he doesn't represent hard working people who actually fucking pay for stuff.
He does, however, seem to represent hard working people who actually fucking pay for stuff, but then get sued by the RIAA anyway.
So - how does this work for you at your RIAA offices? Troll/. as AC, get a bonus for every reply, then subtract for a pwning reply? Hope your knees get nice and sore on this one, champette.
Seriously - you have to be one of them to lack even the fundamentamental (said it on purpose) skills to troll without having a single phrase ram your own words up your ass.
PS - Hope you had as much fun bending over and taking it as I had in putting it to you. COME BACK AGAIN - REALLY - you dumbass.
Roger that, Houston. In a few short weeks, we'll have no local newspapers where I live - shutdown due to lack of revenue - or in-depth reporting, take your pick.
TFA said he uncovered that the Little Boy diameter was 28" rather than 29" - so, I'm not speaking for the accuracy of these blueprints - just letting people know that they're out there.
Frankly, from the account given in the article of the hissy fit that he threw when at the museum in Albuquerque, I wonder about the guy. The museum's always been pretty cool, and back in 93 when he visited it, it was at KAFB. The docents and staff have always been very friendly and helpful, and the displays while at KAFB were surprisingly frank and open.
Tokyo was pretty bleak at the time the two big ones were dropped - it had been the target of incendiary bombing, and according to recently re-broadcast news clips, the death toll of that raid was 100k dead and a million families displaced.
The second bombing underscores the need for diplomatic communications. After Hiroshima, the Japanese sent us a message that was taken as a resolute stand to continue the fighting - later analysts questioned its poetic language and concluded that it might have been the overture hoped for to prevent further violence. We will never know.
There was a strong debate over the principle target - Hiroshima - and one option was as you said, an area where population loss would be minimal. AFAIR, the debate shied from that option because, incredibly, the Japanese would have had to have been warned in advance of the drop to ensure that they observed the effects and the option was discarded because it would have backfired if the US had warned them to look for something big and the first one turned out to be a dud.
8-tracks died, not due to lack of interest, but due to a simple decision to stop making the players.
I think you have a cause and effect problem there....
They stopped making players when sales went down due to the cassette finally being recognized as superior by consumers.
The sellers of both the 8 track tapes and their players were inundated with more returns due to breakage, mistracking, abnormal wear, etc - the industry was eventually happy to drop the format.
The reason, in my opinion, that the 8-track died because it was defective by design. Ever open up an 8 track and look at how it was threaded? The endless-loop was executed as follows: tape on a single large spool, but not anchored at the inside - instead, it comes out of the center, turns sideways, and is effectively "sandpapered" over itself. The picture on the wiki page is almost accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_8 Where it falls down is that it shows a spool of tape just a 1/4 inch or so deep - imagine the whole spool nearly full, bottom guide only, no top, so that the tape CANNOT re-spool without yawing, and then having the irregular surfaces worn away by the nature of the threading.
8 tracks died when consumer accepted that it was defective by design - and I mean by this that the units had a high return rate and therefore a reduced or uncertain profitability for all concerned in the supply chain.
You probably had a pretty nice 8 track collection - my friends that did held your opinion at that time. One of them had a very nice 8 track recorder - I think those were rare.
In its favor, I recognize that the tape was higher speed than cassette, and a new, well-made 8 track did sound far superior to the pre-recorded cassettes of the day. And the whole Dolby correction thing was a fiasco - 'nuff said.
You 8 track fans (assuming you're one) got screwed - no doubt about it.
And I'm not saying you're flat wrong, I'm just saying it's maybe more multi-dimensional than the way you were looking at it.
FWIW, I worked in an audio store for a while when both formats were big - we had a large record/tape store, car stereo and home stereo depts all under one roof. So that's where I'm coming from making the above claims.
I've think I've hit upon a very simple thing holding back consumer excitement over Linux - it's the naming.
In the dot-com days, Linux was getting public attention - I've no doubt that many here got on board due to that furor. (Not everyone, not me either, 'em kay? I go back to the early or mid 90s, I honestly can't remember - pre-CD at any rate - so no flames please.)
It was easy - it was in the news.
