Yes, we really played that, as loud as the system could handle it. Then we got a better system!
It seems to go with the frame of mind everyone is in. Very surreal. I think though, it induced more the opposite. It allowed you to focus on something other than what you are doing.
If you think about the job, you won't last long. Quite a few people didn't last 2 hours, some less than that. I think that is the major reason for being excluded from jury duty. You have to disassociate yourself from it, or it tears you up inside. Lambs were the worst. Slashing their throats, and letting them bleed to death. Gruesome.
It's a job, and you have to treat it like any other manual labour type activity. Put your brain in neutral and get the job done.
Sorry Jamie, the intent is to protect what children are exposed to.
I would not want my children exposed to Pornography until they are old enough to deal with it, and understand it for what it is.
The same for violence.
I worked in a slaughterhouse for 2 years, working midnights to put myself through University. You cannot imagine that kind of work environment. Heavy, loud death metal. Pantera, Slayer etc. Meanwhile you are rotating between the kill floor, processing (skinning and gutting) and breaking the animals (cutting them into managable sizes.
Some animal, which is sometimes scared out of its mind, walks up through the chute, you trap its head in a cage and put an explosive powered nail in its brain. Its nerves twtch for a few seconds. Or a few minutes, depending on if you were sloppy where you placed the projectile. Then it is chained up and goes to be gutted and skinned. And along trots another helpless animal. For 8 hours a day.
Incidentally - this is the only legal job that you can hold that disqualifies you for jury duty. Because it desensitized you toward death and killing.
I am not a vegetarian, but there are some meats that I will not eat. I will not eat pork, because of one incident I found extremely cruel (after the previous description, I'll let your imagination dwell on what I find to be extremely cruel...) But I do eat meat once or twice a week.
Being desensitized as I am, I find stories of animal abuse to be extremely shocking. But that is because my history permits me to see both sides of the argument. I would never hurt any animal, not would I kill an animal I did not intend to eat. And then I would do it as quickly and painlessly as I could.
I would not, could not allow a child to witness the horrors I have seen until they are ready for it. I totally agree that the BC government should take this position (even though I am a Red-Necked Albertan:-P ). Children should not see violence, animated or otherwise, until they know the difference. Notice I did not mention at what age this should be. That depends on the child.
Don't know about the situation in the Phillipines, but I love having e-mail on my new digital cell phone. Of course, i got the model that recieves only:-P
But that allows me to give people my e-mail address without giving them my cell phone number. It's much easier to ignore a text message, and I don't have to answer it in traffic.
But the bonus is I can put the phone on vibrate, put it in my front pocket, and have my girlfriend e-mail me for a cheap thrill;-)
I used to program HC11's and still have some of the tools.
Over the years, I've lost most of them. I did however obtain them through the Motorola BBS. I don't know if it is still in operation, but I do remember them having all sorts of unsupported goodies, such as a C compiler for most Microcontrollers, (68HC05, 11, 16 etc) and the source code was there as well.
Priority is determined by which slot # the board is in.
Slot 1, bus 1 has a higher priority than slot 1 bus 2, etc. Most larger servers have more than 1 PCI bus. Most PC's have 1 PCI bus, but have priority on which slot # a card is in. Eg: Slot 1 is usually the slot closest to the AGP slot on most ATX systems.
It allows a card, be it a SCSI, NIC or Video to temporarally take over the bus and do it's data transfers to memory, I/O, or another card. Bus masters are given priority in a logical and heirarchial system.
For example, a SCSI card could directly access main memory while the CPU uses the north bridge to access Video. There is no bus contention, and the bus is simply being optimized while no critical system is using it. One of these PCI devices could do much the same, transfererring to main memory or a scsi card directly. No bus contention. Since transfer rates for an asyncronous device are given by the formula [width(bits) * frequency (Mhz) ] / (Wait states) we get... 66mhz @ 64-bit (~520 MB/sec)
If the machine supports 66Mhz PCI bus, asyncronous tranfers as bus master, the transfer rates are significantly higher than a NIC. Even clustered NIC's! And add Synchronous tranfers to this - Wow!
My G4 450 gets approx 3.8M Keys/s on real time distributed.net. (Not the benchmarks!)
At the new hi-rise being built next to my condo, the workers are obviously graduates of the Maquis De Sade school of construction. This would be a great tool for them!
As I referenced above, spoil the ballot! If you go in and place a big "X" across the page, not in any one box, the vote won't be counted for anyone. All political parties have representatives at the ballot counting stations who determine whether to count a vote or not. Some are so picky, that if your "X" is outside of the lines of the given box, they may count your vote as "invalid" (because it wasn't for the candidate for the party they represent) on the grounds that you may not have known who it was you were voting for, and your decision was influenced by some other means. It's petty politics, but that's the way it is.
