But they are POWER supplies, not voltage supplies. A cell phone needs much less power than a PowerBook. Thus it would be absurd to make power supplies standard. (I personally don't want to carry around a 65 W brick for my mp3 player).
Not sure if you are trolling or not, but I'll bite...
He doesn't think his poem is great. The reason he won is that some old ladies and gay dudes thought it was 'interesting', even though they likely didn't understand what it was about.
Where I work, it's made pretty clear that contractors aren't real people. Nowhere is this more evident than the patent-compensation system. 'Real' employees get a $2,500 bonus. After 5 patents, I believe it's a $10,000 bonus. Not bad. Contractors get NOTHING. Not even a plaque. A guy who works in the same lab as I do has his name on 3 patents, and he has never gotten any recognition whatsoever.
So... don't expect anything for a patent unless you have an agreement guaranteeing compensation. Companies don't give a crap about their employees anymore, and just want to use you up until they can find an Indian/Philipino to replace you for 1/5 the cost.
Uh... I see no comparison here. The Timex watch has 1/2 the storage, appears much bigger, and it doesn't fit on your wrist. I also think the laks watch is much nicer looking. The USB cable, though obvious, blends well with the rest of the watch.
AFAIK, Marantz remotes are all OEM'd products that are nearly identical to other products on the market. For instance, the RC3200 and ProntoNeo are identical, save for aesthetics. So if anyone's inspired to go get a remote, check the equivalent products before making a decision. One may be cheaper than the other.
Plug: My wife just got me a ProntoNeo, and I have to say it's quite cool. I've finally been able to get rid of the three remotes I had to use before.
Worst... Job... Ever... And I cleaned metal lathes 40 hours a week back during my high school summers. Nothing makes me appreciate my sweet software engineering position as much as my memories of countless hours spent counting stuff. We did it all: Clothes, Hardware, food, etc. I'm sure it was dosconcerting for the customers at Wal-Mart seeing a bunch of losers rifling through all the meat in the refridgerated section.
Yeah, but what if your build takes over an hour? (Like where I work) Say you need something checked in, like now. You're sure it works, but you have to hang out for an hour to make sure it went in? There is a certain level of trust you need in a development environment. Waiting for it to completely rebuild simply isn't always an option.
Sure, you can generally do partial builds. But what happens when you just had to change that include file that somehow effects nearly everything else? You're stuck for that hour.
The US government once offered a program to do your taxes for you. It was free, I believe. Too bad it was heavily slanted to benefit the government. Do you trust your government enough that they will give you all teh deductions you're due? I don't.
You got a prebate cartridge somehow. That was a goof by Lexmark.
In case anyone else is wondering, Lexmark has a 'prebate' program where you can buy cartridges cheaper than 'non-prebate' cartridges. When you buy one of these, you have to agree to mail the cartridge back. When we would order them for the computer lab I worked in, they always came with a UPS label to mail it back. I'm pretty sure a printer is supposed to come with a regular cartridge.
What I think may end up happening is that the printer companies will find that the public has a distaste for this sort of profit structure and change their ways. The end result? Printer prices will rise, and supply prices will drop. There is an equilibrium that can be reached by making a profit off of supplies and hardware.
In a few years, I guarantee people start complaining that printers are too expensive. "They used to be cheap!" Tough, you can't have it both ways. Printing costs money.
Yeah, but cars are expensive, right? So are printers that have cheap supplies with lower profit margins on them. If you really want to get a printer that is cheap to keep supplied, you'll need to spend at least a grand for a color laser.
If the bottom really does drop out on the supplies market, then printer prices will get higher. That's really fine and dandy with me, but will Joe Consumer (Joe Consumer != Slashdot Reader) really want to spend $500 on a printer so he can buy ink for $10 a pop? I somehow doubt it.
The current business model is "Sell the printer at a loss, clean up on supplies."
Since the printer companies won't be able to rely on this anymore, they will have to jack up prices just to make a profit.
This is something I don't think many (non-techie) consumers realize. Many complain about high ink prices, but don't realize the manufacturer probably sold the printer at a loss.
"You might not be able to distinguish between a stealth plane and a normal one, but you might not need to," he said. "The point is, you can see the stealth plane as a blip."
