(a) He did suggest seeing a doctor. We're all human and we're all capable of achieving a basic level of physical fitness. Anyone who says otherwise is as closed minded as someone who claims they could never learn to use a computer. He did put it a bit trollishly, though. I have to work really hard to keep up on the climbs with guys who are 60 lbs lighter than me.
(b) You're absolutely right. I don't know what he's talking about. Something else to consider, though, is that if everyone on the road was riding a bike, the total energy of traffic would be less. On the average it would be safer for everyone. It's fairly rare for a bike-bike crash to be lethal, while car-car crashes tend to be much more dangerous.
(c) Right again, riding on the sidewalk doesn't always make you safer. I've been hit by an SUV pulling into a driveway, a situation similiar to the ones you described. I was hella lucky. In February I got hit for real. My bike was toast. I have a huge nasty 'L'-shaped scar on my arm. Unless I am 100% sure that a driver sees me and is actually giving me the right of way, I stop and make eye contact with the driver before proceeding. It sounds overkill and it slows me down a bit in traffic, but it makes me feel safer.
(d) Biking can be a lot of fun, and can allow one to travel much further than by walking. For example, it is six miles from UCLA to the beach; a bit far for walking but makes for a very comfortable distance bike ride.
This bothers me deeply. Just as sparcv9 said: Lincoln Logs (Oh, look! I made another log cabin!)
Have you never played with/seen LEGO Technic or Mindstorms??? They beat Lincoln Logs in my book any day.
Dude, I wish it weren't so for the sake of those trapped, but the GPS signal really is very weak, and could never make it through that pile of rubble. I just went backpacking on Labor Day weekend, and my friend had a GPS locator device. Even in a remote area north of Yosemite National Park in California (an area with nothing man-made to provide interference, and roughly 9000 feet higher elevation than the WTC), we still had a hard time getting a signal. Yes, the batteries were in and fully charged. The fact of the matter is, the sparse trees and even our own bodies were blocking the signal in some cases.
Here's an e-mail that I just got from my dad, edited from all caps to pass the lameness filter.
i'm fine. this is al. was able to escape the devastation. it was close
though. there were bodies raining down from the sky, people screaming for
help and others running
from shear panick. there was smoke everywhere. you could not see your hands
in front of you face.
i just come out of the trade center, was about to get onto the next train
under the two building(twin tower number 2) when i saw the tail end of plane
vanishing into the building on the ninetieth floor. i though oh geez some
pilot doesn't know where he or she is going. as i looked up debris began to
fall. i quickly vanished beneath the building and down the escalator. i was
going the wrong way. i was going where bad things were about to happen.
nevertheless; it was the place where i'd just come out of.
train didn't take off immediately. we sat there underground under building 2
for awile. there was a second explosion. i didn't want to wait any longer, so
i ran out onto the street where i though it'll be safe. i was wrong. there
were concrete, soot, dust, white dust, and bodies flying all over the place.
i looked up to flames and a gaping hole on the ninetieth floor. i began
walking as fast as i could, away from the trade center. it was too late
though.
i walked 15 blocks to 14th street and immediately went underground again into
the subway. i had to find my way out of new york city as quickly as i could.
i caught amtrak going to new jersey. i hopped on it and made it out.
devastated, shaken, scared to death.
You must handle unstable or deteriorated nitrate films much like you would explosives. Keep such films underwater in an open suitable steel drum until disposal can be arranged. Regard as unstable any substantial quantity of films, whatever their apparent condition.
The newer stuff is much safer (although some say lower quality) than the good ol' nitrate films.
With something like this, you'd probably just need a deeper desk, so that you can sit further back from the display. If you sit too close, you get the infinite plane effect... That could be pretty cool, though. I'd pay to try it out.
I'm a first year undergrad EE at UCLA. I can tell you that here, a vast majority of the students use Windows, but among those, there is a fairly even spread among the various flavors. I thought that this mass searching for infected files only worked on NT based machines. Maybe not?
