The trouble with doing tech support for your family, especially if they live in another city, is that I never have the right equipment or software with me to solve what would be a pretty simple issue if only I had a second pc with access to the internet....
I saw one too. I was 16 years old, so 1996, camping with 2 friends. We were in a fairly flat area delimited by small mountain ranges. I saw it first - It came over one of the mountains, and it was huge. I mean, huge. It was completely black, and it had sets of lights at each edge of the triangle, and then a set of lights in the center. They would each flash one at a time, then they would all flash. It passed DIRECTLY overhead, amazingly low, so low I probably could have hit it with a rifle, and I am not a good shot. I was completely silent. I guess the entire sighting, from seeing it come over the mountain to seeing it disappear in the distance, lasted about 1 minute. It was around 11 pm, in the countryside without much ambient light other than the stars. One of the most amazing things we had ever seen.
I am familiar with the flight characterstics of both military and domestic aircraft. I have been to airshows, I have my Air and Space subscription, I try to keep up to date. I have actually also had F-18's and F-16's fly over the exact same area where we camped, and I have seen KC's in action, so this is not a case of mistaken identity. I have no idea what I did see, but I can tell you it was unlike any aircraft I have ever observed in flight. This occured in Quebec, Canada, 40 miles from the U.S. border.
http://www.videotron.ca offers 4Mbps down and 640k up for 59.95 CAN a month, and 1.5Mbps for 34.95 CAN.
High speed internet is considered an essential service in Canada, and the government has taken steps to get the population online....
Not only that, but funny you should mention Corel CDs - I had Wordperfect 7 explode inside a brand new Dell 32x one day in the office - split into 5 pieces. Luckily, no one was hurt, and we all went out to lunch.
I am from Quebec, Canada, home of the cheapest electricity in NA. My father spent many years in the sawmill business, and I remember one day driving down to New Hampshire with him to a sawmill he did business with. Sawmills use an enormous amount of electricity. Because electricity was so expensive in New England (about 30 times what it is in Quebec), they had driven a diesel locomotive into the middle of one of their buildings and were using it to generate electricity to power the entire mill. It was actually cheaper for them to keep it fueled with diesel than to buy electricity from the local utility.
Imagine. A locomotive. Indoors.
The odds are small enough that an object would hit something the size of our Earth - so given the relatively small size of the moon, it becomes even less unlikely that we shall have to wrry about lunar impact. Just a thought.
I hate to say it, but if you think that a factory audio system, even a "premium" audio system can ever match or exceed an aftermarket sound system, then you are wrong. Aftermarket speakers, amps and head units outstrip factory in terms of quality, dependability and features. Additionally, the speaker placement in most vehicles is ridiculous - you think those speakers in the door down by your knees wouldn't sound better if they were in the A-pillar pointed at your ears?
If you wnat good sound in your car, go see the pros and have them install a logical audio system that you will enjoy. Forget the factory - they are in the business of selling cars, not pleasing ears.
In my hometown of Lennoxville/Huntingville. Why wasn't that on Slashdot? Why is this on Slashdot?
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You HAVE been listening to stuff like this in clubs, for many years. THis is nothing new - it is exactly the same as white label vinyl. This is essentially remixing. DJ's love to remix, to personalise, to experiment, and unfortuantely, oftentimes they can't get clearance for the samples they want to use - for example, when you want to remix a Michael Jackson song with a much lesser known artist, or do heavy remixes of pop songs. So, they do the mixes anyways, but release them anonymously - on "white label" records, with no info on the track other than the name. Frequently, this is done and released digitally, so I don't see what everyone is so excited aobut/
...of comics as he claims, (the great, golden age of Marvel Comics. I'm one of them, I was there) seeing as it was June 1938 to 1945....Unless Jon is as ageless as his prose...
oh yes, vinyl is damn sexy. There is nothing like lying between a set of vinyl sheets, black and glistening and completely washable - have you ever tried making a decent pair of clothing out of cd's? You could maybe get away with a hat, but forget about a sexy catsuit. It's appalling!
