If it is worth paying for someone will pay for it.
So you're saying give it for free and offer a link of some kind where somebody who feels like being "fair" will go through a set of hoops to pay for something that they were just given for free? While you might find some individuals that will actually do this, they are in the extreme minority.
Hint: Even when it's entirely free, most people don't even want to go through the hassle of signing in/up with a free account to view the content, instead just moving on to another site that doesn't hassle them.
In fact, it rarely is. If their existing OS, which is likely running custom software specific to this equipment, is still doing what it needs to do for them, what need do they have to switch? They certainly don't need to be able to play the latest games or anything superfluous like that. Why risk breaking compatibility on a tried and tested mission-critical system?
How many businesses do you know of that switched to Vista the moment it came out? If you do know any, you know they're pretty dumb, don't you?
That's only if there isn't an autorun.inf pointing to an executable. If there is, it runs that instead of showing the "What do you want to do?" dialog. Only having autorun disabled will protect you from that. What would be good is if it was disabled by default, but could be turned on for select "trusted" flash drives. Or, just a thought, maybe people could learn a bit about how to use a computer and not have to have it do all the driving. Nothing wrong with learning to open an Explorer window, then navigating to a drive to access something on it. What a concept, actually knowing what's on your media. All this "ease of use" and accessibility crap is just making users dumber and dumber.
For kicks I installed Win98 on one of my modern boxes once. The install process was blinding fast. Up and bluescreening in less than 5 minutes. It would only stay stable with no NIC drivers installed. Might have been tempting to keep going otherwise...
LOL. Nice. What you don't realize is that Grammar Nazis are so mediocre in everything else in their lives that they develop a compulsive need to correct other people on the internet as though they are somehow doing important work. It compensates for a deep lack of self-esteem, helping them to feel superior in some (very small) way. Meanwhile, the guy who made the mistake can be given a variety of plausible excuses for the error, none of which are actually known to the Grammar Nazi. They would rather assume that the misspelling is the result of sheer ignorance or laziness. Ever tried typing while somebody is talking to you? Some people are baby-juggling while at the keyboard. Sometimes people are in a hurry to get out the door and just trying to finish a post quickly. How about English being your second or third language? Trust me, they did not mean to ruin your day by raping your precious English. So just give them a break is all I'm saying, and find other ways to compensate for your mediocrity.
Hey, thanks for adding pointless noise to the conversation. I have a question for you: Do you honestly believe that you have made a difference today? Do you honestly believe that the poster is now going to shape up and fly right thanks to your efforts? Really?
Wall-mounted, but in a roll-up arrangement like current projector screens. The advantage there being that you can roll it up and move it from room to room (or offsite to a trade show, etc) as needed. When rolled up, the casing would also provide protection while in transit. For day-to-day use in the same room, you might want to roll it up from time to time to expose something on the wall behind it, such as a whiteboard, or other type of bulletin board.
I don't actually need to know about anyone's sexual orientation. It's simply true that those of us without an agenda to push don't walk around yammering about our proclivities as if it means a good goddamn to ANYONE but ourselves.
It's kind of like they do this: "Hey everyone! Look at me, I'm gay! I'm different from you! What are you gonna do about it? Huh? Here I am in your face with it! What, are you some kind of homophobe? Why can't I be here getting in your face with it? Huh? Look at me! Everyone pay attention to me! How dare you appear uncomfortable with me forcing my way into your face! Hey, pay attention to me dammit!" We really just don't fucking NEED to know who you prefer to fuck, and that's all there is to it. Maybe they'd be less upset all the time with how different people "make" them feel, if they just got on with life and let the rest of us live ours too?
I'm reasonably certain that even newfies know the difference between.com and.ca
Yeah whatchya got dere bai is yer dot com dat's da reg'lar innernet, and ya gotchyer dot C-A dat's yer Canadian innernet. In Newfoundland though we just calls dat a cod trap, dat's da innernet inside da outernet.
What they seem to be concerned about is the fact that they also sell audio rights to their works. They appear to have this crazy notion that a shitty speech synth can compete with a "Books-on-tape" version of their works. If I was one to desire books in audio form, I'd much rather hear Patrick Stewart or James Earl Jones or someone else with a good voice do it, instead of a computer. I really don't see what they are concerned about other than the opportunity to grab some extra money for nothing.
