Or at least use one that doesn't advertise its contents. Several years ago, I bought my wife a laptop backpack by mail order from Eastern Mountain Sports. The thing arrived, and it had "Laptop" prominently embroidered on it. We sent it back and, after a couple of phone conversations, got the same model without the embroidery. Granted, a plain old backpack full of boring school books is also likely to be stolen, but why advertise "expensive, fencible item inside"? FWIW, I like my current backpack's black color. If I duck into a store on the way home from work, it's nice to shove it into the shadows under the dash, so that I'm more likely to have an intact window when I return.
If you've still got a laptop that you can't find any use for and I haven't given you any ideas that can work, I have one more possibility to share with you. . . . I've still got a job that your laptop can handle.
As long as you have a floppy or CD-ROM drive on the laptop, you can create a bootable FreeSCO disk that will turn your laptop into a fully functional and highly configurable router. . . .
My boat anchor is a Zenith 180, with two (count 'em, two 720 KB floppy drives. Somehow, I don't think I want to route my traffic through the 2400 baud modem. (Eww! I just had an X.25 flashback!) Heck, I just barely managed to convince my wife that we need basic DSL.
Wouldn't go any faster [than 35-45 km/h] on a pedal bike, leave that to the stunt people.
It really depends on the bike. Mine feels fine going down hills at 50 km/hr, but the time I hit 88, it felt awfully squirrelly. OTOH, the tandem at 60 km/hr and better felt like that's what it was made to do.
I vote for jettisoning the motor entirely. Add fenders and a rechargable light set instead. For geek points, add solar cells to charge the battery while you're in the office.
If you can't trust the babysitter to watch your kid without your having a camera on him/her, do you really want to leave your firstborn in her/his care?
I agree with the author's point about not needing all that power, but I question his stating that the lower-powered laptop was sufficient to satisfy impatient engineering students.
My university experience may be different than most, but I recall a severe imbalance between the kinds of things I wanted to have (100 watt stereo with a direct drive turntable, a magnetic needle cartridge, and a reversing cassette deck) and the things I got by with (Dad's retired 1960's turntable plugged into a shortwave radio's AUX jack via patch cables from Radio Shack) because the money to buy the former wasn't there.
I personally would have killed for a thing like a laptop, which would have not only allowed me to write my papers faster than my non-correcting electric typewriter, but also could have been used to speed up the tedious process of transcribing citations in the library. But there was no such thing in those days, and had there been, it would have still been out of reach. Therefore, I suspect that anyone who couldn't afford a hot, multi-GHz laptop would be satisfied with whatever he could get.
Also, why are those of you who are under 30 staring at me like I'm an old geezer?
Why not jump on Cisco (or whoever) for selling the Chinese government the equipment that helps them maintain so much control over what people can see and do on the Internet? And I'm sure that Motorola must be accomodating to the Chinese government in some way (beyond giving a huge chunk of the business and intellectual property as required to do business there) in the phones they make for sale in China.
For that matter, why not jump on me, or you, for not putting down that "Made in China" item in the store? Moral outrage should not be aimed at one company.
What worries me most about China is the skill with which they are able to control what the citizens see and believe, to the point that their notion of reality is so very different from ours. Differences of opinion (as between the U.S. and the French, for example) are natural, but when the lens through which information is filtered is not filtered, but distorted -- nay, completely altered -- there's a problem. Add to that the fact that China is or is becoming the largest market in the world, and you have the potential for something with far more impact than the U.S., and even more warped!
I put my name and phone number on the back of my CF cards, on the theory that if I lose one, some nice person might call me up, arrange to return it, and receive monetary thanks equivalent to his postage and a significant portion of the value of the media.
Now I'm rethinking my strategy. Maybe I should erase that information. I'd hate for someone to post my photos of my life AND my name!
We had a similar situation in D.C. when a hurricane limped into our area. My employer, which "never closes", announced on the weather emergency phone number, that our offices were closed. When we came in two days later (office "closed" both days), we were told we would have to take vacation leave or lose the pay -- even the exempt employees.
