That's the thing that bothers me about you hardcore C guys. I have tried time and time again to do a really good 'your mom' joke about C programmers, but for all purposes 'Your mom' probably did code in C!
The only big change I can see for now is whenever anything bad happens with a Microsoft product I can just say 'this damn thing is driving me balmy!' in lieu of Mr. Ballmer taking over.
Invest that $150 for a class in college. In most colleges Microsoft has a subscription/license to give students the operating systems (03' Server, Vista Business, ext...), office (Word,Excel,Powerpoint,Outlook,OneNote,Groove, and ext), development tools (VS 08, SQL Server Standard...), and any other misc software (Visio, ext...) for $7 a license. I know i have the MDSN subscription at my college where i can even download all these products freely on-line or pay 7$ for the CD of each at the bookstore. So take a college class, count it towards getting cheap-o software, and get something to help them get a better job.
The reason radios were put into cars is to cause a bit of distraction. It's kind of the same reason why there are not a lot of really long straight roads. If roads stay long and straight we eventually lose our reaction time as we become less and less concerned with being prepared for deviations in the path. Most roads curve, turn, or keep some angle so that we're forced to be reactive to the change. Radio is another way to help keep our focus to the road on long trips.
The reason everyone becomes disgruntled with cell phones is that they're not located in a centralized place. When you're texting your phone could be in your lap, seat, resting on the steering wheel, or between your legs. There is no fixed location. It requires more mental faculties to determine the exactly location of the buttons are on the phone, whether you've typed the right one, and to be able to navigate the sometimes overly obtuse menu functionality of the phone. Radios tend to be in a fix location on the center of the console. This does not change for the most part. This is figured into the design of the vehicles for max efficiency. To a lesser extent the passenger is in a fixed location as well, and talking to them does not give reason to deviate your typical driving actions.
I was driving home last week and rounded a corner at an intersection with a light. I was turning right slowly and noticed the second car waiting for the light to go on the new lane I was entering a women was applying eye liner. I have never done this before but I was so curious I couldn't help it. I'm still in the middle of turning right so the front of my truck is pointing directly at this car by this point. I hit my horn a few times, and keep my eye on eye-liner women. Next thing I know she's poked herself in the eye with the liner and is visible spooked/blinded. After I am in the lane and going I see her scrunched up face visible verbalizing how thankful she is I made her aware of her lack of attention.
I've seen people doing this _while_ driving before, and this lady, while parked, was unable to even remotely react to the possibly of an accident. If it had been someone paying attention they'd have surely just looked to see what was going on, but this lady was too busy concentrating on her head rest mirror and face to even realize what was going on. I think text messages are just another form of makeup that distracts us from the road, but there are some of us who can pull it off without causing accidents. I am not, I have a touch screen phone, and I admit I'd probably hit a pole/car before I'd ever be able to send one off. That's common sense to me that I shouldn't do it. What we're dealing with as a whole is a complete lack of typical common-sense generations. We have to do the greatest good, and if I means I don't text while drive then I won't.
Have to be very careful throwing bricks through windows in Canada. I figure you'll eventually hit a maple syrup shop and there is nothing worse than a drunk sticky belligerent brick throwing miscreant... it'd probably just make you easier to catch in the end.
If you're going to Canada you'll need to get abreast of the proper Canadian dialect so you're able to voice your frustrations properly. So instead of saying "I'm coming down to your HQ and throwing a cinderblock through your front window!" it would be "I'm going to come down to your HQ eh, and I am going to throw a brick eh, through your window, eh!"
In all seriousness though. I hope this ruling will help in the fight against the plans to start charging for a monthly bandwidth allocation that Time Warner is setting up in response to 'congestion'. If you go over Time Warner's allocation they will begin charging you X dollars per MB over your allotment. I swear I went to high-speed internet (DSL) to get away from pay-as-you-go service. It's like when AOL 2.5 was around where you had to pay per minute, and finally they realized they'd get more business with 20$ a month unlimited minutes. That was the happiest day of my life, or at least it was until we got RoadRunner from Time Warner.
I used to work at a company in the imaging/scanning/OCR market for *cough-large-printer-companies-cough*. The best format to save the images, IMO, is LZW Tiff format. PDF is fine and all for storing images, and provides the compact file size. However, you can do LZW Tiff images, and are able to convert Tiff images into other formats easier than trying the same with PDF. On that same note Tiff still retains all the image layers just the same. I've been out of the loop on processing techniques, but if you want try contacting Jetsoft Development. I believe their website is http://www.jetsoftdev.com/ or www.scanhelp.com to check with available options.