True story: I had a nightmare once when I was around 8 years old, in which I kept spotting people that were poised to kill me. I knew they meant to kill me because they were an L-shaped move away from wherever I was at the time. I knew they'd be able to jump over any obstacle between us and kill me instantly upon landing, so I kept having to run away thereby changing the positional advantage they had. But I would only wind up encountering someone else also that same relative position away from me, and have to run again. Had I not been exposed to chess, I would not have had to contend with this frightful situation. Clearly chess breeds violent thoughts and needs to be stamped out once and for all!
I RTFA, and saw the second pic. It's really not that great of an aesthetically pleasing drawing when compared with Galileo's, however flawed that one may be in feature details.
This story isn't about a polygraph though, it is instead about a program that analyzes a person's voice to pick out stress/hesitation/etc. I bet more people can beat this method than the already-flawed polygraph though, so I bet it will be just as inadmissable.
I have Phillips brand, and they are instant-on, work great. When they are being used the very first time they may start out dim and only half of the bulb may light, but they will work themselves in after a couple minutes and work properly for subsequent power-ons after that. Don't get the ones marked "Daylight" though, the light sucks. It would remind me of daylight only if there were something seriously wrong with the sun.
Except that you've missed the point that "Little One 2" would not resemble the one you already know, personality-wise. Did you know that with a cat clone, the fur colour wouldn't even necessarily be the same? Get a new one and grow some love for that one as well, you'll be emotionally richer for it. With a clone you'd be forcing expectations on an innocent animal that only wants to love you unconditionally, while you're still looking to find "Little One" in them. That's just wrong.
So the power of open source is to deny someone a life outside their parents' basement? We're talking regular users here, being given the "option" of learning to code and then spending all-nighters on said activity that has entirely nothing to do with their actual personally-chosen lifestyle. Yeah that's pretty compelling.
Why would phishing attempts on Twitter spell the death of microblogs? I guess because phishing already killed email. Oh wait, it didn't. Maybe it killed eBay then. Hmmm, nope, still going. Ah, but PayPal is surely in troub-- nope, it's ok too. Has phishing actually killed anything at all yet?
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If it is worth paying for someone will pay for it.
So you're saying give it for free and offer a link of some kind where somebody who feels like being "fair" will go through a set of hoops to pay for something that they were just given for free? While you might find some individuals that will actually do this, they are in the extreme minority.
Hint: Even when it's entirely free, most people don't even want to go through the hassle of signing in/up with a free account to view the content, instead just moving on to another site that doesn't hassle them.
We plan to absorb this drool by carpet-bombing cities with pork rinds.
Your country also spells "thru". Larger values of stupid doesn't make something more correct somehow, just more stupid.
In fact, it rarely is. If their existing OS, which is likely running custom software specific to this equipment, is still doing what it needs to do for them, what need do they have to switch? They certainly don't need to be able to play the latest games or anything superfluous like that. Why risk breaking compatibility on a tried and tested mission-critical system? How many businesses do you know of that switched to Vista the moment it came out? If you do know any, you know they're pretty dumb, don't you?
Unfortunately, a large number of people are not aware that there is a larger world outside of their web browser.
How about common sense?
That's only if there isn't an autorun.inf pointing to an executable. If there is, it runs that instead of showing the "What do you want to do?" dialog. Only having autorun disabled will protect you from that. What would be good is if it was disabled by default, but could be turned on for select "trusted" flash drives. Or, just a thought, maybe people could learn a bit about how to use a computer and not have to have it do all the driving. Nothing wrong with learning to open an Explorer window, then navigating to a drive to access something on it. What a concept, actually knowing what's on your media. All this "ease of use" and accessibility crap is just making users dumber and dumber.
For kicks I installed Win98 on one of my modern boxes once. The install process was blinding fast. Up and bluescreening in less than 5 minutes. It would only stay stable with no NIC drivers installed. Might have been tempting to keep going otherwise...
LOL. Nice. What you don't realize is that Grammar Nazis are so mediocre in everything else in their lives that they develop a compulsive need to correct other people on the internet as though they are somehow doing important work. It compensates for a deep lack of self-esteem, helping them to feel superior in some (very small) way. Meanwhile, the guy who made the mistake can be given a variety of plausible excuses for the error, none of which are actually known to the Grammar Nazi. They would rather assume that the misspelling is the result of sheer ignorance or laziness. Ever tried typing while somebody is talking to you? Some people are baby-juggling while at the keyboard. Sometimes people are in a hurry to get out the door and just trying to finish a post quickly. How about English being your second or third language? Trust me, they did not mean to ruin your day by raping your precious English. So just give them a break is all I'm saying, and find other ways to compensate for your mediocrity.
