If they're trying to track what people are buying for illegal uses, those people are probably smart enough to lie. Even if I'm buying batteries I always gave them fake BS, and I'm usually just buying watch batteries there.
the mormon guy who blew some people up in SLC in the early 80's bought the electrical parts from Radio Shack. when investigators though he might be a suspect, they combed RS records (handwritten at the time) from the closest stores and found an alias he'd used elsewhere. they were able to match that and similar aliases to all the parts (the ones from RS anyway) needed to build the bomb, switches, battery holders, etc. enough to help convict him anyway.
moral of my rambling: if you're gonna use a fake name, don't always use the same one. or something like that..
it's the who's who and the first two chapters. someone else may have it in a more readable font...in fact i used to have a link to a much better version, but now i can't find it...did you delete my bookmarks too?
i thought cable was invented so that people who couldn't get good reception could have channels piped in.
Paraphrased from Homer J Hickam's book, "Rocket Boys" (republished as "October Sky"):
"In 1954, the company even provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service."
he said in the book that they were nestled so deep in the mountains they couldn't get a decent signal, so the company mounted a huge antenna and fed it into all the houses.
This is not a perfect house -- termite damage, ancient furnace, etc -- but it "has character".
character certainly counts, but i was talking more about the newer subdivisions. my sister's neighborhood has had some houses for sale for almost a year. part of it may be their location, but part of it is that not many people want to buy a house right now. i know a lady in real estate and she's also telling me that some of the builders are going out of their minds cause the houses won't sell no matter what they do. A friend of mine constantly gets calls from one site he visited saying they'll throw in this or that if they'll reconsider the house.
the subdivisions in the nicer parts where i live are full of people who bought huge houses during the tech boom, and now that they've lost their jobs or taken paycuts, they can't afford the payments on them anymore. with so many people in the same boat, $400-500k houses are going for "only" $300-350k (although the taxes on them are still for the actual value of the house, which stops some people from jumping on these steals), but nobody can afford them anyway.
even stranger though, the same companies that are having trouble selling are predicting record sales. housing starts are up, building permits are up..curiouser and curiouser...
i heard/read somewhere that for the original Mission:Impossible series (not the 90's version show or the Cruise vehicles), they strived to use only those gadgets that were realistically possible at that time.
in a market downturn like right now, unless he's willing to basically eat the cost of his current house, he's not gonna be able to get a new one. builders are having trouble selling new houses right now, how can you expect him to compete with his 1-3 year old house that maybe needs a fresh coat of paint inside, maybe some nicer carpet, etc.
i know someone who's been shopping for houses most of this year, and they keep saying that most builders are having to sell houses that are coming back to them because the original buyer couldn't sell their old house to pay for the new one. he told me one particular builder in his area was reducing the price by 10's of thousands, offering to pay for all appliances, and one even offered to rip out the carpet in one (large) room and replace it with tile at no extra cost.
twiddling settings is annoying for the user, if they choose to turn it off and on..
stuff like this makes me glad i loaded mozilla on my wife's pc at home, then went to http://xulplanet.com to download the preferences toolbar. she learned quickly to be able to turn javascript on and off at her whim, from a simple toolbar.
i worked for a smaller company (12 employees), and i can tell you the paperwork hassle just for one person was enough to justify an office manager, and they didn't even have a real office.
in fact, every small company i've worked for, the paperwork has always been a daunting part of it. tax forms, insurance forms, benefits forms, handling the customer, billing the customer, bill management, etc. it all adds up to time that comes from that commision you're company gets.
not everyone wants outlets in every room for aesthetic reasons, no matter how nice you could make it look. if you went to resell it, there's always going to be some who would consider all that extra cable in the walls a reason for you to lower the price..
i believe you could also program how it would alert you when you activated the alarm. there was a silent lights flashing option, a honk the horn option, and i think a honk the horn and flash the lights option. i think there was also a way to change what doors unlocked when you turned the key in the driver's door.
i know on the 98/99 alero you could program the remote to open in different ways. i think the options were for open only the driver's door or open all the doors. i don't remember how to program it (it was a rental), but it was buried deep in the manual somewhere.
Office Depot/Max sells folding tables for about $30 each (depending on the size). wanna make it look nice? buy a $5 table cloth to hide the wires goin' down the back of the table.
if you'd been working for ten years doing network/system administration, was knowledgable in more OS's than the CS prof could name, and basically really knew what you were doing when it came to IT, would you want to take a beginners compsci class, "intro to MS Office" before you could start on your way to a different degree?
college may provide background knowledge (mathematics, system architecture...) that may be lacking in the labor world but is useful for designin' complex systems
a friend of mine who went to college is always the first one i go to when i'm starting a complicated project, mainly because his CS degree involved learning the differences in different algorithms for proccessing input, and he can give me clues as to which ones i'll need to use. OTOH, for his 4+ years of college compared to my -1 year, we both earn almost the same, the difference created by the fact that he entered this field a little before i did.
that depends on the quality of the people administrating the surveys. when i worked for a phone survey company the supervisors monitored most of our calls randomly. anyone not asking the exact question on the screen was reprimanded. also, we were told that the respondents answers should come from them. an answer of "yeah" to a multiple choice question isn't supposed to be interpreted, although i know that happens a lot. but at my old job they were pretty strict about stuff like that, and i know some even got fired for falsifying answers.
