I thought "War on...." was a code phrase meaning "an unsolvable problem we will waste billions of dollars trying unsuccessfully to solve using the same failing methods over and over again." Didn't it start with the war on poverty?
It may be a "public" place but the poor bastard next to you can't just get up and walk away if your talking irritates him. Your "right" to talk and his "right" to peace and quiet are going to conflict. How you both deal with that will be interesting, especially if your seat-mate is as reasonable, accommodating and willing to compromise as you seem to be.
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
I'm afraid there is. It's not about top speed, but it is about acceleration. A car with sufficient power to merge or pass _safely_ when fully loaded will have more than enough power to far exceed any speed limit when empty.
I too drive a small, light, 1.3 litre econobox. In my car, with a full load i.e. me, 4 passengers and a trunk full of luggage, every bit of power and torque I've got will just barely accelerate me from 30 mph to 65 mph in the length of an average merge lane. I just barely have enough power to merge safely. That same barely sufficient power will get the car, with no passengers or cargo, up to 105 mph. The car would not be safe with any less power.
If you're going to dream, dream big. Imagine if you applied that standard (play your own instruments, write your own songs), to popular music. The Billboard top 100 would have about 2 dozen songs left.
Having seen the candidates last time around (They say, in America anyone can become president. - Well, that's certainly true), I suspect a lot of folks don't vote because of the missing option on the ballot - "NONE OF THE ABOVE"
Doc Smith's Lensman novels would be perfect for a special effects heavy action adventure. The first few at least, starting with Galactic Patrol and ending with Children of the Lens. Non-stop action, pure and noble heroes, indescribably evil bad-guys, DeLameters blazing and space axes thwucking off alien limbs, starship battles many times bigger and better than anything Lucas ever did, entire planets being hurled as weapons. It would be awesome.
Of course Hollywood would just screw it up as they almost always do. Maybe better that they don't try.
PS - To answer the famous fanboy question - If the Federation Starship Enterprise fought an Imperial Star Destroyer who would win? Answer - the Galactic Patrol Rocket Ship Dauntless.
Beautiful Troll. OK, I'll bite. The undying AMD fanboy-ism is either really sad or really funny, I'm not sure which. It's just a processor. Sometimes AMD will be faster at a given price point and sometimes it will be Intel. For a while it was AMD, Right now it's Intel. Get over it.
This is me not spending $200 on a X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card.
Sorry, but I'm not nearly leet and uber enough for one. To my (slightly motorhead damaged) ears the onboard sound on my MSI mobo is just fine. You can add sound card to the long list of cards I once would have bought with a new PC, but now are integrated on the motherboard. Add-on RAM boards, serial/parallel ports, hard drive controller and now sound cards. Video card I still buy extra if I'm going to game on the box, but if it's for work, then on board video is OK too.
flouting - the word you want is flouting. Flout - "to contemptuously disregard: flout the rules" Flaunt - "to display ostentatiously: he liked to flaunt his wealth by lighting a cigar with a fifty dollar bill"
I can understand that if you have a regulatory requirement to archive all communications, or maybe you handle sensitive financial or medical data, then you need to block webmail. These, however, are special cases. Otherwise, you are just being a dick, and for no good reason.
There are perfectly legitimate business uses for webmail, such as a backup when the regular mail is down or as a throwaway or spam trap when you need to subscribe to trade mags. On a more philosophical level, I would argue that if you ever expect your employees to take work home, then you must be prepared for some aspects of their home life (including personal email) to sometimes show up at work.
To even ask this question is a symptom of "IT Manager Lockdown Disease"; whose main symptom is setting policies to make IT's life easier no matter what negative impact they may have on the users ability to get work done.
We have an unspoken agreement here, IT does't lock us down, and we in turn try to avoid doing stupid things to make more work for them. Caveat - I work at what you might call a "boutique" engineering firm and we don't hire morons. If your population of users contains more of the "energetically stupid" sort this arrangement may cause you a lot more grief than it does here.
Nothing new here. I bought a "Commodore" branded PC (beige box Pentium 75) about 10 years ago. A Canadian company named Campus Computer bought the rights to the name (at least here in Canada). It even had the famous logo on the case. I also remember seeing the Commodore logo on some old army green filing cabinets, which must have pre-dated their entry into computers, back when they were an office supply and calculator company.
Problem: Gramma wins big at casino, takes winnings in cash (why not a cheque?? I dunno). Joe Badguy follows her into the parking lot; bops her on the head, takes money, drives away. Not enough security guards to watch 10 acres of parking lot, surveillance cameras inside the casino see Joe Badguy leaving Casino but can't prove he did crime.