Hey, thanks for adding pointless noise to the conversation. I have a question for you: Do you honestly believe that you have made a difference today? Do you honestly believe that the poster is now going to shape up and fly right thanks to your efforts? Really?
I am, but I still agree with the above - Serenity is a girlie name for a space ship/module.
Craigslist isn't just a truck you can dump a bunch of hookers on.
Wall-mounted, but in a roll-up arrangement like current projector screens. The advantage there being that you can roll it up and move it from room to room (or offsite to a trade show, etc) as needed. When rolled up, the casing would also provide protection while in transit. For day-to-day use in the same room, you might want to roll it up from time to time to expose something on the wall behind it, such as a whiteboard, or other type of bulletin board.
I don't actually need to know about anyone's sexual orientation. It's simply true that those of us without an agenda to push don't walk around yammering about our proclivities as if it means a good goddamn to ANYONE but ourselves.
It's kind of like they do this: "Hey everyone! Look at me, I'm gay! I'm different from you! What are you gonna do about it? Huh? Here I am in your face with it! What, are you some kind of homophobe? Why can't I be here getting in your face with it? Huh? Look at me! Everyone pay attention to me! How dare you appear uncomfortable with me forcing my way into your face! Hey, pay attention to me dammit!" We really just don't fucking NEED to know who you prefer to fuck, and that's all there is to it. Maybe they'd be less upset all the time with how different people "make" them feel, if they just got on with life and let the rest of us live ours too?
I'm reasonably certain that even newfies know the difference between .com and .ca
Yeah whatchya got dere bai is yer dot com dat's da reg'lar innernet, and ya gotchyer dot C-A dat's yer Canadian innernet. In Newfoundland though we just calls dat a cod trap, dat's da innernet inside da outernet.
What they seem to be concerned about is the fact that they also sell audio rights to their works. They appear to have this crazy notion that a shitty speech synth can compete with a "Books-on-tape" version of their works. If I was one to desire books in audio form, I'd much rather hear Patrick Stewart or James Earl Jones or someone else with a good voice do it, instead of a computer. I really don't see what they are concerned about other than the opportunity to grab some extra money for nothing.
True story: I had a nightmare once when I was around 8 years old, in which I kept spotting people that were poised to kill me. I knew they meant to kill me because they were an L-shaped move away from wherever I was at the time. I knew they'd be able to jump over any obstacle between us and kill me instantly upon landing, so I kept having to run away thereby changing the positional advantage they had. But I would only wind up encountering someone else also that same relative position away from me, and have to run again. Had I not been exposed to chess, I would not have had to contend with this frightful situation. Clearly chess breeds violent thoughts and needs to be stamped out once and for all!
I RTFA, and saw the second pic. It's really not that great of an aesthetically pleasing drawing when compared with Galileo's, however flawed that one may be in feature details.
This story isn't about a polygraph though, it is instead about a program that analyzes a person's voice to pick out stress/hesitation/etc. I bet more people can beat this method than the already-flawed polygraph though, so I bet it will be just as inadmissable.
I have Phillips brand, and they are instant-on, work great. When they are being used the very first time they may start out dim and only half of the bulb may light, but they will work themselves in after a couple minutes and work properly for subsequent power-ons after that. Don't get the ones marked "Daylight" though, the light sucks. It would remind me of daylight only if there were something seriously wrong with the sun.
Except that you've missed the point that "Little One 2" would not resemble the one you already know, personality-wise. Did you know that with a cat clone, the fur colour wouldn't even necessarily be the same? Get a new one and grow some love for that one as well, you'll be emotionally richer for it. With a clone you'd be forcing expectations on an innocent animal that only wants to love you unconditionally, while you're still looking to find "Little One" in them. That's just wrong.
I'm not sure how that's "backwards". Depending on the activity, pot is in fact performance enhancing. I just can't remember how offhand.
So the power of open source is to deny someone a life outside their parents' basement? We're talking regular users here, being given the "option" of learning to code and then spending all-nighters on said activity that has entirely nothing to do with their actual personally-chosen lifestyle. Yeah that's pretty compelling.
Starbucks coffee tastes like burnt ass. "Dark" doesn't need to mean disgusting.
Why would phishing attempts on Twitter spell the death of microblogs? I guess because phishing already killed email. Oh wait, it didn't. Maybe it killed eBay then. Hmmm, nope, still going. Ah, but PayPal is surely in troub-- nope, it's ok too. Has phishing actually killed anything at all yet?