How mean can you be? Normally an adapter for about 9 different card standards cost about $9.99, or less. But my mom doesn't have such, although she has a digital camera. She gets on fine...occupied
I am trying to find out how to enter a general comment or message to the Slashdot community. With a succinct heading. This might result in a thread, but most likely not.
Seriously. I think such should be explained, or at least in the "help" bit, if there is any.:-) Don't expect any help from Linux people. In my experience they are agressively RTFB. Even there is no FB.
Unless people can do this, it's going to get a bit fetid in there (here?) isn't it? Or is it already?
I get the impression this is a closed group of gentlemen generating moisture and excitement by some sort of rubbing between their loins.
You're an egotist. No doubt you believe in yourself. I used to put it this way: You're a duck floating in the company pond. Serene. Confident. Urbane. Couth. Advisor to all. Guru? Sounds good? Well in actual fact your little feet paddles should be frantically thrashing under the water. Not that anyone would notice. When I was a programming manager, I advised all my people to spend a whole day a week "catching up" on new techniques, languages etc. 20% of our company's time. Some just coded on unambitiously. You may have been one of those. And the ones that tried found that about half of their effort was wasted - barking up the wrong tree. But 50% success isn't bad. And they grew with us. I'd just point out that this is a form of re-education too. Keep themselves (and our company) ahead of the crowd. I got the impression they wouldn't leave unless they got the same privileges at the new employer. OTOH, they did tend to form "islands of expertise":-) A form of stagnation if it goes on for more than 24 months. Or the island becomes useless. Always be prepared to learn, even if you don't like it. Pain is part of progress. Cutting edge? Cheers, Robin.
I can't see any way that would work. But I have never tried it. Cheers, Robin. (Good Luck)
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I think your comments are brilliant. Sort of what I was thinking, but too afraid to say. I thought I had "missed" something. Please keep at it. Maybe one day we will find logic & serenity. But I doubt it. Turmoil seems to be the way:) In a phrase- chaos resolution. Cheers, Robin
I lived in Russia nearly six years; therefore I guess you think you are joking. Bushist sort of wit though. I have a SONY AV box and the remote that comes with that can "learn" 10 devices. Takes a while though to "teach" it. I think think it doesn't run Linux. There's no "Intel inside" sticker on it either:-) In Russia I bought a SONY remote commander. Even the book confused me. Yes I have (or had) a pilot's licence. About six inches square an backlit panel. You can program it to power up and start devices in sequence, but its quicker to cross the room and punch the buttons. It has a big brother which itself has a matchbox size remote. To find it. At that size it'd be hard to lose it, unless your dog eats them, or your spouse likes the phrase "look with your eyes, not with your mouth." So its a contradiction. The big ones don't get lost, the little ones don't have a finder.
1)HDD- if this is really true, people will just rip it off to get the HDD, as what happened to the Creative NuVo. Which had a Toshibo 4MB Microdrive inside, worth about 4X the price of the device. BUT- SONY are not silly- I bet this is not a Microdrive. Something proprietary, but no doubt crackable, for those with the energy etc... 2) I bought my first SONY MD Player about 5 years ago. I thought it was super. To my way of thinking ATRAC is least as good as MP3, sound-wise. No prob. BE SURE TO BUY A DECENT SET OF HEADFONES!! The ones that come with them are crap. Best thing about those players physically was the vivid remote control. Worst thing was the restriction on it's pop-in disk to use only the 1st 74MB, of the 2MB or so available. SONY fixed that later, but too late. I wish SONY well, for just one reason: Of the 20 or so SONY products I have bought, including HiFi components and VAIO computers, I never yet had one that didn't work perfectly straight out of the box, and kept on working. Failures include Technics, Acer (pits of the world), and Dell. Cheers, Robin
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How mean can you be? ..occupied
Normally an adapter for about 9 different card standards cost about $9.99, or less.
But my mom doesn't have such, although she has a digital camera.
She gets on fine.
