No, but it costs time. I've used Linux as a server OS since Slackware 1.0, and have no problems configuring most things, but to date I've spent three solid days over the last 18 months on various attempts to get Myth working. Hell, I went out and bought components based on recommendations for them being good video card and capture card to use with Myth, and I still couldn't get anything that worked.
The most recent time, after blowing an entire weekend screwing around, I finally restored my Win2K backup that I'd made before I started, installed GBPVR and in about 5 minutes was up and running, and have been happy with that ever since.
Really? Because I don't think I've ever even seen an AAC file. Of course, of all the MP3 players (including my Palm Tungsten) I have, none are iPods, so I haven't been LOOKING for AACs, but still, I've never noticed one.
I guess the huge volume on usenet and torrent MP3 sites must be because nobody's trading MP3s anymore.
OK, I just re-read TFA. Whoa, this guy's a web developer? If he's freelance, how does he figure he's ever going to get another contract? If he's permanently employed, he'd better hope he's got a position he likes now and isn't working in an at-will employment state.
It'll be interesting when this guy starts looking for a job. I think it's pretty standard practice to google someone's name when you're interviewing them for a job these days. This guy is going to have this prank as hit numbers 1 through 100 for the rest of his life. Anyone reading about this is going to run like hell; he obviously can't be trusted with private information. I certainly wouldn't hire him; every company that hires professionals at some time or another expects their employees to keep certain information confidential.
BS. It's as safe as it ever was, if not safer. Scary crap happened 10, 30, 100, 1000 years ago. Now se just have on-the-scene news crews fanning everyone into a panic every time there's something they can exploit for a couple of ratings points.
If they want those records to last 100 years, they'd better take care of them, not just put them in a box. In 100 years the tapes will be dust or goo unless copied to new media.
What you're describing is not an example of bad coding, it's a bad design. We don't know what happened there for real. I've been involved with systems where the vendor could call in to the machine and add/remove features or disable the system depending on what the user was paying for. If that's in the design, then the coding could have been perfect.
Space isn't nothingness. Space is space and is flexible (gravity/mass flexes it) and creatable (at universe boundaries). We have no concept for nothingness other than to wave our hands and say "outside the universe".
uh, yeah. With Ghost going for $10 after rebates, and the ability to burn directly to CD/DVD, external USB/firewire, network drives, etc, I think I'll just use Ghost, TYVM. My time is worth *something*.
OK, I see the problem. The definition of "4 times" is "Best Buy TRIES to fix it 4 times" not "does fix it".
IOW, you didn't have 4 issues with each machine, you had a bonehead poking it with a stick and he couldn't fix it in 4 tries. That's much less surprising.
When I said I didn't have any machines that had ever failed more than twice, that's what I meant. I certainly have had issues where I have had to mess with them a few times to get one issue fixed myself.
The real problem is that Best Buy seems to pick a random thing to fixate on, and they replace that and if it boots, they're done. They don't attempt to replicate the problem reliably, and they don't do sufficient post-repair checkout. In their defense, computers are so cheap now that it's hardly worth it to do so; they'd have to charge $300 to fix a $300 machine. But I'm not confident that they're qualified to do so anyway.
I'm shopping at CompUSA now anyway. At least around here, they seem to have competent people working there, whereas Best Buy, well, not so much.
CD books, but they're for home use so they sit inside and don't get dirty. Also they're on shelves unless being leafed through so they're not in a car vibrating and letting the dirt grind in.
Also try Avast and AVG. I alternate, currently I'm using Avast. Both free for personal use. That's important when it comes to working on friend/family computers, because honestly, most of them aren't going to pay the subscription fee and no AV software is going to work very well with 3 year old def files.
whenever the computer needs service the 4th time, I get a store credit, use it to buy a new computer
Jebus Cripes on a stick, what kind of computer are you buying that needs repair FOUR TIMES? I keep my machines at least 5 years, and I don't think I've ever done any repairs to ANY of them more than twice, max, most zero or one.
