ROFL... The protectors one oaref Larry Niven's coolest ideas. Of course, for another interesting story about a monopole hunter, check out The Borderland of Sol (a Bey Schaffer (sp?) story).
From a usability standpoint, I always thought it was odd that after changing your password with ctrl-alt-del, you have to hit "cancel" because there is no "ok" button.
I accidentally installed runit (debian dependencies that I didn't notice) and now my system doesn't boot.. completely. I can't even log in remotely to change it back. Oh well, I guess it is time to go physically use the console.
Or if you want something that is actually realistic, go read Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven, which is by far the best work on the subject I've ever encountered.
This is quite true. If they are wanting you to work extra unpaid overtime, that is definitely against the law. My solution is to show up exactly on time, and when it is time to quit, I just stop working. I am a hard worker, and they know it. If you are on a deadline and can't finish in time, the deadline was probably wrong, and you should bring it up in the next meeting. As long as this is not a frequent occurence, they won't care. However, if you are always complaining about bad deadlines, you may want to consider a) working harder, or b) working more closely with management to get more realistic deadlines.
Every college campus I have ever seen has bike racks all over the place. You could put a bike rack on your car, and you would probably go from 20 minutes walking from parking to work to 5 on a bike. In fact, I have known several professors and staff members who dispense with the bike rack and ride right into their office. In addition, many public transit systems such as buses allow bikes. Furthermore, if you aren't too far from campus, you could ride right from home. One piece of advice though, get a fender for your back wheel so you don't get a brown streak on your back when it rains.
Fortunately, I think that if the cable is strong enough to support its own weight, the extra tension of a plane running into it will not break it. Also, planes can't go very high relative to the CM of the cable, so they could just reel out / manufacture in orbit a few more kilometers of cable.
Bruce: G'day, Bruce! Bruce: Oh, Hello Bruce! Bruce: How are you Bruce? Bruce: A bit crook, Bruce. Bruce: Where's Bruce? Bruce: He's not 'ere, Bruce. Bruce: Blimey, it's hot in here, Bruce. Bruce: Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum! Bruce: That's a strange expression, Bruce. Bruce: Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. "It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty," he said, and she smiled quietly to herself. Bruce: She's a good Sheila, Bruce, and not at all stuck up. Bruce: Here! Here's the boss-fellow now! Bruce: 'Ow are you, Bruce? Bruce: G'day, Bruce! Bruce: Bruce. Bruce: Hello, Bruce. Bruce: Bruce. Bruce: How are you, Bruce? Bruce: G'day, Bruce. Bruce: Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce a man from Pommyland who is joinin' us this year in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wooloomooloo. EveryBruce: G'day! Michael Baldwin: Hello. Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Bruce: Is your name not Bruce? Michael: No, it's Michael. Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion. Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear? Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer. Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!! EveryBruce: Amen! Bruce: Crack tube! (Bottles opening) Bruce: Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr. Baldwin to the philosophy faculty. Bruce: I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here. EveryBruce: Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce! Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Hegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip. Bruce: What's New-Bruce going to teach? Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Benton, Lockholm, Sackly, Millbo, Hasset, and Bernerd. Bruce: Those are all cricketers! Bruce: Aww, spit! Bruce: Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce! EveryBruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, amen! Bruce: Another two! (Bottles opening) Bruce: Any questions? Bruce: New-Bruce, are you a Poofter? Bruce: Are you a Poofter? New-Bruce: No! Bruce: No. Right, I just want to remind you of the faculty rules:
Rule One! (Everybruce) No Poofters!
Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching.
Rule Three? (Everybruce) No Poofters!!
Rule Four, now this term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking.
Rule Five, (Everybruce) No Poofters!
Rule Six, there is NO... Rule Six.
Rule Seven, (Everybruce) No Poofters!!
Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce. Bruce: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand. EveryBruce: Amen!
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is a very cool use of this idea. An unknown source has "leaked" fragments of a mysterious film onto the Internet, causing an almost cult following.
but that doesn't stop someone from releasing a cracked version to the warez sites. When your program connects to the reg server, it either has to modify the executable, or store some junk in the registry. Even if the program sends its serial number every time to the site, crackers will just cut out that piece of code doing the check.
