So, new laser lights run with less energy consumption and cooler than traditional headlights. So either you waste energy on a heater that keeps lights clear of ice and snow or keep stopping often to scrape ice off the headlights.
Game seems quite interesting. Somehow a bastard child of good old Paranoia and Scalzi's Shadow Brigades comes to mind. I guess I have to give it a whirl at some point.
I have been using Trellis ( http://www.accord5.com/trellis ) both as a helpdesk and as a problem tracking and management solution between housing cooperatives and building maintenance companies.
It's completely open source and quite easy to modify to different needs.
Creating tickets with e-mail piping sucks big time out of the box, but like I said - easy to modify...
Oh go ahead and try.
Pal of mine, who works at Magenta spent last night setting up seeds and taking care that there's servers in Finland, UK, US and whatever.
He did mention that finnish server has had as much traffic in last 14 hours that it usually has in a year:)
Twinkler from word 'twink' (or possibly 'blink').
Anyway it refers to a lightsource that lights very briefly.
Wrecks usually plays _a_lot_ with engrish.
Like 'Täysi kieroutuminen', where 'kiero' can mean both 'warp' or 'deviant'.
And those cheap bastards, who prefer to get everything for free, downloadable version should be available in the beginning (no pun intented) of October.
I pre-ordered mine weeks ago.
Well, dear AC. Looks like oh, so civilized and law abiding americans have read your post.
In Texas firebomb was thrown to islamic school and several shots were fired to islamic cultural centre. Local muslims are afraid that locals will attack any of them.
In Chicago, arabian cultural centre was firebombed. Angry mob of approx. 300 people marched towards local mosceij yelling "USA, USA!" Police was able to turn them back.
In Huntington, 75 years old drunken man tried to drive over palestinian woman. When he missed, he threatened to kill this woman, claiming that she "destroys his country."
In Indiana, person in skimask shot towards a gas station with assault rifle. Gas station was run by Hassan Awhad, who was born in Yemen.
Kuwaitian children recieved therapy in Washington, after their lives were threatened on their way to school. Persons had been yelling them things like "You should all die!"
Well, on our company stock options are seen as a alternative to raising one's salary.
Problem is, when I refused to take those options, management started pissing and moaning how I'm 'not committed to company' or that my 'doubts about company's future might affect developement of salary in the future.'
But quite frankly I'd rather take cash and/or less than 70-80 hours of work/week, than vague promises about large summs of money sometime in the distant future.
In a nutshell:
In most cases stock options are BS. Tell them to fold them, so that they are full of sharp angles and give them a tube of haemorrhoid cream...
If they use local products, they will have a 3700 ft high water fountain.
I've see quality of their plumbing and pumps way too many times. But hey, they can always bring some people to carry all necessary water in stairs with buckets;-)
Since I install and program this stuff for living, I just had to comment this one... BTW, sorry about hideous spelling and grammar.
"Imagine you're on vacation and you want to know how your house is doing, so you sign on with your laptop from the hotel room and log into your home computer(which obviously has a static IP, its the 21st century"
One possibility would be a central website for similar apartment systems with access to your apartments logs with password and username only. Other would be a dedicated phoneline or shared line with caller-id recognition (so for example only buildings maintainance and your cellular could connect with apartments systems remotely, all other calls would go to normal phone.)
"activated, etc. all with timestamps). You discover that a window was either opened or broken at 3:00 AM the night before and are presented with the option of emailing your local police station to go check it out."
Actually, it's allso possible to configure the system to call straight to police and/or you and to start flashing lights etc. if it's set to burglar-alarm mode.
"I don't think computers will be given the ability to remotely unlock doors or open windows because of security risks, at least not until technology of the sort matures to the point where it can be safely done."
Well, I can name one person who can open his front door with short message from his mobile phone. Ever heard of Risto Linturi (technical director in Helsinki Telephone Company)? Other neat stuff he can do with his trusty 8110 (or is it 7110 now? I dunno...) is to turn on his sauna (well I can do it too. I just call my SO;-), turn off burglar alarm etc. etc ad nauseaum. And security risks? One solution would be caller id and password (you cant block your cellular's number when sending short message.)
"As far as being able to turn appliances on(especially kitchen appliances) remotely, I can only say that people who seriously think it will happen must be smoking crack."
I couldn't agree more. Hell, there's coffeemakers with timers. If I know that I'll be home from work at 16:15, it shouldn't be very hard to set the timer when I leave for work.
"Ultimately I think technology involving networked appliances will revolve more around practicality than hype."
You hope! If you just knew what wierd stuff some building designers want...
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I wish we all could live at Florida, but alas - there's plenty of people on the north side of arctic circle.
So, new laser lights run with less energy consumption and cooler than traditional headlights. So either you waste energy on a heater that keeps lights clear of ice and snow or keep stopping often to scrape ice off the headlights.
