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Let's be careful in our definition of "action" here. Remember who you're dealing with! Er, actually, I love the way the opening and credits sequence of "Blade Runner" plays out. From Leon blowing away the first 'runner to finding Deckard on the future-street to the skycar traffic... The whole...

I'm thinking that there might be a business advantage - it'd amount to speculation, but y'all have the money to do it - to get some advantageous mid-term R&D squarely in your pocket. Particularly for the "Wireless" side of things. Owning enough fiber to circle the globe will matter less and...

Please note that at the time I wrote my previous comment, he HADN'T gone into "five posts to reply to one post by The Giver" mode yet.

Redundant OC-192s to an apartment in Griffith, Indiana? Well, that's what *I'd* spend it on. Seriously? I'd probably go shopping for starving startups in silicon valley. I might be a little more generous with wage/benefit increases for my workers . And I'd see what I could pick off of MCI's...

James, when you go to work for KPMG, will you be moving back to a proper hemisphere, or staying down in "So Sunny there's a Hole in the Ozone Layer" Oz?

I was actually was thinking along Flagreen's line. $5B in the bank just seems like too much to have on-hand.

As far as things go, I answer in the affirmative on 86 of the first 108 questions. And no, I didn't have anything better to do this afternoon.

68. You've gone to Comdex just to heckle Bill Gates, but you really want a shot at Ballmer. 69. You know the "other" benefit of attending the Las Vegas Comdex. 70. Your computer has more than one remote control. 71. You've listened to a computer game soundtrack on your home stereo. 72. You get...

57. You need more than one surge protector to power a single computer. 58. You don't turn on the furnace, all winter long. 59. You've used blank CD-Rs or electrical tape in foreplay. 60. This (v3.0) GIT/GMU/GH, s:++, !y**, DI++++, UH/UU++ UV+, P, C+++ !E---, V-, W, w+++, !M---, O--...

47. It is not possible to use a cordless or cellular phone inside your home. 48. You have a 3NF Oracle 9i Personal Edition database running on a java client attached to the terminal in your kitchen, 'cause that's easier than keeping a recipe file. 49. #48 sounds like a good idea, if you haven't...

That sort-of actually happened to me. My apartment complex had a scheduled 12-hour blackout and, shortly after I had shut down all my machines, I got a phone call from my power company asking if I was satisfied with my service. Here's a few more: 26. There are so many UPSes in your home...

11. You walk into your local computer shop/call your local distrubutor, and the first thing they say is: "So it'll be the usual again today?" 12. You have 1.6TB of disk space scattered around the house, it's 90% full, and you're thinking "Where are those damned 200BG drives we've been talking...

Just a historical footnote: The Tannin/Tea image I posted just happens to be the very first thing that comes up when you search for "sock puppet" through google's image search feature. I kid you not.

Since my apartment doesn't allow cable internet or DSL, I'll be needing a T1 pulled. I've already got the CSU/DSU and everything. Just get the line to my window and that'll be fine.

I've found that disconnecting the PC Speaker really clears up those BIOS beep code problems. :P

I seem to have fixated on adriel for some reason. Let's chalk that one up to poor proofreading skills.

Just rest assured that a picture of Wayne Knight is really, really close. To put it another way, if there was anyone else famous that I strongly resembled, I wouldn't be talking about the white guy from "Space Jam" who isn't Bill Murray. Lessee... we also don't have pictures from Pradeep, Doc...

Somehow I figured Stereodude would be tall and really skinny. I have no idea why. Still waiting on pictures from Cliptin and James, our men of the hour, Flagreen, Buck, CougTek (scan your drivers license, Coug), Fushigi, timwhit, Adcadet, Groltz, Clocker (although we've seen his before), time...

... and AOL already announced a, what? $50 BILLION loss due to accounting iiregularities. So that's probably not going to get any worse. How about another energy company? Exxon-Mobil, say? Or thinking really big, General Electric? Or, and this is a personal favorite: Disney. Probably not any...

Hey, I got a 740X on Advance Replacement RMA from Maxtor for my Fireball AS. How cool is that?

A rare picture of Tannin, sans beard, and Tea.

I don't think so, Tea. I couldn't grow a beard if I wanted one, for one thing. :P

Fun with nested quotes! Nope. I never liked Seinfeld's standup routine and I've never watched more than about 10 seconds of his TV show. I was thinking something more like a "Helllloo Nurse" sort of thing when I read your comment. Mostly people tell me I look like the hacker-guy from Jurassic...

Damn this thread for making me use IE... I am extremely envious of Mark's collection of books (I have a few thousand myself, and some thousands of CDs, but not 20,000 of anything), and wondering, upon an additional examination of Mark's picture, whether or not he has eyebrows. PeeWee looks...

