"Sentiment about the format rivalry varies, depending largely on the size of porn producer. Smaller outfits seem to prefer HD DVD for its lower cost, while larger outfits tend toward Blu-ray for the capacity."
Hey guys - how many times do we have to tell you: SIZE doesn't mean that much!
"A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused."
Yeah, sure. Except for Brazil, let's put the 5 or 10 countries with the worst f***ing human rights records on the planet in charge. That'll be a big step forward.
This is going to end up with China running their own root servers, for themselves, Saudia Arabia, Zimbabwe, Iran, and other lovers of free speech, and ICANN will just move its offices to Geneva so it can satisfy the EU's demands by hiring a bloated staff of lazy, incompetent, and overpaid bureaucrats.
Well, it was that or Verisign. I hope we'll like paying $100/yr to register our domains.
I did due diligence once when a company was assimilated by VC investors. We had to list every OSS package we used and its license. For starters, look here:
It's a long, tedious list of legalspeak. You may end up depending on "Akbar and Jeff's Semi-artistic Hut License" for a critical piece of SW. Kind of gives a VC the willies, especially if he can get a new Hummer by forcing your company to buy his buddy's crapware instead and pocket the kickback. (Not that that happens in real life, no sir.)
>> Except, of course, that the government currently has its finger in the pie.
How exactly, other than funding ICANN?
Say China splits off from DNS - I can point my servers at China's root servers and if the gov't want to stop me they can kiss my butt. I know this argument may not penetrate your tunfoil hat, but they can't stop me without filtering packets, and fighting the US telco indutry tooth and nail over that.
Tired of getting screwed by Congress? Tired of being forced to implement 30 year old obsolete and dangerous technology for political reasons? Tired of some pork barrel law that forces your Operation center to locate in hurricane-prone areas?
Privatize!
Coming soon: Google buys the education system! No more aguing about whether cavemen rode dinosaurs like horses!
Does is bother anyone that PDF version of that paper gets downloaded from "xxx.lanl.gov"? Oh great, now my employer is going to bag me for downloading pr0n.
I think this is some kind of LANL inside joke - a few years ago, some poor sap got several years in Club Fed for running a Usenet news server inside Lawrence Livermore Labs that included some alt.... groups.
I just interviewed at a small tech company - to everyone's surprise their latest shipment of desktop PCs came preconfigured with clear cases and blue / UV neons inside.
I don't know anything about British law, so I won't go talking out of my ass about it. (I live in California)
I have one question - why is it so damn hot in the Underground? Are the Hot Springs of London one of the great secrets kept from the public, or is it just poor ventilation?
Here in San Francisco, BART isn't nearly as bad, except on hot days when all the cars' airconditioners are broken down, which is a lot of the time.
Connecting the UPS in any way that might possibly allow the output to come in contact with commercial main power ("backfeed" into the mains) could result in an explosion and fire. It could also kill a utility worker, although utility workers are trained to expect this when working with outages (and they fill fix the problem by grounding your backfeed, which will knock you offline or worse.)
Any competent electrician can install a transfer switch for the branch circuit, but you will ne astounded as the cost vs. a couple of power strips.
I would rephrase thusly: "If you are a crappy writer in the real world, you will be a less crappy writer in the blogging world."
I find that the fitful, occasional posts I make to my "blog" help me remember how to formulate my thoughts into coherent paragraphs instead of incoherent rantings. You can lose this skill otherwise, for example if you have a job where you work with poor communicators or where effective communication skills are not encouraged or rewarded.
No one reads my blog and I don't care, it's not really therapy as much as "writing practice".
Thanks, I've always been terrible at names. Allen was the big one that hit S Texas in 1980.
And TS Allison was responsible for the 2001 floods.
I was thinking of the 1983 Alicia that was Cat 3 when it hit. I had just moved to Dallas but my girlfriend still ived in Houston, and I visited the weekend after. There was not much loss of life but there was ankle-deep broken glass downtown, and lots of trees were still blocking minor streets.
Last time Houston got pounded by a hurricane was Allen in 1983 (IIRC). Ankle-deep glass downtown....
