I run a dating site and profile generation is a necessity. You see, in order to get people to join a dating site, you have to have people who already joined the dating site to attract them; it's a catch-22 that we cannot avoid. Usually the fake profiles have an expiration date of 1 year so after that the accounts just die off but regardless, your name isn't protected by any laws and can be used in works of fiction without your approval. Just get over it cause I've got some guy using my real name in a gospel band and as sickening as I find that, I don't care as I have better things to worry about.
I dunno but I heard about a geode somewhere near Cleveland, OH that you can walk INTO. So surely a decent size quartz crystal exists somewhere in the world to be able to pull this off.
EXACTLY!! That's what I had to do because 2 of the add-ons that I use constantly aren't yet compatible with FF3. No biggie but the hardest thing to do after you upgrade is to find an older copy of the installer since Mozilla seem to have removed them and it takes quite a while to find a mirror with it. Other than that, just another day in sysadmin-ville.
It's a damn shame that method doesn't keep malicious ads from doing their dirty work in IE, nor does it help save bandwidth in either browser, if it happens to be tight. It also sucks that most people don't have your computer or your connection since you appear to be akin to Bill Gates in terms of the speed of your computer and bandwidth.
I didn't read it as the pv panels were the sink but rather the synchronous power inverters were at fault. And there are companies like nanosolar that are getting 1 Kw per Kg of solar material, IIRC their technology doesn't require the "panels" to track the sun and they're working toward $1/watt pretty quickly.
But then there's thermal energy derived from the sun and there are nearly limitless possibilities there since the development of that carbon nanotube material that absorbs 99.8% of all light that hits it. I imagine that in many parts of the country that could be converted to heat water, create steam and drive turbines, or the new stirling engine technology if it's getting along, or even just store it underground for later use. Then one could combine that technology with the brilliant idea where they essentially put the solar-thermal collector in a vacuum so that the heat couldn't boil back off of the collector and it instead got passed quickly away to an insulated tank. It was viable over 10 months out of the year and even worked on cloudy days. I'm sure it was posted here a while back.
"Clearly they weren't "far superior", or customers would have preferred them."
Many customers will prefer a cheaper price over quality and to make matters worse they then get brand loyalty so that when something free like Linux comes out they will claim that "you get what you pay for". A paradox of catch-22-ness to be certain, but very observable.
Funny story that. I was hired because I am a sysadmin with the morals of a mercenary(I actually provide complete security protection for hardware, software and even physical security for wetware if needed) and the head of the company accidentally CC'ed someone in the company whom she had badmouthed in the email. The very next thing heard when she realized it was an announcement over our intercom system "All staff please step away from your computers, I think we have a virus; Eric, please report to my office". I got the detail of removing the email, while he was watching no less, and making sure he couldn't retrieve it. Funny thing is, this was on Mac OS 9 and there were almost zero viruses. Other times the owner would have me forward email from the sales staff to her. Now as for outright snooping, nope I never felt the need but I was more than willing to do it for pay.
That is the absolute dumbest site I've ever seen. Let me begin with the easy one. "Not for profit" doesn't mean they don't bring in revenue, it means that at the end of the year they can't show a PROFIT. They can make millions, pay their employees, throw huge parties, hire hookers or whatever but they can't show a profit. Why trolls, of any subject, will focus on the non-profit status is a mystery to me but I suspect in Troll School they teach you to just make shit up as you go along. Oh, that's right, you do.
"(several of us here have to restart the browser several times a week because it's consumed insane amounts of RAM)."
And you're complaining!?!?! When I use FF on my (one)XP machine, I have to restart several times per day it seems. The other day I caught it using 750Mb of memory with maybe 5 tabs open. I was not pleased.
Oh don't even get me started on people's confusion regarding GPL. I just read some blog where a guy completely trashed MySQL because he was under the false impression that you couldn't use it as part of the backend to a website without providing the source code. Later when shown he was wrong he backtracked and said the blog was about how people would have to pay for support or licenses or whatever other straws he could grasp that would enable him to not look as stupid as he already did; too late.
That's just stupid and full of hyperbole, not cynical, and if you want to think I'm naive then I'd like to invite you out for a night of drinking and gambling. I presented an unpleasant view that the people behind this might not want to see and it happens because in the course of my business I encounter people whose kid screwed up their computer for the 4th time this week by visiting some website but after a knoppix dvd I usually have a convert to linux. You present a view that would have to get rid of everyone who knows anything about computers; that world existed 75 years ago but not today.
