We'll use cats as an example of animal culture. When cat A sees cat B it us customary for cat A to approach cat B and commence the butt sniffing process, a common greeting among cats. If Cat A is male and determines that cat B is female he will attempt to mount her and thus begins the boinking process. This is the courtship process of cats. The female will either respond by agreeing to mate, or hissing and growling and slapping him with her claws if she does not agree. If both cats are of the same gender they will simply growl and his and slap each other with their front paws. In either event, the cats will then leave the scene of the sex/fight and attempt to find something to eat as food is the driving force in the cat culture. Cats have a very simple language consisting of purrs, hisses, and meows. A purr often means happiness. A hiss means it is angry, and a meow means it wants something. Because the culture is based on food and sex these are the only 3 words the cat really needs. When it is time to use the restroom it is customary for the cat to search for a spot where it can cover its poop if no such spot can be found the cat will simply poop on your carpet. Punishing a cat often seems pointless because after punishment it is customary for the cat to only refrain from pooping on your carpet as long as you are watching. If you aren't looking the cat believes it is once again safe to dookie on your floor. It is also customary in cat cultures for cats that are familiar with one another to lick each other's butt hole as a sign of affection. Licking the butt hole of a friend is similar to a handshake.
I once got Windows 98 to run on a 486DX/33. In order to get it past the "Windows 98 requires a 66 mhz processor" dialog box I started the installation on a faster computer, and then, upon the first reboot I cut the power, moved the hard drive to the 486 and continued the installation from there. It installed and worked fine although it was a bit slow.
I once installed Windows 2000 on a 90Mhz pentium (No MMX) with 32 MB of RAM. It worked but it took 8 minutes to boot and 5 minutes to open IE. I formatted it.
I prefer the dish. Preferably the Dish Network. Even though you may loose the signal when it rains the quality is much higher than cable. And even digital cable can go out if the satelite at the cable company gets blocked by a cloud or a cable falls off a pole. The difference is you don't have to wait for a repair man to fix the cable. You have the dish and you have the digital signal pumped directly to your box. Not only this, but on digital cable, the first 99 channels are not digital. They're analog. It's not until you reach channel 100 do you start getting the digital channels. Every channel on the dish is digital. I'm not quite sure why people worry so much about getting local channels through the dish also, I mean they're local channels, you can turn the dish off and pick them up with an antenna. The type of antenna that snaps to the back of the dish works just fine for that. And you might be able to get a reasonable package that includes local channels. But honestly, I'd rather have around 5 crappy channels with 300 digital channels than 99 crappy channels and maybe 100 digital channels. And no matter what people say cable is just as fragile to weather as the dish. There are miles of cable that can be blown down, and interference and neighbors who steel it from you.
Each piece or component was cleaned, decontaminated, bar-coded, photographed and entered into a computer database.
What gets me is on some hard drive on some server or workstation somewhere at Kennedy Space Center there's probably a folder that's called "Crashed Space Shuttle Data Bases" and a file that's called "Space Shuttle Columbia.mdb". Which I might add is the same folder where they keep "Space Shuttle Challenger.mdb".
I don't think people are giving Enterprise a chance. Look at DS9, one of the best trek series out of all of them. While the first 3 seasons were good the series really began to pick up in the 4th with the dominion war. It took the first 3 seasons for us to get to know the characters and for them to lead up to the 4th/5th seasons where the dominion war took off. Even Voyager had it's good points, and great episodes, and introduced Technology into the trek universe like the EMH and the portable holo-emitter. The EMH was then used in First Contact, one of the best TNG movies. I learned to enjoy Voyager even though at first I compared it to Gilligan's Island in space. Give it a chance to blossom like DS9 did at this stage in it's life instead of killing it before it's time.
Depending on the brand of laptop, I work for a company called Pomeroy IT solutions. I've replaced countless hinges and bezels on laptops without replacing the LCD. If there is a branch near you find it, if not contact me and I'll tell you how to get in contact with someone at the Birmingham branch. You'll have to ship it to them and back. What brand of laptop is it?
It's so bad in Florida now I think the only way to make it work again is to give voter's a crayon so they can circle a picture of the person they like with the name below the picture.
