I have been following the progress of Carter Copters prototype tests for over 4 years.
Out of all the newer type aircraft I have looked at, I believe this one has the best chance of success.
I agree. I live down the street from their business office in Wichita Falls and have flown my own plane down to Olney to watch the tests. I've seen the aircraft up close and personal and it impresses the heck out of me.
Some of the specs on this aircraft are amazing!
You can take 5 passengers coast to coast on 120 gallons of fuel at over 400mph at 50,000 feet and take off and land from your back yard. Easy maintenance and low cost of manufacture are very attractive to me.
Bear in mind that the prototype (and there's only one at this time) is just a two-seater and will probably only do a little over 160mph, and they say they don't intend to build any production aircraft. By the time they get the tech details ironed out and license the technology to some big aircraft manufacturer who will then build a big, jet powered version, that the purchase price will undoubtedly still be in the several hundred thousand to millions of dollars price range. It ain't gonna be a hobbiest's aircraft... by the time it reaches actual production it will be a corporate or military aircraft.
I've seen the CarterCopter up close and personal. I live in Wichita Falls, TX only 1/2 mile down the road from their business office and have flown my own small airplane down to Olney a few times to watch them test the CarterCopter. It is very real, and yes it actually flies. It's quite an impressive piece of design work.
Admiral Janeway - next Borg Queen.
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Admiral Janeway will have survived the explosions of the Unimatrix and since she already began the assimilation process, but since she carried the virus to the Borg, and hence it immune to it herself, will become the new Borg Queen in a bizzare temporal paradox.
Voyager and "Seven of Nine"
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I watched Voyager because I liked to see Seven's T&A stick out thru that spandex catsuit;-)
I'd always hoped that the ending would be the ship getting home to Earth, and Seven would get to meet Data, now that he's got his emotion chip installed under his fingernail, upon meeting her, he'd say to her, "I'm fully functional and programmed in multiple techniques".
I'm the network admin of a midsized govt organization and use NT ACLs extensively. This is just the kind of thing I need as a critical technology to help with my divorce/exit strategy from Microsoft. As soon as I'm comfortable with running FreeBSD 5.x-CURRENT (yeah a development release) in a production environment. I'm going to switch and never look back. I once had a FreeBSD machine (2.6) up for over a year without a reboot, so I know how good of a Unix it really is.... I'm just a bit skittish to be an early adoptor of 5.x just yet.
The ports thing works like this: you've got your source directory tree full of directories, one for each software application or utility. In each directory you've got a Makefile. If you don't yet have all the source files to make your app, you just do a make anyway, and the Makefile has all the stuff inside needed to tell make to go out and ftp the source files down to your machine and then is simply carries on and builds the app after the ftp download finishes. It is really slick. You don't even have to go look for the source files yourself, it already knows where to get them.
kochsr says: Foot and mouth is not viral. It is a prion.
You must be thinking of Scrapie , which is a prion-caused TSE. Foot and Mouth disease *is* viral. It is caused by Picornaviridae, genus Aphthovirus. Read more at Vads Corner.
One of my network servers is named Mir, others are named after the Apollo Lunar Landers (LEM's): i.e. Eagle, Intrepid, Aquarius, Antares, Falcon & Orion. Now all these spacecraft have something in common: They all did their jobs as they were designed and intended to do, some even went far above and beyond the call of duty (Aquarius and Mir). They all were intentionally discarded at the end of their missions. All my namesake servers are still on duty and running well, however;-)
I guess I must be a true nerd, because as Mir was burning up in the atmosphere, I felt like crying.
[SpleenVentingMode ON] I'm nearly 40 and I betcha there ain't but a small number of computer nerds on this entire planet who come even close to matching my computer skills, knowledge and experience. I've been customizing my own Linux kernel code since 1993, when I got my first SLS distribution by 2400 baud modem download from a BBS. I was there when Windows NT "Advanced Server" 3.1 was given to my employer for beta testing (so I guess I've hated NT for more years than just about anybody else around here). Hell, my first FORTRAN program that I ever wrote was on punch cards and ran on an IBM 370 mainframe!!! I'll be damned if some moron politician in my own state (I'm a Texan) tries to lump me in with his bunch of idiots just because my age. There ain't much in the computer world that this old geezer doesn't totally grok.
In my not-so-humble opinion, anyone who can't figure out how to download and install software on their machine has no business even touching a computer in the first place, and should be punished for even trying without getting adequate training first.
