I, too, grew up with it. I had BSG wallpaper (yes, real paper on the walls for you young'ns) and suspended a bunch of models from my ceiling by fishing line depicting battle scenes in my bedroom.
I've tried to watch the new version, and I continue to TiVO it, but I can't get beyond how they totally gave up on SciFi and just decided that the cylons "have evolved to look like us". WTF? They're just actors getting paid once to act in two different roles! I enjoy how dark it is, how maneuverable the fighters are now, and when they do "combat landings" and bounce off the deck. I think I would enjoy it more if I didn't grow up on the first version.
I keep getting hung up on how the roles have switched genders, the cylons are people, and wondering if the first version really was this dark and I was just too young to appreciate it.
Hopefully we can start a new trend of linking to relevant CRS reports on OpenCRS so we can all see what our congresscrooks in DC are being told about a particular topic. I'll start.
only 2 catastrophic failures over several hundred missions
Nitpick, I know, but this is STS-114, so no, not "several hundred" missions. The Concorde only had one 1 catastrophic failure over several thousand "missions" and look how well it's... oh wait.
You know, this service really could benefit by using BitTorrent technology;)
If cost is king to the operation, they would love nothing more than to have hundreds or thousands of people across the country downloading the movies from one another. Think about it.. Friday night, movie night.. parents still at work login and request a movie.. kids get home from school and kick off a download right on the TiVO. It'll be ready by movie time. Netflix doesn't get killed with bandwidth bills and passes the savings on to the consumer. (cue the "yeah right!" posts)
I'd sure like to see Torrentocracy (and the similar idea described herein) ported to my hacked series 1 standalone. I, too, have one of those dual-tuner HDTV Comcast DVRs, and my trusty ole' S1SA is on the chopping block. Something like that just may save it.
isn't it time to implement some kind of link checker system?
I've been trying to come up with a way to perfectly word my upcoming GreaseMonkeyUserScriptRequest. I want a system where I can donate my mod points to a mod-up or nuke mechanism, and I think a lot more people here would like to see a NoDupes script.
plus the travel to China to work for Big Blue is wonderful!
Considering today's earlier story, I'm assuming you're being sarcastic. Having said that, I'm an IT Architect for BB and while in training for a pre-release product in Poughkeepsie last summer, we had an exec sponsor stop by to talk about betting the business on this thing. He also mentioned how China, India and Brazil were heating up, and wrapped up his talk with, "oh, if anyone here wants to run a country in a developing market, give me a call." I thought for an instant you may actually be traveling to China for Big Blue.. when I realized I'm tired and should be getting to sleep.
What kind of geeks do we have here??:) IBM has published a line of hands-on books for many years that machine room mole-people live and die by.. the IBM Redbooks series. Go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and click Drafts in the left Navigation pane. There are currently 39 books in progress, all from multiple authors who are actively seeking feedback.
just work there for 40 years, 25K a year. Voila! Millionaire!
Wow, you must work in the dept where the govt decides how much you qualify for in student loans. If you make $25k for a year before quitting and going back to college, you should have $24k in the bank at enrollment.
first name: screw last name: you email: no@thanks.com
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I wouldn't mind spending $20 on a DIY digital picture frame that I could upload pix to while traveling on business. It seems no one can agree on the price and functionality out-of-the-box here.
How did they get to the point where 10 to 13k people were "suddenly" unneeded?
My arguement is that that did not just happen, management had it's eye off the bubble for a considerable period of time.
It wasn't sudden. There has been a slowdown in tech buying, and an increase in process change consulting. IBM has been pushing very hard to get people retrained with valuable skills for over two years. I see reminders daily. After two years, the company finally decided to get rid of manufacturing people who couldn't or wouldn't be retrained with valuable skills.
Management hasn't had their eyes off anything for quite sometime. These were non-retrainable people with skills of rapidly decreasing value.
How about a supergeek middle-schooler? IIRC, that's where I was.:)
That's cool. When I was in 6th grade, they had to change the computer usage policy at my school because my friend and I weren't sharing nicely. We spent >100 days on the keyboard until 6pm. And that was in 1981. 7th grade the same, 8th grade more. I took college classes over the summer before 9th grade to skip some classes, 10th grade no better, 11th still a supergeek, 12th no friends at all.:) 17 years later, its chic to be geek.
Supergeeks are cool in their (our) own way. Google up ENTP sometime if you haven't taken a personality test by now, and see if you are one, too.
Would years registered or userid really be a better way to measure "new users"?
