An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when the Devil appeared before him. The Devil told the lawyer, "I have a proposition for you. You can win every case you try, for the rest of your life. Your clients will adore you, your colleagues will stand in awe of you, and you will make embarrasing sums of money. All I want in exchange is your soul, your wife's soul, your children's souls, the souls of your parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law, and the souls of all of your friends and law partners. The lawyer thought about this for a moment, then asked, "So what's the catch?"
I don't have a problem with smarmy lawyers per se, as long as they are sexy, and I rather watch them than the forensic geeks over at CSI.
I'm not saying that Shatner is sexy, but that he might be beamed up at any moment.
Actually, if you put the RFID card under the tinfoil hat there is a good chance that they will not be able to scan you.
However the computer will show you as not showing up for the day, which may cause problems for you if happens enough times.
Because the RFID scanner might be "tricked" by your buddy carrying the card for you, I suspect that they will start to have RFID implants in the hand for kids.
Not trolling, I'm Chinese. Usually the US is fanatical about data-gathering. Thought hottest/coldest places on earth were visited and studied long ago.
We were fanatical about data gathering, but we are unable to afford to do so anymore. Part of the reason is that your country exports large quantities of consumer goods to us through the giant U.S. retailer known as Wal-Mart and increasing our already huge trade deficit. This is also depressing our local economies and putting local companies out of business as they can not compete with your workers that work for $.50 an hour. Subsequently there is less taxes paid to the federal government. So critical areas such as government research (esp. in the area of "pure research") and grants to college students suffer (as does the ability of of middle income families to fund college educations).
Thus, you have less people who can go to college. If they do they are less likely to study things like "geophysics" and more likely "law," as we know that the only thing left on this planet after we kill the enviroment with our large SUVs will be cockroaches and lawyers. Those that cannot go to college or unemployed geophyicists are currently finding employment at Wal-Mart if they are lucky. However, this is not a living wage here and many of us are having difficulties with it.
While the Bush tax-cut was helpful in that the $125 provided for a muffler repair and a trip to the movies, sadly it is not enough. The crushing force of the twin deficits will continue to devalue the dollar, and we will increasingly be unable to buy stuff, even if it comes from the hands of your fine workers there in China.
As this last election has shown, nothing is going to change for the foreseeable future. The closest that we are going to get to establishing new arctic/antarctic research is to watch reruns of Ice Station Zebra. So my friend in China, encourage science and space exploration there, as we can no longer afford it here.
Also, please stop using so much raw material. It really is driving up prices and inflation badly here.
I'm sorry if my little personal note offends other slashdotters who might mod me down, but I thought this issue needed addressing.
What anybody says on slashdot never really matters. Discussion is here today, gone tomorrow. Don't let your underwear get bunched up. It's just not worth it.
The problem with LEDs are that they are still relatively low intensity light sources.
While you may get s high intensity directional beam, it is more difficult to get a uniform general coverage LED source, as it takes many more LEDs. So it is just cheaper to use a good flourescent.
I agree. It's being pretty cheap sampling LM317s when you can get them anywhere, unlike exotic new parts.
But maybe that's why he got them. They are cheap enough to throw a couple to a college student, and TI gets good publicity from it.
I have had mixed luck getting samples in the past telling companies I was a college student. Sometimes I got them, sometimes not. Most companies at the time wanted to know how many thousands you were going to buy. Not if you were doing a college project. My friends had similar experiences. But this was twenty years ago. Things are different now with the internets.
Now I much rather prototype with off the shelf, because that means most likely that the part is widely available and you won't have problems getting production quantities.
It started with PIC (and Dallas) making things easier by selling onesy twosy to anybody.
It paid off by their chips gaining wide popularity.
I also think that is what lead to thicker digi-key catalogs. I remember when they were pamphlets.
And please, no more smart areses talking about getting laid. With that attitude you never will
Dude, this story was posted at 2:39 am.
Need I state the obvious for you???
If we are reading slashdot at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, there is a rather (extremely) high likelyhood that readers here do not have the company of a female.
