I was recently at KSC, I booked a tour while on a cruise ship, as I had some time to spend before my return flight home and the price was reasonable. While on tour, we took a bus out to the shuttle hanger and the shuttle launch pad, the driver mentioned this tour wasn't available to regular visitors. So if you do your research you might get to see some interesting things. I agree, without this drive by, the KSC is kinda weak.
2 Kings 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Wait a minute... how did they know about the other planets back then?
put a unique barcode on every stamp and have the gov't put another barcode containing info about the sending address. Then just give the mail carrier a scanner, have them pick up the mail at your front door and scan both barcodes.
I guess this would be hard with apartment buildings, but it would still provide USPS with relevant information about origination address, and it would be up to the customer to record the barcode on the stamp.
Of course there is nothing other than federal law stopping a random stranger to drop a outgoing letter in your mail box.
I am completely fed up with at&t. I got a voice/cable/internet package advertised for $100, and within 6 months I was paying ~$130. I shelled out the extra $2 for an unlisted number, when I cancled the service a year later, just for fun I looked at my local phone directory only to notice that even though they collected $2 a month from me tbo not list my number it was listed anyways. They wouldn't credit me money back for the whole year since the phone book I was using as reference was only 4 months old. When I decided to move after I bought a house, we requested service to be cancled on 3/25. Of course they decided to cut my line a month early, no phone, tv, or internet. Bla.
So I move in to my new home convinced I'll never have to deal with ATT again, I'll just get DSL, satellite and good ol' baby bell phone service... Well, it turns out the satellite signals are a bit too lazy to fly though trees, and DSL companies are very picky about whom them will service. So its back to ATT I went. Of course I decided to buy my own modem. Of course Att decided to charge me for a leased one anyways. I called and complained, and they actually hung up on me. Eventually, I had to fax them a copy of the work order for the install where their tech had clearly written "CUST SUP MODEM".
What a bunch of pricks
Oh yeah, I forgot about their digital cable I refuse to get anymore. Their on screen graphics take up the bottom third of the screen, and 30% of that area is filled with... you guessed it, banner ads.
They are a monopoly and have to be stopped.
Now go ahead and tell me to deal with it, I'm used to it.
This whole -1 thing is screwed. I worked at Andover.net (now OSDN) back in January and Feburary of 2000. I was a contractor brough on board to help build the Slashdot cage at Exodus, in fact I wrote my name with a magic marker on the bottom of the Quad Zeon VALinux box that probably still runs the main Mysql DB. At the time I thought it was pretty cool to be involved with the whole open source scene...
You know what I learned? I learned that most of the "Famous" and "Big Names" in the linux scene are attention starved name dropping weenies.
It after my assigment at Andover.net ended that I realized the whole Open Source movement is over. Done with. There are way to many people with way to much ego. All of the linux people in charge of the project were too busy stroking their ego's and counting their stock options.
I thank CmdrTaco and all the rest for a good 2 or 3 years of entertaining reading, but times have changed, there is no energy left here. Time to move on, Open source has been assimilated by Corporate Practices. I sincerely feel that all that was good about Slashdot, and to an extent the Linux fenomenon is over. This Thread just ended any hope I had left. Time to bring on the next fad.
I have Speakeasy via/Covad in Boston. Great service, 768/328 (I actually have a symetric line, the upstream is capped at the NOC) I consistently get 80k downloads, and The only problem I had was my Speedstream DSL router would occasionally lock up, but that hasn't happened since I replaced my old hub with a switch.
Also, a year ago, when I first signed up, I could get great throughput, but had terrible latency (>200ms to the gateway). This was becasue I live in boston and my gateway was in Seattle. Within a month they opened up an new NOW in NY. They activly participate in newsgroups and have great tech support.
Thank God for Covad, according to Verizon I live to far away from the CO to get any DSL service.. Dumbasses...
Of course you can, for instance, remember the person who sued McDonalds after he spilled a cup of McCoffee? In this analogy, sadly enough, Software is considered a good that can be purchased, boxed, patented. Why couldn't you sue Microsoft if they sold a product, like outlook, that when used in the method it wasn't designed for (i.e. running rouge VB scripts) that causes lots of $$$$ worth of damage? Makes sense to me
Or at least I've seen the phrase "it is a violation of fedaral law to use this product in a way it was not intended to be used" on such things as lysol cans and stuff. I am praphrasing from memory so forgive and misquotation...
I majored in Electrical Engineering at college and I still had to go through the article twice. All they are doing is proposing a funky way of squezing more bits into a defined spectrum. Papers like this are quite interesting, its good to know that there is work being done on making technoligies desigined for voice/music transmission prolific at passing 1's and 0's. Most of the article explained how different this transmission mode was from the standard we use now. Electromagnetics is a really complex and interesting field...
