Anyone feel like looking up Diebold and checking donations it makes against watchlists for money laundering? If you do, check it for orgs that have had assets frozen or are known to support militants..
Anyone ever consider that the reason for the delay may be that VMware is presently in panic mode due to the effect of the bug at the corp offices?
Never know..
You ever seen an intersection blue screen?:) (True story.) Bell at Main in downtown Houston, the light rail line installed new signal controllers at all the intersections...said controllers run a headless, hardened version of Windows NT4. One day the lights at the intersection were flashing and a metro tech came out, he plugs in this laptop to a network jack in the box and VNCs to the console. Low and behold, it's a windows NT4 workstation and its bluescreened. A quick reboot later and the lights were working... Scary thought that the traffic lights in a major metropolitan area are controlled by such arcane software.
I agree. Verizon is a nice company with a reasonable network, but thier hardware reliability sucks. I have 2 Cingular Blackberry 8700Cs that look like they've been through a warzone. They still work. I went through 7 8703E's and 2 8830s.
For one low low price I can sell you magic water that transform you into too too tasty peking duck. Yaznuichan Water, only 1.99 per oz. (sorry, channeling Jusenkeyo Guide...) But it all boils down to price. The american cell carriers know that airborne planes can make calls, but they can't exactly bill for them using the trumped up billing systems they have. You're closer to the Sats than the towers...the FAA is being lobbied not to allow cells in planes, so the ruling stands, no cells in planes. It's all profit related.
My money is on the guy with the 6 digit userID in the fact fight here...I'm into scanners and radio, he's right. *hands +5 Baseball bat of troll busting to Clueless Moron*
I could just see that... "Ladies and gentlemen, our new cell phone talking section is now open. Please step through the small doorway over the right wing. The section is at the end of the wing and 50,000 feet straight down. Please note that we are required to remind you that the floor here will kill you and the waiver you signed on boarding allows us to sell your belongings for a profit. Have a nice day and thank you for flying Delta Airlines." *makes note to fly solely El Al*
I've got a bunch of managers that will be right there with you. I've heard XP laptops fly farther than fully loaded vista ones.:) ooh...new idea for an event...Hard drive skeet shooting. Or better yet, Emachine skeet shooting!
For those interested, if the nerdlympics actually takes off, I'm recruiting a bunch of pissed off Windows admins to go after the creator of the Nimda virus and declaring it an anything goes match. Think Thunderdome with a mob of geeks with various implements of pain, destruction, firepower and the mandate to mangle or at least maim severely....
The other party in that instance referenced above: "Hello HArold?! I can't hear you, stop screaming, and roll up the car window, I can't hear you over the wind!"
I for one support the Klingonizing of the American Airline system. This gives a WHOLE new slant to "upgrading to first class":) Over the intercom is heard: "Next up in the central bar is the passenger from Coach 22A vs the Affluent media playboy in first class cabin 7 in a fight to the bitter end!" "Remember, in the ThunderBar, Two go in, one gets UPGRADED!"
So..I'm thinking of sponsoring some citizen sponsored legislation...and I have a foolproof method of getting it passed.. call it "the Civil Rights Act of 2008"...1200+ pages of no changes...and a few major changes interspersed throughout the bill..since no one really reads it. These changes being: Repeal the DMCA, Classify the RIAA/MPAA as extortionists and sponsor asset seizure of thier assets...and a few other juicy tidbits. Any sponsors?
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I'll agree with you there, Nasa's glory days are yet to come. We've (america) managed to do several things...I checked out a book once that listed spacecraft that the US and USSR put into orbit/probes sent/etc. The US presently has 2 rovers working, one crashed and x in development. Russia built 18 and when the space program was shuttered, 1 landed successfully but died on startup, like 3 suffered malfunctions on the deorbit and 14 either impacted or totally missed the moon. Now...get this..people complain when a $200M spacecraft is programmed in metric and gets lost on deorbit...At least we're not the russians in that regard.
