We simply popped off the "m" and the "n" keys and switched them, without remapping. He was not the most tech-savvy, and typed using his two index fingers.
Turns out he has a web demo to perform, and trying to log in with credentials "techmology"... The long and the short of it, the joke never got old, and we frequently spoke in his presence as "Good day, gentlenem. Lumch plams?"
He also got mad at his keyboard, figured what's what, and used a pencil to pop the keys off. Jammed it in there real good. Broke the laptop keyboard. Blamed it on us. Then a couple of weeks later we all go out for lunch to meet another of his friends. He (the sales guy) gets so animated in describing the funny prank that he forgets we're right beside him, and says how he just jammed the pencil in there and broke the keyboard. Then with a dumb grin on his face, stops at 3/4 of the sentence and looks at us. It was priceless!
Needless to say, we were all good friends and had a good laugh about it.
I never thought I'd reach 40. The world is now a far safer place than it was when I was young.
You got me thinking. The biggest difference that I can identify is the removal (or perhaps reduction) of threat to the US from the former Soviet Union.
However, is the world really a much safer place? How do we measure safety, by life expetancy? The threat of global annihilation? Do we consider it to be safer when nuclear threat is reduced? How about atrocities in places like Kenya, Darfur, Rwanda, and so on... Or the epidemic of AIDS in countries where a large percentage of the population does not reach 40.
I live in Canada, and while it's a safe place to be, I am not so sure that the world as a whole has become a safer place. The threat to one's life has taken many different shapes.
Was shopping for a budget PC, ended up buying eMachines. There were a number of vendors in my price range, what was the single most disqualifying factor for them? Offering Vista. The PCs had either 512 MB RAM or 1024, yet all of the 512 MB machines managed to ship with Vista. At the end, eMachines won because it came with XP, had 1024 MB RAM, although smaller HD (120 GB vs 250), and crappy video card (integrated Radeon 200).
Next task? Wipe it completely off and reinstall from scratch:) looking forward to my evenings over the next few days.
It was a system that displayed ads while you were using the mouse (moving the cursor, clicking).
Perhaps they could develop a similar system for patent reviewing - get paid for it. And then I could write a script that keeps moving the mouse cursor around and randomly clicks on ACCEPT/REJECT buttons (and let's not forget, moderate the patents - see my post above for more detail).
I suspect my randomizer would do a better job of filtering bogus patents out.
We could use such tags as "Funny" - aka invention too stupid (remember the diaper pants that inflate if a fall is detected? This supposedly saves your bum from bruising).
Or how about "Troll" - aka it's a patent troll, and should be ignored.
"Interesting" means not a bad idea, but let's put it on hold for a while and give it some thought.
I'm sure we could adapt "Informative" and "Insightful" as "Useful".
What is so special about the Apple phone that it needs "special" service fee? If it's a phone, and if it's using the same GSM spectrum in the same way as any other cellular GSM phone, it should cost the same as plans for their existing phones.
Is data going to cost more? Again, will there be something different in the way this iPhone sends/receives data for such things as mobile internet? If not, why does it need special pricing?
RH and Shuttleworth idiots? On the contrary, if anyone is an idiot, that would be Novell. How so? For paying protection money against being prosecuted for unknown (and perhaps even made-up) crimes.
What RedHat and Ubuntu are doing is what Novell should have done. This way, there would be no players in bed with MS.
Perhaps Novell thought that this deal will attract any Linux migrator to them, as in "I guess if these guys partner with MS, their products must clearly interoperate with Windows, not like other untrusted types aka RedHat."
Time will show who the winners and who the losers of this are.
my friends went to the movies on Saturday, and guess what the police is hired to do? The police is hired to check everyone's bag as they enter the theatre to make sure there is no camcorder. That is the most idiotic thing that Canadian politicians did - cave in to a foreign country's lobbying group, at the expense that each teenager and older person has his or her bag examined.
