How sure are we that these acts were not the result of some weird stilnox craze?
I know a couple of people who used them to help sleep, and they have some pretty serious side effects. One of our friends was regularly texting/emailing strange messages and pics to everyone, and a few times was found wandering around outside his appartment stark naked with little idea where he was or what was going on. He had no recolection of these events the next day.
I wouldn't be surprised if this lady knocked a couple back and something weird happened, she emailed a few friends, can't remember doing it and doesn't want to admit to using sleeping pills...
Because Linux & OSX run so many games, amirite?
*NEW* machines, from manufacturers such as Dell, do actually run Vista fine without the problems reported when it originally launched, believe it or not...
While I agree that a Laptop is never as good a gaming platform as a desktop, some people do not have the luxery of staying in one place long enough to be able to have a desktop as their weapon of choice.
I myself have been agonizing over the laptop vs. desktop choice since moving to the UK a few months ago. I am here for *upto* three years, but will be traveling back home for a few months next year, and am not 100% sure I will be here for the full 3 years. If I buy a desktop, it is stuck here - when I move, I have to sell it. If I go the laptop, I pay more for a machine that is not as fast, or comfortable, to use. But I can take it home with me...
I look forward to reading this article as soon as I can (blocked at work) and hope it helps me with my decission.
I have been working for my uncle for the past 13 months or so, completing a traineeship in network management. While it got me out of a rut and I am greatful for the past year of work, my simple message is this: DO NOT WORK FOR FAMILY.
At least... not in a small business environment.
While there have been reasonably good times, there have also been increasingly horrible (financially) times of late. I have repeatedly not been paid on time - of the last five weeks I have been paid for 2, several weeks late. Why? Because the company is going through a rough time. It will probably pass soon, but in the meantime, I have to worry about how I am paying the bills, rent, buying food, and how I am supposed to afford the bus to work each day. I am 21, have no savings and no credit card to help me out in the short term.
The stress created by this situation has been pretty tough to deal with - to the extent where I think I could now never see or speak to my uncle again in my life and be completely happy with that. To top things off, it has been decided that the company is restructuring around the time my traineeship finishs (end of the month), and surprise surprise - there is no position for me in the new formation of the company (until 2 weeks ago, everything I had been told was to the contrary of this).
So in about 2 weeks time, I have no job, no savings due to not being paid on time, one year of experiance as a trainee network administrator (worthless?) and a bit of paper. I also have some very harsh feelings for my uncle and probably wouldn't give him the time of day for how I feel I have been treated.
No, I would never ever work for a family member again - work WITH, perhaps, as long as they were as far removed from the chain of command as possible - but NEVER EVER again would I work FOR a family member. Things may go great, but when things go bad, and there WILL be bad things that happen somewhere along the line, then feelings will be hurt and family loyalties go out the door.
My primary reason for getting into IT was simple - I loved computers, and in the absence of any other great interests, it seemed the only logical thing to do. When I left High School, I tried my hand at a programming degree... which I decided wasn't for me. Next came a 6 month stint in tech support for a ISP - mind numbing to say the least. And now, after 13 months, I will have completed my Network Administration Traineeship with a small web developement company here in Australia.
I'm pretty damn sure I hate it.
It's as if my enthusiasm for computers, tinkering with them, just enjoying them... has been killed of. I can't be sure, but I don't think I could stand working with computers for the rest of my life.
A part of me is screaming to get the hell out of this place - the rest is saying in a more calm manner "and go where?":/
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Isn't this how a horde of ravenous mutant humans/zombies were unleashed to the world in the movie version of I Am Legend?
Oh well, I have every confidence that Will Sm
Nono, that only happens when you hack a Gibson.
How sure are we that these acts were not the result of some weird stilnox craze?
I know a couple of people who used them to help sleep, and they have some pretty serious side effects. One of our friends was regularly texting/emailing strange messages and pics to everyone, and a few times was found wandering around outside his appartment stark naked with little idea where he was or what was going on. He had no recolection of these events the next day.
I wouldn't be surprised if this lady knocked a couple back and something weird happened, she emailed a few friends, can't remember doing it and doesn't want to admit to using sleeping pills...
"Australia is worth looking at because of the immense amount of unoccupied land in that country. "
There are very good reasons why we have an immense amount of unoccupied land in Australia...
Picture Fallout 3, minus the radiation and ruins. And water. And trees. And people. Feel free to leave in the giant bugs and mutants though...
Because Linux & OSX run so many games, amirite? *NEW* machines, from manufacturers such as Dell, do actually run Vista fine without the problems reported when it originally launched, believe it or not...
While I agree that a Laptop is never as good a gaming platform as a desktop, some people do not have the luxery of staying in one place long enough to be able to have a desktop as their weapon of choice. I myself have been agonizing over the laptop vs. desktop choice since moving to the UK a few months ago. I am here for *upto* three years, but will be traveling back home for a few months next year, and am not 100% sure I will be here for the full 3 years. If I buy a desktop, it is stuck here - when I move, I have to sell it. If I go the laptop, I pay more for a machine that is not as fast, or comfortable, to use. But I can take it home with me... I look forward to reading this article as soon as I can (blocked at work) and hope it helps me with my decission.
Um, the 8800m is available for both 15" & 17" (also in SLI form for the later). Most benchmarks have it as performing at upto 2.5x the 8600.
I would say that's a significant improvement.
I've always said that poor people should be locked away...
exactly how much "fine detail" it is possible to make out in an object from which light does not escape...
welcome our new robotic ov... wait, hasn't this been done before?
I have been working for my uncle for the past 13 months or so, completing a traineeship in network management. While it got me out of a rut and I am greatful for the past year of work, my simple message is this: DO NOT WORK FOR FAMILY. At least... not in a small business environment. While there have been reasonably good times, there have also been increasingly horrible (financially) times of late. I have repeatedly not been paid on time - of the last five weeks I have been paid for 2, several weeks late. Why? Because the company is going through a rough time. It will probably pass soon, but in the meantime, I have to worry about how I am paying the bills, rent, buying food, and how I am supposed to afford the bus to work each day. I am 21, have no savings and no credit card to help me out in the short term. The stress created by this situation has been pretty tough to deal with - to the extent where I think I could now never see or speak to my uncle again in my life and be completely happy with that. To top things off, it has been decided that the company is restructuring around the time my traineeship finishs (end of the month), and surprise surprise - there is no position for me in the new formation of the company (until 2 weeks ago, everything I had been told was to the contrary of this). So in about 2 weeks time, I have no job, no savings due to not being paid on time, one year of experiance as a trainee network administrator (worthless?) and a bit of paper. I also have some very harsh feelings for my uncle and probably wouldn't give him the time of day for how I feel I have been treated. No, I would never ever work for a family member again - work WITH, perhaps, as long as they were as far removed from the chain of command as possible - but NEVER EVER again would I work FOR a family member. Things may go great, but when things go bad, and there WILL be bad things that happen somewhere along the line, then feelings will be hurt and family loyalties go out the door.
My primary reason for getting into IT was simple - I loved computers, and in the absence of any other great interests, it seemed the only logical thing to do. When I left High School, I tried my hand at a programming degree... which I decided wasn't for me. Next came a 6 month stint in tech support for a ISP - mind numbing to say the least. And now, after 13 months, I will have completed my Network Administration Traineeship with a small web developement company here in Australia. I'm pretty damn sure I hate it. It's as if my enthusiasm for computers, tinkering with them, just enjoying them... has been killed of. I can't be sure, but I don't think I could stand working with computers for the rest of my life. A part of me is screaming to get the hell out of this place - the rest is saying in a more calm manner "and go where?" :/