I have to agree and disagree with this. When I buy juice from the store, it's premixed and perfect, which is what I want. Same would go for soda, beer, pretty much most beverages.
When I make smoothies at home, on the other hand, I like to do it myself. I like the fact that they're never quite exactly the same. I do measure, but never worry about it being perfect, use fresh fruit which has variety in size and flavor, and then try odd combinations on top of it. Now I really want a smoothie.
Thanks for the support. It's been hard, today is the 3rd official day, but I already feel it getting easier. And it's probably all mental, but I feel so much better already. I have a long way to go, but I have a great reason to do it now. Talking about starting a family, and being able to be there and healthy for my child, and not harm their health, is making it so much easier to do.
I prefer a shorter story based game. After work and family I have no time to play games, and I don't even have kids yet! So a shorter RPG with a great story works out for me.
At this point, I mostly play non-story based games so I don't need to worry about forgetting what I was doing if I don't play for a month. I've been playing Burnout 3 since the day it came out, with month long breaks between play sessions sometimes, and ever time was with a friend, taking turns to unlock stuff. I'd much rather spend time with my girlfriend or hanging out with friends.
Plus, the review said they were only 20 hours into the game, not that it took 20 hours to complete the game.
I had a user once who would probably get along great with yours. She used to call me up, at least once a week, freaking out (many times crying!!) because her keyboard and/or mouse didn't work anymore. Every single time, she had moved her computer to the other side of the desk, yanking out the keyboard and mouse. The desk were setup with those holes for the keyboard and mouse cords, so they snagged and pulled out easily. I explained every time that she shouldn't move the computer or it will happen again, and that she isn't even supposed to move it in the first place.
I left the position about 6 months after this started happening for greener pastures, and a friend ended up with my old position. She did this almost weekly to him until she left for another job.
Oh, for clarification, she was a manager in the company, and definitely had the beginning of some pointy hair. Her main purpose for needing the computer was playing web games, which I was told to unblock after she complained none of them worked (said she only played on lunch, but it looked more like she played all day except for lunch.)
I remember Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both coming off as jerks in that movie. Bill Gates was drunk through most of the first half. Did either of them make a huge deal of that, though? I don't remember any backlash at it, but that was some time ago.
I bought more music between the ages of 21-23 in a few months than I do in a year now. But I still buy a lot of music, mostly hardcore and punk, but I find it's just harder to find music I enjoy now.
One of my largest sources of new music was Napster, where I would find someone with similiar music tastes, snag some music that sounded interesting (if their homepage didn't have samples,) and then I would buy it if I really enjoyed it. Now I find that if I search for a band that I'm interested in on the current P2P services, I find nothing, or get hits from crappy pop bands. It's frustrating to look for a type of music, like punk, and get nothing but Blink 182 and nothing like Choking Victim.
I agree that we're living in a throw away society, and I always try to squeeze that extra live out of old machines (I have an old HP a customer just left at the shop after purchasing a new machine I'm using as a Linux box to teach myself about Apache, for example.) And true, most machines are obsolete in just a few years.
In the case of this client, the machines will be used well past their prime. Most of the work done on them consists of MS Office, web browsing, e-mail, etc. The hardest thing on them is working in Access. So machines that'll last reliably for 4-5 years was a major concern in the purchasing. When they bought from Dell, they went with mid to high range systems, which tended to die in a year or two. They still have a few they use in one of their offices, both P3s, which still do what they need. But at this point, out of the order of 15 machines, only 2 are surviving, and one of them likes to shut down on it's own once in awhile. Luckily this office is nice and far away, so I don't get called over every time it happens. This is just one order, there are whole orders that at this point have been retired to the junk yard, including two servers.
I can't argue with those prices, but one of the highlights of a new desktop machine is assembling it. I even buy the notebook shells once in awhile and throw them together myself. I enjoy the activity, though, so that's a large driving factor in it.
I have a ton of clients who use Dell and Dell only. They bring us a ton of business, because of the shoddy quality of the equipment.
I have one major client that only used Dell that we've switched to the labelled brand my shop sells (assembled by our local wholesaler, but we handpick the parts, even on the notebooks.) No problems yet with hardware failures, but we also use all real Intel motherboards for them. Yes, I'm sure we could assemble them ourselves, but this saves so much time, and doesn't cost anymore on our side. And in the long run, the company is actaully saving a lot of money on the systems. The cost per system is a bit lower than they were receiving from Dell yet the quality is a ton higher. They also have two layers of support for the machines. We're the actually reseller, so they have us, and even though the wholesaler doesn't sell to the public, they provide support. Oh, and all the machines come with a standard 3 year warranty on parts and labor.
