The past 3 days, I've had over 300 Sobig.F messages in my Junk folder (filtered by Mozilla Mail). Other co-workers with Eudora are less fortunate, since they spend better than an hour clearing out all those emails.
Additionally, the office where I work still runs with Solaris 5.8 and they see no reason to upgrade (I don't know enough about the benefits of upgrading Solaris). One of the reasons they cited was cost, so they're staying with 5.8 for the time being.
At this point, a Solaris 9 book would cater only to those few that actually upgraded to that version (Few? Maybe there's many but I'm just guessing), and it's likely that they are power users/administrators and not some "dummy".
Here's the results of the ASC race from 2001: Overall Results
The leader finished with 56:10:46, while this year's leader finished with 51:47:39.
However, looking at the overall top 10, it appears that the 2001 field was slightly better than the top 10 of this year's field. I'd say it means that solar technology is advancing but at a somewhat slow pace. Until we hit that breakthrough that gets the solar efficiency past 40%, we won't see much of any daily applications of this tech.
Then again, it's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I didn't read that far, because I instinctively reached for Google after reading the quotation. I guess I need to finish reading more than a paragraph before using Google. =) Thanks for the heads up.
From the article: Different parts of the Federal Aviation Administration regulate the 100-year old aviation industry and the emerging commercial space transportation industry. Unfortunately, the aviation guys want to regulate these new space entrepreneurs the same way they regulate huge corporations like United Airlines or Boeing. If the Wright Brothers had faced such a burden, they would never have gotten off the ground.
Wouldn't it make sense to spin off a portion of the FAA and make it (just an example) the Federal Space Administration? At least then you'd have a separate and wholly defined department to handle both public and government-level space flight regulation.
In it's current form, the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is stuck under the umbrella of the FAA. With the increasing popularity and usage of private/commerical space flight, the AST is continually limited in its scope from the head guys at the FAA. Spinning that department off into it's own regulatory agency frees it from the burden of having to look over their shoulders.
The new layout is nice (better grouping of information, and I especially like the direct interface to Bugzilla), but what caught my eye was that 1.4 final is out now. I had been using/.'s Mozilla sidebar to keep me up to date on current version releases. It's still stuck 1.4rc3. With a large part of the readers actively following Mozilla, I'm surprised/. let their "up-to-date" information stagnate.
I think you went a little overboard with that joke. Now what were the chances that someone would respond, huh?
Eh...it's a fine line between snagging in responses and getting the flat-professor-joke. I was just trying my hand at a humor troll. In any case, it's a learning experience. I hope to try to land a good one some day and once I do, I'm done trolling and back to lurking and posting rarely. That's the Slashdot Game! =P.
and I can train my linux-robot-segway (I'll name him Frank) to follow me around
I'll name mine Marvin and install a personality module. You never know though...it could end up being manically depressed and I'd have to carry a towel with me at all times. Now, where did I leave that guide?
=P
-Cyc
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While the system was crappy due to the lack of strong third-party support, there were some good games.
One game, I would rate as excellent and quite possibly the best of the Jaguar's lineup: Aliens Vs Predator.
Now, THAT was a great game! If you played the Colonial Marine, the atmosphere of the corridors was eerily silent and you heard nothing more than your footsteps, the radar pings, the air ducts, and the occasional alien scream far off in the distance. I had tons of fun playing that character.
You also could play the Predator, and the Alien as well. The Predator was tons of fun too, with its invisibility technology, and the visible/infrared/uv/x-ray viewer. I didn't like playing the Alien that much, mostly because it didn't feel all that pleasant that I was part of the hive and was just one of many.
Ahh...time for me to stop reminescing and to get back to work...*loads Strongbad email*
Synder was also featured in a Discover magazine article about this same device and its effects.
Additionally, the Discover article also talked about the various instances of sudden onset autism. One of the examples presented was the case of a 3 year old girl named Nadia, who was capable of drawing a picture of a horse and rider in such detail that it would've taken a experienced artist to do. The article shows one of Nadia's drawings, which IMHO is very beautifully rendered.
Now, if only to find that machine so I can calculate the Mayan calendar past 2012...
We had a computer club back in high school that met at lunch and more or less consisted of guys playing Marathon on the Macintosh computers in the programming class lab.
My high school had exactly the same setup. Did you go to Hinsdale South High in Darien, IL between '93-'97?
