Over the years, I've gone from making ramen a meal to making it a carbohydrate base in the occasional meal. I use it similarly to a base of rice for my favorite stir-fry recipe.
Sliced squash and zuchinni, with eggplant, stir-fried with soy sauce and optional sesame seeds. It's a basic ingredient for several dishes. Use it atop ramen or rice. Add drained black beans and rice and roll it in a burrito.
I'm glad to read that he followed up his script-reading and hiring by going straight to the radio shows. Both the TV shows and the first two books showed amazing genius, primarily because they sprung forth directly from those radio shows.
In radio, you must build your images in the spoken word with minimal sound effects. You must do it clearly and succinctly. This translated very well to the TV screen, because they didn't throw away the descriptions altogether and replace them with images. They just added TO the descriptions.
The first two books were very dialogue driven, and dialogue is where Adams' genius really showed through. The other books in the "trilogy" never felt quite the same, and I stronly believe that feeling came from the lack of basis in well-formed radio drama/comedy.
I'll go see Episode III for the same reasons I went to see Episodes I and II. It's there. It's more Star Wars. It's a decent enough story, but deep down it's just schlock.
Face it. Episode IV is just a good schlocky Sci-Fi Fantasy that was both fantastic and familiar.
I hated the ewoks about as much as I hate Jar-Jar. It was just cutesy, kiddy crap added to appeal to the younger audience. I tried not to let it destroy the fun of having more Star Wars.
If Episode I was the best Lucas wanted to give us, then that's what I'll take. Episode II was a vast improvement, and I expect Episode III will be good enough for me.
In the meantime, if I want to watch something with real quality, that isn't schlock, I'll watch LOTR.
Start with a premise, do little or no research, and declare conclusions. When the truth is pointed out, get indignant.
Granted, I haven't read the book in question, but this was a very enlightening article. I especially loved the comment that insinuates that Linus could have done a better job if he HAD stolen the code, than he did.
If I buy this low-priced DVD, or tennis shoes, or just about anything else that costs less due to overseas labor, somebody is probably going to be paid what we in the USA would consider very low wages to do the job in possibly "sweatshop" conditions.
If these products are no longer available, what happens to the workers who make them? Many of them, instead of making low wages with a job, will make NO wages, with no job. I think it is better to provide them with a job that allows them experience and income, which can eventually fund new enterprises and allow those workers to move up into higher paying jobs, or become business owners.
It isn't new, and you can easily argue that it isn't original, but count me as one who thinks that Nethack is still one of the best, and most challenging games around anywhere.
It isn't really a sequel, and it is hardly a franchise. It (3.4.3) just came out in the last few weeks, too.
If I could only ascend once, I'd be happy. My wife came in third in the tournament, in the Tourist category. I should feed her to the balrog.
I enjoyed The Hulk. It wasn't the greatest movie of the year, by any means, but it was a decent trip to the movies.
I thought the comic-book framing for the scene transitions was very innovative, and at times brilliant. The CGI wasn't nearly as bad as some have made it out to be in this discussion. The Bruce Banner character was very well done.
Like any good geek, I'm a big fan of Jennifer Connolly. The helicopter shot of her from late in the film was one of the best shots of the entire movie, with her seeming to descend from Heaven as the angel she is (to the Hulk, that is. Yeah, we'll say that).
The one really bad thing about The Hulk was the entire father subplot. It gave nothing to the movie except clutter, and after the movie should have ended, we had to sit through more of the same clutter. Want to release a special edition of this movie? Cut 30 minutes out, and forget Bruce ever had a dad.
I've done some thinking on the whole SCO thing, and I may have hit on the endgame strategy for SCO. As a corporate entity, SCO has been going downhill for some time. They've got to do something to save the company. One way to do this is to gain a sponsor, in a more powerful corporation. They'd be in a much better position as a subsidiary of IBM than as a competitor.
By suing IBM, and laying out lots of accusations which have little or no basis in fact, SCO places themselves at great risk of countersuit. Said countersuit stands much greater chances of success than SCO does in its own lawsuit.