.. but Windows ME! The worst OS Microsoft ever tried to sell. A windows so bad it froze up during installation! A windows so bad that when I had to reboot from a freeze up, scan disk would start, and then freeze up, requiring another reboot, which in turn would cause scan disk to start, and then freeze up again. A windows so bad it only stayed on the market for 9 months, even though it can still be purchased at some walmart stores. Windows ME showed us just how bad windows could truely be.
sarcasm> if they don't want the birds to get killed by the big fans, all they need to do is get a sharp shooter to snipe them before they get too close! Before they know it the number of birds killed by the big fans will be reduced!/sarcasm
Where do you work that allows you to do this to your cube without making you tear it all down? And where do you work that pays you enough money to pay your bills and also blow $34 to turn your cubicle into something you're going to tear down in 2 weeks? I know not all geeks are as poor as me butt I think I'd like an extra $34 in my pocket right now. Please send me an application to this high paying, totally layed back job. Thanks!
.. Outsourcing isn't all that great. I work for a company as an outsourced tech for a bank. We live in constant fear that the bank will get pissed at our company and drop our contract. So even the techs who work as outsourced techs have their problems.
there's currently a test running at an intersection in McLean, Va., where sensors can automatically warn a motorist when another car is approaching, thus helping to avoid a collision."
I have technology similar to that in my car, it's called my eyes!
True.. if you don't mind the embarassment of having E-Machines displayed on your monitor every time it's powered on. Which can be overlooked. But chances are it's a substandard motherboard. I haven't had alot of luck on e-machines. They seem to be one brand that always comes back to me broken to fix.
In earlier times young humans who wished to court went to a place called a "drive-in". The drive in had large "screens" similar to the ones you would find in a modern movie theater. The young humans would park their vehicle in a special lot facing the giant "screens". Next to the vehicle was a "speaker" that attached to the window. Movies were then played on the large "screen" and the sound came through the "speaker". The movie was viewed from inside the vehicle. Some high tech drive-ins could actually broadcast the movie sound on the vehicle's "radio". Drive-in's were popular because of privacy, and they had good "corn dogs". A young human couple wishing more privacy on a date might take a "van" to the drive-in. When this occured the movie was seldom actually viewed as the human couple would be too busy mating in the back of the "van". Though once very popular there are few "drive-ins" left, though some still exist.
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... in the movie... They'll actually age!
It was a joke dude :)
And I have several cats of my own. They can be taught to respond to commands and can be very sociable to each other.
We'll use cats as an example of animal culture. When cat A sees cat B it us customary for cat A to approach cat B and commence the butt sniffing process, a common greeting among cats. If Cat A is male and determines that cat B is female he will attempt to mount her and thus begins the boinking process. This is the courtship process of cats. The female will either respond by agreeing to mate, or hissing and growling and slapping him with her claws if she does not agree. If both cats are of the same gender they will simply growl and his and slap each other with their front paws. In either event, the cats will then leave the scene of the sex/fight and attempt to find something to eat as food is the driving force in the cat culture. Cats have a very simple language consisting of purrs, hisses, and meows. A purr often means happiness. A hiss means it is angry, and a meow means it wants something. Because the culture is based on food and sex these are the only 3 words the cat really needs. When it is time to use the restroom it is customary for the cat to search for a spot where it can cover its poop if no such spot can be found the cat will simply poop on your carpet. Punishing a cat often seems pointless because after punishment it is customary for the cat to only refrain from pooping on your carpet as long as you are watching. If you aren't looking the cat believes it is once again safe to dookie on your floor. It is also customary in cat cultures for cats that are familiar with one another to lick each other's butt hole as a sign of affection. Licking the butt hole of a friend is similar to a handshake.
Yes, this is much like the way Windows accesses data.
.. If the blue on the color chip isn't visible using the infrared filter then the blue in the sky might not be visible either.
I once got Windows 98 to run on a 486DX/33. In order to get it past the "Windows 98 requires a 66 mhz processor" dialog box I started the installation on a faster computer, and then, upon the first reboot I cut the power, moved the hard drive to the 486 and continued the installation from there. It installed and worked fine although it was a bit slow.
I once installed Windows 2000 on a 90Mhz pentium (No MMX) with 32 MB of RAM. It worked but it took 8 minutes to boot and 5 minutes to open IE. I formatted it.
..Basically they're just using Windows XP home edition
I prefer the dish. Preferably the Dish Network. Even though you may loose the signal when it rains the quality is much higher than cable. And even digital cable can go out if the satelite at the cable company gets blocked by a cloud or a cable falls off a pole. The difference is you don't have to wait for a repair man to fix the cable. You have the dish and you have the digital signal pumped directly to your box. Not only this, but on digital cable, the first 99 channels are not digital. They're analog. It's not until you reach channel 100 do you start getting the digital channels. Every channel on the dish is digital. I'm not quite sure why people worry so much about getting local channels through the dish also, I mean they're local channels, you can turn the dish off and pick them up with an antenna. The type of antenna that snaps to the back of the dish works just fine for that. And you might be able to get a reasonable package that includes local channels. But honestly, I'd rather have around 5 crappy channels with 300 digital channels than 99 crappy channels and maybe 100 digital channels. And no matter what people say cable is just as fragile to weather as the dish. There are miles of cable that can be blown down, and interference and neighbors who steel it from you.
