dito. I saw the sig, followed the link, and enjoyed what he had to say. I still haven't seen Bowling for Columbine, but am more interested than ever now. I really enjoyed "Roger and Me".
The Challenger explosion was not caused by a problem with the liquid hydrogen tank (well, not at first...). The problem was an O-ring between sections of the solid rocket booster. As Richard Feynman so graphically demonstrated at a press-conference by placina sample of the material in his glass of ice-water: when the stuff got cold (and it was freezing that morning at the launch site) it became brittle. This aloud a jet of hot gas from the burning booster rocket to escape. THAT caused the large tank to explode.
>> IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together
Actually according to todays Wall Street Journal, Microsoft's market capitalization is $296,802 million, IBM's is $157,504 million, and SCO Group's is $235 million, so, infact Microsoft is quite a bit larger than IBM and SCO combined. But the fact remains that IBM could probably have bought SCO if they wanted to.
yeah, you're right. That was a kind of meaningless detail I shouldn't have bothered to add. (btw, lesson #3 is "when doing electrical work, where rubber-soled shoes, and keep one hand in your pocket.")
The New York Times (frryyy: free registration requried yada yada yada) has, in there On This Day in History feature, the original article that was run to report the event back in 1903. My favorite part is how inaccurately they describe the plane:
Their machine is an adaptation of the box kite idea, with
a propeller working on a perpendicular shaft to raise or lower the craft, and another working on a horizontal shaft to send it forward. The machine, it is said, can be raised or lowered with perfect control, and can carry a strong gasoline engine capable of making a speed of ten miles an hour.
I'm guessing you don't live anywhere that gets cold. If your furnace goes off, the thermostat isn't involved, and your house will certainly get cold fast. If it is freezing outside, it WILL get freezing inside. And since the water and heat pipes are in the walls, they will get colder faster than the inside of the house itself (if they are in the exterior walls, that is). And since it can get pretty damn cold at night, your neighbor would have to move in, and stay awake all the time to provide effective monitoring.
I've considered switching one of my family PCs from Windoze to linux with wine. But my kids need to be able to play there games (6-8 year old educational games, not Quake or GTA). But I've heard that Wine can be a bitch to configure, and even then, What are the chances that those random games will work? Any thoughts?
No doubt you are aware of the well-established legal principal (principle?) that the consitution is protecting political speech. That clearly doesn't apply to the time-share they tried to sell me last night.
Even the judge issueing the second ruling seemed to acknowledge that. His problem was that the FTC was prefering and protecting some types of annoying speech (charitable annoying speach) over other types of annoying speech (commercial annoying speech).
Someone has to say it, so here goes... I use emacs for this. There are a number of helper modes that provide at least basic support, but none of them are perfect. Some day I'll have to fix that....
if they were truely concerned about traffic congestion, shouldn't they leave the highway?
uh... that coudl work, but then how would groceries be delivered to the store? how would I get to work (I work 245 mile from home)? I agree that people drive too much, but the "get out of your cars" approach hasn't worked. Allowing the congestion to get so bad that people are forced out of there cars would be very expensive: think of the time wasted in traffic jams.
Another point: Boston isn't paying much for the Big Dig, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is.
Pop open your handy Constitution and take a look. Careful, you don't want to be too condecending do you?
You are using the slippery slope logic that they want you to use. The Feds want to take care of you as they don't think you can take care of yourself. Actually, this is logic that I want to use. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean I'm a sheep. I firmly believe that you have bought into a knee-jerk reactionary mantra that government is bad. I firmly believe that, infact, most people can NOT build there own safe highway system, and that the government should be doing it.
If they want to move tanks, they have the road system to do so
well... no, they didn't have the roads to do it; that's why they started the Interstate Highway Project.
"America will survive until politicians discover they can bribe people with their own money." -- de Tocqueville. Need I say more?
America has prospered and grown beyond de Tocqueville's wildest imaginings with out be constrained by medieval european notions of the role of government. We wouldn't be having this conversation if the government hadn't taken some tax-payer money and invested in DARPANet. You'll have a hard time convincing me that the constitution envisions federal investment in the internet but not in highways.
