This post is a series of unrelated facts that come together in a paranoid conclusion. Nowhere in here would I conclude that the state is adding cameras to their EZ-Pass, only that there is a company that COULD do that. Posting this was a really dumb editorial call,/.
I used to make black powder by collecting nitrates from underneath piles of cow manure in local fields, collecting charcoal when emptying the ashes from the fireplace and sulfur by purchasing sulfur candles from the local store (unfortunately there weren't any naturally occurring sulfur deposits w/in bicycling distance)
and penny cost a nickle! and we walked to school up hill, both ways! GET OFF MY LAWN!
ITAR has been around for my 10 years in space systems and was around before me. European companies are just using it as an excuse to award European only contracts to kill off American competitors. It's actually been greatly improved in recent years, with a majority of commercial space components being put under the Commerce Dept rather than ITAR.
With names like Lief and Bjorn being thrown around with a straight face, this Yankee can't help but imagine the court room looking like a Capitol One commercial...
What has two thumbs and has no reception problems with his iPhone 4 whatsoever? This Guy!
The solution to this is to offer to refund the full price of any iPhone 4 until the end of the year, no questions asked. I would be surprised if 5% of the phones came back.
The safety issues are at least as important as the environmental ones, trust me. Every time our engineering firm deals with something that relates to "human", especially space flight, expect 10X the cost and complexity of the unmanned version.
Is someone trying to prove Fermilab employees are not so bright because they won't waste their time decoding a nerdy spam message? Considering they had it over a year before mentioning it to the public, it lost any publicity boost it might have for the authors. Leave our researchers alone and take this with your pie to the MENSA meeting.
He didn't "popularize" the idea of the geosynchronous communications satellite, he invented it, then refused to patent it because he saw the potential benefits it would have. And no, I have no sources for that, it's just what I remember reading...
In one of those Jack Ryan movies (Patriot Games? I dunno) there was a scene where the terrorists at their camp would go inside every time the spy satilitte was overhead, indicating they knew about them, and this was generally accepted as a realistic scene. It's not so much that the satelittes themselves are secret, it's what they can do that is secret. Trust me, if you are building a doomsday device, you put a line in the budget for "binoculars" and "big silver tarp".
Can someone with a little more hardware knowledge (which is everyone) tell me the price of an equivalent laptop without the WOW branding (if there is one)? How about if this was a desk top rather than a laptop?
I recently saw an AmEx commercial using the proto-Spinal Tap song "give me some money". Just by looking at my Dad, who introduced me to Tap, I knew we were thinking the same thing - they were using a song by a fake band to sell a real product. Kind of a parable for the state of the advertising industry.
Is Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?
The advantage the roomba has, beside the OMGIOWNAROBOT factor, is that it goes under stuff. Thus, it doesn't actually suck - it's more a floor sweeper than a vacuum. To apply their super-expensive sucking technology to a robot, it will need to be much taller than the Roomba. What we'll get is the same machine with more marketing.
Yes, I'm 32, and yes, I chuckled every time I typed "suck".
My mom runs a small day care center in Michigan, and her employees lobbied for an extra 15 min break per day (up to 3 instead of 2). It wasn't unreasonable, but my mom checked into what was required by law. Turns out for an 8 hour work day, Michigan law says you are entitled to NOTHING. No requirements for breaks, lunch, anything. Above 8 hours and it changes, but she had assumed she had to give her emploeeys something. I think she gave them the break anyway - cranky child care workers lead to problems.
Is the poster being derogatory towards people who use a gym, or is this a term of endearment? For all the pasty and pale stereotypes, I find quite a number of people in the computer and engineering filed at least claim to visit a gym regularly (and usually complain about the people the poster is probably referring to). Be honest - how many of you have at least sat on a piece of exercise equipment in the last year? Probably more than you think.
That's why job offers have deadlines. Don't meet the deadline, guess we don't need you. In hiring, there are very few people you HAVE to hire, just people you WANT to hire.
I bet the article was written like two weeks ago with blank spaces for mentions of what he did announce. Then spend the next two weeks building up the talk so there is no way it will meet expectactions and BLAMMO! you're a Mac hater with street cred.
This just seems like a bad idea. Forget the software, what if the place looses POWER? OK, there a lot of things that are hosed if they loose power, but there is usually some sort of manual overide (you can get out of an elevator stuck between floors if you REALLY have to). How do you get cars stacked on top of each other out when there's no juice?
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This post is a series of unrelated facts that come together in a paranoid conclusion. Nowhere in here would I conclude that the state is adding cameras to their EZ-Pass, only that there is a company that COULD do that. Posting this was a really dumb editorial call, /.