Solution: smarter video. Two cameras, one for spotting, one for tracking. First camera is a wide angle view of the parking lot, with image processing to detect motion. It sees Gramma walk out in parking lot, tells second camera. Second Camera zooms in on Gramma and starts to follow her. First camera sees Joe Badguy enter parking lot. Second camera now switches back and forth 3 seconds Gramma, 3 seconds Joe Badguy. Joe Badguy bops Gramma etc. Second camera sees this closeup. Joe Badguy gets in his pick up truck. As soon as truck starts to move, motion detected and tracking camera zooms in tight on truck. License plate is clearly readable (active image stabilization = insane zoom levels). Gramma tells casino security she got mugged. Security gaurds review video, call police with description of Joe Badguy, vehicle description and license plate number. Cops bust Joe with Grammas purse still in truck.
Last week I flew to Australia, but I had a bit of trouble with the customs inspector. He asked me if I had a criminal record, and I said "I didn't know it was still required".
A few of my friends were the victim of bullying in high school. Mostly verbal and sometimes physical violence. None of us were big enough or strong enough to fight back, and the school didn't do much when they complained. One of the guys decided to fight back in his own twisted way. He waited till school was out and then hacksawed the lock off of $bully's locker. Then he emptied the contents of the locker into some big garbage bags, locked the locker back up with a similar lock and buried the bags in a dumpster a few blocks away.
The next morning $bully tries a half dozen times but can't unlock his locker. Finally the principal comes with the bolt cutters and snips off the lock. Oh no! the locker is empty. All the textbooks? Gone. The notes and assignments and the essay he had been writing? Gone. His metalwork project? Gone. Gym clothes, $100 Nike's, calculator? Gone. Everything gone.
Did it stop the bullying? Not as far as I can remember. Did we feel better? Oh yes indeed.
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F. L. O. U. T. - the word is flout, not flaunt.
I know the two words look similar but they do not have the same meaning.
Obergrammarfuehrer von Umlaut at your service!
Re: your sig. That was me. Sorry, didn't you get the memo?
Why wouldn't you slipstream SP-2 onto your install image before you start?
I thought "War on ...." was a code phrase meaning "an unsolvable problem we will waste billions of dollars trying unsuccessfully to solve using the same failing methods over and over again." Didn't it start with the war on poverty?
It may be a "public" place but the poor bastard next to you can't just get up and walk away if your talking irritates him. Your "right" to talk and his "right" to peace and quiet are going to conflict. How you both deal with that will be interesting, especially if your seat-mate is as reasonable, accommodating and willing to compromise as you seem to be.
I for one welcome our new Subarean Overlords....
There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.
I'm afraid there is. It's not about top speed, but it is about acceleration. A car with sufficient power to merge or pass _safely_ when fully loaded will have more than enough power to far exceed any speed limit when empty.
I too drive a small, light, 1.3 litre econobox. In my car, with a full load i.e. me, 4 passengers and a trunk full of luggage, every bit of power and torque I've got will just barely accelerate me from 30 mph to 65 mph in the length of an average merge lane. I just barely have enough power to merge safely. That same barely sufficient power will get the car, with no passengers or cargo, up to 105 mph. The car would not be safe with any less power.
If you're going to dream, dream big. Imagine if you applied that standard (play your own instruments, write your own songs), to popular music. The Billboard top 100 would have about 2 dozen songs left.
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You DO NOT want to be wearing the red shirt. Especially if you are on the away team.
Having seen the candidates last time around (They say, in America anyone can become president. - Well, that's certainly true), I suspect a lot of folks don't vote because of the missing option on the ballot - "NONE OF THE ABOVE"
Doc Smith's Lensman novels would be perfect for a special effects heavy action adventure. The first few at least, starting with Galactic Patrol and ending with Children of the Lens. Non-stop action, pure and noble heroes, indescribably evil bad-guys, DeLameters blazing and space axes thwucking off alien limbs, starship battles many times bigger and better than anything Lucas ever did, entire planets being hurled as weapons. It would be awesome.
Of course Hollywood would just screw it up as they almost always do. Maybe better that they don't try.
PS - To answer the famous fanboy question - If the Federation Starship Enterprise fought an Imperial Star Destroyer who would win? Answer - the Galactic Patrol Rocket Ship Dauntless.
Beautiful Troll. OK, I'll bite. The undying AMD fanboy-ism is either really sad or really funny, I'm not sure which. It's just a processor. Sometimes AMD will be faster at a given price point and sometimes it will be Intel. For a while it was AMD, Right now it's Intel. Get over it.
This is me not spending $200 on a X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card.