I had an interesting time setting up the two boxes that are currently running in my dorm. One is Win2k, and the other is Redhat 7.1 There's a very specific set of instructions here about which set of protocals and settings to use to connect a Windows machine to the campus network. For Linux, no help is offered. It's as if the people in the Student Technology Center who run the network don't want students using Linux. It turned out to be easier to set up the Redhat box for network use, though! They seem to boot me off the network every few days, though, just for running apache with a couple of text files.
Interesting. I think that my dad used to have a Commodore-64, but I don't think I've seen one (maybe in a box at a garage sale) in my lifetime.
The above post raises an interesting question, though; how much backwards compatibility in new software/hardware is reasonable? How much is overkill? How much is blatent trolling to force customers to upgrade?
I agree. I can see one big area where the mouse and keyboard clearl win over the P5. That is, with the mouse and keyboard, you can take your hands off anytime you want. It seems that with the glove(s), any hand movement is interpreted as a command. If you get an itch on your forehead, it takes two seconds to deal with if you're using a mouse and keyboard. On the other hand, if you're using a glove that tracks your every movement, you would either have to take the glove off or place it in some kind of mode where it's not reading commands. It would be a real pain if something normally harmless like scratching your ear caused data to be erased...
IIRC, AOL has been bundled with every M$ OS since Win98. Does anyone remember if it came with Win95? (I didn't have a computer yet) What's the big deal about 6.0 coming with XP?
Just imagine what carpal tunnel will be like after this kind of thing gets underway. Carpal tunnel in the forarms/hands/fingers is bad enough already. Just imagine if you get home from work and you're too brain-dead to find your house key or remember your spouses' name. This kind of thing could be pretty devastating if your mind works the same way as your body.
Maybe people who get high in this game would have to be killed (or maybe taken to some central location where they can do their drugs safely and with the supervision of medical personel). Seems like a good way to round up a lot of drug users, or something...
Ecactly. I pulled a great one on one of my buddies who still lives up in the Bay Area (I moved down to LA for school). Being a EE student with two computers and a bookshelf of computer books and Rush CD's, I get as much action as a one-legged midget leper (but my friend up north doesn't know that). He's been very frustrated lately with his own problems hooking up with women, so I told him that some girl who I'd mentioned to him before had offered me (wink, wink) "favors" in exchange for tutoring her in math.
He believed it completely, since he had no way of knowing otherwise... He went ballistic, especially when I said, "APRIL FOOLS DAY SUCKER!"
/.'s April Fool's would have been far more effective if the stories had been even somewhat believeable (or extremely unverify-able).
Maybe we could pay him to be a speech writer for Bush. Then, we could "accidently" shoot down their plane sometime, and take out two birds with one stone (or maybe that would be two stones with one bird, or better yet two stones with one stone)
The modern world is changing. We've seen plenty of/. articles about it. Does Mr. Katz really think that he must repeat the obvious? Everything in his article I've seen before. Katz should go visit Slashdot a news for nerds site that seems to beat him to the punch just about every single time. Maybe he does go there, and just steals all his material... Either way, it was a dumb article.
I see, so it's kinda like the Super Bowl, eh? The media makes up the plays, such that they can sell the most ad space for the most money. I wonder how much the ads go for during the commercial break right before coverage of the results for big states such as California and New York.
This is extremely peculiar. I just refreshed my IE, and there were two articles about Compaq and Transmeta. I commented on the second, and then refreshed again, and it was gone (*poof*). Am I caught in some sort of bizarre temporal anomaly? Is it some vile trick on the part of Mr. Katz? Will I spend the rest of the day watching the same two articles blink in and out of existance?
You're completely right. If the current benchmarking standards lead to inferior products (with higher prices and shorter battery life) being passed to us, the consumers, then there is something wrong.
Gee, when you put it that way, it makes me think twice. I just turned 18, so I've never voted before. Could it be that for all these years, the outcomes of the elections have been determined by psedo-random number generators? Could it be that when "voters" go to the "polls" that they're really just getting showers?
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(a) He did suggest seeing a doctor. We're all human and we're all capable of achieving a basic level of physical fitness. Anyone who says otherwise is as closed minded as someone who claims they could never learn to use a computer. He did put it a bit trollishly, though. I have to work really hard to keep up on the climbs with guys who are 60 lbs lighter than me.
