get off topic and tell you a little story about town government, stupid people, and road salt.
ooh! ooh! I want to hear that.
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Another point is that when you're not working, it's not likely that 'the man on the street' knows you're working for cracker barrel. So even if you're holding your same-sex-partner's hand while walking down the sidewalk, how's that going to 'reflect on the family-friendly image' of the company?
No system of measure is inherently better or worse than another.
I disagree. You can truthfully say that no system is any more accurate than another, but since people have to work with the system and convert from unit to unit, some systems are inherently better.
Let's take an expmple from last night's Mythbusters episode: The rowing 8 that Stanford used for the demonstration has a mass of ~ 1000 kg when loaded with crew. If you were to design one, what volume water would you have to displace to float the boat? Since water is ~ 1 kg/l, we have 1000l, which is the same as 1 m^3.
The process is much more complicated in the imperial system. We have ~2200 lbs.Water weighs ~8 lbs/gal, so that's 265 gallons of water. According to units, that's 35.42 cubic feet, which is, of course, pretty much the same as 1 cubic meter.
The difference here is that it took me 5 minutes and 2 different programs (calculator and units) to do it in the imperial system.
Besides this rather geeky calculation, people who use and defend the use of the imperial system don't know how to use it! I was talking to someone about DSL, and I said something like, "even if you're 15000 feet from the CO, and you're much farther, performance would suck." and she had no idea how far that is in miles (it's a little less than 3, for our metrified friends).
Why? I think that Dell gets a lot of support calls about "not bein' able to see none of them whatyacallit... i-cons". All of the large CRTs come with a sticker that says in large numbers '1024x768' when they are capable of 1600x1200. The LCDs that I've bought have stickers with the native resolution of the panel on them, though.
I called the notebook support line and there was a special section for 'things appearing too small on the screen'.
Damn straight. I helped my father build the network for his company. In the beginning, it was 2 computers in the basement of our house, now it's 10 in a small office, with networked plotters and printers. I gave him advice about his backups, and he came up with his own offsite backup scheme.
He has a better backup and recovery scheme than many large companies I've heard of, and most departments in my college.
I think the old man done good, and I'm proud of him. It really feels good to see what a little encouragement can do.
I don't think it has thrusters at all. It has a series of gyroscopes inside the hull, for pointing. They're triply-redundant. If you recall, a few years ago Hubble went offline because 2 sets of gyros failed. One of the servicing missions replaced them, and all's well again.
I think that by 'nudge', he meant send an unmanned vehicle to push the scope. I don't know if its transmitters have enough power to send data from much farther away than it is now, though..
actually, ether can be explosive, not just flammable. Ether is stored with some pellets of a stabilising chemical in the bottle, but it can still be unpleasant if treated improperly.
When I was in college, the chem department found a 20 year old bottle of ether in a storage closet. They decided to call the bomb squad to dispose of it. yikes.
I bought one from Target a year ago. It was a piece of shit, but it had an easy to use region free code sequence.
I'm pleased that its region free capabilities are being used now--I gave it to a guy in my department who's from Mexico, which is region 4. He can now play all of his Mexican DVDs at home! yay!
Damn. That little snippet made me feel old all of a sudden.
Yeah, me too. And I only started college in '97....
It's not going to be much longer until none of the new whippersnappers haven't ever used a local bbs....
My wife didn't belive me when I told her about local boards. She just couldn't wrap her mind around the concept of single-user message boards at 28.8 KBps.
This is primarily due to the fact that the assholes in the cars have no idea that they're supposed to treat the bicycles like other cars. They see the cyclists as annoyances to be passed as quickly as possible.
I commute to work on a bike (in a college town--we actually have bike lanes) and at least twice some redneck has screamed at me to "get outta the fuckin' road".
If the car drivers would just calm the hell down and deal with the situation rationally, biking wouldn't be so dangerous.
So, the way I (who am not a lawyer) read it, it is effective on Windows/Mac, and not on Linux, etc.
But, still within the legal definition of effective, how can you say that there's an effective method of copy protection if it can't work on a fair number of systems? I know a bunch of mac freaks who still run OS9 on some boxes, and most of the workstations in my department are Linux.
Referring to the speed limit sign example above, this is like having a speed limit sign that can't be seen from older models from one car manufacturer or homebuilt cars.
I wonder just how loose the interpretation of 'effective' is... Can you just put a text file on an otherwise normal red book disc and say 'This disc is protected by Craptastic Content Control (tm) and therefore you are unable to copy the data from this disc.'?
I always figured that the machines were designed to allow blind people to use them when they're set up in a pedestrian environment, and it's just cheaper to use that one design everywhere instead of producing 2 different models for different situations.
Yeah! One time I pulled up behind this big-ass muscle car that was stalled in a turn lane, with the hood up. The driver and his buddies had found that the throttle cable had come loose, but were unable to reattatch it due to lack of tools. I whip out my multi-plier and bam! They're off in a cloud of rubber smoke and uncatalysed exhaust. It was awesome.
