Well, the cord tends not to be the point of failure. If the power supply takes a giant shit, the vents usually face where your hand would be had you plugged the computer side in last. Also, people have a tendency to hold the computer with one hand to steady it while plugging in the cord. Circuit through heart == bad.
but I really wish someone would get up and offer unencoded raw music files. At 48,000kbps sampling rate. This lets me choose what lossy format I want to use, and I would seriously start buying entire albums like candy.
I actually did something along those lines that was quite funny... on accident, of course.
I bought a camera for my then-girlfriend for Christmas. I found out she wanted a different model but I had bought the camera in Wisconsin (retail tax rate: 5.5%) and we had just moved to Chicago. I returned it at a nearby Walmart, and ended up getting a return PLUS local tax (@ 8.75%) back! Hell yeah. Now do that a couple hundered thousand times and you're rich!
Yeah, except for those companies that lack the foresight to have created intraweb applications that use multitudes of ActiveX controls... That happened at a job I was at, they were using custom registry settings and ActiveX controls for some image viewer thing.
I choose this post to reply to arbitrarily, so don't take any of this personally, GOD_ALMIGHTY (heh)...
Defending Moore by saying he's no worse than the media is like saying the crackhead down the street is no worse than the prostitute on the corner. It's sort of a no-brainer, and really a poor defense. No one is supporting the "media", at least not that I've seen. Both are bad.
Moore plays nasty little tricks, paints situations with his own brush, and really distorts the context of much of his films. I actually liked Bowling, and I bought his book "Stupid White Men"... Then I started looking shit up, and realized this man is a liar. Maybe not blatant, but he's a fork-tongued bastard. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... ain't gonna happen. Everything that fucker says is now black flagged in my mind for later verification. Totally ruins any message his overdone movies could have, to me at least.
This is very true. It's most likely too late for the story submitter, but I have a (lucky and smart) buddy who interns every summer, last few years he interned at Honeywell, and this year he actually had three companies offer him NICE internships, Honeywell, Cray and Qualcomm, to be exact. Not only is it great resume fodder, and a chance to get real world experience without really having to deal with a "real" job where they demand you know everything at interview time, but he gets paid pretty damn well to boot.
No shit. I wonder what kind of havok a shitty OS will wreak on an NVRAM system? I hope there is always a way to reset the banks, because I don't trust much of anything, especially Windows, to behave well enough to stay "running" like that with no "failsafe" power-cycle option.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it Draconian. It doesn't really "record" anything like a black box, except for diagnostic error codes. It's a really great system for finding all the garbage that goes wrong with sensors without having to manually test them.
Or poppy seed bagels. How fucking gay is that? I read a story in the paper (I believe it was the Chicago Tribune) of a would-be nurse who tested positive for opiates because she ate a poppy seed bagel the morning she took a piss test. She got fucked out of that job for 6 months.
Not again.... Look, that's just fucking retarded. Should everyone open their lives to gevernment scrutiny? How about the motherfucker who doesn't have a SS number and isn't trackable? How do you propse to spy on him if he "doesn't exist?" Come on. Any system like this is flawed and only harms the law-abiding. Criminals are not stupid. Terrorists are not stupid. They will find a way to do their business regardless of the magnitudes of purported anti-terrorist systems we employ. How about solving the real problem? The United States should stop fucking around in other countries back yards for a change. Stop pissing off people, and maybe they won't come back and blow your shit up.
Yes, writing a small userland application that adds spreadsheet data is not art. Now, go improve the efficiency of an algorithm, or invent your own. That's ingenuity and art right there.
3M makes touchscreen films for most standard LCD sizes. I called them one day on this very topic and the guy was REALLY cool about it. They'll send you literature and everything. You could buy an entire one too, 7" are a few hundred new.
Also, you can buy DC to DC power supplies for computers. They have all the power conditioning you'll ever need.
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Well, the cord tends not to be the point of failure. If the power supply takes a giant shit, the vents usually face where your hand would be had you plugged the computer side in last. Also, people have a tendency to hold the computer with one hand to steady it while plugging in the cord. Circuit through heart == bad.
I agree, however I think the lyrics are "Inflammible material implanted in my head..." but I've been known to be wrong about lyrics from time to time.
Ah, fuck me, I meant "samples" not "sapmles"... Alcohol will be my downfall...
