Say what you want about the rampant fanboyism, the DRM, and the culture of "idea X is dumb and there's no reason for us to support it HEY CHECK OUT OUR NEW FEATURE WE CALL IT iX AND IT IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND UNIQUE BECAUSE IT'S WHITE!" that permeates apple, but there are probably very few of us that wouldn't want to take a time machine back to Dec 2000 and buy a few thousand shares of APPL at $7.50.
(Of course, you could always just get hired by Apple and back date your stock option.....i keed i keed....)
The message is clear: Don't fuck with people flying in to Detroit. We have very little to lose. I can see that scenario playing out now:
"I will blow up the plane!"
"Jackass, I'm *willingly* leaving a place with universal health care, low crime, and pot on every street corner to go *home* to a city with crushing illiteracy, high crime, and an epic unemployment level. Do you think I really give a flying fuck about dying?"
I just wonder how many people were uncomfortable with the extra federal attention the flight got when it landed =)
Phase 1: Find as many geeks in your area that are eligible for the settlement.
Phase 1a: Jump through the hoops this settlement will likely require ("Submissions must be sent on a 3x5 index card, handwritten in blue ink with no misspelled words, and a tiny drawing of a European Swallow hand drawn in the lower left hand corner not to exceed 13% the total area of the card...")
Phase 2: ????
Phase 3: Have everyone deposit their checks, then send $16.00 donations to the EFF, OpenSSH Foundation, FSF, or FOSS project of your choice.
"When I was 18, I thought my father was the dumbest man on earth. By the time I turned 23, I was amazed what the old man had learned in five years." - Unknown
Depends on the bulb. Home Depot sells three different color temperature bulbs. I want to say that the "use only for gitmo torture chamber and office cube farm" color bulbs are 4000k, I know they're marketed as the "natural daylight" cfl's and are sold in a blue packaging. The "bright white" bulbs in the green packages or the "warm" cfl's in the red packages are perfectly fine for me.
I never thought I would be a CFL bulb snob until I bought those natural daylight bulbs.
(I will also now go sit in the corner and feel great shame for never learning the color temperature / kelvin scale.)
I gave up on waiting for apple to get off the schnide and make the one change they desperatly need to make; ditch at&t. Got my droid a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier.
Verizon seems to be the smartphone thunderdome, and i'd love to see apple come in and kick some windows mobile and blackberry ass, but they are apparently content to hang out in the at&t sandbox. I'd be posting this from an iphone instead of a droid if apple would commit to a decent network. Maybe in 2 years they'll have gotten the hint that exclusivity hurts in the long run.
I'm sure this will lead to rational debate, as well as this information being added to our view of those tragic events as a whole and will finally lay to bed some of the misconceptions that have surrounded the events of 9/11, rather than becoming the source for thousands of snippets of information that will get used in barely contextualized, ill-thought out, and poorly worded conspiracy theories.
Also, when you bring me my pony, make sure it's pink.
The charging issue is inherent to motorola phones. My old phone (motorola razr) refused to believe that a mini-usb cable could supply the needed power without a charger. Plugging into a PC woudn't charge it. My droid doesn't have that particular problem, but i haven't tried many 3rd party chargers yet.
Bringing in Bruce Willis is *never* a bad idea. Need an asteroid destroyed in an affront to basic science? Call Willis. Need to remove an East German terrorist that can't speak proper German? Willis. Need someone to have sex with a hot, orange haired diety? Willis. Need Chuck Norris' ass kicked? Willis. Cancer cure? Willis. Making a Jaws Sequel? Have Bruce Willis play the shark.
Other than pot hole filling, plowing, drain maintenance (if applicable), line painting, and median maintenance.
So really, other than additional engineering to the right of way, installation, and changes to existing pedestrian right of ways, you've got a bang-up idea there.
Disclaimer: I'm actually a supporter of roundabouts, I just prefer the right tool for the job.
That's nothing. If Apple starts making laser etched fruit trendy, soon they'll have a whole produce division! Couple that with genetic modification and one day I'll be able to compare Apple's Oranges to Orange Apples and.....oh no, I've gone cross-eyed....
I ran into this same issue. I've now got a batch script that runs at first logon (post-reimaging) that resets the client ID. Probably overkill at this point (the bad image that was causing this has long since been redone), but it ensure that every machine checks in with a fresh key.
net stop wuauserv reg delete "HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Windowsupdate"/v SusClientId/f net start wuauserv wuauclt.exe/resetauthorization/detectnow
That does require a more windows update client (the old wuauclt only accepted a couple of options, including detectnow, and ignored the reset. If you typed wuauclt.exe/gogetmeabeerandasteak it wouldn't throw an error, it just looked like it ran).
