Not only is Microsoft helping to bring higher wages to the retail sector--but who better to sell against Apple, than the best of the Apple retail staff? If anyone can do a good job exposing the gaps in Apple's armor, I would think it would be the folks Microsoft is hiring.
When you order a computer with the Vista to XP downgrade from a major manufacture, only XP is ever installed. There never is a Vista install performed.
The majority of people don't have musical talent. Hoping to get a random group together to learn instruments and play recognizable songs late at night after a night out partying is a pipe dream.
Give one of the games a whirl sometime. Actually knowing how to play diminishes some of the fun. But in the end it just another way to enjoy music.
When computers are outlawed, only outlaws will have computers!! All this new fangled technology that old, white men don't understand needs to be banned!
I have my name as a domain. Used to run an in-home email server, but I did have sporadic outages. Did a little checking and found a webhost for my email. $15 a year is what I pay to have my domain name with POP3 and a web interface for my email. Not sure about IMAP, was never a big IMAP fan.
Way, way back in the day--my dad came home with a TRS-80 Model 1 and a book filled with the source code to a bunch of simple games; Connect Four, Tick Tack Toe, Moon Lander, and I think big game in the book was Lemonade Stand.
Anyhow I sat down and start punching in the games, line by line. When I would finish there would be a myriad of typos to fix.
Little did I know I was coding and debugging. About the fourth program I typed, things started to dawn on me. IF THEN, FOR NEXT, GOTO, etc. all started to make sense.
It wasn't long before I was the one heading to Radio Shack looking for new books. Figured out PEEKs and POKEs next, and before you know it I had my own original game.
At fifteen I was working on mini's programming RPG3. By sixteen the IBM PC came out I was one of the youngest hires at IBM's Yorktown Research Center.
Of course the flip side is by 26/27 I was burnt out on coding... Hey but at least my career path was secure!
The article ends by suggesting you leave your car keys on your laptop bag to not forget your laptop. What about the folks that don't want to look for keys in the morning so they leave them in the car?
Another little hole in the guys logic--if the walk of shame happens on Monday--does this mean the OP goes home on Friday and never uses his car to go out again? Just sits at home doing work on the laptop? Get a life!
My suggestion--leave your laptop in the car. Tell everyone you left the laptop at home. Jump back in the car and head to the lake for the day. Bring a old keyboard with you onto the boat. When the boss calls--turn off the boat, make sure everyone is quiet and talk to him while mashing random keys. When he asks a question you can't answer tell him the link/website/etc is slow and you'll call him back with the answer....
Walking into a bookstore, slipping a best seller under your jacket and walking out--that is stealing.
Walking into a bookstore and copying a best seller word for word into your personal notebook--isn't that considered fair use?
It isn't until you have given your notebook with the copied words to another person that you have created copyright infringement.
You are on the money about Blizzard now offering better security than the majority of online bank/investment firm.
Two of the eight financial institutions I frequent provide an RSA key. Blizzard, with 10million accounts, has determined the amount of money/time involved with account theft/recovery makes it worth implementing better security. Why banks haven't seen the value escapes me. But, something tells me Blizzard's implementation will be a kick in the pants--and before the end of the year I'll see six of my eight financial institutions offering an RSA type device.
You do realize "the bible" you are using for your reference point was written four centuries ago.
Unless of course you are a Middle Eastern scholar and can handle ancient languages? If you are translating the original Hebrew then Kudos to you--you would be the first with the ability I've known that believes in Creation Science (or even God for that matter.)
The King James translation was written by a committee of up-tight white guys. In their day they were called scholars. But scholars of four hundred years ago were all members of the church. Those "scholars" that found themselves disagreeing with the church often found themselves persecuted and killed for heresy.
Living in North Carolina, I can only hope only a handful of people will turn in their plates.
But the real story should be the clueless educator. Hell, I'm not to far off from 60 and knew about WTF. Here is the funny/sad part--part of the North Carolina curriculum from the NC Dept of Public Instruction is to teach emoticons and abreviations in computer class. I was floored when I saw it being taught in the classroom. The LOL part came when I saw the test the kids are given on the subject matter...
The fine print of Google Health mentions your privacy is protect according to the Google's Privacy Policy. If you read Google's Privacy Policy, about halfway through Google makes clear if the government asks for your records they will be turned over with or without your knowledge.
Remember when AltaVista was the top search engine. Seeing Google trying extend their reach into this part of someone's life makes me wish the worst for Google. Maybe it is time for everyone to start using a new search engine.
I've avoided Vista like the plague. However with XP, I stopped using Windows Media Player long ago for the much more powerful VLC. Would VLC work as a replacement for Media Center on Vista?
