It's becoming more common these days for 'custom' parts like these to be bundled.
I recently broke a wiring harness on my girlfriend's Pontiac Aztec. I could replace it in about five minutes if I could get Pontiac to sell me the part. But they won't, not without purchasing the entire headlight module, for 300 dollars.
Your best bet is to do what I'm doing for that part - namely, hitting junkyards(in your case, eBay). Another possibility is to find a user's group/forum for these laptops - I know when I had a Sparcbook, there was always a guy or two with broken ones who would send you some weird random part.
Bought one off Ebay for 50 bucks not too long ago. Works great under Windows and Linux. VERY happy with it. As a bonus, it's lightweight and can fold up fairly small, if you need to move it around.
I really, really liked the new Galactica miniseries. I thought it was realistic(within reason), dark, and gritty - just what that sort of situation would demand.
Personally, I'd like to see a series of TV movies rather than a weekly series. I think this would work better as an occasional treat, hitting the highlights of the journey, rather than trying to tell 22 stories a year.
Numerous times I told the girl on the phone that "Actually, I do tech support for a Fortune 500 company...
OK, do you have any *clue* how many people call tech support and claim that they're some super-leet techno-god who knows exactly what the issue is? And do you know how many of those people actually know what they're doing? Very few
Fact is, the point of those scripts is to ensure that something important isn't missed. As someone who used to work second-level tech support, I can't tell you how ticked I was to spend my time solving a problem that we already had a procedure for.
I recently had to call Dell to get service on my Inspiron 2650. I had the manuals, information, and laptop in front of me when I called. Zipped through tech support to the RMA number in fifteen minutes.
You know what the game is. Play along. Tech support's happy, you're off the phone faster, everyone wins.
sucking back the second hand smoke of a couple of hundred yahoo's a night, is not a safe working environment.
Those employees aren't being forced to be there, are they? They have free will, like everyone else. If they don't like the job, they are free to leave.
Next to impossible. Work at the office, work out somewhere else.
I'm lucky in that my office complex has a gym. I go there during my lunch hour. 15 of cardio, 45 of weightlifting, then back to work.
If you can squeeze in a workout in the middle of the day, do it - you'll feel better for the rest of it. Before work is good as well, if you can get up earlier.
Try to eat healthy at work - bring in your own food.
Joining some sort of class works for a lot of people, in the "If I'm paying for it, I'm GOING!" vein. In addition to my gym workouts, I do four or five nights a week of martial arts.
Cut your calories, up your physical activity. Only real way to lose weight. Most importantly, find what works for you. I could go on with a lot of the stuff I learned, but I think I'll cut it here.
And the lunacy of this very valid point is exactly why I do hope (as someone posted below) that they sue "the wrong guy," who decides to pick a fight and stand up for himself.
If you're offering someone else's IP for free download, without their consent, you're the 'right guy'. Since sharing is something you choose to do, you've made a conscious decision to break the law.
If you're printing a lot of stuff that isn't time-sensitive(i.e., you don't need it RIGHT THIS SECOND), why don't you go with a professional printing house?
I think you'd probably have a lot less hassle with that route than with trying to find, purchase, install and support a color laser printer.
Who makes up this community? Slashdot readers? Users? Developers? People who bought Redhat 9 in box form?
There is no defined community, so neither Bruce nor Graham can claim to represent it. Bruce can be seen as representing those folks who don't want software patents, Graham as representing those who do. The "Linux, Open Source, Free Software" movement piece of the argument is really a smokescreen. Bruce and Graham are representing their opinions and interests. Bruce can represent SPI, as that's part of his role. Graham can represent Open Forum Europe, as that's part of his role. Claiming to represent 'the community' and calling anyone who disagrees a 'fake' is misleading at best.
I find it funny that Bruce claims that this guy is a 'fake'. I don't recall electing Bruce to any position representing me as a free software user.
Graham's position may not be what I have chosen. It may not be what Bruce chooses, or what CmdrTaco chooses. But it sure as hell doesn't make him a 'fake' anything. Bruce speaks of the "Linux, Open Source and Free Software movements" as if we are one big group of people who all feel precisely the same way about everything - namely, the way he does. I'm sorry someone disagrees with you, Bruce, but it's a big world out there, and that's gonna happen.
1. Don't become a one-note person. Your child shouldn't be the all-encompassing focus of your life.
2. Remember that your child is not the center of the universe. It may be important to *you*, but don't be surprised if the rest of us don't feel the same way.
3. Don't forget about your non-childed friends.
4. Remeber that not all folks are going to find every detail of your child's growth fascinating.
It's important not to lose yourself in the kid. Be yourself and a parent.
...especially for a large site, consider deploying something like Squid for times like these.
Make it transparent most of the time, but on days like today, cache CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Foxnews.com, whatever. Cuts down on bandwidth utilization both for your company and for the target site.
Motorola has/had a good tour in Schaumburg, IL. They even had a little museum that showed some of their history and some descriptions of their technology.
Also, most chemical companies have tours. In part, it's PR for the locals.
