I can understand how NASA pays several hundred dollars for a hammer, but 17 characters just to say "money" is insanity!* Did you read this from a.gov site?
I was under the impression that in order to be a Gentoo user I was supposed to mention it's superiority every 5 posts. That's the impression I've gotten from non-Gentoo users at least.
The most important thing about Gentoo (to me) has been the learning experience associated with it. It's LFS with a package manager slapped on. If they offered in-depth courses in Linux they'd be Gentoo based.
The only "real operating system" I've ever been comfortable with came on my iPod. I'm too much of a tweak-freak for anything else.
Force Field has been trying to interest the Department of Homeland Security, but discussions are ongoing, Wray says. "Ironically, we have had foreign governments contact us--from the Middle East. Kind of scary." Wray says he won't sell to them.
But he'll sure as hell let the U.S. drop it on them. I foresee a new wave on non-lethal radar seeking missiles with latex payloads.
Got an ICBM headed at you? No problem, just spray the area of its path with a fine latex mist. These guys just put the Bush missile-defense plans back on budget!
I'm more confused about how the video of the event could possible be viewable. They're basically interlacing 52 frames every 1/30th of a second. How is it that you aren't getting a blur because you have each 1/30th of a second taped from 52 different locations? Are the cameras just really really small and placed really far away?
Dish Network's 921 is a high definition PVR which takes two satellite inputs so that you can record on one channel while you watch TV on another. It has coaxial, s-video, component, composite, and DVI output. If you are using the DVI with your TV and you change between a 16x9 1080i channel and a 4x3 480p channel the receiver will tell the TV which resolution to change to. There is one USB port on the front of the box and one on the back. There is also a menu item in preferences for "internet" which is currently grayed out. All video comes into the device in MPEG-2 format but Charlia (CEO/owner) is thinking of using MPEG-4 for video in the future. The machine also connects to an antenna on our roof so that we can get digital and analogue high- and low-definition signals from local broadcasters, these channels can also be recorded to the device. The hard drive holds 250GB.
We purchased our Dish 921 HD-PVR for $550. It is, in short, the best media center currently in existence and not because of monopoly power. Dish is competing in the same market as DirecTV, digital cable, broadcast television, and VOOM (but they may be going under and purchased by Dish to give us more HD channels).
I might have been impressionable at 12 but I know that when I was sitting around with my friends playing Mortal Kombat with blood and guts turned on that none of use were having any ideas about doing it in real life. Just because it looked cool didn't make us think it might be okay to do. People who actually think like that are called psychopaths, not children misled by video games.
This graffiti thing is silly though. Are you going to complain about everything that causes graffiti? I was browsing a graffiti book at Books-A-Million the other day and wanted to try my hand at it, I just don't own any walls or rail cars. Every time I see graffiti behind buildings and on trains in my town I want to try it, but I have this funny thing my parents instilled in me called respect for other people's property.
Blaming graffiti on a game... silly. The problem isn't the desire to do it, the problem is that they actually carried it out.
I've had more success by *not* installing the MS Corefonts. Somehow the kerning gets totally messed up when I open documents that use Times New Roman such that a line of text will be scrunched up a quarter inch wide. So I made a copy of Bitstream Vera Serif as Times New Roman and haven't looked back since. The Bitstream Vera fonts are f'ing awesome and I use them for everything.
I would have said Netlux but they recently pulled a fast one on me. My laptop from them is an oversized clunky beast... but it's a 2.00Ghz machine from the summer of 2002 that cost me $1100, an amazing deal at the time (Clemson school laptops were $1500 1.5Ghz IBMs).
And talk about dependable... I've taken it apart about 5 times, once to paint the exterior with my own designs, cut holes in the casing, etc and it still works fine. Occasionally the flourescent light for the LCD would flicker out but that was just a matter of opening her up, unplugging the screen, and plugging it back in a couple times. The parts are all Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and other brand names... the laptop runs really hot and sometimes the harddrive (Toshiba) will click a few times and stop working on me which has been happening for a year and just a matter of letting it cool down. Since I never actually move the laptop (there are 6 firewire drives daisy-chained off of a poorly placed 4-pin port in the front center of the laptop) I plan on shelling out the slot fan and copper radiator in favor of some cheap water-cooling experiment (hopefully involving a decorative waterfall).
My basic point is that a well rated off-brand computer store from pricewatch.com will land you with a Volvo among computers that outruns Miatas, isn't winning design awards, and despite the fact that sometimes it shuts off by itself or won't start immediately it can always be depended on to come up with a few retries and not get any worse with age (my girlfriend's 1984 tank/Volvo is just like this).
