I've never played "Project Gotham Racing 3". Does it provide force feedback which gives the player the perception of the shards remaining of their driver's side window entering their teeth as a result of its' interaction with my U-lock as I ride by anyone gaming while operating an internal combustion weapon on the street? The empire may want to implement virtual and/or actual U-lock/window collision detection.
I think there is a common misconception that there exists a one-to-one relationship between exercise and smelling bad. I usually shower in the morning before leaving, wear deoderant most days, don't work up a huge sweat, and wear fresh clothes at work. I've been told that I actually smell good:), most of the time it's absolutely neutral. The times I've most often noticed that I smell a bit 'off' is after I've been sitting around in front of a computer for a long day or two, drinking coffee, and generally _not_ moving around getting exercise. I love bicycling.
I find the odors emanating from the fat and lazy, the smokers, and those who need to distance themselves from smelling like real people by applying an excess of chemicals to their bodies to be much more bothersome. I pedal in to work every day awake, usually with a smile on my face. Try biking sometime, it's great.
The winners of the "Favorite Job Properties" were things like casual dress, challenge, and good co-workers. The survey is obviously flawed, because only 1.7% of the responses cited "Free or cheap food, drink at work" as a plus.
I will gladly turn in my health coverage, wear a tie, and do data entry all day long in exchange for "drink at work" capability.
Hoping this was how I was gonna get that discount, I set aside time this weekend to drive to Delaware in order to skip out on my local state sales tax too. I turned the coupon over, and in the legal disclaimer was the phrase 'Excludes Apple iPod Players.' Needless to say, a Merry Christmas is still aways off."
It sounds like the trip would take you a couple of hours at the minimum to complete. You'd save 30 bucks and another 10 bucks on shipping by buying online from an out of state dealer. A four hour trip would then come to 10 bucks an hour, not counting the fuel you'd most likely liberate CO2 from. Can I rent you for 12 bucks an hour? I've got some chores which need doing.
If you've got 300 bucks to spend on a portable music player, you can afford 40 more. Cease whining about "not getting a deal" and just drop the cash, you'll be a happier person. Spend the time you would have spent in a car or asking slashdot on a bike ride instead, listening to the iPod, instead of worrying how to get it for a few bucks less than MSRP.
Biodiesel is vegetable oil which has been through the process of transestrification, which strips the glycerin out of the oil, leaving a diesel-fuel-like substance which can be run in an unmodified diesel engine.
here's more information. This article is about Greasel (the fuel), a slang term for vegetable oil which is being used as a fuel directly by using slight vehicle modifications with a kit such as Greasel (the kit).
In fact, a large amount of biodiesel is currently being produced both commercially and independently from both virgin oil and waste oil. biodiesel.org will help you find a pump near you. Biodiesel is not oversubsidized to the extent your petroleum fuels are, but even at its larger price ($2.77/gallon at my local pump) is gaining wide popularity. WVO (waste vegetable oil) powered vehicles are still in the domain of dorks like me and the Greasel guys.
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The list of biodiesel refueling stations is under
"Buying Biodiesel" -> "Guide to Buying Biodiesel" -> "Click here for a national map of public biodiesel pumps"
at biodiesel.org: http://biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfuel ing sites/default.shtm
I dunno how many of those sites are near DC, but if you're in one of those towns, just drop in a few gallons. You'll love the smell of your exhaust, and the fact that those gallons are not being fought for in any wars. If you get on a bioD habit, you may even start feeling a little self-righteous, even if you're running just 10% bioD. It can be mixed with dino (petroleum derived diesel) at any ratio.
and with just a little work, you can convert the Beetle to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO)! Like my beautiful vette.
Either way you go, thanks for taking public transport. It's really a better solution than biofuels will ever be on their own.
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And at $1.90 to $3.00 a gallon, I don't think I can afford it compared to the $1.55 a gallon (or so) that I will generally pay for standard diesel.
