I have several recessed lights that were constantly burning out because of trapped heat, about one a week, and at $7 each the cost adds up quickly. I have since replaced them all with led lights. The led lights cost around $20 each. They don't get as hot and I haven't had to replace a bulb since I put them in 6 months ago. They pay for themselves.
What the heck makes this even remotely relevant to IT? The "Messiah" isn't coming to bring us new servers or solve all our browser compatibility issues. He's just another two faced politician who will promise one thing to his base then rush to the center to try to win the votes of people who won't vote for him no matter what he says, and ends up infuriating the people who would have voted for him. Insert whatever name you want. They're all the same. I used to think that people who didn't vote got the government they deserve... crap. But it doesn't really matter who's the president or who's in charge of congress. We still get crap. Everyone hated those damn Republicans who took over the Senate. So we threw them out and elected Democrats. Now their approval rating is 9%. The lowest in history. They're all the same. Throw them all out.
Science is the search for truth. There are many scientists who have come to believe that everything around us didn't just happen by accident. And most people of faith have no problem accepting that evolution exists. Things change over time, just look at fossils. But just because things evolve over time does not explain how they got here in the first place. There's a giant leap between a pile of chemicals becoming a cell that can protect itself from the environment, feed itself, reproduce, move around, and sense things like light and heat. Science can tell us how, but only religion can tell us why.
What I don't understand is why people who claim to be so knowledgeable and open minded never want to hear any other points of view and try to ban competing ideas and mock and ridicule those who don't agree with them. And yet every day we find new evidence that disproves theories that have been held as truths for decades or even centuries. Just because it's written in some text book doesn't make if infallible.
I have given up on PC games. It doesn't matter how new your computer is, any game sitting in a box on the shelf today isn't going to be compatible with it. The game may cost you $20 but you'll have to invest another $200 into your PC before you can run it. Hardware manufacturers should just buy out the software companies and give the games away for free. They make all their money back on the video cards and sound cards and ram you'll need to actually play them.
Isn't that the purpose of outcome based education? Everyone is equally stupid? Nobody should ever be better than anyone else. Competition is bad. It's not how well you do but how good you feel about yourself. Bah!
I see that WINE supports some of the Steam games. That's great! I can't even get Portals to work on my Windows PC. The box says my system is compatable but alas it is not. Their wonderful online help has a list of several hundred things to try if their game does not work on your system. One of them says if the game will not run on your system you should upgrade your system. That's very helpful. So in order to run a $20 program you need to spend several hundred dollars to upgrade your system. The easiest way to make sure their software is compatable with your system is not to buy it.
We had communities before the internet. They were called Bulletin Boards Services (BBS) where people could hang out and exchange ideas. And back when the internet was this mythical thing that only people who lived in ivory towers could experience we had CompuServe followed later by the hideous beast AOL.
Yes our new transistor design has held up well after being bombarded with radiation for the past year. Alas our human crew didn't stand up so well. But our space ship survived! Success!
Remember when diesel fuel was dirt cheap compared to regular gas? Only truckers used diesel. Then cars and light trucks started using diesel, the demand increased, and now diesel is more expensive than gas. Remember when natural gas was cheap? It was mostly just used for heating homes. But then public transit buses started burning clean natural gas, and factories and power plants started using natural gas to produce electricity because it was cheaper and cleaner than using coal or oil. Now people can barely afford to heat their homes in winter. Sure it's cheap to use recycled vegatable oil to power your car, that is until everyone else starts driving around in oil powered cars. Just like farmers can't rely on one crop, in the case of disaster they lose it all, we can't rely on one source of energy. As soon as we put all our eggs in one basket we find the basket has a hole in it.
There is no magic pill to solve our energy problem. The argument that drilling for more oil won't solve our energy problem is specious. If we hadn't already been using our own oil gas would be $10 a gallon. Look at countries in Europe that have to buy all of their oil. The people there would be glad to pay only $4 a gallon. They already pay $8 to $9 a gallon. If we had been using more of our own oil instead of putting a ban on drilling we might be complaining about $2 a gallon. Instead of limiting our choices for fuel while waiting around for that perfect solution that's cheap and clean and mass produced we need to continue to use what's available and what works today. The research for that perfect fuel will continue because the demand will always be there.
Just like the pointless Microsoft bashing that goes on around here, why exactly is this news? It's not even IT related. It's just flame bait for people with a liberal agenda. Think how many productive hours have been wasted already with 1000+ people posting and reading all this drivel.
