you'd probably be better off with an mp3 player. if you're just using it for workouts then a 128 or even 64 meg should suffice, and it won't skip like a cd player if you jog. alternatively, you could buy a jukebox type (say an ipod) and never have to waste time deciding what to put on a cd, since it's there in the palm of your hand anyway:)
burning a cd for every time you work out just seems kindof...wasteful.
[i]Average Hold Time: 600 to 800 seconds. So you are wrong. [/i]
last three times i called i was on hold for an hour.
[i]You are wrong again. Billing is listed item by item and any explanations are easy to give. If the bill says you owe $180 you probably do. There are very few mistakes made in that area. You probably got an install package, missed a bill, and god knows what else. [/i]
okay, i'll explain. our bill for august came to around fifty bucks as usual, with no previous balance. we paid in full. september's bill comes around, and there's $180 in the previous blanace box, with no explanation of how this got there. even if at&t didn't get the check from august before the bill went out, that wouldn't explain why there's 180 bucks of balance where there was fifty total from the previous month. and none of this explains why the billing department told us "we don't have access" to a list of charges.
(snip fud)
[i]4. slow speeds. 768/128 sucks compared to the BW from cable.[/i]
i'd kill for that kind of speed. i've never seen dl speeds above 150k, and i average 50.
[i]5. ping responses are always fucking bad. [/i]
when i was in korea, my net access was through a 56k modem. even then, i could play unreal tourney on servers in the states with better ping times than what we tend to get. and keep in mind these pings are for/every/ server, regardless of game.
they have flat out the worst customer service i've ever seen from a company, bar none.
for starters, the average time on hold to get support is about an hour. not to actually resolve the problem, or even to talk to someone, this is just being on hold.
their evening service is absolute crap, with all multiplayer games absolutely unplayable (ping times go up into the 2000 range), a problem they refuse to address--instead they're still blaming code red or any other virus of the week, since they don't want to admit that either one of their routers is screwed up or they oversold our portion of the network (appearantly code red only strikes between 6pm and 10pm weekday evenings)
and here's the kicker: this month, we found a $180 charge for "previous balance," despite the fact we pay our bill every month. so we call them up, and they refuse to explain the charge, or give an itemized list, because their billing department doesn't have access to the billing records. aces!
we're switching to dsl this payday.
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gets weirder on my system, also w/ macos 8.6. most of the menu items under file and edit are greyed out 'blank item' deals--including the quit item. i had to force quit out to close it.
i'll stick w/ 0.8.1, which has been my main browser for quite a while now.
Despite our best efforts, a small number of the more than 4.7 million items in our catalog are mispriced. Rest assured, however, that we verify prices as part of our shipping procedures.
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a command-click has brought up a contextual menu since os 8.0, about three or four years ago. it works fine with the right button of my 4 button mouse, as does the scroll wheel. the middle button does an option click, closing all the windows in the finder. the support in the os is pretty much there, though i don't know what it does in osx yet.
(which of course makes it all the more ridiculous that apple refuses to accept the concept of the multi-button mouse. boo, apple!)
For those of us who use Unix an Linux with mice that have three, or more, buttons, the third button is very useful. Just highlight something then middle click and it pastes. That on top of the, what is now standard in GUIs, ^C (or ^X) and ^V you have two clipboards. It can become very useful very quickly.
the problem is that it's pretty inconvenient for cut-and-replace; for example, if you copy a url and want to open it in an already existing netscape window, you have to hilight the url currently in netscape, delete, and then use kclipboard or similar clipboard manager to get back the clipping you had before, and that's somewhat irritating. i much prefer ^c/x/v, but that's just personal prefs, i guess.
this isn't a complete victory for riaa yet. they won a temporary injuction, not the entire case. as an example, sony got a temp injunction against connectix in mid-1999 blocking virtual game station; sony lost that case and vgs is now selling.
newertech has a boneheaded distributor that refuses to ship anything outside the us. i'm a us military member overseas in korea, and they still won't even ship it to me. their loss.
well i already have a voodoo 2 in this thing, and i'm posting this from linuxppc, so looks like this thing is right up my alley:) (even with just the v2, i get playable framerates w/ q3, this'll just make it comfy.)
because i'm typing this on an imac, running linuxppc, under kde. plus, to be honest the whole aqua thing just kindof seems like a big resource hog to me for some reason; we'll see how it goes.
