Seriously, there are women out there that hate diamonds (yes, I know some)
Man, *that's* what I should have put on my match.com ad:
Dude seeks chick for perm relationship; must be a techie, at least have some opinion about one of the 'Treks'. If it leads to something serious, prefer woman who believes a memory (i.e. a month in Nepal) is forever, and a diamond is just a rock.
Ah, 'cause the Illuminatus (-ii? -ers?) who control the manufacture of holidays (see: Mom's Day, Sweetest Day, Secretary's day...) have convinced a significant part of the population that purchasing color-printed cardboard with public domain poems for $8.95 is not an astronomical waste of money.
Or, maybe it was the 'Special Moments' figurines that are the entry chute on the slippery-slope toward the fall of western civilization...
Will those jets be able to sustain those speeds across an Atlantic trip before running out of fuel?
I thought this was cheap-space access. If so, then it's not a scramjet-only boost system but a combo thingy. Think 747 bolted on a shuttle liquid-fueled engine (the smaller ones, not the big-3) bolted on to a scramjet bolted on to (???, the last stage to orbit). The first two are fully tested, the third one was tested yesterday and shows you can get about +1Mach every 5 seconds (3500 to 5K in 10 secs is mach 5 to 7, right?) so if you run the scramjet for about 100 seconds you should get above mach 27; pretty close to the mach 36 you need for orbit. Someone said 2lbs fuel for 10 sec; that's 50lbs then for the 100 secs. Seems like somethin for nuthin.
but from what I understand, unless your creation is very closely aligned with your workplace functions, what you do on your own time with your own resources would be very difficult for the company to claim if you wanted to challenge it.
IANAL, but from my understanding (probably from somewhere on groklaw) most courts side with the author unless the company has specified how much of the employee's compensation has been given to him for this agreement. Like those non-compete clauses, you can't just tell an employee they can't go work for the competition for two years, you have to spell out on the contract that there is a 20% premium on your pay that is specifically given to you as compensation for agreeing to the noncompete.
Ye gods, people! These folk spend x-number of years in basic training at the Academy; it's obvious that during all the survival and academic training they also learn how to hit their com badges on the first micro-second before the 4000V "Do I have your attention NOW!?!?" microburst comes thru.
But most couples have some downtime when they're not around each other. Husbands and wives typically work at different companies. Forget about whether work sucks; it's time away from your beloved which can sometimes provide a much-needed break. Break?!?! Hell, with today's work schedule (leave home @ 7a, get home @ 7p), school days (school+beforecare+aftercare) and busy-assed weekends doing chores and shopping you didn't have time for during the week, your co-workers are people you spend SUBSTANTIALLY more time with than your own family.
Man, what a great society we've built for ourselves.
It seems like the only thing stopping you from running your own webserver is the ISP, since the hardware could run from a rack in your basement.
What I'm wondering is, is there another option? How much does Comcast charge, or any other DSL provider charge, for a 'business' connection that allows for running a webserver, not just surfing the web?
Speakeasy has $80/mo service that not only allows email, web and other servers, but you can put a wireless AP on your roof and resell your bandwidth to your neighbors with their blessing.
> I now make my living buying houses and fixing them up.
Really? I've been thinking about it myself; the lustre is getting a bit dim in IT for me these days. How did you start? Are you certified or did you just 'pick it up'?
the government would absolutely like to know if a worker carries top secret documents home with them.
You mean, using RFID on documents to detect that the hander, wearing a fiber-optically-lensed digital camera run through his glasses is storing hirez images on the memorystick in his shoes?
This is due largely to the many thousands of trojan-compromised systems, belonging to your fellow cable broadband users who (apparently) can't be bothered to learn even the most basic of computing security measures.
I know part of./'s raison d'etre is to bash the poor luser, but I gotta disagree with you there. It's the dumb-ass system that should be locked down, not the other way around. I just spent a hour yesterday helping 'Clueless Joe' figure out why his hotmail account suddenly stopped working. He had to bring his XP-loaded in, we hooked it to the dialup, and he was about to click past a message that complained about their only supporting IE 5+. I then remembered he was having popup problems a few months ago and I helped him install and use Netscape.
It makes me feel really dumb having to tell people that the machine they JUST bought (wasn't XP, like, published AFTER people heard of the internet?) requires that they go out and buy another program since their machine doesn't come with a program that STARTS OUT blocking popups (or at least detects the first and ASKS! you if it should kill the popups).
It's like cars coming with brakes, lights, the horn and locks all in separate boxes, leaving the user to follow the 'simple instructions' to 'enhance' the vehicles default safety features.
