The government can sell that stale old data all it wants, it has little to no marketable value, as far as I'm concerned it's best just for watching trends, and if the government can make any money at all from it, so be it. It's not like it's got all my other data attached to it.
For instance, my car has been registered to the same address for the last (god has it been that long already?) 10 years. I drive my car on public roads, so it's no secret what model I drive (besides I post about it all the time here). My address is also public record. What is useful about that? My wages have on average been doubling every 6 years since I was 18, so has everyone elses. That data is not public, but the fact n is in tax bracket x is available. (ie, median incomes for 90210 zip code)
The "census" style data doesn't have nearly the value of spending habbit data, or consumer interest data, or Credit data. No one is taking that all the way to the bank, and if they are, good for them. I don't see much use for it.
I thought that should be standard practice! It's a neat Idea, and reminds me of a story I read here I think where someone got their program ready to demo, and the lead dev put in a Do_Nothing loop, much to the programers dismay and slowing the app down a ton. Then when they demoed it, everything worked, and they shippped it. Later on the client complained of poor performance, and they issued an update right away...
Also the framerate one, "You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry", really made me chuckle. You can't do it all, and sometimes, you need others to understand whats acceptable in REAL TIME!
For those who didn't RTFA:
The solution took maybe an hour. A fellow programmer took four pictures of my face -- one really happy, one normal, one a bit angry, and one where I am pulling my hair out. I put this image in the corner of the screen, and it was linked to the frame rate. If the game ran at over 30fps, I was really happy, if it ran below 20, I was angry.
After this change, the whole FPS issue transformed from, "Ah, the programmers will fix it." to, "Hmm, if I put this model in, Nick is going to be angry! I'd better optimize this a little first." People could instantly see if a change they made had an impact on the frame rate, and we ended up shipping the game at 30fps.
I did that and got a TON of life from my laptop, w/ max brightness & Volume. My wife was stoked that I pulled it off. I have a compaq6910 and it's a great machine, but not great w/ power. It lasted the whole flight to HI!
It's important to have these people since the insurance companies are trying to underpay you and you are trying to get them to overpay.
This is it really. This combined w/ the rolling of costs for providing underinsured care into the cost of providing insured care. I've seen the #'s behind healthcare. I'm really afraid for our future. It's time we start educating ourselves again. Eat right, exercise, and stay away from risky activities. (1 out of 3 is a rare occurence in this country).
not an option. The level you start at is kinda part of the story. It's neat what they did to the Death Knight. I played one just long enough to "get out." It was fun, but that's about as far as I've taken wow. I've abandoned it for Jarate practice.
Here's a little story... When wiring up my solar panels I had some communication errors w/ the inspector. (he was all over a ton of mickey mouse shit, like labels not being phenolic, etc..) Later on (it was winter, a good time to work on panels btw) I had to do some computer work in the shop side of my garage. I setup my e- heater to heat it up by plugging it into the garage door opener's outlet on the ceiling thinking "this should be strong enough for a long 12Amp load, and it's a short run too." I go and watch a movie w/ the wife. (there is a smoke alarm right next to the outlet.) 1/2 through the movie, the lights go out. Curious, I go and check the breaker. Flip it, and it flips right back to off. WTF? Why does this keep going off? I know the only real load is the heater, but why was my TV in the far back bedroom not working? I unplug the heater but the breaker still pops, unplug the outlet, and dig into the wiring. Braided wire? weird... but no black spots. So I follow the wire but it doesn't go to the panel! I was expecting it to drop right across the ceiling 10ft to the panel, but no. Instead of wiring a new circuit, he wired it to the light switch for the garage lights, which goes across the house to the back bedroom! The braided wire was EXTENSION CORD that had the plugs cut off on each end. Because it was braided wire, and he overtwisted his wirenut there was a "hotspot." The hotspot got hot enough to melt the insulative coating off the hot wire, and since it was overly twisted, that then melted the neutral braided wire's coating, and consequently they arced and fused together! Luckily for me, the hotspot was at least inside a box. So the only damage he did was to the wires. I'm lucky my breakers work! Smoke was confined inside the wall so the alarm never went off! I coulda burned at least some damage into my garage!
