At least you have cable television. I'm sitting at home in the city that never sleeps on a Friday with NO television and NO furniture in my apt. (I just moved in. No furniture yet)
At least the Geek gaurd might give us something to do on Friday nights!
And I never would have learned of the wonder benefits of Viagra and Printer Cartridges!!
Now I can keep it "up" for as long the inkjet keeps printing pr0n... and that's a long time thanks to email!
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There is a panic button. It's called speeddial. On my sprint pcs phone if you hold a button down it'll call whatever you set it to. In the case that you being assaulted, have it set to dial '911' ('400' in Canada) and press the button.
Of course, if you keep your keypad locked, then your are SOL.
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My question is who will issue the speeding tickets? Will the phone company call you and say, "Your cel phone GPS recorded that you are presently driving 90 in a 55. We have alerted the local law enforcement of your violation." or will the police station handle the phonecall once they have been notfied?
Perhaps the new Verizon/Disney/AOL/U.S.Justice.Dept will handle the entire issue by adding the fine to your monthly bill!
I think that we should wait until the net is more similar to a Distributed-MMORG before we create detailed maps of it. After all, we currently don't need to try and find our way around the net in a 2 dimensional manner for which we commonly use maps as tools.
Once we have more of a virtual world, then the maps can contain land, portals, regions with boundaries (private networks would be similar to a border that we didn't know or couldn't map what was contained within.
As far as physiscal geography of the servers goes, this will become less and less of an issue as the physical content of the Net becomes distributed accross borders and servers. Of course, this is an optimistic view, but I'm entitled to it.
IANAL, but I doubt that the drexel furniture company owns a trademark on 'Drexel' as the name applies to education. The trademark only covers what they make it cover, i.e. furniture.
The methodology and remarkable benefits are itemized in the patent. Remarkably, those 24 selections constitute 99.5% of the typing in typical English text... Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution in any language with up to 48 characters and punctuation marks.
As the grammar nazi, let me be the first to point out that the English language commonly uses more than 24 characters. Let's see, in this single sentence, I used 22 different characters. That's close to the maximum already, in one sentence. Each character represents more than 0.5% in that sentence as well.
Finally, this isn't a grammar note, rather a progression analysis... Notice that "Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution..." Right. I clearly understand how invisible keys can be assigned for optimum alphabet distribution.
The sales lingo on this site rivals X10.com in uselessness and doublespeak. I'd beware of a SPAM mail attack if were you and you were thinking about purchasing one of these.
We needed more compute power and they gave us 10 Dual processor pIIIs. Our sweet admin manually patched the Linux Kernel so that we could have a SMP Mosix cluster with the SGI's filesystem (I forgot the name(jfs?)).
Our main application was Matlab and Matlab processes didn't migrate properly. We kept those on the Origin server. For image processing and rendering, we used the mosix cluster and it worked very well. Just remember to code your program into a bunch of threads or if you are processing data, split data up and run one process on each dataset.
The program that monitors load is cool too. It monitors the loads on each node and you can watch the threads jump from one node to another.
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems in Owego NY (Hopefully you can relocate). You have flex time until 10 AM. The team I worked on had a 8 processor Origin compute server and a 10 node MOSIX cluster. 40k is a entry level salary (if you possess the skills). New challenges include OCR and Hand writing recognition, digital image filtering, embedded and server programming (all on the same system), and a well rounded mix of highlevel 'systems engineering' with lowlevel 'programming'.
However, most of the delivered systems are on WinNT and Visual Studio is where much of the programming takes place. The Unix boxes and Linux clusters are used for proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and sys-admin. However, there are a lot of Linux supporters high up in Management and they could switch over anytime soon.
I would just like to point out that the 4 or so messages in the thread leading up to this one are hilarious.
I don't usually point this out, but I'm sitting here laughing my ass off. It also happens to be a Saturday night and I'm sitting here, but that's another issue.
On another very interesting note, (I live in NYC, work on Wall St, was evacuated after the first tower collapsed), of the major media channels in the city, television, telephone, cel phone, the only one that still currently works is my internet connection.
However, websites as you mentioned, are still going down. These internet sites are going down based *NOT* on geographic location, rather on content of the incident. The other media channels are going down due to geographic their location.
I'm either babbling or it's an interesting sidenote.