They do get flooded by tropical storms on a more regular basis - by the rain not the wind. By the time the storm has moved 40 ro 50 miles inland it's lost a lot of its punch.
Shutters are expensive. I probably would not have shutters on my house if I lived in Houston proper. Florida yes - are they required by code now, even, in some localities?
And recent studies have shown nailing plywood over your windows won't do that much good; it needs to be bolted directly into the frame of the house.
People who can't bother to prepare themselves are only going to eat their emergency food and sell their radios.
Like it or not, there is always going to be a large part of the population that is going to expect the government to bail their ass out of every mess they get themselves into.
I staffed the Emergency Preparedness booh at out local Bad Art and Overpriced Wine Street Fair last weekend. People love to show their tech-savvy gadgets - but are you really prepared?
Buckets. Emergency tech is low tech. You are going to care less about whether your Treo works and more about clean water and a warm place to take a dump. (Store your water in jerry cans, obviously, not buckets.)
And don't wait. The entire Houston area was all out of plywood by Monday night, according to a friend of mine there.
THere is a tremendous amount of diversity at B.M.: Naked hippies on drugs with lots of money, naked hippies on drugs with less money, naked hippies on drugs in the visual arts professions, naked hippies on drugs who are attorneys, naked hippies on drugs who come from other countries, naked hippies on drugs from San Francisco . . .
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I was expecting this to be settled by now.
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According to http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39
"Sentiment about the format rivalry varies, depending largely on the size of porn producer. Smaller outfits seem to prefer HD DVD for its lower cost, while larger outfits tend toward Blu-ray for the capacity."
Hey guys - how many times do we have to tell you: SIZE doesn't mean that much!
"A number of countries represented in Geneva, including Brazil, China, Cuba, Iran and several African states, insisted the US give up control, but it refused."
Yeah, sure. Except for Brazil, let's put the 5 or 10 countries with the worst f***ing human rights records on the planet in charge. That'll be a big step forward.
This is going to end up with China running their own root servers, for themselves, Saudia Arabia, Zimbabwe, Iran, and other lovers of free speech, and ICANN will just move its offices to Geneva so it can satisfy the EU's demands by hiring a bloated staff of lazy, incompetent, and overpaid bureaucrats.
Well, it was that or Verisign. I hope we'll like paying $100/yr to register our domains.
Present company excluded, of course.
I did due diligence once when a company was assimilated by VC investors. We had to list every OSS package we used and its license. For starters, look here:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.php
It's a long, tedious list of legalspeak. You may end up depending on "Akbar and Jeff's Semi-artistic Hut License" for a critical piece of SW. Kind of gives a VC the willies, especially if he can get a new Hummer by forcing your company to buy his buddy's crapware instead and pocket the kickback. (Not that that happens in real life, no sir.)
Puts new meaning to "no matter where you go, there you are..."
>> Except, of course, that the government currently has its finger in the pie.
How exactly, other than funding ICANN?
Say China splits off from DNS - I can point my servers at China's root servers and if the gov't want to stop me they can kiss my butt. I know this argument may not penetrate your tunfoil hat, but they can't stop me without filtering packets, and fighting the US telco indutry tooth and nail over that.
Taco is just f***ing with us - read the intro. It can't be one of /.'s core competencies yet, they haven't registered the domain:
...
Get it while it's hot:
Whois Server Version 1.3
No match for domain "SLASHDUP.COM".
Tired of getting screwed by Congress? Tired of being forced to implement 30 year old obsolete and dangerous technology for political reasons? Tired of some pork barrel law that forces your Operation center to locate in hurricane-prone areas?
Privatize!
Coming soon: Google buys the education system! No more aguing about whether cavemen rode dinosaurs like horses!
Wink wink, nudge nudge. Say no more! Say no more!
Honestly, that's the first thing I though of, besides "Who the hell owns their IP anymore, you get that from your ISP!"
Does is bother anyone that PDF version of that paper gets downloaded from "xxx.lanl.gov"? Oh great, now my employer is going to bag me for downloading pr0n.
I think this is some kind of LANL inside joke - a few years ago, some poor sap got several years in Club Fed for running a Usenet news server inside Lawrence Livermore Labs that included some alt.... groups.
