You can draw some analogies to the way samurai and sword fighting are romanticized in Japanese movies. We know swords are obsolete against guns in real life, but even in futuristic sci-fi settings, the sword fighting hero is a recurring theme, e.g. Voltron, Power Rangers (ugh I don't believe I just said that).
Gem diamonds are basically worthless. Debeers is sitting on whole shitload of diamonds in their vaults and only releases just enough to keep the price high. There's no resale market for diamonds, and they advertise like crazy to convince people to buy new diamonds.
For some reason Hondas seem to get decent mileage even with leadfoot drivers. With other cars, flooring it to accelerate definitely cuts into gas mileage. Just my non-scientific observations.
The guys directing the car chases must not have gotten the memo. How do you explain this?
- Cars that explode in midair when they go over a cliff before hitting anything - Ducati 916 motorcycles that can't outrun a Lincoln Town Car (Fled) - Tom Cruise shooting behind him over his shoulder using a motorcycle rearview mirror to aim - Tires squealing on dirt roads - Soundtrack to John Connor's dirt bike upshifts 20 times without downshifting
This doesn't sound innovative or cost effective. The shuttle's black nosecone is already a giant carbon-carbon piece, and it's horribly expensive to produce. The closest thing we have to mass produced carbon-carbon parts are brake rotors for aircraft and race cars. On the low end they run about $2500 each.
How hard is it to make a replaceable ablative heat shield anyway?
I know it's advertised as journaled. I seem to remember it took as long to CHKDSK as FAT and ext2, and in NT 4.0 CHKDSK frequently found errors after hard shutdowns.
There are many electronic driver aids and there will be more coming. You can already buy cars with ABS, traction control, stability control (impossible to spin the car), lane departure warning, and adaptive cruise control, not to mention the fuel injection and electronic ignition. These systems are controlled by very simple embedded systems. I'm no embedded systems programmer, but I seriously doubt they'll run any kind of multitasking/dynamic memory OS like Windows CE/XP or Linux. BMW's (horrible) iDrive runs Windows CE but only controls secondary systems like navigation, climate control, radio, etc.
The short version of that is, you think through all the hypothetical scenarios then consider the severity and probability of each scenario. It does take some creative thinking to find all the disaster scenarios, and it takes some thorough analysis to find all the cascading failures resulting from a certain disaster. Just off the top of my head, I can recall three disasters that disrupted air travel and required mass crew reschedulings: '99 Midwest blizzard (75 planes stuck on the runway in Detroit, passengers couldn't unload), 9/11, and the Northeast blackout. I wonder how close they came to the 32K limit those times. This isn't exactly a far-fetched scenario.
PDF isn't the most open format, but it is pretty close to Postscript. Close enough, that it's supported by Ghostscript. To make it even easier, there's an open source PDFCreator for Windows that has a printer driver to print to PDF just like Acrobat Distiller. It uses Ghostscript for the backend.
The error reporting service in Windows XP can already do much of this. It sends a partial memory dump to Microsoft when something crashes. It's one of the first things I disable on a new install of XP.
Just as soon as they get the California powerplant operators to refund the overcharges from 2000-2001. Refiners have US drivers by the balls same way now. Don't like the price of gas? Here's the answer: *buy less gas*!
It's because of California's law requiring notification of these incidents. In the past this would never have been reported. The banks and brokerages would much rather keep these things quiet.
They're inconsistent on censorship. They don't sell music with explicit lyrics, only the clean, edited versions. They do sell R-rated movies and GTA San Andreas. They have vetoed magazine covers that were too racy (I think Maxim?). They pulled Jon Stewart's book, America, from the stores because it had photoshopped nudes of the Supreme Court justices, but they still sell it online. In any case, you won't find any obscure titles. They only care about stocking the biggest sellers.
That's for sure. My federal and state returns cost me 60 cents postage each. I'm wasting another 28 cents because I threw on two 37 cent stamps instead of waiting in line for exact postage. Left it to the last minute too because I'm not getting a refund (no interest free loan to Uncle Sam from me).
"Debian should be the foundation of a plethora of tailored distributions dominating the Linux market. The one and only thing preventing this is the fact that Stable is perpetually very obsolete. This is not Ubuntu's fault."
