What is spending $150 on a Keyboard and $90 on a mouse when your talking about spending countless hours using them. Your getting a lot more bang for your buck then you would for darn near anything else you'd spend the money on.
I dunno, your mom is going to want you to EVENTUALLY kick in for food and use of basement.....
I agree. I think it is made even worse by the fact that there is very little contrast difference between the text and the zebra stripe. My personal preference has always been for a baby blue, but they used grey instead. I guess they were trying to simulate black and white newspaper print, but who uses that anymore?
"I've been rallying against Microsoft's so-called 'Get the Facts' site for the last fortnight in my blog. Rather than give any legitimate comparison facing off Windows Server vs similarly spec'd Linux options, the Microsoft spin doctors opt for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that don't have any substance underneath.
Not defending Microsoft, but decrying them using the same tactics you are admonishing them for using probably won't win you any followers that weren't on your side to begin with.
I wonder if there would be a lot of interest both from lenders and potential borrowers to create a "green" microcredit program? A quick google search for green microcredit doesn't reveal anything interesting, but basically is there a program that lends people money at a low interest rate to invest in various energy saving technologies around the house? The borrowers could then take the savings and use them to pay back the lenders. It wouldn't be a charity, nor would it be a particularly great investment, but it would, in my opinion, do a lot to help convince people to switch to more energy efficient technologies.
The key isn't to get rid of it entirely, that is just going from one extreme to another. If you have to worry about being productive all the time you are just going to fizzle out more often then not. The key of course is moderation. Sometimes I find slacking off helps when I am at a standstill on a difficult problem. Just getting my mind off of it seems to allow it to wander and usually I will wind up figuring out the critical step while my nose isn't buried in a book.
You can also find more productive ways of slacking off, if that makes any sense. For instance, my guilty vice is South Park, so I loaded up the latest episode today and watched it while I was on an elliptical machine in the gym(with a set of wireless headphones). I was able to watch the episode and workout at the same time.
games, I'm going to have to suggest "zerogfindthesausage" as a good one to play.
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Though in the case of Spam, I'm surprised it wasn't "Mr. Watson, come here, did you kn0w that you can get h0m3 r3f!n@nCINg for less then 6% APR, no questions asked?"
Or, "Mr. Watson, come here, do you want a G1@nt C0ck like me, if so, buy this pill."
Or, "Mr. Watson, come here, you great uncle from Nigeria just died and you stand to inherit a fortune!"
the amount of energy(and CO2 and CH4 emissions) it takes to get a burger to your plate is astounding. Cows are very inefficient if you consider the energy put into them compared to the amount of energy that can be derived from eating them. Not to mention you have to truck the feed to them and then you have to truck the meat to where it is consumed, very few cows in the city. All this adds up to a lot of fuel and a lot of emissions, not to mention the cows themselves often emit methane which is considered to be worse per unit volume then CO2. If they could raise the meat in vitro, maybe the process could be much more efficient and thus emit much less CO2 gasses.
For anyone interested in the subject, the University of Chicago did a pretty good writeup. Seems chicken is probably the best meat for the environment.
compared to the chaos that will ensue after the cats of Australia have found out what lawmakers have done with their favorite toy and rise up as one to slay them.
The ad on the page(yeah, I'm not cool enough to use adblocker:p) is for the Samsung series of glossy LCD displays. Sorry dude, this might be a battle that you wont win
to money launderers. If someone has an empty, neglected bank account they will probably be much less likely to report suspicious activity on it. A fraudster could use the account to have various payments for spam, cracking etc. put into the bank account, then he could make an ATM card linked to that account and draw the money without ever having to use his own name or even go through the trouble of creating a fake identity.
Then why did Apple promise it? I don't disagree with the decision per se, I just think it was very poor form to make it then rescind it right before Leopard was released.
they promised, and then rescinded, 64 bit Carbon, and didn't even bother to tell developers until WWDC 2007. This is the big problem with Apple's secrecy, sometimes they are secret just to be secret. There was NO reason not to let developers know there would be no 64 bit carbon as soon as the decision was made, but Apple waited until the last possible second for who knows why.
Yeah, Carbon is dead and they should be going to all Cocoa, but that takes time, and if it was your intention to kill Carbon, why even promise a 64 bit version at all? Why not state from the getgo that you plan to phase out Carbon and that if you want a 64 bit GUI you better be making it in Cocoa? Apple goes out of their way to piss people off sometimes I swear.
but, at least from my own personal experience, its pretty late in the game to be looking for a summer job, esp. if you don't have very much experience. Not that you can't, but I would look into open source stuff and just your own personal computing needs to find stuff to work on. Many people will go on in detail about open source, so I'll just speak to the latter:
Do you have any monotonous tasks that you do on your computer that you think could be automated? Well then automate them! Even if it isn't very good, it will still familiarize you with the various languages and how computer programs work to solve various problems.
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not to click on the DonaldRumsfeldNude.mpg.exe attachment in my inbox.
I dunno, the girl certainly wasn't bad looking, although the angle kind of sucked.
My suggestion is spaceship chasers.
What is spending $150 on a Keyboard and $90 on a mouse when your talking about spending countless hours using them. Your getting a lot more bang for your buck then you would for darn near anything else you'd spend the money on.
