The county mounties in Western Kansas are well know for stopping people in I-70. They are looking for "drug money". In some counties as much as 30% of their budget comes from taking cash and cars from people running drugs. The funny thing is that if your friend had said no he could have left immediately. It is very hard to round up a circuit judge to get a warrant in the buffalo commons of Western Kansas. The cops are just doing catch and release until they strike it rich with someone who has too much cash or drugs.
I wonder how long before the feds find a way of shaking down people for money on their stops. They did up the ticket tax but that just covers wages and makes for poor PR on how they are stopping terror. They are going to have to come up with something better than burning 1% of the drugs that comes into the USA. The war on drugs was a failure the war on terror is being run by the same people. Maybe it is just a power grab to create laws to hide their failures.
I have heard of someone falling for the Nigerian scam but it was around 1978 before I had ever touched a computer. He did go to Nigeria to collect his pile of money but the person never showed up! The Kansas Attorney General didn't do much about it, but then he was always more interested in drug busts back then. He did warn that it was probably a bad idea to go to Nigeria to pickup stolen money. So the 419 scam has been going on for at least twenty years.
I even recieved a paper version of the Nigerian 419 letter last year when I was living in Sheboygan Wisconsin. It was mailed from South Africa and the paper was just pain old white copy paper. You would have thought that they could at least fake a letter head. I was dissapointed, but I always wondered where they got my address because I always erased the email versions with out responding.
Carla Schroder wrote a good little tutorial but the writing style put me off a little. She sprinkled little biblical phrases throught out the artical. It was a little jarring to have Grub being hailed as the promised land. Not exactly what I was expecting from an IBM site but then maybe IBM has really caught the Linux religion.;-)
There was a story on 60 Minutes about telemarketers using labor from India. They put the Indians through a two week boot camp where they worked on their accents and picked a fake American name and a fake American city to be calling from. They all liked the jobs because they were well paid for India.
If I remember right Dell was one of the companies doing this. It puts their TV ads about the college kids just starting at Dell in a new light.
In the late 80's there was a bumber sticker in Texas that said Please God let there be anothor oil boom, we'll do it right next time. They got a tech boom instead.
Maybe it is time to start over again. It is only a matter of time before AOL/MSN gets together and comes up with a tech fix that works, mostly. Maybe it is time to get ahead of them and come up with an open standard. Some day Microsoft is going to see that the only way the butterfly can protect the kiddies like in the commerical is to start over and stick it to Linux at the same time.
Now I have to go off and delete my email account and come of with a new accout.
NPR's All Things Considered had a story on this Sunday rtsp://audio.npr.org/atc/20030420_atc_07.rm They talked to Joseph Menn of the LA Times. He said that Apple had lined up all the major record labels for easy to use Apple branded music download service with fewer restrictions on use than in the past. We will know if he is right in a week or so.
The problem is then with the directors. A few years ago they were complaining about colorizing movies and not being true to the director's vision ect. Of course the real problem was that directors were not getting a cut of the profits. So your idea will have to get worked in the contracts so the money get spread around enough to shut the creators up.
If you do line drawing e.g. CAD do not use a Trinitron. Lines on the horizontal and vertical will appear brighter than lines on a diagonal. This is because the phosphers are layed down in vertical stripes and not dots like a conventional invar masked tube. My last employer had me use a Viewsonic with a trinitron tube in it. I hated it!
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I think you got it right. There isn't one part in an IBM XT of 1984 that could be used im my existing PC. The bus has gone form XT->AT(6MHz)->ISA(8MHz)->PCI so none of the cards could be used.
The Video has gone from CGA(or MDA)->EGA->VGA so I could not use the monitor.
The Keyboard scan codes canged from XT->AT and the connectors have changed.
The floppies have gone from 5.5"->3.5"->CD-RW
The hard drive (if it had one) has gone from MFM->RLL->IDE->ATA->ATA66
The serial ports have gone from 25 pins->9 pins so I would need new cables.
I might be able to hook up an old Epson 9-wire dot matrix printer, if I still had it.
