My grandma died after complications from a broken hip ~ 3 years hospital stay, infections, never fully recovered.. My grandpa, a few years later, died from complications from a broken hip (slipped on the snow). I really don't think a Segway is the best answer for old people...
On a daily basis my 93 year old grandmother weaves in and out of heavy traffic on PCH while flipping off SUV cell phoners going 30 in the left lane. She took up motorcycling a few years back after she was in the hospital for a month with a broken femur from falling off a Segway.
So buy 'em Harley, and let them go out in style. And with none of that suffer in fo months in a hospital crap.
They meet, they accrete, and then dance for years as they happily twirl about. But as time goes by her ass grows more massive as she sucks out his soul and he becomes a shadow of his former self.
So I propose the name: Succubus and the Bitter Old Man.
French police announced that upon their initial examination it had been determined that the malfunction was caused by the driver's younger geeky brother faulty LN2 overclocking of the CPU.
Don't forget that Microsoft has been bankrolling this Bataan Death March of litigation from the very beginning. Any non-M$-bankrolled attorney would have had a "come to Jesus" talk with these clowns long ago.
A direct result of their "Come to Butthead" talk with Microsoft a few years ago.
So I get this notice from Progressive Insurance that I can hook a sensor up to my OBDII and possibly get cheaper insurance rates. Mind you, I'm the kind of guy who likes to see whether or not his car is actually able to obtain the 151MPH that has been published (I chickened out at 142 MPH) on I-70 in Eastern Utah. Don't worry - there were no other cars for miles. Had I crashed I might have harmed a rock or hundred.
Ah yes, back to the current situation. I re-register in after moving from L.A. to Cleveland, Ohio and need to find a new insurance company. Progressive, based about five miles from my new house, offers me this doo-dad to plug into the OBD-II port. I don't know what it records, but I do know the voltage supplied to each pin when the car is idle / off. A simple printer A/B switch to the 12V does the trick to give a conatsnt "Off" signal to said doo-dad. Said doo-dad connects to a USB base to phone home.
I'm screwed if cumulative odometer mileage is reported through the OBD-II. I did a quick google search, but that did not give me a definitive answer.
So it comes to this - I know that I can spoof an "Off" signal to the doo-dad, but I'm not skilled enough to read exactly what the device is reading / reporting.
Any ideas? I'm pretty sure that eventually many / all insurance companies will require these, so I'm merely planing for the future.
And on the drive home I solved (sort of) the short coming - have a long period of silence (a few hours should be sufficient) after the audio ends, and the big red button will say "Start / Restart Audio".
A variable bitrate encoder will allow for a small increase in file size for the perios of silence.
My brother used to do this all the time while he was an outside salesman with a three state route:
1. roll out of motel bed way late with raging hangover 2. turn on television and tune to a frequency with static 3. turn volume way up and phone work assuring then that you're already on the road to your first appointment
The static sounds just like wind / road noise while driving.
Puzzle: Suppose you have a coin that is not 'fair' - it lands heads greater than 50% of the time, but all you know about Probability(heads) is that it is somewhere between 50 and 75%. How can you emulate a 'fair' 50/50 coin with this coin? (eBay'ing the coin and flipping the proceeds does not count)
Solution: Flip the coin twice. If both flips are heads, or both flips are tails throw away the result and repeat: {H,H}->Repeat, {T,T}-> Repeat. If the flips are different, then use the result of the first flip: {H,T}-> H, {T,H}->T.
As his cat goes up in flames...
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When looked at in a tech support experience sort of way, the whole Goatse Giver / Receiver model seems apt, as a long drawn out episode with tech support will often lead to one feeling like the receiver.
I would be the most poetically ironic event ever if it turns out that it was a MS Win security hole that allowed a hacker to enter a server and steal the code.
Doubly ironic if it was a hole that MS has known about for months and not bothered to patch.
Triply ironic if someone finds said hole, patches it, and ships patched source back to MS.
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Five or ten minute wait inside. Now I'm counting down the minutes until I can start singing NaNaHeyHey. Been waiting almost four years for this.
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By the way, Ohio is smiling:
http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/maher/temp/nor
Obviously Ohio goes for Kerry. If it were smirking I might predict a
Bush victory.
I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Florida is mooning us.
My grandma died after complications from a broken hip ~ 3 years hospital stay, infections, never fully recovered..
My grandpa, a few years later, died from complications from a broken hip (slipped on the snow).
I really don't think a Segway is the best answer for old people...
On a daily basis my 93 year old grandmother weaves in and out of heavy traffic on PCH while flipping off SUV cell phoners going 30 in the left lane. She took up motorcycling a few years back after she was in the hospital for a month with a broken femur from falling off a Segway.
