Wikipedia has an extremely informative entry on the Saturn V, which includes a neat table of Saturn V launches and a note about the three Saturn Vs on display. Quoting: Currently there are three Saturn Vs on display:
* At the Johnson Space Center made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513
* At the Kennedy Space Center made up of S-IC-T and the second and third stages from SA-514
* At the US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama made up of S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D (all test stages not meant for actual flight)
Of these three, only the one at the Johnson Space Center is fully comprised of stages that were meant to be launched.
The third stage of the JSC Saturn V is the one that was removed from SA-513 in 1973 to make room for Skylab.
I've lived in Clear Lake for my whole life, and the Saturn V at JSC is a familiar landmark. I can't imagine my drive to work without it, and it's a good thing that NASA is going to clean it up. It is a truly awesome sight.
Unicomp is manufacturing buckling spring keyboards that are almost like the IBM Model-M keyboards you describe--steel backplate and all. I own one. It weighs about seven pounds and has exactly the feel and sound I remeber from so many years ago.
I'll skip all of those features, thank you. I work for a government contractor and we're not even allowed to bring camera-equipped phones into the building without a permit anyway.
No, what I'd rather have is a tiny flip-phone that I can slip into my watch pocket. My Samsung A-530 is good, but I wish it were tinier. I don't want four hundred annoying ringtones; I don't want downloadable games at $2.50 a pop that I have to use my minutes to get; I don't really even care for a color screen. Make it small, make it last two or three days on a single charge, give it a high-contrast display that's easy to read even in sunlight, make sure it's got a phonebook, and make it sound nice.
In short, I want a phone. That's all. Is it so much to ask for a cellular phone that functions as an efficient communications tool? I don't want to take pictures on it--I have a camera for that. I don't want to listen to MP3s on it--I have an iPod for that. I don't want to play games on it, either. All I want is to freaking talk on it and have at least a resonable chance of my call not being dropped or sound like I'm talking to Gorgo the Swamp Monster because of crappy signal strength.
It's not just the lusers who are lusers. Sometimes, the internal support is pretty terrifyingly inept, too. I speak from experience. Hit my site. You'll see. Oh, you'll see.
We use the Altiris Notification Server product to track spyware at my job. I compiled a list of about 100 "worst offenders" from sites like doxdesk.com, and cast the net out to see where we stand.
Out of ~3,000 computers, ~750 of them came back with at least one positive. And that's just looking for about 100 known spyware apps based on the presence of a known-bad.EXE or.DLL or Add/Remove Programs entry.
I spend a large portion of my day using Altiris's Notification Server product to identify and remove spyware on computers at work. Believe me, this isn't new and there are *lots* of "spyware removal" apps that come bundled with spyware of their own--I see this crap every day.
HotMamma24242: hay guys wut up its dinnr time LittleBro33: cool OlderSis53137: i dont lik 2 eat im 2 fat DadInCharge98324: shut it oldersis youl eat wut ur mom telz u 2 eat and like it 2 lol LittleBro33: lolololol haha u got n trubl OlderSis53137: shut up il run aimnuke on u *LittleBro33 has disconnected HotMamma24242: its not nice to aimnuke ur brothr DadInCharge98324: ur gonna get a spankin OlderSis53137: no1 n this famly understands me i h8 u all HotMamma24242: but i made teriaki chikn
Questia has done something similar for years...
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Questia does somthing similar--they've digitized ~60,000 books, chosen by a panel of librarians for their scholarly value (mostly liberal arts titles), and allow full-text searches of the entire library. Questia is marketed as a tool for writing research papers--the service keeps track of what books you've looked at and will automatically build a bibliography and do your citations for you in the format of your choice.
They use an indexing system similar to Google's to keep full-text searches of the library in the sub 1 second range, and the whole thing is pretty slick. Searches are free, and they show the book, publishing info, and the page number of the search result. To actually see the text, though, you have to be a subscriber.
