I wonder what might happen when they drive the rover into the crater. If the end up driving it somewhere where this isn't much of a wind, will the solar panels get covered in dust and stop working? Another thought would be: If there isn't much of a wind, is there any dust being kicked up?
I know when I was growing up, I had a coco3 with color scripsit and a 9 pin dot-matrix printer. Once I got that combo (must have been 16 or so) I never turned in another hand-written paper again.
Homes with children will ultimately need an office suite, something with good grammar checking and spell check. OpenOffice would accomodate in that area.... is there a good replacement for Publisher out there? (My wife would probably switch if there was, but I'm stuck on her using MS until I find one...)
Well I have been slapped by comcast with a digital-millenium-rights email saying blahblah owner of a movie is aware I am giving their movies away. And I am violating their services. The problem is that I did torrent for like 2 weeks only. So you're saying you did violate a law that is currently in place, and then go on to try to deflect it? I mean come on, if the RIAA or MPAA came knocking on my door, I'd HAVE to hang my head regardless of how much or how little I may or may not have downloaded.
Myself and a friend of mine took chemistry. Our teacher there thought he'd be smart and issue a pop quiz (no one in the class was really paying much attention.) I really wish I could remember the question he asked, I should have framed the tests; anyways, Me and Bob (not real name) ended up turning in correct answers to a question he was hoping for us to miss regarding a formula he was going over.
We both showed our work, and we both got the same result. Of course, neither of us used his formula (which would have gotten us to the answer within a few lines) but we showed our work and he clearly understood we could pick apart the problem without knowing the formula; just knowing some algebra was enough to get to the end result.
To close this post, I for some reason really really sucked at geometry, but did well in trig and algebra. Go figure.... something about those proofs.
I use a Precor at the local Y - it seems as if their line of exercise devices (at least the non-impact ones) have been cord-free for quite some time. It's not a treadmill (which will always take power unless you really want odd resistance) but it's self contained and might be easier on your joints over time...
I've learned quite a few things in my days since college, and I've learned that what I thought I might want when I was younger has now changed drastically. Now, on to my point to assist you: I am currently clawing my way up the "Network-admin" ladder at my current place of employment, and I'm loving it. I would have to say though that before you can become a true network engineer (especially for a large company) you have to truly understand the business and get a feel for what direction you need to help it grow. I've done my share of PC admin, phone support, ACD server support and the like, and it's all helped to build my backround into a solid all-around good person to have around... and all of that background helps me in more ways than I can count when I go to troubleshoot a networking issue with something like Oracle etc.
Once you get your degree (yup, go to college or some other form of post-high school training) then get your foot in the door somewhere doing something supporting the end devices first. It may seem like menial work, but you'll thank me for it 5 years from now....:)
The SIR-T451 is no longer available via www.circuitcity.com - in addition, they seem to have dropped all HD receivers...
Shame, really. I was going to try to buy one before the Superbowl (about 2 months before) and the local shops only had like one model EACH to choose from. Would really like to get some "face" time with the unit before I plunk down 250$ for the device... ugh....
In addition, I only have a projector that will do 480p. Doesn't matter to me - would still like to get the OTA goodness like everyone else...
I've got a projector. No built-in HD tuner there...
I'm about ready to lay down some cash on a TV tuner for my home theater box that is hooked up to the projector, though. I would much rather have a stand-alone device to do the HD deal, but I can deal with the PC if it's 2x cheaper....
I'm not a big sports gamer either and I know there is a game out there called "ESPN NFL 2k6" which suprisingly enough, means 2 0 0 6, not 2600. Please take a deep breath, and everything will be alright.
Actually, there was a patch issued by AMD or Via - it seemed to be something linked with the chipset and/or a Win95 timing issue in loading drivers. I ran into this time and time again on my K6-2 450 boxes that were purchased back in the day prior to Win98se.... If I recall, the first variant of Win98 had the same "issue."
I just deleted this a couple of days ago from my file storage server - didn't think I'd ever need it again or I'd post it somewhere for ya...
On a serious note though, if you find you're reinstalling Windows XP as much as Win95 and Win98 required back in the day, then there's something wrong with what you're installing.
Google for Microsoft Virtual PC - and throw an instance of XP into this. When you run something "questionable", sandbox it there; you can even do undo disks and such... Especially for shareware utilities that I may use only once, it's been awesome to run it under the VPC instance and not have it mess with my main machine.
Oh yea, it's also not too awfully hard on a PC. I've run it on my thinkpad t42 on up to a core2duo E6600. You can even save state so you don't have to go through the bootup process.
If I could have made a copy for him, I wouldn't have brought the story up in the first place, because he would have had his own to tend with and I wouldn't have to take care of it.
Refilling an Ink Cart requires (at least when I do it) that some ink leakage occurs and something gets ink on it; you have to handle the carts carefully and try not to over-fill. You also need to leave the air holes' passageways open, otherwise the cart won't work correctly.... probably took me on the order of 1/2 an hour to do a full color fill (probably about 13 minutes for black only) due to prep time and clean up afterwards.
