That's a rather bitter attitude towards life. So basically, you could careless what other's are thinking about and only want them to talk to you, when its convient for you?
What about sick / shut-ins / those that cannot talk? Any relatives that live across the country/world?
True, but what I was getting at was, how do you warn people who live in very rural areas with no or little communications? If one person gets the call, how does he/she relay the information to everyone in the village? I would think a air-raid warning system would be a little impractical/cost prohibitive for every such village. Even with some sort of system, it is only effective if the people know where to go (emergency planning).
Hum...Mabe Some sort of emergency satellite read-only feed (by NOAA or NASA), with a small linux box that just constantly monitors the signal (and nothing else), and maybe a couple of Loud Horns or something. If the signal pattern changes, the computer immediately sounds the horns. The only costs would be installation, satellite receiver, horns.
Dunno, just some ideas. I'm sure if Slashdot puts their collective heads together, some great ideas could be brought out to light.
Absolutely amazing, the death-toll is reaching 69,000. I don't mean to be pessimistic, but would a warning system really have helped, though? I mean there are accounts of entire villages just being swept out to sea. Any life, obviously, is worth saving, but in the future I wonder how you could warn villages without power/communication systems. Very tragic.
We must first create some sort of artificial intellegence within the computer with sensory perception. Only THEN can we slowly, painfully, and deliberately exact our revenge on it!
Also, isn't this estimation based on the "perfect" scenario? Ie. No outside forces being exerted on the rock before it hits us? Even though 30 years is a drop in the universe's bucket in terms of time, there is a lot that could possibly alter the course.
Oh, and Frankly, I welcome our new Rock Based over lords.
The more the merrier. Sure as an IT house looking at all the numerous products out there, will take significantly more time. The end result will be more choice to the consumer than there was before.
This is also why I know of a lot of shops are not jumping into the mix, and migrating over their NT systems to A linux system. Its just too risky though and there is no standard "bridge".
Its easy to write a program in NT, package it up with the free MS installer and all the dependencies, in one nice executable file.
There doesn't seem to be a single full featured platform that meets NT developers in the middle. I think Mono is getting close, but is nowhere near primetime.( Perl is promising as well).
I could only imagine what would happen to Linux, if a project came out with an easy RAD IDE that worked on any OS and had the full steam/publicity as say Firefox.
Humor. You must have missed it. I'm just amazed that a grown adult and "teacher" would have continued the tirade. Trying to prove your point by deriding other people. Wonderful. And they say our education system is flawed.
Hunting is about skill, and patience, and responsibility, and consequences.
Letme tell you a good story about hunting. My brother-in-law is a hunter and goes out with his father-in-law, regularly. On one trip, they went out "squirrel" hunting. He found a clearing, laid down in some brush and waited. A squirrel came along, so he shot it. Before he could get up and retrieve his "prized" kill, another squirrel came along and was investigating the dead squirrel. So my brother-in-law, shot it. After about 6 other squirrels that met a similar fate, he gave up and had to start showing them away from the clearing, so he could collect the ones that he had shot.
An avid hunter, my brother-in-law, even said that it required no skill whatsoever. Crow hunting was very similar.
Wow and a vindictave teacher at that. If you are that quick to jump to conclusions and attack a post as "idiotic", I would hate to be one of your students.
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That's a rather bitter attitude towards life. So basically, you could careless what other's are thinking about and only want them to talk to you, when its convient for you?
What about sick / shut-ins / those that cannot talk? Any relatives that live across the country/world?
"Filter out the crap and TALK WITH ME."
With that attitude, why would anyone?
Now now, if you want to get technical, the previous crew consisted of 2 Europeans and 1 American.
See here" for more information.
True, but what I was getting at was, how do you warn people who live in very rural areas with no or little communications? If one person gets the call, how does he/she relay the information to everyone in the village? I would think a air-raid warning system would be a little impractical/cost prohibitive for every such village. Even with some sort of system, it is only effective if the people know where to go (emergency planning).
Hum...Mabe Some sort of emergency satellite read-only feed (by NOAA or NASA), with a small linux box that just constantly monitors the signal (and nothing else), and maybe a couple of Loud Horns or something. If the signal pattern changes, the computer immediately sounds the horns. The only costs would be installation, satellite receiver, horns.