...so we either go out into the big blue room to avoid dying sooner, but risk getting cancer that could kill us too. I for one would rather bath in the cool non-skin roasting rays of my flat panel monitor and just increase my intake of once a day vitamins!
I wonder if his head stone will read "Pussy Farts" (first thing uttered at the live show I saw) followed shortly by the seven censored words he's famous for. Oh to be the fly on the wall at that tombstone shop...
That would never work. First i doubt they'd let you use any computer if you're on trial for a computer related crime, second you're assuming the court even has wifi, and that the judges have the technological comprehension to understand. I think you'd have better luck pulling out a wand, calling yourself harry potter, and flail around saying you can send magic commands through the air to get into computers. I think that'd help on the insanity plea to get out of it. Either that or sue DHCP for insider trading...
Yah, now we can go to psychiatrists to talk about our feelings about our devices. I imagine it goes something like this.... Consumer "My DVR doesn't understand me anymore; whenever I try to talk to it he just ignores me entirely!"
So you're saying that the uninsured can already get treatment in the system then? Since uninsured people are at the emergency clinic just how is adding thousands of more people into the health care pool going to help you get that appointment anytime faster in the future? There is a backup in place, aka emergency clinic, so how is universal health care going to help other than cause unemployment in insurance companies, turnover in the health care industry because of lack of qualified professionals to fill the medical job demand from the influx of new patients.
Man, nothing like opening a can of worms.
Anyway, universal healthcare under any other name is a form of socialized healthcare. Going by what I've watched during the Democratic debates where I listened to both Obama and Hillary banter on and on about universal health care. Each of the candidates were interrupting one another, especially Hillary not letting the issue drop after the moderator tried to shift topics, about how their plans were almost identical. However the 'opt in' for Obama as only to require parents to purchase the health care for children, and then Hillary would give a rebuttal on the issue.
After talking with my aunt, who is a VP of a local hospital, and my cousins wife whose an OR nurse. Each gave their own opinions on the topic of universal healthcare. Besides talking about how the doctors in our area are moving away because of increased insurance premiums each offered their own opinions. In each instance it was generally regarded as a poor choice. So from my opinion, the one I'm entitled to, I just saying there is a fix needed, but it is not what these candidates are advocating.
Liberal is used a lot, true, but I'm not misconstruing the definition. Obama is extremely haphazard on his voting record. Is that a better word? I'm not saying he's a libertarian or something of the sort where live and let live. I'm a little biased towards Rush Limbaugh's opinions so maybe I'm buying into the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Who cares about being diverse? Diversity is nice if you're wanting to expand your cultural understanding. I wish people would stop voting for candidate x because they're black, or candidate y because they're female.
For gods sake universal (socialized) healthcare is a terrible idea. I'm voting republican just because they're not advocating this system. I want to be able to see a doctor, emergency room, or specialist anytime I want. I don't want to have to take a number, and sit behind a hundred different people who may or may not have insurance to get treated. The reason universal healthcare works is because people are most likely going to die before they get treated. That's the main platform for both these democratic candiates!
Pick the candidate who is most qualified, or otherwise this is a merely a popularity contest. Obama does not represent all black people, and in the same way Hilary does not represent all women. On the news people were asked why they voted the way they did. Women, feminists, went out to vote for Hillary, and admitted it on TV.
Have you seen Obama's voting record? The man is so far out to the left he's actually the most liberal voter on the Hill. That is saying something, and by god we're putting the man into position to lead us all! I wish I'd joined the bandwagon to switch to Democrat to cast my vote for Hillary when I had the chance, lord knows every other Republican I know did just that. It's not racism, he's not all black people, he's just a guy whose voting record is more erratic than SUV driver with a tire blowing out.
I have to agree. I wonder if I could make the case that my seven year old Toshiba laptop shows precedence in that I've used it so much my hand print is literally worn into the plastic shell. Do you think I could claim IP rights?
Just give me a computer, TV, radio, shipping address for Amazon purchases, and a privacy curtain and I'm in! It'll be just like it is now, except instead of a chair I have a bed. I wonder if work would let me tele-commute....
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'Your mom', when pregnant with you, was probably so tired with the inefficiencies of other methods that she decided to do her own C-section...
That's the thing that bothers me about you hardcore C guys. I have tried time and time again to do a really good 'your mom' joke about C programmers, but for all purposes 'Your mom' probably did code in C!
