The least they could have done was some PPV "Geek Extreme Fighting... Microsoft Developers vs. Open Source Developers"
I'd put my money on Microsoft, their leader is trained in chair-jitsu.
29 pages? No printer-formatted single page? I'd rather not give my wrist an RSI by all that clicking or waste my allotted amount of bandwidth downloading all those ads.
If I were them I wouldn't be worried about the press publishing my name in connection with extortion, I'd be more embarassed about people finding out I was involved with MySpace.
AFAIK, Coke is only sweetened with corn syrup in the United States (to save money, presumably). Up here in Canada it is sweetened with real sugar. If you want sugar sweetened Coke in the States you have to either import it from Canada or Mexico.
In New York around the time of Passover, special "Kosher Coke" is made available to the large Jewish community. Apparently, at Passover they are not permitted to have corn, but sugar is fine so the Coca-Cola company produces a batch of sugar-sweetened Coke.
On another note, I used to work at Best Buy. I really needed a job at the time and couldn't find work anywhere else. I certainly know my stuff about computer hardware and software, so did a few other employees. One was even a computer science major fresh out of university just waiting for a real job opportunity to come by. Of course, a few employees knew absolutely nothing. So it's sort of a mixed bag, you could get lucky and find an honest and knowledgeable salesperson or you could get someone who knows nothing about computers and just wants to sell you an extended warranty.
On that note, stores are given a quota of extended warranty sales per day (usually they want 10% of profits to be extended warranty. Extended warranties are a major cash cow for these stores. Thus, employees (especially computer and home theatre) are told to promote the extended warranty and go through the checklist of it's features to EVERY customer, even if they flat out refuse upon first mention. So try not to go/too/ hard on the employee who mentions it to you, their job is on the line.
My recommendation: buy online, avoid the sales pitch, do the research yourself.
...take public transportation. I'm not going to go on about the whole cars are evil/polluting/gas guzzling argument, I'm sure you are all familiar with it by now. Take public transportation because you can make it a more productive time than driving.
Rather than focusing your attention on the road you could be sitting on a bus or train listening to your music or reading a book, or even catching up on some work on your laptop.
If you live far from where you work you might as well make your time commuting to and fro more useful and interesting.
With reading the article, "For the surgery to work, patients must have once had vision", so you are correct. Still, imagine the initial depression someone must deal with upon losing vision, arguably the most important sense in our society. Regaining (part of) it is quite a big deal.
Reading through the comments posted here, I understand both sides of the argument. One one hand, every student has the right to take in information in whatever way they please (handwritten notes, audio recorder, laptop). This is university, there should be no restriction on this.
On the other hand, some people mention the loud clicking of the laptop keys and the occasional P4-based laptop that sounds like a jet fan. Some students partake in web browsing and watching videos which can distract those around them.
Personally, I bring my iBook to every class and have since high school. I would simply not be able to intake all the information that the professor gives out (especially when there are no slides) by writing it down. I simply cannot write fast enough, not to mention that my handwriting looks like that of a three year old. The laptop allows me to listen and absorb information while writing it down, since typing is second nature to me, I don't even have to think about it.
To minimize the distraction for those around me I try to keep on task and stay in Word, not browse the web. I also have a rubber keyboard protector which is designed to prevent liquids from getting into the machine in the event that I spill my tea. This has the added bonus of nearly silencing my typing. Those around me cannot hear my typing whatsoever. I highly recommend anyone who uses a laptop in class to get one (around $10 or so) to minimize distracting noise. Oh, and please keep your laptop on mute, there is nothing more annoying than hearing the Windows sound go off full blast in the middle of class.
I don't mean to flame, but how did you put Voodoo cards in a Quadra? They never made NuBus Voodoo cards, only PCI. Perhaps you mean a PowerMac of some sort?
After all, don't you find it weird that you have to have a bulky device like a desktop or a laptop just to transfer a very small file into an equally tiny device?
Why do I need yet another device to do something that my existing bulky desktop already does?
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to acquire some older hardware just to play around with. IIRC, I had a PowerMac 6100 web server, G3 desktop for most general work, iBook for portability, P2-450 with Debian for ftp, P100 with OpenBSD as a SSH server, Mac Centris 660av as a webcam capture (uploaded to 6100), and an old PowerMac 8100 to play old games on. At the time I was in high school and all of these machines were contained in my bedroom. At night the loud whir of fans put me to sleep and all of those power LEDs lit the room.
Now, I simply have my iBook as my main machine and an Athlon PC (downstairs) to store files and backup my iBook. I guess the novelty of running a small server farm wore off. I also loathe fan noise, which is why the Athlon is not in my room any more.
Meh, I didn't notice that the URL I provided is accessible by clicking the orange "This works much better than the Comedy Central site" text directly above the video. Why would they link THAT text to the Google Video page? I think a simple "Link to original Google Video" would be effective.
