I can't afford to live there! Everyone else makes $30 grand a year more than I do!
But if I were to move downtown, the average household income there is only $16,834. I could be king of the hill!
(after dodging all the bullets and fending off the panhandlers and crack-ho's).
I have a friend who runs a music site (blatant plug: Guitar 9), and you'd be surprised at some of the low quality of the submissions he gets. His favorite ones are the folks who send him a CD-R (as in: only one copy in an envelope), and expect him to press it & put it in a jewel box with artwork for them.
His best sellers are (no surprise) the artists who have a decent amount of skill, and whose CDs have good production values.
I hate to explain my jokes, but I'll make an exception in your case.
You see, Wal-Mart is going to require it's suppliers to tag all their products. So, while your suitcase may get tagged by the Jacksonville Airport Authority, it'll be unnecessary, as there's a chance that most of the contents would already be tagged.
Chip H.
What effect does a cable cut in your point-to-point fiber link have on the quantum state? If the cable is repaired, there's at least one glass-to-glass (or plastic-to-plastic) junction where there wasn't before.
The UltraSparc V, which was based on a different design than the UltraSparc IV, would have required Sun and its customers to adopt, and then phase out, an entirely new chip in the course of a few years. Server customers tend to try to minimize technology transitions.
This is probably the real reason behind the cancellation -- moving to the UltraSparc V would have obsoleted the installed base of software (or at least would have required code changes to get the benefit of the new architecture).
And then the article goes on to say that after all those customers port their software to the V (at some huge expense), they'd have to port their stuff again to the next generation of Ultra Sparc processor. No wonder it was killed -- IBM learned that lesson back in the System/360 days. The last thing you do is prevent existing programs from working on your new machine -- because at that point the customer will say: "Well, we have to rewrite our code anyway, let's see what other hardware vendors have to offer."
Whenever the business press catches on to something and starts to get excited, it's a really good time to run in the opposite direction.
Outsourcing was featured on the cover of Wired a few issues ago, so it won't be long before this particular bubble bursts (being on the cover of Wired is usually the kiss-of-death to any company or technology).
Ms. Danner, the former Family Dollar manager, praised the system at the McDonald's restaurant she managed for seven years. At day's end, she said, employees received a printout detailing total hours worked and when they clocked in and out.
I can't help but compare this with electronic voting, and the paper receipt that the voter ought to get that documents their ballot. Without it, it's too easy for those in charge to alter results without any audit trail.
I predict these will be nothing more than a re-hashed Google AdWords
AdWords are the only online advertising that I pay any attention to, mainly because the ads are targetted to the site I'm visiting. CatOfTheDay has ads about cats. Not washer-dryers, credit cards, local car dealers, or prescription drugs. Cats. That's why I went there. So why shouldn't their ads reflect that?
How about funding some of the CSAB accredited computer science schools out there? It doesn't have to be done through the DHS (big scary TLA agency), you could use DARPA, who already has a good working relationship with universities.
Back when I was in school {insert joke about abacus & clay tablets here}, it would have been fun to take a 400-level course devoted to computer security. Even better if I didn't have to pay for it.
BayWatch knew what men in the 18-34 age group wanted... big breasted women running down the beach in skimpy swimsuits.
Plotlines? Well, if you insist, but they aren't central to the show. Try and limit it to stuff like: "Pam gets injured while undergoing a bikini wax. Other cast members lend support."
However, several City Council members expressed anger that the 911 system could have been so easily disabled, and called for creating a more effective backup procedure.
What, like leaning out the window and screaming for help?
Or, depending on your neighborhood, leaning out the window and firing a quick 3 or 4 shots into the air?
I haven't flown since early 2001. And unless it involves crossing the Mississippi or an ocean, I won't. I disliked airport security before 9/11 (got frisked by a short Hispanic woman at Logan who enjoyed her job a little too much, if you know what I mean), and since then, I'm positive I would find it even more offensive.
