The original, yes... but probably 3rd edition. I gave up on anything past 2nd edition. I loved 2nd edition, but 3rd just took too much of the fun out and made it more work, IMHO.
I do not think it will really matter. The Dems in Congress will sit on any nomination Bush makes for a couple of years, then the next pres (who they hope will be a Dem) will make the nominations. If anything, I see this as being a major issue that will have folks yelling on both sides of the aisle.
No, wait... that was Lucas.
I remember in the 80's seeing made for television cartoons DROIDS and some ewok movies. They didn't seem to last very long or go anywhere. I wonder why he thinks this time will be any different. Someone once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." Can this be submitted as proof that the all powerful Darth Lucas is off his rocker?
How did you prepare yourself mentally for this project? Did you study the collective works of Douglas Adams to get a feel for his work, or did you have your own ideas about how to develop the film and about what were the important points of the story?
Perfume? I couldn't help but remember my high school french class where I learned what that "eau de toilette" label on the perfume bottle translated into. I guess now we'll have to double check if we're drinkin it or putting it on for the scent.
Really was just a matter of time before an assault. It's a war. Virii vs. the White ('blood cell') Knights. The worst disease in the world is AIDS, not because it kills directly, but because it inhibits immunity entirely. After your anti-virus software is nuked, the most basic of hacks could nail your pc.
I got one of those full body condoms and put my computer in it.:-)
3. Customer C has their image locked down to Office 97 because of various (no doubt valid) MS problems. Users are unable to handle incoming documents written in later versions of Word. IS has no solution apart from waiting until 2006 for a company-wide upgrade. (Yet, strangely enough, the IT dude has Office 2003 on his OWN desktop)
I can see how poor communication between operations and IT could be a big factor, but...
I was recently in the IT department of a large company much like this. There was an issue with 1 application that about 20% of the administrative personnel used. It was setup in Access 97, and would NOT work with later versions of Access. Now, being the local IT support, I was often the one taking the flak for the programmers in the corporate office not updating the software 2 years after the rest of the company had migrated to office 2k.
That being said, I think I would agree with previous posters that it is a combination of bad communication from Operations to IT, and lazy/incompetent IT staff/leadership. Just like with any other choice you make in life, you have to decide where the best tradeoff is for you. It sounds like your CIO and upper management do not have the foresight or experience to anticipate and prevent these problems.
So, you are in favor of taking free speech from the masses?
Not at all, but I am against the mislabeling of personal speech as a business (.com) or a non-profit organization (.org) etc. The.xx domain, for citizens of whatever country, can be used for free speech without misrepresentation of the source. For example, if I wanted a place to post my views and ideas about slashdot, I could register slashdot.us, and use that as my soapbox, without infringing on the folks at slashdot.
Most of the people that even see the.com or.org part of urls think it has some meaning, and with the current policies, they really don't.
I think what bothers me most about this, is the use of.com,.org and.net. I don't think any candidate should use.com, unless they're trying to sell a product or service, other than trying to sell themselves in politics. I think there should be a.pol or something for political discussion, conjecture, or campaigning. The governing bodies selling the domain names should require proof (ie business license etc) before selling a domain name. Citizens can use.us or whatever the equivalent is for their country, businesses have their outlet, and politicians can use.pol. Unfortunately, I think that would add to the overhead for those in control of domain names and also would raise the question of what to do with the names already out there.
Currently, if you are in International Waters, you are under the jurisdiction of the country your boat is registered in. I imagine that space will be much the same way, until we meet some Romulans who already own this region, then we'll be toast. But until then, I would guess it will be done much like the sea.
Yeah... I mean, heaven forbid we try and stop people from dumping boosters on people's houses, or launching people on 6G-accel rockets with a 90% chance of killing their passengers without telling them of the risks
Uhm... is it currently legal to drop boosters on people's houses? Won't existing laws cover that?
level of fitness necessary to withstand the forces and conditions of spaceflight
They don't want us to know that there really are no physical fitness requirements. NASA's screening process has just been an excuse to keep boy band members from joining the ranks of Neil Armstrong, and Sally Ride.
