How often does the cell phone communicate with the nearest antenna? Few times a day, not included turning on or off? WHY OH WHY DOES IT NOT SYNCHRONISE THE TIME??!! NAME ME ONE, JUST ONE NORMAL (i.e not a trimmed down laptop) MOBILE PHONE THAT IS CAPABLE OF DOING THAT!!
$2.00 per daytime hour, nightly none, another 30 cts per kilometer. $65 initial costs, after that only pay what you use. At $3.00 per liter of petrol these prices are fair. (Our government doesn't subsidize the major oil-companies).
I guess you don't have to pay car insurence, MOT, repairs? Amish?
This also knocks off the added-cost argument from the parent troll. I'll probably go this route on my next mac mini.
" requiring people to obtain a XP SP2 CD and install it": it's marketed at people who purchased the software in the past, and are in need of new hardware and willing to try. Another thing: your next mac will have Bootcamp included in the OS (10.5), I'd think it a bit sad if you still had to go to MacMall to have someone push F8 for you and type the 28-character (possibly dodgy OEM?) Windows validation keyfor you. Grandparent has valid arguments, and is certainly not a troll.
I probably won't have the supported HW, so playing it is not really an option. But picture this: 40 years from now, I'll sit in my rocking chair with a grandson on my knee, and I'll show him the box, and I'll mutter something like "Good things come to those who wait" or "'Forever' can take some time".
All that is really interesting to me: being able to read whilst waiting for (insert favorit waiting-for-event). So: veeery limited pdf-support, rtf, txt, that sort of stuff. I could export my whole contactlist to some comma-delimited format so it was portable among database applications, yet readible for someone like me. 128 meg would mean A LOT again, and usb would be sufficient: it could mount as a flash-drive. It would be a usb-drive with a display, no input.
So thats right, throw away a perfectly good book, and the rest of the planet with it.
You are right in some ways: there are http://www.snopes.com/katrina/charity/library.asp institutions that really would appreciate secondhand books: hospitals, Salvation Army, schools, homes for the elderly. Better contact them first before showing up with several cubic meters of Louis Lamour pockets though:)
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I wonder: what if you make it more realistic, and more difficult? Suppose the first 3 rooms are with activated sprinklers, the next ones with 5 degrees Celsius heating, then some dry ones, but with 95 dB of Britney Spears, backwards, echoing. Puzzels to open a door? Heck, even with a key and a lock it will take a looong time to get those frozen fingers to unlock the door! Randomise the rooms and I think it will be very unpleasant to play, yet very pleasant to finish. Shouldn't be much more expensive, but the game probably would last longer, and when every move was recorded on DVD the player could buy that as a souvenir, for extra 10 bucks of course.
Two things come to mind immediately: 1) the possibility of Moon being once part of the Eart but broken of in early development stage of the Earth by huge meteor-impact. The increased radio-activity near or in the Earths crust making surface-life-mutations more possible. 2) Also the tides that keep the crust moving, and water flowing also enhaced the possibilities. And Moon shields as well, being an umpbrella against metors, especially the big ones. I might have read it in a SF-book, I certainly wasn't there at the time.
Problem here is: they don't really care, and you can't make them care. There's no independent organisation (NO, SLASHDOT ISN'T) that can make them rethink their decisions. They say you're banned, goodbye, you're the weakest link. Online Gaming just has become a normal business, where customer sometimes get screwed, or just are subject to someone with a monday-morning-temper.
A similar thing is the case in the Netherlands: the equipment to eavesdrop on phones, record and collect conversations etc used by the police are from Comverse. It's an Isrealian company, with employees embedded in the Dutch intelligence office. Maintenance can only be done by Comverse, remotely suddenly the memory gets downloaded by Comverse, equipment price is up to 3 times higher than comparable European equipment, and of lower quality. No, nobody gets to see the source code. Yes, the US uses this brand, and Amdocs, too. Enjoy...
If you wanna be proud of anything, be proud of the fact that you are part of a race, sexuality, gender, and religion that has not been publicly ridiculed, tortured, eradicated, and had their ass kicked six ways from sunday for the past x-hundred years.
