I'll second that - my boss has an ABS he bought just for gaming, and I took it for a test drive at a few LAN parties we went to, very impressive considering the price!
Ah, well, perks are cool. One of my last jobs catered us lunch on Fridays, did the free liquor thing, paid for our healthcare and did a 150% 401k match (Every dollar I put in, they put in 1.50).
This current job is a hell of a lot better though. Sure, they don't have all the real cool perks. Catered lunch was replaced by Donut/Bagel Fridays, there's no company match for the 401k (Until next year), the healthcare isn't free but they do chip in. But I do get some nice perks, mainly the free college education. I can work my way up to a PhD and it's on the company dime. And they take care of me better then the employer with a lot of perks. There's no pay cap. Well, there is, but if you hit the cap for your position, instead of a raise the company will cut you a bonus check for a few thousand. And they give everyone a certain percentage in stock each year. Overall, even though I have less visable perks, the perks I do get, in the end, equals more money. Bonuses, stocks, and a free education hehe.
I say this because it's only going to be a few years I bet before Microsoft drops support for patches for 2K.
Actually, Windows 2000 life cycle is Jun 30th 2005 for mainstream support and Jun 30 2010 for extended support. (By comparison Windows 2003 mainstream is Jun 30 2008 and extended is Jun 30 2013)
This is from MS.com. Difference between Mainstream and Extended support here.
and have some cash to burn do what my employer does and set yourself up with Verizon and Color BlackBerry 7750's. It's nice having my email everywhere I go and the browser is handy for important sites (THough, you need the $5000 BlackBerry Enterprise Server for web iirc). Plus it has a calendar, games, messaging clients, etc. The only thing I don't like doing with it is talking to people - it just doesn't fit my hand right!
Kiss the blue screen goodbye?
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What is this blue screen you speak of? I vaguely remember it from my Win 9x and NT 4 days, but alas I have yet to see one in a long time. In fact the last blue screen I had was in 2001, the heat sink fell off of my CPU and Windows bluescreened at me..
Oh wait, I remember a second one - last year, when the hard drive died, I got the page fault blue screen.
Other then that, I haven't seen one in a looong time - and I use Windows a lot at home and work at a company with almost 1000 Windows servers. But hey, stereotypes are hard to lose I suppose.
I think most RTS games have aged very well and have become more fun to play.
I have loaded on my laptop and still play: StarCraft Command and Conquer 2 Caesar 2 Civilization System Shock 2(I think system shock has aged very well)
Plus a lot of others that I keep around. Low resources, so it plays on most anything (On my old laptop I used to play C&C2 a lot on the hour and forty-five minute train ride to work, and the battery would get down to half - and that's with using the CD as well).
I doubt it - this is the way business has always worked, it's only front page news because it's Linux vs MS. If it was HP vs Cisco or any other 2 vendors which selling competing products it would have been rejected. Hell, if you're in charge of buying product X for your company and DIDN'T try to lower the price buying shows quotes from companies Y and Z, I'd worry!
Yup, I was pricing a system recently and Newegg has the socket 939 3500+ at 352$. The next step up, the 3800+, is almost double the price at 643$ - I figure when I'm ready to buy in a few months the price will drop enough to be worthwhile.
And the ability to upgrade without needing to buy a new motherboard definately makes it worth my wait right now!
So true! Back in 2000, I had a friend who sold DCs and I picked up 5 broadband adapters for about 75$ - at the time I had the idea of selling them, but it never panned out. Fast forward a few years to 2002-2003 during my dark (unemployed) period, and I ebayed them all, even the one I used for my own DC. The lowest I got was 75$, the highest 150$ - and I'm still kicking myself for getting rid of all of them! (The 150$ sale was for the ones that had the version 3 (I think it was 3) of the DC browser - whichever one was released last.)
This is why I use Gigabyte Motherboards almost exclusively, with their dual-BIOS onboard. If the machine crashes during a flash, all I need to do is reboot and it'll fire up on the backup BIOS and I'm in the running again.
Really though, I wouldn't bitch about the device not being able to recover itself. Adding on self-healing abilities (Basically fixing end user screw ups) adds parts to the device, which adds to the cost. It is a *consumer* level device, remember, so price is the big concern. Stop whining and get a new one - you screwed it up, the company isn't to blame here.
Good call - a quick search of Google News doesn't show anything either - and I'd assume that this would be a big enough switch to turn some heads and fire off a few more articles.
Then again, it could be true and a very early report. I would of at least expect to see it on Lockheed's Press releases.
