to sell my spare CPU Cycles? At a $1/Hour, I'll let them have the 8 Hours that I'm at work using my office computer! That will give me some extra munch money...:)
As a PC (x86) user, we always thought people who use Mac's as zeloits, non-geeks, idiot proofed gui, lame....etc..etc...
But, now the idea of putting the mac on x86's seems to bring out some type of OS envey....
People that would never touch a Mac, are sharring PIRATED versions over bittorrent, etc...
Have I been duped? Is the Mac REALLY a usefull OS afterall? Was Steve Jobs right all these years, and Bill Gates distorting MY reality field by the everpresent Windblows computers that could be build for cheap?
I don't know... but one cant help but wonder what took their marketing drones this long to come up with this brilliant way to prove that all the geeks really want to have a bitchen' fast Mac...
I'll stick to my axim for now... gee, if only I could port OS-X to that......;p
(ok, one is my wife's... She has a Sony DyeSub printer for printing out pics for her scrappbooking --- When she needs a particular size,zoom, etc.. that would take too long to figure out at walmart photodesk...)
The other 2 are an IBM Lexmar Optra R and an OLD (in printer years) HP Photosmart 1115... (before my wife got her Sony...)
The Lexmark Laser is the best! 99.9% of our printing is dull black vs. white laser printing... web Receipts, mapquest directions, recipies from family emails, etc...... This printer was a "recoverd" printer that was due to be pitched by a previous employer because it was "icky."
Seriously, someone had shipped it back to the home office to be upgraded or what ever and left the tonor cartridge in it... Needless to say, it seemed to explode somewhere during shipping... so it was marked for the dumpster... I rescued it at the 12th hour with the overlords approvial... and gave it a good vac & clean at home in the basement... had a few 1/2 used cartridges that secretaries didn't know how to work or would just replace for no reason... so I NEVER paid for a toner cartridge... It has been going strong for 5 years now! Right now, my cost per page is about -.26$ a page.:)
As apposed to my HP... Ink runs about $25-30 a cartridge... My wife wanted to print out picuters... It maybe did 1 cartridge past the initial freebee (1/2 filled) tanks... and then it's done nothing but collect dust! It cost about $120 @ Bestbuy and I was offered (just this spring) to renew my 3 year service contract for a mere $70... yeah... right... don't think so. The sad thing is it works, I just refuse to put more money into ink for it...
No photo's are printed at walmart for pennies when you bulk print them. (trust me, with a new baby of 15 months, we do! 100's at a time!) and for the scrappbooking, we now print witht he Dye-Sub...
Oh, if your still reading this, your' probibly wondering how we can afford the dye-sub cartridges... Well, we lucked out... one of the CC's offered points we never used for anything and then near christmas one year it included an online retailer that would double the $$$ value of those points if we used them online... It took a few orders to work their system to limit you to only so much spent at a time, but eventually we turned all those useless free CC perks into free photo packs for the DyeSub printer!:) My wife is such a bargin hunter, it is still one of her "BEST" deals when you ask...:)
Oh, the really nice thing about it all (if your still reading and care...) is that all the CC Perks were from buisiness trips! So they really were "FREE" in that respect... Finally getting something back from "The Man."
Ok, I'm done now...
Yes... Go away... Go on.. Read another post........ Seriously, scat! git!.....
Ok, now your just freaking me out... Just leave us alone... don't read anymore of this post! I mean it! I just want to end it, and you just sit there like it's your "God-Given" right to keep me typing as much as you can read...
Nooooo Go aWAY!!! Quit reading already!
Thank you!..... NO!!!!!! I mean QUIT... Don't interact with me... Don't give me a "your welcome" smug look from your slack jaw'd facE! Git! go-on now... Read something somewhere else....
Still here! Damn... Ahh... I know... This should keep you busy.. if you must, read this:
This is becoming more commen among jewelers... I've seen a number of folks that use circut boards, etc in their jewelry... (I'm into amature jewelry, and lapidary myself and it is my nontech skill that will keep me fed once all the tech gets EMP'd one day...)
