It's not just poor training. If the representative cannot find a record of your account in the computer they have to assume your account never existed. There's probably a paper trail and backups that will verify things, but you will need to ask to have your call escalated to the person's manager.
Level 1 support is always lax - they're the trained monkeys who know how to say "did you reboot your windows box yet" when you tell them your TV crashed. They really only exist to filter the morons from the people with serious technical issues in most companies. You need to suffer through their crap to get escalated to the next level though.
Level 2 support is where you need to be as a tried and true geek. This is where the real techs hide. Generally the L2 support doesn't have any authority to make deals with you and the like. All they can do is look into the technical aspects within what the data on their system says you're paying for. If the data is wrong you need to move up another level.
From there all that's left is managers. They are usually not technical but have the authority to make decisions and the like. You generally need the manager and the L2 person on the line at the same time to get anything done unless it's a pure management question (why do you have no record of me ever having an account?).
It really is silly to have a bunch of highly paid technical people fielding a bunch of "i am a moron" calls. It's more sensible to filter them out with cheap staff and only employ a handful of technical people/managers to handle the more stubborn or serious problems.
Know how the company you're dealing with structures their phone support and you'll find it easier to deal with em. Also remember not to get agitated at the person on the phone or they'll just become disillusioned about helping you. They probably get abuse from people day in and day out.
I don't want to see anymore crazy fuckers blowing up my friends, but I don't want to go down the road of censorship either. If we have to censor them then they're winning. It's been said again and again - the people who you're trying to stop are extremists. They believe they are right and force that view on their kids and anyone they're easily able to convince. Ban them from making DVDs and books and they'll do it by word of mouth and the underground.
Starting censoring things like this will lead to wider bans on things - terrorist propoganda now. The whole muslim faith down the track. It might spread to ban publications banning all religions other than the "one true christianity".
I am saddened by this because the more we attack the "terrorists" the more the liberal but borderline people feel persecuted and want to exact their "liberation" on society.
Learn from your mistake. You got a spambot because you messed up your 1337 sysadmin skills. You need to figure out what you did wrong and how not to do it again.
Then, you need to stay on top of security issues. You run appear to run Windows so you'l have to work 10x as hard to do that. windows is a big steaming pile of goats shit when it comes to security. All the sh1t that MS claim protects you does nothing more than inconvenience normal users and slow their boxes down to buggery.
You're not likely to catch em so don't bother. Make some notes and learn for next time!!!
The original Sony was a good company. They came to a massive rise in fame with the walkman. From there it was all downhill. Sony movies behaves just like sony electronics. They have always twisted the standards, tried to push their own agenda and generally released products that were ever-so-slightly incompatible with other manufacturers (I remember a sony VCR that could not be watched on anything other than a sony tv becuase it fiddled with the composite video output in some strange way that was apparantly the way of the future).
Sony music/movies is just the logical progression of that!
Discs that won't work with players... well my comment was about encryption keys but but this is just as bad!
Sony are selling DVDs that (probably) carry the DVD logo which implies compatibility with the DVD standard. If they have new copy protection they are violating that obviously and should have their ass sued off.
Can anyone say "class action"? This happened before with their CDs and their malware.
Now they're fritzing the DVD players so you can't watch your movie. Does anyone think this is kind of a "make em buy it, it won't play, they'll need to pay for a new player or firmware update, profit" scamario?
Sounds good, but right after they invent that some artistic movie producer will want to make a dodecahedral movie and what are you going to do with your quadrilateral screen then?
I mean, you could use the $70,000 saved to buy a handful of Blu-Ray(TM) DVD's!
Yeah, you could probably get one or two HD-DVDs and then get the change sued off you by the MPAA For watching them.
I gotta say I like it - not so much because it's big and HD, but because it's unwieldy and thief-proof. Just imagine the poor schmuck who tries to steal it. Score one for Panasonic finally making a common-thief-proof TV. If this baby goes missing you can track down all the professional riggers and crane operators and find it in no time!
I don't have the time anymore. It's hard work being a full time employee for the man and raising a family and commuting an hour to and then from work because the man doesn't pay enough to live close to work (yet he pays himself enough to live in the most expensive suburb, another rant entirely).
I used to collect Commodore and Nintendo stuff. I have a pretty good collection of Nintendo hardware; NES, SNES, N64, a handful of games, extra controllers, light guns, the works. I even have the beginnings of a Sega collection. It's all operational as well after a lot of cleaning and TLC. It takes a lot of time to resurrect the older hardware and make it functional. If you don't have the tech skills to replace fried components or even repair damaged PCBs and connectors its really not worth doing. You often buy two or three dud machines to turn them into one functional one.
