I was thinking, scan it, move to photoshop/gimp, change the text color to shit brown, and the paper to be clearly a roll of toilet paper. Then you'd be covered by fair use for a derivative work, and parody.
The Sears website was working fine on Saturday morning. The follow-up is still slow. I placed an order before 10AM on Saturday. I only just now (Monday, 11AM) received an email telling me that they are too backlogged to send me an email to confirm my order. As for when I can go pickup my item from the store... that's anyone's guess.
The Do-Not-Call list is one of the biggest publicity stunt Congress has pulled in a decade.
The second being this event here. Look everyone, we caught *FIVE* big ticket offenders. See? It works! Really. We're doing our job. Never mind that each and every one of you has probably had to report five different companies for ignoring the list. They just weren't big enough to bother to go after.
The day my boss comes up to me and tells me I can be replaced my anyone... is the day I start looking for a new job. If you believe I'm that worthless to you, then we're BOTH better off if I leave. You, because you think you are right, and me, because you clearly do not value the work that I do. It's sad to me you had to hire an outside efficiency team just to tell you what you wanted to hear. What kind of manager are you, that you don't understand what your people do so you have to have someone else tell you what is a good or bad metric for performance?
I work in a university setting. The head of my last department came and gave me a pep talk that included the phrase "any faculty can do the job that you do, if they just bothered to take the time to do it." I left within 3 months. The department I work in now knows that isn't true.
The IRS hands out "Tax ID" numbers to illegal immigrants so they can pay their income taxes. This data is not reported to the INS. That's probably where most of the "fake" SSN's are coming from. How's that for fubar?
Consider this: You're driving a route that takes you through both North and South Carolina. On May 31, the price of fuel in North Carolina was $2.839 per gallon, while in South Carolina it was $2.738 per gallon.
When just looking at the pump price, instinct tells you that you're going to save more money by fueling up in South Carolina, instead of North Carolina. But, the base prices tell a different story.
North Carolina collects a total of 30.2 cents per gallon in state taxes. South Carolina collects a total of only 16.8 cents per gallon in state taxes.
North Carolina charges 29.9 cents per net taxable gallon for IFTA miles driven in the state. South Carolina charges only 16.0 cents.
It's still tempting to buy fuel in South Carolina - lower pump price, lower state taxes, lower IFTA obligations. But is this the best buy for you?
If you run more miles in North Carolina than you do in South Carolina - yet you continually fuel in South Carolina, you are shortchanging the taxes paid and may very well not have enough at the end of the quarter in your account to cover IFTA taxes in North Carolina.
If you don't mind writing a check - one that could be a sizeable IFTA payment - then your decision to buy the cheaper fuel worked for you. But what if you could have a refund each quarter? How could you accomplish this?
It's simple. In this example, you would buy more of the high-tax fuel in North Carolina. Sure, it's 10 cents more per gallon at the pump - but North Carolina also charges 13.9 cents more than South Carolina in IFTA taxes. Buying the high-tax fuel will actually help cover your IFTA obligation and could go a long way toward a refund each quarter.
Seasoned truckers have also tapped into one other neat little trick when deciding on buying fuel in a high-tax state or a low-tax state - competition.
The closer to the state line you get in a high-tax state that neighbors a low-tax state, more than likely you will see the pump prices starting to decline. Just because a state is charging a high tax doesn't mean retailers won't lower their pump prices just to draw in traffic. Truck stops are not going to give up business to another state if they can help it.
Once free-market competition comes into play, you could see the difference between North and South Carolina's pump prices drop by several cents per gallon. That leaves you buying high-tax fuel, with a lower base price which, in turn, pads your IFTA account, but saves money in the long run.
For those of you who don't know... The honor system in WOW was a competitive ranking system. In order to advance, you had to maintain your place at the top of the pile for weeks and weeks on end. Bare minimum to go from Rank 0 to Rank 14 was 12 weeks at the number one spot, and longer for lower spots. Skipping a week completely would cost you multiple weeks to recover if you already Rank 12 or 13.
I honestly believe that Blizzard underestimated the tenacity of its hardest-core players when it designed this system. What should have been measure of skill versus skill quickly degenerated to the point where the top players were those that could stay in game, playing PVP matches for 80-120 hours per week. You could be good, and score lots of points in a short time, but you'd still lose to an average player (or pool of players) who could play 24x6.5 days/week.
Blizzard realized this too. That's why the old honor system is gone, since the 2.0 patch.
I just created a new Flikr account. I was required to provide my Yahoo login, or create a new Yahoo login to sign up. I was a little disturbed since my Yahoo login is an old gaming account for a game I haven't played in 2 years. I was pleasantly surprised that you still get to select your Flikr ID. It doesn't have to be the same as your login.
Eh its Monty Python in space. Look at it that way and its not too bad. I suppose its kind of science fictiony...some interesting ideas...but ultimately, only really funny and intriguing if you're blitzed out of your mind.
Have you tried to tell the difference between a Susan B Anthony, and Sacagawea and a quarter in the dark? Or in the light for that matter? Until the treasury learns to quit making dollar coins that look like quarters, they will fail to catch on.
