We develop filters. I can Ignore 80-90% of all billboards and posted advertisements.
So if you have the characters drinking "Coke" in the show instead of 2 minutes worth of coke commercials throught the show, I'll take it. Show me the show without interruption.
I'm sorry, that should be "More" device drivers at the BIOS level. Of COURSE you are loading device drivers at the BIOS level- (boot devices, keyboard, video, ram) Its the frickin' BIOS!
The excuse "WEll, current BIOS systems is just patch written upon patch written upon patch. ITs a mess."
But it works. Is an EFI system going to be markedly faster? When you tell me you are loading device drivers at the BIOS level, that tells me "No"- you are creeping the OS lower.
So whats the deal? from Intel's EFI web site: Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
AHhhh! Running PRE-BOOT operations! This sounds like a lame way to shoe-horn in DRM or something similar onto my machine before it loads up.
Maybe I'm acting paranoid, but the slowest thing on my windows computer is WINDOWS, not the bios- that runs pretty fast.
He was stationed in Hawai'i (Barking Sands, Kaua'i) and was tight with the upper-ups and the motor pool, so he got to use a jeep under the auspices of the colonel. Those army jeeps had a "governor"- a block triangle (kinda like a door stop) that would prevent you from putting the accelerator down all the way. My grandfather would have nothing to do with it- so being the ingenious carpenter that he is (olde sk00l hacker) he removed it.
So, you want to add whizzbang electronics to slow me down? Fat chance. I come from a long line of hackers who like to drive fast*. I dare you to stop me! I'll see your Orwellian leanings and raise you my EE and CS degrees.
(*speaking of which, I must remember to pay for that speeding ticket...)
It makes Sending Edits to the printer stand out more. They can use whatever format they want- export or fax the document to you, you mark it up (sometimes they don't catch "teh"!) and fax it back.
Repeat until the printers get it right.
I understand that you can do strike-throughs in WORD and have things marked in red or whatever, but its easier to read it on paper* (I read documents on a screen. The older generation can't. Deal.) , as you are reading edit with a pen, and then fax it over (or have one of your minions fax it over).
This is faster. And when you bill at $200+ (USD) an hour, in 6 minute increments, you are saving your client money by not typing it in. (yeah, tell that to the trees!)
OHMYGOODGOLLYGOSH! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard!
Never mind the sistine chapel,the coleseum, Firenze's Duomo, and the floating city of Venice; come to The Olive Garden(nee iTaly) for your endless supply of breadsticks and salad- stay for the oggling of your women!
I'm sorry this whole SCO thing is starting to come to its inevitable, and glorious end.
Yes, I wrote that right, I'm sorry.
Its been a heck of a lot of fun bashing SCO. Now that Linus himself is back-hand slapping the shit out of them in a most satisfyingly public style, I can only think- what about next month, next year? By then folks, we'll have no SCO. It'll only be Microsoft and IBM/SUN (on alternating Thursdays) to bash around.
The sequels looked and felt like cartoons and the movie "played" like a video game.
Not to troll, but I think that was the Brother's intention! Matrix (the first one) as more of a setup to explain away the fact that they are doing things that are impossible in the real world, and then BAMM- heroic action-packed comics and video games.
Uhm, first of all: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Cry me a river! Your poor wittle high school couldn't afford a baseball team! WHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Second of all: Do the research. McD's coffee Temp: 180 degrees. Its competitors? 155 degrees. Thats a major temperature differential.
AS for the millions? The woman sued for 20,000 (her medical bills). The jury awarded millions, the judge reduced to 200k, THEN She and McD's settled (they would have appealed, otherwise) most likely for medical bills and court costs. Where are the millions?! Moron.
YOU are whats wrong with america. You are stupid, you don't do any research, and all you do is bitch.
Good point re: the selective quoting. Remember, this thing is saved as my Slashdot PGP signature (thats how often this shit comes up)- and MY point initially was that "This woman DID NOT get millions from this. Why? The judge lowered it, because the JUDGE has that power."
My intention wasn't to say who was at fault, or wether she should or shouldn't have sued. Its to show that there are some internal balancing mechanisms in the legal system. The additional implication hinted at by saying that "McD's and the woman settled for a sum far less" is that McD's had the right to appeal.
rock on... the thing that I posted is actually saved as my PGP signature here on slashdot!;)
Another fact I should put in is that a random sampling of coffee from other drive thru's puts McD's at the high, some 15-17 degrees above its competitors (20 degrees above most).
So, if a guest comes to your house, and burns themselves making coffee or tea, should you be liable?
Yes. (P.S.- IANAL.)
But thats irrelevant to the grandparent post. The McD's case is not a "travesty of our judicial system"- but corporation getting whacked for a dangerous trend ( yes, 700 reported cases makes a trend). Considering that initially the woman only asked for monetary damages equaling her medical bills, I'm sure the final Amount was that plus her legal. I don't see how this is anything but the legal system empowering individuals against giant corporations.
get your facts straight. I hate it when people reference the McDonalds coffee case and don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
Here are some details: What the jury didn't realize initially was the severity of her burns. Told during the trial of Mrs. Liebeck's seven days in the hospital and her skin grafts, and shown gruesome photographs, jurors began taking the matter more seriously. Even more eye-opening was the revelation that McDonald's had seen such injuries many times before. Company documents showed that in the past decade McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns ranging from mild to third degree, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000.
