I don't see these types of underlined ads anymore after I placed the site referenced by the Javascript responsible for foisting the ads upon the unsuspecting reader into my Adblock preferences.
I certainly could have done that, but I didn't care to shut it down, take the box down stairs to my shop and find a suitable surface mount resistor. The electrical tape was in the same room, so as a true geek that strives to find the simplest way to do things, the tape won out.:-) I'd rather spend my time doing other things like building a WWVB receiving alarm clock with a white LED as a gentle wake up method.
I had to tape over the blue power LED on a Shuttle 51G system, as it was so bright I could see the reflections from it in another room. Kind of distracting when you are trying to go to sleep, see the light and wonder what light you left on elsewhere in the house. I understand the newer models are supposed to have a way do dim the LEDs. I used blue electrical tape so that I could still tell if the system thought it was on.
I took a look at the Wired web site expecting to see something nice and elegant, but was met with something I consider to be really ugly. They seem to have missed out on applying it and having something pleasing to look at.
Indeed, I sold both of my 400 disc changers after I ripped everything to FLAC and use a squeezebox (original version) to listen to it. The advantage is that I can also listen to the entire collection at work without having to lug CDs to/from home.
What a stupid bitch. I'm ashamed to live in the same state as her.
You don't have to be ashamed, you just have to recognize that a large percentage of the population everywhere are idiots in the opinion of another subset of that population. There is nothing you can do about that. Then there are the clueless and others that can't think logically.
I saw "Goodmail" and immediate thought of the term "goodlife" from Fred Saberhagen's Beserker series. For those not familiar with it, goodlife is the term used by the semi-sentient machines out to destroy life in its various forms. A goodlife is a being (usually human) that assists the machines in return for not being exterminated.
Hence, the "goodmail" that assists AOL in continuing to survive will be allowed into the user's mail boxes, and everything else will be exterminated to the junk folder.
I searched for sushi in the Boulder area. The second page of the results also listed the Boulder County Health Department! Does Google know something I don't?:-)
If he has a bad experience with C and switches to another language of choice. Can't have the other language asking about the C code tattooed on his arm.:-)
Back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, there was some injection of water into wells in the Denver area (I forget if it was at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant or at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal nerve gas/pesticide site). It resulted in the same types of low level earthquakes. I recall one morning, while I was carrying my full bowl of cereal into the living room to watch the cartoons, a magnitude 4 (or thereabouts) earthquake struck. I had to stop to prevent my cereal bowl from spilling milk onto the floor. The water injection was stopped, but I don't recall if it was to prevent further earthquakes or some other reason.
Without the counterbalance, New York and California could vote to move everyone out of Colorado and turn it into a buffalo preserve and we couldn't do anything about it.
Well, we have quite a lot of guns out here that would help us say otherwise.
All of my code at work is written to POSIX and other ANSI/ISO standards (C, C++), exactly for the reason that it produces portable code. This allows us to be vendor neutral when it comes to choosing hardware. We've been able to move our code to new POSIX compliant systems, often only needing to make changes due to things like big-endian/little-endian or compiler/library bug work arounds.
The vendors typically are good about fixing standards conformance problems, especially when I say I'll just have to buy another vendor's hardware. Don't underestimate the power of open standards!
So don't go to the theater then. So much of the current movies are crap, they are not worth $9/ea to see in the theater. $3 for 50 cents worth of a small soda, $3 for a small bag of mediocre quality pop corn, its a real rip off. Wait for the DVD to show up at the video rental place, wait for the $1.99/movie rental specials, then see it.
I do this, I get the benefit of all the reviews and people's comments to weed out the really bad movies, and I get to eat high quality fresh pop corn.:-)
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It's obvious that the only secret number required is... 42!
I believe Spirit is the one with the lame wheel. I don't recall reading that Opportunity has any drive problems.
I don't see these types of underlined ads anymore after I placed the site referenced by the Javascript responsible for foisting the ads upon the unsuspecting reader into my Adblock preferences.