PS. To that Orlando toll booth that took my last Sacagawea and said I was still short 25c on the toll, not overpaid by 75c... bite me.
Why the hell isn't the NYT checking flash versions rather than OS anyway?
That would be a very simple way to rule out linux users as well. Just require Flash 8, as many sites are already doing for their video content. Macromedia/Adobe is doing a wonderful job of stacking the deck against linux by simply refusing to develop a version 8 (or 9) flash player for the platform.
Great. Just remember to explain that to the nice customs official when you try to get back home from an out-of-country vacation. "Honest officer, I nuked the chip. It's not forged!" Buh Bye! Darwin in action again.
DirectX recorders exist, primarily used for recording videos in games. I'm pretty sure most DVD player apps use the same directx layer, and so could easily be recorded by such a program. This is just an idea off the top of my head.
Result: watch for the MPAA to start outlawing your favorite DirectX recorders in the near future. Seems they will always find it easier to prosecute the loopholes than to fix their own stuff.
10560 x 10560 pixels at 8bits/color x 3 colors = about 319 MB per image A high speed consumer SD card can transfer at "up to 20MB/s". So it's going to take at least 16 seconds to write the image to storage. And even then, you'll only fit 3 of those raw images on a 1GB card.
Sounds like a good reproduction of the 4x5 camera experiences described on this forum.
Uncompressed, DVD-resolution (720x480) color video, no sound, 24 fps = 23.73 MB/sec, or about 8.4 hrs of video in 700 GB.
I could see where security users would find that quite useful. Add some low-loss compression and you've got a nice, large, random-access video vault for some casino in Vegas, for one example.
I think. I was pretty confident that I knew what was going on until I read that terrible, terrible article summary. The reason the submitter brought up server stability is that players from all the 100+ servers started creating characters on the "Medivh" server in order to watch the in-game event that opens the dungeon, because Medivh finished the quest before all the other servers. Blizzard suspended new character creation on the server though, so I'm not sure if stability is still an issue or not.
"I got your memo, would you go Xerox 10 copies for me for my next meeting?"
There's a word that was ubiquitous some number of years ago. Can't say I've heard anyone use Xerox as a verb in quite a while. Now it's copy or photocopy. Podcasting will go the same way, eventually. I seriously doubt it will take more than 10 years, much less 50.
... Since the ship would be at water level and the mirror would probably have been much higher, the mirror would have to have pointed at the tallest mast. It would be the only thing visible....
Since the problem clearly states the ship was within bow range (and thus on the order of 100m away), one would hope the people manning the mirrors could see far more than just the tops of the tallest mast. Even from the top of a nearby hillside they should still be able to see down at the whole ship just fine.
I keep hoping. One day, I may yet be able to get an optical or laser mouse with 3 normal-sized buttons to hold my three normal-sized fingers. I can quit fiddling with trying to click an all-too-flexible scroll wheel any time I want to paste in X. Logitech's latest and greatest is just another in a long series of disappointments in that regard.
Yes, I still use my old, mechanical, three-button, no scroll wheel, MouseMan from like 7 years ago. Thankfully it stays clean and still works. I guess that's the only good thing to say about Logitech: they used to make good mice.
Heh, welcome to the wonderful world of medical insurance.
My wife went in for "medically necessary" surgery last fall. She wanted to choose a doctor that was renowned in the field, even though he wasn't in the preferred network for her insurance plan. It came down to the insurance would cover the hospital bills (hospital was in plan) but not the surgeon's fee. We decided to go ahead and pay the surgeon's fee out of pocket.
When it came time to talk billing, the surgeon's office told us up front: the fee is $8k. Unless your insurance will be paying, then the fee is $11k. And oh, by the way, even if he were in network, the "reasonable" fee the insurance would pay was only $2k, tops, and we were responsible for the difference. So basically, by paying ourselves it was $8k, or by claiming insurance we'd have paid $9k!
A year or two ago I went to the NC SECU ATM down the block from my office. It was sitting at the AMI BIOS screen because of a memory failure. The BIOS was for a 486/33 CPU, which was ancient. So I'd imagine an ancient OS on an ancient CPU would run just fine.
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Fixed that for you.
IANAL, do not take this for legal advice.
The Sears website was working fine on Saturday morning. The follow-up is still slow. I placed an order before 10AM on Saturday. I only just now (Monday, 11AM) received an email telling me that they are too backlogged to send me an email to confirm my order. As for when I can go pickup my item from the store... that's anyone's guess.
The day my boss comes up to me and tells me I can be replaced my anyone... is the day I start looking for a new job. If you believe I'm that worthless to you, then we're BOTH better off if I leave. You, because you think you are right, and me, because you clearly do not value the work that I do. It's sad to me you had to hire an outside efficiency team just to tell you what you wanted to hear. What kind of manager are you, that you don't understand what your people do so you have to have someone else tell you what is a good or bad metric for performance?
I work in a university setting. The head of my last department came and gave me a pep talk that included the phrase "any faculty can do the job that you do, if they just bothered to take the time to do it." I left within 3 months. The department I work in now knows that isn't true.
