I was recently employed as a contractor. I got, and accepted, an offer for a full time position with another company (with quite nice benefits). I asked friends about whether I should give notice or just quit, they said give notice. So I did, and the next day they fired me. There was no hard feelings, I understood it didn't make sense for them to keep training someone for a job he wasn't sticking around to do. But it did put a bit of a crimp on my finances as I had some unexpected time off before starting the new job.
If I could do it again I'd wait until Friday and just quit.
Reminds me of our Windoze guy in my previous job. I had run into some kind of problem with XP at home and spent a good amount of time banging my head against it. Finally I told him what was going on and asked what he recommended. "Reinstall XP" was the answer. I thought he was joking, nope he was serious.:P
After the war my mom took her degree in mathematics to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland where she did this kind of work. She said she'd calculate artillery ballistics. She also told me they processed some of the evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, though she wouldn't talk specifics.
She turns 89 next week. Happy birthday mom!
It's largely just guys like me, calling on a radio, asking for a couple 500 pounders on the ridgeline 3 klicks away, to get two dozen guys with RPGs and machine guns, NOW!. The B-52, B-1, and B-2 just don't fit into that equation.
Beg to differ on the B-1. The B-1's current mission in Afghanistan is to loiter in the area, waiting for a call for support from the ground. They can deliver weapons to the target in 10 to 15 minutes.
Here's an example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qXR3nEFAok4
I knew a guy whose g/f was from South Africa (Afrikaaner). When she went to the DMV she checked "African-American" for ethnicity. The black DMV employee started giving her shit, until in her very SA accent she told her how she was more African cause she was actually born & raised there. She didn't have to check "white" on the form.
That's exactly why I was at evil Fry's Saturday getting a PS3 (after reading the denials of an imminent price cut). I figure the cheapest standalone BluRay is $500, so for $100 more I get a game machine too.
So it's back to evil Fry's tomorrow to make them refund my $100.
To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today, and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
And this guy (Paul W.S. Anderson) is the worst possible director. I've been forced to see two of his movies (Soldier & Resident Evil) and those four hours are gone forever.
Between Rio's flagship MP3 player (Karma) having major reliability issues (eg hard drive, scroll wheel)
The scroll wheel was a major issue. I had to get a replacement cause the scroll wheel got whacked, and then the next one the scroll wheel got whacked. Ended up getting a Neuros and (although large) it's good enough for me.
When I first started putting together a PVR the noise from the fans was quite distracting. I replaced all of the fans with Nexus fans, and got a Seasonic power supply to replace the Antec one. Now the hard drives make more noise than the fans, and I've not had any heating problems even with the 90+ temperatures we had last week.
Before the court date, I compile a stack of data from various sources on the internet, all showing that the time of sunrise at the exact latitude and longitude of the accident, on the date of the accident, was a full two hours after the time of the accident, thus proving that the ambient light was zero, and that I had no chance to see the light-less car heading my way.
I read a "how to beat your traffic ticket" book once, and the author had a similar situation (ice on the road, unable to stop, cop gives ticket for running stop sign). He brought in newspaper clippings proving (he thought) that it was a freezing day. The prosecutor asked the judge to remove the clippings as "hearsay", and the judge agreed.
I'm afraid if the cop had shown up the same thing would have happened to you. You'd probably have to bring in an expert witness to prove that it was dark when the accident occurred.
When the Motley Fool forum (www.fool.com) went private, I stopped reading it.
I recently bought a car using Motley Fool's advice in their car buying guide, and I wanted to relate my experience to update their guide. (At the time they said to fax car dealers for quotes, I found asking for email quotes was much more effective) But in order for me to help their community, I'd have to pay to join Motley Fool. Needless to say,/. knows about it, but fool.com doesn't.
The signal telling the flight control computer that fuel was about to run out was instead somehow interpreted to be fuel has run out. And since it didn't blow up and everything else worked very well, it's a success./what I've heard...
I have one and the main problem I've had with it (which made me get a Neuros) is the little wheel on the corner has been broken twice. Otherwise it was fine. After the first time I got a case for it, was very careful in handling it, and it *still* got messed up. Bad design on that, unfortunately.
