I wonder what a sociologist would have to say about a game where probably 99 percent of players are young males, but half the characters in the game seem to be female.
I know quite a few women players, mostly through the guild I"m a member of. Quite a few are former EQ widows.
One of the 'jokes' the female NE character has is about you hanging around with your mates to watch us dance. One of the others is about male NE's using the Emerald Dream as merely an excuse not to call...
In fact the female NE jokes are all fairly lame and angsty about male/female relationships. Hmmm...
I play an NE Druid and got my Cat form last night. I was runing back through Aldrassil and saw another of those limited edition Panda cub pets running around. I really wanted to be able to play with it, but all I could do was jump up and down on it.:)
Everytime I read something about it, it only annoys me even more
Oddly enough, I felt that way about the TV series when I heard everyone waxing lyrical about it. It's grown on me, but doesn't evoke that same sense of wonder as the radio series. (Can I press the button now?)
I listened to the Primary Phase when it first aired in Australia in '78 (It debuted in the UK in '77).
I seem to recall the Secondary Phase was almost immediately afterwards, but I could be mis-remembering.
I heard the Tertiary Phase on MP3 courtesy of Suprnova, to the best of my knowledge it still hasn't aired down here on public broadcast. Someone must have gotten ahold of the CD master from somewhere, as it hadn't at that time yet been played in it's entirety on the BBC yet.
I have heard that there was also a Fourth Phase recorded but not yet released.
I got the CD's of the 'Original' radio series for my 21st birthday - that is I got a order form, paid in full, as they weren't yet available. There is a silk screen error on the discs which was fixed on later pressings (my husband also has his own set).
Sorry, listened to the radio series in the '70s, read the books when the first became available in the early '80s and watched the TV series in the '80s. No need to rush out and read the books now - though they are getting a little dog eared and nearly due to be replaced.:)
Given that Arthur's brain was part of the matrix (Earth), and he made the scrabble tiles himself, is it possible that he was subconciously programmed as to which tiles would be required...
I seriously doubt that it I tried that here I could get it past the OHAS auditor. Afterall, someone might fall off it and get hurt...
It only took 12 months of asking for me to get a footrest (I'm 5'2" and we have fixed height desks, if I have my chair set to the right heeight in relation to the desk, my feet are dangling...)
I would say that it is in part still a question of economics; it is easy to say someone is lazy if they haven't just worked a full day, (or potentially two jobs) if the don't bother to prepare a full meal from fresh ingredients every night.
Time is also a comodity that the wealthy can afford - they can buy it by paying someone else to clean their house, cook their meals, look after thier kids, chase them around the gym.
When I didn't spend 2.5 hours a day communting, I used to make my own pizza bases, pasta sauces from scratch, soups from scratch, etc... These days I think I'm doing pretty good if I grill some chicken to go with last night's left over salad. Getting to the gym as well to couteract the fact that I've been sitting at a desk or in a car for 10 hours is much trickier.
It means the person who configured your copier/MFD forgot to configure the paper size override control.
Someone is printing to the copier with US Letter selected as the paper size (the default configuration on pretty much all printer setups). You apparently don't have US Letter loaded in your copier, I would presume you probably have ISO A4 loaded.
It is possible on all the current models to configure the copier to automatically default to A4 for any US Letter requests - I had to get our office MFD configured that way because I couldn't teach the users to configure their default printer setting to A4 and IT persist on setting up print queues which default to US Letter.
To check this, print a "Printer Configuration report" from your MFD, find the setting flag, and place a service call (assuiming you are under contract), the engineer can reconfigure it for you.
Except it isn't teenage girls. It's my father in law.
Ditto. My Father-in-law keeps coming around to use our broadband, they live two blocks away and he has a key. He does at least have the courtesy to call first.
This is an "ask" story in a "News for Nerds" site.
But is a "News for Obsessive Compulsives" site?
Personally, I have a whiteboard on the fridge, if I go to use something and it's almost empty or not there, I write it on the fridge. When time comes to make a shopping list that's the starting point.
It mostly works except when my husband finishes something, doesn't write it on the whiteboard then complains that there is no more coke, bread, milk, whatever...
Yes because your dick is the only thing that you can put inside a child
I'm unsure if this is supposed to be sarcasm... I presume you've heard the term 'digital rape'... no it doesn't involve computers, it involves digits (fingers).