Hell yes, you need a portable multi-tool. I bought a custom Gerber multi-plier (they no longer do the custom bit, though), and my woman was giving me shit for spending $100 on a geek toy. Then our landlord's father locked us out of the house after showing it to someone else. On a Sunday. When his primary business was closed.
I had to unscrew the front door chain from the wall from outside. It took about 30 minutes, but we got back in the house.
She now thinks it's a really good idea to cary tools _grin_
I also wear the Mobile Pant. I carry my flip-phone in the left leg pocket, my clip-on sunglasses in my right leg pocket, and my wallet and keys in the zippered right hip pocket. This leaves the unzippered right hip and the left hip pockets empty, for things like lists and reciepts. I also have my multi-plier and mini-maglite on my belt. I don't think that that's so unusual, so I'm keeping it to just those two.
The phone in the left leg pocket is great--getting it out while sitting is much easier than when it was in the hip pocket of normal pants.
The mobile pant is expensive at retail, but you can find them on sale for $20-25. Not bad.
similar story: I have a 1u sun x86 server that I bought with one processor. When the group wanted another processor, Sun said that it wanted $800 for a p3-1300(? whatever the fastest p3 is...), while they were on pricewatch for $200.
I ended up getting the processor from newegg--it was from the same fab as the one already in the box, and Sun even used the stock heatsink.
It's also not a good idea simply for throughput. You don't really want to have to wait for the master drive to finish an operation before you can write to the slave on the same channel. This would limit the redundancy of a redundant array.
Well, it was a joke in the first place... We would have gotten the powerbook regardless of the engagement.
And it's not the monetary value that concerns us--it's the utility of a really nice portable computer. She's an astronomy grad student, so having a computer that can run the unix software that astronomers use and that she can take on trips to the observatories is really great.
Step two: Come up with something that's appropriate and thoughtful. I tried to get a big crystal of buckyballs (C60) but the people I talked to said that it wouldn't be durable enough.
Step three: Find a titanium powerbook on a really good sale.
Step four: Laugh at stupid people who dropped two month's salary(!) on a rock that isn't worth close to what it sells for.
Unfortuanately, this isn't an easy howto to follow. Step one will be particularly troublesome. I'm a lucky geek.
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get off topic and tell you a little story about town government, stupid people, and road salt.
ooh! ooh! I want to hear that.
Another point is that when you're not working, it's not likely that 'the man on the street' knows you're working for cracker barrel. So even if you're holding your same-sex-partner's hand while walking down the sidewalk, how's that going to 'reflect on the family-friendly image' of the company?
I think that the problem with the twin towers was that when the aircraft hit them, the debris stripped the insulation away from the structure.
I lived in an apartment complex in Florida with a similar setup. It also went out pretty frequently when there was no/minor inclement weather near us.
No system of measure is inherently better or worse than another.
I disagree. You can truthfully say that no system is any more accurate than another, but since people have to work with the system and convert from unit to unit, some systems are inherently better.
Let's take an expmple from last night's Mythbusters episode:
The rowing 8 that Stanford used for the demonstration has a mass of ~ 1000 kg when loaded with crew. If you were to design one, what volume water would you have to displace to float the boat?
Since water is ~ 1 kg/l, we have 1000l, which is the same as 1 m^3.
The process is much more complicated in the imperial system.
We have ~2200 lbs.Water weighs ~8 lbs/gal, so that's 265 gallons of water. According to units, that's 35.42 cubic feet, which is, of course, pretty much the same as 1 cubic meter.
The difference here is that it took me 5 minutes and 2 different programs (calculator and units) to do it in the imperial system.
Besides this rather geeky calculation, people who use and defend the use of the imperial system don't know how to use it! I was talking to someone about DSL, and I said something like, "even if you're 15000 feet from the CO, and you're much farther, performance would suck." and she had no idea how far that is in miles (it's a little less than 3, for our metrified friends).
Why? I think that Dell gets a lot of support calls about "not bein' able to see none of them whatyacallit... i-cons". All of the large CRTs come with a sticker that says in large numbers '1024x768' when they are capable of 1600x1200. The LCDs that I've bought have stickers with the native resolution of the panel on them, though.
I called the notebook support line and there was a special section for 'things appearing too small on the screen'.
gafftape also has a much different adhesive. It won't leave residue on the floor or the cables that you've taped down.
Damn straight. I helped my father build the network for his company. In the beginning, it was 2 computers in the basement of our house, now it's 10 in a small office, with networked plotters and printers. I gave him advice about his backups, and he came up with his own offsite backup scheme.
He has a better backup and recovery scheme than many large companies I've heard of, and most departments in my college.
I think the old man done good, and I'm proud of him. It really feels good to see what a little encouragement can do.
I don't think it has thrusters at all. It has a series of gyroscopes inside the hull, for pointing. They're triply-redundant. If you recall, a few years ago Hubble went offline because 2 sets of gyros failed. One of the servicing missions replaced them, and all's well again.
I think that by 'nudge', he meant send an unmanned vehicle to push the scope. I don't know if its transmitters have enough power to send data from much farther away than it is now, though..