I can remember all the Mac computers in that lab, and the AP comp sci class I took there, learning Pascal. There were at least 10 people in the club and the class.
I believe that in due time, the Internet will grow to the level of public infrastructure, in the same way that we regard electricity and highways.
Only problem is, what kind of road (pun intended) are we going take to get there?
In the early days of paved roads, it was a mess until Uncle Sam wrote a bill saying that all Americans must have a smooth driving experience. When can we expect the same smooth packet delivery experience?/Just an useless rant.
He later went on to be an official Australian WW1 and WW2 photographer.
I know the story behind Shackleton's Endurance expedition, and the above statement is false in one sense. The entire journey took place during WWI. By the time Hurley got back, it was over. How could he have become Australia's official WWI Photographer if he was stuck in Antarctica?
Now I admit to not knowing about Hurley's exploits outside of the Endurance voyage, so perhaps he received the job post WWI?
-Cyc
No thank you. it would be pure idiocy to put it on goggles.
On the windshield? Yes... In fact go rent a Cadillac that is loaded for a weekend, the Infared vision system works in a snowstorm. I could see the roadway and markers AND the other cars showed up very obviousally that could not be seen visually.
The reason why I suggested goggles (or even miniaturized to sunglasses ala Doc Brown in Back to the future, Part II) is so that you could see the entire environment in that overlay, rather than just the windshield where all the information is in the front. What if there's something to the left/right/back of you that you need to see in the overlay? Just something to consider.
Driving directions? a small map is OK but I much prefer voice prompting.. had both of these cince 1998 in my Kia Sephia with a stereo called the AutoPC.
The problem with voice prompting for me is that I wouldn't be able to make out the words. I'm deaf, and speech-to-text overlay inside goggles/sunglasses for real-time captioning is one of the highest on my wish list. With that, I can then actually make use of traffic information over the radio to take an alternate route instead of getting stuck in traffic for 30 minutes, or even, to enjoy the NPR shows on my morning/evening commutes.
Real-time mission-critical speech-to-text technology is still a pipe dream for someone like me. Winning the lottery would be nice, then I can invest it and bring it to market. Otherwise, I just have to watch human nature shave/eat/read/curse in traffic.
-Cyc
I would LOVE to see this type of technology for the general public. It would make life a lot easier, especially for someone like me.
Examples:
Driving through a snow storm at night in the middle of nowhere? Overlay location info, along with roadside markings in the goggles so you KNOW where the road is and not drive into a ditch.
Driving from New York to SF for the first time? Can't read a map? Have the goggles map it all out for you connections to GPS for real time roadside updates.
Part of this technology can be used in conjunction with speech-to-text software/hardware to overlay real-time closed captioning so that I know what the damn radio DJ's are saying on my morning commute. At least Satellite radio provides the song info.
These are just some of the possibilities that I can think off the top of my head.
-Cyc
Basically, it's a stadium sized facility to research and test inertial-confinement fusion (using lasers to produce extreme heat and pressure).
The way they've designed the system, they can produce a total of 1.8 MegaJoule in laser power that all starts from piddly lasers in the nano-joule range.
So, for about $5's worth of electricity and lots of huge slabs of perfect laser glass and crystal, they can more than break even. Theoretically, NIF will generate about 500 TeraWatts of laser power. Sounds promising.
Where on the press release does it say 'Jet Fuel'? It's all about rocket fuel. It would be intresting to be on a retrofitted 777 with two of these strapped on. Can anyone say 'supersonic'?
Then again, can anyone say 'metal fatigue in 2 seconds'?
Bah! You kids with your newfangled hard drives! Why, in my day, we worked with ferro-magnetic drives. Sure, the magnets were big, and they were powerful, and dammit if you didn't get a nice buzz while working around these things. That was the way it was, AND we liked it!
AND I had to walk uphill! Twice! In the snow! Buzzed out of my mind!
Our SUV, the Ars Extinction LE (if you put "LE" on the end of the name you can charge more), is selling like... well, it's selling like an SUV, which means it's doing pretty well. In fact, it was awarded Car and Driver's prestigious "Ridiculously Aggressive-looking Design of the Year" award, as well as the Global Climate Coalition's "Excellence in Environmental Innovation" award for its stunningly low 0.5 mpg rating. (In case it's not obvious, GCC is an "environmental" front group for the oil industry.)
Just because it's a standard doesn't mean that anyone will actually use it.
