This wooden Ferrari, owned and operated by Livio De Marchi. De Marchi is one of the world's finest wood sculptors, and is the only driver in the Italian city of Venice.
Burl hardwood is put into a hot water tank for a few days to soften the material. The hardwood is then cut into thin sheets with our own in-house wood lathe. The cut Burl hardwood is then laid out in sheets. A 3-ton heat press is used to bond the backing to the Burl hardwood. The Special Bonding Method uses a proprietary process. Next, the burl hardwood is carefully coated with a coat of premium Lacquer.
After the completed sheets of hardwood veneer have been prepared, each case is prepared to receive the unique, new skin. Each and every case is hand crafted. Each burl pattern is like a fingerprint, and your Burl hardwood case will be one of a kind.
Looks like the IT guys came in this morning and got a chance to practice their load balancing skill set. The site is coming up despite slashdot, although a tad slow. But it's not toast.
They also have a leather, which is interesting. Shades of Ricardo Montabahn talking about "Rich Corinthian Leather"
If you are going to be modding or painting a case, then other decorative elements like leather or wood seem in line... Although it is tricky to apply the veneers yourself.
I have friends who have told interesting stories of perfectly functioning systems run by a handle of people using some command line thing (not always unix or dos)
enter in the management types who have to modernise, and winup replacing the command line crew with dozens if not hundreds of developers expert in the latest gui-fried fiasco, and who cannot, for some reason, accomplish what the command line crowd did.
Data formats are not always directly compatible
Check out multidimensional databases sometime, along with their ability to do realtime queries. A guy I know who is knowledgable in the field is famous for his rants on how big name software has been nothing bu a step backward in this regard.
Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?"
Of course, the question is if they all have the same name on them, even if it is not your own. Or if everyone uses the same name and address.
Imagine the chagrine if everyone here used the name Cowboy Neal, for example. with the correct address at osdn headquarters. or someone at the white house.
I imagine that this would be a best way of handling it. never mind the political pressure when all of that junk mail arrives at there office.
Nasa has said that they do not take input from the public on what to look at when taking pictures witgh the rovers. They have their own agenda and program going on. Which makes sense, to pre-plan everything.
It is now apparent that they might not have any type of fossil experts in their employ as well. Consider the following from the tin foil hat crowd:
Compare e.g. the sphere on the following URL:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/oppor tunity/20040204a/1M129070954EFF0224P2933M2M1_str-B 011R1_br.jpg
With the fossils on the following URLs:
http://www.cretaceousfossils.com/plants/porocystis _globularis.htm
http://www.iftx.com/oct03.jpg
http://wardsci.com/category.asp?c=834
http://www.iftx.com/oct03.jpg
Or compare the Opportunity outcrop structure to the following image showing the layering found in coral fossils on earth:
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/geology/fossils 4.html
So whats's going on a NASA ? Have the geologist overcome the
astrobiologists ?
And things would not be complete with this interesting read from the tin foil hat king himself, with lots of pics. It would have been nice to have had a fossil expert on staff to help sort these things out in advance. But 20/20 hindsight, y'know...
But also, it does suggest that they are being really really really overly careful about saying that there was or is life on Mars. Almost like they are scared of it.
So you think you're smart because you know full well virus scanning and patches (release since last year) will solve this problem?? SHUT UP AND STOP TELLING EVERYONE THAT MICROSOFT PRODUCTS WORK, YOU CAPITALIST PIG!
Well, actually, I do well helping out joe sixpack with exactly this sort of thing. Not everyone is a programmer.
and you might be interested in these articles
Eric Raymond's rants: Part One http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.ht ml
Some follow-ups: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-de ux.html
And mind you, I really don't like bill gates, either. So your criticism might be slightly off base. have a beer or take a pill, please
The worm overwrites data on the first few sectors of the victim's hard drive, making the machine virtually unbootable and potentially destroying much - if not all - of the victim's data."
If there is no physical damage to the hard drive, then there a number of inexpensive and very useful data recovery tools out there for recovering data from a hard drive. Even if the partitions are blown.
The file system does matter, of course, And I am not up to speed for the various similar tools for *nix file systems (anyone care to jump in on this?)
