I remember when networking was just becoming widespread, and people had to start naming their machines. The net admin in our organization was a ski freak and had the bright idea of naming ours after his favorite skiing resorts. So, we had to remember the spelling of things like Banff, Chamonix, Zermatt, etc. Fortunately he got another job and we got the new guy to name them sensibly, after muppets. I had Gonzo.
Why do I suddenly feel like Grandpa Simpson? "We called it 'walking bird' back then..."
I bought a bunch of MSFT stock in 1987 and rode it up until selling in 2000. However much I despise Bill Gates, I figure I owe him my financial independence at least. So, stick it only partway up your backside, Bill.
So they DRM the shows on your Tivo after a month.. by then people have either wiped it, or bought the damn thing on DVD.
A significant proportion of Tivo users employ Tivo as not just a time-shifter/instant replay box, but as a sort of digital video jukebox. They leave shows present and watch them again and again. Some users up the capacity to 1000+ hours for just this reason. I use the Tivo in this way myself for certain shows. If stuff starts vanishing, so will my Tivo, and I'll switch to MythTV or an equivalent.
This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?
I remember during the "energy crisis" of the early seventies, one of our colleagues at a Navy laboratory that happened to be near a submarine base suggested that we tap into the multi-megawatt output of docked nuclear subs to supply some of our lab's power. Needless to say, the "no nukes" eco-freaks that worked at the lab came unglued. I never knew if he was serious or just trying to get a rise out of people. If the latter, it certainly worked.
If you have genetic defects that will be passed on to your offspring, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and less risky to just adopt, rather than trying to repair the damage? This also sounds like it's coming quite close to human cloning, an issue for which society hasn't yet adequately prepared itself, IMO.
My 2.2 Liter Subaru gets 350 miles on 13.2 gallons of gasoline. This is better how?
The 13.2 gallons is the capacity of the tank holding the hydrogenated material. It doesn't really tell one what sort of mileage one is getting per cubic foot of gaseous hydrogen. I'm guessing they started with the question of what range per "fillup" they wanted to achieve, and sized the tank acccordingly.
Are you saying that a Republican Senate caused Clinton to pick more moderate nominees? I have a hard time picturing someone more hard-left than ex-ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
As for 'balance,' I'd say that's been gone for a long time. These days courts are acting like unelected, unaccountable legislative bodies, erecting entire new bodies of law and striking down laws enacted by the people or their representatives. I'm coming to the conclusion that if courts are going to become politicized, it's time we start electing judges.
I hope that that's a typo and not a revisitation of an old derogatory term. (See, "The Heathen Chinee" by Bret Harte. Opening stanza:
Which I wish to remark,
And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar,
Which the same I would rise to explain.
I'd compare this issue to that of the exploitation of Nazi medical "research". Nazi scientists compiled a lot of data on what the limits of human endurance were, such as how much cold could be withstood before death ensued. You can imagine how they acquired that data. There were those who wanted to make use of it, because, after all, the people were dead in any case and perhaps some good could come of it. Others were horrified at the very idea of exploiting data that came with the taint of human suffering.
If we can benefit from the use of embryonic stem cells without the ethical and moral problems inherent in obtaining them from actual embryos, isn't this a win for both sides of the issue? I submit that anyone who objects at this point isn't interested in medical advancement, but has some other agenda, for which this issue is just a proxy.
Obviously inspired by the 10-year Julian Simon/Paul Ehrlich wager of 1980.M Simon had Ehrlich choose five of several commodity metals. Ehrlich chose 5 metals: copper, chrome, nickel, tin, and tungsten. Simon bet that their prices would go down. Ehrlich bet they would go up. Simon won.
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That's like saying convenience stores are the worst offenders in armed robbery. Surely the offender is the perpetrator, not the victim.
720GB to record one channel for a month, times N hundred channels, yeah, maybe. But where do you get N hundred tuners and the signal to feed them? Or are they using the equivalent of Software Radio and digitizing the raw spectrum? In which case they must have the world's highest-bandwidth D-to-A converter(s).
Even if it were technically possible with today's technology, I can't see anyone except the ultra-rich affording it. And what about when such a complex device breaks or needs maintenance? It makes much more financial and technical sense to do TV-on-demand where you can use one room-size device for many feeds. Color me skeptical about this story.
