Dude, the picture is stamped "Worth100", the famously (or apparently not) site for Photoshop manipulation. That's about the worst evidence you could post for any purpose other than Photoshop manipulation.
I think I was the only guy who bought an Apple III; it had 5 meg hard drive that sat between the box and the monitor - meaning that the drive was as wide as the monitor.
So that explains the incessant, idiotic "tests of the emergency broadcast system". As if the recipient can't recognize an emergency among the always-on, in-your-face nature of the media.
This summer, Congress will conduct hearings on the massive waste and fraud in the program surrounding scores of bogus vendors each selling tens of thousands of fictitious boxes, all with "valid" coupons.
My keyboard of choice for a long time has been the Microsoft Office keyboard, which has a tab key above the 7 on the number pad, and an '=' above that. Very handy for Excel
Problem is, all the new Intellitouch software doesn't support that keyboard anymore (why God knows), and the old driver that does (2.11?) goes flaky on my installation of XP.
Will other keyboard software allow wide-ranging substitutions that I can duplicate this functionality?
Actually, I think we'd be an even deeper mess. Let's face it, the only activity left in our "economy" is borrowing money against the value of our assets and spending it. Tax - and therefore discourage - consumption, and the economy will drop yet further. Until the value of the dollar drops enough that imports are painfully expensive and we can manufacture/export again, there's nothing left for us to do.
And I am appalled at your naivete. Learning to use a computer is equivalent to learning to read, write and do arithmetic. Forcing the child to be a Perl programmer may better fit your apprehensions, but there are honest and worthwhile motivations for showing the child a whole new stimulus-response environment. Showing him how to paint his own pictures on the screen is not teaching him be "just like Daddy" but rather to learn how input devices can be manipulated. Then later, when he's taught how to use the computer in a school environment, he will be well-prepared to learn.
He can learn more than you think. The first one I think of is the simple concept of how moving the mouse moves the cursor on the screen and by how much (that's what m$ Solitaire was for, originally).
When he's older, these skills will be a given as he works on higher concepts while the everything-is-fresh crowd is still mastering the keyboard.
As usual, its the software that drives the hardware and not the other way around. I don't expect you or anyone to hand over the computer and walk off. But you can and should use the computer as joint play-time. There's always M$ Paint for starters, and Fisher-Price has a resource-intensive keyboard that duplicates the paint program so he can use a stylus to draw, paint, spray, etc. on a drawing pad on the keyboard itself that shows up on the screen. Then there's the ancient but fun Putt-putt games if he's ready for some "I need the hammer so I can trade for the key" search-and-fetch type games.
And of course, get a tiny notebook type mouse for his little hand.
The idea sounds good, but an Association can't afford to run the wires for existing homes, and for new homes, the developers will use it as a new income stream, by creating their own neighborhood network and making their private cash cow with high rates as a part Association Dues (so no opt-out) with a LONG-term contract that can't be broken.
Or, more likely, it'll never be seen again near the station. Even after one day, the bag is already 2.5 miles in front, either due to the extra velocity imparted by moving the bag "out of the way" or imparted by the exploding grease gun.
I'm suffering through the same thing with scammers using my direct office line, although it's not as bad as this guy's mother - about 5-10 calls a week.
About all I can do is have a nice conversation with the caller, explain the situation, and ask them to talk with the scammer next time and find out who they are. I volunteer that I have some employees in Afghanistan who, in exchange for a ticket home, will be happy to pay the bastards a visit.
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Dude, the picture is stamped "Worth100", the famously (or apparently not) site for Photoshop manipulation. That's about the worst evidence you could post for any purpose other than Photoshop manipulation.
Because this is Slashdot, and the story is amusing all by its lonesome. We can debate its authenticity and ridicule the poor sap.
I think I was the only guy who bought an Apple III; it had 5 meg hard drive that sat between the box and the monitor - meaning that the drive was as wide as the monitor.
Because if you're caught doing so, it's no longer a civil case, but fraud upon the court, as in a felony case?
So that explains the incessant, idiotic "tests of the emergency broadcast system". As if the recipient can't recognize an emergency among the always-on, in-your-face nature of the media.
Pulling the first one from the phone books is probably not a good way to proceed.
This just in: the Dept of Defense has categorized the iPod Touch as munitions and therefore cannot be exported without a DoD license.
This summer, Congress will conduct hearings on the massive waste and fraud in the program surrounding scores of bogus vendors each selling tens of thousands of fictitious boxes, all with "valid" coupons.
Problem is, all the new Intellitouch software doesn't support that keyboard anymore (why God knows), and the old driver that does (2.11?) goes flaky on my installation of XP.
Will other keyboard software allow wide-ranging substitutions that I can duplicate this functionality?
Actually, I think we'd be an even deeper mess. Let's face it, the only activity left in our "economy" is borrowing money against the value of our assets and spending it. Tax - and therefore discourage - consumption, and the economy will drop yet further. Until the value of the dollar drops enough that imports are painfully expensive and we can manufacture/export again, there's nothing left for us to do.
And I am appalled at your naivete. Learning to use a computer is equivalent to learning to read, write and do arithmetic. Forcing the child to be a Perl programmer may better fit your apprehensions, but there are honest and worthwhile motivations for showing the child a whole new stimulus-response environment. Showing him how to paint his own pictures on the screen is not teaching him be "just like Daddy" but rather to learn how input devices can be manipulated. Then later, when he's taught how to use the computer in a school environment, he will be well-prepared to learn.
When he's older, these skills will be a given as he works on higher concepts while the everything-is-fresh crowd is still mastering the keyboard.
And of course, get a tiny notebook type mouse for his little hand.
See for example: http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2007/may/21/suburbs-locked-high-tech-lure/
Or, more likely, it'll never be seen again near the station. Even after one day, the bag is already 2.5 miles in front, either due to the extra velocity imparted by moving the bag "out of the way" or imparted by the exploding grease gun.
I found out my old girlfriend's married name through Classmates.com! Now I can start stalking her....
Perhaps, but maybe that's where innate fear of certain predators originates.
Yeah, unlike us, I'll bet CmdrTaco has page-view counts to rely on....
My conspiracy theory goes like this:
October - Halloween candy.
December - Christmas candy.
February - Valentines candy.
April - Easter candy.
June - no holiday yet
August - no holiday yet.
I figure the sugar powers-that-be are working on filling in the two missing slots.
Yeah, but I'm disappointed NASA didn't post a picture big enough to use as a desktop.
About all I can do is have a nice conversation with the caller, explain the situation, and ask them to talk with the scammer next time and find out who they are. I volunteer that I have some employees in Afghanistan who, in exchange for a ticket home, will be happy to pay the bastards a visit.
Pairing a black hole with light bulbs seems contradictory to boot.
They drank too much kool-aid I'm afraid....
We've gone from destroying food to make fuel to destroying water to make fuel.
Isn't pure water also an insulator? Wouldn't that work as well?
I also wonder about any impurities that are suspended in the water and what those might do once the water leaves/evaporates....