I suffer from having fairly common given AND surnames. And from the simple fact that a frankly astonishing number of normals seem to think that just using @gmail.com as their email address (registered or not) is their god-given right. So I get everything. Realtors' messages, offers from a yacht broker, medical appointment reminders, confirmation mails for every-fucking-thing from utilities to kindergarten applications, earned points announcements/statements from any number of airline and retail points programs... every.fucking.thing. It all started about 10 years ago when email penetration exceeded 40% of population in the US, but I get mis-addressed email from all over the english speaking world.
L4 and L5 are them most stable Lagrange points in a system of orbiting bodies, and stuff in them will tend to remain in them even if the bodies that create them experience non-catastrophic changes. An advanced civilization, even one like ours just getting into space, would position something at L4 or L5 Earth/Sun or Earth/Moon Lagrange Points, a slightly more advanced civilization would put something at the Jupiter/Sun L4/L5, even if it was just a funny gold record with engraved instructions for playing it... So, we should be looking there.
So the time has come to pull back our social circles to the stone age? What about involving "big tech companies" like the phone company? Big government, like The POST OFFICE? It's all a matter of trust, and if necessary regulation. What this guy is advocating is Neo-Luddism.
except that back during Apollo, NASA consumed between 1.2 and 4.4 percent of the entire annual federal budget. Now it accounts for around 0.5%. So, the pie got a lot bigger, and the space program's slice got a lot thinner. So NASA is actually doing a lot with less. Also - the entire Apollo Program cost around 26b$ in 1969, which works out to about 136b$ in 2007 (and closer to 160b$ in 2017 dollars)... so it's more like 36% ( 31% in 2017 dollars) of Apollo, and less when you consider that the SLS program didn't even start until 2011, and inflation since then has been around 8.5%. So, yeah, SLS is financially pretty great, compared to the mankind's greatest technological achievement up to the 20th century.
who "took all the Murican jobs!1!!", but it's clearly the CEO ànd board of Hostess. Maybe we should build a wall around them, and make them pay for it... ?
I'm motorcyclist in Europe, and part of my hobby, the part I like best, is mountain touring. The worst thing that ever happens - and this is speaking as someone who has been in the losing side of a competition with a delivery truck - is coming around a corner on an up-hill mountain road and facing the backside of a pod of spandex-clad, "clipped-in" wanna-be Tour-de-France-competitors riding their bikes, weaving along at walking speed 6 abreast across the entire lane (and sometimes across the entire paved road). I have no problem with sharing the road with bicyclists, but sharing is a two-way street, so to speak. I cannot count the number of times where I have had to emergency brake or drift into the oncoming lane to avoid these idiots^h^h^h^h^h^h situations. I know some motorcyclists can be PITAs as well, but I'm talking about driving within the law, at the posted speed limit, taking all necessary defensive driving precautions.
The second worst thing, is on the downhill side, where suddenly the lane markings on the roads seem to become invisible to reckless suicidal-seeming bicyclists who low-high-low curves across the entire road at ridiculous speeds that can only be achieved on steep downhill grades. Tbh, I have no problem with these guys taking their own lives in their hands, but I take serious exception at their implicit decision to involve me and my bike in their demise.
Um... fact check. The indie short was shot by Patrick Jean, who then sold the rights to Sandler and Columbia. He was slated to direct, but turned the job over to Chris Columbus as the budget grew. http://uk.businessinsider.com/pixels-filmmaker-patrick-jean-not-happy-with-adam-sandler-version-2015-7?r=US&IR=T
nope. For all her faults - and there are many - this one is all about the true Master of Disaster at HP, the incredibly incompetent and massively overwhelmed Hasso Plattner, the one-trick-pony from SAP who sees everything as an accounting software house, and runs it accordingly. He could run anything that isn't SAP into the ground without breaking a sweat. Maybe he should take over Carly's campaign...
There's this thing called Google, and it is full of little facts like this one... everyone should try it!
