One thing this article didn't mention was a precursor to the ATM. Way way back in the late 60s or early 70s, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Yorkdale Mall, North York, had a machine that if you put in a card and (I think) a PIN, it would dispense a sealed envelope with $30 in it and return your card. No more, no less. If you wanted $60, you had to do the process twice. But back then, $30 was a lot of money.
One thing I miss about the IBM ATMs that only had a single line of text was that if you withdrew cash, they required you to take your card out before they'd give you the cash. Harder to forget to take your card than the current colour monitor ones that will happily give you your money and then wait for your next transaction.
actually, if you did come up with it without reading my comment, althemore proof how obvious my ideas are
Actually, I did come up with the idea without seeing your post. But since I've been a Usenet news administrator for 18 years, I suppose it's no surprise that I would think of NNTP as a solution.
It's a damn site better use of NNTP that for distributing porn and copyright violations, anyway.
Others have already mentioned that RSS is an attempt to fake a "push" in a technology that is all "pull".
I have what to my 10 minutes of thought on the subject appears to be a better solution - every web site that currently publishes an RDF page should instead push new entries to an NNTP newsgroup. I'd suggest that a heirarchy be created for it, then sort of a reverse of the URL for the group name, like rdf.org.slashdot or rdf.uk.co.thregister. Then the articles get propogated in a distributed manner and people read a copy on their nearest news server instead of hammering your web site over and over looking to see if there are updates.
He doesn't wear it in the race. Riding in a peleton takes every bit of concentration, and you have to be able to hear, feel, see and practically smell the other riders around you if you're going to avoid the crashes and not miss the breakaways. I've seen him training with an iPod, so maybe he's using this for training and warm-up rides.
what kind of tactical advantage does a railgun bring
Faster cycle time, more shots without having to reprovision/reload, projectile will travel faster than a missile and be impossible to decoy/evade. All good things.
One benefit of cleaner software is that it could run on lower performance (and therefore lower power consumption) hardware. So there might be some truth to the statement that "cleaner software requires less energy".
Case in point - a friend of mine was involved in a mainframe program decades ago. They needed this mainframe to boot up quickly and run X number of copies of this specific program in virtual machines, but it was booting too slowly for the requirements. They stripped the dynamic memory allocation code out of the code that created the virtual machines, and just re-partitioned the memory into X fixed sized chunks, and got a hundred-fold improvement in start-up times.
Doing something like that would be way easier if you had source code to the OS.
And you'll note that those "over $40 a month" services are still in business. Yeah, it's great to get service below cost, but enjoy it while it lasts because it's going going gone.
I can sort of see where they're coming from. I was a cross country ski racer in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when composite materials were just coming for the fore. The FIS (Federation Internationale du Ski) banned skis narrower than 44mm because ski racing was becoming a race to see who could survive a whole race with the narrowest skis. People would try narrower and narrower skis, and who cares if you broke your skis in one out of three races as long as you placed well in the other ones. They set an arbitrary limit to stop the equipment wars. Then the same thing happened with ski boots/bindings. Adidas made a very innovative plastic boot and binding combination that was light and strong and gave you really good control over your skis. But it was *too* light, and in the 1976 Olympics the Russian team was plagued by ski binding failures that cost them a couple of good chances at medals. A few years later Salomon perfected the plastic ski shoe for racing that while heavier than the Adidas system was FAR stronger and gave you even better control of your skis, allowing you to skate much more easily than before. Things have never looked back. (Too bad it was the skating stride that doomed me to never race again.)
I can see similar things happening in cycling tours, especially since you've got a team car there to swap out components if anything happens, and a lot of teams are there to contest individual stage wins, not the GC. I have to wonder if they haven't already passed the sweet spot when I see how many people get flat tires in the course a stage - today one guy got a flat while he was on at attack, which sure helped the peleton! Maybe they need a rule about tougher tires?
Have you been watching the Giro D'Italia? Several bikes wearing a sticker that says "Legalize My Cannondale" because Cannondale has produced a carbon fiber and aluminum frame bike so lightweight that it's not legal for the Giro or the Tour de France. So they added some weight and that sticker.
fact that you wanted to use Microsoft Office all along
That's not what he said. He said that his existing and new documents weren't freely interchangable with Office. Out here in the real world, you can't just throw away your gigabytes of existing word processor documents and retype them because you want to use a new word processor. You also can't force your customers, suppliers and collaborators to switch to a different word processor. So if you have existing Office documents, and the others you exchange documents with are using Office, then you either need to use Office, or you need a word processor that reads and writes Office document format PERFECTLY.
I use OOo for my own use, but when I need to interact with other people, I am forced to use Word 2000 (running under Crossover Office) because otherwise people complain about how badly formatted my documents are.
I have a 100Gb of MP3s on my hard drive at home (and the CDs they were ripped from), and so the 20Gb on my 2nd generation iPod requires a lot of reloading. On the other hand, my step-daughter has a 3rd generation 30Gb iPod (which she got for babysitting the children of somebody who works at Apple) with only about 5Gb of songs. And do you think she'd swap iPods? No way! She's *so* selfish.
