This maul (not an axe) actually looks more prone to glancing off and causing an injury, just look at the head bounce and twist on impact. I've split countless cords of wood a $40 13lb steel maul that is still working just fine after 25 years. This is a gimmick IMHO.
My experience both as a small business owner (corporate gold card) and as a regular joe (amex blue) is the opposite of this. My wife and I have been American Express cardholders for many years and are very satisfied. YMMV
They didn't vote for Romney, they voted republican and Romney was the name next to the (R). Even saying that they "voted" is kind of a stretch, it implies a decision with at least some consideration behind it. People have their favorite brands, and for some people that brand is republican.
Saying that someone who didn't vote your way didn't put any thought into it is modded +5, Insightful? Wow
I don't quite understand how they give up energy savings by using a higher input voltage?
You lose efficiency, thus wasting energy, when you convert the 208v AC into the low DC voltages necessary to run the computer. Instead of each computer having a power supply that converts from high AC to low DC some companies are using large AC to DC power supplies to power whole racks of servers. These servers run on DC.
Yet another example of a government agent stomping on the Constitution. What type of country has this become? One where the government can track, monitor, record, and harass citizens, yet citizens can't even record a public event without being treated as terrorists. Just disgusting.
Now they should sue and we can all pay for it with an ever increasing tax burden.
What is disgusting is all the whining on here from people that safely live in peace because other people, police officers, are keeping the ugly at bay. Don't forget about the tens of thousands of decent men and women in police uniform who were NOT abusing their power while this one bozo was doing so.
My new Nvidia GTX 460 is virtually silent. The 8800 it replaced was like a leaf blower inside my computer. Perhaps the top end cards are really noisy but I am very happy with the performance and (lack of) noise level of the 460.
Had a typical midwesterner conversation this morning in college.
But it was another conversation with another one of those potential Jerry Springer guests or what the rest of America refers to as "midwesterners"...
I was born, raised, and currently live in Missouri. Not only that but I drive, get this, a 4 wheel drive truck and own a rifle. Somehow, in spite of all that, I was able to read and comprehend your entire rambling post. I must truly be a diamond in the rough out here in the vast wasteland of drooling idiots that exists between Los Angeles and New York City.
I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps. From a swedish perspective it seems kind of backwards, I don't really know of any ISPs here that have caps and it really seems like a concept take from the early days of consumer broadband (mid-to-late 90s there were a few swedish ISPs that tried the whole thing with caps but they were pretty much forced into obscurity since most ISPs didn't cap).
I just don't understand why non-americans don't understand the sheer size of my country and the infrastructure limitations that can impose.
Sweden: 450000 square km 9.8 million people United States: 9830000 square km 308 million people
Hummingbirds range in size from very small to not so small. While this aircraft is larger than the average size hummingbird found in nature, there are real hummingbirds that are larger.
2) Being verifiably honest is a competitive advantage.
Maybe in a perfect world it would be. As a former, honest, small business owner I can tell you that the liars and cheaters will make more money. Being honest gained me a very loyal, but small, customer base but the big contracts almost always went to the slick talking snake oil salesmen.
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
The real story is someone broke the law and will be prosecuted for it. That person is not Palin. There was no "official business" being done on Yahoo email, unless you count sending family pictures as official business.
Let me guess, you are one of the people glossing over the hacking of someone's personal email account but freaked out over wiretapping known terrorist's phone calls?
I can blow $150 on lunch when I'm traveling without even needing to get my immediate manager to sign off an approve the reimbursement as long as I don't spend more than $250/day on meals/incidentals/entertainment, but getting reimbursed $29.95 for some shareware app I can't live without requires approval by the vice-president (my boss' boss' boss), who requires our department to submit purchase requests in batches no more than once per quarter.
Does that $150 lunch reside on your company's network?
As a Linux Admin Team Lead I do a lot of technical interviewing of candidates. One of the evaluation tools I use is a short programming exercise. The instructions go something like this:
"In the language of your choice provide a program that meets the following criteria: 1) Accepts ASCII text on standard input 2) Prints the reverse of the text on standard output Note: Reverse can be defined in any way (by word, letter, line, etc), please document which method you are using. If submitting a binary please include source code."
