WTF. I grew up driving a combine harvesting wheat and barley. If you can get 722 bushels/acre of oats then that would be a miracle. I suggest you get a clue.
I worked at a titanium manufacturing plant where I analyzed samples for nitrogen contamination. Even though it was a pretty low level repetitive job, I still felt like a scientist working in a lab wearing a lab coat and the head chemist was a guy from Sweden named Jurgen (?sp). I also remember that the titanium tetrachloride was so volatile that just a spoonfull released into the atmosphere would create a huge white cloud and the fire department would show up and management would have to fill out an incident report. Good memories, except for the time I got hydrofluoric acid on my fingers, very painfull, and of course when I accidently breathed in some vapors and had frequent nosebleeds for several years afterwards.
I dunno about that. I have pictures of my kids petting the deer in my yard. And I've had to push the deer out of the garden when they start eating the roses. Also I've had to stop in my own driveway and wait for the deer to get out of the way. Now getting a picture of an elk might be a bit trickier.
Yeah file locking is also a pain when you are administrator and trying to delete a file that you know can safely be deleted. Then your only choice is to reboot although I have had some success with deleting from command line.
When Microsoft commissioned a study that correlated lack of education to pirating? Their logic was that most pirating occured in counties that had very little education. So their plan was to increase education to combat piracy. (Of course any moron could tell that the real reason was that countries with little education also were very poor) This article just adds further to the fact that they are completely clueless (maybe intentionally) about how overpriced their software is.
I agree. I have also thought that it would be a good idea for the internet to be self "policed" so to say. If Google could add category values to each page with the ability for anybody viewing the pages to vote on the levels of each category then eventually the levels will represent the majority of "values" of the people using the internet. So if there was a "kid friendly" category, we could have browsers that could be set by the parent to query google before loading anything from a web page for a certain level of "kid friendly". This could work to everybodies advantage. If I want to surf the web at a "hard core" level of 10 (on a scale from 1 - 10) then I wouldn't have to put up with all the sites that only have soft porn. Given enough different catagories it could be very usefull for doing searches. If you had an "informative" or "technical" category it would make finding useful trouble shooting information easier to find. Also it would be easy to set up for your kids that if there was no levels set such as for a new site then the browser wouldn't show the site but for me I would have everything show up so I could rate it. If the values are a running average then somebody trying to screw around with the rating would not be very successful as more and more people vote. Anyways I just thought of this so it probably has a lot problems but I need to get back to work now.
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Is it just me or does it seem that by the time Microsoft has a "secure" OS we'll need a 100Ghz processor with 20Gb memory and 200Gb hard drive to hold it?
We got it so my wife could work from home. As for just surfing the net it seemed to work OK (better than dialup). But we found that VPN speed was the same as if she dialed up to work and the main application she used didn't work at all. And when the wind blew the signal went to crap. (could be how the dish was mounted but it is a larger dish than what is used by direcTV). So since we couldn't justify the cost we cancelled it. (we had to eat the installation cost ~$200).
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Ha ha ha. But can I preheat the water going into my hot water heater?
Great, this just means the aliens will have an even easier time hunting us down. I wonder if covering yourself in mud can block the photons?
WTF. I grew up driving a combine harvesting wheat and barley. If you can get 722 bushels/acre of oats then that would be a miracle. I suggest you get a clue.
Maybe that should be RamSlam. Pun intended.
I worked at a titanium manufacturing plant where I analyzed samples for nitrogen contamination. Even though it was a pretty low level repetitive job, I still felt like a scientist working in a lab wearing a lab coat and the head chemist was a guy from Sweden named Jurgen (?sp). I also remember that the titanium tetrachloride was so volatile that just a spoonfull released into the atmosphere would create a huge white cloud and the fire department would show up and management would have to fill out an incident report. Good memories, except for the time I got hydrofluoric acid on my fingers, very painfull, and of course when I accidently breathed in some vapors and had frequent nosebleeds for several years afterwards.
I dunno about that. I have pictures of my kids petting the deer in my yard. And I've had to push the deer out of the garden when they start eating the roses. Also I've had to stop in my own driveway and wait for the deer to get out of the way. Now getting a picture of an elk might be a bit trickier.
Yeah file locking is also a pain when you are administrator and trying to delete a file that you know can safely be deleted. Then your only choice is to reboot although I have had some success with deleting from command line.
After reading this I have been underestimting how smart babies are. Makes me wonder where all that intelligence goes after they grow up.
When Microsoft commissioned a study that correlated lack of education to pirating? Their logic was that most pirating occured in counties that had very little education. So their plan was to increase education to combat piracy. (Of course any moron could tell that the real reason was that countries with little education also were very poor) This article just adds further to the fact that they are completely clueless (maybe intentionally) about how overpriced their software is.
I agree. I have also thought that it would be a good idea for the internet to be self "policed" so to say. If Google could add category values to each page with the ability for anybody viewing the pages to vote on the levels of each category then eventually the levels will represent the majority of "values" of the people using the internet. So if there was a "kid friendly" category, we could have browsers that could be set by the parent to query google before loading anything from a web page for a certain level of "kid friendly". This could work to everybodies advantage. If I want to surf the web at a "hard core" level of 10 (on a scale from 1 - 10) then I wouldn't have to put up with all the sites that only have soft porn. Given enough different catagories it could be very usefull for doing searches. If you had an "informative" or "technical" category it would make finding useful trouble shooting information easier to find. Also it would be easy to set up for your kids that if there was no levels set such as for a new site then the browser wouldn't show the site but for me I would have everything show up so I could rate it. If the values are a running average then somebody trying to screw around with the rating would not be very successful as more and more people vote. Anyways I just thought of this so it probably has a lot problems but I need to get back to work now.
Actually I think it's a crack pipe.
Is it just me or does it seem that by the time Microsoft has a "secure" OS we'll need a 100Ghz processor with 20Gb memory and 200Gb hard drive to hold it?
We got it so my wife could work from home. As for just surfing the net it seemed to work OK (better than dialup). But we found that VPN speed was the same as if she dialed up to work and the main application she used didn't work at all. And when the wind blew the signal went to crap. (could be how the dish was mounted but it is a larger dish than what is used by direcTV). So since we couldn't justify the cost we cancelled it. (we had to eat the installation cost ~$200).