Whine whine. There's a big difference between "I can't afford", and "I'm too cheap to put my money where my mouth is". If you're driving around a new Beetle, $0.50/gallon will be pocket change to you. I drive a POS (beautiful) '82 diesel Chevette, and appreciate the opportunity to pay $2.67/gallon for biodiesel. Wallets are a very powerful form of voting, and it's really quite easy. Anyway, there are 4 biodiesel filling stations listen in Maryland on the biodiesel.org site you listed. If any of those are close to DC, go fill up next time you're through. Even if you only need a couple of gallons, you'll be doing some economic forcing. Doing something, rather than talking about doing something, will feel better.
Well, actually he'll be at terminal velocity for nearly the entire time... Terminal velocity is dependant on the density of the atmosphere.
Nope, density will increase exponentially as the diver heads towards the ground, so of course the terminal velocity will be reduced over the course of his flight.
The title's already taken. Meet
furbox . When compared to other products on the market, the questions are many: how's the UI, storage space, flexibility, power consumption... Many questions in which I lose; but, is the competition furred?
My TRS-80 m100's 40x4 line display doesn't meet the requirements of 1024x768 greyscale. It's really good for writing prose, which is why they're still popular with some journalists, but code is a nightmare. It's really fun to put in something like (BACKTICK) to be sed'ed to a '`' later when your keyboard has one 8^).
Ergo, I'm not hedging my bets on ReiserFS and NFS working in Linux anytime soon.
No, I've been happily serving up NFS off a reiserfs (over IDE raid-0), with no problems! I did have to reiserfsck once, but then found
FAQ #3 ("What's up with NFS and ReiserFS?") at namesys. It addresses your problems and provides patches for older kernels. I've been using 2.4.3 + reiser+nfs_fixes stably for a long time now. They say in the FAQ that these patches have been incorporated since 2.4.6pre3. Go forth and enjoy, I think this combo (IDE RAID + reiser + NFS ) rox0rs!
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I've been playing with a beta version of one of these units for a while, getting the software of the company I work for running on it. Here's what I've found out:
The shipping software is based on slackware. It was great seeing a "real" product shipped with an alan cox kernel:)
there's a unity USB port, so to use a mouse and keyboard at the same time, you need a hub or keyboard pass-thru. Both these objects worked out of the box.
Once I got an xterm up, the first exercise was to get root. They have me the pass when I called tech support, but there's a better way. There's a mysterious process called impp running. strace showed that every second it reads a file in/tmp (impp.somethingerother) and *passes the first line to a root shell*! hee hee, easy. This will make things fun when they deploy these things in hotels as mentioned in an earlier comment:)
To install my own OS, I opted to swap out the hard drives. They didn't make it easy, as you'll need some small torx wrenches in order to get the backplate off. I preinstalled RedHat7.1 on a disk, using another laptop. With some squeezing, I was able to get a full-height laptop harddrive into the unit, to replace their half-height. Everything came up beatifully, all I had to do were some XF86Config tweaks, and get the drivers for the touchscreen and power management from the ProGear install. (no source available). I installed a software keyboard, xvkbd and integrated it into our company's environment. So we've got support for sound, (beautiful) touchscreen video, wireless 'net, USB; a friendly linux device! The PCMCIA chipset is well supported, so the possibilities increase dramatically by installing your own system.
After using this thing for weeks, I still agree with everyone who prefers laptops to webpads for the consumer, based on street prices. Webpads have perfect applications, but randomly applying them to the market doesn't work. Real keyboards and real pointing devices are still far superior to "virtual" ones.
That said, I would gladly take this little beasty home for some lovin'. for slouching style couch surfing, it conforms to one's lap much nicer than a laptop, especially in a drunken stupor (i plan to put this theorem to the test at a future date). once the Progear has been paid for, it's AOK.
Feel free to contact me if you want to hear more (and please do if you're also hacking this thing!)