There's no point having a machine if you don't have a decent collection of software to run on it. Sure, you can often download the software illegally but for cart-based systems then you need to find a working cart emulator, assuming one existed for your platform and you still can't play anything with SuperFX-type addons on cart emulators.
Collecting the retro stuff is also time consuming. You have to be on the lookout everywhere. Ebay is good, but there's a lot of crap on there that people are trying to flog off for more than it's worth. I see a lot of stuff that says "condition unknown" then with a min bid of $50. That could mean it's totally fried but you have to decide whether to take that gamble. There's always stuff advertised in the local trading rag and the local news, as well as other websites and swap meets that come and go. If you don't keep abrest (all you nerds tremble before the breast) of current prices you're lialbe to get royally screwed.
I sorely miss being able to play some of the games that I played as I was growing up, but I remember back to when I used to play. We'd sit up all night hammering away at the game. That was the only way. When you're on a limited time budget (as you are when you're working for the man and have other commitments) you can't do that anywhere near as often as you'd like.
Good luck to those who want to get into the collection hobby. It's fun and rewarding. If you just want to hoarde junk stay for the sake of being able to say "i have that" without ever actually doing anything with it then you should probably find another hobby; there are some of us who like to restore hardware and it's difficult to do unless you can get enough bits. If they're getting snapped up by hoarders then it takes the fun away for a lot of us.
Ten million music fans, all heavy consumers and the **IA can't figure out a working micro-pay/pay-as-you-go music download system?
The problem with this is i think a great-many of the people who download a shitload of music are the unemploted, the low income earners and kids. Sure, there's probably a handfull from other demographics as well.
Music is expensive. A CD single here can cost between $7 and $10 depending on the artist and the label. A new release CD can cost between $25 and $30, again depending. Not to mention the price of DVDs.
The prices of music do not fall with time either. It's still possible to go into a record store and pay full price for a CD that was released 20 years ago. It's absolutely crazy. I tend to shop at bargain bin CD stores because I really don't like new music anyway and it's much better to find something great for $10.
The business model of "let's make enormous profits to pay our fat, oversized salaries at the expense of the consumer" should be what the government regulates... If you make a product that everybody needs but nobody can afford what do you think is going to happen? Soon they'll start charging you for the rain that falls on your property because that rightly belongs to the water company and you should be buying it from them!
I had always thought doing something similar to this, but in my dining table. I figured it'd be possible to take one or 2 flat panels and some miscellaneous optics and make a fairly seamless representation of the image appear to be under the glass. Kind of cute if you whack a remote controlled webcam under there and show up your guest's skirts at dinner...
My first though so far was to use mirrors - reflect the display off a mirror kind of like what they do in some of the arcade games. This lets the display appear further from the observer than it really is - hence saving space. You could build some kind of optics system like that for your project to project a reasonably seamless image (apart from colour and size of the images).
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It also means that once you crack one device, you have access to all the movies published to date, so cracking another device doesn't gain you anything.
It also means that as they revoke keys players stop playing newer discs. As crackers (let's get the terminology right) expose keys the MPAA is revoking them. This means that Shiny New Player (TM) will only be able to play movies published before a certain date. I don't know about you but if my shiny new player stopped playing movies publshed after a certain date because the keys it uses were revoked then I'd be mighty pissed off. I'd be dragging the manufacturer through court for selling a device that is not fit for purpose. The manufacturer would probably wind up dragging whoever revoked their key through the courts to recover their costs.
There are only a handful of keys out there. What happens when all the current ones are exposed and revoked?
Joe Public doesn't understand that his DVD player stopped playing disks because someone revoked an encryption key. He just understands it's a Blu-Ray disc and a blu-ray player and the two should go together like VHS tapes and VHS players, CDs and CD players, etc. It's always just worked in the past!
DRM is a flawed mechanism. It protects nothing and causes harm to those who just want to play their media.
I'm not trying to be snide here, but I suspect you haven't seen very many independent films. Most of them *suck* *incredibly*, but the very best 0.1% are quite good indeed, competitive with the best stuff coming out of Hollywood.
I'm not trying to be snide here, but I suspect you haven't seen very many independent films. Most of them *rock* *incredibly*, but the very worst 0.1% are quite bad indeed, competitive with the best stuff coming out of Hollywood.
