What blows my mind is this guy worked at McD's corporate for at least fifteen years (after coming up through the company), and then owned his own franchise for at least a decade when that was considered a guaranteed 1 mil gross profit PER YEAR. And he retires with only 250k?
Sneakernetting a hard drive back and forth to the office? Really? That crap was an old PITA in 1999.
Do yourself a favor, sir. Get a consumer-level NAS that supports backup to Amazon's cloud. Buy their unlimted plan for $5/mo. Set up the client the way you like it. Boom. Done.
You spin a bearing, you throw a rod. I guess it's the mistake that proves the point.
Yeah, I know, "mod -1, obnoxious nitpicker", puts me in good company around here, that's for sure. Don't mean it to sound nasty, but I guess it's a little like someone calling their monitor "the computer".
Bah. I know what happens next. Sixty corrections about hot rod terms in 3... 2... 1...
Getting modded up on slashdot is one of the first, best, easiest ways of advertising your website. When we first started out we got (percentage-wise) *huge* spikes whenever I got a comment modded up, easily 2-3x our normal traffic. Most would go, a few would stay.
We're a lot bigger than that now, so the "slashdot bump" isn't all that noticeable anymore. Still, a highly recommended way at shameless self-promotion.
I'm surprised nobody has noted the potential this has for folks with space and location restrictions. There's an untapped market of potentially tens of thousands of apartment renters out there who can't, or won't, mount even a smallish dish but who would be happy to have satellite TV.
The only way to get a dish in my old apartment, for example, was to mount it on a tripod in my living room. No thanks. With this thing you could just suction-cup it to a window and you're in 'bidness.
$2500 is too steep by a factor of five, but if successful I'm sure it'd come down in price.
My dad actually worked on the Apollo space program. I was only 4, but got to see the 17 launch from the VIP section. He has a ton of stories about the time, which I'm trying to archive on my website. You can see them here:
The final Saturn V memory I have is much clearer, as by 1972 my now nearly five year old brain was much better wired. My brother, myself, and I think some other kids (Scottie and Lodie? two friends's kids) were loaded up into my mom's big ugly red 70s station wagon one night. I don't think it was made completely clear to us what was going to happen, or if it was I don't think we completely understood. I do remember parking near some interesting looking buildings (it may have been the VAB... I was told later it was a special VIP area), and getting put up on the roof of the wagon. I think we were all starting to get a little cranky because it was getting late for us. I remember being fascinated that I could push my hand down and make the roof of the wagon dimple a little, and that dew was beginning to form.
Eventually however a countdown was read out and when it reached zero one of the most spectacular things in my life happened... a Saturn V was launched in complete darkness. The roar of the engines was simply inconceivable. It was sound made solid, hitting you in the face like a wooden box. The sky lit up with a blinding torch, but by straining and looking very closely I could just make out the big white rocket shape I had got so familiar with over the few years of my life. It was bright enough that you could read a newspaper by the light in Miami. To this day my dad insists NASA did it just to see what would happen.
What is not reported here, but has been mentioned in Aviation Week and Space Technology, is Israel seems to have already fielded a chem-based laser missle defense system, apparently deployed on the Syrian border (at least that's where it was last reported anyway).
Another thing not widely covered in the normal monkey media: Gulf War II will almost certainly premiere our new "directed energy" weapon systems which have quietly been brought out of the labs over the past year or so. From the (admittedly basic) descriptions given to the non-monkey press by those in the know, the systems work with microwaves to zap electronic gear. They're mounted on precision guided bodies (not bombs per-se, but probably shaped a lot like them) and are one-shot items.
The idea is superpowerful microwave radiation can fry anything with transistors in it, even stuff buried deep underground. These things deliver a burst of microwaves that fry things within a (classified) limited range. It's not clear if they can be directed or if it goes off in a sphere like a ghostly bomb.
The reason they aren't already mounting these things on F-16s and just pressing buttons is a) the range is really short right now and b) they aren't directional enough yet and would end up frying the electronics of the shooter, which would be annoying to the pilot.
AFAIK, big (or small) fancy mission critical things like pacemakers and engine control systems do not use most (any?) of the same chips that run the kind of things DRMP is supposed to control.
