Years ago, I met some guy who claimed that he had hacked his neighbor's stereo by creating a transmitter that went out at the frequency of the stereo's intermediate amplifier, many of which run at about 14.xxx Mhz. He did this to get the neighbor to turn the darn thing down (college kids and their music, ya know). Not sure if the pixel rates could be tweaked to do the same, but there may be some such option that'd work.
I guess it's used as a fixative or stabilizer... all I know is that when I took a tour of the Leinenkugel brewery in Wisconsin (not a major operation, but a good sized one), I saw a variety of things they used, including dextrose and sodium bisulfite which was stacked up in bags near the brewing area. Pretty sure the majors use similar stuff.
Wineries, on the other hand, generally use sulfur dioxide, of which sulfites or bisulfites may be a by-product.
Yeah, I've also read that hops has bactericidal qualities... the problem is, at the levels of volatile hop components found in the more mass-produced commercial beers, only the alcohol would kill anything. So Natural Light, Coors Light, or Miller anything will get the job done, as would Corona, Amstel Light, Molson, etc... whatever comes in great volume. No homebrews here.
There *are* additives in beer that are designed to prevent bacterial growth; sodium bisulfite is a common additive, but I'm not sure if it's for that purpose.
I think Guinness would do the best job, but personally, I'm not about to spare a drop for some nasty ol' cleanup site;)
Austin Powers makes fun of a ton of 60's movies, because, like Barbarella, the large majority of them suck. (In fact, I think Myers might have been at SNL when they did a skit called 'the 60's Movie'.)
Now if you want a comparison like Manos vs. Plan 9, compare Barbarella with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was coscripted by film critic Roger Ebert. Indecipherably terrible, although if you like big-haired chicks in mini skirts, Valley has Barbarella beat by a mile; either one of them would have made a great MST3K flick if they hadn't had an adult orientation.
And for when they have all the Monty Python...
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there's the Black Adder DVD box set, available wherever (got mine at Media Play, looks like there's a discount on the included Amazon link)... full of quotable lines and sound bytes for the creative desktop near you.
Mountain biking... what an awesome idea! I'll have to get our shop to try that here in the flatter part of of Ohio...
It's just a matter of finding a common activity; yours is biking, ours is drinking (and judging from the many similar posts here, it's not just us). In fact, as I write this, our guys are talking about going out to lunch to drink. Isn't IT great!?
$10 a month??? Try about $39 a month... as another poster mentioned, about $399 per year, depending on what package you choose. GM won't waive that fat fee, not for putting up with ads or anything.
GM must think that OnStar is a big new cash cow, because since I bought my 2001 Grand Prix, they've not let up on the junk snail mail to home... wish they'd get the message.
The eats at big name chef's restaurants are definitely worth the try. What's funny is, a lot of these guys work on the Las Vegas strip (I think the challenger last night does); the name 'cache' is that important to the casinos.
American cooking is too broad for one chef though; I'd like to see different varieties, like Mark Miller doing 'Iron Chef Southwestern' or some such... or the cracker from "Grillin and Chillin' doing 'Iron Chef Southern'... that'd fit the UPN crowd, and maybe make it worth watching.
The 'newer' shows on FoodTV are from earlier broadcast dates (check for the ones with Michiba instead of Morimoto in them), and these have a slightly pompous sounding overdub for Kaga. I prefer the subtitling for him anyway.
The dubbing is almost a viewing feature of the show... I've often thought what it would be like to get paid for saying 'subtle sweetness' over and over...
I'd say a little harshness is in order... aside from the casting coup of putting William Shatner up front (since Liberace died too early to make this one), the concept of American cuisine is ridiculous... crab soup in a sea urchin bowl?
My main objection is that the judging does not seem to really care whether the chefs stuck to the theme ingredient, but rather they go more for the 'um, yummy' factor; what little sincerity shows in the Jap version is entirely lost in the USA one. I also like the Jap food expert commentary better.
One highlight: the announcers calling for a slow-mo replay of Brande Roderick chomping on a food sample... yep, it's definitely a UPN show...
Had the same thing happen to me, except I yelled at the truck to stop right after the guy had left the sticker. He didn't so ok, I'm already mad... no number on the sticker, I had to look up the local office and call them to make sure the package would be there to pick up.