Yeah, I've been drinking. I meant hz or sapmles/sec... Forgivaness a-puhleeze.
but I really wish someone would get up and offer unencoded raw music files. At 48,000kbps sampling rate. This lets me choose what lossy format I want to use, and I would seriously start buying entire albums like candy.
Wasn't that The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats?
Welcome to philosophy. Prove anything is real and you win a cookie.
I actually did something along those lines that was quite funny... on accident, of course.
I bought a camera for my then-girlfriend for Christmas. I found out she wanted a different model but I had bought the camera in Wisconsin (retail tax rate: 5.5%) and we had just moved to Chicago. I returned it at a nearby Walmart, and ended up getting a return PLUS local tax (@ 8.75%) back! Hell yeah. Now do that a couple hundered thousand times and you're rich!
Yeah, except for those companies that lack the foresight to have created intraweb applications that use multitudes of ActiveX controls... That happened at a job I was at, they were using custom registry settings and ActiveX controls for some image viewer thing.
I think that was a joke, buddy.
I choose this post to reply to arbitrarily, so don't take any of this personally, GOD_ALMIGHTY (heh)...
Defending Moore by saying he's no worse than the media is like saying the crackhead down the street is no worse than the prostitute on the corner. It's sort of a no-brainer, and really a poor defense. No one is supporting the "media", at least not that I've seen. Both are bad.
Moore plays nasty little tricks, paints situations with his own brush, and really distorts the context of much of his films. I actually liked Bowling, and I bought his book "Stupid White Men"... Then I started looking shit up, and realized this man is a liar. Maybe not blatant, but he's a fork-tongued bastard. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... ain't gonna happen. Everything that fucker says is now black flagged in my mind for later verification. Totally ruins any message his overdone movies could have, to me at least.
This is very true. It's most likely too late for the story submitter, but I have a (lucky and smart) buddy who interns every summer, last few years he interned at Honeywell, and this year he actually had three companies offer him NICE internships, Honeywell, Cray and Qualcomm, to be exact. Not only is it great resume fodder, and a chance to get real world experience without really having to deal with a "real" job where they demand you know everything at interview time, but he gets paid pretty damn well to boot.
That doesn't make any goddamn sense. Vapourware? Who ever wrote that article must not know what the fuck they're talking about.
No shit. I wonder what kind of havok a shitty OS will wreak on an NVRAM system? I hope there is always a way to reset the banks, because I don't trust much of anything, especially Windows, to behave well enough to stay "running" like that with no "failsafe" power-cycle option.
If you use BCD, then two digits are only 8 bits. Thus 99 would be 10011001b.
I'm more surprised someone hasn't gone to Monsanto HQ and blown away the board of directors. Nothing stops a problem like a bullet.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it Draconian. It doesn't really "record" anything like a black box, except for diagnostic error codes. It's a really great system for finding all the garbage that goes wrong with sensors without having to manually test them.
Or poppy seed bagels. How fucking gay is that? I read a story in the paper (I believe it was the Chicago Tribune) of a would-be nurse who tested positive for opiates because she ate a poppy seed bagel the morning she took a piss test. She got fucked out of that job for 6 months.
Yeah, I hit that guy. Real fucking hard. NEver really had that problem because I didn't take that shit.
I assert that it's amazing you haven't been knocked to -1 yet.
Not again.... Look, that's just fucking retarded. Should everyone open their lives to gevernment scrutiny? How about the motherfucker who doesn't have a SS number and isn't trackable? How do you propse to spy on him if he "doesn't exist?" Come on. Any system like this is flawed and only harms the law-abiding. Criminals are not stupid. Terrorists are not stupid. They will find a way to do their business regardless of the magnitudes of purported anti-terrorist systems we employ. How about solving the real problem? The United States should stop fucking around in other countries back yards for a change. Stop pissing off people, and maybe they won't come back and blow your shit up.
You have to be kidding me.
Yes, writing a small userland application that adds spreadsheet data is not art. Now, go improve the efficiency of an algorithm, or invent your own. That's ingenuity and art right there.
Yes. Yes you did.
3M makes touchscreen films for most standard LCD sizes. I called them one day on this very topic and the guy was REALLY cool about it. They'll send you literature and everything. You could buy an entire one too, 7" are a few hundred new. Also, you can buy DC to DC power supplies for computers. They have all the power conditioning you'll ever need.
Heh, I still haven't seen "COBOL" and "happily" in the same sentence. I think that when I see that, I will have seen everything.