I don't know your financial situation, but at this point it should be clear that with 4 small children you ought to have around 12 months salary in cold hard cash (or equivalent) available for situations like this. It should be enough to ride out temporary unemployment.
In a past job I was working with safety data in the safety office of one of the big 3 car makers. These black boxes are occasionally used by accident investigators that collect accident data. The data is confidential (their data...if the police then collect it obviously thats a different matter). But it can be useful.
One case study that we were doing involved a guy who drove a shiny new car into a bridge pillar at 70mph. By examining the black box data it was clear that it was a suicide attempt (30% throttle until 3 seconds before the impact then it went to 100%, brakes never touched).
Data is collected in a variety of ways...some are low on details and widely collect. Some, like the case above, are in depth investigations into how accidents and cooresponding injuries occur. The answer to this general problem is legislation that makes this data private and valid for confidential use only by accident investigators.
I bought my replay a while back when there was no such thing as a lifetime subscription, it was just a part of the service you got by buying the unit. In other words, though I don't recall exactly how it was phrased, I thought of my program data as something I was entitled to by buying the box, not by buying some kind of subscription.
A subtle point, but I"ll have to see if I have any info on my unit and how the program data worked. Probably don't have anything anymore...
Ok, I know you wanted cheap...but this is overall pretty cheap in my opinion. I pay about $120 to have both state and federal returns prepared. This includes capital gains stuff, tuition credits, some royalties I get on mineral rights, and my regular income which is erratic because I only work during various times of the year. I usually need 3 or 4 extra IRS forms beyond the regular 1040, and it would take me quite a number of hours to do it myself.
The tax preparers are really good and they know lots of tricks for getting the best deal (all still on the up and up). They handle all the hassles. And $120 is cheap given the amount of time saved, the guarantee that its right, etc.
You're luckier than I am...I usually live in Michigan, but am temporarily living in Austin Texas for the next month. There are no theatres within 40 miles with this near Austin. There are 7 within 40 miles of where I live in Michigan!!
I really doubt it will still be out when I get back...too bad, 800 theatres is just not enough.
So I've heard this version is dubbed from the original. I've only seen a subtitled version of the original, and I wonder what people thought of the dubbed version. Japanese speech is kind of an interesting sound and it fits well with anime, so I just wonder if anything gets lost this way.
If there are good voice actors, it could be great I suppose. I would welcome comments!
Can't be too hard, just call once and pretend you want to buy. If they offer to sell, then you reveal you're the police and demand they turn themselves in. They hang up, you begin harrassment.
Who is buying AMD server chips anyways ? AMD's market is the desktop world. I've never seen a serious shop that put high-end servers on AMD chips.
Hmm, did you think before you wrote that? No one makes a high end AMD server because they don't make chips for high end servers. MP chips are acceptable for workstations and value end servers, but certainely were not meant for high end servers.
I get that all the time as well. Pages on slashdot either load very fast, or very very slowly. this only happens to me on slashdot, so I assume it is their problem.
I got scammed like this about 4 year ago....send a guy a shipment of MP3 players, fake escrow never released the cash. The site was very professional, nothing to make me suspicious. But, I'm out 7K....I was able to track down the guy, but he is Romanian. And as you can imagine that is pretty much a black hole for this kind of stuff...
As you said, you have to screen it. Read the title, then the abstract, then the whole paper. Only if at each stage you are still interested.
You've overlooked the people who do research on something specific. I mean the person who is typing in a bunch of keywords, and hoping to find a specific set of info. This is where you really need as much info as possible, because it really sucks to find not much available on the subject you are looking in to.
Well yes. I use highlighting very frequently. I search the page by typing in items and clicking on the box to skip from term to term. I use the 'search site' button constantly. I look at the pagerank indicator to see how popular the site I'm on is...etc. etc. I'm going to check out the mozbar though, hopefully it will satisfy my needs!
