Yup, that's what I was thinking - I used to work in television years ago, and I seem to recall that we had to use adapters when fitting stuff that was meant for "standard" (19") racks.
In other words, haptic controls make for less driver distraction.
That's exactly why I ditched my Philips Pronto remote for something with discrete buttons... and at least in front of my TV, I'm not driving (unless it's a game on the Xbox)
Ok, I'll bite - I don't get one thing... I pay Comcast an obscene amount of money every month for Cable TV and Internet... why should they give a flying crap if I stream a show or not then? After all, I'm already paying for their Xfinity streamy stuff even if I don't take advantage of it.
I never even come close to my cap every month, but I'm still bothered by how a cap == "unlimited" and I don't understand why Comcast would care since they got the money anyway.
Oh, right - Capitolism now requires that every cporprate entity take the greediest possible short term position on any issue.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am so damned sick of world + dog patenting... welll, everything.
It's just ridiculous.
I KNOW there are patents out there for (software) things that are nontrivial.. things that are actually not obvious to any reasonably skilled practitioner of the software arts, but I'm sick to death of these "a method of derpa derp ta derpa derp involving a database to store derpaderp present derp a derp ta derpaderp"
I wish like hell we could just invalidate every software and business method patent and say "you did something special, FINE, copyright your code, but patents are going back to being about physical stuff"/rant
My up-front apologies for my pedantry here, but... Win98 and WinME were based on Win95 which itself still had DOS underneath. Win2000 was based on WinNT4 and was not driver-wise compatible, but was sure as hell a better OS all the way around.
It's easier to just rally people around "nuclear power is bad and inherently dangerous" than to actually step up and take responsibility to do it right.
I still kind of wonder about this one thoguth: it was a horrible disaster - I'm not taking away from that, but this was one of the top ten most powerful earthquakes on record with a pretty devastating tsunami as a follow-up act.
I would think this was just about the worst possible scenario. Considering the extreme nature of the event that led to the nuclear disaster, it sort of makes me feel like nuclear energy isn't really as scary as folks seem to make it out to be.
Maybe I just don't know enough about nuclear energy to be properly scared enough, but I feel like I know enough about it to not be as scared as the anti-nuke folks want me to me.
I'll admit I get personally stuck in my ways... I tend to find efficient ways to work and it messes up my mojo every time MS needlessly messes about with things.
All of that, I can cope with.
However, it REALLY sucks when you're trying to support a computer novice. I already regularly (a dozen or more times a day) have to say something along the lines of "Ok, are you windows vista/7 or xp user? Vista? Ok, go to c:\users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\...
or say things like "ok, go to START -> All Programs -> MYCOMPANYSNAME -> Activate MYCOMPANY'S PRODUCT" because the stupid "use customized menus" means I can't count on a deterministic way to get to a given item without going "the long way round".
When MS they changes things around, I need to be able to identify which flavor of Windows they have and help my (often clueless) users find what they're looking for.
I LIKE the classic menu system and START menus because while they're not as easy as saying "Type the following: find./ -name foo |grep -v bar", they've got a "I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when I see it" to them that means I can generally work out what I need... the context-based things with the ribbons and the new Windows 8 crap just makes that even more of a pain.
In British English, "I'm going to destroy LA" can be taken to mean "I'm going to party my ass off and see/do everything possible"...
If I said "I'm dying for a cigarette" would you immediately put me on suicide watch or would you recognize the cultural meaning of "I really need a cigarette"? In British parlance, they'd say "I could murder a fag" (fag means cigarette there, and the usage of "destroy" or "murder" can mean "ravenously consume"
It's cultural context here...
They weren't doing the equivalent of saying "I'm going to bring a bomb on this plane, ha ha ha" they were saying they were ready to go party and have a great time "painting the town red".
Indeed - one of my best friends is a Brit - when her brother came over here, the first thing he said after giving her a big hug was "God, I could murder a fag right now".*.. he got some strange looks.