Not quite. You rolled the ring around by pushing it with the end of the stick. Starting it was a trick involving hanging the ring from the end of the stick (the part with the U-shaped piece of metal sticking forward from it) and driving the stick forward and down to fling the ring forward in a rotating motion.
The Mayan calander (Mayan's were dispersed by 1500s so it would have been Inca or Aztec) was translated to Gregorian or Julian calendars when the people who used Gregorian or Julian calendars did the conversion which must have been after 1492. By then the caledar was well established and there aren't any questions about how many days have passed between now and then. The 4-7 year thing is based on the approximation of Jesus's birth for the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar didn't have any such issues and is accurate to much earlier dates. Since the switch from Gregorian to Julian has been happening for only the last 500 years we can safely assume that Gregorian dates are convertible to older calendars (such as the Mayan, Muslim, Hebrew, Chinese, etc.) despite the fact that the Gregorian calendar is zeroed at the wrong date.
The interesting thing about the Gregorian calendar is that when know in exactly what year Jesus died (Tiberius became emperor in AD 14, Jesus died in his 15th year of rule) but we don't know how old (exactly, Luke says he was about 30) he was. So Jesus died in year X and he was born in ~(X-30) but Herod the Great Died in X-25 (4 AD) which doesn't cause any problems.
But then again, we know when Harod the Great died and when Luke says Jesus died which was 29 years later, but I though Herod was alive when Jesus died. Were there two Herods (Sunday schools should have covered this)?
Yeah, I goofed on that number, and though I've only read two accounts of Cortez using his "god-hood" to any effect (there's another one saying Moctezuma II saw through it but wasn't in a position to toss him out yet) it seems likely enough since it verifiably *did* happen to other European explorers.
As for the "white people" comment... that's the kind of "bow nigger"-ing that should invoke Godwin's Law. Save it.
Oh please, a worldwide flood in the past few thousand years? There's no evidence for that.
Hence "middle-eastern religions document the flood" rather than "middle-eastern historical accounts document the flood" My point was that the belief in a flood cleansing the earth in order to leave behind "we, the favored ones" are not unique.
Cortez was confused with a local god, the second coming is very much a Christian concept but it was pretty clear later on what the score was. Not to mention cortez got away with what he did because of smallpox.
The Toltecs passed on to the seven Nahautl tribes that left the north (Aztec were in this group, as well as the tribes already living on the shores of Lake Texcoco) a belief in twin brothers of darkness and light. The dark one was of evil and the light one, Quetzalcoatl, the good. Quetzalcoatl left on a raft headed east said to return and do all kinds of good things saving the people from his brother. Cortez showed up with his 50,000 men and did indeed lay siege to Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital). But that wasn't until after he had travelled the countryside gathering the support of 2,000,000 people under Aztec rule under the obvious guise as the "light-skinned blue-eyed blond-haired man come afloating on a raft from the East." In the 100 years the Aztec had been around they'd managed to force everyone they encountered to pay a yearly tribute to them for being defeated. Cortez was able to turn these people against the Aztec. Cortez, with his 50,000 Spaniards (and the not often mentioned 2,000,000 locals) spent 2 years unsuccessfully laying siege to a city of 300,000 (some reports put it at 600,000, three times the size of any city in Europe). The smallpox killed off 60% of their population and they surrendered, but none of it was possible without Cortez being able to rally the countryside they way he did. And then all those people who had rallied behind him were "delivered" into the Spanish Inquisition.
Nothing says organized religion like the Spanish pear.
Cooperation and user persistance has pushed spam already to the fringes of the Internet.
Fringes? That's like saying everything outside of the asteroid belt is in the fringes of our solar system. Is McDonald's a fringe restaraunt? Wal-Mart's are always parked on the fringes of towns, does that count too? Large SUVs are owned by people in the upper fringes of the income bracket, and yet they still use most of the gas.
Based on Mayan mythology 2012 is the year when the gods decide whether or not to allow humanity to exist for the next 10,000 years. So if we get past 2012 I guess we're alright.
The four previous peoples of the earth were wiped out by jaguars, hurricanes, fires, and finally a great flood. Middle-eastern religions document the flood as well. The Popul Vuh has many interesting parallels to the Torah/Pentateuch making it a disturbing read. The best explanation for that starts out with "If Newton and Liebniz could separately invent calculus, and both the lightbulb and phonograph were seperately created while nearly identical..." And remember, the reason Cortez got away with what he did is because they thought he was the second coming of their saviour.