[ j o s e p h s (at) o e o n e (dot) c o m ]
There's twice as much habitable landmass in the northern hemisphere as the southern. Wait a few tens of thousands of millenia, and you can have your happy carefree hemispherically evenly distributed landmasses.
Alaska United has put in an OC-192 to complement the 9*DS-3 North Pacific Cable. Alaska really is the end of the road, though, traffic to the pacific rim still has to head down to the lower 48. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks has an OC-12 internet2 link to the pacific northwest gigapop to support research and defense work. Bandwidth is there, but does it make sense to have major data centers at the end of the road?
(...missing my woodstove heated cabin with a DSL line but no running water, in fairbanks)
25% of the CO2? ok... so what? CO2 keeps us from freezing our asses off!
100% of the worlds freedom/economy/security/consumers/productivity/sc ience/FOOD
hell why we only putting out 25%? seems a bit low to me, i think we should work on it!
Hey this
score is 70 years old !! Sure great for remixing new songs, but is it still relevant today ?
I mean how many of you actually listen to 70 year old "Top Ten" hits, if they existed !?!?
I sure hope that's a troll. There was once a time when people listened to music because it's beautiful, not because they can brag to their friends that they have the l33test 0-day mp3s.
I'm not aware of any techniques to measure ocean temperatures historically. Rough global mean surface air temperature records are deduced through things such as the concentration of CO2 and other variable constituents of the atmosphere which have become trapped in ice cores, for example.
And the ocean has such a huge heat capacity, it will take centuries of human induced warming of the atmosphere to start bouncing the ocean's molecules more quickly.
Much of the overpopulation of the last 2000 years can be attributed to lack of knowledge about contraception, which has been (and still is) actively censored by religious pressure groups.
China is one of the few countries with functional restrictions on the number of children per couple. I don't care whether it's from ignorance, blindness, or censorship, population controls needed to be in place yesterday. With access to the proper information or not, the general population is too blind to understand that it's not just their problem when they pop out 10 kids.
Condoms for Christians!
Alaska is for people who are freezing for a reason, or who like freezing.
I'm toasty warm right now in my woodstove heated cabin without running water in interior alaska. And i'll bet my machine density is greater than yours, 5 nodes on 100mbit ethernet, DSL to the outside world, in a cute little log package. errr...mush?
It's really good to see that this sort of issue is being considered so well in advance of full transferral to digital scientific communique. Unfortunately it has to be in advance, because the transition from paper publications to electronic form is moving along at the pace of a cold sloth. It hurts me every time i watch the multiple paper copies of manuscripts go in, watch the bills from the publishing company come back and several months later the paper is published in unmodifiable format. Open research is the future, and it needs to happen now. (further rants here. )
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I've never played "Project Gotham Racing 3". Does it provide force feedback which gives the player the perception of the shards remaining of their driver's side window entering their teeth as a result of its' interaction with my U-lock as I ride by anyone gaming while operating an internal combustion weapon on the street? The empire may want to implement virtual and/or actual U-lock/window collision detection.
Try mplayerplug-in .
I think there is a common misconception that there exists a one-to-one relationship between exercise and smelling bad. I usually shower in the morning before leaving, wear deoderant most days, don't work up a huge sweat, and wear fresh clothes at work. I've been told that I actually smell good :), most of the time it's absolutely neutral. The times I've most often noticed that I smell a bit 'off' is after I've been sitting around in front of a computer for a long day or two, drinking coffee, and generally _not_ moving around getting exercise. I love bicycling.
I find the odors emanating from the fat and lazy, the smokers, and those who need to distance themselves from smelling like real people by applying an excess of chemicals to their bodies to be much more bothersome. I pedal in to work every day awake, usually with a smile on my face. Try biking sometime, it's great.
The winners of the "Favorite Job Properties" were things like casual dress, challenge, and good co-workers. The survey is obviously flawed, because only 1.7% of the responses cited "Free or cheap food, drink at work" as a plus.