Now for those that really remember the dot-com crash there was a name associated with it by analysts and it was in the news - VA Linux, whose initial stated price was to be at $30/share (on par with other IPOs) but really didn't trade the first day until it was at an order of magnitude above that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsForge
At that point, the word "Linux" was in the mainstream televised news in a very negative way. IPO fever, AFAIR, died the day of the VALinux IPO.
I no longer follow Linux as religiously as I once did and as a result, today, reading this thread, I've heard of more installations by name than I could imagine.
This is simple marketing - name goes from unknown to known, whateveritis is in the news in a positive way, then it's back in a negative way. The stage is set for consumer confusion.
Consumers as a pack may be reasonable enough to ignore stock issues when choosing a product - every surviving company in the tech sector is proof (MS and Apple are sufficient to illustrate the point).
But consumers as individuals need clarity. Google for Linux - my top hit was linux.org where one is treated to a non-consumer page. The best they do is a link to "Distributions" and from there, a bit more of technology-oriented stuff.
All well and good in and of itself and necessary for the community.
But I submit that consumers want to consume an OS - one doesn't look for an MS Win distribution or an Apple distribution - they go to get an OS. Go to http://www.linux.org/dist - enter some choices - I did English, Mainstream, Intel - and look at the list you get.
Go to Linux.com and it's a blog page to many initiates. The google factoid for ubuntu.com is: Official site; Commercially sponsored Debian-derived Linux distribution that focuses on usability, a regular 6-month release cycle, and a commitment to at... I want to be clear - I am in no way, shape or form ragging on Linux.org or any of the other orgs- I am trying to point out a marketing reality.
If we want any year to become the year of the Linux desktop, then my opinion is to get away from the "distribution" mem entirely.
For me, today's issue isn't whether or not the reporting in TFA was immature or not (I didn't RTFA, I picked that up from other posts) - but to ask how anyone expects the mainstream news to get anything right about Linux?
And please don't Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu me to death - today it's Ubuntu, yesterday it was Mandrake, the day before it was RedHat.
There's no appearance of stability to the outside world and there's no easy way to know how to enter Linuxdom.
Until those things are solved, we get news as interesting as distribution breakouts with references to Facebook (of all things!).
By the judge's logic, bloggers that were the scourge of the Bush admin, derated because of their medium, might now be classified as mainstream news broadcasters.
The rules work differently depending on which party's partisans happen to have the most mod points when such comments are made.......
And thanks to his transparency he's shown throughout his Vice Presidency there have been zero questionable activities at all. Those secret energy meetings were kept from the public because they were too "technical" for us. And Halliburton/KBR really did earn all those no bid contracts in Iraq.
New here?/. mod points do not extend to the real world.
This is a severe error in judgement and a severe error in disclosure. It is a severe error in situational analysis.
Judgement, situational analysis and action plans (in this case, recusal or disclosure) are based on at least three things: education, experience and character (willpower and conviction). The first two seem to be not lacking.
Therefore, I correctly label this behavior as a character failure.
The individual should - if ethical - recuse himself from all future duties.
The rightness to continue to serve in the face of an ethical issue is not cut and dried. The severity of the issue must be weighed.
The expectations are known to be high, given our recent history of voters questioning the Bush admin's ethics. The period is transitional, where high diligence is required.
The character failure in that light dictates no further services from this individual are warranted, desired or necessary.
Our ethical demands were set in the election. The message was purportedly received and promises made. The electorate responded.
Imagination is the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and the action or process of forming such images or concepts.
I should think that a mind immune to hallucinating is one immune to imagining.
You've made me think: I've had flashes of inspiration. Don't ask me if they were based on imagination or hallucination.
When I awoke, I was unsure if I was a sleeping butterfly, dreaming of being a man awake.
After becoming an expert (pardon me while I throw myself on the floor laughing) in assembly and two OSs, I went to the Radio Shack computer center to see what the TRS-80 was all about (a higher model also ran CP/M, AFAIR). They offered free programming classes that I didn't need, but all dialects are different, so I thought, what the heck.
I was so very impressed with the courteous and professional demeanor of all involved, I came within a heartbeat of also getting a TRS-80 (can't remember the model, would've been a lower one due to budget). They were that good at customer service in those days.
