"Not to mention that the first shuttle launch was in 1981 and previous to that the last time the US was in space was in 1975. So that's 6 years of downtime. If those people can handle it then then we can certainly handle it now."
"...and is the manager's employment terminated before the back of his head hits the ground as the result of blunt force trauma to the front of his face?
Unless it's all off the books (which in itself can be tracked), how does a foreman deny someone on the job site that's been paid is a worker?"
The OP is playing out a fantasy, don't get drawn in.
>After these idiot time changes, I'm usually dangerously sleep-deprived until about April.
Part of the reason I moved to Arizona. I'm not kidding at all.
I *was* kidding when I claimed that being in a Western time zone has long term benefits for someone who isn't a morning person, but now I'm serious about that as well. A lot has gone on in this country before I've crawled out of bed. The stock exchanges are open on the East Coast and have been for a while, for instance. Lots and lots of stuff happens before I have to wake up and I seriously believe this makes life more comfortable for me. I sure as hell have no intention of moving East from here.
I worked with a guy who maintained remote sensing equipment on a series of really high towers. I don't know how much he was paid but it was an academic job, very unlikely above $45-50K.
Last time I got called I got excluded, I think because of my answer to "What magazines do you read?" (Strategy & Tactics, Circuit Cellar, Computer Music -- I didn't even mention any of the really technical things I read, or nerds-only titles, or anything political).
A time before that I got excluded, I think because of my answer about bumper stickers. (I described, loud and clear, the suite of profoundly anti-Republican/anti-War/anti-Bush stickers that were on my car at the time.) That time I was not surprised to be excluded in voir dire, but the other time I was very surprised.
Yes, once you realize you don't care what anyone else thinks is the moment when you start winning. I see constant reminders that there are people whose behavior is based on the opinions of others, and I don't even think I live in the same world as them. I don't even understand where the motivation comes from to live that way.
The value of that move depends greatly on where he worked and for how long -- commercial pilot starting salaries are often lower than public school teachers.
The audio software REAPER does very well. It's not stated as a shareware distribution, but it's precisely the same in practice. I don't think very many people buy the commercial license, but people certainly have bought personal licenses (myself included) even though the only demo limitation is a short timeout on a dialog when you first start the program.
>If the skills of a pc-fixer are worthless, why even ask someone to do it?
Say for instance that I have all those skills and more. Say for instance that my time is valued in the $300/hour range. Say for further instance that you have been unemployed for six months, living in my guest room, eating from my fridge.
I'd say it might be in your interest to fix my PC or clean my gutters or any other menial task I put you to.
My BBS was literally an AMD 386-DX-40 system mounted on a cork board, and I ran it like that for more than a year. At first I was just desperate, but I left it that way partly out of laziness and partly because I got a laugh out of it. I guess I should have grounded a tang of the mobo to the psu, but it was never a problem. The only thing that ever failed on my board was a modem.
I'm guessing that recent machines (e.g., this millennium) are really sensitive to airflow, and it would be a bad idea not to have a case at all, or a case without good airflow.
ANSI C can represent an n-dimensional array of bits, which is all graphics is. Getting that array of bits onto a display device requires an interface that isn't defined in, but also not precluded by, an ANSI C implementation. So I guess I don't see the problem.
It's boring if it doesn't mesh with your imagination, and it's repetitive only in the sense that no two games are ever alike.
On the other hand after you've ascended a few times, the easier class/race combos do tend to become routine, and I guess you can start to see the game as a series of easy steps:
Survive to level 7. Do the mines. Do Soko. Do medusa. Do the castle. Do the quest. Get the bell. Get the candlestick from Vlad. Get the book. Find the square. Get the amulet. Do the planes. Ascend.
But no matter how many times you've done this, it's still a challenge and always has some unpredictable elements. And you can *always* die on the next turn if you aren't careful.
If you don't enjoy this game or this kind of game, maybe don't play it. It is interesting that you'd go out of your way just to criticize it on a forum where maybe one person in ten has ever played the game...
>While there are not (as yet, as far as I've seen) any people yelling and shouting for heads to role because some of their precious data is lost, I expect it to start soon.
I would expect it to start from an institutional user of Gmail, not from a free user. I'm getting the impression that it isn't well-known even among Slashdotters that there are a lot of medium-sized businesses with Google Mail as their MX.
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>We HAVE to find a way to sustain life beyond our biosphere.
What sort of time frame do we have?
>it has worked out to be closer to $1.5 billion per flight.
How much of that money was put into a pile and burned, and how much of it went into the US or any other economy?
I never understand when people talk about costs as if the money is destroyed.
"Not to mention that the first shuttle launch was in 1981 and previous to that the last time the US was in space was in 1975. So that's 6 years of downtime. If those people can handle it then then we can certainly handle it now."
Ummmm... lots of us are the same people...
>There's a lot of dead cosmonauts out there.
I'm looking forward to seeing your credible evidence to support this remarkable claim.
On any digital signal, comparing a random source of bits should get you 50% accuracy.
