The Indianapolis monologue by Robert Shaw in "Jaws" was the best scene out of the whole movie. I was always fascinated by that story. Nice to see the story of the USS Indianapolis concluded 42 years after the movie.
Hard to believe that a three-letter government agency can have an IT problem when I have it on reliable evidence that they have a muscular miracle worker on their staff.
I don't work for the State Department.
Oh, I just heard he's organizing empty candy bar wrappers by brand in the storage closet.
I cannot confirm nor deny the existence of Hillary's backup email server behind the U-No candy wrappers in the interns IT closet. Go ask Bill.
Is this how a US Navy ship ran into a cargo ship? Cargo ship was in auto pilot and didn't yield? Although, my understanding is the Navy ship should have yielded in any case.
From the reports that I've read, the destroyer made a series of sudden course changes in a crowded channel before being t-bone by the freighter. The Navy had recently announced that they were disciplining everyone who was on duty at the time of the accident.
Seriously - it's not about "being in a rush" - it's about minimizing the time spent on "wasted" time so that you can spend your time doing more fulfilling, interesting, and valuable things.
I'm not wasting my time in the morning. When I work into work, I'm fully relax and ready for the day. I'm not a screaming basket case from driving in the commute like so many of my coworkers.
2) spend more time sitting on the toilet chuckling about how clever I am while I troll slashdot.
Most mornings I'm dumbfounded by the lengthy comments that I get overnight from my trolls. I don't even bother reading them. These people seriously have nothing better to do with their lives than taunt a fat person over the Internet. Sad.
One click is the Amazon version of having candy bars at the checkout stand: quite a few people will make an impulse purchase without thinking about it twice.
For a grown man to spend 90 minutes between waking up and being ready to start the day is just ridiculous.
That's the problem with society today: everyone is in a goddamn hurry to get somewhere. Since I get eight hours of sleep, and the first bus isn't until 6AM, I like to take my time getting ready for the day.
Infogrames paid big bucks for Hasbro Interactive that had the Atari IP, renaming the company to Atari, and, like its namesake, took a tour through bankruptcy. They're going to squeeze out every last penny out of the Atari IP since that's the only thing they still have after the dot com bust.
The current iteration of Atari is just recycling the Intellectual Property (IP) from the 1980's. And, not surprisingly, filing a lawsuit to protect the IP from everyone else.
Some of us have put our college days behind us and no longer spend 90 minutes fucking around between getting out of bed and leaving the house.
I've known people who show up at work as if they just rolled out of bed, sometimes wearing the same clothes that they worked in the day before. That wouldn't fly at my current job with so many ex-military around. They won't hesitate to knock someone for not being dressed, groomed and ready to kick ass.
Not according to the source that I cited in my comment.
Xerox failed to connect the dots and realize that the profit wasn't in the printer but in the toner and the paper. As a result, the company was beaten to market by Hewlett-Packard, which introduced the first personal laser printer in 1980.
Over half of what gets printed ends up in the trash within a week I would bet though.
When Sony came out with the PlayStation 2, they were updating their standards do quite frequently and 40+ testers at the video game company I worked for printed out a copy. When the standards doc got updated weekly and everyone printed out a copy, we ran out of paper by midweek after Monday's office supply delivery. Management decreed that only one copy per bullpen (four people) would get printed. We went back to individual copies after Sony started updating the standards doc once in a blue moon.
Amazon has a Xerox color laser printer for $196 and consumables are about $133 to $199. That seems affordable for a color laser printer. My monochrome laser printer cost $200 and consumables are $80.
Bet the one bedroom in Oakland appreciates faster.
Except it was an apartment and a developer tore it down after evicting everyone. The Stockton house might be a rental as well. It wouldn't surprised me if it was. People who rent in the San Francisco Bay Area are usually the same people who can't afford to buy a house.
50 trillion pages would be more than 5000 pages per person per year. Most of us won't hit that lifetime.
