As a buyer, I really want to use my credit card directly. PayPal, last time I used it, only covered a $200 return or so. I went straight through to my credit card company (which is linked to my PayPal account) and did a chargeback through them. PayPal sent me a nastigram saying if you keep that up, we'll cut you off.
Hmmm... my bicycling experience has one kind of accident or close call with vehicles since I left elementary school, and it's repeated over and over. Old person at a stop sign. I'm coming by on a superior street that has no traffic control, and they're at a full stop. The let off the brake and attempt (back in high school, a few succeeded) to place me under the car.
Based on that, I say we should take all the Lincolns and Grand Marquis off the road.
Well, six years ago we were in the $1 range, and five years I remember putting $1.50 premo in my car. $4 is hurting a lot of Americans. Our basic problem vs. Europe: we commute by car everywhere, and working 50 miles away is rather common.
Oh, indeed he's clearly been served with notice since he picked it up from the post office. I'm more arguing that there is no way in hell would I have paid the postage or retrieved the stupid thing. If it's important, they'll get the postage right after they get the letter back with a big red "insufficient postage" stamp on it.
I race Autocross, G-Stock. The sport lends itself more to enormous rented seas of asphalt than it does tracks, so I'm usually in a closed mall lot. As a bicyclist and motorcyclist, I get the point you're trying to make. In an effort to, among other things, keep from being under anybody else's tire, or putting them under mine, I pay a lot of attention to traffic around me.
The context of what I was saying related to single-vehicle handling capacity. Read the comment above mine. Especially being in New England, I think that understanding the details of why apexing matters (namely in terms of the effect of tire traction forces) and how to handle a car in a slide are very useful in snow storms. Failure to know these details, feel the road, and plain stupid overconfidence in 4 wheel drive result in a lot of people landing in ditches.
Thank you for your thoughts, and please try not to be such a condescending asshole.
My biggest complaint is I still SUCK at car racing games. The number of walls I plow into by going way too fast into the turn... well, too many. Tactile feedback makes a HUGE difference, and the lack of Gforce experienced in a video game makes me useless. As for my car? Well, I'm part of the 80% of Americans who consider themselves to be above average drivers. I'm not sure what percentage I'm part of that can intentionally slide the car through turns, or understand apexing, but I'm sure it's a minority.
Saying locomotives are in the 2000-6000hp range is like saying that that cars are in the 250-750 hp range. Yard locomotives tend to top out at 2000hp (Union Pacific's newest switcher models have 3x700hp engines).
The train I work on is 2ft gauge, and the 50 year old diesel locomotive puts out something on the order of 1,000ft-lb of torque. The best writeup I've seen is at http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/MNGRR_diesel1.html.
It looks like it's basically half of a GE "44 Tonner". I think it's a custom modification of their 25 ton model (3 of this series were built, the first page describes that story).
Basically, though, it is now a museum engine. While very capable, I don't think I could argue against your calling it a "kid engine." Then again, with more torque than any 18 wheeler I can think of, perhaps it's not so childish? It'd be able to go down I-95 nicely if it weren't limited by its narrowness of dimension. (GE says don't go over 20 because it'll tip. I think the big locomotives are limited to 35 if they don't have a load).
I've heard stories of the Deathstars. Thus far, I've only lost iPod hard drives (though those failures started a week after I mentioned "I've never lost a drive before."). I've been run twin 18gig IBM De(ath|sk)star SCSIs for something on the order of 6 years now. Right now I have the laptop (80g), external (close to 500g), and twin SCSI system. Going to be turning up a 6 spindle set of 18 gig drives soon. Anyway, I suppose I should double-check my backups now.
Personally, I hope they either get us with one good article, or go Ponies style at around noon. Last year was crap. One stupidly obvious article after another. Most years have just gone off the deep end, really.
Or, more to the point, sociability is a a handy little geek skill right along with programing, taking apart your car, and fixing the VCR clock. We (the geeks) tend to treat interactions with humans very differently than we do machines. Social interaction, however, is almost as much a process or game as dealing with computing technology. Certain things work, others don't, but if you pay attention to the details and treat things like a science experiment, you'll catch on.
