http://www.theindustrystandard.com/article/0,1902,14183,00.html
$35 million from investors, and a $10 million launch party featuring acts like The Who, The Dixie Chicks, Kiss, and Brian Setzer. All this for a streaming video service that never worked so at demos they used a custom front end for Windows Media Services.
Occasionally, I will get interested in some new technology, but for the most part I'm starting to find it all very tedious, repetitive, and boring and I'm no longer really interested in the hands-on aspect of the business. I spent the majority of my childhood until I was 18 picking rock and bailing hay on a farm. You think you're in a tedious, repetitive and boring job? The fact that you're posting on Slashdot during work hours tells me otherwise. I'll bet you have air conditioning.
I know this is a bad thing that Americans don't like to dwell on but you should be happy you have a solid source of income and work in comfortable environments. Most people outside of the industrialized world can't say that.
The only problem is that I have a wife and kid to support and my current job pays very well. If you can't find joy in your job and you can't find another job with comparable income, then find joy in your family. Generations before you have worked in mills, textile plants, mines, slaughterhouses, etc. all in the name of their wives, daughters & sons living a free life. Again, if I were you, I would opt to be thankful I can provide for my family under much better circumstances (and probably at much higher pay with inflation taken into account).
On the other hand, I recognize that the young idealist in us all strikes every now and then. But you've got a family and a paying job so I would recommend you focus on those aspects instead of risking them. I guess if you do decide to act on your instincts, ask them if they're willing to accept the risk for your happiness at work. They're now part of your life and depending on you so respect that and be responsible. Your point is exactly why I'm in IT. I used to be a chef, but the physical and scheduling demands simply weren't something that I wanted to deal with when I had a family. So I switched to the only other thing I knew how to do, which was fix computers. Years later I have a nice job working with good people and a regular schedule. It may not be as exciting, dynamic, and as creative as my previous career, in fact it's sometimes pretty boring. But at night I go home and get a big hug from my 5 year old son, dinner from my wife, and good family time after that which makes up for anything I'm lacking at work tenfold.
It is dumbed down. I highly recommend that everyone takes a hard look at the math curriculum in your areas schools. Too many now are using programs like TERC and Everyday Mathematics that stress self discovery, group work, calculator usage, and a spiraling learning path instead of mastering a topic and moving forward. They deemphasize standard algorithms, multiplication table memorization, and long division. Thank god there are states like Texas and California that have recently found these programs to be deficient, and are no longer using them in their schools.
Unless they find a way to genetically and physically alter cows to eat a corn based diet instead of grass, you're out of luck. Those cloned animals will still have to eat something. As long as that something is corn, you'll get a cow filled with growth hormones and antibiotics.
I don't think this is nearly the issue you're making it out to be. The iPod touch could offer e-book reading capabilities just like the iPhone, and you need no monthly contract for it. The books could be purchased (or free ones offered online for download) from iTunes on a PC or Mac, and sync'd into the memory of the iPod touch or iPhone to read later - regardless of connectivity during the time you're viewing the book.
Battery life becomes sort of a non-issue too when you think about it practically. Who is going to read a Kindle for anywhere near the 30 hours of promised battery life, non-stop? If you just recharge your device each night before going to bed, either Kindle or iPod touch/iPhone will get you through hours of reading during the day with no problem.
You're right, it's not an issue. I have an ebook reader on my iphone thanks to jailbreaking it, and was able to read a pdf book on it during a trip this last week quite easily. The font rendering made it easy to read, there were nav buttons in the ebook reader, it resumed in the place I left off at, and the touch screen made going up and down chapters a breeze. I was also able to listen to my music properly, instead of in the half baked random play only manner that The Kindle uses.
If you're buying a laptop because it has this graphics chip, battery life is secondary to frames per second. The people that are buying these laptops buy them because they're suited for playing games anywhere while plugged in, not traveling and off site work.
I've been using Synchronica to sync our OWA server with my iphone, and itunes to sync my contacts and calendar. It works pretty well. There's no push, so I get up to 15 minute delay on my email, but it does the job.
