Actually, it astonishes me the system works as well as it does. The cable company is streaming a high quality MPEG which you can pause and rewind to hundreds of people and it rarely lags. Very impressive if you ask me, I would love to know how the technology work so well.
I don't even use those wretched things, the signature that the machine captures never looks like my regular signature. 99.9% of retail stores support using your debit card and entering a pin number, far more secure in my opinion.
All of my VISA cards have "check ID first" written in the signature block, so far I've been asked for ID maybe half a dozen times in the last year (I use my cards every day). Most place don't even look at the signature.
Assuming you live in the US you can have a Doctor get you a disabled permit for practically anything (sore toe, being overweight... you name it, seriously). There's nearly always disabled parking available.
The logic here is unbelieveable. So if you forget to lock a window in your home, and a burglar comes in and steals your stuff, and the burglar gets caught, YOU should be prosecuted for burglary for leaving the window open?
Nope, but if he cuts his fingers on the window in the process you could get prosecuted. Isn't the law great?
Oh alright, I'll bite. Falcon 3.0 was excellent, the best flightsim I've ever played (very dated now of course). Falcon 4.0 was a disappointing buggy pile of doo doo.
The latest MS flight simulators are very impressive as well, and that's coming from a Linux user:-)
In my experience... when I lived in the UK people really didn't care so much about your qualifications they where more interested in experience. US employers however are obsessed with little bits of paper, the more you have it seems, the easier it is to get a better paying job.
I say this to my users almost every day of the week.
"See that little globe in the corner with the little yellow bubble saying "New updates are ready to install"? Pay attention to it!"
Unfortunately, most people expect a computer to just work. They have little e-mail blobs and little surf the web blobs and little write documents blobs that they can just about grasp. When they see new blobs appear on the screen they don't understand them, so they ignore them.
I just wish the users would come knocking on my door and ask what the blob meant! Example: my car was maing a funny squeeking noise every time I stopped, I had no idea what it meant cause I'm not a mechanic. So I asked my Father-in-law, who is a mechanic. Glad I did, the funny squeeking noise was my brakes wearing down, imagine the mess I would have been in if I'd continued to ignore it and they failed?
I played with them as a kid, and they still sell them today. They have a range of 200-300ft out of the box (further when I added uhh... modifications...) and could be picked up by an FM radio. As I recall, the ones I bought from Tandy used to interfere with Radio 1. That's far further than the iTrip's range.
That is probably your biggest problem. When in school, I never got work done at home, too many distractions! The best thing to do if you want to get some serious studying done, go to the library or form a study group (yeah, nerdy as hell but think of the nice big salary you're working towards in a few years).
Think of school as a job, a shitty paying job but a job nonetheless, and make set hours every day that you'll dedicate to work. Sneak in lunchtimes and breaks as well or you'll burn out in a couple of hours. It'll get you into a routine that'll ultimately end up in that nice piece of paper that's your ticket to big bucks (hopefully!).
It doesn't get any better in the real world either, I have a hard time getting motivated even though I know I'm getting paid for it!
You didn't state what time of year you where going. DO NOT GO TO DISNEY DURING THE SUMMER unless you enjoy standing in line in searing heat for hours dealing with rude tourists. [1]
Go to Disneyworld in the winter months, the weather is far nicer (Winter is the best time in FL, it stays in the 70's most of the time with low humidity) and you will hardly have to queue. Plus the most important thing: very few tourists!
Hint from a Geek: Those FRS radios are cool and all and useful for malls, don't even bother trying to use one at Disneyworld. Last time we wen, every channel was utterly congested. Take along your 2m handheld instead, much nicer (what do you mean you don't have a ham radio license?).
[1] They're not all rude, mostly of the rudest people are Europeans (I'm one of them, and ashamed of it everytime I see how other Europeans misbehave). We can learn a lot from Japanese tourists, they are the most respectful polite people. I've met very few ignorant Japanese people.
I gained 45lb in the first year I was living in the US because I suddenly wasn't walking 2 miles to work every day. I started walking again for pleasure and, guess what, all the weight is starting to slowly drop off again.
Never underestimate the simple joy you can get from walking a couple of miles every day, especially if you do it right after work. It helps clear your mind and makes you far less likely to arrive home grumpy after a bad day at work. Even more fun if you can get someone to keep you company!
And the journey continues...
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I've been using Slackware since around about the 2.x series (I forget the exact version). I've tried Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian. I keep coming back to Slackware.