I wonder if cars that produce things like water for waste or oxygen will result in a reduced number of successful suicide attempts.
What is sad is that people will probably still try with those cars that do not produce anything you could asphyxiate on. I realize if you got into a car that produced something other than oxygen, you could still kill yourself when the amount of oxygen drops below a certain point, but what if...
My first thought was, We've created AI finally.... by accident.
I suppose a software BUG is a more realistic explanation, but mine scared me for all of a nanosecond. I didn't read the article, but I'm curious how many of this make of car are out there. For it to only have happened once, even with a software bug, would probably be pretty unlikely. I think I'll conform and vote "Error in user.exe. Replace user and try again."
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Cheating Chernobyl
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl's reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Here he speaks to Michael Bond about what happened that night
How did you end up working at Chernobyl?
I chose it. It was one of the best stations in the Soviet Union, it was a good town to live in, and I had been there for practical work as part of my studies. And it was a good wage. Being a nuclear engineer was a prestigious career - in those days. Nowadays people in Russia prefer to be businessmen and lawyers.
What were you doing the night the reactor exploded?
I was on the night shift. When I turned up I found out that the safety test that had been planned for the day had been put off until the evening. The reactor had already been powered down and so we would just be overseeing its cooling, which is a very easy job. I was thinking that I wouldn't have much to do that night.
What were you doing when you heard the explosion?
I was in my office, talking to a colleague who had come in to ask for some paint, and reading some documents.
What happened?
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
What did you think it was?
When I heard the thud I thought it was something very heavy that had fallen. After that I didn't know. I thought that maybe war had begun.
Did you imagine that it might be the reactor?
I couldn't imagine it was something to do with the reactor. Before it happened there were no vibrations, no sounds, nothing to indicate there was something wrong. We were trained for various emergency situations. We were engineers, and we were trained in what the reactors could or could not do and what could go wrong. We were prepared for fire and other things, but we were not trained for this. We all thought the safety measures were reliable, that if you pressed the emergency stop button to lower the control rods into the reactor - which is what my friend Leonid Toptunov in the control room did that night - that it would stop the power as it was supposed to. But it didn't. People make mistakes, but we thought the safety measures would compensate for that. We believed what we were told in the work manual.
What did you do after the explosion?
I went back to my office and tried to ring the control room for reactor number 4 to find out what had happened, but there was no line. Suddenly the phone from control room number 3 rang. I got a command to bring stretchers. I grabbed the stretchers and ran. Outside the control room I met a friend who had been close to the centre of the explosion. I didn't recognise him. His clothes were black and his face was disfigured because he had been covered in scalding water. I only recognised him by his voice. He told me to go to the site of the explosion because there were others injured. This friend was being tended by others, so I got a torch and ran to find the other operator who had been near the huge coolant tanks.
It seems to me to be an open challenge to the computer world. Sounds almost like they're saying, "We're so good, we'll give you our source code to prove you can't hack us..."
Uhm... maybe that's why they don't want anyone from certain countries looking at it. Osama and his guys get it, then hack in and poof, landslide victory for liberals in next election.
When I was living in Arizona, I had to re-shingle part of my roof. It was the weekend before monsoon season, and boy was it hot... Anyway, I took a wet towel and put it around my neck, letting the evaporation from the towel cool me. It was quite a common thing to do there in the land of swamp coolers.
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The original, yes... but probably 3rd edition. I gave up on anything past 2nd edition. I loved 2nd edition, but 3rd just took too much of the fun out and made it more work, IMHO.
I do not think it will really matter. The Dems in Congress will sit on any nomination Bush makes for a couple of years, then the next pres (who they hope will be a Dem) will make the nominations. If anything, I see this as being a major issue that will have folks yelling on both sides of the aisle.
begin mining! We could trash a bunch of other planets, stripping them of their natural resources.
