If you're going to use an optical disc format, use DVD+R, not DVD-R. DVD+R has far more robust error correction capabilities. Most DVD burning drives will support it, although you have to watch out for commercial DVD playback decks that won't read it. Do a test.
I have been reading Slashdot for all of your 10 years, so I think I've got standing to say this. Your other "editors" do a better job at posting stories, so please let them do it. Your posts are frequently either poorly chosen (as in this case), or have regettable editorializing at the end. Just let the other guys do post selection, or figure out some new way to stay involved with story selection without actually doing the posting.
Your audience thanks you for your continued efforts:)
mweather, I hope you'll see this when you come back to see the replies to your post. Please click on the link in my sig below and consider taking it seriously. When you make that mistake, it causes the smart folks in your audience to ignore your point and move on. Assuming you were typing for a reason (for people to read it), and you especially want your smartest readers to stay with you when reading, you have to learn the proper usage. My one-man effort to change the world... Thanks.
I'm not kidding. Well, I was finishing my engineering degree, and had a frisky girlfriend, so it didn't consume all my time, but I swear every remaining waking moment was spent playing it. On my tricked out zero-wait-state 12 MHz 286. And it was the original Russian DOS-mode game, none of this crappy flash knockoff shite. I will bury you.
I recall something like this happening with the SETI@Home (BOINC? Distributed.net?) software in the early days. Running the installer would actually give you a Teletubbies screensaver. And, no, I hadn't recently tried out the Teletubbies screensaver:) It did have something to do with a clash in generic names, like "setup.exe".
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Indeed, I just wasted 5 minutes of my life watching a bunch of staffers sitting around some sort of checkout counter. Sure, I could have fast forwarded, but I had breakfast in hand and figured "OK, any second now".
It would be interesting to calculate the lost productivity worldwide due to people watching this video. Even if the "damage" is contained to just people viewing this Slashdot posting (i.e. this video is NOT cross posted anywhere else), that's got to be a huge productivity hit. You could take the Youtube views counter, although this probably is getting (inexplicably) replicated and reposted. Anyway, angels on pinheads, etc.
I use the link in my sig to try to educate people.
CmdrTaco (ohnoitscmdrtaco!) has said in the past that he just doesn't care.
Nonetheless, one by one I try to get people to use it correctly. I try to help them realize that when they write badly like that, it throws a wrench in the brain of smart people, the audience they likely covet the most. I personally stop reading right there and move on to the next article. I mean, what's the point of continuing when the writer is obviously stupid? Of course, if all you care about is reaching Deal-Or-No-Deal-watching mouthbreathers, then by all means, go write ahead and use you're favorate rhetoricle devises.
Tesla's claims are terribly fraudulent. 220 mile claimed range has already been shown to be as low as 93 miles. Transmissions seem to be vaporware. For that matter, so are production cars, as not a single one has been delivered (I don't count the single unit "delivered" to Elon Musk.
Tesla sounds cool, as do electric vehicles in general (including plug-in hybrids), but this is just another operation preying on people with too much money and not enough brains. I am firmly in the camp of those planning to buy an EV/PHEV soon, but I'm not drinking the Tesla Kool-Aid.
I remember when they pulled off that lunar flyby method to save the satellite. It was May 1998 and the AsiaSat 3 launch had been presumed a complete failure, just like AMC-14 this time. The lunar flyby option uses the satellite's own fuel (instead of a booster) to slowly, over weeks, nudge the satellite's apogee further out until it reached the moon's orbit. It flew by the moon as the moon itself was flying around the earth, and the result was that the moon's gravity pulled the satellite in the right direction to get it going towards a useful GEO orbit.
I had that trajectory plot (done with AGI's STK, I think) as the desktop image on my computer for 3 years.
Here is what the trajectory looked like.
The big tradeoff of this method is that you burn most of the satellite's fuel, fuel that was intended to be used over the 15-year life of the sat for stationkeeping. So you end up with a sat in GEO orbit but with much less lifetime. Better than nothing! Well, except for an insurance payout, I guess.
