Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay?
During the Dot.com boom, no.
Right now, yes.
The times, they have changed. Unless you have a REALLY good range of skills, and moreover can meet the version number test*, AND are not too old, then the job market is really tough right now.
* This is where an HR department sees that you have experience with Java 1.4.02, but they want Java 1.4.03. Obviously you are not qualified....
I believe the hardware itself is going to honor the bit. May not be much one can do from software...
Unless the hardware ONLY uses logic gates, then the hardware is controlled by software (via a BIOS on the card).
So hack the BIOS, change it, and there you go. And even if the BIOS cannot be updated, you can always replace the ROM chip (may require some soldering though).
Is this a lot of trouble? Yes. But so is anything worthwhile.
IF there is DNA, and IF it has commonality with life on earth, THEN it may have come from earth, BUT if it does not have commonality, or it it completely different, THEN there is a good probability that it came from somewhere else.
Note: all files needed to get this working are password protected in the CVS or yahoo group. and For the long single page How-to it's here, it is real big about 400k.
so will the total revenue of these networks, which operate almost entirely from revenue generated by advertisements
I had heard that the main actor in Seinfeld was being paid $1,000,000 per episode (I have never watched an entire episode).
Maybe the networks should look at what the ators are demanding instead of ever increasing ad time.
This is the real problem. When ads were 1 minute long, then back to the show, you tended to watch them. The ads have now reached spam levels. Not only do the ads take over 3 minutes, but they are also inserted ON TOP of the show I am watching.
The station bugs are bad enough (I HATE those), but ads during a show really bites. I actively boycott (can I say that?) any ad which is shown like this.
And I think that is the real reason that more and more people are using PVRs and other technology to skip the spam (um, ads). Ad overload.
I'm sure companies will starting complaining about lost sales in DVDs/Ad placements
They can still place them there.
When I watch TV, I mute ads, or flip around. This does not stop the ad company from placing the ad. After all, they are not paying ME to see it, they are paying the TV show for placing it. The cost is the same whether I watch it or not.
Heck, I routinely tape (VHS) shows so I can fast-foreward through ads. Or when two shows are on in the same time slot. As far as I am concerned, there IS NO prime time. I tape when it is aired, and watch when I want to, not when some over-paid executive decides I should.
It irks me to no end that these studies never take into account the basic driving skills of the people they are testing.
I have had a CB in my car since I was a kid. In fact, the CB is MORE distracting, as you need to "press to talk", whereas you just babble into a cell phone.
The real problem is that most drivers have marginal skills. Add ANY kind of distraction, and you have a problem. Cell phone users are just easy to spot (look, the driver has his head canted).
it's because we have excellent signal processors attached to our eyes, and are able to correct simple errors like that before it gets out of our language centers and into the rest of our brain.
Which is why I do proofreading backwards. It is much easier to to catch errors reading backwards:
backwards reading errors catch to to easier much is It
The best approach from a consumer's point of view is to simply not buy HP.
Hello HP. Hello. Hello, anyone here?
I am about to get a digital camera, and with it a new printer. I WAS planning to get an HP, but now.
Companies like this have done more to ruin US reputation internationally than the US government has. Everything from potato chip companies wanting to "change that culture to eat more snacks"(1) to DVD's with regional settings. Now this.
Beware US, you are the big bully in the world schoolyard. Eventually no one will want to play with you. It is not like you have the only bat and ball.....
1. I saw this on a show a few years ago. Nalleys was flat lined in the US and Canada, and they were trying to get into Europe. Trouble is that Euoropena culture does not go into eating potato chips for snacks. They may get a bag for the evening. The Nalleys' VP stated that they needed to launch an ad campaign to change the culture, to make them want to eat more snacks.
WTF? Need more profit, so we change a culture? And yes, I have not bought a Nalleys since.
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Cost of gathering the newspapers at the curb, transporting to the sorting facility, sorting, storage, then extra processing to remove old ink.
Most of it goes to making toilet paper.....
Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay?
During the Dot.com boom, no.
Right now, yes.
The times, they have changed. Unless you have a REALLY good range of skills, and moreover can meet the version number test*, AND are not too old, then the job market is really tough right now.
* This is where an HR department sees that you have experience with Java 1.4.02, but they want Java 1.4.03. Obviously you are not qualified....
I believe the hardware itself is going to honor the bit. May not be much one can do from software...
Unless the hardware ONLY uses logic gates, then the hardware is controlled by software (via a BIOS on the card).
So hack the BIOS, change it, and there you go. And even if the BIOS cannot be updated, you can always replace the ROM chip (may require some soldering though).
Is this a lot of trouble? Yes. But so is anything worthwhile.
I work for TiVo.
Increase your potential market by 10%! 30 million new potential customers!
Add Canadian content!
Well, yes. That is what I said.
IF there is DNA, and IF it has commonality with life on earth, THEN it may have come from earth, BUT if it does not have commonality, or it it completely different, THEN there is a good probability that it came from somewhere else.
it'll be difficult to determine if it was as a result of our visit or not.
