it's "discreet", asshat. "discrete" has an entirely different meaning. Oh, you're very right! I'm sorry for being such an asshat! I'm sure that error must have left you pretty confused for the first 10 or 15 minutes until you realized my grievous error. Kudos for correctly ascertaining the meaning of my post given the very limited contextual clues I provided. And thank you, again, for pointing this out; I'm not sure most humans have the level of error handling you so obviously possess. You've saved us all a lot of time, and for that I am in your debt.
I've seen your posts before, Mr. Coward, and while your semantic, syntax, and spelling corrections are most often correct, you present--through your own work--a rather poor example. Perhaps some proper use of capitalization might strengthen your argument.
I realize they could have easily been IEDs but if you nail them for putting up "hoax bombs" you'll need to nail everyone that puts up anything short of a piece of paper. Nobody is going to be so F-ing stupid as to cover an IED with LIGHTS. Bombs need to be discrete, not overtly obvious and attention grabbing. If real terrorists were that stupid they would have put up bill boards before 9-11 explaining the plot.
I just hope there are copy-cat light-brite terrorists, hopefully in Boston again.
In Minnesota at least the law clearly states what you can say. Basically when they worked there, what they did, and what training you provided them. You can say more if you want, but you aren't protected from lawsuits if you do.
I wouldn't be surprised if many larger companies have policies that they provide only a bare minimum of information so as to protect themselves from disgruntled ex-employee lawsuits.
And think of it this way. If the person no longer works here, why do I care if someone else hires him? He's not my problem anymore. Providing bad references is vindictive, serves no purpose for the company, and only adds risk. Even if I say "He's great, I'd hire him back in a heart beat!" and he does a really bad job at the next company, I could get into trouble there, too. It's less risky for the company to keep track of such things internally so they do/don't hire back people but not share that with others.
As much as I hate activation (it's a major reason I left the platform) I have to take issue with your post.
Everytime I've called (at least a dozen times) has been: 1. Enter code from screen. 2. Invalid, enter again. 3. Invalid, hold for specialist 4. Provide code. 5. Answer no to "Is this installed anywhere else?" 6. Enter code provided
Spoken like an out of touch professor. In a way, both you and the parent agree, though you failed to recognise it. Parent whole heartidly acknowledges that calculators are only a labor saving device. Parent, however, also is wise enough to recognize that like all labor saving devices, it's easy to grow dependant. The mind needs exercise, and calculators are gasoline engines.
I certainly wish I had stayed with a lower powered calculator as my peers with only scientific calculators have eventually surpassed me in understanding and I struggled more to review material I should never have forgotten while cramming in the new material.
Blame it on poor habits if you like, but there was a definate gap between those without fancy calculators and those with.
I now do most of my work on a TI36. For heavy computation, I use Matlab. My TI89 is just a paper weight and I'm all the better for it.
It's like biking to work or doing ong division in your head. It might be more difficult at frst, but the rewards are vast.
Given that scenario, one would really hope that Sony has some kind of ace-in-the-hole for keeping our collective attention (and purchasing enthusiasm) squarely focused on the PS3. Don't they need to GET our attention and purchasing enthusiasm before they can keep it?
By the way, this will apply to any phone system that has click to dial, not just VOIP
That was my thought exactly. I use vonage and don't have an address book on my computer. However, lots of people with conventional phones use Outlook. Changing phone numbers in address books should have been a concern many years ago, and is no more of a concern today.
Hell, I had "click" (F10 key, I think...) to dial on my old Tandy 1000! Modem dialed, then I lifted the handset and the modem disconnected so I could talk.
Many languages (German for sure) use "en" as a common plural ending. I have a feeling english isn't the native tongue. Or that's just a hell of a typo.
Essentially what's needed is for the computer to boot normally and get to where the user can start interacting. At this point save the ram image like hibernation.
Now, if I shut down/restart the computer, the software should be smart enough to know if the boot process has been altered and the hibernation image is valid, or if it should be truly rebooted and a new ram image dumped.
Back when I used Windows I used to reboot occasionally, and the reason I rebooted was that XP starts crap out after running for too long. Not as bad as 9x, but it still did. Or an application or video driver would lock up and the system would go down. In these cases I had no time to hibernate, or a hibernation would just save a bad memory state. If a previous hibernation image was already held, I would get fast boot AND a cleanly running system. Kind of a hybrid system, but one that I agree with the OP, has much potential.
So pipes don't freeze, mostly. In this case, the electricity was to run the furnace, as our neighborhood didn't have natural gas. I left out the units in my original post, but 32 is Freezing in F, so 40F is just a little buffer room.
