In many places, only the offenders most at risk to strike again are listed. As a result you don't see the lower level folks on publicly accessible lists, but they would still likely be affected by this law.
As an American, I have certain rights that people before me fought and died to give me.
No one gave us our rights, we inherently have them by being human. After all, if someone gave them to us, it is easier for someone to grant themselves the authority to take them away.
So long as the older folks have tremendous power at the ballot box, there's only a minor chance we'll see them having to be retested every so often to renew their licenses.
My grandfather, who's in his early 80s, continues to drive occasionally during the day and without incident. Maybe that extra old computer I gave him is keeping him sharp?
I'm trying to figure out why Dell seems to be the most popular office brand. Could it be they simply suck less than the others? Inertia?
Dell's driver downloads are pretty good, although it would be better to get the exact drivers for the service tag, rather than guess if it has a given video chip or option NIC upgrade.
...And as far as everyone else in the business is concerned, any failings in the product is the IT department's problem not theirs.
Of course, the sales droid said it was the perfect app. We suits couldn't have been duped, could we? No one wants to admit to that, because then IT would have a say over their precious domain.
This is a Visual Basic application that if I'm being kind I'd say is a kludge held together by the electronic equivalent of duct tape and glue. The thing is junk and crashes ALL THE TIME. IT didn't pick this app though - we just get stuck supporting it. However, no amount of explanation can convince these people that the program crashing is not IT's fault.... But the basic fact is the program you bought is crap and full of bugs and nothing IT does is going to make it stop crashing and screwing up data.
Sadly, this is a hard fact to make users accept.
Then whomever is running your IT department isn't doing their job. Wouldn't you complain to your Telecom folks if your phone randomly dropped calls constantly? In your case, it sounds like IT is, at some level, to blame for the mess. Was IT in on the purchasing process? Did IT do any beta testing? Parallel testing? Who came up with the cost-to-support for the new app?
An electronic Operation Northwoods which won't require anything further than the government "investigation" blaming whoever is our enemy of the decade. Please report to the nearest DHS office for debriefing.
Yes, and getting to see the process of production at The Boston Globe's second set of 4 presses in Billerica was a treat I got a few months ago. Although they print several things, generally 3 presses are for Globes, 1 for NYTs. Here's a slightly slimmer version of what I wrote up right after seeing the operation:
Our first stop was the engraving room, and like most of the printing process is now largely automated. The platform receives electronic copies of each paper and section it prints, these are then laser-enscribed onto various curved plates. Two 12 foot long machines laser engrave the blank plates, but the machines are entirely closed with only a small midnight window from which one can only tell if the machine is working or idle.
We did not spend much time in there, but among the interesting details is that it takes 4 plates per color page. There was also a stack of finished plates, each longer than the page that it was to print by about seven inches. The top has a about a three inch blank space, presumably to fit into the presses, with the bottom 4 bent at an angle to lock into the machines. If I had the chance I would have asked for more details from the staff in engraving, but they were in the midst of changing editions and with that creating new plates for the color front pages of the papers.
For a black page, only a single plate is needed. Color pages require 4, for the black, red, yellow, and blue (not 100% sure here, there might be two colors of red instead).
The next stop was the presses themselves, which are these four grand contraptions appearing three stories tall. Each one is painted yellow, with red industrial staircases and walkways winding around them. They are so massive in fact I could not tell where the blank paper came in, but from seeing the outcome below I would guess newsprint rolls are loaded up top.
The paper snakes down together as if it was a conveyor belt, and moves at such a speed one cannot tell what paper or section is being printed. Until the bottom-most machine the paper is an incredibly long single sheet, only being cut and folded at the last press step.
It is very loud, but this is to be expected, as the presses make up to 45,000 papers an hour (I believe that is per press, but I'm not sure. It was explained to me as we walked among the presses).
Taking a stop in the main watch room, there were several jump-suited men waiting around a table for the next edition plates to be complete so they can climb among the machines and install them. The operator stands guard, watching the LCD displays and analog meters.
The printed papers are picked up right off the press by a special conveyor system which grabs each copy at the center of the fold; Each paper is grabbed individually. This system conveyors from the floor into the ceiling above the watch room, right in front of the glass.
Quality-checking the paper, the operator opens a special window to the conveyor system to pull a freshly printed copy out of the fast moving line. He quickly verifies the text is even on the page, the color items look good, and the pages go in order. The four color cross in the upper right of the paper is used to verify the proper alignment.