Never got the TRS-80 - wifey put the kabosh on that. Eventually, she put the kabosh on me, too. Never stopped getting hardware - just made sure that the second wife was a programmer. She didn't believe in tight code. We broke up.
There was a lot to learn from the old computers. For example, sometimes, you get lucky.
That's my experience with 9/80 in a nutshell - the privileged screw-offs (every job has them) get to do it some more.
Want to see where they'll put that 9th hour? At the end of the day? Oh, noes - traffic is too bad, I just remembered my babysitter, and I came in early. At the beginning of the day, as some of them claim? Oh, yes, absolutely - then watch them explain how they decided to park farthest from the door coming in at oh-dark-thirty - as if.
And don't expect 5/4/5/4 cycle of days. It'll be 5/4/4/5/4/5/4 - it's an easy system to double-dip. Forget Mondays being a jumping off for where everyone left off last week, and forget Friday having any relevance as a group-cohesive stopping point.
And forget getting a full 8, much less 9, out of those you're counting on when middle mgmt is exercising their off Friday.
What I did? Stayed on 10/80 and watched jaws drop when I started leaving after an 8 hour day.
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he doesn't represent hard working people who actually fucking pay for stuff.
He does, however, seem to represent hard working people who actually fucking pay for stuff, but then get sued by the RIAA anyway.
So - how does this work for you at your RIAA offices? Troll /. as AC, get a bonus for every reply, then subtract for a pwning reply? Hope your knees get nice and sore on this one, champette.
Seriously - you have to be one of them to lack even the fundamentamental (said it on purpose) skills to troll without having a single phrase ram your own words up your ass.
PS - Hope you had as much fun bending over and taking it as I had in putting it to you. COME BACK AGAIN - REALLY - you dumbass.
Depending on the actual tech, I'm imagining a system where the magnetics are laid down with a rotating magnetic field rather than a rotating disk.
If possible, this would lead to magnetic disks without moving parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_State_Logic
I should suppose 0, 1 and user defined...
Roger that, Houston. In a few short weeks, we'll have no local newspapers where I live - shutdown due to lack of revenue - or in-depth reporting, take your pick.
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/store/ProductItem.cfm?Category=179
TFA said he uncovered that the Little Boy diameter was 28" rather than 29" - so, I'm not speaking for the accuracy of these blueprints - just letting people know that they're out there.
Frankly, from the account given in the article of the hissy fit that he threw when at the museum in Albuquerque, I wonder about the guy. The museum's always been pretty cool, and back in 93 when he visited it, it was at KAFB. The docents and staff have always been very friendly and helpful, and the displays while at KAFB were surprisingly frank and open.
(Provide instructions on how to open and read a paper newspaper.)
Seriously - you're fucking kidding, right?
I can't even get many people to buy an MP3 from one of my affiliate advertisers.
Oh dear god - please tell me that it's not being pirated.....
(PS on a serious note- Your input here is very much appreciated and I, for one, welcome the information.)
Tokyo was pretty bleak at the time the two big ones were dropped - it had been the target of incendiary bombing, and according to recently re-broadcast news clips, the death toll of that raid was 100k dead and a million families displaced.
The second bombing underscores the need for diplomatic communications. After Hiroshima, the Japanese sent us a message that was taken as a resolute stand to continue the fighting - later analysts questioned its poetic language and concluded that it might have been the overture hoped for to prevent further violence. We will never know.
There was a strong debate over the principle target - Hiroshima - and one option was as you said, an area where population loss would be minimal. AFAIR, the debate shied from that option because, incredibly, the Japanese would have had to have been warned in advance of the drop to ensure that they observed the effects and the option was discarded because it would have backfired if the US had warned them to look for something big and the first one turned out to be a dud.
Here's a collection of interesting background on the targetings and a few other things:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm
Double Mobius - or -1 * -1 = 1 - sad.
You are correct. Interestingly, TFA said that the 95% figure was derived from file download statistics in multiple countries.
The figure is cooked and then some, with neither links nor indicators for the source data.
You are not alone.
My opinion - a good music collection is eclectic. Greatest hits of Depeche Mode != Boy Bands.
8-tracks died, not due to lack of interest, but due to a simple decision to stop making the players.
I think you have a cause and effect problem there....
They stopped making players when sales went down due to the cassette finally being recognized as superior by consumers.
