some time ago I droped out of society, that is I unpluged the TV stopped listening to the radio, dropped my newspaper subscription, etc. I am happy about that. At work recently they started turnig on the TV in the break room, and I watched a little, The sitcoms were as unfunny as I remember, but what shocked and appalled me was how fucking rude everybody is on TV. The characters on the shows were willfully stupid, arrogant, and unwilling to follow directions. Children mimic what they see, and if they watch that drivel I can see why we have such strong anti-intellectualism. Now I take my break in my car and avoid the whole mess. The point is, that we need to unplug the children from the box, not just my children, but eveybodys children. The box seems to part of the problem
I Just installed Ubuntu And got the BSOD,followed by the frowny face mac, followed by a the screen caused by a crashed C64, Ahh such a great screen-saver.
It is a tiny problem for them, because it hasn't started to cost them money. They could give half a crap if my info was sold to anyone, it doesn't effect them at all. There is quite a bit that could be done with this data, from it you can build social webs, For example Bob bought a brand new *foo* Brad is his friend, so perhap we can intrest Brad in a loan to also purchase a *foo*. I am sure there are dozens of other things that could be found from this info. I say make the company who releases my personal information pay me a hefty chunk of change, and it will stop being a tiny problem for them.
This is the third time I have tried to switch to linux, The first two times went badly and I gave up (if you care Redhat in 2001, and Suse in 2003). I have tried Ubuntu and the installation went smooth, the applications work easy, and haven't even seen the comand line once. Everything works, that wasn't true before, The installation was easier than the last windows install I did, and for a school enviroment being somewhat incompatable with most games (and Viruses) seems like a huge plus. I think It's ready and everything works just the way I am used to, (except that the status bar is at the top wierd how much that bugs me). The kids shouldn't have any problems doing what they are supposed to with the computers.
The guy we used his little company is called wink weddings, he used medium format (real film), and was happy to give us the negitives. His candids were awsoem, but his formals leave something to be desired. He was expensive, but his results were worth it. He took 17 rolls and and provided prints of all of them. But Aak about the negitives early and if they won't give them don't work that person. There are dozens of photographers and you will find one that will give the negitives, he may cost more up front but it will be worth it in the end
To find subtley malicous code in an open source project, we first must know what it looks like. Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks to read and learn from. It is sort of like the computer version of a bomb squad.
But we welcome the highly skilled americans who wish to join us in Euroland:) I wish you really did, but it apears very difficult to meet the requirments to move and get work. My wife and I have been researching moving to France, and it apears unlikley that we would be able to work. They have strong policies against hiring people fromoutside the EU. Kind of a shame we are both college eductaed and strong in our fields
Most people feel that way, and I certainly do as well, but many usability studies have been done and for menu based commands the mouse is faster than arrow keys and drop menus. If what we are talking about is hot keys, then there is some speed gain, but I have found that for most select cut and paste operations (even in text editors) the mouse/hot key combination seems to be fastest.
In the peoples republic of california, we can buy both booze, and beer in the supermarket. There are still specialty liquer stoores, but they sell the more expensive uncommon hard alcohols. License is required to serve alcohol, and a beer and wine licence is different than a hard liquer license. Some local resteraunts who can't get the license will alow you to bring your own bottle.
As long as consumption is close to 80% of production it doesn't matter what the price is. To say it better, I only have 200,000 machines this year, I can sell 185,000 for $400 or I can sell all of them for $300. As long as I keep my price in line with what the segment of the population will pay, and keep my inventory low (as opposed to have zero inventory with a ton of preorders) I am going to make a ton of cash, and still keep my game distributers happy. The important thing to remeber is that the intial production run will sell even at $500 a pop,
When the PS2 was launched you couldn't find one to buy for close to six months, because it was priced too low and demand far outstriped production. Sony doesn't want to make that mistake again. Hard core gamers are willing to pay 400 to be the first on the bock with the latest system. six months later drop the price $50 and get the slightly less hardcore, repeat untill you hit market saturation.
We have two people, both scumbags that the authorities would like to catch, who most likly would prefer to never meet of know each others names. Niether one is trustworthy (even with nasal mist). They can't meet because they are likley in widely separated areas. They can't use a electronic transfer because it leaves a paper trail. how do they move the money around?