"All of the interviews involved writing code on a whiteboard in various languages. The code was reviewed for syntactical correctness as well as logical."
I hope you got the interviewers to sign NON-DISCOSURE Agreements before answereing their questions...??? Without the NDA's, they could take a snap of your code if it was ok, and even not hire you, but it's now theirs and you'd never know...
Just because it is on a whiteboard doesn't mean it's gone when erased... camera's, digital whiteboards, etc... all could store your "answer" to the sample problem someplace for the real code monkeys to look at style and logic and expand from there...
But I'm extremely paranoid sometimes, so take it for what it's worth...;)
"These were informative and motivational messages sent weekly for 12 weeks,"
I don't get it... This isn't the type of spam I get... the problem is that someone wanted money to justify their existance at doing their job, so they came up with this lame study... got a grant for it, and it was probibly from the government...
1) Go to college for life
2) Think of things to study
3) Fill out Grant applications like mad
4) Profit!
I think there was supposed to be a "?????" for #3, but why question the obvious!
With no plans to sell the shares because of a good outlook of the stock...
1) what stock?
2) they still plan to profit in the end...
3) girl still fired for doing her job with bad safeguards...
You gotta remember, the losses are on PAPER... that means the current stock price, etc...
She bought " $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million " Not bad... only
a 20% loss... Not bad for a first trade... I know some folks that have done worse just because of the Enron stock scandle...
But the secretary will be still fired even if it turns into a 12 million profit in 2/3 days...
just my.02$ worth... (.66666$ in Taiwan dollars according to ratio in article)
Don't know about you, but my TEACHERS cause more problems than students and they pretty much piss on the policies... We point them out to the administrators, etc... AND THEY DO NOTHING!
What, Fire a teacher because they installed some weather program and spyware with it? Nope... Caught surfing during planning? Nope... Personal Emails (potential viri)? Nope... Gambling software? Nope... Unless it's nudity, it's a JOKE!!
Policies are to help adminstrators feel fuzy...
(And to put pressure on people they don't like)
I've gotten better results by NOT Fixing their problems and making them live with the spyware laden machine as it slowly grinds to a hault...
Eventually I'll show up and when they bitch, I say "Hey, it's your computer... Whats with the games?... How did the gambling software get loaded?"
Make them feel their own pain... Thats my motto.
Maybe I'm just burned out...Naw... Just having fun.:)
We used to do this in the old school modem days with 3 way calling... you have no LD... Call a friend who did and wanted brownie points.. 3way modem to the latest hot download BBS... Or maybe it was the call forwarding... Anyways, been done before, its just a new implementation to use it with the Cell phone & then over IP..
I've never used Netbackup, but at work, we have a 2TB Raid 5 HD Array, and thats the first level... Using Comvaults Galaxy package($$$$+), it Backs up to the Magnetic array, and then during lag periods (usually a few minutes later) backs that up to the DLT AutoLoad Tape Drives...
Before, it was Arcserve (it bite$!) and that would take time to merge a tape, find the file, and then tell it to retrieve the file... sometimes as much as 3-4 hours just on the merge tape if it was pruned because it was a week old...)
Now, with the new setup, and Comvault... about 5 minutes assuming the Tape is in the drive... 10 if I have to call over to the offsite and have them load a particular tape/date range...
Offsite? Yes, the Magnetic Drive array is the first line of defense, it is local to our server farm... The Second line of defense is the Autoloading Tape Drive unit, it is off site... Connected over "Dark" (ie, GB) Fiber.. RIGHT to the tape array... It's really bitchen that we don't have to "SHIP" to the offsite, it goes there on it's own!:)
(ie, MC and all those folks that lost data while shipping tapes via UPS... Think about it... )
Before, I used to hate users that called and asked for a week or older file.... Now, I still hate them, but I'm glad to do it because it is just a point & click.... Dump into thier folders during the restore... Done... another happy Luser.. And I can keep on reading my slashdot.:)
Oh... So I guess I should ask... What is NetBackup like?
