I find the best way to remove the extra glue which stays behind is to use the sticky tape which came off, or an piece of packaging tape and keep applying it and pulling it off the stickum until it's all removed. Sometimes you may need to burnish the packing tape over the residue a bit, but it gets the job done and you've only wasted about 5 minutes of your life for the bastards who think this is an appropriate way to conduct business
CD cases: I've broken a few CD cases trying to get that damn plastic off, just to find the first corner I can
get a grip and tear it.
DVD cases: Quadruple sealed for the store's protection, FO, consumers, you would be thieves! I've torn the plastic
covers on a few thanks to the
2-3 seals around the edges. When the get old, the glue sometimes can be a mess, coming off the back of the plastic.
Plastic Clamshells:
I've had my share of deep cuts from trying to open these
things. The plastic, when cut with a knife can still have edges you could challenge a Ginsu Knife with.
Can I sue someone for medical expenses? If I had my camera here I could show you scars.
Yeah, but if it were over a populated area, can it tell the difference between a house, schoolyard full of children, packed highway and a safe and open location?
The weird thing is that it is spelled out in the "Read More" full listing... but not on the main page summary - even though it looks like a copy/paste. I guess you get what you pay for...
If it still says
"The aerospace industry has failed to obtain the radio frequencies that would allow the use of UAVs in civil airspace, New Scientist reports....
I see someone did correct it just after it went green. I suppose Zonk does read some of the postings:) A small victory, but only until the next article.
I mostly worry about having contingencies for when failure happens. A cool-as-a-cucumber human can think through and come up with ways to bail without killing people or doing a lot of damage on the ground, let alone themselves. What's a computer going to do?
The current SCO is a different company than the the old SCO (Santa Cruz Organization) to which you refer.
This I knew. They used to host free tech talks on a regular basis in their offices over near Harvey West Park in Santa Cruz. It was there I learned about Java Server Pages from Jason Hunter, who wrote the first book O'Reilly published on the subject (called the Tea Kettle cover.)
I knew a few people who worked there and at least one who had aspirations to go there just before things started to go sour, that whole Tarantella and Caldera's involvement.
Note to article submitters and editors: In the first use of an initialism or acronym it is good
practice to
write out in long form the title or phrase preceding the initialism or acronym, so the reader will know what you
are talking about throughout an article without having to stop reading and go look it up.
Otherwise you're mimmicking the drone who hides their lack of a real job or knowledge behind obfuscation.
One of the theaters I visit now has one. You turn on a cell phone in the building and are lucky to get one bar. In one of the showing rooms you won't get any bars. Go outside and it will probably got back up to 4 or 5.
I've always wanted a cell phone zapper for when I'm driving, to kill the signal of those idiots driving while blathering away in 3 packed lanes, with lane switchers run amok. Small wonder there are so many accidents on that stretch of road. By the time a driver on a phone has realised the brake lights of the car ahead of them are on it's too late.
The end is in sight and will probably mean the dissolution of SCO assets as the company folds up and dies, since this was a last gasp ploy to hit a litigation jackpot of billions of $ from IBM, et al.
Sad to see, as SCO was once a respectable company in Santa Cruz, CA.
Where I once worked we had students trying social engineering on us all the time. I was a student worker at the time and knew most of the tricks, but when anything new came along it had to go through the filter of common sense. If only 3 people have open access to certain systems, one of them must know of someone claiming they need access, but if you can't contact the other two, you simply stand your ground, bar access and say to the attempted intruder, "Sorry, can't let you in, but don't worry, not your fault. Whomever was granting you access failed to inform everyone." Pretty easy to see if they were trying to engineer me after that, depending how they reacted. If they were insistant then I'd call security which would make them change their tune pronto.
Common sense: If you don't know about some repairman, then it's not your fault when you turn them away.
They didn't ask, "Mother, may I?" or Simon didn't say, "Preload movie for consumer." Fair Use be damned.
In future plans, the MPAA will be suing people who have unauthorised memories of watching movies as that constitutes illegal copying to memory. From then on, brain surgeons will wait outside theaters to scoop out people's brains.
In Beijing you have the conservatives and the hard-line conservatives duking it out for control. When policy changes it's because one side has momentarily gained the upper hand, or believed they had, and ordered the change.
Oh, it's better than that. Bush said last week that no matter what happens, Rumsfeld would stay on until the end of his term (in 2008). Today was a huge flip-flop.
Isn't Bolton only a temp, because Bush posted him during a senate break, because he couldn't get the votes he needed to make Bolton the permanent ambassador to the UN? Looks like Bush is losing the Senate and I don't think that bodes well for Bolton or any more of Bush's high-handed picks.
As for Gates. They'll probably try to run that through before the losers are out of the Senate.
Sure sure, run away just as we get the chance to ask some real questions.
Seems to me like he's just trying to hide. Cut and run.
