You seriously never use rotary phones? I have one on either side of my bed for talking to somebody when I'm in bad. They're heavy enough that I don't drag them into the floor and loud enough to wake me up. And they're practically free at Goodwill. The only thing that they can't do is navigate those bloody annoying phone tree voicemail systems, which I hate anyway.
I have an eVga Geforce 4 MX 440 SE 64MB card with dual vga outs. the default is to clone the two monitors. I had to manually change it to spanning between them. From post to the XP desktop starting, the two are mirrored. Only when windows displays the desktop do they become spanned, and only because I told windows that's how I wanted them. As a side note, I had 2 of these cards with faulty ram before I exchanged for a working 3rd one. But the dual monitor thing is nice.
Well, you're probably not on a private well system. Many people live too far from the city or in too hilly an area to effectively connect to a municipal water system. After the power goes out, you have the pressure built up in your tank, then no water until you get it out of the ground and under pressure:( Makes long outages a bitch.
the printer would make noise every time it printed your candidate's name. As it is dot matrix, the noise's length will vary with the length of what's being printed. "Arnold Schwarzenegger" will make a bit more noise than "Grey Davis" and the secrecy of your vote will be lost. It also couldn't be too hard to "accidentally" look at some recent results when fixing printer jams and refilling ink/ribbon.
And honestly, your argument is also somewhat specious, because if the work wasn't worth your paying for it in the first place, why would you want it to begin with?
Would you accept a free dvd of a movie you weren't really interested enough in to go and see at the theater or rent at blockbuster? Have you ever watched something on TV because there was nothing else better on? Ever accepted something for free that you wouldn't pay for? That's the mentality of file sharing. The free stuff is of low quality (as are most free things). You want good quality, you buy.
And when at Jay And Silent Bob's Secret Stash, be sure to pick up some some wonderful View Askew merchandise. We suggest the most expensive thing in the store. Two of them just to be sure.
I have an Audiovox (rebranded Mitsubishi) T300 digital phone. It *does* interfere with the electronics in my friend's 1996 Ford Taurus Wagon. Just before the phone rings, the radio makes a terrible buzzing noise. The phone has the same effect on some PA systems, as well. Most notably, I can piss off everyone in the largest local bowling alley at once if I am standing near the counter:)
If having an appendix is more harmful than not having one, then there'd be selective pressure that would tend to eliminate it. If having an appendix is beneficial, then selective pressure will tend to retain it.
Your statement only holds true if the benefit/harm hapens within the earlier parts of life. If you live long enough to pass on your genes, then have some type of major genetic problem that kicks in later in life, your children will likely have the same thing happen. Waiting until later in life to reproduce can reduce the possibilities of this happening to a degree, but after a point, one generation must look back at the genetic problems of their parents (or grandparents) and actively decide NOT to reproduce, to eliminate the disadvantage. At this point, intelligence is guiding evolution, not "simple" natural selection.
This could make an interesting experiment, albeit a nearly impossible one to conduct. Can humanity "fix" the problem of aging by selectively choosing NOT to reproduce? Obviously some people age far better than others. If people actively sought out mates with living great grandparents for several generations, the life expectancy could rise greatly. Those with "inferior" genetic backgrounds (parents and grandparents died young) could thus be excluded by the others and become far less desirable mates. The advantages only hold true if genetics can be shown to play a substantial role in life expectancy, which it may to some degree. It would still make an interesting study. Imagine, in 150 years, male pattern baldness being completely eliminated:)
Your "dump the client" approach only works if there is an unlimited pool of clients. I personally work in the automotive world, and we have exactly three clients. Ford, GM, and DaimlerChrysler. Because failure is not an option, our plant has worked 24/7 for about a year now (excluding Christmas), to keep up with orders from GM that were far greater than thier initial estimates. Quality has suffered, as there is NO time to shut some equipment down for preventative maintinence. It runs until it breaks, and then is fixed as quickly as possible. Sometimes the problem is subtle, and is not noticed until bad parts arrive at GM. In the ensuing time, lots of bad parts were produced, making our inventory mostly bad. To rebuild the invetory and ship orders on time, the line must run even faster and harder, creating even less quality focus and more potential for problems. It's a very nasty situation. The only solution: build another line making the same parts (we already have 2).
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes youy have a problem from a client that you cannot dump and overtime is necessary until more employees can be found and trained, and workstations can be created for them to work at.
GM makes Saturn, Oldsmobile, and Buick vehicles, too. I work in an automotive factory that supplies the big three with various plastic things. We also make Volvo parts once in a blue moon....