*- A colloquialism for "I really need a cigarette" seeing as he'd been on a plane for 7 hours... needless to say, she had to quickly explain to him that this means "kill a gay person" in America.
The other day, I was happily surprised to see a gas station in Virginia offering "100% gasoline, no Ethanol".
Unfortunately, I was following someone to the highway on-ramp so I couldn't buy there... next time I'm down that way, I'll look for those guys again...
My math may be off here, but if I have a 12 gallon tank and if it's got E10 that means it's the same as having 10.8gallons of 100% gasoline and 1.2 gallons of ethanol...
Since Ethanol has 70% of the energy density of gasoline, then that would mean that I would expect to see 21MPG from ethanol if I got 30MPG from gasoline
So 1 gallon of E10 0.9 gallons @ 30MPg is 27 miles 0.1 gallons @21 MPG is 2.1 miles for a total of 29.1 MPG of E10
29.1 is 97% of 30
so, in order to be worth buying E10, it needs to be more than 3% cheaper than the 100% gasoline.
It's funny - the IP/Patent Creep angle is actually the most compelling and possibly only legitimate argument against GM food. If this is the real reason behind the protesting, then it's doing the right thing (fighting GM food) for the right reason (Patent Creep / IP / Corporate greed controlling food)
However, I bet there really are a lot of "frankenfood" protestors there too.. folks who are doing the right thing (fighting GM food) for the wrong reason. I worry about that crowd because it's like handing the corporate apologists a giant strawman.
My first thought is "I wonder if I should be on the lookout for a good Aurora Borealis tonight."
Being that I'm in New England, the only times in my life I've seent the "Northern Lights" have been subsequent to a strong CME / Solar flare like this./gets camera ready just in case
I've been with NetSonic.Net for the last 5 or 6 years. They're a small-ish outfit from what I can tell but their head support guy really knows his stuff (I really needed his expertise when I was having some trouble migrating from Ensim to Plesk)
Their bandwidth is very good and in the years I've been with them, there have been only a couple network outages. I don't have hard numbers, but I'm going to guess they've averaged somewhere between 4 and 5 9's
I have a dedicated server with 4 VPS hosts - Centos with Plesk (I resell some hosting space, so the panel makes it convenient for me to give my customers web-based admin)
Used to host with OLM... they were not my favorite.
This is exactly the issue. I have no fundamental problem with the concept of GM food - it's the whole "food as IP" and the danger of getting too monocultural... It would really suck if we ended up doing to corn/wheat/soy what happened to the "Big Mike" banana.
It's as if a hundred voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Ok, sorry that was in bad taste. I love my frosty neighbors to the North (I've spent a lot of time in Canada and really do love the place and the people). I hope they get interwebz back soon.
If anything, sue the seismologist's bosses. I'm fairly certain that it was their politically minded bosses who told them to "let's not panic the proles".
I'm not willing to take a chance that they'll decide that "DigitalSorceress" isn't a real name and suspend me. Yeah, I have a real name, and no, I'm not ~afraid~ to use it as such - it's just that I've been using it as a Nom de Net since the late 1990's, and it's as much me as the legal name.
If I could sign up with my "real name" behind the scenes (so they knew it was me) but get to choose to not tie my name directly to my public profile, I wouldn't be ~as~ bothered.. though I still think they should just not be such a bunch of EVIL bastards about it.
That's right Google - "Don't Be Evil" is pretty much not on the list anymore is it? Well, I already heard others say it, "Right now, there's some college students in a garage whose company's motto will be ~don't be Google~" I am inclined to agree.
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Yup, that's what I was thinking - I used to work in television years ago, and I seem to recall that we had to use adapters when fitting stuff that was meant for "standard" (19") racks.
In other words, haptic controls make for less driver distraction.
That's exactly why I ditched my Philips Pronto remote for something with discrete buttons... and at least in front of my TV, I'm not driving (unless it's a game on the Xbox)
Imagine that: if your brain starts working, you stop worrying about the the fictional man in the sky.
Color me amazed.
Everyone knows it's turtles all the way down.
