I came back from a meeting and when I booted up my laptop it started booting Windows ME! WTF?
The guy in the next cube had swapped hard drives with one of his and installed ME on it. I nearly kicked him.
I have some math for you:
You buy a CD for full price.
I download the songs I want for free.
You end up subsidizing my free downloads. That's probably what's making you so uptight, angry, sarcastic, and flaming.
My fiance` has an Echo too and I always made fun of it until I'd actually ridden in it. It's really a nice little car. I mean, it might look like a bubble, but it's a fun car to ride around in and really is comfortable for more than two people which is something I can't say for most saturns!
I suffer from all this currently (I live in a suburb of austin with no mass transit) and I solved it by getting a 250cc motorcycle. It's very fuel efficient and a lot of fun. Besides that, insurance is very inexpensive.
In the US AT&T Wireless services and T-Mobile both have GPRS services. I have a GPRS PC card and it's pretty cool how it works even though it's slow.
I've heard some rumblings of a flat-rate service for *puts pinky to corner of mouth* FIFTY dollars a month!
I've had an Aironet AP1100 (from Dell), a Lucent AP-1000, a Dell TrueMobile 1170 wireless base station, and about 3 TrueMobile 1184 wireless routers for up to 2.5 years now and they're all working well. As long as you just want regular 802.11b with no WEP, you're golden. Those are all from just one vendor, though, so I couldn't tell ya how others are (except linksys. i've had an odd issue with the BEFW11S4 V2 that I have here) The Linksys Issue: Some BEFW11S4 routers have a problem with some 802.11b/g cards. To get the card to associate with the router you have to set the rate to 2Mbps, which is utterly stupid with 802.11g cards! Other BEFW11S4s are just fine and work no matter what you throw at them (Pringles can, a/b/g cards, old lucent cards, whatever.)
The way they'd do it is to translate before the message is actually sent to the other person. I now need to patent translating AFTER the message has been sent. Besides, if I'm the person at the other end I might want to click a box that says "What was the original message?" and with Microsoft's implementation, you can't do that because the original is stored in the sender's buffer.
On the theme of claiming something is ironic when, in fact, it is not, here's a quote from the article that I found the most hilarious:
we think Canadian Alanis Morissette is American, and she proved some time ago, with her song Ironic, that she didn't know what irony meant (this is so ironic - first, because we think we're the more sophisticated and yet don't know the difference between America and Canada, second because America sees Canada as such a tedious sleeping partner, and yet Canada is subversively sending idiots into the global marketplace with American accents. Of course, I'm being ironic. Canadian accents are not the same as American ones!)
I scored a 10. A freakin' TEN! I know I'm a geek. I'm sure of it! But a ten is not something geeks should be getting. I was hoping for a little bit of Aspegers just so I could explain and excuse some of my behavior, but it can't!
Actually, when word are translated from Hindi to English the spelling isn't constant. It's like Osama vs. Usama. They're both right. That could be what's going on there.
Like Laxmi vs. Laksmi. They're pronounced the same but spelled differently. But in Hindi they'd be spelled the same.
I really tried to get interested, I figured this article would give me some good weekend reading, and I clicked the link.
But when I get to the second page and I still haven't gotten anything out of it but a little history, and the content on that page is a glorified paragraph, I'm not sticking around for more. If you want me to read something, keep it succinct, don't put a paragraph per page, and dammit, don't make me look at 15 ads just to get some benchmarks.
Ugh. Ok, BIG computer company. My bad. .
But to answer some of the replies that I've seen in this thread, the new 20 Mbps is the RAW rate. That means that g will likely give you 10 Mbps actual throughput. Consider that the "802.11b+" gear has been giving you that for a long time. Also, 802.11a, even though it has shorter range, can do 54Mbps raw throughput. That's more than twice g's raw throughput and all of the sudden a is looking more attractive. All I'm saying is that a is now more attractive and this changes a lot in the market. There's not going to be a huge recall of all "Supposedly G" (or we can call it "Half-Assed G"), but companies and even savvy home users might be changing their minds about upgrading to g, especially if 802.11a product comes out and it's inexpensive. Home users have less infrastructure already in place and dual-band cards are the norm, so they're not losing out with compatibility.