There is only one accurate means to tell if a snake is poisonous or not before it bites, and that's the shape of the pupils of the eyes. If they are shaped like a cat's, it is a poisonous snake. Otherwise not.
There's an exception to every rule. In this case, it's the coral snake which is also the subject of this rhyme. It's poisonous and has round pupils. The coral snake is a member of the cobra family, and IIRC all of them have round pupils.
It's not incorrect. Cable modems cache the MAC address of the first PC that connects to it for routing. This MAC address will stay in memory whether the Cable Modem is powered on or not, the reset button on the modem won't even clear it sometimes. If you're a business client with a static IP, this MAC address will also be cached by Comcast. When you call Comcast, all that they're doing is resetting the cable modem for you manually, so it will clear any cached information. I've called Comcast several times over the past two years for both home and jobsite support and installations, never once have they asked me for the MAC address of the cable modem, either during setup, or afterwards during support calls.
Actually, it's not that simple anymore. You have to register your PC/Router MAC address with the cable modem the first time you connect to set up routing. For most people that requires the use of an.exe that uses IE, which is where the requirement for IE comes from. The app also sets up email settings, the comcast portal as your home page, and brands IE with Comcast crapola. The problem is that the.exe doesn't care if you have any other ISP email accounts setup, it'll overwrite the settings with Comcast settings. You can avoid all the whole mess by simply calling Comcast and getting this over the phone.
I get 3 expected items in the mail every month, along with items ordered an delivered. They're the only bills I have that don't have an electronic only option yet. Everything else I get is junk mail which has a hidden cost as well.
The post office has to use more fuel to carry all the extra weight in their vehicles. I have to get it from the mail box, shred it, put it in a garbage bag, and have it picked up by the garbage man. The DMA companies didn't buy my shredder for me, they don't spend 15 minutes shredding junk every week, and they don't subsidize the cost of fuel for the garbage truck that stops at every house to pick up what most likely amounts to tons of extra garbage weight a year. They also don't care if some meth head stops by my mailbox, steals my junk mail, and uses one of the dozens of free credit card offers to steal my identity and start me down the road of a ruined credit rating.
So the cost of junk mail is time, fuel, space, and security.
For those who wonder why anyone wouldn't use charcoal - turn knob, push button - 15 minutes later the temperature is passing 700 and it's time to toss the meat on. Yum yum - and after cooking, turn the main burners all the way up, close the lid, and check back in 30 minutes. All the mess is now ash; brush it away and it's clean again.
I start mesquite charcoal in a charcoal chimney on my grill grates. This gets the coals started and heats the grates at the same time. Takes about 15 minutes to do this, and because the charcoal is made from real wood and doesn't have any filler, there's barely any mess afterwards. My grill is ready to go as soon as I dump the coals out of the charcoal chimney.
I've had both at gas and charcoal at home, and I worked for ten years professionally in steak houses and fine restaurants where both gas and charcoal was used. The major reasons that gas is used in restaurants for grilling is for the convenience, cost and the ability to train some schlub how to cook a consistent steak. It takes real skill to work a Friday night with charcoal, chefs that can handle the pressure and keep a consistent fire going are far and few between. Most anyone in the business can learn to use gas. Not many places use salamanders for steaks anymore either. I think Ruths Chris is one of the last ones. Most use high quality natural gas grills, or are switching over to mesquite charcoal.
Someone else already said it, there's a reason that competitive grill and BBQ contestants don't use gas.
I would highly recommend dumping the propane and going with mesquite charcoal. With my charcoal chimney, I'm ready to cook in about 15 minutes. Unlike briquettes, mesquite has no filler, plus you can use less since it also burns a bit hotter, so there's a lot less mess afterwards to scoop up. I spend about 30 seconds to clean out the ashes into my ash bin.
One day someone will be able to explain to me the point in going outside to use a grill that cooks your food in practically the same manner as the broiler in your oven. I'll take a bag of mesquite charcoal and my New Braunfels smoker over something like this any day. You grill for the flavor. Propane, electric, and now infrared just miss the entire point AFAIC.
