Uhmmm... I run *way* less powerful hardware on each node in my mail cluster for a small ISP. Each can support the full load for 20,000 users (they are clustered for reliablity). I run server hardware which you likely don't need, since you're not talking about a critical server.
OTOH, if you've got the budget, spend it now. Either on hardware, or buy some nice dev tools for various commercial languages, see if Oracle will give you a copy of their db, and set things up so that people can be learning real world skills.
Oh, and make sure that there's a budget to replace broken parts. Just in case someone decides to swipe the UPS (you're getting a UPS, right?) and you get a lightning hit. (And don't forget backup! That's expensive by itself)
Especially stage props, usually ones for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I have built many tanks, transducers, elevators and other large props. Each has specific characteristics that I refine in each iteration. I have made tanks (large things that Rocky is "created" in) that are portable and can be easily carried by one person, and large ones that support the weight of someone standing on them and/or can hold a person suspended inside. Stage props have to look right from a restricted range of view, and can be very creatively built.
Right now, I'm working on a mock pommel horse, light and sturdy.
After that, I also like costuming. Both for Rocky and for the SCA. And sometimes just for the hell of it.
In general, I like making physical things that are useful and theatrical. I also have a tendancy to make my own furnature, but nowadays I often just combine purchased pieces to do so. Really nice furnature wood is just too expensive, and the precision necessary is not what I enjoy doing.
Even the Slashdot editors are not "News" people - they are simply geeks linking to stuff that is cool. Look at the subheading to the site. This is a blog, same as any on LiveJournal or any other location. It just happens to be a popular one. It's full of emotional rants and jabs. As such, I expect it to have provocative headlines.
Take a look at The Register - real news (they even make an attempt at fact checking and spelling things correctly), but they spin things so hard to get attention that their headlines are almost always puns or injokes that have little to do with the article. Entertaining, but I don't skim the headlines there, either.
There is one comment by a doctor against it and several newspaper articles supporting the event. The comment by the doctor has one supporting fact - that the epiglottis would allow the gas to escape. He even says that there would be massive amounts of gas (he refers to a collegue who did this and was worried he would belch so much as to be unable to breathe.
Now, I'm not gonna say that the doctor is wrong. A normal epiglottis would likely be able to deal with the amount of gas being produced. I'm sure he's seen plenty more epiglotti than I. But how many has he seen frozen solid inside a normal, warm human body?
Fink has ported KDE, so if you like Konsole (I do), then it's available. Of course, you need the whole KDE compiled plus X11, but you just need X and Konsole running (plus DCOP, but that's the overhead for all KDE apps, since that's how they share objects).
I think this thread has come to an end. We can stop needling McCalls over this issue. I certainly pin my hope on it, else we destroy the fabric of Slashdot's community.
Jumping in here briefly, I'll mention that IE for the Mac appears to support alpha properly, leading me to think it may be related to how IE for Windows handles the client area (i.e., the drawing methods in the page).
And second - what is the CSS hack? That would be handy for people to do as an interm fix. (And real world html is all about interm hack fixes to get things to look right).
Realistically, the amount of energy involved here hits the earth every day. Either it produces black holes (which we think it does) or it doesn't. Either way, this experiment is safe. All it's reproducing is something that happens on this planet all the time. They are just doing intentionally so they can watch the spot where it occurs, since it's impossible to predict where it's going to happen when the cosmos in general is firing the radiation at us.
It's a bit like using a sunlamp on a plant indoors to standardize and observe. Do you really think there will suddenly be a massive fusion reaction enveloping the planet from a sunlamp?
There seem to be two major misconceptions in this thread. First, it takes way way more mass than the Earth has (several orders of magnitude), possibly more matter than the entire solar system has, to make a stable black hole.
Second, unstable black holes, of the sort being made here, occur all the time on earth. Cosmic radiation creates them. They are just trying to make one the same way that they occur all over the place so they know where it will be and have recording equipment ready for it.