I was at the Kew Gardens in 1996 when a Concorde came in to land. Kew is right under the "drain pattern" into Heathrow, so you'd see planes flying over at around 10,000 feet and then later at 1,000 feet. When the Concorde was at 10K, it was as loud as a 747 at 1K, and when it finally came in at 1K, it was so loud you had to shout to be heard.
The Concorde was a very loud plane on both takeoff and landing, without a doubt.
It was not sour grapes that made the US government ban supersonic travel overland. It was the fact that the Concorde makes a very big sonic boom, and no one living underneath the flight path will tolerate it. They never had permission to fly over Europe either, after all.
When I was growing up in the '70s we moved to the Sierra Nevada mountains, and every now & then we'd hear a sonic boom. (my dad used to say the Navy was out playing) I asked why we never heard sonic booms when we lived in LA, and he said cause people wouldn't like having them happen all the time.
I was in London at the Kew gardens once, which is directly under the flight path of the "drain" into Heathrow. You'd see 747 after 747 flying over, first at around 10,000 feet, then again at around 2,000 feet. When the Concorde was coming in at 10,000, it sounded like a 747 at 2,000. When the Concorde was at 2,000, it was so loud you had to shout in order to be heard.
Sorry, until you make supersonic travel much quieter it'll never work.
Last week DirecTV sent me a new Smart Card, saying it was an important update or some such nonsense. But the card has a nasty EULA saying you can't reverse engineer, disassemble, etc. or look at it for too long.
So the card is sitting next to the box waiting for the old card to stop working. Hasn't yet.
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I was recently employed as a contractor. I got, and accepted, an offer for a full time position with another company (with quite nice benefits). I asked friends about whether I should give notice or just quit, they said give notice. So I did, and the next day they fired me. There was no hard feelings, I understood it didn't make sense for them to keep training someone for a job he wasn't sticking around to do. But it did put a bit of a crimp on my finances as I had some unexpected time off before starting the new job.
If I could do it again I'd wait until Friday and just quit.
Schadenfreude: joy at the misfortune of others.
FB example: Catching up with the jock who bullied you in HS, him seeing how successful you are and what an abject failure he is.
CHECK and MATE. :P
The way FB makes me feel better can be summed up with one word: schadenfreude.
Reminds me of our Windoze guy in my previous job. I had run into some kind of problem with XP at home and spent a good amount of time banging my head against it. Finally I told him what was going on and asked what he recommended. "Reinstall XP" was the answer. I thought he was joking, nope he was serious. :P
After the war my mom took her degree in mathematics to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland where she did this kind of work. She said she'd calculate artillery ballistics. She also told me they processed some of the evidence of atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, though she wouldn't talk specifics. She turns 89 next week. Happy birthday mom!
It's largely just guys like me, calling on a radio, asking for a couple 500 pounders on the ridgeline 3 klicks away, to get two dozen guys with RPGs and machine guns, NOW!. The B-52, B-1, and B-2 just don't fit into that equation.
Beg to differ on the B-1. The B-1's current mission in Afghanistan is to loiter in the area, waiting for a call for support from the ground. They can deliver weapons to the target in 10 to 15 minutes. Here's an example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qXR3nEFAok4
The gamer is near!
I knew a guy whose g/f was from South Africa (Afrikaaner). When she went to the DMV she checked "African-American" for ethnicity. The black DMV employee started giving her shit, until in her very SA accent she told her how she was more African cause she was actually born & raised there. She didn't have to check "white" on the form.
That's exactly why I was at evil Fry's Saturday getting a PS3 (after reading the denials of an imminent price cut). I figure the cheapest standalone BluRay is $500, so for $100 more I get a game machine too.
So it's back to evil Fry's tomorrow to make them refund my $100.
I'm sure they'll have tens of customers.
Sounds like it to me:
To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today, and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
Zing!
And this guy (Paul W.S. Anderson) is the worst possible director. I've been forced to see two of his movies (Soldier & Resident Evil) and those four hours are gone forever.
