Buy wire ties, or flex-tubing, or some other sub $20 cable management and stop leaving your loose wires to get tangled?
Yes. Reusable cable ties, because you never know when you'll need to add another cable and don't really want to keep replacing cable ties.
Rubber bands eventually dry out and fall apart. Electrical and duct tapes leave a gummy mess. If it's a single cable and going to be along a wall for a while, get some of those little nail in cable holders from the hardware store, put then in along the baseboard, to keep your CAT5 out of the vacuum cleaner.
Same here, voted about a week and a half ago. Pros: don't have to stand in long lines, Cons: Don't get a little sticker saying I voted. I was also debating telling my boss that I got a notice that my mail in ballot got lost or something and taking the two hours given by CO state law to go "vote" (aka sitting at home for a few hours).
Hey, how you voted isn't your boss's business, you could have slept in or gone to get that Halo game thingy, your time to reflect upon how you voted perhaps.
No sticker for me, either. I think they should put one in the envelope. Have not stood in line to vote in about 6 years after having a near altercation with a volunteer at a polling place - she left her station and the sign indicated I just run the sheet through the scanner (apparently wasn't for ME to do but for HER as she was all official and stuff) so I left her with the ballot she pulled from my hands, saying "Please yourself!" and registered for mail-in. Best way to do these and apparently we're growing in numbers.:)
Voted first thing this morning... Based on the number of commercials running in Ohio, and the tight margin between the candidates, I've been watching the news online expecting to see some controversy start brewing. Fortunately, I've been disappointed thusfar.
For living in a battleground swing state you have my deepest sympathy. It can't have been easy and you probably will feel like punching one candidate or the other (or both) in the face given the chance. Meanwhile, the utter filth and scum who are behind so much advertising have made their fat to live off of until the next presidential election cycle, which starts in about 14 hours.
For me the kicking and screaming and foaming was all over a coupla weeks ago.
The best of it: Gave me time in the privacy of my own home to leisurely read through the pro and con positions on things, choose local officials, flip coin, etc.
The worst of it: Didn't stop the junk mail or advertising.:P
People would stand up on a temporary platform and shout out their choices to the recorders, optionally followed by a fist-fight if it was a close election (;-))
--dave
Here's hoping people will drop their petty differences after this round.
Kinda tired of going places and hear people grumble about it. Tomorrow it's over. Let's get on with things.
and by that I don't mean gridlocking government and plunging it into crisis to give our party some sort of edge 4 years from now.
If you can prove how you voted, to anybody, you can demonstrate to some interested third party that you voted the way they wanted you to. Which means you could sell your vote, or be coerced into voting a certain way.
That's also why any voting proposals that involve a receipt showing that your vote for Smith rather than Jones are a bad idea, as are any proposals involving a way to look up your own vote online after the election.
Let's just hand them a receipt with a checksum on it, which can't be decrypted, but can show whether vote was tampered with by some Diaboldical CEO who promised to deliver votes to a certain candidate.
How do you explain something like this? Would you think with all the people Microsoft has in their employ they would assign the duty of EU Compliance Checklist Monitor to someone?
I'd be surprised if they didn't, but then he got re-orged.
Or if like I work, the person in that position is the dumping ground for all the little tasks others are too busy to do, don't want to do, or dump there because they feel they can get away with it.
Yep because this went up to Obama's desk and he looked at it and he said, "Yes, okay do this." and then he signed off on this. And now I'm to believe that Romney will not do this...
Pfft. Obama. Romney. Pfft.
The difference is with Obama it's the government/public agencies doing this, while under Romney it'll be private sector doing it and billing anyone who wants to know what they saw.
How do you explain something like this? Would you think with all the people Microsoft has in their employ they would assign the duty of EU Compliance Checklist Monitor to someone?
Disney has confirmed plans for a new trilogy (Episodes 7-9), and the movies are currently in "early stage development." They're looking to release a movie every other year, with 2015, 2017, and 2019 as the current target dates.
I'm personally rooting for expanding into some of Timothy Zahn's books as they move beyond those. I wonder how they'll treat the Extended Universe?
Pirates of Coruscant
Johnny Depp as Luke Skywalker - you heard it here first.
Doesn't have time for Firefly or Star Trek. Doesn't even watch TV Doesn't hang around on news websites.
What do those true hackers do while they think?
Back when this was my forte, I took breaks to play a few video games on one of my computers, until I felt like hacking again. MMOs and their lifesucking were a thing of the future, so I got a lot of hacking done before I started work on my second degree and then moved on.
Is relentlessly picking apart code, oprating systems, APIs looking for a small clue of some exception not being handled
Probably eats poorly, has no fashion sense and has the social skills of a slug
Will eventually find a way through whatever the problem is through persistence.
Will celebrate his/her find with a pumped fist (the most exercise in a week) and the utterance, "cool."