I will gladly turn in my health coverage, wear a tie, and do data entry all day long in exchange for "drink at work" capability.
It's not like you need to know the secret handshake before you can become a network administrator.
Actually, you do.
apparently the "inventor" never even checked the interior temperature of his device.
Actually he did, but never got an independent calibration of his clay thermometer.
Hoping this was how I was gonna get that discount, I set aside time this weekend to drive to Delaware in order to skip out on my local state sales tax too. I turned the coupon over, and in the legal disclaimer was the phrase 'Excludes Apple iPod Players.' Needless to say, a Merry Christmas is still aways off."
It sounds like the trip would take you a couple of hours at the minimum to complete. You'd save 30 bucks and another 10 bucks on shipping by buying online from an out of state dealer. A four hour trip would then come to 10 bucks an hour, not counting the fuel you'd most likely liberate CO2 from. Can I rent you for 12 bucks an hour? I've got some chores which need doing.
If you've got 300 bucks to spend on a portable music player, you can afford 40 more. Cease whining about "not getting a deal" and just drop the cash, you'll be a happier person. Spend the time you would have spent in a car or asking slashdot on a bike ride instead, listening to the iPod, instead of worrying how to get it for a few bucks less than MSRP.
Biodiesel is vegetable oil which has been through the process of transestrification, which strips the glycerin out of the oil, leaving a diesel-fuel-like substance which can be run in an unmodified diesel engine. here's more information. This article is about Greasel (the fuel), a slang term for vegetable oil which is being used as a fuel directly by using slight vehicle modifications with a kit such as Greasel (the kit).
In fact, a large amount of biodiesel is currently being produced both commercially and independently from both virgin oil and waste oil. biodiesel.org will help you find a pump near you. Biodiesel is not oversubsidized to the extent your petroleum fuels are, but even at its larger price ($2.77/gallon at my local pump) is gaining wide popularity. WVO (waste vegetable oil) powered vehicles are still in the domain of dorks like me and the Greasel guys.
The list of biodiesel refueling stations is under
:l ing sites/default.shtm
"Buying Biodiesel" -> "Guide to Buying Biodiesel" -> "Click here for a
national map of public biodiesel pumps"
at biodiesel.org
http://biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfue
I dunno how many of those sites are near DC, but if you're in one of those
towns, just drop in a few gallons. You'll love the smell of your exhaust,
and the fact that those gallons are not being fought for in any wars. If
you get on a bioD habit, you may even start feeling a little
self-righteous, even if you're running just 10% bioD. It can be mixed
with dino (petroleum derived diesel) at any ratio.
and with just a little work, you can convert the Beetle to run on waste
vegetable oil (WVO)! Like my beautiful
vette.
Either way you go, thanks for taking public transport. It's really a better solution than biofuels will ever be on their own.
And at $1.90 to $3.00 a gallon, I don't think I can afford it compared to the $1.55 a gallon (or so) that I will generally pay for standard diesel.
Whine whine. There's a big difference between "I can't afford", and "I'm too cheap to put my money where my mouth is". If you're driving around a new Beetle, $0.50/gallon will be pocket change to you. I drive a POS (beautiful) '82 diesel Chevette, and appreciate the opportunity to pay $2.67/gallon for biodiesel. Wallets are a very powerful form of voting, and it's really quite easy. Anyway, there are 4 biodiesel filling stations listen in Maryland on the biodiesel.org site you listed. If any of those are close to DC, go fill up next time you're through. Even if you only need a couple of gallons, you'll be doing some economic forcing. Doing something, rather than talking about doing something, will feel better.
Well, actually he'll be at terminal velocity for nearly the entire time... Terminal velocity is dependant on the density of the atmosphere.
Nope, density will increase exponentially as the diver heads towards the ground, so of course the terminal velocity will be reduced over the course of his flight.The title's already taken. Meet furbox . When compared to other products on the market, the questions are many: how's the UI, storage space, flexibility, power consumption... Many questions in which I lose; but, is the competition furred?
