It's two weeks til its either in the mail or ready to pick up (pickup only available when you have proof of impending travel) if you deliver your Canadian Passport application in person. And about a 5 minute wait after pre-screening if you filled it out online and printed/signed/guarantored it. I got rejected the first time due to an old/damaged birth certificate, I filled out a form online and had a new birth certificate the next afternoon (very fast, but it cost $65), and had no prescreening at al lthe second go, just give a little slip to the person and get a "head of the line" number.
The guy who wrote the article is IT directory at a very long established (1850) investment house in London. So the part after "but" leads some credence to the possible plausibility of his tale.
When I started out, we had ArcNET (and Netware 2), which was weird - if a card failed either the upstream or downstream station would get bumped off the network. I ended up replacing those machines and that network with coax ethernet (and Netware 386). I even built and pulled the cables myself, had the stripper and crimper and bags of connectors, t's and the odd terminator. For the longest time I had a terminator on my keyring, crucial in finding bad connections.
When the college decided to rewire, someone from IBM came and told us how we wanted Token Ring everywhere (corp IT was all IBM - AS/400), we all laughed (the academic computing folks), knowing Ethernet was the way to go.
Ah, the good old days or repeaters, and looking for loose connections in 30 station labs.
Would you hold the phone company responsible for committing a crime using your phone?
Exactly - good luck going after Bell up here in Canada, 'cause some telemarketer talked you into falling for a free vacation ^H^H^H^H^H^H timeshare scam!
When you can smell Jenna Jameson's perfume as her virtual body climbs over you... that is when the Format War will be over.
No, then it will merely be getting started...when you can also taste the various parts of her virtual body as it climbs over you, and feel the goosebumps that creates on her virtual flesh, we'll be much closer.
Of course, it won't really be done til Gillian Anderson can take her place.
I am pretty much the same, I have uTorrent for Open Office, updates to LOTRO, etc - not for grabbing the pap-du-jour. But I have a bit more music on my HDD, like well over 100gb now. As soon as I get a new CD (usually from psyshop.com) I rip it as wav and if I want it on my iPod convert it to ACC.
Back in the days I had napster, used it to find old 80's stuff (12" mixes") you cannot buy anymore.
Frankly I would rather pay good money for what I consider great independent music than listen to/buy/"pirate" the crap that pop music is today.
Would that be like a giant black light strapped on the bottom of your chopper?
From the article (emphasis added):
Last week a UK man was arrested after he almost caused a police helicopter to crash when he shone a laser into the pilot's eyes. The laser disabled the crew's night-vision lights.
My guess is they mean night-vision goggles, but I expect those would just have some kind of limiter that would quickly kick in to prevent bright light from going through, then once the input was back to "night" levels, resume normal function - much like a limiter works in music production.
I was hooked on Lord of the Rings Online. But being in Beta and seeing the Shire the day it was released was a dream come true. It helps that Turbine made Lord of the Rings Online a game I love playing.
And my wife and I were happy to leave WOW, after friends from EQ1 begged us to come onboard, then to be told we were not "ready" for the raids they held was a bit of a bummer. What aboring grindfest. I am still having fun taking my 4th alt in LOTRO through the level 30 content.
with another member of the IT staff from the college I worked at, back in the early PC days. Think it was the fall of 89. It was a half day thing on a Saturday for PC maintenance. In those days power supply to the motherboard was tricky, my co-host found out the hard way when she hooked one up backwards and it kinda went boom when she powered it up.
That was not quite as spectacular as the time a prof at the college hooked up two PC's via serial cables, one of them being on an AV cart (and plugged into it) - seems the cart was wired wrong, when he fired those up there was an small explosion, a fair bit of smoke and some actual pieces of the serial card from one of the pc's strewn about the case.
Ah, the good old days - I worked on Tandy machines that had fully exposed power supplies, took one apart once (the PC not the power supply!) and wondered what the whirring sound was, thing was still running;)
Oh that I could go back to the day of swapping floppy disks to run stuff.
Michael Polanyi's book "Personal Knowledge - Towards a Post-Critical Philosphy" addresses some of these issues. While he agrees there is are objective truths, he also postulates that "tacit knowledge" leads much of scientific discovery. When I got it in 1988 it was about the most difficult book I had ever read. Actually it still is, maybe I should try reading it again, or re-embark on my quest for "knowledge";)
Um, better check your's again, I think its a bit dim if not burnt out. If you refer to Edison, he was not even close to the first to demonstrate what is now known as the incandescent light bulb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb
Well, 2 out of 5 ain't bad right? Well, the telephone is not a sure thing, so lets make it 1.5.