Footnotes and citations are live-linked to their referenced sources, if those sources are in the Questia library, and every book is stored in XML, which keeps the original pagination (including illustrations). A neat side-effect of the XML tagging is that you can search for implicit things (like themes or genre or subgenre) as well as explicit things (keywords). Questia spent the better part of two years securing the rights of each and every book on the service, but it really is a cool idea.
Disclaimer--I worked for Questia for a couple of years, although I left in 2001.
I watched the "Snow White" video sample linked to on the guy's page, and it looks exactly like what any other scratched or dirty DVD looks like. I rented "Gods and Generals" from Hollywood Video a few days ago and encountered the same phenomena because there was a big splatter of dried something-or-other on the surface of the disk.
So, this guy has clips on his web site of skipping music and DVDs. That's great. This guy should be working in somebody's marketing department. "As your product ages, it will inevitably acquire what appear to be scratches, but are actually nano-scale utility enhancements!"
I put them on hold, went downstairs, had dinner, watched some TV, and then finally moseyed back up stairs about half an hour later. To my great surprise, they were still sitting there on the line and we got my problem solved.
I worked support for Gateway (actually for Convergys on the Gateway contract) near the end of 1997. We were judged, metric-wise, on the amount of time we spent logged in vs. the amount of time we spent on the phone. I would have loved to have taken a call like that--it would have really helped my metrics!
2) Go to the directory whose contents you want to list.
3) Type "dir/s/a > foo.txt"
Foo.txt now contains your directory list. The command prompt is your friend.
As to the directory comparison, Windows contains no comparison tools that I know of. You CAN right-click > properties for both directories and get a total number of files and total size listing for each directory, but you'd probably have to Google for a file comparison utility.
Well, this finally did it--this pushed me over the edge I am now a card-carrying member of the EFF. If you've got twenty-five bucks to spare, you should join, too.
Face it--we're losing the war on copyright. We're losing it, and there's precious little we can DO about it. The EFF is one of the very few things standing between us and the removal of the right to own property.
I've got one of the keyboards mentioned in the article--specifically, the 101-key Customizer, from www.pckeyboard.com. It weighs about five pounds, and feels like it could be used to bash in an intruder's head if necessary. Plus, it doesn't have Windows keys, which is a boon when I'm gaming--no more accidentally dumping me out to the desktop during heated Battlefield 1942 matches!
It's buckling-spring and loud as hell, though it doesn't sound quite the same as a Model M. Still key response is crisp and exactly matches what I want out of a keyboard. It is easily the best computer-related purchase I have ever made. After all, what part of your computer do you physically interact with every time you sit down?
"He developed an algorithm which allows a fairly high quality image of a person to be regenerated from a face recognition template..."
This kinda reminds me of the part in Space Quest III, where you gain access to the restricted area inside ScumSoft by holding up a xeroxed picture of the CEO's face to the facial recognition scanner.
Typing doesn't cause carpal tunnel, or any other RSI. Improper wrist positioning will do it, though. "Traditional" touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (fingers on the home row, ASDF JKL;) crimps up your wrists and is just bloody unnatural.
I've been typing since I was five--I'm twenty-five now. I type at ~100WPM. Because I'm self-taught, I don't use the traditional touch-type method. When I type, my hands are at about a 45 degree angle to the keyboard; if I had a "home row", it would be something like QSDC MKLP. I hit whichever key with whichever finger is closest. My wrists stay straight and uncrimped.
I type multiple hours per day, every day, and I don't suffer fatigue, carpal tunnel, RSI, or any of that other business. My touch-typing coworkers walk around with braces on each wrist, and gingerly ease themselves down in front of split-key ergo keyboards and start wincing when they have to type for more than a few minutes.
Keyboarding doesn't cause RSI. Traditional, wrist-crimping touch-typing causes RSI.
I can say that I'm a toaster all day long, but that doesn't make me a toster. The AC below is correct--no mainstream Christian religion recognizes Mormonism as "Christian". The teachings of Mormonism do not coincide with, nor can they be reconciled with, the teachings of Christianity.
I could cite examples, and this discussion could spiral further and further off-topic until it runs afoul of Godwin's Law, or we can just agree to disagree:-)
Scientology is different from Christian Science, just as Christian Science is different from Christianity.
