Now I don't have to worry about forgetting to bring home the RSA token for my company's VPN. I can just leave it under the keyboard with all my password post-its!
Preignition they can solve with the direct injection, but there are other problems with "diesel like" on gasoline. To get the diesel like efficiency, the point is to run a very lean mixture. For gasoline, this results in excessive heat and increase in oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust. So to make this work they'll have to keep it from melting pistons and keep emissions down. And good luck to them as these have always been the fundamental challenges of gasoline engines.
Every time my promotion expires and I have to play the threaten-to-cancel game, I tell them, "I will not pay more than $100/month for TV and Internet". So I don't care how they cap or meter the service. If I don't get what I want for $100 or less, I'm gone. Period.
Verizon's phone/DSL/DirectTV bundle is less than that, so I'm being pretty generous.
When I worked helpdesk, the metric was call length. Workers figured out that if a call went too long, just hang up on the next call immediately. Or the next two calls if it was way too long. I used to watch people do this: Ring. Click. Ring. Click. Ring. "Hello..."
Ever wonder why you can sit on hold for 20 minutes and then have your call dropped? That's why.
I refused to do this and was rewarded by having my headset taken away and getting my lunch break at the end of my shift.
Doesn't matter. By the time I get it, it will have the corporate Windows XP image installed with the admin account locked out, all the wrong drivers, and an antivirus running full disk scans 24 hours a day. Oh how I wish I could disconnect from the company "IT" department.
But the third party has every right to go to the school and make this kind of arrangement. "Help us collect or we won't do business with your students."
Might even result in lower interest rates for students, since the risk to the lender is lower.
When I walk into my storage room, I want full brightness right-fucking-now. The technology to do that has been around for 133 years, so I'm not asking for something unreasonable. Yeah, you can get full brightness in a couple of seconds in your living room. An unconditioned basement takes a lot longer. A sub-freezing garage takes several minutes. In the dead of winter, outside CFL's run about 1/2 brightness all the time.
Anyways, I was trying to be funny. If I want to complain about something, it'll be about the government telling me what kind of light bulb I'm allowed to use. Or mandating gas cans that leak everywhere. Or toilets that won't flush.
If I'm going in and out of my basement laundry/utility room, I just leave the lights on all the time because I'm sick of waiting for the CFL's to warm enough that I can see. So they end up on for whole weekends at a time. Sometimes convenience is more important than efficiency.
It would be great if somebody could invent an inexpensive light bulb that went to full brightness instantly, even if it used more electricity during the short time it was in use. Maybe something with a heated incandescent filament instead of a fluorescing gas. I would buy something like that if it was available.
Okay, go back and read the comments for yourself. Whenever the "Ribbon" comes up in a discussion, more than half here seem to think it's a dandy idea. It leaves me wondering if I clicked the wrong bookmark and I'm actually reading a Microsoft forum.
Funny how slashdotters in general applaud Microsoft for completely throwing out the concept of menus, and then slam Ubuntu for moving the minimize button to the other side of the window. Which IS easily configurable. I don't remember how, because it took like 2 seconds the first time I logged in.
"Programmers in their 40s have wives, kids, and hobbies, and that means they won't put up with the 50-60 hour week bullshit we can get the 20-year-olds to eat."
There's a flip side to that. In my 20's, I could quit on a whim if the boss pissed me off. Now I have a mortgage and a baby on the way. It's like an incentive to work hard and stick around that the company doesn't even have to pay for.
What I'm trying to say is, 200 million sold doesn't equal 200 million who prefer the new look and feel. If we generously say that half of those actually like it, then there's the other half who are using it because it was forced on them. No other company and no other product could get away with that.
But it's moved a lot of people to Open Office because they find it easier to use. And that's a good thing.
I have a bought and paid for licensed copy of Office 2010 in front of me, open right now.
And I hate it.
Everyone I know who uses it does so because it came on their PC or because it's a site license. I have never met anyone in person who actually prefers the Ribbon.
I talked do a doctor about this yesterday. He said that chicken pox is worse in adults mainly because adults complain more than 3 year olds. In his career he's never seen an adult chicken pox case that had complications. He wouldn't even give out the vaccine if it wasn't required by law.
I was having that conversation because my wife and I were just exposed to a child who came down with chicken pox even after being vaccinated. I've never had it and my wife had a bad case as a child but now tests negative for the antibodies.
That way, when you're naked, it's because they told you to take off the coat. How could you be charged with any crime when it was the TSA that forced you into it?
Well I think we got off topic there. Somehow we got on this "republicans should love welfare" thread.
Ah, the contraception debate. What an absolute liberal lie.
Health insurance already covers contraceptives. Republicans aren't trying to change that. Nobody is trying to change that. This "War on Women" has been invented by liberals and media. Find anything that suggests evil republicans are trying to outlaw insurance coverage of birth control.
And that's as crazy as believing that government spending drives an economy. Try this experiment: Reach down, grab your feet, and pick yourself up off the ground. Same concept as the government creating jobs.
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Now I don't have to worry about forgetting to bring home the RSA token for my company's VPN. I can just leave it under the keyboard with all my password post-its!
Preignition they can solve with the direct injection, but there are other problems with "diesel like" on gasoline. To get the diesel like efficiency, the point is to run a very lean mixture. For gasoline, this results in excessive heat and increase in oxides of nitrogen in the exhaust. So to make this work they'll have to keep it from melting pistons and keep emissions down. And good luck to them as these have always been the fundamental challenges of gasoline engines.
