You mean something like a Tinfoil Pope's Hat the PDA can ride around in on top of your head? Hmmm, time to start up a new religion! Move over "Flying Spaghetti Monster" (FSM), Theres a new Nutty Cult in town
It can't last. Not only is it a Lawsuit waiting to happen. It also will have a dramatically effect negatively on admissions. Refund demands will also roll in as current students revolt and transfer to other states under these draconian and very Kansas style rules. The reputation of Education in Kansas has taken a beating in the last few years due to bible-humping loonies already. The School year starts in just two months. Time enough for major switches in enrollment out of Kansas. Unlike K-12 schooling College students can freely jump out of a bad system.
Who needs an offensive weapon on robot? Has nobody here seen the Dark Angel series or the movie Runaway? Sheesh geeks today...
People we are talking Jessica Alba here (the only think that makes the Fantastic Four films worth seeing) Dark Angel had several episodes about them. They are a staple of William Gibson Cyberpunk stories. Enough prior art to gag a hippo so no patent needed.
Non-lethal restraint is what your talking, That's spray webbing which even with a skilled shooter can block airways.
Netting, which is kinda one shot and what if they got a knife? (most likely)
Or some sort of Tentacles. The artist of Hentai are obsessed by tentacles and with robots? I don't think we need to go any farther with this. My spider sense are tingling already. (opps thats not my spider sense)
Welcome to the internets, you must be new. I am not talking about the stupid commercials. If you think they are gone drop by Usenet or Fark sometime. They, like Bob the Dinosaur where just hiding behind the couch.
To some large degree I disagree with that. By your own admission your current company is not far up the food chain. Deny it but look over your own post first. I dropped out of the biz for a few years and I am returning with some difficulty in the interview process. In time I will get my not my skills but my game back. So it will be a while there is a Zen to interviewing. But HR is the biggest roadblock and with canned questions from people who don't understand them. Truth of the matter is that when you get into the senior levels you don't have much to do with the basics as often as a lower level person would. Your stuck in meetings with non-tech people talking about strategy rather then hands on. That's the problem I am facing. Also if I could not connect to the net the method I would deal with a problem would not be to 'just google it'. That's just a cop out. It would be to call networking to have them see whats happening. Being an Sysadmin does not imply you run the network, or have the passwords to get you in. Welcome to large organizations and divisions of labor. A sysadmin in a company of 300+ people would do it all most of the time. Try somebody like SONY, Oracle, SUN, WAMU, BofA, etc. You will learn they don't give out all the keys to the joint no matter how long you been there.
In the last part I agree with you. Most of my background is in SUN gear, I had to brush up on Linux just to get work. It's not the same damn thing folks. I shiver to think of the plight of those old Cobol hackers around 1998, most drop it until Y2K.
I tried his ICQ number this morning 666 and it's gone. The bothers me as we really had a good deal in play. He was going to make me Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was all most done. Blair announced his resignation and I was to step in as planned. He even had a way figured out to get around the fact that I am a US Citizen and everything. Seeing how the US was already taken.....
I wonder if I can sue them for interference with a contract?
slusich "Police are stunned to learn that people who look at child porn might use stolen credit card information to pay for it. "
You got that backwards. The stolen credit info was used by a few people who also sold Child Pr0n. Not even a major percentage of them either. It was association by remote proxy. The 'Investigators' (and it sickens me to call them that) might as well have used a regular copy of the yellow pages found at the crooks house and picked names randomly, "We found their names at the crime scene" Oh, and look here is a The WHO t-shirt, must be Pete Townsend's.
Dumb Cop: Sir we found your car, it was stolen by bank robbers.
Citizen: Good, when can I get it back?
Dumb Cop: In about 10 to 20 years after you get out of prison for this bank robbery charge we already convicted you of, your under arrest.
I acknowledge that, and I will admit that I am likely cannibalizing other boxen to build it. I also don't need a dinky little 17" monitor, I got one 120GB disk, it's in an external case and it's just old storage. My general boxes have at least 3GB ram and SATA drives and 256M Video standard. And don't get me started on my Sun Ultrasparc boxes.
This being Slashdot I expect that the Pro IT ratio be very high.
While M$ is the biggest one, there are other software vendors who are paying Dell/Gateway/HP etc to put their program on your new computer.
A PC wholesale to say CompUSA or Fry's is usually about half or less what you pay that means a $800 laptop was bought for maybe $350 into Dell's pocket. Not much is it?
Dell doesn't pay the M$ tax, Microsoft pays Dell to put the OS on it, so that $350 may have just jumped to $380/$400 then there is Adobe, and tons of other demos and what not. Maybe they have moved that revenue back up to about $800 by the time they are done. I had to wipe off a full gig of trailers from movies including 'Babe, Pig in the city' (in 2006 no less). PC vendors make a tidy profit from these add-ins.