One thing that is really keeping me from using Mozilla is the fact that I can't use my google toolbar. I've become dependant on it, to be honest. So, it would be cool if Mozilla could emulate IE somehow or another to fool Google and be able to have IE style custom toolbars. Not sure if this is possible....
That just means that the weather or equipment is the problem. You'll notice that the networks can run live video over satellite. Ford and probably the other auto companies have Satellite networks for distance learning, internet access, etc. to all their dealerships. It has decent speeds, but the latency is really bad if you're trying to do something like surf the web. If you can just start up a long stream (like video or large file downloads), then the latency is significantly mitigated.
Ok, so they acknowledge that microsoft has known about the problen since November
News flash, it IS NOVEMBER RIGHT NOW. You say that like it was November of 1998 or something....who knows how long they have known it could be 24 hours.
First of all, Windows does everything I need. It does it or has software for it.
Games pretty much always work with windows
I need IE for my google toolbar
I already know how to use windows in depth. I work with computers all day, and really don't have any interest in figuring out how to do administrative stuff on a new one at night. I can use Linux/UNIX just fine, but my knowledge of config files, etc is not very good.
I'm a student and get Microsoft software essentially free.
These are in no particular order, and there are lots of other reasons. But its a start.
Thats a good idea. I was really referring to developers when I posted my comment, not the travel department or something. I'm doing hardware debug work, and if for example I need to install a packet sniffer to see why the LAN isn't working correctly on my board I just need to get that done.
Our systems here are primarily our problem. I don't think they really support the things we do beyond reimaging the drive if it is truly hosed. We all have access to ghost anyway, and I've learned from experience to keep images of systems when you have them in a specific configuration you're going to need for testing, etc.
I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination.
I hate that crap. My last job was like that, and productivity was very poor. You have to move fast, and delaying for a week to get IS to approve and install some kind of utility or program you need is rediculous. Those companies deserve what they get, which is probably bankruptcy.
I've heard people say this before, but I never signed anything that I know of when I came to my university. Maybe its different as a grad student, but all I had to sign was an application and that only said that I was swearing to the truthfulness of my answers.
I submitted this as a story, but it was rejected. Google has incorporated distributed computing into its toolbar as an option. The first supported project is Folding@Home, but they will add more projects in the future. Its optional, and currently has only been released to a few toolbar users. It will gradually be released to all users. Check it out at toolbar.google.com/dc/. Google is currently seventh in the team statistics...
This news has made my day. I'm being optimistic and hopeful here, but could this day signal the beginning of the end of Microsoft?
There will never be the "end" of microsoft if the current model of software and hardware remains the same. There can only be meaningful competition. If you think that eventually everyone will just choose Linux instead, you're crazy. An example....toyotas are much higher in quality than Fords. And yet, ford still sells millions of cars each year.
There are a lot of things that influence people to buy things. Features, cost, style, familiarity, etc. You can't come up with one product that serves everyone's needs all the time.
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I don't know your financial situation, but at this point it should be clear that with 4 small children you ought to have around 12 months salary in cold hard cash (or equivalent) available for situations like this. It should be enough to ride out temporary unemployment.
One case study that we were doing involved a guy who drove a shiny new car into a bridge pillar at 70mph. By examining the black box data it was clear that it was a suicide attempt (30% throttle until 3 seconds before the impact then it went to 100%, brakes never touched).
Data is collected in a variety of ways...some are low on details and widely collect. Some, like the case above, are in depth investigations into how accidents and cooresponding injuries occur. The answer to this general problem is legislation that makes this data private and valid for confidential use only by accident investigators.
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A subtle point, but I"ll have to see if I have any info on my unit and how the program data worked. Probably don't have anything anymore...
Conspiracy theory: He created this bug because he's a karma whore!! :)
The tax preparers are really good and they know lots of tricks for getting the best deal (all still on the up and up). They handle all the hassles. And $120 is cheap given the amount of time saved, the guarantee that its right, etc.
I really doubt it will still be out when I get back...too bad, 800 theatres is just not enough.
If there are good voice actors, it could be great I suppose. I would welcome comments!
