You all forgot one thing. There are those of us who are two spirit. Two spirit means we have both the feminine and the masculine. Native Americans had recognized that eons ago.
Here in Portland, we have Movie Madness, a video store with perhaps the largest selection of titles on the west coast. If I want to watch something (and most often it's a classic like Sound of Music), I go there and rent a dvd. Four days for three dollars.
Sorry, your toilet and urinal are also equipped with a patented high voltage emitter that will make it quite painful if you try to use it during commericials.
American Standard, the largest toilet manufacturers are in bed with the cable outfits.
As I see things right now, I think I have been quite spoiled by my experience at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
WPI had a club called the Lens And Lights Club. The Lens And Lights Club (L&LC did all stage lighting and sound on campus. That includes plays, films, concerts; no matter what.
All of the work; including equipment maintenance, operation, selection, evaluation; you name it; was performed by students.
This was a great experience and when I was there, I had made an assumption that this was the way things were at all other universities. It made total sense. It gave the students 'ownership' of the entire process and it was a very good real life experience of essentially running a lighting, sound, and movie projection business.
Then I came to find out that many universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle, use union labor for much of the lighting and sound in its theaters. That means hands off for everyone else.
This, in my opinion, is a very serious mistake. They are denying the students a valuable education and experience.
The members of the L&LC were not paid. However, they got a priceless education over and above their lecture and lab work.
Yes, two very important concepts in ship-board life.
Weather.
And 'The Captain's Word is Law'.
Having been raised in a sailing family and having been on a sailing team in high school, I know that these two concepts in boat/shipboard life cannot be overlooked.
Glancing through this article, I see very little attention made to these.
Having been around techies and geeks for my adult life (after my sailing life ended), I see many of my fellow geeks having issues with the concept that on board a ship, there needs to be one dictator, ada, the captain. And that captain's is the law. The captain, who is responsible for the well being of the ship/boat and the people therein, has to have final and dictatorial authority.
Who will be the captain of this ship? Will all the geeks thereupon be willing to accept that his/her word is law? Will they be willing to jump onto lifeboats in the event of a storm/fire/whatever disaster?
What if someone mis-behaves? Will there be a brig on board? Who will adjudicate? On a Navy ship, the captain can order anyone into the brig. I believe the same also goes for the merchant marine? What is the case here?
How will this rig ride storms?
What about seasickness?
What about long periods of time (weather/storms) during which food and supplies cannot be brought out?
Sports to me is not watching. It's doing. I ride a bicycle to and from work. I walk. That's sports. When I am bored with that, I make jewelry and clothing for fun. I don't need the olympics or football or any other sport that I watch.
The only time I want to a spectator sport is when my boss gave me tickets because I did something right. Even there, I showed off more then I watch the game. I wore one of my glowing jackets and dazzled the people.
Yes, and the darn sound bleeds through to the adjacent theater in the megaplex where I am trying to watch and listen to the quietest scene in the Sound of Music (yes, you know the scene, when the two of them propose in the gazibo).
If you like these action movies, then build theaters with decent sound isolation; not paper thin wall between the auditoriums!!!
Huh? That statement makes no sense. There's nothing wrong with Kim Kardashian. Just because she got flowered at the Red Carpet at the Oscars does not mean anything's wrong with her or the GCC compiler. Furthermore, the Linux kernel is compiled with the GCC compiler. So I declare both Kim and GCC to be fine citizens of this kingdom.
Hmm, that reminds me; what would happen if you put Richard Stallman (father of GNU and GPL) and Theo De Radt (one of the fathers of BSD) onto the same stage at, well lets say, OSCON or Usenix or Debconf?
As a bicyclist, I would love to see this system set up here in the U.S. Too many uninsured drivers have been hitting bicyclists. In fact, I have had dreams of even a better system. Have an electronic lock in all vehicles that would automatically disable the vehicle if it's insurance policy lapses. This can be easily done with the current cellular/wimax/WIFI technology.
I have no trouble coupling LED's into fiber. I do it all the time for the lighted clothing that I make. I have a pdf doc on line at www.allyn.com that shows pictures of how I do it.
Risk management is one of the key elements of the CISSP exam. Yes, that boring stuff is very important in the corporate security world. Don't minimize it.