Thanks for the pointer, but its really not enough. Not for my tastes, at least. As the rate of registrations increases annually, the percentage being newbies goes way up with it. Right now, I would put the "mod up" cutoff of at around uid 575,000, or a bit over half the population. But in a year from now, if another 250,000 have registered since then, I'll be modding up sophomores in high school using the percentage model.
Alternatively, setting "years registered" at 5 is like asking for 5 years' experience on a job posting. Not too much to ask for a basic, sensible, and experienced conversation. If you were geeky enough to register here five years ago (and even I lurked for over a year before registering), you've had time to see some industry trends come and go. Perhaps you've even held down a job or two in the field, and may understand by now that basement tactics generally don't carry over to enterprise settings. Of course, the supergeek high school juniors and seniors will make the cut after a year on the job, but hey, nothing's perfect.
The hard uid cutoff is admittedly a bit harsh, but lately it seems needed, especially as we've witnessed Linux gaining far greater commercial acceptance than ever before.
And what about Jessica Lunsford's killer? All he did was cross the street. He wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be until he fled to Georgia. What if his trashmen left his trash cans on the wrong side of the street? Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database! Who defines where are the places he's allowed to go? Yes they would have figured out right away that he did it, but it wouldn't have saved her life. If you're going to strip liberties, at least make it worth it. (not-so-subliminal rabidity activation scheme here)
Sorry for the slooooooow reply.. but no, I've never (knowingly) been there.. I did once spend a summer in Johnstown for a consulting gig, so I got to enjoy some of the other historical sites in the region.. the Johnstown flood cemetary, the flood high water mark, The Incline. My wife's great uncle was a train engineer in that area, and she once got to drive an engine in the yard! Thanks for giving me something to check out, though.. much appreciated.
Exactly. Years ago I used to use "this is my really long password at work." as my GPG passphrase. The looks I got while typing were priceless. And if there are any of my friends left who don't know this is my/. userid, they'll certainly recognize my old favorite: "smarfle marfle barfle parfle".
Remember.. if you get close to going over your minutes, get in the habit of calling VZW to report each dropped call soon after it happens. Every carrier will take dropped calls off your bill. Each time the call drops, just call customer service and tell them "yeah, the last call I was just on dropped on me. I want those minutes credited back." If everyone did that all the time, I'm sure they'd get sick of it and start addressing the problems.
On a side note, Nextel has been doing some pretty sucky things trying to boost my bills. They recently "accidentally" deleted unlimited nationwide DC and they reactivated it seconds later less my free nights & weekends. My bill jumped from $82 to ~$400. I called and got the excess charges reversed, but had to get 200 more minutes on a new contract (for the same cost) and restart my contract clock. They've tried to delete my 100 bonus minutes in the past to my objections since it comes with my corporate discount.
In ALL ways credit cards are equal or better than debit cards.
Sorry, bud, its just not true. Don't you read enough around here to know not to say words like "always", "never" or use stats like "100%"? Anyway, to my point. In order to keep track of our finances, my wife and I moved to 100% debit card transactions years ago. We moved over $6k a month through the cards. Then, when I started traveling on business, I decided to get a credit card to get hotel points. My credit score dropped 60 points because of high credit card levels. Forget the fact that I pay the card down to $0 every month, that doesn't matter. Its the high average daily balance. Don't you check your credit scores?
The second huge problem of credit cards vs debit cards is that multiple family members get the same card number. Right after my first trip to Europe, our credit cards were cancelled because they "bought it on a list of cards from a hacker site online".
So again, it negaitvely impacts your credit rating, and the same number is given to all cardholders, so if one card is stolen or lost *all* cardholders are screwed until new cards arrive.
Credit cards suck vs debit cards. And now that debit cards have the same exact fraud protection as credit cards, that goes doubly so.
I am convinced one of them is running an illegal amplifier
Don't be so sure its illegal. Now if it was on a CB radio, then yes, highly illegal. But if its legitimate amateur radio gear, then its doubtful that its illegal. We can legally crank some pretty high power. Now, separately, did you approach him (in a friendly way) about the interference to your tv? There are specific filters that he could volunteer to put in his lines to reduce/remove your tv interference. Usually when hams operate on specific frequency bands, they know that multiples of their transmissions can cause tv interference and to be on the lookout for upset neighbors.
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I, too, grew up with it. I had BSG wallpaper (yes, real paper on the walls for you young'ns) and suspended a bunch of models from my ceiling by fishing line depicting battle scenes in my bedroom.
I've tried to watch the new version, and I continue to TiVO it, but I can't get beyond how they totally gave up on SciFi and just decided that the cylons "have evolved to look like us". WTF? They're just actors getting paid once to act in two different roles! I enjoy how dark it is, how maneuverable the fighters are now, and when they do "combat landings" and bounce off the deck. I think I would enjoy it more if I didn't grow up on the first version.
