A clean office, and decent sized cube to do my work, and a lab environment is great. All of these places with the 'cool' office space, cafeterias, activity areas, etc, you'll notice, expect you to be there for quite a long time each day. No thanks. Give me the basics, and I'll get the rest when I'm out of the office.
In seriousness, I have a great and very cheap countermeasure against electronic insects, snakes, mice, etc.: cats. DARPA may spend billions developing these tiny surveillance critters, but nature has spent billions of years evolving an efficient hunter to eat them.
And then barf them up on your carpet encased in a slimey tube of fur.
The science of the Matrix was pretty laughable, I mean the machines are smart enough to build human farms, but too dumb to use satellites to capture solar power.
To me, it makes more sense that the humans were part of the computing power that gave the machines intelligence. That would also explain a lot of other things in the movie. The nice thing about the matrix is they didn't try to explain everything, allowing you to figure out what you would (the battery thing was a dumbed-down idea that could have been done much better, IMHO).
Hey! That's the name of mine at home! Well..the one on the DMZ that redirects all http traffic through a proxy that does interesting things with images, anyway.
Sorry to follow up to my own post, but AWD is also very important. Ever try to get up a hill in VT in the middle of winter? Yet another reason for the subie. Great all-around car, but burns the high-test stuff quickly with the new commute.
The problem is the single guy who needs reliable transportation. What *I* really need now that I'm commuting 44 miles each way to work is two cars (or public transportation, which does not exist here).
An *inexpensive* (that's the whole problem...I'm just one person, can't afford several vehicles) high mpg car for the daily commute, and another that is for everything else.
A single fuel efficient car won't work. I camp a lot. And have a lot of gear. I also snowboard, and have 1-2 bikes with me several times a week. I needed a car that could haul all of that.
I took the fun/practical route with a subaru wrx wagon. 25mpg wasn't a big issue when my commute was only 15 miles or so each way. It has become one now. But I need something that I can pack up for a weekend of camping (ez up, tables, tents, chairs, bike gear, etc...it barely all fits in the wagon), and I definitely can't afford the purchase and maintenence of 2 vehicles.
When in Baltimore one day, I saw a pigeon casually walk back and forth in front of the tire that was slowly approaching it as a guy parked his car. Bird went under feet first. The car was going so slow that the bird didn't get squished. Rather, it (probably quite agonizingly) exploded as the car pressurized its body. *pop*. One of the most disturbing things I've ever witnessed.
Viruses (not worms) are a stupid user issue. There's not much you can do about that, the thing will get run, and your beloved antivirus program of choice will not protect you from your users.
Not a full-blown PDA, but I've found that for managing some simple calendar things, occassions, alarms, etc, you can't beat the Timex Datalink USB watches.
I may or may not have a cell phone or PDA with me at any given time. I always have my watch, though, and all of my contacts, schedule, etc are on it.
And how is one to legally provide those MP3s? Hell, I'd love to run a store where I could dump the entire CD collection to a server in flac format, and let people then burn their own custom CD from that and pay me, without me having to pay upstream because I only bought one copy. I don't think it would work that way though.
That would actually be a nice model if you could get the *AA onboard.
Those must be some insanely simple classes you are taking. Not sure how great a laptop would be in real time for writing complex formulas, or diagrams of how things like a thermo system or airfoil work.
Maybe a tablet that let you freehand sketch accurately in addition to typing. I still think that would be rather clumsy compared to a pencil and notebook.
Or at least a monthly calling plan that doesn't cost more than my internet and cable combined, even. That's my main reason for not going much further than a pay as you go phone for a cell.
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A clean office, and decent sized cube to do my work, and a lab environment is great. All of these places with the 'cool' office space, cafeterias, activity areas, etc, you'll notice, expect you to be there for quite a long time each day. No thanks. Give me the basics, and I'll get the rest when I'm out of the office.
sorry, can't be bothered with this. Next.
And then barf them up on your carpet encased in a slimey tube of fur.