The real bitch was, when I went over to the local UPS station to pick this package up, I waited about 20 minutes in line (behind maybe, 3 people?), and when they handed me the package, it wasn't addressed to me! Address was right, but it was to somebody I'd never heard of, from a place in Montana (visions of Unabombers danced in my head). I rejected the package and stomped out fuming.
One constant in any mining operation is the presence of some very big, very heavy movers and diggers... would these be launched from Earth (at a crazy cost per launch pound/kilo), or built in space, for use in space? Anything less than serious mass-moving wouldn't be mining.
Another question is whether these space resources would be used for construction up there, or sent back here... if sent back here, I can see now the inane claims of Greens that, while we'd be using less of the Earth's own bounty, we'd be dangerously adding mass to the Earth with "unknown consequences"...
Love the earlier reference to Larry Niven... always worth going back and reading his stuff.
The MPE platform wouldn't compete with Sun or SGI directly at all... rather it was in the big-iron realm of IBM, Burroughs/Sperry/Unisys and others with machines that did the same things.
It appears to be more of the recent flushing-out of whatever is perceived as 'old' by the HP mgmt, including the 'old' HP concept of engineering things to run forever if needed. Is frequent downtime supposed to be a 21st century concept???
And, fwiw, I like HP/UX... I get a lot fewer calls than the NT guys get;)
Today's announcement was from HP, but it was a very poorly kept secret; the VAR that we work with the most has, on their web page, the assurances that they will continue to support the 3000 platform for the coming years. They've had that page up for just short of a week now.
It's been *that* long... the people with comments above must have an old DOS machine laying around for Gold Box retro-gaming... hmm, sounds like a good idea;)
From the screenshots, it looks like a 1st-person Doom/Quake perspective (which is nothing new; they all had that, just not the modern look)... can't wait to see if they toss in a beholder for face-to-face combat.
Q: Bruce, are you as totally, utterly tired of fanboy attention as you appear to be when you make public appearances?
Saw him at an Origins gaming con a few years back... I think Bruce should have played Tim Allen's part in 'Galaxy Quest', because he definitely had that 'going-through-the-motions' mode down pat. All he needed was Sigourney Weaver in the low-cut outfit...
[true game con scene, Bruce is at the podium]
Q: Hey, what happened to that car in Army of Darkness? Was that like, your car?
A: (Bruce rolls his eyes skyward)
How did I become one: I was a COBOL programmer, and the agency that I worked for (back in the green-screen terminal days) had a Unisys mini that had no acting admin (awful machine, btw). As I was also the only person writing C, porting stuff to the mini, I became the admin. Then, when they went to client server, and got HP and Sun boxes in, I had been the admin for years, and was finally assigned the duty officially, with some webmastering along the way, because I was the only guy there who would/could do it.
Looking back, would I do it again? Maybe not... my worst private sector job had me answering pages repeatedly from midnight to 6am, my best one is now, where I have little after-hours activity. It's a responsibility, and the bigger the company/org is, the bigger the responsibility gets... don't confuse doing it as a hobby and doing it for a living. Outside of IT, it's probably one of the lowest-regarded careers; people get images of data gnomes who never see the sun, and in some cases, the image fits.
The pay can be good, but right now the job market is awful, and there are a ton of experienced ex-admins out there looking for the same jobs you're considering. If I were you, I'd pursue a career in something more interesting and, frankly, more substantial than being a sysadmin.
The reason that more orgs don't use Linux is at least partly a function of the corporate purchasing process... it boils down, roughly, to:
We have a need for a new DB system
What systems are available?
Schedule meetings with the sales people from the various vendors, so that we can compare what's out there.
Boink! That's where Linux bounces up against the wall of established companies... except for a smattering of VARs, nobody is there to "attend the meeting" to tout Linux's praises to the big boss... except for the internal sysadmin and/or program managers, who then have to plug the stuff as a better alternative to the established vendors. So, IMHO, for corporate usage, it's not about what the OS can do, it's all in the selling of it.
Now if you'll pardon me, I have to go to a meeting where a big storage vendor will be showing us their wares. Really.;)
Personally, I'd say the short run is where the money might be made; large blocks of TMTA bought and sold in a matter of weeks, waiting for a market bounce and/or 'good' news that the market will like.