Ok, that's not a good answer for everybody. I suspect I am not alone here in this philosophy and I usually save about $400+ for quite a bit more then Fry's the model of the week. If something breaks I just replace it or upgrade it.
I am about to send my Pavilion laptop back to HP for service, it will take a week and a half and the only reason is that it will cost me nothing in time or materials to put in a new motherboard.
/thats a very old and dirty trick, best said to acidheads. but if you think somebody can't put something in somebody's head well, what are you thinking about right now?
My landlord provides free cablemodem, downside it's shared with about 5 other people and it drags down my torrenting or gaming with their VoIP phones and surfing. Damnit I need my fansubs!!!
At work we got rackspace out the wazzoo so my boss would let me put a server on our corp network if I keep it low key (loki?). Downsides are if I get fired/quit I got to move it out with a quickness. I also need to worry about management asking why a v120 and a Sunfire 280R is in the racks that's not under control of the dev group, they need accounts on it by close of business today..... Not to mention having to explain open firewall ports or making a fast shuffle when we need to expand in a OMG hurry.
I could run the boxes at my house but the electrical is circa Ben Franklin, I can't keep them all up at once so I bite the bullet and rent a rack for $350. It's part of the costs of building a bigtime app cluster as a hobby. Seti will be pleased until I get it going for real.
Conclusion, if you don't have a long term plans/needs for servers, stay out of it. Get yourself a linux box and stick it in a corner. If you want to play with the big toys, you need to not play in the kiddy pool. Real computers need real power, UPS, racks etc. Otherwise they will gather dust in your garage and that $2000 you spent will be 18 months from now gone, as you sell it for $150 on ebay. Deep coat of dust not included.
I am thinking, it's late in the year, it's Hollywood, His career is way too young for a remake, their planning next years big stinky blockbuster and Or do I own him an apology? Or was that little Tiffany?
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You mean something like a Tinfoil Pope's Hat the PDA can ride around in on top of your head? Hmmm, time to start up a new religion! Move over "Flying Spaghetti Monster" (FSM), Theres a new Nutty Cult in town
It can't last. Not only is it a Lawsuit waiting to happen. It also will have a dramatically effect negatively on admissions. Refund demands will also roll in as current students revolt and transfer to other states under these draconian and very Kansas style rules. The reputation of Education in Kansas has taken a beating in the last few years due to bible-humping loonies already. The School year starts in just two months. Time enough for major switches in enrollment out of Kansas. Unlike K-12 schooling College students can freely jump out of a bad system.
Janitor jobs at Google are at the $50k mark, dang! Where where they when I was fresh out of high school?
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/hallscience/X0027 _DinoDemise.html
well this is the real explanation.
Who needs an offensive weapon on robot? Has nobody here seen the Dark Angel series or the movie Runaway? Sheesh geeks today...
People we are talking Jessica Alba here (the only think that makes the Fantastic Four films worth seeing) Dark Angel had several episodes about them. They are a staple of William Gibson Cyberpunk stories. Enough prior art to gag a hippo so no patent needed.
Non-lethal restraint is what your talking, That's spray webbing which even with a skilled shooter can block airways.
Netting, which is kinda one shot and what if they got a knife? (most likely)
Or some sort of Tentacles. The artist of Hentai are obsessed by tentacles and with robots? I don't think we need to go any farther with this. My spider sense are tingling already. (opps thats not my spider sense)
HACK ME
sign on their backs. This will happen faster then you can say ROBOT WARS.
Welcome to the internets, you must be new. I am not talking about the stupid commercials. If you think they are gone drop by Usenet or Fark sometime. They, like Bob the Dinosaur where just hiding behind the couch.
To some large degree I disagree with that. By your own admission your current company is not far up the food chain. Deny it but look over your own post first. I dropped out of the biz for a few years and I am returning with some difficulty in the interview process. In time I will get my not my skills but my game back. So it will be a while there is a Zen to interviewing. But HR is the biggest roadblock and with canned questions from people who don't understand them. Truth of the matter is that when you get into the senior levels you don't have much to do with the basics as often as a lower level person would. Your stuck in meetings with non-tech people talking about strategy rather then hands on. That's the problem I am facing. Also if I could not connect to the net the method I would deal with a problem would not be to 'just google it'. That's just a cop out. It would be to call networking to have them see whats happening. Being an Sysadmin does not imply you run the network, or have the passwords to get you in. Welcome to large organizations and divisions of labor. A sysadmin in a company of 300+ people would do it all most of the time. Try somebody like SONY, Oracle, SUN, WAMU, BofA, etc. You will learn they don't give out all the keys to the joint no matter how long you been there.
In the last part I agree with you. Most of my background is in SUN gear, I had to brush up on Linux just to get work. It's not the same damn thing folks. I shiver to think of the plight of those old Cobol hackers around 1998, most drop it until Y2K.