I can hope something like this becomes a standard, but more to the point, I should rather be hoping that companies actually impliment it.
Now let's hope that Powell accepts the agreement in its entirety. I don't want none of that 'line-item veto' business on this puppy. It could lead to huge disagreements between the FCC and the cable companies, therby delaying the implementation.
The Direct Marketing Association is threatening to sue to save U.S. consumers from the potential loss of buying opportunities.
Please. All the telemarketers want to sell you are 'insurance', aluminum siding, and all unwanted assorted crap. I'm an informed consumer and if there's something I want to get, I'll find it and get it myself, thank you.
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The past 3 days, I've had over 300 Sobig.F messages in my Junk folder (filtered by Mozilla Mail). Other co-workers with Eudora are less fortunate, since they spend better than an hour clearing out all those emails.
-Cyc
Agreed.
Additionally, the office where I work still runs with Solaris 5.8 and they see no reason to upgrade (I don't know enough about the benefits of upgrading Solaris). One of the reasons they cited was cost, so they're staying with 5.8 for the time being.
At this point, a Solaris 9 book would cater only to those few that actually upgraded to that version (Few? Maybe there's many but I'm just guessing), and it's likely that they are power users/administrators and not some "dummy".
-Cyc
Overall Results
The leader finished with 56:10:46, while this year's leader finished with 51:47:39. However, looking at the overall top 10, it appears that the 2001 field was slightly better than the top 10 of this year's field. I'd say it means that solar technology is advancing but at a somewhat slow pace. Until we hit that breakthrough that gets the solar efficiency past 40%, we won't see much of any daily applications of this tech.
Then again, it's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
-Cyc
-Cyc
Source here.
-Cyc
Different parts of the Federal Aviation Administration regulate the 100-year old aviation industry and the emerging commercial space transportation industry. Unfortunately, the aviation guys want to regulate these new space entrepreneurs the same way they regulate huge corporations like United Airlines or Boeing. If the Wright Brothers had faced such a burden, they would never have gotten off the ground.
Wouldn't it make sense to spin off a portion of the FAA and make it (just an example) the Federal Space Administration? At least then you'd have a separate and wholly defined department to handle both public and government-level space flight regulation.
In it's current form, the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) is stuck under the umbrella of the FAA. With the increasing popularity and usage of private/commerical space flight, the AST is continually limited in its scope from the head guys at the FAA. Spinning that department off into it's own regulatory agency frees it from the burden of having to look over their shoulders.
-Cyc
-Cyc
Eh...it's a fine line between snagging in responses and getting the flat-professor-joke. I was just trying my hand at a humor troll. In any case, it's a learning experience. I hope to try to land a good one some day and once I do, I'm done trolling and back to lurking and posting rarely. That's the Slashdot Game! =P.
-Cyc
I'll name mine Marvin and install a personality module. You never know though...it could end up being manically depressed and I'd have to carry a towel with me at all times. Now, where did I leave that guide?
=P
-Cyc
While the system was crappy due to the lack of strong third-party support, there were some good games.
One game, I would rate as excellent and quite possibly the best of the Jaguar's lineup: Aliens Vs Predator.
Now, THAT was a great game! If you played the Colonial Marine, the atmosphere of the corridors was eerily silent and you heard nothing more than your footsteps, the radar pings, the air ducts, and the occasional alien scream far off in the distance. I had tons of fun playing that character.
You also could play the Predator, and the Alien as well. The Predator was tons of fun too, with its invisibility technology, and the visible/infrared/uv/x-ray viewer. I didn't like playing the Alien that much, mostly because it didn't feel all that pleasant that I was part of the hive and was just one of many.
Ahh...time for me to stop reminescing and to get back to work...*loads Strongbad email*
-Cyc
Additionally, the Discover article also talked about the various instances of sudden onset autism. One of the examples presented was the case of a 3 year old girl named Nadia, who was capable of drawing a picture of a horse and rider in such detail that it would've taken a experienced artist to do. The article shows one of Nadia's drawings, which IMHO is very beautifully rendered.
Now, if only to find that machine so I can calculate the Mayan calendar past 2012...
-Cyc
There are two schools of thought in Texas:
1) Edukayshun (phonetic manglings).
2) Mathematical Miscalculation.
I think they are planning on adding a third one in 2004:
3) Piracy Through Accounting
-Cyc
My high school had exactly the same setup. Did you go to Hinsdale South High in Darien, IL between '93-'97?