In the long run, TMTA has products to ship, but they have to find customers who will buy them, and in increasing numbers. How many computer-related companies in the past 20 years have had 'great' ideas/technology that didn't pan out in a market sense? Compare with companies like PALM, HAND, and RIMM... making great little devices that people use, possible consumer staples for now and the future. Where are their stocks going? Down. It's not about the tech, and it's not a knock on TMTA... it's about the current bear market, which frowns upon anything that smells of innovation without customers behind it. Given that climate, a person's money might be better invested elsewhere, that's all I'm getting at.
PS I work for a company whose stock is around $0.40... been there, seen the slide happen...
Given that the stock has fallen from an open of about $50 to its current price of $1.75 (prices in American $), unless you bought mighty low, you're looking at a loss even if Via buys them out. A relevant example is when NVidia bought the intellectual and technical property of 3dfx... at that time, the TDFX stock was not liquid in the market and thus became worthless. Don't wait until Nasdaq stops trading in the stock, get what you can if it looks like the place will close down. $1.75 is better than $0.
All of the above is my opinion; I am an investor, not an advisor.
For a graph of Transmeta's recent stock action, click here.
to find out that you don't like it. I'm 15 years into IT and I hate it. It's dull, it's so common that IT as a career carries virtually no respect among non-IT people, and by now I've done just about everything there is to do in it: coding, webmaster, sysadmin, network.
I always thought I'd go back to school at some point, and now that I'm late 30's, I keep asking myself, do I want to? I probably will, when the boredom here in my cube has me ready to explode. It pays the bills, but it certainly isn't what the field looked like back when I started.
If you're sure that CS is no longer the right direction for you, don't wait to change paths... expertise is what gets you somewhere in most any career, and the way to build it is to start at the bottom; finish your CS, check out grad stuff (if you can afford, big assumption there) or look for jobs in another field where CS would be an asset.
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Years ago, I met some guy who claimed that he had hacked his neighbor's stereo by creating a transmitter that went out at the frequency of the stereo's intermediate amplifier, many of which run at about 14.xxx Mhz. He did this to get the neighbor to turn the darn thing down (college kids and their music, ya know). Not sure if the pixel rates could be tweaked to do the same, but there may be some such option that'd work.
Think maybe it has something to do with the newer monitors that meet (or have to meet?) "low-emission" standards?
Wineries, on the other hand, generally use sulfur dioxide, of which sulfites or bisulfites may be a by-product.
There *are* additives in beer that are designed to prevent bacterial growth; sodium bisulfite is a common additive, but I'm not sure if it's for that purpose.
I think Guinness would do the best job, but personally, I'm not about to spare a drop for some nasty ol' cleanup site ;)
Now if you want a comparison like Manos vs. Plan 9, compare Barbarella with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which was coscripted by film critic Roger Ebert. Indecipherably terrible, although if you like big-haired chicks in mini skirts, Valley has Barbarella beat by a mile; either one of them would have made a great MST3K flick if they hadn't had an adult orientation.
there's the Black Adder DVD box set, available wherever (got mine at Media Play, looks like there's a discount on the included Amazon link)... full of quotable lines and sound bytes for the creative desktop near you.
It's just a matter of finding a common activity; yours is biking, ours is drinking (and judging from the many similar posts here, it's not just us). In fact, as I write this, our guys are talking about going out to lunch to drink. Isn't IT great!?
In other words, Slackware runs "ash-backwards into the unknown"... ;)
$10 a month??? Try about $39 a month... as another poster mentioned, about $399 per year, depending on what package you choose. GM won't waive that fat fee, not for putting up with ads or anything.
Online spam in the car? Ouch
American cooking is too broad for one chef though; I'd like to see different varieties, like Mark Miller doing 'Iron Chef Southwestern' or some such... or the cracker from "Grillin and Chillin' doing 'Iron Chef Southern'... that'd fit the UPN crowd, and maybe make it worth watching.
The dubbing is almost a viewing feature of the show... I've often thought what it would be like to get paid for saying 'subtle sweetness' over and over...
My main objection is that the judging does not seem to really care whether the chefs stuck to the theme ingredient, but rather they go more for the 'um, yummy' factor; what little sincerity shows in the Jap version is entirely lost in the USA one. I also like the Jap food expert commentary better.
One highlight: the announcers calling for a slow-mo replay of Brande Roderick chomping on a food sample... yep, it's definitely a UPN show...
