I tell you what, my Cannon 750 prints damn fast, but the amount of time it takes to get the very first page out is outrageous!!! (I'm talking about a simple plain old page of ascii text, no graphics, no special fonts.)
A full minute!!
I'd bloody well like to see some statistics on that. I rarely print big long documents, but I often print the odd page or two. The *effective* print speed ends up being 1-3 ppm, even though once it gets going it can do 11ppm.
WTF is the printer doing? I don't remember the old BJC 200's taking that long to get started.
No thanks. I've got 5 gig of bandwidth to burn, but I'm not even going to download it for myself. The last thing I need is that poorly coded piece of sh*t seizing control of all my file and browser-multimedia associations.
Roger that. They're still experimenting with it I believe.
Saw some clip on TV once of a modern British Army truck whose side was covered in spotlights sitting at the crest of a hill. A few km away they showed what it looked like before and after turning on the lights. The truck just disappeared against the sky.
I'm guessing that there are all sorts of other problems. IE: it only works when you're siloetted against the sky, and against a dark hill it spots you out!, so it's probably not as useful on a ground vehicle as it seems.
Now, laying down a bright sheet of photo-luminescent plastic or super bright white LEDs on a slow moving low flying military drone, that might be a cool idea to increase it's survivability. It's always silouetted against the sky. The only problem there is power consumption. Even an overcast sky is hundreds of watts per square meter of light.
It's not easy to convert from Sorenson to anything else if you refuse to install quicktime software(*).
Anyone know where to get a cracked/seperated sorenson codec?
(*) - because of quicktime's OVERBEARING IDIOTIC Vicious perpensity to sieze control of your OS/Browser file associations and make your system/browser less stable.
Looking at code and html or even a keyboard/OS when I get home is just *so* far out of the question. I was a geek with a C64 and a stack of programming books when I was in high school, and I did it for fun. But 40-50 hours a week is my limit unless the specific job/project/task is just *that* rewarding.
On a related note - doing something that brings in money vs doing something that will DO SOMETHING USEFUL for somebody WHO REALLY NEEDS IT makes a big difference in motivation on a specific project.
I'd like to pay $5 per month plus N-cents per hour. Why should I pay $15 per month when I only use the game for 10-20 hours a month, while a friend plays 180 hours a month, using up 10-20 times as much server time as I do, still for $15 per month?
Why when I take a 3 month break (big vacation, changing interests, etc) do I still have to pay $15 per month just to maintain the character on disk on the server?
I can't seem to find it now, but I've seen a NASA picture (super high res color) of the Eastern Seaboard that was just COVERED with contrails.
Here's everything that I can find in 5 minutes, it comes close to showing what I saw once. (I swear it was from the Terra satelite, but I can't find it right now)
Ships put out an amazing amount of water vapour, and photos of the Western Seaboard have shown huge numbers of ship generated cloud banks off of San Francisco. Here's one example:
If you don't give the spammers your e-mail address, they can't spam you!!
The only provisio's are that your e-mail address isn't guessable, that you don't use your primary e-mail address with companies/sites that you don't trust (almost all web forms that you fill in for any purpose), and that your e-mail provider isn't scum (like Hotmail).
That's HALF the amount of blood in your entire body!!!
That means you drink one of these, and your body is forced to first absorb all that liquid and massively dilute your blood, and at the same time try and excrete it quickly enough so that you don't, ummm, what?
So, at what point does drinking too much water/liquid cause serious immediate health problems?
I'm thinking it might be around the "drink half your blood volume in water" point.
GPS Coordinates, I'd imagine that they don't account for continental drift, eh?
One inch a year adds up over a century or two. So by default you can't use precise GPS coordinates, unless you account year by year for all the plate movement.
Meanwhile bar owner laughs all the way to the bank (unless of course the shills are prohibited from drinking while on the job, in which case bar owner throws *everyone* out and bans them for life from the bar.)
Ok, how long ago did the digital TV specs get finalized? How much bandwidth do they take up? How much more could we squeeze into that spectrum if they re-did it taking into account those fabulous new mpeg4 codecs that allow DVD quality data streams for only 150-200 KB/s.
I agree. I mean I can understand the copyright infringement (selling hundreds of copied games), but what the hell is "unauthorized computer equipment" and where did we get that law from?!?! AFAIK we don't yet have a DMCA equivalent law here with "circumvention device" language.