There was something I remember Lawrence Lessig talking about... hrm, now what was it... oh! I remember! It was a repository for public domain images called the Creative Commons. What was this article about again?
They don't come out and say it, but it sounds like it's just a big ol' LSI System.
Actually they did that on purpose. The press release was actually a test for Piquant to see if it could figure out that it was really just a rehashed older idea.
Doxygen does exactly what you described. See item #2 in the link.
If that doesn't work look up programs that will convert to UML. Since you didn't mention it in your question I'll expand: Unified Modeling Language diagrams are a standardized means of describing the relationships between objects in classes. To any Slashdotters out there in college looking to take a software engineering course, you'll be seeing a lot of UML.
People need to read up on the early history of marijuana. I just watched the IMAX movie of its history so I'm armed to the teeth with examples of activists (Anslinger) who sowed enough misguided fear into the populance to get laws in place in every state, in the federal government, and in the U.N. This is the same thing they're trying to do with video games.
Until La Guardia commissioned a study on marijuana the general assumption was that reefer caused madness (Reefer Madness) and general homicidal activities. After that was debunked Anslinger got the country believing that marijuana led to the consumption of heroine. A study in Palo Alto debunked that one basically saying that marijuana only did exactly what users said it did, made them happy, hungry, and tired. In the 70s pot was a great way to clean up hippies and returned veterans alike which did nothing more than prove that marijuana laws were silly. Then started the campaigns showing that marijuana use caused laziness and a general disinterest in productive activities. The campaign still continues today on whatever footing it can find.
A quote from American Magazine sometime in the 30s. It has the same theme video game fear-mongerers use today: "An entire family was murdered by a youthful addict in Florida. When officers arrived at the home, they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an axe he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He seemed to be in a daze... He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crime. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now he was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said that he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana."
Slashdot Mirror
...and troubles with reapprovisionment
.gov site?
Dear god man! Where did you find that word?!!
I can understand how NASA pays several hundred dollars for a hammer, but 17 characters just to say "money" is insanity!* Did you read this from a
Lokitorrent has a torrent for White Chicks.
How can you not be against this sort of thing?
I was under the impression that in order to be a Gentoo user I was supposed to mention it's superiority every 5 posts. That's the impression I've gotten from non-Gentoo users at least.
Personally, I'd stick with OSX for a PPC.
Oh and get a real operating system.
The most important thing about Gentoo (to me) has been the learning experience associated with it. It's LFS with a package manager slapped on. If they offered in-depth courses in Linux they'd be Gentoo based.
The only "real operating system" I've ever been comfortable with came on my iPod. I'm too much of a tweak-freak for anything else.
*cough* Gentoo *cough*
Force Field has been trying to interest the Department of Homeland Security, but discussions are ongoing, Wray says. "Ironically, we have had foreign governments contact us--from the Middle East. Kind of scary." Wray says he won't sell to them.
But he'll sure as hell let the U.S. drop it on them. I foresee a new wave on non-lethal radar seeking missiles with latex payloads.
Got an ICBM headed at you? No problem, just spray the area of its path with a fine latex mist. These guys just put the Bush missile-defense plans back on budget!
I'm more confused about how the video of the event could possible be viewable. They're basically interlacing 52 frames every 1/30th of a second. How is it that you aren't getting a blur because you have each 1/30th of a second taped from 52 different locations? Are the cameras just really really small and placed really far away?
Dish Network's 921 is a high definition PVR which takes two satellite inputs so that you can record on one channel while you watch TV on another. It has coaxial, s-video, component, composite, and DVI output. If you are using the DVI with your TV and you change between a 16x9 1080i channel and a 4x3 480p channel the receiver will tell the TV which resolution to change to. There is one USB port on the front of the box and one on the back. There is also a menu item in preferences for "internet" which is currently grayed out. All video comes into the device in MPEG-2 format but Charlia (CEO/owner) is thinking of using MPEG-4 for video in the future. The machine also connects to an antenna on our roof so that we can get digital and analogue high- and low-definition signals from local broadcasters, these channels can also be recorded to the device. The hard drive holds 250GB.
We purchased our Dish 921 HD-PVR for $550.
It is, in short, the best media center currently in existence and not because of monopoly power. Dish is competing in the same market as DirecTV, digital cable, broadcast television, and VOOM (but they may be going under and purchased by Dish to give us more HD channels).
I might have been impressionable at 12 but I know that when I was sitting around with my friends playing Mortal Kombat with blood and guts turned on that none of use were having any ideas about doing it in real life. Just because it looked cool didn't make us think it might be okay to do. People who actually think like that are called psychopaths, not children misled by video games.