The memory chips have canged from DIPs->SIMMs->to god knows what today.
No I can't use anything out of that 20 year old PC, even the case couldn't hold a modern motherboard without modding.
The legacy is in market saturation, everybody who wants a PC has at least one. You can't make them buy a new one until you give them a good reason. Being legacy-free is not a good reason.
This is not about networking PC/PDA it is about replacing the wires going from a sensor to the PLC. If you don't know what a PLC is this article is not aimed at you. The example they used is sensors in a piping tunnel that would block a standard ceneral base staion radio approach. It is about conneting less than a hundred signals from a fixed location going back to another fixed location.
It is about accepting some additional data loss for not hving to run copper or fiber to the sensors. It seems to me it would be of most use to a temporary installation or spread out sensor array where lighting could take out your PLC.
Wisconsin declared a non-snow emergency about a month ago. It seems that we have had so little snow for the second year in a row that business that depend on snow are going under.
Well my experiment with Wisconsin is over I am heeding back South. I am sure that the weather will return to normal starting next month.
Re:$2B is the paper loss, $10M operational profit!
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"Impairment of goodwill and other intangable assets"
I thought that account speak for oh shit we paid to much for this and we have to fess up to the share holders that the combined company is worth less than if we had not done this bonehead thing.
I will stick to pben264378459276@hotmail.com or pben13527648@yahoo.com
I some how don't think giving up your name for a number is going to take off in the 21st century. Phone numbers go back to a time before computers, when relays were high tech.
Yea YAST2 is far too slow. I don't see how a Desktop for Dummies can allow the user to modify the configs except through their tools. This problem and the YAST license stopping redistrubtion stops me from liking SuSE 100%.
SuSE has always done sound and video better than most distros and it doesn't put everyting in/user/bin (KDE has no business being put there or mozilla at/lib/mozzila a web browser is not a library). There are thinks that could be learned from them but the only thing the newer desktop distros like Lindows have learned is how to prevent redistribution.
The cable company is not licenced to broadcast. Some of cable channels can leak RF in bands used by aircraft and others. They are required by the FCC to keep the leakage down and if they don't they could be forced to take off some of the cable channels on their system. It has been a very long time since I worked for a cable company so I am not up on the current limits.
I would say that some unlucky citizen be picked at random. It is time that we spread around the graft. It is unfair that the same crokks get all the money year after year. It would also be more repensentative that the present system. Hell a random fool couldn't be any worse than what we have now.
Yea there are bots looking at slasdot.org In fact I have gotten email offering to improve traffic to my web site: slashdot.org. I just abut fell on the floor at the stupidity.
Truly people who need to buy a clue so they can figure out this internet thing that they are trying to make money off.
The market for Linux is Regional so there are plenty of people out of the region that don't use or like that other Linux.
I have often wondered how Slackware could still be around and turning a profit after all these years. Maybe it is because they work just how you describe.
Yea an American company will pay a Chinese factory to assemble it. The factory will use a copy of Windows that they got off the street corner for $5 to print the shipping labels.
The list time I used Turbo Tax was about three years ago. Last week I got a CD of the Windows version in the mail. I could get it for about 2/3 of the price they want to charge at a local store. Maybe if they had sent a Linux version I would have taken them up on the offer.
I really think that this Toxen guy should quit spouting on about SuSE installing too many services by default. None of the services he complains about is installed by default. He needs to really download and install a Linux distribution that has been released in the last couple of years. You have to turn on the services now at least for SuSE 8.1. He may have written some good stuff in his day but he should do some research before he makes a fool of himself in print.
Yale tryed for four years to teach him something and he got a C. The only thing that will make Bush The Lesser listen is a big check, half a million or so spread out over the Republican party. I think you could get him to take you seriously enough to listen then.
He will not change but he will kiss your ass until you run out of money.
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I got $75 for this T-shirt design and VA Software (OSDN) lost $3,610,000 last quarter!
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I doubt that would win.