I don't get it... It's been done and done and done
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over and over... Laptop = updating photoframe... I've got one... for about two years now... sure, he has way more MATT board that I do in mine, but otherwise... ??????
I boot mine, (win95, yeah... it's an OLD LAPTOP! If it ran WINXP, I wouldn't crunch it!) and it use the net command to map drive, and follow the batch file on the server/desktop in the den...
I don't write a page about it... Maybe I should, is this the step 3: before step 4: Profit?
I thought every geek did this years ago...
The nice thing that I used was a little program to hide the cursor... I hate the bloody windows cursor that is there after boot... but the little util int he reg/run hides it after x seconds... so it effectively makes it go by-by... Shareware I think, it wasn't expensive, and yes... It's registered.
I still don't get why this story was posted.. it's not NEW(s)...
First, I understand why this would happen, because of terrorists, etc... I would like to state right now, that I am NOT a Terrorist...
But anyways, I was zooming in on cities and thought it was cool, I could pick out what house I wanted based on how it looked from the sky, etc..
So I thought... Hmmm.. Washington DC would be cool to see... White house in reference to SIZE of other buildings ect... so I punch it up... and when I'm in full zoom, it looks as if the White House and the two buildings on either side have been "Censored"... Look at other building tops, they show peaks, vents, etc... all that building roof stuff... On top of the White House and the two other buildings surrounding it... NOTHING...
Well, not NOTHING, but an obvious photoshop type hack to blank out details... interesting...
Thats all... Just interesting... Once again, you can't believe what you see, and all media has some type of controll... Personally, there are very REAL reasons for this, and I don't have a problem with that particular example, but what about other places... You might not even know that what you see is not what is really there...
Blurs on Lincoln Memorial, and other buildings also... this is now a game to me, find the censored images... new fun at google!:)
I bet it isn't 2:45pm at the Washington Monument either...
Just the type of conspiracy that the folks here on/. seem to like.:)
Now... to Find Area 51... Maybe I should post anonymously... Naw... I'm sure they won't fin$%()*#^#(*%#.... {Carrier lost}
I did.... sure, mostly 4 x 6,but you can get the 8 x 11 version also.... (HI-TI ?). it's been great, I dont rely on Wal-mart anymore... (but they were decent prints...)
Also, I don't like the online folks that say by using their service, they can use the photo's how they wish and without compensation....
And yes, I have scanned old photo's and printed them... At home.
Slashdot is propigating the lies of the left now... Proof? When I opened up the "read more", I got an add before the comments saying that Microsoft Windows had a lower "Total cost to operate" Than Linux...
I'm all for competative advertising, etc, BUT...
Personally, whoever is in the marketing department that selects the ads to run, should be fired.
Actually the Coco DID have pascal... I used to have a copy around here somewhere, but I packed it all up... Basically it ran under the OS-9, and it would compile some type of assembly that you then ran through the OS-9 ASM to assemble the binaries... Very cool back then what you could do with 64K of Ram and 2 floppy drives...
As someone else pointed out, the CoCo IS still being toyed with... I still have all my CoCo stuff packed away in big Plastic Bins that I REFUSE to pitch or Ebay simply because of the fond memories of those younger and more innocent computer days. Untill I got a copy of Strip Poker in Basic... uhhhh.... ok, TMI... 1980 was a good year...
Interesting... I've done the typical old laptop => PhotoFrame hack, but never removed backlight and used in window pane... Got pics? I'm curious how it looks...