The Laser printers (even ones with small toners) are invariably more expensive from a fill/replacement cart perspective, but it's much less of my time - and I get a larger page count between consumable replacement. This is what makes me smile.
Oh yea, and true 20 PPM printing. I've NEVER had an inkjet that could do even close to 5ppm, unless the page was 99% blank.
I had a similar situation with a roomate once. I bought a house and was able to buy all sorts of gadgets and stuff for my house.
It got to the point that we provided this person with a computer; but he continually decided to use mine because it was faster. One day I put a bios password on it - and this upset him. He made the statement "If I had a fast computer, I'd share it with you...."
Falling in line to your point, my roomate didn't see that there's a value to my computer being mine to use (and ultimately, mine to maintain if it breaks.) He didn't see what the extra cost was in "sharing" a computer, and took up the notion that I was just being a selfish ass. Maybe I was being a selfish ass, but the point is this: I'm not going to share my computer with ANYONE because I want it to just work for me; I don't need to play doctor to my own machine unless I'm the one screwing it up....
Exactly. I have the same printer, and I'm actually glad it's all in one kit. One less "specific" thing to worry about.
To add: I REALLY REALLY don't miss having to refill ink cartridges. I can't believe I didn't buy an inexpensive laser printer sooner. It prints so much faster....
If your car (diesel or not) doesn't warm up at idle or takes forever to heat up on the road, I'm guessing your thermostat is stuck open. Even though diesel engines are more efficient, there's still quite a bit lost to heat, and if your thermostat is allowing coolant to run through the external radiator when the engine is cold, you will have issues heating the passenger compartment. Not to mention that usually engines are tuned (probably more of a concern for gas engines) so that they'll run in a specific temperature range.
One of the other things that makes tech support bad is that you're constantly understaffed, yet your Boss may be the type to want you to "keep good relations."
I have had stints with my company doing PC support - and even though I can still do it, I don't want anything to do with it. Why? Well, the end users are nice enough, but when you have 2 people to 1000, it kinda sucks when things start piling on.... I'm talking repairs, deployment, fixes AND moves, adds, changes (network and phone) as well.
That's why PC support sucks. They'll cut it down just to the point that someone will quit, and then trim no further. All the while the users are complaining that they didn't get their equipment in a reasonable time etc - but they won't pony up the $$ for another tech because "we're incompetent (sp?)" I never want another piece of doing computer tech work.
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I know when I was growing up, I had a coco3 with color scripsit and a 9 pin dot-matrix printer. Once I got that combo (must have been 16 or so) I never turned in another hand-written paper again.
Homes with children will ultimately need an office suite, something with good grammar checking and spell check. OpenOffice would accomodate in that area.... is there a good replacement for Publisher out there? (My wife would probably switch if there was, but I'm stuck on her using MS until I find one...)
I was one of the lucky people in high school.
Myself and a friend of mine took chemistry. Our teacher there thought he'd be smart and issue a pop quiz (no one in the class was really paying much attention.) I really wish I could remember the question he asked, I should have framed the tests; anyways, Me and Bob (not real name) ended up turning in correct answers to a question he was hoping for us to miss regarding a formula he was going over.
We both showed our work, and we both got the same result. Of course, neither of us used his formula (which would have gotten us to the answer within a few lines) but we showed our work and he clearly understood we could pick apart the problem without knowing the formula; just knowing some algebra was enough to get to the end result.
To close this post, I for some reason really really sucked at geometry, but did well in trig and algebra. Go figure.... something about those proofs.
LOL
Right there with you..
I use a Precor at the local Y - it seems as if their line of exercise devices (at least the non-impact ones) have been cord-free for quite some time. It's not a treadmill (which will always take power unless you really want odd resistance) but it's self contained and might be easier on your joints over time...
I've learned quite a few things in my days since college, and I've learned that what I thought I might want when I was younger has now changed drastically. Now, on to my point to assist you: I am currently clawing my way up the "Network-admin" ladder at my current place of employment, and I'm loving it. I would have to say though that before you can become a true network engineer (especially for a large company) you have to truly understand the business and get a feel for what direction you need to help it grow. I've done my share of PC admin, phone support, ACD server support and the like, and it's all helped to build my backround into a solid all-around good person to have around... and all of that background helps me in more ways than I can count when I go to troubleshoot a networking issue with something like Oracle etc.
:)
Once you get your degree (yup, go to college or some other form of post-high school training) then get your foot in the door somewhere doing something supporting the end devices first. It may seem like menial work, but you'll thank me for it 5 years from now....
Actually at some point in the future they would be required for that 13 inch tv/vcr combo that I keep in my kitchen.
Otherwise it'd just get static.
The SIR-T451 is no longer available via www.circuitcity.com - in addition, they seem to have dropped all HD receivers...
Shame, really. I was going to try to buy one before the Superbowl (about 2 months before) and the local shops only had like one model EACH to choose from. Would really like to get some "face" time with the unit before I plunk down 250$ for the device... ugh....