Anyways, I'm off to go give blood. IF you live in NYC or in the USA, please GIVE BLOOD TODAY!!!!!
I think that since Galeon's aesthetics match that of the current gtk+ theme, it should be given a more positibe view. I use a graphite Aqua theme and I believe that Galeon is the most pleasing because it matches the rest of my desktop.
Here is a list of many of Q3's substantial innovations over Q1, Q2, and pretty much every other game to date:
Volumetric fog. This was not done in a video game before Q3
Delta packets - Q3 was designed from the ground up to be a networked game and innovations such as delta packets resulted from this.
Ballistic parametrics - Instead of bullet positions being relayed over a network, Q3 relays position, velocity, acceleration. Remember physics? This is enough to describe the entire trajectory, making for a large bandwidth saver.
Linux (thank you Loki) - It took a *long* time for Q1 and Q2 to be playable in Linux. Loki accomplished this quickly
The story mentions "nearly 10^9 urls", so duplicate documents would be counted multiple times.
Most of their research seems to be on 'static pages'. They state that the entire internet is connected via 16 links (similar to the way that people are connected to 5-6 aquantances). I believe as the ratio of dynamic to static content on the internet increases, this will bring increase the total number of clicks that it takes to get one site to the next. For example, I could create a website that dynamically generates pages, the first 19 pages are all contained within my site and the 20th time that the page is generated, it contains a link to google.
The metric functions that they use are good for randomly connected maps, but they don't apply to the internet, where nodes are not randomly connected. Nodes cluster into a group depending on topic or categories. For example, one Michael Jackson site links to other Michael Jackson websites.
Just as long as nobody needs to throw mugs up against the wall during their speeches!
Regular expressions are very powerful. I'm glad to see that Larry is making good decisions regarding these.
It's funny. It seems that everybody wants Perl to be more like Ruby or more like Python. Don't they realize that they can just use Ruby or Python? I have professional experience with all three of these languages and I can say that they all provide benefits, leading to a situation where it comes down to the right tool for the right job. I'm afraid that Larry is attempting to turn Perl into something that it isn't. a Jack-of-all-trades-yet-master-of-none which isn't good.
Apparently this sound has some overwhelming draw to attract a human's attention and the best they can describe it is as "chusssh-chusssh-chusssh"?!
Have you ever deer hunted or do you go on walks in the country? Often a sharp quick whistle is all it takes to stop varmin dead in their tracks.
Although this doesn't always work for deer, it has occasionally worked for deer. It almost always stops rabbits, squirrels, and birds.
What you do is let out a sharp whistle as soon as the said varment is spooked, as it is running away. You'd be amazed how often the creature stops in its tracks and turns to look at you. Of course it might start running again after it notices you, but try it.
The article makes it sound like the chussh-chussh-chussh does something similar to humans. I think this might endanger more lives than it would save.
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At least the Geek gaurd might give us something to do on Friday nights!
If it is only finitely improbable, well, then it isn't improbable enough.
Sigh... I miss Douglass Adams. </tear to eye>
Now I can keep it "up" for as long the inkjet keeps printing pr0n... and that's a long time thanks to email!
Of course, if you keep your keypad locked, then your are SOL.
Perhaps the new Verizon/Disney/AOL/U.S.Justice.Dept will handle the entire issue by adding the fine to your monthly bill!
Once we have more of a virtual world, then the maps can contain land, portals, regions with boundaries (private networks would be similar to a border that we didn't know or couldn't map what was contained within.
As far as physiscal geography of the servers goes, this will become less and less of an issue as the physical content of the Net becomes distributed accross borders and servers. Of course, this is an optimistic view, but I'm entitled to it.
People usually just moderate me down because I'm the grammar nazi. I deal with it. You should deal with it too.
Well then we must OUTLAW ALL FORMS OF IT and discontinue any research on the subject!!
...wait a second, you said terrestrial navigation aid. Heh. I thought it was terrorist navigation aid.
IANAL, but I doubt that the drexel furniture company owns a trademark on 'Drexel' as the name applies to education. The trademark only covers what they make it cover, i.e. furniture.
As the grammar nazi, let me be the first to point out that the English language commonly uses more than 24 characters. Let's see, in this single sentence, I used 22 different characters. That's close to the maximum already, in one sentence. Each character represents more than 0.5% in that sentence as well.