These instructions produce everything from a one line shell script using the "tac" command to elegant programs written in C. It does surprise me how many people can not follow the two criteria.
This simple exercise can tell me a lot about the candidate's suitability for the position. For example, if they refuse to participate or are insulted that I want to "test" them, then I do not want them working for me.
One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!"
But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."
The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"
Fuck it, just program the robot to kill anyone carrying a weapon. Then make millions of them and airdrop them into war-torn areas.
How would you program the robot to detect if that old lady shuffling towards it has a grenade in the folds of her clothes?
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.... and the only problem with that is with DELL, there is no warning when the drives fail. I made the mistake of using a DELL enterprise solution: DELL servers only check for drive failure on boot up.
I don't know which Dell "enterprise solution" you are talking about, but our hundreds of PowerEdge servers here at work happily report any hardware problems through SNMP (which is tied to Dell OpenManage).
I currently have a dead enterprise server with two failed drives.
I would recommend hiring a sysadmin to manage your enterprise server.
100k sounds like a lot, but if you live anywhere where earning 100k is possible, it is not. Not true in St. Louis. It is possible to earn 100K (I'm actually a little under that) and it IS a lot. My wife quit her career to be a stay at home mom and we still have plenty of disposable income.
How many people you know that pay for support for software? People who are responsible for core business applications that incur tens of thousands of dollars in fines every hour they are not running pay for Linux support, at least their companies do.
...and yet they get 455(!) errors. That's not very good. In the Real World(tm) where customers are, functionality beats correctness. I don't like it any more than you do, but that's the way it is.
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This maul (not an axe) actually looks more prone to glancing off and causing an injury, just look at the head bounce and twist on impact. I've split countless cords of wood a $40 13lb steel maul that is still working just fine after 25 years. This is a gimmick IMHO.
My experience both as a small business owner (corporate gold card) and as a regular joe (amex blue) is the opposite of this. My wife and I have been American Express cardholders for many years and are very satisfied. YMMV
They didn't vote for Romney, they voted republican and Romney was the name next to the (R). Even saying that they "voted" is kind of a stretch, it implies a decision with at least some consideration behind it. People have their favorite brands, and for some people that brand is republican.
Saying that someone who didn't vote your way didn't put any thought into it is modded +5, Insightful? Wow
I don't quite understand how they give up energy savings by using a higher input voltage?
You lose efficiency, thus wasting energy, when you convert the 208v AC into the low DC voltages necessary to run the computer. Instead of each computer having a power supply that converts from high AC to low DC some companies are using large AC to DC power supplies to power whole racks of servers. These servers run on DC.
I do wish people would stop using that as some sort of gauge of intelligence - it has very little to do with intelligence, and just modernity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iq#Criticism_and_views
So what spending would you get rid of?
p-o-r-k
Here is a good start: http://www.cagw.org/reports/pig-book/2010/pork-database.html
Yet another example of a government agent stomping on the Constitution. What type of country has this become? One where the government can track, monitor, record, and harass citizens, yet citizens can't even record a public event without being treated as terrorists. Just disgusting.
Now they should sue and we can all pay for it with an ever increasing tax burden.
What is disgusting is all the whining on here from people that safely live in peace because other people, police officers, are keeping the ugly at bay. Don't forget about the tens of thousands of decent men and women in police uniform who were NOT abusing their power while this one bozo was doing so.
My new Nvidia GTX 460 is virtually silent. The 8800 it replaced was like a leaf blower inside my computer. Perhaps the top end cards are really noisy but I am very happy with the performance and (lack of) noise level of the 460.
Had a typical midwesterner conversation this morning in college.
But it was another conversation with another one of those potential Jerry Springer guests or what the rest of America refers to as "midwesterners"...
I was born, raised, and currently live in Missouri. Not only that but I drive, get this, a 4 wheel drive truck and own a rifle. Somehow, in spite of all that, I was able to read and comprehend your entire rambling post. I must truly be a diamond in the rough out here in the vast wasteland of drooling idiots that exists between Los Angeles and New York City.