Members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, follow the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the religion near the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists are not allowed by their religion to seek the assistance of modern medicine, and instead use the power of prayer and of the mind to heal themselves.
Jim Henson was a Christian Scientist, and died of pneumonia because of his beliefs.
Here. Read this. Christian Science is just as pseudo-science-y as Scientology.
Help me. I'm replying to messags on Slashdot. Once I start down this dark path, forever will it dominate my destiny...:-)
I'd posit that calling oneself "Christian" means three things:
1) Belief that Christ is the son of God; 2) Belief that not only is Christ the son of God, but that he also IS God; 3) Belief that only by recognizing oneself as a sinner and accepting Christ's sacrifice on one's behalf can one be saved
Any definition of Christianity that has "Jesus is the son of God" without the other two is incomplete. If you just define it that way, without the other two, then you include religions like Mormonism, which is very much NOT a Christian religion (Jesus and God are a literal father/son pair and are not two aspects of the same being; and most everyone except a few blatant heretics gets to experience the heavenly afterlife).
Getting a "more traditionally religious" view of Christian things from an entity associated with Christian Science is sort of like getting a "traditional Mexican dinner" from Taco Bell. Christian Science is a contemporary "religion" (though some prefer to use the term "tax evasion scam") and has about as much in common with mainstream Christianity as the Backstreet Boys have with Beethoven--alliteration.
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Wikipedia has an extremely informative entry on the Saturn V, which includes a neat table of Saturn V launches and a note about the three Saturn Vs on display. Quoting:
Currently there are three Saturn Vs on display:
* At the Johnson Space Center made up of first stage of SA-514, the second stage from SA-515 and the third stage from SA-513
* At the Kennedy Space Center made up of S-IC-T and the second and third stages from SA-514
* At the US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama made up of S-IC-D, S-II-F/D and S-IVB-D (all test stages not meant for actual flight)
Of these three, only the one at the Johnson Space Center is fully comprised of stages that were meant to be launched.
The third stage of the JSC Saturn V is the one that was removed from SA-513 in 1973 to make room for Skylab.
I've lived in Clear Lake for my whole life, and the Saturn V at JSC is a familiar landmark. I can't imagine my drive to work without it, and it's a good thing that NASA is going to clean it up. It is a truly awesome sight.
Unicomp is manufacturing buckling spring keyboards that are almost like the IBM Model-M keyboards you describe--steel backplate and all. I own one. It weighs about seven pounds and has exactly the feel and sound I remeber from so many years ago.
They sell them on-line starting at about sixty US dollars. You can get them 104-style, 101 style (without Windows keys), or in black.
Hell, they even make a Linux-style keyboard, with ctrl, caps lock, and escape re-arranged!
I'll skip all of those features, thank you. I work for a government contractor and we're not even allowed to bring camera-equipped phones into the building without a permit anyway.
No, what I'd rather have is a tiny flip-phone that I can slip into my watch pocket. My Samsung A-530 is good, but I wish it were tinier. I don't want four hundred annoying ringtones; I don't want downloadable games at $2.50 a pop that I have to use my minutes to get; I don't really even care for a color screen. Make it small, make it last two or three days on a single charge, give it a high-contrast display that's easy to read even in sunlight, make sure it's got a phonebook, and make it sound nice.
In short, I want a phone. That's all. Is it so much to ask for a cellular phone that functions as an efficient communications tool? I don't want to take pictures on it--I have a camera for that. I don't want to listen to MP3s on it--I have an iPod for that. I don't want to play games on it, either. All I want is to freaking talk on it and have at least a resonable chance of my call not being dropped or sound like I'm talking to Gorgo the Swamp Monster because of crappy signal strength.
Looks like Tron's been getting his code updated by the guys in Redmond.
...is ten million sysadmins and deskside support people all saying "NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!" in unison.
It's not just the lusers who are lusers. Sometimes, the internal support is pretty terrifyingly inept, too. I speak from experience. Hit my site. You'll see. Oh, you'll see.