Yay - I stopped using Gaim a long time ago because of that window - and the devs at the time said that they weren't going to remove it (or even make it a configurable option) because that was they way they thought all users should work. You can search the gaim lists for that discussion.
If the shitty window is gone the new Gaim might be worth trying out again.
The bean-counters know exactly what they're doing. They're extracting more value (your time) from you at no cost. That free productivity (salaried--unpaid to the employee--overtime) looks great on the balance sheet, compared to the price of an extra monitor. If you can't see that, I think you might need to re-evaluate the target of your insults.
It might look good on the balance sheet, but most places that ask you to fill in a time card will also ask you to book ACTUAL hours spent on a project, even if those hours exceed the contractual 40. I don't often book past 40 because I am of the opinion that if I need to work past 40/week then they are either not scheduling their projects properly or they are not providing adequate tools.
The salaried employee might get paid for 40, but work 60-80 hours a week. The bean counters are probably laughing at him. The project managers are pulling their hair out trying to work out how to get him back down to 40 because all project schedules are made on the basis of 40 hour work weeks and if you exceed that every week your project comes in over budget (on paper) regardless of whether you deliver on time or not.
Wasted time does add up and is counted. Not by bean counters, who are so narrow minded that they think everything including human life can be assigned a dollar value. It is counted by the people who really count; your project manager.
Severe amounts of wasted time are quite visible in many companies. I have heard of people who are required to book to a non-chargeable job rather than their project if they spend time waiting for their tools to do something (compiling, for example) and can't do another task in the mean time. Consequently they also have the latest and greatest quad-core machines running nice stable Linux to do their thinking for them because that reduced the amount of non-chargeable bookings.
It remains one of the most widely ported IM packages across platforms. That doesn't mean it's less sucky than the official AIM (or other) clients.
I thought GAIM was a piece of poo.. What's with that fucked up away dialog box to tell you that your GAIM status is busy? I want GAIM to fuck off into the background when I am busy, not pop up a dialog telling me that and taking up valuable screen real-estate on my already cluttered desktop.
Gaim should have gone and got a job as a cheap asian street hooker a long time ago ("sucky sucky, free, free, I able to suck everyone")
That really depends on where you work; there are a lot of shitbox companies around there that pay the minimum amount to put food on the programmer's table. A lot of managers don't think of "if we spend this we'll save twice that" they think "if we spend this we immediately reduce the bottom line by the same amount, fuck that!"
I had two monitors on my desk for a long time. One eventually got bad enough they replaced it with a flat panel. The new panel was so good that I couldn't use the remaining CRT (and also, my eyes were fucked as a result of the shitty old CRT they wouldn't replace sooner).
Long story short, I ditched the second CRT and they wouldn't replace it. My productivity dropped enormously. I actually found it most beneficial to have email, a browser or some documentation for the toolkits I was using open in fullscreen on the second display. It made finding a reference a simply matter of glancing across rather than bringing up another window, losing the context of what I was doing then having to do the shuffle back and forward.
Not only that, but I save on printing because I can keep things open on the second screen for reference like the output of a program working on. The same applies to anyone who is expected to multi-task at work though. Two screens are better than one unless the one screen is a 30" high resolution panel.
I don't know how anyone wrote software back in the days before dual high resolution screens. It's a time consuming chore, requiring a number of dead tree tomes open on one's desk and constant shuffling about.
Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection (ACID) boasts a patented technology
ACID best decribes what these people are on when they go out doing this kind of crap. It's technically unfeasable. We've seen that all they really do is keyword search in filenames, even though several groups have claimed to do more. Name the files differently and for the most part you'll fly under the radar.
Well some random girl commented on my sexy mac while I was at a cafe in the wee hours doing a little caffeine inspired coding one time.
Come now. If you aren't a gay male and think having a Mac is sexy then I am going to predict you have lots of females who view you as 'just as friend'.
Unfortunately I have lots of girls that view me as just that. Doesn't mean you can't sleep with some of them; we are the uninhibited generation and fucking your friends isn't so wierd as it used to be. Makes it hard to meet other women sometimes though - they think that the girlie you're drinking beer (or coffee) with is your S.O.
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Computer's don't make mistakes (with the exception of the f00f bug, random alpha particles et. al of course... ).
