I saw this program too, it was on a broadcast network, I believe PBS.
But as I remember, the large-scale test (30 ton obelisk) using the elaborate tilting mechanism failed when using man-power. There was a cylindrical log underneath the obelisk which they couldn't keep from being dragged instead of rolled (too much downward pressure from the weight of the obelisk). They eventually had to use an industrial crane to get the obelisk in place, which obviously was unavailable to Egyptians.
The sandbox test worked perfectly, and though it was a smaller obelisk (6-tons or so) it was done totally man-powered. The Egyptians have raised obelisks that weight up to 100 tons, and the sandbox theory seems the most likely one that could have been scaled up for obelisks of this size.
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I too thought I'd seen every episode of the Simpsons. I've been watching re-runs on the Fox/Baltimore station - they show back to back episodes daily at 6pm. And over the past few months I've probably seen at least 6 or 7 episodes I've never seen before, it's quite a treat. The ones from the first 5 or 6 seasons are quite common for re-runs, but the ones after that don't get quite as many sindicated showings.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I bought a power supply, heatsink, cpu and case fan from them in hopes of making things more quiet. Did it work? Well sorta, not as well as I'd hoped.
Regardless of how quiet they say it is, the power supply is only a little more quiet than the average *brand new* power supply. In my opinion the $80 price tag is not worth it - you'd get about the same performance with any other brand new ps. And bad enough, after 4 months mine is now starting to "flare" up once in a while - you know when the fan goes berzerk and creates a lot of annoying buzzing (a sign that it's time to replace the fans, doh!).
Another thing, the CPU fan and heat sink is good however the accessory supplied to connect it to your CPU is a joke. I bought the one for a Celeron/PII and it wasn't even close to fitting. It was just a metal wire slung underneath the fan through the fins of the heatsink. I didn't even understand how it was supposed to grip the CPU slot. After a lot of fiddling and playing I gave up and ended up having to remove the wire and hack together my own connection using an elaborate mesh of elastic bands.
Next time I upgrade I'm gonna try fans from QuitePC.com
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Get your story in the local newspapers
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There is only so much the Slashdot crowd can do. If you get a front page story in the local newspapers you will have a much greater chance of getting help from people who can do more than harass the school.
The other thing I'd do is contact a lawyer to sue your board of education for the cost of a private school.
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The only thing I have been able to come up with, is that the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In Europe the translated title of this story is "Red Hat".
I don't know how it has anything to do with Linux though.
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It's for the benefit of Russia (and possibly Japan as well). Russia is in extremely poor economical shape - a big portion of it due to the fact that they are isolated from North America. Plane cargo can't ship enough natural resources between the 2 continents for Russia to export all that she can supply.
60 billion in funding, spread over 20 years, and partially funded by the World Bank, and perhaps Japan and the US could certainly be accomplished.
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"Now if only all 2.6 million of their users could join distributed.net."
I might be talking out of my ass, but from the little I've read on distributed.net it seems like they make redundant goals. Break the RC5 algorythm by brute force? Whoop-dee-do. They know they have the computing power, they know how to do it, and they knew that with enough time they'll break it. So why are they trying to prove something they already know. It's kind of like "let's dig a hole, and fill it back up just to see if we can do it". Yeehaw, go to town fellas!
At least Seti@home has a goal with a defined purpose, and it's something that many everyday people see worthy enough to dedicate their resources to.
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I can understand where you're coming from. But in order to setup a really great Home Theatre, computer equipment just doesn't cut it. A computer's S-Video output will never come anywhere near to the quality of video you'd get out of even a cheap DVD player. And it goes without saying that a stereo with nice speakers is going to sound significantly better than any cheap little circuit board in a computer, and tiny plastic speakers.
As far as prices go, 800UKP (== $1500USD ?), is way at the high end of the scale. If you were to forgoe the MP3 player capability you don't have to spend a penny over $200 for an excellent player.
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Yahoo is not located in France. The Internet is not based in France. So as far as I can tell, Yahoo is not required to do anything. If the French government doesn't want it's users using Yahoo's service, then it is the responsibility of the French government to ensure this is the case, not Yahoo.
