I can see a someone having a heated argument over the phone in flight being a potential problem. I'm uncomfortable enough on planes, but the legitimacy of interference between cellphones and navigational equipment has always been something I've questioned to the point I think it's Verizon trying to support their $7-10/min charges.
Off topic here, but my father works in europe and flies a lot. On his last trip home (the states) he said some guys from Bulgaria caused a lot of problems on board. Bad enough TSA agents were called to meet the plane when it landed. The Bulgarians stood up demanding to get off the plane, but as soon as armed TSA goons showed up they demanded the boys, "GET THE FUCK ON THE FLOOR. HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!" A few incidents like that could hinder some cellphone related behavior.
I should've read into the "of IT" more. Really, I was thinking someone had a dirtier job than I did repairing cables crawling through the mud under a building, working 40 hours a week in an office that flooded with every rain storm (the water carried beach sand, I was working at a resort), the cables the guys I replaced ran through a cesspool yard... if you're thinking nothing is worse than that, you're right. Sadly, this article raised my hopes that I didn't have it so bad... then crushed them.
With coal, we have to worry about soot. Nuclear power, there's an issue of nuclear waste. Gasoline, and the polar ice caps will melt and we're all gonna die. What about the byproduct of using batteries? They have to be replaced at some point and what do we do with the old ones? Of course we'd recycle them, but they are not 100% recyclable.
With sellers being 8x likely to "retaliate in kind" it's not the buyer's fault. The feedback system is fundamentally flawed as too many sellers use it as a "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" rationale. I've been repeatedly harassed by sellers in the past to leave the positive feedback before they do the same for me. It gets to the point after my inbox is flooded with feedback reminders that I wish I'd never done business with them. Leaving feedback for a buyer is to rate their performance as a buyer: sending the payment promptly.
Then there's the otherside of a coin. Years ago, I bought a drive from these jerks calling themselves ComputerGods. I used their online checkout tool three times, would receive no confirmation, then the next day get a payment reminder from their system (the days before eBay's reminders). I called them and explained my problem and they said they would call me back. I went round and round on the phones with them for over a week and never heard from them, so I left negative feedback with the brief explanation, "Online payment doesn't work, seller will not return calls." They responded with negative feedback, "our online payment is easy, this guy has a loose screw!"
I rarely leave positive feedback. A seller can forget about it altogether if they approach me with "you scratch I scratch." And until now, I'd never leave negative feedback on a seller with the fear of them making something up to justify negative feedback for me.
Where I work, people who waste this money end up getting caught by our yearly "expenditure/necessity audits" and go looking for new jobs. Who the hell is letting this happen?
So, I've gone from DOS -> Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> therapy -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP and reluctantly to Vista on a new laptop. What I noticed from 95 to XP was about a decade of improvements. 95 introduced a new concept, 98 added some flare to it in the form of BSDs. 2000 (I skipped ME) made a great OS and fixed a lot of instability, yet where 98 would crash Windows 2000 would slow to a crawl.
Windows XP is a beautiful OS from Microsoft. Vista seems to be repeating the cycle, but more in the backend of things. Sure old hardware and software is a bastard on Vista, but think about the hell you'll go through with that when you finally switch to a 64-bit processor for any OS.
They're already working on the next version, so I'm keeping an open mind. For the most part, I have few problems with Vista... mostly annoyances. In fact, one application I use refused to work in Vista, but an upgrade fixed it. As far as annoyance: Why the hell do I have to go through so many clicks to find my IP address? Why such a costly indexing service now? Did this interface really need such a radical change?
I'll never buy one of their laptops again. I had an Inspiron 5150 (gave it to my dad, does that make me a bad son?) and it runs hotter than hell. My dad bought one of those USB fan arrays to sit it on. It takes away from its battery life and the ideal purpose of mobility.
One little glitch I've seen in a number of Dell laptops is false hard disk failures at boot. Troubleshooting this on the Inspiron, I got irritated and tried a primitive yet tried and true method to fix it: percussive readjustment. Banged on it. More of a thump with my index finger. It worked. I met a guy sometime later with a brand new XPS laptop he had owned less than two weeks that gave him the same problem. I told him my solution, he tried it and it worked!
I'm a radio broadcaster and I love terrestrial radio since it is the last free medium. Many artists my stations play will tell you (aside that prick Chris Daughtry, I'm sure) of the power of radio when it comes to promoting their music. A case in point: I spoke with the bassist of Soil after a concert and he told me how he can tell how much play they get in our market. He came to the conclusion it's not a lot as the only collective response they got from the crowd was for their biggest single.