I noticed on the page listing the filetypes -.wav is missing. Wonder why? Does no one rip CD's to.wav? I do all mine like that (then convert to another format for my ipod).
That's my answer as well - bring it to the project lead - who knows, maybe he wrote it then posted it on a forum. Though that's likely not a wise thing for him to have done, though its not quite as bad as the other option - that the code was taken from this forum and used in the company's program. Where I work, if I discovered something like this - well I would be obligated to bring it to management's attention, or so the document I have to sign every year tells me - honesty and integrity above all else.
[blockquote]Chimps using sign language.[/blockquote]
While that is quite interesting, I am not sure it truly qualifies as use of "high level language". If the continuum of communication went from rolling over to get a doggy treat to writing a sonnet, I would initially place a chimps use of sign language far closer to the former than the latter. On the other hand, a bit of quick reading leads me to think the chimp (at least the one I read about) had gained some form of linguistic understanding far beyond mimicry.
I listen to the chillout channel on di.fm - most of the artists are on small independent labels. But honestly, I would never set out to avoid music from companies who belong to RIAA (or CRIA up here in Canada - though all/most of the Canadian labels have quite that org), no matter how much I despise the tactics they employ. I just happen to like music that comes from small labels, and I wil lbuy and listen to music I like.
For me its sort of like Inbev or Constellation Brands - they own a lot of wine and beer companies, and while I am fairly anti-globalisation (especially where it concerns local craft products like wine and beer), if I like a beer or wine I wil ldrink it regardless of who owns the winery or brewery. Maybe I'll get more particular about this sort of thing one day. But not today.
That's my question too. I got tired of having to reinstall everything when my HDD died, so I went out and grabbed a raid card (Promise 4300) and 2x500GB SATA 3 drives. But what happens if the card itself dies? Can you replace it with something else? My guess is no, though what if its a card from the same manufacter?
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It's two weeks til its either in the mail or ready to pick up (pickup only available when you have proof of impending travel) if you deliver your Canadian Passport application in person. And about a 5 minute wait after pre-screening if you filled it out online and printed/signed/guarantored it. I got rejected the first time due to an old/damaged birth certificate, I filled out a form online and had a new birth certificate the next afternoon (very fast, but it cost $65), and had no prescreening at al lthe second go, just give a little slip to the person and get a "head of the line" number.
The guy who wrote the article is IT directory at a very long established (1850) investment house in London. So the part after "but" leads some credence to the possible plausibility of his tale.
No, it was called SpyGlass Mosiac and they wrote it from scratch after licensing the technology and trademarks from NSCA: http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html
When I started out, we had ArcNET (and Netware 2), which was weird - if a card failed either the upstream or downstream station would get bumped off the network. I ended up replacing those machines and that network with coax ethernet (and Netware 386). I even built and pulled the cables myself, had the stripper and crimper and bags of connectors, t's and the odd terminator. For the longest time I had a terminator on my keyring, crucial in finding bad connections.
When the college decided to rewire, someone from IBM came and told us how we wanted Token Ring everywhere (corp IT was all IBM - AS/400), we all laughed (the academic computing folks), knowing Ethernet was the way to go.
Ah, the good old days or repeaters, and looking for loose connections in 30 station
labs.
Exactly - good luck going after Bell up here in Canada, 'cause some telemarketer talked you into falling for a free vacation ^H^H^H^H^H^H timeshare scam!
LRH left this MEST world and went away for a while. Is he back yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard
Could I bring a couple of highly-overcharged lead acid batteries in my carry-on bags?
I am pretty much the same, I have uTorrent for Open Office, updates to LOTRO, etc - not for grabbing the pap-du-jour. But I have a bit more music on my HDD, like well over 100gb now. As soon as I get a new CD (usually from psyshop.com) I rip it as wav and if I want it on my iPod convert it to ACC.
Back in the days I had napster, used it to find old 80's stuff (12" mixes") you cannot buy anymore.
Frankly I would rather pay good money for what I consider great independent music than listen to/buy/"pirate" the crap that pop music is today.
There's a spot on the DVP - from around Eglinton up to the 401 exit ramps that's the saem, like a weird gravity hole or something.