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there are actually four seasons in texas:
1) early summer 2) summer 3) late summer 4) winter
just because a cable installer knows "A", doesn't mean he's familiar with "B".
i used to work at a phone company and the product managers there could talk to death about frame relay lines, phone switching equipment, etc, and they really knew what they were talking about. but they couldn't figure out how to log into their machines or how to change their password.
my wife just prints out recipes she's not familiar with and uses them while cooking. that way she doesn't have to worry about spilling anything on a cookbook and not being able to see the recipe or spilling anything on a laptop and blowing it up.
why don't you get an external usb floppy drive. they aren't nearly as expensive as an additional battery or a power supply, i think they're around $50.
depends on if he's storing the stuff or if he's hiring movers. if either, i wouldn't write the contents on the box, too easy for a thief to steal from..."oh, this one has his special edition DVD's, wonder how much i could sell those for. i think these'll 'fall off the truck'."
is that without kitchen sq footage? what about bathrooms? i know some homebuilders add in the garage to their sqft measurements, do you vacuum closets? pantry? the tiled entryway? i know some people vacuum anything, even if it isn't carpeted, but we only sweep the tiled parts of our apartment.
probably not a whole lot knocked off there, and if you have enough furniture, i'm sure most people won't move the big heavy stuff to vacuum more than once or twice a year.
i'd also say go for a notification if the usage suddenly jumps. if so, maybe the site could throw up a less bandwidth-hogging page, simple text or even a link to mirror sites or something.
sheesh, i was actually more concerned that after all his training he didn't seem to paying too much attention to his speedometer to know he was going 145MPH...
Americans are averse to paying $50 a month for faster access to email
i think there was a recent study that noted that the majority or americans with internet access kept to dialup because they consider broadband too expensive. read between the lines what you will from that..
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If they're trying to track what people are buying for illegal uses, those people are probably smart enough to lie. Even if I'm buying batteries I always gave them fake BS, and I'm usually just buying watch batteries there.
the mormon guy who blew some people up in SLC in the early 80's bought the electrical parts from Radio Shack. when investigators though he might be a suspect, they combed RS records (handwritten at the time) from the closest stores and found an alias he'd used elsewhere. they were able to match that and similar aliases to all the parts (the ones from RS anyway) needed to build the bomb, switches, battery holders, etc. enough to help convict him anyway.
moral of my rambling: if you're gonna use a fake name, don't always use the same one. or something like that..
http://www.symonds.net/~roshan/books/hackers.html
it's the who's who and the first two chapters. someone else may have it in a more readable font...in fact i used to have a link to a much better version, but now i can't find it...did you delete my bookmarks too?
i thought cable was invented so that people who couldn't get good reception could have channels piped in.
Paraphrased from Homer J Hickam's book, "Rocket Boys" (republished as "October Sky"):
"In 1954, the company even provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service."
he said in the book that they were nestled so deep in the mountains they couldn't get a decent signal, so the company mounted a huge antenna and fed it into all the houses.
This is not a perfect house -- termite damage, ancient furnace, etc -- but it "has character".
character certainly counts, but i was talking more about the newer subdivisions. my sister's neighborhood has had some houses for sale for almost a year. part of it may be their location, but part of it is that not many people want to buy a house right now. i know a lady in real estate and she's also telling me that some of the builders are going out of their minds cause the houses won't sell no matter what they do. A friend of mine constantly gets calls from one site he visited saying they'll throw in this or that if they'll reconsider the house.
the subdivisions in the nicer parts where i live are full of people who bought huge houses during the tech boom, and now that they've lost their jobs or taken paycuts, they can't afford the payments on them anymore. with so many people in the same boat, $400-500k houses are going for "only" $300-350k (although the taxes on them are still for the actual value of the house, which stops some people from jumping on these steals), but nobody can afford them anyway.
even stranger though, the same companies that are having trouble selling are predicting record sales. housing starts are up, building permits are up..curiouser and curiouser...
i heard/read somewhere that for the original Mission:Impossible series (not the 90's version show or the Cruise vehicles), they strived to use only those gadgets that were realistically possible at that time.
anyone hear this too?