And to you folks who are the real crafts-people who set up conferences. . ..
*PLEASE*PLEASE*PLEASE* Watch you damn tools!!!
You would not believe how much potential for theft there is at these large conferences and conventions.
Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the wall and scream as loud as I can when I see the amount of expensive tools and equipment left unattended in a convention hall during set-up or tear-down when *****anyone***** can walk into the place!!!!!!
So, I beg of you all who are there legitimately, please, for God sakes, don't leave you stuff unattended. Especially laptops with sensitive personal or company data.
And especially those $30,000 scopes and logic analyzers. As a minimum, get a lockable transport case to put those goodies in.
You don't even have to voluntarily sneak into a conference
Some of these conference security folks are such a joke and hotel layouts are messed up that you can end up in a conference even if you never intended to go to that conference.
I booked a night at a hotel in San Francisco once. I arrive on my bicycle after a long trip. I just wanted to check in, go to my room, and shower and *crash*.
Well, I ended up at this stoopid keynote reception with a bunch of suits. I was in lycra shorts and tee shirt.
***No one*** challenged me nor asked me if they could help me. I looked **utterly lost, tired, and miserable**.
After about 1/2 hour, I finally found the darn reception desk and checked in.
After a shower and a 6 hour nap, I got up to get something to eat.
And ended up in their stupid **banquet reception**.
I gave up and found a restaurant outside and ate
Sometimes I wonder if these conferences actually want to suck you in and get lost.
Just a tired bicyclist after 50 miles of 95 degree dusty heat wanting a little cool rest.
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You all forgot one thing. There are those of us who are two spirit. Two spirit means we have both the feminine and the masculine. Native Americans had recognized that eons ago.
I am speechless and choking. I have absolutely no idea how to sort this out and even where to begin :(
And make things. I do.
Here in Portland, we have Movie Madness, a video store with perhaps the largest selection of titles on the west coast. If I want to watch something (and most often it's a classic like Sound of Music), I go there and rent a dvd. Four days for three dollars.
I have been without TV for 34 years and I have have an extremely fulfilling life.
I have these wonderful hobbies that give me more entertainment. I happen to a a light artist and I really love it.
If you want to see some of the things that I make during the time I could have watched TV, go to http://www.allyn.com/
If you are in Portland, Oregon, and you see someone with jewelry and clothing that glows in the dark, that's me.
Sorry, your toilet and urinal are also equipped with a patented high voltage emitter that will make it quite painful if you try to use it during commericials. American Standard, the largest toilet manufacturers are in bed with the cable outfits.
Motors' speeds are governed by the frequency (60 hz). DC motors will go faster with higher voltages. Not AC.
What you will end up with is an overheated motor.
First run, the house got essentially nothing.
Second run; aka; the 'dollar' houses; the rent from the distributors is much lower.
The first two or three months (first run time) is what makes/breaks a film from what I hear.
Thank you. I agree.
Here in Portland, Oregon, McMinimans (a local pub/theater chain) charges 6 in prime time; they also have pizza as well as popcorn
The Laurelhurst and Clinton (two independent theaters) charge $6 in prime time.
The Hollywood (art theater) charges $7 in prime time.
As I see things right now, I think I have been quite spoiled by my experience at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
WPI had a club called the Lens And Lights Club. The Lens And Lights Club (L&LC did all stage lighting and sound on campus. That includes plays, films, concerts; no matter what.
All of the work; including equipment maintenance, operation, selection, evaluation; you name it; was performed by students.
This was a great experience and when I was there, I had made an assumption that this was the way things were at all other universities. It made total sense. It gave the students 'ownership' of the entire process and it was a very good real life experience of essentially running a lighting, sound, and movie projection business.
Then I came to find out that many universities, including the University of Washington in Seattle, use union labor for much of the lighting and sound in its theaters. That means hands off for everyone else.
This, in my opinion, is a very serious mistake. They are denying the students a valuable education and experience.
The members of the L&LC were not paid. However, they got a priceless education over and above their lecture and lab work.
The Goodwill outlet store; aka the 'bins'; already does that. It's by the pound.
Weather.
And 'The Captain's Word is Law'.
Having been raised in a sailing family and having been on a sailing team in high school, I know that these two concepts in boat/shipboard life cannot be overlooked.
