I'm in Pittsburgh (Oakland neighborhood, near Pitt/CMU), and I can now pick up all major local stations via digital OTA (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox), as well as PBS. I'm in the southeastern corner of my building, so ABC (broadcasting from the east) comes in the strongest (almost don't even need an antennae). PBS is broadcasted right from my own neighborhood (Mr. Roger's neighborhood? Yeah, seriously;-), so I really don't need an antennae there, either. Took me awhile to figure out how to get Fox, CBS, and NBC. Fox and NBC took a little fiddling with the antennae direction and gain, and CBS takes a little bit more. But now, I get more or less all the important channels (plus a few shopping and religious bullshit channels, too). I only get one digital channel from CBS & Fox, but I get all three of the broadcasts from ABC & NBC (their main digital HD, local weather, and the 'extra' channel, which appears to be mostly reruns at this point). And for the little bit of actual worthwhile stuff that comes in off of cable (e.g. Daily Show, Colbert Report, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka), I just go to either hulu or bittorrent,...;-)
So, where exactly are these voting machines I keep hearing about? I have voted in every election (even in off-Pres years), and in several states (Virginia, Kentucky, Arizona, and Pennsylvania), and I have yet to use one of these Diebold (or anyone else's) voting machines. I've used the punch-card system, with the "hanging chads" and all, although most of the time it's simple "fill-in-the-ovals". So, maybe I just haven't been lucky enough to live in a precinct with fancy-shmancy voting machines,... or maybe I'm still living in the 19th century and no one told me?
Also, when are we going to be able to vote on the internets? You'd think they could work that out by now, right? Maybe the real reason we can't vote by internet is because the politicians know that it would increase the vote of the well-connected (and usually liberal) student population, and they really don't want to do that,...
Actually, he is "operating in the same line of business," whether he thinks so or not. He's doing that by running a forum site promoting discussion on the same general topic (hosting the olympics in Chicago in 2016) as the olympic bid committee.
Olympic committees are non-profit organizations. The.org domain is for non-profits. They don't need to take the.com, other than to prevent a bunch of old farts that think all websites have to end in.com for some reason from being confused, which isn't a valid reason. Case closed.
If you RTFA, and not really in depth, but just the title and author, and the website it was posted on, you'll see that this was posted by one Jacob Goldstein writing on the Wall Street Journal BLOG. So, this is clearly an op-ed piece of some sort. The thing I have to ask Mr. Goldstein is, does he have children? What ages? Did one of his kids recently not get into med school because he flunked O-chem? With all the talk about "helicopter parents" and the dumbing down of education these days, it wouldn't in the least bit surprise me if this was written by such a person who wants to lower the standards so their precious little snowflake can get into medical school to make his $2 million,...
You're probably thinking of Phoenix, in the state of Arizona to the west. Albuquerque is at a mean altitude of 5,312 ft (1,619.1 m), considerably above sea level. Like Flagstaff, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado, it sits on the Colorado Plateau. There are four seasons there, snowfall in winter, and reasonable temperatures,...
That's nothing. I work for a computer consultantcy and I have half a terabyte of attachments and meeting invites alone.
It sounds like you work with a lot of old people that have to send attachments to themselves because they haven't heard of this new-fangled thing called "FTP",...
I've been in my current position almost a year now, and I've already generated about 1/2 a terabyte of data; and that's only the stuff I've decided is worth keeping (I've probably generated several terabytes in reality),... Of course, I'm probably not your average office worker -- my data is mostly monte carlo simulations of proteins, on the order of millions (some in the billions) of steps long. Some of the largest trajectories are 45 GB (yes, that's one file).
Um, if you RTFA, it's actually not for sale quite yet; though they do state that they intend it to be "on sale" by the end of the month,... Then again, 3D Realms has "intended" to sell Duke Nukem Forever for how long now?
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Good Lord! We're sending lawyers to Iraq! Maybe that's why everyone in the middle east hates our guts! =)
Since when was MySpace a "Content Management System"? I'd call that an epic fail of a content management system, IMHO,...
Yep,... that explains Windows Vista alright? Although, using Google's standards, Vista would probably not have even gotten out of the Alpha stage!
Did you get that memo?
