...I refuse to use it until it interoperates with Windows. I've got a dual boot setup on my home desktop, but I use Windows at work and on my laptop (not by choice). I don't want to have to fire up the old vacuum cleaner (as I lovingly call my desktop), every time I update my financial data. Seriously, it's kind of ridiculous that this program hasn't been ported yet. I consider OSS that hasn't been written in a cross-platform manner from the start a little dubious.
Yes, telephone scams have been around forever. The new thing here is that the people are initially contacted by email and encouraged to call the scammer on the phone, who poses as an agent of paypal.
I'm pretty sure this is another way to get a little more money out of you. If you get the rebate, the company probably only has to submit the sales tax on the net amount after the rebate to the government. The rest goes straight into their pocket. Some states have close to 10% sales tax, so this can be significant.
Most college students (who are the people this ad was targeting) can get a legal copy of Windows XP Pro from their university for around $20. And, yes, most Linux distros are free.
Yeah, because it really costs $450 to reformat the hard drive and install the OS of your choice. Or you could take the less extreme approach and uninstall all the "trial versions" and such that come with it. Nah, I'd rather pay an extra $450 to have the pretty Mac logo on the case so everyone knows I'm hip. Especially if I'm on a tight budget.
"My favorite horror story was while working a tech support call for a governmental employee, when asked to take her mouse and click on the "start" button all I could hear over the phone is what I later found out was the user banging her mouse against the monitor."
I've heard that one a few times now. It sounds like a lot of the stories on Snopes. Frankly, I just don't buy it.
What about TRANSITIONAL? Does that trigger the correct box model?
And what about the DOM? Will we still write two versions of our JavaScript code to have even simple DHTML?
That they were actually using a Microsoft Access database. Hey, I guess it finally paid off that the "modified on" date gets updated everytime you open the file, regardless of whether you actually modify anything. Hooray for Microsoft bugs!...I mean undocumented features!
I've heard this argument a hundred times. For years, I've been hearing that there's no advantage to sniping. But what all these arguments fail to take into account is human psychology. Consider this situation
Let's say you're browsing ebay, but you don't really have your mind set on buying something. You see something you kind of want with a bid of $40 and 2 hours left to go. You'd gladly pay $80 dollars and you'd have to pay $100 in a store, so you bid $50. Then you go surf somewhere else or watch TV or something, and maybe check on your bid in an hour. If you're still the high bidder, you might get confident that no-body else is interested and assume it's yours. Later you find out that someone outbid you at $52 with less than a minute to go.
Now let's consider the same situation, except you're the sniper. If you bid what you're willing to pay, you would have gotten into a bidding war long before the auction ended. But since you waited until the last minute, you lulled the other bidder into a false sense of security.
The point is that many people shop on ebay like the first person: they place their first bid for less than they are willing to pay because they're hoping that they will get it for less. This is not a rational strategy, but people do it.
Another reason people bid less than they're willing to pay is that they bid on multiple items when they really don't want to buy them all. But if they can get them all for their first bid, then they will. If they get outbid on some of them, then they'll have to make a choice. If their choice is the item you want, then you'll lose by bidding early.
If everyone bid what they were willing to pay without paying attention to the time left, and didn't bid on more items then they wanted to buy, we would all be better off. But things just don't work that way, especially considering the wide range of intelligence and maturity levels you encounter there.
...to edit the damn articles!;) The spelling. The grammar. Seriously, that was one of the worst postings I've seen on/. Not to mention the fact that I really didn't need to read a review of a mousepad.
Here's a tip: smell your mousepad. If it's cloth or foam, and you've had it for a while, it will probably smell like catfish bait. Buy a nonporous mousepad and clean it regularly. That is literally all you need to know about mousepads.
