lol. It wasn't me saying that, I was being sarcastic. Sorry. I see a lot of times where if someone makes a moore's law comment that isn't specifically about processors they say that moores law was originally about transistor density on chips or something like that, not really about advancements in technology or processor speed, etc. Follow?
Wow, them YooRowPeeuns sure got tough drivin laws, aint nothin here in the USA 'bout not rollin back on a hill. Course, here in Indianuh we aint got no hills...
Just kidding. Seriously though, I gotta respect that. Not rolling back at all on a hill start in a stick takes skill. Or at least a lot of practice. I can drive a stick shift well enough, but I would think I would roll back a LITTLE on a hill start. You hafta take your foot off the brake and move to the gas. Is the trick to let out the clutch enough to keep from rolling while you move to give it gas?
First they would have to have a CANDIDATE. Any nominees? Should it be someone who has 20 gigs of mp3's, 100 gigs of xvid's, and 100 gigs of wareZ on his/her hard drive? Or someone who doesn't "pirate", just wants the political changes?
Because you know, the first P_Party candidate to be nominated will have an **AA anal probe so thorough they'll know what he had for lunch last week.
We've got 4 logitech MX518's here we use for Solid Edge CAD work, they're quiet and have held up perfectly so far. They came with our Dell XPS's. Personally if I'm going to buy a new mouse I'll set out to buy the cheapest optical microsoft intellimouse I can find. That being said, my wife requested a cheap black mouse and keyboard and I got this mouse for her from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16826104164 and it's been fine, $12.
I tend to shy away from wireless mice, they are too "heavy". I used one of those tilty wheel wireless "ultra mice" type wireless logitechs for autocad, hated it. I think it was over $50 from office depot. Killed my speed, the wheel wouldn't click right 90% of the time, traded it for a different one for someone who didn't use the wheel click for anything.
Fort Myers, the main office on Metro Parkway (and all branches) for the past 3 years that I lived there. Every check I took in to deposit that was over 5k had a several day hold on it, whether it was personal or cashiers check. I sold a house and had a check I wanted to deposit. It was a title company check. I took it to the bank it was drawn on, (not a 5-3) and turned it into a cashiers check thinking that I would have a better chance with the bank.
I called 5/3 and asked if it could possibly be deposited with no hold, the guy on the phone said sure "cashiers checks are like cash". When when I took it in they would not take it without a hold, the teller actually would not even pick it up. I said that I called beforehand and was told otherwise, but they said "who was it you talked to, that's not our policy". So I kept it on my person, since I was moving out of that place the next couple days anyway.
This same bank screwed over some friends of ours. They deposited some money (less than 5k, mind you) but there was a "delay" with the check clearing. They wrote some checks on the money they deposited. The checks bounced. They got fined for each check. Further in the hole. Now they are overdrawn, more fines. Those people left 5/3 angrily and went to a credit union. We stayed with 5/3 because it was easier than changing and we (usually) had more of a buffer dollar wise.
Fast forward to where I live now. I had this same cashiers check from an out of state bank. I was able to buy a house, put money down, open a few accounts, etc, all before they even TOOK the check, all they did was SEE IT. This is a small town bank.
This town is the kind of place where even if the people don't personally know you, they know your relatives, or work with you, or are related to people you work with, or go to church with you, or go to church with relatives of yours...
What really happened was that a couple of MS software engineers were told to fix this infested box without reinstalling. Actually fixing it, and removing the malware. We had a very infected box at my old company, and we called in a computer tech from a support company we contracted with. He tried for about a half day, and then gave up and reinstalled. Everyone on slashdot knows that sometimes you CAN'T fix a windows install. These MS engineers know that too, it isn't worth the time. Their challenge was - try to do it anyway because the boss's ego is on the line.
That's probably what the friend was thinking - hey, if anyone can fix my computer, this guy can - he's got all of the resources of MS at his disposal, forget going through some tech support schmuck or the geek down the street...
I'm pretty sure I've seen every TNG, every Voyager, every DS9, PROBABLY every TOS (afaik), zero enterprise and no TAS. Also every Bab5 and read a couple sci-fi books from ds9 and bab5, and listened to a fair amount of starbase 479... Does that mean I'm a geek? I know it does mean I used to have no life. Now I don't watch much tv at all, really.