Or be proud of something you have achieved, or played part in the achievement. Proud of an action, or a decision nót to act. Proud of a thought perhaps. I think it a bit absurd to be proud of my skincolor, gender, sexual preference or righthandedness. It was given to me, 'there you are, enjoy', and I settled with it. 1001 islamic inventions? Doesn't make sense to me. White pride? Nope. Gay pride? Nyet. Male domination? Only because of genetic muscular advantage, ONLY. But nothing to be proud of.
So isn't that a success? They've basically proven that DoSsing a site that's administered by someone else is a quick way of taking it down.
I'm afraid I can't agree with you.Breaking OSX Security was the challenge, not "how to make it possible to win the contest by making the other one impossible to win or even compete". Example: let's say two persons had a contest: who was the most intelligent. And say 5 minutes before the contest started, person A shot person B in the head, several times. It would be a bit ridiculous to claim that person A won, wouldn't it.
I see no pricing on the site you linked to.
Well, I was not giving you the login-details, were I? If a school is really interested in mass-licensing MS-software, a login can be supplied. Alternatively I could provide a link to Ch3aP M$-z0ftw4re, but it got lost in my spamfilter.
http://www.apsitdiensten.nl/ There you go. It's in Dutch, too bad, but it's a link that's appropriate for this schools' situation. Our school has a "all-covered everywhere" license. Allowing me for instance to install everything from MS at my home. They're really cheap when it comes to converting children... but's it's payback time in the real world.
By Enigma I mean the 4-wheeled version, used by the Germans since early 1942.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141926/trivia mentions the efforts by the Americans whose forces captured no German Naval Enigma material until 1944. (ouch, nasty copy&paste)
And from the Imperial War Museum Londonhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/10/enig ma/enigma12.htm:
"The British sailors climbed into the conning tower and began a search of the deserted submarine. The bookshelves still contained books of every description - navigation manuals, seamanship manuals, code books and signal books. The Bulldog's telegraphist pointed to an interesting piece of equipment that looked like a typewriter. This, along with all the books from the shelves, was transferred with utmost care to HMS Bulldog. It was important that everything was kept dry as the code books and signal books were printed in ink that disappeared if they were dropped in seawater.
On Bulldog's arrival back in Britain they were met by a representative from Bletchley Park, who photographed every page of every book. The 'interesting piece of equipment' turned out to be an Enigma machine, and the books contained the Enigma codes being used by the German navy."
One way to speed up the decryption: when decryption of a certain message took too long, they would request the RAF a bombardment of a harbor or city. Odds were fairly high that after the bombardment the next messages would contain the name of the city or harbor, probably as well as the word 'bombardment'. Also weather forecasts were often included. Once they knew that, encryption was sped up fast.
And no, despite the Hollywood-movie suggests: it were the Brittons that captured the Enigma.
By the time a format is nearing end of life there will be means to transfer things to a newer format.
For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk the floppy disk. Dozens of sizes, yet there always was a way to transfer stuff to a newer format. Off course one can always be careful not to damage the original hardware as well. Sing, hum and whistle are also a very universal format as well, yet not that transferable. My point is: there will always be a transition option, period.
What is it like to be a school district admin? What kind of unique things do you have to do that are outside the realm of 'normal' IT departments? When is the most hectic/slow time for you? How big of a network do you manage? Also, do you have any favorite stories about being a school district IT admin?"