*improved*
It's not just poor training. If the representative cannot find a record of your account in the computer they have to assume your account never existed. There's probably a paper trail and backups that will verify things, but you will need to ask to have your call escalated to the person's manager.
Level 1 support is always lax - they're the trained monkeys who know how to say "did you reboot your windows box yet" when you tell them your TV crashed. They really only exist to filter the morons from the people with serious technical issues in most companies. You need to suffer through their crap to get escalated to the next level though.
Level 2 support is where you need to be as a tried and true geek. This is where the real techs hide. Generally the L2 support doesn't have any authority to make deals with you and the like. All they can do is look into the technical aspects within what the data on their system says you're paying for. If the data is wrong you need to move up another level.
From there all that's left is managers. They are usually not technical but have the authority to make decisions and the like. You generally need the manager and the L2 person on the line at the same time to get anything done unless it's a pure management question (why do you have no record of me ever having an account?).
It really is silly to have a bunch of highly paid technical people fielding a bunch of "i am a moron" calls. It's more sensible to filter them out with cheap staff and only employ a handful of technical people/managers to handle the more stubborn or serious problems.
Know how the company you're dealing with structures their phone support and you'll find it easier to deal with em. Also remember not to get agitated at the person on the phone or they'll just become disillusioned about helping you. They probably get abuse from people day in and day out.
I don't want to see anymore crazy fuckers blowing up my friends, but I don't want to go down the road of censorship either. If we have to censor them then they're winning. It's been said again and again - the people who you're trying to stop are extremists. They believe they are right and force that view on their kids and anyone they're easily able to convince. Ban them from making DVDs and books and they'll do it by word of mouth and the underground.
Starting censoring things like this will lead to wider bans on things - terrorist propoganda now. The whole muslim faith down the track. It might spread to ban publications banning all religions other than the "one true christianity".
I am saddened by this because the more we attack the "terrorists" the more the liberal but borderline people feel persecuted and want to exact their "liberation" on society.
Learn from your mistake. You got a spambot because you messed up your 1337 sysadmin skills. You need to figure out what you did wrong and how not to do it again.
Then, you need to stay on top of security issues. You run appear to run Windows so you'l have to work 10x as hard to do that. windows is a big steaming pile of goats shit when it comes to security. All the sh1t that MS claim protects you does nothing more than inconvenience normal users and slow their boxes down to buggery.
You're not likely to catch em so don't bother. Make some notes and learn for next time!!!
The original Sony was a good company. They came to a massive rise in fame with the walkman. From there it was all downhill. Sony movies behaves just like sony electronics. They have always twisted the standards, tried to push their own agenda and generally released products that were ever-so-slightly incompatible with other manufacturers (I remember a sony VCR that could not be watched on anything other than a sony tv becuase it fiddled with the composite video output in some strange way that was apparantly the way of the future).
Sony music/movies is just the logical progression of that!
Global warming? Won't somebody, please, blame the children?
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Discs that won't work with players... well my comment was about encryption keys but but this is just as bad!
Sony are selling DVDs that (probably) carry the DVD logo which implies compatibility with the DVD standard. If they have new copy protection they are violating that obviously and should have their ass sued off.
Can anyone say "class action"? This happened before with their CDs and their malware.
Now they're fritzing the DVD players so you can't watch your movie. Does anyone think this is kind of a "make em buy it, it won't play, they'll need to pay for a new player or firmware update, profit" scamario?
Sounds good, but right after they invent that some artistic movie producer will want to make a dodecahedral movie and what are you going to do with your quadrilateral screen then?
I mean, you could use the $70,000 saved to buy a handful of Blu-Ray(TM) DVD's!
Yeah, you could probably get one or two HD-DVDs and then get the change sued off you by the MPAA For watching them.
I gotta say I like it - not so much because it's big and HD, but because it's unwieldy and thief-proof. Just imagine the poor schmuck who tries to steal it. Score one for Panasonic finally making a common-thief-proof TV. If this baby goes missing you can track down all the professional riggers and crane operators and find it in no time!
Television? What's that?
I don't have the time anymore. It's hard work being a full time employee for the man and raising a family and commuting an hour to and then from work because the man doesn't pay enough to live close to work (yet he pays himself enough to live in the most expensive suburb, another rant entirely).
I used to collect Commodore and Nintendo stuff. I have a pretty good collection of Nintendo hardware; NES, SNES, N64, a handful of games, extra controllers, light guns, the works. I even have the beginnings of a Sega collection. It's all operational as well after a lot of cleaning and TLC. It takes a lot of time to resurrect the older hardware and make it functional. If you don't have the tech skills to replace fried components or even repair damaged PCBs and connectors its really not worth doing. You often buy two or three dud machines to turn them into one functional one.