It would be interseting to immagine how HDTV tranmissions could benefit from technology such as this, altohugh I am beginning to doubt that HDTV will ever really matter.
In what context is this being posted at/.??
It looks like something done to attract attention Let me guess... this guy will be writing a book soon or something.
I hope I am offering something useful to the disscussion....
Most people in Italy with larger engine cars get converted to what they call "natural gas". This conversion consisted of some engine mods and the addition of what looks like those tanks of oxygen welders use into the trunk. In cases where there were no "natural gas" stations around, you could flip a switch and run on gasoline. The only downside was less performance/power while running on gas.
Please excuse the gratuitous use of "'s, and the scarsity of detailed information.
Key points Loosly translated: Public-key cryptograhpic digital signature has now become the main tool, using current technology, of assuring the integrity and the source of electronic documents, therefore replacing the handwritten signature in tradiditonal documents.
bla bla bla Therefore exchanging public and private electronic documents with the same value as their corresponding paper documents is now a reality. The document goes on to list that certificate holders must be registered and readily consultable, administered by a central authority. Pretty cool for a country where its still legal to abuse a woman as long as she's your wife
I spent time growing up in Italy, and pretty much all the cartoons there came from Japan. There were all kinds of genres represented: the robot/war stuff (Mazinga Z, Daitarn, Goldrake (Grandizer in the US), Gilrlie soap opera like ones (Giorgie, yuck, about some girl from Australia), and ones more suitable for kids (Yattaman was cool, goofy robots, like big dogs or cats that opened up and released smaller robot animals that battled opponents, whacky but fun)...
My question is why have these shows never caught on here in the US? I'm surprised the Cartoon Network doesn't invest in anime other that Gundam and DBZ.
In the New England area I remember wathing Force Five and Starblazers on TV, and to this day these shows have a large following as demonstrated by web pages you can find on search pages.
Slashdot Mirror
I have the same question
The article also make a lot of references to the perfect storm being in 1993, when in fact it was in 1991
. storm/
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/06/30/perfect
I was recently at KSC, I booked a tour while on a cruise ship, as I had some time to spend before my return flight home and the price was reasonable. While on tour, we took a bus out to the shuttle hanger and the shuttle launch pad, the driver mentioned this tour wasn't available to regular visitors. So if you do your research you might get to see some interesting things. I agree, without this drive by, the KSC is kinda weak.
I hadn't seen a $2 bill in a while either, until I got one as change at a Boston parking garage, its still in my wallet as I feel weird using it.
2 Kings 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Wait a minute... how did they know about the other planets back then?
Mr. Saturday Night.
Worst movie I have ever seen.
Never thought I would see Troy Brown's name in a slashdot story....
GO PATS!!!
That first sentance should have ended like this:
have the gov't put another barcode containing info about the sending address __on your front door__
put a unique barcode on every stamp and have the gov't put another barcode containing info about the sending address. Then just give the mail carrier a scanner, have them pick up the mail at your front door and scan both barcodes.
I guess this would be hard with apartment buildings, but it would still provide USPS with relevant information about origination address, and it would be up to the customer to record the barcode on the stamp.
Of course there is nothing other than federal law stopping a random stranger to drop a outgoing letter in your mail box.
Gentoo does something similar.
I am completely fed up with at&t. I got a voice/cable/internet package advertised for $100, and within 6 months I was paying ~$130. I shelled out the extra $2 for an unlisted number, when I cancled the service a year later, just for fun I looked at my local phone directory only to notice that even though they collected $2 a month from me tbo not list my number it was listed anyways. They wouldn't credit me money back for the whole year since the phone book I was using as reference was only 4 months old. When I decided to move after I bought a house, we requested service to be cancled on 3/25. Of course they decided to cut my line a month early, no phone, tv, or internet. Bla.
So I move in to my new home convinced I'll never have to deal with ATT again, I'll just get DSL, satellite and good ol' baby bell phone service... Well, it turns out the satellite signals are a bit too lazy to fly though trees, and DSL companies are very picky about whom them will service.
So its back to ATT I went. Of course I decided to buy my own modem. Of course Att decided to charge me for a leased one anyways. I called and complained, and they actually hung up on me. Eventually, I had to fax them a copy of the work order for the install where their tech had clearly written "CUST SUP MODEM".
What a bunch of pricks
Oh yeah, I forgot about their digital cable I refuse to get anymore. Their on screen graphics take up the bottom third of the screen, and 30% of that area is filled with... you guessed it, banner ads.
They are a monopoly and have to be stopped.
Now go ahead and tell me to deal with it, I'm used to it.
Oh yeah... I phailed inglish class
This whole -1 thing is screwed. I worked at Andover.net (now OSDN) back in January and Feburary of 2000. I was a contractor brough on board to help build the Slashdot cage at Exodus, in fact I wrote my name with a magic marker on the bottom of the Quad Zeon VALinux box that probably still runs the main Mysql DB. At the time I thought it was pretty cool to be involved with the whole open source scene...