Aside from HD Radio with its possible subscription services, there's no way to reimburse the station for paying royalties for promoting music. You could raise the price of advertising, but that would only further challenge a station's sales department. It's already a difficult job.
And why pay to hear new music? Most people won't go for it in a medium that's been free for so long. I certainly wouldn't; I'd probably quit the industry.
You overlooked how much of a variable the human body is.
Those drugs for impotency are popular because consumers make them popular. It's not that the medical community doesn't care about a disease that affects half a million people, it's the rest of the world.
It's not always hardware. I had a laptop with dual boot XP/Slackware. XP would sometimes (and I could reproduce it) crash with a BSD and reported a problem with the CD-ROM. I used linux about a third of the time, but in the four years of owning that laptop linux never crashed, not once. Not even for the CD-ROM issue windows had.
Moving your fingers for a prolonged amount of time with your wrists bent will cause carpal tunnel. So there's many possibilities: guitar, playing piano, using your stress squeeze-me ball, constantly sending text messages. The real question is: do we have too many things we operate with just our fingers?
I used to work with a guy who filled ATMs with cash. He said his record with his employer had one blemish, when the ATMs he filled came up short by a few hundred dollars, each of them.
Turns out, a guy who covered for him while he was sick put the wrong bills in the wrong slot. That guy lost his job, customers who profited from it had their account balances satisfied to compensate for the extra cash withdrawn. Of course, had their account gone negative the bank would work it out with them.
Ditto. I've had my iRiver H10 for over 2 years, just replaced the battery on it and never had an issue with DRM. It also has one crucial feature I haven't seen in another MP3 player: it records FM radio. I work in radio, so it's nice to be able to aircheck on the fly.
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I can see a someone having a heated argument over the phone in flight being a potential problem. I'm uncomfortable enough on planes, but the legitimacy of interference between cellphones and navigational equipment has always been something I've questioned to the point I think it's Verizon trying to support their $7-10/min charges. Off topic here, but my father works in europe and flies a lot. On his last trip home (the states) he said some guys from Bulgaria caused a lot of problems on board. Bad enough TSA agents were called to meet the plane when it landed. The Bulgarians stood up demanding to get off the plane, but as soon as armed TSA goons showed up they demanded the boys, "GET THE FUCK ON THE FLOOR. HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK!" A few incidents like that could hinder some cellphone related behavior.
Paranoia, perhaps?
I'm not paranoid, just nervous because the government and aliens are watching me.
You can't copyright a fucking fruit, Steve.
Oh, look, it's yet another use for duct tape.
I should've read into the "of IT" more. Really, I was thinking someone had a dirtier job than I did repairing cables crawling through the mud under a building, working 40 hours a week in an office that flooded with every rain storm (the water carried beach sand, I was working at a resort), the cables the guys I replaced ran through a cesspool yard... if you're thinking nothing is worse than that, you're right. Sadly, this article raised my hopes that I didn't have it so bad... then crushed them.
I think his idea is to get enough people to follow his advice so he doesn't have to. Think about it: it would still benefit the environment.
They all thought he was mad when he invented the smelloscope.
This is obviously a design consideration for unmanned aircraft.
With coal, we have to worry about soot. Nuclear power, there's an issue of nuclear waste. Gasoline, and the polar ice caps will melt and we're all gonna die. What about the byproduct of using batteries? They have to be replaced at some point and what do we do with the old ones? Of course we'd recycle them, but they are not 100% recyclable.
With sellers being 8x likely to "retaliate in kind" it's not the buyer's fault. The feedback system is fundamentally flawed as too many sellers use it as a "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" rationale. I've been repeatedly harassed by sellers in the past to leave the positive feedback before they do the same for me. It gets to the point after my inbox is flooded with feedback reminders that I wish I'd never done business with them. Leaving feedback for a buyer is to rate their performance as a buyer: sending the payment promptly.
Then there's the otherside of a coin. Years ago, I bought a drive from these jerks calling themselves ComputerGods. I used their online checkout tool three times, would receive no confirmation, then the next day get a payment reminder from their system (the days before eBay's reminders). I called them and explained my problem and they said they would call me back. I went round and round on the phones with them for over a week and never heard from them, so I left negative feedback with the brief explanation, "Online payment doesn't work, seller will not return calls." They responded with negative feedback, "our online payment is easy, this guy has a loose screw!"
