Moderate drinkers might be healthier then non-drinkers, but their habits aren't. I'm sure that's what drives the cost up. I really doubt the insurance company cares one bit about anything but their bottom line.
$4/gallon gas(and higher prices) are creating demand for electric vehicles. There are already two electric cars available to the general public and by 2010 there will be several more available. When the shift of automobiles goes from petroleum to electrical power, it's going to put an even larger crunch on the power plants that are already struggling to meet the demand.
I can envision a scenario on a hot summer day where people drive home, plug their cars in to recharge for the night, turn their AC on to keep cool from the scorching summer heat, and brown out's could easily occur.
On a side note, I live in Ohio near Myers Motor(the ones who build the NMG electric car)... we're seeing those things all over the place and I hear they are having a hard time keeping up with the demand for them. One of the people I work with lives in Tallmadge and I guess even the mayor there has one and drives all over the place in them. Pretty cool to see that movement starting to happen.
Back in college we learned Assembly on the VAX which was a dream to program Assembly on with it's 16 registers. Then we moved on to a microprocessor class where we had to program the 8086 and to our frustration were limited to it's 4 registers. I think we also came to the conclusion that those chips ran on smoke. Whenever you let the smoke out of them, they stopped working.
I'm a Cox customer and every spring I cancel cable, and every winter I sign back up. I've been doing that for about 6 years now, and every time they can do it all immediately when I call customer service. So at least in my area, connecting and disconnecting the signal is something that can be toggled on/off from the station. I have a box, but also have a few tv's that I just run the analog signal from, so I know it's not being controlled by the box, and the actual line is being turned on and off.
Since the advent of the DVR, the Nielsen ratings are kind of messed up. I thought I read that they will count shows as being watched from a DVR if it's within some reasonable amount of time( I thought it was 48 or 72 hours). I'm not sure how they do that, they would have to be worknig with the DVR manufacturers and services to get that data. I think companies like Tivo are sitting on a gold mine for advertising. It seems like it's in their best interest to not sell Neilsen any information and try to one-up them.
I wonder if it would be possible to do a sort of "nader trader" web site for tv shows with horrible ratings. People with DVR's could agree to swap tv shows with some other tv show that has horrible ratings, and play it back on the DVR at night while they are sleeping and possibly artificially inflate the ratings?
I disagree with thinking that's shady. Where I work, I'm using corporate computers, network, power, and more. They own it all. I just assume everything I send via email, and surf on the web is being monitored. I actually hope it's being monitored. There are trade secrets, insider trading information, and all sorts of other data that needs to be kept internal. I don't think it's a dasterdly act to think that they have people trying to enforce this.
On the other hand, anyone who really wants to could easily circumvent them from prying on what they are sending. Encrypt the data and it's unlikely they'll ever know what you sent. I saw a pretty neat program where you could embed data within an image and send the image someone, so to the casual observer, it looks just like any normal image file...was kind of neat.
Here in the sh1thole they call Cleveland, parking routinely costs $15-$20 a day, I can easily see any big city costing double that. I remember listening to Howard Stern years back and what they paid in parking a month cost more then my mortgage!
With a death certificate and whoever was designated as the executor of the estate, they should be able to contact any of the services(hotmail, gmail, etc), and get the passwords reset. Probably not a typical hotmail request, so it might take a while, but I would imagine this would work. It really will depend on your states laws though.
There is something about the mood of Peter Berg movies that I tend to enjoy. I don't normally go see movies based on actors, directors, producers, but lately I go out of my way to catch his movies. Friday Night lights is definitely #1 on my list of favorite sports movies.
I was going to comment on this thread, but you hit the nail on the head. I work for the "evil" fortune 500 large corporation. Same situation. We get a lot of resumes, a few look like they might be a match technically, and then even fewer have the personality to work in a corporate environment. We almost exclusively do try-to-buy contracts here for that reason, usually 6 mos to a year before someone will get hired on full-time. It's a two way street also, sometimes after 6 mos they want to run screaming from here.
We've gotten to the point where we are usually willing to sacrifice technical expertise for personality. We can overcome just about any technical obstacle, however the rogue @ssh0le programmer that can't and won't work well with others is virus to the organization, especially considering it takes an act of congress to fire anyone anymore.
Part of a civil engineering class back in college we were comparing highway traffic to fluid dynamics. There were quite a few corrolations that could be made although if I recall pretty much every group in the class had a different conclusion on what was the biggest factor in causing traffic jams.
I work for a fortune 500 bank. We have a gaggle of mainframe assembly programmers still. A couple of them are well into their 70's in age and we are having a nightmarish time trying to replace them. These guys were pretty smart though, the software they wrote some 30 years ago, they sold to the bank, and support as contractors. I wouldn't say that assembly programmers are thriving, but I definitely don't think they are dead.
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Moderate drinkers might be healthier then non-drinkers, but their habits aren't. I'm sure that's what drives the cost up. I really doubt the insurance company cares one bit about anything but their bottom line.
My wife loves her Sybian, and prefers it to me sometimes.
$4/gallon gas(and higher prices) are creating demand for electric vehicles. There are already two electric cars available to the general public and by 2010 there will be several more available. When the shift of automobiles goes from petroleum to electrical power, it's going to put an even larger crunch on the power plants that are already struggling to meet the demand. I can envision a scenario on a hot summer day where people drive home, plug their cars in to recharge for the night, turn their AC on to keep cool from the scorching summer heat, and brown out's could easily occur. On a side note, I live in Ohio near Myers Motor(the ones who build the NMG electric car)... we're seeing those things all over the place and I hear they are having a hard time keeping up with the demand for them. One of the people I work with lives in Tallmadge and I guess even the mayor there has one and drives all over the place in them. Pretty cool to see that movement starting to happen.