So, SCO loses its lawsuit. IBM countersues and beats the pants off of SCO. SCO must raise cash to pay the bill, but the damage their accusations have done is worth more than SCO is. Therefore, in order to pay the bill, SCO stock would be handed over to IBM in payment. SCO ends up being a subsidiary of IBM.
If they pull it off right, the higher-ups get to keep some stock, maybe keep their jobs, and eventually increase their available cash. Either way, the lawyers get paid.
Sure, it's a wacked-out theory, but it's no less so than SCO's lawsuit claims.
Going from state to state, or county to county, you can tell that different contractors use different mixtures and surface preparations.
Down here, where I live in North Carolina, we have an area called the Sandhills. The whole area is little more than one big sandbar. Asphalt in this area is much more abrasive than in most other areas, and can increase tire wear. This is most noticeable to NASCAR fans. Rockingham Motor Speedway is paved with this high-sand-concentration asphalt, and that track is known as being the hardest on tires in the entire race circuit. When in doubt, change four tires.
I've always wondered if there were any other areas that saw interesting conditions because of the local materials that make it into the pavement.
Why not, as an interim measure, simply comment out a vital portion of code in a header file. Cause GCC to fail when run under SCO systems, until the user reads the README.SCO file, and uncomments the code. Repeat the warning in a comment in the header file, at the point where the code was commented out.
This way, SCO users will not have to be punished, and GCC will not technically be providing support for SCO out of the box. When the user makes the proper change to allow GCC to work under SCO, they'll learn about the crap SCO is pulling.
Want to put a warning shot across their bow? This would do it.
There's a big difference between relying on ham radio and using ham radio. I use my radios regularly, but I do not rely on them for my communications.
Of course, should the phones and Internet go down in the area, I can power up my 10 meter rig, which runs on a deep-cycle battery
The real reason why BPL is a problem is much deeper than just ham radio. The HF spectrum comprises a lot of space. Ham radio only occupies a portion of this space. BPL causes interference all across the HF spectrum. The result is that ham radio, and other services, will see problems. Some of those other services DO rely on radio communication.
BPL is already in existence. It's already causing problems. The power companies want to be able to do more BPL work.
As I understand the case, BPL requires DSL-style local access to the system. In other words, you must be within a certain distance of a base node in order to get access to the net. These base nodes will start in the high-population areas, due to the need for revenue to pay for startup. The outlying areas will probably not be among the first to get access. In fact, if DSL is any guide to how fast access goes to the rural areas, then we can expect NO BPL access for years in those areas.
BPL sounds like a good idea, but has problems. It seems to have benefits, but upon examination, the benefits seem to already be provided by other sources.
Respectfully, from reading this thread, most non-hams discussing the issue are pretty ignorant of what's going on. Many of you have benefitted from ham radio for years, and have never had any clue. From weather tracking to emergency services to high-tech experimentation, there are many reasons to keep ham radio accessible and our spectrum usable.
How much space does ham radio use? Hmmm.
1800-2000 kHz 3500-7300 10100-10150 14000-14350 18068-18 168 21000-21450 24890-24990 28000-29700 US HF allocations only
So, if the tiny spectrum allocated to ham radio is majorly harmed by BPL, how much spectrum allocated to other services is gonna get the hatchet as well?
My power needs were for devices that would stay stationary mst of the time. When I need to take them outside for use, there will be lots of extra work. Radios, antennae, etc.
There's a RV dealership here in town that sells factory blemish batteries for $25 each. I grabbed the biggest deep-cycle battery I could lift, with the proper terminals.
It's great. I should be able to operate for weeks, before needing to take the thing outside for a charge. If battery life becomes a problem, I'll just spend another $25. I might do that anyway.
Eventually, I'll build an outside enclosure, add more batteries, and top with solar cells. I wonder how far off the grid I could go.
