Here's what we use at work: http://www.microcom.us/eoc3220.html
$140 each (one at each location). We've gone up to a mile with not so much as a glitch, though they're rated to 10 miles. They require a modicum of line of sight, so you might have to put them on tripods on each house, but for a total investment of under $400, you really can't go wrong.
With a version of Calc that allows for normal naming. I hate not being able to use dashes, underscores, and other non-alphanumeric characters in a spreadsheet's title.
It's been proven that the Earth is rotating slower than it used to be, and the definition of a second was changed so that the length of a second remains constant. The day, however, remains the same as it always has been: one full rotation of the Earth.
Eventually there will be conflict between the two. If the rotation of the Earth continues to slow, there will be more seconds (and, in turn, more minutes, and then more hours) in a given day.
To that end, I've always wondered what would be more disruptive to the human populace: longer days or longer seconds?
It costs $200 million to make some movies. If people stop paying to make the movies then that type of movie will not get made in the future.
It's because of $200 million movies that it now costs $7 for a small soda in a theater. If directors were more concerned about putting actual content in their movies instead of million-dollar special effects every 17 seconds, we'd have a shitton more movies with budgets like 'Blair Witch'.
Personally, I'd be glad if they stopped making $200 million movies. Then maybe theater ticket prices would drop and people wouldn't have to resort to downloading movies illegally.
It should be noted that a guild of tennis players or a guild of Buffy fans would not be tolerated, either. (Note Giant Communist Robots being forbidden). Any group with real-world ties is frowned upon.
Untrue. There are many servers with guilds populated by Penny-Arcade fans. Dark Iron alone has a dozen PA guilds. Not to mention all the other webcomic-themed guilds on Dark Iron.
Your average user will just say "Why bother? I've never had a problem." That's what I did.
Shitty adherence to web standards is why you don't use IE. IE's HTML parsing engine is horrible. IE doesn't adhere to CSS standards and their support for PNGs (even without alpha transparency) is terrible.
As a webdesigner, I abhor IE. I have to go back and fuck up my code so that IE's stupid parser makes it look right. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konquerer and every other browser except IE get it right the first time.
So the next time you say that IE is "just fine" for you and that "it's already there" and "your computer is just fine", stop thinking about you for a second and think about me and the rest of the webdesigners out there that have to work extra hard and make multiple versions of webpages because you can't be bothered to take some good advice and use a decent browser.
As a panel programmer (among other things) for a security company, this would be a major pain in the butt. All of our security panels (and I would assume most others) have built-in DST changing abilities.
Having to reprogram each of our panels to change at a different time would be extremely time-consuming for a small company like mine. I don't even want to imagine what bigger companies would have to go through.
The security field is very time-dependant. One hour could mean having the police called thinking someone is trying to break in or having your premise completely unsecured.
I, for one, hope this change does not get approved. At least Y2K had the possibility of not causing problems. This will definitely cause problems.
IGE owns Thott which has a huge database of characters and a LOT of information relating to those characters.
IGE looks at the information and sees patterns. Patterns of people fighting in certain areas. Patterns of people getting drops from certain areas. Patterns of people NOT getting drops from those areas. Using this data, they know exactly what to farm and what to market (advertise) to the masses.
IMO, this is no different than spyware generating popups on your computer. It's immoral, underhanded, and sneaky.
I, for one, am glad this was brought to my attention. While I've always had the thott plugin disabled (as I always thought it was like spyware), now I know there's an underhanded company behind it, and I'll be sure to suggest to everyone I meet to disable it.
As an employee of a company that deals in internet distribution, I would recommend against Motorola's Canopy set up. It requires a heavily restrictive line-of-site, and is not as cheap as one would think. Instead, we found a better alternative, which, in every situation we've had, has had much better results at cheaper costs. Their 2.4Ghz 500mW self-contained bridges are a sweet setup.
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The second setup was a more campus-wide solution. I'm not sure how they achieved it, but it seemed that each machine maintained a log of which files were changed while a particular user was logged on. When they logged off, the machine simply returned the disk to the state it had been in before.
