Sometimes it's not the software's fault. A very good friend of mine is the tech lab instructor and decided to install Win2k Server for his students and lab (it's a prision, so security is a main concern). His server crashed over the break, with just days left until the end of the cycle for his students to get their work done.
After over 22 man hours, 6 machines, 2 hard drives and 5 CD-ROM drives, we pretty much decided it was a bad install CD.
It was simply amazing when he decided to take the CD back down to his lab, install it on one of the new dell workstations his lab had, instead of the "spare" donated computers and it installed the first time, with no glitches.
Lesson learned, Many times the support time of an older PC costs more than a new PC. Probably why they were donated to his school in the first place.
Trick question? This is slashdot, everyone knows the guys here know nothing about how oral sex feels first hand... Since that would involve *first* talking to a girl and having her respond!
OBD-II codes can be pulled from a palm OS device with an adapter that costs around $100 (less if you shop on Ebay). Or, you can go down to your local AutoZone (IIRC, might be another parts shop) and ask them to pull the codes for you. No charge.
Did a bit of research on this when my own check engine light came on. Course, a week later it turned off and things have been running fine since then, so I've not made a priority to have the codes pulled.
I'd say that *SOME* chruches have a lot of money. Having sat on the vestery in a small chruch in a small town, I can honestly say that a lot of chruches save their money for the building, preist's salary, donations to the community, etc. Churches like this are usually debt free, and can be noted by having RED doors in front.
Machines that would allow time travel could only allow travel by beings/objects in the future to the time the machine is invented/turned on. If we solve time travel, we enter a new period of civilization, wherin time travel has been possible from that time forward. For those who need it spelled out, we'll know we did it if someone from the future steps out of it as soon as it's turned on.
I did need it spelled out until I RTFA. I see where he's going with the idea that you can't travel past the creation of the machine that enables you to travel through time. However, that pretains to his theories and his machine. There is nothing that he is working on that would preclude another machine, using a different set of theories to produce a machine that would enable some object or person to be sent earlier than the begining of it's creation timeline.
Interesting that this morning I just finished a bit of Heinlein called 'Anywhen' where the idea is that time has 2 dimensions and only our inability to perceive this prevents us from traveling around to different timelines. Good stuff.
Interesting page, thanks for the link. However... there is a mistake on the page. Duct/duck tape is NOT the same as 100 mile an hour tape. There is a lot more that is different than just the color. Oh well, can't win 'em all.
Personally, that was one of my favorite parts of the book and I'm sad that it wasn't put it.
However, being a huge Tolkien fan and a huge Clancy fan, I can honestly say that they have done a much better adaptation with LOTR than any of the Clancy movies they decided to make into movies (SOAF was the worst).
I'm glad that Jackson has done such a good job with the movies. It's turned into a tradition to take the kids to see the movies when I see them for Christmas and this year will be no exception.
Gattaca used a LOT more biometrics, but remember in Minority report, he did have his eyes replaced to be someone else because of all the retna scanners.
I forgot the 500-word vocabulary I had, except for like 5 words... oh well
The most wonderful thing about having taken latin is that almost no one speaks it, so you can just make it up as you go, and it still sounds way cool. Add in some hand gestures, and it looks like your summoning beasts the the lower planes of hell. Great trick at parties... until you actually do summon one...
With no long distance calls whatsoever, the "fees" bring the *actual* bill close to $70/mo
This is exactly why I switched to Vonage for my land line. Of course, this removes DSL from my list of options, since I don't have a phone service to the house. I have the $24.99 plan, and I pay exactly $1.50 a month in fees (and knew this before I singed up).
Dropping Cable TV (DirectTV) saves me over $200 a year. Next to go is the cable modem, as a one of the wireless folks have expanded their service to my area. Same price, about the same bandwidth, but if I can vote against the policies of Comcast with my $$, then I will.
Excellent book! Remeber though that it was Ryan's wife that sparked the "If it's not written down, it didn't happen" that allowed them to go back before the "Egg" exploded.
IIRC, Mr. Clancy was once asked if his books were turning into a play book for terrorist. His claim was that as everything he bases his books on is from common, open sources of information the terrorists don't need his book.
Might have to put that one on the re-read again list once I'm done with the 5 or 6 new books I got this week.
It really isn't all that unusual for companies to give discounts if you purchase multiple products/services from them.
