Naw, I only left it on long enough to ascertain that it was having an effect. I ran it from our testbed server. I run several publishing sites, including one erotica site. My normal bandwidth bill looks like someone's salary. Tacking on this isn't much of a difference.:)
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while true; do ab -n 90000000 -c 320 -t 10 -k 'http://www.carorcar.com/gifs/race/gp-start-1.jpg' ; done
They were serving at 85-333ms when I started, they are now at 1510-9925ms. Ouch.
(I am, of course, merely testing ab and my own pipe, not doing anything to their site in protest).
I can tell you that there is reliable TCP/IP available to the private sector (or at least to private contractors). On LiveJournal, there are many IT guys keeping Iraqi blogs. They post from home and sometimes at sites.
They are interesting to follow. One fellow is leaving because he can't stand the cultural divide and just feels too out of place. Some love the place and are enjoying their stay either as an adventure or just because they like the place.
Find some people already there. You may get a good reply here, but there are plenty of people who have already done what you're needing. In fact, at least one group is putting up wireless nodes at the cell towers.
I was also thinking of NIHM when I read this. Good book, good movie (well translated to the screen, IMO, including the fuzzing over of the science). Wish there was a comparable book to the second movie (which was dreck). I could see a good book sequal out of that. Kinda like ET; excellent sequal in the book.
That was a study done with 33 participants proofreading a single page letter loaded with errors that Word could not catch. I'm talking about what the parent was implying; that it causes a reliance upon those tools and a long term inability to write without those tool and/or lesser ability to write in general.
This study does show that people are willing to trust the software over their own abilities, but that's a different issue.
And I'm not taking a position for or against spellcheckers helping or harming students. I have seen it cited as a 'well known fact' too often, and I wonder if there is any real legitimacy. I also ask about the methodology because you can find a limited or just plain bad study to prove just about anything.
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Yes, it's a handicap, but not always incapacitating.
Sorry if I made it seem so. Very few handicaps are incapacitating. I have lived with a schizophrenic and a woman who was blind from birth. Neither were incapacitated by their mental or physical handicaps. I am only objecting to people who are shy and/or antisocial selfdiagnosing or having a friend diagnose them as having Asperger's. A young male who is antisocial is usually a normal male going through healthy social development.
AS affects your life, just as any handicap does. It's not just a matter of being shy or geeky or it being something you can just "get over" or "just deal with it"... which seem to be the two common perceptions here on Slashdot. That, plus the "autism light" misperception (autism is a category of mental problems, including Asperger's, and Asperger's is less of a handicap than some other forms of autism, but it isn't simply a 'mild case of autism').
Handicaps often have misconceptions and mental handicaps have some of the worst misconceptions. Like the fellow who replied to you talking about how he might lose a job because another applicant just seemed to "have it together better". It's especially difficult for people who seem to have no obvious handicap.
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I can't think of better renters than people that are natural-born-suckers and never realize you are lying.
...and have a large number of government groups, government funded groups, deep-pocket non-profits and pro-bono lawyers that agressively represent their interests. Plus the fact that "I take advantage of the handicapped for a living" *really* gets the chicks.
Why do geeks, who can look up anything on Google, have no idea what Asperger's Syndrome is? They seem to think that it is some sort of light preference away from social skills.
I am quite close to someone with Asperger's. I met him because I know his sister. It's unlikely that I'd meet him otherwise. I've met several people with Asperger's since then, as they live together at an assisted living facility.
Asperger's is a social handicap. He cannot distinguish lies from truth because he cannot read faces or tone of voice. The assisted living facility watches everybody's budget because they are prone to being swindled. At the same time, he is outgoing, gregarious and generous. He remembers everybody's birthday and spends plenty of time on the phone with everybody and goes out most nights, socializing with people.
But he's on a twenty minute loop of topics. He'll bring something up, then the next topic, and so on, and then twenty minutes later brings up the first topic again. His roommate and he have circular conversations without any hint of discomfort. He also tends to bring up things that happened 20 years ago repeatedly, sometimes without being aware of what has happened in the interval. He talks about his childhood pet cat as if it were still alive.
He is very intelligent and fun to hang out with because he is so outgoing. We went over to his apartment for the Superbowl (he's a big football fan), and he had a GI Joe tablecloth. He invited a bunch of people and was a wonderful host.
