Try to minimize swapping discs. Maybe even tape over the floppy.
Go to a fat ladies store and buy a gargantuan pair of panty hose and encase the whole thing. The rear of the monitor too. It will still breathe but keep out shop dust.
Buy a rugged KB and mouse - or simply go to flea markets and buy old ones for $3 a shot.
I would think that the money allocated for New Years Eve events like fireworks had been spent months ago when the fireworks and such were actually purchased. Maybe this is crazy reasoning on my part, but somehow I don't think a check is cut for a municipal celebration a few days before the event - in fact I think it is part of the budget laid out the fiscal year preceeding the event.
Also - last I had read some 3,000 U.S. tourists were still missing.
1) USGS knew there was an earthquake, but not a tsunami. Plus they *did* make the calls to the appropriate people specified in their operations plan.
2) Had you called a hotel with such a warning they would have called you a kook (or whatever the word for kook is in the various languages) and hung up.
3) Even had it worked, way to go you just saved all the tourists lives but the natives would have still suffered horribly as most of the areas hit were not tourist attractions. I life saced is a life saved and is a noble achievement - but we still would have seen 100K+ dead.
The problem pertaining to the populace not being warned was that the countries hit decieded it was not cost effective to put a warning system in place. Strangely, I have read that such a system can make things worse as people rush to the shore when a warning is sounded to watch the incoming wave.
I am suggesting that if I asked them how hot it was in the summer of 1923 (for example), they would not know (unless of course they looked it up), and that all they can say with certainty is that it was the hottest summer since they have started keeping records.
I guess I am just used to the southern US climate.
I am guessing that if I picked a year at random (for which they have records) they could not determine what the temperature was for that summer (without consulting the records that is).
False. I buddy of mine works there - he went to Salisbury State University in Maryland.
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While admittedly different technology (but fairly similar in nature), EZ Pass works from about 30 feet... which results much less spectacular than detonating a bomb.
If this is the reasoning of the rest of the world, we don't have much to worry about in the way of competition.
(I also note that the second they can afford to, many immigrants head stright to the nearest show room floor checking out the Escalade's and Expeditions).
I live in downtown Baltimore. There are about the same mix of car sizes here as there is in London... while there are more SUV's around there aren't that many more - the big 4x4's seem to live in the burbs. (That said I drive a Jeep Cherokee - which is pretty small for a 4x4 but still.)
Regardless of what people say there are some big vehicles in London. Nailing a London Taxi head on would be about like hitting a Suburban (I think Taxi's weigh about 7000 pounds).
People here would snap the Smart Cars up. Many people don't even own a car. Main reasons seem to be parking, cost of insurance.
I agree however: taking this vehicle onto the beltway would be some what "exciting" - but no less so than a Mini.
Seems to me most of the bitching about Windows is about Windows (duh). What I mean is the Win32 subsystem.
Perhaps this is simplistic, but MS could develop a GNU based subsystem (note I did not say "POSIX") under a modified GPL and run that on top of the NT executive. (Screw SFU that is an abomination.)
Shit - the baby is crying so I wil make this short.... but you can see where I am going with this.
The EA games I have played are (for the most part) bug free. I have encountered glitches to be sure, and in some cases some flat out omissions and bugs. However for the most part they work.
I note that these games are in many cases simple mods from the previous years release - and for the most part folllows a consistant flow for the length of the game.
However the level of defects is low.
Now... EA is very obviously in this to make money (to the point of running their employees into the ground) - however they seem to have found a development model/process/methodology that results in a lot of bug free code. Perhaps the assembly line nature of their development helps account for this - perhaps they just hire good people.
I think that if they could find a process that resulting in the same output that was less reliant on human resources working less hours(after all they cost money) then you can bet they would adopt it. After all: their aim isn't to over work people - it is to make a profit. I wonder if they have people looking into this.
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When a loved one dies senselessly, a natural human response is to lash out at the first target that makes themselves available.
I feel very sorry for the parents.
...and then start giving it away under the GPL? That way they hold the patent - which prevents anyone else from patenting it.
Obviously cost is an issue.
Just a thought, probably a lame one but who cares after all it is only Slashdot.
That is a bunch of crap. I have seen PC's covered in filth running just fine for long periods of time.
...make sure it is in good condition and such.
Try to minimize swapping discs. Maybe even tape over the floppy.
Go to a fat ladies store and buy a gargantuan pair of panty hose and encase the whole thing. The rear of the monitor too. It will still breathe but keep out shop dust.
Buy a rugged KB and mouse - or simply go to flea markets and buy old ones for $3 a shot.
...this unpatched XP laptop is not vulernable to the exploit.