There is a nice market for people who can do data recovery without needing to open a drive in a clean room, without charging 2000 bucks just to look at it.
Once you have everything recovered to another disk, then you can have fun rebuilding the Partition.
Rackspace's announces our new 3-tier DDoS mitigation tool that combines sophisticated intrusion detection with granular traffic analysis and server-level anomaly detection for the ultimate in DDoS protection and system performance.
I bet they are getting a good load test right about now
All of these nosey geeks show up all of a sudden, taking up all of their valuable chat time.
Chance of getting a sale has suddenly shifted many decimal points in the wrong direction. The boss comes in after the weekend, and fires everyone who suddenly couldn't get a sale, excuses be damned.
Apparently the slashdot effect is a kind of physics fun he didn't account for...
With any luck, he'll be out partying tonight, getting smashed. Then he comes home completely toasted, and has to rebuild the server from the pile of smoke he finds in his server closet.
An absurd premise. You'd have to be colossally stupid to do it. Anyone smart enough to carry it out would understand that they'd be wiping themselves out too.
Let's say I'm a kook who wants to wipe the earth of humanity because we are destroying mother nature. Kill off humainty, and Mom will heal up everything else.
Or imagine I believe in the end of the earth and that My Favorite Diety (tm) will sort it out with all of the corrupt and disbelievers after they are all wiped out.
there are many other corny movie plot ideas, I am sure, that would possible, if unlikely.
But this is on an individual basis. You see this sort of thing in organizations like BNI.
But a large shop with a dozen techs is a different thing, in that you usually have someone who can pick up the slack, and you need as much business as possible to make sure you are making ends meet.
Generally, the rule is that you never give away business, and you sell them on your service. And more shops are doing house calls, just to compete.
Do you mean the force required to accelerate the object, or the mere speed itself? How can mere speed (especially in vacuum) be a factor?
Well unless accelerated slowly, the stress would cause the object to breakup
Plus space is never truly empty. Even in Deepest space, there are many atoms per cubic meter, and thus there are enough over the light years to cause enough friction to melt the asteroid away long before it reached us.
How many atoms exist over the lightyears to impact on a body moving at such a speed?
A planet at that size and scale is best considered and modelled as having the solidness of a ball of water suspended in weightlessness, at least as far as the dynamics of altering it's course. Planets are truly fragile things. On the scales involved, they have no real strength.
Imagine yourself as a diety with the planets the size of basketballs, etc. The analogy of a ball of water is pretty accurate as far as you ability to move them arround.
For example, if we can only detect an object from 1,000 LightYears away, what if that thing is moving at 1 million LY? Wouldn't we be hit seconds after we 'saw' it?
Natural objects cannot move fast than the speed of light, and substantial size stuff like planets or asteroids cannot move at relativistic speeds (i.e. - substantial fraction of the speed of light) because the stresses when render them to powder.
Therefore the fastest something fairly large could move to get here, starting 1000 LY away, would mean an arrival date of 100,000 to a quarter of a million years from now. I think we have time.
Moving at light speed, it would still take 1000 years to get here. Moving at 99% of light speed, we would see it ten years in advance.
Probably it would stand a fair chance of punching a small hole straight through the other side of the earth due to momentum alone (not a serious suggestion, but stranger things have happened)
Plus, 1 million LY is never a speed. It is only a distance, about a third of the way towards the Andromeda galaxy, as an example.
The trully big hassle are the small rocks which are big enough to do serious damage like wiping out a city, but not big enough to wipe out a province or country. These are hard to spot in advance.
As seen in this article featuring the testimony of Dr Carol Rosin. Dr Carol Rosin was the first woman corporate manager of Fairchild Industries and was spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun in the last years of his life. She founded the Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space in Washington DC and has testified before Congress on many occasions about space based weapons. Von Braun revealed to Dr Rosin a plan to justify weapons in spaced based on hoaxing an extraterrestrial threat. She was also present at meetings in the '70s when the scenario for the Gulf War of the '90s was planned.
As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.
When Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this. What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him.
He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.
The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it.
Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
"And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."
I think I was too naive at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70's and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.