OK, it wasn't as bad as that poor guy's phone call, but I ran into a similar situation with Time Warner's Roadrunner service. I was a college student living in a house with other college students. I got cable internet and set up a wireless router when I moved in, which all of my housemates used. When I moved out, all of my housemates where staying, so I went to the local TW Cable office to ask a rep if I could have the service transferred to someone else at the house (which they all said they wanted to do.) They said if one of my housemates filled out a form, they would continue the service and transfer it to that person. I asked, "what if nobody gets around to filling out the form? Will I get a bill for next month?" The answer: "No, we'll cancel the service." Fine with me. A month later, I get a bill. I called and was told that I hadn't cancelled the service, and I would have to pay for the portion of that month up to that day. When I told her that I had been assured that the service would be cancelled and I would not be billed, she said, "we don't do that. You have to have your service turned off immediately when you cancel it, regardless of whether you've paid through the end of the month." When I insisted that they not bill me, she talked to her manager. When she came back, she told me that now they wouldn't cancel my service until I turned the modem back in, even though I explained that I was now hundreds of miles away. That's what I get for insisting on being treated fairly. It took another call, and alot of reasoning before they finally agreed to reverse the charges and send a rep out to get the modem. BTW, when I started up the service they wouldn't just let me pick up the modem and "install" it myself. They send someone out every time they get a new customer.
The funny thing is that when I called the first time, I screwed up the automated menu system thing, so I just hung up and called back. About halfway though my conversation with the service rep, when she was entering stuff into the computer, she blurted out, "Did you just call here!?" I think they are told not to resolve any billing disputes on the first call, and she thought she caught me trying to "game the system" by calling twice in a row. As if I would know that that would work.
If there were 180 (or however many) women here and they tried to bring in some men, I think almost everyone would find it acceptable.
No, if there were 180 women working in a company, and a man were to be hired, he would be fiercely rejected. That is, unless he were flamboyantly gay. But of course, that would be politically correct because discrimination is unacceptable when it affects white males.
That's probably referring to Texas and Southern California, where there is an unabated flood of Mexican and South and Central Americans coming into the country illegally. I'd say the supply of fresh water is the least of their worries.
I'd say pretty low, considering there's nobody with that name* (nobody famous anyway).
* Hint: The current US president is George Walker Bush. His father was named George Herbert Walker Bush. Since they have different names, there's no need for the Jr. and Sr. designations.
ask.com, aka Ask Jeeves (remember those anoying commercials?), is a joke. They serve no purpose on the web anymore. With the improvement in search engine technology, they have become obsolete. I'd say they deserve to have such a tiny market share.
Spiders don't just download spiders.txt and then proceed to download the entire server. They are designed to spread their downloading out over time so as not to overwhelm servers. Besides, they could just have one spider downloading robots.txt and another downloading everything else.
The rest of the people involved - cameramen, setbuilders, lighting engineers, film editors, special effects artists are all there to see those decisions through, much the same way low-level programmers on game projects are there to...
So I see you're under the impression that it took $300M to make the latest Bond movie.
By the way, there is no such thing as a "lighting engineer". Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Aviation Engineers, and Civil Engineers all have something in common that "Lighting Engineers" don't: then went to the trouble of getting a real college degree and they understand the basic
principles of engineering. Maybe you'll keep that in mind the next time you decide to proclaim the virtues of the film making industry.
It doesn't take a genius with a college degree to point a camera and press "record". (OK, it's probably a little more complicated than that, but the point is that there are people willing to work on movies for a lot less than skilled programmers are willing to work on games for.) A lot of the cost of big-budget movie development is due to the unions and guilds (in Soviet California, workers control YOU!) Making a good movie relies more on innate talent, which doesn't take the better part of a decade to develop. Making good games takes a team of highly skilled programmers, and a bunch of artists, level designers, and testers.
But there were some indie hits. Duke Nukem 3D was really successful; so successful, in fact, that they haven't needed to produce anything for the past decade in order to keep the company afloat. Quake was produced by a relatively small company driven by one rockstar programmer (John Carmack). But games have just gotten to big and too complex to be produced by "indie" studios.
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...I refuse to use it until it interoperates with Windows. I've got a dual boot setup on my home desktop, but I use Windows at work and on my laptop (not by choice). I don't want to have to fire up the old vacuum cleaner (as I lovingly call my desktop), every time I update my financial data. Seriously, it's kind of ridiculous that this program hasn't been ported yet. I consider OSS that hasn't been written in a cross-platform manner from the start a little dubious.