What I got from reading the labor regulations was that if you're exempt and show up for work on the days your business is open, you're due the full week's salary. But if you decide to blow off work one day (even if it's for a hurricane), they can dock you for that day. Being exempt also means that you don't have to be paid overtime. Finally, your employer's classification of your job as exempt or non-exempt takes a back seat to the Labor Dept.'s assessment of what you do.
In my office, there are a number of people who are lawyers by training, so this wasn't taken lying down. After a week or two of digesting the various letters of complaint to HR and the publication of the company's name in the newspaper's employee Q&A column, the company's stance was reversed. It turned out that one manager a couple of links up the chain didn't know the labor rules relating to exempt employees.
The Bush administration just made some significant changes relating to overtime and so forth, so you would be well-advised to read the new regs before declaring war. For that matter, too, you should consult an attorney who deals with employment law. (I can recommend one for Northern Virginia.)
The irony in my situation is that on the first day of the hurricane (which came along as a bad windstorm around mid-afternoon), I would not have gone into work had the office been open, because I wanted to be home to deal with things like damage to the house, etc. On the second day, when there was no damage to speak of, I would have gladly gone into work.
If you managed to survive your dressing-down (what is "PHB-style", anyway) without saying anything to get yourself fired, count yourself lucky and file a simple, polite resignation, then go out gracefully. You never know when you might need a reference of some kind, or who you might meet in the future. I work in the Washington, DC area, which has, what, 3-5 million people? And yet I keep meeting people who know other people I know, who may use the opinion of the common acquaintance to judge how to deal with me. Corporations may not give references, but people who work for them do, both formally and informally. Unless you are prepared to leave your employer off your resume and have an inexplicable gap in your work history, you're better off going quietly, without a show. What you don't say will speak volumes.
.... and leave it unlocked. A minister I knew worked in East St. Louis for a spell, and he found that leaving his Dodge Dart unlocked prevented anyone from breaking out the windows, because they figured there was nothing in the car to steal.
There were, however, far fewer people sleeping in cars in those days.
I just finished reading a book about ADD, and that's the first thing that came to my mind.
The book also said ADD occurs in about 1/20 of the population, so that would only account for a small number of the "survivors". But I'm also wondering if a greater proportion of the population has some degree of the symptoms of ADD. A lot of what I read about in the book seemed normal to me, but I didn't even score as borderline in the included evaluation questions.
I can't understand why people get all upset about the "cancer risk" of cellular phones but no one worries about the risk of cordless telephones, which also operate in frequency bands of a very short wavelength. Oh, and 802.11(b/g)!
I did, and now the marker won't come off of my screen even though I'm on a different web site.
Unfortunately, click-wrap (or whatever you want to call it) contracts significantly weaken the negotiating position of the customer. You can accept the terms and get whatever product or service is offered, or you can not accept the terms and not get it. Or you can call the vendor's call center and try to get a waiver of this or that objectionable provision, but the person you talk to is unlikely to be empowered to do anything about it. The vendor will only do something if enough people complain and they see the financial impact.
The situation is only slightly better in the paper world. Many salespeople, etc., who represent the vendor, are trained to reject changes to the standard, pre-printed contract. I think also that it is necessary for both parties to initial changes to the contract for them to be valid. (I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure on this point.)
When the revolution comes, remember to do the lawyers after you do Darl McBride.
Legal disclaimer: I am not suggesting that anyone "do" Darl McBride, unless it's with a cream pie.
Wouldn't you have to recalibrate the scope to take into account the fact that the radio signal isn't going to drop the way a bullet does? I would think that you could just wire-tie the scope to the axis of the antenna, maybe inserting some insulation in between them. No need to go around upsetting people who are afraid of guns.
A question: If my rifle is a muzzleloader, does this mean I have to use Morse code instead of Bluetooth?
Close. I see here in the top right corner of the product overview: HP recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional. How's that for expressing confidence in Linux?
6. The vehicle would still operate if the owner yanked it out, the way I did that damnable seat belt buzzer in my VW, and insurance companies/govt could not require it to be installed.
