There is no good reason to keep your old film camera unless you can take a better picture on it personally.
If you have a high quality digital camera that takes great quality pictures, you can send your digital files in to many online digital development stores. They will then develop your digital pictures using traditional methods, instead of just printing them using an inkjet printer like Joe Public.
The key here is to buy quality cameras. Most cell phone based digital cameras will not take the quality of pictures that most people would be proud to actually get professionally developed; they may be cute and fit in your pocket/purse, but that's about the extent of it unless you're just taking pictures of your buddies in college while out drinking.
Recently I had a problem with my printer and it took 27 calls over 3 days and about 16 hours of waiting on the phone and talking to Indian after Indian whom couldn't answer my problem. My problem isn't with Indians as I have many of them as friends and Indians are very smart people. My problem is with Dell outsourcing to India and giving them no power to correct even the smallest of issues. Basically if it's not on their troubleshooting sheet they have in front of them chalked up with canned questions/answers, then you are SOL.
When are companies going to understand that they may get a first time buyer with their cut-rate prices. But if that buyer ever has a problem with the hardware and receives cut-rate support, they are not going to buy from the same company again.
The tester did not take into account that his/her ad will also appear on 3rd party websites which the owner stands to make money from. There are many groups that take advantage of ads being displayed on their own 'ring of websites' and will generate fraud clicks no matter what the title/description of the ad displayed.
Example:
Joe runs a website. Joe decides he wants some income for his website and signs up for Google Adsense which displays contextual Google ads on his website. Google gives Joe a percentage of the revenue (30-40%?!-google doesn't tell exactly how much.) Joe decides to get some of his friends to click on his ads to boost his monthly revenue. Joe makes more money, and the ad gets more clicks. Advertisers have no idea that Joe is falsely generating clicks and will happily pay Google for the clicks, which in turn Google pays Joe his dividends as well.
Now if the tester turned off the ability to have his ads displayed on 3rd party websites, then the test would carry a bit more ground.
I'm not saying people aren't dumb enough to click on the ad, I'm just bringing up a valid point that exists in web advertising everywhere, especially Google (even they will tell you that their fraud systems will catch the persons 100% of the time - lol)
However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.
Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...
1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.
1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!
1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released
However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.
Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...
1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.
1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!
1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released
Scientists are saying that in the future we will be able to have sex with robots. I tried that once. It was horrible. Right in the middle I had to call tech support.
Once people start to understand UAC and how it works, people will begin to harness it and accept it rather than shun away from it.
UAC allows administrators to be logged in 24/7 without having 20+ privileges until the actually need that power. 99% of the time UAC will strip the administrator privileges away from the administrator and grant them with 6 SeXXX privileges to work with. It does this by using two different tokens instead of one. The first is a normal user token, and the second is the real administrator token. When you see that screen where UAC asks for elevation, that's when Vista will grant you the administrator token. Don't believe me? Type "whoami/priv" in a normal shell under the administrator logon. Now open up a shell using "Run as administrator" and type "whoami/priv".
Vista isn't the shining example of everything secure, but it sure is lightyears ahead of XP and a real good step in the correct direction. Windows users will whine and gripe about it, but they will eventually have to go through the same stuff the *nix crowd did along time ago when people were logged in with root 24/7.
If you require Vista to elevate you with certain apps, then create a.manifest file and place it in the same directory as the.exe. The manifest file is just an xml file that tells Vista that the.exe will require administrator privileges to run (queue UAC.) Google "vista manifest" or check this out for more information: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=2112 71
And you thought thinking that the eyes of 6 foot picture of some dead guy following you was weird when you moved throughout the house... wait until heritage pictures meet this new technology.
Well it's not "easy to administrate" at first and I think this is where a lot of people are getting upset. Vista like any new OS requires retraining, and unless people sit down and read how they can harness the new features rather than just hate them, then it's going to be a tough road to go down.
The good thing about Vista is that it is a step in the correct direction. I hate MS as much as anyone else, don't get me wrong. But let's face it.. it's time for people to get weened off logging in as the Administrator 24/7 just like the *nix crowd did way back when.
It is a clear winner. Sure people on Slashdot will be the first ones to tell you it's garbage, but if you actually sit down and really go through it and learn the new security measures in Vista, you will begin to love it as a system administrator.
Why do I say you'll love it as an administrator? Well let's just put aside for one second our gripes about Microsoft and the fact that they are a monopoly and just focus on comparing it to XP...
What is one of the most nagging, worst things that a system administrator will tell you he/she hates about XP? This is easy... It's the fact that it is almost impossible to log a person in as a 'normal user' in a corporate environment and not have them calling IT every two seconds to install a new piece of hardware or do something that a system administrator can only do. Therefore what ends up happening? Come on, we all know.. 99% of Windows users are logged in 24/7 as an administrator level account which allows people to pick up a ton of wanted gems such as malware, spyware, This all changes in Vista. After system admins sit down and really READ what is new and PROPERLY understand it, they will begin to love UAC because for once, Microsoft users will actually be able to be logged in as a simple user instead of an administrator all day long.