I thought he said INOPERABLE!
So maybe the nomination is the award.
This would be a selling point for me, if I could run it off of Windows ME CD's instead of gasoline... :-D
No, wait... that was Lucas.
I remember in the 80's seeing made for television cartoons DROIDS and some ewok movies. They didn't seem to last very long or go anywhere. I wonder why he thinks this time will be any different. Someone once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." Can this be submitted as proof that the all powerful Darth Lucas is off his rocker?
If it were me, I'd get in a cruise ship, spend the whole time swimming in the pool. Then I could say I "swam" across the atlantic.
How did you prepare yourself mentally for this project? Did you study the collective works of Douglas Adams to get a feel for his work, or did you have your own ideas about how to develop the film and about what were the important points of the story?
if Monty Python did THHG?
Perfume? I couldn't help but remember my high school french class where I learned what that "eau de toilette" label on the perfume bottle translated into. I guess now we'll have to double check if we're drinkin it or putting it on for the scent.
Really was just a matter of time before an assault. It's a war. Virii vs. the White ('blood cell') Knights. The worst disease in the world is AIDS, not because it kills directly, but because it inhibits immunity entirely. After your anti-virus software is nuked, the most basic of hacks could nail your pc.
:-)
I got one of those full body condoms and put my computer in it.
3. Customer C has their image locked down to Office 97 because of various (no doubt valid) MS problems. Users are unable to handle incoming documents written in later versions of Word. IS has no solution apart from waiting until 2006 for a company-wide upgrade. (Yet, strangely enough, the IT dude has Office 2003 on his OWN desktop)
I can see how poor communication between operations and IT could be a big factor, but...
I was recently in the IT department of a large company much like this. There was an issue with 1 application that about 20% of the administrative personnel used. It was setup in Access 97, and would NOT work with later versions of Access. Now, being the local IT support, I was often the one taking the flak for the programmers in the corporate office not updating the software 2 years after the rest of the company had migrated to office 2k.
That being said, I think I would agree with previous posters that it is a combination of bad communication from Operations to IT, and lazy/incompetent IT staff/leadership. Just like with any other choice you make in life, you have to decide where the best tradeoff is for you. It sounds like your CIO and upper management do not have the foresight or experience to anticipate and prevent these problems.
I went and saw on the current products a Caffeinated Air Plant
New to Market - Our latest product in the EeziLife range CAF02 - a houseplant that releases caffeine into your home or office.
A constant supply of caffeine without trips to the coffee dispenser, tea pot or soda machine.
If this were real, people I work with would have about 30 of them in their cubicles.
So, you are in favor of taking free speech from the masses?
.xx domain, for citizens of whatever country, can be used for free speech without misrepresentation of the source. For example, if I wanted a place to post my views and ideas about slashdot, I could register slashdot.us, and use that as my soapbox, without infringing on the folks at slashdot.
.com or .org part of urls think it has some meaning, and with the current policies, they really don't.
Not at all, but I am against the mislabeling of personal speech as a business (.com) or a non-profit organization (.org) etc. The
Most of the people that even see the
I think what bothers me most about this, is the use of .com, .org and .net. I don't think any candidate should use .com, unless they're trying to sell a product or service, other than trying to sell themselves in politics. I think there should be a .pol or something for political discussion, conjecture, or campaigning. The governing bodies selling the domain names should require proof (ie business license etc) before selling a domain name. Citizens can use .us or whatever the equivalent is for their country, businesses have their outlet, and politicians can use .pol. Unfortunately, I think that would add to the overhead for those in control of domain names and also would raise the question of what to do with the names already out there.
Currently, if you are in International Waters, you are under the jurisdiction of the country your boat is registered in. I imagine that space will be much the same way, until we meet some Romulans who already own this region, then we'll be toast. But until then, I would guess it will be done much like the sea.
