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But what I want to know is do you get an hourglass after you click an application shortcut on your desktop? Nothing confuses a n00b like clicking on something and having zero feedback (did I click it only once or is it just taking forever???)
I solved this problem by having credit that is so bad, people literally laugh at me when I apply for a card. The weird part is I still get these offers in the mail; I still think it is a ploy by the credit card companies to give their employees a good laugh now and then.
Speaking of reading your backup meadia, one nice thing about backing up to disk drives is if my office building burns down, I don't have to look around for another tape drive (like the one that burned up in the building) to read my tapes; I simply find a computer and plug my harddrive in and bingo, my backups are available.
I think the biggest obstacle to any revolution will be the simple question: Will it interfere with everyone's ability to watch Must See TV or not? "Yeah I would go help with your rioting, but then I would miss the season finale of Medium." Now if the government started shutting down the TV stations on the other hand...
The best part of our company is the people with over 4,000 emails in their "Deleted Items" folder, since they dont understand the concept of the "Deleted" part.
One day I was helping a secretary clean up her old email (before migrating her to Thunderbird actually) and went to empty her Trash folder. She went nuts and said, "Wait, there is stuff in there I want". Turns out she had hundreds of email messages in dozens of folders and sub folders in her Trash folder, neatly organizing a bunch of mail she wanted to keep. Apparently she had been filing things in her Trash folder for years.
I should remember this when I organize my paper files; I could just put them in folders and then put them in the little box next to my desk labelled "Trash" and they will magically get filed for me every evening.
I think the blood theory has been discounted (according to this article anyway.) This same article also mentions the particles seem to be "reproducing", even though they don't seem to contain DNA. There is also a link to the guy in India who has been studying the rain for several years now. Pictures of the little beasties are available at the second link.
I wonder how feasible it would be to convert nuclear plants to fusion plants later? Granted we don't know what all of the requirements for a fusion reactor will be, but it seems like we could at least make some adjustments to reactors currently being designed with the goal of converting them later, or are they so different that this won't be possible?
It seems to be time to start preparing to launch more orbit-based telescopes.
Or better yet, moon or mars based telescopes. The happy side effect is that a few astronomers will survive for awhile on the moon/mars after the earth becomes uninhabitable.
Actually if you think about nearly every problem we have, we almost always concentrate on the symptoms instead of the cause. Which brings us back to why a few astronomers on the moon/mars would be a good thing....
I never could understand what the big deal is here; people can get their DNS information from whoever they want, and the big ISPs can setup their DNS servers any way they want. For example, lets say China has DNS servers that resolve "google.com" to some chinese server. Any US ISP can route google.com to the "right" (current) place, and then make a pointer (say, google.com.china) to point to the chinese server. US users would have to get to the chinese server via www.google.com.china, and if the owners of the chinese server are advertising their products in the US they would have to use that address as well, otherwise oh well no one in the US could find them. It is stupid to do things this way, but unless everyone is willing to co-operate, I don't see how it can be avoided, but I doubt this will fragment the Internet.
No more guessing exactly what my wife told me to do...
Oh man I so badly want one of these now. Now I will have PROOF that she didn't ask me to take out the trash two hours ago.
Sadly she will now have proof of all the stupid crap that I have blurted out , and can now nag me about it without even saying anything by playing it over and over.
Or in this case, microporn. It seems like viewing porn on a 1" screen would take away most of the fun, since all the naughty bits would only be a few pixels wide. However the sounds might be useful, especially on crowded buses (don't sit next to me with your screaming kids!) or in boring meetings (I am so bored, fire me right now!).
The text also looks just as sharp as ink on a printed page, since each capsule is the size and pigment of a grain of laser-jet toner. Sony is the first major player to take advantage of the technology. This spring, it will debut the Sony Reader, which uses E Ink and closely mimics the size, weight, and feel of a book.
And the bad:
The Reader will sell for about $400.
Having to spend $400 before getting any actual content is pretty harsh. The readability and low power consumption are a step in the right direction, but until the price drops considerably this won't be mainstream thats for sure.
At least now when I run around knocking people out with my Cluebat(tm), I can claim it is to help them solve a problem. Actually now that I think about it, this would help me solve some problems that have been bothering me lately.
Randomly throwing elements into software from the ground up rarely works well; everyone knows that early design is important for the software to be easy to use. In fact, intelligent design saves people from thinking about the software creation process at all, since the intelligent designer keeps the underlying processes of the software hidden from the user. Put your faith in a good intelligent designer and you can simply use the software and remain blissfully ignorant of how the software actually works.
Ort: What a beautiful blue planet we have discovered! Moog: Yeah, but what are all those little things all over it? Ort: I dunno, I think they call themselves 'people'. Moog: I wonder how far they would fly if I hit them with my whacking stick?
I bet they once worshipped us for bringing them to the toad equivalent of the Garden of Eden, but now the hordes of cane toads hate us with all their fury!
Rabbits, toads, etc. Why is it always Australia that has these problems?
Probably because the local flora and fauna that has been seperated from the rest of the world for so long that it can't compete with every critter/plant that some moron brings in from somewhere else. Though there are certainly plenty of other critters introduced elsewhere that cause problems like this.