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No. Suddenly, Dow chemicals was no longer a global company - it was an American company, run by American citizens who are bound only by American laws! The Indians had to struggle very hard to bring these people to court - it is still not over, 18 years after the 'accident'
You mean Union Carbide, right?
Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide *sixteen years* after the accident. Regardless of their current policies, I fail to see how that makes Dow Chemical responsible for it.
Much has been made in the popular press over some shaky relationships that you had with other members of the Star Trek cast. Do you find those relationships smoothing out as the years go by?
Another for everyone b*tching that ask/. for the recent questions. What questions are suitable for ask/. then, if not the ones that are answered ask google?
A few weeks ago, I submitted an Ask Slashdot looking for advice on routers for the home. What supports cable/DSL/whatever out of the box, features, usability, etc. It was rejected.
A couple days later, the wireless hub article shows up. I hit Google and got the answer in just a few moments.
The first is next to impossible to find on the web - that srt of thing just usuallly isn't covered. THe second is pretty well-covered and doesn't need to be out.
December (1984) Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster : Now this is tragic.
2500 dead, 200,000 injured. But then it was also unintentional (Do you
think this helps Dow in anyway? They cut costs and took people's
lives).
Before you go making a lot of statements like this, you might want to read a good book on the subject. I've read several, and it's not quite this cut-and-dry.
First of all, Dow Chemical had nothing to do with it. Dow now simply owns the Union Carbide assets and intellectual property.
Second, UCC had little to do with it - at least, the UCC of America. The Bhopal disaster was a function of Union Carbide India Limited, of which UCC was merely a holding company. A small point, perhaps, but it's critical to remember that *UCC* did not cut costs, UCIL did.
Third, UCC took a whole lot of responsibility for the accident. The CEO of UCC flew to Bhopal immediately after the attacks, where he was held under house arrest for several days before being released and ordered out of the country.
In addition, the Indian government forced the case settlement, and they are the ones who refuse to re-open the case and/or open criminal charges against the company or it's officers.
Are they innocent? No. Mistakes were made. But mistakes were also owned up to. UCC went from the number-two chemical company to the gutter quickly. It doesn't make up for the dead, but they sure didn't get off scot-free.
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It's becoming more common these days for 'custom' parts like these to be bundled.
I recently broke a wiring harness on my girlfriend's Pontiac Aztec. I could replace it in about five minutes if I could get Pontiac to sell me the part. But they won't, not without purchasing the entire headlight module, for 300 dollars.
Your best bet is to do what I'm doing for that part - namely, hitting junkyards(in your case, eBay). Another possibility is to find a user's group/forum for these laptops - I know when I had a Sparcbook, there was always a guy or two with broken ones who would send you some weird random part.
Bought one off Ebay for 50 bucks not too long ago. Works great under Windows and Linux. VERY happy with it. As a bonus, it's lightweight and can fold up fairly small, if you need to move it around.
I really, really liked the new Galactica miniseries. I thought it was realistic(within reason), dark, and gritty - just what that sort of situation would demand.
Personally, I'd like to see a series of TV movies rather than a weekly series. I think this would work better as an occasional treat, hitting the highlights of the journey, rather than trying to tell 22 stories a year.
Numerous times I told the girl on the phone that "Actually, I do tech support for a Fortune 500 company...
OK, do you have any *clue* how many people call tech support and claim that they're some super-leet techno-god who knows exactly what the issue is? And do you know how many of those people actually know what they're doing? Very few
Fact is, the point of those scripts is to ensure that something important isn't missed. As someone who used to work second-level tech support, I can't tell you how ticked I was to spend my time solving a problem that we already had a procedure for.
I recently had to call Dell to get service on my Inspiron 2650. I had the manuals, information, and laptop in front of me when I called. Zipped through tech support to the RMA number in fifteen minutes.
You know what the game is. Play along. Tech support's happy, you're off the phone faster, everyone wins.
When was the last time you bought a Dell (or any other name-brand PC) that shipped with a plain CD-ROM drive?
I bought one in February
Toxic waste has a proven exposure->injury ratio.
Secondhand smoke does not. Nice try, though.
sucking back the second hand smoke of a couple of hundred yahoo's a night, is not a safe working environment.
Those employees aren't being forced to be there, are they? They have free will, like everyone else. If they don't like the job, they are free to leave.
Next to impossible. Work at the office, work out somewhere else.
I'm lucky in that my office complex has a gym. I go there during my lunch hour. 15 of cardio, 45 of weightlifting, then back to work.
If you can squeeze in a workout in the middle of the day, do it - you'll feel better for the rest of it. Before work is good as well, if you can get up earlier.
Try to eat healthy at work - bring in your own food.
Joining some sort of class works for a lot of people, in the "If I'm paying for it, I'm GOING!" vein. In addition to my gym workouts, I do four or five nights a week of martial arts.
Cut your calories, up your physical activity. Only real way to lose weight. Most importantly, find what works for you. I could go on with a lot of the stuff I learned, but I think I'll cut it here.
I only got the *second* one(the me again version).
