After 10 years in IT I quit and went to Culinary School. I am now back in IT. Cooking for a job sucks. Mornings at your own pace, checking emails with a coffee and a pastry is not that bad. Just take some time off IT, and do something totally not IT.
I scaled back from working all hours in a full on job for a film and TV production studio, everything was mission critical...
Now I am a senior technician in a small town outfit, my skills from past life in a high pressure bleeding edge job help me every day. You'd be surprised at how fulfilling just dropping back a peg or two can be.
I have had to stop watching the 6pm news. All it does is make me angry, I end up exasperated near yelling at the screen "This is not news!!, of all thats going on in the world today,.. you give us fluff!"
It sounds like a useful idea. I would imagine that it would be an option you have to explicitly enable. When you are away from the authorized computer, a simple password to charge on a guest machine running iTunes would be enough. If you wanted to use a dumb charger like a car kit then you could just give it a preset number of charges before you need to auth it again on your computer.
I finally replaced XP at work with Kubuntu. The one thing holding me back was actually none other than iTunes - yeah sure I could use amarok, but I have purchased a lot of music on iTMS plus I like iTunes' radio channels and iTunes in general. And by the way, I also have a lot of historic Outlook mail.
By my count, thats two things...
I installed VMWare on my Dell laptop, created a 30GB partition (of which 20GB is MP3/M4P), installed the Dell XP Pro OEM version in VMWare, which automatically picked up the system's XP key, and I got iTunes running in VMWare, Office 2003 for historical mail and the odd Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents which OpenOffice 2 has difficulties handling.
So... thats 3 things...
I guess the ironic part here is that I had to install an antivirus program on a laptop running Linux, but now that Evolution gets along just fine with the company's Exchange 2003 server (even the calendar entries shows up - I am impressed at how good it actually is!), I am in general a much happier human being running Linux, and I have the best of both worlds (depending on your point of view) being able to run iTunes and Office 2003 on my Linux laptop!
No, your running, Windows, and Office, and Linux... You have not "finally replaced Windows at work" you've finally installed Linux at work...
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Its all fear, they train one or two show pony sniffer dogs and get into the News... Planting the seeds of doubt... "Oh NOES!! I can't send Pirate DVDs! the doggies will catch me!"
What a load of ass, the number of dogs, the number of false positives,.. Its just not viable on a wide scale...
What are the dogs sniffing out? Inks? plastics? Will they train them to detect every brand of media? Will they retrain when a new format comes out?
GE is pleased o introduce "One Second Theater" an innovative concept in commercial content designed to capture the imagination of viewers. GE's One Second Theater is available to anyone with a digital video recording device and right here on this website.
Here's how GE's One Second Theater works... blah blah 30 fps blah use your pause button blah...
Gah, sounds like work, pass...
Now if they had REAL one second films... that would be creative... but this is just 30 images in one second... not 1 second theater, but 30 frame slide show...
Piracy is the perfect excuse for poor performance in producing a good product.
The executives can churn out rubbish and when the investors come calling looking for answers for poor returns, all the executive has to do is blame pirates.
I would like to agree with you. However I am not the one that needs to grow up. Wake up, there is a very real reason billions and billions or dollars are spend on advertising... People will buy fast food, people will use email, what they (the people selling) want is for you to choose them first.
Try this simple experiment, simple word association.
Next time your around people you know, ask them to say the first thing that pops into their head when you say these words:
Fast food Burger Computer Soda or Pop
You get my drift here...
People don't want to think for themselves, its hard work, it really is... what toothpaste, what shampoo, what food, what music, what computer, what car, what game, what president, what channel, what TV show, what job, what do I tell the kids, what do I tell my wife, what clothes,.. people are overwhelmed with choices. We don't. Have. The. Time. To. Think. About. Every. Single. One. we take cues from the world around us, we trust the herd to make those silly little choices for us... We have better, more important things to worry about than what fast food restaurant to take the kids to when they are screaming in the back seat... Advertisers want to make that decision for us, subliminally... so we don't even have to think about it.
Back on topic, what MS want here, is for you to think... email,.. Windows Live...
And cigarettes... Hook em while they are young, and you have them for life.
