How on earth is this insightful. My wife starts at least 30 days prior to school starting to write her lesson plans. You are apparently under the impression that because teachers don't get paid during the summer, they must screw off the entire time the kids are on vacation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Additionally, the first 2-3 weeks after the kids are out of school she spends each day moving classrooms, packing up all her stuff so the janitorial staff can redo floors throughout the school, bring all the material home she has purchased with her measly paycheck (it ends up "disappearing" otherwise) and doing crap the principal dreamed up - team building garbage, "required' training (more principal dreams) and a host of other, unpaid, ridiculous stuff that has no bearing on teaching the children. Did I mention all those hours are UNPAID but expected. And oh by the way, she has to earn at least 6 semester hours a year of education, whether it be working towards a masters or just education related. I'd go on, but there isn't much point. I can't think of a job that has more importance that is so looked down upon.
In short, the school (state) provides a curriculum, NOT lesson plans. Teachers are expected to do that in their own time - which is why many are obviously willing to part with hard earned $$$ to not have to do a lot of that work.
I would rather side with the police and have the girl arrested (or shot if needed) and avoid possible loss of life then err on the side of "oh, well maybe its not a bomb, well maybe it is, or maybe its not, or maybe....*BOOM*"
And what, there wasn't a cop with the presence of mind to ask WTF was on her shirt. I still have some shirts around (somewhere) that have LEDs in them. Would a blinking shirt or one of those blinking buttons get me shot at an airport???
If so, the procedures need to be re-evaluated with a quickness.
The reason it is and should be a crime is because you simply cannot have a policy where people toting things that look like bombs can board aircraft. Should it really be the TSA's responibility to determine that something is a fake? Is it reasonable to expect security personnel to accurately analyze suspicious items on the fly in a check-in line?
And what exactly does a bomb look like?? I have to put my laptop in a serperate bin each time I go to the airport. I have to disassemble my camera and have those TSA fools get there grubby paw prints on my lenses and expose the inside of my dSLR to the garbage in the air at the airport. I can't carry a decent tube of toothpaste or a regular stick of armpit anti-funk.
Why is that? Because a bomb can take any shape. OMG itz da bomz!!!!!1!! This is a poor excuse for a bunch of alarmist gun toting morons. No self respecing person with antisocial motives would go anywhere wearing a bomb in such an obvious manner. It would be concealed until said whacko wanted it to be known that s/he was insane...not walking around with it waiting for the authorities to show up.
Bottom line: Boston is full of self important people who assume someone would *want* to blow themselves up in Boston. I mean really...it is Boston for crying out loud.
No, just a company trying to evolve???
They are currently in the business of nicotine. Who says nicotine pills of some kind won't be the new cigarette. More importantly, if everyone quits smoking, who will supply the "new" nicotine. If I were in the tobacco business, I would be working franticly (if they haven't done so already) a new way to supply people with nicotine, ways to get it out of the plant in as pure a form as possible...we've known for a long time nicotine is good for people, it is simply the delivery method that sucks. Sounds like a great investment to me.
Not to mention this applies to any internet based job. Seriously, this isn't a job locked down geographically...every design firm on the net is a competitor, or an I missing something here?
I didn't look it up, but this is intriguing in a "Hey, where'd that go???" sort of way. So what happened?
I'm the guy who rewired his starer/clutch interlock so I can start without pressing in the clutch pedal (while in neutral or in gear) and tweaked some crap so I can use high-beams and OEM fog lamps at the same time...so I don't see this lasting in my vehicle for long anyway
Signed,
the rock crawling, fat knubby tire, off camber driving, lifted Jeep Wrangler driving nut-case
I'm just wondering how cost effective something like this is, given that many games involve what amounts to a number of days, if not weeks of gameplay. Another example of people legislating that which they do not understand.
Two or three spammers DIE for being spammers, and we'll see the rate of malware production drop like a rock.
