He was also interviewed on Unscrewed last night.
Unscrewed Wednesday Episode
Not much at that link, but check the schedule to see when it'll be replayed.
>This is the first time light has ever been generated from a molecule by applying electricity.
Heck, if you put too much lighter fuel on the charcoal and apply your electric grill lighter while standing too close you'll see PLENTY of light from those charcoal molecules!
In 1983, my first job out of college was as an internal auditor at a small regional bank that had only seven branches. We were just installing ATMs and most of our customers were elderly types who weren't interested in these new fangled computers. I, being young and more enlightened, loved them, used them all the time, and rarely carried much cash at all, preferring to just stop by a convenient ATM for a fresh withdrawal. This was in the days when banks considered ATMs as a money saver because customers would use the ATM rather than coming inside to bother a teller, thus saving the bank loads of money by reducing the number of tellers they had to employ, so there were no fees. But I digress...
One of our older patrons had his ATM card misappropriated by a handyman, family member, or other close associate, and said villian used the card to make several large withdrawals. The customer reported the problem, we told the system to capture the card on the next use, and waited.
Within a week, the card was used, and captured. The film from the camera was sent off (these days it's probably digital). The ATM company found that either our tellers had been ordering the wrong kind of film for our ATMs, or they had been sending us the wrong kind, or the tellers where installing it wrong, or something. They sent a note with that info to our President, explaining that the photo was probably the wrong person and wouldn't hold up in court, along with the developed photograph.
Fortunately he read the note before he looked at the photograph, because the guy in the photo was me! He came into my office and with as serious an expression as he could manage, told me they had the photo back, and had their man (I didn't know about the problem with the film at this point). He slid open the envelope, and there in stark black and white was me, probably on a Saturday morning, unshaven and in a dirty Ramones t-shirt.
I stuttered for a few seconds but he couldn't hold it together and started laughing. Needless to say that photo appeared all over the bank for the next several years, along with signs like "Have you seen this man?" and "Do not serve - notify security." We figured that since I used the ATM so much, I was probably on 85% of the photos on the film. The odds were pretty good that with the indexes being wrong I would come up, but it couldn't have been a worse photograph.
Oh, eventually the real crook was caught because he came into the bank to complain that the ATM had taken "his" card and the replacement hadn't arrived yet.
..and is quietly introducing its brand new 12-month-only Errata.
"Quietly??" Hardly. I've received notice of this at least three times in the past couple of months from various RH newsletters. I even considered writing to let them know I had gotten the message. It's been on their errata web page for over a month (at least since 8.0 has been out).
I guess this shows you CAN'T count on people to get the message unless you beat it into them, or perhaps this whole article is a RH troll to actually get the message out??
I now expect to receive several other explanatory e-mails from RH after this slashdot article.
a good book about college pranks...
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Stealth Force Beta
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· Score: 4, Informative
For a good read about college pranks, search out If at All Possible, Involve a Cow, by Neil Steinberg.
It's a well researched cronicle of the history of college pranks, and covers the famous MIT and Caltech pranks, but goes beyond the more publicized events to get behind the scenes as much as possible. It also covers the history or college pranks and includes the origins of several college rivalrys, such as midnight raids to capture and recover "prized" school artifacts.
Sadly, it now seems to be out of print, but it's worth finding a used copy or checking your local library.
Amen to that! While in college I worked one summer for the US Forest Service.
At first it sounded like a dream job, and for many people I'm sure it would be. But around the middle of July when the temps started nearing 100 degrees, slagging equipment through old-growth forest, fighting off mosquitoes, dealing with dehydration because mgt. neglected to bring enough water for everyone, turned out to be not quite as much fun.
It was one of the best motivating experiences I've ever had. At the end of the summer I was determined to not have to do physical work like that for the rest of my life!
For those who haven't lived the life of a manual laborer, find one and thank them for all the stuff they do for the rest of us so we can sit around at work and get fat and die at a relatively young age from heart disease... hmmm, maybe I better rethink that decision...
Slashdot Mirror
You haven't looked at the city's web site then. :-)
City of Aliso Viejo
That link seems to not work, but that got me started playing with the search engine on their site: Search for Ethics at SCO
In the first paragraph of the order page:
"Both addresses below do ship worldwide so ordering one shouldn't be a problem."
Enigma-E Order Page
He was also interviewed on Unscrewed last night. Unscrewed Wednesday Episode Not much at that link, but check the schedule to see when it'll be replayed.
Ahhh, that stuff never gets old. Let it fly again!
Absolutely, just where IS the beer review?
...oh, wait...
I'd like to participate!
damn!
never mind.
On The Sixe Million Dollar Man, wasn't Bigfoot played by a drunk and bloated wrastler?
