I disagree, there is evolution occuring at an observable rate. Probably the best example of this is in antibiotic resistant bacteria. As bacteria reproduces it doesn't reproduce perfectly and as a result small mutations occur. Some of these mutations make the bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The bacteria with the mutations are the ones that survive in an enviroment with antibiotics and reproduce.
The Air Force offers a cyber security boot camp. It looks like a great learning experience and work experiance. It consists both of classes and hands on projects. I looks like you get assigned one main project you are to complete on a current real world secruity problem. I don't know if this would count towards the three months placement but it looks like it could really open the doors.
The application is due January 1 and they are planning on 50 students total.
If you read through the slides you will find that if 4 people find the same hole, each person only gets 1/4 of the credit. The same 10 holes won't get anyone a very high grade.
IMs and chat can be used in improving spelling with out forcing someone to spell something correctly. Talking in IMs with my friends significantly increased my ability to spell back in middle school and high school. When talking in an IM with spell check turned on I had immediate feedback when I misspelled a word. After correcting the word a few times I usually remembered the correct spelling. I would much rather send something that was correct than send something that wasn't. I don't misspell things because I'm too lazy to put the correct thing in, I just don't know when it is correct and when it isn't. After seeing the correct way enough I am able to replace the wrong way with the correct way. I didn't need something stopping be from sending a message if something was wrong with it.
This was much easier and more pleasant than any other way I tried to learn to spell.
I looked around for a long time when I got my laptop and never found just the right backpack that was confortable, fasionable, and functional. I ended up getting an inexpensive laptop sleeve from ebags here.
This sleeve works great with my backpack and is handy to use by itself. It opens on the shorter side so it can be opened while in my backpack.
This sleeve in a backpack protect a laptop better than any laptop backpack I've seen.
The reason they choose to do this on the Escape is that that small SUV platform is more sutable for the technology. You will see more improvements in the SUV than you would seen in a small car.
The original poster makes it sound like Ford is just using Toyota's old technology. Ford licensed the SOME of the technology (only about 20 patents) from Toyota has improved and specialized the technology to work with the Escape. On the other hand Ford has about 100 patents of it's own on the Escape hybrid system. The reason Ford licensed these patents was not to gain access to the easy technology but to prevent the chance of patent infringement. It is not just some out of date technology.
Also being a "first to market" brings attention, usually in a good way and there already is a hybrid car available here but no one has a hybrid vehicle capable of 4 wheel drive with the high ground clearence of the Escape. It is also "cool" to have the best of something, the hybrid Eacape has the best fuel economy of any SUV.
This past Christmas my family and I rented a house in Florida, while they didn't have a nice router set up or anything they did have a broadband connection available. All of my family brought their laptops and I brought a wireless router and we were all happly online.
I will definately second leaving instructions behind, the people we rented from didn't leave directions and I ended up calling the ISP to get everything set up (ended up having to use a static IP and such). In the long run I left instructions behind in the house for the next renters.
Anyway you could probably get away with just having a jack that goes directly in to the cable modem, etc if you were feeling cheep.
In all honisty I'd probably just unplug the provided computer and plug my own in.
My cat is the worst about biting EVERYTHING. I'm completely amazed he is still alive because he has bitten through plugged in electrical cords amongst other things. The mouse cord was his favorite until I went to a wireless mouse because it would move when I used it so it was perfect for him to attack.
What I have found works best is Grannick's Bitter Apple. It is inexpensive, easy to apply, safe for pets, and My cat absolutely HATES it. I have nearly every cord in my house covered in it.
The place I worked at had pretty good luck with drivesavers. We have sent them hard drives that were damaged in fires (circuit boards completely toasted and platters soaked in water from putting out the fire) and had them recover the majority of the data off from them. It is a high price for the average joe but is worth it when you really need it.
I had an evil furby once, It started out all nice but at some point it decided that it was going to be perminately sick. Nothing would make it better. I'd reset it, and it would start out sick, it caused enough stress that I pulled the batteries out.