Right, because drugs kill and everyone runs from those(ecstasy is a great example). Driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do...but you still drive everywhere. Being in the mob is dangerous, or a bookie, drug dealer, human trafficking, the list goes on. All an order of magnitude more dangerous than simple spamming...with a hell of a lot more 9mm shots to the head. All still wildly popular.
I'm going to guess you have never used a Toughbook. Swapping the HDD is as easy as swapping the battery. We have about 300 of these at work, spares on the shelf. If the screen dies on you then you go in, pull the HDD and battery, turn in the old shell and get a new one. (CF-29 in an industrial environment: all of our tech data is on the toughbooks, and work is updated live via a scheduled wireless database sync.)
Now, my desire to have the product may be quite measured and rational. However, for example, the bidder who snipes me at the last possible moment for an extra 50c is takes advantage of the fact that I declared my hand early
And exactly how is a "sniper" going to know your max bid? If the auction is at 8.50 and your max was bid was 12 and the sniper bid 15 or even 50 s/he had no idea what your max bid was. Snipers simply put in their max bid at the end of the auction. eBay is the one that increments the bid 50c, not the sniper. If a sniper made that max bid early...then you would have bid up to 12 anyway and would have stopped, and the auction would have still ended at 12.50. Better yet, you may have been caught the fever and paid 20 for the item instead...would that be ok?
As for getting a great deal on eBay: that is a myth my friend, it just happens that on eBay the market value for products is only slightly lower that retail. You can thank the wholesalers for that, as they sell to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
As as aside, when on eBay I typically purchase from individuals (easy to figure out based on feedback, better "deals" and better customer service) or I contact sellers/view their website/do the appropriate research when it is a company involved. Additionally, I don't often buy common, everyday items on eBay, so I don't often have to deal with getting sniped.
You use the appropriate tools for the job. I am a photographer (mostly hobby, some income) and know that battle. There is no single solution. Make a decision for organization at the directory/file level (you don't have much of a choice, that is the way systems store data) and use something else to if you want to view them in a different way.
Personally, I organize my images into directories based on subject (family, friends, bugs, flowers, landscape...with the exception of macro, which is a subset all its own) and if I want to go mucking through them using tags (labels, whatever) I open up Picasa (choose software to suit your taste).
If I need to go through all my RAW images I use the stuff that came with the camera. If I want to view images that are primarily some particular color, I have stuff for that. If I want to view landscapes, I open the landscape directory.
The computer is merely a tool; you have to decide how to use it. That is, unless you are simply a true-blue American consumer waiting for the companies to TELL YOU how to organize your images (listen to your music, watch your movies, surf the 'net, drive your car (get driven by your car???)....
Uh, if they can reprogram my phone by clicking a few buttons in a service center, what makes you think they can't enable the mic while the system is "off" because, quite honestly, a phone isn't off unless power, the battery, is removed. Many phones have an internal battery, though I don't see them lasting long while transmitting on cell freqs. Of course, with as much memory as cellular phones have now, who says it has to transmit live? It would be transparent if it recorded while "off" and uploaded the sound files when the memory space became full. This is completely possible.
So why can't they use one inch drives for this instead of flash...I've had a Hitachi 2GB microdrive since they hit the market...I use it for music in my PDA, I use it in my digital camera (Canon 20D), anywhere I can stick a CF card...and the thing can take a beating, even washed it once (oops!)...still no bad sectors, (fairly) easy to format for different uses. So maybe they are a touch slower than flash, they use almost no juice...and the lifespan would be well worth it.
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I actually did this...go to your nearest home improvement warehouse (Lowes, Home Depot) and get a can of the crap used to rubber coat tool handles and stuff....just dip it in and let it dry...works great.
I've been curious about using a portable media player and dumping to it when I can't/won't take my PDA or laptop. I don't have a shortage of CF cards and image review when I have a few minutes can't be beat on my PDA or laptop. I only have one photo-buddy that uses one (20gb media player, a Zen) and it can't do much in the way of reviewing compared even to my camera (10x zoom on the LCD). How do you like using the Zen player? Do you use it to review on the go or just as temporary storage? I'm looking for a good solid opinion and I really appreciate your time if you have it.
