Meanwhile, the tea drinkers have been sitting back all of these years laughing at the coffee complaints... Plus, the tea guys get to drink theirs with chopsticks...
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/f...
I'm willing to bet that the coffee guys finally got fed up which is why the espresso machine... (grin)
Yeah, but . .
Are there any Windows Administrators out there with I.Q.'s > 90 that knowingly and intentionally leave ports 137, 138, 139 and/or 445 open to the Intartubes?
If your Windows Admins are managing your firewalls, then you are in trouble... Usually it's either the network engineers or firewall Admins.
This has been a non-issue for the simple fact that no one opens these ports to the Internet...
Yeah, a friend of mine read the entire series and uses it to drop spoilers as punishment when someone insults him. Having read the series myself I am naturally immune.
He hasn't read the entire series as the last two books aren't out yet. In fact, the show is supposed to move beyond the published books this season. So you won't have to worry about him throwing out spoilers any more. Feel free to insult him... (evil grin)
Just dig a hole in the back yard and place the USB key or whatever in a water tight container and fill it in. Encrypting it would be a good idea too, just in case the neighbors dog digs it up. For something simple, you could try an otterbox drybox. These are used for kayaking and diving and are waterproof. The only problem might be cracking during the winter. You might want to dig below the frost line or put insulation around it.
Another option would be to get an external shed and store stuff in there in a fire safe.
I entended my phone's battery life, and its speed and responsiveness, by uninstalling or disabling all (almost) the apps that have background processes always in execution. See under Settings -> Applications -> Running. You should really invest some time for finding alternative apps that don't rely on background processes for ads and the like, or recognize you don't need them installed all the time.
By trial and errors, you may find that it's only one or two apps that occupy the most resources. I suspect some programmers don't really know what "background" means. For me it totally was a weather app, shipping with the phone.
Most people who have large battery drainage on their cell phones have processes running the background. A lot of people do not know how to close browser pages and apps (i.e. swiping them off the screen).
Too much blind guessing. Here's the correct answer.
The error everyone makes in assuming that because it's bad for heart disease, it's bad for everything.
Obesity is a problem primarily because of cardiovascular reasons, like heart attack and stroke. Otherwise it's loaded with nutrition and calories. This probably explains why "overweight" (though not obese) are the longest-lived segment of society. Thinner people are running more on empty, leading to under-performing immune systems and healing.
That's where I'd start to look anyway.
And on top of all this, high fat content is known to help neurons function in cases with epilepsy, so again it's not a surprise here.
There was also a study of elderly done a while back, I think that it was on 60 minutes, that found that elderly people who were a bit overweight tended to live longer. One of the possible reasons was that when they got sick, injured, etc. they had body reserves that would help them heal and get better.
What is interesting is how alcohol is often seen as part of "college life" but that's exactly the period of your life when you shouldn't be drinking much at all to be able to think clearly.
You, like many others mistakenly believe that the point of college is to get an education. In my estimation (as someone who has been involved with hiring for many different positions) A College degree (even from prestigious schools) is a poor indicator of intelligence, or ability. People who are capable, will learn from whatever source is available (And google is a much better source than all but a handful of professors). People who are not capable of learning on their own *must* go to a university to get an education, but these people make lousy employees, as they can never handle anything outside of the ordinary, and consequently are no better than ditch-diggers. Even the best schools in the world cant teach independent thinking. By the time a person gets to college, they either have it or they never will.
You show me someone who graduated school while attending less than half their classes, and I'll show you someone who will be successful at whatever you give them to do. (This goes double for B.S. degrees).
College is 100% about networking and creating relationships (both personal and professional). To that end, college social activities (including drinking) are an invaluable part of the experience. After all, its not about what you know, its about who you know.
Social interaction is important as is the education aspect, but not even close to 100%, more like 25% (learning people skills), unless you are going to a really good college. One could argue that it's more important in Ivy league schools simply because the vast majority of people who get into Harvard, Yale, etc. are already smart enough and/or rich enough to get a job. The rest is just getting to know people who can help them with their ambitions. However, social interaction itself in other universities is not enough to get your career started.
Yes, if you happen to know Joe or, more likely, his Dad, who works at ABC company and he puts a good word in for you, they are more likely to interview you. However, if you don't have the skills that they are looking for or if you barely passed compared to another graduate that is being interviewed, they are going to dump your ass just as quickly as if you were a nobody.
Over time, once you have job experience, the people that you know becomes more important as they can help advance your career and keep you informed of openings.
So much for reading the actual article....
He has REQUESTED the exams using a Freedom of Information request. They haven't actually given them to him and are very likely going to find a reason not to.
The article says that he is still studying (revising) for the tests because even he doesn't think that his request will succeed.
