It won't make any difference to the quality of education in Kansas. They got a useless education before and they are still getting a useless education.
I never get rid of old PCs. When I get a new PC, I just put it next to, or on top of the old one - depends on the ever changing form factors. Everything is networked and headless. I work from a notebook in the living room. In a few years, I can turn the furnace off and just run the airconditioner year round even when it is -40 outside. Visitors locate my house by following the glow of the power wires...
Hmm, as with all Russian military projects, you can safely divide all figures by ten. You will then be no closer to the truth, but it will be less ridiculous...
Simple fix: All American children, male and female, under the age of 21, should wear burkas. That will keep them anonimous and unidentifiable to any and all predators. They should all be called by the same name: Marklar. All Marklar should use the same SIN 42-42-42-42. Finally, since the teachers won't be able to tell them apart, grade scores will always be averaged so that all Marklar will score the same, to avoid all forms of discrimination.
There - a perfect solution to all American problems.
Hmm, lets do some Slashdot Worthy Stats (TM): The number of people hit by lightning in the US is about 80 out of 250 million people (some googling got me that number), so the odds for Joe Golfer is 1 in 3 million.
If it takes 1 year to get another job, after applying at 250 companies and each company receives 50,000 applications (According to two HRs I talked to) per month and they toss the resumes down the stairwell and give the job to the one fluttering at the top, then that totals to about 1 in 150 million for Joe Luser.
Well, that sure makes me feel a whole lot more positive about getting that security guard job now...
I am actually looking for a job - so far I have applied for about 200 positions and 3 companies have bothered to answer and blow be off: General Dynamics, General Electric and Honeywell.
This seems to be 'normal'. Everyone I talk to says it takes more than 250 applications and 6 months to 3 years to find something else to do. The companies I talked to says that they get about 50,000 applications per month.
So, even if one is perfectly qualified for a job, the odds are worse than getting hit by lightning.
So WTF, today I applied at the Army. If they also blow me off, then I think I should look for something really simple - like security guard - where I can just open and close a gate - just one button to press...
Yup, engineers can get a $40,000 signing bonus if they join the Canadian army, but I just can't see myself running up and down hills with a 5 meter mast on my back anymore...
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It won't make any difference to the quality of education in Kansas. They got a useless education before and they are still getting a useless education.
I never get rid of old PCs. When I get a new PC, I just put it next to, or on top of the old one - depends on the ever changing form factors. Everything is networked and headless. I work from a notebook in the living room. In a few years, I can turn the furnace off and just run the airconditioner year round even when it is -40 outside. Visitors locate my house by following the glow of the power wires...
That is easy - just skip the commercials with your MythTV box.
So, that would be almost one Orange Catholic Bible per average human lifetime... (With apologies to the late Douglas Adams.)
Hmm, as with all Russian military projects, you can safely divide all figures by ten. You will then be no closer to the truth, but it will be less ridiculous...
Life is common. It is intelligent life that is special. There really isn't much of that and none on sloshdat...
The CRT TV plants are only to be closed in 2008. Geez, will they be able to sell both CRT TVs they still plan to build then?
...and it looks even worse when FF blocks all the Flash crap...
Well, I don't think having companies that go boom and bust quickly is really such a great idea, especially after having worked for two of those...
Nope, the CODEC is much more work than encryption.
has name laws that only allow names that were already in use before some arbitrary date. No newfangled names allowed...
Talking on a phone is dangerous while driving, so Nokia decided to drop that feature...
Like this (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html) :
www.windows-sc.necsoft.com 102 1267 1310 1310 BSD/OS Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Running MS IIS on BSD - Duh...
Simple fix:
All American children, male and female, under the age of 21, should wear burkas. That will keep them anonimous and unidentifiable to any and all predators. They should all be called by the same name: Marklar. All Marklar should use the same SIN 42-42-42-42. Finally, since the teachers won't be able to tell them apart, grade scores will always be averaged so that all Marklar will score the same, to avoid all forms of discrimination.
There - a perfect solution to all American problems.
Didn't O'l Martha wear one for a while?
A remote control to control breasts? That is called a diamond, but be warned, it seems to wear out over time, it is not forever...
It would normally, but on Slashdot, by definition no-one is normal... ;-)
Who said that was a girl?
but if it is broken, then you absolutely have to fix it. That is your job. No need to ask permission under those circumstances.
Hmm, lets do some Slashdot Worthy Stats (TM):
The number of people hit by lightning in the US is about 80 out of 250 million people (some googling got me that number), so the odds for Joe Golfer is 1 in 3 million.
If it takes 1 year to get another job, after applying at 250 companies and each company receives 50,000 applications (According to two HRs I talked to) per month and they toss the resumes down the stairwell and give the job to the one fluttering at the top, then that totals to about 1 in 150 million for Joe Luser.
Well, that sure makes me feel a whole lot more positive about getting that security guard job now...
I am actually looking for a job - so far I have applied for about 200 positions and 3 companies have bothered to answer and blow be off: General Dynamics, General Electric and Honeywell. This seems to be 'normal'. Everyone I talk to says it takes more than 250 applications and 6 months to 3 years to find something else to do. The companies I talked to says that they get about 50,000 applications per month. So, even if one is perfectly qualified for a job, the odds are worse than getting hit by lightning. So WTF, today I applied at the Army. If they also blow me off, then I think I should look for something really simple - like security guard - where I can just open and close a gate - just one button to press...
Yup, engineers can get a $40,000 signing bonus if they join the Canadian army, but I just can't see myself running up and down hills with a 5 meter mast on my back anymore...
What? Some people have jobs?
All we need is a really deep elevator shaft and a big spring at the bottom - in the cartoons, things always bounce higher...
Actually, it was in orbit too, though it had to hang on...