I'm sure you keep up on industry trends, especially since you can be found on/., and I'm not sure what your type of use is, but by the time you need(/want?) to replace that G3 there is going to be some neat stuff out there in the sensor department...which is why I haven't moved on from my 20d. (insert generic Nikon bashing here)
Linux support is lacking, I gave up a while back and do all the printing through winxp. (I make some money off my photographs so certain tools are a must.) The GIMPrint (CUPS) toy that is available isn't quite up to the task...yet.
As far as your camera acting as a mass storage device, that may be you. (Don't shoot over a bad assumption, I don't know you so I'm just pointing this out.) Most Canon cameras have two usb device modes: "normal" and "PTP" or similar. "Normal" mode is friendly to the Canon software. The problem is that in PTP mode RAW files can be elusive (model dependant.) My 20d plays nice in both modes, but I shoot mostly in RAW so the Canon software is a must *for me*. Double-check your manual on this issue, or play around in the menu. I'm no expert, but I recommend Canon to anyone who asks and that issue usually comes up the first time they try to get the images off the camera. I point them to the menu, an item labeled "USB Settings" or "Communication." I have yet to come across any models (production in the last 2-ish years) that don't have that option. YMMV.
And yes, Ubuntu sees my 20d fine in PTP mode. I haven't tried it on any other distro, but I would expect the same. Support is flaky when virtualization is involved, I assume on the camera's end.
Which is why I use Canon...they maybe just as "evil" as HP, but the printers (and cameras, etc) are awesome. Really, I can print BIG with my Canon i9900 and the quality, after hundreds of 13x19 prints and countless smaller prints (mostly 8x10) is simply amazing...it has never misfed. All of my Canon printers are just as good, albeit a few generations older. Of course, at $500 for a printer (i9900 retail when it came out) it had better be damn good.
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How on earth is this insightful. My wife starts at least 30 days prior to school starting to write her lesson plans. You are apparently under the impression that because teachers don't get paid during the summer, they must screw off the entire time the kids are on vacation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Additionally, the first 2-3 weeks after the kids are out of school she spends each day moving classrooms, packing up all her stuff so the janitorial staff can redo floors throughout the school, bring all the material home she has purchased with her measly paycheck (it ends up "disappearing" otherwise) and doing crap the principal dreamed up - team building garbage, "required' training (more principal dreams) and a host of other, unpaid, ridiculous stuff that has no bearing on teaching the children. Did I mention all those hours are UNPAID but expected. And oh by the way, she has to earn at least 6 semester hours a year of education, whether it be working towards a masters or just education related. I'd go on, but there isn't much point. I can't think of a job that has more importance that is so looked down upon.
In short, the school (state) provides a curriculum, NOT lesson plans. Teachers are expected to do that in their own time - which is why many are obviously willing to part with hard earned $$$ to not have to do a lot of that work.
After I realized what you did there - coffee came out my nose!!!
+1 Jeep Reference!!!! ./ rabid off road fiend
And THIS is why I tell people I'm not getting a touch screen phone until I can get translucent thumbs!
More people running TOR servers...
Not perfect, but handy anyway...
http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml/
And what, there wasn't a cop with the presence of mind to ask WTF was on her shirt. I still have some shirts around (somewhere) that have LEDs in them. Would a blinking shirt or one of those blinking buttons get me shot at an airport???
If so, the procedures need to be re-evaluated with a quickness.
And what exactly does a bomb look like?? I have to put my laptop in a serperate bin each time I go to the airport. I have to disassemble my camera and have those TSA fools get there grubby paw prints on my lenses and expose the inside of my dSLR to the garbage in the air at the airport. I can't carry a decent tube of toothpaste or a regular stick of armpit anti-funk.
