Bicyclists use a transponder clipped to a spoke on their front wheel to record their finish time. It sends signals from the bike to antennae along the route so judges can confirm who is in first.
That must be a typical media oversimplification, right? If a race comes down to a scary, rubbing-elbows-with-the-guy-beside-me sprint, I sure don't want the 'win' to be decided by where in its rotation my wheel is when we cross the line together...
Is that because ASCAP had already gotten paid by the radio station? Does it follow, then, that one could play a legit streaming station like the ones at SomaFM without paying up yourself?
I remember books! Waaaaaay back when I was in school, we had to haul around all these thinly-sliced dead trees, put together with hard ends. The slices--I think they were called "pages"-- were generally related to the same topic, and--get this--they were always the same!
That's right, all the slices in these things always said the same thing, had the same pictures... if a "fact" changed, there wouldn't be any note of it until more trees were cut up and stuck together... but even that was rare--new books would continue to be printed with old information. Absurd! The only way most books changed was if you drew in them with one of those graphite stick thingies that we used to fill in the little circles....
well nevermind, it's getting late, but I'm so glad I'm not burdened with a bunch of books anymore--otherwise I wouldn't have room in my bag for my laptop, phone, PDA, music player, GPS, and towel...
I really do appreciate that debian does it right and sticks to their guns. I agree with all of this, but an operating system that hasn't seen a "release" in years isn't going to win any new users. I never understood the purpose behind holding up the release while policy was pending revision anyway. Can't we all just get along?
I love debian, and have it on about 30 or so machines. The way Stable is maintained, well, rocks. However, as time has gone by, stable has been getting less and less suitable for anything but the simplest of servers. Now I have production machines running testing, which along with other faults, doesn't provide timely packaged security fixes (my primary concern.)
When I heard that a policy change might delay the new release until next year, I was really bummed. That's my one big debian problem--the politcs seem to gum up the works all too frequently. I'm glad to see that this will be put aside until the very much needed next release. YAY DEBIAN!
On a side note, anyone ever take an up-to-date testing machine and convert it to stable at release time? Did it, uh, work?
How about the Cauzin Softstrip? Never had one myself but always though they were cool... for a (not very long) while, the 'puter magazines of the time were printing their BASIC programs encoded for the Softstrip, saving hours of typing...
I was at work when a huge thunderstorm rolled in. The wind kicked up and the building my office is in started creaking, the wind whistling over it. The rain started next, coming down almost horizontally.
There was a flash very big boom, during which a piece of electrical equipment up the street turned into sparks. A moment later, the sky lit up again, this time not white, but blue.
My office is on the forth floor in a not very big town, so I have pretty good view of a lot of it, and it was lit up as bright as the brightest of sunny days. But blue.
I believe I saw a flashover, which occurs when lightning hits something electrical, and the electricty within, which had previously been happy doing its thing, jumps out and follows the lightning bolt's path. This can continue for several seconds after the lightning has stopped.
My girlfriend was there to see this too--in fact, she dropped to her knees and said "that's the scariest thing I've ever seen." And I agree. Lightning is fascinating stuff, and terrifying.
Would they let her make calls on their lines under ordinary circumstances? If so, get a static IP, a pair of VOIP boxen and DIY. I have a pair of Multitech boxen between my place and work, and I through my DSL I can do anything I could there--make local and LD calls on their lines, and make intercom calls and pages, etc... You'll need some helpful phone guys to wire it into their PBX, but it's worth a look, and not all that expensive.
I am not a Multitech droid, I just use their boxen.
This story is obviously inappropriate for the slashdot crowd, as playing poker requires multiple players, ideally all in the same physical place, which is, of course, absurd.
Slashdotters are way more likely to spend an evening at home playing pocket pool.
It's amazing to me how many times one can proofread something, and still miss a mistake like typing "way" when you meant "day"... the mind is a funny thing, especially at this level of intoxication.:)
back in my way, we didn't have fancy-schmancy van de graf generators... we had to run a strip of rawhide through our own hair when we needed electricity... and we liked it! and when we wore through all our head hair, we'd rub it on our... well, nevermind, but we liked it!
