This is neither News for Nerds, nor Stuff that matters.
'nuff said.
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Zebra mussels were not 'introduced' on purpose
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They came here in the hulls of European freighters illegally dumping their ballast here. A better example would have been the 'introduction' of Europeans to the New World
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Fuel usage depends on MASS, not WEIGHT
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Yeesh.
If you want to the know the mass of the object you're bringing back, figure out how big it is (Got a measuring cup?), look up its density (hey, it's a refined metal), and voilà! You know the mass.
Don't know the mass? That's fine too. Find something you *DO* know the mass of. Find a really sensitive weigh-scale. Use their mutual gravitational attraction.
IIRC, Cruitne follows a really wacky spinning-ball-around-a-horse-shoe orbit, which happens to be very close to the disc of the Earth orbit. It's timed very intricately so that Cruithne doesn't smash into the Earth.
An asteroid passing near Earth orbit could be mucked with to make it come back at an appropriate time -- that would be good. Get everybody on it, attach rockets, and fire it away so that it comes back in two years when it's ready to offload some material.
Cruithne would not be any closer that this and would actually be farther most of the time due to its crazy-ass orbit. More dangerously, however, changing Cruithne's mass could very easily send it crashing into New York.
I don't know if it was angular momentum that Kepler figured out from his data, but he did study Tycho's data.
Tycho Brahe may not have been much of an astrophysist, scientist, or whatnot, but he was a hell of an observer, ESPECIALLY when you consider the crappy tools he had -- an eyeball, a sextant, and an optical telescope.
Scientists today still study his data, because there is so much of it, for such a long time, with such a high degree of accuracy. It's useful for all kinds of things; dating stars (or human events, like pyramid building:-) by using stellar precession, etc.
As I understand it, it is possible to set different compression factors (from lossless to very lossy) on different polygonal regions of a JPEG file.
Since JPEG is already fairly-well supported, why not use it? The only thing that needs to be changed is the image-creation software; it needs to know how to detect the difference between background and foreground content. Image-creation software also has a huge advantage here; layers (and their relative z-Indexes) give great hints as to what is, and what isn't, "background"
...as long as they implement storage of some sort, along with PEEK, POKE and SYS calls this could be a useful addition, once the PS2 chipset is documented. Home users could actually write their own PS2 games, and make them fast enough with assembly-level support.
Can anybody say "type-in games from Compute!s Gazette"? I thought you could. It's the C64 all over again!
I first started reading OSC when Ender's Game was released. Oddly enough, I picked the book up from the bookstore, remembering his name from somewhere. I read the book; I loved it; I became a fan.
Years later, I finally figured out that I knew his name from a column he used to write for RUN Magazine -- a C64 rag. I think it was a gaming or graphics column of some sort.
The wires inside that ribbon are arranged Sig/GND/Sig/GND/Sig/GND (etc). This is because all of the ground pins are on one side of the connector, and all the signal pins are on the other.
One thing you *don't* want to do is separate the signals from the ground, and your groups of five cause an unequal distribution of ground wires.
Might I suggest either groups of four or groups of six? Any even number will be okay.
- No interference, as long as your cuts don't separated the data and gnd wires
- WRT 4-pair ethernet wire, the reason is that pair one is reserved for voice, and 3-pair wire seemed silly. Besides, it gets you a spare pair if you ever snip one.
You can custom-punch cables quite easily by using a desk vice with planed pine 1x2s bolted on the inside; routing a bezel on the edge makes it even easier.
'course it takes about 5 minutes per connector, but hey, it's hobbyist-affordable.
Set up your own local DNS or NIS server, you idiot. That's how companies do intranets, there's no need for world-wide naming conventions to handle local entities -- that's why they have LOCAL area networks attached to this horrendously sloth-like WAN.
The fact that there are existing pieces of junk software out there incapable of conforming to a simple specification (read: man resolver) is simply no excuse not to use the DNS system to its fullest ability.
Software writers of the world: For christ's sake! how hard is it to get this shit right? Christ! You'd think the current breed of you were raised on a Bill Gates VB diet or something.
I think working in a Unix shop for a year, running free tools, and writing system-level software should be mandatory for all new coders.
I laud your efforts, and think you're going in a reasonable direction if something must be done, however you're a little overboard on one detail.
A 3-hour delay before that information is accessible is totally counter-productive when the WHOIS information is being used to contact somebody whose network is AFU.
The same goal can be accomplished much more reasonably with an exponential (2^x) backoff routine, with a 15-second seed. Reset the backoff 24 hours after the last request, and refuse to queue more than 4 requests at once.
This means that for a (naive) spammer to harvest 16 email addresses at once that it will take about 16000 minutes, or ten and a half days.
On the other hand, a sysadmin who needs two or three WHOIS entries (and sometimes you need to "chain" them to find info) can get his information in less than 5 minutes.
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This is neither News for Nerds, nor Stuff that matters.
'nuff said.
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They came here in the hulls of European freighters illegally dumping their ballast here. A better example would have been the 'introduction' of Europeans to the New World
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Yeesh. If you want to the know the mass of the object you're bringing back, figure out how big it is (Got a measuring cup?), look up its density (hey, it's a refined metal), and voilà! You know the mass. Don't know the mass? That's fine too. Find something you *DO* know the mass of. Find a really sensitive weigh-scale. Use their mutual gravitational attraction.
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IIRC, Cruitne follows a really wacky spinning-ball-around-a-horse-shoe orbit, which happens to be very close to the disc of the Earth orbit. It's timed very intricately so that Cruithne doesn't smash into the Earth.
An asteroid passing near Earth orbit could be mucked with to make it come back at an appropriate time -- that would be good. Get everybody on it, attach rockets, and fire it away so that it comes back in two years when it's ready to offload some material.