[SpleenVentingMode OFF]
As a web designer, you should design each and every web page you create such that it is downloadable in a *reasonable* amount of time by the least-common-denominator... That is the dial-up surfer who has only a 28.8K connection. If you do this, then those of us with the luxury of 56K, ISDN, DSL, T1, whatever will benefit even better, but the typical user will have a less frustrating experience in viewing your webpages.
It is only a lame Californicatian attempt at mass-produced Tex-Mex food. For *real* Tex-Mex, you need to come on down to south Austin, to one of those little independently owned restaurants where you're the only one in the whole place who speaks English and just order off the menu by item number. (Everybody should be able to at least count to ten in Spanish).
That does appear to be an obvious hack to avoid having to pay an unconstitutional "sales" tax which will be levied on goods exported across state lines. Just make the web experience a pre-sale "quote", then dial the toll-free phone number to finalize the transforming of the "quote" number into a bona fide sales order number.
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) by itself *is* TCP/IP-based and requires the client to know the IP address of the server, in order to be of any use. Other netbios naming services that run on other protocols are not "WINS". Yes this is a nitpick.
...that immediately jumped into my mind was that whatever "protection layer" they add to MP3s will be deemed to fall under DMCA and the same neverending story of "illegal circumvention devices" will rear its ugly head even higher.
Beastie??? Aaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!
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wtf? They could have at least used his proper name.
His name is Chuck.
Dude, don't pop a blood vessel in your forehead...
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Try SuSE 7.0. I used to be a Slackware fanatic, then I tried all the rest and settled on SuSE. I started with 6.1 and applied the upgrades one after another and now I'm up to 7.0 with the 2.4.0 kernel and I'm impressed with how the SuSE distro gets more and more refined with each release. Just like Humphrey Bogart's line in the old "African Queen" movie: "Them Germans, they lay down a system and they stick with it."
If you really want a free unix that works right out of the box with no headaches, try FreeBSD. It's a much more refined product than most all Linux distros. (let the flames begin:)
FreeBSD... different. (picture a Dodge car/truck TV commercial ripoff with little Chuck daemons dancing around instead of peppers)
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, any half-assed computer geek who could formulate an efficient query on Dejanews could find all the tech support info needed to be able to perform just as well as the most seasoned and grizzled network and systems gurus. The dot coms and other "jump-on-the-internet-bandwagon" companies who needed I.T. staff hired such geeks in droves. Soon thereafter, there were still not enough geeks to go around. Salaries rose to lofty heights, even for minimally-experienced geeks who could just get by adequately in their highly technical jobs, so long as they were armed with a T1 Internet line and good old Deja to make them look like heroes in their bosses' eyes.
Fast forward to December 2000, when the dot coms and just about every other computer outfit are now beginning to wake up to the reality of the "new economy" and realize that the sky really is falling. Thousands are losing their jobs. With the loss of that exquisite Dejanews mother of all tech support databases, only the very best of the "True Geeks (tm)" who can, on their own, continue to support large complicated networks, Unix and (gack!) NT/2000 servers, without having to rely on Deja as a crutch, will survive in the coming recession/depression. Deja was the best tool for finding someone else who'd already discovered the solutions or workarounds for those wierd, obscure error messages and crashes you suddenly started getting after you installed the latest Borg service patch.
Now that Deja is gone, all these marginally-experienced sysadmin geeks will now start falling on their faces at work. This whole thing with the economy collapsing, and loss of our online resources, and mega-mergers, and attacks on Open Source, and secret backdoors/clandestine surveillance mechanisms built into our commercial software, and patent and copyright offensives, and whatever else doomsday prophecies you want to throw in here.... all this is leading up to a Darwinistic "survival of the fittest" in the information technology world. How many professional computer geeks out there think they have acquired enough knowledge and experience since 1993-1994 (roughly the birth of the internet "surge") until now to be able to survive in this biz without your online crutches to help you get by? I'm pretty sure I have.
This reminds me so much of the ending of the original Terminator movie, when Sarah was on her way to the mountains in Mexico, and the old man tells her, "There's a storm coming"..... and she says, "I know."
Well, fellow geeks and nerds... there is a storm coming. Brace yourselves for it.
Just have a big repetative pulse generator's output hooked up to the coils around your doorway like in Cryptonomicon so when the disks are carried thru the doorway, zzzzzzzzaaappppppp!!!
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I have been following the progress of Carter Copters prototype tests for over 4 years. Out of all the newer type aircraft I have looked at, I believe this one has the best chance of success.
I agree. I live down the street from their business office in Wichita Falls and have flown my own plane down to Olney to watch the tests. I've seen the aircraft up close and personal and it impresses the heck out of me.