The IRS hands out "Tax ID" numbers to illegal immigrants so they can pay their income taxes. This data is not reported to the INS. That's probably where most of the "fake" SSN's are coming from. How's that for fubar?
Source: http://www.landlinemag.com/Archives/2006/Jul2006/
A quick look finds the option to turn off the cache:
browse to about:config
search for the browser.cache.memory.enable setting
set it to false
restart the browser
On my machine, that lowers the memory footprint from 125MB to just under 50MB.
Yes actually, I have. In fact, I wrote most of the wowwiki article on the subject.
For those of you who don't know... The honor system in WOW was a competitive ranking system. In order to advance, you had to maintain your place at the top of the pile for weeks and weeks on end. Bare minimum to go from Rank 0 to Rank 14 was 12 weeks at the number one spot, and longer for lower spots. Skipping a week completely would cost you multiple weeks to recover if you already Rank 12 or 13.
I honestly believe that Blizzard underestimated the tenacity of its hardest-core players when it designed this system. What should have been measure of skill versus skill quickly degenerated to the point where the top players were those that could stay in game, playing PVP matches for 80-120 hours per week. You could be good, and score lots of points in a short time, but you'd still lose to an average player (or pool of players) who could play 24x6.5 days/week.
Blizzard realized this too. That's why the old honor system is gone, since the 2.0 patch.
-- Greenman of LotharI just created a new Flikr account. I was required to provide my Yahoo login, or create a new Yahoo login to sign up. I was a little disturbed since my Yahoo login is an old gaming account for a game I haven't played in 2 years. I was pleasantly surprised that you still get to select your Flikr ID. It doesn't have to be the same as your login.
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water.
-- Arthur and Ford, from the first episode
Have you tried to tell the difference between a Susan B Anthony, and Sacagawea and a quarter in the dark? Or in the light for that matter? Until the treasury learns to quit making dollar coins that look like quarters, they will fail to catch on.
PS. To that Orlando toll booth that took my last Sacagawea and said I was still short 25c on the toll, not overpaid by 75c... bite me.
Great. Just remember to explain that to the nice customs official when you try to get back home from an out-of-country vacation. "Honest officer, I nuked the chip. It's not forged!" Buh Bye! Darwin in action again.
DirectX recorders exist, primarily used for recording videos in games. I'm pretty sure most DVD player apps use the same directx layer, and so could easily be recorded by such a program. This is just an idea off the top of my head.
Result: watch for the MPAA to start outlawing your favorite DirectX recorders in the near future. Seems they will always find it easier to prosecute the loopholes than to fix their own stuff.
10560 x 10560 pixels at 8bits/color x 3 colors = about 319 MB per image
A high speed consumer SD card can transfer at "up to 20MB/s".
So it's going to take at least 16 seconds to write the image to storage.
And even then, you'll only fit 3 of those raw images on a 1GB card.
Sounds like a good reproduction of the 4x5 camera experiences described on this forum.
Uncompressed, DVD-resolution (720x480) color video, no sound, 24 fps = 23.73 MB/sec, or about 8.4 hrs of video in 700 GB.
I could see where security users would find that quite useful. Add some low-loss compression and you've got a nice, large, random-access video vault for some casino in Vegas, for one example.
Your help desk staff are your best friends, as it's their job to keep the idiots with their stupid questions away from you.
Conversely, everyone else's help desk staff are a bunch of morons whose job is to keep you from getting a straight answer to an important question.
Sounds like "something - d - o - o economics. Anyone? Anyone?"
There's a word that was ubiquitous some number of years ago. Can't say I've heard anyone use Xerox as a verb in quite a while. Now it's copy or photocopy. Podcasting will go the same way, eventually. I seriously doubt it will take more than 10 years, much less 50.
I keep hoping. One day, I may yet be able to get an optical or laser mouse with 3 normal-sized buttons to hold my three normal-sized fingers. I can quit fiddling with trying to click an all-too-flexible scroll wheel any time I want to paste in X. Logitech's latest and greatest is just another in a long series of disappointments in that regard.
Yes, I still use my old, mechanical, three-button, no scroll wheel, MouseMan from like 7 years ago. Thankfully it stays clean and still works. I guess that's the only good thing to say about Logitech: they used to make good mice.
Heh, welcome to the wonderful world of medical insurance.
My wife went in for "medically necessary" surgery last fall. She wanted to choose a doctor that was renowned in the field, even though he wasn't in the preferred network for her insurance plan. It came down to the insurance would cover the hospital bills (hospital was in plan) but not the surgeon's fee. We decided to go ahead and pay the surgeon's fee out of pocket.
When it came time to talk billing, the surgeon's office told us up front: the fee is $8k. Unless your insurance will be paying, then the fee is $11k. And oh, by the way, even if he were in network, the "reasonable" fee the insurance would pay was only $2k, tops, and we were responsible for the difference. So basically, by paying ourselves it was $8k, or by claiming insurance we'd have paid $9k!
A year or two ago I went to the NC SECU ATM down the block from my office. It was sitting at the AMI BIOS screen because of a memory failure. The BIOS was for a 486/33 CPU, which was ancient. So I'd imagine an ancient OS on an ancient CPU would run just fine.