Yes, telephone scams have been around forever. The new thing here is that the people are initially contacted by email and encouraged to call the scammer on the phone, who poses as an agent of paypal.
I'm pretty sure this is another way to get a little more money out of you. If you get the rebate, the company probably only has to submit the sales tax on the net amount after the rebate to the government. The rest goes straight into their pocket. Some states have close to 10% sales tax, so this can be significant.
Read more about bots here.
Most college students (who are the people this ad was targeting) can get a legal copy of Windows XP Pro from their university for around $20. And, yes, most Linux distros are free.
Yeah, because it really costs $450 to reformat the hard drive and install the OS of your choice. Or you could take the less extreme approach and uninstall all the "trial versions" and such that come with it. Nah, I'd rather pay an extra $450 to have the pretty Mac logo on the case so everyone knows I'm hip. Especially if I'm on a tight budget.
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"My favorite horror story was while working a tech support call for a governmental employee, when asked to take her mouse and click on the "start" button all I could hear over the phone is what I later found out was the user banging her mouse against the monitor."
I've heard that one a few times now. It sounds like a lot of the stories on Snopes. Frankly, I just don't buy it.
We're looking for a good English to English translator. Would you be available soon?
What about TRANSITIONAL? Does that trigger the correct box model? And what about the DOM? Will we still write two versions of our JavaScript code to have even simple DHTML?
That they were actually using a Microsoft Access database. Hey, I guess it finally paid off that the "modified on" date gets updated everytime you open the file, regardless of whether you actually modify anything. Hooray for Microsoft bugs! ...I mean undocumented features!
I've heard this argument a hundred times. For years, I've been hearing that there's no advantage to sniping. But what all these arguments fail to take into account is human psychology. Consider this situation
Let's say you're browsing ebay, but you don't really have your mind set on buying something. You see something you kind of want with a bid of $40 and 2 hours left to go. You'd gladly pay $80 dollars and you'd have to pay $100 in a store, so you bid $50. Then you go surf somewhere else or watch TV or something, and maybe check on your bid in an hour. If you're still the high bidder, you might get confident that no-body else is interested and assume it's yours. Later you find out that someone outbid you at $52 with less than a minute to go.
Now let's consider the same situation, except you're the sniper. If you bid what you're willing to pay, you would have gotten into a bidding war long before the auction ended. But since you waited until the last minute, you lulled the other bidder into a false sense of security.
The point is that many people shop on ebay like the first person: they place their first bid for less than they are willing to pay because they're hoping that they will get it for less. This is not a rational strategy, but people do it.
Another reason people bid less than they're willing to pay is that they bid on multiple items when they really don't want to buy them all. But if they can get them all for their first bid, then they will. If they get outbid on some of them, then they'll have to make a choice. If their choice is the item you want, then you'll lose by bidding early.
If everyone bid what they were willing to pay without paying attention to the time left, and didn't bid on more items then they wanted to buy, we would all be better off. But things just don't work that way, especially considering the wide range of intelligence and maturity levels you encounter there.
...to edit the damn articles! ;) The spelling. The grammar. Seriously, that was one of the worst postings I've seen on /. Not to mention the fact that I really didn't need to read a review of a mousepad.
Here's a tip: smell your mousepad. If it's cloth or foam, and you've had it for a while, it will probably smell like catfish bait. Buy a nonporous mousepad and clean it regularly. That is literally all you need to know about mousepads.