Glancing through this article, I see very little attention made to these.
Having been around techies and geeks for my adult life (after my sailing life ended), I see many of my fellow geeks having issues with the concept that on board a ship, there needs to be one dictator, ada, the captain. And that captain's is the law. The captain, who is responsible for the well being of the ship/boat and the people therein, has to have final and dictatorial authority.
Who will be the captain of this ship? Will all the geeks thereupon be willing to accept that his/her word is law? Will they be willing to jump onto lifeboats in the event of a storm/fire/whatever disaster?
What if someone mis-behaves? Will there be a brig on board? Who will adjudicate? On a Navy ship, the captain can order anyone into the brig. I believe the same also goes for the merchant marine? What is the case here?
How will this rig ride storms?
What about seasickness?
What about long periods of time (weather/storms) during which food and supplies cannot be brought out?
The only time I want to a spectator sport is when my boss gave me tickets because I did something right. Even there, I showed off more then I watch the game. I wore one of my glowing jackets and dazzled the people.
Who is Dominique Moceanu? Is that a man or a woman? It sounds like one of the symbol names in some code that I am peer-reviewing.
If the child already has that one, then give them the Oreilly Linux Device Driver writing book.
Then give them a connection to Google
And then give them a system with Linux that has a device driver that occasionally crashes the kernel
If you like these action movies, then build theaters with decent sound isolation; not paper thin wall between the auditoriums!!!
Huh? That statement makes no sense. There's nothing wrong with Kim Kardashian. Just because she got flowered at the Red Carpet at the Oscars does not mean anything's wrong with her or the GCC compiler. Furthermore, the Linux kernel is compiled with the GCC compiler. So I declare both Kim and GCC to be fine citizens of this kingdom.
Hmm, that reminds me; what would happen if you put Richard Stallman (father of GNU and GPL) and Theo De Radt (one of the fathers of BSD) onto the same stage at, well lets say, OSCON or Usenix or Debconf?
As a bicyclist, I would love to see this system set up here in the U.S. Too many uninsured drivers have been hitting bicyclists. In fact, I have had dreams of even a better system. Have an electronic lock in all vehicles that would automatically disable the vehicle if it's insurance policy lapses. This can be easily done with the current cellular/wimax/WIFI technology.
I have no trouble coupling LED's into fiber. I do it all the time for the lighted clothing that I make. I have a pdf doc on line at www.allyn.com that shows pictures of how I do it.
Risk management is one of the key elements of the CISSP exam. Yes, that boring stuff is very important in the corporate security world. Don't minimize it.
*PLEASE*PLEASE*PLEASE* Watch you damn tools!!!
You would not believe how much potential for theft there is at these large conferences and conventions.
Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the wall and scream as loud as I can when I see the amount of expensive tools and equipment left unattended in a convention hall during set-up or tear-down when *****anyone***** can walk into the place!!!!!!
So, I beg of you all who are there legitimately, please, for God sakes, don't leave you stuff unattended. Especially laptops with sensitive personal or company data. And especially those $30,000 scopes and logic analyzers. As a minimum, get a lockable transport case to put those goodies in.
It gets worse.
You don't even have to voluntarily sneak into a conference
Some of these conference security folks are such a joke and hotel layouts are messed up that you can end up in a conference even if you never intended to go to that conference.
I booked a night at a hotel in San Francisco once. I arrive on my bicycle after a long trip. I just wanted to check in, go to my room, and shower and *crash*.
Well, I ended up at this stoopid keynote reception with a bunch of suits. I was in lycra shorts and tee shirt.
***No one*** challenged me nor asked me if they could help me. I looked **utterly lost, tired, and miserable**.
After about 1/2 hour, I finally found the darn reception desk and checked in.
After a shower and a 6 hour nap, I got up to get something to eat.
And ended up in their stupid **banquet reception**.
I gave up and found a restaurant outside and ate
Sometimes I wonder if these conferences actually want to suck you in and get lost.
Just a tired bicyclist after 50 miles of 95 degree dusty heat wanting a little cool rest.
Arm Holdings, the semiconductor company, employ about 2,000 people.
What product does Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle put out?
I have trouble seeing the equality of value in the product of Arm Holdings and Buckingham Palace / Windsor Castle.