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With the present administration diverting funds to security theatre, finishing old vendettas, and the like, I doubt anyone has pulled themselves away from the shockumentaries on the various media nets to notice a few things.. We wouldnt have modern telecommunications if it werent for NASA, the sheeple would have to rely on local fauxmerican idol to get the reality experience...voting by..oh wait..we wouldn't have modern cellular communications would we? It would be digita..wait..no digital revolution either..it would be analog party lines... the votes would be tallied by hand and counted manually...
You kids need to get your heads on straight and wake up! Kids are coming out of school these days with no idea how to spell, read or write in proper English. (n gud grammr for those of you who are fresh out of high school) You REALLY expect these kids who come out of these "schools" to CARE about the space program? I'd be surprised if any of these kids could tell me where "space" is on a map (or for those of you that didnt get the joke, that it's not) Most of these kids can't even tell you where Austin, TX is or that Mount Rushmore has 4 presidents carved onto it. A large percentage of students can't even find IRAQ on a GLOBE, and can't even tell us the name of the president in office! Those who are too ignorant to realize the need for the space program as children will grow up, serve congress and cut the budget for it. Welcome to back to the dark ages, America is the last remaining superpower for a very limited time. BTW, if anyone needs me, I'll be raising funds to buy an old titan missile launcher in Montana and beginning the research phase for a new field of space travel called Warp Theory. I expect to be ready to meet a race of intelligent, yet homicidal cybernetic humanoids in 2374. Any takers?
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Icebrain, you have a point....I've been telling people for years that we need a more fully funded space program. In the event of an E.L.E., we're screwed at present. Like Billy Bob Thornton said in Armageddon: "Yes sir, I understand Mr. President, but with our present budget we can only watch 3% of the night sky, and with all due respect sir, it's a damn big sky.":)
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Anyone feel like looking up Diebold and checking donations it makes against watchlists for money laundering? If you do, check it for orgs that have had assets frozen or are known to support militants..
Now...all we need is to GPS tag the spam kings...Think about it...Survivor Spam!
Panic: Variable 'Spoon' in undefined state 'bent'... Panic: Variable 'Spoon' is nonexistant. set $Spoon$ = 0 echo $Spoon$ There is no spoon.
Anyone ever consider that the reason for the delay may be that VMware is presently in panic mode due to the effect of the bug at the corp offices? Never know..
You ever seen an intersection blue screen? :) (True story.) Bell at Main in downtown Houston, the light rail line installed new signal controllers at all the intersections...said controllers run a headless, hardened version of Windows NT4. One day the lights at the intersection were flashing and a metro tech came out, he plugs in this laptop to a network jack in the box and VNCs to the console. Low and behold, it's a windows NT4 workstation and its bluescreened. A quick reboot later and the lights were working... Scary thought that the traffic lights in a major metropolitan area are controlled by such arcane software.
I agree. Verizon is a nice company with a reasonable network, but thier hardware reliability sucks. I have 2 Cingular Blackberry 8700Cs that look like they've been through a warzone. They still work. I went through 7 8703E's and 2 8830s.
For one low low price I can sell you magic water that transform you into too too tasty peking duck. Yaznuichan Water, only 1.99 per oz. (sorry, channeling Jusenkeyo Guide...) But it all boils down to price. The american cell carriers know that airborne planes can make calls, but they can't exactly bill for them using the trumped up billing systems they have. You're closer to the Sats than the towers...the FAA is being lobbied not to allow cells in planes, so the ruling stands, no cells in planes. It's all profit related.
My money is on the guy with the 6 digit userID in the fact fight here...I'm into scanners and radio, he's right. *hands +5 Baseball bat of troll busting to Clueless Moron*
I could just see that... "Ladies and gentlemen, our new cell phone talking section is now open. Please step through the small doorway over the right wing. The section is at the end of the wing and 50,000 feet straight down. Please note that we are required to remind you that the floor here will kill you and the waiver you signed on boarding allows us to sell your belongings for a profit. Have a nice day and thank you for flying Delta Airlines." *makes note to fly solely El Al*
Sue me under the D.M.C.A. heehee... I AM RICH SLASHDOTTER
I'm in for this research project.
The Enrichment Center is required to remind you that your vote will be changed...and then there will be cake.
