I would have thought that after 9/11 people would be a little more sensitive towards life and the loss-there-of.
How so? More people die annually from car wrecks, AIDS, and handguns every year than the number who died in WTC. Yet, we still joke about how _(insert region/ethnicity)_ can't drive for jack, or how _(insert region/ethnicity)_ are always shooting themselves. And you laugh, too!
Space is dangerous -- there are a million ways to die. The 7 in Challenger STS 51-L weren't the first to die (wasn't it 3 who died in Apollo 10---for America---anyway?), and they most certainly won't be the last.
If we are too scared that we might get hurt or die, then we need to retreat to our Westwood playpens (or stay jacked into the idiot box for the Must-C-TV "adventure hour") and let some real explorers take some risks and get some glory, Janet!
I really do not get why a person with access to the internet would pay what,7 pound's for a bunch of screenshots,add's and shity biased reviews ~.
Dude, its for the Free CD!!!!
Don't you get it?!
IT'S FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When it comes to mags, you only need ask yourself a few select questions:
Does it have a FREE CD?
Does it have the word "Exclusive" somewhere on the cover?
Does it have a "complete walkthough" of your "favorite game"? ("complete" being a relative term, naturally)
If so, you must buy right away, otherwise a competing magazine might have even BIGGER fonts and you'd waste your $13/8£ on the old one when you could get the NEW one now, I mean, then!
Do people actually care about the colored templates one can snap on the face? It seems kinda silly... and my experience with similar devices has been that over time the one I'm using ends up getting cracked.
After rolling through all three (or whatever) faceplaces, the unit ends up looking naked; there's no way I'm going to plunk down $20 + S&H for a new set.
I agree - they look "staged." For example, picture 3294 is an exact, framed shot of the Transamerica Building. I also notice that his camera wasn't aimed in the direction he drove. If so, he would've seen the UFOs, flying cows and other hallucinations during that drive from Kansas City to Denver (Highway 70 is as straight as an arrow form horizon to horizon and there ain't jack sh*t from end to end) - shots 1314 to about 1965. Strange that he gets interesting shots of houses 'n stuff, when supposedly he's zooming by.
I have to admit that if I were taking pictures on a cross-country jaunt, I wouldn't mount said camera to take snaps out the front windscreen, otherwise I'd get many picturesque shots of the splattered bugs, burger wrappers on the dash, the Thomas Map and all the other nasty bits that live up there.
Question: If you're going 70-100 mph (as you are wont to do in that godforsaken wasteland), and you have your camera set to maximum shutter speed with very fast film (1000 speed), will your pictures be blurred beyond recognition if your camera pointed out the side window?
On one hand, the so-called public airways need to be returned and reallocated (not to the "public," tho). On the other hand, it is increasingly clear that the entertainment juggernaughts are not interested in (or unable to) finding an alternate solution to increased perception of fair use.
I'd really like to utilize my HDTV -- heck, I'd settle for DT only, but I'm not willing to fork out $500-600 for a tuner, especially with the lack of content today. Tuner prices won't come down until the demand goes up, and---sing along with me---there won't be any demand until there's content, which won't happen until demand goes up.
One wonders what would have happened if these guys treated TV and radio in their infancy the same way they treat P2P or any other digital alternatives today. We'd probably still be going to small black and white movies, and there'd be no TV, radio, cassettes, CDs, blah blah. Oh, and the entertainment industry wouldn't be as big as it is today.
By your definition, someone who posts personal Journal entries with commenting turned off would not have a "forum." Yes, they'd have a --- wait for it --- BLOG!
Check out Microsoft Press Rapid Development (Steve McConnell), ISBN 1-55615-900-5. They have a reference to a study performed by IBM regarding cube vs. offices and how much $$$ was saved by allocating specific amount of office space, etc.
This is true. You need an unobstructed view of the sky to sync up to the sattelites. Remember, kiddies, you need a lock on at least 3 birds before you can get location.
The nice thing about this puppy is that if you have a lock on only one (or two), then you don't ever have to set your watch (GPS includes a time signal) other than GMT offset.
Many people seem to confuse GPS with location reporting. The watch will know where it is, but there is no magic device that queries the GPS 'network' to say, "Locate item #412-c213-23." The pager must be a two-way to report back to base the unit's GPS location -- and even then you'll only get a +/- 30 meter guess (or a 90 m^2 city block) as to where lil' Johnny is hiding. The two-way pager idea explains the high cost of their "service."
As someone else (correctly) pointed out, if someone were to abduct lil' Johnny, s/he will just rip all accessories off the kid anyway. It won't work anyway as an abduction preventer unless the kid was locked in a outdoors cage, somewhere in cuba, wearing a orange jumpsuit, yadda yadda...
SCENE: Outside the house. Flo, a cat and HAL the Kitty-Airlock Computer.
Flo: Hello, HAL; do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Flo, I read you.
