Or... I have an Antec NSK 2480 for my MythTV system. I painted the front panel black enamel and it looks like a home theater component. It's about $120 from Newegg / Amazon. Super quiet.
I put a blue Crystalfontz 20x2 LCD display I had laying around in the upper bay (edges and mount also painted black enamel) and the DVD reader (black front) in the lower. LED encircling the power button glows blue.
I still have a 1 DVD out at a time along with Netflix streaming because it's better than $5 iTunes rentals for recent stuff (and I can rip DVDs for anything I want to keep),...
you rip rentals? that's pretty scummy, dude.
Well... Technically... As long as he has an active Netflix by/mail account, he's simply being efficient and saving them postage.
Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.
Or Widowed. Together at 22 (she was 41) for 20 years (married for 16 years, 3 weeks). She was diagnosed w/a brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving 2005; spent our last Thanksgiving, Anniversary, Christmas, New Year's together in the hospital. Coma started on Jan 5 and she died on Jan 13, 2006 at 3:00pm; haven't dated anyone since. (P.S. The Winter holidays suck now.)
Or is it just because its RFID wristband that everyone here is having an issue with?
That's probably part of it, along with the worry that the information on the RFID chip would be unencrypted, such that anyone with a reader could spend a day at the park and walk away with much more than $100 worth of people's identities.
According to a related article, there is no personally identifiable information on the bracelet and, if linked to a credit card, any purchases over $50 require a PIN. Most (all?) customer data shared with Disney can be controlled by the customer.
Yeah, and they would never frame anybody or tamper with evidence or anything, because their motives are always pure and above reproach. And unlike public officers, they're completely accountable!
Wait, who are these people again?
I can't tell if you're a smart guy trying to slam Anonymous or an idiot idolizing public officers. Either could be corrupt and/or unaccountable. Anonymous, however, has no vested interest either way in the lives, well-being and reputations of those in Steubenville Ohio - or their football team (which, if you read the NYT article, seems to be the main concern of many in the town)
Looking at numbers from an Urban Institute study, the AP found that a married couple retiring in 2011 after both spouses earned average income during their lives paid total Social Security taxes of $598,000. They can expect to collect $556,000 in benefits, if the man lives to 82 and the woman lives to 85.
On the other hand, Medicare: (or Google: Medicare return on investment)
his typical person paid around $64,971 in Medicare payroll taxes over his lifetime. Likewise, after netting out Medicare premiums, he’ll receive around $173,886 in lifetime Medicare benefits. The net? He can expect to receive around $108,915 more in benefits than he paid in taxes over his lifetime.
It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.
After the dotcom bubble burst so long ago,when tech jobs were so scarce,...
I've been continuously employed since I graduated with a BSCS in 1987. Twice with the same small software development company, Unisys, SAIC - both at the NASA Langley Research Center - The New York Times and Northrop Grumman - all as a system programmer and/or system administrator on just about every kind of system from PC to Cray 2. The one time I unintentionally lost my job, I immediately found a part-time programming job at a small local hosting company and a new full-time, at my previous salary, two months later. I also kept the part-time work for a year. I'm now 50, w/still only a BSCS, debt-free and make enough to save, yes save, $65K/year.
I you can't find a job, then either you have a way-wrong education / skill set, or aren't looking hard enough or willing to start low enough on the food chain and prove yourself. Dot-Com bubble burst excuse my ass. Live modestly, don't buy shit you don't really need, pay off ALL your bills promptly, save all you can and you'll have the resources and flexibility to do whatever you want w/o worry. No one can have leverage on you if you don't need anything.
I find networking technology absolutely trivial and have been retraining on my own, but hiring managers see the gap and the PhD and run screaming. I'm more than willing to start over in network admin but can't even get considered for that. Suggestions?"
Downplay the PhD as simply your willingness to learn new things in depth. Take my advise on living modestly and offer to start with a lower salary with the understanding that you'll get bumped after proving yourself.
Hi there,
You can stop philosophizing, I just deleted that guy from the simulation, he was getting annoying. Incidentally, if you subscribe to the specific flavor of mass delusion you guys call 'Christianity' and are wondering when the rapture will happen, it'll come the day I finally slip up while combining wild-cards and the 'rm' command on my Simulatron 6000 (TM).
Sincerely,
Your lord and creator.
Posting that as A/C would have been even funnier...
This was in China though. And the Dad evidently gave up after the kid said "No, I'm STILL not going to look for a job." Sounds like the problem may have been lack of tough love. Furthermore, h4rr4r's suggestion doesn't need to be an immediate and total severing of all ties and support.
"You have a month or two to find a job, after that time you'll either be gainfully employed and enjoying your hobby on your off hours, or you will be sleeping on the concrete and won't have a computer."
If the kid chooses the latter, that's his fault.
Dad's next move: Hire assassins w/o the "in-game" part. Free-loading, slacker son problem solved.