It means they have no clue what they are presently doing, nor what they can do, should do, or how to do it if they knew. Not kidding, that's what it says.
Is there any possibility that a physics card could be used for some kind of useful purpose along the lines of speeding up Finite Element, CFD, complex 3D cad, animation, etc?
In '93 I just entered college, and had my first taste of "the internet". Before then it was the occasional BBS, the intetnet was just something I heard of rich people in the big cities having (compu-serve, etc).
The real internet, high speed always on like in college computer labs, was an exclusive wild frontier type of atmosphere. Very DIY, very unregulated.
Some of the CS guys spoke of this "WWW" thing, with a program we had on our NeXT Boxes called "mosaic". I checked it out, didn't look interesting at the time. Slow, ugly websites with pointless content. Give me gopher, FTP, Usenet. Lots and lots of free pr0n. Well, those were the days. Now, everyone has it, still have ugly slow pointless websites, the feds and the lawyers are trying to regulate it, and pr0n is still there but most pay for it because they don't know better.
I tried to set up a new computer for my (very computer ignorant) in-laws, using limited accounts for them and having an admin account with a password only I knew. I got them a cheap-o dell, took 2+ hours to strip out the dell crap, install OO.o, firefox, thunderbird, RealAlt, QTAlt, WinDefender, AVG, all patches, automatic updates to everything, etc. A legal, somewhat well protected box.
It works for them because ALL THEY DO is email, occasional surf, MAYBE a text document now and then. Didn't work for their grandkid who stays with them. In windows, you can only do email, occasional surf, maybe a text document now and then, in a limited account.
Most windows programs DO NOT FUNCTION unless it is a superuser account. This is a dirty little secret.
The kid couldn't install his mp3 player software without SU. So, I installed it for him. It wouldn't connect to his mp3 player unless it was a SU account. AARRG. Stupid stupid stupid.
So I thought I'd do the same on my machine at home, try to figure this out. Turns out on my media box (3 HD's, video editing software, etc) I can't write to my large data hard drives in a limited account. What? I suppose there is a way to assign permissions via the SU account, but I gave up and went back to using the SU account by default. It's easier. [SIGH]
I like ubuntu's approach. Everyone lives in a limited account, and you must SUDO in order to do anything dangerous. Ahhhh.... simplicity.
"As far as I'm concerned, the airline industry can rot in hell for giving in to government pressure."
Government pressure? Not really. More like Government Ownage. And I think that happened a long time ago. Think about it.
You're right, though, on the people=security thing. The caliber of people recruited for the TSA positions really don't give a rat's hiney whether the planes make it there or not. The policies are created and implemented by the same caliber of people over the DMV's.
You get real results on a project by people who have a stake in the success of the project - in this case, by the people climbing onto the airplanes.
You wouldn't have an X-ray machine operator falling asleep at his station if he was going to be on the plane sitting next to that bag he just scanned...
I agree, it is viable. I'd be 100% on ubuntu at home except for the fact that linux has crap for usable, "professional grade" video editing software. No other reason. So I'm still on windows (and not mac, my hacked together windows/amd box is cheaper) because I can get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16832317009
Yeah, 99% of places start you off with 10 days vacation and bump it up to 15 after a couple years (maybe as much as 5 years?) then eventually you'll have 20.
Many places you get ZERO vacation days the first year. My present place is like that, but my offer included the standard 10 for the first year. I've been to one place where you could get 25 (or was it 30) days paid leave with 25+ years seniority. But NOBODY stays with a company that long any more.
OP is right, 10 days is not enough to do anything. It's enough for a normal guy to take a day here, day there just to take care of things - and if lucky, save 5 days for a short vacation to some place close.
Just a funny anecdote - I worked with a guy who had mad seniority and had serious vacation days. Every year he would take off a month, usually in the spring. Another guy who had a lot would take off every friday in the summer. Strange and unusual here in the US, but I suppose that's normal in europe?
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lol. It wasn't me saying that, I was being sarcastic. Sorry. I see a lot of times where if someone makes a moore's law comment that isn't specifically about processors they say that moores law was originally about transistor density on chips or something like that, not really about advancements in technology or processor speed, etc. Follow?
--insert obligatory slashdot reply here saying moore's law doesn't have anything to do with tv resolution--
Bumpkey Kid?
Absolutely Brilliant. Really.
