was pretty rusty, even with a month of studying.
True. My family and friends used to trick me my telling me some plausable story as a joke, and would then claim I was gullible. Well, I said I had no reason to think they were lying, I mean why would I expect that. Now that I do have to expect them to be joking/lying to me much of the time, I find it has sad consequenses.
Like a few years ago when a tree fell on our house(destroying it), my mom called and told me. Because she had a penchant for these sorts of jokes, I flat out didn't believe her. I had to have my dad tell me because he was always straight with me.
Most of them have since stopped playing such jokes because they realize I'm not very good at telling when people are joking or not, and they don't like me treating them like they are possibly lying all of the time. It's taken a year or more for me to start believing them as much again.
I just want to say, this ties into the colleges. I just finished applying to 3 MBA programs. Each one wanted a statement of my career goals, How the program could help me attain them or what I wanted to get out of the program, and a Resume.
And you wouldn't believe how much better they do in life. IMHO.
The people who had a good relationship with their parents, grandparents, and other relatives tend not to be the bing drinkers, the potheads, etc during highschool. They tend to be the people who get at least some college, and work in management in the world. At least from my friends and people I know.
They also tend to be less stressed out. I have a very good family relationship, it's more of a clan if you will. If something happened to me, I could call my Parents, my Grandmother, several Uncles etc who would help me out, financially, physically, whatever. I still go home during breaks at 23 to get back together with my family (many who live on the same street - hence the clan discriptor). You could say I'm prolonging my childhood, and maybe you are right. But I also am glad I get to spend hours with my grandmother frequently (who is 85- who knows how long she'll be around) as well as my parents.
I try and get out to California when I can to see my family out there. I also think many people overlook what you can learn from family.
When I was learning modern history of the US, it's very helpful to talk to someone who lived through WW2. Or who was in Viet Nam.
When I'm learning in College about project management, I can call my Uncle in California or see him when he comes out to NY, and ask about how his project for Northropp Grumman is going (that he leads).
Anyway, my point is if you don't have a strong *extended* family connection, I think you lose out.
Interestingly enough, I always found the classes where I learned the most were those where the teacher treated the exam(regents) as ancilliary to the course.
Even better were the classes where there wasn't a regents, and the teacher set their own curriculum. Of course this also only worked with very good teachers.
Have people noticed that more and more, we're not getting teachers that stay in one school for a career, and so you constantly are getting new teachers also, who usually aren't that good?
See there's where people get into big arguments about the constitution. It doesn't say
the right of the people to keep and bear arm in an organized militia being..."
It says A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
.
No where does it state you have to be a member of an organization to "keep and bear arms". Instead, it reads an example of why weapons are necessary - they are needed to form a militia.
To me, that reads more like:
A well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, therefore the right of people to have weapons available to form that militia shall not be infringed.
See, the militia(in those days) was formed in time of crisis, not before, so the people would need guns to form that militia with, it's not like you would plan all this out in great detail.
You know, someone calls out invaders, and a group of citizens grabs their guns, meets in the town square, and takes care of business.
Well, I think that is the correct response (telling them they ought to complain to the bank). This fixes the problem of non standards complient sites at the source.
Also, if you want to do internet banking, you ought to do it securely, and IE is anything but secure. I would complain to the bank, and if necessary, not use internet banking, or change banks and tell them why I left. That's voting with my $$, the only thing corporations understand.
And, I don't buy the argument that we shouldn't expect banks to be technically competent. We are trusting them with our money, and personal details. Anywhere transactions occur, they should be competent. A site that requires IE is not competent (in my [and many others] opinion). It would be like their vault being a little fireproof strongbox.
Banks are anything but a monopoly, there are at least 5 major banks and many smaller banks competing in any area I've been in(Ithaca, NY and Buffalo, NY areas). At least one is accessable with something other than IE(HSBC Usa, Opera).
Does anyone else find it ridiculous that we are turning our theaters' projection booths into a storage facility like the one for the Declaration of Independence?
Actually, as I just learned in my Business 116 class, monopolistic is the proper term. It refers to a situation where there are many sellers trying to differentiate what is basically a commodity to their customers. The only difference is the logo and the marketing.
Your sig is interesting, but untrue. FF has (had) an issue rendering Slashdot true, but there are other browsers that didn't have this issue aside from IE. Opera for instance.
I actually find the background part of Spybot - teatimer, to be the most useful. It provides great real time registry protection IME. And uses very few system resources.
Well, of the spyware removal tools I've run, (Giant/MS, AdAware, Spybot, Spysweeper) MS is the only one to ever turn up false positives.
So now I don't run it. I personally find it ridiculous that it pegs VNC as spyware. There was another obviously legit program it pegged as well, might have been proxomitron. At that rate, it ought to peg IE and WMP9+...
I think it has to do with viewers. People need to identify somewhat with the plot. If much of the time, the cast is dealing with aliens that are incomprehensible to us... where do you go with that?
People won't watch something dealing with motivations we don't understand.