Every time my promotion expires and I have to play the threaten-to-cancel game, I tell them, "I will not pay more than $100/month for TV and Internet". So I don't care how they cap or meter the service. If I don't get what I want for $100 or less, I'm gone. Period.
Verizon's phone/DSL/DirectTV bundle is less than that, so I'm being pretty generous.
My parents in rural Montana still have no options for internet and my connection costs more than it did four years ago.
Fail.
Show me some evidence that your precious democrats give a flying fuck about your internet connection.
When I worked helpdesk, the metric was call length. Workers figured out that if a call went too long, just hang up on the next call immediately. Or the next two calls if it was way too long. I used to watch people do this: Ring. Click. Ring. Click. Ring. "Hello..."
Ever wonder why you can sit on hold for 20 minutes and then have your call dropped? That's why.
I refused to do this and was rewarded by having my headset taken away and getting my lunch break at the end of my shift.
Doesn't matter. By the time I get it, it will have the corporate Windows XP image installed with the admin account locked out, all the wrong drivers, and an antivirus running full disk scans 24 hours a day. Oh how I wish I could disconnect from the company "IT" department.
Oh, before I get modded -1 for that, I still think it's a dick move.
But the third party has every right to go to the school and make this kind of arrangement. "Help us collect or we won't do business with your students."
Might even result in lower interest rates for students, since the risk to the lender is lower.
When I walk into my storage room, I want full brightness right-fucking-now. The technology to do that has been around for 133 years, so I'm not asking for something unreasonable. Yeah, you can get full brightness in a couple of seconds in your living room. An unconditioned basement takes a lot longer. A sub-freezing garage takes several minutes. In the dead of winter, outside CFL's run about 1/2 brightness all the time.
Anyways, I was trying to be funny. If I want to complain about something, it'll be about the government telling me what kind of light bulb I'm allowed to use. Or mandating gas cans that leak everywhere. Or toilets that won't flush.
If I'm going in and out of my basement laundry/utility room, I just leave the lights on all the time because I'm sick of waiting for the CFL's to warm enough that I can see. So they end up on for whole weekends at a time. Sometimes convenience is more important than efficiency.
It would be great if somebody could invent an inexpensive light bulb that went to full brightness instantly, even if it used more electricity during the short time it was in use. Maybe something with a heated incandescent filament instead of a fluorescing gas. I would buy something like that if it was available.
But it's still illegal.
Now I have a cheap wireless router and a netbook.
Needs change.
Okay, go back and read the comments for yourself. Whenever the "Ribbon" comes up in a discussion, more than half here seem to think it's a dandy idea. It leaves me wondering if I clicked the wrong bookmark and I'm actually reading a Microsoft forum.
Funny how slashdotters in general applaud Microsoft for completely throwing out the concept of menus, and then slam Ubuntu for moving the minimize button to the other side of the window. Which IS easily configurable. I don't remember how, because it took like 2 seconds the first time I logged in.
I think what they're really saying here is:
"Programmers in their 40s have wives, kids, and hobbies, and that means they won't put up with the 50-60 hour week bullshit we can get the 20-year-olds to eat."
There's a flip side to that. In my 20's, I could quit on a whim if the boss pissed me off. Now I have a mortgage and a baby on the way. It's like an incentive to work hard and stick around that the company doesn't even have to pay for.
Your tinfoil hat is on way too tight.
What I'm trying to say is, 200 million sold doesn't equal 200 million who prefer the new look and feel. If we generously say that half of those actually like it, then there's the other half who are using it because it was forced on them. No other company and no other product could get away with that.
But it's moved a lot of people to Open Office because they find it easier to use. And that's a good thing.
I have a bought and paid for licensed copy of Office 2010 in front of me, open right now.
And I hate it.
Everyone I know who uses it does so because it came on their PC or because it's a site license. I have never met anyone in person who actually prefers the Ribbon.
I talked do a doctor about this yesterday. He said that chicken pox is worse in adults mainly because adults complain more than 3 year olds. In his career he's never seen an adult chicken pox case that had complications. He wouldn't even give out the vaccine if it wasn't required by law.
I was having that conversation because my wife and I were just exposed to a child who came down with chicken pox even after being vaccinated. I've never had it and my wife had a bad case as a child but now tests negative for the antibodies.
That way, when you're naked, it's because they told you to take off the coat. How could you be charged with any crime when it was the TSA that forced you into it?
Well I think we got off topic there. Somehow we got on this "republicans should love welfare" thread.
Ah, the contraception debate. What an absolute liberal lie.
Health insurance already covers contraceptives. Republicans aren't trying to change that. Nobody is trying to change that. This "War on Women" has been invented by liberals and media. Find anything that suggests evil republicans are trying to outlaw insurance coverage of birth control.
People were *clamouring* for an iPhone, but couldn't get it because itw as AT&T exclusive.
I wanted something iPhone like that wasn't an iPhone. Didn't really matter who the carrier was. In fact, I went from AT&T to Verizon to get it.
Now I want my old phone back because I don't trust Android and I'm sick of ads on everything.
Yes. I agree. But nowhere does he say to reach into someone else's pocket and give that to charity.
And that's as crazy as believing that government spending drives an economy. Try this experiment: Reach down, grab your feet, and pick yourself up off the ground. Same concept as the government creating jobs.