Besides, before 9/11 you could occasionally get a meal on a flight. I'd rather eat a cold MRE than today's airline food.
Not especially -- as long as the processer maintains electrical and mechanical contact with both the socket & heatsink, it'll run fine.
I was also curious because they're using laptops in microgravity on the ISS & space shuttle. Convection currents don't, uhh, convect in those environments, as there's no such phenomenon as "heat rising" there. Thermal management has to be either via direct contact (aka heat pipes), or assisted in some fashion (Peltier coolers, big fans, etc).
In many of the OSS projects I've seen, the programmer assumes that *everyone* would already have their personal favorite utility, library, etc. already installed. In this case, the recipe author assumed everyone would have a packet of gravy maker ready & waiting to be used. Yeah, right.
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Oh jeeze. Just looked up my neighborhood.
I can't afford to live there! Everyone else makes $30 grand a year more than I do!
But if I were to move downtown, the average household income there is only $16,834. I could be king of the hill!
(after dodging all the bullets and fending off the panhandlers and crack-ho's).
Chip H.
I have a friend who runs a music site (blatant plug: Guitar 9), and you'd be surprised at some of the low quality of the submissions he gets. His favorite ones are the folks who send him a CD-R (as in: only one copy in an envelope), and expect him to press it & put it in a jewel box with artwork for them.
His best sellers are (no surprise) the artists who have a decent amount of skill, and whose CDs have good production values.
Chip H.
I hate to explain my jokes, but I'll make an exception in your case. You see, Wal-Mart is going to require it's suppliers to tag all their products. So, while your suitcase may get tagged by the Jacksonville Airport Authority, it'll be unnecessary, as there's a chance that most of the contents would already be tagged. Chip H.
Sorry, the scanners aren't able to locate your bag. But they have found the 3-pack of underwear you bought at Wal-Mart last week.
What effect does a cable cut in your point-to-point fiber link have on the quantum state? If the cable is repaired, there's at least one glass-to-glass (or plastic-to-plastic) junction where there wasn't before.
Chip H.
The UltraSparc V, which was based on a different design than the UltraSparc IV, would have required Sun and its customers to adopt, and then phase out, an entirely new chip in the course of a few years. Server customers tend to try to minimize technology transitions.
This is probably the real reason behind the cancellation -- moving to the UltraSparc V would have obsoleted the installed base of software (or at least would have required code changes to get the benefit of the new architecture).
And then the article goes on to say that after all those customers port their software to the V (at some huge expense), they'd have to port their stuff again to the next generation of Ultra Sparc processor. No wonder it was killed -- IBM learned that lesson back in the System/360 days. The last thing you do is prevent existing programs from working on your new machine -- because at that point the customer will say: "Well, we have to rewrite our code anyway, let's see what other hardware vendors have to offer."
Chip H.
Whenever the business press catches on to something and starts to get excited, it's a really good time to run in the opposite direction.
Outsourcing was featured on the cover of Wired a few issues ago, so it won't be long before this particular bubble bursts (being on the cover of Wired is usually the kiss-of-death to any company or technology).
Chip H.
Ms. Danner, the former Family Dollar manager, praised the system at the McDonald's restaurant she managed for seven years. At day's end, she said, employees received a printout detailing total hours worked and when they clocked in and out.
I can't help but compare this with electronic voting, and the paper receipt that the voter ought to get that documents their ballot. Without it, it's too easy for those in charge to alter results without any audit trail.
Chip H.
I predict these will be nothing more than a re-hashed Google AdWords
AdWords are the only online advertising that I pay any attention to, mainly because the ads are targetted to the site I'm visiting. CatOfTheDay has ads about cats. Not washer-dryers, credit cards, local car dealers, or prescription drugs. Cats. That's why I went there. So why shouldn't their ads reflect that?
Chip H.
