I've worked in a print lab that test remanufactured cartridges & toner and the like. One of the largest three in the US, as a matter of fact.
Sure your refill/3rd party ink may look as vibrant, and some actually live up to UV very well, but you drop them into the O-Zone chamber, or mist water over them...
There's a big difference out there, if you have to use inkjet, and you want to keep your documents longer than a month, shell out full price, or move up to a large reliable printer.
Also note, for toner... buy OEM. Trust me... Especially for HP Color Lasers, as non-OEM cyan cartridges tend to explode (I loved that shirt, took me four good washes to save it)
I got my first internship after my last year of high-school. At a fortune 100 insurance company in Hartford, CT.
This marks my 4th summer returning to them. Get a bit agressive. Find what department in the company you want to work for, and call their HR generalist. Have him/her make the pitch to all the people that will listen (there will be a lot, listening to HR is good for business).
You can find internships... but if you're already into your summer (yeah, I barely RTFPost) after high school, you're boned, I started looking fall of Senior year, and the timing was still tight.
- Jonsey, back to work.
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Marines have dedication to the Corps, their fellow Marines, and to soldiers.
A Marine is only a Soldier if you're looking to get your butt kicked.
Grandpa was a career Marine, Dad was Navy. You learn these things early around my parts.:D
I've been a long-time FPSer, and rather good about it when I get the time to practice regularly.
I've played every game you've attached your name to, and paid for all of them but Quake 1. I love the things you've done with gaming.
That said, I'm not in a rush to get Doom3. Because of how many years (and months of playtime) I got out of the original Half-Life, I'm eagerly awaiting the GPA drop that HL2 will provide me.
I plan on waiting until after I've blitzed that, assuming that they stick to this September release date, to go out and buy a copy of Doom 3.
And though I will probably play it with the lights on and some sort of comfort nearby, I look forward to it.
Every post you make is always followed up by many fools ripping you a new one. I'm not on edge about Doom 3 (at least, not like I would have been for Quake 4) but I know that when I do go buy that game, the $50-$60-$whatever will be money well spent for a good entertaining if adrenaline fuelled time.
You and your lead programming team do great work, the engines that you've had a hand in have redefined PC Gaming. Your efforts are appreciated, and your name is respected.
Ignore the flamers, congratulate yourself for getting a product out to market after a long development cycle (most seem to flop after too long in development) and know that there are a lot of folks who will rush out to get it as soon as they can, and a lot of folks who will get it eventually whol like what you do.
I've been rambling, but that's because I'm an IT intern making below industry average intern wages in an area with an extremely high cost of living. : )
Beer is the big thing up with us lonely tech-school guys, but I stick to my guns and only indulge in good hard stuff, after hearing the following quote one night on my freshman floor:
"Hey, I found an extra $5, let's spring for Pabst"
Decided it was Guinness on tap, or no beer at all.
Still, I'd host a Pabst in my backyard, but only if I could use riot gear on all that attended.
Sorry, it's late in the day for me, I'm bored at work, and in major amounts of pain from stubbing my toe fiercely earlier today.... ignore me, please : )
Moved out at a young-ish age, just over the river to Vancouver, then moved up to Snohomish county just before the Californians came and layed waste to the area.
Now am a Connecticut native... I do miss the portland area.... I really need to get back to the rose garden soon, the girlfriend would love it : )
Yeah, there's that, and the fact that a modern nuke plant produces less hard radioactive waste in a year than a coal-burning plant spews (even past modern scrubbers) into the air every year.
We need to stop grandfathering in old power plants of all types, step up, pay some of the up-front costs, and get some good power generation going.
For the NIMBY folks, I'll volunteer to host a PBR in my backyard.
Contrary to what a lot of places would have you believe, if we'd actually shell out some cash and stop only focusing on the very bottom line for hte first year, we've got affordable, safe, and clean nuke power available to us... and it's a shame we've not made use of it.
to grandparent poster: don't be sad you live in WA, I left 11 years ago now, and I go back every chance I get... it only goes downhill from there.
