Hah! If someone else is paying, I always get the "happy ending"! I usually get a "phoenix and dragon" as the main course and bring the "happy ending" home and eat it for lunch the next day.
Surveys are never objective, it all depends on how you ask the questions.
To a Canadian company:
"Hello, we a Canadian research firm doing a study about Canadian vs. American privacy policies. Would you say that your privacy policy protects the consumer? Yes? Thanks!"
To an American company:
"Hello, we doing a study about consumer privacy policies. Would you say the need for privacy policies were prompted by consumer lawsuits and legislation? Yes? Thanks!"
This is as good idea, so long as it doesn't allow others to search my filesystem.
But what if they could? If google cached, online, the location of MP3s and MPEGs loaded on your system, then allowed others access (with your permission of course). Hmm... sounds like a P2P file sharing system...
When you see bar graphs with two items its just plain silly.
Hey, he's management material! Quick promote him!
Re:Handy for travellers...
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Backpackers and other travellers
Why would a backpacker want to deal with water damage and fragile connections? For about the same price, get a handheld map GPS that is waterproof and floats. I use a handheld GPS.
LOL... the parent's use of the word "backpacker" is different from what we who actually get into the backcountry and away from civilization. We call those with backpacks "travelers" and those with suitcases "tourists". Well, whatever you call them, it's highly unlikey they will need something waterproof; a ziplock baggie will keep the GBA dry if they have to wander the streets while it's raining. With some extra air in the baggie, it'll even float; just in case you drop the thing overboard while taking a boat down the Seine...
The boy didn't even employ anything creative or hacker-like. He just dialed a number on his phone, and the authorities needed an ex-con hacker to help them with this?
My guess is that the local PD knew it was a local kid, and knew it was a hoax. Of course, they had to treat each call as if it were real, but not worth calling up the State Police, Sheriff, FBI... don't want to run the risk of putting some town bigwig's kid in the fed pen. So the local PD kept the investigation local, used other means to keep the crime and punishment in their own jurisdiction. And wouldn't you know, the accused will not be facing jail time.
Steal a few of these, set them up in the street in front of my apartment to save my parking spot. When my car approaches, a RF sensor will tell the cones to part to allow my car to slide into the spot. Fantastic!
Funny part is snail mail has the same bugs and I don't hear anybody yelling "Snail mail must die!"
After a few truckloads a day of snail mail spam, I'm sure that thought must have crossed Ralsky's mind.
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Anyone who played Final Fantasy VII on their PS-X/PC knows what I'm talking about.
And they'll also know how annoying it was to watch that "art" over and over and over and over when you summoned... so while it might have been "art" it was also a "major pain in the ass that slowed down gameplay". Frankly I'd rather do with less "art", which is why I loved the Infocom games.
Right, the parent is saying why allow such anonymous access? When a non-deaf person makes a phone call, their phone number, the number they called, the duration of the call, all that info is logged. Yet calls through TTY are not.
TTY users should have privacy in their calls, but that does not mean they should have complete anonymity to make such calls. Requiring them to register and login to TTY relay websites isn't any different from the rest of us having to give all our details to the telco to get a phone line. There's privacy in the calls, but not the fact we're making a call and to whom the call is made.
And this new study, which covers the 18-year period going from 1981 to 1998, shows that the Earth's temperature is rising 0.43C per decade instead of the O.34C found by previous methods.
For those who just skimmed the linked article; the article links to another, which says the satellites can only detect temperature on land, but not over snow covered land. Hmm... seems like a skewed data set to me.
How do they know that the colder, snow-covered regions aren't getting colder, to balance out the average temperature? Or maybe the oceans are getting cooler which might also brings down the average temperature to what the ground stations recorded.
Maybe the scientists do know, and this is just a case of bad reporting...
I have an external 2.5" Toshiba 60GB that runs off the USB2 power w/o the PS2 adapter... good thing since my laptop doesn't have a PS2 adapter. Sucks on my ultralight which doesn't have a PS2 nor does it have enough power through the USB, have to plug the drive into an external power source. So is it the USB port itself that doesn't provide enough power?
Being a Japanese company, it makes sense that they would measure the height in millimeters. The 2.5 inches thing is a hard drive standard for laptops which would be why they measured that in imperial measurements.
That's stupid and racist. IBM designs their hard drives using metric measurements. The 2.5" hard drive "standard" is a misnomer since hard drives are 2.75" in width. Originally, they were.75" in height, or rather they were 19mm in height by design, but for advertising purposes,.75 inches. As the drives got smaller, it became more inconvenient for manufacturers to quote the height as inches or fractions of an inch, although they could have. 9.5mm is about 3/8", so why didn't they? Marketing most likely. The engineers have always used metric for design.