[ Seriously. Quitting your first job to be unemployed because you "didn't like the work"?
Who really liked/likes the work at their first job? ]
Electric/hybrid vehicles should pay less per mile as they do less damage to the roads.
So who should pay less per mile? A Prius or a conventional Civic?
Simpler example: Conventional or Hybrid Honda Civic? They come in both flavors with almost identical chassis, from a user standpoint.
Without GPS, how do they know when you leave the state?
That's easy. If you've driven an unusually high number of miles without filling up in-state, you were probably out of state.
Seriously?
Option (1) Get a hybrid that can plug-in recharge, drive "an unusually high number of miles without filling up in-state", claim was "probably out of state" all year, profit.
Option (2) Fill up in-state, discard receipts, claim you never filled up in-state - you get the picture...
... they didn't think to discard the remaining liquids and wash the glasses after the parents fell asleep?
Don't they learn anything in school, watching CSI or surfing the Internet?
While Hewlett-Packard has flirted with smartphones in the past, most notably after its Palm acquisition, the company doesn't seem too focused on that segment at the moment.
...the average office worker uses about 10,000 sheets of paper each year,...
Seriously? I used less than 500 sheets (one ream) for both home and office last year - seriously. Now, my wife (of 20 years) was a teacher and routinely used much more - which we bought ourselves because her school only allocated one 500-sheet ream to each teacher, for the entire school year (I digress) - but she still used less than 10,000 sheets/year. She died on Jan 13, 2006 (of a brain tumor, just seven weeks after diagnosis) and I still have a 1/2 full box of paper at home. Sigh.
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Or... I have an Antec NSK 2480 for my MythTV system. I painted the front panel black enamel and it looks like a home theater component. It's about $120 from Newegg / Amazon. Super quiet.
I put a blue Crystalfontz 20x2 LCD display I had laying around in the upper bay (edges and mount also painted black enamel) and the DVD reader (black front) in the lower. LED encircling the power button glows blue.
Very nice, if I say so myself.
...have earbuds you can heat in your microwave, then shape and reshape as often as you like to fit perfectly in your ears.
I'm having trouble fitting my head inside my microwave oven...
Whenever I hear about possible Jeopardy categories, I think of this Colin Mochrie response on "Whose Line is it Anyway":
I still have a 1 DVD out at a time along with Netflix streaming because it's better than $5 iTunes rentals for recent stuff (and I can rip DVDs for anything I want to keep),...
you rip rentals? that's pretty scummy, dude.
Well... Technically... As long as he has an active Netflix by/mail account, he's simply being efficient and saving them postage.
Consider the number of young readers who live at their parent's place. Or the number of more seasoned readers who might be divorced, or still single, and aren't going as much as they should.
Or Widowed. Together at 22 (she was 41) for 20 years (married for 16 years, 3 weeks). She was diagnosed w/a brain tumor the day before Thanksgiving 2005; spent our last Thanksgiving, Anniversary, Christmas, New Year's together in the hospital. Coma started on Jan 5 and she died on Jan 13, 2006 at 3:00pm; haven't dated anyone since. (P.S. The Winter holidays suck now.)
Or is it just because its RFID wristband that everyone here is having an issue with?
That's probably part of it, along with the worry that the information on the RFID chip would be unencrypted, such that anyone with a reader could spend a day at the park and walk away with much more than $100 worth of people's identities.
According to a related article, there is no personally identifiable information on the bracelet and, if linked to a credit card, any purchases over $50 require a PIN. Most (all?) customer data shared with Disney can be controlled by the customer.
Or are you worried Disney might let the FBI know how many time you rode It's a Small World and ate the Polynesian?
Dear God I hope that was a typo...
Yeah, and they would never frame anybody or tamper with evidence or anything, because their motives are always pure and above reproach. And unlike public officers, they're completely accountable!
Wait, who are these people again?
I can't tell if you're a smart guy trying to slam Anonymous or an idiot idolizing public officers. Either could be corrupt and/or unaccountable. Anonymous, however, has no vested interest either way in the lives, well-being and reputations of those in Steubenville Ohio - or their football team (which, if you read the NYT article, seems to be the main concern of many in the town)
Because people will take out more than they put in with all of those systems. No, enough interest is not earned to make up the difference.
Not anymore: Social Security Now Takes More Than it Gives (or Google: SSI return on investment)
Looking at numbers from an Urban Institute study, the AP found that a married couple retiring in 2011 after both spouses earned average income during their lives paid total Social Security taxes of $598,000. They can expect to collect $556,000 in benefits, if the man lives to 82 and the woman lives to 85.
On the other hand, Medicare: (or Google: Medicare return on investment)
his typical person paid around $64,971 in Medicare payroll taxes over his lifetime. Likewise, after netting out Medicare premiums, he’ll receive around $173,886 in lifetime Medicare benefits. The net? He can expect to receive around $108,915 more in benefits than he paid in taxes over his lifetime.