I work at a school... I've said it over and over... Untill the teachers can select oss apps that come on the CD in the back of the book for teaching medical transcription/office stuff, then we HAVE to use the Windows based software that is usually on the CD... (therefore, windows)
The majority of the world uses Windows. Sad, but true... Yes, in a company you can convert to OpenOffice, firefox, etc... and have a linux desktop because you can TELL your employees use this or else... But in the REAL world, people get windows with their computer and keep it and never plan to change it, and instead invest more money by purchasing/stealing office, TurboTax, etc...
Untill the Linux Based computers are as commen in the stores at radioshack, sears, gateway, dell kiosks, etc... it will NOT make a headway into the desktop BECAUSE your SMALL BUISNESSES make up the majority of busineses running... and those types of mom/pop businesses keep what they get on their computers when they buy them from the closest box store (bestbuy, circuit city, compUSA, etc..) or on TV with their valuepayments...
So, untill these 2 items are solved: (a) ready availability of various software standard software available in linux flavor and (b) infusion of the market with cheap pc's with linux aimed at citizen x and mom/pop businesses.... WINDOWS WILL RULE.
Personally, I like Linux and Netware... But I still use Windows on my mother's computer....
just my view... take it for what it's worth, not meant to start flame wars.
When I got the invite to join, I looked at the article list, but it looked just like projects I'd seen mentioned on slashdot and the web... so they put it on paper and kill trees now..
I'll pass, I'm so tired of pulp publishing everthing that you can get online with a little looking... Thats why I cancled my WIRED sub... and I HAVENT MISSED IT. Actually, I've taken the money from Wired and dropped it onto Lapidary Journal... At least it gets me outside looking for rocks and things to do with them... good exercise for the unhealthy geek I am.
Better yet, if you look at the panaramic, and in the upper left, you'll see a selection box... Select the Mardi Gras selection for a nice set of red headed tits... Sweet, I love VR tech... I can almost feel them...dkls#$%#$^Ddfh%$#&^gFDGH55$%SDFG
Mozilla is nice, I use it now... (love the tabbed browsing, etc..)
BUT...
I still run into problems with pages that just don't work... So Then I have to go copy/paste URL, Fire up IE, and eventually kill it when I'm done playing...
The INTERNET still needs to realize that IE is NOT the only browser to program for...
I don't get this... I voted in Ohio (Lucas County) and my Diebold machine had a paper trail.
I had to fill in the bubbles on the LONG Paper ballot... It had a # and the top tear off section had a #... This # was recorded when I signed in to vote. After filling in the bubbles, the machine gobbles up the paper and recorded the vote... I'm sure it wasn't shredded, and was probibly sitting in the belly of the Diebold machine to be bundled incase of recount.
Whats strange is that you are NOT anonymous in your vote. The # on the ballot corrisponds to me. I'm sure that if needed I could contest my vote and they could produce the very same ballot that I filled up because of that "link".
On another note, I pointed this out to my wife, and she pointed out that it was the same way with the old fashioned levered balloting booth machines with curtains.... The # was recorded and you voted in your booth. The difference was that you could only run one booth with predetermained slots or #'s that corrisponded to the voter and that booth... With the Diebold machine, there were about 20 people voting at the same time and the it went MUCH Faster than the old curained booths. I actually enjoyed voting in this manner...
Closed source is closed source, thats a whole different issue for the Diebold's, but the overall process was straight forward and quick & easy, and unless you didn't know how to fill in a bubble card, almost dummy proof.
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to sell my spare CPU Cycles? At a $1/Hour, I'll let them have the 8 Hours that I'm at work using my office computer! That will give me some extra munch money... :)
As a PC (x86) user, we always thought people who use Mac's as zeloits, non-geeks, idiot proofed gui, lame....etc..etc...
;p
But, now the idea of putting the mac on x86's seems to bring out some type of OS envey....
People that would never touch a Mac, are sharring PIRATED versions over bittorrent, etc...
Have I been duped? Is the Mac REALLY a usefull OS afterall? Was Steve Jobs right all these years, and Bill Gates distorting MY reality field by the everpresent Windblows computers that could be build for cheap?