This graffiti thing is silly though. Are you going to complain about everything that causes graffiti? I was browsing a graffiti book at Books-A-Million the other day and wanted to try my hand at it, I just don't own any walls or rail cars. Every time I see graffiti behind buildings and on trains in my town I want to try it, but I have this funny thing my parents instilled in me called respect for other people's property.
Blaming graffiti on a game... silly. The problem isn't the desire to do it, the problem is that they actually carried it out.
I've had more success by *not* installing the MS Corefonts. Somehow the kerning gets totally messed up when I open documents that use Times New Roman such that a line of text will be scrunched up a quarter inch wide. So I made a copy of Bitstream Vera Serif as Times New Roman and haven't looked back since. The Bitstream Vera fonts are f'ing awesome and I use them for everything.
Who did he hurt, or is it the principle of the thing?
15 years for that is immoral.
I would have said Netlux but they recently pulled a fast one on me. My laptop from them is an oversized clunky beast... but it's a 2.00Ghz machine from the summer of 2002 that cost me $1100, an amazing deal at the time (Clemson school laptops were $1500 1.5Ghz IBMs).
And talk about dependable... I've taken it apart about 5 times, once to paint the exterior with my own designs, cut holes in the casing, etc and it still works fine. Occasionally the flourescent light for the LCD would flicker out but that was just a matter of opening her up, unplugging the screen, and plugging it back in a couple times. The parts are all Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and other brand names... the laptop runs really hot and sometimes the harddrive (Toshiba) will click a few times and stop working on me which has been happening for a year and just a matter of letting it cool down. Since I never actually move the laptop (there are 6 firewire drives daisy-chained off of a poorly placed 4-pin port in the front center of the laptop) I plan on shelling out the slot fan and copper radiator in favor of some cheap water-cooling experiment (hopefully involving a decorative waterfall).
My basic point is that a well rated off-brand computer store from pricewatch.com will land you with a Volvo among computers that outruns Miatas, isn't winning design awards, and despite the fact that sometimes it shuts off by itself or won't start immediately it can always be depended on to come up with a few retries and not get any worse with age (my girlfriend's 1984 tank/Volvo is just like this).
Not quite. You rolled the ring around by pushing it with the end of the stick. Starting it was a trick involving hanging the ring from the end of the stick (the part with the U-shaped piece of metal sticking forward from it) and driving the stick forward and down to fling the ring forward in a rotating motion.
Here's a line-art drawing of it.
My grandfather made me a toy once. It was a stick with a U-shaped piece of metal stuck on the end that was used to push around an 8-inch steel ring.
A stick and a ring... the most addictive thing I'd ever encountered in my life. This was post Doom 2 days too.
The Mayan calander (Mayan's were dispersed by 1500s so it would have been Inca or Aztec) was translated to Gregorian or Julian calendars when the people who used Gregorian or Julian calendars did the conversion which must have been after 1492. By then the caledar was well established and there aren't any questions about how many days have passed between now and then. The 4-7 year thing is based on the approximation of Jesus's birth for the Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar didn't have any such issues and is accurate to much earlier dates. Since the switch from Gregorian to Julian has been happening for only the last 500 years we can safely assume that Gregorian dates are convertible to older calendars (such as the Mayan, Muslim, Hebrew, Chinese, etc.) despite the fact that the Gregorian calendar is zeroed at the wrong date.
The interesting thing about the Gregorian calendar is that when know in exactly what year Jesus died (Tiberius became emperor in AD 14, Jesus died in his 15th year of rule) but we don't know how old (exactly, Luke says he was about 30) he was. So Jesus died in year X and he was born in ~(X-30) but Herod the Great Died in X-25 (4 AD) which doesn't cause any problems.
But then again, we know when Harod the Great died and when Luke says Jesus died which was 29 years later, but I though Herod was alive when Jesus died. Were there two Herods (Sunday schools should have covered this)?
Yeah, I goofed on that number, and though I've only read two accounts of Cortez using his "god-hood" to any effect (there's another one saying Moctezuma II saw through it but wasn't in a position to toss him out yet) it seems likely enough since it verifiably *did* happen to other European explorers.
As for the "white people" comment... that's the kind of "bow nigger"-ing that should invoke Godwin's Law. Save it.
Oh please, a worldwide flood in the past few thousand years? There's no evidence for that.
