I'm in NH also... I never really cared much for the old man, I mean it was kind of an interesting thing to look at and I'd occasionally bring friends from out of state to see it if we happened to be going through the area where it was located.
It didn't make me sad at all when it fell, I actually laughed because the state put that image on everything, coins, badges, logos, anything state related had the tied old man on it. Now they have to be a bit more creative when thinking up new state symbols. The face was slowly sliding apart for YEARS before it fell, there was a small crew that would add hooks and cables to the damn thing every year to keep it from sliding off, really it was just postponing the inevitable.
Personally I like NH, the cost of living is relatively cheap, taxes are some of the lowest in the country, and the state politics (while no where near perfect) are a lot more pleasing than nearly all the other states out there IMO.
I think the proposed glass replacement is a great idea I'd like to see more modern architecture here in the state, a visitors center would be good for tourism and a glass replacement would make the face look like a ghost, certainly better than the shapeless lump that sits up there now. I don't know why people would oppose this for ascetic or historical reasons, I mean it's not like the the old face will grow back. If you wait much longer people will forget the damn thing even existed, honestly I hadn't even thought about it for years until I saw this article.
I can see that, I hate absolute silence, I code best when I'm listening to music, anything really. At home it's usually some kind of techno, but at work I'm not allowed to listen to music at all.
Interestingly enough my most productive week at my job ever was when I stayed to work while the company was shut down for construction, the construction noises combined with some FM radio, comfortable clothes and no distractions from chatty co-workers was the perfect storm for getting work done quickly and effectively.
that's easy to fix... you just need to have the nightly news do an expose on how incompetent the big name AV softwares are... all you need to do is find a news personality that people trust and is smart enough to pull it of.... hmmm maybe it's not so easy.
I got my foot in the door in a similar manor, I had taken a few small entry level courses in C and C++ while in college by my Degree was in Mechanical Engineering. The company that hired me was looking for someone who could write Engineering and CAD related applications and serve as a liaison between the IT and Engineering department. These days 99% of my job is programming and DBA in languages that I have no formal training in... but I've got 5 years experience under my belt now so if I need another job I've got a fairly wide skill set.
I've never used that "feature" in Linux but when I set my work laptop to hybernate instead of shut down... it does just what you described... all apps open in the same place they were before.
I don't think I've done a "real" reboot of any of my XP machines in months...
Yes a local Fox station clearly shows Firefox. The OS is not shown.
oh no! don't say that! slashdot's readship will be more than halved as all those who hate Fox News but love Firefox will suffer from exploding head syndrome.
Seriously I find that poor packing of expensive items occurs far more frequently than tiny items in massive boxes.
Consider the $90 Limited Edition video game in the metal case that gets thrown in either a padded bag or a mostly empty box with a few sheet of advertising flash and a partially-inflated bag. By the time it reaches my hands it's a goddamn miracle if it doesn't have any dents or scratches.
The bigger problem is not being able to SEE the use product before your buy it...
If I'm looking for a game and I walk into Gamestop and see they have 2 used copies, 1 looks like it just came out of the shrink wrap and the other looks like a dog chewed up and pissed on the case before completely devouring the manual, they're the same price, guess which one I'm buying?
Amazon.com has the same 2 games for sale, except all I see is a stock image, guess which one I'm buying?... who knows it's a crap shoot. oh yeah, AND I'm paying more AND I have to pay for shipping AND I have to wait for it to arrive. Guess what happens if the disc in the former chew toy doesn't work because it's scratched to crap... yup I've got to ship it back and wait even longer.
I hate gamestop, I hate their business practices, I hate how they trash they open new games for "security" which also conveniently devalues them when sitting next to the $5 cheaper "used" copy. and I hate how they constantly shove their "trade in" consensual rape program down your throat.
I still shop there though, because I like Collector's Edition games and they somehow managed to convince publisher to give them exclusive sale rights to most of them, that and they're the ONLY game store within 30 miles of me besides Walmart... and Walmart isn't much better for those looking for their merchandise with a side of morality. Beyond that I can shop online, but then we get back to the crap-shoot that is stock images.
I really hope Amazon does encourage GameStop to improve their practices... though I don't see it happening.
I completely agree, another thing to consider is the market he's comparing it to. digitally distributed media took off in the Music world because most people wanted to take their music with them wherever they went. (portables aside) I don't know how much benefit there is to keeping your game collection in your pocket, actually digital distribution works out AGAINST convenience in some regards in that if I download the latest Street Fighter, then I can't take the game with me to my friends house to play it there, at least with an Ipod it's easy enough to bring my player along with my collection, but hauling a PS3, 360 or desktop PC isn't close convenient.