Only if there is a common DNA signature for life on the two planets.
Note: all files needed to get this working are password protected in the CVS or yahoo group.
and
For the long single page How-to it's here, it is real big about 400k.
Yikes! I guess I need my hacking hat......
I am still on analog TV.
You would think that Tivo would want to increase their market space by an instant 10% (300 million in the US vs 30 million in Canada).
I am sold on the idea, but AFAIK Tivo is not for Canada.
so will the total revenue of these networks, which operate almost entirely from revenue generated by advertisements
I had heard that the main actor in Seinfeld was being paid $1,000,000 per episode (I have never watched an entire episode).
Maybe the networks should look at what the ators are demanding instead of ever increasing ad time.
This is the real problem. When ads were 1 minute long, then back to the show, you tended to watch them. The ads have now reached spam levels. Not only do the ads take over 3 minutes, but they are also inserted ON TOP of the show I am watching.
The station bugs are bad enough (I HATE those), but ads during a show really bites. I actively boycott (can I say that?) any ad which is shown like this.
And I think that is the real reason that more and more people are using PVRs and other technology to skip the spam (um, ads). Ad overload.
I'm sure companies will starting complaining about lost sales in DVDs/Ad placements
They can still place them there.
When I watch TV, I mute ads, or flip around. This does not stop the ad company from placing the ad. After all, they are not paying ME to see it, they are paying the TV show for placing it. The cost is the same whether I watch it or not.
Heck, I routinely tape (VHS) shows so I can fast-foreward through ads. Or when two shows are on in the same time slot. As far as I am concerned, there IS NO prime time. I tape when it is aired, and watch when I want to, not when some over-paid executive decides I should.
This is known as enpowernment.
All the **AA's hate this of course.....
No redundant failover? No backups? Someone should fire the sysadmin.
Hmmm, this may be the best argument yet that there is no God....
better than average driving record
An interesting distinction.
CB use is much less common than cell use.
It wasn't in the 70's
That would be a good study. Look at the stats from before the CB craze to after the CB craze, and see if there is a spike in the accidents.
I have been driving for over 30 years. Accident free for the past 27. Ticket free for the past 25.
I have driven professionally, including tractor-trailers.
So yes, I DO have better than average driving skills, thank-you.
Right On!
It irks me to no end that these studies never take into account the basic driving skills of the people they are testing.
I have had a CB in my car since I was a kid. In fact, the CB is MORE distracting, as you need to "press to talk", whereas you just babble into a cell phone.
The real problem is that most drivers have marginal skills. Add ANY kind of distraction, and you have a problem. Cell phone users are just easy to spot (look, the driver has his head canted).
How is that possible?!?!
Statistics!
You know, you can hit ctrl-n and get a second version of the IE window
You sure can. Though the second IE window fetches the Web page again.
I could jump back and forth quickly between censuses, mapquest, SSDI, etc.
And there is no way to open multiple IE windows with one click.
And there is no easy way to save multiple IE windows, so they all open the next time.
Tabbed browsing is more than just having a bunch of IE windows opened.
I'd love to have something that disables a cellphone camera in specific areas
I read somewhere that these cameras use infra-red to manage focus/exposure.
So just flood the area with wildly variable intensity IR. Should drive the camera systems nuts trying to compensate.
Of course any IR remote devices will also be affected, but everything is a tradeoff.
it's because we have excellent signal processors attached to our eyes, and are able to correct simple errors like that before it gets out of our language centers and into the rest of our brain.
Which is why I do proofreading backwards. It is much easier to to catch errors reading backwards:
backwards reading errors catch to to easier much is It
The best approach from a consumer's point of view is to simply not buy HP.
Hello HP. Hello. Hello, anyone here?
I am about to get a digital camera, and with it a new printer. I WAS planning to get an HP, but now.
Companies like this have done more to ruin US reputation internationally than the US government has. Everything from potato chip companies wanting to "change that culture to eat more snacks"(1) to DVD's with regional settings. Now this.
Beware US, you are the big bully in the world schoolyard. Eventually no one will want to play with you. It is not like you have the only bat and ball.....
1. I saw this on a show a few years ago. Nalleys was flat lined in the US and Canada, and they were trying to get into Europe. Trouble is that Euoropena culture does not go into eating potato chips for snacks. They may get a bag for the evening. The Nalleys' VP stated that they needed to launch an ad campaign to change the culture, to make them want to eat more snacks.
WTF? Need more profit, so we change a culture? And yes, I have not bought a Nalleys since.
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A boy gerkin?
You have _got_ to be kidding me.
Most flash is used for ads. That is a waste IMHO. This is actually used for something useful.
Yes, but if the moon got hit, and its orbit was changed to one which intersects the earth.....
The moon is not some piddly number of meters across, it is 3,479 km (2,162 miles) across. This can cause some serious damage.