I know what you mean. There used to be different areas where people could discuss a certain topic. They even had the ability to use creative user names instead of their real names! I wish we still had that...
I'm sorry I don't have any mods points for you today. Would you accept some of my Diggs? I know they're pretty much worthless, but it's all I have to offer.
There is nothing more stress-relieving than pretending to slice up my cat with the lightsaber app for a good 15 minutes each night.
Unrelated: Why does Firefox flag lightsaber as misspelled? That should be the first word in the dictionary file!
So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! I will shoot the idiot that does this. It's already dangerous enough with people eating, putting on makeup, reading, sending text messages, watching movies, and rolling joints without adding web browsing. YOUR CAR IS FOR DRIVING ONLY!!! It's not an entertainment center and it's not your living room.
Yes, I was definitely willing to pay to get to those records. I was trying to do some class reports on local history and it took me forever to get the info that I needed. I would have been able to find it in seconds if I had access to those records. There was also just the curiosity about local history that I had. Besides the clowns, of course...
Who knows what career I could have had now if I had been able to get those records. I was not really commenting on whether they were free or not, but the fact that they are not available at all.
That is exactly what got me excited about the Internet in the first place. I imagined going to my local paper's website to research things that had happened in the past, like in the movies. Maybe I could find a pattern of murders by clowns every 27 years in my town or something. Sadly, they never bothered to put up any archives and only retain old stories for a day or two. There are countless records that are lost to us because the papers do not put this information out there.
I have a thumbdrive with Firefox, Opera, IE5.5 and IE6 installers that I carry with me at all times. It also contains all the stupid plugins that are needed on the Internet: flash, pdf reader, etc.
Of course, I'm desktop support, but still... don't all Slashdotters have at least a Portable Apps USB stick laying around?
When I tried to unzip the JavaDocs, Vista told me that it would take over 8 hours. I thought that was just the usual inaccurate time estimate that Windows has always had. I canceled it after two hours with the progress bar barely over zero and the timer up to 14 hours. 7-Zip took a whole 30 seconds to unzip it.
This was still not fixed after SP1. Not sure how it is now since that made me turn to OS X and Linux.
Saving $150 means that you can afford two or three of your books for that semester.
Been a while since you were in college? These days, saving $150 will get you a used book if you're lucky. I had to spend $170 on a book one semester and when I picked it up, it was not even bound. Just a stack of printed paper in shrinkwrap.
It won't affect me, since I switched from rabbit ears to cable. And I got my coupons early last summer.
Then why did you get the coupons? Those could have gone to someone who really needed them and cut down on the shortage. Maybe you should give them to Moryath.
Closing the account might not do it either. My fiancee worked at her university in a workstudy position for the summer and had direct deposit to her account. A year later, she got hired on full time at the same university. The bank account had been closed for a year, but the university sent her first paycheck to the closed account. The bank took it and put it in without a question. She had to take a half day off just to go through the hassle of getting her paperwork. The bank said that if the money is sent to an account, they will deposit it there no matter what.
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I know what you mean. There used to be different areas where people could discuss a certain topic. They even had the ability to use creative user names instead of their real names! I wish we still had that...
My favorite is "Up to XX% or more!!!" I figure they really have no clue and pulled that number out of their collective ass.
I'm sorry I don't have any mods points for you today. Would you accept some of my Diggs? I know they're pretty much worthless, but it's all I have to offer.
There is nothing more stress-relieving than pretending to slice up my cat with the lightsaber app for a good 15 minutes each night. Unrelated: Why does Firefox flag lightsaber as misspelled? That should be the first word in the dictionary file!
So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! I will shoot the idiot that does this. It's already dangerous enough with people eating, putting on makeup, reading, sending text messages, watching movies, and rolling joints without adding web browsing. YOUR CAR IS FOR DRIVING ONLY!!! It's not an entertainment center and it's not your living room.
Death Star Light just doesn't sound menacing enough?
I think it just a touch more likely that they just feel that this has nothing to do with S3 chips and Linux drivers.
I read it as being similar to "feedback about game controller functions". Yours is funnier though.
Sadly, you have just summed up my entire existence...
I hereby bequeath all future mod points that I receive to the above post.
The difference between +1, Funny and +1, Insightful grows ever smaller...
No, he made us all lose an internet.
Realistically, running in a non-admin account is a pain in the ass. ...in Windows. ...on a computer ...turned on ... over the rainbow.
... in bed.
Yes, I was definitely willing to pay to get to those records. I was trying to do some class reports on local history and it took me forever to get the info that I needed. I would have been able to find it in seconds if I had access to those records. There was also just the curiosity about local history that I had. Besides the clowns, of course...
Who knows what career I could have had now if I had been able to get those records. I was not really commenting on whether they were free or not, but the fact that they are not available at all.
That is exactly what got me excited about the Internet in the first place. I imagined going to my local paper's website to research things that had happened in the past, like in the movies. Maybe I could find a pattern of murders by clowns every 27 years in my town or something. Sadly, they never bothered to put up any archives and only retain old stories for a day or two. There are countless records that are lost to us because the papers do not put this information out there.
Generic mouse drivers are already installed. I have plugged in at least 5 mice to my laptop and have never once been prompted by UAC.
I have a thumbdrive with Firefox, Opera, IE5.5 and IE6 installers that I carry with me at all times. It also contains all the stupid plugins that are needed on the Internet: flash, pdf reader, etc.
Of course, I'm desktop support, but still... don't all Slashdotters have at least a Portable Apps USB stick laying around?
Slightly?
When I tried to unzip the JavaDocs, Vista told me that it would take over 8 hours. I thought that was just the usual inaccurate time estimate that Windows has always had. I canceled it after two hours with the progress bar barely over zero and the timer up to 14 hours. 7-Zip took a whole 30 seconds to unzip it.
This was still not fixed after SP1. Not sure how it is now since that made me turn to OS X and Linux.
Saving $150 means that you can afford two or three of your books for that semester.
Been a while since you were in college? These days, saving $150 will get you a used book if you're lucky. I had to spend $170 on a book one semester and when I picked it up, it was not even bound. Just a stack of printed paper in shrinkwrap.
It won't affect me, since I switched from rabbit ears to cable. And I got my coupons early last summer.
Then why did you get the coupons? Those could have gone to someone who really needed them and cut down on the shortage. Maybe you should give them to Moryath.
I know that, at one point, I was using Google Browser Sync -- maybe there's a service like that, still?
Foxmarks.
It WAS said... about 50 times before you. Scroll up.
It's ok, that was some major boring shit.
Closing the account might not do it either. My fiancee worked at her university in a workstudy position for the summer and had direct deposit to her account. A year later, she got hired on full time at the same university. The bank account had been closed for a year, but the university sent her first paycheck to the closed account. The bank took it and put it in without a question. She had to take a half day off just to go through the hassle of getting her paperwork. The bank said that if the money is sent to an account, they will deposit it there no matter what.
Maybe the latter implies the former? :)