And before you say it doesn't happen, it does! I've been a poll official, and I've seen it! I've seen ballots spoiled because the lines of the "X" were not straight enough! I've seen them spoiled because they weren't in pen, but in pencil! And erased to change from one candidate to another!
I always cast my vote, because one year I went to the polling station to find that I had already voted! Imagine my surprise! And my anger at being denied my right to vote because of political corruption!
By spoiling your vote, you exercise your right to vote. It may be for no one, but at least you get to make that choice, and not let someone else use your vote for Dumbass #1, because Dumbass #1 paid him more that Dumbass #2.
I can't say this enough, apathy is not an option. /rant_mode=on
I come from a long line of military brats. From my Great-Grandfather on down through myself. I have all their logs, diarys, journals and letters home. I have lost members of my family to war, and many others came back missing pieces. MHO comes from reading these logs and letters, and talking with the members of my family I was privilidged to know. I have nothing but respect for what those men and women had to go through, to give me the rights and freedoms I have now.
I might sound a bit like an extremeist here, but anyone that doesn't exercise their right to vote has no right to complain about what their government does.
They have no right to complain when their privacy is whittled away, or when their tax dollars are used to fund dubious undertakings. No right whatsoever.
I do not vote based on party affiliations, or on emotional measures. I vote based on whom I think would best represent my views in government. If I cannot find such a person as a candidate, I still vote. I go to the booth and spoil my ballot, by placing a big "X" across it.
At least I honour the memory of those people by getting off my plump hairy butt and voting! /rant_mode=off
At least these websites could be used for doing a little more research into the candidates. It would be nice to see a little personal information, a little self diagnosis perhaps. As a way to give the website visitor a little more "up close and personal" feel to the candidate. Something they may not be able to get, due to the seemingly endless schedule of the campaining political hopeful:-)
Disclaimer: I don't work for HP, but I do work with HP...
They are the only company that I know that will offer a trade in on old equipment. For a while on their large format printers/plotters, they would even accept competitor products, such as Calcomp and Epson, as trade ins!
They always have been willing to make the customer happy. Good to see they aren't trying to cover up, and admit when they are wrong.
I've got an ASUS K7M, PC100 RAM, Athlon 700, and an ASUS K7V, PC133, Athlon 850.
Both run RH 6.2, Corel and Mandrake quite well.
The only problem I'm experiencing is I have an Adaptec 2940U2W LVD, and 4 drives. I got tired of paying $900 for a 9G LVD drive, so I bought a Maxtor ATA66 IDE 20G drive to throw 'data'* (* pronounced 'MP3's') on.
Since my BIOS is set to boot from SCSI first, whenver I try to re-install Linux, it puts LILO on the IDE drive, and doesn't ask me which drive to put it on! I have to manually put LILO on the MBR of SDA.
Kinda defeats the easy, pretty installation process!
(regarding one of you previous posts) If Canada invaded the US, there would be much more than 10,000 casualties. Mostly on your side. Don't believe me? Check your war of 1812 history books. Oops, those were re-written to favour you. See if you can get a copy from Britan, or another EU country.
We'd catch you with your VR glasses on, and not even have to waste a bullet! /scarcasm=off
But seriously, never underestimate the loyalty of another for their country. You seem patriotic. So am I. In this type of a forum, it is easy to misinterpret a comment, and that leads to a flame war. Just don't go there...
IANAP, however I believe the confusion lies in missing a couple sentences. From the NY Times Article:
But the amplification occurs only if the second beam is tuned to a certain precise wavelength, Dr. Steinberg said. By cleverly choosing a slightly different wavelength, Dr. Wang induced the cesium to speed up a light pulse without distorting it in any way.
/#~#~#~> |~~#~~#~~#~~#~~#~~#|/#~#~#>
So the cesuim gas is already charged with microwave energy from a second source, of slightly different frequency! Thinking on the "packet" properties of EMR, the cesuim gas might be considered as a solid to energy of the same/similar frequency entering the media. The 'distortion' or refraction factor might be made up as the energy enters the chamber, and lost as it exits the chamber, to account for the different frequency EMR.
Pushing on one end of a solid, creates an immediate force on the other end of a solid, no laws are broken!
The original wave at the entrance is cancelled by the 'echo' of the force reflecting back...Newtons third law!
This may not apply to EMR, but this anaolgy doesn't warp my feint grasp on reality!
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Never heard of that song, no.
