I can see it now: An alien race needs styrofoam to truly thrive. Billions of years ago, they send out little bits of organic materials precoded to end up with styrofoam. Time passes. Dinosaurs evolve and die (not due to any meteor strike, but because their DNA has an innate kill switch). Mankind evolves and learns to extract the decayed leftovers of the dinosaurs from the Earth's crust. We develop the technology to make styrofoam.
Now that we've fulfilled our evolutionary purpose, it's our time to go away like the dinosaurs.
Of course, the aliens who created us, they're thinking . . . "okay, these things we've created . . . they can be killed by viruses right? Okay, and they like sex a whole lot, right? So what we need is a deadly virus that is passed by sex."
Is it any surprise that the AIDS epidemic really took off about the same time McDonald's stopped using Styrofoam? I think not!
If you are going to quote George Carlin, you should give him some sort of attribution...
No other country was started by violent revolution, no other country has overweight people, and this lame joke hasn't been overused to the point of absurdity.
When are you going to lay off the "French are cowards" schtick then?
when they quit being cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
Very odd. In the (brief) time I worked in a raised floor NOC in the Marines, the only access we had below the raised floor was with suction based handles that you pumped with your thumb to lift a tile. I can't quite imagine a more functional and efficient method that could be used for carpeted tiles. I doubt velcro or an equivalent would be much use for any extended period of time.
actually, it looks like a suction cup tile puller, but it has 2 flat pads, and spring loaded spikes angled in that release when you pull the inner handle
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We had to change our phone number to get touch tone service because the switch we were on could only do dial phones (this was in 1977). We even had a party line when we first moved there in 1975.
I remember my grandparents having a party line until the early/mid 80's. Also, we were on rotary dial only until the late 80's. This is how AT&T, and later the baby bells (Michigan Bell in my case) handled rural America
ahhh, I remember what I was thinking now, Black Chicken at noon, white chicken at midnight, always with a sliver knife to appease the Differential SCSI gods. white chicken, then black chicken with eye of newt to appease the SVR3 gods...
that would explain the red, glowing LCD panel, and the cdrom's habit of attacking passerby after this activity.......
The resulting patchwork mess of cruft showed its scar tissue anytime you tried to do anything remotely useful with it. I still have flashbacks.
Damn, I had actually blocked those memories out until now.....
Errr...why do I have to re-link the kernel to change the IP address???...I guess, if it needs to
rebuild and link kernel
ummm....what just happened to my MPX package???
WTF, now nothing is working....~me reading manual ok, it says here rebooting will fix everyting.....errr, I thought that was a windows thinf, but what the hell....
ok, now the bastard won't boot
me booting miniroot off of floppies
ok, now I have this, what is wrong... looking at the kernel modification app...ok, so I need to revert to the old IP, uninstall MPX, update the IP, install MPX and we are set...
insert a few hours here (old, slow box, several reboots)
ok, now to install MPX installing... WTF, what do you mean Invalid License Key
I got it working, but I don't remember how.
Although, my boss called the next Monday, and asked why I had left her a voicemail asking for a black chicken, a white chicken, a silver knife, and a bucket (not only SCO Open Server, but Open Server 5.0.1 with a differential SCSI bus)
excuse me while I go curl up under a desk and cry now.....
t's suppost to get 95 miles per gallon PER seat (assuming perfect conditions obviously). Which to me is just staggering.
Errr....I think you have that a bit wrong...the way to read that is it takes 1 gallon of fuel to move 95 seats 1 mile. this results in something around 5-6 mpg for the entire aircraft (in a 550 seat configuration). Still pretty impressive for an aircraft this size
Never heard that one. The company is called "Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG".
PAG is Ford's Premier Auto Group, and includes Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and I believe Rover Group. One of the best known platforms out of this group is the DEW platform, better known as the Lincoln LS, Jaguar XJS Sedan, and the 2005 Mustang (DEW-Lite platform, the retained the live rear axle, and shortened the overall length to match the traditional Mustang size).
I didn't take algebra in college but I imagine the simiple solution there is to ban calculators outright or those of greater than scientific capacity.
not quite, I was looking at an algebra book of a friend who is in college now, and it is basically a programming guide to the TI-89 with a few logic problems thrown in to spice it up
How are we supposed to use the durn things when nobody ever gives us any to use? I like them, but the only place I know of where I get them is in the change from the stamp vending machines in the post office.
if you really want some sacajawea dollars, just put a $20 into a stamp machine, and get the cheapest book of stamps. you will get all that your heart desires....
hate to nitpick, but the most valves/cylinder in production now is 5/cylinder. It is used by ferrari, along with several other european Manufacturers. Managing the timing on more than 5 (3 smaller intake, 2 large exhaust)valves on a cylinder would be an absolute nightmare
I can see this as being a possibility for workgroups/small to medium businesses looking to get into SAN tech, but The bandwidth would be pahtetic. Unless you had an ether segment decicated to your iSCSI the latency would be terrible. With FC, you have a dedicated Full Duplex pipe at 1Gb/sec minimum on the front side. with iSCSI, even using Gigabit Ethernet, the best bandwidth you would see is.3Gb/sec shared. I do not see this tech ever making it as a permanent large-scale solution
It is called Big Red and is available in TX, and OK I beleive....kind of thing you drink once, say thats interesting, and never drink again as far as I'm concerned
I must have been farther away from gun legislation than I thought. to quote the NRA. All of the original civil suits have been overturned by appellate courts. Maybe this could be helpful?
this is like sueing the state highway administration for an accident, or the electric company because of an electrical fire. (others exist, like gas canister makers for arson)
Is this kind of like suing firearms manufacturers for murders??
oh, wait....this has already happened...and the plaintiff's won (Multiple State's Attorneys General if I remember correctly). could this be used as a precedent?
