We aren't specifically evolved do algebra either, and we (well, many of us) do a decent job at that. Humans are evolved to learn and adapt.
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Same here... I just checked, and I only have an option available for POP. When I clicked on the "learn more" link, it explained POP and gave me a couple of other links. One of those links was titled "what about IMAP." When I clicked on that, it said that the document was not available. Ya, I would really like IMAP a lot more than pop.
It's possible that they sent us some "bad" cards... I didn't think about that. Also, I wasn't the primary source of updates. Like you said, Windows Update isn't an enterprise-class solution. We had some software (I can't remember the name right now) that pushed out updates. There were some cases where it would miss updates or wouldn't work right, especially on older PCs, and I still had to manually update other applications (Acrobat Reader, Diskeeper, etc.) So I would check Windows Update when I did routine maintenance anyway.
We used all Dell Optiplex PC's, and we loaded the same image onto all of them. It's possible that someone messed with the settings, but since the same thing happened on several workstations, it's unlikely.
I was working as as PC tech for a university at one point, and it was policy to install all critical Windows updates on the university-owned computers. On one computer, I accidentally checked the hardware updates as well as the critical updates. For some reason, Windows update decided that the video card (an Nvidia TNT2-based card) needed to be updated with the old, Microsoft-provided, French-language video drivers. This computer was using English Windows XP, and there were no language packs installed or anything. Anyway, Windows blue-screened when coming back up. I had to start it in safe-mode and remove the drivers to get it to work again. I remember thinking that if a "normal" user had installed that update, they would have been screwed into having to pay $100 for a "professional" to fix Windows.
After that, I started paying attention to the hardware updates. And I noticed that on approximately 5/100 of their computers, Microsoft listed the French-language Nvidia driver as an appropriate hardware update.
I see enough problems getting them to adopt Vista, period. And its not just game developers. Hardware vendors don't seem to do much better. I have a computer that I built almost exactly two years ago. When I built it, all of the parts used had been released within the previous 6 months. So everything on there is younger than 3 years, at the oldest. As of September, the chipset driver hadn't been updated since Vista was in beta and the sound driver offered "limited support." All of the games that I tried ran about 75% as fast as the did in XP. A couple didn't work at all.
I thought that the state only covered part of your education costs if you are from that state. I'm from Indiana, and I went to Purdue. I remember seeing that out of state people had to pay quite a bit more tuition than Indiana residents.
I have heard that meteorites found shortly after impact are cold as well, although I don't have the reference on hand. But if the meteorite smashes into the ground and makes a decent sized crater, that act alone will create some heat regardless of whether the meteorite was initially cold or hot.
Every bit of what he did was not covered by the 1st amendment. Everything he said was covered, but he didn't get arrested for what he said. He got in trouble because he was being lawfully ejected from the building, and he refused to leave. So, I guess you could say he was trespassing. He was also being belligerent, and some of his actions probably amounted to disturbing the peace and/or disorderly conduct. I don't think that they should have hit him with the taser, but I do think that he deserved to have his stupid ass dragged out of the building.
I don't know about that... The guy was being disruptive. He wasn't really asking legitimate questions but, rather, making accusations in the form of questions. And I think it's a fair assumption to make that the guy was purposefully trying to be disruptive, so he should have expected to get thrown out. Really, the guy was kind of a jerk.
Actually, the only thing I had a problem with in this whole situation was that the police hit him with a taser. There were plenty of police to drag him out if they wanted to. A taser isn't supposed to be used as a cattle prod.
I have to agree. Police seem to break out the taser whenever someone pisses them off, regardless of whether its use is warranted. Even watching COPS on TV, I have seen them taser suspects for not immediately following an order. A taser is not a cattle prod. It is a replacement for the club that police officers used to use. And it should only be used in cases where it would have previously been appropriate to use a club. It would not have been acceptable to smack this guy in the head with a club, so it shouldn't be acceptable to shock him with a taser either.
Maybe, but if so, the police played right into it.