Why? It's the most streamlined and simple ditribution there is and always has been. After 10 years it still has not succumb to the bloat that all the other distributions have done so far. I don't have to fiddle around with the silly "tools" that other distributions (Linuxconfig, ugh! Yast, ugh!) insist I use just to get my system running, Slackware let's me do it my way.
I don't think it's so much the fightning for glory and gain attention thing, it's more a lack of time.
Most geeks are creative because, basically, they have no social life. Once they start dating, they get a life so instead of staying home doing geeky stuff all the time they spend a considerable amount of time with their significant other.
Once they start living together/get married (the two are basically the same thing: most married people live together, at least at first!) they have even less time to do geeky stuff. Then the kids arrive and they have no free time whatsoever.
I would normally agree with you hear, but quite honestly he has been technically dead for several years now. His body may be alive, but sadly his brain has been eaten up by Alzheimer's. Such a shame, once the most powerful man in the world is now reduced to someone who can't even take care of themself. Yes, he made some bad decisions as Presidents but he made a lot of good ones as well.
I think it's a fitting memorial, even if you may not.
My company (yes, I've ranted about this before) is still using IE. I had hoped we could migrate when NTLM authentication was implemented but, unfortunately our ticketing system (Magic Service Desk if anyone is interested) barf's at Mozilla. Not sure why, yet but the software is heavily dependent on IE apparently. Sucks, and I'd be interested in hearing other Mozilla user's experiences.
I dislike Mozilla's mail client but it is slowly improving. For all it's bugs and security holes, Outlook has a lot of really nice features that Mozilla would do well to emulate. Personally, I use a healthy mix of PINE and Eudora.
You mean to tell me whilst I'm driving on I-4 every morning every time some idiot kid in a tricked out Honda (stupid large muffler, big fin, silly rims... pet hate:)) cuts me off I'll be rammed in the back by the his idiot friend who happens to be tailgating me because my car decides it needs to brake?
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The radio series is still the definitive Hitch Hiker, with of course the books a close second.
The BBC TV series was VERY cheesy but let's be honest here, so was the Radio show - that's the whole point!
I hope they do Douglas Adams justice with the movie. Who knows, they just might, but I have a feeling I'll leave the movie theatre disappointed.
That's called a PVR and is already available. Most cable companies have them and there's also Tivo.
Actually, it astonishes me the system works as well as it does. The cable company is streaming a high quality MPEG which you can pause and rewind to hundreds of people and it rarely lags. Very impressive if you ask me, I would love to know how the technology work so well.
I don't even use those wretched things, the signature that the machine captures never looks like my regular signature. 99.9% of retail stores support using your debit card and entering a pin number, far more secure in my opinion.
All of my VISA cards have "check ID first" written in the signature block, so far I've been asked for ID maybe half a dozen times in the last year (I use my cards every day). Most place don't even look at the signature.
Assuming you live in the US you can have a Doctor get you a disabled permit for practically anything (sore toe, being overweight... you name it, seriously). There's nearly always disabled parking available.
The logic here is unbelieveable. So if you forget to lock a window in your home, and a burglar comes in and steals your stuff, and the burglar gets caught, YOU should be prosecuted for burglary for leaving the window open?
Nope, but if he cuts his fingers on the window in the process you could get prosecuted. Isn't the law great?
Doesn't this fall under Entrapment laws, or does that just apply to law enforcement agencies?
Is it happy in XP? And what's the URL? I'm willing to give it another chance.
Oh alright, I'll bite. Falcon 3.0 was excellent, the best flightsim I've ever played (very dated now of course). Falcon 4.0 was a disappointing buggy pile of doo doo.
:-)
The latest MS flight simulators are very impressive as well, and that's coming from a Linux user
In my experience... when I lived in the UK people really didn't care so much about your qualifications they where more interested in experience. US employers however are obsessed with little bits of paper, the more you have it seems, the easier it is to get a better paying job.
Hopefully they're taking the time to fix all of the bugs and security holes and do it properly!
I say this to my users almost every day of the week.
"See that little globe in the corner with the little yellow bubble saying "New updates are ready to install"? Pay attention to it!"
Unfortunately, most people expect a computer to just work. They have little e-mail blobs and little surf the web blobs and little write documents blobs that they can just about grasp. When they see new blobs appear on the screen they don't understand them, so they ignore them.
I just wish the users would come knocking on my door and ask what the blob meant! Example: my car was maing a funny squeeking noise every time I stopped, I had no idea what it meant cause I'm not a mechanic. So I asked my Father-in-law, who is a mechanic. Glad I did, the funny squeeking noise was my brakes wearing down, imagine the mess I would have been in if I'd continued to ignore it and they failed?