Actually, they are all clustered up in the Andromeda galaxy, all the civilizations of the cosmos, all giggling behind tenticles, fronds and telepathically, and then hysterically shusshing each other: "Tee hee! They're about to do it! I can't wait to see the look on their faces! Hush now... we don't want them to hear us!".
It's *hard* to make music good enough to sell. The album you're trying to sell (and I'm thinking that you are the artist, as this "label" has only one artist) is extremely well produced. That's about all it has going for it, and low production values have never held back good music.
At the same time, you've got overworked, long intros (leave that for the live album 20 years down the road), several insturmentals (which almost never do well - how many of James Taylors insturmentals can you recall?), and a singer that sounds like he's been training in high school chorus for the solo for the spring musical. Yes, I can say that, as I've had albums that flopped, and I sound nasal and grating.
Plus, having listened to the first half of all the songs, none of them really caught my attention and stood out. Sorry - it's *hard* to push albums. Live gigs? Sure - even I can fill a local venue. Selling albums across the country? You're competing with thousands of other bands, mostly comprised of veteran performers who are band-mate swapping every year or so, hoping to mesh with somebody for that next great hit. Plus loads of semi-successful or career artists like Throwing Muses and Men Without Hats, both of whom just released new albums and are trying to push their own stuff in the exact same way you are - with pre-built in name recognition.
To sum it up - making music is easy. Making good music is hard. Selling your music is the hardest thing of all and involves some amount of luck. There are bands that gave up, only to have their album suddenly take off two years after they gave all the copies away at live performances.
Incidently, I *assume* you're performing, pushing your stuff with at least two gigs a week. If you're not, you're not doing the work. Regardless if you make it this time around, constant gigging vastly improves your ability to perform, and if that's what you want to do in life, you have to work at it.
Incidently, while I ripped apart the *album*, you've got some decent songs. I'd sit and have dinner with you performing somewhere. And that's where 98% of all artists will spend almost all their careers. That's the music biz.
Once you GPL code, it is under the control of the GPL framework. It's not the perogative of the previous owner to demand everything. The code has a life of it's own at that point.
Wrong.
An author can't take back the GPL.
Somewhat right. The GPL only applies to the *recipient*, not the original author. That is to say:
John writes pngview 1.1. He releases it under the GPL and gives it (and source, as the GPL dictates) to Bill. Bill sells it to Karen (still legal), without source (still legal, but Karen has the right to ask for source).
John then decides to release pngview 1.2 as a commercial software. Still okay, but Bill has 1.1 and source to do with as he wishes - under the terms of the GPL. Karen can still request source, and she can do whatever she wishes, under the terms of the GPL.
John then decides to release pngview 1.2 under BSD. Still okay - he can do that. John has a copy under GPL, though, so technically, he'd have to use 1.2 if he wants the terms of the BSD license.
It's Bill and Karen that are held to the terms of the GPL. The GPL is a release license that affects the rights of recipients, not the original author. See Trolltech or Ghostscript for examples. Both release commercial and GPL versions, and you can choose which to use.
Where did you get that idea from? I'm not saying it can't be true, but I seem to get the idea that they were way too high for birds when they crumbled.
And desecration is in the eye of the holder. Myself, I'd like a piece of the shuttle in memorandum. Actually, I probably wouldn't because it would bug me. But if I did have a piece, it would be held with great respect.
Robots out of floppy drives are old hat. Sometime in the late 80s, early 90s, they started appearing all over the place where proto or bored engineers (i.e., colleges, user groups, etc) congregated.
Heh, I hit the comments of this article just to post about DKM's works. He's an incredibly good author who unfortunatly stopped writing. The other novel he wrote (which, with your list constitutes his entire list of works) is Armageddon Blues, which takes place in the same multiverse, a couple "doors down". Like Heinlein, he can do science, but perverts it for a good story, and lets the characters dominate.