I also worked at a car dealership one summer doing oil changes and other things. My least favorite part of it was driving cars from people that were very heavy smokers. I particularly remember one car that the windows were actually brown from the tar that had deposited on them. That car was the most unpleasent thing I have ever been in, I couldn't even breath.
Another highlight from that job was a set of vans that had been vandelized by breaking windows putting a ton of produce in them. By the time they made it to the dealership the produce was rotten, the entire parking lot smelled for weeks.
My last highlight from that job was one of our rental cars. One of the customers brought it back with a terrable smell about it. We did everything in our power to get rid of the smell but nothing we did had an effect. I don't think that car was rented out again while I was there.
That's all great but I hate when people do that at the place I work. So on to the story...
I work at a little computer store where we sell computer stuff and do repairs. People like to call and expect me to walk them through fixing their computer over the phone. Frequently these people don't have the computer skills to follow my directions (they really need to bring it in when they don't know what the Control Panel is). Usually if it takes 5 minutes or less I'll do it, if it takes longer I ask them to bring their machine into the shop or I offer to make a service call. Some people just won't except this as an answer and get down right mad I'm not providing them *free* service and *free* computer lessons.
Other things I usually take the extended warranties on are laptops (very expensive with few replaceable parts and tend to get knocked around a bit more than my desktop) and PDAs (the normal every day josseling around can do quite a number on them).
My mom is over protective of her palm but has ended up sending it back a number of times. Recently she got an updated version when she returned it under the Best Buy warrenty (m505 to tungstun t2). It was definately worth the warranty cost for her.
I work at a little computer store and had gotten in 3 machines there were in a fire that we were doing data recovery on.
One of them was a dell P4 machine, the case was all melted. The case both inside and out was covered in both ash and water. For my own entertainment I pulled the motherboard, processor and power supply out and washed them really well. After letting them dry for a while i plugged them in and to my suprise it worked.
The video card didn't survive, a couple of the surfice mount components actually cracked in half.
I tried to call Dell afterwards to get a new case for it and ended up being transfered to every department at the place just to be told an hour later that they didn't sell cases. Stupid motherboards that can't be installed in standard cases.
I'd love to wipe and reinstall on everyone's computer that come into the shop I work at just because of spyware. The problem is these are the same people that got such-and-such application from their buddy and can't reintall in because they don't have a "real" copy. We can't go around playing copyright police if we want to make money and keep customers.
We end up reinstalling frequently after trying everything else first.
What is your approach to reinstalling? What do you do when people don't have the original media for the software they had? What do you do when they registry is so hosed that you can't get a Windows key out of it and the customer doesn't have the original paper copy?
I run crossover office and it is pretty quick for most anything, about the same as running actually under Windows on the same machine. The only really slow thing I have noticed is when I go to open a file it takes FOREVER to open new directories. The machine I'm using now is pretty quick but I never found it slow running on my old 400MHz Machine.
One of my friends and I got talking about this the other day. The best one we came up with was one of his teachers was driving down the Vagas strip and one of the large billbords BSOD'd. He almost got in an accident he was laughing so hard.
Another story, though not a true BSOD. Our cable tv guide station here at Michigan Tech desplayed and error and asked to be rebooted for about a week before anything was done about it. So no one knew what was on and had to look at windows errors for a week.
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I disagree, there is evolution occuring at an observable rate. Probably the best example of this is in antibiotic resistant bacteria. As bacteria reproduces it doesn't reproduce perfectly and as a result small mutations occur. Some of these mutations make the bacteria resistant to antibiotics. The bacteria with the mutations are the ones that survive in an enviroment with antibiotics and reproduce.
The Air Force offers a cyber security boot camp. It looks like a great learning experience and work experiance. It consists both of classes and hands on projects. I looks like you get assigned one main project you are to complete on a current real world secruity problem. I don't know if this would count towards the three months placement but it looks like it could really open the doors.