There's no point having a machine if you don't have a decent collection of software to run on it. Sure, you can often download the software illegally but for cart-based systems then you need to find a working cart emulator, assuming one existed for your platform and you still can't play anything with SuperFX-type addons on cart emulators.
Collecting the retro stuff is also time consuming. You have to be on the lookout everywhere. Ebay is good, but there's a lot of crap on there that people are trying to flog off for more than it's worth. I see a lot of stuff that says "condition unknown" then with a min bid of $50. That could mean it's totally fried but you have to decide whether to take that gamble. There's always stuff advertised in the local trading rag and the local news, as well as other websites and swap meets that come and go. If you don't keep abrest (all you nerds tremble before the breast) of current prices you're lialbe to get royally screwed.
I sorely miss being able to play some of the games that I played as I was growing up, but I remember back to when I used to play. We'd sit up all night hammering away at the game. That was the only way. When you're on a limited time budget (as you are when you're working for the man and have other commitments) you can't do that anywhere near as often as you'd like.
Good luck to those who want to get into the collection hobby. It's fun and rewarding. If you just want to hoarde junk stay for the sake of being able to say "i have that" without ever actually doing anything with it then you should probably find another hobby; there are some of us who like to restore hardware and it's difficult to do unless you can get enough bits. If they're getting snapped up by hoarders then it takes the fun away for a lot of us.
On a regular basis - contrary to popular belief!
Ten million music fans, all heavy consumers and the **IA can't figure out a working micro-pay/pay-as-you-go music download system?
The problem with this is i think a great-many of the people who download a shitload of music are the unemploted, the low income earners and kids. Sure, there's probably a handfull from other demographics as well.
Music is expensive. A CD single here can cost between $7 and $10 depending on the artist and the label. A new release CD can cost between $25 and $30, again depending. Not to mention the price of DVDs.
The prices of music do not fall with time either. It's still possible to go into a record store and pay full price for a CD that was released 20 years ago. It's absolutely crazy. I tend to shop at bargain bin CD stores because I really don't like new music anyway and it's much better to find something great for $10.
The business model of "let's make enormous profits to pay our fat, oversized salaries at the expense of the consumer" should be what the government regulates... If you make a product that everybody needs but nobody can afford what do you think is going to happen? Soon they'll start charging you for the rain that falls on your property because that rightly belongs to the water company and you should be buying it from them!
I had always thought doing something similar to this, but in my dining table. I figured it'd be possible to take one or 2 flat panels and some miscellaneous optics and make a fairly seamless representation of the image appear to be under the glass. Kind of cute if you whack a remote controlled webcam under there and show up your guest's skirts at dinner...
My first though so far was to use mirrors - reflect the display off a mirror kind of like what they do in some of the arcade games. This lets the display appear further from the observer than it really is - hence saving space. You could build some kind of optics system like that for your project to project a reasonably seamless image (apart from colour and size of the images).
It also means that once you crack one device, you have access to all the movies published to date, so cracking another device doesn't gain you anything.
It also means that as they revoke keys players stop playing newer discs. As crackers (let's get the terminology right) expose keys the MPAA is revoking them. This means that Shiny New Player (TM) will only be able to play movies published before a certain date. I don't know about you but if my shiny new player stopped playing movies publshed after a certain date because the keys it uses were revoked then I'd be mighty pissed off. I'd be dragging the manufacturer through court for selling a device that is not fit for purpose. The manufacturer would probably wind up dragging whoever revoked their key through the courts to recover their costs.
There are only a handful of keys out there. What happens when all the current ones are exposed and revoked?
Joe Public doesn't understand that his DVD player stopped playing disks because someone revoked an encryption key. He just understands it's a Blu-Ray disc and a blu-ray player and the two should go together like VHS tapes and VHS players, CDs and CD players, etc. It's always just worked in the past!
DRM is a flawed mechanism. It protects nothing and causes harm to those who just want to play their media.
I'm not trying to be snide here, but I suspect you haven't seen very many independent films. Most of them *suck* *incredibly*, but the very best 0.1% are quite good indeed, competitive with the best stuff coming out of Hollywood.