From there we followed the process back to the main floor. This area is called the mail room, and it is where the sections are put together, bundled and palletized. The conveyor system, from which the papers start at floor level in the press room arrive in the mail room well above reach of the workers.
About 35 feet off the ground there are 4 conveyors (one per press) that split the papers up into 2 and then 4 conveyor segments. These 4 segments then go into special machines which grab the top of the paper and have blowers that opens the paper into a V shape. This is why the paper is not folded in the center but slightly below; It is to automate this process. The non-time-critical sections are dropped in there, such as the Arts. These sections are pre-printed earlier in the day.
[We] can't even elect the rulers of the EUSSR, so they are free to pass whatever law they like, with impunity.
The surest sign something is amiss is that they so desperately want the Lisbon Treaty that they wish to skip anything but national rubber-stamping of it.
Perhaps hes betting that the PetrolCorps(e) will buy him out to keep his invention OFF the market.
Should that happen, I could see some politicians push for a cancellation of the patent. Why should the notion of "[promoting] the Progress of Science" be able to be used to stifle that very Progress? Not to mention the national security concern of being dependent on unstable oil supplies? If I remember correctly, there have been times in the past where the government forced patents open during wartime.
As an added bonus, the politicians who favor farming subsidies would love to see this process work, just like they love ethanol.
Funny how we're "overpopulated" but need constant immigration to keep our economies going. I don't believe "overpopulation" is the right word, but it's time for some new, well planned cities, no?
Clothing donation places such as the Lowell Wish Project receive hundreds of the things each week. Metal hangers are better than the plastic ones, for simple reason they take up less space.
And seem to be the same ones that are oblivious to the situation on the highway they're on; Usually they manage to slow down everyone else's ride by getting in the left lane and doing 50mph.
For an added bonus, the state legislature members get their own plates, and I've never seen one drive well either.
But that doesn't change the fact that there aren't any Linux distros out there that will support each released version for 12 years like MS is doing with XP.
It's not 12 years, being Microsoft has stopped supporting XP gold and XP SP1. They will eventually stop supporting XP at all unless you have SP3, and likely IE7. Still, that's 6 years of support left for security patches.
Is data recovery possible from these devices if the media is damaged, or otherwise unreadable?
The article doesn't mention numbers in terms of power savings, but I'm looking forward to SSD-based RAID at the same power cost as a single Winchester HDD.
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In many places, only the offenders most at risk to strike again are listed. As a result you don't see the lower level folks on publicly accessible lists, but they would still likely be affected by this law.
Big media will care when he kills a Kilrathi and brings back the head. And even that won't forgive the sin of selling Origin to EA.
Perhaps they have legacy apps that were created long before AJAX was anything more than a soap.
No one gave us our rights, we inherently have them by being human. After all, if someone gave them to us, it is easier for someone to grant themselves the authority to take them away.
So long as the older folks have tremendous power at the ballot box, there's only a minor chance we'll see them having to be retested every so often to renew their licenses.
My grandfather, who's in his early 80s, continues to drive occasionally during the day and without incident. Maybe that extra old computer I gave him is keeping him sharp?
In the case of unsigned drivers, sure. Signed drivers, on the other hand, shouldn't be getting though MS's system with crashes and bugs.
When did HP start getting written as H-P?
I'm trying to figure out why Dell seems to be the most popular office brand. Could it be they simply suck less than the others? Inertia?
Dell's driver downloads are pretty good, although it would be better to get the exact drivers for the service tag, rather than guess if it has a given video chip or option NIC upgrade.
Of course, the sales droid said it was the perfect app. We suits couldn't have been duped, could we? No one wants to admit to that, because then IT would have a say over their precious domain.
Then whomever is running your IT department isn't doing their job. Wouldn't you complain to your Telecom folks if your phone randomly dropped calls constantly? In your case, it sounds like IT is, at some level, to blame for the mess. Was IT in on the purchasing process? Did IT do any beta testing? Parallel testing? Who came up with the cost-to-support for the new app?
An electronic Operation Northwoods which won't require anything further than the government "investigation" blaming whoever is our enemy of the decade. Please report to the nearest DHS office for debriefing.
