Which would be true if an LCD was anywhere near as complex as a CPU. But it's not. A speck the size of a dust mite is fatal to a CPU. Not necessarily so with an LCD.
Actually, depending on which color it died to, yes, you CAN see it, and yes it's annoying as hell.
If they make LCDs, ANY dead pixel should be cause for replacement in my book. Intel can get 300 million transistors right on something the size of a postage stamp, I expect better from an LCD manufacturer.
My favorite was when I bought an HP inkjet printer, cheapest one they had, just to have something to print with. The salesdroid walked up and offered to sell me an extended warranty on it. So I looked puzzled...
"How much it cost?"
"49.00"
[looks at price on printer, $44.95]
"Um, for that price, I could just buy a brand new printer..."
In Massachusetts, the chain plans to close stores in Framingham, Woburn, Braintree, Danvers, North Attleborough, and Brighton. The Holyoke store will remain open </quote>
My god, are they kidding? Holyoke? HOLYOKE? That pustule on our fine fair Commonwealth? Cripes, I'm routinely in the Framingham and Woburn stores, and they're always mobbed... I think the only CompUSA stores in MA I HAVEN'T bought something from is the Holyoke one...
Great demonstration of managerial intelligence there...
Please explain again the usefulness of Windows XP 64bit edition, then?
<quote> Description of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is a near feature-complete version of Windows XP Professional that runs on x64 processors. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports 128 GB of RAM and 16 terabytes of virtual memory address space, as compared to 4 GB of both physical RAM and virtual memory address space for 32-bit Windows XP Professional.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition runs 32-bit applications in the Windows on Windows 64 (WOW64) subsystem providing compatibility with the more than 10,000 existing 32-bit Windows applications while enabling new 64-bit applications. </quote>
I do believe you can LEGALLY say whatever you want as long as it's the truth.
It's HR departments and Legal departments trying to minimize frivolous lawsuits who hamstring people from giving anything worse than a mediocre reference.
It's why when hiring someone, if they're not getting a glowing reference from their previous manager/coworker, they are absolutely not worth hiring.
It's a symptom of the ubiquitiousness of Microsoft. They make reliable, easy to use but mediocre software. Once you've gone past it's limitations, your screwed. Volume Management. Active Directory. File Sharing. Print Services. Quota management. Clustering.
Every single feature a line-item to compete vs. some form of Unix, all of them subpar, minimal functionality replacements. It's THAT I hate Microsoft for. Admit to the world, Microsoft. It's you versus everyone else in the software industry and be done with it.
Ok, you're not using your process accounting and quota services well at all. Worst thing a user should be able to do is waste his full 100% of the 10% slice of a CPU you gave him.
If you're not doing this in multiuser environments, you deserve the headaches you get. While native Windows Terminal Services does not have this feature, Citrix certainly does, and so do Linux and Unix terminal servers.
One job I was interiewing for a year or two ago came down to me and another guy. Nearest I can figure, the owner took one look at my white sneakers and not black dress shoes (silly thing on my part, I know), and when it came down to equal technical skills, chose the other guy on appearance/detail (reasonable). Silly thing is, they replaced that guy six months later with my coworker from the company who eventually hired me.
I would like to point out that they are making the same mistake that doomed the Delta Clipper. Four landing legs. As it seems these are not retractable, perhaps it really doesn't matter on this first gen prototype, but hopefully they won't make the same mistake on upscaled hardware.
That 40% of all sick days are taken monday and friday?
If you think about that for a moment, it makes perfect sense, or no sense depending upon how you wanted to use it.
Monday and Friday comprise 40% of a work week. Statistically, 40% of sick days should fall on Friday and Monday.
As opposed to Paranoia which is "entirely DM/GM whim". Which is why playing Paranoia sucks if your GM isn't a crazy nutcase who's actually Paranoid himself.
As an aside, NPR (marketplace maybe) was claiming $1200 US for either Ford or GM, I don't recall which in health care costs just a few days ago, Friday or Thursday of last week.
I used Clarify way way back in the day. We were so geared towards email as opposed to phone support that we had to author our own special email processor to manage to keep working. We'd get calls, short, long, whatever, we'd spin a quick email off to Clarify and then spend 15-30 minutes at the end of the day or early the next morning cleaning our queue. We had custom rules where it sent it to our own queue if it noticed it was a Clarify technician, or just left it in the general queue otherwise to keep queue management to a minimum.
Somewhere I still have the source to the monstrosity.:-D One of my pride and joys, it was my first foray into i18n to support our Japanese office.
I personally am moving towards J2ME, but it needs a little more maturity. For the basic data-entry/web apps I want to do, it's seeming to manage just fine.
but until ext[34] gets online resize, I'm not abandoning my JFS or Reiser filesystems. WTF is the point of LVM if you can't resize your volumes while online?
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Which would be true if an LCD was anywhere near as complex as a CPU. But it's not. A speck the size of a dust mite is fatal to a CPU. Not necessarily so with an LCD.
Actually, depending on which color it died to, yes, you CAN see it, and yes it's annoying as hell.
If they make LCDs, ANY dead pixel should be cause for replacement in my book. Intel can get 300 million transistors right on something the size of a postage stamp, I expect better from an LCD manufacturer.
My favorite was when I bought an HP inkjet printer, cheapest one they had, just to have something to print with. The salesdroid walked up and offered to sell me an extended warranty on it. So I looked puzzled...
"How much it cost?"
