Put a 3x5 note card on your mailbox door that says "No Advo please". I put a note on my box stating something along the lines of "No Current Resident mail or mail not addressed to ____ please" and the mail person replaced it with a "No Advo" symbol (like the No Smoking signs, but with Advo crossed off.)
I've received a few calls over the past 5 years from COBOL headhunters because, at one point, I put that on my resume (learned it in college). I had to turn them down because I had a good paying job and I simply didn't want to do COBOL (I'd have to relearn most of it anyway.) Interestingly enough, I also got calls about VB6 development which I had to refuse for the same reason.
Other questionable content includes the use of homophobic language, and this request for the Texan chiefs to investigate an officer's affair with a married woman. Tax dollars at work:
From: Doug Lauersdorf Sent: Thu 9/16/2010 10:06 AM
To: Bob Wieners; Luke Loeser
Cc:
Subject: Complainant
Attachments:
View As Web Page
Chiefs:
I conducted a preliminary inquiry into information received from Detective Price who received a call from Mr. Clements wanting us to know that one of our officers on midnight shift was having an affair with his wife. He also complained that the officer had run his criminal history. I asked KC to contact DPS to research their database to ascertain any person(s) that had ran his information to obtain information from any of the following: CCH, TDL, NCIC, TCIC, SETCIC, etc. The search revealed that the only person with the Friendswood Police Department that had run him was Elaine who had ran the information at KCâ€s direction at my request. This matter is mute until the time comes when he initiates the complaint process and provides us with the officerâ€s name.
Sergeant Douglas E. Lauersdorf
I'm just not seeing the homophobic language here. Am I missing something (besides moot/mute)?
I have tried (but this was circa 2001) and I remember some things did not work... mainly games. It had something to do with DirectX. We were trying to setup login for a coffee shop/game center so the users could select a login named after the application and go straight to the game without loading Explorer. I remember Half-life (among others) hated us for doing it. We ended up scrapping that, setting up an rsync over the network for user saves and imaging the PCs for regular ghosting. I haven't tried in recent versions of Windows though.
I wasn't really talking about orbiting Earth... I was referring to orbiting the Sun, in front of Earth but at a speed that wasn't capable of breaking Earth's gravity well. Like riding a bike really fast in front of a car, but not so fast you overtake it while it slowly creeps up behind you. My guess is that Gravity would decelerate it and then accelerate it too fast to make a soft landing though.
I guess my question was more along the lines of: Can that zero relative speed point be tweaked to be as close to touchdown as possible. Can the asteroid be going fast enough to counteract gravity and have Earth "catch up" to it.
Alright, this may be completely insane/impossible, but...could the trajectory of the asteroid be controlled to lead Earth's orbit by a bit letting gravity slow it down enough to "softly" rest here on Earth? Would gravity be too much for that and cause it to come crashing down in apocalyptic fashion?
Out of pure curiosity... how did you post that? I find it odd that whatever you used placed a line break in the middle of the word "have". I've seen length limited posts before and always wondered why, but this one strikes me as extra odd.
Yeah, this doesn't make sense. If they are not making profit on the $99 sales... why make more (the way it reads is that they are making more...) Liquidating parts? Tax write off?
I always thought multicast meant that you'd have to be downloading the same bits as everyone else at the exact same time so you'd have to sit around and wait for a multicast session to open up to start receiving your data. It would be great for broadcast television where everyone tunes in to a specific channel to get what they want, but it would be fairly useless if someone connected 5 minutes after the multicast started unless the data packet they were receiving supported the ability to pick up 5 minutes in. You'd still not have the first 5 minutes of the broadcast though.
It's great for local networks where you need to transfer large amounts of data to large amounts of PCs, but they all have to coordinate to get the entire package.
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Put a 3x5 note card on your mailbox door that says "No Advo please". I put a note on my box stating something along the lines of "No Current Resident mail or mail not addressed to ____ please" and the mail person replaced it with a "No Advo" symbol (like the No Smoking signs, but with Advo crossed off.)
...in a person, using a computer.
I might actually tune the news in instead of tuning it out if it was done in that manner.
Both of those work in this case.
I've received a few calls over the past 5 years from COBOL headhunters because, at one point, I put that on my resume (learned it in college). I had to turn them down because I had a good paying job and I simply didn't want to do COBOL (I'd have to relearn most of it anyway.) Interestingly enough, I also got calls about VB6 development which I had to refuse for the same reason.
