prices will rise and we will use something else that is more affordable
Yep. OK with you if we figure out what that is before we're forced to sink or swim? Hope so, thanks. Maybe it would even be a good idea to delay that point...
people in the states have to drive cars. the cities are much more spread out.
Then the cities are broken and should be fixed. I don't drive a car to work, and I didn't when I lived 20 miles out.
I think that probably *is* the current situation in many countries (PRC, DPRK, etc.) but we in the US are well protected from that, even in Ashcroft's dreams. It would directly violate two separate amendments and there are still a lot of separate factions in the government that all want to be able to do this unrestricted.
No, I think a more realistic scenario is government pressure on corporations to build tools with easy to use encryption that is easily cracked or government crackable (i.e. key escrow) to give people a false sense of security. Once those protocols are in place, we'll have an MS-Office type situation -- those of us who know better will be paralyzed because of the market saturation of the inferior technology. (SSH? What's that? I have HomelandSecuritySH...)
Yes, the weight of the frame can essentially be added to your own weight. But the weight of the wheels and tires and other rotational components is more important, since you're constantly accelerating those, and that has a lot to do with how hard you pedal and very little to do with the total weight of the bike+rider.
If you see a cyclist sitting at the front of a traffic line, flipping off some other cyclist that just shot through the red light without even slowing down, that might be me. Most of the bicyclists around here behave, but the Crit Mass/Zoobomber assholes really piss me off.
I was about to say that a Model M is probably less vulnerable to this sort of attack. But I think it is more vulnerable. The article claims that the rubber membrane in a keyboard is the bit that resonates to each keystroke. The Model M, of course, doesn't have one. The metal case probably provides a similar effect, though, and of course you can always analyze things like typing speed and spaces which always sound different.
I'm listening closely to the keys on my Northgate Omnikey now, and the click-pitch definitely seems different for different keys and areas of the keyboard. The numeric keypad, the arrow keys, the space bar and the home row all sound different. I hit the F-keys in succession and it sounds like a freaking xylophone.
Isn't it interesting that time and distance are inverted?
I was just pondering that the other day. Do you think there might be a cognitive effect from stressing distance traveled rather than fuel consumed? One that affects, say, someone's decision to drive or walk, or what kind of car to buy?:-)
Business logic is *IMPORTANT*. Therefore, it should be replicated in as many places as possible. Anything that touches the database should have a separate copy of the same logic in it. A handy way to achieve this state, which functions both as a distributed versioning system and a set of backups which is both effective and affective, is, when writing some new code, to find some old code sitting around that does more or less what you want and use the "cut and paste" feature of your editor.
You'll find it most useful to have as many subtle mutations of the same piece of code around and in production use as possible -- this way, when you need to use one, something that does exactly what you need will be right at hand. Also, that contributes to a healthy "immune system" for your server.
"I have a cunning plan" -- Jack
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Oh, what would I give for an "Edit Post" feature. One that can only be used for good.
of the symbolically named Phillippine Shaftoes of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Nothing really Baldrick-like about them. But Jack and Bobby definitely play Baldrick to E.R.'s Blackadder. If you were thinking of contrasting them with the Waterhouses, I think that clan might be better identified with Hugh Laurie's character. (With Stephen Fry as the Comstocks?):-)
Wikipedia contains original information on the 1908 Olympics question, but nothing else that I could find. It does contain the answer to the Slovenian rail question, but it is just lifted from the CIA World Factbook.
That's the default password for a Windows user created for some sort of Compaq management utility. (No, I don't really know that. I just know... um, someone, who, um, knows everything.)
I hope the airbag didn't go off. That's gotta smart...
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Yeah, the cop has these tools that easily go faster than 250 miles per hour. They're known as "radio waves" and they can almost magically summon more cops, complete with roadblocks! It's amazing what they can do with technology these days...
open source mascots MUST EAT FISH. Seriously. Besides the obvious Tux, demons, gimps and gnomes certainly eat fish. Blowfish eat other fish. (I didn't look that up. I'm just assuming, for the sake of my argument, that they do.) A few members of Monty Python were in a movie where Kevin Kline ate live goldfish. Platypuses (the Darwin project) eat fish.
There is nothing even remotely fish-related about the wildebeest. What does this mean for the GNU project?
I'm not sure if this counts as "knowledgable" but since this *is* Slashdot, I'm just going to regurgitate a vague memory that I might have acquired from reading some science magazine years ago, and I will probably be modded "informative" because I will use big but recognizable words.
So anyway, I believe the nose of the plane creates a cone-shaped shockwave through the air at all times while it's traveling over Mach 1, and you only hear the sonic boom when you're in the hyperbolic path the cone forms when it intersects the ground, if it hasn't lost all its energy by then.
The 10+ ton figure was from several places and was for up to 30% moisture-content silage. I don't have time now to look up the sites again but the search strings I used were:
corn "tons per acre" straw "tons per acre"
This is a positive step but it won't change much
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You have to dig around a bit on Iogen's site, but they do come up with *some* numbers. On their FAQ page they claim 300 liters per tonne of feedstock. Corn-based ethanol has a similar yield, though, and it yields more per acre than barley or wheat. (If my superficial googling is reliable, corn can yield 10 or more tons per acre compared to about 3 or 4 tons of straw.)
This is fantastic if it reduces the cost of ethanol production, and allows it to be produced from straw that is currently just burned. But it won't make the gas industry obsolete.
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prices will rise and we will use something else that is more affordable
Yep. OK with you if we figure out what that is before we're forced to sink or swim? Hope so, thanks. Maybe it would even be a good idea to delay that point...
people in the states have to drive cars. the cities are much more spread out.