Who do these French people think they are?
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
When referring to a single piece of "mail" most people use the word "letter". For example "I checked my mail and had 3 letters".
There is no email equivalent of "letters". I suppose the word "messages" would describe a single piece of email, but I don't believe it is used by anyone because "messages" is too vague a word and doesn't specify that it was a piece of email.
Therefore email became a singular.
I have to stop reading Slashdot and see how many emails I have waiting....
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Is that he implies that humanity has to begin planning now for the eventual exodus of the planet earth. Not everyone can go because there is not enough spacecrafts. So we must selectively choose the brightest and most creative people in the planet to lead the next generations of humans into space. The ones who will be chosen first are the engineers, doctors, artists, programmers, astronauts, and *cough*cough* Macro Physicists who perform Gangsta Rap on the side.
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There's another status that workers can be hired under called TN (temporary non-immigrant working status) - it only allows you to work for 1 year BUT you can renew it each year. I know this because I've just been granted one. So any of these H1B workers could simply apply for a TN and (if granted) could continue to work, live, prosper, and pay taxes in the US.
I think most Americans don't realize how much higher their wages are compared to the rest of the world. For example, I live in Canada, and can usually expect the average developers job to pay $50,000 to $75,000 per year. Well guess what the typical developers job in the US pays? Uh, you guessed correctly; $50,000 to $75,000 (or more) - FYI the US$ is 35% higher than the CDN$. And there's substantially more programming jobs in the US than anywhere else in the world.
The prospect of working in the US is a great opportunity for skilled programmers. None of the H1B workers are "stealing" jobs away from US workers. Trust me, for all the troubles that companies have to go to immigrate skilled workers into the country, they would not be doing it if they could merely post a job ad in a newspaper and find the skill they need.
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Well the site is currently slashdotted into oblivion, so I have to wonder about the economical value of something like this. Fossil fuels are not the end-all be-all of power generation, and with gas prices going through the roof I'm not sure if I'd want my only power source dependent on a rising cost source.
Governments should really be increasing the use of nuclear power and blasting the nuclear waste into the sun.
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Tivo is a great idea, and I don't see a whole lot of problems that you could run into if they know that you (an anonymous tivo user) watches 4 hours of The Simpons per week. In fact I can't imagine a more accurate rating system for the viewership of television shows. They will know exactly what stations, and programs are being watched across a wide amount of users.
From a statistics point of view, a single persons viewership profile is insignificant. Nobody would ever look at your stats specifically and say "Wow, this fellow sure likes watching the Playboy Channel". They need to amalgamate the stats from thousands of viewers to get any information that's of use. So it's not like anyone is spying directly on you.
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Sign the docs. All you are doing is signing that you were one of the inventors. If the company gets into a mess because of the patent, no harm will come to you - you helped invent it, you didn't file for the patent. And since you don't work for the company anymore you can just on with your business and not worry about it.
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There's nothing wrong with them. They're quite as a mouse, I don't even know they're in my computer. It's the goddamned fans that have to go. Make the best heat sink possible using nanotubes, and make it good enough that you don't need a fan - and then I will be happy to buy it.
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A lot of college and university grads seem to say that. Meanwhile, a lot of these same people are $40,000 in debt, and took the first entry full time job they were offered. They'll be paying off their school loans for years and never really get ahead of the game. I didn't want that. I got into web development consulting, and make more money than any of my university peers will after they graduate. Even in a few years if I can't find any work whatsoever, I'll still have more than enough cash to live comfortably, go back to school with no debts or anything to worry about.
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...ain't no publically held corporation would even consider selling such a product for cheap. It won't matter if it costs 1 cent to produce a 100 million Gigabyte nano-drive - it's still gonna cost mucho grande and thus targeted at "high end servers". The markup for development costs will be stretched out for so many years that this kind of technology will not be sitting on my desk for decade(s). And that is if, and only if, it actually becomes a feasibly manufacturable product.
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Is that space in "ro ot" supposed to be there?
A weak argument could be mand that the neural implants in their brains contain the kill-switch, and cannot be removed without killing the individual.