Yes, yes, I know he sort of addressed this in the article, but not very well. These sorts of things seem to be specialized enough that if you have to have non-DRMP'd chips and none are available, you spec new ones and have them made. Makes it more expensive, yes, but not prohibitively so.
Gotta go re-read the dratted thing I suppose, but right now looks like flag-waving FUD to me. About DRM. Heh. No wonder slashdot posted it.
I'm just waiting for the day when some jackbooted BSA thug comes knocking on my door with a "legal in 30 days or DIE" ultimatum, and 30 days later I can yell "kiss my fanny you fascist bastard, I GOT no licensing to worry about!"
WITHOUT the peasants showing up at my door with torches and pitchforks, that is. Most of mine could care less what they use, as long as their documents open properly and their e-mail moves around.
From: Hilary Rosen To: Mitch Glazier Subject: FWD: Yet another threat to our hegemony!
We must mobilize the troops on this one Mitch! -H --------------------- From: RIAA Labs To: Hilary Rosen Subject: Yet another threat to our hegemony!
All people are felony IP pirates just waiting for a chance to steal the sweat from our musician's brow
Without water, people would not exist
Therfore, water is a copyright circumvention device
Based on these obvious conclusions, recommend petitioning Congress to ensure no other remote forms of water are used to exploit this obvious loophole in our copyright laws before an alien life form starts downloading MP3s and bankrupts the world!
Proof positive that just because you have a big degree from a fancy institution doesn't mean you're still not a complete moron.
I mean, I can't possibly be the only one to graduate high school with semi-literate honor roll students, and graduate college with business and engineering majors who literally did not know how to use a library, can I?
My problem is that Anime seems to be a lot like porn. There's tons of it out there. You know there's really good stuff. You also know that 90% of it is incomprehensible, possibly offensive crap. You don't know which is which, and can't always tell by the box. So I sit and read through every single title trying to figure out what might be good and what might stink on ice.
I met Alton while he was doing a book promo tour for IJHFTF. I did a full write up on it at my website. Read the play-by-play here....
An excerpt: Alton seems to be at the same point of celebrity that Penn & Teller claim to be... famous enough to be recognized and draw crowds in certain situations, but not so "rock star" as to take it all seriously. I get the feeling that if he hadn't had an invite to the Washington Press Club that night, a bunch of the people at the bookstore could've offered to take him to dinner and he would've accepted immediately.
The only possible danger that I can think of is if you have paranoid bosses. They may decide that if you've gone looking once, you'll go looking again, and try to replace you with someone they think might be more loyal. Don't laugh, it's happened to me once.
Were I in your place I'd go with my gut instincts. But always remember that you know what your current job is like. How sure can you be about a new place?
I seem to recall reading, probably in a science fiction book, that the human brain is thought to store somewhere in the neighborhood of ~2-4 terabytes of information.
Aside from all sorts of quantum fiddly bit problems, I wonder just how long it will be before we can store the state of every neuron in a brain (doesn't have to be human, at least not at first) on a hard drive.
I try so hard to convince users that it really is just a lump of plastic and metal (when I can convince them the monitor isn't their computer), and now this?!?
Spidey is why I learned to read
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How about as Mary Jane?:)
I grew up with Spiderman. He is the reason I learned to read, because a) the Electric Company featured him every day, b) my Mom wouldn't read comics to me, and c) my dad was always too busy to read them to me.
Spidey also seemed to cross racial lines, IME. We all thought he was cool, no matter if we were asian, black, hispanic, or white. Spidey just rocked.
AFAIK, he's also one of the few superheros to come close to killing Wolverine. How to actually kill Wolverine was the topic of many a cafeteria discussion when I was in college.:)
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What blows my mind is this guy worked at McD's corporate for at least fifteen years (after coming up through the company), and then owned his own franchise for at least a decade when that was considered a guaranteed 1 mil gross profit PER YEAR. And he retires with only 250k?
Sneakernetting a hard drive back and forth to the office? Really? That crap was an old PITA in 1999.
Do yourself a favor, sir. Get a consumer-level NAS that supports backup to Amazon's cloud. Buy their unlimted plan for $5/mo. Set up the client the way you like it. Boom. Done.