Some people have talked about what a great speaker Woz is. I saw him speak to the local Apple Users Group (AppleCIDER) and he's got a lot of stories about his interesting experiences and living in interesting times, but he is a BORING speaker. If he ever comes back to get to the topic he was supposed to talk about instead of wandering all over the map, I'd gladly go back, but I don't really want to hear a litany of all the mini-computers he redesigned on paper, saving a whole 5 capacitors.
Back when Fox News tried to C&D Al Franken's book, I assumed, like everybody else in the world, that Fox's lawyers were actually graduates of law schools that teach things like that, but we were all wrong. Fox, being one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, evidently has a legal staff who all got their law degrees at Joe's Garage and Lawer Stuff Skool. You should hear Al Franken's own description of what happened when they went to court - the judge literally laughed when he told that not only don't they have a case, but if they persist they're very likely to find out that "Fair and Balanced" isn't trademarkable.
Many lawyers will write stuff like this for free. Some years ago the Canadian Olympic Committee sent Orienteering Ontario a letter saying that the logo we were using for our sport infringed the stick figure logos that they'd been using since 198x. Well, what they didn't count on was that one of the members of the Canadian national Orienteering team was a lawyer, so he wrote back a letter that basically said we got the logo from the World Orienteering Championships of 197x, and they could stuff their claim up their collective asses, and we never heard from them again. So they went after some guy named Olympus for calling his pizza restaurant "Olympic Pizza" instead.
What Brad needs, instead of writing sarcastic responses himself, is to get a lawyer to write a letter pointing out to these pinheads that satire is constitutionally protected, and if they don't want to make asses of themselves and get laughed out of court like Fox News did against Al Franken, they should shut the fuck up.
Not so much. Remember how I described being in a big echo-y room with 100 other people, mostly Anderoids? And Andersen wouldn't let me use a Walkman to block out the noise? 3rd floor, New Town House. Left about 6 months before that IRA bomb hit the shopping mall where we used to go for lunch.
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One thing this article didn't mention was a precursor to the ATM. Way way back in the late 60s or early 70s, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Yorkdale Mall, North York, had a machine that if you put in a card and (I think) a PIN, it would dispense a sealed envelope with $30 in it and return your card. No more, no less. If you wanted $60, you had to do the process twice. But back then, $30 was a lot of money.
One thing I miss about the IBM ATMs that only had a single line of text was that if you withdrew cash, they required you to take your card out before they'd give you the cash. Harder to forget to take your card than the current colour monitor ones that will happily give you your money and then wait for your next transaction.
actually, if you did come up with it without reading my comment, althemore proof how obvious my ideas are
Actually, I did come up with the idea without seeing your post. But since I've been a Usenet news administrator for 18 years, I suppose it's no surprise that I would think of NNTP as a solution.
It's a damn site better use of NNTP that for distributing porn and copyright violations, anyway.
Others have already mentioned that RSS is an attempt to fake a "push" in a technology that is all "pull".
I have what to my 10 minutes of thought on the subject appears to be a better solution - every web site that currently publishes an RDF page should instead push new entries to an NNTP newsgroup. I'd suggest that a heirarchy be created for it, then sort of a reverse of the URL for the group name, like rdf.org.slashdot or rdf.uk.co.thregister. Then the articles get propogated in a distributed manner and people read a copy on their nearest news server instead of hammering your web site over and over looking to see if there are updates.
Feel free to tear this idea to shreds.
He doesn't wear it in the race. Riding in a peleton takes every bit of concentration, and you have to be able to hear, feel, see and practically smell the other riders around you if you're going to avoid the crashes and not miss the breakaways. I've seen him training with an iPod, so maybe he's using this for training and warm-up rides.
Futurama quote:
"We're taking over 150 atmospheres of pressure!"
"How many atmospheres can this ship take?"
"Well, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between 0 and 1."
what kind of tactical advantage does a railgun bring
Faster cycle time, more shots without having to reprovision/reload, projectile will travel faster than a missile and be impossible to decoy/evade. All good things.
Does it look as good as it sounds?
It looks pretty sweet.
Somebody already made a Cri-Cri (world's smallest plane) powered by two of these engines/a.. It scares the hell out me just thinking of it.
I'll stick with my PA32R-300, thanks.
Plays fine on my Mac. I've got Windows Media Player 9 for OS X.
One benefit of cleaner software is that it could run on lower performance (and therefore lower power consumption) hardware. So there might be some truth to the statement that "cleaner software requires less energy".
Case in point - a friend of mine was involved in a mainframe program decades ago. They needed this mainframe to boot up quickly and run X number of copies of this specific program in virtual machines, but it was booting too slowly for the requirements. They stripped the dynamic memory allocation code out of the code that created the virtual machines, and just re-partitioned the memory into X fixed sized chunks, and got a hundred-fold improvement in start-up times.
Doing something like that would be way easier if you had source code to the OS.
And you'll note that those "over $40 a month" services are still in business. Yeah, it's great to get service below cost, but enjoy it while it lasts because it's going going gone.
