...and yet, it STILL didn't make me rush out and buy a pepsi. Sure, the ad is great (well, two particular parts of the ad anyway), but pepsi is still a narsty tasting pseudo-beverage.
The AC's idea above would be much cheaper. Just have the car roll up the windows and then pump poison gas inside. Cops come, air out the car, dump the body, reload the gas, and they're set for another. The only recurring charge is reloading the gas canister, and if you like, the cell phone bill for the alerting mechanism. I guess you may have to pay to have the body taken care of too (burial, cremation, dumping in the harbor, whatever).
Damn, I never have mod points when I need them. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I've actually stopped downloading music because it's too time consuming and there's no guarantee of quality. I haven't even installed Kazaa or Morpheus since my last rebuild.
I've also NOT started buying CDs again. I've pretty much given up on music for the time being. If there was an official source of reasonably priced, high quality, unprotected MP3s, or even if CDs came down to under $10 each, I would gladly pay for them. Until then, I'll just do without.
Gotta love Asus. I had an MSI K7T266 Pro2 die on me after two months. Just replaced it with an Asus A7V333-R. Hopefully it'll last as long as my old P2B-S did (4 years and still going).
This new asus is pretty sweet too. Most of the good parts of this Abit board (4 USB1.1, 4 USB2.0, 1 FireWire, 2 IDE, 2 IDE RAID, 5.1 sound), and still has 2 PS/2, 2 serial, 1 parallel, and 5 PCI slots.
You know, there's no rule that says acrylic has to be 1/4" thick. Most mini subs that can go far beyond 1000' deep have acrylic spheres as their main hull. Make it a foot or two thick, and it can handle a surprising amount of pressure.
Reminds me of an ex-military sub commander that wrote in to Car and Driver once. Apparently, if you run the main engine of a nuclear sub too fast while surfaced, it makes an enormous rooster tail at the back. He related his conversation with one of his officers:
...and what kind of sites do you manage? Geek related, or sites of interest to the general public? I'm sure it would make a hell of a difference in the stats.
No args Display this message (same as -?) -i Display GUI interface, must be the first option -l Log off (cannot be used with -m option) -s Shutdown the computer -r Shutdown and restart the computer -a Abort a system shutdown -m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort -t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds -c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters) -f Forces running applications to close without warning -d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown u is the user code p is a planned shutdown code xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256) yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)
... who doesn't know what EAA stands for? It's not mentioned anywhere on their website what their acronym means. The closest I could find by searching http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym is "Experimental Aircraft Association". Is that right?
Maybe if you're in Newfoundland. The maritime provinces are the only places up here where people talk funny. The rest of us talk like news anchors. Every wonder why most of the big network news guys are canadian? No accent, none, we speak like the dictionary.
"the industry's first end-to-end product line for delivering 5-15 Mbps performance over existing Category 1/2/3 wiring."
It's bits. Please get that front page fixed/. dudes.
By the way, 10Mbps doesn't blow DSL out of the water, it just blows the current implementations of DSL out of the water. There are standards in place for DSL up to 54Mbps (or even higher, I haven't been keeping current).
It's also true that any tech support call to MS that turns out to be a bug and not user error, is free of charge. Basically you only pay if the problem is your fault.
Doesn't work so well on a file that is accessed 24/7 (database files for example). That's why most decent backup programs (like backupexec) offer an "Open File backup" option. Costs a bit more, but worth it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you need the insulation to keep it cold. You just need to maintain a certain (high) pressure to keep it in it's liquid state. You may need insulation to prevent gobs of condensation freezing to the container though...
Although I'm sure this "Paul" guy doesn't have an actual physical card, having an official looking letter on company letterhead with you that explains your break-in could probably get you out of hot water in a lot of cases.
Yeah, after I noticed that uptime, I ran a quick hfnetchk, installed all the latest patches, ran qchain, rebooted once, and was back in business within 15 minutes.
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...and yet, it STILL didn't make me rush out and buy a pepsi. Sure, the ad is great (well, two particular parts of the ad anyway), but pepsi is still a narsty tasting pseudo-beverage.
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The AC's idea above would be much cheaper. Just have the car roll up the windows and then pump poison gas inside. Cops come, air out the car, dump the body, reload the gas, and they're set for another. The only recurring charge is reloading the gas canister, and if you like, the cell phone bill for the alerting mechanism. I guess you may have to pay to have the body taken care of too (burial, cremation, dumping in the harbor, whatever).