They are tearing out a perfectly good highway only for the aesthetics of it.
Well, actually it is NOT a perfectly good highway. It is woefully inadequate for the traffic it carries. Because of it's location and design it would be very difficult to expand it's capacity with out a MAJOR overhaul. Also, livability if a city is a legitimate social and govermental concern, and this project goes a long way to make Boston more livable.
Also, the interstate highway system was actually concieved during WWII because of problems the military had moving heavy equipment around the country. While the interstate highway system does provide significant and unquestionable economic benefit to ALL the citizens of the country, it also has significant strategic military value because every highway is designed to be able to transport tanks and other heavy equipment.
Finally, the constitution gaurantees equal protection under the law. If your state and my state get high quality highways, then Hawaii gets some too (besides, we may need to move some M1 tanks across the Big Island.) And Finally Finally, the federal government doesn't build highways, the states do. The feds just chip in. The Federal government is NOT paying for the entire Big Dig.
Slashdot stories frequently have incredibly overblown headlines. You have to go read the article to get a *modicum* of useful information anymore.
Well, duh. If you could fit the useful information in a headline you wouldn't need the headline. Headlines are always brief summaries of an article, and necessarily can't summarize all the points of an article.
In fact, in magazines and newspapers, a headline is effectively advertising: intended to get your attention, not convey information.
"...beaten down by linux experts alike" and "... may hold many promising Linux users what they have been waiting for..." Huh? This has got to be one of the most poorly written/. posts I have ever seen. I really really hope you are not a native English speaker. If that is the case, I apologize.
One day the cow in a small village stopped giving milk. So the villagers take the cow up the hill to the mathmetician living up there. They tell him the problem, and he goes back inside his house. The villagers can see him paceing back and forth in his study, and scribbling formulas on his black board (it was s long tim e ago), and finally he comes back out side. The villagers all gather around as he holds up his hands for silence: "Assume a perfect cow...."
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dito. I saw the sig, followed the link, and enjoyed what he had to say.
I still haven't seen Bowling for Columbine, but am more interested than ever now. I really enjoyed "Roger and Me".
placina? I meant "placing a..."
The Challenger explosion was not caused by a problem with the liquid hydrogen tank (well, not at first...). The problem was an O-ring between sections of the solid rocket booster. As Richard Feynman so graphically demonstrated at a press-conference by placina sample of the material in his glass of ice-water: when the stuff got cold (and it was freezing that morning at the launch site) it became brittle. This aloud a jet of hot gas from the burning booster rocket to escape. THAT caused the large tank to explode.
... ah, now I get it. That really IS funny!!
no, what's REALLY freaky is that her daughter WAS her future husband!!
I can tell this is really funny... but I don't get it.
well, no, because that would make M$'s market cap 296,802,000,000,000, or nearly 300 trillion dollars.
Note that I wrote $296,802 million.
I don't think it is true that if SCO wins it's suit every one will stop using Linux: instead, the offending code will be rewritten by someone else...
>> IBM is far larger and more powerful than both SCO and Microsoft put together
Actually according to todays Wall Street Journal, Microsoft's market capitalization is $296,802 million, IBM's is $157,504 million, and SCO Group's is $235 million, so, infact Microsoft is quite a bit larger than IBM and SCO combined.
But the fact remains that IBM could probably have bought SCO if they wanted to.
yeah, you're right. That was a kind of meaningless detail I shouldn't have bothered to add.
(btw, lesson #3 is "when doing electrical work, where rubber-soled shoes, and keep one hand in your pocket.")
I'm guessing you don't live anywhere that gets cold.
If your furnace goes off, the thermostat isn't involved, and your house will certainly get cold fast. If it is freezing outside, it WILL get freezing inside. And since the water and heat pipes are in the walls, they will get colder faster than the inside of the house itself (if they are in the exterior walls, that is).
And since it can get pretty damn cold at night, your neighbor would have to move in, and stay awake all the time to provide effective monitoring.
I've considered switching one of my family PCs from Windoze to linux with wine. But my kids need to be able to play there games (6-8 year old educational games, not Quake or GTA). But I've heard that Wine can be a bitch to configure, and even then, What are the chances that those random games will work? Any thoughts?
No doubt you are aware of the well-established legal principal (principle?) that the consitution is protecting political speech. That clearly doesn't apply to the time-share they tried to sell me last night.
Even the judge issueing the second ruling seemed to acknowledge that. His problem was that the FTC was prefering and protecting some types of annoying speech (charitable annoying speach) over other types of annoying speech (commercial annoying speech).
huh?
I thought that was really funny!! Not ROFL, but pretty funny. Thanks!
Someone has to say it, so here goes...
I use emacs for this. There are a number of helper modes that provide at least basic support, but none of them are perfect.
Some day I'll have to fix that....
uh... that coudl work, but then how would groceries be delivered to the store? how would I get to work (I work 245 mile from home)? I agree that people drive too much, but the "get out of your cars" approach hasn't worked. Allowing the congestion to get so bad that people are forced out of there cars would be very expensive: think of the time wasted in traffic jams.
Another point: Boston isn't paying much for the Big Dig, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is.
Pop open your handy Constitution and take a look.
Careful, you don't want to be too condecending do you?
You are using the slippery slope logic that they want you to use. The Feds want to take care of you as they don't think you can take care of yourself.
Actually, this is logic that I want to use. Just because you don't get it doesn't mean I'm a sheep. I firmly believe that you have bought into a knee-jerk reactionary mantra that government is bad. I firmly believe that, infact, most people can NOT build there own safe highway system, and that the government should be doing it.
If they want to move tanks, they have the road system to do so
well... no, they didn't have the roads to do it; that's why they started the Interstate Highway Project.
"America will survive until politicians discover they can bribe people with their own money." -- de Tocqueville. Need I say more?
America has prospered and grown beyond de Tocqueville's wildest imaginings with out be constrained by medieval european notions of the role of government. We wouldn't be having this conversation if the government hadn't taken some tax-payer money and invested in DARPANet. You'll have a hard time convincing me that the constitution envisions federal investment in the internet but not in highways.
Cheers!
Well, actually it is NOT a perfectly good highway. It is woefully inadequate for the traffic it carries. Because of it's location and design it would be very difficult to expand it's capacity with out a MAJOR overhaul. Also, livability if a city is a legitimate social and govermental concern, and this project goes a long way to make Boston more livable.
Also, the interstate highway system was actually concieved during WWII because of problems the military had moving heavy equipment around the country. While the interstate highway system does provide significant and unquestionable economic benefit to ALL the citizens of the country, it also has significant strategic military value because every highway is designed to be able to transport tanks and other heavy equipment.
Finally, the constitution gaurantees equal protection under the law. If your state and my state get high quality highways, then Hawaii gets some too (besides, we may need to move some M1 tanks across the Big Island.)
And Finally Finally, the federal government doesn't build highways, the states do. The feds just chip in. The Federal government is NOT paying for the entire Big Dig.
Slashdot stories frequently have incredibly overblown headlines. You have to go read the article to get a *modicum* of useful information anymore.
Well, duh. If you could fit the useful information in a headline you wouldn't need the headline. Headlines are always brief summaries of an article, and necessarily can't summarize all the points of an article.
In fact, in magazines and newspapers, a headline is effectively advertising: intended to get your attention, not convey information.
"...beaten down by linux experts alike" and "... may hold many promising Linux users what they have been waiting for..." /. posts I have ever seen. I really really hope you are not a native English speaker. If that is the case, I apologize.
Huh?
This has got to be one of the most poorly written
are you high?
Huh! I thought squirrels were doing well by foecasting if we would have a bad winter; now they are telling us we're going to have a tough millenium!!
One day the cow in a small village stopped giving milk. So the villagers take the cow up the hill to the mathmetician living up there. They tell him the problem, and he goes back inside his house. The villagers can see him paceing back and forth in his study, and scribbling formulas on his black board (it was s long tim e ago), and finally he comes back out side. The villagers all gather around as he holds up his hands for silence:
"Assume a perfect cow...."
Thank you. I almost fell of my chair once I (finally) got it.