Since then, I've added a new circuit for the garage door opener because it's about 1hp so I didn't want it on my houshold circuits. I gratuitusly thanked the inspecter, and said I now know 1st hand why they are such pains in the ass!
My worry was that if that was jacked up, what's the rest like. Well I went through and did a full wireing inspection after that, and found only one other issue. He used extension cord to wire up a light for the back of the house.
You can do it yourself if your willing to follow the wires from the panel, to each outlet, AND BACK.
wait until when it gets about say 8 Light minutes away 8') send it new coordinates, giving it an "update" to it's trajectory. This should be able to be done w/ small rockets & such, and it's way earlier, the speed will be high, but not it's peak speed. We should be able to give it a Garmin (tm)navigational update. but how is it going to navigate around ojects in it's path? My guess is that any "Solar Sail" application will be torn to shreds by space dust at those high speeds by the time it get's between Venus and Jupiter.
I actually had a great experience there recently. I needed to buy some components for a hotwiring a car. They didn't have the exactly the part I needed, but actually knew enough about electronics to get me a quick workaround for about $5. And the chick helping me was HOT!
I was super suprised at 1. RadioShack being helpful. 2. Finding a hottie working there.
Now if only Verizon reps knew what the hell they were talking about.
I recently discovered Firefly on HULU. The wife and I have been enjoying the 14 episodes for the last week or so. I told her it was the basis for the movie Serenity which she had not seen. We wanted to watch the flick, but it's like 100 here right now so we were both not really wanting to leave the comfort of our a/c'd house.
We go to Block buster online and try to download the rental. It took me an friggin hour to get their app to work right, and after all that, the fricken player couldn't do a simple keep alive to stop the screensave from kicking in. I WAS FURIOUS. I knew to disable it, but still, why would I do that in this day and age?
I don't guess when it comes to statistics. Because there are usually a ton of variables and long algorythms. It's not usually just x/y. Often, it's more like X(a+b-sqrt(z)(2))/Y(.8(z^2)).
That can only work for people who vote. It's a selection bias or something if I remember right from stats. For instance, I don't want to fill out an effing survey everytime I buy a product. I just want the thing in my hands as soon as possible so I can use it. When it's use is up, rentals get returned, disposables get recycled, and Blackbutte porter gets turned into Bud "Lite".
So 1. that means that people have to rent the selection suggested, two actually have watched it when they return it, 3rd vote on how well they liked it. Is it a 1-10 scale? or a yes no?
Come on this is/. I expected at least a little more detail.
I don't use netflix, i'm a blockbuster guy cause we happen to have one close to our house. But What is 10% of zero? in all seriousness, what is their accuracy now? How is it determined?
Just kidding. I don't even know what political party I truly align w/. I'm either the most conservative D or the most liberal R, or some unknown yet to be defined party... of 1.
"I advise everybody who wants to complain about anything to do one simple thing: shut the fuck up and go on about your business."
Yeah, I mean who needs rights right? You are preventing this jerk from doing whatever they did to you, to others out there. It's important for you to do this. It's a moral imperitive. It's a rough fight, but if you are truly in the right, you shall prevail in the end.
You are doing a huge service by not settling. Lawyers talk big, but will settle for next to nothing. They are probably being advised by a dumbass lawyer friend. Post a blog about it, put the link in your sig. Make everyone aware of what's going on without disclosing things that would legally jepordise you. Contact the paper, contact the local news station. Here in Seattle we have "Jessie Jones." Have your partner see a counselor. A good paid one. Use this counseling as a basis for the torment they are doing to you.
