I didn't fight often, but that was because I learned very quickly that my actions had consequences. I learned that it can sometimes hurt as much to punch someone as to get punched. I also learned that to avoid a physical confrontation, I needed to work on my diplomacy and many times my over-all prick-titude.
There is something to be said about the whole "yea he beat you, but really you asked for it". Society becomes a lot more polite when they realize a slug to the face won't land the hitter in jail. Now a days the winners are those who can subtely harass people - you know the people - those who can manipulate the words to antagonize someone but only the victim see's it and it is intended so only the victim see's it. Back in the day - the victim could say "Yea you may be smarter then me with words, but you know what" Story over. Now-a-days the verbal harasser laughs the entire way - and if he gets hit, he goes and cries to the cops and the lawyers.
I am not advocating gun-violence, knifing, or rodney king style beatings - but a wise-ass getting slugged in the face will prevent said wise-ass from talking shit again. I think it may also reduce some gun-violence - ever hear the stories of how a person mouthed off to the wrong person and then got shot? That is probably because the guy who likes to talk crap has a sense of security that he can run his mouth off and not suffer consequences....then he encounters the person who doesn't give a crap about life or law and owns a gun. When people have a healthy respect (and fear) about consequences to their actions then they are a bit more likely to control themselves.
I disagree with you. You are thinking in terms of what we have today. So if you remove the slashes today we would have issues. If, however, they designed the system to use something other then the// they would have created a new convention to avoid easily created issues. IM windows and other programs like IRC would have also used a different convention. They use the current convention because that was what they designed their systems for.
True-story - had a customer whose brother wanted to do him a favor and clean his servers. Since he had hot-swappable drives, the brother figured he could pull them out and vacuum in between (get rid of the dust). So while the servers were on he pulled out two-three drives at a time. All of the data was corrupted. Good news: The guy had weekly backups in case there was a building fire. Bad news: Guy lost about one weeks worth of customer sales data (retail business). The customer was very cool/level headed, but he paid thousands of dollars in an attempt to recover the data. I don't think we recovered anything (too badly corrupted).
Yes, thanks to the wall-street journal I'll be sure to put all of my work-confidential (and someone will be sure to put their military top-secret) plans on Facebook, myspace, and google docs.
Internal e-mail, internal sharepoints, etc are the way to go. Companies are starting to incorporate internal sharepoints because it saves bandwidth then trying to e-mail 100 people a 5 mb PDF file (which network admins just LOVE). Especially since each time someone modifies the do cument they forward it back to the 100 people...where-as sharepoint can keep different versions of the same document - and overall saves space. That, however, won't replace the e-mail...it just means that the e-mail will contain a URL to the sharepoint site. Unless someone e-mails me I don't go to the sharepoint and most people are like that - how else will I know when someone uploaded a doc that is relevant to me.
think he may possibly deserver the prize, but its too early to say. Shouldn't they have waited to see if he manages to sort out Iraq, bring peace to the Middle East or something like that? After all if he does manage it now there will be nothing to reward him with.
I agree it's a bit early - at least give him a couple years in service, but I don't agree that it has to mean he accomplished things like peace in the middle east....remember Clinton got one for his middle east peace accords...and look where that got us.
While a lot of people are saying "OMG obama is trying to play nice to everyone" and they say this is a bad thing - except it isnt. Each person has their own perspective. For those that are old enough to remember the cold war...Americans viewed the russians as the axis of evil...do you think the russians viewed themselves as the axis of evil and the people in the wrong? No they viewed americans as the axis of evil and in the wrong. Jihadists view americans as wrong. China views america as wrong. Wrong/Right = perspective. So by pointing a finger at someone and saying "you are wrong and you suck" all you will do is cause them to be more pissed at you. So Obama is trying to play nice to everyone and hopefully get them to trust him so he can foster some kind of positive growth, advancement, and ideas. Hey - Bush went on the "bomb you" path and we didn't get far, so let's give this path a try.
That doesn't mean rockets are the end-all-be-all. Solar sails, photonic propulsion, ion drives, and maybe this particle accelerator drive might all be far better engines for certain applications.
Knowing us, we will figure out how to do it and in about 50 years the new global warming will be global shifting. Democrats will want new laws to correct this before we kill ourselves, and republicans will call it pseudo-science with no real fact. I won't worry about 100 years because global warming (a buzz-word forgotten by then since it is replaced by global shifting) will have killed us.
Next thing you know we'll have Romulans visiting. I'm liking all of this already
Don't you mean vulcans? Besides why would you want romulans? Those folks will eat our faces.
I am comforted to know that R&D has already moved on to the next version. This is typical in big companies...while one department is developing the next big thing, their R&D department is talking up and planning for the thing that comes after that. Not a big deal. It doesn't mean windows 8/9 will be available in 2010/2011 - it just means they are getting ready.