Arg! My eyes!
You spin a bearing, you throw a rod. I guess it's the mistake that proves the point.
Yeah, I know, "mod -1, obnoxious nitpicker", puts me in good company around here, that's for sure. Don't mean it to sound nasty, but I guess it's a little like someone calling their monitor "the computer".
Bah. I know what happens next. Sixty corrections about hot rod terms in 3... 2... 1...
Getting modded up on slashdot is one of the first, best, easiest ways of advertising your website. When we first started out we got (percentage-wise) *huge* spikes whenever I got a comment modded up, easily 2-3x our normal traffic. Most would go, a few would stay.
We're a lot bigger than that now, so the "slashdot bump" isn't all that noticeable anymore. Still, a highly recommended way at shameless self-promotion.
I'm surprised nobody has noted the potential this has for folks with space and location restrictions. There's an untapped market of potentially tens of thousands of apartment renters out there who can't, or won't, mount even a smallish dish but who would be happy to have satellite TV.
The only way to get a dish in my old apartment, for example, was to mount it on a tripod in my living room. No thanks. With this thing you could just suction-cup it to a window and you're in 'bidness.
$2500 is too steep by a factor of five, but if successful I'm sure it'd come down in price.
My dad actually worked on the Apollo space program. I was only 4, but got to see the 17 launch from the VIP section. He has a ton of stories about the time, which I'm trying to archive on my website. You can see them here:
s .h tml
http://www.amcgltd.com/archives/cat_nasa_follie
An excerpt from my own recollections:
The final Saturn V memory I have is much clearer, as by 1972 my now nearly five year old brain was much better wired. My brother, myself, and I think some other kids (Scottie and Lodie? two friends's kids) were loaded up into my mom's big ugly red 70s station wagon one night. I don't think it was made completely clear to us what was going to happen, or if it was I don't think we completely understood. I do remember parking near some interesting looking buildings (it may have been the VAB... I was told later it was a special VIP area), and getting put up on the roof of the wagon. I think we were all starting to get a little cranky because it was getting late for us. I remember being fascinated that I could push my hand down and make the roof of the wagon dimple a little, and that dew was beginning to form.
Eventually however a countdown was read out and when it reached zero one of the most spectacular things in my life happened... a Saturn V was launched in complete darkness. The roar of the engines was simply inconceivable. It was sound made solid, hitting you in the face like a wooden box. The sky lit up with a blinding torch, but by straining and looking very closely I could just make out the big white rocket shape I had got so familiar with over the few years of my life. It was bright enough that you could read a newspaper by the light in Miami. To this day my dad insists NASA did it just to see what would happen.
What is not reported here, but has been mentioned in Aviation Week and Space Technology, is Israel seems to have already fielded a chem-based laser missle defense system, apparently deployed on the Syrian border (at least that's where it was last reported anyway).
Another thing not widely covered in the normal monkey media: Gulf War II will almost certainly premiere our new "directed energy" weapon systems which have quietly been brought out of the labs over the past year or so. From the (admittedly basic) descriptions given to the non-monkey press by those in the know, the systems work with microwaves to zap electronic gear. They're mounted on precision guided bodies (not bombs per-se, but probably shaped a lot like them) and are one-shot items.
The idea is superpowerful microwave radiation can fry anything with transistors in it, even stuff buried deep underground. These things deliver a burst of microwaves that fry things within a (classified) limited range. It's not clear if they can be directed or if it goes off in a sphere like a ghostly bomb.
The reason they aren't already mounting these things on F-16s and just pressing buttons is a) the range is really short right now and b) they aren't directional enough yet and would end up frying the electronics of the shooter, which would be annoying to the pilot.
AFAIK, big (or small) fancy mission critical things like pacemakers and engine control systems do not use most (any?) of the same chips that run the kind of things DRMP is supposed to control.
Yes, yes, I know he sort of addressed this in the article, but not very well. These sorts of things seem to be specialized enough that if you have to have non-DRMP'd chips and none are available, you spec new ones and have them made. Makes it more expensive, yes, but not prohibitively so.
Gotta go re-read the dratted thing I suppose, but right now looks like flag-waving FUD to me. About DRM. Heh. No wonder slashdot posted it.