OK, it wasn't as bad as that poor guy's phone call, but I ran into a similar situation with Time Warner's Roadrunner service. I was a college student living in a house with other college students. I got cable internet and set up a wireless router when I moved in, which all of my housemates used. When I moved out, all of my housemates where staying, so I went to the local TW Cable office to ask a rep if I could have the service transferred to someone else at the house (which they all said they wanted to do.) They said if one of my housemates filled out a form, they would continue the service and transfer it to that person. I asked, "what if nobody gets around to filling out the form? Will I get a bill for next month?" The answer: "No, we'll cancel the service." Fine with me. A month later, I get a bill. I called and was told that I hadn't cancelled the service, and I would have to pay for the portion of that month up to that day. When I told her that I had been assured that the service would be cancelled and I would not be billed, she said, "we don't do that. You have to have your service turned off immediately when you cancel it, regardless of whether you've paid through the end of the month." When I insisted that they not bill me, she talked to her manager. When she came back, she told me that now they wouldn't cancel my service until I turned the modem back in, even though I explained that I was now hundreds of miles away. That's what I get for insisting on being treated fairly. It took another call, and alot of reasoning before they finally agreed to reverse the charges and send a rep out to get the modem. BTW, when I started up the service they wouldn't just let me pick up the modem and "install" it myself. They send someone out every time they get a new customer.
The funny thing is that when I called the first time, I screwed up the automated menu system thing, so I just hung up and called back. About halfway though my conversation with the service rep, when she was entering stuff into the computer, she blurted out, "Did you just call here!?" I think they are told not to resolve any billing disputes on the first call, and she thought she caught me trying to "game the system" by calling twice in a row. As if I would know that that would work.
If there were 180 (or however many) women here and they tried to bring in some men, I think almost everyone would find it acceptable.
No, if there were 180 women working in a company, and a man were to be hired, he would be fiercely rejected. That is, unless he were flamboyantly gay. But of course, that would be politically correct because discrimination is unacceptable when it affects white males.
Let's not forget Steve Ballmer's extensive chairity work. Get it? Do ya?
That's probably referring to Texas and Southern California, where there is an unabated flood of Mexican and South and Central Americans coming into the country illegally. I'd say the supply of fresh water is the least of their worries.
He's called "W" in the US too. His father's name is George Herbert Walker Bush; they both have a "W" in their name.
Meanwhile, these countries are being flooded with poor, rapidly multiplying immigrants. Welcome to the new genocide.
I'd say pretty low, considering there's nobody with that name* (nobody famous anyway).
* Hint: The current US president is George Walker Bush. His father was named George Herbert Walker Bush. Since they have different names, there's no need for the Jr. and Sr. designations.
ask.com, aka Ask Jeeves (remember those anoying commercials?), is a joke. They serve no purpose on the web anymore. With the improvement in search engine technology, they have become obsolete. I'd say they deserve to have such a tiny market share.
I hope you didn't post that from Washington.
Spiders don't just download spiders.txt and then proceed to download the entire server. They are designed to spread their downloading out over time so as not to overwhelm servers. Besides, they could just have one spider downloading robots.txt and another downloading everything else.
No, no, they're talking about playing Final Fantasy Tactics. That's why they need a GPU.
The rest of the people involved - cameramen, setbuilders, lighting engineers, film editors, special effects artists are all there to see those decisions through, much the same way low-level programmers on game projects are there to... So I see you're under the impression that it took $300M to make the latest Bond movie. By the way, there is no such thing as a "lighting engineer". Mechanical Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Aviation Engineers, and Civil Engineers all have something in common that "Lighting Engineers" don't: then went to the trouble of getting a real college degree and they understand the basic principles of engineering. Maybe you'll keep that in mind the next time you decide to proclaim the virtues of the film making industry.
It doesn't take a genius with a college degree to point a camera and press "record". (OK, it's probably a little more complicated than that, but the point is that there are people willing to work on movies for a lot less than skilled programmers are willing to work on games for.) A lot of the cost of big-budget movie development is due to the unions and guilds (in Soviet California, workers control YOU!) Making a good movie relies more on innate talent, which doesn't take the better part of a decade to develop. Making good games takes a team of highly skilled programmers, and a bunch of artists, level designers, and testers.
But there were some indie hits. Duke Nukem 3D was really successful; so successful, in fact, that they haven't needed to produce anything for the past decade in order to keep the company afloat. Quake was produced by a relatively small company driven by one rockstar programmer (John Carmack). But games have just gotten to big and too complex to be produced by "indie" studios.