Speaking as someone who lived and worked in Montgomery for 2-3 years as a programmer, I wouldn't recommend moving there. The tech jobs are mostly government related (Gunter Air Force Base) and there's an incredible amount of racial tension. If you're single there's little to nothing to do. If you have kids you're going to have to pay for private school if you want them to have a half-way decent education. If you're going to move to Alabama at all (depending on if you can stomach all the Baptists and hardcore Republicans), try Birmingham. More to do, more jobs, better pay, better schools. I've been here for 3 years so far and haven't regretted the move at all.
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Don't forget to buy robot insurance! "To protect us from the metal ones".
Until they reissued it, Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation was quite the collectors item too. I remember I bought it used twice for about $10 at my local blockbuster, and both times sold it for $40-50 on eBay. I remember seeing auctions for new versions of it go as high as $120. And of course now you can buy it at pretty much any Wal-Mart for about $14.99.
It's easily found on Kazaa as well. I downloaded it from there about a week or so ago.
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I think it is a great idea, because it finally allows the US Treasury to put some decent anti-counterfeiting into their bills. I mean you think they would be embarassed to be the most successfully counterfeited currency in the world.
If I'm not mistaken, (and with my luck...), anyway, I think that US currency is the most widely used
currency in the world. I guess it's only the law of averages that it would be the most successfully counterfeited. Not that that's an excuse...
The only thing I don't like about the idea of brightly colored bills is what every other person seems to like about it, the fact that you can so easily tell the difference between denominations. What happens when you're getting your money out of an ATM machine at night? It certainly makes it easier for crooks to target you.
I have two managers, one used to be a programmer, one has no clue about programming at all.
The one who used to be a programmer has absolutely no people skills whatsoever and has no clear idea about how the project as a whole is supposed to work. The other manager is quite good at dealing with people and has a very distinct vision of where the project should be heading. Guess which one is the better manager. I guess there are exceptions to every rule.
I hate to sound old (I'm only 23), but we've had viruses for years before the internet was as commonplace as it is now and no one cared.
You just made your own point. The internet is now commonplace, and it costs large corporations lots of money in lost productivity when one of these get sent out (if only in our IT department alone, laughing at the stupidity of the users falling for the stupid tricks the virus writers use to get them to open the email). There are a hell of a lot more people to care now.
I only use BellSouth for local calls (as do just about everybody else I know) and they seem to be doing just fine. How do they make money on long distance when I use Sprint as my long distance carrier?
My complaint isn't that there aren't applications, but that there aren't any games on the alternatives. I'm sure even CmdrTaco playing Diablo II on the Windows partition of his laptop will agree with me there.
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
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lie in the price of CD's. If they would just drop the price of them to reasonable levels, say
$5 to $7 a pop, I guarantee over half of the file trading would drop overnight. But then again, that would be an action in favor of the consumer, and we can't have that can we? *sigh*
It's always bothered me, in "The Matrix," the way that they harvest humans as batteries. If the AI was all that intelligent, they would have known that the energy investment in farming humans would be greater than the output.
The computer was defeated by Keanu Reeves for god's sake. It sure as hell wasn't any Einstein.
The people who executed this attack are now as dead as the victims. That's one of the worst things about these suicide bombings, who do you blame, who do you retaliate against? Maybe they were the ones that planned the whole thing in the first place, maybe they weren't. As of this moment all we can do is try our best to help the victims who are still alive, and say a prayer for the departed. My condolences go out to those who have lost a loved one.
to be nitpicky, I think you mean season two.
Season One, aired only on Showtime(?) as "Tales from a Parallel Universe", is still only available on VHS. Season two, however, where the Sci-Fi channel picked the series up at, was recently released on DVD a couple of months ago. Lexx is now up to Season four. Coincidentally, my Lexx DVD's are en route as well;)
Geez, how can you say that on Slashdot?;) Sega was the only console manufacturer that made games for adults without being either:
1. a member of the RIAA
2. a member of the MPAA
3. a member of Evil Software Corp.