The only big change I can see for now is whenever anything bad happens with a Microsoft product I can just say 'this damn thing is driving me balmy!' in lieu of Mr. Ballmer taking over.
I just read an article about the irrigation controller on /. being found after being stolen. Just do what they did, or give them a call. :)
http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/07/04/1228208.shtml
Better solution for you.
Invest that $150 for a class in college. In most colleges Microsoft has a subscription/license to give students the operating systems (03' Server, Vista Business, ext...), office (Word,Excel,Powerpoint,Outlook,OneNote,Groove, and ext), development tools (VS 08, SQL Server Standard...), and any other misc software (Visio, ext...) for $7 a license. I know i have the MDSN subscription at my college where i can even download all these products freely on-line or pay 7$ for the CD of each at the bookstore. So take a college class, count it towards getting cheap-o software, and get something to help them get a better job.
Maybe Initech is hiring for that position?
The reason radios were put into cars is to cause a bit of distraction. It's kind of the same reason why there are not a lot of really long straight roads. If roads stay long and straight we eventually lose our reaction time as we become less and less concerned with being prepared for deviations in the path. Most roads curve, turn, or keep some angle so that we're forced to be reactive to the change. Radio is another way to help keep our focus to the road on long trips. The reason everyone becomes disgruntled with cell phones is that they're not located in a centralized place. When you're texting your phone could be in your lap, seat, resting on the steering wheel, or between your legs. There is no fixed location. It requires more mental faculties to determine the exactly location of the buttons are on the phone, whether you've typed the right one, and to be able to navigate the sometimes overly obtuse menu functionality of the phone. Radios tend to be in a fix location on the center of the console. This does not change for the most part. This is figured into the design of the vehicles for max efficiency. To a lesser extent the passenger is in a fixed location as well, and talking to them does not give reason to deviate your typical driving actions.
I was driving home last week and rounded a corner at an intersection with a light. I was turning right slowly and noticed the second car waiting for the light to go on the new lane I was entering a women was applying eye liner. I have never done this before but I was so curious I couldn't help it. I'm still in the middle of turning right so the front of my truck is pointing directly at this car by this point. I hit my horn a few times, and keep my eye on eye-liner women. Next thing I know she's poked herself in the eye with the liner and is visible spooked/blinded. After I am in the lane and going I see her scrunched up face visible verbalizing how thankful she is I made her aware of her lack of attention.
I've seen people doing this _while_ driving before, and this lady, while parked, was unable to even remotely react to the possibly of an accident. If it had been someone paying attention they'd have surely just looked to see what was going on, but this lady was too busy concentrating on her head rest mirror and face to even realize what was going on. I think text messages are just another form of makeup that distracts us from the road, but there are some of us who can pull it off without causing accidents. I am not, I have a touch screen phone, and I admit I'd probably hit a pole/car before I'd ever be able to send one off. That's common sense to me that I shouldn't do it. What we're dealing with as a whole is a complete lack of typical common-sense generations. We have to do the greatest good, and if I means I don't text while drive then I won't.
Have to be very careful throwing bricks through windows in Canada. I figure you'll eventually hit a maple syrup shop and there is nothing worse than a drunk sticky belligerent brick throwing miscreant... it'd probably just make you easier to catch in the end.
If you're going to Canada you'll need to get abreast of the proper Canadian dialect so you're able to voice your frustrations properly. So instead of saying "I'm coming down to your HQ and throwing a cinderblock through your front window!" it would be "I'm going to come down to your HQ eh, and I am going to throw a brick eh, through your window, eh!"
In all seriousness though. I hope this ruling will help in the fight against the plans to start charging for a monthly bandwidth allocation that Time Warner is setting up in response to 'congestion'. If you go over Time Warner's allocation they will begin charging you X dollars per MB over your allotment. I swear I went to high-speed internet (DSL) to get away from pay-as-you-go service. It's like when AOL 2.5 was around where you had to pay per minute, and finally they realized they'd get more business with 20$ a month unlimited minutes. That was the happiest day of my life, or at least it was until we got RoadRunner from Time Warner.
I used to work at a company in the imaging/scanning/OCR market for *cough-large-printer-companies-cough*. The best format to save the images, IMO, is LZW Tiff format. PDF is fine and all for storing images, and provides the compact file size. However, you can do LZW Tiff images, and are able to convert Tiff images into other formats easier than trying the same with PDF. On that same note Tiff still retains all the image layers just the same. I've been out of the loop on processing techniques, but if you want try contacting Jetsoft Development. I believe their website is http://www.jetsoftdev.com/ or www.scanhelp.com to check with available options.