With Linux, some people run Gnome, some KDE, some Enlightenment, etc. etc. This is freedom. This is thinking outside the box. xfree86 is either being or has been ported to osx however; with luck i'll be able to use kde instead of aqua if i want.
ya koreans are pretty fond of things that somewhat encourage piracy;) btw, did you ever make it to the technomart while you were in seoul? 8 floors of electronic gadgets, mmm...they have some mp3 players there too, along with pirate psx cds and the like. btw, i keep trying to find the electronics discrict but can't find out which subway line leads there. could you give me directions from, say, seoul station or dongdaemun?
while we're on the subject, some of you may recall that linuxppc developer jason haas was nearly killed in an auto accident with a drunk driver a few weeks ago. his wife cassie has been writing in w/ updates on his progress here. it looks like he's alot better, but it'll be some time before he can work on it more:(
"you do not agree with me that macos is the unquestioned superior platform of the world for all time, therefore you have OBVIOUSLY never used it." mac people are almost as amusing as us amiga people. and don't forget, we're on one of the most rabid linux forums out there;)
And does the MacOS support extra buttons when you do upgrade the mouse? I thought MacOS was a single consistant (dumbed down) interface so you wouldn't be confused by right/middle/left clicking yes. i have a four button wheel mouse for my mac, and they can be bound to whatever combination i wan. the right button brings up the contextual menu, the middle button is an option-click (usually closes all the windows on the desktop), the wheel scrolls rather well, and the fourth button...well i haven't gotten around to binding that yet:) maybe i'll make it a cmd-tab to switch apps or something, i dunno. as for the linux side, the main three buttons worked right out of the box for me, something particularly suprising given that it's a usb mouse on a 2.2.6 kernel. the fourth button acts like the third button, and i haven't figured out how to get it to scroll. oh well.
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oh it's worse in the us. let's say you have a savings acount at bank foo, and you use bank bar's atm machine. bar will charge you anywhere from $.50 to $3.00 for letting you use their atm, kindof like they do to you, appearantly. then, your _own_ bank foo will charge you _again_, making a total of up to six bucks every time you use an atm. aren't they sweet?
because if he takes his work home with him, who's looking over his shoulder? in this day of wide-area networks and 9823749823742-bit encryption transmission or whatever, i don't see any reason whatsoever for classified to be on a laptop, when the last thing you want is for information to be carried around, especially out of the scif. i work for the nsa myself, and believe me if i tried something like that, i know they'd make sure that i had my own room in hell. otoh, seeing as the director of the nsa was fired last year for allegedly 'taking his work home with him'...
...i still see a couple problems with some courses that i don't think could be implemented very well, if at all.
any lab class would definitely fit into this category, particularly physics and chem. simply put, where are you going to do the labs? you can't just skip the labs, as i'm pretty sure they're a requirement for accreditation; one of the things these classes teach you is doing work with others, and that'd be a bit difficult to do when ppl are as remotely seperated as tends to happen on the net.
foreign language would be the another problem; it'd be difficult to learn how to pronounce a dialect correctly without anyone to correct you, and without a face-to-face speaking partner it's really hard to learn speech. i took two years of korean in a millitary school, and have now lived in korea for nine months, and i still suck, along with everyone i came here with:(
still another problem would be art: where are you going to send in your work to be graded?
on a lighter note, i don't think you could expect much from an all-online university's football team:)
all in all, i can see this complementing existing universities, but i don't see how it could replace what's already there. still, it's nice to see people using their money for the public good rather than the usual depressing news stories of kids killing kids or abba singers coming back from the dead to go on solo careers.
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you'd probably be better off with an mp3 player. if you're just using it for workouts then a 128 or even 64 meg should suffice, and it won't skip like a cd player if you jog. alternatively, you could buy a jukebox type (say an ipod) and never have to waste time deciding what to put on a cd, since it's there in the palm of your hand anyway :)
burning a cd for every time you work out just seems kindof...wasteful.
haha, that'll teach me to use preview :p
[i]Average Hold Time: 600 to 800 seconds. So you are wrong. [/i]
/every/ server, regardless of game.
last three times i called i was on hold for an hour.
