Indeed. It should be noted that Metal Gear Solid 4 uses every bit of the 50GB dual layer BD. It's a pretty massive game; they would benefit from this increase.
This leads me to ask if there are any good reccomended open source family tree software. I'm especially interested in web-based software that my family can make changes to from around the world. It sounds like a fun project, I can't be the only one. Any ideas?
and I felt it was an interesting, thought-provoking read but it left me feeling like I'm being manipulated. The book almost reads like a college project or thesis in that is rhetoric and logic is very formulaic and "textbook" in its execution. Set up a hypothesis, mention a negative aspect of idea x, mention several positive aspects of idea x, conclude idea x is overall positive, and move on to idea y.
Overall though he does bring up some interesting points that would be fun to debate with friends over a drink.
Just the other day I was ranting to coworkers on how this lingo gets into everyday work.
I was writing up a report and I was including the phrase "Solutions", but I forget what I was solving. Can't I just fix something anymore? Why do I have to deliver a solution?
Issues and solutions, issues and solutions. I with I had an old-fashioned problem. I'd probably just fix it!
Yeah, but at least with amps there are other stats. How many Watts RMS? THD? Is it 300W max at 0.20THD into a 6-ohm load @ 1Khz?
We all know that the 100W at 0.08THD in an 8-ohm load at 100-10,000Khz is the far supperior amp.
However, there are equivalent stats on projectors that aren't listed on the box, and maybe they should be. If I'm throwing down 5-10k you better bet I check what resolutions at what frequency.
I'm 6'8", which means I'm taller than a good 98% of the population.
And you are right. My stature demands respect. That's why all the guys at work rub my bald head for luck and pinch me to hear my girlish laugh./wait a second...//that's onyl a half-truth
We have gone from the guy who saved them from their ignorange, since everything was so brand new and they felt stupid, to the equivalent of the plumber or phone guy.
Since the technology isn't that new anymore, they don't feel dumb anymore when it breaks. Everyone "knows" that it's Microsoft's fault and nothing they did could ever cause this much distruction.
How many times did you hear customers belittle themselves while you tried to defend their dignity: "No, no, it's nothing you could have prevented. Oh, no, you're not that stupid. This is hard." It's the only time I've ever heard so many millionaires and businessmen call themselves idiots.
And now? They don't even want to know how it works, "just fix it" is the reply. No more apologizing for their stupidity.
Maybe everyone finally realized that they're not stupid after all. Or maybe, they're tired of software breaking when it's not their fault. Parhaps this is OUR fault for telling them for years that, no, they didn't do anything, they're not stupid. Perhaps it's time to go back to confirming a person's insecurities.:)
But otherwise at home I use Mozilla. The integration between the two programs is just less hassle for me and easier to use.
But at work, everyone uses firefox now. Anyone notice that firefox picks up the favicon.ico on all sites that IE can't? It's odd, but cool for FF.
Good, this will improve the lives of many employee
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Massive Layoffs At AOL
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Look, I worked at AOL tech support for a year. In some towns, you can't throw a rock without hitting someone who hasn't (Ogden, Tucson, Reston, Jacksonville, etc).
This is how it goes: normally, it's your first "real" tech job. Before this, you were the guy your friends and relatives called for help. In my case, it was my first job, ever. No McDonalds, no BK or Gap, or Orange Julius in the mall. Straight to the tech world. Your parents will be so proud.
Then you actually start working there. The hell that is (nearly) 24/7 tech support with some of the dumbest people, both coworkers and customers, is nearly endless. You realise how large and illiterate most of America (nay, the world) really is. Not computer illiterate, the plain' old fashion kind.
You enjoy the banana splits every time the stock splits, but you're a part time employee 'cause you're workin' your way though school. So you don't get any stock. Your fellow coworkers try to plan a coup and go on strike, form a union or something (which is strictly forbidden in the contract agreement). But it falls flat and you watch some good men and women go down. You get a small promotion.
Then you get sucked into the workload, dumping your calls at 7 minutes, 'cause hey, you have an average call time to maintain. Fuck being helpfull, if granny's PC is taking too long to boot or you thought you'd try to blindly import her mail from Eudora or Caldera on an OS7 Mac, tough shit. She gets the dreaded call transfer.
By trying out some of our special offers, she can get a month of free service. No really, it is a good deal. The trust that we've maintained over the last 6 minutes is a great thing to shatter with that "please hold." Hopefully she'll hang on the line just long enough that she'll be the 10th tel-save today, lest your boss compare your marketing transfer scores to the woman with the honey-sweet voice a few cubes down.