Didn't the **AA say that a while ago?
Or, should I say HAXX0RZZ...
Wasn't there a simpsons episode somewhat along those lines?
Wow, them YooRowPeeuns sure got tough drivin laws, aint nothin here in the USA 'bout not rollin back on a hill. Course, here in Indianuh we aint got no hills...
Just kidding. Seriously though, I gotta respect that. Not rolling back at all on a hill start in a stick takes skill. Or at least a lot of practice. I can drive a stick shift well enough, but I would think I would roll back a LITTLE on a hill start. You hafta take your foot off the brake and move to the gas. Is the trick to let out the clutch enough to keep from rolling while you move to give it gas?
I looked at the picture, and I think the real question is: Where is the rest of the plane?!?!??!
First they would have to have a CANDIDATE. Any nominees? Should it be someone who has 20 gigs of mp3's, 100 gigs of xvid's, and 100 gigs of wareZ on his/her hard drive? Or someone who doesn't "pirate", just wants the political changes?
Because you know, the first P_Party candidate to be nominated will have an **AA anal probe so thorough they'll know what he had for lunch last week.
We've got 4 logitech MX518's here we use for Solid Edge CAD work, they're quiet and have held up perfectly so far. They came with our Dell XPS's. Personally if I'm going to buy a new mouse I'll set out to buy the cheapest optical microsoft intellimouse I can find. That being said, my wife requested a cheap black mouse and keyboard and I got this mouse for her from newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16826104164 and it's been fine, $12.
I tend to shy away from wireless mice, they are too "heavy". I used one of those tilty wheel wireless "ultra mice" type wireless logitechs for autocad, hated it. I think it was over $50 from office depot. Killed my speed, the wheel wouldn't click right 90% of the time, traded it for a different one for someone who didn't use the wheel click for anything.
"The MPAA, however, is a completely different kettle of fish..."
So that means you're still downloading movies on BT then, right?
Fort Myers, the main office on Metro Parkway (and all branches) for the past 3 years that I lived there. Every check I took in to deposit that was over 5k had a several day hold on it, whether it was personal or cashiers check. I sold a house and had a check I wanted to deposit. It was a title company check. I took it to the bank it was drawn on, (not a 5-3) and turned it into a cashiers check thinking that I would have a better chance with the bank.
I called 5/3 and asked if it could possibly be deposited with no hold, the guy on the phone said sure "cashiers checks are like cash". When when I took it in they would not take it without a hold, the teller actually would not even pick it up. I said that I called beforehand and was told otherwise, but they said "who was it you talked to, that's not our policy". So I kept it on my person, since I was moving out of that place the next couple days anyway.
This same bank screwed over some friends of ours. They deposited some money (less than 5k, mind you) but there was a "delay" with the check clearing. They wrote some checks on the money they deposited. The checks bounced. They got fined for each check. Further in the hole. Now they are overdrawn, more fines. Those people left 5/3 angrily and went to a credit union. We stayed with 5/3 because it was easier than changing and we (usually) had more of a buffer dollar wise.
Fast forward to where I live now. I had this same cashiers check from an out of state bank. I was able to buy a house, put money down, open a few accounts, etc, all before they even TOOK the check, all they did was SEE IT. This is a small town bank.
This town is the kind of place where even if the people don't personally know you, they know your relatives, or work with you, or are related to people you work with, or go to church with you, or go to church with relatives of yours...
5th-3rd puts a hold on any check over 5000 regardless, even a cashiers check.
What really happened was that a couple of MS software engineers were told to fix this infested box without reinstalling. Actually fixing it, and removing the malware. We had a very infected box at my old company, and we called in a computer tech from a support company we contracted with. He tried for about a half day, and then gave up and reinstalled. Everyone on slashdot knows that sometimes you CAN'T fix a windows install. These MS engineers know that too, it isn't worth the time. Their challenge was - try to do it anyway because the boss's ego is on the line.
That's probably what the friend was thinking - hey, if anyone can fix my computer, this guy can - he's got all of the resources of MS at his disposal, forget going through some tech support schmuck or the geek down the street...
I'm pretty sure I've seen every TNG, every Voyager, every DS9, PROBABLY every TOS (afaik), zero enterprise and no TAS. Also every Bab5 and read a couple sci-fi books from ds9 and bab5, and listened to a fair amount of starbase 479... Does that mean I'm a geek? I know it does mean I used to have no life. Now I don't watch much tv at all, really.