It's two jobs: the server-side/network-architecture/educational-licen ses etc. on one hand. On the other hand... : replacing stolen mice, replacing psu's (the 220/110-switch is a favorite), imaging hd's, replacing stolen networkcables, removing chewing gum from the opticals (cd/dvd-players), replacing stolen keyboards, replacing coffee+sugar+milk-keyboards, "Why is the FTP-port locked/closed?!", replacing VGA-cables, "Drop whatever you're doing and clean the administrators' room", replacing stolen DVI-VGA-adapters, "I want an inventory of all that's in the school, including everything I moved and never told you about", no holidays because that's the only time people are away so it's the busiest time for the slav^H^H^H^Hservicedesk, those nice IDE-collegues (IDE as in: master and slave...), being someones best friend the other day for fixing his laptop and his enemy the next ict-vs-teacher-meetings (nice knife in your back! why thank you sir, i believe it's yours?): so in short, just what I would advise you for other jobs,
to answer the question: What is it like to be a school district admin?
the answer is definitely:
GO ASK YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMIN! HE MIGHT KNOW BETTER THAN SOMEONE FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE!
And it is my day off, to raise my children (full-time job but way more satisfactory).
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How often does the cell phone communicate with the nearest antenna? Few times a day, not included turning on or off? WHY OH WHY DOES IT NOT SYNCHRONISE THE TIME??!! NAME ME ONE, JUST ONE NORMAL (i.e not a trimmed down laptop) MOBILE PHONE THAT IS CAPABLE OF DOING THAT!!
What's the use of being invisible when others aren't depending on their eyes? Would a blind person be aware that another person was invisible?
Yes, a US-live is as valuable as an Iraqi live.
But: a female Iraqi/Iranian/Saoudian live is not as valuable as a female US live. Lemme guess: you're male?
$2.00 per daytime hour, nightly none, another 30 cts per kilometer. $65 initial costs, after that only pay what you use. At $3.00 per liter of petrol these prices are fair. (Our government doesn't subsidize the major oil-companies).
I guess you don't have to pay car insurence, MOT, repairs? Amish?
" requiring people to obtain a XP SP2 CD and install it": it's marketed at people who purchased the software in the past, and are in need of new hardware and willing to try.
Another thing: your next mac will have Bootcamp included in the OS (10.5), I'd think it a bit sad if you still had to go to MacMall to have someone push F8 for you and type the 28-character (possibly dodgy OEM?) Windows validation keyfor you. Grandparent has valid arguments, and is certainly not a troll.
Ouch!! Yup, I would've 'lost' the database too. Considering the alternatives! Emigrating to the Canadas starts to sound good :c)
Just a thought.
Please let me dream!
...I think I just described an ipod ...
You are right in some ways: there are http://www.snopes.com/katrina/charity/library.asp institutions that really would appreciate secondhand books: hospitals, Salvation Army, schools, homes for the elderly. Better contact them first before showing up with several cubic meters of Louis Lamour pockets though :)
Shouldn't be much more expensive, but the game probably would last longer, and when every move was recorded on DVD the player could buy that as a souvenir, for extra 10 bucks of course.
Just my 2 cts :)
Two things come to mind immediately: 1) the possibility of Moon being once part of the Eart but broken of in early development stage of the Earth by huge meteor-impact. The increased radio-activity near or in the Earths crust making surface-life-mutations more possible. 2) Also the tides that keep the crust moving, and water flowing also enhaced the possibilities. And Moon shields as well, being an umpbrella against metors, especially the big ones.
I might have read it in a SF-book, I certainly wasn't there at the time.
Problem here is: they don't really care, and you can't make them care. There's no independent organisation (NO, SLASHDOT ISN'T) that can make them rethink their decisions. They say you're banned, goodbye, you're the weakest link.
Online Gaming just has become a normal business, where customer sometimes get screwed, or just are subject to someone with a monday-morning-temper.
A similar thing is the case in the Netherlands: the equipment to eavesdrop on phones, record and collect conversations etc used by the police are from Comverse. It's an Isrealian company, with employees embedded in the Dutch intelligence office. Maintenance can only be done by Comverse, remotely suddenly the memory gets downloaded by Comverse, equipment price is up to 3 times higher than comparable European equipment, and of lower quality.
No, nobody gets to see the source code.
Yes, the US uses this brand, and Amdocs, too. Enjoy...
If you wanna be proud of anything, be proud of the fact that you are part of a race, sexuality, gender, and religion that has not been publicly ridiculed, tortured, eradicated, and had their ass kicked six ways from sunday for the past x-hundred years.
