I totally agree with you. I answer "How are you?" with just "Hello" all the time. I probably sound like a dick but I always do it. When I do answer the question it's always with "pretty good" and I never ask them back, which is probably what they want.
My friend has a ring tone of a old school bell phone ringing. It's REALLY obnoxious.
My office phone has 10 or 12 different rings. They're all basic beeps with different tones and timing. Everyone in the area picks their favorite and there's no confusion. I wish my cell phone had something like that. It would be so easy to do.
I saw the streaker yesterday on Pardon the Interuption. It was a pretty wimpy streak considering he had this odd puffy thong on. If you're not prepared to go full monty, don't streak.
From the long TV shot, I couldn't make out what was written on his back. It looked like a domain name. Anyone catch it?
Back to Janet's boob- I used my Tivo to fast forward through the entire aweful halftime show and didn't even know about the flash until Monday. When was the last time Janet had a hit song? Like 10 years ago? Brittney and Madonna kiss and get 10 times the publicity that their latest albums have. It's cool that singers like Alicia Keys and Gwen Stephani keep their tongues and boobs to themselves and get attention with thier actual music.
I end business emails with "thanks" when I'm asking them to do something (even just sending me a phone number or file). It's like "Thank you in advance for doing what I'm asking". Most letter closing choices are terrible, with Sincerely being the worst. In personal emails I don't use a closing.
In early May of 2003, Slashdot and other places reported on the MS iLoo, a web enabled toilet. The jokes came a mile a minute. Then a few days later, MS said that it was an April Fools joke. I've seen that happen before where someone reads something and doesn't realize it was written on April 1 and reports it as fact. Check this out from the article:
Part 3 Something doesn't smell right. The next day, realizing that nobody's buying the April-Fool's-joke-29-days-after-April-Fool's-Day explanation, Microsoft calls back reporters and admits that it had told an iLulu: The project was indeed real but has subsequently been killed. "We jumped the gun basically yesterday in confirming that it was a hoax," says MSN group product manager Lisa Gurry. "In fact, it was not."
Wow. What a completely insane project. Many people were certainly fired for spending money on that.
I didn't mean to say that all VXWorks systems reboot on memory allocation failure, just the rover system as some kind of safegaurd. It doesn't seem like a smart idea to me either.
Check the last 2 days of Mars stories and look for a long post scored 5. It's all about how VXWorks sucks and has many similarities with DOS.
Someone here with VXworks experience explained this a few days ago. To be safe, the system reboots when a memory allocation request fails. It sounds like Windows tech support, step 1: reboot computer. The workaround is to prevent those requests from failing.
When people think of paper ballots, they think of hand counting. Electronically counted paper ballots are the best, most secure system I have heard of. If someone disputes the results, take the paper ballots and rescan them.
A year and a half ago here in Georgia, Gov. Purdue and Sen. Chambliss both overcame 10 point poll deficits to win. There's no paper trail and no recount is possible.
I just checked ebay. There are more broken systems than there are working used ones. Even the used ones are over 100 bucks. The people selling used consoles now probably paid the original $299.
Considering that MS lost about $100/unit when it was $299 in 2001, they're losing at least that much now. Buying an X-box technically doesn't give MS any money.
In Atlanta, you can just go to georgia-navigator.com and view any of hundreds of roadside cameras. It's still frames, but you can easily see how heavy the traffic is.
FYI: The Radio Shack video sender uses the same hardware as X10's wireless cameras.
That was so that US government officials wouldn't have loyalties to any other countries and not act in the best interest of the US. It's not an issue in this case.
I was expecting this year's State of the Union to involve Bush in a brown robe waving his hand in front of the camera and saying "This war was never about WMD...Tax cuts for the rich help everyone."
If a round penetrates the diesel fuel tank of a current vehicle, the crew is pretty screwed anyway. If they could make the hydrogen tank smaller than the diesel fuel tank, thus less likely to be hit, it would be an improvement.
In WWII navy movies when the boat is under attack they sound this obnoxious alarm that goes "AAAOOOOOGGAAHH AAOOOOOGGAAHH". That's what I always think of as a klaxon. I think the real difinition is any electric siren.
Astroglide is actually a byproduct of the space program (thus "astro"). A guy was developing water-based lubricants for NASA and stumbled onto it. Their web site is hilarious.
"forcing one to take up to a minute just to cycle to the time you want"
You just buy crappy 7 dollar alarm clocks. For a couple more bucks you can get forward and reverse time set buttons. My $15 alarm clock has a great alarm that starts kinda loud for 10 seconds, then becomes very loud for 10 seconds, then goes to the same noise maker they put in smoke alarms. Just the threat of that noise gets my ass out of bed.
The samsung A-460 is a great phone that doesn't do much else. It's small and easy to use. Mine broke and was replaced with a N-400 that is much larger and has a color screen that I don't care about.
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I totally agree with you. I answer "How are you?" with just "Hello" all the time. I probably sound like a dick but I always do it. When I do answer the question it's always with "pretty good" and I never ask them back, which is probably what they want.
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My friend has a ring tone of a old school bell phone ringing. It's REALLY obnoxious.
