Microcenter in Cambridge was selling QIII for linux for $3-5 (can't remember)..there was a sticker slapped to each one explaining what you needed to download to run it under Windows
go out of your way to help people. It will invariably turn and bite you in the ass. I used to work at Kinkos..and they reprimanded me for being too good..the reason being, if the customers started expecting the level of support that I gave them..they'd expect it all the time, and when I wasn't there, there wasn't a computer litterate person availible to help them and they'd get pissed..(more so than they would if they assumed that nobody knew enough to fix their problems)..but ending my rant, and getting back to the subject of liability, I can see the companies position..if the customers hard drive fails, while they're changing their IP address (even though the two events are completely unrelated) the customer may call up and blame the ISP for destroying their computer. Unless you (the employee) are doing everything acording to policy, you're going to be held responsible (they won't care if it's not your fault)
Many Americans find porn a lot more appealing than a lot of stuff on TV because porn isn't as constrained by the American Standard that effects many of the popular programming. I watch porn constantly, always on top of the latest fansubbed releases, picking up the DVDs of series that are especially good and make it to North America. I support the full circle of porn, and all of the fruit it bears. Of it all, I've met new people, made some good friends, and experience a whole culture that I would have otherwise been completely oblivious to. I find porn to be informative, entertaining, and especially enjoyable.
that being said, I couldn't come up with an explaination of why I like Anime, other than, it's high quality animation, and the allure of something from a culturally different background.
remote management is disabled by default, and the option to enable it, is under the "advanced" tab.
And one reason to have it turned on, is if it's your responsibility to manage the router, and it's easier to connect to it remotely, than talk someone on the LAN through adjusting it over the phone....
now that I think about it, probably the major thing you'd change on the router, is the information you need to connect to your ISP, and with the wrong/outdated info, the router won't be on the internet in the first place.
and MITs stance is that they hired an artist to provide them with a graphic...overall, I think with the resulting publicity, the net effect for the original artist is positive.
if you're looking to go from analog->digital, consider buying a scanner that has a paper feed, if you paste down your photos on a letter size page, this will speed up the process of scanning them in. And once they're digital, take advantage of the fact that you can make infinite copies of them. Burn them on CDs and give them away to family members. As long as someone has a copy, and the means to duplicate it, in the next media format that comes along, your photos will survive.
For going the other way, if you don't want to invest in a good color printer, you could take your prints to a copy store..and have them printed one a digital copier and use heavy glossy paper. If you scale them to a standard size, and put 2-4 on a page, they can take all your printed pages, and you'll have photo sized pictures, that are just about photo quality. (asuming the photo was high resolution to start with)
yeah, all radio stations here, are required to have a unique 4 letter name to identify themselves, if the station is east of the mississippi (the eastern 1/2 of the country)it starts with a "W" if it's to the west, it starts with a a "K". They can pick the other 3 letters themselves.
in the (fictional) book, some children are genetically engineered to not need to sleep. They become superhuman, due to all the extra time they have to live life. But in real life, at what point do we say, enough is enough, we don't have to push ourselves this hard, and if we do, do we recalibrate what society expects of a person. Instead of giving your kids ritalin, give them Provigal.
I know the owner of this site (from another mesage board) and he said that he didn't want to see it on/. (due to bandwith) Unfortunatly, by the time he mentioned that, someone already posted the link on ars, which is how I imagine it worked its way over here.
to quote from the article "it requires that the producer know each episode of the show like the back of his/her hand, to ensure that a scene isn't cut from episode 22 that has major ramifications in episode 50."
but it's harder for me. There have been several times where I've had to remind myself that real life isn't GTA3, and that I shouldn't get out and steal the car in front of me at a light, or run over pedestrians, and that, I got in the car to drive to the store, not to find a ledge, and start shooting people, untill the army shows up.
they looked at 11k comic books, and noted which characters apeared in each book. They then came to the conclusion, that comic books do not folow the same rules as real life. Their research also showed, that there was a corelation between the size of the group, and the chance of a specific character showing up.
