So it's an all female team? According to their home page they are a group of "six female undergraduate senior engineers". It's a little misleading, suggesting the team is made up of only these engineering students. The total number of students is seven. Look at the Team List. There is one guy: Duncan Laurie, self proffessed "God of Computer Engineering".
I'm all for women in engineering, there is plenty of room for more. However, let's be team players and all work together. I am discouraged whenever a same sex team accomplishes something.
Good luck to the group. I certainly had fun doing similar work in college.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
With a GPS receiver, connect to Heavens-AboveGmbH. This is the satellite predictions page changed locations and is operated by the German Space Operations Center. This URL is the current one.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
For #7, Forgetting the password, it mentions that "after your system is installed and working you have little need to use it." With my NT machine at work, almost every time I install a software, I need administrator access. To fully use my ZIP drive, I often need administrator access. Perhaps my IT group has my computer set up in a strange way, but I don't believe this.
I also like the solution for this. To avoid forgetting my root password, I'm going to give my account root privileges. Why didn't I think of that before? So now I feel secure.
I also noticed numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 all deal with security. The 50% of the Top 10.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
But this is funny becuase some of these problems are often the excuse NOT to use or even try Linux. Look at #2, putting NT on the proper partition. How many times have we heard reviewers complain they don't know what a partition is and that it shouldn't be important? Becuase you need to partition your hard drive, Linux is considered incapable of anything worthwhile except for those hackers.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
From the first dumb thing NT users do: Have no fear, though. Most decent hardware is compatible. You can see if your hardware is compatible by visiting Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility List. If anything, this is an excuse that you can use on your spouse to upgrade your hardware.
So use this excuse to your boss when suggesting Linux. You don't have to spend the money on hardware upgrades. OR, the other spouse can suggest using Linux for $19 instead of $1000 for some type of hardware upgrade.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
This article mentions that AOL and IBM also offer an e-wallet service, although the data is stored on your local computer and NOT on some corporations marketing database.
Someone have exeperiece with the M$ e-wallet? I'm wondering what the increase percentage in junk mail is (e-mail, snail mail, AND phone).
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Really, anyone think Bill will give straight answers?
At least it might provide some comedy.
My question: What was your reasoning for using the backslash ("\") as the directory delimiter in MS-DOS instead of the industry standard slash ("/")? I find the slash easier to type (at least on an American keyboard).
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Ever want to bake cookies based off of U.S. military standards?
For those of you who have access to a standards database check out MIL-C-44072C. The title is "Military Specification: Cookies, Oatmeal and Brownies, Chocolate Covered".
I have a pdf file if anyone is interested. I don't want to put it up on my web page for fear of being/.'ed. If anyone wants to post it, let me know.
This document is 23 pages and discusses (in government detail) all of the ingredients, baking procedures, and possible shipping methods. If you want to bake, bake with this government recipe.
Just so you know: "This specification is approved for use by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense". So the usual disclaimer probably applies: Use at your own risk.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I'm glad/. is now profitable. I would hate to think I waste my time on/.. Now, if I could only earn money from reading/.. Maybe some some day,/.'ed will mean "get windfall of cash". Nah.
Seriously, I would like to echo everyone elses support for Jane's approach. I think this article will be very informative and demonstrate the type of knowledge/. can distribute/share.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
* It would depend upon the vital system, of course. It's unlikely that there's a remote 'stop burn' option for a coal-burning power plant, for instance.
Don't forget though, if all it takes to "throw water on the fire" is a simple text e-mail message signed "Management" asking to shut down the plant, this is a concern. Either the procedure needs to be changed or have secure/reliable communications which can be compromised. In this case any system can have a remote stop burn option.
Anywhere people rely on computers, cyber-terrorism can be a concern. It doesn't have to be completely electronic.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
The company announced Thursday it would pay the cash-starved Russian space agency about half the price of a 30-second TV ad during the Super Bowl -- currently up to $2.5 million -- for the right to paint its logo on a Russian Proton rocket.
So, if the $2.5million price tag is correct, Pizza Hut's cost is $1.25million for the Russian rocket ad.