Translation: "Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
OOps: "Capitalism " and "corporate " - spell check for the win? oh, right - if I use them... derp.
Ok, I'll bite - I don't get one thing... I pay Comcast an obscene amount of money every month for Cable TV and Internet... why should they give a flying crap if I stream a show or not then? After all, I'm already paying for their Xfinity streamy stuff even if I don't take advantage of it.
I never even come close to my cap every month, but I'm still bothered by how a cap == "unlimited" and I don't understand why Comcast would care since they got the money anyway.
Oh, right - Capitolism now requires that every cporprate entity take the greediest possible short term position on any issue.
Grumble...
So... THAT explains why folks are always depicted wearing shiny jumpsuits in those old sci-fi shows!!! Downright prophetic.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am so damned sick of world + dog patenting... welll, everything.
It's just ridiculous.
I KNOW there are patents out there for (software) things that are nontrivial .. things that are actually not obvious to any reasonably skilled practitioner of the software arts, but I'm sick to death of these "a method of derpa derp ta derpa derp involving a database to store derpaderp present derp a derp ta derpaderp"
I wish like hell we could just invalidate every software and business method patent and say "you did something special, FINE, copyright your code, but patents are going back to being about physical stuff" /rant
sorry, just annoyed like the rest of you.
I'm pretty sure Joseph Kittinger broke the sound barrier on his space jump.
My up-front apologies for my pedantry here, but ... Win98 and WinME were based on Win95 which itself still had DOS underneath. Win2000 was based on WinNT4 and was not driver-wise compatible, but was sure as hell a better OS all the way around.
It's easier to just rally people around "nuclear power is bad and inherently dangerous" than to actually step up and take responsibility to do it right.
I still kind of wonder about this one thoguth: it was a horrible disaster - I'm not taking away from that, but this was one of the top ten most powerful earthquakes on record with a pretty devastating tsunami as a follow-up act.
I would think this was just about the worst possible scenario. Considering the extreme nature of the event that led to the nuclear disaster, it sort of makes me feel like nuclear energy isn't really as scary as folks seem to make it out to be.
Maybe I just don't know enough about nuclear energy to be properly scared enough, but I feel like I know enough about it to not be as scared as the anti-nuke folks want me to me.
I'll admit I get personally stuck in my ways... I tend to find efficient ways to work and it messes up my mojo every time MS needlessly messes about with things.
All of that, I can cope with.
However, it REALLY sucks when you're trying to support a computer novice. I already regularly (a dozen or more times a day) have to say something along the lines of "Ok, are you windows vista/7 or xp user? Vista? Ok, go to c:\users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\...
or say things like "ok, go to START -> All Programs -> MYCOMPANYSNAME -> Activate MYCOMPANY'S PRODUCT" because the stupid "use customized menus" means I can't count on a deterministic way to get to a given item without going "the long way round".
When MS they changes things around, I need to be able to identify which flavor of Windows they have and help my (often clueless) users find what they're looking for.
I LIKE the classic menu system and START menus because while they're not as easy as saying "Type the following: find ./ -name foo |grep -v bar", they've got a "I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'll know it when I see it" to them that means I can generally work out what I need... the context-based things with the ribbons and the new Windows 8 crap just makes that even more of a pain.
rabble. Rabble. RABBLE! /endrant
I would watch that... especially if they have Craig Charles as the presenter again, and Philippa Forrester doing the pit interviews.
In British English, "I'm going to destroy LA" can be taken to mean "I'm going to party my ass off and see/do everything possible"...
If I said "I'm dying for a cigarette" would you immediately put me on suicide watch or would you recognize the cultural meaning of "I really need a cigarette"? In British parlance, they'd say "I could murder a fag" (fag means cigarette there, and the usage of "destroy" or "murder" can mean "ravenously consume"
It's cultural context here...
They weren't doing the equivalent of saying "I'm going to bring a bomb on this plane, ha ha ha" they were saying they were ready to go party and have a great time "painting the town red".
