Heh reminds me of an UPS (one of the little single PC ones) we had at work once. One day the thing failed (can't remember how we knew this). We tried to pull out the battery to check it but it wouldn't come out. After struggling for quite a while, we got it out and the whole side of the thing was bulging like crazy (all those circles on the bottom were popping out and stuff) and it was hot as hell. Made us wonder how close we came to having the thing blow up on us.
Scary thing is that the battery was so hot that it felt warm for hours.
Yeah, but my landline caller ID shows the name of the person/business calling just fine...no local database there, it just shows my mom's name rather than "mom".
IANAL either, but doesn't have have to be sued and lose before he could do that? Typically you need to show damages to win a suit, and he won't have any unless he really does get fucked over by these guys.
Better yet, if you're a student, put down the $99 to join ADC (developer.apple.com) and you'll probably get it for free along with a MUCH better hardware discount than the regular education one. But be sure to buy your G5, displays and iPods at the same time, cuz it applies to everything but you only get it once (or maybe it's once a year).
Just because the odds are in the house's favor doesn't mean they are to be avoided at all costs. You have to go in assuming you're paying for entertainment and have a good time with friends, etc.
Yeah, it sucks when you lose, but that's why you need to have enough control to quit when you're ahead (and more importantly, quit when you hit a hard limit so you don't end up leaving with nothing - it's a long walk thru the desert back home from Vegas)
For some reason I tend to do well in Nevada casinos (Vegas and Tahoe) but I always lose my money at Indian casinos in CA. But for Christ's sake don't bet more than you would be willing to drive home without.
But it's a hell of a rush to be at a table (winning or losing...) and it's fun to try your luck once in a while.
Are you kidding? TV (in the US anyway) is controlled almost exclusively by NBC (GE), ABC (Disney), CBS, Fox, Turner, and the various cable companies.
They don't have to be unified to control TV - if every station is run by a corporation (which virtually all are in the US), I think it's fair to say that TV is controlled by corporations...
Hmm I never had the patience to even type a url in my phone to do anything (and it's a huge pain in the ass trying to type a secure password on one..) But if you do it, you might want to look at http://www.waptunnel.com/. If you can change your WAP gateway on your phone, you can save yourself $3/month.
I've done it with GPRS and while it's slow, it's bearable. True about the scrolling - I'm not sure why no pocket pc web browsers (IE, NetFront) seem to allow you to view a webpage in landscape mode. Seems better to only have to scroll a lot going up and down rather than horizontally...
yea but now it's too late. all you need is a cell phone with bluetooth and a pda (or one of those half pda/half phone things) and you can see the real thing.
If only Verizon would get some decent data plans and bluetooth:(
Yes there is a simple auth mechanism for on the road users. You could do like every reasonable ISP/work/school does (for me anyway) and either a) Require I log into the SMTP with the same username/password as I do with IMAP, or b) have to log into my IMAP before I can SMTP. The check stays good for an hour or two.
I've never run a system that did that (never had to), but as an end user, it's certainly no trouble for me at all. And it keeps be from getting blacklisted or anything.
If I walk outside, someone can see my age. If I have a cold, I'm sneezing. You can probably hear my stereo blaring down the block. I walk my dog outside. The kid goes outside too. These aren't things I make secrets of.
I'm all for privacy for most things. But frankly, having a short range radio broadcasing my toilet papers' serial number doesn't really bother me...
And if I'm doing anything shadey (and I expect only legitimate items will have these, I doubt crack is going to come with RFID tags stuck on), I'll take care of the evidence the old fashioned way - a bonfire and a trip to the dump.
Sometimes it's the opposite problem. My mom (who'd already had knee surgery on one leg) suddenly had the other start hurting like hell. She went to the doctor who refused to do anything but prescribe ibuprofin, despite the fact that she'd been doing that for 2 weeks without improvement and she said that it felt exactly like the other one before it needed surgery.
Eventually (probably with threats of bodily harm...) she got him to give her an MRI. Sure enough, exact same problem as the other knee and it needs surgery pretty soon (some tendon thing I think).
So sometimes better doctor != one who kicks you out with a couple asprin when you know something's wrong.
And, as a sub-question, what's a good one for us lefties? Fountain pens are sure out (I struggled with one for a while but usueally only succeeded in scratching up the paper with no ink coming out or if it did came out it gets all over my hand...)
And pencils! Why is it so difficult to find a nicely weighted metal pencil? You go in a store and all they have are big fat plastic things with massive rubber grips. Give me something skinny but heavy (right now I'm using Zebra pens/pencils - they're the best i've found so far)
Ok, fwiw, I work for a company that designs USB 2 device controllers....