(b) You're absolutely right. I don't know what he's talking about. Something else to consider, though, is that if everyone on the road was riding a bike, the total energy of traffic would be less. On the average it would be safer for everyone. It's fairly rare for a bike-bike crash to be lethal, while car-car crashes tend to be much more dangerous.
(c) Right again, riding on the sidewalk doesn't always make you safer. I've been hit by an SUV pulling into a driveway, a situation similiar to the ones you described. I was hella lucky. In February I got hit for real. My bike was toast. I have a huge nasty 'L'-shaped scar on my arm. Unless I am 100% sure that a driver sees me and is actually giving me the right of way, I stop and make eye contact with the driver before proceeding. It sounds overkill and it slows me down a bit in traffic, but it makes me feel safer.
(d) Biking can be a lot of fun, and can allow one to travel much further than by walking. For example, it is six miles from UCLA to the beach; a bit far for walking but makes for a very comfortable distance bike ride.
My dad made a pair of copper rings himself, then had them "turned to gold" at the plating shop. Ingenious if you ask me.
Lincoln Logs > Lego
This bothers me deeply. Just as sparcv9 said:
Lincoln Logs (Oh, look! I made another log cabin!)
Have you never played with/seen LEGO Technic or Mindstorms??? They beat Lincoln Logs in my book any day.
Dude, I wish it weren't so for the sake of those trapped, but the GPS signal really is very weak, and could never make it through that pile of rubble. I just went backpacking on Labor Day weekend, and my friend had a GPS locator device. Even in a remote area north of Yosemite National Park in California (an area with nothing man-made to provide interference, and roughly 9000 feet higher elevation than the WTC), we still had a hard time getting a signal. Yes, the batteries were in and fully charged. The fact of the matter is, the sparse trees and even our own bodies were blocking the signal in some cases.
Here's an e-mail that I just got from my dad, edited from all caps to pass the lameness filter.
i'm fine. this is al. was able to escape the devastation. it was close though. there were bodies raining down from the sky, people screaming for help and others running from shear panick. there was smoke everywhere. you could not see your hands in front of you face. i just come out of the trade center, was about to get onto the next train under the two building(twin tower number 2) when i saw the tail end of plane vanishing into the building on the ninetieth floor. i though oh geez some pilot doesn't know where he or she is going. as i looked up debris began to fall. i quickly vanished beneath the building and down the escalator. i was going the wrong way. i was going where bad things were about to happen. nevertheless; it was the place where i'd just come out of. train didn't take off immediately. we sat there underground under building 2 for awile. there was a second explosion. i didn't want to wait any longer, so i ran out onto the street where i though it'll be safe. i was wrong. there were concrete, soot, dust, white dust, and bodies flying all over the place. i looked up to flames and a gaping hole on the ninetieth floor. i began walking as fast as i could, away from the trade center. it was too late though. i walked 15 blocks to 14th street and immediately went underground again into the subway. i had to find my way out of new york city as quickly as i could. i caught amtrak going to new jersey. i hopped on it and made it out. devastated, shaken, scared to death.
For those who are interested, here is a guide to storing and handling nitrate film. The part that I like best is:
You must handle unstable or deteriorated nitrate films much like you would explosives. Keep such films underwater in an open suitable steel drum until disposal can be arranged. Regard as unstable any substantial quantity of films, whatever their apparent condition.The newer stuff is much safer (although some say lower quality) than the good ol' nitrate films.
With something like this, you'd probably just need a deeper desk, so that you can sit further back from the display. If you sit too close, you get the infinite plane effect... That could be pretty cool, though. I'd pay to try it out.
It would be laden if it had a 500 lb bomb strapped to it.
I'm a first year undergrad EE at UCLA. I can tell you that here, a vast majority of the students use Windows, but among those, there is a fairly even spread among the various flavors. I thought that this mass searching for infected files only worked on NT based machines. Maybe not?
I had an interesting time setting up the two boxes that are currently running in my dorm. One is Win2k, and the other is Redhat 7.1 There's a very specific set of instructions here about which set of protocals and settings to use to connect a Windows machine to the campus network. For Linux, no help is offered. It's as if the people in the Student Technology Center who run the network don't want students using Linux. It turned out to be easier to set up the Redhat box for network use, though! They seem to boot me off the network every few days, though, just for running apache with a couple of text files.