I used to make black powder by collecting nitrates from underneath piles of cow manure in local fields, collecting charcoal when emptying the ashes from the fireplace and sulfur by purchasing sulfur candles from the local store (unfortunately there weren't any naturally occurring sulfur deposits w/in bicycling distance)
and penny cost a nickle! and we walked to school up hill, both ways! GET OFF MY LAWN!
She'll never let the fan down with any scandalous behavior
I would bet you're one "Safe OFF" Google search away from proving that wrong...
ITAR has been around for my 10 years in space systems and was around before me. European companies are just using it as an excuse to award European only contracts to kill off American competitors. It's actually been greatly improved in recent years, with a majority of commercial space components being put under the Commerce Dept rather than ITAR.
With names like Lief and Bjorn being thrown around with a straight face, this Yankee can't help but imagine the court room looking like a Capitol One commercial...
What has two thumbs and has no reception problems with his iPhone 4 whatsoever? This Guy!
The solution to this is to offer to refund the full price of any iPhone 4 until the end of the year, no questions asked. I would be surprised if 5% of the phones came back.
The safety issues are at least as important as the environmental ones, trust me. Every time our engineering firm deals with something that relates to "human", especially space flight, expect 10X the cost and complexity of the unmanned version.
Is someone trying to prove Fermilab employees are not so bright because they won't waste their time decoding a nerdy spam message? Considering they had it over a year before mentioning it to the public, it lost any publicity boost it might have for the authors. Leave our researchers alone and take this with your pie to the MENSA meeting.
Half the places on the "worst" list I see consistantly on "best" lists. No more Vallywag links, please?
Surface at AT&T stores? If I put my iPhone on it, will it explode?
He didn't "popularize" the idea of the geosynchronous communications satellite, he invented it, then refused to patent it because he saw the potential benefits it would have. And no, I have no sources for that, it's just what I remember reading...
In one of those Jack Ryan movies (Patriot Games? I dunno) there was a scene where the terrorists at their camp would go inside every time the spy satilitte was overhead, indicating they knew about them, and this was generally accepted as a realistic scene. It's not so much that the satelittes themselves are secret, it's what they can do that is secret. Trust me, if you are building a doomsday device, you put a line in the budget for "binoculars" and "big silver tarp".
Trust me, if your employer gave you 90% of your promised salary, you would complain that you "had not been paid"
Can someone with a little more hardware knowledge (which is everyone) tell me the price of an equivalent laptop without the WOW branding (if there is one)? How about if this was a desk top rather than a laptop?
I for one welcome our SPAM fighting overlords
There has to be a lawsuit. How can one "cease and desist" NOT doing something??? It's the Chewbacca defense for civil cases - the Chewsuit!
I recently saw an AmEx commercial using the proto-Spinal Tap song "give me some money". Just by looking at my Dad, who introduced me to Tap, I knew we were thinking the same thing - they were using a song by a fake band to sell a real product. Kind of a parable for the state of the advertising industry.
Is Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?
The advantage the roomba has, beside the OMGIOWNAROBOT factor, is that it goes under stuff. Thus, it doesn't actually suck - it's more a floor sweeper than a vacuum. To apply their super-expensive sucking technology to a robot, it will need to be much taller than the Roomba. What we'll get is the same machine with more marketing.
Yes, I'm 32, and yes, I chuckled every time I typed "suck".
No Wi-Fi. Less memory than a Roomba. Lame.
My mom runs a small day care center in Michigan, and her employees lobbied for an extra 15 min break per day (up to 3 instead of 2). It wasn't unreasonable, but my mom checked into what was required by law. Turns out for an 8 hour work day, Michigan law says you are entitled to NOTHING. No requirements for breaks, lunch, anything. Above 8 hours and it changes, but she had assumed she had to give her emploeeys something. I think she gave them the break anyway - cranky child care workers lead to problems.
Is the poster being derogatory towards people who use a gym, or is this a term of endearment? For all the pasty and pale stereotypes, I find quite a number of people in the computer and engineering filed at least claim to visit a gym regularly (and usually complain about the people the poster is probably referring to). Be honest - how many of you have at least sat on a piece of exercise equipment in the last year? Probably more than you think.
That's why job offers have deadlines. Don't meet the deadline, guess we don't need you. In hiring, there are very few people you HAVE to hire, just people you WANT to hire.
So what was the riddle? "Fix our network and you got the job" isn't a riddle, it's a tryout.
I bet the article was written like two weeks ago with blank spaces for mentions of what he did announce. Then spend the next two weeks building up the talk so there is no way it will meet expectactions and BLAMMO! you're a Mac hater with street cred.
This just seems like a bad idea. Forget the software, what if the place looses POWER? OK, there a lot of things that are hosed if they loose power, but there is usually some sort of manual overide (you can get out of an elevator stuck between floors if you REALLY have to). How do you get cars stacked on top of each other out when there's no juice?