Then the cities are broken and should be fixed. I don't drive a car to work, and I didn't when I lived 20 miles out.
That might actually redeem the movie!
Why don't you ask IBM?
I think that probably *is* the current situation in many countries (PRC, DPRK, etc.) but we in the US are well protected from that, even in Ashcroft's dreams. It would directly violate two separate amendments and there are still a lot of separate factions in the government that all want to be able to do this unrestricted.
No, I think a more realistic scenario is government pressure on corporations to build tools with easy to use encryption that is easily cracked or government crackable (i.e. key escrow) to give people a false sense of security. Once those protocols are in place, we'll have an MS-Office type situation -- those of us who know better will be paralyzed because of the market saturation of the inferior technology. (SSH? What's that? I have HomelandSecuritySH...)
No, that would be security through bureaucracy, a highly effective method.
Yes, the weight of the frame can essentially be added to your own weight. But the weight of the wheels and tires and other rotational components is more important, since you're constantly accelerating those, and that has a lot to do with how hard you pedal and very little to do with the total weight of the bike+rider.
If you see a cyclist sitting at the front of a traffic line, flipping off some other cyclist that just shot through the red light without even slowing down, that might be me. Most of the bicyclists around here behave, but the Crit Mass/Zoobomber assholes really piss me off.
I was about to say that a Model M is probably less vulnerable to this sort of attack. But I think it is more vulnerable. The article claims that the rubber membrane in a keyboard is the bit that resonates to each keystroke. The Model M, of course, doesn't have one. The metal case probably provides a similar effect, though, and of course you can always analyze things like typing speed and spaces which always sound different.
I'm listening closely to the keys on my Northgate Omnikey now, and the click-pitch definitely seems different for different keys and areas of the keyboard. The numeric keypad, the arrow keys, the space bar and the home row all sound different. I hit the F-keys in succession and it sounds like a freaking xylophone.
Damn, you're right.
Global slacking off is imminent!
Isn't it interesting that time and distance are inverted?
:-)
I was just pondering that the other day. Do you think there might be a cognitive effect from stressing distance traveled rather than fuel consumed? One that affects, say, someone's decision to drive or walk, or what kind of car to buy?
Business logic is *IMPORTANT*. Therefore, it should be replicated in as many places as possible. Anything that touches the database should have a separate copy of the same logic in it. A handy way to achieve this state, which functions both as a distributed versioning system and a set of backups which is both effective and affective, is, when writing some new code, to find some old code sitting around that does more or less what you want and use the "cut and paste" feature of your editor.
You'll find it most useful to have as many subtle mutations of the same piece of code around and in production use as possible -- this way, when you need to use one, something that does exactly what you need will be right at hand. Also, that contributes to a healthy "immune system" for your server.
Oh, what would I give for an "Edit Post" feature. One that can only be used for good.
of the symbolically named Phillippine Shaftoes of the last quarter of the twentieth century. Nothing really Baldrick-like about them. But Jack and Bobby definitely play Baldrick to E.R.'s Blackadder. If you were thinking of contrasting them with the Waterhouses, I think that clan might be better identified with Hugh Laurie's character. (With Stephen Fry as the Comstocks?) :-)
Yes, they're just coming out. You'll find them printed on 4D products at the mall...
They need to get rid of that senior management that thought of this stupid scheme
Unfortunately, they can't lay Ballmer off...
Wikipedia contains original information on the 1908 Olympics question, but nothing else that I could find. It does contain the answer to the Slovenian rail question, but it is just lifted from the CIA World Factbook.
Any old farts like me who are still using dialup care. :-)
Mozilla, do it for the old farts!
That's the default password for a Windows user created for some sort of Compaq management utility. (No, I don't really know that. I just know... um, someone, who, um, knows everything.)
I hope the airbag didn't go off. That's gotta smart...
Yeah, the cop has these tools that easily go faster than 250 miles per hour. They're known as "radio waves" and they can almost magically summon more cops, complete with roadblocks! It's amazing what they can do with technology these days...
open source mascots MUST EAT FISH. Seriously. Besides the obvious Tux, demons, gimps and gnomes certainly eat fish. Blowfish eat other fish. (I didn't look that up. I'm just assuming, for the sake of my argument, that they do.) A few members of Monty Python were in a movie where Kevin Kline ate live goldfish. Platypuses (the Darwin project) eat fish.
There is nothing even remotely fish-related about the wildebeest. What does this mean for the GNU project?
I'm not sure if this counts as "knowledgable" but since this *is* Slashdot, I'm just going to regurgitate a vague memory that I might have acquired from reading some science magazine years ago, and I will probably be modded "informative" because I will use big but recognizable words.
So anyway, I believe the nose of the plane creates a cone-shaped shockwave through the air at all times while it's traveling over Mach 1, and you only hear the sonic boom when you're in the hyperbolic path the cone forms when it intersects the ground, if it hasn't lost all its energy by then.
In other news, stay out of public swimming pools, as they almost always contain the potentially toxic additive DHMO.
The 10+ ton figure was from several places and was for up to 30% moisture-content silage. I don't have time now to look up the sites again but the search strings I used were:
corn "tons per acre"
straw "tons per acre"
You have to dig around a bit on Iogen's site, but they do come up with *some* numbers. On their FAQ page they claim 300 liters per tonne of feedstock. Corn-based ethanol has a similar yield, though, and it yields more per acre than barley or wheat. (If my superficial googling is reliable, corn can yield 10 or more tons per acre compared to about 3 or 4 tons of straw.)
This is fantastic if it reduces the cost of ethanol production, and allows it to be produced from straw that is currently just burned. But it won't make the gas industry obsolete.