If you did everything correctly, and had a legitimate complaint, you can not only publicly humiliate this person who is tormenting you, but gain a sizeable award for filing a frivolous lawsuit that caused you torment, and have their license revoked. Also the case becomes public record, and your free to post whatever details you want. Make sure they know this. Make sure that they know that you will now do everything in your power to make it public, including a lettor to the editor of your local paper whether you win or lose. What was a minor complaint will grow to epic proportions.
By the way, my friends little sister was sued by a famous hypnotist for harrasment because he didn't like a post or email or something. The judge dismissed with prejudice. Be careful, but go for their throat.
Also, in an auto liability case (I had a 2 week lapse of insurance going through my divorce, and got in an accident), They trumped up the value of a 10yo clunker w/ crap paint, and oxidation to 8.8k (it booked for less than 1/2 that). They settled for less than book w/ the guy calling me frantically the night before trial (5 minutes till 5)
My wife is a paralegal, and my friend is a doctor, which makes me just a plain old bit monkey though, so please consult a lawyer. They all give free 30 min. consults. If you can't afford to hire one, take the info from one, and move that to the next consult time. That saved me a ton of $ when I was a teenager and had to fight for the value of my car when an old guy hit me.
Animal husbandry. We've been able to make selective breeeding into new races / species in as few as a couple of generations. That's why we have so many damn dog/cat breeds.
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(sung to tune of camptown races)
Ctrl-Alt-Delete Format Re-install
DO Dahh,Do Dahh
Can't get this malware to uninstall
Oh De Doo-da day
The geek squad sings this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
Even though they know it's wrong
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin' to run all night
Goin' to run all day
I bet my money on a browser highjack
Somebody bet on a service pack
Oh, the McAfees and Ad-Awares
Doo-da, doo-da
all miss detections no one cares
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin' to run all night
Goin' to run all day
I bet my money on a browser highjack
Somebody bet on a service pack
I went down there with my HDD caved in,
Doo-da, doo-da
I came back home with a pocket full of lint
Oh, de doo-da day
Goin' to run all night
Goin' to run all day
I bet my money on a browser high jack
Somebody bet on a service pack
Ctrl-alt delte format reinstall
doo-da doo-da
Security software really sucks balls
Oh De Doo-da day.
The government can sell that stale old data all it wants, it has little to no marketable value, as far as I'm concerned it's best just for watching trends, and if the government can make any money at all from it, so be it. It's not like it's got all my other data attached to it.
For instance, my car has been registered to the same address for the last (god has it been that long already?) 10 years. I drive my car on public roads, so it's no secret what model I drive (besides I post about it all the time here). My address is also public record. What is useful about that? My wages have on average been doubling every 6 years since I was 18, so has everyone elses. That data is not public, but the fact n is in tax bracket x is available. (ie, median incomes for 90210 zip code)
The "census" style data doesn't have nearly the value of spending habbit data, or consumer interest data, or Credit data. No one is taking that all the way to the bank, and if they are, good for them. I don't see much use for it.
/agree.
I thought that should be standard practice! It's a neat Idea, and reminds me of a story I read here I think where someone got their program ready to demo, and the lead dev put in a Do_Nothing loop, much to the programers dismay and slowing the app down a ton. Then when they demoed it, everything worked, and they shippped it. Later on the client complained of poor performance, and they issued an update right away...
Also the framerate one, "You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry", really made me chuckle. You can't do it all, and sometimes, you need others to understand whats acceptable in REAL TIME!
For those who didn't RTFA:
Lua I learnt from WoW!
I did that and got a TON of life from my laptop, w/ max brightness & Volume. My wife was stoked that I pulled it off. I have a compaq6910 and it's a great machine, but not great w/ power. It lasted the whole flight to HI!
If you only knew...