"49.00"
[looks at price on printer, $44.95]
"Um, for that price, I could just buy a brand new printer..."
"um... good point. Enjoy your new printer!"
Erk!?
In Massachusetts, the chain plans to close stores in Framingham, Woburn, Braintree, Danvers, North Attleborough, and Brighton. The Holyoke store will remain open
</quote>
My god, are they kidding? Holyoke? HOLYOKE? That pustule on our fine fair Commonwealth? Cripes, I'm routinely in the Framingham and Woburn stores, and they're always mobbed... I think the only CompUSA stores in MA I HAVEN'T bought something from is the Holyoke one...
Great demonstration of managerial intelligence there...
Please explain again the usefulness of Windows XP 64bit edition, then?
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<quote>
Description of Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is a near feature-complete version of Windows XP Professional that runs on x64 processors. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition supports 128 GB of RAM and 16 terabytes of virtual memory address space, as compared to 4 GB of both physical RAM and virtual memory address space for 32-bit Windows XP Professional.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition runs 32-bit applications in the Windows on Windows 64 (WOW64) subsystem providing compatibility with the more than 10,000 existing 32-bit Windows applications while enabling new 64-bit applications.
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WTF is an EMO kid?
Jesus, can people stop inventing these crazy three letter words?
Define continuously available?
Duke Nukem Forever has been on the presale list for 6 years now. Is a 10 year layaway, or a 5 year backorder "continuously available?"
I do believe you can LEGALLY say whatever you want as long as it's the truth.
It's HR departments and Legal departments trying to minimize frivolous lawsuits who hamstring people from giving anything worse than a mediocre reference.
It's why when hiring someone, if they're not getting a glowing reference from their previous manager/coworker, they are absolutely not worth hiring.
It's a symptom of the ubiquitiousness of Microsoft. They make reliable, easy to use but mediocre software. Once you've gone past it's limitations, your screwed. Volume Management. Active Directory. File Sharing. Print Services. Quota management. Clustering.
:(
Every single feature a line-item to compete vs. some form of Unix, all of them subpar, minimal functionality replacements. It's THAT I hate Microsoft for. Admit to the world, Microsoft. It's you versus everyone else in the software industry and be done with it.
I feel for you sir. I do.
Or the cable company and the telephone company are in collusion, and you're screwed both ways coming.
Ok, you're not using your process accounting and quota services well at all. Worst thing a user should be able to do is waste his full 100% of the 10% slice of a CPU you gave him.
If you're not doing this in multiuser environments, you deserve the headaches you get. While native Windows Terminal Services does not have this feature, Citrix certainly does, and so do Linux and Unix terminal servers.
One job I was interiewing for a year or two ago came down to me and another guy. Nearest I can figure, the owner took one look at my white sneakers and not black dress shoes (silly thing on my part, I know), and when it came down to equal technical skills, chose the other guy on appearance/detail (reasonable). Silly thing is, they replaced that guy six months later with my coworker from the company who eventually hired me.
Tiny little things...
As opposed to flying to HI for whatever length of time, buying a tent at WalMart and camping out on the beach for a week?
Yah... screwed...
I would like to point out that they are making the same mistake that doomed the Delta Clipper. Four landing legs. As it seems these are not retractable, perhaps it really doesn't matter on this first gen prototype, but hopefully they won't make the same mistake on upscaled hardware.
And Congress has never created a law that applied retroactively...
With the camera and photoshop there is only the "truth".
If you think about that for a moment, it makes perfect sense, or no sense depending upon how you wanted to use it. Monday and Friday comprise 40% of a work week. Statistically, 40% of sick days should fall on Friday and Monday.
As opposed to Paranoia which is "entirely DM/GM whim". Which is why playing Paranoia sucks if your GM isn't a crazy nutcase who's actually Paranoid himself.
-Chris
As an aside, NPR (marketplace maybe) was claiming $1200 US for either Ford or GM, I don't recall which in health care costs just a few days ago, Friday or Thursday of last week.
Pretty vague, huh?
I used Clarify way way back in the day. We were so geared towards email as opposed to phone support that we had to author our own special email processor to manage to keep working. We'd get calls, short, long, whatever, we'd spin a quick email off to Clarify and then spend 15-30 minutes at the end of the day or early the next morning cleaning our queue. We had custom rules where it sent it to our own queue if it noticed it was a Clarify technician, or just left it in the general queue otherwise to keep queue management to a minimum.
:-D One of my pride and joys, it was my first foray into i18n to support our Japanese office.
Somewhere I still have the source to the monstrosity.
Do you REMEMBER how many networking stacks were available for Windows before Windows95 came with TCP/IP?
Do you KNOW how much shareware is available for Windows? How much crap-ware?
The only benefit any of it has is having pretty WYSIWYG installers.
-Chris
I personally am moving towards J2ME, but it needs a little more maturity. For the basic data-entry/web apps I want to do, it's seeming to manage just fine.
Windows is just as trivial if your time is worth nothing.
.ISO burning options:
I lack for nothing in my OpenSuSE installs, except games, and I really don't have a lot of time for those.
Windows
* Burn At Once
* Daemon Tools <- Allows mounting of ISO images as drive volumes.
If it's an inhibitor, explain Quake and UT? No, it's dependence on Direct3D, instead of using OpenGL.
but until ext[34] gets online resize, I'm not abandoning my JFS or Reiser filesystems. WTF is the point of LVM if you can't resize your volumes while online?