MS, used to be "good" used to be the underdog taking on IBM and Big Iron. Bringing affordable computing to the little guy, breaking the Vender Lock In (tm)...
"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 4, no. 146
Factors that can degrade the GPS signal and thus affect accuracy include the following:
The more satellites a GPS receiver can "see," the better the accuracy. Buildings, terrain, electronic interference, or sometimes even dense foliage can block signal reception, causing position errors or possibly no position reading at all.
GPS units typically will not work indoors, underwater or underground.
All I can see coming out of this is a bunch of already paranoid parents having panic attacks when Little Jimmy goes in his friends house, or jumps on a bus.
Why? What difference does it make. MS are not 'Evil'... in the way that Halliburton, Exxon, [insert Uranium/copper/diamond strip mine corp here) are evil.
MS make software that run computers, they don't prop up Dictatorships, cause civil unrest in 3rd world countries, kill 10's of thousands of people and wash thier hands of it (looking at you Union Carbide) There a Corps out there that make Bill and his friends look like saints, and people already know this, but... THEY JUST DON'T CARE... if they don't care about the real Evil Corporations they won't care about MS... they will just shrug, stuff their face with burgers and get back to the Xbox...
whats that in libraries of Congress per second... is that the same as shuttle launches per second, or I am I getting confused with burning libraries of congress per shuttle launch?
If your site go 8 years without an update, your obviously not a tech company... it may seem like a shock to some, but not evey business has more need for a website than using it as a contact page or simple "who we are".
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After 10 years in IT I quit and went to Culinary School. I am now back in IT. Cooking for a job sucks. Mornings at your own pace, checking emails with a coffee and a pastry is not that bad. Just take some time off IT, and do something totally not IT.
I scaled back from working all hours in a full on job for a film and TV production studio, everything was mission critical...
Now I am a senior technician in a small town outfit, my skills from past life in a high pressure bleeding edge job help me every day. You'd be surprised at how fulfilling just dropping back a peg or two can be.
Metric, motherfucker, do you speak it?
100 USB to IDE cables (maximum of 126 devices that can be connected to the same bus), and ZFS.
Hear hear!
I have had to stop watching the 6pm news. All it does is make me angry, I end up exasperated near yelling at the screen "This is not news!!, of all thats going on in the world today,.. you give us fluff!"
It sounds like a useful idea. I would imagine that it would be an option you have to explicitly enable. When you are away from the authorized computer, a simple password to charge on a guest machine running iTunes would be enough. If you wanted to use a dumb charger like a car kit then you could just give it a preset number of charges before you need to auth it again on your computer.
I am starting to feel very very small...
Cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes, cornflakes,
Hang on...
Corn...flakes!
lameness filter
The Balder's Gate series. It is a HUGE game. And it runs great on old hardware,..
I finally replaced XP at work with Kubuntu. The one thing holding me back was actually none other than iTunes - yeah sure I could use amarok, but I have purchased a lot of music on iTMS plus I like iTunes' radio channels and iTunes in general. And by the way, I also have a lot of historic Outlook mail.
By my count, thats two things...
I installed VMWare on my Dell laptop, created a 30GB partition (of which 20GB is MP3/M4P), installed the Dell XP Pro OEM version in VMWare, which automatically picked up the system's XP key, and I got iTunes running in VMWare, Office 2003 for historical mail and the odd Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents which OpenOffice 2 has difficulties handling.
So... thats 3 things...
I guess the ironic part here is that I had to install an antivirus program on a laptop running Linux, but now that Evolution gets along just fine with the company's Exchange 2003 server (even the calendar entries shows up - I am impressed at how good it actually is!), I am in general a much happier human being running Linux, and I have the best of both worlds (depending on your point of view) being able to run iTunes and Office 2003 on my Linux laptop!
No, your running, Windows, and Office, and Linux... You have not "finally replaced Windows at work" you've finally installed Linux at work...
Um..?
What..? What..?!
I thought car analogies were bad. Sheesh...
What could possibly go wrong? Because you know, everything you read on the internet is true.
Aren't they just a nice bunch of guys...