[i]You are wrong again. Billing is listed item by item and any explanations are easy to give. If the bill says you owe $180 you probably do. There are very few mistakes made in that area. You probably got an install package, missed a bill, and god knows what else. [/i]
okay, i'll explain. our bill for august came to around fifty bucks as usual, with no previous balance. we paid in full. september's bill comes around, and there's $180 in the previous blanace box, with no explanation of how this got there. even if at&t didn't get the check from august before the bill went out, that wouldn't explain why there's 180 bucks of balance where there was fifty total from the previous month. and none of this explains why the billing department told us "we don't have access" to a list of charges.
(snip fud)
[i]4. slow speeds. 768/128 sucks compared to the BW from cable.[/i]
i'd kill for that kind of speed. i've never seen dl speeds above 150k, and i average 50.
[i]5. ping responses are always fucking bad. [/i]
when i was in korea, my net access was through a 56k modem. even then, i could play unreal tourney on servers in the states with better ping times than what we tend to get. and keep in mind these pings are for
(fwiw, i'm in sacramento.)
we are talking about at&t broadband right?
they have flat out the worst customer service i've ever seen from a company, bar none.
for starters, the average time on hold to get support is about an hour. not to actually resolve the problem, or even to talk to someone, this is just being on hold.
their evening service is absolute crap, with all multiplayer games absolutely unplayable (ping times go up into the 2000 range), a problem they refuse to address--instead they're still blaming code red or any other virus of the week, since they don't want to admit that either one of their routers is screwed up or they oversold our portion of the network (appearantly code red only strikes between 6pm and 10pm weekday evenings)
and here's the kicker: this month, we found a $180 charge for "previous balance," despite the fact we pay our bill every month. so we call them up, and they refuse to explain the charge, or give an itemized list, because their billing department doesn't have access to the billing records. aces!
we're switching to dsl this payday.
gets weirder on my system, also w/ macos 8.6. most of the menu items under file and edit are greyed out 'blank item' deals--including the quit item. i had to force quit out to close it.
i'll stick w/ 0.8.1, which has been my main browser for quite a while now.
there's a much more efficient way to drain network resources from your server. it's called 'counterstrike.'
Despite our best efforts, a small number of the more than 4.7 million items in our catalog are mispriced. Rest assured, however, that we verify prices as part of our shipping procedures.
* If an item's correct price is lower than our stated price, we charge the lower amount and ship you the item.
* If an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
a command-click has brought up a contextual menu since os 8.0, about three or four years ago. it works fine with the right button of my 4 button mouse, as does the scroll wheel. the middle button does an option click, closing all the windows in the finder. the support in the os is pretty much there, though i don't know what it does in osx yet.
(which of course makes it all the more ridiculous that apple refuses to accept the concept of the multi-button mouse. boo, apple!)
For those of us who use Unix an Linux with mice that have three, or more, buttons, the third button is very useful. Just highlight something then middle click and it pastes. That on top of the, what is now standard in GUIs, ^C (or ^X) and ^V you have two clipboards. It can become very useful very quickly.
the problem is that it's pretty inconvenient for cut-and-replace; for example, if you copy a url and want to open it in an already existing netscape window, you have to hilight the url currently in netscape, delete, and then use kclipboard or similar clipboard manager to get back the clipping you had before, and that's somewhat irritating. i much prefer ^c/x/v, but that's just personal prefs, i guess.
this isn't a complete victory for riaa yet. they won a temporary injuction, not the entire case. as an example, sony got a temp injunction against connectix in mid-1999 blocking virtual game station; sony lost that case and vgs is now selling.
How many other planets can you think of with a single, large moon?
pluto?
try sitting* in a subway in seoul sometime
;)
"hi mom? yeah, i'm at myongdong. i'll be home in thirty minutes. ok i'll call when the train reaches dongdaemun, in about thirty seconds."
