I just wish that in the early 90s I knew about domain registrations. At the time (13 yrs old), I was too busy trading GIFs on AOL rather than thinking about how to make some money.
Just imagine if I would have bought a bunch of commercial domains before those squatter laws were written!
Hmm. Guess my version of IE isn't fully patched. That site just caused IE to crash.
Wow! I'm SO glad my company won't let me install Firefox on my machine. It's much safer to use an out-of-date version of IE...
It is their network and their computer, so I really don't mind using IE that much. Besides, the sites that I browse while at work aren't likely to cause any serious problems (CNN, slashdot, gmail). I just wish I could add tabbed browsing functionality to my version of IE.
YES! I was so pissed off with this episode because my father did this by accident. He's an avid archer but far from an expert (he can't yet shoot an aspirin in the air with a recurve bow).
We were target shooting in our backyard at a distance of about 35 yards using compound hunting bows and aluminum arrows with standard tips (NOT broadheads which are wide, but regular metal pointed tips). One of my father's shots went precisely inside of another arrow that was already in the target! It was lodged inside of the other arrow shaft about halfway down, and about 7 or 8 strips of aluminum curled outward and down (looked like an umbrella).
Mythbusters is a cool show, but they sometimes lack details to truly prove or disprove myths.
Hmm.. I haven't seen that one but I tried it before. The only problem with it is that you're left with a salty residue on your beer can/bottle. The first few sips are salty unless you wipe it off.
Well actually I didn't have a sticker on my car, just a ugly license plate frame to advertise for the dealer. I mentioned that I'd leave it on only if they paid me, and the salesman just laughed and then told someone to remove it right there before I left.
I noticed that in California (and same in Nevada as far as I can tell), most dealers only put their license plate frames on their cars and don't put stickers on the back. Just about anywhere else in the country dealers put big ugly stickers or badges with their name on it. I live on the East coast now and notice that 90% of cars have dealer stickers AND license plate frames with the dealer name on it.
I also noticed that dealers love to put ugly pinstriping on their cars here. I don't recall ever seeing a new car in CA with pinstripes. They're very tacky looking. I think it started as a good way for dealers to milk $250 extra out of each customer back in the 70s and 80s, but apparently they're still doing it.
Even if you went to university and got bachelors AND Master's degrees AND already had some of the skills they were looking for (rare--most recent grads need some training to function in a work environment,) you're still not going to make $60,000 right out of college.
Well I did... only it was in California, and not in Houston where I wanted to work. And that was in 2002. Most of my Electrical Engineer friends got jobs that paid MORE than that. I'm talking US dollars here. One brilliant Computer Scientist friend of mine was offered $80,000 right out of school, and that was in somewhat rural Florida where homes were dirt cheap in 2002.
Even friends of mine who are just graduating now are getting offers of $50K-60K right out of college.
I live in New Jersey too, and it is out of control. Even in rural New Jersey (yes, just drive west on I-78 or 80 and you'll see rural NJ) everything such as food and homes are still extremely expensive.
Magically when you cross the border into PA, everything becomes more reasonable. I'd love to live in Stroudsburg or Bethlehem, but I work just outside Manhattan. I can't handle 120 miles round trip daily. Perhaps two or three times a week would work (there are buses!), but not every day.
Texas is a great country, but unfortunately I couldn't find a decent job there (in Houston at least). I wanted to live in Houston for a number of reasons, but no matter what I couldn't get a job there. Upon graduation, I had several interviews for software development positions however nearly every one of them paid under $35,000. I'm sorry but that's just not enough money, even if Houston is a cheap place to live.
I think a big part of the problem is that Compaq was just acquired by HP at the time I was looking for work and they laid off a ton of engineers. The Houston job market was flooded with experienced engineers willing to work for peanuts just for the sake of having a job.
In that case shouldn't they be paying me to advertise?
Companies get a lot of free advertising. Ever see people put those little white apple stickers that come with iPods on their cars??
I really like when car dealers put their large ugly stickers on the back! When I bought my car, I told the dealer to take it off or else pay me.
Sanyo includes a ringer with most of their phones that sounds like an old fashioned telephone bell. Unfortunately for many people, I believe Sanyo only makes CDMA phones.
In the UK, do they run TV commercials telling you to text "HOT HITS" to a certain number to get free ringtones?
Over on this side of the pond I frequently see television commercials for free or low priced ringtones that you can get by sending a text message. If you read the fine print, it tells you that you are actually signing up for a subscription where they send you new ringtones every day or every week, charging you each time. I think this practice is scandalous because people are misled. The scariest thing is how third party companies are able to make charges to your wireless account!