The county mounties in Western Kansas are well know for stopping people in I-70. They are looking for "drug money". In some counties as much as 30% of their budget comes from taking cash and cars from people running drugs. The funny thing is that if your friend had said no he could have left immediately. It is very hard to round up a circuit judge to get a warrant in the buffalo commons of Western Kansas. The cops are just doing catch and release until they strike it rich with someone who has too much cash or drugs.
I wonder how long before the feds find a way of shaking down people for money on their stops. They did up the ticket tax but that just covers wages and makes for poor PR on how they are stopping terror. They are going to have to come up with something better than burning 1% of the drugs that comes into the USA. The war on drugs was a failure the war on terror is being run by the same people. Maybe it is just a power grab to create laws to hide their failures.
I have heard of someone falling for the Nigerian scam but it was around 1978 before I had ever touched a computer. He did go to Nigeria to collect his pile of money but the person never showed up! The Kansas Attorney General didn't do much about it, but then he was always more interested in drug busts back then. He did warn that it was probably a bad idea to go to Nigeria to pickup stolen money. So the 419 scam has been going on for at least twenty years.
I even recieved a paper version of the Nigerian 419 letter last year when I was living in Sheboygan Wisconsin. It was mailed from South Africa and the paper was just pain old white copy paper. You would have thought that they could at least fake a letter head. I was dissapointed, but I always wondered where they got my address because I always erased the email versions with out responding.
Carla Schroder wrote a good little tutorial but the writing style put me off a little. She sprinkled little biblical phrases throught out the artical. It was a little jarring to have Grub being hailed as the promised land. Not exactly what I was expecting from an IBM site but then maybe IBM has really caught the Linux religion. ;-)
There was a story on 60 Minutes about telemarketers using labor from India. They put the Indians through a two week boot camp where they worked on their accents and picked a fake American name and a fake American city to be calling from. They all liked the jobs because they were well paid for India.
If I remember right Dell was one of the companies doing this. It puts their TV ads about the college kids just starting at Dell in a new light.
In the late 80's there was a bumber sticker in Texas that said Please God let there be anothor oil boom, we'll do it right next time. They got a tech boom instead.
Maybe it is time to start over again. It is only a matter of time before AOL/MSN gets together and comes up with a tech fix that works, mostly. Maybe it is time to get ahead of them and come up with an open standard. Some day Microsoft is going to see that the only way the butterfly can protect the kiddies like in the commerical is to start over and stick it to Linux at the same time.
Now I have to go off and delete my email account and come of with a new accout.
Well Paul Allen does own stock in Transmeta so a Crusoe might be a good fit.
If you are interviewing with Microsoft:
Why would you want to get in a low margin business like earth moving?
If you are interviewing with Bechtel:
Call the Secretary of Defense and ask who we have to bribe in Japan.
You just got to know the business you are in.
NPR's All Things Considered had a story on this Sunday rtsp://audio.npr.org/atc/20030420_atc_07.rm They talked to Joseph Menn of the LA Times. He said that Apple had lined up all the major record labels for easy to use Apple branded music download service with fewer restrictions on use than in the past. We will know if he is right in a week or so.
The problem is then with the directors. A few years ago they were complaining about colorizing movies and not being true to the director's vision ect. Of course the real problem was that directors were not getting a cut of the profits. So your idea will have to get worked in the contracts so the money get spread around enough to shut the creators up.
If you do line drawing e.g. CAD do not use a Trinitron. Lines on the horizontal and vertical will appear brighter than lines on a diagonal. This is because the phosphers are layed down in vertical stripes and not dots like a conventional invar masked tube. My last employer had me use a Viewsonic with a trinitron tube in it. I hated it!
I think you got it right. There isn't one part in an IBM XT of 1984 that could be used im my existing PC. The bus has gone form XT->AT(6MHz)->ISA(8MHz)->PCI so none of the cards could be used.
The Video has gone from CGA(or MDA)->EGA->VGA so I could not use the monitor.
The Keyboard scan codes canged from XT->AT and the connectors have changed.