Or be proud of something you have achieved, or played part in the achievement. Proud of an action, or a decision nót to act. Proud of a thought perhaps. I think it a bit absurd to be proud of my skincolor, gender, sexual preference or righthandedness. It was given to me, 'there you are, enjoy', and I settled with it. 1001 islamic inventions? Doesn't make sense to me. White pride? Nope. Gay pride? Nyet. Male domination? Only because of genetic muscular advantage, ONLY. But nothing to be proud of.
Just my thoughts.
I completely understand your point. Yet I choose to heartily disagree. Especially the 'minor quibble'. The words 'unfair' and 'cheating' come to mind.
Eerm, thank you? All I meant was: the end doesn't justify the means (not in this case anyway, or in my analogys'). Now, where's that coffee I made...
I'm afraid I can't agree with you.Breaking OSX Security was the challenge, not "how to make it possible to win the contest by making the other one impossible to win or even compete".
Example: let's say two persons had a contest: who was the most intelligent. And say 5 minutes before the contest started, person A shot person B in the head, several times. It would be a bit ridiculous to claim that person A won, wouldn't it.
Or contact Microsoft directly.
http://www.apsitdiensten.nl/ There you go. It's in Dutch, too bad, but it's a link that's appropriate for this schools' situation. Our school has a "all-covered everywhere" license. Allowing me for instance to install everything from MS at my home. They're really cheap when it comes to converting children... but's it's payback time in the real world.
And from the Imperial War Museum Londonhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/10/enig ma/enigma12.htm:
"The British sailors climbed into the conning tower and began a search of the deserted submarine. The bookshelves still contained books of every description - navigation manuals, seamanship manuals, code books and signal books. The Bulldog's telegraphist pointed to an interesting piece of equipment that looked like a typewriter. This, along with all the books from the shelves, was transferred with utmost care to HMS Bulldog. It was important that everything was kept dry as the code books and signal books were printed in ink that disappeared if they were dropped in seawater.
On Bulldog's arrival back in Britain they were met by a representative from Bletchley Park, who photographed every page of every book. The 'interesting piece of equipment' turned out to be an Enigma machine, and the books contained the Enigma codes being used by the German navy."
Once they knew that, encryption was sped up fast.
And no, despite the Hollywood-movie suggests: it were the Brittons that captured the Enigma.
For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk the floppy disk. Dozens of sizes, yet there always was a way to transfer stuff to a newer format. Off course one can always be careful not to damage the original hardware as well. Sing, hum and whistle are also a very universal format as well, yet not that transferable.
My point is: there will always be a transition option, period.
Hell I can even listen to a stream of music originally recorded to wax-cilinders http://128.111.87.4:8000/moran_opera_cylinders via iTunes. Nice, innit?
By the way Zonk, you're on my blacklist again.
It's two jobs: the server-side/network-architecture/educational-licen ses etc. on one hand. On the other hand... : replacing stolen mice, replacing psu's (the 220/110-switch is a favorite), imaging hd's, replacing stolen networkcables, removing chewing gum from the opticals (cd/dvd-players), replacing stolen keyboards, replacing coffee+sugar+milk-keyboards, "Why is the FTP-port locked/closed?!", replacing VGA-cables, "Drop whatever you're doing and clean the administrators' room", replacing stolen DVI-VGA-adapters, "I want an inventory of all that's in the school, including everything I moved and never told you about", no holidays because that's the only time people are away so it's the busiest time for the slav^H^H^H^Hservicedesk, those nice IDE-collegues (IDE as in: master and slave...), being someones best friend the other day for fixing his laptop and his enemy the next ict-vs-teacher-meetings (nice knife in your back! why thank you sir, i believe it's yours?): so in short, just what I would advise you for other jobs,
to answer the question: What is it like to be a school district admin?
the answer is definitely: GO ASK YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMIN! HE MIGHT KNOW BETTER THAN SOMEONE FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE!
And it is my day off, to raise my children (full-time job but way more satisfactory).
Ow shit... same moderator, I presume?