POSTSCRIPT - Following the trial of Ms. Liebeck's case, the judge who presided over it reduced the punitive damages award to $480,000, even though the judge called McDonald's conduct reckless, callous and willful. This reduction is a corrective feature built into our legal system. Furthermore, after that, both parties agreed to a settlement of the claim for a sum reported to be much less than the judge's reduced award. Another corrective feature.
FOr me DSL costs just about as much, with a $200 install fee (or something in that $200 neighborhood) for slower speeds (I get T1 from my cable modem, I guess no one in my neighborhood uses it!). It doesn't make sense! Cable seemed to come out cheaper.
So I get the basic, the plus, I added HBO, and Cable modem. I don't like digital (I think its 300 channels you don't get and 80 you do, most of which suck) so my bill is right around $100.
So $100 for T1 speeds and HBO. And their uptime has been pretty good*. yeah, that's worth it for me.
*- When DC was hit by that hurricane in Sept, they were down for a few hours. Some neighborhoods were without power for a week+. Thats good service. Last winter when Maryland was in a State of Emergency due to all the snow I telecommuted all week. Yep- I never lost cable.
Abstract Idealism often predicts nothing. It tells the future, but it tells a future that never happens. What about my flying car? Vacations to the moon and mars? The 5 hour work-week?
A running joke with a colleague of mine is that if this "engineering thing" doesn't work out, we'll become professional nay-sayers. Predict doom, gloom, and failure, and when something we predict happens (statistically speaking, we have a 50/50 shot)we can say "I told ya so!"
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We develop filters. I can Ignore 80-90% of all billboards and posted advertisements.
So if you have the characters drinking "Coke" in the show instead of 2 minutes worth of coke commercials throught the show, I'll take it. Show me the show without interruption.
I'm sorry, that should be "More" device drivers at the BIOS level. Of COURSE you are loading device drivers at the BIOS level- (boot devices, keyboard, video, ram) Its the frickin' BIOS!
The excuse "WEll, current BIOS systems is just patch written upon patch written upon patch. ITs a mess."
But it works. Is an EFI system going to be markedly faster? When you tell me you are loading device drivers at the BIOS level, that tells me "No"- you are creeping the OS lower.
So whats the deal?
from Intel's EFI web site: Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications.
AHhhh! Running PRE-BOOT operations! This sounds like a lame way to shoe-horn in DRM or something similar onto my machine before it loads up.
Maybe I'm acting paranoid, but the slowest thing on my windows computer is WINDOWS, not the bios- that runs pretty fast.
(don't worry, this is On Topic!)
He was stationed in Hawai'i (Barking Sands, Kaua'i) and was tight with the upper-ups and the motor pool, so he got to use a jeep under the auspices of the colonel. Those army jeeps had a "governor"- a block triangle (kinda like a door stop) that would prevent you from putting the accelerator down all the way. My grandfather would have nothing to do with it- so being the ingenious carpenter that he is (olde sk00l hacker) he removed it.
So, you want to add whizzbang electronics to slow me down? Fat chance. I come from a long line of hackers who like to drive fast*. I dare you to stop me! I'll see your Orwellian leanings and raise you my EE and CS degrees.
(*speaking of which, I must remember to pay for that speeding ticket...)
It makes Sending Edits to the printer stand out more. They can use whatever format they want- export or fax the document to you, you mark it up (sometimes they don't catch "teh"!) and fax it back.
Repeat until the printers get it right.
I understand that you can do strike-throughs in WORD and have things marked in red or whatever,
but its easier to read it on paper* (I read documents on a screen. The older generation can't. Deal.) , as you are reading edit with a pen, and then fax it over (or have one of your minions fax it over).
This is faster. And when you bill at $200+ (USD) an hour, in 6 minute increments, you are saving your client money by not typing it in. (yeah, tell that to the trees!)
From This guy from MetaFilter: It probably will fail.
The balloons used to cushion the fall were never tested. The original balloons failed testing and they didn't have time to test the replacements.
Wow! Sounds like the way to run a space program.
Maybe you need to get out more. Just because she dresses in read pleather and shows some cleavage doesn't make her a true babe.
Shes actually quite average.
Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble.
that was funny in 1994...
wait, no it wasn't!
OHMYGOODGOLLYGOSH! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard!
Never mind the sistine chapel,the coleseum, Firenze's Duomo, and the floating city of Venice; come to The Olive Garden(nee iTaly) for your endless supply of breadsticks and salad- stay for the oggling of your women!
I'm sorry this whole SCO thing is starting to come to its inevitable, and glorious end.
Yes, I wrote that right, I'm sorry.
Its been a heck of a lot of fun bashing SCO. Now that Linus himself is back-hand slapping the shit out of them in a most satisfyingly public style, I can only think- what about next month, next year? By then folks, we'll have no SCO. It'll only be Microsoft and IBM/SUN (on alternating Thursdays) to bash around.