Yes, we really played that, as loud as the system could handle it. Then we got a better system!
It seems to go with the frame of mind everyone is in. Very surreal. I think though, it induced more the opposite. It allowed you to focus on something other than what you are doing.
If you think about the job, you won't last long. Quite a few people didn't last 2 hours, some less than that. I think that is the major reason for being excluded from jury duty. You have to disassociate yourself from it, or it tears you up inside. Lambs were the worst. Slashing their throats, and letting them bleed to death. Gruesome.
It's a job, and you have to treat it like any other manual labour type activity. Put your brain in neutral and get the job done.
I would not want my children exposed to Pornography until they are old enough to deal with it, and understand it for what it is.
The same for violence.
I worked in a slaughterhouse for 2 years, working midnights to put myself through University. You cannot imagine that kind of work environment. Heavy, loud death metal. Pantera, Slayer etc. Meanwhile you are rotating between the kill floor, processing (skinning and gutting) and breaking the animals (cutting them into managable sizes.
Some animal, which is sometimes scared out of its mind, walks up through the chute, you trap its head in a cage and put an explosive powered nail in its brain. Its nerves twtch for a few seconds. Or a few minutes, depending on if you were sloppy where you placed the projectile. Then it is chained up and goes to be gutted and skinned. And along trots another helpless animal. For 8 hours a day.
Incidentally - this is the only legal job that you can hold that disqualifies you for jury duty. Because it desensitized you toward death and killing.
I am not a vegetarian, but there are some meats that I will not eat. I will not eat pork, because of one incident I found extremely cruel (after the previous description, I'll let your imagination dwell on what I find to be extremely cruel...) But I do eat meat once or twice a week.
Being desensitized as I am, I find stories of animal abuse to be extremely shocking. But that is because my history permits me to see both sides of the argument. I would never hurt any animal, not would I kill an animal I did not intend to eat. And then I would do it as quickly and painlessly as I could.
I would not, could not allow a child to witness the horrors I have seen until they are ready for it. I totally agree that the BC government should take this position (even though I am a Red-Necked Albertan :-P ). Children should not see violence, animated or otherwise, until they know the difference. Notice I did not mention at what age this should be. That depends on the child.
But that allows me to give people my e-mail address without giving them my cell phone number. It's much easier to ignore a text message, and I don't have to answer it in traffic.
But the bonus is I can put the phone on vibrate, put it in my front pocket, and have my girlfriend e-mail me for a cheap thrill ;-)
I met my current girlfriend on an on-line dating service!
But we were both on that particular area of that particular dating service for the same reason - to find a lasting relationship.
I highly reccomend it. It is private, safe (mostly :-) and works quite well. www.webpersonals.com.
Does it have the microchip in it like other US Hockey pucks?
It does not conduct electricity, much the same as Silicon or glass does not conduct electricity.
Over the years, I've lost most of them. I did however obtain them through the Motorola BBS. I don't know if it is still in operation, but I do remember them having all sorts of unsupported goodies, such as a C compiler for most Microcontrollers, (68HC05, 11, 16 etc) and the source code was there as well.
Slot 1, bus 1 has a higher priority than slot 1 bus 2, etc. Most larger servers have more than 1 PCI bus. Most PC's have 1 PCI bus, but have priority on which slot # a card is in. Eg: Slot 1 is usually the slot closest to the AGP slot on most ATX systems.
It allows a card, be it a SCSI, NIC or Video to temporarally take over the bus and do it's data transfers to memory, I/O, or another card. Bus masters are given priority in a logical and heirarchial system.
For example, a SCSI card could directly access main memory while the CPU uses the north bridge to access Video. There is no bus contention, and the bus is simply being optimized while no critical system is using it. One of these PCI devices could do much the same, transfererring to main memory or a scsi card directly. No bus contention. Since transfer rates for an asyncronous device are given by the formula [width(bits) * frequency (Mhz) ] / (Wait states) we get...
66mhz @ 64-bit (~520 MB/sec)
If the machine supports 66Mhz PCI bus, asyncronous tranfers as bus master, the transfer rates are significantly higher than a NIC. Even clustered NIC's! And add Synchronous tranfers to this - Wow!
My G4 450 gets approx 3.8M Keys/s on real time distributed.net. (Not the benchmarks!)
I can't wait to bump that up to 15.2 M Keys/s!!!
And disconnect it from the SCSI bus first ;-)
They work for us too!
I'll bring it to their attention right away!
