Nothing says the cameras have to be on auto 100% of the time, and you could have one person monitor quite a few cameras at once. And, of course, have an "Oh fuck" button that they can press that fires at everything that moves a la Aliens. If you're going to do this in mass quantities, it won't really work out to be insanely expensive either (depends who makes it, I suppose).
They must get great fucking prices on photoshop to be able to sell it at $60/copy. I'm not going to go into the whole "get painkillers without a perscription" thing either.
Not less efficient, but more likely cause more polution to be released. Your car doesn't run on coal, but the power plants that supply more than half of the power for the usa do. And yes, there is quite a bit of loss in the sytem, transmission, transformers, et al. Lets not forget the loss in charging the batteries, which I'm pretty certain is going to be around 10%.
I'm not saying it is a bad idea, but a "ooh electric, I'm automatically helping the environment" outlook is a bit nearsighted.
Cheating? About half of the electricity in the USA is from coal plants. I know you probably can't see the smokestacks, but let's not pretend that all electricity is from clean sources.
Not sure if you were going for funny or whatever, but it should be noted that "gallon of electricity" will most likely be produced by dirty electrical plants and will probably create more polution than just burning it in the engine.
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Well, a shitty installer (and these are rare) for OSX does dump files all over the place (HP all in one drivers used to) and it is a major bitch to uninstall some of these programs. Generally though, there isn't anything copied to/library etc. A wee bit more complex, but still quite nice. I suppose it could go either way (strength of 9 / weakness of windows).
A cool thing to do is to do the screen distort with your finger, and just after they turn away, fire up the drempels screen saver (or desktop) and pretend to be "bending" the frame of the monitors. Freaks people out quite a bit if you do it on their new lcd;)
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One thing that extensions were great for is for support. Put the mac into an "Mac OS 9.xx all set" and install your software / printer driver / whatever. It would work 99% of the time, and that 1% of the time you could easily blame it on OS or something else. (i.e. do a disk check, oh look, errors, or rebuild the desktop)
No page long fucking lists of registry entries or lists of arcane files in 28 different subdirectories to delete because an uninstaller fucked up and left garbage all over the system. Just drag the old extension (and maybe also the pref file) out and drop it elsewhere.
Yeah, memory mangement et al was a pain, and rebooting to get a different set of extensions is also a pita. But, doing that was far easier than than tweaking on the PC.
This is, of course, assuming the software you install doesn't fuck up the system - a ton of third party extensions were written by programmers just out of high school in India. No big surprise that they sucked for reliability and crashed all the time. I suppose the fact that it was so easy to switch extension sets is why nobody really bothered to make their software, drivers, etc play well with others or even work reliably.
(i.e. the Laserjet 1200. Install the drivers with that puppy into any extensions set and it won't print)
There is no software I need that is not included with my distro. And even if there was, the process should be difficult enough for me to really examine the question of if I really ought to be installing the system.
And I think you've just about summed up the "Why Linux will never be used on the desktop until attitudes change" argument. Next time, try mentioning how man pages, faqs and documentation in general should be written so that the new user has to jump through a series of hoops (something simple, find the factors of a 4000 digit number or something) in order to discover how to get something working.
Let me be the first to think you for dumping lots of "fun" chemicals into the wastestream by using AA batteries to power your portable electronics. *cough*he said rechargeables*cough*. You're looking at 300-500 cycles for L-Ion and about 400-500 (some claim 1000) for NiMH before the battery is useless. NiMH and L-Ion are about the same in terms of environmental impact (not NiCad) so it would seem that he's a step ahead of you.
Absolutely. How many people would notice (let alone complain) that their https traffic (and for the vast majority, this is basically online credit card / banking / purchasing) is limited to 40k? 20k? Not many, considering that most of those pages are pretty tiny.
They can still "fine" you and tack it onto your rent or prevent you from registering for classes until you pay the magic fine. Chances are, they can get away with it because college stuidents aren't exactly a group that has lawyers willing to represent them pro bono.