Instead of paying $2.50 per ringtone, why not subscribe to a service called 3G Upload? I believe it's $9.99 for a one year subscription and you get unlimited ringtones. You simply pick the ringtones you want, then it sends a text to your phone which contains a link to download the tone you selected. You're also allowed to change the assigned phone a certain number of times, so I shared my account with several friends.
I downloaded about thirty ringtones from them before my subscription expired. Even though I still have all those silly ringers, I stick with a standard "beep beep beep beep beep beep" or a "ring ring" that sounds like an old fashioned telephone bell.
I remember that. I distinctly remember the sound clip of barney singing "I love you... you love me.."
Are mods still available for the latest Doom? Does anyone still develop them?
What about Half-Life? I haven't been gaming since 2001 or 2002. Last time I tried to play counterstrike, it complained about me needing Steam. I never installed it, and I ended up deleting HalfLife from my computer. Just last week, I installed Half-Life again (the original version) and tried to get Counter-Strike set up again. I was instructed to get the Steam client which will update my Half-Life and should allow me to downlaod CS, however when I installed Steam nothing happened. It doesn't see that I have Half-Life I installed. Do I need to do anything special?
Is counterStrike even still supported (using the Half-Life I engine which I have - Half Life 2 requires more processing and video power than I currently have)
Those 'childish' games are the only ones I like. I don't like the idea of sitting down at a console and devoting 24+ hours to playing a single game.
I still play classic 8-bit Nintendo games (and often wonder why I paid $20 or $30 for some of them when they were first released). My favorite is Contra. Despite beating it thoursands of times, I still play it when my brother visits me and says "hey, let's go beat Contra again." The scary thing is that I'm finally able to beat the game without doing the cheat code. Unfortunately I can't yet beat the game without using a continue.
Mariokart is great, but it's most fun playing vs. mode with a group of friends.
Even worse, while chatting with a friend, harry potter flew out of my buddy list on a broomstick. Scared the shit out of me. I quickly closed AIM and reopened GAIM.
That's hilarious!
I've been using an older version of AIM and I don't recall seeing any ads. I think there may be a small block where I see AOL ads, but nothing other than that.
So if techies build their own and mass market consumers buy from HP or Dell, who buys from "Bob's Kustom Komputers" or "Comps'R'Us"?
Where I grew up there are quite a few shops around that sell this kind of garbage, and yet they're still in business. Are these the same people who think "we should buy one of them Computer things so little Johnny can be smart when he grows up?" They're probably the same consumers who fall for those lame AOL or Netscape Dialup commercials that talk about how they offer Virus Protection and Spam Protection.
My uncle bought one. At the time, he was making a ton of money and bought anything he thought might have been useful.
I hated the ads but almost bought one because they are cool. I had lots of dirty ideas, but would legitimately like one to monitor my car in my apartment complex garage.
Right after I posted that, I opened it up and started playing around and discovered that wonderful featuer. I guess it pays to poke around BEFORE opening my mouth!
Before I started reading Slashdot I was aware of techy stuff through friends of mine. Now that I'm a regular reader I feel compelled to complain about everything, especially stories from the YRO section (which are usually things that wouldn't otherwise bother me, but so many people whine and complain and it makes me do the same).
Look at me now - I'm bitching about becoming a bitch.
I have a 20GB iPod and recently bought my wife a nano. I installed the latest version of iTunes from the CD that came with the nano. Is it me or does the latest version not allow you to disable the display of the iTunes music store? I know the previous version of iTunes I used specifically allowed me to hide the music store, but I searched through the settings of the newest version and I figure out how to do it. I don't want to see it because I'm not interested in buying anything there. I have a little 256MB Creative MP3 player that I use at the gym which doesn't play AAC.
I didn't think espresso could be so complicated and expensive! After reading all this talk about coffee it made me want to get a cup. I just brewed a 'fresh' pot of Folgers and it's pretty foul.
Your suggestion seems to be common among coffee 'connosieurs': freshly roasted coffee. Living close to New York, I don't think it will be much of a problem finding it, though I am interested in home roasting.
I'm now also interested in a coffee press but don't know much about them. How well do they work? Do they work better with one particular roast or are they good all around? Do they extract the same amount of caffeine as drip brewed coffee? Do they require a coarse grind?
it's so hard to find a decent food experience anymore these days
If you're ever in Southern California, go to In-N-Out. It's a fast food joint that only serves Burgers, Fries, Shakes, and Drinks (no fancy curly fries, onion rings, chicken sandwiches, no breakfast). Every different one I've been to (and I've been to well over 50 of them) has employees that always seem happy and cheerful, making it a great experience. They don't act ridiculous as if they're reading from a training script, but overall they seem like they enjoy their job and they're happier overall.