The standard does allow low-,full-, and high-speed devices. Why is this a bad thing? The hardware for a high-speed (480Mbps) device is SIGNIFIGANTLY more complex than that of a full- or low-speed device. The chips are more expensive and the layout issues for making a board work with high-speed mean it's really not worth the effort for anything that doesn't really need it.
The standard is fine (in that respect, anyway...). What would be nice, however, if there was a more obvious naming scheme (if someone had asked me if a full-speed or high-speed device was faster before I made a career out of it, I probably wouldn't have known...) and if when a device got logo certified by the USB-IF they got assigned either different logo based on speed.
That said, every USB device I've used lately has said on the box which speed it was (full, high, or low)
Dual T1? T3? Jesus, that's pathetic. Even in 2000, my school (UCSB) had at least a T1, a DS3 and an OC-12.
Not sure what the current configuration is, but the dorms alone just got upgraded last year to a 70Mb pipe (that's >46 T1s just for resident students...)
And when I came in as a freshman in 99 we had a 10Mb half-duplex pipe for the dorms (and it was ALWAYS saturated and got nasty packet loss)
I think IHBT, but as long as the code stays free, why does it matter? Most of us don't want to live off the land or mooch off our friends, we have bills to pay.
As long as society requires money, I'm certainly not going to pass up a buck if it's offered to me. ESPECIALLY if it's for something I was doing for free before!
Boy I don't know if you're trolling or if you fell off the short bus...
Who DOESN'T do that? Seriously, if you don't then you're a fool. Your worth varies based on who's talking. Your worth (financial, not that warm and fuzzy happiness type) is what someone is willing to pay. Now if the other guy thinks you're worth less than you think you do, you're not gonna be happy, don't take that offer.
But if you walk in there and say "I want $1,000,000 a year for this" and they accept it - they've just proven that you are, in fact, worth a million bucks to that guy. But they probably think you're worth less than that - hence the counteroffer. Negotiate till both of you feel you're getting the best deal.
Don't go overboard, they'll just laugh you out of the office if it's too high, but Jesus, don't just give them the minimum figure you'd be willing to take. Why on Earth would you if there's a possibility to get more???
so you're saying your parents wouldn't sign your finaid forms??? Good lord, that's fucked up. They should at least sign on the premise that your debt is your own (and it legally is anyway unless they file for a PLUS loan)
Well in fairness I think they CAN (mine did, anyway, but I managed). But that doesn't mean they HAVE TO. If I was in that situation and I told my mom, "hey, I know you could use the tax break, but I'm going to have to drop out if you don't let me file independent", she'd have insisted I do it...we'd even talked about it a couple times. I have to wonder if the OP ever actually talked about this possibility with his parents...
Ok, I hear people all the time saying they couldn't afford college, but I have to ask - why not financial aid?
I was claimed as a dependent in college and usually made $5k a summer working maybe 5k/year more from my parents and coasted on that all year (I never worked during the school year - no way I would've had the time for engineering coursework) My parents helped me when I ran out towards spring, but apart from a small percentage freshman year, they didn't give me a dime for anything but food or rent. The rest came from financial aid. I got about 5k/year in grants and I now owe a fuckload in student loans. Yeah, I'll be writing checks to the feds for many years to come, but it seemed like a worthwhile investment.
Was there some technicality so your parents seemed to have the money to pay for you so you didn't get approved? (although the solution to that is to file independent) or were your HS grades bad? (I don't think that usually matters for anything but grants, though...)
I'm not saying you didn't do the right thing, but I'm genuinely curious...
I'd say because digital watches reek of the 80s and are now only worn by uber-dorks.
I know some pretty geeky people, but I don't think I know a single person who wears a digital watch (except my brother, but he's a geologist and is always falling off rocks and stuff...so it makes sense)
IANAL, but I don't see how that could possibly be the case. I've got a piece of paper with ink signiatures from myself and the president of the company I'm with saying that they will be me X dollars every X weeks in exchange for my work. If that's not a legally binding contract, I don't know what is...
Now, if the employees didn't have any signed agreements, then they were fools and naturally parted from their money easily...
As far as I understand it, it doesn't matter if the company has money or not. And (at least in California) I believe that even if they give you your check a day late it's still illegal and you could take them to court if you felt like it. I know if my company missed a payment for me, I'd let ONE slide in case of an accounting problem or something (but I'd definitely start hitting the job postings) and if they missed a second, there'd be a lawyer in the president's office right quick.
