There are way too many commenting on the 'you'll destroy your teeth' factor by drinking soda.
The whole teeth thing is a load of shit. You'll do far, far more damage to your teeth by eating candy and not brushing afterwards. The contact time for soda is minimal and there is no residue left behind.
Other brilliant arguments are that Coke dissolves rust. Well actually the phosphates in Coke form a soluble compound with iron and wash the rust away... no acidic action required.
People, stop repeating stuff you heard at a 7th grade science fair... do a bit of research first.
Mmmm... yeah... a PocketPC version would be appreciated on these long Friday afternoons. And it will look like I'm working!
That reminds me of when I was playing Doom on a Kodak DC260 camera.
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As a chemist I enjoyed this book and cursed Sacks for having the opportunities in childhood that I never had:) He grew up in a time of scienfific learning that will never be repeated.
Interestingly he mentions in the book how he lost interest in Chemistry at a certain point. That happens to be one of the points that most undergrads start freaking out and looking for a different major. LOL.
Readers may, like me, start skipping over the parts of the book where Sacks starts wandering away from science and into personal topics. Do we really need to know how his first orgasm came about?
Let's say you get off your bike and as you walk away you get hit by a large truck. Does the inflating jacket save your life?
Or...
Some little shits decide to give you a beating. Does the jacket decide the baseball bat impacts are an accident, inflate the jacket and save your life?
"Cable Companies Despise PVRs"... oh really. My cable co. (Shaw Cable in Canada) is prepping a rollout of PVR/digital cable/VoD devices. I believe they're the Motorola DCTxxxx boxes.
Finally, I have a PVR option that doesn't involve cross-border purchasing of a device that won't even have listings for my local channels. And hopefully I'll get to rent it monthly... which, for me, means I can dump it later for better technology.
Remember their actual cost of employment for you is, on average, 135% of your last wage. You can ask for this much with impunity because they have demonstrated they can pay that amount.
At both my current job and my old job my charge-out rate was 3x my wage. That covered my salary, benefits, insurance and profit for the company.
No slave labour there just hard working people making a good wage.
I watched this documentary about a girl who graduated as a geologist and the first thing she does is go out and find the largest diamond deposit in Canada.
Yup, Agilent is the heart of what was HP especially now that the development arm of the calculator division is gone.
As an undergrad chemist I was "raised" knowing HP (now Agilent) was the holy grail of instrumentation. When you saw that little HP logo on the case you instantly knew you were dealing with quality equipment that wouldn't let you down.
My physics labs had HP power supplies, HP oscilliscopes, HP programmable calculators for electronics labs... even my personal calculator was HP.
Screw Carly. The heart HP is long gone. Now they're just another soulless mega-corporation.
Same here with my ThinkPad i-1460 (a real POS BTW, but that's OT).
HD died and DC connector was loose. Tech guy typed everything I told him (symptoms and troubleshooting) and didn't argue with me. A box arrives the next day, I put the laptop in and shipped it away (IBM prepaid - Air overnight). Less than 48 hours later the laptop is repaired (thanks Solectron!) and in my hands.
IBM EZ-serve (or whatever they called it) warranty service is great. Too bad that ThinkPad wasn't as good...
The RT314 is bullet-proof. My favourite feature is that my PCs need to be given one IP address (and I think a gateway IP) and that's it. The Linksys BEFSR11 I use at work (very small LAN) seems to require that I hardcode the ISPs DNS addresses on each PC.
This is a PITA as our ISP changes DNS IPs about once a year. This week I had to do the 25 minute drive from my office to the other office to change the IPs again.
The CD-R "tax" is not collected at the till. It is actually a levy on CD-R manufacturers/distributors, not on consumers.
Wrong, wrong, wrong...
I have a receipt from a major Canadian chain retail store right here in my hand.
FUJI CDR 700MB 39.95
COPYING LEVY 10.50
*and* I paid GST and PST on that purchase.
There certainly is a "hidden" levy in the media price but there is also a "visible" levy at the till. So at the end of the day I paid *four* taxes on that purchase!
The tax we have here [...] is only on the CDR media specifically for audio. (read: the kind that works with those near-useless standalone CD copying whizmos).
Ummm... I just bought a 50-pk of 700MB Fuji CD-R. Nowhere on the package does it indicate that the CD-Rs are anything else than a data disk (that is, not an "audio" disk).
Yup, this kid always did his laundry on Saturday morning, and he'd use the ironing board there to iron his clothes. And he'd unplug the router to plug in his iron, then plug it back in when he was done.
LOL!! Yes... been there, done that... I set up a new hub and router at one of our offices. A week later I get a call that "email" is down. I travel the 20+ minutes to the office and discover that someone unplugged the router. So... I plug it in, reboot and ask the manager to tell the staff to not touch anything.
A week later the "email" is down again. This time I'm smart and ask them to check first... yup, unplugged router.
It turns out that one of the daytime staff (who also cleans for us after hours) was not only unplugging the router but plugging her EMF spewing vacuum cleaner into the same power bar as the router.
What if we set up the wireless accounts to use corporate bandwidth only after business hours... and the companies wouldn't be giving up any of their 'business critical' bandwidth.
Yeah that's what I need... more grief every morning.
Imagine the emails waiting for me as various persons are wondering why hundreds of hack attempts/Code Red XXI/whatever are coming from our network.
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Since XP has a 10-connection limit it's gonna make a pretty crappy file server in a moderate-use environment...
It took a few more years but I nearly popped a woody when IE3(?) introduced the MARQUEE tag. Now that was cool. ;)
Other brilliant arguments are that Coke dissolves rust. Well actually the phosphates in Coke form a soluble compound with iron and wash the rust away... no acidic action required.