This is actually the opposite of what happened a few years ago. When Apple came out with the G4 desktops they planned on releasing them in 400MHz, 450MHz, and 500MHz configurations. Due to supply problems or whatever, they ended up downgrading each configuration by 50MHz (so 350, 400, 450) and kept the prices. Of course there was a huge uproar and IIRC Apple ended up discounting the machines.
Moss: "She's a little bit weird, to say the least." *sprays water on his ear* Roy: "What's that?" Moss: "Oh, just water. Sometimes I get a hot ear and this helps cool it down."
I am affected by the same condition! I keep a spray bottle filled with water on my desk when my ears get too hot.
As someone with a sensitive nose to smoke, I find the smell of cigarette smoke to be quite bad. Living in Toronto, Canada, I don't have to worry about people smoking indoors in restaurants or bars. However, the smokers usually congregate outside to the patio, which in the summer is the best place to be. Even sitting ten feet away still allows smoke to waft over to my direction.
The idea of a safer cigarette is good for those who insist on smoking, however, I doubt it will benefit those who currently receive second-hand smoke.
For me, I have never been more scared when playing the Paris Catacombs levels in Deus Ex (the first one). After playing more populated levels (such as New York and the very bright and not-scary Hong Kong) the isolation and darkness of the Catacombs was a very good contrast. Also, the much tougher enemies started to appear which only magnified the effect.
Although Doom 3 was well scary, it still did not match the atmosphere that the developers of Deus Ex created for the Catacombs levels, probably because you were expecting to be scared by Doom 3.
"First up, there's Starter Edition, which like XP Starter Edition, is a crippled (and lame) product aimed at the two-thirds world. It will limit users to three concurrent applications, and provide only basic TCP/IP networking, and won't be suitable for most games."
How long can you hold your breath at the bottom of the pool? Long enough to trigger the alarm?
The problem with holding your breath underwater is that all the air you are holding in will cause you to float to the top, due to the fact that the air is making you less dense than the water. To stay underwater with all that air in your lungs would take some sort of upwards propulsion. Assuming this machine detects motionlessness as well as time under water, it would be quite difficult to hold your breath and stay motionless at the same time (unless you strapped weights to your feet or something).
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The least they could have done was some PPV "Geek Extreme Fighting... Microsoft Developers vs. Open Source Developers"
I'd put my money on Microsoft, their leader is trained in chair-jitsu.
29 pages? No printer-formatted single page? I'd rather not give my wrist an RSI by all that clicking or waste my allotted amount of bandwidth downloading all those ads.
If I were them I wouldn't be worried about the press publishing my name in connection with extortion, I'd be more embarassed about people finding out I was involved with MySpace.
AFAIK, Coke is only sweetened with corn syrup in the United States (to save money, presumably). Up here in Canada it is sweetened with real sugar. If you want sugar sweetened Coke in the States you have to either import it from Canada or Mexico.
In New York around the time of Passover, special "Kosher Coke" is made available to the large Jewish community. Apparently, at Passover they are not permitted to have corn, but sugar is fine so the Coca-Cola company produces a batch of sugar-sweetened Coke.
You must be religious. *badum-ching*
Thanks, I'll be here all week.
The "printable" link, text is all in one page and no ads:
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/too/ hard on the employee who mentions it to you, their job is on the line.
http://consumer.hardocp.com/articleprint.html?art
On another note, I used to work at Best Buy. I really needed a job at the time and couldn't find work anywhere else. I certainly know my stuff about computer hardware and software, so did a few other employees. One was even a computer science major fresh out of university just waiting for a real job opportunity to come by. Of course, a few employees knew absolutely nothing. So it's sort of a mixed bag, you could get lucky and find an honest and knowledgeable salesperson or you could get someone who knows nothing about computers and just wants to sell you an extended warranty.
On that note, stores are given a quota of extended warranty sales per day (usually they want 10% of profits to be extended warranty. Extended warranties are a major cash cow for these stores. Thus, employees (especially computer and home theatre) are told to promote the extended warranty and go through the checklist of it's features to EVERY customer, even if they flat out refuse upon first mention. So try not to go
My recommendation: buy online, avoid the sales pitch, do the research yourself.
...take public transportation. I'm not going to go on about the whole cars are evil/polluting/gas guzzling argument, I'm sure you are all familiar with it by now. Take public transportation because you can make it a more productive time than driving.
Rather than focusing your attention on the road you could be sitting on a bus or train listening to your music or reading a book, or even catching up on some work on your laptop.
If you live far from where you work you might as well make your time commuting to and fro more useful and interesting.
x86 only? Phew, good thing my new Mac is not at risk. Oh wait...
With reading the article, "For the surgery to work, patients must have once had vision", so you are correct. Still, imagine the initial depression someone must deal with upon losing vision, arguably the most important sense in our society. Regaining (part of) it is quite a big deal.
Reading through the comments posted here, I understand both sides of the argument. One one hand, every student has the right to take in information in whatever way they please (handwritten notes, audio recorder, laptop). This is university, there should be no restriction on this.
On the other hand, some people mention the loud clicking of the laptop keys and the occasional P4-based laptop that sounds like a jet fan. Some students partake in web browsing and watching videos which can distract those around them.
