Well, heck, look at the Buckeye Egg farms over the past couple decades. I grew up with the smell of the chickens in Croton, OH, then they expanded to other towns in the state. They've been getting slaps on the wrist from the EPA for their rampant health and safety violations....
I went southeast of Columbus and got a good showing from around 12:30am to 2:30 am in the Hocking Hills area. Lots of the larger meteors staying visible and lighting up the sky. When I returned to Columbus at about 3:45, I can see some of the larger ones even with the city glow....
Yeah, should've. At least you HAVE a job, though. My job offer got rescinded when I went on the road trip. I'm now an EE grad student at OSU. It makes me feel old...... sorta like you...:-)
Does it bother anyone else that they had a memorial, with "Ave Marie," "Take A Closer Walk with Me," and "Here I Am Lord" being sung, all for an operating system? In NEW YORK CITY? With all the death and destruction nearby, they hold a funeral for DOS.
On a lighter note, DOS will always be alive in my apartment as long as I keep hording old computer equipment. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, DOS without end. Amen. Amen.
What I don't understand is, when Dell is just a me-too cloner bolting parts together and not innovating a thing, how can they not even be able to do that right and still stay in business?
Actually, Dell doesn't just assemble parts, I was offered a design engineering job for the 4-processor and above systems. I didn't take the job, but I did find out that they actually do a lot of design work, some with the OEMs, some with custom parts.
Oh, and I don't think this is the first time they've had laptops that catch fire. At their interview, I heard a vague reference to them cutting their first line of laptops because they had a tendancy to catch fire.
As a side note, their corporate culture was VERY "we wanna be #1 at EVERYTHING." I've seen employees that love their work, but some of them were just a little to psychotic about beating Compaq and their other competitors. Kinda freaky.
This is the sort of thing I'm worrying about now. I'm planning on graduating from college in June, and have a nice job offer lined up with a stable company. A couple days ago, a close friend of mine with another company wanted to know if I was willing to start working for his company as a hardware design engineer in April. It would take me another year to get a degree (taking classes part-time), but the job pays really well, and there's the potential to become very wealthy with stock options. But knowing the market, I have no clue if I should take the risk of working for a small startup with potential, or take the safe job after I get my degree. This article gave me something else to digest.
"He can have almost any Web page removed from the Internet in hours."
I had something similar to this happen once. A fellow college student didn't like something I had posted on a Tripod web page involving our student government elections. He told them that he had copyright ownership of the material under the DMCA, even though he clearly did not. My page was taken down immediately, and I was told that I would need a lawyer to get it back. Alas, the guy behind the whole thing was forced to resign as student goverment president just last week for misuse of funds.... happiest day of my life.:-)
A large minority of my college friends are "former" tech support workers, and many of them are clueless. Especially that one hippy dude who always bitched about it while toking up.
Even better, Pong was originally built with an oscilloscope. There was not really any discrete logic. I had an optional project in one of my electrical engineering classes that consisted of building pong on an oscilloscope with no digital logic.
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Well, heck, look at the Buckeye Egg farms over the past couple decades. I grew up with the smell of the chickens in Croton, OH, then they expanded to other towns in the state. They've been getting slaps on the wrist from the EPA for their rampant health and safety violations....
How do you like your scotch?
I went southeast of Columbus and got a good showing from around 12:30am to 2:30 am in the Hocking Hills area. Lots of the larger meteors staying visible and lighting up the sky. When I returned to Columbus at about 3:45, I can see some of the larger ones even with the city glow....
That was YOU?
I thought it was Dave....
Yeah, should've. At least you HAVE a job, though. My job offer got rescinded when I went on the road trip. I'm now an EE grad student at OSU. It makes me feel old...... sorta like you... :-)
At least I got to have a pool party when I lived there.
Hey, Brian, hope you like Dayton. Go Crew :-)
James
Jeffry Dahmer (as well as Jack Nicklaus) did not stay in Taylor specifically, though.