Not to sound like a shill, but this is exactly that: http://www.arbornetworks.com/products/arbor-cloud . Again, most ISPs worth their salt already implement PeakFlow in their backbone IP networks to catch and control large scale DDoS events, but at multi-gigabit levels - setting the threshold just low enough to ensure that DDoS attacks don't wipe-out their backbones, a level that is much higher than any single customer link bandwidth. Today, they (we) are beginning to offer these services (based on BGP, threat intelligence shared between ISPs and Security Consultancies, and "live" feedback from CPE-Probes like Pravail at customer sites) and they do work for the most part. The only downside (other than pricing - which is kinda steep) is the fact that it is a defensive mitigation approach - you BGP-blackhole the bad traffic in the customer-side ISP backbone, not the source. It's not going to eliminate the ever-growing and extremely long list of asshats (including sovereign state actor-asshats) that initiate these kinds of attacks, but it can and does, currently, mitigate the vast majority of them. So, yay-ish.
I work for a carrier. Together with companies like Arbor Networks, we already have systems in place that can mitigate most volumetric attacks, and many more intelligent attacks. Unfortunately, it's not cheap. Customers have to be willing to implement (and pay for) the protection services that most serious ISPs already offer as options on their IP traffic products. Keywords for your search are Pravail and PeakFlow.
well, the entire population of visual artists excluding at least the dumbshit photographer who filed the case. I'm pretty sure he's quite happy with the ruling. Somebody needs to find a photo by this guy, and then find a previous photo from another photographer with "appropriate" stylistic and compositional similarities, and then convince the other photographer to sue. If we can manage to do this often enough, we will eliminate all culture and arts, and could at least in theory insure that the direct descendents of the cave painters of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (or the Corporation that bought the rights) finally get the royalties they so desperately "deserve".
video and music: redundant server storage with cifs/smb access and a front end like Media Portal (i use a windows home server box with about 12 TB on it and Media Portal on a nearly silent media pc connected to my tv via hdmi and my A/V Reciever and to the server via HomePlug networking- and yeah, i know xbmc will run on linux, but i find MP easier to use and keep working and aesthetically pleasing - XBMC is running as a toy on my classic xbox). Just for fun, I have StreamtoMe set up on my server to allow me to watch stuff on the go with my iPad or iPod, but this doesn't really help with the organization part too much.
comics: redundant server storage and ComicRack
Photos: redundant server storage and either Picasa, Adobe Photoshop Elements or Media Portal
and books i keep on my iTunes (ipod and ipad) or Kindle.
Use the stuff that a lot of people have already put a lot of thought into before you try to innovate, at least until you determine that their solutions are inadequate for your needs.
essentially what you need is some kind of fault tolerant network storage and a robust purpose built, database based front-end to handle the organization, access and presentation.
Easy-peasy. The hard part is finding all this stuff, and buying the necessary hardware... Google is your friend here.
I can second this. MP is really great if you have an extensive collection of video, tv-rips, photos and/or music. Only thing I haven't been able to do with it well is web-streaming (NetFlix, etc.) I use Boxee for that.
Setup and media indexing is pretty simple, if a bit time consuming. There are several good walk-throughs on the MP forums.
I have it running on my HTPC, and even my wife is happy with it in the living room. As far as XBMC goes, MP is a fork from a couple of years ago, so they have a lot in common. I've found that the movie/tv-show handling is better with MP, especially with the Streamed MP skin.
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I suffer from having fairly common given AND surnames. And from the simple fact that a frankly astonishing number of normals seem to think that just using @gmail.com as their email address (registered or not) is their god-given right. So I get everything. Realtors' messages, offers from a yacht broker, medical appointment reminders, confirmation mails for every-fucking-thing from utilities to kindergarten applications, earned points announcements/statements from any number of airline and retail points programs... every.fucking.thing. It all started about 10 years ago when email penetration exceeded 40% of population in the US, but I get mis-addressed email from all over the english speaking world.
