Yeah, I agree.. I hate how all the bank teller chicks have started hitting on me now.. They didn't do more than smile before I started this job..
This reminds me how fun it was to deposit checks at the local bank. Now I wonder why I started direct deposit. Man, those tellers would always start a conversation. The loan officers would always be real excited when I asked about getting a house or a car.
I need to stop this direct deposit nonsense and get back to the cash system. Its great being single.
I'm a senior electronic technician at a manufacturing plant and get to watch big machines make product at amazing speeds. My responsibility as the sole technician is just to keep the machines running at night and everyone is happy. As someone sig says, "work fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours." I work 3 or 4 nights a week in 12 hour shifts. People on the plant floor really appreciate someone who can keep a machine running so they can just sit back and press a button to feed the machines.
The best part about my job is that I'm on the hardware side. Electronics. I get to have fun with large equipment and powerful coordinated 400 horsepower motors. Computers just remain an enjoyable hobby.
If I had to do NT or some kind of technology I had no control and could not fix, I would be packing boxes and my resume would be hitting the printer.
Oh great, not can it only cause "irritation and swelling (read as severe sunburn) it can "cut corneas." What are the long term effects of a concentrated ultraviolet beam?
Getting an xray does not cause irritation due to the low levels. Now they have UV lasers that will now penetrate the skin. Great.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
There should be more emphasis on ethics in education. Technology that has potential for disaster can be very expensive when it comes to long term investments.
I admit there are very good uses for radiation, but shooting people with UV light that can cause instant burns is not cool. There are legit uses for radiation, but zapping people with UV is not one of them.
I used to work surveying oil wells down in Texas and we used some mighty powerful sources, including neutron and gamma. When you want to find oil in a shaft miles deep in a hostile environment, radiation bouncing off hydrocarbons to detect the oil is much more attractive than drilling a hundred fold more in a hit and miss manner. We used radiation below ground and not directed toward people. It allowed us to save money and minimize unnecessary damage to the envirnment.
Radiation should not be used to maintain public order. Cancer is a horrible public relations possibility.
I'm sure the government wants to take a cut on these massive transactions so it can improve its virtual roads and provide law enforcement upon virtual citizens.
Just think of it. Online games would have criminals and classes of laborors just like the real word. Virtual people could file for virtual bankruptcy and be hauled off to virtual prison. If the IRS got involved in the transactions, a whole new deminsion of hell could be possible for games.
No wonder why real life sucks and games rule: less government interference and a community based development.
The patent to me seems to describe most complex relationships requiring negotiation and feedback between two similar devices to transfer information. Replace "provider," "consumer," and "association means," "transfer," "feedback," and "processing," and it sounds to me a lot like the operation of a hard drive with its controller.
Environmental cues. That explains my problem with two keymaps.
Yes, I have noticed I will start typing qwerty on a soft keyboard, like the ones at work. When I'm on my spring click keyboard at home, its all dvorak.
The problem is my laptop, which has a soft keyboard and I often type qwerty in error.
I bought a Pilot this week and I started reading this in disbelief. I use both the dvorak and qwerty keyboard layouts without problem and I was thinking, what a bunch of wimps that cannot adapt to a minor handwriting dialect.
Oh, this article had me fuming at the possible lawsuits about the latest technology. I hit the floor laughing when I saw this comment. This was a rich one that came a month and a week too late!
Television is an illusion of picture quaity due to the constant motion. Our eyes are trained to watch things that move. Television seems to have a very high quality picture, because we process more information from the average television experiece compared to the static ultra high definition monitor.
Now, if we watched movies and the usual media on a computer monitor, there might be an appreciation for the detail. It would be nice if movies on tv would have something steamy worth the resolution, but the frames keep moving. Even the nude shots are such a blur in motion it wouldn't make a difference.
Television is great for inexpensive gaming and large viewing from a comfortable distance. As long as it moves quickly, the consumer thinks its great. I would be depressed if I still had to use a television for computing (Sinclair ZX81 and Apple ][ were my experiences, but I'm spoiled by my 17 inch!)
Wrestling mat material? If it is that durable, imagine the fun at parties expanding from that game "twister."
Twister used to be a popular game where two people got on a mat in contortionist postitions determined by spinning the wheel of hand/feet locations. A riot.:)
Imagine a webcam based game of this where people across the world determine how twisted you get with your partner...
