My mother who grew up in Tehran went to school, drove a Benz and who's mother ran the grocery store that my parents owned. Then the Shah was overthrown and my entire family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc) left for the US. The Ayatolla regressed 100 years of progress.
An interesting pictorial: Photographs of students at Cairo University. Pay special attention to the hairstyles/headdress that the women in the pictures have. In the first pictures, you could mistake this photo for any university in the mid 50s. While in 2004, you'd never confuse this for some university in the middle of Oklahoma.
These photos represent the gradual but steady Islamic radicalization invading the Middle East and the rest of the world in the last three decades. I lived in Egypt until the year 1978 and have never wore a head cover, neither did my mother or grandmother. And this is thanks to a feminist movement that started in Cairo in 1919 under the leadership of the famous Egyptian feminist Hoda Shaarawi.
How much more CO2 would be generated if I...mailed 50 letters a day across the country/world?...My servers printed out their logs instead of sending them electronically to a syslog server? (any mainframers also remember these days?)...I drove to the mall/bookstore/music store etc.. I needed to purchase something....had to buy a new set of encyclopedias every year...had to create plastic overheads (aka "foils" to some) for every presentation...mailed individual pictures to all of my family of my recent vacation...mailed my taxes in via USPS instead of electronically.
Anybody know what type of infrastructure Greenpeace uses?
It would be like broadcast TV during primetime... every 5minutes you'd get 3minutes of ads...
Like broadcast TV/radio, the programming is free but it's ad supported... unless you pay google for one of their premium channels which only has ads after the 2hr programming block.
Wow... awful idea for 99% of datacenters... Especially those that have ceilings greater than 6ft high.
Let's see... in all of the pictures the submerged rack is placed on some sort of black grid. I'd bet that if you put this rack on a normal datacenter tile floor and 1 drop of oil got on those tiles, you'd have a nice slip n fall lawsuit on your hands. Besides, the thought of having to stock paper towels and a hazardous spill cleanup kit next to every rack doesn't excite me...
How many vendors actually support this? If I called up IBM, HP, Cisco, and told them xyz failed and you shipped it back to them for RMA and it was "oily" do you think they'd not bill you for the part?
How do you deal with fibre connections to the equipment in the rack? I'm sure light travels without any significant dB loss when there's OIL between the optics and the cable...
Anybody know how this stuff would do in an earthquake? Would the oil slosh out of the containers?
Flame me all you want... but some guy that you don't know is going to court against Sony and asks you over the internet to help him with his legal fees....
Why does this sound exactly like some Nigerian Scam?
Dear $victim,
It is with heart full of hope and gods wish that I write to seek your help in the context below. I am Mr. George Hotz (aka Geohat), the third son of the late John Hotz Former Plumber in Union 419 whose sudden death occurred in January 2010. Having gotten your particulars from my late hotmail addressbook. I have no doubt to your capacity and goodwill to assist me in defending against a lawsuit brought upon by Sony Corporation. A sum of US$37 million will be raised by the Open Source Community for the defense of our rights and citizens to freely modify our self purchased electronic goods. I shall be undertaking the role of David in this David n Goliath fight to free ourselves from the stranglehold of tyranny that is DRM based oppression.
I hereby agree to compensate your sincere effort in this regard with 20% of the freedom, when finally received in your local Bank account. The attorney here has perfected arrangements with the Bankers to effect complete dislodgment of this money within a week of the receipt of your response through telephone and fax. They have equally guaranteed 100% risk free and smooth transfer. reply me via e-mail: geohat_email@epatra.com or fight_sony@yahoo.com
If I have an app that allows me to watch TV on an IP enabled device, what's to stop someone from writing an application that redirects (aka "rebroadcasts") the content to someone outside of your home network? Now you've got a way to circumvent the cable companies all together because now I could pay for the channels and then rebroadcast the content to all of my friends.
Get rid of suburban sprawl by zoning more parks and greenways.
Hmm then you won't have any space in the cities for people to live. Plus as one of those that lives in suburbia, I like having a backyard to bbq in, grow a garden, throw a ball with my kid or sit on my patio watching the birds in my birdfeeder.
If I lived in an apartment/condo highrise, I won't have those aspects to the quality of my life. Sure there are rooftop gardens and community parks. But when you live in a highrise with a 1000 other people, how much space on the rooftop garden can you reasonably get? Btw, I also have windows on all four sides of my house, which is wonderful for the indoor plants without using grow lights.
Btw, what are the prices of a condo in NYC that overlook Central Park? I bet it's quite a bit more than my humble home in suburbia.
In the PS3 Download, Fat Princess its a basic capture the flag however, the "Flag" is a princess for which you make it harder to capture by feeding her cake, which as you guessed it makes her fatter, and thereby harder to carry.