Fact is, he'll still have to answer subpeonas.
I agree, to a point, the timing to coincide with the GOP losses indicate, more than regret
that his execution of Iraqi Freedom, but an attempt to duck a real grilling. He won't have a lot of people running interference for him now. This is going to really isolate Bush. It should be a very interesting 2 years.
I wish I'd waited until I could get a SDK for my camera. Turn off all that useless programming I don't want and set it up to behave the way I need it. Nikon D70s takes nice pictures, but sucks for Astro or Low light photos.
It's got to be a riot. I first encountered the Freelance Police in comics in the mid 80's and have a few of them rotting away in a box somewhere. I think I'll have to try the game.
I was hyped into buying Earthworm Jim, when it first came out for Sega Genesis and was rather unimpressed. My stance has tended toward 'comics and movies make poor video games'
At work I have to connect to a service which, thanks to underfunding, is fragile in the extreme. You have to have the right version of IE and a specific version of Java to run the service. There's no choice about the matter. Those who have tried to use IE 7 found it broke the service. It's terribly fussy and getting a PC back to where it will work with the service can be very touchy. This attitude of Microsoft's to automatically "upgrade" your browser is the very height of stupidity and arrogance.
I've sent out an email to tech staff warning my computer is not to receive anymore automatic updates for the foreseeable future and have turned off auto update.
This is my reality. I don't expect everyone else to suffer like this, but there's a lot of us in this boat.
Earthquakes produce slow pressing, shifting and twisting forces, while explosions produce very very rapid pressure rises. The latter are quite a bit better at breaking glass than the former.
You haven't experienced the sudden-jolt type, I take it.
In 2008 Presidential Elections the machines will read
Please cast your ballot for
1. George W. Bush
2. George W. Bush
Which would just go to show how fixed they are, eh? As George W. Bush wouldn't even be running, but his name would still be there because the flash memory conveniently still had these stubborn latent patterns...
why would I want to be taxed out the ass to help a bunch of lazy people on social programs.
Yeah, Halliburton should find their work like the rest of us, rather than have a former executive (Dick Cheney) in the Whitehouse handing them no-bid billion $ contracts, because they were the only company which could respond to the call readily (makes you wonder how far in advance they were told to get ready and by whom.)
Shenanigans or not, these touch screen machines are worn from heavy use?
Excuse me, but I've been to some stores where I use touch sensitive screens for signing or just punching in my PIN, etc. What kind of shoddy materials were these made of? Or is it that Broward County voters are usually pounding their votes in with both fists?
"I did not pick Jeb, damn you machine!" whack pound smek
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I find the best way to remove the extra glue which stays behind is to use the sticky tape which came off, or an piece of packaging tape and keep applying it and pulling it off the stickum until it's all removed. Sometimes you may need to burnish the packing tape over the residue a bit, but it gets the job done and you've only wasted about 5 minutes of your life for the bastards who think this is an appropriate way to conduct business
The stuff that gets me down:
Plastic Clamshells
Yeah, but if it were over a populated area, can it tell the difference between a house, schoolyard full of children, packed highway and a safe and open location?
The weird thing is that it is spelled out in the "Read More" full listing... but not on the main page summary - even though it looks like a copy/paste. I guess you get what you pay for...
If it still says
on the main page, do a refresh.I see someone did correct it just after it went green. I suppose Zonk does read some of the postings :) A small victory, but only until the next article.
I mostly worry about having contingencies for when failure happens. A cool-as-a-cucumber human can think through and come up with ways to bail without killing people or doing a lot of damage on the ground, let alone themselves. What's a computer going to do?
The current SCO is a different company than the the old SCO (Santa Cruz Organization) to which you refer.
This I knew. They used to host free tech talks on a regular basis in their offices over near Harvey West Park in Santa Cruz. It was there I learned about Java Server Pages from Jason Hunter, who wrote the first book O'Reilly published on the subject (called the Tea Kettle cover.)
I knew a few people who worked there and at least one who had aspirations to go there just before things started to go sour, that whole Tarantella and Caldera's involvement.
Note to article submitters and editors: In the first use of an initialism or acronym it is good practice to write out in long form the title or phrase preceding the initialism or acronym, so the reader will know what you are talking about throughout an article without having to stop reading and go look it up.
Otherwise you're mimmicking the drone who hides their lack of a real job or knowledge behind obfuscation.
One of the theaters I visit now has one. You turn on a cell phone in the building and are lucky to get one bar. In one of the showing rooms you won't get any bars. Go outside and it will probably got back up to 4 or 5.
I've always wanted a cell phone zapper for when I'm driving, to kill the signal of those idiots driving while blathering away in 3 packed lanes, with lane switchers run amok. Small wonder there are so many accidents on that stretch of road. By the time a driver on a phone has realised the brake lights of the car ahead of them are on it's too late.