But he just didn't get some of the jokes or stories because he simply can not read sarcasm or irony.
Asperger's is talked about on Slashdot as if it were some sort of light geekish introversion. Asperger's has nothing to do with introversion, and many geek tendancies (senses of humor that tend toward the ironic, sarcastic or double meaning) are completely beyond the capabilities of someone with Asperger's. One test for Asperger's is asking someone to draw a person. Children with Asperger's tend not to draw facial features, and if they do, they lack any emotion. Asperger's is complicated because the person may be intelligent (or not... they have the normal range of intelligence), but they simply lack the fundimental ability to parse many parts of social communication.
Asperger's is not a minor handicap. Nor does it cause introversion. It is the inability to understand the social interaction inherent in communication. The fellow I told you about is up for assistant manager at a major pizza chain. He's doing well in the world and has made many friends. But he is handicapped, and it's not the minor "geekish tendancies" that people on Slashdot seem to think Asperger's is. He'll never be able to live on his own, always needing some supervision. It is a real, major handicap.
(no 4 wheel drive and they're front wheel drive usually so that eliminates the driveshaft, a special differential, the transfer case for 4 wheel drive and a bunch of other stuff that adds unecessary weight.)
Ah, but I got two wheel drive for that exact reason. It's basically a Mazda pickup truck (same drivetrain, or at least similar) with a different shell wrapped around it. The big expensive "lookit me!" SUVs are pretty impractical, but then, so are the big shiny pickups when driven by people who just commute to the office. The rule of thumb that I've coined is that four wheel drive should not be purchaced for any vehicle that is expected to stay clean. A good mud spatter across the bottom of the side panels at minium.:)
There's a good lineup of SUVs that are nice and practical for people who would buy large station wagons (which have dwindled to extended hatchbacks) or vans. Two wheel drive and sensible momentum gets me through Florida sugar sand, which is as bad as I'm gonna go off-road... but then, off-road is not the prime reason for it. OTOH, the high clearance gets me over curbs and parking stops into loading bays, public squares and other places where normal cars are not allowed/cannot go (but I often have a crew standing around waiting to unload). In other words, a great utility vehicle along the lines of what the model is, in theory, designed for.
Incidently, if you ever are driving where you shouldn't and get approached by the police, tell the cop you're unloading or loading for -name of closest business-. I have *never* been questioned further, nor have I ever seen any officer follow up with the business. Private security is a different story, however.
Here in British Columbia we are 99.9% Hydro Electric. Look it up, no word of a Lie
The facts seem to agree. All the words are true. It's just those pesky numbers that are a lie. Try 80.65%. That's adding the imported energy to the non-hydro energy. Of the energy you produce, it's a respectable 87.57%. But still not 99.9%.
Is the limit really 60? And does it approach that slowly? If it were, say, 75, and it acclerated like a rocket right up to that speed, I'd be happy. I've done 85 for long distances at times (cross country, middle of nowhere), but I usually cruise at 75 on the highway. If it nails that top speed and stays there (as opposed to hitting 50 really fast and then creeping up to 75), that's all anybody really needs.
Of course, the other thing is the reason I drive an SUV - can it carry a heavy load of stageprops, camping gear or musical gear? An electric SUV (meaning something with good covered load space and good handling when loaded) would be great. I routinely cart around racks of lighting equipment, heavy stage flats, etc. I don't need speed, nor a great deal of power - but I do need space and a bit more power than the minimum for a passenger car.
For that matter, I drive an SUV because it gets better gas mileage than the other option - a van. An electric van would be nice as well.
The reason I mention all this is because I see large natural gas trucks, electric and hybrid tiny cars and nothing in between. For anybody with a need other than a huge commercial truck (garbage trucks, etc) or moving a body or two around, gas IC seems to be the only option, both now and in the near future.
I'm not a big Simpsons watcher (not a big TV watcher, but I like the Simpsons that I've seen). But I get Simpsons by osmosis, hanging around with a large group of people who quote and reference it pretty often. My SO does the same with Monty Python. She's seen only a couple episodes, but can quote long scenes.