I don't see a problem with anything there. What "family" is here besides Flagreen and Koggit? Koggit probably hears worse every day when he turns on his CD player anyway, or if not him, the people he goes to school with. By the way, when's Kristi going to show up?!? SF needs the tempering...

Aren't PS2 discs DVDs? Did you try Smartripper?

Bill, please tell me that's not some kind of weird statement of attraction.

Like the Yankees on the east coast have much to complain about. I mean, I've been to Buffalo in January and that's bad, but I'm sure any one of myself, Clocker or Adcadet has been through worse most winters. I get sick of the "Oh. It snowed a foot and a half in Boston and the whole city stopped...

P5 is clearly a man with a great need of more horizontal surface area. ;) Where does one get an SR shirt?

Wow. Tannin looks almost exactly like I expected.

Jason has shown restraint. He's only posted twice in the thread. *I've* posted five or six times in that thread, and our very own Mr. Green has taken the contrarian stance that has bumped his post count a good deal, too. It'd be a fine place for a visit by CNN Sport, actually. Of course...

Yup. I left the door wide open on that one. Although I'd argue that, rather than going "bump", they actually make a more squishy sound.

Verbal description for those of us without hosting services to post (and no decent pictures besides). I've been told I look a lot like Wayne Knight. . My hair is shorter - always combed straight back, gray at the temples - and from the neck (what neck I have, which isn't much) down I'm...

I did my time at Purdue. Unfortunately.

The question is, with C&W having, oh, USD$5 billion in the bank (why do they have that much cash on hand, again?), and it can't afford Worldcom, who can? AT&T is hurting right now. None of the Regional carriers in the US are big enough to swallow all that... and beyond that I don't know enough...

When I was in college I used to email random people, found through the "finger" service on Unix systems, love notes. That was 1993 or so. I write really weird, funny things. Since I went to school in Indiana, I'd pick people going to school in New York or California. Sometimes people would...

I can see rates going up due to lobby pressure by the remains of the telecomm companies. I can also see a "divide worldcom into pieces" offer from a number of sources. In the end, whoever ends up with a piece of "worldcom-from-the-bankruptcy-auction" will have found a way to enhance their...

Some, yes. I wish I could hop on a train someplace close to my apartment and arrive in Oak Brook or Naperville. When I work over there, if I don't leave at 5:00AM, it takes me close to two hours to drive maybe 35 miles. If I *do* leave at 5:00AM, I'm there at a quarter to six, waiting for...

Well, if the tech/telecomm recession wasn't bad enough, it's about to get many times worse. Here's what will happen: Worldcom bites it. Someone else comes in and buys their assets for pennies on the dollar. Suddenly the cost for the new organization is NOTHING like it is for everybody else...

At the moment I'm not staying in any kind of shape. I used to lift weights. More recently I was in the habit of a morning walk with a companion. Right now I'm not doing anything at all except gaining weight. I couldn't run a mile, let alone 5 (running, even at the height of my fitness, was not...

The right thing to do for that money is to either step up to a low-grade 19" display or a really nice, nonflat 17". Something in a Mag or a Viewsonic, maybe. Flat is kinda nice but it's not that high on my list of monitor priorities.

Or better, the Philips. :)

The SGIs I worked with in college, many years ago, had limited support for stereoscopic glasses. Some neat animations were made, but the glasses were clunky and hard on your eyes. Maybe things are better nowadays, though.

Well, if you want to be a smartass, I think I still have all the floppies to Visual Basic for DOS somewhere...

Cliptin, everyone funds things with their tax money that they don't use and don't like. I happen to strongly dislike social security. Why should I have to pay in such a huge chunk of my gross income when it's highly unlikely I'll ever get anything back? I also have to pay for silly things like...

What, am I posting so little now that you think there need to be re-runs?

There are five plants in Illinois. Four of them are owned by ComEd (usually only two or three are running at any one time). The fifth is down state in Clinton, IL. AFAIK, no surrounding states have nuclear plants. If you wanted to worry about a local plant, it'd probably be the Dresden...

I've not done console apps with VB, but I know in Delphi (where I have), there's a syntax for working with console apps that way. IIRC, once the app was declared a console application, writing a line of output was as simple as doing a 'writeln "some text here"' I'd be shocked if VB didn't have...

I'm a little confused, too. Is this drive SATA only or is there an ATA133 offering? So... Seagate announces the first SATA drive. WD fires back with "first to 200GB" at 7200rpm. Yup. I'm gonna have to agree with jtr that Maxtor will announce a 240GB drive.

3 x 60 = 180GB 4 x 60 = 240GB What's wrong with the 4th platter in this new drive that you only get to use 20GBs of it? Or is it more a matter of waiting for the *JB version?