I don't know... but one cant help but wonder what took their marketing drones this long to come up with this brilliant way to prove that all the geeks really want to have a bitchen' fast Mac...
I'll stick to my axim for now... gee, if only I could port OS-X to that......
Seriously.... I have 3 printers
:)
:) My wife is such a bargin hunter, it is still one of her "BEST" deals when you ask... :)
..... Seriously, scat! git!.....
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(ok, one is my wife's... She has a Sony DyeSub printer for printing out pics for her scrappbooking --- When she needs a particular size,zoom, etc.. that would take too long to figure out at walmart photodesk...)
The other 2 are an IBM Lexmar Optra R and an OLD (in printer years) HP Photosmart 1115... (before my wife got her Sony...)
The Lexmark Laser is the best! 99.9% of our printing is dull black vs. white laser printing... web Receipts, mapquest directions, recipies from family emails, etc...... This printer was a "recoverd" printer that was due to be pitched by a previous employer because it was "icky."
Seriously, someone had shipped it back to the home office to be upgraded or what ever and left the tonor cartridge in it... Needless to say, it seemed to explode somewhere during shipping... so it was marked for the dumpster... I rescued it at the 12th hour with the overlords approvial... and gave it a good vac & clean at home in the basement... had a few 1/2 used cartridges that secretaries didn't know how to work or would just replace for no reason... so I NEVER paid for a toner cartridge... It has been going strong for 5 years now! Right now, my cost per page is about -.26$ a page.
As apposed to my HP... Ink runs about $25-30 a cartridge... My wife wanted to print out picuters... It maybe did 1 cartridge past the initial freebee (1/2 filled) tanks... and then it's done nothing but collect dust! It cost about $120 @ Bestbuy and I was offered (just this spring) to renew my 3 year service contract for a mere $70... yeah... right... don't think so. The sad thing is it works, I just refuse to put more money into ink for it...
No photo's are printed at walmart for pennies when you bulk print them. (trust me, with a new baby of 15 months, we do! 100's at a time!) and for the scrappbooking, we now print witht he Dye-Sub...
Oh, if your still reading this, your' probibly wondering how we can afford the dye-sub cartridges... Well, we lucked out... one of the CC's offered points we never used for anything and then near christmas one year it included an online retailer that would double the $$$ value of those points if we used them online... It took a few orders to work their system to limit you to only so much spent at a time, but eventually we turned all those useless free CC perks into free photo packs for the DyeSub printer!
Oh, the really nice thing about it all (if your still reading and care...) is that all the CC Perks were from buisiness trips! So they really were "FREE" in that respect... Finally getting something back from "The Man."
Ok, I'm done now...
Yes... Go away... Go on.. Read another post...
Ok, now your just freaking me out... Just leave us alone... don't read anymore of this post! I mean it! I just want to end it, and you just sit there like it's your "God-Given" right to keep me typing as much as you can read...
Nooooo Go aWAY!!! Quit reading already!
Thank you!..... NO!!!!!! I mean QUIT... Don't interact with me... Don't give me a "your welcome" smug look from your slack jaw'd facE! Git! go-on now... Read something somewhere else....
Still here! Damn... Ahh... I know... This should keep you busy.. if you must, read this:
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe
This is becoming more commen among jewelers... I've seen a number of folks that use circut boards, etc in their jewelry... (I'm into amature jewelry, and lapidary myself and it is my nontech skill that will keep me fed once all the tech gets EMP'd one day...)
Here's some cool pics of computer "jewlery":
http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/2roses.htm
I'm sure there are others out there, but I found these recently and really liked them...
There is a general gallery of the ganoksin jewelry folks here: http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/gallery.htm
Lots of pretty stuff to see...
"All of the interviews involved writing code on a whiteboard in various languages. The code was reviewed for syntactical correctness as well as logical."