I just interviewed at a small tech company - to everyone's surprise their latest shipment of desktop PCs came preconfigured with clear cases and blue / UV neons inside.
What's next - PCs preloaded with pr0n?
I don't know anything about British law, so I won't go talking out of my ass about it. (I live in California)
I have one question - why is it so damn hot in the Underground? Are the Hot Springs of London one of the great secrets kept from the public, or is it just poor ventilation?
Here in San Francisco, BART isn't nearly as bad, except on hot days when all the cars' airconditioners are broken down, which is a lot of the time.
"What WERE you thinking?"
Connecting the UPS in any way that might possibly allow the output to come in contact with commercial main power ("backfeed" into the mains) could result in an explosion and fire. It could also kill a utility worker, although utility workers are trained to expect this when working with outages (and they fill fix the problem by grounding your backfeed, which will knock you offline or worse.)
Any competent electrician can install a transfer switch for the branch circuit, but you will ne astounded as the cost vs. a couple of power strips.
I would rephrase thusly: "If you are a crappy writer in the real world, you will be a less crappy writer in the blogging world."
I find that the fitful, occasional posts I make to my "blog" help me remember how to formulate my thoughts into coherent paragraphs instead of incoherent rantings. You can lose this skill otherwise, for example if you have a job where you work with poor communicators or where effective communication skills are not encouraged or rewarded.
No one reads my blog and I don't care, it's not really therapy as much as "writing practice".
Hopefully they are not skipping their meds.
Thanks, I've always been terrible at names. Allen was the big one that hit S Texas in 1980.
i cane/info/histhurr.htm
And TS Allison was responsible for the 2001 floods.
I was thinking of the 1983 Alicia that was Cat 3 when it hit. I had just moved to Dallas but my girlfriend still ived in Houston, and I visited the weekend after. There was not much loss of life but there was ankle-deep broken glass downtown, and lots of trees were still blocking minor streets.
Good historical summary here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/hurr
> You obviously seem to be in the camp that government is there to protect the few at the top
Where did you infer that?
I'm in the camp that expects the government to protect nobody.
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Also with some wascally wascals in Congress.
They would like to move it to Boise, defund it, get rid of it altogether, or greatly reduce its power,
Which would make it the 9th "Micro"-Circuit Court of course.
STEP 1. Buy enough food and bottled water to last your family for at least three days.
n ists/dave_barry/2078085.htm
STEP 2. Put these supplies into your car.
STEP 3. Drive to Nebraska and remain there until Halloween.
See;
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/colum
Last time Houston got pounded by a hurricane was Allen in 1983 (IIRC). Ankle-deep glass downtown....
They do get flooded by tropical storms on a more regular basis - by the rain not the wind. By the time the storm has moved 40 ro 50 miles inland it's lost a lot of its punch.
Shutters are expensive. I probably would not have shutters on my house if I lived in Houston proper. Florida yes - are they required by code now, even, in some localities?
And recent studies have shown nailing plywood over your windows won't do that much good; it needs to be bolted directly into the frame of the house.
People who can't bother to prepare themselves are only going to eat their emergency food and sell their radios.
Like it or not, there is always going to be a large part of the population that is going to expect the government to bail their ass out of every mess they get themselves into.
I staffed the Emergency Preparedness booh at out local Bad Art and Overpriced Wine Street Fair last weekend. People love to show their tech-savvy gadgets - but are you really prepared?
Buckets. Emergency tech is low tech. You are going to care less about whether your Treo works and more about clean water and a warm place to take a dump. (Store your water in jerry cans, obviously, not buckets.)
And don't wait. The entire Houston area was all out of plywood by Monday night, according to a friend of mine there.
"Faces of burning man" series.
/ 08/28/burningfaces.DTL&hw=burning+man&sn=002&sc=89 7
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005
THere is a tremendous amount of diversity at B.M.: Naked hippies on drugs with lots of money, naked hippies on drugs with less money, naked hippies on drugs in the visual arts professions, naked hippies on drugs who are attorneys, naked hippies on drugs who come from other countries, naked hippies on drugs from San Francisco . . .