Or it could have been Leon: The Ulitmate Edition, that along with those extra 20 minutes, adds a better remaster, DTS sound, a second disc of extras, and the option to read nifty little factiods about the movie as it goes along. Worth ten bucks? To you maybe not, but to movie geeks it is.
We had a huge windstorm this past winter. I was without power for a week, and had friends who were without for nearly two.
It wouldn't suprise me if we live in the same area.
During that entire time, my cell phone continued to work perfectly. I used my car to keep the battery charged.
I live in a rural area, we have fewer towers to lock onto, and I was told by my wireless company that service would be restored according trouble tickets and population density.
Your experience prompted you to get a landline. Mine has prompted me to buy a generator, though I'm waiting for a few more months when prices will be the lowest (we don't get power outages here in the summer, since it's not hot enough for people to overload circuits with A/C units). If anything, I came out of the experience with a more favorable impression of cell phones, as there's no way I would've been able to keep my old portable phone charged up that long and I couldn't take that out to my car to charge off the engine.
We went opposite directions then. In a few years we're upgrading to a 16kW natural gas standby. Our landline phone isn't cordless though, no fear of having to recharge it.
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http://www.theindustrystandard.com/article/0,1902,14183,00.html $35 million from investors, and a $10 million launch party featuring acts like The Who, The Dixie Chicks, Kiss, and Brian Setzer. All this for a streaming video service that never worked so at demos they used a custom front end for Windows Media Services.
Why not? After that crapfest, St. Anger, this is really the only way they can get people to buy anything new.
How about anonymous coward grammar nazi correction?
http://www.nysun.com/article/66711?page_no=1
Links to information and curriculum reviews:
http://www.wheresthemath.com/
http://www.wheresthemath.com/blog/curriculum-reviews/
http://www.nychold.com/
http://www.weaponsofmathdestruction.com/
http://128.208.34.90/ramgen/archive/weekday/conv20070313.rm
Unless they find a way to genetically and physically alter cows to eat a corn based diet instead of grass, you're out of luck. Those cloned animals will still have to eat something. As long as that something is corn, you'll get a cow filled with growth hormones and antibiotics.
You're right, it's not an issue. I have an ebook reader on my iphone thanks to jailbreaking it, and was able to read a pdf book on it during a trip this last week quite easily. The font rendering made it easy to read, there were nav buttons in the ebook reader, it resumed in the place I left off at, and the touch screen made going up and down chapters a breeze. I was also able to listen to my music properly, instead of in the half baked random play only manner that The Kindle uses.
If you're buying a laptop because it has this graphics chip, battery life is secondary to frames per second. The people that are buying these laptops buy them because they're suited for playing games anywhere while plugged in, not traveling and off site work.
Unless you're on ATT, in which case you're using 3G at 1900MHz, so your ATT 3G phones should not work in Japan.
I've been using Synchronica to sync our OWA server with my iphone, and itunes to sync my contacts and calendar. It works pretty well. There's no push, so I get up to 15 minute delay on my email, but it does the job.
There's an exception to every rule. In this case, it's the coral snake which is also the subject of this rhyme. It's poisonous and has round pupils. The coral snake is a member of the cobra family, and IIRC all of them have round pupils.
Read this before you think you can be sure about that. They can be wrong, especially the older ones.
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Or the the machines may not have been tested properly:
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It's not incorrect. Cable modems cache the MAC address of the first PC that connects to it for routing. This MAC address will stay in memory whether the Cable Modem is powered on or not, the reset button on the modem won't even clear it sometimes. If you're a business client with a static IP, this MAC address will also be cached by Comcast. When you call Comcast, all that they're doing is resetting the cable modem for you manually, so it will clear any cached information. I've called Comcast several times over the past two years for both home and jobsite support and installations, never once have they asked me for the MAC address of the cable modem, either during setup, or afterwards during support calls.
Actually, it's not that simple anymore. You have to register your PC/Router MAC address with the cable modem the first time you connect to set up routing. For most people that requires the use of an .exe that uses IE, which is where the requirement for IE comes from. The app also sets up email settings, the comcast portal as your home page, and brands IE with Comcast crapola. The problem is that the .exe doesn't care if you have any other ISP email accounts setup, it'll overwrite the settings with Comcast settings. You can avoid all the whole mess by simply calling Comcast and getting this over the phone.
