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Does anybody else remember that old PSA where Abe Lincoln is at the employment office, and when they ask if has a diploma, he replies that's he's done a lot of studying out of books, sort of on his own?
I think it should be obvious that the available bandwidth should be allocated on a dynamic basis; if one person isn't using their full ration the unused portion should be available to be added to someone else's.
You should discretely inform select members of those 600 residents that this feature is available to them upon their activation of your custom-coded bribery module.
Did an eBay search and only got one hit for 3 NASA Program Payload Pins, one of which is described as "ASCZ Contel Delta II Built by GE Astro Space", so maybe a couple of years of searching the bowels of General Electric might turn up something. Doing a google on contel turned up some stuff indicating that contel got bought by GTE or split up between GTE and GE. Good luck. I fear you will need it.
If given your date of birth I could probably figure out your age without a lot of trouble unless I had been kept in sensory deprivation for so long that I had no idea what year it is.
They need to know how many people live there regardless of whether they are old enough to vote or not as congressional representation is based upon total population, not just eligible voter population.
All the other information is used by the government so that they can make more informed decisions when they decide what government services to provide to who and how much to spend. Well, at least that's the theory, but I don't think letting them make those decisions without the information would improve things any.
The difference is that the virus is more reliable, works with a wider range of hardware, requires fewer resources, and the author probably won't sue you for reverse engineering it if you can't find the source code.
In the U.S. a "two by four" (when not referring to some sort of seating or driven wheels arrangement on a truck), is a piece of lumber, the rectangular cross-section of which measures 1 and 1/2 (one and one-half) (1.5) inches by 3 and 1/2 (three and one-half) (3.5)inches.
Commercially available lengths usually start at 8 feet (96 inches) going up in length in multiples of 2 feet (24 inches).
A "stud" is usually 93 inches in length, which means that nailing them at right angles to a 1.5 inch thick bottom, or sole, plate and a 1.5 inch thick top plate results in an 8 foot wall. (In construction the question of when to say "foot" and when to say "feet" is answered "it depends")
If you remodel a house built in the early 1950's you'll find that the "2x4's" used back then are slightly wider and thicker (by either an eighth or a sixteenth of an inch, don't feel like going out in the rain to the shop to the woodbin with a tape measure just now) and the studs are shorter by double the thickness increase so that the wall is still 96 inches high.
Extrapolating back there was probably a time when 2x4's were 2 inches by 4 inches wide and thick (or thick and wide).
In the context of the original post, a 2x4 is a board that you can wrap your hands around and use to beat someone with or threaten to do so.
Why should Best Buy (Circuit City, OfficeMax, Office Depot, Staples, fill in the blank) stock heatsinks when 99% of their customers don't know what they are or how to properly install them and wouldn't be in the market for one even if they did? There are more profitable uses for that shelf/display space.
Radio Shack, however, since they destroy the market for other electronics parts houses in most small to medium size communities, could do a much better job of carrying computer stuff. I wish I could walk into one and buy commodity priced stuff like cases, cables, RAM, drives, fans, heat sinks, etc.
I hate having to default to paying Radio Shack for anything. They always have stuff (IC's, LED's, LCD's, Bud boxes, and such) a couple of years before or after I need it, but not when I need it.
Real popcorn was used back in the mid-sixties for packing slot cars sent to regional and national drag races. This was back when most kids could only afford to send the cars and not themselves.
"...during a random moment they'd ask how old I was."
Just tell them "old enough to have the knowledge, experience, and patience to solve your problem, and young enough to have the necessary stamina and enthusiasm".
What they actually wanted was someone with 10 or more years of Java experience who was 22 years old and not a big drain on the company in terms of insurance, paid vacation, et cetera, but as dependent on their job as a 45 year old with 3 sick kids, willing to work 80 hours a week for less than a 16 year old gets for 20 hours a week at a burger joint. They want them smart enough to do the job and stupid enough to stay there at the same pay until such time as the company wants to kick 'em to the curb and pretend that they never existed or made any sort of contribution to the company.
You need to hold these 2 devices in a T-shaped relationship to each other, right? PDA as upright, phone as crossbar?
Do you want to pull both out of your coat and use them together in places where you don't have a table or even a clipboard to support them? I assume that you hold the PDA in one hand and push the buttons on it with the other when using it alone. Try holding the phone in your hand and laying the PDA on your wrist and forearm, securing it with one of those musician's cable straps that have velcro on each end. Or put a flat hook on the back of the PDA and slip it under your watch band.
If you have to have the PDA in your hand and the phone hanging out in space, Velcro wouldn't support the phone's weight anyway. For that scheme you need to disassemble a coat hanger and construct a cradle for both devices that holds them in that "T" relationship. You'll need to hold the bottom of the cradle to the PDA the whole time to cause it to support the phone hanging out there in thin air, but eventually you'll be able to figure out stuff like hinges that let you fold the cradle up for storage but only let it open flat instead of folding the other way. Then you can start a company to manufacture them and get filthy rich:-)
If you need a drawing of what I'm talking about, e-mail me your meatspace postal address.