I thought cable got away with it because they need an audience and sex sells. The Playboy channel was a real hit when it first came out. Filters were just being distributed. It was a great awakening for many. When your market depends on material like this and you have the money for lawyers, you have the monopoly since you can keep it banned from broadcast TV.
This country has been weaned for too long by censors and I feel we as a whole are not intelligent enough to handle free communication. With all the right wingers and religious nuts who survive through propogating fear of media and information, there would be a legal war.
I'm not going to be a customer to a coorporation or polititions that actively attempt to destroy the internet. It was the Clinton administration, RIAA, and now Lucasfilm... Did I miss anyone? Who's next?
I'm not sure where the Fedex hub was in Kansas City.
No, but UPS was on the other side of the fence from us. Next to both of us was an animal by-products plant that made dog food. On the typical long shift, the awful smell from that place started to smell good and make us hungry.
We did get one package addressed to a Hillary Rodhan Clinton one night that passed through...
Oh, what does this have to do with Redhat 6.0 and shipping the cd's? Nothing. If your package comes up missing or opened, just imagine someone had good use of it. If it is lost, ask if it got shipped by train... I heard of several cars of rice that got railroaded around for more than a few months while being lost.
I used to work at RPS in the Kansas City hub. I did the conveyor for the West coast trucks. On a eight hour shift, there were between 20,000 to 40,000 boxes about an average of 25 pounds I had to pick, sort, an load. Let me tell you, that was fun. No, really! I would get in trouble if there were more than 20 misrouted boxes. Those bar codes tell all.
We were very careful to properly route the bags full of little prerouted letters on to the right truck, since each piece inside counted.
Nowadays, I get to play with 480 volts up to 13,500 volts and computer controls in a manufacturing environment. The damn machines get to have all the fun. I used to gain weight in the upper body area, now it is sinking. I need a grunt job again...
Lead plumbing may have destroyed the Roman empire.
17 inch particle accelerators and bad ergonomics may destroy us as our "information society" (from Al Gore buzzword bingo) enslaves us in a pattern of BSOD reinforced behavior.
Linux and wearable computers will save the world.:)
You want the credit limit to buy one of these? Call the card company and ask. You might be surprised. Imagine the frequent flyer miles many business owners get.
I would hate to be responsible for one of those accounts, though. I had over $2000 of fraud worked on one of my accounts a few months ago in one day at some Kmart in San Jose. Haven't been there in 15 years, but someone with my number and name was.
A dose of radiation that is spread out over time is not as damaging as getting that dose of energy in 10 seconds. What you get over one year in daily life might be the end of you if it were a 10 second dose.
I wore a dosimeter while surveying oil wells once and had the honor of being certified to handle things evil as neutron sources. I learned to fear radiation in other's hands with all the stories I heard. Radiation damage does not show up for months or many years later.
Oh well, I have a mighty fine 17 inch particle accelerator inches from me now. What am I talking about. I just need to crank up the voltage a bit to excite the electrons in evil way.
No more cleaning heads that get clogged with magnetic scum or a broken head, no more broken and jammed tapes, complicated loading mechanisms, no worry about magnets...
If they are still using a MOS transistor design, the current gain decreases with increasing temperature. While this temperature/voltage gain ratio is good for preventing thermal runnaway (that bipolar junction transistors can exhibit,) this may pose a limit on high frequency operation at high temperatures.
When frequencies increase, the higher gate switching speed generates tremendous heat.
I would imagine that cooling it down may allow for useful operation of the transistor gates as they still have sufficient gain to operate usefully. I suspect that my celeron 300a did not like 504MHz longer than 10 minutes due to the gate temperatures decreasing the gain required to switch logic reliably.
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Yeah, I agree.. I hate how all the bank teller chicks have started hitting on me now.. They didn't do more than smile before I started this job..
This reminds me how fun it was to deposit checks at the local bank. Now I wonder why I started direct deposit. Man, those tellers would always start a conversation. The loan officers would always be real excited when I asked about getting a house or a car.
I need to stop this direct deposit nonsense and get back to the cash system. Its great being single.
Have a slight career change if work is hell...