Maybe it's because thir starting pay is over $7 an hour, who knows? I do know that it's fairly difficult to get a job there, compared to a place like McDonalds. They're very selective on who they hire, and the overall employee attitude is proabably a result.
Americano is the closest thing you can get to regular brewed coffee when you only have espresso to work with. I can see how it would be popular with American WWII soldiers.
I don't own a coffee maker but I have an espresso machine at home. I often drink plain espresso or make my wife lattes, but sometimes I'm in the mood for just a regular coffee and I can sort of get one by making an Americano.
What's the proper way to pull a shot? I have a little espresso machine at home that I use regularly. I don't know how much different it is than a full size machine, but I was wondering if there's a 'right' way to use it.
Slashdot Mirror
Just imagine if I would have bought a bunch of commercial domains before those squatter laws were written!
Wow! I'm SO glad my company won't let me install Firefox on my machine. It's much safer to use an out-of-date version of IE...
It is their network and their computer, so I really don't mind using IE that much. Besides, the sites that I browse while at work aren't likely to cause any serious problems (CNN, slashdot, gmail). I just wish I could add tabbed browsing functionality to my version of IE.
We were target shooting in our backyard at a distance of about 35 yards using compound hunting bows and aluminum arrows with standard tips (NOT broadheads which are wide, but regular metal pointed tips). One of my father's shots went precisely inside of another arrow that was already in the target! It was lodged inside of the other arrow shaft about halfway down, and about 7 or 8 strips of aluminum curled outward and down (looked like an umbrella).
Mythbusters is a cool show, but they sometimes lack details to truly prove or disprove myths.
Hmm.. I haven't seen that one but I tried it before. The only problem with it is that you're left with a salty residue on your beer can/bottle. The first few sips are salty unless you wipe it off.
I noticed that in California (and same in Nevada as far as I can tell), most dealers only put their license plate frames on their cars and don't put stickers on the back. Just about anywhere else in the country dealers put big ugly stickers or badges with their name on it. I live on the East coast now and notice that 90% of cars have dealer stickers AND license plate frames with the dealer name on it.
I also noticed that dealers love to put ugly pinstriping on their cars here. I don't recall ever seeing a new car in CA with pinstripes. They're very tacky looking. I think it started as a good way for dealers to milk $250 extra out of each customer back in the 70s and 80s, but apparently they're still doing it.
Well I did... only it was in California, and not in Houston where I wanted to work. And that was in 2002. Most of my Electrical Engineer friends got jobs that paid MORE than that. I'm talking US dollars here. One brilliant Computer Scientist friend of mine was offered $80,000 right out of school, and that was in somewhat rural Florida where homes were dirt cheap in 2002.
Even friends of mine who are just graduating now are getting offers of $50K-60K right out of college.
Magically when you cross the border into PA, everything becomes more reasonable. I'd love to live in Stroudsburg or Bethlehem, but I work just outside Manhattan. I can't handle 120 miles round trip daily. Perhaps two or three times a week would work (there are buses!), but not every day.
I wish I could telecommute.
I think a big part of the problem is that Compaq was just acquired by HP at the time I was looking for work and they laid off a ton of engineers. The Houston job market was flooded with experienced engineers willing to work for peanuts just for the sake of having a job.
Companies get a lot of free advertising. Ever see people put those little white apple stickers that come with iPods on their cars?? I really like when car dealers put their large ugly stickers on the back! When I bought my car, I told the dealer to take it off or else pay me.
Sanyo includes a ringer with most of their phones that sounds like an old fashioned telephone bell. Unfortunately for many people, I believe Sanyo only makes CDMA phones.
Over on this side of the pond I frequently see television commercials for free or low priced ringtones that you can get by sending a text message. If you read the fine print, it tells you that you are actually signing up for a subscription where they send you new ringtones every day or every week, charging you each time. I think this practice is scandalous because people are misled. The scariest thing is how third party companies are able to make charges to your wireless account!
Instead of paying $2.50 per ringtone, why not subscribe to a service called 3G Upload? I believe it's $9.99 for a one year subscription and you get unlimited ringtones. You simply pick the ringtones you want, then it sends a text to your phone which contains a link to download the tone you selected. You're also allowed to change the assigned phone a certain number of times, so I shared my account with several friends.