Calm down. It's a Simpsons reference. I haven't even seen the episode, and I get it from the "car hole" comment. Apparantly, Homer objects to the fancy terms used, including the term "garage", noting that he calls it (and assumes everybody else does as well) a "car hole".
Yes, he has added new meanings to it, but that doesn't give him reign to decide forevermore how that word should be used, especially if that usage doesn't even follow the rules of the English language.
Yes, it does. The term free software refers to software, a noun, and free, an adjective. The term Free Software is a proper noun that refers to any software whose licensing terms fall under the four guidelines that define the proper noun. Those guidelines can be found via this link. In English, proper nouns are capitalized.
You can disagree as to whether or not it is a valid concept or even a valid designation, but like other formal concepts with proper nouns, such as Freudian theory or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, it is a proper noun and thus capitalized. (Yes, MADD is a group, but I'm giving it as an example of something you might disagree with but is nevertheless capitalized).
Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo, and Digi's Pro Tools, and Apple's Logic division are not worrying about the free competition yet.
No, but then, neither are MS Word, PeopleSoft's HR Tools or SNK King of Fighters series worrying about the competition from Audacity. However, when you compare it to the windows software that exists in every single radio station, such as GoldWave, usually running on some Win98 computer in the corner, you're looking at a really nice drop in replacement.
This software is used to record a voice, lay it in over a track from a CD, and then possibly, at the most technically advanced, compress the time on the voice a bit. In other words, make ads, which is what radio stations do all day. In many stations, even today, you then dump it to a cart... basically an eight-track. For the rest, you load it up into a system that stores all the ads.
This is perfect for that use, and as a result, this is a useful piece of software. I'd also say that it's good for throwing up while rehearsing or jamming to nab stuff in case you hear something really nice.
you're not going to convince me that a truck stop of all places is at the head of the technology curve using this expensive equipment that almost no manufacturers even support anyway.
Never been to a truck stop in the past 20 years, eh? They have really nice WiFi, and even in the 80s had systems set up with modems that you could BBS off of. In the early 90s, they had internet kiosks. You can buy Palm PDAs, portable printers and hand fax units at Flying J, a common chain.
Truckers have to basically be a connected office on the road. They tend toward the leading edge of technology. You've heard the term "road warrior" in relation to on-the-road office workers? Truckers take their office with them. Truck stops service those offices. Long haul truckers use satellite connections and spreadsheets.
And related, any idea where I could find Galaxy Express 999 cartoons?
Did the new movie, the one with lots of CG that had a demo trailer on the recent releases, ever come out? Those were great movies. Reminded me of nice golden age SF.
Oops. I meant to write "All KDE apps are scriptable via shell scripts through dcop, and...". You can script dcop through bash, python, perl and of course most compiled langauges. Plus anything that has an exec or system call.
All KDE apps are scriptable via dcop, and dcop can be tied to keystrokes (including very complicated combo strokes or mouse gesutures) in the KDE Control Center. You can also tie generic actions to the app with focus (i.e., a mouse gesture saves, no matter what app is active or what the "save document" function is called in dcop).
Beetles have two doors plus a hatchback. The passenger side door has no lock by design (from the factory). There's a solid piece of metal where the corresponding spot on the door is. The hatchback is also opened with the keyfob (i.e., it has a separate button on the remote that unlocks and pops up the hatchback). I must admit that I do not know if there is a manual lock on the back, but I do not think so. If there is, then there's a "climb through the back, pushing out the rear seats, pulling the lock from inside" method.
So, yeah - if I'm right about the hatchback, there is no manual lock on the vehicle.
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Damn, they aren't in the publishing industry. Otherwise I'd go for them.
Depending on where you live, the whole foods stores (which, here in CA, blossom into full fledged hippie co-op free markets) tend to have them. Look for "nutritional suppliment" places or shops with "Earth", "Mother" or "Natural" in the name. As you say, it's due to the 'men are controlling women by giving them breast cancer by blocking their natural toxin release via sweat ducts' conspiracy.
No matter where you live (Jersey to Alabama), you can find a natural foods store. A place titled "Natural Mother Earth" in Berkeley goes too far however, and won't carry *any* form of deoderant.
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They were serving at 85-333ms when I started, they are now at 1510-9925ms. Ouch.