The application is due January 1 and they are planning on 50 students total.
Here is the webpage: http://ace.syr.edu/
If you read through the slides you will find that if 4 people find the same hole, each person only gets 1/4 of the credit. The same 10 holes won't get anyone a very high grade.
IMs and chat can be used in improving spelling with out forcing someone to spell something correctly. Talking in IMs with my friends significantly increased my ability to spell back in middle school and high school. When talking in an IM with spell check turned on I had immediate feedback when I misspelled a word. After correcting the word a few times I usually remembered the correct spelling. I would much rather send something that was correct than send something that wasn't. I don't misspell things because I'm too lazy to put the correct thing in, I just don't know when it is correct and when it isn't. After seeing the correct way enough I am able to replace the wrong way with the correct way. I didn't need something stopping be from sending a message if something was wrong with it. This was much easier and more pleasant than any other way I tried to learn to spell.
I use a regular backpack with a laptop sleeve. It protects my laptop and doesn't screem "TAKE ME."
I would recommend a laptop sleeve along with the rebular backpack becuase regular backpack don't offer much in terms of protection.
I looked around for a long time when I got my laptop and never found just the right backpack that was confortable, fasionable, and functional. I ended up getting an inexpensive laptop sleeve from ebags here.
This sleeve works great with my backpack and is handy to use by itself. It opens on the shorter side so it can be opened while in my backpack.
This sleeve in a backpack protect a laptop better than any laptop backpack I've seen.
CPU and RAM keychains are always classic. :-)
The reason they choose to do this on the Escape is that that small SUV platform is more sutable for the technology. You will see more improvements in the SUV than you would seen in a small car.
The original poster makes it sound like Ford is just using Toyota's old technology. Ford licensed the SOME of the technology (only about 20 patents) from Toyota has improved and specialized the technology to work with the Escape. On the other hand Ford has about 100 patents of it's own on the Escape hybrid system. The reason Ford licensed these patents was not to gain access to the easy technology but to prevent the chance of patent infringement. It is not just some out of date technology.
Also being a "first to market" brings attention, usually in a good way and there already is a hybrid car available here but no one has a hybrid vehicle capable of 4 wheel drive with the high ground clearence of the Escape. It is also "cool" to have the best of something, the hybrid Eacape has the best fuel economy of any SUV.
This past Christmas my family and I rented a house in Florida, while they didn't have a nice router set up or anything they did have a broadband connection available. All of my family brought their laptops and I brought a wireless router and we were all happly online.
I will definately second leaving instructions behind, the people we rented from didn't leave directions and I ended up calling the ISP to get everything set up (ended up having to use a static IP and such). In the long run I left instructions behind in the house for the next renters.
Anyway you could probably get away with just having a jack that goes directly in to the cable modem, etc if you were feeling cheep.
In all honisty I'd probably just unplug the provided computer and plug my own in.
I have to disagree...My cat has bitten through live power cords any number of times and still continues to do it.
I think electrocution has just made him dumber.
My cat is the worst about biting EVERYTHING. I'm completely amazed he is still alive because he has bitten through plugged in electrical cords amongst other things. The mouse cord was his favorite until I went to a wireless mouse because it would move when I used it so it was perfect for him to attack.
What I have found works best is Grannick's Bitter Apple. It is inexpensive, easy to apply, safe for pets, and My cat absolutely HATES it. I have nearly every cord in my house covered in it.
The place I worked at had pretty good luck with drivesavers. We have sent them hard drives that were damaged in fires (circuit boards completely toasted and platters soaked in water from putting out the fire) and had them recover the majority of the data off from them. It is a high price for the average joe but is worth it when you really need it.
You don't need a wireless card, I have a red iMac in the bathroom named iCrap with a network cable going to it. It is a great place to read slashdot.
my megahurtz haev been stolled ...I'll probably get modded down for this...