Finally, this isn't a grammar note, rather a progression analysis... Notice that "Since one cannot see the keys inside the cavities, their character assignments can be reassigned for optimum alphabet distribution..." Right. I clearly understand how invisible keys can be assigned for optimum alphabet distribution.
The sales lingo on this site rivals X10.com in uselessness and doublespeak. I'd beware of a SPAM mail attack if were you and you were thinking about purchasing one of these.
Our main application was Matlab and Matlab processes didn't migrate properly. We kept those on the Origin server. For image processing and rendering, we used the mosix cluster and it worked very well. Just remember to code your program into a bunch of threads or if you are processing data, split data up and run one process on each dataset.
The program that monitors load is cool too. It monitors the loads on each node and you can watch the threads jump from one node to another.
Maybe it's just me.
However, most of the delivered systems are on WinNT and Visual Studio is where much of the programming takes place. The Unix boxes and Linux clusters are used for proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and sys-admin. However, there are a lot of Linux supporters high up in Management and they could switch over anytime soon.
I don't usually point this out, but I'm sitting here laughing my ass off. It also happens to be a Saturday night and I'm sitting here, but that's another issue.
On another very interesting note, (I live in NYC, work on Wall St, was evacuated after the first tower collapsed), of the major media channels in the city, television, telephone, cel phone, the only one that still currently works is my internet connection.
However, websites as you mentioned, are still going down. These internet sites are going down based *NOT* on geographic location, rather on content of the incident. The other media channels are going down due to geographic their location.
I'm either babbling or it's an interesting sidenote.
Anyways, I'm off to go give blood. IF you live in NYC or in the USA, please GIVE BLOOD TODAY!!!!!
GIVE BLOOD
GIVE BLOOD
Somebody's life may depend upon it.
...Wait a minute. Everybody is unemployed in the valley so they will be able to attend!
Hey ubertroll. Why don't you check out my journal entry about you.
I think that since Galeon's aesthetics match that of the current gtk+ theme, it should be given a more positibe view. I use a graphite Aqua theme and I believe that Galeon is the most pleasing because it matches the rest of my desktop.
When I'm feeling spunky, I go with a red ethernet cable, with a twist.
Volumetric fog. This was not done in a video game before Q3
Delta packets - Q3 was designed from the ground up to be a networked game and innovations such as delta packets resulted from this.
Ballistic parametrics - Instead of bullet positions being relayed over a network, Q3 relays position, velocity, acceleration. Remember physics? This is enough to describe the entire trajectory, making for a large bandwidth saver.
Linux (thank you Loki) - It took a *long* time for Q1 and Q2 to be playable in Linux. Loki accomplished this quickly
What else did I miss?
Most of their research seems to be on 'static pages'. They state that the entire internet is connected via 16 links (similar to the way that people are connected to 5-6 aquantances). I believe as the ratio of dynamic to static content on the internet increases, this will bring increase the total number of clicks that it takes to get one site to the next. For example, I could create a website that dynamically generates pages, the first 19 pages are all contained within my site and the 20th time that the page is generated, it contains a link to google.
The metric functions that they use are good for randomly connected maps, but they don't apply to the internet, where nodes are not randomly connected. Nodes cluster into a group depending on topic or categories. For example, one Michael Jackson site links to other Michael Jackson websites.
Regular expressions are very powerful. I'm glad to see that Larry is making good decisions regarding these.
It's funny. It seems that everybody wants Perl to be more like Ruby or more like Python. Don't they realize that they can just use Ruby or Python? I have professional experience with all three of these languages and I can say that they all provide benefits, leading to a situation where it comes down to the right tool for the right job. I'm afraid that Larry is attempting to turn Perl into something that it isn't. a Jack-of-all-trades-yet-master-of-none which isn't good.
There's a story on bbspot news that somes it up very nicely.
Have you ever deer hunted or do you go on walks in the country? Often a sharp quick whistle is all it takes to stop varmin dead in their tracks.
Although this doesn't always work for deer, it has occasionally worked for deer. It almost always stops rabbits, squirrels, and birds.
What you do is let out a sharp whistle as soon as the said varment is spooked, as it is running away. You'd be amazed how often the creature stops in its tracks and turns to look at you. Of course it might start running again after it notices you, but try it.
The article makes it sound like the chussh-chussh-chussh does something similar to humans. I think this might endanger more lives than it would save.