They might have also left other things at home they didn't want to freeze, like paint or canned foods. Where I grew up it's not uncommon for it to get to -20F before wind chill in Jan/Feb.
Or you can not use an air compressor and just use a simple drain valve:
Go around and open all of the facets. Turn off the water at the main valve. Gravity will drain the water through the sink in the basement. Now, open the drain valve and water will drain through there. No need for a compressor.
Just remember to keep the facets open until it's finished or there won't be air entering the system to replace the water and some parts might not drain.
As a kid, our neighbors, who were getting up in age, began heading south every winter. They just gave my parents keys to the house in December when they left and trusted that we could take care of it if anything happened.
To facilitate this, he rigged up a 120v relay to a simple mercury thermostat. If the temperature in his basement dropped below 40--kept at 45 normally I think--a bright light would turn on in their bedroom window, which happened to face our house. It would be hard for us not to notice.
If the power went out, well, then our power was out also and we could go over and see if we needed to fire up the generator he kept in his garage or anything.
I'm sure something similar could be done to trigger a phone call. Just run the pushbutton leads through your mercury thermometer.
You could also install a managed or unmanaged security system that would alert you if doors or windows were opened. I'm sure some of these companies also have temperature sensors they can add.
The only reason I was able to make the switch and stay was because I switched from ATI to nVidia where I had better luck with the, albeit closed, drivers.
I need my 3D hardware working in Linux or I couldn't stay here. Most of my friends that use linux are also linux gamers. We're mostly college engineering students currently working IT to pay the bills, but that's at about a dozen that I know directly right there, and that doesn't even include (I don't think) anyone in the ACM on campus over at the CS department where I know they have their own LUG.
Two very important notes about future-proofing your investment. The PS3 offers video playback at 1080p and 60 frames per second (fps) only, which is less desirable than 1080p 24 fps output
OpenSuse developers already know about alternatives. If they want to leave, they will. If they don't they will stay. Spamming their list won't do anything but make it more likely that those who do leave choose a different alternative. This isn't about people whining, this is about Mark no understanding the basic psychology behind advertising tactics.
Please, elaborate on why this is such a bad thing. Because it has nothing to do with the development of OpenSuse. The developers list is like OpenSuse's office. You don't go into GM headquarters and hang flyers asking engineers to work for Toyota, that's just not cool.
If someone made project related to OpenSuse, or maybe a fork and said, "Hey, look what I'm starting, help me out if you want" cool. If someone says "Hey, look at these project that's existed for 3 years and has a thriving community, why don't you help us instead" that leaves a bitter taste. It's all about context.
No, because Minix was the next closest thing to Linux, and I believe what he used as his development platform before he was done enough to actually run the Linux kernel.
Posting about Linux on the Minix list is more akin to posting about Kubuntu or Xubuntu on the Ubuntu lists, or about Ubuntu on the Debian lists , or about Mandrake on the Red Hat lists (when the projects were first started, that is). When derivatives start there's always going to be an announcement on the origional list or no one will know about the derivative.
Ubuntu, however, is not even remotely an offshoot of OpenSuse. Ubuntu also already has a thriving community and the OpenSuse developers already know about it. They know their options, there's no real need to advertise.
But it WOULD be radiating it was was absorbed, right? So assuming that this "non-radiating" method of transferring radiant energy exists, energy would STILL have to radiate if you turned the laptop on. At which point, if you were in the path of radiation I have a feeling you would have to absorb some, also.
I'd have to agree with the vapor ware tag. Lots of schools do lots of research that never ends up in any products. MIT is not immune. Not only does the description sound like voodoo magic, but, ideally, antennas are always co-resonating. If your antenna doesn't resonate on the frequencies of transmission you're going to be wasting lots of effort. This doesn't mean that my co-resonate antennas (ie, both resonate at the same fundamental) don't radiate in either all or a few discrete directions, cause they do. But if I try to use an antenna designed for 20meters on the 2 meter band I probably won't have very good luck, and vice-versa (ie, if I used antennas resonate on different frequencies).
Unless their definition of "co-resonate" means something else entirely, in which case I still think it looks like they either teleport electrons to/from your laptop, or ensure that you don't sit between the laptop and the power source while using it. There's a reason nobody has tried to duplicate Tesla's wireless power....
Wacom tablets aren't transfering WATTS of power to that little pen, and they're probably doing it with more traditional magnetic induction than electromagnetic radiation, linking the tip of the pen to the tablet. No energy is passing through your hand.