And of course you realize now that you blew it at the end there when you typo'd "2.0T" where you meant to say 3.2:)
Anyway, 4 cyl turbos are for rice boys (and mechanics). Gimme the torque curve and responsive throttle of a V6 any day...
- An Audi V6 owner
The US "lagged behind" Europe in mobile phones because of the way phone service in the US is priced.
Not true. Land line pricing and LATA's were at best a contributing factor. The real story is that the US was out first with AMPS (analog cellular) and then there was less motivation to get digital cellular going. Europe started LATER than the US and went straight to the GSM digital standard. Standardizing GSM virtually worldwide was by far the biggest factor in European cell phone use / penetration / affordability reaching the levels that it did. Can you say "efficiencies of mass production"? It applies to cell phone towers and switches too, you know. And GSM also killed Iridium, by the way.
1. 770-455-7141 continues to provide time and is all I've used for 20 years. Of course you can call it from outside Atlanta too, and these days the long distance charge is negligible...
2. Jane Barbe's son David Barbe was one of the guys in Mercyland (late 80's Atlanta punk band), then joined Bob Mould (of Husker Du) to form Sugar, and these days runs his own recording studio in Athens GA.
Now, I know that they are not a definitive source of info, but the Mythbusters episode where they tried to interfere with an planes instruments with cell phones and other radio equipment, they showed that it is just not going to happen.
Oh wonderful, here we go again. OK, everyone in the room who's claiming knowledge about infight interference, raise your hand if you have an EE degree. Raise your hand if you know more about avionics than can be absorbed from a teevee entertainment show. Raise your hand if you've actually read the IEEE's coverage of any of this, even just the glossy articles in IEEE Spectrum. Any hands up? I thought not. You wankers, go back to ragging on the PS3.
God DAMN I wish I could stop idly wandering over to SlashDot.
I don't think this deserves to be modded down to -1 Flamebait. It's interesting enough to be at least a +2 if not higher. And it's certainly at least as coherent as the reply that got modded up to +5. 90, 78, what?
Your entire supply from the power company is probably on a 40 amp breaker.
Sounds like you're a blowhard still in college (or worse, at DeVry, or worse, flipping burgers) and have never looked at your breaker panel much less owned your own house. House feeds are 100 Amps minimum, usually 140 A or even 200 A. Or even bigger as you get up into McMansion territory.
You're making a good point about the bad math, but you blew it at the end there.
Now, get back to doing your homework, so you can graduate, make lots of money, buy a house, and learn what a typical main breaker rating is!
Thank you SlashDot for giving me the ability to apply -5 points to anything moderated as funny. Not a single post in this thread made it up to +5 for me. Awesome. Every second spent reading some SlashDot user's attempt at "funny" is a second of my life wasted and spinning off into space never to be recovered. Thanks again!
Until Adobe finally gets their Linux support done for Flash 9 (they skipped flash 8), websites should not be requiring anything later than Flash 7. That is the latest player available for Linux. Yes, they're working on it, and maybe it's even close to release, but... horse, cart, etc. Sites should not be developing in anything later than Flash 7 until it's supported on the big three platforms.
Dude, change your sig. Direct links to multimedia clips should always be accompanied, at the very least, with a warning, like "WMV media, 250 kB". Especially if the URL doesn't hint that it's going to be media. I leapt for the volume control once I saw WM was loading, fortunately it loads so slowly and performs so badly that I caught it before it had a chance to finish dicking around with itself:)
There's something in the news/TV/content business called an "evergreen"... something that's just as newsworthy tomorrow as it was yesterday and is today. We've finally hit the slownewsday(tm pending) that brings those things out of the woodwork.
Yup, and so when you see Colbert running a Tek Jansen sequence, or showing some green screen contributions, or even having a whole show dedicated to a theme (what's happening to the young generation?!), it's because it's a slow news day -- or they can't pull a complete show together for some reason -- and they're just throwing in evergreen filler.