A problem that I see much more often than scratched plastic is scratched foil. You must be using some pretty crappy discs, or you're stepping on them or something. I've burned easily 5000 CDs and probably 2000 DVDs, and have several thousand in my house.
I've NEVER seen scratched foil, except one time when I bought some insanely cheap shit discs from OfficeMax; the foil literally flaked off before I even burned some of them. I wound up throwing almost 200 of them away without using them.
Other than that, I've seen precisely zero cases of scratched foil. Of course, I don't keep my CDs on the floor of my car and not in a case, so that could be my problem.
One of my pet peeves lately is how hard it's getting to find a good beige box. It seems like the more companies make things flashy, the worse the cases get. Also, I'm sorry, but most of the hopped-up cases are just plain butt ugly. IMHO a beige box looks better than most of the chrome and blue lights monstrosities they're coming out with.
You pay for performance These days, more and more only really with name brands. Take a look at Newegg or any of the discount sellers, I've been buying SD lately. If you buy the generics, it's ALL 133 or 150x. Only the name brands are still selling the old slow crap. If you buy the cheapest stuff out there, it's generic, and it's fast. Then if you spend a bit more money, you get into the slow-ass name brand stuff, and if you pay top dollar, you get back to fast again.
Canadian constitutional applies to everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, just like the rest of the laws.
Good. The US was founded, after all, on the concept that "all men are created equal." Not "all citizens of this country."
IMO when Bush condones doing anything to a non-citizen that he wouldn't do to a citizen, he's breaking his pledge to uphold the constitution. But then again, maybe he would do any of this stuff to a citizen, too.
I was actually just thinking a few days ago (for about the 100th time) why MP3 players didn't have voice prompts for at least some things, like "battery low" - it'd be a lot better if it said "battery low" than if it just stopped working. It's not much of a step from there to voice menus.
I'm not really saying "sports bad" - I personally really enjoyed doing casual sports, including football, soccer, baseball, swimming, etc, during PE classes. And I think inter-school competition is good too.
I actually got along just fine in school with pretty much everyone. Nobody ever took my lunch money, and the one guy who ever harassed me in any way was also in music with me. But at the same time, I didn't give a damn whether the football (or any other) team won or lost, either in high school or college.
What I dislike is that schools tend to identify themselves around the sports teams. Sports are fine, but that's not what school is about. It's about academics and growing as a person and learning to be a responsible person. Sports is part of that. But more and more recently, sports is about zero-sum games (to get ahead you have to take it away from someone else), exclusion of the non-cool, substance abuse, and loads of other things that are destructive to the kids.
Art and music may not (MAY not) result in you getting X% more paycheck, but there are things that are "useful" and "important" that are not related to a paycheck.
I consider the time I spent in music in high school and college to have been very useful to me, though I don't think they've earned me a dime. I could have easily given up a couple of years of calculus and it wouldn't have affected me at all, including pay or play, but I wouldn't want to have not had my music classes.
If you want to talk about useless, let's get rid of sports. It's insane how much money is cranked into sports. I don't have much problem with phys ed, but seeing schools that don't have enough teachers or classrooms, but they have a million-dollar football field really bugs me. Though I suppose to the people involved with those, they're important as well.
OK, I'm just going by comments here saying it's slow. I have never seen it and have no interest in it. I only run XP because it came on my laptop; I mostly run Windows 2000 and it does 100% of what I need. I don't even have anything on the horizon that I know of that would cause me to move off 2000.
Consolidating things like "weigh" and "way" is nothing more than lowering the intellectual bar and our collective expectations for what a young mind can (and should) do.
Indeed; check out grade school curriculum of the 1800s and even early 1900s. Latin and greek were very common studies even for preteens. I don't buy that kids really have so much more to learn that they can't take time for that stuff. The kids I know who went on to serious study in a field were so far ahead of the school in those fields that they were just wasting their time anyway.
Instead of pushing things forward, we've got "no child left behind" making sure that nobody is LEFT behind by making ALL children stay back with them.