Electromagnetic radiation causes things, like human tissue, to heat. Try staring into a highgain wifi antenna (like your home-made pringles can) for a few hours and let me know if your vision doesn't get a little worse... Eyes don't dissipate heat very well (fewer vessels) and will probably get damaged. Yay for cataracts! That's at a few hundred-milliwatts.
Now, imagine powering your laptop, something around 100 Watts (1000x your wifi power) and stand so that your head is in a nice path between the laptop and the power transmitter. Let's just see how long before you get tissue damage.
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I've seen your posts before, Mr. Coward, and while your semantic, syntax, and spelling corrections are most often correct, you present--through your own work--a rather poor example. Perhaps some proper use of capitalization might strengthen your argument.
I just hope there are copy-cat light-brite terrorists, hopefully in Boston again.
In Minnesota at least the law clearly states what you can say. Basically when they worked there, what they did, and what training you provided them. You can say more if you want, but you aren't protected from lawsuits if you do.
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I wouldn't be surprised if many larger companies have policies that they provide only a bare minimum of information so as to protect themselves from disgruntled ex-employee lawsuits.
And think of it this way. If the person no longer works here, why do I care if someone else hires him? He's not my problem anymore. Providing bad references is vindictive, serves no purpose for the company, and only adds risk. Even if I say "He's great, I'd hire him back in a heart beat!" and he does a really bad job at the next company, I could get into trouble there, too. It's less risky for the company to keep track of such things internally so they do/don't hire back people but not share that with others.
I've never been asked why that I recall, only if it's installed anywhere else.
As much as I hate activation (it's a major reason I left the platform) I have to take issue with your post.
Everytime I've called (at least a dozen times) has been:
1. Enter code from screen.
2. Invalid, enter again.
3. Invalid, hold for specialist
4. Provide code.
5. Answer no to "Is this installed anywhere else?"
6. Enter code provided
A single question does not an interrogation make.
Yeah, I did that.
"How can IBM open up Novell's software??"
Spoken like an out of touch professor.
In a way, both you and the parent agree, though you failed to recognise it. Parent whole heartidly acknowledges that calculators are only a labor saving device. Parent, however, also is wise enough to recognize that like all labor saving devices, it's easy to grow dependant. The mind needs exercise, and calculators are gasoline engines.
I certainly wish I had stayed with a lower powered calculator as my peers with only scientific calculators have eventually surpassed me in understanding and I struggled more to review material I should never have forgotten while cramming in the new material.
Blame it on poor habits if you like, but there was a definate gap between those without fancy calculators and those with.
I now do most of my work on a TI36. For heavy computation, I use Matlab. My TI89 is just a paper weight and I'm all the better for it.
It's like biking to work or doing ong division in your head. It might be more difficult at frst, but the rewards are vast.
Your comma is superfluous. Google returns the same results for "iss problems" and "iss, problems"
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That was my thought exactly. I use vonage and don't have an address book on my computer. However, lots of people with conventional phones use Outlook. Changing phone numbers in address books should have been a concern many years ago, and is no more of a concern today.
Hell, I had "click" (F10 key, I think...) to dial on my old Tandy 1000! Modem dialed, then I lifted the handset and the modem disconnected so I could talk.
Wow. Not even out of college and you're making me feel old!
Many languages (German for sure) use "en" as a common plural ending. I have a feeling english isn't the native tongue. Or that's just a hell of a typo.
Essentially what's needed is for the computer to boot normally and get to where the user can start interacting. At this point save the ram image like hibernation.
Now, if I shut down/restart the computer, the software should be smart enough to know if the boot process has been altered and the hibernation image is valid, or if it should be truly rebooted and a new ram image dumped.
Back when I used Windows I used to reboot occasionally, and the reason I rebooted was that XP starts crap out after running for too long. Not as bad as 9x, but it still did. Or an application or video driver would lock up and the system would go down. In these cases I had no time to hibernate, or a hibernation would just save a bad memory state. If a previous hibernation image was already held, I would get fast boot AND a cleanly running system. Kind of a hybrid system, but one that I agree with the OP, has much potential.
That's why you drain the pipes first.
Ok. Duh.
I live up North. Homes without basements are rare up here.
So pipes don't freeze, mostly. In this case, the electricity was to run the furnace, as our neighborhood didn't have natural gas. I left out the units in my original post, but 32 is Freezing in F, so 40F is just a little buffer room.
They might have also left other things at home they didn't want to freeze, like paint or canned foods. Where I grew up it's not uncommon for it to get to -20F before wind chill in Jan/Feb.