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I had problems sleeping for a long long time. I could be dead tired, lay down, then be wide awake for 2, 3, 4 hours+. Cutting back on caffeine, exercise, etc all didn't seem to do the trick. Doctor referred me to a psyche, and the psyche said I had sleep deprivation and prescribed me Trazodone. Trazodone is one of the early Anti-depressants, but isn't used much to treat depression anymore because of a side-effect. That side effect is drowsiness. Let me tell you, it it's wonderful to be able to sleep 6-7 hours and wake up fully refreshed and ready to go. I'd ask your doctor about it - it's very inexpensive (Something like $20 (Before insurance) for a month's supply) - unlike prescription sleeping pills. There's also no addiction factor, so you're safe there too.
Then I wouldn't have any problem paying the fee. From everything I've read on it, the fee is quite small compared to what it could mean to the business that pays (revenue from a jukebox, more patrons who come for the music and stay to spend, etc)
I know here in the US, if you play music on "non-commercial equipment" (IE A small boombox from Target, etc) or don't charge a fee, you don't have to pay the fees. But the minute you upgrade to pro equipment or make it pay-to-play, you do.
I found this out whilst doing research for opening a bar, a long term life goal I've had for quite some time. Overall, even with the fee, it's not THAT much money - especially if you put in a jukebox. I know when I finally open up a place, I'll be more then happy to pay the money - at least until I do more research and find out the artists don't get a cent of it, then I'll be screaming hehe
But if it helps you to survive a few days longer, that could mean the difference between life and death - you'd be able to ration your water reserve longer and still be able to eat.
Though I wonder why they didn't make the filter finer to filter out the urea.. Would it cost to much? Be to large?
When I was 9 or so, my mom remarried, and I took his last name. I didn't officially get it changed, I didn't get adopted, I just started using it. Apparently it's legal to just take another name, use it for X years, and it will become yours (at least 15 years ago or so).
I remember when I had my first part-time job, I received a letter from the SSA stating something along the lines of "Your social security number of XXX-XX-XXXX is not associated with the name Jeremy Pavleck. If this is an error, please contact us. Otherwise, we will update our records in X days to associate this name to this SSN". Went real nice and easy for me. When I moved to illinois though and tried to change my license over I had a small problem doing it. They asked for my SS card, and since it was in my old name (and apparently, legally that was still my name at the time - the above letter only associated it as an AKA) and I had to get a new one. The only hassle was going to the SSA office and showing them my license and a report card from school, and they changed it over officially and all. I also had a mispelling my license (JerAmy instead of JerEmy), but all it took was showing the DMV my SS card.
and at least around here truckers have their driving hours limited so they have mandatory sleeping pauses(trucks have black boxes to record when it's moving and what speed to check they really stop at their breaks). So they're stuck on these stops sometimes without real choosing of where, and if they can check email from their family that's a good thing(or view porno, whatever).
Well, that's true - SORT OF. I used to be a long-haul driver, so I'm speaking from experience here. Yes, we have mandatory breaks (At the time it was 10 hours on, 8 hours off - now it's different, 10 on 10 off I believe), and while we do have satellite tracking black boxes, they do NOT actually even attempt to record your on and off duty times. Especially when you factor in a team, they really can't anyway. What we truckers do (The majority, for the most part) is called speed averaging. Let's say the speed limit for your rig in a particular area is 55MPH. You go 300 miles, which should be about 5.5 hours or so. But let's say your going through Chicago, during rush hour. It actually takes you 9 hours. Well, what we do is simple do the math at a truck stop past where there congestion was. So we'd stop in Gary, IN and do 300/55 - and write down on our logs 5.5 hours, maybe 6 (to make it look good) and log 3.5 hours as "Off-Duty". If we're feeling awake enough, you better believe we'll go start on the road again for another 3.5 hours - so I've just done in excess of my federal mandatory of 10 hours by almost 4 hours. Illegal? Yes, but time is money. Do they know about it? Of course they do. Can they stop it? Nope, they can't. I've had logs scrutinized many times but never got a ticket because I did it right - as long as it looks "believeable enough" you'll be fine. As for not knowing where you'll end up stopping - well that's not real true either. After a few months, you know which areas you like to stop in and which ones you hate - and you speed average yourself so you conveinently use up your 10 hours in the place you want.
It is a dangerous thing though - technically you can drive 14-15 hours and only log your 10. Since you want to make money, you go to sleep for the remainder of the 3-4 hours that you have left, which can cause sleep deprevation. But when you can pull in over 75,000/year within 2 years by hustling, you learn to drive tired hehe
There has to be something special or unusual about this setup, but damn it all I can't see it.
Sure, they integrated a wireless bridge into it, but with all that room, it doesn't look like anything special... So where's the nifty part that makes this thing "News For Nerds"?
