It wouldn't be the bird of prey -- #1 it has a business jet engine, #2 it has no real instruments, hell, it doesn't even have real computers! It was flown manually (not fly-by-wire). I doubt this plane was used for anything else than just testing designs...
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Less weight is a bad thing, by the way. Stopping on a dime is not something railroads are interested in -- basically if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's your fault (or they screwed up, but that is usualy because of screwups between rail companies). In any case, the locomotives need to be a certain weight to pass FRA regulations -- a light locomotive would need to be weighed down anyhow with the requisite safety equipment -- check out the Acela Express. It could have been tons lighter than it is, but FRA regs made it one of the heaviest high speed trains ever.
The turbine runs at a constant speed -- that is, it runs a electric generator which provides power to run the motors. The engine would probably be no louder than current diesel locomotives, and most likely quieter.
How about Yankee? The US isn't all of America...Depending on how you want to nitpick, you can be North American, South American, whatever. Canadians are Americans too. (I'm from New Jersey...and an American!)
Codecs like these ARE in fact lossy -- but that's not a bad thing, really. Most of the time you don't lose anything you notice, or really care about. Ok, let's think about this in a different way: You have a 747 and a cessna single engine plane. Each can carry a payload, but the 747 can carry much more. Both the 747 and the cessna are travelling at an imaginary speed, say, 700kbps. The 747 travelling at 700kbps will carry more than the cessna travelling at 700kbps. Now, to apply this to this story, instead of the cessna it's DiVX and instead of the 747 it's H.264. You can't "PKZip" a dvd and expect it to get much smaller, mainly because most lossless compression algorithms don't compress binary data too tightly.
Uh, last time I checked there were many games out for Xbox. Try Motogp, that 007 game, or maybe even Sega GT. They are all fun, and there's more games. Don't just blindly follow the comments of 19124919284 other ps2/gc fanboys..
Since when can you get a PC that has as much power (CPU/VIDEO/DVD) than an XBox? Quotes, please sir. Remember, MSFT is losing a bunch of money on the hardware itself, so it's hard to compete with that...
I attend and work for Rutgers University in New Jersey. I E-mailed a colleague over in the library and here was her reply:
Here is an excerpt from the a policy memo titled:
Library Circulation Records: Definition and Confidentiality "When library materials are returned and no fine or fee is owed in connection with the loan, no record other than statistical, of that transaction is retained."
I'm not so worried about the library aspect of this. What I >AM worried about is my neighbors, mailmen, and meter readers spying on me. That sucks.
Here, Here! Battlebots was so lame, it really bored me. Robot Wars is slightly better, but the version I saw in london was ridiculously hilarious. You get bored of battling robots after a show or two. Case in point: there are only like 3 or 4 different types of robots, and usually the spinner robot owns everyone. Whatever.
What I'D like to see is either UCB back again or even better, THE STATE which was on MTV. Also acceptable: Beavis and Butthead.
Can someone tell me why this is modded +5? It may be funny, but it's a waste of space! If I wanted to read the joke, I'd have clicked on the parent's link. Moderators, you suck.
We would have never known any of this without monitoring our system.
Uhhh, right. Your employer doesn't have the little "I have never been convicted of a felony" check box, eh? C'mon. Monitoring is the least of your worries if you can't even follow standard hiring practices.
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In Northern NJ, a local florists chain (Colony, if you live in NW Bergen County) has a big refridgerated flower vending machine that sells flowers and plants already in vases. Very good when you're coming home late from work and you wanna getsome from the missus!
I use Orange Kleen for all my household cleaning tasks. It actually works, and I don't have to worry about mixing it with stuff when i'm drunk or something and dying.
Uh, actually you can not modify your car completely if it's registered. If you alter emissions, the engine, color, etc, you must notify your local DMV. The people who do this, however, are far and few between.
Your university must not be doing REAL research! Seriously, if your university doesn't have web applications for registering, or hard-core physics research going on, you may not see a lot of network traffic. I work for Rutgers University http://www.rutgers.edu and some of the hard-core physics machines transfer upwards of 100 gigs >PER DAY to peer institutions over internet 2 and the commodity internet. The urban planning school routinely swaps huge databases with other schools. The med school (UMDNJ) does videoconferencing with all kinds of interesting institutions. We have a brand new fiber network that I would say is used quite enough. There ARE legitimate uses for all this bandwidth.