Unless it's a mother telling us to turn out the lights.
Also, you don't need an microwave or conventional oven to prepare them. They just need to be toasted, which you can do over a fire (or with a toaster plugged into a generator).
I imagine that Wal-Marts camping department also gets raided heavily before a storm.
For which it stands, one store under God, indivisible, with sales and product for all.
From the article;
"You can see the pattern of Wal-Mart's mandates, and as Wal-Mart grows in power, it is getting more dictatorial.....Wal-Mart lives in a world of supply and command, instead of a world of supply and demand."
Yes, it's just like the 800 pound gorilla to take anything it wants, like the common name "windows" that was used to describe GUIs when microsoft was only selling DOS.
Knowing their track record, expect them to deploy more mediocre products with names like "air" "rock" "sky" and bolt them onto their operating system so everyone will have to have a copy.
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smarmy;
An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when the Devil appeared before him. The Devil told the lawyer, "I have a proposition for you. You can win every case you try, for the rest of your life. Your clients will adore you, your colleagues will stand in awe of you, and you will make embarrasing sums of money. All I want in exchange is your soul, your wife's soul, your children's souls, the souls of your parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law, and the souls of all of your friends and law partners. The lawyer thought about this for a moment, then asked, "So what's the catch?"
I don't have a problem with smarmy lawyers per se, as long as they are sexy, and I rather watch them than the forensic geeks over at CSI.
I'm not saying that Shatner is sexy, but that he might be beamed up at any moment.
If he wants to recover his password, he needs to hack into their network.
Obviously.
Steam ran out of steam.
The way your comment is being moderated, it too is running out of steam.
May I suggest coal for those that need steam -- energy for a new generation.
Valve could certainly have put in a backup system (a la similar to Microsofts 1-800 registration number)
Yes, but that would require hiring people to answer the phone and imply real tech support, and we know that valve can't do that.
Actually, if you put the RFID card under the tinfoil hat there is a good chance that they will not be able to scan you.
However the computer will show you as not showing up for the day, which may cause problems for you if happens enough times.
Because the RFID scanner might be "tricked" by your buddy carrying the card for you, I suspect that they will start to have RFID implants in the hand for kids.
And the sheeple will do nothing to stop it.
if you're not in the position to be affected by this, shut the hell up.....
Let me guess, if we don't that would make us unpatriotic as well???
Not trolling, I'm Chinese. Usually the US is fanatical about data-gathering. Thought hottest/coldest places on earth were visited and studied long ago.
We were fanatical about data gathering, but we are unable to afford to do so anymore. Part of the reason is that your country exports large quantities of consumer goods to us through the giant U.S. retailer known as Wal-Mart and increasing our already huge trade deficit. This is also depressing our local economies and putting local companies out of business as they can not compete with your workers that work for $.50 an hour. Subsequently there is less taxes paid to the federal government. So critical areas such as government research (esp. in the area of "pure research") and grants to college students suffer (as does the ability of of middle income families to fund college educations).
Thus, you have less people who can go to college. If they do they are less likely to study things like "geophysics" and more likely "law," as we know that the only thing left on this planet after we kill the enviroment with our large SUVs will be cockroaches and lawyers. Those that cannot go to college or unemployed geophyicists are currently finding employment at Wal-Mart if they are lucky. However, this is not a living wage here and many of us are having difficulties with it.
While the Bush tax-cut was helpful in that the $125 provided for a muffler repair and a trip to the movies, sadly it is not enough. The crushing force of the twin deficits will continue to devalue the dollar, and we will increasingly be unable to buy stuff, even if it comes from the hands of your fine workers there in China.
As this last election has shown, nothing is going to change for the foreseeable future. The closest that we are going to get to establishing new arctic/antarctic research is to watch reruns of Ice Station Zebra. So my friend in China, encourage science and space exploration there, as we can no longer afford it here.
Also, please stop using so much raw material. It really is driving up prices and inflation badly here.
I'm sorry if my little personal note offends other slashdotters who might mod me down, but I thought this issue needed addressing.