Armageddon Blues and Emerald Eyes are two fantastic books. I lent them to someone, they never came back, and now they are so sought after, their used price is way up. I have my copy of The Last Dancer (it really helps if you've read EE), and I've not yet gotten a chance to read The Long Run.
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You were not required to say it, as that is what the author implied with the title of this story.
What's worse is that the author was punning with "Eye". This guy couldn't even get the quote, "Ay caramba!" correct. Even I may be off, but I know for certain it's not "Eyecaramba".
(ObOffTopic - How do I do an upside down bang in X? I kñöw móst còmbos.)
If I were working for AG in their character department, and I came across it, I would probably print it out and hang it on my desk - or make it my desktop wallpaper. It probably wouldn't cross my mind that it's legally questionable. I would just find it cool.
Then, when a legal type walked by...
Artists think things like this are nifty, fun and a compliment. Lawyers and Anne MacCaffery think that they are cause for legal action.
When you can afford a Mac with OSX, and then an iPod, I think you can then enter this conversation.
In the meantime, over to the right is an open mic night at a coffeehouse. You might be able to mooch and avoid a $4 coffee. Otherwise, there's that guy down the hall with the guitar.
I kinda liked III. Not only did you have Lloyd's Klingon chewing the scenery, but you have the stirring scene when Kirk destroys the Enterprise, watching it tear up in the atmosphere, and he says "My god, Bones... what have I done?"
I agree with you about I, though. The f00fing V'Ger was decidedly a floating point error.
*** Spoiler reference alert ***. Gally just doesn't sound like the name of a flower to english speakers, whereas Alita does. And the ending, as strange as it is, pulls on the fact that her name is the name of a flower.
I thought Cowboy BeBop was dubbed well - something that surprised me. It's one of the only animes that I like dubbed. That and the wacky comedies like Goldenboy and Ogenki Clinic, where timing and silly voices are important. Subbing "I, uh... ahhh... I uh... ahhh.. I *uh*... *arugh*!!!" is kinda dumb. (I've met Doug Smith, the american voice actor for Goldenboy. Cool guy, like most people from Studio Ironcat).
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OTOH, if you've got the budget, spend it now. Either on hardware, or buy some nice dev tools for various commercial languages, see if Oracle will give you a copy of their db, and set things up so that people can be learning real world skills.
Oh, and make sure that there's a budget to replace broken parts. Just in case someone decides to swipe the UPS (you're getting a UPS, right?) and you get a lightning hit. (And don't forget backup! That's expensive by itself)
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Right now, I'm working on a mock pommel horse, light and sturdy.
After that, I also like costuming. Both for Rocky and for the SCA. And sometimes just for the hell of it.
In general, I like making physical things that are useful and theatrical. I also have a tendancy to make my own furnature, but nowadays I often just combine purchased pieces to do so. Really nice furnature wood is just too expensive, and the precision necessary is not what I enjoy doing.
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Take a look at The Register - real news (they even make an attempt at fact checking and spelling things correctly), but they spin things so hard to get attention that their headlines are almost always puns or injokes that have little to do with the article. Entertaining, but I don't skim the headlines there, either.
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Provacative, it catches the reader... nice headline.
But wait, a few people read the story.
Uh, yeah. Did you just come here for the headlines?
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Now, I'm not gonna say that the doctor is wrong. A normal epiglottis would likely be able to deal with the amount of gas being produced. I'm sure he's seen plenty more epiglotti than I. But how many has he seen frozen solid inside a normal, warm human body?
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And second - what is the CSS hack? That would be handy for people to do as an interm fix. (And real world html is all about interm hack fixes to get things to look right).
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It's a bit like using a sunlamp on a plant indoors to standardize and observe. Do you really think there will suddenly be a massive fusion reaction enveloping the planet from a sunlamp?
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I believe that's the point.
