A bit late, but if you click the bloody link instead of making a snap judgment you'd see they do take checks.
If you do not wish to submit your payment online, you may submit your payment via check. Checks should be made payable to 'Lower Merion School District' and should include the student's ID number (example: s123456) in the memo field of the check to ensure that your payment is correctly recorded. Checks can be mailed to:
Send him to Gitmo, then death penalty. No New York trials. He's a spy, stealing information that can be used against us. When are we going to acknowledge that we are at (cyber) war with China, have been for years, and start acting accordingly?
Sad thing is that you're modded funny, when you should be insightful. If China caught an American spy, they would execute him after quick trial.
You'll note nothing seems to get cheaper to the end user.
Yeah, but you bet your ass that if they do manufacture locally they will advertise the shit out of it and charge you 30% more because of people who do buy only US made goods.
You know that 2/3 of the phrase "trust but verify" is meaningless oxymoronic bullshit designed to mask the harshness of the only significant word, right? Like "strong but sensitive" or "sexy but geeky".
It's a good point, but that 2/3 of the phrase is what keeps the potential client from being insulted. The majority of business is sugar coating the harsh truth to keep people on your side and hopefully more of their money going into your wallet.
I find this an interesting issue, because the Chinese government has so much control over there, and they can probably order a company like Lenovo to install some spy chip on there. Without looking at the motherboard, it would be difficult to detect. I think it would be difficult to do a company like HP. Any additional chip means additional cost, and HP would notice this right away. It would have to be a company that collaborates in the design stage.
They have so much control they could just pay off the workers to do it when someone isn't watching. They already run the factories overnight on a "second shift" and print out the counterfeit goods. That's how the Cisco counterfeit stuff is produced.
They already do; counterfeit parts are a massive issue.
Yeah, someone I work with bought three T1 WICs (Cisco) for their SOHO. Two of the three were counterfeit.
I meant more in terms of someone putting the "MADE IN TAIWAN" stamp on a Chinese made part to trick people into thinking that it's from a country with a better reputation.
This is just another reason for me to not want to buy Chinese made goods. Unfortunately, so much is made in China that it is nearly impossible to completely avoid the country.
Some component of your car, cell phone, computer, etc. is going to be made in China. I have a feeling eventually they will catch on that people aren't buying Chinese made stuff and will just put stamps on it from their more friendly neighboring countries.
Hey! I'm a fat, ugly, borderline autistic, Cheetos and Doritos crunching, Mountain Dew swilling dweeb who used to get beat up in high school, you insensitive clod! You crossed the line with World of Warcraft!
To be fair, if I had a Slashdot account named "PrezBarackObama" would you immediately believe that I was actually Barack Obama? I saw that same post the other day, and just assumed it was someone using Woz's name.
I mean, I know people on Slashdot are gullible, but I like to have at least a little more evidence before believing an account name of all things.
It's fairly common knowledge that woz posts on Slashdot under that name. With such a low UID, I'd expect you to know this.
There's a bunch of other people who are registered and post/used to post. Hans Reiser is one of them.
WGA renamed for Vista and 7 as "The Windows Activation Technologies (TWAT)"
Your Honor, I rest my case.
I made a guild in World of Warcraft called T W A T, The War Against Terrorism. Anybody who objected to the name was called a terrorist, including the GM who contacted me about it. It didn't end very well...
The Opportunity is a pretty awesome vehicle. It has outperformed its mission expectations by over 200% - it is in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a 90 sol mission. It takes pretty impressive panoramic pictures as well.
So how would one go about printing out that panorama? I want to frame that and put it on my wall, that's how badass it is.
Packet collisions wouldnt be an issue on a small test rollout. Its when there are a hundred such devices all chattering on the network where suddenly nearly all packets fail to arrive.
Packet collisions don't occur on modern networks, though. Were they actually running token ring (or pre-token ring), or was that just sarcasm?
This is the same IT department that purchased 100 custom touch-screen terminals for my department for nearly a million dollars about 5 years ago, but failed to ever get them to network correctly.
I've never understood not testing things. Most vendors will send you a trial product to try things out. You usually have to sign a waver that you'll return it if you don't like it or if it doesn't work out.
Did I mention that they pay our IT department $11/hour?
