In model railroading, kitbashing (often abbreviated to "bashing", our form of hacking) is not only common but often the only way to get just the model that you want. One of my bashes was published in Model Railroader in 1997 when I worked on the Wisconsin Central project layout (I built the Tews Cement facility). I took two kits, one ready-made structure and several more parts to build one cement distribution company complex.
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I would rather not see all the "classic" monsters recycled. These were very much a product of their times, exaggerations of then-current fears.
Well, just think of the potential for updated characters. It's like in ST. Originally, the Klingons were just black guys or, more often, white guys in (poor) blackface. When ST:TNG revamped them, their makeup and costumes (and the continuing backstories) made them much more believable, and far improved their characters.
New villains are great, but don't throw away the story history.
I see a lot of sites mentioned on either oceanic coast, but don't forget the Midwest. You did ask for some interesting architectural sites, so...
In Madison, WI, you can tour Monona Terrace, a convention and exhibition center on the lake in Madison, WI, that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. While the structure was designed in the 1930s, it was built in the 1990s. A little west of Madison, in Spring Green, is Frank Lloyd Wright's estate, Taliesin.
For a slight change of pace, you can check out a house (and the kitschy museum that goes along with it) designed by one of Wright's students. The House On The Rock is an interesting tour, but I found the house itself quite a bit more interesting than the museum attached to it.
Great! Now, that means that the school where my son is in first grade will get how many new computers?
Let's see... 375 students... 35 regular classrooms... one computer lab... one library and media center... one music classroom... one art classroom... one special needs classroom... one administrative office with staff... one nurse's office...
And this is just one public school in the district (there are about 40 other schools in the city).
So, how many computers will my son be able to use out of that $1.1b? Can I put a free (beer or speech, take your pick) OS on the now obsoleted hardware and see which has the longer uptime with daily use?
Just looking at the massive numbers involved, I very seriously doubt any of that money will be sent to the school district in which we live, especially since we're not in one of the bigger metropolitan areas of the country. 200,000 residents is a lot, but a far cry short of Chicago's population.
OpenOffice and Star Office are two different products, although the new Star Office draws heavily from OpenOffice, downloading OpenOffice != downloading Star Office.
Usenet is not fading away, you're just reading the wrong groups. The NGs that I read the most still have a fairly high signal/noise ratio without being moderated. As to which groups I read, I'll just say that I'm a model railroader, and I read and contribute in groups about trains, railroads and models.
We use DocuShare (http://docushare.xerox.com/). It will provide version control for any type of file, either binary or ascii. The managers can share their Office docs, and you can put out PDF files (made from pdftex, of course).
I wouldn't be so sure. All those intermodal trains that come off the West Coast of the US for points east are loaded with cargoes that sailed from Asia. A direct rail link would simplify this process _greatly_.
Additionally, the US exports coal to Asia on a daily basis as well...
Thank you for posting the article above and in linking to it through the Slashback. This is the first JK article in over a year where I've been able to read all of the replies and not be repulsed by all the "you suck" replies.
I think what may be the best location for a Linuxbierwanderung in the US would be Wisconsin. Think about how many breweries there are in Milwaukee alone (why do you think the baseball team is named the Brewers, after all?). Here in Madison, I work less than one block from a local brewer, and I've been to three others on the isthmus downtown....
Docs like this aren't all that new. When Win95 was released, I was one of the techs at taking calls for MS. One of the first docs that we created for our own techs was about how to remove Win95 so the customer could return to DOS and Win3x. Users will gravitate more towards what they use the most, be it DOS, Win95, Mac or whatever.
But will they work if you put a transparency with a black line on it in front of the stamp so that the black line crosses a corner of the stamp? USPS uses this "cancellation" to display stamp designs in advertising. Can we do that too and have the copier work?
Ya know, it just occurred to me that the things that I liked the most when I was in high school (not all that long ago, only about 15 years) are now considered hip.
Jazz, swing and blues.
Muscle cars of the late 60s.
Computer gaming and the Internet.
Genealogy.
Science Fiction (X Files, anyone?)
Trains and model railroads.
Okay, the last one may be stretching it a little bit, but there are a lot more railfan videos and toy trains marketed to the Great Unwashed Masses (tm).
Yeah, I fit most of the geek profile as presented in the article, but the way I see it, my friends (the SQUIDs [Society for Quality Understanding of Imaginary Dimensions] of Mira Costa HS) and I were trendsetters. It will be interesting to see what new trends today's high schoolers introduce in the next 10-20 years.
-- Sean Lamb "A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx
I don't know about anyone else, but I probably won't buy this product. It's not a question of drivers or socket availability. I get a higher strain when I'm using a pen than when I'm using a mouse. At least with a mouse I can let my hand relax over the box, whereas with a pen I have to make an effort to hold on to the little bugger.
I dread exams not for a lack of study but for the pain of writing all those words out longhand (rather than typing them into my laptop).
In case you haven't looked, MS tries to put their own spin on it at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/ . Most notable are that it took until paragraph 408 for MS to find anything favorable (which was then highly touted), and made MS-Word versions available that are twice the size of the WP version.
