Google is your friend... Even searching for something as basic as "circuits printed on paper" will yield lots of links. As I recall, most of the recent slashdot stories were related to disposable cell phones and the like.
Extinction is pretty serious, regardless of whether that species matters to us or not. Congratulations, you've discovered a whole new category of "shallow"... worsened by the fact that apparently the main "cultural significance" of this animal is/was that it's tasty enough to fish into extinction. There's a Catch-22 for you.
I'm by no means a greasy-haired wild-eyed foaming-at-the-mouth green-nazi hippie douchebag, pretty nearly the opposite in fact, and I certainly don't buy into the "stewards of the planet" bullshit, but extinction that is pretty clearly caused by human activity -- worse yet, incidental and easily avoided activity -- still makes me queasy.
The point I'm trying to make is that extinction is so serious that whether the species was useful or important to us or not is completely irrelevant.
Man, don't even go THERE. Yeah, but you're pretty much fucked after you make the claim. The first time I thought, "Whew, at least I have homeowners," and tallied up the damage, filed a claim, went through the process of having a shop verify the expensive stuff really was lightning damage and damaged beyond repair, bought new stuff and sent in the receipts, got reimbursed, etc etc etc... it took about six months, but hey, it was cool, all those thousands and thousands in homeowners was finally paying for itself. Sort of.
Then the following year we got hit again. I called the insurance company and they flat-out told me, "You can file another claim and we'll pay it, but we'll drop you immediately after, and none of the major carriers will ever insure you again."
My initial reaction was to call their bluff. It wasn't as if lightning strikes were my fault. Then I started making phone calls and inquiries, and the shitty part is that it's exactly how it works. I don't know what they call it, but basically insurers keep a sort of "permanent record" on you that all of them can see. One place I called said, "Homeowners is strictly for major disasters like fires, where your losses are tens or hundreds of thousands. A couple small claims for a few thousand will make you un-insurable by the major carriers for all intents and purposes."
No, these were direct hits on the house that each took out many thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Not just electronics, but light switches, lamps, pretty much everything electrical. Computers and similar electronics were completely destroyed. In the first hit the lightning entered the house through the outlet where the Tivo was plugged in, actually. They were the kinds of strikes where we lucked out that the house didn't burn down.
I had to argue for two weeks with DirecTV to keep my old SD DirecTV Tivo when I moved into my new house. The DTV guy showed up and while I was in another room he took my Tivo to his truck and plugged in one of their shitty DVRs. It took about four days to get my Tivo back (with all my settings and subscriptions still there), then another week to get the billing straightened out. DTV never did send any return details for their DVR, which is still in a box in the other room. (Awhile back somebody on slash told me I could probably eBay it, but I keep forgetting.)
Listening to music and watching TV has become a total clusterfuck of complexity and expense.
Of course, what sucks about that is when a random lightning strike kills your box. This happened to me with my first Tivo back around 2001-ish. I was a little annoyed that I lost my lifetime sub, but I bought another Tivo and subscribed with that one... and it got struck by lightning about six months later.
After that I switched to DirecTV's Tivo, which I could get for $4/month with no up-front cost, and since then I've been waiting semi-patiently for Comcast to get their shit together and let me buy an HD Tivo so I can ditch satellite.
Christ. How did listening to music and watching TV become so fucking complicated?
Flying, sure, but it doesn't really solve the landing problem. (I suppose you could imagine a few billion dollars worth of robots to build and maintain a runway with the arresting gear.)
Moving two mice in a way that accomplishes something useful sounds tricky at best. Moving three or more sounds impossible unless your physical makeup is sporting some fancy hardware of its own...
3912 bytes? Are you insane? C is for terrorists, homosexuals, and priests who fondle young boys!.data hello_message db 'Hello, World!',0dh,0ah,'$'.code main proc
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
No, he's right, NoScript blocks both JavaScript and Java, separately. Although you're also right, these days Java is mainly a server-side thing, probably the one environment where all of it's great promises and then-unique capabilities are least useful. ("The ironing is delicious.")
It's funny you'd bring up the undersea colony angle. Just the other day my wife was watching that SciFi channel movie "Aftermath" or whatever they called it -- the pseudo-documentary showing the after-effects of a large asteroid impact.