Hence "middle-eastern religions document the flood" rather than "middle-eastern historical accounts document the flood" My point was that the belief in a flood cleansing the earth in order to leave behind "we, the favored ones" are not unique.
Cortez was confused with a local god, the second coming is very much a Christian concept but it was pretty clear later on what the score was. Not to mention cortez got away with what he did because of smallpox.
The Toltecs passed on to the seven Nahautl tribes that left the north (Aztec were in this group, as well as the tribes already living on the shores of Lake Texcoco) a belief in twin brothers of darkness and light. The dark one was of evil and the light one, Quetzalcoatl, the good. Quetzalcoatl left on a raft headed east said to return and do all kinds of good things saving the people from his brother. Cortez showed up with his 50,000 men and did indeed lay siege to Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital). But that wasn't until after he had travelled the countryside gathering the support of 2,000,000 people under Aztec rule under the obvious guise as the "light-skinned blue-eyed blond-haired man come afloating on a raft from the East." In the 100 years the Aztec had been around they'd managed to force everyone they encountered to pay a yearly tribute to them for being defeated. Cortez was able to turn these people against the Aztec. Cortez, with his 50,000 Spaniards (and the not often mentioned 2,000,000 locals) spent 2 years unsuccessfully laying siege to a city of 300,000 (some reports put it at 600,000, three times the size of any city in Europe). The smallpox killed off 60% of their population and they surrendered, but none of it was possible without Cortez being able to rally the countryside they way he did. And then all those people who had rallied behind him were "delivered" into the Spanish Inquisition.
Nothing says organized religion like the Spanish pear.
Cooperation and user persistance has pushed spam already to the fringes of the Internet.
Fringes? That's like saying everything outside of the asteroid belt is in the fringes of our solar system. Is McDonald's a fringe restaraunt? Wal-Mart's are always parked on the fringes of towns, does that count too? Large SUVs are owned by people in the upper fringes of the income bracket, and yet they still use most of the gas.
Based on Mayan mythology 2012 is the year when the gods decide whether or not to allow humanity to exist for the next 10,000 years. So if we get past 2012 I guess we're alright.
The four previous peoples of the earth were wiped out by jaguars, hurricanes, fires, and finally a great flood. Middle-eastern religions document the flood as well. The Popul Vuh has many interesting parallels to the Torah/Pentateuch making it a disturbing read. The best explanation for that starts out with "If Newton and Liebniz could separately invent calculus, and both the lightbulb and phonograph were seperately created while nearly identical..." And remember, the reason Cortez got away with what he did is because they thought he was the second coming of their saviour.
He obviously is trying to make himself a smaller target so the Slashdot carpet-bombing won't destroy him.
There was something I remember Lawrence Lessig talking about... hrm, now what was it... oh! I remember! It was a repository for public domain images called the Creative Commons. What was this article about again?
The third one (lego person inside of a mouse) is at least original.
I'm pretty sure I've seen a fish floating in a miniature tank on the back end of a mouse for sale.
They don't come out and say it, but it sounds like it's just a big ol' LSI System.
Actually they did that on purpose. The press release was actually a test for Piquant to see if it could figure out that it was really just a rehashed older idea.
Doxygen does exactly what you described. See item #2 in the link.
If that doesn't work look up programs that will convert to UML. Since you didn't mention it in your question I'll expand: Unified Modeling Language diagrams are a standardized means of describing the relationships between objects in classes. To any Slashdotters out there in college looking to take a software engineering course, you'll be seeing a lot of UML.
People need to read up on the early history of marijuana. I just watched the IMAX movie of its history so I'm armed to the teeth with examples of activists (Anslinger) who sowed enough misguided fear into the populance to get laws in place in every state, in the federal government, and in the U.N. This is the same thing they're trying to do with video games.
Until La Guardia commissioned a study on marijuana the general assumption was that reefer caused madness (Reefer Madness) and general homicidal activities. After that was debunked Anslinger got the country believing that marijuana led to the consumption of heroine. A study in Palo Alto debunked that one basically saying that marijuana only did exactly what users said it did, made them happy, hungry, and tired. In the 70s pot was a great way to clean up hippies and returned veterans alike which did nothing more than prove that marijuana laws were silly. Then started the campaigns showing that marijuana use caused laziness and a general disinterest in productive activities. The campaign still continues today on whatever footing it can find.
A quote from American Magazine sometime in the 30s. It has the same theme video game fear-mongerers use today:
"An entire family was murdered by a youthful addict in Florida. When officers arrived at the home, they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an axe he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He seemed to be in a daze... He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crime. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now he was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said that he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana."