I believe they LET / ASKED him to keep donating after the usual Age cut off date because they needed his blood and he was a very good producer of what they needed. But he finally reached the age where even the blood bank said "yeah nah Maaaaaaate! thanks! been wonderful, but we really don't want to kill you so this is your last"
I like the idea! Although... I don't know.. there is something scratching at the back of my brain trying to tell me this would be highly unethical! I'm unsure why i feel that way! Greater humans than I would have to debate that question!
Brilliant idea!... I mean, humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years without Air Conditioning!... it was only in the last 100 years or so that we have been installing AC in buildings. This is a totally inspired solution!.
Civilian GPS equipment is actually designed to cut out above a certain velocity and altitude. Generally the velocities and altitudes involved in weapons delivery applications. This is, of course, designed to prevent somebody building an ultra cheap Balistic Missile guided by GPS OR an ultra fast rocket propelled missile guided by GPS. Go too fast OR too high and your guidance goes from accurate to estimate to guesstimate to "ooh, look at the flowers"
You probably want to steer well clear of Grand Theft auto as well. Roller coaster Tycoon might be one to invest in Or Open Transport Tycoon Flight Simulator X could also be reasonably innocent.
I read this as EA saying something like: "Our head decision maker likes playing first person shooters and doesn't give a toss about games with well thought out storys. This game is being pivoted from the single player story line based game play to online first person shooter team combat"
Sure it talks about porn sites. Which a large proportion of/. readers PROBABLY[0] access. But apart from that, this is nothing to do with tech news etc..
Oh wait.. I'm living in the Naughties[1] back when Slashdot cared about relevance.
[0]Okay Okay Petal. Not you. I know you don't access porn. I'm talking about the OTHER group of/. readers [1] You know, 2000 to 2010.
You have to admit, though. 10,000 1 container boats would be really inefficient and would totally foul up a port. Make a really trippy Real time plot on a map though.
The Plural of Lego is not Legos, It's Lego Bricks.
I cannot find the official link on their web page but the following link points points to a number of discussions and official Lego announcements and requests. http://english.stackexchange.c...
Now the following is juts my personal reaction to the use of LEGOs. The Plural of Lego is Lego. In the same way that the plural of a Sheep is Sheep. You don't hear somebody say "I'm going to round up my Sheeps" you hear them saying "I'm going to round up my sheep" (Actually, you probably hear them say "I'm going to round up the flock" But that doesn't help my argument)
i know that you have to wait some time before you connect me to a real male technician, so lets talk about us while we wait time to pass" (and other stupid things like that). The problem is that this thing may me o.k. between Greeks but i doubt it will be o.k. in many other countries.
"Excuse me Sir, can you confirm that you just asked to be connected to a Real Male Technician?, Thank you, **tappity tap** , In line with our terms and conditions we have cancelled your service with us. We don't accept customers who are Misogynistic Obnoxious Pigs, All our technicians are trained to the same exacting standards and gender plays no part in the level of service a customer will receive from our support desk. Thank you for being our customer and we hope you have better luck with your next choice of service provider" **PLONK**
As an Australian, I am bitterly disappointed in my Government. Whilst the rest of the world is ramping up their climate protection measures, our government is ramping up their BIG Industry protection measures. This is the same government that believes that wind farms are an ugly blight on the landscape (and attempting to block many new farms) whilst allowing large coal mines to go ahead. Because a very quiet white propeller on a pole making no pollution is much more horrible to look at that a giant hole in the ground with dozens of house sized trucks dragging out overburden and dumping it in a giant dirty pile.
If you are worried about your access to coal is going to be reduced because your own Government is closing coal mines, don't worry! you can just come and buy a freighter load of coal for less than it costs to remove it from the ground!. And again, don't worry! the trucks used to extract the coal will have all the modern pollution preventing technologies applied to them.. so the environment will be protected.
Outside of the government there is an enormous ground swell of alternative energy research and technologies being installed by Joe Average in their own house.. Much to the governments disgust
I was on an overnight train between Cairo and Aswan in Egypt a couple of years ago. My passport was in my Pocket.. nice and safe. The passport of one of my traveling companions was in their backpack, on the shelf above their seat. In the morning they disocvered it gone. During the night, when we sleep, sombody had rifled through her bag and taken the passport and a few other things. (cant remember what else was taken).