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they want people who can sell stuff and make money for the store, it doesn't matter if the employee in question knows what they're talking about. For example, on the Circuit City application, one question is. "do you feel comfortable selling products that you have little to no knowledge of". If you know what you're talking about, customers will latch onto you, bothering you will all sorts of inane requests, and that might prevent you from doing your job duties (this is what HR thinks) also, if you are 539029292 times smarter than the rest of the store, people will notice this, and start to realise a)how stupid everyone else there is, and not want to shop there b)only come in to see you, and nobody else c)come to the conclusion that everyone is like you, and get upset when this isn't the case. Another strike against you, is that with so much more tech knowledge than the guy who just quit Mcdonalds, you're going to bolt, the instant a job that pays a real salary is offered.
Also, the last time I checked, CompUSA payed about as much as the fast food places.
...back when it still existed, and the staff you saw on the floor, was only a small fraction of the total staff..tons of marketers, sales, HR, office support, all sorts of people who probably didn't add much to the museum, but took home a salary.
also, most of the museums exhibits never advanced past the 80's. One of the interactive display, informed people that most home computers ran at 2-4 mhz, and the "virtual reality" secion, featured a "Hard Drivin'" arcade game, made by Atari, which was quite hard...and the only visitor to ever beat the first race, was a little girl, who came as part of a school group.
That's my biggest memory of the computer museum.
and as of several years ago (they seem to have changed their policys) they were open 24/7, and one store in each region was open on all the major holidays. So 2-3 years ago, I worked christmas day and new years day...it really wasn't that bad, since nobody wanted to make copies those days, I just sat around doing nothing (the people who had partied to hard the night before, were sleeping on the job). I brought some CDs w/ movies and ROMs on them, and spent the day having fun w/ my co-workers..including giving the shift supervisor a good beating, in WWF Wrestlemania for the SNES.
Another reason many couples don't consider adoption is because of the incredible drain of time and money it takes on you. There are a LOT of hoops you have to jump through to adopt a child, and if you do succeed, there's always the chance that one of the kids biological relatives will say, hold on, we made a mistake, we want the kid back, and they do have a chance of taking away someone who's become a member of your family.
like a lot of people here, I had Transformers when I was younger. I watched the cartoon regularly, (much to the disapointment of my parrents, who prefered that I watch sesame st.) Anyway, does anyone have a link to a site with a complete transformers biography. Ideally it would have the name of each transformer, what it changed into, and a little bit about it's personality (as portrayed on the TV show)
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I didn't see any last time I was there..(they used to be out by the registers, for impulse buys)
Microcenter in Cambridge was selling QIII for linux for $3-5 (can't remember)..there was a sticker slapped to each one explaining what you needed to download to run it under Windows
go out of your way to help people. It will invariably turn and bite you in the ass. I used to work at Kinkos..and they reprimanded me for being too good..the reason being, if the customers started expecting the level of support that I gave them..they'd expect it all the time, and when I wasn't there, there wasn't a computer litterate person availible to help them and they'd get pissed..(more so than they would if they assumed that nobody knew enough to fix their problems)..but ending my rant, and getting back to the subject of liability, I can see the companies position..if the customers hard drive fails, while they're changing their IP address (even though the two events are completely unrelated) the customer may call up and blame the ISP for destroying their computer. Unless you (the employee) are doing everything acording to policy, you're going to be held responsible (they won't care if it's not your fault)
Civil war documentaries, or porn
Many Americans find porn a lot more appealing than a lot of stuff on TV because porn isn't as constrained by the American Standard that effects many of the popular programming.
I watch porn constantly, always on top of the latest fansubbed releases, picking up the DVDs of series that are especially good and make it to North America. I support the full circle of porn, and all of the fruit it bears.
Of it all, I've met new people, made some good friends, and experience a whole culture that I would have otherwise been completely oblivious to. I find porn to be informative, entertaining, and especially enjoyable.
that being said, I couldn't come up with an explaination of why I like Anime, other than, it's high quality animation, and the allure of something from a culturally different background.
remote management is disabled by default, and the option to enable it, is under the "advanced" tab.
And one reason to have it turned on, is if it's your responsibility to manage the router, and it's easier to connect to it remotely, than talk someone on the LAN through adjusting it over the phone....
now that I think about it, probably the major thing you'd change on the router, is the information you need to connect to your ISP, and with the wrong/outdated info, the router won't be on the internet in the first place.