(I am, of course, merely testing ab and my own pipe, not doing anything to their site in protest).
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They are interesting to follow. One fellow is leaving because he can't stand the cultural divide and just feels too out of place. Some love the place and are enjoying their stay either as an adventure or just because they like the place.
Find some people already there. You may get a good reply here, but there are plenty of people who have already done what you're needing. In fact, at least one group is putting up wireless nodes at the cell towers.
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This study does show that people are willing to trust the software over their own abilities, but that's a different issue.
And I'm not taking a position for or against spellcheckers helping or harming students. I have seen it cited as a 'well known fact' too often, and I wonder if there is any real legitimacy. I also ask about the methodology because you can find a limited or just plain bad study to prove just about anything.
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What methodology was used? can you cite sources?
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Sorry if I made it seem so. Very few handicaps are incapacitating. I have lived with a schizophrenic and a woman who was blind from birth. Neither were incapacitated by their mental or physical handicaps. I am only objecting to people who are shy and/or antisocial selfdiagnosing or having a friend diagnose them as having Asperger's. A young male who is antisocial is usually a normal male going through healthy social development.
AS affects your life, just as any handicap does. It's not just a matter of being shy or geeky or it being something you can just "get over" or "just deal with it"... which seem to be the two common perceptions here on Slashdot. That, plus the "autism light" misperception (autism is a category of mental problems, including Asperger's, and Asperger's is less of a handicap than some other forms of autism, but it isn't simply a 'mild case of autism').
Handicaps often have misconceptions and mental handicaps have some of the worst misconceptions. Like the fellow who replied to you talking about how he might lose a job because another applicant just seemed to "have it together better". It's especially difficult for people who seem to have no obvious handicap.
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I am quite close to someone with Asperger's. I met him because I know his sister. It's unlikely that I'd meet him otherwise. I've met several people with Asperger's since then, as they live together at an assisted living facility.
Asperger's is a social handicap. He cannot distinguish lies from truth because he cannot read faces or tone of voice. The assisted living facility watches everybody's budget because they are prone to being swindled. At the same time, he is outgoing, gregarious and generous. He remembers everybody's birthday and spends plenty of time on the phone with everybody and goes out most nights, socializing with people.
But he's on a twenty minute loop of topics. He'll bring something up, then the next topic, and so on, and then twenty minutes later brings up the first topic again. His roommate and he have circular conversations without any hint of discomfort. He also tends to bring up things that happened 20 years ago repeatedly, sometimes without being aware of what has happened in the interval. He talks about his childhood pet cat as if it were still alive.
He is very intelligent and fun to hang out with because he is so outgoing. We went over to his apartment for the Superbowl (he's a big football fan), and he had a GI Joe tablecloth. He invited a bunch of people and was a wonderful host.
But he just didn't get some of the jokes or stories because he simply can not read sarcasm or irony.
Asperger's is talked about on Slashdot as if it were some sort of light geekish introversion. Asperger's has nothing to do with introversion, and many geek tendancies (senses of humor that tend toward the ironic, sarcastic or double meaning) are completely beyond the capabilities of someone with Asperger's. One test for Asperger's is asking someone to draw a person. Children with Asperger's tend not to draw facial features, and if they do, they lack any emotion. Asperger's is complicated because the person may be intelligent (or not... they have the normal range of intelligence), but they simply lack the fundimental ability to parse many parts of social communication.
Asperger's is not a minor handicap. Nor does it cause introversion. It is the inability to understand the social interaction inherent in communication. The fellow I told you about is up for assistant manager at a major pizza chain. He's doing well in the world and has made many friends. But he is handicapped, and it's not the minor "geekish tendancies" that people on Slashdot seem to think Asperger's is. He'll never be able to live on his own, always needing some supervision. It is a real, major handicap.