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If you're going to use an optical disc format, use DVD+R, not DVD-R. DVD+R has far more robust error correction capabilities. Most DVD burning drives will support it, although you have to watch out for commercial DVD playback decks that won't read it. Do a test.
CmdrTaco -
:)
I have been reading Slashdot for all of your 10 years, so I think I've got standing to say this. Your other "editors" do a better job at posting stories, so please let them do it. Your posts are frequently either poorly chosen (as in this case), or have regettable editorializing at the end. Just let the other guys do post selection, or figure out some new way to stay involved with story selection without actually doing the posting.
Your audience thanks you for your continued efforts
Dragonshed, please see the URL in my sig.
:)
I'm on a one-man crusade to fix this
mweather, I hope you'll see this when you come back to see the replies to your post. Please click on the link in my sig below and consider taking it seriously. When you make that mistake, it causes the smart folks in your audience to ignore your point and move on. Assuming you were typing for a reason (for people to read it), and you especially want your smartest readers to stay with you when reading, you have to learn the proper usage. My one-man effort to change the world ... Thanks.
I'm not kidding. Well, I was finishing my engineering degree, and had a frisky girlfriend, so it didn't consume all my time, but I swear every remaining waking moment was spent playing it. On my tricked out zero-wait-state 12 MHz 286. And it was the original Russian DOS-mode game, none of this crappy flash knockoff shite. I will bury you.
I recall something like this happening with the SETI@Home (BOINC? Distributed.net?) software in the early days. Running the installer would actually give you a Teletubbies screensaver. And, no, I hadn't recently tried out the Teletubbies screensaver :) It did have something to do with a clash in generic names, like "setup.exe".
Indeed, I just wasted 5 minutes of my life watching a bunch of staffers sitting around some sort of checkout counter. Sure, I could have fast forwarded, but I had breakfast in hand and figured "OK, any second now".
It would be interesting to calculate the lost productivity worldwide due to people watching this video. Even if the "damage" is contained to just people viewing this Slashdot posting (i.e. this video is NOT cross posted anywhere else), that's got to be a huge productivity hit. You could take the Youtube views counter, although this probably is getting (inexplicably) replicated and reposted. Anyway, angels on pinheads, etc.
I use the link in my sig to try to educate people.
CmdrTaco (ohnoitscmdrtaco!) has said in the past that he just doesn't care.
Nonetheless, one by one I try to get people to use it correctly. I try to help them realize that when they write badly like that, it throws a wrench in the brain of smart people, the audience they likely covet the most. I personally stop reading right there and move on to the next article. I mean, what's the point of continuing when the writer is obviously stupid? Of course, if all you care about is reaching Deal-Or-No-Deal-watching mouthbreathers, then by all means, go write ahead and use you're favorate rhetoricle devises.
Tesla's claims are terribly fraudulent. 220 mile claimed range has already been shown to be as low as 93 miles. Transmissions seem to be vaporware. For that matter, so are production cars, as not a single one has been delivered (I don't count the single unit "delivered" to Elon Musk.
Tesla sounds cool, as do electric vehicles in general (including plug-in hybrids), but this is just another operation preying on people with too much money and not enough brains. I am firmly in the camp of those planning to buy an EV/PHEV soon, but I'm not drinking the Tesla Kool-Aid.
I had that trajectory plot (done with AGI's STK, I think) as the desktop image on my computer for 3 years.
Here is what the trajectory looked like. The big tradeoff of this method is that you burn most of the satellite's fuel, fuel that was intended to be used over the 15-year life of the sat for stationkeeping. So you end up with a sat in GEO orbit but with much less lifetime. Better than nothing! Well, except for an insurance payout, I guess.
An excellent post, thank you for it. But don't blow it with the bad grammar. See my sig.
Please see my sig. When I see that error, I stop reading and move to the next comment.
please see my sig
And of course you realize now that you blew it at the end there when you typo'd "2.0T" where you meant to say 3.2 :)
Anyway, 4 cyl turbos are for rice boys (and mechanics). Gimme the torque curve and responsive throttle of a V6 any day ...