My company, a large IT_Company has their own publisher for employees to author books. However, this process would well over a year and would require me to submit my draft in msword, instead of Framemaker which is what I was writing it in. The publisher would then convert it from word into framemaker for use with their templates... I dealt with 4 different editors and decided to go the self-publishing route.
I used lulu.com, a 'on-demand' printing/publishing company. They charge a bit for each physical copy to cover printing/shipping/handling etc.. I was able to easily get an ISBN number, and then set a price for the book, which my profits get automatically deposited into a paypal account every month.
The book is listed on Amazon/BarnesnNoble/Borders/GoogleBooks etc...
The whole lulu.com effort took about 3 weeks, which most involved waiting for my proof copies to arrive (i didn't want to pay for expedited printing/shipping).
My next book isn't going through my companies publishing company either. I really have no interest in justifying when I think my 1500th copy will be sold.
Especially since I give away the.pdf for free and only charge for hard copies.
FWIW, we have something like 13 computers in our house, and not one of them runs MS software! My wife has a couple of Apple Mac Pro laptops, a Sony Vaio running Scientific Linux, and a netbook running Ubuntu. I have an 8 core workstation running SL6, a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.10, an older workstation running Gentoo, an ever older 486 workstation running QNX 4.0, and two Nexus One Android phones. Then there is assorted other stuff (Palm Pilots, iPods, iPhones, etc). I guess you could call our house "Windowless"!:-)
Go to home depot and buy a pair of ear plugs. Not the foam disposable ones, but the rubber in ear type. Just like some earbuds and they're connected by a rubber cord.
Just one thing: don't chew gum or clear your throat. It sounds just awful...
I used to work in colo facilities for years and the one thing that always concerned me was some person that had gone through the man trap before me had some awful bacteria/virus on their hands.
If the handle on the toilet in the airport can claim that it has an anti-bacterial coating, do you think the hand scanner manufacturers could do the same?
Seems that you answered your own question. TNN was a country specific channel, then became Spike which is yet another narrowly targeted channel. It's aimed at men.
They didn't become some ultra broad category, they just switched categories.
For the home user, who does not want to shell out an extra $500 for OSX Server Edition, if you want to provide consolidated backups for your family, you've got to shell out atleast $240 for a time capsule. I use my mac mini to play movies and music on my tv/stereo as well as surf the web on the TV. I use dd-wrt on an old wrt54g, and to get this one feature, I've got to either ditch the wrt54g and the non-server edition of OSX...
I'd also not pay Apple's HD tax and hook up a large drobo or jbod up to the mini via firewire...
Let's say the power goes out... and you need to make a phone call. How many people today have phones that do not require power (or rather take their power from the phone line)?
If you have a cordless phone you need power, not for the handset but for the base. When the time comes you'll wish you kept your $10 "Walmart Special".
This girl should be given an "appropriate punishment" in that she should be banned from using computers for 10 years... I don't recall what Kevin Mitnick did causing people to die.
(btw: Why is the comment box to enter a comment in FF 3.6.13 only about 30characters wide?)
Not just your average racing game but there were 3 ways to finish most levels:
* Complete the race, passing every checkpoint before the time runs out
* Destroy all the opponents
* Kill every pedestrian in the level
You also could get extra points and bonus time for killing pedestrians in an especially graphic method, such as opening your doors to hit them while driving by or by pile driving them into a wall.
Not sure what the big deal is... People leak documents from the gov't to wikileaks and so people are now leaking documents from wikileaks to another site......Karma...
Get your wife an mp3 player or portable RADIO... it gets unlimited music 24/7 has a wide range of stations available including providing traffic reports before she gets in her car to drive home. Better yet how about a mp3 player with a BUILT in radio.
I've been listening to radio for decades and never once has someone limited the bandwidth I can consume, nor compressed the tunes I listen to...
When netflix ships a DVD, they pay $1 and nobody else pays. I don't pay to receive the DVD at my house.
When you stream a DVD, not only does netflix have to pay for bandwidth (akin to the $1 / movie with physical shipping), but the receiver has to pay for bandwidth to receive it as well. I don't have to pay for my mailbox, however, you could say that I have to pay rent/mortgage.
It's also cheaper b/c with streaming none of the bandwidth is dedicated to a specific user but is applied to all users. Whereas the mailed DVD, the $1 is specific to me.
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My mother who grew up in Tehran went to school, drove a Benz and who's mother ran the grocery store that my parents owned. Then the Shah was overthrown and my entire family (aunts/uncles/cousins etc) left for the US. The Ayatolla regressed 100 years of progress.
An interesting pictorial:
Photographs of students at Cairo University. Pay special attention to the hairstyles/headdress that the women in the pictures have. In the first pictures, you could mistake this photo for any university in the mid 50s. While in 2004, you'd never confuse this for some university in the middle of Oklahoma.