Who the fuck writes "but keeps revising in likelihood request is denied". That isn't even English.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that is English, and British English at that. Revise is being used in the sense of to study:
reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination.
"students frantically revising for exams"
Perhaps your knowledge of English, is shall we say
It's interesting that the majority of examples of the word "revise" in the Oxford dictionary is to change things. The only exception is when referring to studying for exams, etc. "Revising" is definitely a word that is not used this way in the US or in Canada, where I grew up.
The vast majority are round and have a lip on them. This makes the manhole cover circumference larger than the actual hole and prevents the cover from falling down the hole. A square manhole cover can fall down the hole in the right orientation. In other words, round manhole covers were designed to reduce accidents.
Sewer and drainage grates tend to be square or rectangular. Then again these holes are much shallower and usually do not have ladders.
replacing the drive train is not normal maintenance, as would be replacing the battery in an EV.
Replacing the battery is NOT "normal maintenance", and most EV owners will never need to do it. The Prius battery is warrantied for 150k miles, and many people have driven their cars much further than that, with no problems. These are for batteries made years ago. Battery tech has improved a lot recently, and new batteries being made today should have even longer lifetimes. Future batteries will be even better.
There are two factors to battery life, the first is the number of charge cycles and the second is the age of the battery. Over time the battery pack will lose capacity. For Prius owners, this process would be gradual and they likely wouldn't notice right away simply because the Prius is a hybrid.
I'm willing to bet that an analysis of older Prius vehicles would show that the battery pack has much less capacity that it did as it was new. Does this mean that it "needs" to be replaced? With a hybrid, it's less of a concern. What if it was an EV? I'm willing to bet that most owners would be demanding a battery replacement because their range would have dropped dramatically.
In the case of the Prius, the battery is used within a certain power/speed ranges (up to about 15 mph), then it switches to gas. This means that the battery pack is under much less stress than the battery pack on an EV. So, while a Prius might go more than 150K miles without having to replace the battery, most of that will be using the gas engine and not the battery pack. Plus, since the battery pack is only used during certain situations, a loss of capacity would be relatively minor with the exception of lower gas mileage. For an EV, a loss of capacity would be very noticeable as range would decrease by a lot.
Battery tech has not improved that much over the last 20 years. Yes, we now have Lithium batteries with no memory and advanced charging systems, but the amount of energy that a battery holds hasn't improved much. So, why do tablets, laptops, and phones last much longer? For two reasons, the first is that the electronics have become smaller which allows a bigger battery to be fitted in the same case. The second is that we have learned how to improve the energy efficiency of electronic components. Perhaps there will be battery capacity breakthroughs, but so far we have just seen gradual improvements.
had an idiot reprogram the brake software. Sure he's 'liable' but you're now dead...
On the same front, I've always marveled that anybody can work on their own brakes...and legally drive on the roads. Sure lots of people are more than capable of doing so, but I know you wouldn't want to be in front of me if I had worked on my brakes
I would be comfortable with most people on here changing their brakes. After all, most of us would research the components that are needed and select upgraded parts that work better with our cars, research the process through youtube videos, repair manuals, experts in forums, etc. and then take the time to ensure that everything was completed to specification. We would then test it and make any necessary fixes.
How is that any more scary than the mechanic in the shop, usually the least experienced guy, rushing to get 4 cars out the door on a Friday afternoon?
Most geeks would make excellent mechanics... In fact, most cars are now just rolling computers and thus the EFF efforts...
It killed Tasha Yar.
Also is it just me, or are there a suspicious number of ACs chiming in about how there is only a really tiny sludge lake and Baotou is in fact wonderful? Because I looked on Google maps, there was pretty big sludge lake and the place looks pretty dismal.
Did you zoom in?
I agree that from a high level view it looks pretty barren, but if you zoom out quite a ways you will see that it seems to be an area of China that is quite arid, so you won't see a lot of greenery. They have modern buildings, streets, athletic fields, etc. Zoom in and you can see this.
If you want a comparison, take a look at Phoenix Arizona on the map. It looks pretty barren and ugly too on satellite. One difference is that most home owners in Phoenix landscape around their houses so when you zoom in you see trees, lawns, cacti gardens, etc....
And to be honest, though my hearing is fine I like having the captions (watch it on phone in bed while wife is sleeping).
They made a new invention called earmuffs and you put them on your wife.
Better yet, how about a nice set of 5.1 surround sound headphones. You get a fun new gadget and she gets a good nights sleep... Win-win....
I have a brother that likes to pose convincing, plausible, yet false ideas to otherwise bright people and particularly likes to pick on Mensa members and most of the time he is able to convince them he is correct. I'm not saying that their science is good just what I thought they were proposing.
Most Mensa members are just like everyone else, the only difference is that they can solve puzzles a bit better. It doesn't make then any less susceptible to being conned by a good story.
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