I'm still waiting for that big banner ad in orbit that you can see at night. I forgot who was planning that.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
The problem with Climate Orbiter, from what I've heard was that they reported a weight in pounds (pound-force), and NASA assumed Newtons.
Who invented this English system of measurements with pound-force, pound-mass and slugs? Newtons and kilograms is all I need. If you think English is easier, I hate to know what OS you use.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
As other replies to your post say, you are counting in the wrong direction, trying to find the precise (exact) metric dimension to an English unit you are used too. You have to think the other way since the rest of the world works in metric.
I work on several space station projects, where dimensions are nice round centimeter or meter dimensions (because I work with international partners). Now I have to work with 3.28ft and 39.37in instead of 100cm. English units just aren't useful.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
My point was the government hands out pamphlets to educate the public all the time (including tax laws). There is nothing difficult with the metric unit of measurement. All it takes is folks to read a paragraph to grasp the concepts.
I agree with the sad state of U.S. public education where teachers can't understand the basic concepts of measurement. I don't know how that happened since I'm a product of U.S. public education and I was taught metric at an early age (second grade?) because it was so easy to understand.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I'm American and have to work in English and Metric units all the time. I deal mostly with temperatures and am happy with the Celsius scale. It is so much more intuitive and easier to understand. I hate watching the weather and see 32deg (without units!) and think oh HOT!, but it is actually freezing.
What I can't understand is Americans aversion to the 24-hr clock or "military time" as Americans love to call it for some reason. I guess they think the rest of the world is run by generals and dictators? That damned am/pm just bothers me, especially for digital clocks, where the symbols are so damned small, you have to judge am/pm by day light. Worse yet, 12am and 12pm are ambiguous and do not exist.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I wasn't being sexist...I was making a point. If the US switched to the metric system who is going to reeducate everyone.
The same people to have re-educate everyone the new tax laws every year. It isn't hard. If it is, then the U.S.'s education system needs some serious re-evalutions for such an uneducated generation.
I'm an aerospace engineer who dreads using the English units. I see confusion all the time (I scare myself once in a while). It's just extra work that doesn't need to be there. The metric system is so much easier to use. What's so difficult driving at a 120kph speedlimit when the sign says 120kph. Just keep the speedometer at 120kph. Speedometer's have had kph for as long as I can remember.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Why has productivity not increased with the increase in tools?
Easy, it has. In my line of work slide rules, pencil and paper flew humans to to moon. Now I sit in front of a 400MHz computer running (NT, ugh) gobs and gobs of models outputting thousands (millions?) of lines of more output in a week than any engineer in the Apollo era ever did in a career.
But what am I building? I'm building better and more sophisticated experiments. There's more power, less weight, less cost, more regulations, and I'm still getting it done. Why? Because I have better tools to make quicker decisions, create more data to make more complicated decisions, or read slashdot.
Let's be realistic, the tools we create are created to get the job done. What do you need to get the job done? Labor. There is still only so many hours in the day. But there's more work to do to continue to make improvements (cars, airplanes, buildings, bridges, roads, etc) over existing products. Otherwise nothing would get safer, cheaper, or more efficient.
I'm sure if we were still manufacturing gas guzzling cars without seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, passenger compartment safety cages, fancy sound system, shift on the fly four wheel drive, and traction sensing power, we'd be more efficient when measuring efficiency as stated in the article.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I can't remember what that the haloe around the Moon is called. I see that often here in Colorado where the evenings are often cold. I don't remember how the phenomenae occurs either.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Slashdot Mirror
So it's an all female team? According to their home page they are a group of "six female undergraduate senior engineers". It's a little misleading, suggesting the team is made up of only these engineering students. The total number of students is seven. Look at the Team List. There is one guy: Duncan Laurie, self proffessed "God of Computer Engineering".
I'm all for women in engineering, there is plenty of room for more. However, let's be team players and all work together. I am discouraged whenever a same sex team accomplishes something.
