Comment Wow (Score 1) 25
8 comments already, and not one of them mentioning anything about who this add is actually for. I'd have thought /. would have had something to say about Carly
I'm shocked and amazed.
I concur. We had VoIP in Michigan, through Wide Open West. I wish they were around here, never had any real complaints with the service. To the UPS comment, I doubly concur. Back in 2005, I was trying to apply for the job I currently have. I needed to fax/email my application up to River Falls, WI. Naturally, the power died. I happened to have a small UPS handy, but the battery was dead. Time to yank the battery out of my Jetta. It was enough to power the laptop, cable modem/VoIP box, and a small switch for quite some time while I finished stuff off and sent it up.
To be fair, I would probably have needed to power all of the above with a land line too, substitute DSL box for cable modem. Still was kinda fun assembling everything, in a geeky kind of way. Made an impression with the HR lady I was working with.
BTW, the job I was applying for was Systems Admin., so the above was one bonus way of showing my troubleshooting skills.
Actually they get their new stories via their Blackberry's.
Their Blackberry's what? Enquiring minds want to know...
My dad had one of these as well. I can't believe the hell that thing went through.
In the mid-late 80's, my brother took it for a spin and crashed it. Dad took his welding torch, cut off the bent fender metal, and drove it home. Without coolant. Only a couple of miles, but still.
Decided to rebuilding the engine while he worked on repairing the Suburban. The thing had an inch or more of oil/crud caked on inside. Cleaned it all up, it ran fine. Some time later, he ended up selling it to an acquaintance, for the engine.
I miss that thing.
Just wow. If I understood the german in one of the related videos correctly, each vehicle (car, truck, etc.) took around a week of work to complete. The various LEDs are all individually functional, for instance turn signals, break lights, and cabin lights. They use fairly simple steering control, just a wire under the road that a magnet attached to the front wheels follows. However, all else is controlled by a central computer sending instructions to the microcontrollers on each vehicle.
More interesting tidbits from the one video: automatic battery recharging for each vehicle, cycling between day and night in various sections, including turning on vehicle and street lights, building fires with smoke that get attended to by fire trucks, a car accident scene complete with police and what looks like the Thing holding up the front of a car.
I swear, the next time I'm in Germany, I have to look this place up. It would do any
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Unable to translate time zones?
Fine. I did a Google search for time zones. Took the first link it returned http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Sorted by country. Berlin, DE is currently at 2:09 AM. New York is currently at 8:09 PM. So, 6 hours difference. Add 6 hours to NY's 04:00, you get 10:00 AM. Or, get your but out there NOW!
Or, in an Austrian accent, F and U.
OK, so OCR it, or just plain re-type it. If it's this important/restrictive/whatever, what's an hour or two of typing?
Subject really says it all.
A minor addition would be 'hide the valuable item under the seat' or some such.
I know wrestling shoes are quite light, as well as relatively thin, especially compared to running, or just about any other shoes. Have you tried those?
Welcome to Digital World. My wife is an archivist and family historian, and has been worried about similar things for years now. All of the digital cameras, digital documents, digital whatever are not being backed up in an archives safe manner. We will lose a large part of our personal as well as business history because of things not being backed up.
We both work a the local University, me in IT, she in Archives. I personally know of no plans to do anything about all of the syllabi, meeting minutes, and who knows what else that are not being stored somewhere. People don't bother to keep printed copies because it's on the computer. People delete things because "somebody has a printed copy somewhere", that gets tossed a year from now.
Yes, we will lose a generation or more of our history if we don't figure out good, open source (or at least well documented) means of storing things now. we already have, I'm sure.
As a parent of a 14-month old, I'd suggest just BEFORE the nap...
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -- H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
Wow, the motd is just too appropriate on this one...
Wait, advertisements?
Byte your tongue.