I played with them as a kid, and they still sell them today. They have a range of 200-300ft out of the box (further when I added uhh... modifications...) and could be picked up by an FM radio. As I recall, the ones I bought from Tandy used to interfere with Radio 1. That's far further than the iTrip's range.
He's a student, he does that already!
That is probably your biggest problem. When in school, I never got work done at home, too many distractions! The best thing to do if you want to get some serious studying done, go to the library or form a study group (yeah, nerdy as hell but think of the nice big salary you're working towards in a few years).
Think of school as a job, a shitty paying job but a job nonetheless, and make set hours every day that you'll dedicate to work. Sneak in lunchtimes and breaks as well or you'll burn out in a couple of hours. It'll get you into a routine that'll ultimately end up in that nice piece of paper that's your ticket to big bucks (hopefully!).
It doesn't get any better in the real world either, I have a hard time getting motivated even though I know I'm getting paid for it!
I find putting my servers in a locked room where the users cannot get at them even more effective. Just an observation :-)
You didn't state what time of year you where going. DO NOT GO TO DISNEY DURING THE SUMMER unless you enjoy standing in line in searing heat for hours dealing with rude tourists. [1]
Go to Disneyworld in the winter months, the weather is far nicer (Winter is the best time in FL, it stays in the 70's most of the time with low humidity) and you will hardly have to queue. Plus
the most important thing: very few tourists!
Hint from a Geek: Those FRS radios are cool and all and useful for malls, don't even bother trying to use one at Disneyworld. Last time we wen, every channel was utterly congested. Take along your 2m handheld instead, much nicer (what do you mean you don't have a ham radio license?).
[1] They're not all rude, mostly of the rudest people are Europeans (I'm one of them, and ashamed of it everytime I see how other Europeans misbehave). We can learn a lot from Japanese tourists, they are the most respectful polite people. I've met very few ignorant Japanese people.
I gained 45lb in the first year I was living in the US because I suddenly wasn't walking 2 miles to work every day. I started walking again for pleasure and, guess what, all the weight is starting to slowly drop off again.
Never underestimate the simple joy you can get from walking a couple of miles every day, especially if you do it right after work. It helps clear your mind and makes you far less likely to arrive home grumpy after a bad day at work. Even more fun if you can get someone to keep you company!
I've been using Slackware since around about the 2.x series (I forget the exact version). I've tried Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian. I keep coming back to Slackware.
Why? It's the most streamlined and simple ditribution there is and always has been. After 10 years it still has not succumb to the bloat that all the other distributions have done so far. I don't have to fiddle around with the silly "tools" that other distributions (Linuxconfig, ugh! Yast, ugh!) insist I use just to get my system running, Slackware let's me do it my way.
Long may it continue!
I don't think it's so much the fightning for glory and gain attention thing, it's more a lack of time.
Most geeks are creative because, basically, they have no social life. Once they start dating, they get a life so instead of staying home doing geeky stuff all the time they spend a considerable amount of time with their significant other.
Once they start living together/get married (the two are basically the same thing: most married people live together, at least at first!) they have even less time to do geeky stuff. Then the kids arrive and they have no free time whatsoever.
That's my personal experience, anyway.
I would normally agree with you hear, but quite honestly he has been technically dead for several years now. His body may be alive, but sadly his brain has been eaten up by Alzheimer's. Such a shame, once the most powerful man in the world is now reduced to someone who can't even take care of themself. Yes, he made some bad decisions as Presidents but he made a lot of good ones as well.
I think it's a fitting memorial, even if you may not.
My company (yes, I've ranted about this before) is still using IE. I had hoped we could migrate when NTLM authentication was implemented but, unfortunately our ticketing system (Magic Service Desk if anyone is interested) barf's at Mozilla. Not sure why, yet but the software is heavily dependent on IE apparently. Sucks, and I'd be interested in hearing other Mozilla user's experiences.
I dislike Mozilla's mail client but it is slowly improving. For all it's bugs and security holes, Outlook has a lot of really nice features that Mozilla would do well to emulate. Personally, I use a healthy mix of PINE and Eudora.
We all know what this means, another service pack will be hurried out shortly to fix whatever awful bug this one introduces... :-)
You mean to tell me whilst I'm driving on I-4 every morning every time some idiot kid in a tricked out Honda (stupid large muffler, big fin, silly rims... pet hate :)) cuts me off I'll be rammed in the back by the his idiot friend who happens to be tailgating me because my car decides it needs to brake?
...and do you have any idea how long it takes to compile a kernel on a P75 with 40Mb of RAM.
(ok, ok it's 83 minutes but, still...)