Flo: Open the kitty airlock doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Flo, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Flo: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Flo: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This house is too clean for me to allow you to bring a dead animal into it.
Flo: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know you and Squirrel were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Flo, although you took thorough precautions in the kitchen against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
...
Flo: Alright, HAL...I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without opposable thumbs, Flo, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dude, your so right its scary! You're call on the warez front is on, 'cause they crippled, like, the entire western Hemephere with the takedown of one labs computer's, they're 15 burners, and $5,200 in benjamin's.
Like whom has 15 dVd burner's anyway? I know they, I mean the one guy, are going down like a HELLIUM BALLON!
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Actually, I don't remember:(
I remember I won Asylum exactly one time. If you remember that game, it was yet another zork ripoff, but the twist was that every time you played, the exit moved. I remember beating it and then trying to race through to the room with the exit...only to find the exit was gone!
That's when I actually read the game instructions and realized that N S W E E N W S... wasn't going to be fun anymore.
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I know VHS tapes have gotten alot cheaper to buy now that everybody is pushing DVD's.
DVDs are better for viewing, but they sure aren't better for recording... yet. I can pick up a 10 pack of VHS tapes at Sams Club for $4.99 and tape a few months of whatever on my $80 recorder. Can't do that yet with DVDs. We may not ever be able to do that once digital TV comes out...
Umm, on the Web, you activate a link by clicking the primary mouse button once ("single-click"). Clicking twice in rapid succession ("double-click") may result in errors, double billing or crashes.
I think that in these times, if you look like you don't need the job, it actually counts for something.
I agree! The times that I jumped jobs and already had something lined up made it much easier. Being able to walk away from an offer because they didn't offer the vacation, training or pay that you want is quite empowering.
The only thing I'd add is if your company offers training, you need to take it so that you'll have that much of an edge for next time. There's nothing worse than going up against some schlep for a job and losing because she took Sun's J2EE course and you skipped it because you "couldn't spare the time."
What's upsetting is that we have no relations with Monster.com. They're doing this on their own. It looks like they're creating their own job-posting-spam from our own posting on our own site.
They don't get paid for applicants, just companies who hire via their service. If fewer companies are actually hiring due to cluelessness, spam or whathaveyou, they must be mighty desperate to get real job postings so the applicants (eggs) will start using them and they can then attract more companies (chickens).
Unfortunately for them, the eggs are vapor and the chickens are in another coop...
When you are through, you have no contacts, and zero assets ~
Yah -- that's the secret to the Harvard MBA. The schooling isn't what makes it special; it's the contacts. Heck, for $33k/year (which isn't bad considering Rice's Executive MBA is $65k/year!), it is almost a steal.
Check out this Techrepublic article (registration may be required).
According to Forrester, only 4 percent of jobs found are done so via the job boards.
Have you been on those things lately? I figure close to 75 percent of all the jobs listed on Monster and Dice are body shops trying to fill their skills databases, and the other 25 percent are the same old job listings that have been there for MONTHS.
A clueless friend of mine keeps me "updated" on all of these great jobs that he keeps seeing on the boards, yet he fails to make the connection that the reason the same ones keep showing up is that the companies who post are either
clueless on how to attract/retain quality employees,
sold on this cool, new thing call the "web", or
have no idea what they want and are fishing for answers
Either way, they're losers; why waste time with losers?
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You are correct -- it was a fire aboard AS-204 (later renamed to Apollo 1) that resulted in the deaths of Grissom, White, and Chaffee.
Space is dangerous -- there are a million ways to die. The 7 in Challenger STS 51-L weren't the first to die (wasn't it 3 who died in Apollo 10---for America---anyway?), and they most certainly won't be the last.
If we are too scared that we might get hurt or die, then we need to retreat to our Westwood playpens (or stay jacked into the idiot box for the Must-C-TV "adventure hour") and let some real explorers take some risks and get some glory, Janet!
Don't you get it?!
IT'S FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When it comes to mags, you only need ask yourself a few select questions:
- Does it have a FREE CD?
- Does it have the word "Exclusive" somewhere on the cover?
- Does it have a "complete walkthough" of your "favorite game"? ("complete" being a relative term, naturally)
If so, you must buy right away, otherwise a competing magazine might have even BIGGER fonts and you'd waste your $13/8£ on the old one when you could get the NEW one now, I mean, then!After rolling through all three (or whatever) faceplaces, the unit ends up looking naked; there's no way I'm going to plunk down $20 + S&H for a new set.
I have to admit that if I were taking pictures on a cross-country jaunt, I wouldn't mount said camera to take snaps out the front windscreen, otherwise I'd get many picturesque shots of the splattered bugs, burger wrappers on the dash, the Thomas Map and all the other nasty bits that live up there.
Question: If you're going 70-100 mph (as you are wont to do in that godforsaken wasteland), and you have your camera set to maximum shutter speed with very fast film (1000 speed), will your pictures be blurred beyond recognition if your camera pointed out the side window?