I'm not trying to be snide here, but I suspect you haven't seen very many independent films. Most of them *rock* *incredibly*, but the very worst 0.1% are quite bad indeed, competitive with the best stuff coming out of Hollywood.
*fiexd*
Yay - I stopped using Gaim a long time ago because of that window - and the devs at the time said that they weren't going to remove it (or even make it a configurable option) because that was they way they thought all users should work. You can search the gaim lists for that discussion.
If the shitty window is gone the new Gaim might be worth trying out again.
The bean-counters know exactly what they're doing. They're extracting more value (your time) from you at no cost. That free productivity (salaried--unpaid to the employee--overtime) looks great on the balance sheet, compared to the price of an extra monitor. If you can't see that, I think you might need to re-evaluate the target of your insults.
It might look good on the balance sheet, but most places that ask you to fill in a time card will also ask you to book ACTUAL hours spent on a project, even if those hours exceed the contractual 40. I don't often book past 40 because I am of the opinion that if I need to work past 40/week then they are either not scheduling their projects properly or they are not providing adequate tools.
The salaried employee might get paid for 40, but work 60-80 hours a week. The bean counters are probably laughing at him. The project managers are pulling their hair out trying to work out how to get him back down to 40 because all project schedules are made on the basis of 40 hour work weeks and if you exceed that every week your project comes in over budget (on paper) regardless of whether you deliver on time or not.
Wasted time does add up and is counted. Not by bean counters, who are so narrow minded that they think everything including human life can be assigned a dollar value. It is counted by the people who really count; your project manager.
Severe amounts of wasted time are quite visible in many companies. I have heard of people who are required to book to a non-chargeable job rather than their project if they spend time waiting for their tools to do something (compiling, for example) and can't do another task in the mean time. Consequently they also have the latest and greatest quad-core machines running nice stable Linux to do their thinking for them because that reduced the amount of non-chargeable bookings.
It remains one of the most widely ported IM packages across platforms. That doesn't mean it's less sucky than the official AIM (or other) clients.
I thought GAIM was a piece of poo.. What's with that fucked up away dialog box to tell you that your GAIM status is busy? I want GAIM to fuck off into the background when I am busy, not pop up a dialog telling me that and taking up valuable screen real-estate on my already cluttered desktop.
Gaim should have gone and got a job as a cheap asian street hooker a long time ago ("sucky sucky, free, free, I able to suck everyone")
Dirt cheap compared to the salaries
That really depends on where you work; there are a lot of shitbox companies around there that pay the minimum amount to put food on the programmer's table. A lot of managers don't think of "if we spend this we'll save twice that" they think "if we spend this we immediately reduce the bottom line by the same amount, fuck that!"
I had two monitors on my desk for a long time. One eventually got bad enough they replaced it with a flat panel. The new panel was so good that I couldn't use the remaining CRT (and also, my eyes were fucked as a result of the shitty old CRT they wouldn't replace sooner).
Long story short, I ditched the second CRT and they wouldn't replace it. My productivity dropped enormously. I actually found it most beneficial to have email, a browser or some documentation for the toolkits I was using open in fullscreen on the second display. It made finding a reference a simply matter of glancing across rather than bringing up another window, losing the context of what I was doing then having to do the shuffle back and forward.
Not only that, but I save on printing because I can keep things open on the second screen for reference like the output of a program working on. The same applies to anyone who is expected to multi-task at work though. Two screens are better than one unless the one screen is a 30" high resolution panel.
I don't know how anyone wrote software back in the days before dual high resolution screens. It's a time consuming chore, requiring a number of dead tree tomes open on one's desk and constant shuffling about.
Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection (ACID) boasts a patented technology
ACID best decribes what these people are on when they go out doing this kind of crap. It's technically unfeasable. We've seen that all they really do is keyword search in filenames, even though several groups have claimed to do more. Name the files differently and for the most part you'll fly under the radar.
Religion and crime should never be organized, nothing good ever came out of either.
Amen to that!
'or a Mac for ... looking sexy?'
Well some random girl commented on my sexy mac while I was at a cafe in the wee hours doing a little caffeine inspired coding one time.
Come now. If you aren't a gay male and think having a Mac is sexy then I am going to predict you have lots of females who view you as 'just as friend'.
Unfortunately I have lots of girls that view me as just that. Doesn't mean you can't sleep with some of them; we are the uninhibited generation and fucking your friends isn't so wierd as it used to be. Makes it hard to meet other women sometimes though - they think that the girlie you're drinking beer (or coffee) with is your S.O.