A discount implies a savings. My rates with them have never gone down a dime, in fact they have gone up. The $10 "savings" was rolled into the package plan when they switched from AT&T to Comcast.
It would be like the insurance company raising your rate on one car by $100.00 a month and not telling you about it because you had a $100.00 discount with a multi car package. Imagine your dismay when you went to sell your second car.
Forgive me for saying this, but why did you get a TiVo then?
I like skipping the commercials, don't get me wrong. I just don't care enough about the commercials enough to find a way to work around them if it's not already recorded or I have a reason to pause tv.
The main reason I went with TiVo was to record the shows I like - since I work nights I miss most of the shows I enjoy and the PVR solution I had setup on the computer just didn't cut it.
Have you noticed that you pay closer attention to the commercials while skipping them than you do when they are just playing? I find that I can tune them out while they are just playing, I'm rivited to the TV when I'm zipping through them looking for the program to start up again.
I love my TiVo, I'm never going back to regular TV and I'm never going back to cable. Call the conversion complete!
Simple - just start watching your favorite 1-hour TV show 20 minutes after it starts.
If that works for you, wonderful. Personally, I'm new enough to the TiVo world and don't care enough about the comercials to adjust my watching habits so I don't have to watch them.
The only commercials worth watching are Budweiser commercials.
Let's not forget the Victoria's Secret and Haynes My Way(?) commercials. I use the instant replay feature on them. Oh... that peach tree comercial with the chick that has the hot sounding voice.
Is it sad that the g/f spends more time rewinding these than I do?
I have a DirecTivo and am part of the 'bad people' who will help destroy annoying commercials.
I just got my DirecTivo a few weeks ago. Can't see how I stood to watch TV with out it.
This "one-size-fits-all" method of lots of channels for a large amount of money per month is failing, not just commercials.
This was the biggest reason why I dropped cable. To get the channels I liked (tech-tv, Science, etc) I had to purchase HBO, Stars and Encore. My cable bill was $73 a month and I watched less than 10 hours of TV a month.
Got the good news when I took my cable boxes back to the main office. All this time, I was saving $10 a month on my cable modem! I didn't take the time to explain to the young lady behind the desk that no, I am in fact not "saving" $10 a month by having cable, I'm being charged an extra $10 for switching services.
Even with the $10 penality, I'm saving over $200 a year with DirectTv.
Exactly! I own a TiVo with my dish (week 2 - still the newest toy in the house).
Skipping over the commercials works great for stuff that's been recorded, but isn't very effective on live tv (you *could* pause it for 2 mintues then skip over them). About the only time I'll do any skipping on "live tv" is to play catch up if I needed to pause the program for some reason or another (potty break, g/f talking about something, feeding the little one, etc).
Few nice features are the pause and slow motion buttons. They get as much use duing the victoria's secret commercials as the ff button gets during the rest of them;-)
Which brings us back to the idiotic LA story about master/slave IDE drive designations being objectionable and now illegal in LA county.
Oh yeah, that's what this story was about - that was one of the longest tangent threads I've seen here in a while.
Personally, I've always been offended by the "Motherboard/Daughterboard" terms, as the daughterboard is either inserted into the motherboard or is mounted upon it in some way or another.
(ok, actually, I only claim that it offends me to hide that it secretly turns me on).
and the only intelligent argument that I could find against circumcision is the possibility of complications.
Ok, so not that it's any of my business, but what arguments did you have FOR it? Having been altered in this fassion since birth, I've always wondered what the plusses are (if any). My reason for asking? Was a topic of debate this last summer when a friend of mine decided not to have her baby boy circumcised.
(ps - last time I checked, Canadians were American, as well as Mexicans and those who live in the USA.)
One of the things that really got me excited about having a TiVo (direct tv tivo) was when I was reading the manual (3 days before the installer was due, of course) and ran across the GPL in the back of the book. Oddly enough, that was just about the only thing I found of substance in the manual.
Nice to see that some companies are able to adhead to the rules AND make some money at the same time.
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Sometimes it's not the software's fault. A very good friend of mine is the tech lab instructor and decided to install Win2k Server for his students and lab (it's a prision, so security is a main concern). His server crashed over the break, with just days left until the end of the cycle for his students to get their work done.
After over 22 man hours, 6 machines, 2 hard drives and 5 CD-ROM drives, we pretty much decided it was a bad install CD.
It was simply amazing when he decided to take the CD back down to his lab, install it on one of the new dell workstations his lab had, instead of the "spare" donated computers and it installed the first time, with no glitches.