Vinyl Lives - In my Fantasies.
Well, trouble is, when you are out on the highway adn all the oil drains from motor, you jsut bought a new motor. Or conversely, if it does it as soon as it's parked, then I guess you are walking home from the mall. An extreme terminal solution isn't always the best or most practical - just the most final.
A while back, I was setting up PC's for a small research company. 2 of our brand new Dell's had arrived, but when plugged in, they wouldn't display anything properly. I called up Dell, and they assured me that they were aware of the problem, and that there was a "virus" in the video card of each machine. A "virus" in the videocard, I asked disbelievingly? Yes, they replied. I asked them how it had gotten in there, just to play along, and they informed me it must have been introduced enroute from their packing facility to my office. Somehow, a "virus" had transmuted into vapour and then lodged itself in the VIDEO CARDs of our brand new machines. But don't worry, they told me - there was a patch available from their website that would fix everything.
Those lying jerks - why couldn't they just tell me there was a driver problem, and I could download the fixed drivers? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Look, obviously no one is going to fly a terminal into a skyscraper. But if you read a little history, you will see accounts of how in the 60's and 70's, in places like Rome and Greece, teams of terrorists would wip out machine guns simulatneously in two seperate airports and shoot into the crowds until they themselves were shot, without any regard for personal safety. This is why european airports have armed guards, and why they now have them in the US. A lot of people congregate in airports, from all over the world, and it makes a pretty strong statement when you randomly slaughter citizens from 10 countries at once. It's not all about the airplanes, you know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that at least60 percent of the information I can find on the internet isn't exactly what I would call "accurate", and certianly not when it comes to delicate topics like creating explosives stable enough to be transported before detonation.....
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The trouble with doing tech support for your family, especially if they live in another city, is that I never have the right equipment or software with me to solve what would be a pretty simple issue if only I had a second pc with access to the internet....
I saw one too. I was 16 years old, so 1996, camping with 2 friends. We were in a fairly flat area delimited by small mountain ranges. I saw it first - It came over one of the mountains, and it was huge. I mean, huge. It was completely black, and it had sets of lights at each edge of the triangle, and then a set of lights in the center. They would each flash one at a time, then they would all flash. It passed DIRECTLY overhead, amazingly low, so low I probably could have hit it with a rifle, and I am not a good shot. I was completely silent. I guess the entire sighting, from seeing it come over the mountain to seeing it disappear in the distance, lasted about 1 minute. It was around 11 pm, in the countryside without much ambient light other than the stars. One of the most amazing things we had ever seen. I am familiar with the flight characterstics of both military and domestic aircraft. I have been to airshows, I have my Air and Space subscription, I try to keep up to date. I have actually also had F-18's and F-16's fly over the exact same area where we camped, and I have seen KC's in action, so this is not a case of mistaken identity. I have no idea what I did see, but I can tell you it was unlike any aircraft I have ever observed in flight. This occured in Quebec, Canada, 40 miles from the U.S. border.
http://www.videotron.ca offers 4Mbps down and 640k up for 59.95 CAN a month, and 1.5Mbps for 34.95 CAN. High speed internet is considered an essential service in Canada, and the government has taken steps to get the population online....
I am sure that this was a major issue for HavenCo....
I hope it hits France.
Not only that, but funny you should mention Corel CDs - I had Wordperfect 7 explode inside a brand new Dell 32x one day in the office - split into 5 pieces. Luckily, no one was hurt, and we all went out to lunch.
for nexex - Jay Z is quoting a song called "I Wish" by Carl Thomas. Check it out.
Especially if you played against me in MarioKart..
I am from Quebec, Canada, home of the cheapest electricity in NA. My father spent many years in the sawmill business, and I remember one day driving down to New Hampshire with him to a sawmill he did business with. Sawmills use an enormous amount of electricity. Because electricity was so expensive in New England (about 30 times what it is in Quebec), they had driven a diesel locomotive into the middle of one of their buildings and were using it to generate electricity to power the entire mill. It was actually cheaper for them to keep it fueled with diesel than to buy electricity from the local utility. Imagine. A locomotive. Indoors.