It means they have no clue what they are presently doing, nor what they can do, should do, or how to do it if they knew. Not kidding, that's what it says.
Is there any possibility that a physics card could be used for some kind of useful purpose along the lines of speeding up Finite Element, CFD, complex 3D cad, animation, etc?
In '93 I just entered college, and had my first taste of "the internet". Before then it was the occasional BBS, the intetnet was just something I heard of rich people in the big cities having (compu-serve, etc).
The real internet, high speed always on like in college computer labs, was an exclusive wild frontier type of atmosphere. Very DIY, very unregulated.
Some of the CS guys spoke of this "WWW" thing, with a program we had on our NeXT Boxes called "mosaic". I checked it out, didn't look interesting at the time. Slow, ugly websites with pointless content. Give me gopher, FTP, Usenet. Lots and lots of free pr0n. Well, those were the days. Now, everyone has it, still have ugly slow pointless websites, the feds and the lawyers are trying to regulate it, and pr0n is still there but most pay for it because they don't know better.
I tried to set up a new computer for my (very computer ignorant) in-laws, using limited accounts for them and having an admin account with a password only I knew. I got them a cheap-o dell, took 2+ hours to strip out the dell crap, install OO.o, firefox, thunderbird, RealAlt, QTAlt, WinDefender, AVG, all patches, automatic updates to everything, etc. A legal, somewhat well protected box.
It works for them because ALL THEY DO is email, occasional surf, MAYBE a text document now and then. Didn't work for their grandkid who stays with them. In windows, you can only do email, occasional surf, maybe a text document now and then, in a limited account.
Most windows programs DO NOT FUNCTION unless it is a superuser account. This is a dirty little secret.
The kid couldn't install his mp3 player software without SU. So, I installed it for him. It wouldn't connect to his mp3 player unless it was a SU account. AARRG. Stupid stupid stupid.
So I thought I'd do the same on my machine at home, try to figure this out. Turns out on my media box (3 HD's, video editing software, etc) I can't write to my large data hard drives in a limited account. What? I suppose there is a way to assign permissions via the SU account, but I gave up and went back to using the SU account by default. It's easier. [SIGH]
I like ubuntu's approach. Everyone lives in a limited account, and you must SUDO in order to do anything dangerous. Ahhhh.... simplicity.
It's like having kids - you don't need a license to buy and operate a computer on the internet either.
"As far as I'm concerned, the airline industry can rot in hell for giving in to government pressure."
Government pressure? Not really. More like Government Ownage. And I think that happened a long time ago. Think about it.
You're right, though, on the people=security thing. The caliber of people recruited for the TSA positions really don't give a rat's hiney whether the planes make it there or not. The policies are created and implemented by the same caliber of people over the DMV's.
You get real results on a project by people who have a stake in the success of the project - in this case, by the people climbing onto the airplanes.
You wouldn't have an X-ray machine operator falling asleep at his station if he was going to be on the plane sitting next to that bag he just scanned...
I agree, it is viable. I'd be 100% on ubuntu at home except for the fact that linux has crap for usable, "professional grade" video editing software. No other reason. So I'm still on windows (and not mac, my hacked together windows/amd box is cheaper) because I can get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16832317009
Yeah, 99% of places start you off with 10 days vacation and bump it up to 15 after a couple years (maybe as much as 5 years?) then eventually you'll have 20.
Many places you get ZERO vacation days the first year. My present place is like that, but my offer included the standard 10 for the first year. I've been to one place where you could get 25 (or was it 30) days paid leave with 25+ years seniority. But NOBODY stays with a company that long any more.
OP is right, 10 days is not enough to do anything. It's enough for a normal guy to take a day here, day there just to take care of things - and if lucky, save 5 days for a short vacation to some place close.
Just a funny anecdote - I worked with a guy who had mad seniority and had serious vacation days. Every year he would take off a month, usually in the spring. Another guy who had a lot would take off every friday in the summer. Strange and unusual here in the US, but I suppose that's normal in europe?
"As onyone who has worked in Japan will tell you, even though work days are long, they don't actually work very much."
Can you Elaborate? Just curious, I've never been there let alone worked there.
Simon Trevaglia, is that you?