I learned back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but I hear that a new technique makes learning easier. Individual characters are sent at a 25 wpm rate, but the spacing between characters is left such that the overall rate is 5 wpm or even lower. You supposedly learn the "sound" of the character and not the individual dit dahs. Might be worth a try. I'm sure that there must be freebie programs that will run on a PC that do this.
If you're not trying to find something fast, eBay is a great place to get almost anything at a good price. I create "favorites" and ask to be emailed notifications of new additions. I got some Pomona test leads at a great price by waiting. Took a couple of months for the right ones to come along and for me to not get outbid by somebody who wanted them more than I did, but I eventually got them at my price.
How about not booting out your elected Governor to put in a actor who then abetted the theft of YOUR money by Enron in an electrical shortage fraud?
WHat the hell are you talking about? Gray Davis, the guy we booted, *he* was the one who sold us to the power companies. That debacle (among many others) was what caused us to turn to Schwarzenegger.
I'm not even Californian, and I have a better clue about how you idiots screw up your own state.
Based on your evident lack of knowledge regarding the sequence of events in recent history, I doubt that.
Once the head goes, that botnet is largely useless," said Roger Thompson, director of malicious content research at Computer Associates International Inc.
If I were a Blackhat, my counter to this would be to have the members of the botnet relay my commands among themselves like a telephone relay tree where one person calls 5 who each then call 5 who each then... To find Mr. Big, you'd have to find the headwaters of the stream, which would be a difficult task.
but I have to ask, how many people out there have a positive view on life because they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do.
Does it really matter? If you have a positive view on life and you can function, why's it a problem how you become upbeat? Would you rather those people go around grounded in reality but depressed? This sounds like similar arguments that people have about beliefs in God, ghosts, and saucer abductions. They're mostly harmless.
I am a resident of California, and honestly I feel a little bad when I buy something on the internet that I could have purchased at a retail outlet. This is because I want to do my part to help the state out of its current financial crisis, and sales tax is one of the little ways that I can do this.
California got in its current mess by wild overspending and waste, not because it's starved for revenue. Rather than feed the legislature's addiction by bending over for more taxes, our response to demands for more taxes should be, "What the hell did you do with what I already gave you?" Please, depart from California so that I and my brethren have a prayer of reining in the political system that treats the public as an ATM.
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I remember when networking was just becoming widespread, and people had to start naming their machines. The net admin in our organization was a ski freak and had the bright idea of naming ours after his favorite skiing resorts. So, we had to remember the spelling of things like Banff, Chamonix, Zermatt, etc. Fortunately he got another job and we got the new guy to name them sensibly, after muppets. I had Gonzo.
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Why do I suddenly feel like Grandpa Simpson? "We called it 'walking bird' back then
I bought a bunch of MSFT stock in 1987 and rode it up until selling in 2000. However much I despise Bill Gates, I figure I owe him my financial independence at least. So, stick it only partway up your backside, Bill.
A significant proportion of Tivo users employ Tivo as not just a time-shifter/instant replay box, but as a sort of digital video jukebox. They leave shows present and watch them again and again. Some users up the capacity to 1000+ hours for just this reason. I use the Tivo in this way myself for certain shows. If stuff starts vanishing, so will my Tivo, and I'll switch to MythTV or an equivalent.
120GB MP3 Player
This isn't a personal attack on you, but your post brings up something I've been wondering about recently: unless you rip your music at ultra-high sampling rates, 120 GB is from 41 to 83 days of music. Can anyone even find that much stuff that they want to listen to?
I remember during the "energy crisis" of the early seventies, one of our colleagues at a Navy laboratory that happened to be near a submarine base suggested that we tap into the multi-megawatt output of docked nuclear subs to supply some of our lab's power. Needless to say, the "no nukes" eco-freaks that worked at the lab came unglued. I never knew if he was serious or just trying to get a rise out of people. If the latter, it certainly worked.
If you have genetic defects that will be passed on to your offspring, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and less risky to just adopt, rather than trying to repair the damage? This also sounds like it's coming quite close to human cloning, an issue for which society hasn't yet adequately prepared itself, IMO.