There's a distinct difference between the SID and the SusClientID.
So their just released gadget is uber-cooler the previous generation of Kindles? Whoopee. In related news, the Zune HD compares favorably to the original iPod. My DX has native PDF support, an MP3 player, and actually displays on a non-dinky screen. The only advantage their device seems to have is wifi, which is nice. But surfing the web (and I don't see any mention of the phrase "browse the web" anywhere. Does the machine not have a web browser? It says "browse and shop", but that's not exactly clear cut. Browse the B&N catalog, or browse the web?) on an e-reader sucks anyway. Nook is still just an e-ink display (with a color touch screen at the bottom, for added experience of....um....touching things in color?) for e-books.
Don't want amazon (or B&N, or Sony, etc.) 'killing' your books? Don't buy from them. Buy from publishers that support some level of openness. My Kindle exists for a couple reasons: Disposable literature, Freebie classics from amazon, A gadget-y way to get the Free Press, and making sure that I no longer have to find space for my mountain of O'Reilly books (and keeping them at my fingertips when I really, *really* need to look something up).
E-Readers are gadgets, and they probably always will be. They're handy gadgets, but they are probably relegated to a niche market.
I wondered why the last arena I logged in to had the quad damage replaced by a wheel of cheese, and why the rocket pickups were shaped like little smudges of peanut butter.
Just fix your cursor on the apex, time their jump, and rail them. That's what I do. I'll grant you its a bit of a mess to clean up, but it's better than my experiments with rockets.
Splash damage takes on a whole new meaning when you start spending the majority of your income on aluminum-based solid rocket fuel, semtex, and lots and lots of paper towels.
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You mean, like, a droid?
Say what you want about the rampant fanboyism, the DRM, and the culture of "idea X is dumb and there's no reason for us to support it HEY CHECK OUT OUR NEW FEATURE WE CALL IT iX AND IT IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND UNIQUE BECAUSE IT'S WHITE!" that permeates apple, but there are probably very few of us that wouldn't want to take a time machine back to Dec 2000 and buy a few thousand shares of APPL at $7.50.
(Of course, you could always just get hired by Apple and back date your stock option.....i keed i keed....)
I'll second that.... ...but make mine medium well, please. With cole slaw and a baked potato.
The message is clear: Don't fuck with people flying in to Detroit. We have very little to lose. I can see that scenario playing out now:
"I will blow up the plane!"
"Jackass, I'm *willingly* leaving a place with universal health care, low crime, and pot on every street corner to go *home* to a city with crushing illiteracy, high crime, and an epic unemployment level. Do you think I really give a flying fuck about dying?"
I just wonder how many people were uncomfortable with the extra federal attention the flight got when it landed =)
Phase 1: Find as many geeks in your area that are eligible for the settlement.
Phase 1a: Jump through the hoops this settlement will likely require ("Submissions must be sent on a 3x5 index card, handwritten in blue ink with no misspelled words, and a tiny drawing of a European Swallow hand drawn in the lower left hand corner not to exceed 13% the total area of the card...")
Phase 2: ????
Phase 3: Have everyone deposit their checks, then send $16.00 donations to the EFF, OpenSSH Foundation, FSF, or FOSS project of your choice.
USMC applies here too: U Signed the Muthafuckin' Contract.
Don't like it? Don't buy a Verizon phone. Or better still, don't buy a phone with a contract.
"When I was 18, I thought my father was the dumbest man on earth. By the time I turned 23, I was amazed what the old man had learned in five years." - Unknown
and nothing of value was gained.
Depends on the bulb. Home Depot sells three different color temperature bulbs. I want to say that the "use only for gitmo torture chamber and office cube farm" color bulbs are 4000k, I know they're marketed as the "natural daylight" cfl's and are sold in a blue packaging. The "bright white" bulbs in the green packages or the "warm" cfl's in the red packages are perfectly fine for me.
I never thought I would be a CFL bulb snob until I bought those natural daylight bulbs.
(I will also now go sit in the corner and feel great shame for never learning the color temperature / kelvin scale.)
I gave up on waiting for apple to get off the schnide and make the one change they desperatly need to make; ditch at&t. Got my droid a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier.
Verizon seems to be the smartphone thunderdome, and i'd love to see apple come in and kick some windows mobile and blackberry ass, but they are apparently content to hang out in the at&t sandbox. I'd be posting this from an iphone instead of a droid if apple would commit to a decent network. Maybe in 2 years they'll have gotten the hint that exclusivity hurts in the long run.
