How is it news at all?!?! "Online shop opens up!" Thats pretty much the extent of it.
If they at least had the decency to wrap it up in a story, it would be okay. - For example, an online weekly diary of a small business starting up; all they have to go through, permits for this, tax issues, supplier problems, online-fraud, etc. That would be totally friggin cool. AND it would be great advertisement. Everyone wins.
This is just plain advertisement. Buy a banner ad, friggin' euro-cheapskate!;)
Its not that I am particularly outraged by the blatant self-aggrandizment, (I'm an American, we actually look quite favorably on it) its more that I want to remove any doubt from everyone's mind about what this is.
No number of tattoos will change the fact that you look like a TOTAL DORK with that crap on your head! And the lady wearing the ones without the frames? I think that photo made the cover of Nerdular Nerdence!
The other problem with this how sturdy is this going to be? Rigid frame sunglasses (unless titanium!) frequently get crushed in pants pockets, or when they are sat on. (thus, my polarized bolle's are pastic).
So in conclusion; MP3 player adds fragility and cost, subtracts any kind of coolness (to the point where gold fronts won't even save you).
Good looking out! The fact that "House" and "Hard House" are different major topics is good. The fact that they differentiate "techstep" from "hardstep" is great. And there is a category of "acid" under "breaks", right where it should be.
Hey, I like punk too. And surf rock. And man? or ASTRO Man? (punk and surf!) They have some great Indie comps. But... eh. Its wasn't enough to keep me coming back.
I had the "Platinum" membership- and to tell you the truth despite my very non-mainstream tastes, they didn't have a whole lot that I liked. Also, I hated how their electronic music was organized (there was little-to-no Drum and Bass/Jungle in the Drum and Bass/Jungle section!) Additionally, a 30 second sample (taken from the first 30 seconds!) of a 10 minute electronic music track (that takes 2 minutes to build up anywhere) is a use-less way to "try before you buy."
Additionally, there are too many Live recordings (read: poor sounding recordings). For example, they have a bunch of The Selecter tracks, but they're all live. Sorry, I want to studio versions.
I hope its useful for you. But I paid my money, downloaded some good tracks, a bunch of bad tracks, and walked away.
there's a special section at the sanitation commision around here; specifically for PC hardware. I drilled holes through the hard drives (MY data. MINE!;) but people can root around 'till their hearts content and find a working pc. If someone knows anything at all about macs, they'll look in, see all the dimms and the processor still there, and give it a go at home.
Interesting about the clustering aspect with dual and more CPUs.
Thats what it is. Instead of using a LAN as the communications media, you are using a bus on the mobo to get data from one CPU to another.
Its great that you are jazzed about salvaging older parts; harness this energy to learning about computer design.
P.S.- I threw out my maxxed out PowerMac 7200 dual booting to linux/Mac OS 8. Why? Too slow. I had other machines to work on at home. Love's labour's lost.
from the article: but departing planes were held on the runways until a failed radio communications system could be repaired at Los Angeles Center, a remote facility in the desert north of the city.
Oops, you are right. Thats ZLA. I'm not too up on VSCS, but I thought there was some part of it that bounces the signal back to the controllers that isn't on site...? maybe?
ACtually, R6k's are dying. They are currently used in air traffic control, too. Infact, the UK was planning on buying up ALL the 595's in all of Europe at a significant cost; thats how desperate the situation is.
This wasn't an ARTCC. Besides, the ARTCC's are all on DSR now, and a bunch have URET on top of that. They're slowly but surely entering the modern age!
It's obviously lunacy for any company to replace a proven system, which has given years of reliable service with some piece of trash that crashes if left running for over a month
What if that proven systen is decaying out from under you? HD's failing, memory going bad... Tell you what, can you get me new boards for an IBM RT pc? I highly doubt it.
What about "olde" mainframes running assembler code? The pool of expertise is drying up... sometimes you need to pitch the hardware.
I don't think blame should be assigned to the technician who missed the task; rather, it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task. Who's really at fault?"
Actually, I do. You've got a job; you've got deadlines. Do the work.
Oh, okay. I think I understand what you are saying.
However I still don't agree, and here is why.