There's a few problems with your calculation, buddy. First, IF it were possible to have all 1200 people grouped together, not everyone would be using as much bandwidth as possible at once. Also, it is pretty much impossible to cover the physical space required for 1,200 computers with one access point, so you're damn tootin' that they'd have more than one. With correct network design, you could easily give everyone a fair slice of bandwidth.
Cough. Cough. Try VNC (Tightvnc?) http://www.tightvnc.org -- it's comparable to remote desktop, but works on just about every playform. On a solaris box, and want to see your mac desktop? On a web terminal somewhere and want to check on your computer? VNC can do it, and it does it a whole hell of a lot cheaper than XP.
In the NYC Area, Cablevisions Optimum Online has been providing 10, yes, TEN megabit downlink speeds and one megabit uplink speeds. I can download from my computer at work (Rutgers University) at over 1,000 Kilo*BYTES* a second. Suck it, RCN. CABLEVISION RULES.
You could go to Chubbs or whatever technical institute would give you a Cert, but if you go to a good large University, you will have endless opportunities to work. At my Uni, I got a job as a network administrator for their large (20,000+) dorm network. I learned A LOT during that, and it looks pretty cool on a resume. From there, I plan to move on to the university's backbone operations group, which really would kick ass on a resume. Also, once you have your foot in the door at a university, it's trivial to get a job there untill you find a real-world one, the pay is usually decent, and job security at state universties is second to none...Why not put off the real world for four years, and spend that time learning to do fun stuff like paint or watch movies, and then drink beer and smoke reefer in the evenings.
I took a course on GIS last year, the website is still online -- for a while at least! Check it out at:
http://geography.rutgers.edu/courses/01fall/321/ in dex.html
What's important to realize is GIS isn't some magic program, but a way of looking at a problem to find possible solutions. Any other use besides that is a waste of time and money, and you should just use maps.
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It wouldn't be the bird of prey -- #1 it has a business jet engine, #2 it has no real instruments, hell, it doesn't even have real computers! It was flown manually (not fly-by-wire). I doubt this plane was used for anything else than just testing designs...
Less weight is a bad thing, by the way. Stopping on a dime is not something railroads are interested in -- basically if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's your fault (or they screwed up, but that is usualy because of screwups between rail companies). In any case, the locomotives need to be a certain weight to pass FRA regulations -- a light locomotive would need to be weighed down anyhow with the requisite safety equipment -- check out the Acela Express. It could have been tons lighter than it is, but FRA regs made it one of the heaviest high speed trains ever.
The turbine runs at a constant speed -- that is, it runs a electric generator which provides power to run the motors. The engine would probably be no louder than current diesel locomotives, and most likely quieter.
How about Yankee? The US isn't all of America...Depending on how you want to nitpick, you can be North American, South American, whatever. Canadians are Americans too. (I'm from New Jersey...and an American!)
Codecs like these ARE in fact lossy -- but that's not a bad thing, really. Most of the time you don't lose anything you notice, or really care about. Ok, let's think about this in a different way: You have a 747 and a cessna single engine plane. Each can carry a payload, but the 747 can carry much more. Both the 747 and the cessna are travelling at an imaginary speed, say, 700kbps. The 747 travelling at 700kbps will carry more than the cessna travelling at 700kbps. Now, to apply this to this story, instead of the cessna it's DiVX and instead of the 747 it's H.264. You can't "PKZip" a dvd and expect it to get much smaller, mainly because most lossless compression algorithms don't compress binary data too tightly.
Uhh, can we see some references for your figures? REAL academic references...
Uh, last time I checked there were many games out for Xbox. Try Motogp, that 007 game, or maybe even Sega GT. They are all fun, and there's more games. Don't just blindly follow the comments of 19124919284 other ps2/gc fanboys..
Since when can you get a PC that has as much power (CPU/VIDEO/DVD) than an XBox? Quotes, please sir. Remember, MSFT is losing a bunch of money on the hardware itself, so it's hard to compete with that...
I'm not so worried about the library aspect of this. What I >AM worried about is my neighbors, mailmen, and meter readers spying on me. That sucks.
