I was working at a mortgage company when the Do Not Call list started and I asked the CIO what he intended to do about it.
He said, "Nothing."
He wasn't worried about the fines.
A month later, with an $88,000 fine from the government, he was in my cube looking for a way to look up numbers.
Moral of the story: If you want the calls to stop, every once in a while, when you have time, go through the sales process and find out who is really calling you. Tell them that you have a policy of not giving your credit card to anyone who called you, so you need a callback number and the name of the company. Because they think they are getting a sale, they will give you whatever you want.
The easier the bust (and the companies with the most complaints) will get the most attention. It's especially good if you can match up the company's name with a bogus Caller ID number. In other words, "solving" their cases for them will get you the most results. Plus, it's kind of fun.
Most the best Windows freeware is written by some dude in Europe:
CDBurnerXPPro - A great, lightweight, free CD Burner
CD2ISO - Turns a CD or DVD into a an.ISO file.
Virtual Clone Drive - A free program by the AnyDVD people that mounts.ISO files as drive letters. Much faster and more stable than Microsoft's program or Nero ImageDrive.
K9 - Fairly lightweight and unobstrusive (but effective) internet filter for your kids (free for personal use).
PhotoFiltre - My favorite lightweight image editor. Is very fast and bloat-free (compared to GIMP, which has a horrible interface, and Paint Shop Pro). It has most of the features I need in a graphic editor.
WinMerge - If you write software, it lets you compare file versions quickly and easily. A great piece of software to have if you accidentally had 2 people make changes to the same code.
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Pray the following:
God, I don't believe you exist. But if you do, reveal yourself to me so completely that I cannot deny you.
If you refuse to pray it, you are afraid that God really does exist. Which means that "something" is enough to alter your actions so as to be inconsistent with your stated belief system. I would say that is proof that God exists, or at least you believe he does.
If you do pray it, well, that is the scientific test. Let us know how it works out for you. But if your life changes for the better and you start going to church and helping others less fortunate than yourself, well, I would say it's scientific enough for me.
The parent is right. I don't think it has gone unnoticed to Hollywood (or the music industry) that somebody in their bedroom with
The dumb thing is that Microsoft fell for it. With a 90% stranglehold on PCs and HD video slow to take hold, they could have taken a stand against Hollywood if they had wanted to. After all, Vista doesn't play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray anyway, so what's the difference?
Oops, with the VC1 codec based on WMV, the HD-DVD drive on the XBox 360 and the Zune, I guess they couldn't have. They are firmly in bed with them.
That's funny. I thought there were less creationists than ever in the history of this country.
It is illogical to cheer on the one hand as creationism is removed from the public square but then blame creationism when science goes down the toilet. If making this argument, it would have to be the lack of God/Creationism that has changed from our height in science.
Shouldn't this be "Creation and Intelligent Design are inevitable"? I mean, it's not like the fiber optic lines just happened by random chance, right...?:)
We only pay $17/month US for trash service. All we have to do is put recyclables (aluminum, glass, metal, plastic with logo, paper) into a green trash bucket, yard waste into a brown one and everything else into a black one. It's easy, and they really make it worth our while (every other city around here is about $50/month).
Notice that all the posters said that they were trying to download the MSI installer, and they no longer can because the download is now blocked by Microsoft Genuine Advantage. But Microsoft has convinced most of its software developers to use the MSI installer (which requires a pre-loaded portion). In effect, they are illegally blocking Linux and Wine with this strategy (since they are a convicted monopolist), trying to further cement their hold on the PC industry.
Hey, Google translate isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing. While the translation is usually a bit rough, it's a whole lot better than the French or German or Japanese I was looking at. And it doesn't take a supercomputer.
I agree with the grandparent post. Hearing a voice, figuring out the words and writing the translation on a screen would be a great application, even if it only got every third word right. How do I know this? Because in Spanish, I only get about every third word but I "get the gist" of the conversation. Surely a device like this could get above 33% pretty quickly.
My HP w/ Windows XP does this sometimes. It appears to happen if I pull the network plug during suspend at a certain point. If I wait to pull the network until it stops making noise, it never gets hot.
While I can get Ubuntu to suspend on an old HP laptop, there are about 20 ways to screw it up and it stays hot, instead of one obscure way that barely ever happens.
You are now offloading your desktop window-handling completely to a coprocessor instead of stalling the main processor like in all versions up to and including XP.
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I was working at a mortgage company when the Do Not Call list started and I asked the CIO what he intended to do about it.