Or maybe the reporter drone got that quote from the Sony marketing droid?
Can anyone show us the *real* statutues under which he was convicted? The actual court transcripts/documents?
The airport in Calgary has a Science exhibit (mostly aimed at kids), but it has a chunk of moon-rock on display. It's embedded in a big chunk of lucite. I was actually suprised to see it, I didn't know that NASA had given any of the moon rocks away for display purposes. (Or maybe my memory/the-display-caption is wrong, maybe it's a moon-rock via meteorite?)
Personally I think that this database would be useful, although I doubt that there would be much in there that doesn't exist in the literature already.
Ummm, one of the main points is that "the literature" is so huge that no one human being can be expected to know it all and apply it, and there is lots of evidence to back that up.
What I object to is the portrayal of physicians as bumbling buffoons bent on preserving their undeserved elite status at the cost of proper health care.
I didn't see anything about "bumbling buffoons", merely human beings reacting instinctively to something new that may affect the status quo to an uncertain degree, mixed in with healthy "show me the proof/evidence" type reactions.
People expect too much from a family physican. They cannot possibly know enough to accurately treat and diagnose every problem. The database described already exists in the form of medical encyclopediae and internet databases and colleague's advice. Using these resources physicans are mostly right most of the time. It is unreasonable to expect more than that.
Now this I object to. First you say that they can't know it all and diagnose everything, then you say they can with these other resources and the literature, which evidence shows one individual can't possibly have fully covered since it becoming so extensive.
No, I don't expect a simple human being to be perfect. But I strongly expect, nay DEMAND that you adopt any proven method that increases your effectiveness, and I object to anyone who obtusely reacts with gut feelings and animal instincts to change as a "threat".
If in major case studies this tool is proven to be a significant help when used in a specific way, would you adopt it?
Or would you insist on the continued use of leeches for those with fever?
My Mom is into geneology. Due to a lack of information, most people can't trace their roots back more than 2-300 years, and at the extreme ends of that you have nothing more than a name, location, and occupation.
Wouldn't it be *fabulous* to have a detailed chronology of what some ancestor of yours did day by day over 800 years ago?
Anyways, my point being that I've always realized just how useful and intersting this would be. So I've never regretted my information-packrat nature. I have a copy of every e-mail I've ever sent and received. I have a copy of a large fraction of my usenet posts and Slashdot posts. And of course everything I've ever thought was interesting that I've downloaded (like your post). And I have two computers with mirrored copies of the data. Since I'm always upgrading systems, the hard drives are never more than 5 years old, and I'll always notice the failure of one.
I'm even slowly beginning to digitize all the letters my Mom has written me over the years. And I'm talking about 16 pages every week for 10 years! Yeah yeah, she tells me a little too much about life in small town Saskatchewan, like what part of the garden the dog was digging in and where they saw a snake while out for a walk, etc etc.
Oddly enough my Mom doesn't believe that anyone will ever be intersted in what she writes in her letters. But you have to remember, "forever" is a long long time. Think eons.
There is of course one small caveat. This would all be spectacularly interesting if I was a monk in 1283 AD. But I'm a geek in the middle of the information age. There's going to be a TON of similar information for someone to look through a few hundred years from now.
I am also uninterested in going to the trouble of registering for a one off post on your site, so I too will post here.
IStop residential DSL access in Ontario and Quebec (http://www.istop.com/residential.html) allows users to "do whatever you want as long as it's not reselling for profit". Since IStop charges by the Gigabyte in bandwidth they don't care *what* you do with the bandwidth, hey, you bought it.
Gotta love Canadian Broadband. $55 CDN per month for 3.5 Mbit upstream, 800 kbps downstream, and $2 CDN per Gigabyte above the 15+ GB cap.
This is a wonderful example of horribly bad user interface design. Whatever company made your combo microwave/oven system is going to face a *lot* of this, and I figure they should share responsibility.
Slashdot Mirror
I tell you what, my Cannon 750 prints damn fast, but the amount of time it takes to get the very first page out is outrageous!!! (I'm talking about a simple plain old page of ascii text, no graphics, no special fonts.)
A full minute!!
I'd bloody well like to see some statistics on that. I rarely print big long documents, but I often print the odd page or two. The *effective* print speed ends up being 1-3 ppm, even though once it gets going it can do 11ppm.
WTF is the printer doing? I don't remember the old BJC 200's taking that long to get started.
Quicktime!?