I'm just waiting for the day when some jackbooted BSA thug comes knocking on my door with a "legal in 30 days or DIE" ultimatum, and 30 days later I can yell "kiss my fanny you fascist bastard, I GOT no licensing to worry about!"
WITHOUT the peasants showing up at my door with torches and pitchforks, that is. Most of mine could care less what they use, as long as their documents open properly and their e-mail moves around.
To: Mitch Glazier
Subject: FWD: Yet another threat to our hegemony!
We must mobilize the troops on this one Mitch!
-H
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From: RIAA Labs
To: Hilary Rosen
Subject: Yet another threat to our hegemony!
Based on these obvious conclusions, recommend petitioning Congress to ensure no other remote forms of water are used to exploit this obvious loophole in our copyright laws before an alien life form starts downloading MP3s and bankrupts the world!
Proof positive that just because you have a big degree from a fancy institution doesn't mean you're still not a complete moron.
I mean, I can't possibly be the only one to graduate high school with semi-literate honor roll students, and graduate college with business and engineering majors who literally did not know how to use a library, can I?
I mean, all this talk of kernels. Kernel this, kernel that. Makes me want to go get haloween candy.
;)
Mmmm... Candy...
All Your Bots are Belong to Us!
My problem is that Anime seems to be a lot like porn. There's tons of it out there. You know there's really good stuff. You also know that 90% of it is incomprehensible, possibly offensive crap. You don't know which is which, and can't always tell by the box. So I sit and read through every single title trying to figure out what might be good and what might stink on ice.
And I do that when I shop for anime too!
Shameless (but on topic) plug time:
I met Alton while he was doing a book promo tour for IJHFTF. I did a full write up on it at my website. Read the play-by-play here....
An excerpt:
Alton seems to be at the same point of celebrity that Penn & Teller claim to be... famous enough to be recognized and draw crowds in certain situations, but not so "rock star" as to take it all seriously. I get the feeling that if he hadn't had an invite to the Washington Press Club that night, a bunch of the people at the bookstore could've offered to take him to dinner and he would've accepted immediately.
The only possible danger that I can think of is if you have paranoid bosses. They may decide that if you've gone looking once, you'll go looking again, and try to replace you with someone they think might be more loyal. Don't laugh, it's happened to me once.
Were I in your place I'd go with my gut instincts. But always remember that you know what your current job is like. How sure can you be about a new place?
Is that too damned much to ask?!?
It used to be:
Found On Roadside, Dead
Now I guess it has to be:
Fumble Our Records, Daily
Freak Out, Records Damaged!
Find Our Reports, Dammit!
Faked Our Reliability Data
Ah well. Never reply when hungover.
Aside from all sorts of quantum fiddly bit problems, I wonder just how long it will be before we can store the state of every neuron in a brain (doesn't have to be human, at least not at first) on a hard drive.
Of course, then what would you do with it?
When we hear about some hardware geek using water cooling to ratchett up his l33t box to 3 ghz we think he's crazy. But when Dell does it, it's news.
Swear to god, I think the next headline we're going to see is:
MICROSOFT TO STATES: SETTLEMENT COULD LEAD TO DANCING
I try so hard to convince users that it really is just a lump of plastic and metal (when I can convince them the monitor isn't their computer), and now this?!?
How about as Mary Jane? :)
:)
I grew up with Spiderman. He is the reason I learned to read, because a) the Electric Company featured him every day, b) my Mom wouldn't read comics to me, and c) my dad was always too busy to read them to me.
Spidey also seemed to cross racial lines, IME. We all thought he was cool, no matter if we were asian, black, hispanic, or white. Spidey just rocked.
AFAIK, he's also one of the few superheros to come close to killing Wolverine. How to actually kill Wolverine was the topic of many a cafeteria discussion when I was in college.
That just gives "suck my ass" a whole new meaning.
" In addition to facing a grand larceny auto charge, Gonzalez, 40, was charged with possessing burglary tools" [emphasis added]
Burglary tools = slim jim & other sorts of unlock tools. I'll bet nickles to quarters that the car was locked, and this guy jimmied it open somehow.
Leaving a car on a street unlocked with the keys inside is entrapment. This isn't.