At my last job I used two Dell 1905FP displays, and at my current job I use two more of the exact same display. When I can find one of these monitors for less than $300 (it happens every once in a while) I'm going to buy it, even if I can't see it beforehand. Of the four Dell 1905FPs I've used (and countless others that belong to coworkers), I have never seen a stuck or dead pixel!
I don't know of Dell's policy regarding dead pixels if I was to encounter one.
I had a nice dialog box fool me in Word. I clicked something I shouldn't have, and immediately realized my mistake. A dialogue came up and I clicked what normally would have been "CANCEL" (you know the boxes where you get "OK" and "CANCEL") only instead the second box said "HELP". I had to wait about a minute or two while some crazy MS help database loaded.
My former employer rents out amusement/theme parks for the annual company picnic. One year it was at Universal Studios (CA) where we were given wristbands and got to enjoy the park for the entire day. At 6PM, everyone without a wristband had to leave, giving employees of the company exclusive use of the park until Midnight.
The following year it was held at Six Flags Magic Mountain with the same deal. Regular customers had to leave at 6PM. I wouldn't want to be one of those regular customers on a family trip, especially if I had been visiting from out of state and only planning on going that one day! On the other hand, having exclusive use of two major Southern California theme parks was pretty cool. I don't think I waited longer than 5 minutes for any ride. I guess that's one benefit of working for a company that has a lot of political and economical power.
Try how the superior Minidisk rendered the CD irrelevant... oh, that's another one.
What ever happened to those things anyway? I had one a long time ago before MP3 players were common, and my biggest complaint was its 1x recording capability. I hear Sony was able to speed it up a bit with later versions, but I never actually used it. As far as I know, there was never an option to use minidiscs for data.
I really liked the hard plastic case of a MiniDisc. Just like the CD caddys that early CD-ROM drives used, they do a really good job of protecting the disc from scratches. I'm assuming HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs are the same 12cm as DVDs and CDs. Is there a reason they're sticking to that size? I would like to see them agree on one standard that uses a smaller disc that is enclosed inside a protective casing.
I'm installing a DVD burner this weekend and I've never worked with them before. I'm very wary of backing up everything on my computer on DVD - if it gets scratched and stops working, that's a lot of data lost. I'm thinking I may burn 2 copies of everything just to be safe (I have about 5GB of pictures that I've taken over the years and I don't want to lose them).
Doesn't GPS eliminate our dependence on magnetic poles? Of course if the poles swap and earth gets bombarded with cosmic rays, our GPS receivers might not work so well (nor would any other electronic components onboard our sources of travel).
"This may be part of a normal oscillation and it will eventually migrate back toward Canada," Joseph Stoner, a paleomagnetist at Oregon State University, said Thursday at an American Geophysical Union meeting.
Previous studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 685 miles out into the Arctic, according to a new analysis by Stoner.
Those crazy stoners. They're always analyzing something...
Half-Life 2 for the Mac? Counterstrike for the mac?
Seriously though I'm not much of a gamer and the Mac Mini (or any Mac) would be PERFECT for all my needs (Web Browsing, Music, Movies, Word Processing, Music Composition, Photo Refinishing). I played with a Mini at an Apple store and it seemed to be bogged down - there was a noticable delay before applications would open. Perhaps the much talked about RAM upgrade would help
The biggest thing holding me back is the Intel switch. I know G4 support won't be going away for a while, but I tend to keep my computers longer than most people so I'd rather wait. My first real computer was a Mac with System 7, and I can't wait to go back.
BTW, are there still plans for a Intel-powered Mac Mini or something similar? Does the current mini have DVI output?
It's either "drag and drop a file onto my winamp playlist" or mess around with iTunes clicking through Genre, Artist, Album, and dragging them onto a playlist along the right side of iTunes. If I download a new song, I can drop it onto Winamp to play it immediately. If I open that new song in iTunes and the ID3 tag is corrupt, it's really easy to lose. If I move that file into another folder, iTunes no longer knows where it is.
I see the benefits of iTunes, but I'm just not very familiar with it. I'm getting more proficient with it as I play around.
A lot of airports now (Houston for sure, and a handful of others) use 16:9 widescreen LCDs rotated 90 degrees to display flight information. Now they can fit more flights on a single display.
I know, that's not the TV you're talking about, but it's nice to see them making good use of a fairly new technology.
It's great when the airport display systems crash - I have a few pictures of a Win2000 login screen on an airport display. I also snapped a pic of a large Sony PSP billboard in NY that has a working display showing a Windows error dialog box.
Are you saying all web based email is heavy and sluggish, or just Hotmail?
Web based email is a great thing, but Hotmail really stinks. I can't even use it anymore. You can't open a mail message in a new window, and when you click the 'back' button to go to your inbox, it takes forever for the page to refresh.
Now you can't just type in your username to login - you must type your full "user@hotmail.com" which is another inconvenience.