(since you didn't put in your email, reply is here...)
Mark down one vote for such an informational website. Getting money when a company is just starting out is really tough, and any information can be made valuable information, especially if it comes from reputable sources.
Okay, so if we believe the journalistic hype, the FCC is considering additional charges for ISP usage. Let's look at a few things:
Per-minute fees - The only people who have the equipment anywhere near in place to monitor online usage to the minute are the ISPs (or online providers) themselves. The telco can't easily prove if a line is being used for voice or data or both without listening to it. I seriously doubt that telcos are going to install the equipment to monitor usage in this way since they really have no way to check and correlate calls with every ISP that a modem user could dial in to. If a per-minute fee is imposed, it will be imposed on the ISPs who would pass on the charge itself plus a penny or two for "processing" fees. Once ISPs are charged for per-minute fees, the feds will need additional staff to track and process such billing as well, which would require capital expenditure, and we all know what that means...
Flat fees - As with the per-minute fees, the first question is who to charge. If we send the charge to the ISPs, they'll pass it on to their customers as higher monthly access rates. Users who are online more than 60 hours per month (to pick a number out of the air) may not mind because they're online so much, but Gramma & Grampa who are online less than 3 hours a month will probably decide to drop the service. If we send the charge to the telcos, how is the telco going to prove that a particular telephone user is also a dialup internet user as opposed to a cable modem internet user or corporate LAN internet user? Also, how is the telco going to justify spreading this charge over telephone users who never access the internet?
Further barrier 1, corporate LAN access - Like the per-minute fee, the ISP is the only place where the access can be reliably tracked. Corporate America has some pretty expensive lobbyists that they can throw around to combat any additional fees imposed on them. High-revenue companies that rely on internet connectivity will not stand by as their revenue streams are significantly reduced by any additional charges like this.
Further barrier 2, internationalization - It seems that the US Government is viewing the internet as a US-only enterprise again. No single governing body can legislate over the internet since no single body's jurisdiction completely covers the physical location of the internet. Sure, a majority of connections go through Virginia, and mine is to a local provider in Wisconsin, but what about everyone in.au or.il or.es or.jp or any other TLD other than.us?
Further barrier 3, internet time - innovation on the internet surpasses legislation speed by light years. By the time a bill like this would pass through to law, the more avid internet users will find other means to access the internet that avoid these charges.
In short (too late!), I seriously doubt that any kind of "modem tax" would be enacted any time soon.
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In model railroading, kitbashing (often abbreviated to "bashing", our form of hacking) is not only common but often the only way to get just the model that you want. One of my bashes was published in Model Railroader in 1997 when I worked on the Wisconsin Central project layout (I built the Tews Cement facility). I took two kits, one ready-made structure and several more parts to build one cement distribution company complex.
Well, just think of the potential for updated characters. It's like in ST. Originally, the Klingons were just black guys or, more often, white guys in (poor) blackface. When ST:TNG revamped them, their makeup and costumes (and the continuing backstories) made them much more believable, and far improved their characters.
New villains are great, but don't throw away the story history.
In Madison, WI, you can tour Monona Terrace, a convention and exhibition center on the lake in Madison, WI, that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. While the structure was designed in the 1930s, it was built in the 1990s. A little west of Madison, in Spring Green, is Frank Lloyd Wright's estate, Taliesin.
For a slight change of pace, you can check out a house (and the kitschy museum that goes along with it) designed by one of Wright's students. The House On The Rock is an interesting tour, but I found the house itself quite a bit more interesting than the museum attached to it.
Great! Now, that means that the school where my son is in first grade will get how many new computers?
Let's see... 375 students... 35 regular classrooms... one computer lab... one library and media center... one music classroom... one art classroom... one special needs classroom... one administrative office with staff... one nurse's office...
And this is just one public school in the district (there are about 40 other schools in the city).
So, how many computers will my son be able to use out of that $1.1b? Can I put a free (beer or speech, take your pick) OS on the now obsoleted hardware and see which has the longer uptime with daily use?
Just looking at the massive numbers involved, I very seriously doubt any of that money will be sent to the school district in which we live, especially since we're not in one of the bigger metropolitan areas of the country. 200,000 residents is a lot, but a far cry short of Chicago's population.
OpenOffice and Star Office are two different products, although the new Star Office draws heavily from OpenOffice, downloading OpenOffice != downloading Star Office.
> you'd believe that Ballmer has a future as an exotic dancer.
Actually, when we look at the Monkey video of recent note, this isn't all that far fetched.
Usenet is not fading away, you're just reading the wrong groups. The NGs that I read the most still have a fairly high signal/noise ratio without being moderated. As to which groups I read, I'll just say that I'm a model railroader, and I read and contribute in groups about trains, railroads and models.
We use DocuShare (http://docushare.xerox.com/). It will provide version control for any type of file, either binary or ascii. The managers can share their Office docs, and you can put out PDF files (made from pdftex, of course).