Public domain pictures courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Don't do anything foolish, stupid, or illegal with this information, just beware that the internet is very very powerful these days, between phone lookups, address lookups, and now photographic lookups, things can be scary.
Did anyone else here get the intense desire to either play a "nature sounds" CD through their potted office-plant, or just the sound of leaves rustling slightly?
Imagine the hours of fun as the boss looks for that damn draft that he knows just HAS to be in that corner.
I think I've just convinced myself to get one once they come to market here. : )
Hi, did you read the article or comments posted chronologically before yours?
I'm going to guess no, but the article explictly states that all that will be required for many routers (and I believe all Cisco routers) is a software (firmware) update.
Today was my day in the test chamber too! It's just that I was running late, and they hid my HEV suit in a far-away bank of lockers I'd never been to before.
Maybe that guy in the suit had something to do with it, I sure see a lot of him around here.
IE's got holes, it's non-standards-compliant... but it's the standard out there folks. Sure, someday people my open their eyes and use a compliant browser someday, but I sit here on my lunch break, and I'm on IE.
Moderators always moderate the stories that they like, and opposing views, even when funny, get stomped on by the moderation process far too often.
As you can see, this is still a problem on frontpaged articles too.
There are times I wonder if it wouldn't be more convienient for the little "You have X moderator points" to be forced to be used, and forced to be used on one story. I mean, we've got the readership base that it's not going to leave many stories neglected, and it could stop fanboying, of all sizes & types.
I'm Jonsey, and I too moderate the stories that most interest me.
Edit the REG_DWORD value to '1' for "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" located under: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManag er\MemoryManagement\
So, set that value to '1' and on clean shutdowns, windows will spin & whir for a bit (shutdown times will be increased) and this should clear your page file out, at least mostly.
Hadn't been keeping close enough track to the articles (but, hey, what else is new?). It's good to know that the obvious doesn't always escape engineers:p
Seriously though, having taken the chance to actually read the article, I see what you meant. It is kinda neat that they'll automate the docking fully, I can understand why, but that's still pretty cool. : )
Latency to LEO isn't more than about 300ms (I remember that Sattelite internet access has at least a 250ms latency, and IIRC the sats for that are higher up.
Regardless, while playing around with that much latency isn't fun, it's also not too hard to beam signals up that far... Why don't we just use a "robot" in the battle-bot sense for this, and have an R/C fixer go up there?
I mean, it's not nearly as nifty, but it's also pretty fool-proof compared to sending up an AI. Maybe a mix approach would work, like our Mars Rovers, or maybe after the gyros & whatnot are fixed on hubble, we let it go AI on other less-critical repairs?
The TTY system in general thrives in the Rochester/Henrietta Area, really, all of Monroe County NY.
It's a pretty dang slick system all in all. As an RIT student, you start to understand the necessity of such a system, and while if the telcos can provide the SAME service quality, then they deserve to keep the rest of the subsidy... but letting quality of service fall... it's horrible.
I know a car manufacturer with a clue would be one-piece. That's smart. But if they were doing it like an aftermarket soloution, and doing all the work and THEN welding it shut, that'd be stupid.
It's not a comment about the car mentioned in the article, but in the headline provided. : )
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I've worked in a print lab that test remanufactured cartridges & toner and the like. One of the largest three in the US, as a matter of fact.
Sure your refill/3rd party ink may look as vibrant, and some actually live up to UV very well, but you drop them into the O-Zone chamber, or mist water over them...
There's a big difference out there, if you have to use inkjet, and you want to keep your documents longer than a month, shell out full price, or move up to a large reliable printer.
Also note, for toner... buy OEM. Trust me... Especially for HP Color Lasers, as non-OEM cyan cartridges tend to explode (I loved that shirt, took me four good washes to save it)
I got my first internship after my last year of high-school. At a fortune 100 insurance company in Hartford, CT.
This marks my 4th summer returning to them. Get a bit agressive. Find what department in the company you want to work for, and call their HR generalist. Have him/her make the pitch to all the people that will listen (there will be a lot, listening to HR is good for business).
You can find internships... but if you're already into your summer (yeah, I barely RTFPost) after high school, you're boned, I started looking fall of Senior year, and the timing was still tight.