L4 and L5 are them most stable Lagrange points in a system of orbiting bodies, and stuff in them will tend to remain in them even if the bodies that create them experience non-catastrophic changes. An advanced civilization, even one like ours just getting into space, would position something at L4 or L5 Earth/Sun or Earth/Moon Lagrange Points, a slightly more advanced civilization would put something at the Jupiter/Sun L4/L5, even if it was just a funny gold record with engraved instructions for playing it... So, we should be looking there.
So the time has come to pull back our social circles to the stone age? What about involving "big tech companies" like the phone company? Big government, like The POST OFFICE? It's all a matter of trust, and if necessary regulation. What this guy is advocating is Neo-Luddism.
except that back during Apollo, NASA consumed between 1.2 and 4.4 percent of the entire annual federal budget. Now it accounts for around 0.5%. So, the pie got a lot bigger, and the space program's slice got a lot thinner. So NASA is actually doing a lot with less. Also - the entire Apollo Program cost around 26b$ in 1969, which works out to about 136b$ in 2007 (and closer to 160b$ in 2017 dollars) ... so it's more like 36% ( 31% in 2017 dollars) of Apollo, and less when you consider that the SLS program didn't even start until 2011, and inflation since then has been around 8.5%. So, yeah, SLS is financially pretty great, compared to the mankind's greatest technological achievement up to the 20th century.
It's been done... ... and everyone knows... ... targeted billboard advertising blows.
-... Burma Shave
1984 - The Integral Trees, 1987 - The Smoke Ring...
slightly different concept, here it's a failed planetary disk, so a failed solar system, but similar.
who "took all the Murican jobs!1!!", but it's clearly the CEO ànd board of Hostess. Maybe we should build a wall around them, and make them pay for it... ?
http://www.amazon.com/Mutant-59-Plastic-Eaters-Kit-Pedler/dp/0670496626
I'm motorcyclist in Europe, and part of my hobby, the part I like best, is mountain touring. The worst thing that ever happens - and this is speaking as someone who has been in the losing side of a competition with a delivery truck - is coming around a corner on an up-hill mountain road and facing the backside of a pod of spandex-clad, "clipped-in" wanna-be Tour-de-France-competitors riding their bikes, weaving along at walking speed 6 abreast across the entire lane (and sometimes across the entire paved road). I have no problem with sharing the road with bicyclists, but sharing is a two-way street, so to speak. I cannot count the number of times where I have had to emergency brake or drift into the oncoming lane to avoid these idiots^h^h^h^h^h^h situations. I know some motorcyclists can be PITAs as well, but I'm talking about driving within the law, at the posted speed limit, taking all necessary defensive driving precautions.
The second worst thing, is on the downhill side, where suddenly the lane markings on the roads seem to become invisible to reckless suicidal-seeming bicyclists who low-high-low curves across the entire road at ridiculous speeds that can only be achieved on steep downhill grades. Tbh, I have no problem with these guys taking their own lives in their hands, but I take serious exception at their implicit decision to involve me and my bike in their demise.
Um... fact check. The indie short was shot by Patrick Jean, who then sold the rights to Sandler and Columbia. He was slated to direct, but turned the job over to Chris Columbus as the budget grew. http://uk.businessinsider.com/pixels-filmmaker-patrick-jean-not-happy-with-adam-sandler-version-2015-7?r=US&IR=T
nope. For all her faults - and there are many - this one is all about the true Master of Disaster at HP, the incredibly incompetent and massively overwhelmed Hasso Plattner, the one-trick-pony from SAP who sees everything as an accounting software house, and runs it accordingly. He could run anything that isn't SAP into the ground without breaking a sweat. Maybe he should take over Carly's campaign...
There's this thing called Google, and it is full of little facts like this one... everyone should try it!