Dude, hydrogen dioxide isn't water. Water is H2O (dihydrogen monoxide). Hate to rain on your parade, just thought I should point it out.
Interesting. I think that my dad used to have a Commodore-64, but I don't think I've seen one (maybe in a box at a garage sale) in my lifetime.
The above post raises an interesting question, though; how much backwards compatibility in new software/hardware is reasonable? How much is overkill? How much is blatent trolling to force customers to upgrade?
Genius! Genius!
How did this possibly get modded 0???
I agree. I can see one big area where the mouse and keyboard clearl win over the P5. That is, with the mouse and keyboard, you can take your hands off anytime you want. It seems that with the glove(s), any hand movement is interpreted as a command. If you get an itch on your forehead, it takes two seconds to deal with if you're using a mouse and keyboard. On the other hand, if you're using a glove that tracks your every movement, you would either have to take the glove off or place it in some kind of mode where it's not reading commands. It would be a real pain if something normally harmless like scratching your ear caused data to be erased...
I guess that's what 'Undo' is for
IIRC, AOL has been bundled with every M$ OS since Win98. Does anyone remember if it came with Win95? (I didn't have a computer yet) What's the big deal about 6.0 coming with XP?
If you don't like it, don't use it.
Just imagine what carpal tunnel will be like after this kind of thing gets underway. Carpal tunnel in the forarms/hands/fingers is bad enough already. Just imagine if you get home from work and you're too brain-dead to find your house key or remember your spouses' name. This kind of thing could be pretty devastating if your mind works the same way as your body.
Maybe people who get high in this game would have to be killed (or maybe taken to some central location where they can do their drugs safely and with the supervision of medical personel). Seems like a good way to round up a lot of drug users, or something...
Ecactly. I pulled a great one on one of my buddies who still lives up in the Bay Area (I moved down to LA for school). Being a EE student with two computers and a bookshelf of computer books and Rush CD's, I get as much action as a one-legged midget leper (but my friend up north doesn't know that). He's been very frustrated lately with his own problems hooking up with women, so I told him that some girl who I'd mentioned to him before had offered me (wink, wink) "favors" in exchange for tutoring her in math.
He believed it completely, since he had no way of knowing otherwise... He went ballistic, especially when I said, "APRIL FOOLS DAY SUCKER!"
/.'s April Fool's would have been far more effective if the stories had been even somewhat believeable (or extremely unverify-able).
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Maybe we could pay him to be a speech writer for Bush. Then, we could "accidently" shoot down their plane sometime, and take out two birds with one stone (or maybe that would be two stones with one bird, or better yet two stones with one stone)
The modern world is changing. We've seen plenty of /. articles about it. Does Mr. Katz really think that he must repeat the obvious? Everything in his article I've seen before. Katz should go visit Slashdot a news for nerds site that seems to beat him to the punch just about every single time. Maybe he does go there, and just steals all his material... Either way, it was a dumb article.
I see, so it's kinda like the Super Bowl, eh? The media makes up the plays, such that they can sell the most ad space for the most money. I wonder how much the ads go for during the commercial break right before coverage of the results for big states such as California and New York.
I can just imagine it now..."geor"
"ge"
"dubya"
"geor"
"ge"
"dubya"
Goofy frogs...
This is extremely peculiar. I just refreshed my IE, and there were two articles about Compaq and Transmeta. I commented on the second, and then refreshed again, and it was gone (*poof*). Am I caught in some sort of bizarre temporal anomaly? Is it some vile trick on the part of Mr. Katz? Will I spend the rest of the day watching the same two articles blink in and out of existance?
You're completely right. If the current benchmarking standards lead to inferior products (with higher prices and shorter battery life) being passed to us, the consumers, then there is something wrong.
Gee, when you put it that way, it makes me think twice. I just turned 18, so I've never voted before. Could it be that for all these years, the outcomes of the elections have been determined by psedo-random number generators? Could it be that when "voters" go to the "polls" that they're really just getting showers?
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