I'm surprised no one has mentioned a webcam in your oven, so you can monitor the brown-ness of anything that's baking over any browser. We visit the oven repeatedly, checking to see if our dishes have reached the optimal level of caramelization. It's also hard to see through the window, so we have to open the door to check, releasing heat. A camera would save trips to the kitchen, and having to open the door for a clear view.
I heard once that the passage about "not lying with another man _as_a_woman_" was really only talking about being "as a woman" with another man, or in other words, being the penetratee. This implies that it's OK to be "as a man" (the penetratOR) with another man, just as long as you are not letting down the team by being "the bitch"
It's like walking the extra mile, etc. You are to never publicly be percieved as anyone's slave, etc. If you have to do civil service, make it look like you want to, and if you're doing it by doing more than is required. If you have to do it with another guy, just make sure you're the "man" when it gets down to deciding who's doing what.
Ever since I saw the movie Marvin, I have been bracing myself for the "Disneyness" of this adaptation.
I mean, how is Disney going to be able to make anything remotely as cynical and un-Disney as HHG? Disney is the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, for all intents and purposes. I hope that I'm wrong, but I refuse to get my hopes up. This movie could have been great if it was made by Terry Gilliam.
Our first hint of how wrong this is going to be is that the guys at Disney read that Marvin has a brain the SIZE of a planet, and they went and made him with a head SHAPED like a planet. A big-headed, cuddly, suicidal robot. He's just going to be the next R2D2 or Ewok. That's Disney molding HHG into a bland pre-teen product so the maximum number of dumb Americans will buy it on home video and let their brats sit and watch it a few hundred times.
You shouldn't be surprised if "bytes/sec != bits/sec * 8" To get the number of bytes you've received, you need to divide by 8 to get the number of bytes you've received, not the other way round.
I know everybody knows this, it's just a typo, etc. but this IS slashdot, and we need be considerate of the impressionable PFYs who might be reading this.
But the bad guys have the source code!! (Whimper)
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My boss is scared to death of using any open source software because he's sure that a lone hacker will look at the code and "figure out how to break in"
I always say that such code is peer-debugged, etc. and that I think bugs are found faster in open source code than in proprietary code, and after that he usually sort of agrees, but the next time I mention OSS, he still gets this goofy grin on his face and says "Well, the only thing I worry about is that some hacker looks at the source..." I'm trying to talk him into using VNC instead of PC Anywhere.
Think about what would happen if a spherical shell of matter kept expanding from the center of the dodecahedron, It would sort of run into itself once it re-entered the dodecahedron from the other direction, but the matter wouldnt' all arrive at the same time, since face to face distance is longer that edge to edge distance. A big bang might lead to repeated expansions and contractions, eventually mixing up into a steady state of radial or more random non-radial motion.
These sort of ideas lead to some neat ideas about expansion/contraction of the universe. This story brightened my dreary work day.
I agree, pop is (mostly) crap. The reason is that creative music, composed and performed flawlessly isn't as marketable to the teenage market, which is bursting with completely disposable income to be spent on CDs, concerts, etc. Just look at MTV, they started out bad enough, making the music video or the performer's navel/clothes/hummer as big or a bigger part of a songs success than the music. They've been driven to hardly even playing music videos by market pressure (read capitalist greed)
The teenage age group is too ripe for the milking for pop music not to suck, so it plays on every impulse of the teen mind, whether it's good old fashioned sexuality, or Jack-ass, or some equally disgusting, base, worthless commodity for the teen drones to gorge on, mixed with advertising and content promoting "the next cool fashion trend" they will be milked to become part of.
You just have to accept that unless someone loves music more that profit, they're going to play and promote crap, to maximize their profits. That's an unfortunate side effect of capitalism. It's bad news for music lovers, but most people I know who really love music just have to work a little harder to dig for it. There are people who own clubs that book and promote real music, and there are media outlets for good music, it's just not as convenient as hooking up to the MTV/Pop radio tit for your daily dose of "culture"
In the mean time, listen to music you like and stick to your local public radio station, and "classic rock" stations.