We use the Altiris Notification Server product to track spyware at my job. I compiled a list of about 100 "worst offenders" from sites like doxdesk.com, and cast the net out to see where we stand.
.EXE or .DLL or Add/Remove Programs entry.
Out of ~3,000 computers, ~750 of them came back with at least one positive. And that's just looking for about 100 known spyware apps based on the presence of a known-bad
That's a lot of fucking spyware.
I spend a large portion of my day using Altiris's Notification Server product to identify and remove spyware on computers at work. Believe me, this isn't new and there are *lots* of "spyware removal" apps that come bundled with spyware of their own--I see this crap every day.
HotMamma24242: hay guys wut up its dinnr time
LittleBro33: cool
OlderSis53137: i dont lik 2 eat im 2 fat
DadInCharge98324: shut it oldersis youl eat wut ur mom telz u 2 eat and like it 2 lol
LittleBro33: lolololol haha u got n trubl
OlderSis53137: shut up il run aimnuke on u
*LittleBro33 has disconnected
HotMamma24242: its not nice to aimnuke ur brothr
DadInCharge98324: ur gonna get a spankin
OlderSis53137: no1 n this famly understands me i h8 u all
HotMamma24242: but i made teriaki chikn
Questia does somthing similar--they've digitized ~60,000 books, chosen by a panel of librarians for their scholarly value (mostly liberal arts titles), and allow full-text searches of the entire library. Questia is marketed as a tool for writing research papers--the service keeps track of what books you've looked at and will automatically build a bibliography and do your citations for you in the format of your choice.
They use an indexing system similar to Google's to keep full-text searches of the library in the sub 1 second range, and the whole thing is pretty slick. Searches are free, and they show the book, publishing info, and the page number of the search result. To actually see the text, though, you have to be a subscriber.
Footnotes and citations are live-linked to their referenced sources, if those sources are in the Questia library, and every book is stored in XML, which keeps the original pagination (including illustrations). A neat side-effect of the XML tagging is that you can search for implicit things (like themes or genre or subgenre) as well as explicit things (keywords). Questia spent the better part of two years securing the rights of each and every book on the service, but it really is a cool idea.
Disclaimer--I worked for Questia for a couple of years, although I left in 2001.
Remember, kids--auf Deutsch, "eu" is pronounced "oy". Hence, "Von Neumann" sounds like "Von Noyman".
This has been a public service announcement from my high school German class, about which I sometimes still have nightmares.
THANK YOU. I wasn't quite CLEAR on ALL of the POINTS you brought UP in your INFORMATIVE POST.
Now, if you'll EXCUSE ME, I'm GOING to go EAT some CHEE-TOS.
I hereby claim that I have the power to revoke THE SUN!
GPS is definitely needed to send photos to grandma.
Well, what if you can't find Grandma?
I watched the "Snow White" video sample linked to on the guy's page, and it looks exactly like what any other scratched or dirty DVD looks like. I rented "Gods and Generals" from Hollywood Video a few days ago and encountered the same phenomena because there was a big splatter of dried something-or-other on the surface of the disk.
So, this guy has clips on his web site of skipping music and DVDs. That's great. This guy should be working in somebody's marketing department. "As your product ages, it will inevitably acquire what appear to be scratches, but are actually nano-scale utility enhancements!"
I put them on hold, went downstairs, had dinner, watched some TV, and then finally moseyed back up stairs about half an hour later. To my great surprise, they were still sitting there on the line and we got my problem solved.
I worked support for Gateway (actually for Convergys on the Gateway contract) near the end of 1997. We were judged, metric-wise, on the amount of time we spent logged in vs. the amount of time we spent on the phone. I would have loved to have taken a call like that--it would have really helped my metrics!
1) Click Start > Run and type "cmd".
/s /a > foo.txt"
2) Go to the directory whose contents you want to list.
3) Type "dir
Foo.txt now contains your directory list. The command prompt is your friend.
As to the directory comparison, Windows contains no comparison tools that I know of. You CAN right-click > properties for both directories and get a total number of files and total size listing for each directory, but you'd probably have to Google for a file comparison utility.