Seriously though, I know a large number of computer users from all platforms and have been a mac user since '87, and I would have to say that much of the Mac User 'Bigotry' is simply defensive behaviour.
Anyone in my circle of family or friends who buys a Mac is told to get AppleCare, and if I get the quote for them it is automatically included. I consider it a form of insurance. I spent 5 years or so as an authorised Apple Service Engineer, and know the sorts of things that can go wrong.
Apple's computers typically are not designed to be piecemeal upgraded over the years, they are a discrete unit/model. The 'hundreds of dollars they fork over for AppleCare' will keep that one computer running happily for 3+ years as is, rather than forking out hundreds of dollars incrementally for new logicbards, display cards and NICs to keep ahead of the curve.
From having supported multiplatform environments, I would say on the whole a high maintenance user will be a high maintenance user regardless of the platform you put them on. And having multiple platforms to support did not realistically increase the overall support overhead, I just had to maintain an additional set of SOE images.
Typically in (Australia) retail appliance sales there is the concept of DOA, and device which is brought back faulty within 14 days of initial purchase is exchanged for a new item -> assuming there is stock available and there is no obvious sign of abuse.
I had a customer once who would kill electronic devices without fail within 3 days of taking them home. He would write all over the manuals and the cartons, tear pieces out of the manual covers, break the packing materials when jamming the item back in the box. I actually told the boss at one point to give him every cent he had ever paid to the store back and tell him never to come back ever again - it would be cheaper in the long run that have to continue giving him new items and take back the old stock which was not in a condition to return to the manufacturer or be cleaned up, repaired and be put back on sale as is.
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I'll have to ask my husband about that. ;P
We hang out on Proudmoore and are in the Podargus Guild.
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I wonder what a sociologist would have to say about a game where probably 99 percent of players are young males, but half the characters in the game seem to be female.
I know quite a few women players, mostly through the guild I"m a member of. Quite a few are former EQ widows.
Try an AppleStore, apparently some people have seen stock there.
While you're there, you might want to check out a shiny new Apple. :)
One of the 'jokes' the female NE character has is about you hanging around with your mates to watch us dance. One of the others is about male NE's using the Emerald Dream as merely an excuse not to call...
In fact the female NE jokes are all fairly lame and angsty about male/female relationships. Hmmm...
I play an NE Druid and got my Cat form last night. I was runing back through Aldrassil and saw another of those limited edition Panda cub pets running around. I really wanted to be able to play with it, but all I could do was jump up and down on it. :)
Um... all the Sony players sold in Australia are factory chipped. Gotten straight froma friend who worked at one of Sony's premium dealers.
Everytime I read something about it, it only annoys me even more
Oddly enough, I felt that way about the TV series when I heard everyone waxing lyrical about it. It's grown on me, but doesn't evoke that same sense of wonder as the radio series. (Can I press the button now?)
I listened to the Primary Phase when it first aired in Australia in '78 (It debuted in the UK in '77).
I seem to recall the Secondary Phase was almost immediately afterwards, but I could be mis-remembering.
I heard the Tertiary Phase on MP3 courtesy of Suprnova, to the best of my knowledge it still hasn't aired down here on public broadcast. Someone must have gotten ahold of the CD master from somewhere, as it hadn't at that time yet been played in it's entirety on the BBC yet.
I have heard that there was also a Fourth Phase recorded but not yet released.
I got the CD's of the 'Original' radio series for my 21st birthday - that is I got a order form, paid in full, as they weren't yet available. There is a silk screen error on the discs which was fixed on later pressings (my husband also has his own set).
In porn sales figures, as with many other things in life, obviously, "Size Matters"...
User Fridnly would also be introuble if that's the case, as they frequently have visitations from Cthulhu and other Elder Gods...
Sorry, listened to the radio series in the '70s, read the books when the first became available in the early '80s and watched the TV series in the '80s. No need to rush out and read the books now - though they are getting a little dog eared and nearly due to be replaced. :)
Given that Arthur's brain was part of the matrix (Earth), and he made the scrabble tiles himself, is it possible that he was subconciously programmed as to which tiles would be required...
I seriously doubt that it I tried that here I could get it past the OHAS auditor. Afterall, someone might fall off it and get hurt...
It only took 12 months of asking for me to get a footrest (I'm 5'2" and we have fixed height desks, if I have my chair set to the right heeight in relation to the desk, my feet are dangling...)