So buy 'em Harley, and let them go out in style. And with none of that suffer in fo months in a hospital crap.
laptop to server
no need to RTFA
must be slow news day (or 'article blows goats')
They meet, they accrete, and then dance for years as they happily twirl about. But as time goes by her ass grows more massive as she sucks out his soul and he becomes a shadow of his former self.
So I propose the name: Succubus and the Bitter Old Man.
Further update:
French police announced that upon their initial examination it had been determined that the malfunction was caused by the driver's younger geeky brother faulty LN2 overclocking of the CPU.
Heard on a local Martian newscast,
"I for one welcome our new roving overlords."
Don't forget that Microsoft has been bankrolling this Bataan Death March of litigation from the very beginning. Any non-M$-bankrolled attorney would have had a "come to Jesus" talk with these clowns long ago.
A direct result of their "Come to Butthead" talk with Microsoft a few years ago.
So I get this notice from Progressive Insurance that I can hook a sensor up to my OBDII and possibly get cheaper insurance rates. Mind you, I'm the kind of guy who likes to see whether or not his car is actually able to obtain the 151MPH that has been published (I chickened out at 142 MPH) on I-70 in Eastern Utah. Don't worry - there were no other cars for miles. Had I crashed I might have harmed a rock or hundred.
Ah yes, back to the current situation. I re-register in after moving from L.A. to Cleveland, Ohio and need to find a new insurance company. Progressive, based about five miles from my new house, offers me this doo-dad to plug into the OBD-II port. I don't know what it records, but I do know the voltage supplied to each pin when the car is idle / off. A simple printer A/B switch to the 12V does the trick to give a conatsnt "Off" signal to said doo-dad. Said doo-dad connects to a USB base to phone home.
I'm screwed if cumulative odometer mileage is reported through the OBD-II. I did a quick google search, but that did not give me a definitive answer.
So it comes to this - I know that I can spoof an "Off" signal to the doo-dad, but I'm not skilled enough to read exactly what the device is reading / reporting.
Any ideas? I'm pretty sure that eventually many / all insurance companies will require these, so I'm merely planing for the future.
My university email is as clean as a baby's but
Ummmm...... Might you want to use a different simile? Or have you never had kids?
www.BobNeedsADualG5PowerMac.org
So how would that Janis Joplin song go in the internet age?
Newsweek cover.
RE: opportunity to solve that whole Yucca Mountain fiasco
once and for all.
And on the drive home I solved (sort of) the short coming - have a long period of silence (a few hours should be sufficient) after the audio ends, and the big red button will say "Start / Restart Audio".
A variable bitrate encoder will allow for a small increase in file size for the perios of silence.
Have the MP3 player repeating the single track, with the big red button attached to the 'skip forward' or 'skip ahead' track button.
The only shortcoming of this simple plan is that the audio is always playing.
or when he gets Enderle to shut the fuck up.
A level five RAID marketed by none other than the PEZ Corporation.
Or once they become edible, as the toy surprise in a box of Cracker Jacks.
It's just a big linguistic misunderstanding. He merely called a contractor to give an estimate for his bathroom - he's retiling.
...a bitter dejected Mothra mumbles profanities in broken Japanese.
My brother used to do this all the time while he was an outside salesman with a three state route:
1. roll out of motel bed way late with raging hangover
2. turn on television and tune to a frequency with static
3. turn volume way up and phone work assuring then that you're already on the road to your first appointment
The static sounds just like wind / road noise while driving.
Here is a mirror
From a graduate level algorithms course:
Puzzle: Suppose you have a coin that is not 'fair' - it lands heads greater than 50% of the time, but all you know about Probability(heads) is that it is somewhere between 50 and 75%. How can you emulate a 'fair' 50/50 coin with this coin? (eBay'ing the coin and flipping the proceeds does not count)
Solution: Flip the coin twice. If both flips are heads, or both flips are tails throw away the result and repeat: {H,H}->Repeat, {T,T}-> Repeat. If the flips are different, then use the result of the first flip: {H,T}-> H, {T,H}->T.
As his cat goes up in flames...
No!!! God dammit!!! I thought a BUD LIGHT!!!
Karen is part of a growing group called givers.
When looked at in a tech support experience sort of way, the whole Goatse Giver / Receiver model seems apt, as a long drawn out episode with tech support will often lead to one feeling like the receiver.
When a similar error occured at Slashdot it was revealed that Cowboy Neal does in fact have 18,137 first posts with Goatse links.
I would be the most poetically ironic event ever if it turns out that it was a MS Win security hole that allowed a hacker to enter a server and steal the code.
Doubly ironic if it was a hole that MS has known about for months and not bothered to patch.
Triply ironic if someone finds said hole, patches it, and ships patched source back to MS.