Dunno, just some ideas. I'm sure if Slashdot puts their collective heads together, some great ideas could be brought out to light.
the wiki is here and some amazing videos are here
Absolutely amazing, the death-toll is reaching 69,000. I don't mean to be pessimistic, but would a warning system really have helped, though? I mean there are accounts of entire villages just being swept out to sea. Any life, obviously, is worth saving, but in the future I wonder how you could warn villages without power/communication systems. Very tragic.
Also, much Free software, does not include source code. Therefore, you are not free to fix/review/add to the project.
Well, nowadays, everyone can get their open source browser, instant messenger, mail client, office software...
If an OSS Virus checker caught on and became popular, ( On Going or This) I wonder how much of these zombies would be decreased.
Bah,
Someone pointed this out... That's not a cat toy, THIS is a Cat Toy!
Stupid Cats...
to strike one's computer in anger.
We must first create some sort of artificial intellegence within the computer with sensory perception. Only THEN can we slowly, painfully, and deliberately exact our revenge on it!
Also, isn't this estimation based on the "perfect" scenario? Ie. No outside forces being exerted on the rock before it hits us? Even though 30 years is a drop in the universe's bucket in terms of time, there is a lot that could possibly alter the course.
Oh, and Frankly, I welcome our new Rock Based over lords.
"Does it really matter to end users?"
The more the merrier. Sure as an IT house looking at all the numerous products out there, will take significantly more time. The end result will be more choice to the consumer than there was before.
Start broadcasting fake traffic news and take the less congested road instead.
Imagine the suprise of a driver, that there is a tornado down the road and its snowing behind them.
Don't know. I heard it on NPR on the way to work..Will have to check it out!
its about how to turn your webserver into a screaming pile of goo.
Step 1.) Create Monster Flash Movie
Step 2.) Post link on popular news journal.
Step 3.) Grab Fire Extinguisher and/or Turn on Halon.
This is also why I know of a lot of shops are not jumping into the mix, and migrating over their NT systems to A linux system. Its just too risky though and there is no standard "bridge".
Its easy to write a program in NT, package it up with the free MS installer and all the dependencies, in one nice executable file.
There doesn't seem to be a single full featured platform that meets NT developers in the middle. I think Mono is getting close, but is nowhere near primetime.( Perl is promising as well).
I could only imagine what would happen to Linux, if a project came out with an easy RAD IDE that worked on any OS and had the full steam/publicity as say Firefox.
"...could happen again if the CO2 and methane was low enough".
That's it, only one thing to do! Start cutting down those STUPID trees and start eating some beans!
Cmon everybody, think globally, destroy locally!
In case people want to read about the Greenland Glacier: Article
I found it interesting that it had actually slowed and built up between 1991 and 1997.
Or 22 bucks at Netflix and you magically get 3 cds out at a time, delivered to your door, from a rather large library. Ultimate laziness.
True, but without any other market incentive does it ever go anywhere? Look where space exploration is now...35 years since we've landed on the moon.
The new president of the association: "George Walker Bush".
We told them not to use those Diebold Machines. You'd think Gnome would read Slashdot or something.
Your "The Linux Security Cookbook" has really saved my butt while working on my "side" job.
I salute you, Dan Barrett and Robert Byrnes, for helping some of us treck through tough waters!
Humor. You must have missed it. I'm just amazed that a grown adult and "teacher" would have continued the tirade. Trying to prove your point by deriding other people. Wonderful. And they say our education system is flawed.
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Don't like it?
Nah you're just an idiot.
I guarentee that we'll find out fairly soon on "Law and Order"...
The technology is a little scary as well. What if these was miniturized?
Hunting is about skill, and patience, and responsibility, and consequences.
Letme tell you a good story about hunting. My brother-in-law is a hunter and goes out with his father-in-law, regularly. On one trip, they went out "squirrel" hunting. He found a clearing, laid down in some brush and waited. A squirrel came along, so he shot it. Before he could get up and retrieve his "prized" kill, another squirrel came along and was investigating the dead squirrel. So my brother-in-law, shot it. After about 6 other squirrels that met a similar fate, he gave up and had to start showing them away from the clearing, so he could collect the ones that he had shot.
An avid hunter, my brother-in-law, even said that it required no skill whatsoever. Crow hunting was very similar.
Wow and a vindictave teacher at that. If you are that quick to jump to conclusions and attack a post as "idiotic", I would hate to be one of your students.
day 7: ...
Power's Off. Somebody needs to go back and turn it back on.