Some of my college friends decided to make a CSI drinking game where you'd simply drink whenever they used or referred to a technology that didn't actually exist, or simply got their science wrong.
They had to quit half way through the first episode for health reasons.
We really need some reward system for companies and government who follow good ethics, and stop bad ethics in their company early and deal with it responsibility
That's easy... start an ethic certification process... similar to the ISO certifications...
The company develops an ethics plan then pays you thousands to audit and certify them.
If you play your cards right no one will want to be stuck doing business with a company that isn't certifiably ethical, nor will consumers want to buy from one... and you'll get rich in the process.
In some places the laws are lax... or they exempt imports because the probability of encountering a vehicle originally sold in a country that drives on the other side of the road is slim. About the only thing you can do is adjust the beams way down but then you're sacrificing your visibility overall (which is illegal most places but rarely noticed).
In the USA if you import a vehicle from a RHD country then you must either replace the headlights or have them converted to the proper beam pattern... More Info
this has nothing to do with the adjustment and everything to do with the way the reflectors inside the head light are designed.
Beam patterns are like this
LHD = ___/```````
RHD = ```````\____
Both lights have the same pattern, so even if one headlight was out it would project this pattern. It doesn't matter where the signs are where you live... all headlights are designed this way.
Go import some replacement headlights for your car off of a similar Japanese Domestic model... no amount of adjusting will correct this and I doubt the other motorists (or law enforcement) would be very happy about the change.
No, it doesn't. You don't need to convert your car (or add any converters to the car) in order to drive in the left lane
Actually you would... if for no other reason than the beam patterns on headlights are angled such that they illuminate high towards the non traffic side of the road to help read signs and they illuminate low towards the on-coming traffic side of the road to prevent you from blinding oncoming traffic.
without replacing your head lights to a set that emits the proper beam pattern during night driving you'd be unable to read signs on the side of the road, and you would be blinding (not to mention blinded by) oncoming traffic.
As someone who maintains several large forums on nearly all of the major forum software I'd stay away from phpbb... it's got a lot of security issues and the administration features are really lacking when compared to the other players.
If you're using it on a intranet server for business collaboration then it'd be fine but as far as putting it on the web, I'd avoid it. I actually just migrated the two phpbb forums I had to vB.
SMF is the other major open source contender and it does somethings better and other things worse than phpbb... I'm still using it for one of my forums but thats only because part of the point of the site is that it's 100% open source so...
Really IPB and vB are both better choices but neither are free. Interesting enough they both USED to be free. It seems that in the forum world once they reach a certain level of usefulness they close those doors and start collecting license fees.
while entertaining, it does point out some interesting perspective about WHY Linux doesn't have the kind of adoption that most of us would like to see.
How does the typical windows user feel and what goes through their head when they step out of their comfort zone and attempt to install Linux, or migrate to Mac? Even a user who thinks they know what they're doing enough to install Windows?
I'm not saying I have a solution, but it IS a problem, and not one that looks to be getting any better as time goes on.
a phone captcha would be annoying and probably easier to beat than text captchas. I have a hard enough time understanding foreign tech support personal nevermind things that are intentionally difficult to understand.
You want to know what works better than anything else and will guarantee to get rid of all your spam calls?
Tell them you're on a cellphone... it's that simple. The way the laws are setup they can spam you all they want as long as it isn't costing you money, it doesn't technically cost you anything to receive junk mail nor does it technically cost you anything to receive a call on a lan line... it DOES cost you to receive a call on your cellphone, so it's off limits less they want to pay you for it.
A typical conversation if I get a RARE telemarketer call... them: "do you have a few minutes to consider an offer concerning X"... me: "that depends, are you going to pay me for this call?"... them: "..." me: "this is a cell phone, this call costs me money"... them:"I'm sorry we will not call this number again." CLICK
The beauty of it is that with all the phone tech that rings in the office first and transfers to your cell... and the ability to have your number moved from a LAN line to a cell phone means that you can just LIE to them on a LAN line and tell them it's a Cell...
I've never registered for the DNC list but I started telling all the telemarketers I'm using a cell, even when I'm not and I want to say it's been a good 6+ months now since I've received an unwarranted call from anyone.
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I'm in NH also... I never really cared much for the old man, I mean it was kind of an interesting thing to look at and I'd occasionally bring friends from out of state to see it if we happened to be going through the area where it was located.
It didn't make me sad at all when it fell, I actually laughed because the state put that image on everything, coins, badges, logos, anything state related had the tied old man on it. Now they have to be a bit more creative when thinking up new state symbols. The face was slowly sliding apart for YEARS before it fell, there was a small crew that would add hooks and cables to the damn thing every year to keep it from sliding off, really it was just postponing the inevitable.
Personally I like NH, the cost of living is relatively cheap, taxes are some of the lowest in the country, and the state politics (while no where near perfect) are a lot more pleasing than nearly all the other states out there IMO.
I think the proposed glass replacement is a great idea I'd like to see more modern architecture here in the state, a visitors center would be good for tourism and a glass replacement would make the face look like a ghost, certainly better than the shapeless lump that sits up there now. I don't know why people would oppose this for ascetic or historical reasons, I mean it's not like the the old face will grow back. If you wait much longer people will forget the damn thing even existed, honestly I hadn't even thought about it for years until I saw this article.
I'd love to start a site cross-eyed 3D porn... just because that would be hilarious....
You mean like this
I can see that, I hate absolute silence, I code best when I'm listening to music, anything really. At home it's usually some kind of techno, but at work I'm not allowed to listen to music at all.
Interestingly enough my most productive week at my job ever was when I stayed to work while the company was shut down for construction, the construction noises combined with some FM radio, comfortable clothes and no distractions from chatty co-workers was the perfect storm for getting work done quickly and effectively.
that's easy to fix... you just need to have the nightly news do an expose on how incompetent the big name AV softwares are... all you need to do is find a news personality that people trust and is smart enough to pull it of.... hmmm maybe it's not so easy.
I prefer the TI-89 personally
too true... DSM FTL
periods are scary... in space
hmm that made me thing... what about registering .www
.www TLD and make an army of backward domains
you could have a whole army of backwards domains like
moc.elgoog.www
Step 1: register the
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
I got my foot in the door in a similar manor, I had taken a few small entry level courses in C and C++ while in college by my Degree was in Mechanical Engineering. The company that hired me was looking for someone who could write Engineering and CAD related applications and serve as a liaison between the IT and Engineering department. These days 99% of my job is programming and DBA in languages that I have no formal training in... but I've got 5 years experience under my belt now so if I need another job I've got a fairly wide skill set.
I've never used that "feature" in Linux but when I set my work laptop to hybernate instead of shut down... it does just what you described... all apps open in the same place they were before. I don't think I've done a "real" reboot of any of my XP machines in months...
oh no! don't say that! slashdot's readship will be more than halved as all those who hate Fox News but love Firefox will suffer from exploding head syndrome.
Seriously I find that poor packing of expensive items occurs far more frequently than tiny items in massive boxes.
Consider the $90 Limited Edition video game in the metal case that gets thrown in either a padded bag or a mostly empty box with a few sheet of advertising flash and a partially-inflated bag. By the time it reaches my hands it's a goddamn miracle if it doesn't have any dents or scratches.
I apologize for that mess, I'm tired and I should have proof-read before clicking submit... color me ashamed.
The bigger problem is not being able to SEE the use product before your buy it...
... who knows it's a crap shoot. oh yeah, AND I'm paying more AND I have to pay for shipping AND I have to wait for it to arrive. Guess what happens if the disc in the former chew toy doesn't work because it's scratched to crap... yup I've got to ship it back and wait even longer.
If I'm looking for a game and I walk into Gamestop and see they have 2 used copies, 1 looks like it just came out of the shrink wrap and the other looks like a dog chewed up and pissed on the case before completely devouring the manual, they're the same price, guess which one I'm buying?
Amazon.com has the same 2 games for sale, except all I see is a stock image, guess which one I'm buying?
I hate gamestop, I hate their business practices, I hate how they trash they open new games for "security" which also conveniently devalues them when sitting next to the $5 cheaper "used" copy. and I hate how they constantly shove their "trade in" consensual rape program down your throat.
I still shop there though, because I like Collector's Edition games and they somehow managed to convince publisher to give them exclusive sale rights to most of them, that and they're the ONLY game store within 30 miles of me besides Walmart... and Walmart isn't much better for those looking for their merchandise with a side of morality. Beyond that I can shop online, but then we get back to the crap-shoot that is stock images.
I really hope Amazon does encourage GameStop to improve their practices... though I don't see it happening.