The real bitch was, when I went over to the local UPS station to pick this package up, I waited about 20 minutes in line (behind maybe, 3 people?), and when they handed me the package, it wasn't addressed to me! Address was right, but it was to somebody I'd never heard of, from a place in Montana (visions of Unabombers danced in my head). I rejected the package and stomped out fuming.
Another question is whether these space resources would be used for construction up there, or sent back here... if sent back here, I can see now the inane claims of Greens that, while we'd be using less of the Earth's own bounty, we'd be dangerously adding mass to the Earth with "unknown consequences"...
Love the earlier reference to Larry Niven... always worth going back and reading his stuff.
It appears to be more of the recent flushing-out of whatever is perceived as 'old' by the HP mgmt, including the 'old' HP concept of engineering things to run forever if needed. Is frequent downtime supposed to be a 21st century concept???
And, fwiw, I like HP/UX ... I get a lot fewer calls than the NT guys get ;)
Today's announcement was from HP, but it was a very poorly kept secret; the VAR that we work with the most has, on their web page, the assurances that they will continue to support the 3000 platform for the coming years. They've had that page up for just short of a week now.
From the screenshots, it looks like a 1st-person Doom/Quake perspective (which is nothing new; they all had that, just not the modern look)... can't wait to see if they toss in a beholder for face-to-face combat.
Anybody play test or review this yet?
Saw him at an Origins gaming con a few years back ... I think Bruce should have played Tim Allen's part in 'Galaxy Quest', because he definitely had that 'going-through-the-motions' mode down pat. All he needed was Sigourney Weaver in the low-cut outfit...
[true game con scene, Bruce is at the podium]
Q: Hey, what happened to that car in Army of Darkness? Was that like, your car?
A: (Bruce rolls his eyes skyward)
Looking back, would I do it again? Maybe not... my worst private sector job had me answering pages repeatedly from midnight to 6am, my best one is now, where I have little after-hours activity. It's a responsibility, and the bigger the company/org is, the bigger the responsibility gets... don't confuse doing it as a hobby and doing it for a living. Outside of IT, it's probably one of the lowest-regarded careers; people get images of data gnomes who never see the sun, and in some cases, the image fits.
The pay can be good, but right now the job market is awful, and there are a ton of experienced ex-admins out there looking for the same jobs you're considering. If I were you, I'd pursue a career in something more interesting and, frankly, more substantial than being a sysadmin.
Basically it repeats the assertion that large corporations are not looking at Linux as an alternative in the enterprise.
We have a need for a new DB system
What systems are available?
Schedule meetings with the sales people from the various vendors, so that we can compare what's out there.
Boink! That's where Linux bounces up against the wall of established companies... except for a smattering of VARs, nobody is there to "attend the meeting" to tout Linux's praises to the big boss... except for the internal sysadmin and/or program managers, who then have to plug the stuff as a better alternative to the established vendors. So, IMHO, for corporate usage, it's not about what the OS can do, it's all in the selling of it.
Now if you'll pardon me, I have to go to a meeting where a big storage vendor will be showing us their wares. Really. ;)
In the long run, TMTA has products to ship, but they have to find customers who will buy them, and in increasing numbers. How many computer-related companies in the past 20 years have had 'great' ideas/technology that didn't pan out in a market sense? Compare with companies like PALM, HAND, and RIMM... making great little devices that people use, possible consumer staples for now and the future. Where are their stocks going? Down. It's not about the tech, and it's not a knock on TMTA... it's about the current bear market, which frowns upon anything that smells of innovation without customers behind it. Given that climate, a person's money might be better invested elsewhere, that's all I'm getting at.
PS I work for a company whose stock is around $0.40 ... been there, seen the slide happen...
All of the above is my opinion; I am an investor, not an advisor.
For a graph of Transmeta's recent stock action, click here.
I always thought I'd go back to school at some point, and now that I'm late 30's, I keep asking myself, do I want to? I probably will, when the boredom here in my cube has me ready to explode. It pays the bills, but it certainly isn't what the field looked like back when I started.
If you're sure that CS is no longer the right direction for you, don't wait to change paths... expertise is what gets you somewhere in most any career, and the way to build it is to start at the bottom; finish your CS, check out grad stuff (if you can afford, big assumption there) or look for jobs in another field where CS would be an asset.