You're right, I meant to say "nearly free" or "below cost". Same difference.
1. Spend millions install WiFi hardware at thousands of hotspots ....
2. Give away free Internet access at these sites
3.
4. Profit!
I can sort of see where they're coming from. I was a cross country ski racer in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when composite materials were just coming for the fore. The FIS (Federation Internationale du Ski) banned skis narrower than 44mm because ski racing was becoming a race to see who could survive a whole race with the narrowest skis. People would try narrower and narrower skis, and who cares if you broke your skis in one out of three races as long as you placed well in the other ones. They set an arbitrary limit to stop the equipment wars. Then the same thing happened with ski boots/bindings. Adidas made a very innovative plastic boot and binding combination that was light and strong and gave you really good control over your skis. But it was *too* light, and in the 1976 Olympics the Russian team was plagued by ski binding failures that cost them a couple of good chances at medals. A few years later Salomon perfected the plastic ski shoe for racing that while heavier than the Adidas system was FAR stronger and gave you even better control of your skis, allowing you to skate much more easily than before. Things have never looked back. (Too bad it was the skating stride that doomed me to never race again.)
I can see similar things happening in cycling tours, especially since you've got a team car there to swap out components if anything happens, and a lot of teams are there to contest individual stage wins, not the GC. I have to wonder if they haven't already passed the sweet spot when I see how many people get flat tires in the course a stage - today one guy got a flat while he was on at attack, which sure helped the peleton! Maybe they need a rule about tougher tires?
Have you been watching the Giro D'Italia? Several bikes wearing a sticker that says "Legalize My Cannondale" because Cannondale has produced a carbon fiber and aluminum frame bike so lightweight that it's not legal for the Giro or the Tour de France. So they added some weight and that sticker.
fact that you wanted to use Microsoft Office all along
That's not what he said. He said that his existing and new documents weren't freely interchangable with Office. Out here in the real world, you can't just throw away your gigabytes of existing word processor documents and retype them because you want to use a new word processor. You also can't force your customers, suppliers and collaborators to switch to a different word processor. So if you have existing Office documents, and the others you exchange documents with are using Office, then you either need to use Office, or you need a word processor that reads and writes Office document format PERFECTLY.
I use OOo for my own use, but when I need to interact with other people, I am forced to use Word 2000 (running under Crossover Office) because otherwise people complain about how badly formatted my documents are.
I have a 100Gb of MP3s on my hard drive at home (and the CDs they were ripped from), and so the 20Gb on my 2nd generation iPod requires a lot of reloading. On the other hand, my step-daughter has a 3rd generation 30Gb iPod (which she got for babysitting the children of somebody who works at Apple) with only about 5Gb of songs. And do you think she'd swap iPods? No way! She's *so* selfish.
Some people have talked about what a great speaker Woz is. I saw him speak to the local Apple Users Group (AppleCIDER) and he's got a lot of stories about his interesting experiences and living in interesting times, but he is a BORING speaker. If he ever comes back to get to the topic he was supposed to talk about instead of wandering all over the map, I'd gladly go back, but I don't really want to hear a litany of all the mini-computers he redesigned on paper, saving a whole 5 capacitors.
The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
Uh no, the lesson is don't fucking steal, dipwad.
which is somewhat unlikely
Back when Fox News tried to C&D Al Franken's book, I assumed, like everybody else in the world, that Fox's lawyers were actually graduates of law schools that teach things like that, but we were all wrong. Fox, being one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, evidently has a legal staff who all got their law degrees at Joe's Garage and Lawer Stuff Skool. You should hear Al Franken's own description of what happened when they went to court - the judge literally laughed when he told that not only don't they have a case, but if they persist they're very likely to find out that "Fair and Balanced" isn't trademarkable.
Many lawyers will write stuff like this for free. Some years ago the Canadian Olympic Committee sent Orienteering Ontario a letter saying that the logo we were using for our sport infringed the stick figure logos that they'd been using since 198x. Well, what they didn't count on was that one of the members of the Canadian national Orienteering team was a lawyer, so he wrote back a letter that basically said we got the logo from the World Orienteering Championships of 197x, and they could stuff their claim up their collective asses, and we never heard from them again. So they went after some guy named Olympus for calling his pizza restaurant "Olympic Pizza" instead.
What Brad needs, instead of writing sarcastic responses himself, is to get a lawyer to write a letter pointing out to these pinheads that satire is constitutionally protected, and if they don't want to make asses of themselves and get laughed out of court like Fox News did against Al Franken, they should shut the fuck up.
Preferably in those exact words.
My Toyota was built in Kentucky. How is it hypocritical to drive a US made car and not want to see US jobs going overseas?
I bet his dessicated remains would mass less than 10kg.
I guess it's fame has spread far and wide.
Not so much. Remember how I described being in a big echo-y room with 100 other people, mostly Anderoids? And Andersen wouldn't let me use a Walkman to block out the noise? 3rd floor, New Town House. Left about 6 months before that IRA bomb hit the shopping mall where we used to go for lunch.