For the past five years, the only TV in my house was a 9" TV/VCR combo. I just upgraded last week to a 20" Sharp Aquos EDTV. EDTV is nice because it supports 480p from my DVD player which is pretty decent quality. When looking to buy a TV I was surrounded by fancy large HDTVs, however I used my head. I don't subscribe to satellite or cable, rather I just watch SD broadcast or my DVDs. I don't own an XBOX 360 and don't plan on buying that or a PS3 (though I may get a Revolution!). I have no need for HDTV right now, but that might change in the future. I'm not against adopting early technologies, but a TV is something that's not essential to my life and I don't need the best of the best.
But for now, I can go to Wally World and pick up a nice 27" CRT set with multiple inputs for $150 that will last me 10 years or more.
How long do LCD TVs last? I know CRTs are pretty reliable, but is the lifespan of an LCD comparable?
It's the same as the wireless router arguement. If you don't know how to secure your router and don't want to take the time to learn, you shouldn't be using it.
A router isn't something you explain to a novice computer user. Why should wireless routers be designed for users who doesn't even know what an IP address is?
I don't use the media library, rather I use winamp as a simple MP3 player. I currently run the lite version.
I have an iPod so I'm stuck using iTunes to manage my music, but I still use winamp for playing the music. I think it's much easier to work with files, especially when ID3 tags are corrupted.
The part my friend doesn't include is how he guessed a trick was performed and won a necklace from him!
Did your friend win the necklace from Woz, or was it the other way around? Perhaps we should all go to Journalism school (or at least take some grammar or writing courses).
No. I would say that it is more important to login as a limited user, not as an admin.
Windows isn't exactly an OS where running as a limited user has any real benefit. I tried playing around and the only safe user account was one so locked down that changes to the background image, view settings, or icon arrangements weren't saved.
If I recall (it's been a while since I played around) Windows also doesn't make it easy to switch to an Admin when you want to install new software.
Despite those shortcomings, I still use Windows at home and will continue to do so until it stops working (or until I can afford a Mac).
I like the fact that my hardware firewall/router blocks any unsolicited incoming connection, but I wish I could use it to control which applications get to send data out.
I'm currently using a software firewall for this, however one thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't tell me which ports an application is using. I only know if an application wants to send data across the network or not. I remember I got hit with the MSBLAST worm. I immediately realized I was infected when my software firewall asked me if I wanted to allow "msblast.exe" to access the network.
We were all working nights and weekend through, for more than 5 months without letoff
Btw. I just learned that they are now going out of business.
I don't understand how companies operate like that. Once in a while, I'd be willing to work long shifts and weekends to meet a critical deadline, but there are too many companies who push their employees beyond the limits as part of their 'normal' operations.
A friend of mine was working with a customer in the Netherlands and they were discussing overtime. The Dutch guy said that they generally don't believe in overtime because the overtime hours that someone works could be a job for another person.
Where I work, you wouldn't have got past security the next day... again, nothing personal, just policy.
I recently left an excellent job with a major corporation to take another job closer to my wife. Prior to leaving I gave a three week notice. The 'policy' was for each employee to go through an exit interview where they would take my ID badge, SecurID token, company issued cellphone, however none of this ever happened.
I wasn't going to take advantage of anything, so I did the right thing by leaving everything with the department secretary. The funny thing is that my company cellphone wasn't disconnected for about four months after I left. I was still able to check voicemail.
I know, but I thought I'd try it out anyway. I like the fancy interface a lot more than BitTorrent's.
Azureus did cause my router to crash twice, but when I first started it a dialog came up that said my WRT54G has problems with uPNP. I disabled it and things seem to be working fine now.
Who in their right mind would install ANYTHING that pops up when you insert what is supposed to be an audio CD?
Autorun has been disabled on my computer since the day I got it - I like to be able to control (as much as possible) what and when something executes. I also don't like anything that phones home. I use a software firewall to limit internet access to applications that really need it.
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I don't know of Dell's policy regarding dead pixels if I was to encounter one.
I had a nice dialog box fool me in Word. I clicked something I shouldn't have, and immediately realized my mistake. A dialogue came up and I clicked what normally would have been "CANCEL" (you know the boxes where you get "OK" and "CANCEL") only instead the second box said "HELP". I had to wait about a minute or two while some crazy MS help database loaded.
The following year it was held at Six Flags Magic Mountain with the same deal. Regular customers had to leave at 6PM. I wouldn't want to be one of those regular customers on a family trip, especially if I had been visiting from out of state and only planning on going that one day! On the other hand, having exclusive use of two major Southern California theme parks was pretty cool. I don't think I waited longer than 5 minutes for any ride. I guess that's one benefit of working for a company that has a lot of political and economical power.
What ever happened to those things anyway? I had one a long time ago before MP3 players were common, and my biggest complaint was its 1x recording capability. I hear Sony was able to speed it up a bit with later versions, but I never actually used it. As far as I know, there was never an option to use minidiscs for data.
I really liked the hard plastic case of a MiniDisc. Just like the CD caddys that early CD-ROM drives used, they do a really good job of protecting the disc from scratches. I'm assuming HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs are the same 12cm as DVDs and CDs. Is there a reason they're sticking to that size? I would like to see them agree on one standard that uses a smaller disc that is enclosed inside a protective casing.