During my snail mail days of submitting 50+ manuscripts each month, it took six years to go through the 50,000-page duty cycle of the drum on my laser printer. Four years ago I replaced the old printer with a new printer because it was cheaper than replacing the $200 drum. The new printer also printed faster and had wireless support for iPad and iPhone. I've only printed ~2,000 pages since then. Manuscripts are submitted via email these days.
Some people learn how to make efficient use of their time instead of expecting everything to take 3 times longer than the average person would consider reasonable.
Thank God I'm not an average person then. That would be boring as hell.
Xerox is well-known for missing the significance of what they had at PARC back in the day, and letting Steve Jobs ransack the place to develop the Mac. One of the lesser known stories, mentioned in "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael A. Hiltzik, was how Xerox dismissed the laser printer as they didn't want to cannibalize their copier sales. A delimma that most technology companies encounter when they have a cash cow product and a newer product that would replace it. HP came out with the first personal laser printer in 1980 and turned toner cartridges into a cash cow.
Did you even read the story? For what she paid for a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland she got a three-bedroom house in Stockton.
OTOH, I've overhead two vets comparing cities on the bus one day. They loved San Jose. San Francisco and Oakland were comparable in real estate prices and crime rates. Stockton was more like Chicago in terms of murder rates. I personally would prefer Sacramento over Stockton any day.
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The Indianapolis monologue by Robert Shaw in "Jaws" was the best scene out of the whole movie. I was always fascinated by that story. Nice to see the story of the USS Indianapolis concluded 42 years after the movie.
Hard to believe that a three-letter government agency can have an IT problem when I have it on reliable evidence that they have a muscular miracle worker on their staff.
I don't work for the State Department.
Oh, I just heard he's organizing empty candy bar wrappers by brand in the storage closet.
I cannot confirm nor deny the existence of Hillary's backup email server behind the U-No candy wrappers in the interns IT closet. Go ask Bill.
That's what you get for upgrading everyone to Office 365 at the same time.
Is this how a US Navy ship ran into a cargo ship? Cargo ship was in auto pilot and didn't yield? Although, my understanding is the Navy ship should have yielded in any case.
From the reports that I've read, the destroyer made a series of sudden course changes in a crowded channel before being t-bone by the freighter. The Navy had recently announced that they were disciplining everyone who was on duty at the time of the accident.
There's a book on my reading list that I haven't read yet (pay attention, trolls), about the history of shipping containers: "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" by Rose George. The New York Times gave it a good review when it first came out, mentioning that the author traveled on a Maersk ship to research the book.
In related news, autonomous ships will soon become a reality. More targets for hackers.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/forget-autonomous-cars-autonomous-ships-are-almost-here
Seriously - it's not about "being in a rush" - it's about minimizing the time spent on "wasted" time so that you can spend your time doing more fulfilling, interesting, and valuable things.
I'm not wasting my time in the morning. When I work into work, I'm fully relax and ready for the day. I'm not a screaming basket case from driving in the commute like so many of my coworkers.
2) spend more time sitting on the toilet chuckling about how clever I am while I troll slashdot.
Most mornings I'm dumbfounded by the lengthy comments that I get overnight from my trolls. I don't even bother reading them. These people seriously have nothing better to do with their lives than taunt a fat person over the Internet. Sad.
One click is the Amazon version of having candy bars at the checkout stand: quite a few people will make an impulse purchase without thinking about it twice.
For a grown man to spend 90 minutes between waking up and being ready to start the day is just ridiculous.
That's the problem with society today: everyone is in a goddamn hurry to get somewhere. Since I get eight hours of sleep, and the first bus isn't until 6AM, I like to take my time getting ready for the day.
Infogrames paid big bucks for Hasbro Interactive that had the Atari IP, renaming the company to Atari, and, like its namesake, took a tour through bankruptcy. They're going to squeeze out every last penny out of the Atari IP since that's the only thing they still have after the dot com bust.
The current iteration of Atari is just recycling the Intellectual Property (IP) from the 1980's. And, not surprisingly, filing a lawsuit to protect the IP from everyone else.