The sellers of both the 8 track tapes and their players were inundated with more returns due to breakage, mistracking, abnormal wear, etc - the industry was eventually happy to drop the format.
The reason, in my opinion, that the 8-track died because it was defective by design. Ever open up an 8 track and look at how it was threaded? The endless-loop was executed as follows: tape on a single large spool, but not anchored at the inside - instead, it comes out of the center, turns sideways, and is effectively "sandpapered" over itself. The picture on the wiki page is almost accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_8 Where it falls down is that it shows a spool of tape just a 1/4 inch or so deep - imagine the whole spool nearly full, bottom guide only, no top, so that the tape CANNOT re-spool without yawing, and then having the irregular surfaces worn away by the nature of the threading.
8 tracks died when consumer accepted that it was defective by design - and I mean by this that the units had a high return rate and therefore a reduced or uncertain profitability for all concerned in the supply chain.
You probably had a pretty nice 8 track collection - my friends that did held your opinion at that time. One of them had a very nice 8 track recorder - I think those were rare.
In its favor, I recognize that the tape was higher speed than cassette, and a new, well-made 8 track did sound far superior to the pre-recorded cassettes of the day. And the whole Dolby correction thing was a fiasco - 'nuff said.
You 8 track fans (assuming you're one) got screwed - no doubt about it.
And I'm not saying you're flat wrong, I'm just saying it's maybe more multi-dimensional than the way you were looking at it.
FWIW, I worked in an audio store for a while when both formats were big - we had a large record/tape store, car stereo and home stereo depts all under one roof. So that's where I'm coming from making the above claims.
Just to be clear - I was NOT faulting the judge's logic; quite the contrary.
I've think I've hit upon a very simple thing holding back consumer excitement over Linux - it's the naming.
In the dot-com days, Linux was getting public attention - I've no doubt that many here got on board due to that furor. (Not everyone, not me either, 'em kay? I go back to the early or mid 90s, I honestly can't remember - pre-CD at any rate - so no flames please.)
It was easy - it was in the news.
Now for those that really remember the dot-com crash there was a name associated with it by analysts and it was in the news - VA Linux, whose initial stated price was to be at $30/share (on par with other IPOs) but really didn't trade the first day until it was at an order of magnitude above that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsForge
At that point, the word "Linux" was in the mainstream televised news in a very negative way. IPO fever, AFAIR, died the day of the VALinux IPO.
I no longer follow Linux as religiously as I once did and as a result, today, reading this thread, I've heard of more installations by name than I could imagine.
This is simple marketing - name goes from unknown to known, whateveritis is in the news in a positive way, then it's back in a negative way. The stage is set for consumer confusion.
Consumers as a pack may be reasonable enough to ignore stock issues when choosing a product - every surviving company in the tech sector is proof (MS and Apple are sufficient to illustrate the point).
But consumers as individuals need clarity. Google for Linux - my top hit was linux.org where one is treated to a non-consumer page. The best they do is a link to "Distributions" and from there, a bit more of technology-oriented stuff.
All well and good in and of itself and necessary for the community.
But I submit that consumers want to consume an OS - one doesn't look for an MS Win distribution or an Apple distribution - they go to get an OS. Go to http://www.linux.org/dist - enter some choices - I did English, Mainstream, Intel - and look at the list you get.
Go to Linux.com and it's a blog page to many initiates. The google factoid for ubuntu.com is: ...
Official site; Commercially sponsored Debian-derived Linux distribution that focuses on usability, a regular 6-month release cycle, and a commitment to at
I want to be clear - I am in no way, shape or form ragging on Linux.org or any of the other orgs- I am trying to point out a marketing reality.
If we want any year to become the year of the Linux desktop, then my opinion is to get away from the "distribution" mem entirely.
For me, today's issue isn't whether or not the reporting in TFA was immature or not (I didn't RTFA, I picked that up from other posts) - but to ask how anyone expects the mainstream news to get anything right about Linux?
And please don't Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu me to death - today it's Ubuntu, yesterday it was Mandrake, the day before it was RedHat.
There's no appearance of stability to the outside world and there's no easy way to know how to enter Linuxdom.