I certainly could have done that, but I didn't care to shut it down, take the box down stairs to my shop and find a suitable surface mount resistor. The electrical tape was in the same room, so as a true geek that strives to find the simplest way to do things, the tape won out. :-) I'd rather spend my time doing other things like building a WWVB receiving alarm clock with a white LED as a gentle wake up method.
I had to tape over the blue power LED on a Shuttle 51G system, as it was so bright I could see the reflections from it in another room. Kind of distracting when you are trying to go to sleep, see the light and wonder what light you left on elsewhere in the house. I understand the newer models are supposed to have a way do dim the LEDs. I used blue electrical tape so that I could still tell if the system thought it was on.
I took a look at the Wired web site expecting to see something nice and elegant, but was met with something I consider to be really ugly. They seem to have missed out on applying it and having something pleasing to look at.
Indeed, I sold both of my 400 disc changers after I ripped everything to FLAC and use a squeezebox (original version) to listen to it. The advantage is that I can also listen to the entire collection at work without having to lug CDs to/from home.
You don't have to be ashamed, you just have to recognize that a large percentage of the population everywhere are idiots in the opinion of another subset of that population. There is nothing you can do about that. Then there are the clueless and others that can't think logically.
You also forgot:
Self-aware planet destroying bombs
Aliens that look like beach balls with funny feet
http://pchdtv.com/
Perhaps he really meant perpetration?
I saw "Goodmail" and immediate thought of the term "goodlife" from Fred Saberhagen's Beserker series. For those not familiar with it, goodlife is the term used by the semi-sentient machines out to destroy life in its various forms. A goodlife is a being (usually human) that assists the machines in return for not being exterminated.
Hence, the "goodmail" that assists AOL in continuing to survive will be allowed into the user's mail boxes, and everything else will be exterminated to the junk folder.
I searched for sushi in the Boulder area. The second page of the results also listed the Boulder County Health Department! Does Google know something I don't? :-)
I agree. It seems to me that no additional energy will be saved by this stupidity, it will just shift the period in the day when it is used.
The problem with streaming devices like squeezebox is that, while you can control a lot of things via a web interface, volume isn't one of them.
Not true, the current slimserver interface allows control of the volume from the web interface.
If he has a bad experience with C and switches to another language of choice. Can't have the other language asking about the C code tattooed on his arm. :-)
Back in the late 1960s or early 1970s, there was some injection of water into wells in the Denver area (I forget if it was at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant or at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal nerve gas/pesticide site). It resulted in the same types of low level earthquakes. I recall one morning, while I was carrying my full bowl of cereal into the living room to watch the cartoons, a magnitude 4 (or thereabouts) earthquake struck. I had to stop to prevent my cereal bowl from spilling milk onto the floor. The water injection was stopped, but I don't recall if it was to prevent further earthquakes or some other reason.
This is a recent article from earlier in the week about this mission.
Forget about glasses until you need reading glasses around 40.
Bibblelite dies on my Athlon system with SIGILL very early on. The hardware requirements list Pentium SSE type CPUs.
Well, we have quite a lot of guns out here that would help us say otherwise.
I noticed that he has a dog with him in many of the pictures. However the article never mentioned its name! The author must not be a dog person.
All of my code at work is written to POSIX and other ANSI/ISO standards (C, C++), exactly for the reason that it produces portable code. This allows us to be vendor neutral when it comes to choosing hardware. We've been able to move our code to new POSIX compliant systems, often only needing to make changes due to things like big-endian/little-endian or compiler/library bug work arounds.
The vendors typically are good about fixing standards conformance problems, especially when I say I'll just have to buy another vendor's hardware. Don't underestimate the power of open standards!
Not to mention having to deal with a harsher winter in most of Canada...
So don't go to the theater then. So much of the current movies are crap, they are not worth $9/ea
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to see in the theater. $3 for 50 cents worth of a small soda, $3 for a small bag of mediocre quality pop corn, its a real rip off. Wait for the DVD to show up at the video rental place, wait for the $1.99/movie rental specials, then see it.
I do this, I get the benefit of all the reviews and people's comments to weed out the really bad movies, and I get to eat high quality fresh pop corn.