Yeah, all my coworkers do the same thing: use the same 2 letters every time they need to change it, followed by "1111" then "2222" then "3333" and so forth...
Shit, I thought I had it bad with pay.
We moved to a required 8 digits and 3 of the 4: Upper case, lower case, symbol, number. Resets every 30 days. What has happened with me? My strong 20 digit password has been trimmed down to the bare minimum because I will have to change it in 30 days anyway. Completely defeats the purpose.
If I was a bazillionaire I would be too busy with my harem and skiing on huge piles of cash to care. And if I wanted to piss off the gaming community, I would just give Uwe Boll an unlimited credit line and tell him to go nuts.
Nah, thats for movies. For games you Buy out Valve, Stardock and Blizzard, fire the staff and replace them with Activision and EA.
At the moment, I work at Safeway. Living in a decently close-knit area of town means that I see people who know that I'm "the computer guy"
Market yourself on it. Do computer repair work.
If you are good enough at it and have a car (or a bike depending on how small your area is), you can make $40/hr doing computer repair work along with your job at Safeway. Safeway cash is for the bills, computer repair money is for saving/investing and buying yourself things. I work in IT for a school district as a contractor and I do computer repair for people locally. Anybody from your neighbor next door who does construction to the guy across the street who runs a small business out of his house is a marketable person and usually don't need on-demand service (ie: drop what you're doing and get here to fix this).
The $40 number may be a little high depending on which area you're in, but that number is what I use for people locally and it's a very competitive rate when you look at GS or any of the smaller companies. People are often more comfortable bringing someone into their house to fix their computer who works for a school district because you have the security checks.
And here comes the Off Topic mods if they're still reading this...
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I just signed on with HostGator with a VPS. Good pricing and the guys have been really helpful via IM answering my questions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
Well, that is the event you referenced. We may never know what officially caused it, but that's a theory.
A bit late, but if you click the bloody link instead of making a snap judgment you'd see they do take checks.
If you do not wish to submit your payment online, you may submit your payment via check. Checks should be made payable to 'Lower Merion School District' and should include the student's ID number (example: s123456) in the memo field of the check to ensure that your payment is correctly recorded. Checks can be mailed to:
Send him to Gitmo, then death penalty. No New York trials. He's a spy, stealing information that can be used against us. When are we going to acknowledge that we are at (cyber) war with China, have been for years, and start acting accordingly?
Sad thing is that you're modded funny, when you should be insightful. If China caught an American spy, they would execute him after quick trial.
You'll note nothing seems to get cheaper to the end user.
Yeah, but you bet your ass that if they do manufacture locally they will advertise the shit out of it and charge you 30% more because of people who do buy only US made goods.
You know that 2/3 of the phrase "trust but verify" is meaningless oxymoronic bullshit designed to mask the harshness of the only significant word, right? Like "strong but sensitive" or "sexy but geeky".
It's a good point, but that 2/3 of the phrase is what keeps the potential client from being insulted. The majority of business is sugar coating the harsh truth to keep people on your side and hopefully more of their money going into your wallet.
I find this an interesting issue, because the Chinese government has so much control over there, and they can probably order a company like Lenovo to install some spy chip on there. Without looking at the motherboard, it would be difficult to detect. I think it would be difficult to do a company like HP. Any additional chip means additional cost, and HP would notice this right away. It would have to be a company that collaborates in the design stage.
They have so much control they could just pay off the workers to do it when someone isn't watching. They already run the factories overnight on a "second shift" and print out the counterfeit goods. That's how the Cisco counterfeit stuff is produced.
If you want to know about how to spot the fake Cisco stuff for those CCIE/CCNA/CCNP guys out there, check out this article on a reseller site (that I use): http://www.usedcisco.com/used_cisco_identifying_fake_chisco
They already do; counterfeit parts are a massive issue.
Yeah, someone I work with bought three T1 WICs (Cisco) for their SOHO. Two of the three were counterfeit.
I meant more in terms of someone putting the "MADE IN TAIWAN" stamp on a Chinese made part to trick people into thinking that it's from a country with a better reputation.
This is just another reason for me to not want to buy Chinese made goods. Unfortunately, so much is made in China that it is nearly impossible to completely avoid the country.
