There have been a couple of issues, mostly related to the annoying 'whine' that the new Core Duo Macbooks seem to admit when they're thinking hard. That's the main reason I've held off upgrading my Powerbook until they do a motherboard revision on the MacBook Pro.
I don't know if I'll put Windows on my system, since I haven't used a Windows box for over a year now, but it could be nice to have the capability, especially if my company will get me a copy of MS project to use at home.
So, according the MPAA's "logic" anything I do that doesn't directly pay them for content is counted as a loss. So does that mean that when I went to see the University of Texas' excellent production of "Twelfth Night" two months ago that they're losing a ticket sale because I didn't see the abysmal ripoff "Who's The Man", which is also based very loosely on the same Shakespearean play?
Are we going to start suing theater companies because they might be saving from people seeing shitty movies
Because it's easier to have something banned than to find a creative way to make money off of it. Remember that the entertainment industry freaked when the VCR came out, and then they figured out that they could sell us the movies at $20 or so per tape.
Ok, given that 1) Vulcan's live longer and Spock was believed to be about 10 years older than Kirk, and 2) Kirk and Spock outranked nearly everybody on the show, why should we believe that any of them would have been at the Academy at the same time.
If they're going to do a SF Academy movie, why not just use an original set of characters. Or for that matter, do one that starts with Picard winning the marathon.
It was a nice theory. The problem with all systems of checks and balances though is that they do absolutely no good when the groups guarding each other have the same goal: to increase the power of government, and to do whatever else they damn well please.
'That whole Jules Verne thing about underwater ships and traveling to the moon is just science fiction. There's no way we'll be able to build a rocket with enough delta-v and payload capacity to send men to the moon...'
One of my college professors passed out a paper which made roughly the above argument. They made what seemed like very reasoned, mathematical arguments to that effect. Of course, the naysayers were wrong.
Hey, don't use the (tm) mark for that, and don't forget that Cory said we have to call them underwear perverts until DC and Marvell start behaving again.
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I don't know. A couple of girls at work would probably go for a guy with that kind of gadget-cred. (I work in a semiconductor design center. Everyone's a geek.)
Here's a plan: let's just outsourse all the work to one of our corporate run prisons in Texas. They won't see this as a disadvantage at all.
Also, I'm sure the corporation running the prison would happily charge you a $20/hr contract rate for the prisoners' services, and deduct the expenses it would entail as "educational/rehabilitation" expenses.
VB does give a good framework for learning programming languages, and understanding the concepts required for computer programming.
It has two major disadvantages though. First, since it's not an open standard, you'll be limited to learning on Windows Based platforms. While a lot of people won't see that as a disadvantage, for someone like me who uses no Windows systems, it's a drawback. Second, you have to pay for it.
As an alternative, consider some of the advanced scripting languages like Perl or Python. They're free, well supported by large user communities, and run on nearly everything.
Okay, this is scary. This week, I sold about 100 shares of company stock in order to pay off my American Distress card, and make a double payment on my car loan. Does this mean I should expect a call from DHS sometime soon?
It seems a bit scary that we're now monitoring things this closely. We have abilities that Orwell couldn't have imagined, and probably would have left him shaking in a cold sweat if he had know about them. Now it seems that exercising some common financial sense can bring you to the awareness of these people. Also, it seems that if they're looking at every little thing like this, the signal to noise ratio of the information they have to sort through is so low that they'll never be able to spot any real terrorist activity.
It's never good to put bottlenecks in the communications process. If the manager wants everything funnelled through him, then funnel EVERYTHING through him, including service tickets, requirements, information inquiries, etc. He'll eventually get tired of playing traffic cop.
Also, if it's causing enough grief that you're no longer able to enjoy your job, it would be best for you to find another one. I see no gain in staying in a job you don't like.
In that ammount of time, I don't see why we can't fly a big ion thruster up there. We could then land it on the asteroid and, over the course of several years, nudge it off its current vector.
This would give us the dual advantage of not having to rely on nuclear weapons or Bruce Willis to save us at the last minute.
It might be good to start this program today, since getting it through appropriations could take the first thirty years, and development of a suitable thruster another twenty.
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There have been a couple of issues, mostly related to the annoying 'whine' that the new Core Duo Macbooks seem to admit when they're thinking hard. That's the main reason I've held off upgrading my Powerbook until they do a motherboard revision on the MacBook Pro.
I don't know if I'll put Windows on my system, since I haven't used a Windows box for over a year now, but it could be nice to have the capability, especially if my company will get me a copy of MS project to use at home.