How much more CO2 would be generated if I ...mailed 50 letters a day across the country/world? ...My servers printed out their logs instead of sending them electronically to a syslog server? (any mainframers also remember these days?) ...I drove to the mall/bookstore/music store etc.. I needed to purchase something. ...had to buy a new set of encyclopedias every year ...had to create plastic overheads (aka "foils" to some) for every presentation ...mailed individual pictures to all of my family of my recent vacation ...mailed my taxes in via USPS instead of electronically.
Anybody know what type of infrastructure Greenpeace uses?
the lyrics are scraped and you get "targeted ads"
It would be like broadcast TV during primetime... every 5minutes you'd get 3minutes of ads...
Like broadcast TV/radio, the programming is free but it's ad supported... unless you pay google for one of their premium channels which only has ads after the 2hr programming block.
Fuck off google...
Wow... awful idea for 99% of datacenters... Especially those that have ceilings greater than 6ft high.
Let's see... in all of the pictures the submerged rack is placed on some sort of black grid. I'd bet that if you put this rack on a normal datacenter tile floor and 1 drop of oil got on those tiles, you'd have a nice slip n fall lawsuit on your hands. Besides, the thought of having to stock paper towels and a hazardous spill cleanup kit next to every rack doesn't excite me...
How many vendors actually support this? If I called up IBM, HP, Cisco, and told them xyz failed and you shipped it back to them for RMA and it was "oily" do you think they'd not bill you for the part?
How do you deal with fibre connections to the equipment in the rack? I'm sure light travels without any significant dB loss when there's OIL between the optics and the cable...
Anybody know how this stuff would do in an earthquake? Would the oil slosh out of the containers?
Flame me all you want... but some guy that you don't know is going to court against Sony and asks you over the internet to help him with his legal fees....
Why does this sound exactly like some Nigerian Scam?
Dear $victim,
It is with heart full of hope and gods wish that I write to seek your help in the context below. I am Mr. George Hotz (aka Geohat), the third son of the late John Hotz Former Plumber in Union 419 whose sudden death occurred in January 2010. Having gotten your particulars from my late hotmail addressbook. I have no doubt to your capacity and goodwill to assist me in defending against a lawsuit brought upon by Sony Corporation. A sum of US$37 million will be raised by the Open Source Community for the defense of our rights and citizens to freely modify our self purchased electronic goods. I shall be undertaking the role of David in this David n Goliath fight to free ourselves from the stranglehold of tyranny that is DRM based oppression.
I hereby agree to compensate your sincere effort in this regard with 20% of the freedom, when finally received in your local Bank account. The attorney here has perfected arrangements with the Bankers to effect complete dislodgment of this money within a week of the receipt of your response through telephone and fax. They have equally guaranteed 100% risk free and smooth transfer. reply me via e-mail: geohat_email@epatra.com or fight_sony@yahoo.com
Best Wishes
Mr. George Hotz (aka GeoHat) ,
If I have an app that allows me to watch TV on an IP enabled device, what's to stop someone from writing an application that redirects (aka "rebroadcasts") the content to someone outside of your home network? Now you've got a way to circumvent the cable companies all together because now I could pay for the channels and then rebroadcast the content to all of my friends.
Get rid of suburban sprawl by zoning more parks and greenways.
Hmm then you won't have any space in the cities for people to live. Plus as one of those that lives in suburbia, I like having a backyard to bbq in, grow a garden, throw a ball with my kid or sit on my patio watching the birds in my birdfeeder.
If I lived in an apartment/condo highrise, I won't have those aspects to the quality of my life. Sure there are rooftop gardens and community parks. But when you live in a highrise with a 1000 other people, how much space on the rooftop garden can you reasonably get? Btw, I also have windows on all four sides of my house, which is wonderful for the indoor plants without using grow lights.
Btw, what are the prices of a condo in NYC that overlook Central Park? I bet it's quite a bit more than my humble home in suburbia.
Nothing new here...
In the PS3 Download, Fat Princess its a basic capture the flag however, the "Flag" is a princess for which you make it harder to capture by feeding her cake, which as you guessed it makes her fatter, and thereby harder to carry.
And yes people protested this as well...
My company, a large IT_Company has their own publisher for employees to author books. However, this process would well over a year and would require me to submit my draft in msword, instead of Framemaker which is what I was writing it in. The publisher would then convert it from word into framemaker for use with their templates... I dealt with 4 different editors and decided to go the self-publishing route.
I used lulu.com, a 'on-demand' printing/publishing company. They charge a bit for each physical copy to cover printing/shipping/handling etc.. I was able to easily get an ISBN number, and then set a price for the book, which my profits get automatically deposited into a paypal account every month.
