>> Now my kids won't need drivers ed, and I'll save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to....
With the US so sue-happy this is a series of law-suits waiting to happen. Even when people don't have it engaged and screw up who are they going to say did it? Themselves or the device? The driver may be responsible for hitting the gas pedal but when you introduce a degree of fault by having the car control the steering you're looking for trouble.
Wait for the 90 degree wheels. I seem to remember a car that was demoed a while back that had them although I think it was mainly a prototype. Alas, Don't remember the specifics tho.
Now for some off-topic Karma burn:
Trust me the company you implied in your post isn't the cheapest... If you're a homeowner then look into who you've got your mortgage with. If you're not a homeowner look at the other insurance companies - especially the ones that don't spend buckoos of $$ advertising their rates. CALL AROUND - COMPARE - USE THE YELLOW PAGES.
I just regret the type of email I'm going to get from those companies that want me to enlarge things: "Be any size you want. Get a divorce from that haggy messed up *itch because you're too big for her!" or "Kill him by smothering - make them so large you've got a legal alibi".
Just saw an add for an AOL 90 Day Free Trial on the rhs of this story.
Please tell me this is part of the April Fools crap also as I thought they were up to 270 days or something. I felt like I was in a time warp or something...
In the current PC you can't break anything by pressing buttons. You can mess up it's configuration but I can do the same thing with my VCR or Cable box by locking all the channels out.
Plain and simple this is a user issue.
A lot of people are afraid of new technologies. When VCR's first came out, sure a lot of elderly people were afraid of them. Now, it's not so much of a problem. BTW, don't go by sterotypes - I'm 117.:-)
Actually as a follow up to the parent - have you heard how easy it is to get on the no-fly list (have a wrong name, say something unintelligable to a airport official, look funnier than usual). It would probably be just as easy to get on the "new" list.
This is not a windows issue (as much as I dislike windows).
It's a user issue. Like any information on the web you need to consider the source of where you're getting your programs from. I wouldn't get cancer information from the tobacco companies websites - just as similairly I wouldn't get software utilities from my company from a page that has a bunch of advertisement links along with some porn.
Rational users would cure 95% of the virus / trojan issues. The other 5% are usually inadvertant mistakes from legit websites. For those a checker is needed if you want to immediatly download files. That or let others be your guinea pigs and only download ones older than 3 months old.
( I know - there is no such thing as a rational user but I can dream... )
Geesh - think of all the disk space I could save!!! Who needs archival copies when you've got the real thing broken into pieces by your moronic three legged cat that really thought it was a frisbee and tried to catch it in her mouth. ( She jumped up, grabbed it in mid-air, bit and decided she didn't like classical music... ).
Just a thought but how difficult would it be to rig a memory stick to, once power is detected on the memory stick to delay and then auto-switch to the other bank of the memory switch to take care of the hot-swapping automagically for you?
I could see individual PSP's differing in timing slightly due to line voltage, parts etc - this could be solved by putting a small mini-pot that could be adjusted with a jewler's screwdriver.
I've got an address of junk_mail @ some_hosting_company and another one of test123 @ same_hosting_company... you'd be suprised at the type of crap people put in their tests...
Example: One guy's domain is set to expire... I managed to track him down last year about it and warn him but he's done nothing to change it and I kept no records of where he is now...
I've also seen a "Testing to see if this worked" messages to the test123 account and sent back, "It didn't work - try again"... it can be amusing at times...
Not as much spam as I would think on those accounts 'tho... more on my main one.
Woodchuck Could Chuck: As much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood. According to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Woodchuck. shtml
My recommendation would be to go to school. If it's not to your liking after a semester or two - drop out. It's much better to say that you've tried at something than to never have even attempted.
In addition, it's much harder to go back to school later in life once you start the drudgery of "life maintenance" : I work because I have to pay the bills. I pay the bills because I need a roof over my head. I need a roof over my head so I can sleep after working. It's a viscious cycle.
Taking a year off to travel etc sounds nice now but it's the beginning of a very slippery slope known as sloth. Too much laziness will propel you into a life that's mediocre: it'll be okay but not great.