I think the people who modded this "Interesting" completely missed the Back to the Future reference.
Here in Cleveland they have a new runway project at Hopkins that should be kicking off soon. 6L-24R, 7000 ft long, 150 ft wide. Quite an undertaking!
Thankfully I live in the United States.
Kind of funny how people who can't back up their argument revert to name calling. Seems to be a pretty common tactic.
Back in college we learned Assembly on the VAX which was a dream to program Assembly on with it's 16 registers. Then we moved on to a microprocessor class where we had to program the 8086 and to our frustration were limited to it's 4 registers. I think we also came to the conclusion that those chips ran on smoke. Whenever you let the smoke out of them, they stopped working.
So with Hydrogen being lighter then air, does this mean anti-hydrogen will fall to the ground?
I'm a Cox customer and every spring I cancel cable, and every winter I sign back up. I've been doing that for about 6 years now, and every time they can do it all immediately when I call customer service. So at least in my area, connecting and disconnecting the signal is something that can be toggled on/off from the station. I have a box, but also have a few tv's that I just run the analog signal from, so I know it's not being controlled by the box, and the actual line is being turned on and off. Since the advent of the DVR, the Nielsen ratings are kind of messed up. I thought I read that they will count shows as being watched from a DVR if it's within some reasonable amount of time( I thought it was 48 or 72 hours). I'm not sure how they do that, they would have to be worknig with the DVR manufacturers and services to get that data. I think companies like Tivo are sitting on a gold mine for advertising. It seems like it's in their best interest to not sell Neilsen any information and try to one-up them. I wonder if it would be possible to do a sort of "nader trader" web site for tv shows with horrible ratings. People with DVR's could agree to swap tv shows with some other tv show that has horrible ratings, and play it back on the DVR at night while they are sleeping and possibly artificially inflate the ratings?
I'm sure rockstar held a gun to his head and told him "Either your signature will be on this paper, or your brains."
I disagree with thinking that's shady. Where I work, I'm using corporate computers, network, power, and more. They own it all. I just assume everything I send via email, and surf on the web is being monitored. I actually hope it's being monitored. There are trade secrets, insider trading information, and all sorts of other data that needs to be kept internal. I don't think it's a dasterdly act to think that they have people trying to enforce this. On the other hand, anyone who really wants to could easily circumvent them from prying on what they are sending. Encrypt the data and it's unlikely they'll ever know what you sent. I saw a pretty neat program where you could embed data within an image and send the image someone, so to the casual observer, it looks just like any normal image file...was kind of neat.
Here in the sh1thole they call Cleveland, parking routinely costs $15-$20 a day, I can easily see any big city costing double that. I remember listening to Howard Stern years back and what they paid in parking a month cost more then my mortgage!
You make a great point about being seen while riding. I go out of my way to buy the most obnoxious, bright, annoying colored clothing for cycling.
You really shouldn't ride your bike on the sidewalks anyhow. You're statistically much safer riding with the flow of traffic on the road.
Maybe they use gravity as their form of communication? I thought the verdict was still out if gravity's affects are instantaneous?
The light we're seeing from it is actually much, much, much younger then 28140 yrs old if you take into consideration time dilation.
With a death certificate and whoever was designated as the executor of the estate, they should be able to contact any of the services(hotmail, gmail, etc), and get the passwords reset. Probably not a typical hotmail request, so it might take a while, but I would imagine this would work. It really will depend on your states laws though.
There is something about the mood of Peter Berg movies that I tend to enjoy. I don't normally go see movies based on actors, directors, producers, but lately I go out of my way to catch his movies. Friday Night lights is definitely #1 on my list of favorite sports movies.
Space 1999 is what we would be living it we didn't have NASA and it's bureaucracy.
I was going to comment on this thread, but you hit the nail on the head. I work for the "evil" fortune 500 large corporation. Same situation. We get a lot of resumes, a few look like they might be a match technically, and then even fewer have the personality to work in a corporate environment. We almost exclusively do try-to-buy contracts here for that reason, usually 6 mos to a year before someone will get hired on full-time. It's a two way street also, sometimes after 6 mos they want to run screaming from here. We've gotten to the point where we are usually willing to sacrifice technical expertise for personality. We can overcome just about any technical obstacle, however the rogue @ssh0le programmer that can't and won't work well with others is virus to the organization, especially considering it takes an act of congress to fire anyone anymore.
It might not be a good idea and that's the only lousy reason you give? Have you not seen the Back to the Future movies? Duh!
Part of a civil engineering class back in college we were comparing highway traffic to fluid dynamics. There were quite a few corrolations that could be made although if I recall pretty much every group in the class had a different conclusion on what was the biggest factor in causing traffic jams.
I work for a fortune 500 bank. We have a gaggle of mainframe assembly programmers still. A couple of them are well into their 70's in age and we are having a nightmarish time trying to replace them. These guys were pretty smart though, the software they wrote some 30 years ago, they sold to the bank, and support as contractors. I wouldn't say that assembly programmers are thriving, but I definitely don't think they are dead.
bricking! the game of bricknig we played in h.s. was throwing bricks out the car windows at bums, and if you missed you had to go get the brick.