And there are others listed here. [link]
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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DCJensen - Jun 18, 2005 8:10:23 am PDT #3450 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
tommyrot - Jun 19, 2005 7:51:32 am PDT #3451 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's this site that has Windows Media files that I can play just fine on my two year old G3 iBook (900 Mhz, 640 Meg) but my friend Miriam can't play on her brand new G4 iBook (700 something Meg)(The thing just starts and stops, starts and stops). We're both on OS X 10.4, both using Windows Media Player for OS X 9.0.0. We both tried it on the same WiFi network, and we have our WMP preferences set the same way.
Here is one example of one of the problem files: [link]
(In case that link doesn't work, go to [link] and click on '"Sammy The Stem Cell" drops by to talk about the life of a blastocyst.' at the bottom left.)
Miriam says that others are also having problems playing Windows Media files from this site on their Macs, while other Windows Media files play just fine. Also, there's no simple way (that I've found) of saving the file to disk first at this site.
Oh, I'm using Mozilla 1.7 while Miriam has tried the latest Firefox and Safari.
eta: Increasing the buffer size on Miriam's WMP didn't help.
DCJensen - Jun 19, 2005 10:23:37 am PDT #3452 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hmm, I wonder if VLC plays Windows Media files?
ETA: Yes, it does. [link]
Have them download and try VLC player [link] for OSX until they get a solution.
Rio - Jun 19, 2005 7:29:32 pm PDT #3453 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
Does anyone know how to delete an account from Apple Mail? It's totally not intuitive.
DCJensen - Jun 19, 2005 7:55:39 pm PDT #3454 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Does anyone know how to delete an account from Apple Mail? It's totally not intuitive.
Go to www.mac.com and click on "Accounts" on the left hand side.
Log in, if neccessary.
Then click "Mail Preferences" on the right hand side.
Then you should be able to select the account you wish to delete.
Rio - Jun 19, 2005 7:56:18 pm PDT #3455 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
Thanks!
Rio - Jun 19, 2005 7:58:57 pm PDT #3456 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?
Oh wait, no. I'm trying to delete my earthlink account from my Apple mail program. It's not giving me an easy way to do so.
DCJensen - Jun 19, 2005 7:59:52 pm PDT #3457 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
OH! My Bad.
DCJensen - Jun 19, 2005 8:02:20 pm PDT #3458 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Mail menu, Preferences.
Under Account, select the one you wish to delete, and click the little Minus at the bottom of the left hand side under the list.
tommyrot - Jun 19, 2005 8:06:44 pm PDT #3459 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Programming jobs losing luster in U.S.
The research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that up to 15 percent of tech workers will drop out of the profession by 2010, not including those who retire or die. Most will leave because they can't get jobs or can get more money or job satisfaction elsewhere. Within the same period, worldwide demand for technology developers — a job category ranging from programmers people who maintain everything from mainframes to employee laptops — is forecast to shrink by 30 percent.
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The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute found. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that information technology industries laid off more than 7,000 American workers in the first quarter of 2005.
Bah.