Yup. I noticed that too. I think it's the feet.
actually, ether can be explosive, not just flammable. Ether is stored with some pellets of a stabilising chemical in the bottle, but it can still be unpleasant if treated improperly.
When I was in college, the chem department found a 20 year old bottle of ether in a storage closet. They decided to call the bomb squad to dispose of it. yikes.
They most certainly do exist.
I bought one from Target a year ago. It was a piece of shit, but it had an easy to use region free code sequence.
I'm pleased that its region free capabilities are being used now--I gave it to a guy in my department who's from Mexico, which is region 4. He can now play all of his Mexican DVDs at home! yay!
Damn. That little snippet made me feel old all of a sudden.
Yeah, me too. And I only started college in '97....
It's not going to be much longer until none of the new whippersnappers haven't ever used a local bbs....
My wife didn't belive me when I told her about local boards. She just couldn't wrap her mind around the concept of single-user message boards at 28.8 KBps.
heh..
This is primarily due to the fact that the assholes in the cars have no idea that they're supposed to treat the bicycles like other cars. They see the cyclists as annoyances to be passed as quickly as possible.
I commute to work on a bike (in a college town--we actually have bike lanes) and at least twice some redneck has screamed at me to "get outta the fuckin' road".
If the car drivers would just calm the hell down and deal with the situation rationally, biking wouldn't be so dangerous.
So, the way I (who am not a lawyer) read it, it is effective on Windows/Mac, and not on Linux, etc.
But, still within the legal definition of effective, how can you say that there's an effective method of copy protection if it can't work on a fair number of systems? I know a bunch of mac freaks who still run OS9 on some boxes, and most of the workstations in my department are Linux.
Referring to the speed limit sign example above, this is like having a speed limit sign that can't be seen from older models from one car manufacturer or homebuilt cars.
I wonder just how loose the interpretation of 'effective' is... Can you just put a text file on an otherwise normal red book disc and say 'This disc is protected by Craptastic Content Control (tm) and therefore you are unable to copy the data from this disc.'?
I always figured that the machines were designed to allow blind people to use them when they're set up in a pedestrian environment, and it's just cheaper to use that one design everywhere instead of producing 2 different models for different situations.
Yeah! One time I pulled up behind this big-ass muscle car that was stalled in a turn lane, with the hood up. The driver and his buddies had found that the throttle cable had come loose, but were unable to reattatch it due to lack of tools. I whip out my multi-plier and bam! They're off in a cloud of rubber smoke and uncatalysed exhaust. It was awesome.
Hell yes, you need a portable multi-tool. I bought a custom Gerber multi-plier (they no longer do the custom bit, though), and my woman was giving me shit for spending $100 on a geek toy. Then our landlord's father locked us out of the house after showing it to someone else. On a Sunday. When his primary business was closed.
I had to unscrew the front door chain from the wall from outside. It took about 30 minutes, but we got back in the house.
She now thinks it's a really good idea to cary tools _grin_
I also wear the Mobile Pant. I carry my flip-phone in the left leg pocket, my clip-on sunglasses in my right leg pocket, and my wallet and keys in the zippered right hip pocket. This leaves the unzippered right hip and the left hip pockets empty, for things like lists and reciepts. I also have my multi-plier and mini-maglite on my belt. I don't think that that's so unusual, so I'm keeping it to just those two.
The phone in the left leg pocket is great--getting it out while sitting is much easier than when it was in the hip pocket of normal pants.
The mobile pant is expensive at retail, but you can find them on sale for $20-25. Not bad.
similar story:
I have a 1u sun x86 server that I bought with one processor. When the group wanted another processor, Sun said that it wanted $800 for a p3-1300(? whatever the fastest p3 is...), while they were on pricewatch for $200.
I ended up getting the processor from newegg--it was from the same fab as the one already in the box, and Sun even used the stock heatsink.
$600 saved. yay!
I always thought it was Food and Beverage Institute, a close relative of the CIA, Culinary Institute of America.
It's also not a good idea simply for throughput. You don't really want to have to wait for the master drive to finish an operation before you can write to the slave on the same channel. This would limit the redundancy of a redundant array.
Well, it was a joke in the first place... We would have gotten the powerbook regardless of the engagement.
And it's not the monetary value that concerns us--it's the utility of a really nice portable computer. She's an astronomy grad student, so having a computer that can run the unix software that astronomers use and that she can take on trips to the observatories is really great.
And they're sexy. _grin_
Uh. HOWTO would be appreciated.
Sure.
Step one: Find a reasonable girl.
Step two: Come up with something that's appropriate and thoughtful. I tried to get a big crystal of buckyballs (C60) but the people I talked to said that it wouldn't be durable enough.
Step three: Find a titanium powerbook on a really good sale.
Step four: Laugh at stupid people who dropped two month's salary(!) on a rock that isn't worth close to what it sells for.
Unfortuanately, this isn't an easy howto to follow. Step one will be particularly troublesome. I'm a lucky geek.
Well, I can't find that one, but the Google cache of the pics page has one picture that's still up: .
She's in a red dress
Thanks, Google!