Or you can not use an air compressor and just use a simple drain valve:
Go around and open all of the facets. Turn off the water at the main valve. Gravity will drain the water through the sink in the basement. Now, open the drain valve and water will drain through there. No need for a compressor.
Just remember to keep the facets open until it's finished or there won't be air entering the system to replace the water and some parts might not drain.
As a kid, our neighbors, who were getting up in age, began heading south every winter. They just gave my parents keys to the house in December when they left and trusted that we could take care of it if anything happened.
To facilitate this, he rigged up a 120v relay to a simple mercury thermostat. If the temperature in his basement dropped below 40--kept at 45 normally I think--a bright light would turn on in their bedroom window, which happened to face our house. It would be hard for us not to notice.
If the power went out, well, then our power was out also and we could go over and see if we needed to fire up the generator he kept in his garage or anything.
I'm sure something similar could be done to trigger a phone call. Just run the pushbutton leads through your mercury thermometer.
You could also install a managed or unmanaged security system that would alert you if doors or windows were opened. I'm sure some of these companies also have temperature sensors they can add.
The only reason I was able to make the switch and stay was because I switched from ATI to nVidia where I had better luck with the, albeit closed, drivers.
I need my 3D hardware working in Linux or I couldn't stay here. Most of my friends that use linux are also linux gamers. We're mostly college engineering students currently working IT to pay the bills, but that's at about a dozen that I know directly right there, and that doesn't even include (I don't think) anyone in the ACM on campus over at the CS department where I know they have their own LUG.
OpenSuse developers already know about alternatives. If they want to leave, they will. If they don't they will stay. Spamming their list won't do anything but make it more likely that those who do leave choose a different alternative. This isn't about people whining, this is about Mark no understanding the basic psychology behind advertising tactics.
I'm an Ubuntu user.
Please, elaborate on why this is such a bad thing.
Because it has nothing to do with the development of OpenSuse. The developers list is like OpenSuse's office. You don't go into GM headquarters and hang flyers asking engineers to work for Toyota, that's just not cool.
If someone made project related to OpenSuse, or maybe a fork and said, "Hey, look what I'm starting, help me out if you want" cool. If someone says "Hey, look at these project that's existed for 3 years and has a thriving community, why don't you help us instead" that leaves a bitter taste. It's all about context.
No, because Minix was the next closest thing to Linux, and I believe what he used as his development platform before he was done enough to actually run the Linux kernel.
Posting about Linux on the Minix list is more akin to posting about Kubuntu or Xubuntu on the Ubuntu lists, or about Ubuntu on the Debian lists , or about Mandrake on the Red Hat lists (when the projects were first started, that is). When derivatives start there's always going to be an announcement on the origional list or no one will know about the derivative.
Ubuntu, however, is not even remotely an offshoot of OpenSuse. Ubuntu also already has a thriving community and the OpenSuse developers already know about it. They know their options, there's no real need to advertise.
But it WOULD be radiating it was was absorbed, right? So assuming that this "non-radiating" method of transferring radiant energy exists, energy would STILL have to radiate if you turned the laptop on. At which point, if you were in the path of radiation I have a feeling you would have to absorb some, also.
I'd have to agree with the vapor ware tag. Lots of schools do lots of research that never ends up in any products. MIT is not immune. Not only does the description sound like voodoo magic, but, ideally, antennas are always co-resonating. If your antenna doesn't resonate on the frequencies of transmission you're going to be wasting lots of effort. This doesn't mean that my co-resonate antennas (ie, both resonate at the same fundamental) don't radiate in either all or a few discrete directions, cause they do. But if I try to use an antenna designed for 20meters on the 2 meter band I probably won't have very good luck, and vice-versa (ie, if I used antennas resonate on different frequencies).
Unless their definition of "co-resonate" means something else entirely, in which case I still think it looks like they either teleport electrons to/from your laptop, or ensure that you don't sit between the laptop and the power source while using it. There's a reason nobody has tried to duplicate Tesla's wireless power....
Wacom tablets aren't transfering WATTS of power to that little pen, and they're probably doing it with more traditional magnetic induction than electromagnetic radiation, linking the tip of the pen to the tablet. No energy is passing through your hand.
Electromagnetic radiation causes things, like human tissue, to heat. Try staring into a highgain wifi antenna (like your home-made pringles can) for a few hours and let me know if your vision doesn't get a little worse... Eyes don't dissipate heat very well (fewer vessels) and will probably get damaged. Yay for cataracts! That's at a few hundred-milliwatts.
Now, imagine powering your laptop, something around 100 Watts (1000x your wifi power) and stand so that your head is in a nice path between the laptop and the power transmitter. Let's just see how long before you get tissue damage.