My TRS-80 m100's 40x4 line display doesn't meet the requirements of 1024x768 greyscale. It's really good for writing prose, which is why they're still popular with some journalists, but code is a nightmare. It's really fun to put in something like (BACKTICK) to be sed'ed to a '`' later when your keyboard has one 8^).
Ergo, I'm not hedging my bets on ReiserFS and NFS working in Linux anytime soon.
No, I've been happily serving up NFS off a reiserfs (over IDE raid-0), with no problems! I did have to reiserfsck once, but then found FAQ #3 ("What's up with NFS and ReiserFS?") at namesys. It addresses your problems and provides patches for older kernels. I've been using 2.4.3 + reiser+nfs_fixes stably for a long time now. They say in the FAQ that these patches have been incorporated since 2.4.6pre3. Go forth and enjoy, I think this combo (IDE RAID + reiser + NFS ) rox0rs!
I've been playing with a beta version of one of these units for a while, getting the software of the company I work for running on it. Here's what I've found out:
After using this thing for weeks, I still agree with everyone who prefers laptops to webpads for the consumer, based on street prices. Webpads have perfect applications, but randomly applying them to the market doesn't work. Real keyboards and real pointing devices are still far superior to "virtual" ones. That said, I would gladly take this little beasty home for some lovin'. for slouching style couch surfing, it conforms to one's lap much nicer than a laptop, especially in a drunken stupor (i plan to put this theorem to the test at a future date). once the Progear has been paid for, it's AOK.
Feel free to contact me if you want to hear more (and please do if you're also hacking this thing!) [ j o s e p h s (at) o e o n e (dot) c o m ]
There's twice as much habitable landmass in the northern hemisphere as the southern. Wait a few tens of thousands of millenia, and you can have your happy carefree hemispherically evenly distributed landmasses.
I would think, that customers with all-fiber connections could just be wired directly into the Internet...
So all I need is a fiber from Verizon to my house, and I get my brain shunt? I don't care how far they are, I'll dig the trench myself, sweet!
Alaska United has put in an OC-192 to complement the 9*DS-3 North Pacific Cable. Alaska really is the end of the road, though, traffic to the pacific rim still has to head down to the lower 48. The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center in Fairbanks has an OC-12 internet2 link to the pacific northwest gigapop to support research and defense work. Bandwidth is there, but does it make sense to have major data centers at the end of the road?
(...missing my woodstove heated cabin with a DSL line but no running water, in fairbanks)
Unfortunately, people like you vote.
I mean how many of you actually listen to 70 year old "Top Ten" hits, if they existed !?!?
I sure hope that's a troll. There was once a time when people listened to music because it's beautiful, not because they can brag to their friends that they have the l33test 0-day mp3s.
And the ocean has such a huge heat capacity, it will take centuries of human induced warming of the atmosphere to start bouncing the ocean's molecules more quickly.
China is one of the few countries with functional restrictions on the number of children per couple. I don't care whether it's from ignorance, blindness, or censorship, population controls needed to be in place yesterday. With access to the proper information or not, the general population is too blind to understand that it's not just their problem when they pop out 10 kids.
Condoms for Christians!
I'm toasty warm right now in my woodstove heated cabin without running water in interior alaska. And i'll bet my machine density is greater than yours, 5 nodes on 100mbit ethernet, DSL to the outside world, in a cute little log package. errr...mush?
It's really good to see that this sort of issue is being considered so well in advance of full transferral to digital scientific communique. Unfortunately it has to be in advance, because the transition from paper publications to electronic form is moving along at the pace of a cold sloth. It hurts me every time i watch the multiple paper copies of manuscripts go in, watch the bills from the publishing company come back and several months later the paper is published in unmodifiable format. Open research is the future, and it needs to happen now. (further rants here. )