SCO-y, we hardly knew ye
yeah, desktop AIX isn't something that IBM has supported much... I mean there were some half-assed attempts but its pretty much server land.
Sorry, but I love AIX. I like Kernel Extensions, I like the CDLI interface, I like the AIX trace facility, I like it all.
I was quite disappointed when that scene in the Matrix 2 turned out to be a mere scantily clad rave in a cave,
Had they given the actors real Ecstasy, you would have gotten your massive orgy wish. "
The sequels looked and felt like cartoons and the movie "played" like a video game.
Not to troll, but I think that was the Brother's intention! Matrix (the first one) as more of a setup to explain away the fact that they are doing things that are impossible in the real world, and then BAMM- heroic action-packed comics and video games.
This Coffee brews cold, and beats the pants off of your coffee.
/.?
Ohmigod, did I just get into a "My coffee is better than your coffee!" argument on
Time to go home, kids.
Uhm, first of all: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Cry me a river! Your poor wittle high school couldn't afford a baseball team! WHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Second of all: Do the research. McD's coffee Temp: 180 degrees. Its competitors? 155 degrees.
Thats a major temperature differential.
AS for the millions? The woman sued for 20,000 (her medical bills). The jury awarded millions, the judge reduced to 200k, THEN She and McD's settled (they would have appealed, otherwise) most likely for medical bills and court costs. Where are the millions?! Moron.
YOU are whats wrong with america. You are stupid, you don't do any research, and all you do is bitch.
Yes! McD's Coffee Law! ;)
Good point re: the selective quoting. Remember, this thing is saved as my Slashdot PGP signature (thats how often this shit comes up)- and MY point initially was that "This woman DID NOT get millions from this. Why? The judge lowered it, because the JUDGE has that power."
My intention wasn't to say who was at fault, or wether she should or shouldn't have sued. Its to show that there are some internal balancing mechanisms in the legal system. The additional implication hinted at by saying that "McD's and the woman settled for a sum far less" is that McD's had the right to appeal.
rock on... the thing that I posted is actually saved as my PGP signature here on slashdot! ;)
Another fact I should put in is that a random sampling of coffee from other drive thru's puts McD's at the high, some 15-17 degrees above its competitors (20 degrees above most).
So, if a guest comes to your house, and burns themselves making coffee or tea, should you be liable?
Yes. (P.S.- IANAL.)
But thats irrelevant to the grandparent post. The McD's case is not a "travesty of our judicial system"- but corporation getting whacked for a dangerous trend ( yes, 700 reported cases makes a trend). Considering that initially the woman only asked for monetary damages equaling her medical bills, I'm sure the final Amount was that plus her legal. I don't see how this is anything but the legal system empowering individuals against giant corporations.
get your facts straight. I hate it when people reference the McDonalds coffee case and don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
Here are some details:
What the jury didn't realize initially was the severity of her burns. Told during the trial of Mrs. Liebeck's seven days in the hospital and her skin grafts, and shown gruesome photographs, jurors began taking the matter more seriously. Even more eye-opening was the revelation that McDonald's had seen such injuries many times before. Company documents showed that in the past decade McDonald's had received at least 700 reports of coffee burns ranging from mild to third degree, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000.
POSTSCRIPT - Following the trial of Ms. Liebeck's case, the judge who presided over it reduced the punitive damages award to $480,000, even though the judge called McDonald's conduct reckless, callous and willful. This reduction is a corrective feature built into our legal system. Furthermore, after that, both parties agreed to a settlement of the claim for a sum reported to be much less than the judge's reduced award. Another corrective feature.
Nice sig.
FOr me DSL costs just about as much, with a $200 install fee (or something in that $200 neighborhood) for slower speeds (I get T1 from my cable modem, I guess no one in my neighborhood uses it!). It doesn't make sense! Cable seemed to come out cheaper.
So I get the basic, the plus, I added HBO, and Cable modem. I don't like digital (I think its 300 channels you don't get and 80 you do, most of which suck) so my bill is right around $100.
So $100 for T1 speeds and HBO. And their uptime has been pretty good*. yeah, that's worth it for me.
*- When DC was hit by that hurricane in Sept, they were down for a few hours. Some neighborhoods were without power for a week+. Thats good service. Last winter when Maryland was in a State of Emergency due to all the snow I telecommuted all week. Yep- I never lost cable.
indeed, you will either be right or wrong. We'll see (or we won't see) tommorrow.
Personally, I think you're right. I've been predicting that the sun will burn out tommorrow for years.
Abstract Idealism often predicts nothing. It tells the future, but it tells a future that never happens. What about my flying car? Vacations to the moon and mars? The 5 hour work-week?
A running joke with a colleague of mine is that if this "engineering thing" doesn't work out, we'll become professional nay-sayers. Predict doom, gloom, and failure, and when something we predict happens (statistically speaking, we have a 50/50 shot)we can say "I told ya so!"
Note his team name on the straight collar... that guy is frickin' K00l!