This is huge. I work in wireless at a bug company and we're sending 802.11g gear out the door now. We're billing it at 54, but now we're going to have to tell everybody who already bought it, "Hey, we sold this at 54, but it can really only do 20! Sorry!"
This isn't going over well. People have been putting off 802.11a because they were waiting for 802.11g which was just as fast and had better range. Now they're left in the cold. I wonder what they're gonna do.
Ok everybody, time to go try a new Liquor. Baileys is wildly overpriced. Go buy a bottle of Carolan's. It's right next to baileys and tastes EXACTLY the same. It's also half as much. Give it a try and come back and tell me how awesome I am. It's ok. I'll wait.
See, your everyday jerk who gets a printer only cares about how cheap it is. And if Dell was selling printers at a profit and letting just anybody refill the ink cartridges, they'd never sell a single printer because everybody else would be cheaper. So they have to sell at a loss and make it up on the backend. And if they didn't use the standard method of encrypting the cartridges, they'd be screwed. So frankly, it's a demand of the competition.
Um, as I said, I have 3 pst files. I've split them up and only open them when I need them. One PST has date over two years old and is unlikely to grow. Another is for my little used folders. This kind of organization is only possible with locally stored PST files and it helps that wherever I am, the data is quickly accessible. Unlike others in my department, I have a minimal number of items in my Inbox and I know exactly where items are when I need to go splelunking for them.
(also, our server admins have draconian mailbox size limits, so anything else is impossible)
I've gotten rid of many of the attachments. The problem is that there are user's guides, project plans, firmware drops, etc. that I need to keep. A lot of it is CYA, though. If I didn't have to worry about stuff coming back to bite me on the ass I wouldn't keep nearly as much as I do.
At work I have 3 PST files, and they're about 3GB total. I NEED my PST. I need my archive. I have everything pretty much anybody has ever said to me and anything I've ever replied with in that PST. With OWA I'm dead in the water.
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I came back from a meeting and when I booted up my laptop it started booting Windows ME! WTF?
The guy in the next cube had swapped hard drives with one of his and installed ME on it. I nearly kicked him.
Alex,
I have some math for you:
You buy a CD for full price.
I download the songs I want for free.
You end up subsidizing my free downloads. That's probably what's making you so uptight, angry, sarcastic, and flaming.
My fiance` has an Echo too and I always made fun of it until I'd actually ridden in it. It's really a nice little car. I mean, it might look like a bubble, but it's a fun car to ride around in and really is comfortable for more than two people which is something I can't say for most saturns!
I suffer from all this currently (I live in a suburb of austin with no mass transit) and I solved it by getting a 250cc motorcycle. It's very fuel efficient and a lot of fun. Besides that, insurance is very inexpensive.
In the US AT&T Wireless services and T-Mobile both have GPRS services. I have a GPRS PC card and it's pretty cool how it works even though it's slow.
I've heard some rumblings of a flat-rate service for *puts pinky to corner of mouth* FIFTY dollars a month!
Uh, *cough*MSN*cough* maybe they ARE an ISP but they contract to a bunch of other companies for their bandwidth/infrastructure.
I thought he was misspelling "looser". Boy is my face red.
That link was very interesting. I read the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Here's a clickable link.
I've had an Aironet AP1100 (from Dell), a Lucent AP-1000, a Dell TrueMobile 1170 wireless base station, and about 3 TrueMobile 1184 wireless routers for up to 2.5 years now and they're all working well. As long as you just want regular 802.11b with no WEP, you're golden. Those are all from just one vendor, though, so I couldn't tell ya how others are (except linksys. i've had an odd issue with the BEFW11S4 V2 that I have here)
The Linksys Issue: Some BEFW11S4 routers have a problem with some 802.11b/g cards. To get the card to associate with the router you have to set the rate to 2Mbps, which is utterly stupid with 802.11g cards! Other BEFW11S4s are just fine and work no matter what you throw at them (Pringles can, a/b/g cards, old lucent cards, whatever.)
How is this different from zipping up files and accessing the zip like it's a folder/directory?