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I need a written proof!
When are you going to lay off the "French are cowards" schtick then?
when they quit being cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
take a look at the bluespoon
that is the closest you can get
actually, it looks like a suction cup tile puller, but it has 2 flat pads, and spring loaded spikes angled in that release when you pull the inner handle
I remember my grandparents having a party line until the early/mid 80's. Also, we were on rotary dial only until the late 80's. This is how AT&T, and later the baby bells (Michigan Bell in my case) handled rural America
that would explain the red, glowing LCD panel, and the cdrom's habit of attacking passerby after this activity.......
sorry, memory of that day is a bit spotty, but you should have seen the cleaning bill for the datacentre
Damn, I had actually blocked those memories out until now.....
Errr...why do I have to re-link the kernel to change the IP address???...I guess, if it needs to
rebuild and link kernel
ummm....what just happened to my MPX package???
WTF, now nothing is working....~me reading manual ok, it says here rebooting will fix everyting.....errr, I thought that was a windows thinf, but what the hell....
ok, now the bastard won't boot
me booting miniroot off of floppies
ok, now I have this, what is wrong... looking at the kernel modification app...ok, so I need to revert to the old IP, uninstall MPX, update the IP, install MPX and we are set...
insert a few hours here (old, slow box, several reboots)
ok, now to install MPX installing... WTF, what do you mean Invalid License Key
I got it working, but I don't remember how.
Although, my boss called the next Monday, and asked why I had left her a voicemail asking for a black chicken, a white chicken, a silver knife, and a bucket (not only SCO Open Server, but Open Server 5.0.1 with a differential SCSI bus)
excuse me while I go curl up under a desk and cry now.....
You mean like the Crossfire http://www.chrysler.com/crossfire/ and the SLK350 http://www.mbusa.com/brand/selector/innerframe.jsp ?model=SLK350§ion=null#?
t's suppost to get 95 miles per gallon PER seat (assuming perfect conditions obviously). Which to me is just staggering.
Errr....I think you have that a bit wrong...the way to read that is it takes 1 gallon of fuel to move 95 seats 1 mile. this results in something around 5-6 mpg for the entire aircraft (in a 550 seat configuration). Still pretty impressive for an aircraft this size
Well, except for the exploding chip issue on the Fuser Controller of the Optra S 2450 that would generally let go right around 120,000-150,000 pages
PAG (Porsche Automotive Group)
Never heard that one. The company is called "Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG".
PAG is Ford's Premier Auto Group, and includes Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and I believe Rover Group. One of the best known platforms out of this group is the DEW platform, better known as the Lincoln LS, Jaguar XJS Sedan, and the 2005 Mustang (DEW-Lite platform, the retained the live rear axle, and shortened the overall length to match the traditional Mustang size).
It's to avoid overwriting the stuff already stored in WOM, of course.
shouldn't that be WORN (Write Once, Read Never) Storage???
not quite, I was looking at an algebra book of a friend who is in college now, and it is basically a programming guide to the TI-89 with a few logic problems thrown in to spice it up
nah, that is just the heat sink for the processor
if you really want some sacajawea dollars, just put a $20 into a stamp machine, and get the cheapest book of stamps. you will get all that your heart desires....
hate to nitpick, but the most valves/cylinder in production now is 5/cylinder. It is used by ferrari, along with several other european Manufacturers. Managing the timing on more than 5 (3 smaller intake, 2 large exhaust)valves on a cylinder would be an absolute nightmare
I can see this as being a possibility for workgroups/small to medium businesses looking to get into SAN tech, but The bandwidth would be pahtetic. Unless you had an ether segment decicated to your iSCSI the latency would be terrible. With FC, you have a dedicated Full Duplex pipe at 1Gb/sec minimum on the front side. with iSCSI, even using Gigabit Ethernet, the best bandwidth you would see is .3Gb/sec shared. I do not see this tech ever making it as a permanent large-scale solution
It is called Big Red and is available in TX, and OK I beleive....kind of thing you drink once, say thats interesting, and never drink again as far as I'm concerned
I must have been farther away from gun legislation than I thought. to quote the NRA. All of the original civil suits have been overturned by appellate courts. Maybe this could be helpful?
Is this kind of like suing firearms manufacturers for murders?? oh, wait....this has already happened...and the plaintiff's won (Multiple State's Attorneys General if I remember correctly). could this be used as a precedent?