I'm your boss. I know you were working on the project happily. I added Tom and Bob because you were finishing the product too quick. You shouldn't finish the product quick because then we're underbudget. We can't afford to be underbudget otherwise our next quarter's funding will be cut.
I'll remove the Karma Bonus on this posting so as to keep it off the main thread but I'm curious as to the rating of the above message. Somebody criticizes spelling and isn't moderated as flamebait. I call them on it and it's flamebait.
Odd.
I don't really care about my Karma - it'll be what it wants to be ( good ) but I do get peeved over idiots moderating. (Hmm, it'd be nice to have a reply to anonymous moderators function so I could grumble to them instead of on the main thread).
>> By the way, it's "Lego". Note the absence of a terminal 's'. Lego is the name of the system. The individual pieces are known as "bricks", There are no such things as "Legos". Ask the Lego Corporation if you fail to understand this.
You say yugo, I say legos. Get a grip man. This is being english pedantic way too much.
Ain't no coporation gunna tell I what not 2 speak. (THere, have fun on that. )
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>> Now my kids won't need drivers ed, and I'll save a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to....
With the US so sue-happy this is a series of law-suits waiting to happen. Even when people don't have it engaged and screw up who are they going to say did it? Themselves or the device? The driver may be responsible for hitting the gas pedal but when you introduce a degree of fault by having the car control the steering you're looking for trouble.
Wait for the 90 degree wheels. I seem to remember a car that was demoed a while back that had them although I think it was mainly a prototype. Alas, Don't remember the specifics tho.
Now for some off-topic Karma burn:
Trust me the company you implied in your post isn't the cheapest... If you're a homeowner then look into who you've got your mortgage with. If you're not a homeowner look at the other insurance companies - especially the ones that don't spend buckoos of $$ advertising their rates. CALL AROUND - COMPARE - USE THE YELLOW PAGES.
I just regret the type of email I'm going to get from those companies that want me to enlarge things: "Be any size you want. Get a divorce from that haggy messed up *itch because you're too big for her!" or "Kill him by smothering - make them so large you've got a legal alibi".
*shudder*
Just saw an add for an AOL 90 Day Free Trial on the rhs of this story.
Please tell me this is part of the April Fools crap also as I thought they were up to 270 days or something. I felt like I was in a time warp or something...
Gah.
Just curious, ... in that list of steps - where does 4) Profit?? come in?
In the current PC you can't break anything by pressing buttons. You can mess up it's configuration but I can do the same thing with my VCR or Cable box by locking all the channels out.
:-)
Plain and simple this is a user issue.
A lot of people are afraid of new technologies. When VCR's first came out, sure a lot of elderly people were afraid of them. Now, it's not so much of a problem. BTW, don't go by sterotypes - I'm 117.
>> "... is actually a but tongue in cheek. :)"
:-)
A butt toungue in cheek? Gah. *shudders*
Please don't use that type of imagery - it scares me.
Actually as a follow up to the parent - have you heard how easy it is to get on the no-fly list (have a wrong name, say something unintelligable to a airport official, look funnier than usual). It would probably be just as easy to get on the "new" list.
Ah, the joys of the world we live in.
This is not a windows issue (as much as I dislike windows).
It's a user issue. Like any information on the web you need to consider the source of where you're getting your programs from. I wouldn't get cancer information from the tobacco companies websites - just as similairly I wouldn't get software utilities from my company from a page that has a bunch of advertisement links along with some porn.
Rational users would cure 95% of the virus / trojan issues. The other 5% are usually inadvertant mistakes from legit websites. For those a checker is needed if you want to immediatly download files. That or let others be your guinea pigs and only download ones older than 3 months old.
( I know - there is no such thing as a rational user but I can dream... )
No, No - it's
At first, I thought that everyone, gnu how to use proper, punctuation. But, now I see, I, was wrong.
- Richard Stallman.
>> So what this guy is trying to say is that we should attach a piece of wire
The numbskull will probably tie it to a fence and wonder why it burst into flames.
We pay congress via taxes.
Congress pays us to watch TV.