Not as useful as you may think. They might not know what data you are sending, but they are just as able to kill traffic speeds for folks using tunnels.
Well, lucky you. My School's IT department (Portland State University) is a bit worse.
1. Blocks ALL outbound traffic on port 25, except to their mail server. No exceptions, sorry. Need to access a mail server outside the network? "Tough luck" (I love the quotes from these motherfuckers when I call in.)
2. Bittorrent? Ha! They don't explicitly block it, but it is throttled down to 2k or so. They had the fucking gall to claim that it was "simply assigned a lesser priority" on the network when I emailed them about it. Either they are incompetent fucktarts that don't know the difference between "intentionally crippled" and "given lesser priority" or they are fucking liars. Yeah, we also get letters stating that if we use X program again, they will bill us $200 for violating such and such regulation. Mind you there isn't a master list of "programs not to use"
3. Virtually everything else is blocked, inbound and outbound. POP3 still works outbound, but a "receive only" account is a cunt hair less useful than not having any fucking mail access. They haven't blocked terminal services inbound, but I think it is only a matter of time.
4. I've had periods of 500ms to 800ms latency for HOURS a day for the last several months. Happens randomly, but when it happens, it effectively cripples services such as Vonage or any other VOIP.
I suspect that this is an intentional effort as this forces everyone to use their magical phone company with "almost like calling from prison" long distance fees. 10-10-321, et al are also blocked if dialing from POTS, so you can't call using those services. Calling cards still work, but I have no doubt that they would block them if they could. I can't even get a fucking stable 56k connection (at least skype would work then) over the phone lines in the dorm.
I've actually made a little app with a green, yellow and red light that changes according to ping times to an IP just right outside the network.
I'm tempted to set up a whitescreen on my window, invert the image and project it, which would let others know to not even bother trying to use VOIP or anything else that is sensitive to latency. Of course, I'm facing the wrong direction.
Oh, and before you ask, I do get good connections some of the day, normally around 19ms to Seattle, which isn't stellar, but it works well enough when it does.
The worst part is that when I moved in here in August, everything was fine. No filtering, no throttling, none of this bullshit. No fucking upstream cap.
Now, the net access is basically useless for VOIP, and they add filtering of something (you never know what) on a weekly basis, no change in any written or verbal policy (if there even is a written policy somewhere).
Fuck you Portland State.
Again, if you are considering Portland State University, know that your internet access will be crippled to the point of unusability at times and that VOIP and everything else that is sensitive to latency (i.e. games, video conferencing) will basically be useless at random parts of the day.
Might be redundant, but you can watch the show online by clicking a link on that page. Quite decent quality. There is also a HDTV.torrent out there - 3.14 GB, much nicer quality.
Not to split fucking hairs, but "bought" sort of implies that they actually got something. Defrauded, maybe, not goddamn bought. ./Hates the BSA, but would like them to start smacking the "buy software now" spams.
The parabolic reflector gaves at the focal point a maximum flux of 1000 W/cm2. The experimentations takes place at the focal zone (18 m in front of the paraboloid. The range of available temperature is from 800 to 2500 C (the maximum reachable temperature is 3800 C) for a maximum thermal power of 1000 kW. Picture of the Odeillo Solar Furnace
The parabolic reflector gaves at the focal point a maximum flux of 1000 W/cm2. The experimentations takes place at the focal zone (18 m in front of the paraboloid. The range of available temperature is from 800 to 2500 C (the maximum reachable temperature is 3800 C) for a maximum thermal power of 1000 kW. (Did someone just say holy fucking shit?) Picture of the Odeillo Solar Furnace
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Nothing says the cameras have to be on auto 100% of the time, and you could have one person monitor quite a few cameras at once. And, of course, have an "Oh fuck" button that they can press that fires at everything that moves a la Aliens.
If you're going to do this in mass quantities, it won't really work out to be insanely expensive either (depends who makes it, I suppose).
You might want to read your parent post before posting more "yuo suck at teh grammar!!"