The passport is the one thing you can loose when traveling that is going to cause serious inconvienence. without it you cant prove who you are. (Some non first world countries dont even ACCEPT non passport identification. so dont go trying to show off your drivers license issued in your home country.. )
Heating Material, any material, up to 420C, takes a large amount of energy and thus expense. If you can develop a microbe that will perform this operation without the massive amount of input energy then you can save a lot of money. I'm unsure what the time costs are but there would be an argument that throwing a microbe into a vat of Gold Chrloide for a week COULD be cheaper than the heat cycle.
In fact the little pieces of plastic are apparently microscopic pieces of plastic suspended in the entire water column over a vast area of ocean. The author, from the documentary above, mentioned that he (she?) travelled to the alleged area to see the plastic and then learnt about the lack of visible suspended solids AND the problem with the local sea life drinking the water and filtering the plastic particles into their own systems.
Probably the best way is to be popular within the group or at least NOT unpopular. As a popular person, your manager will see you as sombody who gets along with everybody else. This is espeically important in a "Star Team" group where all members are performing brilliantly. The manager will look at the people who get along and rate them higher than the people who are a little different. The manager will grade down the 'unpopular' staff because they always seem to be in conflict or the naysayers or such.
The above was my personal experience. I learnt pretty quickly in my career that I didnt really "fit in". whilst I got the work done I always got lower gradings on these kinds of things.
I would like to say that its something you can change but often its not somethign you can conciously change. Its your personality. it's who you are. there is no real changing of that. The reality is probably that the only way you could improve your rateing is move to a department where there are people less popular than you.
Hmm. wow that sounds really dodgey, doesnt it!:) Excuse me, I have to go and put in a job application that's just come up on the companys internal job board.
Why not install a content filtering system such as Webmarshal or another inbound web filtering program.
Use group policies to force the use of a proxy and make this machine the proxy machine. Then you set the rules on the WebMarshal box to what you want. You can install a virus scanner and such.
I use webmarshal in my enviroment, and whilst its not the greatest. (It IS a big brother monitoring device), it keeps my systems clean and protected from viruses and trojans and other illicit content that enters a company through the web.
The cost of hardware and software is probably similar to or significantly less than the cost of a citrix server and licenses.
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That is a really insightfull view of the situation. I think we need to closely consider this.
I believe they LET / ASKED him to keep donating after the usual Age cut off date because they needed his blood and he was a very good producer of what they needed. But he finally reached the age where even the blood bank said "yeah nah Maaaaaaate! thanks! been wonderful, but we really don't want to kill you so this is your last"
I like the idea! Although... I don't know.. there is something scratching at the back of my brain trying to tell me this would be highly unethical! I'm unsure why i feel that way! Greater humans than I would have to debate that question!
Brilliant idea!... I mean, humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years without Air Conditioning!... it was only in the last 100 years or so that we have been installing AC in buildings.
This is a totally inspired solution!.
Civilian GPS equipment is actually designed to cut out above a certain velocity and altitude. Generally the velocities and altitudes involved in weapons delivery applications. This is, of course, designed to prevent somebody building an ultra cheap Balistic Missile guided by GPS OR an ultra fast rocket propelled missile guided by GPS. Go too fast OR too high and your guidance goes from accurate to estimate to guesstimate to "ooh, look at the flowers"
I don't know. Could use more synergy.
What DOES synergy taste like?
You probably want to steer well clear of Grand Theft auto as well.
Roller coaster Tycoon might be one to invest in
Or Open Transport Tycoon
Flight Simulator X could also be reasonably innocent.
I read this as EA saying something like:
"Our head decision maker likes playing first person shooters and doesn't give a toss about games with well thought out storys. This game is being pivoted from the single player story line based game play to online first person shooter team combat"
Do Humans count as parasites? Maybe humans will be wiped out.
Wait.. what? How is this even on /.
Sure it talks about porn sites. Which a large proportion of /. readers PROBABLY[0] access. But apart from that, this is nothing to do with tech news etc..
Oh wait.. I'm living in the Naughties[1] back when Slashdot cared about relevance.
[0]Okay Okay Petal. Not you. I know you don't access porn. I'm talking about the OTHER group of /. readers
[1] You know, 2000 to 2010.
You have to admit, though. 10,000 1 container boats would be really inefficient and would totally foul up a port. Make a really trippy Real time plot on a map though.
That should, of course, have read "The following is JUST my personal" not "juts me personal"
The Plural of Lego is not Legos, It's Lego Bricks.
I cannot find the official link on their web page but the following link points points to a number of discussions and official Lego announcements and requests.
http://english.stackexchange.c...
Now the following is juts my personal reaction to the use of LEGOs.