I have always found it to be annoying that some places use EZ Pass, some use SmartTag/SmartPass, and some use Speedpass. I would love to see those all be consolidated. Maybe MasterCard should buy all those others and unify the whole thing...
If you are going to quote somebody, use copy/paste. Otherwise, your brain's internal filter silently "fixes" the text, adding a letter q that wasn't in the original, thus missing out on a fairly funny Dilbert reference. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the letter Q into a privet bush.
no signature is required for purchases less than $50. Go to an airport sometime, most of the vendors don't give you a signature slip. Same with pay-at-the-pump gas stations. Of course, online sales are a whole other ball of wax.
I have a PNY usb SD reader, under linux it shows up as a scsi disk (/dev/sda1) and fdisk works fine. Apparently, Windows XP is brain-dead and will not allow (either via the command line utility diskpart or via the graphical disk manager) partitioning of removable media. I thought third party utilities were available, but after searching google and download.com, I am surprised to say that I don't know of any way to do it under XP. If anyone knows of such a thing, I would love to know about it
That is cool. I currently have a TDMA phone, with free nationwide roaming. The phone is based out of Springfield, MO, even though I now live in Maryland. This means that ALL my calls are roaming! This weekend, I am going on vacation back to Springfield, and I will be buying the T62U. I hope I can keep the same plan, because the current plans, while having the cool rollover feature, are lacking in other areas such as free wireless internet.
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Is it legal to broadcast/recieve extremely low power transmissions on the cell phone frequencies w/o a license from the fcc?
ROFL... The protectors one oaref Larry Niven's coolest ideas. Of course, for another interesting story about a monopole hunter, check out The Borderland of Sol (a Bey Schaffer (sp?) story).
From a usability standpoint, I always thought it was odd that after changing your password with ctrl-alt-del, you have to hit "cancel" because there is no "ok" button.
I accidentally installed runit (debian dependencies that I didn't notice) and now my system doesn't boot.. completely. I can't even log in remotely to change it back. Oh well, I guess it is time to go physically use the console.
What do you think the Blight was?
Errr, actualy, OpenOffice is already a fork of Sun's product, StarOffice. Notice how StarOffice is not free...
Or if you want something that is actually realistic, go read Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven, which is by far the best work on the subject I've ever encountered.
This is quite true. If they are wanting you to work extra unpaid overtime, that is definitely against the law. My solution is to show up exactly on time, and when it is time to quit, I just stop working. I am a hard worker, and they know it. If you are on a deadline and can't finish in time, the deadline was probably wrong, and you should bring it up in the next meeting. As long as this is not a frequent occurence, they won't care. However, if you are always complaining about bad deadlines, you may want to consider a) working harder, or b) working more closely with management to get more realistic deadlines.
Every college campus I have ever seen has bike racks all over the place. You could put a bike rack on your car, and you would probably go from 20 minutes walking from parking to work to 5 on a bike. In fact, I have known several professors and staff members who dispense with the bike rack and ride right into their office. In addition, many public transit systems such as buses allow bikes. Furthermore, if you aren't too far from campus, you could ride right from home. One piece of advice though, get a fender for your back wheel so you don't get a brown streak on your back when it rains.
Fortunately, I think that if the cable is strong enough to support its own weight, the extra tension of a plane running into it will not break it. Also, planes can't go very high relative to the CM of the cable, so they could just reel out / manufacture in orbit a few more kilometers of cable.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, they bonded the filaments with a double helix of diamond, which seems like an interesting solution.
The Bruces
... Rule Six.
Bruce: G'day, Bruce!
Bruce: Oh, Hello Bruce!
Bruce: How are you Bruce?
Bruce: A bit crook, Bruce.
Bruce: Where's Bruce?
Bruce: He's not 'ere, Bruce.
Bruce: Blimey, it's hot in here, Bruce.
Bruce: Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
Bruce: That's a strange expression, Bruce.