"Antarctica and a few Arctic land patches were not included in the study because of the lack of data and near absence of human influences"
isn't that the point..there's a whole continent that's basically uninhabited..but since that would lower their numbers, they threw it out.
he said peak RPM, not dispacement...an old 'Cuda with a 440 (or any other old muscle car) is faster than an S2000..and is redlined FAR FAR lower.
into piles of same sized pictures, and then having a photoshop action that crops to a and saves them acordingly.
and MITs stance is that they hired an artist to provide them with a graphic...overall, I think with the resulting publicity, the net effect for the original artist is positive.
does anyone else find the choice of venues rather strange?
however I'll be at a family reunion that day so it's a moot point for me.
if you're looking to go from analog->digital, consider buying a scanner that has a paper feed, if you paste down your photos on a letter size page, this will speed up the process of scanning them in. And once they're digital, take advantage of the fact that you can make infinite copies of them. Burn them on CDs and give them away to family members. As long as someone has a copy, and the means to duplicate it, in the next media format that comes along, your photos will survive.
For going the other way, if you don't want to invest in a good color printer, you could take your prints to a copy store..and have them printed one a digital copier and use heavy glossy paper. If you scale them to a standard size, and put 2-4 on a page, they can take all your printed pages, and you'll have photo sized pictures, that are just about photo quality. (asuming the photo was high resolution to start with)
yeah, all radio stations here, are required to have a unique 4 letter name to identify themselves, if the station is east of the mississippi (the eastern 1/2 of the country)it starts with a "W" if it's to the west, it starts with a a "K". They can pick the other 3 letters themselves.
in the (fictional) book, some children are genetically engineered to not need to sleep. They become superhuman, due to all the extra time they have to live life. But in real life, at what point do we say, enough is enough, we don't have to push ourselves this hard, and if we do, do we recalibrate what society expects of a person. Instead of giving your kids ritalin, give them Provigal.
I know the owner of this site (from another mesage board) and he said that he didn't want to see it on /. (due to bandwith) Unfortunatly, by the time he mentioned that, someone already posted the link on ars, which is how I imagine it worked its way over here.
to quote from the article "it requires that the producer know each episode of the show like the back of his/her hand, to ensure that a scene isn't cut from episode 22 that has major ramifications in episode 50."
but it's harder for me. There have been several times where I've had to remind myself that real life isn't GTA3, and that I shouldn't get out and steal the car in front of me at a light, or run over pedestrians, and that, I got in the car to drive to the store, not to find a ledge, and start shooting people, untill the army shows up.
they looked at 11k comic books, and noted which characters apeared in each book. They then came to the conclusion, that comic books do not folow the same rules as real life. Their research also showed, that there was a corelation between the size of the group, and the chance of a specific character showing up.
Also, the last time I checked, CompUSA payed about as much as the fast food places.
also, most of the museums exhibits never advanced past the 80's. One of the interactive display, informed people that most home computers ran at 2-4 mhz, and the "virtual reality" secion, featured a "Hard Drivin'" arcade game, made by Atari, which was quite hard...and the only visitor to ever beat the first race, was a little girl, who came as part of a school group.
That's my biggest memory of the computer museum.
and as of several years ago (they seem to have changed their policys) they were open 24/7, and one store in each region was open on all the major holidays. So 2-3 years ago, I worked christmas day and new years day...it really wasn't that bad, since nobody wanted to make copies those days, I just sat around doing nothing (the people who had partied to hard the night before, were sleeping on the job). I brought some CDs w/ movies and ROMs on them, and spent the day having fun w/ my co-workers..including giving the shift supervisor a good beating, in WWF Wrestlemania for the SNES.
and it physically broke their CPU and their mobo..if it were me, I wouldn't have anything positive to say about it.
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like a lot of people here, I had Transformers when I was younger. I watched the cartoon regularly, (much to the disapointment of my parrents, who prefered that I watch sesame st.) Anyway, does anyone have a link to a site with a complete transformers biography. Ideally it would have the name of each transformer, what it changed into, and a little bit about it's personality (as portrayed on the TV show)