- Jonsey, back to work.
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Marines have dedication to the Corps, their fellow Marines, and to soldiers.
A Marine is only a Soldier if you're looking to get your butt kicked.
Grandpa was a career Marine, Dad was Navy. You learn these things early around my parts.
Master Chief was and still is a worthless tool.
That being said, how many hours of entertainment did you get for your $55?
If it's more than one, you've probably gotten some good enjoyment out of it, keep the game until someone does some mod using the engine that you like.
It's really not such a bad deal once you just relax.
But Master Chief really is a tool. (Can't stand Halo, or FPSes on Consoles, does it show?)
Hi John,
I'm a more average FPS geek out here.
I've been a long-time FPSer, and rather good about it when I get the time to practice regularly.
I've played every game you've attached your name to, and paid for all of them but Quake 1. I love the things you've done with gaming.
That said, I'm not in a rush to get Doom3. Because of how many years (and months of playtime) I got out of the original Half-Life, I'm eagerly awaiting the GPA drop that HL2 will provide me.
I plan on waiting until after I've blitzed that, assuming that they stick to this September release date, to go out and buy a copy of Doom 3.
And though I will probably play it with the lights on and some sort of comfort nearby, I look forward to it.
Every post you make is always followed up by many fools ripping you a new one. I'm not on edge about Doom 3 (at least, not like I would have been for Quake 4) but I know that when I do go buy that game, the $50-$60-$whatever will be money well spent for a good entertaining if adrenaline fuelled time.
You and your lead programming team do great work, the engines that you've had a hand in have redefined PC Gaming. Your efforts are appreciated, and your name is respected.
Ignore the flamers, congratulate yourself for getting a product out to market after a long development cycle (most seem to flop after too long in development) and know that there are a lot of folks who will rush out to get it as soon as they can, and a lot of folks who will get it eventually whol like what you do.
I've been rambling, but that's because I'm an IT intern making below industry average intern wages in an area with an extremely high cost of living. : )
That's what drove me away from being a beer drinker.
I attend RIT in beautiful "sunny" Rochacha NY.
Beer is the big thing up with us lonely tech-school guys, but I stick to my guns and only indulge in good hard stuff, after hearing the following quote one night on my freshman floor:
"Hey, I found an extra $5, let's spring for Pabst"
Decided it was Guinness on tap, or no beer at all.
Still, I'd host a Pabst in my backyard, but only if I could use riot gear on all that attended.
Sorry, it's late in the day for me, I'm bored at work, and in major amounts of pain from stubbing my toe fiercely earlier today.... ignore me, please : )
Born a webfoot actually, St. Helens.
Moved out at a young-ish age, just over the river to Vancouver, then moved up to Snohomish county just before the Californians came and layed waste to the area.
Now am a Connecticut native... I do miss the portland area.... I really need to get back to the rose garden soon, the girlfriend would love it : )
Yeah, there's that, and the fact that a modern nuke plant produces less hard radioactive waste in a year than a coal-burning plant spews (even past modern scrubbers) into the air every year.
We need to stop grandfathering in old power plants of all types, step up, pay some of the up-front costs, and get some good power generation going.
For the NIMBY folks, I'll volunteer to host a PBR in my backyard.
Contrary to what a lot of places would have you believe, if we'd actually shell out some cash and stop only focusing on the very bottom line for hte first year, we've got affordable, safe, and clean nuke power available to us... and it's a shame we've not made use of it.
to grandparent poster: don't be sad you live in WA, I left 11 years ago now, and I go back every chance I get... it only goes downhill from there.
Nothing, but what good would the Grand-parent's "recon" work do?
It's nifty, it's somewhat fun, it was free, so there's no harm : )
or, you can realize that Microsoft isn't quite ALL bad.
TerraServer for the listed address.
Public domain pictures courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Don't do anything foolish, stupid, or illegal with this information, just beware that the internet is very very powerful these days, between phone lookups, address lookups, and now photographic lookups, things can be scary.
Oh crap! Data stolen?
::
Wait, only 8.2Gig?