For people interested in this whole scene, PBS had an excellent Frontline episode called "The Merchants of Cool" covering all of this a while back. Check out
and try to watch this show. I honestly have never seen a bad edition of Frontline. Sometimes I sit down to watch an episode and think why the f*ck would I care about *, and then after a few minutes, I realize that * is an important issue and I'm going to learn something interesting that has been covered up by the media, or the government, or commercial interests. It's a damn good show.
When my family and I were visiting KSC a few weeks ago, to hopefully watch this launch:-( my wife pulled me over to a video screen that was playing a really well done simulation of the launch/flight/landing that underlined the elegance of the methods used for each stage of the trip to mars. It's really nice watching the various parts fall away and new goodies deploy for each part of the trip.
After a quick search on the web once we got home, I found lesser quality versions of the film.
A couple are here:
http://athena.cornell.edu/the_mission/rov_video. ht ml
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/video/anima ti on.html
I think the animator's site had the best quality one, in MPEG. I think his name is Maas.
If you like eye candy, this is sort of a factually based minds-eye type video. I think it's really good CGI, but I'm no expert.
I'd read about the mission, and spinning the probe up for the big burn, and reeling out weights to spin down, etc, but it's not until I saw it on the screen, that the grace and elegance of all the solutions to the various problems of sending this probe to mars really hit me.
Seeing this film makes me feel good about paying my taxes.
The non-profit I work for can't afford to buy a Win 2K server license if it can be avoided by running a samba file server. They pay me more to set up the first one, but it's still less than the cost of a M$ license.
A poor college student may choose to spend his abundant time tweaking linux, while someone esle plunks down the cash for windows because they don't want to spend the time to learn linux.
I can't afford to buy home made quality tomato juice, strawberry and blackberry jams, organic potatoes with edible skins, asparagus, Personal computers, or tube stereo equipment. My only way to have these things without spending the money it takes to buy them in the marketplace is to spend my time, making my own. I don't spend hours on computer games or in alternate online worlds. I just play at remodeling, gardening, soldering, etc.
As far as foods go, several foods just plain can't be handled enough to get them from the factory to the table without a lot of chemicals and packaging, and altering the recipe, leaving out ingredients that spoil too soon. For example, tomatoes. You can't have a fully vine ripened store bought tomato. It would never make it from the vine to the store to your home. If you grow it, pick it, wash it, slice it, and set it on the table, you can have that quality.
Beer's the same way. I can't buy expensive beer with a clear conscious, so I make do with guinness draft until I can brew my own.
I built a tube preamp and amplifiers because I can't afford that entry-level hifi quality in store-bought tube or solid state equipment.
In short, this is just a result of people making the wise decision of doing rather than just deciding to buy or not to buy. BTW, that's how poor people have done in North America since the frontier opened up.
I've been thinking about open source automobiles
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While driving to work the other day, thinking about those neat jet-engine driven cars that store energy in a flywheel, and how I haven't heard much about them since I read about them a few years ago, I wondered if open source development applied to designing something like this could do for automobile manufacturing what open software has done for computing.
Those cars sounded neat, and I think they might have built one prototype or something, but it was really expensive. The idea was that piston engines are very inefficient, and the jet engine would be a major improvement in fuel efficiency, but I wonder if trying to do something that different in the face of an entrenched industry is doomed for failure when using the traditional "I'm going to do it all" approach. That's when open source seemed like a good way to get new technology off the ground, by letting people that cared about the issues at stake do the design and build the various components of the product, demonstrating the alternative to the status quo.
Instead of users writing code, you'd have engineers designing the open source specs, and companies or individuals willing to manufacture a part or an assembly for the car, manufactured to the open specs, which would specify the interfaces between the various components, such as the engine to transmission coupling and flywheel to frame mount.
I'm sure at first it would be for serious hobbyists only, but after enough grass roots support was there, and you had people building the cars in your neighborhood and selling them, it could become a real alternative for eco-people. I mean, once your average environmentalist gear head's showing off his new jet/fly rod down at the health food store, the demand's going to be there.
My point is, does anyone know of any other viable and seriously needed applications of open source to manufacturing, particularly in the case of helping start up environmentally friendly alternative technologies like minimizing or replacing fossil fuel use, etc? I can imagine it happening, but only if there were one product that enough people would be passionate enough about to bring an alternative into existence.
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> Teaches hold me back.