Sure glad I don't have any SCO stock.
The end is in sight and will probably mean the dissolution of SCO assets as the company folds up and dies, since this was a last gasp ploy to hit a litigation jackpot of billions of $ from IBM, et al.
Sad to see, as SCO was once a respectable company in Santa Cruz, CA.
Where I once worked we had students trying social engineering on us all the time. I was a student worker at the time and knew most of the tricks, but when anything new came along it had to go through the filter of common sense. If only 3 people have open access to certain systems, one of them must know of someone claiming they need access, but if you can't contact the other two, you simply stand your ground, bar access and say to the attempted intruder, "Sorry, can't let you in, but don't worry, not your fault. Whomever was granting you access failed to inform everyone." Pretty easy to see if they were trying to engineer me after that, depending how they reacted. If they were insistant then I'd call security which would make them change their tune pronto.
Common sense: If you don't know about some repairman, then it's not your fault when you turn them away.
They didn't ask, "Mother, may I?" or Simon didn't say, "Preload movie for consumer." Fair Use be damned.
In future plans, the MPAA will be suing people who have unauthorised memories of watching movies as that constitutes illegal copying to memory. From then on, brain surgeons will wait outside theaters to scoop out people's brains.
In Beijing you have the conservatives and the hard-line conservatives duking it out for control. When policy changes it's because one side has momentarily gained the upper hand, or believed they had, and ordered the change.
Billions and Billions of chickens died for this????
Sad.
Dislocating my jaw when I yawn like that.
Oh, it's better than that. Bush said last week that no matter what happens, Rumsfeld would stay on until the end of his term (in 2008). Today was a huge flip-flop.
Isn't Bolton only a temp, because Bush posted him during a senate break, because he couldn't get the votes he needed to make Bolton the permanent ambassador to the UN? Looks like Bush is losing the Senate and I don't think that bodes well for Bolton or any more of Bush's high-handed picks.
As for Gates. They'll probably try to run that through before the losers are out of the Senate.
Sure sure, run away just as we get the chance to ask some real questions.
Seems to me like he's just trying to hide. Cut and run.
Fact is, he'll still have to answer subpeonas.
I agree, to a point, the timing to coincide with the GOP losses indicate, more than regret that his execution of Iraqi Freedom, but an attempt to duck a real grilling. He won't have a lot of people running interference for him now. This is going to really isolate Bush. It should be a very interesting 2 years.
I wish I'd waited until I could get a SDK for my camera. Turn off all that useless programming I don't want and set it up to behave the way I need it. Nikon D70s takes nice pictures, but sucks for Astro or Low light photos.
We likes pictures? Got any?
Heard about it on KCBS this morning. About half(??) of California voters are using absentee, too.
Remember to vote early and often
It's got to be a riot. I first encountered the Freelance Police in comics in the mid 80's and have a few of them rotting away in a box somewhere. I think I'll have to try the game.
I was hyped into buying Earthworm Jim, when it first came out for Sega Genesis and was rather unimpressed. My stance has tended toward 'comics and movies make poor video games'
At work I have to connect to a service which, thanks to underfunding, is fragile in the extreme. You have to have the right version of IE and a specific version of Java to run the service. There's no choice about the matter. Those who have tried to use IE 7 found it broke the service. It's terribly fussy and getting a PC back to where it will work with the service can be very touchy. This attitude of Microsoft's to automatically "upgrade" your browser is the very height of stupidity and arrogance.
I've sent out an email to tech staff warning my computer is not to receive anymore automatic updates for the foreseeable future and have turned off auto update.
This is my reality. I don't expect everyone else to suffer like this, but there's a lot of us in this boat.
Earthquakes produce slow pressing, shifting and twisting forces, while explosions produce very very rapid pressure rises. The latter are quite a bit better at breaking glass than the former.
You haven't experienced the sudden-jolt type, I take it.
In 2008 Presidential Elections the machines will read
Please cast your ballot for
1. George W. Bush
2. George W. Bush
Which would just go to show how fixed they are, eh? As George W. Bush wouldn't even be running, but his name would still be there because the flash memory conveniently still had these stubborn latent patterns...
why would I want to be taxed out the ass to help a bunch of lazy people on social programs.
Yeah, Halliburton should find their work like the rest of us, rather than have a former executive (Dick Cheney) in the Whitehouse handing them no-bid billion $ contracts, because they were the only company which could respond to the call readily (makes you wonder how far in advance they were told to get ready and by whom.)
Shenanigans or not, these touch screen machines are worn from heavy use?
Excuse me, but I've been to some stores where I use touch sensitive screens for signing or just punching in my PIN, etc. What kind of shoddy materials were these made of? Or is it that Broward County voters are usually pounding their votes in with both fists?
"I did not pick Jeb, damn you machine!" whack pound smek