Personally, I bring my iBook to every class and have since high school. I would simply not be able to intake all the information that the professor gives out (especially when there are no slides) by writing it down. I simply cannot write fast enough, not to mention that my handwriting looks like that of a three year old. The laptop allows me to listen and absorb information while writing it down, since typing is second nature to me, I don't even have to think about it.
To minimize the distraction for those around me I try to keep on task and stay in Word, not browse the web. I also have a rubber keyboard protector which is designed to prevent liquids from getting into the machine in the event that I spill my tea. This has the added bonus of nearly silencing my typing. Those around me cannot hear my typing whatsoever. I highly recommend anyone who uses a laptop in class to get one (around $10 or so) to minimize distracting noise. Oh, and please keep your laptop on mute, there is nothing more annoying than hearing the Windows sound go off full blast in the middle of class.
I don't mean to flame, but how did you put Voodoo cards in a Quadra? They never made NuBus Voodoo cards, only PCI. Perhaps you mean a PowerMac of some sort?
After all, don't you find it weird that you have to have a bulky device like a desktop or a laptop just to transfer a very small file into an equally tiny device?
Why do I need yet another device to do something that my existing bulky desktop already does?
donated billions $$ along with his wife
Would anyone care to donate their wife to me? Just one night...
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to acquire some older hardware just to play around with. IIRC, I had a PowerMac 6100 web server, G3 desktop for most general work, iBook for portability, P2-450 with Debian for ftp, P100 with OpenBSD as a SSH server, Mac Centris 660av as a webcam capture (uploaded to 6100), and an old PowerMac 8100 to play old games on. At the time I was in high school and all of these machines were contained in my bedroom. At night the loud whir of fans put me to sleep and all of those power LEDs lit the room.
Now, I simply have my iBook as my main machine and an Athlon PC (downstairs) to store files and backup my iBook. I guess the novelty of running a small server farm wore off. I also loathe fan noise, which is why the Athlon is not in my room any more.
Meh, I didn't notice that the URL I provided is accessible by clicking the orange "This works much better than the Comedy Central site" text directly above the video. Why would they link THAT text to the Google Video page? I think a simple "Link to original Google Video" would be effective.
Here is the link to the original Google video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4698898666 405139932&q=daily+show+social+networking
I find I get much smoother video playback with the download.This is actually the opposite of what happened a few years ago. When Apple came out with the G4 desktops they planned on releasing them in 400MHz, 450MHz, and 500MHz configurations. Due to supply problems or whatever, they ended up downgrading each configuration by 50MHz (so 350, 400, 450) and kept the prices. Of course there was a huge uproar and IIRC Apple ended up discounting the machines.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/10/14/apple_down grades_power_mac_cpus/
It's good to know that Apple is now in a position to do the opposite.
Moss: "She's a little bit weird, to say the least."
*sprays water on his ear*
Roy: "What's that?"
Moss: "Oh, just water. Sometimes I get a hot ear and this helps cool it down."
I am affected by the same condition! I keep a spray bottle filled with water on my desk when my ears get too hot.
...only old people play video games.
As someone with a sensitive nose to smoke, I find the smell of cigarette smoke to be quite bad. Living in Toronto, Canada, I don't have to worry about people smoking indoors in restaurants or bars. However, the smokers usually congregate outside to the patio, which in the summer is the best place to be. Even sitting ten feet away still allows smoke to waft over to my direction. The idea of a safer cigarette is good for those who insist on smoking, however, I doubt it will benefit those who currently receive second-hand smoke.
For me, I have never been more scared when playing the Paris Catacombs levels in Deus Ex (the first one). After playing more populated levels (such as New York and the very bright and not-scary Hong Kong) the isolation and darkness of the Catacombs was a very good contrast. Also, the much tougher enemies started to appear which only magnified the effect. Although Doom 3 was well scary, it still did not match the atmosphere that the developers of Deus Ex created for the Catacombs levels, probably because you were expecting to be scared by Doom 3.
Geez, Apple killed off OpenDoc years ago. Give it up Microsoft.
"First up, there's Starter Edition, which like XP Starter Edition, is a crippled (and lame) product aimed at the two-thirds world. It will limit users to three concurrent applications, and provide only basic TCP/IP networking, and won't be suitable for most games."
This seems more like an inoperating system.How long can you hold your breath at the bottom of the pool? Long enough to trigger the alarm?
The problem with holding your breath underwater is that all the air you are holding in will cause you to float to the top, due to the fact that the air is making you less dense than the water. To stay underwater with all that air in your lungs would take some sort of upwards propulsion. Assuming this machine detects motionlessness as well as time under water, it would be quite difficult to hold your breath and stay motionless at the same time (unless you strapped weights to your feet or something).
Safari 412.2: Upgrade Required - MSIE Netscape
Windows Media 0.0: Not Installed
RealPlayer 0.0: Not Installed
QuickTime 7.0: Potential Firewall Problem
Well, so much for watching Mario.