Greater lineups? You bet! However, it's not so much the lineups as the feeling that a little bit of dignity is robbed away from you.
it's that the terrorist will use his cell phone, attach an encryption device, make a phone call to a BBS, punch in some codes in the cell and take over the entire CIA/NSA/ security system, and use the security system to direct a satellite to throw a missile off course that will hit the target with lots of innocent lives (children) taken as a result.
On good credit, you'll get 8.x %, and then depeding on your credit score, it goes up. If you got offered 29%, your credit score is probably in the gutter, as was mine when I was in my 3rd year at school and had to finance my laptop through them.
Took out a 3-year loan at 27.99%, paid it off 1.5 years later. Of course by that point most of the interest was paid and not so much principal, but that was my only way to buy a notebook which I really needed.
Going into space is not a big deal to people anymore, after dozens of trips. Sure, the first person or two to take a spacewalk were heroes, they accomplished quite a feat. But after it has been done for xx number of times, do you really expect the public to react with "ahh" and "oooooh" like they did at first?
One name in military aviation I learned from WWI was Red Baron. Why? He was quite the dogfighter. Name one from the present Iraq war or from the 90's Gulf war. Red Baron was one of the first, original, inspiring. Doesn't mean that there aren't kids now who are excited about being a pilot (or a military pilot), but it's not a big deal, anymore.
I am already paying $115 CDN for my BlackBerry voice and data plan through Rogers. What do I get? 350 minutes during the day (rounded UP to the minute, no per-second billing), unlimited evenings from 6 pm to 8 am, and umlimited weekends.
I also get one of Rogers' unlimited* data plans for the BlackBerry.
*Their unlimited data plan is actually just 25MB, with fine print reading "Rogers has the right to charge for excess use over 25 MB".
My friend has a mobile phone service from the US but lives in Canada for about a year now. She has LOTS of long distance voice and data included for roughly $60 USD - no roaming charges. Similar plan from Rogers, most cost-effective? About $300.
Canada sucks, because the big 3 mobile telcos have an oligopoly that nobody cares to regulate.
If we EVER get an unlimited plan, it will be in the neighbourhood of $150+ for voice only. Data? SMS? I'm sure it'll be over $200. Unless companies like Solo Mobile or Virgin, the small guys, start offering some competitive plans.
DST doesn't give you any more daylight than there is.
You don't say! Wow. An astonishing discovery! I mean, all this time we didn't know that, and now you come along and state it, and it's going to revolutionize people's thinking!
Honestly, what is the point of saying you don't get any more daylight? It's obvious, and elementary.
What DST does is it forces everyone to move up by 1 hour.
Why don't you just exercise in the morning and leave everyone else out of this?
I enjoy my evenings, as do many of the "everyone else" that you speak of. Having extra daylight in the DST hours is quite nice, and I'm sure has therapeutic effects. It is also part of the reason why students in post-secondary institutions enjoy reading week in February, a time of higher suicide rates among students correlated with dark winter hours, short daylight, and workload.
Slashdot Mirror
Because they're going...
Up--up--up--
Can only go up from here
Up--up--up--up
Where the clouds gonna clear
Up--up--up--
There's no way but up from here
We simply popped off the "m" and the "n" keys and switched them, without remapping. He was not the most tech-savvy, and typed using his two index fingers.
Turns out he has a web demo to perform, and trying to log in with credentials "techmology"... The long and the short of it, the joke never got old, and we frequently spoke in his presence as "Good day, gentlenem. Lumch plams?"
He also got mad at his keyboard, figured what's what, and used a pencil to pop the keys off. Jammed it in there real good. Broke the laptop keyboard. Blamed it on us. Then a couple of weeks later we all go out for lunch to meet another of his friends. He (the sales guy) gets so animated in describing the funny prank that he forgets we're right beside him, and says how he just jammed the pencil in there and broke the keyboard. Then with a dumb grin on his face, stops at 3/4 of the sentence and looks at us. It was priceless!
