I just returned to the US from the US Virgin Islands. At St. Thomas, I went through Customs for the first time in my life returning home. I had my Drivers License and nothing else.
I'm a normal white dude, who travels routinely for business so I know the ropes for national travel.
The Customs agent grills me like I'm a criminal because I'm traveling with only my Mich License. Then starts asking me all sorts of questions. Some of which caught me off guard. "What kind of Citzen are you?", ummm, a Normal one? "WRONG ANSWER" he says. Numerous times he told me my answers were wrong!
What really got my goat was that this guy, who spoke horrible english with a heavy accent I could barely understand, was giving my tax paying ass the third degree. I'm rather glad I only had my camera and cell phone and clothes.
And maybe I'm a moron for this, but I wasn't even prepared to go through customs! They let me out of the country without a hitch, hell, I was in a US Territory!!
So rather than putting your child in front of a mind numbing spirit crusing television set, or computer monitor. How about you do a little reading and teach her yourself?
Back in the old day, my dad taught me all the things about electronics and science the real way. Talk, drawings on paper, and home electronics and science kits which we worked on together.
You're right.
That is why ram as you know it loses its memory without power. All those tiny capacitors need to be refreshed or they drain and lose state.
Well... PROM isn't Erasable.
EPROM isn't erasable except with ultraviolet light.
EEPROM is slower than a ball rolling up hill.
And FLASH is only marginally faster when compared to modern DRAM.
So, I'd say it offers many distinct advanatages.
You can pretty much do this on your own. Look up Slipstream.
You can roll all the XP SP3 updates + XP itself onto a disk and let it all install at once on its own. Since you own a legit copy, you're completely fine doing this.
The real problem is that most people are stupid. And in an industry where you're somewhat expected to be smart, I really have a hard time believing there are as many morons trying to make a living doing it.
How do people go home at night and sleep knowing they are completely clueless about their job? Or is the better question: Do they even REALIZE they are clueless?
Most importantly, am I REALLY as smart as I think I am.
Probably.
The real problem with trying to quanitify these numbers at all is the problem with figuring out what they ACTUALLY mean.
99% effective - Birth Control
Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 people?
Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 sexual encounters?
Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 male partners?
These things greatly affect the ACTUAL real world reliablilty and are rarely mentioned.
My question is how hard is it going to be to tell your cell phone to ignore the pico thingy in the plane and just let it latch onto terrestrial towers so you can Text message all flight long without dealing with any added costs??
Does it ever seem as if they are fudging in new particles and forms matter to account for discrepancies in math or observation?
Well, it IS tax season...
I know what that means.
It means your wife has found the most efficient way of shoveling food into her face.
I know this because I do this. Also, I am fat. Like your wife.
Well, in THEORY, the existing Rev.A EVDO should be just about as good as the broadband of a few years ago. The problem is, Rev.A coverage is limited, not very supported by hardware yet, and, even when you get it... In most cases... Is not really that fast as all.
If high speed wireless was what they claimed it to be, except the coverage of that claimed performance was universal, then yes, this could be true.
I do in fact use cell internet at home exclusively, in a 1X area, with abysmal speed and reliablilty. Thank GOD I'm on the road 95% of my life.
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I just returned to the US from the US Virgin Islands. At St. Thomas, I went through Customs for the first time in my life returning home. I had my Drivers License and nothing else.
I'm a normal white dude, who travels routinely for business so I know the ropes for national travel.
The Customs agent grills me like I'm a criminal because I'm traveling with only my Mich License. Then starts asking me all sorts of questions. Some of which caught me off guard. "What kind of Citzen are you?", ummm, a Normal one? "WRONG ANSWER" he says. Numerous times he told me my answers were wrong!
What really got my goat was that this guy, who spoke horrible english with a heavy accent I could barely understand, was giving my tax paying ass the third degree. I'm rather glad I only had my camera and cell phone and clothes.
And maybe I'm a moron for this, but I wasn't even prepared to go through customs! They let me out of the country without a hitch, hell, I was in a US Territory!!
So rather than putting your child in front of a mind numbing spirit crusing television set, or computer monitor. How about you do a little reading and teach her yourself?
Back in the old day, my dad taught me all the things about electronics and science the real way. Talk, drawings on paper, and home electronics and science kits which we worked on together.
So why not try the same? Too busy?
You're right.
That is why ram as you know it loses its memory without power. All those tiny capacitors need to be refreshed or they drain and lose state.
Well... PROM isn't Erasable.
EPROM isn't erasable except with ultraviolet light.
EEPROM is slower than a ball rolling up hill.
And FLASH is only marginally faster when compared to modern DRAM.
So, I'd say it offers many distinct advanatages.
You can pretty much do this on your own. Look up Slipstream. You can roll all the XP SP3 updates + XP itself onto a disk and let it all install at once on its own. Since you own a legit copy, you're completely fine doing this.
The real problem is that most people are stupid. And in an industry where you're somewhat expected to be smart, I really have a hard time believing there are as many morons trying to make a living doing it.
How do people go home at night and sleep knowing they are completely clueless about their job? Or is the better question: Do they even REALIZE they are clueless?
Most importantly, am I REALLY as smart as I think I am.
Probably.
But in PA and the rest of the north, there is a problem with Gates: SNOW.
Nevermind the fact that if somebody has physical access to a system it's pretty well compromised anyway.
The real problem with trying to quanitify these numbers at all is the problem with figuring out what they ACTUALLY mean. 99% effective - Birth Control Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 people? Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 sexual encounters? Does that mean that it doesn't work for 1/100 male partners? These things greatly affect the ACTUAL real world reliablilty and are rarely mentioned.
My question is how hard is it going to be to tell your cell phone to ignore the pico thingy in the plane and just let it latch onto terrestrial towers so you can Text message all flight long without dealing with any added costs??
Last I checked, we've already done a pretty good job of disturbing the wildlife anywhere streetlamps are concerned.
Does it ever seem as if they are fudging in new particles and forms matter to account for discrepancies in math or observation? Well, it IS tax season...
I know what that means. It means your wife has found the most efficient way of shoveling food into her face. I know this because I do this. Also, I am fat. Like your wife.
Had I said Mobile Suit as intended, it may have made more sense. But nothing makes more sense than armored polar bears.
As an avid non-reader of the actual article I must say that this snippet is rather disappointing. I fully expected armor suits at the very least.
Well, in THEORY, the existing Rev.A EVDO should be just about as good as the broadband of a few years ago. The problem is, Rev.A coverage is limited, not very supported by hardware yet, and, even when you get it... In most cases... Is not really that fast as all.
If high speed wireless was what they claimed it to be, except the coverage of that claimed performance was universal, then yes, this could be true.
I do in fact use cell internet at home exclusively, in a 1X area, with abysmal speed and reliablilty. Thank GOD I'm on the road 95% of my life.