Each piece or component was cleaned, decontaminated, bar-coded, photographed and entered into a computer database.
What gets me is on some hard drive on some server or workstation somewhere at Kennedy Space Center there's probably a folder that's called "Crashed Space Shuttle Data Bases" and a file that's called "Space Shuttle Columbia.mdb". Which I might add is the same folder where they keep "Space Shuttle Challenger.mdb".
I don't think people are giving Enterprise a chance. Look at DS9, one of the best trek series out of all of them. While the first 3 seasons were good the series really began to pick up in the 4th with the dominion war. It took the first 3 seasons for us to get to know the characters and for them to lead up to the 4th/5th seasons where the dominion war took off. Even Voyager had it's good points, and great episodes, and introduced Technology into the trek universe like the EMH and the portable holo-emitter. The EMH was then used in First Contact, one of the best TNG movies. I learned to enjoy Voyager even though at first I compared it to Gilligan's Island in space. Give it a chance to blossom like DS9 did at this stage in it's life instead of killing it before it's time.
Depending on the brand of laptop, I work for a company called Pomeroy IT solutions. I've replaced countless hinges and bezels on laptops without replacing the LCD. If there is a branch near you find it, if not contact me and I'll tell you how to get in contact with someone at the Birmingham branch. You'll have to ship it to them and back. What brand of laptop is it?
It's so bad in Florida now I think the only way to make it work again is to give voter's a crayon so they can circle a picture of the person they like with the name below the picture.
New 1GB Minidisc = $7
2 700MB blank CD's = 1.4GB = $0.24
I do believe I'll be sticking to CD's if there are no advantages to the minidiscs.
.. but Windows ME! The worst OS Microsoft ever tried to sell. A windows so bad it froze up during installation! A windows so bad that when I had to reboot from a freeze up, scan disk would start, and then freeze up, requiring another reboot, which in turn would cause scan disk to start, and then freeze up again. A windows so bad it only stayed on the market for 9 months, even though it can still be purchased at some walmart stores. Windows ME showed us just how bad windows could truely be.
.. how many birds die each year just flying into trees? Should we cut all the trees down?
sarcasm> if they don't want the birds to get killed by the big fans, all they need to do is get a sharp shooter to snipe them before they get too close! Before they know it the number of birds killed by the big fans will be reduced! /sarcasm
Where do you work that allows you to do this to your cube without making you tear it all down? And where do you work that pays you enough money to pay your bills and also blow $34 to turn your cubicle into something you're going to tear down in 2 weeks? I know not all geeks are as poor as me butt I think I'd like an extra $34 in my pocket right now. Please send me an application to this high paying, totally layed back job. Thanks!
.. Outsourcing isn't all that great. I work for a company as an outsourced tech for a bank. We live in constant fear that the bank will get pissed at our company and drop our contract. So even the techs who work as outsourced techs have their problems.
there's currently a test running at an intersection in McLean, Va., where sensors can automatically warn a motorist when another car is approaching, thus helping to avoid a collision."
I have technology similar to that in my car, it's called my eyes!
I quite agree
True.. if you don't mind the embarassment of having E-Machines displayed on your monitor every time it's powered on. Which can be overlooked. But chances are it's a substandard motherboard. I haven't had alot of luck on e-machines. They seem to be one brand that always comes back to me broken to fix.
you're right. that was the point. bargain PC's are known for their under powered power supplies. The fact that I said 90 was sarcasm.
In earlier times young humans who wished to court went to a place called a "drive-in". The drive in had large "screens" similar to the ones you would find in a modern movie theater. The young humans would park their vehicle in a special lot facing the giant "screens". Next to the vehicle was a "speaker" that attached to the window. Movies were then played on the large "screen" and the sound came through the "speaker". The movie was viewed from inside the vehicle. Some high tech drive-ins could actually broadcast the movie sound on the vehicle's "radio". Drive-in's were popular because of privacy, and they had good "corn dogs". A young human couple wishing more privacy on a date might take a "van" to the drive-in. When this occured the movie was seldom actually viewed as the human couple would be too busy mating in the back of the "van". Though once very popular there are few "drive-ins" left, though some still exist.
A fully Loaded Athlon 64 PC...... With Windows XP Home edition and a little 90 watt power supply that'll last 2 months.