I was in MN in Jan 1994, playing in a band. I think it was Mankato, but I know it was the home of the Viking's training camp, and the week after the Cowboys knocked them out of the playoffs. I expected them to be upset about that, since we were from TX. Little did we know that TX had recently acquired a hockey team. >_>
It was -52F when we got done playing that night. They were saying it was the coldest they had seen in a decade. It was definitely the coldest this TX boy had ever seen, or ever wished to see again. I remember when I shut the car door, the bar that connected the inside handle to the door latch snapped in two. Had to roll down the window, and open the door from the outside after that.
Happy to have lows in the teens today, and one of the few chances I'll have this decade to pull out my 20 year old coat from that adventure.
Ironic that Herbie Hancock was used as an example. It wasn't so long ago that Mr Hancock would have been the poster's point made with synths vs real piano players. Musicians make the music. The instruments are just tools. There has always been, and will always be crappy mass produced pablum. Likewise, there will always be musicians who rise above the rest. The tools they use influence the sound, but the artist creates the experience.
We're here at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, where we've secretly replaced the fine vaccines they usually serve with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if anyone can tell the difference!
I'd like to see them run the 2003 State of the Union Address through this software. It would probably catch on fire when Bush got to the points justifying the invasion of Iraq.
Some people do want to go faster on two wheels. That bike is street legal as well.
To the grandparent of this post, I would suggest you look farther than the multi million dollar turbine projects in Land Speed Racing. There are still pleanty of back yard daredevils pushing piston powered records without the benefit of a hundred engineers. They don't get much media coverage, and they don't have huge budgets. They do have a lot of spirit, and some of the stuff they pull off is pretty amazing.
"The iCard will be available to rent or purchase at the remaining 2004 NHRA national events. The rental cost will be $10 on Thursday and Friday, and $5 for the Nintendo GameBoy unit to run the iCard System. On Saturday and Sunday the iCard System is available to rent for $20 with the GameBoy costing $10. Thursday and Friday iCard rentals will be free if a customer brings their own GameBoy unit to the event. The iCard System can be purchased for $129.99 for the Standard iCard, or $199.95 for the iCard Pro model. "
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. As an SCCA member, I was pretty excited to see my region on the list. I'll have to see how this is going, but I may need to buy me a GBA.
I just spent 4 hours on hold with these guys... When I called, I knew the SCSI controller was shot. I have a hard time believing that all the disks in a system would start failing simultaniously.. Sure, it could happen, but... Anyhow, back when the tech support was still in Round Rock I could get past the BS pretty quickly... These guys just kept giving me the same scripted crap.. After 4 hours, they agreed to replace it.
BTW, did I mention I'm running FreeBSD on this system... Apparently, they've never heard of that in India.. Not that I care.....just that the guy had to ask me 50 times...
tech: What OS are you running? me: FreeBSD.. tech: Windows 2000? me: FreeBSD..
me: UNIX!! Give me a new #$%@!*# motherboard!!
Grrrr.....
So, my question... Is the PowerEdge stuff coming back to the US?
Usually, an ISP will run NTP on their routers. Check the gateway they provide, and see if it runs NTP. As an alternative, they may run something like timed on one of their servers.
You could also purchase a GPS clock like one on this list.
The last option is to find another ISP who will offer time services, or one that will let you find them where you want.
Stay where you are. Do not leave your computer. Officers from your local MINHOSEC office will be arriving shortly to help you resolve these troubling thoughts.
The current version of the instrument produces a line of 16 points, but Morel says that this can be altered according to the needs of a specific application: "It is neither inherently limited to 16 points, or to a linear pattern."
The way a guitar creates the waveform you hear is not only dependant on vibrations in the string, but also resonant vibrations on other strings, the soundboard, back, neck, head, bridge, and nut. Looking at how these components make up the resulting waveform could allow actual Engineering of a classic sound and it's nuances, rather than just a close approximation.
The article also mentions the auto industry as a potential candidate for this technology. Structural Engineering is another that came to mind.
Correction, in a country where they drive 6L V8 gas guzzlers, and the 8L V10 is just starting to catch on. You underestimate the average 'Mercun's predilection for excess.
<SARCASM class=almost_on_topic>
Where was that 10GHz water cooled portable processor, and how do I power it with my SUV's V10?