I have no wish to comment on Wal-Mart.
:-)
I am trying to find out how to enter a general comment or message to the Slashdot community.
With a succinct heading. This might result in a thread, but most likely not.
Seriously. I think such should be explained, or at least in the "help" bit, if there is any.
Don't expect any help from Linux people.
In my experience they are agressively RTFB. Even there is no FB.
Unless people can do this, it's going to get a bit fetid in there (here?) isn't it?
Or is it already?
I get the impression this is a closed group of gentlemen generating moisture and excitement by some sort of rubbing between their loins.
Cheers, Robin
I give up
You're an egotist. :-) A form of stagnation if it goes on for more than 24 months. Or the island becomes useless. Always be prepared to learn, even if you don't like it. Pain is part of progress. Cutting edge?
No doubt you believe in yourself.
I used to put it this way:
You're a duck floating in the company pond.
Serene. Confident. Urbane. Couth.
Advisor to all. Guru? Sounds good?
Well in actual fact your little feet paddles should be frantically thrashing under the water. Not that anyone would notice. When I was a programming manager, I advised all my people to spend a whole day a week "catching up" on new techniques, languages etc. 20% of our company's time. Some just coded on unambitiously. You may have been one of those.
And the ones that tried found that about half of their effort was wasted - barking up the wrong tree. But 50% success isn't bad. And they grew with us.
I'd just point out that this is a form of re-education too. Keep themselves (and our company) ahead of the crowd. I got the impression they wouldn't leave unless they got the same privileges at the new employer. OTOH, they did tend to form "islands of expertise"
Cheers, Robin.
Good example of what the previous poster said:
sub-ESL English, coupled with stupidity.
What did you mean?
I can't see any way that would work.
But I have never tried it.
Cheers, Robin. (Good Luck)
I think your comments are brilliant. :)
Sort of what I was thinking, but too afraid to say.
I thought I had "missed" something.
Please keep at it.
Maybe one day we will find logic & serenity.
But I doubt it.
Turmoil seems to be the way
In a phrase- chaos resolution.
Cheers, Robin
Try harder not to be an asshole.
Maybe with practise, it becomes easier.
Cheers, Robin.
I lived in Russia nearly six years; therefore I guess you think you are joking. Bushist sort of wit though. :-)
I have a SONY AV box and the remote that comes with that can "learn" 10 devices. Takes a while though to "teach" it. I think think it doesn't run Linux. There's no "Intel inside" sticker on it either
In Russia I bought a SONY remote commander. Even the book confused me. Yes I have (or had) a pilot's licence. About six inches square an backlit panel. You can program it to power up and start devices in sequence, but its quicker to cross the room and punch the buttons.
It has a big brother which itself has a matchbox size remote. To find it. At that size it'd be hard to lose it, unless your dog eats them, or your spouse likes the phrase "look with your eyes, not with your mouth."
So its a contradiction. The big ones don't get lost, the little ones don't have a finder.
1)HDD- if this is really true, people will just rip it off to get the HDD, as what happened to the Creative NuVo. Which had a Toshibo 4MB Microdrive inside, worth about 4X the price of the device. BUT- SONY are not silly- I bet this is not a Microdrive. Something proprietary, but no doubt crackable, for those with the energy etc...
2) I bought my first SONY MD Player about 5 years ago. I thought it was super. To my way of thinking ATRAC is least as good as MP3, sound-wise. No prob. BE SURE TO BUY A DECENT SET OF HEADFONES!! The ones that come with them are crap. Best thing about those players physically was the vivid remote control. Worst thing was the restriction on it's pop-in disk to use only the 1st 74MB, of the 2MB or so available. SONY fixed that later, but too late.
I wish SONY well, for just one reason: Of the 20 or so SONY products I have bought, including HiFi components and VAIO computers, I never yet had one that didn't work perfectly straight out of the box, and kept on working.
Failures include Technics, Acer (pits of the world), and Dell.
Cheers, Robin