This will be interesting; a gaming class at my college is using spore on its lab machines; which get reimaged regularly, and I hear Spore has to be installed manually after the reimaging due to the bad DRM. I guess they'll only have access to the game for the first few weeks.
I'd love to see the results of removing Junk DNA from a human's genome, and then pump it into an egg and grow it up all normal like and see what kind of walking cancer emerges.
In the year 9595, a race of deformed turkey was genetically developed by chicken scientists as revenge against his bird brother. [...] The chickens became a master race through a freak accident involving radiation, [Junk DNA from a human's genome,] and interestingly enough, to me, marshmallows.
Disk companies have a pretty good idea what their heads and surfaces can do. Do you think they'd be passing up big $$$ by under-utilizing their disk's capacity?
Considering that they purposefully make big $$$ by under-utilizing their disk's capacity, I'd say yes. Different firmware with the same platters (full RAW size of 1TB), and suddenly you have several sizes of drives for different price points while spending only the cost for manufacturing one type of drive. Of course, that might be an urban legend too.
I'm trying to figure out why Dell seems to be the most popular office brand.
I liked them for seemingly pointless reasons:
The serial numbers were always short
You could access the serial numbers from the BIOS in DOS
More than a few parts (fans, power supplies, RAM) used to work across several generations of the same line.
Points 1&2 meant our office could image a machine and have the serial number added to the windows machine name quickly with ghostwalk. No thinking or mistyping; reimage then put in place (or reverse for many installations).
So Protons beat out Omega-sub-b particles as candidates for "Baryon Fission" fuel, assuming that's feasible, since their "quark binding energy" is so much more?
So, mammal immune systems may have been the reason dinosaurs died out; something might be less deadly to the mammals, but they could still spread it to the dinosaurs...
No, I was focused on the obvious differences between www.unit.gov.uk and www.unit.com. One's an obvious UK government site, the other is probably a site where enL4r6e|\/|3N+$ are sold.
"free on conditions including that she have no contact with the repairman or any employee from her ISP."
So she can never quit her service, no matter what they change the rates to? Brilliant!
Why don't the quote tags work in idle? whay is the text box _still_ 22 char wide?
the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers. [...] kids on their way to becoming junior sysadmins, programmers, networking professionals
18 year old kids with three classes from high school don't get any of these jobs unless they work for minimum wage and are prepared to never earn much more. HR almost always requires degrees for professional positions. The 1990's are long gone; you should be preparing these kids for college.
I just tried this, and although hanging up will eject you... if *while in-call*, the phone user navigates to any non-phone app (ie, safari) then hangs up the call, the phone won't re-lock.
I just tried this too; every attempt to navigate to another app while using the phone was met with the password screen. Perhaps it's a firmware difference?
Why the hell dont the laptops have anti virus software?
You're doing it wrong. I'm not even going to post a link to the xkcd cartoon.
The real solution is epoxy in the USB ports, turn off USB mass storage drivers, and confiscation of portable storage from the Astronauts.
could spoof the replies from the various notaries to make them fit the fake cert
Presumably the notaries would have known certs embedded in the popular browsers. It doesn't prevent an evil ISP from spoofing it's customers' servers' certs via all incoming traffic though. Still need CAs.
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This will be interesting; a gaming class at my college is using spore on its lab machines; which get reimaged regularly, and I hear Spore has to be installed manually after the reimaging due to the bad DRM. I guess they'll only have access to the game for the first few weeks.
I'd love to see the results of removing Junk DNA from a human's genome, and then pump it into an egg and grow it up all normal like and see what kind of walking cancer emerges.
In the year 9595, a race of deformed turkey was genetically developed by chicken scientists as revenge against his bird brother. [...] The chickens became a master race through a freak accident involving radiation, [Junk DNA from a human's genome,] and interestingly enough, to me, marshmallows.
Some shredders come to you with portable industrial shredders and let you watch.
How simple is it to destroy 300 HDDs at once? Small companies and individuals are not their clients.
Hard drive physical shredding companies might. Cheaper than some ads.
Disk companies have a pretty good idea what their heads and surfaces can do. Do you think they'd be passing up big $$$ by under-utilizing their disk's capacity?
Considering that they purposefully make big $$$ by under-utilizing their disk's capacity, I'd say yes. Different firmware with the same platters (full RAW size of 1TB), and suddenly you have several sizes of drives for different price points while spending only the cost for manufacturing one type of drive. Of course, that might be an urban legend too.
I'm trying to figure out why Dell seems to be the most popular office brand.
I liked them for seemingly pointless reasons:
Points 1&2 meant our office could image a machine and have the serial number added to the windows machine name quickly with ghostwalk. No thinking or mistyping; reimage then put in place (or reverse for many installations).
probably compressed down to a kilobyte or two.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954031&cid=24879831
With purchase of an expensive laptop.
Protons win again for naturally existing (in our corner of space).
So Protons beat out Omega-sub-b particles as candidates for "Baryon Fission" fuel, assuming that's feasible, since their "quark binding energy" is so much more?
So, mammal immune systems may have been the reason dinosaurs died out; something might be less deadly to the mammals, but they could still spread it to the dinosaurs...
Asian language pedantry: Sayonara is Japanese. You're looking for Zai Jian. 再 見
No, I was focused on the obvious differences between www.unit.gov.uk and www.unit.com. One's an obvious UK government site, the other is probably a site where enL4r6e|\/|3N+$ are sold.
"free on conditions including that she have no contact with the repairman or any employee from her ISP."
So she can never quit her service, no matter what they change the rates to? Brilliant! Why don't the quote tags work in idle? whay is the text box _still_ 22 char wide?
If it didn't use Steam, I'd have bought it; same with HL2, HL2Ep1/2, and Portal. Stupid DRM makes them _lose_ sales, and not just from me.
the third class should prepare juniors and seniors to enter the workforce and start a career in computers. [...] kids on their way to becoming junior sysadmins, programmers, networking professionals
18 year old kids with three classes from high school don't get any of these jobs unless they work for minimum wage and are prepared to never earn much more. HR almost always requires degrees for professional positions. The 1990's are long gone; you should be preparing these kids for college.
Careful what you ask for. You may get a FPS: Gabriel Knight, Loot Patrol
California doesn't drop chunks into an abyss every time the power drops out.
Thankfully not, what with rolling blackouts.
This guy was obviously trying to write the beginning stages of Ubuntu. Thankfully he settled on forking Debian.
I just tried this, and although hanging up will eject you... if *while in-call*, the phone user navigates to any non-phone app (ie, safari) then hangs up the call, the phone won't re-lock.
I just tried this too; every attempt to navigate to another app while using the phone was met with the password screen. Perhaps it's a firmware difference?
Why the hell dont the laptops have anti virus software?
You're doing it wrong. I'm not even going to post a link to the xkcd cartoon.
The real solution is epoxy in the USB ports, turn off USB mass storage drivers, and confiscation of portable storage from the Astronauts.
could spoof the replies from the various notaries to make them fit the fake cert
Presumably the notaries would have known certs embedded in the popular browsers. It doesn't prevent an evil ISP from spoofing it's customers' servers' certs via all incoming traffic though. Still need CAs.
nbcolympics.com used Silverlight, too. Linux doesn't work.
Hmm, I would have interpreted this as "Their IT planning meetings don't work".
Certainly most tech savvy people have at least tried a linux live cd.