The 13.2 gallons is the capacity of the tank holding the hydrogenated material. It doesn't really tell one what sort of mileage one is getting per cubic foot of gaseous hydrogen. I'm guessing they started with the question of what range per "fillup" they wanted to achieve, and sized the tank acccordingly.
enabling a car to drive more than 500 km on a 50 L tank
That would be 311 miles in 13.2 gallons.
Hah! I spit on your so-called metric system.
Don't remember where I first saw this, but I've remembered it ever since:
The 3 qualities of a good programmer
1. Hubris
2. Impatience
3. Laziness
Are you saying that a Republican Senate caused Clinton to pick more moderate nominees? I have a hard time picturing someone more hard-left than ex-ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
As for 'balance,' I'd say that's been gone for a long time. These days courts are acting like unelected, unaccountable legislative bodies, erecting entire new bodies of law and striking down laws enacted by the people or their representatives. I'm coming to the conclusion that if courts are going to become politicized, it's time we start electing judges.
If we can benefit from the use of embryonic stem cells without the ethical and moral problems inherent in obtaining them from actual embryos, isn't this a win for both sides of the issue? I submit that anyone who objects at this point isn't interested in medical advancement, but has some other agenda, for which this issue is just a proxy.
Obviously inspired by the 10-year Julian Simon/Paul Ehrlich wager of 1980.M Simon had Ehrlich choose five of several commodity metals. Ehrlich chose 5 metals: copper, chrome, nickel, tin, and tungsten. Simon bet that their prices would go down. Ehrlich bet they would go up. Simon won.
That's like saying convenience stores are the worst offenders in armed robbery. Surely the offender is the perpetrator, not the victim.
720GB to record one channel for a month, times N hundred channels, yeah, maybe. But where do you get N hundred tuners and the signal to feed them? Or are they using the equivalent of Software Radio and digitizing the raw spectrum? In which case they must have the world's highest-bandwidth D-to-A converter(s).
Even if it were technically possible with today's technology, I can't see anyone except the ultra-rich affording it. And what about when such a complex device breaks or needs maintenance? It makes much more financial and technical sense to do TV-on-demand where you can use one room-size device for many feeds. Color me skeptical about this story.
I learned back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but I hear that a new technique makes learning easier. Individual characters are sent at a 25 wpm rate, but the spacing between characters is left such that the overall rate is 5 wpm or even lower. You supposedly learn the "sound" of the character and not the individual dit dahs. Might be worth a try. I'm sure that there must be freebie programs that will run on a PC that do this.
Here's where you can rent a video to learn how.
The Art of Computer Programming, Vols 1-3
If you're not trying to find something fast, eBay is a great place to get almost anything at a good price. I create "favorites" and ask to be emailed notifications of new additions. I got some Pomona test leads at a great price by waiting. Took a couple of months for the right ones to come along and for me to not get outbid by somebody who wanted them more than I did, but I eventually got them at my price.
It is for Devs, as you say. If you don't know what it is, we don't know you, you don't belong...
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So Dev knowledge is innate, not learned? Interesting theory
Strangely, this doesn't comfort me.
WHat the hell are you talking about? Gray Davis, the guy we booted, *he* was the one who sold us to the power companies. That debacle (among many others) was what caused us to turn to Schwarzenegger.
I'm not even Californian, and I have a better clue about how you idiots screw up your own state.
Based on your evident lack of knowledge regarding the sequence of events in recent history, I doubt that.
If I were a Blackhat, my counter to this would be to have the members of the botnet relay my commands among themselves like a telephone relay tree where one person calls 5 who each then call 5 who each then ... To find Mr. Big, you'd have to find the headwaters of the stream, which would be a difficult task.
Does it really matter? If you have a positive view on life and you can function, why's it a problem how you become upbeat? Would you rather those people go around grounded in reality but depressed? This sounds like similar arguments that people have about beliefs in God, ghosts, and saucer abductions. They're mostly harmless.
California got in its current mess by wild overspending and waste, not because it's starved for revenue. Rather than feed the legislature's addiction by bending over for more taxes, our response to demands for more taxes should be, "What the hell did you do with what I already gave you?" Please, depart from California so that I and my brethren have a prayer of reining in the political system that treats the public as an ATM.