Maybe you should try moving out of your parent's basement ,... ;-)
I'm in Pittsburgh (Oakland neighborhood, near Pitt/CMU), and I can now pick up all major local stations via digital OTA (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox), as well as PBS. I'm in the southeastern corner of my building, so ABC (broadcasting from the east) comes in the strongest (almost don't even need an antennae). PBS is broadcasted right from my own neighborhood (Mr. Roger's neighborhood? Yeah, seriously ;-), so I really don't need an antennae there, either. Took me awhile to figure out how to get Fox, CBS, and NBC. Fox and NBC took a little fiddling with the antennae direction and gain, and CBS takes a little bit more. But now, I get more or less all the important channels (plus a few shopping and religious bullshit channels, too). I only get one digital channel from CBS & Fox, but I get all three of the broadcasts from ABC & NBC (their main digital HD, local weather, and the 'extra' channel, which appears to be mostly reruns at this point). And for the little bit of actual worthwhile stuff that comes in off of cable (e.g. Daily Show, Colbert Report, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka), I just go to either hulu or bittorrent,... ;-)
I'd love to tell you, but unfortunately that place was set on fire by a disgruntled IT worker with a red stapler, and the printer was busted before they could print anything out,...
Oh, great! So now he can fsck up the economy even worse than Bush did!
Also, when are we going to be able to vote on the internets? You'd think they could work that out by now, right? Maybe the real reason we can't vote by internet is because the politicians know that it would increase the vote of the well-connected (and usually liberal) student population, and they really don't want to do that,...
Actually, he is "operating in the same line of business," whether he thinks so or not. He's doing that by running a forum site promoting discussion on the same general topic (hosting the olympics in Chicago in 2016) as the olympic bid committee.
Olympic committees are non-profit organizations. The .org domain is for non-profits. They don't need to take the .com, other than to prevent a bunch of old farts that think all websites have to end in .com for some reason from being confused, which isn't a valid reason. Case closed.
If you RTFA, and not really in depth, but just the title and author, and the website it was posted on, you'll see that this was posted by one Jacob Goldstein writing on the Wall Street Journal BLOG. So, this is clearly an op-ed piece of some sort. The thing I have to ask Mr. Goldstein is, does he have children? What ages? Did one of his kids recently not get into med school because he flunked O-chem? With all the talk about "helicopter parents" and the dumbing down of education these days, it wouldn't in the least bit surprise me if this was written by such a person who wants to lower the standards so their precious little snowflake can get into medical school to make his $2 million,...
You're probably thinking of Phoenix, in the state of Arizona to the west. Albuquerque is at a mean altitude of 5,312 ft (1,619.1 m), considerably above sea level. Like Flagstaff, Arizona, and Denver, Colorado, it sits on the Colorado Plateau. There are four seasons there, snowfall in winter, and reasonable temperatures,...
Oh, dear God! I hope it doesn't move to Washington soon!
It sounds like you work with a lot of old people that have to send attachments to themselves because they haven't heard of this new-fangled thing called "FTP",...
So THAT explains why they kept moving Milton's desk (image)! I guess all those TPS reports take up space!
I've been in my current position almost a year now, and I've already generated about 1/2 a terabyte of data; and that's only the stuff I've decided is worth keeping (I've probably generated several terabytes in reality),... Of course, I'm probably not your average office worker -- my data is mostly monte carlo simulations of proteins, on the order of millions (some in the billions) of steps long. Some of the largest trajectories are 45 GB (yes, that's one file).
Left arms are, too,... Most of these players "multitask", if you know what I mean,... ;-)
No! China's building a Beowulf Cluster in space!
Forget Linux and Vista! I just want to know if it'll run Duke Nukem Forever!
But, can it run Windows Vista? Or how about running Duke Nukem Forever on top of Windows Vista? Or is that just wishful thinking?
Will they be using the metric or imperial system for the measurements this time? Better make sure they get this right,... ;-)
Um, if you RTFA, it's actually not for sale quite yet; though they do state that they intend it to be "on sale" by the end of the month,... Then again, 3D Realms has "intended" to sell Duke Nukem Forever for how long now?
It's interesting. But nothing really new or groundbreaking; we discussed another pocket projector that uses lasers back in January of this year. We also talked about other small projectors on April 1 of this year, too.