Slashdot Mirror
You think that is good? Check the trailer from http://www.starwreck.com/ (granted a parody/fusion of ST and B5, but anyway - amazing for a fan production).
Ok, I just went to their site, and downloaded (started to anyway) the Full Reader install, which was 19MB. Still a lot when v5 seems to do everything at 3MB or so IIRC. Has anyone looked into 3rd party PDF renderers? If so, and they were any good, you could do PDF (a great format IMHO for transferring printable docs) without the Adobe bloat.
Look, I wasn't trolling. Maybe I'm locked into the windows way of thinking. I did not think of that. I was looking at the bar at the bottom of the screen, the dock I think. I thought it might work like the start menu, or the KDE bar.
/, which I tried, because I didn't know the exact dir name (I had heard OS X had changed the setup from default *nix a little) nothing happened. IDK why.
As to typing cd
My point out of this is to show that someone who is very comfortable with Windows can blunder around quite a lot in OS X.
The OS you normally use will dictate where you are most productive.
All of you dissing me also ought to note I was given about 3 minutes to try before the owner was convinced I could not help him (I told him I didn't know macs much, and I last used OS 8. something). I do not doubt given a few hours, I could figure it out, or get help online.
But in the 3 minute, show me what you can do, I looked far more inept than I would have on Windows. Or SuSe 9.x for that matter, though to a far lesser degree as I don't use it much at all, maybe an hour every 6 months or so in VMWare.
I think it has to come down to what you are used to.
/home/user in terminal to check /dev. I had no way to proceed. Just totally opaque to me. It didn't help that the person with the problem knew I was a "computer (not getting the diff from my PC) guy" and got impatient in about 2 minutes of me going, hmmm, not there, not there, terminal not going like I remember from *nix, what permissions do you have??? you got an admin/root password?
I feel equally ackward on OS X, Win 98, somewhat less on Linux, but I only use it infrequemtly etc compared to WinXP. It's just what I use.
I tried to troubleshoot a non working firewire cdburner under OS X. I swear I couldn't find anything like control panel, a system menu like in KDE 3.x or how to get out of
Of course I don't think I could have helped him as he was in a user account, and didn't know the root/admin password for any access to the filesystem outside his home dir.
Seeing as I wasn't getting paid, and he got bored, I wasn't interested in doing further research.
My point here is that on windows I not only know where to check for low level device recognition, but I also know how to reset the admin (or any) password in an emergency. So it comes back to what you know.
Also, for me, a lot of the software I know is windows only sadly. SO not only would I be learning an new OS, I'd have to learn all new software too, and some software doesn't have equivelents (mostly stupid class software that comes in the back of the textbooks, but I need that).
Speaking of lists, I had been using Yahoo for ad hoc groups for class groupwork. The list setup, web access, and file storage is exactly what I need for most projects. Lately however, Yahoo has been randomly eating files, which is very bad for getting work done.
Are there any other sites that offer the same service free, perhaps with an easier signup process as well?
Actually I like maps24.com's interactive interface better than google maps. I still find mapsonus.com to have the best what's nearby and search by landmark capability
Well, let me say I didn't study for the SATs. I did however study for the GMAT. You know why? I looked over one of the books once, to get some idea of what it was about. I realized that it was the SAT all over again, testing things I hadn't taken orlearned about since highschool.
.(and as you can tell, I NEED spellcheck).
There was no calculous (the only math taken in college (in the SUNY system for non math majors - assuming you meet the minimum req out of High School and don't need remedial math - the majority of students).
One essay that was again not based on a reading, or on analyzing anything, but straight out of highschool, ie here's a sentance, write an essay in 30 minutes without a dictionary, thesaurous, etc. .
There was no business concepts, or such. Nothing taught in College. Not even writing styles used in college. The anaylitical reasoning part was geometry and trig, mixed with word problems that was algebra based.
The other part was vocab testing, you know, like 11th grade regents or SAT vocab. Some more obscure words, but overall, I didn't feel like they were testing anything I had used in the last 5 years (long undergrad program).
The worst part was it didn't test any management concepts or such for a management test. The closest it got was some problems where you had to determine if you had enough information to solve the problem. Mostly geometry/trig based also.
Needless to say I did worse than on the SATs, I was pretty rusty, even with a month of studying.
1370 on the SATs, 590, 4 on the GMAT.
True. My family and friends used to trick me my telling me some plausable story as a joke, and would then claim I was gullible. Well, I said I had no reason to think they were lying, I mean why would I expect that. Now that I do have to expect them to be joking/lying to me much of the time, I find it has sad consequenses.
Like a few years ago when a tree fell on our house(destroying it), my mom called and told me. Because she had a penchant for these sorts of jokes, I flat out didn't believe her. I had to have my dad tell me because he was always straight with me.
Most of them have since stopped playing such jokes because they realize I'm not very good at telling when people are joking or not, and they don't like me treating them like they are possibly lying all of the time. It's taken a year or more for me to start believing them as much again.