In addition, I only have a projector that will do 480p. Doesn't matter to me - would still like to get the OTA goodness like everyone else...
I've got a projector. No built-in HD tuner there...
I'm about ready to lay down some cash on a TV tuner for my home theater box that is hooked up to the projector, though. I would much rather have a stand-alone device to do the HD deal, but I can deal with the PC if it's 2x cheaper....
You obviously aren't a big sports gamer.
I'm not a big sports gamer either and I know there is a game out there called "ESPN NFL 2k6" which suprisingly enough, means 2 0 0 6, not 2600. Please take a deep breath, and everything will be alright.
Actually, there was a patch issued by AMD or Via - it seemed to be something linked with the chipset and/or a Win95 timing issue in loading drivers. I ran into this time and time again on my K6-2 450 boxes that were purchased back in the day prior to Win98se.... If I recall, the first variant of Win98 had the same "issue."
I just deleted this a couple of days ago from my file storage server - didn't think I'd ever need it again or I'd post it somewhere for ya...
On a serious note though, if you find you're reinstalling Windows XP as much as Win95 and Win98 required back in the day, then there's something wrong with what you're installing.
Google for Microsoft Virtual PC - and throw an instance of XP into this. When you run something "questionable", sandbox it there; you can even do undo disks and such... Especially for shareware utilities that I may use only once, it's been awesome to run it under the VPC instance and not have it mess with my main machine.
Oh yea, it's also not too awfully hard on a PC. I've run it on my thinkpad t42 on up to a core2duo E6600. You can even save state so you don't have to go through the bootup process.
If I could have made a copy for him, I wouldn't have brought the story up in the first place, because he would have had his own to tend with and I wouldn't have to take care of it.
Sweet; now I can just refill my cart :)
Refilling an Ink Cart requires (at least when I do it) that some ink leakage occurs and something gets ink on it; you have to handle the carts carefully and try not to over-fill. You also need to leave the air holes' passageways open, otherwise the cart won't work correctly.... probably took me on the order of 1/2 an hour to do a full color fill (probably about 13 minutes for black only) due to prep time and clean up afterwards.
The Laser printers (even ones with small toners) are invariably more expensive from a fill/replacement cart perspective, but it's much less of my time - and I get a larger page count between consumable replacement. This is what makes me smile.
Oh yea, and true 20 PPM printing. I've NEVER had an inkjet that could do even close to 5ppm, unless the page was 99% blank.
I had a similar situation with a roomate once. I bought a house and was able to buy all sorts of gadgets and stuff for my house.
It got to the point that we provided this person with a computer; but he continually decided to use mine because it was faster. One day I put a bios password on it - and this upset him. He made the statement "If I had a fast computer, I'd share it with you...."
Falling in line to your point, my roomate didn't see that there's a value to my computer being mine to use (and ultimately, mine to maintain if it breaks.) He didn't see what the extra cost was in "sharing" a computer, and took up the notion that I was just being a selfish ass. Maybe I was being a selfish ass, but the point is this: I'm not going to share my computer with ANYONE because I want it to just work for me; I don't need to play doctor to my own machine unless I'm the one screwing it up....
Exactly. I have the same printer, and I'm actually glad it's all in one kit. One less "specific" thing to worry about.
To add: I REALLY REALLY don't miss having to refill ink cartridges. I can't believe I didn't buy an inexpensive laser printer sooner. It prints so much faster....
Of course it costs more! It has to be radiation hardened! *groan*
"redundancy, redundancy, redundancy."
So that Department of Redundancy Department really does something after all!
Awesome. Just throwing out my inexperienced ideas :)
If your car (diesel or not) doesn't warm up at idle or takes forever to heat up on the road, I'm guessing your thermostat is stuck open. Even though diesel engines are more efficient, there's still quite a bit lost to heat, and if your thermostat is allowing coolant to run through the external radiator when the engine is cold, you will have issues heating the passenger compartment. Not to mention that usually engines are tuned (probably more of a concern for gas engines) so that they'll run in a specific temperature range.
At first I thought you were joking - the name "Gay-Related Immune Deficiency" just sounded made up. Turns out I'm mistaken:
i sease
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Related_Immune_D
Link works, Slash puts the space in for display purposes.....
One of the other things that makes tech support bad is that you're constantly understaffed, yet your Boss may be the type to want you to "keep good relations."
I have had stints with my company doing PC support - and even though I can still do it, I don't want anything to do with it. Why? Well, the end users are nice enough, but when you have 2 people to 1000, it kinda sucks when things start piling on.... I'm talking repairs, deployment, fixes AND moves, adds, changes (network and phone) as well.
That's why PC support sucks. They'll cut it down just to the point that someone will quit, and then trim no further. All the while the users are complaining that they didn't get their equipment in a reasonable time etc - but they won't pony up the $$ for another tech because "we're incompetent (sp?)" I never want another piece of doing computer tech work.
Careful, you're showing your age young whippersnapper! When I was your age, I was lucky to have a cordless phone!
She did, but the Phoenix Firewall kept blocking her.
Some of the stuff they come up with......