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Ah, but I got two wheel drive for that exact reason. It's basically a Mazda pickup truck (same drivetrain, or at least similar) with a different shell wrapped around it. The big expensive "lookit me!" SUVs are pretty impractical, but then, so are the big shiny pickups when driven by people who just commute to the office. The rule of thumb that I've coined is that four wheel drive should not be purchaced for any vehicle that is expected to stay clean. A good mud spatter across the bottom of the side panels at minium. :)
There's a good lineup of SUVs that are nice and practical for people who would buy large station wagons (which have dwindled to extended hatchbacks) or vans. Two wheel drive and sensible momentum gets me through Florida sugar sand, which is as bad as I'm gonna go off-road... but then, off-road is not the prime reason for it. OTOH, the high clearance gets me over curbs and parking stops into loading bays, public squares and other places where normal cars are not allowed/cannot go (but I often have a crew standing around waiting to unload). In other words, a great utility vehicle along the lines of what the model is, in theory, designed for.
Incidently, if you ever are driving where you shouldn't and get approached by the police, tell the cop you're unloading or loading for -name of closest business-. I have *never* been questioned further, nor have I ever seen any officer follow up with the business. Private security is a different story, however.
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The facts seem to agree. All the words are true. It's just those pesky numbers that are a lie. Try 80.65%. That's adding the imported energy to the non-hydro energy. Of the energy you produce, it's a respectable 87.57%. But still not 99.9%.
Darn numbers.
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Of course, the other thing is the reason I drive an SUV - can it carry a heavy load of stageprops, camping gear or musical gear? An electric SUV (meaning something with good covered load space and good handling when loaded) would be great. I routinely cart around racks of lighting equipment, heavy stage flats, etc. I don't need speed, nor a great deal of power - but I do need space and a bit more power than the minimum for a passenger car.
For that matter, I drive an SUV because it gets better gas mileage than the other option - a van. An electric van would be nice as well.
The reason I mention all this is because I see large natural gas trucks, electric and hybrid tiny cars and nothing in between. For anybody with a need other than a huge commercial truck (garbage trucks, etc) or moving a body or two around, gas IC seems to be the only option, both now and in the near future.
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Yes, it does. The term free software refers to software, a noun, and free, an adjective. The term Free Software is a proper noun that refers to any software whose licensing terms fall under the four guidelines that define the proper noun. Those guidelines can be found via this link. In English, proper nouns are capitalized.
You can disagree as to whether or not it is a valid concept or even a valid designation, but like other formal concepts with proper nouns, such as Freudian theory or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, it is a proper noun and thus capitalized. (Yes, MADD is a group, but I'm giving it as an example of something you might disagree with but is nevertheless capitalized).
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This software is used to record a voice, lay it in over a track from a CD, and then possibly, at the most technically advanced, compress the time on the voice a bit. In other words, make ads, which is what radio stations do all day. In many stations, even today, you then dump it to a cart... basically an eight-track. For the rest, you load it up into a system that stores all the ads.
This is perfect for that use, and as a result, this is a useful piece of software. I'd also say that it's good for throwing up while rehearsing or jamming to nab stuff in case you hear something really nice.
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Never been to a truck stop in the past 20 years, eh? They have really nice WiFi, and even in the 80s had systems set up with modems that you could BBS off of. In the early 90s, they had internet kiosks. You can buy Palm PDAs, portable printers and hand fax units at Flying J, a common chain.
Truckers have to basically be a connected office on the road. They tend toward the leading edge of technology. You've heard the term "road warrior" in relation to on-the-road office workers? Truckers take their office with them. Truck stops service those offices. Long haul truckers use satellite connections and spreadsheets.
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Did the new movie, the one with lots of CG that had a demo trailer on the recent releases, ever come out? Those were great movies. Reminded me of nice golden age SF.
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Damn his eyes.
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Beetles have two doors plus a hatchback. The passenger side door has no lock by design (from the factory). There's a solid piece of metal where the corresponding spot on the door is. The hatchback is also opened with the keyfob (i.e., it has a separate button on the remote that unlocks and pops up the hatchback). I must admit that I do not know if there is a manual lock on the back, but I do not think so. If there is, then there's a "climb through the back, pushing out the rear seats, pulling the lock from inside" method.
So, yeah - if I'm right about the hatchback, there is no manual lock on the vehicle.
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If the keyless entry failed, she *would* be locked out.
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Damn, they aren't in the publishing industry. Otherwise I'd go for them.
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No matter where you live (Jersey to Alabama), you can find a natural foods store. A place titled "Natural Mother Earth" in Berkeley goes too far however, and won't carry *any* form of deoderant.
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