Aaaaand now that we can make pretty much perfect diamonds as large as you want with a fairly inexpensive vapor deposition chamber, all this will soon be no more than a waste of money, time and energy.
I love how the diamond industry used to derogate diamonds with flaws, but now they push them as evidence of "natural" diamonds.
- I can add flaws to the diamonds in the vapor dep chamber, too!
I have a 45 minute commute, and I drive across several states every couple months. Since I got my satellite radio the commute and the 13 - 20 hour drives fly by a LOT faster!
And I have discovered more new music (and comedians) in the past few months than I had in the past few years.
That may be a perfect phone call for chicks, but 9:36 is WAY too freaking long for guys.
Perfect guy phone call: *ring* Guy 1: Hello. Guy 2: Hey man, I'll meet you at the *bar/your place/bowling alley/casino/strip club/etc.* in 30 minutes. Guy 1: Cool. *click*
I didn't think the Japanese could do anything to make the bullet trains (Shinkansen) any more awesome. Those things are fun to ride. Smoother than France's TGV.
I am in a nearly identical situation. My company tests products. We don't MAKE anything except data. I am in charge of collecting the data and making it available in various forms. I am also in charge of all the maintenance data for the equipment used for testing.
Basically, our only product is data.
So here's how budget meetings go: Engineers: We need $50 MILLION this year for new testing equipment and maintenance contracts. Management: Done. Me: I need $30K for a couple new servers and a new drive array. I also need maybe $50K to hire a coder for 6 months to help me write software for that new $50 million in equipment. Management: That much? I don't know if we can afford it. Can't you make do with your current servers and write the software by yourself?
You've just learned the difference between Star Trek nerds and Slashdot nerds.
The words "silicon" and "round" make Slashdot nerds think of breasts. In the old Star Trek days, breasts were pointy. So true old school Star Trek nerds think horta eggs when they hear these words.
Ubuntu revitalized my old laptop. Now I use it as my primary "desktop" machine (since the battery lasts less than an hour) and use my new machine as a portable.
Back up your important stuff, wipe it and load up the Ubuntu. It will be like a new machine.
I turned it off 5 years ago, haven't missed it yet.
I get more done, and I can watch whatever I want on DVD.
Funny how I rarely have time to watch anything now, though...I have DVDs piling up that I've never seen. I can barely watch enough Netflix to make it worth the money, either.
Sadly, they already have plenty of reasons under this idea to block Netflix. Lots of movies show people under 18 in various states of undress and even in sexual situations. Comcast could easily use that as a pretext to block Netflix.
Just off the top of my head: Pretty Baby Sixteen Candles Porkies
All the "I've been using X for Y years!" comments remind me of a poll my local newspaper did back in 1994 when the Web and Internet were just becoming popular with the masses.
Over 40% of the respondents (out of over 900 in one city) said they had been using the Internet for 11 years or more. In 1994.
Slashdot Mirror
Aaaaand now that we can make pretty much perfect diamonds as large as you want with a fairly inexpensive vapor deposition chamber, all this will soon be no more than a waste of money, time and energy.
I love how the diamond industry used to derogate diamonds with flaws, but now they push them as evidence of "natural" diamonds.
- I can add flaws to the diamonds in the vapor dep chamber, too!
Exactly. Especially this part:
"you would spout the Union line. Microsoft has pumped tens of millions of dollars into your union"
Austin TX teachers are not unionized.
-former Austin teacher
Texas teachers are not unionized.
-former Texas teacher
I also got the lifetime subscription.
I have a 45 minute commute, and I drive across several states every couple months. Since I got my satellite radio the commute and the 13 - 20 hour drives fly by a LOT faster!
And I have discovered more new music (and comedians) in the past few months than I had in the past few years.
That may be a perfect phone call for chicks, but 9:36 is WAY too freaking long for guys.
Perfect guy phone call:
*ring*
Guy 1: Hello.
Guy 2: Hey man, I'll meet you at the *bar/your place/bowling alley/casino/strip club/etc.* in 30 minutes.
Guy 1: Cool.
*click*
Your local TSC store has all sorts of belts, gears, pulleys, hydraulic cylinders, etc. Not sure where you are but they seem to be all over the USA.
Even most Ace hardware stores carry a good supply of pulleys and belts for all sorts of applications.
I didn't think the Japanese could do anything to make the bullet trains (Shinkansen) any more awesome. Those things are fun to ride. Smoother than France's TGV.
This is big news for someone with a girlfriend in a coma!
Anyone remember how MS Word 6 came right after MS Word 2?
Wordperfect was already on version 5.1, so MS didn't want to seem behind the curve. Hence they just jumped to Word 6.
I am in a nearly identical situation. My company tests products. We don't MAKE anything except data. I am in charge of collecting the data and making it available in various forms. I am also in charge of all the maintenance data for the equipment used for testing.
Basically, our only product is data.
So here's how budget meetings go:
Engineers: We need $50 MILLION this year for new testing equipment and maintenance contracts.
Management: Done.
Me: I need $30K for a couple new servers and a new drive array. I also need maybe $50K to hire a coder for 6 months to help me write software for that new $50 million in equipment.
Management: That much? I don't know if we can afford it. Can't you make do with your current servers and write the software by yourself?
Aargh.
You just brought up a lot of bad memories.
Fie on you, I say!
You've just learned the difference between Star Trek nerds and Slashdot nerds.
The words "silicon" and "round" make Slashdot nerds think of breasts.
In the old Star Trek days, breasts were pointy. So true old school Star Trek nerds think horta eggs when they hear these words.
The answer is none.
None more round.
The Mims books and kits are very good.
And Ratshack also has an excellent microcontroller kit/book/CD called "What's a microcontroller".
Everything you need for learning and experiments (except the 9V battery). I've got one on my desk right now.
Everyone changes their pants and sings "Jerusalem" in falsetto?
Should be 79.43 degrees Smurdley
If you losers would get on the Potrzebie system we could avoid all this confusion.
Ubuntu revitalized my old laptop. Now I use it as my primary "desktop" machine (since the battery lasts less than an hour) and use my new machine as a portable.
Back up your important stuff, wipe it and load up the Ubuntu. It will be like a new machine.
I turned it off 5 years ago, haven't missed it yet.
I get more done, and I can watch whatever I want on DVD.
Funny how I rarely have time to watch anything now, though...I have DVDs piling up that I've never seen.
I can barely watch enough Netflix to make it worth the money, either.
Worse, their god knocked up a 14 year-old named Mary and left her homeless.
And her kid ended up hanging around with whores, before the Romans finally nailed some sense into him.
"oops! Netflix got on there!? "
Sadly, they already have plenty of reasons under this idea to block Netflix. Lots of movies show people under 18 in various states of undress and even in sexual situations. Comcast could easily use that as a pretext to block Netflix.
Just off the top of my head:
Pretty Baby
Sixteen Candles
Porkies
You get the idea.
The most you'll do is a few years in one of those "country club" prisons, right?
they can write documents or make music together
Get that damned "ARCHIES" tune out of my head!!!!!
I remember that from "The Harlem Globetrotters in Outer Space"!!!!
All the "I've been using X for Y years!" comments remind me of a poll my local newspaper did back in 1994 when the Web and Internet were just becoming popular with the masses.
Over 40% of the respondents (out of over 900 in one city) said they had been using the Internet for 11 years or more. In 1994.
Um...yeah.
I love Jesus, I Love that blood dripping from his wounds, I like the way he's scantly dressed, I wank over his image so much I could become a nun.
Now that their banning this kind of imagery it looks like my Jesus wanking days are over.
Damn...And me without mod points.