Some component of your car, cell phone, computer, etc. is going to be made in China. I have a feeling eventually they will catch on that people aren't buying Chinese made stuff and will just put stamps on it from their more friendly neighboring countries.
Hey! I'm a fat, ugly, borderline autistic, Cheetos and Doritos crunching, Mountain Dew swilling dweeb who used to get beat up in high school, you insensitive clod! You crossed the line with World of Warcraft!
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
To be fair, if I had a Slashdot account named "PrezBarackObama" would you immediately believe that I was actually Barack Obama? I saw that same post the other day, and just assumed it was someone using Woz's name.
I mean, I know people on Slashdot are gullible, but I like to have at least a little more evidence before believing an account name of all things.
It's fairly common knowledge that woz posts on Slashdot under that name. With such a low UID, I'd expect you to know this.
There's a bunch of other people who are registered and post/used to post. Hans Reiser is one of them.
Look at the poster's name, that IS woz.
WGA renamed for Vista and 7 as "The Windows Activation Technologies (TWAT)"
Your Honor, I rest my case.
I made a guild in World of Warcraft called T W A T, The War Against Terrorism. Anybody who objected to the name was called a terrorist, including the GM who contacted me about it. It didn't end very well...
If you can dodge a class action lawsuit, you can dodge a chair.
Fixed that for you.
The Opportunity is a pretty awesome vehicle. It has outperformed its mission expectations by over 200% - it is in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a 90 sol mission. It takes pretty impressive panoramic pictures as well.
So how would one go about printing out that panorama? I want to frame that and put it on my wall, that's how badass it is.
Packet collisions wouldnt be an issue on a small test rollout. Its when there are a hundred such devices all chattering on the network where suddenly nearly all packets fail to arrive.
Packet collisions don't occur on modern networks, though. Were they actually running token ring (or pre-token ring), or was that just sarcasm?
This is the same IT department that purchased 100 custom touch-screen terminals for my department for nearly a million dollars about 5 years ago, but failed to ever get them to network correctly.
I've never understood not testing things. Most vendors will send you a trial product to try things out. You usually have to sign a waver that you'll return it if you don't like it or if it doesn't work out.
funny - this girl seems to be quite popular *cough* :-)
Anyone has a picture ?
That's my sister you insensitive clod!
So that's a yes?
It's a yes if you have enough money on you...
funny - this girl seems to be quite popular *cough* :-)
Anyone has a picture ?
That's my sister you insensitive clod!
Did I mention that they pay our IT department $11/hour?
Yeah, all my coworkers do the same thing: use the same 2 letters every time they need to change it, followed by "1111" then "2222" then "3333" and so forth...
Shit, I thought I had it bad with pay.
We moved to a required 8 digits and 3 of the 4: Upper case, lower case, symbol, number. Resets every 30 days. What has happened with me? My strong 20 digit password has been trimmed down to the bare minimum because I will have to change it in 30 days anyway. Completely defeats the purpose.
Don't feed the trolls, young padawan.
Nah, thats for movies. For games you Buy out Valve, Stardock and Blizzard, fire the staff and replace them with Activision and EA.
I had a chill go down my spine as I read this.
That means each "segment" is what, 1000 yards? You should be able to walk that in ten minutes. Hardly worth tucking your trousers in your socks.
Six blocks he said -- I'd rather bike six blocks then walk it. Not only is it faster, but it's easier in my opinion then walking.
At the moment, I work at Safeway. Living in a decently close-knit area of town means that I see people who know that I'm "the computer guy"
Market yourself on it. Do computer repair work.
If you are good enough at it and have a car (or a bike depending on how small your area is), you can make $40/hr doing computer repair work along with your job at Safeway. Safeway cash is for the bills, computer repair money is for saving/investing and buying yourself things. I work in IT for a school district as a contractor and I do computer repair for people locally. Anybody from your neighbor next door who does construction to the guy across the street who runs a small business out of his house is a marketable person and usually don't need on-demand service (ie: drop what you're doing and get here to fix this).
The $40 number may be a little high depending on which area you're in, but that number is what I use for people locally and it's a very competitive rate when you look at GS or any of the smaller companies. People are often more comfortable bringing someone into their house to fix their computer who works for a school district because you have the security checks.
And here comes the Off Topic mods if they're still reading this...