I'm the "Go-To Guy" for computer support as far as friends, family, & some of my coworkers are concerned. In the last few years, I've convinced many of them to start using Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo, Gimp, and others, instead of their Microsoft counterparts. In the past few months, I've set up many of them with dual-boot systems so they could give Ubuntu a try. Putting all their now-familiar-with applications as prominent icons on their desktop, I've had only two complaints in the entire time. One was "Why don't the [computer companies like Dell & HP] put this on their systems [instead of Windows]?", and "Why didn't you get me to switch sooner?" If you get them used to using Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo & the rest on Windows, showing them how easy Linux can be is a piece of cake. My goal is to (hopefully) get ALL of my family, friends, & coworkers using Linux - either full time, or at least as the majority of their computer time, using Windows only when they absolutely MUST do so. Just what I've managed to do so-far has lessened my support calls down from multiple times a week, to one or two a month, just from the antivirus/scumware issues alone. =)
California's political capital, and we've got *one*: The Sacramento Bee. We USED to have two (The Bee & The Mercury), but then the Bee bought Mercury and that was the end of any chance of unbiased reporting.
My little brother & I used to deliver the Bee back when they had competition. The paper had to be neat, properly ordered, folded, properly wrapped for the weather, & delivered NLT 5am (6am on Sundays).
Now, I'm lucky if I get my paper by 7am, it's NEVER in order, & rarely "neat" nor folded. I have to spend the first thirty minutes just restructuring the damned thing so it looks like I might have purchased it from a publication that gave a damn about its image. (If there was a 'box anywhere near, I'd walk to it and buy it every morning - at least then I'd get a usable copy.) Complaining has done absolutely *nothing* - they don't care, there IS no competition in this town.
On any given day, you'll be hard-pressed to find ANY page that does not include an ad (and more-often-than-not, a pair of full-page, full-colour ads back-to-back), and the front-page, above-the-fold story is usualy something better left to the Sports or Entertainment section. Stories about our government giving us the shaft? Those are buried as single paragraph blurbs in the side-bar on page Z-257 in the middle of the Viagra & "Massage Therapist" ads.
If you want NEWS in this town, you go online for it & get it from the API, Reuters, BBC, CNN, NBC, et al. Because the ONE local newspaper we have is more an advertising supplement & "touchy-feely" rag unfit for lining the parrot cage.
Then they'd not only see the bicyclist kicking your car, but the fact that you nearly ran him over in the first place. If anything, him kicking at your car could be claimed as self defense. You then *aiming* your vehicle at him *definitely* qualifies as Attempted Vehicular Manslaughter. Either way, you're at fault. =/
*Not that it matters one iota if there are cameras on highways, since bicycles aren't allowed on them to begin with. This entire discussion was about surface-streets where the only cameras are typically watching specific intersections. =)
Because if they live & got your license, you're guilty of Attempted Vehicular Manslaughter. Not sure about where YOU live, but around here, dents in your door will be the LEAST of your worries. Even better is if said biker is armed. You may not live long enough to file a police report against. Just something to think about. =)
In order to ride a bike to work, you need to carry your work clothes in a separate bag. This means added weight, more exertion, more sweat. When you get to work, unless you lather yourself in deodorant, you WILL need a shower. Not many business' have them, and unless there is a *significant* amount of their workforce requesting showers, they won't install them either. So your choices are: * Bike to work, lather in deodorant, & kill your coworkers with the smell * Bike to work, don't shower or use deodorant, & kill your coworkers with the smell * Don't bike to work
Make a jet propulsion unit, sitting up off the back of the boat, so the spray shoots backwards at about.5metre above the water. Then, just after passing a competitor's boat, cut in front of it. The blast from your jet would theoretically strike the other boat about the middle of the control deck, having the reaction of either massively slowing the other boat down, or potentially blowing it off course. Do that to enough of the competition, and it doesn't matter how long it took YOU to finish, because none of the others could get close enough to pass you. =)P
I used to work for WilCom here in Sacramento, California. It was part of my job to monitor the network & dispatch Field Engineer's to trouble spots. The pay was nice, but our management needed to be nuked from orbit. When they installed a 4' high LED sign to show in VERY big numbers the current call cue, things went downhill from there. YES we try to get done with customers as fast as we can, but when you're dealing with an irate CEO who wants to know why his $3M a month Fiber network isn't working, YOU try telling calming him down. Like we're not already stressed enough as it is, now you want to have a giant ticking reminder that you're going to yell at us in five... four... three... two... I left about a month before the IRS started auditing them for everything under the sun. =/
Base Price of $92,000! "Basic" Paint Job costs $500 & "Premium" is $1,000? ("Jet Black" is a "Premium" colour? WTF?) To add insult to injury, if you want one sometime THIS year, they want $50K as a down payment, otherwise you go to the BACK of the waiting list, and it may be 2009 before you get your car! (Tapping his temple) Let me think... $50K as a DOWN-PAYMENT on a car I won't get until late this year IF it delivers on time as promised, OR I can go spend half that on a decent Hybrid car I can drive off the lot *NOW*? Yeah, real no brainer THERE, Mater. I admit it's a very nice looking car, but for $100K it's not really in the realm of "Joe Sixpack", now IS it?