I'm typing this as we speak on one of their notebooks, actually. My brand new Athlon 64 3000+, and I love every second of it. Linux is going on it later today.
How is my comment over rated when the parent poster was not? Is this not a discussion forum, which I was doing? I have mod points right now, actually, and I'm not using them to just knock out posts because you don't agree with them.
I have a feeling this was modded over rated because I mentioned Microsoft as a company that has moved tech or made it more accessable. No matter how much people don't want to admit it, MS did help get machines on a lot of desks. You don't have to agree with their methods or like their software, but this is twice I mentioned MS in a non-negative way and was modded over rated now.
Yep, I like to rename it like that, also. Another things that I show them (I know it's not just in Firefox) that gets them hooked is the little search field, where they can do a Google, Yahoo, or whatever search without going to the actual homepage.
I wish I hadn't posted so I could mod you up. I would definetely rate companies that are working to cure diseases as more important. The same with places feeding, housing, and just generally helping out those less fortunate.
Important as a tech company, but only until the next great thing happens. IBM, Apple, Microsoft, and countless others that have really moved the tech world or made it more accessable, well, that's important. If it wasn't for these kind of companies, Google would have been a moot point from the beginning, because no one would have needed it.
I've noticed that many of my home clients swear by Yahoo or MSN, and don't even realise how large Google has gotten. A lot of them also like their Internet providers page as their homepage, though, because it feels more AOLish than having a useful start page.
But I'd say they feel that IE is the Internet more than anything else. We recommand and install Firefox for all our clients, and I've heard remarks ranging from "Oh, other people make IE now, too?" to "Oh, IE is the best, that's why it comes with Windows." Oh, 95% of these clients are spyware removal, infected to the point that you can't even get into Windows or if you can it's completely unuseable.
My shop had a computer with a variant of Klez on it that an up to date copy of Norton's missed. Considering the age of Klez, any virus scanner should find it and prevent it without an issue. Norton was on the machine and running at time of infection, too.
Only time I saw it miss something that major completely, but it killed the little hope I had left for the product.
I've only managed to rip about 1/10 of my CD's, and I'm up at around 10 gigs. But, I buy a lot of CD's right at punk and hardcore shows straight from the bands. Build up a large collection of great music, some quite rare, that way. Also have a large vinyl collection purchased at shows.
That's a great idea, will have to do that. It's frustrating, a few of them finally know to click run as a different user, and then type in their own username and password, or their username and pass for quickbooks.
Amazingly no one has managed to infect their system with spyware. Largest problem I'm finding now is the whole office uses notebooks, and they keep breaking the keyboards. I have no idea how they manage to pop keys off so damn easily, I've had the same system for ages, and cart it everywhere with me, and have never one broken the keyboard. I guess I don't drop stuff on the keyboard, though. It's always one thing or another, though, and it keeps me busy (and hell, if they want to pay my contracters fee to pop on a knocked off key, so be it.)
I do the same thing for my uesrs so they have the ability to run Quickbooks. I created a special admin account that boots them out if they try to login with it. It's been 3 weeks, and I think most people have figured it out. I've explained to a few people countless times what the username and password is (it's so easy it's not funny) but they still can't figure it out.
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..or until you marry and your significant other makes you get rid of all the "crap"
I am also in the business, and charge $39 an hour. And my business is growing so rapidly it makes my head spin. Why? It's not because it costs so much to have the machine repaired, it's because people want THAT computer with THAT data and THAT setup (horrible backgrounds intact, etc.) And if worse comes to worse, that want someone that is able to get a complete backup of their docs before doing a wipe of the system. The average home user can't do that, and buying a new system may make them lose a ton of pictures and docs. And I also educate on how to not have your machine come back into my shop. The people that listen, sure, maybe I don't see their machine every 3 weeks, BUT they also tend to come back to my shop when they need new hardware.
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I have to agree and disagree with this. When I buy juice from the store, it's premixed and perfect, which is what I want. Same would go for soda, beer, pretty much most beverages.
