So just how many banner ads do you think they need to pay for all that? I mean, since we al lpay nothing (or nearly nothing) for our hotmail accounts, is it just being bankrolled my MS?
We can put the super powerful algae-into-fuel lobby to work! I've been saying it for 120 years, petroleum products are just a passing fad. I want a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs!
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Speaking of those 'club cards' at grocery store. There was an acocunt I heard on NPR last year of a man you had is Safeway purchases subpoened(sp?) to prove he was a drunk. Apparently he bought a lot of beer and wine.
One day I will have a heart attack and my insurance company won't pay the bills because my Safeway Club Card has been keeping a record of all the bacon and Doritos I bought over the years.
Any good sysadmin knows you would never rely on the "lifespan" of the media to save you.
I have my crucial data on the computer hard drive (of course), and backed-up to three seperate external hard drives. One drive may indeed fail when I need it, but three is not likely. Ans since I could buy nearly a TB of external storage (each drive is 250-400GB) for less than $1000, it was really a no-brainer.
Don't forget that tape are by no means indestructable. I had an assistant one time who brought their cheap-ass, non-magnetically sheilded walkman speakers to the server room, and spent the day rocking out. Problem was, their workstation was next to the tape library. Three of the tapes in the media set were corrupted by the magnets in the speakers, and had to be re-created.
If he hadn't fessed up and told me what happened, I would not have realized it until I needed to restore the data.
All I know is that when I do it vertical, I don't get much lightning either! Zing!
And just so all the geeks understand, that was a joke about sex. It's something grown-ups sometimes do together. Ask your parents about it, preferably while in-laws are visiting
I've been using my Ambient Weather Beacon for few months now. I don't know if it helps, but I know my daily headaches went away after I put it behind my monitors. Plus, it's wicked cool!
..is new again.
I am a bit troubled at this trend towards paying recurring fees to do things that have been essentially free for decades. First OTA broadcast TV, now cable. Then radio, now Sirius.
When my children are my age opening up the fridge will be a subscription service. It will be called Digi-Chill 5000(r). I just copywrited that, so no stealing it in 30 years.
I heard the same argument about tapes vs CD's back in the late 80's. Some claimed their super-ultra-chromide-whatever tapes sounded 'perfect'. Perfection is relative. I thought my 4-head VCR was king poop, until I watched my first DVD.
Ahhh, binary, it always brings a smile to my face.
Here's my solution to the (apparently) dead DVD and upcoming race...er..I mean format war. Double sided discs. Blu Ray on one side and HDDVD on the other. Eh? Anyone?
Wearing a McDonalds drive-thru style headset while sputtering out sentence fragments to someone you can neither see or even know, all the while pretending to digitally shoot them in the face, is NOT social interaction.
That type of entertainment is primarily for the feeble minded, the angery loner, and the unemployable. If you have spent more than a few hours playing these type of games, you probably fit into one of those three groups.
As it is now, I 'lose' my Thinkpad (in the couch cushions, under a coffee table book, etc.) about once a week. I'd hate to think of a system that I lose in folds of my flesh.
Here I must invoke Occams Razor:
Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler.
Basically, don't impute complex conspiracy where simple stupidity is more likely.
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So just how many banner ads do you think they need to pay for all that?
I mean, since we al lpay nothing (or nearly nothing) for our hotmail accounts, is it just being bankrolled my MS?
That's great Symantec. But when are you going to fix this other flaw that effects RAR files?
They are also pleased that a simple thing like bee flight can no longer be used as an example of science failing to explain a common phenomenon.
:P
Just tell exactly how grass can turn light into food and I will be happy
We can put the super powerful algae-into-fuel lobby to work! I've been saying it for 120 years, petroleum products are just a passing fad. I want a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs!
Speaking of those 'club cards' at grocery store. There was an acocunt I heard on NPR last year of a man you had is Safeway purchases subpoened(sp?) to prove he was a drunk. Apparently he bought a lot of beer and wine.
One day I will have a heart attack and my insurance company won't pay the bills because my Safeway Club Card has been keeping a record of all the bacon and Doritos I bought over the years.
That's weird, my left arm is tingleing....*thud*
Joel Seigal of the NY Times writes:
"I loved it! It was much better than Cats! I'll go to see it again and again!"
'How can I do my thesis now?' a university student asked
Ummm, pick up a book? Assuming, that is, China still allows public libraries.
Any good sysadmin knows you would never rely on the "lifespan" of the media to save you.
I have my crucial data on the computer hard drive (of course), and backed-up to three seperate external hard drives. One drive may indeed fail when I need it, but three is not likely. Ans since I could buy nearly a TB of external storage (each drive is 250-400GB) for less than $1000, it was really a no-brainer.
Don't forget that tape are by no means indestructable. I had an assistant one time who brought their cheap-ass, non-magnetically sheilded walkman speakers to the server room, and spent the day rocking out. Problem was, their workstation was next to the tape library. Three of the tapes in the media set were corrupted by the magnets in the speakers, and had to be re-created.
If he hadn't fessed up and told me what happened, I would not have realized it until I needed to restore the data.
All I know is that when I do it vertical, I don't get much lightning either! Zing!
And just so all the geeks understand, that was a joke about sex. It's something grown-ups sometimes do together. Ask your parents about it, preferably while in-laws are visiting
....for desktop computers users at least.
I've been using my Ambient Weather Beacon for few months now. I don't know if it helps, but I know my daily headaches went away after I put it behind my monitors. Plus, it's wicked cool!
..is new again.
I am a bit troubled at this trend towards paying recurring fees to do things that have been essentially free for decades. First OTA broadcast TV, now cable. Then radio, now Sirius.
When my children are my age opening up the fridge will be a subscription service. It will be called Digi-Chill 5000(r). I just copywrited that, so no stealing it in 30 years.
I heard the same argument about tapes vs CD's back in the late 80's. Some claimed their super-ultra-chromide-whatever tapes sounded 'perfect'. Perfection is relative. I thought my 4-head VCR was king poop, until I watched my first DVD. Ahhh, binary, it always brings a smile to my face.
Here's my solution to the (apparently) dead DVD and upcoming race...er..I mean format war.
Double sided discs. Blu Ray on one side and HDDVD on the other. Eh? Anyone?
<meta="Cookie Monster">
<Frank Oz>
C is for cookie. That's good enough for me!
</Frank Oz>
I'm not entirely certain what HDMI is as compares to DVI. Care to enlighten me?
How can even be considered truely HD if it doesn't have a DVI connection? My HDTV has one as well as my HD sat receiver. Isn't that kind of required?
Just looking at this picture makes my wrist hurt. Of course, there are a lot of pictures online that can male my wrist hust ;-)
Welcome to a capitalist economy.
That type of entertainment is primarily for the feeble minded, the angery loner, and the unemployable. If you have spent more than a few hours playing these type of games, you probably fit into one of those three groups.
Mike
1337-haxor21 - Wow
ITninja21 - Everquest
IronGiant - FF Online
IronMale - CoH (lvl 17)
DrDoome - CoV (lvl 8)
Swordy-McCutalot - Maplestory
As it is now, I 'lose' my Thinkpad (in the couch cushions, under a coffee table book, etc.) about once a week. I'd hate to think of a system that I lose in folds of my flesh.
Here I must invoke Occams Razor: Given two equally predictive theories, choose the simpler. Basically, don't impute complex conspiracy where simple stupidity is more likely.
I wonder if that backpack just crams in a screwhole like my old GI JOE figures?
All this computer hacking is making me thirsty. I think I'll order a TAB.