No thanks. I've got 5 gig of bandwidth to burn, but I'm not even going to download it for myself. The last thing I need is that poorly coded piece of sh*t seizing control of all my file and browser-multimedia associations.
Roger that. They're still experimenting with it I believe.
Saw some clip on TV once of a modern British Army truck whose side was covered in spotlights sitting at the crest of a hill. A few km away they showed what it looked like before and after turning on the lights. The truck just disappeared against the sky.
I'm guessing that there are all sorts of other problems. IE: it only works when you're siloetted against the sky, and against a dark hill it spots you out!, so it's probably not as useful on a ground vehicle as it seems.
Now, laying down a bright sheet of photo-luminescent plastic or super bright white LEDs on a slow moving low flying military drone, that might be a cool idea to increase it's survivability. It's always silouetted against the sky. The only problem there is power consumption. Even an overcast sky is hundreds of watts per square meter of light.
It's not easy to convert from Sorenson to anything else if you refuse to install quicktime software(*).
Anyone know where to get a cracked/seperated sorenson codec?
(*) - because of quicktime's OVERBEARING IDIOTIC Vicious perpensity to sieze control of your OS/Browser file associations and make your system/browser less stable.
DITTO.
Looking at code and html or even a keyboard/OS when I get home is just *so* far out of the question. I was a geek with a C64 and a stack of programming books when I was in high school, and I did it for fun. But 40-50 hours a week is my limit unless the specific job/project/task is just *that* rewarding.
On a related note - doing something that brings in money vs doing something that will DO SOMETHING USEFUL for somebody WHO REALLY NEEDS IT makes a big difference in motivation on a specific project.
thanks assholes, now they're slashdotted and I have to wait until tomorrow to read the archives. Great job.
Interesting cartoon, LOL
DeBeers owns half the mines in Northern Canada.
I'd like to pay $5 per month plus N-cents per hour. Why should I pay $15 per month when I only use the game for 10-20 hours a month, while a friend plays 180 hours a month, using up 10-20 times as much server time as I do, still for $15 per month?
Why when I take a 3 month break (big vacation, changing interests, etc) do I still have to pay $15 per month just to maintain the character on disk on the server?
I can't seem to find it now, but I've seen a NASA picture (super high res color) of the Eastern Seaboard that was just COVERED with contrails.
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Here's everything that I can find in 5 minutes, it comes close to showing what I saw once. (I swear it was from the Terra satelite, but I can't find it right now)
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Flagstaff/science/contrai
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?2
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Flagstaff/science/contrai
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?4
Ships put out an amazing amount of water vapour, and photos of the Western Seaboard have shown huge numbers of ship generated cloud banks off of San Francisco. Here's one example:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?1
Nope, I also get zero spams a year.
How?
If you don't give the spammers your e-mail address, they can't spam you!!
The only provisio's are that your e-mail address isn't guessable, that you don't use your primary e-mail address with companies/sites that you don't trust (almost all web forms that you fill in for any purpose), and that your e-mail provider isn't scum (like Hotmail).
Holy sh*t.
That's HALF the amount of blood in your entire body!!!
That means you drink one of these, and your body is forced to first absorb all that liquid and massively dilute your blood, and at the same time try and excrete it quickly enough so that you don't, ummm, what?
So, at what point does drinking too much water/liquid cause serious immediate health problems?
I'm thinking it might be around the "drink half your blood volume in water" point.
GPS Coordinates, I'd imagine that they don't account for continental drift, eh?
One inch a year adds up over a century or two. So by default you can't use precise GPS coordinates, unless you account year by year for all the plate movement.
Meanwhile bar owner laughs all the way to the bank (unless of course the shills are prohibited from drinking while on the job, in which case bar owner throws *everyone* out and bans them for life from the bar.)
Ok, how long ago did the digital TV specs get finalized? How much bandwidth do they take up? How much more could we squeeze into that spectrum if they re-did it taking into account those fabulous new mpeg4 codecs that allow DVD quality data streams for only 150-200 KB/s.
Ditto.
I just bought a USB Compact Flash reader for $30 Canadian. 20 MB of Compact Flash itself is the smallest format I can get, at $30 CDN.
You're the second person to put in a link (plug?) for NVNews, only to not have a screenshot in sight.
Moderators, please burn them.
Yup, ever since I created my latest box, I have steadfastly refused to put in Real and Quicktime. God help me if in a weak moment I give in.
