I use catalogs and cases. For my 1300 data-filled dvds (legitimate backups, honest!) I use a nifty app called SuperCat which lets me browse all of my discs in an explorer-like interface, and is fully searchable. My discs are all in label order, so on average it takes me 30 seconds to find what I'm looking for in SuperCat, find the disc, and get it in the drive. For proper audio CDs or film DVDs, duh, store them alphabetically, in wallets or slimlines, or use another of many available catalog apps.
I read an article yesterday about the financial services lobby finally getting involved, as they've suddenly realised that tiered service could have an adverse effect on their customer service reputations. If customers are suddenly forced to pay extra to get a bank statement, or make an online payment, or have to accept slow service with their current internet service, this is going to impact on them in a horrible fashion.
It's a shame, but the reality is that this will likely end up as a behemoth industry vs behemoth industry fight over our rights to reasonable service at a reasonable price.
Sorry about the lack of a link, I'm having to look over my shoulder and risk a dressing down just to type this out - searching for the story would be too damn risky.
Maybe a lot of the non 'intellectually curious' folk are working long hours, raising children, and so on. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the luxury that we do of having the time, energy & mental capacity to be interested in areas outside the domain of their work. Maybe some of you lucky people, who have the time & resouces to engage in these fields should try a little sympathy, rather than sitting on your high horses and insulting the people who work in the factory that made the twinkie you're eating while you scoff.
Ah, I still remember fondly the first time I saw a slashdot thread climb to a few hundred posts of argument about 'what makes a planet a planet?'. If ever a term was crying out for a rigid, ostensive definition from astronomers, it's 'planet'. From the ancient greek word for "wanderer", if we don't tighten it up some, the argument will come trotting out every time someone finds a rock doing laps about the sun.
Stays within 10 degrees of the ecliptic, say 3,000km across...that works for me.
I really can't believe this debate is ongoing. It's really the same thing, as has been pointed out above, as any "I don't need it this week, so it's just not important, period" argument, which can be traced back some decades now. For some of us, it's worth the early adopter price, for the rest, it's worth waiting until it's a much cheaper option, but as we all should know by now, what Gateway giveth, Gates taketh away. As the new hardware becomes available, software developers will take advantage of it. The only quetion is - how long can you hold out while the price comes down. It'll be a different answer for all of us. There is no definable "business user" to make such generalisations about accurately.
Using pure economic reasoning to guide your decisions does of course leave history, or memory, out of the equation. Something that looked like a good idea and failed can still be a good idea five, ten or twenty years down the track, when you're armed only with analysis and a set of rules. Perhaps one history elective during that MBA would've helped cut down of this sort of tomfoolery.
OMG, I will totally buy this upon release, keep up the good work, *pat on back* let me check my wallet for change, good sir, if you need something to eat while you develop.
How did this make it to/. exactly?
This seems like buying pennies with $100 bills, 1:1. For every month Sony spends 'perfecting' its copy protection, they'll probably buy an extra hour before someone manages to circumvent it. Everything ends up rippable, yet the quality music/movies/games/apps still make money. If they want to earn from the PS3, they should get it into the market with some quality games, not concentrate on this buffoonery.
I'm a student who uses campus computers at times, I work in an office, and I divide the little time that remains between my own home and my partner's. Between all of these points, any sort of synchronisation with a diary app is extremely unlikely, and with assignments, work events & a social life (yeah, right) all slipping randomly from my mind, I can see the value in this. Sure, an actual diary might be an idea, but I'm used to logging on to my gmail account every time I sit at a desk, whereas over the past few years I've tried half a dozen times to get into the habit of using a proper diary, and I fail miserably, usually after writing and promptly forgetting to check a single entry.
Maybe the innards of the extra pair of speakers have little value, but you should see the jealous, awestruck little faces of my visitors. I'm giving some thought to making a mock-up 12.1 system, just for the props.
If the complainant wants to send me a photo of 180 Solutions's CEO, I'd be more than happy to take care of the situation myself, and will even pay for my own ski mask & baseball bat. These pricks got me once, and I had to shower twenty times a day, I felt so dirty & violated.
Well, as Pratchett's Discworld series has been getting more predictable, less thought-provoking and generally less entertaining for several years, it's no surprise that the film industry has decided that his time has come. Finally, he's nailed the mediocrity demanded by cinema, bravo Mr P!