Sorry, but I'm not nearly leet and uber enough for one. To my (slightly motorhead damaged) ears the onboard sound on my MSI mobo is just fine. You can add sound card to the long list of cards I once would have bought with a new PC, but now are integrated on the motherboard. Add-on RAM boards, serial/parallel ports, hard drive controller and now sound cards. Video card I still buy extra if I'm going to game on the box, but if it's for work, then on board video is OK too.
flouting - the word you want is flouting. Flout - "to contemptuously disregard: flout the rules" Flaunt - "to display ostentatiously: he liked to flaunt his wealth by lighting a cigar with a fifty dollar bill"
English is tricky.
Mordac the Preventer strikes again.
I can understand that if you have a regulatory requirement to archive all communications, or maybe you handle sensitive financial or medical data, then you need to block webmail. These, however, are special cases. Otherwise, you are just being a dick, and for no good reason.
There are perfectly legitimate business uses for webmail, such as a backup when the regular mail is down or as a throwaway or spam trap when you need to subscribe to trade mags. On a more philosophical level, I would argue that if you ever expect your employees to take work home, then you must be prepared for some aspects of their home life (including personal email) to sometimes show up at work.
To even ask this question is a symptom of "IT Manager Lockdown Disease"; whose main symptom is setting policies to make IT's life easier no matter what negative impact they may have on the users ability to get work done.
We have an unspoken agreement here, IT does't lock us down, and we in turn try to avoid doing stupid things to make more work for them. Caveat - I work at what you might call a "boutique" engineering firm and we don't hire morons. If your population of users contains more of the "energetically stupid" sort this arrangement may cause you a lot more grief than it does here.
Nothing new here. I bought a "Commodore" branded PC (beige box Pentium 75) about 10 years ago. A Canadian company named Campus Computer bought the rights to the name (at least here in Canada). It even had the famous logo on the case. I also remember seeing the Commodore logo on some old army green filing cabinets, which must have pre-dated their entry into computers, back when they were an office supply and calculator company.
True Fact! In the state of Texas "He needed killin" is a valid defense against a homicide charge.
In Soviet Russia the Spanish inquisition expects nobody!
Re: Your Sig. Perhaps your Grad Student buddy thought he wanted to drink a beer, and then on second thought decided not to?
Now he can work full time on producing Survivor.
Saw a very cool video demo the other day.
Problem: Gramma wins big at casino, takes winnings in cash (why not a cheque?? I dunno). Joe Badguy follows her into the parking lot; bops her on the head, takes money, drives away. Not enough security guards to watch 10 acres of parking lot, surveillance cameras inside the casino see Joe Badguy leaving Casino but can't prove he did crime.
Solution: smarter video. Two cameras, one for spotting, one for tracking. First camera is a wide angle view of the parking lot, with image processing to detect motion. It sees Gramma walk out in parking lot, tells second camera. Second Camera zooms in on Gramma and starts to follow her. First camera sees Joe Badguy enter parking lot. Second camera now switches back and forth 3 seconds Gramma, 3 seconds Joe Badguy. Joe Badguy bops Gramma etc. Second camera sees this closeup. Joe Badguy gets in his pick up truck. As soon as truck starts to move, motion detected and tracking camera zooms in tight on truck. License plate is clearly readable (active image stabilization = insane zoom levels). Gramma tells casino security she got mugged. Security gaurds review video, call police with description of Joe Badguy, vehicle description and license plate number. Cops bust Joe with Grammas purse still in truck.
Last week I flew to Australia, but I had a bit of trouble with the customs inspector. He asked me if I had a criminal record, and I said "I didn't know it was still required".
Thanks....I'll be here all week...try the veal...
30 lumens/Watt. Thanks for coming out. Here's your little yellow "I Participated" ribbon.
There are prototype white LED's at 150 lumens/W, supposedly to hit 200 lumens/W by years end.
A few of my friends were the victim of bullying in high school. Mostly verbal and sometimes physical violence. None of us were big enough or strong enough to fight back, and the school didn't do much when they complained. One of the guys decided to fight back in his own twisted way. He waited till school was out and then hacksawed the lock off of $bully's locker. Then he emptied the contents of the locker into some big garbage bags, locked the locker back up with a similar lock and buried the bags in a dumpster a few blocks away.
The next morning $bully tries a half dozen times but can't unlock his locker. Finally the principal comes with the bolt cutters and snips off the lock. Oh no! the locker is empty. All the textbooks? Gone. The notes and assignments and the essay he had been writing? Gone. His metalwork project? Gone. Gym clothes, $100 Nike's, calculator? Gone. Everything gone.
Did it stop the bullying? Not as far as I can remember. Did we feel better? Oh yes indeed.