Haha, yes, bad choice of words on my part. I sound like one of my customers now. Maybe I'll start telling people I have a 1GHz modem and 10GB of memory.
I never saw any toddler proof cases available on ThinkGeek. Anyways, he's 4 now anyways so he knows how to use it (at least better than most people I provide tech support for).
My floppy died a couple years ago after an unfortunate incident involving my 2 year old son and his recent discovery of coins. The next week my VCR also suffered the same fate.
I thought I had lost a CD-drive after he discovered CDs and a slight opening above the closed CD tray that allowed him to cram 3 CDs into the top of the drive. Later on he discoved a small opening above a drive bay cover and managed to get about a dozen CDs into the inside of my case before he was caught.
I was immediately thinking of how much I could freak out the wife by making all the appliances turn themselves on and off. She still gets confused when the mouse on the home computer starts moving around on it's own while I'm at work.
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The original post actually reminded me a Carlin bit about how the planet might want things like plastic, so it created humans to manufacture it.
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The life present on Earth does not classify Earth as a planet. Bacteria has been proven to live in the vacuum of space. Does that make outer space alive? Are we destroying outer space by putting several thousand satellites out there? Or will outer space "live" just fine regardless of what we do?
In other words, all the living things, the lifeforms on Earth, are a unseparatable part of planet Earth !
That's not true. Even if all life on this planet were destroyed it would still be Earth. Nobody would be around to call it Earth so I guess one could get into a philosphical debate over whether a falling tree makes noise if nobody is around to hear it.
Actually we aren't killing the planet. The planet consist of non living materials such as rock and water. Things like trees, animals, and humans are really just viral growths and are not "the planet" itself. Mars has no trees or people and it's still a planet.
Now if a tree falls in the woods and nobody cares, does it really matter that it fell? It wouldn't really matter if the Earth was destroyed since we're the only ones that care and we'd be dead.
So the real bright side would be knowing that regardless of what happens, it really doesn't matter.
Well, every security implementation is technically security through obscurity unless you're using a perfected implementation of biometric authorization. Even passwords and high bit number factorization is simply based on not knowing something (the password or the prime numbers) and doesn't really prevent the wrong person from accessing resources.
I've perused the listings at monster and dice and most seem to be head hunters looking for somebody that is proficient in everything from ADA to VB or somebody with 3+ years of professional.NET experience or 10 years of Java. Could the problem be that the people doing the hiring don't even know what they want so they let positions go unfilled?
Does anybody still have Real Player installed? And actually use it for a general player and not just for when certain cites require it for video clips?
HP can sell them at a certain price based on the volume they sell. Dell is not 90% of HP's market, HP has their printers at every retail outlet that sells anything computer related. If Dell plans on manufacturing printers simply for bundling they'll need to charge twice as much as an HP printer unless their plan is to lose money per unit.
Also, the cartridges are the lucritive items and I can't see a large number of people wanting to pay $20 for shipping on top of $35 per cartridge. So it would be even more important for the cartridges for Dells printers to be in retail outlets, but it's almost as important to sell the printers retail too.
I thought the money was in printer cartridges not the actual printers themselves. Besides, to make money Dell would need to sell their products at retail locations which are already covered pretty well with HPs. They wouldn't be able to make enough money just selling to their own customers.
According to the website, MS Exchange Administrator is a valid job title to qualify for appreciation day. Of course there should be a requirement that the exchange server not be listed or ordb.org.
Is there really anybody here that hasn't bought one? Personally I buy their cards because they're the best. I really don't see the need to make the purchase of a certain video card to make a political statement. If you want to support open source donate toward blender, or sign up for an account with the makers of your favorite linux distro.
That's probably the best way to go, but as it is they're already running on Win 98 machines, so it doesn't sound like a tremendous amount of processor utilization is needed. The article said they're doing things like checking to see if you cross the yellow line or not. It's not like it's that hard to put a webcam under the car and look for yellow in the picture and then see if there's black on the left or right side. It's not like they need the responsiveness of guided missle controllers to make minute changes every millisecond.
Volvo might have used Win 98 just for the prototype. I'm sure they spent more than a year actually putting this thing together so W2K or WinXP wouldn't have been around. Win98 may have been what was around when they started this project and may have been easier to deal with than Windows ME since they removed real mode driver support.
Who says they'd need to tweak the OS? I would think they could run a standard kernel and do their own application on top of it without that application being public. Or am I missing something, like anything that runs ON linux must be open source too. I'm not sure, I haven't actually read the license stuff all the way through.
I am now committed to supporting an OpenGL 2.0 renderer for Doom through all the spec evolutions. If anything, I have been somewhat remiss in not pushing the issues as hard as I could with all the vendors. Now really is the critical time to start nailing things down, and the decisions may stay with us for ten years.
It would be easier to cover rural areas than it currently is for cable or DSL. You just need to build a tower and put a repeater at the top. What's that going to cost, $20K. That's nothing compared to running cable to cover the same area one antenna could. I'm sure the cities are first on the list, but rural would be more feasible than it is now.
I don't trust their logs. We stopped dealing with them awhile ago. We had generated the logs and I can't remember what exactly was in them anymore but there was some things that we thought were questionable as to why they wanted the info.
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Haha, yes, bad choice of words on my part. I sound like one of my customers now. Maybe I'll start telling people I have a 1GHz modem and 10GB of memory.