Pleeeaaase, get out and see this when it opens. I'm on the other side of the planet, and it's up to those of you in the US to get the box office up so it's commercially viable to take it on the road! I'm more than prepared to grovel & otherwise debase myself for a chance to see TPB done in another format.
Unbelievable, the number of "omg, it's fake!" posts here...they're almost 1:1 for all of the "omg, teh server has been slashdotted!" comments that haven't been modded as redundant. Really, if you made it through the first sentence of TFA without realising that it was a joke, then how you managed to turn your machine on this morning is beyond me.
I can't for for the life of me see the justification for ANY exemptions from campaign financing laws. If copmpany A spends $3.50 on shoelaces for candidate B, then I want to be able to see that, and the same goes for internet advertising. It's unfortunate that whatever justification is being offered for this bill isn't mentioned in TFA. At the end of the day, any off-the-record financing simply adds weight to long-standing suspicions that everyone in Washington is for sale. That being the case, it would be nice to at least know what the going rates are.
Everything I know about keeping a computer clean I learned after these evil bastards infected me. However, this is NOT worth slashdotting, any more than Bill Gates donating money to the Salvation Army is. 180's software is still malicious, insidious garbage, regardless of how they spring it on unsuspecting innocents.
Big fucking deal, really.
I find it a little strange that everyone goes so ga-ga over the idea of having every aspect of their electronic lives revolve around one company. Yay, we've shed our dependence on M$, let's lean on Google for everything now! Personally, now that I have my google personal homepage linking to gmail & so forth, I'm starting to find their ubiquity a little insidious. I really don't think I'd want *any* company to have that, plus all of my documents on their disk.
The problem with using the ratio system for currency is that the exchange rates suck. For exaample, I live in Australia, so having my massive 256k upstream only costs me the tiny sum of $150 per month (US$~120), whereas my poor Swedish friends have to pay SEVERAL Euro per year for a squillion gigabits of upstream. Using torrent uploads for currency would hardly be fair on them, now - would it?
Does ANYONE think about the poor Swedes?
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I use catalogs and cases. For my 1300 data-filled dvds (legitimate backups, honest!) I use a nifty app called SuperCat which lets me browse all of my discs in an explorer-like interface, and is fully searchable. My discs are all in label order, so on average it takes me 30 seconds to find what I'm looking for in SuperCat, find the disc, and get it in the drive. For proper audio CDs or film DVDs, duh, store them alphabetically, in wallets or slimlines, or use another of many available catalog apps.
Finally, with titanium of this thickness, a condom that can handle my workload is possible.
Found that link! Here it is
I read an article yesterday about the financial services lobby finally getting involved, as they've suddenly realised that tiered service could have an adverse effect on their customer service reputations. If customers are suddenly forced to pay extra to get a bank statement, or make an online payment, or have to accept slow service with their current internet service, this is going to impact on them in a horrible fashion. It's a shame, but the reality is that this will likely end up as a behemoth industry vs behemoth industry fight over our rights to reasonable service at a reasonable price. Sorry about the lack of a link, I'm having to look over my shoulder and risk a dressing down just to type this out - searching for the story would be too damn risky.
Maybe a lot of the non 'intellectually curious' folk are working long hours, raising children, and so on. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the luxury that we do of having the time, energy & mental capacity to be interested in areas outside the domain of their work. Maybe some of you lucky people, who have the time & resouces to engage in these fields should try a little sympathy, rather than sitting on your high horses and insulting the people who work in the factory that made the twinkie you're eating while you scoff.
Ah, I still remember fondly the first time I saw a slashdot thread climb to a few hundred posts of argument about 'what makes a planet a planet?'. If ever a term was crying out for a rigid, ostensive definition from astronomers, it's 'planet'. From the ancient greek word for "wanderer", if we don't tighten it up some, the argument will come trotting out every time someone finds a rock doing laps about the sun. Stays within 10 degrees of the ecliptic, say 3,000km across...that works for me.
I thought it was common knowledge that an excellent IT setup went hand-in-hand with beards & burrito-stained shirts wandering around the office.
I really can't believe this debate is ongoing. It's really the same thing, as has been pointed out above, as any "I don't need it this week, so it's just not important, period" argument, which can be traced back some decades now. For some of us, it's worth the early adopter price, for the rest, it's worth waiting until it's a much cheaper option, but as we all should know by now, what Gateway giveth, Gates taketh away. As the new hardware becomes available, software developers will take advantage of it. The only quetion is - how long can you hold out while the price comes down. It'll be a different answer for all of us. There is no definable "business user" to make such generalisations about accurately.