While not terribly talented and hardly the sort of person likely to hold down a decent paying job (let alone know how to write out a resume or pass an interview) these are the sort of people who find the gaps. Recruiting them to work for you may be iffy. Once they have a paycheck, can afford a sports car, some decent clothes and can afford to go out they slowly cease to be the people you wanted.
Best to just hire them on a per item contract and toss them a burrito now and then.
We have something called The Grey Bears, which recovers and recycles working computers for low prices. Might be something like that in your community.
One cautionary word, though. Make absolutely certain your employer is completly cool with you gathering these up and sending them off to worthy causes, get it in writing lest some stuffed shirt bureaucrat or bean counter come around and claim you took company property - some employers have very bizarre ways of handling disposal of assets, even stuff like old, broken printers or CRT monitors, which you and I would think are largely worthless, they have numbers on books which state otherwise.
$299, no contracts, and those specs? Maybe it's time I finally paid attention to the smartphone market and finally bought one. I've not kept up though - will I have to have any kind of "google account" or "phone home to google" stuff enabled to use this phone properly? And if so, how hard would it be to jailbreak the thing and fully change that (without introducing additional issues)?
I'm waiting for a sufficiently stupid (read: not loaded up with clever bloatware) little smart phone I can move my Pay-as-you-go service to and do some basic web surfing through free wi-fi spots. I don't need books, I don't need financial software, I don't need instant/text messaging and I really don't want a lot of crap which makes the phone wake up and kill the battery so it's not available when I need it.
And Apple "Retina" displays are also IPS. Pentile basically means you can forget the resolution number they give. It's probably not going to look as clear as an iPad even though the resolution specs are higher.
Perhaps you mean sharp it's been my experience with a number of small CE items that higher resolution does not produce a sharp display, unless the graphic handling provides sufficient contrast. I have one device which has very high resolution for a 3 inch screen, but looks somewhat blurred and faded. Lower resolution, better backlighting or higher intensity LEDs would serve the user better.
Slashdot Mirror
Buy wire ties, or flex-tubing, or some other sub $20 cable management and stop leaving your loose wires to get tangled?
Yes. Reusable cable ties, because you never know when you'll need to add another cable and don't really want to keep replacing cable ties.
Rubber bands eventually dry out and fall apart. Electrical and duct tapes leave a gummy mess. If it's a single cable and going to be along a wall for a while, get some of those little nail in cable holders from the hardware store, put then in along the baseboard, to keep your CAT5 out of the vacuum cleaner.
Same here, voted about a week and a half ago. Pros: don't have to stand in long lines, Cons: Don't get a little sticker saying I voted. I was also debating telling my boss that I got a notice that my mail in ballot got lost or something and taking the two hours given by CO state law to go "vote" (aka sitting at home for a few hours).
Hey, how you voted isn't your boss's business, you could have slept in or gone to get that Halo game thingy, your time to reflect upon how you voted perhaps.
No sticker for me, either. I think they should put one in the envelope. Have not stood in line to vote in about 6 years after having a near altercation with a volunteer at a polling place - she left her station and the sign indicated I just run the sheet through the scanner (apparently wasn't for ME to do but for HER as she was all official and stuff) so I left her with the ballot she pulled from my hands, saying "Please yourself!" and registered for mail-in. Best way to do these and apparently we're growing in numbers. :)
No line when I went in, very small line forming as I left (less than dozen people)
No issues, went smoothly.
FTFY
No exit pollers lurking about? I used to tell them I voted for myself.
Voted first thing this morning... Based on the number of commercials running in Ohio, and the tight margin between the candidates, I've been watching the news online expecting to see some controversy start brewing. Fortunately, I've been disappointed thusfar.
For living in a battleground swing state you have my deepest sympathy. It can't have been easy and you probably will feel like punching one candidate or the other (or both) in the face given the chance. Meanwhile, the utter filth and scum who are behind so much advertising have made their fat to live off of until the next presidential election cycle, which starts in about 14 hours.
For me the kicking and screaming and foaming was all over a coupla weeks ago.
The best of it: Gave me time in the privacy of my own home to leisurely read through the pro and con positions on things, choose local officials, flip coin, etc.
The worst of it: Didn't stop the junk mail or advertising. :P
People would stand up on a temporary platform and shout out their choices to the recorders, optionally followed by a fist-fight if it was a close election (;-))
--dave
Here's hoping people will drop their petty differences after this round.
Kinda tired of going places and hear people grumble about it. Tomorrow it's over. Let's get on with things.
and by that I don't mean gridlocking government and plunging it into crisis to give our party some sort of edge 4 years from now.
That's Putin it mildly...
I'll get me coat
Still casting my vote on dead trees with ink.
and I hardly get much on myself in the process!
If you can prove how you voted, to anybody, you can demonstrate to some interested third party that you voted the way they wanted you to. Which means you could sell your vote, or be coerced into voting a certain way.
That's also why any voting proposals that involve a receipt showing that your vote for Smith rather than Jones are a bad idea, as are any proposals involving a way to look up your own vote online after the election.