I pointed out to her that an undersea colony with artificial sunlight would avoid virtually all of the problems described in the movie. Granted, it assumes learning how to do things we don't do now, primarily undersea farming, and that the colony was large enough to make an important difference, and that it [or multiple colonies] were built in places that wouldn't be destroyed by the shockwaves and other large-scale physical effects -- but generally speaking it seems to be the only real near-term solution to basic survival in such extreme circumstances.
Let me guess: the result was for everyone to feel bad about this terrible contrast and engage in little personal guilt trips for "having it so good", instead of asking why his African ancestors apparently can't grow crops and raise food animals like everybody else on the planet has managed to do for the past 50,000 fucking years.
I suppose I thought it was old because (1) I haven't actually seen an IBM laptop in many years, and (2) everybody else seems to have gone to those god-awful touchpad things. I do remember that for awhile non-IBM manufacturers used them -- but now they're impossible to find. I wonder if IBM had a patent on it or something like that, or if they just aren't popular? If I could find that on a decent, affordable laptop, I'd be a happy camper.
I've never understood the trackball crowd (and I tried one for awhile). Simply put: the way our thumbs work is very sub-optimal for pointing. It's also the reason most current game-console controllers suck so much. I still think one of the best mouse-replacements was the old IBM "eraser" thing between the TYGH keys...
Because the halfwit IT douchebags who control the 350 MB of background processes can only keep that garbage running by forcing everybody's machine to reboot every night?
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The community reaction to this technique was an important part of the evolution of climbing ethics in the Shawangunks and beyond.
I hate to go off-topic, but what the fuck does rock-climbing have to do with "ethics"?
Sometimes I hate Wikipedia.
Google is your friend... Even searching for something as basic as "circuits printed on paper" will yield lots of links. As I recall, most of the recent slashdot stories were related to disposable cell phones and the like.
Or implement one of the replication options (not an option with MSDE, but you started out talking about SQL Server...).
Extinction is pretty serious, regardless of whether that species matters to us or not. Congratulations, you've discovered a whole new category of "shallow"... worsened by the fact that apparently the main "cultural significance" of this animal is/was that it's tasty enough to fish into extinction. There's a Catch-22 for you.
I'm by no means a greasy-haired wild-eyed foaming-at-the-mouth green-nazi hippie douchebag, pretty nearly the opposite in fact, and I certainly don't buy into the "stewards of the planet" bullshit, but extinction that is pretty clearly caused by human activity -- worse yet, incidental and easily avoided activity -- still makes me queasy.
The point I'm trying to make is that extinction is so serious that whether the species was useful or important to us or not is completely irrelevant.
LOL... "culturally significant animal"...
Well shit, that's a great reason to get all worked up about it.
One word: condom.
If you can't afford a kid, DON'T FUCKING HAVE A KID.
Ironically the slashdot groupmind isn't very fond of New Scientist, but their story provides some useful information about how and why this works:
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http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn1
Man, don't even go THERE. Yeah, but you're pretty much fucked after you make the claim. The first time I thought, "Whew, at least I have homeowners," and tallied up the damage, filed a claim, went through the process of having a shop verify the expensive stuff really was lightning damage and damaged beyond repair, bought new stuff and sent in the receipts, got reimbursed, etc etc etc... it took about six months, but hey, it was cool, all those thousands and thousands in homeowners was finally paying for itself. Sort of.
Then the following year we got hit again. I called the insurance company and they flat-out told me, "You can file another claim and we'll pay it, but we'll drop you immediately after, and none of the major carriers will ever insure you again."
My initial reaction was to call their bluff. It wasn't as if lightning strikes were my fault. Then I started making phone calls and inquiries, and the shitty part is that it's exactly how it works. I don't know what they call it, but basically insurers keep a sort of "permanent record" on you that all of them can see. One place I called said, "Homeowners is strictly for major disasters like fires, where your losses are tens or hundreds of thousands. A couple small claims for a few thousand will make you un-insurable by the major carriers for all intents and purposes."
What a racket, eh?
No, these were direct hits on the house that each took out many thousands of dollars worth of equipment. Not just electronics, but light switches, lamps, pretty much everything electrical. Computers and similar electronics were completely destroyed. In the first hit the lightning entered the house through the outlet where the Tivo was plugged in, actually. They were the kinds of strikes where we lucked out that the house didn't burn down.