No kidding. Ever since the US found out the answer is 42 we totally let our guard down...
...so we either go out into the big blue room to avoid dying sooner, but risk getting cancer that could kill us too. I for one would rather bath in the cool non-skin roasting rays of my flat panel monitor and just increase my intake of once a day vitamins!
I wonder if his head stone will read "Pussy Farts" (first thing uttered at the live show I saw) followed shortly by the seven censored words he's famous for. Oh to be the fly on the wall at that tombstone shop...
That would never work. First i doubt they'd let you use any computer if you're on trial for a computer related crime, second you're assuming the court even has wifi, and that the judges have the technological comprehension to understand. I think you'd have better luck pulling out a wand, calling yourself harry potter, and flail around saying you can send magic commands through the air to get into computers. I think that'd help on the insanity plea to get out of it. Either that or sue DHCP for insider trading...
A wire by any other name would work just as sweet.
Clearly nobody has been watching the Cincinnati Reds....
What are you talking about? I fork all the time...
Yah, now we can go to psychiatrists to talk about our feelings about our devices. I imagine it goes something like this.... Consumer "My DVR doesn't understand me anymore; whenever I try to talk to it he just ignores me entirely!"
So you're saying that the uninsured can already get treatment in the system then? Since uninsured people are at the emergency clinic just how is adding thousands of more people into the health care pool going to help you get that appointment anytime faster in the future? There is a backup in place, aka emergency clinic, so how is universal health care going to help other than cause unemployment in insurance companies, turnover in the health care industry because of lack of qualified professionals to fill the medical job demand from the influx of new patients.
Man, nothing like opening a can of worms. Anyway, universal healthcare under any other name is a form of socialized healthcare. Going by what I've watched during the Democratic debates where I listened to both Obama and Hillary banter on and on about universal health care. Each of the candidates were interrupting one another, especially Hillary not letting the issue drop after the moderator tried to shift topics, about how their plans were almost identical. However the 'opt in' for Obama as only to require parents to purchase the health care for children, and then Hillary would give a rebuttal on the issue. After talking with my aunt, who is a VP of a local hospital, and my cousins wife whose an OR nurse. Each gave their own opinions on the topic of universal healthcare. Besides talking about how the doctors in our area are moving away because of increased insurance premiums each offered their own opinions. In each instance it was generally regarded as a poor choice. So from my opinion, the one I'm entitled to, I just saying there is a fix needed, but it is not what these candidates are advocating. Liberal is used a lot, true, but I'm not misconstruing the definition. Obama is extremely haphazard on his voting record. Is that a better word? I'm not saying he's a libertarian or something of the sort where live and let live. I'm a little biased towards Rush Limbaugh's opinions so maybe I'm buying into the vast right-wing conspiracy.
Who cares about being diverse? Diversity is nice if you're wanting to expand your cultural understanding. I wish people would stop voting for candidate x because they're black, or candidate y because they're female.
For gods sake universal (socialized) healthcare is a terrible idea. I'm voting republican just because they're not advocating this system. I want to be able to see a doctor, emergency room, or specialist anytime I want. I don't want to have to take a number, and sit behind a hundred different people who may or may not have insurance to get treated. The reason universal healthcare works is because people are most likely going to die before they get treated. That's the main platform for both these democratic candiates!
Pick the candidate who is most qualified, or otherwise this is a merely a popularity contest. Obama does not represent all black people, and in the same way Hilary does not represent all women. On the news people were asked why they voted the way they did. Women, feminists, went out to vote for Hillary, and admitted it on TV.
Have you seen Obama's voting record? The man is so far out to the left he's actually the most liberal voter on the Hill. That is saying something, and by god we're putting the man into position to lead us all! I wish I'd joined the bandwagon to switch to Democrat to cast my vote for Hillary when I had the chance, lord knows every other Republican I know did just that. It's not racism, he's not all black people, he's just a guy whose voting record is more erratic than SUV driver with a tire blowing out.
.... I totally assume Bell Canada would give up throttling if they went to this system, and I also assume there will be lube.
I have to agree. I wonder if I could make the case that my seven year old Toshiba laptop shows precedence in that I've used it so much my hand print is literally worn into the plastic shell. Do you think I could claim IP rights?
Just give me a computer, TV, radio, shipping address for Amazon purchases, and a privacy curtain and I'm in! It'll be just like it is now, except instead of a chair I have a bed. I wonder if work would let me tele-commute....