Well, this finally did it--this pushed me over the edge I am now a card-carrying member of the EFF. If you've got twenty-five bucks to spare, you should join, too.
Face it--we're losing the war on copyright. We're losing it, and there's precious little we can DO about it. The EFF is one of the very few things standing between us and the removal of the right to own property.
I've got one of the keyboards mentioned in the article--specifically, the 101-key Customizer, from www.pckeyboard.com. It weighs about five pounds, and feels like it could be used to bash in an intruder's head if necessary. Plus, it doesn't have Windows keys, which is a boon when I'm gaming--no more accidentally dumping me out to the desktop during heated Battlefield 1942 matches!
It's buckling-spring and loud as hell, though it doesn't sound quite the same as a Model M. Still key response is crisp and exactly matches what I want out of a keyboard. It is easily the best computer-related purchase I have ever made. After all, what part of your computer do you physically interact with every time you sit down?
"He developed an algorithm which allows a fairly high quality image of a person to be regenerated from a face recognition template..."
This kinda reminds me of the part in Space Quest III, where you gain access to the restricted area inside ScumSoft by holding up a xeroxed picture of the CEO's face to the facial recognition scanner.
Typing doesn't cause carpal tunnel, or any other RSI. Improper wrist positioning will do it, though. "Traditional" touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard (fingers on the home row, ASDF JKL;) crimps up your wrists and is just bloody unnatural.
I've been typing since I was five--I'm twenty-five now. I type at ~100WPM. Because I'm self-taught, I don't use the traditional touch-type method. When I type, my hands are at about a 45 degree angle to the keyboard; if I had a "home row", it would be something like QSDC MKLP. I hit whichever key with whichever finger is closest. My wrists stay straight and uncrimped.
I type multiple hours per day, every day, and I don't suffer fatigue, carpal tunnel, RSI, or any of that other business. My touch-typing coworkers walk around with braces on each wrist, and gingerly ease themselves down in front of split-key ergo keyboards and start wincing when they have to type for more than a few minutes.
Keyboarding doesn't cause RSI. Traditional, wrist-crimping touch-typing causes RSI.
I can say that I'm a toaster all day long, but that doesn't make me a toster. The AC below is correct--no mainstream Christian religion recognizes Mormonism as "Christian". The teachings of Mormonism do not coincide with, nor can they be reconciled with, the teachings of Christianity.
:-)
I could cite examples, and this discussion could spiral further and further off-topic until it runs afoul of Godwin's Law, or we can just agree to disagree
Scientology is different from Christian Science, just as Christian Science is different from Christianity.
Members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, follow the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the religion near the end of the nineteenth century. Christian Scientists are not allowed by their religion to seek the assistance of modern medicine, and instead use the power of prayer and of the mind to heal themselves.
Jim Henson was a Christian Scientist, and died of pneumonia because of his beliefs.
Here. Read this. Christian Science is just as pseudo-science-y as Scientology.
Help me. I'm replying to messags on Slashdot. Once I start down this dark path, forever will it dominate my destiny... :-)
I'd posit that calling oneself "Christian" means three things:
1) Belief that Christ is the son of God;
2) Belief that not only is Christ the son of God, but that he also IS God;
3) Belief that only by recognizing oneself as a sinner and accepting Christ's sacrifice on one's behalf can one be saved
Any definition of Christianity that has "Jesus is the son of God" without the other two is incomplete. If you just define it that way, without the other two, then you include religions like Mormonism, which is very much NOT a Christian religion (Jesus and God are a literal father/son pair and are not two aspects of the same being; and most everyone except a few blatant heretics gets to experience the heavenly afterlife).
Getting a "more traditionally religious" view of Christian things from an entity associated with Christian Science is sort of like getting a "traditional Mexican dinner" from Taco Bell. Christian Science is a contemporary "religion" (though some prefer to use the term "tax evasion scam") and has about as much in common with mainstream Christianity as the Backstreet Boys have with Beethoven--alliteration.