Lesson learned, Many times the support time of an older PC costs more than a new PC. Probably why they were donated to his school in the first place.
Trick question? This is slashdot, everyone knows the guys here know nothing about how oral sex feels first hand... Since that would involve *first* talking to a girl and having her respond!
OBD-II codes can be pulled from a palm OS device with an adapter that costs around $100 (less if you shop on Ebay). Or, you can go down to your local AutoZone (IIRC, might be another parts shop) and ask them to pull the codes for you. No charge.
Did a bit of research on this when my own check engine light came on. Course, a week later it turned off and things have been running fine since then, so I've not made a priority to have the codes pulled.
Churches have a lot of money.
I'd say that *SOME* chruches have a lot of money. Having sat on the vestery in a small chruch in a small town, I can honestly say that a lot of chruches save their money for the building, preist's salary, donations to the community, etc. Churches like this are usually debt free, and can be noted by having RED doors in front.
Which location would you use as a frame of reference to measure its travel through the cosmos?
Personally, I'd use the location where my house is right..... *NOW*.
Machines that would allow time travel could only allow travel by beings/objects in the future to the time the machine is invented/turned on. If we solve time travel, we enter a new period of civilization, wherin time travel has been possible from that time forward. For those who need it spelled out, we'll know we did it if someone from the future steps out of it as soon as it's turned on.
I did need it spelled out until I RTFA. I see where he's going with the idea that you can't travel past the creation of the machine that enables you to travel through time. However, that pretains to his theories and his machine. There is nothing that he is working on that would preclude another machine, using a different set of theories to produce a machine that would enable some object or person to be sent earlier than the begining of it's creation timeline.
Interesting that this morning I just finished a bit of Heinlein called 'Anywhen' where the idea is that time has 2 dimensions and only our inability to perceive this prevents us from traveling around to different timelines. Good stuff.
Interesting page, thanks for the link. However... there is a mistake on the page. Duct/duck tape is NOT the same as 100 mile an hour tape. There is a lot more that is different than just the color. Oh well, can't win 'em all.
Personally, that was one of my favorite parts of the book and I'm sad that it wasn't put it.
However, being a huge Tolkien fan and a huge Clancy fan, I can honestly say that they have done a much better adaptation with LOTR than any of the Clancy movies they decided to make into movies (SOAF was the worst).
I'm glad that Jackson has done such a good job with the movies. It's turned into a tradition to take the kids to see the movies when I see them for Christmas and this year will be no exception.
minority report was about psychics
Gattaca used a LOT more biometrics, but remember in Minority report, he did have his eyes replaced to be someone else because of all the retna scanners.
I forgot the 500-word vocabulary I had, except for like 5 words... oh well
The most wonderful thing about having taken latin is that almost no one speaks it, so you can just make it up as you go, and it still sounds way cool. Add in some hand gestures, and it looks like your summoning beasts the the lower planes of hell. Great trick at parties... until you actually do summon one...
With no long distance calls whatsoever, the "fees" bring the *actual* bill close to $70/mo
This is exactly why I switched to Vonage for my land line. Of course, this removes DSL from my list of options, since I don't have a phone service to the house. I have the $24.99 plan, and I pay exactly $1.50 a month in fees (and knew this before I singed up).
Dropping Cable TV (DirectTV) saves me over $200 a year. Next to go is the cable modem, as a one of the wireless folks have expanded their service to my area. Same price, about the same bandwidth, but if I can vote against the policies of Comcast with my $$, then I will.
See "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy
Excellent book! Remeber though that it was Ryan's wife that sparked the "If it's not written down, it didn't happen" that allowed them to go back before the "Egg" exploded.
IIRC, Mr. Clancy was once asked if his books were turning into a play book for terrorist. His claim was that as everything he bases his books on is from common, open sources of information the terrorists don't need his book.
Might have to put that one on the re-read again list once I'm done with the 5 or 6 new books I got this week.
I've always been disturbed by the fact that, with the new feature of most ATM cards which allows them to be used at any credit card terminal,
Every time I've used my ATM card at a check out, I've had to put in my PIN. YMMV.
heard this one in college...
Q: What's green and has red wheels?
A: Grass, I lied about the wheels.
That was part of one of our finals, where the final was being able to tell at least one joke, no matter how bad.
Ok slightly [OT] but here is one of my very few orignal jokes....