I assumed he was referring to different compilers... C itself is not overly complex, but you can get into feature sets of compilers.
Other questionable content includes the use of homophobic language, and this request for the Texan chiefs to investigate an officer's affair with a married woman. Tax dollars at work:
From: Doug Lauersdorf Sent: Thu 9/16/2010 10:06 AM To: Bob Wieners; Luke Loeser Cc: Subject: Complainant Attachments: View As Web Page Chiefs: I conducted a preliminary inquiry into information received from Detective Price who received a call from Mr. Clements wanting us to know that one of our officers on midnight shift was having an affair with his wife. He also complained that the officer had run his criminal history. I asked KC to contact DPS to research their database to ascertain any person(s) that had ran his information to obtain information from any of the following: CCH, TDL, NCIC, TCIC, SETCIC, etc. The search revealed that the only person with the Friendswood Police Department that had run him was Elaine who had ran the information at KCâ€s direction at my request. This matter is mute until the time comes when he initiates the complaint process and provides us with the officerâ€s name. Sergeant Douglas E. Lauersdorf
I'm just not seeing the homophobic language here. Am I missing something (besides moot/mute)?
I have tried (but this was circa 2001) and I remember some things did not work... mainly games. It had something to do with DirectX. We were trying to setup login for a coffee shop/game center so the users could select a login named after the application and go straight to the game without loading Explorer. I remember Half-life (among others) hated us for doing it. We ended up scrapping that, setting up an rsync over the network for user saves and imaging the PCs for regular ghosting. I haven't tried in recent versions of Windows though.
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Like so?
Don't forget Windows 98 SE....
They don't carry any money either.
Oddly, according to Google:
60000 Japanese yen = 780.2340 US dollars
730 Australian dollars = 780.7350 US dollars
I wasn't really talking about orbiting Earth... I was referring to orbiting the Sun, in front of Earth but at a speed that wasn't capable of breaking Earth's gravity well. Like riding a bike really fast in front of a car, but not so fast you overtake it while it slowly creeps up behind you. My guess is that Gravity would decelerate it and then accelerate it too fast to make a soft landing though.
I guess my question was more along the lines of: Can that zero relative speed point be tweaked to be as close to touchdown as possible. Can the asteroid be going fast enough to counteract gravity and have Earth "catch up" to it.
Why do you need an elevator?
Alright, this may be completely insane/impossible, but...could the trajectory of the asteroid be controlled to lead Earth's orbit by a bit letting gravity slow it down enough to "softly" rest here on Earth? Would gravity be too much for that and cause it to come crashing down in apocalyptic fashion?
Why do you need to fund a war when you can just direct said meteor to land in Washington D.C. and wipe out half the Eastern population?
No, doublespeak is billed on your peak minutes (twice on weekends) and also counts against your data usage (because your voice is data.)
Out of pure curiosity... how did you post that? I find it odd that whatever you used placed a line break in the middle of the word "have". I've seen length limited posts before and always wondered why, but this one strikes me as extra odd.
And nobody writes Lisp based languages all on one line either.
function Besides() { a(); few(); hardcore(); function geeks() {people(function hate(){shit(); that(looks()); like ((this();));})}}
I think that's harder to read.
Yeah, this doesn't make sense. If they are not making profit on the $99 sales... why make more (the way it reads is that they are making more...) Liquidating parts? Tax write off?
I always thought multicast meant that you'd have to be downloading the same bits as everyone else at the exact same time so you'd have to sit around and wait for a multicast session to open up to start receiving your data. It would be great for broadcast television where everyone tunes in to a specific channel to get what they want, but it would be fairly useless if someone connected 5 minutes after the multicast started unless the data packet they were receiving supported the ability to pick up 5 minutes in. You'd still not have the first 5 minutes of the broadcast though.
It's great for local networks where you need to transfer large amounts of data to large amounts of PCs, but they all have to coordinate to get the entire package.
I'd like to see Explorer beat XP in vertical space: (Really, I would... but I don't see it happening.)
http://i.imgur.com/Hw6Xy.png
I swear, every time I see DMG file, I read it as "Damage File".
Why would a Linux user need to distribute other people's hard work illegally? Most licenses for Linux software make it rather legal.