I rarely leave positive feedback. A seller can forget about it altogether if they approach me with "you scratch I scratch." And until now, I'd never leave negative feedback on a seller with the fear of them making something up to justify negative feedback for me.
How did that episode of Southpark conclude? Really, our lives could be at stake!
Where I work, people who waste this money end up getting caught by our yearly "expenditure/necessity audits" and go looking for new jobs. Who the hell is letting this happen?
So, I've gone from DOS -> Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> therapy -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP and reluctantly to Vista on a new laptop. What I noticed from 95 to XP was about a decade of improvements. 95 introduced a new concept, 98 added some flare to it in the form of BSDs. 2000 (I skipped ME) made a great OS and fixed a lot of instability, yet where 98 would crash Windows 2000 would slow to a crawl.
Windows XP is a beautiful OS from Microsoft. Vista seems to be repeating the cycle, but more in the backend of things. Sure old hardware and software is a bastard on Vista, but think about the hell you'll go through with that when you finally switch to a 64-bit processor for any OS.
They're already working on the next version, so I'm keeping an open mind. For the most part, I have few problems with Vista... mostly annoyances. In fact, one application I use refused to work in Vista, but an upgrade fixed it. As far as annoyance: Why the hell do I have to go through so many clicks to find my IP address? Why such a costly indexing service now? Did this interface really need such a radical change?
...$1.5 million per violation of consumer rights.
I'll never buy one of their laptops again. I had an Inspiron 5150 (gave it to my dad, does that make me a bad son?) and it runs hotter than hell. My dad bought one of those USB fan arrays to sit it on. It takes away from its battery life and the ideal purpose of mobility.
One little glitch I've seen in a number of Dell laptops is false hard disk failures at boot. Troubleshooting this on the Inspiron, I got irritated and tried a primitive yet tried and true method to fix it: percussive readjustment. Banged on it. More of a thump with my index finger. It worked. I met a guy sometime later with a brand new XPS laptop he had owned less than two weeks that gave him the same problem. I told him my solution, he tried it and it worked!
Grim Reaper wins.
I feel so bad about how much energy I've wasted over the years.
I'm a radio broadcaster and I love terrestrial radio since it is the last free medium. Many artists my stations play will tell you (aside that prick Chris Daughtry, I'm sure) of the power of radio when it comes to promoting their music. A case in point: I spoke with the bassist of Soil after a concert and he told me how he can tell how much play they get in our market. He came to the conclusion it's not a lot as the only collective response they got from the crowd was for their biggest single. Aside from HD Radio with its possible subscription services, there's no way to reimburse the station for paying royalties for promoting music. You could raise the price of advertising, but that would only further challenge a station's sales department. It's already a difficult job. And why pay to hear new music? Most people won't go for it in a medium that's been free for so long. I certainly wouldn't; I'd probably quit the industry.
You overlooked how much of a variable the human body is. Those drugs for impotency are popular because consumers make them popular. It's not that the medical community doesn't care about a disease that affects half a million people, it's the rest of the world.
It's not always hardware. I had a laptop with dual boot XP/Slackware. XP would sometimes (and I could reproduce it) crash with a BSD and reported a problem with the CD-ROM. I used linux about a third of the time, but in the four years of owning that laptop linux never crashed, not once. Not even for the CD-ROM issue windows had.
Moving your fingers for a prolonged amount of time with your wrists bent will cause carpal tunnel. So there's many possibilities: guitar, playing piano, using your stress squeeze-me ball, constantly sending text messages. The real question is: do we have too many things we operate with just our fingers?
I used to work with a guy who filled ATMs with cash. He said his record with his employer had one blemish, when the ATMs he filled came up short by a few hundred dollars, each of them.
Turns out, a guy who covered for him while he was sick put the wrong bills in the wrong slot. That guy lost his job, customers who profited from it had their account balances satisfied to compensate for the extra cash withdrawn. Of course, had their account gone negative the bank would work it out with them.
Ditto. I've had my iRiver H10 for over 2 years, just replaced the battery on it and never had an issue with DRM. It also has one crucial feature I haven't seen in another MP3 player: it records FM radio. I work in radio, so it's nice to be able to aircheck on the fly.
Will it get me laid? If I saw a girl with one, I'd try to get her number. But then, if she didn't have one it wouldn't stop me.