I wouldn't be so sure. All those intermodal trains that come off the West Coast of the US for points east are loaded with cargoes that sailed from Asia. A direct rail link would simplify this process _greatly_.
Additionally, the US exports coal to Asia on a daily basis as well...
I knew I should've hit Preview...
Thank you for posting the article above and in linking to it through the Slashback. This is the first JK article in over a year where I've been able to read all of the replies and not be repulsed by all the "you suck" replies.
I think what may be the best location for a Linuxbierwanderung in the US would be Wisconsin. Think about how many breweries there are in Milwaukee alone (why do you think the baseball team is named the Brewers, after all?). Here in Madison, I work less than one block from a local brewer, and I've been to three others on the isthmus downtown....
98% of all statistics are just made up numbers.
Since so much of the criticism is being posted here, is /. banned yet?
Here's a thought...
Download it from a school or library workstation onto floppy. That way, they have even fewer practical means to find and prosecute legal behavior.
I just submitted through SuSE's site the following suggestion:
Cami (short for Camille)
Well, I liked it, anyway...
Docs like this aren't all that new. When Win95 was released, I was one of the techs at taking calls for MS. One of the first docs that we created for our own techs was about how to remove Win95 so the customer could return to DOS and Win3x. Users will gravitate more towards what they use the most, be it DOS, Win95, Mac or whatever.
But will they work if you put a transparency with a black line on it in front of the stamp so that the black line crosses a corner of the stamp? USPS uses this "cancellation" to display stamp designs in advertising. Can we do that too and have the copier work?
Okay, the last one may be stretching it a little bit, but there are a lot more railfan videos and toy trains marketed to the Great Unwashed Masses (tm).
Yeah, I fit most of the geek profile as presented in the article, but the way I see it, my friends (the SQUIDs [Society for Quality Understanding of Imaginary Dimensions] of Mira Costa HS) and I were trendsetters. It will be interesting to see what new trends today's high schoolers introduce in the next 10-20 years.
--
Sean Lamb
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." -- Groucho Marx
Sure, there's a lot of nasty stuff, but there's a whole lot more good stuff that I've run across.
I don't know about anyone else, but I probably won't buy this product. It's not a question of drivers or socket availability. I get a higher strain when I'm using a pen than when I'm using a mouse. At least with a mouse I can let my hand relax over the box, whereas with a pen I have to make an effort to hold on to the little bugger.
I dread exams not for a lack of study but for the pain of writing all those words out longhand (rather than typing them into my laptop).
In case you haven't looked, MS tries to put their own spin on it at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/trial/ . Most notable are that it took until paragraph 408 for MS to find anything favorable (which was then highly touted), and made MS-Word versions available that are twice the size of the WP version.
Mark down one vote for such an informational website. Getting money when a company is just starting out is really tough, and any information can be made valuable information, especially if it comes from reputable sources.
Per-minute fees - The only people who have the equipment anywhere near in place to monitor online usage to the minute are the ISPs (or online providers) themselves. The telco can't easily prove if a line is being used for voice or data or both without listening to it. I seriously doubt that telcos are going to install the equipment to monitor usage in this way since they really have no way to check and correlate calls with every ISP that a modem user could dial in to. If a per-minute fee is imposed, it will be imposed on the ISPs who would pass on the charge itself plus a penny or two for "processing" fees. Once ISPs are charged for per-minute fees, the feds will need additional staff to track and process such billing as well, which would require capital expenditure, and we all know what that means...
Flat fees - As with the per-minute fees, the first question is who to charge. If we send the charge to the ISPs, they'll pass it on to their customers as higher monthly access rates. Users who are online more than 60 hours per month (to pick a number out of the air) may not mind because they're online so much, but Gramma & Grampa who are online less than 3 hours a month will probably decide to drop the service. If we send the charge to the telcos, how is the telco going to prove that a particular telephone user is also a dialup internet user as opposed to a cable modem internet user or corporate LAN internet user? Also, how is the telco going to justify spreading this charge over telephone users who never access the internet?
Further barrier 1, corporate LAN access - Like the per-minute fee, the ISP is the only place where the access can be reliably tracked. Corporate America has some pretty expensive lobbyists that they can throw around to combat any additional fees imposed on them. High-revenue companies that rely on internet connectivity will not stand by as their revenue streams are significantly reduced by any additional charges like this.
Further barrier 2, internationalization - It seems that the US Government is viewing the internet as a US-only enterprise again. No single governing body can legislate over the internet since no single body's jurisdiction completely covers the physical location of the internet. Sure, a majority of connections go through Virginia, and mine is to a local provider in Wisconsin, but what about everyone in .au or .il or .es or .jp or any other TLD other than .us?
Further barrier 3, internet time - innovation on the internet surpasses legislation speed by light years. By the time a bill like this would pass through to law, the more avid internet users will find other means to access the internet that avoid these charges.
In short (too late!), I seriously doubt that any kind of "modem tax" would be enacted any time soon.
<DennisMiller>But, I could be wrong...</DennisMiller>