Now all we're left with is Nintendo with it's millionth iteration of Mario games. At least Sega had some semblance of originality in it's games(Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, etc...). When everybody lists their choices of 128 bit consoles, they all list these:
For that price you can pick up a Dreamcast and a Gamecube for less than one PS2 or God knows how many X-Boxes when your forced to buy the bundle packs.
brood
Inspiration struck him with all the speed and intensity of an idea when it's travelling through beer. -- Terry Pratchett
1. They run out of money
Not going to happen since they have a strangle hold on the mindless masses.
2. All lawyers die.
Ha!
3. When the bad publicity from their trying to take away our rights becomes enough so that it has the potential to hit them in their pocketbooks.
As long as the MPAA is referred to as the "MPAA", a faceless entity, that's not going to happen either. Sure I have a vague notion that Sony, et. all is in there, but I usually don't make the connection right off and neither do the masses.
Conclusion: Dig yourself a trench, it's going to be a long haul.
The average joe probably shouldn't be installing their own OS. OS configuration is hard.
I'll have to respectfully disagree. Saying that average joe shouldn't be installing his own OS because OS configuration is hard is like saying only sailors should cross the ocean because it's so big. OS installation should be easy for joe average, or "hard" for those that desire configurability. That's why there are "Typical" and "Custom" options on most installation procedures. For Microsoft being in the User Interface business as long as it has been, it really should have made OS installation considerably easier since the Windows 95 days. They haven't, and in my opinion have really dropped the ball.
Maybe it will be easy someday
We can only hope it will. Creating intuitive and easy to use interfaces is a science in itself. One that too many software developers don't study up on nearly enough.
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Speaking as someone who lived and worked in Montgomery for 2-3 years as a programmer, I wouldn't recommend moving there. The tech jobs are mostly government related (Gunter Air Force Base) and there's an incredible amount of racial tension. If you're single there's little to nothing to do. If you have kids you're going to have to pay for private school if you want them to have a half-way decent education. If you're going to move to Alabama at all (depending on if you can stomach all the Baptists and hardcore Republicans), try Birmingham. More to do, more jobs, better pay, better schools. I've been here for 3 years so far and haven't regretted the move at all.
Don't forget to buy robot insurance! "To protect us from the metal ones".
The guy they've got up to replace him is Kirsten Dunst's current boyfriend. You might know him as the star of that movie Bubble Boy.
Until they reissued it, Final Fantasy Tactics for the Playstation was quite the collectors item too. I remember I bought it used twice for about $10 at my local blockbuster, and both times sold it for $40-50 on eBay. I remember seeing auctions for new versions of it go as high as $120. And of course now you can buy it at pretty much any Wal-Mart for about $14.99.
Well, considering "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and "Akira" both originated in comic book format...
It's easily found on Kazaa as well. I downloaded
it from there about a week or so ago.
I think it is a great idea, because it finally allows the US Treasury to put some decent anti-counterfeiting into their bills. I mean you think they would be embarassed to be the most successfully counterfeited currency in the world.
If I'm not mistaken, (and with my luck...), anyway, I think that US currency is the most widely used currency in the world. I guess it's only the law of averages that it would be the most successfully counterfeited. Not that that's an excuse...
The only thing I don't like about the idea of brightly colored bills is what every other person seems to like about it, the fact that you can so easily tell the difference between denominations. What happens when you're getting your money out of an ATM machine at night? It certainly makes it easier for crooks to target you.
I have two managers, one used to be a programmer, one has no clue about programming at all.
The one who used to be a programmer has absolutely no people skills whatsoever and has no clear idea about how the project as a whole is supposed to work.
The other manager is quite good at dealing with people and has a very distinct vision of where the project should be heading.
Guess which one is the better manager.
I guess there are exceptions to every rule.
The Lawyers... ;)
At least they're the lesser evil this time
Shouldn't we have been on the loser's list somewhere?
I hate to sound old (I'm only 23), but we've had viruses for years before the internet was as commonplace as it is now and no one cared.
You just made your own point. The internet is now commonplace, and it costs large corporations lots of money in lost productivity when one of these get sent out (if only in our IT department alone, laughing at the stupidity of the users falling for the stupid tricks the virus writers use to get them to open the email). There are a hell of a lot more people to care now.