I already have most of this function in my Opel Insignia... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiSCCXaxzXc
Not to sound like a shill, but this is exactly that: http://www.arbornetworks.com/products/arbor-cloud . Again, most ISPs worth their salt already implement PeakFlow in their backbone IP networks to catch and control large scale DDoS events, but at multi-gigabit levels - setting the threshold just low enough to ensure that DDoS attacks don't wipe-out their backbones, a level that is much higher than any single customer link bandwidth. Today, they (we) are beginning to offer these services (based on BGP, threat intelligence shared between ISPs and Security Consultancies, and "live" feedback from CPE-Probes like Pravail at customer sites) and they do work for the most part. The only downside (other than pricing - which is kinda steep) is the fact that it is a defensive mitigation approach - you BGP-blackhole the bad traffic in the customer-side ISP backbone, not the source. It's not going to eliminate the ever-growing and extremely long list of asshats (including sovereign state actor-asshats) that initiate these kinds of attacks, but it can and does, currently, mitigate the vast majority of them. So, yay-ish.
I work for a carrier. Together with companies like Arbor Networks, we already have systems in place that can mitigate most volumetric attacks, and many more intelligent attacks. Unfortunately, it's not cheap. Customers have to be willing to implement (and pay for) the protection services that most serious ISPs already offer as options on their IP traffic products. Keywords for your search are Pravail and PeakFlow.
shhh! didn't you hear? Everybody calls him Psycho!
why not ATTILLA?
been there, done that. Now we have a really cool indoor waterpark... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
gah. I've been in Europe too long. I read that as "Two Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Five"K.... that's kinda toasty.
well, the entire population of visual artists excluding at least the dumbshit photographer who filed the case. I'm pretty sure he's quite happy with the ruling. Somebody needs to find a photo by this guy, and then find a previous photo from another photographer with "appropriate" stylistic and compositional similarities, and then convince the other photographer to sue. If we can manage to do this often enough, we will eliminate all culture and arts, and could at least in theory insure that the direct descendents of the cave painters of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (or the Corporation that bought the rights) finally get the royalties they so desperately "deserve".
This is obviously the goal of big copyright.
heh. or we just wait for M31 to come to us...
but:
video and music: redundant server storage with cifs/smb access and a front end like Media Portal (i use a windows home server box with about 12 TB on it and Media Portal on a nearly silent media pc connected to my tv via hdmi and my A/V Reciever and to the server via HomePlug networking- and yeah, i know xbmc will run on linux, but i find MP easier to use and keep working and aesthetically pleasing - XBMC is running as a toy on my classic xbox). Just for fun, I have StreamtoMe set up on my server to allow me to watch stuff on the go with my iPad or iPod, but this doesn't really help with the organization part too much.
comics: redundant server storage and ComicRack
Photos: redundant server storage and either Picasa, Adobe Photoshop Elements or Media Portal
and books i keep on my iTunes (ipod and ipad) or Kindle.
Use the stuff that a lot of people have already put a lot of thought into before you try to innovate, at least until you determine that their solutions are inadequate for your needs.
essentially what you need is some kind of fault tolerant network storage and a robust purpose built, database based front-end to handle the organization, access and presentation.
Easy-peasy. The hard part is finding all this stuff, and buying the necessary hardware... Google is your friend here.
it's not like this is rocket science or anything...
oh, wait a minute... what?
to hell with playing games. I want to know why my sneakers can't microwave my dinner. Who's working on that?
even easier if you spell it right. That's Boxee.
http://www.boxee.tv/
I can second this. MP is really great if you have an extensive collection of video, tv-rips, photos and/or music. Only thing I haven't been able to do with it well is web-streaming (NetFlix, etc.) I use Boxee for that.
Setup and media indexing is pretty simple, if a bit time consuming. There are several good walk-throughs on the MP forums.
I have it running on my HTPC, and even my wife is happy with it in the living room. As far as XBMC goes, MP is a fork from a couple of years ago, so they have a lot in common. I've found that the movie/tv-show handling is better with MP, especially with the Streamed MP skin.