Some of the specs on this aircraft are amazing! You can take 5 passengers coast to coast on 120 gallons of fuel at over 400mph at 50,000 feet and take off and land from your back yard. Easy maintenance and low cost of manufacture are very attractive to me.
Bear in mind that the prototype (and there's only one at this time) is just a two-seater and will probably only do a little over 160mph, and they say they don't intend to build any production aircraft. By the time they get the tech details ironed out and license the technology to some big aircraft manufacturer who will then build a big, jet powered version, that the purchase price will undoubtedly still be in the several hundred thousand to millions of dollars price range. It ain't gonna be a hobbiest's aircraft... by the time it reaches actual production it will be a corporate or military aircraft.
I've seen the CarterCopter up close and personal. I live in Wichita Falls, TX only 1/2 mile down the road from their business office and have flown my own small airplane down to Olney a few times to watch them test the CarterCopter. It is very real, and yes it actually flies. It's quite an impressive piece of design work.
Admiral Janeway will have survived the explosions of the Unimatrix and since she already began the assimilation process, but since she carried the virus to the Borg, and hence it immune to it herself, will become the new Borg Queen in a bizzare temporal paradox.
I watched Voyager because I liked to see Seven's T&A stick out thru that spandex catsuit ;-)
I'd always hoped that the ending would be the ship getting home to Earth, and Seven would get to meet Data, now that he's got his emotion chip installed under his fingernail, upon meeting her, he'd say to her, "I'm fully functional and programmed in multiple techniques".
The consumer, of course.
I'm the network admin of a midsized govt organization and use NT ACLs extensively. This is just the kind of thing I need as a critical technology to help with my divorce/exit strategy from Microsoft. As soon as I'm comfortable with running FreeBSD 5.x-CURRENT (yeah a development release) in a production environment. I'm going to switch and never look back. I once had a FreeBSD machine (2.6) up for over a year without a reboot, so I know how good of a Unix it really is.... I'm just a bit skittish to be an early adoptor of 5.x just yet.
The ports thing works like this: you've got your source directory tree full of directories, one for each software application or utility. In each directory you've got a Makefile. If you don't yet have all the source files to make your app, you just do a make anyway, and the Makefile has all the stuff inside needed to tell make to go out and ftp the source files down to your machine and then is simply carries on and builds the app after the ftp download finishes. It is really slick. You don't even have to go look for the source files yourself, it already knows where to get them.
All science is NOT computer science.
Computer science is composed of all *other* sciences.
The true statement should be: "All science is MATH!!!"
"Back off man, I'm a scientist."
"Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist."
One fine day, all the organs and body parts were having an argument about who was the most important.... You know the story and who the winner was.
kochsr says: Foot and mouth is not viral. It is a prion.
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You must be thinking of Scrapie , which is a prion-caused TSE. Foot and Mouth disease *is* viral. It is caused by Picornaviridae, genus Aphthovirus. Read more at Vads Corner
One of my network servers is named Mir, others are named after the Apollo Lunar Landers (LEM's): i.e. Eagle, Intrepid, Aquarius, Antares, Falcon & Orion. Now all these spacecraft have something in common: They all did their jobs as they were designed and intended to do, some even went far above and beyond the call of duty (Aquarius and Mir). They all were intentionally discarded at the end of their missions. All my namesake servers are still on duty and running well, however ;-)
I guess I must be a true nerd, because as Mir was burning up in the atmosphere, I felt like crying.
[SpleenVentingMode ON]
I'm nearly 40 and I betcha there ain't but a small number of computer nerds on this entire planet who come even close to matching my computer skills, knowledge and experience. I've been customizing my own Linux kernel code since 1993, when I got my first SLS distribution by 2400 baud modem download from a BBS. I was there when Windows NT "Advanced Server" 3.1 was given to my employer for beta testing (so I guess I've hated NT for more years than just about anybody else around here). Hell, my first FORTRAN program that I ever wrote was on punch cards and ran on an IBM 370 mainframe!!! I'll be damned if some moron politician in my own state (I'm a Texan) tries to lump me in with his bunch of idiots just because my age. There ain't much in the computer world that this old geezer doesn't totally grok.
In my not-so-humble opinion, anyone who can't figure out how to download and install software on their machine has no business even touching a computer in the first place, and should be punished for even trying without getting adequate training first.