Oh, nevermind then, they can't have gotten the index of my porn collection.
:: wanders off whistling
Did anyone else here get the intense desire to either play a "nature sounds" CD through their potted office-plant, or just the sound of leaves rustling slightly?
Imagine the hours of fun as the boss looks for that damn draft that he knows just HAS to be in that corner.
I think I've just convinced myself to get one once they come to market here. : )
Hi, did you read the article or comments posted chronologically before yours?
I'm going to guess no, but the article explictly states that all that will be required for many routers (and I believe all Cisco routers) is a software (firmware) update.
Thanks! : p
Today was my day in the test chamber too! It's just that I was running late, and they hid my HEV suit in a far-away bank of lockers I'd never been to before.
Maybe that guy in the suit had something to do with it, I sure see a lot of him around here.
- Gordon F.
Yeah, off topic, but, c'mon, it's coming.
"They got what they deserved"
"What? They've not been laughed away totally yet?"
"Why did they get off so easy for that much FUD"
Summary of news story: "Judge isn't buying it, put up, or shut up."
Yeah! Then we'll never get to play the next GTA sequel!
HL2, GTA:SA.... oh, next year's grades aren't looking so hot.
They'll also get you mugged.
And still look like crap. Just one man's opinion, but I'm a man with style : )
In other news, SCO is a bunch of Litigious Bastards.
IE's got holes, it's non-standards-compliant... but it's the standard out there folks. Sure, someday people my open their eyes and use a compliant browser someday, but I sit here on my lunch break, and I'm on IE.
Well, I no longer aspire to be a BOFH... which is odd.
When I get outta college, I wanna be a shamanistic IT guru.
Your post not only makes sense, it helps clear just a little bit of my hard-earned IT cynicism. Hell, I might just make the world a better place.
Moderators always moderate the stories that they like, and opposing views, even when funny, get stomped on by the moderation process far too often.
As you can see, this is still a problem on frontpaged articles too.
There are times I wonder if it wouldn't be more convienient for the little "You have X moderator points" to be forced to be used, and forced to be used on one story. I mean, we've got the readership base that it's not going to leave many stories neglected, and it could stop fanboying, of all sizes & types.
I'm Jonsey, and I too moderate the stories that most interest me.
Setting the Page File to Wipe on Win NT/2k/XP
g er\MemoryManagement\
(Stolen from Wayne's Registry Tips: Google Cached
Edit the REG_DWORD value to '1' for "ClearPageFileAtShutdown" located under: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionMana
So, set that value to '1' and on clean shutdowns, windows will spin & whir for a bit (shutdown times will be increased) and this should clear your page file out, at least mostly.
Hadn't been keeping close enough track to the articles (but, hey, what else is new?). It's good to know that the obvious doesn't always escape engineers :p
Seriously though, having taken the chance to actually read the article, I see what you meant. It is kinda neat that they'll automate the docking fully, I can understand why, but that's still pretty cool. : )
Latency to LEO isn't more than about 300ms (I remember that Sattelite internet access has at least a 250ms latency, and IIRC the sats for that are higher up.
Regardless, while playing around with that much latency isn't fun, it's also not too hard to beam signals up that far... Why don't we just use a "robot" in the battle-bot sense for this, and have an R/C fixer go up there?
I mean, it's not nearly as nifty, but it's also pretty fool-proof compared to sending up an AI. Maybe a mix approach would work, like our Mars Rovers, or maybe after the gyros & whatnot are fixed on hubble, we let it go AI on other less-critical repairs?
Sound logical to anyone else?
The TTY system in general thrives in the Rochester/Henrietta Area, really, all of Monroe County NY.
It's a pretty dang slick system all in all. As an RIT student, you start to understand the necessity of such a system, and while if the telcos can provide the SAME service quality, then they deserve to keep the rest of the subsidy... but letting quality of service fall... it's horrible.
No, see, that's what I was harping on.
I know a car manufacturer with a clue would be one-piece. That's smart. But if they were doing it like an aftermarket soloution, and doing all the work and THEN welding it shut, that'd be stupid.
It's not a comment about the car mentioned in the article, but in the headline provided. : )