Saw a Porsche this morning with the numberplate "IXXI"
and I see tons of women out there...that if they dropped half their weight...they'd be gorgeous
I presume of course that you look like Markey-Mark from his Calvin Klien underwear modelling days...
and how women are letting themselves go, and at such an early age
Don't worry, with attitudes like yours, I'm sure you don't have to worry about spending too much time in the presence of real women.
By making the choice to have children they have decided that using their time to raise offspring is more important than having a good body.
I'm not surprised you posted this as an Anonymous Coward; trying saying this to YOUR mother.
I would say that it is in part still a question of economics; it is easy to say someone is lazy if they haven't just worked a full day, (or potentially two jobs) if the don't bother to prepare a full meal from fresh ingredients every night.
Time is also a comodity that the wealthy can afford - they can buy it by paying someone else to clean their house, cook their meals, look after thier kids, chase them around the gym.
When I didn't spend 2.5 hours a day communting, I used to make my own pizza bases, pasta sauces from scratch, soups from scratch, etc... These days I think I'm doing pretty good if I grill some chicken to go with last night's left over salad. Getting to the gym as well to couteract the fact that I've been sitting at a desk or in a car for 10 hours is much trickier.
It means the person who configured your copier/MFD forgot to configure the paper size override control.
Someone is printing to the copier with US Letter selected as the paper size (the default configuration on pretty much all printer setups). You apparently don't have US Letter loaded in your copier, I would presume you probably have ISO A4 loaded.
It is possible on all the current models to configure the copier to automatically default to A4 for any US Letter requests - I had to get our office MFD configured that way because I couldn't teach the users to configure their default printer setting to A4 and IT persist on setting up print queues which default to US Letter.
To check this, print a "Printer Configuration report" from your MFD, find the setting flag, and place a service call (assuiming you are under contract), the engineer can reconfigure it for you.
On a secondary note, notice how Fujitsu is a Japanese company?
I work for Xerox in Australia - where it is called Fuji-Xerox. 75% owned by Fuji Film (Japan) and 25% owned by Xerox (USA).
Except it isn't teenage girls. It's my father in law.
Ditto. My Father-in-law keeps coming around to use our broadband, they live two blocks away and he has a key. He does at least have the courtesy to call first.
This is an "ask" story in a "News for Nerds" site.
But is a "News for Obsessive Compulsives" site?
Personally, I have a whiteboard on the fridge, if I go to use something and it's almost empty or not there, I write it on the fridge. When time comes to make a shopping list that's the starting point.
It mostly works except when my husband finishes something, doesn't write it on the whiteboard then complains that there is no more coke, bread, milk, whatever...
At least I'm not an Anonymous Coward
Yes because your dick is the only thing that you can put inside a child
I'm unsure if this is supposed to be sarcasm... I presume you've heard the term 'digital rape'... no it doesn't involve computers, it involves digits (fingers).
You forgot Amiga users...
Seriously though, I know a large number of computer users from all platforms and have been a mac user since '87, and I would have to say that much of the Mac User 'Bigotry' is simply defensive behaviour.
Anyone in my circle of family or friends who buys a Mac is told to get AppleCare, and if I get the quote for them it is automatically included. I consider it a form of insurance. I spent 5 years or so as an authorised Apple Service Engineer, and know the sorts of things that can go wrong.
Apple's computers typically are not designed to be piecemeal upgraded over the years, they are a discrete unit/model. The 'hundreds of dollars they fork over for AppleCare' will keep that one computer running happily for 3+ years as is, rather than forking out hundreds of dollars incrementally for new logicbards, display cards and NICs to keep ahead of the curve.
From having supported multiplatform environments, I would say on the whole a high maintenance user will be a high maintenance user regardless of the platform you put them on. And having multiple platforms to support did not realistically increase the overall support overhead, I just had to maintain an additional set of SOE images.
Typically in (Australia) retail appliance sales there is the concept of DOA, and device which is brought back faulty within 14 days of initial purchase is exchanged for a new item -> assuming there is stock available and there is no obvious sign of abuse.
I had a customer once who would kill electronic devices without fail within 3 days of taking them home. He would write all over the manuals and the cartons, tear pieces out of the manual covers, break the packing materials when jamming the item back in the box. I actually told the boss at one point to give him every cent he had ever paid to the store back and tell him never to come back ever again - it would be cheaper in the long run that have to continue giving him new items and take back the old stock which was not in a condition to return to the manufacturer or be cleaned up, repaired and be put back on sale as is.