Yeah, my dad's store recently got rid of two of three dot matrix printers, which did the same thing. When an order came in, it was deet-deet-doot-doot, deet-deet-doot-doot, dee-doot-doot if everything was printing properly. If it didn't, you could really tell because the pitch would be off (e.g. paper not straight made it lower).
Now, however, it's a laser printer which merely hums when active, and beeps once and flashes lights on errors. If you're out back, you can't hear it.
You obviously don't run Linux.
I personally have learned a lot about computer systems in the past two months trying to get Kubuntu working on my computer. Booting kernels manually is tricky.
This is great, but unless you want to have your computer emulate three, you're using three computers/other video sources to display the image. do you really want three people crowding around an LCD, each with their own keyboard, mouse, etc.? And what about brightness, contrast, color, etc.? Does it display different versions of that?
All in all, it's not going to be useful for interactive use.
I do the same thing for the computer I'm building. It's being built at the same location as my main one, so I only have one keyboard, monitor, etc., so I just let all the cables hang on. The only reason for the screws holding the things in is so that when you're moving stuff around, things don't fall out.
One fun thing to do is to sit somewhere (e.g. in a park), and wear a wired headset. Only thing is... don't plug it into anything. Just talk to yourself, and see how long it takes people to notice.
They must be holding out to make it fully Vista-compatible...
But to be a little more serious, if they have such high standards, why didn't they set more realistic dates in the first place? It's better to be early than late (except from some marketing standpoints).
Just because they approved it, it doesn't mean they thouroughly understood how it worked. For example, what if they were told that lists of searches (and results, if I understand this) were going to be released, with user-identifying information hidden? If they weren't told that they were replaced with unique IDs (which could be connected to a person if identifying data were to be entered), then they could not know this without doing a little research. Executives don't just get salaries for making decisions, sometimes they have to do work--but sometimes, they just decide without doing work.
I've completely forgotten what my original point was, so I'll stop here.
past facts are easily changed to suit current attitudes
This was done in 1984 (the book, not the year). IIRC (mostly making this up, but this is the gist)...
Next, he decreased the number of shoes Big Brother predicted would be made from 6.8 million to 4.2 million, so that it would seem there was a huge surplus, rather than the underproduction there actually was. Millions of boots were produced on paper, while half the population of Oceania went barefoot.
While we're on the topic of Stargate and keyboards, have you ever seen the keyboards in the Gate control room? They don't have letters, they have the Gate symbols (constellations?) on them. One-finger pecking FTW.
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What are you talking about? There are no girls on the Internet, everyone knows that.
Think you missed the story by a bit...
Yeah, my dad's store recently got rid of two of three dot matrix printers, which did the same thing. When an order came in, it was deet-deet-doot-doot, deet-deet-doot-doot, dee-doot-doot if everything was printing properly. If it didn't, you could really tell because the pitch would be off (e.g. paper not straight made it lower).
Now, however, it's a laser printer which merely hums when active, and beeps once and flashes lights on errors. If you're out back, you can't hear it.
What's even funnier is when you make an example phishing site and clearly mark it as phishing... and people still enter their information.
True story... and I posted it on a forum wher you don't want to click any links.
(Captcha: mourning... I am, indeed, for today's security.)
You obviously don't run Linux. I personally have learned a lot about computer systems in the past two months trying to get Kubuntu working on my computer. Booting kernels manually is tricky.
And additionally, no more screen watchers! (Unfortunately, I can't find the VG Cats comic... you know the one I mean.)
This is great, but unless you want to have your computer emulate three, you're using three computers/other video sources to display the image. do you really want three people crowding around an LCD, each with their own keyboard, mouse, etc.? And what about brightness, contrast, color, etc.? Does it display different versions of that?
All in all, it's not going to be useful for interactive use.
Not sure of the right syntax.
I do the same thing for the computer I'm building. It's being built at the same location as my main one, so I only have one keyboard, monitor, etc., so I just let all the cables hang on. The only reason for the screws holding the things in is so that when you're moving stuff around, things don't fall out.
One fun thing to do is to sit somewhere (e.g. in a park), and wear a wired headset. Only thing is... don't plug it into anything. Just talk to yourself, and see how long it takes people to notice.
Well, if you're installing Windows patches on Linux or a Mac, you're screwed already...
Er... no... that's the smell of burning plastic. It seems to be coming from the server room.
They must be holding out to make it fully Vista-compatible...
But to be a little more serious, if they have such high standards, why didn't they set more realistic dates in the first place? It's better to be early than late (except from some marketing standpoints).
Just because they approved it, it doesn't mean they thouroughly understood how it worked. For example, what if they were told that lists of searches (and results, if I understand this) were going to be released, with user-identifying information hidden? If they weren't told that they were replaced with unique IDs (which could be connected to a person if identifying data were to be entered), then they could not know this without doing a little research. Executives don't just get salaries for making decisions, sometimes they have to do work--but sometimes, they just decide without doing work.
I've completely forgotten what my original point was, so I'll stop here.
While we're on the topic of Stargate and keyboards, have you ever seen the keyboards in the Gate control room? They don't have letters, they have the Gate symbols (constellations?) on them. One-finger pecking FTW.
And 0x000F11E7. Doesn't quite spell filet, does it?
And 0x00C0FFEE?