Okay...I'm going to say it...Why isn't Bush running for a 3rd term...Why start following the constitution now?
I've got a bunch of managers that will be right there with you. I've heard XP laptops fly farther than fully loaded vista ones. :) ooh...new idea for an event...Hard drive skeet shooting. Or better yet, Emachine skeet shooting!
How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War? :)
SQLGuru: I'd like to incite a war. Star Trek rules, Lucas can't direct. Borg vs Empire...I rest my case. :)
For those interested, if the nerdlympics actually takes off, I'm recruiting a bunch of pissed off Windows admins to go after the creator of the Nimda virus and declaring it an anything goes match. Think Thunderdome with a mob of geeks with various implements of pain, destruction, firepower and the mandate to mangle or at least maim severely....
The other party in that instance referenced above: "Hello HArold?! I can't hear you, stop screaming, and roll up the car window, I can't hear you over the wind!"
Up next on Survivor:Airliner....
I for one support the Klingonizing of the American Airline system. This gives a WHOLE new slant to "upgrading to first class" :) Over the intercom is heard: "Next up in the central bar is the passenger from Coach 22A vs the Affluent media playboy in first class cabin 7 in a fight to the bitter end!" "Remember, in the ThunderBar, Two go in, one gets UPGRADED!"
Coming from a group of IT geeks...how about this? It's radical, it's a bit of payback....How about we outsource congress? :)
So..I'm thinking of sponsoring some citizen sponsored legislation...and I have a foolproof method of getting it passed.. call it "the Civil Rights Act of 2008"...1200+ pages of no changes...and a few major changes interspersed throughout the bill..since no one really reads it. These changes being: Repeal the DMCA, Classify the RIAA/MPAA as extortionists and sponsor asset seizure of thier assets...and a few other juicy tidbits. Any sponsors?
I'll agree with you there, Nasa's glory days are yet to come. We've (america) managed to do several things...I checked out a book once that listed spacecraft that the US and USSR put into orbit/probes sent/etc. The US presently has 2 rovers working, one crashed and x in development. Russia built 18 and when the space program was shuttered, 1 landed successfully but died on startup, like 3 suffered malfunctions on the deorbit and 14 either impacted or totally missed the moon. Now...get this..people complain when a $200M spacecraft is programmed in metric and gets lost on deorbit...At least we're not the russians in that regard.
With the present administration diverting funds to security theatre, finishing old vendettas, and the like, I doubt anyone has pulled themselves away from the shockumentaries on the various media nets to notice a few things.. We wouldnt have modern telecommunications if it werent for NASA, the sheeple would have to rely on local fauxmerican idol to get the reality experience...voting by..oh wait..we wouldn't have modern cellular communications would we? It would be digita..wait..no digital revolution either..it would be analog party lines... the votes would be tallied by hand and counted manually... You kids need to get your heads on straight and wake up! Kids are coming out of school these days with no idea how to spell, read or write in proper English. (n gud grammr for those of you who are fresh out of high school) You REALLY expect these kids who come out of these "schools" to CARE about the space program? I'd be surprised if any of these kids could tell me where "space" is on a map (or for those of you that didnt get the joke, that it's not) Most of these kids can't even tell you where Austin, TX is or that Mount Rushmore has 4 presidents carved onto it. A large percentage of students can't even find IRAQ on a GLOBE, and can't even tell us the name of the president in office! Those who are too ignorant to realize the need for the space program as children will grow up, serve congress and cut the budget for it. Welcome to back to the dark ages, America is the last remaining superpower for a very limited time. BTW, if anyone needs me, I'll be raising funds to buy an old titan missile launcher in Montana and beginning the research phase for a new field of space travel called Warp Theory. I expect to be ready to meet a race of intelligent, yet homicidal cybernetic humanoids in 2374. Any takers?
Icebrain, you have a point....I've been telling people for years that we need a more fully funded space program. In the event of an E.L.E., we're screwed at present. Like Billy Bob Thornton said in Armageddon: "Yes sir, I understand Mr. President, but with our present budget we can only watch 3% of the night sky, and with all due respect sir, it's a damn big sky." :)