Technical knowledge combined with a little bit of intuition (Yes, you have it! You know where to look when something is slowing down a computer, and you know it is different for different situations) will get you a very long way. Monday might be a good day for hiking boots, cargo pants, and an "I Void Warranties" shirt. Tuesday might be better suited to dress shoes, pants, a button-down shirt, and an open sport jacket.
Lastly, be confident. Insecurity always kills. Arrogance is not confidence. Coffee?
The unit will weigh 14 pounds. This is close to the capsule weight permitted to be launched via balloon with no FAA control. (yay scientific ballooning).
Figure out the real committable bandwidth (available bandwidth / customer connections). Then, tag that amount of customer information coming into the network with a priority tag. Customers may prioritize what they want, and it will be respected up to the limit.
Example: 1000k connection shared between 100 people who each have 100k pipes. They get a committed 10k. The first 10k of packets in per second that are unmarked are marked "priority." Packets marked "low" are passed as low. Packets marked "high" or unmarked are passed as high up to the committed limit. Use token buckets for this. This would allow customers who care to choose what they want their committed bandwidth to be while leaving a free for all for the rest that's left over. No end user configuration necessary if you don't care or know to. No patches needed.
If you're feeling fancy, use logarithmically growing buckets of multiple tiers where tier always passes, tier one passes when there are no tier zero waiting, and so on.
I'll give you the example in Maine, and I understand it is this way in the rest of the United States: utility companies own the poles. Worse, it is a mixture of different companies: the local power company and the local telephone company each own different poles in different places. They usually do a near-zero-sum rental from each other. I think the cost of a pole rental for posting a strand of fiber in my city was $70 / year.
That's basically the answer it would have to come down to as far a secure response would go. The constant issue in the grandparent's scenarios has been that the same thing will always happen. Call in a threat, watch them load the buses... bomb the buses the next time.
Much like the pre-2001 response of "we'll sit and wait for the hijacking to end," bomb threats are dealt with as if the threat is honest. Once somebody has a case of a bomb under a bleacher to remember, we may act differently.
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As a buyer, I really want to use my credit card directly. PayPal, last time I used it, only covered a $200 return or so. I went straight through to my credit card company (which is linked to my PayPal account) and did a chargeback through them. PayPal sent me a nastigram saying if you keep that up, we'll cut you off.
Yeah, thanks but no thanks EBay.
Based on that, I say we should take all the Lincolns and Grand Marquis off the road.
Well, six years ago we were in the $1 range, and five years I remember putting $1.50 premo in my car. $4 is hurting a lot of Americans. Our basic problem vs. Europe: we commute by car everywhere, and working 50 miles away is rather common.
I've got the same key for my ssh sessions (with apologies to Debian).
Oh, indeed he's clearly been served with notice since he picked it up from the post office. I'm more arguing that there is no way in hell would I have paid the postage or retrieved the stupid thing. If it's important, they'll get the postage right after they get the letter back with a big red "insufficient postage" stamp on it.
I would call that horribly ineffective service. I hope the court would agree. You should never pay to know you're sued ;)
So.... am I China, or not?
I race Autocross, G-Stock. The sport lends itself more to enormous rented seas of asphalt than it does tracks, so I'm usually in a closed mall lot. As a bicyclist and motorcyclist, I get the point you're trying to make. In an effort to, among other things, keep from being under anybody else's tire, or putting them under mine, I pay a lot of attention to traffic around me.
The context of what I was saying related to single-vehicle handling capacity. Read the comment above mine. Especially being in New England, I think that understanding the details of why apexing matters (namely in terms of the effect of tire traction forces) and how to handle a car in a slide are very useful in snow storms. Failure to know these details, feel the road, and plain stupid overconfidence in 4 wheel drive result in a lot of people landing in ditches.
Thank you for your thoughts, and please try not to be such a condescending asshole.
My biggest complaint is I still SUCK at car racing games. The number of walls I plow into by going way too fast into the turn... well, too many. Tactile feedback makes a HUGE difference, and the lack of Gforce experienced in a video game makes me useless. As for my car? Well, I'm part of the 80% of Americans who consider themselves to be above average drivers. I'm not sure what percentage I'm part of that can intentionally slide the car through turns, or understand apexing, but I'm sure it's a minority.