Count me in the group of folks who believe that ADHD is a false disease, created to explain symptoms of boredom, creativity, and active-child-syndrome. The "disease" has been cured, in many cases, with an improved diet. In many other cases, the symptoms went away when the educational environment changed to include more creativity and interactivity, with less boredom. Do diseases go away when someone other than the victim changes their routine?
Now that parents are starting to question Ritalin, and Ritalin use isn't growing as fast as it was a while back, we're suddenly finding adults with ADHD.
Don't be fooled. Study up. Look at the ill effects of Ritalin. Read the recent study by the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology that questioned whether ADHD was real. Examine the diet of the "victim" of the "disease" to see if it is lacking.
Are they trying to pin ADHD on your kid? If so, your kid is probably more intelligent, more active and more easily bored (because of all those video games, eh?) than the other kid. Your kid is probably being drugged for the convenience of the teacher (imho, ianad). Maybe you should consider homeschooling, to better meet the educational needs of your child.
I have a bad attitude about government schools drugging children into a good-citizen-mode.
I run a used bookstore. I could spend a little time running books through this thing, and with a little work, read the latest releases on my palm pilot, for reading at the beach.
On the other hand, there's a big difference between reading on my m130 and holding that paperback in my hand.
He'll do a bunch of research before hand. If there was not time for that, I bet he'd simply ask around (thats how I found some great barbeque in Kansas city (not that thats hard, but the first two places I was "directed" to sucked.))
Great barbeque in Kansas City? I'd think it would lose some of its great tast on the way from North Carolina.
We have 5 unix sysadmins (major transportation company). Not one of them could write a shell script if their life depended on it.
They insist on doing everything by hand and then complain there are no automated tools to them. Their definition of an automated tool really means "graphical front end to those grubby text commands".
It becomes more obvious to me that I've got to stop running the used bookstore, and become a sysadmin. I don't even consider myself all THAT competent as an admin, but I can read docs and howtos. I can write a little python code, and I use vi to add or edit users.
It doesn't take too many neurons firing to understand that modularity means being able to automate everything.
Anyone who talks about "programming" web sites should be banned from publishing anything on the web.
That's funny. I often do my work in Zope, and have spent the last week working on some Python code that generates HTML pages from dynamic data pulled from elsewhere. Programming is the hard work of designing my stuff. HTML is the easy stuff.
Of course, my.sig is pointing to an almost blank page right now, so I'm one to be talking.
I suggest you try "reinstalling" nohup and Python. If that doesn't work, check the BUG history on these things and try using a different version of each.
Well, I have no control over all that crap. This is on my webserver, and the tech support for my webhost (who will go unnamed) isn't really all that helpful, except for fixing things I've broken. When I need a hint on how to do something, I have around 25% success rate in getting help. I've just about given up on getting slashcode running again on my service, because of the hose job VCPAN (Virtual Server CPAN wrapper) manages to do every time I try to install Bundle::Slash. They're not incompetent, but I wish they'd act like I was for a day.
I've done tech support. When I did it, the goal was to help the customer get use of the hardware/software/service that they paid for. How times have changed.
Thanks. Except for the redirect that was left out, that was exactly what I needed. If I had mod points to spend (and could in this thread) I'd heap some on ya.
I always have a minimum of 4 vt's and an X session active on my workstation, it's one of the reasons (behind perhaps 5-6 more) that I use nix over windows for daily tasks.
No kidding. Multiple text logins as well as the graphical display REALLY blows the minds of many of my winblows buddies. I think it's even MORE useful than my favorite useful tool, Opera's "open link in background."
Slashdot Mirror
Over the years, I've gone from making ramen a meal to making it a carbohydrate base in the occasional meal. I use it similarly to a base of rice for my favorite stir-fry recipe.
Sliced squash and zuchinni, with eggplant, stir-fried with soy sauce and optional sesame seeds. It's a basic ingredient for several dishes. Use it atop ramen or rice. Add drained black beans and rice and roll it in a burrito.
Squash season is here. Yum.
You gotta WORK that ramen. Make it work for you.
I'm glad to read that he followed up his script-reading and hiring by going straight to the radio shows. Both the TV shows and the first two books showed amazing genius, primarily because they sprung forth directly from those radio shows.