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But what I want to know is do you get an hourglass after you click an application shortcut on your desktop? Nothing confuses a n00b like clicking on something and having zero feedback (did I click it only once or is it just taking forever???)
I solved this problem by having credit that is so bad, people literally laugh at me when I apply for a card. The weird part is I still get these offers in the mail; I still think it is a ploy by the credit card companies to give their employees a good laugh now and then.
Just uuencode your binary files before you check them in with CVS. Makes for some really interesting diffs too.
That and a CVS or Subversion interface and I am set.
Speaking of reading your backup meadia, one nice thing about backing up to disk drives is if my office building burns down, I don't have to look around for another tape drive (like the one that burned up in the building) to read my tapes; I simply find a computer and plug my harddrive in and bingo, my backups are available.
I think the biggest obstacle to any revolution will be the simple question: Will it interfere with everyone's ability to watch Must See TV or not? "Yeah I would go help with your rioting, but then I would miss the season finale of Medium." Now if the government started shutting down the TV stations on the other hand...
I am guessing they wanted to use "omega device" but that would probably freak people out too much.
One day I was helping a secretary clean up her old email (before migrating her to Thunderbird actually) and went to empty her Trash folder. She went nuts and said, "Wait, there is stuff in there I want". Turns out she had hundreds of email messages in dozens of folders and sub folders in her Trash folder, neatly organizing a bunch of mail she wanted to keep. Apparently she had been filing things in her Trash folder for years.
I should remember this when I organize my paper files; I could just put them in folders and then put them in the little box next to my desk labelled "Trash" and they will magically get filed for me every evening.
What I want to know is how you managed to get files this big without them getting corrupted and unreadable?
Yeah we aren't using Exchange/Outlook anymore....
My bet is Biondi got trolled by an anonymous coward and is seeking revenge.
I think the blood theory has been discounted (according to this article anyway.) This same article also mentions the particles seem to be "reproducing", even though they don't seem to contain DNA. There is also a link to the guy in India who has been studying the rain for several years now. Pictures of the little beasties are available at the second link.
I wonder how feasible it would be to convert nuclear plants to fusion plants later? Granted we don't know what all of the requirements for a fusion reactor will be, but it seems like we could at least make some adjustments to reactors currently being designed with the goal of converting them later, or are they so different that this won't be possible?
Or better yet, moon or mars based telescopes. The happy side effect is that a few astronomers will survive for awhile on the moon/mars after the earth becomes uninhabitable.
Actually if you think about nearly every problem we have, we almost always concentrate on the symptoms instead of the cause. Which brings us back to why a few astronomers on the moon/mars would be a good thing....
I never could understand what the big deal is here; people can get their DNS information from whoever they want, and the big ISPs can setup their DNS servers any way they want. For example, lets say China has DNS servers that resolve "google.com" to some chinese server. Any US ISP can route google.com to the "right" (current) place, and then make a pointer (say, google.com.china) to point to the chinese server. US users would have to get to the chinese server via www.google.com.china, and if the owners of the chinese server are advertising their products in the US they would have to use that address as well, otherwise oh well no one in the US could find them. It is stupid to do things this way, but unless everyone is willing to co-operate, I don't see how it can be avoided, but I doubt this will fragment the Internet.
My first thought was maybe somebody triggered their auto-destruct.
Luckily you can use still use Yahoo to find out how bad Yahoo sucks(Results 1 - 10 of about 7,280,000 for yahoo sucks)
Oh man I so badly want one of these now. Now I will have PROOF that she didn't ask me to take out the trash two hours ago.
Sadly she will now have proof of all the stupid crap that I have blurted out , and can now nag me about it without even saying anything by playing it over and over.
Or in this case, microporn. It seems like viewing porn on a 1" screen would take away most of the fun, since all the naughty bits would only be a few pixels wide. However the sounds might be useful, especially on crowded buses (don't sit next to me with your screaming kids!) or in boring meetings (I am so bored, fire me right now!).
And the bad:
Having to spend $400 before getting any actual content is pretty harsh. The readability and low power consumption are a step in the right direction, but until the price drops considerably this won't be mainstream thats for sure.
At least now when I run around knocking people out with my Cluebat(tm), I can claim it is to help them solve a problem. Actually now that I think about it, this would help me solve some problems that have been bothering me lately.
Randomly throwing elements into software from the ground up rarely works well; everyone knows that early design is important for the software to be easy to use. In fact, intelligent design saves people from thinking about the software creation process at all, since the intelligent designer keeps the underlying processes of the software hidden from the user. Put your faith in a good intelligent designer and you can simply use the software and remain blissfully ignorant of how the software actually works.
This is their worst predator.
Yeah but how will we get rid of the poisonous cane toads?
Moog: Yeah, but what are all those little things all over it?
Ort: I dunno, I think they call themselves 'people'.
Moog: I wonder how far they would fly if I hit them with my whacking stick?
I bet they once worshipped us for bringing them to the toad equivalent of the Garden of Eden, but now the hordes of cane toads hate us with all their fury!
Probably because the local flora and fauna that has been seperated from the rest of the world for so long that it can't compete with every critter/plant that some moron brings in from somewhere else. Though there are certainly plenty of other critters introduced elsewhere that cause problems like this.