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. More than 24 hours for turnaround is too late, especially with this heat.

Why, because their air conditioner is somehow controlled by their computer which requires net access to function the air conditioner properly??

Now, that I say such things (in jest only :D), I think it would be pretty cool to have air conditioner controlled by current outside temp and humidity data from say, www.weather.com

Of course, this mothballing comes at the behest of the same political party (of the US of A) that thinks those crack US rocket scientists should be a-cipherin' on how to make a bullet hit a bullet everytime. In this case, we really could have Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clowns. The Triana project is no more asinine than protecting a country (that probably could use a mass death event to clean up all the stupid people) with a cockamamie missile shield that the developers have to cheat to make work. I would rather live in a country that comes up with a kooky but probably beneficial project like Triana than one than thinks all you commie European fags are trying to invade with your little cars and techno music. Get out, you say? I have.

Weeklong weather forecasts are generally reliable.

Do you agree with this? I hardly trust the weather forcast for tomorrow, much less next weekend. The two sites I usually check are The Weather Channel and Weather Underground . They often directly contradict each other, differing by up to 15 degrees F and 50% chance of rain.

Are there any studies tracking the accuracy of various forecasters? If the weatherman predicts rain for three days from now, should I cancel my picnic or just figure that an average July day is 65-85 degrees with a 30% chance of rain? Maybe the weather here in Michigan is more variable than other regions. Do you guys actually trust the predictions in your town?

AlpineR

Sure, that's the line that everyone uses. Challenger, Ford Explorers, anything goes wrong, they blame the weather. I don't believe it. It's a conspiracy involving the manufacturers, the RIAA, the MPAA, and Big Oil.

With W in office, their legal troubles will fade away. It certainly didn't hurt that the first-level judge was at least unwise about his comments. If applications had been peeled off of Windows the world would be a different place. The probability of that happening is about 0.0001 now.

They are talking up Linux to make sure everyone thinks that they are all worried about an O/S with no significant applications that anyone cares about. They are worried like my grandfather (who is 92) is worried that 10 nymphomanics are going to attack him every Sunday.

They will finish their take-over of the web, but getting Steve "kingdom builder" Case to throw away Netscape. Already places like Weather Channel are difficult to use in Netscape and that trend will accelerate violently this year. (And yes, macromedia flash is part of WC's problems)

So what if XP is a failure. They'll change the license for Win2k to a time-based one and poof the monopoly is complete. These guys are classic Monopolists and as soon as they can lock everyone one into their party (they are very very close now), innovation will nearly stop. No monopolist will invest in his marketplace when he has absolute control and a reliable income stream. That is what XP is about. The terminal technology while MS goes off and attempts to dominate all the other software marketplaces. Ever consider what it would take in terms of cash for them to buy Palm and Handspring and just close them?...

The only thing that will stop this mess is Bill quitting and he can't just about as any human can't taking in O2. I wonder if he is at all happy... I'll bet not.

So kids, we're in deep trouble. "Open" people have failed to provide things people want enough to switch away from Windows on the desktop. If "Open" doesn't own the desktop, it is likely that "Open" doesn't own anything.

--Multics

Holy Cow, you must not travel that much! If I did that much investigation into each place I had to travel to I'd never get anything done. I mean, who the heck cares about municipal elections? As far as highway traffic conditions, I'm not a morning person so I don't fly in the morning and cut things so close that a 15-30 minute longer commute from the airport to the customer site would make me late. I'd rather fly in the night before to make sure I have plenty of time in the morning. Just about the only useful before-trip investigations that I would consider useful would be going to The Weather Channel and checking on the local weather to determine what to pack.

You are wrong.

According to this page on weather.com, you wouldn't want to swim anyway.

Of course, I can't think of anything I'd want to do on a day with a high of -82F other than sit by a warm fire and drink hot chocolate.

So anyone who uses Linux on their main
box is a zealot?

Hey GUYS!!! The weather channel are a bunch of zealots! Go get'em.

A statement like yours belies a total lack of maturity. There are a great deal of analogies I could make but the all boil down to this.... History has shown time and time again that pre-judging large groups of people is not mature.


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RobK

• TRS-80 & Tandy Color Computer Homepage
• Concealed Carry (CCW) Database: Home
• The Weather Channel - Cedar Rapids, IA (52404)

• www.map.com
• www.weather.com
• www.linux.com (might have better guessed .org here ;-)

I keep a minimum of bookmarks, for those sites I really visit a lot. For everything else I guess URLs or use Google/Deja/Yahoo/etc.

And I NEVER guess a .us domain.

I think their service sucks. I can see how their service is really innovative, but its just not cool. I think I would be really pissed if links magically appeared in all of my usenet posts, especially to products that I do not endorse.

Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

I've got one of those Intellimouse Explorers (the huge silver ones with the superfluous tail light and like three extra buttons; well, what the hell, here's a http://www.microsoft.com/Mouse/explorer.htm link) and sites that won't let you back out are an incredible annoyance. See, two of the buttons on there serve as Forward/Back (respectively) while browsing the web, and after about 20 minutes of using them, I was hooked. You wouldn't believe how simple (and remarkably intuitive) to navigate with your thumb. Now if I could just find a good use for those buttons in Half-Life... I mean, sure, it's easy enough to hold down the back button and select the page before the offending site, but that would require moving my cursor over six or so linear inches of desktop space. Isn't that just a little bit unreasonable? No? Ah well.

I hate to tell you this guys, but for those of you who think Open Source != Communism, you are sadly mistaken. You can continue to delude yourself but it doesn't make it any less true. People who want to "open source" hardware, ALL proprietary software, and now radio and probably TV and music? Why not just come out and say it? All property should be community property and everyone takes whatever they need from others.

Okay, everyone all together now: "All property should be community property and everyone takes whatever they need from others."

There, feel better?

No, you're right, there's no such thing as the "excluded middle" in logic, so you must be right that anyone who doesn't argue for the most extreme forms of intellectual property (what I like to call "intellectual privilege", for a variety of reasons, e.g. the gov't takes it away after a fairly limited amount of time and places into the public domain -- kinda like how it treated Elian Gonzalez, heh ;-) must therefore be arguing for the most extreme forms of communism.

You want MS Office 2000? No prob, just download it. MS wants a copy of your latest program? No problem, they download it. Clinton wants the latest copy of Playboy? No problem, he breaks into a magazine shop and takes it. Want free Internet access? No problem, just crack passwords and dial up.

Let me get this straight. You're saying these things aren't happening now?? "According to Janet Reno and Clinton lawyer Bob Bennett, the magazine shop had been given more than enough time to liberate the latest issue of Playboy, so the use of force to obtain 10 copies of that issue for `important White House activities relating to a dire shortage of interns' was way past due, justifying the raid of the store by 50 BATFP agents." -- ABC News, 2000-07-09.

Communism doesn't do anything for people but use them as slaves for the sake of fattening the government and the people in power..

Gee, almost like how America's supposedly "compassionate" combination retirement-home, health-care-facility, and mental-ward otherwise referred to as "The Federal Government", post-FDR anyway? (Okay, you don't quite have to be among the elite ruling class in the USA to enjoy a top-flight lifestyle while you're forced to pay for the stupid, avoidable mistakes made by people you've never met by a government that has never really cared...but it sure helps to be friendly with that elite, if you don't want your stock valuations sued out from under you.)

i.e. look at the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro in Cuba. NOTHING good has ever come out of communism. NOTHING.

Oh, come on. What about hockey? Ballet? "Hot Cuban Chicks", as the wags put it? You think Russians and Cubans would naturally have come up with these things without the direct intervention of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, and the helpful influence of Mao, Pol Pot, etc.? Keep in mind most of the very best hockey players and ballet dancers would have been couch potatoes like me ("I coulda been a contendah!", says I) if it weren't for the prospect of becoming a mere statistic in the latest Communist-sponsored "mass re-education"....

Remember that open source kiddies.

Remember that open source kiddies what? Did you run out of money before you could buy a verb or something?

This whole stupid movement will collapse like the ponzi scheme it is when people realize that they may want to get PAID to do the WORK that they HAVE done in case they some day want to retire without living in a complete [****]hole on a meager social security or welfare income.

Ah, but by the time we retire, our leaders will have Taken Over, the Great RMS will rule the world, and he will give each of us of the crumbs of his great wealth and power! Can't wait to run NASA, the National Weather Service, and The Weather Channel, myself...or did you think I wrote GNU Fortran because I actually write in that hackforsaken language?? Hahahahahaha!!

If you look up your local weather on weather.com by using their zip code box on the main page, it says that your low temperature today will be zero. Doesn't matter where you live, your low will be zero. The high is correct, though. Can't say for certain that this is y2k-related, but you know how it goes. Us users are going to see everything with y2k written all over it.

Here's a link for an example.

Er, lots of places loose power at the same time on a regular basis, or so I would think.

Millville is having thunderstorms and the high was supposed to be 97 today. I'd say it's probably a combination of those thunderstorms and brownout because of too many people cranking thier AC's.

Cape May is similar, with thunderstorms and a high of 95.

Fullshear is having thunderstorms all the way through Thursday... (ever hear of lightning striking a power distribution field?).

Riyadh/Khaled has a high of 109 - holly crap! but "plain old" Riyadh is only 32 - must be celcius... Besides, I don't know enough about their power systems to trust it anyway.

Get a life, and a clue. If you took five minutes to check out the weather at these locations you can see that there is a pretty good expectation that they would loose power at this time.

Now you go to bed with no cookie and no fireworks (Since 75% of your sites were in the USA I figured you're in the USA and would have been able to watch them if you behaved properly).