*okay, standing; you probably won't be able to get a seat in a korean subway
newertech has a boneheaded distributor that refuses to ship anything outside the us. i'm a us military member overseas in korea, and they still won't even ship it to me. their loss.
well i already have a voodoo 2 in this thing, and i'm posting this from linuxppc, so looks like this thing is right up my alley :) (even with just the v2, i get playable framerates w/ q3, this'll just make it comfy.)
because i'm typing this on an imac, running linuxppc, under kde. plus, to be honest the whole aqua thing just kindof seems like a big resource hog to me for some reason; we'll see how it goes.
With Linux, some people run Gnome, some KDE, some Enlightenment, etc. etc. This is freedom. This is thinking outside the box. xfree86 is either being or has been ported to osx however; with luck i'll be able to use kde instead of aqua if i want.
i think ms-works came out before word even, but i'm not exactly sure.
well i must admit, it'd be kindof hard to find inaccurate facts in a post comprised entirely of opinion.
ya koreans are pretty fond of things that somewhat encourage piracy ;)
btw, did you ever make it to the technomart while you were in seoul? 8 floors of electronic gadgets, mmm...they have some mp3 players there too, along with pirate psx cds and the like.
btw, i keep trying to find the electronics discrict but can't find out which subway line leads there. could you give me directions from, say, seoul station or dongdaemun?
while we're on the subject, some of you may recall that linuxppc developer jason haas was nearly killed in an auto accident with a drunk driver a few weeks ago. his wife cassie has been writing in w/ updates on his progress here. it looks like he's alot better, but it'll be some time before he can work on it more :(
"you do not agree with me that macos is the unquestioned superior platform of the world for all time, therefore you have OBVIOUSLY never used it." mac people are almost as amusing as us amiga people. and don't forget, we're on one of the most rabid linux forums out there ;)
And does the MacOS support extra buttons when you do upgrade the mouse? I thought MacOS was a single consistant (dumbed down) interface so you wouldn't be confused by right/middle/left clicking yes. i have a four button wheel mouse for my mac, and they can be bound to whatever combination i wan. the right button brings up the contextual menu, the middle button is an option-click (usually closes all the windows on the desktop), the wheel scrolls rather well, and the fourth button...well i haven't gotten around to binding that yet :) maybe i'll make it a cmd-tab to switch apps or something, i dunno. as for the linux side, the main three buttons worked right out of the box for me, something particularly suprising given that it's a usb mouse on a 2.2.6 kernel. the fourth button acts like the third button, and i haven't figured out how to get it to scroll. oh well.
oh it's worse in the us.
let's say you have a savings acount at bank foo, and you use bank bar's atm machine. bar will charge you anywhere from $.50 to $3.00 for letting you use their atm, kindof like they do to you, appearantly. then, your _own_ bank foo will charge you _again_, making a total of up to six bucks every time you use an atm. aren't they sweet?
because if he takes his work home with him, who's looking over his shoulder? in this day of wide-area networks and 9823749823742-bit encryption transmission or whatever, i don't see any reason whatsoever for classified to be on a laptop, when the last thing you want is for information to be carried around, especially out of the scif. i work for the nsa myself, and believe me if i tried something like that, i know they'd make sure that i had my own room in hell. otoh, seeing as the director of the nsa was fired last year for allegedly 'taking his work home with him'...
...i still see a couple problems with some courses that i don't think could be implemented very well, if at all.
:(
:)
any lab class would definitely fit into this category, particularly physics and chem. simply put, where are you going to do the labs? you can't just skip the labs, as i'm pretty sure they're a requirement for accreditation; one of the things these classes teach you is doing work with others, and that'd be a bit difficult to do when ppl are as remotely seperated as tends to happen on the net.
foreign language would be the another problem; it'd be difficult to learn how to pronounce a dialect correctly without anyone to correct you, and without a face-to-face speaking partner it's really hard to learn speech. i took two years of korean in a millitary school, and have now lived in korea for nine months, and i still suck, along with everyone i came here with
still another problem would be art: where are you going to send in your work to be graded?
on a lighter note, i don't think you could expect much from an all-online university's football team
all in all, i can see this complementing existing universities, but i don't see how it could replace what's already there. still, it's nice to see people using their money for the public good rather than the usual depressing news stories of kids killing kids or abba singers coming back from the dead to go on solo careers.