Screw women, this is where you become a man. A hardened, overtly-bitter and disgruntled man. You also hone your skills in down pat. Everything can be done with your eyes closed "sleeping" at your desk, or shooting nerf balls at the hottie down the row. Don't worry, she'll never know it was you. The security guy at the front desk might, though.
It only takes a few months to hate all people and computers. But at 17-24 years of age it will look damn fine on your resume. Future employers will go "wow, AOL, huh?! How'd you like that?"
And like Michael Bolton, you'll tell them it was great. And you can't really pick out your favorite moment.
As for people over the age of 30 wearing birkenstocks or tie-dyed shirts, please don't. It's just sad. We know you like your Mac. It says so right on your shirt. And no, you're not really "the" mac daddy. But nice try.
Anyways, you needed a goot boot in the pants to get you into a "real" tech job. Because by now, you realise that AOL isn't. So mourn for a few days, then get your ass in gear. You've got Interviews.
and I don't remember a psych department! Fraud, I say!
Oh wait, that's because I was in the CompSci dept and never saw the rest of the school. I was also in the music school (took some piano classes) and started out in engineering, so I know they have a decent electronics dept. (or what I'd call computer engineering).
So yes, of course the UofA has the resources. Just ask that feller who helped JPL send the first mars rover up (and perhaps even the second), or that huge lens they made, or Dr. Weil, or the 1998 Wildcats...or the new Student Union.
Get a dual-head videocard, IE Matrox or ATI to name a few, and hook up two XGA 4/3 projectors up to it. Line up carefully, and you can watch an anamorphic 2.35:1 dvd @ 1805x768 with black bars on the SIDES instead of the top. Pretty sweet.
Doesn't seem hard to do four this way. Their setup is rear projection, which is a bit harder of course. And the article says it's running near 16/9 aspect.
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Indeed. It should be noted that Metal Gear Solid 4 uses every bit of the 50GB dual layer BD. It's a pretty massive game; they would benefit from this increase.
After doing all that, I think you may have missed your flight! :)
This leads me to ask if there are any good reccomended open source family tree software. I'm especially interested in web-based software that my family can make changes to from around the world. It sounds like a fun project, I can't be the only one. Any ideas?
...of using thousand dollar machines to grab every usable sonic bit, and then throw 90% of them away by running it through lame.
/I know, I know. But still...
you obvoiusly didn't get it.
and I felt it was an interesting, thought-provoking read but it left me feeling like I'm being manipulated. The book almost reads like a college project or thesis in that is rhetoric and logic is very formulaic and "textbook" in its execution. Set up a hypothesis, mention a negative aspect of idea x, mention several positive aspects of idea x, conclude idea x is overall positive, and move on to idea y.
Overall though he does bring up some interesting points that would be fun to debate with friends over a drink.
And just yesterday I made a Joke about RAID arrays and got modded flamebait.
What's your secret? More sarcasm?
(Don't forget the ATM machine)
Wow, flamebait? That's a first. I thought I was being funny. Huh.
I just need to go to the ATM machine and type in my PIN number so I can get some cash to pay for this thing.
Does the laptop also have a NIC card? I could use one of those...
Death by pop-up.
Or pop-under...
Just the other day I was ranting to coworkers on how this lingo gets into everyday work.
I was writing up a report and I was including the phrase "Solutions", but I forget what I was solving. Can't I just fix something anymore? Why do I have to deliver a solution?
Issues and solutions, issues and solutions. I with I had an old-fashioned problem. I'd probably just fix it!
Yeah, but at least with amps there are other stats. How many Watts RMS? THD? Is it 300W max at 0.20THD into a 6-ohm load @ 1Khz?
We all know that the 100W at 0.08THD in an 8-ohm load at 100-10,000Khz is the far supperior amp.
However, there are equivalent stats on projectors that aren't listed on the box, and maybe they should be. If I'm throwing down 5-10k you better bet I check what resolutions at what frequency.
A Geek Flops His Honk Tot
so where's my prize?
I hear he's playing the world's greatest April Fools joke today.
He's gonna pop up tomorrow and be like, "0wn3d!"
Or something.
I'm 6'8", which means I'm taller than a good 98% of the population.
/wait a second... //that's onyl a half-truth
And you are right. My stature demands respect. That's why all the guys at work rub my bald head for luck and pinch me to hear my girlish laugh.
We have gone from the guy who saved them from their ignorange, since everything was so brand new and they felt stupid, to the equivalent of the plumber or phone guy.
:)
Since the technology isn't that new anymore, they don't feel dumb anymore when it breaks. Everyone "knows" that it's Microsoft's fault and nothing they did could ever cause this much distruction.
How many times did you hear customers belittle themselves while you tried to defend their dignity: "No, no, it's nothing you could have prevented. Oh, no, you're not that stupid. This is hard." It's the only time I've ever heard so many millionaires and businessmen call themselves idiots.