If you have a Tivo--your not watching TV anymore--your watching Tivo. Tivo is far more efficient than watching TV. There is no going back to watching TV once you've started Tivoing...
Tivo is great because it is so easy. I started with one and now have five. Kicker is I only have four TVs. (One Tivo is spare in case a drive or fan dies.) Played with MythTV at one point, but the Tivo interface is just too easy. Not to mention the Tivo form factor is really nice.
I use pyTivo to access my NAS and all of BitTorrent movies and TV shows. I don't mind spending $750 for a Tivo, but I'll be damned if I'll pay $50/month for HBO and Showtime.:)
As for getting sued for BitTorrenting TV shows--has anyone been sued for downloading any type of media? Seems everyone that gets sues has been sued for sharing--not for downloading. But if you want to get into a gray area--download content from your ISP's news servers. The TV ads always talk about how if you use their service you will be able to download music and movies faster. The music and video they are talking about must be the stuff provided on their news servers--right?:) (I'm not a lawyer, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.)
Back in the day (I'm guessing over a decade), Hewlett-Packard used to require all their engineers to spend two weeks out of every year answering phones for the support desk. I remember the service as some of the best I've every gotten in the industry. The philosophy behind the decision was forcing the engineers to work directly with the clients made the engineers better. I sure do miss the old HP!
If you want usable images taken of at night of distant, moving targets--you'll need to spend 1000+ on a camera.
I live in a resort area. Vacant homes are often robbed during winter. During the summers, people will monkey with boat docks as well. My property has two sets of cameras.
The expensive camera is hidden near the road and has been configured to capture the license plates of all cars coming and going. Being able to read the license plate, at night, of a car moving 30 to 50 miles per hour required a camera that cost $1200.
My dock also has cameras, but much lower end. (Three $200ish cameras) The dock lighting is rigged to motion sensors. At night when a boat gets close, the dock lights up and the cameras work fine. Turn off the lights and cameras are in the dark.
So far the cameras have not caught any thieves--just drunk buddies coming over in the middle of the night...
Lots of folks have talked about dogs and guns. Dogs are great as night watchmen/an early warning system--i.e. if I'm sleeping and hear my dogs go nuts, I know someone is about. If you aren't home--dogs don't do much good.
As for weapons--a law enforcement friend had a great philosophy. Buy a pump shotgun for home defense. The pump makes a very distinctive noise in a quite house at night. The noise of a shell being chambered should be enough to make most thieves run... I personally don't like using guns for defense--I'm scared I would hesitate to shoot and end up having the weapon used against me or escalating the situation.
Count me as a happy pyTivo user! Been very happy using pyTivo to handle all my PC to TV streaming. In the grand scheme, pyTivo isn't quite as nice as TVersity and an Xbox360 or PS3. But pyTivo maintains that friendly Tivo interface. Big shout out to the pyTivo developers if they read slashdot.:)
A Digg comment said it best: The brown zune sounds like something you do to someone.
Everyone is talking about grandma giving a Zune to their kids. I've gone the other way--picked up five brown Zunes for under $500 and am giving them to my parents, wife's parents, and one remaining grandparent. Ironic to find this article while in the process of preloading the Zunes, killing a bit of time surfing waiting for the music transfers.
My wife and I both own iPods. Functionally--the Zune and iPod are the exact same. However I do agree with others the iPod wheel is a nicer interface than the Zune. The iPod costs 2.5x to 5x more than a Zune (depending how hard you shop.) I would hope anything that cost that much more would be a little better. Think cars--all cars function the same, yet when you start to spend 2.5x to 5x more on your car--things get a lot plusher...
Not quite sure what the big deal is over the release of a crap-ton of low quality jpeg images. HP7 has been available in.PDF form since the end of April... Spoiling the book is a different topic. No clue what motivates people to ruin a movie or book for someone else.
So the CEO of RIM says there is nothing to worry about! Anyone surprised? "There is nothing to see here, move along. Oh and buy more Blackberries!!"
Don't ever think any messages you send on Blackberries are secure. Have a friend that wasn't a very good husband. All the messages from his Blackberry, which he thought were private, wound up in court and cost him an additional $2.5million in divorce settlements.
I read the article. I've had more than enough experience with SOE to realize anything that involves SOE is going suck sooner or later. My bet is sooner comes pretty fast. Sure it will be different. After so many SOE screw-ups, how would you exepct the article to read? Other folks can spend their money on PotBS, for me personally--I'll be taking a pass at release.
If you lay down with dogs--you are going to get fleas....
Was looking forward to playing PotBS--not now though. Been burned by SOE too many times. It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever give SOE a credit card number,
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Not only is Microsoft helping to bring higher wages to the retail sector--but who better to sell against Apple, than the best of the Apple retail staff? If anyone can do a good job exposing the gaps in Apple's armor, I would think it would be the folks Microsoft is hiring.