BTW: For your situation, try replacing the exe with a dummy benign exe.
I believe a little Sun Tzu is appropriate:
- "What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease"
- "All warfare is based on deception"!
Mod parent up please.
I agree. I mean I can understand the copyright infringement (selling hundreds of copied games), but what the hell is "unauthorized computer equipment" and where did we get that law from?!?! AFAIK we don't yet have a DMCA equivalent law here with "circumvention device" language.
Or maybe the reporter drone got that quote from the Sony marketing droid?
Can anyone show us the *real* statutues under which he was convicted? The actual court transcripts/documents?
Bah! Clearly those rocks are worthless!
The airport in Calgary has a Science exhibit (mostly aimed at kids), but it has a chunk of moon-rock on display. It's embedded in a big chunk of lucite. I was actually suprised to see it, I didn't know that NASA had given any of the moon rocks away for display purposes. (Or maybe my memory/the-display-caption is wrong, maybe it's a moon-rock via meteorite?)
Personally I think that this database would be useful, although I doubt that there would be much in there that doesn't exist in the literature already.
Ummm, one of the main points is that "the literature" is so huge that no one human being can be expected to know it all and apply it, and there is lots of evidence to back that up.
What I object to is the portrayal of physicians as bumbling buffoons bent on preserving their undeserved elite status at the cost of proper health care.
I didn't see anything about "bumbling buffoons", merely human beings reacting instinctively to something new that may affect the status quo to an uncertain degree, mixed in with healthy "show me the proof/evidence" type reactions.
People expect too much from a family physican. They cannot possibly know enough to accurately treat and diagnose every problem. The database described already exists in the form of medical encyclopediae and internet databases and colleague's advice. Using these resources physicans are mostly right most of the time. It is unreasonable to expect more than that.
Now this I object to. First you say that they can't know it all and diagnose everything, then you say they can with these other resources and the literature, which evidence shows one individual can't possibly have fully covered since it becoming so extensive.
No, I don't expect a simple human being to be perfect. But I strongly expect, nay DEMAND that you adopt any proven method that increases your effectiveness, and I object to anyone who obtusely reacts with gut feelings and animal instincts to change as a "threat".
If in major case studies this tool is proven to be a significant help when used in a specific way, would you adopt it?
Or would you insist on the continued use of leeches for those with fever?
Hee hee.
My Mom is into geneology. Due to a lack of information, most people can't trace their roots back more than 2-300 years, and at the extreme ends of that you have nothing more than a name, location, and occupation.
Wouldn't it be *fabulous* to have a detailed chronology of what some ancestor of yours did day by day over 800 years ago?
Anyways, my point being that I've always realized just how useful and intersting this would be. So I've never regretted my information-packrat nature. I have a copy of every e-mail I've ever sent and received. I have a copy of a large fraction of my usenet posts and Slashdot posts. And of course everything I've ever thought was interesting that I've downloaded (like your post). And I have two computers with mirrored copies of the data. Since I'm always upgrading systems, the hard drives are never more than 5 years old, and I'll always notice the failure of one.
I'm even slowly beginning to digitize all the letters my Mom has written me over the years. And I'm talking about 16 pages every week for 10 years! Yeah yeah, she tells me a little too much about life in small town Saskatchewan, like what part of the garden the dog was digging in and where they saw a snake while out for a walk, etc etc.
Oddly enough my Mom doesn't believe that anyone will ever be intersted in what she writes in her letters. But you have to remember, "forever" is a long long time. Think eons.
There is of course one small caveat. This would all be spectacularly interesting if I was a monk in 1283 AD. But I'm a geek in the middle of the information age. There's going to be a TON of similar information for someone to look through a few hundred years from now.
Oh well.
I am also uninterested in going to the trouble of registering for a one off post on your site, so I too will post here.
IStop residential DSL access in Ontario and Quebec (http://www.istop.com/residential.html) allows users to "do whatever you want as long as it's not reselling for profit". Since IStop charges by the Gigabyte in bandwidth they don't care *what* you do with the bandwidth, hey, you bought it.
Gotta love Canadian Broadband. $55 CDN per month for 3.5 Mbit upstream, 800 kbps downstream, and $2 CDN per Gigabyte above the 15+ GB cap.
This is a wonderful example of horribly bad user interface design. Whatever company made your combo microwave/oven system is going to face a *lot* of this, and I figure they should share responsibility.