The CEO of a company I used to work for claimed the VPN was inconvenient, so he would basically sync our entire file server to his laptop every day - marketing, finance, development projects, the works. His laptops were also constantly being misplaced or stolen, so who know how many copies of everything we had are floating around out there. Every business trip was a major security breach in the making.
The Block 20 of the A/B model was fitted for LANTIRN, but I think those all went to Taiwan. I have no idea if the European Block 20 MLU program included it or not.
If wind resistance was an issue, maybe the increased fuel use is from...shall we say, less streamlined...people using on motorcyles instead of staying properly sheltered inside an SUV?
"A worker from Shanxi Province had his index finger chopped off while operating a hole punch press machine while working on an internet camera. Management did rush him to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, after an investigation, management determined that the worker had disobeyed regulations related to operating the punch press machine, so the worker was fined 200 RMB ($29.26) and fired! The foreman and section chief in that department were also fined. Management then rehired the injured worker as a security guard." (http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034)
That's almost better than the treatment I received the two times I was injured here in the States. If you get injured here, the companies want you out the door and off their books as fast as they can.
I had a fluffball hamster and a ferret living in the same house. The two met nose to nose once, and the ferret wanted nothing to do with the hamster from then on. When the hamster would escape from its cage or was rolling in the ball, the ferret would hide in the shoe closet until the hamster was caught and imprisoned again.
For our rat problem, we used a dog. Every rat he killed could be traded for hot dogs, so he became quite the hunter. (Mice he would just eat - he was always walking around with a mouse tail hanging out of his mouth...)
At the other extreme, my real name is also a popular nickname. Punching my real name into Google will return hundreds or thousands of results, a minor percentage of which can be linked back to me (and many can be easily denied). I can mix and match nyms and real names on various sites, and wish employers good luck untangling it all. A few companies have tried and given up.
I used to have an old PowerMac 9600 with 12 memory slots using 64MB or 128MB sticks. Since the OS at the time could only use 512MB, any extra RAM could be split off into a bootable ramdisk. With the OS and my applications running off the ramdisk, that clunky 300MHz processor seemed faster than anything I've able to buy since. It seems we've been going backwards in some aspects.
I was the sole IT guy at my last place, a financial institution that went through a large amount of defective and obsolete hard drives. Not wanting to spend the time erasing the drives, I would just take them out back and hit it with a sledge a couple times until the platters exploded.
As a financial institution, we were subject to frequent audits, one of which dealt with our data destruction methods. I described our "process" to an auditor once, he laughed and asked what our real process was. Still not believing me, he brought up the same question to one of our VPs. Her straight-faced answer: "Ive seen him out in the parking lot with a sledgehammer a few time, I always wondered what he was using it on."
Not to long after 9/11, I was on a Qantas flight that passed out plastic silverware during dinner...except for those of us that ordered the steak, we got steel steak knives with our meal. You could hear people laughing all the way down the plane as the cart rolled down the aisle passing out knives.
I used to live near a freeway right where it changes speed limits, from 60mph to 70mph. On the 60mph side, traffic flows freely at 70mph with the left lane creeping up towards 80mph.
When these drivers get to the new speed limit sign, an odd thing happens: they slow down. A 70mph zone is frightening since they're used to driving in a 60mph zone (at 70mph). Going 10-over to 80mph is completely unfamiliar territory, so they retreat to a more comforting speed.
So you have a wall of cars moving at 70mph actually getting to a 70mph zone and slowing to 60mph or less. I've seen cars rear-ended when they hit the brakes, then start jumping lanes as they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the now-faster cars they had just passed. Eventually you end up with a traffic jam ten miles long, with nothing but miles of empty high-speed pavement in front of it.
Four lanes wide, perfectly straight, miles from the nearest on- or off-ramp, and it's one of the more dangerous sections of my commute.
Which will be interesting when the Vista Vultures try to steer Macintosh customers over to the Vista systems. The stores may have product disparagement issues if their employees aren't careful when favoring certain vendors over others (especially if their salaries are being paid for by outside vendors).