...of the burnt down house: 0wnage by Vonage :D
I can outsource physics rendering at LAN parties and show my friends who's 1337 ;)
Using pure economic reasoning to guide your decisions does of course leave history, or memory, out of the equation. Something that looked like a good idea and failed can still be a good idea five, ten or twenty years down the track, when you're armed only with analysis and a set of rules. Perhaps one history elective during that MBA would've helped cut down of this sort of tomfoolery.
OMG, I will totally buy this upon release, keep up the good work, *pat on back* let me check my wallet for change, good sir, if you need something to eat while you develop. How did this make it to /. exactly?
This seems like buying pennies with $100 bills, 1:1. For every month Sony spends 'perfecting' its copy protection, they'll probably buy an extra hour before someone manages to circumvent it. Everything ends up rippable, yet the quality music/movies/games/apps still make money. If they want to earn from the PS3, they should get it into the market with some quality games, not concentrate on this buffoonery.
I'm a student who uses campus computers at times, I work in an office, and I divide the little time that remains between my own home and my partner's. Between all of these points, any sort of synchronisation with a diary app is extremely unlikely, and with assignments, work events & a social life (yeah, right) all slipping randomly from my mind, I can see the value in this. Sure, an actual diary might be an idea, but I'm used to logging on to my gmail account every time I sit at a desk, whereas over the past few years I've tried half a dozen times to get into the habit of using a proper diary, and I fail miserably, usually after writing and promptly forgetting to check a single entry.
Maybe the innards of the extra pair of speakers have little value, but you should see the jealous, awestruck little faces of my visitors. I'm giving some thought to making a mock-up 12.1 system, just for the props.
Not a moment too soon...any earlier, and I might not have just splashed out for a top-of-the-line socket 939 system. Hooray for the expensive future!
If the complainant wants to send me a photo of 180 Solutions's CEO, I'd be more than happy to take care of the situation myself, and will even pay for my own ski mask & baseball bat. These pricks got me once, and I had to shower twenty times a day, I felt so dirty & violated.
Well, as Pratchett's Discworld series has been getting more predictable, less thought-provoking and generally less entertaining for several years, it's no surprise that the film industry has decided that his time has come. Finally, he's nailed the mediocrity demanded by cinema, bravo Mr P!
Begging on /. is considerably cheaper, if somewhat lacking in style.
Pleeeaaase, get out and see this when it opens. I'm on the other side of the planet, and it's up to those of you in the US to get the box office up so it's commercially viable to take it on the road! I'm more than prepared to grovel & otherwise debase myself for a chance to see TPB done in another format.
Unbelievable, the number of "omg, it's fake!" posts here...they're almost 1:1 for all of the "omg, teh server has been slashdotted!" comments that haven't been modded as redundant. Really, if you made it through the first sentence of TFA without realising that it was a joke, then how you managed to turn your machine on this morning is beyond me.
I can't for for the life of me see the justification for ANY exemptions from campaign financing laws. If copmpany A spends $3.50 on shoelaces for candidate B, then I want to be able to see that, and the same goes for internet advertising. It's unfortunate that whatever justification is being offered for this bill isn't mentioned in TFA. At the end of the day, any off-the-record financing simply adds weight to long-standing suspicions that everyone in Washington is for sale. That being the case, it would be nice to at least know what the going rates are.
Everything I know about keeping a computer clean I learned after these evil bastards infected me. However, this is NOT worth slashdotting, any more than Bill Gates donating money to the Salvation Army is. 180's software is still malicious, insidious garbage, regardless of how they spring it on unsuspecting innocents. Big fucking deal, really.
I find it a little strange that everyone goes so ga-ga over the idea of having every aspect of their electronic lives revolve around one company. Yay, we've shed our dependence on M$, let's lean on Google for everything now! Personally, now that I have my google personal homepage linking to gmail & so forth, I'm starting to find their ubiquity a little insidious. I really don't think I'd want *any* company to have that, plus all of my documents on their disk.
The problem with using the ratio system for currency is that the exchange rates suck. For exaample, I live in Australia, so having my massive 256k upstream only costs me the tiny sum of $150 per month (US$~120), whereas my poor Swedish friends have to pay SEVERAL Euro per year for a squillion gigabits of upstream. Using torrent uploads for currency would hardly be fair on them, now - would it? Does ANYONE think about the poor Swedes?