Pentium 75 MHz is way too new for Strongbad. I'd bet that it's gonna be a 486sx.
I have heard some say that Strongbad is the best thing about Flash. I would have to agree with them.
I wonder if Macromedia gives them free software. If they don't, they should.
Knowing Strongbad, he is always four computer generations behind.
I expect he will find a 486sx with windows 3.1 or something like that.
His first computer was a tandy 400 (tandy never made a 400) with a "green screen" that haunted him after he disposed of it in a rather uncaring way.
Strongbad is an aquired taste like beer and olives. Occasionally he is a riot, like with today's email.
Have you being using the internet irresponsibly? Not more irresponsible than usual.
Did you get a computer virus? No
Did you get 400,000 computer viruses? Yes. Very yes!
classic.
I wonder what he is going to replace the compy386 with, and whether it will have a gui or still be dos.
What anybody says on slashdot never really matters. Discussion is here today, gone tomorrow. Don't let your underwear get bunched up. It's just not worth it.
And not all females are turned off by mental prowess.
No, just the cute ones.
When it earns the GNU/Solaris moniker.
The problem with LEDs are that they are still relatively low intensity light sources.
While you may get s high intensity directional beam, it is more difficult to get a uniform general coverage LED source, as it takes many more LEDs. So it is just cheaper to use a good flourescent.
With the price of LEDs dropping this may change.
I agree. It's being pretty cheap sampling LM317s when you can get them anywhere, unlike exotic new parts.
But maybe that's why he got them. They are cheap enough to throw a couple to a college student, and TI gets good publicity from it.
I have had mixed luck getting samples in the past telling companies I was a college student. Sometimes I got them, sometimes not. Most companies at the time wanted to know how many thousands you were going to buy. Not if you were doing a college project. My friends had similar experiences. But this was twenty years ago. Things are different now with the internets.
Now I much rather prototype with off the shelf, because that means most likely that the part is widely available and you won't have problems getting production quantities.
It started with PIC (and Dallas) making things easier by selling onesy twosy to anybody.
It paid off by their chips gaining wide popularity.
I also think that is what lead to thicker digi-key catalogs. I remember when they were pamphlets.
And please, no more smart areses talking about getting laid. With that attitude you never will
Dude, this story was posted at 2:39 am.
Need I state the obvious for you???
If we are reading slashdot at 3:00 a.m. in the morning, there is a rather (extremely) high likelyhood that readers here do not have the company of a female.
Unless it's a mother telling us to turn out the lights.
errr what? "Sexy engineer" or " sexysciencegirl
It probalbly doesn't matter after you have had a lot of the "free as in beer" beer.
what a dork?p ages/image4.html
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bkpeters/www/Prom/image
Just goes to show what you can do with the money saved from not having to buy the LM317s.
But yet even considering all that, Wal-Mart manages to sell the lowly pop tart by the truckload, especially when a storm is coming.
So do you mean free as in speech, or free as in beer?
The ladies see the bed and head for the freeway.
Nothing spells NERD like a bunch of bright colored LEDs decorating your living space when it's not Christmas.
Except maybe for that Linux pc in the corner.
obviuosly you had a deprived childhood.
Pop Tarts can go a long way to quieting a kid whining about breakfast.
Also, you don't need an microwave or conventional oven to prepare them. They just need to be toasted, which you can do over a fire (or with a toaster plugged into a generator).
I imagine that Wal-Marts camping department also gets raided heavily before a storm.
For which it stands, one store under God, indivisible, with sales and product for all.
From the article;
"You can see the pattern of Wal-Mart's mandates, and as Wal-Mart grows in power, it is getting more dictatorial.....Wal-Mart lives in a world of supply and command, instead of a world of supply and demand."
Yes, it's just like the 800 pound gorilla to take anything it wants, like the common name "windows" that was used to describe GUIs when microsoft was only selling DOS.
Knowing their track record, expect them to deploy more mediocre products with names like "air" "rock" "sky" and bolt them onto their operating system so everyone will have to have a copy.