What's the difference between my (now ex) girlfriend and my car?
I know no one is in my car when I'm at work.
or
You can only fit 5 guys in my car at once.
or
I know how many people have been in my car since I got it.
damn lying worthless slut. No, I'm not bitter, not at all.
Is that where the cat got bored and left to get a sandwich?
It really isn't all that unusual for companies to give discounts if you purchase multiple products/services from them.
A discount implies a savings. My rates with them have never gone down a dime, in fact they have gone up. The $10 "savings" was rolled into the package plan when they switched from AT&T to Comcast.
It would be like the insurance company raising your rate on one car by $100.00 a month and not telling you about it because you had a $100.00 discount with a multi car package. Imagine your dismay when you went to sell your second car.
Forgive me for saying this, but why did you get a TiVo then?
I like skipping the commercials, don't get me wrong. I just don't care enough about the commercials enough to find a way to work around them if it's not already recorded or I have a reason to pause tv.
The main reason I went with TiVo was to record the shows I like - since I work nights I miss most of the shows I enjoy and the PVR solution I had setup on the computer just didn't cut it.
Have you noticed that you pay closer attention to the commercials while skipping them than you do when they are just playing? I find that I can tune them out while they are just playing, I'm rivited to the TV when I'm zipping through them looking for the program to start up again.
I love my TiVo, I'm never going back to regular TV and I'm never going back to cable. Call the conversion complete!
Simple - just start watching your favorite 1-hour TV show 20 minutes after it starts.
If that works for you, wonderful. Personally, I'm new enough to the TiVo world and don't care enough about the comercials to adjust my watching habits so I don't have to watch them.
The only commercials worth watching are Budweiser commercials.
Let's not forget the Victoria's Secret and Haynes My Way(?) commercials. I use the instant replay feature on them. Oh... that peach tree comercial with the chick that has the hot sounding voice.
Is it sad that the g/f spends more time rewinding these than I do?
I have a DirecTivo and am part of the 'bad people' who will help destroy annoying commercials.
I just got my DirecTivo a few weeks ago. Can't see how I stood to watch TV with out it.
This "one-size-fits-all" method of lots of channels for a large amount of money per month is failing, not just commercials.
This was the biggest reason why I dropped cable. To get the channels I liked (tech-tv, Science, etc) I had to purchase HBO, Stars and Encore. My cable bill was $73 a month and I watched less than 10 hours of TV a month.
Got the good news when I took my cable boxes back to the main office. All this time, I was saving $10 a month on my cable modem! I didn't take the time to explain to the young lady behind the desk that no, I am in fact not "saving" $10 a month by having cable, I'm being charged an extra $10 for switching services.
Even with the $10 penality, I'm saving over $200 a year with DirectTv.
Exactly! I own a TiVo with my dish (week 2 - still the newest toy in the house).
;-)
Skipping over the commercials works great for stuff that's been recorded, but isn't very effective on live tv (you *could* pause it for 2 mintues then skip over them). About the only time I'll do any skipping on "live tv" is to play catch up if I needed to pause the program for some reason or another (potty break, g/f talking about something, feeding the little one, etc).
Few nice features are the pause and slow motion buttons. They get as much use duing the victoria's secret commercials as the ff button gets during the rest of them
Which brings us back to the idiotic LA story about master/slave IDE drive designations being objectionable and now illegal in LA county.
Oh yeah, that's what this story was about - that was one of the longest tangent threads I've seen here in a while.
Personally, I've always been offended by the "Motherboard/Daughterboard" terms, as the daughterboard is either inserted into the motherboard or is mounted upon it in some way or another.
(ok, actually, I only claim that it offends me to hide that it secretly turns me on).
and the only intelligent argument that I could find against circumcision is the possibility of complications.
Ok, so not that it's any of my business, but what arguments did you have FOR it? Having been altered in this fassion since birth, I've always wondered what the plusses are (if any). My reason for asking? Was a topic of debate this last summer when a friend of mine decided not to have her baby boy circumcised.
(ps - last time I checked, Canadians were American, as well as Mexicans and those who live in the USA.)
One of the things that really got me excited about having a TiVo (direct tv tivo) was when I was reading the manual (3 days before the installer was due, of course) and ran across the GPL in the back of the book. Oddly enough, that was just about the only thing I found of substance in the manual.
Nice to see that some companies are able to adhead to the rules AND make some money at the same time.