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No, but it costs time. I've used Linux as a server OS since Slackware 1.0, and have no problems configuring most things, but to date I've spent three solid days over the last 18 months on various attempts to get Myth working. Hell, I went out and bought components based on recommendations for them being good video card and capture card to use with Myth, and I still couldn't get anything that worked.
The most recent time, after blowing an entire weekend screwing around, I finally restored my Win2K backup that I'd made before I started, installed GBPVR and in about 5 minutes was up and running, and have been happy with that ever since.
Really? Because I don't think I've ever even seen an AAC file. Of course, of all the MP3 players (including my Palm Tungsten) I have, none are iPods, so I haven't been LOOKING for AACs, but still, I've never noticed one.
I guess the huge volume on usenet and torrent MP3 sites must be because nobody's trading MP3s anymore.
OK, I just re-read TFA. Whoa, this guy's a web developer? If he's freelance, how does he figure he's ever going to get another contract? If he's permanently employed, he'd better hope he's got a position he likes now and isn't working in an at-will employment state.
It'll be interesting when this guy starts looking for a job. I think it's pretty standard practice to google someone's name when you're interviewing them for a job these days. This guy is going to have this prank as hit numbers 1 through 100 for the rest of his life. Anyone reading about this is going to run like hell; he obviously can't be trusted with private information. I certainly wouldn't hire him; every company that hires professionals at some time or another expects their employees to keep certain information confidential.
BS. It's as safe as it ever was, if not safer. Scary crap happened 10, 30, 100, 1000 years ago. Now se just have on-the-scene news crews fanning everyone into a panic every time there's something they can exploit for a couple of ratings points.
If they want those records to last 100 years, they'd better take care of them, not just put them in a box. In 100 years the tapes will be dust or goo unless copied to new media.
What you're describing is not an example of bad coding, it's a bad design. We don't know what happened there for real. I've been involved with systems where the vendor could call in to the machine and add/remove features or disable the system depending on what the user was paying for. If that's in the design, then the coding could have been perfect.
Space isn't nothingness. Space is space and is flexible (gravity/mass flexes it) and creatable (at universe boundaries). We have no concept for nothingness other than to wave our hands and say "outside the universe".
uh, yeah. With Ghost going for $10 after rebates, and the ability to burn directly to CD/DVD, external USB/firewire, network drives, etc, I think I'll just use Ghost, TYVM. My time is worth *something*.
OK, I see the problem. The definition of "4 times" is "Best Buy TRIES to fix it 4 times" not "does fix it".
IOW, you didn't have 4 issues with each machine, you had a bonehead poking it with a stick and he couldn't fix it in 4 tries. That's much less surprising.
When I said I didn't have any machines that had ever failed more than twice, that's what I meant. I certainly have had issues where I have had to mess with them a few times to get one issue fixed myself.
The real problem is that Best Buy seems to pick a random thing to fixate on, and they replace that and if it boots, they're done. They don't attempt to replicate the problem reliably, and they don't do sufficient post-repair checkout. In their defense, computers are so cheap now that it's hardly worth it to do so; they'd have to charge $300 to fix a $300 machine. But I'm not confident that they're qualified to do so anyway.
I'm shopping at CompUSA now anyway. At least around here, they seem to have competent people working there, whereas Best Buy, well, not so much.
CD books, but they're for home use so they sit inside and don't get dirty. Also they're on shelves unless being leafed through so they're not in a car vibrating and letting the dirt grind in.
Also try Avast and AVG. I alternate, currently I'm using Avast. Both free for personal use. That's important when it comes to working on friend/family computers, because honestly, most of them aren't going to pay the subscription fee and no AV software is going to work very well with 3 year old def files.
whenever the computer needs service the 4th time, I get a store credit, use it to buy a new computer
Jebus Cripes on a stick, what kind of computer are you buying that needs repair FOUR TIMES? I keep my machines at least 5 years, and I don't think I've ever done any repairs to ANY of them more than twice, max, most zero or one.
A problem that I see much more often than scratched plastic is scratched foil.
You must be using some pretty crappy discs, or you're stepping on them or something. I've burned easily 5000 CDs and probably 2000 DVDs, and have several thousand in my house.