There are already many other popular desktop oriented distros based on Debian like Mepis and Kanotix. I'm not sure how much their packages are incompatible with Sarge, but it seems like it's suddenly as issue now with the popularity of Ubuntu. My only experience with this was updating an install of KnoppMyth R4V5 from the Sarge repository. It upgraded damn near every single package, and I think there was some strangeness after the upgrade. I didn't spend too much time with it though, because R5 was released pretty soon after and I was just testing it anyway.
It may be easier to pay extra for a warranty that lets you keep the failed hard drive. Dell has one. Others probably do too. Or considering how cheap hard drives are, just buy a few spare drives for the whole office and don't RMA the failed drives. The risk there is if you get a batch of bum drives. It happened at my office. Every single Maxtor drive from one order of Dells failed in less than a year. It was just bad sectors so we could still wipe them.
Yo yo yo! We got MC Billy G in da hizzie wit da live world premier of the Xbox2. The dopest ass game console, fo' sho'! Give it up for my man, Billy G.
Race car fuel cells are built to take a very big impact without leaking (fuel cell is their name for a tank). They're made with a flexible composite bladder, internal foam baffling and aircraft quality fittings that seal automatically if disconnected. See here and here.
Yes, but it might be cheaper than a pure electric car because they they can get away with a less powerful motor and power controller. The motor charges up the air tank when the car is idling or braking. Then the compressed air is used for short bursts of extra power when needed like accelerating or climbing hills. Otherwise it's just like a battery electric car with a heavy, expensive battery pack.
How close is close range? Walk up with a handheld scanner? Section (c)(2) talks about toll roads, so it would be reasonable to guess it has the same performance as a toll road transponder. Those things can be read from the side of the road while you drive by at 70mph. That doesn't sound like close range to me, so excuse us if we don't find your assurances of nothing to worry about very assuring.
Here's a data point for the spin on this in the mainstream media. Usually I'd consider the LA Times a mouthpiece of the Hollywood liberal establishment, but I was shocked today to read their editorial defending the Betamax decision (newspaper's editorial not guest commentary). It's a long hard road, but public opinion might be turning slowly against the studios. If there's one soundbite to take away from this is, a victory will give movie studios veto power over any technological innovation.
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You can draw some analogies to the way samurai and sword fighting are romanticized in Japanese movies. We know swords are obsolete against guns in real life, but even in futuristic sci-fi settings, the sword fighting hero is a recurring theme, e.g. Voltron, Power Rangers (ugh I don't believe I just said that).
Gem diamonds are basically worthless. Debeers is sitting on whole shitload of diamonds in their vaults and only releases just enough to keep the price high. There's no resale market for diamonds, and they advertise like crazy to convince people to buy new diamonds.
For some reason Hondas seem to get decent mileage even with leadfoot drivers. With other cars, flooring it to accelerate definitely cuts into gas mileage. Just my non-scientific observations.
The guys directing the car chases must not have gotten the memo. How do you explain this?
- Cars that explode in midair when they go over a cliff before hitting anything
- Ducati 916 motorcycles that can't outrun a Lincoln Town Car (Fled)
- Tom Cruise shooting behind him over his shoulder using a motorcycle rearview mirror to aim
- Tires squealing on dirt roads
- Soundtrack to John Connor's dirt bike upshifts 20 times without downshifting
This doesn't sound innovative or cost effective. The shuttle's black nosecone is already a giant carbon-carbon piece, and it's horribly expensive to produce. The closest thing we have to mass produced carbon-carbon parts are brake rotors for aircraft and race cars. On the low end they run about $2500 each.
How hard is it to make a replaceable ablative heat shield anyway?
I know it's advertised as journaled. I seem to remember it took as long to CHKDSK as FAT and ext2, and in NT 4.0 CHKDSK frequently found errors after hard shutdowns.
There are many electronic driver aids and there will be more coming. You can already buy cars with ABS, traction control, stability control (impossible to spin the car), lane departure warning, and adaptive cruise control, not to mention the fuel injection and electronic ignition. These systems are controlled by very simple embedded systems. I'm no embedded systems programmer, but I seriously doubt they'll run any kind of multitasking/dynamic memory OS like Windows CE/XP or Linux. BMW's (horrible) iDrive runs Windows CE but only controls secondary systems like navigation, climate control, radio, etc.
The short version of that is, you think through all the hypothetical scenarios then consider the severity and probability of each scenario. It does take some creative thinking to find all the disaster scenarios, and it takes some thorough analysis to find all the cascading failures resulting from a certain disaster.
