I often thought about rigging up my brake lights to a switch so I could make it appear to the tailgater that I've slammed on my brakes without actually doing so (because actually hitting the brakes could end up with the tailgater ramming into me). It's almost certainly an illegal modification and if someone ended up dead (such as the tailgater panics, hits the brakes and loses control and hits another car) because of it, I'd have a hard time dealing with that.
So I've given my car to charity. You all can have the highway wars. I live in the city and walk or take transit everywhere now. It's amazing how much lower my stress level is and how little I miss the places I use to drive to now that I've found lots of new places to go to. I know most people don't want that, but it works for me.
Asterisk is a much better name than Mark Spenser's senior project at Auburn: NADS. I don't think the professor was amused. If I recall correctly, they got the lowest grade in the class.
I know some of the names are suppose to be funny but unless you're lucky enough to have a true geek running your IT department (pretty rare), you're not going to be able to use something named Drools or Groovy, no matter how good the product is.
Actually, most of the anti-Alabama posts were from people who actually live there or have lived there in the past. Some people love it there but in general those who get an education, especially a science related one, end up moving elsewhere. That's not ignorance, it's choice.
The nice thing about Montgomery is that two interstates intersect there, making it easier to get away. The tech jobs are mostly civilian jobs on the military base. The only culture to speak of is the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (which I will admit is surprisingly good). The nightlife is terrible. The current mayor is a hundred times better than the previous good ol' boy but it is still a bland boring place. You'll need the extra money you make to make frequent trips out of there.
I wanted to use Drools and Groovy a while back to set up the variable pricing for a tollway. But who on earth is going to put that kind of system in the hands of technology named Drools and Groovy? No one wants to sound like an idiot going to their boss to suggest using anything with those names. Digital started off as Digital Intergalatic Research but quickly realized that suits don't use products that they feel stupid saying.
A pun here or there is ok but there is a limit and I think Groovy, no matter what the technical benefits, has stepped over that line and can never be taken seriously. At least the Java community for the most part has gotten over the coffee metaphors when naming new products.
Just because the CEO thinks something is cool doesn't mean the general public will. I've used all kinds of high end video conferencing systems and none of them come anywhere close to replicating the experience of being in the same room with other people. And that's in a business setting. The difference between being together and being hooked up on video conference would be even greater for social situations. Throw in the lesser quality that they're going to have to go with for a home system over a business system for cost reasons and things look really dim.
Which isn't to say there would be any market, just that the experience is not likely to be compelling enough to become a big seller.
This action by AT&T will consolidate more than half of the original Bell System into a single entity, leaving only Verizon and Qwest as remaining Bell family competitors.
Cincinnati Bell will be quite surprised to learn that it no longer exists.
Cobb County is not part of the City of Atlanta. Cobb hates Atlanta. Just look at this week's Creative Loafing to see what a difference there is between Atlanta and the Bush voting, religious right sprawl that surrounds it.
The city school board has nothing to do with this. It is the suburbs, not the city!
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I often thought about rigging up my brake lights to a switch so I could make it appear to the tailgater that I've slammed on my brakes without actually doing so (because actually hitting the brakes could end up with the tailgater ramming into me). It's almost certainly an illegal modification and if someone ended up dead (such as the tailgater panics, hits the brakes and loses control and hits another car) because of it, I'd have a hard time dealing with that. So I've given my car to charity. You all can have the highway wars. I live in the city and walk or take transit everywhere now. It's amazing how much lower my stress level is and how little I miss the places I use to drive to now that I've found lots of new places to go to. I know most people don't want that, but it works for me.
Ashley Judd was in an early episode of TNG, did they auction her off?
I suspect that she would go for quite a bit more than Kirstie Alley.
Asterisk is a much better name than Mark Spenser's senior project at Auburn: NADS. I don't think the professor was amused. If I recall correctly, they got the lowest grade in the class. I know some of the names are suppose to be funny but unless you're lucky enough to have a true geek running your IT department (pretty rare), you're not going to be able to use something named Drools or Groovy, no matter how good the product is.
Actually, most of the anti-Alabama posts were from people who actually live there or have lived there in the past. Some people love it there but in general those who get an education, especially a science related one, end up moving elsewhere. That's not ignorance, it's choice.
The nice thing about Montgomery is that two interstates intersect there, making it easier to get away. The tech jobs are mostly civilian jobs on the military base. The only culture to speak of is the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (which I will admit is surprisingly good). The nightlife is terrible. The current mayor is a hundred times better than the previous good ol' boy but it is still a bland boring place. You'll need the extra money you make to make frequent trips out of there.
I wanted to use Drools and Groovy a while back to set up the variable pricing for a tollway. But who on earth is going to put that kind of system in the hands of technology named Drools and Groovy? No one wants to sound like an idiot going to their boss to suggest using anything with those names. Digital started off as Digital Intergalatic Research but quickly realized that suits don't use products that they feel stupid saying. A pun here or there is ok but there is a limit and I think Groovy, no matter what the technical benefits, has stepped over that line and can never be taken seriously. At least the Java community for the most part has gotten over the coffee metaphors when naming new products.
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Just because the CEO thinks something is cool doesn't mean the general public will. I've used all kinds of high end video conferencing systems and none of them come anywhere close to replicating the experience of being in the same room with other people. And that's in a business setting. The difference between being together and being hooked up on video conference would be even greater for social situations. Throw in the lesser quality that they're going to have to go with for a home system over a business system for cost reasons and things look really dim. Which isn't to say there would be any market, just that the experience is not likely to be compelling enough to become a big seller.
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Cobb County is not part of the City of Atlanta. Cobb hates Atlanta. Just look at this week's Creative Loafing to see what a difference there is between Atlanta and the Bush voting, religious right sprawl that surrounds it. The city school board has nothing to do with this. It is the suburbs, not the city!
The hacker hostile business methods of cue:cat and iOpener sure helped those companies... helped them disappear!
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