I can remember all the Mac computers in that lab, and the AP comp sci class I took there, learning Pascal. There were at least 10 people in the club and the class.
-Cyc
I believe that in due time, the Internet will grow to the level of public infrastructure, in the same way that we regard electricity and highways.
/Just an useless rant.
Only problem is, what kind of road (pun intended) are we going take to get there?
In the early days of paved roads, it was a mess until Uncle Sam wrote a bill saying that all Americans must have a smooth driving experience. When can we expect the same smooth packet delivery experience?
I know the story behind Shackleton's Endurance expedition, and the above statement is false in one sense. The entire journey took place during WWI. By the time Hurley got back, it was over. How could he have become Australia's official WWI Photographer if he was stuck in Antarctica?
Now I admit to not knowing about Hurley's exploits outside of the Endurance voyage, so perhaps he received the job post WWI?
-Cyc
On the windshield? Yes... In fact go rent a Cadillac that is loaded for a weekend, the Infared vision system works in a snowstorm. I could see the roadway and markers AND the other cars showed up very obviousally that could not be seen visually.
The reason why I suggested goggles (or even miniaturized to sunglasses ala Doc Brown in Back to the future, Part II) is so that you could see the entire environment in that overlay, rather than just the windshield where all the information is in the front. What if there's something to the left/right/back of you that you need to see in the overlay? Just something to consider.
Driving directions? a small map is OK but I much prefer voice prompting.. had both of these cince 1998 in my Kia Sephia with a stereo called the AutoPC.
The problem with voice prompting for me is that I wouldn't be able to make out the words. I'm deaf, and speech-to-text overlay inside goggles/sunglasses for real-time captioning is one of the highest on my wish list. With that, I can then actually make use of traffic information over the radio to take an alternate route instead of getting stuck in traffic for 30 minutes, or even, to enjoy the NPR shows on my morning/evening commutes.
Real-time mission-critical speech-to-text technology is still a pipe dream for someone like me. Winning the lottery would be nice, then I can invest it and bring it to market. Otherwise, I just have to watch human nature shave/eat/read/curse in traffic.
-Cyc
Examples:
Driving through a snow storm at night in the middle of nowhere? Overlay location info, along with roadside markings in the goggles so you KNOW where the road is and not drive into a ditch.
Driving from New York to SF for the first time? Can't read a map? Have the goggles map it all out for you connections to GPS for real time roadside updates.
Part of this technology can be used in conjunction with speech-to-text software/hardware to overlay real-time closed captioning so that I know what the damn radio DJ's are saying on my morning commute. At least Satellite radio provides the song info.
These are just some of the possibilities that I can think off the top of my head.
-Cyc
Basically, it's a stadium sized facility to research and test inertial-confinement fusion (using lasers to produce extreme heat and pressure).
The way they've designed the system, they can produce a total of 1.8 MegaJoule in laser power that all starts from piddly lasers in the nano-joule range.
So, for about $5's worth of electricity and lots of huge slabs of perfect laser glass and crystal, they can more than break even. Theoretically, NIF will generate about 500 TeraWatts of laser power. Sounds promising.
-Cyc
For the advanced course, I would recommend a mix of Evangelion and Memories (especially Magnetic Rose and Cannon Fodder).
For the Phd degree, submit a one page dissertation explaining the reason for the plot developments in the Excel Saga.
Then again, can anyone say 'metal fatigue in 2 seconds'?
Bah! You kids with your newfangled hard drives! Why, in my day, we worked with ferro-magnetic drives. Sure, the magnets were big, and they were powerful, and dammit if you didn't get a nice buzz while working around these things. That was the way it was, AND we liked it!
AND I had to walk uphill! Twice! In the snow! Buzzed out of my mind!
-Cyc
I can hope something like this becomes a standard, but more to the point, I should rather be hoping that companies actually impliment it.
Now let's hope that Powell accepts the agreement in its entirety. I don't want none of that 'line-item veto' business on this puppy. It could lead to huge disagreements between the FCC and the cable companies, therby delaying the implementation.
-Cyc
Please. All the telemarketers want to sell you are 'insurance', aluminum siding, and all unwanted assorted crap. I'm an informed consumer and if there's something I want to get, I'll find it and get it myself, thank you.
-Cyc
And subsequent peaks on the Mondays that followed. I guess we feel the most guilt on Mondays and the least on Fridays.
-Cyc