;)
I hope you got the interviewers to sign NON-DISCOSURE Agreements before answereing their questions...??? Without the NDA's, they could take a snap of your code if it was ok, and even not hire you, but it's now theirs and you'd never know... Just because it is on a whiteboard doesn't mean it's gone when erased... camera's, digital whiteboards, etc... all could store your "answer" to the sample problem someplace for the real code monkeys to look at style and logic and expand from there...
But I'm extremely paranoid sometimes, so take it for what it's worth...
Audio on DVD only? What a novel concept... What do they stick into the other 4GB of space on the DVD after the music runs out?
/. is getting boring...
Ohh... I bet it's used for "better" audio data.. Hmm... ok, I guess I could go for clearer notes of the Flogging Molly... What, not on DVD Audio?
Then why do we even care about this story?
Where the remote...
No, American... I wouldn't have anything to do with Libia.. ;)
"These were informative and motivational messages sent weekly for 12 weeks,"
I don't get it... This isn't the type of spam I get... the problem is that someone wanted money to justify their existance at doing their job, so they came up with this lame study... got a grant for it, and it was probibly from the government...
1) Go to college for life
2) Think of things to study
3) Fill out Grant applications like mad
4) Profit!
I think there was supposed to be a "?????" for #3, but why question the obvious!
If I were John Stossel, this is where I would say "Give me a Break!"
Uhhmmm.. You could try from behind, but I settle for their women... ;)
With no plans to sell the shares because of a good outlook of the stock...
.02$ worth... (.66666$ in Taiwan dollars according to ratio in article)
1) what stock?
2) they still plan to profit in the end...
3) girl still fired for doing her job with bad safeguards...
You gotta remember, the losses are on PAPER... that means the current stock price, etc...
She bought " $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million " Not bad... only a 20% loss... Not bad for a first trade... I know some folks that have done worse just because of the Enron stock scandle...
But the secretary will be still fired even if it turns into a 12 million profit in 2/3 days...
just my
For my $20 Ebay voucher because MS killed my OS/2?
:(
Seriously... I've got at least 3 copies of OS/2 Warp in a box someplace... I want a class action suite now!
My OS/2 is still dead... I feel empty and cold inside. )`: Bill... What are you doing Bill... Will we dream???????
HAHAHAAHAHA... Policies... Right...
:)
Don't know about you, but my TEACHERS cause more problems than students and they pretty much piss on the policies... We point them out to the administrators, etc... AND THEY DO NOTHING!
What, Fire a teacher because they installed some weather program and spyware with it? Nope... Caught surfing during planning? Nope... Personal Emails (potential viri)? Nope... Gambling software? Nope... Unless it's nudity, it's a JOKE!!
Policies are to help adminstrators feel fuzy... (And to put pressure on people they don't like)
I've gotten better results by NOT Fixing their problems and making them live with the spyware laden machine as it slowly grinds to a hault...
Eventually I'll show up and when they bitch, I say "Hey, it's your computer... Whats with the games?... How did the gambling software get loaded?"
Make them feel their own pain... Thats my motto.
Maybe I'm just burned out...Naw... Just having fun.
We used to do this in the old school modem days with 3 way calling... you have no LD... Call a friend who did and wanted brownie points.. 3way modem to the latest hot download BBS... Or maybe it was the call forwarding... Anyways, been done before, its just a new implementation to use it with the Cell phone & then over IP..
I've never used Netbackup, but at work, we have a 2TB Raid 5 HD Array, and thats the first level... Using Comvaults Galaxy package($$$$+), it Backs up to the Magnetic array, and then during lag periods (usually a few minutes later) backs that up to the DLT AutoLoad Tape Drives...
:)
:)
Before, it was Arcserve (it bite$!) and that would take time to merge a tape, find the file, and then tell it to retrieve the file... sometimes as much as 3-4 hours just on the merge tape if it was pruned because it was a week old...)
Now, with the new setup, and Comvault... about 5 minutes assuming the Tape is in the drive... 10 if I have to call over to the offsite and have them load a particular tape/date range...