Slashdot Mirror
I could go on, but you get the idea
Think about it.
After the completed sheets of hardwood veneer have been prepared, each case is prepared to receive the unique, new skin. Each and every case is hand crafted. Each burl pattern is like a fingerprint, and your Burl hardwood case will be one of a kind.
Veneer making process seen here - lots of pics, loading slowly for some reason. ;)
I'm sure they are freaking though .....
If you are going to be modding or painting a case, then other decorative elements like leather or wood seem in line... Although it is tricky to apply the veneers yourself.
There is a decent review here
There are plenty of wood veneer sources out there.
I have made a joke about a server converting into a pile of smoke before. This seems to be a time when the image might be appropriate.
enter in the management types who have to modernise, and winup replacing the command line crew with dozens if not hundreds of developers expert in the latest gui-fried fiasco, and who cannot, for some reason, accomplish what the command line crowd did.
Data formats are not always directly compatible
Check out multidimensional databases sometime, along with their ability to do realtime queries. A guy I know who is knowledgable in the field is famous for his rants on how big name software has been nothing bu a step backward in this regard.
Which will confuse some folks because of the alot of the music is not written to be precisely on the beat. (anticipations, etc)
more things to fix for the joe six-pack user
Of course, the question is if they all have the same name on them, even if it is not your own. Or if everyone uses the same name and address.
Imagine the chagrine if everyone here used the name Cowboy Neal, for example. with the correct address at osdn headquarters. or someone at the white house.
I imagine that this would be a best way of handling it. never mind the political pressure when all of that junk mail arrives at there office.
It is now apparent that they might not have any type of fossil experts in their employ as well. Consider the following from the tin foil hat crowd:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/oppo
With the fossils on the following URLs:s _globularis.htm
http://www.cretaceousfossils.com/plants/porocysti
http://www.iftx.com/oct03.jpg
http://wardsci.com/category.asp?c=834
http://www.iftx.com/oct03.jpg
Or compare the Opportunity outcrop structure to the following image showing the layering found in coral fossils on earth:s 4.html
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/navassa/geology/fossil
So whats's going on a NASA ? Have the geologist overcome the astrobiologists ?
And things would not be complete with this interesting read from the tin foil hat king himself, with lots of pics. It would have been nice to have had a fossil expert on staff to help sort these things out in advance. But 20/20 hindsight, y'know ...
But also, it does suggest that they are being really really really overly careful about saying that there was or is life on Mars. Almost like they are scared of it.
Well, actually, I do well helping out joe sixpack with exactly this sort of thing. Not everyone is a programmer.
and you might be interested in these articles
Eric Raymond's rants: Part Onet ml
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.h
Some follow-ups:e ux.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-d
And mind you, I really don't like bill gates, either. So your criticism might be slightly off base. have a beer or take a pill, please
Also nice are programs that let you delete the email at the server before you download, such as mailwasher, and with free versions.
Of course, there are a number of alternate email clients out there that will also help block this beastie
If there is no physical damage to the hard drive, then there a number of inexpensive and very useful data recovery tools out there for recovering data from a hard drive. Even if the partitions are blown.
The file system does matter, of course, And I am not up to speed for the various similar tools for *nix file systems (anyone care to jump in on this?)
There is a nice market for people who can do data recovery without needing to open a drive in a clean room, without charging 2000 bucks just to look at it.
Once you have everything recovered to another disk, then you can have fun rebuilding the Partition.
Rackspace's announces our new 3-tier DDoS mitigation tool that combines sophisticated intrusion detection with granular traffic analysis and server-level anomaly detection for the ultimate in DDoS protection and system performance.
I bet they are getting a good load test right about now
Chance of getting a sale has suddenly shifted many decimal points in the wrong direction. The boss comes in after the weekend, and fires everyone who suddenly couldn't get a sale, excuses be damned.
then the chat server goes up in flames.
With any luck, he'll be out partying tonight, getting smashed. Then he comes home completely toasted, and has to rebuild the server from the pile of smoke he finds in his server closet.