Here, Here! Battlebots was so lame, it really bored me. Robot Wars is slightly better, but the version I saw in london was ridiculously hilarious. You get bored of battling robots after a show or two. Case in point: there are only like 3 or 4 different types of robots, and usually the spinner robot owns everyone. Whatever.
What I'D like to see is either UCB back again or even better, THE STATE which was on MTV. Also acceptable: Beavis and Butthead.
Can someone tell me why this is modded +5? It may be funny, but it's a waste of space! If I wanted to read the joke, I'd have clicked on the parent's link. Moderators, you suck.
We would have never known any of this without monitoring our system.
Uhhh, right. Your employer doesn't have the little "I have never been convicted of a felony" check box, eh? C'mon. Monitoring is the least of your worries if you can't even follow standard hiring practices.
In Northern NJ, a local florists chain (Colony, if you live in NW Bergen County) has a big refridgerated flower vending machine that sells flowers and plants already in vases. Very good when you're coming home late from work and you wanna getsome from the missus!
I use Orange Kleen for all my household cleaning tasks. It actually works, and I don't have to worry about mixing it with stuff when i'm drunk or something and dying.
You're missing the point, bozo!
#1, it takes AGES to copy all the songs you want to your cassette, and god forbid you left IM noises or something on and someone bloops you an IM.
#2, you can fit more than one cassette's worth of songs on something the same size.
#3, i'm sure this thing has better quality (mainly because it doesn't rely on a thin film coated with magnetic particles to store data....
DivX ;-] or whatever stupid name those leet hax0rz gave that codec isn't the same thing as "Divx", the crappy DVD player.
Oh boy, that old gag! It's a tired joke buddy. And no points for typical slashdot tinfoil-hat syndrome.
Uh, actually you can not modify your car completely if it's registered. If you alter emissions, the engine, color, etc, you must notify your local DMV. The people who do this, however, are far and few between.
Your university must not be doing REAL research! Seriously, if your university doesn't have web applications for registering, or hard-core physics research going on, you may not see a lot of network traffic. I work for Rutgers University http://www.rutgers.edu and some of the hard-core physics machines transfer upwards of 100 gigs >PER DAY to peer institutions over internet 2 and the commodity internet. The urban planning school routinely swaps huge databases with other schools. The med school (UMDNJ) does videoconferencing with all kinds of interesting institutions. We have a brand new fiber network that I would say is used quite enough. There ARE legitimate uses for all this bandwidth.
There's a few problems with your calculation, buddy. First, IF it were possible to have all 1200 people grouped together, not everyone would be using as much bandwidth as possible at once. Also, it is pretty much impossible to cover the physical space required for 1,200 computers with one access point, so you're damn tootin' that they'd have more than one. With correct network design, you could easily give everyone a fair slice of bandwidth.
Cough. Cough. Try VNC (Tightvnc?) http://www.tightvnc.org -- it's comparable to remote desktop, but works on just about every playform. On a solaris box, and want to see your mac desktop? On a web terminal somewhere and want to check on your computer? VNC can do it, and it does it a whole hell of a lot cheaper than XP.
In the NYC Area, Cablevisions Optimum Online has been providing 10, yes, TEN megabit downlink speeds and one megabit uplink speeds. I can download from my computer at work (Rutgers University) at over 1,000 Kilo*BYTES* a second. Suck it, RCN. CABLEVISION RULES.
I'd love to see oen of those somehow made into a nice bong...
You could go to Chubbs or whatever technical institute would give you a Cert, but if you go to a good large University, you will have endless opportunities to work. At my Uni, I got a job as a network administrator for their large (20,000+) dorm network. I learned A LOT during that, and it looks pretty cool on a resume. From there, I plan to move on to the university's backbone operations group, which really would kick ass on a resume. Also, once you have your foot in the door at a university, it's trivial to get a job there untill you find a real-world one, the pay is usually decent, and job security at state universties is second to none...Why not put off the real world for four years, and spend that time learning to do fun stuff like paint or watch movies, and then drink beer and smoke reefer in the evenings.
I took a course on GIS last year, the website is still online -- for a while at least! Check it out at:
/ in dex.html
http://geography.rutgers.edu/courses/01fall/321
What's important to realize is GIS isn't some magic program, but a way of looking at a problem to find possible solutions. Any other use besides that is a waste of time and money, and you should just use maps.