Between Rio's flagship MP3 player (Karma) having major reliability issues (eg hard drive, scroll wheel)
The scroll wheel was a major issue. I had to get a replacement cause the scroll wheel got whacked, and then the next one the scroll wheel got whacked. Ended up getting a Neuros and (although large) it's good enough for me.
When I first started putting together a PVR the noise from the fans was quite distracting. I replaced all of the fans with Nexus fans, and got a Seasonic power supply to replace the Antec one. Now the hard drives make more noise than the fans, and I've not had any heating problems even with the 90+ temperatures we had last week.
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Before the court date, I compile a stack of data from various sources on the internet, all showing that the time of sunrise at the exact latitude and longitude of the accident, on the date of the accident, was a full two hours after the time of the accident, thus proving that the ambient light was zero, and that I had no chance to see the light-less car heading my way.
I read a "how to beat your traffic ticket" book once, and the author had a similar situation (ice on the road, unable to stop, cop gives ticket for running stop sign). He brought in newspaper clippings proving (he thought) that it was a freezing day. The prosecutor asked the judge to remove the clippings as "hearsay", and the judge agreed.
I'm afraid if the cop had shown up the same thing would have happened to you. You'd probably have to bring in an expert witness to prove that it was dark when the accident occurred.
When the Motley Fool forum (www.fool.com) went private, I stopped reading it.
/. knows about it, but fool.com doesn't.
I recently bought a car using Motley Fool's advice in their car buying guide, and I wanted to relate my experience to update their guide. (At the time they said to fax car dealers for quotes, I found asking for email quotes was much more effective) But in order for me to help their community, I'd have to pay to join Motley Fool. Needless to say,
I have 40 HD channels available on Voom. It's sweet! But just for three more days until it goes out of business May 1st. :(
No, there isn't:
Voom's website says they're shutting down.
And the board of Cablevision voted 15-0 to shut it down, including Chuck Dolan.
I'm a long time subscriber. This sucks!
Can someone post the changelog?
And why put a changelog (which should be pretty static) behind a CGI?
The signal telling the flight control computer that fuel was about to run out was instead somehow interpreted to be fuel has run out. And since it didn't blow up and everything else worked very well, it's a success. /what I've heard...
I have one and the main problem I've had with it (which made me get a Neuros) is the little wheel on the corner has been broken twice. Otherwise it was fine. After the first time I got a case for it, was very careful in handling it, and it *still* got messed up. Bad design on that, unfortunately.
I was at the Kew Gardens in 1996 when a Concorde came in to land. Kew is right under the "drain pattern" into Heathrow, so you'd see planes flying over at around 10,000 feet and then later at 1,000 feet. When the Concorde was at 10K, it was as loud as a 747 at 1K, and when it finally came in at 1K, it was so loud you had to shout to be heard.
The Concorde was a very loud plane on both takeoff and landing, without a doubt.
Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful
of course not! the spider has to be radioactive, silly.
You're both wrong! The spider has to be a genetically engineered Super-Spider (TM)!
Yes, get VOOM. I have it and I'd never go back. Sure, I miss TechTV but we're all going to miss it now.
It was not sour grapes that made the US government ban supersonic travel overland. It was the fact that the Concorde makes a very big sonic boom, and no one living underneath the flight path will tolerate it. They never had permission to fly over Europe either, after all.
When I was growing up in the '70s we moved to the Sierra Nevada mountains, and every now & then we'd hear a sonic boom. (my dad used to say the Navy was out playing) I asked why we never heard sonic booms when we lived in LA, and he said cause people wouldn't like having them happen all the time.
I was in London at the Kew gardens once, which is directly under the flight path of the "drain" into Heathrow. You'd see 747 after 747 flying over, first at around 10,000 feet, then again at around 2,000 feet. When the Concorde was coming in at 10,000, it sounded like a 747 at 2,000. When the Concorde was at 2,000, it was so loud you had to shout in order to be heard.
Sorry, until you make supersonic travel much quieter it'll never work.
Last week DirecTV sent me a new Smart Card, saying it was an important update or some such nonsense. But the card has a nasty EULA saying you can't reverse engineer, disassemble, etc. or look at it for too long.
So the card is sitting next to the box waiting for the old card to stop working. Hasn't yet.