Taylor wasn't built yet when Nicklaus went to OSU, back around 1960. Dahmer supposedly lived in Lincoln or Morrill.
Does it bother anyone else that they had a memorial, with "Ave Marie," "Take A Closer Walk with Me," and "Here I Am Lord" being sung, all for an operating system? In NEW YORK CITY? With all the death and destruction nearby, they hold a funeral for DOS.
On a lighter note, DOS will always be alive in my apartment as long as I keep hording old computer equipment. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, DOS without end. Amen. Amen.
> The British are still using inches, feet, gallons,
> punds and so on.
And most importantly, PINTS!
Jeez, you must be like trippin' or something. Holy Jesus! What are these god-damn horse theives!
I think the word you mean wasn't "fascist," but "flashist", which of course is a hint at your obvious propensity towards public nudity.
For Sale: 10 aging "DSL modems" in my closet SoundBlaster brand...
What I don't understand is, when Dell is just a me-too cloner bolting parts together and not innovating a thing, how can they not even be able to do that right and still stay in business?
Actually, Dell doesn't just assemble parts, I was offered a design engineering job for the 4-processor and above systems. I didn't take the job, but I did find out that they actually do a lot of design work, some with the OEMs, some with custom parts.
Oh, and I don't think this is the first time they've had laptops that catch fire. At their interview, I heard a vague reference to them cutting their first line of laptops because they had a tendancy to catch fire.
As a side note, their corporate culture was VERY "we wanna be #1 at EVERYTHING." I've seen employees that love their work, but some of them were just a little to psychotic about beating Compaq and their other competitors. Kinda freaky.
He wasn't "arrested," he was "detained." I don't think he was ever formally charged, merely questioned to a pulp.
You drunken bastard.
I can survive three months with zero income, assuming I don't mind living on macaroni and cheese and switching back to domestic beer.
wow, you've just described my college life.... I can't wait until I graduate....
This is the sort of thing I'm worrying about now. I'm planning on graduating from college in June, and have a nice job offer lined up with a stable company. A couple days ago, a close friend of mine with another company wanted to know if I was willing to start working for his company as a hardware design engineer in April. It would take me another year to get a degree (taking classes part-time), but the job pays really well, and there's the potential to become very wealthy with stock options. But knowing the market, I have no clue if I should take the risk of working for a small startup with potential, or take the safe job after I get my degree. This article gave me something else to digest.
I just wish I still had the tape of that one :-(
there are a few interesting comics online at http://sequentialcomics.com/index2.htm
The print version has some of the most interesting themes I've seen in a long while. I don't remember what exactly is on the web version
"He can have almost any Web page removed from the Internet in hours."
:-)
I had something similar to this happen once. A fellow college student didn't like something I had posted on a Tripod web page involving our student government elections. He told them that he had copyright ownership of the material under the DMCA, even though he clearly did not. My page was taken down immediately, and I was told that I would need a lawyer to get it back. Alas, the guy behind the whole thing was forced to resign as student goverment president just last week for misuse of funds.... happiest day of my life.
but wouldn't that make 8?
3 (first book) + 5 (other five books) = 8
unless you count Brian's prequels...
Oh, wait, this had nothing to do with the intent of the post...
A large minority of my college friends are "former" tech support workers, and many of them are clueless. Especially that one hippy dude who always bitched about it while toking up.
>>This sounds like a clone of OpenBSD.
It's not a clone of anything. It's a set of scripts to help secure a previously installed Red Hat box.
Even better, Pong was originally built with an oscilloscope. There was not really any discrete logic. I had an optional project in one of my electrical engineering classes that consisted of building pong on an oscilloscope with no digital logic.
Dude, THAT'S why it's taking three months to simulate the first 1/100 second! Tell them to turn SETI@Home off first!
Like everything else, that sounded a lot funnier in my head.....