BTW, this is not because I hate seat belts. No one rides in my car without a seat belt. But the buzzer had no function other than to remind me to do something any idiot knows he should do. It didn't warn me if I left the lights on.
Slashdot Mirror
Or at least use one that doesn't advertise its contents. Several years ago, I bought my wife a laptop backpack by mail order from Eastern Mountain Sports. The thing arrived, and it had "Laptop" prominently embroidered on it. We sent it back and, after a couple of phone conversations, got the same model without the embroidery. Granted, a plain old backpack full of boring school books is also likely to be stolen, but why advertise "expensive, fencible item inside"? FWIW, I like my current backpack's black color. If I duck into a store on the way home from work, it's nice to shove it into the shadows under the dash, so that I'm more likely to have an intact window when I return.
My boat anchor is a Zenith 180, with two (count 'em, two 720 KB floppy drives. Somehow, I don't think I want to route my traffic through the 2400 baud modem. (Eww! I just had an X.25 flashback!) Heck, I just barely managed to convince my wife that we need basic DSL.
It really depends on the bike. Mine feels fine going down hills at 50 km/hr, but the time I hit 88, it felt awfully squirrelly. OTOH, the tandem at 60 km/hr and better felt like that's what it was made to do.
I vote for jettisoning the motor entirely. Add fenders and a rechargable light set instead. For geek points, add solar cells to charge the battery while you're in the office.
If you can't trust the babysitter to watch your kid without your having a camera on him/her, do you really want to leave your firstborn in her/his care?
Scott McNealy got my dander up in the quotes in this Government Computer News article.
And U.S. politics is not a confusing system? (Or U.K., France, etc.)
My university experience may be different than most, but I recall a severe imbalance between the kinds of things I wanted to have (100 watt stereo with a direct drive turntable, a magnetic needle cartridge, and a reversing cassette deck) and the things I got by with (Dad's retired 1960's turntable plugged into a shortwave radio's AUX jack via patch cables from Radio Shack) because the money to buy the former wasn't there.
I personally would have killed for a thing like a laptop, which would have not only allowed me to write my papers faster than my non-correcting electric typewriter, but also could have been used to speed up the tedious process of transcribing citations in the library. But there was no such thing in those days, and had there been, it would have still been out of reach. Therefore, I suspect that anyone who couldn't afford a hot, multi-GHz laptop would be satisfied with whatever he could get.
Also, why are those of you who are under 30 staring at me like I'm an old geezer?
For that matter, why not jump on me, or you, for not putting down that "Made in China" item in the store? Moral outrage should not be aimed at one company.
What worries me most about China is the skill with which they are able to control what the citizens see and believe, to the point that their notion of reality is so very different from ours. Differences of opinion (as between the U.S. and the French, for example) are natural, but when the lens through which information is filtered is not filtered, but distorted -- nay, completely altered -- there's a problem. Add to that the fact that China is or is becoming the largest market in the world, and you have the potential for something with far more impact than the U.S., and even more warped!
Next, I guess we'll learn that Symantec produces anti-virus software for a profit.
Now I'm rethinking my strategy. Maybe I should erase that information. I'd hate for someone to post my photos of my life AND my name!
What I got from reading the labor regulations was that if you're exempt and show up for work on the days your business is open, you're due the full week's salary. But if you decide to blow off work one day (even if it's for a hurricane), they can dock you for that day. Being exempt also means that you don't have to be paid overtime. Finally, your employer's classification of your job as exempt or non-exempt takes a back seat to the Labor Dept.'s assessment of what you do.
In my office, there are a number of people who are lawyers by training, so this wasn't taken lying down. After a week or two of digesting the various letters of complaint to HR and the publication of the company's name in the newspaper's employee Q&A column, the company's stance was reversed. It turned out that one manager a couple of links up the chain didn't know the labor rules relating to exempt employees.
The Bush administration just made some significant changes relating to overtime and so forth, so you would be well-advised to read the new regs before declaring war. For that matter, too, you should consult an attorney who deals with employment law. (I can recommend one for Northern Virginia.)