Indeed - one of my best friends is a Brit - when her brother came over here, the first thing he said after giving her a big hug was "God, I could murder a fag right now".*.. he got some strange looks.
*- A colloquialism for "I really need a cigarette" seeing as he'd been on a plane for 7 hours... needless to say, she had to quickly explain to him that this means "kill a gay person" in America.
My guess: The article merely got quantum entangled with a real news article that will be posted on April 1.
I figure if we add quantum entanglement to it, we get extra Internetz.
The other day, I was happily surprised to see a gas station in Virginia offering "100% gasoline, no Ethanol".
Unfortunately, I was following someone to the highway on-ramp so I couldn't buy there... next time I'm down that way, I'll look for those guys again...
My math may be off here, but if I have a 12 gallon tank and if it's got E10 that means it's the same as having 10.8gallons of 100% gasoline and 1.2 gallons of ethanol...
Since Ethanol has 70% of the energy density of gasoline, then that would mean that I would expect to see 21MPG from ethanol if I got 30MPG from gasoline
So 1 gallon of E10
0.9 gallons @ 30MPg is 27 miles
0.1 gallons @21 MPG is 2.1 miles
for a total of 29.1 MPG of E10
29.1 is 97% of 30
so, in order to be worth buying E10, it needs to be more than 3% cheaper than the 100% gasoline.
Um, I got sidetracked somewhere...
It's funny - the IP/Patent Creep angle is actually the most compelling and possibly only legitimate argument against GM food. If this is the real reason behind the protesting, then it's doing the right thing (fighting GM food) for the right reason (Patent Creep / IP / Corporate greed controlling food)
However, I bet there really are a lot of "frankenfood" protestors there too.. folks who are doing the right thing (fighting GM food) for the wrong reason. I worry about that crowd because it's like handing the corporate apologists a giant strawman.
My first thought is "I wonder if I should be on the lookout for a good Aurora Borealis tonight."
Being that I'm in New England, the only times in my life I've seent the "Northern Lights" have been subsequent to a strong CME / Solar flare like this. /gets camera ready just in case
I've been with NetSonic.Net for the last 5 or 6 years. They're a small-ish outfit from what I can tell but their head support guy really knows his stuff (I really needed his expertise when I was having some trouble migrating from Ensim to Plesk)
Their bandwidth is very good and in the years I've been with them, there have been only a couple network outages. I don't have hard numbers, but I'm going to guess they've averaged somewhere between 4 and 5 9's
I have a dedicated server with 4 VPS hosts - Centos with Plesk (I resell some hosting space, so the panel makes it convenient for me to give my customers web-based admin)
Used to host with OLM ... they were not my favorite.
THANK YOU!.
This is exactly the issue. I have no fundamental problem with the concept of GM food - it's the whole "food as IP" and the danger of getting too monocultural... It would really suck if we ended up doing to corn/wheat/soy what happened to the "Big Mike" banana.
It's as if a hundred voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Ok, sorry that was in bad taste. I love my frosty neighbors to the North (I've spent a lot of time in Canada and really do love the place and the people). I hope they get interwebz back soon.
If anything, sue the seismologist's bosses. I'm fairly certain that it was their politically minded bosses who told them to "let's not panic the proles".
That's cool, but until they fix their stupid "real names only" policy, I'm not touching Google+
I'm not willing to take a chance that they'll decide that "DigitalSorceress" isn't a real name and suspend me. Yeah, I have a real name, and no, I'm not ~afraid~ to use it as such - it's just that I've been using it as a Nom de Net since the late 1990's, and it's as much me as the legal name.
If I could sign up with my "real name" behind the scenes (so they knew it was me) but get to choose to not tie my name directly to my public profile, I wouldn't be ~as~ bothered.. though I still think they should just not be such a bunch of EVIL bastards about it.
That's right Google - "Don't Be Evil" is pretty much not on the list anymore is it? Well, I already heard others say it, "Right now, there's some college students in a garage whose company's motto will be ~don't be Google~" I am inclined to agree.