[SpleenVentingMode OFF]
As a web designer, you should design each and every web page you create such that it is downloadable in a *reasonable* amount of time by the least-common-denominator... That is the dial-up surfer who has only a 28.8K connection. If you do this, then those of us with the luxury of 56K, ISDN, DSL, T1, whatever will benefit even better, but the typical user will have a less frustrating experience in viewing your webpages.
It is not real Mexican food.
It is only a lame Californicatian attempt at mass-produced Tex-Mex food. For *real* Tex-Mex, you need to come on down to south Austin, to one of those little independently owned restaurants where you're the only one in the whole place who speaks English and just order off the menu by item number. (Everybody should be able to at least count to ten in Spanish).
That does appear to be an obvious hack to avoid having to pay an unconstitutional "sales" tax which will be levied on goods exported across state lines. Just make the web experience a pre-sale "quote", then dial the toll-free phone number to finalize the transforming of the "quote" number into a bona fide sales order number.
WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) by itself *is* TCP/IP-based and requires the client to know the IP address of the server, in order to be of any use. Other netbios naming services that run on other protocols are not "WINS". Yes this is a nitpick.
WINS is TCP-IP based. Moron.
Uhm...yes they can. Lucent has, IIRC, released Winmodem drivers for Linux.
Surely you can't serious believe that an average Mom & Dad will be able to successfully install these drivers in Linux?
...that immediately jumped into my mind was that whatever "protection layer" they add to MP3s will be deemed to fall under DMCA and the same neverending story of "illegal circumvention devices" will rear its ugly head even higher.
wtf? They could have at least used his proper name.
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His name is Chuck
Try SuSE 7.0. I used to be a Slackware fanatic, then I tried all the rest and settled on SuSE. I started with 6.1 and applied the upgrades one after another and now I'm up to 7.0 with the 2.4.0 kernel and I'm impressed with how the SuSE distro gets more and more refined with each release. Just like Humphrey Bogart's line in the old "African Queen" movie: "Them Germans, they lay down a system and they stick with it."
:)
If you really want a free unix that works right out of the box with no headaches, try FreeBSD. It's a much more refined product than most all Linux distros. (let the flames begin
FreeBSD... different. (picture a Dodge car/truck TV commercial ripoff with little Chuck daemons dancing around instead of peppers)
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, any half-assed computer geek who could formulate an efficient query on Dejanews could find all the tech support info needed to be able to perform just as well as the most seasoned and grizzled network and systems gurus. The dot coms and other "jump-on-the-internet-bandwagon" companies who needed I.T. staff hired such geeks in droves. Soon thereafter, there were still not enough geeks to go around. Salaries rose to lofty heights, even for minimally-experienced geeks who could just get by adequately in their highly technical jobs, so long as they were armed with a T1 Internet line and good old Deja to make them look like heroes in their bosses' eyes.
Fast forward to December 2000, when the dot coms and just about every other computer outfit are now beginning to wake up to the reality of the "new economy" and realize that the sky really is falling. Thousands are losing their jobs. With the loss of that exquisite Dejanews mother of all tech support databases, only the very best of the "True Geeks (tm)" who can, on their own, continue to support large complicated networks, Unix and (gack!) NT/2000 servers, without having to rely on Deja as a crutch, will survive in the coming recession/depression. Deja was the best tool for finding someone else who'd already discovered the solutions or workarounds for those wierd, obscure error messages and crashes you suddenly started getting after you installed the latest Borg service patch.
Now that Deja is gone, all these marginally-experienced sysadmin geeks will now start falling on their faces at work. This whole thing with the economy collapsing, and loss of our online resources, and mega-mergers, and attacks on Open Source, and secret backdoors/clandestine surveillance mechanisms built into our commercial software, and patent and copyright offensives, and whatever else doomsday prophecies you want to throw in here.... all this is leading up to a Darwinistic "survival of the fittest" in the information technology world. How many professional computer geeks out there think they have acquired enough knowledge and experience since 1993-1994 (roughly the birth of the internet "surge") until now to be able to survive in this biz without your online crutches to help you get by? I'm pretty sure I have.
This reminds me so much of the ending of the original Terminator movie, when Sarah was on her way to the mountains in Mexico, and the old man tells her, "There's a storm coming"..... and she says, "I know."
Well, fellow geeks and nerds... there is a storm coming. Brace yourselves for it.
Just have a big repetative pulse generator's output hooked up to the coils around your doorway like in Cryptonomicon so when the disks are carried thru the doorway, zzzzzzzzaaappppppp!!!
Didn't even need any fancy-schmancy scientific gizmo to do it either! .... just blew it all on all this prematurely-obsolete computer hardware.