Hell is working on MS stuff drunk and plasted. You'll never know what will happen [read the comics through to the end]
the Bun Hur Linux Cocktail appliance server to help everyone keep their mind on the task at hand [See all the pictures here ] [Since the website is in German, the google translator works well]
Which means that certain marketing drones will run around in circles screaming "See! See! We told you so!"
Beside, anthying that could move a planet or an asteroid at 1 million x of light speed would not have much concern about us. we would be to small.
Even if we were in the way of an Inter-Galactic Speedway Offramp
Let's say I'm a kook who wants to wipe the earth of humanity because we are destroying mother nature. Kill off humainty, and Mom will heal up everything else.
Or imagine I believe in the end of the earth and that My Favorite Diety (tm) will sort it out with all of the corrupt and disbelievers after they are all wiped out.
there are many other corny movie plot ideas, I am sure, that would possible, if unlikely.
But a large shop with a dozen techs is a different thing, in that you usually have someone who can pick up the slack, and you need as much business as possible to make sure you are making ends meet.
Generally, the rule is that you never give away business, and you sell them on your service. And more shops are doing house calls, just to compete.
Well unless accelerated slowly, the stress would cause the object to breakup
Plus space is never truly empty. Even in Deepest space, there are many atoms per cubic meter, and thus there are enough over the light years to cause enough friction to melt the asteroid away long before it reached us.
How many atoms exist over the lightyears to impact on a body moving at such a speed?
A planet at that size and scale is best considered and modelled as having the solidness of a ball of water suspended in weightlessness, at least as far as the dynamics of altering it's course. Planets are truly fragile things. On the scales involved, they have no real strength.
Imagine yourself as a diety with the planets the size of basketballs, etc. The analogy of a ball of water is pretty accurate as far as you ability to move them arround.
Natural objects cannot move fast than the speed of light, and substantial size stuff like planets or asteroids cannot move at relativistic speeds (i.e. - substantial fraction of the speed of light) because the stresses when render them to powder.
Therefore the fastest something fairly large could move to get here, starting 1000 LY away, would mean an arrival date of 100,000 to a quarter of a million years from now. I think we have time.
Moving at light speed, it would still take 1000 years to get here. Moving at 99% of light speed, we would see it ten years in advance.
Probably it would stand a fair chance of punching a small hole straight through the other side of the earth due to momentum alone (not a serious suggestion, but stranger things have happened)
Plus, 1 million LY is never a speed. It is only a distance, about a third of the way towards the Andromeda galaxy, as an example.
The trully big hassle are the small rocks which are big enough to do serious damage like wiping out a city, but not big enough to wipe out a province or country. These are hard to spot in advance.
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As practically a deathbed speech, he educated me about those concepts and who the players were in this game. He gave me the responsibility, since he was dying, of continuing this effort to prevent the weaponization of outer space.
Be sure your Tin Foil hats are well groundedWhen Wernher Von Braun was dying of cancer, he asked me to be his spokesperson, to appear on occasions when he was too ill to speak. I did this. What was most interesting to me was a repetitive sentence that he said to me over and over again during the approximately four years that I had the opportunity to work with him.
He said the strategy that was being used to educate the public and decision makers was to use scare tactics That was how we identify an enemy. The strategy that Wernher Von Braun taught me was that first the Russians are going to be considered to be the enemy. In fact, in 1974, they were the enemy, the identified enemy. We were told that they had "killer satellites". We were told that they were coming to get us and control us-that they were "Commies."
Then terrorists would be identified, and that was soon to follow. We heard a lot about terrorism. Then we were going to identify third-world country "crazies." We now call them Nations of Concern. But he said that would be the third enemy against whom we would build space-based weapons.
The next enemy was asteroids. Now, at this point he kind of chuckled the first time he said it.
Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
And the funniest one of all was what he called aliens, extraterrestrials. That would be the final scare. And over and over and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
"And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We are going to have to build space-based weapons against aliens and all of it is a lie."
I think I was too naive at that time to know the seriousness of the nature of the spin that was being put on the system. And now, the pieces are starting to fall into place. We are building a space-based weapons system on a premise that is a lie, a spin. Wernher Von Braun was trying to hint that to me back in the early 70's and right up until the moment when he died in 1977.