I've never seen one operated but there are machines that cut the damaged ends, polish, and fuse a replacement length of fiber. The process is accurate to some small faction of a millimeter.
I think that's a great idea but they need to get a much larger part of their DVD library avilable on the streaming side before that will become popular.
I wish I had mod points I could give you. That was pretty much a perfect summation of the way any good IT admin should act and feel.
I can't tell you how many times I had to do a search of 15,000 SQ foot lab floor because some aerospace engineer thought it would be a good idea to plug the private network side of SOHO router into the main network. They just couldn't seem to understand why an rogue DHCP server would be a problem.
To those who tagged this "so what?" I would like to pose a question in response. Have you seen what happens to products that get endorsed by Oprah?!?!
They become over night best sellers, most of the time. She has a cult like following that will buy up most anything she recommends. This is why it's interesting. We will now see if something that has failed to take off for quite a number of years will now do so, just because a pop icon gave it the thumbs up.
"Charging for comments??! that's one of the worst ideas i have heard in a while. i don't think this comment is worth a penny! and i bet a lot of people would agree with me!"
It is nothing but our own pride that insists that we are either the best in the world, or completely worthless.
There is a huge sliding grayscale of worthiness in the intellectual/industriousness domain.
The world needs a rich supply of people spread across that middle range.
Learn the value of who you already are, and be proud of it.
You remind me of the book "Brave New World"
where they learned to genetically engineer geniuses on a mass scale but went back to creating middle and lower classes because the geniuses wouldn't to manual labor jobs.
You're totally missing one of the biggest reason that Apple setup their application store on iTunes.
They wanted to create an easy to use application market that was unlike the myriad of shady sites you have to navigate to find apps for Windows Mobile or Palm OS. While this program isn't malicious like some of the WM and Palm apps it is financially malicious and as such should be pulled to preserve the image of market where you don't have to worry about getting defrauded like you do on sites for other platforms.
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I've never seen one operated but there are machines that cut the damaged ends, polish, and fuse a replacement length of fiber. The process is accurate to some small faction of a millimeter.
For more info fusion splice
Sound like the work of the Bastard Operator From Hell.
-1, Evil.
Some one has been playing too much Fable.
Grounds keeper Willie of the undersea cables, at your service.
I think that's a great idea but they need to get a much larger part of their DVD library avilable on the streaming side before that will become popular.
You can generate it with a fake logger...
I would deliver 5 TB of logs in floppy disks :P
I guess it's as good a cause as any to dust off the box of AOL floppies I collected in the 90s.
I'm happily employed, you insensitive clod.
... how many /.ers are pro prostitute.
On second thought it is kind of hard to get a date when you're living in your mom's basement.
...no aiming laser?
I wish I had mod points I could give you. That was pretty much a perfect summation of the way any good IT admin should act and feel.
I can't tell you how many times I had to do a search of 15,000 SQ foot lab floor because some aerospace engineer thought it would be a good idea to plug the private network side of SOHO router into the main network. They just couldn't seem to understand why an rogue DHCP server would be a problem.
She has a cult like following that will buy up most anything she recommends.
She's the Steve Jobs of pulp novels!
That or Steve Jobs is the Opra of consumer technology. ;-)
To those who tagged this "so what?" I would like to pose a question in response. Have you seen what happens to products that get endorsed by Oprah?!?!
They become over night best sellers, most of the time. She has a cult like following that will buy up most anything she recommends. This is why it's interesting. We will now see if something that has failed to take off for quite a number of years will now do so, just because a pop icon gave it the thumbs up.
"Charging for comments??! that's one of the worst ideas i have heard in a while. i don't think this comment is worth a penny! and i bet a lot of people would agree with me!"
It could work, but that's just my two cents. ;-)
I thought my BBQ sauce was going to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry :(
Well if your BBQ sauce glowed green, in a nontoxic way, then you would have won. ;-)
I wouldn't mind exploding over Susan. Rarrwww!
Sounds like a movie I once saw...Armaget-it-on.
Sorry, I couldn't tell if you were being serious or sarcastic. It seemed to lean to the latter. Too many /. post too fast and too literal.
TFA is clearly wrong. The image looks more like it is exploding Sudan, rather than exploding over Sudan.
Perhaps you forgot to read the caption for the picture that said "Artist's impression of a LARGE asteroid impact".
Rodney, would you please stop. You've already blown up one solar system.
Judge: ---Really? Never heard of you. $10 million or 40,000 innocent souls to the MPAA, to be paid by Friday.
10,000,000/40,000 = $250
I was wondering what the market value of an innocent soul was these days.
It is nothing but our own pride that insists that we are either the best in the world, or completely worthless.
There is a huge sliding grayscale of worthiness in the intellectual/industriousness domain.
The world needs a rich supply of people spread across that middle range.
Learn the value of who you already are, and be proud of it.
You remind me of the book "Brave New World" where they learned to genetically engineer geniuses on a mass scale but went back to creating middle and lower classes because the geniuses wouldn't to manual labor jobs.
In other words, the world needs ditch diggers.
Makes me feel stupid for spending my childhood throwing rocks at cats.
Don't feel bad; you make me feel stupid for spending my childhood throwing cats at rocks. Your way works a lot better.
There's more than one way to stone a cat!
I live near Seattle,WA you insensitive clod! The clouds almost completely block the sun for 10 months out of the year.
At 10 million digits you're going to take a long time to "guess" what it is.
If there is only one known prime number with 10 million digits, then I reckon I could guess this one quite quickly.
Shhhh!Don't tell him!! I'm having fun reading his "encrypted e-mail".
You're totally missing one of the biggest reason that Apple setup their application store on iTunes.
They wanted to create an easy to use application market that was unlike the myriad of shady sites you have to navigate to find apps for Windows Mobile or Palm OS. While this program isn't malicious like some of the WM and Palm apps it is financially malicious and as such should be pulled to preserve the image of market where you don't have to worry about getting defrauded like you do on sites for other platforms.