It's a good job that the people at Google don't own everything you (or your friends) send to their servers, and can read or delete it for any/no reason.
Okay, now how about a place where you don't hide a badly-written document from illiterate people.
Time to find manual: 5 minutes (after all, it's prominently displayed on the intranet home page, right?)
Time to find what you need in manual: 5-10 minutes
Time to follow concise steps: 5 minutes
Time to do this next time: 2-5 minutes
Time to get to the front of a 100-person helpdesk queue: hard to say, but 50*5 minutes would be a good start.
Time to do it again next time this problem occurs: see above
Of course, this is based around not having 100 people available to answer the phone. If you do have 100 people in first line, you may feel free to ignore this.
If the documentation is up to the job, then it shouldn't really be a problem, and the users will actually learn something other than the words to some cheese-lounge cover of Tom Jones classics being spewed across the call-hold system.
CTRL-S for save is a winner. Alt F S requires too much movement. I don't have time to move 3 fingers, goddammit.
Also, Windows Key + E = new explorer window is one of my most used shortcuts. Most people don't know about it.
If you're still reading, get yourself a copy of winkey. It will let you add extra windows key shortcuts. I have Win+Q for firefox, Win+C for a command prompt, etc.
Whoa. It's a good job that the bluray consortium could never add extra layers to a bluray disc. That would throw this entire argument into the shitter...
Philips did have a video tape standard. V-2000 or something. I only know one person who had one. Most people don't know anyone who had one. iirc, the 'killer app' was that the tapes were double-sided. I can't even imagine what that did to the quality.
It's the quality of the software/drivers you install that cause problems.
FTR, my work desktop (XP) has an average uptime of around 2 weeks (inbetween office reorganisations, cleaners, pranks). My home one is double that, and I use that for everything. Web/media/graphic design, audio work, games, comms, media server, you name it.
I saw some of the world cup on an HDTV, and I was trying to explain it to a friend.
The only analogy I could think of at the time is that it is like the difference between playing quake2 on a voodoo1 at 512x384 and playing it at 1024x768 on a voodoo3.
Same game, same pictures, but a whole world of extra detail.
The funny thing is, no one bitches about ringtones and they sell a ton of them and they are for all intents and purposes playable only on the phone they were bought for. But iTunes is some great evil.
Generally, people who are willing to pay *any* amount of money for a ringtone are suckers of the highest order. Using them as a basis for the financial decisions of the general public is probably not a good plan.
One of the major banks in London have an uncanny way of stopping this sort of thing. When they get their desktop boxes delivered, they fill the USB slots with epoxy resin. It's a bit hardcore, but I guess it does the trick.
If they want a successful launch, then they should probably wait. It's too soon.
Sony's 'soon' release date is probably putting the shits up MS, so they are going to try to be clever and jump the gun.
Meanwhile, Sony will be laughing and saying something like 'hahaha, silly Americans jump gun, we not release for another year. eat our collective ass'
I'm not a zealot either way, I have a PS2 and an XBOX, although I only bought the Xbox for media centre use, and I'm not sure if MS are taking that part of their sales into consideration.
True, house prices in the UK are total arse. I was always under the impression housing (non-city) in the US was far more reasonable, or at the very least, similar prices, but substantially larger.
When it comes to cities, all bets are off. I work in Brighton, and the price for a flat here would make a grown man cry. Me, for example.
That's the thing you, you *don't* see a pair of boobies.
To be perfectly honest, the real blame here should go to the ESRB, and their crap rating system.
How you can give an 'M' rating to game that allows you to beat old ladies to death with a pool cue in the first place? A game that allows you to go on a cop killing rampage, to burgle houses at random, start gang wars, shoot at the FBI... the list goes on.
For the record, the idea that this was done on purpose is a bit far stretched. Maybe they had to remove it to make the grade, but they can't have said "hurrr, let's leave it there, then people will unlock it". How long has this game been 'on the shelves'? I bought it the day it came out on the PS2, and the first I hear about this Hot Coffee is now, after the PC modding community got hold of it. And bearing in mind you could get 'nude chick' skins for the previous two versions (along with pretty much every other PC game with humanoids in it), it all starts to get a bit weak.
So they obviously weren't expecting people to take advantage of it on the PS2, and neither did they mention it. So why were the files on there?
So where is everyone getting the idea that this is some 'great' plan? As far as I can see, it just shows how your minds work.
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Don't sell it, just take a photo of some engine upgrades, and a photo of somebody willing to fit them.
It's a good job that the people at Google don't own everything you (or your friends) send to their servers, and can read or delete it for any/no reason.
Oh wait.
Okay, now how about a place where you don't hide a badly-written document from illiterate people. Time to find manual: 5 minutes (after all, it's prominently displayed on the intranet home page, right?) Time to find what you need in manual: 5-10 minutes Time to follow concise steps: 5 minutes Time to do this next time: 2-5 minutes Time to get to the front of a 100-person helpdesk queue: hard to say, but 50*5 minutes would be a good start. Time to do it again next time this problem occurs: see above Of course, this is based around not having 100 people available to answer the phone. If you do have 100 people in first line, you may feel free to ignore this. If the documentation is up to the job, then it shouldn't really be a problem, and the users will actually learn something other than the words to some cheese-lounge cover of Tom Jones classics being spewed across the call-hold system.