So, as I understand it, you simply need 'regular' radar which cannot detect a stealth craft. Then, subtract what your regular radar sees from what the cell towers see, and you've got yourself a stealth detection device.
Even if an employer wants 2 years of experience, go for it if you feel qualified. I only had about 1 year of experience, all coop. I applied for a job that wanted 3-5 years experience, and I got it. Granted, I am getting paid a little less than the advertised rate, but it's a job.
I remember seeing 5+ years in Java Enterprise Edition and 2+ years with.NET when looking around last spring. That's nonsense, and most people know it. Why companies do this, I don't know. Don't let it discourage you. If you really feel you are qualified, sell yourself anyway. Talk about why you are good for the job despite not having the desired experience. You have nothing to lose.
'Audiophile' computer speakers for that price simply are not made. It's a fact of life.
But... $200 will buy you some pretty nice headphones. I have the Sennheiser HD-580's and they are most excellent. They sound better than any stereo speakers I've ever heard. Check out headroom and headwize for heaphone info.
Though, if you have already decided that speakers are a must and headphones are out, I think Logitech has the best bang for the buck.
First off, macros are generally evil. With that out of my system, you're also not quite correct.
Macros are simply 'cut-n-pasted' into the source, then compiled. Thus, no type checking takes place.
There are many reasons you should try not to use macros. Personally, I try to avoid any preprocessing when I can. The C++ FAQ Lite is much better at explaining it all that I. More specifcially, try Reason 1Reason 2Reason 3Reason 4
I realize the article says that some soil can provide many years of nickel mining, but will these extraordinarily tough plants help reclaim the land for agriculture? Once the plants have extracted all they can, I wonder if the toxicity levels will be low enough for food-producing plants to thrive once again.
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But they are POWER supplies, not voltage supplies. A cell phone needs much less power than a PowerBook. Thus it would be absurd to make power supplies standard. (I personally don't want to carry around a 65 W brick for my mp3 player).
Not sure if you are trolling or not, but I'll bite...
He doesn't think his poem is great. The reason he won is that some old ladies and gay dudes thought it was 'interesting', even though they likely didn't understand what it was about.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ!!! WTF does a phone need 1/4 GB of RAM for?
Where I work, it's made pretty clear that contractors aren't real people. Nowhere is this more evident than the patent-compensation system. 'Real' employees get a $2,500 bonus. After 5 patents, I believe it's a $10,000 bonus. Not bad. Contractors get NOTHING. Not even a plaque. A guy who works in the same lab as I do has his name on 3 patents, and he has never gotten any recognition whatsoever.
So... don't expect anything for a patent unless you have an agreement guaranteeing compensation. Companies don't give a crap about their employees anymore, and just want to use you up until they can find an Indian/Philipino to replace you for 1/5 the cost.
Wow, only 4 hours! I can't wait to walk my Mom through that on her iMac...
I'd mod this up as 'Scary', but it doesn't appear to be an option.
Uh... I see no comparison here. The Timex watch has 1/2 the storage, appears much bigger, and it doesn't fit on your wrist. I also think the laks watch is much nicer looking. The USB cable, though obvious, blends well with the rest of the watch.
Whoops, my bad. I knew that the high-end models were OEMed, and thus thought they all were.
In any case, the marantz version generally look a hell of a lot cooler.
AFAIK, Marantz remotes are all OEM'd products that are nearly identical to other products on the market. For instance, the RC3200 and ProntoNeo are identical, save for aesthetics. So if anyone's inspired to go get a remote, check the equivalent products before making a decision. One may be cheaper than the other.
Plug: My wife just got me a ProntoNeo, and I have to say it's quite cool. I've finally been able to get rid of the three remotes I had to use before.
Uh... does anyone else see anything wrong with this statement?
How can you forget FECEFACE?!?!
I do. I used to work for an inventory company.
Worst... Job... Ever... And I cleaned metal lathes 40 hours a week back during my high school summers. Nothing makes me appreciate my sweet software engineering position as much as my memories of countless hours spent counting stuff. We did it all: Clothes, Hardware, food, etc. I'm sure it was dosconcerting for the customers at Wal-Mart seeing a bunch of losers rifling through all the meat in the refridgerated section.