"...and is the manager's employment terminated before the back of his head hits the ground as the result of blunt force trauma to the front of his face?
Unless it's all off the books (which in itself can be tracked), how does a foreman deny someone on the job site that's been paid is a worker?"
The OP is playing out a fantasy, don't get drawn in.
"If you fall from rigging, your employment is terminated before you hit the ground."
PLEASE say that within earshot of someone who will testify...
>After these idiot time changes, I'm usually dangerously sleep-deprived until about April.
Part of the reason I moved to Arizona. I'm not kidding at all.
I *was* kidding when I claimed that being in a Western time zone has long term benefits for someone who isn't a morning person, but now I'm serious about that as well. A lot has gone on in this country before I've crawled out of bed. The stock exchanges are open on the East Coast and have been for a while, for instance. Lots and lots of stuff happens before I have to wake up and I seriously believe this makes life more comfortable for me. I sure as hell have no intention of moving East from here.
I worked with a guy who maintained remote sensing equipment on a series of really high towers. I don't know how much he was paid but it was an academic job, very unlikely above $45-50K.
Last time I got called I got excluded, I think because of my answer to "What magazines do you read?" (Strategy & Tactics, Circuit Cellar, Computer Music -- I didn't even mention any of the really technical things I read, or nerds-only titles, or anything political).
A time before that I got excluded, I think because of my answer about bumper stickers. (I described, loud and clear, the suite of profoundly anti-Republican/anti-War/anti-Bush stickers that were on my car at the time.) That time I was not surprised to be excluded in voir dire, but the other time I was very surprised.
Yes, once you realize you don't care what anyone else thinks is the moment when you start winning.
I see constant reminders that there are people whose behavior is based on the opinions of others, and I don't even think I live in the same world as them. I don't even understand where the motivation comes from to live that way.
I'm surprised this didn't get Manhattan shut down for a full day, and didn't get the robot maker "renditioned"....
We tried but could never get a license deal.
I had to stop reading with Osterman's comment: "But even though Exchange is a REALLY good email system..."
>quitting his job as a commercial airline pilot.
The value of that move depends greatly on where he worked and for how long -- commercial pilot starting salaries are often lower than public school teachers.
The audio software REAPER does very well. It's not stated as a shareware distribution, but it's precisely the same in practice. I don't think very many people buy the commercial license, but people certainly have bought personal licenses (myself included) even though the only demo limitation is a short timeout on a dialog when you first start the program.
>If the skills of a pc-fixer are worthless, why even ask someone to do it?
Say for instance that I have all those skills and more. Say for instance that my time is valued in the $300/hour range.
Say for further instance that you have been unemployed for six months, living in my guest room, eating from my fridge.
I'd say it might be in your interest to fix my PC or clean my gutters or any other menial task I put you to.
I click on everything. Then, if anything at all goes wrong, I simply restart my virtual machine from the read-only image.
I *do* have a factory job. I develop systems for manufacturing automation :-)
Today on Facebook, I saw for the first time a photograph of my Great-Great-Grandparents from 1889...
My BBS was literally an AMD 386-DX-40 system mounted on a cork board, and I ran it like that for more than a year. At first I was just desperate, but I left it that way partly out of laziness and partly because I got a laugh out of it. I guess I should have grounded a tang of the mobo to the psu, but it was never a problem. The only thing that ever failed on my board was a modem.
I'm guessing that recent machines (e.g., this millennium) are really sensitive to airflow, and it would be a bad idea not to have a case at all, or a case without good airflow.
I still play a flavor of the classic Star Trek game pretty often.
ANSI C can represent an n-dimensional array of bits, which is all graphics is. Getting that array of bits onto a display device requires an interface that isn't defined in, but also not precluded by, an ANSI C implementation. So I guess I don't see the problem.
It's boring if it doesn't mesh with your imagination, and it's repetitive only in the sense that no two games are ever alike.
On the other hand after you've ascended a few times, the easier class/race combos do tend to become routine, and I guess you can start to see the game as a series of easy steps:
Survive to level 7. Do the mines. Do Soko. Do medusa. Do the castle. Do the quest. Get the bell. Get the candlestick from Vlad. Get the book. Find the square. Get the amulet. Do the planes. Ascend.
But no matter how many times you've done this, it's still a challenge and always has some unpredictable elements. And you can *always* die on the next turn if you aren't careful.
If you don't enjoy this game or this kind of game, maybe don't play it. It is interesting that you'd go out of your way just to criticize it on a forum where maybe one person in ten has ever played the game...
Lots of people are paying for GMail. Often, their users don't even know, because to them it looks like "user@somedomain.com" and IMAP.
>While there are not (as yet, as far as I've seen) any people yelling and shouting for heads to role because some of their precious data is lost, I expect it to start soon.
I would expect it to start from an institutional user of Gmail, not from a free user. I'm getting the impression that it isn't well-known even among Slashdotters that there are a lot of medium-sized businesses with Google Mail as their MX.