There is one story of a man who setup video cameras all over the house and then sold it.
That's dumb. Was this guy a real estate agent? How'd he know some young, nubile (i.e. watchable) couple would move in?
Grandson: "Okay, grandma, grandpa. Here are the keys to your retirement village".
Gramps:Okay, son. See ya. Hey honey, wanna try out the four-poster upstairs? Lemme unpack the Ben-gay and I'll see you in the bedroom in an hour!"
two days later...
Guy: Okay, just pop in the video, hit play and... AAAHH! MY EYES!! THE HORROR!!! IEIEYEEEYIII!!!
much writhing, followed by cardiac arrest.
If he wants to learn how to create games, he needs to see how they're assembled. Hand-writing a console-mode checkers or tic-tac-toe in assembly isn't going to show him squat about how modern games are put together.
Give him this link, download the cheap (or free) version and have at it. Also download this and this so he can do things like create sprites and graphical models (free tutorials abound, use google).
Once he can get through a few 3dRad tutorials likethis one, he will be ready to tackle this book on game programming in C++.
Maybe a lot, but it's winter; what else is he gonna do besides stay inside watching tv?
Is that an option for UPN? Except for wrestling, nobody watches the network. Aren't they on life-support now since the got purchased (viacom?). If Enterprise goes, I think so does UPN. Maybe this is the first casualty from the network-birthing craze started by Fox; just because you have a network doesn't mean people will watch it.
If Enterprise goes, so does UPN; are they willing to do that right now?
There is little we Europeans can do directly to change NASA's decision which, apparently, is final.
Screw NASA; what about an online fundraiser (paypal, anyone?) to raise money for a Hubble servicing contract with China?
Or, maybe, NASA could raise some cash just selling Hubble outright on EBay? China or India buys it, services it, and does a lease-back with the UN who rents it out to international astronomers?
See, that's the kind of planetary cooperation the extraterrestrials are looking for to invite us into the galactic federation....:-)
> apparently you've never heard of cable television.
Or been to a Google-plex movie theatre recently, or purchased a Disney DVD with ff-disabled ads eating up, oh, the first 1/2 hour of the damned things (which is 1/2 the reason that, if i do buy a Disney movie, it's on cassette).
Recently I was at the end of a AAA call when I locked my keys in the car and after she told me my service code the operator recited a commercial! I was standing in freezing cold weather trying to make out all of her words in the howling winds and I wasn't sure if she was finished, and after she repeated it I was floored that she was doing some advertising at the end of my cellphone call!
What next? As you come to, the paramedic leans in close to you and says, "This defibrullation has been brought to you by...."
Feh. If Terra was 100% Plutonium, it could neither make Sol fart in your general direction nor empty either of her nostrils at your hind quarters like a 12th century Frenchman.
> expensive to hoist
Ah! Uh, railguns perhaps? Oh, or what about that laser rocket? Seems to me that sending the payload up and leaving the propulsion on the ground may be a better solution; I mean, we already know how to build sweet-assed nuclear plants. Why take the uranium with you?
Okay, I'm ususally better about reading all associated articles before posting, but...
I'm glad about the 'back to basics' plan, but I hope that doesn't preclude perhaps expansion kits that allow you to build extra stuff. It'd be worth it to be able to purchase 'Space Expansion' that included the specialized parts like nose cones, space buggy tires, antennae, etc. As long as the interfaces are standard, you could them make stuff with your 1000 brick megabucket.
Specialty kits compete with the kid's imagination. Expansion packs allow them to move to the limits of their creativity with the base kit before going out and finding new tool sets.
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Seriously, there are women out there that hate diamonds (yes, I know some)
Man, *that's* what I should have put on my match.com ad:
Dude seeks chick for perm relationship; must be a techie, at least have some opinion about one of the 'Treks'. If it leads to something serious, prefer woman who believes a memory (i.e. a month in Nepal) is forever, and a diamond is just a rock.
> why? why, I say!
Ah, 'cause the Illuminatus (-ii? -ers?) who control the manufacture of holidays (see: Mom's Day, Sweetest Day, Secretary's day...) have convinced a significant part of the population that purchasing color-printed cardboard with public domain poems for $8.95 is not an astronomical waste of money.
Or, maybe it was the 'Special Moments' figurines that are the entry chute on the slippery-slope toward the fall of western civilization...
cannot affod 4hrs downtime
Don't you sleep? If so, why not run the update just before you go to bed?