Some of us have put our college days behind us and no longer spend 90 minutes fucking around between getting out of bed and leaving the house.
I've known people who show up at work as if they just rolled out of bed, sometimes wearing the same clothes that they worked in the day before. That wouldn't fly at my current job with so many ex-military around. They won't hesitate to knock someone for not being dressed, groomed and ready to kick ass.
You're wrong on everything. As usual.
Not according to the source that I cited in my comment.
Xerox failed to connect the dots and realize that the profit wasn't in the printer but in the toner and the paper. As a result, the company was beaten to market by Hewlett-Packard, which introduced the first personal laser printer in 1980.
Over half of what gets printed ends up in the trash within a week I would bet though.
When Sony came out with the PlayStation 2, they were updating their standards do quite frequently and 40+ testers at the video game company I worked for printed out a copy. When the standards doc got updated weekly and everyone printed out a copy, we ran out of paper by midweek after Monday's office supply delivery. Management decreed that only one copy per bullpen (four people) would get printed. We went back to individual copies after Sony started updating the standards doc once in a blue moon.
Amazon has a Xerox color laser printer for $196 and consumables are about $133 to $199. That seems affordable for a color laser printer. My monochrome laser printer cost $200 and consumables are $80.
Bet the one bedroom in Oakland appreciates faster.
Except it was an apartment and a developer tore it down after evicting everyone. The Stockton house might be a rental as well. It wouldn't surprised me if it was. People who rent in the San Francisco Bay Area are usually the same people who can't afford to buy a house.
50 trillion pages would be more than 5000 pages per person per year. Most of us won't hit that lifetime.
During my snail mail days of submitting 50+ manuscripts each month, it took six years to go through the 50,000-page duty cycle of the drum on my laser printer. Four years ago I replaced the old printer with a new printer because it was cheaper than replacing the $200 drum. The new printer also printed faster and had wireless support for iPad and iPhone. I've only printed ~2,000 pages since then. Manuscripts are submitted via email these days.
Some people learn how to make efficient use of their time instead of expecting everything to take 3 times longer than the average person would consider reasonable.
Thank God I'm not an average person then. That would be boring as hell.
Xerox is well-known for missing the significance of what they had at PARC back in the day, and letting Steve Jobs ransack the place to develop the Mac. One of the lesser known stories, mentioned in "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael A. Hiltzik, was how Xerox dismissed the laser printer as they didn't want to cannibalize their copier sales. A delimma that most technology companies encounter when they have a cash cow product and a newer product that would replace it. HP came out with the first personal laser printer in 1980 and turned toner cartridges into a cash cow.
Someone found a copy of "ELIZA" and installed it on the network. Problem solved.
Do decent human beings share personal information like that?
If you come from a farming family, everything underneath the sun is up for discussion.
Maybe it's time for this t-shirt?
Maybe you shouldn't use ten-year-old pictures?
What T-shirt do you recommend for people that falsely accuse me of running a credit check when all I did was type in your stupid name in Google?
"I Pooped Today" t-shirt. In brown, of course.
I'm just surprised his bowels are that tuned into his schedule.
I maintain a 12-hour fast between dinner and breakfast. Everything has time to settle down overnight and ready to dump the next morning.
Show me on this picture of a very muscular man (Mr Olympia) [ironmagazine.com]where the jowls are?
Between the jawline and throat. Do you need a box of crayons?
Something has been left out of the NYT story.
Did you even read the story? For what she paid for a one-bedroom apartment in Oakland she got a three-bedroom house in Stockton.
OTOH, I've overhead two vets comparing cities on the bus one day. They loved San Jose. San Francisco and Oakland were comparable in real estate prices and crime rates. Stockton was more like Chicago in terms of murder rates. I personally would prefer Sacramento over Stockton any day.
So I imagine this is slashvertisement purchased by the developer of Standard Notes, an Electron-based app from the developer of Standard Notes.
More like a slow news day. Firehose looks awful and some of the posted stories are uncredited.