So, 10.1 million computers would be 1.21 gigawatts! But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
My best friend had a laser 128. He thought it was going to be twice as good as my C-64. sucker:). I never saw his play Test Drive/Summer Olypics/Skate or Die. My first solo computer(i.e. not shared with the family like the C-64 and the TRS 80 (With the memory upgrade and the upper/lowercase expansion-- rockin)) was a 486 SLC2 66. I finally retired the last vestiges of it a month ago (case and keyboard. It was a K6-3 500 by that time).
In a situation like this, what are people's experiences with office wide white noise generators to mask the sound? Does it help? Does it just make everyone talk louder and go deaf sooner?
And what do you know of the subject?
A quick look at the Annual Report of GlaxoSmithKline (Cenerex is a division of) shows a total R&D budget for the entire organization of 2.8 billion. Current estimates are $1 billion per week in Iraq. So yeah I think my original estimation seems close (perhaps even an underestimate given that most of the research was done at BYU, not in the Cenerex labs)
As a pretty devout atheist, I can say that there is quite a lot of at least circumstantial evidence around some religions. For example, a lot of Roman history suggests that a Jesus type guy existed. Now, whether he was the son of god or a very successful L. Ron Hubbard is where it's fun to debate.
It's absolutely on topic. The grandparent made a point about prioritizing budgets. I made no judgement on the war except that it is more expensive than curing diseases.
Yup. I just tried it out too. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem to work if I don't have port 18768 forwarded through my firewall. If the point of including a torrent client in the browser is to make torrents accessible to everyone, then it should be able to run with a passive connection like every other client I've used (I don't want people who call me when their computers break to know they can mess with their own routers).
All scepticism on the discovery aside, are you suggesting that anyone consider not making something like this widely available when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?
There are no ads in your chat sessions or your Quick Contacts list. Once a chat is saved, however, it becomes just like a Gmail message. And just as you may see relevant ads next to your Gmail messages, there now may be ads alongside your saved chats. Ads are only displayed when you're viewing a saved chat, and as with all ads in Gmail, they are matched entirely by computers. Only ads classified as Family-Safe are shown and we are constantly improving our technologies to prevent displaying any inappropriate ads. One of the things many Gmail users have told us is how much they appreciate the unobtrusive text ads in Gmail, as opposed to the large, irrelevant, blinking banner ads they often see in other services, and many have even cited the usefulness of the ads in Gmail.
So they're not putting adds into live chats, just into the archives. Presumably a system like this could work with adsense for any archives you would put up.
Google chat will allow you to be logged on multiple times (I often forget to log off at home then log on at the office).
It seems to route messages to the most recently activated client (this is a problem for the situation above when a cat walks across the keyboard at home and makes the unattended client active). I have noticed that some jabber clients (PSI?) will let you select which instance to send a message to when a user is logged on more than once. How this ties into gmail/gtalk? I'm not sure.
I had the webcam setup for a while. Be careful with that system... you'll find that a camera height appropriate for seeing people coming tends to ride tit level at people in your cube. Fine for women with whom you have a good rapport, not so fine with HR people.
And this new energy system is going to appear in a flash of capitalist magic? People (and when I say people I mean ME and YOU not some imaginary person who may or may not exist) have to actually do the work of discovering and designing and refining new systems to replace old systems. They have to be made to be ready before the old system fails rather than hoping that they apparate when it does.
So, if you don't care about solar and other alternative energies, go ahead and live your little life, but don't scorn those who are trying to give you alternatives.
So there is a long-term benefit to the Empire, but one paid for by the loss of countless innocent lives. That in my mind makes it completely unjustifiable.
Tangential question. Don't take this as flamebait or even a parallel to the question above, I'm just personally disturbed by the issue:
Are the Egyptian pyramids today worth the loss of the lives of the countless generations of slaves who built them thousands of years ago?
Are there any Canadian lawyers present? Does PIPEDA cover this? I know it deals quite strongly with personally identifiable electronic information, but (at least where I work) we usually assume that means SIN numbers and addresses. Do cookies count?
Any provider that abandons flat-rate pricing risks losing customers in droves.
Maybe I live in an area with too many ISP options, but I have to agree with you. The only way something like this could happen is if either every ISP made this change simultaneously, or if the tiered stuff offered something so wonderfully attractive that I would have to take it (and I could not even begin to imagine what that would be).
I know I have already sent messages to my (small) telco saying that if they attempted something like this they would lose me (landline and DSL) before the next billing period.
Not to mention endears me to that company in particular. I may well go get a list of artists under that label and go buy something just to support them. Or send in a donation saying "Thank you."
Nettwerk is Sarah McLachlan's label (I think she started it). Barenaked ladies are there too. Too bad their website sucks and starts playing music right away.
Don't worry about the 1 year thing. I know three people under the age of 50 who have kept the same job for more than three years at a time (and they all work for government). If I was hiring, I'd consider 10 years in the previous job more of a detriment than 1 year.
As for finding the next job? Make sure all of your friends/family and their friends/family know you are looking for a job. It's so much easier to get a job when someone recommends you than it is to get your resume noticed replying to an ad. When you do get the interview, a doctor's appointment is a great way to get out for an afternoon (just start complaining about something a few days before)
let's get real, here: this is about providing insurance, not healthcare
OK, this is getting waaay off topic, but I need to clarify:
You are only half correct. There are two facets to the issue. The payer and the provider. In the US, you have a private payer/private provider (private insurance pays for private hostpitals). In Canada, it is currently public payer/public provider (government insurance pays for government hospitals) but it is heading toward (and accelerating after yesterday) to a public payer private provider (government insurance pays for private hospitals). There exist systems with every different binary combination of this and various hybrids.