Will those jets be able to sustain those speeds across an Atlantic trip before running out of fuel?
I thought this was cheap-space access. If so, then it's not a scramjet-only boost system but a combo thingy. Think 747 bolted on a shuttle liquid-fueled engine (the smaller ones, not the big-3) bolted on to a scramjet bolted on to (???, the last stage to orbit). The first two are fully tested, the third one was tested yesterday and shows you can get about +1Mach every 5 seconds (3500 to 5K in 10 secs is mach 5 to 7, right?) so if you run the scramjet for about 100 seconds you should get above mach 27; pretty close to the mach 36 you need for orbit. Someone said 2lbs fuel for 10 sec; that's 50lbs then for the 100 secs. Seems like somethin for nuthin.
IANAL, but from my understanding (probably from somewhere on groklaw) most courts side with the author unless the company has specified how much of the employee's compensation has been given to him for this agreement. Like those non-compete clauses, you can't just tell an employee they can't go work for the competition for two years, you have to spell out on the contract that there is a 20% premium on your pay that is specifically given to you as compensation for agreeing to the noncompete.
Ye gods, people! These folk spend x-number of years in basic training at the Academy; it's obvious that during all the survival and academic training they also learn how to hit their com badges on the first micro-second before the 4000V "Do I have your attention NOW!?!?" microburst comes thru.
Damn Pavlovian of them, but effective I'd say.
But most couples have some downtime when they're not around each other. Husbands and wives typically work at different companies. Forget about whether work sucks; it's time away from your beloved which can sometimes provide a much-needed break.
Break?!?! Hell, with today's work schedule (leave home @ 7a, get home @ 7p), school days (school+beforecare+aftercare) and busy-assed weekends doing chores and shopping you didn't have time for during the week, your co-workers are people you spend SUBSTANTIALLY more time with than your own family.
Man, what a great society we've built for ourselves.
It seems like the only thing stopping you from running your own webserver is the ISP, since the hardware could run from a rack in your basement. What I'm wondering is, is there another option? How much does Comcast charge, or any other DSL provider charge, for a 'business' connection that allows for running a webserver, not just surfing the web?
Speakeasy has $80/mo service that not only allows email, web and other servers, but you can put a wireless AP on your roof and resell your bandwidth to your neighbors with their blessing.
I *know* that no good use comes from ask ./, but can't we make an exception for these highschoolers?
I found this for a mini-donut cart from a vendor @ a flea market. The low-end unit may be around your price range. Great thing is you can pull it out of the garage/basement every summer and just set it up. Should give a decent entrepreneurial exposure; better than a grill-droid @ McBeefSlab. Indoor flea markets or local (art/craft/music) fairs could be good locations; check local requirements (license?) and rents. How about in front of a strip-mall?
I plan to purchase one of these and do a lease-back with my kids when they become teens; definitely cheaper than an MBA.
> I now make my living buying houses and fixing them up.
Really? I've been thinking about it myself; the lustre is getting a bit dim in IT for me these days. How did you start? Are you certified or did you just 'pick it up'?
"- Don't have kids until you can afford them"
Afford them? AFFORD THEM?!?!?
Dude, you are so deluded. You can never afford them, ever. You just have them and then you spend and spend and spend and spend....
the government would absolutely like to know if a worker carries top secret documents home with them.
You mean, using RFID on documents to detect that the hander, wearing a fiber-optically-lensed digital camera run through his glasses is storing hirez images on the memorystick in his shoes?
Ah, brilliant! No, wait...
This is due largely to the many thousands of trojan-compromised systems, belonging to your fellow cable broadband users who (apparently) can't be bothered to learn even the most basic of computing security measures.
./'s raison d'etre is to bash the poor luser, but I gotta disagree with you there. It's the dumb-ass system that should be locked down, not the other way around. I just spent a hour yesterday helping 'Clueless Joe' figure out why his hotmail account suddenly stopped working. He had to bring his XP-loaded in, we hooked it to the dialup, and he was about to click past a message that complained about their only supporting IE 5+. I then remembered he was having popup problems a few months ago and I helped him install and use Netscape.
I know part of
It makes me feel really dumb having to tell people that the machine they JUST bought (wasn't XP, like, published AFTER people heard of the internet?) requires that they go out and buy another program since their machine doesn't come with a program that STARTS OUT blocking popups (or at least detects the first and ASKS! you if it should kill the popups).
It's like cars coming with brakes, lights, the horn and locks all in separate boxes, leaving the user to follow the 'simple instructions' to 'enhance' the vehicles default safety features.