Travel back in time on a Magical History Tour(TM)! Ride a Segway as you enjoy the history of the Minneapolis Riverfront area from 10,000 BC to present without breaking a sweat. Let the Segway do the work as you cover several miles accompanied by a professional guide
I used to have a Timex BeepWear Pro, and let me tell you - that thing wore out it's welcome real fast. It was 3 times the thickness of a normal watch, larger overall then a normal watch, and took 3 batteries which lasted about a month. I think I wore it for about 5-6 weeks before finally getting rid of it. It just screamed "I'm a geek!" and was way to cumbersome to be useful. From the looks of this TV watch, it would be the same way. Neat toy for a few hours/days, then relegated to the drawer of forgotten tech
Oh I know what he means - I just thought it was neat ya know? You don't see those two terms much on a daily basis and have them *not* refer to something IT-related.
I remember that episode, he also called water hardware on a different - bread/pastry related I believe
I was stuck with basic cable, but the cable guy accidentally left the Food network on. Nothing much to watch on basic at 3am, so Food network it was.
That's when I met the stylings of AB - he got me to love to cook. Granted, I always liked to cook, but after watching his show I *love* to cook. For some reason his style just matches what I like - he talks about something and it sticks in your head. And because he shows the science behind the food, when you make a new dish, you can almost tell the outcome before you start - you know how eveything will react!
Plus, I dig the dry humor, how he refers to the ingredient list as "hardware" and soft(wet)ware", the camera angles you don't see on a regular cooking show - even the corny acting I like hehe.
It's merged with the G4 network and is now G4TechTV.
Just as well to, as I get G4 on my current digital package, but TechTV was up on a higher tier. To get it, I'd have to get out of my current promotion and reassemble into a new package with the techtv tier - taking a normally $6.95/mo tier up to almost 40$ - since I'd lose the savings I was currently getting!
True, I can't be 100% certain of this, but the majority of the jobs I've been turned down for I don't think would run that type of intense background check. I base it only on the fact that I've gotten several different goverment jobs after this happened.
So I don't know if I'm in a database that doesn't get searched usually (Like a "bystander in a crime, not an actual participant" type database) or my job functions didn't relate to what happened or maybe they just didn't give a damn about it.
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I'll second that - my boss has an ABS he bought just for gaming, and I took it for a test drive at a few LAN parties we went to, very impressive considering the price!
Well, we are hiring now, and will be for awhile - shoot me an email and I can give you some info :)
Ah, well, perks are cool.
One of my last jobs catered us lunch on Fridays, did the free liquor thing, paid for our healthcare and did a 150% 401k match (Every dollar I put in, they put in 1.50).
This current job is a hell of a lot better though. Sure, they don't have all the real cool perks. Catered lunch was replaced by Donut/Bagel Fridays, there's no company match for the 401k (Until next year), the healthcare isn't free but they do chip in. But I do get some nice perks, mainly the free college education. I can work my way up to a PhD and it's on the company dime. And they take care of me better then the employer with a lot of perks. There's no pay cap. Well, there is, but if you hit the cap for your position, instead of a raise the company will cut you a bonus check for a few thousand. And they give everyone a certain percentage in stock each year. Overall, even though I have less visable perks, the perks I do get, in the end, equals more money. Bonuses, stocks, and a free education hehe.
I say this because it's only going to be a few years I bet before Microsoft drops support for patches for 2K.
Actually, Windows 2000 life cycle is Jun 30th 2005 for mainstream support and Jun 30 2010 for extended support. (By comparison Windows 2003 mainstream is Jun 30 2008 and extended is Jun 30 2013)
This is from MS.com. Difference between Mainstream and Extended support here.
and have some cash to burn do what my employer does and set yourself up with Verizon and Color BlackBerry 7750's. It's nice having my email everywhere I go and the browser is handy for important sites (THough, you need the $5000 BlackBerry Enterprise Server for web iirc). Plus it has a calendar, games, messaging clients, etc. The only thing I don't like doing with it is talking to people - it just doesn't fit my hand right!
What is this blue screen you speak of? I vaguely remember it from my Win 9x and NT 4 days, but alas I have yet to see one in a long time. In fact the last blue screen I had was in 2001, the heat sink fell off of my CPU and Windows bluescreened at me..
Oh wait, I remember a second one - last year, when the hard drive died, I got the page fault blue screen.
Other then that, I haven't seen one in a looong time - and I use Windows a lot at home and work at a company with almost 1000 Windows servers. But hey, stereotypes are hard to lose I suppose.
I think most RTS games have aged very well and have become more fun to play.