The odds are small enough that an object would hit something the size of our Earth - so given the relatively small size of the moon, it becomes even less unlikely that we shall have to wrry about lunar impact. Just a thought.
I hate to say it, but if you think that a factory audio system, even a "premium" audio system can ever match or exceed an aftermarket sound system, then you are wrong. Aftermarket speakers, amps and head units outstrip factory in terms of quality, dependability and features. Additionally, the speaker placement in most vehicles is ridiculous - you think those speakers in the door down by your knees wouldn't sound better if they were in the A-pillar pointed at your ears? If you wnat good sound in your car, go see the pros and have them install a logical audio system that you will enjoy. Forget the factory - they are in the business of selling cars, not pleasing ears.
You forgot .whine
Fuck your .sig, man.
In my hometown of Lennoxville/Huntingville. Why wasn't that on Slashdot? Why is this on Slashdot?
sigh
You HAVE been listening to stuff like this in clubs, for many years. THis is nothing new - it is exactly the same as white label vinyl. This is essentially remixing. DJ's love to remix, to personalise, to experiment, and unfortuantely, oftentimes they can't get clearance for the samples they want to use - for example, when you want to remix a Michael Jackson song with a much lesser known artist, or do heavy remixes of pop songs. So, they do the mixes anyways, but release them anonymously - on "white label" records, with no info on the track other than the name. Frequently, this is done and released digitally, so I don't see what everyone is so excited aobut/
...of comics as he claims, (the great, golden age of Marvel Comics. I'm one of them, I was there) seeing as it was June 1938 to 1945....Unless Jon is as ageless as his prose...
http://www.dereksantos.com/comicpage/gold.html
oh yes, vinyl is damn sexy. There is nothing like lying between a set of vinyl sheets, black and glistening and completely washable - have you ever tried making a decent pair of clothing out of cd's? You could maybe get away with a hat, but forget about a sexy catsuit. It's appalling!
Vinyl Lives - In my Fantasies.
Just wait until our snipers make a few mistakes....
What the hell does this have to do with anything? You could have at least slid the word "Mars" in there somewhere.
And it was modded as interesting - not as funny.
Well, trouble is, when you are out on the highway adn all the oil drains from motor, you jsut bought a new motor. Or conversely, if it does it as soon as it's parked, then I guess you are walking home from the mall. An extreme terminal solution isn't always the best or most practical - just the most final.
Buy your movies in Quebec, they're all in french.
A while back, I was setting up PC's for a small research company. 2 of our brand new Dell's had arrived, but when plugged in, they wouldn't display anything properly. I called up Dell, and they assured me that they were aware of the problem, and that there was a "virus" in the video card of each machine. A "virus" in the videocard, I asked disbelievingly? Yes, they replied. I asked them how it had gotten in there, just to play along, and they informed me it must have been introduced enroute from their packing facility to my office. Somehow, a "virus" had transmuted into vapour and then lodged itself in the VIDEO CARDs of our brand new machines. But don't worry, they told me - there was a patch available from their website that would fix everything.
Those lying jerks - why couldn't they just tell me there was a driver problem, and I could download the fixed drivers? WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Look, obviously no one is going to fly a terminal into a skyscraper. But if you read a little history, you will see accounts of how in the 60's and 70's, in places like Rome and Greece, teams of terrorists would wip out machine guns simulatneously in two seperate airports and shoot into the crowds until they themselves were shot, without any regard for personal safety. This is why european airports have armed guards, and why they now have them in the US. A lot of people congregate in airports, from all over the world, and it makes a pretty strong statement when you randomly slaughter citizens from 10 countries at once. It's not all about the airplanes, you know.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that at least60 percent of the information I can find on the internet isn't exactly what I would call "accurate", and certianly not when it comes to delicate topics like creating explosives stable enough to be transported before detonation.....