Comment Re:Shoddy gadgets from another cheapish country? (Score 1) 378
I lived in Baltimore. They usually made things worse, especially during the morning rush.
Comment Dear Steve (Score 1) 670
AT&T has made you look like a chump. Apple, certainly, but you personally as well. You gonna let them do that and not react to it? A competitor to AT&T for the iPad and iPhone might take the starch out of their shorts. Think about it.
Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256
NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"
Comment Re:Good thing (Score 3, Insightful) 372
So use another distro if you object.
Comment Kill. it. with. fire. (Score 0) 67
Die. Die. Die.
Comment Or earlier (Score 1) 507
Lotus 1-2-3 has an unassailable market position! Now please insert the master license disk from your copy of 1-2-3 and Press Any Key to Continue...
Comment IE7 - yes (Score 1) 512
We can't upgrade large parts of our corporate network to IE8 because SAP and Hyperion - two very important tools - have told us they won't be supporting IE8 for a few months. In general, I think you should support the latest and the version just before that.
Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 5, Insightful) 178
Not really. fewer ads in a Hulu broadcast might be worth more as far as the depth of impression made. If you watch "Accidentally on Purpose" on TV, you might watch it because you like Jenna Elfman and think the show is funny. Or, you might just happen to be killing time between "How I Met Your Mother" and "The Big Bang Theory". Neilsen can't tell.
If, however, you watch Accidentally on Purpose on Hulu, it's because you want to watch Accidentally on Purpose. The ads that are targeted to that crowd are more narrowly and more properly targeted to you the Hulu viewer and shoudl be be more valuable per impression.
If, however, you watch Accidentally on Purpose on Hulu, it's because you want to watch Accidentally on Purpose. The ads that are targeted to that crowd are more narrowly and more properly targeted to you the Hulu viewer and shoudl be be more valuable per impression.
Comment You tell them then let it go (Score 2, Insightful) 387
Every so often reiterate the policy in writing to them and when they ignore it, they ignore it. It's their funeral.
Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All 269
cremeglace writes with this excerpt from ScienceNOW:
"You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, which they say would be a fantastic discovery. Some doomsayers fear those black holes might gobble up the Earth — physicists say that's impossible — and have petitioned the United Nations to stop the $5.5 billion LHC. Curiously, though, nobody had ever shown that the prevailing theory of gravity, Einstein's theory of general relativity, actually predicts that a black hole can be made this way. Now a computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole."
That said, they estimate the required energy for creating a black hole this way to be roughly "a quintillion times higher than the LHC's maximum"; though if one of the theories requiring compact extra dimensions is true, the energy could be lower.
Comment How many are FSO (desktop support) beyond the hd? (Score 1) 837
Because by my lights (and I run It for 1/3 of a big big company), you're hella overstaffed unless a lot of those people are developers.
And say hell no to the uniform shirts. You shouldn't be cohesive with your IT team (well, you should, but)- you should be cohesive with the business unit. Anything that separates you from the biz makes you appear more severable from the core of the company.
And say hell no to the uniform shirts. You shouldn't be cohesive with your IT team (well, you should, but)- you should be cohesive with the business unit. Anything that separates you from the biz makes you appear more severable from the core of the company.
Comment Look up "accurate" (Score 1) 1146
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Hint - accurate != exact.
Comment PRNDL is dead (Score 1) 609
All new cars with come with WASD navigation.
Comment Re:Doom (Score 2, Informative) 427
Not to mention Wolfenstein.
Comment Re:OMG The Price Of Freedom! (Score 1) 320
Of course there was also the Cole and the embassies in Africa. And the first WTC attack. No reason to overreact either direction.
