Shoulda checked before posting, although that was my recollection.
The shuttle turns over so the crew can see the horizon and have a visual frame of reference if they needed to take over manual control without instrumentation in case of an abort. Sitting on top of the external tank they wouldn't know where they were.
Little plastic or metal figurines. Once the original has been designed, you just churn them out by the millions. Most are just derivations of older designs anyway.
Exactly. I got into Linux late in the game but once did was hooked by the almost absolute control I had over what was loading when and where. The warm, fuzzy feeling that I had the ability to tweak the memory use and performance of the operating system to the point that it was As Good As It's Going To Get(tm)
Hack DNS to direct all requests to WWW.SMBC.ORG to your own web server, parse out any requests for your id and redirect the rest to the original server.
This is not about support contracts. (different issue) This is purely software upgrades.
You enter into a Software Assurance agreement with Microsoft that covers three years, payable yearly. This gives you the ability to receive any upgrades to the software in during the contract term.
After one year your company gets into major financial difficulties and tries to get rid of assets. The computers and their Windows/Office licenses are sold/transferred to another company.
The practical offshoots are thus:
1) The selling company must pay the remaining two years of Software Assurance right away. (As if they had any cash to do so)
2) The new company gets the licenses but no Software Assurance even though it has already been paid on the licenses being transferred.
3) The buying company must buy Software Assurance for the licenses they just acquired regardless of whether they were covered under a previous contract or not.
As everyone and his dog pointed out there are no shortage of similar cards elsewhere, but none of the names can match up with the profound punnery that applies to the Japanese card.
From another web site:
"Suica stands for Super Urban Intelligent Card, which has the double meaning of being an IC card that makes traveling smooth (sui-sui in Japanese)."
What they leave out though, is that the cards are a green and white colour, that of a Japanese watermelon, known as, wait for it... Suica!
Well, maybe not Robotron, but the other two took up a substantial portion of my youth. I met my best friend playing Xevious. Got to the point where I could wrap the game.
Like many other posters I saw this very early on in the game at an industry show in Tokyo.
If only I'd had the business savvy to invest in what I knew was going to be absolutely world-changing I would be very, very rich now.
But, alas, I'm a academic geek and never took any business courses in university. (Too busy with the astrophysics). Things are probably different these days as it's now all about the money.
To all the math, chem, physics etc. students out there, I give only this advice: TAKE AT LEAST ONE BUSINESS COURSE!!
Another problem I've had with blacklists is that some have become rogue and gone power-mad, blacklisting addresses for reasons completely unrelated to their stated purpose such as personal politics.
Check out the answers to requests to SPEWS for delisting in news.admin.net-abuse.email. They tend to be along the lines of:
"What? You actually purchased a netblock from that evil, scum-sucking ISP who hosted a website that pointed to another website that somehow gathered email addresses that found their way into some spammers list?" We don't think they'll stop having something to do with spam so forget about them ever being de-listed!!! Serves you right you moronic spam supporting fool for not checking first!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
So, at some point in time, billions and billions of years from now, the atoms that make up myself will be drifting around the cosmos blown out by the destruction of the earth by the red-giant death of our sun.
To be picked up and analyzed by some alien scientist who determines that their planet wasn't the only one to invent pizza.
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Shoulda checked before posting, although that was my recollection.
The shuttle turns over so the crew can see the horizon and have a visual frame of reference if they needed to take over manual control without instrumentation in case of an abort. Sitting on top of the external tank they wouldn't know where they were.
Communications. If the shuttle is on top the tank would block transmissions to and from the shuttle.
Office 2000 came in Standard, Professional and Developer. No Access, with Access and Acces plus extra dev tools respectively.
These can be purchased under four licensing levels:
1. Individual Retail: High unit cost, includes CD, with single-use registration key.
2. Open: Lower unit cost, CD bought separately (C$30), multiple-use registration key.
3. Select: Even lower unit cost, CD included, no registration required.
4. Enterprise: Select with Software Assurance.
Note that it is only the latter two where registration should not be required that are being affected.
With Select you have to be purchasing site license quantities (i.e. thousands and throusands).
The ironic thing is that the corps. bought this license because it doesn't require CD-Keys or registration.
The average individual retail or small-medium business user with Open Licenses will never see this.
Seriously.
Little plastic or metal figurines. Once the original has been designed, you just churn them out by the millions. Most are just derivations of older designs anyway.
So why do these things cost C$30-C$50 each??!!
Unpainted.
I guess that's what people use Linux for nowdays.
Exactly. I got into Linux late in the game but once did was hooked by the almost absolute control I had over what was loading when and where. The warm, fuzzy feeling that I had the ability to tweak the memory use and performance of the operating system to the point that it was As Good As It's Going To Get(tm)
Slightly more difficult.