Let me guess, we "hold you back" by calling you on your spelling/typing?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned a webcam in your oven, so you can monitor the brown-ness of anything that's baking over any browser. We visit the oven repeatedly, checking to see if our dishes have reached the optimal level of caramelization. It's also hard to see through the window, so we have to open the door to check, releasing heat. A camera would save trips to the kitchen, and having to open the door for a clear view.
I know it's really $2.8B, but to me, $2.88 just sounds more believable.
I heard once that the passage about "not lying with another man _as_a_woman_" was really only talking about being "as a woman" with another man, or in other words, being the penetratee. This implies that it's OK to be "as a man" (the penetratOR) with another man, just as long as you are not letting down the team by being "the bitch"
It's like walking the extra mile, etc. You are to never publicly be percieved as anyone's slave, etc. If you have to do civil service, make it look like you want to, and if you're doing it by doing more than is required. If you have to do it with another guy, just make sure you're the "man" when it gets down to deciding who's doing what.
Ever since I saw the movie Marvin, I have been bracing myself for the "Disneyness" of this adaptation.
I mean, how is Disney going to be able to make anything remotely as cynical and un-Disney as HHG? Disney is the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, for all intents and purposes. I hope that I'm wrong, but I refuse to get my hopes up. This movie could have been great if it was made by Terry Gilliam.
Our first hint of how wrong this is going to be is that the guys at Disney read that Marvin has a brain the SIZE of a planet, and they went and made him with a head SHAPED like a planet. A big-headed, cuddly, suicidal robot. He's just going to be the next R2D2 or Ewok. That's Disney molding HHG into a bland pre-teen product so the maximum number of dumb Americans will buy it on home video and let their brats sit and watch it a few hundred times.
I hate Disney.
You shouldn't be surprised if "bytes/sec != bits/sec * 8" To get the number of bytes you've received, you need to divide by 8 to get the number of bytes you've received, not the other way round.
I know everybody knows this, it's just a typo, etc. but this IS slashdot, and we need be considerate of the impressionable PFYs who might be reading this.
My boss is scared to death of using any open source software because he's sure that a lone hacker will look at the code and "figure out how to break in"
I always say that such code is peer-debugged, etc. and that I think bugs are found faster in open source code than in proprietary code, and after that he usually sort of agrees, but the next time I mention OSS, he still gets this goofy grin on his face and says "Well, the only thing I worry about is that some hacker looks at the source..." I'm trying to talk him into using VNC instead of PC Anywhere.
Think about what would happen if a spherical shell of matter kept expanding from the center of the dodecahedron, It would sort of run into itself once it re-entered the dodecahedron from the other direction, but the matter wouldnt' all arrive at the same time, since face to face distance is longer that edge to edge distance. A big bang might lead to repeated expansions and contractions, eventually mixing up into a steady state of radial or more random non-radial motion.
These sort of ideas lead to some neat ideas about expansion/contraction of the universe. This story brightened my dreary work day.
I agree, pop is (mostly) crap. The reason is that creative music, composed and performed flawlessly isn't as marketable to the teenage market, which is bursting with completely disposable income to be spent on CDs, concerts, etc. Just look at MTV, they started out bad enough, making the music video or the performer's navel/clothes/hummer as big or a bigger part of a songs success than the music. They've been driven to hardly even playing music videos by market pressure (read capitalist greed)
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The teenage age group is too ripe for the milking for pop music not to suck, so it plays on every impulse of the teen mind, whether it's good old fashioned sexuality, or Jack-ass, or some equally disgusting, base, worthless commodity for the teen drones to gorge on, mixed with advertising and content promoting "the next cool fashion trend" they will be milked to become part of.
You just have to accept that unless someone loves music more that profit, they're going to play and promote crap, to maximize their profits. That's an unfortunate side effect of capitalism. It's bad news for music lovers, but most people I know who really love music just have to work a little harder to dig for it. There are people who own clubs that book and promote real music, and there are media outlets for good music, it's just not as convenient as hooking up to the MTV/Pop radio tit for your daily dose of "culture"
In the mean time, listen to music you like and stick to your local public radio station, and "classic rock" stations.