I tried his ICQ number this morning 666 and it's gone. The bothers me as we really had a good deal in play. He was going to make me Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was all most done. Blair announced his resignation and I was to step in as planned. He even had a way figured out to get around the fact that I am a US Citizen and everything. Seeing how the US was already taken.....
I wonder if I can sue them for interference with a contract?
slusich "Police are stunned to learn that people who look at child porn might use stolen credit card information to pay for it. "
You got that backwards. The stolen credit info was used by a few people who also sold Child Pr0n. Not even a major percentage of them either. It was association by remote proxy. The 'Investigators' (and it sickens me to call them that) might as well have used a regular copy of the yellow pages found at the crooks house and picked names randomly, "We found their names at the crime scene" Oh, and look here is a The WHO t-shirt, must be Pete Townsend's.
Dumb Cop: Sir we found your car, it was stolen by bank robbers.
Citizen: Good, when can I get it back?
Dumb Cop: In about 10 to 20 years after you get out of prison for this bank robbery charge we already convicted you of, your under arrest.
I really think it's overdue to wipe away to cronies and have a professional semi-nonpartisan bureaucracy.
maybe a bit too much garlic?
From Wargames;
Mr. Liggett: Alright, Lightman. Maybe you can tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex.
David Lightman: Um, your wife?
I acknowledge that, and I will admit that I am likely cannibalizing other boxen to build it. I also don't need a dinky little 17" monitor, I got one 120GB disk, it's in an external case and it's just old storage. My general boxes have at least 3GB ram and SATA drives and 256M Video standard. And don't get me started on my Sun Ultrasparc boxes.
This being Slashdot I expect that the Pro IT ratio be very high.
While M$ is the biggest one, there are other software vendors who are paying Dell/Gateway/HP etc to put their program on your new computer.
A PC wholesale to say CompUSA or Fry's is usually about half or less what you pay that means a $800 laptop was bought for maybe $350 into Dell's pocket. Not much is it?
Dell doesn't pay the M$ tax, Microsoft pays Dell to put the OS on it, so that $350 may have just jumped to $380/$400 then there is Adobe, and tons of other demos and what not. Maybe they have moved that revenue back up to about $800 by the time they are done. I had to wipe off a full gig of trailers from movies including 'Babe, Pig in the city' (in 2006 no less). PC vendors make a tidy profit from these add-ins.
The rest I leave to your imagination.
Ok, that's not a good answer for everybody. I suspect I am not alone here in this philosophy and I usually save about $400+ for quite a bit more then Fry's the model of the week. If something breaks I just replace it or upgrade it.
I am about to send my Pavilion laptop back to HP for service, it will take a week and a half and the only reason is that it will cost me nothing in time or materials to put in a new motherboard.
Whatever you do;
/thats a very old and dirty trick, best said to acidheads. but if you think somebody can't put something in somebody's head well, what are you thinking about right now?
Do not think about your tongue.
I just hope that it has subtitling built in. They talk funny over there.
Your tongue will get a lot of use.
My landlord provides free cablemodem, downside it's shared with about 5 other people and it drags down my torrenting or gaming with their VoIP phones and surfing. Damnit I need my fansubs!!!
At work we got rackspace out the wazzoo so my boss would let me put a server on our corp network if I keep it low key (loki?). Downsides are if I get fired/quit I got to move it out with a quickness. I also need to worry about management asking why a v120 and a Sunfire 280R is in the racks that's not under control of the dev group, they need accounts on it by close of business today..... Not to mention having to explain open firewall ports or making a fast shuffle when we need to expand in a OMG hurry.
I could run the boxes at my house but the electrical is circa Ben Franklin, I can't keep them all up at once so I bite the bullet and rent a rack for $350. It's part of the costs of building a bigtime app cluster as a hobby. Seti will be pleased until I get it going for real.
Conclusion, if you don't have a long term plans/needs for servers, stay out of it. Get yourself a linux box and stick it in a corner. If you want to play with the big toys, you need to not play in the kiddy pool. Real computers need real power, UPS, racks etc. Otherwise they will gather dust in your garage and that $2000 you spent will be 18 months from now gone, as you sell it for $150 on ebay. Deep coat of dust not included.
Does anybody really still play 'Crack, The Addiction?' It's so 1993. This just screams SCO. When did Darl McBride join Wizards of the Coast?
You would think they would at least do a decent dub into English, it is after all from England!
Actually I have seen them, but good for SciFi. I just hope that they don't wait till next Xmas for the Christmas Invasion.
http://www.shmoo.com/tempest/emr.pdf a nice overview of it. By Wim van Eck
Please not a I, Robot. Sequel.
I am thinking, it's late in the year, it's Hollywood, His career is way too young for a remake, their planning next years big stinky blockbuster and Or do I own him an apology? Or was that little Tiffany?
and yes, I am paraphrasing a scene from MIB #1.