Yeah... I mean, heaven forbid we try and stop people from dumping boosters on people's houses, or launching people on 6G-accel rockets with a 90% chance of killing their passengers without telling them of the risks
Uhm... is it currently legal to drop boosters on people's houses? Won't existing laws cover that?
level of fitness necessary to withstand the forces and conditions of spaceflight
They don't want us to know that there really are no physical fitness requirements. NASA's screening process has just been an excuse to keep boy band members from joining the ranks of Neil Armstrong, and Sally Ride.
I wonder if cars that produce things like water for waste or oxygen will result in a reduced number of successful suicide attempts.
What is sad is that people will probably still try with those cars that do not produce anything you could asphyxiate on. I realize if you got into a car that produced something other than oxygen, you could still kill yourself when the amount of oxygen drops below a certain point, but what if...
My first thought was, We've created AI finally.... by accident.
I suppose a software BUG is a more realistic explanation, but mine scared me for all of a nanosecond. I didn't read the article, but I'm curious how many of this make of car are out there. For it to only have happened once, even with a software bug, would probably be pretty unlikely. I think I'll conform and vote "Error in user.exe. Replace user and try again."
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Cheating Chernobyl
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl's reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Here he speaks to Michael Bond about what happened that night
How did you end up working at Chernobyl?
I chose it. It was one of the best stations in the Soviet Union, it was a good town to live in, and I had been there for practical work as part of my studies. And it was a good wage. Being a nuclear engineer was a prestigious career - in those days. Nowadays people in Russia prefer to be businessmen and lawyers.
What were you doing the night the reactor exploded?
I was on the night shift. When I turned up I found out that the safety test that had been planned for the day had been put off until the evening. The reactor had already been powered down and so we would just be overseeing its cooling, which is a very easy job. I was thinking that I wouldn't have much to do that night.
What were you doing when you heard the explosion?
I was in my office, talking to a colleague who had come in to ask for some paint, and reading some documents.
What happened?
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
What did you think it was?
When I heard the thud I thought it was something very heavy that had fallen. After that I didn't know. I thought that maybe war had begun.
Did you imagine that it might be the reactor?
I couldn't imagine it was something to do with the reactor. Before it happened there were no vibrations, no sounds, nothing to indicate there was something wrong. We were trained for various emergency situations. We were engineers, and we were trained in what the reactors could or could not do and what could go wrong. We were prepared for fire and other things, but we were not trained for this. We all thought the safety measures were reliable, that if you pressed the emergency stop button to lower the control rods into the reactor - which is what my friend Leonid Toptunov in the control room did that night - that it would stop the power as it was supposed to. But it didn't. People make mistakes, but we thought the safety measures would compensate for that. We believed what we were told in the work manual.
What did you do after the explosion?
I went back to my office and tried to ring the control room for reactor number 4 to find out what had happened, but there was no line. Suddenly the phone from control room number 3 rang. I got a command to bring stretchers. I grabbed the stretchers and ran. Outside the control room I met a friend who had been close to the centre of the explosion. I didn't recognise him. His clothes were black and his face was disfigured because he had been covered in scalding water. I only recognised him by his voice. He told me to go to the site of the explosion because there were others injured. This friend was being tended by others, so I got a torch and ran to find the other operator who had been near the huge coolant tanks.
What did you find?
I got to where I expected to find this p
I think this just said that Liberals have brain damage.
:: Conservatives : (Insert your own comment here).
I already knew that, but it is pretty funny.
Liberals : Stoke Victims
It seems to me to be an open challenge to the computer world. Sounds almost like they're saying, "We're so good, we'll give you our source code to prove you can't hack us..."
Uhm... maybe that's why they don't want anyone from certain countries looking at it. Osama and his guys get it, then hack in and poof, landslide victory for liberals in next election.
When I was living in Arizona, I had to re-shingle part of my roof. It was the weekend before monsoon season, and boy was it hot... Anyway, I took a wet towel and put it around my neck, letting the evaporation from the towel cool me. It was quite a common thing to do there in the land of swamp coolers.