Or let's not forget the German Democratic Republic. Not very Democratic at all!
If it were my mod day, I'd give you another 'Insightful'.
I get 3 expected items in the mail every month, along with items ordered an delivered. They're the only bills I have that don't have an electronic only option yet. Everything else I get is junk mail which has a hidden cost as well. The post office has to use more fuel to carry all the extra weight in their vehicles. I have to get it from the mail box, shred it, put it in a garbage bag, and have it picked up by the garbage man. The DMA companies didn't buy my shredder for me, they don't spend 15 minutes shredding junk every week, and they don't subsidize the cost of fuel for the garbage truck that stops at every house to pick up what most likely amounts to tons of extra garbage weight a year. They also don't care if some meth head stops by my mailbox, steals my junk mail, and uses one of the dozens of free credit card offers to steal my identity and start me down the road of a ruined credit rating. So the cost of junk mail is time, fuel, space, and security.
For those who wonder why anyone wouldn't use charcoal - turn knob, push button - 15 minutes later the temperature is passing 700 and it's time to toss the meat on. Yum yum - and after cooking, turn the main burners all the way up, close the lid, and check back in 30 minutes. All the mess is now ash; brush it away and it's clean again. I start mesquite charcoal in a charcoal chimney on my grill grates. This gets the coals started and heats the grates at the same time. Takes about 15 minutes to do this, and because the charcoal is made from real wood and doesn't have any filler, there's barely any mess afterwards. My grill is ready to go as soon as I dump the coals out of the charcoal chimney. I've had both at gas and charcoal at home, and I worked for ten years professionally in steak houses and fine restaurants where both gas and charcoal was used. The major reasons that gas is used in restaurants for grilling is for the convenience, cost and the ability to train some schlub how to cook a consistent steak. It takes real skill to work a Friday night with charcoal, chefs that can handle the pressure and keep a consistent fire going are far and few between. Most anyone in the business can learn to use gas. Not many places use salamanders for steaks anymore either. I think Ruths Chris is one of the last ones. Most use high quality natural gas grills, or are switching over to mesquite charcoal. Someone else already said it, there's a reason that competitive grill and BBQ contestants don't use gas.
Mesquite Charcoal and a charcoal chimney. No filler, no fuel needed, burns hotter and cleaner, leaving a much smaller mess behind.
Add flavor to the food you're cooking over it?
I would highly recommend dumping the propane and going with mesquite charcoal. With my charcoal chimney, I'm ready to cook in about 15 minutes. Unlike briquettes, mesquite has no filler, plus you can use less since it also burns a bit hotter, so there's a lot less mess afterwards to scoop up. I spend about 30 seconds to clean out the ashes into my ash bin.
One day someone will be able to explain to me the point in going outside to use a grill that cooks your food in practically the same manner as the broiler in your oven. I'll take a bag of mesquite charcoal and my New Braunfels smoker over something like this any day. You grill for the flavor. Propane, electric, and now infrared just miss the entire point AFAIC.
Or it could have been Leon: The Ulitmate Edition, that along with those extra 20 minutes, adds a better remaster, DTS sound, a second disc of extras, and the option to read nifty little factiods about the movie as it goes along. Worth ten bucks? To you maybe not, but to movie geeks it is.
It wouldn't suprise me if we live in the same area.
During that entire time, my cell phone continued to work perfectly. I used my car to keep the battery charged.
I live in a rural area, we have fewer towers to lock onto, and I was told by my wireless company that service would be restored according trouble tickets and population density.
Your experience prompted you to get a landline. Mine has prompted me to buy a generator, though I'm waiting for a few more months when prices will be the lowest (we don't get power outages here in the summer, since it's not hot enough for people to overload circuits with A/C units). If anything, I came out of the experience with a more favorable impression of cell phones, as there's no way I would've been able to keep my old portable phone charged up that long and I couldn't take that out to my car to charge off the engine.
We went opposite directions then. In a few years we're upgrading to a 16kW natural gas standby. Our landline phone isn't cordless though, no fear of having to recharge it.