I'm pissed, I never got to go to pussy-hunter.net
And the lunacy of this very valid point is exactly why I do hope (as someone posted below) that they sue "the wrong guy," who decides to pick a fight and stand up for himself.
If you're offering someone else's IP for free download, without their consent, you're the 'right guy'. Since sharing is something you choose to do, you've made a conscious decision to break the law.
Katz just wrote another book about dogs. Saw him on some morning talk show the other day.
No word yet if the dogs were opressed by the Hellmouth, or were 'leet Afghani hackers.
If you're printing a lot of stuff that isn't time-sensitive(i.e., you don't need it RIGHT THIS SECOND), why don't you go with a professional printing house?
I think you'd probably have a lot less hassle with that route than with trying to find, purchase, install and support a color laser printer.
No. What law would they be breaking?
Right there, that's pretty much my point.
Who makes up this community? Slashdot readers? Users? Developers? People who bought Redhat 9 in box form?
There is no defined community, so neither Bruce nor Graham can claim to represent it. Bruce can be seen as representing those folks who don't want software patents, Graham as representing those who do. The "Linux, Open Source, Free Software" movement piece of the argument is really a smokescreen. Bruce and Graham are representing their opinions and interests. Bruce can represent SPI, as that's part of his role. Graham can represent Open Forum Europe, as that's part of his role. Claiming to represent 'the community' and calling anyone who disagrees a 'fake' is misleading at best.
I find it funny that Bruce claims that this guy is a 'fake'. I don't recall electing Bruce to any position representing me as a free software user.
Graham's position may not be what I have chosen. It may not be what Bruce chooses, or what CmdrTaco
chooses. But it sure as hell doesn't make him a 'fake' anything. Bruce speaks of the "Linux, Open Source and Free Software movements" as if we are one big group of people who all feel precisely the same way about everything - namely, the way he does. I'm sorry someone disagrees with you, Bruce, but it's a big world out there, and that's gonna happen.
Bring a copy of Knoppix and a copy of FIRE(Forensic Incident Response Environment.
Nothing I've found that those two can't handle.
1. Don't become a one-note person. Your child shouldn't be the all-encompassing focus of your life.
2. Remember that your child is not the center of the universe. It may be important to *you*, but don't be surprised if the rest of us don't feel the same way.
3. Don't forget about your non-childed friends.
4. Remeber that not all folks are going to find every detail of your child's growth fascinating.
It's important not to lose yourself in the kid. Be yourself and a parent.
...especially for a large site, consider deploying something like Squid for times like these.
Make it transparent most of the time, but on days like today, cache CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Foxnews.com, whatever. Cuts down on bandwidth utilization both for your company and for the target site.
Motorola has/had a good tour in Schaumburg, IL. They even had a little museum that showed some of their history and some descriptions of their technology.
Also, most chemical companies have tours. In part, it's PR for the locals.
No. Suddenly, Dow chemicals was no longer a global company - it was an American company, run by American citizens who are bound only by American laws! The Indians had to struggle very hard to bring these people to court - it is still not over, 18 years after the 'accident'
You mean Union Carbide, right?
Dow Chemical purchased Union Carbide *sixteen years* after the accident. Regardless of their current policies, I fail to see how that makes Dow Chemical responsible for it.
I am constantly amazed by the stuff people will get their panties in a bunch over.
Much has been made in the popular press over some shaky
relationships that you had with other members
of the Star Trek cast. Do you find those relationships
smoothing out as the years go by?
Don't leave us hanging - what was the sentence?
Another for everyone b*tching that ask /. for the recent questions. What questions are suitable for ask /. then, if not the ones that are answered ask google?
A few weeks ago, I submitted an Ask Slashdot looking for advice on routers for the home. What supports cable/DSL/whatever out of the box, features, usability, etc. It was rejected.
A couple days later, the wireless hub article shows up. I hit Google and got the answer in just a few moments.
The first is next to impossible to find on the web - that srt of thing just usuallly isn't covered. THe second is pretty well-covered and doesn't need to be out.
December (1984) Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster : Now this is tragic.
2500 dead, 200,000 injured. But then it was also unintentional (Do you
think this helps Dow in anyway? They cut costs and took people's
lives).
Before you go making a lot of statements like this, you might want to read a good book on the subject. I've read several, and it's not quite this cut-and-dry.
First of all, Dow Chemical had nothing to do with it. Dow now simply owns the Union Carbide assets and intellectual property.
Second, UCC had little to do with it - at least, the UCC of America. The Bhopal disaster was a function of Union Carbide India Limited, of which UCC was merely a holding company. A small point, perhaps, but it's critical to remember that *UCC* did not cut costs, UCIL did.
Third, UCC took a whole lot of responsibility for the accident. The CEO of UCC flew to Bhopal immediately after the attacks, where he was held under house arrest for several days before being released and ordered out of the country.
In addition, the Indian government forced the case settlement, and they are the ones who refuse to re-open the case and/or open criminal charges against the company or it's officers.
Are they innocent? No. Mistakes were made. But mistakes were also owned up to. UCC went from the number-two chemical company to the gutter quickly. It doesn't make up for the dead, but they sure didn't get off scot-free.