What are the odds that the file system will be in Vista when it finally ships, and as a user, will I care?
So, according the MPAA's "logic" anything I do that doesn't directly pay them for content is counted as a loss. So does that mean that when I went to see the University of Texas' excellent production of "Twelfth Night" two months ago that they're losing a ticket sale because I didn't see the abysmal ripoff "Who's The Man", which is also based very loosely on the same Shakespearean play?
Are we going to start suing theater companies because they might be saving from people seeing shitty movies
Because it's easier to have something banned than to find a creative way to make money off of it. Remember that the entertainment industry freaked when the VCR came out, and then they figured out that they could sell us the movies at $20 or so per tape.
Is it going to ship with the Enlightenment window manager?
Why wait? Mac OS X Tiger already has all the features that are supposed to be in Vista.
That's exactly the story I thought of when I saw this article. Hell, it's probably the story everyone thought of.
I don't tell my employer where I go on vacation, and no, they can't call me.
Ok, given that 1) Vulcan's live longer and Spock was believed to be about 10 years older than Kirk, and 2) Kirk and Spock outranked nearly everybody on the show, why should we believe that any of them would have been at the Academy at the same time.
If they're going to do a SF Academy movie, why not just use an original set of characters. Or for that matter, do one that starts with Picard winning the marathon.
It was a nice theory. The problem with all systems of checks and balances though is that they do absolutely no good when the groups guarding each other have the same goal: to increase the power of government, and to do whatever else they damn well please.
I'm not seeing the problem here.
Yes, and then we paint in on the friggin' shark!
I hope he has one with auto-pilot. Driving and watching TV sounds even stupider than having a phone stuck to your ear.
Nah, just lock them in the trunk, or put a sound proof divider in the minivans.
I'm assuming the changes to the front page represent an early April Fools Joke. If not, I'm going to have to stop reading this site, or I'll throw up.
'That whole Jules Verne thing about underwater ships and traveling to the moon is just science fiction. There's no way we'll be able to build a rocket with enough delta-v and payload capacity to send men to the moon...'
One of my college professors passed out a paper which made roughly the above argument. They made what seemed like very reasoned, mathematical arguments to that effect. Of course, the naysayers were wrong.
Hey, don't use the (tm) mark for that, and don't forget that Cory said we have to call them underwear perverts until DC and Marvell start behaving again.
No.
I don't know. A couple of girls at work would probably go for a guy with that kind of gadget-cred. (I work in a semiconductor design center. Everyone's a geek.)
Here's a plan: let's just outsourse all the work to one of our corporate run prisons in Texas. They won't see this as a disadvantage at all.
Also, I'm sure the corporation running the prison would happily charge you a $20/hr contract rate for the prisoners' services, and deduct the expenses it would entail as "educational/rehabilitation" expenses.
VB does give a good framework for learning programming languages, and understanding the concepts required for computer programming.
It has two major disadvantages though. First, since it's not an open standard, you'll be limited to learning on Windows Based platforms. While a lot of people won't see that as a disadvantage, for someone like me who uses no Windows systems, it's a drawback. Second, you have to pay for it.
As an alternative, consider some of the advanced scripting languages like Perl or Python. They're free, well supported by large user communities, and run on nearly everything.
Okay, this is scary. This week, I sold about 100 shares of company stock in order to pay off my American Distress card, and make a double payment on my car loan. Does this mean I should expect a call from DHS sometime soon?
It seems a bit scary that we're now monitoring things this closely. We have abilities that Orwell couldn't have imagined, and probably would have left him shaking in a cold sweat if he had know about them. Now it seems that exercising some common financial sense can bring you to the awareness of these people. Also, it seems that if they're looking at every little thing like this, the signal to noise ratio of the information they have to sort through is so low that they'll never be able to spot any real terrorist activity.
It's never good to put bottlenecks in the communications process. If the manager wants everything funnelled through him, then funnel EVERYTHING through him, including service tickets, requirements, information inquiries, etc. He'll eventually get tired of playing traffic cop.
Also, if it's causing enough grief that you're no longer able to enjoy your job, it would be best for you to find another one. I see no gain in staying in a job you don't like.
In that ammount of time, I don't see why we can't fly a big ion thruster up there. We could then land it on the asteroid and, over the course of several years, nudge it off its current vector.
This would give us the dual advantage of not having to rely on nuclear weapons or Bruce Willis to save us at the last minute.
It might be good to start this program today, since getting it through appropriations could take the first thirty years, and development of a suitable thruster another twenty.
Yes, it's meant as a joke.