Unfortunately, there are still convincing arguments, even if they're not sound. Keep us safe, Jackie boy. Stay over the top.
Saying locomotives are in the 2000-6000hp range is like saying that that cars are in the 250-750 hp range. Yard locomotives tend to top out at 2000hp (Union Pacific's newest switcher models have 3x700hp engines).
The train I work on is 2ft gauge, and the 50 year old diesel locomotive puts out something on the order of 1,000ft-lb of torque. The best writeup I've seen is at http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychaos/MNGRR_diesel1.html. It looks like it's basically half of a GE "44 Tonner". I think it's a custom modification of their 25 ton model (3 of this series were built, the first page describes that story).
Basically, though, it is now a museum engine. While very capable, I don't think I could argue against your calling it a "kid engine." Then again, with more torque than any 18 wheeler I can think of, perhaps it's not so childish? It'd be able to go down I-95 nicely if it weren't limited by its narrowness of dimension. (GE says don't go over 20 because it'll tip. I think the big locomotives are limited to 35 if they don't have a load).
I engineer a 150hp locomotive. I can pull your boat, your car, and maybe even your house.
Hey, it's that or we bring back Roland.
laser, n.: Failed death ray.
That's even better than the forum captcha "irony" postings.
There are few clearer examples of "double standard" than when the deciding party declares that it's different because they're "one of us." Mrrr.
What hat did you pull those ideas out of?
"Apologies if you aren't American."
Well isn't that condescending? :)
I've heard stories of the Deathstars. Thus far, I've only lost iPod hard drives (though those failures started a week after I mentioned "I've never lost a drive before."). I've been run twin 18gig IBM De(ath|sk)star SCSIs for something on the order of 6 years now. Right now I have the laptop (80g), external (close to 500g), and twin SCSI system. Going to be turning up a 6 spindle set of 18 gig drives soon. Anyway, I suppose I should double-check my backups now.
Personally, I hope they either get us with one good article, or go Ponies style at around noon. Last year was crap. One stupidly obvious article after another. Most years have just gone off the deep end, really.
Or, more to the point, sociability is a a handy little geek skill right along with programing, taking apart your car, and fixing the VCR clock. We (the geeks) tend to treat interactions with humans very differently than we do machines. Social interaction, however, is almost as much a process or game as dealing with computing technology. Certain things work, others don't, but if you pay attention to the details and treat things like a science experiment, you'll catch on.
Technical knowledge combined with a little bit of intuition (Yes, you have it! You know where to look when something is slowing down a computer, and you know it is different for different situations) will get you a very long way. Monday might be a good day for hiking boots, cargo pants, and an "I Void Warranties" shirt. Tuesday might be better suited to dress shoes, pants, a button-down shirt, and an open sport jacket.
Lastly, be confident. Insecurity always kills. Arrogance is not confidence. Coffee?
The unit will weigh 14 pounds. This is close to the capsule weight permitted to be launched via balloon with no FAA control. (yay scientific ballooning).
Figure out the real committable bandwidth (available bandwidth / customer connections). Then, tag that amount of customer information coming into the network with a priority tag. Customers may prioritize what they want, and it will be respected up to the limit.
Example: 1000k connection shared between 100 people who each have 100k pipes. They get a committed 10k. The first 10k of packets in per second that are unmarked are marked "priority." Packets marked "low" are passed as low. Packets marked "high" or unmarked are passed as high up to the committed limit. Use token buckets for this. This would allow customers who care to choose what they want their committed bandwidth to be while leaving a free for all for the rest that's left over. No end user configuration necessary if you don't care or know to. No patches needed.
If you're feeling fancy, use logarithmically growing buckets of multiple tiers where tier always passes, tier one passes when there are no tier zero waiting, and so on.
I'll give you the example in Maine, and I understand it is this way in the rest of the United States: utility companies own the poles. Worse, it is a mixture of different companies: the local power company and the local telephone company each own different poles in different places. They usually do a near-zero-sum rental from each other. I think the cost of a pole rental for posting a strand of fiber in my city was $70 / year.
Much like the pre-2001 response of "we'll sit and wait for the hijacking to end," bomb threats are dealt with as if the threat is honest. Once somebody has a case of a bomb under a bleacher to remember, we may act differently.
Security tends to be reflexive.