Sheesh...
I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps. From a swedish perspective it seems kind of backwards, I don't really know of any ISPs here that have caps and it really seems like a concept take from the early days of consumer broadband (mid-to-late 90s there were a few swedish ISPs that tried the whole thing with caps but they were pretty much forced into obscurity since most ISPs didn't cap).
I just don't understand why non-americans don't understand the sheer size of my country and the infrastructure limitations that can impose.
Sweden: 450000 square km 9.8 million people
United States: 9830000 square km 308 million people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
I guess the idea of a grounded Faraday cage around each piece of equipment escapes them?
That's going to make receiving navigation signals rather difficult...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_navigation
Hummingbirds range in size from very small to not so small. While this aircraft is larger than the average size hummingbird found in nature, there are real hummingbirds that are larger.
. ---> o ---> O
hb aircft big hb
2) Being verifiably honest is a competitive advantage.
Maybe in a perfect world it would be. As a former, honest, small business owner I can tell you that the liars and cheaters will make more money. Being honest gained me a very loyal, but small, customer base but the big contracts almost always went to the slick talking snake oil salesmen.
That's already been decided. To take the classic example, if you yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, you are responsible for the consequences.
Given, of course, that the theater is not actually on fire. =)
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
The real story is someone broke the law and will be prosecuted for it. That person is not Palin. There was no "official business" being done on Yahoo email, unless you count sending family pictures as official business.
Let me guess, you are one of the people glossing over the hacking of someone's personal email account but freaked out over wiretapping known terrorist's phone calls?
I can blow $150 on lunch when I'm traveling without even needing to get my immediate manager to sign off an approve the reimbursement as long as I don't spend more than $250/day on meals/incidentals/entertainment, but getting reimbursed $29.95 for some shareware app I can't live without requires approval by the vice-president (my boss' boss' boss), who requires our department to submit purchase requests in batches no more than once per quarter.
Does that $150 lunch reside on your company's network?
As a Linux Admin Team Lead I do a lot of technical interviewing of candidates. One of the evaluation tools I use is a short programming exercise. The instructions go something like this:
"In the language of your choice provide a program that meets the following criteria:
1) Accepts ASCII text on standard input
2) Prints the reverse of the text on standard output
Note: Reverse can be defined in any way (by word, letter, line, etc), please document which method you are using. If submitting a binary please include source code."
These instructions produce everything from a one line shell script using the "tac" command to elegant programs written in C. It does surprise me how many people can not follow the two criteria.
This simple exercise can tell me a lot about the candidate's suitability for the position. For example, if they refuse to participate or are insulted that I want to "test" them, then I do not want them working for me.
This reminds me of a joke:
One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!"
But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."
The scientist said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"
Quite possible, and the McCain camp is still trying to figure out what Linux is, and if it is a threat to national security.
It's a shame to interrupt this little McCain hatefest, but for the record the media at http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/ seems to work just fine on my Linux workstation.
When an armed soldier kills an unarmed civilian, that's just despicable.
It is all too easy to pass judgments like this when you have never been in a combat situation.
No, I haven't either, but I'm not making claims like the above.
Fuck it, just program the robot to kill anyone carrying a weapon. Then make millions of them and airdrop them into war-torn areas.
How would you program the robot to detect if that old lady shuffling towards it has a grenade in the folds of her clothes?
.... and the only problem with that is with DELL, there is no warning when the drives fail. I made the mistake of using a DELL enterprise solution: DELL servers only check for drive failure on boot up.
I don't know which Dell "enterprise solution" you are talking about, but our hundreds of PowerEdge servers here at work happily report any hardware problems through SNMP (which is tied to Dell OpenManage).
I currently have a dead enterprise server with two failed drives.
I would recommend hiring a sysadmin to manage your enterprise server.
...and yet they get 455(!) errors. That's not very good. In the Real World(tm) where customers are, functionality beats correctness. I don't like it any more than you do, but that's the way it is.