Let them!! Seriously, it'll make more converts to Linux and open source so that we can finally do away with these asshats. They can't cry about piracy if their sales drop because the American public(and any foreign people affected) take their business elsewhere because this new law allowed for criminal interests to hijack their computers.
I hadn't thought to think all the way back to college but now that you mention it in electrical engineering(which at the time had CS as a form of minor) there were about 200 of us in class with ONE female; in the "computer information systems" program(a bastardized course where they wanted to teach us how to use Lotus and word processors but wouldn't teach us past Pascal programming...no C; this course is the reason I left) I was in there were more females but few showed real capacity for coding.
"However, it also is very improbable, because manufacturing such munitions require a lot of high tech R&D."
I came to that exact same conclusion recently concerning ANY nuclear munitions because if they haven't already bought a pre-tested device then they are going to have to build one and test it or else they risk an epic fail. What happens the moment they test it? They show up on our satellites and we have a good idea where they are.
The real way to stop it would be to limit the number of places they could get their hands on nuclear material but that, too, is looking like a less likely scenario every day.
No, I should be all for removing legislation and legislators. Period. Otherwise I'm just living my life the way I want regardless of what the legislation states; you might play the part of a sheep but that role isn't for me. I'm only governed by natural law and that my pushy, yet clueless, friend is true freedom.
Yeah, I've heard that before and I'm inclined to believe a lot of it. I've also heard that George Washington and his buddies were likely a bunch of gangsters who had a common enemy to crush and that wouldn't be that hard to believe either.
You see, you don't understand freedom at all. The moment the words "legislative agenda" enter your language, you are pissing away true freedom because it has been decades since the last freedom was granted by the legislature because they are in the business of taking away freedom, not giving it.
I don't care about political parties or the conspiracy theories that revolve around each party; in short, I simply hate all politicians, so politics aren't remotely an interest but freedom is my biggest interest. If we're going to act like our country is the greatest and free-est in the world, we better start making it that way damn soon. Besides none of your entire statement has anything to do with the judges or how our rights should apply worldwide.
I want a one world government, not a one government world.
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I run a dating site and profile generation is a necessity. You see, in order to get people to join a dating site, you have to have people who already joined the dating site to attract them; it's a catch-22 that we cannot avoid. Usually the fake profiles have an expiration date of 1 year so after that the accounts just die off but regardless, your name isn't protected by any laws and can be used in works of fiction without your approval. Just get over it cause I've got some guy using my real name in a gospel band and as sickening as I find that, I don't care as I have better things to worry about.
Just found this: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-geode.htm . It talks about one found in Spain that dwarfs the others.
I dunno but I heard about a geode somewhere near Cleveland, OH that you can walk INTO. So surely a decent size quartz crystal exists somewhere in the world to be able to pull this off.
EXACTLY!! That's what I had to do because 2 of the add-ons that I use constantly aren't yet compatible with FF3. No biggie but the hardest thing to do after you upgrade is to find an older copy of the installer since Mozilla seem to have removed them and it takes quite a while to find a mirror with it. Other than that, just another day in sysadmin-ville.
It's a damn shame that method doesn't keep malicious ads from doing their dirty work in IE, nor does it help save bandwidth in either browser, if it happens to be tight. It also sucks that most people don't have your computer or your connection since you appear to be akin to Bill Gates in terms of the speed of your computer and bandwidth.
My question is, does DataTree offer the photos in 4-5 different sizes? That is one of the key factors here apparently.
Hear that sound over your head?
That's the joke.
Still stickin' it to 'em. RIP.
I didn't read it as the pv panels were the sink but rather the synchronous power inverters were at fault. And there are companies like nanosolar that are getting 1 Kw per Kg of solar material, IIRC their technology doesn't require the "panels" to track the sun and they're working toward $1/watt pretty quickly.
But then there's thermal energy derived from the sun and there are nearly limitless possibilities there since the development of that carbon nanotube material that absorbs 99.8% of all light that hits it. I imagine that in many parts of the country that could be converted to heat water, create steam and drive turbines, or the new stirling engine technology if it's getting along, or even just store it underground for later use. Then one could combine that technology with the brilliant idea where they essentially put the solar-thermal collector in a vacuum so that the heat couldn't boil back off of the collector and it instead got passed quickly away to an insulated tank. It was viable over 10 months out of the year and even worked on cloudy days. I'm sure it was posted here a while back.
That is quite a bit of insight into how it works. I knew about all the rest but hadn't yet put how the $0.20 would be useful.
"Clearly they weren't "far superior", or customers would have preferred them."