Cruithne would not be any closer that this and would actually be farther most of the time due to its crazy-ass orbit. More dangerously, however, changing Cruithne's mass could very easily send it crashing into New York.
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I don't know if it was angular momentum that Kepler figured out from his data, but he did study Tycho's data.
:-) by using stellar precession, etc.
Tycho Brahe may not have been much of an astrophysist, scientist, or whatnot, but he was a hell of an observer, ESPECIALLY when you consider the crappy tools he had -- an eyeball, a sextant, and an optical telescope.
Scientists today still study his data, because there is so much of it, for such a long time, with such a high degree of accuracy. It's useful for all kinds of things; dating stars (or human events, like pyramid building
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As I understand it, it is possible to set different compression factors (from lossless to very lossy) on different polygonal regions of a JPEG file.
Since JPEG is already fairly-well supported, why not use it? The only thing that needs to be changed is the image-creation software; it needs to know how to detect the difference between background and foreground content. Image-creation software also has a huge advantage here; layers (and their relative z-Indexes) give great hints as to what is, and what isn't, "background"
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Hey, I've seen pictures of his wife.
I think Linus should Open-Source his family. I'd love to try doing a "make install" on his old lady.
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$50 CDN is $30 US.
$39.95 > $30
$49.95 > $30
Sure, there is the "free" option, but looking at ads at 180K/sec is not my idea of fun, and barely classifies as service, IMHO.
Gee, maybe you think you can buy bread in Italy for 1 lira, because a loaf is only one USD back home?
Try leaving the borders of your country sometime. I'll bet you'll learn something...maybe even the names of some of those other countries.
(You did know there are other countries, didn't you? Or was your failure to know that $30 $39.95 a merely a by-product of your American't education?)
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Obviously, this is not the case, as I access both child pornography and snuff films on the 'net on a regular basis. Plllt.
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...I'd be sitting at the console right now typing something like "route add france bitbucket metric 0"
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...as long as they implement storage of some sort, along with PEEK, POKE and SYS calls this could be a useful addition, once the PS2 chipset is documented. Home users could actually write their own PS2 games, and make them fast enough with assembly-level support.
Can anybody say "type-in games from Compute!s Gazette"? I thought you could. It's the C64 all over again!
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I would explain this to you, but every time I try to de-reference you, I have to run to the shitter and dump core.
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...in about, oh, one year I bet a whole bunch of pissed-off IT managers move to StarOffice on a real (Solaris/Linux/BSD/HP) platform.
Sun should be working on an Enterprise-scale migration utility... afterall, the cutover date has just been made official.
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I'll join you.
I first started reading OSC when Ender's Game was released. Oddly enough, I picked the book up from the bookstore, remembering his name from somewhere. I read the book; I loved it; I became a fan.
Years later, I finally figured out that I knew his name from a column he used to write for RUN Magazine -- a C64 rag. I think it was a gaming or graphics column of some sort.
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Simplied Chinese is not really a set of new characters, but more like a new font. And yes, Virginia, you *can* copyright a font.
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The wires inside that ribbon are arranged Sig/GND/Sig/GND/Sig/GND (etc). This is because all of the ground pins are on one side of the connector, and all the signal pins are on the other.
One thing you *don't* want to do is separate the signals from the ground, and your groups of five cause an unequal distribution of ground wires.
Might I suggest either groups of four or groups of six? Any even number will be okay.
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- No interference, as long as your cuts don't separated the data and gnd wires
- WRT 4-pair ethernet wire, the reason is that pair one is reserved for voice, and 3-pair wire seemed silly. Besides, it gets you a spare pair if you ever snip one.
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You can custom-punch cables quite easily by using a desk vice with planed pine 1x2s bolted on the inside; routing a bezel on the edge makes it even easier.
'course it takes about 5 minutes per connector, but hey, it's hobbyist-affordable.
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Set up your own local DNS or NIS server, you idiot. That's how companies do intranets, there's no need for world-wide naming conventions to handle local entities -- that's why they have LOCAL area networks attached to this horrendously sloth-like WAN.
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I want to register ca.ca
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Helllloooo!
There is no "porting of software" required to support the new TLDs.
If your software breaks on a new TLD, IT IS ALREADY BROKEN!
That's not a port, that's a bug fix. Tough tootsies.
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The fact that there are existing pieces of junk software out there incapable of conforming to a simple specification (read: man resolver) is simply no excuse not to use the DNS system to its fullest ability.
Software writers of the world: For christ's sake! how hard is it to get this shit right? Christ! You'd think the current breed of you were raised on a Bill Gates VB diet or something.
I think working in a Unix shop for a year, running free tools, and writing system-level software should be mandatory for all new coders.
Hrmph.
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My personal favourite was "alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill"
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Hmm, it eats through rubber seals...
I wonder if those crazy cosmonauts tried feeding it rubber chickens?
There is a certain prankster around here I'd like to put out of business...
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I laud your efforts, and think you're going in a reasonable direction if something must be done, however you're a little overboard on one detail.
A 3-hour delay before that information is accessible is totally counter-productive when the WHOIS information is being used to contact somebody whose network is AFU.
The same goal can be accomplished much more reasonably with an exponential (2^x) backoff routine, with a 15-second seed. Reset the backoff 24 hours after the last request, and refuse to queue more than 4 requests at once.
This means that for a (naive) spammer to harvest 16 email addresses at once that it will take about 16000 minutes, or ten and a half days.
On the other hand, a sysadmin who needs two or three WHOIS entries (and sometimes you need to "chain" them to find info) can get his information in less than 5 minutes.
Reasonable, no?
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