In radio, you must build your images in the spoken word with minimal sound effects. You must do it clearly and succinctly. This translated very well to the TV screen, because they didn't throw away the descriptions altogether and replace them with images. They just added TO the descriptions.
The first two books were very dialogue driven, and dialogue is where Adams' genius really showed through. The other books in the "trilogy" never felt quite the same, and I stronly believe that feeling came from the lack of basis in well-formed radio drama/comedy.
I can't wait.
I'll go see Episode III for the same reasons I went to see Episodes I and II. It's there. It's more Star Wars. It's a decent enough story, but deep down it's just schlock.
Face it. Episode IV is just a good schlocky Sci-Fi Fantasy that was both fantastic and familiar.
I hated the ewoks about as much as I hate Jar-Jar. It was just cutesy, kiddy crap added to appeal to the younger audience. I tried not to let it destroy the fun of having more Star Wars.
If Episode I was the best Lucas wanted to give us, then that's what I'll take. Episode II was a vast improvement, and I expect Episode III will be good enough for me.
In the meantime, if I want to watch something with real quality, that isn't schlock, I'll watch LOTR.
Here's a mirror of the article while it lasts.
Start with a premise, do little or no research, and declare conclusions. When the truth is pointed out, get indignant.
Granted, I haven't read the book in question, but this was a very enlightening article. I especially loved the comment that insinuates that Linus could have done a better job if he HAD stolen the code, than he did.
What if everybody chose their own URL to point to for nigritude ultramarine and tried to skew the results? Never mind that MY link to nigritude ultramarine has nothing to do with nigritude ultramarine at all. Seeing enough links to my site with it looking like a link to nigritude ultramarine could be enough. Ya think?
If I buy this low-priced DVD, or tennis shoes, or just about anything else that costs less due to overseas labor, somebody is probably going to be paid what we in the USA would consider very low wages to do the job in possibly "sweatshop" conditions.
If these products are no longer available, what happens to the workers who make them? Many of them, instead of making low wages with a job, will make NO wages, with no job. I think it is better to provide them with a job that allows them experience and income, which can eventually fund new enterprises and allow those workers to move up into higher paying jobs, or become business owners.
Low-paying job or no job? That's the question.
It isn't new, and you can easily argue that it isn't original, but count me as one who thinks that Nethack is still one of the best, and most challenging games around anywhere.
It isn't really a sequel, and it is hardly a franchise. It (3.4.3) just came out in the last few weeks, too.
If I could only ascend once, I'd be happy. My wife came in third in the tournament, in the Tourist category. I should feed her to the balrog.
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I enjoyed The Hulk. It wasn't the greatest movie of the year, by any means, but it was a decent trip to the movies.
I thought the comic-book framing for the scene transitions was very innovative, and at times brilliant. The CGI wasn't nearly as bad as some have made it out to be in this discussion. The Bruce Banner character was very well done.
Like any good geek, I'm a big fan of Jennifer Connolly. The helicopter shot of her from late in the film was one of the best shots of the entire movie, with her seeming to descend from Heaven as the angel she is (to the Hulk, that is. Yeah, we'll say that).
The one really bad thing about The Hulk was the entire father subplot. It gave nothing to the movie except clutter, and after the movie should have ended, we had to sit through more of the same clutter. Want to release a special edition of this movie? Cut 30 minutes out, and forget Bruce ever had a dad.
As Rimmer would say: "Bonvoro alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!" And I think we all know what that means.
I don't, but I did find it interesting that I had to go through a full 1/3 of the postings before I actually encountered a single word of Esperanto.
Maybedo wedo needeo ado newo pseudoas languageo calledo pigo esperantoas
I've done some thinking on the whole SCO thing, and I may have hit on the endgame strategy for SCO. As a corporate entity, SCO has been going downhill for some time. They've got to do something to save the company. One way to do this is to gain a sponsor, in a more powerful corporation. They'd be in a much better position as a subsidiary of IBM than as a competitor.