I'm a senior electronic technician at a manufacturing plant and get to watch big machines make product at amazing speeds. My responsibility as the sole technician is just to keep the machines running at night and everyone is happy. As someone sig says, "work fascinates me. I could sit and watch it for hours." I work 3 or 4 nights a week in 12 hour shifts. People on the plant floor really appreciate someone who can keep a machine running so they can just sit back and press a button to feed the machines.
The best part about my job is that I'm on the hardware side. Electronics. I get to have fun with large equipment and powerful coordinated 400 horsepower motors. Computers just remain an enjoyable hobby.
If I had to do NT or some kind of technology I had no control and could not fix, I would be packing boxes and my resume would be hitting the printer.
Oh great, not can it only cause "irritation and swelling (read as severe sunburn) it can "cut corneas." What are the long term effects of a concentrated ultraviolet beam?
Getting an xray does not cause irritation due to the low levels. Now they have UV lasers that will now penetrate the skin. Great.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
You don't need women. You know you'd marry a circuit board if you could.
hehehe... it is true that I am a hardware guy, but I do appreciate fine software. Especially, the software that can keep a machine up for hours on end without a hiccup.
But seriously, having been divorced for a few years, I have realized being single itself is a full time job. It is difficult if going out to eat every day and fast food makes one sick. Not only do I have to make my own meals, I have to keep the house clean (it is more fun when two people do it,) and plan my own vacations.
It is great being single, but it is a job I would like to quit if a more interesting offer was made.
There should be more emphasis on ethics in education. Technology that has potential for disaster can be very expensive when it comes to long term investments.
I admit there are very good uses for radiation, but shooting people with UV light that can cause instant burns is not cool. There are legit uses for radiation, but zapping people with UV is not one of them.
I used to work surveying oil wells down in Texas and we used some mighty powerful sources, including neutron and gamma. When you want to find oil in a shaft miles deep in a hostile environment, radiation bouncing off hydrocarbons to detect the oil is much more attractive than drilling a hundred fold more in a hit and miss manner. We used radiation below ground and not directed toward people. It allowed us to save money and minimize unnecessary damage to the envirnment.
Radiation should not be used to maintain public order. Cancer is a horrible public relations possibility.
Porcelain God. Core dump. It makes computing advocacy a religious experience.
I'm sure the government wants to take a cut on these massive transactions so it can improve its virtual roads and provide law enforcement upon virtual citizens.
Just think of it. Online games would have criminals and classes of laborors just like the real word. Virtual people could file for virtual bankruptcy and be hauled off to virtual prison. If the IRS got involved in the transactions, a whole new deminsion of hell could be possible for games.
No wonder why real life sucks and games rule: less government interference and a community based development.
The patent to me seems to describe most complex relationships requiring negotiation and feedback between two similar devices to transfer information. Replace "provider," "consumer," and "association means," "transfer," "feedback," and "processing," and it sounds to me a lot like the operation of a hard drive with its controller.
I really don't see how this patent is novel.
Environmental cues. That explains my problem with two keymaps.
Yes, I have noticed I will start typing qwerty on a soft keyboard, like the ones at work. When I'm on my spring click keyboard at home, its all dvorak.
The problem is my laptop, which has a soft keyboard and I often type qwerty in error.
It is no longer a myth.
Here is the proof.
I bought a Pilot this week and I started reading this in disbelief. I use both the dvorak and qwerty keyboard layouts without problem and I was thinking, what a bunch of wimps that cannot adapt to a minor handwriting dialect.
Oh, this article had me fuming at the possible lawsuits about the latest technology. I hit the floor laughing when I saw this comment. This was a rich one that came a month and a week too late!
Happiness is a network card that works 100% of the time. :)
Television is an illusion of picture quaity due to the constant motion. Our eyes are trained to watch things that move. Television seems to have a very high quality picture, because we process more information from the average television experiece compared to the static ultra high definition monitor.
Now, if we watched movies and the usual media on a computer monitor, there might be an appreciation for the detail. It would be nice if movies on tv would have something steamy worth the resolution, but the frames keep moving. Even the nude shots are such a blur in motion it wouldn't make a difference.
Television is great for inexpensive gaming and large viewing from a comfortable distance. As long as it moves quickly, the consumer thinks its great. I would be depressed if I still had to use a television for computing (Sinclair ZX81 and Apple ][ were my experiences, but I'm spoiled by my 17 inch!)