I have always looked at the taser as a replacement for the club that police used to use. And being a replacement for the club, I think that it should only be used in circumstances that would have previously warranted using the club. So in any situation that the police have the itch to use their taser, they should ask themselves, "Would it be acceptable to smack this guy in the head with a club?" And if the answer is no, then the police shouldn't use a taser either.
They may deserve to lose money for being negligent, but that doesn't mean that the people who exploited the slot machine didn't commit a criminal act.
Consider this... A woman walks down the street in a bad part of town carrying a clear bag full of money. Someone robs her. Did she deserve to lose her money? Probably. Does the person who robbed her deserve to be charged with with a crime? Yes.
Speaking of sewage ponds... Even though 34,000 square kilometers of sewage ponds may reduce the CO2 footprint, I bet that it would create a hell of a methane footprint.;)
At least Harding knew that his cronies were doing wrong and had a problem with it. From Wikipedia:
"My God, this is a hell of a job!" Harding said. "I have no trouble with my enemies, but my damn friends, my God-damned friends... they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!"
I have read about this star before as well as other supernovas or stars that are likely to turn into supernovas soon. From what I remember, a supernova poses no threat unless the poles of the star are pointed towards us. It just makes a really bright "star" in the sky for a short amount of time. If one of the poles of the star is pointed at us, we get hit by a burst of gamma rays. The gamma rays destroy the ozone layer, and then the sun's UV kills large amounts of life on Earth.
People with addictive personalities can get addicted to anything that they find enjoyable. It seems a little crazy to me to make name a distinct medical condition for anything that is fun.
We have employees at our company who use email as a primary communications medium. Most of these employees are off-site and travel more time than not, and when clients call in and ask for them, we recommend that the client emails them.
While I agree that the student deserved to be punished, I fully disagree with the whole idea of "making an example" of someone. There should be equal punishment for equal crime.
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We aren't specifically evolved do algebra either, and we (well, many of us) do a decent job at that. Humans are evolved to learn and adapt.
Same here... I just checked, and I only have an option available for POP. When I clicked on the "learn more" link, it explained POP and gave me a couple of other links. One of those links was titled "what about IMAP." When I clicked on that, it said that the document was not available. Ya, I would really like IMAP a lot more than pop.
I have been told that they are using Sandvine.
http://www.sandvine.com/products/p2p_element.asp
It's possible that they sent us some "bad" cards... I didn't think about that. Also, I wasn't the primary source of updates. Like you said, Windows Update isn't an enterprise-class solution. We had some software (I can't remember the name right now) that pushed out updates. There were some cases where it would miss updates or wouldn't work right, especially on older PCs, and I still had to manually update other applications (Acrobat Reader, Diskeeper, etc.) So I would check Windows Update when I did routine maintenance anyway.
We used all Dell Optiplex PC's, and we loaded the same image onto all of them. It's possible that someone messed with the settings, but since the same thing happened on several workstations, it's unlikely.
I was working as as PC tech for a university at one point, and it was policy to install all critical Windows updates on the university-owned computers. On one computer, I accidentally checked the hardware updates as well as the critical updates. For some reason, Windows update decided that the video card (an Nvidia TNT2-based card) needed to be updated with the old, Microsoft-provided, French-language video drivers. This computer was using English Windows XP, and there were no language packs installed or anything. Anyway, Windows blue-screened when coming back up. I had to start it in safe-mode and remove the drivers to get it to work again. I remember thinking that if a "normal" user had installed that update, they would have been screwed into having to pay $100 for a "professional" to fix Windows. After that, I started paying attention to the hardware updates. And I noticed that on approximately 5/100 of their computers, Microsoft listed the French-language Nvidia driver as an appropriate hardware update.
I see enough problems getting them to adopt Vista, period. And its not just game developers. Hardware vendors don't seem to do much better. I have a computer that I built almost exactly two years ago. When I built it, all of the parts used had been released within the previous 6 months. So everything on there is younger than 3 years, at the oldest. As of September, the chipset driver hadn't been updated since Vista was in beta and the sound driver offered "limited support." All of the games that I tried ran about 75% as fast as the did in XP. A couple didn't work at all.