I have loaded on my laptop and still play:
StarCraft
Command and Conquer 2
Caesar 2
Civilization
System Shock 2(I think system shock has aged very well)
Plus a lot of others that I keep around. Low resources, so it plays on most anything (On my old laptop I used to play C&C2 a lot on the hour and forty-five minute train ride to work, and the battery would get down to half - and that's with using the CD as well).
I doubt it - this is the way business has always worked, it's only front page news because it's Linux vs MS.
If it was HP vs Cisco or any other 2 vendors which selling competing products it would have been rejected.
Hell, if you're in charge of buying product X for your company and DIDN'T try to lower the price buying shows quotes from companies Y and Z, I'd worry!
Yup, I was pricing a system recently and Newegg has the socket 939 3500+ at 352$. The next step up, the 3800+, is almost double the price at 643$ - I figure when I'm ready to buy in a few months the price will drop enough to be worthwhile.
And the ability to upgrade without needing to buy a new motherboard definately makes it worth my wait right now!
So true! Back in 2000, I had a friend who sold DCs and I picked up 5 broadband adapters for about 75$ - at the time I had the idea of selling them, but it never panned out.
Fast forward a few years to 2002-2003 during my dark (unemployed) period, and I ebayed them all, even the one I used for my own DC. The lowest I got was 75$, the highest 150$ - and I'm still kicking myself for getting rid of all of them!
(The 150$ sale was for the ones that had the version 3 (I think it was 3) of the DC browser - whichever one was released last.)
This is why I use Gigabyte Motherboards almost exclusively, with their dual-BIOS onboard. If the machine crashes during a flash, all I need to do is reboot and it'll fire up on the backup BIOS and I'm in the running again.
Really though, I wouldn't bitch about the device not being able to recover itself. Adding on self-healing abilities (Basically fixing end user screw ups) adds parts to the device, which adds to the cost. It is a *consumer* level device, remember, so price is the big concern. Stop whining and get a new one - you screwed it up, the company isn't to blame here.
Good call - a quick search of Google News doesn't show anything either - and I'd assume that this would be a big enough switch to turn some heads and fire off a few more articles.
Then again, it could be true and a very early report. I would of at least expect to see it on Lockheed's Press releases.
I had problems sleeping for a long long time. I could be dead tired, lay down, then be wide awake for 2, 3, 4 hours+. Cutting back on caffeine, exercise, etc all didn't seem to do the trick. Doctor referred me to a psyche, and the psyche said I had sleep deprivation and prescribed me Trazodone. Trazodone is one of the early Anti-depressants, but isn't used much to treat depression anymore because of a side-effect. That side effect is drowsiness. Let me tell you, it it's wonderful to be able to sleep 6-7 hours and wake up fully refreshed and ready to go. I'd ask your doctor about it - it's very inexpensive (Something like $20 (Before insurance) for a month's supply) - unlike prescription sleeping pills. There's also no addiction factor, so you're safe there too.
Then I wouldn't have any problem paying the fee. From everything I've read on it, the fee is quite small compared to what it could mean to the business that pays (revenue from a jukebox, more patrons who come for the music and stay to spend, etc)
I know here in the US, if you play music on "non-commercial equipment" (IE A small boombox from Target, etc) or don't charge a fee, you don't have to pay the fees. But the minute you upgrade to pro equipment or make it pay-to-play, you do.
I found this out whilst doing research for opening a bar, a long term life goal I've had for quite some time.
Overall, even with the fee, it's not THAT much money - especially if you put in a jukebox. I know when I finally open up a place, I'll be more then happy to pay the money - at least until I do more research and find out the artists don't get a cent of it, then I'll be screaming hehe
But if it helps you to survive a few days longer, that could mean the difference between life and death - you'd be able to ration your water reserve longer and still be able to eat.
Though I wonder why they didn't make the filter finer to filter out the urea.. Would it cost to much? Be to large?
When I was 9 or so, my mom remarried, and I took his last name. I didn't officially get it changed, I didn't get adopted, I just started using it. Apparently it's legal to just take another name, use it for X years, and it will become yours (at least 15 years ago or so).
I remember when I had my first part-time job, I received a letter from the SSA stating something along the lines of "Your social security number of XXX-XX-XXXX is not associated with the name Jeremy Pavleck. If this is an error, please contact us. Otherwise, we will update our records in X days to associate this name to this SSN". Went real nice and easy for me.
When I moved to illinois though and tried to change my license over I had a small problem doing it. They asked for my SS card, and since it was in my old name (and apparently, legally that was still my name at the time - the above letter only associated it as an AKA) and I had to get a new one. The only hassle was going to the SSA office and showing them my license and a report card from school, and they changed it over officially and all.