- An Audi V6 owner
He may have a mild point (certainly not worth +5) but really blows it on the second item. Completely wrong. Down you go.
The US "lagged behind" Europe in mobile phones because of the way phone service in the US is priced. Not true. Land line pricing and LATA's were at best a contributing factor. The real story is that the US was out first with AMPS (analog cellular) and then there was less motivation to get digital cellular going. Europe started LATER than the US and went straight to the GSM digital standard. Standardizing GSM virtually worldwide was by far the biggest factor in European cell phone use / penetration / affordability reaching the levels that it did. Can you say "efficiencies of mass production"? It applies to cell phone towers and switches too, you know. And GSM also killed Iridium, by the way.
This is relevant mostly for Atlanta readers here:
1. 770-455-7141 continues to provide time and is all I've used for 20 years. Of course you can call it from outside Atlanta too, and these days the long distance charge is negligible ...
2. Jane Barbe's son David Barbe was one of the guys in Mercyland (late 80's Atlanta punk band), then joined Bob Mould (of Husker Du) to form Sugar, and these days runs his own recording studio in Athens GA.
Now, I know that they are not a definitive source of info, but the Mythbusters episode where they tried to interfere with an planes instruments with cell phones and other radio equipment, they showed that it is just not going to happen.
Oh wonderful, here we go again. OK, everyone in the room who's claiming knowledge about infight interference, raise your hand if you have an EE degree. Raise your hand if you know more about avionics than can be absorbed from a teevee entertainment show. Raise your hand if you've actually read the IEEE's coverage of any of this, even just the glossy articles in IEEE Spectrum. Any hands up? I thought not. You wankers, go back to ragging on the PS3.
God DAMN I wish I could stop idly wandering over to SlashDot.
I don't think this deserves to be modded down to -1 Flamebait. It's interesting enough to be at least a +2 if not higher. And it's certainly at least as coherent as the reply that got modded up to +5. 90, 78, what?
Your entire supply from the power company is probably on a 40 amp breaker.
Sounds like you're a blowhard still in college (or worse, at DeVry, or worse, flipping burgers) and have never looked at your breaker panel much less owned your own house. House feeds are 100 Amps minimum, usually 140 A or even 200 A. Or even bigger as you get up into McMansion territory.
You're making a good point about the bad math, but you blew it at the end there.
Now, get back to doing your homework, so you can graduate, make lots of money, buy a house, and learn what a typical main breaker rating is!
Thank you SlashDot for giving me the ability to apply -5 points to anything moderated as funny. Not a single post in this thread made it up to +5 for me. Awesome. Every second spent reading some SlashDot user's attempt at "funny" is a second of my life wasted and spinning off into space never to be recovered. Thanks again!
Until Adobe finally gets their Linux support done for Flash 9 (they skipped flash 8), websites should not be requiring anything later than Flash 7. That is the latest player available for Linux. Yes, they're working on it, and maybe it's even close to release, but ... horse, cart, etc. Sites should not be developing in anything later than Flash 7 until it's supported on the big three platforms.
Dude, change your sig. Direct links to multimedia clips should always be accompanied, at the very least, with a warning, like "WMV media, 250 kB". Especially if the URL doesn't hint that it's going to be media. I leapt for the volume control once I saw WM was loading, fortunately it loads so slowly and performs so badly that I caught it before it had a chance to finish dicking around with itself :)
is that a 1998 precident
Argh, that's twice, dude. It's spelled "precedent".
There's something in the news/TV/content business called an "evergreen"... something that's just as newsworthy tomorrow as it was yesterday and is today. We've finally hit the slownewsday(tm pending) that brings those things out of the woodwork.
Yup, and so when you see Colbert running a Tek Jansen sequence, or showing some green screen contributions, or even having a whole show dedicated to a theme (what's happening to the young generation?!), it's because it's a slow news day -- or they can't pull a complete show together for some reason -- and they're just throwing in evergreen filler.