To me, it makes more sense that the humans were part of the computing power that gave the machines intelligence. That would also explain a lot of other things in the movie. The nice thing about the matrix is they didn't try to explain everything, allowing you to figure out what you would (the battery thing was a dumbed-down idea that could have been done much better, IMHO).
The case itself is one thing. Private information about a person, that has nothing to do with the case itself, is quite another.
Hey! That's the name of mine at home! Well..the one on the DMZ that redirects all http traffic through a proxy that does interesting things with images, anyway.
Sorry to follow up to my own post, but AWD is also very important. Ever try to get up a hill in VT in the middle of winter? Yet another reason for the subie. Great all-around car, but burns the high-test stuff quickly with the new commute.
The problem is the single guy who needs reliable transportation. What *I* really need now that I'm commuting 44 miles each way to work is two cars (or public transportation, which does not exist here).
An *inexpensive* (that's the whole problem...I'm just one person, can't afford several vehicles) high mpg car for the daily commute, and another that is for everything else.
A single fuel efficient car won't work. I camp a lot. And have a lot of gear. I also snowboard, and have 1-2 bikes with me several times a week. I needed a car that could haul all of that.
I took the fun/practical route with a subaru wrx wagon. 25mpg wasn't a big issue when my commute was only 15 miles or so each way. It has become one now. But I need something that I can pack up for a weekend of camping (ez up, tables, tents, chairs, bike gear, etc...it barely all fits in the wagon), and I definitely can't afford the purchase and maintenence of 2 vehicles.
No. Witness any "I can do everything" app *cough*Microsoft*cough* vs. simple tools that excel at their task.
When in Baltimore one day, I saw a pigeon casually walk back and forth in front of the tire that was slowly approaching it as a guy parked his car. Bird went under feet first. The car was going so slow that the bird didn't get squished. Rather, it (probably quite agonizingly) exploded as the car pressurized its body. *pop*. One of the most disturbing things I've ever witnessed.
Actually, I used to do mine in REXX :-). Ok, the first stab at it was on CERN HTTPD on windoze using C. Did I really do that, wow :-)
One reason I use Embedded Perl and never bothered with learning PHP. It actually requires effort to not at least escape untrusted input.
Client side perl would kick ass. Then I could match my front end with the back.
The reason you have your beloved Internet is because of military technology. Most good stuff comes from the military. And porn.
Indeed.
Viruses (not worms) are a stupid user issue. There's not much you can do about that, the thing will get run, and your beloved antivirus program of choice will not protect you from your users.
The new USB versions are nice. I own one.
It is good for what it is...a device to keep track of alarms, appointments, contacts. I always have it with me, unlike my phone.
Not a full-blown PDA, but I've found that for managing some simple calendar things, occassions, alarms, etc, you can't beat the Timex Datalink USB watches.
I may or may not have a cell phone or PDA with me at any given time. I always have my watch, though, and all of my contacts, schedule, etc are on it.
What I meant was a way to pay them per copy sold, not that you'd sell without sending money back their way. Oops :-)
I like this better:
http://www.hotcaptcha.com/
And how is one to legally provide those MP3s? Hell, I'd love to run a store where I could dump the entire CD collection to a server in flac format, and let people then burn their own custom CD from that and pay me, without me having to pay upstream because I only bought one copy. I don't think it would work that way though.
That would actually be a nice model if you could get the *AA onboard.
...use more duct tape!
-- Red Green
Those must be some insanely simple classes you are taking. Not sure how great a laptop would be in real time for writing complex formulas, or diagrams of how things like a thermo system or airfoil work.
Maybe a tablet that let you freehand sketch accurately in addition to typing. I still think that would be rather clumsy compared to a pencil and notebook.
Or at least a monthly calling plan that doesn't cost more than my internet and cable combined, even. That's my main reason for not going much further than a pay as you go phone for a cell.
How can you reference a bloodninja post without the pirate log???
http://www.bash.org/?642195
HAARRRRRR!!!
Why offshoring to the cheapest labor monkey is a good idea?