Besides windows 7 is just about to get released, it only makes sense that they start planning on the next big thing. Remember they have different departments and the one that will handle windows 7 is not the one that will handle 8.
There's a tremendous variety to the powers you can use, to the point where it's almost better to figure out what you want your character to do -- drop bombs, sling ice shards, Force-choke -- than to look at the abilities and figure out which are the "best."
With the exception of the RP servers it is always about the best - even on the RP servers. At least with this (according to the article) the best can be remade to look like something else? So far the read sounds good - if they have a demo I will try it (my fiancee will kill me)
I might consider an Immersion bath if the blasted tub wasn't so dang small I mean come on how the heck am I, at 6feet and 4 inches tall, supposed to get my body into a 5 foot tub.
Bend your legs. What you really meant to say "I mean come on how the heck am I, at 350 lbs of fat, supposed to get my body into a 2.5 foot wide tub"
See you simply don't care to keep yourself or your family healthy. I change my shower heads, shower pipes, tile, grout, and wetboard once/week. The bathroom manufacturers who came out with this study....err who have HEARD of this study think it is a good idea.
Some safety tips
1) If you don't know it, don't use it
2) If you must purchase use a credit card (not debit card, not direct checking accuont)
3) Different passwords for different sites (even groups are fine...e.g. your bank password is OK for your brokerage password, but not for your porn site password)
4) Anti spyware softwre, anti-virus software - all set to high security levels
You all know this but basically that is the crux of security
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The research is sketchy in this article. Many people would take the risk in going - but most people are not qualified. You just don't send anyone (due to cost, resources, etc) you send out people who can offer something. Would I go? Hell yea. What could I offer? Maybe some leadership, a joke or two, maybe some muscle if they need it. Other then that - i have no flight training, scientific skill at that level, medical training...wait wait - once they implement kitchens I am a damn good cook...but until then the astronauts have to settle for dehydrated ice cream.
So yes - tons of people would go - tons of people would not be eligible to go (at least not until we get to the point where space flight is just as routine as hopping in an air plane or in a car).
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Oh I agree. There is a difference between the harddrive we buy at newegg and the hard drive from EMC. It is a matter of quality and reliability. You pay more for EMC because they gaurantee better reliability.
As for paying a premium paying someone to wake up at 3AM to fix a bad hard drive...that's why you have salaried employees. 24/7...same paycheck
You are neglecting the context of the situation. They are not getting sued for selling quack devices. Not getting sued for just sitting around using the quack devices. They are getting sued for using the quack devices while giving a city tour. Let them use the quack devices while sitting at a restaurant eating pizza - then they can make their own TM.
It seems your argument is based on trademark (with regards to sound) protecting identifying markers (e.g. MGM lion) and that trademark would not apply to functional purposes which would require a patent.
Given that - what functional purpose does the quack sound on this tour-bus (it also goes on water) have? While it could be argued, I highly doubt it would pass mustard (at least ours) to say the sound is to warn passerby to avoid accidents -- maybe warn other ducks;) The sound identifies this tour-bus group. I live in center city philly - whenever I hear it I know they are nearby. I also want to pitch a pile of horse crap at them but hey:)
Unless there was a timing issue (e.g. they trademarked this last week, or the other company has been doing this before these guys have) this lawsuit is legitimate. Someone came up with an idea (i personally hate the quack duck tours but that is me) and it made them money. There are tons of tours going around and this was a unique idea to involve kids and adults who enjoy acting as kids. While people may not agree with trademarks they are legitimate and a company has a right to protect their trademark - especially when it makes money for them.
How about this...for every message over 20/day that you send you get charged. That would make it so those who send under 20 don't get charged while those who send over 20 get charged. Let it be an increasing charge.
First 20 - Free
21-100 = $0.001 cents per e-mail
100+ = $0.01 cents per e-mail
This would still hurt spammers who send e-mails in the tens of thousands+ range and would provide little hinderance to casual e-mailers.
Then we can make this a mandatory system. I would feel OK with this. But a flat $0.01 per e-mail? I send lots of e-mails.
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I didn't fight often, but that was because I learned very quickly that my actions had consequences. I learned that it can sometimes hurt as much to punch someone as to get punched. I also learned that to avoid a physical confrontation, I needed to work on my diplomacy and many times my over-all prick-titude.
There is something to be said about the whole "yea he beat you, but really you asked for it". Society becomes a lot more polite when they realize a slug to the face won't land the hitter in jail. Now a days the winners are those who can subtely harass people - you know the people - those who can manipulate the words to antagonize someone but only the victim see's it and it is intended so only the victim see's it. Back in the day - the victim could say "Yea you may be smarter then me with words, but you know what" Story over. Now-a-days the verbal harasser laughs the entire way - and if he gets hit, he goes and cries to the cops and the lawyers.
