Hey - I live in Fargo, damn it! It might be colder than I care to acknowledge, but our TV is in digital and our beer is nicely chilled.
We're living the good life....
I can confirm this in my area (Fargo, ND), too. It seems the average user has learned how to turn WPA on.
On the flip-side, I've noticed more and more restaurants offering free wifi.
I don't know what it is about these cars of tomorrow, but they do not look attractive at all. Apparently the people who buy these cars feel like they need to announce to the world that they just bought an overly expensive golf-cart all under the guise of saving the planet.
When are we going to see high-range electric cars that don't look like something out a bad video game?
I'm thinking that if the nuclear missiles are used or fired upon, we probably have bigger things to worry about than data centers and Microsoft's business software division in Fargo.
Perhaps the fact that Microsoft has a fairly major office in Fargo, North Dakota is testament to how similar North Dakota is to Siberia.
Both areas share a few commonalities: cheap labor, cheap electricity and rural enough to be isolated from any major events that tend bigger cities tend to be prone to. Microsoft sees this and is using it to their advantage, just like any other company would.
It's a new technology in the cell phone industry that isn't the iPhone or something for the iPhone. That's pretty much the only connection. That and this phone has WiFi capabilities, like the iPhone.
Now back to thrusting my girlfriend traditionally.
flowerp: I am now thrusting you traditionally. SexyAnGeL_69: Talk geeky to me. flowerp: I just read on Slashdot about a new electric engine. SexyAnGeL_69: Oh wow! I'm....oh yes! Traditionally thrust me you bad boy!
Pfft, 40 below? Come on, that's like a nice day in January up here in North Dakota. They don't even call school off for that. It's gotta be closer to 50 or 60 below before people start to worry. Toss a block heater in it and it'll be good to go.
Inside each and every wireless mouse is a small mouse (animal kind) that spends its entire life running in a wheel which is used to power the mouse (computer kind). It survives by eating the dust that the mouse (computer kind) picks up when used.
No, Windows Media Player runs like shit on any Mac. I've got a 1.6GHz iMac G5 with upgraded RAM (2 GB) and I usually dread using WMP just because it's so poorly written. Granted, it runs like shit on the Windows side of the equation, so I'm not complaining too much. It's just another of those areas on the Mac that Microsoft is slowly forgetting about (like Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, etc.), probably because Apple has superior software to replace them all.
AFAIK, the models ending in five were the business channel devices. The models ending in zero were the consumer channel devices. According to HP, they did this to make tracking of where the devices were sold easier, even though the models were identical.
Hey now, we're not all hicks up here. Yes, we have those people who part cars on blocks in front of their trailer, but so does every other state.
We're rather intelligent, atleast when it comes to test scores. North Dakota has some of the highest educational test scores in the nation. We might live in a rural part of the country, but that doesn't mean we just live scattered out on the prairie, drinking beer and riding our tractors. Most people in North Dakota actually live in cities (well, what we call cities...population 10,000 or more) and have jobs in the service industry. Agriculture is a huge part of our state economy, however its really made up of a rather small group of people, and even the farmers usually aren't too hickish.
Tourism is our second largest industry-sector, behind agriculture. You'd be surprised what North Dakota has to offer.
the middle of a state that's in the middle of nowhere
Not to nitpick or anything, but Dickinson is slightly west and south of the middle of nowhere. The middle of nowhere is actually in Rugby, ND, which is the geographic center of North America.
I, too, am from North Dakota (Minot to be specific). The parent is right. You'd be surprised how effective getting out and meeting people can be when it comes to references. You'll build up a reputation for yourself in the town you live in (which, atleast around here, is invaluable for taking a loan out a local bank). A lot of banks in my hometown won't do business with you if you are new to the area. Having atleast some reputation in your community, even if its just in the neighborhood, can be invaluable.
Granted, most of us North Dakotans are so gosh darn friendly and are willing to do anything to help each other out.
While I agree that a company should be doing it's own bug testing, there are always going to be certain hardware and software setups that will inevitably cause a problem that the company couldn't have ever imagined.
Sure, there isn't a law saying this guy should have reported the flaws to the company first before going public, but as a software developer, I always appreciate when people bring bugs to my attention and I try to compensate them justly (such as discounts if they are current customers, etc).
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Hey - I live in Fargo, damn it! It might be colder than I care to acknowledge, but our TV is in digital and our beer is nicely chilled. We're living the good life....
I can confirm this in my area (Fargo, ND), too. It seems the average user has learned how to turn WPA on. On the flip-side, I've noticed more and more restaurants offering free wifi.