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Heh reminds me of an UPS (one of the little single PC ones) we had at work once. One day the thing failed (can't remember how we knew this). We tried to pull out the battery to check it but it wouldn't come out. After struggling for quite a while, we got it out and the whole side of the thing was bulging like crazy (all those circles on the bottom were popping out and stuff) and it was hot as hell. Made us wonder how close we came to having the thing blow up on us.
Scary thing is that the battery was so hot that it felt warm for hours.
Yeah, but my landline caller ID shows the name of the person/business calling just fine...no local database there, it just shows my mom's name rather than "mom".
IANAL either, but doesn't have have to be sued and lose before he could do that? Typically you need to show damages to win a suit, and he won't have any unless he really does get fucked over by these guys.
I'm a big fan of Shareaza myself.
Better yet, if you're a student, put down the $99 to join ADC (developer.apple.com) and you'll probably get it for free along with a MUCH better hardware discount than the regular education one. But be sure to buy your G5, displays and iPods at the same time, cuz it applies to everything but you only get it once (or maybe it's once a year).
Well, start talking to the machine and I'll either pick up or call you back...
Just because the odds are in the house's favor doesn't mean they are to be avoided at all costs. You have to go in assuming you're paying for entertainment and have a good time with friends, etc.
Yeah, it sucks when you lose, but that's why you need to have enough control to quit when you're ahead (and more importantly, quit when you hit a hard limit so you don't end up leaving with nothing - it's a long walk thru the desert back home from Vegas)
For some reason I tend to do well in Nevada casinos (Vegas and Tahoe) but I always lose my money at Indian casinos in CA. But for Christ's sake don't bet more than you would be willing to drive home without.
But it's a hell of a rush to be at a table (winning or losing...) and it's fun to try your luck once in a while.
Are you kidding? TV (in the US anyway) is controlled almost exclusively by NBC (GE), ABC (Disney), CBS, Fox, Turner, and the various cable companies.
They don't have to be unified to control TV - if every station is run by a corporation (which virtually all are in the US), I think it's fair to say that TV is controlled by corporations...
Hmm I never had the patience to even type a url in my phone to do anything (and it's a huge pain in the ass trying to type a secure password on one..) But if you do it, you might want to look at http://www.waptunnel.com/. If you can change your WAP gateway on your phone, you can save yourself $3/month.
I've done it with GPRS and while it's slow, it's bearable. True about the scrolling - I'm not sure why no pocket pc web browsers (IE, NetFront) seem to allow you to view a webpage in landscape mode. Seems better to only have to scroll a lot going up and down rather than horizontally...
yea but now it's too late. all you need is a cell phone with bluetooth and a pda (or one of those half pda/half phone things) and you can see the real thing.
:(
If only Verizon would get some decent data plans and bluetooth
Yes there is a simple auth mechanism for on the road users. You could do like every reasonable ISP/work/school does (for me anyway) and either a) Require I log into the SMTP with the same username/password as I do with IMAP, or b) have to log into my IMAP before I can SMTP. The check stays good for an hour or two.
I've never run a system that did that (never had to), but as an end user, it's certainly no trouble for me at all. And it keeps be from getting blacklisted or anything.
Well....no.
If I walk outside, someone can see my age. If I have a cold, I'm sneezing. You can probably hear my stereo blaring down the block. I walk my dog outside. The kid goes outside too. These aren't things I make secrets of.
I'm all for privacy for most things. But frankly, having a short range radio broadcasing my toilet papers' serial number doesn't really bother me...
And if I'm doing anything shadey (and I expect only legitimate items will have these, I doubt crack is going to come with RFID tags stuck on), I'll take care of the evidence the old fashioned way - a bonfire and a trip to the dump.
Yeah I never noticed the end-of-reel things at all until I saw fight club. Now I can't watch a movie without seeing them. Bastards!
Sometimes it's the opposite problem. My mom (who'd already had knee surgery on one leg) suddenly had the other start hurting like hell. She went to the doctor who refused to do anything but prescribe ibuprofin, despite the fact that she'd been doing that for 2 weeks without improvement and she said that it felt exactly like the other one before it needed surgery.
Eventually (probably with threats of bodily harm...) she got him to give her an MRI. Sure enough, exact same problem as the other knee and it needs surgery pretty soon (some tendon thing I think).
So sometimes better doctor != one who kicks you out with a couple asprin when you know something's wrong.
And, as a sub-question, what's a good one for us lefties? Fountain pens are sure out (I struggled with one for a while but usueally only succeeded in scratching up the paper with no ink coming out or if it did came out it gets all over my hand...)