Good luck to the group. I certainly had fun doing similar work in college.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
With a GPS receiver, connect to Heavens-AboveGmbH. This is the satellite predictions page changed locations and is operated by the German Space Operations Center. This URL is the current one.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
At least install Linux and play doom.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
For #7, Forgetting the password, it mentions that "after your system is installed and working you have little need to use it." With my NT machine at work, almost every time I install a software, I need administrator access. To fully use my ZIP drive, I often need administrator access. Perhaps my IT group has my computer set up in a strange way, but I don't believe this.
I also like the solution for this. To avoid forgetting my root password, I'm going to give my account root privileges. Why didn't I think of that before? So now I feel secure.
I also noticed numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 all deal with security. The 50% of the Top 10.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Agreed.
But this is funny becuase some of these problems are often the excuse NOT to use or even try Linux.
Look at #2, putting NT on the proper partition. How many times have we heard reviewers complain they don't know what a partition is and that it shouldn't be important? Becuase you need to partition your hard drive, Linux is considered incapable of anything worthwhile except for those hackers.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
From the first dumb thing NT users do:
Have no fear, though. Most decent hardware is compatible. You can see if your hardware is compatible by visiting Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility List. If anything, this is an excuse that you can use on your spouse to upgrade your hardware.
So use this excuse to your boss when suggesting Linux. You don't have to spend the money on hardware upgrades. OR, the other spouse can suggest using Linux for $19 instead of $1000 for some type of hardware upgrade.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
The Register also mentioned the M$ e-Wallet.
This article mentions that AOL and IBM also offer an e-wallet service, although the data is stored on your local computer and NOT on some corporations marketing database.
Someone have exeperiece with the M$ e-wallet? I'm wondering what the increase percentage in junk mail is (e-mail, snail mail, AND phone).
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Really, anyone think Bill will give straight answers?
At least it might provide some comedy.
My question:
What was your reasoning for using the backslash ("\") as the directory delimiter in MS-DOS instead of the industry standard slash ("/")? I find the slash easier to type (at least on an American keyboard).
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Ever want to bake cookies based off of U.S. military standards?
/.'ed. If anyone wants to post it, let me know.
For those of you who have access to a standards database check out MIL-C-44072C. The title is "Military Specification: Cookies, Oatmeal and Brownies, Chocolate Covered".
I have a pdf file if anyone is interested. I don't want to put it up on my web page for fear of being
This document is 23 pages and discusses (in government detail) all of the ingredients, baking procedures, and possible shipping methods. If you want to bake, bake with this government recipe.
Just so you know: "This specification is approved for use by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense". So the usual disclaimer probably applies: Use at your own risk.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I can see everyone voting with ulterior motives, just to be the last couple. Alone. On the beach.
What I didn't understand is, how much of it will be on TV. The discussions and voting, how-did-its on hut manufacturing?
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
....invent this? I guess they will two years from now.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
New poll, who makes the most money from Slashdot.
/. is now profitable. I would hate to think I waste my time on /.. Now, if I could only earn money from reading /.. Maybe some some day, /.'ed will mean "get windfall of cash". Nah.
/. can distribute/share.
I'm glad
Seriously, I would like to echo everyone elses support for Jane's approach. I think this article will be very informative and demonstrate the type of knowledge
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Scared me for a little bit. It's still dumb to "announce" it twice on Slashdot.
Other Slashdot Itanium article
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
* It would depend upon the vital system, of course. It's unlikely that there's a remote 'stop burn' option for a coal-burning power plant, for instance.
Don't forget though, if all it takes to "throw water on the fire" is a simple text e-mail message signed "Management" asking to shut down the plant, this is a concern. Either the procedure needs to be changed or have secure/reliable communications which can be compromised. In this case any system can have a remote stop burn option.
Anywhere people rely on computers, cyber-terrorism can be a concern. It doesn't have to be completely electronic.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
From an article:
The company announced Thursday it would pay the cash-starved Russian space agency about half the price of a 30-second TV ad during the Super Bowl -- currently up to $2.5 million -- for the right to paint its logo on a Russian Proton rocket.