You know what I learned? I learned that most of the "Famous" and "Big Names" in the linux scene are attention starved name dropping weenies.
It after my assigment at Andover.net ended that I realized the whole Open Source movement is over. Done with. There are way to many people with way to much ego. All of the linux people in charge of the project were too busy stroking their ego's and counting their stock options.
I thank CmdrTaco and all the rest for a good 2 or 3 years of entertaining reading, but times have changed, there is no energy left here. Time to move on, Open source has been assimilated by Corporate Practices. I sincerely feel that all that was good about Slashdot, and to an extent the Linux fenomenon is over. This Thread just ended any hope I had left. Time to bring on the next fad.
bash-2.04$ ./a.outC i386
10 = 10
bash-2.04$ uname -a
FreeBSD www.shz.com 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 26 00:46:59 GMT 2000 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERI
Thats on a AMD k6 500....
If that was the case no one would remember IP addresses, and it seems like most people have no problem in that department.
I have Speakeasy via/Covad in Boston. Great service, 768/328 (I actually have a symetric line, the upstream is capped at the NOC) I consistently get 80k downloads, and The only problem I had was my Speedstream DSL router would occasionally lock up, but that hasn't happened since I replaced my old hub with a switch.
Also, a year ago, when I first signed up, I could get great throughput, but had terrible latency (>200ms to the gateway). This was becasue I live in boston and my gateway was in Seattle. Within a month they opened up an new NOW in NY. They activly participate in newsgroups and have great tech support.
Thank God for Covad, according to Verizon I live to far away from the CO to get any DSL service.. Dumbasses...
Of course you can, for instance, remember the person who sued McDonalds after he spilled a cup of McCoffee?
In this analogy, sadly enough, Software is considered a good that can be purchased, boxed, patented. Why couldn't you sue Microsoft if they sold a product, like outlook, that when used in the method it wasn't designed for (i.e. running rouge VB scripts) that causes lots of $$$$ worth of damage? Makes sense to me
Or at least I've seen the phrase "it is a violation of fedaral law to use this product in a way it was not intended to be used" on such things as lysol cans and stuff. I am praphrasing from memory so forgive and misquotation...
I majored in Electrical Engineering at college and I still had to go through the article twice. All they are doing is proposing a funky way of squezing more bits into a defined spectrum. Papers like this are quite interesting, its good to know that there is work being done on making technoligies desigined for voice/music transmission prolific at passing 1's and 0's. Most of the article explained how different this transmission mode was from the standard we use now. Electromagnetics is a really complex and interesting field...
It would be interseting to immagine how HDTV tranmissions could benefit from technology such as this, altohugh I am beginning to doubt that HDTV will ever really matter.
What the heck is the point of this story??
/.??
It looks like something done to attract attention
In what context is this being posted at
Let me guess... this guy will be writing a book soon or something.
I hope I am offering something useful to the disscussion....
Most people in Italy with larger engine cars get converted to what they call "natural gas". This conversion consisted of some engine mods and the addition of what looks like those tanks of oxygen welders use into the trunk. In cases where there were no "natural gas" stations around, you could flip a switch and run on gasoline.
The only downside was less performance/power while running on gas.
Please excuse the gratuitous use of "'s, and the scarsity of detailed information.
Key points Loosly translated:
Public-key cryptograhpic digital signature has now become the main tool, using current technology, of assuring the integrity and the source of electronic documents, therefore replacing the handwritten signature in tradiditonal documents.
bla bla bla
Therefore exchanging public and private electronic documents with the same value as their corresponding paper documents is now a reality.
The document goes on to list that certificate holders must be registered and readily consultable, administered by a central authority.
Pretty cool for a country where its still legal to abuse a woman as long as she's your wife
I wonder how these EM fields influence newer "Fly-by-Wire" aircraft.
Yes. Lupin was great. Eventually the Ninja guy slicing everything from cars to buildings to people to... gets repetative.
I spent time growing up in Italy, and pretty much all the cartoons there came from Japan. There were all kinds of genres represented: the robot/war stuff (Mazinga Z, Daitarn, Goldrake (Grandizer in the US), Gilrlie soap opera like ones (Giorgie, yuck, about some girl from Australia), and ones more suitable for kids (Yattaman was cool, goofy robots, like big dogs or cats that opened up and released smaller robot animals that battled opponents, whacky but fun)...
:)
My question is why have these shows never caught on here in the US? I'm surprised the Cartoon Network doesn't invest in anime other that Gundam and DBZ.
In the New England area I remember wathing Force Five and Starblazers on TV, and to this day these shows have a large following as demonstrated by web pages you can find on search pages.
Maybe I'll start "The Anime Channel"