For a slightly more "visual" version of the bed of nails, you can add Newton's second law of motion.
You will need the following additional components: a cinder block, a sledge hammer (~8lbs.), and safety glasses. Long sleeve shirt, and long pants reccomended.
Set the Cinder block on top of the person laying on the bed of nails. It is best to make sure the subject is as flat as possible. Hit the cinder block with the sledge hammer with enough force to break it. Watch as people look in disbeleif, as the subject on the bed of nails does not start leaking bodily fluids.
The cinder block will break, but because accelleration is inversely proportional to mass, it is transfered to the person under the block slowly enough to not crush the human subject, and be safely absorbed by the surface area of the nails. (or something like that, I am sure to be corrected if I am wrong.)
CAUTION: Do not try this sans block. Human physiology does not react well to sudden interaction with sledge hammers.
The safety glasses are important for preventing small shards of the block from damaging your eyes as they can tend to shoot off in all directions.
Morality changes. It is not set in stone. Read history.
The Victorian era promoted great changes to the moralities held by that society. We are still suffering under its effects today in the US.
The Industrial Revolution, weapons of mass destruction, the telephone, computers, have all changed morality.
Whether they loosen or tighten the moral code in your opinion is of no consequence, but these things do shape our society. Morality is a product of our society, and it is different for various groups of people around the globe. Some of those groups do involve religeon, but not all.
To proclaim that one view of morality is above another because said so, is arrogant, dangerous, and probably leads down the road to mutual destruction.
This is precisely the reason that the McCarthy era government should have never included "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I am of the opinion that this is the best time to bring up a debate about the ammended Pledge. We should be sending a sharp reminder to our representatives that we will not hold for the same type of government which desires to take our freedoms for the sake of fighting "Terrorism". It is far too remnicent of the "Red Menace" illusion which plauged our culture for multiple generations.
We don't need sheep in the White House, or Congress. Bring on the revolutionaries, and give us our freedom!
Weigh your morals carefully, yourself. It can take a lifetime of contemplation, but can be very rewarding.
I thought, why don't they just make some RPMs since their ripping RedHat. That would keep it simple.
Then I read their snazzy little explanation. I have an ABIT BP6 board, and I have managed to get everything working on several distributions. The only problem is that with any normal distribution, you have no initial support for the DMA/66 controller. So, if you have a system with one drive and you want to use the faster controller, you have to install it with the drive on the DMA/33 controller, and then move it to the DMA/66 controller after installing and tweaking.
The first time I had to go through all that, it was a challenge. I had fun. Although, I'm not sure most people would agree. The second time, I didn't bother. I just bought more drives, and installed to the DMA/33 controller. I tweaked some things and put my more demanding partitions on the new drives (DMA/66).
I like to use a different distro every few months just to keep a finger on the pulse of how linux is changing. I sure wouldn't enjoy doing an install to that machine so often if I only had one drive.
This is not an issue of making sure something is supported in the kernel. It is supported with kernel patches, and can be with any distro. Too bad no distro thinks to put support in to their install. This must be a job for Gentus' (or whatever that name was).
So before you guys go off slamming this, read a little of the BP6 pseudo howto and the docs to install a distro on the DMA/66 controller. Most folks wouldn't bother, and therefore wouldn't get the full benefit of the hardware they paid for.
So, if we were still on the Julian calendar, we wouldn't have an even day for another 13 days, but on the Gregorian calendar it would not be an even day. Is that odd? It definately isn't an odd day...
Likewise, our last Gregorian even day would have occured on the Julian date of 9-13-888, 16 days after their last even day. Which is also odd, but not an odd day. As even they would not have an odd day until well into the next millenium.
Its like opening Christmas presents early. Thanks Pope Gregory.
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I was in MN in Jan 1994, playing in a band. I think it was Mankato, but I know it was the home of the Viking's training camp, and the week after the Cowboys knocked them out of the playoffs. I expected them to be upset about that, since we were from TX. Little did we know that TX had recently acquired a hockey team. >_>
It was -52F when we got done playing that night. They were saying it was the coldest they had seen in a decade. It was definitely the coldest this TX boy had ever seen, or ever wished to see again. I remember when I shut the car door, the bar that connected the inside handle to the door latch snapped in two. Had to roll down the window, and open the door from the outside after that.