The floppies have gone from 5.5"->3.5"->CD-RW
The hard drive (if it had one) has gone from MFM->RLL->IDE->ATA->ATA66
The serial ports have gone from 25 pins->9 pins so I would need new cables.
I might be able to hook up an old Epson 9-wire dot matrix printer, if I still had it.
The memory chips have canged from DIPs->SIMMs->to god knows what today.
No I can't use anything out of that 20 year old PC, even the case couldn't hold a modern motherboard without modding.
The legacy is in market saturation, everybody who wants a PC has at least one. You can't make them buy a new one until you give them a good reason. Being legacy-free is not a good reason.
This is not about networking PC/PDA it is about replacing the wires going from a sensor to the PLC. If you don't know what a PLC is this article is not aimed at you. The example they used is sensors in a piping tunnel that would block a standard ceneral base staion radio approach. It is about conneting less than a hundred signals from a fixed location going back to another fixed location.
It is about accepting some additional data loss for not hving to run copper or fiber to the sensors. It seems to me it would be of most use to a temporary installation or spread out sensor array where lighting could take out your PLC.
Wisconsin declared a non-snow emergency about a month ago. It seems that we have had so little snow for the second year in a row that business that depend on snow are going under.
Well my experiment with Wisconsin is over I am heeding back South. I am sure that the weather will return to normal starting next month.
"Impairment of goodwill and other intangable assets"
I thought that account speak for oh shit we paid to much for this and we have to fess up to the share holders that the combined company is worth less than if we had not done this bonehead thing.
I will stick to pben264378459276@hotmail.com or pben13527648@yahoo.com
I some how don't think giving up your name for a number is going to take off in the 21st century. Phone numbers go back to a time before computers, when relays were high tech.
Yea YAST2 is far too slow. I don't see how a Desktop for Dummies can allow the user to modify the configs except through their tools. This problem and the YAST license stopping redistrubtion stops me from liking SuSE 100%.
/user/bin (KDE has no business being put there or mozilla at /lib/mozzila a web browser is not a library). There are thinks that could be learned from them but the only thing the newer desktop distros like Lindows have learned is how to prevent redistribution.
SuSE has always done sound and video better than most distros and it doesn't put everyting in
The cable company is not licenced to broadcast. Some of cable channels can leak RF in bands used by aircraft and others. They are required by the FCC to keep the leakage down and if they don't they could be forced to take off some of the cable channels on their system. It has been a very long time since I worked for a cable company so I am not up on the current limits.
I would say that some unlucky citizen be picked at random. It is time that we spread around the graft. It is unfair that the same crokks get all the money year after year. It would also be more repensentative that the present system. Hell a random fool couldn't be any worse than what we have now.
Yea there are bots looking at slasdot.org In fact I have gotten email offering to improve traffic to my web site: slashdot.org. I just abut fell on the floor at the stupidity.
Truly people who need to buy a clue so they can figure out this internet thing that they are trying to make money off.
The market for Linux is Regional so there are plenty of people out of the region that don't use or like that other Linux.
I have often wondered how Slackware could still be around and turning a profit after all these years. Maybe it is because they work just how you describe.
Yea an American company will pay a Chinese factory to assemble it. The factory will use a copy of Windows that they got off the street corner for $5 to print the shipping labels.
The list time I used Turbo Tax was about three years ago. Last week I got a CD of the Windows version in the mail. I could get it for about 2/3 of the price they want to charge at a local store. Maybe if they had sent a Linux version I would have taken them up on the offer.
How long has Intuit taken it queue from AOL?
I really think that this Toxen guy should quit spouting on about SuSE installing too many services by default. None of the services he complains about is installed by default. He needs to really download and install a Linux distribution that has been released in the last couple of years. You have to turn on the services now at least for SuSE 8.1. He may have written some good stuff in his day but he should do some research before he makes a fool of himself in print.
Yale tryed for four years to teach him something and he got a C. The only thing that will make Bush The Lesser listen is a big check, half a million or so spread out over the Republican party. I think you could get him to take you seriously enough to listen then.
He will not change but he will kiss your ass until you run out of money.