Needless to say, we were all good friends and had a good laugh about it.
The ceiling for the missile used is 160 miles. This satellite was de-orbiting and approaching the earth. The impact happened at 130 miles.
Functioning satellites orbit at much higher altitudes, where the missile cannot reach.
This would rule out the possibility that USA is using this to demonstrate their powers to shoot down ANY satellite. That's false.
I never thought I'd reach 40. The world is now a far safer place than it was when I was young.
You got me thinking. The biggest difference that I can identify is the removal (or perhaps reduction) of threat to the US from the former Soviet Union.
However, is the world really a much safer place? How do we measure safety, by life expetancy? The threat of global annihilation? Do we consider it to be safer when nuclear threat is reduced? How about atrocities in places like Kenya, Darfur, Rwanda, and so on... Or the epidemic of AIDS in countries where a large percentage of the population does not reach 40.
I live in Canada, and while it's a safe place to be, I am not so sure that the world as a whole has become a safer place. The threat to one's life has taken many different shapes.
First of all, machines do not think.
Second of all, in this case, it's a bunch of researchers that can outthink a human.
Was shopping for a budget PC, ended up buying eMachines. There were a number of vendors in my price range, what was the single most disqualifying factor for them? Offering Vista. The PCs had either 512 MB RAM or 1024, yet all of the 512 MB machines managed to ship with Vista. At the end, eMachines won because it came with XP, had 1024 MB RAM, although smaller HD (120 GB vs 250), and crappy video card (integrated Radeon 200).
:) looking forward to my evenings over the next few days.
Next task? Wipe it completely off and reinstall from scratch
It was a system that displayed ads while you were using the mouse (moving the cursor, clicking).
Perhaps they could develop a similar system for patent reviewing - get paid for it. And then I could write a script that keeps moving the mouse cursor around and randomly clicks on ACCEPT/REJECT buttons (and let's not forget, moderate the patents - see my post above for more detail).
I suspect my randomizer would do a better job of filtering bogus patents out.
We could use such tags as "Funny" - aka invention too stupid (remember the diaper pants that inflate if a fall is detected? This supposedly saves your bum from bruising).
Or how about "Troll" - aka it's a patent troll, and should be ignored.
"Interesting" means not a bad idea, but let's put it on hold for a while and give it some thought.
I'm sure we could adapt "Informative" and "Insightful" as "Useful".
I'm only kidding about this.
What is so special about the Apple phone that it needs "special" service fee? If it's a phone, and if it's using the same GSM spectrum in the same way as any other cellular GSM phone, it should cost the same as plans for their existing phones.
Is data going to cost more? Again, will there be something different in the way this iPhone sends/receives data for such things as mobile internet? If not, why does it need special pricing?
RH and Shuttleworth idiots? On the contrary, if anyone is an idiot, that would be Novell. How so? For paying protection money against being prosecuted for unknown (and perhaps even made-up) crimes.
What RedHat and Ubuntu are doing is what Novell should have done. This way, there would be no players in bed with MS.
Perhaps Novell thought that this deal will attract any Linux migrator to them, as in "I guess if these guys partner with MS, their products must clearly interoperate with Windows, not like other untrusted types aka RedHat."
Time will show who the winners and who the losers of this are.
my friends went to the movies on Saturday, and guess what the police is hired to do? The police is hired to check everyone's bag as they enter the theatre to make sure there is no camcorder. That is the most idiotic thing that Canadian politicians did - cave in to a foreign country's lobbying group, at the expense that each teenager and older person has his or her bag examined.
Greater lineups? You bet! However, it's not so much the lineups as the feeling that a little bit of dignity is robbed away from you.
I personally can think of merits of equipping flight attendants with tasers, sticky foam, pepper spray (or even stun grenades)
You are essentially providing weapons for the terrorist(s) to be carried onboard legally and by someone else (flight attendants).