Why is that? Because a bomb can take any shape. OMG itz da bomz!!!!!1!! This is a poor excuse for a bunch of alarmist gun toting morons. No self respecing person with antisocial motives would go anywhere wearing a bomb in such an obvious manner. It would be concealed until said whacko wanted it to be known that s/he was insane...not walking around with it waiting for the authorities to show up.
Bottom line: Boston is full of self important people who assume someone would *want* to blow themselves up in Boston. I mean really...it is Boston for crying out loud.
No, just a company trying to evolve??? They are currently in the business of nicotine. Who says nicotine pills of some kind won't be the new cigarette. More importantly, if everyone quits smoking, who will supply the "new" nicotine. If I were in the tobacco business, I would be working franticly (if they haven't done so already) a new way to supply people with nicotine, ways to get it out of the plant in as pure a form as possible...we've known for a long time nicotine is good for people, it is simply the delivery method that sucks. Sounds like a great investment to me.
I suppose you want me to recompile the kernel while I'm at it....
http://blackbirds.net/u2/blackcats/u2deployedpics. html
http://blackbirds.net/u2/blackcats/blackcats.html
Um, just to ask a (seemingly) dumb question:
Isn't *EVERY* company on the web a competitor??
Not to mention this applies to any internet based job. Seriously, this isn't a job locked down geographically...every design firm on the net is a competitor, or an I missing something here?
I didn't look it up, but this is intriguing in a "Hey, where'd that go???" sort of way. So what happened?
I'm the guy who rewired his starer/clutch interlock so I can start without pressing in the clutch pedal (while in neutral or in gear) and tweaked some crap so I can use high-beams and OEM fog lamps at the same time...so I don't see this lasting in my vehicle for long anyway
Signed,
the rock crawling, fat knubby tire, off camber driving, lifted Jeep Wrangler driving nut-case
A nanotube coil antenna???
I'm just wondering how cost effective something like this is, given that many games involve what amounts to a number of days, if not weeks of gameplay. Another example of people legislating that which they do not understand.
Right, because drugs kill and everyone runs from those(ecstasy is a great example). Driving is one of the most dangerous things you can do...but you still drive everywhere. Being in the mob is dangerous, or a bookie, drug dealer, human trafficking, the list goes on. All an order of magnitude more dangerous than simple spamming...with a hell of a lot more 9mm shots to the head. All still wildly popular.
Yeah, that'll work.
I'm going to guess you have never used a Toughbook. Swapping the HDD is as easy as swapping the battery. We have about 300 of these at work, spares on the shelf. If the screen dies on you then you go in, pull the HDD and battery, turn in the old shell and get a new one. (CF-29 in an industrial environment: all of our tech data is on the toughbooks, and work is updated live via a scheduled wireless database sync.)
And exactly how is a "sniper" going to know your max bid? If the auction is at 8.50 and your max was bid was 12 and the sniper bid 15 or even 50 s/he had no idea what your max bid was. Snipers simply put in their max bid at the end of the auction. eBay is the one that increments the bid 50c, not the sniper. If a sniper made that max bid early...then you would have bid up to 12 anyway and would have stopped, and the auction would have still ended at 12.50. Better yet, you may have been caught the fever and paid 20 for the item instead...would that be ok?
As for getting a great deal on eBay: that is a myth my friend, it just happens that on eBay the market value for products is only slightly lower that retail. You can thank the wholesalers for that, as they sell to every Tom, Dick and Harry.
As as aside, when on eBay I typically purchase from individuals (easy to figure out based on feedback, better "deals" and better customer service) or I contact sellers/view their website/do the appropriate research when it is a company involved. Additionally, I don't often buy common, everyday items on eBay, so I don't often have to deal with getting sniped.
You use the appropriate tools for the job. I am a photographer (mostly hobby, some income) and know that battle. There is no single solution. Make a decision for organization at the directory/file level (you don't have much of a choice, that is the way systems store data) and use something else to if you want to view them in a different way.