As I referenced above, spoil the ballot! If you go in and place a big "X" across the page, not in any one box, the vote won't be counted for anyone. All political parties have representatives at the ballot counting stations who determine whether to count a vote or not. Some are so picky, that if your "X" is outside of the lines of the given box, they may count your vote as "invalid" (because it wasn't for the candidate for the party they represent) on the grounds that you may not have known who it was you were voting for, and your decision was influenced by some other means. It's petty politics, but that's the way it is.
And before you say it doesn't happen, it does! I've been a poll official, and I've seen it! I've seen ballots spoiled because the lines of the "X" were not straight enough! I've seen them spoiled because they weren't in pen, but in pencil! And erased to change from one candidate to another!
I always cast my vote, because one year I went to the polling station to find that I had already voted! Imagine my surprise! And my anger at being denied my right to vote because of political corruption!
By spoiling your vote, you exercise your right to vote. It may be for no one, but at least you get to make that choice, and not let someone else use your vote for Dumbass #1, because Dumbass #1 paid him more that Dumbass #2.
/rant_mode=on
I come from a long line of military brats. From my Great-Grandfather on down through myself. I have all their logs, diarys, journals and letters home. I have lost members of my family to war, and many others came back missing pieces. MHO comes from reading these logs and letters, and talking with the members of my family I was privilidged to know. I have nothing but respect for what those men and women had to go through, to give me the rights and freedoms I have now.
I might sound a bit like an extremeist here, but anyone that doesn't exercise their right to vote has no right to complain about what their government does.
They have no right to complain when their privacy is whittled away, or when their tax dollars are used to fund dubious undertakings. No right whatsoever.
I do not vote based on party affiliations, or on emotional measures. I vote based on whom I think would best represent my views in government. If I cannot find such a person as a candidate, I still vote. I go to the booth and spoil my ballot, by placing a big "X" across it.
At least I honour the memory of those people by getting off my plump hairy butt and voting!
/rant_mode=off
At least these websites could be used for doing a little more research into the candidates. It would be nice to see a little personal information, a little self diagnosis perhaps. As a way to give the website visitor a little more "up close and personal" feel to the candidate. Something they may not be able to get, due to the seemingly endless schedule of the campaining political hopeful :-)
They are the only company that I know that will offer a trade in on old equipment. For a while on their large format printers/plotters, they would even accept competitor products, such as Calcomp and Epson, as trade ins!
They always have been willing to make the customer happy. Good to see they aren't trying to cover up, and admit when they are wrong.
I suppose you can't blame MS for trying. Like a condemed man shouting "But I'm innocent!!" on his way to the gallows.
Both run RH 6.2, Corel and Mandrake quite well.
The only problem I'm experiencing is I have an Adaptec 2940U2W LVD, and 4 drives. I got tired of paying $900 for a 9G LVD drive, so I bought a Maxtor ATA66 IDE 20G drive to throw 'data'* (* pronounced 'MP3's') on.
Since my BIOS is set to boot from SCSI first, whenver I try to re-install Linux, it puts LILO on the IDE drive, and doesn't ask me which drive to put it on! I have to manually put LILO on the MBR of SDA.
Kinda defeats the easy, pretty installation process!
Most gopher sites say something like "See our web page at HTTP://..."
But some of the die-hards are still there! Smithsonian, MIT etc!
You're not afraid to die?
I'm not afraid to kill you ethier!
(regarding one of you previous posts) If Canada invaded the US, there would be much more than 10,000 casualties. Mostly on your side. Don't believe me? Check your war of 1812 history books. Oops, those were re-written to favour you. See if you can get a copy from Britan, or another EU country.
We'd catch you with your VR glasses on, and not even have to waste a bullet!
/scarcasm=off
But seriously, never underestimate the loyalty of another for their country. You seem patriotic. So am I. In this type of a forum, it is easy to misinterpret a comment, and that leads to a flame war. Just don't go there...
But the amplification occurs only if the second beam is tuned to a certain precise wavelength, Dr. Steinberg said. By cleverly choosing a slightly different wavelength, Dr. Wang induced the cesium to speed up a light pulse without distorting it in any way.
So the cesuim gas is already charged with microwave energy from a second source, of slightly different frequency! Thinking on the "packet" properties of EMR, the cesuim gas might be considered as a solid to energy of the same/similar frequency entering the media. The 'distortion' or refraction factor might be made up as the energy enters the chamber, and lost as it exits the chamber, to account for the different frequency EMR.
Pushing on one end of a solid, creates an immediate force on the other end of a solid, no laws are broken!
The original wave at the entrance is cancelled by the 'echo' of the force reflecting back...Newtons third law!
This may not apply to EMR, but this anaolgy doesn't warp my feint grasp on reality!