The filter change only needs to happen if you have been running "normal" Deisel for a while. When you change over to Bio it disolves all the crud (from the pump fuel) on the inside of your tank and it ends up clogging the fuel filter. If you always ran bio no change is needed
French imegration law does suck. It is nearly impossible for an american to get a job in France. I have been looking into bailing from the handbasket, and France seems lik a nice place to do it, but that looks to be impossible.
iRobot, thecompany that makes the Roomba, also makes the packbot for the army which can interface with a shotgun or other firear, so in a sense it already exists.
There is a little mirror in the CPG (front seat) section, its purpose is to allow the guy in the front seat to see the guy in the back seat. I would imagine that most of the aircraft cockpit mirrors have similar functions.
good software does deserve good money, (after all I did buy office) but the amount of money is well out of hand, the software is very easy to pirate and it is priced out of the reach of many of its users. One solution is adobes attempt with photoshop elements, but it has a reputaion for being so dumbed down that no one uses it unless it comes with the computer. And makng MS works (file format it uses as default) incompatable with office is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
The most commonly copied software I hear about are. 1. Windos OS of the month 2. microsoft office 3. Adobe Photoshop Why? because they are all way over priced, and have acceptable free alternatives. If software is priced properly then it is not worth searching through the virus and bug ridden back alleys of warez looking for the latest version. The free versions aren't used by as many people because there is a percieved lack of quality in them. (I said percieved. I used open office in 2001 and it was good except the spread sheet program didn't do curve fits worth a damn. That feature is important to me so I bought Office)
It was called DivX (not to be confused with the encoding scheme) circuit city was tried launching it at the same time as normal DVDs. In case you forgot, you paid around $10 for a DVD and old watch it for 2 days, if you wanted to watch it again you could pay $5 and watch it for 2 more days, o pay another $10 to unlock the video forever. People hated it, the only remnent is a character on penny-arcade.
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I tried your link and got this
"Your operating system is not currently supported by Windows Media Player."
some time ago I droped out of society, that is I unpluged the TV stopped listening to the radio, dropped my newspaper subscription, etc. I am happy about that. At work recently they started turnig on the TV in the break room, and I watched a little, The sitcoms were as unfunny as I remember, but what shocked and appalled me was how fucking rude everybody is on TV.
The characters on the shows were willfully stupid, arrogant, and unwilling to follow directions.
Children mimic what they see, and if they watch that drivel I can see why we have such strong anti-intellectualism.
Now I take my break in my car and avoid the whole mess.
The point is, that we need to unplug the children from the box, not just my children, but eveybodys children. The box seems to part of the problem
I Just installed Ubuntu And got the BSOD,followed by the frowny face mac, followed by a the screen caused by a crashed C64, Ahh such a great screen-saver.
It is a tiny problem for them, because it hasn't started to cost them money. They could give half a crap if my info was sold to anyone, it doesn't effect them at all.
There is quite a bit that could be done with this data, from it you can build social webs, For example Bob bought a brand new *foo* Brad is his friend, so perhap we can intrest Brad in a loan to also purchase a *foo*.
I am sure there are dozens of other things that could be found from this info.
I say make the company who releases my personal information pay me a hefty chunk of change, and it will stop being a tiny problem for them.
Both, or perhaps niether
This is the third time I have tried to switch to linux, The first two times went badly and I gave up
(if you care Redhat in 2001, and Suse in 2003).
I have tried Ubuntu and the installation went smooth, the applications work easy, and haven't even seen the comand line once.
Everything works, that wasn't true before, The installation was easier than the last windows install I did, and for a school enviroment being somewhat incompatable with most games (and Viruses) seems like a huge plus.
I think It's ready and everything works just the way I am used to, (except that the status bar is at the top wierd how much that bugs me).
The kids shouldn't have any problems doing what they are supposed to with the computers.
"It's not that helicopters actualy fly. It's that they beat the air into submission" --Helicopter mechanic
A helicopter is a collection of spare parts flying in close formation, centered on an oil leak.
(I used to "fix" helicopters)
The guy we used his little company is called wink weddings, he used medium format (real film), and was happy to give us the negitives. His candids were awsoem, but his formals leave something to be desired. He was expensive, but his results were worth it. He took 17 rolls and and provided prints of all of them. But Aak about the negitives early and if they won't give them don't work that person. There are dozens of photographers and you will find one that will give the negitives, he may cost more up front but it will be worth it in the end
To find subtley malicous code in an open source project, we first must know what it looks like. Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks to read and learn from.