Offsite? Yes, the Magnetic Drive array is the first line of defense, it is local to our server farm... The Second line of defense is the Autoloading Tape Drive unit, it is off site... Connected over "Dark" (ie, GB) Fiber.. RIGHT to the tape array... It's really bitchen that we don't have to "SHIP" to the offsite, it goes there on it's own!
(ie, MC and all those folks that lost data while shipping tapes via UPS... Think about it... )
Before, I used to hate users that called and asked for a week or older file.... Now, I still hate them, but I'm glad to do it because it is just a point & click.... Dump into thier folders during the restore... Done... another happy Luser.. And I can keep on reading my slashdot.
Oh... So I guess I should ask... What is NetBackup like?
over and over... Laptop = updating photoframe... I've got one... for about two years now... sure, he has way more MATT board that I do in mine, but otherwise... ??????
I boot mine, (win95, yeah... it's an OLD LAPTOP! If it ran WINXP, I wouldn't crunch it!) and it use the net command to map drive, and follow the batch file on the server/desktop in the den...
I don't write a page about it... Maybe I should, is this the step 3: before step 4: Profit?
I thought every geek did this years ago...
The nice thing that I used was a little program to hide the cursor... I hate the bloody windows cursor that is there after boot... but the little util int he reg/run hides it after x seconds... so it effectively makes it go by-by... Shareware I think, it wasn't expensive, and yes... It's registered.
I still don't get why this story was posted.. it's not NEW(s)...
bleh, bad mood day.
Ok, am I the only one that thought to try this?
:)
/. seem to like. :)
First, I understand why this would happen, because of terrorists, etc... I would like to state right now, that I am NOT a Terrorist...
But anyways, I was zooming in on cities and thought it was cool, I could pick out what house I wanted based on how it looked from the sky, etc..
So I thought... Hmmm.. Washington DC would be cool to see... White house in reference to SIZE of other buildings ect... so I punch it up... and when I'm in full zoom, it looks as if the White House and the two buildings on either side have been "Censored"... Look at other building tops, they show peaks, vents, etc... all that building roof stuff... On top of the White House and the two other buildings surrounding it... NOTHING...
Well, not NOTHING, but an obvious photoshop type hack to blank out details... interesting...
Thats all... Just interesting... Once again, you can't believe what you see, and all media has some type of controll... Personally, there are very REAL reasons for this, and I don't have a problem with that particular example, but what about other places... You might not even know that what you see is not what is really there...
Blurs on Lincoln Memorial, and other buildings also... this is now a game to me, find the censored images... new fun at google!
I bet it isn't 2:45pm at the Washington Monument either...
Just the type of conspiracy that the folks here on
Now... to Find Area 51... Maybe I should post anonymously... Naw... I'm sure they won't fin$%()*#^#(*%#.... {Carrier lost}
I did.... sure, mostly 4 x 6,but you can get the 8 x 11 version also.... (HI-TI ?). it's been great, I dont rely on Wal-mart anymore... (but they were decent prints...)
....
.02 worth....
Also, I don't like the online folks that say by using their service, they can use the photo's how they wish and without compensation
And yes, I have scanned old photo's and printed them... At home.
Just my
Slashdot is propigating the lies of the left now... Proof? When I opened up the "read more", I got an add before the comments saying that Microsoft Windows had a lower "Total cost to operate" Than Linux...
I'm all for competative advertising, etc, BUT...
Personally, whoever is in the marketing department that selects the ads to run, should be fired.
Just my $.02 worth...
Actually the Coco DID have pascal... I used to have a copy around here somewhere, but I packed it all up... Basically it ran under the OS-9, and it would compile some type of assembly that you then ran through the OS-9 ASM to assemble the binaries... Very cool back then what you could do with 64K of Ram and 2 floppy drives...