I am not advocating gun-violence, knifing, or rodney king style beatings - but a wise-ass getting slugged in the face will prevent said wise-ass from talking shit again. I think it may also reduce some gun-violence - ever hear the stories of how a person mouthed off to the wrong person and then got shot? That is probably because the guy who likes to talk crap has a sense of security that he can run his mouth off and not suffer consequences....then he encounters the person who doesn't give a crap about life or law and owns a gun. When people have a healthy respect (and fear) about consequences to their actions then they are a bit more likely to control themselves.
I hate you all. You all suck.....hold on someone is banging on my doo-+ATDT1470,08456040875 NO CARRIER ERROR
I disagree with you. You are thinking in terms of what we have today. So if you remove the slashes today we would have issues. If, however, they designed the system to use something other then the // they would have created a new convention to avoid easily created issues. IM windows and other programs like IRC would have also used a different convention. They use the current convention because that was what they designed their systems for.
True-story - had a customer whose brother wanted to do him a favor and clean his servers. Since he had hot-swappable drives, the brother figured he could pull them out and vacuum in between (get rid of the dust). So while the servers were on he pulled out two-three drives at a time. All of the data was corrupted. Good news: The guy had weekly backups in case there was a building fire. Bad news: Guy lost about one weeks worth of customer sales data (retail business). The customer was very cool/level headed, but he paid thousands of dollars in an attempt to recover the data. I don't think we recovered anything (too badly corrupted).
Yes, thanks to the wall-street journal I'll be sure to put all of my work-confidential (and someone will be sure to put their military top-secret) plans on Facebook, myspace, and google docs.
Internal e-mail, internal sharepoints, etc are the way to go. Companies are starting to incorporate internal sharepoints because it saves bandwidth then trying to e-mail 100 people a 5 mb PDF file (which network admins just LOVE). Especially since each time someone modifies the do cument they forward it back to the 100 people...where-as sharepoint can keep different versions of the same document - and overall saves space. That, however, won't replace the e-mail...it just means that the e-mail will contain a URL to the sharepoint site. Unless someone e-mails me I don't go to the sharepoint and most people are like that - how else will I know when someone uploaded a doc that is relevant to me.
But facebook? Yea right....
think he may possibly deserver the prize, but its too early to say. Shouldn't they have waited to see if he manages to sort out Iraq, bring peace to the Middle East or something like that? After all if he does manage it now there will be nothing to reward him with.
I agree it's a bit early - at least give him a couple years in service, but I don't agree that it has to mean he accomplished things like peace in the middle east....remember Clinton got one for his middle east peace accords...and look where that got us.
While a lot of people are saying "OMG obama is trying to play nice to everyone" and they say this is a bad thing - except it isnt. Each person has their own perspective. For those that are old enough to remember the cold war...Americans viewed the russians as the axis of evil...do you think the russians viewed themselves as the axis of evil and the people in the wrong? No they viewed americans as the axis of evil and in the wrong. Jihadists view americans as wrong. China views america as wrong. Wrong/Right = perspective. So by pointing a finger at someone and saying "you are wrong and you suck" all you will do is cause them to be more pissed at you. So Obama is trying to play nice to everyone and hopefully get them to trust him so he can foster some kind of positive growth, advancement, and ideas. Hey - Bush went on the "bomb you" path and we didn't get far, so let's give this path a try.
That doesn't mean rockets are the end-all-be-all. Solar sails, photonic propulsion, ion drives, and maybe this particle accelerator drive might all be far better engines for certain applications.
Knowing us, we will figure out how to do it and in about 50 years the new global warming will be global shifting. Democrats will want new laws to correct this before we kill ourselves, and republicans will call it pseudo-science with no real fact. I won't worry about 100 years because global warming (a buzz-word forgotten by then since it is replaced by global shifting) will have killed us.
Next thing you know we'll have Romulans visiting. I'm liking all of this already Don't you mean vulcans? Besides why would you want romulans? Those folks will eat our faces.
I am comforted to know that R&D has already moved on to the next version. This is typical in big companies...while one department is developing the next big thing, their R&D department is talking up and planning for the thing that comes after that. Not a big deal. It doesn't mean windows 8/9 will be available in 2010/2011 - it just means they are getting ready.
Besides windows 7 is just about to get released, it only makes sense that they start planning on the next big thing. Remember they have different departments and the one that will handle windows 7 is not the one that will handle 8.
64 bit to 128 bit is a bit more then doubled...a lot of bits more. Remember binary, not base-10.