Playing on a server that is 87% Alliance and 13% Horde, I can suggest that racials don't mean squat. (We have more Night Elf Hunters than there are Horde.) If anything, many of the Alliance racials needed to be toned down. Most Horde players chose Horde races long before looking at racials.
The Alliance uses tigers for mounts. The Horde gets limping wolves and giant chickens. The cool crowd goes with the tigers. To play Horde you have to like the squalor and darkness of most Horde cities over the sparkly grandeur that the Alliance gets, so the Horde gets fewer players in general (but the ones we do get tend to be more...intense).
Wouldn't just setting the arm to oscillate in an arc in front of the the goal at a few thousand rpm make scoring against it impossible? (Not to mention the 200mph random rebounds coming off a blocked shot?)
Same thing happened here to one of our top execs. He lasted a week before having us wipe the system and install XP. It will be years before anyone will be able to suggest upgrading the rest of the network to Vista.
I don't necessarily need some of my old favorites remade, but I'd like to see them fixed so I can play them again. I have too many games that won't run on current operating systems, or where the last patch never made it out of the development before the company folded. Feel free to make a sequel, but I'd like to see them include a fully-patched version of the original game as well.
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The CEO of a company I used to work for claimed the VPN was inconvenient, so he would basically sync our entire file server to his laptop every day - marketing, finance, development projects, the works. His laptops were also constantly being misplaced or stolen, so who know how many copies of everything we had are floating around out there. Every business trip was a major security breach in the making.
The Block 20 of the A/B model was fitted for LANTIRN, but I think those all went to Taiwan. I have no idea if the European Block 20 MLU program included it or not.
(I'll take useless '80's trivia for $600, Alex.)
If wind resistance was an issue, maybe the increased fuel use is from...shall we say, less streamlined...people using on motorcyles instead of staying properly sheltered inside an SUV?
My "Lava Red" Durango has been hit twice from behind, both times while stopped at a red light. It's not the color.
It's from the lead-in to most CSI:Miami episodes. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Horatio%20Caine/
Air-bursting a second nuke on a slight delay will take care of that.
regarding the finger incident:
"A worker from Shanxi Province had his index finger chopped off while operating a hole punch press machine while working on an internet camera. Management did rush him to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, after an investigation, management determined that the worker had disobeyed regulations related to operating the punch press machine, so the worker was fined 200 RMB ($29.26) and fired! The foreman and section chief in that department were also fined. Management then rehired the injured worker as a security guard." (http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034)
That's almost better than the treatment I received the two times I was injured here in the States. If you get injured here, the companies want you out the door and off their books as fast as they can.
Since most (all?) Hollywood movies lose money, can I just short them all and retire?
Sellers can't leave negative feedback.
30" is where the pixel count increases, and the pixel size shrinks a bit. It's those new 27" screens that really rip people off.
20" 1600x1200
20" 1680x1050
22" 1680x1050
24" 1920x1200
27" 1920x1200
30" 2560x1600
(I've started seeing 1366x768 and 1280x720 LCD screens being pushed as desktop monitors, so I think we're actually going backwards.)
I had a fluffball hamster and a ferret living in the same house. The two met nose to nose once, and the ferret wanted nothing to do with the hamster from then on. When the hamster would escape from its cage or was rolling in the ball, the ferret would hide in the shoe closet until the hamster was caught and imprisoned again.
For our rat problem, we used a dog. Every rat he killed could be traded for hot dogs, so he became quite the hunter. (Mice he would just eat - he was always walking around with a mouse tail hanging out of his mouth...)
At the other extreme, my real name is also a popular nickname. Punching my real name into Google will return hundreds or thousands of results, a minor percentage of which can be linked back to me (and many can be easily denied). I can mix and match nyms and real names on various sites, and wish employers good luck untangling it all. A few companies have tried and given up.