Ummm..... there are stations that *aren't* UHF? In my area (South Bend, IN) we have 16, 22, 25, 28, 34, 46, & 57. All of those are in the UHF band AFAIK.
Also, is it just me or did Kevin Smith shoot clerks before he was with Mirimax
Kevin Smith did indeed shoot Clerks before he was with Miramax. Miramax execs saw it at the Sundance Independant Film Festival and began negotiating there. IIRC, Chasing Amy was also financed independantly and sold to Miramax, because they wouldn't give Kevin Smith any money after the flop that was Mallrats.
It doesn't matter if all his equipment adheres to some future 802.11g standard, as long as it all works well with itself. If 802.11g is suddenly radically changed, his equipment won't quit working. Eveything will keep ticking along until there is a hardware failure somewhere, at which point it may be difficult to locate a suitable replacement component because of the network's possible non-compliance with a future standard that most likely will remain unchanged from its current state. Wow, that was a long sentence.
How about adjusting the price so that with tax it comes out to an even amount? For instance, a $0.93 cent snack with 7.5% tax = $1.00 (with rounding). That way they wouldn't have to print both (and worry about them going out of synch) but you'd still solve the change problem.
I just bought 100 snacks (I was really hungry). The cashier charged me 99.98. (100*.93*1.075 = 99.975) Your plan stops working in quantity. If I only ever bought one thing at a time, or if taxes were calculated as per-item, not as per-transaction, you'd keep the even amounts, but you'd lose 2 cents compared to calculating the tax the normal way. There are, of course, some instances where you'd come out ahead buying 1 thing 100 times as opposed to 100 of them at once. With your system the difference can be quite large (in my example above, 2.5 cents), but with the normal method, you can at most lose half a penny or gain half a penny. I'd rather risk losing half pennies than whole ones.
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I do the same thing.... just switch am & pm :)
You seriously never use rotary phones? I have one on either side of my bed for talking to somebody when I'm in bad. They're heavy enough that I don't drag them into the floor and loud enough to wake me up. And they're practically free at Goodwill. The only thing that they can't do is navigate those bloody annoying phone tree voicemail systems, which I hate anyway.
Probably Netcraft and a phone book. I think you could have done the same if you weren't too busy making up conspiracy theories.
iPods come pre-formatted for Mac. To use with windows, reformatting is part of the installation process.
Imagine a grocery store that only carried generic house-brand items. Wouldn't be very popular or successful, would it.
You mean Aldi? There's never anybody in there.....
I have an eVga Geforce 4 MX 440 SE 64MB card with dual vga outs. the default is to clone the two monitors. I had to manually change it to spanning between them. From post to the XP desktop starting, the two are mirrored. Only when windows displays the desktop do they become spanned, and only because I told windows that's how I wanted them. As a side note, I had 2 of these cards with faulty ram before I exchanged for a working 3rd one. But the dual monitor thing is nice.
maybe they wanted to remove word from office.
Well, you're probably not on a private well system. Many people live too far from the city or in too hilly an area to effectively connect to a municipal water system. After the power goes out, you have the pressure built up in your tank, then no water until you get it out of the ground and under pressure :( Makes long outages a bitch.
"refridgerator"
the printer would make noise every time it printed your candidate's name. As it is dot matrix, the noise's length will vary with the length of what's being printed. "Arnold Schwarzenegger" will make a bit more noise than "Grey Davis" and the secrecy of your vote will be lost. It also couldn't be too hard to "accidentally" look at some recent results when fixing printer jams and refilling ink/ribbon.
And honestly, your argument is also somewhat specious, because if the work wasn't worth your paying for it in the first place, why would you want it to begin with?
Would you accept a free dvd of a movie you weren't really interested enough in to go and see at the theater or rent at blockbuster? Have you ever watched something on TV because there was nothing else better on? Ever accepted something for free that you wouldn't pay for? That's the mentality of file sharing. The free stuff is of low quality (as are most free things). You want good quality, you buy.
And when at Jay And Silent Bob's Secret Stash, be sure to pick up some some wonderful View Askew merchandise. We suggest the most expensive thing in the store. Two of them just to be sure.
I have an Audiovox (rebranded Mitsubishi) T300 digital phone. It *does* interfere with the electronics in my friend's 1996 Ford Taurus Wagon. Just before the phone rings, the radio makes a terrible buzzing noise. The phone has the same effect on some PA systems, as well. Most notably, I can piss off everyone in the largest local bowling alley at once if I am standing near the counter :)
I don't think there's anybody here who would want to sleep with Bush. The thought is just disturbing.