Dropping the power consumption by 20% sounds like a win.
Well, it doesn't hurt, but it's not a huge deal. When I'm unplugged and working, the hard drive is sitting idle so lowering power consumption doesn't significantly affect battery life.
Now, having a low power DVD player would be much better, watching movies really sucks the life out of a battery.
Of course, with a 100GB drive, I can finally store a decent number of movies on the drive. Still, it'd be better to store movies in smaller sections, load up to a RAM disk and watch from there instead of keeping the drive spinning.
12 petabytes in 22,292 seconds gives a transmission speed of 540.5 GB/s.
Well, that's assuming a 100% transfer of packets. What happens if you drop a few packets? Apps would have to be really fault tolerant to accept a latency of 22,2292 seconds for a retransmit!
This should eliminate a lot of the poor quality copies.
Yeah, thank you MPAA! Now when I buy a movie off the street hawker in Times Square the same day the movie is released, I can be assured that the pirated movie is not a cheap camcorder recording with tinny sound, but a decent copy of a screener or projectionist dupe! People are always hesitant to buy off the street since you never knew how the movie was pirated... you don't want to waste your $5. But now, with only quality pirated movies on the streets, I'm sure business for those guys will pick up significantly!
Surely employees don't have to surf the web at work?
No, they don't need to surf at work. However, being a BOFH and cutting off internet access to the employees doesn't do much for employee morale.
Sooner or later all your good employees will leave, and you'll be stuck with disgruntled employees who don't have the skills to get another job (and are underqualified for the one they have), or recent grads who have no other choice but will leave as fast as they can. You'll lose money in training and recruiting costs.
Draconian measures might save money in the short run, but keeping employees happy does much more for employee retention.
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so continue Microsoft's rise in the POS operating system space.
Doesn't MS already have the lead in the Piece O' Sh*t operating system space?
Oh you mean Point Of Sale... oops my bad.
you could've gotten the "happy ending"
Hah! If someone else is paying, I always get the "happy ending"! I usually get a "phoenix and dragon" as the main course and bring the "happy ending" home and eat it for lunch the next day.
Surveys are never objective, it all depends on how you ask the questions.
To a Canadian company:
"Hello, we a Canadian research firm doing a study about Canadian vs. American privacy policies. Would you say that your privacy policy protects the consumer? Yes? Thanks!"
To an American company:
"Hello, we doing a study about consumer privacy policies. Would you say the need for privacy policies were prompted by consumer lawsuits and legislation? Yes? Thanks!"
This is as good idea, so long as it doesn't allow others to search my filesystem.
But what if they could? If google cached, online, the location of MP3s and MPEGs loaded on your system, then allowed others access (with your permission of course). Hmm... sounds like a P2P file sharing system...
Nothing will stop man from seeking adventures and knowledge.
Nothing, perhaps, except marriage.
"Honey, I'm going out to explore Mars."
"Not before you clean out the garage.
When you see bar graphs with two items its just plain silly.
Hey, he's management material! Quick promote him!
Backpackers and other travellers
Why would a backpacker want to deal with water damage and fragile connections? For about the same price, get a handheld map GPS that is waterproof and floats. I use a handheld GPS.
LOL... the parent's use of the word "backpacker" is different from what we who actually get into the backcountry and away from civilization. We call those with backpacks "travelers" and those with suitcases "tourists". Well, whatever you call them, it's highly unlikey they will need something waterproof; a ziplock baggie will keep the GBA dry if they have to wander the streets while it's raining. With some extra air in the baggie, it'll even float; just in case you drop the thing overboard while taking a boat down the Seine...
A technology-independent, perpetual, safe storage service for the general public is just a business opportunity waiting to happen.
Ha. The Sumarians came up with a solution 5500 years ago...
Really, it means "Well-demoned". It can be lucky, happy, prosperous, or a couple of other things.
In other words it means "I run FreeBSD".
Hmm... the stock price has been dropping, has a PE of -15.96! Wonder if Bill knows something?
The boy didn't even employ anything creative or hacker-like. He just dialed a number on his phone, and the authorities needed an ex-con hacker to help them with this?
My guess is that the local PD knew it was a local kid, and knew it was a hoax. Of course, they had to treat each call as if it were real, but not worth calling up the State Police, Sheriff, FBI... don't want to run the risk of putting some town bigwig's kid in the fed pen. So the local PD kept the investigation local, used other means to keep the crime and punishment in their own jurisdiction. And wouldn't you know, the accused will not be facing jail time.
Steal a few of these, set them up in the street in front of my apartment to save my parking spot. When my car approaches, a RF sensor will tell the cones to part to allow my car to slide into the spot. Fantastic!