Thank You. I couldn't have said it better myself, and I *AM* a Type 1. Spent the first 25 years of my life cycling daily, running, hiking, eating healthy foods & generally being as "healthy" as I knew how. Suddenly I start to get sick, and the next thing I know, I've got "Adult Onset" (26yo) "Juvenile Diabetes" (insulin dependancy) which was found out after I woke up from a week long DKA coma. With my BSL's in the 800+ range & pH at 6.72, another five minutes in traffic getting me to the hospital and they wouldn't have bothered trying to revive my corspe. Anyone who tries to tell me that Diabetes is "my fault", risks getting a 50cc insulin injection to the face. Ok, not really, but it REALLY pisses me off to have someone tell me that my CURRENT weight problem is the CAUSE of my being Diabetic, when it's the complete OTHER way 'round. Then when they try to tell me to "just deal with it", it pisses me off to the point of wanting to SHOW them EXACTLY what it feels like to go through a hypoglycemic reaction despite doing everything possible to keep it at bay. Diabetes sucks. My Uncle died of it after losing his legs, an arm, and his vision. I am NOT looking forward to "old age", which at this point, means hitting 40. =(
It get's copied off the main server to my local HD, using the same folder-tree, once every month. Then the local copy gets.RAR'd into a nice little file called "Email Archive - YYYY.MM.Q.rar". I have been doing this since the early 1990's when the idea occured to me (probably after a serious bought of spam). I archive the.RAR files to a CD-RW as soon as there are enough to fill a disc.
Boss wants to know what we've done in 2001 with $Customer? Grab the disc, pull the appropriate file, search for that $Customer, and forward the boss everything. Server crashed? Yeah, so? I'VE got back-up's of every email that's crossed my desk. (Well, everything but the spam - THAT gets killed off daily after making sure there's no false-positives.) Saved my ass WAAAAY too many times to count, and I'm DAMNED glad I do it. =)
Thank you! My last car stereo had an AUX jack in the back. A $3 patch-cord from RadioHack and now there's an external headphone jack to plug ANY portable audio source! Switch to AUX mode on the tuner, hit PLAY on the tape deck, cd player, mp3 player, or anything that has aheadphone out jack, and you're in business. Screw getting a $50 player-specific cable from a dealer that'll only work on THAT car with THAT brand player. $3 RCA-to-Headphone patch-cord and ANY stereo (equipped with an aux-in RCA socket) can play your MP3's! My current car stereo is an AM/FM/MP3/CD/XM stereo, 4 150Watt 6x9's, a pair of 200Watt 12's in the "trunk", with a 1K Watt amp to drive them all. The whole thing probably cost me less than the iPod, and is a HELL of a lot more functional. I can drop in 700Megs of mp3's on a cd, plug in my 20Gb Creative Zen Jukebox via the headphone jack, or set-up an "in the trunk" computer system to handle a couple of 300Gb HD's full of every mp3, ogg, flac, midi, mod, s3m, stm, wav, or freakin SID file I can get my grubby hands on! iPods... *meh* =)P
If there were any REAL way to drive without insurance, I would've done it from the very begining. (And no, a $10K bond with the DMV is NOT a viable option.)
When my alarm-equipped car, parked on private property, behind a locked fence, surrounded by security motion-triggered flood lights, isn't (in the InsCo's opinion) parked in a "secure enough" location. And given that there were SEVEN acts of vandalism / attempted theft in a year, with nothing resulting from the police except a shrug, and my InsCo raising my rates through the freakin roof, my faith in the police & my InsCo very, VERY quickly plummets into the toilet.