Hack DNS to direct all requests to WWW.SMBC.ORG to your own web server, parse out any requests for your id and redirect the rest to the original server.
This is not about support contracts. (different issue) This is purely software upgrades.
You enter into a Software Assurance agreement with Microsoft that covers three years, payable yearly. This gives you the ability to receive any upgrades to the software in during the contract term.
After one year your company gets into major financial difficulties and tries to get rid of assets. The computers and their Windows/Office licenses are sold/transferred to another company.
The practical offshoots are thus:
1) The selling company must pay the remaining two years of Software Assurance right away. (As if they had any cash to do so)
2) The new company gets the licenses but no Software Assurance even though it has already been paid on the licenses being transferred.
3) The buying company must buy Software Assurance for the licenses they just acquired regardless of whether they were covered under a previous contract or not.
There are no "free" upgrades under SA. You are paying for it, either up front or over the three-year term.
If you choose or are forced by circumstances not to upgrade you have spent a large amount of money for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
Well, may not nothing...
You have spent a large amount of money to have had the RIGHT TO GET AN UPGRADE!!!
Wow, I'm so happy we had that right!
yippee..
Ummm. But we still have the same software we had before....
Exactly why did we spend that money?
Freedom from fear.
Like the best April Fool's jokes which were so conspicuously absent this year. Somewhat believable unless read VERY closely.
Who knows, geeks who name their company after horseradish may just be so obsessed that they name all their API's and products after sushi ingredients.
You were probably able to write all that without needing to consult the Matrix script.
OK. You've downloaded the NVidia demo version and have found your house. Neat.
Now, enter Bagdad in the place box and watch as you fly out over the Altlantic, past Europe and down into the Middle East.
Without a doubt Earthviewer is the greatest teacher of Where The Fuck These Places Are!!!
Not to mention water running up your nose.
Wrong. The series (other than character names) had nothing to do with the movie.
He's referring to the mid-series replacement of:
Colonel Blake with Colonel Potter
Trapper John with BJ Hunnicut (sp?)
Frank Burns with Charles Emerson Winchester III
If they don't exist, they'll just make them.
My parents have Macs.
My parents-in-law won't even use a VCR let alone a computer. (Rural Japanese farmers are like that)
As everyone and his dog pointed out there are no shortage of similar cards elsewhere, but none of the names can match up with the profound punnery that applies to the Japanese card.
From another web site:
"Suica stands for Super Urban Intelligent Card, which has the double meaning of being an IC card that makes traveling smooth (sui-sui in Japanese)."
What they leave out though, is that the cards are a green and white colour, that of a Japanese watermelon, known as, wait for it... Suica!
Tempest, Robotron 2084 and Xevious
Me = Sick with envy.
Well, maybe not Robotron, but the other two took up a substantial portion of my youth. I met my best friend playing Xevious. Got to the point where I could wrap the game.
Like many other posters I saw this very early on in the game at an industry show in Tokyo.
If only I'd had the business savvy to invest in what I knew was going to be absolutely world-changing I would be very, very rich now.
But, alas, I'm a academic geek and never took any business courses in university. (Too busy with the astrophysics). Things are probably different these days as it's now all about the money.
To all the math, chem, physics etc. students out there, I give only this advice: TAKE AT LEAST ONE BUSINESS COURSE!!
Will there be filesystems available other than ext2/3?
Upon install:
Boot: Linux expert Reiserfs
The platform from which the initial ribbon is deployed.
Getting ships to it as it gets higher and higher is a problem but that's a hell of a lot of mass already in orbit.
Icing sugar.
We used to just put TONS and TONS of regular granualted sugar on the pankace and roll it up.
No wonder I had so many cavities....
Another problem I've had with blacklists is that some have become rogue and gone power-mad, blacklisting addresses for reasons completely unrelated to their stated purpose such as personal politics.
Check out the answers to requests to SPEWS for delisting in news.admin.net-abuse.email. They tend to be along the lines of:
"What? You actually purchased a netblock from that evil, scum-sucking ISP who hosted a website that pointed to another website that somehow gathered email addresses that found their way into some spammers list?" We don't think they'll stop having something to do with spam so forget about them ever being de-listed!!! Serves you right you moronic spam supporting fool for not checking first!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
I think he's describing SPEWS quite well.
...assuming it had ever been part of a planet.
So, at some point in time, billions and billions of years from now, the atoms that make up myself will be drifting around the cosmos blown out by the destruction of the earth by the red-giant death of our sun.
To be picked up and analyzed by some alien scientist who determines that their planet wasn't the only one to invent pizza.