When I make smoothies at home, on the other hand, I like to do it myself. I like the fact that they're never quite exactly the same. I do measure, but never worry about it being perfect, use fresh fruit which has variety in size and flavor, and then try odd combinations on top of it. Now I really want a smoothie.
Thanks for the support. It's been hard, today is the 3rd official day, but I already feel it getting easier. And it's probably all mental, but I feel so much better already. I have a long way to go, but I have a great reason to do it now. Talking about starting a family, and being able to be there and healthy for my child, and not harm their health, is making it so much easier to do.
I prefer a shorter story based game. After work and family I have no time to play games, and I don't even have kids yet! So a shorter RPG with a great story works out for me.
At this point, I mostly play non-story based games so I don't need to worry about forgetting what I was doing if I don't play for a month. I've been playing Burnout 3 since the day it came out, with month long breaks between play sessions sometimes, and ever time was with a friend, taking turns to unlock stuff. I'd much rather spend time with my girlfriend or hanging out with friends.
Plus, the review said they were only 20 hours into the game, not that it took 20 hours to complete the game.
I had a user once who would probably get along great with yours. She used to call me up, at least once a week, freaking out (many times crying!!) because her keyboard and/or mouse didn't work anymore. Every single time, she had moved her computer to the other side of the desk, yanking out the keyboard and mouse. The desk were setup with those holes for the keyboard and mouse cords, so they snagged and pulled out easily. I explained every time that she shouldn't move the computer or it will happen again, and that she isn't even supposed to move it in the first place.
I left the position about 6 months after this started happening for greener pastures, and a friend ended up with my old position. She did this almost weekly to him until she left for another job.
Oh, for clarification, she was a manager in the company, and definitely had the beginning of some pointy hair. Her main purpose for needing the computer was playing web games, which I was told to unblock after she complained none of them worked (said she only played on lunch, but it looked more like she played all day except for lunch.)
I remember Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both coming off as jerks in that movie. Bill Gates was drunk through most of the first half. Did either of them make a huge deal of that, though? I don't remember any backlash at it, but that was some time ago.
I bought more music between the ages of 21-23 in a few months than I do in a year now. But I still buy a lot of music, mostly hardcore and punk, but I find it's just harder to find music I enjoy now.
One of my largest sources of new music was Napster, where I would find someone with similiar music tastes, snag some music that sounded interesting (if their homepage didn't have samples,) and then I would buy it if I really enjoyed it. Now I find that if I search for a band that I'm interested in on the current P2P services, I find nothing, or get hits from crappy pop bands. It's frustrating to look for a type of music, like punk, and get nothing but Blink 182 and nothing like Choking Victim.
I agree that we're living in a throw away society, and I always try to squeeze that extra live out of old machines (I have an old HP a customer just left at the shop after purchasing a new machine I'm using as a Linux box to teach myself about Apache, for example.) And true, most machines are obsolete in just a few years.
In the case of this client, the machines will be used well past their prime. Most of the work done on them consists of MS Office, web browsing, e-mail, etc. The hardest thing on them is working in Access. So machines that'll last reliably for 4-5 years was a major concern in the purchasing. When they bought from Dell, they went with mid to high range systems, which tended to die in a year or two. They still have a few they use in one of their offices, both P3s, which still do what they need. But at this point, out of the order of 15 machines, only 2 are surviving, and one of them likes to shut down on it's own once in awhile. Luckily this office is nice and far away, so I don't get called over every time it happens. This is just one order, there are whole orders that at this point have been retired to the junk yard, including two servers.
I can't argue with those prices, but one of the highlights of a new desktop machine is assembling it. I even buy the notebook shells once in awhile and throw them together myself. I enjoy the activity, though, so that's a large driving factor in it.
I have a ton of clients who use Dell and Dell only. They bring us a ton of business, because of the shoddy quality of the equipment.
I have one major client that only used Dell that we've switched to the labelled brand my shop sells (assembled by our local wholesaler, but we handpick the parts, even on the notebooks.) No problems yet with hardware failures, but we also use all real Intel motherboards for them. Yes, I'm sure we could assemble them ourselves, but this saves so much time, and doesn't cost anymore on our side. And in the long run, the company is actaully saving a lot of money on the systems. The cost per system is a bit lower than they were receiving from Dell yet the quality is a ton higher. They also have two layers of support for the machines. We're the actually reseller, so they have us, and even though the wholesaler doesn't sell to the public, they provide support. Oh, and all the machines come with a standard 3 year warranty on parts and labor.