I thought pagers used the cell networks a la text messages; indeed, I thought a pager was essentially a dedicated text message device.
Let me save someone else the trouble:
blah blah blah kids today blah blah blah get off my lawn blah blah blah I remember when this was all fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager
I'm sure this will lead to rational debate, as well as this information being added to our view of those tragic events as a whole and will finally lay to bed some of the misconceptions that have surrounded the events of 9/11, rather than becoming the source for thousands of snippets of information that will get used in barely contextualized, ill-thought out, and poorly worded conspiracy theories.
Also, when you bring me my pony, make sure it's pink.
The charging issue is inherent to motorola phones. My old phone (motorola razr) refused to believe that a mini-usb cable could supply the needed power without a charger. Plugging into a PC woudn't charge it. My droid doesn't have that particular problem, but i haven't tried many 3rd party chargers yet.
The U-505 is subject to a completely bullshit no interior photography policy.
Bringing in Bruce Willis is *never* a bad idea. Need an asteroid destroyed in an affront to basic science? Call Willis. Need to remove an East German terrorist that can't speak proper German? Willis. Need someone to have sex with a hot, orange haired diety? Willis. Need Chuck Norris' ass kicked? Willis. Cancer cure? Willis. Making a Jaws Sequel? Have Bruce Willis play the shark.
(d) don't require maintenance
Other than pot hole filling, plowing, drain maintenance (if applicable), line painting, and median maintenance.
So really, other than additional engineering to the right of way, installation, and changes to existing pedestrian right of ways, you've got a bang-up idea there.
Disclaimer: I'm actually a supporter of roundabouts, I just prefer the right tool for the job.
That's nothing. If Apple starts making laser etched fruit trendy, soon they'll have a whole produce division! Couple that with genetic modification and one day I'll be able to compare Apple's Oranges to Orange Apples and.....oh no, I've gone cross-eyed....
I ran into this same issue. I've now got a batch script that runs at first logon (post-reimaging) that resets the client ID. Probably overkill at this point (the bad image that was causing this has long since been redone), but it ensure that every machine checks in with a fresh key.
net stop wuauserv /v SusClientId /f /resetauthorization /detectnow
reg delete "HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Windowsupdate"
net start wuauserv
wuauclt.exe
That does require a more windows update client (the old wuauclt only accepted a couple of options, including detectnow, and ignored the reset. If you typed wuauclt.exe /gogetmeabeerandasteak it wouldn't throw an error, it just looked like it ran).
There's a distinct difference between the SID and the SusClientID.
"What's with the negative waves man?"
"can't you say some the beauty-ful, and righteous for a change?"
"crap."
a most quotable movie. A thousand internets upon your house, good sir.
shouldn't that just be "Very Stable" condition? I mean, it's unlikely to change....
So their just released gadget is uber-cooler the previous generation of Kindles? Whoopee. In related news, the Zune HD compares favorably to the original iPod. My DX has native PDF support, an MP3 player, and actually displays on a non-dinky screen. The only advantage their device seems to have is wifi, which is nice. But surfing the web (and I don't see any mention of the phrase "browse the web" anywhere. Does the machine not have a web browser? It says "browse and shop", but that's not exactly clear cut. Browse the B&N catalog, or browse the web?) on an e-reader sucks anyway. Nook is still just an e-ink display (with a color touch screen at the bottom, for added experience of....um....touching things in color?) for e-books.
Don't want amazon (or B&N, or Sony, etc.) 'killing' your books? Don't buy from them. Buy from publishers that support some level of openness. My Kindle exists for a couple reasons: Disposable literature, Freebie classics from amazon, A gadget-y way to get the Free Press, and making sure that I no longer have to find space for my mountain of O'Reilly books (and keeping them at my fingertips when I really, *really* need to look something up).
E-Readers are gadgets, and they probably always will be. They're handy gadgets, but they are probably relegated to a niche market.
I wondered why the last arena I logged in to had the quad damage replaced by a wheel of cheese, and why the rocket pickups were shaped like little smudges of peanut butter.
Just fix your cursor on the apex, time their jump, and rail them. That's what I do. I'll grant you its a bit of a mess to clean up, but it's better than my experiments with rockets.
Splash damage takes on a whole new meaning when you start spending the majority of your income on aluminum-based solid rocket fuel, semtex, and lots and lots of paper towels.
The digital LP is a focus to get those things back, so you can have all your extras for the complete experience.
How are you supposed to sort the seeds out of pot on the back of a digital LP?
I used to say that. Then we got forced onto Lotus Notes.
and when I get to Heaven To St. Peter I will tell: "One more Notes user reporting, Sir -- I've served my time in Hell."