Michigan has a 10 cent deposit on it's cans and bottles.
I used to buy cans in neighboring states that didn't have deposits (like Indiana) then turn them in at a store in MI for $.10 a can. This worked until the stores started getting machines that scanned the bar code on the can.
During my IBM mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, CICS days at a large midwestern bank, I crashed the entire CICS online system for about a day because of a screw up when allocating memory within the CICS region.
I'm wondering how these thieves are planning to sell these consoles? Even with the info that X number of them probably don't work they still need to get rid of them.
Door to door? Sell them on Ebay, although that might raise some red flags......
I was in Kay-Bee stores a few days ago Christmas shopping with my wife when I saw of these.
I was tempted, tempted, I tell you! But the lack of a keypad turned me away. I'll just have to be satisfied with dragging out my original intellivsion whenever the retro gaming bug bites me.
I live in nearby Frankfort, IN and voted last week. Clinton county is also using those big suitcases with push button you describe. Dunno if the e-voting software Boone county used was used here as well.
It's more like intimidation and fear mongering by the RIAA......
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I work for a midwestern car manufacturer that has about 2400 employees where I'm a salaried developer in their IT department.
Back in 1999 and 2000 I got around a $4k bonus before taxes. The bonuses for salaried and management was determined by some kind of formula HR devised. I think all the hourly workers got something like $1k-$1.5k.
However, in the past couple of years my bonus has dropped to around 1K and this year we might not get one at all if you believe the rumors......
I take all of these system building articles with a grain of salt, especially when it picks specific video cards, processors etc.
Most people usually don't have the $ for the 'latest and greatest' hardware. And by the time they can afford the lastest whiz-bang video card, it's already outdated.
Well I managed to grab the WinXP version of Firebird 0.7 at home before leaving for work this morning. With the recent slashdotting it might be a while before a grab the new version for my work machine.
The 'new' home page for 0.7 is pretty much lacking in useful information. It has no install notes or instructions like with previous builds. I assume I should just delete my old Firebird directory and profile and start new like with older builds, but this is not spelled out anywhere on the new page. Pretty much just an advertisement for people looking to switch from IE.
Waaaayyy back in 1987-89 while attending Indiana State University and getting my B.S. in Computer Science I got the opportunity to co-op for three semesters at Crane Naval Weapons Center near Bloomington Indiana.
It was a pretty interesting experience. The place was huge! Once I got thru the front gate I had another 5 mile drive thru rolling hills and woods before getting to building in which I worked.
I actually don't remember much of what I did, most of it was maintenance on old COBOL based systems the DoD used for inventory management within the Navy. The people I worked with were pretty cool though. Used to have some mean games of spades with some mathematician/statistics guys during lunch.
One of the oddest things was the overtime pay. In the fall my manager would come to me and say "Do you want to work some overtime? We have this overtime budget that we need to spend or we won't get approved for it next year." So regardless of what my workload was (usually pretty light) I would work a few Saturdays here and there for the extra $.
They offered me a full time position upon graducation, but the pay rate just wasn't there. Besides there were a lot of rumors floating about that the base was going to close or the operations like the IT dept. getting moved somewhere else.
You know, these redundant posts of the entire article that have some word of phrase replaced to make it a troll are becoming quite fun. Sort of like Where's Waldo? for the/. crowd.
Here's the offending phrase from the above article: "It's not something that you would set up as the default, so that every document I would create is rights management protected," he said. "Rob Malda is practically a penis eating machine, and it's important that you make a choice to apply rights management to a document for very specific reasons."
I work in a truly 'open office' environment. It's a midwest car manufacturer owned by the Japanese, and they pretty much brought their office 'concepts' over with them. No cubicles or walls, just quadrants of desks in a huge room. Even the president and senior-level managers have their desks out in the open just like everyone else. Fortunately, the IT dept. is on a different floor and doesn't have to really share space with other departments, even though we still use the quadrant system. I got lucky in that I have a corner quadrant and my back is to the wall. Also I work with some great people. Working in this kind of office you really get a chance to hone your concentration skills, because there are lots of times where you need to 'turn out' what is going on around you in order to get some actual work done.
Hear! Hear! I couldn't have said it better myself. I think my pastor summed his philosphy about converting people to Christianity pretty well with the statement: "I'd rather love a person into heaven than scare them out of hell."
My wife used to take Immitrex for migraines, until she discovered that it was a side-effect of her birth control pills that seemed to be causing the migraines. Her GYN had her try a couple different birth control prescriptions (different brand, smaller doses, etc.) and she has gone from 1-2 migraines a month to maybe 1-2 a year. It was a godsend to her, not to mention a lot cheaper without Immitrex!
Same thing here, except I injured my left knee while playing football in high school. I can most always tell when a change in the weather is coming.....
This is a somewhat timely topic for me. This past weekend I took my 6 1/2 year old soon to good 'ole WalMart so he could get a GBA game. What an exercise in frustration. He would have nothing to do with my and oldest son's (he's 12) suggestion of Golden Sun, Metroid Prime, etc. Instead he was fixated on some Yu-Gi-Oh game, which I eventually gave into. He seems to enjoy it though.
But I completely agree with most of the GBA selection being simply sequels of each other......
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Michigan has a 10 cent deposit on it's cans and bottles.
I used to buy cans in neighboring states that didn't have deposits (like Indiana) then turn them in at a store in MI for $.10 a can. This worked until the stores started getting machines that scanned the bar code on the can.
So you mean inviting my pastor over for a few rounds of GTA: Vice City may not be a good idea?
Since I'm cable TV challenged and the site appears to be /.'ed, could someone explain what Red vs Blue is about?
During my IBM mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, CICS days at a large midwestern bank, I crashed the entire CICS online system for about a day because of a screw up when allocating memory within the CICS region.