The mercedes system has a GPS locator as well. Would be pretty useless without it. It's tied into the navigation system.
Damn, I never have mod points when I need them. I agree with this wholeheartedly. I've actually stopped downloading music because it's too time consuming and there's no guarantee of quality. I haven't even installed Kazaa or Morpheus since my last rebuild.
I've also NOT started buying CDs again. I've pretty much given up on music for the time being. If there was an official source of reasonably priced, high quality, unprotected MP3s, or even if CDs came down to under $10 each, I would gladly pay for them. Until then, I'll just do without.
Gotta love Asus. I had an MSI K7T266 Pro2 die on me after two months. Just replaced it with an Asus A7V333-R. Hopefully it'll last as long as my old P2B-S did (4 years and still going).
This new asus is pretty sweet too. Most of the good parts of this Abit board (4 USB1.1, 4 USB2.0, 1 FireWire, 2 IDE, 2 IDE RAID, 5.1 sound), and still has 2 PS/2, 2 serial, 1 parallel, and 5 PCI slots.
Not suprising, considering MS licensed Citrix Winframe and turned it into Terminal Services/Remote Desktop.
You know, there's no rule that says acrylic has to be 1/4" thick. Most mini subs that can go far beyond 1000' deep have acrylic spheres as their main hull. Make it a foot or two thick, and it can handle a surprising amount of pressure.
Reminds me of an ex-military sub commander that wrote in to Car and Driver once. Apparently, if you run the main engine of a nuclear sub too fast while surfaced, it makes an enormous rooster tail at the back. He related his conversation with one of his officers:
Commander: "Hey look, we're doin' a burnout!"
Officer: "Yeah, we're layin' slickies."
Funniest reader letter I ever read.
...and what kind of sites do you manage? Geek related, or sites of interest to the general public? I'm sure it would make a hell of a difference in the stats.
Hmmm. Just need two more of those little transporters then, one in my lower colon, and the other in my bladder. Then I can sit and drink continuously.
;-)
The only question left is, where do I want to put those two exit portals? How about BillG's living room?
In this case, it the extrememly graphic violence that they're adding. Apparently most of the additional footage is of major battles.
C:\>ver
/?
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
C:\>shutdown
Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx] [-c "c
omment"] [-d up:xx:yy]
No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without warning
-d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)
... who doesn't know what EAA stands for? It's not mentioned anywhere on their website what their acronym means. The closest I could find by searching http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym is "Experimental Aircraft Association". Is that right?
Maybe if you're in Newfoundland. The maritime provinces are the only places up here where people talk funny. The rest of us talk like news anchors. Every wonder why most of the big network news guys are canadian? No accent, none, we speak like the dictionary.
"the industry's first end-to-end product line for delivering 5-15 Mbps performance over existing Category 1/2/3 wiring."
/. dudes.
It's bits. Please get that front page fixed
By the way, 10Mbps doesn't blow DSL out of the water, it just blows the current implementations of DSL out of the water. There are standards in place for DSL up to 54Mbps (or even higher, I haven't been keeping current).
It's also true that any tech support call to MS that turns out to be a bug and not user error, is free of charge. Basically you only pay if the problem is your fault.
Gotta love a license with this clause: "No, YOU shut up!"
Doesn't work so well on a file that is accessed 24/7 (database files for example). That's why most decent backup programs (like backupexec) offer an "Open File backup" option. Costs a bit more, but worth it.
That's what ya get for not checking the little box marked "verify written data". Just cause it's a gui doesn't mean it's idiot proof...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you need the insulation to keep it cold. You just need to maintain a certain (high) pressure to keep it in it's liquid state. You may need insulation to prevent gobs of condensation freezing to the container though...
Although I'm sure this "Paul" guy doesn't have an actual physical card, having an official looking letter on company letterhead with you that explains your break-in could probably get you out of hot water in a lot of cases.
Yeah, after I noticed that uptime, I ran a quick hfnetchk, installed all the latest patches, ran qchain, rebooted once, and was back in business within 15 minutes.
If you have to reboot windows when you install an app, it's the app's fault. There are many apps (including Office) that don't require a reboot.