This is it really. This combined w/ the rolling of costs for providing underinsured care into the cost of providing insured care. I've seen the #'s behind healthcare. I'm really afraid for our future. It's time we start educating ourselves again. Eat right, exercise, and stay away from risky activities. (1 out of 3 is a rare occurence in this country).
not an option. The level you start at is kinda part of the story. It's neat what they did to the Death Knight. I played one just long enough to "get out." It was fun, but that's about as far as I've taken wow. I've abandoned it for Jarate practice.
fix your to you're at end, and inspector vs. the specter under the bed. Probably more errors, but I wendt too publick skewl.
Here's a little story...
When wiring up my solar panels I had some communication errors w/ the inspector. (he was all over a ton of mickey mouse shit, like labels not being phenolic, etc..) Later on (it was winter, a good time to work on panels btw) I had to do some computer work in the shop side of my garage. I setup my e- heater to heat it up by plugging it into the garage door opener's outlet on the ceiling thinking "this should be strong enough for a long 12Amp load, and it's a short run too." I go and watch a movie w/ the wife. (there is a smoke alarm right next to the outlet.) 1/2 through the movie, the lights go out. Curious, I go and check the breaker. Flip it, and it flips right back to off. WTF? Why does this keep going off? I know the only real load is the heater, but why was my TV in the far back bedroom not working? I unplug the heater but the breaker still pops, unplug the outlet, and dig into the wiring. Braided wire? weird... but no black spots. So I follow the wire but it doesn't go to the panel! I was expecting it to drop right across the ceiling 10ft to the panel, but no. Instead of wiring a new circuit, he wired it to the light switch for the garage lights, which goes across the house to the back bedroom! The braided wire was EXTENSION CORD that had the plugs cut off on each end. Because it was braided wire, and he overtwisted his wirenut there was a "hotspot." The hotspot got hot enough to melt the insulative coating off the hot wire, and since it was overly twisted, that then melted the neutral braided wire's coating, and consequently they arced and fused together! Luckily for me, the hotspot was at least inside a box. So the only damage he did was to the wires. I'm lucky my breakers work! Smoke was confined inside the wall so the alarm never went off! I coulda burned at least some damage into my garage!
Since then, I've added a new circuit for the garage door opener because it's about 1hp so I didn't want it on my houshold circuits. I gratuitusly thanked the inspecter, and said I now know 1st hand why they are such pains in the ass!
My worry was that if that was jacked up, what's the rest like. Well I went through and did a full wireing inspection after that, and found only one other issue. He used extension cord to wire up a light for the back of the house.
You can do it yourself if your willing to follow the wires from the panel, to each outlet, AND BACK.
wait until when it gets about say 8 Light minutes away 8') send it new coordinates, giving it an "update" to it's trajectory. This should be able to be done w/ small rockets & such, and it's way earlier, the speed will be high, but not it's peak speed. We should be able to give it a Garmin (tm)navigational update.
but how is it going to navigate around ojects in it's path? My guess is that any "Solar Sail" application will be torn to shreds by space dust at those high speeds by the time it get's between Venus and Jupiter.
I was just going to add that, thanks!
It's so common in the financial industry that to NOT have it that way would be weird.
or AntiSpyware2009?
My "nic" is allways in promiscuous mode.
Sorry, I had to. I couldn't not do it. My fingers were forced by underwear gnomes.
Does it work w/ an engineer's wrench? Those things are brutal 8'). What about an Axe wrapped in Barbed wire?
So does my much cheaper enV Touch.
My only problem is I have to deal w/ Verizon's crap customer service.
I'd go to AT&T or T-Mobile, but they don't have great network service where I live.
Effed if you do, Effed if you don't....
I actually had a great experience there recently. I needed to buy some components for a hotwiring a car. They didn't have the exactly the part I needed, but actually knew enough about electronics to get me a quick workaround for about $5. And the chick helping me was HOT!
I was super suprised at 1. RadioShack being helpful. 2. Finding a hottie working there.
Now if only Verizon reps knew what the hell they were talking about.
