I do tend to shut off all bells and whistles in my office, and when people stop by I will usually show them a thinkgeek.com t-shirt I think suits them and they don't come bothering me any more after that.
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
Then your Co workers will think,
There's something wrong with you.
This has been OUTDONE before.
Back in the day a basic stamp enthusiast set something like this up.
Basic Stamps are reprogrammable pic processors that you program in a simple, BASIC like language on your computer and download to the chip.
He built a radio controlled car that was controlled by the basic stamp. Added a RF unit to the stamp and had another basic stamp + RF unit on his desktop plugged into the serial port.
Then, he created the perl scripts to access the serial port and ran a webserver from his desktop that could be access publicly.
He included a tiny camera, also sending data via RF to the desktop and it was a free roaming, internet controlled, radio control car.
This was about 6 or 7 years ago probably, and everything about it was really simple to do so long as you could put together an RC car kit and solder some connections to the basic stamp. The only difficult part was the Perl scripting since I don't know Perl.
Putting the print head in the cartridges has always seemed to be just a financial thing. It makes it harder to produce 3rd party cartridges, which allows the printer manufacturers to make more money selling thier overpriced OEM cartridges."
It also means they could produce print heads that are less robust and have higher tolerances for error since they are all short term use only.
I have seen Windows XP BSOD for friends using video editors like Adobe Premiere. I still run the copy of Win2K I got back around the week it first came out. I have had 3 BSODs on it, from when I was trying to install a combo Video Input/Motion JPEG Encoder/SCSI port PCI card using outdated drivers. Other then that, it has had no problems despite how much I have abused it.
Honestly, the only people I know that still talk about BSOD are Mac users that haven't touched a PC since Win95.
Am I missing where they actually include some information about the benchmarks? I suppose what he says could be common knowledge that doesn't require proof and I am just out of the loop, but it's still good to post something like proof.
If this is true it would make some sense. I get to use an AMD64 at home and a similar P4 at work on computers with similar specs and I enjoy the AMD's performance a lot more.
This whole thing sounds familiar though...
I seem to remember when Prefetching was hitting the adverts, and AMD was doing some hefty investing in those prefetching adverts just to have Intel turn around and produce more powerful prefetching technology. I guess it can go both ways.
I will have to try that out. I have always liked how customizable O is and lately I have been using it in conjunction with LiteStep (replacing explorer) where I tweaked the fullscreen option so that when you hit F11 in Opera it leaves room on the bottom to see my LiteStep menus. Doing that leaves the Opera window with nothing in it (not even file menus or the title bar). Then I just open a new window in it and the buttons and address bar are visible at the top (and hideable via keyboard shortcut for when I don't need them). The only thing there is, the tabs are not visible. I am used to using ctrl+tab to switch between them anyway so its not a problem for me but it doesn't achieve what was mentioned higher up in the thread. But, if you are looking for Maximum screen useability I haven't seen anything better then this.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
This site has a ton of lessons, with handouts and materials all available for free. The lessons are designed to let you use dance, music, theater, and visual arts to teach lessons in various subjects to various age groups.
Since you say he is doing everyday teenager things, you can try appealing to that to find a lesson that suits him well.
It's not the most high tech of suggestions, but it is the tech that allows so much to be in one place.
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I do tend to shut off all bells and whistles in my office, and when people stop by I will usually show them a thinkgeek.com t-shirt I think suits them and they don't come bothering me any more after that. Roses are #FF0000 Violets are #0000FF Then your Co workers will think, There's something wrong with you.
Hasn't anyone patented 'the display of multiple round numbers in celebration of sales achievement' yet? McDonalds should get on that.
This has been OUTDONE before. Back in the day a basic stamp enthusiast set something like this up. Basic Stamps are reprogrammable pic processors that you program in a simple, BASIC like language on your computer and download to the chip. He built a radio controlled car that was controlled by the basic stamp. Added a RF unit to the stamp and had another basic stamp + RF unit on his desktop plugged into the serial port. Then, he created the perl scripts to access the serial port and ran a webserver from his desktop that could be access publicly. He included a tiny camera, also sending data via RF to the desktop and it was a free roaming, internet controlled, radio control car. This was about 6 or 7 years ago probably, and everything about it was really simple to do so long as you could put together an RC car kit and solder some connections to the basic stamp. The only difficult part was the Perl scripting since I don't know Perl.
I have seen Windows XP BSOD for friends using video editors like Adobe Premiere. I still run the copy of Win2K I got back around the week it first came out. I have had 3 BSODs on it, from when I was trying to install a combo Video Input/Motion JPEG Encoder/SCSI port PCI card using outdated drivers. Other then that, it has had no problems despite how much I have abused it. Honestly, the only people I know that still talk about BSOD are Mac users that haven't touched a PC since Win95.
Am I missing where they actually include some information about the benchmarks? I suppose what he says could be common knowledge that doesn't require proof and I am just out of the loop, but it's still good to post something like proof.
If this is true it would make some sense. I get to use an AMD64 at home and a similar P4 at work on computers with similar specs and I enjoy the AMD's performance a lot more.
This whole thing sounds familiar though...
I seem to remember when Prefetching was hitting the adverts, and AMD was doing some hefty investing in those prefetching adverts just to have Intel turn around and produce more powerful prefetching technology. I guess it can go both ways.
I will have to try that out. I have always liked how customizable O is and lately I have been using it in conjunction with LiteStep (replacing explorer) where I tweaked the fullscreen option so that when you hit F11 in Opera it leaves room on the bottom to see my LiteStep menus. Doing that leaves the Opera window with nothing in it (not even file menus or the title bar). Then I just open a new window in it and the buttons and address bar are visible at the top (and hideable via keyboard shortcut for when I don't need them). The only thing there is, the tabs are not visible. I am used to using ctrl+tab to switch between them anyway so its not a problem for me but it doesn't achieve what was mentioned higher up in the thread. But, if you are looking for Maximum screen useability I haven't seen anything better then this.
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/ This site has a ton of lessons, with handouts and materials all available for free. The lessons are designed to let you use dance, music, theater, and visual arts to teach lessons in various subjects to various age groups. Since you say he is doing everyday teenager things, you can try appealing to that to find a lesson that suits him well. It's not the most high tech of suggestions, but it is the tech that allows so much to be in one place.