Yes, and getting to see the process of production at The Boston Globe's second set of 4 presses in Billerica was a treat I got a few months ago. Although they print several things, generally 3 presses are for Globes, 1 for NYTs. Here's a slightly slimmer version of what I wrote up right after seeing the operation:
Our first stop was the engraving room, and like most of the printing process is now largely automated. The platform receives electronic copies of each paper and section it prints, these are then laser-enscribed onto various curved plates. Two 12 foot long machines laser engrave the blank plates, but the machines are entirely closed with only a small midnight window from which one can only tell if the machine is working or idle.
We did not spend much time in there, but among the interesting details is that it takes 4 plates per color page. There was also a stack of finished plates, each longer than the page that it was to print by about seven inches. The top has a about a three inch blank space, presumably to fit into the presses, with the bottom 4 bent at an angle to lock into the machines. If I had the chance I would have asked for more details from the staff in engraving, but they were in the midst of changing editions and with that creating new plates for the color front pages of the papers.
For a black page, only a single plate is needed. Color pages require 4, for the black, red, yellow, and blue (not 100% sure here, there might be two colors of red instead).
The next stop was the presses themselves, which are these four grand contraptions appearing three stories tall. Each one is painted yellow, with red industrial staircases and walkways winding around them. They are so massive in fact I could not tell where the blank paper came in, but from seeing the outcome below I would guess newsprint rolls are loaded up top.
The paper snakes down together as if it was a conveyor belt, and moves at such a speed one cannot tell what paper or section is being printed. Until the bottom-most machine the paper is an incredibly long single sheet, only being cut and folded at the last press step.
It is very loud, but this is to be expected, as the presses make up to 45,000 papers an hour (I believe that is per press, but I'm not sure. It was explained to me as we walked among the presses).
Taking a stop in the main watch room, there were several jump-suited men waiting around a table for the next edition plates to be complete so they can climb among the machines and install them. The operator stands guard, watching the LCD displays and analog meters.
The printed papers are picked up right off the press by a special conveyor system which grabs each copy at the center of the fold; Each paper is grabbed individually. This system conveyors from the floor into the ceiling above the watch room, right in front of the glass.
Quality-checking the paper, the operator opens a special window to the conveyor system to pull a freshly printed copy out of the fast moving line. He quickly verifies the text is even on the page, the color items look good, and the pages go in order. The four color cross in the upper right of the paper is used to verify the proper alignment.
From there we followed the process back to the main floor. This area is called the mail room, and it is where the sections are put together, bundled and palletized. The conveyor system, from which the papers start at floor level in the press room arrive in the mail room well above reach of the workers.
About 35 feet off the ground there are 4 conveyors (one per press) that split the papers up into 2 and then 4 conveyor segments. These 4 segments then go into special machines which grab the top of the paper and have blowers that opens the paper into a V shape. This is why the paper is not folded in the center but slightly below; It is to automate this process. The non-time-critical sections are dropped in there, such as the Arts. These sections are pre-printed earlier in the day.
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There used to be a reason people had kids; To take care of the parents in old age.
If they run over a pedestrian with anything it's still going to cause a lot of damage. You seem to be only thinking of the driver.
The surest sign something is amiss is that they so desperately want the Lisbon Treaty that they wish to skip anything but national rubber-stamping of it.
Should that happen, I could see some politicians push for a cancellation of the patent. Why should the notion of "[promoting] the Progress of Science" be able to be used to stifle that very Progress? Not to mention the national security concern of being dependent on unstable oil supplies? If I remember correctly, there have been times in the past where the government forced patents open during wartime.
As an added bonus, the politicians who favor farming subsidies would love to see this process work, just like they love ethanol.
Yet if their cottage is anywhere rural, dial-up may be the only available or cost-effective option.
Funny how we're "overpopulated" but need constant immigration to keep our economies going. I don't believe "overpopulation" is the right word, but it's time for some new, well planned cities, no?
Where you trying to post elsewhere?
Clothing donation places such as the Lowell Wish Project receive hundreds of the things each week. Metal hangers are better than the plastic ones, for simple reason they take up less space.
For an added bonus, the state legislature members get their own plates, and I've never seen one drive well either.
It's not 12 years, being Microsoft has stopped supporting XP gold and XP SP1. They will eventually stop supporting XP at all unless you have SP3, and likely IE7. Still, that's 6 years of support left for security patches.
I bet you're just waiting for the drive to fail so Mom will have some deep fried grits ready for your visit.
So I lose my registration because I'm not a network?
The article doesn't mention numbers in terms of power savings, but I'm looking forward to SSD-based RAID at the same power cost as a single Winchester HDD.
Keep it down, us 6 digit users are trying to see how the grown ups do things.