I love my UAV. Whether I'm climbing the cliffs of the 285 on ramp, or cutting through pedestrian crowds at the mall, I always ride safe and secure in my 3mpg Urban Assault Vehicle. Every morning I pull my rig into the parking lot, take up my usual 6 parking spaces, crushing all econo hybrids in my way, and repel down from the cab to the sidewalk below. And every day on my way home I stop and fill up the 600 gallon tanks, one on each side, and stock up on ammo. I will pick the carcass of your smart car out of my enormous tire treads! All your road belongs to me!
I use BOOKr. It reads pdf. Of course just to be able to read ebooks on a PSP you have to overcome Sony's version of DRM which is the PSP operating system itself which you have to hack and install a custom OS that allows 3rd party (homebrew) applications. So with a PSP you are doubly penalized with DRM. But once you unlock it it's really a great system.
I have a PSP and thanks to all of the rediculous DRM to prevent people from enjoying various media on the device of their choosing I have no choice but to pirate eBooks that I already paid for to remove the DRM so I can read them on the PSP. I found that hacking PDF's is impossible, but eBooks are easy to remove the DRM then convert to PDF so I can read them on my PSP. Because of their rediculous paranoia it actually encourages people to pirate to avoid all of the lame restrictions. Same with iTunes. I looked all over for a song and could only find it on iTunes. So I had to buy it there, then burn it to cd, then rip it back to mp3 so I could play it on my PSP. DRM is stupid. It just encourages people to download it without paying.
Microsoft also uses a similar model. Their popular Windows product starts to deteriorate immediately after installation with all of the bloatware and is unusable within 48 hours.
My friend had a Model 100 and I was so jealous. That thing rocked! But I still have my TRS-80 PC-2 pocket computer. It's so easy to use. It's better than a calculator. You can type out entire formulas then if you make a mistake you can hit the back button and see the whole formula and fix whatever you did wrong. I use it every year come tax time. For such a small display you can address every pixel if you want to draw something or make a simple game and it has a speaker you can play music on. I also have the cassette/printer interface. The printer isn't a dot matrix but pen plotter. That was cool to watch it print reports or draw graphs. The paper goes up and down and the pens go side to side. That memory on it lasts for weeks on 4 AA batteries. Sometimes simple is better.
My GOD what a dog! I have worked for IBM and several companies that use Lotus Notes and there has never been a worse interface or a worse resource hog. You're writing an email and you'd like to attach a document. Is there an attach icon? Nope. Why would you need that? You want to print a document. Is there a print icon? Nope. Please look through the navigation menu to find commands you might use on a daily basis. The ones you never use like replicate or fornicate or whatever the hell the icons are supposed to represent, sure those are all over the place. We used to get chewed out in the office because we didn't respond immediately to those useless To: ALL messages while we were testing in the lab because the software we were testing would fail if Lotus Notes was running because it hogged all the resources, even when it wasn't doing anything. So they came out with Notes Buddy or some other lame tool that would tell you you've got mail so you don't have to run the entire Lotus Notes friggin OS just to be notified. Why does my email software have to be a swiss army knife and also be a scheduler, a spreadsheet, a project planner, a defect tracking system, a document archiver, a hair cream and a floor cleaner? I just want it to do email.
Why is it that people who upload reams of photos to social networks and gigs of videos to public video sites expect that it should all be for free and get all bent out of shape when the owners of the site sell advertising geared specifically for the people who use the site? Why is it they start yelling about privacy and security after just telling half the world all their personal details and displaying all of their embarassing moments on video? People don't create websites to lose money. Every cool idea for a website has behind it the desire to make money. Let's say for example you create a website to attract geeks, we'll call it slashdot;) Now what kind of ads are going to be most effective? Products to improve your sex life? Geeks don't have sex lives. No, you sell things that geeks like. So targeting ads is good for advertisers, it's good for site owners, and it's good for the site visitors, who are most likely to be interested in those kinds of products. No one else is going to see the same ads you see. So there's no need to get embarassed if every site you visit knows you need viagra.
For centuries science has debated on the how of everything and every few years what we have been taught as truth turns out to be false when some new truth is discovered. Evolution is a theory and like all theories it is not a fact until it can be proved. And theories that are proved can just as equally be disproved when new facts are discovered. But for all the thinking and proving there's one question science can never answer, and that is "why"? The universe exists. Why? Life exists. Why? Life changes and evolves. Why? Only God knows why. We are not allowed to ask why in public schools. Things are because they are because the state says they are, because the approved dogma says they are and don't dare question it. If the state says we came from apes then we came from apes. If our rights come from our creator and the state says there is no creator then from where do our rights come? From the goverment of course. And what government gives government can take away. Those of us who believe in the why will protect the freedoms of those who do not. You may mock us all you want.
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I have several recessed lights that were constantly burning out because of trapped heat, about one a week, and at $7 each the cost adds up quickly. I have since replaced them all with led lights. The led lights cost around $20 each. They don't get as hot and I haven't had to replace a bulb since I put them in 6 months ago. They pay for themselves.