There are so many great things that Vista offers over XP, but UAC once you understand it is one of the best for the corporate environment once you understand it internally and how to harness it in a GPO domain environment.
Yes, I do wish that we could just deploy FC6 across our networks, but let's face it.. it's not happening anytime soon so I'll welcome Vista because it's light years ahead of XP in terms of assisting me do my job.
The real problem with Vista so far is actually quite simple:
1. System administrators are currently testing the software with their environments. As of yet, not a lot of people completely understand the inner workings of UAC and the other nice, and not so nice gems that are new in Vista when it pertains to security and administration.
2. Businesses have learned their lesson with XP. Do not upgrade until the bugs are worked out and the hacks have been made public.
Do you really think that people are going to wait another 3 years without upgrading to Vista? Wait until the CEO plays around with the neat little side bar that shows him a constant slide show of his latest golf tournament in.
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There is no good reason to keep your old film camera unless you can take a better picture on it personally.
If you have a high quality digital camera that takes great quality pictures, you can send your digital files in to many online digital development stores. They will then develop your digital pictures using traditional methods, instead of just printing them using an inkjet printer like Joe Public.
The key here is to buy quality cameras. Most cell phone based digital cameras will not take the quality of pictures that most people would be proud to actually get professionally developed; they may be cute and fit in your pocket/purse, but that's about the extent of it unless you're just taking pictures of your buddies in college while out drinking.
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BS he stopped to check his email everyday.
He probably stops there each day to download p0rn and is just pulling the sheet over everyone's eyes.
Nonetheless, the judgment is too harsh for just the facts (i.e. "using free Internet")
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They can't even say the word democracy over there. You really think someone is going to have the cubes to stand up and suggest open source?
Recently I had a problem with my printer and it took 27 calls over 3 days and about 16 hours of waiting on the phone and talking to Indian after Indian whom couldn't answer my problem. My problem isn't with Indians as I have many of them as friends and Indians are very smart people. My problem is with Dell outsourcing to India and giving them no power to correct even the smallest of issues. Basically if it's not on their troubleshooting sheet they have in front of them chalked up with canned questions/answers, then you are SOL.
When are companies going to understand that they may get a first time buyer with their cut-rate prices. But if that buyer ever has a problem with the hardware and receives cut-rate support, they are not going to buy from the same company again.
Just one reason I buy HP.
h
The tester did not take into account that his/her ad will also appear on 3rd party websites which the owner stands to make money from. There are many groups that take advantage of ads being displayed on their own 'ring of websites' and will generate fraud clicks no matter what the title/description of the ad displayed.
Example:
Joe runs a website. Joe decides he wants some income for his website and signs up for Google Adsense which displays contextual Google ads on his website. Google gives Joe a percentage of the revenue (30-40%?!-google doesn't tell exactly how much.) Joe decides to get some of his friends to click on his ads to boost his monthly revenue. Joe makes more money, and the ad gets more clicks. Advertisers have no idea that Joe is falsely generating clicks and will happily pay Google for the clicks, which in turn Google pays Joe his dividends as well.
Now if the tester turned off the ability to have his ads displayed on 3rd party websites, then the test would carry a bit more ground.
I'm not saying people aren't dumb enough to click on the ad, I'm just bringing up a valid point that exists in web advertising everywhere, especially Google (even they will tell you that their fraud systems will catch the persons 100% of the time - lol)
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Hahaha :)
The collective has aggressively targeted..
Who wrote this? Am I going to be assimilated?
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From the Article:
However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.
Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...
1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.
1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!
1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released
hmm... something is wrong here.
h -- I think I'll be a geek this week
From the Article:
However, the dual-core duel became, and remains a performance battle. AMD was widely perceived to have taken an initial lead. Intel was seen as recovering the advantage when its introduced its Core 2 Duo family in mid 1996.
Wow, dual cores in 1996! Let's review history...
1994: Macintoshes using the PowerPC start shipping.
1994: Intel introduces the 486DX4 clock-tripling microprocessor.
1995: IBM announces 1 million copies OS/2.
1995: Windows 95 is released with no small fanfare 1 million copies sold through retail in first 4 days.
1996: Intel introduced its Core 2 Duo family!
1997: Intel announces 200-MHz Pentium MMX
1998: First FAT32 operating system MS windows 98 released
hmm... something is wrong here.
h
How come they didn't have this technology in Star Trek? They are still using chunky old 90s looking laptops!