But as I remember, the large-scale test (30 ton obelisk) using the elaborate tilting mechanism failed when using man-power. There was a cylindrical log underneath the obelisk which they couldn't keep from being dragged instead of rolled (too much downward pressure from the weight of the obelisk). They eventually had to use an industrial crane to get the obelisk in place, which obviously was unavailable to Egyptians.
The sandbox test worked perfectly, and though it was a smaller obelisk (6-tons or so) it was done totally man-powered. The Egyptians have raised obelisks that weight up to 100 tons, and the sandbox theory seems the most likely one that could have been scaled up for obelisks of this size.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Regardless of how quiet they say it is, the power supply is only a little more quiet than the average *brand new* power supply. In my opinion the $80 price tag is not worth it - you'd get about the same performance with any other brand new ps. And bad enough, after 4 months mine is now starting to "flare" up once in a while - you know when the fan goes berzerk and creates a lot of annoying buzzing (a sign that it's time to replace the fans, doh!).
Another thing, the CPU fan and heat sink is good however the accessory supplied to connect it to your CPU is a joke. I bought the one for a Celeron/PII and it wasn't even close to fitting. It was just a metal wire slung underneath the fan through the fins of the heatsink. I didn't even understand how it was supposed to grip the CPU slot. After a lot of fiddling and playing I gave up and ended up having to remove the wire and hack together my own connection using an elaborate mesh of elastic bands.
Next time I upgrade I'm gonna try fans from QuitePC.com
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
The other thing I'd do is contact a lawyer to sue your board of education for the cost of a private school.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I don't know how it has anything to do with Linux though.
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"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
60 billion in funding, spread over 20 years, and partially funded by the World Bank, and perhaps Japan and the US could certainly be accomplished.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I might be talking out of my ass, but from the little I've read on distributed.net it seems like they make redundant goals. Break the RC5 algorythm by brute force? Whoop-dee-do. They know they have the computing power, they know how to do it, and they knew that with enough time they'll break it. So why are they trying to prove something they already know. It's kind of like "let's dig a hole, and fill it back up just to see if we can do it". Yeehaw, go to town fellas!
At least Seti@home has a goal with a defined purpose, and it's something that many everyday people see worthy enough to dedicate their resources to.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
As far as prices go, 800UKP (== $1500USD ?), is way at the high end of the scale. If you were to forgoe the MP3 player capability you don't have to spend a penny over $200 for an excellent player.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Who do these French people think they are?
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http://world.wide.web
Beautiful.....
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aw wait, that excellent name is already taken. I guess I could live with the name "Planet Who-Cares".
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
When referring to a single piece of "mail" most people use the word "letter". For example "I checked my mail and had 3 letters".
There is no email equivalent of "letters". I suppose the word "messages" would describe a single piece of email, but I don't believe it is used by anyone because "messages" is too vague a word and doesn't specify that it was a piece of email.
Therefore email became a singular.
I have to stop reading Slashdot and see how many emails I have waiting....
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
I think most Americans don't realize how much higher their wages are compared to the rest of the world. For example, I live in Canada, and can usually expect the average developers job to pay $50,000 to $75,000 per year. Well guess what the typical developers job in the US pays? Uh, you guessed correctly; $50,000 to $75,000 (or more) - FYI the US$ is 35% higher than the CDN$. And there's substantially more programming jobs in the US than anywhere else in the world.
The prospect of working in the US is a great opportunity for skilled programmers. None of the H1B workers are "stealing" jobs away from US workers. Trust me, for all the troubles that companies have to go to immigrate skilled workers into the country, they would not be doing it if they could merely post a job ad in a newspaper and find the skill they need.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
Governments should really be increasing the use of nuclear power and blasting the nuclear waste into the sun.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
From a statistics point of view, a single persons viewership profile is insignificant. Nobody would ever look at your stats specifically and say "Wow, this fellow sure likes watching the Playboy Channel". They need to amalgamate the stats from thousands of viewers to get any information that's of use. So it's not like anyone is spying directly on you.
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."
"I can only show you Linux... you're the one who has to read the man pages."