I guess if you asked the men how many wives they had they would say "too many" no matter how many they had.
And it cuts through pr0n like butta!
What the heck makes this even remotely relevant to IT? The "Messiah" isn't coming to bring us new servers or solve all our browser compatibility issues. He's just another two faced politician who will promise one thing to his base then rush to the center to try to win the votes of people who won't vote for him no matter what he says, and ends up infuriating the people who would have voted for him. Insert whatever name you want. They're all the same. I used to think that people who didn't vote got the government they deserve... crap. But it doesn't really matter who's the president or who's in charge of congress. We still get crap. Everyone hated those damn Republicans who took over the Senate. So we threw them out and elected Democrats. Now their approval rating is 9%. The lowest in history. They're all the same. Throw them all out.
Science is the search for truth. There are many scientists who have come to believe that everything around us didn't just happen by accident. And most people of faith have no problem accepting that evolution exists. Things change over time, just look at fossils. But just because things evolve over time does not explain how they got here in the first place. There's a giant leap between a pile of chemicals becoming a cell that can protect itself from the environment, feed itself, reproduce, move around, and sense things like light and heat. Science can tell us how, but only religion can tell us why. What I don't understand is why people who claim to be so knowledgeable and open minded never want to hear any other points of view and try to ban competing ideas and mock and ridicule those who don't agree with them. And yet every day we find new evidence that disproves theories that have been held as truths for decades or even centuries. Just because it's written in some text book doesn't make if infallible.
What's this guy talking about, porn? That's what the web was mad for. And what's wrong with the mouse? Who surfs for porn with both hands free? ;)
I have given up on PC games. It doesn't matter how new your computer is, any game sitting in a box on the shelf today isn't going to be compatible with it. The game may cost you $20 but you'll have to invest another $200 into your PC before you can run it. Hardware manufacturers should just buy out the software companies and give the games away for free. They make all their money back on the video cards and sound cards and ram you'll need to actually play them.
Its amazing how much data you can cram on a 12" thick disc.
Isn't that the purpose of outcome based education? Everyone is equally stupid? Nobody should ever be better than anyone else. Competition is bad. It's not how well you do but how good you feel about yourself. Bah!
I see that WINE supports some of the Steam games. That's great! I can't even get Portals to work on my Windows PC. The box says my system is compatable but alas it is not. Their wonderful online help has a list of several hundred things to try if their game does not work on your system. One of them says if the game will not run on your system you should upgrade your system. That's very helpful. So in order to run a $20 program you need to spend several hundred dollars to upgrade your system. The easiest way to make sure their software is compatable with your system is not to buy it.
We had communities before the internet. They were called Bulletin Boards Services (BBS) where people could hang out and exchange ideas. And back when the internet was this mythical thing that only people who lived in ivory towers could experience we had CompuServe followed later by the hideous beast AOL.
Yes our new transistor design has held up well after being bombarded with radiation for the past year. Alas our human crew didn't stand up so well. But our space ship survived! Success!
Remember when diesel fuel was dirt cheap compared to regular gas? Only truckers used diesel. Then cars and light trucks started using diesel, the demand increased, and now diesel is more expensive than gas. Remember when natural gas was cheap? It was mostly just used for heating homes. But then public transit buses started burning clean natural gas, and factories and power plants started using natural gas to produce electricity because it was cheaper and cleaner than using coal or oil. Now people can barely afford to heat their homes in winter. Sure it's cheap to use recycled vegatable oil to power your car, that is until everyone else starts driving around in oil powered cars. Just like farmers can't rely on one crop, in the case of disaster they lose it all, we can't rely on one source of energy. As soon as we put all our eggs in one basket we find the basket has a hole in it. There is no magic pill to solve our energy problem. The argument that drilling for more oil won't solve our energy problem is specious. If we hadn't already been using our own oil gas would be $10 a gallon. Look at countries in Europe that have to buy all of their oil. The people there would be glad to pay only $4 a gallon. They already pay $8 to $9 a gallon. If we had been using more of our own oil instead of putting a ban on drilling we might be complaining about $2 a gallon. Instead of limiting our choices for fuel while waiting around for that perfect solution that's cheap and clean and mass produced we need to continue to use what's available and what works today. The research for that perfect fuel will continue because the demand will always be there.
Just like the pointless Microsoft bashing that goes on around here, why exactly is this news? It's not even IT related. It's just flame bait for people with a liberal agenda. Think how many productive hours have been wasted already with 1000+ people posting and reading all this drivel.
Track them down and kill them.