CTRL-S for save is a winner.
Alt F S requires too much movement. I don't have time to move 3 fingers, goddammit.
Also, Windows Key + E = new explorer window is one of my most used shortcuts. Most people don't know about it.
If you're still reading, get yourself a copy of winkey. It will let you add extra windows key shortcuts. I have Win+Q for firefox, Win+C for a command prompt, etc.
That's a pretty bad name for a shill account, man.
Spend your hatred on something worthwhile.
Whoa. It's a good job that the bluray consortium could never add extra layers to a bluray disc. That would throw this entire argument into the shitter...
Philips did have a video tape standard. V-2000 or something. I only know one person who had one. Most people don't know anyone who had one. iirc, the 'killer app' was that the tapes were double-sided. I can't even imagine what that did to the quality.
Vanilla Ice used too much 'Under Pressure' Hammer used Rick James' Super Freak. Don't know which one got f'd in the a though.
slang for beer? in what dialect?
I always thought it was slang for hitting someone.
For the love of God, stop crying on each other. You're both elitist idiots. You're just going to have to accept it.
"ENTIRE CITY BLOCKS CAN BLOW UP! YES! MY JOB IS ACTUALLY THAT IMPORTANT! KNEEL BEFORE ME! BLOW UP! WHOLE BLOCKS! ME!".
ahahahahahahahahahahaha
both OS's are perfectly stable.
It's the quality of the software/drivers you install that cause problems.
FTR, my work desktop (XP) has an average uptime of around 2 weeks (inbetween office reorganisations, cleaners, pranks). My home one is double that, and I use that for everything. Web/media/graphic design, audio work, games, comms, media server, you name it.
I agree, the new imaging build system is an excellent idea. I just hope they do a good job of it.
I'd mod you up, but I can't.
I don't understand why everyone thinks BR is a sony-only thing. Probably because it makes it easier for the hate to flow out.
Sony is to Blu-Ray what Microsoft is to HD-DVD. (ie. not the inventor/sole owner/etc.)
I saw some of the world cup on an HDTV, and I was trying to explain it to a friend.
The only analogy I could think of at the time is that it is like the difference between playing quake2 on a voodoo1 at 512x384 and playing it at 1024x768 on a voodoo3.
Same game, same pictures, but a whole world of extra detail.
Yeah, maybe they release a new model especially for them.
XBox 360 Type ARRR
Tell me more about this 'Jim-Bob's Pocket Fisherman And Computer Operating System', I am intrigued, as I like both fish and computers.
The funny thing is, no one bitches about ringtones and they sell a ton of them and they are for all intents and purposes playable only on the phone they were bought for. But iTunes is some great evil.
Generally, people who are willing to pay *any* amount of money for a ringtone are suckers of the highest order. Using them as a basis for the financial decisions of the general public is probably not a good plan.
One of the major banks in London have an uncanny way of stopping this sort of thing. When they get their desktop boxes delivered, they fill the USB slots with epoxy resin. It's a bit hardcore, but I guess it does the trick.
Seconded, with a thirded thrown in for free. Go go Addams Family.
If they want a successful launch, then they should probably wait. It's too soon.
Sony's 'soon' release date is probably putting the shits up MS, so they are going to try to be clever and jump the gun.
Meanwhile, Sony will be laughing and saying something like 'hahaha, silly Americans jump gun, we not release for another year. eat our collective ass'
I'm not a zealot either way, I have a PS2 and an XBOX, although I only bought the Xbox for media centre use, and I'm not sure if MS are taking that part of their sales into consideration.
True, house prices in the UK are total arse. I was always under the impression housing (non-city) in the US was far more reasonable, or at the very least, similar prices, but substantially larger. When it comes to cities, all bets are off. I work in Brighton, and the price for a flat here would make a grown man cry. Me, for example.
you mean our property prices are going to go down? I wish.
I've heard it called World of Warcrack. Not very original, but definitely apt.
try 1998.
That's the thing you, you *don't* see a pair of boobies.
To be perfectly honest, the real blame here should go to the ESRB, and their crap rating system.
How you can give an 'M' rating to game that allows you to beat old ladies to death with a pool cue in the first place? A game that allows you to go on a cop killing rampage, to burgle houses at random, start gang wars, shoot at the FBI... the list goes on.
For the record, the idea that this was done on purpose is a bit far stretched. Maybe they had to remove it to make the grade, but they can't have said "hurrr, let's leave it there, then people will unlock it". How long has this game been 'on the shelves'? I bought it the day it came out on the PS2, and the first I hear about this Hot Coffee is now, after the PC modding community got hold of it. And bearing in mind you could get 'nude chick' skins for the previous two versions (along with pretty much every other PC game with humanoids in it), it all starts to get a bit weak.
So they obviously weren't expecting people to take advantage of it on the PS2, and neither did they mention it. So why were the files on there?
So where is everyone getting the idea that this is some 'great' plan? As far as I can see, it just shows how your minds work.