About 300 branches were not happy.....
I'm wondering how these thieves are planning to sell these consoles? Even with the info that X number of them probably don't work they still need to get rid of them.
Door to door? Sell them on Ebay, although that might raise some red flags......
I was in Kay-Bee stores a few days ago Christmas shopping with my wife when I saw of these.
I was tempted, tempted, I tell you! But the lack of a keypad turned me away. I'll just have to be satisfied with dragging out my original intellivsion whenever the retro gaming bug bites me.
Pay no attention to the trolls.....
I live in nearby Frankfort, IN and voted last week.
Clinton county is also using those big suitcases with push button you describe. Dunno if the e-voting software Boone county used was used here as well.
It's more like intimidation and fear mongering by the RIAA......
I work for a midwestern car manufacturer that has about 2400 employees where I'm a salaried developer in their IT department.
Back in 1999 and 2000 I got around a $4k bonus before taxes. The bonuses for salaried and management was determined by some kind of formula HR devised. I think all the hourly workers got something like $1k-$1.5k.
However, in the past couple of years my bonus has dropped to around 1K and this year we might not get one at all if you believe the rumors......
Are there any sites out there that have performed comparisons of all the WW2 FPS's that have been released in the last couple of years?
The only two I have actually played are BF1942 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, so it would be interesting to see a comparison before buying another.
I have cousins who have also swore that they have seen 2+ foot long rats in Kokomo. Only this was over at Foster park near the city pool......
Mysterious Kokomo Hum
I grew up near Kokomo and still have relatives that live there. However none of them have ever complained of the hum.
I take all of these system building articles with a grain of salt, especially when it picks specific video cards, processors etc.
Most people usually don't have the $ for the 'latest and greatest' hardware. And by the time they can afford the lastest whiz-bang video card, it's already outdated.
Well I managed to grab the WinXP version of Firebird 0.7 at home before leaving for work this morning. With the recent slashdotting it might be a while before a grab the new version for my work machine.
The 'new' home page for 0.7 is pretty much lacking in useful information. It has no install notes or instructions like with previous builds. I assume I should just delete my old Firebird directory and profile and start new like with older builds, but this is not spelled out anywhere on the new page. Pretty much just an advertisement for people looking to switch from IE.
I've been using AVG anti-virus Free edition on my WinXP machine at home for a couple months now. It seems to work OK for a 'bare bones' virus checker.
Try it at: AVG Anti-Virus
What exactly is a 'massive Joe job'?
Waaaayyy back in 1987-89 while attending Indiana State University and getting my B.S. in Computer Science I got the opportunity to co-op for three semesters at Crane Naval Weapons Center near Bloomington Indiana.
It was a pretty interesting experience. The place was huge! Once I got thru the front gate I had another 5 mile drive thru rolling hills and woods before getting to building in which I worked.
I actually don't remember much of what I did, most of it was maintenance on old COBOL based systems the DoD used for inventory management within the Navy. The people I worked with were pretty cool though. Used to have some mean games of spades with some mathematician/statistics guys during lunch.
One of the oddest things was the overtime pay. In the fall my manager would come to me and say "Do you want to work some overtime? We have this overtime budget that we need to spend or we won't get approved for it next year." So regardless of what my workload was (usually pretty light) I would work a few Saturdays here and there for the extra $.
They offered me a full time position upon graducation, but the pay rate just wasn't there. Besides there were a lot of rumors floating about that the base was going to close or the operations like the IT dept. getting moved somewhere else.
Something tells me that the following quote has been changed from the original story.
'even lenses peeping on jail buttfuckings in Tennessee and Louisiana.'
You know, these redundant posts of the entire article that have some word of phrase replaced to make it a troll are becoming quite fun. Sort of like Where's Waldo? for the /. crowd.
Here's the offending phrase from the above article:
"It's not something that you would set up as the default, so that every document I would create is rights management protected," he said. "Rob Malda is practically a penis eating machine, and it's important that you make a choice to apply rights management to a document for very specific reasons."
I work in a truly 'open office' environment. It's a midwest car manufacturer owned by the Japanese, and they pretty much brought their office 'concepts' over with them.
No cubicles or walls, just quadrants of desks in a huge room. Even the president and senior-level managers have their desks out in the open just like everyone else.
Fortunately, the IT dept. is on a different floor and doesn't have to really share space with other departments, even though we still use the quadrant system. I got lucky in that I have a corner quadrant and my back is to the wall. Also I work with some great people. Working in this kind of office you really get a chance to hone your concentration skills, because there are lots of times where you need to 'turn out' what is going on around you in order to get some actual work done.
Hear! Hear! I couldn't have said it better myself. I think my pastor summed his philosphy about converting people to Christianity pretty well with the statement: "I'd rather love a person into heaven than scare them out of hell."
My wife used to take Immitrex for migraines, until she discovered that it was a side-effect of her birth control pills that seemed to be causing the migraines.
Her GYN had her try a couple different birth control prescriptions (different brand, smaller doses, etc.) and she has gone from 1-2 migraines a month to maybe 1-2 a year. It was a godsend to her, not to mention a lot cheaper without Immitrex!
Same thing here, except I injured my left knee while playing football in high school. I can most always tell when a change in the weather is coming.....
Maybe MS itself launced this new worm to 'force' infected and/or un-patched machines to apply their patches?
This is a somewhat timely topic for me. This past weekend I took my 6 1/2 year old soon to good 'ole WalMart so he could get a GBA game.
What an exercise in frustration. He would have nothing to do with my and oldest son's (he's 12) suggestion of Golden Sun, Metroid Prime, etc. Instead he was fixated on some Yu-Gi-Oh game, which I eventually gave into. He seems to enjoy it though.
But I completely agree with most of the GBA selection being simply sequels of each other......