Yeah, but what if your build takes over an hour? (Like where I work) Say you need something checked in, like now. You're sure it works, but you have to hang out for an hour to make sure it went in? There is a certain level of trust you need in a development environment. Waiting for it to completely rebuild simply isn't always an option.
Sure, you can generally do partial builds. But what happens when you just had to change that include file that somehow effects nearly everything else? You're stuck for that hour.
The US government once offered a program to do your taxes for you. It was free, I believe. Too bad it was heavily slanted to benefit the government. Do you trust your government enough that they will give you all teh deductions you're due? I don't.
That's very true. I can't argue with you, well, because you're right :)
You got a prebate cartridge somehow. That was a goof by Lexmark.
In case anyone else is wondering, Lexmark has a 'prebate' program where you can buy cartridges cheaper than 'non-prebate' cartridges. When you buy one of these, you have to agree to mail the cartridge back. When we would order them for the computer lab I worked in, they always came with a UPS label to mail it back. I'm pretty sure a printer is supposed to come with a regular cartridge.
Yeah, it's fair if you got the car for $1000.
What I think may end up happening is that the printer companies will find that the public has a distaste for this sort of profit structure and change their ways. The end result? Printer prices will rise, and supply prices will drop. There is an equilibrium that can be reached by making a profit off of supplies and hardware.
In a few years, I guarantee people start complaining that printers are too expensive. "They used to be cheap!" Tough, you can't have it both ways. Printing costs money.
Yeah, but cars are expensive, right? So are printers that have cheap supplies with lower profit margins on them. If you really want to get a printer that is cheap to keep supplied, you'll need to spend at least a grand for a color laser.
If the bottom really does drop out on the supplies market, then printer prices will get higher. That's really fine and dandy with me, but will Joe Consumer (Joe Consumer != Slashdot Reader) really want to spend $500 on a printer so he can buy ink for $10 a pop? I somehow doubt it.
The current business model is "Sell the printer at a loss, clean up on supplies."
Since the printer companies won't be able to rely on this anymore, they will have to jack up prices just to make a profit.
This is something I don't think many (non-techie) consumers realize. Many complain about high ink prices, but don't realize the manufacturer probably sold the printer at a loss.
So, as I understand it, you simply need 'regular' radar which cannot detect a stealth craft. Then, subtract what your regular radar sees from what the cell towers see, and you've got yourself a stealth detection device.
Even if an employer wants 2 years of experience, go for it if you feel qualified. I only had about 1 year of experience, all coop. I applied for a job that wanted 3-5 years experience, and I got it. Granted, I am getting paid a little less than the advertised rate, but it's a job.
.NET when looking around last spring. That's nonsense, and most people know it. Why companies do this, I don't know. Don't let it discourage you. If you really feel you are qualified, sell yourself anyway. Talk about why you are good for the job despite not having the desired experience. You have nothing to lose.
I remember seeing 5+ years in Java Enterprise Edition and 2+ years with
'Audiophile' computer speakers for that price simply are not made. It's a fact of life.
But... $200 will buy you some pretty nice headphones. I have the Sennheiser HD-580's and they are most excellent. They sound better than any stereo speakers I've ever heard. Check out headroom and headwize for heaphone info.
Though, if you have already decided that speakers are a must and headphones are out, I think Logitech has the best bang for the buck.
I don't know what kind of Athlon you have, but mine sure as hell has SIMD instructions. Crazy MMX.
First off, macros are generally evil. With that out of my system, you're also not quite correct.
Macros are simply 'cut-n-pasted' into the source, then compiled. Thus, no type checking takes place.
There are many reasons you should try not to use macros. Personally, I try to avoid any preprocessing when I can. The C++ FAQ Lite is much better at explaining it all that I. More specifcially, try Reason 1 Reason 2 Reason 3 Reason 4
I realize the article says that some soil can provide many years of nickel mining, but will these extraordinarily tough plants help reclaim the land for agriculture? Once the plants have extracted all they can, I wonder if the toxicity levels will be low enough for food-producing plants to thrive once again.