I used to have an old PowerMac 9600 with 12 memory slots using 64MB or 128MB sticks. Since the OS at the time could only use 512MB, any extra RAM could be split off into a bootable ramdisk. With the OS and my applications running off the ramdisk, that clunky 300MHz processor seemed faster than anything I've able to buy since. It seems we've been going backwards in some aspects.
I was the sole IT guy at my last place, a financial institution that went through a large amount of defective and obsolete hard drives. Not wanting to spend the time erasing the drives, I would just take them out back and hit it with a sledge a couple times until the platters exploded.
As a financial institution, we were subject to frequent audits, one of which dealt with our data destruction methods. I described our "process" to an auditor once, he laughed and asked what our real process was. Still not believing me, he brought up the same question to one of our VPs. Her straight-faced answer: "Ive seen him out in the parking lot with a sledgehammer a few time, I always wondered what he was using it on."
The next year, they sent a different auditor.
...(and 6 half drunk glasses of wine)...
Of all the quests we've had to do, this is one of the ones that's bothered me the most. I wonder how much of this goes on in a real-world restaurant?
Narrator: Clean food, please.
Waiter: In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator: No clam chowder, thank you.
Not to long after 9/11, I was on a Qantas flight that passed out plastic silverware during dinner...except for those of us that ordered the steak, we got steel steak knives with our meal. You could hear people laughing all the way down the plane as the cart rolled down the aisle passing out knives.
I used to live near a freeway right where it changes speed limits, from 60mph to 70mph. On the 60mph side, traffic flows freely at 70mph with the left lane creeping up towards 80mph.
When these drivers get to the new speed limit sign, an odd thing happens: they slow down. A 70mph zone is frightening since they're used to driving in a 60mph zone (at 70mph). Going 10-over to 80mph is completely unfamiliar territory, so they retreat to a more comforting speed.
So you have a wall of cars moving at 70mph actually getting to a 70mph zone and slowing to 60mph or less. I've seen cars rear-ended when they hit the brakes, then start jumping lanes as they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the now-faster cars they had just passed. Eventually you end up with a traffic jam ten miles long, with nothing but miles of empty high-speed pavement in front of it.
Four lanes wide, perfectly straight, miles from the nearest on- or off-ramp, and it's one of the more dangerous sections of my commute.
Inane Americanism.
to beat someone (in a race or battle) = to beat out
Which will be interesting when the Vista Vultures try to steer Macintosh customers over to the Vista systems. The stores may have product disparagement issues if their employees aren't careful when favoring certain vendors over others (especially if their salaries are being paid for by outside vendors).
Playing on a server that is 87% Alliance and 13% Horde, I can suggest that racials don't mean squat. (We have more Night Elf Hunters than there are Horde.) If anything, many of the Alliance racials needed to be toned down. Most Horde players chose Horde races long before looking at racials.
The Alliance uses tigers for mounts. The Horde gets limping wolves and giant chickens. The cool crowd goes with the tigers. To play Horde you have to like the squalor and darkness of most Horde cities over the sparkly grandeur that the Alliance gets, so the Horde gets fewer players in general (but the ones we do get tend to be more...intense).
The hydraulic pistons were the actor's legs.
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5306/peoplebn2.gif
At the end of the act the tops were removed so the actors could wave to the crowd (or else robotics were really, really advanced).
We you can spend someone else's money on expensive, extravagant, utterly useless stuff, you start getting into negative numbers.
Wouldn't just setting the arm to oscillate in an arc in front of the the goal at a few thousand rpm make scoring against it impossible? (Not to mention the 200mph random rebounds coming off a blocked shot?)
Same thing happened here to one of our top execs. He lasted a week before having us wipe the system and install XP. It will be years before anyone will be able to suggest upgrading the rest of the network to Vista.
I don't necessarily need some of my old favorites remade, but I'd like to see them fixed so I can play them again. I have too many games that won't run on current operating systems, or where the last patch never made it out of the development before the company folded. Feel free to make a sequel, but I'd like to see them include a fully-patched version of the original game as well.