I dunno, your mom is going to want you to EVENTUALLY kick in for food and use of basement.....
That class will show its privates to just about anyone who asks!
I agree. I think it is made even worse by the fact that there is very little contrast difference between the text and the zebra stripe. My personal preference has always been for a baby blue, but they used grey instead. I guess they were trying to simulate black and white newspaper print, but who uses that anymore?
"I've been rallying against Microsoft's so-called 'Get the Facts' site for the last fortnight in my blog. Rather than give any legitimate comparison facing off Windows Server vs similarly spec'd Linux options, the Microsoft spin doctors opt for bunkum and hogwash with sensational headlines that don't have any substance underneath.
Not defending Microsoft, but decrying them using the same tactics you are admonishing them for using probably won't win you any followers that weren't on your side to begin with.
I wonder if there would be a lot of interest both from lenders and potential borrowers to create a "green" microcredit program? A quick google search for green microcredit doesn't reveal anything interesting, but basically is there a program that lends people money at a low interest rate to invest in various energy saving technologies around the house? The borrowers could then take the savings and use them to pay back the lenders. It wouldn't be a charity, nor would it be a particularly great investment, but it would, in my opinion, do a lot to help convince people to switch to more energy efficient technologies.
Kilgore Trout stories?
Wait...explain to me WHY we need another Microsoft?
The key isn't to get rid of it entirely, that is just going from one extreme to another. If you have to worry about being productive all the time you are just going to fizzle out more often then not. The key of course is moderation. Sometimes I find slacking off helps when I am at a standstill on a difficult problem. Just getting my mind off of it seems to allow it to wander and usually I will wind up figuring out the critical step while my nose isn't buried in a book.
You can also find more productive ways of slacking off, if that makes any sense. For instance, my guilty vice is South Park, so I loaded up the latest episode today and watched it while I was on an elliptical machine in the gym(with a set of wireless headphones). I was able to watch the episode and workout at the same time.
games, I'm going to have to suggest "zerogfindthesausage" as a good one to play.
Though in the case of Spam, I'm surprised it wasn't "Mr. Watson, come here, did you kn0w that you can get h0m3 r3f!n@nCINg for less then 6% APR, no questions asked?"
Or, "Mr. Watson, come here, do you want a G1@nt C0ck like me, if so, buy this pill."
Or, "Mr. Watson, come here, you great uncle from Nigeria just died and you stand to inherit a fortune!"
the amount of energy(and CO2 and CH4 emissions) it takes to get a burger to your plate is astounding. Cows are very inefficient if you consider the energy put into them compared to the amount of energy that can be derived from eating them. Not to mention you have to truck the feed to them and then you have to truck the meat to where it is consumed, very few cows in the city. All this adds up to a lot of fuel and a lot of emissions, not to mention the cows themselves often emit methane which is considered to be worse per unit volume then CO2. If they could raise the meat in vitro, maybe the process could be much more efficient and thus emit much less CO2 gasses.
For anyone interested in the subject, the University of Chicago did a pretty good writeup. Seems chicken is probably the best meat for the environment.
compared to the chaos that will ensue after the cats of Australia have found out what lawmakers have done with their favorite toy and rise up as one to slay them.
The study did take place in the Netherlands.....
Sounds like a term used in porn to me....
I dunno, large amounts of incendiaries dropped from the sky seem to work on both, but using it on neither is politically popular.
if a person could metabolize gasoline, of course.
Ever wonder how the (non-locally) food got from the field to your plate?
The ad on the page(yeah, I'm not cool enough to use adblocker :p) is for the Samsung series of glossy LCD displays. Sorry dude, this might be a battle that you wont win
to money launderers. If someone has an empty, neglected bank account they will probably be much less likely to report suspicious activity on it. A fraudster could use the account to have various payments for spam, cracking etc. put into the bank account, then he could make an ATM card linked to that account and draw the money without ever having to use his own name or even go through the trouble of creating a fake identity.
Then why did Apple promise it? I don't disagree with the decision per se, I just think it was very poor form to make it then rescind it right before Leopard was released.
they promised, and then rescinded, 64 bit Carbon, and didn't even bother to tell developers until WWDC 2007. This is the big problem with Apple's secrecy, sometimes they are secret just to be secret. There was NO reason not to let developers know there would be no 64 bit carbon as soon as the decision was made, but Apple waited until the last possible second for who knows why.
Yeah, Carbon is dead and they should be going to all Cocoa, but that takes time, and if it was your intention to kill Carbon, why even promise a 64 bit version at all? Why not state from the getgo that you plan to phase out Carbon and that if you want a 64 bit GUI you better be making it in Cocoa? Apple goes out of their way to piss people off sometimes I swear.
ask for the keys and take it for a test collide!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, try the fish!
but, at least from my own personal experience, its pretty late in the game to be looking for a summer job, esp. if you don't have very much experience. Not that you can't, but I would look into open source stuff and just your own personal computing needs to find stuff to work on. Many people will go on in detail about open source, so I'll just speak to the latter:
Do you have any monotonous tasks that you do on your computer that you think could be automated? Well then automate them! Even if it isn't very good, it will still familiarize you with the various languages and how computer programs work to solve various problems.