The book is listed on Amazon/BarnesnNoble/Borders/GoogleBooks etc...
The whole lulu.com effort took about 3 weeks, which most involved waiting for my proof copies to arrive (i didn't want to pay for expedited printing/shipping).
My next book isn't going through my companies publishing company either. I really have no interest in justifying when I think my 1500th copy will be sold.
Especially since I give away the .pdf for free and only charge for hard copies.
FWIW, we have something like 13 computers in our house, and not one of them runs MS software! My wife has a couple of Apple Mac Pro laptops, a Sony Vaio running Scientific Linux, and a netbook running Ubuntu. I have an 8 core workstation running SL6, a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.10, an older workstation running Gentoo, an ever older 486 workstation running QNX 4.0, and two Nexus One Android phones. Then there is assorted other stuff (Palm Pilots, iPods, iPhones, etc). I guess you could call our house "Windowless"! :-)
Well... aren't you special..
I hope you don't assume that everyone washes their hands after coming out of the bathroom.
While I don't know about you, I personally would not want to shake the hands of some guy that just dropped a bomb and didn't wash his hands.
Go to home depot and buy a pair of ear plugs. Not the foam disposable ones, but the rubber in ear type. Just like some earbuds and they're connected by a rubber cord.
Just one thing: don't chew gum or clear your throat. It sounds just awful...
How getting rid of hand scanners?
I used to work in colo facilities for years and the one thing that always concerned me was some person that had gone through the man trap before me had some awful bacteria/virus on their hands.
If the handle on the toilet in the airport can claim that it has an anti-bacterial coating, do you think the hand scanner manufacturers could do the same?
Seems that you answered your own question. TNN was a country specific channel, then became Spike which is yet another narrowly targeted channel. It's aimed at men.
They didn't become some ultra broad category, they just switched categories.
For the home user, who does not want to shell out an extra $500 for OSX Server Edition, if you want to provide consolidated backups for your family, you've got to shell out atleast $240 for a time capsule. I use my mac mini to play movies and music on my tv/stereo as well as surf the web on the TV. I use dd-wrt on an old wrt54g, and to get this one feature, I've got to either ditch the wrt54g and the non-server edition of OSX...
I'd also not pay Apple's HD tax and hook up a large drobo or jbod up to the mini via firewire...
99.999% of americans when asked "What is UPS" will respond with "a package delivery company"
Let's say the power goes out... and you need to make a phone call. How many people today have phones that do not require power (or rather take their power from the phone line)?
If you have a cordless phone you need power, not for the handset but for the base. When the time comes you'll wish you kept your $10 "Walmart Special".
It was the first 2d fighting game... spawned the whole street fighter franchise...
Kicking the charging bull in the bonus round was still impossible...
This girl should be given an "appropriate punishment" in that she should be banned from using computers for 10 years... I don't recall what Kevin Mitnick did causing people to die.
(btw: Why is the comment box to enter a comment in FF 3.6.13 only about 30characters wide?)
One of my favorite games from the mid nineties...
Not just your average racing game but there were 3 ways to finish most levels:
* Complete the race, passing every checkpoint before the time runs out
* Destroy all the opponents
* Kill every pedestrian in the level
You also could get extra points and bonus time for killing pedestrians in an especially graphic method, such as opening your doors to hit them while driving by or by pile driving them into a wall.
Not sure what the big deal is... People leak documents from the gov't to wikileaks and so people are now leaking documents from wikileaks to another site... ...Karma...
Get your wife an mp3 player or portable RADIO... it gets unlimited music 24/7 has a wide range of stations available including providing traffic reports before she gets in her car to drive home. Better yet how about a mp3 player with a BUILT in radio.
I've been listening to radio for decades and never once has someone limited the bandwidth I can consume, nor compressed the tunes I listen to...
If he has to fly anywhere, he takes a 747 (Airforce one) and an accompanying cargo plane for all of his gear and support infrastructure.
He takes Marine One (a helicopter) from the WhiteHouse to the airforce base where Airforce One resides.
How about he sets an example and tries to reduce his "carbon footprint."
Why is the display options box nailed to the right margin?
Also the 'slow down cowboy' error message is truncated on both the left and right side of the sentence...
When netflix ships a DVD, they pay $1 and nobody else pays. I don't pay to receive the DVD at my house.
When you stream a DVD, not only does netflix have to pay for bandwidth (akin to the $1 / movie with physical shipping), but the receiver has to pay for bandwidth to receive it as well. I don't have to pay for my mailbox, however, you could say that I have to pay rent/mortgage.
It's also cheaper b/c with streaming none of the bandwidth is dedicated to a specific user but is applied to all users. Whereas the mailed DVD, the $1 is specific to me.