Let's just hand them a receipt with a checksum on it, which can't be decrypted, but can show whether vote was tampered with by some Diaboldical CEO who promised to deliver votes to a certain candidate.
How do you explain something like this? Would you think with all the people Microsoft has in their employ they would assign the duty of EU Compliance Checklist Monitor to someone?
I'd be surprised if they didn't, but then he got re-orged.
Or if like I work, the person in that position is the dumping ground for all the little tasks others are too busy to do, don't want to do, or dump there because they feel they can get away with it.
Its ok guys just re-elect Obama 2012.
Yep because this went up to Obama's desk and he looked at it and he said, "Yes, okay do this." and then he signed off on this. And now I'm to believe that Romney will not do this ...
Pfft. Obama. Romney. Pfft.
The difference is with Obama it's the government/public agencies doing this, while under Romney it'll be private sector doing it and billing anyone who wants to know what they saw.
How do you explain something like this? Would you think with all the people Microsoft has in their employ they would assign the duty of EU Compliance Checklist Monitor to someone?
FEMA won't be there in 2015 if Mitt gets his mitts on the White House keys.
It'll be FEMAco, a division of Halliburton, because like, private sector enterprise does it more efficiently and stuff.
Is this a troll? Disney?
It's the Frankentroll and what's worse, it's true.
Episode 7: The Sandy Storms of Tatooine in theaters 2015, someone alert FEMA
Disney has confirmed plans for a new trilogy (Episodes 7-9), and the movies are currently in "early stage development." They're looking to release a movie every other year, with 2015, 2017, and 2019 as the current target dates.
I'm personally rooting for expanding into some of Timothy Zahn's books as they move beyond those. I wonder how they'll treat the Extended Universe?
Pirates of Coruscant
Johnny Depp as Luke Skywalker - you heard it here first.
First Sandy as a disaster, now this.
*checks date* ...Still October..
Yeah, when I first saw the headlines first thought was "hacked"
Still, he hasn't done anything for years and now Disney will roll out Episodes 7,8,9
Mickey Vader
After Jar Jar it was only a matter of time.
search your feelings, you know it to be true.
What do those true hackers do while they think?
Back when this was my forte, I took breaks to play a few video games on one of my computers, until I felt like hacking again. MMOs and their lifesucking were a thing of the future, so I got a lot of hacking done before I started work on my second degree and then moved on.
While not terribly talented and hardly the sort of person likely to hold down a decent paying job (let alone know how to write out a resume or pass an interview) these are the sort of people who find the gaps. Recruiting them to work for you may be iffy. Once they have a paycheck, can afford a sports car, some decent clothes and can afford to go out they slowly cease to be the people you wanted.
Best to just hire them on a per item contract and toss them a burrito now and then.
Goodwill repairs and recycles computers.
We have something called The Grey Bears, which recovers and recycles working computers for low prices. Might be something like that in your community.
One cautionary word, though. Make absolutely certain your employer is completly cool with you gathering these up and sending them off to worthy causes, get it in writing lest some stuffed shirt bureaucrat or bean counter come around and claim you took company property - some employers have very bizarre ways of handling disposal of assets, even stuff like old, broken printers or CRT monitors, which you and I would think are largely worthless, they have numbers on books which state otherwise.
And you could build the absolutely coolest clubhouse, ever!
Also, I see geocachers attach these to Travel Bug dog-tags, and give them names like "I've lost my memory" and send them traveling.
$299, no contracts, and those specs? Maybe it's time I finally paid attention to the smartphone market and finally bought one. I've not kept up though - will I have to have any kind of "google account" or "phone home to google" stuff enabled to use this phone properly? And if so, how hard would it be to jailbreak the thing and fully change that (without introducing additional issues)?
I'm waiting for a sufficiently stupid (read: not loaded up with clever bloatware) little smart phone I can move my Pay-as-you-go service to and do some basic web surfing through free wi-fi spots. I don't need books, I don't need financial software, I don't need instant/text messaging and I really don't want a lot of crap which makes the phone wake up and kill the battery so it's not available when I need it.
And Apple "Retina" displays are also IPS. Pentile basically means you can forget the resolution number they give. It's probably not going to look as clear as an iPad even though the resolution specs are higher.
Perhaps you mean sharp it's been my experience with a number of small CE items that higher resolution does not produce a sharp display, unless the graphic handling provides sufficient contrast. I have one device which has very high resolution for a 3 inch screen, but looks somewhat blurred and faded. Lower resolution, better backlighting or higher intensity LEDs would serve the user better.
For those of you who wish to save bandwidth and not seek out a picture:
Imagine USS Seal and Merrimack having a love child.
Imagine a hurricane depositing a pagoda on top.
But not as pretty.
While it's not the Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam (as seen in Rocky & Bullwinkle) you could quite possibly water ski behind Jobs' tub.
It would have been so much funnier if they put the Hindenburg on the H tile instead of that car.
Sodium should have a picture of romen noodles, what geek hasn't put away a tonne of those? That's technology related if ever there was.