I just want to say, this ties into the colleges. I just finished applying to 3 MBA programs. Each one wanted a statement of my career goals, How the program could help me attain them or what I wanted to get out of the program, and a Resume.
And you wouldn't believe how much better they do in life. IMHO.
The people who had a good relationship with their parents, grandparents, and other relatives tend not to be the bing drinkers, the potheads, etc during highschool. They tend to be the people who get at least some college, and work in management in the world. At least from my friends and people I know.
They also tend to be less stressed out. I have a very good family relationship, it's more of a clan if you will. If something happened to me, I could call my Parents, my Grandmother, several Uncles etc who would help me out, financially, physically, whatever. I still go home during breaks at 23 to get back together with my family (many who live on the same street - hence the clan discriptor). You could say I'm prolonging my childhood, and maybe you are right. But I also am glad I get to spend hours with my grandmother frequently (who is 85- who knows how long she'll be around) as well as my parents.
I try and get out to California when I can to see my family out there. I also think many people overlook what you can learn from family.
When I was learning modern history of the US, it's very helpful to talk to someone who lived through WW2. Or who was in Viet Nam.
When I'm learning in College about project management, I can call my Uncle in California or see him when he comes out to NY, and ask about how his project for Northropp Grumman is going (that he leads).
Anyway, my point is if you don't have a strong *extended* family connection, I think you lose out.
Interestingly enough, I always found the classes where I learned the most were those where the teacher treated the exam(regents) as ancilliary to the course.
Even better were the classes where there wasn't a regents, and the teacher set their own curriculum. Of course this also only worked with very good teachers.
Have people noticed that more and more, we're not getting teachers that stay in one school for a career, and so you constantly are getting new teachers also, who usually aren't that good?
See there's where people get into big arguments about the constitution. It doesn't say
the right of the people to keep and bear arm in an organized militia being..."
It says A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State
. No where does it state you have to be a member of an organization to "keep and bear arms". Instead, it reads an example of why weapons are necessary - they are needed to form a militia.
To me, that reads more like:
A well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, therefore the right of people to have weapons available to form that militia shall not be infringed.
See, the militia(in those days) was formed in time of crisis, not before, so the people would need guns to form that militia with, it's not like you would plan all this out in great detail.
You know, someone calls out invaders, and a group of citizens grabs their guns, meets in the town square, and takes care of business.
Well, I think that is the correct response (telling them they ought to complain to the bank). This fixes the problem of non standards complient sites at the source.
Also, if you want to do internet banking, you ought to do it securely, and IE is anything but secure. I would complain to the bank, and if necessary, not use internet banking, or change banks and tell them why I left. That's voting with my $$, the only thing corporations understand.
And, I don't buy the argument that we shouldn't expect banks to be technically competent. We are trusting them with our money, and personal details. Anywhere transactions occur, they should be competent. A site that requires IE is not competent (in my [and many others] opinion). It would be like their vault being a little fireproof strongbox.
Banks are anything but a monopoly, there are at least 5 major banks and many smaller banks competing in any area I've been in(Ithaca, NY and Buffalo, NY areas). At least one is accessable with something other than IE(HSBC Usa, Opera).
Does anyone else find it ridiculous that we are turning our theaters' projection booths into a storage facility like the one for the Declaration of Independence?
Except Monopoly and Monopolistic are two completely different terms. See here.
Google Proximodo
Actually, as I just learned in my Business 116 class, monopolistic is the proper term. It refers to a situation where there are many sellers trying to differentiate what is basically a commodity to their customers. The only difference is the logo and the marketing.
I always end up seeing this all over the web. How is bloat figured?
FF, IE, and Opera all seem to use a similar amount of RAM (50MB or so) in most listings I've seen.
FF is 4.7MB to download, IE is ~12MB depending, Opera is 3.5MB.
I could go on, but I really don't see how FF is any less bloaty than the others.
Your sig is interesting, but untrue. FF has (had) an issue rendering Slashdot true, but there are other browsers that didn't have this issue aside from IE. Opera for instance.
Wouldn't you just have more than one machine actually running the domain, so you can take one down and update/test, and then vice versa?
I actually find the background part of Spybot - teatimer, to be the most useful. It provides great real time registry protection IME. And uses very few system resources.
Interestingly enough, did you ever run MS first, and see if the others then found stuff? What about Spysweeper (What I think is currently the best)?
Well, of the spyware removal tools I've run, (Giant/MS, AdAware, Spybot, Spysweeper) MS is the only one to ever turn up false positives.
So now I don't run it. I personally find it ridiculous that it pegs VNC as spyware. There was another obviously legit program it pegged as well, might have been proxomitron. At that rate, it ought to peg IE and WMP9+...
I disagree that it was/is the best. I think it likely was the only one willing to sell.
I still find Spybot + Adaware to be good. I recently got Webroot Spysweeper, which is often indicated to be near the top in detectors.
I think it has to do with viewers. People need to identify somewhat with the plot. If much of the time, the cast is dealing with aliens that are incomprehensible to us... where do you go with that?
People won't watch something dealing with motivations we don't understand.