As for why that number...these things are always in creasing in such stages, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128...next would be 256
You get modded down for trash talking MS? On which web forums? Certainly not slashdot. Getting Karma Excellente' is assured by trash talking MS.
Show her a big fat diamond under water (scuba), and hold a knife to her hose. Works great!
BTW the proof of engagement: Engagement while Scuba
There's a tremendous variety to the powers you can use, to the point where it's almost better to figure out what you want your character to do -- drop bombs, sling ice shards, Force-choke -- than to look at the abilities and figure out which are the "best."
With the exception of the RP servers it is always about the best - even on the RP servers. At least with this (according to the article) the best can be remade to look like something else? So far the read sounds good - if they have a demo I will try it (my fiancee will kill me)
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An increase in Chinese school teaching and administrative position availability. They are also on short supply for medical examiners.
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I might consider an Immersion bath if the blasted tub wasn't so dang small I mean come on how the heck am I, at 6feet and 4 inches tall, supposed to get my body into a 5 foot tub.
Bend your legs. What you really meant to say "I mean come on how the heck am I, at 350 lbs of fat, supposed to get my body into a 2.5 foot wide tub"
If the water were hot enough to kill the germs you would be screaming like Jamie "The Scream Queen" Lee Curtis. Then you would be hospitalized.
See you simply don't care to keep yourself or your family healthy. I change my shower heads, shower pipes, tile, grout, and wetboard once/week. The bathroom manufacturers who came out with this study....err who have HEARD of this study think it is a good idea.
$1,750 on a good day but as low as $32.94.
Some safety tips
1) If you don't know it, don't use it
2) If you must purchase use a credit card (not debit card, not direct checking accuont)
3) Different passwords for different sites (even groups are fine...e.g. your bank password is OK for your brokerage password, but not for your porn site password)
4) Anti spyware softwre, anti-virus software - all set to high security levels
You all know this but basically that is the crux of security
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Scuba Engagement
The research is sketchy in this article. Many people would take the risk in going - but most people are not qualified. You just don't send anyone (due to cost, resources, etc) you send out people who can offer something. Would I go? Hell yea. What could I offer? Maybe some leadership, a joke or two, maybe some muscle if they need it. Other then that - i have no flight training, scientific skill at that level, medical training...wait wait - once they implement kitchens I am a damn good cook...but until then the astronauts have to settle for dehydrated ice cream.
So yes - tons of people would go - tons of people would not be eligible to go (at least not until we get to the point where space flight is just as routine as hopping in an air plane or in a car).
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Scuba Engagement
Oh I agree. There is a difference between the harddrive we buy at newegg and the hard drive from EMC. It is a matter of quality and reliability. You pay more for EMC because they gaurantee better reliability.
As for paying a premium paying someone to wake up at 3AM to fix a bad hard drive...that's why you have salaried employees. 24/7...same paycheck
You are neglecting the context of the situation. They are not getting sued for selling quack devices. Not getting sued for just sitting around using the quack devices. They are getting sued for using the quack devices while giving a city tour. Let them use the quack devices while sitting at a restaurant eating pizza - then they can make their own TM.
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Damn you philadelphia public schools for getting rid of latin!
Thank you Google for translating Latin!
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It seems your argument is based on trademark (with regards to sound) protecting identifying markers (e.g. MGM lion) and that trademark would not apply to functional purposes which would require a patent.
;) The sound identifies this tour-bus group. I live in center city philly - whenever I hear it I know they are nearby. I also want to pitch a pile of horse crap at them but hey :)
Given that - what functional purpose does the quack sound on this tour-bus (it also goes on water) have? While it could be argued, I highly doubt it would pass mustard (at least ours) to say the sound is to warn passerby to avoid accidents -- maybe warn other ducks
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Scuba
Unless there was a timing issue (e.g. they trademarked this last week, or the other company has been doing this before these guys have) this lawsuit is legitimate. Someone came up with an idea (i personally hate the quack duck tours but that is me) and it made them money. There are tons of tours going around and this was a unique idea to involve kids and adults who enjoy acting as kids. While people may not agree with trademarks they are legitimate and a company has a right to protect their trademark - especially when it makes money for them.
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How about this...for every message over 20/day that you send you get charged. That would make it so those who send under 20 don't get charged while those who send over 20 get charged. Let it be an increasing charge. First 20 - Free 21-100 = $0.001 cents per e-mail 100+ = $0.01 cents per e-mail This would still hurt spammers who send e-mails in the tens of thousands+ range and would provide little hinderance to casual e-mailers.
Then we can make this a mandatory system. I would feel OK with this. But a flat $0.01 per e-mail? I send lots of e-mails.