I also had a mispelling my license (JerAmy instead of JerEmy), but all it took was showing the DMV my SS card.
and at least around here truckers have their driving hours limited so they have mandatory sleeping pauses(trucks have black boxes to record when it's moving and what speed to check they really stop at their breaks). So they're stuck on these stops sometimes without real choosing of where, and if they can check email from their family that's a good thing(or view porno, whatever).
Well, that's true - SORT OF. I used to be a long-haul driver, so I'm speaking from experience here. Yes, we have mandatory breaks (At the time it was 10 hours on, 8 hours off - now it's different, 10 on 10 off I believe), and while we do have satellite tracking black boxes, they do NOT actually even attempt to record your on and off duty times. Especially when you factor in a team, they really can't anyway.
What we truckers do (The majority, for the most part) is called speed averaging. Let's say the speed limit for your rig in a particular area is 55MPH. You go 300 miles, which should be about 5.5 hours or so. But let's say your going through Chicago, during rush hour. It actually takes you 9 hours. Well, what we do is simple do the math at a truck stop past where there congestion was. So we'd stop in Gary, IN and do 300/55 - and write down on our logs 5.5 hours, maybe 6 (to make it look good) and log 3.5 hours as "Off-Duty". If we're feeling awake enough, you better believe we'll go start on the road again for another 3.5 hours - so I've just done in excess of my federal mandatory of 10 hours by almost 4 hours.
Illegal? Yes, but time is money. Do they know about it? Of course they do. Can they stop it? Nope, they can't. I've had logs scrutinized many times but never got a ticket because I did it right - as long as it looks "believeable enough" you'll be fine.
As for not knowing where you'll end up stopping - well that's not real true either. After a few months, you know which areas you like to stop in and which ones you hate - and you speed average yourself so you conveinently use up your 10 hours in the place you want.
It is a dangerous thing though - technically you can drive 14-15 hours and only log your 10. Since you want to make money, you go to sleep for the remainder of the 3-4 hours that you have left, which can cause sleep deprevation. But when you can pull in over 75,000/year within 2 years by hustling, you learn to drive tired hehe
There has to be something special or unusual about this setup, but damn it all I can't see it.
Sure, they integrated a wireless bridge into it, but with all that room, it doesn't look like anything special... So where's the nifty part that makes this thing "News For Nerds"?
Minneapolis does this to on their "Magical History Tour"
Travel back in time on a Magical History Tour(TM)! Ride a Segway as you enjoy the history of the Minneapolis Riverfront area from 10,000 BC to present without breaking a sweat. Let the Segway do the work as you cover several miles accompanied by a professional guide
Of course, this one costs $70
I used to have a Timex BeepWear Pro, and let me tell you - that thing wore out it's welcome real fast. It was 3 times the thickness of a normal watch, larger overall then a normal watch, and took 3 batteries which lasted about a month. I think I wore it for about 5-6 weeks before finally getting rid of it.
It just screamed "I'm a geek!" and was way to cumbersome to be useful.
From the looks of this TV watch, it would be the same way. Neat toy for a few hours/days, then relegated to the drawer of forgotten tech
Oh I know what he means - I just thought it was neat ya know? You don't see those two terms much on a daily basis and have them *not* refer to something IT-related.
I remember that episode, he also called water hardware on a different - bread/pastry related I believe
I was stuck with basic cable, but the cable guy accidentally left the Food network on. Nothing much to watch on basic at 3am, so Food network it was.
That's when I met the stylings of AB - he got me to love to cook. Granted, I always liked to cook, but after watching his show I *love* to cook.
For some reason his style just matches what I like - he talks about something and it sticks in your head. And because he shows the science behind the food, when you make a new dish, you can almost tell the outcome before you start - you know how eveything will react!
Plus, I dig the dry humor, how he refers to the ingredient list as "hardware" and soft(wet)ware", the camera angles you don't see on a regular cooking show - even the corny acting I like hehe.
It's merged with the G4 network and is now G4TechTV.
Just as well to, as I get G4 on my current digital package, but TechTV was up on a higher tier. To get it, I'd have to get out of my current promotion and reassemble into a new package with the techtv tier - taking a normally $6.95/mo tier up to almost 40$ - since I'd lose the savings I was currently getting!
True, I can't be 100% certain of this, but the majority of the jobs I've been turned down for I don't think would run that type of intense background check. I base it only on the fact that I've gotten several different goverment jobs after this happened.
So I don't know if I'm in a database that doesn't get searched usually (Like a "bystander in a crime, not an actual participant" type database) or my job functions didn't relate to what happened or maybe they just didn't give a damn about it.