Bruce: Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. "It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty," he said, and she smiled quietly to herself.
Bruce: She's a good Sheila, Bruce, and not at all stuck up.
Bruce: Here! Here's the boss-fellow now!
Bruce: 'Ow are you, Bruce?
Bruce: G'day, Bruce!
Bruce: Bruce.
Bruce: Hello, Bruce.
Bruce: Bruce.
Bruce: How are you, Bruce?
Bruce: G'day, Bruce.
Bruce: Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce a man from Pommyland who is joinin' us this year in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wooloomooloo.
EveryBruce: G'day!
Michael Baldwin: Hello.
Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce.
Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?
Michael: No, it's Michael.
Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.
Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?
Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.
Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!
EveryBruce: Amen!
Bruce: Crack tube! (Bottles opening)
Bruce: Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr. Baldwin to the philosophy faculty.
Bruce: I'd like to welcome the pommy bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.
EveryBruce: Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!
Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Hegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip.
Bruce: What's New-Bruce going to teach?
Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Benton, Lockholm, Sackly, Millbo, Hasset, and Bernerd.
Bruce: Those are all cricketers!
Bruce: Aww, spit!
Bruce: Howls of derisive laughter, Bruce!
EveryBruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you, amen!
Bruce: Another two! (Bottles opening)
Bruce: Any questions?
Bruce: New-Bruce, are you a Poofter?
Bruce: Are you a Poofter?
New-Bruce: No!
Bruce: No. Right, I just want to remind you of the faculty rules:
Rule One! (Everybruce) No Poofters!
Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching.
Rule Three? (Everybruce) No Poofters!!
Rule Four, now this term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking.
Rule Five, (Everybruce) No Poofters!
Rule Six, there is NO
Rule Seven, (Everybruce) No Poofters!!
Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.
Bruce: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
EveryBruce: Amen!
so what you are saying is that we should go back to using leeches for health! :-)
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is a very cool use of this idea. An unknown source has "leaked" fragments of a mysterious film onto the Internet, causing an almost cult following.
but that doesn't stop someone from releasing a cracked version to the warez sites. When your program connects to the reg server, it either has to modify the executable, or store some junk in the registry. Even if the program sends its serial number every time to the site, crackers will just cut out that piece of code doing the check.
I have always found it to be annoying that some places use EZ Pass, some use SmartTag/SmartPass, and some use Speedpass. I would love to see those all be consolidated. Maybe MasterCard should buy all those others and unify the whole thing...
If you are going to quote somebody, use copy/paste. Otherwise, your brain's internal filter silently "fixes" the text, adding a letter q that wasn't in the original, thus missing out on a fairly funny Dilbert reference. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the letter Q into a privet bush.
no signature is required for purchases less than $50. Go to an airport sometime, most of the vendors don't give you a signature slip. Same with pay-at-the-pump gas stations. Of course, online sales are a whole other ball of wax.
Too bad, I was just getting ready to use GNUcash for keeping track of my income as a bookie/pimp/hitman!
I have a PNY usb SD reader, under linux it shows up as a scsi disk (/dev/sda1) and fdisk works fine. Apparently, Windows XP is brain-dead and will not allow (either via the command line utility diskpart or via the graphical disk manager) partitioning of removable media. I thought third party utilities were available, but after searching google and download.com, I am surprised to say that I don't know of any way to do it under XP. If anyone knows of such a thing, I would love to know about it
Since everyone else is mentioning books that you could read to them, how about The Martian Way one of the all time great Asimov stories.
most usb drives just use a standard partition table with fat32 filesystems
That would be rather frustrating. I have seen several temporary/permanent towers (on a semi-truck bed etc.) in parking lots.
That is cool. I currently have a TDMA phone, with free nationwide roaming. The phone is based out of Springfield, MO, even though I now live in Maryland. This means that ALL my calls are roaming! This weekend, I am going on vacation back to Springfield, and I will be buying the T62U. I hope I can keep the same plan, because the current plans, while having the cool rollover feature, are lacking in other areas such as free wireless internet.