So the times, they are a changing.
...the new Congress isn't wasting any time getting back to work...
Please define "wasting time" and "work".
Become a Stripper / Exotic Dancer?
[ Narrator: Realizing that this is /. Fahrbot-bot prepared himself for many nights of unsettling dream imagery... ]
Yah. And Perl still looks like modem noise.
Try programming in TECO:
It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.
JavaScript Is the New Perl
JavaScript, I use Perl. I know Perl. Perl is a friend of mine. JavaScript, you're no Perl.
[ My apologies to Senator Lloyd Bentsen. ]
After the dotcom bubble burst so long ago,when tech jobs were so scarce, ...
I've been continuously employed since I graduated with a BSCS in 1987. Twice with the same small software development company, Unisys, SAIC - both at the NASA Langley Research Center - The New York Times and Northrop Grumman - all as a system programmer and/or system administrator on just about every kind of system from PC to Cray 2. The one time I unintentionally lost my job, I immediately found a part-time programming job at a small local hosting company and a new full-time, at my previous salary, two months later. I also kept the part-time work for a year. I'm now 50, w/still only a BSCS, debt-free and make enough to save, yes save, $65K/year.
I you can't find a job, then either you have a way-wrong education / skill set, or aren't looking hard enough or willing to start low enough on the food chain and prove yourself. Dot-Com bubble burst excuse my ass. Live modestly, don't buy shit you don't really need, pay off ALL your bills promptly, save all you can and you'll have the resources and flexibility to do whatever you want w/o worry. No one can have leverage on you if you don't need anything.
I find networking technology absolutely trivial and have been retraining on my own, but hiring managers see the gap and the PhD and run screaming. I'm more than willing to start over in network admin but can't even get considered for that. Suggestions?"
Downplay the PhD as simply your willingness to learn new things in depth. Take my advise on living modestly and offer to start with a lower salary with the understanding that you'll get bumped after proving yourself.
..is "drill press operator" a job all its own?
It's code for male porn star.
In conclusion, you are an unrepentant moron who is ultimately detached from reality.
Then you get a job on Wall Street or run for a House seat in Congress.
posting the message: Drivin drunk ... classsic ;) but to whoever's vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P
They show you really care.
Hi there,
You can stop philosophizing, I just deleted that guy from the simulation, he was getting annoying. Incidentally, if you subscribe to the specific flavor of mass delusion you guys call 'Christianity' and are wondering when the rapture will happen, it'll come the day I finally slip up while combining wild-cards and the 'rm' command on my Simulatron 6000 (TM).
Sincerely, Your lord and creator.
Posting that as A/C would have been even funnier...
This was in China though. And the Dad evidently gave up after the kid said "No, I'm STILL not going to look for a job." Sounds like the problem may have been lack of tough love. Furthermore, h4rr4r's suggestion doesn't need to be an immediate and total severing of all ties and support.
"You have a month or two to find a job, after that time you'll either be gainfully employed and enjoying your hobby on your off hours, or you will be sleeping on the concrete and won't have a computer."
If the kid chooses the latter, that's his fault.
Dad's next move: Hire assassins w/o the "in-game" part. Free-loading, slacker son problem solved.
[ Seriously. Quitting your first job to be unemployed because you "didn't like the work"?
Who really liked/likes the work at their first job? ]
Electric/hybrid vehicles should pay less per mile as they do less damage to the roads. So who should pay less per mile? A Prius or a conventional Civic?
Simpler example: Conventional or Hybrid Honda Civic? They come in both flavors with almost identical chassis, from a user standpoint.
That's easy. If you've driven an unusually high number of miles without filling up in-state, you were probably out of state.
Seriously?
Option (1) Get a hybrid that can plug-in recharge, drive "an unusually high number of miles without filling up in-state", claim was "probably out of state" all year, profit. Option (2) Fill up in-state, discard receipts, claim you never filled up in-state - you get the picture ...
We spend billions on probes, and get more information from looking at a rock in Africa.
Nice work NASA.
I imagine if we probed your ass we'd discover a pasaage all the way across the Milky Way, perhaps?
Or at least to Uranus.
... they didn't think to discard the remaining liquids and wash the glasses after the parents fell asleep?
Don't they learn anything in school, watching CSI or surfing the Internet?
While Hewlett-Packard has flirted with smartphones in the past, most notably after its Palm acquisition, the company doesn't seem too focused on that segment at the moment.
HP has a focus?
...the average office worker uses about 10,000 sheets of paper each year, ...
Seriously? I used less than 500 sheets (one ream) for both home and office last year - seriously. Now, my wife (of 20 years) was a teacher and routinely used much more - which we bought ourselves because her school only allocated one 500-sheet ream to each teacher, for the entire school year (I digress) - but she still used less than 10,000 sheets/year. She died on Jan 13, 2006 (of a brain tumor, just seven weeks after diagnosis) and I still have a 1/2 full box of paper at home. Sigh.