I think I'll stay with the old technology.
_Touch_screen is new, otherwise:
http://metku.net/index.html?sect=view&path=mods/loginoki/index_eng
Mouse with display, that's so 2006...
Game seems quite interesting. Somehow a bastard child of good old Paranoia and Scalzi's Shadow Brigades comes to mind.
I guess I have to give it a whirl at some point.
I have been using Trellis ( http://www.accord5.com/trellis ) both as a helpdesk and as a problem tracking and management solution between housing cooperatives and building maintenance companies.
It's completely open source and quite easy to modify to different needs.
Creating tickets with e-mail piping sucks big time out of the box, but like I said - easy to modify...
Oh go ahead and try. :)
Pal of mine, who works at Magenta spent last night setting up seeds and taking care that there's servers in Finland, UK, US and whatever.
He did mention that finnish server has had as much traffic in last 14 hours that it usually has in a year
As native tongue?
Sure!
Would you prefer Mandarin or Spanish?
Never post before evening coffee. :D
Word I was looking for was 'twinkle', not 'twink'
Twinkler from word 'twink' (or possibly 'blink').
Anyway it refers to a lightsource that lights very briefly.
Wrecks usually plays _a_lot_ with engrish.
Like 'Täysi kieroutuminen', where 'kiero' can mean both 'warp' or 'deviant'.
And those cheap bastards, who prefer to get everything for free, downloadable version should be available in the beginning (no pun intented) of October.
I pre-ordered mine weeks ago.
Oh no, not again!
Must... get... chastitybelt... for... creditcard.
- In Texas firebomb was thrown to islamic school and several shots were fired to islamic cultural centre. Local muslims are afraid that locals will attack any of them.
- In Chicago, arabian cultural centre was firebombed. Angry mob of approx. 300 people marched towards local mosceij yelling "USA, USA!" Police was able to turn them back.
- In Huntington, 75 years old drunken man tried to drive over palestinian woman. When he missed, he threatened to kill this woman, claiming that she "destroys his country."
- In Indiana, person in skimask shot towards a gas station with assault rifle. Gas station was run by Hassan Awhad, who was born in Yemen.
- Kuwaitian children recieved therapy in Washington, after their lives were threatened on their way to school. Persons had been yelling them things like "You should all die!"
Way to go, Usians! Really civilized...Problem is, when I refused to take those options, management started pissing and moaning how I'm 'not committed to company' or that my 'doubts about company's future might affect developement of salary in the future.'
But quite frankly I'd rather take cash and/or less than 70-80 hours of work/week, than vague promises about large summs of money sometime in the distant future.
In a nutshell: In most cases stock options are BS. Tell them to fold them, so that they are full of sharp angles and give them a tube of haemorrhoid cream...
If they use local products, they will have a 3700 ft high water fountain. I've see quality of their plumbing and pumps way too many times. But hey, they can always bring some people to carry all necessary water in stairs with buckets ;-)
BTW, sorry about hideous spelling and grammar.
"Imagine you're on vacation and you want to know how your house is doing, so you sign on with your laptop from the hotel room and log into your home computer(which obviously has a static IP, its the 21st century"
One possibility would be a central website for similar apartment systems with access to your apartments logs with password and username only. Other would be a dedicated phoneline or shared line with caller-id recognition (so for example only buildings maintainance and your cellular could connect with apartments systems remotely, all other calls would go to normal phone.)
"activated, etc. all with timestamps). You discover that a window was either opened or broken at 3:00 AM the night before and are presented with the option of emailing your local police station to go check it out."
Actually, it's allso possible to configure the system to call straight to police and/or you and to start flashing lights etc. if it's set to burglar-alarm mode.
"I don't think computers will be given the ability to remotely unlock doors or open windows because of security risks, at least not until technology of the sort matures to the point where it can be safely done."
Well, I can name one person who can open his front door with short message from his mobile phone. Ever heard of Risto Linturi (technical director in Helsinki Telephone Company)? Other neat stuff he can do with his trusty 8110 (or is it 7110 now? I dunno...) is to turn on his sauna (well I can do it too. I just call my SO;-), turn off burglar alarm etc. etc ad nauseaum. And security risks? One solution would be caller id and password (you cant block your cellular's number when sending short message.)
"As far as being able to turn appliances on(especially kitchen appliances) remotely, I can only say that people who seriously think it will happen must be smoking crack."
I couldn't agree more. Hell, there's coffeemakers with timers. If I know that I'll be home from work at 16:15, it shouldn't be very hard to set the timer when I leave for work.
"Ultimately I think technology involving networked appliances will revolve more around practicality than hype."
You hope! If you just knew what wierd stuff some building designers want...