It is sort of like the computer version of a bomb squad.
But we welcome the highly skilled americans who wish to join us in Euroland:)
I wish you really did, but it apears very difficult to meet the requirments to move and get work. My wife and I have been researching moving to France, and it apears unlikley that we would be able to work. They have strong policies against hiring people fromoutside the EU. Kind of a shame we are both college eductaed and strong in our fields
Most people feel that way, and I certainly do as well, but many usability studies have been done and for menu based commands the mouse is faster than arrow keys and drop menus.
If what we are talking about is hot keys, then there is some speed gain, but I have found that for most select cut and paste operations (even in text editors) the mouse/hot key combination seems to be fastest.
Oh and the article is already down.
In high school (california), I got a 45 in a 25 and it was a $250 fine.
In Texas 70 in a 50 got me $100
In kentucky 35 in a 25 got me $50
In the peoples republic of california, we can buy both booze, and beer in the supermarket. There are still specialty liquer stoores, but they sell the more expensive uncommon hard alcohols. License is required to serve alcohol, and a beer and wine licence is different than a hard liquer license.
Some local resteraunts who can't get the license will alow you to bring your own bottle.
As long as consumption is close to 80% of production it doesn't matter what the price is.
To say it better, I only have 200,000 machines this year, I can sell 185,000 for $400 or I can sell all of them for $300. As long as I keep my price in line with what the segment of the population will pay, and keep my inventory low (as opposed to have zero inventory with a ton of preorders) I am going to make a ton of cash, and still keep my game distributers happy.
The important thing to remeber is that the intial production run will sell even at $500 a pop,
When the PS2 was launched you couldn't find one to buy for close to six months, because it was priced too low and demand far outstriped production. Sony doesn't want to make that mistake again. Hard core gamers are willing to pay 400 to be the first on the bock with the latest system. six months later drop the price $50 and get the slightly less hardcore, repeat untill you hit market saturation.
We have two people, both scumbags that the authorities would like to catch, who most likly would prefer to never meet of know each others names. Niether one is trustworthy (even with nasal mist).
They can't meet because they are likley in widely separated areas.
They can't use a electronic transfer because it leaves a paper trail.
how do they move the money around?
The filter change only needs to happen if you have been running "normal" Deisel for a while. When you change over to Bio it disolves all the crud (from the pump fuel) on the inside of your tank and it ends up clogging the fuel filter.
If you always ran bio no change is needed
having these images apear on the internet would b one of the first step to showing what a sick chirade the entire security at airport scam has been.
French imegration law does suck. It is nearly impossible for an american to get a job in France.
I have been looking into bailing from the handbasket, and France seems lik a nice place to do it, but that looks to be impossible.
iRobot, thecompany that makes the Roomba, also makes the packbot for the army which can interface with a shotgun or other firear, so in a sense it already exists.
There is a little mirror in the CPG (front seat) section, its purpose is to allow the guy in the front seat to see the guy in the back seat.
I would imagine that most of the aircraft cockpit mirrors have similar functions.
good software does deserve good money, (after all I did buy office) but the amount of money is well out of hand, the software is very easy to pirate and it is priced out of the reach of many of its users.
One solution is adobes attempt with photoshop elements, but it has a reputaion for being so dumbed down that no one uses it unless it comes with the computer.
And makng MS works (file format it uses as default) incompatable with office is about the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
The most commonly copied software I hear about are.
1. Windos OS of the month
2. microsoft office
3. Adobe Photoshop
Why? because they are all way over priced, and have acceptable free alternatives. If software is priced properly then it is not worth searching through the virus and bug ridden back alleys of warez looking for the latest version. The free versions aren't used by as many people because there is a percieved lack of quality in them.
(I said percieved. I used open office in 2001 and it was good except the spread sheet program didn't do curve fits worth a damn. That feature is important to me so I bought Office)
It was called DivX (not to be confused with the encoding scheme) circuit city was tried launching it at the same time as normal DVDs. In case you forgot, you paid around $10 for a DVD and old watch it for 2 days, if you wanted to watch it again you could pay $5 and watch it for 2 more days, o pay another $10 to unlock the video forever.
People hated it, the only remnent is a character on penny-arcade.