By suing IBM, and laying out lots of accusations which have little or no basis in fact, SCO places themselves at great risk of countersuit. Said countersuit stands much greater chances of success than SCO does in its own lawsuit.
So, SCO loses its lawsuit. IBM countersues and beats the pants off of SCO. SCO must raise cash to pay the bill, but the damage their accusations have done is worth more than SCO is. Therefore, in order to pay the bill, SCO stock would be handed over to IBM in payment. SCO ends up being a subsidiary of IBM.
If they pull it off right, the higher-ups get to keep some stock, maybe keep their jobs, and eventually increase their available cash. Either way, the lawyers get paid.
Sure, it's a wacked-out theory, but it's no less so than SCO's lawsuit claims.
Going from state to state, or county to county, you can tell that different contractors use different mixtures and surface preparations.
Down here, where I live in North Carolina, we have an area called the Sandhills. The whole area is little more than one big sandbar. Asphalt in this area is much more abrasive than in most other areas, and can increase tire wear. This is most noticeable to NASCAR fans. Rockingham Motor Speedway is paved with this high-sand-concentration asphalt, and that track is known as being the hardest on tires in the entire race circuit. When in doubt, change four tires.
I've always wondered if there were any other areas that saw interesting conditions because of the local materials that make it into the pavement.
Why not, as an interim measure, simply comment out a vital portion of code in a header file. Cause GCC to fail when run under SCO systems, until the user reads the README.SCO file, and uncomments the code. Repeat the warning in a comment in the header file, at the point where the code was commented out.
This way, SCO users will not have to be punished, and GCC will not technically be providing support for SCO out of the box. When the user makes the proper change to allow GCC to work under SCO, they'll learn about the crap SCO is pulling.
Want to put a warning shot across their bow? This would do it.
There's a big difference between relying on ham radio and using ham radio. I use my radios regularly, but I do not rely on them for my communications.
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Of course, should the phones and Internet go down in the area, I can power up my 10 meter rig, which runs on a deep-cycle battery
The real reason why BPL is a problem is much deeper than just ham radio. The HF spectrum comprises a lot of space. Ham radio only occupies a portion of this space. BPL causes interference all across the HF spectrum. The result is that ham radio, and other services, will see problems. Some of those other services DO rely on radio communication.
BPL is already in existence. It's already causing problems. The power companies want to be able to do more BPL work.
As I understand the case, BPL requires DSL-style local access to the system. In other words, you must be within a certain distance of a base node in order to get access to the net. These base nodes will start in the high-population areas, due to the need for revenue to pay for startup. The outlying areas will probably not be among the first to get access. In fact, if DSL is any guide to how fast access goes to the rural areas, then we can expect NO BPL access for years in those areas.
BPL sounds like a good idea, but has problems. It seems to have benefits, but upon examination, the benefits seem to already be provided by other sources.
Respectfully, from reading this thread, most non-hams discussing the issue are pretty ignorant of what's going on. Many of you have benefitted from ham radio for years, and have never had any clue. From weather tracking to emergency services to high-tech experimentation, there are many reasons to keep ham radio accessible and our spectrum usable.
How much space does ham radio use? Hmmm.
1800-2000 kHz
3500-7300
10100-10150
14000-14350
18068-1
21000-21450
24890-24990
28000-29700
US HF allocations only
So, if the tiny spectrum allocated to ham radio is majorly harmed by BPL, how much spectrum allocated to other services is gonna get the hatchet as well?
My power needs were for devices that would stay stationary mst of the time. When I need to take them outside for use, there will be lots of extra work. Radios, antennae, etc.
There's a RV dealership here in town that sells factory blemish batteries for $25 each. I grabbed the biggest deep-cycle battery I could lift, with the proper terminals.
It's great. I should be able to operate for weeks, before needing to take the thing outside for a charge. If battery life becomes a problem, I'll just spend another $25. I might do that anyway.
Eventually, I'll build an outside enclosure, add more batteries, and top with solar cells. I wonder how far off the grid I could go.