This all sounds great, but will it work when(if) Vista comes out? Previously, I had samba setups running beautifully on Win2K networks. Then 2003 came out and it messed it all up. Eventually Samba (and supporting docs) caught up and 2003 now works reasonably well. So will Samba 4 come out with great support for 2003 then break as soon as Vista is released?
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So, 10.1 million computers would be 1.21 gigawatts! But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
My best friend had a laser 128. He thought it was going to be twice as good as my C-64. sucker :). I never saw his play Test Drive/Summer Olypics/Skate or Die.
My first solo computer(i.e. not shared with the family like the C-64 and the TRS 80 (With the memory upgrade and the upper/lowercase expansion-- rockin)) was a 486 SLC2 66. I finally retired the last vestiges of it a month ago (case and keyboard. It was a K6-3 500 by that time).
In a situation like this, what are people's experiences with office wide white noise generators to mask the sound? Does it help? Does it just make everyone talk louder and go deaf sooner?
Rock.
Next question?
And what do you know of the subject?
A quick look at the Annual Report of GlaxoSmithKline (Cenerex is a division of) shows a total R&D budget for the entire organization of 2.8 billion. Current estimates are $1 billion per week in Iraq. So yeah I think my original estimation seems close (perhaps even an underestimate given that most of the research was done at BYU, not in the Cenerex labs)
As a pretty devout atheist, I can say that there is quite a lot of at least circumstantial evidence around some religions. For example, a lot of Roman history suggests that a Jesus type guy existed. Now, whether he was the son of god or a very successful L. Ron Hubbard is where it's fun to debate.
It's absolutely on topic. The grandparent made a point about prioritizing budgets. I made no judgement on the war except that it is more expensive than curing diseases.
Yup. I just tried it out too. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem to work if I don't have port 18768 forwarded through my firewall. If the point of including a torrent client in the browser is to make torrents accessible to everyone, then it should be able to run with a passive connection like every other client I've used (I don't want people who call me when their computers break to know they can mess with their own routers).
All scepticism on the discovery aside, are you suggesting that anyone consider not making something like this widely available when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?
So they're not putting adds into live chats, just into the archives. Presumably a system like this could work with adsense for any archives you would put up.
Google chat will allow you to be logged on multiple times (I often forget to log off at home then log on at the office).
It seems to route messages to the most recently activated client (this is a problem for the situation above when a cat walks across the keyboard at home and makes the unattended client active). I have noticed that some jabber clients (PSI?) will let you select which instance to send a message to when a user is logged on more than once. How this ties into gmail/gtalk? I'm not sure.
I had the webcam setup for a while. Be careful with that system... you'll find that a camera height appropriate for seeing people coming tends to ride tit level at people in your cube. Fine for women with whom you have a good rapport, not so fine with HR people.
And this new energy system is going to appear in a flash of capitalist magic? People (and when I say people I mean ME and YOU not some imaginary person who may or may not exist) have to actually do the work of discovering and designing and refining new systems to replace old systems. They have to be made to be ready before the old system fails rather than hoping that they apparate when it does.
So, if you don't care about solar and other alternative energies, go ahead and live your little life, but don't scorn those who are trying to give you alternatives.
So there is a long-term benefit to the Empire, but one paid for by the loss of countless innocent lives. That in my mind makes it completely unjustifiable.
Tangential question. Don't take this as flamebait or even a parallel to the question above, I'm just personally disturbed by the issue:
Are the Egyptian pyramids today worth the loss of the lives of the countless generations of slaves who built them thousands of years ago?
Are there any Canadian lawyers present? Does PIPEDA cover this? I know it deals quite strongly with personally identifiable electronic information, but (at least where I work) we usually assume that means SIN numbers and addresses. Do cookies count?
Recently heard at a zombie protest:
Head Zombie: What do we want?
Zombies: Braaaaaaiiiiinnnnssss
Head Zombie: When do we want them?
Zombies: Braaaaaaiiiiinnnnssss
I'm currently running GSX on XP.
Good post. I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but please tell me you composed this from home.
I know I have already sent messages to my (small) telco saying that if they attempted something like this they would lose me (landline and DSL) before the next billing period.
McAfee DATs 4642 and higher will catch it.
Don't worry about the 1 year thing. I know three people under the age of 50 who have kept the same job for more than three years at a time (and they all work for government). If I was hiring, I'd consider 10 years in the previous job more of a detriment than 1 year.
As for finding the next job? Make sure all of your friends/family and their friends/family know you are looking for a job. It's so much easier to get a job when someone recommends you than it is to get your resume noticed replying to an ad. When you do get the interview, a doctor's appointment is a great way to get out for an afternoon (just start complaining about something a few days before)
let's get real, here: this is about providing insurance, not healthcare
OK, this is getting waaay off topic, but I need to clarify:
You are only half correct. There are two facets to the issue. The payer and the provider. In the US, you have a private payer/private provider (private insurance pays for private hostpitals). In Canada, it is currently public payer/public provider (government insurance pays for government hospitals) but it is heading toward (and accelerating after yesterday) to a public payer private provider (government insurance pays for private hospitals). There exist systems with every different binary combination of this and various hybrids.
This all sounds great, but will it work when(if) Vista comes out? Previously, I had samba setups running beautifully on Win2K networks. Then 2003 came out and it messed it all up. Eventually Samba (and supporting docs) caught up and 2003 now works reasonably well. So will Samba 4 come out with great support for 2003 then break as soon as Vista is released?
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No need to add a separate table, it's just a little application logic.