I thought that the state only covered part of your education costs if you are from that state. I'm from Indiana, and I went to Purdue. I remember seeing that out of state people had to pay quite a bit more tuition than Indiana residents.
But, where do schools and publishers think students are getting all this money from?
Student loans.
I have heard that meteorites found shortly after impact are cold as well, although I don't have the reference on hand. But if the meteorite smashes into the ground and makes a decent sized crater, that act alone will create some heat regardless of whether the meteorite was initially cold or hot.
Every bit of what he did was not covered by the 1st amendment. Everything he said was covered, but he didn't get arrested for what he said. He got in trouble because he was being lawfully ejected from the building, and he refused to leave. So, I guess you could say he was trespassing. He was also being belligerent, and some of his actions probably amounted to disturbing the peace and/or disorderly conduct. I don't think that they should have hit him with the taser, but I do think that he deserved to have his stupid ass dragged out of the building.
I don't know about that... The guy was being disruptive. He wasn't really asking legitimate questions but, rather, making accusations in the form of questions. And I think it's a fair assumption to make that the guy was purposefully trying to be disruptive, so he should have expected to get thrown out. Really, the guy was kind of a jerk.
Actually, the only thing I had a problem with in this whole situation was that the police hit him with a taser. There were plenty of police to drag him out if they wanted to. A taser isn't supposed to be used as a cattle prod.
I have to agree. Police seem to break out the taser whenever someone pisses them off, regardless of whether its use is warranted. Even watching COPS on TV, I have seen them taser suspects for not immediately following an order. A taser is not a cattle prod. It is a replacement for the club that police officers used to use. And it should only be used in cases where it would have previously been appropriate to use a club. It would not have been acceptable to smack this guy in the head with a club, so it shouldn't be acceptable to shock him with a taser either.
Maybe, but if so, the police played right into it.
I have always looked at the taser as a replacement for the club that police used to use. And being a replacement for the club, I think that it should only be used in circumstances that would have previously warranted using the club. So in any situation that the police have the itch to use their taser, they should ask themselves, "Would it be acceptable to smack this guy in the head with a club?" And if the answer is no, then the police shouldn't use a taser either.
They may deserve to lose money for being negligent, but that doesn't mean that the people who exploited the slot machine didn't commit a criminal act.
Consider this... A woman walks down the street in a bad part of town carrying a clear bag full of money. Someone robs her. Did she deserve to lose her money? Probably. Does the person who robbed her deserve to be charged with with a crime? Yes.
Speaking of sewage ponds... Even though 34,000 square kilometers of sewage ponds may reduce the CO2 footprint, I bet that it would create a hell of a methane footprint. ;)
This replaces the hook as my limb-replacement of choice.
At least Harding knew that his cronies were doing wrong and had a problem with it. From Wikipedia:
"My God, this is a hell of a job!" Harding said. "I have no trouble with my enemies, but my damn friends, my God-damned friends... they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!"
Bush just gives them a pat on the back...
I have read about this star before as well as other supernovas or stars that are likely to turn into supernovas soon. From what I remember, a supernova poses no threat unless the poles of the star are pointed towards us. It just makes a really bright "star" in the sky for a short amount of time. If one of the poles of the star is pointed at us, we get hit by a burst of gamma rays. The gamma rays destroy the ozone layer, and then the sun's UV kills large amounts of life on Earth.
People with addictive personalities can get addicted to anything that they find enjoyable. It seems a little crazy to me to make name a distinct medical condition for anything that is fun.
Maybe they could just get a bunch of interns to go through and blur out the faces...
We have employees at our company who use email as a primary communications medium. Most of these employees are off-site and travel more time than not, and when clients call in and ask for them, we recommend that the client emails them.
Ha. Haha... That's a good one. +1 Funny
Just because products have the same name doesn't always mean that there's any kind of trademark violation.
Consider Blizzard's Starcraft vs. Star Craft RV's.
While I agree that the student deserved to be punished, I fully disagree with the whole idea of "making an example" of someone. There should be equal punishment for equal crime.