Its all fear, they train one or two show pony sniffer dogs and get into the News... Planting the seeds of doubt... "Oh NOES!! I can't send Pirate DVDs! the doggies will catch me!"
...
What a load of ass, the number of dogs, the number of false positives,.. Its just not viable on a wide scale
What are the dogs sniffing out? Inks? plastics? Will they train them to detect every brand of media? Will they retrain when a new format comes out?
This is a joke.
What is One Second Theater?
GE is pleased o introduce "One Second Theater" an innovative concept in commercial content designed to capture the imagination of viewers. GE's One Second Theater is available to anyone with a digital video recording device and right here on this website.
Here's how GE's One Second Theater works... blah blah 30 fps blah use your pause button blah...
Gah, sounds like work, pass...
Now if they had REAL one second films... that would be creative... but this is just 30 images in one second... not 1 second theater, but 30 frame slide show...
So what are they advertising again? Jet engines?
Piracy is the perfect excuse for poor performance in producing a good product.
The executives can churn out rubbish and when the investors come calling looking for answers for poor returns, all the executive has to do is blame pirates.
Its a jedi mind trick.
Someone must have some big fat fingers if they hit the "i" when going for the "e"...
:)
nit pick
I would like to agree with you. However I am not the one that needs to grow up. Wake up, there is a very real reason billions and billions or dollars are spend on advertising... People will buy fast food, people will use email, what they (the people selling) want is for you to choose them first.
Try this simple experiment, simple word association.
Next time your around people you know, ask them to say the first thing that pops into their head when you say these words:
Fast food
Burger
Computer
Soda or Pop
You get my drift here...
People don't want to think for themselves, its hard work, it really is... what toothpaste, what shampoo, what food, what music, what computer, what car, what game, what president, what channel, what TV show, what job, what do I tell the kids, what do I tell my wife, what clothes,.. people are overwhelmed with choices. We don't. Have. The. Time. To. Think. About. Every. Single. One. we take cues from the world around us, we trust the herd to make those silly little choices for us... We have better, more important things to worry about than what fast food restaurant to take the kids to when they are screaming in the back seat... Advertisers want to make that decision for us, subliminally... so we don't even have to think about it.
Back on topic, what MS want here, is for you to think... email,.. Windows Live...
And cigarettes... Hook em while they are young, and you have them for life.
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MS, used to be "good" used to be the underdog taking on IBM and Big Iron. Bringing affordable computing to the little guy, breaking the Vender Lock In (tm)...
"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you."
--Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 4, no. 146
Its a shame, really it is...
Conceived as a way to easily manage contact information in an age where many people have numerous contact numbers
.com, you have a "Contact Us" link...
Ugh?
Can you get any more pointless than this? If you have a
Publicity stunt of not, I am sure MS would be just as vicious if another company used their IP without paying royalties.
Live by the sword...
well... if its the cell tower method, then its not really global.
Sources of GPS signal errors
Factors that can degrade the GPS signal and thus affect accuracy include the following:
The more satellites a GPS receiver can "see," the better the accuracy. Buildings, terrain, electronic interference, or sometimes even dense foliage can block signal reception, causing position errors or possibly no position reading at all.
GPS units typically will not work indoors, underwater or underground.
All I can see coming out of this is a bunch of already paranoid parents having panic attacks when Little Jimmy goes in his friends house, or jumps on a bus.
Why? What difference does it make. MS are not 'Evil'... in the way that Halliburton, Exxon, [insert Uranium/copper/diamond strip mine corp here) are evil.
MS make software that run computers, they don't prop up Dictatorships, cause civil unrest in 3rd world countries, kill 10's of thousands of people and wash thier hands of it (looking at you Union Carbide) There a Corps out there that make Bill and his friends look like saints, and people already know this, but... THEY JUST DON'T CARE... if they don't care about the real Evil Corporations they won't care about MS... they will just shrug, stuff their face with burgers and get back to the Xbox...
whats that in libraries of Congress per second... is that the same as shuttle launches per second, or I am I getting confused with burning libraries of congress per shuttle launch?
If your site go 8 years without an update, your obviously not a tech company... it may seem like a shock to some, but not evey business has more need for a website than using it as a contact page or simple "who we are".
Who are your customers? are they interent users?