If having an appendix is more harmful than not having one, then there'd be selective pressure that would tend to eliminate it. If having an appendix is beneficial, then selective pressure will tend to retain it.
:)
Your statement only holds true if the benefit/harm hapens within the earlier parts of life. If you live long enough to pass on your genes, then have some type of major genetic problem that kicks in later in life, your children will likely have the same thing happen. Waiting until later in life to reproduce can reduce the possibilities of this happening to a degree, but after a point, one generation must look back at the genetic problems of their parents (or grandparents) and actively decide NOT to reproduce, to eliminate the disadvantage. At this point, intelligence is guiding evolution, not "simple" natural selection.
This could make an interesting experiment, albeit a nearly impossible one to conduct. Can humanity "fix" the problem of aging by selectively choosing NOT to reproduce? Obviously some people age far better than others. If people actively sought out mates with living great grandparents for several generations, the life expectancy could rise greatly. Those with "inferior" genetic backgrounds (parents and grandparents died young) could thus be excluded by the others and become far less desirable mates. The advantages only hold true if genetics can be shown to play a substantial role in life expectancy, which it may to some degree. It would still make an interesting study. Imagine, in 150 years, male pattern baldness being completely eliminated
Your "dump the client" approach only works if there is an unlimited pool of clients. I personally work in the automotive world, and we have exactly three clients. Ford, GM, and DaimlerChrysler. Because failure is not an option, our plant has worked 24/7 for about a year now (excluding Christmas), to keep up with orders from GM that were far greater than thier initial estimates. Quality has suffered, as there is NO time to shut some equipment down for preventative maintinence. It runs until it breaks, and then is fixed as quickly as possible. Sometimes the problem is subtle, and is not noticed until bad parts arrive at GM. In the ensuing time, lots of bad parts were produced, making our inventory mostly bad. To rebuild the invetory and ship orders on time, the line must run even faster and harder, creating even less quality focus and more potential for problems. It's a very nasty situation. The only solution: build another line making the same parts (we already have 2). So I guess what I'm trying to say is that sometimes youy have a problem from a client that you cannot dump and overtime is necessary until more employees can be found and trained, and workstations can be created for them to work at.
GM makes Saturn, Oldsmobile, and Buick vehicles, too. I work in an automotive factory that supplies the big three with various plastic things. We also make Volvo parts once in a blue moon....
Mad Mushroom
Look at the deal at the very bottom of the page. The pizza is actually really good, even better when aged overnight (as most pizza is)
Ummm..... there are stations that *aren't* UHF? In my area (South Bend, IN) we have 16, 22, 25, 28, 34, 46, & 57. All of those are in the UHF band AFAIK.
I've yet to see a computer that can't produce latin characters.
Here's one!
http://www.smartstuff.org/pcnoform.jpg (picture)
http://www.smartstuff.org/security.html (link to site)
Try your friendly local pawnbroker. I've gotten 2 for $30 each, including 2 controllers and 2 mem cards each.
Mallrats
Also, is it just me or did Kevin Smith shoot clerks before he was with Mirimax
Kevin Smith did indeed shoot Clerks before he was with Miramax. Miramax execs saw it at the Sundance Independant Film Festival and began negotiating there. IIRC, Chasing Amy was also financed independantly and sold to Miramax, because they wouldn't give Kevin Smith any money after the flop that was Mallrats.
It doesn't matter if all his equipment adheres to some future 802.11g standard, as long as it all works well with itself. If 802.11g is suddenly radically changed, his equipment won't quit working. Eveything will keep ticking along until there is a hardware failure somewhere, at which point it may be difficult to locate a suitable replacement component because of the network's possible non-compliance with a future standard that most likely will remain unchanged from its current state. Wow, that was a long sentence.
How about adjusting the price so that with tax it comes out to an even amount? For instance, a $0.93 cent snack with 7.5% tax = $1.00 (with rounding). That way they wouldn't have to print both (and worry about them going out of synch) but you'd still solve the change problem.
I just bought 100 snacks (I was really hungry). The cashier charged me 99.98. (100*.93*1.075 = 99.975) Your plan stops working in quantity. If I only ever bought one thing at a time, or if taxes were calculated as per-item, not as per-transaction, you'd keep the even amounts, but you'd lose 2 cents compared to calculating the tax the normal way. There are, of course, some instances where you'd come out ahead buying 1 thing 100 times as opposed to 100 of them at once. With your system the difference can be quite large (in my example above, 2.5 cents), but with the normal method, you can at most lose half a penny or gain half a penny. I'd rather risk losing half pennies than whole ones.