Congress retains 10% through PAC's, graft etc.
See a problem here?
*grumbles* Like I watch enough TV anyway...
>> I can't wait until the download completes!!!!
Geesh - think of all the disk space I could save!!! Who needs archival copies when you've got the real thing broken into pieces by your moronic three legged cat that really thought it was a frisbee and tried to catch it in her mouth. ( She jumped up, grabbed it in mid-air, bit and decided she didn't like classical music... ).
I wanted to scream, "It's alliivvee" after reading the parent post.
Were they really trying to juice Frakenstein's Monster back up?
Things that make you say Hmmm...
Step 2: Enable VI Compatibility mode within EMACS.
Just a thought but how difficult would it be to rig a memory stick to, once power is detected on the memory stick to delay and then auto-switch to the other bank of the memory switch to take care of the hot-swapping automagically for you?
I could see individual PSP's differing in timing slightly due to line voltage, parts etc - this could be solved by putting a small mini-pot that could be adjusted with a jewler's screwdriver.
I've got an address of junk_mail @ some_hosting_company and another one of test123 @ same_hosting_company... you'd be suprised at the type of crap people put in their tests...
... I managed to track him down last year about it and warn him but he's done nothing to change it and I kept no records of where he is now...
... it can be amusing at times...
Example: One guy's domain is set to expire
I've also seen a "Testing to see if this worked" messages to the test123 account and sent back, "It didn't work - try again"
Not as much spam as I would think on those accounts 'tho... more on my main one.
Just an offtopic thought...
I'm currently listening to NPR right now and they're talking about terrorists. The question of weight brought up this question to me:
Do they have any fat suicide bombers? My thinking is no, as their bellys would cushion the impact of the bomb.
>> Speak for yourself. I am the center of my very own universe.
Nope, you're in my universe and you play by my rules. Just because I think, you exist.
*blinks* *forgets prior post* Sucks to be you!
*you pop back into existance*
Drat! Darnit.. *(&(^%
chuck could chuck wood?
:
. shtml
It works, it replied back w/
Woodchuck
Could Chuck: As much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
According to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Woodchuck
1. Pretend to read article
2. Post Beowulf Cluster post
3. Profit!!! ( err, Gain Karma... )
1. Pretend to read article.
2. Post Profit post.
3. Err... Uh, Profit!!!
( I know, I know
>> If you find 6.99 other friends with the same amount of cash on hands, you can get a swell new SCO license.
If you have a 99/100th of a friend laying around, please don't make friends with me....
My recommendation would be to go to school. If it's not to your liking after a semester or two - drop out. It's much better to say that you've tried at something than to never have even attempted.
In addition, it's much harder to go back to school later in life once you start the drudgery of "life maintenance" : I work because I have to pay the bills. I pay the bills because I need a roof over my head. I need a roof over my head so I can sleep after working. It's a viscious cycle.
Taking a year off to travel etc sounds nice now but it's the beginning of a very slippery slope known as sloth. Too much laziness will propel you into a life that's mediocre: it'll be okay but not great.
I'm your boss. I know you were working on the project happily. I added Tom and Bob because you were finishing the product too quick. You shouldn't finish the product quick because then we're underbudget. We can't afford to be underbudget otherwise our next quarter's funding will be cut.
Oh btw, stop wasting time posting on Slashdot.
I'll remove the Karma Bonus on this posting so as to keep it off the main thread but I'm curious as to the rating of the above message. Somebody criticizes spelling and isn't moderated as flamebait. I call them on it and it's flamebait.
Odd.
I don't really care about my Karma - it'll be what it wants to be ( good ) but I do get peeved over idiots moderating. (Hmm, it'd be nice to have a reply to anonymous moderators function so I could grumble to them instead of on the main thread).
>> By the way, it's "Lego". Note the absence of a terminal 's'. Lego is the name of the system. The individual pieces are known as "bricks", There are no such things as "Legos". Ask the Lego Corporation if you fail to understand this.
You say yugo, I say legos. Get a grip man. This is being english pedantic way too much.
Ain't no coporation gunna tell I what not 2 speak. (THere, have fun on that. )