Sell the house and buy a cheaper one.
in a market downturn like right now, unless he's willing to basically eat the cost of his current house, he's not gonna be able to get a new one. builders are having trouble selling new houses right now, how can you expect him to compete with his 1-3 year old house that maybe needs a fresh coat of paint inside, maybe some nicer carpet, etc.
i know someone who's been shopping for houses most of this year, and they keep saying that most builders are having to sell houses that are coming back to them because the original buyer couldn't sell their old house to pay for the new one. he told me one particular builder in his area was reducing the price by 10's of thousands, offering to pay for all appliances, and one even offered to rip out the carpet in one (large) room and replace it with tile at no extra cost.
twiddling settings is annoying for the user, if they choose to turn it off and on..
stuff like this makes me glad i loaded mozilla on my wife's pc at home, then went to http://xulplanet.com to download the preferences toolbar. she learned quickly to be able to turn javascript on and off at her whim, from a simple toolbar.
i worked for a smaller company (12 employees), and i can tell you the paperwork hassle just for one person was enough to justify an office manager, and they didn't even have a real office.
in fact, every small company i've worked for, the paperwork has always been a daunting part of it. tax forms, insurance forms, benefits forms, handling the customer, billing the customer, bill management, etc. it all adds up to time that comes from that commision you're company gets.
not everyone wants outlets in every room for aesthetic reasons, no matter how nice you could make it look. if you went to resell it, there's always going to be some who would consider all that extra cable in the walls a reason for you to lower the price..
i believe you could also program how it would alert you when you activated the alarm. there was a silent lights flashing option, a honk the horn option, and i think a honk the horn and flash the lights option. i think there was also a way to change what doors unlocked when you turned the key in the driver's door.
i know on the 98/99 alero you could program the remote to open in different ways. i think the options were for open only the driver's door or open all the doors. i don't remember how to program it (it was a rental), but it was buried deep in the manual somewhere.
Office Depot/Max sells folding tables for about $30 each (depending on the size). wanna make it look nice? buy a $5 table cloth to hide the wires goin' down the back of the table.
if you'd been working for ten years doing network/system administration, was knowledgable in more OS's than the CS prof could name, and basically really knew what you were doing when it came to IT, would you want to take a beginners compsci class, "intro to MS Office" before you could start on your way to a different degree?
college may provide background knowledge (mathematics, system architecture...) that may be lacking in the labor world but is useful for designin' complex systems
a friend of mine who went to college is always the first one i go to when i'm starting a complicated project, mainly because his CS degree involved learning the differences in different algorithms for proccessing input, and he can give me clues as to which ones i'll need to use. OTOH, for his 4+ years of college compared to my -1 year, we both earn almost the same, the difference created by the fact that he entered this field a little before i did.
Add to that a foreign accent and she's a knockout.
then i feel sorry for english guys, they don't think she has an accent..
that depends on the quality of the people administrating the surveys. when i worked for a phone survey company the supervisors monitored most of our calls randomly. anyone not asking the exact question on the screen was reprimanded. also, we were told that the respondents answers should come from them. an answer of "yeah" to a multiple choice question isn't supposed to be interpreted, although i know that happens a lot. but at my old job they were pretty strict about stuff like that, and i know some even got fired for falsifying answers.
there are actually four seasons in texas:
1) early summer
2) summer
3) late summer
4) winter
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just because a cable installer knows "A", doesn't mean he's familiar with "B".
i used to work at a phone company and the product managers there could talk to death about frame relay lines, phone switching equipment, etc, and they really knew what they were talking about. but they couldn't figure out how to log into their machines or how to change their password.
my wife just prints out recipes she's not familiar with and uses them while cooking. that way she doesn't have to worry about spilling anything on a cookbook and not being able to see the recipe or spilling anything on a laptop and blowing it up.
why don't you get an external usb floppy drive. they aren't nearly as expensive as an additional battery or a power supply, i think they're around $50.
depends on if he's storing the stuff or if he's hiring movers. if either, i wouldn't write the contents on the box, too easy for a thief to steal from..."oh, this one has his special edition DVD's, wonder how much i could sell those for. i think these'll 'fall off the truck'."
my house which measures in at about 2000 sq. ft,
is that without kitchen sq footage? what about bathrooms? i know some homebuilders add in the garage to their sqft measurements, do you vacuum closets? pantry? the tiled entryway? i know some people vacuum anything, even if it isn't carpeted, but we only sweep the tiled parts of our apartment.
probably not a whole lot knocked off there, and if you have enough furniture, i'm sure most people won't move the big heavy stuff to vacuum more than once or twice a year.
i'd also say go for a notification if the usage suddenly jumps. if so, maybe the site could throw up a less bandwidth-hogging page, simple text or even a link to mirror sites or something.
sheesh, i was actually more concerned that after all his training he didn't seem to paying too much attention to his speedometer to know he was going 145MPH...
Americans are averse to paying $50 a month for faster access to email
i think there was a recent study that noted that the majority or americans with internet access kept to dialup because they consider broadband too expensive. read between the lines what you will from that..