I downloaded about thirty ringtones from them before my subscription expired. Even though I still have all those silly ringers, I stick with a standard "beep beep beep beep beep beep" or a "ring ring" that sounds like an old fashioned telephone bell.
Are mods still available for the latest Doom? Does anyone still develop them?
What about Half-Life? I haven't been gaming since 2001 or 2002. Last time I tried to play counterstrike, it complained about me needing Steam. I never installed it, and I ended up deleting HalfLife from my computer. Just last week, I installed Half-Life again (the original version) and tried to get Counter-Strike set up again. I was instructed to get the Steam client which will update my Half-Life and should allow me to downlaod CS, however when I installed Steam nothing happened. It doesn't see that I have Half-Life I installed. Do I need to do anything special?
Is counterStrike even still supported (using the Half-Life I engine which I have - Half Life 2 requires more processing and video power than I currently have)
I still play classic 8-bit Nintendo games (and often wonder why I paid $20 or $30 for some of them when they were first released). My favorite is Contra. Despite beating it thoursands of times, I still play it when my brother visits me and says "hey, let's go beat Contra again." The scary thing is that I'm finally able to beat the game without doing the cheat code. Unfortunately I can't yet beat the game without using a continue.
Mariokart is great, but it's most fun playing vs. mode with a group of friends.
That's hilarious!
I've been using an older version of AIM and I don't recall seeing any ads. I think there may be a small block where I see AOL ads, but nothing other than that.
Those ads were great. Most of them were designed using XP's dialogue box style. They look ridiculous when you're using any OS other than WinXP.
Where I grew up there are quite a few shops around that sell this kind of garbage, and yet they're still in business. Are these the same people who think "we should buy one of them Computer things so little Johnny can be smart when he grows up?" They're probably the same consumers who fall for those lame AOL or Netscape Dialup commercials that talk about how they offer Virus Protection and Spam Protection.
I hated the ads but almost bought one because they are cool. I had lots of dirty ideas, but would legitimately like one to monitor my car in my apartment complex garage.
Right after I posted that, I opened it up and started playing around and discovered that wonderful featuer. I guess it pays to poke around BEFORE opening my mouth!
Before I started reading Slashdot I was aware of techy stuff through friends of mine. Now that I'm a regular reader I feel compelled to complain about everything, especially stories from the YRO section (which are usually things that wouldn't otherwise bother me, but so many people whine and complain and it makes me do the same).
Look at me now - I'm bitching about becoming a bitch.
I have a 20GB iPod and recently bought my wife a nano. I installed the latest version of iTunes from the CD that came with the nano. Is it me or does the latest version not allow you to disable the display of the iTunes music store? I know the previous version of iTunes I used specifically allowed me to hide the music store, but I searched through the settings of the newest version and I figure out how to do it. I don't want to see it because I'm not interested in buying anything there. I have a little 256MB Creative MP3 player that I use at the gym which doesn't play AAC.
Your suggestion seems to be common among coffee 'connosieurs': freshly roasted coffee. Living close to New York, I don't think it will be much of a problem finding it, though I am interested in home roasting.
I found these: http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.ZachandDanis.html and http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthwareiRoast2. shtml which I'm intersted in.
I'm now also interested in a coffee press but don't know much about them. How well do they work? Do they work better with one particular roast or are they good all around? Do they extract the same amount of caffeine as drip brewed coffee? Do they require a coarse grind?
it's so hard to find a decent food experience anymore these days
If you're ever in Southern California, go to In-N-Out. It's a fast food joint that only serves Burgers, Fries, Shakes, and Drinks (no fancy curly fries, onion rings, chicken sandwiches, no breakfast). Every different one I've been to (and I've been to well over 50 of them) has employees that always seem happy and cheerful, making it a great experience. They don't act ridiculous as if they're reading from a training script, but overall they seem like they enjoy their job and they're happier overall.
Maybe it's because thir starting pay is over $7 an hour, who knows? I do know that it's fairly difficult to get a job there, compared to a place like McDonalds. They're very selective on who they hire, and the overall employee attitude is proabably a result.
I don't own a coffee maker but I have an espresso machine at home. I often drink plain espresso or make my wife lattes, but sometimes I'm in the mood for just a regular coffee and I can sort of get one by making an Americano.
What's the proper way to pull a shot? I have a little espresso machine at home that I use regularly. I don't know how much different it is than a full size machine, but I was wondering if there's a 'right' way to use it.