Saturday, October 03, 2009
"JA JA"
¶ 10:41 PM I'm not nearly as upset about my bad experience with the question/answer site as I once was. The guy I reported to the site as a jerk (in so many words) refuted my complaint. I didn't think I could rationally respond yesterday and apparently I only get 12 or 24 or whatever hours to do so. So ya, whatever. I'm a little unhappy with the site anyway so I am starting to look for alternatives that do something similar.
Probably not many people know this but google actually has this related: feature that allows you to find sites similar to one specifically. Like related:download.com or whatever would give you other download sites. It's very handy. Actually there's a number of these parameters you can put in to narrow searches like that. My favorite is probably site: for searching everything on JUST one particular domain. On a whim once I also tried a search with date:2009 well some other date but you can the idea. I didn't even know it would work but it did. I was very impressed.
Anyway I'm now scrolling through alternatives to that paid answer site I'm signed up with and I think I found a good one. Right now I'm buffering a video on how the "become an expert" part of the site works.
I'm also letting the buffer fill on a now show: Stargate Universe. I figured I should let it go a while since it's 90 minutes. Course it is 11:00 maybe I shouldn't watch it now. Meh, whatever.
The site I'm currently looking at is LiverPerson. I've never heard of it but by the looks of it I think it is much better than my current site (which I won't mention since I critisized them so bad in the last post). I like the layout, there's lots of categories and sub-categories and there's lots of options for communicating with users (my current one was but one). On what I'd call a downside outside of a few short videos it's very light on details. I mean as a potential expert for them I want LOTS of information, not just a little. I am after all going to be giving them a lot of my personal information if I sign up. Be nice to know they're part of the better business bureou and/or not working through a nigerian prince. I'll probably sign up anyway eventually.
I also found Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" with the slogan "Artificial Artificial Intellegence". I'm not really sure how that all works. But you know, sure. I think I'll sign up for that as well.
I think I am either done or basically done with my sister's father in law's PC now. I had to hookup my own DVD drive to install the OS. Apparently his is broken. What I'll probably do is just give him my DVD drive and use that as a convenient excuse to go an buy a new optical drive for $30 or $40 some place. Since I keep both my IDE drives in USB enclosures these days I might actually buy an actual slimline USB DVD burner instead. That will be closer to $60 instead of only $40. And I don't know if the speed is comparable. And if I ever work on a PC again that doesn't support USB optical drive booting that I'm kind of screwed. Other than that it's a good idea to buy the actual USB simline drive. Also I'd save space slightly. I wonder if there's a USB-to-IDE coverter...no that probably wouldn't work...Or would it? No probalby not.
Ok now it's 11:40 instead of 11:00. Not sure I really want to spend another 90 minutes. I'll see hopw long I last. I guess that's it for now.
Probably not many people know this but google actually has this related: feature that allows you to find sites similar to one specifically. Like related:download.com or whatever would give you other download sites. It's very handy. Actually there's a number of these parameters you can put in to narrow searches like that. My favorite is probably site: for searching everything on JUST one particular domain. On a whim once I also tried a search with date:2009 well some other date but you can the idea. I didn't even know it would work but it did. I was very impressed.
Anyway I'm now scrolling through alternatives to that paid answer site I'm signed up with and I think I found a good one. Right now I'm buffering a video on how the "become an expert" part of the site works.
I'm also letting the buffer fill on a now show: Stargate Universe. I figured I should let it go a while since it's 90 minutes. Course it is 11:00 maybe I shouldn't watch it now. Meh, whatever.
The site I'm currently looking at is LiverPerson. I've never heard of it but by the looks of it I think it is much better than my current site (which I won't mention since I critisized them so bad in the last post). I like the layout, there's lots of categories and sub-categories and there's lots of options for communicating with users (my current one was but one). On what I'd call a downside outside of a few short videos it's very light on details. I mean as a potential expert for them I want LOTS of information, not just a little. I am after all going to be giving them a lot of my personal information if I sign up. Be nice to know they're part of the better business bureou and/or not working through a nigerian prince. I'll probably sign up anyway eventually.
I also found Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" with the slogan "Artificial Artificial Intellegence". I'm not really sure how that all works. But you know, sure. I think I'll sign up for that as well.
I think I am either done or basically done with my sister's father in law's PC now. I had to hookup my own DVD drive to install the OS. Apparently his is broken. What I'll probably do is just give him my DVD drive and use that as a convenient excuse to go an buy a new optical drive for $30 or $40 some place. Since I keep both my IDE drives in USB enclosures these days I might actually buy an actual slimline USB DVD burner instead. That will be closer to $60 instead of only $40. And I don't know if the speed is comparable. And if I ever work on a PC again that doesn't support USB optical drive booting that I'm kind of screwed. Other than that it's a good idea to buy the actual USB simline drive. Also I'd save space slightly. I wonder if there's a USB-to-IDE coverter...no that probably wouldn't work...Or would it? No probalby not.
Ok now it's 11:40 instead of 11:00. Not sure I really want to spend another 90 minutes. I'll see hopw long I last. I guess that's it for now.