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Second, unstable black holes, of the sort being made here, occur all the time on earth. Cosmic radiation creates them. They are just trying to make one the same way that they occur all over the place so they know where it will be and have recording equipment ready for it.
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At the same time, you've got overworked, long intros (leave that for the live album 20 years down the road), several insturmentals (which almost never do well - how many of James Taylors insturmentals can you recall?), and a singer that sounds like he's been training in high school chorus for the solo for the spring musical. Yes, I can say that, as I've had albums that flopped, and I sound nasal and grating.
Plus, having listened to the first half of all the songs, none of them really caught my attention and stood out. Sorry - it's *hard* to push albums. Live gigs? Sure - even I can fill a local venue. Selling albums across the country? You're competing with thousands of other bands, mostly comprised of veteran performers who are band-mate swapping every year or so, hoping to mesh with somebody for that next great hit. Plus loads of semi-successful or career artists like Throwing Muses and Men Without Hats, both of whom just released new albums and are trying to push their own stuff in the exact same way you are - with pre-built in name recognition.
To sum it up - making music is easy. Making good music is hard. Selling your music is the hardest thing of all and involves some amount of luck. There are bands that gave up, only to have their album suddenly take off two years after they gave all the copies away at live performances.
Incidently, I *assume* you're performing, pushing your stuff with at least two gigs a week. If you're not, you're not doing the work. Regardless if you make it this time around, constant gigging vastly improves your ability to perform, and if that's what you want to do in life, you have to work at it.
Incidently, while I ripped apart the *album*, you've got some decent songs. I'd sit and have dinner with you performing somewhere. And that's where 98% of all artists will spend almost all their careers. That's the music biz.
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Wrong.
An author can't take back the GPL.
Somewhat right. The GPL only applies to the *recipient*, not the original author. That is to say:
John writes pngview 1.1. He releases it under the GPL and gives it (and source, as the GPL dictates) to Bill. Bill sells it to Karen (still legal), without source (still legal, but Karen has the right to ask for source).
John then decides to release pngview 1.2 as a commercial software. Still okay, but Bill has 1.1 and source to do with as he wishes - under the terms of the GPL. Karen can still request source, and she can do whatever she wishes, under the terms of the GPL.
John then decides to release pngview 1.2 under BSD. Still okay - he can do that. John has a copy under GPL, though, so technically, he'd have to use 1.2 if he wants the terms of the BSD license.
It's Bill and Karen that are held to the terms of the GPL. The GPL is a release license that affects the rights of recipients, not the original author. See Trolltech or Ghostscript for examples. Both release commercial and GPL versions, and you can choose which to use.
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And desecration is in the eye of the holder. Myself, I'd like a piece of the shuttle in memorandum. Actually, I probably wouldn't because it would bug me. But if I did have a piece, it would be held with great respect.
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Fun stuff, though.
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Armageddon Blues and Emerald Eyes are two fantastic books. I lent them to someone, they never came back, and now they are so sought after, their used price is way up. I have my copy of The Last Dancer (it really helps if you've read EE), and I've not yet gotten a chance to read The Long Run.
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What's worse is that the author was punning with "Eye". This guy couldn't even get the quote, "Ay caramba!" correct. Even I may be off, but I know for certain it's not "Eyecaramba".
(ObOffTopic - How do I do an upside down bang in X? I kñöw móst còmbos.)
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Then, when a legal type walked by...
Artists think things like this are nifty, fun and a compliment. Lawyers and Anne MacCaffery think that they are cause for legal action.
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In the meantime, over to the right is an open mic night at a coffeehouse. You might be able to mooch and avoid a $4 coffee. Otherwise, there's that guy down the hall with the guitar.
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I agree with you about I, though. The f00fing V'Ger was decidedly a floating point error.
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*** Spoiler reference alert ***. Gally just doesn't sound like the name of a flower to english speakers, whereas Alita does. And the ending, as strange as it is, pulls on the fact that her name is the name of a flower.
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