Guess it isn't as extremely critical as they say.
...and hasn't been for a long time.
Slighty disagree - I think it is worthy of evaluation... probably better place for this is on the 2.7 branch.
Judging by the market share of those chips, he was right! ;-)
We are up to $350 million in public funds - not counting *private* donations which alone surpass that of any single government.
And yes, as you have heard before, there will be more to come.
I challenge any and all shit talking euroTrash to match us.
I would think that the money allocated for New Years Eve events like fireworks had been spent months ago when the fireworks and such were actually purchased. Maybe this is crazy reasoning on my part, but somehow I don't think a check is cut for a municipal celebration a few days before the event - in fact I think it is part of the budget laid out the fiscal year preceeding the event.
Also - last I had read some 3,000 U.S. tourists were still missing.
True, but eastern media showed the bodies hitting the ground on Sept 11.
I wonder what the coverage is like in the various eastern news organizations for this event.
1) USGS knew there was an earthquake, but not a tsunami. Plus they *did* make the calls to the appropriate people specified in their operations plan.
2) Had you called a hotel with such a warning they would have called you a kook (or whatever the word for kook is in the various languages) and hung up.
3) Even had it worked, way to go you just saved all the tourists lives but the natives would have still suffered horribly as most of the areas hit were not tourist attractions. I life saced is a life saved and is a noble achievement - but we still would have seen 100K+ dead.
The problem pertaining to the populace not being warned was that the countries hit decieded it was not cost effective to put a warning system in place. Strangely, I have read that such a system can make things worse as people rush to the shore when a warning is sounded to watch the incoming wave.
I suppose that there is a sliver of a chance that they might have been the best people for the job.
Never mind the fact that they could represent several different ethnicities an nationalities - all that matters is that they ware white, right?
I am suggesting that if I asked them how hot it was in the summer of 1923 (for example), they would not know (unless of course they looked it up), and that all they can say with certainty is that it was the hottest summer since they have started keeping records.
I guess I am just used to the southern US climate.
I am guessing that if I picked a year at random (for which they have records) they could not determine what the temperature was for that summer (without consulting the records that is).
False. I buddy of mine works there - he went to Salisbury State University in Maryland.
While admittedly different technology (but fairly similar in nature), EZ Pass works from about 30 feet... which results much less spectacular than detonating a bomb.
Lot's of them drive SUV's, hence they are fat.
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If this is the reasoning of the rest of the world, we don't have much to worry about in the way of competition.
(I also note that the second they can afford to, many immigrants head stright to the nearest show room floor checking out the Escalade's and Expeditions).
The same could be said for a motorcycle, yet they are legal and you can carry up to two passengers on one (w/side car).
I think it will do fine in urban settings.
I live in downtown Baltimore. There are about the same mix of car sizes here as there is in London... while there are more SUV's around there aren't that many more - the big 4x4's seem to live in the burbs. (That said I drive a Jeep Cherokee - which is pretty small for a 4x4 but still.)
Regardless of what people say there are some big vehicles in London. Nailing a London Taxi head on would be about like hitting a Suburban (I think Taxi's weigh about 7000 pounds).
People here would snap the Smart Cars up. Many people don't even own a car. Main reasons seem to be parking, cost of insurance.
I agree however: taking this vehicle onto the beltway would be some what "exciting" - but no less so than a Mini.
Seems to me most of the bitching about Windows is about Windows (duh). What I mean is the Win32 subsystem.
Perhaps this is simplistic, but MS could develop a GNU based subsystem (note I did not say "POSIX") under a modified GPL and run that on top of the NT executive. (Screw SFU that is an abomination.)
Shit - the baby is crying so I wil make this short.... but you can see where I am going with this.
The EA games I have played are (for the most part) bug free. I have encountered glitches to be sure, and in some cases some flat out omissions and bugs. However for the most part they work.
I note that these games are in many cases simple mods from the previous years release - and for the most part folllows a consistant flow for the length of the game.
However the level of defects is low.
Now... EA is very obviously in this to make money (to the point of running their employees into the ground) - however they seem to have found a development model/process/methodology that results in a lot of bug free code. Perhaps the assembly line nature of their development helps account for this - perhaps they just hire good people.
I think that if they could find a process that resulting in the same output that was less reliant on human resources working less hours(after all they cost money) then you can bet they would adopt it. After all: their aim isn't to over work people - it is to make a profit. I wonder if they have people looking into this.
Linux developer finds linux bug, fixes bug 53 DAYS LATER. End of story.
Garbage man? Crap pay.
You mean you've accepted a $3,000 a year salary? Way to go!