He said, "Nothing."
He wasn't worried about the fines.
A month later, with an $88,000 fine from the government, he was in my cube looking for a way to look up numbers.
Moral of the story: If you want the calls to stop, every once in a while, when you have time, go through the sales process and find out who is really calling you. Tell them that you have a policy of not giving your credit card to anyone who called you, so you need a callback number and the name of the company. Because they think they are getting a sale, they will give you whatever you want.
The easier the bust (and the companies with the most complaints) will get the most attention. It's especially good if you can match up the company's name with a bogus Caller ID number. In other words, "solving" their cases for them will get you the most results. Plus, it's kind of fun.
I really like this idea. Cheap and easy to implement.
Most the best Windows freeware is written by some dude in Europe:
Pray the following:
God, I don't believe you exist. But if you do, reveal yourself to me so completely that I cannot deny you.
If you refuse to pray it, you are afraid that God really does exist. Which means that "something" is enough to alter your actions so as to be inconsistent with your stated belief system. I would say that is proof that God exists, or at least you believe he does.
If you do pray it, well, that is the scientific test. Let us know how it works out for you. But if your life changes for the better and you start going to church and helping others less fortunate than yourself, well, I would say it's scientific enough for me.
That's what a DVR is for. Your cable company probably offers one for less than $10/month. Worth every penny.
The parent is right. I don't think it has gone unnoticed to Hollywood (or the music industry) that somebody in their bedroom with
The dumb thing is that Microsoft fell for it. With a 90% stranglehold on PCs and HD video slow to take hold, they could have taken a stand against Hollywood if they had wanted to. After all, Vista doesn't play HD-DVD or Blu-Ray anyway, so what's the difference?
Oops, with the VC1 codec based on WMV, the HD-DVD drive on the XBox 360 and the Zune, I guess they couldn't have. They are firmly in bed with them.
Actually it's not because unlike school, on the internet they will run into a grammar nazi every third post.
That's funny. I thought there were less creationists than ever in the history of this country.
It is illogical to cheer on the one hand as creationism is removed from the public square but then blame creationism when science goes down the toilet. If making this argument, it would have to be the lack of God/Creationism that has changed from our height in science.
His 2-minute experiment gets made into a 30-minute long episode of the Twilight Zone, complete with boring exposition for 20 minutes.
What would happen if you went after a credit-reporting organization for libel?
Oh wait, these are politicians we are talking about...
Shouldn't this be "Creation and Intelligent Design are inevitable"? I mean, it's not like the fiber optic lines just happened by random chance, right...? :)
We only pay $17/month US for trash service. All we have to do is put recyclables (aluminum, glass, metal, plastic with logo, paper) into a green trash bucket, yard waste into a brown one and everything else into a black one. It's easy, and they really make it worth our while (every other city around here is about $50/month).
Notice that all the posters said that they were trying to download the MSI installer, and they no longer can because the download is now blocked by Microsoft Genuine Advantage. But Microsoft has convinced most of its software developers to use the MSI installer (which requires a pre-loaded portion). In effect, they are illegally blocking Linux and Wine with this strategy (since they are a convicted monopolist), trying to further cement their hold on the PC industry.
You're a judge, aren't you?
It's a very large private gathering.
But only from religious events....
Hey, Google translate isn't perfect, but it's better than nothing. While the translation is usually a bit rough, it's a whole lot better than the French or German or Japanese I was looking at. And it doesn't take a supercomputer.
I agree with the grandparent post. Hearing a voice, figuring out the words and writing the translation on a screen would be a great application, even if it only got every third word right. How do I know this? Because in Spanish, I only get about every third word but I "get the gist" of the conversation. Surely a device like this could get above 33% pretty quickly.
My HP w/ Windows XP does this sometimes. It appears to happen if I pull the network plug during suspend at a certain point. If I wait to pull the network until it stops making noise, it never gets hot.
While I can get Ubuntu to suspend on an old HP laptop, there are about 20 ways to screw it up and it stays hot, instead of one obscure way that barely ever happens.
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They're not improving anymore...
Unless you're a Hollywood or Nashville executive...
You do the math...
Now, I did uninstall it and load Ubuntu instead. But that wasn't because it was slow.
Once the video gets offloaded to the graphics card and the caching all moves to the memory stick, it uses LESS RAM than XP.
You are now offloading your desktop window-handling completely to a coprocessor instead of stalling the main processor like in all versions up to and including XP.
It's those ReadyBoost guys. Vista would have required more than 512MB RAM if it weren't for them...