Bill Gates es un pendejo.
The way they'd do it is to translate before the message is actually sent to the other person. I now need to patent translating AFTER the message has been sent. Besides, if I'm the person at the other end I might want to click a box that says "What was the original message?" and with Microsoft's implementation, you can't do that because the original is stored in the sender's buffer.
You're not one of us then!
WARNING WARNING! Non-geek in the room! Everyone head to a decontamination station. Evacuation in 10... 9... 8...
I scored a 10. A freakin' TEN! I know I'm a geek. I'm sure of it! But a ten is not something geeks should be getting. I was hoping for a little bit of Aspegers just so I could explain and excuse some of my behavior, but it can't!
Actually, when word are translated from Hindi to English the spelling isn't constant. It's like Osama vs. Usama. They're both right. That could be what's going on there.
Like Laxmi vs. Laksmi. They're pronounced the same but spelled differently. But in Hindi they'd be spelled the same.
I really tried to get interested, I figured this article would give me some good weekend reading, and I clicked the link.
But when I get to the second page and I still haven't gotten anything out of it but a little history, and the content on that page is a glorified paragraph, I'm not sticking around for more. If you want me to read something, keep it succinct, don't put a paragraph per page, and dammit, don't make me look at 15 ads just to get some benchmarks.
I linked directly to the PDF file and found it informative, keyboard friendly (didn't have to use the mouse) and ad-free! How can you beat that?
Ugh. Ok, BIG computer company. My bad.
. But to answer some of the replies that I've seen in this thread, the new 20 Mbps is the RAW rate. That means that g will likely give you 10 Mbps actual throughput. Consider that the "802.11b+" gear has been giving you that for a long time. Also, 802.11a, even though it has shorter range, can do 54Mbps raw throughput. That's more than twice g's raw throughput and all of the sudden a is looking more attractive. All I'm saying is that a is now more attractive and this changes a lot in the market. There's not going to be a huge recall of all "Supposedly G" (or we can call it "Half-Assed G"), but companies and even savvy home users might be changing their minds about upgrading to g, especially if 802.11a product comes out and it's inexpensive. Home users have less infrastructure already in place and dual-band cards are the norm, so they're not losing out with compatibility.
This is huge. I work in wireless at a bug company and we're sending 802.11g gear out the door now. We're billing it at 54, but now we're going to have to tell everybody who already bought it, "Hey, we sold this at 54, but it can really only do 20! Sorry!"
This isn't going over well. People have been putting off 802.11a because they were waiting for 802.11g which was just as fast and had better range. Now they're left in the cold. I wonder what they're gonna do.
Ok everybody, time to go try a new Liquor. Baileys is wildly overpriced. Go buy a bottle of Carolan's. It's right next to baileys and tastes EXACTLY the same. It's also half as much. Give it a try and come back and tell me how awesome I am. It's ok. I'll wait.
See, your everyday jerk who gets a printer only cares about how cheap it is. And if Dell was selling printers at a profit and letting just anybody refill the ink cartridges, they'd never sell a single printer because everybody else would be cheaper. So they have to sell at a loss and make it up on the backend. And if they didn't use the standard method of encrypting the cartridges, they'd be screwed. So frankly, it's a demand of the competition.
Um, as I said, I have 3 pst files. I've split them up and only open them when I need them. One PST has date over two years old and is unlikely to grow. Another is for my little used folders. This kind of organization is only possible with locally stored PST files and it helps that wherever I am, the data is quickly accessible.
Unlike others in my department, I have a minimal number of items in my Inbox and I know exactly where items are when I need to go splelunking for them.
(also, our server admins have draconian mailbox size limits, so anything else is impossible)
I've gotten rid of many of the attachments. The problem is that there are user's guides, project plans, firmware drops, etc. that I need to keep. A lot of it is CYA, though. If I didn't have to worry about stuff coming back to bite me on the ass I wouldn't keep nearly as much as I do.
At work I have 3 PST files, and they're about 3GB total. I NEED my PST. I need my archive. I have everything pretty much anybody has ever said to me and anything I've ever replied with in that PST. With OWA I'm dead in the water.