The irony in my situation is that on the first day of the hurricane (which came along as a bad windstorm around mid-afternoon), I would not have gone into work had the office been open, because I wanted to be home to deal with things like damage to the house, etc. On the second day, when there was no damage to speak of, I would have gladly gone into work.
Given Microsoft's record with security, if I were the RIAA, they're the last ones I would ask to design my security standard.
If you managed to survive your dressing-down (what is "PHB-style", anyway) without saying anything to get yourself fired, count yourself lucky and file a simple, polite resignation, then go out gracefully. You never know when you might need a reference of some kind, or who you might meet in the future. I work in the Washington, DC area, which has, what, 3-5 million people? And yet I keep meeting people who know other people I know, who may use the opinion of the common acquaintance to judge how to deal with me. Corporations may not give references, but people who work for them do, both formally and informally. Unless you are prepared to leave your employer off your resume and have an inexplicable gap in your work history, you're better off going quietly, without a show. What you don't say will speak volumes.
.... and leave it unlocked. A minister I knew worked in East St. Louis for a spell, and he found that leaving his Dodge Dart unlocked prevented anyone from breaking out the windows, because they figured there was nothing in the car to steal.
There were, however, far fewer people sleeping in cars in those days.
I just finished reading a book about ADD, and that's the first thing that came to my mind. The book also said ADD occurs in about 1/20 of the population, so that would only account for a small number of the "survivors". But I'm also wondering if a greater proportion of the population has some degree of the symptoms of ADD. A lot of what I read about in the book seemed normal to me, but I didn't even score as borderline in the included evaluation questions.
Don't throw me in that briar patch!
(Around here, they've got that stupid NT stuff!)
Give a man a hammer, and every problem looks like a nail. Give him a robot, and it's a death match.
...that I try to convince my daughter that Mickey Mouse is EVIL.
I can't understand why people get all upset about the "cancer risk" of cellular phones but no one worries about the risk of cordless telephones, which also operate in frequency bands of a very short wavelength. Oh, and 802.11(b/g)!
I did, and now the marker won't come off of my screen even though I'm on a different web site.
Unfortunately, click-wrap (or whatever you want to call it) contracts significantly weaken the negotiating position of the customer. You can accept the terms and get whatever product or service is offered, or you can not accept the terms and not get it. Or you can call the vendor's call center and try to get a waiver of this or that objectionable provision, but the person you talk to is unlikely to be empowered to do anything about it. The vendor will only do something if enough people complain and they see the financial impact.
The situation is only slightly better in the paper world. Many salespeople, etc., who represent the vendor, are trained to reject changes to the standard, pre-printed contract. I think also that it is necessary for both parties to initial changes to the contract for them to be valid. (I am not a lawyer, so I am not sure on this point.)
When the revolution comes, remember to do the lawyers after you do Darl McBride.
Legal disclaimer: I am not suggesting that anyone "do" Darl McBride, unless it's with a cream pie.
Wouldn't you have to recalibrate the scope to take into account the fact that the radio signal isn't going to drop the way a bullet does? I would think that you could just wire-tie the scope to the axis of the antenna, maybe inserting some insulation in between them. No need to go around upsetting people who are afraid of guns.
A question: If my rifle is a muzzleloader, does this mean I have to use Morse code instead of Bluetooth?
Arbitrage does exist, as humans do not have perfect knowlege of the future.
I didn't realize humans had any knowledge of the future.
BTW, you sound like Allen (sp?) Greenspan. (That's a compliment.) Maybe you'll have his job in a few years?
Close. I see here in the top right corner of the product overview: HP recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional. How's that for expressing confidence in Linux?
6. The vehicle would still operate if the owner yanked it out, the way I did that damnable seat belt buzzer in my VW, and insurance companies/govt could not require it to be installed.
BTW, this is not because I hate seat belts. No one rides in my car without a seat belt. But the buzzer had no function other than to remind me to do something any idiot knows he should do. It didn't warn me if I left the lights on.