I'm installing a DVD burner this weekend and I've never worked with them before. I'm very wary of backing up everything on my computer on DVD - if it gets scratched and stops working, that's a lot of data lost. I'm thinking I may burn 2 copies of everything just to be safe (I have about 5GB of pictures that I've taken over the years and I don't want to lose them).
Doesn't GPS eliminate our dependence on magnetic poles? Of course if the poles swap and earth gets bombarded with cosmic rays, our GPS receivers might not work so well (nor would any other electronic components onboard our sources of travel).
Those crazy stoners. They're always analyzing something...
=)
Seriously though I'm not much of a gamer and the Mac Mini (or any Mac) would be PERFECT for all my needs (Web Browsing, Music, Movies, Word Processing, Music Composition, Photo Refinishing). I played with a Mini at an Apple store and it seemed to be bogged down - there was a noticable delay before applications would open. Perhaps the much talked about RAM upgrade would help
The biggest thing holding me back is the Intel switch. I know G4 support won't be going away for a while, but I tend to keep my computers longer than most people so I'd rather wait. My first real computer was a Mac with System 7, and I can't wait to go back.
BTW, are there still plans for a Intel-powered Mac Mini or something similar? Does the current mini have DVI output?
I see the benefits of iTunes, but I'm just not very familiar with it. I'm getting more proficient with it as I play around.
I know, that's not the TV you're talking about, but it's nice to see them making good use of a fairly new technology.
It's great when the airport display systems crash - I have a few pictures of a Win2000 login screen on an airport display. I also snapped a pic of a large Sony PSP billboard in NY that has a working display showing a Windows error dialog box.
Web based email is a great thing, but Hotmail really stinks. I can't even use it anymore. You can't open a mail message in a new window, and when you click the 'back' button to go to your inbox, it takes forever for the page to refresh.
Now you can't just type in your username to login - you must type your full "user@hotmail.com" which is another inconvenience.
You'll get better resolution, but with 720p HD you don't see pieces of dust.
But for now, I can go to Wally World and pick up a nice 27" CRT set with multiple inputs for $150 that will last me 10 years or more.
How long do LCD TVs last? I know CRTs are pretty reliable, but is the lifespan of an LCD comparable?
A router isn't something you explain to a novice computer user. Why should wireless routers be designed for users who doesn't even know what an IP address is?
I have an iPod so I'm stuck using iTunes to manage my music, but I still use winamp for playing the music. I think it's much easier to work with files, especially when ID3 tags are corrupted.
Did your friend win the necklace from Woz, or was it the other way around? Perhaps we should all go to Journalism school (or at least take some grammar or writing courses).
Windows isn't exactly an OS where running as a limited user has any real benefit. I tried playing around and the only safe user account was one so locked down that changes to the background image, view settings, or icon arrangements weren't saved.
If I recall (it's been a while since I played around) Windows also doesn't make it easy to switch to an Admin when you want to install new software.
Despite those shortcomings, I still use Windows at home and will continue to do so until it stops working (or until I can afford a Mac).
I like the fact that my hardware firewall/router blocks any unsolicited incoming connection, but I wish I could use it to control which applications get to send data out.
I'm currently using a software firewall for this, however one thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't tell me which ports an application is using. I only know if an application wants to send data across the network or not. I remember I got hit with the MSBLAST worm. I immediately realized I was infected when my software firewall asked me if I wanted to allow "msblast.exe" to access the network.
Btw. I just learned that they are now going out of business.
I don't understand how companies operate like that. Once in a while, I'd be willing to work long shifts and weekends to meet a critical deadline, but there are too many companies who push their employees beyond the limits as part of their 'normal' operations.
A friend of mine was working with a customer in the Netherlands and they were discussing overtime. The Dutch guy said that they generally don't believe in overtime because the overtime hours that someone works could be a job for another person.
I recently left an excellent job with a major corporation to take another job closer to my wife. Prior to leaving I gave a three week notice. The 'policy' was for each employee to go through an exit interview where they would take my ID badge, SecurID token, company issued cellphone, however none of this ever happened.
I wasn't going to take advantage of anything, so I did the right thing by leaving everything with the department secretary. The funny thing is that my company cellphone wasn't disconnected for about four months after I left. I was still able to check voicemail.
"He's Beetle and he's bad as can and he knows he's the best."
"He's Beetle, and he's bad as can and he knows he's the best."
I know, but I thought I'd try it out anyway. I like the fancy interface a lot more than BitTorrent's.
Azureus did cause my router to crash twice, but when I first started it a dialog came up that said my WRT54G has problems with uPNP. I disabled it and things seem to be working fine now.
On my cable connection, I'm getting 165kB/s down and 40kB/s up concurrently! I guess I can blame my ISP for throttling the default port.
I was thinking the same thing. Even more relevant - why doesn't South Korea sue Apple for bundling Quicktime with their OS?
Autorun has been disabled on my computer since the day I got it - I like to be able to control (as much as possible) what and when something executes. I also don't like anything that phones home. I use a software firewall to limit internet access to applications that really need it.