Section IV.3 combined with his experience. He didn't just run the programs; he selected two different algorithms, and modified them. And what sets him apart from anyone else is that he transcends simply having the technical ability to compare two texts: he also is at the forefront of the study and practice of copyright infringement.
His selection of the programs validates ESR in the legal realm.
Lets see: on the Advisory Board of the US Congressional Office of Technology Assesment on software and I.P., published in 1992.
Check.
Columbia Law Review article on "the Legal protection of Computer Programs". Check.
Software Law journal article on "The Nature of Software and its Consequences for Establishing and Evaluating Similarity. BIG Check.
Court Expert on Software Copyright Infringement. Check.
Retained by the DOJ to investigate copyright theft (and subsequent cover up) by the FBI, NSA, DEA, US Customs, and DIA. Check.
Served as chairman of the National Academy of Sciences study on ip rights and emerging information infrastructure. Check.
Retained as an expert in over 30 cases of ip infringement. Check.
Yeah, I don't care if you aren't impressed with his write up. He's got the skills to pay the bills.
He ran some already-written software, manually verified a handful of results, and reported what the software said. Anyone who can operate a computer can do that.
Actually, its the MANUALLY verified results that "anyone who can operate a computer" CAN'T do. The above C.V. gives gravitas to his methodology, choice of programs, modifications to said programs, and (most importantly) manual verification.
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With a user name like "spunk," why am I not surprised? ;)
How is it news at all?!?! "Online shop opens up!"
;)
Thats pretty much the extent of it.
If they at least had the decency to wrap it up in a story, it would be okay. - For example, an online weekly diary of a small business starting up; all they have to go through, permits for this, tax issues, supplier problems, online-fraud, etc. That would be totally friggin cool. AND it would be great advertisement. Everyone wins.
This is just plain advertisement. Buy a banner ad, friggin' euro-cheapskate!
Its not that I am particularly outraged by the blatant self-aggrandizment, (I'm an American, we actually look quite favorably on it) its more that I want to remove any doubt from everyone's mind about what this is.
/. should be getting a cut.
And frankly,
If by "parody" you mean "laughing stock", then Yes.
Isn't two jillion emails every two jillion seconds just one email per second
SHHHHHHHHH! Don't give it away!!! You're killing the joke!
No number of tattoos will change the fact that you look like a TOTAL DORK with that crap on your head! And the lady wearing the ones without the frames? I think that photo made the cover of Nerdular Nerdence!
The other problem with this how sturdy is this going to be? Rigid frame sunglasses (unless titanium!) frequently get crushed in pants pockets, or when they are sat on. (thus, my polarized bolle's are pastic).
So in conclusion; MP3 player adds fragility and cost, subtracts any kind of coolness (to the point where gold fronts won't even save you).
This sucks.
Good looking out! The fact that "House" and "Hard House" are different major topics is good. The fact that they differentiate "techstep" from "hardstep" is great. And there is a category of "acid" under "breaks", right where it should be.
Hey, I like punk too. And surf rock. And man? or ASTRO Man? (punk and surf!) They have some great Indie comps. But... eh. Its wasn't enough to keep me coming back.
I had the "Platinum" membership- and to tell you the truth despite my very non-mainstream tastes, they didn't have a whole lot that I liked. Also, I hated how their electronic music was organized (there was little-to-no Drum and Bass/Jungle in the Drum and Bass/Jungle section!) Additionally, a 30 second sample (taken from the first 30 seconds!) of a 10 minute electronic music track (that takes 2 minutes to build up anywhere) is a use-less way to "try before you buy."
Additionally, there are too many Live recordings (read: poor sounding recordings). For example, they have a bunch of The Selecter tracks, but they're all live. Sorry, I want to studio versions.
I hope its useful for you. But I paid my money, downloaded some good tracks, a bunch of bad tracks, and walked away.
there's a special section at the sanitation commision around here; specifically for PC hardware. I drilled holes through the hard drives (MY data. MINE! ;) but people can root around 'till their hearts content and find a working pc. If someone knows anything at all about macs, they'll look in, see all the dimms and the processor still there, and give it a go at home.
Interesting about the clustering aspect with dual and more CPUs.