The Plural of Lego is Lego. In the same way that the plural of a Sheep is Sheep. You don't hear somebody say "I'm going to round up my Sheeps" you hear them saying "I'm going to round up my sheep" (Actually, you probably hear them say "I'm going to round up the flock" But that doesn't help my argument)
It doesn't even have to be a $5 wrench. You will be surprised how effective a 50cm long length of scrap ReBar is in the negotiation process.
i know that you have to wait some time before you connect me to a real male technician, so lets talk about us while we wait time to pass" (and other stupid things like that). The problem is that this thing may me o.k. between Greeks but i doubt it will be o.k. in many other countries.
"Excuse me Sir, can you confirm that you just asked to be connected to a Real Male Technician?, Thank you, **tappity tap** , In line with our terms and conditions we have cancelled your service with us. We don't accept customers who are Misogynistic Obnoxious Pigs, All our technicians are trained to the same exacting standards and gender plays no part in the level of service a customer will receive from our support desk. Thank you for being our customer and we hope you have better luck with your next choice of service provider"
**PLONK**
As an Australian, I am bitterly disappointed in my Government. Whilst the rest of the world is ramping up their climate protection measures, our government is ramping up their BIG Industry protection measures. This is the same government that believes that wind farms are an ugly blight on the landscape (and attempting to block many new farms) whilst allowing large coal mines to go ahead. Because a very quiet white propeller on a pole making no pollution is much more horrible to look at that a giant hole in the ground with dozens of house sized trucks dragging out overburden and dumping it in a giant dirty pile.
If you are worried about your access to coal is going to be reduced because your own Government is closing coal mines, don't worry! you can just come and buy a freighter load of coal for less than it costs to remove it from the ground!. And again, don't worry! the trucks used to extract the coal will have all the modern pollution preventing technologies applied to them.. so the environment will be protected.
Outside of the government there is an enormous ground swell of alternative energy research and technologies being installed by Joe Average in their own house.. Much to the governments disgust
I was on an overnight train between Cairo and Aswan in Egypt a couple of years ago. My passport was in my Pocket.. nice and safe. The passport of one of my traveling companions was in their backpack, on the shelf above their seat. In the morning they disocvered it gone. During the night, when we sleep, sombody had rifled through her bag and taken the passport and a few other things. (cant remember what else was taken).
The passport is the one thing you can loose when traveling that is going to cause serious inconvienence. without it you cant prove who you are. (Some non first world countries dont even ACCEPT non passport identification. so dont go trying to show off your drivers license issued in your home country.. )
Damn right!.. I use that one as well. Everybody[1] keeps telling us that the password must be secret. So I made it secret.
[1] The Royal Everybody.
Star Wars VII: Still Hoping ?
Heating Material, any material, up to 420C, takes a large amount of energy and thus expense. If you can develop a microbe that will perform this operation without the massive amount of input energy then you can save a lot of money. I'm unsure what the time costs are but there would be an argument that throwing a microbe into a vat of Gold Chrloide for a week COULD be cheaper than the heat cycle.
In fact the little pieces of plastic are apparently microscopic pieces of plastic suspended in the entire water column over a vast area of ocean.
The author, from the documentary above, mentioned that he (she?) travelled to the alleged area to see the plastic and then learnt about the lack of visible suspended solids AND the problem with the local sea life drinking the water and filtering the plastic particles into their own systems.
Probably the best way is to be popular within the group or at least NOT unpopular. As a popular person, your manager will see you as sombody who gets along with everybody else. This is espeically important in a "Star Team" group where all members are performing brilliantly. The manager will look at the people who get along and rate them higher than the people who are a little different. The manager will grade down the 'unpopular' staff because they always seem to be in conflict or the naysayers or such.
The above was my personal experience. I learnt pretty quickly in my career that I didnt really "fit in". whilst I got the work done I always got lower gradings on these kinds of things.
I would like to say that its something you can change but often its not somethign you can conciously change. Its your personality. it's who you are. there is no real changing of that. The reality is probably that the only way you could improve your rateing is move to a department where there are people less popular than you.
Hmm. wow that sounds really dodgey, doesnt it! :) Excuse me, I have to go and put in a job application that's just come up on the companys internal job board.
Why not install a content filtering system such as Webmarshal or another inbound web filtering program.
Use group policies to force the use of a proxy and make this machine the proxy machine.
Then you set the rules on the WebMarshal box to what you want. You can install a virus scanner and such.
I use webmarshal in my enviroment, and whilst its not the greatest. (It IS a big brother monitoring device), it keeps my systems clean and protected from viruses and trojans and other illicit content that enters a company through the web.
The cost of hardware and software is probably similar to or significantly less than the cost of a citrix server and licenses.