File under "Ideas that won't work."
Right hand? Who's foolish here?
:p
Get it right - it's the forehead. And it's the mark of the beast!
disclaimer: the above was for recreational purposes only and in no way reflects the views or values or beliefs of the author
you brit bush-lovers!
Except the technology needs a little modification: blow up a bomb when ANY call is received.
it's that the terrorist will use his cell phone, attach an encryption device, make a phone call to a BBS, punch in some codes in the cell and take over the entire CIA/NSA/ security system, and use the security system to direct a satellite to throw a missile off course that will hit the target with lots of innocent lives (children) taken as a result.
On good credit, you'll get 8.x %, and then depeding on your credit score, it goes up. If you got offered 29%, your credit score is probably in the gutter, as was mine when I was in my 3rd year at school and had to finance my laptop through them.
Took out a 3-year loan at 27.99%, paid it off 1.5 years later. Of course by that point most of the interest was paid and not so much principal, but that was my only way to buy a notebook which I really needed.
Must be Linus!
maybe you should credit the source where you got your info from?
- 47_and_M16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_AK
Going into space is not a big deal to people anymore, after dozens of trips. Sure, the first person or two to take a spacewalk were heroes, they accomplished quite a feat. But after it has been done for xx number of times, do you really expect the public to react with "ahh" and "oooooh" like they did at first?
One name in military aviation I learned from WWI was Red Baron. Why? He was quite the dogfighter. Name one from the present Iraq war or from the 90's Gulf war. Red Baron was one of the first, original, inspiring. Doesn't mean that there aren't kids now who are excited about being a pilot (or a military pilot), but it's not a big deal, anymore.
I am already paying $115 CDN for my BlackBerry voice and data plan through Rogers. What do I get? 350 minutes during the day (rounded UP to the minute, no per-second billing), unlimited evenings from 6 pm to 8 am, and umlimited weekends.
I also get one of Rogers' unlimited* data plans for the BlackBerry.
*Their unlimited data plan is actually just 25MB, with fine print reading "Rogers has the right to charge for excess use over 25 MB".
My friend has a mobile phone service from the US but lives in Canada for about a year now. She has LOTS of long distance voice and data included for roughly $60 USD - no roaming charges. Similar plan from Rogers, most cost-effective? About $300.
Canada sucks, because the big 3 mobile telcos have an oligopoly that nobody cares to regulate.
If we EVER get an unlimited plan, it will be in the neighbourhood of $150+ for voice only. Data? SMS? I'm sure it'll be over $200. Unless companies like Solo Mobile or Virgin, the small guys, start offering some competitive plans.
DST doesn't give you any more daylight than there is.
You don't say! Wow. An astonishing discovery! I mean, all this time we didn't know that, and now you come along and state it, and it's going to revolutionize people's thinking!
Honestly, what is the point of saying you don't get any more daylight? It's obvious, and elementary.
What DST does is it forces everyone to move up by 1 hour.
Why don't you just exercise in the morning and leave everyone else out of this?
I enjoy my evenings, as do many of the "everyone else" that you speak of. Having extra daylight in the DST hours is quite nice, and I'm sure has therapeutic effects. It is also part of the reason why students in post-secondary institutions enjoy reading week in February, a time of higher suicide rates among students correlated with dark winter hours, short daylight, and workload.
I wish that we ran on DST all year long.
Oh, by the way, I think the counterpart to YouTube is TheyTube, not TheirTube.
In as much as I appreciate you're comment, I suspect the proper way to spell that service would be They'reTube.
that would be that using animal names in products is perfectly fine... Tiger, Leopard, etc...
So on what are you basing your opinion?
I really don't know why they don't just slap a US flag on it and call it the 51st state already.
;)
That's because the 51st state title belongs to either the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico.
We might be 53rd, if we're lucky and beat Iraq to it