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Of course not.
They're selling copies of those addresses.
Over and over again.
Does anybody else remember that old PSA where Abe Lincoln is at the employment office, and when they ask if has a diploma, he replies that's he's done a lot of studying out of books, sort of on his own?
You should discretely inform select members of those 600 residents that this feature is available to them upon their activation of your custom-coded bribery module.
Did an eBay search and only got one hit for 3 NASA Program Payload Pins, one of which is described as "ASCZ Contel Delta II Built by GE Astro Space", so maybe a couple of years of searching the bowels of General Electric might turn up something.
Doing a google on contel turned up some stuff indicating that contel got bought by GTE or split up between GTE and GE.
Good luck. I fear you will need it.
Except, perhaps, the ones at Bletchley Park who are part of the reason you aren't spending your life bowing and scraping to some S.S. thug.
I thought this sounded too well to be true.
If given your date of birth I could probably figure out your age without a lot of trouble unless I had been kept in sensory deprivation for so long that I had no idea what year it is.
All the other information is used by the government so that they can make more informed decisions when they decide what government services to provide to who and how much to spend. Well, at least that's the theory, but I don't think letting them make those decisions without the information would improve things any.
Glad to see that you finally got a chance to make a comment that ties in with your sig.
Only if it makes it invisible.
Let's place that dividing line where it belongs. Before and after Katz.
How about...
Warning to humans. Sometimes stuff I post here is wrong. Confuse your head. I'm currently being questioned by the authorities.
The difference is that the virus is more reliable, works with a wider range of hardware, requires fewer resources, and the author probably won't sue you for reverse engineering it if you can't find the source code.
Commercially available lengths usually start at 8 feet (96 inches) going up in length in multiples of 2 feet (24 inches).
A "stud" is usually 93 inches in length, which means that nailing them at right angles to a 1.5 inch thick bottom, or sole, plate and a 1.5 inch thick top plate results in an 8 foot wall. (In construction the question of when to say "foot" and when to say "feet" is answered "it depends")
If you remodel a house built in the early 1950's you'll find that the "2x4's" used back then are slightly wider and thicker (by either an eighth or a sixteenth of an inch, don't feel like going out in the rain to the shop to the woodbin with a tape measure just now) and the studs are shorter by double the thickness increase so that the wall is still 96 inches high.
Extrapolating back there was probably a time when 2x4's were 2 inches by 4 inches wide and thick (or thick and wide).
In the context of the original post, a 2x4 is a board that you can wrap your hands around and use to beat someone with or threaten to do so.
The qualifications for working in the Patent Office? A desire to be overworked and underpaid probably tops the list.
Radio Shack, however, since they destroy the market for other electronics parts houses in most small to medium size communities, could do a much better job of carrying computer stuff. I wish I could walk into one and buy commodity priced stuff like cases, cables, RAM, drives, fans, heat sinks, etc.
I hate having to default to paying Radio Shack for anything. They always have stuff (IC's, LED's, LCD's, Bud boxes, and such) a couple of years before or after I need it, but not when I need it.
Only if your name ends with -El. (or is it -el?)
Real popcorn was used back in the mid-sixties for packing slot cars sent to regional and national drag races. This was back when most kids could only afford to send the cars and not themselves.
Apparently the Mom and Pops are going to disappear as a result of being overwhelmed by acronyms.
Probably more like Jar-jar eats tribbles (sluuuurp!), and if we're lucky, chokes on a fur ball.
Just tell them "old enough to have the knowledge, experience, and patience to solve your problem, and young enough to have the necessary stamina and enthusiasm".
I guess things *aren't* the same as when I was that age.
What they actually wanted was someone with 10 or more years of Java experience who was 22 years old and not a big drain on the company in terms of insurance, paid vacation, et cetera, but as dependent on their job as a 45 year old with 3 sick kids, willing to work 80 hours a week for less than a 16 year old gets for 20 hours a week at a burger joint. They want them smart enough to do the job and stupid enough to stay there at the same pay until such time as the company wants to kick 'em to the curb and pretend that they never existed or made any sort of contribution to the company.
So now we need someone to code Bipedal Transfer Protocol.
Do you want to pull both out of your coat and use them together in places where you don't have a table or even a clipboard to support them? I assume that you hold the PDA in one hand and push the buttons on it with the other when using it alone. Try holding the phone in your hand and laying the PDA on your wrist and forearm, securing it with one of those musician's cable straps that have velcro on each end. Or put a flat hook on the back of the PDA and slip it under your watch band.
If you have to have the PDA in your hand and the phone hanging out in space, Velcro wouldn't support the phone's weight anyway. For that scheme you need to disassemble a coat hanger and construct a cradle for both devices that holds them in that "T" relationship. You'll need to hold the bottom of the cradle to the PDA the whole time to cause it to support the phone hanging out there in thin air, but eventually you'll be able to figure out stuff like hinges that let you fold the cradle up for storage but only let it open flat instead of folding the other way. Then you can start a company to manufacture them and get filthy rich :-)
If you need a drawing of what I'm talking about, e-mail me your meatspace postal address.