When you order a computer with the Vista to XP downgrade from a major manufacture, only XP is ever installed. There never is a Vista install performed.
The majority of people don't have musical talent. Hoping to get a random group together to learn instruments and play recognizable songs late at night after a night out partying is a pipe dream.
Give one of the games a whirl sometime. Actually knowing how to play diminishes some of the fun. But in the end it just another way to enjoy music.
When computers are outlawed, only outlaws will have computers!! All this new fangled technology that old, white men don't understand needs to be banned!
I have my name as a domain. Used to run an in-home email server, but I did have sporadic outages. Did a little checking and found a webhost for my email. $15 a year is what I pay to have my domain name with POP3 and a web interface for my email. Not sure about IMAP, was never a big IMAP fan.
Way, way back in the day--my dad came home with a TRS-80 Model 1 and a book filled with the source code to a bunch of simple games; Connect Four, Tick Tack Toe, Moon Lander, and I think big game in the book was Lemonade Stand.
Anyhow I sat down and start punching in the games, line by line. When I would finish there would be a myriad of typos to fix.
Little did I know I was coding and debugging. About the fourth program I typed, things started to dawn on me. IF THEN, FOR NEXT, GOTO, etc. all started to make sense.
It wasn't long before I was the one heading to Radio Shack looking for new books. Figured out PEEKs and POKEs next, and before you know it I had my own original game.
At fifteen I was working on mini's programming RPG3. By sixteen the IBM PC came out I was one of the youngest hires at IBM's Yorktown Research Center.
Of course the flip side is by 26/27 I was burnt out on coding... Hey but at least my career path was secure!
really---how did this get through....
The article ends by suggesting you leave your car keys on your laptop bag to not forget your laptop. What about the folks that don't want to look for keys in the morning so they leave them in the car?
Another little hole in the guys logic--if the walk of shame happens on Monday--does this mean the OP goes home on Friday and never uses his car to go out again? Just sits at home doing work on the laptop? Get a life!
My suggestion--leave your laptop in the car. Tell everyone you left the laptop at home. Jump back in the car and head to the lake for the day. Bring a old keyboard with you onto the boat. When the boss calls--turn off the boat, make sure everyone is quiet and talk to him while mashing random keys. When he asks a question you can't answer tell him the link/website/etc is slow and you'll call him back with the answer....
Walking into a bookstore, slipping a best seller under your jacket and walking out--that is stealing. Walking into a bookstore and copying a best seller word for word into your personal notebook--isn't that considered fair use? It isn't until you have given your notebook with the copied words to another person that you have created copyright infringement.
You are on the money about Blizzard now offering better security than the majority of online bank/investment firm.
Two of the eight financial institutions I frequent provide an RSA key. Blizzard, with 10million accounts, has determined the amount of money/time involved with account theft/recovery makes it worth implementing better security. Why banks haven't seen the value escapes me. But, something tells me Blizzard's implementation will be a kick in the pants--and before the end of the year I'll see six of my eight financial institutions offering an RSA type device.
You do realize "the bible" you are using for your reference point was written four centuries ago.
Unless of course you are a Middle Eastern scholar and can handle ancient languages? If you are translating the original Hebrew then Kudos to you--you would be the first with the ability I've known that believes in Creation Science (or even God for that matter.)
The King James translation was written by a committee of up-tight white guys. In their day they were called scholars. But scholars of four hundred years ago were all members of the church. Those "scholars" that found themselves disagreeing with the church often found themselves persecuted and killed for heresy.
Living in North Carolina, I can only hope only a handful of people will turn in their plates. But the real story should be the clueless educator. Hell, I'm not to far off from 60 and knew about WTF. Here is the funny/sad part--part of the North Carolina curriculum from the NC Dept of Public Instruction is to teach emoticons and abreviations in computer class. I was floored when I saw it being taught in the classroom. The LOL part came when I saw the test the kids are given on the subject matter...
The fine print of Google Health mentions your privacy is protect according to the Google's Privacy Policy. If you read Google's Privacy Policy, about halfway through Google makes clear if the government asks for your records they will be turned over with or without your knowledge.
Remember when AltaVista was the top search engine. Seeing Google trying extend their reach into this part of someone's life makes me wish the worst for Google. Maybe it is time for everyone to start using a new search engine.
I've avoided Vista like the plague. However with XP, I stopped using Windows Media Player long ago for the much more powerful VLC. Would VLC work as a replacement for Media Center on Vista?
Amen, brother! There is no going back to TV once you Tivo--I have a spare sitting around just in case one of my Tivos coughs out a hard drive or fan.