And my neighbors now wonder why there's a pistol sillouhette in the rear window with a caption: "If you're close enough to read this, you're close enough to die."
Sorry for the rant, but you hit a VERY sore nerve. =J
Holy shit! PERFECT! That way you don't waste hours sorting your library, then reshuffling everything every time you add a book. Just mouse-click, mouse-click, listen for the beep, find the blinky light, and grab your book - *SCHWEEEEET*
Damn you, now I gotta go buy me some RFID tags, piezo speakers, and blinky bits... hehehe
I recently purchased a set of Phillips "SBC HS820/37" behind-the-head-&-over-the-ear style headphones from Target.com.
The specs on them are as follows: Freq Range: 10 MHz - 24 KHz (Yes, *ten*) Sensativity: 106 dB Impedence: 24 Ohm Power: 100 mW
They fold flat for easy storage / travel, they're comfortable for hours of use, even with my glasses, and best of all?
*$19.99*
So, please, someone explain to me why I'd want / need to drop another $80 on a set of headphones with a narrower freq range, crappy bass response, and needs a "transport box" large enough to carry an external SATA RAID with power bricks, when these "El Cheapo's" fit in a shirt pocket, weight next to nothing, and don't look like they were made by a demented monkey on crack?
A $3 RCA-to-3.5mm-stereo-headphone adapter cable, a Phillips-head screw driver, and ten minutes.
Unscrew the car stereo from its mounting brackets, slide it forward, plug the cable into the AUX ports in the back (and if it doesn't HAVE any, it's WAAAY past time to upgrade! 8track tapes died a LOOOONG time ago! heheh), slide it back, and tighten the screws back down.
Plug anything with a headphone-jack on it into the headphone-plug end of the cable, set your stereo to AUX, and enjoy anything your $Other_Device can play.
CD player, MiniDisk, MP3 player, or even the audio from your kids' GBA can be pumped out to the enjoyment/consternation of everyone.
I bought a cheesy AM/FM stereo, made sure it had an AUX set of RCA jacks, bought a $3 cable, and can now either listen to the radio, or plug in my MP3 player & listen to anything I've got saved on the 1Gig SD card.
Fuck spending $100 on a "broadcast via FM" adapter that requires the use of the cig lighter plug (my cellphone charger owns that, damn it!), or $50 on one of those "cassette adapter" things, or spending a couple of hundred on a specialized adapter for a specific stereo...
ANY stereo with an RCA AUX port, an RCA-3.5mm adapter cable, ten minutes, and you can do the damned job yourself.
My Nokia 6255i has a space (under the battery, *dipshits*) for an MMC card & SIM card.
I can load a 1Gig MMC full of mp3's, pull it from my PC reader, slip it in the phone, and play them until the battery dies.
No need for tweaking them - the phone plays them just fine.
And that works for some video's too. Granted, the screen is REALLY small to be watching video on, but it adds to the geek factor when your peers realize you're watching a movie while they're playing lame-ass games in the waiting lines...
MUH HAhahahahh...
Holy Mother of Full Screen Eye Candy Goodness!
That is an AWESOME display of coding!
I grovel at the feet of such coding wizardry & have bookmarked their site awaiting anxiously for their newxt update.
If they can do *that much* in less than 100Kb, I think I'll be standing in line to buy the first game they "squeaze" on to a FD, much less a CD, and anything they write that requires a DVD may end up causing spontaneous explosive-orgasms in geeks everywhere!
(LMAO)
Thoughtfull, informative (if not stating something those of us with an IQ already knew), and succinct.
Microsoft has a LONG history of F'ing up every piece of code they assimilate, calling it "innovative", and releasing the bloated, buggy, steaming pile of excrement upon the masses.
What in the HELL makes anyone think they'll do ANY better this time around?
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I'm the "Go-To Guy" for computer support as far as friends, family, & some of my coworkers are concerned.
In the last few years, I've convinced many of them to start using Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo, Gimp, and others, instead of their Microsoft counterparts.
In the past few months, I've set up many of them with dual-boot systems so they could give Ubuntu a try.
Putting all their now-familiar-with applications as prominent icons on their desktop, I've had only two complaints in the entire time.
One was "Why don't the [computer companies like Dell & HP] put this on their systems [instead of Windows]?", and "Why didn't you get me to switch sooner?"