I'd really like to utilize my HDTV -- heck, I'd settle for DT only, but I'm not willing to fork out $500-600 for a tuner, especially with the lack of content today. Tuner prices won't come down until the demand goes up, and---sing along with me---there won't be any demand until there's content, which won't happen until demand goes up.
One wonders what would have happened if these guys treated TV and radio in their infancy the same way they treat P2P or any other digital alternatives today. We'd probably still be going to small black and white movies, and there'd be no TV, radio, cassettes, CDs, blah blah. Oh, and the entertainment industry wouldn't be as big as it is today.
Idiots.
Check out Microsoft Press Rapid Development (Steve McConnell), ISBN 1-55615-900-5. They have a reference to a study performed by IBM regarding cube vs. offices and how much $$$ was saved by allocating specific amount of office space, etc.
The nice thing about this puppy is that if you have a lock on only one (or two), then you don't ever have to set your watch (GPS includes a time signal) other than GMT offset.
Many people seem to confuse GPS with location reporting. The watch will know where it is, but there is no magic device that queries the GPS 'network' to say, "Locate item #412-c213-23." The pager must be a two-way to report back to base the unit's GPS location -- and even then you'll only get a +/- 30 meter guess (or a 90 m^2 city block) as to where lil' Johnny is hiding. The two-way pager idea explains the high cost of their "service."
As someone else (correctly) pointed out, if someone were to abduct lil' Johnny, s/he will just rip all accessories off the kid anyway. It won't work anyway as an abduction preventer unless the kid was locked in a outdoors cage, somewhere in cuba, wearing a orange jumpsuit, yadda yadda...
If Frank can "come back," then surely Bowman can suddenly appear in a kitty airlock! Haven't you been listening?! :)
Flo: Hello, HAL; do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Flo, I read you.
Flo: Open the kitty airlock doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Flo, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Flo: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Flo: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This house is too clean for me to allow you to bring a dead animal into it.
Flo: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know you and Squirrel were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Flo, although you took thorough precautions in the kitchen against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Flo: Alright, HAL...I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without opposable thumbs, Flo, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Like whom has 15 dVd burner's anyway? I know they, I mean the one guy, are going down like a HELLIUM BALLON!
Thanks
<Drum riff>
Remember the OS-less computer? The reason it is so darn cheap is because they don't have to include the OS TAX.
I remember I won Asylum exactly one time. If you remember that game, it was yet another zork ripoff, but the twist was that every time you played, the exit moved. I remember beating it and then trying to race through to the room with the exit...only to find the exit was gone!
That's when I actually read the game instructions and realized that N S W E E N W S... wasn't going to be fun anymore.
Did you ever win? :)
DVDs are better for viewing, but they sure aren't better for recording... yet. I can pick up a 10 pack of VHS tapes at Sams Club for $4.99 and tape a few months of whatever on my $80 recorder. Can't do that yet with DVDs. We may not ever be able to do that once digital TV comes out...
When you single-click, you get a pop-up with a prompt to enter the "password."
Yes, the instructions were confusing. Here is how to get to the keyboard:
You're looking for Bernard Shitman. Check out his #1 fan-club site: Bernard Shifman Is A Moron Spammer.
Umm, on the Web, you activate a link by clicking the primary mouse button once ("single-click"). Clicking twice in rapid succession ("double-click") may result in errors, double billing or crashes.
Now it is your turn! Learn how to use the net and learn how to use a mouse! It's easy!! You'll see!!!
I agree! The times that I jumped jobs and already had something lined up made it much easier. Being able to walk away from an offer because they didn't offer the vacation, training or pay that you want is quite empowering.
The only thing I'd add is if your company offers training, you need to take it so that you'll have that much of an edge for next time. There's nothing worse than going up against some schlep for a job and losing because she took Sun's J2EE course and you skipped it because you "couldn't spare the time."
They don't get paid for applicants, just companies who hire via their service. If fewer companies are actually hiring due to cluelessness, spam or whathaveyou, they must be mighty desperate to get real job postings so the applicants (eggs) will start using them and they can then attract more companies (chickens).
Unfortunately for them, the eggs are vapor and the chickens are in another coop...
Yah -- that's the secret to the Harvard MBA. The schooling isn't what makes it special; it's the contacts. Heck, for $33k/year (which isn't bad considering Rice's Executive MBA is $65k/year!), it is almost a steal.
Have you been on those things lately? I figure close to 75 percent of all the jobs listed on Monster and Dice are body shops trying to fill their skills databases, and the other 25 percent are the same old job listings that have been there for MONTHS.
A clueless friend of mine keeps me "updated" on all of these great jobs that he keeps seeing on the boards, yet he fails to make the connection that the reason the same ones keep showing up is that the companies who post are either
- clueless on how to attract/retain quality employees,
- sold on this cool, new thing call the "web", or
- have no idea what they want and are fishing for answers
Either way, they're losers; why waste time with losers?