I keep getting hung up on how the roles have switched genders, the cylons are people, and wondering if the first version really was this dark and I was just too young to appreciate it.
I thought BSG was going to NBC?
Hopefully we can start a new trend of linking to relevant CRS reports on OpenCRS so we can all see what our congresscrooks in DC are being told about a particular topic. I'll start.
CRS Report 31260, "Digital Televsion: An Overview", June 22, 2005
only 2 catastrophic failures over several hundred missions
Nitpick, I know, but this is STS-114, so no, not "several hundred" missions. The Concorde only had one 1 catastrophic failure over several thousand "missions" and look how well it's... oh wait.
You know, this service really could benefit by using BitTorrent technology ;)
If cost is king to the operation, they would love nothing more than to have hundreds or thousands of people across the country downloading the movies from one another. Think about it.. Friday night, movie night.. parents still at work login and request a movie.. kids get home from school and kick off a download right on the TiVO. It'll be ready by movie time. Netflix doesn't get killed with bandwidth bills and passes the savings on to the consumer. (cue the "yeah right!" posts)
I'd sure like to see Torrentocracy (and the similar idea described herein) ported to my hacked series 1 standalone. I, too, have one of those dual-tuner HDTV Comcast DVRs, and my trusty ole' S1SA is on the chopping block. Something like that just may save it.
isn't it time to implement some kind of link checker system?
I've been trying to come up with a way to perfectly word my upcoming GreaseMonkeyUserScriptRequest. I want a system where I can donate my mod points to a mod-up or nuke mechanism, and I think a lot more people here would like to see a NoDupes script.
There's no NBC affiliate in the Bay Area
WTF?. I was rollin' over the comics section of your linked site, btw. Good stuff.
plus the travel to China to work for Big Blue is wonderful!
Considering today's earlier story, I'm assuming you're being sarcastic. Having said that, I'm an IT Architect for BB and while in training for a pre-release product in Poughkeepsie last summer, we had an exec sponsor stop by to talk about betting the business on this thing. He also mentioned how China, India and Brazil were heating up, and wrapped up his talk with, "oh, if anyone here wants to run a country in a developing market, give me a call." I thought for an instant you may actually be traveling to China for Big Blue.. when I realized I'm tired and should be getting to sleep.
What kind of geeks do we have here?? :) IBM has published a line of hands-on books for many years that machine room mole-people live and die by.. the IBM Redbooks series. Go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and click Drafts in the left Navigation pane. There are currently 39 books in progress, all from multiple authors who are actively seeking feedback.
just work there for 40 years, 25K a year. Voila! Millionaire!
Wow, you must work in the dept where the govt decides how much you qualify for in student loans. If you make $25k for a year before quitting and going back to college, you should have $24k in the bank at enrollment.
first name: screw
last name: you
email: no@thanks.com
I wouldn't mind spending $20 on a DIY digital picture frame that I could upload pix to while traveling on business. It seems no one can agree on the price and functionality out-of-the-box here.
Jim Carrey on SNL playing Jimmy Stewart imitating Jim Carrey: "I need attention 24 hours a day! Look at me! Look at me!"
How did they get to the point where 10 to 13k people were "suddenly" unneeded?
My arguement is that that did not just happen, management had it's eye off the bubble for a considerable period of time.
It wasn't sudden. There has been a slowdown in tech buying, and an increase in process change consulting. IBM has been pushing very hard to get people retrained with valuable skills for over two years. I see reminders daily. After two years, the company finally decided to get rid of manufacturing people who couldn't or wouldn't be retrained with valuable skills.
Management hasn't had their eyes off anything for quite sometime. These were non-retrainable people with skills of rapidly decreasing value.
I was hoping they'd sign their status reports as coming from Interzone :)
How about a supergeek middle-schooler? IIRC, that's where I was. :)
:) 17 years later, its chic to be geek.
That's cool. When I was in 6th grade, they had to change the computer usage policy at my school because my friend and I weren't sharing nicely. We spent >100 days on the keyboard until 6pm. And that was in 1981. 7th grade the same, 8th grade more. I took college classes over the summer before 9th grade to skip some classes, 10th grade no better, 11th still a supergeek, 12th no friends at all.
Supergeeks are cool in their (our) own way. Google up ENTP sometime if you haven't taken a personality test by now, and see if you are one, too.
Would years registered or userid really be a better way to measure "new users"?