How about funding some of the CSAB accredited computer science schools out there? It doesn't have to be done through the DHS (big scary TLA agency), you could use DARPA, who already has a good working relationship with universities.
Back when I was in school {insert joke about abacus & clay tablets here}, it would have been fun to take a 400-level course devoted to computer security. Even better if I didn't have to pay for it.
Chip H.
BayWatch knew what men in the 18-34 age group wanted... big breasted women running down the beach in skimpy swimsuits.
Plotlines? Well, if you insist, but they aren't central to the show. Try and limit it to stuff like: "Pam gets injured while undergoing a bikini wax. Other cast members lend support."
Chip H.
However, several City Council members expressed anger that the 911 system could have been so easily disabled, and called for creating a more effective backup procedure.
What, like leaning out the window and screaming for help?
Or, depending on your neighborhood, leaning out the window and firing a quick 3 or 4 shots into the air?
Mike Cowlishaw is also responsible for Java on the AS/400 (iSeries), and probably a major factor in IBM's interest in Java back in the JDK 1.0 days.
Chip H.
**bong** AT&T, how may I help you?
Yes, I'd like the dialing instructions for Pluto, please. You know, the planet.
Sir, I have no listing for a "Pluto, Planet of"
It's gotta be there -- it's right past Neptune
I'm sorry sir, I have no listing.
OK, thanks for your help
Well, I guess that settles it. If the phone company says it's not a planet, then it's not a planet, no matter what those astronomers say.
Chip H.
Uzi used to be my Internet provider, back when I had ISDN service. Great guy, sorry that the courts screwed him over.
It *is* his family name, and he should have a right to use it, especially if he got to it first.
Chip H.
these "dangerous people" traveling in the air are the fucking politicians making these ass raping invasive laws that OTHER people have to live with.
Fuck, ban them from air travel.
No, make them fly coach with the rest of us.
No more valet parking for them, either. Make them ride the shuttle bus from the remote lots like the people who work for a living.
Chip H.
I haven't flown since early 2001. And unless it involves crossing the Mississippi or an ocean, I won't. I disliked airport security before 9/11 (got frisked by a short Hispanic woman at Logan who enjoyed her job a little too much, if you know what I mean), and since then, I'm positive I would find it even more offensive.
Besides, before 9/11 you could occasionally get a meal on a flight. I'd rather eat a cold MRE than today's airline food.
Chip H.
I still have it on vinyl. I need to try the remastered CD version, if Amazon isn't sold out.
Trouble with CDs is the gorgeous artwork, jacket notes, etc. has been Mini-Me'd.
Chip H.
- a film of the original novel, or
- a film of the radio series of the original novel
No, it's actually Jeff Wayne's musical War of the Worlds set to film.Chip H.
I think I must be one of the few here (even on /.) who saw "Doc Savage: Man of Bronze" in the theater.
But I was more of a "Grey Avenger" fan, in any case.
Chip H.
Not especially -- as long as the processer maintains electrical and mechanical contact with both the socket & heatsink, it'll run fine.
I was also curious because they're using laptops in microgravity on the ISS & space shuttle. Convection currents don't, uhh, convect in those environments, as there's no such phenomenon as "heat rising" there. Thermal management has to be either via direct contact (aka heat pipes), or assisted in some fashion (Peltier coolers, big fans, etc).
Chip H.
Wouldn't this require a CPU to be operated in only one orientation?
Chip H.
Well, at least the US Army is using metric, so there won't be any embarrassing conversion errors.
Chip H.
Yup, those are recipies for geeks all right...
In many of the OSS projects I've seen, the programmer assumes that *everyone* would already have their personal favorite utility, library, etc. already installed. In this case, the recipe author assumed everyone would have a packet of gravy maker ready & waiting to be used. Yeah, right.
Chip H.
I keep having to take vacation because I can't carry-over any more to next year.
One of my resolutions this year is: Any hint of snow, and I stay home. So far that policy has helped me take 6 days off my vacation burden.
Chip H.