If you get them used to using Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo & the rest on Windows, showing them how easy Linux can be is a piece of cake.
My goal is to (hopefully) get ALL of my family, friends, & coworkers using Linux - either full time, or at least as the majority of their computer time, using Windows only when they absolutely MUST do so.
Just what I've managed to do so-far has lessened my support calls down from multiple times a week, to one or two a month, just from the antivirus/scumware issues alone.
=)
It told me that "www.google.com" was available. Somehow I think that might not be entirely accurate. =}
California's political capital, and we've got *one*: The Sacramento Bee.
We USED to have two (The Bee & The Mercury), but then the Bee bought Mercury and that was the end of any chance of unbiased reporting.
My little brother & I used to deliver the Bee back when they had competition.
The paper had to be neat, properly ordered, folded, properly wrapped for the weather, & delivered NLT 5am (6am on Sundays).
Now, I'm lucky if I get my paper by 7am, it's NEVER in order, & rarely "neat" nor folded.
I have to spend the first thirty minutes just restructuring the damned thing so it looks like I might have purchased it from a publication that gave a damn about its image.
(If there was a 'box anywhere near, I'd walk to it and buy it every morning - at least then I'd get a usable copy.)
Complaining has done absolutely *nothing* - they don't care, there IS no competition in this town.
On any given day, you'll be hard-pressed to find ANY page that does not include an ad (and more-often-than-not, a pair of full-page, full-colour ads back-to-back), and the front-page, above-the-fold story is usualy something better left to the Sports or Entertainment section.
Stories about our government giving us the shaft?
Those are buried as single paragraph blurbs in the side-bar on page Z-257 in the middle of the Viagra & "Massage Therapist" ads.
If you want NEWS in this town, you go online for it & get it from the API, Reuters, BBC, CNN, NBC, et al.
Because the ONE local newspaper we have is more an advertising supplement & "touchy-feely" rag unfit for lining the parrot cage.
Then they'd not only see the bicyclist kicking your car, but the fact that you nearly ran him over in the first place.
If anything, him kicking at your car could be claimed as self defense.
You then *aiming* your vehicle at him *definitely* qualifies as Attempted Vehicular Manslaughter.
Either way, you're at fault. =/
*Not that it matters one iota if there are cameras on highways, since bicycles aren't allowed on them to begin with.
This entire discussion was about surface-streets where the only cameras are typically watching specific intersections. =)
Because if they live & got your license, you're guilty of Attempted Vehicular Manslaughter.
Not sure about where YOU live, but around here, dents in your door will be the LEAST of your worries.
Even better is if said biker is armed.
You may not live long enough to file a police report against.
Just something to think about.
=)
In order to ride a bike to work, you need to carry your work clothes in a separate bag.
This means added weight, more exertion, more sweat.
When you get to work, unless you lather yourself in deodorant, you WILL need a shower.
Not many business' have them, and unless there is a *significant* amount of their workforce requesting showers, they won't install them either.
So your choices are:
* Bike to work, lather in deodorant, & kill your coworkers with the smell
* Bike to work, don't shower or use deodorant, & kill your coworkers with the smell
* Don't bike to work
Not much of a choice, now is it? =J
Make a jet propulsion unit, sitting up off the back of the boat, so the spray shoots backwards at about .5metre above the water.
Then, just after passing a competitor's boat, cut in front of it.
The blast from your jet would theoretically strike the other boat about the middle of the control deck, having the reaction of either massively slowing the other boat down, or potentially blowing it off course.
Do that to enough of the competition, and it doesn't matter how long it took YOU to finish, because none of the others could get close enough to pass you.
=)P
I used to work for WilCom here in Sacramento, California.
It was part of my job to monitor the network & dispatch Field Engineer's to trouble spots.
The pay was nice, but our management needed to be nuked from orbit.
When they installed a 4' high LED sign to show in VERY big numbers the current call cue, things went downhill from there.
YES we try to get done with customers as fast as we can, but when you're dealing with an irate CEO who wants to know why his $3M a month Fiber network isn't working, YOU try telling calming him down.
Like we're not already stressed enough as it is, now you want to have a giant ticking reminder that you're going to yell at us in five... four... three... two...
I left about a month before the IRS started auditing them for everything under the sun. =/
Base Price of $92,000!
"Basic" Paint Job costs $500 & "Premium" is $1,000? ("Jet Black" is a "Premium" colour? WTF?)