Personally, I organize my images into directories based on subject (family, friends, bugs, flowers, landscape...with the exception of macro, which is a subset all its own) and if I want to go mucking through them using tags (labels, whatever) I open up Picasa (choose software to suit your taste).
If I need to go through all my RAW images I use the stuff that came with the camera. If I want to view images that are primarily some particular color, I have stuff for that. If I want to view landscapes, I open the landscape directory.
The computer is merely a tool; you have to decide how to use it. That is, unless you are simply a true-blue American consumer waiting for the companies to TELL YOU how to organize your images (listen to your music, watch your movies, surf the 'net, drive your car (get driven by your car???)....
Uh, if they can reprogram my phone by clicking a few buttons in a service center, what makes you think they can't enable the mic while the system is "off" because, quite honestly, a phone isn't off unless power, the battery, is removed. Many phones have an internal battery, though I don't see them lasting long while transmitting on cell freqs. Of course, with as much memory as cellular phones have now, who says it has to transmit live? It would be transparent if it recorded while "off" and uploaded the sound files when the memory space became full. This is completely possible.
So why can't they use one inch drives for this instead of flash...I've had a Hitachi 2GB microdrive since they hit the market...I use it for music in my PDA, I use it in my digital camera (Canon 20D), anywhere I can stick a CF card...and the thing can take a beating, even washed it once (oops!)...still no bad sectors, (fairly) easy to format for different uses. So maybe they are a touch slower than flash, they use almost no juice...and the lifespan would be well worth it.
I actually did this...go to your nearest home improvement warehouse (Lowes, Home Depot) and get a can of the crap used to rubber coat tool handles and stuff....just dip it in and let it dry...works great.
I've been curious about using a portable media player and dumping to it when I can't/won't take my PDA or laptop. I don't have a shortage of CF cards and image review when I have a few minutes can't be beat on my PDA or laptop. I only have one photo-buddy that uses one (20gb media player, a Zen) and it can't do much in the way of reviewing compared even to my camera (10x zoom on the LCD). How do you like using the Zen player? Do you use it to review on the go or just as temporary storage? I'm looking for a good solid opinion and I really appreciate your time if you have it.
/., and I'm not sure what your type of use is, but by the time you need(/want?) to replace that G3 there is going to be some neat stuff out there in the sensor department...which is why I haven't moved on from my 20d. (insert generic Nikon bashing here)
I'm sure you keep up on industry trends, especially since you can be found on
Linux support is lacking, I gave up a while back and do all the printing through winxp. (I make some money off my photographs so certain tools are a must.) The GIMPrint (CUPS) toy that is available isn't quite up to the task...yet.
As far as your camera acting as a mass storage device, that may be you. (Don't shoot over a bad assumption, I don't know you so I'm just pointing this out.) Most Canon cameras have two usb device modes: "normal" and "PTP" or similar. "Normal" mode is friendly to the Canon software. The problem is that in PTP mode RAW files can be elusive (model dependant.) My 20d plays nice in both modes, but I shoot mostly in RAW so the Canon software is a must *for me*. Double-check your manual on this issue, or play around in the menu. I'm no expert, but I recommend Canon to anyone who asks and that issue usually comes up the first time they try to get the images off the camera. I point them to the menu, an item labeled "USB Settings" or "Communication." I have yet to come across any models (production in the last 2-ish years) that don't have that option. YMMV.
And yes, Ubuntu sees my 20d fine in PTP mode. I haven't tried it on any other distro, but I would expect the same. Support is flaky when virtualization is involved, I assume on the camera's end.
Which is why I use Canon...they maybe just as "evil" as HP, but the printers (and cameras, etc) are awesome. Really, I can print BIG with my Canon i9900 and the quality, after hundreds of 13x19 prints and countless smaller prints (mostly 8x10) is simply amazing...it has never misfed. All of my Canon printers are just as good, albeit a few generations older. Of course, at $500 for a printer (i9900 retail when it came out) it had better be damn good.