Untrue. The Marines are training in and around my town, right now, some with live ammo, and with many very real helicopters and other war-type toys. Many are not pleased.
And in the same thread, I'd like to ask for opinions on an FS for a largish mail server; MTA will be either qmail or postfix using maildir. I'd planned to use reiserfs, too--anyone wanna advise me otherwise?
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It operates via voice commands and goes CLICK-CLICK-CLICK when it's zooming?
You also forgot the 20 or so minutes spent cleaning up all the blood that the case edges drew from your tender fingers...
That must be a typical media oversimplification, right? If a race comes down to a scary, rubbing-elbows-with-the-guy-beside-me sprint, I sure don't want the 'win' to be decided by where in its rotation my wheel is when we cross the line together...
it's a shame...
Linking to a cgi from the front page? Why don't we just find out where the server is and burn down the building instead?
Everybody should know all about the Therac 25. Interesting reading even if you've never gotten past "hello, world!" in your programming career.
Is that because ASCAP had already gotten paid by the radio station? Does it follow, then, that one could play a legit streaming station like the ones at SomaFM without paying up yourself?
This is a serious question... for what application would one need 2500 watts at 2.4 Ghz? That's 4x the power of my microwave oven.
That's right, all the slices in these things always said the same thing, had the same pictures... if a "fact" changed, there wouldn't be any note of it until more trees were cut up and stuck together... but even that was rare--new books would continue to be printed with old information. Absurd! The only way most books changed was if you drew in them with one of those graphite stick thingies that we used to fill in the little circles....
well nevermind, it's getting late, but I'm so glad I'm not burdened with a bunch of books anymore--otherwise I wouldn't have room in my bag for my laptop, phone, PDA, music player, GPS, and towel...
I really do appreciate that debian does it right and sticks to their guns. I agree with all of this, but an operating system that hasn't seen a "release" in years isn't going to win any new users. I never understood the purpose behind holding up the release while policy was pending revision anyway. Can't we all just get along?
When I heard that a policy change might delay the new release until next year, I was really bummed. That's my one big debian problem--the politcs seem to gum up the works all too frequently. I'm glad to see that this will be put aside until the very much needed next release. YAY DEBIAN!
On a side note, anyone ever take an up-to-date testing machine and convert it to stable at release time? Did it, uh, work?
How about the Cauzin Softstrip? Never had one myself but always though they were cool... for a (not very long) while, the 'puter magazines of the time were printing their BASIC programs encoded for the Softstrip, saving hours of typing...
will it win critical acclaim?
There was a flash very big boom, during which a piece of electrical equipment up the street turned into sparks. A moment later, the sky lit up again, this time not white, but blue.
My office is on the forth floor in a not very big town, so I have pretty good view of a lot of it, and it was lit up as bright as the brightest of sunny days. But blue.
I believe I saw a flashover, which occurs when lightning hits something electrical, and the electricty within, which had previously been happy doing its thing, jumps out and follows the lightning bolt's path. This can continue for several seconds after the lightning has stopped.
My girlfriend was there to see this too--in fact, she dropped to her knees and said "that's the scariest thing I've ever seen." And I agree. Lightning is fascinating stuff, and terrifying.
Oh, you said functional quantum encrypted network. My bad.
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00
might not be totatally right... man ifconfig!
I am not a Multitech droid, I just use their boxen.
Slashdotters are way more likely to spend an evening at home playing pocket pool.
that's a costume?
I hear that the next version will be known as "mail-enhancemant.app"
It's amazing to me how many times one can proofread something, and still miss a mistake like typing "way" when you meant "day"... the mind is a funny thing, especially at this level of intoxication. :)
back in my way, we didn't have fancy-schmancy van de graf generators... we had to run a strip of rawhide through our own hair when we needed electricity... and we liked it! and when we wore through all our head hair, we'd rub it on our... well, nevermind, but we liked it!
Here is an article about it in the local paper.
It's a marketing gimmick. They're going to wait for the public outcry then bring it back as "Mexico Classic."
And in the same thread, I'd like to ask for opinions on an FS for a largish mail server; MTA will be either qmail or postfix using maildir. I'd planned to use reiserfs, too--anyone wanna advise me otherwise?