Many customers will prefer a cheaper price over quality and to make matters worse they then get brand loyalty so that when something free like Linux comes out they will claim that "you get what you pay for". A paradox of catch-22-ness to be certain, but very observable.
Funny story that. I was hired because I am a sysadmin with the morals of a mercenary(I actually provide complete security protection for hardware, software and even physical security for wetware if needed) and the head of the company accidentally CC'ed someone in the company whom she had badmouthed in the email. The very next thing heard when she realized it was an announcement over our intercom system "All staff please step away from your computers, I think we have a virus; Eric, please report to my office". I got the detail of removing the email, while he was watching no less, and making sure he couldn't retrieve it. Funny thing is, this was on Mac OS 9 and there were almost zero viruses. Other times the owner would have me forward email from the sales staff to her. Now as for outright snooping, nope I never felt the need but I was more than willing to do it for pay.
That is the absolute dumbest site I've ever seen. Let me begin with the easy one. "Not for profit" doesn't mean they don't bring in revenue, it means that at the end of the year they can't show a PROFIT. They can make millions, pay their employees, throw huge parties, hire hookers or whatever but they can't show a profit. Why trolls, of any subject, will focus on the non-profit status is a mystery to me but I suspect in Troll School they teach you to just make shit up as you go along. Oh, that's right, you do.
"(several of us here have to restart the browser several times a week because it's consumed insane amounts of RAM)."
And you're complaining!?!?! When I use FF on my (one)XP machine, I have to restart several times per day it seems. The other day I caught it using 750Mb of memory with maybe 5 tabs open. I was not pleased.
Oh don't even get me started on people's confusion regarding GPL. I just read some blog where a guy completely trashed MySQL because he was under the false impression that you couldn't use it as part of the backend to a website without providing the source code. Later when shown he was wrong he backtracked and said the blog was about how people would have to pay for support or licenses or whatever other straws he could grasp that would enable him to not look as stupid as he already did; too late.
That's just stupid and full of hyperbole, not cynical, and if you want to think I'm naive then I'd like to invite you out for a night of drinking and gambling. I presented an unpleasant view that the people behind this might not want to see and it happens because in the course of my business I encounter people whose kid screwed up their computer for the 4th time this week by visiting some website but after a knoppix dvd I usually have a convert to linux. You present a view that would have to get rid of everyone who knows anything about computers; that world existed 75 years ago but not today.
Let them!! Seriously, it'll make more converts to Linux and open source so that we can finally do away with these asshats. They can't cry about piracy if their sales drop because the American public(and any foreign people affected) take their business elsewhere because this new law allowed for criminal interests to hijack their computers.
I hadn't thought to think all the way back to college but now that you mention it in electrical engineering(which at the time had CS as a form of minor) there were about 200 of us in class with ONE female; in the "computer information systems" program(a bastardized course where they wanted to teach us how to use Lotus and word processors but wouldn't teach us past Pascal programming...no C; this course is the reason I left) I was in there were more females but few showed real capacity for coding.
"However, it also is very improbable, because manufacturing such munitions require a lot of high tech R&D."
I came to that exact same conclusion recently concerning ANY nuclear munitions because if they haven't already bought a pre-tested device then they are going to have to build one and test it or else they risk an epic fail. What happens the moment they test it? They show up on our satellites and we have a good idea where they are.
The real way to stop it would be to limit the number of places they could get their hands on nuclear material but that, too, is looking like a less likely scenario every day.
No, I should be all for removing legislation and legislators. Period. Otherwise I'm just living my life the way I want regardless of what the legislation states; you might play the part of a sheep but that role isn't for me. I'm only governed by natural law and that my pushy, yet clueless, friend is true freedom.
Yeah, I've heard that before and I'm inclined to believe a lot of it. I've also heard that George Washington and his buddies were likely a bunch of gangsters who had a common enemy to crush and that wouldn't be that hard to believe either.
You see, you don't understand freedom at all. The moment the words "legislative agenda" enter your language, you are pissing away true freedom because it has been decades since the last freedom was granted by the legislature because they are in the business of taking away freedom, not giving it.
"What are you Americans so bloody afraid of?"
Apparently our half-wit president, and his ghost stories.
"OR is your point that the Constitution is only for rich white folks?"
Fixed that for ME.
I don't care about political parties or the conspiracy theories that revolve around each party; in short, I simply hate all politicians, so politics aren't remotely an interest but freedom is my biggest interest. If we're going to act like our country is the greatest and free-est in the world, we better start making it that way damn soon. Besides none of your entire statement has anything to do with the judges or how our rights should apply worldwide.
I want a one world government, not a one government world.