Happy to have lows in the teens today, and one of the few chances I'll have this decade to pull out my 20 year old coat from that adventure.
Ironic that Herbie Hancock was used as an example. It wasn't so long ago that Mr Hancock would have been the poster's point made with synths vs real piano players. Musicians make the music. The instruments are just tools. There has always been, and will always be crappy mass produced pablum. Likewise, there will always be musicians who rise above the rest. The tools they use influence the sound, but the artist creates the experience.
Now, get off my lawn!
"instigator Mark Tobias"
Why would you send your children to someone like this? Does he razz them for a week or two, just to see if he can start something?
As far as I can tell, this has nothing to do with NASA. It looks like a ploy to get better search rankings for firetree.net.
something something slashdot editors something.
We're here at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, where we've secretly replaced the fine vaccines they usually serve with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if anyone can tell the difference!
If addition is faster than subtraction, just add the negative value.
Next thing you know we'll have CSIgrep. (enhance enhance enhance grep)
I'd like to see them run the 2003 State of the Union Address through this software. It would probably catch on fire when Bush got to the points justifying the invasion of Iraq.
Some people do want to go faster on two wheels. That bike is street legal as well.
To the grandparent of this post, I would suggest you look farther than the multi million dollar turbine projects in Land Speed Racing. There are still pleanty of back yard daredevils pushing piston powered records without the benefit of a hundred engineers. They don't get much media coverage, and they don't have huge budgets. They do have a lot of spirit, and some of the stuff they pull off is pretty amazing.
Rental Prices from the linked article:
"The iCard will be available to rent or purchase at the remaining 2004 NHRA national events. The rental cost will be $10 on Thursday and Friday, and $5 for the Nintendo GameBoy unit to run the iCard System. On Saturday and Sunday the iCard System is available to rent for $20 with the GameBoy costing $10. Thursday and Friday iCard rentals will be free if a customer brings their own GameBoy unit to the event. The iCard System can be purchased for $129.99 for the Standard iCard, or $199.95 for the iCard Pro model. "
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. As an SCCA member, I was pretty excited to see my region on the list. I'll have to see how this is going, but I may need to buy me a GBA.
I just spent 4 hours on hold with these guys... When I called, I knew the SCSI controller was shot. I have a hard time believing that all the disks in a system would start failing simultaniously.. Sure, it could happen, but... Anyhow, back when the tech support was still in Round Rock I could get past the BS pretty quickly... These guys just kept giving me the same scripted crap.. After 4 hours, they agreed to replace it.
BTW, did I mention I'm running FreeBSD on this system... Apparently, they've never heard of that in India.. Not that I care..
tech: What OS are you running?
me: FreeBSD..
tech: Windows 2000?
me: FreeBSD..
me: UNIX!! Give me a new #$%@!*# motherboard!!
Grrrr.....
So, my question... Is the PowerEdge stuff coming back to the US?
Yeah, but the 40's are the Nazis that always point that out.... :)
OK, someone elses turn. We can do better than 19...
I've had a really bad "Sun" day today. This is the only thing thats made me laugh all day.
Thanks
You could also purchase a GPS clock like one on this list.
The last option is to find another ISP who will offer time services, or one that will let you find them where you want.
Stay where you are. Do not leave your computer. Officers from your local MINHOSEC office will be arriving shortly to help you resolve these troubling thoughts.
The way a guitar creates the waveform you hear is not only dependant on vibrations in the string, but also resonant vibrations on other strings, the soundboard, back, neck, head, bridge, and nut. Looking at how these components make up the resulting waveform could allow actual Engineering of a classic sound and it's nuances, rather than just a close approximation.
The article also mentions the auto industry as a potential candidate for this technology. Structural Engineering is another that came to mind.
Correction, in a country where they drive 6L V8 gas guzzlers, and the 8L V10 is just starting to catch on. You underestimate the average 'Mercun's predilection for excess.
<SARCASM class=almost_on_topic>
Where was that 10GHz water cooled portable processor, and how do I power it with my SUV's V10?
</SARCASM>
I'm posting to undo unfair moderation. I meant interesting, not overrated. Where is the undo button!