To add insult to injury, if you want one sometime THIS year, they want $50K as a down payment, otherwise you go to the BACK of the waiting list, and it may be 2009 before you get your car!
(Tapping his temple) Let me think...
$50K as a DOWN-PAYMENT on a car I won't get until late this year IF it delivers on time as promised, OR I can go spend half that on a decent Hybrid car I can drive off the lot *NOW*?
Yeah, real no brainer THERE, Mater.
I admit it's a very nice looking car, but for $100K it's not really in the realm of "Joe Sixpack", now IS it?
Thank You.
I couldn't have said it better myself, and I *AM* a Type 1.
Spent the first 25 years of my life cycling daily, running, hiking, eating healthy foods & generally being as "healthy" as I knew how.
Suddenly I start to get sick, and the next thing I know, I've got "Adult Onset" (26yo) "Juvenile Diabetes" (insulin dependancy) which was found out after I woke up from a week long DKA coma.
With my BSL's in the 800+ range & pH at 6.72, another five minutes in traffic getting me to the hospital and they wouldn't have bothered trying to revive my corspe.
Anyone who tries to tell me that Diabetes is "my fault", risks getting a 50cc insulin injection to the face.
Ok, not really, but it REALLY pisses me off to have someone tell me that my CURRENT weight problem is the CAUSE of my being Diabetic, when it's the complete OTHER way 'round. Then when they try to tell me to "just deal with it", it pisses me off to the point of wanting to SHOW them EXACTLY what it feels like to go through a hypoglycemic reaction despite doing everything possible to keep it at bay.
Diabetes sucks.
My Uncle died of it after losing his legs, an arm, and his vision.
I am NOT looking forward to "old age", which at this point, means hitting 40.
=(
It get's copied off the main server to my local HD, using the same folder-tree, once every month. .RAR'd into a nice little file called "Email Archive - YYYY.MM.Q.rar". .RAR files to a CD-RW as soon as there are enough to fill a disc.
Then the local copy gets
I have been doing this since the early 1990's when the idea occured to me (probably after a serious bought of spam).
I archive the
Boss wants to know what we've done in 2001 with $Customer?
Grab the disc, pull the appropriate file, search for that $Customer, and forward the boss everything.
Server crashed? Yeah, so? I'VE got back-up's of every email that's crossed my desk.
(Well, everything but the spam - THAT gets killed off daily after making sure there's no false-positives.)
Saved my ass WAAAAY too many times to count, and I'm DAMNED glad I do it. =)
Thank you!
My last car stereo had an AUX jack in the back.
A $3 patch-cord from RadioHack and now there's an external headphone jack to plug ANY portable audio source!
Switch to AUX mode on the tuner, hit PLAY on the tape deck, cd player, mp3 player, or anything that has aheadphone out jack, and you're in business.
Screw getting a $50 player-specific cable from a dealer that'll only work on THAT car with THAT brand player.
$3 RCA-to-Headphone patch-cord and ANY stereo (equipped with an aux-in RCA socket) can play your MP3's!
My current car stereo is an AM/FM/MP3/CD/XM stereo, 4 150Watt 6x9's, a pair of 200Watt 12's in the "trunk", with a 1K Watt amp to drive them all.
The whole thing probably cost me less than the iPod, and is a HELL of a lot more functional.
I can drop in 700Megs of mp3's on a cd, plug in my 20Gb Creative Zen Jukebox via the headphone jack, or set-up an "in the trunk" computer system to handle a couple of 300Gb HD's full of every mp3, ogg, flac, midi, mod, s3m, stm, wav, or freakin SID file I can get my grubby hands on!
iPods... *meh* =)P
If there were any REAL way to drive without insurance, I would've done it from the very begining.
(And no, a $10K bond with the DMV is NOT a viable option.)
When my alarm-equipped car, parked on private property, behind a locked fence, surrounded by security motion-triggered flood lights, isn't (in the InsCo's opinion) parked in a "secure enough" location.
And given that there were SEVEN acts of vandalism / attempted theft in a year, with nothing resulting from the police except a shrug, and my InsCo raising my rates through the freakin roof, my faith in the police & my InsCo very, VERY quickly plummets into the toilet.
And my neighbors now wonder why there's a pistol sillouhette in the rear window with a caption:
"If you're close enough to read this, you're close enough to die."
Sorry for the rant, but you hit a VERY sore nerve. =J
N/T.