Thanks for the pointer, but its really not enough. Not for my tastes, at least. As the rate of registrations increases annually, the percentage being newbies goes way up with it. Right now, I would put the "mod up" cutoff of at around uid 575,000, or a bit over half the population. But in a year from now, if another 250,000 have registered since then, I'll be modding up sophomores in high school using the percentage model.
Alternatively, setting "years registered" at 5 is like asking for 5 years' experience on a job posting. Not too much to ask for a basic, sensible, and experienced conversation. If you were geeky enough to register here five years ago (and even I lurked for over a year before registering), you've had time to see some industry trends come and go. Perhaps you've even held down a job or two in the field, and may understand by now that basement tactics generally don't carry over to enterprise settings. Of course, the supergeek high school juniors and seniors will make the cut after a year on the job, but hey, nothing's perfect.
The hard uid cutoff is admittedly a bit harsh, but lately it seems needed, especially as we've witnessed Linux gaining far greater commercial acceptance than ever before.
Now if subscription meant that there was a duplicate topic and press release as topic filter
Don't forget:
Rescore posts from userids newer than
_________ (enter value and select method)
[ ] userid number
[ ] years registered
___ enter adjustment (-6 to +6)
That's the big one I'm waiting for.
And what about Jessica Lunsford's killer? All he did was cross the street. He wasn't where he wasn't supposed to be until he fled to Georgia. What if his trashmen left his trash cans on the wrong side of the street? Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database! Who defines where are the places he's allowed to go? Yes they would have figured out right away that he did it, but it wouldn't have saved her life. If you're going to strip liberties, at least make it worth it. (not-so-subliminal rabidity activation scheme here)
Sorry for the slooooooow reply.. but no, I've never (knowingly) been there.. I did once spend a summer in Johnstown for a consulting gig, so I got to enjoy some of the other historical sites in the region.. the Johnstown flood cemetary, the flood high water mark, The Incline. My wife's great uncle was a train engineer in that area, and she once got to drive an engine in the yard! Thanks for giving me something to check out, though.. much appreciated.
just use the whole sentence
/. userid, they'll certainly recognize my old favorite: "smarfle marfle barfle parfle".
Exactly. Years ago I used to use "this is my really long password at work." as my GPG passphrase. The looks I got while typing were priceless. And if there are any of my friends left who don't know this is my
is the word trainspotting SOLELY associated with the movie in the states now?
Over here its called RailFan or RailFanning. See this
The coverage sucks, and frequently cuts out.
Remember.. if you get close to going over your minutes, get in the habit of calling VZW to report each dropped call soon after it happens. Every carrier will take dropped calls off your bill. Each time the call drops, just call customer service and tell them "yeah, the last call I was just on dropped on me. I want those minutes credited back." If everyone did that all the time, I'm sure they'd get sick of it and start addressing the problems.
On a side note, Nextel has been doing some pretty sucky things trying to boost my bills. They recently "accidentally" deleted unlimited nationwide DC and they reactivated it seconds later less my free nights & weekends. My bill jumped from $82 to ~$400. I called and got the excess charges reversed, but had to get 200 more minutes on a new contract (for the same cost) and restart my contract clock. They've tried to delete my 100 bonus minutes in the past to my objections since it comes with my corporate discount.
In ALL ways credit cards are equal or better than debit cards.
Sorry, bud, its just not true. Don't you read enough around here to know not to say words like "always", "never" or use stats like "100%"? Anyway, to my point. In order to keep track of our finances, my wife and I moved to 100% debit card transactions years ago. We moved over $6k a month through the cards. Then, when I started traveling on business, I decided to get a credit card to get hotel points. My credit score dropped 60 points because of high credit card levels. Forget the fact that I pay the card down to $0 every month, that doesn't matter. Its the high average daily balance. Don't you check your credit scores?
The second huge problem of credit cards vs debit cards is that multiple family members get the same card number. Right after my first trip to Europe, our credit cards were cancelled because they "bought it on a list of cards from a hacker site online".
So again, it negaitvely impacts your credit rating, and the same number is given to all cardholders, so if one card is stolen or lost *all* cardholders are screwed until new cards arrive.
Credit cards suck vs debit cards. And now that debit cards have the same exact fraud protection as credit cards, that goes doubly so.
I am convinced one of them is running an illegal amplifier
Don't be so sure its illegal. Now if it was on a CB radio, then yes, highly illegal. But if its legitimate amateur radio gear, then its doubtful that its illegal. We can legally crank some pretty high power. Now, separately, did you approach him (in a friendly way) about the interference to your tv? There are specific filters that he could volunteer to put in his lines to reduce/remove your tv interference. Usually when hams operate on specific frequency bands, they know that multiples of their transmissions can cause tv interference and to be on the lookout for upset neighbors.
He may be one of them.