As someone else pointed out, the CoCo IS still being toyed with... I still have all my CoCo stuff packed away in big Plastic Bins that I REFUSE to pitch or Ebay simply because of the fond memories of those younger and more innocent computer days. Untill I got a copy of Strip Poker in Basic... uhhhh.... ok, TMI... 1980 was a good year...
Interesting... I've done the typical old laptop => PhotoFrame hack, but never removed backlight and used in window pane... Got pics? I'm curious how it looks...
I work at a school... I've said it over and over... Untill the teachers can select oss apps that come on the CD in the back of the book for teaching medical transcription/office stuff, then we HAVE to use the Windows based software that is usually on the CD... (therefore, windows)
... WINDOWS WILL RULE.
The majority of the world uses Windows. Sad, but true... Yes, in a company you can convert to OpenOffice, firefox, etc... and have a linux desktop because you can TELL your employees use this or else... But in the REAL world, people get windows with their computer and keep it and never plan to change it, and instead invest more money by purchasing/stealing office, TurboTax, etc...
Untill the Linux Based computers are as commen in the stores at radioshack, sears, gateway, dell kiosks, etc... it will NOT make a headway into the desktop BECAUSE your SMALL BUISNESSES make up the majority of busineses running... and those types of mom/pop businesses keep what they get on their computers when they buy them from the closest box store (bestbuy, circuit city, compUSA, etc..) or on TV with their valuepayments...
So, untill these 2 items are solved: (a) ready availability of various software standard software available in linux flavor and (b) infusion of the market with cheap pc's with linux aimed at citizen x and mom/pop businesses.
Personally, I like Linux and Netware... But I still use Windows on my mother's computer....
just my view... take it for what it's worth, not meant to start flame wars.
When I got the invite to join, I looked at the article list, but it looked just like projects I'd seen mentioned on slashdot and the web... so they put it on paper and kill trees now..
.02 worth...
I'll pass, I'm so tired of pulp publishing everthing that you can get online with a little looking... Thats why I cancled my WIRED sub... and I HAVENT MISSED IT. Actually, I've taken the money from Wired and dropped it onto Lapidary Journal... At least it gets me outside looking for rocks and things to do with them... good exercise for the unhealthy geek I am.
Just my
Better yet, if you look at the panaramic, and in the upper left, you'll see a selection box... Select the Mardi Gras selection for a nice set of red headed tits... Sweet, I love VR tech... I can almost feel them...dkls#$%#$^Ddfh%$#&^gFDGH55$%SDFG
...carrier lost...
Mozilla is nice, I use it now... (love the tabbed browsing, etc..)
BUT...
I still run into problems with pages that just don't work... So Then I have to go copy/paste URL, Fire up IE, and eventually kill it when I'm done playing...
The INTERNET still needs to realize that IE is NOT the only browser to program for...
I don't get this... I voted in Ohio (Lucas County) and my Diebold machine had a paper trail.
.02 worth...
I had to fill in the bubbles on the LONG Paper ballot... It had a # and the top tear off section had a #... This # was recorded when I signed in to vote. After filling in the bubbles, the machine gobbles up the paper and recorded the vote... I'm sure it wasn't shredded, and was probibly sitting in the belly of the Diebold machine to be bundled incase of recount.
Whats strange is that you are NOT anonymous in your vote. The # on the ballot corrisponds to me. I'm sure that if needed I could contest my vote and they could produce the very same ballot that I filled up because of that "link".
On another note, I pointed this out to my wife, and she pointed out that it was the same way with the old fashioned levered balloting booth machines with curtains.... The # was recorded and you voted in your booth. The difference was that you could only run one booth with predetermained slots or #'s that corrisponded to the voter and that booth... With the Diebold machine, there were about 20 people voting at the same time and the it went MUCH Faster than the old curained booths. I actually enjoyed voting in this manner...
Closed source is closed source, thats a whole different issue for the Diebold's, but the overall process was straight forward and quick & easy, and unless you didn't know how to fill in a bubble card, almost dummy proof.
Just my