I never saw any toddler proof cases available on ThinkGeek. Anyways, he's 4 now anyways so he knows how to use it (at least better than most people I provide tech support for).
My floppy died a couple years ago after an unfortunate incident involving my 2 year old son and his recent discovery of coins. The next week my VCR also suffered the same fate.
I thought I had lost a CD-drive after he discovered CDs and a slight opening above the closed CD tray that allowed him to cram 3 CDs into the top of the drive. Later on he discoved a small opening above a drive bay cover and managed to get about a dozen CDs into the inside of my case before he was caught.
I was immediately thinking of how much I could freak out the wife by making all the appliances turn themselves on and off. She still gets confused when the mouse on the home computer starts moving around on it's own while I'm at work.
The original post actually reminded me a Carlin bit about how the planet might want things like plastic, so it created humans to manufacture it.
The life present on Earth does not classify Earth as a planet. Bacteria has been proven to live in the vacuum of space. Does that make outer space alive? Are we destroying outer space by putting several thousand satellites out there? Or will outer space "live" just fine regardless of what we do?
In other words, all the living things, the lifeforms on Earth, are a unseparatable part of planet Earth !
That's not true. Even if all life on this planet were destroyed it would still be Earth. Nobody would be around to call it Earth so I guess one could get into a
philosphical debate over whether a falling tree makes noise if nobody is around to hear it.
Actually we aren't killing the planet. The planet consist of non living materials such as rock and water. Things like trees, animals, and humans are really just viral growths and are not "the planet" itself. Mars has no trees or people and it's still a planet.
Now if a tree falls in the woods and nobody cares, does it really matter that it fell? It wouldn't really matter if the Earth was destroyed since we're the only ones that care and we'd be dead.
So the real bright side would be knowing that regardless of what happens, it really doesn't matter.
Well, every security implementation is technically security through obscurity unless you're using a perfected implementation of biometric authorization. Even passwords and high bit number factorization is simply based on not knowing something (the password or the prime numbers) and doesn't really prevent the wrong person from accessing resources.
Now I get it, edrugtrader is a game. For the last month I thought your tagline was referring to an eBay type website you were running for potheads.
I've perused the listings at monster and dice and most seem to be head hunters looking for somebody that is proficient in everything from ADA to VB or somebody with 3+ years of professional .NET experience or 10 years of Java. Could the problem be that the people doing the hiring don't even know what they want so they let positions go unfilled?
Does anybody still have Real Player installed? And actually use it for a general player and not just for when certain cites require it for video clips?
HP can sell them at a certain price based on the volume they sell. Dell is not 90% of HP's market, HP has their printers at every retail outlet that sells anything computer related. If Dell plans on manufacturing printers simply for bundling they'll need to charge twice as much as an HP printer unless their plan is to lose money per unit.
Also, the cartridges are the lucritive items and I can't see a large number of people wanting to pay $20 for shipping on top of $35 per cartridge. So it would be even more important for the cartridges for Dells printers to be in retail outlets, but it's almost as important to sell the printers retail too.
I thought the money was in printer cartridges not the actual printers themselves. Besides, to make money Dell would need to sell their products at retail locations which are already covered pretty well with HPs. They wouldn't be able to make enough money just selling to their own customers.
According to the website, MS Exchange Administrator is a valid job title to qualify for appreciation day. Of course there should be a requirement that the exchange server not be listed or ordb.org.
Is there really anybody here that hasn't bought one? Personally I buy their cards because they're the best. I really don't see the need to make the purchase of a certain video card to make a political statement. If you want to support open source donate toward blender, or sign up for an account with the makers of your favorite linux distro.
That's probably the best way to go, but as it is they're already running on Win 98 machines, so it doesn't sound like a tremendous amount of processor utilization is needed. The article said they're doing things like checking to see if you cross the yellow line or not. It's not like it's that hard to put a webcam under the car and look for yellow in the picture and then see if there's black on the left or right side. It's not like they need the responsiveness of guided missle controllers to make minute changes every millisecond.
Volvo might have used Win 98 just for the prototype. I'm sure they spent more than a year actually putting this thing together so W2K or WinXP wouldn't have been around. Win98 may have been what was around when they started this project and may have been easier to deal with than Windows ME since they removed real mode driver support.
Oh great, you're saying MS now has patents on oxymorons. When will it end!
Who says they'd need to tweak the OS? I would think they could run a standard kernel and do their own application on top of it without that application being public. Or am I missing something, like anything that runs ON linux must be open source too. I'm not sure, I haven't actually read the license stuff all the way through.
When you do it every 10 minutes.
What's the ending going to be then, biotech implants a-la borg?
Bullshit. The last .plan read:
I am now committed to supporting an OpenGL 2.0 renderer for Doom through all
the spec evolutions. If anything, I have been somewhat remiss in not pushing
the issues as hard as I could with all the vendors. Now really is the
critical time to start nailing things down, and the decisions may stay with
us for ten years.
I don't know about blondes, but brunettes don't fall for the ol' "it's not the size the matters" line.
It would be easier to cover rural areas than it currently is for cable or DSL. You just need to build a tower and put a repeater at the top. What's that going to cost, $20K. That's nothing compared to running cable to cover the same area one antenna could. I'm sure the cities are first on the list, but rural would be more feasible than it is now.
I don't trust their logs. We stopped dealing with them awhile ago. We had generated the logs and I can't remember what exactly was in them anymore but there was some things that we thought were questionable as to why they wanted the info.