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Here's what we use at work: http://www.microcom.us/eoc3220.html $140 each (one at each location). We've gone up to a mile with not so much as a glitch, though they're rated to 10 miles. They require a modicum of line of sight, so you might have to put them on tripods on each house, but for a total investment of under $400, you really can't go wrong.
Eris would *not* be considered the 10th planet.
And don't call me Shirley.
With a version of Calc that allows for normal naming. I hate not being able to use dashes, underscores, and other non-alphanumeric characters in a spreadsheet's title.
...single-digit frame rates in Ironforge at peak time. *sigh*
Dumb name aside, it was an awesome game.
Gee, I wonder if that source was an Apple rep.
It's been proven that the Earth is rotating slower than it used to be, and the definition of a second was changed so that the length of a second remains constant. The day, however, remains the same as it always has been: one full rotation of the Earth. Eventually there will be conflict between the two. If the rotation of the Earth continues to slow, there will be more seconds (and, in turn, more minutes, and then more hours) in a given day. To that end, I've always wondered what would be more disruptive to the human populace: longer days or longer seconds?
It's because of $200 million movies that it now costs $7 for a small soda in a theater. If directors were more concerned about putting actual content in their movies instead of million-dollar special effects every 17 seconds, we'd have a shitton more movies with budgets like 'Blair Witch'.
Personally, I'd be glad if they stopped making $200 million movies. Then maybe theater ticket prices would drop and people wouldn't have to resort to downloading movies illegally.
It should be noted that a guild of tennis players or a guild of Buffy fans would not be tolerated, either. (Note Giant Communist Robots being forbidden). Any group with real-world ties is frowned upon.
Untrue. There are many servers with guilds populated by Penny-Arcade fans. Dark Iron alone has a dozen PA guilds. Not to mention all the other webcomic-themed guilds on Dark Iron.
... and even I think this is a neat idea.
Shitty adherence to web standards is why you don't use IE. IE's HTML parsing engine is horrible. IE doesn't adhere to CSS standards and their support for PNGs (even without alpha transparency) is terrible.
As a webdesigner, I abhor IE. I have to go back and fuck up my code so that IE's stupid parser makes it look right. Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konquerer and every other browser except IE get it right the first time.
So the next time you say that IE is "just fine" for you and that "it's already there" and "your computer is just fine", stop thinking about you for a second and think about me and the rest of the webdesigners out there that have to work extra hard and make multiple versions of webpages because you can't be bothered to take some good advice and use a decent browser.
.. and links to other sites that require registration, why not just include a BugMeNot username/password combo in the spoiler text?
... piss off a Naussican, and you have nothing to worry about.
As a panel programmer (among other things) for a security company, this would be a major pain in the butt. All of our security panels (and I would assume most others) have built-in DST changing abilities.
Having to reprogram each of our panels to change at a different time would be extremely time-consuming for a small company like mine. I don't even want to imagine what bigger companies would have to go through.
The security field is very time-dependant. One hour could mean having the police called thinking someone is trying to break in or having your premise completely unsecured.
I, for one, hope this change does not get approved. At least Y2K had the possibility of not causing problems. This will definitely cause problems.
IGE owns Thott which has a huge database of characters and a LOT of information relating to those characters. IGE looks at the information and sees patterns. Patterns of people fighting in certain areas. Patterns of people getting drops from certain areas. Patterns of people NOT getting drops from those areas. Using this data, they know exactly what to farm and what to market (advertise) to the masses. IMO, this is no different than spyware generating popups on your computer. It's immoral, underhanded, and sneaky. I, for one, am glad this was brought to my attention. While I've always had the thott plugin disabled (as I always thought it was like spyware), now I know there's an underhanded company behind it, and I'll be sure to suggest to everyone I meet to disable it.
As an employee of a company that deals in internet distribution, I would recommend against Motorola's Canopy set up. It requires a heavily restrictive line-of-site, and is not as cheap as one would think. Instead, we found a better alternative, which, in every situation we've had, has had much better results at cheaper costs. Their 2.4Ghz 500mW self-contained bridges are a sweet setup. ~
The second setup was a more campus-wide solution. I'm not sure how they achieved it, but it seemed that each machine maintained a log of which files were changed while a particular user was logged on. When they logged off, the machine simply returned the disk to the state it had been in before.
Perhaps you're referring to a Centurion Lock?