Thats what it is. Instead of using a LAN as the communications media, you are using a bus on the mobo to get data from one CPU to another.
That's still more than what a 19" CRT costs.
But, but, its got built in speakers! It must be worth an iFortune!
Uhm, just because they're on the same MOBO, doesn't mean you DON'T have a cluster. Me thinks you need a good education in Parallel processing.
And for that matter, computer hardware design.
Its great that you are jazzed about salvaging older parts; harness this energy to learning about computer design.
P.S.- I threw out my maxxed out PowerMac 7200 dual booting to linux/Mac OS 8. Why? Too slow. I had other machines to work on at home. Love's labour's lost.
from the article:
but departing planes were held on the runways until a failed radio communications system could be repaired at Los Angeles Center, a remote facility in the desert north of the city.
Oops, you are right. Thats ZLA. I'm not too up on VSCS, but I thought there was some part of it that bounces the signal back to the controllers that isn't on site...? maybe?
I think you mean One of these. Heck, I'd give you two testarossa's for it!
Actually, you end up buying AIX 3.2.5 source code. NO SHIT.
ACtually, R6k's are dying. They are currently used in air traffic control, too. Infact, the UK was planning on buying up ALL the 595's in all of Europe at a significant cost; thats how desperate the situation is.
So... the technician gets run over by a car, or collapses of a heart attack at work.
;)
See, thats part of the job description. He's not ALLOWED to die.
The cost of having a trained monkey reboot the system every month for 10 years is probably less than the cost of maintainance on the old hardware.
It makes sense on paper. It doesn't work out when the human element "screws the pooch" (they rarely show you that slide in the powerpoint, do they?!)
This wasn't an ARTCC. Besides, the ARTCC's are all on DSR now, and a bunch have URET on top of that. They're slowly but surely entering the modern age!
It's obviously lunacy for any company to replace a proven system, which has given years of reliable service with some piece of trash that crashes if left running for over a month
What if that proven systen is decaying out from under you? HD's failing, memory going bad... Tell you what, can you get me new boards for an IBM RT pc? I highly doubt it.
What about "olde" mainframes running assembler code? The pool of expertise is drying up... sometimes you need to pitch the hardware.
I don't think blame should be assigned to the technician who missed the task; rather, it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task. Who's really at fault?"
Actually, I do. You've got a job; you've got deadlines. Do the work.
From this Slashdot article:
They will also be using the PS2 chips in TVs- and the original was waay to bulky.
Oh, okay. I think I understand what you are saying.
However I still don't agree, and here is why.
Section IV.3 combined with his experience. He didn't just run the programs; he selected two different algorithms, and modified them. And what sets him apart from anyone else is that he transcends simply having the technical ability to compare two texts: he also is at the forefront of the study and practice of copyright infringement.
His selection of the programs validates ESR in the legal realm.
Lets see: on the Advisory Board of the US Congressional Office of Technology Assesment on software and I.P., published in 1992.
Check.
Columbia Law Review article on "the Legal protection of Computer Programs". Check.
Software Law journal article on "The Nature of Software and its Consequences for Establishing and Evaluating Similarity. BIG Check.
Court Expert on Software Copyright Infringement. Check.
Retained by the DOJ to investigate copyright theft (and subsequent cover up) by the FBI, NSA, DEA, US Customs, and DIA. Check.
Served as chairman of the National Academy of Sciences study on ip rights and emerging information infrastructure. Check.
Retained as an expert in over 30 cases of ip infringement. Check.
Yeah, I don't care if you aren't impressed with his write up. He's got the skills to pay the bills.
He ran some already-written software, manually verified a handful of results, and reported what the software said. Anyone who can operate a computer can do that.
Actually, its the MANUALLY verified results that "anyone who can operate a computer" CAN'T do. The above C.V. gives gravitas to his methodology, choice of programs, modifications to said programs, and (most importantly) manual verification.
Great! Graduate Phi Beta Cappa (summa cum laude, too), run some AI centers and also have excessive experience in Code copyright infringement cases!
See you in 10 years!
(trans: read the relevant parts of his CV in the PDF- this guy is FOR REAL.)