No, it wouldn't
I think you're looking for udder.
Ooh, almost double minimum wage?
/not the AC, but your stuipidity shined through, and I just had to post.
Thats like $25,000 a year OMG!!!
BEFORE TAXES.
HOLY SHIT!! SCORE!
I however, you're a fucking idiot.
They must get great fucking prices on photoshop to be able to sell it at $60/copy. I'm not going to go into the whole "get painkillers without a perscription" thing either.
Not less efficient, but more likely cause more polution to be released.
Your car doesn't run on coal, but the power plants that supply more than half of the power for the usa do.
And yes, there is quite a bit of loss in the sytem, transmission, transformers, et al. Lets not forget the loss in charging the batteries, which I'm pretty certain is going to be around 10%.
I'm not saying it is a bad idea, but a "ooh electric, I'm automatically helping the environment" outlook is a bit nearsighted.
Cheating? About half of the electricity in the USA is from coal plants. I know you probably can't see the smokestacks, but let's not pretend that all electricity is from clean sources.
Not sure if you were going for funny or whatever, but it should be noted that "gallon of electricity" will most likely be produced by dirty electrical plants and will probably create more polution than just burning it in the engine.
Well, a shitty installer (and these are rare) for OSX does dump files all over the place (HP all in one drivers used to) and it is a major bitch to uninstall some of these programs. /library etc. A wee bit more complex, but still quite nice.
Generally though, there isn't anything copied to
I suppose it could go either way (strength of 9 / weakness of windows).
A cool thing to do is to do the screen distort with your finger, and just after they turn away, fire up the drempels screen saver (or desktop) and pretend to be "bending" the frame of the monitors. ;)
Freaks people out quite a bit if you do it on their new lcd
One thing that extensions were great for is for support.
Put the mac into an "Mac OS 9.xx all set" and install your software / printer driver / whatever.
It would work 99% of the time, and that 1% of the time you could easily blame it on OS or something else. (i.e. do a disk check, oh look, errors, or rebuild the desktop)
No page long fucking lists of registry entries or lists of arcane files in 28 different subdirectories to delete because an uninstaller fucked up and left garbage all over the system. Just drag the old extension (and maybe also the pref file) out and drop it elsewhere.
Yeah, memory mangement et al was a pain, and rebooting to get a different set of extensions is also a pita. But, doing that was far easier than than tweaking on the PC.
This is, of course, assuming the software you install doesn't fuck up the system - a ton of third party extensions were written by programmers just out of high school in India. No big surprise that they sucked for reliability and crashed all the time.
I suppose the fact that it was so easy to switch extension sets is why nobody really bothered to make their software, drivers, etc play well with others or even work reliably.
(i.e. the Laserjet 1200. Install the drivers with that puppy into any extensions set and it won't print)
There is no software I need that is not included with my distro. And even if there was, the process should be difficult enough for me to really examine the question of if I really ought to be installing the system.
And I think you've just about summed up the "Why Linux will never be used on the desktop until attitudes change" argument. Next time, try mentioning how man pages, faqs and documentation in general should be written so that the new user has to jump through a series of hoops (something simple, find the factors of a 4000 digit number or something) in order to discover how to get something working.
Oh, yes, and if you want to use the connection for work, that is another $90 a month for the functionality of using ssh, et al.
Let me be the first to think you for dumping lots of "fun" chemicals into the wastestream by using AA batteries to power your portable electronics.
*cough*he said rechargeables*cough*.
You're looking at 300-500 cycles for L-Ion and about 400-500 (some claim 1000) for NiMH before the battery is useless. NiMH and L-Ion are about the same in terms of environmental impact (not NiCad) so it would seem that he's a step ahead of you.
Absolutely. How many people would notice (let alone complain) that their https traffic (and for the vast majority, this is basically online credit card / banking / purchasing) is limited to 40k? 20k?
Not many, considering that most of those pages are pretty tiny.
They can still "fine" you and tack it onto your rent or prevent you from registering for classes until you pay the magic fine.