If you have a Tivo--your not watching TV anymore--your watching Tivo. Tivo is far more efficient than watching TV. There is no going back to watching TV once you've started Tivoing...
Tivo is great because it is so easy. I started with one and now have five. Kicker is I only have four TVs. (One Tivo is spare in case a drive or fan dies.) Played with MythTV at one point, but the Tivo interface is just too easy. Not to mention the Tivo form factor is really nice.
:)
:) (I'm not a lawyer, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.)
I use pyTivo to access my NAS and all of BitTorrent movies and TV shows. I don't mind spending $750 for a Tivo, but I'll be damned if I'll pay $50/month for HBO and Showtime.
As for getting sued for BitTorrenting TV shows--has anyone been sued for downloading any type of media? Seems everyone that gets sues has been sued for sharing--not for downloading. But if you want to get into a gray area--download content from your ISP's news servers. The TV ads always talk about how if you use their service you will be able to download music and movies faster. The music and video they are talking about must be the stuff provided on their news servers--right?
Back in the day (I'm guessing over a decade), Hewlett-Packard used to require all their engineers to spend two weeks out of every year answering phones for the support desk. I remember the service as some of the best I've every gotten in the industry. The philosophy behind the decision was forcing the engineers to work directly with the clients made the engineers better. I sure do miss the old HP!
If you want usable images taken of at night of distant, moving targets--you'll need to spend 1000+ on a camera.
I live in a resort area. Vacant homes are often robbed during winter. During the summers, people will monkey with boat docks as well. My property has two sets of cameras.
The expensive camera is hidden near the road and has been configured to capture the license plates of all cars coming and going. Being able to read the license plate, at night, of a car moving 30 to 50 miles per hour required a camera that cost $1200.
My dock also has cameras, but much lower end. (Three $200ish cameras) The dock lighting is rigged to motion sensors. At night when a boat gets close, the dock lights up and the cameras work fine. Turn off the lights and cameras are in the dark.
So far the cameras have not caught any thieves--just drunk buddies coming over in the middle of the night...
Lots of folks have talked about dogs and guns. Dogs are great as night watchmen/an early warning system--i.e. if I'm sleeping and hear my dogs go nuts, I know someone is about. If you aren't home--dogs don't do much good.
As for weapons--a law enforcement friend had a great philosophy. Buy a pump shotgun for home defense. The pump makes a very distinctive noise in a quite house at night. The noise of a shell being chambered should be enough to make most thieves run... I personally don't like using guns for defense--I'm scared I would hesitate to shoot and end up having the weapon used against me or escalating the situation.
The exact quote from the AT&T CEO was more along the lines: "We never reset P2P traffic, it's simply a fact we've built a crappy network."
Count me as a happy pyTivo user! Been very happy using pyTivo to handle all my PC to TV streaming. In the grand scheme, pyTivo isn't quite as nice as TVersity and an Xbox360 or PS3. But pyTivo maintains that friendly Tivo interface. Big shout out to the pyTivo developers if they read slashdot. :)
A Digg comment said it best: The brown zune sounds like something you do to someone.
Everyone is talking about grandma giving a Zune to their kids. I've gone the other way--picked up five brown Zunes for under $500 and am giving them to my parents, wife's parents, and one remaining grandparent. Ironic to find this article while in the process of preloading the Zunes, killing a bit of time surfing waiting for the music transfers.
My wife and I both own iPods. Functionally--the Zune and iPod are the exact same. However I do agree with others the iPod wheel is a nicer interface than the Zune. The iPod costs 2.5x to 5x more than a Zune (depending how hard you shop.) I would hope anything that cost that much more would be a little better. Think cars--all cars function the same, yet when you start to spend 2.5x to 5x more on your car--things get a lot plusher...
Not quite sure what the big deal is over the release of a crap-ton of low quality jpeg images. HP7 has been available in .PDF form since the end of April... Spoiling the book is a different topic. No clue what motivates people to ruin a movie or book for someone else.
Don't ever think any messages you send on Blackberries are secure. Have a friend that wasn't a very good husband. All the messages from his Blackberry, which he thought were private, wound up in court and cost him an additional $2.5million in divorce settlements.
I read the article. I've had more than enough experience with SOE to realize anything that involves SOE is going suck sooner or later. My bet is sooner comes pretty fast. Sure it will be different. After so many SOE screw-ups, how would you exepct the article to read? Other folks can spend their money on PotBS, for me personally--I'll be taking a pass at release. If you lay down with dogs--you are going to get fleas....
Was looking forward to playing PotBS--not now though. Been burned by SOE too many times. It will be a cold day in Hell before I ever give SOE a credit card number,