I'm starting to think everything they have in the 2400 century, they traveled back to the glorious 90s to get. Hey, that reminds me...
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Scientists are saying that in the future we will be able to have sex with robots. I tried that once. It was horrible. Right in the middle I had to call tech support.
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2F srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050156873%22.PGN R.&OS=DN/20050156873&RS=DN/20050156873
Microsoft has tried to patent smilies for heaven sakes! Save the smilies, what ever shall we do?!? :P (..damn it, I'm going to get sued again.)
Once people start to understand UAC and how it works, people will begin to harness it and accept it rather than shun away from it.
/priv" in a normal shell under the administrator logon. Now open up a shell using "Run as administrator" and type "whoami /priv".
.manifest file and place it in the same directory as the .exe. The manifest file is just an xml file that tells Vista that the .exe will require administrator privileges to run (queue UAC.) Google "vista manifest" or check this out for more information: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=2112 71
UAC allows administrators to be logged in 24/7 without having 20+ privileges until the actually need that power. 99% of the time UAC will strip the administrator privileges away from the administrator and grant them with 6 SeXXX privileges to work with. It does this by using two different tokens instead of one. The first is a normal user token, and the second is the real administrator token. When you see that screen where UAC asks for elevation, that's when Vista will grant you the administrator token. Don't believe me? Type "whoami
Vista isn't the shining example of everything secure, but it sure is lightyears ahead of XP and a real good step in the correct direction. Windows users will whine and gripe about it, but they will eventually have to go through the same stuff the *nix crowd did along time ago when people were logged in with root 24/7.
If you require Vista to elevate you with certain apps, then create a
Enjoy..
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And you thought thinking that the eyes of 6 foot picture of some dead guy following you was weird when you moved throughout the house... wait until heritage pictures meet this new technology.
No you won't, you are totally wrong. You forgot to add the tin foil hat after gay drug addict :(
h
I think you made a mistake in the title.
From the title "Ceiling Height May Affects Problem-Solving Skills"
Should be "Ceiling Height May Affects Grammar Skills"
h
Use a computer to accept your faxes. I wasn't aware that people actually still used real fax machines?
I can't understand why people use these things. Myspace, facebook, whatever... they are all a big waste of time.
Finally we can build an invisible network of fiber optic cables!
I wonder if tech support will be outsourced to India?
Is it just me, or is everyone forgetting that Nintendo was one of the pioneers of video gaming?
I don't understand why people are acting surprised that Nintendo is getting the success they deserve.
h
Well it's not "easy to administrate" at first and I think this is where a lot of people are getting upset. Vista like any new OS requires retraining, and unless people sit down and read how they can harness the new features rather than just hate them, then it's going to be a tough road to go down.
The good thing about Vista is that it is a step in the correct direction. I hate MS as much as anyone else, don't get me wrong. But let's face it.. it's time for people to get weened off logging in as the Administrator 24/7 just like the *nix crowd did way back when.
It is a clear winner. Sure people on Slashdot will be the first ones to tell you it's garbage, but if you actually sit down and really go through it and learn the new security measures in Vista, you will begin to love it as a system administrator.
Why do I say you'll love it as an administrator? Well let's just put aside for one second our gripes about Microsoft and the fact that they are a monopoly and just focus on comparing it to XP...
What is one of the most nagging, worst things that a system administrator will tell you he/she hates about XP? This is easy... It's the fact that it is almost impossible to log a person in as a 'normal user' in a corporate environment and not have them calling IT every two seconds to install a new piece of hardware or do something that a system administrator can only do. Therefore what ends up happening? Come on, we all know.. 99% of Windows users are logged in 24/7 as an administrator level account which allows people to pick up a ton of wanted gems such as malware, spyware, This all changes in Vista. After system admins sit down and really READ what is new and PROPERLY understand it, they will begin to love UAC because for once, Microsoft users will actually be able to be logged in as a simple user instead of an administrator all day long.
There are so many great things that Vista offers over XP, but UAC once you understand it is one of the best for the corporate environment once you understand it internally and how to harness it in a GPO domain environment.
Yes, I do wish that we could just deploy FC6 across our networks, but let's face it.. it's not happening anytime soon so I'll welcome Vista because it's light years ahead of XP in terms of assisting me do my job.
h
The real problem with Vista so far is actually quite simple:
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1. System administrators are currently testing the software with their environments. As of yet, not a lot of people completely understand the inner workings of UAC and the other nice, and not so nice gems that are new in Vista when it pertains to security and administration.
2. Businesses have learned their lesson with XP. Do not upgrade until the bugs are worked out and the hacks have been made public.
Do you really think that people are going to wait another 3 years without upgrading to Vista? Wait until the CEO plays around with the neat little side bar that shows him a constant slide show of his latest golf tournament in
h