Wrestling mat material? If it is that durable, imagine the fun at parties expanding from that game "twister."
:)
Twister used to be a popular game where two people got on a mat in contortionist postitions determined by spinning the wheel of hand/feet locations. A riot.
Imagine a webcam based game of this where people across the world determine how twisted you get with your partner...
I thought cable got away with it because they need an audience and sex sells. The Playboy channel was a real hit when it first came out. Filters were just being distributed. It was a great awakening for many. When your market depends on material like this and you have the money for lawyers, you have the monopoly since you can keep it banned from broadcast TV.
This country has been weaned for too long by censors and I feel we as a whole are not intelligent enough to handle free communication. With all the right wingers and religious nuts who survive through propogating fear of media and information, there would be a legal war.
Perhaps the internet will change all that.
I'm not going to be a customer to a coorporation or polititions that actively attempt to destroy the internet. It was the Clinton administration, RIAA, and now Lucasfilm... Did I miss anyone? Who's next?
Yeah, but RPS is FedEx...isn't it?
I'm not sure where the Fedex hub was in Kansas City.
No, but UPS was on the other side of the fence from us. Next to both of us was an animal by-products plant that made dog food. On the typical long shift, the awful smell from that place started to smell good and make us hungry.
We did get one package addressed to a Hillary Rodhan Clinton one night that passed through...
Oh, what does this have to do with Redhat 6.0 and shipping the cd's? Nothing. If your package comes up missing or opened, just imagine someone had good use of it. If it is lost, ask if it got shipped by train... I heard of several cars of rice that got railroaded around for more than a few months while being lost.
I used to work at RPS in the Kansas City hub. I did the conveyor for the West coast trucks. On a eight hour shift, there were between 20,000 to 40,000 boxes about an average of 25 pounds I had to pick, sort, an load. Let me tell you, that was fun. No, really! I would get in trouble if there were more than 20 misrouted boxes. Those bar codes tell all.
We were very careful to properly route the bags full of little prerouted letters on to the right truck, since each piece inside counted.
Nowadays, I get to play with 480 volts up to 13,500 volts and computer controls in a manufacturing environment. The damn machines get to have all the fun. I used to gain weight in the upper body area, now it is sinking. I need a grunt job again...
Lead plumbing may have destroyed the Roman empire.
:)
17 inch particle accelerators and bad ergonomics may destroy us as our "information society" (from Al Gore buzzword bingo) enslaves us in a pattern of BSOD reinforced behavior.
Linux and wearable computers will save the world.
You want the credit limit to buy one of these? Call the card company and ask. You might be surprised. Imagine the frequent flyer miles many business owners get.
I would hate to be responsible for one of those accounts, though. I had over $2000 of fraud worked on one of my accounts a few months ago in one day at some Kmart in San Jose. Haven't been there in 15 years, but someone with my number and name was.
A dose of radiation that is spread out over time is not as damaging as getting that dose of energy in 10 seconds. What you get over one year in daily life might be the end of you if it were a 10 second dose.
I wore a dosimeter while surveying oil wells once and had the honor of being certified to handle things evil as neutron sources. I learned to fear radiation in other's hands with all the stories I heard. Radiation damage does not show up for months or many years later.
Oh well, I have a mighty fine 17 inch particle accelerator inches from me now. What am I talking about. I just need to crank up the voltage a bit to excite the electrons in evil way.
Two words: random access
Two more words: no rewinding
No more cleaning heads that get clogged with magnetic scum or a broken head, no more broken and jammed tapes, complicated loading mechanisms, no worry about magnets...
Life will be good.
If they are still using a MOS transistor design, the current gain decreases with increasing temperature. While this temperature/voltage gain ratio is good for preventing thermal runnaway (that bipolar junction transistors can exhibit,) this may pose a limit on high frequency operation at high temperatures.
When frequencies increase, the higher gate switching speed generates tremendous heat.
I would imagine that cooling it down may allow for useful operation of the transistor gates as they still have sufficient gain to operate usefully. I suspect that my celeron 300a did not like 504MHz longer than 10 minutes due to the gate temperatures decreasing the gain required to switch logic reliably.
That's my guess.