Until those things are solved, we get news as interesting as distribution breakouts with references to Facebook (of all things!).
By the judge's logic, bloggers that were the scourge of the Bush admin, derated because of their medium, might now be classified as mainstream news broadcasters.
Well, I have to pretty much say yes to all of your questions - although I'd like to negotiate the term retentive.
Before going further, my dick wants me to ask if you're a girl.
You might want to check out:
http://www.antennaweb.org/ (you don't have to put in more than your zip code)
http://www.dtvanswers.com/dtv_antenna.html
At one point a year or two ago, sites similar to this were even giving sample mfgr and model numbers.
This stuff is all VERY well planned out.
The rules work differently depending on which party's partisans happen to have the most mod points when such comments are made.......
And thanks to his transparency he's shown throughout his Vice Presidency there have been zero questionable activities at all. Those secret energy meetings were kept from the public because they were too "technical" for us. And Halliburton/KBR really did earn all those no bid contracts in Iraq.
New here? /. mod points do not extend to the real world.
Do you honestly expect Obama to hand pick his entire staff?
Interesting point - almost.
I would honestly expect any leader (president or ceo) to pick a sufficient top-level staff and then have quality choices flow by extension.
So, you're right, but not in the way that you think. Not only should this bozo go, so should the one that chose him.
A big PS:
This is a severe error in judgement and a severe error in disclosure. It is a severe error in situational analysis.
Judgement, situational analysis and action plans (in this case, recusal or disclosure) are based on at least three things: education, experience and character (willpower and conviction). The first two seem to be not lacking.
Therefore, I correctly label this behavior as a character failure.
Agree in principle, disagree on a key specific.
The individual should - if ethical - recuse himself from all future duties.
The rightness to continue to serve in the face of an ethical issue is not cut and dried. The severity of the issue must be weighed.
The expectations are known to be high, given our recent history of voters questioning the Bush admin's ethics. The period is transitional, where high diligence is required.
The character failure in that light dictates no further services from this individual are warranted, desired or necessary.
Our ethical demands were set in the election. The message was purportedly received and promises made. The electorate responded.
Stand and deliver - no more of this guy, ever.
I'm Italian. I read as far as the part about the bread having a so-so crust and then I skipped to the end.
I don't know what the rest of your post says.
From wikipedia:
A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination :
Imagination is the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses, and the action or process of forming such images or concepts.
I should think that a mind immune to hallucinating is one immune to imagining.
You've made me think: I've had flashes of inspiration. Don't ask me if they were based on imagination or hallucination.
When I awoke, I was unsure if I was a sleeping butterfly, dreaming of being a man awake.
After becoming an expert (pardon me while I throw myself on the floor laughing) in assembly and two OSs, I went to the Radio Shack computer center to see what the TRS-80 was all about (a higher model also ran CP/M, AFAIR). They offered free programming classes that I didn't need, but all dialects are different, so I thought, what the heck.
I was so very impressed with the courteous and professional demeanor of all involved, I came within a heartbeat of also getting a TRS-80 (can't remember the model, would've been a lower one due to budget). They were that good at customer service in those days.
Never got the TRS-80 - wifey put the kabosh on that. Eventually, she put the kabosh on me, too. Never stopped getting hardware - just made sure that the second wife was a programmer. She didn't believe in tight code. We broke up.
There was a lot to learn from the old computers. For example, sometimes, you get lucky.
That's my experience with 9/80 in a nutshell - the privileged screw-offs (every job has them) get to do it some more.
Want to see where they'll put that 9th hour? At the end of the day? Oh, noes - traffic is too bad, I just remembered my babysitter, and I came in early. At the beginning of the day, as some of them claim? Oh, yes, absolutely - then watch them explain how they decided to park farthest from the door coming in at oh-dark-thirty - as if.
And don't expect 5/4/5/4 cycle of days. It'll be 5/4/4/5/4/5/4 - it's an easy system to double-dip. Forget Mondays being a jumping off for where everyone left off last week, and forget Friday having any relevance as a group-cohesive stopping point.
And forget getting a full 8, much less 9, out of those you're counting on when middle mgmt is exercising their off Friday.
What I did? Stayed on 10/80 and watched jaws drop when I started leaving after an 8 hour day.
Fuck 'em.