Can't be too hard, just call once and pretend you want to buy. If they offer to sell, then you reveal you're the police and demand they turn themselves in. They hang up, you begin harrassment.
Who is buying AMD server chips anyways ? AMD's market is the desktop world. I've never seen a serious shop that put high-end servers on AMD chips.
Hmm, did you think before you wrote that? No one makes a high end AMD server because they don't make chips for high end servers. MP chips are acceptable for workstations and value end servers, but certainely were not meant for high end servers.
I get that all the time as well. Pages on slashdot either load very fast, or very very slowly. this only happens to me on slashdot, so I assume it is their problem.
Instead of "don't trust contractors," how about "Don't fucking steal company's trade secrets!"?
Lesson learned!
As you said, you have to screen it. Read the title, then the abstract, then the whole paper. Only if at each stage you are still interested.
You've overlooked the people who do research on something specific. I mean the person who is typing in a bunch of keywords, and hoping to find a specific set of info. This is where you really need as much info as possible, because it really sucks to find not much available on the subject you are looking in to.
Thanks...I'll check them out and be a mozilla user within a few days with luck. I'll probably also need to replace my form filler. Any suggestions?
Well yes. I use highlighting very frequently. I search the page by typing in items and clicking on the box to skip from term to term. I use the 'search site' button constantly. I look at the pagerank indicator to see how popular the site I'm on is...etc. etc. I'm going to check out the mozbar though, hopefully it will satisfy my needs!
One thing that is really keeping me from using Mozilla is the fact that I can't use my google toolbar. I've become dependant on it, to be honest. So, it would be cool if Mozilla could emulate IE somehow or another to fool Google and be able to have IE style custom toolbars. Not sure if this is possible....
That just means that the weather or equipment is the problem. You'll notice that the networks can run live video over satellite. Ford and probably the other auto companies have Satellite networks for distance learning, internet access, etc. to all their dealerships. It has decent speeds, but the latency is really bad if you're trying to do something like surf the web. If you can just start up a long stream (like video or large file downloads), then the latency is significantly mitigated.
Ok, so they acknowledge that microsoft has known about the problen since November
News flash, it IS NOVEMBER RIGHT NOW. You say that like it was November of 1998 or something....who knows how long they have known it could be 24 hours.
Games pretty much always work with windows
I need IE for my google toolbar
I already know how to use windows in depth. I work with computers all day, and really don't have any interest in figuring out how to do administrative stuff on a new one at night. I can use Linux/UNIX just fine, but my knowledge of config files, etc is not very good.
I'm a student and get Microsoft software essentially free.
These are in no particular order, and there are lots of other reasons. But its a start.
Our systems here are primarily our problem. I don't think they really support the things we do beyond reimaging the drive if it is truly hosed. We all have access to ghost anyway, and I've learned from experience to keep images of systems when you have them in a specific configuration you're going to need for testing, etc.
I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination.
I hate that crap. My last job was like that, and productivity was very poor. You have to move fast, and delaying for a week to get IS to approve and install some kind of utility or program you need is rediculous. Those companies deserve what they get, which is probably bankruptcy.
I've heard people say this before, but I never signed anything that I know of when I came to my university. Maybe its different as a grad student, but all I had to sign was an application and that only said that I was swearing to the truthfulness of my answers.
I submitted this as a story, but it was rejected. Google has incorporated distributed computing into its toolbar as an option. The first supported project is Folding@Home, but they will add more projects in the future. Its optional, and currently has only been released to a few toolbar users. It will gradually be released to all users. Check it out at toolbar.google.com/dc/. Google is currently seventh in the team statistics...
There will never be the "end" of microsoft if the current model of software and hardware remains the same. There can only be meaningful competition. If you think that eventually everyone will just choose Linux instead, you're crazy. An example....toyotas are much higher in quality than Fords. And yet, ford still sells millions of cars each year.
There are a lot of things that influence people to buy things. Features, cost, style, familiarity, etc. You can't come up with one product that serves everyone's needs all the time.