Funny part is snail mail has the same bugs and I don't hear anybody yelling "Snail mail must die!"
After a few truckloads a day of snail mail spam, I'm sure that thought must have crossed Ralsky's mind.
Anyone who played Final Fantasy VII on their PS-X/PC knows what I'm talking about.
And they'll also know how annoying it was to watch that "art" over and over and over and over when you summoned... so while it might have been "art" it was also a "major pain in the ass that slowed down gameplay". Frankly I'd rather do with less "art", which is why I loved the Infocom games.
Let's go way back now, and be honest: what's the first videogame that you remember that had a plot worth remembering?
Space Invaders. Aliens coming to take over the earth, shoot them down!
Or Defender... anyone remember the episode of "News Radio" when Jimmy gets hooked on Defender, sobbing about the aliens taking his family...
Right, the parent is saying why allow such anonymous access? When a non-deaf person makes a phone call, their phone number, the number they called, the duration of the call, all that info is logged. Yet calls through TTY are not.
TTY users should have privacy in their calls, but that does not mean they should have complete anonymity to make such calls. Requiring them to register and login to TTY relay websites isn't any different from the rest of us having to give all our details to the telco to get a phone line. There's privacy in the calls, but not the fact we're making a call and to whom the call is made.
And this new study, which covers the 18-year period going from 1981 to 1998, shows that the Earth's temperature is rising 0.43C per decade instead of the O.34C found by previous methods.
For those who just skimmed the linked article; the article links to another, which says the satellites can only detect temperature on land, but not over snow covered land. Hmm... seems like a skewed data set to me.
How do they know that the colder, snow-covered regions aren't getting colder, to balance out the average temperature? Or maybe the oceans are getting cooler which might also brings down the average temperature to what the ground stations recorded.
Maybe the scientists do know, and this is just a case of bad reporting...
Just sit back from the screen about 70 feet and the sound and lips will sync up just fine!
Did the voting panel use paper ballots or Diebold machines in their decision to dump Diebold?
I have an external 2.5" Toshiba 60GB that runs off the USB2 power w/o the PS2 adapter... good thing since my laptop doesn't have a PS2 adapter. Sucks on my ultralight which doesn't have a PS2 nor does it have enough power through the USB, have to plug the drive into an external power source. So is it the USB port itself that doesn't provide enough power?
Being a Japanese company, it makes sense that they would measure the height in millimeters. The 2.5 inches thing is a hard drive standard for laptops which would be why they measured that in imperial measurements.
.75" in height, or rather they were 19mm in height by design, but for advertising purposes, .75 inches. As the drives got smaller, it became more inconvenient for manufacturers to quote the height as inches or fractions of an inch, although they could have. 9.5mm is about 3/8", so why didn't they? Marketing most likely. The engineers have always used metric for design.
That's stupid and racist. IBM designs their hard drives using metric measurements. The 2.5" hard drive "standard" is a misnomer since hard drives are 2.75" in width. Originally, they were
Dropping the power consumption by 20% sounds like a win.
Well, it doesn't hurt, but it's not a huge deal. When I'm unplugged and working, the hard drive is sitting idle so lowering power consumption doesn't significantly affect battery life.
Now, having a low power DVD player would be much better, watching movies really sucks the life out of a battery.
Of course, with a 100GB drive, I can finally store a decent number of movies on the drive. Still, it'd be better to store movies in smaller sections, load up to a RAM disk and watch from there instead of keeping the drive spinning.
12 petabytes in 22,292 seconds gives a transmission speed of 540.5 GB/s.
Well, that's assuming a 100% transfer of packets. What happens if you drop a few packets? Apps would have to be really fault tolerant to accept a latency of 22,2292 seconds for a retransmit!
This should eliminate a lot of the poor quality copies.
Yeah, thank you MPAA! Now when I buy a movie off the street hawker in Times Square the same day the movie is released, I can be assured that the pirated movie is not a cheap camcorder recording with tinny sound, but a decent copy of a screener or projectionist dupe! People are always hesitant to buy off the street since you never knew how the movie was pirated... you don't want to waste your $5. But now, with only quality pirated movies on the streets, I'm sure business for those guys will pick up significantly!
Surely employees don't have to surf the web at work?
No, they don't need to surf at work. However, being a BOFH and cutting off internet access to the employees doesn't do much for employee morale.
Sooner or later all your good employees will leave, and you'll be stuck with disgruntled employees who don't have the skills to get another job (and are underqualified for the one they have), or recent grads who have no other choice but will leave as fast as they can. You'll lose money in training and recruiting costs.
Draconian measures might save money in the short run, but keeping employees happy does much more for employee retention.