And now? They don't even want to know how it works, "just fix it" is the reply. No more apologizing for their stupidity.
Maybe everyone finally realized that they're not stupid after all. Or maybe, they're tired of software breaking when it's not their fault. Parhaps this is OUR fault for telling them for years that, no, they didn't do anything, they're not stupid. Perhaps it's time to go back to confirming a person's insecurities.
Seriously. Better document conversion? Smaller file size?
But otherwise at home I use Mozilla. The integration between the two programs is just less hassle for me and easier to use.
But at work, everyone uses firefox now. Anyone notice that firefox picks up the favicon.ico on all sites that IE can't? It's odd, but cool for FF.
Look, I worked at AOL tech support for a year. In some towns, you can't throw a rock without hitting someone who hasn't (Ogden, Tucson, Reston, Jacksonville, etc).
This is how it goes: normally, it's your first "real" tech job. Before this, you were the guy your friends and relatives called for help. In my case, it was my first job, ever. No McDonalds, no BK or Gap, or Orange Julius in the mall. Straight to the tech world. Your parents will be so proud.
Then you actually start working there. The hell that is (nearly) 24/7 tech support with some of the dumbest people, both coworkers and customers, is nearly endless. You realise how large and illiterate most of America (nay, the world) really is. Not computer illiterate, the plain' old fashion kind.
You enjoy the banana splits every time the stock splits, but you're a part time employee 'cause you're workin' your way though school. So you don't get any stock. Your fellow coworkers try to plan a coup and go on strike, form a union or something (which is strictly forbidden in the contract agreement). But it falls flat and you watch some good men and women go down. You get a small promotion.
Then you get sucked into the workload, dumping your calls at 7 minutes, 'cause hey, you have an average call time to maintain. Fuck being helpfull, if granny's PC is taking too long to boot or you thought you'd try to blindly import her mail from Eudora or Caldera on an OS7 Mac, tough shit. She gets the dreaded call transfer.
By trying out some of our special offers, she can get a month of free service. No really, it is a good deal. The trust that we've maintained over the last 6 minutes is a great thing to shatter with that "please hold." Hopefully she'll hang on the line just long enough that she'll be the 10th tel-save today, lest your boss compare your marketing transfer scores to the woman with the honey-sweet voice a few cubes down.
Screw women, this is where you become a man. A hardened, overtly-bitter and disgruntled man. You also hone your skills in down pat. Everything can be done with your eyes closed "sleeping" at your desk, or shooting nerf balls at the hottie down the row. Don't worry, she'll never know it was you. The security guy at the front desk might, though.
It only takes a few months to hate all people and computers. But at 17-24 years of age it will look damn fine on your resume. Future employers will go "wow, AOL, huh?! How'd you like that?"
And like Michael Bolton, you'll tell them it was great. And you can't really pick out your favorite moment.
As for people over the age of 30 wearing birkenstocks or tie-dyed shirts, please don't. It's just sad. We know you like your Mac. It says so right on your shirt. And no, you're not really "the" mac daddy. But nice try.
Anyways, you needed a goot boot in the pants to get you into a "real" tech job. Because by now, you realise that AOL isn't. So mourn for a few days, then get your ass in gear. You've got Interviews.
I saw him on CSPAN once. Evil. Why do we allow father-son relationships in public offices? It doesn't rub right with me.
embarrassingly, I was actually looking for a screen shot on their site before it hit me....
:)
"oh wait..."
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
and I don't remember a psych department! Fraud, I say!
Oh wait, that's because I was in the CompSci dept and never saw the rest of the school. I was also in the music school (took some piano classes) and started out in engineering, so I know they have a decent electronics dept. (or what I'd call computer engineering).
So yes, of course the UofA has the resources. Just ask that feller who helped JPL send the first mars rover up (and perhaps even the second), or that huge lens they made, or Dr. Weil, or the 1998 Wildcats...or the new Student Union.
Yeah, they have resources.
Scary rescources.
Get a dual-head videocard, IE Matrox or ATI to name a few, and hook up two XGA 4/3 projectors up to it. Line up carefully, and you can watch an anamorphic 2.35:1 dvd @ 1805x768 with black bars on the SIDES instead of the top. Pretty sweet.
Doesn't seem hard to do four this way. Their setup is rear projection, which is a bit harder of course. And the article says it's running near 16/9 aspect.
is when the Bible says pi is equal to 3, when it's actually equal to 3.1415...
duh. savages.
i didnt no they savd the txt msgs on ur svr 4 retrivl @ ny time. ill thnk 2x b4 sending confidnt info.