As soon as virus writers learn how to spell correctly and learn proper grammar, I think we're going to be in some serious trouble.
From what I read at ABCNews.com, the virus originated in Europe, which probably explains the grammer...
I only use BellSouth for local calls (as do just about everybody else I know) and they seem to be doing just fine. How do they make money on long distance when I use Sprint as my long distance carrier?
My complaint isn't that there aren't applications, but that there aren't any games on the alternatives. I'm sure even CmdrTaco playing Diablo II on the Windows partition of his laptop will agree with me there.
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9
lie in the price of CD's. If they would just drop the price of them to reasonable levels, say
$5 to $7 a pop, I guarantee over half of the file trading would drop overnight. But then again, that would be an action in favor of the consumer, and we can't have that can we? *sigh*
It's always bothered me, in "The Matrix," the way that they harvest humans as batteries. If the AI was all that intelligent, they would have known that the energy investment in farming humans would be greater than the output.
The computer was defeated by Keanu Reeves for god's sake. It sure as hell wasn't any Einstein.
The people who executed this attack are now as dead as the victims. That's one of the worst things about these suicide bombings, who do you blame, who do you retaliate against? Maybe they were the ones that planned the whole thing in the first place, maybe they weren't. As of this moment all we can do is try our best to help the victims who are still alive, and say a prayer for the departed. My condolences go out to those who have lost a loved one.
to be nitpicky, I think you mean season two. ;)
Season One, aired only on Showtime(?) as "Tales from a Parallel Universe", is still only available on VHS. Season two, however, where the Sci-Fi channel picked the series up at, was recently released on DVD a couple of months ago. Lexx is now up to Season four.
Coincidentally, my Lexx DVD's are en route as well
I wasn't sorry to see Sega and its Dreamcast go
;) Sega was the only console manufacturer that made games for adults without being either:
Geez, how can you say that on Slashdot?
1. a member of the RIAA
2. a member of the MPAA
3. a member of Evil Software Corp.
Now all we're left with is Nintendo with it's millionth iteration of Mario games. At least Sega had some semblance of originality in it's games(Jet Grind Radio, Space Channel 5, etc...). When everybody lists their choices of 128 bit consoles, they all list these:
1. X-Box $299 - $1200
2. PS2 $299
3. Gamecube $199
Yet always leave off one of the better deals:
4. Dreamcast $79
For that price you can pick up a Dreamcast and a Gamecube for less than one PS2 or God knows how many X-Boxes when your forced to buy the bundle packs.
brood
Inspiration struck him with all the speed and intensity of an idea when it's travelling through beer. -- Terry Pratchett
getting an image of Robert DeNiro rappelling down walls like in Brazil?
1. They run out of money
Not going to happen since they have a strangle hold on the mindless masses.
2. All lawyers die.
Ha!
3. When the bad publicity from their trying to take away our rights becomes enough so that it has the potential to hit them in their pocketbooks.
As long as the MPAA is referred to as the "MPAA", a faceless entity, that's not going to happen either. Sure I have a vague notion that Sony, et. all is in there, but I usually don't make the connection right off and neither do the masses.
Conclusion: Dig yourself a trench, it's going to be a long haul.
Angst Technology also did a comic on it that was pretty good.
The average joe probably shouldn't be installing their own OS. OS configuration is hard.
I'll have to respectfully disagree. Saying that average joe shouldn't be installing his own OS because OS configuration is hard is like saying only sailors should cross the ocean because it's so big. OS installation should be easy for joe average, or "hard" for those that desire configurability. That's why there are "Typical" and "Custom" options on most installation procedures. For Microsoft being in the User Interface business as long as it has been, it really should have made OS installation considerably easier since the Windows 95 days. They haven't, and in my opinion have really dropped the ball.
Maybe it will be easy someday
We can only hope it will. Creating intuitive and easy to use interfaces is a science in itself. One that too many software developers don't study up on nearly enough.
Michael
The only word the really describes how I'm feeling right now.