For people interested in this whole scene, PBS had an excellent Frontline episode called "The Merchants of Cool" covering all of this a while back. Check out
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/c
and try to watch this show. I honestly have never seen a bad edition of Frontline. Sometimes I sit down to watch an episode and think why the f*ck would I care about *, and then after a few minutes, I realize that * is an important issue and I'm going to learn something interesting that has been covered up by the media, or the government, or commercial interests. It's a damn good show.
When my family and I were visiting KSC a few weeks ago, to hopefully watch this launch :-( my wife pulled me over to a video screen that was playing a really well done simulation of the launch/flight/landing that underlined the elegance of the methods used for each stage of the trip to mars. It's really nice watching the various parts fall away and new goodies deploy for each part of the trip.
. ht ml
a ti on.html
After a quick search on the web once we got home, I found lesser quality versions of the film.
A couple are here:
http://athena.cornell.edu/the_mission/rov_video
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/video/anim
I think the animator's site had the best quality one, in MPEG. I think his name is Maas.
If you like eye candy, this is sort of a factually based minds-eye type video. I think it's really good CGI, but I'm no expert.
I'd read about the mission, and spinning the probe up for the big burn, and reeling out weights to spin down, etc, but it's not until I saw it on the screen, that the grace and elegance of all the solutions to the various problems of sending this probe to mars really hit me.
Seeing this film makes me feel good about paying my taxes.
The non-profit I work for can't afford to buy a Win 2K server license if it can be avoided by running a samba file server. They pay me more to set up the first one, but it's still less than the cost of a M$ license.
A poor college student may choose to spend his abundant time tweaking linux, while someone esle plunks down the cash for windows because they don't want to spend the time to learn linux.
I can't afford to buy home made quality tomato juice, strawberry and blackberry jams, organic potatoes with edible skins, asparagus, Personal computers, or tube stereo equipment. My only way to have these things without spending the money it takes to buy them in the marketplace is to spend my time, making my own. I don't spend hours on computer games or in alternate online worlds. I just play at remodeling, gardening, soldering, etc.
As far as foods go, several foods just plain can't be handled enough to get them from the factory to the table without a lot of chemicals and packaging, and altering the recipe, leaving out ingredients that spoil too soon. For example, tomatoes. You can't have a fully vine ripened store bought tomato. It would never make it from the vine to the store to your home. If you grow it, pick it, wash it, slice it, and set it on the table, you can have that quality.
Beer's the same way. I can't buy expensive beer with a clear conscious, so I make do with guinness draft until I can brew my own.
I built a tube preamp and amplifiers because I can't afford that entry-level hifi quality in store-bought tube or solid state equipment.
In short, this is just a result of people making the wise decision of doing rather than just deciding to buy or not to buy. BTW, that's how poor people have done in North America since the frontier opened up.
While driving to work the other day, thinking about those neat jet-engine driven cars that store energy in a flywheel, and how I haven't heard much about them since I read about them a few years ago, I wondered if open source development applied to designing something like this could do for automobile manufacturing what open software has done for computing.
Those cars sounded neat, and I think they might have built one prototype or something, but it was really expensive. The idea was that piston engines are very inefficient, and the jet engine would be a major improvement in fuel efficiency, but I wonder if trying to do something that different in the face of an entrenched industry is doomed for failure when using the traditional "I'm going to do it all" approach. That's when open source seemed like a good way to get new technology off the ground, by letting people that cared about the issues at stake do the design and build the various components of the product, demonstrating the alternative to the status quo.
Instead of users writing code, you'd have engineers designing the open source specs, and companies or individuals willing to manufacture a part or an assembly for the car, manufactured to the open specs, which would specify the interfaces between the various components, such as the engine to transmission coupling and flywheel to frame mount.
I'm sure at first it would be for serious hobbyists only, but after enough grass roots support was there, and you had people building the cars in your neighborhood and selling them, it could become a real alternative for eco-people. I mean, once your average environmentalist gear head's showing off his new jet/fly rod down at the health food store, the demand's going to be there.
My point is, does anyone know of any other viable and seriously needed applications of open source to manufacturing, particularly in the case of helping start up environmentally friendly alternative technologies like minimizing or replacing fossil fuel use, etc? I can imagine it happening, but only if there were one product that enough people would be passionate enough about to bring an alternative into existence.
Port's teh only wine I like. Especially Tawny Port. That's nice and mellow.