I don't know what it is about these cars of tomorrow, but they do not look attractive at all. Apparently the people who buy these cars feel like they need to announce to the world that they just bought an overly expensive golf-cart all under the guise of saving the planet.
When are we going to see high-range electric cars that don't look like something out a bad video game?
I'm thinking that if the nuclear missiles are used or fired upon, we probably have bigger things to worry about than data centers and Microsoft's business software division in Fargo.
Perhaps the fact that Microsoft has a fairly major office in Fargo, North Dakota is testament to how similar North Dakota is to Siberia.
Both areas share a few commonalities: cheap labor, cheap electricity and rural enough to be isolated from any major events that tend bigger cities tend to be prone to. Microsoft sees this and is using it to their advantage, just like any other company would.
It's a new technology in the cell phone industry that isn't the iPhone or something for the iPhone. That's pretty much the only connection. That and this phone has WiFi capabilities, like the iPhone.
flowerp: I am now thrusting you traditionally.
SexyAnGeL_69: Talk geeky to me.
flowerp: I just read on Slashdot about a new electric engine.
SexyAnGeL_69: Oh wow! I'm....oh yes! Traditionally thrust me you bad boy!
Well, if he's working in India...somewhere around 12 or 13 probably.
Yeah, that sounds about right. There are a couple more, but they haven't been around for a while. Bismarck up in dis biatch.
Pfft, 40 below? Come on, that's like a nice day in January up here in North Dakota. They don't even call school off for that. It's gotta be closer to 50 or 60 below before people start to worry. Toss a block heater in it and it'll be good to go.
Well if you really want to stretch the truth, he was working "hard."
Inside each and every wireless mouse is a small mouse (animal kind) that spends its entire life running in a wheel which is used to power the mouse (computer kind). It survives by eating the dust that the mouse (computer kind) picks up when used.
Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise. Damn, he's so sexy.
I once woke up looking at the crack of a fat chick named Dawn. I threw up all over the place.
Anybody manage to make off with a hard drive from one of those Macs, image it and make a .torrent of it?
Nah, that's ignorant. Just ignorant.
No, Windows Media Player runs like shit on any Mac. I've got a 1.6GHz iMac G5 with upgraded RAM (2 GB) and I usually dread using WMP just because it's so poorly written. Granted, it runs like shit on the Windows side of the equation, so I'm not complaining too much. It's just another of those areas on the Mac that Microsoft is slowly forgetting about (like Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, etc.), probably because Apple has superior software to replace them all.
Not sure, but you can change any PS/2 keyboard into a serial keyboard in seconds!
AFAIK, the models ending in five were the business channel devices. The models ending in zero were the consumer channel devices. According to HP, they did this to make tracking of where the devices were sold easier, even though the models were identical.
Yes, that sounds a lot like North Dakota, however, you failed to remember that North Dakota has no minority.
Hey now, we're not all hicks up here. Yes, we have those people who part cars on blocks in front of their trailer, but so does every other state.
We're rather intelligent, atleast when it comes to test scores. North Dakota has some of the highest educational test scores in the nation. We might live in a rural part of the country, but that doesn't mean we just live scattered out on the prairie, drinking beer and riding our tractors. Most people in North Dakota actually live in cities (well, what we call cities...population 10,000 or more) and have jobs in the service industry. Agriculture is a huge part of our state economy, however its really made up of a rather small group of people, and even the farmers usually aren't too hickish.
Tourism is our second largest industry-sector, behind agriculture. You'd be surprised what North Dakota has to offer.
Not to nitpick or anything, but Dickinson is slightly west and south of the middle of nowhere. The middle of nowhere is actually in Rugby, ND, which is the geographic center of North America.
I, too, am from North Dakota (Minot to be specific). The parent is right. You'd be surprised how effective getting out and meeting people can be when it comes to references. You'll build up a reputation for yourself in the town you live in (which, atleast around here, is invaluable for taking a loan out a local bank). A lot of banks in my hometown won't do business with you if you are new to the area. Having atleast some reputation in your community, even if its just in the neighborhood, can be invaluable.
Granted, most of us North Dakotans are so gosh darn friendly and are willing to do anything to help each other out.
While I agree that a company should be doing it's own bug testing, there are always going to be certain hardware and software setups that will inevitably cause a problem that the company couldn't have ever imagined.
Sure, there isn't a law saying this guy should have reported the flaws to the company first before going public, but as a software developer, I always appreciate when people bring bugs to my attention and I try to compensate them justly (such as discounts if they are current customers, etc).