I'm currently posting from a Commodore 128D (running C64 mode), you insensative clod! 8-)P
(Ok, just kidding. I haven't used my C128D in decades - I think it may have grown legs and wandered off in boredom.)
Yes I would.
I would've modded your ass into such a higher plane, they would've needed HUBBLE to track you...
Holy shit! PERFECT! That way you don't waste hours sorting your library, then reshuffling everything every time you add a book.
Just mouse-click, mouse-click, listen for the beep, find the blinky light, and grab your book - *SCHWEEEEET*
Damn you, now I gotta go buy me some RFID tags, piezo speakers, and blinky bits... hehehe
I recently purchased a set of Phillips "SBC HS820/37" behind-the-head-&-over-the-ear style headphones from Target.com.
The specs on them are as follows:
Freq Range: 10 MHz - 24 KHz (Yes, *ten*)
Sensativity: 106 dB
Impedence: 24 Ohm
Power: 100 mW
They fold flat for easy storage / travel, they're comfortable for hours of use, even with my glasses, and best of all?
*$19.99*
So, please, someone explain to me why I'd want / need to drop another $80 on a set of headphones with a narrower freq range, crappy bass response, and needs a "transport box" large enough to carry an external SATA RAID with power bricks, when these "El Cheapo's" fit in a shirt pocket, weight next to nothing, and don't look like they were made by a demented monkey on crack?
Just wonderin'... =)
A $3 RCA-to-3.5mm-stereo-headphone adapter cable, a Phillips-head screw driver, and ten minutes.
Unscrew the car stereo from its mounting brackets, slide it forward, plug the cable into the AUX ports in the back (and if it doesn't HAVE any, it's WAAAY past time to upgrade! 8track tapes died a LOOOONG time ago! heheh), slide it back, and tighten the screws back down.
Plug anything with a headphone-jack on it into the headphone-plug end of the cable, set your stereo to AUX, and enjoy anything your $Other_Device can play.
CD player, MiniDisk, MP3 player, or even the audio from your kids' GBA can be pumped out to the enjoyment/consternation of everyone.
I bought a cheesy AM/FM stereo, made sure it had an AUX set of RCA jacks, bought a $3 cable, and can now either listen to the radio, or plug in my MP3 player & listen to anything I've got saved on the 1Gig SD card.
Fuck spending $100 on a "broadcast via FM" adapter that requires the use of the cig lighter plug (my cellphone charger owns that, damn it!), or $50 on one of those "cassette adapter" things, or spending a couple of hundred on a specialized adapter for a specific stereo...
ANY stereo with an RCA AUX port, an RCA-3.5mm adapter cable, ten minutes, and you can do the damned job yourself.
(Sprays Holy Caffeine all over his dual monitor's and falls sideways from his chair, Laughing My Ass Off...)
My Nokia 6255i has a space (under the battery, *dipshits*) for an MMC card & SIM card. I can load a 1Gig MMC full of mp3's, pull it from my PC reader, slip it in the phone, and play them until the battery dies. No need for tweaking them - the phone plays them just fine. And that works for some video's too. Granted, the screen is REALLY small to be watching video on, but it adds to the geek factor when your peers realize you're watching a movie while they're playing lame-ass games in the waiting lines... MUH HAhahahahh...
Holy Mother of Full Screen Eye Candy Goodness!
That is an AWESOME display of coding!
I grovel at the feet of such coding wizardry & have bookmarked their site awaiting anxiously for their newxt update.
If they can do *that much* in less than 100Kb, I think I'll be standing in line to buy the first game they "squeaze" on to a FD, much less a CD, and anything they write that requires a DVD may end up causing spontaneous explosive-orgasms in geeks everywhere!
(LMAO)
Thoughtfull, informative (if not stating something those of us with an IQ already knew), and succinct.
Microsoft has a LONG history of F'ing up every piece of code they assimilate, calling it "innovative", and releasing the bloated, buggy, steaming pile of excrement upon the masses.
What in the HELL makes anyone think they'll do ANY better this time around?
Mod the AC up, and LART the parent poster...
Google search for "Ionic Flow Ring" (with the quotes) reveals ZERO results.
Google search for Ionic Flow Ring (sans quotes) comes up with 390,000 results, the first few of which are debunking the "Q-Ray" bracelet.
So, please, cite some credible sources, with links, and we'll determine if you're being honest, or merely blowing smoke out your ass.
=)