So, if the $2.5million price tag is correct, Pizza Hut's cost is $1.25million for the Russian rocket ad.
I'm still waiting for that big banner ad in orbit that you can see at night. I forgot who was planning that.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
The problem with Climate Orbiter, from what I've heard was that they reported a weight in pounds (pound-force), and NASA assumed Newtons.
Who invented this English system of measurements with pound-force, pound-mass and slugs? Newtons and kilograms is all I need. If you think English is easier, I hate to know what OS you use.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
As other replies to your post say, you are counting in the wrong direction, trying to find the precise (exact) metric dimension to an English unit you are used too. You have to think the other way since the rest of the world works in metric.
I work on several space station projects, where dimensions are nice round centimeter or meter dimensions (because I work with international partners). Now I have to work with 3.28ft and 39.37in instead of 100cm. English units just aren't useful.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
My point was the government hands out pamphlets to educate the public all the time (including tax laws). There is nothing difficult with the metric unit of measurement. All it takes is folks to read a paragraph to grasp the concepts.
I agree with the sad state of U.S. public education where teachers can't understand the basic concepts of measurement. I don't know how that happened since I'm a product of U.S. public education and I was taught metric at an early age (second grade?) because it was so easy to understand.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I'm American and have to work in English and Metric units all the time. I deal mostly with temperatures and am happy with the Celsius scale. It is so much more intuitive and easier to understand. I hate watching the weather and see 32deg (without units!) and think oh HOT!, but it is actually freezing.
What I can't understand is Americans aversion to the 24-hr clock or "military time" as Americans love to call it for some reason. I guess they think the rest of the world is run by generals and dictators? That damned am/pm just bothers me, especially for digital clocks, where the symbols are so damned small, you have to judge am/pm by day light. Worse yet, 12am and 12pm are ambiguous and do not exist.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I wasn't being sexist...I was making a point. If the US switched to the metric system who is going to reeducate everyone.
The same people to have re-educate everyone the new tax laws every year. It isn't hard. If it is, then the U.S.'s education system needs some serious re-evalutions for such an uneducated generation.
I'm an aerospace engineer who dreads using the English units. I see confusion all the time (I scare myself once in a while). It's just extra work that doesn't need to be there. The metric system is so much easier to use. What's so difficult driving at a 120kph speedlimit when the sign says 120kph. Just keep the speedometer at 120kph. Speedometer's have had kph for as long as I can remember.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I can see it now. Folks wearing computers while driving to work down the interstate playing Doom....
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
Why has productivity not increased with the increase in tools?
Easy, it has. In my line of work slide rules, pencil and paper flew humans to to moon. Now I sit in front of a 400MHz computer running (NT, ugh) gobs and gobs of models outputting thousands (millions?) of lines of more output in a week than any engineer in the Apollo era ever did in a career.
But what am I building? I'm building better and more sophisticated experiments. There's more power, less weight, less cost, more regulations, and I'm still getting it done. Why? Because I have better tools to make quicker decisions, create more data to make more complicated decisions, or read slashdot.
Let's be realistic, the tools we create are created to get the job done. What do you need to get the job done? Labor. There is still only so many hours in the day. But there's more work to do to continue to make improvements (cars, airplanes, buildings, bridges, roads, etc) over existing products. Otherwise nothing would get safer, cheaper, or more efficient.
I'm sure if we were still manufacturing gas guzzling cars without seatbelts, anti-lock brakes, passenger compartment safety cages, fancy sound system, shift on the fly four wheel drive, and traction sensing power, we'd be more efficient when measuring efficiency as stated in the article.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
So now that Linux businesses are going public, will Slashdot have stock quotes? :) The Slashquotes.....
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I think that the Plutonium dioxide would hardly be detectable against all of the other radiation sources (most notably our Sun).
Anyone can look at this issue at the Cassini web site: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassi ni/rtg/rtginfoframes.htm
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
I can't remember what that the haloe around the Moon is called. I see that often here in Colorado where the evenings are often cold. I don't remember how the phenomenae occurs either.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"