I love my UAV. Whether I'm climbing the cliffs of the 285 on ramp, or cutting through pedestrian crowds at the mall, I always ride safe and secure in my 3mpg Urban Assault Vehicle. Every morning I pull my rig into the parking lot, take up my usual 6 parking spaces, crushing all econo hybrids in my way, and repel down from the cab to the sidewalk below. And every day on my way home I stop and fill up the 600 gallon tanks, one on each side, and stock up on ammo. I will pick the carcass of your smart car out of my enormous tire treads! All your road belongs to me!
I use BOOKr. It reads pdf. Of course just to be able to read ebooks on a PSP you have to overcome Sony's version of DRM which is the PSP operating system itself which you have to hack and install a custom OS that allows 3rd party (homebrew) applications. So with a PSP you are doubly penalized with DRM. But once you unlock it it's really a great system.
I have a PSP and thanks to all of the rediculous DRM to prevent people from enjoying various media on the device of their choosing I have no choice but to pirate eBooks that I already paid for to remove the DRM so I can read them on the PSP. I found that hacking PDF's is impossible, but eBooks are easy to remove the DRM then convert to PDF so I can read them on my PSP. Because of their rediculous paranoia it actually encourages people to pirate to avoid all of the lame restrictions. Same with iTunes. I looked all over for a song and could only find it on iTunes. So I had to buy it there, then burn it to cd, then rip it back to mp3 so I could play it on my PSP. DRM is stupid. It just encourages people to download it without paying.
Microsoft also uses a similar model. Their popular Windows product starts to deteriorate immediately after installation with all of the bloatware and is unusable within 48 hours.
My friend had a Model 100 and I was so jealous. That thing rocked! But I still have my TRS-80 PC-2 pocket computer. It's so easy to use. It's better than a calculator. You can type out entire formulas then if you make a mistake you can hit the back button and see the whole formula and fix whatever you did wrong. I use it every year come tax time. For such a small display you can address every pixel if you want to draw something or make a simple game and it has a speaker you can play music on. I also have the cassette/printer interface. The printer isn't a dot matrix but pen plotter. That was cool to watch it print reports or draw graphs. The paper goes up and down and the pens go side to side. That memory on it lasts for weeks on 4 AA batteries. Sometimes simple is better.
My GOD what a dog! I have worked for IBM and several companies that use Lotus Notes and there has never been a worse interface or a worse resource hog. You're writing an email and you'd like to attach a document. Is there an attach icon? Nope. Why would you need that? You want to print a document. Is there a print icon? Nope. Please look through the navigation menu to find commands you might use on a daily basis. The ones you never use like replicate or fornicate or whatever the hell the icons are supposed to represent, sure those are all over the place. We used to get chewed out in the office because we didn't respond immediately to those useless To: ALL messages while we were testing in the lab because the software we were testing would fail if Lotus Notes was running because it hogged all the resources, even when it wasn't doing anything. So they came out with Notes Buddy or some other lame tool that would tell you you've got mail so you don't have to run the entire Lotus Notes friggin OS just to be notified. Why does my email software have to be a swiss army knife and also be a scheduler, a spreadsheet, a project planner, a defect tracking system, a document archiver, a hair cream and a floor cleaner? I just want it to do email.
Ahhh, the smell of canned spam.
Why is it that people who upload reams of photos to social networks and gigs of videos to public video sites expect that it should all be for free and get all bent out of shape when the owners of the site sell advertising geared specifically for the people who use the site? Why is it they start yelling about privacy and security after just telling half the world all their personal details and displaying all of their embarassing moments on video? People don't create websites to lose money. Every cool idea for a website has behind it the desire to make money. Let's say for example you create a website to attract geeks, we'll call it slashdot ;) Now what kind of ads are going to be most effective? Products to improve your sex life? Geeks don't have sex lives. No, you sell things that geeks like. So targeting ads is good for advertisers, it's good for site owners, and it's good for the site visitors, who are most likely to be interested in those kinds of products. No one else is going to see the same ads you see. So there's no need to get embarassed if every site you visit knows you need viagra.
For centuries science has debated on the how of everything and every few years what we have been taught as truth turns out to be false when some new truth is discovered. Evolution is a theory and like all theories it is not a fact until it can be proved. And theories that are proved can just as equally be disproved when new facts are discovered. But for all the thinking and proving there's one question science can never answer, and that is "why"? The universe exists. Why? Life exists. Why? Life changes and evolves. Why? Only God knows why. We are not allowed to ask why in public schools. Things are because they are because the state says they are, because the approved dogma says they are and don't dare question it. If the state says we came from apes then we came from apes. If our rights come from our creator and the state says there is no creator then from where do our rights come? From the goverment of course. And what government gives government can take away. Those of us who believe in the why will protect the freedoms of those who do not. You may mock us all you want.