-Mary
I had an evil furby once, It started out all nice but at some point it decided that it was going to be perminately sick. Nothing would make it better. I'd reset it, and it would start out sick, it caused enough stress that I pulled the batteries out.
-Mary
It is over $10,000 right now and the first thing I thought is "Wow he got the $10,000 he wanted"
-Mary
I have a dual proc with 2 533MHz Mendocino (same as the PII) core processors, so atleast the core went faster.
I also worked at a car dealership one summer doing oil changes and other things. My least favorite part of it was driving cars from people that were very heavy smokers. I particularly remember one car that the windows were actually brown from the tar that had deposited on them. That car was the most unpleasent thing I have ever been in, I couldn't even breath.
Another highlight from that job was a set of vans that had been vandelized by breaking windows putting a ton of produce in them. By the time they made it to the dealership the produce was rotten, the entire parking lot smelled for weeks.
My last highlight from that job was one of our rental cars. One of the customers brought it back with a terrable smell about it. We did everything in our power to get rid of the smell but nothing we did had an effect. I don't think that car was rented out again while I was there.
-Mary
That's all great but I hate when people do that at the place I work. So on to the story...
I work at a little computer store where we sell computer stuff and do repairs. People like to call and expect me to walk them through fixing their computer over the phone. Frequently these people don't have the computer skills to follow my directions (they really need to bring it in when they don't know what the Control Panel is). Usually if it takes 5 minutes or less I'll do it, if it takes longer I ask them to bring their machine into the shop or I offer to make a service call. Some people just won't except this as an answer and get down right mad I'm not providing them *free* service and *free* computer lessons.
-Mary
Other things I usually take the extended warranties on are laptops (very expensive with few replaceable parts and tend to get knocked around a bit more than my desktop) and PDAs (the normal every day josseling around can do quite a number on them).
My mom is over protective of her palm but has ended up sending it back a number of times. Recently she got an updated version when she returned it under the Best Buy warrenty (m505 to tungstun t2). It was definately worth the warranty cost for her.
-mary
I work at a little computer store and had gotten in 3 machines there were in a fire that we were doing data recovery on.
One of them was a dell P4 machine, the case was all melted. The case both inside and out was covered in both ash and water. For my own entertainment I pulled the motherboard, processor and power supply out and washed them really well. After letting them dry for a while i plugged them in and to my suprise it worked.
The video card didn't survive, a couple of the surfice mount components actually cracked in half.
I tried to call Dell afterwards to get a new case for it and ended up being transfered to every department at the place just to be told an hour later that they didn't sell cases. Stupid motherboards that can't be installed in standard cases.
-Mary
I'd love to wipe and reinstall on everyone's computer that come into the shop I work at just because of spyware. The problem is these are the same people that got such-and-such application from their buddy and can't reintall in because they don't have a "real" copy. We can't go around playing copyright police if we want to make money and keep customers.
We end up reinstalling frequently after trying everything else first.
What is your approach to reinstalling? What do you do when people don't have the original media for the software they had? What do you do when they registry is so hosed that you can't get a Windows key out of it and the customer doesn't have the original paper copy?
I run crossover office and it is pretty quick for most anything, about the same as running actually under Windows on the same machine. The only really slow thing I have noticed is when I go to open a file it takes FOREVER to open new directories. The machine I'm using now is pretty quick but I never found it slow running on my old 400MHz Machine.
-Mary
F.Y.I.
Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator
Debunking Wine Myths
-Mary
One of my friends and I got talking about this the other day. The best one we came up with was one of his teachers was driving down the Vagas strip and one of the large billbords BSOD'd. He almost got in an accident he was laughing so hard.
Another story, though not a true BSOD. Our cable tv guide station here at Michigan Tech desplayed and error and asked to be rebooted for about a week before anything was done about it. So no one knew what was on and had to look at windows errors for a week.