From the article (emphasis added):
My guess is they mean night-vision goggles, but I expect those would just have some kind of limiter that would quickly kick in to prevent bright light from going through, then once the input was back to "night" levels, resume normal function - much like a limiter works in music production.
I was hooked on Lord of the Rings Online. But being in Beta and seeing the Shire the day it was released was a dream come true. It helps that Turbine made Lord of the Rings Online a game I love playing.
And my wife and I were happy to leave WOW, after friends from EQ1 begged us to come onboard, then to be told we were not "ready" for the raids they held was a bit of a bummer. What aboring grindfest. I am still having fun taking my 4th alt in LOTRO through the level 30 content.
with another member of the IT staff from the college I worked at, back in the early PC days. Think it was the fall of 89. It was a half day thing on a Saturday for PC maintenance. In those days power supply to the motherboard was tricky, my co-host found out the hard way when she hooked one up backwards and it kinda went boom when she powered it up.
;)
That was not quite as spectacular as the time a prof at the college hooked up two PC's via serial cables, one of them being on an AV cart (and plugged into it) - seems the cart was wired wrong, when he fired those up there was an small explosion, a fair bit of smoke and some actual pieces of the serial card from one of the pc's strewn about the case.
Ah, the good old days - I worked on Tandy machines that had fully exposed power supplies, took one apart once (the PC not the power supply!) and wondered what the whirring sound was, thing was still running
Oh that I could go back to the day of swapping floppy disks to run stuff.
A witty use of tinyurl - mod parent up! +1 for non-obvious trolling ;)
Michael Polanyi's book "Personal Knowledge - Towards a Post-Critical Philosphy" addresses some of these issues. While he agrees there is are objective truths, he also postulates that "tacit knowledge" leads much of scientific discovery. When I got it in 1988 it was about the most difficult book I had ever read. Actually it still is, maybe I should try reading it again, or re-embark on my quest for "knowledge" ;)
Bzzzt, wrong! Even though he is dead, his guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse would argue with that.
Wait another dead guy wants a chat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz - says he invented the automobile.Um, better check your's again, I think its a bit dim if not burnt out. If you refer to Edison, he was not even close to the first to demonstrate what is now known as the incandescent light bulb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb
Well, 2 out of 5 ain't bad right? Well, the telephone is not a sure thing, so lets make it 1.5.
I noticed on the page listing the filetypes - .wav is missing. Wonder why? Does no one rip CD's to .wav? I do all mine like that (then convert to another format for my ipod).
That's the "barebones" version, I managed to pump it up to $8019 with only hardware upgrades (processor, RAM and HDD). Now that's a good deal!
Good post...the "if I had Mod points" things hardly touches it though ;)
Our tired silicon overlords are welcome to crash on my couch for a while, 'til they feel a bit less fatigued.
That's my answer as well - bring it to the project lead - who knows, maybe he wrote it then posted it on a forum. Though that's likely not a wise thing for him to have done, though its not quite as bad as the other option - that the code was taken from this forum and used in the company's program. Where I work, if I discovered something like this - well I would be obligated to bring it to management's attention, or so the document I have to sign every year tells me - honesty and integrity above all else.
[blockquote]Chimps using sign language.[/blockquote]
While that is quite interesting, I am not sure it truly qualifies as use of "high level language". If the continuum of communication went from rolling over to get a doggy treat to writing a sonnet, I would initially place a chimps use of sign language far closer to the former than the latter. On the other hand, a bit of quick reading leads me to think the chimp (at least the one I read about) had gained some form of linguistic understanding far beyond mimicry.
Aye, Pricilla: Queen of the Glass Desert
I listen to the chillout channel on di.fm - most of the artists are on small independent labels. But honestly, I would never set out to avoid music from companies who belong to RIAA (or CRIA up here in Canada - though all/most of the Canadian labels have quite that org), no matter how much I despise the tactics they employ. I just happen to like music that comes from small labels, and I wil lbuy and listen to music I like.
For me its sort of like Inbev or Constellation Brands - they own a lot of wine and beer companies, and while I am fairly anti-globalisation (especially where it concerns local craft products like wine and beer), if I like a beer or wine I wil ldrink it regardless of who owns the winery or brewery. Maybe I'll get more particular about this sort of thing one day. But not today.
That's my question too. I got tired of having to reinstall everything when my HDD died, so I went out and grabbed a raid card (Promise 4300) and 2x500GB SATA 3 drives. But what happens if the card itself dies? Can you replace it with something else? My guess is no, though what if its a card from the same manufacter?