People, stop repeating stuff you heard at a 7th grade science fair... do a bit of research first.
Mmmm... yeah... a PocketPC version would be appreciated on these long Friday afternoons. And it will look like I'm working!
That reminds me of when I was playing Doom on a Kodak DC260 camera.
As a chemist I enjoyed this book and cursed Sacks for having the opportunities in childhood that I never had :) He grew up in a time of scienfific learning that will never be repeated.
Interestingly he mentions in the book how he lost interest in Chemistry at a certain point. That happens to be one of the points that most undergrads start freaking out and looking for a different major. LOL.
Readers may, like me, start skipping over the parts of the book where Sacks starts wandering away from science and into personal topics. Do we really need to know how his first orgasm came about?
My #1 choice for a SF movie is Niven's Ringworld... the first real SF book I ever read.
Let's say you get off your bike and as you walk away you get hit by a large truck. Does the inflating jacket save your life?
Or...
Some little shits decide to give you a beating. Does the jacket decide the baseball bat impacts are an accident, inflate the jacket and save your life?
"Cable Companies Despise PVRs"... oh really. My cable co. (Shaw Cable in Canada) is prepping a rollout of PVR/digital cable/VoD devices. I believe they're the Motorola DCTxxxx boxes.
Finally, I have a PVR option that doesn't involve cross-border purchasing of a device that won't even have listings for my local channels. And hopefully I'll get to rent it monthly... which, for me, means I can dump it later for better technology.
At both my current job and my old job my charge-out rate was 3x my wage. That covered my salary, benefits, insurance and profit for the company.
Has the Phillips copyright expired? I've noticed a few non-copy-protected discs that have no "compact disc" logo...
Did someone name this "planet" after watching the episode of Red Dwarf where Rimmer thinks he's discovered a pod from Quagaar? (sp?)
Or better... since the tool is so naive about "From" addresses send him the email from "president@whitehouse.gov" and in the body say:
"If you ever bother my friend again I'll send a few Secret Service guys to your house and make you disappear like Hoffa. Signed, GWB"
I watched this documentary about a girl who graduated as a geologist and the first thing she does is go out and find the largest diamond deposit in Canada.
I think they said she's worth $13 billion. Ouch!
Yup, Agilent is the heart of what was HP especially now that the development arm of the calculator division is gone.
As an undergrad chemist I was "raised" knowing HP (now Agilent) was the holy grail of instrumentation. When you saw that little HP logo on the case you instantly knew you were dealing with quality equipment that wouldn't let you down.
My physics labs had HP power supplies, HP oscilliscopes, HP programmable calculators for electronics labs... even my personal calculator was HP.
Screw Carly. The heart HP is long gone. Now they're just another soulless mega-corporation.
The fire dudes come to my office once a year and hit the bottom of the extinguisher with a rubber mallet to loosen up the fire retardant...
When the system I built started overheating I had to come in on my weekend off to install additional cooling.
When the Dells we have fail (very rarely, mind you), I get a call at home and I tell the office manager to call Dell.
Guess which option I prefer.
I bitched about the "squashing" on TNN's feedback form. No reply, gee what a surprise.
I mean, what do they think they're doing messing with the fine form of Marina Sirtis? She looks pregnant from some angles now...
Oh yeah... I forgot...
After three phone calls to IBM tech support I spent less than 20 minutes total on hold.
Same here with my ThinkPad i-1460 (a real POS BTW, but that's OT).
HD died and DC connector was loose. Tech guy typed everything I told him (symptoms and troubleshooting) and didn't argue with me. A box arrives the next day, I put the laptop in and shipped it away (IBM prepaid - Air overnight). Less than 48 hours later the laptop is repaired (thanks Solectron!) and in my hands.
IBM EZ-serve (or whatever they called it) warranty service is great. Too bad that ThinkPad wasn't as good...
Yeah... what he said.
The RT314 is bullet-proof. My favourite feature is that my PCs need to be given one IP address (and I think a gateway IP) and that's it. The Linksys BEFSR11 I use at work (very small LAN) seems to require that I hardcode the ISPs DNS addresses on each PC.
This is a PITA as our ISP changes DNS IPs about once a year. This week I had to do the 25 minute drive from my office to the other office to change the IPs again.
F1_Fan
Wrong, wrong, wrong...
I have a receipt from a major Canadian chain retail store right here in my hand.
FUJI CDR 700MB 39.95
COPYING LEVY 10.50
*and* I paid GST and PST on that purchase.
There certainly is a "hidden" levy in the media price but there is also a "visible" levy at the till. So at the end of the day I paid *four* taxes on that purchase!
F1_Fan.
Ummm... I just bought a 50-pk of 700MB Fuji CD-R. Nowhere on the package does it indicate that the CD-Rs are anything else than a data disk (that is, not an "audio" disk).
I paid CAN$10 tax on that purchase of data CDs.
F1_Fan.
LOL!! Yes... been there, done that... I set up a new hub and router at one of our offices. A week later I get a call that "email" is down. I travel the 20+ minutes to the office and discover that someone unplugged the router. So... I plug it in, reboot and ask the manager to tell the staff to not touch anything.
A week later the "email" is down again. This time I'm smart and ask them to check first... yup, unplugged router.
It turns out that one of the daytime staff (who also cleans for us after hours) was not only unplugging the router but plugging her EMF spewing vacuum cleaner into the same power bar as the router.
 
F1_Fan.
Yeah that's what I need... more grief every morning.
Imagine the emails waiting for me as various persons are wondering why hundreds of hack attempts/Code Red XXI/whatever are coming from our network.
 
F1_Fan.
Ditto. Next US/Japan battle... Iron Chef CmdrTaco? Who cares if his cooking is limited to KD, he'd have the coolest name ever on the show.