And pencils! Why is it so difficult to find a nicely weighted metal pencil? You go in a store and all they have are big fat plastic things with massive rubber grips. Give me something skinny but heavy (right now I'm using Zebra pens/pencils - they're the best i've found so far)
Ok, fwiw, I work for a company that designs USB 2 device controllers....
The standard does allow low-,full-, and high-speed devices. Why is this a bad thing? The hardware for a high-speed (480Mbps) device is SIGNIFIGANTLY more complex than that of a full- or low-speed device. The chips are more expensive and the layout issues for making a board work with high-speed mean it's really not worth the effort for anything that doesn't really need it.
The standard is fine (in that respect, anyway...). What would be nice, however, if there was a more obvious naming scheme (if someone had asked me if a full-speed or high-speed device was faster before I made a career out of it, I probably wouldn't have known...) and if when a device got logo certified by the USB-IF they got assigned either different logo based on speed.
That said, every USB device I've used lately has said on the box which speed it was (full, high, or low)
Dual T1? T3? Jesus, that's pathetic. Even in 2000, my school (UCSB) had at least a T1, a DS3 and an OC-12.
Not sure what the current configuration is, but the dorms alone just got upgraded last year to a 70Mb pipe (that's >46 T1s just for resident students...)
And when I came in as a freshman in 99 we had a 10Mb half-duplex pipe for the dorms (and it was ALWAYS saturated and got nasty packet loss)
I think IHBT, but as long as the code stays free, why does it matter? Most of us don't want to live off the land or mooch off our friends, we have bills to pay.
As long as society requires money, I'm certainly not going to pass up a buck if it's offered to me. ESPECIALLY if it's for something I was doing for free before!
Boy I don't know if you're trolling or if you fell off the short bus...
Who DOESN'T do that? Seriously, if you don't then you're a fool. Your worth varies based on who's talking. Your worth (financial, not that warm and fuzzy happiness type) is what someone is willing to pay. Now if the other guy thinks you're worth less than you think you do, you're not gonna be happy, don't take that offer.
But if you walk in there and say "I want $1,000,000 a year for this" and they accept it - they've just proven that you are, in fact, worth a million bucks to that guy. But they probably think you're worth less than that - hence the counteroffer. Negotiate till both of you feel you're getting the best deal.
Don't go overboard, they'll just laugh you out of the office if it's too high, but Jesus, don't just give them the minimum figure you'd be willing to take. Why on Earth would you if there's a possibility to get more???
so you're saying your parents wouldn't sign your finaid forms??? Good lord, that's fucked up. They should at least sign on the premise that your debt is your own (and it legally is anyway unless they file for a PLUS loan)
Well in fairness I think they CAN (mine did, anyway, but I managed). But that doesn't mean they HAVE TO. If I was in that situation and I told my mom, "hey, I know you could use the tax break, but I'm going to have to drop out if you don't let me file independent", she'd have insisted I do it...we'd even talked about it a couple times. I have to wonder if the OP ever actually talked about this possibility with his parents...
Ok, I hear people all the time saying they couldn't afford college, but I have to ask - why not financial aid?
I was claimed as a dependent in college and usually made $5k a summer working maybe 5k/year more from my parents and coasted on that all year (I never worked during the school year - no way I would've had the time for engineering coursework) My parents helped me when I ran out towards spring, but apart from a small percentage freshman year, they didn't give me a dime for anything but food or rent. The rest came from financial aid. I got about 5k/year in grants and I now owe a fuckload in student loans. Yeah, I'll be writing checks to the feds for many years to come, but it seemed like a worthwhile investment.
Was there some technicality so your parents seemed to have the money to pay for you so you didn't get approved? (although the solution to that is to file independent) or were your HS grades bad? (I don't think that usually matters for anything but grants, though...)
I'm not saying you didn't do the right thing, but I'm genuinely curious...
I'd say because digital watches reek of the 80s and are now only worn by uber-dorks.
I know some pretty geeky people, but I don't think I know a single person who wears a digital watch (except my brother, but he's a geologist and is always falling off rocks and stuff...so it makes sense)
IANAL, but I don't see how that could possibly be the case. I've got a piece of paper with ink signiatures from myself and the president of the company I'm with saying that they will be me X dollars every X weeks in exchange for my work. If that's not a legally binding contract, I don't know what is...
Now, if the employees didn't have any signed agreements, then they were fools and naturally parted from their money easily...
As far as I understand it, it doesn't matter if the company has money or not. And (at least in California) I believe that even if they give you your check a day late it's still illegal and you could take them to court if you felt like it. I know if my company missed a payment for me, I'd let ONE slide in case of an accounting problem or something (but I'd definitely start hitting the job postings) and if they missed a second, there'd be a lawyer in the president's office right quick.