I completely agree, another thing to consider is the market he's comparing it to. digitally distributed media took off in the Music world because most people wanted to take their music with them wherever they went. (portables aside) I don't know how much benefit there is to keeping your game collection in your pocket, actually digital distribution works out AGAINST convenience in some regards in that if I download the latest Street Fighter, then I can't take the game with me to my friends house to play it there, at least with an Ipod it's easy enough to bring my player along with my collection, but hauling a PS3, 360 or desktop PC isn't close convenient.
Some of my college friends decided to make a CSI drinking game where you'd simply drink whenever they used or referred to a technology that didn't actually exist, or simply got their science wrong.
They had to quit half way through the first episode for health reasons.
That's easy... start an ethic certification process... similar to the ISO certifications...
The company develops an ethics plan then pays you thousands to audit and certify them.
If you play your cards right no one will want to be stuck doing business with a company that isn't certifiably ethical, nor will consumers want to buy from one... and you'll get rich in the process.
Selling your approval... now THATS Capitalism.
In some places the laws are lax... or they exempt imports because the probability of encountering a vehicle originally sold in a country that drives on the other side of the road is slim. About the only thing you can do is adjust the beams way down but then you're sacrificing your visibility overall (which is illegal most places but rarely noticed).
In the USA if you import a vehicle from a RHD country then you must either replace the headlights or have them converted to the proper beam pattern... More Info
either way the analogy still works
this has nothing to do with the adjustment and everything to do with the way the reflectors inside the head light are designed.
Beam patterns are like this
LHD = ___/```````
RHD = ```````\____
Both lights have the same pattern, so even if one headlight was out it would project this pattern. It doesn't matter where the signs are where you live... all headlights are designed this way.
Go import some replacement headlights for your car off of a similar Japanese Domestic model... no amount of adjusting will correct this and I doubt the other motorists (or law enforcement) would be very happy about the change.
Actually you would... if for no other reason than the beam patterns on headlights are angled such that they illuminate high towards the non traffic side of the road to help read signs and they illuminate low towards the on-coming traffic side of the road to prevent you from blinding oncoming traffic.
without replacing your head lights to a set that emits the proper beam pattern during night driving you'd be unable to read signs on the side of the road, and you would be blinding (not to mention blinded by) oncoming traffic.
WOW. That is VERY different from when I first started using them. Thanks for pointing that out. Looks like I'll be ditching them as well.
As someone who maintains several large forums on nearly all of the major forum software I'd stay away from phpbb... it's got a lot of security issues and the administration features are really lacking when compared to the other players.
If you're using it on a intranet server for business collaboration then it'd be fine but as far as putting it on the web, I'd avoid it. I actually just migrated the two phpbb forums I had to vB.
SMF is the other major open source contender and it does somethings better and other things worse than phpbb... I'm still using it for one of my forums but thats only because part of the point of the site is that it's 100% open source so...
Really IPB and vB are both better choices but neither are free. Interesting enough they both USED to be free. It seems that in the forum world once they reach a certain level of usefulness they close those doors and start collecting license fees.
while entertaining, it does point out some interesting perspective about WHY Linux doesn't have the kind of adoption that most of us would like to see.
How does the typical windows user feel and what goes through their head when they step out of their comfort zone and attempt to install Linux, or migrate to Mac? Even a user who thinks they know what they're doing enough to install Windows?
I'm not saying I have a solution, but it IS a problem, and not one that looks to be getting any better as time goes on.
a phone captcha would be annoying and probably easier to beat than text captchas. I have a hard enough time understanding foreign tech support personal nevermind things that are intentionally difficult to understand.
You want to know what works better than anything else and will guarantee to get rid of all your spam calls?
Tell them you're on a cellphone... it's that simple. The way the laws are setup they can spam you all they want as long as it isn't costing you money, it doesn't technically cost you anything to receive junk mail nor does it technically cost you anything to receive a call on a lan line... it DOES cost you to receive a call on your cellphone, so it's off limits less they want to pay you for it.
A typical conversation if I get a RARE telemarketer call... them: "do you have a few minutes to consider an offer concerning X"... me: "that depends, are you going to pay me for this call?"... them: "..." me: "this is a cell phone, this call costs me money"... them:"I'm sorry we will not call this number again." CLICK
The beauty of it is that with all the phone tech that rings in the office first and transfers to your cell... and the ability to have your number moved from a LAN line to a cell phone means that you can just LIE to them on a LAN line and tell them it's a Cell...
I've never registered for the DNC list but I started telling all the telemarketers I'm using a cell, even when I'm not and I want to say it's been a good 6+ months now since I've received an unwarranted call from anyone.