If this were applied to the Internet as a whole, Slashdot would be gone. MySpace and YouTube would have all the bandwidth they could ever need. And nobody would be able to mod me down for this comment because their screen would never refresh.
I was working at a place with mostly male factory workers. After I got comfortable eating in the same room as them, I slowly got involved in their domino games. I had no idea how to win at dominoes, and at best was able to match the numbers and make them possibly add up to multiples of five. Even with this limited strategy, I did well against people who were considered to be very good at the game. Apparently the dominoes I played were counter-intuitive, as one who really knew the game would not have played them if that person intended to win. So they reacted based on what dominoes they thought I had based on those plays, and the moves they thought would shut me down would only help me win. One of them finally summed up the situation by saying "you play an unusual game of dominoes".
By default, an iPod on the Mac is 'ejected' as soon as iTunes is finished syncing.
It's about the same on Windows. Unplugging is okay as long as you don't have the system set to buffer disk writes. Otherwise you have to eject to flush the buffer.
Maybe they only seem to be doing a good job from an American point of view. Maybe somebody else could do a better job. Maybe not. But we won't ever find out.
It's not taking us where cable was. It's taking us where cable is trying to go. To the point that we can watch any show we want whenever we want it. And some corporation gets all of our money in exchange.
First I was thinking maybe the location of the shift key and escape key should be switched. Then I thought of all the applications I've accidentally shut down by hitting escape. So I thought maybe the Caps Lock can be moved to where the Escape key is and the escape key can be eliminated altogether. For the applications that rely on the Escape key, the Windows key can be remapped to be an Escape key since 90% of the public has no idea what it's for anyway.
This bumps the speed up to about 13 feet per second, at 52 presses per second.
All you need now is a big enough spark and you can go back in time to when there was only a Shift Lock key on a typewriter. Then you can break it off before it evolves into a Caps Lock.
Justice would be to force them to deal with an American who hardly speaks their language and whose only reference to solar-powered Wi-Fi is a Slashdot article.
My guess is they'll install every driver ever onto the hard disk and get everybody used to wasting that much space. Accordingly, all install options are removed except "Full Install" but your mouse might work.
This guy I spend time with was trying to sell his computer on eBay with my help. We set up the auction, hoping to get $600 for it. He started getting bids and it went all the way up to over $900 with just a few minutes left. Then in the last few seconds, some con artist bid $999 and won the auction. Instead of paying for the item, they had this great idea for us to send it to Nigeria, after which they would pay us using BidPay. Of course we rejected the bid but by then we had lost the legitimate guy who was willing to pay more than $300 above the asking price. I also remember trying to buy a Mis-Teeq CD from a guy who just took my money and didn't send me anything. If I recall correctly, PayPal's resolution for this was to repay me with money from the scammer's PayPal account if he ever puts money in it again. Things like this make it hard for me to understand why anybody would look to eBay to sell a large number of items.
Maybe it's just an icon, but if he actually ended up killing the teacher, everybody would be asking why nobody paid such attention to a blatant red flag. Everybody thought those Colombine kids' website was just a stupid AOL homepage.
I don't think the comment was overrated, because it's right, but I do think the average computer user is unlikely to remove the hard drive and put it in another computer for analysis on a regular basis.
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If this were applied to the Internet as a whole, Slashdot would be gone. MySpace and YouTube would have all the bandwidth they could ever need. And nobody would be able to mod me down for this comment because their screen would never refresh.
Maybe she should have melted it down and blamed it on an exploding battery...?
My problem with it is I actually buy music through iTunes. I doubt RockBox would play the purchased music. But maybe that's just me.
Well if you're going to be a big baby about it then fine.
I think listing auctions by seller ratings would completely screw the people who are selling something for the first time, since they have no rating.
It's also only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to rewrite the data.
I was working at a place with mostly male factory workers. After I got comfortable eating in the same room as them, I slowly got involved in their domino games. I had no idea how to win at dominoes, and at best was able to match the numbers and make them possibly add up to multiples of five. Even with this limited strategy, I did well against people who were considered to be very good at the game. Apparently the dominoes I played were counter-intuitive, as one who really knew the game would not have played them if that person intended to win. So they reacted based on what dominoes they thought I had based on those plays, and the moves they thought would shut me down would only help me win. One of them finally summed up the situation by saying "you play an unusual game of dominoes".
Or if you pound the thing just right, sometimes you get lucky.
It's about the same on Windows. Unplugging is okay as long as you don't have the system set to buffer disk writes. Otherwise you have to eject to flush the buffer.
Maybe they only seem to be doing a good job from an American point of view. Maybe somebody else could do a better job. Maybe not. But we won't ever find out.
It's not taking us where cable was. It's taking us where cable is trying to go. To the point that we can watch any show we want whenever we want it. And some corporation gets all of our money in exchange.
You'd be surprised. They're just not going to admit they're Slashdot users while they're that close to getting sex.
First I was thinking maybe the location of the shift key and escape key should be switched. Then I thought of all the applications I've accidentally shut down by hitting escape. So I thought maybe the Caps Lock can be moved to where the Escape key is and the escape key can be eliminated altogether. For the applications that rely on the Escape key, the Windows key can be remapped to be an Escape key since 90% of the public has no idea what it's for anyway.
Justice would be to force them to deal with an American who hardly speaks their language and whose only reference to solar-powered Wi-Fi is a Slashdot article.
After viewing enough of the posts modded as "Funny", I am quite surprised to find somebody complaining about a cheese joke.
And get her Windows Mobile when you get divorced.
Maybe they're getting the patent now so they can go back and sue all those people from years ago...?
Isn't it possible that IE7 will be better than IE6?
My guess is they'll install every driver ever onto the hard disk and get everybody used to wasting that much space. Accordingly, all install options are removed except "Full Install" but your mouse might work.
Oh, bother.
I guess I won't mind, as long as I can turn it off.
This guy I spend time with was trying to sell his computer on eBay with my help. We set up the auction, hoping to get $600 for it. He started getting bids and it went all the way up to over $900 with just a few minutes left. Then in the last few seconds, some con artist bid $999 and won the auction. Instead of paying for the item, they had this great idea for us to send it to Nigeria, after which they would pay us using BidPay. Of course we rejected the bid but by then we had lost the legitimate guy who was willing to pay more than $300 above the asking price. I also remember trying to buy a Mis-Teeq CD from a guy who just took my money and didn't send me anything. If I recall correctly, PayPal's resolution for this was to repay me with money from the scammer's PayPal account if he ever puts money in it again. Things like this make it hard for me to understand why anybody would look to eBay to sell a large number of items.
Maybe it's just an icon, but if he actually ended up killing the teacher, everybody would be asking why nobody paid such attention to a blatant red flag. Everybody thought those Colombine kids' website was just a stupid AOL homepage.
I don't think the comment was overrated, because it's right, but I do think the average computer user is unlikely to remove the hard drive and put it in another computer for analysis on a regular basis.