Just dumb, man.
How do foghorns work then?
Low frequencies dig thick mediums.
Elephant sound
There is one story of a man who setup video cameras all over the house and then sold it.
... AAAHH! MY EYES!! THE HORROR!!! IEIEYEEEYIII!!!
That's dumb. Was this guy a real estate agent? How'd he know some young, nubile (i.e. watchable) couple would move in?
Grandson: "Okay, grandma, grandpa. Here are the keys to your retirement village".
Gramps:Okay, son. See ya. Hey honey, wanna try out the four-poster upstairs? Lemme unpack the Ben-gay and I'll see you in the bedroom in an hour!"
two days later... Guy: Okay, just pop in the video, hit play and
much writhing, followed by cardiac arrest.
Emperor Dubya, Grand Moff Cheney and Darth Rumsfeld
Bwahahahaha!!!
Man, anybody here draw? That I gotta see as a cartoon!
Hmm, lemme fire-up the gimp and hit images.google.com for some pics.....
>Man, that was fun. I've got to get back into teaching.
Really? Little kids or (vocational) high school? Are you anywhere near Detroit, MI? Availabilty by Fall 2004?
God! You people! C!?! Assembly?!? WTF?!?
If he wants to learn how to create games, he needs to see how they're assembled. Hand-writing a console-mode checkers or tic-tac-toe in assembly isn't going to show him squat about how modern games are put together.
Give him this link, download the cheap (or free) version and have at it. Also download this and this so he can do things like create sprites and graphical models (free tutorials abound, use google).
Once he can get through a few 3dRad tutorials likethis one, he will be ready to tackle this book on game programming in C++.
Maybe a lot, but it's winter; what else is he gonna do besides stay inside watching tv?
> 3. Kill the franchise.
Is that an option for UPN? Except for wrestling, nobody watches the network. Aren't they on life-support now since the got purchased (viacom?). If Enterprise goes, I think so does UPN. Maybe this is the first casualty from the network-birthing craze started by Fox; just because you have a network doesn't mean people will watch it.
If Enterprise goes, so does UPN; are they willing to do that right now?
There is little we Europeans can do directly to change NASA's decision which, apparently, is final.
Screw NASA; what about an online fundraiser (paypal, anyone?) to raise money for a Hubble servicing contract with China?
Or, maybe, NASA could raise some cash just selling Hubble outright on EBay? China or India buys it, services it, and does a lease-back with the UN who rents it out to international astronomers?
See, that's the kind of planetary cooperation the extraterrestrials are looking for to invite us into the galactic federation....:-)
> apparently you've never heard of cable television. Or been to a Google-plex movie theatre recently, or purchased a Disney DVD with ff-disabled ads eating up, oh, the first 1/2 hour of the damned things (which is 1/2 the reason that, if i do buy a Disney movie, it's on cassette). Recently I was at the end of a AAA call when I locked my keys in the car and after she told me my service code the operator recited a commercial! I was standing in freezing cold weather trying to make out all of her words in the howling winds and I wasn't sure if she was finished, and after she repeated it I was floored that she was doing some advertising at the end of my cellphone call! What next? As you come to, the paramedic leans in close to you and says, "This defibrullation has been brought to you by...."
People generally have to make a conscious effort to share their credit card number
Unless you eat at restaurants, then it take you no conscious effort at all.
nuclear bomb is the most powerful weapon devised by mankind so far
Actually, you meant to say religion is the most powerful weapon devised by man....
> fscking up the sun...
Feh. If Terra was 100% Plutonium, it could neither make Sol fart in your general direction nor empty either of her nostrils at your hind quarters like a 12th century Frenchman.
> expensive to hoist
Ah! Uh, railguns perhaps? Oh, or what about that laser rocket? Seems to me that sending the payload up and leaving the propulsion on the ground may be a better solution; I mean, we already know how to build sweet-assed nuclear plants. Why take the uranium with you?
Okay, I'm ususally better about reading all associated articles before posting, but...
I'm glad about the 'back to basics' plan, but I hope that doesn't preclude perhaps expansion kits that allow you to build extra stuff. It'd be worth it to be able to purchase 'Space Expansion' that included the specialized parts like nose cones, space buggy tires, antennae, etc. As long as the interfaces are standard, you could them make stuff with your 1000 brick megabucket.
Specialty kits compete with the kid's imagination. Expansion packs allow them to move to the limits of their creativity with the base kit before going out and finding new tool sets.
y'know, freshmeat for the meatworld.