Mod me into oblivion.
For a slightly more "visual" version of the bed of nails, you can add Newton's second law of motion.
You will need the following additional components: a cinder block, a sledge hammer (~8lbs.), and safety glasses. Long sleeve shirt, and long pants reccomended.
Set the Cinder block on top of the person laying on the bed of nails. It is best to make sure the subject is as flat as possible. Hit the cinder block with the sledge hammer with enough force to break it. Watch as people look in disbeleif, as the subject on the bed of nails does not start leaking bodily fluids.
The cinder block will break, but because accelleration is inversely proportional to mass, it is transfered to the person under the block slowly enough to not crush the human subject, and be safely absorbed by the surface area of the nails. (or something like that, I am sure to be corrected if I am wrong.)
CAUTION: Do not try this sans block. Human physiology does not react well to sudden interaction with sledge hammers.
The safety glasses are important for preventing small shards of the block from damaging your eyes as they can tend to shoot off in all directions.
The network engineers at Worldcom should have known better than to do an upgrade during a time of high solar activity.
What were they thinking?
Morality changes. It is not set in stone. Read history.
The Victorian era promoted great changes to the moralities held by that society. We are still suffering under its effects today in the US.
The Industrial Revolution, weapons of mass destruction, the telephone, computers, have all changed morality.
Whether they loosen or tighten the moral code in your opinion is of no consequence, but these things do shape our society. Morality is a product of our society, and it is different for various groups of people around the globe. Some of those groups do involve religeon, but not all.
To proclaim that one view of morality is above another because said so, is arrogant, dangerous, and probably leads down the road to mutual destruction.
This is precisely the reason that the McCarthy era government should have never included "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
I am of the opinion that this is the best time to bring up a debate about the ammended Pledge. We should be sending a sharp reminder to our representatives that we will not hold for the same type of government which desires to take our freedoms for the sake of fighting "Terrorism". It is far too remnicent of the "Red Menace" illusion which plauged our culture for multiple generations.
We don't need sheep in the White House, or Congress. Bring on the revolutionaries, and give us our freedom!
Weigh your morals carefully, yourself. It can take a lifetime of contemplation, but can be very rewarding.
I was hoping for a network enabled version of pong. How long will we have to wait before we can attach to pong servers and pong all night long?
What a cruel, cruel world it is...
set prompt="%{^[[1;32;40m%}%t-%n@%m\n%/%{^[[0;37;40m%} > "
OK, at first I said "What are they thinking?!?"
I thought, why don't they just make some RPMs since their ripping RedHat. That would keep it simple.
Then I read their snazzy little explanation. I have an ABIT BP6 board, and I have managed to get everything working on several distributions. The only problem is that with any normal distribution, you have no initial support for the DMA/66 controller. So, if you have a system with one drive and you want to use the faster controller, you have to install it with the drive on the DMA/33 controller, and then move it to the DMA/66 controller after installing and tweaking.
The first time I had to go through all that, it was a challenge. I had fun. Although, I'm not sure most people would agree. The second time, I didn't bother. I just bought more drives, and installed to the DMA/33 controller. I tweaked some things and put my more demanding partitions on the new drives (DMA/66).
I like to use a different distro every few months just to keep a finger on the pulse of how linux is changing. I sure wouldn't enjoy doing an install to that machine so often if I only had one drive.
This is not an issue of making sure something is supported in the kernel. It is supported with kernel patches, and can be with any distro. Too bad no distro thinks to put support in to their install. This must be a job for Gentus' (or whatever that name was).
So before you guys go off slamming this, read a little of the BP6 pseudo howto and the docs to install a distro on the DMA/66 controller. Most folks wouldn't bother, and therefore wouldn't get the full benefit of the hardware they paid for.
TheRipler
Any grammatical errors are purely intentional.
So, if we were still on the Julian calendar, we wouldn't have an even day for another 13 days, but on the Gregorian calendar it would not be an even day. Is that odd? It definately isn't an odd day...
Likewise, our last Gregorian even day would have occured on the Julian date of 9-13-888, 16 days after their last even day. Which is also odd, but not an odd day. As even they would not have an odd day until well into the next millenium.
Its like opening Christmas presents early. Thanks Pope Gregory.