I'm typing this as we speak on one of their notebooks, actually. My brand new Athlon 64 3000+, and I love every second of it. Linux is going on it later today.
Now we don't have to wait around for our porn!
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All those accomplisments sounded so great until the Britney Spears smash hit. That's not something to be proud of!
How is my comment over rated when the parent poster was not? Is this not a discussion forum, which I was doing? I have mod points right now, actually, and I'm not using them to just knock out posts because you don't agree with them.
I have a feeling this was modded over rated because I mentioned Microsoft as a company that has moved tech or made it more accessable. No matter how much people don't want to admit it, MS did help get machines on a lot of desks. You don't have to agree with their methods or like their software, but this is twice I mentioned MS in a non-negative way and was modded over rated now.
Yep, I like to rename it like that, also. Another things that I show them (I know it's not just in Firefox) that gets them hooked is the little search field, where they can do a Google, Yahoo, or whatever search without going to the actual homepage.
I wish I hadn't posted so I could mod you up. I would definetely rate companies that are working to cure diseases as more important. The same with places feeding, housing, and just generally helping out those less fortunate.
Important as a tech company, but only until the next great thing happens. IBM, Apple, Microsoft, and countless others that have really moved the tech world or made it more accessable, well, that's important. If it wasn't for these kind of companies, Google would have been a moot point from the beginning, because no one would have needed it.
Your post has had an amazing impact on my day. It's a whole new paradigm. I will dialogue with you later.
I've noticed that many of my home clients swear by Yahoo or MSN, and don't even realise how large Google has gotten. A lot of them also like their Internet providers page as their homepage, though, because it feels more AOLish than having a useful start page.
But I'd say they feel that IE is the Internet more than anything else. We recommand and install Firefox for all our clients, and I've heard remarks ranging from "Oh, other people make IE now, too?" to "Oh, IE is the best, that's why it comes with Windows." Oh, 95% of these clients are spyware removal, infected to the point that you can't even get into Windows or if you can it's completely unuseable.
So we're living in a variation of the Ender's Game universe? Or the Last Starfighter?
Way to make my 59th birthday seem grim!
My shop had a computer with a variant of Klez on it that an up to date copy of Norton's missed. Considering the age of Klez, any virus scanner should find it and prevent it without an issue. Norton was on the machine and running at time of infection, too.
Only time I saw it miss something that major completely, but it killed the little hope I had left for the product.
I've only managed to rip about 1/10 of my CD's, and I'm up at around 10 gigs. But, I buy a lot of CD's right at punk and hardcore shows straight from the bands. Build up a large collection of great music, some quite rare, that way. Also have a large vinyl collection purchased at shows.
That's a great idea, will have to do that. It's frustrating, a few of them finally know to click run as a different user, and then type in their own username and password, or their username and pass for quickbooks.
Amazingly no one has managed to infect their system with spyware. Largest problem I'm finding now is the whole office uses notebooks, and they keep breaking the keyboards. I have no idea how they manage to pop keys off so damn easily, I've had the same system for ages, and cart it everywhere with me, and have never one broken the keyboard. I guess I don't drop stuff on the keyboard, though. It's always one thing or another, though, and it keeps me busy (and hell, if they want to pay my contracters fee to pop on a knocked off key, so be it.)
I do the same thing for my uesrs so they have the ability to run Quickbooks. I created a special admin account that boots them out if they try to login with it. It's been 3 weeks, and I think most people have figured it out. I've explained to a few people countless times what the username and password is (it's so easy it's not funny) but they still can't figure it out.
..or until you marry and your significant other makes you get rid of all the "crap"
"...that teaches kids it's OK to diss people..."
I hope that's a misquote.
I am also in the business, and charge $39 an hour. And my business is growing so rapidly it makes my head spin. Why? It's not because it costs so much to have the machine repaired, it's because people want THAT computer with THAT data and THAT setup (horrible backgrounds intact, etc.) And if worse comes to worse, that want someone that is able to get a complete backup of their docs before doing a wipe of the system. The average home user can't do that, and buying a new system may make them lose a ton of pictures and docs. And I also educate on how to not have your machine come back into my shop. The people that listen, sure, maybe I don't see their machine every 3 weeks, BUT they also tend to come back to my shop when they need new hardware.