My office phone has 10 or 12 different rings. They're all basic beeps with different tones and timing. Everyone in the area picks their favorite and there's no confusion. I wish my cell phone had something like that. It would be so easy to do.
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I've heard around here that the final conclusion was that it was an inside job.
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A year or two ago they changed the wording to "...without the permission of the NFL" because people were making fun of it and it was unnecessary.
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I saw the streaker yesterday on Pardon the Interuption. It was a pretty wimpy streak considering he had this odd puffy thong on. If you're not prepared to go full monty, don't streak.
From the long TV shot, I couldn't make out what was written on his back. It looked like a domain name. Anyone catch it?
Back to Janet's boob- I used my Tivo to fast forward through the entire aweful halftime show and didn't even know about the flash until Monday. When was the last time Janet had a hit song? Like 10 years ago? Brittney and Madonna kiss and get 10 times the publicity that their latest albums have. It's cool that singers like Alicia Keys and Gwen Stephani keep their tongues and boobs to themselves and get attention with thier actual music.
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I end business emails with "thanks" when I'm asking them to do something (even just sending me a phone number or file). It's like "Thank you in advance for doing what I'm asking". Most letter closing choices are terrible, with Sincerely being the worst. In personal emails I don't use a closing.
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It was Bart's response to an April Fools day joke. I think the main plot was just April Fools pranks.
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mmmmmm....mini-doughnuts..
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In early May of 2003, Slashdot and other places reported on the MS iLoo, a web enabled toilet. The jokes came a mile a minute. Then a few days later, MS said that it was an April Fools joke. I've seen that happen before where someone reads something and doesn't realize it was written on April 1 and reports it as fact. Check this out from the article:
Part 3 Something doesn't smell right. The next day, realizing that nobody's buying the April-Fool's-joke-29-days-after-April-Fool's-Day explanation, Microsoft calls back reporters and admits that it had told an iLulu: The project was indeed real but has subsequently been killed. "We jumped the gun basically yesterday in confirming that it was a hoax," says MSN group product manager Lisa Gurry. "In fact, it was not."
Wow. What a completely insane project. Many people were certainly fired for spending money on that.
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I didn't mean to say that all VXWorks systems reboot on memory allocation failure, just the rover system as some kind of safegaurd. It doesn't seem like a smart idea to me either.
Check the last 2 days of Mars stories and look for a long post scored 5. It's all about how VXWorks sucks and has many similarities with DOS.
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Someone here with VXworks experience explained this a few days ago. To be safe, the system reboots when a memory allocation request fails. It sounds like Windows tech support, step 1: reboot computer. The workaround is to prevent those requests from failing.
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When people think of paper ballots, they think of hand counting. Electronically counted paper ballots are the best, most secure system I have heard of. If someone disputes the results, take the paper ballots and rescan them.
A year and a half ago here in Georgia, Gov. Purdue and Sen. Chambliss both overcame 10 point poll deficits to win. There's no paper trail and no recount is possible.
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I just checked ebay. There are more broken systems than there are working used ones. Even the used ones are over 100 bucks. The people selling used consoles now probably paid the original $299.
Considering that MS lost about $100/unit when it was $299 in 2001, they're losing at least that much now. Buying an X-box technically doesn't give MS any money.
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In Atlanta, you can just go to georgia-navigator.com and view any of hundreds of roadside cameras. It's still frames, but you can easily see how heavy the traffic is.
FYI: The Radio Shack video sender uses the same hardware as X10's wireless cameras.
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The UN is an example of distributed decision-making. It runs like a well oiled hunk of crap.
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That was so that US government officials wouldn't have loyalties to any other countries and not act in the best interest of the US. It's not an issue in this case.
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It could ricochet off of the European orbiter and hit Spirit. That would be awesome.
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I was expecting this year's State of the Union to involve Bush in a brown robe waving his hand in front of the camera and saying "This war was never about WMD...Tax cuts for the rich help everyone."
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If a round penetrates the diesel fuel tank of a current vehicle, the crew is pretty screwed anyway. If they could make the hydrogen tank smaller than the diesel fuel tank, thus less likely to be hit, it would be an improvement.
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In WWII navy movies when the boat is under attack they sound this obnoxious alarm that goes "AAAOOOOOGGAAHH AAOOOOOGGAAHH". That's what I always think of as a klaxon. I think the real difinition is any electric siren.
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Astroglide is actually a byproduct of the space program (thus "astro"). A guy was developing water-based lubricants for NASA and stumbled onto it. Their web site is hilarious.
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Your mom tucking you in doesn't count as a "group setting"
"forcing one to take up to a minute just to cycle to the time you want"
You just buy crappy 7 dollar alarm clocks.
For a couple more bucks you can get forward and reverse time set buttons. My $15 alarm clock has a great alarm that starts kinda loud for 10 seconds, then becomes very loud for 10 seconds, then goes to the same noise maker they put in smoke alarms. Just the threat of that noise gets my ass out of bed.
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The samsung A-460 is a great phone that doesn't do much else. It's small and easy to use. Mine broke and was replaced with a N-400 that is much larger and has a color screen that I don't care about.
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"doesn't mean that's what everyone is doing"
So which sites are making money these days? Slashdot? No, just the jacking-related ones.
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