Now you've made it way too confusing...
It does what's needed, and sometimes things that aren't needed, or that you think weren't needed, or... http://www.milwaukeetools.com/sawzall.html
Thus neatly stating a major reason to not bring him back in a later game.
Now, make a Goldfinger game, and I'm there!
That sounds remarkably like a development team I worked with once.
(easy joke, but necessary)
>This is the first time light has ever been generated from a molecule by applying electricity.
Heck, if you put too much lighter fuel on the charcoal and apply your electric grill lighter while standing too close you'll see PLENTY of light from those charcoal molecules!
AOL has blocked over two billion (2000000000) SPAM emails in one day!
So their outbound mail servers went down that day?
d
I had very high hopes that Y2K would make this 'problem' go away. But NO, they managed to patch all those dinosaurs to keep them running.
:)
Now we're having trouble finding people to toss meat at those same dinosaurs!
So here's my ATM camera story...
In 1983, my first job out of college was as an internal auditor at a small regional bank that had only seven branches. We were just installing ATMs and most of our customers were elderly types who weren't interested in these new fangled computers. I, being young and more enlightened, loved them, used them all the time, and rarely carried much cash at all, preferring to just stop by a convenient ATM for a fresh withdrawal. This was in the days when banks considered ATMs as a money saver because customers would use the ATM rather than coming inside to bother a teller, thus saving the bank loads of money by reducing the number of tellers they had to employ, so there were no fees. But I digress...
One of our older patrons had his ATM card misappropriated by a handyman, family member, or other close associate, and said villian used the card to make several large withdrawals. The customer reported the problem, we told the system to capture the card on the next use, and waited.
Within a week, the card was used, and captured. The film from the camera was sent off (these days it's probably digital). The ATM company found that either our tellers had been ordering the wrong kind of film for our ATMs, or they had been sending us the wrong kind, or the tellers where installing it wrong, or something. They sent a note with that info to our President, explaining that the photo was probably the wrong person and wouldn't hold up in court, along with the developed photograph.
Fortunately he read the note before he looked at the photograph, because the guy in the photo was me! He came into my office and with as serious an expression as he could manage, told me they had the photo back, and had their man (I didn't know about the problem with the film at this point). He slid open the envelope, and there in stark black and white was me, probably on a Saturday morning, unshaven and in a dirty Ramones t-shirt.
I stuttered for a few seconds but he couldn't hold it together and started laughing. Needless to say that photo appeared all over the bank for the next several years, along with signs like "Have you seen this man?" and "Do not serve - notify security." We figured that since I used the ATM so much, I was probably on 85% of the photos on the film. The odds were pretty good that with the indexes being wrong I would come up, but it couldn't have been a worse photograph.
Oh, eventually the real crook was caught because he came into the bank to complain that the ATM had taken "his" card and the replacement hadn't arrived yet.
..and is quietly introducing its brand new 12-month-only Errata.
"Quietly??" Hardly. I've received notice of this at least three times in the past couple of months from various RH newsletters. I even considered writing to let them know I had gotten the message. It's been on their errata web page for over a month (at least since 8.0 has been out).
I guess this shows you CAN'T count on people to get the message unless you beat it into them, or perhaps this whole article is a RH troll to actually get the message out??
I now expect to receive several other explanatory e-mails from RH after this slashdot article.
For a good read about college pranks, search out If at All Possible, Involve a Cow, by Neil Steinberg.
It's a well researched cronicle of the history of college pranks, and covers the famous MIT and Caltech pranks, but goes beyond the more publicized events to get behind the scenes as much as possible. It also covers the history or college pranks and includes the origins of several college rivalrys, such as midnight raids to capture and recover "prized" school artifacts.
Sadly, it now seems to be out of print, but it's worth finding a used copy or checking your local library.
ISBN 0-312-07810-2
Amen to that! While in college I worked one summer for the US Forest Service.
At first it sounded like a dream job, and for many people I'm sure it would be. But around the middle of July when the temps started nearing 100 degrees, slagging equipment through old-growth forest, fighting off mosquitoes, dealing with dehydration because mgt. neglected to bring enough water for everyone, turned out to be not quite as much fun.
It was one of the best motivating experiences I've ever had. At the end of the summer I was determined to not have to do physical work like that for the rest of my life!
For those who haven't lived the life of a manual laborer, find one and thank them for all the stuff they do for the rest of us so we can sit around at work and get fat and die at a relatively young age from heart disease... hmmm, maybe I better rethink that decision...
>>The way RH handled this release...
;-)
Release? Hmmm, I definitely AM a newbie then! The article title says "BETA."
I have labored long under the misunderstanding that BETA sort of meant "TEST."