I recently discovered Firefly on HULU. The wife and I have been enjoying the 14 episodes for the last week or so. I told her it was the basis for the movie Serenity which she had not seen. We wanted to watch the flick, but it's like 100 here right now so we were both not really wanting to leave the comfort of our a/c'd house.
We go to Block buster online and try to download the rental. It took me an friggin hour to get their app to work right, and after all that, the fricken player couldn't do a simple keep alive to stop the screensave from kicking in. I WAS FURIOUS. I knew to disable it, but still, why would I do that in this day and age?
I was so mad that I vowed to steal it.
I just wasted a ton of our bandwidth watching that.
I don't guess when it comes to statistics. Because there are usually a ton of variables and long algorythms. It's not usually just x/y. Often, it's more like X(a+b-sqrt(z)(2))/Y(.8(z^2)).
That can only work for people who vote. It's a selection bias or something if I remember right from stats. For instance, I don't want to fill out an effing survey everytime I buy a product. I just want the thing in my hands as soon as possible so I can use it. When it's use is up, rentals get returned, disposables get recycled, and Blackbutte porter gets turned into Bud "Lite".
So 1. that means that people have to rent the selection suggested, two actually have watched it when they return it, 3rd vote on how well they liked it. Is it a 1-10 scale? or a yes no?
Come on this is /. I expected at least a little more detail.
I don't use netflix, i'm a blockbuster guy cause we happen to have one close to our house. But What is 10% of zero? in all seriousness, what is their accuracy now? How is it determined?
Just kidding. I don't even know what political party I truly align w/. I'm either the most conservative D or the most liberal R, or some unknown yet to be defined party... of 1.
"I advise everybody who wants to complain about anything to do one simple thing: shut the fuck up and go on about your business."
Yeah, I mean who needs rights right? You are preventing this jerk from doing whatever they did to you, to others out there. It's important for you to do this. It's a moral imperitive. It's a rough fight, but if you are truly in the right, you shall prevail in the end.
You are doing a huge service by not settling. Lawyers talk big, but will settle for next to nothing. They are probably being advised by a dumbass lawyer friend. Post a blog about it, put the link in your sig. Make everyone aware of what's going on without disclosing things that would legally jepordise you. Contact the paper, contact the local news station. Here in Seattle we have "Jessie Jones." Have your partner see a counselor. A good paid one. Use this counseling as a basis for the torment they are doing to you.
If you did everything correctly, and had a legitimate complaint, you can not only publicly humiliate this person who is tormenting you, but gain a sizeable award for filing a frivolous lawsuit that caused you torment, and have their license revoked. Also the case becomes public record, and your free to post whatever details you want. Make sure they know this. Make sure that they know that you will now do everything in your power to make it public, including a lettor to the editor of your local paper whether you win or lose. What was a minor complaint will grow to epic proportions.
By the way, my friends little sister was sued by a famous hypnotist for harrasment because he didn't like a post or email or something. The judge dismissed with prejudice. Be careful, but go for their throat.
Also, in an auto liability case (I had a 2 week lapse of insurance going through my divorce, and got in an accident), They trumped up the value of a 10yo clunker w/ crap paint, and oxidation to 8.8k (it booked for less than 1/2 that). They settled for less than book w/ the guy calling me frantically the night before trial (5 minutes till 5)
My wife is a paralegal, and my friend is a doctor, which makes me just a plain old bit monkey though, so please consult a lawyer. They all give free 30 min. consults. If you can't afford to hire one, take the info from one, and move that to the next consult time. That saved me a ton of $ when I was a teenager and had to fight for the value of my car when an old guy hit me.
Animal husbandry. We've been able to make selective breeeding into new races / species in as few as a couple of generations. That's why we have so many damn dog /cat breeds.
LIke if you happened to use an extension cord roller w/ multiple cords plugged in powering a few machines at a lan party...
YOU WILL have smoking wire.
8')