I had to argue for two weeks with DirecTV to keep my old SD DirecTV Tivo when I moved into my new house. The DTV guy showed up and while I was in another room he took my Tivo to his truck and plugged in one of their shitty DVRs. It took about four days to get my Tivo back (with all my settings and subscriptions still there), then another week to get the billing straightened out. DTV never did send any return details for their DVR, which is still in a box in the other room. (Awhile back somebody on slash told me I could probably eBay it, but I keep forgetting.)
Listening to music and watching TV has become a total clusterfuck of complexity and expense.
Of course, what sucks about that is when a random lightning strike kills your box. This happened to me with my first Tivo back around 2001-ish. I was a little annoyed that I lost my lifetime sub, but I bought another Tivo and subscribed with that one ... and it got struck by lightning about six months later.
After that I switched to DirecTV's Tivo, which I could get for $4/month with no up-front cost, and since then I've been waiting semi-patiently for Comcast to get their shit together and let me buy an HD Tivo so I can ditch satellite.
Christ. How did listening to music and watching TV become so fucking complicated?
You'll spend more than $280 for your connection over a relatively short period of time.
I don't care who you are, $280 is hardly "made of money" status.
When the local Wal-Mart is selling new PCs for $280, who cares about old machines?
Flying, sure, but it doesn't really solve the landing problem. (I suppose you could imagine a few billion dollars worth of robots to build and maintain a runway with the arresting gear.)
Good point. Well, the first two anyway. I guess I don't see the point of the third one -- not sure how it would differ from using just one mouse.
Moving two mice in a way that accomplishes something useful sounds tricky at best. Moving three or more sounds impossible unless your physical makeup is sporting some fancy hardware of its own...
3912 bytes? Are you insane? C is for terrorists, homosexuals, and priests who fondle young boys! .data .code
hello_message db 'Hello, World!',0dh,0ah,'$'
main proc
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ah,9
mov dx,offset hello_message
int 21h
mov ax,4C00h
int 21h
main endp
end main
No, he's right, NoScript blocks both JavaScript and Java, separately. Although you're also right, these days Java is mainly a server-side thing, probably the one environment where all of it's great promises and then-unique capabilities are least useful. ("The ironing is delicious.")
It's funny you'd bring up the undersea colony angle. Just the other day my wife was watching that SciFi channel movie "Aftermath" or whatever they called it -- the pseudo-documentary showing the after-effects of a large asteroid impact.
I pointed out to her that an undersea colony with artificial sunlight would avoid virtually all of the problems described in the movie. Granted, it assumes learning how to do things we don't do now, primarily undersea farming, and that the colony was large enough to make an important difference, and that it [or multiple colonies] were built in places that wouldn't be destroyed by the shockwaves and other large-scale physical effects -- but generally speaking it seems to be the only real near-term solution to basic survival in such extreme circumstances.
I knew people who did that, too.
In some sense, we might be headed that way again (although I'm too pessimistic to expect it to catch on) --
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Consider the statement rhetorical.
Let me guess: the result was for everyone to feel bad about this terrible contrast and engage in little personal guilt trips for "having it so good", instead of asking why his African ancestors apparently can't grow crops and raise food animals like everybody else on the planet has managed to do for the past 50,000 fucking years.
I suppose I thought it was old because (1) I haven't actually seen an IBM laptop in many years, and (2) everybody else seems to have gone to those god-awful touchpad things. I do remember that for awhile non-IBM manufacturers used them -- but now they're impossible to find. I wonder if IBM had a patent on it or something like that, or if they just aren't popular? If I could find that on a decent, affordable laptop, I'd be a happy camper.
I've never understood the trackball crowd (and I tried one for awhile). Simply put: the way our thumbs work is very sub-optimal for pointing. It's also the reason most current game-console controllers suck so much. I still think one of the best mouse-replacements was the old IBM "eraser" thing between the TYGH keys...
Why do you need to boot your computer?
Because the halfwit IT douchebags who control the 350 MB of background processes can only keep that garbage running by forcing everybody's machine to reboot every night?