I've NEVER seen scratched foil, except one time when I bought some insanely cheap shit discs from OfficeMax; the foil literally flaked off before I even burned some of them. I wound up throwing almost 200 of them away without using them.
Other than that, I've seen precisely zero cases of scratched foil. Of course, I don't keep my CDs on the floor of my car and not in a case, so that could be my problem.
That's a plus, compared to living in the high density locations. I'm not even sure I could be paid enough to take my family there.
One of my pet peeves lately is how hard it's getting to find a good beige box. It seems like the more companies make things flashy, the worse the cases get. Also, I'm sorry, but most of the hopped-up cases are just plain butt ugly. IMHO a beige box looks better than most of the chrome and blue lights monstrosities they're coming out with.
You pay for performance
These days, more and more only really with name brands. Take a look at Newegg or any of the discount sellers, I've been buying SD lately. If you buy the generics, it's ALL 133 or 150x. Only the name brands are still selling the old slow crap. If you buy the cheapest stuff out there, it's generic, and it's fast. Then if you spend a bit more money, you get into the slow-ass name brand stuff, and if you pay top dollar, you get back to fast again.
Canadian constitutional applies to everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, just like the rest of the laws.
Good. The US was founded, after all, on the concept that "all men are created equal." Not "all citizens of this country."
IMO when Bush condones doing anything to a non-citizen that he wouldn't do to a citizen, he's breaking his pledge to uphold the constitution. But then again, maybe he would do any of this stuff to a citizen, too.
I was actually just thinking a few days ago (for about the 100th time) why MP3 players didn't have voice prompts for at least some things, like "battery low" - it'd be a lot better if it said "battery low" than if it just stopped working. It's not much of a step from there to voice menus.
I'm not really saying "sports bad" - I personally really enjoyed doing casual sports, including football, soccer, baseball, swimming, etc, during PE classes. And I think inter-school competition is good too.
I actually got along just fine in school with pretty much everyone. Nobody ever took my lunch money, and the one guy who ever harassed me in any way was also in music with me. But at the same time, I didn't give a damn whether the football (or any other) team won or lost, either in high school or college.
What I dislike is that schools tend to identify themselves around the sports teams. Sports are fine, but that's not what school is about. It's about academics and growing as a person and learning to be a responsible person. Sports is part of that. But more and more recently, sports is about zero-sum games (to get ahead you have to take it away from someone else), exclusion of the non-cool, substance abuse, and loads of other things that are destructive to the kids.
I need nothing since the only place that matters is wherever I am.
Art and music may not (MAY not) result in you getting X% more paycheck, but there are things that are "useful" and "important" that are not related to a paycheck.
I consider the time I spent in music in high school and college to have been very useful to me, though I don't think they've earned me a dime. I could have easily given up a couple of years of calculus and it wouldn't have affected me at all, including pay or play, but I wouldn't want to have not had my music classes.
If you want to talk about useless, let's get rid of sports. It's insane how much money is cranked into sports. I don't have much problem with phys ed, but seeing schools that don't have enough teachers or classrooms, but they have a million-dollar football field really bugs me. Though I suppose to the people involved with those, they're important as well.
OK, I'm just going by comments here saying it's slow. I have never seen it and have no interest in it. I only run XP because it came on my laptop; I mostly run Windows 2000 and it does 100% of what I need. I don't even have anything on the horizon that I know of that would cause me to move off 2000.
Is that like wooden rubber?
Cast iron and steel are two different things. I'm assuming they mean steel. Cast iron is kind of brittle.
Consolidating things like "weigh" and "way" is nothing more than lowering the intellectual bar and our collective expectations for what a young mind can (and should) do.
Indeed; check out grade school curriculum of the 1800s and even early 1900s. Latin and greek were very common studies even for preteens. I don't buy that kids really have so much more to learn that they can't take time for that stuff. The kids I know who went on to serious study in a field were so far ahead of the school in those fields that they were just wasting their time anyway.
Instead of pushing things forward, we've got "no child left behind" making sure that nobody is LEFT behind by making ALL children stay back with them.