Just off the top of my head, I can recall three disasters that disrupted air travel and required mass crew reschedulings: '99 Midwest blizzard (75 planes stuck on the runway in Detroit, passengers couldn't unload), 9/11, and the Northeast blackout. I wonder how close they came to the 32K limit those times. This isn't exactly a far-fetched scenario.
PDF isn't the most open format, but it is pretty close to Postscript. Close enough, that it's supported by Ghostscript. To make it even easier, there's an open source PDFCreator for Windows that has a printer driver to print to PDF just like Acrobat Distiller. It uses Ghostscript for the backend.
System control panel, Advanced tab, Error Reporting button
and/or
Administrative Tools, Services, stop and disable Error Reporting service
The error reporting service in Windows XP can already do much of this. It sends a partial memory dump to Microsoft when something crashes. It's one of the first things I disable on a new install of XP.
SSH vs. OpenSSH
Just as soon as they get the California powerplant operators to refund the overcharges from 2000-2001. Refiners have US drivers by the balls same way now. Don't like the price of gas? Here's the answer: *buy less gas*!
It'll work with Linux, but you need a patched kernel. See here.
It's because of California's law requiring notification of these incidents. In the past this would never have been reported. The banks and brokerages would much rather keep these things quiet.
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They're inconsistent on censorship. They don't sell music with explicit lyrics, only the clean, edited versions. They do sell R-rated movies and GTA San Andreas. They have vetoed magazine covers that were too racy (I think Maxim?). They pulled Jon Stewart's book, America, from the stores because it had photoshopped nudes of the Supreme Court justices, but they still sell it online. In any case, you won't find any obscure titles. They only care about stocking the biggest sellers.
That's for sure. My federal and state returns cost me 60 cents postage each. I'm wasting another 28 cents because I threw on two 37 cent stamps instead of waiting in line for exact postage. Left it to the last minute too because I'm not getting a refund (no interest free loan to Uncle Sam from me).
"Debian should be the foundation of a plethora of tailored distributions dominating the Linux market. The one and only thing preventing this is the fact that Stable is perpetually very obsolete. This is not Ubuntu's fault."
There are already many other popular desktop oriented distros based on Debian like Mepis and Kanotix. I'm not sure how much their packages are incompatible with Sarge, but it seems like it's suddenly as issue now with the popularity of Ubuntu. My only experience with this was updating an install of KnoppMyth R4V5 from the Sarge repository. It upgraded damn near every single package, and I think there was some strangeness after the upgrade. I didn't spend too much time with it though, because R5 was released pretty soon after and I was just testing it anyway.
It may be easier to pay extra for a warranty that lets you keep the failed hard drive. Dell has one. Others probably do too. Or considering how cheap hard drives are, just buy a few spare drives for the whole office and don't RMA the failed drives. The risk there is if you get a batch of bum drives. It happened at my office. Every single Maxtor drive from one order of Dells failed in less than a year. It was just bad sectors so we could still wipe them.
Yo yo yo! We got MC Billy G in da hizzie wit da live world premier of the Xbox2. The dopest ass game console, fo' sho'! Give it up for my man, Billy G.
Race car fuel cells are built to take a very big impact without leaking (fuel cell is their name for a tank). They're made with a flexible composite bladder, internal foam baffling and aircraft quality fittings that seal automatically if disconnected. See here and here.
Yes, but it might be cheaper than a pure electric car because they they can get away with a less powerful motor and power controller. The motor charges up the air tank when the car is idling or braking. Then the compressed air is used for short bursts of extra power when needed like accelerating or climbing hills. Otherwise it's just like a battery electric car with a heavy, expensive battery pack.
How close is close range? Walk up with a handheld scanner? Section (c)(2) talks about toll roads, so it would be reasonable to guess it has the same performance as a toll road transponder. Those things can be read from the side of the road while you drive by at 70mph. That doesn't sound like close range to me, so excuse us if we don't find your assurances of nothing to worry about very assuring.
Here's a data point for the spin on this in the mainstream media. Usually I'd consider the LA Times a mouthpiece of the Hollywood liberal establishment, but I was shocked today to read their editorial defending the Betamax decision (newspaper's editorial not guest commentary). It's a long hard road, but public opinion might be turning slowly against the studios. If there's one soundbite to take away from this is, a victory will give movie studios veto power over any technological innovation.