Count me in the group of folks who believe that ADHD is a false disease, created to explain symptoms of boredom, creativity, and active-child-syndrome. The "disease" has been cured, in many cases, with an improved diet. In many other cases, the symptoms went away when the educational environment changed to include more creativity and interactivity, with less boredom. Do diseases go away when someone other than the victim changes their routine?
Now that parents are starting to question Ritalin, and Ritalin use isn't growing as fast as it was a while back, we're suddenly finding adults with ADHD.
Don't be fooled. Study up. Look at the ill effects of Ritalin. Read the recent study by the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology that questioned whether ADHD was real. Examine the diet of the "victim" of the "disease" to see if it is lacking.
Are they trying to pin ADHD on your kid? If so, your kid is probably more intelligent, more active and more easily bored (because of all those video games, eh?) than the other kid. Your kid is probably being drugged for the convenience of the teacher (imho, ianad). Maybe you should consider homeschooling, to better meet the educational needs of your child.
I have a bad attitude about government schools drugging children into a good-citizen-mode.
I run a used bookstore. I could spend a little time running books through this thing, and with a little work, read the latest releases on my palm pilot, for reading at the beach.
On the other hand, there's a big difference between reading on my m130 and holding that paperback in my hand.
He'll do a bunch of research before hand. If there was not time for that, I bet he'd simply ask around (thats how I found some great barbeque in Kansas city (not that thats hard, but the first two places I was "directed" to sucked.))
Great barbeque in Kansas City? I'd think it would lose some of its great tast on the way from North Carolina.
We have 5 unix sysadmins (major transportation company). Not one of them could write a shell script if their life depended on it.
They insist on doing everything by hand and then complain there are no automated tools to them. Their definition of an automated tool really means "graphical front end to those grubby text commands".
It becomes more obvious to me that I've got to stop running the used bookstore, and become a sysadmin. I don't even consider myself all THAT competent as an admin, but I can read docs and howtos. I can write a little python code, and I use vi to add or edit users.
It doesn't take too many neurons firing to understand that modularity means being able to automate everything.
Where do I apply?
I hit it at 359.
Refresh and it was dead.
So, what you're trying to tell us is that it's YOUR fault.
One pageview per user, please. No seconds until everybody's had a chance to DDOS a little.
The FAA has spotted an unusual number of pigs at high altitude
"If pigs had wings, and birds had none,
My windshield wipers would not run.
-Heywood Banks
Anyone who talks about "programming" web sites should be banned from publishing anything on the web.
That's funny. I often do my work in Zope, and have spent the last week working on some Python code that generates HTML pages from dynamic data pulled from elsewhere. Programming is the hard work of designing my stuff. HTML is the easy stuff.
Of course, my .sig is pointing to an almost blank page right now, so I'm one to be talking.
I suggest you try "reinstalling" nohup and Python. If that doesn't work, check the BUG history on these things and try using a different version of each.
Well, I have no control over all that crap. This is on my webserver, and the tech support for my webhost (who will go unnamed) isn't really all that helpful, except for fixing things I've broken. When I need a hint on how to do something, I have around 25% success rate in getting help. I've just about given up on getting slashcode running again on my service, because of the hose job VCPAN (Virtual Server CPAN wrapper) manages to do every time I try to install Bundle::Slash. They're not incompetent, but I wish they'd act like I was for a day.
I've done tech support. When I did it, the goal was to help the customer get use of the hardware/software/service that they paid for. How times have changed.
you might try nohup python myscript.py /dev/null &
Thanks. Except for the redirect that was left out, that was exactly what I needed. If I had mod points to spend (and could in this thread) I'd heap some on ya.
I always have a minimum of 4 vt's and an X session active on my workstation, it's one of the reasons (behind perhaps 5-6 more) that I use nix over windows for daily tasks.
No kidding. Multiple text logins as well as the graphical display REALLY blows the minds of many of my winblows buddies. I think it's even MORE useful than my favorite useful tool, Opera's "open link in background."