Chances are, they can get away with it because college stuidents aren't exactly a group that has lawyers willing to represent them pro bono.
Not as useful as you may think.
They might not know what data you are sending, but they are just as able to kill traffic speeds for folks using tunnels.
Well, lucky you. My School's IT department (Portland State University) is a bit worse.
1. Blocks ALL outbound traffic on port 25, except to their mail server. No exceptions, sorry. Need to access a mail server outside the network? "Tough luck" (I love the quotes from these motherfuckers when I call in.)
2. Bittorrent? Ha! They don't explicitly block it, but it is throttled down to 2k or so. They had the fucking gall to claim that it was "simply assigned a lesser priority" on the network when I emailed them about it. Either they are incompetent fucktarts that don't know the difference between "intentionally crippled" and "given lesser priority" or they are fucking liars. Yeah, we also get letters stating that if we use X program again, they will bill us $200 for violating such and such regulation. Mind you there isn't a master list of "programs not to use"
3. Virtually everything else is blocked, inbound and outbound. POP3 still works outbound, but a "receive only" account is a cunt hair less useful than not having any fucking mail access.
They haven't blocked terminal services inbound, but I think it is only a matter of time.
4. I've had periods of 500ms to 800ms latency for HOURS a day for the last several months. Happens randomly, but when it happens, it effectively cripples services such as Vonage or any other VOIP.
I suspect that this is an intentional effort as this forces everyone to use their magical phone company with "almost like calling from prison" long distance fees. 10-10-321, et al are also blocked if dialing from POTS, so you can't call using those services. Calling cards still work, but I have no doubt that they would block them if they could. I can't even get a fucking stable 56k connection (at least skype would work then) over the phone lines in the dorm.
I've actually made a little app with a green, yellow and red light that changes according to ping times to an IP just right outside the network.
I'm tempted to set up a whitescreen on my window, invert the image and project it, which would let others know to not even bother trying to use VOIP or anything else that is sensitive to latency. Of course, I'm facing the wrong direction.
Oh, and before you ask, I do get good connections some of the day, normally around 19ms to Seattle, which isn't stellar, but it works well enough when it does.
The worst part is that when I moved in here in August, everything was fine. No filtering, no throttling, none of this bullshit. No fucking upstream cap.
Now, the net access is basically useless for VOIP, and they add filtering of something (you never know what) on a weekly basis, no change in any written or verbal policy (if there even is a written policy somewhere).
Fuck you Portland State.
Again, if you are considering Portland State University, know that your internet access will be crippled to the point of unusability at times and that VOIP and everything else that is sensitive to latency (i.e. games, video conferencing) will basically be useless at random parts of the day.
Might be redundant, but you can watch the show online by clicking a link on that page. Quite decent quality. .torrent out there - 3.14 GB, much nicer quality.
There is also a HDTV
OMG. Woe to the fucking birds that fly there.
Not to split fucking hairs, but "bought" sort of implies that they actually got something. Defrauded, maybe, not goddamn bought. /Hates the BSA, but would like them to start smacking the "buy software now" spams.
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Quite true, but you could make a pretty good light show using the heat and a couple of bottles of chemicals ;) Light show = party comes to it!
These folks should know ;)
Mu, uhh, death ray is bigger than your death ray
The parabolic reflector gaves at the focal point a maximum flux of 1000 W/cm2. The experimentations takes place at the focal zone (18 m in front of the paraboloid. The range of available temperature is from 800 to 2500 C (the maximum reachable temperature is 3800 C) for a maximum thermal power of 1000 kW.
Picture of the Odeillo Solar Furnace
This one is a bit bigger!
The parabolic reflector gaves at the focal point a maximum flux of 1000 W/cm2. The experimentations takes place at the focal zone (18 m in front of the paraboloid. The range of available temperature is from 800 to 2500 C (the maximum reachable temperature is 3800 C) for a maximum thermal power of 1000 kW.
(Did someone just say holy fucking shit?)
Picture of the Odeillo Solar Furnace